Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-06
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Rivers and Harbors-A Surplus of Funds Appropriated-TheG Garfield Hos- pital Project-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-The government engineers having in charge the work for which appropriations were made in the river and harbor bill publicly declare that not only will it be impossible to sxpend the entire
 amount appropriated during the fiscal year,
 but that the amount that will be left to be covered in the treasury will be large.
 Acting Secretary French has given notice that the bonds embraced in the 115th call due September 18th will be redeemed on presen l tation without rebate of interest. Yokohama advices to the national board of health show ell new cases of cholera in the | two weeks ended August 10, and 345 deaths. ! The total number of deaths since the epidem- I ic began has been 1862. The disease exists | in an equally virulent form at Tokio.
 One of Secretary Folger's last acts before going to New York was to appoint commit tee of investigation into the alleged malprac- I tice by the marine hospital surgeons in the | recent examination of cadets for the revenue 1 marine service. Several of the young men l examined found on their return home that they were suffering acutely from the use by ! the examining surgeons of too large cathe-
 ter Their injuries were so severe that their | friends reported the facts to Secretary Folger l and he summoned Captain John G. Baker of
 the revenue marine service, Dr. 0. s. D. Fes- l senden and an official from the solicitors of | flee to make an investigation. They have ! just made report to the effect that the sur l geons used instruments entirely inapprepri-
 ate. No action will be taken until the Score
 tary returns. One victim is still suffering from his injuries.
 The Garfield monument committee held a l meeting this evening and elected Hon. J. W. Thompson chairman, General D. G. Swain ! treasurer and F. T. Wilson secretary. The I Al, e ! the monument fund will be a great success. Despatches from Brownsville to day report l e new cases of yellow fever and ono death. Ingersoll's Plea for tho Star Routers. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Fuily one half of I the large audience which this morning fiIl.d
 the criminal court room to it's very corners
 were ladies, prominent among them being ! Mes. Dorsey, who with party of friends oc- ! s1pied chairs directly in the rear of the de- fense table. Mir. Ingsrsoll began his argu-
 ment with an express desire that the jury l should understand him. He was as much opposed to official corruption as any man in | the world. The taxes were paid by labor and | industry and should be disbursed by integ- | rity, and the man that was untrue to his off | cial oath, to the position that people honored ! him with ought to be punished. He had not one word to say in defense of any man who he believed had robbed the treasury. He wanted the jury to understand that he was
 not defending nor excusing nor endeavoring l to palliate the slightest dishonesty In any public official The jury had been told that
 She people of the United States were de- ! moralized people, that tide of dishonesty was rising ready to sweep from one shore of ! the country to the other. It had been appeal \ cd to to find innocent men guilty in order that this tide might be successfully resisted. ! It had been told that it was necessary to
 make an example of somebody in order that the country might take the road to honesty.
 The country had been in war, but he de- l nied that that war had demoralized
 the people. Whoever fought for the right did not demoralize himself. He en- nobIed himself, and the war through which I the country had been reformation, not 8 demoraIization. The was period of l moral enthusiasm, during which the people ! had become thousand times grander and l nobler than they had ever been before. The effect of the war had been good. When we ] shook the shackles of 100000 of people it did not demoralize us. When we changed l the hut of the slave into ths castle of 8 free l man it did not demoralize us. The jury had been told that the Un1teu Statos was o1Stln- l guishsd among the nations of the world only l for corruption. He cared not who said that | first It made no difference to him that it I was quoted from a Republican Senator. He ! defed it. This country was not distinguish | ed for corruption. and no patriot believed it. l He had heard that nonsense and intellectual I rot all his life. It was the capital stock of | every prosecuting lawyer, but in 1t there was not one word of truth. He had always SUD- posed that the people of America were dis | tinguished for free schools, for free speech, l for just laws, not for corruption, and yet in ! the name of this universal corruption the 1 jury WAS appealed to also become corrupt. Never would he (with sharp emphasis on the pronoun and significant bow towards Mr. Merrick) try to put stain on the fore
 head of his country in order that he might
 consign some honest man to the penitentiary
 Passing on then to 8 consideration of the
 duties of lawyer, MT. Ingersoll commented
 upon the practice of the government counsel
 of heaping epithets upon the defendants.
 yer, under the pretext of explaining the evi
 dence to the jury, called 8 defendant thief
 and robber, he stepped beyond the line oi
 his duty and beyond tho line of his privilege
 What light did it throw on the case? Ther
 turning to an examination of the indictment
 he argued that the overt acts charged mus
 be proved exactly alleged, no matter
 whether the description was unnecessary 0, not. MT. Ingersoll then proceeded to a mi
 mute analysis of the charges in the indict ment, first taking up and examining the Rear
 ney Kent route.
 Mr. Ingersoll talked until after 3 o'clock
 and he expects to occupy nearly all of to
 morrow. Adjutant General Brewster says h