Show HAtltOAD ATlOIlNIW BILL It is gratifing ovidonue of reform that the Senate Judiciary Committee have rex > rtcd back the railroad attorneys 1111 a majority consenting to a favorable report The bill has been so amended iliat Congressmen may become attorneys attor-neys for Biibsidircd or land grant roads insults between one company and another an-other or between a company and any dividual but arc prohibited from sen IlIg as attorneys In cases in which the Government has an interest The time will come the DEMOCBAT trusts when public sentiment will demand that Congressmen Con-gressmen will bo content with their wages or resign They are paid 5000 salary a jcar paid monthly 11060 and the Government Is entitled to their I services exclusively M In cases of sala ricdnen gemrally If not why not This is a large theme and of vital import OIILO to the interests of pure government and we trust that tile Democratic Senator will force the fighting on it Vor year there has been going on in Congress n struggle between the corporations and people over the forfeited railroad land grants It is not even claimed that the corporations had obscrvcd tho condition of the grants In many cases they got possession of tho land and sold it Million building mile of Iho roads for which the land was given them Kallroad attorney In Congress had influence enough to defeat de-feat legislation to restore the forfeited lands to the public Somu Senator recently re-cently said in a speech in Congress that more lands had been given aw ay to railroads rail-roads in this country than was contained in i the entire German Empire As incredible in-credible as this statement seems it is strictly true Yet the beneficiaries of these imperial gifts have in many cases failed to fnlllll their obligations to the Government and while refusing to build the roads called for still iclaln tho land This is made possible by the fait that Congressmen are empowered to act asattorneys for the corporations as against the Go eminent and it is needless to rcmaik that a scat in Congress is one of the most important prerequi itc8 for the attorneyship of a company having that kind of business to transact The law cannot be made too stringent in this respect and it is to be hoped that it will be pushed through during I dur-ing the present session |