Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-05

though we know thai he is earnestly anxious
to do every thing in his power likely really 70
aid in alternating the distresSes Of the afflicted
communities.
Mr.. ]. W. Bryce, of New York, informed us
this morning at the post office that an cdito-
rial paragraph in the Star some days since,
attributing the contemplated purchase of the
Organ newspaper to the Hon. Bayard Clark,
with the money Of George Law, is wholly in
correct.
Mr.. Bryce himself being one of tie intend
Ell purcha ers, of course knows all about the
matter. Our irfolmants with reference to the
purchase led us into error, which we thus has.
ten to COLI ect, least it may do injury to Mr.. B.
and thois, who ever they may be, concerned
with him N the contemplated purchase.
Going to lay Direct Taxes.-It is to be
presumed that the present legislature of Kan
sas contemplate levying direct taxes for the
support Of their territorial government. We
draw this conclusion from the fact that not
little Of their leg'slation amounts 10 direct,
ity Of the Government of the United States
over them. They not only practice upon the
squattsr sovereignty doctrine to the extent Of
regulating their own affairs-the things that
are theirs e1clusively--(and however much we
may dislike the squatter sovereignty principle
in the abstra It, as we confess we do, we are
fast coming to the conclusion that on its rigid
application without fear or favor on either
side, depends the solution of the question of
the much longer continuance of the American
UniOn;) but they assume the light to grant
any and everything not theirs to any and
every body in and out of the territory, if they
. cotton" to the direct or indiro ct granite ss.
They are going beyond their legitimate func-
tons, and set themselves up as court and jury
to try their own so exceedingly silly case
against the President and Congress. We have
not the slight st doubt that Congress will bring
them to terms as soon IS they meet, by quietly
voting that if they VII Ievoiutionise in that
quarter, they may do it wholly at their own
expense; not at that of Uncle Sam. They
viii stop the supplies inStarter, starving the
over. obstrel erous into iscovery of their
senses, just as patients in jpsane ssylums are
ve!y risidly dieted before being given over as
incureable. Twenty, to one the prospect of
getting money to "ges" Cd, only by laying
direct taxes on their fellow squatters, will at
once infuse larger dash of common sense in
to their present remarkable temper. To say
the least ont, they aIs thoroughly disgusting
ourself and nearly all other of their friends in
the South who have BIZ en- battling earnestly
in their cause, as they well know, up to this
time.
Ex-Judge Elmore.-We really do not know
which is doing most in the way of rendering
himself ridiculous, ex-Judge Elmore, Of Kan
sas, or tie conductor of the New York Herald,
who has taken up his silly quarrel with the
G eneral Government about his removal. The
ba, IS of the plea of the ex-judse is that the
Executive has no legal authority to substitute
another in his lead until his four years shall
have expired, b;,auso the organic law of the
tc,ii.oly under which he was appointed speci-
fies that the juds should hold their offices
Tor four years. Under the same reading o.
law, If Demo cl ltic President and Congress,
on the right befOi giving plae to an incoming
Know nothing Administration, should enac
that all the officers OF the Government whose
tenn OF Office may not be specified in the con-
stitution should hold fse or ten years, the
Know Nothiuys would find themselves in q
pretty kettle Of fish, truly, with "A opposition
cabinet to begin With fois i upon them.
But we may not sreue the principle of the
law, or the folly of Judge Elmoie, in attempt
ing to ct up an unscund pi nciple as that of
the law for his owl benefit; the Supreme
Court Of the United Sal IS ha, ing ,tt.cl the
question againss him, most emphatically. We
here refer to its action in the cose of Goodrich,
the removed chief justice Of Minnesota Terri
tory, dispos d of last win, IT. For four years,
Judge G.. contend in the coui is for the Do
sition which Judge Elmore now eks to con-
tend, probably without knowing that the Su.
preme Count unanimously decided that ter.
litorial judg' hip is an Office from which an
incumbent may, at any moment, be removed
at the pleasure of the Executive of the United
osoeSo" ANU OIoufO VI tuO law Oh
Mime ota, under which Judge G.. was ap-
point:1, is identical with that clause Of the
organic law of Kansas, under which Judge T.
was appointed, the later being copied, GER
6GtiDa, from the former.
Tbs Current Operations OF the Treasury
Experimentation yesterday, 4th September,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered On
the books Of the Department
For the Treasury Department.. $50. las So
For the Interior Department. 66,0O6 O3
For the Customs. ................ 1902 %
War Warrants received and en-
tered ...................... 32l ,q33 Sc
War repay warrants received and
entered. ............. 1875, S27 IL
Covered In from Customs. ,42S, $50 Is
The Autobiography Friend Burgess, the
remarkably quiet and so well-known bill
poster and distributor, has been d" called in, "
professionally, to attend to George Laws case.
| For some time pas, he has been employed To