American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-12-21
The aggregate appropriated (
ent year was 3, 007 900, and t
for the next foot IN S. .O00. 600.

In the United States Senate are So lawyers
and only 20 of all other professions and 90
eupationsl From the States of Alabama,
California, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, H.
Msns
North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee
Texas and Wisconsin, the Senators are all
lawyers-no other profession or occupation
Is represented at all in all those great states.
Only two small States found both their Sem
ators outside of the legal professfon-New
Jersey and Rhode Island. The States not
Included in either Of these classifcations
10 not q lawyer. Here we find almost
the United States Senate law
significant proportion of the population,
and, in spite of the fact that, living by the
antiquities and imperfections Of law, they
are disqualified for making laws impartially.
as bad. We have arranged a table OF MEM
bers from the different States by districts,
the figure standing for lawyer, and the
for q man of some other Occupat1on-the
cipher designating them pretty accurately,
for they are too few to be Of much account
In this lawyer-ridden Congress. This inter-
esting classification is as follows:
Aiabama-lI1O111L
Arkansas-1 Ill
CaIifornia-1O11.
SoISrsa9mao11L
Delawaro-O.
Georgia-II
Observation-Disclosures
Indianao0 i11l1ooL --.
kkssnnssnaesE1ye00iloo1l11l11
Maryland-l li1oL
Massachusetts-l1 10 1o10l1L
Michigan-l11111111.
Minnesota-0O0.
Missouri-o
Nebraska-O.
New Hampshire-o1I.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
North 9aToItnaI1l 1d1iiiSS;a
Pensgsylvania-l1 loI11I11111o11l
Rhode Island-10.
Tennessee IoiIl1iL
Vermont-l11.
VirginiaI
West Virginia|11.
Wsponsin-l1111l10.
Here we have the surprising result OF 228
lawyers and only seventy who are not law.
ysIs More than d MsS OF tne w sten
quite alone without lawyers In the House,
but they have only five members between
nine lawyers, Mississippi sN and Maine five.
without adulteration from other occupa-
lions. Alabama, North Carolina and Wis
cousin have each seven lawyers and only one
other member; and Illinois has solid pha-
lanx of seventeen lawyers and only two
members from all other occupations. There
Is danger in such q state Of thfngs.-Grdphlc-
IMPORTANT MEASURES BEFORE CONGRESS-.
The immediate business before the Senate
is the consideration of three special orders,
nine resolutions, and one hundred and sixty
four bills, from the last session. That is q
,od Nv nf
Then there are Senate bills to be considered
by the House and Senate both, the most I'M
portant of which are bill to provide Tor the
survey of the land and water route and canal
from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic
Ocean; to authorize and equip an expedition
to the Arctic seas; to establish the Territory
of Lincoln and provide temporary govern
ment therefor; to authorize the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company to extend its
railroad and telegraph line easterly from
its present eastern terminus in Arizona 10
point ON the Rio Grande at or near Ell Pa-
SO, and to aid in building the same; 70
amend the Texas Pacific Railroad act: TO
repeal all that part of the Resumption acs
which authorizes the Secretary OF the
Treasury to dispose of United States bonds
and redeem and cancel the greenback cur
rency; regulating compensation for trans.
portation of mails on railroad routes, and
providing for the classification OF mail mat.
steamship mail service between the United
States and Brazil; to provide for
and regulate the counting OF the VOTES ZOE
the President and Vice. President; to regu-
late the hours of labor; to establish an edu-
cational fund, and to apply the sales Of pub
lie lands to public education, etc.; authorize
ing railroad companies to construct and
maintain telegraph lines for commercial
purposes; to provide for the indemnity due
to the several States under the acts of March
8, 1857, relating to swamp and overnowea
lands; to confer upon Army Boards OF the
United States, organized by the President
| to review proceedings of Courts Martial,
| authority to compel the attendance OF
witnesses and to send for persons and papers,
| and to Incorporate the United States Rail-
| way Mail Service Mutual Benefit Associa-
| ton.
| The bills Of financial Importance on the
| House calendar are the Silver certificate
bill, providing that depositors OF silver
| bullion or coin may receive certificate OF
| like functions with gold certificate; the
| bill to retire National-bank notes. and SUD-
| stitute treasury notes, and the bill proVid-
| ing for Government bonds of small denom-
| nations for the investment of savings, each
ey-order Office in the United States TO
| become a place of deposit. The last project
developed a good deal Of popularity last
winter, and it is likely to become law.
DON'T run on an errand, little boy
you might iniure it with the nails OF