The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-01-28
conferred upon Probate Judges under

conferred upon Probate Judges under
our old system.
The official return of the Ordinary to
that authorization reads as follows:
MIR. Marshall declines the Office The
people of that district think they are bet
ter Oft without q Justice of the Peace, and
manage to have the Grand Jury recon-
mend q man who will not serve. If I
was to order an election they would elect
some fictitious character. am told they
once beat a man who wanted the office
with somebody's bull.''
That -rapturing announcement,
coming as 1t does from the solid South,
without precedent in the history of our
country, inciines the disinterested OBJ
server to belief that mental decrepitude
is close at hand, or, they've got ratified
from reading '.Bellamy's Looking Back
ward.H
REMEDY PRESENTED.
The gravity of the disease requires
heroic treatment. 1t is suggested that
the Secretary of the Interior take hold
of this matter Immediately with the
view of converting it into one of our ma
tionai reservations after the style of Vel
lowstone Park or Yosemite Valley. An
inexpensive ciotuYe of barbeG wire and a
suitable guard to protect them from the
grand army OF curioSity-hunterS who
would soon move thither, is respectfully
offered as starter. a moderate fee for
admission, in prescribed numbers, sufli-
cient to insure the insiders from being
kidnapped and the outsiders from being
proSalyted, might augment the income of
our national ill.,
Should this economic idea fail to pay a
reasonable profit on the investment it is
further suggested that the Secretary of
War shall shall order General Miles, the
w cot lns. ft.A g. IL 4
Knees, the regular army, in short, the en-
tire outfit of Indian Territory to move at
once on these misguided citizens of Tai
bot county, Georgia, and over-awe them
before this anti-American and revolution
airy tendency spreads farther into the
land.
While these incontrovertible facts are
facing us with seditious and threatening
forebodlngs, Senators of the United States
will set up all night; take cat-naps on
lounges in the cloak-room; drink cold
catnip tea from the Senate restaurant
underneath; eat frequently and irregu-
larly of crackers and cheese at nocturnal
intervals; get as full as the House of
Lords towards morning-in short. SUBJ
inconvenience known to legislative
bodies. then take the floor and argue
against the .'cloture'' and force" meas
ures, now pending before that body.
a MATTER FOR SERIOUS CONSIDERATION.
Referring again to Statuary Hall, it is
proper to say that every visitor from the
far West instinctively inquiries why it is
that California has no representative. 1t
is true, California has thus far contributed
no shrine nor sacred relic to this great
Pantheon of modern days, and the delay
is not in keeping with her generally
accepted reputation for promptitude
In order that this SIJhiaat rpa.y ha
thoroughly understood, that part of the
United States Revised Statutes referring
TO it reads as follows: ''Section 1914.
Suitable structures and ratings shall be
erected i'll the old hall of Representatives
for the reception and protection of
statuary, and the same shall be under the
supervision and direction of the Chief of
Engineers in charge Of public buildings
and grounds. And the President is au-
thorized to invite all the States to provide
and furnish statues, in marble or bronze.
not exceeding two in number for each
State, OF deceased persons who have been
| citizens thereof, and illustrious for their
historical renown or for distinguished
CIVIC or military services, such as each
Gtate may deem worthy of this national
commemoration; and when so furnished,
the same shall be placed in the old hall
OF the House of Representatives, in the
Capitol of the United States, which is set
apart, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, as national statuary hall, for
the purposes herein indicated.''
This law was passed in July, 1864. a ne
Rod i'll our national history when thir-
teen of the Southern States were engaged
in open rebellion against the general
Government. In that exceedingly IN
fortunate affair nearly all her prominent
| men SympathiZed or took an active part
towards aiding their native section.
| ! Nt-Ill ln L
more before the South will find it suited
to her desires for supplying her quota.
Nearly all Of the Northern States have
already done so. Among the number we
see Livingston and Fulton of New York,
Roger Williams from Rhode Island.
Sheridan and Stockton of New Jersey,
Collamer and Ethan Allen of Vermont.
Irumbull and Sherman of Connecticut,
Muhienberg and Hamilton of Pennsyl-
wanna, Lewis Cass of Michigan, William
Allen and James A. Garfield of Ohio.
Adams and Winthrop of Massachusetts.
Washington and Jefferson of Virginia. q.
D. Baker of Oregon, and other Ameri-
cans as well as distinguished foreigners.
The statuary costing from twelve to
| twenty thousand dollars each.
In view of the foregoing facts T feel
constrained to present to the Legislature
now III session at Sacramento
AN OPEN MEMORIAL.
To the Honorable Members of the Senate
and House Of Representatives of the State
! Of California: Your memoriaiist, a citi-
zen of San Francisco, respectfully repre-
sents that the State of California. not the
youngest, but the proudest and happiest
sister in this great family of free andain-
dependent States, has no representatives
in this silent hall of Congress, to tell by
| their mute but august presence who they
were that guided her infant steps and
| shaped her growing form into grace and
prosperous maidenhood.
Your memorialist respectfully suggests
that proper appropriations be made from
the State Treasury to the end that Cali
fornia may stand abreast with her sister
States in testifying her appreciation of her
pioneers and promoters by suitable en-
blems to be deposited at the nations capi
tol, and further suggests the statues OF
John A. Suffer and David G. Broderick
as being eminently typical of California's
good name and achievements.
And your memorialist will ever pray.
RICHARD LAMBERT.
STATE SCHOOL BOOKS.