Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-10
THE Atlanta Constitution says that "Mr

make 81 Yhefe the farmers make S5. 1.-The West
and South must have their say in legislation"
THE Atlanta Constitution says that "Mr.
Tilden's feeble health alone stands in the way of
says the Little Rock Ga=ette, 'that Mr.. Tilden
could be nominated ate, even were he physically as
IN 1854 will be seventy years old
SEVERAL acts passed by the Forty-third
General Assembly OF Tennessee are thought to be
unconstitutional, either in Themselves or in the
manner in which they were passed Especially is
this opinion held in regard 10 the State debt set
said TO a Banner reporter lately that the set was
Unconstitutional because 1t discrimn in favor
TIE Boston advertiser noticing that the
prohibitory amendment to the constitution of that
State has been defeated by decisive vote says:
There are many objections to the practice of put
ting ordinary law into the constitution for the
sake of making it irrepealable; and much as eyery
good man and woman desires that the evil of the
sale OF liquor shall be restricted TO the narrowest
possible limits this is not the way TO do iL'
THE New York Commercial Bulletin states
that the Croton Valley Job tits estimated will cal
for 1000 or 5000 workmen of ore kind and anothel
at once, and ii to these be added the 10 600 placer
men under the new charter-the first involving
the expenditure of from SIS 600 600 to SIS 600 600 in
the course of the next three four years ana the
latter say about $4,000, 900 per aniiuHi-the tax
payers will have quartered upon them a grand
tWho are Just now making arrangements for the
next presidential campaign, much more imposing
numerically than that with which Gen. Scott
stormed the citadel of Vera Cruz or captured the
halls of Montezuma."
The Roman augurs, il is said, could never
meet 10 the streets without laughing each other
The new capitol commissioners, it seems TO the
New York Commercial Bulletin, must be moved 10
like manifestations when they meet to discuss the
question, what the final cest OF that architectural
monstrosiiy is TO be. In response to a resolution
of the Assembly, we see, these gentlemen have re-
ported, with an ingenuousness that does them
credit, that they have 10 means of knowing what
the grand total will amount to. Except from in
formation furnished by the architects" Accord
ing to the latter the cost of completing the build
ing viii be ST. T3e, 900; but the architects ii is
clear, know no more about it than the commits
sioners or anybody else.
The Michigan Liquor Dealers Assoeia-
ton sent circular TO every saloon-keeper in the
State previous TO the election. The purport OF the
document, addressed to the friends OF personal
liberty. was that several bills before the Legiss-
ture, introduced by temperance people, would
succeed II the State election went largely Repub-
lcan, but that a Fusion victory would kill these
measures, the Republican majority would not
think it polite TO press them. With judges whose
private opinion was favorable TO them, the liquor
dealers hoped TO stand better chance TO have the
State laws construed in their favor. If the cleo
ton of one Fusion supreme Judge is assured, as
the early returns indicate, then this circular de-
vice was mott vain.