Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1874, Page 6

THE CHICAGO. DAILY:' T S 2 e R GYERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMS OF SURMCTINTION (PAYABLE I ADVANOE), all 2,00 Bund; pi! 15001 ol = Parteol a yearat the samo rato, Toprovont dolay and mistakos, he sure and give Port in full, including Bta may bo nado olthor Offica oidor, or tn rogiatored lottors, at our risks TENMA 7O OITX RUIACTIBENL. Tietly, dolisorod, Bunday excontod. 2 conte per week Dutly, delivored, Sundny includad, 80 conts por w dress TIR TRIBUNX COMPANY, Cornor Madlson and Dearborn. Unlongo, Sile TODAY U MVIORKR'SE THEATRI Dearborn wnd Stato. | Knga ** Darid Garrick™ snd ** thod. Am—— JIOOLEV'A, THRATRURandaloh atzent, atween A etgomontaf ths Fifth Avonuo §L§;?fi&!fl%‘& R Siar Alphotse » and * Quiot utuily," ENTS. adinon, stront, botweon e W Ar Sottorn onant 9% ikitod asd Bot- j—Talatod atreot, botsveon Mad- A O A rohsont of Callonder’s Goorula iingtrole. ADRLPHI THEATRE—Comer of Wabsh asonue troats rioty porformance, g, M. 2 S Raeom, oto. " ++iFlla Maglo Tog. EXPORITION BULLDING- stroots 1 i Taknshoro, foot of Adams Paris by Moonllght. ‘Aftarnaon and ovoning. SOGIETY MEETINGS, r a0 APTER, No, 127, R. A. M,—Bpeolsl z:;li’;l\:fg‘l?l‘;'clngflad. R Z HIERRIOK, ll-fi!ll l‘llnlto NG LODGE, NO. 01, A, F. and A, M.— Luthianiall, Work on Myt DO pInLD, W, AL "BUSINESS NOTICES. WERK'S, DOINGS IN WALL STRERT, EX- N\ il gapital witliont_Fisk, B e MR RIDG Y & L0 & Wallate Ne Y. WARRANTED, Four to six bottlos of Dr. Ploren's Goldon Modical Die- covery arg warrantod to curs Saly. Rlioum or Tottor and Hito worst kind of’ Pimples ontlio (aod. i to ur Lot~ tlos 'are warrantad to clar thomatony of Boile, Uacbun. Glos, nnd Norcs. Four 0 sis bultlea nre warranted to cure tho worst ind of Kryuipelas and Iilolclios aniong the hatr, Bix to ton bottles Are warranted to cure Kinning of tho Jars and Corroptor Runping Uleors, Eight ta to Lat. Liow aro warranted to oure Soryfulous Soros wnd Swollings, 0 10 1x hotties Are warranted to curn 1iver Qontplaint, ‘A WONDEIL T Y 0 HER! , TARKTOWS, Deiawato Uo,, O, Mareh 20, 1673 R, V, P1uno, Buffalo, N ' Dr. P00t Biowavury mocds oniy afalf rint, snd it will do all you rocommond 1t (0 40, wnd more ton.' When 1 wax 16, 1 Fought cnld, au for twonts-olght soara T havo boen a ors oot mreck of ivonso, aud all tho tnediginos nnd doctorst {15t iave run up. at time 1o two and three bundred dot- ars, and nevor nny botter, but worse; whon 1 gavo up all lipe, Iast kpeinge, of Nving tho sunmer lhmuf\l. % nd told ny a wont, and bought, fw Hon, a1 owmd 1t wes Llping mo vory much, Siuoo 184 3 Wag iroublod with Catare amnd Sorn Thront, and wasal. ot entiroly donf {n no eur, and 11y voles was agdull as Gauld bo, Lheeo was constant paln in wmy hond, Now iny finad fs an sount as a dollar, 1oy voloo is eloar, i § have wmed ton battls of your Diccuvery, 1t has curod mo ot Chtarrh, Boro Thront, Honrt Dircase, Sping Affection, Sl Torpid iser, My lisor was vary bad. Afy skin was Sough, When T put iy hund on my body, It wna liko flsh- : Now It 18 53 amoorh 4nd soit hs a Shili's, In cone Toeill say I havo buon woll for tirge monthw. [ noll and friends. a1t bias not baed "ThisIs but sn imper- old. Yaurs, with ro. LAOK The Chicage Teibune, Thursday Morning, June 18, 1874, Tho regular financial and commercinl roviow will bo found this morning on tho last page of tho supplemontal sheot, Dixon's ohances for the Rhodo Island Sena- torship are improving, though Jenckes still has claims, At all oveuts, Burnside’s prospeots aro on the decline. Barloy was dull and essler, at 00 for now sellor Boptombor. 1loga were aotivoand atoady. Cattle of good quality ware flrmer, but low and medium grades wora lower, Blioop wore dull at 250 decline. —————— + Tho ITouso Ling pasaed tho LIl roported by the District Invostigating Committoo for tho reor gonization of the Distriet Government, This bill provides for the appojutmont by tho Presi- dent of n Commisslon of threo for tho tom- porary govermment of the Distrlot un- it Congress ehall decide upon permenont system. It also provides that there shall bo no asscssmont on porsonal but on real proporty in the District, This pro- viglon was opposed by somo of the friouds of the Ring, but in vain, The large vote by which the nll was passed, ouly twonty-two mombors having votod againstit, is n guorantoo thnt it will be promptly adopted by the Bonate. Tho Dos Moinos Register s bowildered to find that T Ciiciao Tuinuse does not indorse tho netion of tho two Conventions hold at 8pring- fiold aud Indisnnpolia on tho 10th of Juno, Theto is somothing confusing In the olrcum- stanco, wo admit. That Cue Tmnuse hos stead- ily supported the policy of specle-resumption ia protty well known to all who have any curlosity on the subject, Why it shonld adhoro tothe same opinions after tho Conventlon as boforo fa ono of thoso thinga which no Postmaster can find out. The Des Moines Hegister I8 an inflation nowapnpor. If the Republivaus of Iowa should declare for & speedy resumption of specio paymonts, the Register will turn s bandspring quickor then sny performer in' Foropaugh's clreus. o bo impossibls for the now Couforence Commwitteo on tho Currency to ngreo upon a measure, and it is probable that Congress will adjourn: without changing tho prosout conditlon of tho finances. A good many poople will agreo that this is botfor than any measura caleulatod to still moro disturb values and confuso tho business of thocountry, It would have beon expecting & good deal from tho new Committoo to demand from them a atisfac- tory compromisobeliweon honestyand dishonosty, national inotegrity and ropudiation, Thoy would have fo recoucilo the Republican party of Indiana with the Republican psrty of Illinois. They would have .to reconctlo Logan's ivflation doctrines with hie approval of the specio-payment platform of tho Springfleld Con- vontion. Thoy would have to produce 2 jumble oqual to an Indison platform or ono of Logan's speeches. All of which fs too much to expect from tho now Conference Committeo. The nominations of tho Springfleld Conven- vontion, which scomed to bo the smnltest part of that body's bueiness, were Thomas 8. Ridge- way, of Gellatin, for Stato Treasurer, and William B. Powall, of Kane, for Buperintendont of Public Instruction. Mr, Ridgeway is a banker in Sbawneetown. Neither gontlomen has ovor figured prominontly in State politica. The Cook Conuty delegation woro at once ungallaut andin- sincerc in theixr trestmentlof Miss Willard, whom thoy put in uomination for Suporintendent of Sonator Logan's spocch at Springfleld yester- day was & queer compound. As nearly as we *ean mako ont, it wes an argument in favor of an Inflation of Specie Payments. Tho Vermont Republican Convention, which yestarday nominated Judge Peck for Governor, indorsed President Grant’s veto of the inflation bill, and then kicked over the bucket by insort~ ing a protection plank in their platform, It muet have beon rather humiliating to the editorof tho Chicago Infer-Occan tobo obliged to report 1 specie-paymaent resolntion inthe Spring- fleld Convention after poreistontly advooating inflation in his newspaper for several months. Btill ho had before him themook and lowly ex- ample of Senator Lopgan to oncournge him in this last sacrifice which the perty will be likely to domand from him, Tho Benate bas paeso priation bill with amendments roquiring the prepaymont of postage, av tho rato of 4 centa o pound on newspapers aud periodicals ; allow~ ing pub. docs. to be sent out to collect ondelivery not more than 25 conts apleco; and granting the American paoplo tho inostimable boon of Public Instruction, Miss Willard recoived 124 votes on the first ballot, which was a larger number than was given to any other candidate. Then the Cook County pooplo withdrew her namo, Tho unbecoming haste with which tius wan done scews to indieate thiat the Cook County delogates were wiraid DMiss® Willard might bo nominsted. It was os menn a plece o busivoss s gy sob of politiciaos bave been guilty of for somo time past. It is ovident that tho Coming Womnn, when the goes into politice, must ox- pock treatiaont to which she Lias not heretofors boen accustomed. Tho new Collector of Boston, Butlor's man ‘Stmmons, Las just received an intimation of the Promdent's disploasure, although ho is hardly warm in his seat. Simmons lias been ongaged in cleaning out his subordinates aud appoiuting now ones, and among thoso whom he discharged was Col. Orson Moulton, the weigher, & very capable man, andaman who is estecmoed very bighly, His friends made cousiderable stir abont the matter, and, as the excitement began to grow uncomfartable about the Collector's cws, he sent for Moulton, aud, telling him he was not proviously aware of Dbia getting tho Congressional Record freo of postal- chargos, As tho two last provisions are an en- tering-wedgo for tho revival of tho old systom, o bold offort was mado to restors thoe franking- priviloge, but it proved abortive. "Tho platform adopted by tho Ropublicans nt Bpringfiold yestorday, apsrt from the currency question, which is clrewhere commented onm, urges tho passago of tho so called Civil-Rights bill; favors State Rights in a qualified man- ner; opposes intorforence with the liquor traflic, oxcopt 80 far ag public poaco requires; discoun- tenances reilrond extortion aud also in- terference with railrond property; snd ap- peals to tho past rocord of tho party =94 guaranteo for its future good conduct, Itis on the whole an apologetic and norveless doou- mont, indicatig unmistakably that tho party does not kuow where it stands on the quostions treated. Religious gatherings are not untike politicnl conventions when they go mto the election buni- ness. Tho Episcopal Convention in Wisconsin dld not altogother ecacape tho atorm notwith- standing Dr. Do Koven got out of the way. Four times the clorgy elected the Tev. John HMenry Robert DBrown, of Cohoos, N. Y., snd a8 many times did tho laity yofuso to confirm him. Tho Congroesional system of n Conferonco Commitice was thon adopted, both Mesers, De Ioven and Kompor gorving on it, and thoy nominated the Rev, Edward R, Wellos, of Christ Church, Red Wing, Minn., a8 n compromise candidato, He was wunanimously elootod at tho lnat. Mr, Welles has been pastor of hia church in Red Wing sinco 1857, and ie describod ay a fervont, dovoted mon of falr attalnmonts. Tho Chicago produce raurkets were moderately sctivo yostordny, snd grain was firmer, Mouy pork was rather quiet, and 5@10¢ por brl lower, closing heavy at ©17.10@17.16 cash, and 817.10 @17.1234 sollor July. Lard was dull and 200 per 100 1bs lowor, cloging at $10.80 cash or soller July, Moats woro quiet aund cassier, at C4@ Bigo for shoulders, Do for short ribs, 9ifo for oloar, and 103{@11c for sweot-picklod bama, Highwinea ware quiat and unchanged at 04}4a por gallon, Lake froights were dull and ensior, closiug at 83¢o for corn by sail to Buffalo, Flour waa Jogs activo, and rather weak, Whoat way in petter demond and }{@3fc bighor, closlng at 8L,102{c cash, aud &1.18)4o sellor July, Corn was aotive and 1o lower, olosing weak at 60}¢o caaty, and 5050 eellor July, Oats wore quist aud a shedo firmor, closing at 470 ossb, and 433¢0 wller July, Tys was qulet and atoady at 8jgo. services and character, promised to do somce thing for him, This did not satisly his fricuds, and thoy appenled to tho Prasident, who Instant- 1y directed the Hon. Goorge I, Hoar to inform Simmons thet Moulton yauat bo restored to his position at onco. Mr, Iloar promptly sont a dis- patch to Simmona notilying bim that thio Presl- dontinl order was poremptory aud that A, Moulton could accopt no other position. Itis to be presumed that Mr. Butler's man will here- attor move a little more enutiously. Our Washington dispatohies of thia morning explain the principal changos in the Bankrupt Iaw mado Ly tho conferenco bill which Lizs poss- od both Honsos of Congress. Tho main points are: (1) that forty days of default in tho pay- ment of commercial paper &ro required instend ot; fourteen undor the existing law; (2) that one-fourth of tho entiro number of the creditors, and onotbird of tho amount of debls, must join in tho petition for involuntary bankrupoy ; (8) that tho now law shell apply to the pending cases in bankruptoy instituted since Deo. 1, when tho debts secured by tho suit shall have been paid, ot when s majority of the creditors nsk for o discontinuance; (4) that o voluntary bankrupt ehall bo discharged upon the psyment of 30 por cout of his indebtoduess ; (5) that an involun- tary bankrupt shall be dischurged whon he shall hiave boen proved fnnocent of any fraud; and (6) that thio foes and expouscs of bankruptey proceodings shall be reduced temporarily untit the Huprume Cowrt shalk ostablish anow sys- tom, looking to pormanent reduction and sim- plifieation. It is Lighly probable that tho Prosi- dont will sign the bill, and his sction in tho matter la awalted impationtly by tho attorneys in ponding suits as woll us by the businesy com- munity, The 8t, Louly & Alton caso was argued yos- torday in tbo United Btutes Civcult Court at Springfield beforo Judgos Davis, Drummond, and Tyeat. 'Tho cago, it will bo romambered, wes ponding in the Bangamon County Cireuit Court, whon the attornoyaof tho railroad fileda voti- tion {n the United Btates Court for a writ of certforari requiring the State Court to turn ovor all the popors in tho eult, The Clork of the Coutt fesuod the writ, and tho cnio csmo up yesterday on & matlon to act day for trial, Tho counsel for the peoplo made & orost motion to quash the writ, which brought up the caso for argument, Mr. Springor opening on the part of tho people, Tho real fwaue Is whother the railronds may take tholr cases into tho United Btates Courts undor tho Fourtcentl Amendment to the Constitution of the United RIBUNE: THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 187 Btatos, and tho Jar of Congross providing for its onforcomont. Practioally tho snme fasuo was In- volyed in tho T.oulsiana Slaughter-Fouso case, in in which tho mojority opinlon of the Supremo Court of tho United Bintes was advorso to the fintorprotation the corpora- tion sought to put upon tho Iaw, TIn the courso of that opinfon ocours the following sontencos * Wo doubt vory much whathor any notion of » Btato not diroctod by way of dis- oriminntion ngainst tho negroos aa a clnss, or on account of (hoir race, will aver bo held to como wlttin tho purviow of this provison.” Judgo Davis, who proaldes over the Bench hoaring the Bt Louls & Alton caso, was ono of tho mojority of the Suprome Bonch holding this viow, ond 1t is nmot likely that any othor wil bo takon by tho United Btatos Circult Court. It was said yostorday in Washing- ton tint Sonator Carponter's proposed gog- law was intended to eomable tho railrosds to cary tholr Buits into the United States Courta ; but the rallronds will hardly got thoro under My, Carpontor’s bill, which will probably novor again bo hoard from. Tho pros- ont caso hns moro thian a local intercat, since the decislon will affoct tiro Wisconsin railrond cases a8 well, ILLINOIS AND INDIANA, The Republicaue of Illinols and Indinna lLiold their State Conventions yosterdny at Springiiold and Indisuapolis, and camo to somewhat dls- cordant conclusions on the currency question, The INiuois Couvention adopted threo reso- Iutions: (1) Opposing auy repeal of tho Legol- Tender act; (2) in favor of froo banking; (8) ¢ Thint wo renfiirm tho declarition of 1o Nutional Re~ publican Convention of 1872, in fuvor of a roturn to apeclo paymonts at. the earliesl practicnnlo day, The Committeo on ltesolutions had raported an additionnl clause, in thesoe words : That weare opposod fo any Incresss of legaltender notes, aud in favor of the gradual retiroment of the sumo a8 the volume of Natioual Bank notes shall Do incroasad, This clause was strickon out by the Conven- tion, ofter & somoewhat oxcited debate. Tho platform of the party, therafore, atands {n favor of froo bauking and of specie paymenta ot the earliost practicable duy.” The National TRopublican platform of 1872, which Is pretended to bo reafilrmed, saya “s epeody rosump- tion of specie payments” hote i3 & motorisl difforonce in tho phrsacloogy. The platform of 1872, taken in conjunc- tion with the Prosident’s voto and his momorau= dum to Jonos, would amouut to an indorscment of thoso documents in the main, whereas spocie paymonts at tho earlicat praoticablo dey, leaves a gap for the imagination as wide as from July to oternity, Novertheless tha platform, in this par- tloular, is botter than tlat edopted by tha Con~ vonlion held at Springficld ono weelk proviously. The clause which was rejected would havo ro~ lioved 1t of o)l ambiguity, and would Lave en- titled it to highor respect than it will now re- coive. The Indiana Ropublicans, on the other hand, have pronounced for inflation, Loth by a resolu- tion to that effect and by a special indorsement of tho coursp of Souator Morton. (Semator Logan was not similarly favored.) The resolu- tion 18 a curlosity in its way, but of its meaning thero can be no doubt, It calls for freo banking and for such an incroase of catroncy, to bo dis- tributed *botween” the different soctious of tho country, according to population, as will “‘avoid” the possibility of capitalists control- ling tho ourrency of tho country. This would seem tocall, first, fors freo banking law j soc- ond, for an issue of greonbacks, to bo Dbostowed upon tho poople pro rata, according to tho last cenyus, in such amounts ag will prevent capital- inta from controlling capital! All this Is to be dono in such manner asnot to Impalr tho crodit or honor of the nation| A most Iucid and val- unblo concaption, truly, But thore is no mistoking ils mesning, oven without the omphatic commondation of the courso of Senator Morton. Noitber fn phrassology nor in 1otk thia platform o whit botter than that of the Farmers’, Convention af Indianapolis laab week. Thero isuot o pin to choose botweon them. Both contain the germs of repudiation. It would not bo at all surprising if it should turn out (vine yoars sfter the War) that tho only party in Indiana in favoer of au honest payment of tho public debt is tho Democratio party. Bub wo will not anticipate. Thoe Democrats may adopt a gimilar platform—in which caso it will bo tho duty of thoso who aro in favor of an honest currenoy to hold a convention and nomioato a ticket of their own. There {s a Dluo outlook for the Nopublican party in boih these Sttes. InIilinots, tho party has been domcralized by its lendors, and the lenders aro now demoralized by the party, Hav- iug been told by their Senatora aud Cougross- men that the stognation of business is due to o lack of currency, many of their votors will now diift away to tho party which promiscs to givo them more curroncy. With what face can Logan and Oglosby enivent them to stand by the party whon the party itsclf has gone back on Logan and Oglesby? Then tho fluancial crisis, which 1s utill grinding its dreary grist evorywhoro, will grind havd againat them, for panicy alwaya tell against the party in power, Tho long lat of exposures of officinl corruption has produced dia- gust aud loathing in the public mind, and this too will sond in a dismal nccounc of stay-at- homes-ou election day-—enough to tapplo over mony & Congressman who now fancies himeelf oafo, In Indinna the some causos will operate upon & constituoncy so ovonly divided thal thoro is no margin to come and go on. ‘The Tarmors® Movement in both States moans business, and in bath will mako a deuporata push for the Log- iglature, It will bo a dlstracting contlict, in tho midst of which the Democyatic party, encournged by recent sucoesnoa in Now Hampshire, Conueot- ieut, and Oregon, will put {n an sppearance, in all probabllity, with ahiard-monoy platform; and, if the iuflationists aro divided, will have largo odds in their favor, THE HEALTH OF CHICAGO. The oficlal report presontod by the Banitary Bupariutondent at tha last meeting of the Board of Health presents additionnl inducemonts for poople to como to Ohicago as tho groat place of wummer vosort, Wo have alrondy shown thab thore 1 no place in this country where the cool wenthor is g0 gratoful as du Chieago ,and whoro the nights are renderod so dolightful by coaling breozes ; that wo have delightful suburban ro- {roats oud bosutiful park and boulevard drives; thot wo have the purest of water, tho moat spnolous and comfortable hotels, sudnmarket to which tho whole world s tributary with 1ts subotautials and {ts Juxuries. Thoef- foot of all theso advauntsgos v manitest in tho roport of tho Hanitary Buporintoudont, I statlstica show that the past weol prosented the lowest doath-rato since tho groat fire of 1871, As compared with the weok bofore, the dearoase was 12, ond this deoronso was ~tloulorly marked in digoasos noldons to ohu;.." , The :'::;" t::'m“‘: of “doathe wai 'but I \ x: A population of 500,000, Drobably the smalost porcontago which can bo shown fn thiy country, In justice totho city, thin rato ought to bo reduced still farthar. Omitling tho cases of congumption, many of which azo not caused by tho climnto horo, but aro brought Lioto from the Tast, and tho cados of donth by nceldont, the rate would bo roduced fully ono-third, or,about sixty.five for the weok, Tho natural hoallbiness of tho city, thorofore, i vory ocloarly shown by tbla report, and It {8 brought out In sl oloarer light whon it 1s considored that thia doath-rato romalns so small notwithstanding tho filthy condition of the river, tho almost in- suporable obstacles to drainage, tho rondering ostablishmonta and glue-works on the Hquth Branol, and tho distillorios on thoNorth Brauol, whiol make that stroam s suothing cerspool, Wore thoso nulsances once abated o place in tho world would aqual Obicago iu lionlthiness, aa 0 placoin ihis country aqunla itnow. With theso odors eliminated it would bo difficult for s potson to dio hore at all. Tho breozos from the prairics and tho Iakes would bring even mora lifo aud Lealing on thoir wings thon thoy do now. In addition, tharefore, to all tho othor advantages which characterize Chicago sg tho most Invorable placo of summer rosort in this country, tho small death-rate ehould bs added, It will undoubtediy prove a very strong attraction to travelors for pleasuro annd for businoss, Tho Lusinoss man can loavo his homo and como to Chicago with porfact con- fidonce that ho will return in safoty. Thoero ate no opidemjcs horo for him to tako, no disonsos of any sort to which Lie will bo liablo, and noth« ing In tho food, water, or air to ondanger him ; wherens, if Lo goes to 8t. Louls and othor West- orn and rivor cities not so provided with natural advantages and hiygionlo blossings as Chicago in the wummor sesson, ho must run very doubtful chances of Loalth, and Lis wifo atid children at howo must foel continually alarmed. he samo advantagos which tho mer- chant may onjoy apportain alike to all clasacs, The pleasuro-sooker likos to Dbe nssured of Loalth ns woil as tho merchant, and can find it bero, The tired-out, jaded, and siokly peoplo of Bt. Louis aud other Wostern citles ought to coma horo overy summer, uot alone to study tho growth of tho great city, bo- hold tho rosults of its wondorful prog~ ress, sud buy thoir goods, but also to reouporato their wasted enorgies and gathier now strongth from our toothsome viands, puro crys- tal water, and bracing breczes, so that they may bo betier onabled o grapple with the discourag- ing obstacles whick lio in the paths of suc- cess in St. Loula and some othor Western citles, Only nincty-soven deaths in one week in & pop- ulation of over half a million people! What mora attractive inducoment can bo prosented, not slono to tho worn and jaded people of Bt. Louis, Lut to the people of the whole country? We hsve no doubt tho pcoplo of Bt. Louls will avail themselves of these advantagos, Already our hotels are rocelving numerous appli- cations from the people of that city for rooms during tho summer geason, but tho pooplo of other oities should -not allow Bt. Louis to come hore and menopolize tho bost thiugs. o7, THE DISTRICY INVESTIGATION. ‘T'hs resnlt of the District of Columbia investi- gation hos boen given in tho columus of this paper. Tho investigition was so protracted, snd tho time for mrking tho report so short, that tho Commitloo luve boen unable to glve any mora than o brief stutement of their conclu- siong, with somo recommendations for tho tem- porary protoction of ths publio intercets, pend- ing tho ubolition of the present and tho substi- tution of another Govemment. “'ho Committoo find that tho Government of the District, at a vory early day in its history, delogated its gencral authority, jin all things pertaining to expenditures, to tho Vico-Prosident of the Board of Public Works, 3lr, Shepherd, and that from that time, in October, 1871, Mr, Shop- herd has been absolute rulor and dictator; that thoro Ly boon 1o pretonso of attempt on his part, orof that of his associales, Lo comply with any formal regulation; thero have beon no meotings of tho Board, no auditing of bills or oxpendi- tures, no balancing of the Treasurer's accounts ; in fact, no nccounting and; responsibility on the part of any officer whatever; and that at this time the accounts of tho oficors aro in such hopeless confusion that the Committee rocom- mend the nppointment of two accountants to take poesossion of the books and report the actual facty ot the noxt nossion, The act of Congress oxproasly limited and ro- strained tho District Government from incurring any dobt in oxcess of £10,000,000. Novertholoss that Govornment, in supreme contompt for the luw ana disregard of its rostrictions, have con- tractod & dobt which, so far as hoy boon asoor- tnined, oxcoods $20,000,000, and 1s far in excoss of the ability of tho District to pay. Tho original “ comprebensive plan of improvemont” was ed- timatod to cost 0,078,307 ; the Board has ex- ponded or contractod to expond (and that doee not includo tho wholo plan) 918,872,000, or moro than $13,000000 in excoss of tho original ostimated cost. The Commit- teo utterly rejoct all the thoories upon which authority to creato this dobt i claimed, They furthor condomn tho eystem Dby which the Bonrd undortook to orowd the cowplotion of such a vast worl into such a short spnca of time, While | tho city has been improved, it hing been done at & sacrifice of public and privato intorost, ns woll as in violation of law. Tho systom adopted by the Board, the Com- mitteo may, propared the way for the vicious modo of letting contracts, without competition and by tho meoro award of the man Sbophord. Contracts were lot 08 a mattor of favoritism, loading in (ho oud to tho sales of contrnots ab large pricos. Tho csso of the ‘*advonturer” Chittonden, who was authorized to pay $97,000 for “influence™ to got a contract calling for ouly 700,000, is inetancod as one rosult of tho vyatom, ‘Tho namos of the *adventurers” in Congresa who co-operated with him are not mentionad, The Committee review tho looss snd Ir- responsible way in which fho whole buel- ness was done, It was all conduoled by Bhophord, and the Auditor snd Tressuror woro both as irroponsible as Bhopherd himsolf, In thls way over $20,000,000 havo been oxpended, o far as has boen asoor- tained, and there i not & bool nor an officer in tho District which can sliow how it was expondod in dotail, Bhopherd bas let contraots, und thoe Auditor approved billy, and- tha Treasurer paid monoy, without either officer kuowing what the othor kad dono, aund without any oousultation with eaoh other, or without any evidence that would onnblo one officer's accounts to oheck thoso of tho othors, Undor those olvoumstances, the Oommittco rocommend the immodiate abolitlon of the prosont Diatriot Qovernment ; the temporary appointmont of army engineord to take ohargo of tho worke, and an approprintion by Congresa to moot Lhe intorost duo fn July snd to pay atrear- ngos to workmen, Thoy also rocommond that & jolnt committoo of the two Houses bo con- tinued to pursuo tho jnvestigation and ascortain tho roal condltion of many things which the Committeo have not lind time to oxamine in do- tall at this sossion. Tho Committeo call attontlon to tho fact that, though this system wae begun In 1871, tho Houso Committce, of which Mr. Btarlkwosthor was Chatrmau, appointed to inveatigate Distric} af- fairs, nofthor alluded to nor commentod upon thoso oxtraordinnry facts, Time did not pormit this Committoo to comment upon the testimony furthier than to give the gonoral yosults ; honce all the mombors of Congrosa implicated as lob- bylata and frlends of the Board of Publio Works oacapo notlos at this timo. We bave tho rosult, howevor, that the Committco find tho District QGovernmont not only a fallure, buv thab it has, from tne boginning, beon earriod on with tho most shamoloss disrogard of Iaw, and by Bhopliord, in his own way, without any respon- eibility or accountability by any ofiicor, from tho lighaat to tho lowest, At this timo no man in thot Government oan toll from tho books what tho actual condition of Its affairs is, Thoy nlso find that tho only eafety is in tho immodiato abolition of that Government, the rotiremont of sl its officers, and the placing of its affaira in the linnds of an ad inferim Government until such timo ns further invostigation can bo had, ‘Thus hns the Committes unanimously vindieated tho truth of tho charges of usurpation, wasto, reokless oxtravogance, amounting to profligacy, snud fraud, by the dishonost Ring which for over three years has ruled the District with despotic away. A MODEL ASEEMBLY, The soence enacted by tho reprosentatives of the Froneh nation during tho past few.weoks show plainly enough of what morcurial stufl TFronchmon are made. Whon, about tho bogin- ning of tho month, 3. Brisgon, & Re- publican, moved the rejoction of the Electoral bill, which would strike from tho electoral roll the mames of all the young men in Franco betwoon tho ages of 21 nud 24, ho sald that to tampor with tho suf- trago in tho manuor proposed by tho bill would b to put & waapon into the hands * of the fatal party which lod Franco from tho 2d of Decomber to Sodon.” Wheroupon M. Lovert, Bonapart- iut, shouted in roply : * Nover mind; tho dayis closo at hand whon we shall put & gag in your months ;" and, ag if to suit the action to tho words, » number of the oxtremo Radicals sprang up and rushed across the floor as it to begln the gagging process then and thero with their flate, Nor did tho Imporialists show their backs, They rushed forward to join fisticufts with tho Radicals, and would actunlly have come to blows bad itnot boon for the Deputios of tho Right, who Intor- forod to provent & collislon. When on the 8d, Ledru-Rollin was announced to spenk in tho Assemnbly, the utmost engornoss was dlaplayed to hoar him. Asmuch ss 8$26in gold was paid for tickets of admission to tho Assembly. Be- fore ho begen to spenk there was another lively timo botweon & Bonapartist and a Doputy of the Teft. M. de Unstillane, in s long speech, traced all tho ovila that had befsllen France during tho last twonty-fivo yoars to umversal sullrage—among the evils, four wars, Franco's practical subjugation by Prussis, tho lossof 300,000 mon, and two of her falrost provincos, and the five millards, At this tho Right oheered Iuatily, and the Left ‘* protested vio~ "lently.” Whon M. do Castillane continued and said that universal suffrage had done n great many othor very naughty things, tho Loft as- sured the speaker ho was * talking nonsenso.' And when ho averred that ho would have tho courngo to tell Universal Suffrage tho truth, ho was met by the argumentum ad huminem: “ Have you had tho courage to tell it to your eloctors 2" M. Lodru-Rollin rose at longth to speak, " Ho told the Assembly thoy Lad not the rigbt to cur- tail tho suftrage. The Right denied the assor- tion. As ke procesdedbe was interrupted, now by #1loud protestations from tho Bonapartists,” and now by *Ilaughter on the Right and among the Contres ;" oceasionally by *18ud laughtor from tho Left,” and by * loud cheers " from tho samo quartor; sometimos by ories of ‘non- sopse!” on the Right, and by the assurance that thore was ‘‘no mounarchy by divino right;" by “uprcar;” by *ronowed laughtor and uproar;” by *loud and prolovged noi#e;” by advice yolled to bim to *go and tell that at Berling” by crios of the “guillotine!” and of “‘clufr] stuft]” and by invitations to de- {lno the words ho was using, ote. Thers 18 ovi- dently ono thing in which the French Ropublie Dbeats tho United Btatos—in its parlismentary dignity on oxcited occasions, ——— THE BRUSSELS CONGRESS. Au International Qongress will be hold in Brussels next month to devise ways snd means to make war more humano, It isnot intonded primarily, if indecd at all, to disouss arbitration, Its decisions will bo authoritative, They will have the [forca of internationsl law, and not Do mero recommondations, to Le followed or nogleotod as bost suits the interosts of belligor- outs. Tho principal pointa to be trested ata: What infusiles of war siall Do interdicted, aud what maeasures shall be takon t0 insuro s more Lumaue troatmont of prison- ers, Somo yoars back it was proposed to employ in battle oxplosive bullots, which would not ouly wound aud disable, but tonr the body of the poor viotim to picces, It s to the credit of tho Emporor of Russla that ho rofused to hear of tho introduction of this infornal mnchiuo. Whon o soldier {s simply dlsablod by the onomy 1l s gainod that can bo gained by war, Thaun- fortunato man, 80 far ag his bolligorent oapabili- tles aro couoorned, is a8 good ss doad, What sonse, to say nothing of the humanity of {t, thore would bo in tearing his sullering body to ploces, when by so doiug lio {8 not rendored one whit loss dangerous to thia ouemy, it is impossible to dlscover, Btil, it i» not, In o many words, prohibitod by the law of nattous to nso oxploaive buliots in war,aud ono of the objoots of the Drussels Congress is ox- prossly to prohibit thom. A sccond important question is that of the status oud rights of prisonors of war and of the jnhabltants of conquered countrics. According to oxlating law—a law which ia & dead Jottor, but which might bo rovived at auy timo~tho peraons of a. vanquished town bocome tho absolute property of thoir conquorors, Thio saino may be said of those who iu war lay down thelr arma, Evon Napoleon in 1700 took advautage of tho oxlatlog siato of the law aud massaored » npumber of Turkish prisonors. Penotioally, this (e no longor law, It ls ‘woll, howover, tliat it should nat be law in prin- ciplo or m theory, and it {s underatood that tho Drussols Congross sliall so decldo. It Is to bo hoped *that tho Congross will do an much for humanity ns did its prodecossor, tho Convontion of Gonava, in 1804, Itis owingto thia Intter Convontion that stops woro takon to- wards affording roliof to the wounded and dylng on Dbattle-flolds by noutrals, The Genova Congress obtained from Franco, Bwitzerland, and Italy n plodgo that tho badgo and fiag, a rod cross on & whito ground, should bo protected at all timas on flolds of battle. This way intonded to Lo tho mork of the neutrals engaged in tuo morciful exorciso of charity. Tho offorts of the Brusscls Congresa will, wo hopo, ba attended with success ; for it should bo, 08 Montesquiou says, tho aim of nations to do to ono another tho most good in peaco and tho loast harm in war which Is possible for thom to do. The Californin Locnl-Option bifl, and the aue~ ceneos which the frionds of prohlbition are achioving in the clections authorized by it, are dronting gront oxcltoment throughout that Stata, Thelr triumphs aro mainly contlned to tho small towns and villages, but even lu the largo citics liquot-denlern aro bocoming alarmed, and the wholosale mon aro forming strong financial com- binations, both to carry tho cloctious and to test the constitutionality of the law in the Suprome Court. With roferonce to its probabla ¢Tact in Ban Francisco, tho Chroniclo says: In due couras of time, oud with much patfont effort, oy will probubly obiafi wullolent. slyuatuees to tholf potltion to tho Doard of Hupervisors to compel ut ‘loction ider tho Local-Optfon lw; but thore i too poworful and diroct an influenco on the part of the rotail Mquor-dealors, and the propondoratica of une attached malo_population of bibulstory propensitics too great, for them to seriously anticipate & mujorit) 11 o oy opninat ceuse, T 5 i Among tho towns which havo votod egainat licenro aro Oakland and Brooklyn, in Alameda County, snd tho rosult in these two important towns hne greatly slarmed tho liquor-dealers, both in Ban Francisco and BSacramento, Thoy freoly admit that tho traffie has beon grontly erippled, and, as numerous olectons aro to tako place botwoen now and tho first of July, thoy look forward to still groator rovorses. Tho dif- ferenco batweon tho crusado in tho Wost and in California is that whilo tho ono acted in direct deflance of publio sentiment tho othar appeala directly to it, and kas beon sustained in tho majority of cases, —_— Another Sonthorn gontleman has died with his boots on, His nume wag Robert Reed, and lie lived in that poacoful, OClristlan city called Helons, in Arkansas, Ifo ab ono timo kopt & wharf-boat at the mouth of White Rivor ; butthe plnco bocame a little warm for im aftor ho had Lilled a fow poople, whoso principal oifense was that they lived in that noighborbood. Mo also RAILROAD NEWS, The Alton Railroad Case in the United States Court, Arguments on the Motion to Quash tho Writ of Certioraris The Case Talen Under Advisomend by the Court. Miscellaneous Railroad Matters. THE ILLINOIS LAW. ALOUMENTA ON THLE CIIUAGO 4 ALTOR OASE. Spectnd Dispatch to 'The Chicago Tridune, SeniorieLp, Th, Juno 17,~Tho history of tho st againgt tho Ohieago & Alton Railrond Company lins boen writton aa it proceoded, and it is unncoossary to restato any of tho ovents, for thoy are of such rocent dato na to bo famil- for to oll. Ontho 18thday of May, 1874, and whilo tho cawo was on the docket of the Hangamon County Clronit Court, sube Joct to bo called up for some diss position, a potitlon was filed in the Clrouit Court of the Uuited Btates for Bouthera INlivois, by tho attornoys of tho Chicago & Alton Rall~ rond Company, praying for & writ of certiorari directod to tho Sungamon County Cironit Qourt, roquiring that Court to cortify iuta tho Cirout Conrt of the United Btates il the papors pere taining to tho suit against tho Chicago & Alton allroad Company. 'The wiit was issucd by tho Olork of tho CQourt without the ordoror direction of any of the Judges of tho Court. Tho furthor procoedings in tho causo in tho Sangamon Court having been given, It Is only nacessory to suy that tho argument to-day bofore the United Ytates Court was tho socond” stop to bo taken in that Court. THE IMPORTANCE OF TIE QUESTIONS INVOLVED sooms to havo beon felt by tbe Federnl Judiciary, for, on the opening of tho Court this morning, thora was 8 full Bonch, & thing novor scon or known in $ins Distriot boforo, Judges Davis, Drummond, and P'reat presided.- It was known that tho doolsion in this case would not only fndirectly doside tho power of the State of Illincia to regulate aud cons trol its railrond corporations, but it would foreshadow the probable decision in tho railroad cusos i Wiscousin, Tho result was, therofora, looked for with groat intorost all over tho country. 3 On the assombling of tho Court, a quontion was rasod b{ ox-Gov, Palmer 8s Lo who should opon and close tho case. A motion bad beon onterod by tho attornoys of the Raiiroad Come pany to sot tho caso down for trial at #omo day n thia torm, ‘Cho coundol for the paople had outered n cross-motion to quush tho writ of certiorari, The Court, aftor conforring, decided tomovo the rRigument on THE MOTION TO QUASI THE WRIT, hiad an cceontric menin for prasticing upon tho crows of stoambonts which touched thore, and finally had to loave. Ho then wont to Helenn, whoro thera wero more apportunitios for thissort of thing and whore his {alont was botter appro- cisted, Unfortuuately, bo aesociated with him- solf n purtner, nnd, before hio had been in busi- ness long, ho nunounced his intention to Xill him. His partner being & prompt and encrgotic business man, hawever, did not relish the prop- osition, and anticipatod him by fllling bim full of tho contents of a double-barrelod gun, As tho Holens Workd touchingly oxpressos it, * Liis 1ight wont out on the pavement in {ront of Bhr- man's cigar-store,” The partuer went awsey, and tho authorities made no offort to apprehiend him, It is and to contemplato the number of Bouthern gontlomon who bave died of late with their boots on, —_— Tha Tov. Mr. Durlin, of Ripon, Wia,, in the openiug rermon beforethe Episcopalinn Conven- tion in Milwaukoo on Tnesday, gavo & dofinition of the Episcopal Church which, to tho outside world, will sound rather paradoxical. Tha Episcopal Church, Lo #aid, was truly Protostnut and truly Catholic. The Catholie Church had truth. The Protestauthad truth, Nelther hadthe wholotruth. But the Protostant-Catholic, or Cath- olio-Protostant Church of which Mr. Duvlin isa minister has all truth! Tho prercher contonded that such a Church neccssarily could not know pence; in which we aro dinposed to agreo with him, a8 Protestants aud Catholica are necessnrily antrgonistic, The utteraunces of M, Durlin are oqualed only by those of his co.clergyman, tho Ttav. Mr. Batts, of Kansns, that thoy wero notb going to bo frightenod by Ritunlism that tha Lpiscopal Church did sotunlly recognize the Toman Catholio Church as & lasiul branch of the Church of Obrist, while sho repudiated the pro- tonsions of tho sects Lo any suck honor. i s A The first suit under the Civil Damage law in New York was triod at Poughleepsia a few days ago. A woman named Busnn Lowis was the plaintiff, and W. C. Annatrong, the propristor of the Ploasant Valley Hotel, the defondant. The husbond of tho plaintif, a worthless bruto, It np- ponrs, got drunk in tho hota), fell down stairs, and broke his log. Heuco tho apponl of tho plaintiff to the jury for damogos. Tho: jury, aftor taking elght hours to considor tho mattor, fixed thio davango ot £62. If Mrs, Lewis will only keep ter husband drinking, snd sucourage him to fall down stuirs whilo in this condition, she may accumulato quite & littlo fund. Ifone leg 18 worth 962, both logs must be worth 812¢, and, throwing in tho arms and o faw ribs, she may collact eavecnt hundrod dollara, if sho keops bim sufliciontly fult of Yiquor. Sho should be oare- ful, however, to save his neck, as that is good for notbing, and, once broken, would cut hor off from suppost, (S The Baltimore Anerican agrecs with the Dos- tan Globe, aud indeed with all tho principal Journals of the country, that the finaneial ques- Yon—thatis, thoresumption of epocle payments— is to bothe greut isaue of the noxt Presidential olection, The party that will come forward to save the country in its financial orisis will bo the patty of the future, just as the payty thatsaved the Union whon its existonce was threstened ; and the only party that can savo tho country fluaoeially is & ard-monoy party. BSuch a party is sure to win, It might bo dofeated onco; but tho succoss of tts opponcnts would be the surest meaus ultimatoly to put it in power—that ia, if any country should ba loft to give it powor. —— THE WEATHER, ‘Wasnnaroy, D. 0., June 17.—For the Oblo “Valloy, the Uppor Lake roglon, the Upper Mis- sissippi_and Lower Missouri Valley, gonerally clear and warm woanther, with onsterly or south- orly winds, and stationary or falling barometor. LOOAL OBYERVATIONG, Ou10AGO, Juno 17, 1874, g Haur of ob-| 3 £ [Direction and aorvation, | & | § | & Horee'of wiud, Wegthers .02 06 ' 78 B, W., fresh., Oloar, 0.48; 18 1 69 8 3 | 4 | D00 p, W, 16 10:18 p. m.. 1 | 76 Muximum thermonmotor, &6, Allufmuw thermomoter, 69, GENERAL ONSERVATIONS, On10auo, June 18—1 s, m, Wind, ™ [ltany Weather, Bur, [ Thr| Dayeugort , Dalutb,....f2 Deuver, I, Gilion. Leayouw 0.0 fi 73] 10[Cului o 7018, Ky Liald aa the determination of this quostion would set- tlo tho wholo mattor, snd, by this decision tho Court awarded tho opeuing snd closing to tho counsel for the A‘,euplu, and tho Hon. Thos, M. Bpriugor dollvered the opening argument in the caso. . THD ANGUMENTE, At the conclits‘on of Mr. Springor's argument, Juage Edwards aud Alr, Hay, for the Ruilrond Courang, and Atty.-Gen. Edsall, for the pooplo, addrossed the = Conrt, No new poiut of law was adducod, aud the argumont on the part of tho counsol for tho railrond was confined to the interpratation of the trat seotion of tho law of April 20, 1871, In the light of tho history of tho Logislaturo itsclf, and tho construction by {ho conrts, thoy contended that that act clearly providus, b[y implication, for such & course us j:ad beon talien in this causo. Tho argumpnty, if not convinsiug to the Coust, wara plausiblo, and eatitled them to sorious considaration, The Atlorney-Goneral contouded that, if this cause was properly now in the jurs- diction of this Court, thoro was NO CASE BCACELY THAT COULD ARISE undor tho Inws of tho Btate that could not be tukeu heyond tho control of the State Courta, “Wo uro not permitted,” ho waid, “To dony tho truth of ~ tho statemonts contnined in the potition filed in thin eause, nor would we be pormitted to den; the truth of ' nuy potition whioh nught b fla iu any cause sought to Le romoved. If this doctrino provaile, then the Stato courts would, horealtor, sit by your leava.” Those argumonts kopt the point prominent that this was o caso ariging under the laws of this State, over which tho Btato hud ac< quired jurisdiction, and thut ic was not such a 630 08 brought it within the soction undor which it was sought to be removed, Judge Beckwith followed on tho part of tho railroad, and Gov. Palmor cloged the argumsat for the pooplo. WAS I WARRANTED BY LAW ? As ha proceeded, Judge Drummond obsorved that tho ouly question before tha Court was as 1o wherher thero was any law of Congress o warrant {ho isauanco of the writ of certiorarl, Gov. Palmer #aid there was no such sot of Con- fresi; thosoction sitod could not by any contortion of rensoning bo made to include a case like this, The sacrodiess of* contracts was as old 28 tho Qovernment, aud the courts, by a series of ablo and le deciions, hnd placed thom whoro evary citizon folt securo in his rights under his contracts, This matter was too well and too mccurely sottled to meed auy fur- thor logielntion. It was clear, then, that, whon the law said o ottizen should bo doprived of auy right or imnuuity, it did not mean o right undor & contrack. 'This law was passed for no puch purpose. =~ They who live kaow woll to what righta it rolated and what olass of peraons it was designod to protect, and it is noodless to_discuss them again, Tho Coustitution of this Btato wus BOVEREION OVER ITS OWN CITIZENE, and provided that the Stato sbould not be sued before any court, and yet in this casc, one of ita own citizons, the Chbicago & Alton Railrond Compeny, crestod undor its laws, wes Beokin; 0 implend it before this court, It could nol be done. The patition in this cause did nov alloge that the defendant had beon deprivod of any right, but thus it would boif tho case was proceoded with ia the State Courts, Who hnd tho right to assumo, in advanco, that tho Judgos of the State Courts and the juried of ‘tha land would violato the Conatitu- tion of the United States? No one, It wag an {ndiguity heapod upon the upright snd ablo Judiciary of the State and the honest poopla to 8o charge. If the defendaut could, underany circumstancer, avail himeolf of the Jaw of Con= graas, it would not bo UNTIL 1E WA DEPRIVED OF SOME RIGRT, The Stato wus tho ouly power that could ime pair u contract, and tho most favorable reading of the mection in question could not be made to comprehond or Include a cnso of this kind, "Tho Court would, therefore, plainly seo that, for these rensons, tha act of Cnufirose could nob b made to ostond to tho crso at bar, At the conclusion of the argumont, the Court took the case undor advisoment; yot it wad plainly avident, from tho churacter of tho sug=+ gostions mndo by tho Court ag tho srgument rogroued, that they would doclino to tako juris« diction, or 1t was gunnmllflanintamruud. I'here was no intimation aa to whon the deoision would be rondored, —_— THE WISCONSIN LAW. MORE BUITS AGAINST TICKET BELLERS, Fpeciat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Oskosn, Wis, Juno 17,~This aftornoon a clork inthe Milwaukeo & Bt. Paul Railroad oflico, named W. L. Roberts, was arrested, on tho aom- plaint of E. R, Coulton, for svlling & ticket to Tiipon at more than tho logal rato. Roborts was tukeon bofore Justico Hancock, who held him to il in the sum of §200, and adjourned tho caso until July 6, to obtain the servicos of tha Come pauy's attarnoy, Mr, Caroy, of Milwaules, Special_bispatel @0 Zhe Clucago Tribuna, Mapisoy, Wis,, Juna 17.—L. D, Stono, ‘Tloket Agent of 'the hithvaulics & 8, Paul Hailrond, wa ngain convioted of o violution of tha law rog- ulating railrouds, and fined 60 and oosts, The amb wan aegiod by Diatrict Attorney Jouea snd Willlam Woloh for the prossoution, and by Frank Allon, of Stoughton, and R, B. Bmith, of this elty, Tho only new point mado was that the hllrflmi law passod subsoquont to the Potter Iaw in effeot repenlod tho latter, which the Oourt and jury could not ace, ——— MISOELLANEOUS. TATLWAY PURCHABING AGENTS' CONVENTION Tho fitst annual meating, of tho Railway Puye olsiug Agonts of the United Btatos and Oansdag asgombled yostordey morning at tho Grand Pa- clflo Hotol, W, 8, Cuddy, &t. Louis, Tran Moun- fafu & Bouthen, wae choson temporary Chisire man, and G, . Brood, Loulsville, Nashville & Tndlina Bouthern, Beorotary, Tho Committeo on Parmanent Orgovieation, consiting af ol Jy I, 8terling, Toledo, Wabssh & Westorny E. O, Bockor, 8. Paul & Fnolfio, and J, V. Morss, Iudinuapolls & b, Louly, xepoitud the followlng