Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 January 1882 — Page 1

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VOL. XVin.—NO. 50.

DANE VOOHIES.

His Speech on the Arrears of Pension's Bill

In Defense of its ProyiBiwos and Against its Proposed Repeal-

A Speech Which Should be Carefully Bead by all Soldicre

AKHKAKH OK MBNS»©NH ACT. Mr IogallB. 1 now move to take up 4iie resolution I haw indicated.

The motion wan agreed to and the Senate procroded to consider the following resolution submitted by Mr. Ingalls •on the 12th instant liesolvtd, That in »he opinion of the Senate the HCt of January 2f, 1879, coinanonly Known as the arrears of pension* -uct. oni?ht n»t to be:repealed.

Mr. IngalU. The Senator from Indiana, Mr Voorhees.) I believe, wishes to speak to the resolution.

Mr. Voorhees. Mr. President, it is ray purpose to-day to say a few plain words on a Hubjecl of commanding importance to the honor of this Government and .to the welfare of the most meritoriouB class of its cit:zeus. For more than a year past it has been obvious to all that a determined effort was to be made in certain quarters to repeal the act of January 25, 1879, granting ariears of pensions to the disabled soldiers of the Unijn Army in the late war of tbe rebellion. The e«#lumns of tne heading newspapers of the country have teemed with the most envenomed denunciations of this act and reeked with coarse and ignorant abuse of all who sustained it. It would indeed be impossible to exaggerate the toae of ^malignant animosity which haw prevailed, and which more than ever now prevail?, on this subject in the most prominent journals from the north end of JNew England to the Pacific coast. I cun recall but two enactments which have called forth such raocerous literature.

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slave law and the repeal of the Missouri compromise are the only measures within my recollection which provoked^uch an*explosion of intense wrath as w© have heard against the arrears of pensions act. It it had been a measure to disseminate pesti lence, breed famine, or provoke -war, it could hardly have been stigmatized with greater kitterness If, instead of being as it is, a law to fulfill a plain, honest obligation toward those who, in sober fact, bled and died for the Government, it bad been measuro to reward highwaymen and enrich piraus, it could not have been assailed in

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been used against it and against all who •aqpport it it seems to be thought by a certain portion ot the press that a public opinion can be created against this law strong enough to eu force its repeal and also to .awe into si Knee those who, like myself, •voted and worked for its passage. I have at hand some of these organs of swollen pretensions aud arrogant mendacity. iOne speaks of the arrears of peusions act as a "hnue swindle uponr the people of 'the United States." Another says -\t is hoped the President in his message to

Congress will call attenfon to tbe stupendous proportions of the pension swindle as it has been developed under the operation of the pension arrears act," and then procet-ds to express its amaaemeut and horror at "cousuiuinatior of so .great an outrage." Aaother prominent organ of all kinds of corporation wealth is so enraged at the sight of disabled soldiers and the widows and oiplutns ot the dead obtaining some of the money of the Government that it breaks forth in the lollowitg exclamation: "There is a well-grounded impression that the whole measure is a swindle—a swindle in conception, a swindle in legislative prosecution, and in executive enforcement." It then adorns a long article of Ignorance and falsehood with such, epithils as "jobbery,""fraud," and

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agogfrm," applied to all who supported' the measure. Another very prominent journal, tenderly devoted to the rioh and powerful, cries out, "Let tbe infamous arrears of pensions l*w of 1879 be repealed and stiH another announces, as one with authority, that "the bill which has been imrodoctd in Cong«**» repealing th« outrageous job called the pension arrears act should t* pass* d."

Hundreds 4f»uch extracts might be read here, and aaany of theiu from leading journal* ia my own StaM- I will content myself, however, with the following editorial fiom a representative New England newspaper. After announcing with approval that "a bill has been introduced in Oongresh to rpoal the arrears ot pension bill," it *.ys: "Nor weie a Majority of those voting for this bill actuated by honest motives. Dot one in ten believed that justice to the nation's dtfei ders required th- enactment of such a law. The pension claim agents had sent petitions for the adoption of the arrears of pensions lull '''into every Congressional district in the

Union, ana had secured the signatures of hundreds an thousands of ex-coldiers, many o! whom signed the oapers because they were promised back payments amounting to $1,000 each, and many more thoughtl saly, without knowing the ^effect of tne measure they advooated.

And so the^e faithless represen-

tatives doted dbeir ears to the warnitigs of the Commissioner ot Pensions, and to the exposure of the fraudulent way in which the matter was being worked up among the pe^le, and voted for the bill in order that they might not offend the soldier element iu their districts."

These citations art) submitted as samples of an almost infinite quantity of'

like calumny upon the ex-soldiers of the country, and upon Congress for doing its duty, as 1 shall show, toward them. And then, as if a climax had to he reached on this Bubject, a Senator upon this floor, during the last week, made the following shocking and astounding statement: "I would promptly repeal the arrears ot pension act. It was conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity. It is a fraud upon the Amtrican poeple and a standing monument to the ignorance, selfishness, and cowardice of the Amirican Congress."

Sir, I need not say that this language coming from the Senator front Kentucky [Mr. Beck] has filled me with amazement and with pain but if he feels it consistent with his sense of propriety to thus characterize a measure for which forty-tour of his Senatorial associates voted, and against which there were only four votes, aud his own not one ot them, he will certainly not be surprised if others, as well as himself, shall exercise some free* dom of speech in discussing this question. If he can make it appear that in sin this measure was conceived, and that in iuiquity the Congress of the United States hroqght it forth as a fraud upon the American people to stand as a monument to ignorance, selfishness, and cowardice, then its supporters will hang their heads in shame but if on the other hand I shall demonstrate that it was a work ot simple justice dictated by the highest sense of obligation to duty, then the Senator from Kentucky will find ample reason to repent ofiiisrash and ill-considered expressions.

The arrears of pensions act was not drawn on the principle of paymgold and sacred -debts without the use of money. It said, in few and plain words, that if tlio broken soldier—broken by wounds or disease—had been slow, from any cause, in presenting his claim upon the Government, and had allowed live years to pas? away before doiBg so, we would still permit him to prove up his injuries just as they occurred and pay him his pension lroin the time he was discharged frem the Army on their account it said to the widow of him over whose moldering dust the dark grass and the bright flowers now grow that though she might have been negligent, though penury and ignorance might have prevented her from asserting her rights for a few years, yet this great, strong Government, so full of God's abundance, would still pay her pension, contribute its small annual pittance to her support, commencing at the day and hour when her husband sealed his measureless devotion to that Government with his death in its service it said that we, as men of conscience and common honesty, could not look each other tn the face and take advantage of such a class of public crtditerd that we were not quite capable' ot saying to those who had been swift in battle that they should lose their pensions because they had been slow in poace to. make their claims.

But whether this or any other estimate is correct, or not, touches nothing of the merits of this question. Is it right that, the money should be paid? Is it right that the soldier should have a pension from the time his trame was shattered on the field of battle, or blighted by disease in camp? Is it right that the widow should receive the aid ol her Government from the time her husband, her stay and support, was torn from her arms forever in its service, or shalhshe be answered as to two or three thou-and dollars of this sacred money, this leeble compensation for an anguish which comes but once to the human heart, that while she slept, while sue was out of the way, while she was ignorant of what was going on in the great world, we canceled her rlaim, because five yars had elapsed before she presented it? Sir, is there any statute of limitation as to the time when a bondholder t-ha!l present his bonds for payment? Within the last year,if I remember correctly, so ne miserly old man cauie here with nis,not one of which had been presented

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od of eighteen years. He demanded gold, and he got gold he was a very hard money man silver, and silver certificates, and greenbacks, and bank notes were all too soft for him and as he lugged his bag of gold from tbe Treasury through the streets some other friend of the trfldbasis robbed him, and left him to go his way lament ing If a soldier, however, who had invested a leg or an arm, buried on tbe field in defense of the flag, instead of money at au enormous speculation, as this old fool did, he would have been required to file his claim within five years or lose pay for five, and possibly for ten yaars. Was this just? Was it right? That is the question involved here. My vote to repeal this statute of limitation and to allow (the crippled soldier, and tbe widow, and the orphan to staud upon the equity of their claims, and upon their legal proof, has been termed an infamous vote. Infamous? Sir. the man who applies such epithets to the votes by which the arrears ot pensions act was passed cannot receive a sufficient answer in this Hall without offending the decorum of the Senate.

But let us look somewhat to the practical workings of this much abused law A few days ago when I was a home in Indiana, a soldier called upon me whom I had known from his cradle, and whose parents I knew before he was born. Be had responded to the call of hi* country when its needs were the sorest, and he had been disehargid on afceooatof a disability incurred in the service and specif idly named in his discharge. There was no question at all as to the fact of tbe injury, ort hat he received it while in line of his duty. He was not prompt in making his application he was a plain countiy boy, familiar only with life on a farm he ditdayed, hoping to get strong and well again, for nearly six fears, and in an awkard way, and with much reluctance, commenced with a slow, halting step to thread the long and intricate process of the law, through which alone the di tabled veteran can reach a pension at the hands of his fcr-off and indiffereit Government. He met with a thousand obstacles that be never dreamed of he was rebuffed many times by frigid official information that his proof was not, sufficient hp went hither and thither to find the evidence technically required by the Government he otten gave over in discouragement and despair until he was

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again cheered with a few words of hope by some sanguine friend he made mistakes as to the law, and ten miles distant from those who could professionally advise him, even if he had the money to pay for such advice he stumbled on in this way nearly ten years, doing the best he could, but not succeeding, when about tliree weeks ago I told him I would look to his case as soon as I returned to this capital. I kept my word his case was complete, perfect in proof, and his pension has been granted. Sir, when should that pensiap begin That is the question. Should it begin at the time he offered his life, and sacrificed his health for all time to come upon the altar of his country, or should it begin now after he has borne his affliction sixteen or seventeen years, during ten of which he was vainly striving, to the best of his ability, to secure his rights? Is there a Senator here who would pay such a debt by slamming the door ef statutory limitation in the face of this soldier In there a member of this body who is afraid to permit this and all other claims of soldiers to stand on their-actual merits as disclosed by the evidence, or is there any one here who wishes to resort to a mere technicality, barren of justice, destitute of equity, and rotten in morals with which to defeat the highest obligation a nation can incur

Still another case occurs to my mind. There came into my office at Terre Haute, when I was last there, the mere shadow of a once robust, vigorous man. In his youth when be filed away to the front of battle with the flower of the land he was handsome, strong, and bouyant his step was firm, his hand steady, his eyes clear, and his voice full of hope and courage. At that time he wore good clothes and bore a prosperous and happy air. His wife and two children strained their eyes after him as he marched, with pride that he looked so well, and with tears that he had to go. With his eye on the colors of bis country he served jintil nearly the close of the war he supped full of its horrors he was at those places where the soil was most enriched by the red rain of humans laughter he lived to return to his home, and to his loved ones there bat oh 1 how changed, how blasted, and withered. He was emaciated, scarred, and worn there was a look in his face as if there was nothing mere for him to endure, as if the angel of death had hovered close and low over his prostrate form as he lay wounded on the field, and as if he bad already tasted the bitterness of the parting moment. But feeble and languid from wounds and disease, as he was, still he was the beloved husband and father, and he put forth all his faltering energies to shelter and care for kis bloody. How he had succeeded I could see when titf called upon me, as I have stated, a few days ago at my home. His frame was thin aod bent his garments were in tatters and almost too scaat lor deceney,much less for comfort his hair was gray, but not with years the ashen hue of premature age had settled in his face, and in his lusterless eye there was a fixed and submissive melancholy. He told me that nearly fourteen years ago he commenced taking steps to procure a pension on account of wounds which nobody disputed, but the technical. proof of which, by the witnesses desisted by the rules and regulations ot the nsion Office, and according to the pre scribed forms, he had never yet been quite able to maker. He bad struggled long and earnestly, he said, more on accoun of tho*e dependent upon him than for himself, and now, he thought, that if he could get a statement from the surgeon of his regiment, whom he heard was somewhere in Tqxas, he would succeed at last I told him that 1 would help him all I could, and that promise I shall keep but what I want to know now is, whether upon the conscience of Senators, that man's pension, if he overcomes all difficulties, and makes full proof, shall commence when it is granted, if it ever shall be, or when it was earned, under murderous and bursting shell. I say it should commence at the time he performed the con* ditions on which it will rest. What say

s&y that when a soldier has perpart of the contract with the

Government by paying down his life, or his mutilated body in its defense, he, or those whom he left, are from that moment entitled, in all honest minds, and in all honest legislation, to the full performance on the part of the Government of all its undertakings under the contract. Who says otherwise? Let him stand forth, who wishes to do so. He will not have an idle encounter on this floor.

But, again let us recur to the mere question of the expenditure of money under the law for the payment ot pension arrears. As one of tbe servants of the public, standing here in a representative capacity, I am ready to meet the precise issue made on that point by the opponents of the act of January 35,1879. I assert that the money is paid to those to whom it is justly due, snd 1 ss9ert further that every dollar paid out under that act is not only in discharge of individual obligations, but that it also enhances the pubHe welfare. Sir. who receives money, snd where does it go Does it go out of the country, snd make mooey scarcer hers? Is the payment of pension arrears a drain on the currency engaged in camringon the Imsinsss or the country? we hear an angry and ptolonged howl that the people are being robbed to psy pensions. Instead of that being true the peoply and all business interests are benefited by the payment, and consequently increased circulation, made under the set for pension arrears. Allow me to illustrate this fact by an individual case. There are three men whom I know, living in the district which I formerly represented in Congress, who are blind from injuries reodved while soldiers, in the line of duty, serving their Government.

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fro, led by a child, on the streets of Terre Haute, for over seventeen years. He has been imprisoned, ss it were, in total darkness during all that long and dreary time. He has known nothing but deep, blscf night around him The sun, moon, and stars are to him blotted out forever. He can remember how the beautiful earth and sky once looked but he sees them no more. The odor of floweis may recall to

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Shsltara Fire. SHKLBOTJT,Jan. 22, '82.

Last night between the hours of eleven and twelve o*dock afire broke out in the building known as the "Black property." The contents of the postoffice were completely destroyed. 8. E. Cuppy's adjoining store was damaged to the extent of $600. Total loss $2,000.

J. W. MARTIH.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND.—THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1882. .50 PER YEAR

his recollection the appearance of the springtime, with its orchard blossoms, and its gay attire the scent of new-mown hay may conjure up harvest scenes to his mind the sighing winds of autumn may remind him that he once saw the foliage of the forests turn purple and gold in tne fall of the year the music of the sleighbells may revive on the faded canvass of his memory the fantastic beauties which the frost king displays in the wintertime, but all seasons are alike to him, they are all wreathed in funeral colors, they are all shrouded in darkness, the emblem of the tomb. He can know not even the faces of those most beloved. He once knew them, but they are cbangcd, and he wonders in vain how they look as they are, like himself, growing old. Blindness, total blindness, a fortune by the side of which death is a sweet mercy! I will not mock the sensibilities of human nature by asking whether such an affliction can be compensated in money.

But this man of whom I am speaking had much difficulty and delay in securing the grant of his pension there was a defect in the muster-rools of his company, awl it was only after years of careful attention that his claim was made out according to law and evidence, and allowed. On account of this delay, caused by no fault of his, he became entitled to and received some three oi four thousand dollars under the act for paying pension arrears. I will not insult the Senate by asking whether he ought to have had this money every man fit tor this presence knows he ought but I will ask what injury, if any, the business prosperity of the country sustains by such an expenditure as this. The money paid to this blind soldier passed on at once from his hands into a hundred different channels of trade. With some of it he paid for a humble home in which to pass his benighted old age, and in which at last to wake, by the touch of death,with eyesight cleansed to a brighter morning than earth has ever knownv With the remainder of his pension arrears he paid his little debts and added something to the comfort of those about him. And such is substantially tbe history of all the money expended under this beneficent law, so basely and so insanely villified. It goes at once into circulation it pays debts it passes from hand to hand it is not hoarded as cou-pon-cutters hoard their interest it makes money plentier among the people where it ought to be pleatlest. Sir, it is dead money which aoes no good to the people, mooey which is packed away in bags, crammed into iron vaults, there to corrode and eat into tbe labor of the people with an immense, never-ceasing, cancerous interest account. Public expenditures which go in that direction are indeed a cu-se but not so with money which is alive and active in the daily transactions of life. But it is in connection with this very idea, and, in fact, almost solely on account of it, that the principal assaults have been made on the law for the payment of pension arrears. The leaders of this crusade are inspired with a frenzy of rage at the sight of poor people obtaining any considerable sums of money from their government, no matter how precious the consideration upon which the payment is based. From the application of this remark I exempt the Senator from Kentucky. I will be just to him, although he has been just to nobody on this subiect. I do not believe that he is inspired with hostility to this law because the poor laboring classes obtain its benefits but the great newspaper organs of corporation wealth and power represent a favored class in this government, a class which believe that all the money, and all the power of money, ought to be concentrated in their own hands. Money in the estimation of this class, should not be diffusive or general in its movements among the people it should be contracted within a narrow circle and exclusive in the bestowal of its benefits on themselves. But a little while ago they were declaring through the same columns which now denounce our system of pensions that the hard times then upon the country were due to the fact that the laboring classes lived toojwell that they had|toomany luxries, and that they must learn to regulate their wants accofdingjto the cheap wages paid for labor in Europe. And now the great moneyed corporations and all such as live on the interest of money, are exasperated at the spectacle of money flowing freely among the common people. Tbe scarcity of money is their harvest, and a full circulation is their bane and grief. They feel, therefore, feat every dollar expended for pensions is hostile to their interest. The sight ot a penniless soldier obtaining a few hundred ot dollars, or thousands perhaps, fills their sordid souls with fury. On the other hand, the plain people hail such money coming into their midst as a general blessing. The civilization of the world, the progress of mankind, the improvement of the people from generation to generation, all begin in the [Improvement of their homes. The policy of government Ss a wise one which enables the laborer to better his habitation, to pot a warm carpet on bis floor in the Winter, to paper his walls aod make them attractive, to buy the best cooking-stove to be had, to provide good beds to sleep in, and to have sitch comforts ss health snd contentment require. The mooey of this government paid out for pensions has, ia thousands of instances, accomplished all these things for the soldier and his family, and why should he not have than Why should be not educate hischlldren as well as the rich have them wear genteel clothes his daughter have an organ, jperhsps, on which to plsy some old faminsr inarching air while the teoken soldier Bits by hi* tire, and talk* the nlfthtaway— flTeeps o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldera bUeratch and shows how fields were won.

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Judge Porter is Slowly but Forcibly Bearing Down Upon the. Murderer,

And the Wonld-be Insane Criminal is Getting Very tHenrons About the Result

Persistent and Frequent Interruptions From the Prisoner-

And Unsuccessful Objections From Scoville Fail to Have the Desired Effect on Judge Porter,

And Torrents of Denunciation Bain Pitilessly Upon the Prisoner, and the Insanity Theory Kelts

Before his Logic.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—As usual, Guiteau opened the proceedings of the court by announcing, "My sister has been doing some silly talking in Chicago. She means well, but she's no lawyer." judge Porter immediately resumed argument. AdmonielKd by the falling snow and severity of the weather from which he had suffered and from which, doubtless, the jury also had suffered, he felt it necessary to depart somewhat from his original intentions and trust to the intelligence and honor of the jury to supply his defects. He would not, theretore, linger over the dry details of the evidence. Feeling it imperatively necessary that the trial should be brought to a conclusion as soon as possible he would simply touch npon a few salient points of the evidence. "John W. Guiteau," said Judge Porter, "I believe to be an honest man. He came here ready to contribute his means, his evidence and his services to save a brother's life and honored father's name, and yet the truth comes from his lips, which must impress upon every one ot you the conviction that on the 2a of July this prisoner was as sane as you or I or the Judge upon this bench." Reading from the evidence of J. W. Guiteau and commenting upon it, Judge Porter said of the prisoner, "He has two faces."

Guiteau—"How many have you?1' Judge Porter—"He has two faces one showing the sanctity of the Pharisee aod the other the hldious grin of the fiend that possesses him." As he continued snd read from J. W. Guiteau's testimony relative to his last interview with the prisoner Guiteau continually interrupted with such comments as, "What I say is always true, Judge Porter what you say is generally false." I never saia so that is absolutely false." Proceeding, Judge Porter contrasted the life and conduct and deceitful swindling practices of the prisoner with the Apostle Paul's in the light ot the prisoner's assumption that he, like Paul, was honestly engaged in doing the Loid's work. Paul never palmed off brass watches for gold.

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'Neither did I shouted Guiteau. Paul never swindled bis creditors out of their just dues. "Oh I you are a bloedy man," retorted Guiteau "you belong to the Judas tribe."

The picture drawn by Judge Porter was anything but a lovely one and provoked the prisoner to the most abusive retorts. "You area liar and you know it, and I tell you so to your face, Judge Porter," be called out. "This man," said Judge Porter, "who says he never decieved any one—" "That's a fact," piped in the prisoner "put thst Jn frequently." "This man who says be never deceived any one, says in one [of his hand bdls, lecture by the Hon, Charles Guiteau* When did he get this title of honorable?1

Guiteau—"That's the way my letters come addressed, sir." "By the little giant ot the West," continued Porter. "Well, didn't they call IJouglasa the Little Giant of the Westf' retorted the prisoner.

Judge Porter—"Well, I will not comment upon that" Guiteau—"You'd better not you haven't got brains enough."

Judge Porter—'"The Lord murdered Garfield—" Guiteau—"Yes, and he'll murder you before long."

Judge Porter—"The Lord murdered Garfield the Lord defrauded printers and boarding houses, and every night and morning the Christian prisoner thanks the Liird for his work." Continuing to read from the EvUenoe Porter was again and again interrupted by the prisoner who called out, "Read the record. That benermy brother! He's no brother to me and never has been till he came to this trial. It is contemptible on you to. speak about my brother in the way you do."

Judge Porter in an apparently incidental way spoke of the horror and detestation with which men of all parties and all shades ol opinion look upon the prisoner, and the unanimity with which they execrate his set "You are a liar and you know it,' shouted the prisoner with the energy of desperation. The American people are on my side and so is the press." As Porter continued his arraignment of the prisoner Guiteau winced and nervously twisted in his seat and finally drowned the voice of Judge Porter who gave way to his clamor. In a savage tone he shouted, "A saint from heaven couldn't stand the abuse of that man Porter, and I won't stand it. I will relieve my mind. The idea! This man is trying to make

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me out a fighting man, a man of bad character ana all that. It's a lie and he knows it He's a liar and I'll call him so."

Porter—"I am symply giving the sworn statement of his own brother." Guiteau—"He's no brother of mine. I wouldn't have spoken to him at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last summer. I have nothing against him but I don't like his style. I aid not like my father's style, either. My sister sympathizes with mc and my brother sympathizes with my father. I want that understood. Its contemptible in that man Porter to undertake to convince the jury that I'm an unprincipled, bad man."

Porter read from the letter of Luther Guiteau when the prisoner again called out, "Scoville was very smart to put that letter in, wasn't he It shows what a blockhead he is anywsv."

The first interruption bv counsel for the defense occurrea when Judge Porter undertook to quote the opinion of Engle's Judiciary upon this case. Reed interposed the objection, but without heeding him Porter continued hisremarnk Reea insisted upon his objection./C«khill,. springing to his feet, proteswd aftainst the interruption. "You haveJfnadn your objection that's the extent of yotff prerogative. You've no right to interrupt the gentleman."

Judge Cox—"What Judge Porter has said is neither very relevent nor very objectionable. I don't see that you can object."

The prisoner added his comment— "Your Honor ought to put that man under arrest he's a perfect nuisance this morning."

After this outburst Judge Porter continued to speak for some minutes without further interruption. Alluding to the incident for which Judge Porterfarraigned both prisoner and counsel for their contemptuous manner of speaking of the witness Edwards as a miserable Jew, "I have vet to know,' said the Speaker, 'that any'man lives who could have cause to feel ashamed that he sprang from the same race as the Saviour of mankind."

Guiteau—"That's all very fine, but you forget that the Lord and the Jews had a falling out at the destruction of Jerusalum. The Jews are all right now. though a very good sort of people."

Porter continued, "As a matter of fact, however, the insinuation of counsel is not correct. Yet, not content with his attempt to blacken the character of thia witness counsel for the defense would circumcise here in tbe presence of this court." The interruptions of the prisoner increased in violence and frequency till, reinforced by an objection ot Scoville, the clamor and din for a moment resembled a small Babel. Scoville finally made himself heard and desired an exception noted to the statement or construction put on the evidence by Judge Porter. A sharp discussion ensued during which the prisoner made himself heard from the dock, shouting, "It's sn outrage for that man to be allowed to speak. He ought to be under arrest for his insolence. It hss been nothing but one stream of abuse from him all morning. It's enough to provoke a saint from I heaven. It's a disgrace upon a court of justice."

The bailiffs ^undertook to quiet the prisoner and succeeded, and drawing his attention from the dispute of tbe counsel and attracting his abuses to themselves. It seemed for a moment possible that hi* vicious demonstrations might provoke some of the officers beyond the point ot endurance and perhsps to the point of assuming the I unction of tbe court in s4ministering wholesome and much needed discipline. Judge Cox called tor the reading from the stenegraphers, notes of the passage which had caused the dispute and' promptly decided against Scoville's demand that counsel be stopped passing to the testimony ot Dr. Spitzka

Judge Porter said, "I wonder if Lucifer were on trial wculd Dr. Spitzha pronounce him a moral Imbecile, ^a moral mon8trocity? Satan fell fom high estate. There was a change in satan, but in this man, according to Dr. Bpitzka there could never have been a change. He was from tbe stmt amoral Imbecile,' 'a framer of morbid projects.'' a S pi a W a re he os mankind poor? Because of morbid projects. Do we pronounce the majority of mankind insane? What does he say of this prisoner's sanity on the 2nd of July? 'Probably insane, probably insane.' Do you propose, gentlemen of the jury, to tuing in a verdict thst he was probably insane? Was he sane or insane? That is the question. Whst does he say of die prisoner ss a lawyer? He calls him a thirdrate shyster in a Criminal Court. I

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suppose Scoville can tell what that means. Referring to reference by Reed to Charlotte Corday, Judge Porter said it was left to Seed to make the discovery and to announce to this court and to tks world that Charlotte Cbrday was insane. I Rehearsing the circumstances of Charlotte Corday's Ufa and death, Judge Forter contrasted her act of patriotism with Guiteau's foul murder in tbe most doquent and stirring sentences. Tbe prisoner wss roused almost to Any and be!lowed like an infuriated beast, at times completely drowning the speaker's voice. "God-almighty will corse yon, Porter, yon missrsols whelp you. Ton cant make the American people believe I'm not a patriot.' To-day I raffit in bonds as a patriot and God will cures yon if a nair of my head is injured."

Pausing a moment Judge Porter said, "Contrast the conduct of this vindictive,, cowardly wretch with Charlotte Corday.. who walked neacefnlly to the scaffold. with hands touted over crosses upon her breast and a serene smile that denoted her willingness to suffer death for her country, and the patriotism which in* itigated her act"

THK semi-annual examinations of (he city schools take place on Friday, the subjects being arithmetic, spelling snd reading.

TIIB most reliable stimulant for thegrowth of infants and children, and the one most gentle in its soothing effect, isBrown's Iron Bitters.