The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-28
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rhOM OOh UWN CORRESPOND ENT
ANNAPOLIS, January 9th.
The Senate chamber continues to be the point of
attraction, the progress of the Baltimore Bills
throngng the lobbies and the crinoline taxing the
somewhat limited accommodations of the Hail.
The debate which was in progress when my last
was closed, continued with the result last evening
that Gen. McKaig's motion, to make the Balti-
more Bills the order of the day for to-day at half
past eleven o'clock, prevailed. At night the Demo-
Gratis held joint caucus, and nominated Mr. S.
Harwood, of Anne Arundel, for Treasurer, Mr.
Shipley of Carroll, for Librarian, and Mr.. Waters,
of P. Georges, for keeper of the Chancery Rec
ords. 1t was not decided when the two Houses
would go into convention, to elect these gentlemen,
and the question of United States Senator will pro-
badly not be taken up before the middle of Februa-
ry. As soon in order Mr.. Yellott presented a
memorial signed by William Thompson and three
thousand Il! others, protesting against the passage
of the measure Commonly called the Metropolitan
Police BILL
This memorial which is marked by the insolence
and falsehood which stamps everything emanating
from the party from which it processes to come,
seemed to strike the taste of the GARNER of Lin
ganore" especially, and he called for the reading
of it and the first fifty names appended Mr.. yell
lott proposed that instead of the first fifty the
whole three thousand names should be read, and
poor Mr.. Brewer, who had no friend to interpose in
his behalf had to set about it. The terrible evils
result from the restoration of law and order in Bal
tmore were duly set forth. Among other things
it was urged that the Bill did not propose to take
the sense of the people of Baltimore on its prov-
sions Now inasmuch the only way in which
any attempt has recently been made to take the
sense of the voters of Baltimore has been to knock
out their brains, it may well be doubted whether
they will not cheerfully dispense with that valuable
privilege.
After reading the memorial, the Clerk began
with the names These belonged to parties
which your correspondent, though somewhat ia
mar with the people of Baltimore, was not able
in a Wi he
ton of the first supposed to belong to the Mayors
Secretary. 1t was John Smith and Tom Brown
their marks, in many instances-and no man ever
looked happier than the Clerk when half-past
eleven arrived, and the President announced the
order of the day, which cut short the reading of
the signatures | must be permitted to say that
the party which had difficulty in getting twenty
thousand illegal votes into the ballot boxes must
find it comparatively easy task to get up these
MORALS The process is of the very simplest kind
No sooner had the order of the day been an
nounced, than the Senator from Frederick on
his feet. The Senator had been concocting-making
ready-preparing himself-ever since the ad journ-
ment. He had hunted up poetical and philosophi-
cal quotations. and had consulted his friends upon
their accuracy and applicability. He was thorough
ly charged-and when the hour had arrived the
man was there also. 'Mr. President" said the
diplomatic, agricultural, Senatorial Colonel-"I
trust / am in order" Alas for him, he was not
He had gone off at half.cock. What was the mat
ter? Nothing before the Senate? Mr.. Clerk must
read the order of the day. This was the Bill to re-
peal the Tooth section of the 4th Article of the
public local law, so often before referred to.
| The Clerk proceeded, and had got through the
title and part of the first section when the Presi-
dent nstinctively, it were, announced the Sen
ator from Frederick. The President was right; the
Senator from Frederick was on hand, and there
| was no help for it. The Senator from Frederick
announced first his wish to pay his respects to the
| Senator from Dorchester-no, he meant the Sena-
| tor from Cambrdge-no, the Senator from Talbot
| He wished the Senator from Talbot to know that
tha onirn Al. 1T.
Senator wished to inpound. That animal had had
a dream which he wished to tell to the Senate,
though, as Paddy said dreams always goby contra.
| ries (quotation.) The Senator from Frederick
! dreamed he was mission; (the diplomatic idea
| still uppermost;) he thought be in the Vatican:
he had interview with his Holiness the Pope of
Rome; it was on dream, but he used it in argu-
ment he had a great deal of conversation with the
Pope, which, as it had no sort of bearing on the
point at ISSUE is just the sort of talk the Senator
would be likely to hold with the Pope or any body
else "ln thought, the Pope shucb his finger at me,
and said oh; you hereto, and what's that you have
at the end of your watch ?' Says l. OTIS the
emblem that l am the Grand Master of the
Free Masons of Maryland. But, Holy Father,
our city is sore" 'Never mind" says he,
| "Ive got bill introduced into the Senate of Mary
iand, that will cure it." "And how will it be exc
| cnted?" "Oh I'll send regiment of my Swiss
| guards, or Mr.. Buchanan will send the Marines
or the gentleman from AHegany will bring his
rangers from the Mountains" Since father Tom,
no one seems to understand the Pope like the Sen
| ator from Linganore. 1t is impossible to do him
justice, and must for the pres mt let him pass,
| stating that the Col. announced that he has pro-
vlded in his will that his bones shall repose in the
! soil of Baltimore. AS dead men tell no tales and
do not make speeches. it will relieve you to hear
| that he does not mean to come among you any
sooner.
Mr.. YELLorr followed the Colonel on the same
side. The bill before the Senate proposes to re-
! peal the law (the old City Guard law, authorizing
| the Mayor and some of the Judges to call out the
military in certain cases-for the purpose of vest
ing the same power in the Board of Commissioners
OF which the Mayor is one. 1t is absolutely neces
sary to the efficiency of the system. In oppo
sition to this measure, Mr.. Yellott made thor
oughly dishonest speech, which, however, was only
the repetition, almost in the same words, of the
speech he had delivered on Wednesday
against granting the leave to introduce
the same measure. Having heard him YOU
might supposed that it was intended to alb
rogate all civil authority in your city, instead O
strengthening it by placing it in hands neither
weak nor dirty-controled by the sovereign power
OF the State instead of the very mob it is intended
to subdue. He had the hardhood to appeal to tn,
apprehensons of Senators respecting slave insur
rectiOns, asking what would become of the countie
In such an event if the power of calling out thu
military were taken away from the city authori
ties; Does MIR. Yellott suppose there is a planter
In the State who would not feel safer in having tn
military power OF Baltimore, vested in state off
GERS than left with those who stuffed ballotboxes
and shed innocent blood for the purpose of return
ing Henry Winter Davis to Congress?
Mr.. elliott went over long history of tn
various mobs which had taken place in Baltimor
. from time to time. But he forgot to say that no
one of them queled by the Mayor or other cit,
authorities, who have always shown themselve
either in league with, or overawed by the rioters
: All this talking on the part of the minority wa
met with silence by the majority, who have resolves
to let the opposition talk without reply, and t,
sit quietly and vote as fast they can. begin t.
doubt the policy of this course. 1t NAV be mis-
understood: TO those who are looking on, and VIII,
are not posted, 1t appears as if the arguments O
the Known othngs could not be answered. On
good scathlng speech, administered by Goldsbor
ough, or Miles, or McKaig, showing up the falsit,
and aosurdity of the pretences set up by the advo
Gates of the Baltimore frauds would in nv iudo
J ment, expedite business by sealing in shame, mouth
which are now so loud and camorous Forbear
ance may be carried to the point of creating
r public opinion on the wrong side, and thorough
{ exposure OF the Baltimore villianes would have
most happy effect.
The House OF Delegates occupied with bust
ness of private character mostly, which wa
pushed forward with diligence. The bill appropri
atlng fifteen hundred dollars annually to the Balti
more Female College passed the House yesterda,
after the cars left This seems to me quite liberal
to say the least of it. Mr.. Gordon, of Alleganv
reported to-day uniavorably upon Mr. RI eform
er) McAllisters bill in reference to the criers O
: your courts. Mr.. Mac. rose to ask that il be re
committed, stating that he really thought he coult
bring facts to prove he was hOnest'' Facts O
that description are just what would do the gentle
f man good, but very much doubt whether he car
humbug the Chairman of the Judicial Committee
As this is specimen of Mr.. Macs reforms. I mus
state that he proposes to bring all the fees of all tn
crlers into one fund, and then make an equal dis
trlbutlon among them to a certain amount anc
pay the rest over to the State. Now the criers n
the Common Pleas and Superior Courts happen +,
, be Know Nothings, receiving about 800 dollars
piece, while the crier of the Criminal Court, a Dem
ocrat, receives some three or four thousand The
effect, therefore, of Mr.. Macs reform would be II
cut down the Democrat, and add to the two Know
Mothlngs wages, and pay the surplus, if any, over
How many birds would this one stone kill :? But
predict that the mover is barking I'D the wront
tree this time
SENATOR KIANEL AND THE EDICT OJ
NANTES
MEssRs. EDIToRs: II the report of the nroca Il
ings in our State Senate yesterday be correct it i
: much to be regretted that the President OF tba
body should have been compelled by a sense O
duty to cut short the harangue of the distinpuisb
ed "Llnganore farmer" To a philosonhical SIN
dent of history, it would have been INTERESTING r.
learn how the revocation of the edict of Nante
could have 'tproduced the massacre of St. BartboJo
me,O'S Day." Some great minds are very ingeniou
in tracing out relations of cause and effect the ex
stence of which before unsupported by tn
world; and, if the Hon. Senator could, with pro
priety have been allowed to develop his theory, W.
f might have had an opportunity of seeing by wha
logical deductions he meant to attribute the scene
OF ST. Bartholomews Day, which occurred I'm
J der Charles TX. in 1872, to the reuocation of ri
I, edict which never existed until it was enacte,
twenty-six years afterwards by Henry w. il
1898, and which was revoked one hundred an,
thirteen years after the massacre of ST. Bartholo
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