Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

With reference To- the late disclosures 4
! corruption in the Senatorial elections the
| Des M0ineS (l0wa) Republican says There
Is no better time than now 10 agitate this
| Senatorial reform, for the attention Of the
| people has been called TO the subject in such
a manner a to make them thoroughly in
earnest IN demanding a healthier state of
| things. And the Legislature of this State
now IN session could not do a more popular
act than to pass a Joint resolution instruct
| ing the Senators and requesting the Repre-
| Sentatives in Congress 10 vote f0ran amend
ment to the Federal Constitution making
the oihce OF Jnited States Senator elective
by the people.
There l. a strong interest at work arain.t
Mr.. Blaine for the ~peakership Of the next
Congress.
senator Brownlow expresses himself like
the old - par>0n' when be writes 70 the
Athens (Ienn.) Post from Washington
about reports of his resignation. as follows
l consider that | am capable of doing nv
state As much service here a ANYBODY whom
the present legislature would elect as nv
successor, and more than one of the several
small politicians and county court LAWYERS
who aspire 10 be senator from Tennessee. go
The New York WorlFs arithmetician +.
at It again, and now discovers that the
vote for Mr.. Greeley is very little more than
that received By Mr. seymour in ISIS
though four years haye-intervened in which
the population has been increasing and
though some thousands Of Republicans
throughout the Union voted for Mr.. Gree
ley The inference Is that had a Democrat
been nominated at Baltimore he would have
been able to draw out the full Democratic
vote cast IN previous elections. which IS half
million more than Mr. Greeley received 80
The Illinois Senate has killed the scheme
for a Legislative Glo5e, after the Congress
Sional sort and the windy legislators who
hoped for 80 leave TO print" their effusion-
when they could not deliver are in despair.
The Democratic majority in the Texa.
Legislature manitests its natural oppositiou 1
10 education, and has determined on the I
virtual abolition of the free school system |
inaugurated under Republican rule. bv /
failing to collect the school tax. When the +
Republicans came into power. three wears .
ago, there were but two free schools in the 4
State. but in one year they secured the e.
adjustment of 1921 schools with an enroll
ment Of Is ,5Oi pupils.
The Chicago Inter Ocsan deprecates the
conclusion reached by many that the pos
session of Credit Mobilier stock necessarily
implied corruption On the part of Congress
men, ana thinks the Investigation should
nave looked TO the action of the holders of
the stock when legislation was called for. Ii
adds
Il would have been found that no legislation in
relation % the Credit MObilier ami Tnfon psr-r.
,13nlan-es "aS ever proposed subsequently, to the
atleseu purchase oI shares by CongrtssInen exceut
Of restrictive character and that al the rnarnle
whose names had been used In connection VIII ~.
scandal uniformly voted in favor cot such hostile
measures"
The following from an Illinois Democratic
paper seems to be very sad, but hardly
clear ,
- The history OF neither Greece nor Rome does
lot furnish instances equal 10 our own country al
he present time Of the insane cupidity Of men ~
corruption Of officials, and the inordnate gree, fr
money everywhere exhibited The impecunious ! /
layer Of the Roman triumvir filed me scoor,ed |
skull with lead to get a Fighter reward for In ~
cause he stricken in wears and moor hmt on |
Representatives and Senators. Vice Presidents All +
III, holding fat Offices, having no poverty In r,le,J
'artered their influence against the peoples infer
sts to grasp handful Of greenbacks' "
The New York Times sees hope for the re- ,
'oyery by the Government of the funds
Tanned from the Credit Mobilier. in the as
erted ownership by that concern of lands
worth about Sl55 200, n note of the nion I
'acihc Railroad for 50 ,OOO, 600. and between v
500 and 2000 shares Of Union Pacific stock =
Z compliments Judge Allison for his promDt II
etusal to dissolve the company. 5
Robert Toombs of Georgia says the conn o
ry Is going to the dogs very fast and ex- d
resses his hopes that the government nav v
o to an unpleasant place. !,
The latest adyices are that in the ea,ros. !.
)r the senatorship Boutwell, and Dawes =
ave about equal strength in the Massachn- q
stts legislature, and Whiting about half .
he strength of each. "