Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-05


education and larger opportunities given
woman than heretofore. That the
reverend doctor may live and learn the |
controversalists who oppose his views |
can find demonstration of in the fact |
that some years ago he was an earnest
advocate of clerical celibacy until he
met his fate and gave practical proof of |
his change of views.
The French spoliation claims have been
before Congress 80 years and there have
been 43 reports in their favor, but they
always manage to come up for considers
tion in the rush of the ten thousand bills
that fail of passage and this year they
met their usual fate.
THE Harrisburg Patriot has been grad
ually making the improvements annOunc.
ed some time ago and with greatly in-
creased telsgraphic service, enlarged local
correspondence, strengthening of its
editorial departments and general i'm
provements in its make.u up it has taken
far-advanced rank among the best news
papers of the state.
A WASHINGTON correspondent AYERS
that writing history has heightened His
torian Bancrnft's days and suggests that
this may be an Indictment impelling Blaine
to furnish his contemplated chronicle of
political events in the United States be-
tween tho Lincoln and Garfield admin
istrations. Should this fact induce some
of the lately shelved statesmen to present
public account of their own and asso
ciates' doings there would be some enter.
tanning developments and mighty inter-
esting reading.
The american. of Philadelphia, con
sistently and devotedly Republican as it is,
comedies that the Democracy has purer
leadership than the Republican party. 'It
may be said that its men differ only be-
cause they have had less opportunity and
less temptation. Be it SO. Still, the
country will prefer spoilable to spoiled
goods. It will take men like Mr.. Bayard,
MIR. Lamar, Mr.. Macdonald, Mr.. Pendle-
ton, Mr.. Hewitt and Mr.. Carlisle, in pre-
ference to party hacks and sringsters
who are distinctly the worse for pro-
longed lease of place and power. The
Democrats have taken to heart the lessons
Of political adversely. They have retired
to fitting obscurity the men who led it
only to contempt and defeat.''
EMORY SPEER, the hybrid congressman
from Georgia, told story the other day
about the tariff, which will fit other COM
munities than his. He said there was an
old negro called "Fiddler Billy" who was
tried for fighting and sentenced to re-
ceive thirty nine lashes. While his lawyer
an old, methodical gentleman, was writ
ing a motion for a new trial Billy was
taken out and got his lashes. When he
came back his lawyer said to him :
Never mind, Bmy. you will get new
trial" "Oh, no, master, said Billy,
" for God s sake let us have no more new
trials" So the people, having gone through
all this tariff excitement, wanted to get
rid of it and hear no more about it, for
| tho present at least.
NEW JERSEY cannot too soon pass the
law, pending before its Legislature, giving
defendant convicted of contempt OF
court the right, under proper regulations
to have his conviction reviewed by a
higher and disinterested court. At pre-.
sent over there, as formerly over here,
a Judge who fancies himself aggrieved,
may proceed on his own motion to convict
the offender of contempt of court for the
most trifling thing, and send him to prison
for any number of years or impose any
fine he may chose. No matter how arbi.
trary or unjust the condemnation or pun
ishment may be, there is no appeal or
relief for the unfortunate defendant ex-
cept what may be given by an act of the
Legislature. The court ats as complain.
ant, prosecutor. judge and jury. New
Jersey justice is proverbially swift and
severe, but, considering of what stuff
judges are made nowadays, it would be
we'll for the jurisprudence of that state
| that it's bar should not be thus exposed to
| the tender mercies of the bench.
WITH the usual scenes Of disorder and
turbulence continued far into the Sabbath
Congress adjourned yesterday. The in
terest had all centered in the tariff and
internal revenue bill and after it passed
little was accomplished. The vote on this
measure and the new features of the
internal revenue law, of most interest in
this locality, will be found on our first
page. The Senate came to its end decor
ously and with the usual lspeeches. In the
House there was riot and confusion; the
Republicans tried to seat a mulatto, who
was not elected, according to their own
elections committee chairman, but were
successfully resisted. Keifer crowded the
wives and daughters of the members into
the press gallery to the exclusion of the
correspondents, and to their remonstrances
he said the correspondents had "been
putting on airs :" he proposed to show
them that he "run the House." he didn't
"give damn for the press to hell with
it." So the correspondents held an indigna-
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