The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-07-15

concern itself with everything that affects
the welfare of our ex-soldiers and sailors,
and our readers may be sure that it will
oppose the return to Congress of every
candidate the record of whose votes proves
him to be their enemy.
DISCUSSING that is the only word
unfortunately describes thesquabble that has
arisen between the Rev. Mr.. Hicks, Drs Lamb,
Hartigau and Sewers, and Mrs. Scoville, over
the autopsy on Guiteau and the disposal of
his remains. These people seem to take
pride in airing their dirty linen in public,
and they imagine that everybody is as
deeply interested in their affairs as them
selves, whereas, the only feeling that they
have succeeded in arousing is one of intense
repugnance and aversion. What sort of a
person must Mrs. Scoviile be to deliberately
invite bid for the purchase of her dead
brothers corpse, and what sort of a Clergy
man must Hicks be to involve himself
in a vulgar dispute with the doctors touch
ing the conduct of the autopsy? 1t really
seems as if everybody connected with the
Guiteau case had been defiled by contact
with the assassin. Bah let US consign the
hideous spectacle once and for all to the
shades of oblivion!
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ONE of the sensations in Congress last
week was the attack made on President
Arthur by Representative Bayne, of Penn
sylvania, and the reply thereto by Congress
man Butterworth, of Ohio The question
was as to the character of President Arthurs
removals and appointments to Office as COM
pared to those of the Late President Garfield,
and the discussion, we need hardly say,
served no other purpose than to amuse and
delight the Democratic members of the
House. Do our Republican friends consider
it part of their duty to provide such diver
sions for the Opposition? If not, it occurs
to US that such squabbles are as unpOlitic as
they are painful and Improbable. The
country at large cordially approves the
course pursued by President Arthur just
as it supported the administration of Presi-
dent Garfield, and there is neither occasion
nor excuse for invidious comparisons be-
tween the two.
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THERE appears to be a great deal of IN
necessary delay in getting the Legislative,
Judicial, and Executive bill from the Con-
ference Committee. One very important
clause in the bill is that making an appro-
priati0n to pay for increased clerical force
in the Pension Bureau. This clause has, it
is true, been approved by both Houses, but
it cannot become operative until the bill
passes as an entirety. The committee should
bear this important fact in mind. The
claims of nearly 100000 soldiers and sailors
remain pigeOn-holed because of insufficient
clerical force to examine them. Such
delay is inexcusable. Congress should re-
member that these are honest debts and
should be paid as promptly as those of the
bondholders. Had the legislation been more
prompt the new pension force might now be
at work on these lOng-delayed claims.
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