Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-02-28

Railroad Commission Bill PASSED the
Senate by vote of 81 to TO- Good
One very potent argument against
an extra session OF Congress is that the
Tennessee Legislature will not be in
session TO direct its action.
The bill for the suppression OF pluro-
pneumonia among cattle, failed in the
House Tuesday. The appropriation
feature scared the Solons.
Our hoterial representative, Mr..
SHELTON, is young member, but he is
catching ON to legislative ways mighty
fast He has introduced a bill to
change the line between the counties
of Houston and Humphreys
The only two charges remaining
against Frank James in Missouri have
been dismissed, and the notorious out
law is now free man. He may be
re-arrested on acquisitions from other
States.
An" signs the solon, when he cons
over the mastery speech he made on
a bill pending before Congress, in the
/ Tennessee Legislature, ~the dear peo-
pie will know where belong when
they read that production"
The trouble about the average Ten
nessee Scion is that his position in the
Legislature don't give him enough
room. His gigantic intellect is bound
to expand, so to speak, and he escapes
the pressure by discussing national
/ issues.
Our esteemed Senator Bagwell
wanted to postpone the consideration
OF Senator Lambs bill to repeal the
railroad commission law so he could
make a speech on the subject The
Senate declined to hear the eloquent
| gentleman by vote of 10 to IL.
There is great distress and suffering
in Gilmer, Baxter and Calhoun coun-
ties. which are in the interior of West
| Virginia, many miles from railroads.
Whole neighborhoods are suffering Tor
want of proper food, and live stock is
/ dying by herds.
The Lebanon Herald urges as one
need OLA constitutional convention, to
~create an appellate court of two iudg-
es, to sit in each division Of the State,
with n supreme court OF three judges
to sit at Nashville, to finally determine
the laws of the land"
Mr.. Cherry's organ calls it "a serious
delection"-the opposition to the rail
road ruination bill by Democratic
members. 1t no doubt looks very Sc
rious to Mr.. Cherry, and we suppose
it is in observing the peoples wishes
instead of his where the detection
comes in
/ The Gallatin Tennessean, the Nc
| Minnville New Era, the Franklin Re-
view aud Journal, the Union City
/ Anchor and the GAINESVILLE Democrat,
are the only weekly papers in the
State, coming under our observation,
that urge the passage OF the New rail
road commission bill. Sixty or more
oppose 1t.
! We are convinced that the honora-
/ ble Senators who passed the Lamb bill
before Senator Bagwell could make
speech on the subject lost the opportu
nifty of their lives If they had heard
the eloquent address of the Senator at
the Court House in this city last Fall,
which he begun by saving, "Fellow
citizen: have rode twenty miles to-
day, &c" they would never leta chance
! slip to hear him crate.
Alta meeting OF the Conservative
peers held at the residence OF Marquis
Salisbury Monday, it was unanimously
resolved to move in the House of
Lords vote of censure against the
Government for its Egyptian policy.
i'm the Commons, Sir Stafford North
cote, in the presence OF full house,
arose and moved that an humble adj
dress, of which he gave aotics Thurs
day, be presented to the Queen, repre-
senting that the course pursued by
the Government in regard to the in
yasiOn of the Soudan has involved
great sacrifice OF valuable lives and
heavy expenses without any beneficial
result, rendering it positively Recessa-
nv to the interest of the British En-
pire and the Egyptian people that the
Government should distinctly recog-
nize and take decided measures to full
gil the responsibility now encumbent
upon them to insure a good and stable
government in Egypt and those por-
tions of the SOudan necessary for its
security.
United States Marshal Hal Gosling
was hilitNN On d Tram lbtStT NEW DIOiiS-
fels, Texas, Saturday, IN a fight with
some prisoners he was conveying to
san Antonio. 1t was a very desperate
affair. The prisoners we're noted high
waymen and mail robbers They had
their handouts secretly removed and
arms furnished them by two of their
female relatives who were accompany
ing them. Costing, one of prisoners
and one OF the women were killed in
the fight, and deputy Marshal and an
other woman badly wounded. The
other prisoner who succeeded in es-
Gaping at the time was killed by par
ty who went in pursuit. Marshal |
Gosling will be remembered as the |
man who arrested Treasurer Polk and |
brought him back to Tennessee. He |
was born in Shelbyville, Tenn, in
1858, graduated at Annapolis Naval |
Academy, studied law in Washington
City, located in Parsons, Kan, and re-
moved to Texas about seven years
ago, locating at Castorville, where he
won notice as editor of The Quill, and
stood in the front rank of his profes-