Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1874, Page 2

2 5 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, F IBRUARY 3, 1874, . —— diora to remove tho Winnobago Indinua from In tho cago of Mylen St for tho samo dn; TRANSPORTATION. | portsomusiy 100400000 burla moro of grae WISCONSIN, flarajo somors 43 Wienctago Indlans oo THE COURTS. T % FIRES. of grain andacoryenpondingqunntily of provisionn = would ba removed and kopt™ bayond the bordors, Tho ordor of dismissnl in tho matter of Ed- el Address of Mr. C. E, Culver, of Chicago, Dolivered at tho Recent Heoting of the Kutional Board of Trudo, Necessity of Increased Transporta- tion Facilities. Advoeney of a National Rallroad Lowe At tho recent meoting of tho National Roard of Trade, at Delimore, Mr. 0. T Culver, of Chicayzo, mado an address on the transportation nastion. Ho said it eould not be expeeted that in amem- borshipof over 1,600 therc would bo o unit of sontiment upon this or auy othor subjoct; but ho bolievod tho majority of tho members of tho Chicago Board of T'rado agreo substantinlly as to TILX FOLLOWING PROTOSITIONS: Firast—That tho walor-rountos, howover one lorgod nud 1mproved, will nat fally answor the requirements of our inland commoreo. Second—That the water-routes havo tho great- csb manng of compotition for moving property, and that, thoreforo, all ronsonablo offorts should be mude to securo the improyement and enlargo- ment of such avenuos botween the West and seaboard, whether by northorn lakos aud canals, * or by the Missisaippl and other rivers, Third—Chat railonds Lonestly bullt, and rapitalized upon the actunl cost of conatruction, son bo mado Lo earry goods for o8 low rates as hnve horotofore been paid by water-routes from tho Went to tho ronboavd. Fourth—That to reduce tho cont of transporta- tiou of property by railrosd-lines, and to remedy tho ovils and abuses of tho present systom of railroad managemont, tho number of railronds from the West to tho sonboard should be multi- plicd, and railrosd-corporations must bho made subjoet to the samo responsibility and penal- tics oy oro corporations engoged in transporta- tion by wator-routes. Mr, Oulver esfd thntthe Chicago Board of Tradoe way crodited with boing the commercial body that-first publicly advocated the granting by Congreas of a chiartor for tho coustruction of n double-track railrond betweon the East and West, to bo ueed axclusively in the tounnge buniness aud in the intoreat of the people. -This nction was induced by an exvericneo that had demonstraied the necessity of additional ship- pivg facilitios, aud by tho fact that the LEGISLATORS OF THL STATE OF ILLINOIS bznd, by ovactments, virtually attemptod to fix tho prico of rnitrond-freighis upon property passing through the State, The memorial of tho Obicogo Donrd of Urade to Congress sob forth tho following ¢ During thie winter monthe, for yoars past, thero hos Doen prossing went of increancd transportution facll. itfes from thio Weat {o tho rentoard. ~The radlroad comprnics have beon unnble to roceiv and transport ail tlo property offered them, nud their inability to meet Lo domands upon (hom' tor_trausportation ha induced ihem 1o oxact largely-incraascd rates of freight, with Tegults alike damaging and disastrous {o 1o ageloulturnl, tanufacturing, and business nter- ests of tho entre country, The mmmenro olovators und grain warehousos of Uhienga havo bee (o mid~ wintor) fitlod to overflowln;, compelling thum pariially {o euspond buainess, 8o Wit iho rafiroads bringiug graiu froms tho West {0 Uliicsgo bavo heen umablo to Tnlead thelr cary, und consequently they have beeu obligcd to refusa transportution to thelr patrons, Tho warliouses in fhe comnfry becomdng full, farmory bave in mony nsfauces heen unabls to find u warket for their graln, This winter frelglt-ymbargo Law also preveuted thoe Weatern york-packors and provision-dealers fromy reaizing on millions of dollny woslh of property wanted In_European markets. The impossibility of slipping satd property when ready for mirkot hus ro- sulted in sovere stringonoy fn money 1ntters, derang- ingy and damaging businees, and. caisii; Dnahoial om- Larassment, ‘would al<o renpectfully remind your lonorable bodies uf tho rupld incresse of population, and of the agrivultural growth and ivdustrind pursuity of the vast ferritory (nioro than 600,600 squaro wilesy Dbetween Lalios Michigan and Supovlor and tho wents oru boundaty-lino of Nebraska, which, toa very great extouf, fa tributary fo Chicayo i all bisincss-nintters, oud throngh which city the major portion of the surplus products of that noction of thoe country must paes during the season of suspended novigution af 1110 lakos and rivers, toreacl iho great matkcy of the Atlntic States und Europe. The epeaker thon said it is eulimated thore were dstained in Chlen%u Jost wintor, for sixty dayn and more, for want of trausportation, pork- produots of the value of £3,000,000, at o time whon money was worth on the ‘streot 21¢ per cent per month, and when the poople in the East and Burope wero in neod of theso products for immodiato use. I stato it to be o faot com- iug under my own portonal kuowledgo, thut rorn bought iu Ilinoiw to supply a consumptive demnnd in Vormont WAITED 3£2ANE OF TRANSPORTATION FOUR MONTIIE, "The Western country hus, by tho construotion of railroads, beon encouraged in grain-growing aud nmnk-mism{; until itA productions’ excood the ability of raifroads to promptly movo them, sud this whon tho country is but in the infauoy of its dovelopment, Tho carmying cnpacity of roads west of Chicago surpasies thet of tho rondd running thence.castwards in fact, prosout transportation corpanics by railway and wator- routes combined CANNOY BRING TROXM crIcOGO roperty s fasb us it is receivod at that point. To illustrate thie, let me cite the following facts and figures ; On the 16th of August Inst, or at tho com- moncoment of the movement of the new crop, Inke-froights from Ohicago to Buffalo were 6 cents por bushol on wheat; rail-froights from Chicago to Now York woro 42)¢ conty por 100 pounds; and thoro wore that day, in Chiongo clovators, 2,470,120 bushols of grein, During tho onening four weeks, tho movoment of cams from {ho castwerd, and of vossols, was 100 and unrostrioted, and in thet time the shipmonts of Graiu from that city wero 8,668,863 bushols, o move this proporty, use was mado of all vail- ablo means” offored by weter-craft and railrond- card, and, notwithstauding their use, the stock of grain steadily Increasad, ronching, at tho end of four woeks, 7,507,690 bushels, und, n weok Ieter, over 8,000,000 hushels, In sddition to which amount, thers was waiting in warchouses tor transportation to Onicago, and in cannl-boats in Chicago Ttiver, 8,000,000 bushols of grain, In ihe memitime thoro was an ADVANCE OF 1) CENTR PER DUSHEL bis by wator aud G conts per roil from 20 to Now York, This was in o poriod of thirty dnys, and whoen navigation was unobe structad, [t mayniso bo waid that, hiad thor been more storage-room i Chiengo, and no delry in unloeding the cats, tho accumnlation of grain vould hiave beou much Invgor, The wove- mentof grain from thncuunu-f’ had boen checked by the inability of the railrond companien-to un~ loud their cave, on secount of tho crowdard con- dition of the clevetors. Of courso tho advance in prico of froights was a Lax nok only upon tho 11,000,000 bushels of grain in the liands of tradors and uhippers, but aleo on all in the hzends of faumors. ‘fho quantity of grain gbout that time fn the hands of Western produocers was probably not lesy theu 400,000,000 bushels, tho value of which wes reduced in thisty days €4,000,000 by the adyance fu freights from pointy on Liako Michigan to the seabeard. THE PISAXOTAT, PANIC, necurring just ot this tino, 5o_deprossed prices tians furmary rofusod to sell et praiy, st a8 n result, raten of [froight gradually doclined; but, with the close of lake and canel navigatios, freiglity advanced, and to-dny it couts 1o sdip whent from Chiun‘;n to Now Yarlk by vail 10 qentu por bughel more than it did by rull during the sonson of Iake-navigation, Now, thosa vao nd- voeate tho uulm‘[;nment of water-comcetions only way find in this oxperience prog/ in favor of thelr'viows, but to my mind it shows (ho need of immediute offorts for. multiplying fucilitios for moving grain by xallways ay woll. It must bo ‘romenvered that an incrosso _of 10 per cect iy the pmxl'uuhon of the Westorn States for A0 yonr 1872 will aqual 100,000,000 bushels o grain,—an nmounnt oxcoeding tho cntira ruwlY‘lH of grain in Now York, and nourly aqual 14 tho combinad oxports of Milwsukee nud Chisgo for (e samo pordad. It must also be repenthorad that tho’water- courses do not 8 by ovory man's door, Thousands of Vestern “farmers nud Esstern comsumers are fepondent entirely upon rail- transportatiop’ In tho latitude of tho gruin- growing soc:0ns the cavals and rivers aro OLED IN THE WINTER MONTHS, vever you uny onlarge thom, :;’;’;, 4 ot b mmluy vaflablo moro than/ two-thirds of the i'cm-. Nor cany0e Mlssizsippl Bivor be mada ta any graat oyOlib &1 tveuuo for moving grain from tho a0rthwentorn to the Now Englaud States, Now . fosk nnd tho New Jngland Btatos are vaid toime , cannot bo limited to tho porlods of laka and en nal uavigation, Tho supplics mast go forward In wintor i woll as summor. 'Thaso who live in tho past, and think, hecauso in onrly daya tho grout Inkoa and canals affordod suflelont monny 1or teatmportntion, no thoy muat now, aro to bo romitidod that the trado nud commorce of this day requivo now and UONSTANTLY-OPENED AVINUEH, that whl afford tho shortost aud quickost moana of communication. Only a fow yonts ngo tho grain-morohntts of the Northoru' cition hud no daily mootingy of 'Chango durlug the wintor wonths, Thero was_senrcely any wintet-movo- mont of produce, and tho shipping of grain to tho soabourd in bulk by rofl wus unknown, and, for "“l‘h‘ I know, unthought of, In thono daya it required weaks to henr from distant mnrkots, and montha o know thogroswlt of ** venturp," Qoods waro transported by cannl-boats aud sall- vosgols, Peopled travelod by packat-boats and in slow conchoa. But that timo and gonoration have passed away, sud given place to auothor peoplo, having dificrent Labitsof thought, trado, and iravel, snd with new idons a8 to transpor- ntion, Our merchents now must meot nily and oftoner ; thoyare in constant tolographio contmunication with tho markets of tho world, In other countrles, customs bave also changad, ‘Phe moany for communicating news and cayry~ iug proporly kas Incrensod in Europe an rapidly o8 in Amoricn, Lot thero bo a seateity of, and eausequant demand for, auy product in any o~ cality, and it nt once bocomos known the world over, aud that people wlo can soonest aud cheapest supply the want are wmost bonofited thoreby, NO COUNTRY DEPENDENT, A8 19 OURS, upon foreign markaty for n lurge portion of its production, ean wilord to rostrict the moavement of theao productions Lo any }mfl.lon of the yoar. Acting in recordanco with Lhis theary, tho mor- chuuts of this dny have mads wee of railroads for carrying grain both duriuq the wintor sud sum- mer months, Whilst, ouly cight years ngo, no grun wan shipped Enst io bulk, the shipments Irowm Chicngo ‘alone are now from 160,000 to 250,000 busbiols daily, During tho Inst weok the shipments frow Chicngo wera aqual to 1,600,000 bushels of grain, 8,458,000 pounds of cut meats, 1,489,000 poundss of lavd, bosldea cattle, hogs, nud athor properly. 'Fhis from e single city, in a singlo wook, and nt rafes o froight suilicient to pay u haudeome return upen threo limey tho actual cost of {ho railroads earrying the u-a}mrv.y. It is vafo tosny that, with suiliciont facilitios, end ot fair ratos for transportation, this movo- mont of property by railronds WOULD WAVE DEEN QUADRUPLED IX EXTENT, Rnilronds huve hod forced upon thom this grain-coreying trade 3 and #o rapidly and so ur- gontly Laa it heon done, that iho business of moving grain by ruil hus become & system full of faulty, ovlls, and abuscn, all of which tend to inerenso the cost of transportution, Iailway corporations havo sought to cstablish cusiomy and priuciploy for common carriors differont from, and othor thau, thoss observed by water- routo companien, who {ssuo bills of lading guar- unteeing to deliver ot the ond of tho routo the full onwount of grain taken for cairinge. = Bills of ladinyg issned by railroads afford 1o ovidenco of quantity or value of the, grain (shipped, und, therefora, PATSENT A TEMPTATION to misreprosontation as quantity sud value. They are therefore unsuited to commercial pur- poses. Ly cost of Lransportation is meant nomothing more than tho itom of charges, Nail- road companies adyertive thoir tariff rates, from which mny b caleulutod tho charges, but tuo cost cannol bo computed until tha dumago by doluy of dolivory, o8 well a8 losn in weight sud injury in condition, ia ascortainod. Whuntover is lost of proporty, by sceideut or othorwise while it is belng moved, “adds to the oxpenso or cost of movemont, [ IT 1S GERTHALLY CONCEDED that thoe proseut cost of transportation is not only oppressive to the sgriculturist, but to tho mannfacturing and business intorosts of tho couniry genwally ; and that whatever affects injuriously the produciugs iuterosts of the coun- try provos damaging to trage and fhnance. Wa are mot with tho question, How are tho fanlts of tho proxont system of railrond-mannge- mont to be rentoved ?* I do not hollovo earriors are mora rolfish than producers and consumers, nor do I know why they havo not as good u moral right to demnud “high prices for_their services, wiion thore is an nnusual domand for them, ne our merchants and farmors have Lo demand liigh prives for what thoy have to soll when it is much wanted, Why should not the law of SUPPLY AND DEXAND apply to treusportation-servico as woll ns ta the priee of merchandiso and agrienltural produg- tions 2 'I'iera aye thoso who loolk qul Legis- Intive ennctmonts or Congrbssionul acts as the only sourco of romedy for {ho ovily that re- ault from the presont inrdequate feilitios for trausportation.” While Tdeom that avory Sinte . ias u certnin_control aver the corporatious that hava acocpied chartors from tham, ¥ do nat be- lieva thoy hava tho right to dictate what shall be charged for mnvin[.; property from other Htates through {hely torritory on s way to distaut mer- Liets. 'Cho nttompts mado to regulate tariff-rutes by Legilative’ enactments have mnot thuy [ar mot with satisiactory results, Lot mo ask, What right bava the Statos of Ohie, Tudiaua, and TIllinois to kay what shell ho ehergod for tho con- Yoyango of gruiu fhrough those States onits way from Milwaukes to Baltimore? Aud can Con- gresu wterfere with the rightyzranted to covpo- rations by tho soveral States ¢ It appenrs to mo tho most effectunl way to re- move uhd remedy tha present evils and abuses of railrond compunics, and to roduce the cost of transportation, 18 o increaso compotition, or, in othar 'ds, to INCREASE THE SUPPLY OF TRAFSPORTATION until equels the demand. "o nccom- plist thiy, tho water-comvsos st bo fmprovod and rail-lines multipliod. And, ta augburaze tho conetruction of railronds, enpitalis{s must be nesured thut thoy will nol be hampered aud hindored by tho onnctments of State Legislatures. It seoms to mo that tho necessitics of tho country domand that Congress should, by genoral enactment, authorizo the canstruction, nnder proper restrictions and con- ditious, of railroads botwoeu tho vities of the sovoral States. Itis stated that when German lists underatand that this National Gov- erumont will ’grunt nchurter for tho construction of & vallroad from the soabourd Lo the Wost, they will uvail thomgelves of tho privilogo, et il THE TAX ON BANK-CAPITAL, Ty the Editor of The Chicago Tribxne: S : Tho remarks in your paper of Saturday, in tho financial column, under the above head- ing, do not only injustico to the afloer mon- tioned, but aro apt to mistoad the public in re- gard to Lho law governing his acts, Sec. 166 of tho Revoutta Inw roads as follows: ** In cago any porson, company, or corporntion shell refuse or nogloct to pay the inxes imposed on him or ther when domanded, it shall bs the duty of the Collector to lovy tho same, togethor Wwith the costs aud chargos that moy acoruo, by distress sad £alo of tho porsonal property of the person, comprny, or corporation wha ought to pay the same," Hee. 165 raquives tho Wown Collectors to pay ovarto the proper ofticer all tnxos collacted by thom every thirty daya, Soe. 169 roquires Tax-Collectors to manko fnal aelliement with the County Collector on the 101k day of Aarch. Hee. 170 glves the items which may be cred- ited to the Town Collector in bis flual sottlemont, viga: ‘yomoval" “ingolvency,” or “error in tho tax-books,” The Colloctor is roquired to mako out n list of such cnuok, and vorify thom by oath, and nleo verify that he has used due ditigence Lo golteot tho sivme, he Town Collocetor is, thorefore, obliged to collect all porsonnl property lax that is colloctae Dble, prior to the 10th day of Maorch, at which thme ho must ko his flunl sobtloment, or sub- Ject himnolf (o proscention on his hong, would gortuinly follow, Llawevor di it moy bo_to onforca ‘toxes, particulnrly it thoy ure quostionnble, it is mada tho duty of thoe dif- foront oflivern intrusted with this qollection to axecuso Eno Inw o8 thay find it, in which alono i thelr Ratety from prosocution on their bond, Yours, 1. D, MiuLer, County Collactor, L T S BETECTIVES AND BURGLARS. 1o the Editor of The Chicaia Tvibuna ¢ Bin+ 4'he only roason we enn giva why owr de-~ tectivos lavo nvrantod so fow burglars is, that the Intler aro umarter than the former. The burglars ovince o much fomiliarity with the stores und dwolliugs of tho ity that one would think thoey hiad yesidod bLore ninnymonths ; and, an the detoctives do not Inow them, It 1y prosumad thoy have nover woon them, In Poris, if uccounts ero truo, w doteotivo knows the wheranbouts, and can ot oneo find, uny pro- Loxalongl burglar'or thiof whon wautod 5 bub in Chicago, which 14 n much nmullor clty, it I8 ox- peetlng too much tat doteotivos shonld Investl- gato o rabhory mmounting to lows than 10,000, or hnve any Idew of who probably committod n ivon thoff or burglary, or wlior : Be found iy, o whore the burglar Ty it A Reviow of What Has Beon Dono by iho Legislaturoe, Proceedings in the Senate on Sat- urday. From Our Own Correapondent, MaisoN, Wis,, Jan, 81, 1874, ‘Tho Loglalaturo of 1874 has now been In sos- slon sovontoen doys, and e limited ltsolf to #oven daya mora for Lho rocoption of businoss, ‘ho Atsombly yostordny, a8 of old in tho days of froo posses, ndjournod from Fridey morning to Mondoy evening, though tho Bouate rofuses to follow wuit, and stick to busmoss, A review of what has boon dono thus far im, thorefore, tmely, BENATE, Tho Lusiucas prosented comparos with Iest Yeur's as followa: 1873, 1874, 32 1 Tetitions presmuted TRtenolutionn offorad 18 dofnt ¥esolutions o L Bills Ihtroduce 42 Momorials to Co [4 ‘Thore havo beon but throa bills sont hence to tho Assembly for actlon,—nono fmportant, The flrst and tho moat bills aro on ko railrod guos- tlon: No. 1, to provent and punish oxtortion and disorlmination for or against sny party in transportation of freight and passengors, and to ontablish o Board of throo Rinilvond Commiseion- erg, to bo appointed by the Governor, sorviug throo years, but removal at plonsure, charged to oxaming the condition of railronds, and colloct from theso managors s varioty of ‘informntion, and to prouccute violations of law ; No, 3, to pro- vido for listing railroed property by its ofiicors, taxing it, and apportioning the amount to tho localitios whore it lies; nnother, to assoss tho track, right of way, depot-grounds, build- ings, stock, &o,, partly by local oflicors, partly bya statoment of tho’ ofticors of tho rond ; to mrovide for uniform tarifs and prevent nnjnst dircriminations, vithont dofinitoly fixing a rato ; conferring tho 81, Croix & Superior Land-Grant ou tho North Wiscousin Railiray Company, and osking an oxtousion of timo to build the rond ; ‘momorial to Congroes, in which tho Assembly concurred, for au oxtension of timo to build the ‘Wisconain Contral Rnilvoad, Thero is also an_nmendment to ths Conati- tution proposed, which is rathor specifio for a constititional provision, as it declares railroads public bighways and transportation cowpanies public corriors ; obliges tho keepingof open books in the State ; prohibits undue iscrimin- ation, but allows commutation and oxoursion ratow ; forbids consolidation of womgotmg linos or otte man beiug; an officer of two such linas ; for- bido such compenies ~engaging in miniug or manufactitring, or any oflicer or employo be~ ing jvstructed in furnishing materinl or supplics, or transporting froight or passongors avar the rond ; and prohibits passes, except to oficers or employos, Other important propositions aro n jolnt resolution to amend tho Constitution o s to provido for biennial sossions; to amond the Lieglatry Iaw 80 a8 to Take it less exponsive in thio country, and repenl it altogothier; to provent monopolies by rapealing el exclusive rights and priviloges, oxcopt to public officots, granted by ooy Inw to any individuals or corporations ; to fix tho salarics of the Beerotary of Stnte, Trons- ury, and Attornoy-Glenernl, ° at 28,500, with oll focs to go to tho Stato; Which has passedona third rending, a tnotion fio inorenso the ualory to 4,000 Laving been rejected; to au- thorizo tho "publication of protato aud like noticea in nowspapors published ra foroign lan- gunges 3 for threo Commissionors to eottlo the claiin of Calking & Proundfit, on an old printing contract, on & disputed basis of componsation, ASBENBLY, Tho busincsa preeonted Is sa follows, com- pored with last session ; 1679, i 1874, ki 41 Petitions presonto Hesolutious oilered Jotnt resolutions of Bills introdueed, . Momorials to Congress, W Thoro have thirty Assombly bifls boon passed und sont to the Senate,—the only ong of im- portanco, to abohsh the Stato Board of Charities and Reform ; to prohibit waterie the ptock of vorporationa. ‘Flic important. rallrond moasuros in this body are : No, &, to inorease the lioonso- foo on tha gros oarnings of railrosds from 3 to G por cont,—whial Mr; Carey, the Attornoyof tho Ailwankes & St, Puul Rallwey Company, argued at lenpth boforo the Raifrond” Commities, claime- ing thut his railrosd paid 1 por cent on tho value of its property, which was ns much as oth- or proporty paid at tts real value, and more than railronds paid in othor States; to prohiblt tho issne or uss of railvond- ){\\hsufl; rogulating raflronds by providing that they shall regoive only a fair componsation for transportation, and’ punishing sny disoriminn- tioun with fines of from $1,000 to $5,000,—vlso providing for three Kailrond Commissionors with powoers and duties shnilar to thoso in the Sonato bill; to fix A maximura tariff of froipht ond pnssengors, sbout 25 per cent below the Pprosout averago rates,—tho clinign for grain and patatoes in bull, 8 cents a hundred pounds for G0 milea’or ovor,—at 33¢ conts s mile; punfabi. ing an agent violating tho law with a flue of 200, aud giving the right to rocover throo times the mnount of any oxcessivo oharge; to validato lonses of rallronds; regn- Inting - the organization and mnanogoment of railroad companics, 8o that no porson shall bo ou officor or Diroctor unless the owner of stool, that tho officer and 2 majority of the Directors must Do residenls. of tho State, that stock ehall not bo issucd to exceod at par valuo tho cash cont of the railroad, and that all contrapts lot to tho lowont bidder, coustruction compnnios and Oredit-Mobilior arrungomonts bolug ta- booed ; to mako mntorial and worl on the road- bod of a railwny the firat Hen thoreon ; to repenl the law of 1870, excmpting the Wost Wisconsin Company'slands from taxat{on ; to fix a maximum turift of pussenger ratos in four classos, from 214 centsainie to ronds whoso grogs oarnings smount to 310,000 amile & year or over, to 4 conts for all earning leey than 24,000 & milo o year; au- thorizing tho Milwaukes & St. Paul Railroad Company to build & bridge whore they wish, near LaCrosso, Othorimportant bills bero aro: T'o abolish tho 8tate Hozrd of Churities and leform; to abolish tho office of Stale Commiesionor of Tmmnigra- tlon; to repoal tho Grahum Liquor law; £o o~ *xuul the Rogistry lasv, also to amend it, o that t shnll apply only to” towns; to provid for ot ting tho printing in all countian to the Jowost bidder, (which Lins boon killed); to change the system of connty government’ from-Boards of Buporvicors, ono from enoh town, io Com- misnionery cleoted from tho wholo QOUnLY— tho idea good, but tho wording conflicting with the (:ousmutlau, which only recoguizes Supor- visors; to vognlato tha storago of grain in ware- housad aud olovators, which ro all declared pub- lig storchouses, nt o rato ot 1 cont for ton days, 3¢ cont for aach fifteen duys aftorward, but nof hiore than 8 conts for nM wintor (which has crented quito an_oxeitoment in_ graiu nnd raile roud eirclos in Milwaukeo) ; nllowing toloy raph compunios to issno bonds to extond their lings 3 1o protect tho people in thofr logal rights by in- validating any waiver of the atatutes of limita- tious or oxomptlions in a contract; to reduco tho gnbhu lxrlntmg by appointing the Seorotary of tnm{,"rnnuqmn and Attorney-Goeneral, 1 ing Comminsionors, who slnll suporvise all yo- ports, and strike ont cortain mettor apeolfled in tho bill, and what umr deom propior; to provide u hounty of %5 on wolvos nnd lynxes amf“&l on vild-cets, for killing them ; to provido for Jo- poeit of tho public runds in banks which will ulve sulclont surety and interest; to provida a unflqx'lu series of Loxt Looks to bo ngreod on by tho Stato Euncrintondont of Publio Iustruction ond the Prosidonts of tha Normal Schools who shall, onco in four yenrs, adyortlse for sonlod proposals, and the firms obtaining countracts uhsll furnfsh the books to the Btato, and thoy shall bo purchagad and distributed by tho Stato § tologalizo the publication of lcgnf notices in other than the Eni;linh langungo ; authorizing Cireult Judgas to cliango thelr torms of court ; providing for o revision of the stututos by threo Commissionors, recoiving no moro than 20 a day for 200 deys ; to provide for sottling 8, D, Car- pentor's “old Stato-printing claim by the corotity of State ou priuciplos of oquity 5 to pravent —Comnty, °'fawn, City, or Villago Lreasurora ' Velng ' oligible for ro-eleetion for b certain time; for -wy onlarge- went, Ly an adiltion in the rour, of the Stata Tloapital for tho Insune 0t Madison, ot acost ngt to oxceed £35,000,—only 5,000 to ' ba oxponded this year, Dills nppm{u‘lmlluu 81,000 each {o cight Milwaukoo charitabla institutions, intre. tuced some thme sines, haye had oontenypt hoaped.on thom to a degree that can havdly fail to bo Intal, by bills npprovelating o ko suul o & number of county poar-houscs of tha Bito, IN W1 BENATE, T0-DAY, tho Assombly not betg in seusion, there wis a long aud snimated dobato on o rosolutioy fu. doriug the notion of tho Genoral Qovoryiiont, 8t tho rogucst of the State, in furnlabing sol~ Tho resolation wna opposid by Benntors Tiur- chard, Schmldt, and B. I, Davis. Tha former urged that mony “of those In- dians had bocomo citizens, 1ind that thoy had claims_upon tho Governmemt, Loth on Lho ground of symputhy and of vguity ) that thoy wore nmonablo to our lnwsa:ud punishablo by thom, He cluimed that thwic trontmont by agonts had beon xol;mhunulhlu; that thoy woro torn from woll-cstablishod ot no and compolled to seok now homas. The rostlution was adyoe cated by Sonators Blookmnt ‘and Barron, who #uid tho Govornment was elhiply carrying ont o polemn compact tmulx oxcatod on the part of the Inaiaus, and thet it' was tho duly of the GQovernmont to hnve it earried oub, and its course bnd bean morcifuli and considerato, Thay declared that noman that kmow thom would bo willing to Jive among them ; *that thoy wore genoral nuisancos,—woro fllthy, i'nzy, and addiot. od to drunkennosy,—wore bronk ors of tho 1aws that they woro, hindering tho dov olopmont of tho country; that, though tiob parti oularly dangor- oug, they wera sddictad to all tire smaller vicos, and their dniluonce In thie commumity, capecially upon oungr mim, was Dbnd, Sonstor Blockman thought it 'was romarkable that Senators not residing among the Indinus, aud knowing nothing of their ‘viccs, should so stronuously opposo the opiuior: of thoso who did roside among thom, and wore Loo well ace quainted with thelr practicen 1swd sufforod too mony sunoyances from thom. Tho bost por- tion'of tha Indians, those podscssed of intelli- once, woro in fayor of tho romoval. fla showod that tho ‘bLest - way to raiso them from tho migerablo ' condition thoy were in would bo to put thom upon o reservation where thnL could livo by themn- solves, Thoro nre only about 2.0 of them loft, An unfriendly motion, to rofor ‘the resolution to the Committoe on Btato Affnirs, was carriod by the casting voto of Lieut.-Gov. Parker on tho following tie voto : Ayos—Senators Dlack, hausen, N T, Davis, Krouskop, Quimby, Xend, Behantz, Aelmidt, Wagher—11, fova—Bchatura ' Barron, Blogkman, . N, Davis, Uiner, Mizon, Uolloway, Jones, 'Littlo, MecCord, McCurdy, Potter—11, The following resolution. was offored by Son- ator Patter, and will make: somo sport whon it comes up: fcsolred by the Senate, the Assombly conenrring, Thot 1M Lxcollency the Go: ertior ho, and is bereby, respoctfully requested to infarm tho Leglslaturo, st o8 early n day as practicable, wh at, In his opinion, aro tho obnoxious provisions in the -so-called Graham Inw, ol Inded to in s aunual mess age, oud what fegisiation 4 necessary to roliove tho Luw of the chargo of boing ou arbitrary futerference wit hi the soctal habits, private onterpriscn, or religious bellef of tho pzoplo. A rosolution was ndoy tad, like one in the Ae- sembly, singularly for tho first timo in the histo~ v of thoe Blato, to close tlws Sonnto Post-Oflico on Sundays, oxcopt froan 8.to half-past 10 n, m. aud from 2 to halC-pnst3 p. nt. Bl wero intro- duced providing that logal noticos, oxcopt tox- sales, may bo published in! papers publisbed i foroign lungunges; to ropeal thelnw fora Tronsu- xy ~ mgont ~ to colleot liconses of hawkers and peddlors, and devolviry that duty on the Sccrotary of “State ; legalizing tho organization of church corporation uniler the gouoral law, The vote of yesterday, coricurring in an Assem- Ly bill {xmvm\ng thot tho /Board of Lrustoes of Ingane Hospital should lrave power to romove their oflicors, wam reconsid.orod (after some de- bate ebowing an “unplonsantucss” sbout the Trepauror of tho Oshkosh Iospital), nnd the bill referred to the Judiciary Committos, to ro- port noict Wadnesdny. Prus, ——— BRIDGING THE DETROIT RIVER, Adverse Report by u [Bonird of Governs ment Enginecern. Fron the New York Tribunc. The Socretary of War hins recontly transmitted to tho House of Roprosontatives n valuable ro. port by » Board of Lugineer Oflicors upon the schento for building o rallway bridge neross tho Daotroit Rivor, betweou Dotrolt and Windsor, o Michigan Contral Road and the Great Woste orn Railway of Canadn, which conneot at this point by monns of a ferry, desirad to bridge_ tho atrait in order fo avoid tho groat delny to \hich thay aro subjected in winter by floatiug ico. How scrious ~ihis obstruction mometimos bacomes ig illustrated by o tabls of the trips of thoir forry stoamer in January, 1478, when ?hn crossiug, which In summor takos about sovelitcon minutes, consumetl on one oc- ‘casion nearly five hours, and on thirty-five occa- #iona more thau two liours, ' Often," says the Trosidont of tho Miohigan Contral Rload, ** as mauy a8 from 700 to 1,000 cara wera waiting in aur yards to bo moved noross.” ‘Tho construo- tian of n tunucl wos boguu by tho railruads in the winter of 1872, but was abandonad the fol- lowing yoer, not ‘on nccount of any sorious ougineoring diflculties, but bocause of the coat. “We now bolleve,” said the Ohairman of the Great Westorn Rail- woy, ot n mooting of tho stockholdora iu April, 1873, that, by making the proper up- plication, we shall bo abla to got the bridge over that river by n smnller oxponge than tho tunnol, and got it moro e:fimditiunuly dono." At tho samne timo the Canada Southorn Railroad wishos to build a bridge at Stony Ishwd, 165 miles below Detroit, whero, by bridging, ombankment, oud piers, it Ling alrondy taken possossion of half the waler-way ‘‘without authorityof the United States,” Tho Bonrd of Engineers, consisting of Gena, Warren, Comstook, and Weitzel, Qol, Aorrill, and Capt. Livermors, met at Detroit and gavo a patient hearing to all the fpurtios in intorest, be- sides waking o minuto iuquiriy into the trafo both b{lrnu and by water which wonld ne affeoted by the proposed bridges. It mpposrs Burcherd, Campboll, Cotze (huob(l duriug tho eight months of navigation, 47,000 vosgela puss through this ohinonol, and of this number more than 20,000 havo masts. - Tho amount of froight carried by thom i 9,000,000 tons. It is difioult to_estimato the business of the Canada Sonthorn Road, for it lns only ro. contly beon oponod, Tho Groat Western Riai way tronsforred at Detroit, during tho yoar ending April 15, 1873, 838,310 tons, or losa than ono-tonih of the amount which passed thoe samo point by tho water route. Dut, us it fa only in tho winter that the railway noeds a bridge,—tho torringo and hnndling during two-thirds of the renr costing no moro thon the maintenance of a hridgo, iuteroat on the capital, &ec., would cost, It follows that. the disproportion botweon the conflicting partios ia still greator than it appears at first, In short, ny the roport says, ** 9,000,000 tons of froight ia askod to yield its intorosts for tho houefit of oue-thirtioth of thut amount. “hreo kinds of Lridgos wera proposad and eara- fuily cousidored, 1.'A bridgo giving a cloar head- way of 160 faot, and cloar spans of 400 feot. Lhis would cost abont §9,000,000, and wonld involve long and diftieutt appronches, with stoop grados, a8 the banks of the river are not more than 30 foot high. It would not Lo a serions obstruct- tiou to navigation, though the Board regards it a8 muolt too exr‘mmivu to build and to operate. 2, Abridgo with two pivot-traws, This is the plan advacated by tho railwny companien, and tho cost is flxod at about 2,600,000, ‘Iho Board iy emphatio fn the condemuation of any such structure at any point on the river, aud showe that tho dammge and dotontion to vewsols would bo onormous, 8. A bridge continuous during wintor, but so cone structad that two portions, cach 400 foot loug, can bo flonted away on eaison-prors during tho Honson of navigation. This would cost about #2,000,000, but, nu tho plan would involvo the goutinuance of the forry-system gt montha I tho yoar, it would ho too exponsivo in oporn- tion, bosidos interforing more or less with navie gation, On tho whole, tho Boprd roporta that tho only unobjectionable method of crossing the river iwhy tunnel, and thinka that “A tunnel nt Datroit or Stony Taland is by no means imprae- ticablo, ntn costnot o gront as to dobar its Gonstruction.” T THE GRANGERS’ DEMAND. Erom, 1il., Jan, 31, 1874, Zo Transvortation Compandes, Comuion Curriers, Man- ufacturers, Patentees, Middiemen, ete, UENTLENEN : Wo, the QGrangers, oxtend to You tho right hand of friondshlp, and nssuro yon that wo are, in point of fact, your bost frionds, Wo almply ask that wo may live, without which you cannot thrive ; and, vice voras, wo desiro that you maylive, that we may thrive. Wo bo- liovo'that our bost intorontu aro ingeparable from Yaurs, Wa wish to seo you stand fn that one re- ation only which, by any sonnd theory of polit- ical economy, you can ovor hold jowards us, ng We belleva, Aud, to that ond, wo domand, in tho numa of liberty, justico, tnd the laborlng nou of the wholonation, that you shiall conso to ba the urru;iauc, n'gfimuulvu, oxtortionnte mastors of the ]luuY o, und bocome Lhioir thrifty, woll-kapt, and yoll-paid gervants, And we nssiiro you that, at whatover cost it may Lo, wo will uftllmtely neeept of nothing laus, L. RAYMOND, ———— " Tennwises Journalism, "Cho nmomtios of Lennessce journalism ra- caiyo froquont fllustyations, Il o Greonville odifor romarks of wrival: * iy ulandorous soul ds fmbyed with tho electric five of hioll; hix blaok heart omits tho wulphurous fumen till his whole uatitro m abrorbed in one homogencous masy of hellishneru;" and tho Norsistown Herald ways ugnurlm:l]\ly 1 A mlxlm rlnl:lg‘ll:t go to“lllm Yalo school of journaliam oue Luudred and fifty years and noé Josrn to write that wav,” vy The State Insurance Com- pany. Troubles of an Unfortunato 8aloon- Heeper, Tho Equitable Insurance---Bankruptoy Items. TUE STATS INSURANGE COMPANY, On tho 26tk of July, 1872, it witl be remem- bored, a rule wos made on Georgo 0. Smith, Proeidont of the Nntional Loan and Trust Com- pany, and others to show cause why thoy should not pay ovor £312,073,24 bolonging to tho State Insuranco Company. On the J0th of August, 1873, Bmith pald over §1567,073.12, on o com- promiuo, but without projudice to tho Asalguoo 1o sue for and recover tho romainder, and tho rulo was thoroupon digmissed. Judge DBlod- gott thon romarked thmé ho could seco no objestion to tho stipuiation, It sooured a Inrgo portion of the assots for tho croditors, and walved po rights on the part of the Aesigneo. Aud it porhaps accomplishod moro complotely the onds of the rulo onterod than o decision on tho rule would have accom- plishod, bocaio thore might have been furthor litigation, Tt had siuce been nacortained that no such provisional ordor was entered, and tho caso was taken by potition for raview up to tho Cireuit Couist botora Sudgo Drummond. A hoarlng wis lind yestorday and tho Judgo in hie docision paid that tho rule to show cause egainat Mr, Bmith way dlscharged by the Disteiot Court on the compromise being mago betweon tho Assignoo and bimsoll. The view thiy Court takes of tho ordor i, that it did vot, perhaps, do comploto Justico; in other words, tiat it did not protoat tho Iutorosts of tho creditors complotoly. But, as ot that timo it was genorally supposed that the rights of the creditors depended on the ultimate dacigion of tho Court as to the right of the National Loan and Trust Company to claim the snm of money 1n ity pousession, on the henariug of the claims agaiust tho Company, therefore, it being gonernlly supposed at that timo that the question would be soon decided, it was not considered important that the ordor bo theu on- Lorod by tho Court. Dut this hns not beon tho cnse, The contro- voy has boon protracted ovor o year. The Court then avsumod that Smith admitted his lo- bility to pay over tho monoy, becaugo ho bad puid over gome by compromise. This Court did not mtond to moke any intimation as to the right of the Assigneo or crecitors to compel Stith to pay over tho monoy, nor does it intond to do 8o now. In liolding that tho ordor of the Distriot Court should not stand in the way it was ontored, tha Court does not intimate that it way tho duty of the District Court to compel Smith to pay ovor the monay. Tt what the Court now enys is, that it was the duty of tho District Coprt, on tho nwsumption that thero might be mouey due the Assignoe in o possiblo coutinganoy, und thab it was in the poseossion of Smith, that the interasts of tho creditors should bo protected. In other words, that the money should not be permitted to re- main in the hands of those poartics an _indefinite longth of timo. In snying that tho ordor of the Diytrict Court shall be rovorsed, and the Dis~ trict Court bs required to proceed nud determing the rights of the partics, 1t lenvos §lio cnso just as it was, subjoct to tho action of the Diatrict Court, his is the propor order to make in tho cage, and thon the wholo matter will bo remitted to tho Digtrict Court, which will have boforo it at the sanie time the case agninst the Ireasurer of tho Compauy, or thoso who may bave control of tho money, and tho rights of tho National Loan and Trust Compeuy and othors who have claimy against the bankrupt, TIHE WAREUOUE LAY, The decision of the Suprento Court afiirming tho logality of the Warehouse Inw will be found in snother column, Munn & Scott, the oloystor mon, wore indicted under this law a year nggo, bhut thoir trinls wero susponded until the question of the legality of tho luw could bo decided. Now that 18 known, Mr. Reed an- -nounces bis dotormination to proceod at ouco sgainst them. ‘Chelr crime was tha allowing warohouse receipts to be jesued when thors was no corresponding grain in store to represent theno recoipts. Both parties aro out on bail, but it is abundantly good, TIE WOLS OF A BILLTARD-SALOON-KEEPER, Thowmas Turner flled a bill yosterday in tho Gircuit _Court npuinat his faithioss - partuer, Tobort Kilpatrick, Tiuiner states that ho has for & long time had o tlourishing businoss in the suloon uudor the Douglug House, on the corner of Cottnge Grove nvonue and Douglas place. Some timo lagt May Kilputrick stated that hiv wife was coming over, and would have s eon- siderable sum of monoy, with which he could purchase nn intercst in the business if Turnor would sell, Turnor thought this a good lhinF, and agreed to gell & half-interest in tho Douglas seloon for 81,600, Ho was at that time fitling up a saloon down town, aud zpreed to dlspose of o like intorost in that if Ttobort would pay_oso-half of the cxpouso of iltting tuat up. " Robort's wife came, but she only brought $Y81. ‘Lhomas, howover, genor~ ously took this in JJ"‘" payment, und agreed to wait for tho reat. Lut ho told his partuer that that would not buy oby shars in his down town aploon, A verbal partuorship was formed and wont on woll until Robert bogan to partake of tho flowing bowl too froquontly for his good, Turner complniue also that the stools in tho suloon disappearcd with an alarming rapidity without a correspnm]lu[i; iucrease in tho cash rceoipty, The business foll off avd Thomas mmu‘l‘:stmtud, but lus partnor repliod by gotting drundk. Complainant thinks he cannot ondura it any longer, £nd, theroforo, asks that tho partner- whip bo dissolved, aud a proper person appointed ta talse charga of tho enloon for iho prosont, and that Kilpatrick be restrained from collecting the firm debtsor interforing with itsafairs, orclaim- ing, a8 ho bay Intely done, any incorost in the dawn town selaon. Tho injuuction was graated by Judge Farwell, undor bond of €500, . DILL YOIt HLECIFIC PERFORMANOE, Anne T, Griswold and busband filed a bill in tho Suporior Court complaming of David II. Lincoln ond J, ‘G, Kuickorbockoer, Anne T, Grisword, it_appears, purchaged, In Augnet, 1872, of ono_Btephen Patmor, Lota 09 to 72, in Hnyos, Bhelby & Magofiin's Subdivision of Block 46, in the 3§, B, 11 of See. 7, 89, 14, assum- Ing an_inoumbrance of $7,000 to sald Liucoln, tha trust-dood being made by Palmer to J. O, Kniokerbookor as Trustes. Itwas agroed that wlien & selo was mado of any part of tho prom- {aes, it tho ]zurnhnnu money of that purt was aid it aliould bo roloasud by tho Lruuteo aud ivcolu. Mrs. Griswold found an opportunity to soll one-halt of the property, and tendered 88,600, which would pny the firet noto. Lincoln refuscd to rocolve a pur, bt domnndod tho wholo before he would relerso auy portion, The salo fell through on this account, Tho first noto aléo hng becomo due, but, owing to the tailuro to soll, it lins nok beon paid, and Knlokoe- bocker then asdvertised the land for sale. An injunction 1s thoreforo usked to provent this, and it is also desired that Lincoln may ba com- volled to releaso and to return an nbstract to the romises of whioh lio has locome possossnd. E’[‘ho injunction was issued under a bond for 1,000. ki EQUITADLE INSUNANCE COMPANY, James Long, Assignes of the Equitable In- surance Company, filed his roport of tho condi- tion of tho Company, showing : Balanco on hand, Jen, «.$10,814.48 Rocoiptiesseressares e 20000 $20,04448 DISHUTSCMEDIS, oo arsnavtsensasesssasovsnses L0G0IS On Liand Feb, 1.... oorer $18,08L38 BANKNUPTOY ITENE, 8. Levi & Brothors, of Cincinneti, filed a poti~ tion ngainst Worthoim & Iinago, of LaSallo, liquor and tobaceo munutacturers, Potitionors cloim $2,058.03 on threo accoptances, and chargo tho doblors with allowing ' Lam- bort Bliol to tuke judgmont by de- fault ageinat thom for — 0,028,680, It in nlgo niloged that thoy own o one-half futorest {u tho insolvent firm of A, L. Katz & Co, A rulo to show eauso Fob, ;17 wae jsmuod, a proe iluu}nul warrant, and an injunction’ agafuat Eliol, An ordor was ontered for the discharge of (inrlal Maranosi, if no objootions wore filed in fivo days. T, ().y Barnes was adjudicated bankrupt by do- fault, and o warrant fssuod roturnable March 4, The order of dismisanl in tho case of Georzo 8. Glovor et al, wau mado shsoluto, ‘I'ho procoedings ngainst D, A, Cashman will Iflm dimmiesod, if no objections are filed in ten nys. Van Velzer & Tullor wero adjudieated banlrupt by dollniulz.uml the warrant’ made roturnable areh 4, In tho mattor of Johmathan Walnwright, a croditors’ inooting wus ordered for Mnrchi’l, bofore A, B. Goou. A slmilar order wou weade ward Livors was mada absoluto. AOPENIOR COURT IN BRIER. William T Minchon commonced a suit ngainat Oharlos W, Doan anil Josoph Mannington, claim- Ing 810,000, Syon - Samuolson bogan & sult for 5,000 agninst Jacob L. Proathun, Morris Pilaum broughtoult in treapnan against Adolph Goldachmidt, Ignatius Stoln, Horman Goldselimidt, and Honry Test, claiming $10,000, Dhillp Lnrmon sued Miobaol Evans and John Iickey for $1,000. . D. Gardnor recovored judgment sgainat Bimon Mayo for §1,020,08, In tho caso of Nolwon Thomasson againat tho Hecond Nationnl Bank, tho plalntiff recovered Judgment for $1,000, OmMCUIT count, ‘Willinm Davidaon commenced a puit for §1,000 againgt Edwin Walker, ’ Tho Joliet Manufacturing Company brought sult agninat J. P, Dickey to rocover 81,000, Trodericl Dickingon hogan action in roplevin aginat John W, Enright, Edward Kelly, 7. 31, | o ]1|]rndluy, and C. G, Ayorw, to rocover 1,025 of uors. ql‘humnu B. Boyd sued Jacob X, Frank for £2,500. by CRIMINAL GOURT. In Tudge Moore oponad the February term of the Oriminal Court yesterdny, and Impnnolod a Grand and Petit Jury, Following is the list of tho Grand Jury, which isa romaritablo ane, from ¢ tho fack that noho of them askod to bo excusad, | 3 and hocaudo all wore prosont at tho opouing of court ¢ R, B, Olark, Cunningham, N, E, foromau 3 Sholdon, J. J, Sutton, 1. A. [ & alarm; 24,069; Tramo buildiugs, 415 brick onad stono, 10; G carpentor aud sloros and other woodswor! storon, 3; hat and ings, 2; 0. B, Somors, Joln V. f&\;\‘«lcummun with fire, Losses During January, e Praotioal and Valunhlo Suggestlons, Tue firo reporter of the Board of Undorwritors has submitted hin roport for January to Gon, Duoat, Chafrmanof the Fire Patrol Comnitteo, nn‘d from it the following facts and figuren are taken: B N DE] ot 1 4 m $91, HD.‘ 315"4:) srlg o » 3 5| 45 61i(3198,030 ‘i 2| 1000l 115700 A Insurance involved.,| 03,500) 422,200 3,300] 459300 Loss on buildings, $77,440; on contonts, 121,400 Averngo cost of ench firo nud falsg coverod by iusuranco, £2,670. nrus and sheds, 8, Uso of bulldings: Dwoll« 'gH, 275 8aloons, 3 ; enfo and hardwaro stores, point sliops, and furmiture lers, 8; grocery eap stores, tug-bost, bona blackamith-shop,” candy nnd rug slored, and dopot, 1 enchy yacant builds fobscoo stdres 3. Origin of fivous lighted mateh, or cigar, defectivo pipes and 1lues, i stove-pipo loles stopped with hnrcoul factory, Incondinry, 73 Tostor, Olclos B. Clayton, I B, Little, 10, T, | (i, sove-bipo loles stoy oy 34 Prontius, A, 0. Van Arman, Frod Wigloy, Adolph | jiopogien o, TioteR 15 overhentod pluves 'an Osterman, T. A. Plorco, Madison i hiok-nir I’F”“”» 73 gho Jot, 15 falling cupoln and Guslking, ' Thomna McDonald, P. R. T. W. Btoolo, H. H. Lildreth, J. R. Walkor, ?}lchnul Kolly, W. F. Loo Van Way, J. W, ussoy. The Grand Jury thon disporacd, and will as- semblo for busiuss this morniug. OUNTY COUNT. bs M, i‘-lh chii iam, grntzllnrl;,nniw bnil(liimu, 2; folse alurmm, 2 otal, 49, Loss regulting fr - ot 1daomm hg from tupposed jucon. Benuer, mney, 1 oacli; spnrks, 1; lamp oxplosion, 93 TUL INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS, Accordi to tho instruction of Fire Marshsl tho foromou of the department urg Tho will of Ohristophor Trapp was proven and “Wlulnflug themaolves with tho intorior cone lottors tostamentary u}lun hor going hor indlvidual bond in the sum of 25,50 0. Tho will of Mary Wilkon wasalo_ proved, nnd Insn‘;:org givon to Patrick Dalton under a bond of Loronz B, Wolfer was appointod admimstrator 2§ tho catate of Thomas Wolfer on & bond of £8.050. userul achioyemonts of tho oxerolsing a truly wholesome SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS, Special Dravatels to The Chicago Tribune, BeniNorieLp, Fob. 2.—The following opinions hiavo this day been flled in the Bupremo Court, Central Orand Division, in cases of tha Ji Rnuary torm, 1878 156. John A, Balleo, impleaded, stc,, v, Julia]A. Mor- gan. Appeal from Béott ; oplalon by'Mr. Jusilce Mo- istor, 102, Olty of Pekin v. James F. Brereton et al, Ap- peal from Tazowcll; opinfon by Mr, Chlef-Tustico Brecne, — COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Cost of the Sheriff’s Office, Able-Bodied Inmates of tlo Poor-House«= Recording Abstracts, The Board of County Commissioners met yea- terdny aftornoon, The full Board was in at~ toudance, oxcopting Commisslonor Ashton, in ‘whose absenco Commissioner Johnson waacallod totho chnir, The tardy Samuol mado his Rp- poaranco before the Clerk hnd finished resding tho minutes, and Mr. Johnson's Presidontial carcer was brought to an untimely end, COUNTY HOBPITAL, A communication wns received from Bonjamin Shurtlef offering to scll lots situnted near the' intoracction of Fullerton avenue and North Ialated strects, for o sito for a new County Hos- pital. It was reforred to the Joint Committocs on Ifoepitala and Public Buildings. Tho prices asked are £80,000 and $140,000. A commuuication from Judge Moore, asking that ropairs be mado in his court-room, was referred to tho Committeo on Publio Service. FELS, ETO. The CJommittoe ou Judiciary reported recom- to £2,422.80 for October and Novembor, to Daniel O'Hara, then Olotlt of tho Criminal Court. The report was conourred jv. Tho samo Committeo, to whom was roferred thia application of the Rocorder of Deeds, asking for increased com;euuuflnu for the recording of sbstracts, reported that the Constitution and the law rolating to salnvies provonts the incronso of compensation during a torm of offico; and that the Board caunot fnoroaso or diminish the Record- eor's nalary, ‘The report was concurred in, RECORDING ASTRACTS, Commissioner Hurrison said the Bonrd had janted to_Matin, Teabb, | yopt oo the ditforent Moo of cantilo buildings, with orders to violations of tho firo ordinauce and otlior condi- tona that roquire In the enntimo pected of tho onforeing the remedy for the compluints thus structod o talking ongine-houses aud wiLh Lis oflico at hoadquarters aud at home, with & viow of having hia inforiors az all fimes within spenkiug rango, without being absont from thoir respectivo dutios, timesto call ono or two onginey to work on o firg without sounding probably a dozen, thoir district, This cflicienoy inl tho dopartment in haviug the opor- atives alwaya at their posts of duty. TUE CHIE] cousory aiding the wily incone i monding the paymont of bills for foos smounting },fififig'fl&fi’tfiq%f,fiP,.'L,’,:‘,‘,’;“”"‘“‘T divorulon of truction and tho amount and kind of gooda aur largo “mor- roport oxisling attention, to tho Firo ONico, te the utmost vigilanco {s ox- ¥iro Wardens, in fuspeoting and od. Thls mny bo characterized ono of the oW regine, and {g eflact. A TALKING oInourr, Tho Ohlef, vory j(lldlclnuul)‘, is having eons olreuit connnoting the variouy residencos of his assistonts, and cspecially to bo ablo ag annlann which would bring and unnccossarily exposing rule must conduce Lo greator MANSHAL BNOULD NOT VIMIT ALY FINES, As there seoms to bano chartored roquireroent for the Chicf-Marshal toattend all firos, it tlioree fore must rest with thoe Board of Firo Cowumis- vioners or with him in this matter. Itis ovident that e should not bo x'nq;lrod to attend all fires for the obvious tho Common Council to direck roasons: Tivet, that tho city now covers an aron of thirty miles in oxtent, aud is gradually ox- Ppanding ovor moro territory, whilo tho firc-nlnrm !cluffllph slations are kaoping paca in avery di- rection, #o that the Chiof, in attending n succos sion of unimportant fires, usually resulting in little or no loss, in these disthiit portions of tho city, in_vory lablo to over-exertion and thug bo partially'it not totn‘ll( Jucapacitated to do himeolf and " tho city justice in coping with fires following closoly in ‘their wako, of groates magnitude and vmlf mors importance in tha commorcial centre, 'ho gecond reason i, that more timo should bo at his disposnl to meob iu 2 clear, sntinfactory, nnd imtolligont way the vast number of perplexing questions to bo solved in looking after tho wanta and disci plinary regula. tions of 300 mon anit forly to flMty pieces of machiuery, Ispecially is this chizuge rendered a8 dosirablo and Justifiablo ns it is evidently neceesary by tho emiuont fitness of the First Assistant Marshal to nssume tho important du. ties of which the Cliof would thus Do profitably roliaved. 'THE PUDBLIO ATARM SHOULD DL ANOLISHED, Tho publie alyrm may bo rn‘f_nnlod A4 an ac- iary criminal to 2 n lacality ; aud, from ndications, i is avident that ita warning sound recontly cavered the incoption of the State stroct fira, which resulted in such honvy loss. fire in the framo row on tho north “sidv of West Madison streot, near Canal, furnishod another mstance during the month. Hero tho previons slarmwhioh was suppased to call nway the onginca and loave ;the minntea beforo Our firomen aro raspootive cannot be failitated in tl alarm, while a business man The digtrict exposed sounded ten that indieating this fira, provided with gongs in their ongino-housos, and consoquently o lonst by o publia Deen originally informed that cortain porsony | it ‘gyor, hanrs thut bis rosicienes o H. outskirts beld n Jurgo humber of abslracts of original | of the sity fs on five from this souvee. I, theres traots, which ought to bo recorded, and for this | fore, 1t Ling no advantages, bul, on tho other reason the Rooorder was ordorad to recoivo ab- straots. It wos o quostion whethor the record- ing of abatracts waa of any baneflt to the county, 1 moved tho adoption of tho following : Resolved, That the Committes on Public Rocords ox- amine into the worklugs of tho action of the Board mu- thorizing tho record: of aboiracio at the Oountyw cxpouse, aud report if, and how far, iu tholr opindon, the record of abstracts s for tho good of the public, 0On motion of Commissioner Clough, tho raso- lution was amended by Including the Ji udiciary haud, many disparaging rosults, why stiould nat our cosmopolitan eit; majority of Inrger oition in this conntry and Luropo in disponsing with it as entiroly usoloss 2 follow the Tend of the MORE CHEMICAL ENGINES WANTED, A chomiioa! engine located nonr tho intorsco. tion of Michigan or Indians uvenucs on Twentys sevond slreet, 3adison stroot and Ashlaud avonuo, o largo praportion of our woll-furnished resi- and anothar iuthe vicinity of would cover Committao, and was then adopted. donces and plnco the moans within the rench of BUERIFF AND RECONDER. tha Firo Dopartmont of suving Y0 por cent of thy The Committes on Finance, to whom wore re- | 1058 that, inmany instances, must_ensio from ferred tha roporty of tho Recordor of Deeds and BherlfT, of roceiptn and oxpenditures tor the wix monthé ending Dee. 1, 1879, roported that tho Recordor's recoipts woro $30,705.85 ; oxponscs, $37,242.04; excoss of Tocoipts over exponges, §9,463.81, Tha Bheriff's recoipts woro S<1,7-LU.4£ recoipts over oxponses, al,duo.ns; oxcoss for both offeos, £4,800.27. The dishursoments by tho Bherif for salarios fncludod only his own salary for six months, the Board Luving audited and ordered paidl salntios in the Bherills oflico to tho amount of $20,690,50, and for other ox- pensos the sum of $60.83, wo that the Sherin’s oflice hian cost the county $38,412,03 over snd abovo its vocoipts during the timo covered by tho roport ; and this doficit added to that of ths first huif of the yonr, §10,388,20, malkos 1 loss to tho county of £38,801,22 in tho Sherifl's ofico for ‘Cho roport was conomred in, ) JURORY, rodlove ments aud elsewhero, proye a profituble investment to all concerned, 88 itis truothat greater lossos follow from .goods or furniture “suturated with wator and emolto, being in tnia coudition subjected to the Ru\xul doluy boforo adjustment, than from the re. Tho Chair presonted_various subjects for the cousideration of the Board, l.lel§ them the fact that a large numbor of able-bodfed young men are now inmates of thoe Couuty Poor-Iousc, whose only disability is disenso coutraotad through their own foult. It was submitted thnt 8uch porsons woro not propor recipients of the shown by the small {rom exposwo or violations of tho ordinance, flurin;i the month that a man to aftor § fiva-patrol ; to commenco promptly the work of the year ending Dev, 1, 1873, restoring goods, waterin the oxtin‘flliflhmcuh of iucipient fivos, a8 roported n fow avonuo and 12¢ Warren avonue, statod by the Marsbal, could have boon witha_chomical engine with n xm.viu[i of 75 poe cent, b\ht iltl tll:n ln]l:m:n_c':s of l:‘ "“I’! it , 2 38, — nocapsarily to bo takeu in over tho Brusgols ear- I e LT o Rl i A e R R that theeo mnchines ave particularly useful in theso localitios. nys since from 660 Michigan The fire, ng ut ouk 030 Lad " FIRE-WARDENA. The vigilanco of tho Fire-Wardens is correctly proportion of fires resulling NESTONING GOODS DAMNAGED AT TILES, It I boon suggosted by soveral instances pgenerslly look ros, and especially boyond thie timits of the furniture, ote.,” damaged Ly wvator or smoke, and tb employ laborers to iho samo from dobris it baso- when necoksary, wonld Apparent totul losses are, nowadays ocounty's oharity, to the oxclusion of others who | When valucs are fully insured os o rule, nlmos Wore crowded out of tho Paor-Hoase, 'Ilio new | { jury system also nooded some rogulation in ordor {o nbate tho nuisunce of applicutions to sorve on jurios, aud to compel the attendance of Jurors in court, ’ Commissioner Clough moved tho appointment. of a spepial committeo, sloners Bogue, Burdick, and Lonoergan, to tnke into cousidoration tho subjects Jresented by the Chair, The motion provailed, and the Qhairman was added to the Committee, "Iho Chair said that about 300,000 por month | ! was now paid out by the county for various | ! churitable objocta, Commissioner Binger ssid the queation of ablo-bodied inmates at the Poor-1louse could Lo sottled au well now as any time, aud he moved fo inatrdet the physician to rojoct all wuch ape plications from persons divensed, through thair | It own oxcossos aud fudiscrotion. 4 Tho motion wae withdrawn, for the roason | I that the subject was alrondy in tho hands of the Uommittee on Publio Charities, Tho Board adjourncd until Mondsy at 2 o'dlook. SNOWY SIDEWALKS, [ o the Fditor of The Chtcago Tridunes Bin: What i8 ovorybody's business is no- body's business; and, a4 the ontire community | ! aro much more intorestod than any ong individ. dco, uald sidownlky go uncleaned from one wook to anothor. But for the sun, who takes tho placo of tho Btroot Commissloner, it is qQoubtfu] whother our streots would ba fren from enow during the ontire wintor, Of courss thers is no ordinance requiring tho 8trnot Commissioner or any other individusl to keap tho sidowaiks i a punsablo condition, No one i expected In Ohi- oago to sweep the snow in front of his Liouse ar store, and it amounts to an fneult o ask it. In other eitios, haweyer, liko Boston and Now York, ;hu Htrmll. f ioro, aud suggests, firly but mildly, to ench h“‘l‘tf“h"mf ar x‘nél:ehnut,ytlfna,‘uulnuuy'hlu dido- walks nxn cloauod by o otrteln time, #ome one will he arrostod and fned, ;. 8, 4,000 musicinng, aud, MOTOOYOF, 8 coloss of the machinory of inti 5 - | runnmg Cin {‘w""“m““ of. Conite foul and dofectiva chimnays and fluen. i burning out of cither dovelops tho dofects, if there are any, Lastons to tho noarost alarm-hos, when actunlly i Oommisstoner iw o littlo_holdor than | I and EpuLning down to Jottles prepured for the veension, 'ho strretural plan embracos s vast orehostral concert hall eapublo of holdi nvariably susceptible of 15 to 80 por cont saly- BgL, DEFECTIVE CHIMNLYS, It 13 estimated that from 25 to 90 por cony annual wonr and tear of tho tho Dopartment arises from answer to alarms cnused by Ihe and the citizon, knowing {his, hore existu no danger. 3 An ordivance requiriug lint chimnoys and tlues bo swopt out, at least once o year, would obyisto this dificully to a great oxtont. A romunorntion, rango of all classes, should bo All “proporty-owners within the district of an engine-houso should bo roquired Lo show to the within tlio onsy fixed thorofor. oroman of said ongino commnny & cortificato hat his chimnoys and flues lind been eleaod ng oquired, a record of which should be kept by the foroman, —_——— The Universul Lxhibition at Geneva, Switzorland, Tho dotalls for the groat Universal Exhibition, 0 Lo hold in Genova in 1875, aro newrly come plato, ho piau for tha building has been pro~ pared by M, Julos Chatvon, the architeot of the Lyons Txhibition, The structure will occupy 10 loss than 00,000 square wmotres, apart from gO,(lUfl reum;’v:iul for Im‘lm“fi of embellishmont, t will etand in & matohless ual in having the sidewalks cloanad of snow and | {ha sido of tho lake, to radiste from n contral cupoln of mugnitudn hithorto unequaled, In tho cantre of this will riso u mighty column, from whioh the whole in- Fuuitlnu, closo upon Its gallorios nro intonded orlor of tho cdifico muy bo overlooked, while extorlorly a glorions sconic panorama, dwariing wil tho eiforts of avt and man—eo nnj’n the Patrig de Qeneve—will expand, Laoke Leman, fn_its il range, the Jura, the Bwies Alps and Mont Blane, acoessories of lossier noto, roud will come botwean the Arownd aro visibla with myrinds of As tho public high buitding and Inko, it u[)mpumd to conneet thom by a susponsion. ridgo, hnving the aspeot of trinmphal archos, abuug organ down town seldom, .