Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14

this city have uttered language gross and !
calumnious If the court, aspefsIng its integri-
tv and its decisions ''Mere drivel" ''pleuei- !
bic sophistry,' packed, partisan and demon
allied" packed tribunal decisions to be
observed stpro tempore" only, dirty work OF
it's masters" ''rlade a political decision to
order" 'fery Indignation Of an iBfianed peo-
ple"-these are some Of the bufetings to be
found in ire Congressional Record, delivered
sometimes from carefully -gritten speeches.
and sometimes received, the Record says, with
cloud applausei
To what does all this pave tie way? The
Cong ,essional Record vii inform you. On the
26gh of January. 1880, Mr.. Manning, Of Mis-
siasipp-a State well known to oe Jealousy
sensitive TO the pure ad uinistration OF justice
ald the rigorous punishment OF crirnes-es-
pecially hideoUs, cowardly murder and massa-
cre-introduced bin to place twelve new adj
di,ional judges on the supreme bench. what
an easy. ehcctual, and withal plausible, dispo-
sition this would make Of the court In
creased business would be such an innocent
excuse-the court could sit by seyens for some
purposes, and meet in banquet for all large
purposes when state sovereignty and State
rights, amendments TO the constitution, and
cotton taxes and the like are at stake. The
bill passed to e secoud reading and was
ferred to a committee, whose chairman few
days sfterward came into the house and de-
nounced the court, and said majority CT the
/ fog" For the present il would be premature
aud bunglIng 10 pass such bill veto might
spoil it, and it might spoil the result in some
close Northern State. But let the Democrats
elect their president, or rather their party
! for the party s running-and who Will say that
1 this bill will not find its way to the statute
book. You can all say what sort Of judges the
twelve new ones would be.
/ But no new law is needed; natures law, and
/ the statutory limit of age at which judges may
4 retire, WILL during the next four years. vacate
/ at least four seats on the Supreme bench.
I With what judges would the Democracy fill
I them?
| The Circuit ard District Courts are obnox-
, ious also. They ara still more easy TO deal
with. Like the judges Of the Supreme Court,
! these judges hold their places during good
| behavior but legislation, as has often been
| seen in States and IN the Nation, has ways to
plough around this stump. AbOlishing a cir
cult or district, or adding to it another, takes
/ his seat out from under judge AMI gets rid Of
him finally; he is ''icr;sI.ted out"
Thus ire whole judicial establishment Of the
Republic is at the disposal Of the law making
power.
With courts revolutionized to conform to re-
dictionary notions and dogmas, prejudices and
interests, what may be the fate OF questions
affecting commerce among the several
States" revenue, bank and legal-tender cur
rency, the taxation of Government bonds. the
currency III which these bonds are payable.
civil rights acts, election laws, claims growing
/ ont of the war, claims for refunding the war
tax on cotton, the late amendments, and many
| other grave matters. no man can predict.
OPPOSITION To TIE ARMY.
! The army too Is envied-its "offence is
rank" Less than four lines Of the revised
statutes all that denies commissions ia the
army to men Who educated at the couutry's
cost. and p. esented with their country's sword,
drew that sword against their country's hfe.
A bill to repeal these four lines is now pend
| ing III the Senate, already passed to third
| reading by the solid Democratic vote. On the
25th vi February last, Mr.. Heiskell Of Mary
/ land, wa2 relieved from the operation of this
exclusion, and Senator from Arkansas moved
as I'm amendment its total repeal. The ayes
and noes were demanded, and thirty six Sena-
tors, every Democrat who present, voted
aye. OHIO, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
New York contributed their Democ. attic votes
to this Southern proposition Of "reform."
Subsequently the mover and all concluded to
reconsider and drop the amendment saga
cious conclusion in q" Presidential year" ZAP
plause.
Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia, moved in the House
the repeal of this safeguard to the army as
rider TO an appropriation bill, bat it was hud-
died out of sight on point of order-a
! judlcious point in q presidential year."
| tApplause.I The Democratic majority put in
the army blli a provision that officers now in
| the army might receive advanced rank and pay
| If they would re'ire--a benevolent, thoughtful.
provision certainly. [Applause.] But if
| body Of army officers could thus be coaxed out
of The service, there would be so many vacan-
cies to be filed, and filed by the President by
and with the advice and consent OF Demo-
cratic Senate When this free-will Offering
was presented, cry arose about" gift bearing
| Greeks, and other ungracious symptoms were
manifested on the Republican side, and so
brevet rank and brevet pay stand over at least
! till the season Of Santa Claus. Applause
Meanwhile the army has been reduced to a
| skeleton, and whenever scare, pretence, a
| speck Of war on the Mexican border or else
where can be discovered or invented, the army
must be increased and filed up. Filled up by
whom? That depends on the approaching
election. If Garfield and Arthur are chosen
by Union men-men always for the Union to
the core. If Hancock and English and the
Democratic party get in. by men who ''went
would flock to the standard Of military as well
as civil service reform, and flock in a fervor of
magnanimity and devotion, ready to let by
cones be by-gones, and to forgive the ''usur-
pations of Lincoln and the unconstitutional
coercion OF sovereign States" [Applause.l
Why shouldn't they?
Who would be warranted to assert that
Confederate soldier was false or immodesI in
processing patriotic intentions while seeking
rank in the army Of the Republic. No man
ought to assert 1t, and yet all fair men would
agree that, other things being equal, prefer
ments i'll the army should be given to those
who fought in that army, rather than to those
who assalled it in the dread extremity OF the
Nations life.
d MoCRATIc HOSTILITY TO TARIFF AND REvENUE
LAWS.
The present tariff and revenue laws are
deemed very bad by the dominant element of
the Democracy. They want to change them.
They VIII change them radically whenever the
way clear. There is whisky rebellion now
lii several States, and the Ulcers OF the law are
powerless to suppress it. In Alabama the law
is resisted, and the process of the courts de-
stroyed and defed. Recently warrant was
issued for the arrest Of one Penton, charged
with such an offense. A deputy marshal went
with posse to execute the warrant In his
report to the marshal he says Penton assem-
bied from twenty-five TO fifty armed men, and
set him and the law at defiance When eau
toned to desist, Penton replied, ''When Han
cock Is elected this damn fooIishness will
stop"
The thing to stop thus piously predicted, is
the c.plectiou Of the tax on whiskey-that