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Year: 1878

BRADLEY to turn the State over to a
| Federal Receiver and possibly he
may be hoping to be Federal Judge
! himself. He has been sucking public


pap all his Iife-and Is incapable of
| conceiving of any sublimer function
for the patriot Statesman.


Well Suppose he and BRADLEY
succeed in turning oyer the State to
the Federal Court. What then will


be the proceeding ? The first act, we
suppose, will be a mandate from the
Federal Court to the Court Of Appeals,


ordering the judgment Of the state
Court to be set aside, and the decision
of the Federal Court to be substituted
and enforced. We will assume that
the court will now be as keenly alive
to its dignity and independence as
when presided over by ROANE and
ALLEN. and will firmly and curtly re-
fuse obedience The court in thus
acting-(J the Federal JRdicid1Y pos


sesscS the DOiUer IL ctdiBls)- guilty OF
a malfeasance. and is subject 10 i'm


peachment. But by whom is it inn


peachable BY the State authorities? ?


1t will be acting in accordance with


the wishes of the State, and Of course


will not be mOlested by its agents.


BY the Federal authorities ? Would


the Senate of the United States have


any right to impeach State Judge =?


The answer to that question goes to


the root of the question is this claim


ed Jurisdiction of the Federal Court


warranted by the Constitution ? If
so, there must be authority to enforce
it BRADLEY may have the brass to
claim that the United States Senate
cafl impeach State Judge-and pOsA
sibly RAN, who Is IN the same boat


with him, will acquiesce and applaud.


But 1t may be alleged that the Fede-


raj Court may proceed against the


State Court by having the State Judges
arrested and punished for contempt


We'll, suppose they are imprisoned and


kept in prison that eXtinguishes the
State Judiciary. Is it competent for


the Federal Judiciary 10 do this thing ?


But the Imprisonment of the Judges
aild the abolition of the Court does not
give effect to the Federal decision.
The Auditor and other State officers
may disregard the Federal mandate
and they too must he incarcerated-
and that's the END Of the state Gov
ernment. IL Il in the granted powers,
that the States=-the Ureathtes Of the
Federal mnchibery-may be ahnihi-
lated by the creature d? But let that
pass. Though Governor HOLIDAY
and Mr.. Auditor TAYLOR and the
other worthy gentlemen Of The Base
ment may he doomed to dhfahce vile.
and constrained to catch a glimpse OF
Heaven only through iron gralings-
still the Federal decree will be untxes
cuted. Tome fprther step will be ne
cessary. That farther step will be The
turning over The State to a Receiver,
empowered by the State to call upon
the army and navy Of the United
States to execute it, decrees-amd to
that end, TO levy such contributions
from the people as may content the
Receivers raracity.
Year: 1878

The effort made by the Funders
through Hon. j. r. Tucker in
Congress TO Forcibly readjust the
Supreme Court Of Virginia is thus
denounced as Dangerous to libcr-
ty" by Judge Harris, who repre-
sents the Staunton District:


In regard TO the Royal bill, under
the rules it could not be discussed, for
on its presentation it went at once to
the committee, where it will sleep the
sleep of death. Never having been
before the House, except TO refer, no
member had right to debate it.


My whole course shows that / am
unalterably opposed to that or any
kindred bill to give jurisdiction to the
Supreme Court over the decisions of
our Court of Appeals. The rights of
the States and the preservation Of Re
publican Government require that the
jurisdiction of the of the Supreme
Court OF the United States shall be
confined to the few cases enumerated
in the Constitution. Any attempt TO
enlarge these is dangerous to liberty,
and will be sternly opposed by me
Year: 1878

Judge John L. Harris, of the
Staunton District, which he now
represents in Congress, says this
about the veto of the Barbour Bill !:


The Constitution makes it the duty
of the General Assembly to pass laws
to raise revenue for the support of the
Government. The Barbour hill con-
templated that object. In view of
these facts, and the further fact that
the Governor had seemed to remit
that whole question 10 the Legislature,
l had not supposed for a moment he
would veto the bill. His course is
deeply to be regretted. The first duty
of the State is to control her taxes so
as to preserve her existence for with
out this, anarchy follows, aud we
would have neither society nor the
means of paying anything then the
preservation of her humane institu-
tions and her educational system
After these objects are attained, then
the next highest obligation of the
State is to her creditors.
Year: 1878

pay and live, but fear that procrasti+
nation with the creditors of the State
in the nOn-acceptance of the offer
now before them will finally prove the
thief of time,


And now, Mr.. Editor, fearing I
have already trespassed upon your
valuable columns, | will close with
this suggestion, that think 1t is the
first duty of the Legislature upon its
assembling this winter TO call a con-
vention, and let delegates take the
present constitution and alter, amend,
Of abolish as they may think proper :;
make the free school system so strong
and so plain that an act of the Legis-
lature cannot, by any means, directly
or indirectly, or in any other way.
cripple, hinder or ObstrIct its fullest
force, and that they may take this
State debt into consideration and set
tie it forever by means that will secure
the life of the State and pay to the
hondholders hatever they may think
can be puuctually met every year.


Respectfully, EQUITY.
Year: 1878

power is new to us, and was brought
among US Ey strangers, and under the
necessity OF reconstruction became a
part of our organic law. 1t is only
in cases of plain and palpable viola
ton Of the ConstitutiOn-cases never
likely to occur, for it is not presuined
that such q bill could ever pass a Leg
islature of Virginia-thaU the Cover
nor ought to interpose bis veto
Year: 1878

The WIG has had Auditor Tay>
lor to reveal the condition of the
State Treasury at present, and it
shows a deficit of $1,2OO,OOO for
this year, besides the amount due
the School Fund. fhtre is due
the School Fund now about half
q million.
Year: 1878

The Richmond WHIG of last
Wednesday thus fully, clearly and
cOnclsely shows up the present
scheme of the Funders to put their
own men in Congress under the
cry that Congress has "nothing to
do with the State debt" We ask
the people of the 9th District to
read it, and then answer intelli-
gently whether VIC should put
Funders in Congress
Year: 1878

During the past month we have beer
clearing our stock of old goods, and are
now left with a line of now and desirable
styles for the Spring trade. Our store
which is the most commodious in the city
or State, occupying three floors, and with
enterprise back of it. Our intention is this
season to outdo all former efforts to make
the Boston One Price Clothing House the
place to buy Clothing and Gents Furn-
ishing Goods. With the confidence of the
public that FIVE YEARS SQUARE
DEALING has not impaired, and our es-
tablished system of Cash and One Price
to all, we feel assured the present season
will prove successful one. Visit our store
and look at our immense stock of Ready
Made Clothing for Men, Youths, Boys
and Children.
Year: 1878

OUR Councilmen are right in acting
cautiously on the gas question. Expe-
rimenfs and actual tests are being
made which prove that electric light
can be handled as easily rs gas while
it is one-half cheaper. For public
bu ildings it is far superior. The elec-
trio light has been introduced into some
of the London theatres. Several foci
of light are produced through one ma
chine, and these can be made to burn
independently of one another. The
light can be made to act for fifteen
hours at a stretch without interruption,
whatever degree of intensity is given
to the electric current. The expense
of the motive power and the carbons
used in the lamp will, it is believed,
enable light to be produced at about
half the cost of gas. The strong light
is said to be admirably adapted to
bringing out stage effects, and the ex-
periments have been satisfactory.
Year: 1878

IT Is an open question whether Il
man is real hero because he stays in
the midst of the yellow fever merely to
send special reports of the plague to
his newspaper. If lives were saved by
those special reports, the correspondent
would be entitled to his epaulettes
Otherwise he is simply foolhardy.
Year: 1878

AS THE physicians and nurses in the
fever infected cities are wasting away,
the poor, suffering population is left
comparatively neglected. Some of the
physicians are SO busy as to be unable
to report the number of cases under
their charge.
Year: 1878

The first exhibition of the Dairy Associa-
ton has already proved a most gratifying
success to its projectors, and the visiting
public has learned many wonderful facts
the existence of which it had never before
suspected. The most skilful angler may
fish all day in any Of the milk cans nj the
exhibition without catching single little
trout, pickerel, eel or other watery resident
such rs is occasionally found in the fluid
left by city milkmen at kitchen doors He
can find cream that is innocent of chalk,
-four paste or other thickening and coloring
matter, and as for butter, there are whole
tubs of it that dispel the vulgar illusion
that because hairs give frmness to wall
plaster they are also necessary to the
compactness Of butter. There seem to ex.
ist some darymen who even believe that
neither lard, tallow nor wagon grease is me-
cessary to the proper favoring Of butter.
Cheeses are there which fail TO show any
traces Of paint or dye stuffs, which are not
tough enough to plate armored war ships
with and which do not smell like side
street under an August sun. Stranger still,
there are cows whose lines and proportions
dispel the popular fallacy that the breed OF
all milch COWS is crossed with pump
handle. The associated dairymen deserve
the hearty thanks Of the public for display
ing so much that wise men have often
dreamed of yet died without beholding
butwe trust they have considered the prob
able after effects. Who that has beheld and
tasted such wonders can ever go back to the
imaginary dairy products that milkmen and
grocers are accustomed to impose upon
him?
Year: 1878

Many people find it difficult to under.
stand that the silver trade dollars are not
money, but mere silver bullion, possessing
to silver in the form of bars. The bill
which has been offered in Congress for max
ing the trade dollars legal tender, the
same as the regular silver dollars, ought not
to pass and probably will not. The effect
Of its passage would be to add thirty
five millions to the nineteen mill
ions of legal tender dollars already
coined and to embarrass the expert
ment Of resumption. Secretary Sherman,
in his annual report, expresses his
opinion that the coinage of the new silver
dollars should be discontinued when the
amount reaches fifty millions; but it would
reach nearly that amount at once if the
trade dollars were given a legal status as
money At the rate of two millions per
month it would take about year and
half to coin as many silver dollars as would
be made by o mere Congressional fiat if the
trade dollars we're mone.ized.


An offer was yesterday sent to the Secre-
tnry OF the lTcaSuIy Honi ohu L TauclScO 10
sell him million of trade dollars from
China, to be delivered in sixty days. The
reply Of Mr.. Sherman was that he will
purchase silver bullion in San Francisco
every Wednesday, but that he will
pay no higher price for it in the form Of
trade dollars than for silver bullion in any
other shape. He will not discriminate
against our miners in favor of Chinese
owners of silver. The government stamp
on the trade dollars merely attests the guam
tity and iineness of the silver they contain,
but they are not money any more than silver
in bars bearing the stamp of an assay Office.
The trade dollars are coined merely for ex-
portation, and it would be absurd to give
the Chinese owners of five-sixths OF them the
profit which will accrue to the government
in the purchase of them as bullion and
coming them into regular money.
Year: 1878

The Recommendation uf the President
the introduction Of yellow fever and other
epidemics is receiving prompt attention.
The Senate yesterday passed resolution
for the appointment of committee consist
ing of seven Senator'S, to Gct in conjunc-
ton with a similar committee OF the House,
ito investigate and report the best means
OF preventing the introduction and spread
of epidemic diseases, and especially
yellow fever and cholera, within the
limits of the United States. We
trust that there is no State rights
man who is SO ultra and unreasonable MS to
object to this wise measure Of precaution.
The public health is the most important of
public interests, and the health laws OF the
States, which have always been respected
by Congress- are not broad enough in their
scope to deal effectually with great and
desola,ing pestilence like that which has
recently prevailed in the Southwest. OF
course Congress will not undertake to set
aside or supplnnt the State regulations,
which are necessary and useful so far as
they go, but only to supplement them in
cases for which they are inadequate. Epi-
demic diseases are introduced by the oper-
ations Of commerce, and the authority of
Congress to regulate commerce carries with
it the right to prevent the introduction Of
disease by ships, cargoes or passengers.
This subject is of national importance, and
we trust that the committee will be able to
report an efficient bill in season for its
passage at this session.
Year: 1878

From the HERALD's special report from
Syracuse it will be seen that the Onondaga
County Supervisors have requested the
State Board Of Charities to investigate the
management Of their County Asylum for
Insane Paupers. This action was taken in
consequence Of the HERAIDs demands for
an inquiry into the alleged brutal treat
III ent Of some of the inmates of the asylum
and for the removal and punishment
indirectly responsible for the evils
that were brought to light by the unex-
pected visit Of committee TO the County
Poorhouse in August last. The Onondaga
Supervisors would have shown o more
honest disposition to profit by our advice il
they had promptly laid the matter before
grand jury, brought to punishment any
person who could be reached by the law,
and driven from the public service all who
were cognizant Of the horrible condition of
the unfortunate occupants of the asylum
cages. They allowed nearly three months
to elapse without taking any action what
ever, and now, alter disagreement between
an investigating colnmlttee oI thelr own
body, they ask an examination by the State
Board of Charities.


The excuse has been offered that the ac-
commodations of the Onondaga Asylum not
being sufficient for the number of inmates
the use Of the wooden cages built in the
cellar for incurable cases was unavoidable.
The law allows the State Board of Charities
under certain circumstances to authorize
county to support its own incura-
BILE paupcr lunatics instead of send
ing them TO the Willard Asylum, and
the counties seek this privilege for the
sole purpose of saving money. 1t costs
them more to support the unfortunate
beings at Ovid than to cage them up and
kill them off quickly at home. But the
counties are bound to give the insane poor
proper treatment and sufficient accommoda-
tion, and when their own buildings are over
crowded their duty is to send the incurable
cases to the willard Asylum. II there was
too little room in the Onondaga building
| it became the duty of the superintendent
Year: 1878

The so-callcd Commercial Convention
which assembled yesterday at New Or
leans is OF tho same paternity and is in
tended 20 promote the same scheme as the
so-called Commercial Convention which
was held a few weeks since in Chicago. 1t
is in the interest Of the Texas Pacific Rail-
road and has been gotten up with view to
aid the passage of the bill now pending be-
fore Congress for granting heavy
subsidy. under the name of loan,


TO that enterprise. The New Orleans
Convention does not even try to
disguise this object, but it pretends
that this is not its sole object. 1t attempts
to make the railroad subsidy popular by
yoking it with other measures, such as i'm
the promotion of South American commerce,
and it even bitches on a national quaran-
tine, which happens just now to be n
measure which everybody will approve.
But the paramount object Of this gather
ing is an appropriation for the Texas
Pacific Railroad. A great effort is to
be made to get the Subsidy bill
passed at this session. Its principal attor-
ney in Congress, Senator Matthews, has al
ready delivered an elaborate speech advo-
eating the bill but the Senate yesterday,
by a vote of 10 to %, rejected his motion to
take it up Immediately. This is rather a
brief postponement than rebuff and it
will require all the vigilance and energy Of
the anti-subsidy members to Illustrate a
project which will be pushed with indomi
table perseverance throughout the session.
Year: 1878

In connection with the subject of school
ventilation, to which the HERALD has paid
more attention than some school trustees
seem to think necessary, a little story that
went the rounds some years ago may con-
vince some parents that the school house
janitor is not always the infallible provider
Of pure air that the authorities seem to con-
slider him. The air of certain ''show"
school was not only ''fxed" but redolent of
perfumes which were not exactly those of
Araby, and an expert was sent to discover
the cause He found that the vertical por-
ton Of the great shaft through which pure
air was supposed to enter the building had
been fenced off by the thrifty janitor and
used as chicken coop. 1t was, therefore,
not surprising that the air Of the class rooms
was foul, no matter how one might choose
to spell the qualifying adjective. Even
after this bird cage was restored to its proper
use, however, the children and teachers
complained of headaches and the first stages
of strangulation, SO further inquiries were
made, and it was discovered that the jani-
tors son, being worthy scion of the family
stock, had put floor into the great sex
haust" shaft in the root, and was success
fully conducting chicken coop of his own.
But careful inquiries fail to assure us that
the grade of janitors was raised after this


discovery or that inspections Of the venti-
lating systems Of schools by competent per-
sons was any more frequent or thorough
than before the above-named odorous facts
were discovered.
Year: 1878

1t is the experience of one New York lady
that II you want a pickpocket caught the
best way is to catch him yourself. He had
taken possession Of her wallet, containing
thirty-seven dollars, and when we consider
how much can be done with that much
money by lady Of taste we do not wonder
that she resolved to retake the wallet in
person. Had she been u bank president, and
the contents of a safe instead of a wallet had
been stolen, she would have gone down to-
Mulberry street and held a conference with
the inspector on duty but it is probable il
the lady had done so the thief would have
got away, for he was going when she first
caught sight of him. Thoroughly surprised
at the spirit with which the lady set about
securing the wallet he hastily presented
it to her and was about to continue his
journey, when, unfortunately, an officer of
the law fell over him and would have ar
rested him for standing in q policeman's
way had he not been induced to do SO on
specific charge of theft There is to-day
one pickpocket less out of Jail. But the
service of this plucky lady to society does
not end there. Upon searching the young
man at the station house a Murphy temper
ance pledge was found among his skeleton
keys and other implements. 1t will be
cruelty suggested that he went to take the
pledge for the purpose of picking the pock-
cts OF the reformed drunkards and lawful
examples about the place. Is it not possi-
bic that the poor thief was in earnest, and
that he subsequently took the lady's pocket
book by mere force of habit? Let us take
this merciful view and indulge the hope
that he will be kept for as long term us
possible where his new temperance princi-
pies will not be endangered, and something
done in the way Of hard work to keep his
thoughts from the pocketbooks of others.
Let his reform be made complete.
Year: 1878

Some inventive genius has started the
story that the failure of the State Legisla-
ture of 1876 TO pass IN apportionment law
based on the census of 1875, in accordance
with the requirements of the constitution,
makes the Legislature of 1879 an unconsti-
tutional and illegal body, without the power
of electing United States Senator. 1t is
gravely suggested that if the minority in
the next Legislature should protest and re-
fuse to take part in the election of Senator
on these grounds the United States Senate
might decline to recognize Mr. Conklings
right to his seat on his new election. The
story is too absurd to require serious no.
tice. II is enough to say that if the failure
of the Legislature to reapportion the State
in 1876 was fatal to the constitutionality Of
any Legislature subsequently elected un-
der the old apportionment law of 1866,
then we have had no legal or con-
stitutional Legislature since 1876 and
never can have a legal and constitutional
Legislature again. We cannot amend the
law because we cannot elect a constitutional
Legislature to legally do these or any other
acts Hence we are thrown into chaos,
without chance of getting out again. If
any body should be foolish enough to enter
tain any serious apprehensions of such an
uncomfortable condition of affairs we beg to
assure them that the law of 1866, chapter
COZ, designating the number of men,
bers of Assembly to be chosen in the
several counties of the State is still
on the statute book unrepealed; is the
law of the State governing the election Of
members of Assembly, and will SO remain
until it is superseded by another apportion-
ment law. The constitution does not in
tend that it and the State Legislature and
all the machinery of the State government
shall fall to pieces, like Humpty Dumpty
in the nursery rhyme, and never be put
together again, because one directory clause
in its provisions happens not to be obeyed.
The republican Legislatures have done an
act of great injustice to the State by refusing
to pass q fair and just apportionment law,
to take the place of the law of 1866; but
their partisan action, while bad enough, has
not quite destroyed our standing as State.
Year: 1878

The case of Coleman, arrested on election


day for an attempt to vote on certificate
OF naturalization alleged to be illegal, came
before Judge Blatchford yesterday on o
writ of habeas corpus Before the proceed
ings we're concluded Judge Blatchford an
nounced his intention to discharge the
prisoner, but he did not make an immedi-
ate order of discharge because counsel sig
nifed a wish for n decision by the United


States Court on the validity of the
naturalization papers granted in 1868.


II is important that that question
be judicially determined in order that 1t
may be seen whether there is conflict OF
opinion between the State and federal tri-
bunals. The method Of granting naturaliza-
ton papers has heretofore been very loose,
owing in part to the fact that the law on the
subject is indefinite. If the decision OF
Year: 1878

Judge Blatchford should coincide with that
of Judge Freedman the coincidence will
supply rs strong an argument tor the re-
vision Of the naturalization laws as would
conflict between the local and the federal
tribunal. Ii they are in conflict the law IS
SO uncertain that Congress should relieve
it Of ambiguity; but il the two Courts de-
cide alike there is need of legislation to
prevent Irregularities which no Court can
reach or punish under the law rs i. stands.
The argument before Judge Blatchford will
be continued to-day. and his opinion will
be looked for with great interest.