Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1873, Page 4

e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, 5 ‘I"IJIII:N or fl"lflfll‘l\‘rflfll’ (PAYATLE IN ADVANOER). allyy by oall. .., 812,00 Sunday, Tooklrenrir: S 1508 | ety Parin of yoar at tho sama rat o provent dolay and mistakes, ho suro and ive Tost Oflica nddross In fall, Including Btate and County, Tlomittancos iay bo mada olther bydraft, oxpross, Post Offico ordor, o In roglatored lottors, at mir riak. TERNE TO OITY AURICRIDERS, Datly, doltvorad, Aunday oxcontad, 2 centa por wook, DAL, dollvorod, Bunday tachaiads 00 conts per wook: Addron THR TRIDUNE COMPANY, Oornor Madlson and Doarborn-ats., Chicago, 1ll. AY'S TRIBUNE. CONTENTS OF T FIRST PAGE—Washington Nows: Tho Pomoroy Inves- ' tigation; Oakes Amos' Statemont; Dobato in tho Hous on the Brooks-Amos Expulalon Roeolution. SECOND PAGR-The Law Courts—Washiogton Lottar— An Industrial Exposition—Anothor Road Coming To—Doard of Polico—Doctored Barloy, ; THIRD PAGE—Milongo of Jurymen—Tho Oook Oounty Post Touso—Rallorty's Oaso—Tho Woman's Hos: pital—Porsonal Ttoms—Colfax'a Mistakes—~Rallrond “Thino Tablo—Advortisamonts, FOURTH PAGK—Tditorials: Irolght Disoriminations; Tha Springfiold Conferonce—Curront Nowa Itomn. FIFTH PAGE-Leglslativo Notos at Springfleld—Tho Prosldont's Mossage on Loulsiana Mattors—Chloago Dry Goods Markot—Markots by Tolograph—Advar- tsomonts. " SIXTI PAGE—Monotary and Oommoroial, SEVENTH PAGE—Board of Kdueation Moottag—Tho Olty in Belof~8mall Advortisomonts: Real Kstato, For Salo, To Rent, Wanted, Doardiug, Lodging, Eto, EIGHTH PAGE~Forolgn Nows—Now York Mattors— Miscellanoous Tolograms—Auotion Advortisomonts, TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIOKER'S THEATRE-Madlion stroot, betweon Stato and Deatborn, Fngegoment of Ldwin Booth. “*Fools Ravongo." ACADEMY OF MUSIO- Halitod stroot, south of Medison, “ Countorfoit.” Afternoonand evening. HOOLEY'S OPERA TIOUSE—Randalph atreet, be- twoon Olark and LaSalle, **Falso Shamo,” Afterncon and ovoning, MYERS' OPERA IOUSK—Mouroo stroot, botwoon Gtato and Deatborn. Arlington, Ootton & Komblo's Ninstreland Burlosquo Troupo, Hthiopian Comtealitios. GLOBE THEATRE—Dosplatn son and Washington. **Nack a and evenlug. atreot, hetweon Madi- .Neck.," Afternoon e —y BUSINESS NOTICES. ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY—WHOLE TIOKET, f L information givon, J. B, MAR: 3 TG B0, Beakors, 10 Wollost. B: O, Hox 4680, New otk The Chigagu Tiibune, : ‘Wednesday Morning, Fcbruary 28, 1873. Senutor Morton has agreed not to call up Son- ator Caldwell's case till after March 4. The extraordinacy document xead by Gen. Butler to Oongress, Monday, wee referred to by Judge Poland, in: his speech, yestordsy, as +gomething called & report.” Tho murderer, Samuel O. West, who ia 78 years old, was sontenced, yostordsy, at Geneva, to imprisonment for life. Even if thosentenco is excouted, his incarceration, at his age, cannot be long. Bpeaker Blaine nnd E. B. Washburne aro talked of as candidatos for tho Prosidency. The + Credit Lobolia " mon are supposed to be ngainst both of them, but especlally agamst Blaine, because he moved the investigation. It is stated a8 an Interosting bit of social goa- sip that Mr, Honry Wilson, tho Vico-Prosident, is abont to bo married. " It is safe toassume that tho futurc Mrs, Wilson will not care to accopt any Crodit Mobiller stock as a bridal present, The question of Chinese cheap labor haa been “brought bofore Congress by the Committeo on ‘Education and Labor, who asked unsanimous consent to report Coglilan's bill prohibiting con- tracts for sorvilo labor, ~‘The consont they asked was not given. N Mr. Colfax’s room, in Washington, is roported to have been robbed of* $4,000 in bonds. misfortune is all the greater bocause this sum was not the idontical 84,000 Nesbitt contribution, vhich Br. Colfax would undoubtedly have given up, along with its recollections, without auy re- Iuctance, Jurord in Cook Couhty are hereaftor to be al- lowed mildage only onco oach way during their -gervice.'~The' law i8 construed by the Oircuit ‘Judgoes ‘i thé decision deliverod by Judga Treo to presumo that a eitizon when once summoned will romain in constant attendance on tho court. He may go homo at night, but at his own peril and oxpenso. Ho will be pnid mileage only for one journey to tho court and for one to his home. This decision will save the county many tens of thousands of dollars a year. ‘The Ministerial crisis in Spain is over, The National Assembly has olocted nnow Minlstry, whioch lenven Prosidont Figuoras and Minister Castelar and their.associates in the Dopartments of Justico and the Intorlor untouched, The Ohiefs of the Marino, Financo, Public Works Colonies, and War Departmenta are changed. President Figueras introduced the new Ministry to the Assembly in a speoch, in which he stated that the policy of the Government would be un- - nltored, Prosidont Gront asks Congross to take some netion, if any be feasible, to pixb an ocod to the complications that are new prostrating tho busi- ness and political interests of Louisiana, He recites the facta of tho conflict of authority, tho existence of two Execatives and two Logisla~ tures, oxplains and defends his interference to rustain Judge Durell, aud statos that, in case Congress does nothing to restore order in the Btate, he will feel 1t Lis duty to do so by recog- nizing and maintaining the Governmont doclared slected by the Lynch Roturning Bogrd. Benator Pomeroy declatos that tho, 87,000 he paid York was given him to be taken to & mu- tual friond who needed that sum of ‘money to completo tha capital necoseary for tho estab- lishment of o National Bank at Indepondence. He says that York asked him to intrust tho ruoney to him for delivery. ‘The Senator avera that ho never himself used, or authorized othors for him to use, monay to purchass his election. York was reonlled, and swore that the National Bank at Indopendence bad pever been men- vioned in his negotintions with Pomeroy, 1ntho debateon the report of tho Credit Nobjlier Committee, Mr. Farnsworth roduced that document to these four propositionss 1. ‘That Oskes Ames had bribod his friends. 2. Tht thoy did not know they wero bribed. 8, That they wore not affected Ly the bribery, 4, That nefther Ames nor thoy kuow for what pur- yose the bribery was sttempted. Mr. Farns- arorth declared his Inability to see why Ames sliould bribo hie friends, or how one person could commit o bribery auy more than one per- #0n could commit matrimony, Thoro are some dlscropancies, it is stated by 8 wpeviel committeo of the Btate Bouato, betweon '| rovelations wero mado. The* tho report made by the Chleago, Burlington & Quiney Raflrond lo fts stookholdors and that made by it to tho Railrond Commissfoners. In the lntter, tho cost of construction {a put at $80,000 por milo, with $8,000 more for equip- montj in the formor, tho rond s said to have "builtat tho rato of $16,000, equipment included. Tlio rond has rocolved- looal and othor ald sufil- clont to roduce thia cost to $10,288 por milo. The Committop say that in their report to tho public the Company attempted to show low much tho road costand how little thoy mado, whilo to thoir atookholdora thoy showed liow cheaply it waa' bullt and how inuch they woro making, Tuo Committeo complain that tho re- ports of the railrond companies to tho Railroad Commiesioners abound in orrors, some amount- lngtomisan of $10000.__ Princo Bismarok haa rocontly mado a spoech whioh brings confusion to those’ who have at- tomptod to attnbuto his partial retiroment to a disagreemont with tho Emperor. Ho oxplains thiat ho has borno the burden of an ‘acoumula- tion of officos for many yoars, but that ho is no longor atrong onough to do it. He reminds tho poople that ho s growing old. Bismarck was for a long timo Ministor-Prosidont, which required him to direct the polioy of the various members of tho Cabinet ; ho was also Ministor of Forelgn Affairs, and the head of tho administration of Alsace and Lorralne. Ho has resigned his position of Premior.and ro- tainod tho two Jattor. It would bo but natural to supposo, in tho absenco of. his explanation, that ho would have proferrod to rosign the two lattor, s amoans for reducing his labors, and retained the higher position, if ho had exercisod nls own cholco in tho matter. fu tho Congrossional discussion of that por- tion of the appropriations sot asido for the dip- lomatio and consular gervice, some curious It was found, for in- stance, that an old law provides that, when ono Minister porforms at tho samo time tho dutios of ‘Ministor to anothor country, ho shall rocoive, in addition to his own salary, half tho pay at— tached to the lattor position. As half & dozen Central Amorican miseions aro consolidated, it was discovered that tho Ministor por-" forming the- dutis was in- receipt of $22,500 a year, or £6,000 moro than the Miniater ’| to France or England roceives. It was nlso found that, though there {8 10 longer auy such Government a8 Paraguay, a Ministor is always appownted, and draws his pay without even going near the country. These are but samples of the present condition of the Amorican diplo~ matio and consular systoms,. One or two unim- portant reductions of pay wore made, but itis evident that thero should bo a complete revision of the laws and practices of foroign ropresenta-~ tion. 5 ‘Whon the .ropm-t of the Poland Credit Mobilier Committeo camo bofors the Houso, yestorday, '| Geon. Butler surpassed himself by moving that ‘the ovidenco gathored by the Committee bo referred to the District Attornoy and the prose- cuting officors of the District of Colum- bis, to: be by them submitted to the Grand® Jury, who should fnd indict~ ments if they wore called-for by tho facts. Tho debate was opened by Mr. Poland, who de- fonded the roport of the Commiltee, and urged vehomently that Amos and Brooks be oxpelled. Some of his arguments had a far wider range than he evidently moant to give them. In rofor- ring to Ames’ bribing he enid: ‘“If aman'smoral | BonE0 EaW 1o wrong in what his pre- docessors had doclared & penitentiary offense which should forever diaqualify & ‘man from holding the meanest office, was such & man fit to sit horo aa one of tho law-makers of tho land ?” This ‘‘penitentisry offense™ ia bribory ;. a bribe'to. be. given must be taken; does Judge Poland mean to reverse the Scrip- tural rule, and duclare, a8 to bribes, that it is moro blessed to receive than to give ? A principle haa been recognized in the govern~ ing of tho Boston police which, though not un- known in European cities, is entirely new in this country. It comprehends the necossity for preventing crime in order to diminigh it. The idea of polico duty in most cities is that of making arrests after crime has been committed. At all events, this has. boen the ‘case in Chicago. Bodies of thieves lhave been known to infest the city, to have thelr regular places of rendezvous, and to como and go with- out hindrance, as long a8 they wero not actually caught in a criminalact. Gambling-houses have been pormitted to be fornished and opened un- der the vory eyes and nose of tho police without {nterference, until an order for “pulling” them has been igsued. The Boston iden goos back of the commission of crime, and endeavors to fore- stall it. One of tho vory first stops of this now doparture was to dismies tho regular de- tective force, It was assumod, nnd proba- bly not withoat justice, that commorce between the thieves and detectives is a natural sequence of this system. Its sbolition also gives an op- portunity for the employment of citizens, upon occasion, who aro not known to the dangerons classes as aro the familiar facos of tho regular detoctive force. The new plan is said to work admirably in Boston, and is applied to the num- erous proventive measures that constantly de- volop themsolves when such & treatmont Is in vogue. It would be woll for the"police suthoki- tles of Chicago to inform fhomselves upon tho dotails of the Boaton system. Tho Chicago, produco marketa were moderately nctive yestorday. Mess pork was in good do- mand and 20c per bl higher, closing at $13.90@ 18.85 cash, sud $18.65@18.70 ellor April. Lard was active and unchanged, at $7.65_per 100 1ba cash, and $7.85 sellor April. Meats were loss active and o shade easier, at 45@48¢c for shoul- dors; 63¢@03¢o for short ribe; 67fo for short cloar, and 85{@83¢o per Ib for 18-1b green hama, Dressod hoga wore quiet and 5o per 100 Iba highor, at 85.80@5.46. Highwines wore qulet and steady ot 87a por gallon, Lako frelghts were more active and firm at 12}¢e for corn to Buffalo. Flour was dull and steady. Whept was moderately active and 13(@134c lower, clos- ing at $1.185¢ cash, 81.185¢ soller March, aud 81,2134 sellor April. Corn was tame and J@Xo lower, closing at 8lc cash or seller March, and 813{0 meller April. Oata werp dul] and 3o ,lawbr. closing at 2530 cash, and 20)¢o soller April. Tiyo was dull and 1@1340 lower, closing at 680, Barloey was {n modorate domand and irregular, closlng at 69}{@70¢ for regulsr No. 3, or soller March., The market for loan hogs wes nctlve and excited, The demand was msinly on Easte ern socount, but the compotition was brisk, and pricos advanced 15@200 per 100 1bs, closing at 64.60@5,00. Tho cattlo trade was falrly notive, with prices firm, Bheep were qulet and un- changed, Tho stocks of grain in store on Batur- day last were 2,020,754 bu whezt ¢ 5,040,108 bu corn § 1,48(0,1)([15 bu oats ; 801,407 bu rye, and 890,118 bu Dlorloy, Total, 9,248,442 bu, snd 86,452 bu corn aflond Thero is eaid Lo bo serious apprehonston of n conl-famino in England, 'Thoprices have boon 280 high nirondy thnt tho pooror classed have hind to do without it, Tho sum of $12.60 does nob aoom to bo an oxorbitant prico for cannol conl, nccording to tho Amerlean tarifr, but it is so in vlow of tho fact that the avorage price in Eng- land Loretoforo hns boon from $5 to €6, Tho rigo 18 oxplained by tho oxistoncs of a ring of pro- priotors and s ring of donlers, who fix the prices to sult thomeolves. - Thoy elaim ' that the recont strikos, tho diminution of tho numbor of hours which the minera work, and the ineronso of tho pay which they receive, forcs thom to fix the prices at tho high figuros stated. Political ocon~ omists go further, however, nnd nssort that honcoforth the demand will bo in excoss of tho supply, and that prices wlll incroaso propor- tionately, Xtissald that the combined coal- filelds of England do not contaln: more than 00,000,000,000 tons,” Tho. ‘munual consumption is ostimated at about 115,000,000 tons, Thocost of mining is inorensing, not only on account of the higher pricos pald for labor, but on account of the groator depth at which tho coal must bo worked. Tho lattor diffioutty will naturally grow with ovory yesr, Undor theso conditions, it is safo to nesume that coal will never again bo g0 cheap in England na heretoforo,—& oircumstance that will materially affect tho industrial and: financial intorests of the country, Thoe Colfax controvorsy atill rages in a small way. Mr. E, G. D. Holden publishos in the Grand Roplds Zagle two' lotters from Mr. Qolfax to himself, to provo that tho Vico-Prosident {s “n gonorous, confiding man,"” and-that tho charges sgoinst him cannot be trie. One of thaso let- tors, dated South Bond, Oct, 15, 1872, accopting an invitation to make a political spoech in Mich- igan, says: . But T cannot accopt tho $100 you 50 kindly proffer, My salary scarcely pays my expenses, but I nevor yot took & cont for apeaking for the causo X lovo, oven for expensos in eanvasaes, Yours vory truly, g Bonruyren CoLvax. Mr. Holdon was not aware, porhnps, when ho published this lotter, that Mr, Colfax had admit- ted tho accoptanco of a $1,000 chock from Nea- bittin April, 1868, for his "porsonal exponses (not for the Indiana Committee’s expenses), in tho canvass of that yoor, The lottor to Holden, therofore, doos not go far to ostablish what it was intonded to prove. . Mrs, Abby Sngo Richardson has been inter- viowed by o reporter of the Cincinnatl - Gazefte on the subject. Bho says that, when residing in Indinnapolis during tho spring and summer of 1809, Mrs, Matthews exhibited to hor s lotter from Neshitt to Colfax, which had inclosed 1,000 (sho thinks the romittance was in the form of a chock), in which Nesbitt said he would send ‘Colfex 81,000 every three months, Tho inter- viewer continues : : In answer to the correspondont’s question as to why Mrs, Richardson had not made these statements public ‘beforo, sho replied that sho had not done so for two reasons. Sho doca not read tho newspapers, and did | motundoratand tho naturoof tho controversy ; and, secondly, she did not know whother tho information coming from ber would recefva thio attontion whicli it would recelve coming from auother, f Tho importance of Mrs, Riohardson’s testimony 800ms to qonsist in tho fact, not heretofors mon- tioned, that Nesbitt's remittances wero to bo 81,000 quarterly, The three cheok remittances weore mado in April, July, and November, at intervals of threo months. The alleged groon- back remittance in June seoms to disturb this ‘methodical arrangement considorably. FREIGHT DISCRIMINATIONS. : The intimation is made pretty broadly in'the opinion of the Suprama Cotirt, in tho Alton Rail- rond case, that m discriminntion in froight charges which is-grounded upon the mere fact .| of competition, and haa no other fact to suatain it, ia an unjust discrimination, and ome which will not bo' tolerated. This fs & declaration of tho gravest importance, and whether the towna which are now discriminated sgainst, as in tho cage of Lexington vs.. Bloomington, shall reap all the advantagos they hope for or' not, it bo- hooves the raillway companies to put their business into -harmony with this doctrine forthwith. It may bo . slloged that the discrimination in favor of Bloomington not having been created by the Alton Railway, but by other compoting roads, the discriminae ticn will practically continue after the Alton Roilway shall have conformed to the principle laid down by the Court—that is, thot an increase of ita rates to 35.65 per M for carrying lumber to Bloomington will not pat Lexington on tho [ Bamo footing as Bloomington, sinco the road from Tolodo (which, being mainly an Indiana and Olio corporation, is not aubjeot to the juris- diction of this Btate) can still carry lumber.to Bloomington for 86. We nssumo, for tho pur- posoof argument, that the Alton Railway'sallega- tion, that if cannof carry lumber ot o profit if it is compelled to reduce its rates at all points on its line to the figure adopted for Bloomington, is trne, If it bo true, then the advantage possessed by Bloomington over Lox-~ Ington will continue the samo as before, and the only result will be that Dlinois railways and Illi- nolslumbormerchants will lose o trafiowhich they now have, and the railways and merchauts of other States will gain it. If it be not true, then ihe poople everywhoro will bave gained a mae torlal advantago, . One thingis cortain: the decision must be sys- tnined. Itis an application of the principles of the common law to commou carriors, It is-a Just principlo which forbids discrimination bo- tween difforont communities and difforont indi- viduals of tho ‘samo community. Whatever in- conveonionces it ontails upon the carrier, in the complicated rolations of modern railways, tho inconvenionces resulting to the community {rom the opposito prinoiple are much greater. Morcover, the common law 18 now, the barrior which stands botweon the roilways and that clngs of domagogues who propose that a fino of $16,000,000 shull be imposed for the offonse of carrying ono car-load of lumber to Bloomington for 6 por M, while 85,05 por M is oharged for carrylng anothor oar-load to Loxington. The rallways caunot afford to aid in brealdng down tho common law. Thoy must conform to it, and tho sooner thoy set about it tho botter for thom- nelves, ———— THE BPRINGFIELD CONFERENCF. An informal mooting of gontlomon at Spring- fleld, g fow dayg 8go, drow out an oxprosslon of opinion from those prosent, of various antece- deuts, ps to tho probuble shape of political par» tlos in tho fufuro, It wWas concoded that one misfortuno of the Olucinnati movement was, ihat it hiad not boon slmply tho begluuing of a new party, instond of ono wing of & doublo nrgnfilzl- tion,- The ¢ampalgn of 1873, instead of boing the vigorous offort of & uow party contending agalnst an old one, was the disunited action of two soparato bodics, Tho Domoorntic party did not abandon Ita organization or lay nstdo its dis- tintive olintactor, Itnominatod Horaco Graoloy ‘and Gratz Drown, at tho.sanie time. holding to tho Domooratic organization, . Probpbly it could not hiavo dono anything oldo at that time. On tho othor hand, tho Liborals could not, oven if thoy were 8o disposod, attnch thomealves: to tho Domocratic party, In breaking with their old political frionds, thoy had no’ intention of olo~ vating their old politieal enomios; still loss of putting In forco tho principlos which Liad gov- erned tho Domooratlo party during tho provious ton years, Tho Cincinnatl movement was in- tondoed to organizo n now party. It camo short, of its objoct by etriving for euccoss in tho first osmpaign. The Demooratic porty, instoad of uniting 83 membors of this now parly, dis- clalmed any opon conmection with it, but adopted its platform ond rosolved to voto for its, candidatos, Tho opposition In 1872 was, thoroforo, s dual orgauization, having no firm bond of unity. Bomo Domoorats, atill holding alteglanco to thelr party, rofusod to voto for Ropublicans, and Republicana in the soverat clootiona rofused to vote for men who fn- siatod that they helonged to the Domooratlo party. Under these circumstances, as Gov. Palmor remarked at Springfield, it is a wonder that the Liberal candidates rocolved as larga's | vote a8 thoy did. The wondor is not that so many Domocrats voted for Grant, orrefused to vote, but that o many voted for Grecley. | The exporionce of 1872 shows that the dual systom must be abandoned. The Liboral party must stend on ita own bottom. Thoro must bo no partnerships; it muet do business in its own name, If ite principles are not sufilofently attractive to command a followling, it had bottor not attompt to be n party. If ,tho Republican and Domocratio parties are to continue, anow. party ¢an have no moro afflllation with tho ono than the othor, Botter have a distinct and sop- arato organization, with woll-defined principles, with only ton votors in ench Stato st the firat election, thon repeat tho oxperiment of last yoor. Lot those who belleve that both the old portios have outlived their usofulness and thelr purity be’ equally invited to join it, and tako | part in managing its affairs, and giving it ulti- mate succoss, Apprehonsions wore exprossed at tho Bpring- fleld meoting that the whole Domocratio party would not - join & new party, Very likely. It 18 mot desirable that thoy showld. ‘Thero .nover was » dissolution of a party where all its mombers went over in & body to the now onmo, = Whon ° tho Whig party expired, not more than half ‘of its membors joined the now Republican party; a moiety 6f Whigs wont to the Domocrate, while the new Ropublican party was mado up about equally of both the old parties. Any movemont for anew party which waits until the wholo Domocratic party or the whole Ropublican party 18 prepared to join it, muat bo conaidored a8 vir- tually abandoned. ' Unless the now party has somo distinctive principles, or raison d'elre, to offer, thero is no occasion for it at all. The iden of & new party presupposos that thors nre inaup- erablo objections to all existing parties, and that 1ts declaration of principles is a public necessity If that necessity exiats, then lot the new party bo formed upon its own principles, without ro- gard to numbers, and lot an invitation bo extend- ed tu’indivl'dnnh, not political ‘partfes, to join it, Wo holiove that if such a party had beon organized in 1872, o much-larger portion of the Republican party would have joined it, though it might still bave failed of snccess. We suppose that a very large portion of the Democratic perty would have joined the *Strong Govornment". organi- zntion, just s the ‘old-line Whigs, under the lead of ‘Jamos Brooks, Millard Fillmore, Henry A. Wise, and Reverdy Johnson, wont over to tho pro-slavery wing of the Democracy. But the now party being rosponsible for nothing in the past, being uncorrapted by spoils, and being ag- gresalvo in its advocaoy of reforms and the es- tablishment of new and long-necded policios, ‘would heve hnd the cordial and hearty support of a aufficlent number of people to conatitute now & Atrong minority, instesd of being a politi- cal nonentity, not numerous enough in Congress to keep the Republicans from goring and tramp- ling each other as they are now doing. & THE COST OF RATLROADS IN ILLINOIS. If there had boen 'no other result from the es- tablishment of the Board of Railroad and Ware- houso ' Commissioners than the publication of their sccond annual report, the money spent ‘would havo been well repaid. No other volume of information so important in sll respects has ever. beon published in this State, and for tho first timo tho Logislature has had'tha informa- tion sctually noedod for intelligent legislation upon thoe subject of railronds, But the tables of statistics furnished by the Commissioners, valu- able a8 they are, can be made etill more usoful. For inatance, the Commissioners furnish tables showing: The amount of _the stock and dobtg of tho various raflway companies: tho length of line, and cost of road and equipment; equip- ment and mileage of trains; earnings in detail; expenaes in detsil ; gross earnings and oxponscs compuared; tables of the tonnage, and o re- port of the nccidents of the year. In the de- Gision of the MoLean County case, the Bupremo Court mado o suggestion that, in futuro suits to test the justice or injustico of discriminating rates, tho railread company might offer evi- dence oxplaining the snmo, including thoe rate of profit derived from the capital invested in the road, Tho importanco of _thiu point had occurred to tho Railrond Commissionors, who, in their roport, after stating that the cost of ho railroads 'in this Btato avoraged about 42,204 por mile, used this language : Y The fact that our roads show such groat cost csue not, 08 a rule, be traced to natural obstacles and difii. cuities of construction presented by tho materlal encountered, or by the contour of tlho surfaca of the Btato, Ontho contrary, the topograpby of tho coun- try ls capocially adapted to the building of railroads at a modarato cost, It mny be safely assumod that during tho past twenty yesrs tho ayerage cash cost of opue structing tho rallroads of the State, inoludiug thelr squipment, has not oxcooded $25,000 per milo, Tho Qifference betweon this snd the cost thoy reprosent hos arigon in varlous ways, such as fictitious stock ratod full paid, sscrifices mado In the sale of Koouri- ties, and other losses growing out of bad mousgement snd unavoidable delaya in the work of coustruction, What is noeded to comploto tho information ombodied in tho tablos of atatistics ia an acou- rato annlysis of tho capital stock and bonded debts which now represont the cost of the road, and upon which proflt is oxpected. How much of this capital stook 1s fiotitions ? How much of this cost consists of the sale of securitios belqw par, and how much of this saoriflos was tho result of necessity, and how much of bad man- agement and fraud P Let tho new Board of Com- missioners supply this doflolenoy (the old Board could not do everything at once), #o that courts and jurips {n tho future may by shlp tg doter- ming how fara proft upon fctitlous stogk or "on others. .tho mnjurlti troudutout dobt ronders rates snd dlserimina~ tlons just .and roasonable, which. othorwise would bo opprosslve and ‘illogal, According to tho judgmont of tho Buprome Court, tho rail- ronds will hioroaftor be placed on tho dofonsive, and, when thoy mnko n discrimination in rates, thore must bo somo other oxemso than tho mord fact of compotitiony thoy must bo pro- pared to furnigh to tho aatlsfactlon of n eourt and jury such an array of circumstances and coneldorations aa will conatitute a justification of the samo. 'Iu'this, the ltom of roooipts and oxpondlturos and profit upon. capital invosted will bo an important point. Tho qu estion whether tho companios are entitled to- profit upon a cost of, say, $26,000 por mile, or upon ‘a ocost of §42,000 por milo; whother flctitlous stock, or bonds Iseucd fraudulontly, are to bo paid for by oxactions on the publio, are mat- tors which may have a gravo boaring ‘upon tho subjoot, and upon which the Rallrond Commis- slonors, reprosonting tho people, should have full and accurato information. The cost of soveral of these ronds, as ropro- sontod by their caplital atock and dobts, with the amount of such cost por milo, {8 givon as follows: ; Noof Costar Coatper Boads, miles, road e, mile, Ohlcago & Alten 648 $10,0d8,500 $20,450 Ohicago, B, & Q. 701 85,398,727 0,383 Gbfe,, D.k Vinee 102 21391,000 22,705 Tllinola Central, 705 83,002,087 15,350 Theso will serve to show the wide varianco in the figures of the reported cost of the several ronds, Can thoro bo more -important informa-~ tion with respect to future litigation than a statomont of what this cost consiats,—how much of it {8 rea! aud honest, and how much fletitious. That thero is a real ‘and bona fide differonce in the cost of difforent railronds and their equipment, and botweon tho same railroads nt differont times, is boyoud aildoubt, and it thore- foro follows that what would bo reasonable ratos on ono 1oad would bo unronsonable fatos These and similar questiona are certain to rigo in future ltigation, under what- over lawe may bo adopted. Thoy point out the necessity- of obtaining full details concerning tho cost of railroads, and the resl and fletitions values repfosentod by their stock and dobts. NOTES AND OPINON. A Congressional Quory : How is your Orodit ? —\What has bocomo of Colfax's suit for perjury against Onkes Ames ? : —John O. Connor, the Texas Congresaman (from Indiana), announces that he shall hore- aftor support the Administration. The Demo- crats who sont, Oapt. Connor to Washington did not re-clect him, Hence, n bid for Fedoral offico. The Lower House of Congress avolds a vote on tho Louisiona question, in this way : Zott (colored) abundons contest for Bonrman’s seat, with tho understanding that he shail bo paid by the Houro exponscs of the contest, Lott had Pinchback's, and Boarman Warmoth'a cortificate, - —Tho atmosphore of Now Orleans being moro and moro uncongenal, the Kollogg Government talks of going up-river to Buton Rouge. —Tho Cleveland Leader says: The oxtra scssion of tho Senate, which it is an- nounced that tho President will convene immodiately of the closoof tho preacnt Congress, will be occupled almost exclusively with confirming tho President’s nominations, No legislation can be liad, since the Houso will not be in sezsion ; nothing bit executive business can be attended to, Indecd, but thorocan. The Senate is privi- loged to inquire st once into the clection returna and qualifications of its new membors, notably Jomes, Mitcholl, Sargent, Patterson (of 8, C.), Bogy, Ingalls, and others, bosides determining between the rival claimants for Louisisna and Alnbama. Al this business mey, and should, bo dono boforo the regular seasion next winter. —Nebraska politicians aro now agitating for a division of the Btato, on the line of the Platte. Two Sonnators are not onough for its 128,000 inhabitents; and, what ‘is worge, one capital cannot be located on both sides of the river. ~The Leavenworth Times (D. K.:Anthony's papor) has theso poragraphs: 4 1t 1a currently reported on the streets that in the ovent of Caldwell’s expulsion from the ate, Len Sroith will rofuso to pay his half of the oxpenscs incurred in tho election and defenso of Caldwe It 1s well known that Smith, by agreemont with Caldwell, ‘was to pay ono-balf tho cost of tho eloction, and shar alike in tlia profits to arise out ofany and alf Benatorfal schemes, It s generally undorstood that up' to this timo vory littlo money has been made.’ There scoms to bo anly one opinion_concorning the scamp (Georgo O, Orowihor] who 4 Secrotary of the Sonate,. His statement that $0,200 had been recelved by him from mombers who had been Lribed, and his denialof the samo aftor the sistement had by his authority been telographed over tho country, is cause for his expulsion from the place he dishonors, An oxchango says ‘' Caldwetl did not bribs the Kaneas Legisloturo,” Then it was becauso the Kansas Legislaturo demanded 815 or $20 more than Caldwell could raiso—Zouisville Courier- Journal.. i 4 —Oakes Ames says ho has no intontion of being expolled from Cougress. . It would séom & littlo queer if ho woro to be ostracised by & bcd{ like tho prosent Congross,—8t, Louis Re- ublican. B * & Tho Philadelphia Press plensantly alludes to sn _illustrious vl’fiunnfilvnnln, Sonator as tho ‘““hoary chief of political corruptionists—the original debaucher of Logislatures,” and calls for & visitation of public scorn upon men like him a8 well as upon *comparatively innocont men like Mr. Colfax.” ~“We are," it says, “in 1favor of a ccasoless war upon the epidomic of corruption which is threatoning to. swamp Re- publican inatitutions in a sea of universsl dis- guat, but let the work of punishment begin with tho principal officlal roguos—tho Mophistoy in Congress, who, in conncetion with lobby agents, lan campaigns against tho Treasury and socure for themeelves tho lion’s share,” % ~—Wo Linvo not noticed any inflammatory ac- tlon in thoOincinnnti pulpit respocting the Credit Mobilier, Is it the fact that some Christian stptesuion ara involved, that wets the powder of our pulpit oanoniors? Tho Rov. Laird . Collior, of Cli‘xicugo, racontly ventilated, in o sermon, the " Cradit Mobilior, taking for hia toxt Tsaiah 1., 2,3 “Thy Princos ara companions of thicves ; evey: ono Ioveth gifts, and followeth after rowards,” ‘And thero was quite a snuillo about, It, too, Tho Inter-Ocean put its oars oyor \tu eyos and boo- hooed right out—-(‘bollered,” an’they say in Trance.—Cinoinnati Commercial, i) R, —It turns out that all those Credit Mobilior Congressmen aro innocont, They say 8o theni- solves.—Louisville Courter-Journal, % —It {8 cheoring to obsoryo that one organ of. ublio opinion having & large priuted surfaco §uu lnhfm for the su%l.‘ur of aOo\(ux. 1t is Elder .Scammon’s paper, of Chigaga, und the fact in logicatly acoounted for in the prospoctus of the paor, ‘which conspicuously advertises that it is “{ndependont in nothing."—St. Louis Republi- can. . s —The business card of tho enterprising Nes- bitt was printed on tho seal of tho very onvelopo which was furnished the Govornmont, This fact crentod o groat deal of comment at the timo.— Detroit Free Press, =« ' —~Firot claes in Congressionnl moral philoso- hy, stand up. Teacher—* What's the higheat gnly of man 7" Somo of tho clags hesitpte, but uickly auswor; * To catol a Qon- ressman doing wrong without knowing it." Tonchor—* What's tho next highest?” Claes (with & unanimous roar)—*'To punish tho catoh- orl" Toacher—' Bless you, my lads. Youw'ro “too bright, too peautiful to last,"-~Xow York Commercial Advert{ser, ~—fome journals tall s if thore were dlssen- slon browing botwoen Preaidont Grant and Con- grees, Not abit of it, . If ho can only get the country to looking at the awful crimes of t‘lfie olygnmous Mormons out in Utaly, tho Credlt Kloi;fiior men "in Washington will all' make n solomn compact to yoto fora third term to their pmuxrvn‘;',—h{\'elg York World, e hitei —A Washington papor regularly publishey what it calls !"0. M. Porsounls.” “Rnc. daey that moan ?” inquived n grecuhorn, 1 Qh, 8 1L, Oredit Mobilier, don'; you ¥uow?' Aun 3, O, revorsod, —folont{sts doolare that Mr, Qolfax's oxplana- tlon will not stand a * upcotrum aualysis,"— New York Commargial Advertiser, —It {g snid that Eohuyler Colfax—but who wonts to know any moro about Hehmylor Col- fox ?— Cincinnatl Enquirer, —QGrant ia to bo Innugurated on a platform 835 foot in ]on%@h by 150 fiy width, Avo all his oiflce~ holding rolationn ta bg prosont? It '{ou, what x?qm Wil thorg o logt for Qougroas and tho rost of muukind p—p'ew Xork Sun., ~~Thero 19 no doubt abuuk it, Judge Oharles Sliornian His got himsolf Into the worst serape of tho soason; aud it has boon A protty good soa- #on. for sorapen too.~—Cincinnali Gommercial, —That & Judge of the United Btales Court should engage In such practicos s ono of tho moat saddonlng illustrationn of tho domoraliza- Lion of otir politics, . Tho judlciary is the Inat re~ sort of n freo paople, and ‘when it becomos core ruptoed, our Ropublioan. nstitiutiona are poisonod at tholt fountaln.—Delroil T'ribune, ~It hgrnur\‘hu; to ‘tnow that, whilo tho retir« Ing Vico Prosideut lian, boon convieted of talling 1 Dlnclk lie, Lis aucconaior confosses to tnlllug o whito ono, Tho diatirvotion {8 not without n dif- forence, though there nro old-fashionod Purlians Who are no rigid in their notions of moralily ns :: Inslab that o lio I asllo “for n' that."—Golden e. —Tho Buflalo Comtmeroial Advertiser (Ropub- liean) snys Colfnx fueworso off with tho Nesbitt monoy than with tho. $1,200 chook; and that, * boyond tho shadow of o doubt, ha s gulity of swlul and deliborate porjury.” ~ Thon, speaking a{“flm proposad fmpoachment, it adds, empbati- eallyy - . e No! Let Mr, Golfax. bear with him inlo private lifo tho cruabing lond'of (fsgeaco and humillation, Atons 4imo the mont honored aud popular of our public men, hio onds his carcor an_objoct of profound pity. The publio cannot fecl indignant at. him, They aro oo merciful to deapiso him, With all thoir Learts thoy ity him, 08 a man_whose feod mumo i rulucd, aud ‘whoso falr famo is dlsgracofully tarnishod forover, ~Lot.no Amerionn, espocially’ no young American, fall into the blunder of supposing, becauso 3tr. Golfax_esoapos imponchmont, ha Lias thoreforo cacaped punishment. Ho corries his judgo and oxcoutiouer withinhis own bosom. One glimpao- into that rocrot tortura-chamber would melt to sudden pity tho fiercest partisan or porsonal ononsy who i’ now clamoring for his Impoachment.—Springfleld Republican, ~The Vice-Proaldent dofunct contlnuos to point thio moral of tho poat's liness © Ol whnt n tangled web wo weave ¥ ‘When first we practice to decoive! —No stateaman dovoted to the Ohristian relig- fon was proved to bo a rascal yostorday for tho fivat tina; snd & holy galm, {ho lull aftor the storm, is Baid to have porvaded tha great, strag- gun;écl ital.— Cincinnati Enquirer. ~Bhall. wvo nover got to theend of it? Has Congross bocome a more instrument in tho hands of publio plundorers for the robbery of the Troasury? In tho Bhorman lobby .case, Lo- grand Tiookwood tostifiod that $1,000,000 was BBBI“ in Wosbington, L.t wintor, 'to Increase tho subsldy to the Daclfio Mail to 91,000,000 for ton yenrs, instead of 500,000, foro. The servico was increased from n mon ly to ‘s soml-monthly mail, An lnvesf gating committco has boon called for, and the publio mey reasonably expect n continuation of the nauseating stoncl which follows the uncov- ering of “corruption, Well, while at it lot the ‘Il\r'ilg;llll stablea be thoroughly cleanaed.—Toledo lade, . — Wo truat that thero will be no hesitation in lmpuuchlng Judgo Bhormau, if the Committeo of \Vngn and bMoang aro satisfled that he haa boon making monay in the lobby. Ho would serve vory well na & awful example.” That Lo was engaged in very dirty business for a Fedoral Judgoe cannot bo donied, nor is his record entira~ ]K clear with - reforence to his conncotion with the Union Pacifio as'a Government Direotor. Let his official hoad bo cut off vory short, if he is found guilty. If lobbyists cannot be driven out of Washington, tho{ can at least be drivon off from tho United Stales bonoh.—Buffalo Corn- mercial Advertiser. TEMPERANCE. Meocting of the Stato Association at Springficl Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, _8ppivoFiELp, Ill,, Fob, 26.~—~The State Tem- peranco Asgociation mot to-dsy in this city at the' offide of the Becrotaryof Btate. It was numerously attonded by represontative men from ‘various parts of tho State. Tho topic of disousston was the present Temperance law, tho roports concerning the operation of which seem- ed to beof the most flattering character, The verdict waa that much good had boen accom- plished by it, and, it continued in oporation, as they hoped it would be, it would almost offectual- 1y curo many of the worst phases of‘the qunr traflio, With the suggestion of s fow trifling amondments, the law was indorsed by the Asso- ciation, At the uvnnh:ig nossion the following rosolu- tions woro pessed: - We, the. friends of tomperance in convention assemblod, at Springfleld ‘Fob, 25, 1673, horeby expreas our firm conviction of the needs of united and har- ‘monious action on the part of all who desire to sco our present Iaw regulating tho salo of liquor infarced, sud the full fruits thereof sccurod to tlie blessing of the ‘unfortunate inebriato of to-day and the gencrations yet to bo, Wo ore also conviuced that the principles of total sbatinence and ontire prohibition are tho only ultimate Tesults to which wo - must, a8 3 trus and loyal peoplo, aspire, and wo reaflrm ouf pledges to thiese principles in our ovn lives and. prac. tiea nd o duty we owe to our God, to ourselves, and to the cauwo of justico and humanity, Tocoguiaing Yo effective labor and glorious achisvements of the vari- oua temporance organizationa of our_Btate, we hereby earneatly invite thelr co-oporntion in carrying out thg oblects of the Slate Temperance Union organization of this dato, - Adopted. The Constitution organization as Erovidas the namo of the o Illinois State Tems oranco -~ Union, The officora arg to 0 a Promdent and Vice President for ench Congressional District, Sccrotary, Trong- urer, Exocutive Committee of Tive, and & Stato Dr?anizur. The officors ares Dr, Fowlep, of Chiengo, Presidont ; Vica-Prosidonts—First Dig~ trict, J. L. Drake, Chicago; Second District, Rov. M. M. Parkhurst; Thivd Distriot, L. F. Blooum, Lake County ; Fourth Diatrict, 4. Lano, of Rockford; Fifth Distriol, W. Bnydor, of Whitesido County; Blxeh Distrlot, W. H. Jor- an, of Princeton; BSoventh District, Hon, W. oddiolr, of LiaSalle ; Eighth Diatrict, B. 0, Cols of Kankakoo; Ninth Distriot, Rev. J, G. of Knox; Eleventh Distriot, Dr. R, Cormick, of "Adsms; Tweltth ‘District, Maj. vans, Me- W. B. Littlo, of Christian; Thirtoonth District, | John McGowen, of McLoan; Fourteonth Dis- trigt, John Hydo, of Coles ; Difteonth District, J. W. Honry, of Bholby ; Sixteonth District, J. F. Douglass, of Fayette ; Eightoonth Distriot, D. G, ‘Root, The Tentl, Soventcenth, and Ninteenth Distriots wore le}t blank, Bacrotary, F. D, Dalton; Trengurer, Capt, B, P. Moouoy, of "~ Ponn ;. State Organizer, J. L. Bow- ard 3 Exocutive Committeo, Rev. G, L. Taylor, Lasalle Qounty; Rov, W. H. Smith, Lafalle County ; James Roberts, of Carbondala, Tho™ appolatments of “officers were confirmed by the Convention, All porsons over 15 years of age can becomao membora of the Association by signing thoe qon~ . stitution and upon tho payment of 25 conts 88 & memberahip fee. The Association will hold its -moxt meeting on the 8d of May next at Pana, aud ono dolegate will bq allowed to every twonty- {ive members, - THE WEATHER. ‘War Department Prognosticationa, OnoAqo, Feb. 25.—Tha Bignal Sorvieo raporta more mod:iate and generally cloudy weathor this morning all ovor tho country. San Franoisca, 48 degrees shove; QCoriune, Utah, 28 above; . Choyenno, 17 abovg ; Omaha, 10 above; Pem- bing, 10 al x_:vt; Brockinxidgo, 8 abovo y Duluth, 21 above; 'Bt. Paul,” 6 above i Marquette, 26 -above; Davenport, 7 above ; Bt, Louis, 22above ; Chicago, 13 above ; Dotrolt, 12 above ; Toronto, 16 abova ; Quobgo, 28 above ; Boston, 20 abovo ; Now York, 17 above ; Washington, 19 above; Charleston, 8, 0., 87 sbovo ; Jackeonville, Fla,, 44 abovo; Havana, Oubs, 67 above: Now Orleany, 58 above; Memphis, 81 sbovo; Nashvillo an Louisvillo, 27. abovo; Oincinnatj, 23 above ; Pltluhnrsh, 18 above. Snowing in Northern Ohlo, Western Ponnpylvania, and Vormont. Rainiug in Northern Florida, E Woncrsren, Mags, Fob, 25—Al the railronda centerlng i thia clty Lave boon badly blooked by BROW, Wosterly winds will continue, with warm tem- Eomtnru and {ncreasing oloudiness, over the New ngland and_DMiddle Btates on Wednesdsy, Enstorly winds, with neing tomporatnre m& cloudy woather, will provail over tho South At lantio and Eastorn Gult States, Houtherly and copterly winds, falling barometer, cloudy and rainy weathor will provall from the Western Qulf const to Missowrl, ‘An -aros of low barometor will moyo eastward to Lower Missour], ecompa- vied by southeast and northerst winds, Cloudy wenther and poseibly snow from the Uppor Lakoea to tho Missouri, Forger Captureds Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Quinoy, 111, Feb. 25.—A man named Orloft R, ‘Weatmon was arrested hore to-duy, for forging an indorsemont to & check for e&,doo, purport- ing to be drawn by a prominent merohant of Denver, Col,, somo weoks ago, Paymont way refused at the Donver Bank, and Westman fled t? llmu city. Ho was committod to await a requi- sitlon, e TFatal Lamp Explosion. Speelul Divpatch to The Chicago Tribune. Quinoy, Ill, Yeb. 25.—An old lady of 70, mother of J: O, Hearlo, of this oity, was fatall burned thia evening by tho oxploslon of & coal- oil Inmp, Bho was fearfully {njared about the faco, necls, aud wrmy, > STATE LEGISLATURES. WISCONSIN, Speetal Disvateh to The Chicago Tribune, MantkoN, Iob. 26.—In both Houeos numerous potitions relativo o tho disposal of tho land- t{mnc aud oxeraption of cerlain proporty from axation, and remonatrancos againgt the ropoal of the Temperanco Inw, woro prosonted ; also in tha Assembly ‘ovaihl potitions, ona for tho' Ml ‘wanken tan-yavds ; ono for tho rapoalof tho laws givingoxclunivo privilogon to gas companiea, . HENATE, . Hovoral soloct committoon wero announced, smong thom DMussrs, JI, N. Dayis, Blalr, and Burchiard on tho Assombiy rosolutlon for final adjournmont March . g ., Bonator Cotzhauson, Chairman of tho Boloot Committee on Excmptlon of Proporty from Tax ation, mnde o roport of mome length om. tho eubjoot, rogarding whioh eighty poti~ tlons and remonstrancos have boon presentad, Teviowing tho wholo quention, stating a belfof that thoro wos an oxaggorated idon of. the amount of proporty uxnmrz from taxation om varlous grounds, conceding somo nraprlnt&'in uxumgfipguducntlonnl institutions, but holding that the prosent lnwa wore liablo to abuse, and & unform aystom and rato of taxation should bo adopted, " Tho roport recommends tho repoal of the act oxempting claima undor privato laws thot thio Inws oxompting railrond, plankrosd, in- Aurance, and telograph companies, and rolgilons, sclontlflo, literary, or bonovolont nssoolntions, from taxation 1l othor proporty bo soamended as only to exempt from ordinary taxes property necossary aud oxclusivoly used for their jmmo~ disto and logitimato purposo; that cometary Property bo oxompt; that'no lands grantod rails ronds bo. ox t Inho i tomrk aftor tho title bocames vosted Three bills woro roportad padita tho prosont Tnw exorastin p,‘i,pm?'n’.‘}fi?‘.‘:‘fi tion ; providing for statistios ; roponling oxemp- tions oxisting undor privato laws, and Inoronsing tho tcommmmon tax of railroads from 8 to 5 per cent. 3 Bills passed nmending the goneral laws relate Ing to courts held by Juutlmagnf tho Ponge; ta rovide for tho binding of the British Patent( ports: to appropriate the sum of 23,000 for, the Boldiers’ Orphans’ Homo for the ourront ox- Eunaas and improvemonts; to authorize the tato Agont for tho 8t, Crofx Railway lands to compromise with trespassers thoroon, Assombly bills wero concurrod in to faoilitate tho collection of debts against cerfain con- e ::: Iotr munlnlp:l\ wot;k‘ to nnltlhorlza ime ont - companies avo a lo ?lmhnr, and luml?m‘. S logB‘,) A Senato bill rolating to tho cqualizaf of’ sasessmonty in countles, hftor somo - debate hing orpomuon by Reprosontatives of northern v.onn 4 ggbwm reforred to n seloct committue, - olm o It;x:{ t: mp;m]l u:l law ostabliching 4a Btatc oner of Immigration w, thi Committoo on Blato Allalre, " "o 704 ¥ Y ing S 4 8 morning thoro waa quito & ahy ; in rogard to the roport of ghu Bnll.r:u; f%o‘f:‘&,‘fif teo " on the LaCrosso Brid o Dbills, duo Friday last, Mosers. (lerk P Palmer opposing, and Mr. Pattersor, advocating giving furthor time to tho Committ g to report, and Mz, Folt, a3 Chalrmap, expls ining that his delay in roporting was gn the Tefjueat of amia- yun'tg'no'sifisnw :‘ombom g;x‘lthfn Cof amittes. Finale d @ reportod fa xu%mnszitltud. 1 wvaolably, and then 10 Boleat Gbmmittee on thosbill to repesl the Groham Topzporance law. wasa reqnixedpta To. pnzb on”.,[l‘hxndny. 5 xosblution was adopted innitructing the Com- mitton on Btate Affairs to inguire wl?enmr gny menument has been erected to the memory of his Into Excelloncy, the Hon. Lioula P, Harvay, who dicd whilo nobly discherging his duty 5 Gover nor of Wisconsin, and - whother any monoy has over been nppropriated from this State for the purpose of ~ provil _ 8ny monument to his n;ny;ory; if 8o, what dispogition has been made of it. Leat night and this morning thore wero eight~ teon Assembly bills 'funed, and four memorgials 3 o to Congrosa udopted, including a mors clearl: diroct mannor' of | maklig - rofurss - tho Bocrotary of State; to suthorize the Bturgeon iay Ship Canal Company to mortgnge its lands and property to secura money to complete tho canal; to make persona whos recorded log-marl aro on_logs defendante in suits for services or labor, whera the ownerz aro not known; to amend Section 1 to raquire- County Clerks to return to local clerks only taxes unpaid for the previous year ; for the bet-- tor protection of cranberry-marshes, pine, snd. form lands from fire; to ropeal, Chaptor 26, Goneral ~ Laws of 1884, 'relative to place of tilal of oivil actions; to re- quirc Town Clorks malivg out the tax~roll to compute and carry out the different items of tax in tho soveral columns ; to decrenss tho expenso of pormancnt land-marks, and provido their catabilshment by supervigors ; to amend Beotion 16, Ohapter 187, goneral Jaws of 1863, so that Aszessors shall not be required to view property whera Lm}:x-ntlcahlo; to meko certificate of am ?imcer ovidence of Borvice of papers in civil ac~ ons, Memorinls to Congress were offered for tha construction of the Niagara Falls Ship Canal, sud ship transportution by way of the greal Inkes of tho Northwest to'tha Atlantic Oceanj fora gualo;i!lonl survey of tho Stato. -Bonate billa were concurred in to provide for the colleotion of certain statistics with a view of mors fully equalizing tho Biate taxes; appropri- itlngb?%,fifl for tho Institute for the Deaf and Dum] ‘The Assembly Railroad Committes, after sov- eral weeks' consideration, has evenly divided, ono membor being nbsont, and agreed to re) ort both the Milwaukee & 8t. Paul and North Wia- uxonsln billa tomorrow, without any recommenda~ tion, i ‘The Assombly Committes on Privileges and Electiona ihis aftornoon. ngread to.report in favor of continuing Weiss, tho sitting member, in the soat contested by Bond. ——— INDIANA. Speetal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, 3 BENATE. InD1ANAPOLIS, Fob. 25,—A bill was 1atroduced | to prevent colonization iu elections, or to givo a person intoxicating liquor and caurie him to de~ posit a vote while under ita influance, A number of Senate bills wera put upon their socond raading. H ui The bill ta incrense the salaries of the Supreme Judges to 85,000 was laid on tha table, and ono to fix it at $4,000 wne ordered engrossed. The bill to El’ovlde for the lotting of the Btata printing to tho lowost bidder was considored, snd, aftor debate and attempts'to amond tho bill, was ordered engrossed, Thao bill passed to Yrovldo when a person - gharged with crire shall set up insanity as a do- fengo and {he jury shall find him insane, he shall be comuitted 1o tho Hospital for the Insane for two years, and as much longer as may b necos- saty to. effoot a oure 3 and when a person ia ac- quittod of o felony on tho ground of insanity, ke shall bo confined to suoh hospital for life, Thebill to regulato the granting of divorcos was paesed, Two yoars' residence in the Biate ia roquired, and six months in tho county whora- the application is filod, and no divorces granted. on dofault, Z The bill to provido for the reloeation oft county-seats on tho written Solihon of two- thirdy of tho tax-payors passed. © ‘The following bills were also passed: Ta: :malke it a misdemennor to injuro pmgorty‘ belonging to frir-grounds ; to authorize Clerks: of Circuit Courts and Judges of Circuit Courts to grant injunctionin casos pending in adjoining, circuits whon the Judges arc disqualified from sitting in such coses; to provide in case of disa~ qment of tho two apprajeers tho person mtgng the ofiico of excqution may draw s NOUSE., Twonew bills wore introduced,one to authorize railroad companios or(iun‘xzod under the laws of the State to malko coutrnota for the nse of their tracke by othors, end to ratify bona fde con- tracts for this purpoue heretoforo mado, nad to smend thig sot for the govornment of tho Stato University and the uriangoment of its funds, and for the dispozition of certain lands. A messnga was read from the Governor veto- iog the bill to increaso tho powers of cities to pid {n public improvements, which wns made the speoial ordor for to-morrow, ‘Tho balance of tho day was spent in discussing and amonding the ponding Insurance bill, which was flunlly laid over until to-morrow afternocon Dofore taking a voto on its engrossing. pliicader MICHIGAN, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, LaxsiNG, Fob. 25.—Tho special committecs sont to inquira into the condition of the Hou. 8. H. Blackman, injured ewn!ardny in tho Jack- son accidont, returned this morning, and ro- ported that ho had recovered consciousness, and; was Improvbllf{. ._Boveral bills passed both Ilquscs, smong ‘which wero bills organizing sevoral towi in remoto countios ; also, authorlzing arrost ' of fraudulent dobtors after obtaining ju 3 aleo, appropriating €5,000 for the putchw. (L} books for the Stale Library; nluo.psulhf .r‘l:l:é tho Oity of Coldwator to borrow £8,000 paymaut of certain intornal improveme ats. b -ttt iy 5 Bonde Tocoversd, ALTIHORE, Fob, . 26,~The bond Vico-Prasidorit olfax was robbad 'y Sraamii ton, on Baturday, we {7l oreniag Tz, Vare XQNY § in this city