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Temperance meeting at Oily Hall
Pittsburgh on Thursday Night—Out
pouring of the People.
Correspondence of the Radical.
Pittsburgh, February 28,1873.
City Hall was crowded last night by an
orderly and intelligent audience to hear
speeches on the Local Option question.
Although the call for the meeting was by
the friends of temperance, yet the plat
form was free, and friends and opponents
met to discuss the merits of the measure
in twenty minutes James
Park, Jr., presided, and introduced as the
first speaker George W. DeCamp, Esq.,
who apologized for his inexperience in
addressing an audience upon .so moment
ous a question, took strong ground against
License, and said the question to be de
cided was whether the people are to per
mit the moral and social happiness of a
great portion of the community to be des
troyed by granting license to sell intoxi
cating drinks; that he did not profess to
be an able constitutional lawyer, but he
did profess to say that no man whose
opinion was worth twenty shillings
would say that the people of a district
had not the right to say whether liquor
should be sold in their midst or not. How
was the Constitution adopted but by the
people ? He had nothing to say in con
demnation of the members of the Legis
lature for their course in this matter, but
he did not think that they could so far
forget their duty as to vote for a law pro
tecting those who not only make their
families, friends and neighbors unhappy,
but inflicted upvjn the community a de
mon more to be feared than a pestilence
or a famine. The gentleman sat down
amid great applause.
Then Thomas M. Marshall, who was
the next speaker, after being greeted with
an outburst of cheers, began as follows :
Mr. M. said that he had not attended
the meeting for the purpose of making a
speech, but simply as a citizen. He was
pleased t 6 note that as far as order and
decorum prevailed that the meeting would
with tbat* / bTSaUadar
hall [Laughter.] Thef
[ gentleman regretted that he was not at
that meeting, as it would have pleased
him very much to have seen his Ameri
can, German and Irish friends for once
coalescing, if it was on a subject of such
mighty importance as local option. As a
citizen he desired to express his opinion
on the question of allowing the people to
say whether or not liquor should be sold
in their district. To those who dispute
the question of privilege he said that is
not law—no, not schoolboy’s law. The
gentleman here reviewed the case coming
under the decision of judge Bell in regard
to the power of the Legislature to dele
gate to the people the right to make law.
He held that the Legislature delegated to
the people the power tp amend the Con
stitution of the State, and If such a power
was given the people, surely they should
have the power to legislate an eight by
ten grog shop from their midst. Not
constitutional! As an illustration—di
rectly underneath is a market house.
Every marked day the butchers stand at
their stalls and ■ the gardeners at theirs.
Legislation provides that meat shall be
sold here and greens there, yet we cannot
get legislation tp say that liquor shall or
shall not be sold rn the "Old Bloody
Fifth.” How absurd! Legislation says
that frame bouses shall be erected in cer
tain wards and not in others —a wise act
tending to the general good—yet there is
no law to decide whether liquor shall be
sold in certain districts. Was there ever
more absurd reasoning ? If the Legisla
ture can throw safeguards around the sale
of oil in certain districts why not around
that of whisky ? The Supreme Court it
self derives its authority from the people
and the Court will do just as you say.
You will hear it said that the civil gov
ernment could not be carried on one day
without what is called delegated civil
power- If the Legislature can delegate
power to the City Councils it can dele
gate the same to you. The gentleman
concluded with some humorous remarks
in regard to women suffrage, yet claimed
that had women the right to vote on lo
cal option, the fate of the tavern keepers
would be sealed, indeed.
After Mr. M. had closed W. D. Moore,
Esq., a representative of the liquor aide,
made an argument against local option,
taking the ground that neither votes nor
might could settle great moral questions.
Might never made right, nor never could.
The people of Israel had set up a golden
calf and worshipped it as the true God.
The Jewish people crucified the Son of
God, and mobs had committed many acts
of tyranny and oppression. After illus
trating this poliit, he passed to the con
stitutional view of the question. There
BEAVER, ; PENN’A, MARCH 7.1873.
were natural rights and constitutional
rights, which could not be denied Or
withheld. The right to sell intoxicating
drinks was undeniable. As to alcohol/
man never made a drop of it, nor ever?
could. It could, only be made in the
laboratory of nature. It was the gift of
God. Man could determine the condi
tions, but nature must produce the albbS
hoi. He then advanced the argument that,
the use of liquor was in itself lawful and
right, and the abuse of it only hurtful'
and wicked. It was not contrary to re
ligion'or good morals to use liquors, but
on the other hand their use Was fully
recognized by the Redeemer, and their
abuse only condemned by Him. The ap
petite for strong drink was irresistible 'in
the nature of man, and defied reason;
conscience, religion, heaven ; and hell.
The sale of Intoxicating liquors was a
nuisance and a curse. /Tremendous and ?
long continued applause, which altpost
disconcerted the speaker.) After silence
had-been restored, Mr. Moore continued,-
and said that the abuse hf ardent
was the point to which moral reformers'
should direct their efforts. The speech.
( was cloSely listened to, but its sentiment#
did not meet the approval of the audi*-
ence. "
The next speaker called upon was •;
Marshall Swartzwelder, Esq The gen-
tleman was enthusiastically received, aud t
on being introduced by the President;' ■
made one of the most logical, concise and? \
interesting addresses of the evening. H#|
simply attended the meeting as a citizen/ f
and not with the intention of making a ;
speech. . From a legal aspect the question#! \
before the people were, should the llquof; {
traffic be abolished or should license ta
sell liquor be granted. What might be
the effect of the passage of the bili li|
question ? If the Legislature has not
power to delegate to the people the qubit
tion of local option, it certainly has 4h#|[
power to throw certain restrictions
the granting of licenses, and if ft
the one it certainly can 4° the
The Legislature says that the drukelfi
shall not sell poison save on the brearoßß
tion of A reputable physlclan; lltt|n^gi<^
around that slowe*, but no lew certain
poison—wbisky. While scriptural quota
tions may be made in defense of the wine,
yet that grand old sentence “Lead us 'Hot
into temptation" may also be found in the
Book of Books. If you apply the latter
quotation the Local Option bill will pass-
It has been arged that no law will pre
vent the sale and disposition of liquor.
Very good. If it drives its devotees to
dark cellars and removes the glittering
sign of the tavern keeper or the grog
seller from our highways it at least keeps
jus from temptation. Let the temptation
j be removed, and the people would soon
j find that they could get along without
| taverns or dram shops. Hide the jog, and
j the temptation is gone. It has been as
serted that it would be unjust to legislate
away the large capital now invested in
the liquor trade—a capital invested un
der the laws of the State and the United
States—wrong to do away with the great
i revenue which the business yields to the
State and National governments. But
let us strike a balance between revenues,
and we will find that the expense con
nected with oar hospitals, our alms houses,
our work houses, jii'.s aud penitentiaries
has been ten fold the amount derived from
the source named.
The gentleman’s address was frequent
ly applauded, and had great effect -upon
bis hearers.
The Committee on Resolutions ap
peared and reported the following through
the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Por
ter :
To the Honorable Members of the Senate and Bovse
of Representatives of the VommonVbealth of
Pennsylvania:
We, the friends of the Local Option
law, citizens of Allegheny county, assem
bled in mass meeting at the City J3all of
Pittsburgh. Thursday evening, February
27,1873,hereby place on permanent record
an expression of our wish and of our will,
and respectfully memorialize your hon
orable bodies.
Our prayer is that you will give imme
diate and earnest heed to the demand of
this community to remove from us a dis
ability which it is believed now exists
which, if this fear is well grounded, will
deprive tft of the tight of suffrage on a
measure that concerns our highest in
terests, a right now exercised under the
general law throughout the State. Such
discrimination is unfair and unjust. The
trouble of which we co&plain has arisen,
we believe, through no design on your
part, as the makers of the law, but the ef
forts to remedy the defect have met with
the moat subtle and determined opposi
tion at every step up to yesterday.
The record of the action of the House
-TCmS|B^’TWODOLLARS T»*CK AJfNTTM IN ADVANCE.
•i ■■■ --”te '‘.“v. t ■ .« . ,
ay fills us with high hope. The
threat lhatthe bill for our relief should
basfallen t 6 the
gfiMoa' tßrough the wise and judicious
of those who are willing that the
VoCce of the people shall be heard.
to express our liveliest' satis
faction at'lhc recordofthe large ; majorl*
earnestly petition that
thte’bifl aiay be carried through all the
stages df legislatioh at the earliestP mo-
thalthus we may be secured
p cnncisely stated what ac*
lion we now deeth essential to secure us
ttlesarighlfc fee would further deefore':
tKI; That## believe the highest interests
oftbe community are at slake in this mat
ter'itnea df tl) parties and all shades of
political opinion are united In favor of this
aHt«& and sisters and parents,
#bqse homes and lives are made miserable
alid WTetijbed by nqnor. plead for it
through tim bope it Holds out to them
\The 'gr<»f body of the law loving, law
abiding peeple.in country and city alike*
look tb it aagivlng them an opportunity to
rld themsstvesof a terrible curse.
2. The ft**to* la favor of this measure
Isno resspifrniaoOat aad growing than it
ift widespafcad. For years the burden of
' ll|e traffic li liquor in the shape of crime
tmd vice ft|d poverty and Increase of taxa*
glfiWter and greater, and repeated efforts
faUnre of the friends of law and" or
the determination has grown deeper
sal tbegrievanceshould at some future
toan end. Now, with nothing
In National or State politics to distract our
intention fdr years to come, we see our op
pray you relieve us speedily
liift&eembarrassment which threatens to
from embracing it. ■ 1 ,
MThere were other speeches and an elo
jment ietter read from Rev. Father Hick
ha meeting adjourned at a late hour
md was iD everv wav.a great demonstra- .
Mi OMWASHINGTOm
[Correspondence of the Badical. ]
Washington, D. C., March 4,1873.
, Investigations are the order of the day,
and tbe present Congress will be known
in history as the Congress of Investiga
tions.
During the present winter there have
• been appointed the following committees
: of investigations;
1. Tbe Poland Committee, by the House
» to investigate charges against members of
> Congress for dealings of corruption in
i connection with the Union Pacific Rail-
I road Company and the Credit Mobilier of
I America.
2. The Wilson Committee, by the
! House, to inquire into the state of these
1 companies and ascertain the causes of
■ failure on the part of the Union Pacific
I Railroad Company to pay tbe interest
t upon bonds due to tbe United Stales, now
- amounting to more than five millions of
1 dollars.
• 3. In the Senate tbe Morrill committee,
‘ to inquire into the conduct of members
i of that body in relation to the same sub
-5 jects. v
1 4. The Frelinghuysen committee^-to
inquire into charges of bribery against
• Senator Pomeroy in recent efforts to se
i cure his return to tbe United States Sen
ate by the Legislature of Kansas.
And besides these—
i 5. Tbe Standing Committee of tbe
- Senate on Privileges and Elections have
been investigating similar charges against
e Senator Caldwell, from . the same State.
f And also the political condition of affairs
in tbe State of Louisiana.
» The last committee have made a report
• that Senator Caldwell’s . election was
f illegal and fraudulent, and that the Senate
7 ought to declare bis seat vacant
I In the case of Louisiana, tbe same com
t mittee have also reported in part upon
- tbe state of facts in Louisiana, exhibiting
an extent of demoralization and corrup
• tion in the primary meetings of the peo
f pie and at the ballot box. wbich is sad
dening to the heart of every honest man
s and upright citizen.
1 Thd report of the Poland investigation
i committee, and the action thereon iu tbe
• House, has created a profound impression,
j No such document has been introduced
i in Congress since the foundation of the
g Government It reviews the history of
, tbe building,of .the Pacific railroad; ex
r plains the nature and character of the
• company knoWn as the Credit Mobilier
i of America; discusses the growing cor
ruptions and dangers of large and power
ful monopolies and monied organiz itions;
e sets forth the operations of Messrs. Ames
and Brooks, and the connections with the
matter of MesSrs. Blaine, Dawes, Scofield, 1
Bingham, Garfield, and Kelly, as well as 1
of certain Senators and ex-members and <
other persons outside of Congress, and 1
expounds at large the question of Con- <
gressional jurisdiction over subjects of this
character. /•' "
This report is understood to be unani
mous, having thefUppr|>val of all the Re
publican and Democratic members of the
committee, so that it can be said to be in
no’sense a political, partisan report. It
announces as the result that Speaker
Blaine is entirely exonerated from any
participation in or connection With these
affairs,.save his conversation with Mr.
Ames as to the purchase of stock, and bis
prompt rejection of all idea of such pro.
posals; that Messrs. Dawes,
Bingham, Garfield, and Kelly are shown
to have purchased stock of Mr. Ames,
but it does not appear that they had any
corrupt knowledge or motive in so doing,
and therefore they may be excused, with
the admonition that they should have
been more careful aud scrutinizing in their
business transactions; and that Messrs.
Ames and Brooks deserve to be and should
be expelled from the House.
Mr. Voorhees defended Mr. Brooks; Mr.
Butler Mr. Ames, while Banks, Sheila
berger and others sustained the commit
tee’s report in favor of the expulsion of
the corrupt members.
The debate closed on Wednesday, and
the following resolutions of Mr. Sargent’s
were substituted over those of the com
mittee’s, and the first passed, yeas 181:
nays 36; the second, yeas 174, nays 33. .
Resolved, That the House absolutely
condemns the conduct of Oakes Ames,
a member of this House from the State of
Massachusetts, in seeking to procure Con
-1 gresslonal attention to the affair of a cor
poration in which he was interested, and
whose interest directly depended on the
, legislation of Congress by inducing mem
bers of Congress to invest in the stock of
said corporation.
' Th« seeood resolution was then adopt
.director of the ITn
of member of this House to procure the
assignment to himself or family of stock
in the Credit Mobilier of America, a cor
poration having a contract with the Union
Pacific railroad, and whose interests de
> pended directly upon the legislation of
J Congress.
The Republican party has not quite
done its duty, and these exposures will
e trouble it hereafter. It should with its
# own hand of power cleanse the Augean
Stables. The party is in a more critical
e condition than its leaders seem to be
f aware of, a cloud over shadows its ebar
a acter and if the thunderbolts do not de
-- scend and destroy its power, we may
f thank a kind providence and not our
Representatives in Congress,
e A strange spectacle occurred in the
e House when the vote was declared. Mr.
•f Brooks conspicuously left his seat and
c went first to Elliott, colored Representa
it live from South Carolina, and in the
v presence of hundreds in the rear of Elli
>f oil’s scat, /hanked him at length and em
phatically for the vote which be had giv
:, en, and he then did likewise to Rainey,
s also from South Carolina, whose seat was
>- in a distant part of the House. This
spectacle attracted general attention,
o The President has signed the bill to al
it low the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
puny to build a bridge across the St. Louis
i- river, between Rick’s Minnesota,
and Conner’s Point, Wisconsin.
Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds, reported,
without amendment, the House bill ap
propriating $300,000 to purchase a site for
government buildings at Pittsburgh.
The Judge Sherman case at Washing
ton has gone from the Committee of Ways
and Means to the Committee of the Judi
ciary of the House to inquire whether
Judge Sherman ought to be impeached
for asking a ten thousand dollar fee on
the ground of having procured certain
legislation for the New York Board of
Brokers.
The Senate, after a lengthy discussion,
has adopted no amendment to the sundry
civil expenses bill, transferring the print
ing of the debates of Congress to the
Congressional printing office. At present
the contract is held by pirivate parties.
The House Committee on Appropria
tions has considered the Senate amend
ments to the Postofflce Appropriation
bill, and agreed to non-concur in the
amendment forbidding the tranmission of
all free math-v so far as the same affects
exchange among newspapers.
The hfil to create a ne w j j jicial district
out of the Western District of Pennsylva
nia, which passed the House some time
siit'ceT it js now understood, will n/»l be
acted up m by the Senate this session.
NUMBER 10
A new revelation, it is asserted, is; made?
herein regard to Colfax, and first pub
lished in the New York TTorW, that riv
ets fast upon him the long line of decep
tion and falsehood that he has gradually
developed from his South Bend speech to
the present hour. . It will be remembered
that in his very latest explanation he in
sisted that George F. Nesbitt, of New
York, bad. given him the $4,000 at odd
times in the summer of 1868 as voluntary
contributions, out of friendship, though a
total stranger, and that all the favor that
was ever returned was a few tickets to the
inauguration ceremonies in the spring of
I 860; Now it has just come to light, from
the official records of the Post Office De
partment, that Mr. Colfax was the attor
ney and lobbyist of Nesbitt, and that
be filed an argument in reply to one made
by the AUorney.General for the extension
of the stamped envelope contract then in
the bands of the, very same Mr. Nesbitt.
It is there endorsed as submitted by him.
In order that no injustice may be done
Mr. Colfax, it should be stated that while
the twenty pages of argument’s in Nes
bitt's, behalf are not in his handwriting,
his letter indorsing it and transmuting U
is there. It may have been copied for
him, or it may have come from Nesbitt's
lawyer, but Mr. Colfax alone appears on
the record as making the appeal for Nes
bitt in violation of the act of 1868,making
such an offence from the Vice President,
or Senator or member the subject of crin*
inal indictment. It is not believed that.
Mr. Colfax will rise to explain any more.
It is bat just, however, to say that the
Postmaster General denies the above re
port. He says that finding the Nesbitt
contract for stamped envelopes had been
extended by his predecessor without ad
vertisibg for competition, be referred the
question of its legality to the Attorney
General, who decided it to be without the
sanction of the law, and said that the De
partment shdald terminate the same on
reasonable notice, and issue proposals for
a new contract wbjcb was done. In the
meantime the question arose as to the
thehpw contract should comhujnce, >ad
IPresident Gdlfax"%fged that
Nesbitt having the necessary buildings,
machinery and materials, and not having
forfeited their contract by any malfeas
ance, should have opportunity to work
up, until the new contract was let; or
that they be allowed to present argument
as to the validity of their contract as ex
tended.
The history of the transaction is simply
this: When Postmaster General Ran
dall retired from the department he allow
ed this contract to continue without ad
vertising for competition, When Post
master General Cresswell came in he
thought this was irregular, and called oa
the Attorney-General for an opinion,
which was soon forthcoming, and adverse
to Mr. Randall’s course. It was to this
that Mr. Colfax died a reply, and on this
Nesbitt’acontract was allowed to run un
til some time after, when bids were in
vited.
The fourth of March is near but there
would be no difficulty in Congress having
time to dispose of all important legislation
by Tuesday noon, if the members would
Work upon the important matters f but
there is a disposition among a large num
ber to waste valuable time in debating
unimportant matters, to put themselves
on record as champions of sofne impossi
ble project.
The Senate has agreed to the House ap
propriation for the improvement of,the
Ohio river, and payment of debt ot Louis
ville canal, which will speedily reduce
the toll to the cost of repairs aud atten
tion.
The inauguration to-day was a grand
success. Everything passed off according
to previous arrangement. President
Grant’s inaugural was brief and to the
point concerning which you will receive
fuller information through the dailies
than I have time or space now to give.
The city is filled with strangers from all
parts of the United States, West Pointers,
cadets, and crack military companies are
here. The Inauguration Ball this even
ing promises to be a brilliant affair.
Ax excitable individual writes to the
Johnstown Mountain Voice that he has
examined the" poor-house accounts, as
presented by the auditors, and has "codie
to the conclusion that the whole arrange-
ment is a barefaced and unblushing
fraud." Warming with his theme, he
insinuates that the |l4O charged for "pro
dace" was spent "for groceries purchased
from wholesale liquor dealers.” Al) of
which rather reflects upon the good name '
of Johnstown auditors.
Forest cbtxTY wants the office of
County Superintendent abolished.
Sam.