Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1873, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1873, TERMS 'OF THE TRIBUNE. ' TRRMS OF RUBSCRIPTION (,A"IiAIILI 1w M'AVANB;). 1lyy by mal, 12,00 | Bunda; Eiloralye S 1508 | ety Partaof a yoarat the same rato. Topmnnffm.y ‘and mistakos, be sure and give Post Oftice address in full, Including Blato and County. ‘Romittances may bo mado ofthor bydraft, expross, Post Do ordor, or in rogistorod loltcrs, ab our risk, : TRRMS 70 CITT SUDACTIDENS. od. 25 conts por weok. Dl Sl Sy, ol % cons pr ke THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, il Dearbor: Uhicago, 11l Address Cornor Madls CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE, FIRST PAGE—The Modoo War—Miscollancons Tolo- grams — Advortlsomonts, BEQOND PAGE—Tho Farmors' Movemont~Tho Louls- iana Dattlo—Tho Dartmouth Collego Caso—Judgo Lawrenco Indorsed by tho Ohlcago Bar —Nows Paragraphs. * TEIRD PAGE-Tho Courte~Tha Liquor Question—Per- sonal Itoms—Tho Abstract Oaso~Bulchorod Hime sol{—Rallrond Time Tablo-Advortisomonts. FOURTil PAGE~Editorlala: Thio Now Orloans Ablat- tolr Doclelon; A Trados-Unfon Murder—Curront Nows Paragrapha—Tha Stato Capltal, FIFTH PAGE—Tho Btato Capital [Continned]-Bar. Kota by Tolograph—Adrortisomonts. BIXTH - PAGE-Monotary snd Commorolsl—Marine Matlors. BEVENTI PAGE—Bmall Advortisoments; ¥or Balo, T Tont, Wantod, Boarding, Lodglog, eto. . RIGHTH PAGE—Torolgn Nows—Washington Mattors— Btato Logislaturos—-Miscollancous Tolograms—Aua. tlon Halos—BEm: TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER'S THEATRE-—Madison strost, bolween Stato and Doarborn. Engsgomont of Miss Nollson. Matinee, **AsYou Liko Il Ivening, ‘' Romeoand Juliot." ; AIKEN'S THEATRE~Wabnsh avenuo, oornor of Con gress, Engagoment of Stusrt Robson. ‘‘ Law In New York.” Afternoon and ovonlug. FOOLEY'S OPERA HOUBE—Raudolph street, be- tween Clark and Ladallost, **Alixe.” Aftornoon sod eveaing. ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Halitod street,: south of Mzdison, Hngngomont of Mr. hanfrau, “Kit, tho Arkausas Travalor." Aftornoonand evening. MYERS' OPERA 1[OUSE-Mlonrca stroot, botweon Btato nnd Doarboru, Arlington, Cotton & Iomble's Stinatrol and Burlosquo Troupe, *Ronico and Jullot.” Afternoon and evening. NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE —OClinton, botwoon Wasliagton and Randolph streets. Wildor & Co.'s National Circus. Aftornoon and evening. P UL BUSINESS NOTICES, THREE DIUADES OF ACTIVE lflglofl]l“xn 5‘1‘A¢1Nlnln? the l’lu‘i"l’. h:;‘;l:’l‘:‘l‘r}";‘;;{gfim . ¥ eton, 4o gn s o elatce (Fawls 1ico) and tho oty ey woll bo brod of it TOYAL HAVANA LOTTERY, THE EXTRAON. ginary drawing will tako placo on the 220 of April, 1833, Tho nmount drawn s ¥1,500,000. Thoro will ba only 16,000 tickots and 3,97 prizes, o, Ti, MARTINEZ & CO., Bankors, 10 Wall: -offico Tiox 4,635, Now York. BATOHELOR'S HAIR DVE, _TIiI8 SPLENDID Dairdso ta tho bost in tho world: Tho only truo and par- foct dyo. Harmless, relfable, and fnstantancoun; nodisap- intmont: noridiculous 1nts or nnplossant odor, TRomo- §ioa thio 1 offocts of bad dyus aud washos, Producos tit- ‘modiately s saporb black or natural brown, and leaves tne Bair glean, soft, and boautifol, Tho gonuino, signed v, & "Butchotor.” "Bold by mli _dvuga OHARLES BATCHEL Propriotor, N. @hz_@h’xmfin Tribune, Saturdsy Morming, April 19, 1873. ISUNDAY TRIBUNE. Advertisors [n tho Bunday edition are roquested to condense thelr favors, and hinnd themin at tho ofico of pubillcation to-doy, aa early sa possible, in order to socuro tusertion and & proper clasalfication, The bill levying £4,000,000 taxes for Btato purposes has passed the Houso. a0 Troagury that Lo will not accopt his back Lia — The House has voted to Lold an adjourned session, to begin tho first Wodnesday of De- comber noxt. How the Pops ronlly 18, nobody outside the Vatican can discover, Ono dispatch asserts that ho loft his room yestorday and attended to busi- moss for soversl Liours ; anothor eays he is still in bed, although botter. Capt. Williams has beon censured by the Hali- fax Investigating Commisaion, - Were it not for his bravery after the ship struck, tho cortificate onder which he is allowed to sail would be can- solod altogethor; as it is, it is rovoked for two yoars. Tho Keokulk Presbytery of tha United Presby- terian Church has suspended several of its com- wunicants for the offense of joining secret so- cleties, to-wit: “the Grangoes, or Patrons of Husbandry,” Tho susponded mombers intond to appeal to tho Towa Bynod, and, failing in that, to tho General Assembly of tho Oliurch. According to tho roport of the Superintondent of the Cincinnati Chambor of Commerce, 6,456,- 004 hogs were packed during tho last season throughout the country. This is an increase of 521,468 over the winter before, There was an Incresao in tho avorage woight of 7 $-10 pounds, ond in the aggregate not weight of 172,000,000 pounds, e e————— Thé Compromise Railroad Dill wemt through tho Houso yesterdsy by a voto of 123 to 10, It then wont to tho Benate, and was reforred, in duo order, to the Railroad Committee, That body, with Mr. Donahue in the chair, agreed, by & vote of 9 to 2, to roport the Donahue bill in ita place, and nppointed a sub-committee to pro- paro some smendments that would {ncreaso its chances in the Houso, where it has beon onco badly dofeated. - ————— Instead of the indictments for usury which wero Jooked for from tho New York Grand Jury, thio uiexpected result of thelr doliborations is a rocommendation that the Usury law .be so- far ropoaled osnot to apply to Now York Oounty. TLord Mansfield once sald timit human ingonuity kuow no devico that could provent the law from roaching wusorers, but this js not tho report the Grand Jury have to make, Whon- svermore than legal interest wee taken,.the sxceas was 80 ekillfully covered up as commis- sions aud otkor charges for services, that thoy vould find no evidence dircctly inenlpating any one. 2 Tho Ohicago produce msrketa wore less activo gestorday, Moeas pork way In falr domand and 20c per brl higher, closing at $16,60@16.66 cash, ond €17,10 seller Juno, Lard was more aative, and 160 per 100 Ibs higher, at £8,60@8.52}4 cash, ond §8,76@8.77%4 soller Juno, Meats wore vory quict, but stronger, &t 63{@0%¢c for shoulders, 83¢@8J4o0 for short ribs, 83(@83{c for short oloor, and 10@12 for sweot plekled hams., Iighwines waro mora active and finn at 870 per gellon, Lake frelghts wero dull and nominal at 16c ‘for corn to Buffulo, Flour wae dull and easler. Whoat wos moro active in op- tions, and @Yo lowor, closing ut $1.185{@ 1.103¢ cash, and $1.208c wellor May. Corn +was moderatoly aotive and a sbiada firmer, clos- Ing ot 85@300 cash, and 383¢0 seller May, Oaty woro in falr domend, andadvanced 3c, closlng s 282(@29% cash, and 205¢c scller May, Rye was quiot and lo higher, at 670, Barloy was quiot and enslor, at 700 sellor the month, and 780 for ohoice car lots of No, 2. Tho cattle trado was activo at Thursdsy's prices, Hoge opened dnll_lu‘i lowet, but cloeed 'fivm ot §5.20 @060, Blioop yworo stondy. PR e Marshal Packard and United Slatos Attorney Bockwith, of Now Orlonna, glve tho Ropublicas voralon of tho Colfaxnffair, - It was n massnore equal in natrooity to that of Fort Pillow, Tho ‘whiten woro the nggrossors. Thoy atlomptod to oject tho pavieh officers by forco, and wero ro- nisted by (ho nogroes upon tho order of tho Blioriff, who summoned them as a posso. No blacks were lilled wntil after tholr surronder, when thoy woro butchored without moroy. Thirty-four prisonors wero shot and thrown into tho rivor. Bixty dend and twolve wounded blacks wore found on the grounds, and thore are others in tho surrounding woods, Armed white mon are atill scouring the country, and, in tho absonco of Fol'lorl:l troops, no arrests could bo mado, Attorney-Gonoral Williams has ordored a judiclal investigation to bo made, and Gen, Emory has beon ordored by the War De- partment to give any military aid that is asked for by tha United Statea Courts. Mr. Duncan Oampbell tofla through four col- umns of the Bureau County Republican in ordor to prove that tho decialon of the Buprome Court in tho Alton Rallroad case logieally lends to theso conclusions : 1. That the prosont Conatitution of tho Btato confers uo additional powers upon the Legialatura in referenco to tho reguiation ot tho ohnrgen of railroads constructod before snid Coustitution was adoplod. 2. That the question of tho roasonabloness of a chargo mado by o common carrior, or tho justico of o dlacrimina- tion, is n judioial quostion to bo' determined by an oxamination of tho facls Lofore a jury, and eannot bo dotermined arbitrazily by the Gonoral Assombly, Having established thoso points to lils satisfaction, ho snys: ‘What sbould wo o under such circumslances? I can aeo no better plan fhon to amend tho Supremo Coutt by elocting Judges from time to timo who will not dony to tho peoplo tho benofts of their Constitution upon thesubjoct of railway reform, through depriying its provistons of constitutiounl force, by deciling x0 as 1o allow them only the foreo common law has had for centurios, Wo hiavo not heard anybody dispute the two points which Mr. Campboll is at such prodigious pains to eslablish, Iis muttiplication of words upon them, as well as "the couclusion which he ronches, calls to mind the cago of the chap who took & Tun of two miles in ordor to jump ovor a procipico. The Burcau County Republican is rathor cautious in indorsing Mr. Campboll's extraordinary production. It mays that it is desorving of particular attention at this time.” — THE NEW ORLEANS ABATTOIR DEOCISION. Tho recont docision of tho United States Su- premo Cowrt, in tho easo of “Tho Croscent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughtor Compauy,"” constitutes another valusble addition to tho precodonts alrendy furnishied by tho decision of that Court, in questions involving Btate rights, and tho oxtent to which the Fedoral Govern- mont moy interfere with thoso, rights, Some timo since, tho Logiulnture of Louisiana passed an act for tho incorporstion of an abattoir com- pany, undor tho titlo nnmed above, The incor- porators wero granted the priviloge of tho oxolusive right of: butchoring cattlo for tho markots o Now Orleans; and privato slaughtor- houses, within the aren of the Parish of Now Orlenns, were prohibited under severe ponal- ties. An extraordinary and porbaps infanious monopoly way thue cronted, and tho agigrieved ‘butchors of New Orloans, whoso -business inter- ests woro thus summarily invaded, contested tho -{ validity of the act bofore the Supreme Court of the Btato, which gave its indoreoment to the act, Tho case was thon taken to the Suprome Court of the Unitod States, which lina practically afiirmed the docision of the lower Court, by ro- fusing to tako furisdiction of puroly State affairs, the Chief Juetico and Assooiates Field, Bradley, and Swayno dissenting, v The decfeion of the Qonrt, whilo it indiroctly sustains this monopoly, doos not turn upon this point. ‘The question of monopoly was not be- fore tho Qourt at all, as {5 sassumed by the Afis- souri Demoorat and some other journals, The question which really inspired the decision was ono involving the jurisdiction of the Federal Govornment in tho matter. The Court deoided that the Stato Govornmont was clothed with am- ple power in the promisos, and that its action could not be invalidated by the Fedoral Govern-* mont. In settling this question, the interprotn~ tion of the threo mnow amendments to the Constitution was involved; and nl- #o tho quostion whether thess amondments changed the previously-existing relations botwoon the Btato and Fedoral (lovernments. The Court haa decided that they havo not. Tho butchers of Now Orloans, like Mra, Bradwell of this city, brought their suit under these amend- monts, claiming that, by virtuo of them, they, a8 citizens of tho United States, had cortain rights and priviloges which the Btate was pow- orless to contravene. The Cowt doclared that the business of the butchers, and the claim of Mra, Dradwell to practico law, did not come within the acopo of these amendments, but that tho Btato, and tho Btate ouly, was compotout to docide them, and that such docision wag fnal. Of the noundn%f this’ declsion thero can bo no doubt, o constitutional amondinents, boyond tholr cstoppal of tho'l States from anelaving tho negro or depriving bim of the priviloge of "the eloctive francliso aud tho othor rights of whito mon, cannot futor- foro with Btate rights. Any other Intorpratation of” {hoso amoudmonts would bo glaringly in coufilot with historleal facts. I tho Federal Governmont can diotate tho mauner in which slaughtering shall be condueted in & city, or grant tho right to prac- lico law In Btato courts, or establish woman- #nffrago, then it can grant or oxeludo at ity own option any other civil right gnaranteed by the siatutos of any Btato, and thio Fodornl Govern- ment thus hocomes absolute in its jurlsdiotion, aud Blate Govornments only oxist or oxerciss their powors by its sufforanco, T'ho Court in its doclsion vory cloarly condomns tho theory that it wag tho intention of tho framers of tho Four- teenth Amondmont to bring tho entive domain of clvil rights, horotoforo belonging to tho States, within the power of Congress, and says: Buch a conatruction, followod by the revorsnl of the Judgments of tho Buprome Court of Loutsluna In theso casos, would conatitute thia Court a porpetual censor upou all leglslation of tho Biates on (he civil rights of 1ts awn citizenw, with suthority to nullify mecl as it did not approve ay conalstent with thouo rights us thoy existed at the time of the adoption of this amoudment. Tho argument, wo sdmlt, {s not always tho most conclusive where it draws from the consaquences urged ogainat tho adoption of A particular coustruction of an inetrument, But when, sz in the caso beforo us, theso conwequonces aro 20 serlouy, w0 fur-resching aud porvading, so great a departure from the structuro aud apirit of our fnuti- tutions; whon the offect 1sto fotter and degrade the Htate Governmonts by subjeoting them to the control of Cougress u the exerolss of powors heretofore uni- versally ceded to them of the most ordinary and fun- dsmental chiarsoter; when, in fact, it radlcally ohang- 8 the wholo theory of the relations of the Biate sud Fodoral Governments {ocach other, and of both tere GOTURmIRtE Q. S0 Deople, tho arguumont bas forco that s frreatetibloin {ho absonco of Iangungo whieh oxprenses this purposo foo clearly to neod construction, Woare convinced that no such results woro {ntendad by tho Congreea which proposed thoso amondmonts, nor by the Logialstures of tho Slates ch ratificd {hom, The *principal value of this docision grows out of the fact that it eloarly and unmistakably do- finos tho provinen of the constitutionnl amond- monls, and will horosfter put a quiotus upon tho thousaud-and-dno follies aeeking to bo logal- izod by hanging on to the Fourtoonth Amond- mont. Yho Conrt doclares that tho exiatonco of lnws fn tho Btates whoro tho nowly-smancl- pntod nogroos rosided, which diseriminated with gross unjustico and hardship against thom as & clags,” wae the ond souglt to bo romodiod by tho amendmont, and adds: 1t tho Blatos dlit not conform thelr lawn 1o ita ro- quiremonts, then by the fifth section of tho srlicle Oongress was authorized (o onforca 1t by sultabla leg- tslation, We doubt very much whotlior any action of o Blato wot directod by way of discrimination ngainat thio nogro raco nu o class, OF on nccount of tholr race, will_ever bo held a caueo within tho purviowof this provialon, Itis mo clearly a provision for (hat raco and that emorgoncy that a atrony caso would bo neces- sary for ila application fo nny other, Thia is not only judiclally but historieally truo, Tho framers of the amendmont, tho Cox- gress which passed it, nud tho Loglslatures which ratifled it, all understood its mosning alike. The wholo peoplo of this country know that its intent was to invest tho nogro with tho rights of tho whito man and mako him a citizen, with the samo privilogos and immunitios that white mon enjoy, and-that it had no powor to in- torfore with municipal rogulations, liowever un- Just in thomaclves, or with proviously-oxisting Btato rights, and only Iind binding forco when tho Biato wsought to doprivo etho nogro of his rights, It i3 only rocontly that any other construction has been placed upon it, and that poople have sought to override tho ncts of Btate Govornmonts by ap- ponl to the provisions of this amendment, The decision, thorafors, is not only of importance ns dofining tho ronl scope of tho counstitutional amendments, but it is timely in meeting tho omergencies which aro constantly ocowring in the relations of the Bouthiern Btates to the Fod- oral Govornmont. It has long boen needed ns o check upon tho contralizing tondencios of the Governmont, and upon the detormination of tho Administyation to enfoxce ita poliey and to main- tain its power ovon at tho expouso of the con- stitutional prerogatives of the States. The Bu- preme Court Ling not spoken a moment too soon, or any too Luldly, on this snbjecl A TRADES-URION MURDER. Tho muxdorous spitit that actuated the riotous iron-puddlers st Knightsvillo, Ind., has boen found smong the shoomakers of Cincinnati, who aressgociatod under the gonorie namo of the Knights of KL, Orispin. At an inquest Lold in that city on Wednosday over tho body of & man named Michael Roardon, it was shiown, boyond reasonable doubt, that the mau had boen beston to denth by this asuocintion, Ilis offensa was .that of enrning an honest living for himuelf and thatof his family in & maunor that was nob plesing to tho craft of whichk ha bLad once been n member. The ovidence showod that Reardon lnad twico associated him- ‘Bolf with fho Knights of Bt Crispin, and hiad twico loft them becauso ho could not koop up with the dues and assossmonts without do- priving his family of the nocossaries of life. His widow testifod boforeithe Coroner's jury that her husband “loft tho Orispina twico bo- causo thoy oxtorted so much monoy hio could not afford it.” " Aftor abundoning tho ‘organization he went to work in a *scab " slop,—that is, for o firm that did not omploy union men. There- upon the Critpins expolled him, as they Liad o right to do. But thelr rancor did not stop at this. Bomo timo aftor, Reardon was nttacked on the streot, about 10 o'clock in tho night, by two ruftiong, ono of whom ho rocognized ns o man nmamed Graco, n prominont mombor of tho owder of Orispins, and auothor whom Reardon =ad mot tho opportunity of rocognizing. Grace was n large, powerful man, and he soizod Reardon by tho nrms in such o way a8 to ronder him helpless. Thon Grace and his compauion pummelod, and kicked, and choked their victim to their Licaria’ contont. Reardon crawled home, whers ho mado a dying statemont to his wife, and, about 23¢ o'clock on Tuoudny morning, oxpired from {ho offects of tho blows and wounds which ho had recolved. “Tho man had been literally maulod to doath. Roardon himsolf attributod his death to the Crisping, Ilo at first concenled from his wifotho extont of lis injurios, and, i his dying statomont, told hor that ho had done mo becauso “Lo didn’t want to give the Crisping that 1ouch satisfaction s to sond for » doctor.” ‘The man Graco had attacked Reardon n fow days before, without provacation, and had then given Lim & govoro beating. Tt doos not appoar that thero was any personal controversy botwoon Reardon and Graco. O the contrary, o brothor of Reardon, who still renmined a membor of tha Crispin Bocloty, and who was not on good torms with the murderod man, tostiflod that hio had hoard a wish expressed. in tho society meotings that Michoel Reardon might be mude to leave Qosgrove's shop, 'Tho deceased and his wifo Dolioved both attacks to have been promptod by tho Crispins nu o meand to forco Hoardon out of tho ‘“‘scab™ shop back into tho union. Afl the circumstances point in the samo direction. The attack was mado by two men, aud wos of o na- iure to indicato that thore was no intention to murdor Roardon, but to boat him sufiiciontly to toach him and othoers like him thnt they could not safoly dlsrogard the regulations of tho craft, If thorlot in Indinna and the murder of Michacl Renrdon in Vinciunatiarofollowed, nsthoyshould bo, by tho prompt punishmont of the malefac- tors, tho trades-unions may bo taught to sban- don some of tholr present rules and practicos, If tho ausoclntions did not actuully order tho at- tacky, tho onstoms which they maintain lod to thom, and are rosponsible for thom. They assumo deupotic power not only over their own membaors, but also ovor thoso who do not belong to theirnoclotios, Thoy dlctato to tholr membors whero they shall work, and whero thoy shall not work. TlLey suy to all men who refuse to join their combinations, that they ehall not work at all. This I clags-tyranny of tho most absolute kind, Being opposod to law, it can only Le maintained by mob violonco or midnight naens- aluation, 1f this country I8 good for anything, it I8 because it proteots overy man in the right to oarn his broad by any honest means which may sult his own Iuclinatlons, Whon tho trades- unions deolaro that mon muny labor at such tagke, in such places, and for such time only s they may dlotato, thoy array thomeolves againat jua- tico, and can only hope to onforco their dictum by riding ovor and riding down the rights of thelr fellows, in doflance of evory law, human or di- vine, Bo far aa tho unlona are combinations for advancing the intorosts of tholr olass in » Iawful manner, they may be, and geuorally are, usoful sgencies, But when thoy booome organized gons npiracies ngainat the lifo, liborty, and property -of all mon who do not rocognizo thoir behosts, they aro outlaws, and it Is tho duty of govern- mont to regard and troat them in that light. THE NEW RAILROAD AID LAW, Tho Btate Sonato ‘on Wodnosdny passed a bill which will probably boe fruitful of troublo should it bocome a law. * Tho now Coustitution poromptorily probibits the subscription or dona- tlon of any monoy or bonds or other dovices {n nid of any rallroads or canals by any muniol- pality in the Btate, This Coustitution booamothe law on tho 8tlh of August, 1870, Unfortunatoly, porhaps, the Constitution provided that tho prohibition should not apply to subscriptions authorized by popular volo of such munielpali- tics takon bofore tho ndoption of tho Constitution, Under this Iatter ciause, thoro wag a grand lurrying-up of tho votes by towns and countiea boforo the 8th of Au- gust, 1870, on which day the municipalities of Illinols hnd subsoribed in ald of railways an nggrogato sum of not loas than §16,000,000. Of this sum thero have been issued to tho railways local bonds amounting to §18,600,000, bearlng intorost at ratos ranging from 8 to10 per’ cont por anuum, and Lnving twonty yoars to run, Tho aunual chargo for intorest on the bonds already fesued, taking tho nveragoe atd por cont, is $1,215,000, The burdon of ihis tax is alroady sovoroly folt, and the expocted benofits to result from tho railroads have, in most casos, not boon reulized, S TFrom ona million to one million and o Lalf of thoss bonds, though votod beforo Aug. 8, 1870, bave not boon issued, bocause the rail- roads for which the sid was intended have not Deen cousiructed. The fall- ure to construct has proceceded from disorganization or worthlossnoss of tho compa- nios, or clinnge of routea. The bill which passed tho State Sonato on Wodnesduy authorizes sny city, town, or county which voted donations or subscriptions of Londs to any railrond corpora- tion, in casos whore such railrond hps not beon Dbuilt, to subscribo such stock and Issue such bonds to any other railroa@ ocorporation. The condition is, that such othor railroad corporation shell construct o line of railroad in or through such municipality. 'Any railroad company do- ‘ siring to obtain such bonds shall apply to the authoritios of snch county or town, andif & ma- Jority of. tho legal voters shall sssont therato, then such original subscription shall bo trang- forred to the othor railrond applying thorefor. This act is full of danger.’ It showa tho perti- nacity with which privato corporations soek to plundor tho public. Tho fact that these mill- ions and a holf of bonds are lying unissned in tho various town and county ircnsurics has not cscaped tho observation of theso railrond har- pies, They sought this logielation two years ago, aud now ook it again. The legislation is oxtra-constitutional. It scoks to makoe that which tho Constitution prohibits legal. It suthorizes now subscriptions in aid of railroads. A subseription in oid of tho A B O Railrond cannot be converted into a subseription in favor of the E T G Railrond. The people voted in August, 1870, in favor of subscriptions to dis- tinet rnilrond corporations, lLaving distinct lines ond routes. How can the Logisla- ture doclare that such eubscriptions woro voted for othor railronds having othor namo end titles, ‘and having othor rontes apd terminl? The Constitution limits the issue of bonds to those voted for specifically ‘beforo tho 8th of August. The Counstitution did not legalizo the future issue of bonda for rail- road purposes gonerally, The acts of tho Logis- laturo nover authorized the voting for or tho is~ suo of bonds to railroads gonerally. Tho notice of tho election prescribed tho name of the rail- road corporation to whom the bonds wore issued, and there was no more power to issuc such bonds to any othor corporation than thero was to give them to thp Tmporor of Chine, nor can this powor bo now given. This very point is an adjudicated question dotormined by tho Supreme Court of the United Statos. In o case taken up from this Btate (Marsh vs. Fullon Counly, 10 Wallace), where a county undor tho law of the Legislature voted n subacription of bonds to o partienlar railroad company, and that company changed its name before the is- 8uc of the bonds, though it remained practically tho same company, and actually completed and maintained the road intondod to bo aided, the Buprome Court of tho United Btatos hold fhat tho issuo and the delivery of bonds to one corpora-~ tlon which had boen voted te mnothor wad void, and the lioldera of the bonds could not compel the payment thercof. The Court hield that the iesno of the bonds was authorized Dy tho vote of tho people, and that vote could not bo tortured or conatrued into giving authori- ty to iusue bonds to any othor corporation. Can tho Logielatura in 1873 doeolara that, whors the pooplo of anytown or county voted in 1870 to donate bonds and tax thomsolvea for twenty yeers to aid one railroad, they voted, in fact, to sBuo tho bonda to any other railroad that might apply for thom ? This bill proposcs nothing lees than authority to make a new subscription, und 1 poromptorily probibited by tho Conatitu- tion. Wha Insuo of those bona il be oxtromely un= fortunato, bocause it is absolutoly cortain that thelr ultimato paymont will bo rosisted. Wo havé already o caso of rofusal to pay county Louds, and tho interest theroon, in Macoupin County ; and in othor countios thore is a restive- ness uudor theso railrond aid dobts which eurrent ovents aro by no meana abating, When the men who aro taxed to psy the intoreaton thoso bonds, nud taxad inordinately for transportation by the railronds built with their monoy and oredit, dis- covor that thoro Is o legnl cscapo from liability, tho probabillties aro that thoy will tost it, and avold payment if thoy can. It is wrong for tho Legislaturo to authorize tho issuo of any bonds whose logalily it in question, thus enalling sharp practitioners to palm them off on innoceut purchasers, and involving the lattor in pocuniny loss or ruin, . NOTES AND OPINION. There ia boing priutod in many papors a liss of Congrossmen classifled as * Quilly " or ** Inuo- cont " of tho ealary-grab, according to thelr ro- corded volos on that question, This olassifica- tion will not do. Thero are nono innocent, no not one, oxoept o cortificate of Treasuror Spin- nor can bo shown, Theso cortificates will bo in demand, noxt yoar ; and no othor sort of a cer- tifleate will answor. 3 —Tho Indiznapolis Journal (Morton) says : Woulionld llkoto sco our cotempurnlcs keep tlio ible dodgo of losving the mougy dran il at- x tho noxt cloction, and taking 5t _thou, fresh fu the minds of the peoplo. Tt iwa matier worth un oceas slonal reforeuce, to keop popular sttontion awake, —Thouse of money in cloctions bhas boen callod to tho attention of the Grand Jury at Buf- falo, N. Y. We quote from tho Coyrier; Judge Oliatlcs Danlels, in bis charge to th Grand Jury, now in seunion in-this city, & fow daya ago, took oocaslon to remiud that body thiat tho expenditiire of money for romlcl\ Purpoues was p matter that ro- ..un& investigation, " He mid bo hsd roason {0 Loe 1Hove that a largo nmount of monoy had Loen spont tn the last political cnmrnlgn, {n violation of tho Jaw,and It was viot enty writhin thélr powor ws a Grand dury, Dut $¢ was tholr duty to institnto o sesrening fnveatlgas tion, that tho law might bs enforced and the offonders brouglit to justice, Ifo sald that about a year ngo tho cago of Thoman J. Bizor va, tho Republican Count; Committco wan tricd bofors hlm, in which it incidenially npposred Jn ovidence that ten thousand dollara lind beon cxpendod for politle cal ]lurs‘ulm in tho campaign three ( Proscoution fn thia caso was barred by sfatute of limi. intlons elso tho nattontion of tho Graud Jury would have hoou callod to tho matter thon, e cantioned tho fury that thoy must mow glve tho matfor the at. tentlon it deserved, fnnsmuch au it liad bocomo a kor- fous ovil, and if thoy refitacd to nct in the promics ho assuredly sould tako tho matter in hand, Indeed ho should hold them until they hiad cxhaustod tho means of fuformation wilhin thelr reach, On Monday and yeatorday sovoral prominont political gentlomen wero Tequired to testiry, but, tho stalementa nado Lofora the Grand Jur; lellg court secrets, wo cannot favor &“r roaders wiih tho factubrought out in the inquisie oup & —Tho only way is to take monoy out of poli- ticd a8 far a6 possiblo, Mako ofticos wortl: loss monoy, and poople will not be so anxlous to got them or to pay so muoh for thom. As long ns thoy aro suro to mnke a fortuno out of tho logit- imato procoeds or out of the stoslings, they can afford to spoud Inrge sums to get thom. ' If & couuty oflico will ylold & man from $560,000 to $100,000 in two yoars, he can make money by glvln(g 20,000 to got it.—Indianapolis Nows, ~There wore many porsohs who could not be- liove thnt o shamoless n thing an traffio in pub- lic offices could renlly bo .attompted, and much loss that our mombor of Congress [E. D, Peck could bo a parly to, or oven cognizant of, suc] scandalous dolngs; and the Commercial wng so- vorely consurod by some porsons for co-oporating againat tho abuso, But since the return of {he sald member with the $5,000 oxtra-gnlary grab in hiupockot, . . . . itissomo satisfaction to know that the Republicans of the Diatrict aro not liablo to the ropotition of thom.—Toledo Commercial. —Up to lnat Saturday night only fonr Bonators and ton Ropresontatives have couiod_thoir baok- pay to be roturned to tho Trorsury, Tho amonnt roturnod by these fourteon gontlemon s 866,847, showing tho nvorago of back-pny to bo s little ovor 24,000, Lists floating around of those who have refusod the back-pay contnin many names in oxcoss of the fourtoon; but for all ovor,this number the fundg still romain in the hands of tho Bonato and the House, subject to order of tho grabbers.—DBuffalo Courder, —Now tho Democrats, according to their share of ropresontation in Congress, have partalen of the spoils, It docs not bocomo thom to chide ]lnsmmlcnna. As a party, tho Domooracy nover liad the chanco to rob tho_country thnt tho Ro- {mbllcflm! aro improving, Tho mabner_In which hoy got away with tho reveuucs of Now York City shows tlioir onpacity. It is cortainly 1ot In- significaut. Tho words ‘Tammany Ring arc_ag ill-finvored as thoso of Cradit Mobilfor. Tho {mblln approhiousion about the Domocracy {s the hoop that holds tho Ropublican organization to- gother.—Cincinnati Commercial. —Dunnell is o thrifty momber of Congress from Minnosotn. Ho wanted to build Lim a Louso this spring, but did not like to vote for tho back salary grab which would put tho menng for doing so_in-his pocket. He therofora lob- bied for tha bill in all tho stages of ita pussugo, \'nllnq “where it would do most good ' on col- Interal questions affecting it, and rosorving his final vota on its passngo till ho was cortain it way safo, then rocording his namo nmonf tho noed. Tho semo afternoon ho telographed to his home in Minnesota to *commence lauling sand,” und his building operations aro now pro- gressing finoly.—Milwaukee News. —The hnbit of calling Congressmen thioves for many yeara has had ity effect, Thoy begin to Liliove they ave so regarded, and, smrounded by corrupt influences continually in’ tho ity of Washington, thoy have neted like thioves, aud 0 homo richor in purse, but poorer in morals,— fonroe (1is,) Sentinel. 0w York Eumin‘q Post calls good mon to witness the npectacla of *a Sonato, at Albany, full of Ropublicans, deliborately incorporating logislation for persons into a fundamental layw, soma of which persous aro the nominees of the old ring, and somo of whom stand charged be- foro the public with the foulest and moanest swindling of which o man can bo guilty. The Ttopublican party, which promised ua reform throws tho shield of its protection over tho ol roguery and the old rnfiues." —Alleging tho inabllity of cultivated gentle- mon like Charles Francis Adems to lend the massos, tho Louisville Courier-Jowrnal says; “We neod a brilliantly-educated ruflian,—o ho- roic, statesmanliko, hlg]h-mlndml, ond Lonost blockguard,— bluthorsldto with' courago and ronl genius for public businoss.” —It i3 announced by the Philadolphin Press that, by o disgracofal trick of tho last Legisla- turo of Pounsylvania, tho vote on the now Con- stitution cannot bo oponed nud counted excopt bg tho next Legislature, which meotsin January, 1874, Thus, it the voto is takon in August, as ls rropascd, it cannot bo takon until January, and horofors the provisions ngainst fraudulont eloctions will not gointo effoct until aftor the noxt eloction. 'This will provide the way for an- othor sot of legislators s unworthy as_those ‘who have just returnod to their homes, and post- no for anothor year the roforms so urgontly lomanded. ' ~—Tho Republican party of to-day is not the compact, ocarncst body of national mon that Abraham Lincoln held to tho fullillmentof a mighty work., Thot work achieved, and tho grandoat of succosses attaching to it, the party 8 5 party was fastonod upon by the vilest of mankind, and they grew in power as it grew in strongth.— Galesburg (1) Free Press. —To oxpungo all that is wrong, wrong must Do spoken of when it occurs, and a diversity of opinious, if duo thought is givon thom, will strongthen tho movemont by showing whero this opinion is erroncous and that corroct. Wo want doliboration; wo want singloucss of pur- pose; wo want decided action—not one thing to- day, suother to-morrow—to make headwa sgainat the oppressor.—Yorkville (Iil.) Record, ~—It may not bo genorally known, nor the fact thoroughly appreciated at Springfield, but the pooplo ure in earnost—in dead earnost—in tho rovolution they have undertakon, aud befora the wave of rightoous indignation which hag been ralsod, & politician or an ofifco-goelor will bo as the foather in & toynado. Logislators ot Spring- {ield mnust bo oqual to tho dlnm'(iaucy, aud find & romedy for tho ovil of which tho poople com- plain, orthey will go down forovor lhoforo tho storm of popular wrath.-~Peoria (Ill.) Demo- cral. g —The farmers will novor accomplish any good for thomsolves 8o long s they are tied to tho tail of any political party—no mutter what party it may be. Let them set up for themsolves end run the machine awhile in their own interosta. Let “Freo Trade and Farmors’ Rights” rule awhile, and sco how it will work, It will put an end to the rulo of State, nud county, and township cliques—but nover mind that; things caw’t be any worse than they are. Lot somo of the fat pigs bo pulled off thoteats and give the others a chance awhile, Lot the farmers fire thoir bullets Etl‘ni[fllb into tho bullot-box avery time they got a chanco— and for mon of their own velection. Don't leave tho matter to the lawyors, ortho office-holdors, or the railrond mon, or the manufacturors, or anybody vluo, LOWOVEr lilve LLuy way tell. ' Go ut oory wroig, oF outruga, or uppraseion, with tho ballot, in doad onrnost.” Thot's the only way to nccomplish anything—Zock Island (IlL) Argus. ;qll tho railronds undorstand thelr own intor- ots, aud aro govorued by common sense in ehnpiug their policy, thoy will soek an allianco with tho farmors, rather than to attompt to carry out a polioy in violation of Jaw aud in conflict with the public sentimoent, Tho farmors must aud will fusist that the railrosds shall oboy the lnws of the Btate, tho name as _individunls—be- yond that, thoro s no aauso of ostility butwoon o railvonds uud the farmors, but, on the con- trary, thore is every veason for n cordinl co-opor- atfon tu procurs the ropeal of the tavilf,.—Kewa- nea (J1l.) Independent., —Alroady wo huve had numerons instancos, and thoy wre still ocourring throughout tho Bouth, sud somotimes alko at tho North, In which' olactions aro as abuolulely controlled to bring about tho desired rosults ns an army in controlled by tho commander-in-chiof, If tho next Prosid nt is_eleoted by the froo votes of tho people, tho predictionn of many of our most moderato aud eagaclous statosmon will bo fulal- fiod.— Galveston ( Tvx.) News. —Wo thinl it botter lo kill the Indians, The only way to donl with thom now Is to keep hom on resorvations, and tho only way to keep them on resorvationd is to nhoot ‘them'; at any rato, to shoot thom whouovor they venture to ot fool outsido the limits nssigned them, Ton great nny kind-heartod but impracticable people onr ropositions sound haral, unchristianlike, and Bnmonlno; but, then, those folks caunot scom o undorstand that wo avo talking bont domons. Nor would wo bo understood aé recommending that the Government ombark in the ontaerpriso of enterminating Indians either as a pase timo or o businoss; nothing of the sort, Wao would not by any means have Indisus ghot when thoy are bohaving thomselves; but wo de- slra to bo undorotood sy saying that tho only way to mako Indiang bohave {u to shoot them when thoy do not bohave, That iy all.—AMilwau- keo Sentinel, P T A Dofanlting Treasurer, New York, April 18.—A Cclumbin (8. 0.) dospatch utates that James M. Allon, 'W'rensuror of Ureonvillo County, was arroatad yeutordny, ohargod with boing & dofaulter to the amount of ©40,000, recolved for taxas, ears beforo, | THE STATE CAPITAL. Pagsage of the Compromise - Railroad Bill in the House, The Senate Committee Vofe to Sub- stitute the Donahue Rall- road Bill. The General Tax Bill Passed in the House. Work on the Appropriation Bills in the Senate. The School Fund---The West Side Park Bill. 3 The House Votes for an Adjourned Bes- sion Next Decomber, Svectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, PABISAGE OI' THE RATLROAD DILL. BeavoriELp, April 18.—Tho Railroad bill Passed tho House (hin morning, yoas 122, nays ]10. Thore was no dobata. Tho vato was as fol- owa : TEAs, Aoxander (Craye-Grahiam, Orondorm, ranger, Penficl Alexandor (Mont-Granb, " mn:ulll‘," Mooty aeen Totoee” ) ridfoy otlock, Al;g)llrang(&mu-l[urt, o Raco, © 5 arvoy, Remo Armistrong (La Mawes, Teatie, Ballo), Houry, Ray, Herdigton, Rico, il Herting, Rogets, x), it (Wadison), Tounishe, ars),ikdrup, Bavago, 'Hofles Sawyar, Jollow'vack, Beanlan, Fagioes. Beat, Jennup, Sonno, Xlr:nnl( Johnaton, Law, Bullard, ones, Blerldan, Casoy, Konu, Shwnway, Cassedy, Lane (Hancock), Smith, Carpontor, Lono (Dowiit),” Boule, Ohambors, mma, tarr, Collin Toomis, Stowart (Winne- Connoly, Isun, bago), Qrawford, Masalo, Stowart (MoLoan), Groukrito, MeAdums, Streotor, Cullorton, McDonnld, Btroud, Darnall, cGoe, Taggart, Davis, MeLaughlln, ‘fhoinas, Demahly AlcPhorran, Thornton, Dowey, . Menchow, Tillson, Dolaxi, Middlecott, aruitt,’ . Dall Mitcholl, Virdon, Dunliam, Hoore (Ararshill),Walker, _ Efuor, Mooro (Adams), ' Warnor, Forrdor, Moose, Wayman, Tlandofs, Moffott, Wobhor, Torth, Mulvane, ‘Welnhelmor, Froolnd, Nevillo, Wood, Froomau, Nulton, r. Speaker, Goldem, Oakiood, Gordor!, Oberly, Bradwell, Jackson, Bherman, Condon, Oleson, Washburn, Hoy, Quiny, Wobstor, Hopidm, ABSENT OR NOT VOTING, Dresser, Leltze, Ensloy, Tomaz, Halpi, Mareh, Hilo (8, Olalr), Morrison, Tuacore, Nowton, James, Paltzer, Lowle, Tyutt, Of thoso, Tnucoro and Poltzor wero in their seats, but oblivious to what was going on. Alr. Poltzer wolte up hulf an hour aftor, to find out, Lo hiad not voted, and nsked loave to bo rocorded in the afirmative. Westfall and Morrison could not explain their votes, and got mad and would not vote, which was quite fooliah for men. of thoir age. The bill now gosa to_tho Sonate. It is difficult to prophesy its fate, but dpmbnbly it will bo swnllowed wholo, if the friends of tho Donohue bill fajl to substitute it. Tho following is tho bill as Houso: A 11LL for on act to prevant oxtortion and unjust dls- erimfuation In tho rutes charged for tito tranaporia- ton of passongera and frelghts on ads in this State, and to repeal an act entitled “An sct to pro- vent unjust _dircriminations and extortions in tho ratea to bo charged by the differont raflroads in this Btato for the transportation of freights on sald ronds,” approved April 7, A, D, 1671, A BX0TION 1. Re it enacted by the People of the Stats of Illinois, represcnted in the General Asscnibly, If any. Tailroad” corporation, organized or doing business in this Btato, under uny sct of incorporation, or general Inw of this Btatc, now {n force, or which may hereafter bo onacted, or any raiiroad _corporation organized, or which may heroafter be organized under tho laws of any other Stato, and doing business in this State, shall charge, collect, domand, or rocolve more than a fair sud roasonable’ rato of ‘toll or compensntion for tha transportation of passengors or frolght, of any de- scription, or for tho use ond transportation of any radlrond ¢ar upon its track, or any of tho branches thoroof, or upon any railroad within thia Stato which 1iaa tho'right, liconso, or pormission to use, oporate, or control, thio samo shall be deomod guilty of extortion, and upon conviction thorcof shall Do dealt with ag horetuatter provided., Br0.9, It anysuch railrosd corporation aforesstd shall mako any unjust disorimination in its rates or chorges of toll, or compenkation, for tho transporta- tion of passengers or freight of any description, or for the use and transportation of uny railroad car upon ita said rosd, or uponany of the branches thoreof, or upou any raiironds _connected therowith, which i€ has tlio right, liceuse, or permisslon to opcrate, control, or use, within this State, tho same elinl bo deemed guilty of linving violated the provisions of this act, sud, upon conviction theroof, wliall bo doslt with ns horeinatter rovidod, P'ko. 5, Xt any snch rallroad corporation shall chargs, colleet, or recelve, for tho trausvortation of any passenger, or frolght of auy description, upon it railroad, for any distanice, within {lia State, the same, or o greitor smount of {01l oF compensation thun 18 ot tho anme timo received for tho tranaporiation, in the samo direction, of any passonger, or lko quantity of freight of tho samo class, over a groater distance of tho same raflroad, or i¢ it shiall charge, collect, or recoivo, at any point upon ita ratlroad, o higher rafo of toll o compicnsation for ecelving, hundiing, or delivering froight of tho samo class and’ lko quane {ity, thon it shall, at (he samo Hime, chargo, collbot, o rocaivo 't ouy ofhor point. upox {ho sama raflroad ; or if §¢ shull churgo, collect, or ro- coivo for tho transportation. of. auy 'passenger, or frolght of uy deacription, ovor ita raflrond, a greator amount a8 toll or compensation than shall, at thio eimo time, bo charged, collected, or racolved by it for the {ranupartation of any pussenger, or like qusitity of frefght of tho samo cliss, belng transported in the same direction, over auy portion of {ho sumo rallrond, of equal diutauco; orif it wlall liarg, collect, or re- celve from any porson or persona & bigher or’greater amount.of toll or compensation than {6 shall, ot tho samo time, churgo, colloct, or recolvo from suy othor pion ox erauni e rocbiving, handling, or delivor- ug frelght of tho samo class snd like quan- {ity, at tho samo point upon fts rafirond ; or if It ahall chiatgo, colloct, oF gecolys £rom any person or perdous, 2ur tha transportation of any freight upon it rafiroa, u higlior or groatow rato of {oll or compenuation than i shnlf, at tho same Umo, clarge, colloct, or rocelve from any othor person or persong, for tho transportation of tha Hko quantity of frofght of tho samo clags, belug trausported froiu the sume point, n tho wama direc. tlon, over ut}unl dislances of the samo railroad ; or if 4t thull chargo, colleet, or recelvo fram any person or persond, for tho uso and {rausportation of uy railroad car or cara upon. ita raifroad, for uny dls- tanico, tho samo or u greater amount of toll or compen— sation than fs at tho same timo charged, collectod, or receivod from any porson or persons, for tho vse and transpartation of. alty ruflroud gar of tho wamo clasa or number, for o likio purpose, belng transported in tho samo difoction, ovor a greator distanco of thio sato ruflroud; or if it Blull charge, collect, or ¥ecoivo from it passed tho | Buy person or&mrflunu, for the uso and transportation of uny rallroad car O¢ cars upon ita Tadlroad, u bigher or greator toll or componsntion thui It eholl, ot tho mamo timo, charge, colloct, or vacuiYo from any othor porson or porsoun, for tho uto and transportation of any rafle rond car or cars of tho eunio class or number, for a liko puzpos, belng ransported from tho samno ‘point, in B hama divestion, aver an cqrial diutatice ot tho whme Tallrond ; all sueh’ diserimingiing rates, charges, col- Tections, or recelpts, Whether mado_diroctly, of by moans of any robato, druwback, or otlier shift' or eva- son, whll bodeemed and {ked, against such rullroad corpioration, 89 prims fusio evldence of the uujust A~ criminations probibitod by the provisions of this ct, aud itehall bo notfdeemed a sutliclont oxcusclor justinca: ton of cuch discrlmiustion ontho part of such rail- road carporation, that_ tho rajlwoy station or polnt at whicly It shall cliargo, callect, o roceivo tli ‘same or loas ratoa of toll or componsation, for (o transfer of such pansengor or froight, or for tie vse and tranepore tatlon of seuh Tailrond cat tho greater distauco, then for tho shorter dfatanco, 1a a ralliay station or poiutat ‘which thoro o: compatition wflh,nn{ othor rallroad or means of trausportution, Thia doclion shall not b 80 construed 60 oa to oxcludo other evidence tending to eliow any unjust diseriniution in frelyht and pasiens Titg provislous of thfs aoction ahall oxtend pply to auy railroad, tho brauches thesoof, aud wiy rond oc reuds which dny wafirond. corporaiioi o Tight, liconso oF - permission to use, or conlral, whull{ or {n part within this sfato: Provided, huicever, that notbing Lersin cons taind shiall bo 80 constructed s to provent railzoad corporations from fuulng commutation, exsurvion, or thousand-milo tickeis, 38 tho game aro now fssued by such corporations, z Bro, 4, Auyauch raflroad corporationgnilty of extor- ton, Or gullty of wukiug any uujust discrimination ag {o yassongsr of frelght rhics, oF thio ratca for (he uio aud transportation of railroad cars,” or in Tocolving, ‘handliug oF delivering frelghts, skall, upon conviction thereof, Do Aned-in ARy puD UOF lea (bsa aporate, 41,000, “nor miore {han et Coftonsot "aid gor g wdond offense Dot loss than £5,000, nor moro thn $10,000, aud for {ho third offanno not less thian $10,000 nor mora than $20,000; and for ovory Absoquent oflenao and conyio- tor tuacaot, il bo inblo to n fluo of $25,000: Pro- A cascn unilo m;u m; r;;mt‘;» 5 mfi“ Hador g.m- act oftnor party shall, 1.0, 5, Thio finen hercinbeforo provided recoverad fn oo netlon of dobt, 10 {hy mpmo of 1 pors plo of tho Blate of Illinolw, and thore may be neverel counts loluad 1 tho samo declaeation a0 °to-oxtortion nud unjust discrimination, and oa to passongor. Aud frolght ruteo, and for tho wse and tranaperiation of “rallrond’ cars, and for rocelving hands ling o dollvering frolght, TF, upon the trisl of any cauito Inalituted under (114 act,'tho Jury sl find for tha peoplo, thoy shall assens o retirs with tholr vore dlet, the nmouat of tho fine fo bo imponcd upon (L defondant, ab_any pun not losa than $1,000 ner mora than £5,000, and tho Court alwll render Judgment. sce cordiugly:'aud §€ tho Jury sball find for tho peoplo and that tho defendant s boon onco bofora convicied of a violation of tho provisions of thia act, thoy shall roturn anch finding with their verdict, and_shall age Boss, and - roturn with thewr | vordich mount of fho fino to Lo impoed tho defondant at any mum nob los than 5,000 noe moro than $10,000% and tho Court shall rondor Judgment accordingly 3 ‘and if the Jury aball find for tho poople, and tiat tho defoudant Lus boen Lwise boe fore convicted of a violation of tho provisions of thia gty wihs coepoct o extoxion or unuat dicrimination thioy shall roturn wuch findivg with thelr verdict, sud slinll askoss and roturn with tholr verdict, the amouni of tho fino to bo imposod upon tho defehdant, at any sum not Ioss than $10,000, nor more than $20,000 ; sod. in ik mannor for overy subscquont offonse and cone viction, such defendant alisll bo Hablo fo fino of $25,s 000 : Frovfded, that in sll csen under the provialons of thinact, a proponderance of ovidouco in favor of tha pooplo shall e sullicient Lo authiorizoa vordlct and judgment for tho people. B0, 0, 1¢ any rairond corporation shall, in violae tlon of any of tho provislons of (hin act, ask, domand, chargo, or recolvo of any person or corporatlon, any oxtortionato ciargo or chargos for tho {ratape-tition of any paascngers, goods, merchandiao, or proporty, or for rocolving, hindling, or dolivering froights, on shiall mako any linjust diacrimination against shy pore son or corporation its chnrgo therefor, tha person or corporation 0 offended ngainst may, for each offonse, rocovar of such railroad corporatioit, in any form of aetion, threo times tho nmount of dsmages gustalned by the party agprioved, Logetlier with costs of Auit nod & reasonablo attorney’s fee, to ba Axed by the Court Whorotho sameda licard, on appoal or othicrwise, and taxod 08 a part of tho costs of tho £880, BEo,T, It shall bo the dutyof the Raflread and Warcliotigo Qommissioncrs to personally Investigato and ascertatln whether the proviatons of " this nct arg Violatod by uny rallroad corporation fu tula Blato, and to yleit tho varloun stations pon tho lino of cacly raile road for that purposc, 86 ofton os practicablo and ‘whenoyer the facts, in Any manaer nscertainod by sald Commisatoncrs, shall, i thofr Judgmont, warrant such progecutlon, It slatl o tho duty of snid Gommissioners 1o lmmediately cauno suits fo bo commencea ond proscented ogainst any railrond corporations wlich moy violato tho provialons of inia nct. Buck sults and, prosecutions may Lo institulod in any county in this Btate, through orinto which the ling of tho raflroadcorporation sucd for violating thi act may extend, And stieh raflroad nud ‘Worchotiss Gome ‘migsloners aro boroby suthorlzod, whon tho facts of the casn prosentod to” thom ehall, fu their fudgmont, warrant tho commencoment of Buch action, to oms loy counsol to assist the Attornoy Goueral in cone ucting such sult on behalf of tho State, No such Bults commenced by safd Commissloners shall be djs~ anfssou, excopt wuld raflroad and warshouss Commis. slonore sud (o Atiornoy Gonoral shull - consent croto, 8z0, 8. Tho Railroad and Wareliouss Commissionors aro horeby directed to mako for each of tho railrond corporations doing businoss in thls Stato, aa Aoon a3 practicable, aschodula of maximum ratos of chargos for the transportation of passongors aud freight and ears on each of snid raflroads ; aud kaid achedulo shall, in all suits brought agninat auy such railroad corpora- tions, whorein ia {n any way involved tlo charges of any such ratiroad corporation, for tho transportation of auy passcuger or frelght or cars, or unjust diserim. ination fn relation tiareto, bo deoried snd taken, in sl courta of thfe Blata, 86 pHm faclo ovidencegint tho rates therein fixed aro reasinablo ma um rates of ohargea for the tranaportation of passongers and freights and cars upon the railroads for which said scliednlos may Liye boen vespoctivoly propared, Sald Commisaionsra shall, from tima to timo, and as ofton 83 clroumataticas may require, clmue id ovisa sald schedulos, When any schiodufea shall have been mada or revised, s nforeanid, it shall bo the duty of sald Commisalonors to cauge publication thereof to bo made for threo auccessivo woeks, in Horo public nowspaper publishod In tho Oity of Chicago, in this Btato. such_schedules, purporting to he printed nnd pubs Hahed as aforcsaid, shall bo rocelvod snd held, i all such aults, 88 prima faclo tho schodules of sald Come missioners, without further ¥tbof than the Ermlllb- tion of tho Eflp&!r in which thoy were published, to- gether with the cortificato of the publisher of sald pa- por, that the schodulo theroin contatned {s & true copy of tho scbedulo furnishod for publication by said Come missionora, and that it has been_published tho abovo speelfiod time ; and any such paper, purporting to hiayo been published t anid city, and to Lo a publia nowspaper, shall bo prosumned t6 have been 50 publishe ed nt tho date thereof, and to bo o public nowspaper, Bro, 9, Al printod books and pamphlets purporting 1o be theannual reporta of the “‘Railrord and Ware- ‘house Commisslon,” to the Governor, shall be recefved and held, u il préssediuga undor tio provisiong horo- of, as the reporis of said Commissfon, without furthor Proof, and thio repurts of sald Commigsian- ure Liercby mad prima fucio ovidenco of tho iruth of tho_ stato- , ‘monta thereiu contained, for all purposes uuder this act, 820, 10. Tn oll cases under tho provisions of this sct, tho rulos of ovidonco shall bo tha samo &8 in othor civil aotions, excopt 28 hereinbefore otherwise pro- vidod, All fines rocovored under tho provisions of this act shall be paid into tho County Treasury of tho county in which the suit is tried, by tho poraon collect- {ug tlio enmo, in the mouner now provided by law, to Do used for' county purposes, Tho remedics hersby givon shall bo regardod aa cumulativo to tho romedies Tow given by law sguinst railroad corporations, and this act shall not ba construed as ropealing any statute giving such romedios, Sulls commonced undor tho Provisionn of this act ‘shall havo precedenco over all ‘otlior businoss, oxeopt criminal business, S50, 11, Tho tgem ¢ railzoad corporation, contatacd in tls act, uhall bo doomed and taken to mcan all cors porations, companios or individusls now owning or operating, or which may horeafter own or operato any raflrond, {n wholo or in part, in {hls_Stato; nnd tha provisiona of thia nct shall apply to all persons, firms and compenics, nnd fo ail associstiona of pcraons, whother incorporated or othorwiso, that shall do busis 10ss a common carriers upon nny of tha lines of rail- wways in thia State, (streot railways oxcoptod), the same a8 to rallrond corporations horelubofors mentfoned, 50, 19, An act ontitlod “ An act to provont unjust dincriminations and extortions in tho rates to be chinrged by tho difforent ralirosds in this Stato for tho transportation of freight on said roads,” approved April 7, A. D, 1871, i8 hiovoby repenled, but such ropenl aliall ok nffedt or Fopoal any peualty incurred or right acerued undor said act prior to the timo thia act takes offact, nor any proccodings or prosocutions to. enforce such rights or ponaltica. ADIOURNMENT, The resolutions rolative to adjournmont wera takon up this morning, whon Mr. c.,nanaj: o posed their consideration until the Railroad bill waa disposed of. Mr. Bradwoll wanted tho time fizod. DBir. Moflitt thought thoy should wait un- til thoy could seo therr way clear. Mr. Hawes thought it would bo foolish to_fix tho time with- in tho noxt two woeks, Mr, Oborly believed it was timo enough to fix tho adjournment whon they wero rondy to go home, r. Inscore could #oe no necossity for an adjournod session ; it ‘would bo ueoless, inoffectual, and oxpensive. Tho mont accoptablo thing to the peoplo that tho Assombly could do was to djourn sine. dio. Tho peoplo would rojoico, would throw up their liats whon thoy Juow they had parted to meot no more, Mr. Groy believed thoy should not fix the time for a sino dlo sdjournmont, but should work on until overylhing essential was accom- plishod, and they should go homeo snd never como buck, M. Johnuton would like porsonally to go home, but his judgment and his conatitu- ents domanded an adjournod sossion to finish uj tho business prepazod. ‘Thoycould not, withont - Joopardizing legislation, decide to adjourn in ono woek. M. Axelander, of Montgomery, said thoy had been here all wintor !rlymp to pass o Jiailzoad bill, some porons thinking thoy conld, by & mastor stroke of policy, astonish the peo- pla by railrond loginlation. Ilo thought they should fix the tuno for adjonrnment. Mr, Arm- strong, of Grundy, movad to Iny the whole thing on tho tablo, and it was 8o laid, Bubso uontl(, Mr. 1Taines offered o resolution, stating that a Inrgo numbar of billa wero before tho House which would be lost to tho State (much loss, indeed), and would onc\lg,v tho timo of tho Twonty-ninth Genoral Assembly, if tho Twenty-oighth did not disposo of them, thoro- foro thoro should bo an adjoursed session. Why whould this Logislnturo anticipato the work of tho T'wonty-niuth Gonoral Assombly? Why not tako in the Thirtieth also, or finish up logislation for thoe noxt ton years, It was a lamo argumont, abd would not have amounted to nuf!hlug worg it not backed n(g by the potent influence of §56 a day. Mr. Grey preventod & substituto expressing the senuo of tho Houso that nu adjourncd sossion was inox- podient, My, Johnslon moved to_table the sub. stituto, and it was tabled—01 to 87. The Ilawes rosolution was ndopted—94 to 4+, This indicntes tho tone of tiio Houso, and tho Sonato {8 proba- Lly in tho samo framo of mind, Thore is no doubt that the poor peoplo will Lave nincty days 000, * for the more of these logislators, tiukering &t their Taws, upsotting them at an ex- ponso of SLG0 & duy, - The namos of the men who, in_gold blood aud of milico aforothought, votod to porpotrate this fraud upon their eonstituouts, will be found alsowhero. Itia s blacklist that should bo closoly scanned, 08 each man has votod himeelt guilty of potty Inreeny for overy day of the oxtra session. Thore 18 no nood of tho meoting, 'Thore was rosson for o socond sengion of tho last Logislature, in that Iawe liud to bo made to conform to tho now Constitution, but that seseion should not bo & procodent. It looks ns if on annual oosslon of tho Legislaluro was contom- latod in futuro, in violation of the Jonatitution, whioh exprossly provides for a blennial sossion, aud,in case of emorgency, the Qavernor could convene a specisl sausion to cone elder subjoots gpecifiod in {ho call. The House W08 nfrald to trust tho Governor, knowing very woll that ho would find no emergoncy, slmply ‘Tboeauso uone could oxist. THE BONOOL FUND. Much hard feoling has boon created in the Hounto over the two-mull sohool tax, The Ap-