The record-union., 1895-02-21
VOICE OF THE PRESS.

Expressions of Some of the Papers of
the Interior.
lOroville Mercury7
Senator VOORHEES, bill. 544, providing
Tor substitute jurors, is sensible meas
ure. We like it, for it is intended to pre-
vent mistrials.
ALL ALIKE (?)
bakersfield Californian
Glenn County is to have new court
| mouse, and an engraving of it appears in
| the CIR On1cte. 1t is of the same block
that so many other buildings Of the kind
| have been taken in this State and has
not particle of originality about it. 1t
would seem as though the architects of
| California had but one pattern for court
! houses and considered 1T high crime
and misdemeanor to endeavor to depart
! from the beaten track.
4 VICIOUS MEASURE.
| Los Angeles Times1
| A bill has been introduced in the Cali
| fornia Legislature entitled "a bill to pro-
mote and secure freedom of speech in
conrts ofjustice." The real object of the
measure. as appears from perusal of it,
IS to restore to practice in the courts the
attorney, Horace Philbrook, OF San Fran
cisco. who was recently disbarred by the
| Supreme Court for period of three years
by reason OF grossly unprotessiOnal and
! q
one OF the Judges OF that tribunal. After
being reprimapded by the court, Phil
| brook deliberately and coarsely reiterated
! the insult, whereupOn he was suspended
temporarily, as he richly deserved.
! The measure introduced in the Legis-
Iature to relnstate him (Which also applies
! TO all other similar cases. is d III OSt vicious
one, and ought to be voted down unani-
mously. The courts are the authorized
agents and interpreters of the law, which
IS the basis Of civil government. The
courts must be clothed with power to
enforce their authority, and this power
must include the ability to protect them
| selves against insult. OF late there has
| been growing up a misChieyOus disre-
spect for the law and for the courts, which
| are its eXemplars. This tendency is not
merely mischievous 1t is distinctly
revolutionary. 1t strikes at the very
foundations OF civil government and at
the fundamental rights OF all men, which
are guaranteed by organic and statutory
! law.
THOSE SCIENTISTS.
Stockton NALL
1t is very hard to please the scientists.
/ They have not even yet ceased to QeplOre
! the loss OF our tails and still regret that
| certain of our muscles have degenerated
| TO the rudimentary stage. Now it is the
! human eye with which they lind fault;
| then it is the ear. The latest instance OF
dissatisfaction with a human organ is
! that OF an Austrian scientist, who says
/ that the European nose is a miserable,
degraded organ and d disgrace to civiIiza-
! ton. lie declares it to be poor smeller,
| and compares it very untavOrably with
! the nose OF the negro. To the lay mind
| the impairment OF our sense of smell by
no means seems an unmi&ed evil. In
| deed, 1t does not seem improbable that we
! shall some day consider with satisfaction
! the total loss of this sense. There are few
/ things we care TO smell even now. Among
! them are flowers, the inVigorating sea
/ breeze, the baImy air OF pine forest and
! the bouquet of good wine. Compare to
| these few things the thousands of others
which assail the nostrils IN an offensive
| manner, and we may prepare ourselves
| with resignation for the time when the
nose will cease to perform its distinctive
| function.
FAIR PLAY.
fTulare Register.l
With all MS sins President Cleveland
is made to carry a load OF obloquy just
now beyond his desserts, and others es-
/ cape their share. There are party leaders
who were cheek and jowl with the Presi-
dent in carrying out politics which were
bound to get the country in hole, but
they are escaping their share of public
censure by vigorous denunciation of
/ Mr.. Cleveland. They were anything and
for anything ito get there"
THE DEAD.
! Oakland Tribune.7
! The American Humane Education So
| ciety OF New York is agitating the cues
| ton of the adoption by all State Legisla-
lures of law providing for the proper
inspection of the dead before burial. to
! prevent the interment of persons who
may be still living. 1t would be wise
| precautiOn to take, law or no law on the
ubject, for many cases OF trance have
| been enormously mistaken for death;
and while some persons thus living in
! the sem bIance OF death have narrowly
escaped burial, others are known to have
! been unWittlngly committed to earth and
afterwards restored to animation and
consciousness when beyond the reach of
human help.
GOVERNMENT AND BANKING.
Fresno Expositor1
When a Government goes into the
banking business, as this Government
has, it must take its chances Just the
same as other bankers do. The chances
at present seem to be all in favor OF the
private bankers. They have only to
manipulate the Governments paper
money, legal tender for all debts, public
and private, to draw out Of the treasury
| the gold that the laws require shall be
kept on hand to redeem the Govern
mentS Obligations ana keep all its Tari-
Gus kinds of money at q parity. The
| sooner the Government goes out of the
! banking business the better.
ROADS AND ROADS.
ISan Jose Mercury
While California is discussing the sub
ject of good roads and how to get them.
the East is busying itself with the intro
duction of electric and motor roads on the
public highways. There is no reason why
the two problems cannot be solved at the
same time. One is as important as the
other. Wagon transportation has been
superseded by railroad transportation for
long distances; what is now needed is
electric or motor transportation for short
distances.
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