Show BY telegraph PEB aon MON AMERICAN NEW YORK 10 the tribune ridicules proposition to make the anniversary of the discovery of america a legal holiday holding it would bo be impossible to fix the date and declaring we have holidays enough already we are busy people 11 and cannot afford to shut up shop to celebrate all the great events of history the Grap graphics hios washington corres bays says A son of the late orson pratt one of the original mormon apostles is in the city he Is an ardent anti mormon today to day he be 81 said sald idd edd fawe we have been waiting 20 years thinking that each succeeding congress would do something for utah but it has never been done when the poland bill was passed we ve hoped something from it but the vital parts were taken from it BO so that it really amounted to nothing you ask me how it antrel happens n a that I 1 am not a mormon ill lii tell teil i you I 1 om am the son of my fat fath liers erb era first wife wire and had adother who taught me the evil of the system there are many such persons in utah and the tendency of their education is opposed to mormonism they grow up to the institution and more than half appear to be disgusted with all forms of religion some of the older and more practical mormons cormons have idea that the government cannot deal with them they think they are more powerful than the united states of course this is not true of the more intelligent cla cia class claes es such as cannon for example they know better what we want is a blow struck at polygamy we want it wiped out I 1 dont care a straw for the unseating seating un of cannon on a technicality if nothing is to be done to put pub down polygamy I 1 would as soon have cannon in congress as campbell and perhaps rather it Is not cannon we are fighting but polygamy pratt was asked what would be the result in utah of the unsealing unseating un of cannon provided provI Jed the committee on elections reported against film highe he ahll ahal AH 11 wl i 4 h T t th thai f f f I 1 s suppose appose be referred oace ret utie to the people and the mormons cormons would elect another man the vote ill iu this case shows about the proportion of mormons and gentiles gen tiles Iti it Is over 10 to one in favor of the mormon population and of course they can always carry an election as long as they have the right to vote the evening posts washington special says representative borrows of michigan intends today to day to take the democrats lr word in their abhorrence of polygamy and will introduce a bill providing that bigamy or polygamy shall be a disqualification for any delegate from any territory he will ask to have this passed by the unanimous consent of the opponents of mormonism governor murray utah said today tt am not in favor of dividing the territory of utah as they have proposed and attaching a portion of it to colorado and nevada this would accomplish no good it would simply insure nevada to the democrats and also most turn col orado into a democratic state the mormons cormons are democratic ram lam IE am in favor of abolishing the present form of territorial government and administering the affairs of territory by a council appointed by the president what we are adiv ing for Is the agitation of the subject to arouse congress to action we want cannon dethroned dethroner for the moral effect it will have on the polygamists congressman reed of maine remarked today to day that the great difficulty in the way of effective legislation against polygamy in his opinion was waa that under the pre present sent sy system the enforcement of the laws depended UP upon the local sentiment of the community to which it applied congress might enact statutes that if the weight of public sentiment was against it would be inoperative this Is the case in the south and it had be eoma coma so apparent that it was useless to force a law upon a community community comm unit y whose weight of public opinion was so hostile to to it that the position had to be practically abandoned that was the trouble in utah reed need Gulte Guite aus auls counsel having seen guiteau alone today to day for the first time says he be is more convinced than ever that he is insane he said tome to vine wine with the greatest earnestness ne nest atness ness athe the lord will put words worda into your mouth with which to convince th the jury eJary and I 1 shall be acquitted bitted I 1 have no in armey in e y n now atu b but t I 1 shall earn w within 1 th in ow a month after the trial Is over and I 1 will then give you 11 the smile amile which accompanied tho this remark was so unnatural he chided when reed entered his hit hi cell guiteau u was engaged in writing and had before him a voluminous pile of manuscript why how bow long do you expect to speak speak aj inquired reed 1 I cant tell you A day or two and perhaps more replied gul gui guiteau be he finally agreed to conform to reeds idea on the subject of his bis speech but still insists that he shall make the closing address to the jury ry this matter will probably 1 be referred to Jud geCox for settlement if counsel cannot effect an arrangement with the prisoner counsel for foe the prosecution have intimated that they will not object to guf Gul eans teana speaking but they will insist upon some limitation the indications are the house committee on oil elections will send the utah case back to the peo cleof pie of that territory for another election the star route cases came up today bilas bliss conducted the prosecution bliss stated the position taken by the government in these cases he made severe arraignment of methods pursued by defendants in transferring property from one party to another just before the awards of contracts so that one piece of land worth a few thou thousand dollars would represent bonds to the amount of nearly postmaster general was absolutely powerless to prevent the perpetration of such frauds at the conclusion of bliss address the first case called was that against cabell and dixon ALBANY II 11 governor comes comek message was sent in today to day result on the vote for speaker of the house aivord alvord 58 patterson 66 costello 5 necessary to ts choice 61 tammany cast the costello vote adjourned the deadlock dead lock continues and the legislature la in still unorganized tammany demands that the demo cracy withdraw jacobs as candidate for vloe of the senate atland and abair a fajr fair share of the minor eatn onn enn co MOUNT vernon ky ll 11 there emana 1 au w room yesterday during the t trial triai by judge bradley brad ley of a murder case john mullens a drunk and insolent witness was first fined then ordered under arrest by the court he and his father resisted and both being powerful men made a wild scene of disorder during which the audience and fled in a panic several shots were fired and many persons knocked down but no corpses were discovered dis disc both min men were finally jailed and the trial by mutual consent put over to the next term having disappeared appeared ds BT paol ILA IL lla 11 A special to the pioneer press says joseph posey and two children were burned to death in his house near knife falls monday night wife and other children were absent and escaped the children were girls aced acred seven and thirteen posey wab was J a frenchman with an indian wife ban SAN FRANCISCO 12 accounts of the pinola disaster vary some saying two were killed and three mortally wounded others one killed and one mortally wounded while the other employees injured consist of slight wounds from fid fly flying ing splinters the company claim th that t n no 0 powder exploded and that steam was the cause of the disaster this seems contradicted by the evl evi dence denee of the force of the explosion which shattered widely separates sep separated aratea buildings and distributed cartridge eases cases for a reat reat rent distance the loss Is estimated at dannas 12 the I 1 ingest single sale of cotton made in the united states was made today to day by al MD D cleveland numbering bales the consideration in round figures was OSKALOOSA iowa 12 thomas walters and jasper newton miners were overpowered by foul air in a coa walters ia Is dead and newton cannot recover washington 12 AS ag soon as the court was called to order davidge took his position in front of th the eJury jury and opened his hia with a disclaimer of any intention to make a set speech but expressed the simple eim elm pie desire desiro to render the jury what aid he could in their present solemn duty doty he said the time had bad now come in this trial when the jury were to become factors and whatever disorder or levity might have characterized the trial there waa was but one oue sentiment in ju respect to the c conduct 0 of tb the jury eJury all commended e d their dignified deportment and close and ana patient attention to the evidence and he could ilot riot doubt that as they had received the commendation men dation of all in the past that they would continue to deserve it I 1 in n the future by their decision of the question before them in the beginning baid eaid David davidge gey idt it was sought to show that the pil was off his balance now the court tells you to look for that degree of insanity that disables a man from knowing that what he was doing was wrong this is the test you are to apply upon the question of inspiration I 1 think I 1 will be able to show to your satisfaction how little there is in this claim the only question guestion fuestion jie lie joe ie said wms was that of insanity I 1 ty 11 ile lle he then argued that the prisoner had bad that degree of intelligence telli gence gencel legal knowledge and moral sense which render him re responsible 8 pon for lis ils his acts in a telling passage he showed that the prisoner himself had tho wit to see the jatal fatai fatal weakness of villes line of defence and repudiated it arguing in his own behalf that lie he was no imbecile but a sane man whose intellect and will had been dominated during a specified period of time thus rendering him irresponsible for this thia particular crime he then reviewed the circumstances of the crime the victim and the criminal his fils analysis of Guite gulte aus auls character was wag graphic and effe effi effective active if ho he exclaimed 1 I were to sum up the moral and intellectual qualities of this man I 1 should hay say that he nad had the daring of a vulture combined with the heart of a wolf in speaking of Guite Gulte aus auls plan he remarked upon his greater fear of the mob than of the lawand exclaimed we must bay eay to our shame that this estimate had bad a foundation it rested he ho added with thea the jury juny ury to show the world whether Guite Gulte aus auls opinion fod lod was well founded II 11 As davidge traced the process of reasoning by which the prisoner gradually reached reachel the conviction that butone life interposed between himself and passably pas sibly great beri bell benefits emmis effis guiteau became restless and for the tire first time since the opening of the court indicated by nervous twisting about tile the usual preliminaries to in which in vao vav i tanra glance quickly followed not often said amy lly ili in the tho record of a heinous crime do we have such plain piam anu nuu pointed evidence as to the first conception of the crime in this case the suggestion came to the wretch in the night as he be was lying in bed it came tome when the lord got ready to have it snarled the thearis pris oner davidge continued this thought or suggestion came to him on the of may still thinking he office he be sought and keep beep his hia hands clean he made another effort on the of may to induce the president to grant his request called out from the desk 1 q I would not have taken a foreign mission after the first judge if it had been offered to me davidge Davjd ge apparently not heeding beeding him on tile tiie 28 th of may 11 1 1 Gul gui guiteau 1 I am balki talking ng about the of june moment ajust just listen to him Gulte guite guiteau nus aus they will listen to you but your 3 our talk is so weak it Is hardly worth listenik 3 to Is S N for several minutes guiteau continued to interject his liis comments with the evident intention of annoying davidge but finding he could not effect this he gradually subsided into complete silence upon the reassembling of the court davidge considered in order each member of the guiteau family whose mental condition had been consi considered dered derea herey here but un naw erable expert testimony he said showed liow flow much effect this thia collateral insanity could have on the mental con condition diton dlton of the prisoner it is a hollow mockery to discuss this davidge continued there is not a single fact or a single jot or title to show that the prisoner was not perfect ably res responsible pon sible sibie for hi his 8 acts oa ou the 2nd and of july the larv will find the defense 8 e ha have v e carefully picked out and held up to view everything in the entire career of thia this man which may be considered odd or peculiar and it is for you to consider whether this man did not know on the 2nd and of july it was wrong for him to kill the chief magistrate of the tiie union davidge then took up the oneida community and spoke of Guite gulte aus auls wallowing there thero for six eix years guiteau r shouted add and I 1 say it is false I 1 did not wallow im just lust as t pure as you are davidge and a good deal purer 0 davidge discussed th the 0 evidence of charles reed who conversed converged with the prisoner tuesday before shooting and who thought he appeared a little off hla his his hia balance and this mar mark k you said davidge is the extent of hla hia evidence for that day he was never asked if he thought be he was unable to distinguish between right and wrong Is it so very strange gentlemen that the prisoner should have appeared queer when at the very time lie he was carrying in his liis breast the monstrous crime this witness ree guiteau interrupted you had better let reed alone davidge he is a bad man roan for you to tackle davidge continued this witness reed beed said he saw the prisoner in I 1 jail jall 11 a as lie he says at the instance of scoville v lile ille and hla hia evidence as to that occasion is manufactured evidence guiteau interrupted again shouting in a boisterous manner better lookout beed reed is 18 going to speak tomorrow to morrow he will tear you all to pieces hes got its 1 its of experience in chicago handling such fellows as you are and hes sent them to state prison davidge explained that in the use of the term he meant no reflection onried on Reed but it was an easy matter for the prisoner after the act to strike the wall simultaneously for the benefit of gentlemen who would shortly appear as witnesses for the defense guiteau I 1 hever feigned insanity I 1 never claimed to be insane af after ter the ad of july I 1 am as sane as you are davidge and a better man too davidge do you hear that gen tiemen contrast that with what you have seen day after day in this court courtroom room davidge proceeded to disintegrate the evidence and argue its worthlessness guiteau ally interrupting once he called out sarcastically you dont donit don it believe a word of that davidge davidge continued to discuss the evidence which he arranged chronologically ly he caused a ripple of amusement as lle lie described Gulte guite russ career in boston there is in boston a temple or building erected by disciples or believers in the doctrine of the thet atheist atheists tom paine davidge a s ild id a biye blye conduct eon con duet duct attributed ted led to guiteau when he i doo dom oo the fact is his company were out ut vf accord with limy himy him wim and their ridicule angered and disgusted him but he davidge ridiculed the idea that anything had been shown bathis by this evidence to indicate insanity the counsel dissected with 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