Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1874, Page 2

SPRINGFIEL.D. Proceedings of tixo Illinois Log- igluturo Yesterday, Tho Repoit of the Pidntlig Tnvestizat- ing Committoo Prosented, Evidence that the_State Hes. Baon " Grossly Swindled. The Commissioners . Advised to Make " Reprisals as’ Far'as Possibit, Tll/e_ of, the Contract a1 Practicablds” Talk in the Sénate About Publishing tho Revised Statutés. - - - THE STATE PRINTING. \1.. gpecial Dinpateh ta The Chicaqo_ Tribine. THE INVESTIOATING CoatitrrR's nbiront. Srmsorien, il Mareh 20.—Tho roport of tho Spocinl Ilouse Comtitteo which Lns beon Investigatiog tho pTairs of tho Btato Printors swas gubmittod to-dny. , It b ns follows: Ro,ths o, & . Cillon, Speaker of the House.qf ! tativen s’ ] i L S —— zeport tat 1n oligience to tho resolutions matkod “ A Mand 1 B, adapted by this House, roquiring them to fnvestiga! certuin matters rulutibig to_ tho'contruct for dolng tha public priuting aud fursishing payer they lavo por: Tormed that duty as carofuily uid fulthfully as tho lim< itod time anslgned thom wotld aliow, and from th tes- tinouy tnken by tliom and printod by order of tho Tiouso (which 8 mot mado's part of this report), thy {lucumeuts thereto attached, and. an _examination of tha sccurdn ety Ln tho office of Lo Becrelury of Saty, sind tho books of thio porsous dofny the public print~ tugy thoy Oud tho following foctas Ttk FATR v, That AV, i, Dutinche aud 0, L Morritt, ot tho 20th of August, 1874, pub,in. 8 joint bid for tho publie printing, a'copy of which bid-will be found ou page 53 of tho printed oyldence, except that for pross- work fu tho ffth class it arglunily voul, * 26 impres— slous, 26 conts,” tuptend of 25 hmpressions, B cents.’” 'hat beforo satd bid was nled fu tho ofiive of tho Secretary of Btate, W. 11, Baillinche, iu writing, saslgn. «d ifn xiteront du st bid.and tho contract that might e obtoined from tho Blalo to the Springflld Joursial Qumiuny, for which Compauy hio was acting fn mak tuy said bid, v i it there woro, diffordit bida mada_ ont for tho public printing, snd ench bidder,oxcept Thowas Lowis and Johin ¥, Bakor, hnd - given a good and wulliciont Lond, whdch had lieen ppprovud by dov Datmer, bub tht {ho Bpringfeld Jourial Company, by itk olficurs And nnuagors and tho mild E, L, Mersilt, by paying 10,500, frundulently snd corriipily AL - " " novoitr ove TR BtHDEDS, and ndneed them not to,prut. in, the - bids which _tioy bad made out, Fho numa of {ho porsomws, su Loz a your Committeo lnve been ablo to nscertaiu, whose idda wore so purchused, wud tho amounts they roecived, ure as follows : Joln 1L, Bradford. Usrmon G, Roynoli “thomns 8, Vlucknrd. Iuoch Tafne and Dr. 8, 3T, Goorgo R, Weber. Thomas Lewia, Bongumin A, Richiard v 1,000 “That in this conspiricy to provent compotion 1L . Roynolds acted as the nyont of the reapective partics, That (o monoy to purchaso eaid hids was furnisliod cqunlly by the syfd Journul. Company and the sald . L, Murritt; of tho Springfiell Henster, “Tlint the bid of . Bailbuctin and Morrité wos the only ona'pat in, and was for the maximum rates allowod by Inw, excopt that tho bid for fifth-class press-work wits for four thnea thu maximum:rate, . TITE WAY TIR CONTHAQTS WERK LK, That the Comminalbngra of Yublic Printing, on {hg 26th dny :of August, 1873, upon :fhe expiration of the. tinie for recaiving nroposals, ndjonrned their miceting until the 3d of Beptombur _withuut awarding tho cantracts, sud on thnt day ogain llllJA!Hruud the varding of tho contracts uniil thu 7th of :Seplomber, sud on that day awarded tlio coutcacts for " thv five cluesss of printing to tho ald Hailliach aud Merritt, 8 1ho rutes ob gtatod {n thefr id s originally fled by tizom in the aflice of the Secrotury of State. T'he fourth. seation of the law of 1872 on printing provides: thats 4 tha Commineloners of Priuting, or any two of them, shzll inimediately after tho oxpiras Howof tho time for recelving proposals as aforesuid, proceed fo_open all suck” projowsls by tbem to. cefved ; nud they shall, on caroful cxamiuation and compuation, immediatoly award tho contract fur cach cluss of privtiug to the lowest bidder therefor,” + That the Lon, Egward fwnmel, the then Secretary of Hinto, cnused (0 b writien contrncls for suld public Teiuting for tho purposs of having thom aignod by the anid Bajilincho and- Morritt, in which it was provided that slxteon pages-of book asid pamphlet work should constituto @, form, :bub., that thoy. refused 'tg sgn tho g, -, nlflough . ong of tho conditions of the bond given by thoin beforo puttingin their bid, and approved by Gov, Palmur, s that tuo; il oxtuto.a coutract conformty With suld Lid ;2 {liat no written contract hig over becu wigned by sald Bailhache and Borritt, but that the biank contract drawn_ by sald Idward Rumumiel was left in the oflico of tho Secretary -of Stato at thd oxpiration of bls ter, aud caunot now be found. Tuat oll o Lida bought off wore low tho maxiom rites: theé of Gebrgo X, Wobor, ou old snd_experleiced printer, snpportod by a 'good bond, the original of which s on filo withtho “Egience, o ‘¢opy of whieh is liorelo nitached, marked ," will tehid to show: . .. - . OW MUCIt THE STATY, 1AB.BEEN DAMAGED | by this fraudiiléut coukpiridy to pro¥ent compotition. By it Str, Welier ropdsed to do 1o compobition‘of the tirat ‘cla¥s, which jneludes all “'bills,” for 20 ceuts por 1.000 emn, fnetead of 00, the brico at.which it os nwarded ;- Ju the sccoud ‘clusa, for K0 conts; instoad of £0 3 dn tho third - cluss, 40 Gonts insteml of, 60+ du the Tourth cluss, L5 centy fustoad of 60§ and, In tho Ofth clues, 40 cuity, fnstead of 60; ulso'lo o tho press- work fn tlc first, second, third and fourth classes for 0 cents ier 100 {anuu:h)nu ;and in tho ifih class, per 25 impreshjoun, Ok -cetitd, = Thl}t»npnlm au nrnminuuml of the records i (o Becrotary. of State's oflive, your Committev found that in 1870 {hero was freo competition for the public priat- Ing, sud s o conseguence JL was Jet ot very low Inleai that ten difierent ids were pune in, An abstruct ol astiels Lids,containing niso the namos ot the securitics, is hereto sttaehied, morked ¢ B John P, Baker becuino the contractor ot the_following rates: Plain composi- Hon, 32 conta ; ipocial rlo ‘and Aiguro work 66 ceutu; piess-work, 88 conts'per Yoken of sixteen piges. . TUE PIFTI-OLASS FRAUD, That the bid under which tho award was mado for “Ie printing in 1872 was changed by W, 1L, Dailhache, 1016 0f thu porsuts to whom it was nwariud, by erasling 25 and Juseriing GX(, 50 8840 mako it Tead 4 For prowse work in the ffth class, 25 fmpressious, 617 cents {liat there i a conflict of ‘testirouy us to wheu thils ehiingo was mnde, whather bofore'or after thu awurd, Thut'your Commiltee, after caroful examinntion of ho'luw, are of ‘tho upiujon that, under tho ffth ke tlon‘of tlfe uct of 1872, the maxinium rate pald for all - prees-work dons uniler that sct, fueludivg the fifth clans, h ot o of 95 copts per 100 iunipressious ; and thut neit! the Lriutisg Cowmissloners unor the Hecrotury of Blate had auy power or suthurity to award o contract ot a higher rato; that any contract ‘mitde for more thun at o rate of 25 ceuts per 100 fm- prcusions wunld‘ 'lm ",‘}“' and not bindg upen Lo Htato or.uny of its ofllovrs, - ; Thut Thu’nlu J, Pickejt, tho printer uxpexlfiel\mlly (th-ciuns_pross-work on bis buoks ub {ho rato of 25 cenls .or 100 inipressiona unttl tho 2ist of May, 1673, whew lio was ovdered by tho Becrotary of Htats to multiply §t by four and to” chungo the stubs of lis ook ¥o as to mikoe it correspoud with tho prieo trxed ju tho uward, . * “Ilint W, 11, Buithaclio at the time of eommcncing to 1o thy tatowork ordored Mr; Sturges, the furuwan of the job oftice of the Jowrnal Gumpany, to charge the Sitili-glaes press-work accordiug 10 thé low; ond that nudér salil order hochiarged 1t ut the rate of 25 cunts {1{“ 100 dmpressiony, aud it was 80 “charged by hiw to v, 20, 1673, and 80 aipoars upon’tho books™ of tho |- - Journit Conipun: 5 3 e Puinboas, whien they mado aut their accowit of flith-clnss press-vork 10 prosut to tho Skito, mul(i- Pitea the amount ehared therefor on their hooks by Tour, uud fuiersased (Lo ehargo for pressework on thiy regliter blanks btlll more, 4 BIXTEEN-PAGE'FORMA, IDhat ‘by-tlionet of Cougress of 1467 (1:Gross, 631) st'4a providded that thd moxinnm shall be 70 eents por tokeivof sixtean pagos for presswork ; that ouly” sy ancl of this law s 16 incousistent with tho uct of 0T 1673 repealud ; that 1 book und pusuphlet work 1ikko (it oo for tho Staty sixteeu pages {6 recognized ntingg press-work by Fxlnllng and pub. hien 11 not otbiorvise provided, at th Printers received tho paper fron: the’ Boc- Totary of Btute in eheets 251! shalconepagio form -fhat thoy printed & portion o six- tecn-pugo torie, ubi out tho hulatico of the pspor and privied i wpon ‘clgbi-yago “forie, sl charged e . Btato for pressiwork at. tho Fato of 25 icents - per 100 siipressionn of au eight-puge form ; that (his s doublo what your Committeo ure of opinion _they, under tho award wud 1o Iow, Lad tho right to churge” tho - State, . QONSTHUCTIVE COMPOSITION, That. ho four voluuies of reports to the Goneral Assutubly are printed upon {hio samo typo used for printing the various ‘Toports ; that tho only chauges o Snsurting tho follon iu- bruckets, clianging tho sl maturos,and veimposing tho formd, U6 vliargo fur Hhilu conhtruetiva composition 18 $8,165.77, : Your Come nitteo uro of opiuion_ that ander -this tachnleal rulca aiophod ) for ‘stimating cowposition by priutors, wle ol wermfuyly unfi, Wt iy o cuh o wistitucd, They bave, howeyer, ‘eporiod un amol « Snent 10 ho luw, winci, 4 adopted, - wil -outirely-do awsy with Luch chiurges in the fitiite, THE BEGISTER DLANKS, a5 0 form in Tiskingg housd i That tho press work on tho regibter bianks 18 clargod AL$0,750, wiien at (ko tunzinui pricoallvwed by Ja 14 “wonld not exveed $1,478 3 thut the bludiuy, pucke dugy aud puportfur sald bisnkis aro charged at §,163,1, ‘wiilel i ut feust $3,600 * 1more than a ressonnbl 'prico § 1ltat tho ovorchargo on sald register blauky umounts o least to §9,070,60, 8 THE! GOVERLKON'S ATPROVAL, hio approvalof ths Qovernor) and, Isnpiprovor {ho mumé, thero shall bon rolbiting, * That sald nard lias nover: hoon- appiroved by the dovornor, v v ; Tttty whito your Gbmmsitton acauth ‘the . formec on well da'tho protent Printig Qommislotiers Tront iny crhninal fntont, thay are of the apinon (ot oy linve not_exerehaod that Sninont und earo which tha futer~ ost of tho Btato reqitfred, o4 TR VATER: SOM, iz Your Gommitteo furitior flid {hai without auy agroes ot an Lo prive, the contractors hud beon furninhing tho Ktato with tio puper required for printing, except loakepapur, at. priccs whivh. wo . cegard mmoll-highor fhun the Stats onght to pay; thpt by an, arrangenior Dulweenthe continctors. 25 'pee- dont of tlie profitao 1o paper o o he Jaurnady to .cover transportation, | storuge, bto, and tho romafuing 73 por - cental. (i profits aro_dividod equnily botween : the Jottrnal Cote [y and B L Merril at tho Journal Commny liad furndsiod sl the, covor-pnpor Tor £ho Statoatd hiard' paper} ' thak for cover-papur which: - conlh 00 or the - Journal Compmhy chiarges tho sialo $10 or SI050¢. that i womo fic atancus gour Comymitico fownd papor which cont $8 chargod at $10503 that it adding up o ftoma: of pa- per churged wpoy n pago of the Uomipany's booka “ti- en by, clin was found that pper, whicl cost 9,10 waa clintged At $07.10, moking o, mivance’ of * . CONOLUSION OF TIE. COMMITTRY, | Yonr Cominitlco, for the reasons aboyeset:forth, nro of tho opiufon lin the sward.uf the public yrinting 1111672 5 voiy and thint tio Goueral Assembly have ho authorlty fo 8o doclard; aud wonld therfors roce onend’ that tho adcompiuyiug jolus. ronolution de- claring the award vold, fuatructig tho Comminatongm of Tublla Printing to restato Ui account, Lalweeu tho Htate kit Trinters o the bhais of ixteensjhgo forni fot book and pamphlét premmwork, nud for pruss- forlc i tlio Afhiclans nol Lo yxceed, 95, couta- por impriwsionn, counting’ o job ot fows than 200 impressiony ond 10 nilow 1ot £0 axcond $8,000 for tuo registor blanks, nd to Tolot the contract for tho, publio printing s providot in 6, 1 of tho ot of 1873 reliing o tho publio ntintig; ind tmstruct- ingr the-Attorney.Genoral to take stioh! lonnl aotlons, oftenstvanud defonsive, 65, muy bo necessury ta pro- tect tle nterests’ of tho Stato, and_to catry ouf th provisions of sufd resolntion 3 and tho Bectotary of Stato to furubl ll papr for tho Btato printing an pro- seribod by law, Al “of which s ‘respecttully wub- mitted, .7 Tates B, Braowest, Obsirman, i K, Granaen, 2 Sy D' W, Banxrer, X ‘Oxnus Hocoor, ) ‘This portion of the Uommitteo submitted " the followiny: rosnlintiona ¢ * * THE COMMITTER'S IECOMMENDATIONS, Kepoleed, Ty the louso of Icpresontatives, tho ento eohourring hereln, ‘thnt (lio nward of tho piub- liypyinting to W, IT. Baiihtcho aad E. %, Mokt o by the Gommissionors of Publfo Prititing on tho th day of September, A, D, 1873, be, and tho sume in lierobry, declared null and void 3 and tho p resont'Coine missloners of Publio Printg bo, aud they uro heroby, dirccted and required {mmedintoly to rolat th pubils printing; in accordunce with tho provisions of the Taw roluting to publio printing; and bo it further " esolgat, Tt thuy rosisto the nocoink briwveon ta partics to iliom Auch public printing wan awarded Ty~ on Uho basin of abxtesri-page forms fur: pross-work on Trooks awd pumphilets; and on tho fifth class 1ot to ox- coed 395 contss for 100, improssions, counting no, job at Iess flion %00 Smprcasloms: {o- wilow not to exeveil 8,000 for registry blauke, dnciiding tho paper thereforo ; nuil to rostalo {hio account of {ho_ paper furniuhed'to tho Blate by tho_sald partios, und allow only a reasonablo prico thorefor, Aud bo {t.furthor Jicaolved, That the Attoruoy-Geueral I8 lioroby fn- structed to tako st Tegl uction, offcuslve and do- fonlve, a8 nny bo nocesmnry (o proteet th futerests of tho Stafe, und to enrry out (ho provisions of theso Turo. Iutiona ; 'and tho Seerctary of Stato to furnish_all tho papir requived for (he Stato priuting, -un ‘pre- soribod by Law. . Y A AUPPLEAMKNTAY, REIORT. The following. supploniontal report was-also snbmitted : ' g . - Wo ngres gencrally fn the atntemont of fasta mado above; hut oanuot subseribo to it n all its defnil, Wo ' nlso conour fm the rocommondatiun that o . Commisklonors -of Irinting suall o Instructed to nottle, with ko contractor for_tho Blate printing on the budls of sixteeh payes toa form of book nnd pansphilot prexs-work, and 25 conts por 100 impressions for press-work of thi A€t class, We nro w180 of tho apliion (hed tho award of {he Gomminsinii- or5 of 23 conts for twenty-flva improswivus ifor presa- work i tho fifth class i vail, und that; by reaon of tio conbinntion to provant cumpetition, the contraoin for thascvoral clusis of printing uro valdiablos bub tho | possiblo emburrassment o tho Stato that ‘may aHsn imdor the presont'law, i the contractn ‘should e du- ¢inred vold,-doters 1’ from -reeomntonding -thit ‘tho Gonezal Asiombly.should tuko sueh action, . . Citants G, Bme, . A ORENDOWFF, JOHN W, PyaDT, Jou 11, Dusny, WILLLAS A, GHANT, 8. Y. Thonkzow, ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION. Accompanyiug tho nbovo report was tho ‘fole lowing serios ot resolutivns : . zsolved, Dy the ‘Houso of Ropresentatives, tho Honato conaurring hureln, thot the Commilcalonors *of Dublic Printing e, and are hereby, instructed o settlo with tlio contrastora for the clawscs of thio Statoyriot- iy, that dwdudo book sud ‘pamphlel work on -tho Insls of -ixtecy pagen 10 the. vetavo form; and for press-work af thio fth class upon «tho tusia of -25 conts por each 100 unvresslous of pross-work, 1o job to bo counted a5 les than 200impressions, dnd to"sildw §8,000 for tho 5,000 vegistry blunks _fwmisned 1o the Btato by the contraotors -for work of ‘the ffth olusw of priativg. : Tiesolred, 'Tint the Commissionora be,and horeby are, alsd insteuletiad 1o sostad tho actonint Of Ui By Cur nishied to U0 Stuto by the coutractors” for the reveral clasuan of yinting, aid to allow ouly o xeasonlablo prico therefor, ftexolved, Thiot the Secrolary of Btalo” bo !natructed {o furnleh’ fdi paper roquired for the State:printing, as roquired by Law, s dtsolued, “Vhut the Altornoy-(iencral-be, and 18 Licre- by, iustructesd to ke suel Jogal notion, offensivo and defensivo, as .may bo nocessary to profuct te interonts of the Sldte, "and’ to give forco aud oifect .to theso resolutions, After sonro discussion:the roport was returned to tho Printing Committeo, with.instrnotions ‘to agroo upon tiomething npon ‘which ‘the IHouso could act, Che Committee mot in- tho evening, and decided to Mport tho resolutions ‘signed by tho majority. . Br. Bradwoll -will -probably offer ik s & substitnto in tho ‘Housoe, and thore will bo a livoly timo to-morrow. THE REVISED STATUTES, Sxecial Disnteh to Tthe Chicagro Lribune. PUBLINING TUE REVIBION. 2 StnmvarteLy, Tk, March 20.—Che -bill -pr Viding for publication of tho statutes, pending au_ udjournmont, wad talion up this moxiing, with Sunford’s amendmont -t0.pay Lho -revisor (Hurd) %2,000 '£or hia workias oditor, Young- blocd assniled ‘Lhe bill'florcoly, denouncing tho proposition. He nid Turd had dlrendy 'beon paid enormous prices for.work dono.on -the .ro- vision, He was -willing to sny in:the:bill:that {he work shoaldbo 1doe atin given -figure, tbut was not willing to puy $2,000for ‘a ‘uséloss of- fice, when the worlg wais to.bo dono fn so short & time after ndjournmont, It was an-outrago,on privato righta; to sobup tho Stato us »-publishor of books. Private-eutorpriso was-the mont ‘re- liable, and should'be oncouraged at all times. Tampton weated the Jaws published. for tho ‘henefit of tho people. T'he lnwa wors mado for the people ; and the Gross bill mauitestly.pro- vided for a menopoly. "Ouly a certaln numbor of copies axo to bo sold tothe Binte, after which tho plates will'bo tho personal property of the compiler, whocan then charge what he pleases for nll Lo #olls to tho'pooplo. This, Mr. Hamp- ton suid, would be an outrage on the people, who demand that the now codo shall bo placed within their rench, - Hincbeliffe declared wo had no :Btate 1Printer -who would be Lound by nuy seclion of .the .bill, “Tho-proposition to.pay any one was .shnpl{ 2n outrage, especially whon Ym‘tlcs of aqual ability stood ready to do the work at a rate chnrged:for tho boolk only, whilo this:proposition _clurged a féo outside of the prico of tho bool, Iho.bill to allow MIr. LInrd 52,000 wasvoted down—yens, 12 ; _uays, 203 31,500 was Jost—yons, 19 ; nuys, 10 3 81,000 was lost—yens, 16 ; uays, 10 3 91,450 was next tried, and currim}—yens. 24 ;- nays, AT TICE .AFTERNOON: SESSION, Hurd and Gross had auather livoly time in.the Sonuta in the sfternoon over the bill - to :publish tho statntos, with-variablo results, vietory porchs ing altornntely boro and thoro. Stoolo, “Bulds win, Cummings, and Waite fought -for Hnrd, whilo Ifincucliffo aud ‘Kohoo wudo 8 gallant “flplit aguinst tho speoulation. Baldwin amended the Committoo’s report .s0 10,000, -1lo declarad that tho oxpooted arystal- ized wisdom of the Azsuumhlrwmlkl bo {u great domand in his distriot, Tho -bill was finally ordered }n third reading by 4l to 14,.88 follows: YEAY, Baldwin, eury, + Bleolo, GQuinmings, dncolivy Uptotr, Cusoy, Metivath, -Voris, Dow, Tatterdon, Waile, Lorrell, ~Roynoidy, Wiiiking, Green, Hanford, Williunison, umpton, Shoplerd, Mr, Fresident—3.1 NAYH, . Brooks, undley, strong, Burke, Jehoe, Yare Caney e wreon, Guullyu., !\h‘l‘:'phy, . Youngblood—14, Uincholifre, Blaviy, CHANCES OF THE BILTw Tt is not expocted that the bill can ges a-major« ity of. tho Senate, and even if it ‘doos Ltho Houso will bardly iudorso sucl .oxtravagunce. Tho strongest arguuient used : in favor of ombarkiug in this book-publishing and-book-gelling, entor- prise Ik, that this General Assombly must bo vindigated, und tho surest way Lo appoase publiv u!vimun i# to soutter un immonso oditipn of re- vised otaintos all over tha State, Lhutls ** tho pucty " argumenty and thoe only Ropublican Bon- Lo uaeonyimeed iby it sore Btrong nud Custle, who vatod agaings printing 15,000 books at tho present high ratos for publio: printing, HILE WEVISED TOLL-BOAD BILL “That by the Av&mly—fllm wootlon of Art, & .of the Coustitutiou] all custraota for printing are’ subject to diffors from tho old law in abolishing the froo’ list entively. Lho pld. desd-head lub” was vory, that 16,000 copies sbell bo printed instond ;of | T Tong. Who only exception nowdando in in ogard 0 toll-roads within® incorporsted nltlan,vwfilul R0 fros Lo.resldenty, otherwise a.toll-gato)aould horot botweon o man's roaidonce.and his placo.of nuincan, which is now provontod. !Tho refilas ton of ;oll-ronds Iy lodged in tha' Couupy Bonrd, which doon awny. with quo warranto'procoodings, s undor tho old luw, : TN, i Tho Conforonce Gommittas on - the Tiden ‘law | roported to nmond o xh'to Mmoot thektecinion of ool auubcontraoty, glving s lion to subecon- tractors whujo tho,paypiont Igr Inbor and mato-| rinl may ‘Lodn monoys dr ronl éstate, and difer- onl from tha eampbusasion’ whioh o oriyival contractor i1 to recelve, roducing tho Lime for notieo from sixty to forty days, aud striking out; nttornoys' foos,” A ¥ .., . EROUEAT. i “Lhip donfordnce CommitioeFocommoniad (it tho ITonde ricedo from (™ Anibndmont to ‘tit! Tinohont bill, and : atriko -ont Bed.:8. In 1853 n! Inw was pastred nllowling tho propurty of bastards, to doscond to their heirs in the usual way, hut! thoro wa 1o Inw IPI‘GVIOIIH to that yoar. Tl soction wps intonded o «govor; sucly. cason, It| wa-thought, . Lowover, ‘that it imilght’ tisturh} rightn that hoye. oceurod, and was, thorefore! B T T | THE MEPEALING BILL, Tho Touse hold:m nlnfi sossion, nnd road, the Rovision Repeiling bill o i et rat thno, STATE INSTITUTIONS .1 Sprowal wispatch to The ‘hiehgo Trivune, .y | THE LAY INSANE ASYLUN, Senixorrawd, A, Moroh! 20,~hir. Mann, who! roprosonts tho Elgin Insano Asylum, madol nnother offort to gotan appropriation by tacking! iton tothe bill approprinting 46,000 to the! ‘Youthorn Asylim,. . 1lo shotld ave attadhodiit to tho eriminal colo, whiol-wont titrough, for tho Ifouso voted hini.down sgain, billoving that,' Linving socuroil uoarly’ §500;600 -last yeur, Elgin' and Manu ought to be qontant. It 1s not likely: oither institution Wil “got " anything more thlu: your. | i ..., ..CONVIOT LADOR.. , . 'T'iro Tlontio ansod 'thio Brovls ‘Bonatoeiblli reg-! ulating foonyistlghor, whicli; proyides that o, Inbor shall be porformed by the convicty in the| Tonitontiary of the Blute:ii any stonc-qunzry, or other plnco outsido tho wall of tho Ponitontinry :| provided this nct-shallnob -bo-so construed s to] probibit such Ixbor Leing porformed in quuerying' -stohib fartho neo dfthoBtate. by s authbrized agont; mnd, provided furthor, that tils uct whnll noe’ bo construod to pro-, hibit tho ‘cmploymant of conviets _outsido} the prison walls by -tho Wurden and Commine sionors In Inbor_ficidont to (ho businoss, nud Onmingomoutof the Lonitantinryy; iant; proyited furthor, that this act will ,not bo conntrued to affect any oxisting contraots, [4? IYMEN IN THE PENITENTIARY. Quinu's bill ndmilting -olergymen of sl do- nominntions to tho Yonitontinry hns boen re~ Iportodito’thio Sanate,swith an amoudmont-tlhiat thoy bo sp admitod on Suudays only, whilcl will maia it'nocensary for Untholic'conviets'to dia on that duy if thoy desivo:religious consolation. Bl ey COOK -COUNTY -AFFAIRS. Sneeinl Dinpatch to Lhe Chicago Iribune, “mhg nukst neconns mrn, 2 SeusotteuD, I, Marel 20.~<lho bLill amond the Burnt Records bill was diseharged from the.ordar.of .considoration by scotions, and ordered to & third resding. LICENHING PROSTITUTION, In tho Bonito, Mctirath’s bill Lo prevent.tho licensiniz of housos of fll-fame,{ cama buck from tho'Miscollany Commitioo ludorsotl ‘Tor pubsuge, |_and will go’througL, . o' Tum‘NONWOOD TATK BILL, " Tl Tonse passed the Sonate bill sepnrating Norwoud Park from, the Tawn of Jefferson, in Cook County. THE MAYOR'S DILL. Benator 'Waite rosurrected the Mayor's ‘bill this morning.under a proviously entored motion ‘torecondider, aud it' was recomniittéd to the Committee on Municipalities. "Tho “People's party, -or ‘the “fragments thereof lying around looso in tho Logulature, ato vory anxious to pass tho bill'now, Ko a.to oust Preéidont Dixon, ‘and “give “Mnyor Colvin ‘ariother opportunity to -oxbibit *his ‘wondorful _parlinmontary "tactics. -‘That -can.:bo . their ionly " objout in tdrying ito -pags [tho nll,. a8 1t 'would oot ,go -into -offect ‘until.July 1, and tho \Mayor .could inot ‘oxorciso :tho :ipower .40 -veto .itoms .of ‘tho'approprintion.ordinange without votoing tho ‘whole, -Jtmightas well bo -lot alone till .noxt yonr, wheit tho Grangors:moy. immortalix thair -ugministration by giving : Chioago “a ‘rospecinblo form of local government. B STOCK<YARDS, |Rogulation being.the \orilar_of -the -day, :Mr. “Warron called uptho House bill «to ‘provont rex- itortion inithio -eliarge ifor dood at ‘sluok-yards. ‘Lhiswas.novarevieion bill, but wegulation -and srovision can bothigotileave whon .the regular or- der iy calléd owevorythung:else, ———— "MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. , Swpecial Dispatel' to The Chicugo Tribine, STATE CONTRACTS. -SemNow1ELD, 1il., Blarch 20.—~The -bill rogu~ - luting Btate contracts was . orderod to tlfird reud- *ing in the Houso after squabbling among “mem- bors of tho Printiyg Committoo, who woro full of amondmonts, "Thero.ls ‘aihopo that,tha;bitl will proteat.the Stato from - the :xiugs that proy :upon it,-but only time ean. toll. by RAILNOAD POLICE BILL. *Shaw cilled up the Rallroad Polico Uil aud the sreport of \tho Conmitieo recommonding.coucnr~ ixence in some of tho ‘Senato -amendments and itho - modification‘of - otliors :was ‘adopted—89:to -8, " T'hiw bill contains ‘many * cutrageous ‘provis- | jons.against railronds.. *MORTICULTUAL ‘HOUIRTIES, Tho :Iouse passed :Aoore's -bill- concorning “Horticultural Soclotios, - providing for dividing tho State into throe' Horticultural Districts. (BOVEE. AND FLETCHER, Tho 'House : granted sthe' use of :tho.hall .on Sunday-evening to Mr.ioves, who wiil speak on npital punishmout, andreceived & potition:from Matilde Fletolier,atking:that industrint-solools be ostablishod (dn - councetion -with . avery ward “geliool in-tho State; J ¥ JADIOVINMENT, 3 .Now that tho :Criinuli Codo -has passod and will be ignad by tho Govornorythe most impor- tant ‘measuro of-tho- session 18 sale. "Mombors - oxpect to.andjourn onttho'81st of ‘Mareh, ‘They dour't liko to postpone it till <April 1, which is Ail iFoolu Day,.and might ba rogardod a8 siguificant, but approprinte. DBusiness twill -he'irushed through next week with: railroad spood: and reck- lossnoss, LIVE INSUBANOE, :Tho Henate ‘debatod a bill -providing: that no Lite-Tusuranco . Company s shall limit-the torm Wwithin whiol. wny-snit - shull bo . brought ngninst #uech Company ton loss periodthun five. yoars from tho,tiwe when thoright to bring suclusuit slil acerue, . < URURY, st “Tha Bonato bill fixing. the logal rato of interost ot .6 per cent, aud atlowin ‘unly that rate on ‘Judguients, no' matter whiat tio ariginal contract L provided, possed the Ilouko, " < LITTLE WADABIE GATYS,, A +Dogan's. approprintion of -31,600to hang . the . gatos on-the -Littlo Wabnsh, has ; passod - bosh Louses. ‘POLICE AND-FIREMEN'S-FUND, | +Boaulan - eailed up - the .Sonato bill providing thiat, fuos futlivted on polive and firomon. shnil by untnu‘llqrt' for.n relief fund-for thoxo killed or dig~ ablad. in sorvieo. (MILITIA AT TIE GHIOAGO FINE, “Iho Sonatebill giving L w duy. to the militin- “COLORADO -COLONIES, Some Information Relative to These Enterprises. Glzco:léyi Evr'ms, Fountain, Tongmont, Fort Collins, Gireon :Cily, Puoblo, and ) DPlalte River. i ‘ Furthor Damaging Statements in'Regard " ‘tothe Last-Named. séColonzation so Adultoratod thet o ' -@onnino Arficlo Is No 'Longor An the Market,” AT “Drxvrm, March 10, 1874, To the*Editor of Tha Ohteago Tribune Bin: 'Hocing your remarks on tho Plalte River Galony and its Olvistinn mavagors,and alsonotos on somo othor Colonios, I have thought that o «plalement ,in roferonco-to all tho Colonies-hero xhight bo - of interaut., ‘Tilnve poraonally vikited most ‘of “tho Colonles, ‘and can stato nbout what theirstanding 1, - TILE.OREELEY GOLONY. . first' A fho ‘way. The genoral plan_sooma to- havoén'to ‘bug'n largo quantity'of land by n commitico, anid tifs'in'a solid body, so that no speaulators could have s chanco, aud thon divido .16 out:nmong tho membors in sach s mannorthat, Tor n givon sum pald in, ovory one-ehonld hava .a,piage of lantl oqunl in value to'any othor,ploca. A town was -laid out, and .the lots wero sold to tho mombors, although their.monoy.had bought ity 8£.525 for Inside and 860 for cornor lots ; and tho sixo of tho. lols varied from 25.to 60, 100, and 200 foot Tront, acsording to the distauco from tho proposed business-contre ; and .the sum so ‘recoivad was to:be -dovoted -to achool-purpoee, | 1o digglug Trrigatinig carials nid ditohos, wud gon- | cral imiprovoment, There iy no doubt ‘but thab- this cplan was substantially | ‘eprrlod oub; for..a town of nowmly 2,000 inhabitants, and & largo oxtont of 'farming, Inud Lrouglit into cultivation, are -tho ‘manifest roaulls ; ‘whilo -the town itsolf hno ‘besome i contro of trade nnd of education in most of that patt of Colorado morth of Douver. It is falr to suy, ‘liowover, ‘that ‘roports of ‘misappropriation of:mongy on the pnrt of ‘tho leadors arc ‘from timo 'to time put in eireulation ; but, whother theso “reports *havo any “fourdation, I ‘cannot #ny, though tho probability is, ‘they aro 'falso, | +for tho. originntors sottlod with tho Oolony, and soomed to sharo equally {n the good and il for- “tuncof -therest, and there thoy still rosido. . THE LVANS 00LONY is 6 miles north df Grooloy, It was founded ou thosamo:principles, ‘but -thoro were fewor mombors, and conroquontly, loss monoy; but n nico town has boon bullk up, and it hos consid- ardblo trailo With goveral valloys. ‘It ‘is beautl- [ully situatod on the Platio Ltivar; ‘s churchos, ‘mills, stores, schools, nnd evorytlilng that por- talus to a prosporous town; and tho loaders aro hield in high estoom, Though not n temporanco town, liko Grosley, it.is now proposing”to pro- hibit-all iquor-olliug. . It will probubly succaod. "I'ao diviston'st lote' and lands was mnde ‘in "tho samo mannor-as at-Grooloy, and the two places have o family likences. Population ‘of Livans, fibatit ‘1,000, Next comes ‘TR, FOUNTAIN COLONY, which I8 locatetl -avColoradoSprings, ‘near the Laso of Pike's Ponk, 76 miles south of Donver. ‘Flio scenery-is remarkably fino, oud the growth of tho town has been fully oqual to that of Grae- ley. Tho organization wna diferont, ‘and by n difforont claus of -men. That is, -theofiicors of the Donvor &'Rio Grande Rtmirond formed what propérly s called n Land:Tmprovemont Coms- pavy, aud, naming it a Colony, thoy commoncod opéritious. I[irat, ‘this Compavy bouglit o “Iargo body of Iand, holding it In thoir own'right; thien thoy put two-thirds on tho -market, divided iuto Colony=shares as'at’'Grocloy, winle one-third was to bo hold in resorve. A cortain portion of tho sules ‘from the two-thirds was dovoted to general improvemeuts, Tho,grent-obstaclo to solid and -unintorrupted growth s the want of water for imgr\tini urposes, and it is impossible thatany couidorabloamount of farmiug cau'bo dono in tho violuity. But, as a ploasurc-rosort, it -can bavo fow cquals. Sovoral Inrgo, first-class *‘hotels bLave beon ‘built, and *thoy ure well patronized. .Many wealthy-peoplo, {roin l’lylln(mlllhin aud from Eugland, spend .o sportion‘of thir imo Lore, orthave ‘built permn- nout rosidences, Some of -Chartos -Kingaloy's family aro living horo; '*Graco Groouwaod " ‘Tnn'a cottago. near-tho Springs ; -tho Countess of Nonilles, of -France, i buikding ' fin *honse; -nud soveral othior notablo sharacters are'to omo thiy yoar, Tho Sp: nge.uro ily -sods-aprings, wnd hovo Tittlo mediclunl vituo's but tho. water is n agrocablo 08 soda~wator. The drives in tho noighborhood are undoubtedly the finest west of the Atlantic, A" Congregationdl Colloge has heen locatod hero ; ialso, the Terrltorial Asylum ‘for -thoDent and:Dunib; A" clauso of forfolturo i ‘inserted fu all decids to provont ‘tho “sale of li- quor ; bub it ia only recontly that nttompts havo “een mado to supply tho'tratlic, * eausing o great .deal of litigation, and, in pll cases, tho forfoit- uro ig decided valid. 'Tho. placo .bas now be- como Lhio county-sant 6 El Pnso County. “The noxt in"the"ordor of ‘forntation”was TUE LONGMONT, OR CHICAGD COLONY, of whichsoversl diathiguished peisous in hicago were the officers, though tney never wont thithor to rosido. Tho ‘organization :was.preaisoly that of the Greeloy Colony, -Who location iy in tho Leart of ay productive farming rogion ns can bo found. .Liong's Poal is"scon, in_groat ‘Udanty, ‘and the other peaks and runges pre maguificont. For tho flmt‘gnnr or o, thero “woro - difileultics ; ono of .tho oflicors.absconded withs somo monoy; tliero wera otlier diflicuttios, nnd tho (Colory:: terost in tho Inrgo irrigating canal became possessed by outsido-:partion; tho distanca from o railvoad “was -anothor drawbnok. But-Just your matters injproved i o flue-flouring- mill was built ;“the .Oolorado -Chi il whivh-1a'te xun- from . Donvol Livans, and thenco to CGreolp; -the Douver Pucific, -has "had-a tomporary.termi- nug at Longmont ; -now farms : have bosn open- od ; and genornl *prospority ‘18 tho rule, ‘'ho tomperance-clauso bas inot baen strictly - en- ' forcud, 'and-they linve at least ono liquor- | Unless somo now wagon-road shall bo bullt itk tho mounialng, Longmont will "bo the starting- point for visiting Esto's -Park -and Long's Peak, whiohpresont scoucry of a. romnrkabio eliar tor; as well as-linos of. travel of the most diftienlt “und torsiblo uatare, To nscend Long's Peal ro- quiros norvoaud endurance which only persons «in full hoalth-are supposed to possoss. milroads aro Lo contro horo; Gonl.of suporior ?unllty is abunilang ; wator for firigation iein ull_supply: -and tho prospuoty . for rapld sud solid growll are gaod, g TLATIT NIVAD COLOWY . 1n 26 milos noruls of Donvor, nnd in the coniro of & traol 0 about 80,000 neres known ns the Big Bond, with fuo oll with n grand mountuiu-yiow ; willconl olosoby; andl on the Donvor Pacino Iluunmg. Ltds nu oxcollont ‘lnontion for n Col~ ‘uniy. Thoro'nro, porludpy, hilf-n-tozon housen, Sl a.ditoh that onrrios buba -small -supply -of walor. None of tho oflicors or projostors I'l‘vn on tho ground, nnd, althoogh oporations com- monced two years ogo, progrosn {4 extromoly ulow, Tho troublo seoms to ho that the Colony hna 1o groat amountof land. The Donver Ring, which s soizod ko much_of ‘the valuable Iand of Coloradg, has cohtrol of the rallroad-land, or at lonsd the Inud i notIn marlkab at anyihing liko n reasonnblo price, nud most of the Govorn- mont-land has boon fixed wpon; w0 that, when new ~woltlors arrivo, thoy can find 10 dosirablo land, oxcept b ‘speonlators’ prlees ; nud, benidon, not boing watored, it has opiresont valua, Whethorthio prajoctory, who o snid to live in Chicago, woro tho vicint of the Douvor_Ring, or whothor thoy aro all to- gother, 4y of littlo tonsequenco to ascortain ; for, #o far ns remills wro concorned, cithor or both naight bo true,, Unless.tho Innd enn como juto tho hands of partios who'propose to lét common eoplo hnvo:a.obiknos, 4ho printers' trik -dnvoted to advortising the place ik thrown nwny. Nohody i8 likoly to make nuny‘monoy out of thio schomo, nud thoy only will loso who:go out expocting to #find homos, REVERAL OTIER GOLONIES ‘have boon starteds; ‘bt so littlo -nionay has bheon apont .in_ndvortislng, and so much land: im- modintely-adjoiniug the proposed town-hiton has i Loon onterod, oven by clorks and frionds of (ho projoatory, «that tho ‘sohomes ‘have dled-almont betora thoy woro born, In ono onso, mColon: wns organized in Now York City byirmilvond- agonts, to locata .noar Pors Wallneos sind oear- Tond of -mo, -hinving gront oxjicctations, wero wonk out, Thoy disbandod n.loss than & wook, for thoy’hadl carried-out the spooulative 1don 'no | ;gonarully thu. thore was-nobody-tu fuvost mouny, anil nfobody ‘to wotk, -A'gond ‘mary hnlf-smart, innfgniticant anon wnnounce that’ thoy have locuted Colomien; dnd they gob'a’fow hundrod ciraulors printed, which (lisy sond through tho mails, wviting immigrtts ; ‘o that it.scoms the | HEQ Colony-business has -aliout some to an-end, for ‘thoro 1s no'faith that frir-dealing can'acuomplish nuything, whilo-oven men of menns propose to -#riccoed ‘hy -wearing borrowed -gnrments, In short, colonization hus boo n ndultorated somnols | ;‘lu:t the gonuino article i no longor iu the mar- ot. o Sonio, upon reading the ‘above, will waut to know whut aroithe OHANGES FOR IMMIGRANTA who wish to go Lo Colorado: and n consldorable umnber do wintto go; on-account of the hoalth- Aulness of tho olimate, Thiy is hard to answer. Parmors cortninly cantiot go_siugle-hunded, -bo~ causo they will not be able to tuke out -water, ninco tho cost will bo'too gmul, and of the G0,~ 000,000 of ‘neres not. more than 4,000,000 can bo irrigated. It-is-utterly -usoloss for mon to un- dortnko to live anywharo, a4 they can in Kausns, {Nohruake, and Alinnosoln, ‘whore rain falls, Tho Doat Lk can bo snid iy, if a'mun mokos up bis mind to go, ho had botter lodk nround whon he comes, and judge for himsalf, ho can _find m_ farm forlved, ond ditehes -dug emrrying sbundnnee of | ator, Lo 810 an aoro, i will bo chenp.prop- orly, But lot him bo suro of the wator. Au i gou- eral thing, if ho buys'80 ncres which'is_smd to bo watored, it will bo-found that-there will bo no groator supply thoro for 40 ncroy. Evon -thon'it 18 good - proparty, for such Jand will produco, on an avorage, 30 bushals of whoat-to tlie acro, and all kinds of vogetables in astonishing profusion, Tucomparison, Eastornfarmors kuow nothing uhout big croph. - But:tho farming:mnst bo gomfl -Uolorndo in-thio ;poorost place in thoworld for-a -ghiftlosn farmor, and, I.might.add, oqually. poor for n rasenl who daes 1ot completely uuidorutand s buyiness. Visvex. Diven, Col,, March 14, 1674, 7o the Editor of The Chieago I'ribune ¢ 8m: Sinco [wroto to you a fow ‘days ago -about Odlorailo Coloniiés, 1 note's couplo of ‘arti- cloa tn your paper from "I, T, .Johnson, Prosi- dent of tho Pluttoville:Colony, or Gompany, and from tho publishors .of the Aduance, in “which tho name of (ho fllowing gentlomen.uro givon m;dnmrpntnu thatovorything is conducted hon- ostly: % ThoTaw. Teroy Churel, ‘of tho-Standard; T, M- Ttackwell, of -tho " Auvance; tho-Rov,-J. 1, Ambrosc, B, I, Jolinson, Willla A, Butlers, 7. ol Plercos Wilii yers, of tho News ; anil-Dr. 0, O, Bradbury, o-which-I will sny, s0 much tho_woruo ; for .tho salling of lots at from §560 Lo §250 is AN QUTRAQLOUS SWINDLE, T ‘repent ‘what' I'snid ‘béfore: tho loention isa *gaod ono, bt thoy huveno wator ; and the 1en. r. Pinkorton, of -lvaus, who was ‘up hora yosterday, suid-thoy wore Lrying Lo bring wator Trom tho Lvans Colony canal, and that thiey had nouo to spare. Thoy have built a ditch ol their own, but it is so long ond 80 small {hat ‘they wero not ablo last yoar to get water -of-auy-con- sequonce, within sovoral milos. Xt is barely possible thoy ‘may gob water-this ‘year, but i tho | prospects-are far from:boing ‘favorable, for it is tho -experience ‘of old Irrigators -that -wator will not run s far a8 they ara undertaking to :run It.' “They spenk of the rapid advanco in tho pricos of land; but thoy do not toll the tratk, or they conceal it. Lots aan_ Do bought—so’ I am credibly informod— in Greeloy, Lvaus, and Longmont, whore thero it plenty of ‘wator, at no gronterprices than they nuls for lots witliout water, and in & town of half- a-dozen houses, ‘Lhey “mention niso that ‘a’sce- tion of. Inud a fow milos distant was bought, at {ho samo timo thoy bought theirs, ot F5.00' -an acro; and that this 610 noros was wold n- your atter.for £40,000. - "This moy bo truo;-but, as it i no all tho truth, it is . AS.DAD ‘A8 DOWNMIGIT TVING, Tho cnso is, this land was found to contain valunblo beds of conl; and this \'m?' statement in o +in” ather quarters, ovidently intending to decerve. ‘L'ho value of farming land hero in Colorado, with ditolios, with houses, foucing, and other improvemonts, doos not oxeeed, on an nverage, $201an-aoro,-and. many faly farms cun Do had for-910 an acro. It is timo to put a stop {0 such wwindlos, ospecinily to this cncern; for it is o powerful combination, composed of-upart of tho velebrated Denver Ring, unitedwith \the mnanagors of a-parbof the Chieago religious press, VINDEX, Fargo, Gen, odky Jlountarns THE ‘DUKE AND DUQHES‘S‘ OF "EDINBURGH. A WELCOME UY MR, ALFRED TENNISON, THE rorT LAUBLATE, 5 1. Thio son of e with whom o ntroyo‘for nowe “YWhoso Wil ik Iorid tlro" all i world-domitn— Who made the serf s man, and 'buest b chain— hus givon our-Princo his own-Imperial Flower, o e Aloxandrowns, And welcoms, Risstan fowor;, a'péoples pride, To Britain, Whon her flowors begin to blow | . From love'to'luve, from homo to'homo you go, From motber unto mother, stately bride, . Marly Aluxandrowns, 11, Tho goldon news alang tho stoppics fa hiown, A at thy baane Ui Turlar tants aro sHirE Elurz wid all tho Coucasius bavo Loar Aud ull tho sultry palnu of India known, . Aloxaudrowna, "Thio volces of our uniyorsal soa On cupes of Afrio rs on cliffy of ‘Kent, "Tlio Maorls nud that Isle of Gontinent,! And loyul pines of Cavuds murmur thee, s Dario Aloxandrowun ! m, a *FOLT".COLLING ) is about 28 miles-west 6f Greeloy, and "the .Col- -ony-ground Inoludos tho connty-seat of Lavimor County. Ihis is also a Land Improvomant Com- pany whioh has nttuched the word Oolony, -Ope- rations woro.commenced last -yoar, aud a town mow containing-400 inbabitants “was -built, 'and wgood lerigating canals “coustructod, ‘Late “are »i'mldn from 3100 to $200, and- farming- lnnds at Afrom 86 to §20 an acro, It fs ouly-6 miles to tho mountaing; the scenory is fino: the noilall ~aronnd is unequalod ; and stono. and timbor are abundant, ‘The advantages of tho ' location mon who, served iu Chicago at the-time of the: fire pussed tho' Houso, ;2 CONVEYANOE 01 PROPRRTY, ¥OR OHAKITY. Bonute Lill in - relation: to the conveyanco of proporty-interest: for charitablo purposos passed tho 1foyko, - 1 L . THE JURY.LAW. Tauo, of ; Hnnoook, s discoyored anothor Titels in tho-Jury.law, which -hos bewn - tinkprod throo timos ulroady.this konsion, .1lo oblained denve.to introduce 'n bill 1o -remedy ithe avils, which Lie .poluted- out as oxistlng, Dunusll in- wired whethor, +if this - blll | should 1 PRgE, tho rgoutlemun . from Alnucask -would ossuro, tho iougo «that the rducy - bill would, thon .bo porfecled. Tamno - rophed thut ho thought it -would go fur-ug -the- prrbicular point ho arrivod: nt-way aoneorned, -hul tuolinod to. guurantee farther, i bill wi-rend - iyt timo, . It taoias thoro, In no:provinlon in: the luw pussed n fow weeks igo withotizingieonnty- ofli- cors L0 wuleat Jurors until Soptombor nexty nnd, as thoro will Lo lerny of court, in 1any vowntion in tho moantiue, theromuat tbajurory, . Ul s an iustanco of tho corelonsnoss with whioh somo ~Dills huve passed, uud thera in dangar that; whon tho Logislaturo adjourny, thore will.bo confu- sion In the hnws, g —A woma-wrs normltiod o dinof nonobloed, ot Dremon, Marshall County, Lud, .l thooxe poctationthat au old fguoruutiin woils low,by n.oharm. | “. o & wun{;.l lva L | Grouloy. wouldl, of thomselyes, mnke:s prosperous town, Thero s at present -no -raitroad mourer than | _GREBN- OITY- 00LONY 4827 mlles bolow - Grooloy, and although a vast amount .of pdvortising hns bogn done, jund & great-many poople have-gone (hitler, .cspeointly “from tholSouthern Blates, thexe ura probubly not mora hun 80 thero -at ' presonts ‘Aftor'two .yonrs' offort, no ditchos have been cowplated that oan oarry water,.ant no orops -huve Leon “grown, “Inducemonts huve Leon held aut to poor mon whiol wore not baged uponthe trath ;i but 4t'is_nol unlikely that” affaits ‘mny Improva tho coming yoar. Tho)location s -good, und for * atogl-growlng fotv placos ars auporior, 3 “THIE RUEBLO ‘CQLONY, 1 foundod- Ly . gmnld-lgulrmmm;nl_-Umnpmff,-l-i that iy, maiply by-the ColoradoBprings «profoot~ o, or'tho Ollony of Hho Donver p 1o ‘-(h'mulei Rallrond,—is ou tho Arkonsunsalniost. adjoining -tho important Lown .of Puohlo,: 150 imilos: south of Dunyor, ‘The Company offor .only. half tho loth-anddands ;- tho other half -are-vdtainod ;- and ' tho prices uro notdow, Tor somo ‘favmivgeland i hold as Ligh o8 §40-aniacro,. Cha: Company bas | conmbenitedian . nxpwll‘lvnwllflflnih\g Ceannl, 0~ JPunoiyo on neeount of tho necesuity for cronuin, muny ennons, or galehos,—and planted gevarel thunspnd droos along tho line of tho ptrooty, thus porformlug, o ifux, ‘the dutids of i Clly «Coutfoll, Tho tlstanos * from'tho mountaiis 1 wbout A0 nilen y hio' trade-of-tho looality ilargos Tair cmplres brsnohing, otl, In Justy lifot— Yot Hurold's Eogland foll to Normun swords 3 Yot'thine own lund lis Low’d to ‘Dartur bordes Sinco Eoglil Hurold'guvoits thronom wi : wan Alexandro Yor throncednil peoples bo as ivalfs hit swing, Aud foat or full, i endless obb und flow © It who love'beat linvo bost the graga to khow “Thiat Love by right divine fs dedthleowiKing, e ‘Marlo Aloxsndrowna | 1v, And Love bin lod thoo'to thaatrangor land, 3 Whero men arv bold uud stronglysay thelr sey j— o, canpice wpou emplro smiley to-duy, ‘As tlou wlik thy youny lover Luud I Linnd, Alexindrowna ] Homow thy fullar lifa fs fu.tho West, Whoso Liud at home was gaclois to (L yoar s Thy nre was blodt withiu' tho atrow duos ora uiso, Barle, shall thy'uwe b Livet ‘Murio Alsxandrowns ] Sl foars and Joslogs hntséd famo ngain 7 O at'thy conibny, Yriucssx, ovurywhire, “Tja bltb bewvan brcak, aud somo divindatr Tireatiiu thro! tho World dud-alialge thy hearts of e, | Aluxandrownn Tt hoarta st chango not, love tiat caunol cosso, Andd powro b yoiies, thv posao of poul Lysoul | Anthowaoiver (st Wil WOrId. iy, tais ‘Wétweon your peoplos trdthand mmiful poscs, * Ifrod—-Aluxaudcowna 2 A-well-kuown weulthy Parisianhins TAUD-LAKE 'DITCH. Tho Other Side of 'the Ques- tion. Letter from Hon. John Wentworth. To tha Hditor of Tha Chicano Tridype & Bue: Lor-tho Jast Lhepo yours thero hasiheon o vust -amoutit of misroprosentation, it not of willful lying, ‘nbout -lhe «docponingiof tho Mud- Lako Ditoh, -“Tho.objedt liny'boen to make it tho scapegont for the orrors of onginoors, frauds of Gontractors, misusd 'of drodgos, corruptions of Lealth-dfficers, violations of savitary regula- tons, ond non-fullillinont of ‘wild prediotipni. Tt is'n wonder to miothat the financial panio g not beon chiargod o it, 3 This diteh, within tho momory of man, has novor boon known to'ho entirely dryj and, he- foro tho caual wns dug, thero was & dircet com- numication -through -it from ‘tho'Aux Plaincs Rivor to tho Chicago River. OId scttlors.and Indlany often - wont ‘through it in hoats dircet from .Chicago to 8t Louls. Our right to a wator-communioation both ways was thus A VESTUD ONE : . when wo'purchased .our JJond. ‘1 have often henrd Gon, Cuss dosaribo. o journey over this rputo all tho-way by bont, My Mud-Lake land wos bought of {ho Canal Trusteos ; and, bofore .tho decponing of tho canal, I bad an ontlot to the Obiongo Rivor and the Aux Llainos River ; and'I could havo dug o . deap o diteh as’T pleasod -without ‘affecting tho current of tho wator, Now the canal has boon munde deopor than:tho bed of the Aux .Plaines; und, of course, this dospening Las incronsed tho curront of all iho stroams of waler, “howevor tompornry, finding thelr way Into tho_canal, Whon ¢ho canal was deopenad, ovéry ouo kuow it would increass tho current of ‘all utrenms emptying into it. Iudood, one of iits main oh- Jocty was to drain tho udjncont lands, In caso of suddon froshots in spring or '1all, it is to bo expocted that tho flow of water-soutiv in the eannl wiil bo retarded, Bue it is -fortunnts that this nlways ocours at henlthy «casous of Lo your. The Tastor tho flow of snrfuco waler into the ca- unl, the sooner will'it run.away,-aud the sooner will our lako-walor tako itw placo, Thoro is jusk. o much surfaco-waler to -go_down tho canal, ant thowooner it goos tho bottor. Who Aux, Dluines Rivor 18 FAST DRYING-UP 3 and, even bofore the-causl was deeponed, it wns dry much of tho nummor in muny phices, Tt doos nuteppear to bo fed by living Wpriuge, but by purfaco-wator, which s fast dimimsling in yuantity, Crops will ‘be growlng in iis hed within the present genorativn, “Chera aro threa mterosts (porhaps Lubonld say four) who make a #pocinity of danuiing -tha -deepBuing of tho Mud-Linko Diteh, besidon the -intorosts horoto- fore-ulluded to, .which play -into . their hands, 3‘lwy damn, bt thoy :want somobody ohio to lani, L —Thosa interosted in tho outside docks of the city, oun tho South Branch of the *Chicugo Rivor, and who * * WAYT A NONOFOLY of water-fronts, the right to “mako ‘brick, ete.,’ cte,, in that region, ‘Fhoy oan enidnro the Honly Blongh, tho elnughtor-houses, ote,, ete.; but they protend to foar that th walor of tho Mud- Lako Diteh, which_they huvo “always endurod (but in not so rupid o eurront wy at. prosout), will ghorton thoir days, . Second—Thoso hiterested jn corliin quarrlos nt Lomont, who claim that they nced all the walor in the fust-drying-up 'Anx - Plaines. They hypocritically protond to fanr- that “the wash of tho Mud-Lake Diteh will ovontually fill up tho eannl. 1f honest, thoy woull bo nstonighied if thioy shonld vinit tho Mud-Lake country and soo how much of the soil s still left, It is & fair quostion to ask, if o much soil goes 1o -tho- canal from that region ag thoy -protend, what power supplics its placa? For wo'miss nduo of it, and lond 18 g0 valuablo in these days that i6 is REALLY WORTIH ' LOOKING A¥TER. ¥ 1 invo nover conntod the sluicowsys into -the caunl, bningiug carth and wator from groat di- tanco, It thero aro & great mauy,—ohough to bring much moro water and soil thail comes from Mud Lake. Peoplo-interesiod should oxamino tho map with {his viow,—remembering nil the while that tho bed of the caual is much lowor thun that of tho Aux Pluines, or of any other stroam. If tho Aux Dlaines River should b dammed, it world ut onco overflow its bunlks, rnd tho uur\){uu water -would find it way into the canal through now channols, taking more soil than it doos tow, .1t1s of no uvo to disguise the fact that the onnnl {8 fast wenring 1tsolf away, ond that its ‘bauks aro constantly eaving in. It inust bo con- tinually drodged, and in many piacas ile banks piled, and there s no vue in disguising this fuct also: Whon' tho canal was doepouod, thoe earth was loft too nonr the margin. 2'lird—An :ice-houso ~interest. They ‘aro danming around because somebody will not dan the Aux’Pluines Rivor wator back tnto their ico- pouds. ‘hoy want the ity or tho State to ROTECT THEI ICE-BUSINESH ENO .COMETITION, Fourth—An intorest at Loolport, whith wanty to ot » back-firo upou tho complaints with re- #ard to tho dam thoro. This Iattor intorest iy mild and ‘modest, and 1ather now, and only Booms £o be notingupon tho'defonsive. If ‘yon talk abont their dam, thoy talkabout Mud-Lake Ditoh ;,but thoy do not mnke's speeiaity of this. subjeat, s tho other jutoreuts do. 2 1 hotico il thuso intorests wore reprosentod in tho rovent trip by canal to Lookport, aud o othors; and such hay been tho cuso ju ail hg provious rides aud collations, 'They wantod tho reporters -to hoar only ono -side. If the; lmid Chapin & Gore’s bjll aud tho olher bills, hnvo no complaint to make. Bat, if the prblic ‘ofticors mado up tho'party, ‘and the public isto foot the bill, I-thinl 1t would havo been but faix to have tuvited other interosts and QIVEN ALL A UCARING, Btrilie, but hear! Try, aud thon seniouco! The most of tho mon intorested in the deopening of ‘tho Mud-Lake' Diteh aro -old citizens, 'and hnvo received many mavks of public coufidénce, U'hoy ~ware hero before tho canal way completed. Thoy woro “the fricuds of deoponing the-cannl also}; anl thoy ato now tosidents-of tho city, and have lurgo intorcsts in its health and prosperity ; and thoy ‘oxpuct ‘to’ soo this Mud-Lako Ditoh all dooked cloan np to thoSummlt Bridge,—n polnt wher, postority will suy, *wus once tho Aux Dluines Rivor; and whero, aslato ng 1874, intorest- ed pattios worostruggling, by oxpensivocollations, 1o got wator enouglh to malo ico-ponds and to wash gtono-quarrios,” 'Llio wollare of Chicago 16 tho wolfare of thoro owning tho land travorsed by the Mud-Lako Diteh. -If theyhaye.doue any- thing to fujuro Chicago, it i# prosnmablo thu 1 pulnted, 'bv'nlx ‘erbinout” artikt,” ' Au Lo was, Y An hoiy," and * As hio will bo,” % Ay ho wa raprosonts him at the aye of 25, & poor wrotoh in ‘rapgod garmorits, with his toes wu(l)lug tlmmfi(h 'hn}iun Iwehiops—slinking, Lalf fum bed, by the ‘sldoof u wall, ' Ashio is," Sguroy him fat ahd Jolly-us - Aldernian, woll drenod, with old chinluy duukiutz hin waistcont, and dismond rlugflu Dluzing on “Lin “tipgers. Aud, in ““As he will bo," ‘he igmudo a-hidoous vorpse. Not thio Toast _singular enturo of such u slugular frenk, is the ‘Tact thot ho hay tho pintlugs hing in his drpwe 1ug-xoom., . T g thoy havo ‘donc 80 uniniontionally, Douidey, they hotd thomsolves liablo in law-sud In mouoy fou thoir nots, . | - b Withs thio courts all opon, shall persons hold- ing Stato or Municipal ofticos . " NESONT 'TO MON-VIOLENCE ? To thoy wish to set this -example to tho lawloss iu-our. city, whero .therg is uo much usid abonb ““how und order " This mob-violencawas onco resorted to upon thotiustiation-of theso damn- iny pastioy, who try, by giving -uplowiid collu- tions, to “*dog on™-our ‘authoritios’to do what thoy dare not do themselves, They can dapm, but thoy dare nob dam, Hov- oral ‘hundred wen, in the heat of summor, vamo upon ‘my promises at midvigl und shoveled o Job of earth into 1y Mud-Like Diteh. ‘Fhoy could haye burned my house with s mneh juslico and sy much -courago, DBub it wau ilono in the lutercst of men who wan(ed tho Mater south for their own privalo purposes,— thero belug at thnt timo no ourrent north to tost anything. Had thoy applied to uw, wo would havo takon somo shingles and stoppod the ul- mostimporcoptible “strenm -for them. Yot the papors huve soveral timos published tho report that, whilo the oxporiment lnstod of damming the ditch,—nassortingfeven this very wook that iv waw dammed all summer and not opoucd until Just boforo tho full freshots,—it was a gront unc- toss, ‘As s rofutation of thig, ane of tho.in- numorablo falachouds growing out of “thiw mat- «ter, itriv only necossnry horo to state that the Htronm was oponed in less than Liconty-fourloura ‘aftor it wag jirst dammed, wnd was kopt opon avor aftorwaids,.oxvapt as parties wonld pul in tomporary das to get water. for cattlo or for flonting privato dredio-boats. ATI8 VALHE that sry exporiment hns boon fried with refor- onco to donsiniug Mud-Lake Ditchor Aux I'lnines Rivor, oxoupt a¢ sbovo, :Bug, it belioved that 4he Dlud-Lako Ditoh flows o muoh water inlo tho canal, why not position.the Canal J'runtoos to whub tho gutas onso,. und g0 Al up lho Chi~ cngo River with iwator, and cuuse o eurrent-into o'k atrong enough to cloanso tho river-that way? Bpring-freahots used to plopuso out tho Chicugo Jhiver. Would -thoy not do it -now -it alded by the booming torront that now issues *| Notling conld linvo boon é6lie from -Mud-Léke Ditch, the terror of wliono wators caunot o tescribiod without the stimulus of n wholesale liquor estublishmons, ? "There {4 just to manoh water'to run away J and nine monthy-in the yoar, including .our modt un- hoilthy senson, thore i uulhinY to -run, Jn those moully ' we'expeqt Chivago Rlygr water up to'us, and so havo an intorest In keoplng the rivor olenn, “Flie mob bofora alinded to was composod en~ tiroly of TRNESPONINLE HEN,— Junt pich men as liolil thomesolves rendy in tho night-tino Lo do tho work of tosponsiblo mon who waut to do mean things, but dare not. olod from’ them by an oxeaution, had thoy hoon prosconted, 1f thoy woro paid by tho city, and not by the solfisl fn- toronts who nre making-#o tuuoh” nolse in thig matter, all I hnyo to sny i, thoy could haye heon botter emploged in fllHlm’u)l tho Ilenly Blongh, or iIn toning down illegal woodon Luildig within_the fire-Jimlts, No peonnisrily-rosponsi- blo individunl hus -dared to assumo the nol. Somo watitod us to sue the cley, howover.. But w woll might Cliapin & Glore aua Lho ity for tho " varions collations got up.in Lho samo intorests, I xfidurumml that theso men, who nro trying iy tlifix collstions from Chapin & Qore, nidod by 'thoir ‘bent lquors,. ta got tho Blate nnd Clty snnthorition to ngpume thelr quarrel, recomuend “that Mud-Tnko Diteh, on iy land, bo filled up somo uighs, attho oxpouso of the Stato or Gty and that then o gunrd of polico bo kopt thers to provoit my taking away any of tho oarth ; lony~ mgmo, to sue for trespss. Now, I boughta cortain tract of lnand of tho Oanal Trustees, und ‘om in-posgession of it, and Lave Leon for many years, awd I proposs to keeh possession tuder utl cireumétancey, and to dig ditolios and plant. whoravor I plenso, and to protect inyeolf il my emploges, in so diggiug and plauting, ngaiust outlaws, IN A SHORTER WAY than by resorting to any suits. ho Donrd of Cunal Trustees put mo. in possossion of the Inuds with Mud-Tnkto Ditch -upon {t, and tho snmo Board Las deeponed ono'of my vostod out~ lots for walor, and theroby quickonod my cur- ront, and 1 do not proposo 1o Lo divosted of that ontlot in conuequence, - Nor do I propuse to Lnve any policomun #tationed upon my. land to tell 1y -mon:whoto thoy shall nor whoro thoy shall not dig, until o Inw shall bo passod for thint pur- pose, -1 whall begin tho digging mywelf, nad thun and woo what he enn do with mo " for hnproving y ow soll, six miloy boyond tho city limits, X THBNE 1§ A LLOAL WAY “for thoso four gront intorests to test thip mattor, without snddiing the oxpeuse-or the responsibilis ty upon tho Clty or the State. Lok thom pure chase somo of tho land through whidh the dilch pussos, and thon Hll up tholr o porthg, Lhoy ean lmy tho Jand at a ronsonnblo price. ‘I'ho surfaco-wator has now nenrly all gono down the canal, and tho Aux Plaives 1s voryNow for tho season. 'Tho Chicago Rivor wator is fust moving southward, and taking its pluce ; nnd, uulosy thoro should be a vary” large freshet, it would not pay to draw upon Ohapin-& Goro for anothor collation nntil very late in tho fall, us the nwvor will bo thoroughly cleansed if ‘tha Btato drodges will only romove from the bottom of the canul the enrtl washing from its bauks, Mennwhilo, [ propuo to thoroughly oxaming tho routo of the vld Mud-Lake Diteh, nnd seo it thoro fs any ground for tho roport that thore is sauy loss quantity of carth than thora wns thoro ‘lust fall ;" nud Tinonu to liston to suggostions from ail DISINTENESTED AND LAW-ADIDING CITIZENS, . _Texpoet to Bo in the Mud Lake and caual re- gion nll summer, and Ido not moon ¢o bo a, party to anything'that will Injure my own Lioalth, or thintof othors, or to increnss tuxntion, or ob~ Hiruot commoros, or- diviinish’ population, or in any way lessen populur confidcnco in mons a Inw-nbitling citizon, and o respocter of the intes ontg.and rights of tha community, Ar. Ogdon and othors i intorest, all-actuntod Dy-the sntmo motives as I claim for mywolf, aro now meun\rxly “absont from our city, and, ng nearly all tho surfuce-water that is to go down tho canal this senson hus gouo, down, I ruapot- fully suggont whother not only falr donling as bebveen man snd man, but comon doconay, doos not require that wo should buve tho game potteuty, +(BUT IN XO HINOLE INRTANCE TO us?. beforo mon paid to exocuto luws organizo lwloss mobs to tnke possession-of and dnmngo privato conlllets which gouorally result in tho dostruc- tion of life. Our Logislature 18 now in session ; nnd, itour oflice-holters caunot got the authority:they think thioy ougrht, o Luvo, thoy ought no to usurp it. 'ha fuct that thoy fiava not vol appliod will spoati tor itself, In this Mnd-Lako -matter, ono moy can_ undo, ‘whon tho wator ‘is high, what a thonsnnd ‘mon can do. Water will' 'rim down hill, aud ench iy tho olarctor :of tha soll thern that chonnel o half-inch wide and o hni-inoh deop (to say nothing of o singlo furrow with a pluwfl. which evory man has o right to make xpm.’ g own'land, will start tho worl, aud tho Surront will comploto it, "I auy oarth has hoou washed into tha canal -from the Mud-Lnke Diteh, it hag only beon whnt tho .mob throw in lnut summor ; and, If another mdb 18 nausembled to throw in moro divt, the first froshot will take that into tho canal alyo, “But somo of theso iutorented partios, who nro mukitng this UNNECESSAIY, UNSUST, AND PALSE MOWL abont the Mud-Lake Diteli, advoeate muking a Inrgo pile-embaukmont, which ono mau with a onc-horso vlow could so -conduct the wator around in tho spraig and-fall, 88 to wash suotlior deep channel, and theroby take moro oarth into the eanul; und -perhaps the -embankmont itsolf would thon give way, and, like a formor Troshet from tho snmo sourcs, onuso » gront.dostruotion of lifo.und praperty. W shall surrendor to law, Dut not to vivlouco, Indeod,if wo woro dispose ed %o suwrrondor to violencoJwe do not think that God’s lnw in relution to waler seoking its 1b¥ol would permit us. o Joux WexNrwonti. . 8.~—After senaing you this communication, I took.tho d:20 p.-, train to .tho Aux Plaines Ltiver-atithe Humnmis ‘station, and oxemined-tho MudLake Dilah us.for as -it rang -througl.m Innd. I found that ‘tho -surfaco water was.al gono. Tho wator in_the'river aud through Mud Linko Diloh was: very low indeed for the senson. Turovor s itlowor for thin touson of tho -yonr. At'the terminationof iy tland, I'taolk out wator as clear us thowater.at'any hotol iu Ohicago, I lold it now for compunrison with lake water, denoundo atiyannu who suys'it Inke wator, _n.going to my farm I mot old scttlers who, Jika mynolf, werd disgustad with these noophylos, bunmies, swd specalators, who wore giv‘ng o iy notas puro as toibuinments upon the caual line to humbug the peoplo. . From'them { learnod that oil tho troublo arosp * from watlor this sido of my lond, aud this stde of Mud Lk, Rivor from the Town of _Cicoro thun fromtho viemity of my lund. John MeCaftrey is.my authority for meymg that the wholo Town of Cicero'is drained Tnto the enual this side of Mud Luke Ditel, All drainoge wost of Ashlaud ave- hmo goes into tho -cutnl through dud Lako Diteh, mnd fs'chavgod to tho viciuity of my Inud, Allithowator south of ‘tho Town of Jofferson, through tho Town of Civaro is drained .in the samo way. Thore aro fivo ditches G milew loug, 14 ook ‘wido upon tho top and foot wide st the !bottom, that drain intotho cnfial through Mud Tiake Ditch ‘this side of my lund, Al the West Sido Parky draiu thero. The surplus wator of six artosinu wolls drain theto, threo of which ara in the parks. Aud the joke 1y, tnnt tho noiwicst mon against Mud Lake Ditch iro the men intorested In drafus this slde thoreor, ¢ JouN'WeNrwonnir, e WISCONSIN . APPROPRIATIONS---CORRECTION. From'Our Own Correapondent,’ MapisoN, Win., Marel 18, 1874, Tne'hooks of tho Bcorolury.of Binte show thrs tho dircct sppropristions mado by the lust Logi Inturo smount to-g800,742 : -besidos ‘contingont payments on tho old printiug clnims of Calldng & Proudiit and 8. D. Carpentor,—tho smourit'to bo ascertainod by Printing 'Commis- gionory, aud submitted to the next Logislnture 3 the Fox River improvemont claim of Morgan I Martin § Lho building oluim of Btophons & Bor- rouson,—the amonut of all whicls i3, uncortuing Tho m-iucqml approprintions wero ne follows : Northorn Hoapilal for Jusano—sauth wing in purt, $90,000; enyrent oxponeck, $60,0005 Ve thintlon, 0ty $1,250,0vo0+ Btato Tionplial G Titunuo—oxprnncs, 0,000 adulitiou, $35,000; gaseworks, §5,000, State-Prison oxpgnies. Inntltuta for Deit wuil D Industrial Schuol for Lo, Tustitute for o Bliud Bold{urs! Orphuns’ o, Capital Sk, Tailroad Qo SN0 BUWLIONOFY vvt7en e raven Milvnukeo uhutitaiily ina{iid Thotnss Shtuialu, cextza on Gapito sutn‘;\urlunlmnl Boolot; Webster’s Diotionury for sclioot, Northorn Agrioultural Sudlety, . ... . 100 Lixponses of ‘tho Legislature, courts, *Stute ofticas, and many other* things aro provided for by stunding-appivopriations, - ¢ - . In printing the figaros-:of- oxpoudituros-for logmh.uv‘u omployes, o worlous. mistuke way wide, Tho fl‘iuroa. tont for 72 daya-pald in 1873, when both branchos,of tho Logislnturo were Ropublioan, und 160 ‘days {n 16874, whon tho Assombly was Roform, woro ot por dlom, buk Tor tho wholo sossion, nnll woro as\foliows : s L toow, -, $10,971,00 47,008 TLET800 - K,BIAGO 23 mou e et the policoman urrost mo on my own promises, © hearing as has boon ‘always givon to our op- . Jproporty, and thoraby produce thoso persoual - Whon the watorleaves my lmld{ community will- « More water fiows into the Chicago