Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-06

SHsinSeO Aspect OF AEairS-t1r. Befk'S
Resolution Regarding Political Assess
ments-Supreme Court Decision Involv-
ing the Arlington Estate-The Star Route
COMMUNICATIONS of Interest.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The agreeable and
select club of elderly and wellto-do gentle
men, called the!senate of the United States.
has resumed its sessions after an interval
of unusual brevity, during which events
have occurred as satisfactory to one-half
of the members as discouraging to the
Gratis who made the illusions to the cleo
tions, but in the senate it was that venera-
BILE and learned Republican senator Ed
munds, who recalled the political black
Tuesday, and he added to his allusion
partial endorsement of the Republican
defeat. Party man though he is,
he referred to events which
indicated that the people objected to some
thing Or everything that congress had
done at the last session, and he was dis
posed to think that in large degree the
popular judgment was correct. Perhaps
it is characteristic of the superior breeding
of the senators that the allusion to the sub
ject was not made by a member of the sue
cessful party.
The senators, rested and refreshed from
the labors of the last session, seemed to
look younger and handsomer. Mr.. Lamar,
shorn Of his superfuous locks by the hap
Ply thought of a Western barber, ap-
peared ten years younger. Becks long
trip to the Big Horn country, and Bayard's
expedition to the Yellowstone park. had
done full as much for them.
Senators James and Kellogg were both
in place. Mr.. Edmunds. whose ilI-health.
together with sickness in his family, had
occasioned long absence, reappeared,
looking especially strong and ready for mis-
old role of an industrious senator. Ma
hone was missed, but not mourned. The
jollity was all in the cloak room on the
Democratic side of the chamber. The
tone of the public proceedings was quite
dull and uneventful. There was little on
the surface of affairs to foreshadow the
course of the season.
MR.. VOORHEES, BILL.
A valuable bill is that introduced
by Mr., VOORHEES,, providing that in all DC
tions for debt or damages against a rail-
road corporation whose property and fran
chises are in the hands of receiver, the
jurisdiction of the circuit and district
courts of the United States shall not be
exclusive for the trial of the same, but con-
current, at the option of the plaintiffs in
such actions, with the courts of the various
states within whose Jurisdiction such ac-
tons may arise. This bill is an i'm
portant one in the interest of local justice.
Under existing laws everybody is driven
into the distant federal courts to recover
for the loss of stock, fences or crops de-
stroyed by a road while in tie
hands of receiver. This amounts to
practical denial of justice nine cases
out of ten. Senator Voorhees, proposes to
allow claimants to bring suit in their own
counties. He also has bill printing, in
troduced last session, repeating the juris-
diction now possessed by the federal courts
in all actions between citizens and national
banking associations. These are useful
reforms in the administration of Justice,
and ought to be adopted without delay.
THE MESSAGE
was endured with respectful silence and
partial attention, but the recommendations
of the president also emphatically repudi-
ated as Mr.. Arthur's opinions will weigh
very little with congress. Senators are
disposed to regard his message as
sort of death-bed repentance.
The professions of virtue on the subject of
political assessments are so fatty opposed
to the practice of Mr.. Arthur and his Sec
retaries and friends, that he would be more
respected if he had said nothing on the
subject. People care little for his views
on the tariff, and his suggestions on the
subject of the river and harbor bill will be
disregarded, especially his request for
constitutional amendment to give him the
control Of the purse string.
The report of the action of the
TARIFF COMMISSION
seems to be favorably received. Some
prominent Democrats said tonight that it
ought to be accepted. Members of the
ways and means committee say that the
bills of the commission will be reported to
the house as basis of action. Mr..
Tucker favors the abolition of all internal
revenue duties except the whisky tax. Sen
ator Beck delares for reduction Of whisky
tax to fifty cents per gallon, and tobacco
to twelve cents, with features sim plifying
collection and reducing the number of
government employees and spies. The two
parties are SO evenly divided that it is
hard to forshadow result, but the drift of
opinion to-day about the capitol is to some
moderate bill, which will move the ques-
ton from the scope of the next congress.
POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS,
Senator Beck. of Kentucky, has offered a
very stringent resolution, attacking the
system of political assessments. The res
olution recites first the law of con-
gress of Aug. Is, 1876, prohibiting
assessments, and also the circular of Jay
Hubbell, signed by. Senators W. B. Allison,
Eugene Hale, and Nelson Aldrich, and also
certain representatives, calling on govern