The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-23

vice and out of it; and if Mr.. Robson pos
sesses any qualifications for the position he
holds, he will act judiciously by taking the
reins into his own hands, and dispensing with
the services of any but his legitimate
assistants.
THE RENO Val or THE CAPITAL.
The Western papers, for lack of something
more exciting, are still engaged in an elabo-
rate discussion of the proposition to remove
the capital of the United States from Wash
lngton to some more central point, and by
general consent they appear to have fixed
unanimously upon st. Louis as the most
favorable location. Chicago, for once in her
greedy and boastful career, does not present
any claim to the honor; in fact, the papers of
the Garden City are, if anything, more anx-
ious than are those of ST. Louis in insisting
upon the peculiar and numberless advan-
tages which are possessed by the latter as a
site for the seat of our Central Government.
And now the Tribune raises its voice, and,
with none of that magnanimity which has
characterized the journals of Chicago and
other ambitious Western cities, insists that, if
all circumstances New York is the only suit
able place in the length and breadth of the
land for it. But imagine the result which
would follow such suicidal arrangement on
both sides New York as well as Congress
would suffer innumerable and almost indie
Unable disasters in case they were unhappily
brought into con- junction. In the first place,
no sooner would the first session of Congress
after the removal be opened, than the defeated
Democratic candidate for the Speakership
of the House would go before the
immaculate Judge Barnard and sue
out an injunction restraining the successful
Republican from entering upon the discharge
of his duties Thereupon, in pure and simple
self-defense, the Speaker would be forced to
appeal to Judge Cardoza, and obtain from
him an injunction restraining his rival and
Judge Barnard from proceeding any further
in the case. Then would come a counter
blast from Judge Sutherland, declaring that
neither of the other courts had jurisdiction
in the matter, and throwing the whole con-
trOversy back to it's original status. Defeated,
but not dismayed, the Democratic aspirant to
the honors of the Speakership would then
present himself before Judge McCunn, who
would not hesitate half-second in
granting him all the writs that
he might desire. Then Recorder
Hackett would loom up in turn, and with his
well-known contempt for Democratic prece-
dents would grant counter injunction, and
finally the case would be brought before
Judge Blatchford, of the United States Dis
| tric NJ phO uo1ll1 O off of
declare that neither the State nor the Federal
judiciary had anything to do with the matter.
This Icontest would consume four or five
months of the most valuable time at the dis
posal of Congress- and no sooner would the
organization of the House be perfected than
fresh troubles would be sprung upon it.
Some degenerate renegade of a carpet
bagger from Texas or Mississippi
would contest the seat of the only
true and original carpet-bagger who had
been legally elected. Congress, of course,
would throw cold water on his claims by a
strict party vote, and he would at once rush
before Judge Barnard and obtain writ of
mandamus, authoritatively commanding Con-
gress to give him the disputed seat Con-
gress OF course, would repudiate the jurisdic-
ton OF the court and pay no attention to the
writ, and some sultry evening in June, which
would by this time be upon the members and
necessitate the holding of night sessions to
enable them to finish the work of the first
term before the beginning of the second, the
whole kit and caboodle of them would be
nabbed by posse of murderous deputy
sheriffs, and locked up in Ludlow street iaii
on the charge Of being in contempt of court
Meanwhile, by their notoriously vicious
practices the members of the National Legis.
lature would corrupt by their associations.
the virtuous Aldermen and Common Conn
cilnen of the metropolis and that city would
soon degenerate from its present pure apf
> lofty political standard into the most abomi
; nable sink of iniquity ON the face of tn,
2 earth. Congressman and Councilmen woulf
then walk arm-in-arm up and down Broadwa,
) and the Bowery; would entice each other int,
o Niblos, to see the horrid and shocking Der
formances of the English blondes; woulc
pass their Sundays in drinking ''cold coffee,
: in utter defiance of the Excise law would pas
the night in breaking each others heads witt
= beer glasses, and the day in sleeping off thei
ct,,,oYo. ,yo,,ld in foot ond in oaDaraI tor,,o