Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-02
VOL XIV.
TELEGRA PHO
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

The president has signed the bill
authorizing the retirement Of Ward Hunt
from the supreme court.
THE removal of Marshall Dill, of Ar
kansas, has been ordered by the president
who will probably nominate Thomas
Bowles as his successor.
The treasurer of the United States has
again reversed his decision in reference to
receiving payment on called bonds held as
security for national bank circulation,
and bankers can now have them forward
ed 70 the secretary for payment.
IN the house of representatives, after
considerable opposition, the senate bill to
retire Justice Hunt was passed, the vote
standing 1877 to 80. A letter from the
secretary of the treasury asked an appro-
priatiOn of $23, 159 $50 to complete the
service of the fiscal year in the various
departments. The remainder of the ses-
sion was consumed in the delivery of
eulogies upon Senator Carpenter.
THE bill prepared by the judiciary COM
mittee of the senate for the suppression
Of polygamv, which will be vigorously
pushed to a vote, provides that no polyga-
mist shall sit on iuries, exercise the right
Of suffrage, or hold office. Capitalization
with more than one woman will be ac-
cepted as proof of polygamOus marriage.
Another section :rovides for the appoint
ment of five registrars of election by the
president
SECRETARY BLAINE says the instructions
to Envoy Trescott were twice read to
President Arthur for criticism, and he re-
ferred to them in his message. Mr..
Blaine is of the opinion that the change
Of policy is none of his business. but in
slsts that the present or previous execu-
tive was party to every step taken in
the Chillian matter. The ex-premier
fears that the affair will result in the de-
struction of the commercial interests of
the United States on the South Pacific
coast
GEORGE SCovILLE has refused to send
any more meals to Guiteau, or to furnish
him any more letters. All the relatives
realize that the assassin is en- route to the
gallows. John w. Guiteau thinks that
the jury will, on two hours deliberation,
sentence his brother to death, sane or in
sane, the expert testimony having been
very strong against him, and the pressure
of public opinion being irresistible. John
further expressed the opinion that the
prisoner is an idiot, born without Ordi-
nary common sense.
GUITEAU could not permit the day af-
ter his conviction to pass without issuing
. characteristic address to the people He
especially appeals for money TO those who
appreciate the idea of inspiration, and
boasts that he can not be executed before
July. The conduct of the trial is sternly
criticised by the press of Europe A sa-
lutte of fifty guns was fired at Madison,
Ind, in honor of the verdict. Mr.. Sco-
vile says the result was no surprise to him
after he heard the charge of Judge Cox.
John w. Guiteau still believes the assas-
sin insane, but sees no escape from execu-
tion.
GUITEAU's appetite has failed, and ne
appears much worried. Mr.. Scovillle and
the warden of the Jail have agreed that
no more of the sssassin's blasphemous ad-
dresses to the public shall be given out,
and that for week no one shall be per
mitted to interview him. A suggestion has
been made in Washington that congress
pass bill giving the jurors 81 900 each.
In his application for new trial Mr..
Scoville will represent that the jury was
influenced by being furnished with news
papers.
Ten times as many persons as could be
accommodated tried to secure seats in the
criminal count room at Washington when
Judge Porter began his argument. Gui-
teau announced the receipt of several
hundred letters, many of them tender
missives from the ladies' He desired to
inform the audience that he did not think
it proper that he should accept cabinet
office from President Arthur, and that he
would stop Judge Porter should he at
tempt to mislead the jury. Judge Porter
opened with the remark that thus far the
trial had practically been conducted by
the prisoner and Mr.. Scoville, and every
one had been denounced at their will.
He proceeded to sketch the career of the
assassin as beggar, a hypocrite, and a
scoundrel, and TO depict the horrors of his
crime.