Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1874, Page 2

SPRINGFIELD. Proceedings of the Illinois Leg- islature Yesterday. The Railroad Police Bill Passed by . the Senate, 39 % Bill Introduced to Enforce the Pro- visions of the Raflroad Law, Petition of Chicago M_ercflants for the -Repeal of the Law. The Jury Bill Passed and [Signed by the Governor. Text of a Bill to Regulate Ware- house quixlcss. Something Like a Job in the Building of the State-House. RAILROAD INTERESTS. ‘swecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, . TUE NODTHWESTENN BUITS. SrrivoreLp, 11, Fab, 11.—Tho Railrond Oom- missionors hava beon notified by: tho attorney of tho Northwestorn Railrond that they will teko dopositions in. the caso pending at Froeport sgalnst that rond In Oanads, New York, and Ohio; snc thoy submit the interrogatarics, twonty-six in number, to which answers will bo nsked: Tho object of the interogatories are: first, to dovolp-the extont.and charactor of the knowlodgo of ithe witnosses; sccond, the man- nor in which schedulos of ratos are fixed, and why lorger ' quontities of the. same olass of . freight can be tranaported ot loss. ratos: . than small quantitios; third, Is, the- torif® flxed by the Northwestom Tailroad Company, comdoring, the cosb of the Tord nudiits oxponses for running—ita earninge ‘being but $7,000—an unronsonabloons? Tho dopositions of tho. leading railrond men of {his country, Englaud, and Canada, 1t fs rald, ara to bo taken, RATLHOAD POLIOE DILL., The Sonats Railrond Committee reportoed to the Sonato su amendment to the Police bill, out the: sixteenth soction, which was ::]rnllk’i‘g& aud the bill jmmodiatoly ordered to & third ronding. Tho bill was then read and pussed—yens, 89; unys, 1. Waito was absont; Casey, Cuuuinghum, Groone, Gundlach, Murphy, Pattorson, and Short not voting, Some of tho Senators- who voted for the “bill will rocommend. it8 vuta“by the . Governor on n:o round that the peualties are not commonsurate ;.;fl the offense. plz is thought, howoever, thr‘nt thera is no ixfixlx‘fluem danger of the Governor's vetoing an; 3 On fiougn of Btrong tho title of the bill was amended to rend “for sn_act in rolatiox to fencing and operating railronds.” ENPORAENENT OF THE DAILNOAD LAW. Mr. Plowmau inroduced a bill for the better enforecoment of the Railvond Law, providing that any agent or employo. of & railroad who ghall charge more than achedule rates ma; be sued before a Justico of the Ponce, and flno uot less than 810 nor more than 3100, and be imprisoned until the fiue is paid; also that any wmploye’ putting off passougors {rom trains for refuging to_pay moro than the schedule rates hall'be fined hy % Justice not less than $50 nor moro than 5200 LIADITITY OF COMMON CATRIERS. Phe Houss Railroad Commities raported favor- ouly the Senate bill doborring conmon carriers from limiting thoir common law linbility by stip- ulation or limitetlon expressed in tho receipt, THROUGH PREIGHTS, Tho same Committee reportod Jones’ bill re- Ialing to through Ireight, with an amendwmout providing that tho thurd ‘seotion shall apply to froight possing through tho State, but shell not ;ppEv to froight from points in the Stateto points” oumfin- the State, or from points putside to points withiin = tho Stato, ~ This fs no :improvement on tho present state of affairs, aarailcoads mako rates across the Btate now, though-in viclation of the decision of the Oommisslonera. § TUE UNJUST DISORIMINATION BILL. Mr. Carponter_introduced the folowing bill, and moved to ordor it to & second ronding an malo it the special order with the other railroad bill ¢ A Brwy for an act to nmend Bec, 3of an act entitled +An act to provent extortion and unjust dlsorim- ination in tho rates charged for tlie fransportation of prssengers and frelghts on railroads in tho Stato, 2nd to pusaisl tho same, aud prescribo o modo of procedure and rules of ‘ayidenice in rolation thereto, and to sepeal un act'ontitled “An act to prevent unjust discriminationsand cxtortions in tho rates to be chiarged by the different raiiroads in this Stat for tho transportation of freights on eald roads ; approved April 7, A, D. 1871, # Be it enacted by tlie People of the Stato of Illiuols, represented in General Assombly,.that Sce, 3 of “ An act to prevent oxtortion and unjust discriminntion in Hho rates charged for the transportation of passengers and frefght on rafirondn fu this State, and to punish thesome and'to preseriboa mode of ' procedurs and Fules of ovidenco-in relation thereto, and {0 repoal an uct entitled ¢ An act to prevent unfust diserimimation and extortlons in the rates to bo chiarged by the diffors eut raflroads in thia State for tho transportation of Trelghts on said roads ; approved April 7, A, D, 1871, bo 8o amended s to read ad followa 2 1f any-such rallrond: corporation shall charge, col- \cct, or recelve for the transportation of auy pnssons 30, or frolght'of any desoriptions, upon its railroad, for any distauce within thfs State, a greator smount of toll or compensation than by provided for by the schodules mentioned' intho cighth saction of this act, oe 3¢ it ehull charge, collect, or recelvo from mny crson or persons for iho transportation, receiving, andling, or dolivering ofany fraight upon Its rallrosd, 2 Lijgher or groater rato of toll o compensation than it.elial! at tho same timo oharge, collect, orrocelvofrom Ay othor person or ersons, for tlie transportation of 1o aushtity of frelght of the. sama class or closses, being trausported. from the samo point to thy samo polnt on any portion of such railrond, then any or all such acts, orsuch dlicriminating ratos or charges, whotlier maade diractly or by mesns of any robate drawback, or sny other ovasion, shull bo decnied an takon ugninst any such railroad corporation ns_prima facto evidenca of the wnjust diserimination prohibited. by tho provisions of thiw act ; aud any wuch railrosd company ehallbe Habla to the poualtied provided in the fourth section of this uct, o Johnson moved to refer to the Railroad Com- mittee. Aftor Hart had made his usual speech,-and Gordon had donounced the'law as injurious to his constitnonta in Morgan County, tho motion provailed. AMENDMENT WANTED, Wicker présonted & potition nlgned by dry- goods men, druggists, grocers, and other mer- chants of Chicngo, ropresenting $150,000,000, agking tho Leglslature to amend tho Railvon law 8o 1t ehould not disoriminate against Chica- g0 in favor of 8t, Louls aud othor outside citios, The document continues : Tho Tairoad lw has rosnllod 4 infury to our busl- ntss and tlat of our customers, It has Increased tho cdt of slilpments to tlio fnterior of {ho Btato, and has ndt Ieamened tlie cout of shipment of grain to tide-wu- tor, It hua impatred tho credit of tha Blato, and ren. deTed it almoat impossible o borrow monoy to _ bulld competiug:lines of raflroad, Ite coutiouance in forco scems to boonly fruitful in embarrassing tlo commor. cjal, iAterests of the Bluto, without evén & promise of bonotit to any of its cit{zons, unless it be the ofticers createdd by tiobill, : Referred to the Railroad Committee, wliore it iflllkhlwo 10 moro offect than water on a duck’s back; i THE JURY BILL, - Spactal Dispatch to The Chicaga Tribuns, Benivanewp, Il., Fob, 11.—The Jury bill was: taken up in the Senate under a suspension of thorules, aad’ put upon ite passage. Tho bill! was passod—yons, 40, nays, 3,—Dow, Reynolds, and Btrong, M, Dow voted No. He objected £0 tho provislon of tho bill allowing aman Living an opinion about a cate to serve on the jury, if, in s own opinion, ho can give the caso an” im- portiol hearing, Ha also thought tho bill wag not adaptod to furnishing juries iu cities, TEXT OF THE DILL, The following ace the priacipal points of . the bill ns passed, 5 G “Lha bill provides thut tlie County Hourd In the.xo~ spoctive countlos in this State, in Svptember, in’ tho year 1874, aud fu each rear thereafter, sball select from & list of niot less than me-tonth of the legal: votérs n number of persons eqii] to 100 for ench trial term of the Olreulk atd other cowrta of”rocord, excopt county courts, which moy bo previded by law to be bold dur- fug tho aucceeding year, md iu the County of Cook 200 for each torm of {ho Gircult-and Buporior Courts of Cook Gounty, snd 100 for the Criwinal Courk of Cook County for each triul lorm,, to serve as petit ju- Tors ; Provided, That tho pusons elocted 10 vorye as ( fl'\mn in oduris of rocord having. jurisdictibn only and for clliés, ahiall bo elcoted from four of tho mon oonvanient towns to 'sald tourt, to bb :dcalgnatod by the : Jndge of shoh dourt, ioud - tho Couity. Olbris. _of; fhe count$’ npitfed :thdro- of bofore. the 1at diy of Saptomber noxt: nnd it minking sitcl sclectlon ahall clivuse_ proportionato number from tho realdents of caclt_tow or preolnct, and alinll {nko tho namea of such only nsare: Firsl, inliabitants of tne town or procinot 7ot ezempt from norving on jurien: mccond, of tho oge of 4l Foaen ot wwards, and under 60 yeara old 3 third, in Lio posaceslon of {hele natural faoultlos, nd not fne firm or-deoropid ; fourth, froe from. all’ exaop- tionn, of fair_charaatory. of approved integrily, of :fimfil]\;‘d nlmni,,wull-ln ormed, snd who ', nnderstand 0 Euglish Inng s ! W ) L) Tho following poraois shall bo cxompt from serving 48 jurors, {o-wit: iho Govornor, Liouionant-Gover- nor, Becrotary of State, Auditor of Publio Accounts, Tretaurer, Supertntondont of Publio Tuntrustion, Al tornoy-Gonoral, mombors of (ho Genorsl Assonb durdng theft torm of office,, all Judges of Conris, nl Clorkn of Qourta, Shorifls, Coronors, Postmaa(ors, mall-carriors, pravticing sttorneys, all' oMcors of tuo Uniled Blalds, oficinting miniatérs of tho Cospl, Acliool-tenoliors during tho torma of sohool, practicing hysiclans, conntant ferrymen, Mayors of citios, po- lcemon snd active moinbors of tho fira. depsrte meat, A liat of Jurora nolocted alinll bo kopt in the offtce of the County Olork, wlo shsll. write 110 nomo and resi- denco of each peraon selectod upon a soparato tickot and put tho wholo {nto s box to bo kept for that pur- pose, and tho jurors drawh therefrom, Section 14 18 as follows 1 Itahall bo suficicut causo of chinllonge of a potit {uror {hathelacks any one of the qialifications men. foned “in Hoc, 2 of thinnot; or that lio has sorvod' 84 8 hiror on tho trial of 4 cause. in any court of ro. cord’in the county within one year provious to the Wmo.of s bolug offorad as o Juror; or that Lols & party to a uit ponding for trial in tnt Court, at that torm, It shallbe the duty of tho Courtto diacharge from ; thy, .x«nnl all - jurors ‘who do’ not posses the qm\il catfons provided {n thls act, as soon o8 tho fact is dlscovered: J"rnflldtdl If & porson has sorved on a jury fu a caurt of record within ono year, o aball bo oxompt from ngain sorv- ing durlug suck) year, unless ho walves such oxemps tion: Provided, further, that it shinll 10t be o canse of challonge thiat & juror Liag road in tho nowapupers. an acconntof tho commission of tho crimo with which the prisoner {8 charged, it such juror sinll -stato, on oatl, that he belfoves hio can render an impartiol vor- dict, according to the law and ovideuco: And, pro- vided, further, that in tho trial of any criminal cause, tho fact that & person called a8 a juror hns formod an opinlon or fmprossion, based tpon rumor or upon nowspaper statomonts, (abont tho truth of which ko, 118 oxpressed 1o opinion), shall not disqualify bim to’ Berve a8 o juror il such cause, if he slallj upon osth, ntato thot o belleves ho can fairly snd impartially ronder a verdict therein, in nocordanca with the law and tho evidence, and the Court shall be satisfed of tho truth-of such statment, v 8co, 19 dofines tho dutics of ns follows: No Grand Jury shsll mako prescntments of their own knowledge, upon the iuforniation of o loss number than two of thelr own body, unless the juror giving tho informotion-ia praviously aworn sa & witnos, in Which caso, if tho evidenco shnll bo deemed sulMcient, a0 jndictmeut may be found thereon in like munner #8 upon tho evidoucd of any other wituoss -who may not bo of tho jury. _The Judgo of any court of rocard af competent jurisdittion may order s special venire to La fasucd for a.Grand Jury at nny Hmo whon he aball bs of opinfon that public justice requires it, ‘Tho ordor for such venire snll bo'ontored on the’ rec- ord'of the court byjtho Olerk thereof; and such Olerk alLall forthwith issuo such veniro undes his hand and tho scal of. tho court, and deliver tho samo ta tho Slier- 11T, who shall executo the same by summoning, in the mannor now providlod, or that may heroaftor be pro- vided by, law for summoning jurars, twonty-threo porsons, qualified by law, to conslituts s Grond Jury, Such veniro stinll atnta tho day on which such persons shnl} appear before the Court.s : Potit jurics are to be impaneled n the follow- ing maonor: , 3 ; Beo, 20, 1t shall. be the duty of tho Clork of the Court, at the commencoment of each weck of tio term, 10 write the namo of each petit jnror summoned unc rethined for that week on a soparate tickot, and put tho whols Into n box or ollicr place for safo-koeping; and, 48 ofton ns it shall be necessary. to impancl & jury, the Olork, Sheriff, or Coroner sholl, in the presence of the Court, draw by chance twelve nanics out of such box or otlier place, which shiall designate the twelve to bo sworn on the jury, and in the same manner for the mnon'.‘x Jury, in thlr turn, ag the Court moy order and rec i e SEo. 21, Upon the impaneling of any jury in any civil causp now ponding, or to by hereafter commenced in any court in this State, it alinll bo the duty of tho Court, upon.requoat of elther party to the sufl, or upon ita own motion, to arder its full uumber of twelve Jurors fato the jury-box, beforo either party shall be. fequired to oxsmine any of said jnrors toucliing:thoir qualifications ¢o ‘try auy such cauos: providad, that the jury sholl Do pussed upon and sceopted in pancls of four by the parties, commeuciog with tho plaintiff, THE LAW IN FOROE, Tho Govornor signoed tho Jury bill, which, boing an emergency act, is now in forco, e A NEW WAREHOUSE BILL, E Speeial Dispateh to The Chicago Tbune. . SerivarELD, T, Feb, 11.—Willismson intro- duced » long Wavéhouse bill fn the Senato thiy morning, whichhe has propared, with tho as- sistance of & grain-man of Chicago, The bill ro- peals tho powers of the Railrond and Warochousa Commissjoucra so fox as thoy concer tho officoof Wareliouse Registrar or the duties of the Rogis- trar, and repoals tho ¢ rcglgtr:\tlnu for cancal- lation.” It provides for the appointment by the Governor, within ton days aftor tho pussege of tho act, of a Warehouse Registrar, who shnll give n bond, to bo approved by the Governor, in a pemnl sum of $25,000, for a faithful and honest discharge of ‘his dutics, o hos the exclusive appointment and, control of his sssistants, His enlary i 94,000, which, as well as tho oxpensea of his departmont, ié payable on tlio order of the'Com- missionors out of the inepection fees by the Chief Ingpector. Bec. 4 of the bill reads: | ‘Tho said Warehouse Registrar shall lcep full and correct records of tho trunsactions of his ofllce, sa Lereaftor provided ;. shull establish such s system of registration of warchouso receipts as shull show at all thines the particular registercd roceipta which are un- cancoled, tho amount due from each warchouse for uncanceled receipts of esch grade of grain, ‘and tho nmount of each grado of grain which the' roports of the warchousemen show to be actually on hond with which to meot puch uncanceled reglsierad rocolpts, . 8E0, 6, The Chief Inspeclor of Grain shull furnfsh to such Warehouse Rogistrar such information as the Registrar may need for thie verification of rocoiptapro- sented for registration ; and, in addition to the reports from the ownors of warchousos as horeaftor provided: for, thoy shall alno furnish such other information as {he Reglatrar may nead for tha succoratal performanco of his duties, Tho bill proceads to provide for the rogistra- tion of raceipts by the Registrar; for daily ports, to bo nccompanied by the reccipts which shall havo beon caucelod by tho warchousemen, which shall remain in tho hands of tho Registrar 04 acustotian; for woekly roports by the ware- housemen: (on Tucsduy morning), under oath administered by the Registrar or Lis chief clork, of the status of thoir stores on the close of busi- ness on the Saturday pracoding,—all of whioh provisions are accompaniod by proper penalties of fines from $100 to $500. g Boc,-8of tho bill rrovldcn that the Registrar, when he hos reason to bollove that any warchousa jirm is short, or_has boen guilty of fraud, moy apply to the Clrcuit Court, which slall immediatoly apj t o Ree celver to take' chargn of tho propertyof such ware- housemen, undor bonds, If a shortago of grain sball nppeur to sfd Rucolver, tho groin romaining shall bo proportionately distributed among the reccipt-holders, the judgment diutributing tho ssmo fo creato s lie Jipos allthe paronsl and veal ur Grand Juries operty of tho ware- housemen in favor of unsatisfled rceeipt-holders, If sliortage or fraud bo establishied, tho oxpenses of tho proceedings and of the Recelver must bo pald out of nu%prupcfiy belonging to the warehousenien, aud, if it 18 ot established, then to be pald out of thoin- spection fecs, The bill also punishes, byafine of from $1,000 to $5,000, the dolivery of grein withoub can~ cellation of the corresponding recoipts, or’ do- livering from one house or grede to sattsly ordos in another house or grade, Incage of tho rofusal of any warehouse to comply -with auy of the provisions of the bill, or if the Rogistrar deems it necossury to make application to cvurt for a Receiver, then Lo shall deliver writton noticos to the Hecratary of tho Board of Trado and to the railrond companiey delivoring grain to any such warohouse, who are prohibited from dealing with anysuch warchouso n any mannor thereafter, till tho procesdings in |- court or tho logal domands of tho Regintrar shall be uatislied. ! The Cnunt{ Attorney is placed at the direce tion of tho Hegistrar for all legal proveedings. ‘The amount of the bond required by tho wure- housemon in the' law of 1871, doposited whon the required licenso ig Issnody o8 sustained latoly by the Bupreme Court, is $10,000;. ‘Cho bill in- . croasos this bond to 500,000, the Clork of the Court to deposit certified coples of tho bond: in tho Attornoy-Genoral's oftice nud in the Regis- i trar's ofilce, o 3 ‘I'he bill is an omergonoy bill, and will require thirty-four votes, 5 e PUBLIC WORKS, Speotal Dispatcl, to The Citfeago Tvibune, BTATE-HOVSE NEPOTISM, Srovorierp, 1., Feb, 11,—Bome timeago tha Stato Houso Commissioners advertissd for bidy to plaster aud frosco tho' walls and coilings of the new Btato Iouso according to & procoss callod carton pierro, Bids weve reccived as fol- lowa: Bmith & Eastman, Chioago; €65,000; Godderd & Co., Ohlengo, 124,275 ; Porter Whito, $147,000; Pinkbam, 8145,000; W. T. IHoap, Qlicago, 160,000 ; Byrne & O'Drion, $183,000 ; Taul Dedeau, $185,000. The lowost bid, of HBmith & Eastman, was ovidently intonded as a bhind, as they refosed to qualify, The Commls- slonora should thon liavo scoopted the moxt ‘lowast bid, of Goddard & Go, for should haye dvortised for now ' bids. . Thoy did.notbing of tho kind, and nr‘r. now doing the work by umsplncu with Panl Bedoau, the higheat. biddor, ks Supéintondont. Now, Taul Jodenu {a nophow of Mr. Piquonard, tho atchiteot of tho building, 1o has had no oxtonsive expbrionco in tho busineas, having boen cohnooted with it only threo monthis bofore being importod from Paris, ' Plquonard wns in Parla [ast surnmor, and aftor hia roturn gave an catimato to the Commis- slon that the wholo work could be dona for 120~ 000 or $180,000, Tho Goddard bid ‘was botweon thoso figuros—within the architoot's estimato. Why dil not Goddard & Go.) gob'tha. oontradt F They wero roady to qualify and procaed with the worlk, and aro rendy now. Diut Paul Bodeau, haviug traveled all the way from Franco, Lad to Lo provided for, -Whon he did not got tha con- «| tract, It soema to have boon decided that no ono clgo should, Thus wore - biddors unished for doring to' competo with 1quonard’s mophew. his {s nopotism pure and unadultorated, * Pal {8 now working mon in tho Tremsurer's room, whioh, undor his ausplcos, will cost 83,000, although in Goddard's bid- this idontical room is put down as costiug ouly 3,100, Thae difforonco of $000 is not very much, but whon sl the rooms ara plnstored on tho samo seale it will amonnt to & sum worth looking aftor, aud almost too niuch for the Funplu 0 pay for the' honor of om- ploying Monslour Bedeau. Tho Commissionors olalm tiroy can do ths work chenpor by the Phnn than by contract, but no one bolloves it, . It ao, wliy con't they give overyono a chanco at it, and not limit thoir solection to Mr. Bedeau, Why do thoy lot worlk costing $8,000, whan the law is positive in commanding thom to advortizo for all work amounting to more than $3,600, and leb it to the lowest biddor. ¥ CONVIOT LADOR. Brooks called up his motion to roconsidor the vote by which the bill prohibiting conviots iu the Ponitentiary from laboring outsido its wslls wng lost. Thoe motion Lo reconsidor provailod—yoas, : 82 ; nays, 2—and the bill was passed, yeas, 20 ; noys, 12, REVORM-SOIOOL AT PONTIAC. The Senato bill nppropristing ,$30,000 to en~ Iargo tho Reform-School building at Pontiao, re- coived only 569 votes in the 'House, and was . therofore lost, Tho amount was intended to i sln:pgly tho defloiency caused by the deoclsion of the uprome Qourt pronouncing the donation of bouds by, Livingston Connl{lunnonstltuflnnnl. ‘Tha bill to leaso tho Iabor of tha institution was xt'innummlmd in the Benate to romedy lmporfec- one, BOUTHERN NORMAL 0HOOL. ‘Tho Houso pasad the Senato bill appropriat- ing 15,000 to start the Southorn Normal School at Onrbondale with & full corps of toachers. . ————— 5 SUPREME COURT. Special Dispateh tn The Chicago Tribuns, .SroivorreLp, Ill., Feb. 11.—Tho ‘Supreme Court concontration bill camo beforo the House Committoo, with an smondment providiug that the Clerks elected in tho Northorn and Southern Grand' Divisions should continue in offico until tho oxpiration of thelr torms in 1878. LaSalle County and Southern ‘mombers rose in their might and insisted on' tho nmendmont being printed, wlick wes a movement to gain time. Farthor considoration of the matter was postponed untii Tnesday. Tho opposition toromoval i8 rallying, abd will make a despor- ato fight in the Benate. The advantagos to the whole poople of having tho court a fixture are 80 palpable that mombors not immodiatoly - torested will voto in favor of locating it perma- nently in Springflold, as Chicago doos not want it. Indopondont of the convenience to tho legal . profession and to tho genoral publio,. the ex- ponses will bo consolidated aud reduced, a8 sov- erul understrnppers, such as janitors, can be dispensed with, TFollowing is” a statoment of oxpeunos of tho Court from Dee, 1, 1872, to Feb, 10, 1874, in the throe Grand Divisions : f NORTUEIN GRAND DIVISION. Tor repairing and refitting Court~-Houso. . For books, station othor inclde oxpente: For salnr; For Sheriff ’s attendnnco. For sorvices of Janitor, OENTRAL GRAND DIVISION, For rent of Gourt-rooms. For bools, statfonery, nn EXPENECHL .o 11s 1o Tor salury of Taw Librarian, Yor Shieriff ’s atendunco, For services of Jouitor, 660,70 SOUTNIZRN GRAND DIVIEI e v OX, For ropairing and furnishing Cn|l!huuuzufi.$lll.5%.w For books, stationery, and othor incidental expennns ... For nalary of Law Librarian, For Buorifr 's atiendanice... ) ; . H19,145,05 —ieite FINAL ADJOURNMENT, Sweeial, Dispateh to The Clifcago Tridune, 3 THE FARMERS DEMAND IT. Benm¥erisro, UL; Fob. 1l.—Jones prosented rosolutions-adopted at & mass meeting of the farmers of Jo Davioss County, setting forththat the Legislature, being in session in' contraven- tion of the spirit of the Conatitution), at a cost;of 81,600 & day, and rondoring no adequate servico to the taxpayers, should adjourn sine die. Efner poked fun st the farmers by moving refor to Agricalture. - Bradwell moved to act on the resolutlon forth- with, but of course this General Assembly has no mnotion of rolinquebing S5 a - day clear profis becouse farmors ask it. This is wot thay kind of a General ‘Assembly. Tho resolutions werocontemptously roferred to the Committeo on Agriculturo, com- osed of the most persistont hangers-on in the oute. The drift of public sontiment in fayor of adjournment is undoratood, but - disregarded by mombers, 1Moat of them having no hopos of bolnq agoin eleoted to am the; + 1,220,865 . 315,00 00 to oflico—and ¢ sliould not ba—ave rosolved fo tako thelr wha out of the poople as long a8 they dare. —— MISCELLANBOUS MATTERS. Bpecial Dispateh to Phe Chicago T'ribune, b THE OALUMET DAM, : Senrvorrenp, I, Feb. 11.—The “House re- duced the appropristion in the Culumet Dam bill to 4,000, and in that shape ordered it to third reading. z TIE GAS-WORKS, McGrat's bill, allowing municipal corpora- tions to establish gas-worke, was smended in the Benato by striking.out the power of the city .to condemn existing works, and limiting its opora~ tioos to Chieago. In that shape it went to @ third roading. TOLIOE' AND FIREMEN'S PENSION FUND, Kehoo's bill, sotting apart flnes indictod on police and firemen s o vension fond for thoss dlsabled in service, was reported favorably to tlio Benato. s THE LINCOLN PAIR BILL was ordored to & third roading iu the House; on motion of Rouutree, after striking out the sec- tion logislnting the present Commissionors out of offico, which wos rojocted as an uncalled for reflection on thiose goutlemon, LAKE VIEW, ‘Ex-Supervieor aud ex-Alderman Robert Olark 18 hore endeavoring to;amend- tho Township Or- gantzation law so that part-of the Town of Lake mow mey be consolidatod with North Chicago. Property-holdors from the lake to the river for o digtunco of one mile north from the city limits, Mr, Clark says, are anxious to become pors of the city, and send an Alderman or two to the Counoil. CITY COURT AT AMIOY, Tho bill abolishing tho City Court at Amboy passed the House, g THE SENATONS OUT UP CATENS like'n hord of 2-yoar olds this afternoon, Crows |, oponing tho fun by a motlon to cousidor the rosolution for a recess. Ho falled; and Cum- mings tried his hand, and Oummings failed ; and Hemipton tried to lold au ovoning session, o as to reach tho order of resolutions, and he failod s and so thay fillbuatered for two houra, The bost thing thoy can do is to take a recoss, go home and stay thore. Tho Houso behaved itsolf botter yostarday, STl YO O] TFirclosx Locomotives, A Tha following is condensca fromy a lottor of Gou, P, I, Beauregard, who is President of tho Now Orleans & Carroliton Railrond Company. Tho fireloss locomotives havo now boon in use two months on a portlon of that rond of about throo milos, Thoy Lmyo re- sulted in minutes to the round trip, Thoy are more managoable than horuos, Lolng more readily utnp?ud sud startod, and give tfio driver. oppor- tunity to make chiango and attond to tho passon- gors, Thoy start with 125 pouuds' prossure, 1make tho round trip of six miles, and got back ta the olnmug-iwlnl with 40 to 60 poun Ono dummy is equal to nino mulos, A calonlation for twanty yonrs makes tho mnung exponsos of a road wilh theso engines one-fourth of that of oqual couvoyance with mules, If theso tigures aro ai all uoar correptness, tho days of horso- fi);n,fl ou the soore of economy alono, Are Rume ‘ol .Gounty Hos) a galn over horses of twenty | " ATTEMPTED ESCAPE. A Hotel-Thisf ‘Wishes to @et Rid o His Troubles. And Resorts to the Expedient of Shoot- ing lIlmsell‘.‘ Prohability that the Wound 1s Not Fatal, Slkoteh of the Life of the Offerider. Tuesdnsy ovoning about 7 o'cloek, Mr, Kirk- wood, of tho fur house of Kolth Brothers, board- ing at tho Palmer Ifouse, wont up to his room from tho rotunds of tho hotol, nuticlputing plensant ovoning fn the privacy of his apart- meut. Ho was rathor more sutprised than edi- flod whon, on renching his quarters, ho discov- ered that o nico young man had precoded him, and was dpon the point of departing thorofrom. Mr. X, laid violent hands on the intrudor, with s viow to ascortain tho objeot and result of his visit Bub o BLIPYED FROM IUS GRASP with the agility of an norobat, and darted for the stairway loading to tho offico like & bali from a cannon. He lnd gono as far aa tho parlor, whero ho was prematurely Introduced to Col, Bhoridan, and that gontloman tostifled his appro- clation of the Lionor by detaining and oscorting Lim to tho office. 'The clerks of the hotel fatled to recognize his linoamonts ns- belonging to a guostof the houso, and Watchman Lull, who wason the ground, identified tho atranger ne T. V. Shoridan, He was token to the Armory, and, upon sosrching bis porson, innumerable . koys, two portmonnaies, and sundry * trioks" pecullar to tho oraft wore found in his possos- sion, AMONG THE PLUNDER talten from tho hidden pookets of his garments, was a nfo-koy numbered 1,000,7 a wallof, sup- posed to bolong to Philip Davidson, and, on the proporty of David Btorn, of Philadelphin, a ro- cant guost at tho houro: also, a koytos room ob tho Clifton House. Tho prisoner was locked up YNR“MW’ to his lpguumncn bofore Boyden i'uu orday morning, and tho officers congratu~ ated themsolves on the eapture of & man who had given thom g0 much trouble by hi# darik deeds about the hotols of tho oity. READY TO HAND OVER, Whon tho day dawnod, the prisoner, moved olther by remoro at his folonious conduet, or by: tho hope thet the sction might mitigate his crime, or by both, solicited an audience with Capt. Lull, "Whon that oficer, in company with Detoctive Gallaghor, visited him in obedienco to his wishes, ho oxpressed his willingness to ac- company thom to bis room on Congress street and deliver tho fruits ot his previous operations, amounting, as was supposed, to about 2,000 in value, ‘Tho officers gladly accepted lils proposi- tiou, and, ko sandwichod betwoen them, the trio .went thithor. Whilo on the way, tho prisoner manifosted the most poiguait griof at the posi- tion in which he had Xub himsolf by bis unlaw- {ul nots, and expressed o wish that he might die. In o short timo they arrived at his domicil, and ho led them up a dark, narrow 'flight of slairs, and having reactiod the secoud story, continno plloting ‘his _fallowera throx;gu & cirenitous, meandering hall, until ho renched a room in the roar of the houso, into whick ho ushered thom. Onca in, ho oftored them the hospitalities of the apartment, and in a calt, cool, business-like mannor sof about accomplisbing THE OBJECT OF TUE VISIT, On one side of tho room a_vault is built, closed with o door which can only be opened by ono familiar with the combination, He st once bogan the operation of unlockiug it, and_called the combination as tha cylinder respondad to his movemonts. A briof interval, perbaps flve minutes, elapsed bofors o completed tho worlk, when he turncd tho knob and swung back tho hoavy iron door, disclosing the interior of tho % enfe, stored with vajuables, = Capt. Lull rnquns!ed Dotective Gaflagher to watch tho prisonor while ho entered tho iron box, aud be- ‘gan & search for’ persoual pmpurl{l thereiu stored, Officor Gallagher went to the burean sud, opeuing the compartments, sought to make an examination of their contents, While thus engaged, Sherldangintorrupted him, and ipre- sonted dv.llagbnr with a neat, delicato penknifo, with & request that ho would retain it asn token of rospect. ‘The officor thauked tho donor, and returned to an investigation of the bureau, while 8heridan sauntered lolsurely scross the room to n mantel-piece. Tho room was neatly furnished, and modestly decoratod with on- gravings and photographs. On the mantel-picco was o collection of books of a: character that would be found in tho libiary of a gentleman of rofluod taste ond -claselonl inclinations, Sud- denly the oflicors were startlad by & BUARP, QUICK REPORT 83 of an explosion of a pistol, aud & small puft of bluo smoke, curling upward toward tho coil- ing, indicatod that the voport did come from a wenpon. Officor Gallaghor rushed to tho pris- oner, nnd reached him in timo to catch his fall- ing body bofore it struck the floor. Qallagher luid him gently on his-back, and a wound in tha right side of tho head, from whick the bright blood Fushod forth, Ina trombling limbs and the convulsive shuddor of his framo, showed him to Do, apparently, in the agoniea of death. ‘I'he two men alone in the room with death, ss they thought, confronting them, maintained their presonce of mind, aud while one sought a doc- 1or, the other tried to check the flow of blood, and by such meagre meaus a8 wero ab his com- mand, o rovive the wounded eriminal. HELD SEGURED, A physician from the_neighboring corner was summoned, but delined to operate ' unaided by the services of a mocond: doctor. Finally Dr, Millor, who was passing the vicinity, was called in and examined the wound. Ho pronounoed it not necessarily dangerous, and, after dressing it temporarily, direoted his removal to the %, Heis at present an occuprnt of Ward **B” jwthat_institution, and receiving such caro as his case domunds, TIE WOUND inflicted is & fow inches back of tho right temple, and conslsts of » ddop, ragged gash, such as would bo mado by n musket ball. The missilo ‘wont crashing throngh the muscular ligaments that proteot tho slull, and, taking a downward courso, chipped the skull, and glancing off, lodged at tho baso of the jaw. The wound is not of neccessity fatal, and unlcss moningitis sets in his rocovery is assured. ¢ HIS IISTORY, This is the ond of a young man of whom some- thing fur difforont might have been oxpocted. e i8 a native of New York City, from which poixt ho came to Chicago somo yoars sgo, aund until quite rocently has occupled a. dosirablo po- sition hare. Hoclaimelo boe graduato of Yalo Collogo in the claes of 1801, and hig oducational acquiroments aro such as to warrant the beliof that ho is a collogien. Immediately upon com- pleting his colloge courso, boing prompted by a pirit of adventure, ho entered the army, and sorved ag an ofticor in one of tha Now York rogi- monts until the surrender at Appomatox Court- House, in April, 1865, At the cloge of tho War, he was'one of those who launched their barks on tho tide of fortuno, and eought o the West a realization of am- bitfous dreams, Ile made a tomporary stay in the Oity of Keokuls, whore Lo was employed in a clorical capacity 1 the Doming IHouse, and, ay thoro axe no reports of any shortcomjugs thore, tho conolusion ¥ that Lo sorved with fidelity. Bince ho came to Ohicago ho has, excopt during tho past six or al,éht wooks, flllod pouitions of houor and’ trust. At ono timo Lo was in tho ¢mploy of Drow’s Commeroial Colloge, where ~he taught the aré of phonog- raphy, Again, ho iu alleged to huve sorved in n grocory houso of Gaffey & Co., noar tho coruor of Peoria and Hubburd stréots, No- Millan Dros,, photagrnyhurs, cmployed him in thelr_rooms at No. 1% T\Mlfi'flflcond streot, near Michigau ayenuo; and flnally ho dluclmrgcxl tho duties of booklkeoper in tho offico of Goorge A, Puliman, on Michigan avenue, Ilis assooia- tlons were good, but his acqusintances dgsort that thore wus o mystery sbout him that could not bo made out. " Ilo was very qulet, gentlo- mauly, unobtrusivo, and doferential, but yob there seomed to bo somothing buck, ihnt noyer was oxbibitod boforo the ocurtain, AT THE PAGIFIO, On the 234 of Decomber, room No. 211 of tho ot Qrand Pacific” occupled by an English Lord, Tarbot by name, was unuurnn‘mu}mm:{ ontero and an attompt to rob, intorrupted by the opportuno arrdval of my lord's gusrdiun, Io detainod tho intorlopor’ uutil Sam Ellis came, and tho thiof who was consigned to a coll was the vory man who lios to-day in the ward of & Hospital, writhing iu tho agonios of montal and physical torturo, “'This it is alloged Iy tho first critno that can bo_brought home to, Bhorldan, Io was produced in Court on the morning following his arrest, and in consoquence of tho inabllity of the English Lord to remuin and prosocuto hi, Lo recolyed a light penalty; whioh IBRUARY 12, 1874, ho ayoidod by Appenting from the sotlon. of - the court wiioh pansod. upon it ¢nso., Ono'svonlng shortly aftor his ralohso from tho Bridewoll, Dos tootiva Donnis Simmonb was tho ols oconpant, of tho offiSors’ room’ ab the Central, whon a timld ap at tho door gavo tokon that somo ohe was sookihg” admittauco, Tho officor invited tho strangor to ontor, and upon inqulir- ing ~ hia * buelnoss, Shoridsn - introduced himeelf, . rocalled ., “tho clrcumstanco of his arrest; and with tho tact and eloguonce of an advocato, almost convineed his auditory that ho was tho vietim of unfortuitous ciroumstanccs. It is indeed ono of tho mmost pitinblo' casos tho oriminal calendar of Ohieago, overflowing with oyory dogreo of folony, hna rocorded, With an olegant addross, gontlo appoarance, fluont anng‘clh, Ixmdithu“m tnltn nu]l:tlo;nun, °3° czau readily imagine the torluro ho has onduro which ke kought Lo end, ! e e MIDNIGHT, Another Deolsion: in the Saloon Oases. ' A Curtaln is Declared Too Transparent n ¥ Subterfigo, * The following is the opinfon of the Supromo Court, writion by. Mr, Justice Scholfiold, in the caso of Baldwin v. Tho Clty of Ohicago, and whioh relates to tho ordinanco providing for olosing snloons ot midnight , The judgmient of which appollant domplaind wal rondored for the violation of an ordiande of tho City of Ohicago, whicli ig in theso words : ‘That any person who shail in eald cily keop opon ony ssloon, bar-room, or tippling-house during tho night-time, belween 'tho houta of 13 o'clock mid- night and 5 o'clock 8. m., shall bo mubject toa fine of not less than $30 nor moro than $100 for each offenso, ’ s The evidence in theé case is "ombodied in this stipulation, signed by tho attorneys of the ro- spectiva partios . o 7 In this cano t o stipulated snd agreod that tho do- fondont i a restaurant nnd saloon-keoper iu said city ; that bia moin bsinoss 8 to provide mesls to boarders snd transient porsons, ond that b pols iqors, aud in duly lcensod #0 to do'; that ho kopt open s placo of busincas after tho hour of 12 ut midnight for merving meals only; and that ho did not sell liquor aftor mide night, but that ho afd serve meals; that bofors tho hour of 12 hoclosed his bar by meana of drawinga curtafn sround it, and thua shut it dut of viaw, and aid not open it until after & in the morning; that the cliarge ogninst him fs & violatlon of tho ordinanco known an tho ordinsnco requiring (o closin of snloous nt 12 o'clock, midnight, untll 6 o'cloc] in tho morning, It fa also ngroed tint tho plan filed Llicrowith is o corroct represontation of the ghu of businoss of tho sald Baldwin, It 14 further stipnisted aud ngreed that, l!‘\llm Court shall fiud for tho plain- T, o judgmont shiall ba entorod far $20 and costs, ‘The prosecution was commenced, and the caso tried before s Pollco Justico. ‘Judgment was rondored in . favor of np})nflnnt {from whioh ap- ypoltee appéaled-to the Criminal Goturt. 3 It is argued that tho {udgmeut should bo ro- versed, because no appéal les at the instance of appellee in such cases. it is provided in tho Chartor of the City that “ Apponls and changes of yonuo shall bo allowed and ‘may bo faken from Polioe Justicss: in all casos, in the sasme maunor a8 beforo other Jus- ticos of the Ponce.” Tuley's Laws and Or nances of Obicago, 512, Bees, 1-4. Inunsmuch a8 this is a clvil proceeding in form, and only quasi oriminal .in its charactor, wo are of tho opinion tfiat tho right of n.fipoul is conferred on sppelles a8 woll as on appollant, (See Graxviow v. Jacksonville, 50 IlI. 87. No objcction is urged, sud nono is apparont, to the rossonabiences of the ordinanco uuder ‘which appellant was convioted, - It is contended, however, that the facts admitted in tho stipu- lation do not constitutoe a violation of tlho or- dinance; that liquor-gelling is but an incident to tho business of appellant, aud that, if this conviction. shiall Do sustained, it must follow that hotols, drug-storos, and overy busincss carried on in tho cily, in whioh liquor-selling ‘is an incidont to, but not tho main businoess, wiil fall within the rostrictions of tho ordinance. ‘We do not porcolve that this result must necos- AUCTIONEERS, in Wiggins vs. Ohfe cago. Deoision The Lower Court Emphatically o Sustqhmd. Power of the City to Liconso Auction- 2t eots, Bts, —_— ‘We publleh herowith tho opinion of the Bu- promo Court 1n the caso of David Wiggins, tho auctioneor, v. Tlte Olty of Cldeage.’, Bomd of the pofnts roforrod to have beon sottled in do- cislons proviously printed, ‘but othors aro in- volved In this mattor which make it worth whilo to givo the dealslon, writtch by BMr. Justico Wallcor, which is as follows ¢ ' g Tho first question firosentod fs whéthor tho Crimind! Gourt of Cook County biad Jurisdiotion ovor the subject-mnttor of the appeal proscouted from the Justico of tho Ponco, 1t i & matter of fio consequance how the cate waa trausforied from the Police Magistrato Boully to tho Pollco Magistrate Banyon, as ap- pellant nppeardd bofore the lattor, and weht to trla), and flllalponlbff tho osgo to the Oriminal Catirt, *Tho. magistrate liaving jurisdiction of the snbject minttor of tho sult, thoro cannot bo the slightost question that hohes nlso nequired jurisdiotfon of tho ‘person of appollant, whon he entored his umwnr- anco to the suit, Roborts v. Formhalls, 46 Iit., 60, and tho case thero cited, Tho Crimninal Court, however, s lnited in ita jurisdiction lgv our rosent Uonsiitution. It provides that it ahall ave the juridalotion of & Ciroult Courtin ‘alt cagos of & criminal and quasi oriminal_nature arising in the County of Oook, ote. And all re- cognizances and appoals takonin that county in criminal and quasi criminal cases shall bo re turnablo and talten to that Court, It i, then, naocessary to determino whothor this case isof o quasi criminal nature, a8 it is not olaimed to bo criminal. ' Wharton, inhis law loxicon, dofinos quasi crime to bo tho act of doiugi,dnmnga or ovil involuntarily. But this oannot bo the sénse in which the framers of our Constitution intonded to uso the term. When tho outiro sention {s. considered in the light of our jurfsprudence, wo must concludo that it was intonded to embraco all offenses nob crimos or misdomennors, but that are in tho naturo of crimes, & class of offonses ngainst the publio which havo not boon doclared erimes, but wrongs, against thofanmnl or local public,. ‘which it ia proper shonld bo repressed or pui- ishod by forfoitures and penalties, This would: ombrace all qui tam actions and forfeitures jm- posied for the mneglect or violation of a public duty, A quoel orimo would noijombraco an in- dictablo offense, whatover might bo their grado, bu simply forfciturcs for » wrong dono to tho publio, whether voluntary or involuntary, whero 8 ponalty is given, whether recoyerable ‘ by criminal or civil process, and it would em- braco prosocutions for bufintdy‘ and informa- tions in the nature of & quo warranto, ctc. In accordanco with those views, it was hold in Ehe case of Naylor va, Tho City of Galesbuig, 66 I1l., 2805, that a suit to rocover a penalty for the vio- latton of 'n city ordinance wna n quasi ecrim- innl prosecution, That caso is ~conclusive of this question, and under it we must hold that tho appeal was prorurly talton to the Criminal Court of Cook County; ond.it thus ac- quired jurisdiction, ‘Tho caso was submittod «to the Court below, and tried without a jury; and, offer hoaving the avidenco, the Conrt anuounced thet he fouud tho defondnnt ** guilty,” and, i rendeting the judg- ment, it was ordered that *tho defendaut Lo fined the eum of 250 nnd pay tho costs,” and awsrdod executions in favor of the plaintiff. It has boon repeatedly held by this Court that it is immaterial what tho form of tho'verdict msy bio, 86 thiat ib i the_substdnoe of o propor fludin satily follow. That it may follow in somo cases is probablo; but, when it doos, it must be bo- causo thoso who own or control hotels, drug- stores, &o., shall .chooso to conduct the entire businesa in . tholr saloons, bar-raoms, or ‘tippling-hotises, When, howover, thoy, shall koop their enloons, ' bar-rooms, or tippliug-houses, inono room, and conduct their er businoss in separate rooms, .wo think the closing of this branch of busirioss nt midnight con bo effectunlly dono without interfering in the slightdst degree with their othor business, ‘Wo hinve no question but the Court bolow decid- ed corractly, holding that _the langunge of tho ordiuauce eoxtouds to the room in which the saloon, bar-room, or tipplivg-houso is kept; and that the mere drawing: of a curlsin across tho portion of tho room thus uccugwd is too transparent a subterfugo to answer tho require- monts of thé ordindnco that tho saloon, HIF'""“' house, or bar-room ehall be closod. 0 our miuds, it is clear thot tho torms usod apply fo, and include, the room in which tho- business is carried on: The object of the ordinanco is mani- festly not merely to stop drinking at that hour, but aleo compol those who are inclined to colloch and tarry ot such places o dopart. A Buch ordinances ore for the promiotion of the quiet and gond order of the city, and it is impor- tant that they should bo so construed and: en- forced as to nccomplish, a8 far ns may be reason- ably practical, the ond hod in view in thoir adoption, "X Wa percoivo no couss for disturbing thé judg- ment bolow, and 1t is thoroforo aftirmed, RELIGIOUS. Trinity Church, Aurora. .Aunora, IiL; Feb, 6, 1874, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sn: To corroct somo misstalomonts that have cropt into your columns concerning Trinity Chureh, Aurors, I ond you the following : . On Bunday, Jan, 25, Dr, Hawley, our Senior ‘Warden, hud appointed, with the Rootor's con- seut, toread in our ohurch, sftor Evening Ber« vice, choice uelections from the Ohurch and State, a Low Church (Now York) paper, showing tho writer's view of tho Reformed Episcopal Churoh. That editor dogs no! eanction the schism; ho omphatically robules it, while ho thinks that the rospousibility for it doos not rest exclusively on thoso who have euacted it. Tho view is one tol- erated in our Ohurch; and, aftor the reading, tho ‘Wardon and Itector both intended to make ro- marks caloulated to illustrato tho allowable com- pn;hunalvnnnan of our Church with it practieal unity. ',l‘hye Warden distinctly disavowoed any infen- tion to read for tho purpose of divid« jng the porish (an inteantion with whish ho "had been accused). Bome party; ovidontly bolieving that accusation, plugged the gag-pipe Iondilll\g into the church, #o that the service and reading wore preventod. Ata parish meeting tho noxt Fridey night, three rosolutions wore passed, viz: That we regret the manner in which Dr, Hawley's readings were provented lnst Sunday uight, That wo roquest the Doctor to prosout, noxt Wednés- day. wunlun,?fl churcl, those readings which wero in- tended for lnat Bundny ovening, That we, o6 purlsh, bave no sympathy with the Cummins-Olency achistn, There ia not tho slightost evidonce, iliat any parishioner hore proposes to divide this parish, As a socclety, wo aro thoroughly loyal to the- Protestant Episcopal Church ns it ia. W, C. Hopxins; Tector of Trinity Ohuroh; Anrors, i, P, 8,—Fep, 0.—Dr, Huwley guve lua 'ieudlufin in our church yesterday, by joiut request of the Veutry and myself, Ho said and roud nothing adyoonting tho Reformed Episcopal Churech, or aoy other division, In‘a very acceptablo man- nor, ho morely road selections from Suripture and tho Qhurch and Stale, ahnwlns the position of the Low-Church party, and advooatin that liberality whioh hns nlways charactorizo our communion, and enabled us to reconcile don- solontious party-divisions with praotical church- anity. Another Accesslon to the Xefornied Episcopal Church. From the $t. Paul (Minn.) Disvatch, Feb. 0. The Rov, Edward Duffield Neil, Provost of Muealestor College, in Minnonpolis, bids fares well to the Presbyterian Church, of whioh ho hns boon an honored olorgyman for. thirty yoars, and casts his fortnnes from hence- Torth with thoe Roformed Episcopal de- nomination, In the DMinneapolis T'ribune of Sundoy the correspondence of the roverend gontloman i ublished, and those lettors briefly sot forth his reasons for the atop, Mr, Neil is"a gentloman fof undoubted ability and oulturo, sud has for yosrs been a ro« ooguized light in tho Presbyterian Ohuroh of this State, 1lis adhesion to "thocause of Re- formed Lpiscopalianism will lend tone, ohar- actor, aud eminont scholastio respectability to tho movement in the Northwest, aud wiil doubt- losa attract a multitudo of raw recruits, from other churches to the standard of the Prayer- ook of 1702, It will also givo tho virgin soot o recogunizod] denominational educationsl insti- tution, as probably MMacalistor College will fol- low tho fortunes of its founder, and aleo support tho anclont Lrayoer-Book, Minkhart vs.-Hankléy, 19 IiL, 48; Datcs vs, Williams, 43 Iil, 400 Jarrard vs. Harpor, 42 IiL,, 457; snd Hartford ¥ire Iusurance Company ve. Vandorger, 49 Xil,, 489, In this enso, it wan immatorial whethor the Court said that he found the igsucs for tha plnintiff, and found its debt to be §50, or found defendant guilty and rendered bl out for that sum, This Court hae never inolined to ap- ly strict teohnical rules in casos oforo Justicos of tho- DPeace, or an appenl 48 in gpso where there are no writ- ton pleadings. In such cascs substance and not form is regarded. Wo havo boon unabls to find that uny{lrreolae form ol.n verdict is given in the books. * 'The rules raquiro that it shall be re- gponéive to the iesue, but works on practico lay lown &5 a.rulg that the vordict may be pro- nouuced in open court, whore it is entered in form by the Olerk, who shonld thore read it to the jury to avoid all mistaked, Itis urged that the Oourt below entered a ju%qg:mt for a fine nnd not & fornial judgment in dobt. gossuaa the formal parta of o judgment in dobt, ut it ordors and adjudges that defendant bo fingd $50 and _pay tho_cost of, tho proceeding, and awards oxécution for its collection. 'Tho judgment is unskillfally entorad, but it is 4 flud- m;I- and an ajudication and could be dollected. . Itis 28 formnl as judgments usunlly enterod by Justices of the Peaco, tnd ofi an appeal will® bo sustnined. Sed Pendergrast ve, Tha City of Peru, 20 IlL, 61; Harton ve. Critchfield, 18 T1L., 185; Chicsgo & T L R. R. Co. ve. Whiplo, 23 Ill, 397. Theso casos are decisive of this ques- tion, 1t is contenced that the Mayor, notwithatand- ing the ordinance, had no power to_rovoko tho liconso and thot appellant was not lable to tho Ennaley. ‘Thio chartor provides that the city shall avo pawer to tax, liceneo, and regulate auction- cors, distillors, &o. And it confors powor to au- thorizo the Mayor power to grant liconses for the varlous purposes authorized undor this J:mvm- ion of tho chartor, The first section of Chaptor 23 of tho ordinances provides, tuat it the person licensed shall violato any ordindnco rélating to his business, he shall pe liable to ba &:muoudnd against for any fiue or penalty imposed theroby, and his license shall bo subjoctto be revoked in tha discrotion of tho Mayor, orof tho court or maglatrate bofore whom ho shall bo convicted of guch violation. Tho ordinance prohibitd the salgof goods, chattels, and garsonal proporty undar o ponally of Zorfeiting tho sum of €50, 'Tlio powor conferred by the chartor- to tas; li- cense, and rogulato auctioneors, authorizod tho city to ndn%nuy roasonable ordinancos for the PUrposo, e charter points out no particular mode, Tho city may tax; may liconee, and may rognlato thio business of ‘anctionoors. ' Tho city sy not dircotly prohibit the business, nor cin it adopt such unreasenable regulnuann a8 would produce such results; or even be oflrrcnuivu‘nnd highly injurious to thobusiness, All means'om- Pptoyed for the taxation, license, and rogulation of the businoss must be:reasonable, And this is trus of ll ordiuancos of a olty, 'ho quostion then arises, I8 this a reasonablo ordinance? 'Tlhio &im chaiged, thé lovgth of time tho liconao is to continug, and_the required boud and seourity for tho faithful observance .of tho ordinances rogulating tho busiuoss are not unroaganablo roquiroments ; nor do we seo that, in regalating tho business, a forfeitdro of tho licohso should . follow. .o violdtion of flio ordinangs, and that " the Mayor should have tho Bonor of révoking thit liconse, wlien he should 6como satisfled of the fact, is uuredsonable or oppressive. Such provisions may bo tho onl; eftoctud! modd of rogulatitig the business, An whother it is 80 or®ot, we regard the ordinsnce a8 reasonable, The powor inust resido somo- whoro to ravoke the license, and if it sonld only bo dono by thie Courts, the delays that could bo produced in litigatiop would ronder such a pro- vision orititely unnvnuln‘i,', a8 tho liceénse : would omim bofore & fiual dotormination could bo 1t is also nrgod that fo. determine tho grounds of a forfoiture, aid déolaré 1, is judicidl, aug that tho Mayor cannot oxercise such power; and that ho is not of'the Magistracy that bolongs to the judicial department of tho BState. It is !llmlfih tosayin Yoply to this »_obfngtjuu that appellaut sgroed by receiving tlie licensa that tho Mayor might oxdreiso the power at his diy- crotion, This is the liconse: Permission 15 horoby givon David Wiggins to foliaw tho vocation of muctioncor at. No. 23 West Madison stroot, i eald cfty, until Moy 1, 1873, subject ot provistons of all the ordinances now 1 force arid Hiat may heroafler Lo passed by anid cu{ relating to suiil vovation, This licenso may Lo revoked by tho Mayor at any time, at Lis dizcretion, It waé wignod by tho Mayor, and otherwi proporly oxecuted. By ncnnptju'[i dfi acling u.’: to its torms, dor this 1iden§f, appollaut asdon and that the Mayor might at his discrotion ro- voko it, and ho has no ground to eay that the Dayor bad no powor, and that it could only bo' rovokod by n judlclsf sontenco, It 18 noxt urged that, as tho fivst sdotion of tha IXth Articleof tho Constitution, hnving deolar¢d that the Genoral Assombly shall haye powor to fux poddlors guctionoers, brokers, = &d,, the: = General Asgombly ~ can ajond impose such w tax,. and for Blato purposos, and ocinnob confor such —power wpon municipalities { that this'provislon oporates g a prohibition on all other bodios, aad for any other puirposo than for Binte rovenues, from tuxing wacilonoord and 1t 18 fruo that the jndfimefit doos not . 51 | othars thorein named. 1f this proposition be true, it amounta to & prohibition on the Logisla- titd from authorizing municipnl hodies to raiss ;n"ruo by n'r:‘y ollhur x?lmtlu than by nssessments or {mprovomonts and taxos on il i, * o tepiopsily ut this is obviously not true, The ninth soc~ tlon, Art. 9, of the Cousiitution, declarcs that the 'Gonoral Assombly may vest the municipnl authoritlos of citios, towns, ‘aud villages with authority to nssess and vbllodt taxes for corpoe rato purposos; * but such-tnxes shail bs uniform in rospect to persons and property within tho }m‘lndlouon of- tho body imposmg the same,” To givo full offcot to this provision, wo must hold” that it ombracea moro- than the mora ng= sossmeont and imposition of o uniform tax on proporty, Ib evidontly was designey to includa tha varlous modes of collocting taxes of porsons pursuing.various. avocations, and, in the firat sogtlon of: tho same article, tho Legislaturo is ouliorizod to tax peddlors, auctionoers, ote. The ta% here: Ilh:vided for is manifestly {hio sum aof money'whicl .shail bo rl‘mld to onable them to pursno’ their cnlllu‘f;. hoir proporty was re« quired to bo assosred by the first elauso of the section, s it falls within tho langungoemployea, Liengo it followd that tho tax last reforra to; o8 applied-to the classos-of. persons uuumorntud. is o porsonal tax imposod upon tho person oxorcia- ing thio calling, aud hns nd réforonce whatavor to his proporty. 4 T'ho nluth seotlon of tho eamo article clonrly embracos tha samo idon, whon it says porsons may bo taxed for municipal purposos, II; siuch wal not tie purposo, why couplo porsons’ with property, aud authorize both to bo taxed? By tho- firét: section, wo see thie moeaning of a tox when- applied to the porsons of iho clags ennmorated.. The proviston in the nintli soction js bronder and more comprehensivo: than that in tho firat, o8 the niuth ombracos all porsons in the corporate limits, whitat tho first cmbraces but the onomerated clnss of persons. The provision in the ninth scction is broad enougli to embrace n- tox imposcd upon an auotioneor,fand the Charter, adopted before tho Conbtitution' becamo operative, confors amplo ‘power on thoclty to impose: such n tax, and; o8 thero is mo ropugnanoy bolwaeen.tho Constitue tidd and tho' Chartor in thiis respect, tho pro- wvislons of. the lattor mnx bo proporly coforced. ‘Thio judgment iy affirmed. RAILROAD NEWS. OII0AGD, DUDUQUE: & MINNESOTA. Tho Dubuque: Herald statos that tho Mil-' waukes & St. Panl Railrond Company has turned ovor tho rond from LaCroscont, oppostte- Ladroaso, to Winous, to tho Chicago, Dubuquo & Minncsotn Railrond Compauy, snd that tho Iatter.will control and operate' tho picco of rond to Winoun: It s also-stated that tho Milwaukoeos & '8t Paul Company has abaudoned the pro- Ject of o railrond bridge at LaCrosee, aud has lensed tho ““out-off" ‘from tho Northwestorn Railrond Company from LaCrosso to Winona, on tho enst sido of tho -rivor, ~ Tho Ilatlor arrangoment’ was made some iimo’ago, aud it ig eald the Bt. Panl Company has offected o contract Tor tlio uso of the *cut-off” for o poriod of ninoty-nine yenrs. ) Tlis nrmnfamon!: will give tho Dubuqne Rond direoy control to Winons. It will also.obvinta tho necessity for & bridge over the Mississippi at LnCroeso, nud thus make tho Miunesota Boutliern Railfod tributary to that rond. The Miunesots_Southern Railroad, which: runs baclk moro than 100 mies to Albort fon, right throught the best- part of Minnosots, has- boon - giving: froight for the lnst threo months to thoe. Chicre fo, . Dubuquo & Minnesots Railrond, and hus the Dubuquo Rivor roads have been. oid ‘aro mow among tho flfst freight ronds in the West, During the .entire winter they have had their rolling-stock tdxed fo tho utmost to movo the businees prosented. ; ALION & BT, LOUIS, The quarterly moeting of- the Board.of Direct~ org of the Chicago & Alton- Railroad was to have been hold yesterday aftornoon at-the offico of the Compavy, Nas. 2 and 4 Wost VanBuron atroet, but, a8 a quorum did not make an appear- nuce, nothing of importance-could-be done. Tho Excculiye Committeo of tho road deolareda dividend of 5 por cent, payablo Maroh 10, 1874, ACCIDENT ON TIE ILLINOIS' CENTBAT, A. Mitchell, Esq., General Buporinterdont of the Illinofs Contral Railrond, recoived a-dispatch from Dunleith, yosterday morning, informing him that a-froight train going northy'ran a-car off the'track about 80'vards gouth, of Menomonoo: Dridgo. Tho cars atruck tho bridga with such foree a8 to complotoly wrdol- the” struoture: and: .precipilato it in the river. Three_ froight carn’ alga'wont down and. were wrocked, whilo the condnctor's - caboose' romuing’ suspendod over tho abutment. . The bridge was an iron one, and held in positioh- by four towsrs. Thore was 1o ono injured, oxcopt tho: conductor, who waa slightly cut and bruided’ about . the lxond. A tomporary wooded bridge' will: be_completed- to-day, whon business will bo' carried on: again a8 usual: . .. PEORIA, ATLANTA & DEOATUR. Tho suits ngaiust’ tho Pooris, Atlants & Docatur Rnllroad Company; brought by the Townships of Oran: and: Aflnmn', of Lognn County, wore tried before Judge Luacoy, at Lincoln,- Friday, Ono was an injunction againgt the paymont of interest on township bonds issuod in'favor of tho rond, and tho other & sult to'test tho validity of the charter of the- rond, ex-Gov. Palmer, counsel for plaintiffs, having sob-up the plea that the chartor did not properly pass tho Logislature: The Railroad Company was victorfous' ih both cases, tho Court diatiblving the* x‘x‘!flnncflou;-nnd prounounos ing the chartor to bo valid. ANNUAL STATEMENT OF Ti® DALTDIODE & OHIO' ‘RAILEOAD' COMPANY, | Speclat Dwpatch to Tha Chicago Tyidune, PrtuApELrima, Fob. 11.—The'printed roport ot tho Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for 1873, just iwsucd, states that the aggregato oarninga for tho yeoar were $14,252,863, agninst- 310,664,471 in provious” yoar. The' anrnings: over expenaes in- tho-past your woro $4,004,795, gainst $4,683,071 in fhe previous yoar, showing an_incroase in tha not profits of £402,724, Tho sinking fund'for the redemption of thio oitylonn was incrensed $1,638,863, and_tliat for tho' redemption of the storling’ loav; $281,680. The Uompany's labili- tiewduring thoyeur detredtiod $469,600, and in- croased in the sterling loan aud pul’orxod stool, $8,243,100. _'The surplus fund, ropresenting capi= tal derived'from enrnings, iuvested in branch roads'and’ improvements on the main lino not roprosented by stocks or bonds; now amonnts to $29,033,191, PABSENGER FANES IN ILLINOIS. Special Dispatch to L'he Chicago Tribune, Setingrierp, 11, Feb, 11.—It is said the Toledo, Wabasl Wostern Road will lowor, their poggengor firo noxt wook tothe rate fixed by the Railroad Commissiouers, 3 conts a mile, i i . % o PERSONAL, Poter W. Gray, of Houston; has beon appoint. 'Eflf‘?h the Bupreme Benoh of ‘Texas by Gov. oke, % —Janies M, Harvey, the Bonator-olect of Ran. 8as, takos with hiin to Washington, a8 Private Secrotary, Ward Burlingamo, who was also his Trrivate Becretary in the oflice of Governor. —Dr, Nathaniel Hammond; fathor of ox-Gov, Hurimond aud Judgo L. P. Hammond, died suddenly laut woek ut Rensselaor, Ind. —The Wheeling Register ssserts that Cone. grasaman Horoford; of Wosb Virginin, Lus done Sfd d‘:.lu **buck pay” to'the Behoot fund of that u —Qoorgo Noblo, Assistant Goneral Supcrine tendont of tho Kausus Paciiic Railway, is to oc. oupy.tho position'of General Superintendeuv of tho Toxas Lacillo, —Albors H, Hogt, in a paper on Chiof Justice ‘Waite, contributed to'Zion's Herald, gives ns one of his ancestors Thomay Wayte, & member of tha English Parlisment in Cromwell's time, and ona of tho Judges who condemned Charles L. to denth nnd signed the warrant for his oxecution, ~—It s aflirmed thut'a mon loses one ouace of Drafng overy yosr aftor tho age of 85, Thig goos far to coulim Lo publio. suspicion_thak oérotary Richardson is several conturies old.~— Zrookiyn Argus, —Lldridge, tho Orant Democrat in Congross, g botrayod his conatituonts and disgraced hime solf by Qlfl{nghlfi in schemes of pluuder. Ho ig ond of Iosy Bhoplord'd coadjutors, and hae large intoreats, it is unid, {n their oporations, It is this kind of ** Demooraty " whoin' the supports ery of Grant-point to as-sharing with their own membors the iufamy of- the kalary-grab, &o., &o. —Portland (Me.) Argus. ———— Imporéiance of Correct Punctuntion, The importanco of corrcot Punom«.flon was etrongly illustratod, tho other duy, at a mosting of tlig' Wayn and Menns Comuwitteo, when it was sliows thak a-comma in one placo was worth $3,. 000,000, In the tarif® bill whioh wont into effect Aug, 1, 1872, tho froo list was extonded by the addition’ of soveral hundred articles. Amon, tho unmbor added was ‘‘fruit plante, tropical aud sowi-tropical,” for the purpose of propaga- tion and oultivation, In engrossing tho bill, or i tha process of col:f'!n[g it for ofticlal printin, 5 commp was nserted aftor * fruit, " ang allfx'n’h waa thoroby placed upon the froo fist, The ouse toms offloors,- lowover, unot notiolng the chango, continned to colleat duties on _fruit un- til thio error was dizcovered, ‘e Ways aund Moania Committeo have now agreed to roport & bill to remove the comma, in scoordance with the intont of the law of 1872, The amount of sax illogally colleutod Is not fax Lrom §2,000,000,