Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-26

to do so. They think the President
would be afraid to force payment
while the New York Investigating
committee is in session.
MI. Belmont saysthat no call has yet
been issued for 8 meeting OF the Ma
tiOnal Democratic Executive Com
mittee' Mr.. Belmont thinks, further,
that the case isn't urgent.
The friends OF the President in the
United States senate were made 10
squirm In their seats on Monday, by
Garrett Davis pressing his motion to
investigate the conduct of Grant.
Prominent Georgia Republicans
now in Washington repu, late the APP
pOintment of Robb and Blodgett
as delegates at large from Georgia to
the Radical National convention.
The st. Louis Democrat (Radical)
says: "There is a well accredited ru-
NOR that they intend to run Rev.
Robert CoDyer for congress in Chicago
next fall, in place OF Mr.. G. b. Far
WE'LL"
Congress is about to investigate the
affairs of the District OF Columbia. A
committee Of fair men have been sp-
pointed for the purpose. Their report
will unearth another nest Of Radical
corruption.
General Joseph Lane, of Oregon,
the candidate of the Breckenridge par
ty ia 1860 for vice-president of the
United States, was seventy years old
on the 18th of December. He Is still
in good health.
Radical Senator Caldwell, of Kan
sas, has greatly disappointed his
friends in not explaining away the
charge thathe bribed seventeen mem.
bers Of the Kansas legislature to vote
for him. It is thought he cannot ex-
plain.
The Washington correspondent Of
the New York Herald of Sunday
claims that everything points to the
probable acceptance by the Democrats
and revenUe.refOrmers of Lyman
Trumbull as the coalition candidate
for the presidency.
The New York Journal Of Com
merce says that SO long as the custom.
house is locked en- from Washington
only as a place to be worked for the
benefit OF party, or to advance the in
teTest of individuals high in Office, so
long will iniquities flourish in branch
es Of its management.
The Missouri Republican says the
masses I" have a right to
expect that their captains snail give
them something else than q succession
OF irreparable defeats Soldiers do not
like to be led to a slaughter; the
promise of victory is the food their
courage feeds on, ana when this prom.
Use is wanting at the opening Of each
successive battle, they are forced, In
spite of themselves, TO inquire whether
there be not some fatal defect Of lead
in the way"
Speaking of the bill lately intro
1uced in congress, providing for a
government charter to the National
airline railroad, from Chicago 10
New York, the Chicago Post says:
The charter assumes that congress
has q right to authorize the construe-
ion OF postal and military roads, ire
iPective Of State authority" but sit
8 to be feared that the contention on
his theory will prove an obstacle too
treat to give speedy promise of the
completion Of the road" This reads
ike State rights doctrine.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks the
New York World does Injustice to the
United States supreme court when il
.cCuses it Of "prOmulgating diametri-
ally opposite opinions on the legal.
ender question, in the short period Of
hree years." If we ~recollect Alright,
he supreme court at first decided that
he legal-tender act was constitutional
0 far as it applied TO future contracts.
c made no direct and express decision
4 regard to contracts existing before
be passage of the act. The late decis-
On covers both propositions.
A protest is being prepared in Ohio
the reelection of John
herman to the senate of the United
tates. The names Of two senators
nd four members Of the h0use-all
.adicals-are given, who voted for
herman on the first ballot, but who
eclared that they intended TO trans
T their votes to Cox, and it was a
1OWledge Of this fact which impeIled
he friends of Sherman to resort to
lie trick sOf getting the Lieutenant
lvernOr TO declare Sherman elected,
lille the members were loudly ask
z 60 have their votes changed. The
.ncinnati Enquirer says that "JacOb
I. Cox would have been the senator
ect from Ohio today but for the
iurpatiOn and fraud Of Jacob Muel-
r."
It islearned that the National Dem
ratio executive committee will not
eet till alter the Philadelphia con-
to decide when and where
e National Democratic convention
all be held. It Is thus proposed to
here to the passive policy until all
g plans and purposes of the Repub-
an party on the presidential issue
e fully developed, and therefore
8intained that there Is ample time
the committee to call the Demo-
ATTIC convention as late as August,
d thus give full opportunity for all
,ments opposed to the continuance
the present administration to unite
an opposition presidential ticket,
lis view Of the course to be pursued
sets with the approval, 1t is under !,
,Od, OF many OF the Democrats in
lgress.