Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1881, Page 2

| STORRS ON Gath's Talk With the Chicago Lawyer About the Assassin. Dispateh to Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Emery Storrs, the well-read Chicago lawyer, who testified in Gui- teau's case recently, and who know Guiteau in Chicago very well, said to me last night: ©I think Gui will be found wuilty. His case, bad as it was, has not been helped by his pre sumption i that court. To call him asa witness, who can explain why he committed the murder, is pretty clear proof of his memory, reasoning pow ers, and responsibility, Judge Por ter's cross-examination brought this out clearly to the jury, because, when you find the people saying he was sharper than the lawyerin this or that answer, you may be sure that the jury is getting no deep idea that he is a luns called, was no matter of record before the assassination. It be with that act. There is scarcely any human be ing out of whose life you cannot pick enough eccentricities to construct a tolerabiy good fabric of foolishness. “There is not a single exception to the rule that no man with insane in- spiration from God ever boasted of it There have been men insane that but it took very dexterous handling to bring out the point, Erskine, the British lawyer, cite s where a wan believed that he was Jesus Christ, and no amot®” of questioning could bring him to acknowledge it, till at a a sudden point the lawyer said: ‘For give me, I did not know that I wasin the presence of our Savior’; where- upon the man bowed with dignity. A man is responsible for a murder if he could have rest=ained himself from doing it. Now, suppose anybody had stepped up to Guiteau that morning and said: ‘You dirty coward. T have ot a pistol here, and will blow your gminu out if you draw your weapon against the President!’ would he not have slunk away? Therefore he could restrain his murderous propensity; and, being able to restrain it, he is re- sponsible.” “Didn't you and Mr. Logan testify that Guiteau was peculiar?”’ ‘“‘Gen. Logan testified that he be- lieved he was crazy; but I think that arose from the perversity of common words. It is one thing to say to a person about another, ‘That fellow is crazy,’ and another thing to limit his responsibility for crime. I said that Guiteau hadn’t common sense, which is a very different thing from crazi- ness. His conceit, his willful belief that he can get a great office on such claims as he had, were exhibitions of ignorance. They could bave been corrected by a better education and a more honest conversance with the world. T have no doubt in my mind that the trial will proceed to @ proper conclusion. Tt would be agreat shame if 1t did not. After T had testified, Guiteau’s brother came to me at the hotel, where I was sitting among some gentlemen, and, in a rather overbear- ing way, asked me if I thought he could distiuguish between right and wrong, or fact and illusion. T said ‘Yes.” ‘How do you know it!' said he. ‘Because of the manner in which you ask; and I also think,’ eaid I, ‘that you could draw the distinction as to when you were going to be un- civil.’ ““In this trial the prisoner never puts forth his idea of Divine inspira- tion until he has exhausted his world- ly line of explanation and argument, and when cornered he puts the inspi- ration out. In short, that is a pre- tense. That there is any such thing as inspiration no lawyer is going to argue. The only thing a lawyer will admit, or any worldly man for that matter, is that a person believes him- self inspired. Guiteau does not be- liove it, because he relies upon his adroitness of mind, his great wit, his dexterity, ete., and wants to play be- fore the country as a brilliant man. It is only when he feels himself going to be hanged that he interposes Divine inspiration,”’ Referring to ;the conduct of the prisonerin court, Mr, Storrs said: I think the judge has tried to be considerate of the interests of justico, and Irely upon his inflexibility. I suggest, Kowuvar, that he might have compelled good behavior from the prisoner—not by mentioning the kind of punishment he meant to adminis- ter, but by sending the prisoner for twenty-four hours, or forty-eight hours if necessary, to solitary con- finement on bread and water, without any newspapers to read, That would have bruugm good behavior out of Guiteau. When he came back to court at the first sign of applause the judge ought to have cleared the en- tire audienve out, excepting only the jury, witnesses and counsel, Guiteau would nave found that his policy was good behavior. His display in this tria 1 has beén all in the line of his selt’esteem. He should have been punished for a contempt of court where he claims t be a counsel in his own behalf. Let him have all the rights that other counsel have, but no more. Suppose I should go into that court and exclaim and interfere like Guiteau—don’t you suppose the judge would commit me in five min- utes! Why should he, appearing for himself, have any more rights than any other lawyer? And,” continued M, Storrs, ‘‘the great position and dignity of President Garfield ought also to be put out of sight in this tria), By keeping that in mind the prisoner hopes to float his claim of insanity and inspiration, Consider Mr, Gar- field as a plain men, whose life was taken by a miscreant, and then what becomes of the inspiration! That is Just what the defendant is being tried for~a private murder; and he 1s try- ing to dodge his reponsibility for it by pleading the president’s lofty station ::;d the divine necessity for killing im, " TEAU. L ) Instructing Females How to Put on Trousers. The editor of the Elmira Free Press is & married man, or, at least, we sup- pose he is. In dwscussing the propos- ed reform in female dress, which is to thrust trousers (silk brocaded ones) upon the fair sex, he comes to the front with the following timely advice, which will doubtless be appreciated by our fair readers: “We have not,” ke says, ‘‘the slightest objection to the wearing of trousers on the part of the sex to wlich the gown properly belongs, but it is only fair to tell thein what danger and discomfort they are inviting. Trousers, for instance, can- not be put on by drawing them over the head, Neither can they be drawn Josides, his insanity, 8o ¢ — e — n from the other extremity while the person designing to wear them sits on the floor. To properly draw on a pair of trousers requires dexterity, andea nice balancing on ene foot; and At times even the most expert persons are apt to step on the disengaged va cuum which ocrupies the floor, while the other vacuum is being filled.” I'he fair would-be wearers are also warned that tronsers only extend to tho waist, and never huttoned around the neck, and that suspenders are crossed on the | A Talk With 4on. M.J, Cramer on Denmark. [ nnati Enquirer J. Cramer. brother-in-law resident of iis city, and for soveral years United States minister to Denmark, was found yesterday at the residence of a friend bt Mr, Cramer, in re people ot the country he had so long lived among, said: “I can not say that I want to deliver a lecture on Den- mark, The people are intelligent and good hearted, genial in their n W frank. There is o strong mixture of German element in their popula- tion, softening by its warmth the Scandinavian reserve. The da fond of outdoor amusements, and th. summer garden, the Tivoli of Copen hagen, is the liveliest in all Earope.’ COMMERCE, “Are they a commercial people?” “Decidgedly so. The commerce of Denmark is extens Tts location 1 especially fa ble for maintaining commercial relations with all the mari- time nations of Europe, It lies be- tween two seas, and commands the entrance to the Baltic, and carries on not only an export trade, but does anjextensive carrying trade for other nations. The leading export art but- ter, cheese, meats (smoked and salted) grain, cattle, hides, whale and train oil, while wines, salt, drugs, silk, woollen and cotton fabrics sre import- ed. The commerce with England and Germany is extensive. During the five years from 1868 to 1872 the aver- age annual imports from these coun- tries were 86,000,000 and §8,000,000, and the exports 89,200,000 and 814,- 000,000. enmark has also relations with Sweden and Russia and the United States. Trade with the latter eountry has increased 26 per cent. since I was there. Thero are lines of steamers between the United States and Denmark, and their carrying ca- pacity is good.” HCHOOLS, “Are the people well educated?”’ ‘“They pay great attention to edu- cation, and have a compulsory school law which compelsevery child between seven and fourteen to attend school, and it is very rare to seo a Danish peasant who can not read and write. At Copenhagen is o fino university, than able corps’of forty professo There are also colloges in nearly all the large towns,” RELIGION, “What is the religion of the peo- lel” : “The Lutheran, although all creeds are tolerated, The national church is governed by seven bishops, who re- ceive their appomtment from the crown, The king must confess the Evangelical Lutheran religion, and all of his ordinances must be counter- signed by the minister of the state, who is appointed by the king " **Have they a congress?” ‘“They have a diet of rigsdag, which consists of two chambers, the folke- thing or lower house, and the lands- thing or upper house, which meet each year in the month of October,” ““What is the proportion of repre- sentation?” “‘In the lower house it 18 about one doputy for every 16,000 inhabitants, the deputies being elected for three years. The nEper house consist of slxty-six members, twelve of whom receive their appointment from tho king and hold their position during life. The balance are chosen for eight years, The diet prepare laws, which the king must sanction in order to be- come effective, and the levying of taxes also requires the king's con- sent,” ‘‘Did you like the country and the living there!” “‘I'can not say that T would like to mako it always my home, but person- ality I was treated with great consid- eration,” — Gosvel Truth, He that is surety for a stranger, shall emart for it, But he that trusteth in SPRING BLoxS0M for curing liver, kidney, and complaints of & like tendency, shall never bo disappointed. Price 50 cents, trial bottles 10 cents, eodlw The Political Map Springfield Republican, David Davis is quoted as saying that the message read aloud in the hearing of our senators and representatives last Tuesday is the first important message in 40 years which has not “‘referred to the South as a distine- tive section of the country.” David Davis is 66 years old, He loft college nearly half a contury ago, He was a rising politician in 1844 — two years beforo Gen, Znchery Taylor crossed the Rio_ Grande, six years be- foro Daniel Wobstor made Jils speceh on the Wilmot proviso, and 14 years before Abrahrm Lincoln attracted the attention of the county by his memo- rablo contest on tho linois stump with Stephen A, Douglas, Asa dole- gate to the Chicago convention of 1860 he heljed make Lincoln president; he was raised to the bench by him; he remained his bosom friend through the years that followed; as his execu- tor he renaered him o last loyal ser- vico after his death, Bince the old party names ceased to mean anything, he lias been an independent, but un: hampered. In his long public life he has seen many things happen in this country, of which, if the president were todie before sunsot, ho would become the acting chiof magistrate. It is this man who rejoices in the dis- appearance of sectionalism from the annual - message, and who asks: “Could there be a mere ‘auspicious moment for the dissolution of the ‘two old political parties, and the forma- tion of ‘two new parties divided on the living issues of ‘today(” That Preaident Arthur, stalwart re- publican as ho is, should have nothing to say in his message about *th southern question’ is, after all, more gratifying than surprisieg. He is a person 1n whom stalwartism has not extinguished common sense, nor yet the sense of the ridiculous, and when it emme to writing his messago he « | count. e found no “southern question”—in the sinister significance which the words have acquired in_our political dictionary—to say anything about When Garfield was laid to rest, the old sectional animosities and bitter nesses wore buried too—never, please d, to know a resurrection. The really surprising and delight- ful thing is, that the customary discussion of this “‘southern question” should not have been missed by one reader of the message in ten thou- sand, north or south, until David Da- vis called attention to its disappear. ance. The fact is too eloquent in it self to meed comment, “It is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our cyes,” I'he broad, black, east-and-west line that formerly ran across the pol- itical map has quite faded out. There is new geographical line to take its Jlace; the half-joking jealously of the of the Atlantic slope which it oceasionally pleases the Miss- issippi valley politicians and editors to indulde in doesn’t The actual lines of differance on the living issues of the day zigzag and meander across not only the sectional but also the party lines in & whimsically erratic manner that makes the study of the map ¢ rather puzzling business even to the oldest and clearest-headed students. It is not as republicans and demo- crats that the members of the present congress will divide on the question of currency, tariff, the reduction of taxation, the creation of a new na: the increase of the army, steamshif subsidies, internal improvements, and 80 on, The times are indeed auspicious, as David Davis says, for the dissolution of old parties and the appearance of to impatience. When events are mov- ing 80 rapidly, it is not worth while to try to hurry them. 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