Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-08
WAsIIIN,GroS, Dec. 27, 1878.
WIIITAMS.

WILLIAMS.
The Senate adjourned without confirming
Williams, and it really looks as though the
disgrace is not to be fastened upon lis. The
spectacle of a backwoods, second-rate lawyer
from the wilds of far off Oregon, occupying a
seat honored by JAY Marshall, Taney
and Chase, is humiliatng to an intense de-
gree.
In looking among the old records, l find
that there have been seven appointments to
the chief justiceship, namely, Jay, Rutledge,
Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney, Chase and Will
liams The three first were appointed by
Washington. Only one, Rutledge, failed to be
confirmed. Rutledge was from South Caro-
lima, and was afterwards chief justice of your
State. The reason of his non-con6rmation
was, believe, political. Marshall served the
longest of any chief justice, thirty-6ve years,
and died at the ripe age Of ninety-one. At
this day he is considered the ablest of the
chief justices, Jay ranking next to him, and
Taney next. Chase was statesman, and an
orator, and a noble, upright man, but in legal
attachments he ranked below these three Jay
died aged eighty.four, Marshall, ninety -one
Taney, eighty-seven, and Chase sixty-6ve-
all passing away at ripe age, full, indeed, of
years and honor.
To continue this illustrious line, we have
Williams, Of Oregon, a man who never distin-
guished himself in any walk Of life. While
a circuit Judge in Iowa, some years ago, fifty
per cent of his decisions were reversed by the
Supreme Court of that State. A charming
selection, indeed, to fill the highest judicial Of
flee on the continent.
GONE SOUTH.
The Senate Committee on Transportation
has gone South-to New Orleans-to take
testimony as to the problem of rapid and
cheap transit. A sub;ulicial committee have
also gone there to investigate into the conduct
of Judge Durell. Still another committee
has gone to New York and Boston for some
purpose or other There is too much of this
sort of thing-too many committees bumming
around at the expense of the government.
The result of such frolics may be sum-
med up in long array of items Of ex-
pense, and nothing to show for it. The "pro-
ceedings" are printed in ponderous volumes
at the expense of the government; nobody
reads them, and that is the end Of it, The
ku-klux committee, which, few years ago,
went prowling through the South gave to the
world about thirteen volumes of closely print
ed matter which are thrown aside with other
waste paper The cost to the government Of
all this foolishness was about one hundred
thousand dollars.
Of the printing Of trash there is no end.
Congress, just before adjournment, ordered
hundred thousand copies of the agricultural
report printed. The amount of trash annual.
ly thrown out by the government printing of:
flee is absolutely sickening. Nine.tenths of
this printed twaddle is never read, and is only
used to kindle kitchen fires and to wrap up
bundles in corner groceries.
THE PRESS GANG AND OLD BUTLER
Newspaper Row is in a ferment of rage
against that old Massachusetts heather, Ben.
Butler. Old Butler said, in recent speech
on the salary steal, that the reporters in the
Reporters Gallery lived on the bounty of
Congress, and then threw mud at the Con-
gressmen with forty jackass power"
This was mean lie. The newspapec men
in Washington are not supported by tho gov
ernment. A very few of them hold cmmit-
tee clerkshi ps-and very few-but the, earn
what is paid them for their services far better
than Congressman do. The great maturity of
the newspaper correspondents he bld no
clerkshps, but earn handsome salaris with
their pens. The New FORK Tribune hes three
special correspondents here whom it pays If
ty, sixty and seventy dollars week, making,
with the rent of its Office, over ten ttpusand
dollars year paid for the support of its
Washington Bureau. The Herald esablsh-
ment costs that paper fully ten thousand dol
lars annually. Papers likS the Chicgo Trl-
bune and Cincinnati Commercial ny their
Washington correspondents the veal around
from fifty to sixty dollars week besides
furnishing offices and supplying thm with
fuel, gas, stationery, &c. When theold back
pay thief from Massachusetts said tlpse men
lived on the bounty Of Congress, he lid. This
back pay thief like all the rest Of the con-
science stricken gang, pretends bfty con-
tempt for the press. 1t is all assumed however.
They feel the lashing they have received, and
they know the press is right, and that the
people will sustain it in the denuniatlon OF
rascality. Only few years ago, I'D Butler
tried to start an "organ" in New York-the
Standard John Russell Yong as edi
tor. The thing lived about tw years on
Buffers money and then died, laving Ben
in for debt of thirteen thousad dollars.
His contempt" for the press is allput on fol
the occasion. He hates it and feas it. The
singing rebukes he has received from the
press has penetrated even his thicl hide, and
he roars like mad bull. "No rasal ever felt
the halter draw, with good option of the
law" MEMO.
hG@ A murder was committed & Goshen
Hill, Union county, on Monday of asst week,