The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-11
ANorHER CORPORATION yuDaE.

ANOTHER CORPORATION JUDGE. .
One of tho most importsnt ,sonso-
quences OF the Presidential election Is
the fact that the Supreme Court will
be reconstructed under Hayes aud Gar.
; neid IN the Interest Of corporatl0ns and
OF centralized wealth. The magnitude
Of this issue, overshaslo III ofliers.
, was urged by The Sum during the laet,
campaign; but heated partfaanship
smut Its eyes agaiust the truth, and
. now we have reached the point when
: this power IL to be exerclsetl without
, scrupie and With grave peril to the "a.
! public. s, i z - "a n fs.SG
Congress makes laws, but this Court
construes their meaning, aud lts con-
struction is the actual law until Il. q
reversed. The country has Witnessed
the sad spectacle of this ht0h tri6nnsI
overthrowin9 its own tieclsiou. cxclu-
sively for the profit OF great coroora.
tions, by Judges appointed for that
| special object by Gen. Grant In 1870.
The result of that Infamous net was
tho pOstponemento of specie peynenfe
for ten years. and the terrible crash Uf
1873, which desolated thousands of
| homes.
The nomination Of Stanley Mat
| theWs Is nm insult to the Senate and mn
outrage on public decency. 1t Ia ~
open announcement to all the world
that the trihunal Of last resort Il. to DO
packed with corporation Judges. and
that tho Judgment now sfnnSiino
against the Pacific rai1road and afIlrns.
Ing the constituttonality OF the Thur.
man act calling them to account. n fn
be struck down just as the legal tensaer
Judgment was reversed:
In tho memorable struggle OF 1879
when tho Thurman bill was before thS
Senate, and Jay Gould, @. p. Hunting.
ton, aud other magnates, representinr
the Union Pacific, the Central Pacific.
anu their vast connections, were per-
| sonalIy present TO conquer prejudice
Stanley Matthews boldly stood FOR
ward In that body, not only os their
defender, but as their retained attor.
ney. There was no more Oonccalmont
about his relation to these parties than
II the retainer or the fec had been laIfl
down on his Senatorial desk. it'4E
He resorted to every form OF &echr,.
cal ingenuity to defeat or to emascuIaea
the measure; IL he failed, it waa not
for want of fidelity or zeal In the Cause
| of his clients, but because public onI,,.
lon demanded that act Of justice. end
iuttmtdated Senators whose pockets
We're crammed with proofs of iov.Itw
to the threatened corporations. Tha,,
did not care to vote up to marx of 1hoi.
pledges, with the eyes Of tho countrv
fixed on the tally lists. "a ~ :, s1.i.f',,
Recently the Central paciRc has at.
tempted to cvade the plain nrov i.io.,.
of the law, by declaring dividerIs
which would divert from the Trcss.
ury OF the United States a corresDoY,.i.
Ing sum, to be set aside under the
Thurman act. An injunction was is.
: sued by Judge Choate, restraining tho
payment of the dividend of three per
cent. on the LIST Of February, as pro-
posed by the company.
This is one form of coming litiga-
tion but 1t Is very well known that n
case Is about to be made UP in Califor-
ma, intended to take the life out of
the Thurman act. This case will he
presented Immediately after the recon-
struction of the Supreme Court by
| Gen. Garfield. Aud whenever tho Ise
publicans get substantial power In Con-
gress, they will surely assert 1t by res.
toring to these great corporations all
they lost by tho legislation OF 1878.
Shall Stanley Matthews, who sat in
the senate as an attorney for the Pa
ciic railroads, wear the silk gown as
their attorney on the bench of the SD
preme Court? That question will soon
DC answered. 1t depends greatly upon
the firmness of Judge Thurman. . hair
man of tho judiciary Committee. on
ono side, and the courage of Mr.. Ed
munds on the other, who, together did
! tho great work OF forcing these mighty
monopolies to mako restitution to the
Treasury for the hundred or moro mil.
lions which they received to build the
roads.-Ne,c York iS,,,. iiff'H
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JUDGE LYNCH and Lynch law have
been usually supposed to be Of Ameri-
can origin; but some doubt is thrown
upon this by the Pail Mail Gazette,
which says that the Virginian farmer
named Lynch who logged thief will,
his own hands "hns probably no claim
| to the honor ascribcd to him by a
doubtful ltralition". There was Judge
Lynch who was sent to America In
l6s7-'Ss to suppress piracy; but the real
Lynch is said to have been II certain
Mayor of Galway, at the close OF tho
fifteenth century, who became famous
s.for hanging his son with his own
hands, out of an upper window, in exc
cution OF death sentence passed upon
him for robbery and MURDER" In
this country the Virginia LYNCH has