Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-04
WHAT THEY LOOK FORWARD TO.


During the recent canvass IN Alabama a
prominent Democratic speaker in the
course OF an address said % If Hancock is
elected you will be paid for all the prop
''erty you have lost through Radical rule,
81 and you must stand by the great Demo
"cratic party. for solid South viii now
" give US entire control of the General
Government, and we can redress all our
wrongs His audience understood all
that was implied in this assurance, and tits
necessary that the people of the North
should understand it too. We have already
pointed out the bent of Southern ambi-
ton in this connection, but the question is
far too grave to be dismissed with a single
notice. Be it remembered that the new
Southern raid upon the Treasury is not a
mere fanciful invention, but that its char
acter and scope are already clearly shown
by formal propositions in the shape of leg
islation commenced and records and claims
either fled or presented In the first
place, a bill is now pending before the
House to increase the Supreme Court to
twenty.one members. The twelve new
Judges, if Democrats, would of course con
troll the Court, and could shape allits rulings
upon the amendments to the Constitution
and the federal laws. In the second place
it is also proposed, and the scheme has
! been embodied in pending bill, to abolish
the Court of Claims, and transfer its bust
ness and jurisdiction to a new Superior
Court of five Judges. This Court would
adiudicate claims against the Government,
and would also decide on appeal cases COM
ing from the lower Federal Courts, in
which the amount in controversy did not
exceed $4,000. The bearing of this
scheme is more fully shown In another
measure, to the effect that the District
and Circuit Courts shall adjudicate claims
against the Government in the sections
where the claimants live. All appeals
from these Courts would be taken to the
new Superior Court, which would of course
he constituted with special view to deal
ing with them according to the Southern
view. There are other bills pending which
aim at abolishing the limitation OF time
as a bar to large class of claims,
to allow rehearings where claims have
been rejected, TO remove the pro-
hibition against disloyal claims, and
in fact to open the door wide for the
contemplated raid upon the Treasury.
And these measures are merely small
part of the Southern programme Bills
have been introduced for refunding the
cotton tax, for reminding taxes collected
in the seeding States, for the payment OF
hosts of claims without adjudication
And to crown the whole it is now well
ascertained that at the first opportunity a
proposition viii be made to exact payment
from the Government for the emancipated
slaves. With the exception of this one
claim all the matters cited have already
been put in course of legislative action. As
yet the control OF the Government neces-
sary to their success ID wanting to the
South, and SO they have not been pressed.
But with Hancock in the Presideny there
can be no doubt that every one of these
measures would in turn be brought for
ward, and that a pressure would be brought
upon the President to assent to them,
which he could not resist. It Is useless
for the Democrats to pooh-pooh these state
ments, for the bills are in print which
reveal the salient features of the Southern
programme.