The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-06-17
TFrom our Regular Correspondent


WASHINGTON, d. c, June 10, s..
! Whist congress has not doRe Thu
session would I'll many volume; ant
1T is the opinion of the appropriation
committee that congress cannot dc
what must be done to keep the natioua
machine oiled and running before the
Goth of Jnly. The new fiscal wear viii
begin on the lst of July, and the aP,
preparation bills hare not been passed
for the support Of the government
during the coming year. Il, as 1t IS
expected, congress does not adjourn
much before August, there viii be a
very short vacation. for it must assem-
Bile on the first Monday in December
| for the short and final session.
The announcement Of the names of
the tariff revision committee Is not
received with favor by those senators
who are in favor of tariT reform, and
it is doubtful if the presidents nom
nations 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 Wyok,
Republicans, will vote against ii. The
vote indicated viii throw the decision
of the question upon the two so-called
independents. Davis and Mahone.
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 prosecution. with the jury select
ed. 1t is not charged that the jury |
has been corrupted, or is susceptible |
of being tempered with, but that a
number of men are On it who were !
to be lenient with one Or
another of the defendants. The de-
cision of Judge Wylie that the de
PENDANTS mad each OF them right to
challenges was what first
upset the calculations Of the proseeu-
hon and sent them all to sea. The
regular panel was quickly exhausted
and a large lot of talesDen became
1t was in the selection OF
.hesc talesmcn that the defense are
charged with having OreTeached the
government. 1t is asserted that no
5ooner were taiesmen ordered than
-oodEv number were found 10 be on
land and convenient for the marshall
ummons, and that defendant Dorsey
the ex-senatoT-was seen TO have the
ar or Marshal Henry in a secluded |
lcove. There is no doubt that Mar
bal Henry was subsequently brought
efore Acknowledgement Brewster and
to q rasping examination,
ut. as no overt act could be desig
ated. it was finally concluded the
.isest policy, by Gen. Brewster and
is associates, to make no fuss about
For a time, however, it was Sc
ouslv contemplated to demand of the |
arshal his resignation in spite of the
.ct that he was one Of President Gar {
dds very personal appointments, but
lis determination, after a long con-
renee with the offending Official was
The calendar of the Supreme Court
the United States is three years in
rears, and no special effort has been
sible, on the part of the bench, to
EN- the rising tide of its business.
he judges are waiting relief from
ngress which congress delays giving,
ID meanwhile they go on long sum
er excursions. The laws delay is
ficting untold misery on thousands I
litigants. The supreme bench, it is
,heved, will finally be divided into
rec or more benches which win sit
a court in bane, only on limited
Imber of appealed cases.
a carefully planned systematic effort
being made to spread belief in Gui-
ans insanity, and thus furnish a
isis for the exercise of the pardoning
over on the part of the president,
here is no doubt but Guiteau is in
me (unsound) in the genealogical
'nse of the word; his mind, like his
ody, is rotten, but that be knew the
florence between right and wrong
as fully established by his trial, and
believed by all but kindred eranks.
he sooner such mental and physical
,rruption is put under the ground,
le better,