The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-01-01

The senate finance committee Of Ten
nesee has recommended n compromise
| OF the state debt at 80 cents on the dol
lar, the bonds to bear 6 per cent. inter
est.
The New York Democrats have lost
their hold on the New York Board OF
Excise Commissioners. The man who
made the majority has run away with
$40, 900 or $50, 900 of the funds. He
was Owen Murphy, and he was a New
York office-holder.
The New York Times says that %
senators of the new Legislature OF that
state are new men, and of the republi-
can majority, only three have had any
legislative experience. The same local
jealousy which cuts short the service
Of men in our Michigan Legislature TO
one or two terms is felt in New York,
and il costs the people heavily in a
waste of time and crudeness OF laws
passed. Il Lansing Republican.
Congressman Bland told some bank
ers before the silver committee that "if
they did not like his bill, they would
get something worse, for he was in ia
vor Of total repudiation OF the public
debt" Senator Lamar of Mississippi
has declared that "his constituents de-
sired the repeal OF the resumption act
and the reconciliation OF silver, be-
cause the northern politicians insult
the people OF the south, and the credit
and honor of a government that cares
nothing for the southern people is Of
very little consequence 10 them" Is
there anything more which these de-
lightful gentlemen would like TO have
done for "conciliationp" 1t is natural
enough, however, that men stepped in
rebellion should hate the bondholders
whose timely aid to the union crushed
their serpents' nest, and natural enough
also that these enemies 10 the national
credit should be leaders Of the democ-
racy.
Pennsylvania takes her doses Of dem
ocracy at rare intervals. In 1871 ian
off year corresponding TO this) the Re
publicans carried the State by ii, 400
majority; in 1872 the old war-horse,
Senator Cameron, made il his business
to get the Republicans out, and they
swelled the majority to 81, 74s; in 1873,
the majority dropped to 25, 233; in 1864
the bottom dropped out, and the State
went Democratic by 5,979. The Leg
islature, which in 1873 gave Repubh-
can majority OF % on joint ballot, in
1874 gave Democratic majority OF IL,
and elected Wallace. Democrat, United
States Senator. This startled the
Pennsylvania Republicans out of their
off-year laziness, and in 1875 they gave
Hsrtranftjia majority OF 1900. The
Republicans had a majority of ii in
the State Senate; the Democrats a ma
iorlty Of Is in the House; and the
Democrats on joint ballot had a major
ity of 7. In 1876 the Republican ma
jority on President was 1884. The
Republicans had a majority of IL in
the State Senate, majority OF 27 In
tho House, and q majority OF 40 on
joint ballot.
Eighteen Chairmanships for the
South, none for New England, and
fourteen only for the West and Middle
States combined-that, in a word, is
the summing up of speaker Randall's
appointments OF the standing commit
tee of the Forty Fifth Congress. Well
may il be said that Southwark the star
of empire takes its way, when such
preponderance Of power in the organi-
zation OF the House is given TO a sec
ton Of the Union containing not over
a third of the population Of the coun-
LIy, i4Ot o-es a tenth OF ito wealth, aud
AN even less proportion OF its education
and intelligence. The committees of
the Forty-fourth Congress, as appoint
ed by Kerr, gave larger proportion of
the chairmanships TO the South than
10 the rest Of the Union, but Randall,
instead OF equalizing, has increased
this disproportion. Surely the Demo
cracy could not take a palmer way of
warning the North and East that every
Democratic vote they cast helps TO
transfer political influence from the
North to the South.
Hamburg Butler seems to be trying
to convince the country that its esti-
mate of him is entirely correct. He
has been making speech in South
Carolina which is Just what a swagger-
ing bravo and leader in negro assas-
sinations might he expected TO talk
he declaims on the "Drutality, cow
ardice aud blackguardism" of Repub
lican Senators, and apologizing for his
comparative meekness while suppli
cant, truculently announces that II
this sort of thing is repeated now that
seJa A" "pssy" asIMGi!ll 'a;SiSG thaggaft
bluster proves that one part of his
speech at least was quite correct-that
in which he says he has been thrown
into an arena 10 which he IL not accus-
toned" And he might have added,
for which he is not fitted.