Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-21
FREE BANKING.

posed by SeuAlOE OOLDS''i VIZ
even be debated.
FREE BANKING.
The Washington Chronicle, sup
p0sed to be in possession Of all Radi-
cal secrets and intentions, says: ''The
"pressure IN favor Of free banking is
getting TO be irresistible. No logic
"can stand against the fact. We are
"doing business with less money than
"we did in 1850, when We had at least
"ten millions Of people less than we
shave to-day"
NOTHING To BE DONE.
The WAYS and Means Committee,
the Banking Committee, the judiciary
Committee, the three most important
committees of the House, have de-
cided to postpone all their business
till January. Consequently there viii
be no important legislation this week
After the House passes the Georgia
bill there viii likely be an adjourn
ment until after the holidays.
APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE
SUPREME COURT.
\ determined effort will be made in
the Senate and in the House, shortly,
10 carry the TrumbuII bill limiting the
appellate jurisdiction Of the Supreme
Court, so as to prevent that Court
taking saction on important ques-
tious now pending. Thus it Is
that the time Of Congress is taken /
up by legislation FOR the perpetuation 4
OF the Radical party rather than for
that which Is needed to benefit the
suffering and tOiling million.
ASHLEY.
The great impeacher has Grant in 4
a tight place. The President is anxi-
Gus to remove this creature, who in
the thirty-ninth Congress alternately
PLAYED jackaH and jackass for the
Radical party, and desires to reward /
a friend with his place, but fears TO
do so at the expense Of giving the
Ohio Senate TO the Democrats. And /
vet. Ashley must be removed, es- /
peciaIIy since, as a Washington Radi- /
cal organ asserts, he has turned his
back upon the nigger in Montana, ana
IS cOquetting with the Democratic .
party Of that Territory. Politics
makes strange bed-fellows," :" strangest
Of al would be jim Ashley in a bed
made with Democratic hands.
THE YERGER CASE.
The resolution referred TO on Friday, /
as offered by Senator Thurman and 1
objected to by Sumner, was to the 4
effect that the AttOrney-General be |
requested to inform the Senate imme- |
diateIy if any arrangement to which .
he, on the part OF the United States, is .
a party exists whereby Yerger, of
Mississippi, now under arrest and 1
held By the military authorities Of the I
United States, viii be discharged or
turned over to the civil authorities Of .
the State Of Mississippi, or otherwise /
disposed Of, in case Congress, by any 1
legislation, should take away or re-
strict the jurisdicsion Of the Supreme .
Court to hear and determine the pro-
ceedings before said court for the dis
charge Of said Nerger on habeas |
corpus; and also if any arrangement /
exists whereby the hearing Of said .
proceeding, or Of any application for
the issue Of a writ Of habeas corpus /
therein has been delayed or is now 4
delayed, and that he furnish the Sen /
ate copies Of all agreements entered /
into between him as AttOrney-Gen- /
eral and the counsel Of said Yerger in 4
relation TO said cause.
GEORGIA.
The bill for the second reconsTuc- !
ton Of Georgia has passed the Senate,
and viii, in all likelihood, pass the
House before adjournment. 1t car
ries with it, as the wormwood and the
gall. the amendment of Morton, OF
Indiana, the drunken, and physically .
rotten, implacable Senator, which pro-
vides that the Legislature Of that .
State shall be provisional until it shall .
have ratified the XINth and XVIII F.
Constitutional Amendments. The /
earnest protests Of such men as Thur
man, OF Ohio, and Bayard, Of Della F.
ware. were Of no effect, Of
course. In vain they urged that
the enforcement Of this infamous en-
actment was oppressive Of the Demo
cratic States Of the North which have
refused to adopt the XVIII Amend /
ment. 1t was passed. Gov. Bullock,
who has made himself grossly ohen- |
sive to the people Of Georgia, was
present during the debate, and was
urgent for the passage Of the bill. /
And he was deferred TO, nOtwith- /
standing the Conservative delegates
assured Senators and members that if I
the 1. .agislature were allowed 70 meet I
without Congressional interference, /
they would restore the colored mem
bers in accordance with the resolution /
passed at the last session to this effect,
namely: That if the Supreme Court
of the state decided that the eXPul-
sion was illegal, the negro members
would be restoreds Bullock vetoed .
the resolution, but as the Supreme /
Court has decided the expulsion lie
gal, the Legislature is ready 10 restore
them.
As apropos to this subject, and to af-
ford readers Of tie APPEAL some idea |
of how Georgia viii receive this re-
reconstruction bill, We quote the fol-
lowing from the Columbus Sun, en-
aorsed by the Augusta Constitutional |
sst. "The man who wants to go to
- washington at this juncture in order
$50 prevent Congress from doing
8. something rash, must be either very