Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-05-04

ennse, own and dispose Of property
10 amend section sisO Of the. code.
Rejected.
For the benefit Of securities on e5nsta-
bles' bonds. Laid on the table,
To amend the constitution OF the state.
Passed.
To increase the Jurisdiction Of justices
Of the peace in certain eases.
To amend title IL, article 8, chapter 6
OF the code. Laid on the table.
To amend the road laws Of the state.
Rejected.
To supply records lost or destroyed.
Laid on the table.
On motion, the house adjourned.
From the Banner, evening edition, Nay 81
The senate franchise bill occupied the
entireSession OF that body this morning,
and alter being discussed by Messrs.
Speaker Frierson, Trimble, Senter, Keith
and Aldridge, was rejected by a vote OF
five ayes to sixteen noes. The last
speaker tempted Us 70 2 broad smile b.
exhorting his radical friends to stand
firm, as did ARdreaG johnson when he
put down the rebellion IN South Caro-
lima" Our history tells US that Old
Hickory did the business for South Caro-
lima, but the honorable senator Is doubt
less better informed.
The senate bill was defeated by the
radicals for the purpose of making way
for the house bill, which Is an hundred
fold more stringent in its provisions.
Prominent among outsiders figuring In
the house this morning, we noticed
Mayor Brown and Councilman LeIyett.
preparing the way for the bill suggested
yesterday st an informal meeting Of the
city council. A careful examination OF
the proposed measure eonvinces us that
it viii receive the assent Of both branches
Of the legislature, and generally prove ac-
ceptable TO the taxpayers of Nashville.
True, the times are hard, and our mer-
chants feel sOrely the depression in trade
which prevails throughout the country,
but a city government can not be sus-
tanned at a mere nominal expense, and
70 attempt the thing on a cheap parsi-
monious scale, will be hut the worse for
our pockets in the end.
A resolution directing the speaker pro
tenn. to inform Gov. Brownlow that sew
eral counties are still unrepresented in
the house, owing to the recent resigna-
ton Of members, and requesting that
wTits of election be issued at an early
day, was voted down by the radicals-as
might have been expected. 1t is natu-
raj hat this Clique of demagogues and
pettifoggers, brought forth by a sudden
revolution from utter Obseurity to the
unlimited possession of arbitrary power
should struggle with desperate ~tenacity
TO retain the brief tenure of office and
emoluments yet left them
As the radical leaders in the senate
were afraid to admit Cave Johnson, well
knowing that his great mind would i'm
measurably oyeFshadOw their own pigmy
intellectual and oratorieal triumphs, SO
Arnel trembles at tAe prospective COM
ing of some new conservative imam of
the hour" who shall convince the world
by how imbecile a tanner the extremists
Of the house have suffered themselves to
be blindly led.
Notwithstanding the d~isagreeahle
prominence of Duggy's name on Judge
WlkinsOn's docket yesterday, he had
the impudence to address the house this
morning in favor of the bill "to forever
disqualify all rebels and traitors from
holding office" This excessively liberal
measure is the offspring of Duggy's own
brain. He is as inveterate a hater Of
"Tebelsn as he Is an ardentadmirer Of the
dusky maids who lie in wait at our street
corners after sunset.
After the senate committee on cleo
tons had, for weeks, kept Messrs. John
son and Garrett on the tiptoe of expee-
fancy, and the senate had finally refused
them admittanee to seats, the radicals IN
in the house were mean enough this
morning TO reuse them the ordinary per
diem and mileage. No comment is
necessary.