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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1887)
m he gaity Sonm ASTORIA, OREGON: FEIDA.Y...... ..JANUARY 21, 1SS7 PASSING NOTICE. Though the most of us cannot sgree with our worthy governor in his assumption that the courts have no right to pass upon the constitutionality of laws, it must not be supposed that his excel lency's idea is wholly absurd. The absurdity of the idea lies in the direction that his reasoning took in the celebrated message that is occasioning so much comment. The'idea itself has been iterated and reiterated several times since our esto ptrpet ua government be gan revolving on its axis in 1789, and has a good deal in it. Pope says "Whatever is, is well." This does not mean that whatever was, was bad, but apart from the implication of a govern ing Providence, suggests that whatever is, is, because the fact of its being is a reason for its ex istence. It is its own excuse for being. If an exact reason for the exist ence of anything is demanded it is not always an easy task to fur nish it. Suffice it to say in this particular, that, all things being considered, it was found least ob jectionable, at the time our fed eral government was organized to divide it into the executive, judi cial and legislative branches, and give the judiciary the highest de termining authority. But such reasoners as Gov. Pennoyer may ask, ""Why, then, should our laws, previously to be ing executed, be made valid, not by the signature of a governor, or a president, but by that of the chief justice of the supreme court?" The only reply that can be giv en is that there is no precedent; that the existing way is the way that was arranged and has worked well, probably better than another untried way would have worked. It may be that our forefathers erred when they framed the con stitution. It may be that better procedure would have been to sub mit the question of the constitu tionality of the laws passed by national and state legislatures to the courts immediately after their passage. But that the way they" did adopt was a good one, experi ence abundantly shows. It does look cumbersome, and occasionally ridiculous, to maintain expensive judicial machinery to determine the validity of laws after they have been enforced for years, but till a better scheme is devised, the pres ent way is to be followed, and an' iconoclasm which is purely de structive and not substitutory, is out of place on the pare of the commonwealth's chief executive. - Ix the April Century an article appeared purporting to be from the pen of one of the crew of the Alabama. The article attracted the attention of the Semmes fam ily, who, so the story goes, noticed some strange inaccuracies in the statement, and so advised the Cen tury editors. The Century com pany traced the writer by means of the check, and ascertained that his name is James Soung; that he was never on the Alabama in any oapacity, nor had he ever seen the ship. His story was, or rather is supposed to be, made up from the various accounts by Semmes and others, and put together as printed. Young is also known as having offered to the government, for a consideration, important evidence, during the Star Eoute trial, and upon investigation the papers fur nished by him were discovered to be forgeries. The Century people feel rather cheap over the fraud. They are preparing a book to in clude all the war articles, and this story had been printed in its proper place in order; it will therefore cost them something to take it out and make new plates. - , 9 mm The Rev. Dr Talmage is em phatic in his remarks. In a recent sermon he thus alludes to the "dishonest- dollar:" kYou put one dishonest dollar in an estate, but it will not stand. You may take a dishonest dollar and put it down into the very depths of the earth' and you may roll on top of it rocks and mountains, and on top of those rocks and mountains you may put all the banks and mon eyed institutions, piling them up heavens high; but that one dishon est dollar down in the depths of the earth will beein to rock and heave, and upturn itself until it comes to the resurrection of dam nation. You can not hide a dis honest dollar." MEN THAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT. Jas. G. Blaine is one of the largest ice dealers in America. John Ericsson is now eiehtv-four. and knows all he ever learned. It is said that the best swordsman in Washington is Secretary Lamar. Ferdinand "Ward is thin and hag gard and shuns the eyes of all visitors at Sing Sing. Gen. Sherman is said to have a fear that he will be iho next of the war heroes to die. Lord Randolph Churchill declares that at sixty years of age he expects to lead .Europe. Governor Lee. of Virginia, ia cred ited with being the champion checker-player of the south. M. Bartholdi has been raised to the rank of a Commanderof the Legion of Honor in France. It is said thatRoscoe Conkling waa initrumental in causing John L. Sul livan to stop drinking. Spurgeon's health iB failing, but he continues to preach every Sunday to overwhelming congregations. Whitolaw Beid of the New York Tribune is reported to have accum ulated 81,000,000 in the last ten years. It was Gen. Grant who described his friend Logan in the paradex: "Logan is never at peace except in war." Gen. Lojjan went into the first bat tle of Bull Bun in citizen's dres3 and a silk hat. He left his seat in con gress to take the field. It is said that Senator Mahone will go back to railroad building and management when he retires from public life on March 4th. The largest legal fee ever obtained by Abraham Linooln and his partner, Herndon, was one of 35,000 from the Illinois Central railroad. M. Dauphin, the new Frenoh min ister of finance, stands six foot six inches in his stockings, and is said to have marched to fame by this. The man who framed the original legal tender act is still living. His name is E. G. Spaulding, of Buffalo. He is nearly eighty years old. Gov. Cur tin of Pennsylvania will retire from congress at the close of this session, and after that he will de vote himself to preparing data for a war history of Pennsylvania. Senator Logan once lost a chance to become a millionaire by throwing up a Leadville mining interest which he owned. Two million dollars were afterward taken out of the mine. Gen. Butler, who figured so promi nently in the Colin Campbell scandal, is the author of several books of travel, two of which deal with life in Canada and the northwest, where he went with the Wolseley expedition in 1870, and another witli life in Ashantee Land. Current Press Opinion. New York World (Dom.): With Judge Gresham sitting down on the railroad wreckers, and Judge Daniels denouncing the engineers of gambling "corners'' in universal necessities, and Becorder Smyth dealing out justice to the Broadway boodlers, it looks as though the remote judiciary were more responsive to the needs and the will of the people, than is either the legislative or the executive depart ment of government. Chicago Mail (Rep.): The -conn-try Buffers in her councils from the effects of that toadyism which has bowed before great wealth and whoso motto is: "Nothing succeeds like suc cess." Boston Globe (Dem.): Nine and a half millions more of the public debt wiped out last month. How it must make the European finance ministers stare to see the leaps and bounds with which this rollioking republic of ours sponges off its big war score, while they go groaning on unable to lift war debts created centuries ago. Memphis Appeal fDem.): We are destined to live together; that is in evitable that was the verdict of the war. The magnificent history of the north and south pitted against each other on the deadly battlefield is the common property of all. If we had not fought as we did the north would havo been ashamed of us, as we are of the same race and nationality. But the war is ended, the south is loyal to the Union, and to make the whole country great and prosperous should bo the aim of all seotions. Philadelphia Press CRe?.): The re velation that the late Senator Logan, after thirty years spent in the service of his country, died poor, is calling Berious attention to the return the American people make to the men who devote the best part of their lives to the public good. No more disinterested service was probably ever given to any people than that which the senator from Illinois ren dered. Bucltlcn's Aroiea Salvo. 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