The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-03
CURRENT OPINION.
TIE PRESS ON CARPENTERS SPEECH


Others who voted for "the grab" may say,
the people have formed a pretty firm
opinion upon the subject, and that
opinion is decidedly against the honesty
of the law and the men who worked for
1t and are sharing its Neutrality-suspicious.
Transcript.
The defense of the Senator is able and
cunning. 1t will be read with interest
but without approval. If he has said all
that is to be said in support of his action,
and we think he has, the sovereign. to
which this last appeal is made, will Judge
him defensele7s. - Utica Herald.
We hope The whole venal horde of sal
airy grabbers will accept the Senator's
hafangue as a suitable defense. for nothing
that could possibly be urged against their
'gnominious course would operate with
such crushing effect as this most weak,
illogical, and undignifed attempt to
to make it appear that black ia white
FOnGS du Lac Commonwealth.
The people have duly considered both
the Credit Mobilier swindle and the
salary-grabbing of Congressmen,and have
pronounced judgment against them both.
1t will be of no avail for their counsel
now to attempt,to reopen the case. Mr..
Carpenter had better keep his mouth
closed, and enjoy his portion of the plum
der in silence. HIS speech is "too thin
1t will have no weight with the people
Burlington Hawk-Eye.
In the morbid popu ar mood, caused by
the Credit Mobilier frenzy, the action of
Congress on this salary question, evoked
a storm of blind and unreasoning popular
execratlon which, as pure psychological
phenomenon, is one of the more remark
able things in the annals of civilized So
ciety. I'VE regard the argument of Sen
ator Carpenter in vindlCation of Congress
as unanswerable,--&. Paul Press.
One of the Senator's positions is that
those Congressman violate the Constitu-
ton who retlrn their back pay to the
:. Treasury, because the Constitution SAYS,
The Senators and Representatives shall
roceaUe compensa zion for their services
} to be ascertained by law. and paid out of
, tho Tr easury of the United States" A
cause which demands such an argument
: as this must be very weak one-Fort
Wayne Gazette.
: OF course nobody disputes the power
of Congress to do what it did. Therefore,
: Senator Carpenter wasted much time in
arguing that point. Congress might vote
} its members $4,000 a year, and there is
no power that could stop it, but we are
t not talking about legal rights of power,
but about the moral right. Congressman
, do not steal, but they did that which was
about as mean and almost as demoralizing
Therefore it is called the salary steal;
anG by that name it will be known long
after the political graves receive and hide
out of sight the remains Of those who so
: grossly offended public senslbilities, and
: plunged the Congress Of the nation into
, disgrace Cincinnati Gazette.
? In the case of the People vs.. Matt Car.
penter ct al, for burglary and grand lar
ceny, the jury having found the defend
ants guilty, and the Court having asked
the defendants if they had anything to
say why sentence should not be pronoun
ced, and the eaid defendants, through one
: of their number, having made statement
r which, IN the opinion of the Court, IS al
e together too thin. it is ordered that the
said defendants be taken to the City
of Washington, in The Di trict Of Colum
bia, there to finish out the unexpired
terms of their public service, and that, at
: the expiration of ssid terms, they be trans.
ported thence to their respective homes,
: there to remain in quiet obscurity during
Q the remainder of their natural lives. And
+ may they receive in the next world that
+ mercy which a decent regard for the PEG
pies money will not allow them in this
st Louis Democrat.
1t is clear that a great evil has been
growing up and that it can only be cured
by the indignant protest of the people.
: Il is unfortunate that some good and
able mon Will have to go down with the