The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-05-29
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ri>e and fall, which will draw into it the
wh le industrial forces of the country IN
struggle against the railroad corpora
tiou<. - Washington Republican,.
Mr. Washington Curran Witthorne.
member of the last Congress f. ON the
9th Tennessee District and member elect
of the next has turned his steal over tn
| the Sourhern Methodist Wonderfully J
| University. instead Of putting it back in
! the treasury like an honest man. We
/ shall wait now with some curiosity to see
whether the Methodist brethren name
l.rofts-or>hip after him--.Sprtnatieid
Republican.
/ Only swo members of Lincoln's fa-
NOUS war Cabinet now remain among the
! Iiving-Gi icon WelleS and Montgomery
| Blair. Secretary of the Interior Smith.
! Attorney General Bates. Secretary OF
| War Stanton, Secretary of State Seward,
ased Secretary of the Treasury Chase.
| have passed away ~ the order IN which
their names are here printed. Wiscon
| Sla
| The condition of Louisiana is alike
! perllnus and scandalous. Ii Congress,
| at the la, session, had had the necessa-
r inderendencc and 6rmneSs. and the
| sense o: Justice which the occasion re-
| qured. the President would have had no
! use for supporting by the bayouet
| State government in Louisiana which
| the most disting uished Republican Sena
! tors have declared is founded upon an
infamous usurpati-n. L the time speut
| ip con>urumating the back pay fraud had
! cesn hnnestly devoted to the settlement
al affairs in Louisiana, the scandal we
now witness would have been avoided -
Beecte3.'s Chrtstinn Union.
s" many poor members Of both Houses
Of Congress have given back their share
Of the salary grab. So many rich mem
htrs hsen't Senator Sprague the
CroesuS of the Senate, took the extra
hu, ex-senator Wilson. who lett tie
Se,.a,e As poor as cnbbler, refused {"
take it. Senator Chandler who is mil
lionaire took it; but Senator Morton.
who Is by no means rich didn't Senator
Cameron. who is another millionaire.
took it; So did the disgraced. but veal
thy Pomeroy. Among Senators of for
tune who refused it, were Fenton and
Sumner, leaders of the Liberal party
Schurz. VIII" is independent politically as
well as financially, refused it -Cincin
natl Commercial.
With the exception of a little silly
nut harmless. talk by the Illinois far
merv, there is nothing to dapreeate in
the agitation of the railroad question.
The people ave not disposed to regard
the railroads ss common enemies. to be
extermina,ed by harsh laws, but as pub
lie servants who, having acquired their
rights by formal grant of the State.
should by every principle of justice be
md l.,tA,, FNr. no Ia
fair recompense. That this agitation
has sprung up Is the fault of the rail
road companies themselves, who have
not dealt fairly by the public They can
hardly expect after the numeI Gus cases
OF oppression and n,;aInana cement which
every day is bringing tn light, that the
people will be willing to let them cantin
ue without restriction teretuHd Lea
der.
Whatever may have been the prevail
ing sentiment of the Democratic i,arty in
lines past on the subject of Free Trade.
that party stands pledged by its platform
at Baltimore not tn ma ke national Issue
on that pnint. Whether ii may or may
not be udvi,able for the next National
Convention to abandon that position and
insert a Fee Trade plank. is unguestinu-
ably a fair subject for discussion but it
is not possible. in accordance with the
usage of the Democratic party, to read
any man out of it for a1hering to the
IarIy platform, or to create a Eew rlat
form wiihnnt a new convention. X i
hardly within the range 81 possibilities
that the issue between Protection and
Free Trade will he the Predominant one.
either in 1874 or IS76.-Detroit Free
Press
IF the postal card experiment does
prove success with the Postal Deparr-
meut, will it not conciu-ively prove that
letter postage might also be safely re-
drced to one cent? The gov, rnment fur
ni>hes these cards. engraved aud deliver
ed and carries them all over the conutry
t" their destination for one cent each
why. therefore could it no, afford simply
to carry an ordinary letter. which sis it
nothing in other respects. for the same
sun? The difference In weight between
the card and an average letter is Suiue
thing. but Il Is not tenth part OF the
present difference in postage. 1t may
be said that The department. IL anthnriz
ing the use of the cards, counts upon a
vast increase of uLail customers; hnt 81 it
| might, and even to still greater degree,
! # The rate of letter postage were cut
| down to one cent-Boston Journal
The Nation describes the Democratic
party a party without policy-a ;,ar
ty Of mere negation, which never has
anything positive to offer; which was
opposed to the war, opposed to the prose
cution of the war, opposed to enancipa-
tioB. opposed to the constitutional
amendments, and which never rises
| higher than an obstinate opposition TO
| everything that Is done or attempted by
| it's adversary"
| There is not the slightest evidence that
he President was favorable to any ia
| crease ot' salaries, or that he ever said a
word to anybody on the subject while the
>ni iect was pending. And it would have
heen impossible tt.r him to have lobbicd
| in it, favor without eur knowing is. At
the hour when the President gave his
| Sienat ure to the appropriation bill con
| tanning this salary clause, 1t was impns-
/ SIhle for him to have dcne otherwise
/ without doing more harm 20 the country
! by his veto than his approval of the in
| creased salary can by any possibility do,
! even II II were as great 4 steal a. it's
| tnGst intense enemies allege. 1T would
| have made an extra session absolutely
/ necessary. 10 keep in motion the machiae-
ry of government; and this would have
| resulted in tax on the treasury mary
! times greater than the total amount of
| increased compensation-H Washington
| Chronicle
Gen. Spinner says, by way of colrect-
| ing an erroneous statement, that Sena-
tor William /. Hamilton, of Mary land,
has not been heard from, as yet, at the
Treasury Department
ExCongressman George A Halsey.
of the Sixth New jersey District. has
return, d his back ray To the Uni,ed
States Treasury. This is the fr-t u,an
IN the New Jersey delegation that has
been heard from on the subject.
| Treasurer Spinners assertion that
Senator Haulin has not returned bis
back pay to the Treasury. all statements
TO the contrary notwithstanding, has
aroused the Baugor Commerclal, whch
Ieaks its mind in this pertinent way
| ''On one thing the people are resoiurely