Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-28
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
NO HOPE FOR THE DOOMED AS
SASSIN.
Everything Ready for Ris Execu.
tion-ParsOn HickA' BsOm-A DIFF
ference ON Adjournment - The
GhouIs at GaFfleId's Tomb-TheIr
--latest Lie Nailed.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-The newspapers of
the city are beginning TO publish columns daily
about Guiteau. We are having with the morn
ing's readings about the same old kind OF stuff
that was dealt out in such liberal doses until
the trial Of the assassin closed. Daily what
the condemned man eats and drinks, who he
sees and what he says to them is dragged out to
lengths nauseating. Because Guiteau dies next
Friday by the hangman. the morbid interest
which all so-called "great criminals" excite
has sprung up afresh over this villain, aud the
newspapers do not even print enough drivel
about him to suit certain class of what might
be called driveling readers. There is in Wash
ington class of people, larger perhaps than
in any city in the Union, who delight to
read, and read by the column. stuff about men
who are to be hung.
Everything is in readiness to swing Guiteau
The last card has been PLAYED in his behalf,
and the game is about over Next Friday
night there will be no more Guiteau alive. The
ropes By which he is to hang have been care
fully prepared. They have been CREASED time
ana time again, and manipulated by hand, so
that there is no reasonable doubt but that the
job will be done well. The scaffold has been
adjusted to nicely. In fact, to use a favorite
expression OF the assassin, everything has been
Put the accent on the word high. The ques-
tion what is TO be done with the body is one
which is apparently attracting great deal of
attention outside OF WASHINGTON. Warden
Crocker to-day told me that applications
from no less than one hundred medical in
stitutions had been received for the carcass.
Offers OF good sums of money had
been made for It, The boss Of a ''world's
museum" in Baltimore has renewed an offer
of $1,000 for the body. OF course it will be
turned over to the relatives of the condemned
man, unless he should make will as to what
should be done with it. Those who know
Guitea1 we'll say that there is no doubt but
that he will make some provision for the final
disposition of his remains, and that the pro-
visions Of that will will be as sensational as his
whole life has been since he shot Garfield The
morbid curiosity people need not fear that
Guiteau will fail to make as big sensation out
of his taking off as they could desire. The Rev.
W. W. Hicks, who is his spiritual adviser,
manages to get himself interviewed on an
average of at least five times a day about his
client, If the word may be used in this connec-
tion.
A sLANDER
There has been plenty of literature since
Garfield died defaming his character, and most
of it, in fact nearly all of it, has been given
publicity in Republican papers While Garfield
was living and while he was on his sick bed
with hopes of recovery, these sheets were the
most fulsome in their praise of him end of his
noble and pure character" and "the grit and
nerve of himself and family" The latest
revival of defamatory articles against the dead
comes just at this time when the man who is
to be hanged for striking him down is to en-
counter the moose, which should have been his
long ago. President Garfield was no saint-no
man is a saint But it is disgusting to note
that the mouths who would willingly have
licked his feet alive, now cry infamy over his
tombstone. The slander which is now being
diligently printed ON the dead President is as
base as could have been conceived. 1t was, Of
course, first printed In a Republican newspa
Il f fInoI Iikaf dir floE
Gould gave Garfield 100000 to help in his cleo
tion. upon receiving from him the promise that
when President he would appoint
Stanley Matthews to the then
bench. And in proof that this assertion is cor
rect the liars point to the fact that Garfield did
appoint Stanley Matthews to that position. 1
happen to know just how Stanley Matthews
was nominated. Hayes had nominated him
before, but the Senate adjourned without
taking action on thu nomination. so it fell
through. It Is a custom as old as the date that
we first had Presidents for the incoming Exc
cutive to ask the outgoing il he had any re-
quests to make. Garfield asked this question
Of Hayes. The latter with his usual modesty
foremost one, and the one upon
which he put the strongest appeal,
was that Garfield should again nominate STAN
ley Matthews to the Supreme Court. In
mistake and complied with it, Matthews was
confirmed 1t had long been known though
no proofs were ever made OF the fact, that
Matthews wore the Jay Gould collar. | have
stated facts There is another point which
clearly shows the utter lack of foundation for
this latest SANDER upon a dead man. 1t is duly
chronicled as part proof that the principal
reason why Jay Gould wanted Stanley Mat
thews on the bench was that he could be used
to influence the Supreme Court in declaring
the Thurman act-which was to make the Pa
cifc Railroads comply with the terms of the
law-to be unconstitutional The truth
is that. at least year before Garfield
nominated Matthews, the Supreme Court had
declared the Thurman act to be constitutional
This is no defense of either Jay Gould or
Matthews-God forefend that | should ever
write of either than in their true charactersl
the one of the many feats of the hyenas who
delight to dig away the graves.
A DIFFERENCE.
There is a decided difference OF opinion be-
tween the members of the House and the SEN
ate as to what time there shall be adjournment
The House, as you know, has passed resolu-
ton fixing July 10th as the date for adjourn
ment. Members of the Senate do not opine
that way. But very few of them think it at
all possible for Congress to get away before
the 18th. and many of them ssy that 1t will be
the goth or 18th before the capitol clears out,
and the Senate seems to be about right. Many
would like to get away sooner, but how they
can seems to be question impossible of solu-
tion. The heat of the city Is almost over
powering 1t is hot enough almost to fry fish
on the asphalt pavements. Such a condition
of affairs is not conducive to any great amount
of work on the part of either house, and the
differences existing between the two branches
over the completion of the necessary appropria-
ton bills are such that renders final action
on them futurity of considerable extent. as
the present appropriations expire on the 3Oth
of the present month"; it is a certainty that sew
eral of them will have to be continued by joint
resolution on the present basis until the
amounts appropriated for the next fiscal year
become laws.
NOT MUCH INTEREST.
There is not very much interest in Congress
sional proceedings now. There is now and
then a shot between members which is always
of interest, but the average daily business is
not such as to interest the public at large. 1t
is evident that not much more can
be done by the legislative branch of
the government and so the interest dies away
The business to be now accomplished is OF
general routine character. Except in changes
in amounts for an item here or there, the ap-
preparation bills are pretty much the same
every year. Such sameness is conducive to in
difference. 1t is only now and then that a fight
over individual portions of bill disturbs the
languor. About the only thing that causes
fiutter is the daily batch of nominations from
the White House. There are good many i'm
portant offices to be filed before the Senate
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