The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-03-12
Nashville News.
LETTER FRONnCLIECH."
NASHVILLE, March 6. 1879.
To the Editor Of +ba AFor,5stoxvn C7ava,ta.


oNE-IDEA~ MEN.
Having been diligently attentive to
legislative proceedings, in the capitol,
for several weeks, will give you my
conclusions why such a small amount of
finished business has been transacted by
the General Assembly.
In the first place, there is too many
''one-idea men" in the legislature who
have pet measures upon which their
time, industry and what brains they
possess, are entirely devoted One
wants to settle the State debt upon any
terms offered by the bondholders. An
other won't listen to any other idea but
scaling the debt at 33t cents on the dol
lar perhaps another will agree with
him in part, but differ with him as to
the rate of interest the new bonds shall
bear. Still another has scheme to set
tie the different series of bonds, at diff
ferent rates, and, in fact, have not yet
heard two members express the same
opinion, or found one that was willing
to haye the ''vexed question" disposed
of in any way but his own.
Then there is the murphy element,
who expend all their moral, mental
and physical powers on the Local OPP
ton idea, or a "Moffett bell.punch, !"
and who pay but little attention to any
thing else.
Then, again, we have a variety of
millennium makers" who are going to
legislate on pistols until "the lion and the
lamb shall affectionately repose togeth-
er, and we shall have no more shooting
scrapes, and prosecuting attorneys and
criminal court officers will starve for
want of costs, or go to a0Ork;: all the bad
men will be put in the penitentiary at
no cost to the State, and Wen have such
nice times. Several pistol bills have been
lost in one branch or the other of the
legislature, but it is like Banquo's
ghost, and sciU not be dom, but comes
up again under some other name.
THE CONSEQUENCE.
Some members, only few however,
have no ideas but set at their desks and
amuse themselves by voting against ev-
erything that comes up. AS a conse-
quence of ''One-ideaism" and want of
concerted action, it is safe to say that
about nine thousand nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of every ten thousand
bills introduced, are killed as dead as
the Freedman's Bureau.
To summarize the probabilities think
some very stringently wOrded pistol law
will be enacted
Salaries of all officers, except members
Of the legislature will be reduced.
LOCAL OPTION.
l also think the Local Option" bin
will become a law, and the premium on
"moonshine whisky will be enhanced.
What a glorious thing it will be for the
wildcat" portion of Hancock county
The thirsty tipplers will flock in from
surrounding "local option" districts like
yellow jackets to a cider mill. A sup
Elementary law against t0ti1' jugs, sim
liar to Byrd's pistol law, will have to
be passed 10 head OH the red-nOSed |
bloats from running the whisky block |
ade.
SOT DOWN ON.
don't think this legislature will do |
with the State debt, more than
submit some proposition to the popu-
lar vote, without consulting the credi-
tors. If this honorable body truly rep
the mass of the voters, why
then, holders of Tennessee bonds had
better be selling them at auction, for
they are s0t d0aon on noe.
ReSOactfullV CiJTNCE