Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 13, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1! TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ‘RATER OF AUAECKIPTION (PAYARLE IN ADVAKCE). Bate, f 9.00 Tie Weehigs 200 Eniteot delay and mistakes, he eure and give Post - Cthee address in full, including State and County, i ilances may be made either by dralt, express, Post- CE ce order, or in registered letters, at our risk, TERMG TO CITY ECRSCIRERR, Waits, delivered, Sunday excented, 26 cents per wock Daily, delivered, Sunday included, 30 conts per week Address THY TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearhorn-sia., Chiesgo, HI, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ADELPHI TIRATRE—Dearhorn street, corner Mon- reo, Varlety entetalnmont. Afternoon and ovening. CHICAGO MUSKUM. paruiand gat Oe tee OANEMY OF MUSIC—Lialeted street between Mad- Ce eee eee ete eerie tivacaae: Yano pro." Alteragon anu ovouing, VOOLRY'S, THEATRE—Randoinh, atract, between cikrraea LaSalle, ‘Lost io London.” Afternoon and evonlng, 1 Madi Rtrast, botween -Tousk— root, 18 Maa canta: Mtseretes Pei iy & ben's Afternoon and ovenini BLANEY LODOF, tommiunication this ( i. A. Degree, INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS, PAGE—Olts, Suburban, and Country Real ants, fo ents, Horses, and Carringee, ‘Lo Hoarding atid ludying, For bate, ctcey sto, “VENTH PAGE~Amuseinents, Steel Pens, New paulustionte Radiroad Fimukable, ‘Medical ‘Carder eanishipr, ate., ete. THIRD Estate, Eachang Che Chicago Cribune. Wednesday Morning, January 15, 1875. 'The Seerctary of the ‘T'reasury has informed Congress that the changes in itnport duties taused by the revision of the statutes aro neither many in number uer large in amount. The Pig-Iron people will Le disappointed at the news, ‘hey thought there was some show of increasing the tariff, in the way of sompensation, you know. Mr. J. G, Scuuatanen, Pro: rv of Virtue, Democratic Congressman, Pacific Mail lobby- ist, ote., etc., is building up a reputation for colossal and ornate lying among people who don't know him, We do not, for our part, beliove that he would deviate a hair's breadth from the strict line of duty for much less than $275,000. ‘The Naval Appropriation bill was increased by only 320,000 in the Senate. ‘I'he amount is said to be unprecedentedly small for a gen- eral appropriation bill. It really seems as if the spirit of economy were abroad in Con- gress, ‘Tho subsidy-brokers may as woll re- tire from business for this session and the next, Their best chance is to work for the election of a Democratic President and Senate, Abill to prevent grave-robbery lias been in- troduced in tho Michigan Legislature, and will probably pass, It provides for the pun- ishment, under heavy penalties, of persons who shall bo found to have in their posses. sion bodies to which no legal title can be shown, ‘The Ann Arbor gentlemen will un- derstand, we suppose, that the bill is intend- ed for the correction of their irregularities, Tho Workingmen’s party has got together a Convention at Springfleld which passed o string of resolutions yesterday demanding tho represontationof its assumcd constituency on thoLegislative Committces. If the persons present at that Convention aro really work- ingmen, why don't they goto work? Their presence in Springfield just now is prima Jacie evidence that they are not workingmen. Loafing about the State Capital is not the Rind of labor that is respectable. — Mr, Prxcupat « sprung a resolution sud- denly on tho Legislature of Louisiana yester- day which, in a measure, indorsed and con- firmed his Senatorial election, He agreed, if electod, to resign at once, contenting himself with the back-pay and milengo of a Senator for two years, It isn kind of compromise that we do notlike. If Pixerpacr is elected, he is entitled to something more than back-pay and mileage; ifhe is not elected, ho is en- tilled to nothing ut all, Se A-fire-eating and sword-awallowing newe- Paper at New Orleans advises the closing of the city public echools in enao the colored children recently oxpclled are restored to their sents. ‘Che sword-swallower says that the white children must be guarded against ‘tho loss of self-respect and personal dignity,” We don’t see how they can very well be 60 guarded unless they aro sent North to bo cdu- ated. Tho whito children wore losing self- tespect aud personal dignity very faat when they turned the colored school-girls out of foors; and wo have not since heard of any huprovement in their mannors or condition. ere Ald. Coxzentox bas provailed upon the Couneil to order Comptroiter Hares to pre. para a list of tax-fighters, ‘This is nat a bad idea, which is strange, as that ornament of our municipality, Cuntenroy, proposed it, Mis object is to flud out how many of the men who, as members of the Citizens’ Asso. ciation, think tho city should clap a million or two on its presont cnormons taxes for tho take of doubling the Fire Dopattment, have not paid tho taxes already nusessed upon them. ‘Tho exhibit is likely to ben aurprig. \ngone. Delinquent reformers had better pay up at once, The New Hampshiro Republicans met in Couvention yesterday and nominated State oficers, ‘The platform adopted is excellent, [t calls for equal rights and a free and honest ballot; uncompromising hostility to all forms of official corruption ; low rates of taxation ; condemnation of sdury-gravbing; free-bauk. fog basad on specic-payments; denial of all applications for subsidics; and the protection of the people of the South aswell from the rapacity aud maladministration of tho esxpet- baggers as from the lawlessness aud intimida- tion of the White Leagues, "Lhe fourth reso. tution declares “an unalterable opposition to the election of any man to the Presi cucy of the United States for a third term.” .Wo had Yhought that was a doad issue. ‘Ihe rovival of it ot this time by a Republican State Con- vention is, to say the least, ungracious and foolish, ne ‘The Chicago produce markets were irregu. lor yeuterday, with more doing, Mess pork wad active, and 20c per brl lower, elusiug at $18.63 cash, and $18.77 2-2 for February, Lard was more active, aud 20c per Luu Ibs lower, closing firmer at $18.40@13,45 cash, $13.50918.59 1-2 for February, Meats were More sative, aud 1-80 per lb lower, at @ 1-v0 for shon}dars. 9 1.2¢ for abort riba, and 9 7-80 for short clears, Dressed hogs wero dull, an: 1Ve per 100 Tbs lower, at 37.65 5. High. wines were in moderate request, and 1-2e lower, ati 12e, Flour was dull and un. changed. Wheat was active and easter, but closed strong at 83 3-Ge cash, and 89 1-8¢ for Yebruary, Corn was in good request and no shade firmer. closing at 66 1-8¢ cash, and TL 7-8@i2e for May. Oats were quiet and firmer, closing at 525-80 cash, and 42 3-fe for Februnry. Rye was dull and stendy at 95 1-2 @il6c, Barley was quiet and firmer, closing at $ 1-2 cash, ond $1,25@1-26 1-2. for February, On Satunlay evening Inst there was in storo in this city 2,625,878 bit whent, 1,403,076 bu corn, 505,146 bu oats, 22,459 bir rye, and 327.441 bu barley. Hogs were dull, and 10@25e lower, With salos chiefly at 26.15 @7.20, Cattle were in good demaud and firmer. Sheep were fairly active ot stendy prices. When Tis Tnipune began to discuss the doctrine of State Sovercignty, many of tho Democratic press interposed objections on the ground that this was a ‘dead issue,” Soon, howaver, they began to reply in language that showed that the issue lived in their hearts and their hopes, Prominent Demo- erats have since openly asserted that this was the real question in dispute between the two parties. Now that this is acknowledged, the Republican votes which gave the Damocracy their fleeting triumph in £874 can no longer be relied upon in aid of disloyal designs, Meanwhile, how do tho Independents at Springtiold like this outburst of Bourbon- ism onong their allies 2? They probably be- gin to realize that politics has given thein somo strange bedfellows. It was kind in their Democratic friends not to insist upon their taking Bourbon straight forthwith, but the eup will be put to their lips before long. ‘Then, however, there may be a slip 'twixt the enp and the lip! ‘Chere is one circumstance in the Lonisiana ease that is too significant to be overlooked. ‘Tho Stato Senate has a large Republican majority from hold-overs; but on the first day of meeting and at no time sinee has any Democratic member made his appearance in that body. It was the purpose of the White- Leagners, in caso their revolution in the House was successful, to hava a new Senate to be composed of those electal in 1874, and of those Democrats who claimed to have been elected in 1872 but who never took thcir seats, The House intended to recognize this new Senate, to the exelusion of the Republic- au majority and of the Republican Lieuten- ant-Governor, With the Senate and House both in their control, they proposed to de- clare that Kritoca had never been elected, and that McEseny was Governor, and thus again renew thecivil war, ‘The failure of the Wit7z revolution has spoiled the whole busi- ness, Nevertheless, the Democratic Senators still refuse to attend the meetings of that body, SENATOR SCRURZ ON LOUISIANA, No one questions the ability, eloquence, or earnestness of Senator Scnunz, and his recont speech on the condition of affairs in Louisiana was worthy in these particulars of his established oratorical reputation, nt Senator Scutnz, like all the others who have discussed this question, fails to apply his logic to the actual facts of the case. Ie denounces Gen. Suxnipax, and inferentinlly the Presi- dent and the Cabinet ; he condemus the of- ficers in command at New Orleans, and gen- erally the military, for any interference what- ever in tho political affairs of Louisiana. ‘The burden of lis speech was the denial that auy satisfactory answer could bo made to his question, “ What provision of the Constitu- tion, what laws ere thero on the statute-book, furnishing a warrant for such proceedings ?” This question he varies in form and osks with reference to each detail and cireum- stanco in the proceadings of Jan. 4, 1875, 3MIv, Senunz makes a genoral denial of con- stitutional or statutory authority for tho use of the national military in determining any question of State Government. Assuming this gencral denial to be true, he finds it easy to take up each act and deny tho legal authority therefor, Of courye, if any inter- ference at all and undor any circumstances bo illegal, it follows that the interference must be illegal in all its details, Now let us soe what the exact facts were, and what tho Inw in the case actually is, Tho Constitution of the United States guarantees to every State in this Uniona republican form of government, and it fur- ther provides that it ‘shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application of the Legislature or of the Executive (when tho Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.” ‘Lhe statutes of tho United States authorize tho President to uso iilitary forco in execution of the latter clause quoted from tho Constitution. In 1872.'3, the Legislaturo of Louisiana applied to the President for aid in suppressing domestic violence, It waa granted. At that timo there were two State Governments, including two Slate Loyislatures, cach elaiming to bo the Government and Legisluturo of the Stato. Necessarily, tho President had to determina for his own guidance which of theso State Governments was the one authorized to make the demand on him. By law, and by the solemn decision of the Supreme Court, this decision was final, aud so binding upon all branches of the Government, Stato and National, that no Court was au. thorized to review it, In this way Kztroca’s Government becamo recognized as the Government of Louisiana, In Septem. bor last an armed insurrection took place, a new Government was violently sct up, tho other was doposed by forco, a large number of nen wero killed, and for a number of days the insurroctionists assumed to exercise tho powers of Government, An appeal was again made to the President, who again gave tho requisite orders, und the insurrection was for the time suppressed, No ono can claiin that iu cither of those cases thg President's recog. nition of the Kxttooa Governmont, or the ordeving of troops to protect it against do- nicatio violence, was in excess of his lawful authority or in ony way unconstitutional. ‘Thus it was that troopa were stationed in Rew Orleans, and, under tho condition of affairs there, wera continued there to protect the Government against ‘domestis vio« lonco.” It has been notorious that wero it not for the presengs of this military force the insurrection would bo instoutencously Tee newed, Consequently, we have the addi. tional fact established that the prasenco of the troops, then, in Now Orleans, to protect tha Stato Government against domestic vio. lunre, was in the clear exercise of the con- stitntional duty and power of the President, ‘This brings us dowa to the 4th of January, At tho reynest of the Exacutive of the State, troops were stationed in the vicinity of the Legislative Hall to protect the members of tha Legislature from mob violence, Under the law of the Stato, the names of 100 per- sons wore published aa those who alone were authorized to take seats in the hall and act ag members of the Honse, This is conceded by all hands, nnd is distinelly recognized by the Democrats, who mado no effort to sent any other porsons until after there hed been atomporary organization effected, 'ThoGov- ernor aml State officers and tho Inw recog- nized no other persons as entitled to take part in this proceeding, Of these 106 persons, 102 only appeared at the hour designated. They constituted a majority of the Honse. Theso stood divided, fifty-two Republicans and fifty Democrats, ‘Tho fifty Democrats went through the performance of declaring one of their number temporary Speaker and some other porson temporary Clerk, and this against the clamorous protests of tho majority. So far, the contest lind been con- fined to the actual and recognized members of the House. But the usurping minority then sout for the military, aud had tho civil or Stato police removed from the hall. Ilero ‘was an extraordinary interference ; but even the minority recognized that the military were there, in tho neighborhood of tho hall, legally empowered to protect the Legislature aga branch of the State Government. Finds ing themselves abandoned by the majority and consequently without a quorum, tho minority then doclared that five other per- sons, nlmown to the legal composition of the body, were members, and admitted them hy viva coce vote to the rights of members, ‘Che House was no lounger tho legal body it was when it first met. It had becn invaded, Five persons, who had as much legal au. thority to take their sents in the Senate of the United States as they had in that House, had been called in, that with tho minovily they might exclude tho majority. It must be borne in mind that the Ketroaa Government in all its departments had been recognized by the United States Government a3 the Government of tho State; that tho President's deciyion on that point was final and binding upon the courts and people of the United States, and conclusive upon every man in Louisiana, Fifty-two of tho legal members of the Legislature laid a statement of the facts before the Governor of that’ State, who, as Governor, was bound to pro- tect the legal members of the Government against disturbance and revolution, Ho therefore appealed to the military force, there lawfally prosent, under constitutional orders to protect that Government against lawless violence, to protect tho lawful Aysem- bly in tho lawful exercise of their powors by the removal of all persons not lawfully authorized to act as members. The military obeyed this order by the removal of tho fiva intruders, Mr. Scuvaz says: It is sald in extenuation of tho duterference of the military power of the Unitel States that the persons ejected from the Legislature by Fedors! acldlory were uot legally elected memLera of that Legislature. Supe Tose that had been so; but that {a not the question, ‘The question 3, Where {s the law authorizing United States soldlers, with murkets in thetr Lunds, to dee tcrmino who 13 a legally-elected member of @ Stato Legislature and who not? We have shown that the military wero present Inwfully and constitutionally to pro. tect tha Stato Government against domestic violence; that the proceedings in the hall of introducing five persons to act as members wero revolutionary aud illegal; that the Goy- ernment of the State, recognized by the President, was the svulo judge of the necessi- ty for the use of troops to avert that revolu- tionary proceeding, oud that when it ordered an act performed, on the ground of protect- ing its oficers, the military, who were there to executo the orders of that Government, were bound to execute it, using no more force than was nocessary. ‘This is not anew crse. In Rhode Isinnd, when there were two Governments, each claim. ing to bo the lawful one, the whole subject was brought before the Supreme Court of the United States, and that Court, by Judge Taney, determined the law very clearly, From the opinion of the Court in that caso wo quote such portions a3 bear upon this case; By this act (1875) the power of deciding whether the exigency las arisen upon whieh the Govern. ment of the United States is bound to inter- fere is given to tho Provident, He ts to act ugon the application of the Logislature or Ex- ecutive, and couscquently he must determine what body of men constitute the Legislature, and who {s tho Governor, before he cam act. The fact thet both par- tes claim the right to the Government cannot alter the case, for both cannot be entitled to it, If there te bu armed conflict, ft 1 8 cae of domestic violence, and ons of the parties must Lo fn insurreciion against the!;yrful Government, And the President must of neer gif ty décide which 1a the Government, and which Jarty is unlawfully arrayed agsinat it, beforo bo can perform the duty imposed upon bim Ly the act of Congrose, . . , In tho caso of foreign nations, the Government acknowledged by tne Proatdent ia always rocoguized in tho courts of Justice, Aud this prin- ciplo han been applied by the sctof Congress to the sovereign Btates of the Uutou, ‘Unquestionably, a Btate may use ite military power to put down an armed insurrection too atrong to ve controlled by civil authority, ‘The powcr ts essential to tho extutence of every Government, eszontial to tho preservation of order and {reo institutions, and ia ca necessary tu the Stalea of this Union as to any other Government, The State itvelf must determin whnt degreo of force'the crisis demands, and, if the Gov. ernment of Ruode {sland deemed the armed oppositiun so formidable aud so ramified throughont tho Btate us to require the usu of the mililsty force aud tho declara- tion of martial Iaw, we wee mo ground upon which thie Court can question its authority, It waa a ctato of war, and the establlsed Government revorted to the aights and wasges of war to maintain itscif aud to over- como the unlawful opposition. And, in that ststo of things, the officers engaged in its ullitary sorvice might lawfully arrest any uno who, from the laforma- fon before them, thoy had reavonable grounis to bo- Hove was engaged in tho insurroction; and might orders house to ba forcibly eutered and soarched wien thero were roavonablo grounds fur supposing he might there be concealed, ‘The Federal troops stood in the relation of: State troops, in the service of the State Goy- “ernment, to do whatever that Government night employ its own State troops to do, Gen, Emory and his force acted a soldiers only. They decided nothing, Thoy wero placed there to protgct that State Govern. ment, whioh Government was tho exclusive judge of the force neccasary to protect itsvlf, ‘They obeyed orders,—nothing moro,—and Mr. Souuunz’s indignation against them is al. together wasted, —=_— When tho Bourbons of the Ulinols Legiz- Inture prepared their screamer on Louisiona oad Suxnrpan, they forgot at first that tho woaker stomachs of tholr Independont allics needed mills for babes, and could not stand tho strong meat for men on which the Bour- bon feeds his distoyalty, So they mado their resolution declaro that Suznipan bad endan- gered ‘‘ tho stability of the forma of govern. ment established by the several States of our Republic.” ‘The moro prudent among them soon said, however, that tho timo was not yet ripo for proclaiming State Sovereignty, They suppressed this part of their wordy maui- festo. Ona of them afterwards iucautiously told tho story, ‘he incident is of no emall moment, It shows that tho Bourbous of illinois, like their Lzethron else- where, have learned nothing aud />-gotton nothing, ‘The lessana of the War are i. -aled book to them, and they gloat over thu tinte Sovereiguty specches of Hayxe and Canuoun, Sternens and Jeyy Davis. ‘Thoy beliova and will proclaim, the instant they feol str. > enough todo so, that “we the people” in tho preamble of our Magna Charta means “wo the Stntes”; that this is uot a nation, Int a league of sovercigutics; and that tho powers (/. ¢., States) which thoy say formed the Union can dissolve it at their will It is the old controversy over again, When tho question is again fairly opened, the mon who have loft the Republican party in the vain iden that the Demoeracy has abjured old errors and embraced national ideas will bo found once more on tho same side they were from ‘G1 to '65,—the side of tho Union. een TO TILE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE, While the Bourbons in the Legislature aro plotting to destroy the public-school system of Illinois, it behooves the friends of this cor- ner-stone of republican institutions to do all they ean to strengthen and perfect it. Whon Ignorance and Knowledge are striving for the mastery, we cannot afford to let the former sweep into its ranks half of the rising gener- ation, Tho doors of our schools sre wide open, but many of tho children who should be paasiug through them are studying in tho streets and imbibing leasons of vice, brutali- ty, and ignorance. ‘This should be stopped. The right of self-preservation clothes tho Stato with amplo authority to enforce attend. ence upon herschools or schools as good as they. Universal suffrage is ruin unless rein- forced by universal education. Without com- pulsory education, general knowledge cannot inerease with tho rapidity with which pau- pera aud profligates breed. Nino States of the Union havo alrendy mado attendanco upon school compulsory by law. Illinois should be the tenth to do so, and that forth- with, While our schools are training youth to intelligence, industry, and virtue, our streets ave training them to ignorance, pau- perism, and crime. Many of our little waifs and ontcasts, who beg or peddle from door to door, would gladly learn what thoy could, if parental greed and cruelty did not drive them into their present pursuit, 'Theso help- less children should be rescued from the tyr- anny of their masters. Night-schools do something for (hem, but usually their parents tlo not let them have even their ovenings. ‘Yheso schools aro mainiy attended by adults, and dos good work for them, though thoy seareely reach the classes most in need of educational aid. 5 ‘The details of a law for compulsory educn- tion are matters to be settled at Springfield, but the law itself is imperatively demanded by the needs of the whole State. Models for it oro not wanting, The New York act, which came into force on the Ist inst, re- quires every parent or guardian to instrnet, or cause to be instructed, every child in his or her care in spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, and English grammar. Every child between the ages of 8 and 14 must go to school fourteen weeks of each year, eight of them consecutive, or must be taught at home, unless a physician certifies his or her unfitness to study, No child less than 14 years oldcan be employed during school hours, unless provided with o certificate from the proper oficials showing due attendance of fourtcen weeks during that year. A system of inspec. tion of business establishments is provided as & guard against illegal employment. Em- ployers and parents offending against the law are to be punished by fine, and in some cases by imprisonment. Most of the States which enforco education furnish the children of the very poor with books froo of chargo. ‘This is an essential part of any such law, but care shonld bo taken that thera may be no needless charity. The provisions of the New York act in rolation to employment are per- heps all thet are needed, but our law-makers would do well to consider the code which Switzeriimd proposes to enact. This forbids any omployment of children under 14 in manufactories, and prohibits those between 14 and 16 from working in thom moro than six hours a day. We might multiply those suggestions as to detail indefinitely, but it ia needless, ‘fhe bill which came so near passing the Illinois Legislature last session was a good measure, While the Bourbons are disgracing thom- selves and destroying their party by trying to close the public schools, the Republicans and the Independents and the Democrats who havo not yet gone mad on the theory of Government should hasten to carry this great reform. PACIFICO MAIL DISCLOSURES, Tho disclosures made to Congress by Mr. Anent, ono of tho Pacific Mail disbursing agents, leads us to hope that we may finally havo a complote list of the corruptioniats in thissubsidy, We have now got at a distribu. tion of $10U,000 of the money, leaving about $700,000 yet to be accounted for, If Mr Inwiy, Mr, Scuumazenr, ond Mr. Kixa would follow Mr, Apent’a laudable example, we might, in the ond, ascortain definitely who were the actual benificiaries of the corruption fund, Al the members or officers of Con. gress who shared it could then be promptly expelled, and Congress could thereby justify itself from tho taint this business has put upon it, Wo ean pledge tho faith of the preas that no newspaper correspondent who has soiled his hands with the money shall over tind omployment on a reputable newspaper, For the others, tho ox-Congresemen and pro- fessional lobbyists, their occupation is gone, No Congressuiun will henceforth dare to hold converse with any of them, and they may os well reaign their standing-room in the ‘Third House. ‘We rogret exceedingly to find the names of several newspaper men on Mr, Apent's binck list; but there fs at least this much to bo said in their favor, that thoy were not serving'es members or officers of Congress, under oath not todo what they did, Some of them, too, avo able to clear themselves, Dox Piarz, for instance, claims that he Borrowed tho $5,000 from Inwiy after the passage of the subsidy, and that he subse. quently repaid the money, Inwz confirms this statement; and, if true, it can easily be proved. McFantanp, the Philadelphia Presa mau, says that Fonney got the $23,000 which was peid to him, and Forvey is in England, What defungo or denial he will snnke cannot be foretold, Suaw issmall fry, asortof sardine,and woukl never have been able to live in Wash. ington npon his carnings.as a journalist, ‘The gentleman whose namo was printed yca- terday os “8, KR, Inazanan” is, wo very anueh fear, Mr. Senvyzze 2, Inaxaw, the business-manager and port owner of the Chicnyo Jnter-Ocean, Mr, Incua was not a newspaper-man et tho time he ia said to have recoived $7,000 of the corruption fand; but he was a resident of Des Moines in o Congressional District then represented by his friond Mr. Franz W. Pauaen, who voted for the subsidy, and who is now tho editor of the Jnter-Occan and Mr, TnGuaw’s associate is business, Shortly after the salary-grab Congress, Mr, Paramu came to Chicago with his share of tho grab in his pookot; thon Mr, Inawam, if it be the same peraon, followed with the &7,000 of Pacific Mail money, Both amounts wero invested in the Chicago Jnter.Qcean ; and yet we avo inclined to doubt whether tho monoy was ‘placed where it will do most good.” Tho only consolation we can find is, that it has Deen permanently invested in Chicago for the benefit of the city, ‘Khe rost Mx, Panaten and Mr. Ixouas must explain. ‘Tho other rovelations of Anznr's tenti- mony aro not so interesting, unless they will lend to an acconnt of a subdistri- bution of tho funds, Ex-Goy. Itaxpaun ap- pears to have been the head of the lobby, and was probably choson for the place on account of his familiarity with the Post-Ofllee Depart- ment, acquired during his service ns Post- master-General, and his largo influenco with tho Democratic mombers, Tho services of the two Assistant Doorkcepers of the House, Hensey and Bory, seem to have been esti- mated at a high value. Indeed, the price paid them suggests the suspicion that they wore dividing with somebody else insido the doors, and they should be held to strict ao- count as to their partners. Congress, having made such excellent prog. ross in the investigation, should spare no effort to bring Inwzx, Scnumaxen, and Kino toterms, The first-named will bo inclinod to tell all he knows, we believe, if tho prison favo and prison disciplino be rigidly enforced, Sowvstanen, who tnkes refugo. behind his privilege as a Congressman, should be cir- cumyented in soma way, If in no other, ho might be expelled from Congress first, and. then held as 9 recusant witnoss until ho shall make o clean breast of it. Kina must bo found at all hazards, and made to explain his onth of denial a3 well os what ho did with the bribe-money. We should now be able to ascortain what members of Congress, if any, wero paid for their votes; and, if they be members of the present Congress, they, to- gcther with officers of Congress implicated, should be promptly expelled, This Republic. au Congress should tako all the credit of this investigation by the punishment of every man thoy find guilty, STATE SOVEREIGNTY ACAIN, When, somo weeks ago, Tie 'ninuse fore- told that the question which should divide partics in the future was tho very question which had divided them in the past, viz. : the question of State Sovereignty, we were told that that issue was a dend one, that it was impossible it ever should be agitated again, ond that it was ridiculous to drag it in its grave-clothes from the tomb. Our Democratic contemporaries in the North wero unanimous in thia verdict, Wo refuted their arguments at tho time by connter arguments which they have not auswered, aud which now they will not attempt to answer, since facts have established the correctness of our prediction. Tho Louisiana nffair has brought out into bold reliof the question of State Rights once more. It has proved that tho question of State Sovereignty is not dead; that it is not dying; nay, that itis the living question of the hour,—tha question which shall divide parties in the future ns it has divided them sinco the foundation of the Republic. Never has the sovereignty ef the States been pushed to such an extreme as it has been within the last few weeks. Hithorto, the right of tho States to secede from the Union was the ex- tremo form which the question of State Sov- ereignty assumed. Now, the right of a State to anarchy is boldly proclaimed, and itis urged that the Gonoral Government has no power to interfore with the exercise of that inalienable right by tho good people of Louisiana, Whole oceans of vituperation are poured upon the Prosident'’s head because ho has emanifested a disposition to save Louisi- ana from a reign of terror, fram social chaos and dissolution. The howl which has gone up from the Democratic press throughout the eountry because of the presence of Gon. Snerrman at Now Orleans meansthis and only this: ‘The sovereign peoplo of Louisiana have the inalienable right to cut one another's throats, and to make the streets of New Or- Jeans run red with Republican and ‘ nigger ” blood. ‘Tho question is whether they havo any such right or not ; and it is the old ques- tion of State Rights, only under a form more exaggerated than ever beforo, ‘Those who vainly supposed that question was dead and bariod have shown themselves Inmentably ignorant of the philosophy of our history, The whole of our political history is the history of the agitation of that very question. The Colonies during and after the Revolution were strongly opposed to all cen- tralized Government. It was natural thoy ahould be opposed to it, The memory of the centralized Government of London was still fresh among the coloniste, and they heartily otested it. They intended that there should exist after the Rev- olution no such powerful _contraliza- tion of Goyernment as ad oxist- ed before it, when they wero govern. ed by the Mother Country, In their antipathy for a strong Government, they drew up the articlos of Confederation and established ao Government without the power to levy a tax, raiso a soldier, observe a treaty, or amend its fundamental law without the unanimous con- sent of its members, ‘fhe Confederation waa ona expression of the doctrine of Stata Sov- ereiguty. It failed, becauso not in harmony with our naturo ns o people; becauso it ignored that we were a uation. Tho Roboll- ion, a second expression of the same political horesy, failed fora similar reason, A third movement is uow setting i to revive the samo question, andit, too, will fail, ‘PhoCon- federation falled, beoauseit took from the Gen- oral Government all power, The dootrino that the General Govornment could not intefero with the internal affairs of a Stato oven to provent dissolution was exploded by the War of the Rebellion, ‘Tho futuro will explode the doctrine that it may not interforo with the internal affairs of a State to prevent social anarchy and dissolution, Whon the renl issue in Louisiana ia understood by the people of this country, it will bo found that their political instincts aro as true as they wore inthe day when tho existence of tho Union was threatened. The Constitution of the United States guarantees to the several States a ropublican form of government. Now there is not a Btatein the South in which a republican form of government would exist for thespace of nyear if it wero proclaimed that the Gon- eral Government should not, under any cir- cumatances, interfere with thointernal affaira of the Southern States. The proclama- tion of such ao policy would bo the algnal for a wor of races in the South, Domocratio State Governments Bouth would be totally incompotent to pro- vent such awar, Their sympathies would be all opposed to the colored raco. It may be doubted whether Democratic Governors South or Democratic Legislatures, with their antipathy for that race, would do much to oppose its cxtormination ; or, with their ideas Federnt interferoneo in case a war of oxter- anination was inaugurated. The politien! history of this country for amore than a quarter of a century ins revolved around the colored race, It will continuo to revolve around it, ‘To provont » war of races; to preservo the weal against the strong in the Sonthern States; to protect the negro in the exercise of tho political rights which havo been granted him by the people of the United States; to save tho South from anarchy; to eheck tho spirit of opposition to the Union in that section of the country ; to assert tho sovereignty of the nation wnder all circnm- stances and in tho faco of all opponents,— such is the task before the country,—n task which only the Republicay pnrty enn accom. plish, Let tho fow weak-kneed Republicans who are wavering in their allegiance to the party recollect this, and that their defection meuns the undoing of alt they have done, fostering a war of extermination, abandoning right for Inwless might, encouraging aunr- chy, denying tho Union and tho nation's sovereignty, advocating the ultra doctrine of State Rights, which has becn a fertile source of ovil to the country from the beginning of tho Confederation to tho collapso of tho Rebellion. Tho Constitution of the United States guarantees to every State a republican form of government, but the moment anar- chy shows its head, thnt moment all govern- ment las ceased, and all forms of govern- ment, whether republican or other. ‘Lhen, if ever, tha General Government has a right to interfere with tho internal affairs of a State, And yet thoDemocraticpross through- out the country raises most unearthly howl because the General Governmont haa shown a disposition to meddle whero auarchy threat- ened o State with ruin, a ENTER THE KING, Kanarava, King of all the Sandwich Islands, bas nt Inst arrived, and for the first time in the history of Chiengo (cxcept when he passed through en routo East) a live King has set foot on her goil,—ropresenting a small Kingdom, to be sure, but as many inches 9 King a3 the Rexos of larger domains, Thus far ho has been through tho formality of a reception by the Aldermen ond the distress of a specch hy the Mayor, which latter is the most formidable danger Le will havo to on- counter. Ho has very handsome quarters set apart for him at tho Pacific, and the now Iand- lord, Joux B, Draxx, will do his best to make his royal guest comfortable, As tho King is & very agreeable, reasonable, common-sonso man, without any nonsense about him, he will probably have a good timo here, provided tho Mayor and Aldermon will not torture him with any of thoso reforms which aro peeu- liar to them, and which it is not desirable should bo introduced in the Sandwich Islands, ‘We truat ho will receive averywhoro n hearty welcome, that he will be allowed to enjoy himself as ho wants to, and that ho will not be bored by autograph-hunters, bummors, charity committees, life-insurance agents, book-poddlers, or apple-women. Being a good fellow, he should be allowed to enjoy himself like a good follow, and not bo dragged through tunnels, trotted over stock-yards, or taken to tho ‘Bridowoll or Crib, or any other uncomfortable place at this season of tho yoar. Ho will probably leave us in a happy framo of mind, and say a good word for us when he gots home to his islands, if he is allowed to do as ho royally plenses, It would probably suit his royal pleasure to bo spared any more mu- uicipal speeches, any interviews on the Luu- isiana quostion, and any further pump-handle performances. Like any other avernge human being away from home, he would probably like to have a “good timo with the boys.” If the city authorities will thero- foro let him put his crown in his trunk and his scoptre in the hat-rack of the Paciflo, and give him the freedom of the city, he would have a royal good time, aud leave us with his Kingly benediction. THE TRUE STORY OF LOUISIANA. Tho report of the fifty-two Republican members present at the organization of the Louisiana House of Representatives seems to bea truthful, accurate, and intelligent state- ment of that exciting occasion, It amounts to an official statement, aud, like every suc- cossive piece of information that bas come to hand since Monday, Jan. 4, it confirms the illegal and revolutionary action of Mr, Wirz and his associates. It is now porfectly appa- rent that the Conservatives had organized a conspiracy to get possession of the Legisla- ture, and they carried it out in defiance of all lnw and Constitution, ‘Tho Louisiana Legielature consists of 110 members, Thore were 102 membors present at the organization, 52 of whom wero Repub- licans and 60 Domocrats, ‘The Republicans wero thereforo in the majority, and it was simply impossible for the Democrats to got control of the Houso according to law, They thereupon resorted, in conformance to a pre- concerted plan, ton coup d'etat, All tho Re- publican membors returned by the Returning Board were present except ono, Mr. Covar, who lind been kidnapped and carried away by forco in order that he should not be pres. ent, ‘Lhore wero also numerons attempts to bribe and intimidate other Republican mem- bers, but without success, Threo of tho Democratic mombers entitled to seats by aword of the Returning Board were absent. ‘Tho Democrats wore thus left in a minority of two, Cognizant of this fact, but de- tormined to possess themselves of the control at all hazards, thoy proceeded in tho following unlawful foshion; Tho Constitu- tion roquires that the Houso shall bo organ. ized by tho Clerk of the former House calling the roll furnished him by tho Returning Board, Before the calling of the roll had been finished, Mr. Brutev, 4 Democrat, auddenly moved and put his own motion that Mr. Wiurz be electod temporary Speaker, After calling the ayes, ciza voce, ho declared tho motion carried teithout even calling for the noca{ ‘Thea Mr, Wrz jumped to the Speaker's chair, seized tho gavel, and pro- ceeded in the same illegal manner to cloct a Olerk onda Sergeant-at-Arms. A resolution having been introduced that soveral assistant Sorgeant-at-Arms boappointed by the Spoaker, Mr. Wirz named 0 number, and theso gen- flemen immediately appeared and displayed their badges, ‘Thero was every indication of conspiracy on all sides, It was then moved that the five sents left vacant by tho Return- ing Board bo filled by five nnmes not on-the rolls, Here Republicane mado a point of order, calling for the ayes and noos, The Constitution of the State requires that tho ayes and noes shall bo callod whenever they are demanded by any to mombors of tho Legislature, but Mr. Witz poremptorily de- cided the point was not well taken (!), and the tive Democratte individuals wero illegally seated by 6 vita voce vote (of nyes, 60; nocs, 62), Thon, for tho first lime, the Democrats had @ majority; and My. Wirtz had know. ingly and oponly disregardod tho constitu. tional provision bocauso he know tho Demo. of State Sovereignty, make requisitions for | crata wore in the minority, had seized control of tho House by force, and would be voted dawn if tha ayes and noes wera culled. Conscions that they had been guilty of a Ruecession of unconstitutional and unlawfnl proceedings which would not be sustuined by the State Government, the Demoerata then passed q resolution authorizing Spenker Wrz to appeal ta Gen, Dr 'Trourtann to use the United States forees under hia com- mant to “preserve order.” Gen, Da ‘Tnonntanp hesitated about an interference, and it was only after Mr. Witz personally assured him that ke could uot otherwise Preserve order, and that his interference alono could provent blondshed, that he con- sented to take any action. It was subso- quent to this that the fifty-two Republicans of tho House applied to Gov, Krntoaa for interference and protection, which they did in the following terms : New Onrraxa, don. 4.—To His Exectleney Winttaat ¥, Kettoaa, Gorernor: Bin: ‘Tha undersigned, members-cloct of the Houro of Roprosontatives of the General Assembly of this State, arsembled at the hall of tho House in the Btate-Ifoune nt 12 tm, thls day, and answered to the call made hy tho Clerk immediately theroafter. ‘The Chatr waa forcibly taken possession of, tn violation of the laws, and an altompt was made to organize tho Ifouse contrary to law. Wo cannot ob- taln our legal rights unless members-elect ara placed 1p possersion of the lall, Whenever tao hall {a clear= edt of all persons, save tho gentlemen electod, wa will proceed to organize, We thoreforo {nvoke your ald in Wacing the hall in possession of the mombers-elect, that wo may attend to tho performance of our duties respectfully, (Here follow elgnatures of fifty-two, including the following) ¢ I havo consented to sign this document on the ground that the Conservative members of the House huye sot precedont by appointing a Special Comrmit- tea to wait on Gon, Dx TnonntanD, who immediately appeared at the bar of the Houne, escorted by sald Bpecial Committee, Novgrt F, Gmcwanv, Representative of St, Bernard, In yesponso to this demand from a degad majority of the House, Gov. Kentoaa di- rected Gen, Dr Tronntanp to eject the five persons who bad been illegally seated by a cita voce vote of tho minority, Thereupon the Democrats, headed by Mr. Wrurz, with- drow, and the Republican majority returned aud organized tho Honse according to the Jaw of tho Stato of Lonisiann, In view of this plain, official statemont, made by tho legal majority of the House of Representatives, we commend to the Demo. cratic “‘outrnge” meetings the following res. olutions for xdoption at their indignation meetings; Wirnneas, it jsnow apparent that tho Republicsng ‘wero in the majority {n tho Loutelaua House of Repro- sentatives when It couvencd } and Watenras, Our Democratic brethren erred in retze ing control of the Honro by a civa voce voto in which the negative was not called ; and Wuenvas, Our Democratle brethren further orred in violating the Oonstitution of the State by refuelig to call the ayes and noes on tho soating of five persue who were not members; and 2 Wurnear, The Democrats only obtained 3 major‘ty ‘by thus fllegally soating tive members; and Wurneas, The Democrats set the bad precedent of calling iu tho United Btatea troops to protect them in thoir fllegel netion ; and Wuenzas, The Republican majority, in the man“ee and form prescribed by the Constitution of the Unt: +2 Stato, applied to tho Governor of the State to be de fonded in their rights ; thereforo be tt Resoived, That, though we deprecate the interf -r, encé of tho military in State affairs, we cannot al.ift tho blame in this eaze from tho Democrata to the Tice publicans or upon the President; and further Resoleed, That wo commend to our Democritit brethron in tho Loulslana Logielaturo to return t their seats aud thereby restore the order which thoy firat disturbed ; and further Resolved, That wo unqualifiedly condemn every re sort to tho coup d'etat by which tho minority over throws the majority, in violation of every principle of republican government and overy {dea of the “rock. bound Democracy” of the times of Jerrensom cud Jacusox, If the Domoeratio party of the North werg sincore in their professed pnatriotisin, they would now, upon a full showing of tho facts, send some such greoting os this to thir Louisiana friends, nnd thus restore to that unhappy State a lawful and peaceful Govern. ment, Tho lettor sent by Secretary Barstow to the House in response to its resolution and iu respect to the Suaa Fonr claim, not only illustrates the enso with which o clair amounting to many thousands of dollars may be ongincered through the Departments and collected, but it suggests a duty which thy House owes to its own dignity, Wo have so many times alluded to the facts of this case that we necd not repeat them now, It igs sufficient that the claim of Suac Forr, amounting to $23,723.50, was proved a frand- ulent one, and, as such, was rejected by the House Committee. Notwithstanding this dis. position of the claim, Svca Fonz, through his fugleman, tho Hon. R, R. Burzen, M. 0., of Tonnessea, worried the claim through tho Departments, by importunity and bold lying, in less than twenty-four hours, and obtained tho money, The House Committeo rejected the claim in the first instance, as fraudulent aud bogus, Since the payment of thomoney, tho Solicitor of tho Treasury has examined the facts, and, finding the clain to be & fraudulent ono in every particular, has brought suit to recover. the moncy, aud instructed tho United States Attorney of tho District to bring the matter before tho Grand Jury, ‘his is commendable, so far as it goes, but it docs not go far enough. It only aims to reimburse the Treasury in monoy obtained from it by fraud, ‘Tho House of Representatives is in contempt, not for tho first timo, by tho action of onu of its members, This engineer of fraudulent claims has’ been in similar trouble before with reference to cadetahips, and saved 1im- Bolf from expulsion by rexignation, with his credontigls of re-election in his pocket. If the Houso has any respect for its own digi.ity and character, it will bundle him out neck aud heels, It cannotafford to harbor a bezus claim agent. By so doing, it recognizes o disreputable profession and a disreput:.blo practice,—one, in fact, worse than salory-g:ab- bing or bribo-takin, Tho resolution which Mr, Cox offered in the House on Monday, touching the Lou!-i- ann question, oxpressos the policy of tho Democratic party, ‘That resolution sa; ‘We, therefore, in the name of the peojlo of the United States, whose representatives wo are, demand the restoration of tranquillity, order, and civil discipline in sald State, /y the tmuiediate teithidrutwal of the military sors of the United States from said State, and thi condign punishment of those guilty of this reckless usurpation.” This position is also takon by Mr. Porren (Dem.), of the Con- gressional Investigating Committee, It is taken by all the Bourbon organs, which are now howling*against the President and the Republican party, In other words, they would secure peace in Louistana by with drawing the conservers of the peace, They would secure oqual rights by removing th? troops and turning ovor the State to tho White League, to carry out its bloody pr- gramme of violonce, terrorism, murder, ant revolution, Kill the bluck Republicans, aut drive out the white ones, that is the pre- gramme of tho Democracy, and the shortert. and surest road to this regult is to remove (ts troops, It is claimed that Ppallachian gold-belt, ruuniug uorthoast apd southwest through Vis: t i