Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-15
WASHINGTON.
News From the National Capita

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News From the National Capital
WASHINGTON, November 13.-Judge
Folger was qualified this morning
and assumed the duties of Secretary
of the Treasury.
The President has accepted the
resignation of Attorney-General
MacVeagh.
In the speech which Guiteau had
prepared for delivery in court to-day,
be says he is charged with numbering
enc Jas. A. Garfield. Nothing can
be more absurd, because General
Garfield died of malpractice. Gen
eral Garfield was a good man, but a
weak politician. Being President,
he was in a position to do vast harm
to the Republicans, and he was doing
it by the unwise use of patronage,
and the Lord and himself took the
resposib b;lity Of remanding him.
That his duly to the Lord and to the
American people overcame his per-
sonal feelings towards General GAR
field, and that he ought to re-
move him. Not being marks
man, General Garfield was not
fatally shot, but incompeten physi-
clans finished the work, and they,
not hin elf, are responsible for his
death. He then speaks of the breach
!, in the Republican party and his re
] solve to remove the President, and
claims that the Deity ordered bin to
fire the shot. He refers to his work
on the the insanity in his
family, his married life and his life in
prison, and appeals to those whom
he says he has yut in position and to
the general public to send him money
for his defense.
Hon. L. S. Sockville, first new
minister from the court of St. James,
called upon President Arthur this
afternoon, and formally presented
his credentials. He was accompanied
by Secretary Blaine, who introduced
him to the President. The custom,
congratulatory addresses were made.
The Supreme Court to day render
ed an opinion of great Importance
to all railroads, fast freight lines and
shippers of goods, in the case of the
St. Louis Insurance Company against
the St. Louis, Vordalia Terre Hante
and Indianapolis railroad company.
This was suit brought by the ST.
Louis Insurance Company as assignee
of Weir & Co., to recover the
value of certain cotton ship
ped at ST. Louis in 1873 for
Liverpool under agreement between
, Meir & Co. and the fast freight line
known as the Erie and Pacific Dis
patch. The cotton was shipped by
the Dispatch by the Vandalia line,
thence over the lines of the Pitts
burge, Cincinnati and ST. Louis, At
lantic and Great Western and Erie
Railroad Companies. It was burned
at Jersey City while in the custody of
the Erie Railway. The Vandalia line
did not execute a bill of lading, but
way-billed the freight from ST. Louis
to Indianapolis, and there delivered
it in good order to the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and st. Louis Company.
The main question presented by the
case is whether the Vandalia line was
| responsible for the safety of the
cotton after deliving to another car
rier. The court does not decide
, whether the Vandalia line could or
could not take the benefit of the
special exceptions in the bill of
lading given by the Erie and Pa
1 cific to Meir & Co, but assumes, for
= the purpose of a decision, that Meir
= & Co. were not bound under the
proof by any special terms which
r that instrument contained. The court
g then holds that the mere division
S of an established through rate by
= the railroads among themselves ON a
: basis of distance, only it is not of
itself sufficient to make these roads
, partners, or to bind anyone of them
/ as by special contract to transport
the cotton beyond it's own line.
The Erie and Pacific Despatch line
, is liable, under its contracts for the
safety of the cotton on the whole
route, but each railroad is RESPONSE
bic only for it's own negligence.
Owing to the small amount of 5
cent nickel pieces in the treasury
the secretary has instructed the di-
rector of the mint to cause 1900
$40 in old copper cents, and $lO4,-
O1S in copper nickel cents now in
the Philadelphia mint to be coined
into cent nickel pieces, and the
instructions have already been given
to carry out the directions. It will