Daily Republican., 1882-06-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SLOW WORK IN CONGREsS-TH
TARIFF COMMISsION-AB
GUITEAU'S UN6OUNDNESs.
From our regular Correspondent t.

WASHINGTON, d. G., June 10, 1882. -
What Congress has not done this ses.
sion would fill many a volume, and il
Is the opinion of the appropriations com
mittee that Congress cannot do what
must be done to keep the National
Machine oiled and running before the
Goth Of July. The new fiscal year will
begin on the 1st of July, and the appro-
priation bills have not been passed tor
the support of the Government during
the coming year. II, as it is expected,
Congress does not adjourn much before
August, there will be very short
vacation, for 1t must assemble on the
first Monday In December for tho short
and final session.
The announcement of the names of
the Tariff Revision Committee is not
recsived with favor by those Senators
who are In favor of tariff reform, and it
Is doubtful If the Presidents nomina-
tions will be confirmed. Brown of
Georgia and Jones of Louisiana, it Is
said, are the only Democrats who will
vote for the commission. and it Is also
said that Ingalls, and Van Wyck, Re-
publicans, will vote against it, The
vote indicated will throw the decision
of the question upon the two so called
Independents, Davis and Malone.
The long talked of, and often post
poned trial OF the star route men is at
last under way. There has been much
dissatisfaction, on the part of the pros
ecution, with the jury selected. 1t is
not charged that the jury has been cor
rupted, or is susceptible of being tam
pered with, but that a number of men
are on it who we're predisposed to be
lenient with one or another of the do.
PENDANTS. The decision of Judge Wylie
that tie defendants he d each of them a
wight to four poremptory challenges
was what first upset the calculations of
the prosecution and sent them all to
sea. The regular panel was quickly
exhausted and a large lot of taiesmen
became necessary. 1t was in the selec
tion of these talesmen that the defense
are charged with having over.reached
the Government. 1t is asserted that no
sooner were talesmen ordered than a
goodly number were found to be on
hand and convenient for the marshal's
summons, and that the defendant
Dorsey, the ex-Senator-was seen to
have the ear of Marshal Henry in a
secluded alcove. There is no doubt
that Marshal Henry was subsequently
brought before attorney Attorney Geu-
eral Brewster and subjected to ras
ping examination, but, as no overt
act could be designated, it was finally
the wisest policy, by Gen.
Bre wster and his associates, to make
no fuss about it, For a time, no owever,
it was seriously contemplated to de-
lnand of the Marshal his resignation in
spite of the fact that he was one of
President Gartield's very personal ap.
but this determination
lug official was abandoned.
The calendar Of the Supreme court of
the United States is three years in ar
rears, and no special effort has been
visible on the part of the Bench, to
stem the rising tide of its business. The
Judges are waiting relieftrom Congress
which Congress delays giving, and
meanwhile they 90 on long summer ex
cursions. The laws delay is intlicting
untold misery on thousands of litig gants.
The Supreme Bench it is believed will
finally be divided into three or more
benches which will sit as court in
banc, only on a limited nun Der of ap-
pealed cases.
A carefully planned systematic eff
fort is being made to spread belief in
Guiteau's insanity, and thus furnish a
basis tor the exercise of the pardoning
power on The part of the President.
There is no doubt but Guiteau is in
sane (unsourd) in the genealogical
sense of the word; his mind like his
body, is rotten, but that he knew the
difference between right and wrong was
fully established by his trial, and is
believed by all but kindred cranks.
The sooner such mental and physical
is put under the ground, the
better. G. S. A.