Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1874, Page 2

2 N L S Y SPRINGFIELD. fhe State Legislature “Regulai- . ing® the Laws.of . ... ‘Trade,” .- Garpenter’ Bill o Redorisle Conliot © ing Interests, The Senate Refuses a Third Reading to Cummings’ Railroad Bill, Log-Rolling for the Southern Penitentiary Grab. Cook County. Members Bought by the Promise of an Appropriation. How the Donglas Monument Schéms Secured the Favor of South- ern Jzmbers. The Case of Grain-Inspector Harper Be- forg the Governor.: RBAILROADS AND WAREHOUBES. Special Dirpatch to The Chicago Tribune. ‘BATES YOB STORAGE IN CHICAGO. BranaFrer, Uk, Feb. 26.—The Warebouss Committee of the Senste refused to votelsst evening on the question of changing the legal Fotes of storago for grain & Chicago ware- houses, but consented that the bill should be read this morning and referred-to ‘the: Commit- tee, which was done. ‘A majority of the pflm- mittee wera in favor of the bill, but Whiting, | Btrong, azd Gundiach wanted the opinion of the Commissioners on tha bill "before voting on it in Cemmittee, g 3 - i CHAXGING RATLROAD m Mr. Voris (Sonate) introduced another bill for the changing of railrasd termini. It is intend- ed to cover tha case of a railroad -from Aurors, which is o Tun southwest, but, under Voris® bill, will be deflected to Jolict. e NEW BOARD OF COMMIESIONERE. . Hr. Cummings’ (Senate )bill comstituting the Governor, . Auditor, snd Aftorney-Genersl & Board of Bsilroad Commissioners” in lien of the present Board, was taken up by the Nemate on_ sonsideration by sections. ° H Mr. Whiting defendedgthe present Board, and ebjected to passing the bill to a third reading unless the Senate ititended to pass it. b Mr. Vorig—Don't you want -to exercise: these duties when you get to be Governor? - Mr. Whiting (witk & very plessant and satis- factory smile)—Suflicient nnto the day is the evil thereof, * R v Mr. Voris made additionsl charges of.groes neglect of communications from the people re- questitg information and relief from Istion of unquestionable law. Mr, Crowe said thatthe ~ . . COST.OF THE' QOMBISSION - 7. - was far in advance of the sérvicé renderéd. The schedules of‘the Commissioners were, in the' ‘unanimous opinion of his constituents, ruinous to bis dietrict. ey Mr. Canfiold said that, if the bill was honestly & debatable-gaestion, he would vote-for & third' Teading ; but he ahonld not so vote. = Mr. Sieels compared tho' Tates of the- ‘Cam- missioners with the schedule of the Chieago & Alton Railroad Company of the date’ of July 1, - 1873, and showed that the Commussioners’ rated were » decresse thoraon. Thu cliarge Of cor- ruption ‘and demagognism made alike against the railroad fraternity and the Commissioners fed to the ground by.-the weight of the motives of the es in bsth instances. It was unpracticable and impossible that the State officers ehonid attend 1o and perform 'these” duties. He would not discuss the - = TUSEFULNESS OF THE PRESENT COMMIBSION., | He thought, however, that a lawmight be passed ol would ensble the paopls of tho Stats with ttlo cxpense to smuiciontly protect thereelves, through the Tegular-Iaw officers of tho. State, against extortion and unjust discrimination.., 1r. Stame showed * the unfairness of compar- ing the Commissioners' rates with the Chicago & Alfon Railrcaa Company’s schedple of July 1, 1878, That schodalo was. tho first one issued in sn eYort to comply with the ‘provisions of the faw concerving unjust discrimination, and Te- quiring » greater charge for a greator distanco in every instsuce, That schednle was experimental, 23d had been modified and redgced twonty-six times sfce, but these jnst modifications and ro- ductions the Oommiesionérs did not caro to take fotive of in ita comparisons and arguments, Hs procooded Lo giv 1ho figures of rales of thi mmisgioners far- in excess of ratosof com- TIHE CTMDMINGS BILL DEFFATED. The Senzte refused to' ordér Cammings' Rail- Toad bill toa third reading, by the following vote Brown, Gundiach, TPalmer, o Casey, Hincleliffe, Btarne, - Crews, Hundley, Thowmpson, Cummings, Eehoe, 'ooris, . Dor, Eelly, Warren, | Gleun, 3 Yager—18, Baldwin, Ehe Canfleld,. Stecls; Comnigham, - AT C\\;cy,s , :.. Reynolds, Whiting, .. Donahe, | - Sanford, Wilcox, .. Hampton, . Bheldon, ‘Williamaon—21. 1t McGrath, Waite, and Williamson, -from Cook, bad voled in the affirmative, the: Yote ‘would have been reveraed, and the bill ordered to third reading. . s GALENA BRANCH OF THE NORTHWESTERN. Anderson, from Hamilton County, introduced 8 bill repealing the act of 1865 by which the Galena Emch was consolidated with the North- western Railroed. Either Auderson or Walker, the other memver from Hamilton; introdncs bills relative - to' the. Northwestern- every:fow doye. Considering where . they live, thess gen- tlemen take a strange interest in that railrond. - THE RAILROADAND WAREHOUSE: COMMISSIONERS st their seasion to-day reduced: the fees for the inspection; of grain from 50 .to 40 cents. for out. inspection for 1,000 bushels, and from 30 to-25 cents per car-lozd for in:inepection. .. .. - - THE HARPER REPORY.* - .. i8 still in the posscasion-of -the Governor, amd the socret of ite ectual pontents has_ been woll. guarde Just when'it will: be .published..* no feliah can find ount,” - X still adhere. to . my. pre- dictions regarding its contents, .eavo that -per-. haps the Commussioners, inaddition, will find that er's bank sccounts for a long timo - were from $5,000 to £10,000 short of .the amonnt of cazh on hand , s shown, by his cash-book on‘avy iven day. - This wili be explained.. by the .evi- ence submitted by Harper that his deposits were not alwazs promptly” made, . collections being _receivad - aften, - & efter his deposits _for made. A letter from g or, rather, a cortificate, shows that Mr, Harper's daposits for soma time have_been in excess of the amount due the State, and - that he now has £ surglus of ‘§000. The whole syatem of baoks Lept by Bmith were in & wretchod condition, and. s retention was, from the patent fact of bis in- sfliciency, roprobensiblo. The Board finally recommended, that_ M. Harper bs continued it Present position as Inepector, a8 the expla~ nations atd evidence - submitted, is. convinci that the intefests of the State have not suffer: ihough s stricter: to well-rettled busi- mess rules wonld add much to the.character of the office. CARPENTER'S COMPROMISE BATLEOAD BILL. . Mr. Carpenter introduced a bill some time ago intended to soften -the harsh'festures of :ga third eection of the Railroad law. It was an honest effert. to do justice to farmers, manufac- turers, and every ono else. The Railrosd Com. mittee f the House hnve reported {svorably on the following, which i Carpenter's compromise, slightly modified : . G ¥ A hill for xn act to smend Bec, Sof an act entitled s Anact to prevent extortion and nnjust discrimina~ Hlon in the rates charged for tha transportation of pas- Bengers and bughhdon railroads in thia State, and to s5ma anc [ any portion of such railroad ; ar shall charge, colloct, 4 nays 14,—which shows that it will be difficult ta §T058 “vio-" Bupreme Court in the Charloy. Resd. case. o Eacite over e Gounl e ant ] P : o8 the U & gpplied to tho court, in vacationto bo released | & St Sovaph Rowd taso sro b s aausia City from tho custody .of the Dootkesper, by whom | Obio, on Sumdsy moraing Tant: Gereer orimore & = = portation’ of frefghta d railronds * spproved | and 6x-Gov.” Palmer,’ Mr. Bpringer,‘and John B ad, i o e | Mayo Palmor lappearad for the prisoner.. Young Scc. 1. Ba t enasted by ths g aple of the State of | Paliner. a Juhioe. st Torth tho fasth, oonusa!;h lacts, xoaking & forcible spanéh, showing he waa & ‘chip Tlinois, represented in the Geueral Assembly, That of the' old ‘block. Mr. Dunbsm followod Bec. 3'of abovo-entitiod et bo, and the same is Rereby, : towit s % { 05 U vy eniraiinond eforation slall charge, col- | f0r the prosecutior, M. .Bpringer. for—the lect, or réceive for the transportation of any pasecn- | dofense, Mr. Rountree for the prosecution, and . Moare, who assamdl the-position-of -senior- nsel, before supper, stood up for the,dignify of the House. The speectios wera fair, ' § .4 TIIE PROSECUTION, _ “olving on the Reod aud olher cases. and 3ulicrent power of the”House to pdulsh for con- -+ or freight of any deseription, upon it raiircad, for E-istancn within Tais Steie, 3 Freater amount of foll or compensation than Ia provided for by the schedules Tmentioned 1n the clghth action. of thia acl, or If It shall charge, collect, oF Tecelvo from any person or | Ppersons, fo: -{he retelving, ~handling, delivers, or Transporting of any frefght upon its railroad, s Ligher or greater rate of toll or compensstiou than it shall at | tempt, thoy claimed, further; thst if she pow- tho wame timo charge, collcct, or rocelve fromany other | ery of' the House wore not adequate under the Teon or_persons for tho’ transporiation of a like Guantity of Frelght of iho Bamo eless of classes, b common law, the prisoner. was_guilty under the transported from the same point o the same polat on law regulating the General Assembly, whioh beicg an emorgency act-and signed yestorday, or receive {rom auy person or pereons, for the tisns. | Was in force; EH » portation or for tho use and transportation ef any number of raflroad cars upon its railroad, a highr or groater rate of toll or compeneation than 4f sball 8% tho same tima o, collect, or receive from any other ‘person or persans for the {ransporiation or for e nse and trapsportation of a liko number of cars of thy same class being transported from the same point, in the Eamo direction, over an equal distancs; then 37,0 W o euch dlscrimintiog raies of charges, whether made dircctly or by means of sny ° robate, draw-back, or any otber- ovasion, shall be decmied and taken sgainst any such raiirosd corporation as Eprims facio evidence of tho unjust discrimination ‘prohibited by the provisions of this act; and any such railroad company shall be liable to the penaltica provided in the fourth section of this act provided, that nothing herein contained sball be conrtrued to affect any rignts or remedics that bavo accrued or suits that mny be pending at the time this amendatary sct shall take efféct. The bill was _ introduced in . the Senato THE DEFENEE. i 4 “The Court went to supper, and met again a! 7:90, when Gov. Palmor bégan an_argument which lasted nenrly three hours. . It was an elaborato and powerful speech, bristling with sarcasm and wit.. He denied the jurisdiction of the Houso over the subject matter and the peti~ tioner bofore the law went into effect, and ar- gued that, under thodaw, the warrant was do- fective. S THE DECISION, Dunham replied, and_the Court, after some prelimivary remarks, delivered Lis docision, bolding that the Houso had suthority to investi-. geto concerning proper aubjects of-Inquiry, and the contract for priuting boing-'a- public con- tract was s proper subject of- inquiry. If there woro frauds committed in connection with the contracts, every good citizen should bs ing. . The. 2 1!:5:3:3“ Lt:?)mm?fi?:d u‘pfii willing to exposo them.” Tho petitioner was.at: od it with a favorablo rocommendacion, | the Lar of.the House, and fefusod to snswer 3 Dl siob sl questions. The House had junsdiction_of tho subject matter,’and of - the patitioner. Itfound" him guilty of contempt, and its warrant was eubstantially in accordance’ with the new law, which governod _the csse. Tho Court had no right to discharge the petitioner from the custody of the Daorkeoper. The motion was - overruled, and the prisoner was re- manded to the custody of the Doorkesper. He will answer to-morrow, at loast 80 his counssl said.~ Ho will not go to jail to-night, but sleep with the Doorkeeper. —_——— REVISION OF THE STAT'U’TES.» 2 Special Dupatch to The Chicago Tribune.- * TIE CAPITAL-PILL. _ Searsorrenp, IU., Feb. 26.—The Senate Re- vision bill relating to the =eat of government poased the House. 1t makes fow changes, and none of importance. | NEW TOWNSIIP.ORGANIZATION LAW. . The House concurred in-the Seuale amend- ment té the Township-Organization bill,. which | will be law when signed by the Governor. -~ The STATE INSTITUTIONS. Special Diepatch to Ths Chicago Tridbune, THX SOUTHED PENITESTLALY. . BerrvGrizLD, DL, Feb, 26.—Hampton (House) tried to rocousider tho Southemn. Penitentiary resolution, Yodngblood, Ferrell, Archer, Burks, and other friends of tho messura being abeent, Casoy, by a strong appesl, placed on tha gronnd of courtesy, secured the postponement of the resolution till Tuesday afternoon next,—yeas 24, reconsider. ., JOG-ROLLING FOR THE PENITENTIADY, Th8 friends of tho Southern Peniteutiary in the Scnate made s bargain with the Cook Conuty Senators that both should favor the appointment of, the Penitentiary Commiseionars, and the ap- ropristion for the Douglas mobument. Tho anitentisty rosolutions came upin the morning. A good mauy of ita friends were absent, snd” the Cooks asaisted: thoso that wors bere to. posipono tha. rosolations. This afcar- . iy % pament bill come up, a0d Casor: | changes made by tho bid heve beon dotailedin hats and left tho Cooks in the lurch. After a | these dispatches. = - % . el SLANDER AND LINEL: . The House amended the Senats bill relsting to slander and Jibol, 8o that *it shall be com-- potent for tho defendant to prove. tho truth of tho matter charged.”. 3 e DEVIEION LILLS PASSED. The Senats has passed Honse Fevidon bills concerning promissory notes and escheats. The Governor has signed and approved Revision bills concerning amendments and _jeofails, appren~ tices, County Treasurcrs, joint rightsand ob- ligations. mandamus, names, osths and affrma- tions, the Btate Library, and bait_in certsin cases. ‘The Houio passed Revision bills rolatjve t jails and jailors; to ligns, to County Survey- ord, to habeas corpus, to tender, to_stiretics, woights and messnres, to ‘ courts~ of. record’ in cities (which establishes a city court in Eaat St. Louis,) to marrisges, - to dowar, to change. of.- venue. ¢ AR = - MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, A’ WILD-0AT SOmEME. . 8rervorrery, TU., Feb, '26.—Thers is bofors the Senate a bill for an sot 'to amend sa act to provide for changing thé nawmios, for changing the places of business, for increasing.or decroas- #ng the capital stock, for increasing or docress- ing the number of Directors, snd for the calsoli- dation of ‘incorporated companies. 1t was in- troduced by Waite, and, is intended to benefit banks which bought wild-cat charters, and ara| doing business out of tke coustics for which thi charters were granted, and . where, according ' to the charters, the Diréctors musf resids. The smendment to the bill is.as follows : T = Btrong fight, tho bill was further postponed till to-morrow morning by-a majority of three votes. With the aid of Southern members it will pass, and then tho Penitentiars lads will swing enongh members to prevent the recoueideration of their resolution. The-Douglas bill calls for $50,000, and the Sam Buckusster's rookery scheme for $150,000. APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS, Thompson introdnced s resolation eallingupon the Revision Commitiea to report a bill povern- ing the State institutions in the matter of their appropristions, which wes adopted. THE PRINTING - AND RBINDING ¥ FRAUDS. . Svecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. BeRINGFIZLD, Ill., Feb. 26.—Mr. Phillips. $o- day produced his books for the inspection of the Printing Committee, to show that no alierstions were mado in the charges since tho contract was swarded, and gave further evidenco to prove that he knew nothiny of the purciase of bidders, 3 EUMMEL'S AFFIDAVIT, - 3 ..~ Inreply to Mr. Rammel's sfidavit, Maf. Beil- hacho reiterates his statement, in the most posi- tiveé. manner, about the * orrection " of his bid before the award was made. Ho asserts that he did this'in the presence and at the suggestion of -a clerk in theoffico of tho Secretary of State, within & day or two aftor depositiug tho bid, and and several days beforo the final petion of the .Commissioners upon it, and that ho nover saw v tonched the bid.-from that date antil it. was' banded tohim'. by, the .Chairman of the Com- mittee when ho Was upon the stand. He says the ktatément that he mado the correction for purposes of spite i3 all-**bosh,” as the prices | When tion of any Xind has changed or were well known.to Phillips and the booklecper :m,y%r;, ERA P of Dusluoss, pnsat .of the Journal Oumpsuy wuen work waw pegun | 59this act it may alfo changs to lenice uuder the contract.. He Rammal's mis | take arises from tho fact that, whan the original bid was filed, it was immediately copied. upon an abstract-shect, and also into the record-book of the “offico, aud that, when tho Commissionars eame tomako the award, twelvo dsys afterards, they scted npon tho absfract and record, withont gain_inspecting_the original bid, which was saugly reposing -in 1t%, pizeon-hole, &nd, their * ANOTHER BAYID ON THE mASIZL % The Capitol has been swarming witti Sheriffs from counties not under township_organization where thoy act 88 Collectors of Taxes. A hill was introduced {n the Senate allowing them faes for this duty, and incressing thoir compensation sbout €6,000 & vear. This. is nother offce- holders’ raid an»tio publio purse. 'The peopla attention not baving been called to ths alteration, | 3ro.not safe while this Legislature continues - in it oscaped their notice, . * ; 2 THE INSUBANGE BILL. B THE CONTEMPTIDLE CASE. . i i o ] 2 - Several Chicago insurance men aze here fight- When the House mot this morning, Enoch | . i ict 17 Piin was prosented at the bar, and (hy Speater Ing the bill which compels cempanies to pay tho went throngh the form of nsking if he would Mptiof policite. answer the questions, wheniho shook his head and looked as if he Wwould ‘See tho House' far “enough first. Rountree thon offered s -resolu-, tion recommitting him to the custody of tho with directions to rprodace him at 0 k to-morrow morning. Paine epent the night at the Doorkeepor's boarding-house, and seems to bo enjoving life. There is a riumor that Mr ‘I'unat;nl} rus for Sloril in bis county on the Gtrength of holding out and defying a . whole Homse of Rapresentatives. Hx'z; cgan- ‘tumacy wing him friends in Springfieid, It is abont time the House stopnod fooling with Mr, # M, B. DOVEE . oo delivered his familiar locture ragainst - capital’ punishment to_a ‘réspectable -and interested andicnce in the Hall of the House of’ Represont- atives to-night. - - AR R .“ RAILROAD NEWS. The Union Pnacific Freight Aent. The Omala Herald,: the especial champion of . Mr. Vining, the Gonera! Freight Ageat of. the Union Pacifia Railrond, is greatly ‘agitated abont” -an asgertion mado in Taz TnrBuxk of last Sat~ Paine." Let him bo purged of contempt, or fined & andr theav. ' ¥ £ . | TR0, that Omaba'sd M, Vining wero virtual. , ontgomery, offered s resolu- n i i tion t0 a1rost o Shen Tor mot aowiug Belyy | TSI O £r0m any.interconras, with {ho Tast - and South by the sction of Mr. J.' F. Joy pro~ hibiting the Freight Agents of -the Kansas City, Bt. Joo & Coundil Bluffs and the Atchison & Ne- braskn Railroads, of which Mr. Joy ia tho Presi- dent, fram taking throngh frieghts over their roads, at ofher than lonn‘l;ratas,e?f}ta‘r}wcb L gives vent to its ontraged foelings in the follow- ing manper: P e ., Aside from the steady flow of throigh frelght- from to go to jail, but the Houso has all it can do to get ont of its present dilomma withont discredit, and will 'not venturo in doeper water. In the meantime the array of counsel on the part -of tho House—Rountres, Dunham,: Shaw, Brad- gw_ell. and h‘{:om h:{z AGd.:\ma—P I{;vn ‘made prepara- ions to demo] lov. Palmer when Pamne's body is taken befors the court. asse, sl * THE QUARLEY REED s G - Conneoted with this casa is the opinion of the, bs hnd boen arested for rofusiug to answer | bury dispatohed weniy-sevon cars in s o traln gertain questions relating to matters confided to |,to the Castward of the same kind of ‘Bim b, ient. 5 iv- 1 Mr. James F, Joy's order, in.which 5, client. Ho pleaded profescional priv- 1 Ar Jame Placid s0 “much conlidenca s day op tae ilego. The decision, which has never beon print- ©d, was written by Judgo' Lawrence, and con- curredin by Judge Walker, tlien Chief-Justice. Tt is a8 follows = 2 Ae After matura consideration of the hold : First—That tha Legiglatuge, in n::;w: . of powers élearly granted fo it by ihe Constitution, has the undoubted flghlwmmmoumflmmpel the attend- ma{wflnm A% ia bar, or befors its commit~ Sceond--That thé power to summon and examins bince, had not yet resched Supt. Barnard and Mr, Olds, although the telegraph lines had not bsen out. of order for scvoral 'dsya prior to that time, Mr.' Joy's arder must have given by letter' if it was 2 s tooni with the freight fig 5 bo thal 4 ubla bt appears (o bo that M. Vining {s having 1t all his ewn way, -Ho not only sends trans-contiuental froights over that new line, but | bosends them ot advaniageous rates and on eplendid time, It was belleved by our much amused Ohitago friends that Mr. Vining would ahipwreck on both rates Fritnosscs tmplles their powor to compel thom "o gie testimony, by committing Yor 2nd tfme, but the stubbornness with which ho refuses.. by fontpt 1n casa ey | B e e & e that cannot fafl 10 attract $h. refase to comply,—~otherwis -named power Tronld bo nugatory; -The record in this case showe that thie pelitianer wad in attandance a5 & witness, and oo fased to answer certain questions on the gratnd that t0 do s would be a breach of ;professios Teposed in bim sa an'nttorney. Ho has boan: commis. by tho House for a period short of iwenty-four hh; with nl}orflumg. ba, B;r-ofillhoxp‘nnvl of erm of cor ent,’ bronght o Tar. of tho Hoaser CRit) gide whether Gex.18, Ast. IIL Jimi e powe: of *the-Houso to commitments for tho tarmi af twonty-four hours or not in this class of contempts. - 1t3s suficient in this case that the ore der nnder which the potitioner is now reatrained of his i8 10 expiro within that feriod, sud cloasly does Tiot violate that provisfon of {he Gonstitution, 'A attontion of both New York and Obicago, who, become somewhat {atigued with deounting Mr. Vine, ing 23 s fool, are now ntudying ou new Lines of re— tront, T A CT0g oup - Tt is hoped that oar Chicsgo neighbors will coptinte tobeas jocular as “they wera-fen days ago over.the- Zerald’s nolices of” M, E, P, Vining, . They moy be able in the course of the next throe jmomths, howeyary totell'us exactly whera tho laugh comas in, | THE LETTER. . o, - The edlior of the Herald wonld. do-woll to in- | terview Mr. Vining in the regalar. Chicago style, 20t the Omiha milk-and-ratar Syl wnd ho il findoubtadly find out thet . the intre, id Ge: 1 Froigat Agont of the Union Phcity Railreeg. b fontumiclons witness, having been adjudged in oon- | in the possession of, a- lettar 1 % X tempt, Ybe imprisoned for at_lesat. twenty-four G&nemplo Freight Agent cf‘fm“’!x";xfi %idtsy’ -!!‘e? Hours, aud this as oftene the contempt ia repested. | Joo & Counel Blafs Railroad, informirg chim Third—The House.bad .the power io Gocids the question of contempt, and, having decidod i, the petie. -tlozex wnd the sablect mafter of ihe ‘alleged contempt Deing both witlin the Jurisdiction, we Lave o power to re-exsmine its decislon.’ Should’ elther branch of, the Legislaturs imprisan & person for_an slleged con- tempt when tho Subject matier was riot within their ction,—a, for example, a criticism upon ther in 2 newspaper,—it would be tle duty of tho Court to fornieh &' Temedy - by %Tit of habeas corpus, ‘But when the person and the subject matter are within ‘their Jurisdiction; their action is necusearily final, The action’af an inferior conrt ip such s case wonld bo final, snd, for a far stronger reason, we should hold final the action of the co-ordinate branch of the Gov- ernment having complete juriadiction in the . Wo therefore remand the prisoner to the custody of the Doorkeeper of the Honse of Represents- that that road had withdraywn from. its former. artangement in regard to tes, by order of J. F: Joy, Presdent, and-J. F. Gen- erel Superintendont. -, THe Tamoxz published the action . of thess rosds two days: be- | “dore - the. letter - Isft . this, city, . or be-.| fore the other Chicago. dailies found ont dnything about thia matter. . As Tog Tommone . Teporter say the above letter, and its gepuine~ ;x;sa is ve%x;had so: ‘?y‘ll\xx:s:lx]s. Joy and Barnard, ere can be no doub that the Herqld bas boen duped by Mr. Vining, . . 2 or0id 183 bo ' €T orF. P i Tho only roads that lend to Omaha-and con-- the Union . Pacific are the Chicago, & Pacific, the Chicago & North- tives, In -qoing so, however, it may not be improper for W to’ remark that wh presume, | Western, and the Chicago, Burlingtm & Quiney, from our personal kmowledgo of the character cf M. | all of ' which are Chicago roads, aud will-take ug Haed, (it he bas been goveraed ta this matics by what through rates unless Ao, Vinitg. frorates with D2 doems his profecsionalobligations, ' Bot, the Houss | them,” There aro . also -t mr. J06, having, in its oxercise of jla rightfulsuthority, Eanass City & Couneil Brom o nined what questions must bo answered, wo de mot | LETAS8 Nebrasie Bon wflw the {hink it inconistent with his professional & tbat he should corform to that decisfon instead of sub- th roads connect with Taitiing fo Tagsro 1 the St. Louis, Kansas City & Duly attentid 1y . L Fonmua, Northern and the Missoari Pacifie R;ilm?dz, SraINGrIELD, Feb, 25, 1874. Reporter. both of which belong to St, Louis, and ace the PATNE REFORE JUDOE ZANE. ones an which Mr. Vining has boen, depending Two o'clock Judgoe Zane | foran Eastarn connection. Thereis no other was the hour set b; £o hear the argument in the cace of Paine. The court-was filled with legislators, lawyers, and citizens who expected s display of forensio skill aud eloguence. The five lawyers who. represented the Houso were thera, armed - with legal Wmes, road that connects with the Union Pacific ex— cept the Illinois Central, via the Sioax Cit; Blair Boads to Fremors. Butas this road does ot degire any Califorais irade:excopt at locrd rates, Ar, Vinlng can ©xpeot Ro succor from this - THE:. CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, giren atall, and in this case 1t may have gons to the Dead- | 1ua. FEBRUARY 27, 1874 sourg twill be seen-by thisihat the Union Pacific is completely cut off_from all its Eastern oconnections, if. Mr.”Viniog desires any . Ensorn. , ho has to coms to .terms, go back to his firat love, and give Chicaga the preferenco, 8 he did before the {x‘nub\u commenced. Tt will-be-impossible-to-carry froights vin St. :tha St. Joe, Kaneas City & Coun- local rates. Tho rates from _[.New York to Omaha, via Clicago, are $1.70 on first class, $1.50 on second class, and $1.25ou third class per 100 pounds.” From New York to Kansas City the rates are .$1.63 on first class, $1.61 on second class; and €1.32 on third clasa. Tho local rates from' Kansas City to Omaha are 80 cents on first clase; 70 cents on second class, and 60 oents on third class. Thus it can readily -be seon. that tho differance in sending freights vis Chioago amounts to 93 cents on first class, 81 conts on soocond olass, and 77 cents on third class per 100 pounds, PACIFIO. THE CENTRAL Agide from those difticulties, Mr. Vining will 800m'have to battle another enemy, if he does not" speedily sucenmb. Mr. J. O. Btubbs, the Goneral Freight Agent of the Central Pacifio Railroad, says that tho managors of his road are in favor of {n’anting, apd that they will no longer suppart Vining in_bis ambitions schome, but will cut him off from his Westorn connection algo. What Mr. Vining will do under these cir- cumstances is not much of a puzzle. Be has to come down from his high horse and admit that he has beon more of a child, botl in age and ex- porienco, than the Chicago Ireight agents, aud tbat ho has much_yet to learn beforo Lo can be- come tho nreat railrosd king which he imagines himself to bo, and in which hallucination ho is supported by the Omaba Herald, Nuscellancous. TRE MILLER PLATFORIL o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune 8m : In the Chicsgo Times of Wednesday last, I find an articlo under tho caplion, Regulative Damphoolism,” which I deem 18 ample evidenco that the fools are not all dead yot, and that some ono of their number, filled with malico toward tho Logislaturo of the Stato, did thefein disgorgo bimself over the editorial page of that edition. Now, this scion of general information assumes to tell us that there is no such thing in use upon the cars runuing on our railways as an automatio car-coupler, and says : The fact is well known to all rallroad men that.no smch thing 23 an “automatic coupling,” which cen bo called “guitablo,” elther to purposes of safety or suy otber desirabla purposs, has yet been invented. Thers 18 in use’on 8 fow roads a kind of coupling calld * su- tomatic " by its inveator, but which in practice will not. ‘work automatically, and wnieh, for some otkor reasons, i condemned by ‘many of the best practical raiiroade its as inferior “to .the ‘mode of conpling in moro geoersl g, If it Had proved in prectico n_ * suitabls sutomatic coupling,” every respectable rcilwsy com. ny n {he conntry would havo adopted ‘it long eqo, “The fact that it i Dot & * sultable automntic coupling, nor an “‘automatic conpling”,at all, and the furthor fact that o such conpling is known, explain why tho simpler and mors secare coupling first introduced s #till in general nse. - Lot mo give you s fow plain facts rogarding this subject. g . Thiero is a devics known as the “ Miller Plat- form, Buffer, and Coupler " in use upon nearly -every passenger train running o and from this city. The coupling is strictly ** automatic,” and sll * practical railroadists " acknowledge it to bo & *“enitable coupling ™ in every respect. No per- 8018 are injured botween tha cars. The simple sact of pushing one against the other couples them * together,’ and 80 closo are -tha platforms 1o each other thata child cannot step through betwecn them. Nor is this tho orly ad- vantage of.. this improvemeat ; foritis a sure proveutive of “ telascoping ' of cars in cases of collision or derailment, a fact fully proven in hundreds of cazes whers it ‘hss been severely tested. ‘In my own experiance of estensive trovel upon our railwaya, I havo mot. wilk hua- drods who would gladly give corroborative fas| mony to_the foregaing, and who to-day rosdily, aggert’ that they.owa their. lives fo this; tho very thing which the Times writer says i8 3ot to bo invented. © Among the number who have borne testimony to'this fact I would name &' protuinent merchaut of this city. pamod Far~ well, who escaped from tha buring cars of tha NewiHumbuarg dissster by iis use on tho .sleep- ing-cirs, in'that fearfal accident. Superintend- ont Mathews, of 'ilie Stoninztoa Railroad, told ‘me immediately -aftar the accidont which ‘occirred - mpon - his_ yo: one . ‘year 8g0, thab. they saved two..of his cars from destruction and the inmates: from denth. A prominent official of the New York Central &' Hudson River Railroad said that thia invention had baved them $1,000,000 in 1873, Mr: Hughitt, Genernl Buperintendent of the Northwestern Riailwar) ono-nf tha host, if Dot the very- best, managed roads in tho comntry, ssys that no passenger car should be run withoutit, snd o _ouly attaches it.to overy. passenger. car on’ his r0ad, but puts it upon:rall milk cars running with, or independent of, passenger trains. The fact that all milroad compnnies do not nse this improvement is no discredit to 1t, forittakes 2 Tong time. to producs 80 great a change, and is secompanied with groet exponse, buy thors ars now over 800 railways in this comtry whers it is used, and the managers would not think of rmm. ning trains without it, while others ate preparing to make the chango from the old slsckcoupling “systom which tho Zimes considers good enouzh. to the Miller system. IR this not sufficient evi- dence tHat: we -hove an “automatic coupling ™ ? In conclusion I would adviso.the mansging edi- tor of the Times that he mve tbe writer of ‘*Regulative ' Damphoolism™. a vacation. Bay him somo railway tickets, put him in charge of & careful guardian, snd end him ont over the roada. Who knows but hemay learn something ? THE ERIE BOAD. ' Mr. B, M: Arms, agent of the Erie Railrond, receivod a dispatch yestordsy morning, 1nform. -ing him that the brakmen's strike on that rond is at au end, and that he should continua to sell ickets as usual. . AQUATIC. e ,Th‘e'_EngH!h Unliversity Races. " “Loxpox, Feb. 26.—In the raca. ta take placa March 28 ¢n. the Thamos, between Oxford and glgxbridga, thio betfing is 2 fo 1 in favor of Cam- ridge. . PREVIOUS RECORDS. - ""N'rl Courre. ‘ Tbv_l 100< | Henle 1030 Fasily OB 1y oy B Il 8{CombiWestm ta Pat| 1160 Camb|Westm to Put| 29,30 3 ed In ontriggors. ot Univorsity T febls, withont keols Ao tha St Ling s, withous kool a0 the. feat. (ime ed with foundloars, both wiag tas xamo kind of In addition to the'dbove the Universities have _contended togethor five times at ‘the Henry \Tegatta in tho same heat for the Grand Challengo " Cup. -The following tuble shows the winnera' on -these occasions : Winner. Time. * Won 3y ..Osmhrdge...... £33 .3 _lengths -Oxfo, 861 3 “loacths 745 *6 leugtha £43 1 foet 83 ) 2 laoeths 54, Sl nt th Thimes Natiomas Oxlord boat Cambridze: *Cambridgo lost a rowlook soon after starting. ' -The measurements of the above courses are Téapectively : Hambledon Lock to Henley Bridge, 2 miles 2 furionga; Westminster to Putncy, about 43¢ miles ; Pumney to Mortlake, 4 miles 3° fur- longs. The Henloy course, over which the chal- -lenge cap races aro rowed, 1 mile 8 furlongs. Riatta, oa Jung 2, TR Steamer Sunke Loursyirre, Feb. 25.—The laige stern-wheol steamer Belfast, belongiog to the Bolfast Trans- portation Company, became unmanageablo while ascending the olls late Iast night, driftwood in- terfering with tho working of the rudder, and etruck s hidden obstruction, breaking in’ tha mids of the hull ‘just forward of the boilera. She wss runon a neighboring bar..and rapidly geltled, sliding off tho bar just beforo goipg down. ~ Thia afternoon ~ the -cabin st and the boat will :probably gn 'to pieces before the river begins to fall. She now lies in forty feot of water at the stern and twenty-six at tho bow. . The officers and crew escaped, one ronsta- bontonly being injured by a falling apar, AL the books, papers, and money wera saved. o Teeltaat b 500 tons of pig iron, -200 tons of shipstufl, and 100 tons of miscellaneous freighs on board. . The boat was insured in Cincinnati aud Wheeling offices for 822,000, snd valued st 240,000, The freight-list is insured for £35,000. ‘[ ovil 18 by edacating men's minds, reforming | been in mutual consent, -the affairs of the country have | been settled, leaving woman all she has asked; and, “whila éverything waa smooth - on the sur~ face, suddenly there comes thig-upheavin, ‘to . prove thst women have not understood their own wanta. They must long have wanted to leglalate about the liquor-traffio, or they could not" hga‘lpnmz *like'an armad hoat Gt of “the’ un: gro Now, would & not be well for women who feel moved to.sot-in this new.direction-to think oslm-~ | 1y, and wettle in their own minds..what it is the; proposs to do: ¢ they-would uppress. or Limik ‘the sala of intpsicating drinks; shnl up. gam- ‘bling-saloons and brothels, let them ask their ‘husbands, fathers, and vrothers for the right to aid them 'In tho very difficult and delicate work of logislating on these subjects. ‘Let them seek, by Iawful means, .to bo restored to that state ual dominton’ in which the Greator origin- ally ‘placed them, and show. by their modern- tion that they are worthy- of it Let them not trample on the rights of any, or break any good law in order to cary thor point.” Tho case is mot one that. warrants revolutios, and the whole movemant is ravolu- tionary. hi'um are fow rights more stored than o 3 at which mskes * every. man's house his & Fansileal Ouibuieg or. Nartow oy lame moro. important fuan (hoss which defend him against intrusion thers ; an To the Editor of Ths Chicago Tribune: o . ; Sin: Tho daily suffusion of the ‘columns of | f05 Nomen to trampla on this Isw {s unfust and y indelicate. A woman hssno more right to go our newspapors with accounts of the crusado | into a saloon to pray than the Jropistor has to sgainst the eale of liquors in this and other | g0 into her parior ' -TéMPERA;N‘GE._ Views Brought Out by the -..Women’s--Crusade. - ——] The Subject Discussed from Various, Standpoints, Opinions of 3 Lawyer, a Woman-Suffragist, and a Hebrew Editor. The Amount of Liquor Consumed in the United States. 51 80 blook the sidemalt mith § moenting Tors fetic Tig] 100! 18 side & meef an States, auggests to my mind the daep conviction RS Lo Hock the mdswalk eith & mesting. S that education has far more to achievo, even ; 4 bave 80 seldom been insulted, and not once as- with educated people, than we, at first glance, sanlted, by the men whose premises thoy unlaw- would suspoct. To mymind, itisa fanatical oat~ fally invade, is an ovidence of forbearance and burst of narrow minds againstan ovil that belongs oourtésy which must inspire renpect. " - to the nature of our very boing. Humsn naturo hg;l;e moan»kosp«;- .hlvz =:1r‘uf-{’1fl::i;¢h= come by tha incomplete philosophy of any one or | Jsya., it not battor that woman should’ sub- moromen. Christ Himself was tho sacrifice given | mit to even o great a wrong as that of the to 8ave men. Ho, and Ho alone, could suffice,— | Liquor-trafilo, no matter how great.it may seem for God does nothing neadlessly; and, svea after | 16 e, mell they can davite and exscnia some such o sacrifico, Ho Himselt tolla us that fow | Girctly . nerods fumdemontal trs roteoting thero ara who will ind tho way to salvation. If, | the righta of all 7 The reanlts - of thia fioge] thon, with such a reward as Heaven to'him who | Warfaro may appear inspiring for a timo, but a will follow Christ is promised, and the vory follow- | Fesction will soon come. The respeot for prayer ing of Him s, oven hote, the happiest1ifo; if,then, ‘:fi;‘fi'&-‘:&“’.";fl really m;fifiy o wan cannof, or will not, 80 far subdue and over~ turning it agninst & man'a right to romain-un- come humsn nsture and passion,—how trae i8 | molested in his own house by uaing it as a sub- the remark I have just made, that the lame phi-'| stitute for ballots and & covar: for libelons nt- losopliy of any one or more men is powerloss to ;"o"‘;:}‘;ig;‘;;:’ ';z'::"‘s; 5:.“;:3&’:;‘?&“&?: overcome them. Z o awakening of both men and women to 8 knowl- RNow, inlemperance ia an evil and s f00 0 tho | odge of the truth that the latter. have aa deop an rece ; and, therefore, the causes thereof are | intercst in the Government.of the Stato as the orila. Then, I am asked, are we not justifiedin gm!fls “fl flww-’ the Jpener § wgnflfifia&m batding aganet them? 1 answor, Yea! BUt | joliow “Lrotansen of contoniinent mith. thals the end does not and cannot fustify the means. | allotted sphers which® women have thought it To wia firat place, lot me say, as a Iawyer, that to |- proper or pretty tomake; lays baro the shams assn-ae the right to invade tho dwelling o place | with which dthey haye du:g:;od tbu;ulve: un:.d of basiness of snoltar, to twge onromn opinion | PHETE: spCproshime tg, the world thab they upon . him, is not only wrong and fanatleal, | poliavs and tesch that. thoy do mof with b taka butillegal. A man’s house is his caatls, and he | part in political , affairs. It 18- Nature at the bas tho right to prevent intrusion therein, or | food-tide, sweoping sway the barriers of con- disturbauce in the enjoyment thoreof, witn wnfiontnhg. And mnk‘ma jor 12211 o '}:;M’m-_f; repalling forco it necessery. His plsce of busi- | Sourse o the o joot it oug] i Tooh by loghs noss is no less his caatle to any one who attempts | ™ : 8 to moleat or injure kim in tho onjoyment there- | A Sowsh View. . - L3 of, How much moro #0to hum or tham who | 1y iy miiter af The Ohteups Trsbune s, aitempt not only o molest and infuro, but en- | T 8 oMY T8 phesetunes s ticely destroy. We presumo hero_that & man ig U5 o ¢ obilg e devotiog himself to a lawful business, and | TRISUNE by republishing the following article Do one cen deny that, sa long s | from the Jewish Times, New York, of Feb. 20, the lawa of his “own particular county | 1874 _e A LIpERAL AMERICAN. © ermits and eeoges, it is & lawiol businese. |\ covn,co eab, 25, 1974, Now, tho man or Sien, woien or women, who | g 7 . #R 5 not ouly entor into a raloonin their fanatic: A 5 P g crusade, ot present carried on in our State;for | . TEE ANCE MovEMEYT. i Tho purpose bf not only moleating the businsss | i o SYDANL xiads b o B el of the ealoon-keepers, but to destroy it, -Are | .jdes mat s sclation would be’ ofered by o auabey o trespassers on the bigh-born rights of ‘others; | Kmemiean 1sdies, demonstrating, in ‘the most positive and if the. tawn, city, or county suthorities do {-manner, that prayer s of practical vaiue, We doubt, not protect bim when applied £0, he has the right | howerer, whether the peraons who are the_subjects of nder tho low of nations and bis comntry to ropel | Solicilation fesl very mucs elaled st he péculiar 2p- 124 cloet fho favader or fuvaders thorofrom, | Plistien ol int irine oxziment s we Tt lucle 25 even to ther death, if necéssary so todo, = - | [0A8 Sf REATEr il ot b of the ment elemated mature. 1 prosent the legal view of thix subjeccfor can- - cannot appear in the garb of 2 Divine Inctitation: sideretion; and, in sddition, remark: Religion |\ There s Divins njunctian which Kays £ & Fou is faith or bolief ; without it, it becomes a non- | shalt not use tha name of ;the Lord in vain,” These entity. - Now, although' the msajority of onr | extem mentings in grog-shops snd beer-sa~ i fh g articn- | loona msy fors ime haveths eficct of praving a few Lellow-gitizens hsve . faith the. partisu- | iCE8 TAY (oA thelr oorupation, But il o fhe eog Iar retigion called tbe Clristian,yot We may presume’ there are some wWho have not. :Tha |: attempt to forco » Jew to beliove in and obey. W“t\_ > o the Christisn religion, or Yorce s Ohristian to 0 Jews, frmly koep es cloded. believe 'in and obey the Jeywish religian, would | sgainst the benedt, the enlightenment, the advanced b deemed the most uitra fanaticism. 8o also.{ Morlity of Christianity, have never bud any need i of any temperance meetingu ; of being convarted from the atiampt to fores ancthar fo. believe tha suma [/ 3f 83) [asssiaes mestingy of bolng eanvebtad feoma doctrines, of any nature, held by one golf, and to | frioxennces Ik G ik Bemted noping ¢ guide his lifo theraby, would also be fanaticism ; | tifally for His crestures; -but, as s close, they never 2nd guch & theary beld: would be dangerous to | abuse them; they keep within proper s, xnd, all principlas of right, and, put fnto practico; | wittont tadulging tn amy cant, they observa ths prac- would subvert all tho cxistlng rules of life and | tical .injunction af fellgion. " They nover loss their control of otbers. The porescation {o witcheratt, | SSlf-respocts hence tisyda 5ot bring themselvas thioa ot ; . cond!tion of degradation and- humiltation. The Ger- tho Inquisition of Spain, sud other tao umer. |: R of Seeradadlen Ind. humillscon. The Ger- ous exemples reddoning the prges of HISCOY | \ing? they dg it in the Dessaey of thass e with blood and darkening mankind's escutohioon | dsughters: they mever enscted an; prohibitory laws, with the hlackest of crimes, teil too. forcibly to'(-and neodod no special leglalstion. ngking to the sup- what extent iguoraut religious enthusissta will | proesion.of drunkenness; and, neverthelcas, a drunken, religion and the intentioned - people 0 to auforce, not, God's teachings or commands, | fuan[n German, among fhe béar-consuritsg Teafobs, ut their own coutracted friews. Many.awrung, | 8 bramartah - C Gl - s2u, aud even datk crimes againashumamty, are come mitted under tha cloak of roligian. o One men may beliove the publia sole.of liquors “of $he Church, ars ‘victims of that dreadfal passion ; but the religious -effort in that.direction will have no lasting effect; ~Yau cannot: sbolish the traffic in arti- to be wrong ; while enother, ' of . cqual._in . clza which Nature ha# provided ss things io be enjoy-, gence and moro thonght, ¥nowine the evil to'be } ed;-but what you can do'is to- abolish the barrier co-ordinate with human Being, thinks " it better: (. ¥hich senda the husband, ths sz, the brother, away B publio, and controlled by public law, tasge, and | frosa his wife, mother, sister, it, be wishes to'onjoy respect, than privato, uncontrolled save by the'[ the Iuxury of & stimulus.. THe yomen who, in our sppetize of the drinker.. Lookx at. the .actual R A At 02-a my o drankards sround you, and, without excaption, | mambess of thelr faniies hen they oo mrentet thoy were made so by the private nse of the | ehould be préscot when the wine-boile is opencd bottle. The privats sideboard, sod the -private |-abould share their company in. the beer-garden ;. anc drug-store or club, havo done more for the ruin g;;;m«?flgfi oCered ;g;;‘;rm! itm?ou"}“‘é"“i' g8 mon thun all public saloan togother. - Tt hat | L) oy som, your brathce, il nct £t Iotoslesid became, sad is, the provailing rule with all | {3 youl presance s therefore do not wit e yourself: publio saloons, never to allow o mAn Wiio 18 be-. our social habits of exclusiveness and a faise Coming drank to drink more. Hers he has'( prida and you will reform the Liabits of thosa you love, some outaide control, :besides evon the coutrol- u“-‘ b’b:;br :g,:& ::Bm L{r:gflhfl:fl x}g;h.l ‘l;:t .fi; gu;r:‘ol{ livg gpisit of misny men'a livas,—the_ shama. of .0 (a7 Sorscrsative [2 sochlenjoment, v drinking 8ppearing as a brats befora hia fellows. Bat, [ (0008 (OGRS SEI0e aoom and the says the i“ pd?vnte. no xtztx‘omor_ °§,“f,‘;“"’ or . £riendiy | peyimist; and he lsmw‘;- much as you do winn.‘s, pro- and, warns tho - drinl permisailic.. We aro sorry to seo rellglon the cup; nothing spealis ito contempt Ly this newfeature of American: but tho apppzfim. "No ana who studios tho natara . 3t 13 on par with that of the Constitn~ and passiona of men can or will deny.that drink- . ing liquors can, pever be wholly prevented. dben will thero be any gain by driving :men from the public to the private bars? -I think not. Nornced any fesr that the public sale-of [: : it will readerit popular, and drunkards toler- | - fire: Inotice in your issua of the 26th inst., Bied. |80 lang g, tuo mm’;‘l:%m&;:ggg that there i announcsd **War on the Bottle.’ laared eye exist ; 8o long as O i dejocted sountenancen ace: its companions ; so | A2 0 the means 1’""?5‘? to abite the trafis in long as the wealened fremes’ and Tnined for- | Whisky and othor stiminlants which intoxicate, tunes aro its resalts ;:80.long a8 the reeking.| however woll ‘meaning:”thio ‘Women's proyivg oa:ha and the wild, fronzied, cry of,.its viotims | movement may be, et it will not avail again: ate'heard ; 80 long 28 the widow’s moans aud | the paupér-making and blighting curse of intem. S Baor g e o Gelend mad onihed. | PEISac e prasticed i Chicago. & will liguor and i ; i 5 S ‘Tue’ attempt o accomplish, reforms by force |- Tho obly tellifg argimant the ram-seller w has slways been accompanied by defost, - dis-- aver listen to s, to_mike him ' responaible for gruce, sud ruin,—defeat to tho object, disgrace | the elfocts of his business.. Asdcss tho'smount to the person, and ruin toall. ~ -°- . .. 1| backon the. maker and seller.of ardont spitits, hons Cheneny M. Editer, 1 am not s Ahelst; .| uicicnt to meet, the damaze on the communi. Han merigh‘flonu:lv:éuu the violation of tho in- (-4 a0d individusls where they soll. Let.itbs, born rights of snother's belief ox: mods of lifo. | ascertained. definitly how many | paupors ara It would be s.blessing could -liquor-drinking bo { suffering from thia cause, and how many crimi- pm“g"fl: b;z uang s o m.lm!l!mm gd nalaare such from this catse, and the expenso have human desires and passions, so lon; o |- s eE 5 i evil must oxist, . Any close resder of the bistory- ."i?“{'?‘? f“’ bring ."!"‘: “’J‘%“;f_’. ; and asscas of men, and obserser of ‘tho meana by which | the tax of pauperism aud erinio from this canse ends are accomplished, must come to the conclu-~ {, upon thoso who have mads them a_uchl,mace_ld of sion. that the only way to avoid. sud destroy ths | 8ssessing it on men who; abominate it, as it hag ‘Making the. Liguor-Selfer IEespan. . 3le. kd B G o tha Editor of Tha Chizago Tribuns: - ... men's hearts and “Mibk, en, and nn,::’l;er.' - Man'g gre ‘This is a elow, tedious work, bat-far more effica- | 0 : . 18 encotntes 2 fain cious and ealighioned than the narroweminded, | mént.. ; Meh have Sxplorad.and will somtinne igoted, and fanatical crussde. of . force..to-day. | £0 explore, tho - Bocky Moantains and the mala- p a8 ilds of Afriea.for_gain ; and men in onr city Lave toilled early and .Iate for money,. say twenty hud ibirty years., Bupposs yon that thiy : insatate thirst or”gain " is different In tho, sa- s ste ..| loon-keeper yinthe mén nde- -Views of o Woman su}!n—nzi.,x b foations 7. i lin PM To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune?: o & TESC' 2 aeation ther 1a” ot whether it : that the témperance | ; -89 4 A ¢her it Bm: There are ramors it gy ‘bo:| BOFiA ADY other man, waman, oz child ; whather excitement threatens, Chicago, ‘and"it, miy 'bu; tho community.is better or warso ; bub' whethor. well to inquiro the probable results, " Is it well | they will gat monéy or wealth- by 'the operation, | that women, .who - aspire: to ‘be law-makers, Ei:"afm-m'f:”ifi; f'fli?‘fibefx malority - of thould, fo gain tholr purpcses, become: law- | 2098 omigrants. ' thejr.own notions breakers? Tho obfect of tho war npon, liquor--| o5, freedom aud Libarky, Their vision takes i what is beneficial to themselves, and warms and sellers is to do indircctly wHat most, perhaps, of- | feeds their wivea and children, without regard the women engaged in the movement would toltt:‘:;lqct_upon thie wives and childre Iren of their shrin from doing diroctly. Itisan sttempty | customers... & I ‘bey have not learned that it is.the géntus of by unlawfal means, to onfcrco, defeat, control Jib in America that | legisiation ; and this by people Who have tiot | Locc, 4 00 man hea a tight £ do ) what s ‘ipjurious to~ his neighbor, ~howaver nsked for the right or power to reach thelrobject | beneficial it ‘may ba to himself; that it ia the by legitimste means. If the women now enm- law of the land st overy men “shal bo bola ro- geged in this uprising had lawfally and respect: | Spopsible for hisicts dnd their consoquences. Tully petitioned their respective Legislatures for fimifigb;;‘?am"ggézfi I ?;;:5‘;:,'; the right to vote, and thus to make their power 3 “conyequential damages” of. ‘saloon-keepers, felt 20d their withea regarded on this question the Pk | and is alao found in the first rosolgtion of the of Stato policy, that petition would soon have llf:otm ;:atvaal;u:rzz ;nIov:{s, Fub.nzs' in *“proper = s and preperty. been granted, and women "“’fi :"“““L":‘: 1f a mas mardars, &6 i the case of Raffarty, Dbecauso no | 1; 4 Superrisors and Grand Jury make a find- ¥ xng of the facts in the case, and assesa upon the enongh interest in the laws which govern them | * business of the bottlo” the exponss of the to aak for a voice in making them, that they aro | Criminal ‘proceeding; also the valuo of the powerless to reach this creature of Law. Women | 180 life who was murdered, and the value o: 5 the mnrderer’s life, and not make peaceable and genarally havo made 8 pretty protonso of belisv- § good Gitizan pay the shot, aad Jot the. tradle ing that the wholo domain of polities is | which was the immediatecause go comparativaly sacred o the masculine half of the race; Q. g \ 5 bave eaid 1 varions Wwsys, that they have | Drunkenness i & diseaso, pestiferons and dis- Do desire to meddle. Mon have taken them at E;nnng, attacking the weslthy in their socml their word; have regarded anyinterferenceon their | life; and they wake not .from their reveries park sa_impertinent meddling ;_and have taken | untif the insstiste, demand_ for stimulant showa notroubls to ‘consulé them. By What ‘weems| to'the oxpers thst the victim's ‘stomacks is in- carried on by unthinking, wild, end mad enthusi- sts, oil over our country. - ' . BRUTUS. Cmicao, Feb, 36, 167 Sk “transpired that and ses if the tensely congested in i Rellof et for the bofer 0 19 & seething __D.Dong, M. D, 4 The Ligquor-Zusiness.” To the Bdiiora of the New York Ecening Po, Your correspondent on the “Liqaor Businega™ ‘made MO8t eXtravagant figures as to ita‘cost, Ho saya the amocat spent in New York is $246 617,520 & year. At the Presiduntial eloction 1y -1872 there wers 829,452 votes cast for President, - Now, does any sano man balieve that tlie i o - $297 was expended by each voter for drink dur f et c;emm!se—' f Internal Re i 3 sioner ol venue st the amount of distilled spirits prodnced da:it:: tho year 1872 at 71,151,867 gufima; number of arrols of. fermented liquors, 8,910,623 82 100, Now, take tho 11,151,387, ‘and estimats that it was all consumed in drinks at 64 to the gallon, and at 10 cents & drink, and we have $455,358,748.80. Take the Termenteq liquors st 40 gallons to the barrel and 8 drinks to the gallon, and we have $142,372,168. From the reporta of the Bureau of Btatistics, we learn that the number of gellons of wines, apirits, ang oordials for the year endin‘iJnnu 380, 1872, was 12,229,509, © At 63 drinks to the gallon, and at 15 cents & drink, wo have $117,104,150.40. Making & total for domoatio spirits, fermonted Liquors: and imported liquors, at 'the prices per drink ggl?ltd, af $048,9: 4,252.20."1’111& llgm:lte i8 tog igh, 85 & very considerable quantity of spirits is consumed in manufactares. 3 2 e The lowest possible estimats is bad enough for the cost of intoxicntmfi liquors, but it is mot best to ovarshoot the mark and givo to tho enee mies of temperanca sach figures as to destr the influence of raal facts. Iutemperance is thy one great giant curse of our race. It has been g0 in the past, itis 50 now. But in the last forty years the consumption of whisky per capita in the United States has decressed mcrs than one-third. This is encouragemont for 1o Dowed efforts 1n the good causa. J.AB- New Yonx, Feb, 22. % THE.PEKIN DISTILLERS, A Chapter in Their History that Needs e - Turning Over, Why Did the Government Officials Nega lect Mr. Bandy's Report ~ in18672. . - Spectal Dispateh to The Chicags Tridurm, DaxvILLE, TN, -Fob. 26.—Bince there asoms to be'a disposition on the part of tho United' Statea sathorities to bring- the * Pekin distillors to jus- tice, after years of fraud, your reporter is re- minded of ‘an investigation that took place in ~ 1867, conduoted by Willism M. Randy, of the Bavonue Depariment, under ihe direction of tho thon ' Commissioner of “Internal’ Revcano, tha Hon. E. A. Roltins, and Mzj. Lawreucs, Rove nue Agent. . Mr. Bandy was ordersd by the Com- missioner of Tnternal Revenus to repart to Maj. Lawrence at Chicago for ‘special duty, and waz assigned 10 the” duty of investigating the - Pokin frauds. On: his arrivel - at Pekin, sccording to his repor submitted to fhe Depsrt- .ment, Mr. Bandy was soon convinced that what- ever was to be dono toward protecting the inter~ eata of the Government must be doue without assistance from the local revenue’ officers, aa it appeared {o bim they wero i the interest of tha : distillara. TS L Sy S . HIS CIVESTIGATIOR BEOWZD ~ 5 the stariling fact that ono man, Jobn L. Smith, a distiller of that place, had' shipped from there highwines ‘the tax en which amounted to over ‘$125,000, and on which a tax of less than- ‘85,000 had “-beon ““sssessed ~or collected by the Government. Mr, Bandy pro- _ ceeded o Springfleld, headquarters of -the dis- trict, where hs made a xeport of the above facts - fo Col. D, Wickersham, Assessar, who, on the. facts and Suces -made a0_sdditional assesg- - - moat against Bmith of $123,000: Abou: this time ALr."Bandy received an appointment in the regn- Iar army, and loft the Kovonue Department, in= lormmg the Commissioner of Intsrnal Revenns whero hia conld be-fonnd if ~wsntod:~But it hea : HE HAS NEVER BEEX WANTED: s At the timo of this invastigation, John E. Ros- sott was United States.Districi-Attorney for Southern Illinois, and had chargs of * the- prose~ cuting of theaa cases, but. it ‘lgpwu DO Proge~- cution hag ever.been mads aud 1o recovery on the part of tho'Government/aver béen offeoted. - arfner of 1¢ ly Zat tha the morning he ‘Arriyed - - withous Mr. Badidy haviog notified him-orany oo of his.ine that Tonls Rodsett, a brother an; the ] District-Attorney, met Mr. Ean depot abont daylight of th at Sp?;ng[ield, and . that, - too, .tended visit, aud made an offort to obtain & re- . Bzmat his investigation. ' Repeated afforts hava -been made o bring the matter to the notice of the District-Attorney, but without avail. Since there seems a disposition on the part of the presont District-Atlorney to - protect the in- ierests of the Government, and Dring to justice ‘L:fl Pekin distillers, wonld it not be well for him LOOK AFTER THIS MATTER ¢ $23,000 could not be collected 2. Tn sddition ‘to tho above,” afiidavits were meda sgainst other parties for irregularities, against whom it wouid'soem suits «hiouid huva beon in- stitated. But, so faf 28 can be Jearusd, no action has ever boen taken in the matter. ' - REBUILT - BOSTON. What the Improvements Xlave Cost ~—0f What thoy-Cousist—Some in- - teresting "Figures for £ Dread (he Fire. - T % ' Special Dispxteh to The Chicane Tribune, Bostox,” Mas#, ' Feb. .25.—The City Coureil. Commnittes report that an additional -loan of 1,620,000 will be required to complate the' plan of street imiprovement instituted -in the burns distsict.' :-Tho loans g0 far raised amount - to $5,051,170.65. Thors bad heen erpanded.- 0 February -ta pay for Jand taken sad for Building, $4,230,131.22. There remain unasttled claiuis fdr ‘damages estimated at 1,750,000. The cost ofths nogotiation of tho loan will be probnblny 152,000, -- The totn) of thess sums are. $2,352,000, -an excess of 961,222,917 ovar tho remainder of the original loana, The aunual report of the Inspector. of Build-- ings showa that tha total niumher of permits is- sued in 1878 was 2,360. O these, 646 new build- inga were of.brick, stoae, or: iran, 339 .of “wood; and 1,154~ ‘permits wers. . issuod for, ro- glim,‘ slterations and ‘additions. rick,, ' stone, i 2wellings, - 334 The nuilier 6f fres was 272, aad the dsmage to buildings was $812,195. . Thirty of . the. fixes .| -were incendisry, and 148 of nninown erigin. Tha, number of brick buildings completed dir- Ing the year was 507, & au ostimafod coss of - . £16,001,225. Tho incresae’of storesls accounted for by the number of buildings which have been completed io the burnt district. The work of rebuilding that district s rapidly progressing, aud, ‘up-.to date, 273 Dbuildings bsve - been reported as completed. Afosi of thees . - buoildings are occapied. One building Las beea comploted and occupied o the distrct burned over May20. Y > it s " Amarked changa in the manner of consiruc- - tion had taken placn, and mere attan‘iin is peid to improved construction, Zineteen of the com- pleted buildings in tho burnt distriet ‘are pro- vided ‘with i d they will probaidy . be introduced it The_sabject of - e3capes has roceived conridorable atienkion. MILWAUKEE: The Burial Service Case Exninineds 3 Fire Inuuraice-Patrols Bpecial Dispatch to The Chicago- [ribuns. Mmwacxes, Feb. 26—It transpired to-day that the Catholic priest who was charged with baviug Tefused to bury Joseph Porthier, na old ‘settler, for no other reason. than that ho died in snother district, did 80 -because the parties omitted to ‘bring the customary proof in cases where death took place in anothor dlatrict, that deceased. had cformed the necossary duties of his religion. T tis absenco of smch Proof, shich the triends of the decaased kmow perfectly well they ought to have provided,tho priest declined to perform the offico. The body was_finally baried by 8 son of deceased withont religions seryives. An effort is to be mado to establish 8 fire: ingurance patrol here on the’ model of that of igago. Most of the leading companies repre= sented on the Board of Undorwriters have been communicated with,and are willing to bear theit share of the expans, and tho companies ontsids the Board will also join in it asked.: Tha city. - . will ba asked to provide stabliug aud .2ccomm* . “dations for the men,