Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-01

prices, n In which, Notwithstanding al
BUSINESSES done in plain buying and sell
ing style, is the law market as conducted
in the State Legislatures. AS a startling
point, however, says the New York Her
aid, we now have it on record as the ex-
perience of a Boston lobbyman who has
been down South, that the Legislature of
Alabama was the cheapest body of the
sort he ever encountered. Doubtless
Legislatures are cheaper all over the
south, and some ofthem are pretty cheap
in the North, but lobbymen ought to con-
struct an exact scheme of prices.
Hon. Ben. T. Harris, of st. Mary's
county, ex-member of the House of Rep
resentatiyes from the Fifth district of
Maryland, has written q lengthy letter in
which he advises opposition to the Fiji
tenth amendment in Maryland, and pro-
poses a plan by which he thinks his ideas
Of resistance TO the constitution of the
United States may be successfully carried
out. He makes the suggestion that
amended so as TO secure that
every register of voters shall take
an oath that he viii not obey the require
ments of the XVIII Amendment. In
other words, that he will place upon the
registry as voters none but white men.
This done by the Legislature, brings the
matter to an issue at once. He believes
that the Supreme Court will have juTis-
dictiOn in any case likely to arise under
this amendment; and he processes to have
no doubt what their decision will be. Mr..
Harris in this connection advises the peo-
pie of Maryland to stand firm, regard
leas of the threats OF knaves and tyrants
and the victory will soon be ours.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
is getting after the Southern and Western
opinion that the revenue in this section
could be materially increased if assistant
assessors would make a thorough exami-
nation OF the books and accounts of all
banks and banking houses within their
respective divisions, not only in respect
to their liability to pay tax on income
derived from undistrbuted profits, but
also in relation to the proper stamping of
checks, certificates Of deposit, drafts, etc.
He expresses the opinion that very many
checks drawn by depOsitors are never
stamped, and in many cases where they
are stamped, the stamp is not Cancelled
and they are removed and used again, and
in this matter the government is con-
stantly the loser. He asked that the at
tention Of the assessors in this section be
called to this manner and that they in
struct their assistants to be thorough in
their examination, and also that the su-
pervisor, as he travels about the district,
make a personal examination of institu-
ions of this character.
The New York World OF Friday in
forms us that the free-trade mass meet
ing, which WA held yesterday afternoon
in Broad street, was noteworthy, not only
because of the large number of people
who were present and the warm interest
with which the addresses we're received,
but because of the prominent and inhu-
entail positions held in the community by
those who called the meeting, or whOtOOk
part in its proceedings. As Mr.. Bryant
remarked, there has been an immense
growth OF public interest in the subjectof
free trade during the last year. \ year
ago a free trade meeting was a rarity.
To-day we find the most eminent bank
ers and merchants of the city call
ing a meeting which resolves that
the 4" protective +" tariff has q" fettered and
crippled the industrial energy Of the ma
ton" Speeches were made at the meet
ing by Messrs. Samuel J. Tilden, William
Cullen Bryant, Charles II. Marshall and
MahIon Sands-men who, while differing
IN their party politics, are united inopPO-
sitiOn to the monstrous absurdity OF
a. protection" While the ultimate sue
of the free trade movement is q GER
such meetings as these have a
influence in Fastening the day
when the majority will discover that
- protection +" is only another name for
taxation, and that this taxation is not for
the Treasury Of the nation, but for the
pockets Of a few New England and Penn
mOnopOlists.
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