Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-17
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. MALONE UNDER ARREST. His Friends Anxious For
 His Life. THEIR MOVE TO PROTECT HIM. Putting Him Under Bonds
 Not to Fight. DAVIS TO BE LEFT ALONE. The Democrats Satisfied With His
 Authority.
DAVIS TO BE LEFT ALONE
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

! Violate District law Tn hls purpose to leave
 the city for the object of fighting duel with General Jubal A. Early, of Virginia. The
 warrant was placed in the hands of Detective Coombs and Captain Vernon, of the police
 force, who served it upon Senator Malone at
 his rooms in the Portland Flats. on Four ! teenth street. The Senator seemed greatly
 surprised at the course affairs had taken, and 1 at first was reluctant to go but expressed his
 willingness to accompany the officers if it !, | was necessary. He was therefore placed in
 a hack and with the officers was driven to
 Judge Shells residence, No. All c street,
 where the party alghted. The judge was
 found in his private office looking re-
 cent law publication. He was greatly sur
 prised to see Senator of the United States
 under arrest, but asked the party to be seat
 ed. Colonel Strong then stated the reasons
 that influenced him in swearing out the war
 l rant. Senator Malone said that he had no
 thought of leaving the city, and that the idea
 that he would fight such an old man as Gen. | Early was absurd. Judge Shell then took
 Senator Mahone's personal recognizance that
 he would not leave the city for the purpose
 charged in the warrant. Senator Mahone
 left in carriage shortly after half past | o'clock for his home. The arrest, coming as
 it does on the top of the Virginia election, is
 likely to make the political caIdron in Yir
 ginia bubble for the next few days.
 United States Senator Mahone of Virginia,
 left Washington at Il o'clock this morning for | Richmond. The gossips of course say that | his absence has something to do with the ! mored Jubal-Early duel, but as the Senator | was under personal bond not to leave for
 the purpose of engaging in duel the gessips ! are doubtless wrong. He is expected back to- | morrow aS he has no Dair in the Senate.
 Colonel Samuel Strong, the gentleman who last night swore out a warrant against Sena- ! tor Malone, charging him with intent to vio- ! late the laws of the District by leaving this | city for the purpose of fighting duel, was \ seen to night by reporter and interviewed X as to his reasons for so doing. Last. night dozen men came and told me that Senator Malone was to fight 8 duel this morning at daylight. One of these was 8 judge and ' three were members of Congress. Two of them are now stopping at hotel in this city. Further than that I can tell you nothing of them" "What else did they say ?" ''One of them, an ex-Congressman, told me that he had seen the challenge written by Malone to Early naming Hanover, near Richmond, believe as the place of meeting and day light this morning as the time. Its language was that of out and out challenge. I am certain that he was telling the truth Two or three of them said they were opposed to Malone, but the thing ought to be stopped They did not care. however, to be known in the matter, and so they came to me. The judge especially insisted that I should go and do it. He said to me ''Mahone will fight sure as God" He saw me this morning and said, If you had not done what you did that duel would have been fought and Malone probably killed" j" ''On this infor- nation you swore out the warrant ?" q went to Judge Shells and got him to write a warrant in his office. He then sent his messenger to police headquarters and got Detective Coombs, who was at first afraid to serve the warrant for fear it would get him into trouble. Judge She'll read the law to him, but he seemed uncertain about 1t. At headquarters Captain Vernon said, ''I know Malone. I Twill arrest him, for know he will fight" Then we went up to the Senator's and arrested him. He was put under person al bonds, which was all wrong. I waited to see him put under bonds so that these men might be satisfied" ''These men were all re- sponsible ?" 'FYes sir as solid men as there are in the government" Did you not swear out a warrant also as a matter of protection to Senator Mahones life ?'' 1T did" Then you believe that the effort to get him to fight duel was trap to get him out of the way?" "I do, really. I believe his death is desired by the Bourbon element, who see that if he runs in the coming election the principle of readjusterism and RGpubicanisin will travel from State to State in the South 1 and the Solid South will be broken up. One of the gentlemen who came to me last night told me that he heard General Early say : e. d. him, will kill him. If have to shoot twenty times I will kill him. The Bourbons are as ravenous lot of lions, and would give anything to get him out of the way" Peace for Davis-His Honors Not to be
 Taken Away From HJm-Other Mat
 ters.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-Senator Pendieton | authorizes the statement that the Democratic | Senate caucus called for tomorrow morning | will take no steps toward attempting to un- ssat MT. Davis from the chair by assisting l Republican to that high office. The reports | that such design was contemplated, he says, 1 could only have been based the dissatis- 1 faction of some Republicans. It is well | known that some of the Republican Senators | wish some thorough Republican was Presi- | dent of the Senate, ,and the question has been l mooted whether MT. Davis would not now | vote for MT. Anthony to take the chair. It l is positively asserted, however, that neither | of these matters have caucus significance, the | Republicans having no caucus in view. They l Are apparently well enough satisfied with not | having Democratic President pro tens and | the Democrats are not desirous of making | public their minority, particularly to help | the majority out of any scrape some of | them may think they are in. The Democrat l ic caucus will simply consider the advisability of a motion that Chief l Clerk Shredder perform the duties of | secretary of the Senate until secretary is 1 elected It is understood that MT. Davis has | declared in favor of such proceeding. The | Republicans will let the question of secretary | kh~ 1~.1A@ @okS T, eerned, until the return from Yorktown, hut | will not oppose Democratic resolution as | proposed above.
 The President will send another large batch | of appointments to theSenate tomorrow, but 1 there are to be no very important ones.
 The attention of Dr. D. W. Bliss was to- | day called to published interview with Drs. | Hammond and J. Marion Sims in which the | former admits that President Garfield would | sooner or later have died from the effects of | Guiteau's shot, and ths latter says no sur- geon in the land could have saved the. Presi- | dent, as when the ball struck the spine death | was certain. Dr. Bliss says these statements l are about as consistent with the former ut | terances of these surgeons as he had expect ed when the question of legal testimony | would come up. It was one thing to make | statement on general principles and another | to give medical opinion under oath Dr. | Bliss further says that he fears no damage to | Guiteau's chances for the gallows by the pro- | posed defense based on alleged malpractice | in the case. The opinion of the New York | surgeons, quoted above, he believed, would I be even less critical in court, and that none | of the proposed expert witnesses will be will | ing to sustain the charge of malpractice at l the trial.
 This has been 8 general reception day to I the militia organizations en route to York | town. The militia have generally been met l at the depot by local companies and escorted | to the hotels or steamers 4 fine appear ance was made by the Thirteenth regiment, l N. G. S. N. Y., Brooklyn, Colonel D. E. Aus I tin, who mustered 425 men in line, with field | and staff of sixteen men, headed by Dod- | worths band, sixty pieces, and drum corps l of forty men. They arrived at 10 o'clock | this morning. The band gave concert ar l the Opera House to night and the entire com mand left on the 10 P. m. train for Richmond, l where they will take part in the parade of