The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS

THE Supreme Court of the United
States has denied the petition for writ of
habeas corpus in Sergt. MasOn's case. The
court decided that the court marshal had
fun Jurisdiction to try Mason for the offense
charged; that its proceedings were all with
in its proper jurisdiction and the sentence
pronounced was not in excess Of its powers.
REPREsENTATIvE SHERwIN mas pre-
pared favorable report, which has been
agreed upon by the Committee on Educa-
tion and Labor, on the educational bill. 1t
provides for the sum of $40, 600, 900 for dis
tributiOn among the States and Territories
according to the proportion of illiterate pop
ulation. The report will set forth some in
teresting statistics, showing, among other
| things, that above IS per cent. OF the money
will go to the South, and the money will be
proportionately distributed among white
and colored children. The Secretary Of the
Interior is to disburse the funds to the
States, to be expended under the direction
of the proper officers, for common schools
only, for nothing is to so to colleges or sec
tartan institutions.
ARGUMENT upon the bin of exceptions
! in the Guiteau case was begun on the 9th,
before the Judges Of the Supreme Court Of
The District, sitting iu bane, Chief Justice
NAlNeAF pres iutilss anu uNHttteS 1IACAIbuQT
Hagner and James. Col. Corkhill and Da-
yidgc appeared for the Governments, and
l Reed for GuiteaU. Reed after brief open
7 ing passed to a discussion of the
question OF the jurisdiction Of the
court below, arguing the crime was not
indictable in the District, because the Of
4 Tense was not completed there. Chief
! Justice Carter suggested that while
murder was the killing Of a person,
and the crime could not be defined
as murder until death occurred, vet the act
/ OF felony was completed when the murderer
/ had finished with his victim. Counsel ad-
mitted Guiteau might be indicted, and (if
I found to be sane) convicted Of assault with
intent to kill, but held he could not be tried
for murder. Reed argued that the sentence
/ OF death is void, claiming that under proper
: construction OF the statutes OF the District
/ the date Of the execution should have been
I fixed some day within thirty days after the
/ fourth Monday OF October, 1882. He pro-
+ ceeded TO discuss the evidence for the pros
] ecution admitted at the trial and objected to
/ by the defense, arguing especially against
! the evidence OF DR.. Fordyce Barker. The
1 next exception upon which counsel laid
/ special stress was TO the admission Of Mrs.
/ Dunmore's evidence, she having been the
/ wife Of defendant. Mr.. Reed closed his
argument with an appeal TO the Court TO
4 save, under the law and 10y the law, this land
from the shame, and her Judiciary from the
I disgrace, OF sending an insane man TO the
/ gallows. Colonel COrkhlll opened for the
/ prosecution, quoting the decision Of the Su-
preme Court Of Tennessee, which held the
offense was committed at the place Of the
( blow, though death occurred elsewhere.
1 lie argued that the evidence admit'eS -'or
the prosecution to rebut the defense OF
insanity was competent and properly ad-
mitted