The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-01-10
Political Notes.


The New York Legislature met Tuesday
and organized by the election Of Repub.
lican officers. The message of Goyerndi
Dix was received. The Governor says
the condition of the State in most respects
is gratifying. Its schools are Hourishing,
its charitable institutions generally well
managed and its laws enforced with re-
ncwed vigor, The Governor recommends
legislation to regulate trust, loan and safe
deposit companies, so that the people may
be protected from loss through mismanage-
ment and fraud, and also recommends the
passage of general law defining the
powers of savings banks and repeating all
special privileges. He thinks the doubling
and enlargement Of the locks on the Erie
Canal and the use Of steam as motive
power will enable that canal TO compete
successfully with other routes.
The Supreme Court Of Texas has de-
clared unconstitutional the law under
which the recent election was held in that
State. This decision causes great excite
ment among the Texans, who fear a
repetition of the Louisiana trouble in their
commonwealth. The recent election was
held under an act which the Republicans
asserted was in conflict with the State
Constitution, inasmuch as il ordered the
polls to be kept open only one day, while
the Constitution provides that the polls
shall be kept open for four days
The statistician of the Springfield Re
publican figures it in this way:-The
administration of the General Government
cost $3.50 per head Of population, against
S1.90 per head in 1860. No State gov
ernment begins to cost so much per capt.
ia, extravpgant Pennsylvania and New
York only coming up to Sl.20 and S1.75
per head. The annual cost of the General
Government, including the interest of the
national debt, omitted above, is 2 per cent.
Of the national valuation against one-half
Of per cent. in 1860.
The case of ex-senator Pomeroy, charged
with bribery, came up for trial at Topeka
on Monday, An application for con
tinuance for twenty days was denied by
the Court, and POmeroy not appearing,
his bail, amounting to 100000 was
declared forfeited 1t is understood, how
ever, that if Pomeroy shall appear for trial
this month, the order of forfeitures will be
rescinded.
At meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Labor Reform party of Tennes-
see, in Nashville, on Saturday, resolutions
were adopted declaring the present panic
''the result of combination of Eastern
capitalists, bondholders and monopolists'
that the capitalists aud bondholders of the
East "are imposing burdens and hardships
on the industry Of the West and South
more intolerable than slavery and calling
a convention of the laboring and produc-
classes of the South and West to meet at
Louisville on February 22d to consult as
to the best mode of freeing themselves
'from the unjust and oppressive combina-
ton.
At Richmond, Virginia, on Monday
Judge Guigon Of the Hastings Court,
refused the petition of prominent colored
citizens that colored men be put on juries
when colored criminals are to be tried
He says that to comply with the request
would be to adopt test as to the qualif.
catioh of jurors mot only not recognized
by law, but in violation of the spirit, at
least, of the Fourteenth Amendment and
Civil Rights BILL"
The Virginia Legislature on Monday
adopted a strenuous protest against the
Civil Rights bill now pending in Congress
The document opposes it on grounds
political, moral and social, and declare.
that it will be injurious to both whites and
blacks IN its effects, and tend to arrest the
growing sentiment of harmony between
the North and South.