Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-21

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campaign list of those who had not paid
would be placed in the hands of the heads
| OF departments.
Mr.. Vest, continuing, said the great
eVil In civil service now was that the Re-
| publican party had come to believe that
the on1ces belonged to them as a matter of
right, and, ignoring the people, proceeded
TO tear each other to pieces about the pat
ronage; and this, more than ANYTHING
else, had contributed to their recent de-
| feat.
Replying to Mr.. Hale's charge that the
whisky interest" was an allv of the
Democratic party, and Mr.. Sherman's
statement that the result of the recent
I election in Ohio was largely due to that
| alliance, Mr.. Vest said that for the last
/ twenty years the ''whisky interest," had
| voted cteadily with the Republicans, and
their complaint now that they were defeat
| ed last fall by the detection of that interest
was an admission that their past tri-
umphs had been won by its aid. To
show on which side the liquor influence
| really is, Mr.. Vest made an elaborate
| comparison between the States that voted
/ for Garfield and those that voted for
Hancock, of approximately the
same population, as to the
number of wholesale and retail LIQUOR
/ dealers in each, according to the internal
revenue returns, showing, he said, that
in the Garfield States there were 108, 1873
/ retail liquor dealers, against 81 742 in the
! Hancock States, inhabited by |Ethe whisky
soaking Democracy" giving to the gentle
men upon the Republican side, represent
| ing, of course, the intelligence. and mo-
rality and religion and sObriety of the en-
| tire country, clear majority of 80, 456
saloons. Laughter.
Carrying comparison into details, he
| stated that Maine, with a prOhibitorY
! liquor law for thirty-One years past. had
one retail liquor shop for every 791 inhabi-
tants, while West Virginia, with about
/ the same population and no prOhibitory
law, had only one saloon for every Sl6 in
habitants; Iowa had one to every 376 in
habitants, while Texas had only one to
| every 54o; New Hampshire, with prohibit
| tory law, had one to every 376inhabitants.
while Florida, with nearly the same
| population, had only one to every 553;
| Kansas, with prOhibitory law, had one
! to every $40, while South Carolina,
with almost the same population
and no prohibitOry law, had
one to every 917, and in Massachusetts,,
under the shadow of Plymouth Rock
! daughter there was one liquor retailer to
every pa inhabitants, while in North
Carolina, with nearly the same popula-
ton. there was only one to each 7O8.
Mr.. Vest denied that the Democratic
party was held together by the hope of
public plunder. If the party had de-
pended upon that it would have gone to
pieces long ago, and in conclusion he
would say to the gentlemen on the other
side of the chamber: ''YOu may defeat us
again-that is in the hands of God
and of the future-but so long as
the love of local self-government
exists in the hearts of the American
people, so long, under God, will we meet
you face to face and hand to hand, to dis
pute your supremacy in these United
States of ours. Offices may be iu your
be at your commando; admin
istratiOns may be the subtle tools
of the party, to trample out the free suf-
frages of people; but again and again will
we meet you, to contest your right to
ignore what we believe to be the great
principles of this government-lOcaIs self
! government, the right of communities and
individuals to govern themselves, so long
as they do not interfere with the rights of
Others.'
THE PACIFIC RAILROADS.
The Senate Committee on Railroads had
under consideration to-day the bill intro
| duced at the last session by Senator Mil
! Ter, OF California, to authorize the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company and other
railroad companies to unite and consolidate
so as to form a continuous line of railroad
between the tidal waters of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. Two or three other
bills bearing upon the same subject have
heretofore been referred to the
committee, and to-day a subcommittee
was appointed, consisting of Senators
Sawyer, Saunders, Williams, Brown and
Sewell, to whom the whole matter was re-
ferred, with instructions to prepare a bill
authorizing such consolidation. The bill
Will contain provision fOrbidding the
consolidation of parallel or competing
lines of railroad between the Pacific
Ocean and ports on the Gulf of Mexico or
Mississippi river.
NOMINATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS.
Among the nominations sent to the Sem
ate to-day were: Hiram L. Grant, to be
postmaster at GOldsbOro, n. G.
Among the combinations by the Senate
were: Commodore Edmund r. Calhoun,
to be Rear Admiral; j. G. Bancroft Davis,
to be a Judge of the Court of Claims;
Clayton McMichael, to be Marshal of the
District of Columbia, and the following
pOstmasters: w. II. Aspinwall, at Wis
ton, w. Va; Mrs. L. L. Akerson, at Wills
burg, VIVA; c. S. KrOuse, at Culpepper,
Va; w. F. Slater, at Wytheville, Va. S.
NJ. Yost, at Staunton, Va, and Miss NJ. d.
Todd, at Cynthiana, Ky.
THE SILVER DOLLARS.
The Director of the Mint says that all
Mint on the first of July last, amounting
to 4,742, ,995, have been shipped to various
points in the South, and that all but $780,
600 of the $3,000,000 subsequently coined
at the same mint have been similarly
shipped to Southern cities,
PLEASANTs' HEAD TO FALL.
Charges have been filed against L. NJ.
Peasants, cOlored, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Savannah, Ga,, district,
of ineficiency and Irregularities. The
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
recommended his removal. 1t is under
stood that change will be made,
THE RECESS RESOLUTION,
The Senate Committee on Appropria-
tiOns, to whom was referred the House
resolution providing for a recess from
December 22d to January ID, to-day in
structed Mr.. Allison to report it to the
Senate. with a recommendation for its
odOOfiOn