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f OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1890. 8 CAN BY PHARMACY... A full line of Patent Medicines, Choice Cigars ami Toilet Articles. The Most Select iUock of In Clackamas County. W. II. EX ASS, Prop. 4' t MIV, OHM.O 1 ! TIhto an rir rtin of lawr wnu-n a lni conduct uiiWcomlnir jreiit Ionian aiui an oftU-cr. Tim court mnrtint bo conn, therefor, a conrt of Louor lu dealing with till chnrRO. atil ita dulib rration can Ih ituideU by nothing Imt ttm Judgment of the ineintani thr-m-elvc. Th churg Is, too. olio of th moat serious In tlio whole military cud, for the usual penalty prem-ril-!. upon conviction, Uilitnuliugtl from tliowrvic It may l of interest to note- thtit whlltf tlio court martini of an oflWr no hltfh In rank aa General Kagan bat GRIM. SOLEMN JUSTICE That's the Kind the Soldier Gets In a Court MartiaL EI3 HC50S ASD SALAEY AT STAKE am HUk Arar Official Wk !! t'ar4 Military Trlaaaala aa H- I Dralt Kllk-Oaa Colaelaaacea. :; -- Ci r a- ..v a. V Vfir RED honor and tv, N'tu impor tant things among army men. are put in jeopardy by court , martial: to inch a trial is a mighty ri-! oca and solemn thing to the men whc war L'n.l SauT fijihtinjc uniform. Even a civilian spectator must be im prewed with the difference between a military tribunal and the ordinary court of justice. In the latter offenses agint the lives and property of individual are inreKtigated In the former a.ault cn the fame aud discipline of the na tion army, made by individual lap1 of integrity, discipline or good behavior are probed. In the civilians' court the lawyer make use of wit. pathos, ridicnle and pasionU; appeal to the emotion. Even the judge fillip an occasional joke from the bench to the bar. Ent in the soldier's court justice ia prim aud uteru and ever dignified. A criminal's life may bang in the balance amid jt and mental buffoonery, but a soldier's honor and a soldier's salary can 1 put to forfeit only with solemn surroundings. Even the drumhead justice of a cam paign court martial when the offense demands immediate punishment lacks nothing in dignity, although the sur roundings may be unconventional A general court martial is a brilliant jHctade Gold lace and red tape abm.nd. and dignity of jirocednre and demeanor dominates in a manner not paralleled, perhaps, in any civil court wept tribunals like the United States supreme court. Here in a form to please the eye better are the equivalents of all the adjuncts of the high civil courts, but each in a shape that makes the whole sevne most interesting. Instead of a gowned judge one sees the president of the court grim, per haps, and well along in years, because promotions in the army are slow and the president must be of higher rank than the other members, but resplen dent in all the glories of his full mili tary uniform. In place of the jury are the other members of the court every one of them in full uniform, begirt with a gold belt In a full court martial there are just a dozen of these officers besides the president and many an officer and man has found in this sort of 13 gath ering confirmation of the evil supersti tion attaching to the number. The ar ticles of war provide that when it can be avoided no member of the court ball be inferior in rank to the officer accused. Owing to the high rank of Briga dier General Eagan it was hardly pos sible to have all the members of the court his official equals, but the lint as se!"cted included four major generals, five brigadiers and four colonel. In a court martial may be determined questions of life or death, matters in volving imprisonment, fines or dishon or. Bound by almost no rules of evi dence, amenable to none for the exer cise of their judgment, the members of a court martial may probe straight to the bottom of every piece of evidence brought before them, sweep aside all technicalities and finally render a ver dict entirely in accordance with their irs ideas of the rights and equities of the United States and of the officer who ia upon trial. Standing between the court and the power which appoints it is the judge advocate. In the trial of the case the jude advocate is the prosecutor. Like a prosecutor of the pleaa or a district attorney, he represents the government, and it is his duty to prepare and present to tLe court all the evidence against the accused. Once he had a more complex duty to perform, Not many years ago an accused offi cer was without the right to be aided by legal counsel and the judge advo cate was bound to look after his inter egtb as well as to formulate the case gainst him. This was a duty so mani festly Impossible to perform properly that the members of courts martial knowing that no man can fairly divide limself into prosecutor and defender at the same time, almost always be came interested In protecting the inter--eats of the men brought before them, RLiLJook . stropa case or. a clever juag aTKiVato to get a verdict ot guilty. Now this ha been changed, and it is the duty of the commanding officer at the post where siu o court ar con vened to appoint suitable officer to act as couuwl to defend any defendant who request it or the accused may employ lawyer. General Eagan. for instance, employed one of the moot brilliant law yer in Washington to couduct hi de fense. The judge advocate is also the re corder of the court Under hi direction a record i made of all the proceedings, even to the uuwt minut. for before the finding and sentence of a court martial can be carried into effect they must be approved by the officer who. appointed the court or, in the case of a death penalty, by the president of the United States himself. Even in time of war there 1 no exception to thi rule, ex cu 1-st rpioi. mntiueer. deserter or murderers or guerrilla convicted of vioJing the law r-.i ratm of war fare may have the sentence of death ex ecnted upon them upon the confirma tion of the sentence by the officer com manding in the field. Whoever ha the time and opportuni ty to attend a court martial may see and know everything which take place, except the discussions held by the court to settle disputed point a to the ad missibility of evidence and the final do liberation in reaching a verdict All other proce"dings must b held in pub lic, and all the evidence must 1 spread Brn the rccrd in open court, so that there could never occur in thi country such a controversy a that which ha itirred up Fram-eover th Dreyfus cas where the evidence npnn which he waa convicted ha been kept hidden ever, from bis friend. Enlisted men may be tried for offense not capital before field officers' courts, regimental courts and garrison courts, but an officer may be tried only befor a general court martial Such a court tiay be appointed by any general com manding an army, a territorial division or a department or a colonel command ing a separate department but in case such an officer be himself the accuser the court must be appointed by the president of the United States. The officer who appoint the court name the judge advocate. There is one peculiarity of the court martial which marks them as widely different from any of the civil court They are double in their character. In the trial of the greater number of the charges made against soldier tbette ourts act purely as tribunals of law, but attached to almost every set of charges against officers is one charge the trial of which totally changes the character of the court This is the charge of "conduct unbecoming an offi cer and a gentleman," the same which waa hrnnirht Oen'TalEiganv Miss E. L. Gilmour graduate from the Royl Academy of Music, London Eng., teaches piano forte and theory in Ore gon City twice weekly. Address, C98 Flanders street Portland, Oregon. Parties that have promised to deliver wood to the Enterprise mut do so by the middle oi Sept. or we shall have these accounts settled in cash. If we cannot get wood at the proper time we do not want it. Parties knowing that they have arrangements for delivering wood will please see to it. "They are simply jtertect," writes Rob't Moore, of LaFavette, Ind., of De Witt's Little Early Risers, the "famous little pills" for constipation and all liver ailmenta. Never gripe. Geo. A. IIahoing. COURT MAKTUL I MiwIoK. rarely occurred in the history of onr iruiy many men who afterward at tained equal or even higher rank have In their time faced a military tribunal on just as serious charges. No lens a person than General Win field Scott was court murtialed for call ing a superior officer name t which the superior objected. General Scott was suspended for a year and put In the time studying tactics. Ho wa a Junior officer at the time bis offense wa com mitted. Time brings forgetf nine a certainly as it assuage grief. There are probably not many who remember that nine -pie out of ten once believed General Mile' hitherto rapid promotion was certain to be checked because of dis pleasure visited upon bim in a ratlin marked way by President Cleveland. How many men remember that Henry C Corbin, now the adjutant general of the army and one of the uut promi nent figure now in the prew-nt army controversy at Washington, was once I court martialed for alleged cowardic in the face of the enemy. General Knwtell A. Alger, the aocre- I tary of war. has bad troubles of bis own in the past, and oue of the first I thing which strike the man with a ! good memory on reading the detail of ' the present army row is the fact that j General Wesley Merritt senior officer I of the board appointed to try General i Eagan, is the man who. a a cavulry leader, once declared that hi present I chief. Alger, should be tried and di ' missed from the service for absenting . himself without leave from bis com mand during a critical period of the War of the rebellion. General George A. Custer, who made the official report as Alger's command ing officer that the present secretary of war wa absent without leave, was three or four year afterward court martialed himself. A a matter of fact courts martial and threat of conrt martial like wan and rumor of war, have kept pretty steady compaif with army officer since George Washington took command of the colonial forces. It ia pleasing for the populace and grateful to the rank to know, however, that the record of txials in the American army falls below, with all due allowance for smaller nnio bcr, that uf the armies of Europe. Captain T. 11. Fha.nuo. Experience Is the Rest Teacher. le Acker' Enitlish Remedy in any case of coughs, colds or croup. Hioulil it fail to give immediate relief money refunded. 25 cts. and 60 cts. Geo. A. Harding, agent. DO 10U KX01V. Consumption is preventable? heience has proven that, and also that neglect is suicidal. The worst cold or cough can be cured with fjhilob'B Cough and Con sumption Cure. 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(1 course, which are readily recognizable as being similar to those of animals still in a wild stutn, and for tbia reason they give a fair idea of tbo life and surroundings of progenitors. Tho habits of the dog and cat are too familiar to comment on, but tako the foa! and compare hi traits with those of the calf. The foal when a few days old can f allop as fast as he ever can in after life. He never leaves tho dam, and takes nonrishmont in small quantities, avoiding a full meal, which would im pede swift ewapo. In lying down no at tempt is made at ooncftaliwint, and when he stands his head is hold -igh. These habits show that the animal's ancestors spent their lives in the open and not in the forests and that they were great travelers. The calf, on tho contrary, fills bim solf with milk, and is a poor traveler. When danger approaches, his first im pulse is to conceal biraeelf. He holds bis head low in order to look under the branches of tho forost. All his charac teristics point to the fact that the an cestral home of cattle was iu a moist, wooded country, while the primeval horse roamed tbo plains. Now York Times. 1800 mill of long ill tanctf telephone wiru in Oregon ami Washington now in oiHratin lv th" Oregon Ti'lclioiu niul Tel egraph com puny. rortland, Seattle, Hjhv kan, Taooma, Haletn WalU Wall, Pendleton, Albany and Mother town in the two states on tin linn. Quick, accurate, cheap. All the satisfaction of tversonal communication. itanc no effect to a clear understanding. Po kan as easily heard a rortland. regon City office at Huntley's Drug Store. J. H. THATCHER, MANAGER. Portland, - - - Oregon. PARKER'S HAIRt BALSAM UaMa ah fcaV. lrua.MC ft IhMm fntVtH. Mvr yftJtfl I Mior Ury llir to It Yut'ul t i l !.. aaaallllaaawiaaBM tO YEARS' EXPERIENCE f (Th J7TC73 .k Maaa Thsoc Ma A a ...V Distant Anmn Mfiitlng tko-h M rami inn n rrvn h4hv ma lnv.illn is Bihiif MipniaM lb.iiMrin)niii.loi. 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