Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-06-24

the senate tue OlneT uAN. says.
The impudent pretense that the
people and the press need to be
cared for, revised and restricted by
government, is a flimsy audacity.
IL there is any fault of the press
greater than another il is the fail
ure to speak in all faithfulneSs of
the iniquities in high places. The
half has not been told of the cor
ruption in and around Congress.
If complaint must be made of the
press, il should be about the sins of
omis sion. The conceited and fab
by headed creatures Of the Senate
are as dull as jackasses, or th,y
would know that the press viii
scott at their law, and defy and de-
ride them, and tell the truth Of
them more and more, disagreeable
as it may be.
There has for some time been
apparent a disposition among the
corruptionists in Washington to at
tempt to check the natural growth
and independence of the press.
This has been pressed in bills dis
eliminating against the large con-
Germs, and the Matt. Carpenter
and Ben. Butler bill is prepared
with the same general purpose. If
the hill should pass the House, Of
course the President would sign it.,
for he is so bullet-headed as TO
think all criticism of the admins
tration is personal TO himself, and
that all reference to his movements
that are not in the nature of songs
of praise are abusive. 1t is moth
ing new for bullet-heads and bath
erskites and public jobbers to he
troubled about the press. We sup
pose they must still be troubled.
They require tenfold the attentions
heretofore bestowed upon them.
Here is what the Cincinnati En-
9uirer says of the bill:
Stripped of its verbiage, the bill
means that the rascals in Congress
and the District of Columbia want
the privilege of suing offending
newspapers for libel, and compel
ling them to stand trial before the
corrupt judge whom they control
in the District. If an article APP
pears in a public journal, in any
part of the country, not pleasing to
thieves in Washington, the cores
pondent or agent of the paper can
be served with a process and the
publishers dragged before tie ras-
cally tribunals of the District of
Columbia to answer. Such a law
would afford the scoundrels of
Washington, who fear no power
but the press, the facilities to en-
barras and intimiiate every respon-
sible publisher in the land. It's in
famous in its character and design,
and fully shows the inclination and
determination of the plunderers
who infest the national capital.
We doubt very much whether such
a measure can be pushed through
the house, though there is an in
tcrest of rascality in Washington
strong enough to move heaven and
earth.
The New York World says:
The Republican majority in the
Senate yesterday again disgraced
itself by passing in the face of the
most urgent and earnest remon-
STRANGE the bill by the enactment
of which Carpenter and Conkling
hope to crafty their spite against
the press at the expense of time
honored safeguard of liberty and
property. The radical and wide
spreading evil and injustice of the
proposed change, subjecting prin-
cipals residing at distant points to
be made parties to civil suits in the
United States courts by service of
writs upon their agents, were SO
strongly and clearly pointed out
that no cover remains behind which
the thirty-three Senators who voted
for the bill can hide their arbitrary
and INSCRIPTIONS attrck upon the
freedom of the press and the rights
of the citizens. The fact that But
Ter yesterday introduced in the
House bill identical in its provis-
ions with that passed by the Senate
shows plain enough that these
three broken politicians, after
brooding and chatting over their
disappointed aspirations, joined in
a conspiracy of revenge against the
power which indirectly helped to
break them. So far as these per-
; sons are concerned, the press is
more the exponent than the guide
} of public opinion, and it is very
certain that the press will not lead
public opinion very far in denounc-
! ing the action which they yvster-
day instigated. 1t was we'll known
before that Messrs. Carpenter and
! Butler had seen their best days in
politics. The participation of Mr..
Conkling with them in yesterdays
business can be interpreted no 9TH
; erwise than as an admission that
his future career is of so little
worth as to be profitably battered
for the indulgence of grudge.
The Chicago Post and Nail
says:
The newest muzzle for the news
papers is the law which Senator
Carpenter sprung upon and had
passed by the Senate. In sub