Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-04
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

| now before the Senate are exceedingly active.
For the most part, those who are conspicuous
in their efforts for it's defeat are of three
Glasses, viz Persons who expect TO be them.
selves deprived of somethin: they now enjoy,
or whose nearest friends are in that category:
persons who simply desire poEtponement of
action in the belief that their own chances for
Office, under changed system, will BIO better
at some future day and, lastly; persons who
having the means property whereeith to
pay their debts, are without the Meditation t.
be honest. There ase many we'll disrosed.
unselfsh and correct individuals who think
i'll of the proposed change; but as far as we
can perceive, such persons have invariably
failed TO read and comprehend t 10 bill as il
passed the House of Representative !, take their
ideas of it and it's probable operation from
rome of the interested classes referred to
above.
A handful, understood to have been written
by member OF the bar directly interested in
preserving some of the principal abuses of the
present system hes been scattered broadcast
81 ace il which even to begin review of that
paper to day, and shall now content ourselves
with pronouncing each and all of its state
ments of iacts as connected with the lc yisla
ton of the House upon the bill, and its de-
ssription of the character Of tho bills Goveral
provisions, utterly, sweepingly, and atrociously
withou, foul dation, involving covert ISLANDERS
N the author of the bill and its friends.
The writer of that paper undertakes to con-
tend that Congress have no authority 80 to
amend the laws o. the District Of Columbia. as
that in SO doing, the present judges will be
egislated out of office. lie claims for them a
constitutional right 10 retain their Offices for
life unless broken By Congress or
rial for misheh avior in - -.
o1s i''' .s 70 argue that question with
'in no one with IN ounce Of brains will at
lentfFcIy read the debate on tie bill, wi hou
Including tn at the Judiciary Committee com
posed of nine OF the ablest and most distip
suished jurists Of the body, were right in
unanimously reporting, il effect, that ,bere
exists no constitutional objection to the chances
nr0posed The fact. too, that but tbirtv-fre
or six members of the House were found n
,ote against the bill on the question Of its
final passage, show. con2lusively that there :
nothing, really, in that objection, three four,bs
OF the body at least. hein5 gentlemen of the
'egaI professicr, aud nearly every one of them
oalrg E'=n Of mark, Professionally, at home
A settled effsrt is being made to make cap
its! against the bill By tampering with the 80
bighly deserved veneration with which tbe
people CT the District of Columbia regard
Judge Cranch, who, it is urged is to be turned
IF psnniless in his old age, if the measure be-
:ome' law Foi that gentleman orr regard
g IS deep and abiding, at least, as that Of any
me of the demagoguss who Gro using hi. rem.
u'ation as fence to -ar1 off something the,
regard as likely to prove q blow to their own
pecuniary interests Yet We have 10 reason
10 believe that he IS poor. Even if that were
true, II is no fault Of the Government lie
has hoen il the recent Of salary Of 50 $50
per anpum for p2rre than fftv wears. and GER.
lhil1ran rot at msn Is estate and of his hands
Tor tho las: six years, III which time he ha,
discharged no duties, his only wants have been
dressing gown end a bowl of cruel In this
last mentioned space of time. ne presume he
must have saved at least 81 OO0 as to live could
not possibly have cost him over $3.50 per an
nun. without extravaganza, in which no bed
ridden nan could indulge We mention tbes.
notorious facts only by way of exposing the
demag0gsIn Of those who are insisting that
the judicial system of the District Of Columbia
SHALL continue TO remain al incubus upon the
thrifty and honest portion of the comm. unity
for years to come, because the venerated Judge
Cranch will otherwise be legislated out of
office
But one single other objection has been, &C.
far, really urged to the bill. That is, that i.
will allow creditor to obtain a Judgment ZOO
quick, and at an undue advantage over the
debtor. What is being said in this connection
about The rich sharks and the worthy homes,
poor, and all that sort Of thing, i. demagoc
ism ard disingenuousness Of So glazing q char.
acter, that as We write for the reading of rco.
pie of sense and self respect--not for that Of
fools and those who practice false pretences in
their business / ansacti ons-We shall NOT deign
to answer it NV, the bill, in this respcet
adopts almost to the letter the provisions which
prevail in the States Of Virginia, Indiu;.a, and
Tennessee, as well as in other ), ates Of the
Union, where the people have been rescued
from the evil effects of the laws former pro.
verbal excrescences and jargon Among us
ell, it is we'll known that, in Virginia. the
operation Of the laws provisions for the collec-
ton Of debts is healthy honest, and fair, mere
ly-not going TO compel man to lay dollar
he does not justly owe, or to pay it a moment
beft re it is justly due; and giving every man
ample time, after payment may have been de
manded. to be ready with his defence against
the claim, if he has one. They provide hat i
a man DIES not sren pretend to deny his IN
debtedness Judgment ii y the clerk re;ca, sb,,l