Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1875, Page 4

4 SSS TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. DATER NY ATEACHIPTION (PATARLT, TX ADVANCE). | Peniane, tre ‘ ey Pantteckiy: Tarta of a gear at tho i ‘To pruront delay and mietakes, be sure and giro Post- ‘Odice addzess in fall, inelading State end Counts, Homlttances may be rade either by draft, erpross, Post- ‘Ofuce order, or fn registered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY BUECKINENG. Daily, delivered’, Kunday excepted, 25 canta pny week Daily, Celivered, Sonday incladed, 20 conte por wook Addrosn TL iN) Corner Maditon AOADEMY OF MUSIC faon and Monroe. *' Gr NOOLEY'R THEATRE—Randoiph street, botwoon Olark and LaSalle, ‘ Magnolia,” yarn atreet, corner Mor ‘The Flold of the Cloth ADELPHI THEATRE. roo. Variaty entortainmer of Goll. AUVICRKN'S TIE, Tearhorn and State, Ei ** Camillo,” Maditan street, botwaen ent of Mrs, D, 1. Bowers. eMIOAGo Mush bornand Stata, i ND OPERA-HUUSE—Clark | atrest, FE ea a Taunt sinttcels, Crlinson Beart,” ERTISEMENTS. onroe atrset, between Dear- ite bac AGE —Cit try Real Kstate, Wants, DF iy and Country eal fis! Pt at vex Chances, Bourding and AFM O04, tC. MHACL-Nellrosd ‘Thne Table, Modical Cards, TIL PAGI—Amusomenta, For Sale, Now Pub- el0., ota. The Chitayo Tribune. Monday Morning, February 1, 1875, Pixcumacr, the putative represontative in tho United Strtes Senate of the ‘* gigantio fraud" in Louisiana, is not getting on as happily with his claim as ho expected. Tho impression now is that ho willnot be admitted, though a eaucns has decreed that he shall be. ‘Tho rumor that President Grant has de- termined to velo the Little Tavift bill is sup- ported by a vest weight of opinion on Nows+ paper Row in Washinglon, but the antece- dont probability of its being truo is the only ground forit wo have been able to discover. ‘Xhe President is not nceustomed to take the world into his confidonco pending the official announcement of his conclusions, Wo print ihis morning copious extracts from tho erguments of Messrs, Evanra ‘and sxon for and agninst the admission of iuToN n8 a witneas in the ense st Mr. Bercnxn, he reputation of both advocates would lend groat inter- est to any studied arguments they might mnke, even if the issues in- volved were less widely published and dis- eussed as matters of news. ‘Tho fencing of ibese skilled lawyers will bo especially nd. tired by the profession, for whose particu- Jar boncfit we have brought this phaso of the case out in de Tom Scorr and his lobby are said to have picked up hopo tho-last few days, and now to be protty confident of consummating the Southern Pacific steal. ‘Cha people will know, of course, how to interpret the suc- cess of that piratical scheme, ‘Tho general supposition will be that somebody played poker with somebody, that somebody lost, aud that subsequently a number of Congress- men deposited $1,000 bank-notes with the Sergeant-at-Arms, Perhaps though that system has become antiquated, and another moro recondite, but similar in its operations, has boon adopted. Senator Ramsey has at last mado a virtue of necessity and ‘ thrown up the sponge” in the Senatorial contest by quitting tho ficld of action and loaving himself in tho hands of his friends with pormission to withdraw his namo whenever in their judginont the inter- esty of the party can be subserved thereby. ‘This of course is equivalent to hia retiremont from tho Senato at tle expiratiun of his orm. As there was no possibility that he could be elected, hehas done very wisely in recogniz- ing tho fact that the Republican party of Minnesota desire to place anew man in his time-worn seat. He will lave held the oflico twelve years when his time is out, and that, they seem to think, is long enough, and that it is time for s change and time to reliove his own friends from tho in- convonionce of any further allegiance to him. It ia a timo of new deals all round the board, so that Air, Rausex will not be lonesome in his leaving. He will have plenty of good company. Mr, Canpryrer should take the samo philosophical view of the situation, and no longor wasto his own timo and his friends’ energies in prolonging a hopoloss contest. Even at this distance from Madison, it is not didioult to seo that hia eyes ero got, and that ho must shortly join the caravan which pro- covds to tho realms of private life, E Judge Porann, of tho Arkansas Investignt- ing Commitieo, hog embodied hia conclusions iu a report, which will soon bo prosented to Congress. He holds that tho Ganuaxp Gov- ernment, whatever the means by which it camo into existonce, is sustained by u majori- ty of the people, and that thore are no grounds for tho interference of tho Nn- tional Government in tho State, Mr. Waup, anothor membor of tho Commit. tee, takes o diametrically opposite viow of the law and the facts, Ho finds that Gantanp was cleated by gross frauds, and rocommonds that Brooxs be pro- claimed tho Jawful Governor. Happily thero is no danger that anybody wilt wind what Mr, Wanp says, Tho President decidad the question ag Lotween Baxten aud Brooxs , When ho suppressed tho rebulllon of Iast fall ; the only issue is between Baxrer and Gan- Lany, and in the treatmont of that Judgo Po- Lanv is manifestly right. Tho ovidonce in the caso ling been so many times rehenrsed that it need not be reproduced, Suflloe it to eay that Gantaxp was clocted withont oppo- sition under (he now Constitution; and that all the precedents in this country agree in recognizing the volidity of a Constitution adopted by the people, however irregular may hove been tho munner in which it was ‘presented, ‘9 cash and fife for nd firm at 97@9T steady, closing at 52 March, Hye was quiet Darley was dull and easier, closing at st.2i for February and $1,.25@1-2t 1-4 for March. Hogs were active aud firm at Friday's ad- vanco, closing steady at B.25@7.25, Cattle wero in fair demand and mnchanged. fSalos HO@E.87 L Shoep wore stoady at 83,500.00, Mv. Bexsastty EF, Burven is slow to under. stand that the Republican party is done with him; that the clections of lust fall were a crushing condemnation of Butlerism; that uothing can damage the party so much as the association of his name with it, or his appenr- ance in the espacity of its counselor nnd pro- tector, It is charitable to presume that Mr. Burren is ignorant of these facts, and to attribute his mistaken zeal in be. half of tho party {o ignorance rather than to malico. Ifo onght to know better. Some of his friends should inform him, and save him from doing further mis- chief; or, if they will not, some of the friends of the party, who love it bettor than they love Buticx, should undertake the task, We as Republicans might then be saved the humiliation of having Burixr appear ay ono of our lenders ; and he, for his part, would he spared tho pains of advising such 9 man as Speaker Buaine to violate the Constitu- tion and tho rules of the House for paltry party ends. Tho stntement in our Washington dispatches this morning that Burner has publicly charged the Speaker with being reereant to the party on recount of his rulings during tho past few days will awaken indignation wherever it is rend, Mr. Burren has no right to pass judgment on tho fidelity of any Republican to the party, Tho last election in the Essex District showed that Berzer’s notion of fidelity was uot that of the people; ho doesn’t know what fidelity to the party is. There iy moro tlinn one reason for being especially on tho alerb Monday mornings, 5 sody knows, of course, that the goud- wilo is not nminblo then, having duties of an awfully solemn kind to dischargo; but there is still another thing, quite as necessary and useful ns the good-wife, to beware of on Monday mornings, and that is tho daily newspaper, ho Monday morning's paper is nas linble ag not to have a good- sized hoax stowed owny in some part of its fair dimensions. For Monday is a dull day, and newspapers must live,—though tho slern old moralist of the last century night not seo the necessity, if he were above ground,—and in order to the cxistence of a certain class of newspapors sensations aro necessary. Now, sonsations ave apt to be a great part fiction, Tho Sunday papers of limited circulation havo half-a-lozen of them every week; ond Sunday night some one or other of them is telegraphed overtho country to the Associated Press, which would not be so favorod—or abused-~if anything of con- sequence were going. Hence the danger of Monday morning's paper. ‘To illustrate; ‘wo weeks ogo this morning the sun-hoax was published, It came from the New York World. This morning, on the authority of the Courier-Journal, it is announced that the imysteriots book for which the British Government has offered £1,000 has been discovered in Louisville. This may be so, but the chances aro very much against it, An editorial ar- ticle in yestorday’s Trmune gave all tho in- formation about the book that auy ono then possessed ; and it is only necessary to add now that the Courier-Journal eays it contains authentic copies of documents proving the marriage of Groroz IV, with Mrs. Firaznen- Bent, Tho story is o good one not to beliova for tho presont. It savors strongly of a Sun- day sensation. —_—— Dr, Ryven's sermon in reply to Mr. Conz- yen's apology for Sunday-musio in Turnor Holl is published in fall in this morning's is- suc, It is ecrtain to bo road widely, and may be the menus of stirring up a coutroversy among the ovangolical and heterodox divines of Chicago such os wo havo not had for a long time aud would very much like to have, Perhops tho most interesting part of Dr. Itypen’s roply is that which combats Mr. Cornuxen's position in regard to the character and influence of music, Mr, Cort. xen had said that musio was tho only unfallen angel in the world; that thoro was no such thing 8 profane musio; that “tho trail of the serpent” was over prayor, pootry, philosophy, faith, hopo, and ‘charity, but not over music; and that musio must be Dlendod with some ovil cloment before it can ‘bo made an evil or ovenadoubtful thing, Dr. Ryoen'’s answor as to the first propositions jentioncd is a sort of general negamur ; Ibnt as to the last, which indeed comprehends ull tho rest, ho is very explicit, Ifo in effect admits, for the sake of argument, that music ig puro noless it is mixed with ovil, but ho’ says music ig mized with ovil when it is mixed with beer and tobncco. smoke in Turner Hall on a Sunday afternoon, And ho rather implies, though ho docs not say, that Mr, Connyrn talks uonsenso when he argues solemnly that because music is good unless it is mixed with evil, and be- eause good music is always a means of grace, therefore tha musio in ‘furner Hall is good niusic, and thoreforo 'Turncr Hall is a moons of grace, ‘There isa good dent, howevor, to bo said for Mr, Couryen and hia side of the caso; and, as Mr. Corzyen in quite compotent to say it gracefully and woll, wo neod not expect to hear the end of the discus. sion for weeks to com Wo print clsewhore the text of the famous confidential letter from Prince Bisaanck to Count Vow Anni upon tho clectlon of tho next Popo, the disclosure of which by Vox Annixt wax one of tha principal causes that Jed to his arrest and subsequent punishment. In this letter Bissranox assumes tho fret that sooner or lator the old Popo will dio and a new Pope must be elected, and that Germany hay an interest in this eloction, as sho has a largo number of Catholle subjects, and as the Vatican Conneil by ita recent decrocs as to Papal infallibility and jurisdiction has completely changed tho relations of the Pope Tho Chicago produco markets wore irregu- leron Saturday, Mess pork was less active, and 5@1ho per barre} higner, closing at $15.40 cagh, and $18,70@18,72 1-2 for March, Lard was quiet and a hade caslcr, closing firm at ,813.35@10,07 1-2 per 100 tbs cash, and $13.57 1-2 for March, Meats wero in good demand and stoady at 6 8-S@6 1-26 for shoul. ders, ) 4-80 for short ribs, and 9 7-8@10a for short clears, Dressed hogs were moderately active and 150 per 100 Ibs higher, closing at §7,90@7,.85, Highwines were quiet and steady at 03 1-20 per gallon, Flour was quiet and unchanged, Wheat was more active and 1-8@1-40 lowet, closing at 88 1-4@88 8-80 Gash, and 80 1-30 for March, Corm was dull and 1-8@1-40 lower, closing firm at 04 3-40 to his Bishops, and priests, and tothe peoplo. He therefore contends that the Governmonts of Lurope should ascertain whether tho elec. tion and the person elected would aiford any guarantees that these prerogatives would not bo abused, and Lave a mutual understanding with eaoh other, so as to proveut any serious complications growing out of euch an clec- tion, ‘The particular roquest conveyed in e * THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1875. cash and 72e for May. Oats wero quict aud [have become matters of historical recard, still the letter will bo found interesting rend- ing. as ontlining the p y of Germany with regard to the Papal sitecession arenes est ‘The action of the House of Representa- tives of Minnesota in calling upon the Hon, Wituias 8, Kiya to appear immedistely be- fore the Investigating Committee at Wash- ington and vindicate himself in relation to the disgracefnl charges ngninst him, or, fail- ing therein, to hand in his resignation, is ex- actly lo the point. Afr, Kiyo is under a very large and n very gloomy-looking clond just now, and his presont dodging and skulking about the country has at least the semblance of guilt. Mr, Kina ean hardly bo nnaware that an investigation Into {ho scandal of Pacific Mail is pending, and that direct testi. mony charges him with having received a ree marknbly well-buttered slico of the corrup- tion fund, and that itis very important, not only to himself but to his constituency, that ho should put in an appearnnceat Washington and wash his honds. During the investigation in tho Inst session, and pending his election, he stoutly asserted he had never had anything to do with Pacific Mail, and upon the strength of his assertion he was elected. Now that Mr. Inwiy has made an oqually plump state- ment affecting Mr. Krxo's honesty, it is in- eumbent upon him to risa and explain and vindicate hig asxortion, or pass in his resigna- tion and allow somo less susceptible legisintor tooceupy hisseat. As it is uot altegother impossible that (ue noxt Congress may em- phasize this request of the Legislature of his State, Mr. Kina ought not to let the grass grow under his feet, but hasten to Washing. ington and set his house in order, His pres- ent course ia suggestive of guiit, and war- rants tho action of the Minnesota Legislature, Ife hea but one alteruntivo—own up or throw up. THE ‘* ACEPHALOUS SYSTEM,” . The Chiengo Fines lias revently discovered that the President of the United States, un- der our Constitution, ia nota President but a“ King.” IIo isa King, it seems, beeauso ho is elected for a fixed term of years, though wo learn for the first timo that this isn King- ly characteristic; and ho is alvo a“ King” because his administration is inflexible during the term of years for which ho is elected. Beenuse the President is a “King,” the Zimes’ governmental scientist opposes tho proposi- tion to so amend the Coustitution as to elect a President for six years and make hin: jneli- gible for a second term. This, ho says, would only prolong aud strengthon tho royal prerogativg, In lieu thereof tho politi- cal eavant of tho Times proposes to abolish tho President altogether and thus get rid of the King; then to distort the Eu. ropean’ system of responsible Ministry by substituting a Cabinet without a head, which shall change with the various modifications of tho popular vote, It leaves altogether undetermined who shall cxercisa the Execu- tive power, call the new Cabinet into exiat- ence, and appoint the various agents for the administration of Government functions, In other words, tho sage of the Ztmes has con- ceived an acephalous system of government, which is a body without a head. Of all tho political vagaries of modern journalistic on- terprise, we commond this “acophalous sys- tem” as the most unique and reniarkable specimen of its class, The Limes has made very bungling work of a very serious proposition, and hns so re- versed and complicated the real condition of things that it is worth while to bring soma order out of the chaos it has created in soven days. Of oll tho systoms of government, ancient and modern, civilized and srvage, despolic and liberal, wa have nover heard of any that existed for any length of timo with- out ahead, This hend may be general} do- nominated ns an Executive or Chief Magis. trate. In Russia, the Chicf Magistrate is called a Czar; in Germany, an Emporor; in Italy, o King; in England, a Queon; in France, x Marshal-President; and in tho United States, a President. Tho “aceph- alons system,” howover, is without prece- dent. We must start out with tho admission that every Government, like every family, avery corporation, every business, and every organization for common bonciit, must hevo ahead. ‘Tho trouble with the Zimes reformer is that he would cut off the head altogether and leave the body and legsdangling in a con- fused and unshapely mass, ‘Chis is absurd; lt there ia something serious Debind this jumble of nonsenso, ‘here aro two prevailing forms of goyern- ment in the civilized world at the presont timo, both with heads, but with very ditfer- ent organizations, Ono is the British andtho other the American system; the one a consti-"| tutional monarchy, the other a constitutional republic, oth aro governments for tho people, but differ radically in plan. In tho ono there is a King or Em. poror, ponsessed of a permanent ten- uro of office, handing it down by heredi- tary succession, and belonging to no party or faction, His power is restrained by con- stitutional provisions and by a Parlianont elected by tho people, In tho other, the Chief Magistrate is a President elected by the people for a limited fixed term of yonrs, Alis power is ulso restrained by constitutional provisions and by the limitation of his term of office. The organto ditferonee between tho two is that, in tho constitutional monarchy, the Cabinet attached to the person of tho Chief Magistrato aud sdininistering tho vari- ous functions of Governmont, is dircetly ro- sponsible to Parliament, and is changed ac- cording to the policy of the people as dovel- oped by tha representatives whom thoy elect; in the constitutional ropublic, the Cabinet is the personal creation of the Chief Magiutrate, with the assont of the Senato, aud its odminiatrotive functions aro only checked by the limit of tho Chief Magistrate's term of office. Wo apprehend that the Chi- engo Timea is trying to graft the “responsi. blo Ministry” system upon tho American theory, but it has proceeded in an unroflect- ive and impracticable fashion, ‘Tho vaino of aresponsible Ministry depends largely upon the pormanent, stable, and unpartisan char. acter of tho Chief Magistracy—tho Kingly at- tributo; without it, or something akin to it, a changenble ‘Ministry would drift the country into anarchy, Tho Chief Magistrate of tho American system is the very opposite of the Kingly at. tribute; ho, liko the American Parliament, iagtemporary cronturo of the people, and was originally intendod to be o check upon the legislative branch, through his veto power, astho legislative branch is in other respects achock upon him, If the flexible the lettor ia that Count Von Annis, os tho reproaentative of Gormany, shall ascertain from the Xtelian Government whother it would feol disposed to oxchange views with the German Government upon this question, and especial caution {8 imposed upon tho Count to treat the lotter und ity contents with discrotioa, Althongh the couxequences of nos trouting tho lotter with discretion system of o responsible Ministry has oniticient advantages to suggest its substitution for tho intloxible system of 9 personal Cabinet during tho Chict Blagtutrate's term of office, thon it can only be made with safety by lengthoning tho Chiof Magistrate's term of oftico, which will make him 5 more stable and less an oad, and also making him jnoligiblo to oro. election, which will be tho frst great step mae thon foward a civil-service system whereby tho Cabinet might chango without revolutionizing all the subordinate branches of the Govern- niont, Itis certain that the “responsible Minis. try” system haa been a great Lessing to tho people of Europe wherever it has beon adopt- ed. It simply means that the Cabinot repro- sonts the policy of the majority sentiment of tho popular branch of Parliamont, When- ever the Commons, or papular branch of the Parliament, votes n want of confidence in the Cabinet, to which the defeat of any of its projects ia equivalent, tho Ministry rotires, and tho Chief Magistrate—King, Queen, Em- peror, or Presidont, as the case may be— forms a new Ministry out of the personnel or chiefs of tho majority party, ‘Tho system origiunted in Great Britain, and has since been adopted by Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Holland, Beiginm, Scandinavia; in fact, by all the European Governments oxeept Russia and ‘Lurkey, which still remain ontsidy tho palo of' constitu- tional and responsible monarchy, Under this system the Ministers are generally membors of tho lower or popular branch of theNation- al Legislature, and always have tho privilege, whether members or not, of introducing their Lills personally, explaining them nnd setting forth their merits on the floor of the Iouse, Dut, under this system also, the Chicf Execu- tive is always the head of the party in power, Personally ho is no partisan. InGrent Britain the Queen is either Liberal or Conservative for the time being; in Germany the Emperor is oither Conservative or Progressive; in France the President is cither Legitimist or Radical, according to the majority voico of the Commons, ‘Lhe defeat of tho ruling party places him at the head of the opposi- tion, and he calls obout him a Ministry in foll sympathy with the present political status of the people upon any pending issuc. Tho great advantage of the system may be briefly stated to be in tho flex- iblo adaptation of the Exeentive to the repre- sentative oxpression of the popular will, and in the harmony it assures between the admin- istrative and legislative branches of the Gov- ernment, ‘Tho system of a responsible Ministry would have tho samo advantages in this country that ithns in Enropo, if properly applied, But in ordor to assure these advantages, and strip it of the dangers it would it would involve under our system of party patronage, it would be necessary (1) that the President should ccnse to be tho recognized head of one party throughout his wholo termi of office, to the exclusion of the other, notwithstand- ing t may bo the majority ; and (2) that wo should havo a thorough, well-established, and progressive systom of civil service. A constitutional amendment, providing that tho Presidontial term be six or eight years, and that the President be ineligible for a sec. ond term, would substantially realize the re- quirements of o responsible, flexible Admin- istration, which at oll times would be in har- mony and agreement with tho popular will, as exhibited in the House of Ropresontatives in Congress, The length of his torm would givo the Executive an element of stability to guard against tho anarchical tendency of fre- quent changes in the administrative Cabinet, and his ineligibility for re-clection would be an inducement to cut loose from tho trammels of fuction and be tho President of the whole people, ‘Tho esteblishment by Jaw of m permanent civil sorvico, outside of party changes, would render frequont changes in the Cabinet feasible without endangering the practical workings of all Government machinery. Under tho present party system, a frequent change of Ministry and Executive powor would speedily make the Government sor- vieo a political Bedlam, in which one set of office-holders would so rapidly succecd on- other that tho machinery would be altogether neglected and ruined. There is only ono combination which could be worso, and that is tho ‘headless system " ovolved out of tho political unconsciousness of the Chicago Times, THE NETHOD OF RESUMPTION, Within tlvv Gays after the lato Financo bill became law, the Comptroller of the Currency received applications for the organization of eighteen new banks, ‘Cho aggregate capital of tho cightcen is $2,650,000, Withing the samo time, five old banks applied for an in- crease of $710,000 in their capital stock, ‘This increaso of stock, old and new, to the amount of $3,360,000 involved an increase of $8,024,000 in the National Bavk circulation, 1¢ thurefore becomes the duty of the Secrata. ry of the Treasury, under the now law, to withdraw 80 per cont of this amount ($2,410,000) from the greonbacks in circula- tion. At tho present moment he is bound to withdraw more than this, because more applications from now banks have roachod him. ‘fo be sure, afew old banks have mean- whilo rotired part of their circulation, but 80 per cent contraction of groonbacks is reckoned, uot on the difference between tho amount of National Bank ourrency issued and the amount retired, but simply on tho amount issued. ‘Tho law is plain on this point, It says: ‘Whenover and wo ofton a8 clroulating notes shall be inowed to any wuch banking sssuclation, #0 increasing ita capital or cireuisting notes, or ao nowly organized ag aforesaid, itaball bo the duty of tho Secretary of tho Treasury to rodeara tho legul-tender United States notes iu excoss only of $30),000,000 to the amount of 60 por centum of tho sum of National Bank notes ao faauod to any such wswocistion aa aforcsuld, Tho question therefore recurs,—How can Becrotary Bnistow redcem now the $1,600,- 000 of greunbacks which he ta by law bound to withdraw ? Tho law iteolf points out two ways for hiin to gut the necessary funds, Ho is quthorized to uso “ any surplus rovenuos + «+ Rot otherwise appropriated.” Thora aro uo such royenuos now and no prospect of their apocdy —exiatenco, ‘fhis resource, therefore, exists only on paper, Tho Secretary of the Treas. ury is authorized, secondly, to soll any of the bonds now in his hands, provided ho geta parin gold for thom, ‘The law directs him to withdraw greenbacks from viroulation pari passa with tho enissions of bank notes, Ho has no monoy with which to do so, and muat thorefore disobey the law unless ho can xell bonds at par for gold, ‘The Vinance act must not bo suffered to become a doad-lotter in this way, Unleas somo change is made, it may result in un- limited expaneion of the National Bank our- rency ond no corresponding contraction of the greonbacks, ‘Vhe remedy for this is simple enough: It is to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to fund greonbacks in 4 per cont bonds at not leas than par, Let him announce, from time to timo, that he will dispose of one, or two, or threo millions of bonds, accord. ig to the amount of national currency is. sued, to the highest bidder, and that no bid below par will be received, ‘Tho regult of this would be that the law could be atriotly varriedout. The Secretary would exchange | 4percont bonda for greenbacks iuatenl of selling bonds for gold, and then selling the gold for yreenbacks, and losing money on Doth operations, ‘The + per conta would un. doubtedly bring par in groenbacks, so tint redemption could keop pace with expansion from the start, Moveoyer, this would be tho eheapest. thing tody. Ifas per cont hond is suld at par in gold, it brings, say, 8112 in groen- backs, Now wocan better afford to pay st (gold) interest on 3100 in greenbacks than we can $5 (gold) on $112 in greenbacks, We urge this necessary amendment upon the attention of Congress and tho conntry. Congress is bound to rescna tho Secretary from the plight into which its action and lack of action may put him. It orders him to buy up somo millions of greenbacks and thon de- nies him the wherewithal to dogo. If Sena. tor Strenstan's Dill is to do tha good claimed for it, it should bo amended in some such way as wo havo suggested. ‘Chen the greenbacks can bo funded gradually wntil they aro at par, at this point the banks will manngo restunp- tion, All tho nation hns {o do is to got its dishonored paper out of the market. The 4 per cont bonds thus oxchanged for greenbacks will remain in tho hands of the people, and can be used ns currency in the purchase of property and payment of debts, ns any one having property to sell would gladly reccive them, and creditors would pre- fer them to currency in liquidation of any claim. ‘Lhe Minois Farmers’ Convention asked that grecubacks be interconvertible into 3,65 per cout currency bonds, but tho right of conversion into 4 per cent gold bonds would bo far better, as it would maintain the value of the grecnbacks ond stop the ever- lasting fluctuations to which they are now and must always be subject so loug as they are irrodeomable or inconvortiblo. THE DEAD-LOCK AT WASHINQTON, The House of Kepreseutatives at Washing- ton is composed of about 197 Republican and 95 Democratic members. Thero is a clear two- third majority in favor of tho Republicaus, yet last week thero was the singular spcctaclo of a minority, less than one-third of tho whole House, nbsolutely controlling legisla- tion and suspending business. In a free country, where the majority rule provails, this procecding is snomnalous. Tho process is is in making alternately the threo motions, 1, to adjourn ; 2, to enil tho Honse ; 9, to lay on the table, Onench of theso motions tho yeas and nays are called, each call oceu- pying two-thirds of an hour, As fast ag ono of these motions is voted down an- other is made, and thus for over fifty hours’ continued session the minority was able to defeat any action of the majority, At last, on Friday morning at 10 o'clock, the majority yielded, and the Houso adjourned until Setw- day at noon. On Saturday tho first business was tho reading of the journal of the pre- vious session; on this journal are recorded tho lists of yeas and nays, tho lists in thie in- stauce numbering seventy-five, The minor- ity insisted that tho journal be read in full, lists and oll; after spending several hours hearing this record read, tho House adjourn- ed. This morning tho .business will bo resumed just where it begun sev- eral days ago. We are by no means opposed to depriving minorities of clear- ly and well-dofined rights. Wo shonld protest ng strongly os any one against giving amajority obsolute authority; but there is no more certain principle of justice than that the majority should have control of the busi- ness of the House, Of what avail is it that a party elect a body of roprosontatives, with a large numorical inajority, if tho minority can, at their plonsure, dony tho majority the right torule tho House, and thus defeat the popu- Jar will, Any system of rules under which this proceeding can take place is of necessity wrong. It isatransfer of the authority of the Honse from the majority to a faction. It is proposed to-day to give notice and to. morrow to introduce a rule which shall put an end to this anomaly. Itis not proposed to secure to the majority the right to govern by extinguishing the right of a minority to bo henrd and to record their votes. It is arule that will ropeal the operation of tho dilatory. motion procoss,—n process unknown to the parliamentary !aw of any other nation. It is understood that the Speaker will recognize a motion to amend the rules as one of privilege and as ono which a majority of the House can adopt; and, if this rule bo adopted, thon tho powor of the minority to obstruct tho trans- action of business will be romoved. Both parties are interestedin this business. ‘Tho next Houso will bo largoly Demoorstio, and, unless tho rules bo amonded, the Repub- lican minority may then do what tho Demo- erata havo been doing the past week. On tho other hand, the Republicans, who aro now the majority, will be the minority at the noxt session, and they caunot afford to sur- render in advanco any of the rights that por- tain to 4 minority, Under these circum. stonces, wo think that both partios ean afford to bo honest, and make such a rale os will or ought to bo acceptable to both majority and minority in this House and in the next, MORE WORK FOR THE GRAND JURY, Ono of the most encouraging signs of tho times is tho disruption of tho unnatural political alliauco botween the Germans aud tho Irish in connection with tho administra. tion of county affairs, caused by the removal of Mr, Peter Hann, the Gorman Jailer, by Sherlif Aonezw, So frras tho personal ro- lations of Mr, Hesrno ond tho Shoriff or tho disposition of Mr, Hawn are concerned, tho public cares not o whit, except as they in- dicato the broaking up of a corrnpt and mis. ehiovous combination of foreign Know- Nothingism, which has worked inealoulablo injury to the city already. But the quarrel between the lenders of the foroign factions has developed somo facts relative to the ad- ministration of the County Jail, which, if truo, intimately concern the publio welfare, Mr. T{rsrxa has published in his papor, the Staats. Zeitung, ond stated ininterviows substantially ag follows: 1, ‘That Sheriff Aoxxw has sur- rounded himsclf with his relatives and other porsons whom he can use as tools in carrying out his unlawful and corrupt purposes. 3. ‘That Jastes Molfane, a relative of tho Sher. iff, and the Shorifi's brother, bavo been in a stato of almost constant intoxication since their appointment, 8. That theso two and othor porsons not named have made the ante. chambor of the Jail tho scone of frequentand filthy excosses, 4, That MoHarz and young Aanew have furnished the prisoners with in- toxicating liquors, to which the Shoriff gave his consent (?), and that the profits went into the pockets of the inforlor offloers, 5, ‘That tho hospital-room, where the county supplies are kept, has boon ropeatedly broken into of night and sifled by employes of the Sherif, 6, That the Sboriff himaclt ig often drunk or under the influ. ones of Uquor, 7, That Mr. Hawn was discharged in part booause he bad refused his ald fox the dafent of justice through the buy. ing up of witnesses by prisonera, and would | ony not grant tho samo liberties {o prisonors sen. tencod to a term in tho Penitentiary as to prisoners who had not boon tried ar wore charged with minor offenses, Now, ono of two things is cortnin, either Mr, Hesine has libeled tho Sheriff ino ter. riblo manner or the Sheriff is conducting the Jnil in a terrible manuer, Mr. Hxstva makes his chargos plumply and without reserva. tion, both in his paper and verbally, ond, whilo we are not prepared to accept them without farther testimony or corroboration, atill they come from a responsible source, and ns such the Grand Jury should tako official notive of the charges and make a rigid and searching inves. tigation of them. Tho Jnil contains between. 250 and 300 inmates, belonging to the vicious classes of the community, from whom tho public expects to be protected. Thero isa Jorge and lucrative patronage connected with tho office of Sheriff, ns he hins tho appoint. mont of nixty employes, It is ono of tho largest and most important, and in inany ro- spects one of tho most expensive, depart- ments of the County Government, ‘Thexo charges are, therefore, very serious, aud de- mand immediate investigation, In addition to these, it is notorious that the opportuni- ties of eseapo from tho Jail aro numerous, and six prisoners have already improved thom, McHazx, one of tho employes, is un- der indictment for inhumou cruelty to pris- oners, and the Shorif las not only not called for his -resiguation, but is attempting to smooth over and apologizo for his offonse. All these matters imperatively eall upon tho Grand Jury for immedinte ine vestigation, Thoy havo nothing before them this week 3 important os thoso charges against the Sheriff and, his administration of his high oflice, If they aro not true, tho Sheriff should bo relieved from tho terrible odium of them, and Mr, Uxstxe should bo rebuked. If they are truc, thon these abuses should bo stopped at once by tho action of the Grand Jury, and the Sherif! should bo mado to feel the weight of tho law as well ag the public condemnation, truo or not true, it is a matter for public con- gratulation that so largo a wedge has been driven into this unnatural and merconary al- lianco between Ivish and Germans against the native-born cilizens, ‘There will be hopo for Chicago if tho rupture proves complato, and mon seek their political affinities on ques- tions of principle aud not of birthplace. THE SUPREME COURT, Judge Brapwenn has introduced o Dill in the Logislature providing for the consolidn-' tion of tho Supreme Court, which it is pro. posed shall hereafter hold four terms annu- ally, and all of them at the State Capital. We print a copy of tho bill, which is tho bill prepared by the Chicago Bar Association, ‘The objections heretofore urged against such alaw lave lost their plausibility, and the great necessity of providing for the public interests now outweighs the probable loss of business of a few tavern-keepors at the places where tho Court now holds its sessions. ' ‘This measure has becomo essential to tho convenience and dispatch of the vast and in- creasing business of the Court. Tho Court ia now a peripatetic body, which keops tho Judges traveling, at their own expense, from their various residences to Springfield, thence to Ottawa, and thence to Mount Vernon, and back over the same route again, There is no reason whateyor for having the Court hold sessions st more than one point. In other States the Supremo Court sits at the Capital, Except in revenue cases, its business is alto- gether appollate. Why an appellate court should be compelled to hold its sessions in various parts of the State has never been sat. isfactorily explained. But this bill does not mect all the diffcul- tics which now beset the Supreme Court. It is the practice to appeal pretty much every- thing to the Supreme Court. When a man wants time to pay a note, ho exhausts the de- lays of tho lower courts and then appeals to the Supreme Court, such appeal giving him, now, anaverage of ono ycar bofore a judg- mont con be had against him, Evory ease of neighborhood controversy, such as the iden- tity of a calf, or the diiferenco of a few pounds in the weight of a load of corn, and all cases of alleged trespass, which ought nover to be taken into any court than that of ao Justice of the Peace, all find their way to the Supreme Court for final adjudication, ‘This is one of the abuses of the judicial system, and calls for immediato romedy. In a lotter by Judge McAnuisren, written last summer, referring to this branch of the matter, he cites tho practice of the railroad companies in ap- pealing to tho Supreme Court every case whero judgment was obtained against them for live-stock killed by tho trains, ‘These ap- peals ara taken to gain time, and to worry plaintiffs into compromises, and Miterally make the Suprome Court a substitute for the fonces the law requires them to maintain, Sonator Casey hasa bill before the Logisla- ture providing a remedy for this, He pro- poses to establish an intermodinte appellate court. But to soaure dispatch in business there ought to be several of thexe courts. Tho Constitution makes provision for just such a necessity as now exists. It provides: Aftor the year of our Lord 1974 inferior appeltate courts, of uniform organizotion and jurisdiction, may bo created in districts formod for that purpose, to which much appeals and writs of error as tho General Asiembly inay provide may bo prosecuted from Cir= cultand other courts, ond from which appeals and welts of orror shall Uo to the Supreme Court tn -all criminal cases and caves in which * fronchiso, or froo hold, or the validity of @ statute {# involved, and in such other casew ua may bo provided by law. Aplan suggosted by acveral of tho mont experienced lawyors of the State, nud who aro fomiliar with tho business of tho Supreme Conrt, is to constitute from four to five “ in. forior appellate courts” in districta includ. ing a convenient uumbor of tho prosent cir- outts, These courts could be composed of the Judges of tho sevoral circuits within tho district, All appoals and writs of error from Cirouit Courts could be taken to these appel- Into courta ; and appeals and writs of error from these courts could bo taken to the Bu- promo Court in all criminal cases, and in cases in which a franchise, or frechold, or the validity of o statute iainvolved. ‘The Logis. lature hes tho power to make the judgmont of these district appellate courts final, excopt in the classes of cases named, It is therefore within the power of the Logislature to reliove the Supromoe Court of a masa of business which is taken there for no other purpose than delay, and, withont de. priving litigants of the right of appeal in any case, to secure the judgment of the Su- prome Court in all casas proper to be heard by suth a tribunal, As it iz, the Supreme Court has not only to determine the law, but to try the facts ina vast number of casos which involve no new legal principle, and which ought to be determined finally by the lower court, ‘Wo suggest to the Logislature that this or some other plan, carrying out the constitu. tional provision for inferior appellate courts, Whether they aro | ight to bo put into the form of a law, Such amensuve is appropriate in any legislation having for its purposo thy relief of the bu. prem Court, ns JOHN BRIGHT ON THE ENGLISH cRURCH ' Inst Monday ovening, Mx, dons Macy | ninde a noteworthy specelt to 15,000 of hig constituents at Birmingiiam, England, The + part of hiv addres which will attract most tontion ix that in whiel ho treats of the com. ing separation of Church nnd State in Lot England and Scotland. In tho Ovtobor nuiuberof Lhe London Fort. nightly Review, My, Vuwany Cnawinsary ono of tho lenders of English Radicalism, pu, lished an articlo on “The Future Programm of the Liberal Party,” in which ho declared, very frankly, that tho Liborals cout get liah ical support only by announcing their rend, ness to disestabliah the Church of England, An attempt was mado ta treat this article 4 tho vaporing of on outhusinst, but tho drift of publio discussion siveo they shown that the Church is in real danger of ff being divorced from tho State, ‘he party I that disestablished the Trish Church can ranks keant claim to conscientious scruples abou treating the Churches of Scotland and Englang in tho samo way, ‘Lhe argumonts used in thy Irish case apply throughout the British Tsleg, Mx, Brrany said that he dit not caro ty enter upon an agitation for immiecdinto diss. tablishinont, but the reform was needed ang must come. ‘Tho schism in the Seottis, Church would bo healed if the Stato withdroy: its especial protection from one of tho fae. tions, ‘Tho Chureh of England, he said, iy now a proy to contentious prelates aon} priests, ‘hero is dissension overywhers within it, What have Conrxso and Stay. izy in common with the Ritualists? Thy Chureh is a “training-school for Lore," It is, ho declared, tho only Drolestart denomination which supplies numerous con. yerts to Catholicism, Its revennes are exce. sive, It wastes money frightfully, It denis congregations the right to choose, or help choose, their ministers, In too many cas, the church-livinge nro sold to tho highest bid. der, “That will bo a great diy for freeda, Protestantism, and Christianity,” said Mr, Baront, “which will veo thu full, freo dises. tablishment of tho Church,” Tho great importance attached to this speech in England is shown by tho fact tlat along summary of it was sent by cable. ly this timo, the London reviews aro doubtless discussing it vigorously. Ithas added weight from the fact that Joun Bniawr will doubt. Jess be a member of tha Cabinet whenoye tho Liberals overthrow Disnaztt, It would be rash and foolish to say that an Established Church hos always been an evi In rude times, the prime necessity is a stable © government, Sucha government combjacs ‘* the sanotions of Inw and religion. , Th ‘+ union of Church and State thus becomes a necessity. Onco made, it lasts long beyonl | tho original necessity of its existence, Eves + then, however, tho Establishment is not mm -¢ unmixed evil. It accumulates a stock of { woalth which can be used, after its fall, for ° national education. Theschools of Gorni Italy, France, and Moxico, havo ell been partly endowed with property taken from ! the Ohurch at the time when the State pa tly or wholly assorted its divoree from the : Church, Tho Church has thus been the pov erful, though unwilling, forerunner of thi school, It is doubtful whethor any ono of the countries named could have done Iwlf what they have to encourage education had they not had this vast fund roady for their uso. Its cxistence hos enabled them to greatly increase tha public schools without incrensing taxation. England can bettor afford to educate her poor after sho disostablishes the Churelrand np. 3 propristes the State revenues, which thé Church now absorbs, to this grent end. The Establishment has done its work by strength. ening the State and by accumulating tho means for national education, Now let it i pass away. This is one of the arguments used by the Liberals in behalf of disesiub- lishment. 5 But the contest will be long and bitter, Tho Establishod Church numbers very nerrly f half the population of England, and, untila § considerable body of Churchmon demands & separation of State from Church, it will notbe F dono by ony combination of tho dissonting « bodies, = Four scats in tho United States States Son- ate, for the term that begins March 4, romain to bo determined by the Logislatures of Wis- consin, Minnesota, West Virginia, and Flor. ido, Tho publio is already well informed of ome ‘the contests and causes of dolay in Wisconsia and Minnesota, In West Virginia tho rel fight is for a removal of the Stato Capitd from Charleston, on tho Kanawha, to Whee: ing, and the Senatorship is part of tho stect in trade, Tho Logisleturo is almost ontirdy Democratic. The partisans of Whoeling 10 disposed to elect a Charleston man (lenny S.gWaunen, of Charleston) Unitod Statcy Senator, but they await o proper delivory of votes on the State-House question. Mr Waxten’s support (from 25 to 30) rep. sents his own strength without the aid of Wheeling, ‘Tho bill for the removal of tho * Capital is on its passngo, and when pasil Mr. Warner will be elected. In Florida, tho Legislature is closoly conatituted—37 Demo erate, U6 Republicans, and 4 Independent, on joint ballot. ‘ho Democrats have tho or ganization in both branches, by aid of tho In- dependents; but in tho ballots for United States Senator the vote, as reported, is ap- parently dividod without much rogard for party lines, and ina manner almost to deff explanation at this distance, ‘Tha Jacksou villo New South (Ropublican), of latest date, insists that it isthe hopo of Gov, Sreanns (Republican) to bo elected Sonator, by # combination of Republican and Dom® ,, eratio votes, the office of Governor there by devolving on the Democrats in tha, person of the President of tho Senate; but the Tallahnasoe Floridian (Democratic), algo of latest date, scouts the idea, and it i,‘ duo to Gov. Steanne to rocall his own pér sonal disclaimer, not long ago addrossod@ , Tnx Trmune. Thus far Gov, Stearns be not boon voted for, and the persons receiving = the most votes haye been; Wairmson CiLty ox-Gov, Davin 8, Watnen, Bastven WaLse; Prooror (colored), 8, B. MoLan, H1ons, and Bisnez, Tho Now York gentleman, Joux + RrQua, reported to bo presont with amplé funds and the champlonship of Senator Cox oven, remains in the background, and Gir nent, whoso Senatorial term is about to pire, appears to be counted out altogathsr pt 4 EEE ner er The deoision of the Houss, by e vote of 16040 55, to make tho Hennepin Canal bill the 8p! order for the second day of February, Las drav® out the arguments of the Obio press. Tho Cit clnnati Commercial Laas long end osrefullt: written argument against the passage of the | Lill, which covers two columna, and feomthis jf masy be summarized bhe whole of the oppoaltioe hich Will be brotight to beat agalaat the |