Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-18
ARKANSAS.

roads.
Requiring railroad trains to stop at in
corporated towns.
A joint resolution to sdjourn on the
thirty-frst.
The apportionment bill passed, and
other manner of business.
In the house Mr.. Thornburg intro.
duced a bill to abolish the Office of COM
missioner of public works, aud to confer
the power and duties on the commits
SiOner Of immigration and State lands.
Mr.. Erwin ventilated the frauds in the
Office of public works, and stated that
! that commissioner would have been in
dicted for rascality and theft had he not
been chairman of the grand Jury, and
thought that w. Il. Gray, commission
er of immigration, was honest; that if
| both the commissioners were thieves, /
would want the commissioner of public
works abolished because one thief can
not steal as much IS two.
Mr.. McGhee thought The bill should
pass, as it was one of the promised re-
form measures of the Republican plat
form.
Mr.. McVeigh earnestly advocated
the bill. After being here nearly three
months, he said, we have passed six
bills, and now when a retrenchment
measure comes up, members waste time
by reference 10 com mittees. We are
disgraced in the eyes of our constituents,
aud am not surprised at it. We must
do something for the people. Instead of
plaudits, we have misses from them.
Prominent among those who opposed
taa - y
Prindall, J. H. Berry, and Eox, who IA
vOred its reference to the judiciary COM
mittee, TO ascertain its oonstitctionality.
The house went into committee of the
whole, and the bill passed.
Mr.. J. NJ. Murphy introduced a mo-
ton that members be allow ed TO speak
on no question over ten minutes. This
is a good move. We may have more
voting and less bOmbEst if 1t pass.
The wires made blunders in Fridays
dispatch. Frierson did not introduce a
bill compelling taxpayers TO receive
State-scrip for county taxes, and his ex-
cellent speech was upon the farcical ef-
fort of the general assembly to approve
the bonds of county officers of Hemp
stead county.
Forty Republican house members
signed the call for caucus tomorrow
night. Don't cutie understand it.
Penitentiary caCcUsses are held nightly
to unseat Baxter. TO give tone to the
movement, these ultra, extreme radi-
Gals, or anti-BaXterites, had it rumored
that Latta and Sampler, prominent
Democrats of the house, had gone into
their caucus. These gentlemen offer
reward of five hundred dollars to ascer-
tain the author of the rumor. They are
both friendly to the administration, and
it is well understood that the report was
circulated to intimidate the governor.
Democrats and honest Republicans
will thwart all combinations to impeach
Baxter and seat Smith or John McIay-
ton.
Henry's Resources o. arkansas gains
in favor daily. Henry hes received let
ters from all parts Of the country, from
peusons who have seen his book. This
work will be living and lasting adver-
tisement for the State of Arkansas.
w. J. Murphy, formerly of Memphis,
was elected to-day alderman in the first
ward. Ehman, Republican, one hun
dred and eighteen votes; Murphy, two
hundred and thirty-nine.
There was no issue of the ArkGHsid1.
The editors explain through a card in
tO-mOrrow's RepU6licda charging its
to certain business with
the Gazette. They resume publication
tomorrow.
Special Correspondence TO the Appeal
LITTLE Rock, March IS, 1s73.-Gov-
ernor Baxter's conduct, as Governor of
Arkansas could not be wholly approved
by any Democrat. He was never, we
believe, a member of the Democratic
party, and hardly seeks It's assent to his
acts. 1t is not the less true that there
has been found little reason to speak
harshly of the conduct of the chief
magistrate of Arkansas. The
people most need honest judges, chan
cellors, sheriffs and justices of the
peace. These under Baxter's pre-
decessors were ignorant negroes
or white men Infinitely more corrupt
and mischievous. The power of creating
Justices courts is vested in the governor
of Arkansas, and to appoint wisely is
the greatest possible good that can be
d one the people. So Ear as the people
are concerned, or the State government,
it signifies little who may be members
of congress; but every citizen is keenly
interested in the proper selection of
these local officers who have been so
wisely chosen by Governor Baxter.
STUPIDITY.
Partisanship is very senseless when it
],
does the greatest possible good, and
omits, from considerations of official
safety, 60 do those things that signify
least to the people and most to the poll
ticians. Practically, for ten years past,
Arkansas has neither gained nor lost
because of its representatives in con-
gress, and Arkansas has lost
millions in these ten wears
through the knavery and incapacity of
local, petty Office-holders. Governor
Baxter suffers the real and supposed
oongressmeP, and congress itself, to
adjust all differences as to questions
affecting seats in congress, while with
care, and securing the approval of the
people, he chooses wisely justices, Judges
and district-attorneys.
HE Is NOT oXNIsCIENT.
There are acts OF Governor Baxter
which we would not defend, and
yet, since his motives and many
reasons influencing him may never
have reached the public, and
since his administration is infinitely
better than we had hoped at the hands
of an approved adherent o. Clayton,
the APPEAL has found infinitely more
10 approve than to criticize. IL has
been the purpose Of : clique in the Ar
kansas legislature, as we are advised,
to impeach and expel Governor Baxter
from office with the purpose of substi-
stuting the present lieutenant-governOr.
If the APPEAL had followed in the
wake OF two other democratic papers
and assailed the governor, the effort
might have been made openly to displace
him. Under existing circumstances on
greater calamity could befall Arkansas
than the success of such a scheme, and
it were infinitely better that Arkansas
should have no representative in Wash
iBgton than to have Baxter supplanted
by violence a3d by a successor utterly
without sympathy with the people Of
the State. This estimation OF the worth
of the acknowledgements may be un-
Just and incorrect, but the people Of Ar
kansas would have no change Just
now effected ny revolutionary agencies.
They who cOntempiate tbs revolution