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THK business or editing newspapers,
tb e Federal Supreme Court says in a iff-
„ nt decision, bas become within the past
years an “independent profession.
The slave trado continues without
abatement in the Soudan, Nubia and
Abyssinia. It is estimated that 600,000
natives are reduced to slavery each year.
<The Journal of Commerce, of New
York, cautions those who allow te.egraph
wires to be fastened to their chimneys and
wall* to advise themselves as to the rights
over their real estate which the owners of
the wires may acquire by continuous use
Alittle girl once said that she would
be very glad to go to heaven because they
baJ plenty of preserves there. On being
cross-exatniued *he look down' her cate
chism and triumphantly read: “Whj
ought the saints to lovo Gou?” Answer;
“Because he makes preserves and keeps
them.”
St. Joan’s Methodist Chobch at St.
Louis has created considerable of a Stir
in religious circles by returning Logan D.
Dameron’s pew rent and refusing to al
low hitn to become a pew-holder in their
church. It is an an old quarrel between
Mr. Damaron and the Methodist Church
South, and St. John’s Church refuses to
have such a firebrand about.
The editor of the Okulona Slates, a
Radical emissary, who tried to misrepre
sent the South by printing an ultra South
ern paper, having wound up that estab
lishment, tried a similar venture at
Memphis, with the “Solid South,” but his
“Solid South” has come to grief likewise,
and we now hope he will go back to his
Ohio home and retail his adventures like
the balance of the Radicals who coma
South on political missions.
Those negro “oxodusters,” says tho
Raleigh News and Observer, continue to
have a bard time ont in Indiana. One of
them writes to tho Mayor of Goldsboro as
follows: “Your honor will please tack
this card up in a conspicuous place, as a m . .
, rp The minority report seeks to rob the
warning to peopie of my color. To any Soulh ofthe ai i ?an 1 £ ges of its C3n ipara-
of you who think of coming to Indiana, tively rapid growth in population, by
take my advice and stay where you are. • making the House of just such a size as
If you can live you are better off than ».■£* »*■**• enough ragjor frae-
, „ I tious to balance the unavoidable gain of
the South. Any such apportionment
would be injustice of the nature that is
seen in the many gerrymandering acts of
Republican Legislatures. The majority
report of the House committee appor
tions the members very nearly In accord
ance with the true results of the census.
The South would gain six members net,
because it shows a corresponding relative
gain in population. Under Mr. Cox’s
bill it would gaiU|four members, but uu-
• der the minority report it would not gain
even one member. It would be difficult lo
: devise auythmg more unjust or partisan
j than the minority report.
Mobile 'Register
There is a good deal of talk just now
I about the “new South,” as if in some won
derful and almost miraculous way the
nature and disposition of our people had
become totally chauged since the result of
the Presidential election. There is a
“now South,” but it is not the result of
any sudden change among our people.
- CCRBEHT OPIXIOH.
Atlanta Post Appeal.
The New York Sun says that Conklin^
is the most dangerous man who has lived
in New York since Aaron Burr. Perhaps
this is true. Conkling is popularly sup
posed to resemble Burr, iu his vices at
least. Burr held that “Law is whatever
is positively asserted, and plausibly main
tained,” and Conkling appear* to hold the
same opinion, so far as political questions
are concerned.
New Tork World.
The two antagonistic systems of finance
which hare so long divided the country
were devised, the one by Hamilton of New
York, who had no business experience af
ter he came to man’s estate, and the oth
er by Walker of Mississippi, whobadeyen
lets experience in city life. One was the
national bank system and the other the
independent treasury system. The man
who financially digested and prepared the
plan of national banking, whether we
give the credit to Chase or to Spaulding,
had not been bred and trained in State
street in Boston or Wall street in New
York. The problem of our financi; I fu
ture is not to be solved, nor oar financial
prosperity advanced, by putting into a
treasury report the ideals of negotia
tors of bonds in New York, London, Am
sterdam or Paris, but by the best possible
“Improvement and management of the
revenue” and “support of the public cred
it” which Congress can be induced
sanction and formulate into a statute.
Where good work to that end needs to be
done is in that vast countiy west of the
Alieghanies which hold;, or is to hold, in
its hand the destinies of America. That
man will be the best secretary or the treas
ury who can wield the greatest Influence
for good over that powerful portion of the
Union.
Washington Post.
Tho Democratic senators— the majority
—met in caucus yesterday and decided:
First—That the President of the Senate
had no right to count the electoral vote.
Second—That the two houses of Con
gress, assembled in joint convention, pos
sess that right.
Third—That the Senate and House of
Representatives will exercise that right on
the second Wednesday in February.
This means business. Tho doctrine
advanced is that of honesty and common
sense.
Atlanta Constitution.
here.
News comes of the miraculous recov
ery of her speech by Mrs. EliasJordan, near
Rochester, New York. She liad been per
fectly dumb for eight years, hut had faith
that she could he restored through prayer.
Accordingly a meeting was called at her
house,and while the pastor of the Metho
dist Church was engaged In prayer, she
suddenly recovered her speech and shout
ed ‘-Glory to God!” and fainted. It is
said she has been able since then to con
verse freely.
Mas Haves’ Rum Punch.—That en
chanting tipple, frozen rum punch, which
Mrs. Hayes so skillfully concocts and so
artfully smuggles to her guests in disem
boweled oranges, is having an unprece
dented run among the elite of Washing-
society. There is something so sly and it Is the result of steady effort and‘indus-
secret and seductivo and surreptitious ; trlous labor for years past, of local self-
*7—«*«■
that it lias become quite the rage, and a f„g themselves to the new condition of af-
moveinont is on foot looking to the trans- : fairs brought about by the results of the
mission in cipher of the formula of this de- ^ ar - The present condition of this sec-
tion proves that the South has not spent
its time idly mourning over the past, but.
has looked forward with hope and courage
to the future. While her detractors have
underrated her enterprise and industry,
she has quietly worked on, and the result
of her work is now her answer to them.
Sparta Jshmaelito
The Ishmakite doesn’t consider itself a
very active ally of Radicalism, in spite ot
ils opposition to the Morgan joint rule.
We do not consider the measure a wise
one. In our judgment, where there arc
two or more of what purport to be electo
ral returns from any State, a State tribu-
bunal, devised for that purpose, is the
proper one to decide which set of returns
correctly represents the presidential choice
of the people of that State. And when any
State shall have so decided any such con
test, the decision ought to be final as to
the vote oi that State—the disappointment
of any faction in Congress to the contrary
notwithstanding.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Scliurz and the Ponca commission
are at variance as to the present temper of
the Poncas concerning their location.
They were moved some years since from
a reservation in Dakota to that now occu
pied by them in Indian Territory, which
removal, it is claimed, was a great outrage
upon them. Mr. Scliurz, while acknowl
edging that a great wrong was perpetrated,
claims that it is now too late to remedy it,
and on this view lie is waging aa active
controversy with tho friends of the red
man who want the Poncas returned to the
laud which still belongs to them. Not
long since a number of Ponca chiefs were
brought to Washington, and with wonder
ful unanimity they testified that they and
their tribe were satisfied to remain where
they are. But the views of these Indian
magnates corresponded so exactly with
those entertained by Mr. Schurz that a
suspicion arose tiiat there was some collu
sion between the Secretary and liis wit
nesses. It has been discovered by those
philanthropists who have sought to ameli
orate tiie condition of the Indians that the
distinguished reformer at the head of the
department of the interior is not to be
trusted when his own interest is at
stake.
Atlanta Post- ippea
Official life is at best a sort of bitter
sweet existence, a gilded rack on which
the victim is always being tortured.
The expenenceof Federalofficeholders
in this State conspicuously illustrates the
truth of this description. It is of no mo
ment whether llie incumbent be a lucky
Democrat wlic. got in by the skin of his
teeth, or a loyal Republican who received
his position as a reward for past services.
The man is no sooner in than a host of
outsideiS combine together to put him
out. Tim warfare waged upon the “ins”
by the distinguished “outs” is severally
ofthe fiercest and most malignant nature.
Every device is resorted to in order to
hurl the office-holder from ffiis place.
Throughout his ofBeial term he feels that
he has a dagger in hfs heart and a thorn
in his pillow. Special agents edme swoop-
in* down upon him at odd times, and fre
quently they lodge in the cam* of Ids
euiiaies, while they nose aroun i for some
little irregularity, with-'-which they hope
to throw him.
* Prinkttuhard.io:, in the Constitution..
Much interest is felt here iu Jefferson
Davis’ forthcoming book. It has leaked
out; that the! cx-Presidcat will be very
.severe on Mr. Btophen*. -The latter g**n--
tieman remarked ihe other day that ho had
never attacked ’ Mr. X>;r. is, but that jus
statement*, which had i -’en so construed
wcreYvliat lie considered part of the his
tory of: life Coi.reUm-.iey. His said that
General Johnson end .Senator Broun will
come in lbr a share of the I'-x-Piesident’s
attention, borne very lively discussions
are In prospect. -MS. Davis has-prepared
his book with Igreat care. IBs line literary
culture vvil adorn it charmingly, and it
led able grog to the incoming Sirs. Gar-
fit-id.
What Simon- Says.—Old Simon Cam
eron has started on a Southern tour
which politicians regard with a good deal
of interest. lie has reached Washington,
and in the course of two or three days
will continue on liis way southward, ex
pecting to make stop3 in Virginia, the
Carolinas and Georgia, visit Culm, and
on his return take in Louisiana and the
Mississippi Valley. It is of course given
out that he travels for pleasure, but no
body believes that venerable politician
would start on such a trip at this time if
lit- liad not some political ends in view.
The Panama Canal.—A dispatch
from Paris says the report which Count
M. do Lcs*eps will read to-day (Monday)
at the first meeting of the Panama Canal
Company states that the subscriptions
have resulted in application for 1,209,000
shares, of which France subscribed for
0114,003 shares. Seventy engineers, super
intendents, and doctors have been sent to
the Isthmus. Steam engines have been
sent to tiie Isthmus. Steam engines have
been ordered which will permit of the
employment of a number of day-laborers
not to exceed 8,000. The entire capital
required amounts to 000,090^000 francs,
only 300,000,000 francs of. which have
been called up, the remainder to bo cover
ed by the issue of obligations.
U6K3 of a Cloak Room.—Witli a just
regard to the economical use of the pub
lic money, and with a wholesome desire
to put that money where it will do the
must good, the heavy end of an appropria
tion of $16,000 for the improvement of
the Senate chamber is to be used for
building a cloak room. As everybody
knows that the Maine law is iu force in the
Seuate chamber but not in tbe cloak
room, and that the cloak room pgssesscs
other scarcely less desirable immunities,
the expenditure of the appropriation in
this way obviously will add greatly to the
Senators’ comfort. , ■ '
A Diamond Sold for Ten Cents.—
The Gainesville Eagle says in 1611 God-
frew Luther and his son were engaged in
gold-mining on the Wilson’s branch, in
what is now Wilson’s district of this
county. Their appliances were of the
rudest kind, consisting of “sluice and ri
fle-boxes,” and the traditional miner’s
pan. On one occasion Colonel John Red-
wiue, then a lad of about 10, was sent by
his father to Mr. Lather’s Works to see
him abont some business matter. While
there the eldest Luther and another gen
tieman walked off some little distance,
and lie cintiuiied in conversation with the
young man, who was “panning out? some
i-anii, and showing young Redwine the
gold. In one pan lie noticed an exceed
ingly beautiful pebble, and. called Mr.
ltedwine's attention to it, and whilo they
w.-re admiring it the other gentlemen re
turned, ami they also noticed Its beauty.
The gentleman, • without any idea of-its
value, remarked to the boy, “I’ll'give you
a dime for it.” “Albright,” said he, and
accepted it gladly. Some time afterward
the gentleman was in Gainesville ar.d
showed the stono to Dr. Daniel. That
gentleman believed It to be a diamond,
hut was not certain and finally paid tlio
gentleman $30 for It and took Uie’risk, . Certain K.’Wi”.
He sent It to London, there being.qodia- ’ !! f < f ' 1 ? .--wVforiai
•bond-cutlers IniU-t?nu3Sphere i
•aperls pronounced it a diamond Of the '
®t»t water, audhe ieqeWed lug oUif^WitihlWf^Stichipwpjlitl-^.
U WM aftcrwaifl rumored thirTaoia for j
a much larger sum than this, but-nothing «id otkhv u(&%, be. AjUatee,
"known positively of its history beyond f government hi>'to dols/tohand over {be
- I. -;.Ion. I c.L'ti <l*»riv'-.i i'jDfii t! • !:f •' .-rJ 1 -* to t) 1 ”
— -ttt, proper fcjtat** authorities. The subject oi
Chicago lathe only American city !q i common school education belongs to tbe
Which Bernhardt has not, thus far in her ' States. ,, r
Si been assailed from the pulpit, and Augusta Chron>c.e.
her receipts there were tho smallest. | M. DoLesseps doc« not seem to regarc.
the Monroe Doctrine with any great would enable their inhabitants to drift
amount of fear. He is organizing his with tbe tides into mild climates, and in
Panama company, and proposes to go to summer to the north pole, if they so
work on the canal across the Isthmus as • fancied, after all, was only a little ahead
will jiav^au epb«>ouvNale : Irt all parts of-
(fremltt-*; d *f<
soon as possible. He thinks he la
“bigger man than Grant.”
Cincinnati Gaactte ISep ) January it.
Congress spends a good deal of its time
in discussing laws for the government or
regulation ot railroads. This souuds well
hut la it sincere ? What is to be expected
of government officials ? Tbe government
has a voice—and a very loud one—In the
Union Pacific railroad. It has directors
in that concern. It has full powers to
regulate iu charges. It has iu band, too,
iu the Central Pacific. Yet the charges
on those roads are enormous. They are
exlortiouale. But do the government di
rectors protest? Are they ever heard
from? Does anybody know who they
are ? Not to make too fine a point, is not
every one of the directors the belter for
having been there ? We kuow of one
honest man who was a director in the Un
ion Pacific several years ago, aud because
he undertook to tell the truth his report
was suppressed by tbe Interior Deport
ment.
Poston Globs, Pern.
Much of tbe current misrepresentation
of the people sf the Southern Slates re-
sulU from tbe fact that their section is a
terra incognita to Northern .politicians
and Nortnern editors. Ten men take a
trip through the west to Colorado or tbe
region tributary to tbe Northern Pacific
railroad, where not one goes to Richmond
or Atlanta, to say nothing of Louisiana or
Florida. Yet, leaving business inter
course aside, there is quite as much to at
tract the tourist in the south as in the
West or the Northwest. Many natural
objecU Interest the traveler. The climate
and the other physical conditions of exis
tence are arevelation- And, above all, a
new life, new Industries, new social reve
lations, new aspirations and expectations
are rtpidly developing. Ajourney of 500
or 1,000 miles through the South Atlautic
and the Gulf region will show tbe careful
observer more to remember than a tour
of the same extentiuauy other part of the
country.
While the political condition ot the
South has been the subject af acrimonious
dispute, to the exclusion of general no
tice of its other relations, it has been
making rapid strides in material improve
ments. New railroads have been built
and others projected; factories have been
erected for*working up at home the cot
ton and sugar and other products of the
soil; mines have been developed; the large
plantations have been in many instances
cut up into small farms, and immigration
from the North, tiie West aud from Eu
rope has been encouraged. The people
are still poor,and are surrounded by many
adverse circumstances. But the ravages
of the war are gradually being eflaced,
prosperity is returning, and a new South
is rapidly rising to staudshoulder to shoul
der with tbe North as au integral part of
our common Union.
Louisville Courier Journal
Mr. Rogers takes the ground that no
man “has a natural or civil right to In
dulge iu a a traffic which renders life and
property insecure, which promotes im
morality and creates paupers to be sup
ported at the State’s expense.” He argues
that if the traffic in intoxicating liquors
does all this, the justice of prohibiting it
cannot be denied. Taking this position,
he proceeds to argue that tho duty of the
State to prevent crimes and calamities re
solves itself iuto three forms: Police for
the prevention of offenses; police of the
public health, and police of charity. He
demonstrates, from the figures ot official
reports and criminal statistics, that crime
diminishes in the ratio of tho diminution
of unimpeded liquor traffic. This few
people will have the folly to deny.
Del oit tost Tribune
Tho American believes that tiie “solid
South” and tiie “solid North” are “inis-
taken conceptions” which it only requires
wol ds from the leaders of the South to de
stroy. Tiiis is nonsensical mummery. It
is deeds, and deeds only, uot words, that
can restore hoped-for harmony between
all sections of the people. It is not tbe
prescription that cures. It is the taking
of it.
But prohibitiug tiie traffiic and regula
ting and restricting it are different things.
The first is impracticable; the second is
practicable. The numerous hell-holes,
where the worst crimes are concocted and
the vilest poisons are sold, should be sup
pressed by a license law, placing the li
cense at a high figure and requiring that
screens and painted windows shall come
down. The State can even regulate the
quality of liquors sold. The accruing
license money should all be used for the
promotion of fiee schools, where the pu-
sils should persistently be instructed that
ntemperance is a curse and a blight to
tbe world. Tbe liquor traffic can thus be
regulated when it cannot be prohibited.
Bridgeport Farmer.
It is difficult for an impartial person to
understand how there can be two sides to
the “free ship question.” On one side
stand a few shipbuilders of Maine and
Pennsylvania whose prices are, necessari
ly or otherwise, so high that Americans
canuot pay them and then compete
witli foreign vessels for the carrying trade.
On the other side, thousands or American
merchants who are desirous of ustug
American vessels, but cannot for tho rea
son above stated. The situation briefly
stated is that the shipbuilders, who are
few, are protected, while the would-be
ship-owners, who are many, receive no
consideration whatever—the proper and
raditional purpose of law-making being
thus exactly reversed.
Gaiuctcil’e Eagle.
Tiie man who wittily said, “Fameisthe
result of being civil to newspaper men,”
spoke a solemn truth, and no men know
it better than the modern politicians.
The newspapers, and newspaper writers
have built more big men out of smaller
timber, and got less thanks for tbe fob
when they got through, than any other
agency in tho world. Many an ordinary,
but cheeky nincompoop has wormed him
self Into the good graces of some bright
and vigorous writer, and he, moved by tbe
warm friendship of his nature, has taken
him upon the point of bis facile Faber,
and in an incredibly short space of time,
puffed him into a being of such immensi
ty, that people who have known him all
their lives open wide their eyes in aston
ishment at beholding the greatness of the
erstwhile obscure nonentity.
Mobile Register.
It cannot bo denied that the Southern
people have been sadly deficient in thrift
and carefulness. Many of tbembaye been
improvident iu the past, looking only to
tiie present aud leaving the fatore to take
case oi itself. The hard experience through
which they have passed since the war has
taught them, however, the importance of
eeonomy os well as of industry, and that
uo mail is a freeman when bound with
the sliackels of debt. One reason that our
section is now advancing so rapidly is,that
men are learning to dread debt as one of
tiie greatest of earthly evils, and that those
who have been bound by it are determined
to be bound no more.
New York Commercial Bulletin.
Mr. Jlinton Rowan Helper** modest
little scheme for a longitudinal doable
steel-track railroad from Chicago dear
through to the Straits of Magellan, via
Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Fatago-
iiia. etc , ought not to die of neglect in
these days of powerful syndicates and
splendid schemes for government subsi
dies. He expects the several governments
to give him land and cash on the same
liberal terms with those which have been
granted to the Canada Pacific railroad and
to the American transcontinental lines;
aud he calculates the road will be In foil
operation In less than twenty yean from
date—ihfit is to say, about the commence-
nient ef the ensuing century. Mr. Hslp-
m . M'e believe, has not succeeded In Inr-
•;,* out the probable cost of. hi* ondsr-
Liitiiic, ‘ the . ordinary functions of
the multiplication table being wholly
uuavalUbgefoi 1 tbe purpose; but no mat-
;or tow. many trillions may be required,
ic't'Mnrbs' ail means organise his com-
his prospectus and float his
•totted JMHswiii eagerly take it If New
YoriLStauds aloof. He will nerer have
so fiiie oti t pportunity as at present.
Th ■ philcs >phic idiot whoee fertile braia
90mo 200 years ago, entertained mankind
with a benevolent plan for oolonlalag
floating islands which, In addition tfi
other wonderful adraatagm, te winter
of his age. Had he lived in our own
time be would probably have been set
down as as great a genius in bis way as
De Lesseps, or Eads, or Helper.
Augusta Chronicle.
■ Mr. Hayes is a Bepubllcan, bnt fortu
nately for the country, he does not belong
to that blatant wing of his party which be
lieves in perpetually waving the bloody
shirt and making war upon the South.
Eis course during his term has done much
to make the people forgive, if uot forget,
the cloud upon bis title. For his fair ad
ministration ofthe affairs ofthe nation the (
country generally has reason to be grati- J
fled and the Democracy, in particular, has
had less cause to find fault with him than
they would with any other Republican
leader.
Borne Courier.
The article we publish from the Atlan
ta Constitution in reference to “the three
Geoigia bolters,” shows that these gentle
men are getting bold in their opposition
to the Democratic party, and not unwil
ling to manifest their willingness to fall in
with the party in power. “Party in pow
er,” is the proper expression, for it is the
power that has such charms for office-
seekers. The course of these gentlemen
is no surprise to those acquainted with
-lielr past history. Mr. Stephens might have
joined tbe Republican party at any time
siuco its organization without being in
consistent, for it is impossible lor Mr.
Stephens to be inconsistent. Mr. Felton
while possessed of pleasing manners,
energy, ability and education far above
common, is utterly incapable of being
Democrat. Mr. Speer has x large num
ber of personal friends among the Demo
crats whom he expects to carry, no mat
ter how he votes, while the colored votes
and Radicals are harder to please, and he
must assist the Radicals in Congress or
lose their support. And as it is with Mr.
Speer in this particular, so it is with the
other two. They call themselves, and
their friends call t{iem “Independents.”
Borne Tribune.
Wo Americans pride ourselves on our
republic, and on befog a free nation. But
are we a republic, are we free ? No coun
try can be called free, where it is possible
for a private individual to acquire, as liis
own personal property, all means of com
munication betweeu its citizens. This Is
what Mr. Jay Gould has done by consoli
dating tiie American Union with the Wes
tern Union aud the Atlantic and Pacific
telegraph companies. He is now a more
powerful autocrat than the Czar of all the
iiussias. As for the Emperor of Germany
and Queen of Great Britain, they are very
small personages compared to this finan
cial Alexander the Great. He owns two
newspapers, body and soul, and the most
of tliose he does not own, dare not speak
their uilnds, fearful of having their tele
graphic news cut off. Jay Gould is to
day emperor of the United States, with
absolute control oi its neW3 aud com
merce.
Wuhinfton Mews.
Washington, February 8.—-In the
House, Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, offered
a resolution providing that every day af
ter tbe morning hour, one boor shall be
shall be set aside, during which members
may ask for unanimous consent for the
consideration and passage of bills. Re
ferred. i. i . . t e n , ■
Mr. Brigham, ot New Jersey, offered a
resolution reqnlrtng the committee on
elections to report upon contested elec
tion cases within thirty days of the fliing
of the papers in such cases. RefeireJ.
Washington, February 3.—When the
ways aud means committee of the House
adjourned on Tuesday, a motion was
pending to reconsider the vote by which
tiie committee decided to report to the
The Coiuolidation Wins.
New York, February 3.—Judge Bar
rett has denied the injunction asked for
by Rnfus Hatch, restraining the Western
Union, American Union and Atlantic aud
Pacific telegraph companies from consoli
dating.
Tbe decision states: This relief is
claimed on several grounds. In the first
place, it is averred that the American Un
ion Telegraph Company was created and
its stock subscribed ior with a view to the
establishment of and maintenance of an
independent telegraph company, which
should have for its principal object a
healthy competition with other telegraph
companies then enjoying a practical mo
nopoly of the business, tho lowering of
rates, and consequently a furthering of
the public interest. The plaintiff charges
that this understanding, inherent, he says,
in the very structure of tho company, Is to
be nullified by tiie proposed action. One
difficulty with this position, and the only
one which need be dwelt upon, is tho en
tire absence ot any binding compact upon
the subject. What was in the minis of
tho original prompters of the enterprise
can have but little bearing upon the prac
tical question now presented to our con
sideration—namely, the legality of the
proposed scheme.
Further, even the fact that the shares
upon which this action is founded were
acquired by the plaintiff as an original
subscriber and not by subsequent pur
chase, is left to vague inference. The al
legations even as to his iutent and pur
pose are equally indefinite. The defen
dants, upon the other hand, show that the
entire capital stock of the company was
originally issued to aud paid for by their
subscribers, of whom tbe plaintiff was not
one. They also show that no restrictive
agreement was ever made—none which
would prevent the coiporation, its direc
tors and stock-holders from taking advan
tage ofthe provisions oi tho act to which
we have referred.
The next question is whether the agree
ment in question is within this statute.
The judge then quotes the act regarding
telegraph lines and proceeds: “We
have read and re-read this act with the
determination to acquire a complete and
absolute conviction before admitting
that it conferred the extraordinary power
now claimed ior it, but after much scrut
iny aud reflection we And it impossible to
resist its plain, unambiguous, compre
hensive, all embracing language. The
legislative intent cannot very well be
severed from such legislative language,
nor can the power be denied without
ignoring simple words expressive of a
single pointed, well understood idea—in
fact, without substantially eliminating
part of the act itself.
It Is also urged that the consummation
of this agreement will result in giving the
corporation vendee a practical monopoly
of tbe business of telegraphy in the coun
try; that competition, for the present at
least, will be at an end, and that the
Western Union Telegraph Company will
have power to Increase rates with substan
tial impunity. All this is vehemently de
nounced as contrary to public policy, and
in its tendency injurious to trade and
commerce. Such considerations, however,
an more properly tQ be addressed to a
legislative body. Our duty begins with
the ascertainment of what the law is; it
ends with its application and enforce
ment.
land League Preolamatisn.
Boston, February 4.—The following
reclamation is issued:
Irish National Land League of the
United States, Boston, Ftb. i.—To Mem
bers of the Land League and the Ameri
can People: A crisis has bean reached
in Ireland. It is not tbe unexpected that
has happened. The suppression of free
speech, arrests without ball, the darken
ing of the laud with spies and soldiers,
coercion, thehlow before the remedy, all
these are inevitable. England moves but
slowly towards justice. Behold her well
worn weapons.
There is a new Ireland. In the mass of
her people, courage, patriotism, zeal, en
durance, leadership, capacity sufficient for
the time, exist. Strong, thoughtful, reso
lute men lead. li they are silenced, oth
ers will leap to fill tbe vacant places. Ire
land cries for justice. The Laud League
is her voice. England must build more
jails before that voice can beatified. To
outrage upon tbe people’s representa
tive, to the attempt to place Ire
land upon her knees to beat and
scourge her before right lag’her wrongs,
to the arrest of the brave Michael Davitt,
let America answer in protest. In every
Ameiieea city let the fire of your Indigna
tion blaze. Call public meetings every
where at once. Yew saved the Irish peo
ple from death aad retrod teem from
Jjroaeir; sheer tent yew sympathy is still
wfta tbsm la their grand struggle for Jus-
House Hurd’s tariff resolution. This
morning Mr. Frye renewed the motion,
which was carried. The y«as were
Messrs. Felton, Kelley, Conger, Frye,
Dunnell and McKinney, G; nays, Messrs.
Tucker,Mills and Carlisle,!). Mr. Phelps,
who would have voted yea, was paired
with Mr. Wood, who was absent oa a<;
count of sickness.
Mr. Frye then moved to postpone all
further consideration of the resolutions
till four weeks from to Jay, which was
also carried by a vote of 8 to 4. Mr. Mor
rison, .who did not vote before, voted on
this proposition in the negative.
Mr. Frye, from the sub-committee, res
ported a substitute for the Kelley bill, to
abolish discriminating duties on goods
from east of the Cape of Good Hope.
The substitute contains a provision affect
ing simply goods coming through the
Netherlands. Mr. Morrison moved that
the committee report the original bill as a
substitute to this substitute. Lost by a
vote of 5 to 6. Mr. Frye then moved that
Mr. Kelley be instructed to report to the
House tbe substitute agreed to by the
sub-committee, and ask a suspension of
the rules to put the bill upon its passage
iu the House. This motion was carried
without a division, and Mr. Kelley was
so instructed. The committee adjourned
till to-morrow, when they will receive and
act upon reports from the sub-committee.
In the Seuate, Mr. Kirkwood, from the
committee on post-offices and post-roads,
reported back Senator Logan’s joint reso
lution providing for the extension of the
franking privilege to communications re
ceived by members of Congress from tbe
executive departments on business of their
constituents. Ho said the committee
were equally divided on the merits ofthe
pnqiojitionaud coucludedto report it bacK
without recommendation, and asked that
it be placed on the calendar. It was so
ordered.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Plumb to
grant a right of way through the Fort
flliss reservation to the RioGrandoand
El Paso Railway Company. Referred to
committee on military aflaini.
On motion of Mr. Morgan, the concur
rent resolution Introduced by him June
15,1SS0, declaring that the President of
the Senate is not Invested by the constitu
tion of the United States with the right to
count the rotes of electors for President
aud Vice President of the United States,
so as to determine what votes shall be re
ceived and counted or what rotes shall he
rejected, was taken up. Mr. Morgan
briefly explained the resolution, adding
that lie was prepared to vote upon it.
Washington, February 3.—In the
Seuate, Mr. Edmunds opposed tho Mor-
already that it does not make much differ
ence.”
amount to 9750,000,000. Messrs. Co (Troth that the old idea that the State law was
, and Updegraff insisted that they would sovereign and supreme wbsu tee Federal
In concluding his speech Mr. Horr no1 e*cced 9244,000,000. After some dis- law decided otherwise was an exploded
said he believed that the majority bill had ! enssian, tiie biil was laid aside fora idea in the State of Geoigia. f Applause
” “" J -“ ] outlie Republican side.] Hawiabedtbo
been drawn up for the purpose of giving favorable recommendation,
greater strength lo the South. For one *' ,l- ~“ ——
he was fully determined to oppose tbe
measure. A brief colloquy followed be
tween Messrs. Horr and McLaue as to the
alleged crushing out of the colored vote in
the South, the latter maintaining that
since the election of Hayes, at least, the
negroes of the south had voted as they
pleased. .The subject was finally laid
aside and Mr. King, of Louisiana, intro
duced a bill appropriating 920,000 for the
purchase, and distribution . of seed caue.
Referred. The House then adjourned.
Washington, February 4.—Iu the
House, the committee on naval affaire bad
under consideration this morning a mes
sage from the President relative to the
establishment of coaling stations on tbe
American isthmus, and instructed Repre
sentative Whltthorne to request tbe ap
propriation commit^ |o inofofle in the
o'undiy civil appropriation bill an appro
priation of 8200,000 for that purpose.
'The Hocse, at tbe conclusion of the
morning hour, resumed consideration Of
the bill coming over from the pre
vious Friday providing for the sale of cer
tain New York Indian lauds in Ksusas.
The Senate finance committee this
morning completed - the consideration of
the House funding bill and authorized
their chairman to report it back to tbe
Senate with the recommendation fonts
passage, with an amendment, which pro
vides that tbe bonds shall be redeemable-
in five years and payable in twenty years;
that the rate of interest upon them shall
be 3} per cent: per annum; that the 1-10
certificates shall bear iuterest at a rate
not exceeding 3| per cent, per annum and
that tbe interest in each case shall be pay
able semi-annually.
The committee will strike out the fifth
section (“Carlisle’s amendment”) which
At three o’clock the committee rose and : world to know that as one of tbe renresen-
number of bills coining over from > tstive of Georgia be here anerted tee (act
previous Fridays were passed. When tbe ^ that beuceforth and forever the people of
provides for the compulsory use of ibe new
bonds as security for national bang circu
lation and for a change in tbe law con
cerning the retirement of circulating
notes, and substitute in lieu thereof a new
section, the principal feature of which is a
provision that hereafter the security given
by the national banks for government
deposits and the faithlul performance of
their duties as public depositories shall
consist wholly of United States bonds.
The committee also recommend that the
allowance for the expenses of issuing and
placing the new bonds and certificates be
increased to one-half of one per cent., in
stead of one-quarter, as limited by the
House of Representatives. •
In'the Senate, Messrs. Walcott, Beck
and Windom were constituted a Seuate
conference committee on tbe Iudiau ap
propriation bill.
Messrs. Wludom, Davis, of West Vir
ginia, and Withers were constituted
conferees on tbe naval appropriation bill.
The Vice President submitted from tbe
War Department an abstract of tiie mili
tia force of the 'United States. Tabled.
The District appropriation bill was re
ceived from the House and referred to the
committee on appropriations.
Mr. Bayard, from the committee on fi
nance, reported the refunding bill with
amendments. He said that, in view uot
only oi the importance oi tbe subject, but
of the necessity for prompt action upon it,
, he proposed to call up the bill at an early
gan resolution as a half-way measure. It I next week. The bill svas ordered to
did not cover one-third of the whole ques
tion involved.
Mr. Thurman favored action on the res
olution without debate.
Mr. Edmunds moved to lay tiie resolu
tion on the table, but the motion was re
jected by a party vote of 32 to 22.
At the expiration of the morning hour
tho consideration of the calendar was
postponed and the discussion of tbe Mor
gan resolution continued.
After a speech by Mr. Conkling, Mr.
Edmunds moved to make it read: “In the
opinion of the Senate, neither the Senate
nor the Senate and the House, nor tiie
President of tho Senate Is invested by the
constitution with the right to make the
count.” This amendment was voted
down by ayes 18, nays 28—a party vote,
Mr. Whyte said the duty of the Presi
dent of the Senate was a ministerial one,
and that the constitution had made no
srovisionfor tho exercise of judicial power
n the case of two returns from the same
State. This omission he thought it was
the duty of Congress to supply. He should
vote against the resolution.
Mr. Conkling, in reply to Mr. Whyte,
took the ground that Congress had always
exercised a quasi-judicial power in all
matters pertaining to the count, and that
the whole history of the government was
a contradiction ofthe idea that the Presi
dent of the Senate could decide anything
on which might hinge the ascertainment
and declaration of the presidential vote.
After further remarks by Messrs. Blaine,
Morgan aud Thurman, a vote was taken
upon agreeing to Mr. Morgan’s resolution.
It resulted yeas 30, nays 1 (Whyte, of
Maryland). The Republicans, with the
exception of Conkling, who voted with
the Democrats, refrained from voting.
The roll was then called to ascertain
whether a quorum was present. Forty
Senators responded to their names. There
were indications at this point of a protract
ed session, tho Republicans seeming deter
mined to adhere to their obstructive tactics.
Mr. Morgan, however, moved to adjourn,
and the motion was carried.
Tho House resumed consideration of
the apportionment bill.
Mr. Cox, of New York, offered an
amendment, fixing the number of Repre
sentatives at 307, and it was ordered print
ed and considered pending.
Mr.Sherwin, of Illinois, a member of
tho census committee, then took (fie floor
upon tho bill. There was no reason, he
said, that an apportionment should not be
made at this session, since all the data
was in on which to make a calculation.
Comparing the various bills which had
been proposed, he showed tliat ln 301 (the
Mroabers of U» LrofiM, kait closer to
gether! Add to y—r numbs—1 Form
mw branches in every place 1 When ten
friends of tee cense can be found, place
yourselves in immediate communication
with us. Ireland moves flat to her su
preme crisis and we mnet be dose togeth
er when the mow—nt arrives. Trust Use
patriotism, wisdom and prudence qf the
Irish leaders 1 They are cheered by your
sympathy. Mate yohr sympathy more
number first suggested by Mr. Cox, of
York) the Democratic States would
gain eight Representatives and lose two,
a net gain of six; and the Republican
States wonld gain ten and lore eight, a
net gain of two. At the number selected
by the majority of the committee, 311, the
Democrat States would gain twelve and
lose none; the Republican States would
gain ten and lose four, a net gain of six.
At 319, the number recommended by the
minority, the Democratic and Republican
States would each- gain thirteen Repre
sentatives. He argued in support of the
latter bill, contending that, mathemati
cally as jwell as politically, it meted out
exact justice, and fairness to every portion
ofthe colintry.
Mr. Crowley, of New York, opposed
any increase in the namberof Representa
tives in Congress. He thought the House
was already large enough. He also point
ed out that, under section 2 of the 14th
amendment, voters as well as numbers
might be taken into account in apportion
ing representation, and whenever any
State denied to ; any male citizen over
twenty-one years of age the right to vote,
in his judgment, that State should be de
nied representation in just the proportion
in which it denied such right to vote.
Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, said he
was in favor of increasing rather than de
creasing the numerical strength of the'
House. Alluding to section 2 of the 14th
amendment, lie asserted that it was utter
ly impossible to enforce it : by legislatlpn
or in any practical way. He then pro
ceeded to compare the various apportion
ment bills, and argued Tii favor of'lho
majority bill as being tho best and fair
est —it was fair, to every State and section.
If any section should receive any advan
tage from tbe apportionment that advan
tage should be given to the South, be
cause that section bad for ten long yean
bean deprived of fair representation.
Mr.'Horr, qf Michigan, thought teat
gar apportionment bill founded on tee last
is still, vote of the people would meqt the require
ments of tbs constitution much better
than one braed on the present eensro.
He pointed <Stft that, oq the basis of the
last vote the Southern States were getting
more than their proportion of Represen
tatives. Mississippi and Alabama for in
stance, bad sevan and eight, wbiis
basis ot the vote they woidddM «
only to four and five. ,
Mr. Hanunoid, of Georgia*, sot
that if Mr. Honds plan wn* sfioptod tiro
be printed and placed on the calendar. .
Mr. Pendleton from the select commit
tee on tbe subject reported favorably,
with an amendment, Senate bill to allow
the principal officer of each executive de
partment to occupy a seat on tho floor of
the Senate aud House. The amendment
permits either House to dispense by
standing orders witli the attendance of
one or more of said officers on either of
the days respectively assigned for their
attendance. The bill was accompanied
by an elaborate report, and Mr. Pendle
ton gave notice of bis intention to call it
up at the first favorable opportunity.
At a meeting toJay of the House c
mittee on ways aud means. Representa
tive Carlisle, from the sub-cominittee on
the internal revenue, reported in favor of
abolishing the tax on matches, bank de
posits (including savings banks), bank
checks, patent medicines, perfumery, etc.
The committee adopted the report, aud
authorized him to prepare a bill embody
ing tiie recommendations of the report,
and report the hill to tho committee.
' The committee refused to abolish tbe
tax on baulc Capital.'.
Representative Carlisle also reported a
bill to regulate the manufacture of Weiss
beer, and was instructed to report it fa
vorably to the House.
Representative Tucker Was instructed
by the committee to prepare a substitute
for the House bill abolishing the 10 per
cent, stamp tax on exports or tobacco.
Washington, February 4.—In the
Senate, Mr. McPherson moved to take up
the bill appropriating 9100,000 to be used
under the direction oi tbe Navy; Depart
ment to prosecute .the search for the
steamer Jeannette, ofthe Arctic exploring
expedition. Mr. McPherson urged his mo
tion in the interest of hnmanity. He said
the Jeannette, which had been fitted out by
Mr. James Gordon Bonnett, whose pro
gressive spirit in that matter was worthy of
all consideration, had not been heard from
since September, 1870, and grave doubts
were entertained of her safety. Referring
to the necessity of proqapt action by the
government, if any action was to be taken
by it, he remarked that if the Sir John
Franklin relief expedition had been a
year earlier in its search . it . would
have saved two hundred souls. The mu-
tionjwas then agreed to. The bill being be
fore the Senate, Mr. McPherson submitted
a substitute appropriating $175,000, or so
mnch thereof as is needed, to be applied
under tho direction of the Secretary of the
Navy to the immediate charter or pur
chase, equipment and. supply of a vessel
to prosecute the search for the Jeannette
and such other vessel^ as may bo found
daring the cruise to need assistance. Mr.
McPherson’s substitute was then adopted,
and the bill as thus amended passed
finally.
After voting down motions to take up
the Grant retirement bill and the frank
ing privilege resolution, ’ the Senate re
sumed consideration of the Morgan reso
lution denying the right ot the President
ofthe Senate to make the electoral count
Mr. Edmunds spoke at some length, ex
plaining his opposition to the proposed
measure, and in order, as he said, to test
the question whether the resolution was
to be an absolutely void edict or an ex
pression of opinion, he moved an amend
ment to make the resolution read “that,
iu the opinion of the Senate and House of
Representatives, tbe President of the Sen
ate Is not invested,” etc.
Mr. Morgan defended tiie resolution as
distinct and clear in its meaning. He had
intended it as a simple expression of opin-
son, and while not in terms obligatory
upon the President of tho Senate, he failed
to see bow that officer could evade it as an
order of the Senate.
After further discussion, Mr. Edwards’
amendment was rejected by ayes 23, noe*
33—a party vote, except that Mr. Hamp
ton; Mr. Jones, of Florida, and Mr. Whyte
with Mr..Davls, of Illinois,'voted aye with
tho Republicans.
ID. Hoar moved an amendment adding
to the resolution the words ‘‘and. t hat it is
the duty of Congress,'withoiibl delay,' to
Institute measures to. insure a due and or
derly performance of sail] duty future.”
Adopted by a rim roce vote.
Mr. Morgan’s resolution, as thus amen
ded, was then agreed to by ayes 42, with
oiie vote (Mr. Whyte) in the negative.
The Affirmative vote included with the
Democrats Messrs. Allison, Blair, Booth,
Conkling, Davis, of Illinois, Hoar aud
Jones, or Nevada. ^ tsounopoi.-to IU V
The Indian laud in severally biil, which
ro tee regular order, was then inform
ally laid aside, and the Senate resumed
consideration of the pension'Appropriation
bill, the question being oa Mr. Withers’
aroeadmen* inserting tho prq^i&ions of the
“sixty Mugeoasjbill.” After a long speech
bykto. Logaa i4 opitositf on fo Hie amend,*
meat, the Seqate, without attlon ou if,
adVmniedi
la the Housed after some discussion, tho
•HI to provide for the s»le of-certain
Indian .toads WKknsas w»3 passbd. The
•Hailaa-teeautrent into committee of the
riteofe oa.te» private calendar! The
all and teas rddu qp tte
Mr. HoR“-»It cones to
bill for tbe relief of Mr*. E. P. Page was
reached, Mr. Goode, of Virginia, said that
since the discusion which bad taken place
upon this bill on last Friday, be bad
received a letter from tbe widow of Caot.
Hugh N. Page, in which she instructed
him peremptorily to withdraw her peti
tion. If be felt at liberty to consult hU
own feelings, be would without hesita
tion press this bill to a fiual vote, but in
this matter be felt constrainsd to obey the
Instructions which be bad received from
the petitioner. Her feelings had been so
wounded by tbe fierce assault
made upon the memory ot her
de»4 fiusbMd, that she was not willing to
furnish any pretext for a renewal of (list
assault. The petition would not have
been presented if the humble petitioner
had foreseeu that it would have been
taken as a pretext on wbicb to attack
rudely the cherished memory of her hon
ored dead and to comment uncharitably
upon the character of the Southern peo
ple. He said he had been accused of i
desire in presenting ibis petition to estab.
iish a precedent for the payment of South
ern war claims. No charge could have
been more unjust or more baseless. He
wished to repeat what he had frequently
said, that tbe people of the South had
never expected, aud did not now expect,
that losses incurred by individuals as a
necessary incident to the war would ever
be reimbursed by them. They had gone
into the war with their eyes wide open;
bad staked everything they possessed upon
the issue of a gigantic struggle, and they
bad lost and were preparecT manfully to
accept it as the fate of war.
Mr. Conger, of Michigan, moved to re
commit the bill, with instructions to the
committee on naval affairs to report
with a full statement of the facts of
tbe case, pending which, on motion of Mr.
Goode, tbe bill was laid upon the table.
The Speaker laid before the House a
message tram the President transmitting
a communication from the Secretary of
the Navy with reference to the dispatch of
a vessel for the relief of the Jeannette ex
pedition, and commending tbe recommen.
dations of the Secretary to the favorable
action of Congress. Referred.
The House then adjourned.
Washing ton, D. C., February 4.—'The
House Committee on Commerce to-day
perfected the' river and harbor bill and
will report to the House-to-morrow. Tbe
bill, as finally agreed upon, appropriates
$10,189,800. Among the items of appro
priations are the following for the im
provement of Southern harbors: Charles
ton, $175,000; Brunswick, $5,000; Savan
nah harbor, $25,000; Apalachicola bay,
$10,000; I'ampa bay, $10,000; Mobile har
bor, $90,000; Vicksburg harbor and Mis
sissippi river nea. Vicksburg, $50,000;
Memphis harbor, $15,000.
For the improvement of rivers, Warrior
and Tombigbec, Alabama and Mississippi,
$25,000; Mississippi river (removing snags,
rocks and other obstructions) $80,000;
Oconee, $2,500;- Ooslenaula and Coosx-
wattee, $1,000; Savaunab river above Au
gusta $3,000; Apalachicola, $1,500; Cboc-
tawhalchie, $l,OO0; entrance to Cumber
land Sound, $100,000; Escambiariver, $5,-
000; St. Johus, $100,000; Suwauuee, $3,-
000; Valusia bar, $5,500; Alabama river,
$2,000; Big Sunflower, Mississippi, $4,-
000; Noxubee, Mississippi, $3,000, Pas
cagoula, Mississippi, $4,000; Pearl river
below Jackson, Mississippi, $2,500;
from Jackson to Carthage, $2,500; Talla-
liatchee, Mississippi, $3,000; Tombigbee,
above Columbus, $1,000; Yazoo, Missis
sippi, $0,000; Cape Fear river, North
Carolina, $10,000; Currituck sound, North
river aud bar, and Coanjok bay, North
Carolina, $30,000; French Broad river,
Nortfi Carolina, $5,00..; Neuse river, North
Carolina, $15,000; Pamlico and Tar
rivers, North Carolina, $3,000; Duck
river, Tennessee, $3,000; French Broad
river, below Knoxville, Tennessee,
and mouth of Big Creek, $3,500; Hia-
dMsUm, of Tennea»ee,4stettto^
of pensions would
wassce river, Tennessee, $1,500; Obeds
river, Tennessee, $2,500; Teuuessee river,
above Chattanooga, $7,000; Tennessee
river below Chaltanocga, $250,000; Mis
sissippi river at Natchez and Vidalia,$50,-
000; Big Hatchie, Tennessee, $3,500; Ca-
ney Fork nver, Tennessee; 1M,000; Clinch
river, Tennessee, $3,000; Savannah- river,
Georgia, $15.G00; Altamaba river, South
Carolina, $5,000; Waphoo Cut, South
Carolina, $10,000; Wateree river, South
Carolina,$S,000; Santee river,South Caro
lina, $22,000, Pensacoia harbor, Florida,
$20,000, Yallabusha river, Mississippi,
$3,500; Tchuta lake, Mississippi, $3,500;
Scuppernong, North . Carolina, $1,000;
Trent river, $2,000; Asfiley, South Caro
lina, $1,500; Great Pedqe. $8,000; Wacca-
maw, $5,000; Chattahoochee river, Geor
gia, $20,000; Coosa, Georgia and Alabama,
$60,000; Flint, Georgia, $15,000; Ocmul-
gee, $5,800; Cumberland, above Nashville
to the Kentucky State line, $15,000.
Washington, February 5.—In the
House, immediately alter the reading of
tfie journal, Mr. Biekneli, as a privileged
question, called up from tiie Speaker’s ta
ble the Seuate coucurrent resolution for
counting the electoral vote. Mr. Biek
neli said it was alleged that tiie electors
of one State had cast their 'votes on a day
not prescribed by law. The question
would be made whether or not the vote
Of that State should be counted. That
was a doubtful and difficult question,
and the constitution had uot expressly de
clared by whom such; a question should
be decided. A like difficulty had arisen
several times heretofore, once in 1821,
once in 1837, and once ifi'1857. In
the latter case tbe result had been
an angry and dangerous de
bate, ending in no practical good.
The object of this resolution was to avoid
such a difficulty. Whether the vote of
the State iu question (Georgia) be counted
or not counted would , make no differ
ence in the result. Everybody admitted
that Gen. Garfield had been duly elected
President of tbe United States and would
be so declared, but in order to avoid any
difficulty this resolution was proposed
and he hoped It would be ^adopted unani
mously. It provided for the same hypo
thetical counting which had already
tided the country over similar difficulties
on two occasions.
Mr. Robeson, of New Jersey, demanded
a division of the resolution. He should
make no objection to tiie resolution as
prescribed to-day, ; He was in favor of tiie
first branch of tiie resolution because it
was the identical resolution, if ho in is: %
took not, which Sic had presented for iho
acceptance of the other side of the Home
befor»the holidays. With regard to .the li
second branch, it would not becomo hjin
to make any more opposition to its pamgo •’
than to record his vote according tbntt'
opinion. He begged leave to congratu
late; gentlemen on tbe ,other side of .the.
chamber ou their return.to tho old princi
ples of the Democracy.
Mr. Reagan, of Texas, said that thmigli
he was not now able to cdugral nla'" -
geutleniau from New Jersey and tiie lie- W
publican party, he expected wlieti. U eTWO
was taken to be able to cougrai t . .
and them, that they had abaml. . a tT;e 1
methods of revolution and ha.l
count tiie votes for President, iwl- e
Mr.'Felton, of Georgia.
parties recognized the election ot\Ge/; nni
Garfield. No man questioned h tiB.- nl^
the.highest office in the gift of.thc p nedti. .'
He' believed that the Moirga CTneVny!)?
resolution was improper—tint U ivijifu-'TT
constitutional—and hence he ! <1
against it. He had no special - lj-
to the first branch ofthe nenilforf .. ,fo-
tion. The second branch, hi
cided nothing. It simply avoid'd
sion which, in fils ‘ opinion, the
should make here tc^ay. lie .
Georgian, and prolei.. u that
pie of Georgia *! mid
field responsible Joi ha-, in: .-
of tiiat State laid ikdije. T:. ..
that the people 'of ' Gcrngu
be lield rerponsfotV for n. • '*
oftlieir officials. He
tiveiy tht& tin's Ho’ise ahonH-rr-^***-
question.and fostfiad ,of ls< r. -M
vote of-Geprena, ifistepfii atmortno-s to -sh
world that Qeorma had v.tdw. tom
Georgia were absolutely lent to tee Fed*
eral laws. (Applause on tbe Republican
side.] The peopie of Georgia bed ao de
sire to violate tbe Federal laws, end when
tbe State lew wes passed under wbicb the
elector* had cast their votes there bad
been no intention on tee pert of (fie Leg
islature to conflic' with tbe Federal lew.
Mr. Speer said that the people of Geor
gia bad been- loyal to tee Federel lews
since they had laid down tbeir eras in
1865, and, when they aeoepted tbe eon-
stitntloual amendment*, they accepted
them in good faith. Tbe gentlemen from
New Jersey (Mr. Robeson) bed done
some injustice wbeu he bed said that no
Biefioii ttw Uaatrcntf* Cife Bad dvK
stand forth ana speak for what they nn j
derstood to be true Democracy, against
tbe Morgan resolution. There were three
Democrat* who bad done that (allhdlng
to Messrs. Feltou, Stephens and him
self), aud had recorded their
votes against the resolution. Hq
joined with tbe gentlemen from New
Jersey in congratulating his Democratic
brethren, that they had reached e eolation
of this question which would uot do vio
lence to the grand rights of the sovereign
States. He bad been criticised by tee
Bourbon papers of Georgia. That criti
cism was due to the fact that be bad an
tagonized tbe Bourbon methods Id tbe
State of Geoigia. He now found the
Democratic party standing shoulder to
shoulder will! himself and his colleagues
(Messrs. Felton aud Stephens).
Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, hoped
that aothing in tbe second branch of the
resolution would be inferred at deciding
against the right of Georgia to hare her
vote counted. The principle generally
held in view was that the will ot tbe peo
ple, if it could be clearly ascertained,
should be allowed to have its due weight,
without regard to the error or ignorance
of Its servants. He should vote to accept
the vote of Georgia because that rote bed
been cast in accordance with the forme of
law.
Mr. Cook, of Georgia, declared that
there was not law on the statute books of
Georgia in contravention of the power of
the Federal government. The people ef
Georgia were loyal, with tha exception of
one man (alluding to Robert Toombs),
who was a special advocate of tbe Repre
sentative from the seventh district.
Mr. Hammond, of Georgia* regretted
that his colleague (Felton) should arraign
tiie Democratic party f< r dereliction of
duty in order to 'justify his violation of
sarty duty and party ailegianee. It might
ie a subject of congratulation that now ,
the tail wagged the dog.' He desired to
reply to the - suggestion that an “Inde
pendent” was always right by quoting
from memory a declaration from. Coke’s
“Institute” in which, undertaking to de
fine a good Parliament man, lie said that
he ought to fie like an elephant, because
lie wns patient and wise, and because be
was gregarious. Good animal*, like deer
and cattle, inarched in horde*, but hurt
ful animals marched by themselves, such
as wolves and foxes, [laughter.]
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on th- reputation of th.i GB -CINff Hnlmitt
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1
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