The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-19
Louisiana and Kansas.

| Louisiana and Kansas.
The verdicts returned by the Louisiana
! juries in the damage suits based upon the
! lynching of Italians in New Orleans in
! 1890, and the verdict of the Kansas Jury
| in the damage suit for the lynching of
! negro at Abilene last April afford an in
| teresting contrast Reduced to figures,
| the verdicts would seem to show that the
! love of justice in the concrete in Louisiana
| in proportion to the same in Kansas is at
the ratio of 800 to 1. The Louisiana juries
| have tried five cases, and have awarded
in each damages averaging s., 200, and
ranging from 81, 800 to $1,000 The Kan
sas jury awarded damages in the sum
| total of 81. Two of the Louisiana YER
| diets, by the way-for 81, 500 and S2,5OO-
| have been set aside, on the ground that
! they are too small. The amounts will sbe
! raised and then the comparison of love
of justice will have to be revised, to the
further disadvantage of the Kansans.
Another matter to be considered in
connection with this contrasting of Justice
in the two states is the personalities and
races of the lynchees. The New Orleans
! victims belonged to an organized, secret
mltted numerous outrages for
which the law was powerless to
punish them; they were criminals in their
own country and terror to their own
! people. AS a race they had never been
| petted, pampered and fought for by the
| people of Louisiana. The Kansas victim
was black man. He belonged to race
the recital of whose alleged wrongs reused
| Kansas to frenzy more than thirty years
| ago, and from which condition she has
| had but few lapses. OF all states in the
union abstract justice for the blacks
| obtained most in Kansas. Yet we have
a Kansas jury returning 50 verdict for
| the lynching of a negro Fred Douglass,
| not long ago, remarked that sin the
south dead Niger is joke" In Kan
sas, it seems, "dead niger" is not even
funny; after they have hung him they
merely pay 81 for him and call it square
The men whose names have been most
! prominently mentioned in connection with
the filling of the vacancy on the supreme
| court bench are Senator Gray, of Della
ware, Secretary Carlisle, Secretary
! Gresham and Judge d. Cady Herrick, of
New York. 1t is stated that the Presi-
| dent had Senator Gray in mind for the
| place before he appointed Judge Horn
blower and that now it is almost a fore
! gone conclusion that the iusticeship will
be offered to the senator 1t is the pro-
| gramme that the wiseacres at Washing
ton have figured out that Senator Gray is
TO be appointed to the supreme bench,
Ambassador to England Bayard is to sue
coed Mr.. Gray in the Senate, and that
Mr.. Whitney is to succeed Mr.. Bayard.
This alleged line of succession is, of
| course, purely matter of gossip.
On this day we especially honor the
memory of Lee, the transcendent genius
of the armies of the southern confederacy.
The general assembly of the state has
made the day holiday, and throughout
| Georgia troops will parade in celebration
of the anniversary of the birth of one of
the greatest soldiers the world ever saw,
In this city the exercises will be. very in
teresting. All of the white military will
turn out and in the parade will be many
men who were with Lee during the days
| he was tried in the fire and found to be
fine gold.
/ A bill has been introduced in the
House providing that no alien immigrant
shall land in the United States until he
has exhibited TO the inspector of immi-
grants, upon his arrival, certificate,
signed by the United States consul, or
other authorized representative OF the
United States, setting forth that the
immigrant does not belong to the class of
aliens prohibited entrance by our laws The
bill makes it the duty of consuls to examine
all immigrants before they start for this
country, to investigate their general
character, and to grant or withhold certi-
ticates accordingly In order to bring the
workings of such a law up to high state
of efficiency, it might be necessary to re
form our consular system in such manner
as to shut out the get-rich-quick class of
politicians, who sometimes work them
selves into the service. The charge has
frequently been made that at some
American consulates it is possible to get
any kind of certificate wanted, if the
applicant is able and willing to pay for
the accommodation.
Atlanta indicated herself spendidly
day before yesterday With Redwine of
to the penitentiary and Harry Hill not
yet returned from Cincinnati, there was
danger that the city would go stalen
for lack of a sensation. But the danger
was of short duration; the spirit of the
town asserted itself, and the Owens af-
fair saved the day.