Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-26
LEGISLATIVE.
The Called Session Of the Tennessee Leg
IsIaiHre.
Senate.
Special to the Appeal


NASHVILLE, March 25.-After th
usual routine, the house resolution t
remunerate Frank Besuch was con
Cured In.
The house resolution to appoin
three competent persons to eXamin
and report upon Thompson & Stei
gers compilation OF statutes was takel
up on motion Of Mr.. Coulter to recon
slider the vote concurring In it.
Mr.. Coulter offered another direct
ing the appointees and examiners tC
report upon ali compilations submit
ted to them by any person WhOmsO
ever. Adopted.
Mr.. Gibson moved to strike on
that portion OF the resolution provid
ing that the commissioners shall no
be paid by the State. Lost.
Mr.. Gibson opposed the resolution
Mr.. Coulter supported it.
Mr.. Clarke said he could not votC
either way, as there were features il
the measure which he could not sup
port.
The resolution was then concurreC
Images l6, nays 5.
THE REDIsTRICTING BILL
was then taken up on third reading
Mr.. Brandon moved to amend by
taking McNairy county from the
seventh and adding it to the ninth
district.
A motion to lay the amendment
on the table was rejected.
Mr.. DuBose spoke in support of the
amendment, and said that without the
proposed change the ninth district
would be doubtful, but that with
McNairy it would be thoroughly
Democratic.
Mr.. Coulter said that would give q
population of las, ,207 to the ninth dis
trict.
Mr.. DaBose said that they would
not object to that; his object was to
make the district Democratic beyond
doubt. He gave the figures he pre-
sented last Saturday to show that the
district as appOrtioned in the bill left
1t extremely doubtful.
Mr.. Warren referred to the Memphis
APPEAL to show that the district was
not doubtful and argued that McNaf-
~ was in the district which best suited
its people. Their associations and in
teTests were with the seventh district
and he would therefore oppose any
attempt to change the measure before
the senate.
Mr.. Coulter said that three repre-
sentaiives from Shelby and Tipton in
the house, had accepted the bill and
advocated its adoption. He quoted
the APPEAL to prove that the ninth
district would give an overwhelming
Democratic majority and said it would
be news to the people of the Western
Division to learn that the APPEAL
and Avalanche were not thoroughly
Democratic. He had spoken to the
representative from McNairy in the
house, who assured him that the peo-
pie Of MoNairy were strongly opposed
to being joined to Shelby.
Senator DuBose - It was simply
absurd for the senator from Gibson to
Claim that the Avalanche was again
in the Democratic party. It never had
been since the war Except for q
short time. Had it not been fighting
Democratic organization and working
for the Liberal Republicans for
four years? Had ft not been
advocating the election of Republican
OAAAAAltNo ElC
nominees, and yet the honorable sena-
tor made the ridiculous assertion that
the AUdtG1ache was the Democratic
organ. Ii he used to know what its
politics were, let him read its editorial
OF Sunday. Even the APPEAL itself
was not thoroughly Democratic. Was
it not advocating the election of Davis,
who was well known as q moderate
Republican. He denied that even the
APPEAL was Democratic. He
scorned the idea that he proceeded to
cOmment on the figures OF the recent
election to show that they were un-
reliable. The only means of ascer-
tanning the strengthen parties was
to take the largest vote polled at any
one time many county or district, and
subStrAct the strength of one party
from the whole vote; that was the
only proper way. As to the figures
published In the APPEAL and
Avalanche, to which reference
had been made by Senators,
he was not ,of the opinion that these
two papers, whether Democratic or
not, intended to misrepYesent the true
of the political parties In the
district proposed by the house bill,
but that they in haste, had, without |
a careful examination Of the facts pub |
lished the returns OF the Brown and |
Weisener elections as test by which |
the Democrats might be governed in |
opinion as to the relative strength of |
the two parties. 1t was not his desire |
to discuss the political antecedents of |
these two journals, but as they had |
been held up by some of the senators |
as infallible Democratic authority, he |
was compelled to take issue with these |
gentlemen and present the facts as |
they appeared to his mind.
Mr.. Porter, Of Haywood, asked Mr.. |
DuBose whether in the event the De-
party should make the nomi- |
nation for president, he would support |
the nominee.
Mr.. DuBose replied that he most
would, with all true men Of
The party.
Mr.. Coulter asked if the national
Democratic party should not make
I nomination for president, in that
event would he not support the Re
publican.
Mr.. DuBose stated that should they
not have candidate in the field, then
he would select from the Republican
ranks, that one whose policy was
the most liberal and nearest in
accordance with the Democratic
policy and give him his vote on
he day of election merely as
| choice of evils. He thought Ii bad
.aste for Democrats, or organs of that
party, to be advocating in advance Of
he opinion of the national Demo
,ratie convention the claims of Repub-
leans for Office, and that he could
never under any circumstances insist
hat such an one was worthy OF Demo-
ratio support; but II he was COM
)elled to support Republican he
,ould not doso with pride, but with
oathing all the while, and would cast
lis vote In as quiet manner as pcs
ible. BE would oppose abandoning
he name Of the Democratic organiza-
ion, and would prefer defeat IN the
leld rather than the total disruption
i the Democratic party by q disgrace
al surrender. BE appealed to the
enate not to ieopardize the success OF
he Democratic party by making the
iinth district doubtful.