Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-01-11
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.

tIuOE DtScdEc, OI WHICH SYNOPSIS VIII De
| found in another column.
| Friday Hon. Barnes Compton was elected
State Treasurer over J. Mcpherson Scott, OF
| Washington county, who received 10 votes out
of so Geo. Cotton was elected State printer
| by majority of 6 votes over his competitor
j. Guest King, of Annapolis the work is
done for $3S, 900 Mr. Hunks, of Frederick
Offered a resolution for the adoption of the
House requesting Marylands representation in
the national congress 10 vote against the
BLAND Silver bll" it was referred 10 a
proper committee without further action.
| Mr.. Sulivane obtained leave to introduce a
bill amending the general law relating to
mortgages, so as to strike out the present
| power given 10 the mortgage to compel the
| borrower 10 pay all taxes assessments &c.
Mr. Peter offered the following order, which
was adopted
"Ordered, That a committee OF three he ap-
| pointed to inquire by what authority the off
GERS or managers Of the Stale penteniiary
have made contract with the United States
to take convicis from the District Of Columbia,
and also to the terms of such contract"
The committee appointed by the President
consists Of Senators Peter, McLane ard Free
man.
Some other unimportant business was trans
acted and the Legislature adjourned until
| Tuesday.
| Ia the Senate, Tuesday, 4 communication
was received from Judge Jas. A. Stewart, OF
the Court OF Appeals, notifying the Senate OF
| his arrival at the age in the constitution bar
ring him from the Judiciary it was referred to
committee. A bill was introduced provid-
ing for the payment of the cost OF adjusting
the boundary line between Maryland and Vir-
GINA
| In the House. Mr.. Brown offered an order
for the appointment OF a special committee of
nine, three from Baltimore, Two form Western
Mar, land, two from the Eastern Shore and
two from Southern Maryland to examine I'M
the Improvements of the Stale House, furni-
ture, &c, with power TO examine persons and
papers. Mr.. Vandiver moved il lie on the table
which was lost. Mr.. Rayner offered AS an
amendment that the committee also report by
what authority said additional expenditure
was incurred. Mr. Vaudiver offered as a
further amendment that the committee shall
present TO the House an itemzed bill of the ex-
pendtures. The amendments were severally
adopted, and the order as amended passed
MIR. Blair introduced memorial to Con-
gress asking fQy legislation to ascertain indici.
ally who was elected President of the United
States at the recent election, aud 10 give effect
10 the will of the people. The memorial is
short and sharp |: claims that The act es,ab-
fishing the electoral commission provided that
no decision under it should preclude judicial
decision of the question, and attributes the re-
suit in favor Of Hayes for The presidency and
for the disputed States MS to their local Off
GERS, was a Texas Pacific railroad subsidy bar
gain.
Mr. Blair, in in Introducing the memorial said
the present PROSTATE condition of business
which affected Maryland as well as the whole
country, compelled us TO look for its causes be-
vond our immediate control, and in doing this
we could not fail To see that ii was due to the
political siuaiion-to the want Of confidence
in public affairs, as they have been and are
likely to be administered by an executive gov
eminent owing its power to corrupt influences
and not responsible 10 the people, aud not
conhded in By either of the great parties of the
country. This was violation of the cardi-
nal principles of free government, and was
plainly due TO influences hostile TO heir per-
pctuIty. The explanation WAS obvious. II is
now stated by W. f. Chandler, late secretary
of the Republican national committee, and
who was one of its emssarries to FlOrid, that
the false returns procured from that State were
procured by the pledges from the present in
cumbent OF the presidential chair, made by
his Attorney General in Ohio, that he would
sustain the State officials who gave these eiurls
in their places, aud the same pledges were Civ
en- to Packard, of Louisiana, by the Secretary
OF the Treasury, and it is absolutely certain
that the count which put him in the executive
chair was allowed to go on by Messrs John
Young Brown and his associates under an
agreement made by them with Messrs STANLEY
Mathews and Chss. Foster upon a distinct
pledge by them, made on behalfof the incum-
bent, that he would break the pledge givei
for him to Louisiana and Florida And the
fact that these men who thus combined with
with Messrs Mathews and Foster are the pc
culiar friends of the Texas Pacific railroad
subsidy makes il plain that it was in the utter
est of that subsidy that Mr.. Hayes mas allow
ed to be counted in.
These facts put beyond cavil that the cleo
ton was controlled by corporate influence -
Nor is this the only occasion when corrupt in
huence has been manifested in deciding great
public issues. And unfortunately il has not
heeu confined to the choice of executive and
legislative officers, but has been extended to
the judicial power iself-thus when the legal
tender law was decided unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court, we remember that il was re-
voked by the votes of Judges appointed from
among the counsel Of the Pennsy lvania Central
railroad company, and at its instance that the
decision was revoked in order that its bonds
and coupons might be made payable in paper
money, at the time greatly below par.
1t is manifest, indeed to every thinking
mind, that the question of the day is whether
the people or The great corporations shall
govern us. II has been by the government Of
these interests that our country has been
brought TO its present deporable condition. -
The old ant-savefy men, led by Greeley and
Sumner, separated themselves from the Repub-
licau organization because they. saw it used
merely to plumber the people, which they saw
must bring on the collapse in the business of
the country which has followed. il was the
predatory classes by which the South was dis
franched and its political power appropriated
by the military 10 jobbery. it is therefore Of
the FIRST Importance that the country should he
aroused to the true situation of its affairs. and
that those who are siding with its plunderers,
by whatever name they call themselves should
be seen in their true character.
Our politics no longer turn upon Southern
affairs. That issue has been kept up by the
jobbing classes for the purpose of eoncealing
their schemes till it has resulted in Frustrating
all business. Now, when the wolf is at their
door, the people Of the Northern States see
that they have been misled, and all that is
wanting 10 array them with The honest men
of every section is that the representatives of
the South should show their readiness to put
down corruption.
This some of its representatives are not
doing. They are in open alliance with the
administration which owes its powers to the
jobhers. And the Presidents message. 10
striking contrast with the report Of bis Secre-
iary OF the Interior. manifesis his purpose 10
cooperate with them Aud he Is doing out
appointments to the Southern leaders in Con-
gress, having put one Of them in the Post
masters Department. by whose detection the
President elected by the people was deposed