The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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IT was generally understood in Wash
iugton on the 9th that Secretaries Lincoln,
James, Kirkwood and Hunt would con.
tinue in the Cabinet for some months yet
at least. The appointment of Frelinghuysen
for Secretary of State and Brewster for At
torney. General was expected to be an.
nounced at any moment.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR took formal pos
session of the White House on the It'll. He
was unaccompanied, and after entering the
mansion spent little while downstairs
inspecting the recent improvements. He
then went through the upper part OF the
house, and was greatly pleased with the
chamber prepared for his use. He dined in
the family dining-room, in company with
Representative Skinner, of New York.
There were no callers, and the President
spent the evening with sMr. Reed, his Sec
rotary.
THE report of the Ute Commissioners
to the Secretary of the Interior is very volu-
minous. Among the most important OF the
recommendations are: That the present
boundaries of the reservation be established
permanently; that the few settlers now on
the reservation be paid reasonable COM
pensation for their improvements; that the
White River and Uintah tribes be CONSOLE
dated, and that portions Of the different
lands assigned by the recent agreement be
changed with consent, and gradually the In
dams taught to cultivate their lands, and
finally Withdrawing Government aid alto
gether.
JOSEPH WARREN KEIFER, Speaker
of the House of Representatives, represents
the Eighth Ohio District. He was born in
Clark County, O., January 80, 1896. His
boyhood and youth were mostly spent on q
farm. He received common-school edu-
cation, topped of at Antioch College. In
1858 he was admitted to the bar. He en-
tered the Union Army as Major Of the Third
Ohio Volunteers, was subsequently ap-
pointed Colonel of the 10th Ohio, and
served with conspicuous gallantry through
out the war, being severely wounded at the
battle of the Wilderness. He subsequently
was made Brigadier- General and Major
General by brevet for gallant and distin-
guished services. He made his first ap-
pearance on the stage of national affairs as a
member of the Forty-fifth Congress, and
was reelected to the Forty sixth and Forty.
seventh Congresses.
CAUCUsEs for the nomination of off,
GERS of the House of Representatives were
held on the evening Of the Sd, with the fol-
lowing result: Republican nominees: For
Speaker, j. Warren Keller, of Ohio; Clerk,
Edward Mcpherson, of Pennsylvania; Ser
geant-at Arms, Geo. w. Hooker, Of Massa.
chusetts; Doorkeeper, w. p. Brownlow,
of Tennessee; Postmaster, Capt. Harry
Sherwood, Of Michigan; Chaplain, Rev.
Frederick D. Power. The caucus contest
for the Speakership lay between Keller
and Hiscock, of New York, and
the lines were pretty closely drawn
Is between Stalwart and anti-Stalwart,
the former carrying off the the prize.
The Democrats renominated the officers of
the last House. The Greenbackers selected
Nicholas Ford, of Missouri, for Speaker;
Gilert De La Matyr, Of Indiana, for Clerk
Lee Crandall, Of Washington, D. c., for
Sergeant at arms; H. Martin Williams, OF
Missouri, for Doorkeeper, and w. C. Moore,
of Pennsylvania, for Postmaster.
NUMBER of experts were called to
the stand in the Guiteau case on the 9Th.
Most Of these were gentlemen who had
closely watched the prisoner as spectators
during the trial, and had therefore had q
good opportunity of judging of his mental
characteristics. DR.. Kennon, editor of the
Chicago Medical Rerie,o, gave his opinion
unequivocally that the prisoner was insane.
Witness based his judgment of Guiteau's
insanity upon the hereditary faint, upon the
impairment of judgment, upon the exalta.
ton of the emotions, and upon inspiration
which also included the motive. Witness
admitted that when q man committed 9
crime while acting under the delusion Of
Divine inspiration and then conducted him.
self precisely as a criminal would do, il
would be presumptive evidence against his
insanity. DR.. Charles II. Nicholas, of the
Bloomingdale Asylum, replied to a hypothet.
ical question proposed by Scoville: "Kthe
evidence to which have listened is correct
should say the prisoner is insane" DR..
Folsom, Boston, DR.. Godding, of the Gov.
eminent Insane Asylum, Washington, DR..
Mcbride, of Milwaukee, and DR.. Chan
ming, of Brookline, Mass, concur
red substantially in the opinion
of DR.. Kenno2. President Arthur, VIII,
was subpenaed BY the defense, was no
called to the stand, but submitted his writ
ten answers to several interrogatories. Tn
substance of his replies was: He knows tn
prisoner, having seen him at leas: ten times
possibly twice that number; had never con
versed with him Excepting to return tn
ordinary salutation of the day, and once o
twice in answer to his request to be employ
ed in the campaign as speaker by the Re
publican State Committee, Of which wa
Chairman" To the question: ''What polit
ical services the prisoner had rendered tn
Republican party during the last Presiden
tial campaign" the answer is: "None tina
know Of" To the question whether Their
was anything in the prisoners relations t
himself or Gen. Grant, or Senator Conkling
or any of the others Of the Republican par
ty, socially or politically, to furnish hin
with any ground for supposing he woul'
receive any political preferment, the answe
is ssNo." Prisoner. "That is . matter Q
opinion" The last question was: ''Di