, 1873-01-21
NOTES AND OPINION. j

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NOTES AND OPINION.
Tho Iowa papera aro talking about that $4,000
Qn two choclta Of $4,000 each) which Durant md
Onkes Amea testify tho Union Pacific nai1road
Company paid to " aHsist Mr.. Harlan's election
to tho Senate, in 1860. Mr.. Harlan was at that
timo Secretary of tho Interior, and in a position
to "aaBist" the Union PacIao Railroad, Ho
continued to bo Secretary Of the Interior aomo
months after ho Ind boon " nssiatod" to q scat
IN tho aonate During those moutha tho Union
Pacific Railroad Company Ind q great doal OF
businesg to do at tho interior Department, But,
ooncorning tho s10, 600 in question, which Du-
rant anyB waa to buy newspaper support, tho
common mind Of Iowa is, that tho Burlington
Hauk-Eye mud tho Davenport Gazette can give
tho most valuable testimony. Tho Dos MoincB
Register saya:
In the peaceful population Of Iowa there .re so!cral
no special llanterng utter conundrunls, and ":
cnrdons enough to want to know somothing Which Ii
dennlte nbout this. -
Tho Davenport Gazette has this editorial par-
agraph, but not o word about tho Harlan cit, 600:
Tho !" Roforncra Of Missouri elected Dogy United
Blntcs gonator. Now It ~ alleged that money did It,
La that tho WAS to begin 10 rcforn2
Senator Harlan's Washington Chronicle ro-
butoB tho Crodit Mobilior Committee for "going
outside Of tho proper investigation"
Tho Milwaukee Ne1os suggests TINT tho
Crodit Moblior Committee, whilo about 1t, take
up this item:
psnding at Madison, Wis.,, General A1naHa Cobb,
then member Of Congress, telegraphol To General
Washburn, then at Madison md coinpetitor for tho
sent tho sum Of $4,000 10 Carpenter to a{d In his
election Th!s desJatc4 WIS freely shown BY Conceal
olccted.
COLORADO nownpRnera gro discussing tho
substantial advantages OF becoming State"
Quo Of thoso-tho commercial value Of two soats
in the Unitod athtos aon1to-is not mentioned.
At tho Nevada prico, two aoats would DO worth
45O0, GOO, and, e7on at tho Kansas price,
9160,00O.
1.-Two millions Of Aabama bonds, voted by q
so-csllod Legislature assembled outside tho State
Capitol, havo boon "p1nccl" with Horny CLOVIS,
Now York but tho stato Of Alabama has got no
money.
Tho Buffalo Commercial Advertiser sayn:
- 8omo congressman eoem to forgot the Southern
satos haze boon se-admsttod aud now stand ~ rela-
mcm,o11 Of tho Union. Huch mombers, In thor theo-
~ Of perpetual zccoassucon anxious to sst astlo
hnC tha: will work bo.to- than tho proeont machine
seco to. Tto 10 cu wrong, clearly beyond tho power
aumptisn os ofraordnary power. Tho p1osiont iaEea
tho psope4 viow OF t,o dt1atlon. Hs Btauds By tho
oraor OF tho Federal Court.
In phort TINT State, standing, in rotation to
its rights, upon a footing with othor mombors Of
tho Union, ID ut tho mercy Of Unitod etateB
District Judge, who may mako his own docroo
1inal aa Duron has in Louisiana, by refusing to
hear d motion for appeal. And Il Louiaiana,
why not Now York !?
20. @. Dowon, Of Charleston, WAS " counted
out" OF Congress, at the 1870 election, by frauds
80 notorious that It waa easy to convict nnd aend
to the South Carolina Ponitentiary score or 30
Of electiou-ofilcorH, a. wa8 dono within six
months, The Bouso Committee of Elections,
whom organized in March, 1871, had all the facts,
mud could have reported on them OF once. Now,
ut the heel Of tho session, tho Committee giro
the scat to Bowen.
II State Treasurer Rankin, OF lows invested
any Of that 303o1 in the election, last fall Of
hr. Kasson to Congress, it was his best invest
mont for Mr. KasBon is now in tile Legislature,
and, by Ills great influence, has defeated an order
Of tho HouRe calling On the Attorney General Of
Iowa to prosecute 1lankin.
Tho fellow, ut Dcs Moines, who bet the becr
that Rnnkin would not bo prosecuted or punish-
cd for his Boal WAS called to pay forfeit for bet
ting on g Buro thing.
-Ponnsylvania noWBpapora, speaking OF
Governor Hartranft'a salary, now fixed ut
$4,000, have very generally romaskcd TINT ILL.,
nols paya her Governor only $1,600. Tho
Governor Of Illinois has $4,000 ealary, and
residence maintained at tho State'a COST When,
undor the old Constitution, 81, 900 was the limit,
that sum was regarded ouly aH "pockot-money,'
and the Governor was amply provided for by In
direct appropriations,
John P. Jonos, Of San francisco, having
bought up tho Neyads Legislature, -" bought
'em twice over, sir,"-and beon elected to tho
United states Senate, 1t will be in order for the
Senate, two or three years henco to expol him;
or, perhaps, as in tho caso Of Caldwell, Of Kan
eas, It will be thought bost to postpone action
until "after the Presidential election" which
will givo Jonos four yoars to work his gold
mines ut Washington. OF course, it will not do
to investigate now, while the $3.50, 900 Is chang
Ing hands.
How somo, at least, Of tho Nevada people
fool about it, is thus expressed In tho Gold Hill
Evening Neaos,-n paper that supports the ADJ
1nnistratiop:
Tcslty to party Is all tho talk Just now. Senator
Nye oyor tro to party. Senator Stewart has boon
Ise s s negsr er ae
gianco thereto, and although tho coin q richer men
haye been asea t. shsr e'eson they Sa
jones; iho sreat bngbe.rs q tho past three years
sreat Crown Point King. "Klng William Is dead long
live King Jones."
rio Kansas Senatorial election bribery in
veatigation, viewed from Caldwell standpoint,
indicates that strong evidence for tho defence
will bo forthcoming, and that, while "indiAcre-
tion" on the part Of Cadwoll's friends is ap-
parent, tho Senator himself will not be connected
with any corruption.-Brass-C Collar.
- willy rayuAr1 chap[1p rongD