Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1882-06-13
JME XVI BRISTOL VIRGINIA TENNESSEE TUESDAY, JUNE 49, 1882

adjusters. These Senators, who betrayed
you in your direst need, and who coop
Grated with your enemies to defeat im-
portant measures for the promotion and
permanence of your cause and policy, ,ale
left to you for Judgment. You, their
constituents, know by what professions,
protestations and promises of fealty to
your cause and party they obtained your
confidence and your votes, and it is for
YOU to adjudge the enormity of their
breach of faith and to intlict the penalty.
Bv this detection, thus fomented, mus
tered and directed your rightful majority
in the Senate was lost, and by the delays
aud Instructions which it aided its Bour
bon allies to offer, much of the regular
session was wasted. An extra session of
the Legislature was thus made necessary
to the framing and passage of the Appro-
priatiOn bill, the Assessment bill, the
Congressional eapportionment bill-all
tlese measures forming 4 partof the con-
stitutional duty of the Legislature, and
of paramount concern to all the people.
Thus desertion helped to its feet the en-
emy YOU had beaten; thus legislation
was hindered, and thuswas encompassed
the defeat of important measures which
a large majority of the Legislature be-
lieve would have redounded largely to
the material interests and political well
fare of the State.
Despite the partial battling of its reme
dial and reformatory policy the Readjus-
ter party is to be congratulated upon the
fidelity and success with which its plat
form, of principles and its pledges to the
people have been redeemed. 1t has, by
the passage of the Riddeberger bill and
auxiliary measures, settled the public
debt upon principles of right, equity and
law no longer disputed, and thereby made
the rate of taxation the same ils before
the war, without detrimentto any inter-
est OF any branch of governments 1t has
removed the odious poll-tax restriction
upon suffrage and appealed to the people
to sustain that repeal at the polls IN NO
vemberneXt, After reseuing the public
school system--always in peril while
Bourbonsm was in poWer--the Read
justers have added fifteen per cent. to its
allowance ,besidesrestoling TO the schools
four hundred thousand dollars Ito used
in nstalments of one hundred thousand
dollars annually of the constitutional
appropriation which ourpolitical enemies
had diverted, besides the twenty-five
thousand dollars of quarterly payment
until the whole Is liquldated; and we
have done much more IN behalf of the
schools than was either promised or
deemed practicable. We have reorgan-
lied the charitable institutions Of the
State; have paid all (oyer one hundred
thousand dolars) Of their floating indcbt-
rdncss upon which banks had been draw
ing interest two per cent. in excess OF
that paid by themselves as deposilarlcs
of State funds. Moreover, and for the
first time since reconstruction, we have
pivcn these charitable Institutions all
that was asked for or necessary to sup
port the lunatic, the deaf fdumband blind,
to accommodate the unlUrlunHtes hereto
fore in iils, because of the inadequate
provisions for the asylums; we hare
given the colOred people Il normal school
for the education Of their own teachers,
and our Appropriation BILL covering ev-
cry detail Of ncct ,sAry expenditure, Is
quite one hundred thousand dollars less
thun the average gcannuHl expenses OF Gov
crumcnt under Bourbon-Funder rule, ,ln-
elusive of the discharge Of the iloallng
ohligAtlons before noleh
In rc.organizing these institutions we
delivered them IN some eases from u self
ish and rlmowclcss pnrllAln control
which consigned lunuiics 10 the cells OF
felons when they should rlghtfnlly share
'lbe States appropriation lor her unior-
ttnutc children. Thus were our specific
PROMISES to YOU In the canvass faithfully
executed. II Is not often the g0od fortune
of Dnlitlcn organization TO confront The
,r,ai tribunal of the beoplc With record
40 fairly earned. Incidental duties OF The
Lraisnure were the election ofa United
States Senator TO M the vacancy occur
rhg March 9TH, 1888; aud Of n Court of
ADncnls, whose term viii begin on The
ist Of january, 1883. These duties were
performed with crcdltto the state and to
the satisfaction Of otlr party.
4 AS the Legislature considered other
important measures, Trrason and De-
sprtion, hitherto mcnnclng only, became
hold enough for assertion. Treason new
or wants Tor ingenious phrases to mill-
rnle the condemnation II invites. So, IN
| ills rasp. thu 1tcasou That defeated these
measures. socks forgiveness of the peO-
plc by the plea that the bills TO re-organ-
| lzp Tie Judicial aud Congressional dis
trlotgnud 40 provide for u Commissioners
of land SaloR, were "GyOlullonary."
When Fundcrsm would save money
for appearance sake, n struckNt the very
root of an independent Judiciary by
reducing alarht. 'IhclrCOuft Commit
tcc reported, uirl put Oh record IN the
Senate journal, that they had the con-
stitntlonnl iight to change clrtulis. On
this Inst proposition there seems 10 bc
no difference of opinion. The Readlusi-
crs simply proposed 10 mako twel We III
stcnd of eighteen judicial rircnitsi TO
mike one circuit, lOr Instance, OF tWo,
TINT had been formed In 1879, of couh.
Ties that had always before constituted
one circuit, and In which there IA not
blsiliess to engage n competent and IN
duslrlous Judge two months IN the year.
| This change would have reduced the
nrt,,nl expenses of Circuit Courts quite
s2g. 900 per Hmnum, besides the relief II
would have given 10 witnesses and Jurors
compelled to attend on lndolcht ooufls
aud Judges, t.t.... lI.l,I.Ll.,
Tkc Land Salts bill was dcilgncd TO
effect n saving IN the fees aud costs at.
tending settlement Of estates, The ,lcnd
leave widows nnd orphans M The wards
of tie stare, The State assumes by her
laws to take care " sucli lutcfesls. Un-
der the present dllaiory aud expensive,
n not fraudulent system, Ne see widows
and children subslstlng on plitanccs
metcd ont by commissioners, when The
only duty OF Auch commissioners ls TO
sell, settle aud pny over, leaving the Wild
ow or child IN the sanie situation NJ VI
the living father had divided his proper.
y. Not one esthie IN twenty " settled
IN twenty ycatA, Bills IN Chancefy are
filed. lnletlocluory dccrccs are entered
AL indaiiuBi; M every death, marriage or
change of residence, suggestions are
made, petitions fled, the suit u perpct-
ualcd, costs continued, commissioners ~