Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 5, 1874, Page 4

e g 5o e e mmereat TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, I oF AUNCITTION (PATAULE I ADTANCE), by mall 12.00 | Bunday, LA 5081 Tarts of n yonr At tho aamoe rate, o pravent dolay and miistakos, Of coaddress fu full, tncluding State and Countr. Iemittances inny o mado oithior by deatt, 0xpro Oflico otdor, o 1n soglatorod lattore, vk, TRRMS TO CITY sUNACHINLI Tatly, delisered, Sundny excoptod, 2 conte por wosks Dails, aollvored, Sunday inoluded, 10 conta por wosks Addioss TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Carner Ms Uhloago, Il Port fann avd Denrborn.f TO-DAY'S AMULEMENTS. S L A t, Detwoon 7 uop Bant S ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Halstod Al:r‘l’ghbahbflfill:nfl:“' ; ovonisg. AVIORERE Doarborn and, Bt **Jano Lyro." “Arknnass teoat, hotwoo —Aadison_stronl otwoon A montal Maggto Mitcll, J— MYERS' QPIRA-HOUSE- Monroo stroc, hot Bt AL inton, Cottop, au Peatbor and Bute. ) s somioalition. Durlesqa Drigauds Nole." a RATRE-Corner of Wabash ayonue Dare, tho. pantominmo of tho ** Throo Dwarfs, P, CONGREGATIONAL OHUROH-— L, A SRR astile.” e bots + KINGSBUTY MUSIO HATL—Olark atroot, botween g}f&xfiflh-fl Lake, Mumorous roadings by A. P. Bur- ank. UENTENARY M. E. OITURCIi-Locturs by Prof. Bwing. APOLLO OOMMANDERY, No. 1, K. T.—Btated (Tuasd Ing at8o'clock, at Arslum, e T, Visitoy. Sie Kalghts' oour: toounly lnvitod. By ordor of the i s yere, Mocordor, DT, No, 508, A, F. and A, M.—Regular oA oo il (Fuanday} ovonin; 1o thefzbatl Xo. 4 Siomoo,t, (hron M i i ua ausao. o tratornity cordiatty (orlled to meat with P ——— ) BUSINESS NOTICES. TREATING TITR WRONG, DISEASE.—MANM e i uon thetr fanily plysicians; ono i anothar with DIIYI tion, another with a breast, anothor with pain hore and there, O Bfsway hey a1l prosont allke (o thomselvos and Theks oasy.golng and ind\Torent doctors, taparato and dis- 1ok songen, Jor whlel o proseribos s pills and po- Hons, assumiing thoin o bo such, whion, in roality, thoy aro R s mntoms causod by somo ntorle disordor; and whilo Thoy aro thus only abio porhaps to palliata for o time, thoy uro fgnorant of tho cause, and oncourage thelr praotice ‘untillarge bills aro made, whon tho suiferin pationts Ar0 no bottor {0 the onid, 'but probably worso for tho_de- 1y, toatmont, 1nd othr eomplications made, and which = proper medicine dirgoted to tho cause would havo en. firolecimovod, Thoroby imiiaiink boslt sad comfort rolonged misory. oo LOMADA. E. §%. OrAIB, Shade, Athons Co., 4, i €. T, V. Ploroo, Buffalo, N, ¥.-Yonr favorito pre- goription is werking' almost Tike a miraolo on me. ‘Tam Eattor alroady than § havo bson for over two sonsa. Trom KLLA A, B e “UDr. Plorce—I recolvod iho medicin you nent me, and pogan‘iatmglt imndintoly: As & romitof tho treatnont feol bntter than I havo for throo T Trom Mrs. JONN K. HAMILIN, Odoll, TiL, March 10, . Plarco—Tho favorite proscription bas dono mo ; which 1 am vory thankfaf for." The Chitage Tiibumne, Tucsday Morniog, Moy 5, 1874. .Tho Czar of all tho Russias was in Borlin yosterday, and roceived Gens. Von Moltko and Mantouffol, Prince Gortachakoff conforred with Princo Bismarck. After all, thero is & royal road to learning; it lies through Berlin.’ Tho Hon, John A, Kaason, of Towa, has posi- tively declined o renomination to Congress. Ho says thero is littlo inducoment now for & man to hold ofiice in Washington. Mr. Kasson will con- trol no more nominations to post-offices in his lstrict, Ho has boen disloyal to tho “ party." Thero i8 no longer any reagon to doubt that tho Carlists have been driven from Bilbao, Ad- vices on this point for the post fow days Love ‘been conflicting, but this morning it is authori- tatively aunounced that Marshal Serrano has en- torod tho city, TFor the Carlists, indoed, tho field is lost, and nothing romsins but eternal hate and spirit of revenge. A noteworthy feature of tho bill making an sppropriation of 8,000,000 to meot the oxponsea of tho National Contonnial colobration has hitherto escaped attention. It is o recommenda- tion that tho dutics on toa and coffee be restored until tho Govornment i reimbursed for its ex- ponditures on account of the Contennial. Possi- bly this provision is intondod es a romote and doliento recognition of the resistance mada in Rovolutionary tiries by the sturdy patriows of Boston to the iraposition of o tax upon tea, el ol e 2 ‘Wo print ezsowhere a nota from Mr. ermann Raster, in ‘hich ho says that tho Zimes' report of tholast meeting of tho Public Library Board was * mesticionsly mendncious,” which everybody will ro.ily balieve, But Tuz Tinuse articlo entitlad *“The Battle of the Books™ was based rathior upon a private version of tho coutroversy Ylaan any printed account of the proceedings. Wo oarried it no furthor than the Irish-German conlition known as the **Pooplo's Party," which was orgonized for a specific purpose and was remarkably successful in achioving it ; but Mr. Tastor gives it a bearing ovon on the inflation question, If tho Irish and Germans will vote togother againet tho repudivtiouists,” as Mr. Raster belioves, wo are vory glad tohesrit; snd he will senrcoly deny tbat they will bo on- gagod in s much better work than when they voted togethor to eloct Mr. Colvin Mayor of Chicago. No nomination for Comptroller was made by the Mayor last night toill tho vacaucy oconsion- sd by Mr. Hoyos' rosignation, It i to bo hoped that tho appointment ia deforred for the purposo of finding somo geutlemun whovo sckuowledged [ bustness capacity will at once recommend him to tho poople and gocuro tho prompt approval of tho Common Couucil. The incumbency of tho Comptreller’s offfico i of the most vital jmportanco to tho ntorests of Ohicago, ané| neither personal nor purty consid- oration Blould exert any influonce over the cholce. "o name of Mr. Hayos gave the great- est atrerygth the prosent City Administration has bavd, and his occupancy of the oftico was an REAUL snco that the municipal finances would bo olosf )y and ably managed, Now that ho hus re- e, tho placo ehiould bo filled by somo one who Will, in his own person, commaud oqual con- fidonco. ure and give Post Juno, Ryo was in good domsnd, sud 3¢o highor, closing st 920. Darloy was dull sud woak at $1.50@1.62 for No. 2, Ifoga wero active and atronger. Cattlo wora 160 highor, and active at tho ndvance. S8heop scarce and highor, —— e ‘Wo publish this morning the opinions of Judge Curtis and Willism M. Evarts on tho Inte Wis- consin logislation ralating to raflways. Both opinions will bo rond with intorest, although there is little in eithor for which the public has not beon propared by arifolos pub- lishod nlroady in Tug Tnipuxe, Mr. Curiis arguos that the Loglelature has mno power to prescribo the remunoration tho rallway companios ehnll recolve for future sorvives ; that the lawa in quostion are invalid for the roa~ son that thoy tnko the property of tho oltizon without giving him any componsation therofor ; that thoy Indiroctly, at loast, iuvalidate the obli- gatlons of contraots; and that tho powor to pro- geribo a echodulo of rates for railways either doca not oxist m the Legislaturo or that it is unlimited, which {s, ho would have it, abaurd. Mr. Evarts confinos himeolf to ono main poiut, rosorving for futuro consideration the minor onos which suggest thomsclves, and on whicl his opinfon waa askod. The burdon of his argu- ‘ment e that the Iaws in quostion take the prop- erty of Individuals without making any compon- sation therefor, and that tho provision of the Conatitution of tho Stato of Wisconsin whioh rosarvo tho right to ropesl or modify the chartor . of & corporation cannot bo construed to cover a caso of virtual coufiscation. —eee TTho report of the Ways and Meaus Committoo on the Ssnborn busincss has beon submitted to thio Houso of Reprosontatives. It is n conclse documont, travorsing the evidence adduced, aud presonting tho concluslons reached by tho Com- mittoo. “Iho law authorized tho appointmont of throo persons to nesist tho Internal Revonus of- flcials in collecting delinquent taxes. The Com- mittes find thot this provieion lias boen exactly rovorsod, t. ¢., that tho Intornal Revonue Deo- portmont hos beon appointed to mesist cortain persons to whom collection con- tracts woro awardod. Suorotary Richard- son, Asslstant-Seorotary Sawyor, and Bolic- itor Banflold may bo surprisod to learn that the efforts of each to shift the resnoneibility for tho making of the contraots upon the other two have resulted in involving atl thrao in a common ruin. Thoy are “soverely condemned " by the Committee for inofficiency and carolessncss; at tho samo time, they are acquittod of diehoneat intentions by & saviog clsuse. The Committoe furthor roport that & large part, if not all, of the claims collected by Sanborn ought not to have been mado tho subject ot & contract ; they might, and probably would, have boon collected by tho rogularly-omployed sorvants of the Governmont, Therccommendations subjoined to the roport are: (1) That the law autherizing the contracts bo ropealed; (2) that all furthor claims under it bo oxcluded from the jurisdiction of the Court of Claime. This {8 such a roport as the poople demanded. It ““sovorely condemns ™ the throo officors of the Government who havo made ‘possiblo Lho porpotration of the Sanborn inquity. Pregident Grant will, of course, admit the pro- pricty of at onco dismissiug those gentlemen from the sorvice of the Unitod States. e THE, FARMERS AND THE LAND TAX, Tho membors of tho Htnte Committeo of the Farmors' Associations of Illinois will meot at Bloomington to-day, to consider and roport what action shall be taken the coming senson with re- gard to political matiors, These Associations are somothing wholly distinet from the Granges. | The Grangos are organizations of & socisl and . commercial character, and ara not political ; the Farmers' Associations are political, and seok re- form at the ballot-box. The Committeo meet to consult upon many things, including, of course, the expodioney of calling a State Convention to nominato candidates, and of recommending Congrogsional sud Logislative nominations in overy District. “ Wo suggest to this Committee the propriety of presenting to the consideration of tho poople, aud ospecially of tho farmers, tho inoqualities and oxtortions of the tax system of Illinois, and the justico of amendivg it by the entiro aboli- tion of the land tax, A few facts will present the whoic case to tho comprehension of tho lonat informed. 'Tho assessed value of real and porsonal proporty in tho Btato of Iilinois, as fixed by the Stato Board of Equalization, was $1,266,105,514. This i less than an aversge of 50 por cent of the ontiro proporty, res! and par- sonal, in the Btate. The entire cash value of tho taxablo property of the State is about $2,600,000,000. The valuo of the ronl and thnt of tho porsonal property in tho Stato aro about oqual. At an honest onumeration and cash valuation, the two would compare s follows: Actual cash value of real catat ... $1,900,000,000 ‘Actus! cash valuo of porsonal ty ... 1,000,000,000 Totulseessessanesss ++:1$2,600,000,000 Tho Assosgors, however, Lave mot found all ‘this proporty. As oquulized, the assessment nlanas Tands........ Town and city loia. Tallroad lands Railroad lo Total landaand lota. ‘Personal property. 287,292,809 Tailroad, personal, e 1,655,004 Taiiroad'track and rolling sock, 50,317,409 ‘Total peraonal proparty....... $318,165,312 From this it will be woen that the lands and town lots are assessed ab over 70 per cont of their aotual cash valuo. The personal property axsoased is about 26 por cent of the valuo of tho ‘wholo. Dut the inoquality doos mot end’ here. The 1and is recorded on the county maps, sud every acre and town lot is found by the Assessor. Not o foot of land escapes enumeration. Bo with tho persoual proporty on the land. The Town Asscusor knows to a cartainty the oxact number of horsos, mules, cows, cattle, sheop, aud hoge that every farmer owns; o knows, too, every watols and clock in bis town; ho knows who has got & sowing-machine,'and who has got s Tho Chicago produce murkets woro gencrally a shado stronger yostordsy, with a modorate buslness dolng, Moss pork was quict, snd 3)go per brl higher, closing at $16.52{@10.65 cash, and 810.05@10.70 vellor June. Lard was ace tivo, aud Bo por 100 1bs highor, closing tame at 810,20 eash, and $10.90@10.9334 weller Juno, Meats wore in fair damaud aud steady, at §34e for shouldors, B3{o for short ribs, 9e for short cloar, and 10@11e for swoot-plokledbams. Lako frolghts were dull aua unchanged, at 4o for corn to Buffalo, 1lighwines wore quist and steady, at 040 per gallon, Flour was more sotive and firm, Whost wes moderataly’ aotlve and }o higher, closing ut $1.21%¢ cash, £1,28¢ sollor Juno, aud $1.80 for Minaerota, Corn was in fair domaud, aud 3Zo higher, closing ab 6BY{@U5Lg0 cusl, and 66350 pellor June, Oats wore miore nu:lvo{ aud 3¢o highor, louiug at 405{e caub, anddBia adller renper, cultivator, planter, mower, plow, lLarrow, or any other imploment. Ho knows the value of oach mun's furniture and of his improvements, aud not an item of porsonal property on the farms is omitéed from tho tex-book, Bo that whon wo examiuo tho list of personal proporty roturned by the Asscssor wo find the aggrogate ‘mada up of the following items: $ 48,500,000 see 0,000,000 Howlnj Agrioulturul imp! Honsehokl furniture,, Olooks, watehs, snd other property. Total periiannen *I'hcue ave the praportious of theaeseveralitems found on the farws in tho State, Excluding the railroad pronorty, the wholo value of tho porsoual ptoporty found aud voportod by the Auqeseoris- £287,000,000, whilo of that sum $142,000,000, or about one-half, is found on the farms, and insop- arably connooted therowith, Wo thon have tho romarkablo oxhibit that, of tho taxablo proporty aotually assessod and taxod, thero are: Landsand othe 1 88fatd,,ie s % it shent it SMMS ‘Total lands and appurtonsnces. ... ..$1,09,040,202 Al otlior personal property in Blato,.... $145,202,509 These, with the $60,872,608 asscssod sgalust railroads, moke up tho aggrogato valustion of ronl and porsonal proporty in Illinois amounting 10/61,356,100,514. It will bosoon, thicrefore, that the lauds, and the live-stook, and other appurtenancos of the farms, and tho othor rosl estate, pay taxes on TEN- TwiLyTas of tho asacssed real and personal prop- orty in the Btato, and that, excluding the live- stock and othor property on the farms, and tho railronds, the Asscasors find in the wholo Btate of Illinols only $145,000,000 of porsonal proporty. In the wholo Btato of Illinols the Asscssors only found $88,000,000;0f merohandise, whilo, in 1878, tho sales of morchandlss, wholesalo snd rotail, in Chicago wore not loss thau a thousend mill- ions of dollars. The valuo of the farms and othor lands of tho State boing only equal to that of tho aggre- gate porsonal property, tho ownors of - that land and ronl ostate pay ton-twolfths of all the taxes for Stato, county, and town purposes. Out of ovory dollar of revenno collected they pay 82)§ conts, leaving to tho raiiroads and the holdors of the residue of the persoual proporty tho pay- mont of the other 174 conts. ‘Chis {8 the rosult of & systom whioh all expori- onco Lias shown to bodefective, unequal, and op- pressive. The ontire burdon of taxation is thrown upon tho land, What is truo in Illinols is truo elsewhore, and itis assorted officially that in Naw York not over 15 per cont of the porsonal proporty is‘over aescesed. Another griovance in the cost of collecting. The Auditor has made & 1evy for scliool purposes in 1873, The ravenue tobo ralsedis $1,000,000. Ho has lovied for avor $1,200,000, the additional 20 per cont be- ing tho cost of colloctivg. Tho aggrogate taxa- tion for Btate, county, and town purposes for 1878 may ba put down at £24,000,000, and tho oporation may b thus stated : Revenue collected. .. veee Cost of colleotion, 6to., 20 DA o Totallovy... Of this sum thero will bo pai Dy lands, lots, and proporty on farms. By rallroad proporty.... ... By all otkicr personal PFOPOFETessses Total.eaeens I8 it not time to abandon o system that works 80 uujustly as this, and to rosort to tho other form of taxation provided by the Constitution, whoreby lands snd roal estate may all bo ex- omptod like tho bulk of personal proporty from taxation, and the Btate collect its revenue from business occupotions in the form of Ili- conses, tax on gross receipts of railronds, and othor corporations? In this way tho aggregate revenue of tho Btate may bo 80 in- oronsed that, in addition to paying all the Btato expensos, there will be a largo surplus to apply to tho crodit of the locsl taxation, This revenue oan all be collected at & cost not exceeding 1 per cent, and would be cheorfully paid, or, if nob 80 paid, ensily enforced ; aud the now oppressed and plundered land-holdors would be allowed & sonson of mercy and forbearance. Wo suggest that tho Farmars’ meetings tako into considera- tion the oxpedienoy of making as & part of thoir platform the substauce of the following proposi- tion: That in sll nominations for candidates for the Btate Leglslature in 1874 thero ba required of tho nominces of the Farmera® Associations sn assurance that the Btate Rovenuo lawa be #0 amended that the burden of taxation, now borno almost oxclusivoly by the land and tho property thereon, be moro evenly distributed ; and that tho powera of the Constitution (hitherto not oxcossive) of laxing ocoupations, and porsons, and corporationa using specisl franchises, in the forsn of licenses and in tho shape of percentages on gross re- colpts, be put in aperation, to tiie end that the tax on Janda and all other property by valustion shiall be ro- pealed at the carliest day possible, THE ARKANSAS OUTRAGE, The Iatost from Arksnsas is that two of the Judges of the Supreme Court of that Btate, while on their way to Little Rock to hold a term of the Court before which the Gubornatorial quostion was to bo discussed, wero arrested by an armed foros, by dircction of Gov. Baxter, and removed from the train, This was done un- der tho ploa that martial low i8 in fores, snd the jurisdiction of the civil courts ausponded. This whole affair i sickening. This Supreme Court, two of whose Judges wore counted into offico by the same fraud by whioh Baxter was declared Governor in Novembor, 1872, is composod of Topublicans, all carpet-bag adventurers, who have, with the other Ropublican politi- claus, tired of Baxter, and who want & more upprinciplod man and a carpet-baggerlike thom- golves, This Coust which, a year ago, unani- mously refused to hear Brooks' claim that he waa electod Govornor, is now hastening to hold & term to deolare Brooks elected, and give judg- ment of ouster against Baxtor.. In the mean- timo, Baxtor has summoned the Legislature to ‘meot in special seesion, and this body, it fe ox- pected, will asgort its exclusive prerogative of dotormining who is the Governor. Tho Legisla- ture is supposed to bo strongly for Baxter, Last - —————THF CHICAGU DAICY "TRIBUNE; TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1874, year, the Buprome Court unanimously docided that tho Leglslaturo was tho oxclusive suthority in & contosted election for Governor, and that the Courts had no juriediction ; now the same Court wauts to revorse its declsion, in order to got rid of Baxtor. It is & race, thoroforo, be- twoen the Court and the Legislature as to which shall bave the first decision of tho case. What a disgueting spectaclo doocy this wholo business presout! A Stato Govern- mont put up ono year by horrid fraud, and then all tho conspirators and partics to that fraud uniting, not to rosign and ‘glvn thoir places to tho Lonestly-oleoted ofiicers, but to efect ono of thelr own number who haa proved to be an hon- st and upright man, In this procecding two mombors of the United States Sonato (one of thom owing his election to the same fraud) aro parties, and aro secking to have the United Btates mtortere, as it did in Loulsinna, to over- turn & Stato Government and eract anothior in its placo. The whole procoedings in Arkansas are the natural product of the polioy of the Govern- mentin relation to theso carpet-bag usurputions, That polley has boen to overtido tho ypop- ular will and maintain & Republican ascendsncy at sl hezards, ‘This hns boen the cass fn Loufeians, Alabama, Toxas, Avkauras, North Caroliva, and Tlorida, In Tens nesse, Coorgis, and Virginla the pooplo Love ut last been allowed to eloct their own oficers, The fraud of 1872 in Arkansas, by which Baxter and other Republicaus wero do- olared elovted, though they had beou defeated by the people, was afiimod by both Housos of Cougress. Now that Baxter has become obnox- fous, they want auothor man put inbis place, who will menipulate the electlon roturns of 1874, aud) malntalo the Ropublicas wacendancy. Tho- original fraud roquires now w tora glarjng ono, sud the wholo job ia as disgusting and demorat~ {zlug 88 it {a infamons, * THOSE DIVIDENDS. The Now York bankers who aro charged with tho #alo of tho Contral Pacific gold honds say, in their advortisomont of them, that tho Com- pany, with the procoods of these bonds, and with its *‘surplus earnings, after paylng ox- pentes, interest, and dividends,” fs adding to the pormanout iraprovements of the road. Tho amount of theso dividonds lins boon stated, in provious advortisomohts, at 8 por cont s yosr, The Company now owes the Government some millions of dollars for the defaulted intorost on its guarantood bonds, which tho country has boen obliged to pay. Undor such circumstances, ite deolaring dividonds is s grosa fraud. No stockholder in any ratiroad has a right to a cont of profit until the Inst hondholdor has recelved tho monoy due him, 'The stock of tho Contral Pacific amounts to many millions.- A 8 por cont seml-annnat dividend upon it would require & very largo payment, Thero is probably, however, & froud in tho caso. Most of the stook was novor paid for. It was simply shared among the Ring that built the road and that owned California until Booth broke tho fottors of his State. 1t was thonght that these gold bonds wonld soll butter it dividonds on tho stock could bo pro- claimod, Accordingly it was announced, with a groat flourish, that dividends would bo paid. The stookholdors not in the Ring received thom. Tho mombers of the Ring, it is sald, gave re- coipts for thom without over gotting thom. Thus s few thousand dollars sufliced to psy thom, If this story is true, and it comes to us strongly indorsod, these bonds sre offored for sale undor false pretenses. If it ia untrue, it behooves the country to tako steps at onco to compol the Central Paclfic to pay intorest on ita bonds beforo it doos on ita atook. _A DAZZLING TRIAD, Evon if tho District ot Columbia investigation shonld fail to roveal the sourcos of the corrup- tions known to havo been practiced, 28 now soems probablo, and thoroby fails to satisfy the object for which it was instituted, it will not hiava boon held in vain, Whatovor fesue it may have, that invostigation counot be called alto- gothor barren or fruitless which has brought to tho surface, one aftor the other, that dazzling triad of witnossos, each ono more beautiful and brilliant than his prodecessor,—Count Foaco, Kirtland, and Storrs, With mony pointa of similarity, bound together by o mystorlons tio, and working togethor with o community of purposs, they still differ from each othor as one star differeth from another in glory, Firat camo Count Fosco,— shy, difident, modost, and yot a8 coufiding a8 & school-girl. Ho folt that the eyes of the world were upon him, and ho consoquently boro him- solf proudly; yot, with all his heutour, thore was mingled s kindly recognition of all who had in- fluence, snd an impartiality in eecuring their gervicos. Count Fosca was a student, but he roagoned that thero muat bo some ouo in Wash- ington who possessed influonce; and, if he se- cured everybody, ho would be sure to have that one among the number. Thus it was that the magnitude of Count Fosco's operations was too much for him, snd, ss & witnoss, Do was coy and uncortsin, In order not to loak, 1t was nocessary that ho should be vague snd in- definite, snd that momory should be short ; aud it wag. Thus ho went through his testimony, talking muoh andsaying nothing,—cold, haughty, and somowhat austoro, but always uncertain,— and, whon ho had done, Count Fosco left no othor impreasionupon the minds of the Commit- tee than that ho had boen born inan eclipse. Then came Kirtland,—sudacious, mendacions, siry, brassy, choeky, tho very porsonification of & gilt-edged and claborately-vencored doad-bent. He bind nono of the coyness, the hauteur, or tho dignity of Count Fosco, He had no idea of coquetting with truth; he ecouted it altogather a4 & very undesirable pioco of properly, and em- barragsing to s man of the world. Btarting out with the aphorism that a mau is an ase who tells the truth, if the truth is going to injuro him, he acted up to this idos from firat to lnst and mot every allogation, every leading question, evory acrap of dooumentary evidence, with point-blank donial, notwithstanding the fact that in the operation he continunlly crossed and recrossed his tracks, Tho gravo and rovorond Sonators were snubbod and browbeaton by this audacious witness. Thoy wero overawed and crushod under his brazen woight, Thoy had s contompt ‘mingled withpity for tholr witness, the Count, but horo was & witness who had acontempt for thom. Aud, whon ho bad done, ho lightly trippod away, loaving thom no wiger than when ho commenced, And now comes Btorrs, our Emery. Light, and airy, and fostivo is Storrs when at home, but hia foot is not on hia native hosth, and his brow is aad. They have beon imposing upon Storrs in Washington. The parties who have influence have beon worrying Count Foaco's keoper, and all his testimony is sicklied o'er with » palo cest. His story ia as mol- ancholy as sn autumn day, a8 pathetio a8, & woman's tear. Like Goorge Wash- ington, * I never told & word of untruth in my lifo to anybody,” and yet this counterpart of tho gront and good Fathor of his Country is harassed and viotimized by tho people who * have influ~ ence " in Washington. They swarm into his room even before hie is out of bod, They take his key when ho ig out and go through his room, They order little dinners in Lis zoom, They got thirsty in his room, and send for cook- tails, All this Btorrs might bear with equa- nimity were it not for the fact that those pooplo of influence, In fits of nbsent- mindeduess, chaxge the littlo dipnors and oooktalla to Btorra, A little oporation of this sort grows by degreos like a ball of anow, aanoon asit isfound out that it is fomsiblo, Btorrs complaine in his testimony that it Is grow- ing todious. People are finding out thnt things oan bo charged to Btorre, Casual people drop- ping into the bar-room chargo thelr driuks to Btorrs, Strangors, gradusliy emboldenod by the provailiug oustom, and looking upon Storys not only a8 Count Fosco's roprosentative but nss genoral philanthropist, have tholr bar-bills and little oxtras charged to SBtorrs. It things kosp on in this way, the Treas. uror of the United Biates gsome day will attach his uniquo siguature to an ordor dlrooting the maticual dobt to be charged to Btorrs. Wo submit that this is bard on Slorrs, No man wantg all his chiokens to come home to roout at onco. Bub there is & day of vengeanco coming. Thoy little rockon what they are dolug when they come fooling round Emery, When e says to the Committoe, I slall have to psy for thom bofore I lonve, ae I ordinanly psy bills," ho mosus business, It is all emooth wsiling now, but there will be & weeping, aud walling, and goashing of teath when Lmery leaves Washington, Thess parties: who aro’ charging cooktails and dinnors to Btorra aro sporting sbout tho odgo of aprooipleo, tho dopth of which they hardly droam, The Committoo woro ovidently touched to the heart with thio pathos and molancholy of Btorr, for thoy soothingly inquired: *What manner of mon are thoy ?” Enconragod by this friondly proffor, Emory opened his honrt ¢ ** I think thoe usual mannor in this community. Ihave looked upon most of thoso peoplo who have boon at my room s4 doad-bonts, and havo troated thom ac- cordiugly, It I bad beon at homo, I would have put thom out of my front window ; but tho busi- noses hore hiaa hoon of such & oharacter that Idid not rogard it as safo.” Horo again Btorrs convoys an intimation which would make the bDlood of theso people ourdle did thoy know tho facts in tho caso. Thoy would’ shrink back in horror from charging any more cocktalls to him, Btorra is not a side- walk lawyor. Ho is in a fourth story, and it is & long, long tumblo to tho stone walk bolow, and Do dead-boat that went out of that front window would ever olinrge anything mora to Btorrs, Tho slght of & truly good man struggling with ad- vorslty elways moves tho gods to pity, and this old eaging applics with more than ususl force to Btorra struggling with the Washington dond- boats, Como back, Emery, como back homo, wheroe the dead-beats won't troublo you, and no ono will chargoe cocktails to your scconnt. Looking, thorofore, at tho record of the past weok, has this investigation Dbeon altogothor fruitless when it has rovealed to us thisdazzling trind of witnessos: the haughty, and courtly, and uncortain Count Fosco; the cheeky, and ologant, and nogative Kirtland; the pathetio, and molancholy, and truly good Btorrs ? all probability it would call out & host of advon= turora who are alroady suffictontly numorous in our Congrossional halls, Congross ia s place ‘whore laws, not fortunes, should bo mndo. 8o far an penslons go, tho samo ob)ections apply o8 to incrongo of ealarios. 'Ponsious, oxcopt por- haps to tho widows of soldiers killed in tho sor- vice of thelr country, ot to men who are disabled in the servico, are not in harmony with our Re- publican inetitutions. Thelr introduction would have & bad offect on our politics, managed ax they now are. Henoo, while it is a matter of re- grot that mon like Mr. Dawes wlil from timo to, timo rotiro to private lifo whon, by the oxperi- oneo gained during long yoars of servico, thoy aro bost qualified to counsel the Government, wo cannot but think thnt tholr continued sor- vice would be too dearly bought by making Con- grossfonal seats prizos for dollar-hunters to ntruggle for,’ ——— PEER AND PROLETARIAT, It has beon the dream of somo English soclal roformers to affocta politico-socinl union botween the nobility and the workingmen, or, as thoy al- litorativoly and sliuringly put it, Lotwoon peor and prolotariat. Thoe social part of tho loaguo waa not to includo ‘tho rocoption of Jones, the ‘moohanio, or Hodgo, the laborar, at the tablo of tho Earl of Dlue-Blood. But tho Earl was to do- viso plans for draining and ventilating the homes of Jones and Hodge, snd for dofending thom from tho * tyranny of capital’ Tu roturn, His Graco was to rocelve tho hearty support of his low-born frionds in maintaining the rights of his order sgainst the encroschments of tho great middle-clngs, It was to be, in fact, & com- Dbination of the oxtromes sgainst the means, but it is doubtful whothor the proportion i8 » truo one, for tho means seom strongor than tho other two put togothor. At any rate, the soheme has lawontably failled, During the pres- ent atriko of the sgricultural laborers, the poer~ ago has had a firat-olass chance to holp tho pro- lotariat, and has inatond holped its foos. The way in which English country Iands aro let, has givon tholr chiot holdors, the nobility, groat power in aiding or opposing this strike. The farmors rent thoir lands from the same man who lots small plots of ground to the men who work on the farms, This letting can be torminatod at will. Tho tonant holds only at the pleasurs of hia landlord. When tho men struck against tho farmers, vory many of them wero at onco ojected from their Lomes by tho noble ownors theroof, This has causcd groat oxcitomont. Thoro are angry demands for a law rogulating tenant-right in England like tho ono now in force in Ireland. This securcs a temant from boing ojectod without duc notice, sud glves hima REFORM IN CONGI 3 One day Ipat weok whon the Oivil Approprin- tion bill was bofore Congress, Mr. J. D. Ward, mermbor from this city, made a striko in favor of reform by moving the following smend- ment: In lino 1,449 atrike out$1,800 and insert in lion there- of $1,200, s0 that it will read ‘“Buporintendent of aoed-room, $1,200.” Mr, Ward gave as the reasons for this motion that tho officor was cmployed but a part of his time, and that the character of the work he por~ formed “roquired about as much skill as to mensure potatoes.” This proposition to save 8000 & year was o bold one, It was an attempt to reduco & ealary, and, thorofore, threatonod the integrity of the wnole Oivil-Borvico syatem of tho Govarnment, No precedent of this kind has boen permitted in Congress for fitteon years, Mr. Ward, a8 & now membor, dld not uadorstand tho usages of the House, Twolvo hundred dollars may bo euficiont componsation | claim on tho landlord for tho value of the Im- in his district for moasuring pota- | provoments ho hus made during his possession toes, but not at Washingion, The seod- of the proporty. It i thus possible, as we showad last weelr, that thoe striko may result in very important modifieations in tho laws about land. But on land tho aristocracy rosts, and, on tho aristocraey, royalty itself. The nobility may roap tho whirlwlad from thoaceds of dissatisfac- tion thoy are rashly sowing mow, Thoy are op- posing the laborers, besides, by giving public aid and comfort to the farmera. A couplo of Earls have beon denouncing the strikers, and calling thoir leaders demagogues, etc., from the platform, Peor and proletariat sre evidently atill the poles of English socioty, Wisdom dle- tatos to the foxmer & union with the massos agninst the massos’ immodiato masters, but pride holds thom back, That prido muy go be- fore & fall distributor is a constituont of some member of Congress and Senator; may have served faith- fully in & town or & legislative caucus ; snd his compensation, like the compensation of all Gov- arnment omployes, is rogulated not by tho valuo of his services to the public, but of his sarvices 1o his patron, The motion provoked considera- ble indignation. Now York, Penusylvania, Tows, Alubams, and Ohio rushed to thoe defenso; it waa o question of $000 a year, and of untold consequence as s precodent. The debate was elaborate nud learned ; the forensic display was brilliant ; snd, after aponding time that cost the Government $10,000, the House stampod tho praposition to death, every momber excopt twenty-seven voting against it. Our membor got a lesson in roform that ho will romember. —y Prof. Swing pleaded to the indictment of Prof. Patton yesterdsy, He rejocted tho olection, In- fant damnation, and kindred doctrinos, which ho characterized as belonging to * the religion of dospair” ; und subseribad to the following points of bellef, using his words in tho strictiy evangolical sonse : (1) The inapiration of - the Soriptures ; (2) the Trinity ; (8) the divinity of Christ ; (4) the ofilco of Ohrist as s modiator : (6) conversion by God's spirit; (6) Man’s natural sinfulness ; and (7) the final soparation of the righteous from tho wicked, This was & definition of his rolation to Presbyterian- ism, As rogards his relation to Libersl Chrigtianity, tho Professor holds that his cos- duct has beon that of & Christizn gentleman and & consclentious clorgyman. Ho would rathor sbandon Prosbytorisnism than the habits of thought which have controlled his trentment of tho unevangolical cburches, As tho dark eide of Presbytorisnism has boen responsible for ‘much infidelity, its bright side should bo utiizod to make reparation. After the delivery of Prof. Bwing's confession of faith, an attempt was modo to quash tho indictmont agamet him, But Prof. Patton was relontloss. Ho was bent on progecuting to the bitter cod, and his counsela flanlly provailed. The trial will con- tinue indefinitely. Sinco Prof. Patton bLas ox- pressed an intention of carrying tho case to the Bynod of Northern Hlinois, and thence to the PAY OF PUBLIC MEN, Mr., Dawes, of Massechusoits, Chairman of the House Committeo on Ways and Means, it is ramored in Washington, has signified his iotention to rotire from public life at the closo of his presont term. Mr. Dawes hos beon o bard and intelligent worker in tho public ser- vice, and, therefors, this resolution of his, if resolution it be, will be learned with rogrot. The renson assigned for the determination is that hia own pexrsonal interests imporatively demand it. Senators and Representatives, like evory omo olse, mast look after their broad and buttor, not only for the presont but aleo for the future. ‘They, like humbler mortals who have littlo time or thought to give to questions of the tarift or fluance, must lny up & penny for a rainy day. Now, Mr, Dawos is ropresented as bolioving that all Representatives can do is to talko care of the present. For the future rainy day, if they would provido, they must on- tor on the more lucrative paths of lifo. We are not acquainted with the state of AMr. Daswes’ finances, nor are we in s way to tell whother or. not he can afford to continuoe to do good sorvice to his country consistontly with Lis own privato intorests. Roport has it that ho believes ho cannot, If it bo 8o, we are sorry for it, Butit is not tho first instance in the history of our Government in which the country has had to dispense with the sorvices of somo of her bost mon for & like reagon ; nor can we call tho renson a merconary one, Thero are dutios which men owe to tholr families and to themsclves, and among theso duties s that of wisely providing for the future, Any men who finds that in the public service he cannot do this while by leaving it 1o can, is cortainly justified in abandening it for that reason. Every man who enters the public service must judge for himeelf whether, In & peounlary senze, he can ‘afford to doat; and, having entored it, whether his financinl intorests warrant him to romain thero. His judgmontis fival on tho matter, and, with t, good taste forbids the pullio to find fault, But whon, from cases liko tho ru- morad one of Mr. Dawes, it i8 argued that tho country should increpse the ealaries of Con- grossmen, or pension them after & numbor of yoars of sorvico, the publio have a right toau opinfon on the eubject. It may ba very desira~ blo for the country to rotain tho services of an individusl Tepresontativo or Benator; bub it to thwart bis purposes in tho Prosbytory would be woree than uscless, Prof, Swing willnot be approved as o good Presbytorisn untilhe has passed three trials; and he has already ex- presvod a dotermination of leaving the Church the faith that is fo him, ——— the approximate dsmogos of the overflow in contains some interesting figures, The whole arcs of the Btate is 30,004 square miles, or about 20,000,000 neres. Of theao about one-tenth aro improved. There havo boon soventoen parighes moro or less injured by tho flood, compyising 587,949 ncres, which produco 18,894,850 ibs of vice, 182,070 balos of cotton, snd 48,817 boge- hoads of sugar, in addition to live stock and othior farm products, Estimating the probable crop of rice, sugar, and cotton of thoso porishos s bolow, the Republican thinks the proportion of daminge may bo approximated at ono-sixth of tho probablo product. Thus ou the crop of Sugar, 48,617 hogshiead (estiated with mo- 4 OB does not follow that thurel’or_n evory Congrosa- (!olt‘on, 43,070 batow,. man should receive & princoly salary for | Rice, 14,000,000 pounds.sesse fack s uls sorvices. e that our Tolal sovavenesanrares oo Reproseutatives rocclve s salary equiva- | would give shout §3,000,000 s the non-produc+ lopt to 10,000 por aunum, The rotual | tionof these staples alone, to which must be addod o great loss in livo-stook, poultry, vogo- tables, and other srtloles of farm produco. The soverity of this lmmonso loss ip tempered somo- what by thio fac that crops aud lands damaged by high water kavo great powers of recupora~ tion. —_——— The literary oritic of tho Now York Arcadian gays: “Tho Jigaro wishes to know whore t0 flnd the * piece for rocitation called ¢ Bingon on tho Rbine”' I am not suro tuat that is tho titlo, but the poew referred to is probably Long- follow's versos in which ocour the woxds, ‘ Bin- gen, fair Dingen on the Rhiuo." It acoms rather curlous that & journal like the Kaw York Arcadian, tho organ of o olub composed of lit- erary mion and counolsgeurs in art aud muslo, ghould blundor over & poem iu this wiso, which is tho Btook in trade of every school-boy orator. It auy other paper outslde of Now York Oity had boen uncertain about tho authorship of Mrs. ‘Norton's poem, wa sbould never have hoard the 1asb AboRt provinelal ignoranco. sum paid them s only §6,000, but thoy are ou- gogod in the service of the country during only half the year, Mauy of thom are lawyers, and contiuuo thoir practice while in Congress, Com- paratively fow aro precluded from transacting their rogular buslness, whateyer it may be. Five tbousand dollavs are, wo take it, ample remuneration for the labor performed by tho avorage Covgressmon,—ss much as ho would wake in any position out of Cougress, No one forces Lim mto tho logislativo halls of tho country. No one hiolds him there. If o finds that he i8 bogguring himselt by staying there, ha s free to lewvo. he effoct of incroasing tho palaries of Oongressmen, instend of producing good, might bo productive of much evil, Make the salary large enough, and it will becoms an “sbject more’than the place, and, ingtesd of calliug forth eompetent men to laok for the position, in componsation, e roclte acts of March 11 and 12,1874, With thodo our readers aro already fomillar, sums up: Tho practical operstion of theso leglals. tivo rateu preacribed by the act upon the rallroad sore vico of this Compauy, it such gorvica is maintained with fte present eficiency and public sccommodatiol will bo to daprive the Company of any emoluments its stookholders from its fares and froights, and thus to appropriasto to tho public use tho profits which, in tho past liave been, and in tho futuro ‘would be, the earuings of the corporato property and administration for tho stockholdors, all, by finding authiority to tie Btato to doal with the atipulations of the contract in geueral, tlon rospocting tho frelghts aud fares, st tho plexsury of tho Blato, axd fnding, alto, an_ undortaki part of the forporation 10 subimit to tho aiterad torme Fposed upon 1t, in reductng or dostroging ita omola~ ‘ments for corporats componsa drawn by tho Stato, ment of ‘made, sud, as a part of itsclf, havo adopted snd o Goneral Assombly of tho Church, any attompt it he be & sccond time summoned to answer for The New Orleans Republican, in estimating Louisiana, bas carefully prepared s table whick THE WISCONSIN RAILROADS. Text of the Opinions of Messra Evarts and Ourtis, Both Gontlemen Declare the Now Law to Be Uncoustitutional, Malnly Because It Takes the Property of the Roads Without Compen- sation. Miscellancous Comments on tho Situation. OPINION OF MR. EVARTS. Tho groat longth of Mr, Evarts' opinion constraing 18 to omit portiona of tho dooumont, All thst 18 casone t1al to an understanding of tha caso, howevar, Wo have andeavored ta maks placo for. Lio hias consldered tho facts and tlio papors 1aid bafore him by tho Ohicago, Milwaukoo & Bt, Paul Railwey Company, Company {in respect fo tho franchises 1t holds in connoction with Slates, and that ho has exominod tho rocont Wis consin loglalation on railwas, Mr. Evarts procoods to nay that tho principal inquiry relates to tho vallde ity of that legislation, oto. of particular provisions of that loglalation ko ro- aorves for futuro Inquiry, sud confincs himself 1o the main subject, o says that tho chartera held by the CGompany pusport to bo perpotusl; thut there s in {hiem no limit to tk:o existoncoof the corporation ot to thio corporate Hights grantod; that tho chartors all sue thoriz the Comjuny to rocelve sucl compousstion for {rolght sud pasago se (e Coizpany whall doein ro- sonuble, Aftor romarking that oxbiblting tho couditlon of the fta property in several Tho moaning, legsl efeot, e recltca the provislon of tho Wiscansin Constitution which provides that sll goncral lawn ot upcclal ucta croating corporations 3any altored or ro- pesled; fhot which mays thal 1m0 prope brty of any porson shul be tukon without a8 nlso tho provisions of i “fho oifect of theso acts hie thus "This ploin conclusion is to bs avoided, 1f avolded at in_the contract jlaclf a reasrvation of or with this particular stipula« iug on the e corporate sorvico, und yot perform the orvico, 1n s various couditious, as i€ the lon for such sorvice had Rot beon with- Thavesald that this reservation must be found in tho contract itself, by Which I mean that tho contract, s lutorproted = and mess. Uifed by tho law ‘of tho laud and ‘the judg- tho ~courts, must, st the Hmo 1t way cluded a8 o part of the agroement botween tho Stata axd the corporation this reserved power of the Btato and this necossary subinission of the corporation, In other words, this subsequent logisiation to which the corporation has given uo subscquont assont falls 1o ‘bo & violution of the originul contract, and so fnvalid agalnat tho corporate dissont, ouly becauso tho Liw finde in tho original contract such on assonton the part.of tho corporation sy mako the subssquont logis- lagan o pursusncs of tho contract, and repets the ime N tion that It fmpaire its oblipation, “1is supposcd fouture of tho original contract is {m« parted from tho paramount_suthority 82 & nocceusury form of tho contract of tha clauss of the Conatitu~ tution which provides that acts of incorporas tion may bo altoved or repeaied by tho Legiatiturs &t any timonflor thelr paseago, Mr, Evart nozt nee ques that this reservation must necessarily haye Limils, And tiat the rolations of s corporation to'all its prop oFty ave by no meaus of tho fawe naturo, nor of tue 23110 tonure us lts bold of its franchises ; that o con Joration Lolda ita property under the same guarntces 3¢ ocurity as individual proprictors, He quotes tha Iato case of Tho Peoplo v4, Batclicllor, 63 N, Y., 110, in aupport of thiu view, und concludes : Ttia pluis, tuen, thiat. as the protcetion of this raiiroad corporatlon, fu Tespect of ta titlo, posscssion, and beneticlal ent foynuent of it property lawfully sequired, does not de« peid uyon the continuance of the coutract’ graut of the pliblia or active frauchise, but rests qua proper ion tho comstitutional gusrantoes common o) Droporty. So the roservation of Legislatlvo controk Over the grautod franchises, whateyer elso it moy Rican or muy reach, doos not mean nor doos not reach Clther s contlscation or nppropriatiou of tho ttle, pas: Session, or use of tlio company's property by thi Hiate, "As to'tho meaning of tho Words of tho Wiscousln Coustitution tuat the charters or franchisesof cor- porations * may bo siterod or ropealed by the Legtuli~ ture at any time," hio §3y8 ¢ 'It 15 quito matifest thut this can moan no more, 8t the utniost, than thut the granted franchiso to b0 & corporstiots, or tho sdditional grant to. exorcise funo~ tount fraucllscs, not of comiaon right, but savoring of public service, may be absolutely ternitnated or their surther exereise modyled or burdened with conditions, TF their Jurther exercise 18 puraued by thc corporation, 1 cortafuly cannot mean tuat a ¥ repesl ¥ of the yrant can make it os if it had nevor existed, contiacato oF aanul tho title to tho property, aud (roato s vacaut ‘posscasfon. 1t certaiuly conuot mean that tho Biate Tlot, only restoras tlip granted franchises, in whols o Tt part, to thelr original deposito in tho sovercignty of tha Btato, but noquires &ll or any of the property of tho privats corporatlon for continued publiv 13e. Tt certainly cannot imcan that thio tate, beaides termi= nating or iwodifying tho oxerciso of the granted fra- chiso by ita grantee, can tako upand earry ou the pubs 110 fratiehfue itaelf, with and through tho private prop- erty of tho corporation, thus subduod, by coniuost Yot purchogo, to tho publio uso, It céstataly caunol hean that. besidea depriving entirely, or pro fanto the granteo corporution af tho privilege grantod aud tholx furthor onjoymont, the Btute can compel, by psing ‘and pounltics, tho Gontinuance of the pubile servico by o grantes, ot according o the inducements, prodis, and stipulutions of tho contract under which tie cor Horata sorvico was assumed, but according 10 tho e Covensated oxactions of tho Stato, 'Or aa this Isat proposition may be othorwido atated, {hero can Dot bo imputed 1o. » veserved right in thie grantor, tho Btate, 10 Gubtract from tho grautes the fusther enjoyment’of tho grauted feanchiso, in Yiolo or i part, an autnority fo_compel the sorvica ot tio unbroken fronchisc, in all its burdos, notwith- O ing tho reaclsaion of the coutract, in ail ity beno- fits to the granteo, It would follow, frowm these propo- altions, that the oxtent of tho rescrved right to the State, nder thia clauso of tho Constitution of Wis- consl rai—Absolutaly to terminate tho franchise, thus s ftatseo from furthor performence, sud Tostoring to tiio Btata tho frunchiso in it plenitude, Tyis would leave thio propesty of tha Corporation to Dols wesd upundor iho protection of tho Coustitue Y Se Jaw, and tbie courts, aud cast upon the Stste, o retlroud sorvico wau furtscr desired within the ' Wisconggn, tho duty of providing for stich thio’ public oxgemse, of Sutiuwing the grant unchiso to some new Lrautoe, o e o madify the grunted franchise, in its Jutige cxerciae, cithor by rodusiuig th privilogo or by e g it with such conditions a the Stats should e ove. In thia case, tho granteo would by o B aht or reject ho modtfied ur burdoned priv- free do Sta eontract oxposes it, wamay conceds, to lor 11080, fogo, at the pleasure Of tho Btato, Lut i uor L favoluntary aud_uncompensated sorvitude Mo a a task-mustor, 1f tho grantos accepta 40 e Nicod or burdoued Eervico, s mew conixsck i e ahd new olligations ussumod, 1€ tho grastie Djecto the proffered {ranchiso, thua reduced and T ened, tho State may rotire from tho now exaction, ¢ wholly termluate tho franchive. it to considor whethor even this oxorcle of au- horiy by tho Slate mighs not corty s oblgation in 1o, oa it cortalnly would in_gonoral justice, to Funku ‘aompensation for tho injusy dons to the great futecesta S veutod in the corporate fervice, uuder tho induco- InViFL of tho franchiue, lugsmuch o8 tho grounds upon Vhich Tput, wy condmnation ot fuis legislation do t roquire this support, BT houli fecl any doubt that this interpretation of {ue constitutional raservation gave to it the Just furcy , & reourrouce 10 the mo- el dte langiiage requires, & recurzouce 1o’ fho ity : on_was e e much doubt by showing thnt tie wcer Diotation satlafied as woll the reason of the clausy DSt lunguage, The mischof of irreyocablo, lmuutue o' guuta of frauciise, bold wndor sn lutlexibly S ncaty of the_sanctity of contructs, needed eomo ey and thia olsuso was ndoplod with that objoct. T e yerprotation I havo givou it1u oa-uxtensivo with e lueiior, Tho continuanco of e privdlese, i3 n part, {8 8t tho °optin u Ll witisfios completely the publia tho Blate, Wil 1t busoud thls ollicscoy would be e 4 Tl clauso {uth & moaws of opyreatiou, evou Dscation. “’é‘;;.‘.’flf.".i‘b’.::fl %£"tlio limita upon the powor of frauchisea of privato corpora= Lsls hllarfi‘u!il‘llfl]y; IG{I tho m:flpx:ulfid o reservation itaol ave Do dilienity el o o rocent 1aw of Wikcowsin fuvalidity I uance to tho onstitution of Wiscousln, aud Lo s o opetitutiou of tho Unitod Satca. o LY dot'of March 11, 1974, doss not TNrfoLt ta tere mivte o fronchiscs uold by tho Milwaukon & i Hullway Company, absolutely or conditionall L \o madity ar reduicd tho sorvice of iho corporatin fn {ho malntenance or vonduct of tho frauchises jn tho I e, 1n the leuat s nor 10 Jinposs burdeus or condl- tions upon auch future exercluo, which the corporation 1s roquired to ussont to, If it dosires to maintain thu contitued posscssion of tho franchiso, — Tho et proceods upon no such epirlt or pure pore, On the mn!mri, the act undortakes 10 woaure the continnod porfurmance of the full meuse \raof pubile survico invelved in tho granted frau- Skiies, By tho unususl and_cumulative compulsion o fines und aggravated domages for uty and euch ros fusel to perfornt tho corporate duty of wrryhuf Page Songers and freight, iatead of loaving th question of porformancs, or of negleet or refusal to porform the B poratn obligatious, to staud upon tho publls action o7'1Liv Btato for & forfuituro of tho charter, or tho pri. Yato setion of tho aggrioved party for & browh of (he QAuty of comumon carsiesk,on relusal 4o socspt aud carzy