The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1894 Page: 4 of 16
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80UTHEBN MERCtJBÍ.
Mar. 15,1894.
latxst from washington.
Special Mercury Correspondence:
There is not very much in the way of
news to report this week. Very little
has been done in either branch of con-
gress for the past eight days. The
statesmen are tired as a result of being
forced to gather in a sufficient number
to make a quorum, and stay long
enough to vote on the Bland bill.
While Groverwas fishing the house
passed the Bland coinage bill. If he
had been here to have taken charge of
the cuckoos they doubtless would have
voted against it.
The senate is to vote on Thursday
of this week, and those who profess to
know the sentiment of the body say the
bill will pass. Then the country will
see what Grover will do with it. The
prevailing opinion is that he will veto
it. Six weeks ago he would have done
so, but as there has been an election or
two recently in which the people have
very forcibly expressed their condem-
nation of his course, he may conclude
to give Cerebus a little soap and sign
It.
The Pollard-Breckenrldge breach of
promise suit has furnished an abund-
ance of food for scandal consumption
for the past few days. This is a suit
brought by a Miss Pollard against Con-
gressmen Breckenrldge of Kentucky,
for a breach of promise. Miss Pollard
says the Honorable Breckenridge
promised to marry her, and she wants
him to carry out his promise or put up
the collateral. As Mr. Breckenridge
is not possessed of very much of this
world's goods, according to reports,
Miss Pollard will not fair sumptuously
even if she secures judgment.
The house devoted what little
time it was in session the past week to
the consideration of appropriation bills.
Appropriations must be made as the
machine needs grease, and if It Is not
on hand It must be fried out of the peo-
ple by selling bonds and taxing future
generations to pay them. Grease must
be had or the government will have a
hot box. During this lull In business
the members of the house have been
rushing the pie counter. The Texas
delegation is in a scramble over the
Eagle Pass collectorship. Fitch and
Linn are nip and tuck. Which one
will get it is wholly Indefinite at the
present time. ~ j
Secretary Herbert of the navy, was
requested by a resolution of ¿the house
to state his authority for placing the
navy at the disposal of paramount
Commissioner Blount in Hawaii. Her-
bert lays all the blame on Grover. He
says Grover told him to, and of course
he had to do It. All of the errors are
being saddled on Grover, and he Is the
cause of most of them. This entire Ha-
waiian nonsense belongs to Grover and
Gresham, and much of the ruinous leg-
islation and financial foolishness that
has resulted during the past year can
be laid at G rover's door.
Representative Boutelle, author of
the resolution Inquiring into the
president's right to transfer the navy
to the hands of a commission, thus
comments on Secretary Herberts re-
port or reply to his resolution:
"The secretary's letter illustrates
afresh the seeming confusion of ideas
as to the limitations of official power
that has permeated the present admin-
istration. In asserting the president's
constitutional prerogative as oom-
mander-in-chief of the army and
navy, he appears to lose sight of the
fact, that such authority can be exer-
cised only in accordance with law, and
that the discretionary power vested in
the commander-in-chief can no more
be delegated to an authorized person
than can the power of the president to
approve bills or to veto legislation."
You Texas people should note the
fact, that President Cleveland has ap-
proved of the resolution, authoring O.
O. Howard to accept the declaration of
the Legion of Honor from the French
Republic. Now, this is getting down
to business. There is no doubt but we
have too few people in this country
decorated with this French Legion of
Honor. Honor is good. Let the
French President docorate all of our
federal officers with it,"if it will have
a tendency to make their public acts
more honorable. Honor Is what the
country needs, but of empty honor, we
have a full supply up to the require-
ments of the case.
Representative Enloe also has a re-
formation In tow that will no doubt
prove a boon to the over taxed and over
Impoverished people. It Is described
as follows:
'•It contemplates the abolition of the
coast.'and geodetic survey. It is propos"
ed to absorb the coast survey by the
navy department. It further contem-
plates the termination .of the geodetic
survey with its extensive bureau un-
der the direction of Superintendent
Mendenhall, and the absorbtlon of
this bureau by the interior depart-
ment."
Just as like as not this "geodetic"
survey has been the cause of all of the
country's ills. If so, the sooner the
"geodetic" is given an emetic, or the
g. b., the better. I'll be bound this
congress will do something wonderful
yet.
The following post-office pie belongs
to Texas:
The president sent in the names of
Henry Galbralth as postmaster at Ter-
rell; Fidelia Kilgore, postmistress at
Longview; and J. L. Mosely, as post-
mas tor at Hearne.
J. N. Hutcheson got the office at
Clalrmont, Kent county; Mrs. Lola C.
Taley, Throckmorton, Throckmorton
county, and W. R. Flnley, Violet.
Cooke county.
Earl.
thx nsxt thbex years.
The 366th day of Mr. Cleveland's
second term finds the president In the
dismal swamp, and the democracy in
the indigo depths of discouragement,
if not in despair. That is the balance
sheet of the year's business. It has
been a sorry year for democracy.
Well, it is the duty of honesty to tell
the exact truth about a bad situation,
but It is not the less the duty of cour-
age to go ahead, and make the best of
it. The democracy's task for the next
three years Is to save the pieces. In
this melancholy, but Indispensable un-
dertaking, Mr. Cleveland can contrib-
ute valuable assistance, If he Is dispos-
ed to do 80.
(>But the sunshine, aye, shall light the
sky,
As 'round and 'roand we run;
And the truth shall ever come upper-
most.
And justice shall be done."
—New York Sun.
A Pittsburg, Pa., a miss of twenty
summers, won a wager of $50 by riding
a spirited horse clothesline fashion.
The wager was donated to the church
fund(?).
Or. Price's Cream Baking Powder
comiro south.
The announcement that the Dwight
company will increase its capital and
move its cotton mills from New Eng-
land to some point in the south, is not
a surprise to close observers of the sit
uation.
But it is remarkable to see the rapid
progress of this southward movement,
when once started. Following the ac-
tion of the Dwight company, the Mass-
achusetts company and Bliss, Fabyan
& Co. announce that they will move
south this year, with three other large
New England companies. These six
corporations are all engaged in cotton
manufacturing on an extensive scale.
They have come to the conclusion that
their distributing facilities will be just
as ample in the south as those they now
enjoy. Then they will eave freight,
economize In labor and fuel, and pur-
chase the raw material cheaper if they
locate their mills in sight of the cotton
fields. If they propose to utilize water
power, they can¿find plenty of It in the
south, where it will not freeze them
out three or four months in the year,
as is the case in some localities in New
England.
During our long financial depression,
when the northern mills were com-
plaining, shutting down, cutting wages
and reducing their force and their out-
put, the southern mills were running
on full time and paying bigger divi-
dends than any of their eastern com-
petitors.
These facts are just as well known in
the north and England as they are
here, and we may expect to see the
capitalists and manufacturers of those
countries moving and establishing
their plants here until they make the
south the cotton manufacturing center
of the world.
There is no doubt about the speedy
removal of the six large New England
mills to the south. In the near future
some of the largest industrial centers
of the continent will be in the southern
states.—Atlanta Constitution.
our grand jury systxk.
M. J. Denman.
The system of grand juries originated
with the Roman government and was
simply a secret court from which there
was no appeal. In this court the offend-
er was tried with closed doors and al-
lowed to introduce no evidence in his
defense, evidence for the prosecution
alone being admitted. Whatever ver-
dict was arrived at by this court was
promptly put into execution. In the
formation of the English system of law
this method was Incorporated in a mod-
ified form and an appeal to a higher
court was allowed. Later on the United
States, in framing Its constitution, en-
grafted a similar though modified
form of the same course of procedure.
By the system in practice in the United
States the prosecutor is allowed to en-
ter the closed room of the star cham-
ber court, known as the grand jury,
and make charges against his fellow
man, whether justly or unjustly. He
gives the names of witnesses, withhold-
ing his own name, thus escaping the
responsibility of the slander or other
damages that too frequently result
from the method of investigation.
Much valuable time and hard-earned
money is this way taken from those
least able to bear it, and oftentimes a
stigma is is placed on the character of
an innocent man, which years of up-
right life will not remove.
In a government like ours, where
equal rights should be to all and ex-
clusive privileges to none, in matters
affecting the public, all proceed-
ings of court trials of all kinds should
be open to every one. No doubt it will
be asked what system could bettor sub-
serve the ends of justice than we now
have. In every township and precinct
in every state of the United states there
is a justice of the peace. The law
makes it his duty to investigate all
offenses against the law. When an
offense has been committed, or sup-
posed to have been committed, let him
at once summon witnesses, arrest the
supposed offender and proceed to try
the case. If sufficient proof develops to
justify the arrest the offender should
be required to give sufficient bond for
his appearance at court on the specified
day for trial. It in the investigating
court he proves himself innocent, he
should be permitted to go without ball.
The court of final jurisdiction would
have the same authority to take cogni-
zance of the case that it would under a
bill of indictment found'by our modern
star chamber, commonly called grand
jury
These thoughts are thrown out hur-
riedly to elicit comment and investi-
gation. We shall have more to say
along this line hereafter.
frxr poison.
W. S. Morgan, secretary of the Re-
form Press Association, writes:
"We have a letter from George L.
Burr, president of the Reform Press
Association of Nebraska, stating that
one of the drawbacks to the'progress of
the reform movement is the cheap
semi-weekly papers that are being sent
out by the publishers of metropolitan
dailies. Mr. Burr says that in some
counties in that state 300 to 400 copies
of these papers comes to a single post-
office. This is not the first complaint
of this kind we have heard. In fact
we have the best of reasons for believ-
ing that every state, especially where
the populist cause is gaining rapidly,
as in Nebraska, the gold bugs are send-
ing out their poisonous literature at
less than the actual cost of the paper
on which the printing is done. We
have had propositions sent to this
office wherein they proposed to furnish
a dollar weekly for 25 cents a year.
We have been surprised and pained to
see reform papers carrying a lavishly
displayed advertisement of some great
daily proposing to send out a weekly,
seemi- weekly, at prices with which no
reform papers could compete.
We are asked, 'how are we going to
remedy this? Is there no way that we
can compete with them in the prices
thev offer?'"
¡The Chicago Express.
There is a growing inclination among
southern populists to take papers advo-
cating our cause published in the
north, and thousands of our southern
papers flow north regularly. To meet
this demand the Mercury la pleased
to offer a club rate to Its readers where-
by they can secure the Chicago Ex.
press (now edited by Henry Vincent,
formerly of the Nonconformist) at a re-
duced rate of $1.60 for the two, or $2.00
for the Express, Mercury and Ad-
vance. The Express alone is $1.00,
hence you see the advantage of our
offer. The Express is the hardest hit-
ter of them all, and if you have a pas-
sion for straight talk you get it there.
Remember the price, only $1.50 for the
two, or $2.00 for the three.
We heard a mechanic say that he
would not be without Salvation Oil. It
kills pain.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1894, newspaper, March 15, 1894; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185552/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .