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Year: 1876

There Is species of homely elo-
quence and deal of honest patriot
ism embodied in the expression of
President GRANT "Let no gnilty man
escape" but the man who stubbornly
resolved to flight it out on this line
if it takes all Summer seems to have
forgotten that civil G government is not
unlike military success in the fact that
one requires something more than
mere words and the other more than
eloquent pronuciamentos. "Let no
guilty man escape" sounds well, but
the assurance that no guilty man
shall escape which grows out of
prompt and decisive steps for bringing
the thieves and robbers that now in
fest the government to the punish
ment they so richly merit, would be
vastly more comforting to the people.
For his own credit and for the sake of
the people it is to be regretted that the
President has not given this assur-
ance. Thus far the command, "Let
no guilty man escape" has been fol-
lowed by mode of procedure that
may be best characterized as an emf
nently successful effort at chow not to
do it.n We are afraid there is too
much ground on which to base the
impression growing stronger day by
day among the people, that when the
President said "Let no guilty man es-
cape" he meant "Let no conviction
follow.n If such was not his meaning
his instructions have been misunder-
stood by those to whom has been in
trusted the work of bringing the often
ders to trial. There is great deal of
smoke but the fire remains hidden.


The officers are crying "stop thief'
with an earnestness that gives assur-
ance of the existence of an army of
thieves, but the insufficient number
of the light fingered gentry actually


caught seems as though the failure to
catch is intended to imply that there
is nothing to catch. This is, to use a
slang term, "too thin" The people
believe that if no guilty man escapes
the government prisons will be crowd
Year: 1876

This is the last Legislative action
upon the Commissioner bill, except
the adoption or rejection by each
House of the report of the Conference
Committees upon the amendment.
The committee of the Assembly, Nc
Kenna, Archer and Scrivener, were
the warmest supporters of the Archer
bill, and of the obnoxious five per
cent. clause. The result of the Con-
| ference is not even to be guessed at.
The fate of the bill is plunged in
greater doubt than before, for dis
agreement will result in the death of
the bill. This legislative deadlock is
not of frequent occurrence, but when
it does happen, it is sure to result dis
astrously for the subject matter under
consideration.


The Assembly met at 10 A. NJ.


Hayne introduced bill to empower
and give authority to the county Of
Santa Barbara to aid in the construc-
ton of railroad within its limits.


The General Appropriation bill was
then considered. Considerable reduc-
tion was made in the appropriation
for the contingent expenses of State
officers. They were cut down on an
average of 80 per cent. An appropri-
alton of 5000 was made to pay for
the present and future Indebtedness
for listing bonds from the United
States to the State.


The bill apportioning the expense of
the Vasuuez trial between the coun-
ties of San Benito and Monterey was
refused engrOssment.


Pierce's bill Incorporating the city
of San Diego was passed.


Mcconnell introduced q bill to pre-
scribe the fees of the District Attorney
of Los Angeles county in cases of con-
viction.


The O'Connor Commissioner bill
coming up in the Senate message, the
Assembly refused to recede from its
five per cent. amendment by vote of
3S ayes to 80 noes. Accordingly the
Speaker appointed Archer, McKenna
and Scrivener a Committee of Confer
ence on the part of the Assembly.


The bill appropriating money for
the benefit of the agricultural socie-
ties within the State was indefinitely
postponed.


The bill appropriating money to pay
the Indebtedness of the State Agricul-
tural Society WAS passed by vote of
Al ayes to l9 noes, the representatives
from the Southern counties voting no.


Speaker Carpenter then took the
floor and gave notice that he would
on tomorrow move a reconsideration
of the vote by which the House on
this day refused to recede from its
amendments to the O'C0nnor bill.
The intention of Mr.. Carpenter is evil
IDENTIFY to bridge the difficulty occa-
stoned by the jar between the Senate
and Assembly, and to obviate all ac-
tion by the conference committees,
which in any case is likely to have
the result of killing the bill. The vote
by which the Assembly refused to re-
cede from its amendment was so close
that single vote would have made a
difference in favor of receding. None
but the most radical now speak of not
receding. The vote tomorrow may
show a result in favor of the bill.


The Santa Barbara railroad bill was
taken up at late hour and passed by
a large majority. X.
Year: 1876

THE custom of issuing passes to
Tom, DICK and HARRY, and eve ry
other individual who sets himself up
as somebody of so much Importance
that he should not pay for riding, is
one which would be beneficial to rail-
road comr.snies if more honored in
the oreach than the observance. Nine
tenths of those now waging bitter war
fare on the railroads of this State are
men who have carried railroad passes
and used them from the building of
the roads up to few mo nths ago, land
In the fact that the company refused
to renew those passes exists the cause
for their enmity toward the railroads.
If the Central Pacific had not Cancelled
CoHEN's pass tina gentleman would
now be one of / is warmest friends.
We venture to say that if the COM
pany would speak they could name
scores of men now figh ting them who
have travelled thous inds of miles on
their roads and never paid cent. We
could mention minister or two
whose hatred of railroad monopolies"
was born of refusal by the com pany
to chalk their hats.
Year: 1876

General MCCONNELL is always lew
el-headed and right on all PROPOSE
tions. In the debate on the bill re-
ducing the salaries of State officers he
used the following language:


''The safe medium was that adopted in late
years by the English Pariameni-that of cut
ting off sinecure officers, but allowing fair
pay TO those who were doing good work. The
bill might well have been styled IAN Act to
establish poor-house al the Capital 1t had
been passed in the Senate on the principle
that men should accept the State offices for
the purpose of making anything more than
mere livelihood"


And the bill was defeated.
Year: 1876

TILDEN recognized several good lines
of railway out West and consolidated them
to produce the Chicago and Northwestern,
which is a very costly, uuproductive, un
wieldy and commonplace affair. To &C.
complish this he was obliged to euchre the
original small stockholders, who owned
farms along the line and freely gave the
right of way and took stock besides, many
of them paying for it by work on the line
out of their stock. He did this by an in
genious method of his own. Sometimes
by the stock watering process and at others
by wipiDg out the stock entirely by sale
to the first mortgage bondholders. The
result was that the rates of freight were
advanced on these roads at the suggestion
of MI. Tilden 70 per cent. This was
steal number two from the farmers on the
line. Having taken their stock and thus
hushed their voices in the management,
he then robbed them the second time by
advanced prices OF freight on their produce.
While this reduced the net proceeds of the
crops to the farmer it increased the price
of wheat and compelled the poor lsborer
of the East to pay double for his bread.
Mr.. Tilden, who deliberately practiced
this sort of thing as profession. now has
the efrontery to ask the farmers of the
West, whom he has fleeced, and the laborers
of the East, whom he has starved, TO vote
for him. Will they do SO? That is the
pending question. We believe they are
too honest and too intelligent to do any
such thing. We believe that they are
too intelligent not to see his dishonesty,
and too just to their own interests not to
rebuke his presumption,
Year: 1876

Clearing in mind the fact that in the sum
for the aforementioned year enormous amounts
are included which are directly chargeable to
the war, which should be eliminated to make
the comparison fair one, 1t will be seen that
while the expenditures of the present year are
but little more than twice as great as those
of 1856, those of the latter year are more than
sir times as great as the amount expended in
1886 There is no need to pursue the COM
parisons further. The figures tell the whole
story accurately and eloquently."


Andrew jackson was the President in
1886, which, it will be remembered, was
year of wild extravaganza. He was Dem
ocrat and his party virtually held the Gov
eminent from that time until 1855, except
the four years of the Taylor and Fillmore
administration, that were notoriously eco
nomicsl. Mr.. Pierce was President in 1855,
and then Mr.. Buchanan, another simon
pure Democrat administered the Govern
ment four years. In 1860 the Republicans
to rule since that time, except during
slight attack of Andy johnson paralysis.
When we deduct the difference between
coin and currency and the enormous in
crease of expenditures entailed by the
Democratic rebellion and its expensive
suppression, which all will argree should
be done to make the comparison just, it
will appear that the actual expenditures
on account of civil and miscellaneous
affairs under Gen. Grant have exceeded by
but very little those under Mr.. Pierce in
1856.


1t will be seen that the greatest extrava-
gance in the entire history of the country
has been under the Democratic rule, that
the wars of the nation have all been in
augurated by the Democrats, and that the
Democrats, like all other great rogues, have
always been the first to charge corruption
and stealing upon their opponents. They
shout stop thief when it is their own Off
cials who have done the stealing. They
below for reform always when they are
out of Office. They never propose any sort
of reformation as long as they handle and
divide the ''loaves and fishes" Corrupt
themselves, they naturally suspect all Others
of dishonesty. And Tilden is their prophet
Year: 1876

THE laborers in New York clamor for
work that they may have bread. Tilden
has been in power in New York with his
pretended reforms during the last five
years, but what has he done forthe laborer?
Labor has all the while become more and
more depressed. His organs are charging
the depression on the Republicans. But
they are also Dragging of how much Tilden
has lowered the taxes of the rich. How
has he done this? All they will not tell
this. But we will tell the laborers all
about it. He has done it by cutting down
the appropriations for the public works
which furnished labor and bread to the
poor. He has taken the bread from their
children's mouths and put the cost of it
into the pockets of the rich taxpayers like
himself Out upon such duplicity.
Year: 1876

TILDEN, it would seem, intends to take
as long time to prepare an answer to the
charge of perjury made against him as he
did to write letter of acceptance that
would satisfy both the hard and soft money
men in his party. 1t will require great
skill in the railroad Wrecker to make his
two oaths agree. In one he swore his in
come for 1862 TO be $1,000, and on the
other that he received $4,000 in fees that
year from one railroad. Exactly how he
will make these two statements mean the
same thing We do not know, but suspect it
will be explained by the depression in
business" or excessive governmental con-
sumption" -"
Year: 1876

Mr.. Tilden il his letter of acceptance
dwelt with much emphasis upon the i'm
mense increase of the expenditures of the
Government under Republican rule. We
have already demonstrated that the cost of
the administration of President Grant last
year was fifty six cents per capita of our
population less than was that of Mr.. Buch-
anan. We now present the following start
ling nut for Democratic economists of the
Tilden school to crack, which we quote
from the correspondence of the Ithaca Post,
whose intelligent Washington correspond
ent has ulearthed it from the mass of off,
cial returns which have been recently
printed:


at occurred to me that inasmuch as Mr..
Tilden had instituted a comparison with pre-
vious years, in his effort to make it appear
that the expenditures of the Government had
been grossly excessive under Republican man
agement, that an investigation of the 'Civil
and Miscellaneous Expenditures from the
foundation of the Government to the present
time would throw light upon the question
whether those expenditures have been unduly
increased within the time embraced IN his COM
parison. have therefore taken these expen-
dtures at intervals of twenty years, and here
are the figures:
Year: 1876

WE TRUST that the Secretary of War
will find some method of furnishing the
troops in the South with Calling or Bailey
batteries that discharge one hundred
cartridges per minute. A couple of these
batteries should be placed at the stand of
every Republican meeting for the proper
reception of Banditti Buffers rifle
clubs when they appear armed and unin-
yited to take charge of such meetings.
Year: 1876

No ONE is fit to serve an administration
unless he is in sympathy with it. The
general who would select soldiers from the
army of his enemy to act as outposts would
not be considered as the best of generals.
The same rule should hold good in politics.
s.Put none on guard but Republicans
Year: 1876

WE understand that the lists for dis
charges are being made out in the various
executive Departments. We hope no
Democrat will be left in the service when
these discharges are finished. No matter
how high the position, no matter who
recommends him, let every Democrat
'Estep down and out"
Year: 1876

WE do not Know better retutatlon OF
the Standards version of Saturdays
proceedings than that gwen by its own
correspondent in the same issue. We
therefore publish side by side the edi-
torial and the communication, and leave
to An intelligent public to judge of the
truthiulness of our remarks on yester-
Year: 1876

ST, LOUIS. Dec 7th-An objection was
made to Gen. Frost acting as an elector on
the ground that his disabilities under the
l4th amendment had not been removed
but as he was included in President John
sons amnesty, no notice was taken of the
Republican effort to prevent his vote
being counted.
Year: 1876

Thirty one negroes and four whites
the latest batch sent to our Peniten-
tiary from here, and that in a city
where the whites are three to one; or
to make it statistical. our New Orleans
darkies show a tendency TO larceny
twenty. seven times greater than the
whites. Is there any wonder that the
people get little tired of this con-
tinued thieving. Cannot our North :
ern friends prescribe some cure? Do
not say the law; we know enough OF
that already.-N. o. Democrat (Dem.)


The whipping post in Delaware has
done that State good service. We
would cordially recommend its virtue
to the good people of New Orleans.
Jersey City Herald.
Year: 1876

BETTER THAN lMPEAcHMENT.-lt ls
useless to deplore-as some of the papers
do-the establishment of what they call
a "precedent" minority of the Sem
ate, that faithless official that cannot
be impeached after he has resigned. To
be sure, hereafter, all Cabinet officers
who take bribes and divide plunder will
seek to dodge the Constitutional penali-
ty bv resigning. Thus impeachment, as
warning, may lose much of its force.
But it does not allow that the country
can get no relief from these dishonest
men IN high places. That is to be found
not in the process of impeachment,
which can never be depended on while


party spirit RACES, but in the election Of
President who will not appoint knaves
and weak men to office. The right man
Az President would not chose his Cabi-
net out of undistinguished and almost
unknown persons, whose only recon-
mendation to him is the faculty of tell
ing good after-dinner story, or hat-
tering adroitly and being generally
agreeable. Such President would not
hasten to accept the resignation of
Cabinet pet after an investigating COM
mittee had completed strong chain Of
evidence against him, to save the man
from impeachment. The moral OF the
technical acquittal of Belknap in the
Senate flor it is only that, a very decided
majority voting to condemn him. Is this:
that only men must be put on guard


vino will not accept bribes or steal or
share thefts with others, and these can


best be secured by electiug Reform


President this fall. His Cabinet officers.


we trust, would do little or nothing to
deserve impeachment.
Year: 1876

PUBLIC PARK FOR NEW JERSEY.


TRENTON Feb TO- 1875
In the Senate to day the bill appropriatng s55 coo
to the Jamesburg Reform School was ordered TO a third
reading


TAXATION oP RAILROADS.
In the House Of Assembly general bill on railroad
taxation was introduced by Mr. Scovel from the joint
Committee Public Bills II provides that all rail-
road companies occupying using railroads in tho
State, whether lessees otherwise liable to be-
taxed such by general law taxing railroads for
State purposes shall pay annual State upon the
cost Of their equipment and appendages at the rate Of
one-haf OF per upon such cost On the 1stot
January in each year all railroad companies must
their roads specifying the items and locality thereof
on the 1st of February following the State tax with
interest thereon, shall be due and payable, and said
tax shall remain lien on the franchises and property,
real, personal and mixed, oS said company In case
railroad companies shall fail make proper in
the manner and at the time provided tho State Com
missioner OF Railroad Taxation shall forthwith proceed
estimate the cost which he shall certify under oath.
In any railroad company feels aggrioved by tho
action OF tho Commissioner IL shall have the right,
within ten days alter the fling OF the estimate. to
appeal thercfrom 10 a Justice OF the Supreme Court,
whose duty II shall be to summariy hear and decide
saId appeal upon evidence taken by himself; when any
railroad company fails 20 pay the tax the Attorney
General Of the state shall proceedings the re-
coverv of the amount before the Supreme Court and
apply for that execution may forthwith ISSUE
against the delinquent company. This act shall not
apply to or affect any county, municipal or local taxa


A PARK FOR JERSEY CRY


Mr. Brown Introduced a bill TO provide for public
park Jersey City. preamble sets forth that Jersey
City the present time 10 need OF a park commen-
surate with It's size The tract proposed is in the
Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards OF Jersey
City bounded by Cornelison avenue Mil Creek Mont
gomery and Colgate Streets the property the Morris
Canal and Banking Company aud Dupont street con-
tanning In all sixty seven acres
Year: 1876

The STREKrs-THEIR ExPKSsE.-At
this season Of the year, it is point with
municipal economists to save allsIpense
possible in cleaning the streets, and
therefore, the streets are usually left to
be cleaned by the rain, when not cover
cd by the snow and ice. The hilly loca-
tion on which our city is built, renders
it susceptible of being very fully and
cleanly washed by the rain. Where the
snow obstructs the streets Of course it
must be moved.


But this season has been one well cal
culsted to enable our City Council Com
mittee to economise, and We hope it is
being done. II it ia not there Is neglect
and "a want of wisdom, or a dangerous
and ineIcusable wish to e1pend the pub
lie money when it ought to be husoand-
ed. No man who uses the public money
has a right to use it to further his own
ends. 1t does not belong to him. He is
only its director, and he is sworn TO use
it to promote the interests of the tai
payers. They are the electors and by
them he will certainly be held account
able. Property holders and renters are
alike interested in keeping down the
taxes, and they most assuredly win refuse
to sustain those who do not economic in
the most careful way during the present
and several succeeding years while it is
20 difficult 20 get returns frem invest
ments in real estate.
Year: 1876

MoRToN's SPEECH PRINTED AND CIR
cULATED BEFORE IT WAS READ IN THE
SENATE. - Senator Morton's bloody
shirt was shaken out in our city yester.
day bofore it was presented before the
Senate.


The Commercial must have been favored
with the speech in advance since that pa
per had it set in type, printed and circu-
lated in our streets before Mr.. Morton
had completed its delivery in the Senate.


Mr.. Morton in the conclusion of his
speech uses the words, Equal JUSTICE
TO ALTO ALL THE EQUAL PRorEc TON
OF THE LAWS and if the southern peo.
pie will walk in that highway they will
arrive at the temple of peace and find
unbroken rest.


That Is precisely what the people of
this country have complained Of in Mr.
Norton and his party for the last ten
years. He and his party have never af.
forded equal justice to ALL" an tie con-
trary, the Radical party especially in the
South have denied equal justice TO all
who were not Of their own party.


A dispatch says among the Democrats
the speech is not regarded as deserving
q the dignity Of reply, and no one has
expressed desire TO be heard in fact
the counsel has been TO keep silent and
let him rave"
Year: 1876

MAYOR WHITLEY treatment Of tranps
has done much toward ridding this com.
manity of what last year become almost
a pest. They now give Wilmington a
pretty wide berth, and when they do
come this way say but short time
Last year the patience Of all who kept
soup houses or entertained tramps graf
uitously were completely e1 1hausted and
as consequence the tramps this year
get no free soup, and are, therefore,
scarcely ever found lettering about the
city.
Year: 1876

BuTLEK has not been able to reconcile
his feelings since the amnesty debate came
no in Congress and he was not there to
Take apy part. Those who are there may
feel thankful that they escaped him, for the
yery walls would have been contaminated
with the smut Of the Essex statesman. Ben


must have put though, and he proposes


70 defeat Mr.. Dana if he cannot do any
more to keep himself before the country.
Year: 1876

Application was madc yesterday to Judge westbrook
for mandamus against the Long Island Railroad Com
pany compel them to run trains over tho sou,hsde
road, which road has been abandoned since the
bination between the two roads II was stated on
behalf Of Mr.. j. W. Wheeler, the applicant. that he,
together with large number of others doing business
in New York, but living the line Of the south Side
road, had purchased yearly Communication tickets
tho road that within month after such purchase
running OF trains the road abandoned and that
In consequence he now compelled 10 walk over to
Spr ngheld the Long Island road in order to reach
the city, thus compelling walk OF three miles day
II WAS raised preliminary objection to the motion
that the which should properly come be-
fore the Second district Judge Westoro0k stated that
he had too much work to do here 10 borrow business
IRON TIE second district and he accordingly ordered
the case to be transferred Meantime was stated by
tho opposing counsel that arrangement had been made
to resume the running OF the irains In question, and
that this would obviate any further litigation in tho
matter
Year: 1876

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN OLD PATRoLMAN.


Yesterday George De Lahunt, patrolman Of the
Brooklyn Police Department, who has been for several
years on duty in the Ninth precinct, arragned be-
fore Justice scmler on charge Of outrage The CON-
painant in the case is Catherine Schmidt, young
German woman, who alleges that on last Monday even
ing she was seated on bench in Broadway Park pic
mic OF printers being held at that place at the time
She engaged in conversation with Rincholdt Tech
man, OF No 20 Myrtle avenue, when officer De Lahunt
who was IN full UNIFORM, came up IN company with
man IN citizen dress whom be said was special officer
The latter individual pretended to arrest the com.
panion OF the comp pninaa whom ne led away, but re-
leased before leaving tho grounds De ahunt took her
outside Ae narE into lot where he assaulted her and