Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-05

prisoners mental condition, he said, because q have been called insane myself" He had been intimately associated with Guiteau iE the work of the Young Mems Christian asso
 citation here, and had been particularly struck with Guiteau's fervor and radical mental condition of the witness, he gave an interesting picture of Guiteau's religious life at time prior to the assassination.
 After the reading of some newsaper slips, editorial comments on the political situation prior to the assassination, taken from Gui. teau when he was arrested, Senator David Davis took the stand. MT. Scoville framed his questions slowly and the witness answered with equal gravity and deIberation-frst, however, appealing to the Bench whether he was expected to reply to interrogatories that seemed to him irrelevant. MT. Scoville asked him leading questions as to his knowl- edge of political matters in general and par tieularly of the conflicts within the Republi- can party last spring. MT. Davis replied with skillful evasion that he was not @ member of either political organization that he was not let into the secrets of either side, and that his knowledge was the same as that of every man who read the newspapers. There was some laughter as he said that the Repub- lican party would be destroyed only when the Democratic party was disrupted. The audi ence evidently interpreted it to mean that the Republican party could live and thrive on the mistakes of it's opponents. In subse- quent answer he did not make his meaning any more clear. District Attorney Corkhill had already said that Mir. ScoviIle could ask Senator Davis any question he chose without fear of objection, but he did not press the inquiries further. Senator Davis waited 8 moment after the examination closed and only left the box when Judge Cox invited him to seat on the bench. He remained through only part of the succeeding exami- nation.
 The prisoner then read list of names of persons whom he wanted subPoenaed to show the political condition of the country last spring The names were President Arthur, General Grant, ex-Senators Conkling and Platt, Messrs. Jewell, Robertson and Dorsey and Senators Jones and Logan; also MT. Reid, of the Tribune Mir. Jones, of the Tunes MT. Dana, of the tSu7s,. and Mr. Hurlburt, of the World; MT. Gorhan, of the Washington Repu6icGro;; MT. Hutchins, of the Washington Post, and. MT. Nixon, of the Chicago Inter Ocea7o.
 Besides Senator Davis, ex-Speaker Randall and others, MT. Scoville had subpoena is- sued for President Arthur. Just before the court adjourned he explained that he consid- cred President Arthur's testimony very im- portant in establishing the fact that one of Guiteau's Authorizations was his belief in his intimacy with General Arthur, Mr. ConkIing and others. He did not care, however, to have the President summoned until he had seen him personally. After this statement the court adjourned until Monday.
 Mir. ScoVille in conversation said he had seen President Arthur during the day and that the President would testify in the Gui- teau case during Tuesday. On the same day Hon. c. B. FarweH will be called. Scoville expects the case to continue four or five weeks. Within few days he says there will be some novel and interesting law questions vuhI TnQ caxy6 6ro1I low In the examination of experts Scoville will be assisted by MT. Reed of Chicago. and it is possible that MT. Reed will continue in the case until the end