Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-27

writer. You take your legal Off
spring fchristened = Advice to JUS
tees of the Peaee'') and tell me
whether or not this team be did,
by the way, / don't like to fiatter
you, but your book IS worth more
10 the lawyers than it il to the JUS
tees of the Peace. It's a kind Of
per Sc certiorari). But compliments
aside! 1 wish you would have this
constitutional question referred to
your Judiciary Committee. / think
] know what it will report pub
lie policy requires ii, and .-un-
looked-for emergency" and 'sneces-
sity knows no law etc. But YOU
ask Col. Savage about it he's ssall
setting1 on constitutional questions.
You need not show it to Beasley
he wouldn't know a constitution"
from @hOle in the ground' If he
had en- opera glass and there was a
calcium light thrown on ii.
Suppose the Comptroller refuses
to issue his warrant on his construc-
tion Of the Constitution. Wouldn't
Rome howl? Ii il didn't it would
''hunger," wouldn't it
1t seems to me that you all exhib-
tied what might be termed profit
able craftsmanship" during lic last
session, in making yourselves the.
City Council Of Memphis. 1t neces-
States frequent meetings, you know;
it enhances the value of statesman
ship, and is a species of that charac-
ter of legislation which p0ys-nOt
( the people. i don't mean any sar-
casm). ! am glad the statesman
ship of other days has ceased to eX-
list, for possibly there might have
been some fellow in your body who
would have framed a comprehens-
] i've emergency-covering act-when
the charter of Memphis was re-
/ peaIed-that would have met all
/ her possible necessities and imagin-
able probabilities, simply by deeid-
I Ing the future by the past. But
what depreciating influence that
fellow would have had on the ''mar-
ket value" of craftsmanship.
If you can pass one act not men,
toned i'm the Governors prOclatna-
ton, you can pass another, can't
you? BE logical, now. Well, /
want to suggest that you provide in
the unmentioned - appropriation
bill for purchasing one hundred tel
ephOnes, to be used by the members
in placing their brains i'm direct and
immediate communication with
| their mouths. You see, it so often
happens that a statesinan'S mouth
is so far removed from his brain
that he hardly knows what's going
on. and it seems to me that this will
reduce the time in transit between
these teJn3iRi, and although il might
not be termed "labor-Saving" ar
rangement, it's at least money
saving" to outsiders. Some states
mems mouths are so given to as
sumo responsibilities without con-
sultation with the "head Of the
body polite" amt they? Now, il
you can bring about this reform it
will add another feather in your cap
to that goose feather already placed
there by your 'Justice of the peace"
production.
| wish you would tell Senator
Wilson to "swing on" to his resolu-
ton to adjourn, IFS the most impOr-
tant and popular measure before
I your meeting. Tell him to ''sWoop''
on every fellow that fools with it,
unless that fellow wants to amend
! by inserting an earlier day.
do hope you will win a distinc-
ton worthy of the forefront" OF
your name in this extra session.
You ought to resolve now 81 would
rather be right than be President"
/ because to be right belongs TO the
many, but to be President has a
burned seldomness about it that /
don't like. COUTRYMAS.
p. S.-YOu all won't need them
telephones, of course, but the next
Legislature may.
COUNTRYATAN.