Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-02-21
MATTERS AND THINGS.

h4at e1O SHSAIy DIdiiu upon anything
is prima faeie evidence of cussedness.7
It seems to be very generally con-
coded that Senator Garland, of Arkan-
sas, will be made Attoney-G General.
1t was Patriot johnson, 'the sweet
gourd yine7 from Williamson, who in
troduced the new commission bill into
the House.
The public would like to know why
ex-Warden Tom Waters thought the
penitentiary was "a school for crime
but the investigating committee de-
clined to let him testify.
The West Tennessee Wing thinks
paper should not be judged by the
bigness of its SIZE" Probably the old
ness of its age might be suggested as
proper criterion.
We wish to keep the fact fresh in
the minds of our immediate represen-
tatives in the Legislature that the peo-
pie of Montgomery county oppose a
railroad commission, and have so ex-
pressed themselves at the ballot-box.
Business men everywhere oppose
the commission scheme. It is the men
who never travel and never ship any
thing that the demagogues have per-
suaded into believing that they are
oppressed by these grinding monop-
olies.1
A railroad commission bill has been
decided unconstitutional by the courts
and the people have rejected the
scheme at the ballot box. The consti-
tuition and the people be id, says
the Cherry gang, we want a commits
sion.
Col. Tom Neal, representative from
Obion, Lake and Dyer counties, was
mistaken for ~The Silver King" on the
streets of Nashville the other day. His
Argentine Majesty ought to feel COM
plimented. Col Neal is remarkably
good looking man.
Senator New, of Cannon, Putnam
and DeKalb, three counties that have
not one foot of railroad within their
borders, introduced the Commission
bill in the Senate. His constituents
would no doubt appreciate more atten-
ton to their material interests and less
zeal in the service OF Mr.. Cherry.
The penitentiary investigating COM
mittee refused to take the testimony
of witness who could tell nothing
about the condition of things since Gov.
Hawkins went out of office That is not |
the kind of investigation the people |
want, and nothing like smothering
testimony will be tolerated by the pub |
lie. Let the whole tale be told.
Our Mr.. Munford made a speech |
opposing the bill to allow criminal de- |
PENDANTS to testify. In the course of his |
remarks he got ofthe old saw, "The man
who has himself for lawyer, has fool |
for a client" The exact relevancy of the |
quotation don't suggest itself very
readily, but it was about as much to |
the point as anything Mr.. Munford |
had to say on the subject.
The New York correspondent of the |
Cincinnati Enquirer claims to have
received positive information that
Senator Bayard has been offered and
has accepted the Secretary OF States
place in Clevelands Cabinet. He got
his news from Senator Gorham, who
was party of the Sunday conference
at Albany.
Col A. S. Colyar's paper, the Amer
lean, was the first to point out the APP
parent collision between the peniten-
tiary lessees and the late railroad com
missioners in fixing up table of rates.
Col. Colyar is now a vigorous defender
OF the penitentiary lessees before the
investigating committee and We are
thereby led to Inquire if the American
spoke ex-cathedra when it made this
exposure.
THE Democrat OF this week has
something to say about how the editor
of the CHRONICLE voted last election.
The editor OF the Democrat represented
the bosses at the polls that day and our
ticket was submitted to his inspection.
1t counted all it could against Savage
& Co. Several other citizens seem to s
have voted the same way. The vote
at the Market House, where the Dem
ocrat man presided, stood. Savage so,
Conden 2IS {
The new Commission bill provides !
that the Commissioners shall have a s
clerk to receive $1,000 a year salary. |
The Commissioners are to have $1,000
a year each, and when their printing
bills &c, are paid the expense of the
whole concern will take about $4,000
annually out of the State treasury I
The State has got on swimmingly for t
thirty years without this extra expend- S
iture, and there is no reason why she t
shouldn't continue to do so. v
The new commission bill is not the o
product of any one brain, but the d
whole gang of regulators put their u
heads together and worked over it for 7
weeks. Just where the canny hand of Il
our Mr.. Munford asserts itself we are Il
not prepared to say, nor can we detect y
the touch of our esteemed Senator u
Bagwell; but that both of these gentle
men brought their craftsmanship and
legal acumen into the framing of the
bill is generally acknowledged. S
Ex-Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, is re- II
ported to have said: "Bayard is MAX n
ing a mistaken going into the Cabinet ia
1t is is the end of his representation Of II
Delaware That State has no one to Ia
ill his place. yet it will never send to
him back again. His Presidential as IL
are also at an end He has pw
40 further show for the Presidency. re
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