Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

securities
POLITICAL NOTES.
The Pennsylvania Legislature is asked by
a committee of physicians to pass law appoint
lag board for the distribution and delivery of
dead bodies TO the medical colleges.
MALONE is reported as threatening that
unless he is given prominent place on the Senate
Finance Committee, Me and Riddleberger will
raise hell with Republican calculations when the
new Senate is organized"
SENAToR-ELEcT CoLQUITT, OF Georgia, lee
tured in Cleveland, O.. last Saturday evening, and
was introduced TO the audience by ex-President
Hayes (Which reminds u.s." says the Mobile
Register, "that party named Hayes WAS once
president OF the United States.
The Boston Herald thinks there is good
deal of truth in the remarks concerning certain
congressman who have voted for tariff reduction
in several instances. that they are good revenue
reformers until you touch their pet monopoly,
when they are for protection only"
The attorney-general of Iowa has been
consulting with the governor for day or two
past and it is reported that he will soon prepare
petition to the Supreme Court for rehearing of
the prohibition amendment validity case at the
Council Bluffs term, March 2Oth One two
lawyers have tried to file motions for rehearing
but the clerk refused to docket their motions
under the rules of the court.
The hovel ia the legitimate offspring Of
! the palace, and under the tariff system this must
be the result 1t cannot be otherwise. The logi-
cal result of aggregated capital, judiciously
handled as it is in New England manufacturing
| and banking is to absorb all other or isolated
capital. 1t is only question of time and the per-
centsge when all will find its way into the Golfers
of the few, and the great mass will have nothing
| left except their labor.
THREE recent decisions Of THE Supreme
Court of the United States affecting the rights Of
the States settle the following questions: The
ifr-s ALL e-~I.asiVe jurisdiction Of the
States the civil rights OF citizens The second
afIirms the constitutonality OF State laws pro-
hibihng and making criminal the intermarriage
of whites and blacks. The third denies the power
of any State to abrogate or in any way impair the
rights OF citizens to sit on juIies on account Of
their color.
"THE Atlanta PJst-Appeat must excuse "a"
says the Chattanooga Times, "if we entertain
| tempt for the New York Herald as a preacher OF
| tariff reform any other kind of reform. A man
| who makes $500 900 a year on plant worth half
| that sum in cash, and lavishes 1t on polo, fox
/ hunting and shoddy efforts to rival royalty and
nobility in Europe is not our kind of reformer.
| Southern editors who laud Jim Bennett and his
| habby sheet as reformers and friends Of lsboE
| simply make themselves ridiculous"
THE Little Rock Gasstle -eays that the
Senate three-mile Blii pissed py the Arkansas
House of ReprsenlssiTes on Friday differs from
the present act 10 uniting the time Of prohibition
on a petition OF majority OF the inhahitanis to
two years, ana extending the operations of the
actto cities of the first and second class which
includes Little Rock. The advocates of the pro
htbitory method will in time discover that by
this provision they have greatly weakened the
measure.
The Kansas Legislature is in the throes OF
reapportonment. There is no
probability of party gerrymanding bill being
passed, as the legitimate majority of the Republi
cans is so large that 1t is hardly possible to arrange
the districts so as to give the Democrats chance
-t~-oacot fS5ssiDic, however,
that the Legislature will be Influenced by the nu-
merous aspirsnts for congressional honors into
ehoppfng up the State into some grotesque fashion
so as to aid a few fayorites
In his memorial Grafton at the celebration
of Georgia's sesquicentennial anniversary GOV.
Stephens recommended that that States two
inches in Statuary Hall, in the capitol at Wash
ington, be filed with statues OF James Oglethorpe
founder of the colony of Georgia, and of DR..
Crawford Long, of Athens, Ga, who was said Mr.
Stephens two years ahead of Wells and Merton
in his application of knlphuric ether for the relief
OF pain in surgical operations, and TO whom,
therefore, belong the honor and glory of this great
est discovery of modern times
The IowG Stale Register says: al this
Democratic stealing keeps on In the Southern
States, the people there will want carpethag milo
again. and even the Democrats will cry out to have
back the government of the Northern CARPET
baggers and Northern robbers" ''This, SAYS the
Mobile Register, sis intended to be very sarcastic
but the State Register should reflect if it ever does
anything of that sort, that two state treasurers
bear very small proportion to the Democrats Of
the South 1t is a rare thing to find thief among
them while, on the other hand, it a rare thing
to find man who did not steal among the carpet
baggeTs."
A FRIEND OF Jim Blaine's says be is very
busy on that work now. He is working hard and
is making considerable progress. You would be
surprised 10 know how much he is sought after
now: People who were openly against him a short
time ago are now very anxious to make friends
with him. This sudden change from coldnesE
and indifference to warmth and friendship COM
menced Just as soon as it was known that Blaine
was going to write a book 1t has got abroad that
Blaine's book Will make mighty interesting read
ing. He Will have good deal to say about public
men, and naturally these public men are somewhat
anxious that he shall deal with them kindly.
One branch of the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture calls on the members OF Congress from that
State to make every effort to secure the expung-
ing from the records of the vote of passed
upon Cakes .imes by the Foriy-seeond Congress"
This relates to the notorious Credit Mobilier bust
ness. Mr.. AmeS's son had himself elected lieu
tenant-governor of Massachusetts, last year as a
"vindioation" of his father. SO that it is plain
where the spring thatmoves the Legislature is
eealed. Moreover, Mr.. Ames expects to go to
Congress himself by and by as further ''vindica-
tion and in order to bring his personal weight to
bear in favor of the expunging of the censure.
SOME of the Louisiana members of C)u-
gress do not like the proposed treaty with Mexico,
because it permits the free importation of Next
can sugar. They assert that Cubans will ship su-
gar to Mexico to be reshipped to the United |
States. What they object to is one of the best ea-
lures of the treaty. eve do not see," says the |
Vieksburg Herald. why a cotton planter should |
pay taxes to the sugar planter. Sugar is a neces-
sary of life, and it should be admitted free of |
duty from Mexico and all the balance of the |
world. Protecting the thousand-acIe rich sugar |
plantations is much an outrage as protecting |
the iron and steel mills. None of it is just or |
wise"
The Nashville Banner says that well-in- |
formed men warned the people dnring the last |
canvass that the Estate debt proper would segre
gate more than s2,Ils 600. Shallow politicians, |
who adopted the Wilson report as true, and wrote |
10 Col Savage and ex-Gov. Marks for their opinion
as to the correctness OF the amount, with the wis
dom of owls gave the people to understand that
the above every dollar" OF the sacred debt.
The same politicians have since had the records
thrust under their noses, and are forced to an
nounee that they have found" s5oO,OOO more.
But as the Chinaman would say, alice ssmee they
stick 20 s. lis 00O and permit the discovered $780,
900 to take the chances"
WHATEVER the FINAL verdict OF the So.
preme Court may be, the anti-Mormon population
of Utah have doubt of the constit utionality of
the Edmunds act. Because Judge Black cues
tons its validity, the Gentiles pour out walls of
wrath on his head with unwonted energy. The
Salt Lake Tribune wants 70 know whether he is
seeking the fame of the lawyers who defsnied
Cetiline and secured the conviction of Christ and
mildly suggests that in the infancy Of polygamy
in Utah he "oficiated in the double capacity of