The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-19


opposite Dubuque, la l3,l00 1000
| Des Moines Rapids and oper-
at1ng canal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. B2,OO0 SOV
| Improving Galena River and
Harbor, Ill. ................... $1,000 ooOO
The aggregate appropriated for the pres
ent year was SS,697 900, and the estimates
for the next foot up $5,OOO,OOO.
CONSTITUENCY or CONGRESS.
In the United States Senate are SIS lawyers
and only 20 of all other professions and &C.
cupationsl From the States of Alabama,
California, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, IL
linois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York,
! North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee,
Texas and Wisconsin,, the Senators are all
lawyers-nO other profession or occupation
I is represented at all in oil those great States.
I Only two small States found bOtn their Sem
ators outside Of the legal PROFESSIONALISM
Jersey and Rhode Island. The States not
included in either OF these classiicatiOns
send to the Senate one lawyer ant one who
is not lawyer. Here we find almost
| three-fOurths of the members of
! the United States Senate law
yers, in country where lawyers form an in
significant proportion of the population,
anu, in spite OF The fact that, living by the
amOisulties and imperfections of law, they
/ are dIsqua lied for making laws impartially.
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As bad. We have arranged Il table of mem-
/ BETS from the different States by districts,
! the figure l standing for lawyer, and the D
| for a man of some other occupaliOn-the
! cipher designating them pretty accurately,
| for they are too few to be Of much account
in this lawy Congress. This inter-
| esting classification is as follows:
Alabama-l
| Arkansas-llIl
| CalItornia-l0ll IL.
| CUlUrado-l.
! Connecticui-0l1L
| Delaw are-0.
/ FlOrida-l /.
| Georgia. l1O1IOf1.
Illinois-DIIlIIOIII11111111L
Indiana-0l
ioWa--O OOO1lIl1.
| Kansas OIL.
Kentucky -lOOIlI1IIL
Loulsiana-l l0l1L
Maine-l j.
Maryland-l Il10L
Massachusetts l0101011L.
Michigan 1l111lll.
Minnesota--0t O.
MIssiSsippl-l IL / /.
Missouri-0 O0ll1O1l1l1l.
Nebraska-0.
New Hampshire-0l1.
New Jersey-10O ll0O.
New York. 1OOO11IO1110I1O1O1O111
ll10OUll0.
North Cardinal
Ohio-l ll1llIlIO1l
Oregon-L
Pennsylvania-11 O1O1II1I1 111OI1l
101O1l0.
Rhode Island-l0.
South Carolina-0 0010.
TENNESSEE 1Olllll l..
TeXaS-l o.
Vermont / l.
virginia. ll0111L
West Virginia. l.
Wisconsin-ll1llI10.
Here we have the surprising result Of 223
laW w
yers More than three-fourths of the whole I!
Delaware, Minnesota and Nebraska stand
quite alone without lawye rs in the House,
but they have only five members between
them, while Michigan presents platoon OF
nine lawyers, Mississippi six and Maine five,
without aduteration from other occupa-
tiOns. Alabama, North Carolina and Wis
cOnsin have each seven lawyers and only one
other member; and Illinois has a solid pha-
lanx of seventeen lawyers and only two
members from all other occupations. There
is danger in such state of things.-Grdphtc
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
pretty good supply Of work to start on.
Then there are Senate bills to be considered
by the House and Senate both, the most i'm
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 10 extend its
railroad and telegraph line easterly from
its present eastern terminus In Arizona 10
a point on the Rio Grande at or near Ell Pa
so, and to aid in building the same; to
amend the Texas Pacific Railroad act: to
repeal all that part of the Resumption act
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 route, and
providing for the classification of mail mat
ter; to provide for the establishment OF
steamship mail service between the United
States and Brazil; to provide for
and regulate the counting of the votes for
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.; authOriZ-
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
3, 1851, relating to swamp and overlooked
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 andt 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 a certificate Of
like functions with a gold certificate; the
bill to retire National bank notes, and sub
stitute treasury notes, and the bill provid-
ing for Government bonds of small tenom-
nations for the investment of savings, each
money-order Office in the United States to
become place Of deposit. The last project
developed a good deal of popularity last
winter, and it is likely to become law.