Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-22
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JEFF DAVIS AND MRS. DORSEY.
| Telegraphic dispatches stated thai
/ the supreme court decided outright
that Mrs. Dorsey's heirs lost Their
cause in the suit against Jefferson
Davis. On the contrary, the court
/ failed to discuss any question Of right
or title involved, only declaring that
/ the suit was brought on the wrong
| side of the court. The case was re.
manded that il might be re-instructed
in court of law rather
than an equity. But all the facts in
volvrd in this contest between Mr..
Davis and the heirs of his benefactress
! were before the court, and if it existed
for the good of the country and people
why did it not settle the interminable
and costly controversy at once? Mrs.
Dorsey's heirs will grow old and be
reduced to poverty, and Davis 90
down into the grave. Meanwhile law
yers ana courts and their cumbrous
costly machinery roll on, like Jugger-
naut's car, crushing out the very lives
and fortunes of those whom they were
instituted TO serve. Courts, as well US
revenue codes, need excelsior and re.
form. Jack Evans only tells
of local evils incident To
the machinery and slothfnlness
and nepotism OF these courts that cost
the people $40 for each one collected
from defendants and paid over to plain
tifis. Mrs. Dorsey's heirs would be
banIrurted by final victory. 1t were
wiser to nurse the delusions of a patriot
claim eniombed in dingy pigeon holes
OF the committee on claims than follow
the jacI-o'.laptern of lawsuit till IL is
extinguished in dreary fogs of solemn
Ivy and ceremony enveloping the SUI
preme court of the United States.
SENATORIAL CLERKS.
Each senator made chairman of a
committee Is entitled To clerk, paid
as such out Of the contingent fund of
the senate. Even the chairman OF the
COMMITTEES on revolutionary claims
which has not been convened since
1868, or about that date, has his clerk.
Therefore are chairnanships eagerly
sought after, and therefore do needless
committees subsist forever, and there
fore committees are organized with ref.
erence TO exactions of craftsmanship
rather than in accordance with right
and the fitness of senators for special
duties and tasks assigned these com
mittees.
Z ~ 10 NAioV Niut luub tacI SttlatOr Is
compelled, If he serves his constituents
properly and read and answer count
less letters from his state, to employ n
day that his constituents do
not require him to visit one or more of
the departments. He must go GER
tainly twice or thrice each week To
the agricultural bureau. He must at
tend to two or three country postmas-
ters, and have as many cheerful chats
each morning with the jocund Hatton
or grim Gresham. The ugly custom
houses OF Texas and of the .oan Hbye
daily send Coke and Maxey 10 the
Mcsauriaa Folger. The president
must be coddled when Jack Evans Is
riied. Then these senators must rush
madly back To attend meetings of SEN
ate committees. Then they must lis
ten for hours TO Hoar or Morgan.
and then ride down nj
~ p. m. TO dinner and then
attend IN their private apartments to
visitors from Texas, each with AN axe
TO grind while onr Tom grinds-~hls
little hatchets. Then there are special
questions which these senators would
discuss IN the committee rooms or on
the iloor OF the senate. They must 90
TO the library and consult books and
r's'a ipfnt.rppSa, rf'pr~qris trans.
lui'nsd into scI slJeSui.xs. Never u.,,
men more mnltilarioua duties, and no
living man, representing Il great state.
can fulfill his obligations satisfactorily
10 himself and his constituents who
has not an intelligent clerk.
AN UNEQUAL. DIyI SON.
As the senate Is organized to-day by
Republicans, chairmanships and
clerks are the monopoly of Northern
senator's. These are richs When the
senate does not provide they hire
clerks and commonly have two Others
each, one OF these photographer and
letter writer. Texas senators receive
IN ayerageof fifty letters each per diem.