Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-28

said of his railroad management there is
but one opinion as to his integrity,
courage and intelligence. qualities which
are supreme in commanding the popular
heart.
THE committee Of the American bar
association will, at its meeting in New
York in February, urge a plan for the
relief of the United States supreme court
which contemplates the establishment of
another court, to consist of fifteen judges.
The supreme court desires this plan.
EMIGRATION from Germany in 1882
promises to become more colossal than
that of 1881. Fourteen thousand
tickets have already been taken for trans
portation by vessels leaving Bremen fol
America in the spring. Almost an equal
number of cmigrants will go from Ham
burg.
SINCE he and Cameron have agreed on
Beaver, Republican State Chairman
Cooper sees 10 reason for further delay,
and has called his committee to meet on
Jan. II, to decide upon the time and place
of the meeting of the next state cOnven
ton. The idea is to have the conven'
ton early in May next, about the first o1
second Wednesday, at Harrisburg.
THE New York brokers are no gucsSer;
at all compared with the people who 90 tC
Demuth's store to speculate in beans. A
New York sporting man had 4 hog at hi:
place for the broker bloods to guess at il
the Christmas season and they invested
about $1,000 to back their opinion, m"stly
that the hog would weigh 700. He drew
the beam down to just 593.
THE Philadelphia correspondent OF the
New York Ucruld again calls the attention
of the Quaker city people to the slnms o
that town, which, he says, since theiI
fumigation of some years ago, have been
refilled with crime aud vice and nov
swarm with thieves and miserables OF III
degree. Some of the foreign missionar,
societies in the city of BrOtherly Love cal
find heaps to do in Bedford, Alaska ant
st. Mary streets.
WHEN it comes to introducing bills th'
Pennsylvania statesman always forges t.
the front. In the two days allotted fol
that purpose in Congress our congrcssmcl
got there with 1S4 bills Ohio FOLLOWED
hard upon with $50. Then came New
York with 143, Illinois al. North Caro-
lima with 13S, Kansas with l3l, and Mis-
ouri with 119. These seven states, VIII
have only 1913 members of the House, ar
responsible for ,OOG bills, or about one
half of all so far introduced. In point o
individual! activity Kansas leads all th
rest, her three members having fathere'
131 bills, or f.; each, and North Carolin
comes next with members and 13S bills
or II each. The average of Ncw-I"rl
was only 3! bills to each member.
AN eminent Republican contemporar,
has the news that Keifer'S packed election
committee will dispatch the II contcste'
congressional eases referred to it witt, un
heard-of celerity. Great scandal has IN
dOubtedly attached to such contests, an'
great wrong has been done by the need
less delays over them. There are instance
when the House did not vote on contested
election cases until the very last night o
the session, thus allowing two men t.
draw the salary for one place. There i
good ground for believing that the Cal
kins committee is organized to convict
and that in disposing of eases summaril.
as it promises, it will not only give tn
Republicans the benefit of all doubts, bn
likewise all the seats in dispute.
TIE people who blame JEFF Davis fo
carrying Off several million dollars woril
OF gold belonging to the Southern COnfcd
eracy do net pretend to explain how Ii
got away with it. AS yet it is about a
difficult to tell who fathers the story a
who got the gold. Correspondent Bur
says Gen. Joe Johnston made the accusa
tion. The Press and Burr say Johnsto
don't deny it, and the World says he does
1t is 4 tempest in i teapot. The publi
does not believe the c. S. A. had any s,,cl
amount of gold, and if it had, nobody be
lcvcs that Jeff Davis stole it. Those VIII
think he was knave don't believe he wa
fool All the same Gen. Johnston mi gh
as well say out boldly over his own sig1
manual what he said and what he thinks
No less high Republican authority tha
the New York Times declares that tin
good intentions of IIayes's almnistra
ton "werc made to pave the way t
political pcrdition, partly by the presi
dents lack of penetration, iniirm;ty a
will and dcplorable peryersity of judy
ment, and partly by his two secretaries
unscrupuloms scheming.' One of the sec
retaries referred to was Sherman, VIII
made his Office nest Of "greety tradin;
politicians, with little ability and les
character and who "prostituted the vas
and varied treasury service in the Soutl
in desperate effort to secure his owl
nomination to the presidency" TIC otEc
was Key, who, ''made use Of his oflicia
power and influence to serve his perSOu:.
and political friends. and quietly ignore,
every test of political fitness