Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
LIEUT.. Gov. JOHN NJ. HAMILTON, of Hi |
nois, whs will succeed Gov. Cullom on the |
election OF the latter to the United States |
Senate, is a resident of Bloomington, and is |
only thirty. five years old. He is lawyer,
of the firm of Rowell & Hamilton, the Sc
nior member of which is a Republican |
representative in Congress.
The New York World says that any treaty |
of commercial reciprocity with Mexico, no |
matter how tentative and inadequate it may |
be, must inevitably in Democr attic hands be- |
come the entering wedge for a complete |
overthrow of the system which now hampers |
and chokes our commercial intercourse not |
only with Mexico, but with Central Ameri- |
ca with South America and with The islands |
OF The CaIibSe~~ sAa andthe Mexican Gulf |
The reaction against Republicanism in |
Massachusetts came TO an end in the prompt |
reelection of the venomous Hoar to the
Senate on the first ballot Hoar is as pestif- |
erous specimen OF the worst species of Re-
publicanism as one could find in a long ses-
sion, and his reelection is declaration that
Republicanism in Massachusetts does not
propose to go 10 extreme lengths in hberal-
izing itself or in taking risks on tidal waves.
So says the st. Louis Post. Dispatch.
AT least 100000, 900 acres of land, worth
from $500 900, 600 10 $4O0, 600, 900, have been
| forfeited by the Immigrant railroad compa-
MES through failure to earn the grants.
Grave questious are involved in the action
of Congress, and they are not to be deter
mined in the huriy-burly of the lobby or
| the seelusion of the committee. room. 1t is
| impossible for THE Congress 10 act in the
m after in the short time left at its disposal.
Ii will be the duty Of the Foriy.eighth Con-
| gress to see that not az acre of the public
land is illegally confirmed TO any corpora
| ton, and it will be equally the duty OF the
next Congress to see that no corporation is
wronged because it is corporation.
| THE Baltimore Day says: 1.-TWO or three
| elections which have taken place demon
slrate that the force of Republican indigna-
ton against the extravagance and mismsn-
| agement of the politicians Of that party has
spent itself, and that many of those who
voted two months ago for Democratic candi-
dates or else abstained from voting are now
prompt TO rally 10 the suppert OF any Re-
publican nominee, with viev to reversing,
so far as may be, their former action" To
evident that there is greater diligence in
noting the signs in the political hGizon
than heretofore, and that an effort is o be
made to keep the Democracy from builder
ing next year, if that 10 possible"
THEY say that young Robert Linsoln
made mistake in yielding 10 the temptation
to go into the Cabinet. It was the work
mainly OF James Harlan, of Iova, his
father-in-law, formerly secretary OF the in
terror, who haukered after life in the capital
once more. President Garfield thouht be
was doing something for his own admins
tration in introducing the son Of Abnham
Lincoln into his Cabinet, but all thai was
suddenly changed; Lincoln is called msely
the recording clerk OF Gen. Sherman. BE
has offered the assistant secretaryship 70 al
most everyone he could think Of, but so fa-
without taker. Two or three newspaper
correspondents at Washington have been Of
fered the place, but they decline with thatks.
Mr.. J. s. MOORE writes 10 the Chicsgs
Tribune TO warn the people against the pro.
posed tax on quinine. He shows that during
and previous TO 1879 quinne sold for upward
of So so per ounce. In that year the tax was
repealed, and since the repeal quinine has
sold as low as 81 so per ounce. A desperate
effort was made to get the Tariff Com mission
TO put quinine ON their revised schedule OF
dutiable articles. The effort was renewed
before the Finance Committee OF the Senate,
which revised the COMMISSIONER schedules,
but without success. The last resort of the
quinine manufacturers was to the Ways and
Means Committee of the House, and there
they succeeded. The duty recommended BY
that committee in its report now preparing is
ten per cent ad Ualoreai 1t is a case of four
manufacturers against 5000, 600 people.
The Louisville Courier. Journal calls atten.
tiou to the fact that in Minnesota, few
years ago, the Legislature created the Office
Of public examiner, whose duty it is to drop
at any time ino the Offices of State and
county officers and thoroughly overhaul
their books and papers. Mr.. Henry M
Knox, brother of Comptroller Knox, ha:
held the Office since its creation. He is an
8 expert accountant and very efficient officer
The result of his work is that, in the Offices
: under his jurisdiction, any attempt at crook
D edness would be at once detected. State and
| county officers and State bank officials can
e | not FIX up their cash books and ledgers &c
q cover steals. Mr.. Knox has no regular routs
in his travels. He may drop upon county
: treasurer at any moment. The result is
there n ave bssn no -defaloatinns in the oficei
supervised by Mr.. Knox. Would it not b
T we'll to have some such public examiner fol
Jefferson county and the city of Louisville
in view of recent developments?
e Gov. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS, of Geor
gia, regards the interoceanic canal question
as one of the most important that is to b,
l. presented for the consideration OF Congress
at this term. He thinks it ought TO be evi
!. dent TO all that in the near future a highway
i. for the largest vessels between the Atlanti,
a and Pacific will be an established fact Gov
Stephens says after close study he favors Al
the most feasible, looking to cost and short
ness of route for our commerce, Tn,
= Nicaragua ship canal route. He does no
y think the United States should ever ALLOW
4 by the inertia of her policy France or an,
: other European power BY superior states
manshlp or diplomatic policy to get posses
: sion or control OF this interoceauic communi
cation either under the guise of a grea
commercial enterprise or under their owl
, flag as our toll-takers, but that the Unite,
!, States should be independent of them, an,
:, should by proper means at their dispose
possess themselves OF the most PRACTICABLE
route that exists for this intercommunicaiior
THERE is truth, perhaps, as we'll az poiu
" in Senator Beck criticism on the Tariff Com
re mission that they themselves wrote thei
l. plausibly worded report savoring OF tariff re
Q, duction, while the schedules which fix th
ID | rates of duties on imported articles were pre-
d | pared in The main by men interested in tn
=. manufacture of those articles The men
is be benefited by grinding tariff taxes wrol
OF down the rates they wanted, according TO il
At form alton received by Mr.. Beck, and th
Tariff Commission copied of their lists an
q called them their report. 'They simpl
d. transferred the Arrangement Of the tariff |
We the men who are personally interested i
ss making money out OF these schedules, leaC
re ing men connected with each one taking thei
as particular schedule and fixing itup TO SUI
themselves, he commission only thrown
" them together and handing the result to us
IL their york. They have allowed interste
he parties 10 frame the bill" 1t ia thus thi
I'd Senator Beck accounts for the ingenious il
DIS tricscy Of the bill, and the fact that viii
he ostensibly reducing tariff duties, it actual
or raises them.
he.
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