Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Destruction of Livery Stable and
Twenty-Eight Horses by Fire
Williams is Not "GOOd
Enough"
An Old Paper observation-disclosures
ter's Piece on the Salary Grab
Latest from the Spanish
War.

MF. Williams Must Take a Back Seat.
New YORK, January 6.-At a meet
ing of the bar association tonight, q
resolution was unanimously adopted
cOndemniDg and earnestly protesting
against the nomination of George II.
Williams to be chief-justice.
LiVery.StRbIe Destroyed by Hire
TWenty-Eight HOrses Burned.
INDIANAPOLIS, January John
Scudder's hvery-stable. on Ohio street,
was burned tonight. Twenty-eight out
of thirty-two horses in the stable were
burned. Fifteen or twenty valuable
carriages and buggies were also burned.
The loss can not be ascertained tonight.
An Irregular Detective.
CINCINNATI, January 7.--Ssmuel Bay
less, for several years detective on the
police force, recently, while on the force
as a patrolmRn, was discovered with
large amount of stolen goods in his pos
session. He has been indicted for bur-
glary, and to-day he jumped his bail of
one thousand dollars, and left the city.
An Old German Paper Closed Ont.
ST. LOUIS, January 6.-The Stddtz
Zeit,mg Of this city, which was a men,
Der of the Western Associated Press,
was sold to-day to Mckee & HOuser,
proprietors of the Globe. The last num-
uer of the SddtZ Zeitung as a German
paper will be issued tomorrow, after
which it is said it will be published as
an English morning daily with a
changed name.
Cable Chronicles.
MADRID, January 6.-The diplomatic
representatives Of Spain at Paris, Brus-
sells and Lisbon have resigned. 1t is re-
ported that the government will remove
captain-generals of the PHILIPPINES, Cuba
and Porto Rico. 1t is probable that
General Jose de Ia Concha will be ap-
pointed captain-general of Cuba. Tie
disarmament of the disafected volun-
teers is going on quietly everywhere.
The malcontents in Valledad and Ma
laga dispersed before the troops arrived.
The Madrid municipality has been Te-
organized, with Senior Carvojal at its
head.
LONDON, January 6.-Dispatches
from the vicinity of Cartagena report
that the besiegers, inspired by tie new
order of things, redoubled their efforts
to reduce the city. At the same
time the defenders seem to have
taken fresh courage from the be-
lief that the present government is an
unpopular and shOrt-lived one. They
have recently made several desperate
sorties without effect, and have hoisted
the black flag over Fort Galevas.
A Madrid dispatch to the Standard
reports that two hundred persons were
killed and wounded before the disturb
ances in Caragassa and Valladalin were
suppressed. The new government iu-
tends soon to add one thousand men to
the reserve.
Washington city Notes.
WASHINGTON, January 6.-During
the discussion of the salary bill in the |
senate to-day Senator Carpenter said, |
having voted for the salary bill at the |
last session, and intending now TO vote |
for its repeal, he desired to say a few |
words in explanation thereof, he had |
practiceO law for thirty-five years, aud |
always made it q rule after getting |
through with a case TO render his bill to /
his client, and if he could not get his |
own price, he always settled at the |
price of his client, and he proposed !
to act so with his constituents. He be-
lieved there was but one way to get |
sound, honest public servants, and that |
was to pay them a rohud price. The |
history of our constitutional convention |
showed that it was not intended that |
there should be compensation for ser
vices in congress. He believed to-day |
as he did when voted for the bill, |
and thought that the people of the coun- |
try were making a mistake in clamOr- |
ing for repeal of this bill. He had |
voted for an increase Of pay conscien- |
tiously, and had seen nothing to make |
him change his opinion. He
could see no reason now
why tine bill should be repealed, except |
one, and that is, the people demand 1t. |
The theory of the day, and very prop |
er one, is, that the people govern, |
through their servants, as the governing |
power of this country. The people have
the right to do what they please, wise |
or unwise. II this bill should be sub |
mitted to the people of Wisconsin to- |
day, it would be repealed by vote of
five to one. He regarded himself as |
their agent on the floor of the senate, |
and he should cast the vote which |
he believed the people of Wisconsin |
would cast; and further, be would vote |
to put the repeal back Just as far as the |
constitution would allow him. Hel
would vote with the gentleman from
Indiana Pratt to repeal back to March |
4, 1873, or he would push it back to
instrument-the constitution OF the
United States. Congress had no more
power to put the repeal back to the lat |
ter date than it had to repeal the law Civ
ing Andrew Jackson his salary as Presi- |
dent. True, it could be repealed, but it
would effect nothing. The salary of the
last congress is not in the jurisdiction of
this, but the salary of this congress is. |
He denied that congress had any right
to pass a bill making salaries unequal
any more than it had a right to say
Democrats should have fifty dollars a
month and Republicans one hundred.
Congress, however, hsi the power to
say that senators hereafter should re-
ceive SO much per month, making the
aggregate with that already drawn
amount to five thousand dollars per
annum.
Mr.. Edmunds said he intended to vote
fer a measure which would absolutely
repeal this misguided and misunder-
stood law.
Mr.. Conkling said he would vote for
total repeal Of the bill.