The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-08
WARRINGTON sPECULATIoNs.

days in New York City, returned to Washing
ton on Tuesday evening, accompanied by Sen
ator Jones, to whose house he was driven a
once and received by few visitors. Now Will
, 1t was generally given out at flrsttha the pun
pose of the presidents visit was 10 attend t
some purely personal business, the wise news
, paper men have discovered that Its object wa
very different indeed to wit: to harmonic
J the republican factions in the Empire State
whose rival leaders were to meet in state con
vention on Wednesday, All this Is supposed
to have been accomplished by the president
agreeing that Robertson should not be disturb
ed IN the custom house by arranging fol
Conklng's return to the senate, the way &c
which is to be paved by giving Lapham an
important foreign mission; ana by agreeing
that WINDOWS place at the head of the treas
ury shall be given to a prominent New Yorker
All agree that when the senate meets next
week there Will be a reorganization of the
cabinet, though who is to go out who to go
in and who to stay In, is the conundrum.
Blaine is unanimously elected to 60 out--so
WINDOW; McVeagh and Kirkwood will prob.
ably go; while the president Is said positively
to have assured Postmaster General James and
Secretary Hunt that they can remain in the
cabinet as long rs they desire, and both will
keep their portfolios.
AS to the organization Of the senate, the I'M
Outstanding certainly IS, that the democrats
will try to elect president pro TEN. and sue
cessor to Secretary Burch before the newly.
elected republican senators are sworn in.
Whether the republicans will attempt to inter.
tere with this course and make trouble remains
to be seen. AS to David Davis, 1t is certain a
majority Of the democrats will oppose his cleo
ton as president pro tenn. should he consent to
run, but he Is understood stoutly to decline the
honor. There Is rumor, on the contrary,
that the republicans are so anxious TO have
Davis place IN the senate filled by straight
republican, that he will be offered seat in the
cabinet, an offer which, it Is SAID, President
Garfield, for the same reason had made him in
vain
There is immense commotion among the
star route thieves. The prosecution against
them was about to come to an end by llmlta.
ton, when suddenly President Arthur's partic-
ular friend Col George Bliss appeared In the
case and as there was no time to get IN an in
dictment by the grand jury, he filed informa.
,iono Ia the Supreme Court OF the district
against Thomas J. Brady, John L. French,
William H. Turner George L. McDonough,
and Samuel p. Brown, for conspiracy to de-
fraud the government in carrying mails They
are charged with feoniously obtaining $3.50.
600 on the route between Prescott and Santa
Fe, and warrants were at once issued for her
arrest Subsequently after agood deal OF iax-
ing about, the accused appeared and entered
bail for their appearance, Brady and Brown in
$1,000 each and the rest IN $4,000 each. The
star reuters it appears, were quite rejoiccd
over Garfield's death, believing Arthur to be
their friend; but 1t IS now becoming evident
that since the new administration came in new
vigor has been infused into the prosecution.
The district grand jury at Washington on
Tuesday was unanimous in finding true bill
against Guiteau for murder, and he was carried
in one of the bulletproof wagons of the treas
ury department to the court room to plead.
Mr.. Geo. W. scoville, of Chicago, his relative
and counsel, was present, and is understood to
say that it will take three months to prepare
for trial. He will rely entirely on the plea Of
insanity, and expects by producing evidence
OF the assassin's peculiar conduct In years pas,
to prove that he is and has been irresponsible,
weak, and demented. In presenting the case
to the jury he will make an effort to fasten the
responsibility for Guiteau's crime on the stall
warts, and hopes In this manner to arouse some
sympathy for his client