Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1874, Page 8

8 _——— GOV. TAYLOR'S MESSAGE. (Qontinnod from the Firat Pnge.) tloroughuens nud complotonoss with which it fs dono. I is very important for {tis fact to bo kept conatantly n raind, but o viow uf tho oxlatiug poouulary ombats arsments of fux-payers, and the deficloncy in the Btato Troasury, it in no lons fmportant that the present un- dertaking be prosccuted with tho llrlcluldpnulhln wconomy cotsistont with the end to be attained, IMMIORANT COMMISBIONER. While T am not convinced that the ofice of Immi- ut Commineloner can bo prudently dispoused witl mn yot pomsiblo that a reduction in ho oxpouditurcs of that ofica conld bo safoly provided for without projudice to the intercsts commitiod to _lls charge, Tho growih and prosperity of our Blato 18 vory largoly duo to tho justly llberal provisions of our Gonstitutlon fn_rospect to immigraiits from for- wign nations, aud neithor in tho light of publiv policy of o just hospitality can wo rofuse any action Tecessary to fusure ampio guidance and protoction to $hioso from abrord scoking happlor bomes on our pountifal soil, Tn regard to cloctions ho says tho law providiug for tho regiatry of olectors In costly, cumbrous, and inetll- cleat,” In towns and cities nlikd it in 3 ODNOXIOUS TO TIIE PEOFLE, “Tho purity of olections is to bo sacredly guarded uns dor all ciroimstances, but I trust that the wiadom of tho Logielaturo fs compatent to davise moro simplo and effective mieans to that ond, Nelthor in this nor in y othor Btato in tho Union has experionco moustrated that eccurity from fraud and corrup- fon at olectiona 1a necossarily contingent 1pon s com- plicatod oloctive machinery, The Jmposition of superabundant conditions upon the exerciss of the electivo franchiso ofton opoens thio way for tho very evils intonded to bo provented, s uniformly odious to Sho mass of electors of honorabla intont, and {s mani- ZTestly in violation of the apirit, if not the actual letter, of onr Constitution, In tho consideration of this general rubject, I urgo s more liberal regard for the RIGHUTS AND CONVENIENURS OF WORKINGNEX 1n our lrgo cities, Undor oxisting lawa tlio polls at every geuersl clection open nt 9 o'clock in the fore. noon and closo at sundown, and overy elector em. ployed at day wages is thus Ernlwflly debarred from #ho privilege of oxerciaivg tho elective franchise, ex- copt through tho chardty of lia emplos or ot o cost of & cunia ponally oqualing his _ wagecs for wholo or 4 portion of a day, This {a a gross and man~ Afent injustice. In tho exerciso of the right of suf- ago Ao unnocensary discrimination or Testraint ‘shiould bo tolerated, At tha ballot-box all men oro qual, and it is my doliborato couviction that publlo Exberio s incronsed, tho opportunity for fraud o wored, and o foll and falr expression of ublis_ opinfon rostrainod in tho more popu- ous districts by the brevilty of timo now wllotted for dopoaiting votes and rocording the names of alectors. rpUOATION, 1 congratulato you wupon thio yrogtoss of our cduca ttonal dustitutions, public and private. It fo conceded that upon the wido and thorough diffusion of knowl~ ‘cdgo depends in o great degres o lapplucas of our wooplo and the presorvation of our liberal aystem of overnment. o this_ end both (o mation snd o Btato havo mado provision for genorous mid from tho publio proposty, end 1, buspeak » can- wclentious guardinnship of tho trust committed to yourbands, The common and Normal achiools and Btato University aro all dolug good work, and iho weople readily contributo to thelr aupport. Therolsa seant of porfoct gradation from common schaols to tho Onivorsity, and the Governor will bo happy to conciir ‘n any appropriato legislation tending to more perfoct- y unify tho publio school system of the Stato, . THR OENTENNIAL RXPORITION s commended, and Wisconsin i urged to do her part, FUER PASSES, | X recommend the onnctmont of & law forbidding th accoptanco or so of freo paatca or any otter @uft Im- munity, or compensation by any State officer from any Fuilrond ot otlier publio. corporation oxinting uzder ‘the laws of thiy Stato. Wit gatses, ond weekly adjournmonts from Friday lo Mo ay night, may not llio averago sesslon bo shortencd Tully thicly daya 7 CHARITABLE INGTITUTIONS. T commend o contintied sympatliy and ot thore unfortunate porsons whom tho custom of civillzed Dwtious and the dictatos of humanity have mados publlo charge, Tho general duty of ihe Btate in this Tespoct ia cleat snd well-dofined “undor oxiating laws, o prosislon, akrendy mado and tho cspitalalready 3nvestod in this diroction aro of munificent pro- portions, and._afford erodlfablo, proof of thio noble impulscs of our people, A matorisl madification of thaomount of theao oxponditures horeafter probubly will bo found consistent with o bountiful charity, Tho adoption of mesns to onds in this department do- Biads moro than ordinsry pradence and caution, 0 god nccomplishod fs to bo measured by the ace Sual “blossings conforred, rather- than by tho size of iho buildings erécted or by tho mog- mitndo of {ho appropristion ° pald from 1 ‘reasury, Apy dereliction of {io dopartment fs uot mercly an offenso agal 20 public, but n robbory of tho poor and halplces, for which thero can bo no justification, A general supor- ~iston of {he management of theso ' institutions s not muinly oxcrelsed by a Stato Board of Olaritles, Whilo 3 am constrained (o sny thnt thisngency has ngt wholly mat thus for the expectations of tho peaple, I am not quite prerared to recommend its discontinusnce, The amount slready invested in our charitablo inatitu- tious, nnd tho hesvy unual oppropriations sctually Aecograry for thoir maintenance, warrant the Legisla- 410 In croating or relainiug any sgencies which ara c: ieslated to socure tho greatest wisdom and economy 113 uso of theao disbursoments, My own obsorva~ i L Ted mo o Dolfovo o wani of power o act to \westigato and corroct abuses, nud of a more iinita roapotsibility, 18 tho chiof causo of ihio ncy of this Doatd as now organized, Ircspect ubsait tiv subject for your earoful considera— B TEMPEANGE LAY, ! Vur Government was wisely fustituted for the pro- 4:-:tion of zucloty, and 18 not an.sppropriato fusiru- “sustajity for the dissemination of roligious doctrine 30t (g definition and enforcement of Privato morality, Uiae Btato Constitution clearly recognizes personal Iiv.crty as among the inberent rights of man, and tho ~un/ligations imposed upon us in this regard cliaracterizo 1{roe goveraiunts whorover instituted, The procise Jina of diylelon between tho freadom of iho individusl Zd tho righta of soclely may Somutimes bo diflicult of “deEinition, but tho general restriclions upon tho ox- ‘Gielse of leglalativa powor fn (his direction ore not tha s positive and oblieatory, Tho watural fnclnation of all clasnes of peoplofa to’ invoko tho power of tho \Buvernment ng »_remedy for all cvils, real or imugrin iary, and tho greatest danger lice in'tho direction of t00' liboral concessions {0 theso domonds, Thero Ms in fact mo oggrogation of popular ovils \mora to bo spprehiendod than n government 40aded with a superabundanco of arbilrary powers 2ud burdened with tho self-imposed responsibility of Tighting all tho wrongs of which socloly complains, Toordinato expendituro and taxation, popular discon- ent aud disrespect of tho obligations of law, aro tho autural nnd direct frults of thesoarbltrary {nterferences Srith tho soctal Labits, private enterpriacs, or religious Toliefs of the peoplo. Somo of tho provisions of the existing Temperance Iaw wanifeatly conflict with theso viows, and aro belleved 1o be inefficlent for 'tho accomplishment of the Isudablo purpoecs confemplated, Tnink as wo may aud say what wo will upon tho ubstract question of temperanco legislation, thero fs Jittle doubt Liat a mafority of tho peoplo of this State dro opposed to the present form of the so-called Grabam law, I thereforo recommend euch o modification of oxisting legisla- tion on ° this subject os shall dispenso with thozo obnoxious provisions without in_sny degrso iimpairing tho appropriate power uf_the State to rogu« Zatoand restruf tho tratl i {ntozicating liquora or <0 punish offonses sgainst saciety orlginating in {hia reatse, BANES AND DANKING, Some legislation 1a desirablo for {io better protecs &lon of degosits in banks, both corporat Lo geueral buuking law of was framed mainly with reforence to securing notea of circulation which hud been taxed out of exiatonce by Fedoral legislation,whilo theso monoyed fustitutions ot organized for an éntirely dlfforont purposo, The etatutes relating to them bavo undergono no thorough zovislon, The depositor in 'n Htato bank bas 1o adequato security against loss, i foith dn tho integrity mnd _capacity ~of ila officera 18 really bis ouly guarantes, In view of this and other facts, tho Governor recommends that ,the gonoral banking lawa bo so amended 88 to increaso tho lsbility of stockholders, and that porsons doing '8 DLonking buelness in tho Blato, whether cor~ gomto or private, oxcopt corporilons organlzed undor acts of Congress, boplaced under tho aupsrvision of Btate authority, and somo system of inspection adopted by which ' the publio may bo accurstcly fn- formed a4 to tho amouut of cash capita), the naturo of the {nvestments, and tho character of the sccuritios, by compotent nnd trustworthy oflicer of tho State, OIEAP TIUNSIOMTATION BY WATEM, The relation of our Blato to national commorce is eculfar, Morothan threc-fifths of the Wisconsin Foundary "fs. wasiod by navigablo water, cos ceded fo bo undor = the bpectal cato of the Fedoral Govornment, Our principal fnte Tor streams aro alo_ navigable, dividing butween tho Gulf of Mexico and tho Allintio Ocean on a lino Boarly cqui-Qistant betweon Lake Michigan and iho Miesienippl River, I concede that tho moneys paid into the Federal Treasury belong to the™ peoplo of the whole Unlon, and we can _right- fully clatm the intervention of the Federal Government strictly local objects, for nuy ‘but, as o tho duty of the Gonoral Government to . prove patural channels of commorce clearly pertafning o tho general welfare, and lmnuea!nrf' to Inter-tate commerce, thero can bo reasonable ground for doubt, Moro tnam Afty Bgo Presi- dent Monros commendod ‘lo Congresa the proprioly of improving tho movigation o Westornt xivers between thefr bighest muvigablo polnts, for tho purpone of facilltatiug utercourso bho- tween tho Atlantic wud tho Western couniry, ‘Tho Goyernment iny bithwrto moxt signally falled to fulfill the measure of ita obligation in this pare ticular, Congress hus made large and uniform concesslons to wpecifio ndustries, fostored by Kastern capital, and thouo induatrics havo boon lurgely sustaind by indirect taxalion upon Wostorn labor sud the producta of gur fortile soil, PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. years Organization of the Boston Speclal Dispatch to The Chicayo 'A‘rlb:::u““o. Bosrox, Jan, 14,~Tho officers of the Bowon Grange Patrons of Husbandry wero fustalled fu duo fopn, tiis evenlug by Olarles W. Felt, Worthy Lacturer of (e Hlale Graugo, At thy closo of tho survices o cop. siutdeated the pass-word for 1674, thus putting the Grauge on on squalty with tho oflior Grauges of tuo Btato, Belng thus Tegularly organta .64, rocognized by tho Natlonal and ‘Etuta officors, and in poesession of {ho pasaword, the ancrabers cougrutulate thumselves that tho difloulties uiuder whioh thoy have Isborod are cleared away, and \:\ch to he able 1o overcomo all opposltion which ‘mny Lo brought againat thm in the mesting of tho National Urange, They will sund throo dolegates. Granges nt Bloom i b 1% tho abolition of free |' ‘mitleo of tho Blato Grango are at work, but havo not et srrived at definito notion in any rospoct, Tho Gounty Grango adjoirned (o-das, after ap- poluting n committes on a pork-packing catabiahi- ment, to Lo ostablished in this city on {ho co-oporative lan,’ Thoy Leartily indorsod tho donunciation of Plow-makers who rofuss to toll ot roduced rates, pasacd by the Btato Grango and Farmars' Olub, THE LABOR QUESTION, The Pennsylvania Coal Miners® Strike Presonts a Moro Serl- ous Aspects Tha Miners Determined to Hold Out Against Reduction. Troops Sent to the Disturbed Dis- trict in Loulsiana. Tho Pennsylvania Conl Mincs. Epecal Dispateh fo The Chicago Tridune, PotravitLe, Penn,, Jan. 14,—As prodicted in thoeo dlspatehes Jaat night, Prosidont Gowan has ordored the dlscharge of all tho men employed in his ropsit and construction shops, To-doy all are Jesviog tho shiops, ovan to tho apprentico boys, The genoral position of things romafns unchanged, excopt tho preparations for » gonoral stoppago of all work, and tha anxioty of the laboring men in viow of tho foarfal prospocts bo- foro (hem. In Roading, slone, over 500 men were discharged to-doy, and sil along tho road tho same atory of stopping tho grost industrios of tho Company istold. Itissafotouny that at loast 10,000 men aro to-night or xuPLO ouT YMENT 1n this reglon, with littla prospocts of a doy's labor befare spring, "Cho meoting of the miners snd oporstors, headed bylPresident Gowen, on Saturday, may probably give a brighter aide to the presont darl aspect of afaira ; Dub f Is Iardiy probablo, for both sides scom frm, Presidont Gowon contending for a reduction of wagos, aul thomen opposing it o dally Standard of to- orrow will print a_dlspateh contradicting tho Asso- Ciatod Dross dispaich of Inst uight, Lo tho offect that & siriko hiad beou made 1n the Mb,’ Loligh reglon, d- joining thin, Tho moen are quletly at work upon tha aais of 1873, sud no sig of troublo 18 now apparent thoro, nor {a any oxpected, " aume papar, a1s0, aditorially ssys that tho strike famoar, snd probably will bo confined to this region, alihough if tho other great Companies ste oporating ‘with Prosldent Gowen to advance the price of coal, & goneral atriko moy bo precipitatod ot sny moment, TIE AINERS' ABSOOIATION, Speeial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, PEILADELPHIA, Jan, 14,—At a meeting of the ‘Mincre! and Laborors’ Assoiation, hield ot lymouth o fow daya siuce, it was unanimoualy agroed that tho wages for which thoy bad boen work. ing wero too low; that the oporators could easily pay moro; and that an advance should bo domnnded for tho basls of 1874. A prominent officer of tho Association alated to-day that tho miners woro fully_propared for a strike during the entire seanon, and that under no circumstances will thoy submit to a reduction, Thero aro upwards of 30,000 membors on- Follod on tho books of tho abovo Asaociation, 170 the Ausoclated Prest, NEw Yonr, Jan, 14.—A dispatch from Pottsvillo say : % Tho diflicilty botween miners and coal oporate ori in this reglon sstmes a graver aspoct avery hour, Tresident Gowen g ordercd tho stoppage of all im- provements on his mince snd tha coseation of ail work on tho shafta now ug sunk, and hoa doclared Lis intention to stop all op- erstfons in this reglon untl {ho mon submit. This will render individusl operators power- Tess to Worlk, bocauso thoy will Lo refused tho uzo of tho cars and coal-roads until tho controversy s settled, Tho minors and oporators of Northumberland County agroo to work upon tio old basis of Last your,—$3,60,— but ns Gowen controls tho land ou whioh coal Is mined and tho rallroad over which tho coal fs trans- ported, this actlon will smount to nothing, Tho stop- pago will throw out of employment, Lesides the 9,000 minors, over half the railroad omployes of tho Phil- adelphfa & Erlo Radlrond, aud a largo number of men in the I(?lflh‘ shops of the Company. It is statod that a geeral dinchorgo will tako placo in those dopart- weats at onco,” AT WILETSBATRE, ‘WILKESDARRE, Pa,, Jan, 14,—Neatly all the worka of tho Wilkesbarre Coalaud Iron Company in and sround this city and ot Asbloy and Plymonth sronow idlo, for the alleged puirposo of undergolng repaira, A frg bas been raging in tho Kidder slip of the abovo com- pany for Lwo weeks past, and has not yet been brought under control, A vist smount of coal has been do- stroyed,aud o numbor of workmen engaged in ghting {lie firc narrowly cacaped with their lives, NEARLY 1,000 MINERS ARE NOW IDLE in this plnce alone, and this afiernoon thoy Liad a large meetivyg, they votod to demaud an wdvance of 10 per cent. for tho eusning year over lnst year'a basis, while coal Drings tho présent price, but ‘should tlo’ prices grow lcss they would consent to como down o8 it fell until thelr advanco teaches - 4% per cont, but no lowor. A commilieo bearing this’ proposi- tion walted upon Charles Lareish, Prosidont of thie Wilkcsbarro Coal aud Iron Company, He mado a roply that b could not ugreo 1o any advance untii he hua consulled with tho Diroctors, but in tho mean- timo thoy might go to work at 1ot ' your's bnsis os fast a4 repairs in tho machinory of the mines would pef- mit, The men, however, declined togo to work at all ‘unless thoir demonds for an advance wero accoded to, Tho Chairman, befora adjournment, requeatod o {ul attendanca of delexates to the GENERAL MEZTING to Do ield on the 17tk fust, Tho feoling smong the miners gonorally 1a strongly in fuvor of {hioatrike if tholr wages be not advanced, They olaio that thoy are fully Direpared, and think tlis prasont 1 a botter time to onforoctheir dewands than they wall wver Laso agaiu. THE IVESIDE COMIANY havo not yot paid their miners for November, and they threatena striko if not paid this woek, This Company las throo collierics within two or {hroo miles of this place, Demunds of Lehigh Valley Railrond Engincors. Special Dispatch to The Chicage Tribune, PHILADELPHIA, P, Jan, 14.—A delegation of Toco- motive ougineors from Easton, Pittaton, Mauch Chuuk, Hazelton, Falrviow, and Wilkosbarre, Topro- senting tlo engineors omployod by the Lohigh Valloy ‘Raflroad Company, Pennsylvania, and New York Gen- tral Roads, and several branchies connected therowith, hold o cohforcaco with tho oficers and. Directors of the Lohigh Valley Raflroad yesterdsy, in this city, “Thia Hon, Asa Packer, Presidont, and a full Board of Directors were prescat, A3 AMICADLE TALE, Mr. Steynes, of Luston, o dologate, aid that tho en- gineers hnd discussud t reductionjpretty freoly, and, ot desiring o 35 anything rash_or unlawful whoreby any Lusluess on which large numbers of people wero more or less directly interestod might bo futerfored with, thiey conaidored it proper to call upon the ofiicers and Dircctors to have an_interchanga of opinion, with o view of making a mutunl agreoment for the mutusl advantage of the Company and the englnsers, Mr, Packor eaid that whatever could bo done for tho frowut or futuro walfaro of all tho smploycs of tho Compsny would bs obeerfully dono, After conversation, TE DINIOTONS AGREED hat, ns soon as the bueiness of the cnmmn!fflrmmud, the wages would be resiored to tho old standard, The iutorviow was conductod with diguity, sud tho most excallent feeling provailed., The Now York Unomployed. Sveclul Dispatch to_The Chicago Tyribun, New Yonx, Jun, 14,—The city has been perfootly quist throughout ‘ho” duy a3 Tegards unemployed workingmen, and Do more arrests have been made, Bix of thio'men arrestod yesterdny for_various rlote ous acis were examined to-day in the Essox Market Folice Oourt, and committed to await irlal inthe Court of General Scasions, The examination will continue to-morrow. The Brickinycrs’ Nntional Union, Bavrisone, Jan, 14.—Tho Bricklayers' Nutlonal Unfon to-duy decldodthat tho ritual of tho United Order of American Bricklayers shnll not become tha situnl of ‘tho National Unfon, The following officers Svoro olocted for tho onsuing ‘year: President, L, A. Cnres, Naw York; Vice-Prosjdont, James Hopking, In- dlana; Treasurer, Mr, Hall, Missouri; Secrotary, I T, B, flater, Maryland, . . Ship=Carpenters? Strilco, Special Danateh to TAa Chicago Tribune. PHILADELIIA, Jalt, 1.—The shij-carpenters in the ards of Mesrs, Taylor & Mathlus, and Mosars, Day & artar, at Cooper's Lolnt, near Camden, N, J,, o on a atriko bocauso (Loir wages havo been ‘Teducod from $3,60 to $3 per day. The Riotous Negro Strikcers in Louis= innn. New ORLEANS, Jan, 14,—~Capts, Suow and Joseph v been kont 10 Hanma to report upon the condition of affairs in Terrobonnu Parish, regurdivg the riotous Wml\ir::.’cl striking negro laborors, No bloodshed s roported, ZW ONLEANS, Jun, 14,—A company of Stato milltia and ouo Gatlin gun wore dlspatohied this evenlug to "lorve lonno parish, to_provent any furthor dlsturb- auco arising out of the labor riotu In that soction, datachment of Btato cavalry will leave to-morrow, As far as heard from at tho Siato Houso, only ano person had been injured thus far, und there uppears (0 be much wora oxeltcment thun sorlous trouble, o e o S MICHIGAN STATE FAIR, Speelal Iapateh to The tthicaga Tribune, Easr Brosmae Mo da. 14,—AL Hib wiotiug of tho Commiltes uppointed to roticit subseriptions 1o the fund noceswary to scoiro (he location of tho uuxt Stat Tue horo, held to-doy, wubseriptions wmonnting to 11,317, with tho tailroads and sovesal towns to hear from, wero reported, - On the strongth of this tho Sul-Gammittes appointed by tho eltizons for tho phire Psos tmmediatoly sigued the contract forwarded by o Exacutiva dommiiteo of fho Kiato Agriculturit lety, and forwarded tho mamo fo the e A resolution was ndoptod_recommending that Dulldingy erectod bo of & permanent character, ary. the et dad S S —The latest roport In journalistic clrcles 18 that Col, (Boss) Keyes and Horaco Rublee are x%nnnung for' the' purchaso of the Luvening conain uoWspaj - Troonet papor of Milwaukieo,~Madison The impending striko was discussed, aud THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUN THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1874. LEGISLATURES. Assembling of the Wisconsin Legislature Yesterday. The Republicans Carry the Senate by One Vote. The Reformers in the Housa Eleot & Speaker by 68 to 38, The Iowa Legislature Still TUnable to Organize. The Texas Legistature Not Recognized by the Secretary of State. ‘WISCONSIN. dpecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, OPENING BOENES, MaDI8ON, Wis,, Jan, 14,—Tho Legislature mot at noon to-lay, and both Houscs, with all mombera pros- ont, promptly organized, and appointed s committce, conslating of Senstors Burcherd snd Quimby and Assomblymen Rankin, Callls, snd Caawell to wait on tho Govornor, who roported he would doliver his mos- sage at 2:30 a'clock to-morrow, Tho procoodings were as follow : IN THE BENATE. ‘Licut.-Gov. Parker, after calling the Sonnte to order, pald ¢ E BexaTons: Thetime fixed by law for the conven- ing of the Tegislataro of tho Stato of Wisconsln for 1874 hssarrived, On taking tho position to which the poople by thelr suffrages bavo elocted mo, tho * prosiding officcr of tho Senato, Tam not unmindful of the vast responsibilitics dew Yolving upon me ; and whon I considor that many of ou hiave had much groater logislativa cxporionce, it not without difidenco and sollcitudo that I onter upon my dutles, But, with your asslstancoand for- ‘osrance, X shall endoavor to faithfully and impartially dlschiargs my wholo duty to the bot of my abilty, ‘New membiors appearcd and wore sworn in, J. 1. Waggonor, of Richland, was olectod_Clerk, and Ofra M, Atken, Sorgoant-at°Arms,—both~ Repub- lcans,—~by a party votoof 17 {016 for O. F. Black and Goorge Campboll, nominated by the Opposltion. A little discussion took place on tho election of Sor- goant-st-Arme, |tho Reformers claiming that tho Lioutenant-Governor should have the appofnimont of all the messongors, Tho Sonate then took recess tiil 2:30 p, m., whon Senator Burchard (Reform) introducod tho Follow~ ing, which lics ovor till to-morrow, to which tmo the Senato adjourned ¢ Resolved, That the employes of tho Sonate dutin tho prosent scesion shall Lo s follows: One Ohie: Clork, Assistant Clork, Bookkeoper, Enrolling Olork, Engromsing Olotk, Transcribing Glork, Sorgeant-nt- ‘Arms, Doorkeeper, Gallery Attcndnnt, Night Watch- man, ' ono Messonor cach for tho Chief Olerk and Lieutenant-Governor, and four genoral Mossongers, sud that o greator auinber skl not bo mployod witb: out consont of tho Scnato. . TITE ARSEMDLY a8 called to order by tho Clork of tho Iast A ssembly. Cortificatea of elostion woro read, and tho roll called, showlng thiat all members wors prosent, and tho oath of offica was administored by Juatico Lyon, of the Su- prome Court, : ELECTION OF SPEAKER, Gabriel Boucke, Reformer, of Winnecbago, was elected Speakor, ' over Jomnthan Howmat, of Columbla, Republican, by & vote of 58 to 98, all but the regular Republiicann voting for Boucks, ho voting for John Winans, and Bowman for L, B, Ca well, “Thero was conelderablo applatike on Mr, Houicke's elcction. On bin taking the ehair o sald : BPEECI OF TEFONMER BOUCKE. GENTLEMEN : Having boen sclocted by you as your prosiding oficer, I hops I ehall o prove unworthy of tho trust imposed upon mo. I assure yoit that’ mo offort wil bo spaséd on my part in tho cndeavor to faithfully dlscharge tho duties of tho position. Permit mo to impress it upon you, that tho position wo occupy 4 not only 3 poaltion of honor, bit also of groat responsibility, me imptess ou your minda that we, and we alone, aro Tesponsible for the legislation of this body. When wo considor_tho financial condition of tho country, and {ho hieavy burdons impascd by tho genoral Bate, and Tocal governments o the industries and proporty of tho country, we ean Lut bo improssed with tho abso- lute—yes, the imperative—nocessity of demanding tho strictost oconomy in the sevoral departments of the Blato ‘Government, [Applause,] "Tho sceaion of tho Legiulature occasioniug large oxpenss daily, shonld be sliortened as far aa the {ntereats of the Htate will per= mit, This object and that of good logislation can only be secured by the punctual attendanco ‘members on tlio sesalons, and strict attention to businoss, “ The Gommittecs shauld promptly and carofully ox- amino all bills referred to thom. Thelr referonce s not a mere matler of form—not an idle ceremony, Tho Comniitao-room {4 th bost place 10 dotect objecs tionablo and obnoxlous foaturca fn moasures preaoniod fo tho Legialsture, * Tn my eplalon, no repart shonld e considored tho report of tho Committes, unless a;lflplul by o vote of the Committce st a regular meoct “Hoplng tho session will reault in good,and conduco to the welfaro of tho State, that hurmony ond good fooling will provall, sud our brief assoclation will bo agrocablo and plessant, I concludo by thanklng you for tuo honor conferred on me by electing mo Bpoaker,” [Applause,] ELEOTION OF OTIER OFYICERS. Gborgo W, Peck, Roformer, of LaCrosse, wag clected Chlof Clerk by a vote of 68 ta44 for E. W, Young, Re- publican, of Sauk, the vole being tuo aaime na_above, ©xcopt that Bowmah and Comstock voted for Young, Joseph Deuster, Roformer, of Milwaukee, was clect- od Sergeant-at-Atms over O. Melntyre, Bopublican, of Plerce, by a vote of 55 to 40, "Thus was organizod the first Assembly since 1857 with other than itepublican officors, Therd i an army of place-scokers here, and many of fhom, of couse, will bo dfeappolnted. —— ~IOWA. ecial Dispateh to The Chicage Tridune, Dz MOt Tar Tam L4 T8 Jo6k 1h 1, iHouso of Roprosentatives i’ unbroken, Twenty ballots wore taken to-day ; making 45 ballots u all, + Leltera azo coming in from tho_poople all over the ate, calling on tlie Autl-Mocopollsta. to hold on sud ‘Dlock tho wheals which have crushed the industry of tho Statoso long, Doth sides are dotorminod to hold on, P Tn tho Sensta a rosolution was adoptod, commond. fifl ‘Oongress for the partial repeal of "tho salary steal Tho Senate passad by a voto of 34 yess to 12 mays “the resolution abolishing tho ofiices of Postmastor, ‘Asslstant Poatmastor, and Mall Garrler, - e TEXAS, GaxvesTON, Jan, 14.—Tha News' speclal from Austin 18 ns follows : In tho Houso tha Committes to walt upon Gov. Davis roported that they lnd fulfllled the duties assigaed thomn, and submitted tho anawer lr, Bayers introduced tho following: Rtedolved, That o Committea of five bo sppotnted by thio House'to tako into consideration the answer of the Governor to a joint committee of the Benmate and Houso, and roport as carly as practicablo what action is proper aud neceesary to be takon by tho Logislature, ‘Cho Chairman _appointod 88 tho Commitios Ropro- sentalives Epperson, Delaucy, Bsyers, Larzle, and arrls, Nr. Epporson, from the Committoo to walt upon tho Becretury of State, reported, and presented tho follow= {ug snswor 3 DEPARTMENT OF STATE, AUSTIN, Jan, 14, v B, O, Epperion, M. J. 0'Neil, and J, M. Marrison GENTLEMEN: In Tesponso to your demand for tho roturns of the election held in December, for Govern- or, Lioutenant-Governor, and Bnmlllul‘onal Amend- monts, I have to roply that such roturnsaro in my oftico, but I bellavesit to be my duty to refuse to roport tho same or dellver to tho Lody you represent {lll tho Execntivo of theState has recognizd you 8s the Fourteonth Legislaturo, 5 llupuellullg, . (8lgnod) ~ Jaxes P, Nxwoonn, Boe'y of State, THE hENATE +was callod to order, Scnator Ireland i thechair, A quorum was present, r. Qulboriaon, oh the part of the Committes ap- polated to walt ‘wpon the Governor, reported their compllance, hlmun%in thio Governor's reply, Bonator Bwift, of Oherokee, introduced a resolution that » Joint Committoo of throo be appointed to mieot a ke number of the Houso to considor tho bost courso to bo adopted under the clroumetancos, pond- ing which the Sonato resolved itaelf into a nockot Bes alon, _While tuore, tho Comnmitteo wag fncroased to fivo—Dillard, Ball, Wood, Qulbertson, and Irolsud, Adjourned, —_—— KANSAS. Special Dipaich to The Chicago Tridune, Torexa, Kaii., Jni, 1~It fo evident fthat the Southorn Kansas membors aud othors o sympaiy with scttlors on the disputed Innds will organize a cauctis oud proacnt an Indopendont candidato for Heu- ator, 8ldnoy Olarke and Ool, Carponter expect an in- dorveiment from that reglon, ‘tho Jlousu complotod organization to-dsy, Tho ‘mossugo will bo read Lo-morrow, MASSACHUSETTS. Special Dispatch (a The Chicaga Tribune, TioRTON, Alak., dan. 14—Tho Froufuitionists had o forctusle to-doy, much avoucr than they anticipated, of the churacter of the Legmlature thot fy {o_muke Jawa this wintor, A day or two uge oiv of the Domo- cratiz Soustors fntraducod an order on the pxpediency of nmendiuy or repealing the Btate Iolica net, This was duly reforred to the Blanding Comumitice on the Liquor Luw, which Las Loen siade up, it is undor- wiood, n ncoordancy with tho ‘Goveror's wishes of a majority of strict Probibittonists, When the ordor cume up in the Iouse to-day for refereuce, Alr, Fitzgerald, n Domocrafio membor rom Boston, inovod thu referonico to a joint spuclol comumittos, This was objocted to, aud tho ens and usys were ordered, and 110 motfon to rofor to the Standiug Committea on the Liquor Law was defeated by a voto of 44 to 113, ‘Mr, Fifzgoraid’a ordor wai thon adopted: and, on bis miation, tho Houso toak up the Bonate bill lo ropual the Blate Police uct, and non-conourred in ita reference to th Comumitteo on the Liquor Law, Bubscquently tho potitfon of he Massachusotts Temperance Al liones praying . for - the removal of the. oon. trol of tho police of Doston from the hands of the Mayor and Aldermon, aud tho cstablishment of © Motropolitan polieo, wns presented with s motlon thint it bn referred fo tho Commitico on the Liquor Tavv, Tho m:Aln wen defated, andy, on mollon of Mr, Iltzgerald, tho nolition’ was roferrad to the mew Bpoclal 'Committes, 'This deyclopment of arength was quite an wnoxpocted by tho liconsa mon as by tho Prohibitiontels, Tho former now ox- ant o fonta of el abillly fo cary a licvnro la, 1t s probable that n catcus will soon bo called to discuss & moasure to bo prosonted. * —— MINNESOTA. Epaclal Dispateh to The Ohleann Tribune, TITR PALE OF INDIAX TINES, 81, Pavr, Jan, 14,—Tho Scnato adopted Donnelly's renoliition, ordoring tho appointmont of n Honato Com- mittee, with power to sond for porsons and papots, to invoatigato Sinith'a palos of pino on tho Leach Liko and Rod Lake resorvationy, “Though in tho Senato tho renolutions woro strangly opposed, bocauso asserting th proporiyright of the Bato to n part of tho resor- vallons wndér rchool and mwamp-fand geants, they yassod with only two dissonting votos, ~Tho Ioune phased unsnimously Obilds! voeolution donouncing initly's salos, protoating that thoy are injurious to tho inforests of (e Indians and tho peoplo of tha Blale, and momorlalizing Congress for thelr aunulling, This will probably pass the Sonate without obfection, Tho noxt quoation of importanco 18 likely to be & Jropotition to abollek Btato Normal schoole, sud givo Lio bullings to tho towns m which {hoy aro respoets ivaly locatod—Winons, Mankato, and_8E, Cloud, . 1t is expectod that o bl to'thia offedt il "o futroducod this week, or early next week, ——— OHIO. Cov.umaue, O,, Jan, 14.—In tho House this morning, billa were introduced to repoal tho Adair Liquor law? £0 provide for partition of roal catate 40 84 to avold tho necenslty of taking and foreclosing mortgages. Ta tne Seniato a bill was introduced (o oqualize faros and frelghts on raflronds, At noon both Houses mot in folnt sosslon o an- nounce tho electlon of Allon G, Thurmon to the United 8tatos Senato, P CALIFORNIA, BAX Frawo1sco, Jan, 14.—In tho Leginlature a biil ‘was introduced for the abolition of tho doath-penalty for murdor and treason, e kv e . NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. Second Day’s Session of the Adjourned Meeting at Baltimores Plan for Additional Safety to Ocean Travel, The Revenue Laws---Report of the Finance Committee. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, BALTIMORE, Jan, 14,—Tho scssion of the Natlonal Board of Trado to-day was devoted malnly to a discus- sion of financial questions, nlthough tho firat subjoct introducod was that of providing a soparate track for steamehips on tho North Atlentlo, The Board recom- monded that Congress shall adopt tho auggestions of tho New York Chamber of Commorco, for an Inter- matfonal Commission of maritimo powers to establish such track, and take furlhor precautions to prevent danger of collalons atacs, - - - TIE FINANOIAL QUESTION wa taken up, on tho following roport from tho Come mitteo: Itesolved, That tho National Doard of Trade rospoct- fully rocommonds to Congroas that ther sl o no furilier feaiiea of Irredecmnble papor money whataver, Secand—That {n the opluion of this Board it is {ho first duty of thio Govornment to provide for tho rotire- mont aud cancollation of 00 mutch of tho legal-tonder fanuo as has Lean taken from tho go-called $44,000,000 reservo, “Third—That it fa (ho imporativa duty of tho Governe ‘ment to restrict {ho oxpenditures in overy dopartmont of the public sorvice to the lowest posaiblo point, and that strict ecanomy bo inatituted o all appropriations, Fourth—That Congress be requosted 1o 50 amend the National Banking Jaw that the banks be compelled to hold the coln thoy rccolve for interest on thelr bouds ki potliecated us soqulty for thel eiroulation, sa g:fl. of thelr reserve, until their reserve in coin shall equal at Ieast to 30 per cent of their circulation, 2, Obittonden, of Now Yark, spoko in favor of tho first throo resolations, but profiosed, In piaco of tho fourth, a novel finauclal schemo, Iis idea was to produce contraction by crnmmlng‘ thio National Bauks with moncy untll thoy bursted. o would have thom authorized to Issue an_filimitable clrculation, undor the samo guarantees of hond-deposita in tho Treasury as at present, aud then forced to redeem thelr motos in legal-tondors, 1o arguod that all tho troublo came from having o currency system to which tho falth of tho National Govornmont was, plodged, Under his plan, It would be as it was in 1872, and rotton banks would be forced into Hquidn- tion, and thero would bo a clearing of tho skics, Ho ald fiot belloya It possiblo for Congreas to enact any mew fluancial system. hetore thers would como such o Tovelation of what tho Natioual Danking ystem lis brought us toas would bo astounding to tho country, ‘Tho only roform must come tbrough a fresh broal and ho thought it Lest that it should come, Tho sy tom wae disgracaful to tho country and intolorablo to ‘marchonts, and {t coitld only bo broken up by violonce, destroyed by tho first gun fired at Fort Bumter, % Obittondon's theories mado s marked impression, nud a prowminent membor remarked fhat it was an in: vitation to National Banks to commit suicide, M. BTEVENS, OF NEW YORK, arguod that nobody wantod to chango Natlonal Bank notes for f;mmbnn\(u, oxcopt in limes of panic, and ihat unlimited 1asuo of currency would giva oo much facilitios to importers, increnso tho balunce of {rado aguinet ws, and pilo up adevt that must be paid in coln, - Tho'logltimato reault of {rredeomablo currency Would be an frredeomable national grosnbacis, A, DORE, OF GINOAGD. made the principal speect in belialf of the Western ine fluenco that aske for more currency. Ie sald that it was not_necessarily inflation bocatiao Lo wanted his coat made largo cuovgh o 1nove about camfortably in, [Applouso). 1fo would favor a roturn to spocie pay- meilts, Eecauso his $1,000,000 would thon bo equil to $1,100,000. ‘Tho men who had monoy and ownod prope erty, snd wero out of dobt ‘would favor it, but those who were debt, of whom 0 was: one, would profor’ {uat thoy sliould not moko sny epectal sacrifices to pay more than thoir just dues, How do tho credltors comparo with the debtors ? If a man bad a million dollars he wae a largo creditor, but very fow peoplo .wera capital- iata and out of dobt., Thero was no grest urgency for rushing to specio payments by violont mesaures, Alr, Dore exhibited tables by Mr. Elliott, of the Troasury Dopartmont, showing {lie averago currency price of $100 in gold, and nlso tha svorsge gold price of $100 in currenoy from 1860 to 1813, ~ Tho genoral tendency of gold has been rapldly downward, aud ho belloved 1t best to lot it tako {ts own courao, 'Havo wo tao mutch curronoy 2 Wo havo_only $15,000,000 mora than wo had five yoars ago, and daes it require any argumont to prove that 20,000,000 of people Aid not re- quireus much currenoy ss 40,000,000, dolng double the smount of busincss. To show that thero i nat enougn curroncy at present, Mr. Doro road statistics slhowing the tremendous increass of population, monufactures, smount of swages paid, valuo of moterlsl uscd ond valio of prodicts sinco 1600, often amounting to from £0 to 100 mer cont, and Yot {n 1800 wo had $450,000,000 of circulating medium, and now $750,000,000, ' Thoso atatistics show that the Increaso of currency i necessary for the transaction of businoss, and ho could not undoratand that this was inflation, The dobato was continuod until sdjournment, with~ out any voto bolng reached, Mr, Marsl, of Kaneas City, mado a sironuous orgument agaiust what lio caligd hs fulacy of apeclo psyments, aud ploaded. for ‘more monsy for the West. Y . Tu the dataclated Press,] ADOTTIONAY, BAFETY TO OOEAN TRAVEL. BarTiMORE, Md,, Jan, 14,~Tho National Roard of Trads to-duy uusniimoutly ndoptod s rosolution in- dorsing the memorial of tho Now York Ohamber of Commarco to Congrosa praying for an international commisalon of the narifimo powera to dovise lawa for additional safoty to cesn travel. MEVENGE NEFONMS After debato tha tirat zesolution of tho Doston Board of Trade, relative to a change in the existing Revenue laws, was adopted, and tho romaining ones roferred Lo thio Gommittee, to vopost to-morrow, Tho resolution adopted 18 26 follows 3 ‘Thiat, in the opinfon of this Doard, the laws under which the customs dutles are, now collected aro difll- cult to undoratand ; 030, fn connection with tho de- moralizing systemy of rowarding informers with molotlos, and with thesrbitrary powers vsted in tho oflicers—who are thenselves Informers—to selzo booka and papers, thoy commonly 80rvoZs {raps for lionent fmporters, aud an cncoursgoment to corruption, op- prossion, and bribory, THE OENTENNIAL ORLLDRATION. A resolution thiat, in viaw of tho proposod Gontonnial cclebration in Puiladciphis, thot clty 18 the projor place for holiting (he session of tho Board durlug the ‘preaout and consing yoars, was reforzod to tho Exeoe utive Counil, THANSPORTATION, Bubjects rolatlve fo jucrcusing and cheapening transportation wero recommitid, ——— * LOCAL ITEMS, Tho members of Koystone Lodge No. 830, A, T, & A, M, presentod to Ldwin Ronayne, Panut Mastor, o Past Master's jewel, collar, an Bpron, Dalootive * Jo” Dixon, Worshipful Master, muade the prosentation, which Mr, Ronayno foolingly responded to, A little girl, fin{lh tichey, B years of age, residingat No, 841 Divisionstroot, was burned vory sorlously about half-pust 4 yestorday aflornoon, Blio was playing in the room, and went 100 near tho stove, and foll againat it. Dr. Willinme was called, and pronounced tho wounds * sorious but not daugorous,” About 8 o'clock lnst ovoning the alarm of fire wus sounded from Box 831, cnused by tho die- covery of flre in a two-atory framo_houso, at No. 826 North Wolls streot, ownaed b{ Chmles Grosy, Damago, #300; fully insured in the Gormun Mu- tual, The firo 18 thought to have boen the work of an incondiary, A firo took placa about hnl(-}mut 7 last evon-,| ing In & throo-story brick bullding, No. 426 Lavra- }Ru nfimnl, n\vnea m:x‘x olcu:lxp{fd‘]h‘_’v‘ I‘mulnx :\ll’uurllur. 'he fire was oxtingulshed by John oro- it ~~{?ng‘,-13 man of engine company Nd. ostimatod at $40, No insuranco RAILROAD NEWS, The Railroad Clearing-Iouse===Ex- planation of the Plan, Western Railway Assooiation--~Eleo- tion of Officers, Annual Report of the Erle Rali- way Companys RAILROAD OLEARING-HOUSE; AL the Moy meoting of tho Tailway Association of Americs, s Odmimitiéo of threo was appointed to ro- 1t some plén for thio bettor régulation of tho prac: teo of Intarchaiiging frelght-cars, Ono member of tho Commiltoo doclinod to act, amothor bocame fn- eligible, and tho romaluing ono could not find tho tme necosnary for tho proparation of a report. Tomeet tho wishes of many of the membars of the' Ansociation, who desiro somo dofinllo plan to ba recommendoed whoraby moro ervico could bo oblalnod from rolling- stock than {s now, tho Becrotary of the Assoclation, Mr. M, E. Sharpo, has propasred & roports which alms o prosent, definitoly, that thore fn o gonersl dosiro, on tho part of tho mnhagors of tho principal roads in tho country, fo dopt somo mothiod by which tho owners ahall bo_enabled to control the movements of thelr cars, or at loast to Any o1t what terms thoy shall bo uscd, and that thls end can ohly bo obtafiied through the formation of & rall- rond clesring honse, 1n this roport Mr, Sharpo makos somo very valusblo sugyostions which, If carriod out, would undoubtedly rove of great benefit to the varlous rallroads in this country, Tho varlous complaints in regard to the INTEROMANGE OF FIEIGUT OARS aro summod up as follows: - 1. Dotentlon of Frelght-cars Doyond tho time Noces- sary for tho Porformanco of tho Journsya—Suveral Toads roport, thiat some of tholr cara bavo beun detsfu- od months, whon o fow days only were requleito for tho Journay, Une road glve a caloulation of tha deton- ton to jts ‘cars during threo monl f lant winte: 1,800 cars passod off the roud ; aftor allowing Lwenty- four hours for e milen’ journey, nns 1wo dayn at dostination, it was found {hat the dotention in nxe ceas of that liberal allowauce, smountod to 22,400 days, OF b averago of 17 d-13 daya untiocesssry Usiention 13 each car, 2, Misuae of Foroign Our!—l\!ln{ Toadn complain that their cars have beon uscd locally, instead of Yoln returnod homo somo report that tlioy Liave folln tholr cata n work-trains on forclgu sonda, Carn after boing unlosded at destination, {nstead of boiug sent fn tbo direction of homs, are somotimes loaded for places 1in another direction, 3, Il-Trostmont of Forelgn Cars—By noglect to ropalr thom, or putting in bad workmansaip, 4. Negloce to Bettls for Damaged and Deatroyed Oars—Sovoral roads have lost all track of some of thelr cars, which have passed on. 0 othor roads, aad cannot now bo accountod for, 5, Whon business s dull, foreign carn aro allowed to Mo in yards, dnstead of boing sent homo whero oy could bo ovorhauled, ropaired, sud taken caro of, Tto goneral opiulon fa st & systom stiouid bo adoptod of sllowlug the owner olther a per diem rato for tho uso of his car, or o mileago rato an now patd, sud n demurrage sllowance for eyery day the car is kopt beyoud tho time covered by miloage, which should be fixed Leforchand. The majority of those who have roplied favor thomixed systom of mileage and demurrago, A miloago rato has tho advantage of bearing somo proportion o tho smount earned by the road uaing tho car; but o8 n mcasuro of compensation duo to the owalor it operates Irregulatly and unfairly, us no more ia pald whother tho Journay s expeditiously performed and tho car promptly returned thon if It'18 dotained six timea longer than neeessary ; thero is no §nduce- ment for & quick roturn, honeo complaints of necdless and wrongful detentlon aro very numerous, ‘Tho per dlem 13 the true measurs of valub to the owner, and malces (L tho intorest of borrowors to re- turn the cars to tho owner as quickly ns possiblo, “Flo objections urged to » per dioin ratgaro: First—Tho complication of accounts,if eich road 18 0 keep its own, Secand—The liobility of ronds to obstruction from natural eauses, and from pressure of traflic which might be forced on a road by its connections in quan- tities excocding its accommodations, in which caxe a per diom demurrago would soon amount to a sum vxe Ceoding tho valuo of tho frelght, “hrd—Tho number of disputes snd detials of la- bility to domurrago, and claims for ezemption that would arlse, muny of which it might bo fmpossible for tho parties themsolvea to sottle, Fourth—Each road, to save hire, would return all forelgn cars a8 Boon ‘as uuloaded, instead of keeping them for 10ad, 80 that thero would 'bo incurred an un~ necossary quantily of ompty haulage, espocially on intormedIato roads, Fifth—That it would prova burdeusome to roads Imving but o sbort haul, of say 100 miles, on which tho ear would earn very Hittlo, althiongh the timo consumod. in {)lnlflng up and returniug to tho junction would not bo less (hian would sutico for a much longer haul, of 53y 200 miles, “Luese objections would rende it impoesiblo to make any chungo {n tho system of simple wileage ns now chirged, untcss somo plan wero adopted by which tho disputes and clatins would bo settlod by o disinterest~ o party, and by which the rules and ponaliies agreed on could bo enforced. No authority at presont oxiats possessing aueh powds, nor can oo be croalod exoept ' consent of tho partics interested, Tho miloago ruto carrics with It no penaltios, henco tho complalnts of its Inability to satisfy tho conditions of tho traftic, To adapt any other system without penaltics for infringo- ment of the rules would be foolish, It is, therefore, necessary for those ronds which are the suppliers of rolling-stock to assoclato themselves and to say on what torms thelr stock shall bo ueod, and, 1o, order to enforco thoir rules, thoy must creato an inde- pendont authority endowod with tho Tequisite power, is can bo done ouls by the ESTADLISUMENT OF A OLEADING-HOUSE, which would work s follows : Each junction eends in roturns of cars deliyorod to and recolved from connections: the differoit rosds uro dehited and crodited, and balances struck monthly, ‘The accounts aro kept as betweon the Clearing Houso oud each road separately, so that vach one debits tho Clearing Houso with the number of days its cara woro abscut, and the Clearing Houso collects tho amount from tho roads using tho care; the accaunts kopt by 1hio roads belng thus much sinipified, The mansger of thio Oleariug House would grant exomptions toronda ‘whila blocked from natural causes, sud roads over- crowded with trail 1d 1 gooywdod with trac would bo ca od to give notico of to rocoivo cars; - any roads ship) to “thom st y sy nhz‘!o ik sfter such motice, would Tocover - aamage, Teals from the managors’ dscletons Caials bo trat o a Committes of Arbliration as also all disputes ro- gording damago and valuo of cars, All sottlomonts would be mads directly with theclearing-house, which ‘would debit and credit for cars in each instance na if 1t wors the ownor. - A uufform rate of AR mnz should bo adopted, but ns somo roads are not willing o pay moro than they do now, if it bo so agreed on, cach rand, momber of the Olearing-Ifouso, could adoph auch rato bs dcemed best, or it could have differont roals, cxchanging svith™ somo atalleage, and with otheré ata per diom rato; tha Olearing-1iguse would takie cognizanco of such arrangemonts aud. deblt ao- cordingly. ADVANTAGES, Tho advantages gained by an sssoclation of roads aro: . Lirat—Each oad, insteid of keeplog separata ao- counts with cvery one it exchanged cars, as now, would thon keop ouly ono account, viz: with the clear- ing houso, Second—Dalances would bo struck in tho clearing house, each road oither receiving or paying the bal- auce for or against it in one sum, insload of scttling with & number of roads, paying ‘some and. recelving from othors, snd complicating nccounts, Tiird—Cars could bo more easlly and moro rapldly tracad through the clearingzhouso than if tracora Lnd (o Ific aunut out ovor the roads 10 which the car was do- vered., An odditional reason for uniting In {lie organization of the car clearing houso, 50 suggeatod, I thie jos- sibility that this may prove n‘flerm from which shall spring s cloaring house for all branches of railwiy Lusiness, such s bus bocn some tme i succossful operatiod in tho older countrics, aud such 0 ia now- desired by soveral manngors i this cautry, Tho saviog which might be dircotly accomplished by o gene ernl cisaring Liouse, and tho effect of suchan estab- lishment in_amellorating {he condittona and ovil cone soquences of competition, ‘mako its formation a thing to be earnoatly desired. Sooner or later thore must ba a lclm:lug houso; it may bo well now to make & begin- ning, e WESTERN RAILROAD ASSOCIATION, Thie Western Railroad Association concluded its busi- ness at » late hour laat ovening, 3 THE EXEOUTIVE COMMITTER was fnoreasod to nino instoad of five, and s constitu~ todna follows: Robert Larsls, Goneral Superintend- ont Ohicago, Durlington & Quincy Kailroad ; Charles Yalue, General Buporintendent Michigsn Southern uflroad; Georgo Jerome, Solicitor Dotrolt & Blil- waukoo Ratiroad ; J, O, McMullin, Gonoral Suporin, tendont Clicogo & Alton Ratlrond; I, E. Bargent, Qenural Buporintondont Michigan Gontral Radlroad LN, Porter, Gnoral Manngor Norilwestern Tail xoadi Johw'W. Cary, Genoral Solclior Milwaukeo & 8t, Paul Radlrond ; 8, F, Withrow, Genoral Solicilor Ubicago, Xock Island & Paciflo Rallroad, snd John Nuwu" i‘m-munt Tilinols Central Ralroad, My, Robert Harris was re-vlocted President,’and Mr, Georyo Willard Secrotary und Treasurer for thio one sulng year, AN ABSEASMENT for §60,000, to prosoculo thw various patont suils now i the Gourts, Was also ordered, TUK IAILROAD WA, Tho war now progeeswing belweun o Daltimors & Oblonnd the Penusylvanis Haflioad Cumpanies fs growiug wariner ovory dny. An i & gamo of chess, new movos oro constantly made by {ho opposing forces, .und it 1 hurd (o toll which corporution will como out of tho Lattle victorious, ‘LITY. CONNELLSVILLE LINE, “Clio Plitsburgh, Washingtion & Baltimore Ratlroad, Datter knovn us the Conncllavitlo Ling, wiiich bolongs to the Baltimore & Olifo, mado u silll furthior reduce tlon iu Its fare East during the pist week, carrying pursongers now from Piltsburgh to Philadolphis for 3,60, Hamuel G, 1ough, tho General Passouyor Agent of this road, suye: ¢ 'Th would-bo ¢ Great Monopoly advortis {idkols o Rulladelnhis for 37, but, If"you happen to reach thele dopo AL o Wi s ou ro charged $0 for & ke ISV elphii, A1l ekl ‘ot soduced tatos 4old by & +Yould-bo Gzent Monopoly ' aro linited a8 + Therbford; Lio urges tho peoplo to patrontze the oppo- | bition; ) | THE PENNAYLVANIA RAILNOAD COMPANY ias also fssued ciroulars siating ! Tinflrosds at its officen in Baltfmoro and Washinglon at ywer raten than thoss Companies could soll thoir tick- ots. This movo of the Pennaylvania Company fu ro- sailng the tickota of 18 rivalls groatly condomnod by tho publio as dishonarable, for to reaton that o few ‘yeara ago this poworful covporation sccurod the ps- gagoof a law by tho Leglulaturo of Peanaylvania bro- Dibiting all trafilo i rafirond tickets outalilo of (ha rogular railrond ticket oflices, and vndor this tho Goma Tatty bian mocnted o conviction and fino of cltizen Dittaburgh for resclling tickota over ita road, Theso tickots had nover bean usad) aud; thoreforo, Yaiuo liad nover beon rendorod for thent by tlio Raifrozd Com- pany, ks B hsetioediorire; : 1In viow 6f thieso facts tho following oxtract from tle Baltimoro Sun i significant aud interesting 1A poster was placod Inat night upon one_ of .the ‘windows of tho tiokst-oflice of the Pennsylvanis Rail- road, corner of Baltimiore and U{nlvm streotn, with o quect announcoment that tho . Peunsylyania Raflroad Company was solling tickets over thn Baltimoro & Olilo lint 1t wae selling | tickola ovor the Balitmoro & Ohio aadjConnelisvilia i Tallroad at tho following extremoly low rates: From ltimore to Harper's Forry, $3.50; to Martiusburg, £2.75; to Sir John's tug, $33'to Gumbcrland, $3.95; to jonpollaville, $3.50, and to Pittaburgh, $4,60,’ Tule & most singular move on tho part of tho Ponnsylvania Tiatlroad Company, a8 that corporation {s compslled to ‘urchans tho tickots above nmned of the tekot-agont of tho Ballimoro & Ohio RallFosa Gomanany, and nt reg- ular rates, and by disposing of tho ssmo ot rates groatly beneath thoso demandod by the Daltimors & Ohio Ttoad, I8 & loalng gamo for tho rival organization, and does tot evon divert travel from the Baltimora & Ohio Tutiroad, ug tho ticksls aeo only good on thst Tino, Of comho{t can mako littlo dlffcrenco to the Dallimora & Ohlo Gompany whothat thny ol the ticketa to prasengers diroct or through a third party, the Pounsylvania Rrilrond, Thors can only bo & cor~ taln amount of trayel in sny caso: - It scems that “circumstances allor chees. Moo ‘body miuat foadil Hokots ovor tho Ponsylvanis Rall. xdad, but ft da riothing for flint great corporation to stoop to {his kind of work if they sco an objoc in It, provided only thiy can keep clear of the law, In this partioular caae, howeyor, they {njuro no one but them- solven; as it is underatood thie Baliimore & Ohio Rail- road Gompany place no limitation td tho propor use g lhi}lr ll"nkel-l ‘whon onco tlioy huvo recoived full value erofor, NEW JERSEY SOUTHERN ROAD. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. 1TA FINANCIAL RMUANMARBMENT, Nryw Yonk, Jan, 14,—Tho alriko of enginecra em- ployed on the New Jersey Houthorn Iaflroad has catined the total suspension of traflic by that line, no trafus Liaving yassed over tho road slnco Mondsy. The unly meant of communication now exlsting be- twoen Tong Dranch and Now York is by ferry to Jernuy Olty, and thience by wagon, As s well knavn, thin rosd vias ono of tho pel schiomes of Fisk an Gouid, who expended much moncy an it in hopo of making Long Branch the greatest watoring-piaco on tho continent. Tho rosd now lias no Cresident or Treanurar, the dutles of puch oflicers bolng dischargod by what fa called a_© Financial Commitieo,” which connists of Willinm Painter, the Genoral AManager of tho foad ; . W, Huntiuglos, of Boston ; 8 M. Aulla f Now York;and R, ¥, Hlockton, of Now Jarsoy. b vond hma ‘mever dons much burinosa during (o Winter months, and has always doponded for iis profila on passengor THAFPIO DUMRING THE LONG DRANOR SEASON, Lant summer was not a vory hot one, snd that, com- Dited with tho many rain-storma of the scason, led & Iargo numbor of poople who annually spond more or Jesn timo ot the Branch to remain at homa altogothor, This caused grest docroaso n recalpls, which Lrought ‘about tho present ombarasament, Tho cngincera of thia road havo not beon pald in tivo monthe, and other employes havo received mo wages in four months. Tho General Mannger, General Buperintendent, and Haster of Tranaportation of the road, salled down the bay this moring It ono of the Gompany's steamers. Thole destination and mission 3 ot known posltively, but it {a rumorod smong tho employes of the road in this city that they hav gouo to pay off tho men, gl d g ERIE RATLROAD REPORT. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, New Yoik, Jan. 14,~Tho Erle Railway Company has modo it annual report to tho State Engineer and Buryoyor, It gives thio smountof the fanded debt on Sty 10, 1873, nw $97,017,142.70 ¢ tloating debt, §3,7H,- 100,01 ; ‘total ‘debt, $10,631,246.31, Tlie freight trans- orted’ during (ho ycsr amounted to 6,312,702 tons. olpts from ull_sources, §20,012,600,61, Payments othor than for conatruction, $19,643,732, A COMPOUND PERPLEXITY. Fact Stranger than Fiction, From the New York Times, California has o compound perplexity com- posed of a porson named Oades, who “is d goribed na & gontleman of good education and ad- dress, who has proved himself to ho more prac- tical than romantic, and who finds himsolf justi- fied by the now law codo of tha Stato, by which polygumy has been lawfully establishod, to the grost nstonishment of * tho Jlawyers and the scandal of a bucolio community. The story of Oades has excited great interest in the State whero tho incident occurred, and it canoot fail to prove cqually interesting ovory- oro 08 a striking proof of tho way in which law proposcs aud man disposes, ‘T'wo years ago Ondes sottled in San Bornardino County, and, realizing that it is uot good for man to be alono, foll in Jovo with and married & youbg widow. The pair prospered and wore happy, but after ton months of wedded lifo a startling chnngo aceurred, A woman, wrinkled with years and bhardships, and accompanied by threo “chil- dren, apponared in tho county town. Sho mado partioular inquirics for Oades, and was directed I 0 adjacont farm. Bho went thero with the childron, and was _ received in the farm-houso, San Bornardino was happy in the posscssion of a mystery which might prove a mystory, The strango woman and children romained in the Oades houso dny after doy, weok aftor week. Rural neighbor- hoods in California are liko such neighborhoods gonorally, and ovorybody kunows everything about overybody olge. So'it happoned that ev- erybody spoedily knew that Oados was husband and father to thie strange woman_snd children, no less than to the woman ho had lately married and her infant, Thero was an instant commo- tion. Everybody agreed that somothing must bo dono about it without dolay. Bomething was done. A criminal complaint was ®ed charging Oados with living unlawfully with the strange woman, Whon the trial camo on, ho astonished San Bornardino, for ho proved that the woman was his lawful wl(e, to whom ho had boen married twenty yoars before in En- land, - Thero being no doabt of the fact when Bia proots wore submibiod; the complaint wes digmiesed, and Oades roturned to his home to en]o{ the socioty of his two wives. DBut tho busybodies roturnod to the attack, snd had h(m‘:fiflnrhomm the court on acharge of un- lawfully llving with Mrs. Oades No.2, Oades took rofogo in shrowd lawyors and tho new civil codo, Admitting all the facts, ho assortod that a conviction could not bo had, bocauso the afxty~ first scotion of thocode deolares that ** the mar- riago of a person having a former husband or wife living is void, unless such former husband or wife was absent, and not known to such porson to Do living for fivo years Immedintoly procoding such subsequont “marriage —in 'which caso the subsoquent marringo is vold only from tho time 1t nullity is sdjudged by n propor tri- bunal.” Oades easily proved the roquired faot, in doing which a most romantic history was nar~ ratod. Tho complaint was nocessarily dismissed, and again Oades departed in triumph. But Oades was indicted:for bigamy. Whon the onse came on for trial, we aro told pverybody was prosont with his wife, while Ondos_was present with his two & wives. The District” Attornoy _attacked the jury with moral homilios and Latin quotatious, " He aduntted that the accused was ignorant of the oxistonco of number one when ho married num- bor two, but argued that his voluntary cohabita- tion with both was proof of o guilty “intont ab initio, Dut all tho learning and eloquenco of the District Attornoy were thrown away, Coun- sel for the dofondant again found a sate refugo in that marvelous code which * provides that no Enraon shall be held dgnilty of bigamy whoso usband or wifa had beon absent for flve successivo years without being lwuown to such person as being living.” The loarned Judgo, declaring that this provislon imporative- 1y controlled Lis action, diracted an acquittal. Oudes went homeflushed with victory, the happy possessor of Lwo wives, who wore such in law after tho trinl as thoy had boforo beon in faot. ‘There waa great oxcitomont in San Bernard« ino over this rosult, Tho rural lawyers were almost crazod by their mental exor- tion in trying to flud & logal way to got tho bottor og the man with two wivos, It waa on awful fact that polygamy was judicially es- tablished In San Bernnrdino, The help of Tond- ing San Francisco lmwyers was implored, and ovon that of tho makers of tho wonderful cedo, Atlnst there was o groat hopo raised, 1t was doclarod that o suit could be instituted to dis- solve tho sccond marringe, and San Bornardino was happy. But Oades and his lawyors agnin camo up armed with tho marvolous code, which deoloros, in Soo, 83, Subdivision 9, that suoh an action can bo brought only by one of tho par- ties to the first marringo, or one of tha parties to the socond marringe, Oados ruulmuv.full in~ formed the community that ho would not {)rlng such & suit ; his two Wives, tonderiug their ro- grots for tho disquiot their docision might oc- caslon in thominds of divers worthy persons, VO ulm umv]-ln mft‘:rmntlln;l. Sutn Bml'unrdhm (12 own in sullon despair to contemplate polyg- amy ns an ontablishiod fack, DHSIE Hero tho story cuds. Ondes romains tho lnw- ful owner of {wo wives, and Californis lawyors nre nheorbed in the mystories of the new code. It was never intonded, of courso, it g man should havo two wives, but tho law actorue them, and tho courls must award them. T u; tho old atory of tho wman in tho stooks fl‘l” again—lo could not bo put in tha AkAf6aks oifonse, ukdiflo polygamy lies upon ita surfaco, oot 16 mibvuen bawata of hasto and carclossuces in logialation. FOREIGN. Cartagena Badly Damaged by ' the Bombardment, Many Ttebel Refugees Captured at Seas . The Right of Trial by Jury Established in Mexica. Oardinel Antonelli Reported to Bein & Dying Condition; SPAIN. LotpoN, Jan, 14,—The Madrid Government an- nounces thnt order hias been reatorod In that clty. Mapnro, ‘Jan, 14,—A portion of the force cngaged in tho siege of Cartsgens has marched ogalnst the Carliats, % OARTAGENA DAMAGED, MADDID, urn, 14.—the Government forces, on oo cupylng mtlnnusa. found tho tortifications and all the ‘buildings badly damaged vy 1o vombardment, L 5 INSURGANTS OAPTURED; Ofie of the insurgent steamors which attompted t4 eacape han beoi captured, with a large number of Tofugeos on bosrd, OTHERS ZSOATE, 'The Mendex Nunez, with snother patty of insuts gonts; auccoeded in raaching a port of France, inte which sho was,pursned by a Fronols mon-of.war. The mombera o the_Junta surrenderod the iron ¢Isd Numancia to tho Freuch authorities at Meraa Kobir, and tho tri-color now floats at her masthead, LoxNpox, Jan, 14,—Tho Times eorrespondont st Onrtagona writes that tho Govornment troops, on on« ering tho cliy, shot slght insurgonts who vert trying to escapo, ‘The occupation of tho town was othorwing bloodloss, Fivehundred refugees, among thom Rarcia, » prominent loader, woro taken prisoners on board the caplurod steamer, 8noz, tho commander of Tort Galeras, and Gutlerroz, Prenident of the insurgent Junis, wero on board the Numancia, A Spanish frigate has arrived at Moracl-Kober and domauded tho surronder of {ho Numancla, The French authoritics refused to doliver hor until they had ordors from FParls, Tho vessclis comparatively uninjured, The condition of the forts around Gartagona con- firma thie nuapicion of treachery, and provisions wero found to be fairly plentiful in tha town, e MEXICO. AL:TaMORAS, Jan, 14,—Tho right of trial by jury has Dbean catablislied in the Btato of Tamaulipas in crim- inal cascs, tho law having Leen proclatmed with greal solemnity by {he civil and military authoritfes in th ploza. Jury trials have Loretofors been unknown t g Jawa of Moxico, i The Voss Publfco announcea that Loon Guiaman, the Attorney-General of Moxico, hna resigned, because ho was not in sccord with the Prealdont, Lervedo, in his sdminiatration of tho Nations} Governmont. gt o ITALY, Lovpow, Jun, 14.—A special from Romo to the Daily _Telegraph voporis that Cardinal Antooll la sngerously fil, Tiis diserso s gont in {lio mtomach. Tho_ Pope st adminiatored the oxtremo unotion, Tty AFRICA. Lowbor, Jan, 14,—Dispatches from Cvpo Const Castls roport that Gen, Violseley and Lis stafl, witl 200 aeas men, started for tho Rivor Prah, on Deo. 2T, and that his scouts bad gone soveral mtlés Loyoad without encounteriug tho encmy s GERMANY, Bentan, Jan, 14.—Tho roturna from all parts of the Empire show deflnftely that 100 Ultramontanes and 230 Ministerial Liborals have boen elected to the Relchstag, ——— FRANCE, Venmumtes, Jan, 14,—1In the Assembly to-dsy the gencral debats on the bill providing for tho nomins- tion of Mayor by the Governnient, was concluded, and the Chnmber resolved by a voto of 378 yoas to 316 1y (0 procesd to the discusslon of tho clauscs.of {16 —_— GREAT BRITAIN. Lonpoy, Jan, 14.—In tho Tichborne cass, Dr Xencally to-day concluded his closing speock for the defonse, Ile demanded a verdict for the claimant, doclariog that tho proponderance of unshaken ovi= denco in his favor was overwhelming, Ilo maintained fhat tho charges sgamst Lady Radelifo had proved Lo bo true, e — Maming o Ohild, Ono evening, at tho. houso of Dr. Armott (1853), Mr. Rowland Hill gnve some curious traits of the wrotched ignoranco of a population of nailers in somo contyal district of Eogland with which o was acquainted. A clergyman exerting Limeolf to effect an improvoment, took partio- ular caro to get theirschildron baptized. One doy, having como to baptize a nowly-born infant, - whom ho uuderstood to be a boy, he asked wha name ho should give the child. ~ The father was quito at a loss ; had no predilections on the sub- ject, ¢ Shall it bo o Scripture namo ?” Assent. ‘ Woll, what Baripture name ?" The managroed, ot tho minjster’'s suggestion, that Benjamin would do. As ho was retiring aftorward, he heard & great shouting, and turning back, met tho fathor, who exclaimed : ** Sir, it wana do— it maun bo dono sgain—tho bairn's a wench 1" —_—— 3 —Thomas R, Cobb, of Knox County, is favor— sbly mentionod by soveral of tho papers of the now Second Congrossional District of Indiana as :l ckmitlidnlo for Congress on tho Democratic clot. MARRIAGES, MALONKEY~JFNKINS—A ¢ tho residonca of tho bride's parents, by the Kov. D.G. Holmus, Mr. Daniol (llllflnnul. of Wankogan, aud Diiss Lizzio A. Jonkins, of 0. cago. TRY-~LAWVER_At ¥rooport, TiL, Jan. M, by the Rev. G. W. Doan, Mr. Goorge 0, ¥° Chioago, and 1sa Sus M, Lawver, of Frooport, Ill. No. cards. BADENOCH-WARD—Monday evontog, Jan. 13, 187, by Eldor Goorge G, Mullins, of the Uontial Ohris- ting Ghureh, Alr. Jubu Badonoch sud Miss Olemonca Ward, all of Chicago. DEATHS. "PURNTIL—On Taosday ovoning, the 15th Inst., at the sosldonce of hor son-inlaw, Thomas Fostor, &4 indiuna- av., Haoush Marla Turdor, wifo of Capt. Johm M. ‘Tifnor, aged 65 yours, . Tho faneral sorefoss will bo hold at the Douss Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. Carrlagos to Rotehill, 4 TREVSER—TIn this olly, Jan, 14, Anua, wifo of George v+ Troysor, sgod 80 yoars, i Notico of funoral foreaftor. O'MALLEY—Jan. 18, Michael O'Malloy, at tho rosl- donco of i parants, No, 2 Solali-at, ohunoral by cars o' Qilvary on ¥rlday, Jan, 16, at 1 ISOIIE—On the 4th fnst., A, Misoho. Itunoral from his Into rosldence, 53 North Olark-st., al " s f fl&‘ilfi":m’.‘ Friday, the16th inst.” Frionds of tho family AUCTION SALES. By WM. A. BUTTERS & CO., AUCTIONRERS, ‘- INO. 108 MADISON-ST., (Botwoen Doarborn and Olark.) Tha most contral location and bast adaptod for the [ ot Is of alt kiuds af Merohandisa in 3 taieg of alt kitds of Meroliandiso i this olty. ~ All salus SALE OF ‘Dry Goods, Olothing, Boots, Shoes, &o. This THURSDAY, Jan. 16, ut 10 o'clock, at our sales- ‘rooms, 108 Madison-at. Regular Saturday’s Sale. 800 LOTS Or HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, And othor Morobandiso, on BAT! i ol at ot aatosronmin, 105 Madispay, o 1 869 Alsn"at 11 o'glook, tho Lifo- Phiotoy adfinit MESEEL e diessoe ekt of o o Chicago; Beot. It fug: Ol 4 WAL, A BUTTEIR & 0., 'flf{:ffiuu By W. I, HODGES & CO., Auotlonoors, 633 Wost, Lako-st. ‘Wo shall sell this (I1LURSDAY) Evening, CHOICE RESTOENCE LOTS At Whashington Hoights, Morgan Park, and other suburbs, on tho very favorable torm: $10 cnsh, and $10 por month until paid. Mochanics should romembers good Lot is better than any Bavings Dank; pays better interest, and cannot be hurt by panics, Reo« ollcot tho placo, 038 WEST LAKE-ST,, Thursday Hvoning, sach week. W, ¥, HODGES & 00, By BLISON, POMEROY & GO, IRIDAY MORNING, Jq‘n.olffi, at 8 o'olk, Honsehold Furnitarg, Wateed Smudhand); Pardor Sults, Bodroom Sotr, Mow Onsos: i o Sults, Bodroum § Glporal Mrishanilne 1o oo Doaling Tabla, " Lurge Lot Cbattel Mortguge Goads. And, by orior of It I, JENKING, Tiaq., Awlgnce ate Banae. Ooliare, a5d_ontiro Bliwlviug whd Wainat Ta %}n &0., 0! a dry goods store, KLISON, P (Fruottushd s thisor, Youl