The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-01-20
WEEKLY CORYALLIS GAZETTE.
Corvallis Jan. 20, 1882.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our Regular Correspondent

understanding with the District AT
torney, its object being to give the
experts in attendance a chance t.
observe the everyday conduct of The
scoundrel and contrast it with that he
exhibited at their interviews will
him while in confinement. When hs
became 80 bold and selfconfdent a:
70 declare himself entirely sane, anc
Eas proved his declaration true by
dcxterous handling OF facts and test
mony as brough out by the prosecu
tion, the counsel for the people asked
i've Judge TO put the prisonei in the
dock and treat him as other murder
srS on trial had been treated. Gui-
t'au and his counsel then for the frs,
time realized fully that he had been
"given rope and hung himself" Ir
the light OF. these facts it behooves
the New York Tribune, the Times,
and the host of other harsh critics
that have assailed Junge Cox to re
tract their ISLANDERS and admit that
both the prosecution and Court know
better how to treat this extraordinary
case than the wiseacres of the sanctEm
There has been a great deal of
Democratic claque and clamor over
the arrangement of the House Com
mittees, and particularly over that on
Privileges and Elections, of which
Mr.. Calkins of Indiana, is chairman.
These gentlemen are a little ''too
previous in their remarks and char
ges. Mr.. Calkins declares that his
Committee is fairly made up, i'll az
cordance with the customs of the
House. Last session the Committee,
as made up by Speaker Randall, was
constituted of nine Democrats, five
Republicans and one Greenbacker;
this year it consists of nine Republic
cans, four Democrats, one Readiuster
and one Greenbacker, thus giving
the minority of the House the same
representation precisely that the mi
nority had in the last House. Mr..
Calkius says, further, that he does
not regard the Elections Committee
a mere party machine, and so far as
he is concerned it shall not be run as
such-no man will be turned ont or
put into seat simply because he is a
Democrat or a Republican. The
Committee is busily at work, and the
testimony in five cases has been sent
to the printer. A disposition is man
ifest to take up, examine and act on
cases at once instead of indulging in
the usual interminable delays. If
this Congress gives us departure
from the disgraceful method recently
practiced of keeping contestants who
were really elected out in the cold
until the very last day and hour of
the second session, it will deserve no
little praise. This thing Of permit.
ting man who was never elected
to draw the pay and perform the
duties through the whole tern and
then on the last day confessing that
1t was wrong and vote pay also to
the other fellow, is a crying evil. 1
put drawing the pay first and fore
most, as with many Congressman
that is the most important part of it.
Ex- Secretary Blaine is preparing
the eulogy upon the late President
Garfield to be delivered in the hall
of the House of Representatives when
the funeral services are observed by
Congress. He bnt recently sen: the
committee III charge of the arrange
ments his acceptance of the invitation
The selection of Mr.. Blaine for this
service was most happy and appro-
pirate. Forever will his name be
linked with the brief but honorable
and satisfactory Administration of
that statesman who in the zenith of
a well deserved fame, was taken from
his countrymen by the dastardly act
of cowardly assassin. None other
than Jas. G. Blaine could have been
appropriately chosen TO impress upon
the minds of the people, and in words
that will li7e, those traits of character,
habits of life, and mode of action
which will always endear the men,
cry of James A. Garfield, not only
to his contemporaneous fellow citi-
zens, but their descendants yet to
move and live. The Grafton Of Mr..
Blaine will be labor of love, and in
its records of the life and apprecia-
tion of the virtues of the dead Presi-
dent will reflect, in words scarcely
possible TO another, the universal
feeling of citizens OF the United
States upon the National bereave
nent.
Among the politicians and Con-