Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-25

WE are glad to observe that Hon.
Joe Blackburn has on the part Of the
minority, presented report against
the allowances agreed upon by the
majority Of the Committee appointed
to audit the expenses Of President
Garfeld's illness and death, which are
50 OutrageOusly large and out of all
proportion to the services rendered.
The idea Of paying Bliss $4,000,
Ds. Agnew and Hamilton $50, 600
each. Drs. Reyburn, BOynton and
Mrs. Edison $40, 200 each and Crump
$1,000 is simply preposterous, and in
recommending such sums the commit
Tee shows a reckless disregard for the
public funds that can not be too
severely censured. 1t amounts to
nothing more than a consent to raid
upon the treasury, by lot Of advent
urers, who, with but two exceptions,
could not earn half the amounts they
demand we're they to practice a full
life time. Mr.. Blackburn comedies
that liberal compensation should be
allowed, even in excess of what the
medical attendants could have earned
in their ordinary practice, notwith-
standing they exhibited no extraor-
binary skill in the treatment Of the
case; but while willing to be liberal,
he, nor the minority he represented
could consent to such Extravaganza
wanton lavishment Of the public
funds. He also very justly protests
against the recommendation to pro
mote certain military officers connect
ed with the case, believing that the
Committee has no jurisdiction to make
such recommendation. He therefore
asks that the majority report be re-
committed, with instructions to take
proof Of the value of services render
ed, and in case of the surgeons to
make such allowances only as would
be properly chargeable to the estate of
the late President. This is the only
way to settle the matter. 1t is simply
a matter of business, from which silly
sentimentOught to beentirely divorced.
AND now the Adjutant General is
in trouble, and in way that surprises
even his most intimate friends. To
be sure he presents very utterly too
too appearance while bedecked and
arrayed in his military trappings, but
no one had ever suspected Gen. Muck
OILS of being a masher. Therefore,
the news that he has attempted to
play that role and even gone so far as
to lay violent hands on the woman he
was laying for, and make an indecent
proposal to her, will of course be ia
ken by those friends aforesaid, as lie
manufactured out of whole cloth.
But such Is the charge, which seems
to be taken for confessed, since the
General has planked down not ex-
ceeding $500 as compromise for a
$4,000 damage suit brought by the
lady, who is a married woman and
said to be respectable. 1t is also said
that in addition to the $500, the Gen
eral had to make very meek and
humble apology to the irate husband
who, besides filthy lucre, painted for
gore; yes, red gore. Well, one by
one the roses tall, one by one we lose
confidence in those we had thought,
like Caesars wife, above suspicion,
and in our vexation of spirit we can
but exclaim with the Psalmist, "No
man is virtuous, no, not one" In
Justice to the General let it be record
ed that he denies that he made i'm
proper advances to the woman, and
his word has always passed as good as
his bend on all previous occasions.
SPEAKING with its usual dictatorial
spirit about the rural press, the Court
er-JouvnaL in defending Henry, has
this to say: "With gullability, which
might at least have restrained its one.
sided and er parte expressions of con-
domination, if it did not admit a ray
of suspicion as to the sources of the
charges, quite number Of Democrat.
ic newspapers fell into the trap so
artfully set by the enemy to destroy a
Democratic nominee" The Courier.
Journal is Just as much responsible
for their falling into the alleged trap
as the "enemy" for it failed to give
the particulars OF the affair, but at
the same time limited at it in the fol-
lowing mysterious manner "Capt.
Henry left on the mail boat this morn.
ing. He found his visit to the city |
neither pleasant nor profitable, which
fact will be emDhasized hefore the