Year: 1877

THE UNITED STATES COURT EXPENSES.


WASHINGTON, May 13.-The democratic
House of Representatives is charged by
the partisan press as responsible for the
present lack of funds to defray the ex-
penses of the United States courts, where
by much inconvenience is occasioned to
lawyers and litigants in all parts of the
country. The fact is, however, that the
responsibility lies at the door of the for
mer administration of the Department of
Justice. There appears to be no doubt
that the money which should now be
available to pay che ordinary and usual
expenses of the courts was diverted by
Attorney General Taft and employed to
compensate the thousands of republican
electloneering agents appointed last fall
under the guise of deputy marshals. The
House expressly refrained from making
any appropriation for the payment of
these people, and the diversion of other
funds of the department for that purpose
was clear violation oflaw for whichMr.
Taft ought yet to be held accountable.


THE CHIsoLM TRAGEDY.


Great efforts are now making by the
radical partisan press all over the North
to manufacture political capital out of the
Chisolm affair at DeKalb, Mississippi,
and stir up new crusade of hate and re-
venge against the South. The manner
of tbe killing of Chisolm was certainly
1nexcu cusable, and the actors in the tragedy
should be brought to justice. But CHS.
olm lived by the sword and died by the
sword. The attempt to exalt him into
chivalric hero and high-toned gentlman
cannot succeed. His own testimony be-
fore the Senate Mississippi committee
last year showed him to be mere ruff
fianly bravo, who habitually carried arms
and who sought and delighted in person.
al difficulties. Those who listened to his
testimony on one occasion have a lively
recollection of the coarse satisfaction
with which he described several of his
street broils where deadly weapons were
brought into play, and the shooting and
stabbing which took place had the addi-
tional accompaniment of profane and OBJ
scene language. OF the physical courage
of Chisolm there was no question, and
that is really all which can be said in his
favor. There is no doubt whatever that
he was actively concerned in one or more
murders, for which he had escaped all
judicial responsibility, and the friends of
the murdered men were those who took
his life. He died by the code of his own
choosing, and he would have unhesitat-
ingly administered to others the rude


justice that was meted out to him.


MIR. RANDALL AND THE TEXAS PACIFIC


1t is understood that an impression


prevails among Southern members that
Mr.. Randall is friendly to the Texas Pa
cific subsidy, and this belief, it is said, is
strengthening him very much in that sec
ton.


THE PACIFIC COAST RING.


The recent disclosures of Pinney in
San Francisco are the precursor of a
speeey disruption of the Pacific coast
ring, and one of the first effects will be
the recapture of the State of California
by the democrats and the election of
democratic Senator in place OF Mr.. Sar-
gent. This Pacific coast ring has long
been known as one of the most corrupt
rings that ever cursed the country. Its
headquarters have been for some in the
private Office of the secretary of the Sem
ate, and it has controlled almost absolute
| ly the whole character of congressional
| legislation affecting the interests of the
Pacific coast. Senator Sargent, who is


one of the leading members of this ring,


must have had a premonition of its break


up before he left Washington, for he in
dulged in the usual talk of Senators


whose prospects of reelection are badly
saying that he was tired of public lifeand
did not know whether he would consent
to run again for the Senate.