Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 38, 1875. 4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATRE OF AUAECRIPTION (FATANLE 1X ADVANCE). vie acne Heenan ar this Ome: 2.00 [Su eked cc E98 | Wea Parte of a yenr at tho same rate, ‘Toprerent delay and inistakes, he enre and give Post Office address in full, inoluding State and County, Remittances may bo made citherby draft, expresa, Post- Ofice order, of In rexintered lettern, at cur risk, TERMS TO CITY AUBSCHIDENS. Daly, delivered, Sunday excented, 27 Daily, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 Address THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cerner Madison and Dearborn-ats., Chiengo, Ih. ‘TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Hals'ed stract, batween Mad Won and Monrse., **Urans alle." Afternoon and vvonlag. HOOLEY'R THEATRI Clark aud LaSalle, '*Atag Randotnh street, between ” Afternoon and evening. ADPLPHITHRATRE—Dearhorn atreet, corner Mon- roe. Varloty entortainmant, *" The Field of the Cloth Sf Gold.” Afternuon and evening, between MVICRER'S THEATRE—Madison atreat, a » B, Bowers. Dearborn and Stato, Engagement of Afrs, **Camilio."* CHICAGO MUSEUM! born and State, ** Sea ORAND OPERA-HOUSE-Clark | atraet. Ahonen. Howe. Kelly a Leon's. Miautrel, Crimson Scart,” Afternoon and e-aning. “SOCIETY MEETINGS. roe street, hatweon Dear- posite oO the HESPERIA LODGE, No. atl, A. Fe and A. MuHeg- nlar communication Wodnrday evening, Feb. 3. Work gn the ‘Third Degreg, Vietcing Grol hiren con) Byordorofthe W. M. UiHAS. F. INDEXITO ADVERTISEMENTS. City, Subnrban, and Country Real aR PAG: Kents, Husivess Chances, Boarding Fatate: Wants, choid Goods, To Kachanze, Musical, and Lailging, Hourehois | Sx TH PAG isl a Time-TaNO. oe acanten Ti munsemneuts, rorcentera Sauce, ee Now Publications, Medical & eter, ot0, Che Chicago Gribune. ‘Wednesday Morning, February 3, 1875, A bill hasbeen favorably reported to tho National Senate providing for a reduction of 10 per contin the salaries of all civil and mili- tary officers of the United States, for two yenrs from tho ist of next July, The billis said to he favorably entertained by Congressmen; but wo suppose it has little chance of adoption. ——— ee "Che story about that famous book for which the British Government had offered to pay £1,000 turns out to be a shrewd advertise- ment. Itis pretty evident that somebody has lied; and the credit of the performanca is about evenly divided betweon New. York, Boston, and Louisvill The Democrats and Reformers in tho Wis- consin Legislature havo agreed to unite with the Independent Republicans in the election of Axaus Cazcenos, of LaCrosse, to the United States Senate, in placa of Mr. Canrenten, If the Republicans hold firm, Casznon will probably be elected to-day on the first ballot by n majority of four or five. The Democratic-Reform support is, however, con- ditiounl upon the acceptance of their platform by tho candidate, Tho testimony of ‘Tuxoporr Truron in the Bexcuen case waa continued yesterday. It was devoted mainly to an explanation of tho witnoss' relations to tho Woopuui, showing that his object in maintaining thom was to protect Brscurn, The most revolting part of the whole caso was also touched yes- terday, when, the witness related tho points of an interview held botween lim and Brecure for the purpose of de- termining tho parentage of little Raru Timrox. It is not possible to concoive any- thing more disgusting, yet a number of Indies sat through it all, ond appeared to onjoy the recital; as much caunot be said of any of the mon present. Judge Wiraurass' charge to the Grand Jury urging the indictment of the gamblers has stirred up the police authorities, who wero apparently informed by it for the first time .Of the existence of gaming houses in Chi- cago. Ono of the principal establish- ments in the city was invaded on Mon- “day night, and the inmates arrested. Exact justico was meted out to the cul- prits yosterday morning, the most notorious of them being held for trial, and this time in such a manner that it will be difficult for them to esenpe conviction in the Criminal Court. The police authorities are perhaps too Inte to save their reputetions, but cer- tainly not too late to show works meet for repentance, ny ‘The new rule offered in the Lower Houso -of Congress Monday by Mr, Hare was adopt ed yesterday after a good deal of filibustering by the Democrats. ‘The required two-thirds vote wan not obtained till the third trinl, ‘Tha text of the rulo is given in our dispatches. It is eminently fair and wise, It secures to the minority the right of debnte for a limited time, and absolutely excludes from its pro- vision all measures appropriating money or ‘loaning tho credit of the United States, except os they may be con- tained in the regular appropriation bills, A strong argument in support of the new rule is found in the fact that Benzamin Berier voted against it.. If he had been satisfied with it, we should have been suspicious of its integrity, The only vote in favor of the rule from the Democratic side was given by Mr, Housay, author of the famous anti-subsidy resolution, He doubtless was convinced that it made no concession to those who are seek. {ng to plunder the Treasury, A remarkable debate took placo in the Lower House of Congress yesterday on the motion for tho adoption of the new ruts shutting of filibustering. Mr. Cox and Mr, Ranpavu assumed the Democratic leadership, and before the day was over both had been thoronghly heated. Speaker Buarne was on the floor part of tho time advocating the adoption of the rule, and Gen, Burien was conspicuous a8 opposing the provision which secured the minority in their rights, Quite a parlinnentary bout was sustained by Mr. Brains on the one side, aud Messrs. Cox, Ranpatt, and Laman on the other, the immediate point at issue being whether tho resignation of Cox and Ranparn from the Committees on Rules wero In order pending the discussion of the report from Committee, Altogether, the proceed- ings were highly intevesting, though far from creditable to the party responsible for them, ‘The day was enlivened by some keen thrusts snd repartees, A full report is sunt by the Asrociated Press, and published this morning fn tho regular record of Congressional pro- ceedings on the seventh page. The Chicago produce markets were gener- ally weal: yeateyday, with more business do- ing than usupl. Bess pork was active and Lup 1-20 per brl lower, closing at $18.25 cagh, und $18.62 1-2 for March. Lard was active ond a shade easier, closing firm at 024.42 1-2919.00 cash, and $29.70 for March, Meats wero in good demand and firm, at 6 1-2 a) 5-8c for shoulders, 9 1-2¢ for short ribs; and 100 for short clears. Dressad hogs wero moderately active and easior, closing at $7.50 @7 Highwines were active and 1-2 low. er, at Be per gallon, Flour was quiet and unchanged, Wheat was more active and 16 Jower, closing firm at 86 7-Sc cash, and $3 1-8 @88 1-40 for March, Corn was active and 1.8@1-tc lower, closing steady at 6 1-2 cash, oud 71 7-8¢ for May, Oats were dull and 1-fe lower, closing at 52 3-8e cash, and 42 3-te for March, Rye was quiet and steady, at 96@ Te. Tarley was dull and 1c lower, closing at 31.22 cash, and 31,23 for March, On Sat- urday evening last there was in store in this 439,768 bu wheat, 1,466,087 bu corn, GAA,77H bu oats, 14,806 ba rye, and 212,905 bu barley. Hogs were active, wilh sales at $6.25@7.50, closing steady. Cattle were fairly active aud easier. Sheep were frm and unchanged, S. Wo direct public attention to acard printed by Mr. A. C. Hestna, in English aa well os German, in the Strate-Zeitung of yesterday, which we reproduce this morning. This card is a terriblo indictment of Mr. Aaxrw, tho present ineumbent of tho Sheriff's oflice, If half of what Mr, Hrsrva charges npon Aannw be true, it is the duty of the latter to tender his resignation at ouce and to vacate the re- sponsible position which ho now holds. If Aanew fails to do this, it becomes the.duty of the Grand Jury to take up Mr, Aaxew’s caso and proceed to examine the truth or falsity of tho serious churgos that have been made against him, We presnine that Mr. Hesina stands ready to make good his assertions, It is not likely that he would have made them unless he considered himself prepared to prove them, As the head of the ‘People's Party,” and chiefly responsible for Mr, Aannw’s election, it is not likely that Mr. Hestno would impale him in this fearfwl man- ner unless he felt it to ba his duty to do so. But if Mr. Hesine fails to mako his words good, then Mr. Acuew will have an oppor- tunity to secure A’: indictment for na most in- famous libel, This isa question im which tho entire people of Cook County aro inter- ested, and the Grand Jury should lose no time in giving it a thorough examination. EXECUTING THE GAG-LAW, ‘The infamous Jaw of the last session of Congress, concocted by Senator CanrenTen and Bey Berixr, but which has been unjust- ly called tho ‘ Ponanp law,” is about to bo tested in the courts. Some time last year a Mr. Buzrs, who was at Washington acting as a correspondent of the St. Louis Tepudlican, was employed by one of the proprietors of the Detroit Iree Press to forward special matter to that papor. In tho course of this latter duty he received information from one of the House Committee Clerks of certain ir- regularitics in the personal deportiment of Senator Citaxpien, involving alleged inebria- tion, which information, being reduced to the form of a narrative, he forwarded to the I’ree Prees, where it was published. Subsequently Senator Surrvay, who was mentioned as cognizant of the facts, in open Sonate denied the truth of tho allegations respecting the intoxication, ete. Soon after, Burtn was ar- rested on a chargo of libel, and the hearing was postponed from timo totime, until at Inst the prosecution was dropped. Buenn has since thon returned to St. Louis, where he now resides, being employed on the Republic. an newspaper. Since Senator Cranpien’s defeat before tho Legislature of Michigan and his return to Washington the prosecution has ‘been re- vived, and from the Attorney General's office has been issued orders to the United States Marshal of Missouri to notify Burns that he would bo wanted at Washington, The formal warraut for his arrest has not been issued yet, and when itis the validity of tho law will be tested. Subsequently, when it was charged that the Pouanp law was intended to silence the Presa, ag evidenced by the arrest of Burn, Senator Canrenten, in his placo in the Senate, de- nied that the law had any application to libel suits or was enacted for or had any applica- tion to this ease of Buenn. Tho prosecution of Burxu was dropped until after the elec- tions, and at those elections Pozann and Borrer were rejected by their Republican constituents for their part of this gog-law business. Since then Ciranpuee has been in like manner rejected, and the case of Can- TENTER, who really had more to do with the infamous lnw than any other person, and may be called the father of it, is now on trial in Wisconsin, He aska to be re-clected and vindicated in his attack upon the liberty of the Press, q Since the Sedition law of Jonn Apaus, thero has been no such attempt upon the liberties of the people. Even that law, while provid- ing for the criminal prosecution of any por- son publishing scandalous matter in reference to executive allicors or members of Congress, required that the offender should be indicted and triod at the pluce where the publication was made, But the Canpenten-Buruzs law ou. thorizes the arrest of a publisher atthe place of his residence, and transportation to and trial at Washington City before a packed jury of Department clerks or dead-beats, and a court which oxists from day to day at the pleasuro of Congress, and which, during the last fif- teon years, has been abolished and reorgan- ized for no other purpose than to get rid of Judges who wero objectionable to Congress, ‘That is a terrorism that the authorities of the old Sedition lnw did not dare to establish, and was invented for the occasion by the repre. sentative of the free people of the State of Wisconsin, It is possible that the publication in the Detroit #ree Press concerning Senator Cuan- DLER was untrue or greatly exaggerated, and that the House Clerk who furnished Boru the information knowingly and maliciously falsificd ; but that paper is published at the residence of the Seuator, and no place so ap- propriate for such a prosecution as in theCity of Detroit, Why follow the subordinate, the hired roan, who merely subinitted the written matter to the publisher in Michigan? Why try this caso in Washington instead of in Michigan? Why should Senator Canrenter, for instance, seok to arrest the editor of a Wisconsin paper, and drag him to Washing- ton to be tried for libel before o District Judge and jury, instead of having the case tried in the State or city where the libel was published and the offense committed? Why did Senator Oanpznter and Bew Burren and the others invent this law? Tho country hed got along very well for ninety years with. out ouy auch press-gag law as this. It is on anomalous law, It os sumes that when a copy of a Chicago, or Milwaukee, or Detroit paper reaches Washington City, the publisher of that paper or his employe hos violated the Jaw of that District i¢ the paper contain any- thing supposed to be libelous of any man in Congress, or connected with the District Government or the General Government ; and, as tho publisher is not inthe City of Washington, this Inw assumes that ho is a fugitive from justice, and can be arrested wherever found and carried there by force to be tried and punished. ‘This is a construc. tion given to the constitutional provision for the rendition of fugitives from justice “who shall fee from justice and be found in anoth- er State” that was unknown to the laws un- til the fearless exposure of the crimes and corruptions of Congressmen and others in the press of tho country brought the faith- less, criminal officinls face to face with their outraged constituents. What was the cow- ardly remedy ? ‘Tho remedy proposed and forced through Congress was to rileneo and overawe {he Pross by providing for the summary arrest of nny editor in any part of tho United States, his removal to Washington, in irons if he resisted, and trial and imprisonment there, for the al- leged offense of publishing in his paper in Wisconsin, ‘Texas, Michigan, or California, o reflection upon the personal or oficial con- duct of some salary-grabber, back-pay stealer, or gag-Inw defender. Under this law the editor of the Fond du Lac Commonicealth could have been arrested any day during the last six months, and on the plea that he was a‘ fugitive from justice” could be carried to Washington, tried, convicted, and punished for libels on Senator Canrenten. When the formal arrest of the reporter Buets has been mado, —he being tho first vic- tim under the Canrenter-BUTLER press-gag lnw,—the case will bo tested before the Courts of the United States, and it will be determined whether the rights and liborties of a citizen, nnd tho freedom of the wholo American press, can be legislated away in order to protect corrupt or libertine Sountors and Represent: atives from criticism and censure for per- sonal and official crimes against the public interests and against public order and mo- rality. THE BEECHER TRIAL, Tt may well be doubled whether the court auuals of any country have produced n sceno which in impressivencss, solemnity, and ab. sorbing personal interest, can equal that which oceurred when ‘'nxopone Tinton on Monday entered tho witness-box and con- fronted Henny Wanp Beecuer and Exiza- neTit Truron to testify for the first time under onth before the judicial tribunal to the truth of that terriblo statement which las traveled over the whole Christian world on the wings of rumor and in the columns of the press, Look at the group! On the one hand, Mr, Bercuen, ostensibly a servant of God commissioned to save tho souls of men, the foremost preacher of his time, arrived at that age when the passions cool and men give their thoughts to the great change which is so near them, standing at the bar of justice, charged with the seduction of a woman whose mar- tinge ceremony ho had celebrated, whose children he had baptized, and who had looked up to him for spiritual consolation and guid- anco ; Mrs, Triton, the alleged victim of his seductive art and eloquent porsuasion, whom he led to ruin; Mrs. Brecwer, stern and silent, as sho has been ever since tho black cloud of this scandal first darkened horhouse- hold; Mr. Bercner’'s sons, who have grown old enough to know tho nature of the charges against thoir father in their full benr- ing and to feol the keenness of the disgrace which threatens their home; and, fringing this memorable group, their friends and the members of that poworful organization on Brooklyn Heights whose probable existence hangs upon the verdict, aud who, thereforo, bring to Mr. Bezcnen a moral support nearly irresistible and overwhelming in its power ond influence. On tho other hand, a young man of bright intellect and __ brillinnt promise, whose life ‘bogan full of hope, but upon whose head the curse of Mephistopheles haa fallen, for every flower that he has touched has withered, and he sits in the desolation of a clouded home, This young ton stands alone in tho witness-bor, with few and feeblo frionds about him savo the man who held his secrets so long and vainly sought to shicld him from the storm, and tells the story of his wrongs, pouring it into the ears of the woman who has deserted him, and the man whom he charges with hav- ing wreoked his life, like a stream of molten lava, with his eyes fastenod upon thoso two who dare not or will not most the gaze, Has justice over looked down upon such o sceno before, and will justice triumph at last in this contest which we muy well believe is watched with eager interest even by the powors of Good and Evil ? Tho spectator of this struggle whose issues must be so momentous to ono or tho other party cau now only assume that cither Mr. ‘Tuvtox is telling the truth or a falsehood, ‘here is no middle course; no decision which can bo arrived at by compromise ; no grounds for the possibility of a hallucination, ‘The terrible narrative, given slowly and de- liborately and with the nicest circumstan- tiality in detail, of the interview between Berrouer and ‘luton ; of the reading of the confession of Mra. T1tton giving the details of the manner in which her pastor accom. plished her ruin ; of tho interviow at Mou- toy’s house, the offer of Beecuen to go out of public life ; his violent outburst of poign- ant griof ; hia statement that he was on the edge of hell,—all this bleck picture is either awfully true or awfully false. It passes the bounds of human comprehension to believe that itis part true and part false, or that Tuzonong 'Cirtoy is Inboring under some dreadful mistake, If it is true, then never was man more wronged than Tinron; never was man more cruoclly outraged, and nover was there such a wolf in sheep's cloth. ing; such a sleek, consummate hypocrite and grant knavo aa this silver-haired priestly prowler in the folds where he hos chargo, If it is false, then is My. Bezouzr most cruelly, horribly wronged, and infamously, wickedly stondered; then in all suffering womanhood there has never been a victim so foully in- jured, 50 basely aud cowardly smitten down os Exizapers ‘incon; then never has man before so naarly allied himself to the fou, flond ag has ‘Tizzon, ‘The wanton, insidious Mephistopheles himeclf, sucering at virtue and making wreck of innocence, might stand abashed and acknowledge himself surpassed in vileness and baxeness. Upon what possible thoory can this tosti- mony be explained except cither that it is true or false? It passes belief that all this complicated network of statements is a dread. ful hallucination which has sprung up in Mr, ‘Truton's brain, —a chimera of his imagination, adreadful dream which has imposed itsolf upon him as a reality and impels him to make these charges against an innocent man and pure woman? When Mr, ‘Tinroy says under oath + 4 I told Li, whon he came, that I wantod to know if he could toll me with reference toibo Witile boy Haury, and he said that tho dato fsod by Mra. Trctom was the correct one, Mr, Hecourm asked me the date, I told him that Euszangru had told me that the date at ‘whic thelz criminal totimacy had begun wes the 10th no remombrance of it, hut he thought atio wan right, When Mr, Tintoy makes an assertion like this of an occurrenee which occurred in the presence of a witness, is it a hallucination? Is it the vision of a disordered mind? If 0, will nome one explain the theory so ns to account for this wonderful fabric of state- ment which ho has constructed and into which other statements fit so accurately ? ‘That testimony is cither overy word true or every word false. Mr, Bexcuen is cither en. tirely guilty or entirely innocent. No other hypothesis is possible. ‘The toils which have been gathering about him heretofore are tightening every day, ‘Tho plot deepens and grows more interesting. What denouement will come from this complicated story of mis- ery aud suffering? Will his own testimony explain all and dispel the horrid cloud that lowers avound him ? WILD SCHEMES OF EXPENDITURE, The condition of affairs in Congress is ex- traordinary, ‘The Secretary of the ‘Treasury reports that on the 1st of January the public debt had baen increased four millions for the expenditures of the preceding month, and again on the ist of Fobruary there is another large incrense of the debt, The Committeo of Ways and Means are holding daily ses- sions in which measures to accommodate the revenue to the expenditures are anxiously discussed, In addition to the monthly in- crease of the debt, tho Trensury is largely in arrears to the sinking fund. While this Committee is thus deliberating how to in- erense the taxes to meet current expenses, aud cut down expenditures, and stop tho increase of the national dobt, another Committee of the sama House is maturing « bill directing the Sceretary of tho Treasury to iudorse the bonds of ‘Tox Scorr's bankrupt wild-cat rail- way companies to tha amount of ona hun- dred and twenty-five millions of dollars, and to pay the interest thereon, six and a quarter millions of dollars, auoually, in gold, for forty years! Another Committee of the same Houne, with aknowledge of the sore straits and embnar- rassment of the ‘Treasury and of fhe necessity for increased taxation to keep the wheels of Government revolving, proposes to begin the improvement of the Ohio River, from Pitts- burg to Cairo, by artificial works, and dams, and other contrivances, which, if practicable, will cost 150,000,000, But even the Scorr subsidy and the Ohio improvomont are eclipsed by a sories of resolutions to bo re- ported to the Senate, which propose that in addition to the ordinary appropriations for rivers and harbors there shall be appro- priated a sum adequate for the boginning of the following named works, to complete which will cost at the lowest the sums affixed : Tho improvement of the Mississippi River from St. Paul to New Orleans, $100,000,000. Mouth of the Mississippi, $10,000,000. Tho coustruction of the Wisconsin, Fox River, and Hennepin Canals, $25,000,000, The improvoment of the Ohio River, $100,000,000 to $150,000,000, The improvement of the Kanawha River, and the completion and enlargement of tho James River Canal to Richmond, $125,- 000,000. Tho excavation and other improvement of the Tennessoo River from its mouth to ity headwaters, and the construction of a cana! over the mountains of Georgia and Alabama, and its extension by slack-water navigation to Savannah and Mobile, $100,000,000 or more, ‘The improvement of the Missouri River to its headwaters, including making navigable the Yollowstone and other rivors, 375,000,000, or doublo that sum. ‘The improvement of other rivers and con- struction of other canals to be added to this scheme, $150,000,000, While the Secretary of the Treasury is una- ble to mect current exponses, has to borrow money to pay the interest on the public debt, while the Committee of Ways and Means are devising new taxes to enable the Secretary to pay his way, the Senate is proposing to begin now the appropriations necessary to com: monco a sories of internal improvements which are to cost, at tho lowest estimate, $8U0,000,000, Whore ia the monoy to coma from to begin oven this stupendous series of jobs, of which, oxcept the improvement of tho mouth of tho Mississippi River and por- haps one other work, every item proposes o waste of money on impracticable and useless schemes? If the Sonate soriously proposes to commit the country to any such wild measure as this, lot it treat tho coantry fairly by proposing with the bill a direct tax to produce tho rev- enne to carry iton. Let Congress have tho courage, when thoy propose to expond the peoplo’s money by drafts of hundreds of mill. ions, nleo to inform the people that to raise this monay to expond on theso works a direct tax must bo lovied. Lot Congress not seck to evade the responsibility. Revenue can only bo raised by taxation. Let Congress, there- fore, levy a diroct tax for this special pur- pose on the farms, and houses, and renl es- tate of the whole people to meet the vast ex- penditure, To appropriate the money and not levy the tax 1s rank cowardice and crimi- nal legislation. The people are willing to pay for all they want; and the best test whether they want to spend a hundred mill- fons of dollars for damming the Ohio and dig. ging the Missouri, for constructing a steam- boat canal in tho mountains of Virginia, and agimuch more in Alabama and Georgia, etc., is to lot Congress levy a direct tax to raise the money for those puzposes, and them wait for tho popular response at the noxt election for Senators and Representatives, 18 RENO A POLIQE COMMISSIONER P The decision of the Suprome Court of this State in the case of Kroxgers, the City of Chi- engo, which we published in our Sunday edi- tion, is of much importance, ns it decides the mooted question as to the validity of various acts of the Inst City Administration. The then Mayor of the vity removed Mr, Kroxxy under the provisions of tho *' Mayor's bill" for reasons which he oficially deemed satis. factory, Mr. Krouwy resisted this act of re- moval upon the ground that the bill or law did not apply to Polico Commissioners who were olected by the voters of the county, aud on the ground that the law was special legis. lation, and, as such, unconstitutional. ‘the Supreme Court have sustained the constitu- tionality of the Mayor's bill, and have de. cided that Mr. Kioxxe was legally romoved, The act gave the Mayor the power of ap- poiutment of all city officers not elected by the people, and also of all mombers of all the Boards organized under the charter, as well as tho power of removal of all such officers and members of Boards, It, during its life, which was limited to two years, suporsoded the charter provisions in regard to tho olec- tion of the Police Commissioners by the people of the county, Tho Mayor's bill expired March 9, 1874, and consequently there could be no election by the poople of a Commissioner of the Board of Police up to that date; the power to fill tho office was in the Mayor of the city. It will be remembered tint notwithstanding the writton opinions of the then Corporation- Counrel, M. FP. 'Tuney, and the County-Attor- ney, James P, Noor, that nolegal election for Police Commissioners during the life of the Mayor's bill conkt bo had, both politi- eal factions nominated candidates, and the People’s” elected Messrs, KioKKe and Reno as Police Commissioners, Mr. Whisht wos removed by Mayor Cor vin, and Mr. Knoxke was appointed in his place, so that Mr, Kroxxe could now claim to hold by virtue both of appointment under the Mayor's bill ond the election by the peo- ple, This is not the ense with Commissioner Revo, who holds simply by virtue of the election of Novembor, 1873, which the Su- premo Court, in the decision referred to, have virtually decided was no election, Mr, lteunen Creverann was appointed by Mayor Miaiur, to serve the unexpired term of Mr, 'l, B, Brows, and was entitled by the charter to hold until “his suecessor should be daly appoiuted and qualified.” Execpt for tho Mayor's bill, which suspended the charter provisions requiring the Comunissioner to bo elocted, Mr. Reso would be the Jegally-clect- ed Commissioner and tho successor to ‘I. B, Brown; but inasmuch as the charter pro- visions were suspended, and the power to ap- point Brown's successor devolved upon the Mayor, and as this power lina never been ex- ercised by Mayor Couvin, it necessarily fol- lows that Mr. Revo has no title to the office. It also follows that Mr, Crnvenanp is still and has been, notwithstauding tho attempted election, the legal Police Commissioner, aa no successor to him has ever heen appointed, as required by law. Wa understand that he has already retained counsel in the matter, Tho Mayor's bill has expired by its own limitation, and {he Mayor has no longer the power of appointment. Now what does Mayor Cotyiy propose to do about it? Reno has no lawful right to act as Police Commissioner, and will Mr. Coxvin continue to recognize him as such ? ‘The charter provides—Seo, 17, p. 889, ‘Tuer's Laws and Ordinauces—that the Board of Supervisors shall All the vacancy, and by the Constitution the present Board of County Commissioners succced to the powers of tho old Board of Supervisors. Tho vacancy can only be filled until the next fall election, at which time 1 Commissioner must bo clected. ———_— TOM SCOTT IN TROUBLE. A day or two ago it was confidently predict, ed that ‘Tom Scorr's subsidy scheme was like- ly to be reported favorably by the Senate Committee nnd to pass that body. This san- guino anticipation was snddenly nipped in the bud, it now appears, by the publication in the New York Sun of a series of docu- ments and letters relating to the Memphis & El Paso Railrond. This was the original of the Texas Pacific Road. The scheme was devised by Joun ©, Frexoyr, who pro- posed both to got subsidies from Con- gress and to raise money on bonds in Burope. The story of the European adventure has already been told. It had for o denouement the sentence of Gen. Fremont to several years’ incarceration for obtaining money under false pretenses, passed upon Frestonr tn contumacio since he pre- ferred to remain in this country rather than go to France to serve out the sentence or con- test ita justice, Several of Gon, Fresont’s colleagues in the schome are now engaged in carrying out the conclusions of French jus- tice, The operations of this corporation on this sido of the water now apponr to have beon of a similar nature to those of the Credit Mobilier. Congress was probably worked upon in much the same manuer, viz.: by die- tribution of atock among members. Unfor- tunately in tho caso of Credit Mobilier the nature of tho boast was not exposed until it had mado all the havoc possible. The railroad had been constructed and the Government credit had been pledged, Tho exposure only served to show tho villinny of the scheme, and to hold up some of the principal conspirators to public obloquy. But the case will be reversed with Mr, Scorr and ‘Texans Pacific. Hore the rniders upon tho Public Tronsury will come before Congress after having started out in the same way Credit Mobilier started out. It is hardly to Lo expected, in the face of such an exposure, that the Senate Committee will report favor- ably to the subsidy now, even if thoy had intended to do so; and if thoy do the schemo will not ba sanctioned by the Senate itself. In tho House there is still another reason why the Scorr subsidy will not receive a ma- jority vote, At least wo cannot seo how this can happen unless a large number of the Represontatives oponly stultify themselves, and also expose themselves to the strong aus- picion of bribery. Early in the present sos- sion the following resolution, offered by Mr. Houstan, of Indiana, was passed by the House ; Resolved, That in tho judgment of this House, in the present condition of the fluaneial affatra of the Government, no subsliles in monoy, bouds, public Innda, or any pledge of putilc credit, should be granted by Congress to any sesociations or corpora~ tous engaged or proparing to engage in public or pri- vate onterpries, and that all appropriations from the Public Treasury ought to be Umited at this time to such amounts only ss aball be imperatively required by the public service, ‘Lhe vote on this resolution was 149 yonr to 75 nays, Every Congressman who voted for it is morally pledged to his constituency and the country to oppose every subsidy schemo which comes before Congress, Thero are 292 members of tho House, If, therefore, every member were in his sent, and every man who voted against this resolution and every man who failed to vote on it one way or the other should be marshaled in favor of tho ‘Lost Scorr subsidy, it could only receive 143 votes, or several less than the requsite ma- jority, But, as there woro ouly 75 members who dared to placo themselves on record against the Horsan resolution, it is fair to assume that this is about tho proportion of the House which caros to fly in tho face of publio sentiment on this subsidy, question, If a majority of the House hes formally declared an opposition to all anbsidies at the present time, what process of reasoning can be adopted which shall convinco it that the most gignntlo of all raids upon Congress shall ba declared exceptional? We have shown in previous articles thnt Tost Scorr’s achome ia simply a demand that Congress shall increase taxes by 6,500,000 per anuum and the public debt $120,000,000 in order to enable his Credit-Mobiler Construction Company to divide nbont 60,000,000 of plundor, Mr. Scorr wanta a guarantes of $10,000 a mile for his railroad, and, as it will énly cost about $20,000 a mile, be and his Oonstruction Com- pany propose to pocket the differonce, The amount of principal which the Government ia asked to guarantee will be about $120,- 000,000 in all, and the amount of intéreat—5 percent on that amount for torty yoars— 250,000,000 more, making in all a grand total of $870,000,000, No member of the House of Represente- tives who is committed to the Honstan reso lution dare vote for no unparalleled a grab as this—a hundred times worse than Pacifio Mail or any other raid upon tho United States ‘Treasury heretofore organized, EXPORT OF ALCIHOL, The exportation of alcohol from the United States to Europe, which amounted to about 42,000 barrely in the yenr 1873, has now dwindled down almost to the zero point, and the domestic trade is correspantingly de- pressed, as n consequence of an inadequate demand to meet the increased product‘on, ‘The distillers attribute this chango in the condition of things to a comparatively recent. coustruction of the law under which alcohol had previously been exported. ‘The new ruling, made Inst July, was to the effect that the bonds required from both the inland ship- per aud the party exporting from the sea- hoard shall be given on rent estate, such bonds not being roteased till tho receipt of a certilieate from from the Consul at the port of Inuding that the goods have been delivered on foreign soil. ‘I'he real es- tate featuro, combined with the length of time that the property is held as security, form an effectual check on the business of exporting and the production of this impor- tant article of manufacture at the contem- plation of which the most staid prohibition. ist might leap for joy. In the first place, it is stated that the par- ties in New York, who have hitherto been most active ns exporters aro forcignors,— mostly Grecks,—whose whole enpital is in- vested in the business, and to whom the laws of the State of New York do not hold out very powerful inducements to buy real estate with their sparo cash, if they have any. Hence they cannot give tho required secnrity themselves and find it almost impossible to obtain it from others, as the expenses which attend the operation sre more than equal to what would otherwise be the profit of shipment, Hence some of these firms havo already decided to leave tho ¥asiness, and the rest are waiting idly for a change that will permit thom to meet the European demand for alcohol. The Western distiller finds it equally im- possible to operato under the new ruling, He may give a bond equal to his entire capital on one consignment if he can find an Enst- ern party who is able to do the same thing, and must then wait for returns before he can repeat tho operation, How long this waiting may Inst can be inferred from the statement that on one lot of 500 barrels, exported more than a year ago, the bonds in Ohicago have not been released ; and a suspicion of irregularity has not even been hinted in the case, The total amount of bonds exacted on that lot of alcohol was in the neighborhood of $125,000, At that rate, the annual exportation of 10,000 barrels, which is Chicago’s share in the busi- ness, would keep $2,500,000 worth of unin- cumbered real estate continuously locked up in “bondage,” in addition to the capital required to perform tho process of manu- facture, Well may the distillers ask, ‘‘ Who is sufficient for these things?” It is hinted thatthe regulation, which is evidently voxatious and is claimed to be unnecessary as @ means of protecting the Government Treasury from loss, was insti- tuted expressly as a prohibitory measure— partly to put the whole tax into the Treasury of the United States, and partially to benefit the shipping interest, by ennbling them to carry out the more bulky corn instead of tho more condensed extract. ‘This is probably incorrect; but it does seem that the regula- tion is prohibitory in its character, whilo the statistics of the trade show that the American consumption of about 70,000,000 gallons annually has not been incrensed since the business of exporting was stopped, The only result thus far is an over-production, as tho increase in the distilling capacity of the country which was induced by the open- ing up of new avenues of trade have been kept employed. Henco there is a glut at the leading centres, and a depression of prices to a point which the distillers say does not pay the expenses of manufacture. It is probnble that a strong delegation will proceed to Washington within a fow days to lay the facts beforo the propor authorities, and request that the oxportation of alcohol may be placed upon the same basis as the export of othor articles which are taxed in the United States. Ifthis cannot be done, it would be better to formally prohibit in toto tho exportation of spirits than to continue the present constructions of the law, which, like the witches in ‘* Macbeth,” only speak the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. OEPIOIAL ADVERTISING IN NEW YORE Some days since we explained tho opposition of the New York preas to Comptrollor Guzen by an exhibit of the exorbitant suins which had boon paid those journals for oflicial advertising during the three yoars precoding his admipiatra- tion, and the important savings ho had made for the elty by cutting down thoir accounte, ‘To-day wo have an exhibit sont us by a apecial corre- spondent in New York, which enables us to com- pare the expenditures for advertiving during tho pest three yoars, with a corresponding term im- uiediately preceding. They were as follows: AMOUNTS PATD VOR ADVERTISING, | 1672, | 1873, | 1474, | Total, New York Daly Nowa, /315,208 5. ‘The World,. af 9,229) 6,508 Suuday Timoe, WO] ‘New York Stor, 1,485 New York ‘Tritt 4,157] Irish Citizen a iy 9,053 17,086] 1,383 ‘The Daily Hey ‘Vhe Sun Pruting aud | Publishing Company, Inleb-Amerioan, Hobrew Load New York Argui X, ¥. Rvenhng Bap Nt York Datty Witness, Now York Atlas. A Hi 21,148 4,797 Wochunblatt, of the | 183, York Journal, +8 NewYork Btaate-Zeitun Commerclal Advertisor| f 151 Harlem Tac algal ait 40, ot] 4,119 big B10 col) 661 Sunday New York Btautlar New York Quuriet New Yorker Pre Totaleresee To this amount should ba added the expensos of conducting the Cuy Hecord, an omtcial advertixing of Bec, 11! of New Yor Sheet, {eeued under authority Chay, 895, Laws of the Btete kor 18 om 25,012 ‘Making s total expense to the city for adver- talug in the years 1679, 1873, aud 1876, of, ..,$212,433 ‘The total expenses of the three years prior to 1872 wore a8 follows: 1871, 18K Tesi ‘Total. Now, comp: gate advertising expenses of 1609, 70, 588,677 aggre and ‘72, with those of 1872, '78, and ‘74, wo havo are. duction of $2,974,000 effected during Camptrole lor Green's administration. Nor aro thoro ox. pensew yot reduced to the lowest practicalie figures, ‘Tho mochols of clty advertining are still disorganized and unduly oxponaive, aud fup. thor reforms may vory well bo inatitntad, tp, is, howovor, 9 gratifying result that Instoad of 81,000,000, au in 1871, tho ont'ay lant yenr, inetd. ing the cout of tho Cuy decord, waa under 45,000, ‘Thus exlubit oxplaing fully why the Now York newupapers sre growling at Comptroller Gneey, though the oxplauntion is anything but cradity, Leto them. Dut it also explains why the Deo plo of New York should bo gratotul to Comp. troller Gueen for the waving ho has made, ang Inaist upon his being rolained in the position he holda in the face of newspaper opporition, OF more direct intorest to tho people of Cy, cago, howover, Is the fact that Comptrolig Gnecy, of New York, has succected In reducin, the expenditures for advertising tn a city of a million of intobitanty to obout the rams amount which tho City of Chicago pays wih it, 400,000 inhabitants. Tere wo pay about $15,009 fo one American paper and the #2me omount to ono German paper. Iu addition to this sum of $20,000, thero is a good deat of anceial adverti. ing, such a8 the tax-lista, proposals Uccasionaliy advertised in outeido papora by the Doar of Public Works, special advertisements of thy Comptroller, etc. ete, These expenditures pli, bring up the total amouut of expenditures for advertising in this city to at leant $45,000,—thy sum paid in Now York during 1874, It is A pale pablo fraud tuat 400,000 paoplyin Chicago ahonlg pay as much for their municipal advertising 1,000,000 people in Now York. It ia one of the things to which tho Citizens’ Association will do woll to give their attontion among their projects forroform. At least $15,000 contd be aayed by Abolishing the practico of printing the sams matter twice,—once in German and once in Ey. lish. Unless German aball be instituted a sort of cotrt language for municipal parposos, we fi] tofind any excuse for duplicating the publicatiog, aud the oxpense, The question might alg bo examined, whethor it would not ba mor economical to catablish a City Record, similar jo tho New York publication, in whica all thy Connell proceedings, the proceedings of thy various Boards, tho tax-Hsts, etc., should te printed at the cost of composition and whity paper, making cach department s small soparis allowance for such advertising as sould beneg tho city by an appeal to the general public. Ip this way we are inclived to think that fully on. half, and perhaps two-thirds, of tho money noy spent on ‘corporation newspapers,” both English and German, could bo saved. At all events, tho present system is ® mero doricafo squandering tho city money. The cable yesterday bronght the brief ay nouncemeat of tho death of tho ominent En ghish composer and pianist, Winurax STERNDiG ENNETT, oF, 28 ho was more familiarly lnom in musical circles, StennpaLE Lennert, 1 was born April 13, 1816, at Shoflicld, and attract ed the attention of musical connoisseurs at critics st a very early age by his precocious ti) ént and the composition of orchestral ploces anf songe, which wero very much in the atylo of it Gorman Licder, In 1837 he made the acquaint ance of MENDELSEOUN ot a Dussoldorf featint and the two soon assumed the rolatious of me tor and pupil, which immediately doveloped int an almost brotherly Intimacy, which remaind unbroken until the death of the former. Ty influence of Mrxpetsson over his pupil is pss ticularly reflected in the music of the Inter. At though it cannot bo called a copy, it is marked by the same generic style of treatment, ani shows tho same characteristics of gracy elegance, and beauty. He las written a gred number of minor pieces for the concert room, some of them of exquisite beauty. In 1999he played at tho Gowaudhaus concerts, at Leipziz, with remarkable success. In the samo year be was olocted member of the Royal Musical So ciety of London, avd in 1858 was elected Pro fessor of Music at Combridgs. Io has left tr | works of musical literature, ‘ Clausical Studia for Piono-Forte Students” (London: 1811), ent a digsertation on Harmony (1819). The mnuics compositions by which he is best known anf which will longest ondure aro tho oratorio, “Tht Woman of Samaria”; four overtures, “Th Naiade,” “The Wood Nymphs,” ‘The Mem Wives of Windsor,” aud “ Parasina"; the mux to ‘Tennyaon’s ode on tho oponing of the secor! London Exposition (18¢2); and the oxquisite pastoral cantata, Tho May Queen," tho libresta of which was writton by Cuontey, at that time ttt accomplished critic of the London Athengum which was given here soma yeara ago with grétl succeaw by the Mondelgsolin Society. ——_—-___— Tho annual message of Gov. Joun J, Baatrt, of Michigan, has, from ita construction, tons ecope, and upright indepondenco, attracted 39 unusual amount of attention on the cart of tlt press East ond West. It 18 unanimounly cor coded tobea romarkablc document, strong i diction, thoroughly practical, doating in busines sud not in sentiment, and, inthe abaanco of bux como and nonsence, comparing favorably wit any mesaago of tho scason. Tho exhibit of te financial coniition of tho State is not only ea couraging to tho State, but astonishing. since tho War the State debt has gradually been duoed, until it is now little more than a milla and half of dollars, and Gov. Bao.sy shorn that, in 1989, omitting a single loan of g360.0t ’ not duo till 1890, everycent of the debt will bat been paid off, leaving a balanco in tho Treasuryd atleast $106,000. Atthe samo time, the mess contains a plan for the reduction of taxation while the appropriations for educational s charitable purposes aro vot to bo reduced in way. ‘The Governor expresees himself vit sone degres of freedom on the subject of sut inatitutions, claiming the right to pardon mu criminals aa ehall upon examination be found have been unjustly punished, or whose phyelcs! condition is pronounced hopeless, The mestts* eonnot bo regarded a bid for papuloricy, for takes strong grounds on two important qué tiong, which grounds are not popular, With! erence to the railroads, ho ways groat wrong ll dove to the bondholders and stockholders! welt ag reaidonta of the Btate, by throwing t! businoss of the roads into the handaof Port Car Companies, Blue Lines, Red Lincs, © Green Lines, 80 that thoy get all the prod. whilo tha ronde trombla on tho vorge ¢ bankruptey. He claims that Michigan be troated Lor railroads with eulightenod It | erality, but maintains thot it ia ! | duty of the State to Boa that ita groxt corpor tlona aro honestly managed with heed to thei terests of the owners. On the subject of alcabe he is fair and reasonable, Prohibition, hoclslus ia a failure; a liconso law will bea failure wé with tho additional disadvantage of being wots! aud unequal. His plan ia to punish drunkenpel au acrie, and, in addition, to hold the seller! liquor liable pecuniarily for the cansoquencet© hia act, He proposes to tax alcohol Levi! without discrimination other than botweon mt and epintuoas liquors, . While he does not pt 1 ate the offeneo of drunkenness, he holds th! “education, self-cuttnre, self-control, exalt and precept are more efiictent helpa to compet auce than statutes.” In this, asin other ters, Gov, Dacizy taken an enlightened aud BH groavivo view of the cage, His mossage 180% which deserves careful consideration £100 quarters. eee eee ens ‘The annual roport of tho Inspectors of tt State Prigon of Michigun isa very interes document. ‘The statistical part is covsidersb clabovated, ‘The whole number of parsont maining at tho close of the yoar way 102 TH figures illustrating the previous aociel and 20% troining of tlie convicts exhibltaresults that lent aeem to embarrass thoaa who attribute toi rence and drinking most of the crime of Pa present day, From this report we learn th? lowing: Had both parente pious, 2981 0 plous father, 00; bad plous mother, 815 the prisoners, 69 pax cent oan read, wilt: