Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-12

vide for the foreclosure Of mortgages tC
the State in the western division of the
/ Real Estate bank of Arkansas.
The judiciary committee recommend
ed the passage of a bill creating q Me-
I tropOlitan police. Also a bill for i'm
porting blOOded stock. Under this bill
q purchasers certificate for a nominal
sum may be his premium in a Berkshire
SOW or blooded stallion. This bill is
doubtless q good one, and will pass.
/ A Joint resolution was introduced pro-
! posing a constitutional amendment rela.
! tive TO justices Of the supreme court
| changing the same from five TO three,
elective every eight years.
by MAIL.l
Special Correspondence of the Appeal
LITTLE Rock, March IL, IST3.-The
antiquated, decrepit and imbecilE
grandmother of Arkansas Democracy
refers 10 the "senseless' correspondent Of
the senseless Memphis APPEAL" be.
cause we, as a live representative of the
APPEAL, had consulted a majority ot
the democrats in the general assembly
upon the complicated congressional
questions, and learned their approval
! (under the peculiar ciTcumstances) Oi
the governor. policy with reference to
| this as well as other complex questions.
/ For very many years the Gazette was
the pecOgnized organ of the people-the
mouth-piece, the magma chdrta of the
Arkansas Democracy. Once, with low
| ing and reverential smile, it was well
coined to every household. Though
prOstiuted nowto other ends than those
of the people, she was once of virgin
purity, and her old friends
! Take her up tenderly,
Handle her with care
Most unfortunately the Gazette runs in
a selfish groove, and it may be improper
to further derogate from its status. Re.
qJHescdt.
The lite Daily ArkdnSidH, published
! every evening, is perhaps the true ex-
ponent of the modernized democracy in
| the State. 1t is a living, breathing,
moving thing, with no petrified ideas OF
! fossilized principles-as ready TO approve
the right as to deprecate the wrong.
| Together with its practical, good, con-
servative sense, it is versatile and spicy
Mr.. Thomas, the reporter and local,
being the Mark Twain of Arkansas. Il
this Tacy little paper maintain a support
and its existence for six months, it will
have absorbed or swallowed up the
| Gazette'S former influence, and be Tecog-
nized as the leading organ of the people.
To-day the State of Arkansas is in a
more hopeful attitude than at any time
since reconstruction. Early in the ses-
sion OF the legislsture the people had lit
tie to hope as a result of legislation.
| Other salutary measures, besides the en-
| franchising constitutional amendment,
have become laws. Many good laws of
a local, and others OF a general charac-
! ter, have passed. On Monday, the third
! instant, Mr.. Millen moved in the house
that a committee Of twelve rep
| reseutative men, to include the
speaker, be appointed to devise financial
measures and bills looking to an i'm
provement of finances-the committee
to be composed Of seven Republicans and
five Democrats. The house unanimous
ly welcomed the step as solution of
our financial embarrassment and the
harbinger Of peace and plenty. Since
then this committee, composed Of the
ablest and the best men of both parties,
have been assiduously at work, and dur
ing this week they will report several
bids that will Immediately enhance
enormously cuTtRiled, the Topping off a
few items, already considered aggregat-
ing six hundred and sixty-five thousand
dollars. Further, the committee to be
thoroughly and well-advised, have re-
quested the city bankers and fiuanciers
TO appear before them for consultation.
Mr.. Kent's bill authorizing the issuance
of two million eight per cent. interest
bonds ITO supply casual deficits in the
treasury" is now before the committee,
as well as the insurance bill of Mr.. Nc
Weigh. Our State debt is a fraction
over twenty million dollars; the interest
on State debt to July lst is five hundred
and thirty-three thousand dollars, aud
there is four hundred and sixteen thou
sand dollars in the treasury for its liqui-
datiOn. On Tuesday the senate passed a
bill apprOpriating fifteen thousand dollars
for distribution of "Henry's Resources
Of Arkansas''-this measure has no IA
vUr in the house. The people want
their history written, and there is 3
bill now before the house to secure this
much desired end. During all of last
week the house was in a temperance
streak, and enGeavored to pass several
bills placing an embargo upon promis-
cuous sale of 1.-the ardent.n On WedDes-
day DILL passed the house to whittle
down the fees of county officers-re-
ducing them to about one half of the
present tariff. Captain McCreigh's bill
for the establishing state asylum for
the insane will pass at an early day.
This gentleman will soon introduce a
bill allowing equal compensation to men
and women in the public schools; it is
conceived in a spirit of equity and JUS
tice, and the intToducer will, very prob
ably, be the pet of the ladies. The joint
resolution, authorizing the governor to
declare martial law in Pope county, has
passed the senate, but has hung fire in
the house; it comes up again on to-
morrow for final action, and l predict
its miscarriage, as many sensible, con-
servative Republicans oppose such IA
fatal, unfortunate consummatiOn.
On Saturday the house election com.
mittee was discharged on a motion of
Mr.. Furbush, that, to facilitate legisla-
tion, all sitting members be declared
duly elected. Upon the adoption Of the
resolution several contested members
smOle smile.
In your editorial of Saturday headed
"The Arkansas Civil Rights Bill" you
say, "a governor, obedient to the be-
hests of the party that elected him,
signed the bill" Our constitutions re-
quires but majority vote on veto of
the goyernor-not twO-thirds vote as
in Tennessee. If the governor vetoes q
party measure, what is the result? The
bill is made law regardless Of his veto,
and the executive is adrift without a
party. AS yet have seen no practical
results from this odious bill. The hotels,
barrOoms and places of public resort are
not infringed upon by the recent civil
righted. I know Of but one instance,
and he a member Of the legislature,
where colored person has asked for
"bitters" at the bar of the Metropolitan,
and he was peremptorily refused. The
same apathy that not seldom character
ICES Democrats, was manifested in the
vote upon the constitutional amendment
of seventy thousand Democrats, per-
haps thirty thousand voted.
The people of Arkansas are grateful to
the APPEAL for its continued zeal in our
railroad and other interests.
SHORTFELLOW,
A Splendid Sensation spoiled.
CHICAGO, March ia story was
published here this morning of the
mysterious and forcible abduction, on
last Friday, Of a respectable young