The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondence

not suit them-because some of them
have not been given the places they
thought themselves entitled to.
Nothing of consequence has been
done or appears likely to be done I'M
til these spoiled babies have had their
squall out and become quiet. If any
good reason existed for all this fuss
it might be tolerated with some de-
gree of patience, but it almost wholly
grows ont of personal disappoint-
ments and soreheadedness. Suppose
the Speaker has not made up the
Committees just as somebody else
might have done-suppose he HAS
made some mistakes in placing indi-
vidual neutrality-suspicious. of
the Nation should stand up on their
hind legs and howl for six weeks?
Mr.. Briggs, of New Hampshire, hit
the nail square on the head during
the discussion the other day, when
in reply to the question "What shall
we do?" he said: "Stop this ever
lasting talk and go to work"
Bureau making has been inaugu-
rated vigorously in this Congress
or at least attempts at it have. Mr..
Bedford, of Colorado, is in the bust
ness extensively. He proposes first
a Bureau of Mining then Il Bureau of
Labor Statistics, and if he modestly
stops there somebody else will likely
project Bureau of Fishing Bureau
of Telegraphs and Telephones, and
so on all through the list of indus.
tries common to the country. The
DEPARTMENT. Of Agriculture, ofcOurse,
furnishes precedent for all of these
experiments. There is project on
foot to annex to this Department the
Weather Bureau" as it is popular
ly called, and to make the consolidate
ed concern the pedestal for a full
fiedged Cabinet officer. IF Mr.. Bel
ford succeeds in putting all of the
commercial industries and activities
of the Republic under the paternal
care of the General Government,
with Bureau for each. the country
will be pestered for years to come
with clamarous demands for the
creation of new Cabinet positions.
The relative and general importance
of Cabinet Ministers places varies
with circumstances. By and by the
Cabinet may be sort of Congress.
There is pending in the Senate bill
to make the Patent Office an indie
pendent Bureau and vest the Com.
missioner with greater powers,
which has much to recommend il.
But the proposition does not contem-
plate creating Cabinet officer.
The Guiteau trial still drags on.
Mr.. ScOvlle has talked the better
part of the week and said some
things which, in his cooler moments
he is sure to regret. He has seemed
TO grow desperate under the weight
of the load he is carrying, and by the
TRADE of abuse In which he unfortu-
nately allowed himself to indulge on
Thursday gives some color to the re-.
mark of Judge Porter the day before,
that there are two Guiteau's in the
case. Not even Guiteau himself, had
he been permitted to make speech
to the jury, would have rayed more
wildly or more f0Olishly than Mr..
Scoville did against several distin-
uished men, one of whom is the
President of the United States. His
unbribled attack or these persons
Will have no other effect than if it
had come from Guiteau-it can hurt
no one but the speaker. The mark ed
contrast between the exhibition of
weakness which Mr.. Scovil. has
made in his closing speech and the
commendable spirit which he dis.
played III the earlier part of the case
makes it evident that the sewers la
bors of the almost hopeless task
which he undertook have had tell
ing effect upon his mental and ner-
vous organization. This is. PERHAPS,
the most charitable view that the
public will be disposed to take of his
unlicensed harangue. If Mr., SEQ.
yille's theory of the assassination
were to pass current it would estab-
lish a rule that henceforth no man
shall have the right to assume an at
titude of opposition in politics lest he
may be held responsible for the act
of some arch fiend whose opposition
takes the form ofmurder. The latest
rumor in regard to the case is that
the jury is likely to be chung" by
one juror who had insanity in his
family. or course this Is not known.
1t is to be hoDed that better result
will be achieyed and that the end of
the trial and the end of Guiteau are
both near events. For one / am
, sick of the subject.