Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-01-26
POLITICAL.

The Albany Journal, which at first dis
approved, new accepts the Washington
Compromise; but only, it explains, on &C
count of "the revolutionary and threatening
attitude of the Democratic managers" On
the other hand, the Troy Times, which at
first accepted, now disappro7es the plan, as
Every Objectionable.
The New York Times remarks that MIR.
Tweed, with fne magnanimity, has lent
David Dudley Field to Tilden, and MIR.
Field has carried into the Congress OF the
United States the arts Of Tombs lawyer.
An Illinois Democrat, named Barney
Caulfield, introduced bill in Congress the
other day, to practically depose the Presl-
dent ss the constitutional COMMANDMENT
Chief of the Army, by declaring it high
misdemeanor to move more than 600 troops
into the limits of the District Of Columbia,
and ninety-seven Democrats, mostly from
Southern States, recorded themselves Tor thus
suspending the Constitution. Mr.. Caulheld,
it Is remembered, felt no call to the field ],
when the flag was fred on.
And now word comes from Washington
that Mr. Tilden has been all along consulted
in regard to the Compromise, and that several
of the features Of the bill were suggested
by him. 1t is q common remark that the
committees bill for counting the vote is a
good expedient, but that it will make u
bad precedent.
Senator Morrill, is reported to be not in
favor of the Electoral bill.
During the first session oil the
present Congress, in the Senate, when
the proposition was made by Mr.. Ere
linghuysen, OF New Jersey, to create
commission, to be composed Of the Presi-
dent of the Senate, the Speaker of the House
and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to
which was 10 be referred all disputes re-
lating to the count, Senator Thurman, OF
Ohio, objected. on the ground that such
a commission was unconstitutional. lie
said II cannot concur with the idea that this
power, the counting of the vote, can be de-
volved on the Supreme Court, and why ?
Because you cannot compel the Supreme
Court to execute any such power as court :;
that is very certain. The Supreme Court, as a
court, has nothing but judicial power and its
original jurisdiction is expressly defined in
the Constitution. Determining any ques-
ton Of election is not one of the original
powers thus conferred on the court"
The Philadelphia Times iTilden iudepen-
dent) is moved to say Its evident that
the SIS 900 sent to Oregon by Mr.. P,lton
wasn't intended for clothing the Nez Perces
Indians, nor for feeding any of the wander
ing sons of the forest, nor for establishing
religious missionary stations. nor for land
ing schools in the far Northwestern States.
It's no ex:rayagant guess that it was to help
in some way to shear Mr.. Hayes of one Elect
oral vote, at long range.
Senator Edmunds, in speaking, last week p,
on the power of Congress to enforce its de-
mand for any telegraph dispatches bearing
on subject undergoing investigation, said
that " We must remember that it is the right
of every body and the security Of every
body that depends upon getting at the truth,
if the truth bears upon public or private in
terests, and no man has right to set up his
private confidence or bis private honor, or
his private anything, when it stands in the
way of the counteryailing considerations Of
security to the whole BODY OF community, or
justice, or security to other people when
they are drawn into question.