Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-25
EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL
THURSDAY, APRIL Is. 1878.
AN M l.

AN IL M BILL
The bill recently presented in Congress by
Mr.. Kimmel, of Maryland, and referred 10
the COMMITTEES on Judiciary, is important,
because its object is to provide for an adjudi-
cation of the title to the highest Office in the
Republic. 1t authorizes and defines pro-
ceedipgs ito try ard determine the title oil
any person holding and exercising the office
of President or Vice President Of the United
States, when his election to such office is de-
MED by one or more States of the Union. and
Al O to try and determine the title Of any
a aimapt to such Office whose election thereto
4, cIaimed by such State or States" The ac-
4 on is to be brought in the name of the State
denying the election Of the person holding
the Office in question, and the grounds for the
denial are to be clearly stated. The trial is
to take place in the Supreme Court Of the
United States. The defendant is allowed
forty days to answer the complaint. and
when the issue shall have been made up. tbs
Court is to set q day, not later than two
we,ks, for trial, unless by consent Of parties
. longer delay be determined OF. The Court
1, t. try the whole case. unless one side de-
m ,nds a jury; if q jury be demanded. ii is TO
be selected in the following manner: The
a mes of the Chief-J Justices of the highest
eolrts in the States are TO be placed in a box
and twenty-four of them drawn out; from
these twenty-four twelve are to be chosen BY
LIT, on the day OF triaI, and these twelve are
to be the jury. The investigation is to De
''limited to the validity of the action OF the
canvassing or returping board of any State
by whose determination the appointment OF
electors was declared to have been made in
receiving, rejecting and counting votes re-
tirned to them. and the competency or ellgi-
bility of any person declared to have been
appointed an %elsctor, or appointed to MI
a supposed vacancy in the Electoral College,
to act as such; aud in such investigation the
Court shall receive evidence tending to show
the forgery, falsity, invalidity. error, of any
certificate of any Governor. canvasser. or
other offer whomsoever.' The judgm mt Of
the Court is to be rendered within ten days
after the verdict or close Of the argument.
II the defendant be adj Judged not entitled to
the Office, "he shall be excluded from 1t; and
if the claimant be a judged entitled to it, he
may Immediately on taking the required oath
enter upon the execution Of the Office"
As a general rule for reviewing and set
Ting a disputed presidential or viee-presi-
title before the hig best court in the
land. the bill is s~ingularly simple and fair.
But it is framed for a particular purpose
the adj publication of the titles of this present
occupants Of these high ofices-and it is for
this reason it will be object d to. 1t is true
the complaint Of the State of Maryland ought
to be treated with great respect; but whether
this respect should lead us TO review, and,
perhaps, upset a condition which the people
of the United States not only have acqui-
esced in but are averse to disturbing, is an
other question. If there were any serious
popular demand for a trial of Mr.. Hayes
title it should be complied with. But there
Is no such demand. There is no complaint
from the party aggrieved by the decision Of
the Electoral Tribunal. Mr.. Hayes has con-
ceded so much to the party wronged by his
and has done so much to pacif
the country. that even a majority of
those who voted for his opponent would dis
approve a proceeding to unseat him.
2 -
An additional report on the state Of the
Navy has just been submitted by Secretary
to the House Committee on Nava
Affairs. 1t makes a wretched showing of the
results of Robesonism. After all the vast
sums expended for years past upon this de-
pArtment, there are hardly a dozen vessels
that would be effective for coast defense in
case of war and probably not one that could
saf.ly venture into q sea Ds. I with a modern
built ship of any foreign Yavy. Tho COM
mittee propose to recrpate che navy, begin
ming with the formation Of a board Of naval
officers to assist the Secretary. and the an
nual appropriation of at least three million
struction Of ships Of the most effective char
acter. 1t might be as we'll. while irving thi'
plan, to dismantle the ships aaoat and Gu
of all the ordinary appropriations except fol
officers shore pay, and the few watehmer
needed to qua I'd the nAvy-yards. There cam
be much profit or credit in maintaining thu
preteuse of a navy. while we have 10 sea
worthy ships. 1t will be time enough to re
sumo the maintenance of a costly establish
ment, when ships are built which may b
safely sent to sea.
Rev. w. LAwEs puts beyond question tn
fact that gold is to be found of q fine quaIit,
and in great abundance, in the interior o.
New Guinea. The INTEL gence brought b,
him to Australia has caused a gold fever ex'
element in Sydney.
EACH OF Queen Victoria's sons was given
trade when the father lived. That Of thu
Prince of Wales was shoemaking, in which
arti6ce he is still quite a good workman
though considerably out of practice.
The tide Of emigration from Tennessee
Alabama and North Carolina for Texas. in
creases in volume. Sixteen hundred persons
passed through Chattanooga alone las
month.
GEs. GRANT is reported to have said: IF
were not an American. / would be an Eng
lishman. And if I did not live in America
would live in England"
1t is said Of the late Lord Leitrim. tina
when his tenants came to him for relief. hi
usual reply was, go to hell or America"
"Ie Satan married?" ~propounds the In