Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07


Its masters" ''made political decision to
! order" FIERY Indignation of an inhsned peo-
/ pIe"-these are some of the bufetings to be
found IN tire Congressional Record, delivered
sometimes frem carefully-written speeches.
and sometimes received, the Record Gays, with
] cloud spplausei"
10 what does all this pave the way? The
CoEg fesslonal Record will inform you. On the
10Th OF January, 1880, Mr. Manning, of Mis-
s1s6ippi-a State well known to be jealousy
sensitive to the pure administration Of justice
and the rigorous punishment Of crimes-es-
pecally hideeus, cowardly murder and nassa-
cre-introducad bill to place twelve new ad-
Cl.IonaI Judges on the supreme bench. Wat
an easy, e6ectual and withal plausible, dispo-
sltion this would make of the court. In
creased business would be such an innocent
exeuse-the court could sit by 6evans for come
purposes, and meet in banquet fer 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 a second reading and was re-
feTfed 70 a committee, whose chairman a few
days afteTWard came into II, house and de-
nounced the court, and said -aiority Of the
present judges were ''hopelessly lost III a
Jog" For the present it would be premature
and bunghng to pass such bill +; a veto might
spoil 1t, aid it might spoil the result in some
elise Northern State. But let the Democrats
elect their president, or rather their party
for the party is running-and who viii say that
this Dill 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
retire, WILL during the next four years, 7acaJe
at least four seats On the Supreme bench.
With what judges would the Democracy fill
them?
The Circuit and District Courts are obnox-
ious also. They are still more easy to deal
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. Ab0lishing 8 cir
cult or district, or adding to it another, takes
his seat out from under judge and gets rid Of
him finally; he is ''legislated out"
Thus the whole judicial establishments 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 in which these bonds are payable,
civil rights acts, election laws, claims growing
out 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 THE ARMY.
The army too Is envied-its "Offence is
rank" Less than four lines of the revised
statutes are all that denies commissions in the
army to men who, educated at the country's
COST. and presented with their country's sword.
drew that sword against their country's life.
bill to repeal these four lines is now pend
ing IN the Senate, already passed to third
reading by the solid Democratic vote. On the
25th OF February last, Mr.. Heisk"ll, Of Mary
land, was relieved from the operation of this
exclusion, and a Senator from Arkansas moved
ito tot OIL Ia
and noes were demanded, and thirty-six Sena-
tors every Democrat who was present, voted
aye Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
New York contributed their Democratic votes
to this Southern proposition of "reforna. "
/ Subsequently the mover and all concluded to
reconsider and drop the amendments saga
cious conclusion in q" Presidential year." ZAP
plause.
MIR. Tucker, of Virginia, moved in the House
; the repeal of this safeguard to the army as a
rider TO an appropriation bill, bat it was mud
died out of i5ht On q point Of order-a
judiciOuS point in g. "PresdentiaI year -
TApplause.] The Democratic ma iority put in
The army bill provision that officers now in
the army light receive advanced rank and psy
if they would re- ce-a benevolent, thoughtful,
provision certainly. [Applau But if q
body Of army officers could thus De cOaxed out
Of the service, there would be so many vaca1i,
cIes TO be filed, and filled by the President by
and with the advice and consent OF Demo-
cratic Senate. When this free-wiu Offering
was presented, g cry arose shout gift bearing
Creeks" and other ungraciOus symptoms were
manifested on the Republican side, and so
bTevet rank and brevet pay STAND over at least
till the season Of Santa Claus. [Appiause.]
Meanwhile the army has been reduced to 8
skeleton, and whenever a scare, a pretence, q
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 event
with their States" Confederate soldiers
would flock to the standard of military ga well
IS evil service reform, and flock in q fervor OF
magnanimity AID devotion, ready to let by
cones be by-g0nes, and to forgive the ''usur-
pations of Lincoln" and the ''unconstitutionsl
coercion of sovereign States" [Applause. ]
Why shouldn't they?
Who would be warranted to assert that a
Confederate soldier was false or immodesJ in
protesting patriotic intentions while seeking
rank in the array of the Republic. No man
ought to assert it, and yet all fair men would
agree that, other things being equal, prefer
ments in the army should be given to those
who fought in that army, rather than to those
who aRsailed it in the dread extremity OF the
Nations life.
1. MOCRATIC HOSTILITY TO TARIFF AND REVENUE
LAWS.
The present tariff Gnd revenue laws are
deemed very bad by the dominant element OF
the Democracy. They want to change them.
They will change them radically whenever the
Wayis clear. There is & whisky rebellion now
in several States and the Ulcers of the law are
pOwerleSs to suppress it. In Alabama the law
is resisted &nd the process Of the courts de-
stroyed and defed. Recently g 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 s&ys Penton assem-
bied from twenty-five to fifty armed men, and
set him and the law at defiance When eau
toned to desist, Pent0n replied, "When Han
cock is elected this damn foolishness will
stop"
The thing to stop, thus piously predicted, is
the collection Of the tax on whiskey-tbat
mid beverage so sacred to the Democratic
heart, so grateful to the Democratic stomsch,
and so nourishing to Democratic principles
The law is defined in Arkansas, and the off,
GERS appiy to the Governor for the use of the
arms of the United States loaned to Arkansas,
and the Governor replies that he dare not
permit the arms to be used, because il he
should, and if a moonshiner should be killed,
he would have to leave the State.
Washington raised an army when he was
President and marched at its head to put
down such lswlessness; and he kept the army
in Pennsylvania three months after it was put
down to see it did not get up again. Now,
there are thirty-twe soldiers of the United
States in Alabama and fifUy-seven in Arkansas
and if hundred more should be ordered to
either state the country would not be big
enough to hold the noise. Eancock's order