Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1873, Page 8

. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1873. ¢ WASHINGTON. © (Continued fyom the Firsl Page.) 44 ton sharos of Gredit Sobillor upon tho solicitation é’:"m“' tho latier cavrying it for Xolloy, until tho dends paid for it, and’ on_ tho 43d of June, 1608, ay rosoived §120. from. Antos in n cliock & the o ubsequent dividonds wera d in Unfon Pacifio ntock or bonds, In Boptembor, Folloy recolved $760 from Anico, Which wng uii- lorstood 0 bo b advanco to bo pald aut of tho divl- onds, but thoro nover ks beon oty ndjustment of tho ot and thoro o o, cniiro varisnco in tho testi- {many of both A to what this transaction wns, = Sub- Rcquuont eonversation nrid negollations Letween them whe i ovidence, but tho Committeo does not deem it aterial, o to Garflold, {lio Commlttes find o samo 'ots sa (n Kelloy's caso L0 tho polnt of tho recoption of mcheck for $349, Tho Committeo do not fnd that winco tho payment of tho §320 thero has been any rcommunication botweon Amics sud Garfleld-on tho pubject tl ik Investigntion began, *Somo corre wpondenco botweon Garfield and Ames, and somo con= Wersation betsveon them during the Investigation, will o found in the reported teatimony, “Tho Committcs slate thnt it appeares that Amen ald ‘ot giva nny detadl of - tho rolations botweon tlio Crodit FMobilier and the Unfon Pacifio Company, nor did any of partic knaw that. tho dividends would bo pald in wtock or boude of tho Iatter, * “Tho Committeo any tho Grodlt Mobiller woa n Biato corporation, not ubject to Congromional logialtion, wand tho fact thnt ita profits wore oxpeoted to bo doriv: dfrom thie building of the Unlon Pacifio Rafiroad aid a0t pparontly ront such an lnforeet s hat Oomipay {o dlsqualty thio boldor of Gredlt, Mobilior stoc ¥rom partlclpating in any legisintion affocting the Rail “roa Amea nesured Congressmon, When d Om!Inny. gusstioned on fho wnbiect, that tlolr gwnsrstig o o Block would ot Intertero ith Wi legltles dutlen ho Commilioe, therclore, do uat find, aa to thio Cone vigressmon above named, tliat tliy wero awaro of Ammcs' ‘object, or {hat thoy bad any other purpose thau profite bl invotraonts, 1t 43 apparont ftnt thoso who advanced thelr monoy Ypey for tuel atock present moro the appesranco of orilinnry invostor than thosowho did not, but the Cammittes do not feol at liborty to find any corrupt purposo or knowledgo fonndod upon tho fack of non. ont alono, It ought also to bo obseryed that hose gentlomen who surzendored tholr elock to Ames “befare thore was any publle_cxcitoment upon the sub- ooty oot profees o liavo dono go upan, oy dden of ropriety of lwldlnx[ but for rensons affeoting- ¥ho valuo of aud tho securlty of the investment, bul ¥ho Gommittoo beliovo that ihoy must havo folt that thbro was somothing out of the ordinary course of bus~ Anoss n tho cxtraordinary divldenda lioy wero roceiv: Engas to render ‘investment ilecl susplclous, and 2his was ono of tho motivoa of thoir action, Tho Jom- imiiteo havo notbeon nblo to find that ang of theso Smembors of Congress hiavo bocn affected fia thelr of= Aictal actéon in consenuonco of thole {nterest {n Croddt obillor plook, I finy boen suggosted that tho {ack thut nonc of thts stock was transforred o thoso with whom Ames contracted was o circumstonce from yrilch n pouso of improprioty, f not carruption, wus to Yo inferred, The Commitioo belloyo this ia capablo of saplanation without sucl nforence, _Aho Committee, in reforriug to tho spparont rendt= ‘resa of Ames to tako back Credit Mobiler stock, stato Ihnt tho sult of AUComb sgainst Ames, now pnding £ 3t should bo decided ogatnst Ames, might compet tho loitor to rofund much Gtock ns was ase igned to him g trusteo, Nono of tho Congressmen #bove mentionad appear to hnve known of Ames! deal- Hngs with tho others, nor do the Committes find that hey had any corrupt motives in thelr deailngs with ‘Ames, JIad it appeared they woro awato of enormoua diyldends, nnd how they wero to bo earned, tho Com.- mitteo could not acquit them, The Committco then refers to tho liborality of Con- Ygress to tho Union Pacifio Raflrond, snd say” Gongress ‘Tovar intended that tho ownors of tho rosd should oz- 'ecuto n mortgage on thd road prior to that of tho Gov- wriment to raiso monoy o put into their pockots, ' Tho Budden rlso of valuo of the Credit Mobilior stock wos ¥hé resnlt of the, ndoption of & schomo; whereby tho ~holo rond was mortgaged ton contractifg party, come 04 of men who aontroliad tho Union PacloTialirasd tock, who contracted with themsclyes to bulld tho ¥oad. The unduo ond unreasopablo proflia thus ado wero as much o fraud upon the Government as by bad sold thoir bonds and aivided tho monoy. Tho Commitieo discuss at somo length what should Bo - tho rlluon of Congrossmen in Tolation to sub- oot likely to como before Congross, they belloving no “momber has the right to disqualify himeclf without ’some higher molive than merely to make profitable in- e in Gowatry, aay tho Commlttes, o becoming Bled country, #sy tho Com ccon With gigantio and . powertal corpisations, ang it 1s ‘otorious In many Biato Loglalatures that fhoso Influe ‘ences aro often ho controlling, and, fn effect, aro tho Fullng, pover of tho Blate. - Congrods: s 10 aomo ox- ent, within o few years, ben brought unidor s similar . infidonce, Tho publio bellef s t00_ganeral that tho g0 of money 10 carry publio measures is Jegitimate, "No Gongrosaman alould pitco bimsolf fn cizcumstan. «es of susplcion. It 18 of the Lighest importonco that ational egislation ahould bo freo of all taint of cor- ‘uption, and equally imporiant_that the people should feol confident that it 1550, Thio poople will not ro- ‘poct the lawa if thoy lose respect for tho law-makors, Tho Commiffeo think ihat tho mombera in {aki toak wera nat sufliclontly careful in nmtntmnfnwhfi ‘Abey were gotting, The Committos find nothing in #ho'conduct of the shove-named membors calling for \any recommendatfons, "The Commitico say tho cas of Mr, Brooks stands differont state of facts from tho others, They wenearso at longth ovidenco, thowing Brooks' efforts in Ehopressand in bia official posltion in hehalfof the , and his operations with Durant, ote, After refer- wring st great Iongth to tho evidenca rolative o Brooks, o Gomuittoo sss, wilhout furter commont vpon thd- 002 Tho Committeo find that 160 shiares of stock appear- on s of the Crodit Afobiller in the name of 0n, were roally the Gtock of Brooks, and subjoct o his. control, ond {hat itwns understood by both nrtfos fhat Brooks had {.kon such an interest in the rodlt Mobilior Company, and was 80 connocted with urant that he must be regarded as hoving a full owlodge of tho relations botweon that Gompany and o Bailroad Company, sud of tho contracts botween hem, Ho must have known tho causo of tho sudden creaso of valus of the Oredit Mobiller stock, aud now large tho expocted profits wera to bo made, We ave already expressod our view of tho }mpmty of embers of Congress bocoming OWnOr of Lock, Pos- wesaing knowlodge, but Brooks was not only membor Yot Gongresa, b o vas & Government Direclos i tlio Onlon Pacifio Company, As such i¢ was his dutytogusrd ‘mnd watch over tho ntorcste of tho Government in tha 0ad, and aco that thoy wore protected and preserved. ‘0 {nsure such faithfulncas on the part of the Govorne ent Dircrtors, Congross very wisely provided that \thoy'should nof bo stockholders n tho rond, Brooks fpadlly sy that, though bocoming b stockholder fn rodit Mobilior was not _forblddon by tho lottor of the Haw, yot 1t waa s violation of its spirit and esaonce, and, #herafore, had tho stock placed in tlie name of his son- Mn-iaw, Alie {ransfor of the Oakes Amos contract to iho Trusices; tho buildivg of ~tlio road under %he “contract from which tho cnormous Mividends woro all dorived, wss sll durin; Brooks' officisl ~ lfo ns o Governmont Diroctor, and must hayo been within his knowledge, and yet pasced without the slightest opposition fromt Tim. The Comumitteo bellevo theso’ could not have ‘heen- dono without tho eutire disregard of bfs official \Gpligations and duty, sad tint whilesprofated toguard o publlo fatoreate T tho rond, lio Jolaod bimselt with the promoters.af o sehome wheroby tho Government was to bo defrauded, and shared in the spolls, In tha ‘conclusion of this fact upon tho ovidenco, tho Com- mittco pro entirely agrecd. "The Committes atscuss, ot great length, the jurisdio- ‘Hon of tho Houeo over its mombcre, concludlog that tho facts in present cases amply jusfify the tuking of Juriadiction for tho following Foasons: The subject mattar upon which {lie action of tho ‘members wad intended to bo fnflucnced was of o con- tinuous choraoter, and was s likely to bo tho aubjoct ‘of Gogroaional fotlon in futuro Congracacs ; and, a8 ‘n the Forticth, the inflzonces brought to bear on tho ‘members woro s Nkety to bo oporutive upon them in ho futiiro as in tho present, aud were so fatonded, Mr. Amea &nd 3r, Brooks bave both continucd membera of the House to the present time, and 8o have most of the members, upon whom theso {nfluencos wera sought 10 be exerted. "Tho Commilttes are, thoreforo, of {ho opinlon that tho acts of thess men hould very properly bo tréated as offeuces ngalnst tho preacut Ifouse, ‘nd so within dts_jurisdiction, upon tho most limited rule, Two mombers of tho Committee, Mesars, Niblack aud MeGrary prefer o oxpreshno opinion g o gou- eral furisdictions] questions disoussed in the report, uor iuelz fudgment, on (uoground las slatcd, 1n relation to Mr. Ames, lio sold to soveral membera of Congrosn atock of tho Crodit Mobilior Gompany at ax, when it wua worth double that amount, or mora, ith the purpose and intent thereby to inflience their votes and deciafons upon matters to come befora Con- gross, Tho fucts found- in the report na fo Brooks show . that ho used the, inflienco of his ofcll position sa & member of Congrecs sud Govornment Dircotor of the Unjon Pacifio Railroad Company, to get ffty shares of stock of the Credit Moblllor Company at _par, whon {t was worth threo or_four timea that sum, kilowing thst 4t was given to hm . with \he lutent to inflnon his vote, and declsion in Congress, and his action as & Government Dircctor, Tho sixth scction of the act of Fob, 10, 1863, {ten Btat, U, 8., words ¢ ‘any peraon or pori indirectly fromise, offer, OF glve, Or_cause OF Procure to bo promised, offered, or glven away monoy, goods, Tight 'In action, bribo, present, or roward, of any Jromiso, coniratt, uudsrtaking, duligation, or'scourity ot fayment o dolvory of Ruy miouey, goods ight in sction, bribe, present, or rewsrd, o any other valu- ablo thing whatovor to ahy member of tho Senato or Houso of ;Hoprosontatives of tho United Blates aftor his“Velction oA fuch member, and either boforo or after ho shall have qualified and takon lls 8eat, or to any oflicors of (ho Unitod States, or per a0ns holding sny place of trust or profit, or dlschiurg. {0 any oficial funcifon undor or in. connection wit any dopartment of iho Government of (ho United Blates after tho pansago of thia act, with futont o In- fuonce hix vote or docléion on sny question, matter, cauto or. proceeding, which miay then be pobding, or nay by law or undor the Conatitution of tie United Bleten, bo brought boforo him in_bis officlal eapaclty, or'in s placo of trust nnd proft, and shell therool bo convlolod, wuch porson OF poraoné #o offoring, promising of giviug, or causing or procurlng to ho Fromised, offered of given, aud such money, goods, 1ght in ' action, bribe, presout, or roward, or iy promise, | contrict, undortaling, obligue tion, or for payiment or dolivory sedurity T ahy money, goods rlght in aotion, bribe, prosont, or roward, or other valuable thing whatever, aud the member, ‘officer, ar potson, Who sball i suywie accapt of racalve tho kamo, OF suy part thereof, ‘ahall b Jiablo to iudictment as for a high crime and mis. domeanor in sny of the Courts of the United Statea which have Jurlediction or trial of crimes aud tuft- demeanors, sud _ehall, upon conviotion theroof, bo finod not excceding ten times the amount so offered, [romiucas or given, and imprisoned 1o tho Poulton jary not exeeding ton years, and the persons convicted of 70 necopting or rocolvitg the swme, or sny part thorsof, If cu officer, or any jierson hold{ng any such place of trust or profit, na aforeuaid, shall forfelt his office or place, and any person sa convicted under this taction shall be forovor disqualified to bold any ofice of honor, trust, of profit under tho Unitod Stotes,” In the Judgment of the Commiltes, the fact reported In regard to Amea and Brooks would bave Juitified ihelr conviction under the above reclied siatuto, ond ‘ubloctthom o tho ponaitie thoreln provided. Th Botamitioo need fiot oninrgo upon tho dangosous char- Soter of _thoso offonces, Tho sonno of Uongross is shown Tyt govero peunily danonyced by fo aatute finolr. o offonces nro not n violatlon of privats Tight, bitt woro against tho very lifoof & Gonstitutional Govetamont, Ly Jolsoning the fountain of iepilation, Tiap duly dovolved upon tho Gommittes hins hoon of moat palnfulond dollento charactory Thoy linve yore Sormed it to tho Lest of thelr abllity, Thoy havo pro- ceodod, with tho grontest envo aAd ellberation, for, whilo thoy destred to do thelr fall duly to tho Houss and couniry, thoy wora most nnxlous not to doinjuntico toany ma, In forming theso concluaiona {hoy inva intonded to'ho_ ontiroly cool and. dispasionste, nok to alow thomacives lo bo gworved by muy opulat favor on oo hand, or nmy feoling of popular favor and sym- thy on tlo othior, ‘Tho Commiltco submit to tho oo and rocommend tho adoplion of tho following T men, M. ok A n tative fa L Wit '+, Onkos Ames, o Roprosontative fn ihlh Hoso fyorm tho Btato of Massachusctin, bus boon gulliy of selling to mombers of Congrosa shinres of Block In the Orodit Mobiller 0f Atorics for pricos fmtteh below tho valito of such atoal, with intont thoro- Dy {0 influonco tho voten and deolslons of such mom- bora in mottors to be brought before Congress for nction) erctoro, “Resolved, That Oakes Amecs’ bo and la heroby ex- ‘péllod-froin ifa ot ns o member of this Honso, II, ‘Wirengas, Mr. Jamoa Brooks, a Idpresontativo {n tlia Houso from thio Stato of Now ¥ork, dld prooure tha Orodlt Mobiller Gompany to iseue and doliver to M, Ohiatlos 1, Nelldon, for thie ugo and bonofit of sald Brooks, Ofty shares of stook of aaid Company ata Prica much bolow ita real value, woll knowing that tho Bamo was fnatiod_and dolivorad with the intant to fn- finence tho voto and declsion of sald Brooks, as 8 mom- er of tho House, on matters to ba brought bofore Con- gross_for aotlon, and alao to Influonco tho sction of 8ol Drookn as o’ Govornment Dircotor n tho Unlon Paciflo Reilrond Company ; thoroforo, Retolted, That Mr. James Brooks’ bo and s ioaby polled ffom his scat s & membor of this Houso, THE S8ENATE COMMITTEE, Tho Senato Mobilier Committee resumed its scajons Frty 3 PATTERSON tostified that he had no_ recollcction relative to the en- velopo doposited with Morton, Dliss & Co,, nor of ro- colving o lettor from thom in 1871, LLiv pupors aro all in Now Hompshiro, : GENERAL DOTNTON egtfad to publishing] 'staterment, fhat tho clocke whra shown to Harlan, 1o obtsined the information from oflier pastics, ~ ' R, onARK, couneel for Harlan, oxamined Boynton, who stated thiat, in 1607 or '68, Lo began to writo up tho frauds about the Indian’ contracts, when Sonator' 8cott ob- Sected to such oxamination an foresgn to the matter undor nvestigation: 3r. Olark snld hio desired to sliow that Hoynton was malignant towards Harlan, Doyulon admitted wriitg admit of no personal hoatil . L L, DAWES toaliod to hesring Alloy ay that tho chocks indorsed Dy Harlan for $10,000 wore found smong tho papers of the Union Pacific Raltrond, hut had no personsl knowl- odgeof the matter, Homontionod what o heard to Bartlott and othors, D, W, DARTLETT teatifiod that hohad sn indistinet recollotion of telling Boynton that ho heard Dawea makasomo statomonts about Harlan having becn given $10,000 also, heard s0me ono eay Harlan recolved tho chiocks) oried over thom, and offored to rostore the monoy; anw some- thing sbout tho matter in Boynton's lottors to n Weat- e papor beforo 1o old him Whst ho hosrd Dawon a7, ocoze, such articlos, but would 5 to Hotlon, P Y POMERQY. WABHINOTON, Fob, 18.—Tho Senato Committeo on tho Pomeroy caso, this morning, held n seorot _session for an hour, It waethen announced that the Commit- teo would confino their inguiries to transactions bo- tween Pomoroy snd York, : 3. 0. HonTON was thon called by Mr, ' Bimpeon, and testifiod: Ho realdes at Lawrenco, and s agent of the Kansas Pacifio Taflrond, On Jan, 47, 1673, Benntor York nvited him %o .moet’ him "ot Simpson's room in the Tafft House: Witness described tho ocourrenco at that mooting, as York deacribed it yosterday, York sent to him on Wednesdsy, Witnoss went Io{x!l room, sud York showsd ‘him $7,000, eaying that ho recefved it from Pomeroy, I asked him (Banotor York) how hT folt, Ho sald: “Hor. ton, I'vo had & fearful strugglo over this thing.” I ik ho sald ho Dhad_boen praylng over it (sudiblo smilos] ; but that ~ ho was all ‘right now. Wituess fn joint convention told the Lisutenant Governor to recognize York as ha aroso, ‘Tho Lioutensnt Governor nodded, At the proliminary ‘moeting nothing was said about flppollnin rocess, or the floal disposition of the money. The question ‘whother an oxposure shonld bo mades in tho Sooate or 1n jolnt convontifon was not dlsoussed, rosssoxamination by Hort: Was not s member of the Logislature, His principal busineas at Topoka was to catoh Pomoroy, Ho and Bimpson had not matured w plan of exposute bofara York to consult about it, . h&flnt timo he lieard the matter mone tionod s the 20th- of February, in_converss- tion wilh Governor Osborne, Iio sald the Legislature soothed strangely opposod to_Pomeroy, Osboroe ro- plied: “Yes, “but tho old ouss wil buy his way through’ Mo safd ho might bo dofestod 1f6omo ano would take his monoy aud then arposed him, Witness might have oonversed with Simpson ahout thua defoating Pomoroy before York was thought of. Many of {Lo Legislature and lobby msy have left Topeka on Saturday, befora tho eloction day, ~Simp- #on was not working against Pomeroy at tho instance of Kansna Paciflo Rallroad., Simpson hud no othor witnessas present, but hie do- sirod to summon a witness from Kausas, to prove that tho monoy deposited by York went diroctly from tho Dank to Pomoroy. ‘Horton did not desire to introducs ovidence until the prosccution hdd closed. Tho Chairmun eald that tho futurg ovideace of the ‘prostoution would bo limited to Mo two polnts men- tioned, and nrqe\l the defonce to proceed. It was de- sircd to: concludo upon the, timo for the Seunts to act, Horton said ho tfiought to Be ready to-morrow. Adjourned, PR NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, WASINGTON, Fob, 18.—Tho Ways and Meson Com- ‘mittce resuniod the inveatigstion of tho Etock Exe change matter to-day, SO ¥, DENKEY, ot the Law Commillen of {bo Exchinge, gavo testimo- ny only confirmatory of that already publishod. 8. W, Wi ‘his sssociate, testified to the g given Lockwood to employ counsel at tho cxpense of $10,000, tho inten- {ion Leing to omploy Judgs Bherman, sud, fnding that Sherman accomplishod nothing, Golgate was eme ployed. . Pat G LOUISIANA, PRODADLE MAJONITY AND MINORITY REXORTS, - ‘WASHINGTON, Feb, 1&,—Tho majority of tho Com. mittes on Prl\'lfcflul aud Elections will, it {3 under- stood, roport in favor of a mew olectlon in Loulsiana. Thero will bo two_minorlty roports, ono sustaining McEnery aa thoe Governor of tho State snd admitting ‘Mchfillan as Benator ; the other sustaining Kellogg ns Governor, and ndmlltm? Tay to the Scnate, This is the present condition of the Commilteo, olthough they ‘may beforo making thelr report unanimously recom- ‘mend a new oloction in Loulsiana, S CONGRESSIONAL, BENATE, THE DANKRUPT LAW, Wasnoros, Feb, 16,—The Houeo bill, declarin that the exemptlops.aliowed by the Bankrupt law sha bo tho amounts allowed by tho Constitution nnd laws of each Statoin 1871, ond’ that such axu:runnn be wvalld laflmt debts contracted hefore tho loption of such Stato Constitutions, as well as to thoss contract- ed afterwards,and against lons by judgment or do~ crea of any Btate Jourt, was taken up and passed. The following bills on the calendar wero passed ;. The House bill, reporled to-dsy, to encourage ind tomots tolegraphic communication between Amorica, a, 6nd Enropo, ‘The House bmm the relief of settlers on tho Bloux Indian reservation in Minnesota, . THURMAN moved to postpone tha calendar for tho purpose of consldering the TWO PEI OENT DILL. Lost, Tho consideration of the calendar was continuod, and fho folowiug bitle passed : Tixing the timo of Lolding tho fall term of tho United Btates District Court of Nebraska. EDDOATIONAL, Mr. BAWYER, from the Committea on Education and Labor, roported, with amendments, Lowls' bill for the promotion of educatfon in tho Bouthorn States, As minonded, tho bill provides for distributing $2,000, 000 to Dolawaro, Maryland, Virglnia, West Virglals, North Carolins, South Carolina, Goorgls, Florida, Ala- ‘bama, Missisaipp!, Loulsians, - Texas, Arkant Mls~ pourl, Kentucky, Tennessco, and District of Columbia, in the ratio of thelr population, for the cducation of ahlldren from 0 1o 18 yeazs ola, sroapeative of color oF conditon, . TOMEROY, The VIOE PRESIDENT lald beforo the Benato the following petiiion of B, ¥, Simpaon, acting us connscl in tho prosccution of the charge agalust Senator Pom- eroy: To the Keriate of the United States: 1 havo beon instructed by A, B, York and others to respectfully request the Senato 0 onlargo tho subject mater of tho Inquiry bf the Bpecial Commmittes, o as to rocelve tho statomonts of certain members of (ho Xoglslature of Eansas, who are now hore, and othery Who havo boen sumrmoned, that thoy wero offered mouey o ofhier valuable considoration by th agents and frlonds of Sonator Pomaroy, to vote for bim in the elgction, . (Blued) B, ¥, Bnrsox, Mr, FRELINGHUYSEN, Olafrmsn of tho Speclal Commiltco, thought tho potition ought to Lo over until to-morrow, Nr, SHERMAN anoved that tho potition bo referrod to the Commitico, 3, FERRY (Conn) sald that, {f thero woro allega- thons that Pomeroy Liad bribed athiers then York, and if the Committoo found that its authority was so limited Uint it could not innules futo thosg llega- tlons of bribory, then cortatnly tho #copo of tho Ji- vestigation ouglit o bo oulryed, | Mr, THURMAN, a member of tho Committes, sald thiaro was 1o nocossity for refersing the rosolution to tho Gommitice, Tho fncts of tho case wore very simplo, The Benator from Kunaus (Pomeroy) hud called the attontion of tho Henate, s fow daya ago, to tho fact {hat he had beon ncouspd of bribory, 1ie bad deniod in vory broad torms overy charga of corruption or ribery of whatever maturo, and had concluded by offering a reaolution for the'appointmont of Special Commtten of Investigation, That rosolution, hiow- ever, limited tho inquiry to tho single charge of hiav- ingt Dribed, or atlompted to bribe, York, "ho Con mitec, of ‘course, would not ask for an oulargemout of ita kuthority, but the Benate might order It if 4t choso, i, SUERMAN sald that aftor hearing Lis collesgue (Thurinan), ho was quite satisfled that the resolution ought to be reforred {o the Committeo, 'tr, FERRY (Conneoticut) sald it was_duo to the Bonator accused aud the Benate that tho munifest im. postection o tho rasoutien offorad by Mr., Pameroy imaolr, and adopled by tho enato, ouglt to bo caf- rected, ‘Mr, BHERMAN thought the Jurisdiotlan of tho Com. ‘mitle ouglit mol {0 be onlarged i such & way as might ‘rovent (ho Gommitles from making & report beforo thio end of tho ecssion. “Mr, BAYARD romarked that na tho ressiution hatl ‘como from tlio accunod Bonator, ond waa found fo be too_narrow o allow {ho invostigation which ho liad chinllonged, 3t wsa plain that tha nuthority of this Oonniltos ought to bo onlarged, Mr, NYE donotncod York as a rascal who did not daro Lo potition tho Sennton lis own name, and argitod that 1% wan not. conistont with tho dignity of tho Bone o fo allow tho charsolor of n° Bonator o bo nesailod by much & mon in such s WAy, 1o warnodl tho Bonntors that thelr own roputatlonn olntly und sovorally wora nt stako, Away with those [nvestigations, sald 3, N5o ; wo have had euough of thom, -Woard having chough of thom. Away With thin “tden of enforing o tho morbid_appolito of particeya ortninla ot lowa, anyl lof B, Pomeroy and fr. Whinta-lis-namo sollo thelr owii difiotities, Thoro s nothing that tho human mind focds upon iika corrupt Inveatigntion, Mr, FRELINGHLUYAEN, Oholrman of tho Tnvestl ingating Committco, called attontion to thofact (hnt tho chinrgos agninat Pomoroy woro boing investigated by tho Kanana Legislature, and wowld also bo tho aub- feotof udctal investigatlon, snd oxpresscd o opin- on, n6t 08 8 member of tho Committeo, but an & Bonator, that in tho nbsenco of tho Senator from Kau- #a, no ono cllizen of tho Unitod Btates had tho right fo fubjeot ulm, toan, invostigntion whick might fu- pexil §f not dastroy his roputation, Ar, CONKLING look substantlnlly tho mmo view with Nyo ns to tho proprioly of cxtending tho scopo of tho ingniry, and_oxprevaod thio fear that §f thia on- Inrgomont \wna_ordorad, it wonld onablo tho prossoii- o to ocenpy so mucl of 1o belef xomalning portion of this Bossion 08 to leavo 10 timo for Pomoroy's do- fonce, 1foslso made 50mo vory sovero ramarka about York. My, FERRY (Conn.) sald tho Sonator from Kansus r, Fomoroy) might well nsk to bo savod from thoso riends who were trylug thus to limit the investiga. tion, 1t waa uo to him that tho inqury shiould boas ‘broad a8 the chargoand as his denlal in tho Senato. Tho Bonator from Kansas so broadly aud omphatically aascrtod his innocence, and_challenged Investigation, that hio could not havo Intonded to limit tho inveatigs- tion 0 tbla ono change, and i was duo to him that b Sottato sbould correct tho oversight commitiod in draviag e rosolution offred by ifin aud adopod by o Sonn Soni - Mr, TIPTON called atiention to tho fact that Pomo- roy, 1o his romarks in tho Sonut, had denled all clistgos of bribery or corruption, 'by whomsoover madlo, and sald it was oo Jato to Limit tho inveatigation, and that, if the attempt was mado, it would bo oquivas lentio saylug: “Wo hayo got about as muck of this 28 wo can aland, and wo hsvo concluded not to fet tho bars down ony furthor.” o also called attontion to the fact that Bimpaon stated’in his potition that somo of-tho witnesscs offorod, membors of the Logislaturo of Kuusns, wore now hofe, €0 that thora need be no de- clt 80 veas foared by {hoso who opposed tho on- of tho authority of tho Committeo, ; ‘LUOT’I‘ read -Pomoroy’s denial and request for Lo irivestigation, to show low brond and sweoping it iae, and said that ho folt bound to volo 0 givo tho Commilteo whatover additional powers might bo ro- quired {o cunble it to make a thorough invest! gation, 7, FRELINGITUYSEN wishied to_ havo ft under- atood that no objeotion had been mado bx Mr, Pome- Zoy or bis cotnselto tho sdditional evidonco offered by the proscoutors, but it bad beon oxcludod by tho Committoo isolf, na boyond tho scopo of the resofu- tion oreating tho Committea, o 'Y (Conn.) offered tho following resolu- on ¢ Resolved, That tho Committeo charged with tho snvestigation of tho cbarges sgainst tho Iiom, 8, O, Pomeroy bo direoted to inquiro into any allegations of ‘brivory O corruption by sad Pomoroy i tho rocont goction of United Blates Senator by tho Legialaturo of ansas, Afr, SHERMAN romarked thet this was very dif- fevont proposttion from that mado by the potitloner, Slmpson, gosolution authorized inquiry intd o cliargea of bribery or corrupion by Pomoroy, per: " sonally, but tho potiion wont further, snd seked, for tho invistigation of bribery and corruption by Pom- ergy's rlonds snd sgents - Ferry's rosolution wis agroed to, TUX GENEVA AWATID, Mr. GONRLING prosented a momorial of tho fusur. anco companiea of New York sgafust belng excladed from tho Geneva sward, OALDWELL, Mr, MORTON ‘gavo notica that he would csll up the Oaldwell olection case on Tucsday, and not on Satur- day noxt, as lie had previously intended. nate adjourned HOUSE, ; PRINTING THEDEDATES, Tho bill directing s contract with Murtagh, of tho Washington Aepublican, for reporiing and printing tho debatea of Congreas, was taken IIg. ‘The provious &!‘lfiluan ‘was not sccondod, by a voto of G4 10 73, snd 0 manay of tho bill, Mr, Beatty, thus lost control of it ond tho Houso went into Gommittes of tho ole on tho GUNDIY OIVIY, ATROPRIATION DILL. On motion of Mr. SARGENT, $10,000 was a] rflnfllfl for a atatue to the lato Scnator Baker, of ornin, far the National Gspitol, Progasitions wore mudo e urile out tho ftems tn rogard to tho roports on fisherics and o the Fronch Qlsooverloa in tho Northwoat, snd in rolation to the obsarvation of tho transit of Vonua {n Decomber, 1874, ‘Adtor much dlacuesion, the items wero rotained In tho bill, After progrossing with tho bill as far as pago 18 (tho bill contains 48 pages) the Committee, at 1:30, roso, To- i snd tho Speaker having resumod tho ohair, Mr, POLAND roso {0 mako a oport from thio Select Comumitteoon TE onEDIT MODILIER snvostigation, Ho presentod tho roport, which the Clerk proceeded to read. Al the membors implicated by thoroport were in tleir soats, Ames occupying s front seat, and Brooks ocoupying his own seat. [Tho Bpoaker took o seat on tho floor of the Houso, tho chair bolng: oecuplcdl:{ Blr, Oox (Now York), Bpeaker pro ten, Tho gallerlos were crowded with spectators, and the most intonso def of interost waa manifested in tho proceodings. The reading of the roport having oo completed, Mr, POLAND rose and eald that the Committes did not oxggz: any action to bo taken on. lhb‘&bwrl until it was printed and unti] cacl member hod had an oppor-. tunity of unmfininq‘lt. nor did the Committoo propose 10 have a day fixed for discuseion until then, Afr, BROOKS ross, and eaid o deaired to submit to Hfi I‘Jmn‘t'm ly to whnt soomed g:' b:m a ;nwll Doz ust, and porsecuting roport, two dooumen ‘which Bad fiot boon noticed af all by thio Gommittse, Tho Brat of {hiose documonts was tho procea verbal of tho action inatituted by A’Comb in the Bupreme Court of Peonsylvenin agalnst the Gredit Aoblller, in Deceraber, 1867, containing o 1iat of tho stockholdera es long sgo a3 December, 1867, Mr, POLAND said tho list was printod ot longth in tho teatimony, - e ‘BROOKS—Dut It 1s notalluded toin tho re- patt, ¥, POLAND—We had 10 occaslon to allude to it in thio roport, If it hus any boaring on tho case, it will be befozo tho Houso, becauss it 18 purt of the _{estimony. 1 donot design 16 bo lod into a discussion now. The lat was read, the point of it being that Braoks’ namo_did not appoar as a stockholdor at that time of tbo Orodit Mobilior, and that Charles N. Neilson's nsmo did ‘pfi‘! a8 n stockholder of 100 shares, and Hhot this was before Brooks was appointed 8 Govorn- ‘ment Dircctor, Br, BROOKS nlso (fl‘uflflled the proces verbal of nn« othier puit in Pennsyivania betweon the same parties, showing the same stato of fuctain respect to Neilson holding stock, and as to Brooks not holding stock, Mr, POLAND romarked that, as thoso papers had been Fl’mznlefl ho would merely say that, slthough {ho suit was entftled 58 of n cortain torm, all the evi- denco was that tho suit was not sotuslly commenced Hill tho fall of 1808, nnd, although the papor attached to somo of tho proceodings in that suit gave the date of Doo. 12, 1871, s tho dato of that sharcholder’s lst, {here was 1o guestion at all that 100 shares wers given on tho 20th of Decamber, sud ity shares on tho 29th of Fobruary thereafier, Ar. BROOKS romarkod thst s mon may. bo tho ownor of stock long befors his ownorship becomes ‘mattor of record. Hocalled attention to tho fact that, on soyeral acoasfons, he had oither voted ageinst the intoreat of the Unfon Pacifio Railroad Company, or had refrainod from voting. Mr, BUTLER suggested that discussion on the aub- Ject should be fixed for Tuesday next. M, POLAND had no oblection to that, As to tho question of dete of ownerahip of tho stock, it waa not contended at all that it stood in Noilson's namo until the dates of tho certificates, Asto Drooks’ votes in Congress, Lio (Paland) would morely romork that ot ono time the Unfon Pacific Railrond Oompm:? ond Credit Mobilier were dlvided In interest, and that Brooke' action and votes Lad been on the side ropre- souted by Durant, from whom he had recelved the 8 tock, On’motion of M, POLAND, further pracecdings wu- dor'the rml‘fi were postponed until Tuesday nbxt, ‘After roading the Sournal, tho House uguin weat into 'OOMBITTEE OF THE WIOLE, 3c, TYNDR i the clialr, and resumed conelderation of thio Sundry Civil Appropriations bill. Withou fin- ishing the bill, the Committeo rose, and the louss Adjourned. THE PACIFIC COAST. The Wobb Stonmship Line.=The Mo= docsa=Ovordue Steamors. z BAN FnANa1sco, Fob, 18,—At o mecting of the M- chiunfca’ Instituto 'to-night, resolutions woro adopted sirougly faverlog tho Webb Lino of steamera between thia port and Sydney, and requesting the Senators and Representatives to Congreds do favor granting all tho nooded i by subsidy o tho preaeat no, Another heavy rain-storin s extending’ over all por- tlons of the Stafe, A couricr arrived from Yreka to-njght. from Gone eral Gillems. Moacham 10ld tho courlor that ho be. loved Captiln Jack wa au_bLonorablo man, ond if askod {0 go to hiscamp Lo would go, The Modocs liavo a bitter focling ngainat Moacham and Applegato, o belloved they will Bave nothing to o vith them, “tirero 1a no’ mows of the sulusing Bitks steamor Wright, or tho Novada, from Australls, now ninotoen days over due at thin port, et R Arrest of an Exprcss IZobbor, Specfal Despateh to The Chicago Tribune. Vinocswes, Iud,, Feb, 18,—A boy 12 years ald, Kknown un “ Ueanut,” on tho Indianapolis & Vincennes Talirond, vobbed fho Adume Ixpress Compsuy ut Grayvillg, l,, on the Cufro & Vinconnes Raflroad, to- duy: of tho contents of tho safe, amounting to $835 Wil tho agont was out of the train, Ho was traced fo this city, where the ofticora captnrod him this oven- ing. Tho foney waa found In a tn can fu an open ficld noar the Duton dopot, All but $4 waa vocovered, B el P e The Indisna Taxation Eloction, Spectul Deapatoh to The Chicayo Tridune, Orominaty, O, Teb, 18.—An oloction wis beld {hroughout Tudinin, to-lay, for amending the Consti= tation’ rogarding tazes, and making thom paysble soud-anully. The retwins thus far show a amall Voto, altuost outirely favaring tho amendmont, aeblsod e i Anothor Planct. WasuinaToN, Fob. 18,—A now planet wan dis- vovered last night, TFob, 17, by Dr, Charlos Peiors, Olintou, N, ¥, at10 hours no minutes right asconsion, sund north 18 dogrees 40 min- utes declination; rapid motion north; eleventh wagnitude. | Judgaanii s FOREIGN. : i‘orflwoming Amnesty Proclama- tion to the Carlistss Another Coal Mine Horror in England--Forty Lives Lost. i The Great Powers Opposed ta & Spanish Federal Republic. SPAIN. MADRID, Fob, 18,~0n Thursdsy will be published tho proclamation of amnesty to the Carllsts now in insurrection In tho Northorn provinces, it thoy will, within two wecks, aubmit to'tho new suthority, If the ;nmruanli docling, thoy will be onorgotically pur pued, Tho question of acnding Represontaiivos to Sonth Amerfca Ttopublics 15 under constderation, Bpanish journals oxpross surpriso that Don Carlos 48 suffored by tho Fronch nuthorities to remain so near tho Spanish frontier, The dobato on tho Porto Rico reforma contintes to- day in tho Assembly, Sonor Orrnas has dockined the Ambassadorship at Paris, LoNDOS, Tob, 10,—It Is rumored that somo of tho groat powors havo Intimatod o tho Spanish Govorn. meat it thoy will opposo tha formation of & Federsi ublio, Fiiria: whil recogatze thio Republio of Spaa as s0on 83 officlally notified of ita definto establisbmont, Tho Spanish Mintator ot Vienns lias resigned, but it 18 bolieved lio will bo reappoluted. bt S g .GREAT BRITAIN, Loxpo¥, Fob, 16,~Brazilian agents here have taken stops Lo suspend omigration to Drazil until the investi- gation into the allegod sufferings of omigranis are concluded, € An ozplgsion occurrod to-day in tho conl mino st #Talk o tho Hill" Blaffordshirs, whilo tho.men were st work. Botwoen L\lhl{ and forty miners ore reporied ed, “Tho firo which broko ot after tho explosion waa with dificulty oxtinguished to-night, No bodies bavoe yot beon recovered, —_— . RUSSIA, Bepuy, Feb, 18,~Tho St, Potersburgh correspond- entof the North Gormon Gazelle states that tho ox- poditionary force to Kliiva will not oxceed 7,000 men. 2 —_— FRANCE, PAnts, Feb, 18,~Tho oxtromo Lot of tho Assembly ivo {bandoned tho 1den of sending congratulatory address to the Tiopublicans of Spain, Tho nogotiationa botween France and Gormsny are proceoding satisfactorily, NEW YORK. The Yumel Casc—Tho Vicar Genocral— Simmons, tho fMurderor—Porsonal— Tho Groeloy Will-Forgery Unse. Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune, New Yonx, Fob, 18,—Fathor Burke, sccompanied by Vory Rov. AL D, Lilly, O, P,, wiil sail for Europo in tho Oity of Paris on Baturday. A number of temporancs socletics will escort the friar to the atcamship; aud othara have chartered ateamboats to accompany him aafar a8 Bandy Mool Tho pppratsement of tho estato of Horace Greeley and wifo nS been comploted, and sent to the Surro- gate of Westchoster County to bofiled, Tho daughters will each have a fortuno of at least ono hundred thou- #and dollars after all logacles, including that to the Ohildren’a Ald Bocloty, have been pald, Bamuol 8, Roblason, sged 29,8 stock broker, resid- {ng at 131 Bixth streot, was arraignod at tho Tombs to- dny on a éhargo of forgory. About s yoar ago ho mlyn'lnd " . ’Elm) - » doughter ~ of Mrs, 3 Caine, = wealthy, Fhfllnihroyin Iady, Hviog at 257 Thirty-fourth street, Throo months ago, whilo Bre, Caine wos sbicnt in Surope, Bablnson spoculated in Wall streot, and fost $18,000. Aftorwards howent into anotlicr pool on rallroad stock, but found ho had nok eoough money fo ciiry s orls, rs. Caine owns bollding 805 Groenswich streot, which sho loascs for $13,600 a yoar. Robinson forged his mother- inaw's name to & recelpt for a quarter’s yoot, and then sitompted borraw g,o&o from hor attormey. Mro, Ouino solurned from urope s day or two ego, and on appl or her unhp;lnwvnrefl the crime, The oxaminstion took place to-dsy ins private room, and eoon after {t boe gan, Robinson fall prostrate on the floor in o fainting spol, which lastodan Hour. It wea suppaed, for & tlmo’that ho wos dead, but ths physicians succooding in rostoring consciousnass, Lia was LUXUL nwiay 10 & ly and it {8 thought his mother-in-law will docline to prosccuto. {70 the Associated Press.) New Yons, Feb, 16, —Thearguments for the defencs in tho colebrated Jumel wil case wero concluded yes- $orday by M. 0'onor. ‘The New York branch of the National Association for the Religlous Amendmont to the Constitution of the United States last ovening appointed delegates to attend the next annual convention of the Bocloty, in 1t city, Judgo Siceng, of tho Unlted States Bupomo Gourt, 1 to proside st the Convention. ‘A case cammo befora the Supreme Cotirt yeaterday in- volving the paymont of monoy to Recaivors, growing out of orders by a deposed Ring Judge. Tho property boen eold for about, $3,000, whild the Receivors® and Inwyers® oxpenses medo’a [iitle more than that smount, Axchtishiop McOloskoy hua gppointed Tov: Fother ‘Preaton, of Bt, Ann's, Vicar oral, {0 the place of tho late Father Staars, ‘Simmons, {ho nlleged murdorer of Diryes, was re- moved fro Bellovuo Hospltal to tho Tombs {o-day, and will bo arralgned to-morrow. UTAH. The Irropressible Conflict botweon the Mormons and Gentiless=Anothor Breezo. BiLr Laxe, Utah, Fob, 18.—The irrepressible con- fictatill goos'on, All the papers, Mormon and Gontile, aro loaded down with_mattor on tho Utah Money in abundanco has boan gont to Washington in peymentof ' tho_ services of Tom Tlch and W kind behalf of the Mormon causo, Ex-Territortal Scorc- tary Fullor, ox-Acting Governor Mann, snd varlous othior renegado Gentllos are at work ko beavers to provont tho dresded logialobion, Poid specisl des paichs aro eent Uy tho Desorot tolegraph \ yarlous papers eaa and west, doprocals thoPrasidoats poliey, nd soiting forth Ihat the con- soryative Gontiles thinlk Lis special tarially injure businees, and Ia based on_wrong infor- mation, Every unprojudiced ond truthful busineas man in the community, who does not yield slleglance to Brigham Young, will tostify to tho “utter falsity of theso Ohuroh telegrama, ‘Many opportunitioa fo_secure Enstorn and foreign eaplial for the dovelopmont of tho mincral reaources of {lio Tergitory, have, wihin e list year, boan lost o deforred by the fest of not suficlent seourity under tho Mormon Iaw, Lottors ~are Noro mow stating the rofussl of capitalista o invest 0 "oy couln dopend upon tho protection of the Foderal Courts and lawe, 5 o-dy (ko employos of o Ghurcl lesders ara agaln canvassing for slgnatures to tho petition for & Com- smissfon to come hore and inveatigate, instead of Con- aesalonal action of nny meture now, which, it is urgod, will be promature, " Auolher broozo has bocn caused by the rofusal of tho Qiork of tho Unltod Statea District Gourt to accede to tho requestof the Mormon Territorial Attornoy to ls- 810 o vonire for o Grand Jury, irie Neea, thochiof argau of tho prisattiood, lorlen ovorflio srgumont of Tom Fitc's addresslo the Flouso Judiciry Gommittoo in ansswor to the momorial of thsbar of Salt Labo, and asks **WWhat signors Low Tecant 27 . uestion, TELESCOPED. Smaosh-up of o 'Train on the Ponnsyls vania Contral Railronds-A Number of Ohicago Pooplc on Ronrd, but All Escape Uninjured === Onc Porson Killed by Jumping ‘Thirough a Win- dow. . ‘Spectat Daspatch to The Chicago Tribune, Prrssunan, Feb. 18,—The Paclflc Express, out of New York Monday night, duo in this city to-day noon, was totally wrocked by breaking n two and colllding, twelve milos west of Philadelphia, ot midnight on AMon- oy, Two passonger and twosloeping coachea viere toloscoped, James 8, Floyd fumped fhrough o window and was instantly kllled, Jom Homilton, of Thiladelphis, had both logs ont off, Bome ten additional passongors wera atightly Injured. It o singular fact that thero waa not greator fatallty, sinco tho cars wors donsely orowd- od, and overy enr, fuoluding tho locomotive, was disa- blod, General Bhioridan, Golonel Toraythiy Colouel Macitcoloy, Tev. Arthur Ydwards, G, B, Dinham, and » numbor 0f otliora from_Chicago, wore on {he tain, “The delayed pussengors will roach Olilcago Wednosday avoning, Tho lattor gontloman rocoived u allglit wound I the ks With fhis oxcoption all escopod unin ured, e ©Ohio Woman?'s sSuffrage Assoclatlons TowEDo, O, Feb, 18,—The fourth aumual conven- tion of this Woman' Buffsage Asecclation of Ohio se- sombled i this oty to-doy, A goodly number of del- oguton Fero proscnit, Tk meoting was called fo ordor Dy Miun Janney, of Columbus, when an addross of welcome was dajlvered by Liobort McQune, A Com- mittes on Resolutiont was sppolnted, to_teport at to- Tmorrow’s oasiou, Hoveral noted champlons of the wommve sullfags movamant, (rons olio iates aso attendanco, including Miss Busan B, Antliony, of New York, ® Oshikosh County Judgeship. Speotal Despatch to The Chicago Tribuns, Orntosir, Wis,, Feb, 18,~Tho matter of the Count, aoting considerablo attention now, ‘call was publishod in tho ovening paper adilressed to Judgo Gary, naking him to bs o candldate for re-glco- Hon, signad by noxrly two hundred bisiness mon ; also anofhor call to Coloncl 0, D, Olovoland, signed by all {lis Winnobngo County bar, oxoept Alx, Tequestiny to run ae o candidato; iidge: Gaty ‘I8 & brothor of Judge Gary of Ohicagd, Thd epubllcan County Con- vontlon to nominato n Judge s callod for March 22, Both candidalos ara Republicans, Thoro fs much fool: 10 on thio part of tho rionds of both candidatos; FIRES. Two Ohitldrén Burncd to Donth in o Brooklyn 'Tencment lousc—Other Eiros ¥ostordayes Speetal Deapatch to The Chicago Tyibund, New Yonr, Fob, 18,—At noon {o-dsy a Ore was dis- covorod in tho room of Mrs, Smith, third floor of teno- ment 177 Backott strect, Brookiyn, Her ollldren, Josaph, aged @ yoars, and Willie, a babe of 16 monthes Aoro alono in the room, - Bira, Bmith rolumed whon sho heard ~ thd alafm end pushod her way through tlio throng, cryln ' Oh, O L g tbrough ° an open _ window, and along tho stalrwsy reached hor room. {ng slong tho floor Lo found, lyiog across tho thrash hold dividing tho bed-room from tho large room the dead body of tho vabe, Lying scross tho bod ias tho boy Joroplh, burnod ~ to deatt, Whilo tho firo was burning, Sarah Taylor, 1 o v diving -on tho fourth floor, unablo to effoct hor escapo by the atairwoy, sprang from tio window o (1 yard, and ro- colved 1hjurlos which -aro' pronotinced ‘fataf, Ars, Smith, tho motlier of the ahidren, said that, when shie went out, sl gavo the boy Jousph & placa of brosd: Tho baby'was in thobod: 1 dldn't intend,” ssid she, iitg bo absont moro than & fow minuloa, were _somo matchea tho man. fcl-pleco Bre. Garvin, who = ocouplos the rooma in front of Mre, Bmith, says that sho hcard o ehildren crying, but, Ehinking that (1o motlier waa goaiehiag thom, slo phld o attontion, Thoie crics 0 20 on ming more piteolis, shio weni to the roorn, bk asw firo, On hor return from tho floor below, sho dis- covored thofiroand gavothe alarm, It Ia thought that tho childron sot firo 1o tho bedding f¥ith matclica. ‘New OnLreAns, Fob, 18,.—At Shrovoport, La.; 8 firg yeas discovered in E, & B, Jacobs’ bullding, at 4 o'clock s morning, 'Tho. starp and ontouts woro lotally dostroyod, The loss f_about $400,000 ; {nsurance un- Jnown; Also, Baor's tory bullding sdjoiniug, ‘and noveral framo stores, wor totally destroyed, “Tho total losa i about $500,000, . . Speotal Despateh to The Chicago Tribune, (OzDAR RATIDS, Jowa, Fob, 18,—~Tho Bhorilf of Louiss Gounly yestorday arrosted & crazy woman mamed Marshatl, nud put hor in joll, When sho wes left alone sbostarted a firs, which burned the floor badly, ut it wos oxtingulanod boforo doing much damago. | Thero wora govoral poraons in thio falle DI AR OLS, Fob, 16, The dne. Tesldenca of Dol onl B, 0. Vance, just castof this city, wos burned thts morning, with ita contents, Tho family wore ab« into Hubbell's clock last night. Loss Iinrronn, onn,, Fob, 18.~La factory, ot Forrostvillo, was burn 0,000, inaurance, §24,000. i s S Minority Reprosentation in Adams County. Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune. Quinoy, 1il, Fob, 18—Tho Democratio and Republi- cant Counly Commiitecs hold soparato moctinga to-doy to ohoosa n succeasor to Alr, Bushnell, Ropresentativo in tho Biate Legisiature, After an-inoffectual attompt. to unite, each choso a strict party candidato, Goneral John Tillson being solected by th Republicans, and ‘Wi, Marsh by thio Domocrats, This result occasions considerablo dlasallsfaction nrmong & number of lead~ ing Demoorats, who hoped to séa the princtples of mi- nority roproschiation ont, and ftis thought the matter may yot be compromisod, Kontucky Colorcd State Convention. TowEvILLE, Feb, 18.~The Colored State Educt. tional Convention met hers to-day, Abe .. fifty delo. falos, ware rosont, but more are oxpocted to-night, r, H, Fitz Outler, of this oity, wos choson President, ‘with five Vice Prosidents from various of the State, Tho usual Commiltcos wero sppointed, and a ‘welcoming address dolivered by Rov. J, A, Holliday, ‘when the Uonvention adjourned till to-morrow. The object of tho Conventlon 1s to discuas pians on al\‘mmln! the public education of calorad children fn o Blate, and form n Colored Educational Union, which organization shall bs dovoted to that object. ekt techi ol . Telographic Brovitios The fco in the Missour! River, st Omahs, I8 gotting thiln, and soveral teams have brokon through lately and’boon carried down atream under tha ice, A despatch from Manchestor, N, IL, sass 8 now Mayoria tobo olectod in the placs of Bartlett, who re. cently Tesigned on account of the President's late rociamation, 88 bo ia Olerk of tho United States Dis. rict Court, Thomas Hayeo, who waa arrestod on Sundsy night in Gairo, On & cliargo of paseing counterfelt monoy, was, yeatorday morning, brought before United States Coramissionor Candoo.” To, hiowevor, walved anoxe amination snd was commitéed to Jafl for trialin_ the Uplied Staies Coury iz dufault of ) which was 304 ¢ 3,000, s Tho Hon. W. W. 0'Brien, of Peoris, Is to deliver & Iecturo boforo the Cathollo Lecture Assoctation of La~ Ballo ‘on Fridsy ovoniog of thla week. - Bublech e Mos, Loules Beckham has boen arrested in 8t Lonis ona chargo of polaoning two boys, Willo oad Fred. Hudsog, with gum candy, modleatul with doacly, yol; cu A B sasoc Shiocgs” ST 2 thonght 1o Do Tnaano. e Railrond Nows, ’ QOxtama, Feb, 18.—A through traln from Qmahs to Bt. Louis, via Lincoln, Atchison, ond Kansas City, s to be put on scon, S e Ocenn Steamship Nowss Loxpox, Fob, 18.~Tho stesmers Olty of London, Quba, Prussian, Canads and Weser, have arrived out. Nely Yoms, Fob, 18,—Arrived, steomshlp Abyssinia from Liverpdol, j A Buffalo Live Stocl Marlket. Burraso, Fob. 18,—OArTrE—To-dsy, including 78 cara to nrrive, 1,604 ; fotal for tho woek, £,670. Market activa at @3¢ advanco on last wook's closlog prices. The run of stock is superior in quality to any recsived since January last, About 1,200 woro diapoand of. Baloa: 235 toors, 1,056 to 1,47, st $3.25@6.80 ¢ 63 ohofco Tilinofs steors, 1,893, at $7.00; 233 Missour! ntocrs, 1,821 0 1,350, ot $0,20@0,50 3 110 Ohlo steers 1,027 €0 1,310, at u.elsgn.an: 18 Ohio heifors, 1,050, ad b Eenap. bAMma—To-day, L300 total for tho i xasgos ot o1y gpotiod , 5,200, not folrly openiod. b 8,0 for D wes, 14,800, Mar- ‘Balos 15,000 Tllinols and Ohlo ‘Ho0s—To-day, 8,000; total for Ket alow at £4,8335.20. ‘Thogs, 130 to 203, at $485@5.20, T Now York Dry Goods Markets New Yonx, Fob. 18,—Trade coniinues to improve +with both tho commission houscs and jobbers, Tho arket, for colton gooda lina lost none of ita buoyancy, and pricos remain very firm, An adyance {n bleached Rhirtings hss boon adopted by tho jobbors, nd salos aro not cheoked by it, as sto: ar6 very low, Prints 820 in good demand for ohocolates and medium colors, aud white grounds are taken more frosly by Southern ‘buyors, Woollens ruls mora sctive, light wolght cassl- ‘mores of good quality being in request, Forelgn goods ll'Bl t‘MIMM‘ in first” bands, but tho jobbing tradois qulot, Now Orleans Market. Naw - Osueans, Fob, 18,~Bnrapstorrs—Oom— White firm at 000, Bran firmer at $1.40. Hax--Dull and lowor ; prime, $35.00; choiog, $35.00, ProvisioNs= P Xk rvlee@&x; agy sh':fl)’. A ’a‘m cats casior ‘o, Bacon casior Do ga-mgmerai S g e Tard ants e, B0 ¢ o, q'flnén[ifixx':;-‘éfi;gur firmer ; #dr to fully fols, TX@ 0 ; prime C. Stk waohoagess i o Pittsburgh Onttle Marlets Prrrspunon, Feb. 16,—OArrie—Market dull; ar- rivals huvéi Doat, 6 @0j0; mtockers, 3x@dx0; ‘common, 5( 0, Suzee fatl slow; srrivols, falr; best, 6@0K0; ‘medium, 3 common, g, Hoas -~ Market firm; ® Philadolphls, $5.4035.50; ‘Yorkors, $5.00@5.20, . e . Boston Cattlo Market. Warrnrows, Mass, Fob, 18,~Busr OATTLE—Re« oeipts, 8345 pri 1] amo as those of last losa ok, Bales of chiolos at $10,75@11.00; extra, $0.75@ 16:285 grat. auality, 50400 neoond, 60.007.60; third, $5.00@5.50, 1,103 stook in large Burep AND Laps—Roceipis, oach; extra, $5,00 ;I”:g‘l’.y‘, ealesin lots at $2.35@5.00 ————— Pittsburgh OIl Markot. - Prrrenunow, Feb, 18.—Crude petroleum dull and lower; aales at $2.15@3.17)5, Rofined quiot and une clianged ; car-lota 103e, ———————— Juckson?’s Specche ' A corroupondent gives tothe Hoplkinaville New Ira tho following a8 a specoh made by General Jaokson, whon ho was yet & poor back-woods lm\?“ in 'Tonnosseo, and unknown to famo: o was omployed to proscouto a negro for tho murdor of anothor in a fit of jealouny, sud his spoeoh tb the a.(]lux'y was the following paragraph ¢ ¢ No more shall the volce of tho poor murdorod man bo heard in the songs of tho morry corn- huskings. No moro shall lo pluck tho snowy cotton ball, No more shall the forost resound with tho echoos of his hunting horn as with the doga he chased the ":nueum and the coon, No moro ehall his nimble_fost Leop timo to tho music of the banjo as ho patted []’ubn and out the pigeon wing. “Lhint voloo oncoso joyful is now hushed {n doath, ‘Thogo limbs onca ko agilo are now rigld and still, s body now lios upon the blood-stained turf, with his big tos poluting up to the blue archod vault pf Heaven.'" ¢ et & A Lucrative IBale of Cottons At the fair Inst yoar, in 8t. Louls, tho prizo of $1,000 for tho bost bule of catton was swardod Mr. Joln G. Yesior, of Jackson, Mies, The balo was aftorwards sont to Momphis, and won the flrsb prize thero, and subsoquontly it appoar- ed at Jaokson, whore it alao.won tho fivst pro- minm, Having thus boon adjudged to be tho bent balo of ootton by throo dilfcrent sots of judgoa, thin lucrativa bolo was sold by its ownor for 65 centa & pound, two _aand o holf tines tho usual prico, and thua roallzed him in additlon to the promiums probably $1,000. It now ownur doairing to press {ta ‘caveor of tritmph furtlive, intonda Lo send this famous coiton bale to the Viennn oxposition, to show tho world assomblod thoro what Mississippl can do in tho way of cotton ralaing, - . g DOCTORING BARLEY. o the Edilor of The Chicago Tribune! | B 1 In your yestorday's lssuc youhave & protty thorough artiolo about * Doctoring Grain.” Tho only fault to bo found with it is tho fadt that tho roportor who picked wp this pleco of nows o mixod up o fow facts with #o many incorreot biatoments that I bog leavo to.tell tho truth, and hothing but tho truth, about this matter, of whicli; perhaps, nobody in Chicago and tho sitr- rounding couttitry knows more than your humblo Borvant,—X boing, 11t faot, tho very man who in- ventod this kind of buelnéss, and who holds ovon now o patont on it in his ands ; who'hng brought {t to ita presont alato of perfaction or Imporfeotion, ag you may Mlto to toll it, so that I defy nny chomiat, Licbig nob excopted, to find ont by chomical pracess tho difforenco hotwoon ** dootored " and * not doctored” barley. But lot mo first nsk you, Is it falr to publish tho unmes of turee firma as the oriminale, when you had beon o great doal noarer the truth if you had told tho publio that there oxisfed thirteon ‘“eih eat?nbllshmentu in tho virtuous Oity of icago And bave you evor inquired, Binco when and why da this businoss gflng on? Icantoll you. on, six’ ysars ago, L camo to this country, I 1nd # fotter of fntrodtotidn to one of the Ohida: rain-donlors, and wsa shown all kinds of grain, and told that light-colorod barley, even of poor quality, brought highor pricos, and was in ronfor domond, than good, sound, plump bar- oy, A fow shades darkor; and that slckly, whito- looking brought fanoy prices, My (riend, wha oxplained this to me, added : ** Browers aro such fools hero that they will pay fancy pricos for tho dolor alono,” Now, g I juat camo from ono of thosa offote, tynmn[cnlfimnnrnh.(oa twhere wo poor children ro- colve, under the compulsory school systom, o good eduontion, it struck mo that I had only to rummago o littlo {n my memory to find somo- i thing thore taught mo 28yoars ago in chemistry, slthough I had not had & bool treating abon that nolence in my hand sinco _childhood, and I snswerod my friend directly, Nothing is ossier ; snd, if the domand Is there, I can supply them. You see the * doctoring ” business is not of so yory recont a dato, f1The barley so * doctored,” or, bettor satd, dls- colorad, ia just as good as bofors, as I am able to prove. It will gorminato juui 88 quick ns brown barley ; will haya no ovil influence on the oolor, taste, and healthiness of tho alo or beer made therofrom ; and is in nothing changod ox- copt in tho color of tho outside husk, and that 8 what the brewers want. If some unprin- ciplod men take damaged baroy ond “dootor” it, and brewers are stupid emough to buy tho' barloy alono for fts = color and not for ita real value (which no “dootoring” con hide nslong as tho buysr ueos his oyes), doos not tho fault lia gnu\‘. asmuch with the bu‘yur o with tho seller (¥ill you blame the outler who manufactured the bowle-knifo for the murder committod with it, or call the corset-maker o murdorer it young ladios will use_a ten-horse-powar cngino to lace themsolves with, and commit slow suicido? Tho domand is there; tho supply will follow; and people want to bo chested, as I will prove to you. Boveral years ago, I wrote to o fow of the cinaipal brewara here, that, 1f thoy were obliged ¥ wno whito barloy, 1'could mako it 8o for them ot a nominal prico, 5o that they could save tho fanoy pricos_thoy had paid 50 long, Ono of tho hoad men,—ho _is.desd now,—answerad mo that they never uscd such barley, although I told him that the two car-loads which they rocelved the day before were “‘doctored” by mo; and his gnnnur, whois carrying on the businoss, has ought’ many a car-lond of barley this winter which I had “doctored;" but ho would call mo a -liar if X told him o, and the world would beliove him, for he owns half s million, and I only & lit- tlo brains. You eponk of the “effect on the Ohicago market ;” but in Chieagg the only place whoro this businoss i8 going on ? I have, with my own hands, built out West, in thoso little towns along tho railronds, seven of those cloaning and *¢doctoring ¥ mills, and in Conada elevon, Yot fino white Oanada barloy hrin;ia fancy ipr&ce! on 'Chango, and all the grain-dealors and brewers laok admiringly at it, for this bfltloi is not tam- ored with ; ob, no! it comes direct from Oana~ 5, or thoso rural towns whero peoplo live in such soreno innocenco as —— woll, s thie Bona- tors and Congressmen of —— 860 Credit Alobilier iuvenm{'ueion; and, if ever I had any doubts of the trufh of Darwin'a theory, Lhavo lost them uhqcn‘? I|! I saw browors pay fanoy prices for arlag. . s N oy s to- a0 VR, BGSVE L HRVE Bl many & machino to olenn, grade, and *doctor " barloy, and have discolored many hundreds of thausands of bushels, I have never sold a singlo cent’s worth of it,—having not loat the greon- ness, which still clings to mo from my old, stupid country; Ido Jt for others to make my own gob boil, and it boils but poorly,—you may call it simmering, * 010400, Fob. 10, 1873, MARRIED. PLOWNAN-ZIMMERIANTn this iz, 0a Fobs 18, by A B otds, M. Eanta Plowinar and 3 E Zimmerman. < " KREER—GEORGE-On Yob. 18, at tho Bt. J¢ Ghagal, by tho Rl alehop Foloy: K5, 3- - on 1, ht Rev, Bleh 25888k Tra W: Guorge, “No caeds. 427 Rentacky papors ploaso Gopy. w0rgo. ‘N0 DIED. LPI—On Monday, Fob. 17, Mrs. Ann Ralph, gfifinm’:‘\v.& J'RaIE, e, et hor Into rosidonoo, 7 o rthan: ‘Pitiaral an Thursday, the 3018 inst,, by osrs to Calvary. e LR oed willTouve reathonca sttfoeieslel . e KENNELY-In this clty, athls onos, No. 16 A i7" & "madivs ot Rose Boice, eott Tand, aged 68 yoars. 2 dhaea) trats tho houso, o' Thursday, st 1:00. m., to Gracejand. NAOEY—-On Monday ovening, 17t Iast., Mary Margs- oy anghor of Batrik oad Alals Nacoy, sgod § moalin Hunoral. from 1 South State-st., abi3m., to-daz, by oars to Calvary Oometory. AUCTION SALES, WiL A BOTTERS & CD, (ESTABLISHED JANUARY, 185), AUCTIONEERS, OIICAGO, ‘Wil hold thelr regular salos throughont tho year 1873, REAL ESTATE AND STOOKS ON MONDAY, BOOTS AND SHOES ON TUESDAY. Orookery snd “‘“B‘fi"%vé'sfi’fi'é‘fi%“"f Cutlers, oto,, DRY GOODS, OLOTHING, HATS; &o., ON THURBDAY. ld Good: G b Furnituro, Housshold Goods and Goneral Morchandise At Nos, 55 and 57 South Cansal-gt. OARRIAGES AND HARNESS ON WEDNESDAY. At 25, 27, 20 & §1 Weat Washlugton-at. G. P. GORE & CO., 84, aud 24 East Randolph st OPENING TRADE SALE, AT ATUCTION, On Wednosday, Fob, 10, 1873, At9:30 o'claolk , p., of BOOTS & SHOES. Men’s, Boys’, and Youths’ Boots, Halma- rals, and Oreoles. Women’s, Misscs’, and Children’s Horge, @oat, 114, and Buff Balmorals and Oongross. All goods wareantod to ba porfost. and of sequlsr sizo, of thoy can bo roturned and tho monoy rofundud., GO P, GORE & 00, ‘29, %4 and % Randoipheat, . By'T. 8. FITCIl & CO. REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. Togular, Woakly Saloa ot our Salosroom, 187 Dotcboru- sty Shory Wadnobday -4, Salose b o, Variloulars 8 T ifen ria o our . Spoctilaitonilon'stion & Ot 15th k., WILL BE SOLD FOR GABH, tho two- stary Ursma Dolling, Mo, £51 Hbbnnlct, wilh soners : Stabl, outliouses, and Jn e iogrr aud an, alahit, outouthpt s, FiToI 8 €O, WHEDON, TYLER & CO., Qmucral Auctionsars, 117, 119, 131 and 13 Fifthaat., cor. Tino, Kt. Louis, Mo., lold Reqular Trade Salos ovory iy ondiys and Thursdaya=Tioots aud S "rvx?.i;n\';’;:? ‘aud gfhll:: -’—:r("uuam. dm}j oudayaOlothing, Flaco Coode, %0, 3 urdaye, Hpoolal Sajos—Grocorios, Liardware, Turnt oy ¥ &o. it ‘1;:“"‘.',’ fié' uu‘:’ud rollablo Auotion mackol fu o conn; © Jask hivancad on conshnmonta: Lo " COWIRDON, TYiER & co. By BRUSH, SON & CO. BRUSH, BON & 00.) Augtiouaars, Offica 163 Madison- sty will sl at Auotion 'TI{15 DAY, 4t 10, ., at Storo, i'licuth Canalost., alot of LA TOBACTO, e h 1t el vordeeunk o Y Y ETE o., vt THE OHIOAGO TRIBUNE, THE 1873~ (HIGAGD 'TRIBUNE. PROSPECTUS. 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