Smyrna times., 1884-04-23

and contest of the federal patronage In
that CITY to that district. The resOlu-
ton declaring for Blaine, though not
instructing the delegates meets with
general favor. Upon the whole the
work of the Convention can be COM
mended by Republicans generally.
---~--~--~---------u~~--~~~--
THE prospect of a bankrupt bill
being passed by the present Congress,
and perhaps even the present session,
is very favorable. The Lowell bill, as
amended to meet the more serious OBJ
iections urged at the last session, is
progressing swimmingly in the Senate.
The antagonisms which have hereto
fore barred its progress seem to have
been overcome. and its adoption by the
upper branch of Congress may be con-
fidently expected. 1t is proposed in !
the House to make the bill special |
order and pass it as soon as possible.
The need of IA general bankrupt law is,
unfortunately, very widely felt at the
present time, and, if Congress is alive
20 its duty. the pending bill will be a
law before it takes its Summer adjourn
ment.
IT would be very discfeditable
thing it the bill to punish the manu-
facture in this country of foreign coun-
terfeit money should not pass ut this
session of congress. Such bills have
been again and again before that body,
and their prOpriety is entirely con-
ceded, yet in the press of public busi-
ness they have failed to receive final
consideration. At the present session,
the measure has passed the Senate
unanimously, and is now pending in
the House. Quoting the words of a
contemporary, lit can scarcely be
possible that measure of so much i'm
pOrtance, and to the object of which
only criminals can oppose any Objec-
ton, will be permitted to fail again.
International fair dealing, not to say
decency, requires that we should put a
stop TO this sort of export trade"
The dispatches from England speak
of a great depression in the shipping
interest, the English ports being crowd
ed with vessels which can obtain no
cargoes, and the seaport towns with
sailors out of work. Partly this is due
to the shortening of the route to India
by the Suez canal, and partly to the
great construction of ships of all kinds
in British aud Irish doek-yards during
the last ten years. The cheapenipg o
material and of labor has induced
capitalists, who were not already ship
owners, to build new vessels, and a
they cost SO much less than vessel
already in service, they were run a
lower rates Of charge for freight. A
a consequence the natural losses b
ship-Owners from the depression @
hard times, have been increased by thi
competition of more cheaply built yes
sells, and many of them have bee
driven TO the verge of ruin or beyon
it.
ONE of the most gratifying feature
of Mr.. Blair's bill to extend nations
aid to education, which passed ii
Senate recently and is now before u
House, is the entire omission of Il
Objectionable feature in the propose
made by Mr.. Logan and Blaine. I'll
eighty-fve million dollars it appropl
ates is not taken from any specil
source of revenue. bnt from Il
national treasury simply. The tax {
whiskey is not identified with Il
cause of education; and were that Il
to be abolished after the passage of Il
bill. the money it appropriates won
De distributed Notwithstanding. III
removes what was a serious source
offence in Mr.. LOgan's bill. It
Strongest friends of education are ge
orally The strongest enemies of {
liquor traffic. They were greatly I
willing to have the prosperity of /
former made dependent on the pro-
of the latter. As it stands, the |
comes the nearer TO the propoGal
distribute the entire surplus amo
the states, because of this omission.
A SPECIAL grasd jury has been c
panelled in Cincinnati to inYestig
the causes of the riots and criminal
which attach to the killing of vari
persons in their conrse. II Is char
10 ascertain whether there was /
bribery employed to procure the ,
dict which provoked the outbreak.
is composed Of respectable citiz,
whose decisions upon these qucsti
may be expected to carry weight,
The root of the trouble in Cincinl
seems to be found in the nBreadii
of such citizens to undertake ser
ON ordinary juries, and TO give sufiic
attention to the direction Of city
ties. 1t was because such men as q
did not constitute the jury which {
Berner. That a verdict of manslaug
was found in defiance of both law
fact. And it was because such me
these are too much occupied with |
private affairs to care properly for
lie interests, that the recent eieei
resulted in the complete collapse 0
Independent movement in that
Only about a thousand voters
above partisan considerations and
alleir ballots for mau whnse nor