Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-02
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
ANOTHER CASE SETTLED
BISBEE ADDED TO THE
HOUSE ROLL.
THE DEMOCRATS AGAIN BAFFLED.
COMPLETE FAILURE OF
THEIR PET SCHEME.
STAR ROUTE CASES IN COURT.
A Jury Chosen For the
Trial.
THE DEMOCRATS AGAIN BAFFLED.
STAR ROUTE CASES IN COURT.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Star Route Cnses-CoIoneI In:ersoI1
Gets Another Set Bnck-A Jury Inn
panelled-The Wh1skey Inquiry-Other
Matters of Interest at the Capital.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The Star route
cases came up to-day before Judge Wylie
Colonel Ingersoll asked leave to withdraw the
plea of J. w. and S. W. Dorsey of mot
guilty" and offered an amended plea that
further prosecution under the Indictment was
illegal because it was found by grand jury
illegally constituted. Mr.. Merrick objected
and the court declined to entertain it, The
work of getting a jury was then proceeded
with and accomplished. 1t comprises Will
liam T.. Dickinson, William T. Wood, j. B.
Dawson, J. W. Hayes, M. McNally George
E. Kirk, J. B. Mccarthy, J. T. Finney, E.
McLain, W. X. Brown, F. G. Shaw, E. D.
Doniphan.
}. M. Atherton of the executive committee
of the Kentucky distillers' association testi
fed to-day before the whiskey investigating
committee that membership dues are $25
per annum for each member. The associa-
ton employed Colonel Warton for one ear
from January, 1882, at salary of S., 900, to
look after their interests and represent them
before Congress. The association had
never employed anyone else or paid any
money to secure any influence in Con.
gress or elsewhere. Mr.. Atherton ex-
planned that he had never been approached by
a newspaper correspondent on the subject,
nor had he ever received from any newspaper
man an intimation that if certain correepon-
dents were not feed they would kill the bill
Any such assertion was utterly false The
gentlemen who had made offers of assistance
had done so III good faith. He denied that
any Senator or government official had been
mentioned as likely to control any influence
IN Congress. He denied generally the state
ments attributed to him in an interview pub
lished at Louisville.
The Senate Finance committee have agreed
to the Grape bank charter extension bill with
several amendments. One limits the with
drawal of circulation for any one month to
So, 600, OGO.
Secretaries Folger and Brewster returned
to the city this evening. President Arthur
| is expected tomorrow.
Charles H. Reed, counsel for Guiteau, APP
peared IN the court in banc this morning and
asked when the court would adjourn, in view
| of motion which he proposed to make in
the Gulteau case. The court intimated that
| it would probably adjourn next Monday. Mr.
! Reed declined to make known the nature
of the motion he proposes to offer
W. H. English, jr., of Indiana. son of the
| last Democratic nominee for the Vice Presi-
| dency visited Guiteau at the Jail and had a
long conversation with the assassin. The as.
| sassin expressed himself as contented and
happy. He said that while he preferred to
live, as he had mission to perform, he felt
| no regret IN dying. Guiteau is more heshy
than ever and shows no sign of weakening
"A Family Poisoned by Cold Tongue.
1 WASHINGTON, June -Four of the family
of Chief Brooks, chief of the secret service
were poisoned from eating cold tongue al
breakfast on Decoration day The tongue
was not canned, but cured in brine at the
butchers. All suffered severely, but are i'm
| prOvino