Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-10-14

i alized,n packed tribunal" decisions to be
observed s'pro tempore" only, dirty work OF
its masters" s'Hlade a political decision to
order" 'shery Indignation of an inAamed peo-
ple"-these are some OF the buffetings to be
found in the Congressional Record, delivered
sometimes from carefully-written spec hes,
and sometimes received, the Record says, with
"loud spplausei"
To what does all this pave the wsy2 The
Cong ressionai Record will inform you. On the
18th OF January, 1880, Mr.. Manning, of Mis-
/ nssippt-a State well known to be Jealousy
sensitive to the pure administration of justice
and the rigorous punishment of crimes-es-
pecialiy hideous, cowardly murder and massa-
cre--introduced bill to place twelve new adj
dilonal Judges on the supreme bench. What
an easy, effectual, and withsl plausible, dispo-
sition this would make of the court. In
creased business would be such an innocent
excuse-the court could cit by sevens for some
purposes, and meet in banquet for al 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 second reading and WAS re-
ferred To committee, whose chairman few
days sftt ward came into tn. house and de-
nounced the court, and said .--ajority of the
present judges were "hopelessly lost ill
fog" For the present it would be premature
and bunging TO pass such q bill q 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 Is running-and who will say that
this bill will not find its way TO the statute
book. You can all say what sort of judges the
I 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, vacate
st 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
with. Like the judges of the Supreme Court,
these judges hold their places during good
behavior, but legislstio as has often been
seen in States and in the Nation has ways to
plough around this stump. Abohshing cir
cult or district or adding to 1t another, takes
his seat out from under Judge and gets rid of
him finally; he is "legislated out"
Thus the whole Judicial establishment of the
Republic is al the disposal Of the law-making
power.
With courts revolutionizei 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
other grave matters no man can predict.
OPPOSITION TO THE ARMY.
The army too Is envied-its "odence 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'e
cost. and presented with their country's sword,
drew that sword against their country's life,
bill to repeal these four lines ie now pend
ing In the Senate, already passed to third
reading by the solid Democratic vote. On the
25th of February last, Mr.. Heiskoll, of Mary
land was relieved from the operation of this
exclusion, and Senator from Arkansas moved
as an amendment its total repeal. The ayes
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 "reform.
Subsequently the mover and all concluded 10
reconsider and drop the amendment saga
cious conclusion in q" Presidential year." ZAP
plause.l
Mi. Tucker, of Virgins, moved in the House
the repeal OF this safeguard to the army as a
rider to an appropriation bill, bst it was hud-
died out Of sight on a point of erder-a
Judlcious point i'll a presidential wear"
lApplause.l The Democratic majority put in
the army bill a provision that officers now in
the army might receive advanced rank and pay
If they would retire-a benevolent, thoughtful
provision certainly. [Applausel But if a
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
! Drevet rank and brevet pay stand over at least
till the season Of Santa Claus. [Applause.l
Meanwhile the army has been reduced to
skeleton, and whenever a scare, pretence,
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. II 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
with their States" Confederate soldiers
would flock to the standard Of military as well
as civil service reform, and flock in a fervor of
magnsnimity aud devotion, ready to let by
cones be by-gones, and to forgive the 'usur-
pations of Lincoln" and the unconstitutional
coercion of sovereign States" [Applausel
Why shouldn't they?
Who would be warranted to assert that
| Confederate soldier was false or immodesu in
processing patriotic intentions while seeking
rank in the army of the Republic. No man
ought to assert it, and yet all fair men would
agree that, ether things being equal, prefer
ments in the army should be given to those
who fought in that army, rather than to those
who assailed it In the dread extremity Of the
Nations life
DEMOCRATIC 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 will change them rad cally whenever the
wayis clear. There is a whisky rebellion now
in 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 defied. Recently a 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-
bled 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 foolishness will
I stop"
The thing to stop, thus piously predicted, is
the collection OF the tax on whiskey-that
mild beverage so sacred to the Democratic
heart, SO grateful to the Democratic stomach,
and so nourishing to Democratic principles.
| The law is defined in Arkansas, and the Off
GERS apply 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 if he
| should, and il a moonshiner should be killed,
he would have to leave the State.
Washington raised an army when he was