The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

Benent OF the hOluerss etce
Charles Nordhoff in n. Y. Herald, (IndeP nt.l
The first in order will be the reaPportion-
ment for
CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION
during the next ten years, beginning with
the Forty-eighth Congress. The census re-
turns of this year are sufficiently compile
ted to show that, accepting the basis last
adopted, the House would be increased from
2q3 to 36S members. Southern ana west
| ern States will be the gamers, whether on
/ the basis providing for an increased TaIio
1 or an increase in the number OF Congress
men to be elected but III the event thaI
/ the recent election shows that the hepuoIi'
/ cans are to have control OF the House, Win
/ the Senate evenly divided, necessity ma!
be imagined which would lead the next
| President to call an extra session OF Con
gress to inquire whether, under section OF
/ the fourteenth constitutional amendment
and section y of the Revised Statutes, the
right to vote in some of the southern states
! has not been abridged, and the sending out
of special committees to investigate the
subject may be the first step OF the forty-
seventh Congress, to ascertain Whether tne
number of Representatives from the south
ern States ought not to be reduced as the
tingencies and the solid South shorn OF
portion of its 1873 votes.
The next important question Is not OF
political or sectional nature, but involves
the financial honor of the nation,
THE REPEAL OF THE SILVER BILL,
which will be the burden of the last message
of President Hayes and the main feature
of the report of Secretary Sherman to Con-
gress-
tiers the basis of representation for the next
ten years and election investigation IN the
South is deemed of the highest national I'M
portance. In the Treasury Secretary Sher-
man and his associates regard the repeal OF
the Silver bill as of the highest Importance.
The first thing to be urged is the repeal OF
the law making it obligatory to com silver
and the repeal of the law authorizing the
issue of silver certificates with authority
of law to discontinue the issue of one and
two dollar legal tender notes until the fifty
odd millions of standard silver dollars and
the twenty-five millions of fractional silver
coin have entered into circulation.
The third important question Is the ne
cessity of making provision for funding
1913 900, 900 of bonds, 5000, 000 900 of which
are six per cent. the remainder tives. The
skies are redeemable June 80 next and the
hyeS May next.
New York Public, (Rep.)]
Another essential step, both for the main
tenance of the public credit and for the
safety of the business community, IS the stop
paqe of the coinage of siIrer dollars. No rea-
sonable person now supposes that the coun-
try needs or can proftably use as many OF
these coins as have already been minted,
and it will be much easier to go into circu-
IL: ,lr Ixr re
limit to the supply, and thus removes the
the fear of ultimate depreciation. At the
same time, the issue Of sitUer certificates ought
to be stopped. If there is not enough need
of additional currency to cause the expan-
sion of the bank circulation, there is no
need of more silver notes. One of the best
results of the election is that it gives assur-
ance that the national banking system will
not be everthrown or deprived of usefulness.
n. Y. Times, (Rep.)]
That great frauds have taken place in
many parts of the South for years past and
in the late election that the majority in
Congress and in the Electoral College, and
with this the enjoyment by the greater part
of the Nation of its due representation in
the Government depended on overcoming
these frauds by Northern votes that to pre-
vent such frauds the national Government
WAS VIII NV DO OOhACU
by intelligent and well-informed observers.
This is wrong. 1t is one Of the first duties of
the Republican party to renledyit heprinci
pie ofthe national election lars IS good one
their Constitutionalfty has been completely
established before the highest tribunal they
should be perfected and e1tengcd until such a
,prong as lOe hare described cannot be repeated
st. Louis Democrat (Rep.
The next Congress will be Republican,
and if Chalmers inserts his nose therein he
will return to Vicksburg on the double
quick This business of electing Congress
men without will most likely receive COM
plete overhauling by the next Congress-
When the time comes for making the APP
portionment under the late census, it will be
in order to inquire by what process the
voters in certain Congressional districts
have been DISTINGUISHED. There are four
districts in Mississippi which present the
following phenomena. In 1876 their Con-
gressional vote was as follows: