Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-14
yEMPMES APPEAL


axes 10 EFlNAlf hliu uEAhh AA4AuOtf AAA
are more attentive to business than the
Legislature Of lastsyear. The members
from Shelby county viii compare favor
ably with those from other parts OF the
Stste. They are always in their seats
aud seem to study the interests Of Mem
phis.
MECHANICS LIEN LAW.
Mr.. RYDER introduced, and will get
through both Houses, bill TO protect
mechanics by giving them lien on real
aud personal property, for work done.
/ The bill is very complete, containing
| twentv-seven sections, that seem TO have
been carefully prepared. In addition to
! the lien which It gives to mechanics for
work done on houses, hacks, etc, It pro-
7 vides that common carriers and store
/ keepers to whom goods have been en-
| trusted to keep or carry, shall have the
same lien and same power of sale as
mechanics.
BILL TO ALLOW BLACKS PRIVILEGES.
The biI allowing blacks to ride In
! ladies' or sleeping cars or wherever else
white folks do on railroads, after passing
| both Houses, has been reconsidered and
/ referred to q COMMITTEES of the Senate.
/ The object that was professed 70 be aimed
4 at was to make railroads provide first
] CLASS AoA BAASho - NhOg
| charged blacks first-class fare. A bill
/ that is proposed as substitute for the
] former one, provides that blacks ana
/ whites must be kept apart, unless the
| blacks are walters or nurses in white
| folks cars, but ali who pay tirst-elsss fare
must have first-eless accommodations.
THE FRANCHISE LAW.
The Joint Committee Of both Houses
] a Of ayaf4fr.or the fran
l.chise act, By repeating the 18th section,
which forbids blacks holding offices. The
! Committee held that, in making such
| restriction, the Legislature transcribed
/ the powers delegated to it by the State
/ Convention. After a rather spirited de-
bate, the matter was postponed TO De-
/ cember. The chances are thRtit will not
pass. 1t may 90 through the Senate
| pretty easily, but there will be vigorous
opposition in the House. The East Ten
nes-eeans don't like it.
EXTENSION OF THE LIMITS OF MEMPHIS
The enlargement of the boundaries Of
the city has passed the House, and will
the Senate. The committee to whom
was referred the protest of parties, who
don't want to be annexed to Memphis,
! treated very contemptuOusly their re-
l noDstrance. One feature of the bill will
! attract some attention. 1t provides that
the city registration, now going oD, shsll
be set aside, and the certificates of regis
4 trRtion that have been issued by Mr..
Davis, shall be all thst shall be required
by the Judges and Clerks Of our ensuing
Municipal election.
REMOVAL OF THE SUPREME COURT.
There Is a great probability that the
sittinRs Of the Supreme Court in West
Tennessee will be transferred from Jack
son to Brownsville, on the Memphis and
Ohio =ailroad. This has been agreed
uDon in committee. 1t will be sdvan-
tsgeous to Memphis lawyers, and parties
litigant, but the transfer Of the sittings
TO Memphis would be more generally
satisfactory. There is no good
courtroom, and no satisfactory hotel
I accommodations at Brownsville. AT ~ sla-
phis the rooms Of the Federal Court
could be readily procured for holding the
sittings Of the Supreme Court OF the
State, and there are ample hotel accom-
mOdatiOns.
IMPORTANT MANGUVERIEG.
More active and interested than any
/ member of the Legislature is United
States Marshal Toneny, who in zeal out
radicals the most intense Radicals here.
He has been two weeks or longer IN
! Nashville, and il is curious the effect that
the air of this place has had upon him.
President johnson wouldn't know him.
Certainly he wOBldn't know Johnson
i'm Washington he would, but not here.
When I met Mr.. TOmeny in Washing
ton. he was so affected by the atmOs-
phere that he seemed intensely Conserv-
ative. I don't think his constitution
could stand many migratiOns between
! Washington and Nashville. AT present
he seems very happy. he sits al Gay
between MessTs. Hamilton ana RYDER.
Most Of the time he occupies Mr.. RYDER
seat. and Mr.. Ryder eourteOuslY stands
up OF walks about the aisies. Mr.. Tom
eny is intensely alive to all that is going
on, and is very busy giving directions to
Messrs. Hamilton and Ryder, or run
ming into the committee rooms to man
, ace other members. He is probably
doing great deal Of good.
, WHAT HIS PLANS ARR.
Rumor has it that Mr.. Tomeny in,
r spired the recent proposition to forbid
I. directors Of railroads transferring the
contrnl of their roads to others unless
three. .fourths Of the stockholders consent
to the transfer. A majority Of the stocE
makes the bylaws and the bylaws anc
charter control the action of the direc
tors. How the State owning minority
OF the stock can restrict the vested rlghu
of the majority 1t is not easy to see
Perhaps Mr.. TOmeny does. The ooec
is to hamper the Clarksville road anI
prevent its consolidation with the Louis
vile and Memphis road perhaps caus'
an annuIlipg of the lesse-of the Memphl
and Ohio road recently effected. In ina
event sn opportunity may offer by whicl
Tn,EanGaiOn AMI
control of the road. don't know tina
there is any Bulletin ring, but rumo
has It that Bingham, Tomeny
g. Beaumont, Richards and others VIII
1f wanted to get the control Of the Mem
d phis and Ohio Railroad have now formeC
a political ring to carry out new pur
poses by controlling the city and COUNTY
affairs. There may he nothing in this
lu.it is generally believed. If they csl
coutroI the black vote and get a share G
conservative support, they may win
!. I They will get conservative support q.
. nominating for the MayOTaltY DR.. ShaV
! who is less Objectionable than any Othe
Radical 10 conservative citizens. Il
c1pciliate the Radicals they will promis
Ibs Tax Collectorship to Mr.. Chandler
| and the CITY Attorneyship to Harry Lee
Esq. Two bills were gotten up TO turi
out ali the present appointed officials ex
cent the Police Commissioners; but 10
: some reason, neither of these has beel
- nresepted Beaumont wanted theCOunt,
I Commissioners to give to him ana hl
y two nails sixty thousand dollars OF count
> money. but they were afraid 70 DO so
\ il would damage their own case. Ofcours
= he wants them turned out and other
: put in their places who will be NOR
y complying. A number of the patrolmel
! OF the Metropolitan Police force hav
5 written up here to ask investigation
y They claim that they are not regularl
> paid, and that If sinecure places DC
= authorized by law, were abolished, owe
z twenty thousand dollars a year woui
i he saved. and this would give frOI
, thirty to ffty dollars q month more pa
than he now gets to each working men
~ Der Of the department. This is hIt {
y shaw, Chandler and other supernumt
sy raries.
1t is reported that some funny lettel
=, that DIR. White has been writing up hei
are in circulation. He 10 not near
complimentary to other people as
- himself in what he writes. The resolV
tions that he and Harry Lee passed
the little meeting that they bad In ID
Whites Office were read in the House
Representatives as the resolutions ol
large body of influential citizens, wi
favored the extension of the city limI
VI and the abolition Of the city registratic
. of voters. By the by, If the Tomen
Beaumont, Bingham plans are carrie
out and I don't see why they may n
bel DR.. White is 20 have DR.. Keller
place in the State Hospital.
A VISIT TO MEMPHIS.
j. A Committee will, in a day or tw
- Isava hare for Memphis TO make inVef