Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Tarts of a year at tbo ‘Te prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post Office address in fall, ineluding State and County, made either by draft, express, Post- Ten 3 Dasiz, delivered, Sunday excepted, 20 cents per week Daily, delivered, Sunday included, 20 cents per week Address TH TRIRUNE UOMPANY, Corner Maditon and Dearborn-ate., Chicago, il. ————————ee TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. b F- inh street. between PVIORER'S THRATRE—Maditon street, between one mn to, Engagement of Charlotte Cushman, Afternoon, ** Slinpson & Cu." ‘vening, *' Guy Manner- ne ACADEMY OF MURIC—ileisted ctreet, between Mads 4 Tagagement of Madaroe Jananechey, Rflorugan Phe eraager-™ renin," Earl of CHICAGO MUSEUM—Monros street, between Dear- born and State. '* Hiddeo Hand.” RA-NOUSK—Clark atreety Bea oe cily a Ione Minstrels: Brow." Aiternvon and evening. ptt ELPIITIRATRE—Dearborn atreat, corner Mon- Og Variety entortaisment. ‘The French Spy." Af. termcom and evening. McCORMICK HALL—North Clark street, cornet Kine aint Gectare by Prof. O. Br Fuwler, Subject; © Lovo and Marriago, ———_ oe QUSINESS NOTICE! BAYR YOUR WAIR.-IF YOU WISI TO BAVE your tialr and keep Itia &@ strong and healthy condition, ite Murnete’ 0, Ie willetimulate the roots of tha hai re the natnral action upon which tte growth bottle, sarod bf cases of baldn Hen of the ecalp b: INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. Real sical, Care THIRD PAGEClty, Suburban, and Conntey Rateton Wanted tial festale, Wate, To, Rente, Mn Hoarding and Vodgivg, Finauclal, Moraes ‘and ate, SNS EAOK—Woreestershire Sauce, Now Publica- bat PAGR—Amosements, Ocean Steamships, Nallrosd Time-Table, Mouleal Cards, otc., 0.0, Che Chicaga Tribune. ‘Wednesday Morning, February 17, 1875. The Chicago Board of Education, at its meeting last week, adopted a momorinl to the Legislaturo, asking an approprintion for tho establishment and support in this city of & free school for denf-mute children. ‘Tho memorial was presented in the Lower House of the Legislature yesterday. It is a concise and Iuminous representation of the advan- tages to be derived from the existence of such a school in Chicago. It shows that o largo number of children now in the city cannot | avail thomselves of the benefits of the State institution at Jacksonville; and that in many instances the expenses of personal support would be eaved to the State if pupils were given an opyrortunity to attend a day-schidol. Tho election of Dr, Keneaty, former coun- sel for tho ‘Licunonnz Claimant,.to Parlia- nent isono gf tho most extraordinary and unexpected consequences of that famous case, Keweany had beon disbarred and gon- erally outiawed by the profession more on account af his scurrilous publications after tho trio. than for his dubious champion- ship of the Claimant's cause, When thus pushed to the wall, the Doctor manfally faced his enemies and tried to give them as good as they sent. He affect- ed to be zenlous for the workingman’s rights, and to be a devoted partisan of the most re- fined and abstract justice, Wo suppose, thovgh the dispatches do not so state, that Kerirarr has boon electod by workingmen; andi thut his election is quite a8 much of o shock to the respectables in England as would ‘Le; to the same class in America, for instance, Uie sending of Gronoz Franow Tra to ‘Congress, The dofeat of Mr. Dawrs' resolution to ap- _ Ply the gag-law to the consideration of the new Tax bill is an evidence that a good many of the Republican mombers are taking a sec- ond sober thought on this matter. It looks very much as though they were beginning to feel the force of public sentiment on the proposition to add $100,000,000 to the price of goods on hand without increasing the revenue a dollar. It ie an indication that tho wise men in the present Congress have con- cluded to let the next Democratic Congress legislate for itself, and provide the ways and moans for the ranning of the Government after the Republican majority retires. It is emphatically suggestive of tho finaldefeat of the bad bill; and the longer it is postponed and the more it is discussed the worse its prospects will become, and the better the Prospects of the country to escape from its oppression and. the Ropublican party from the odium of ?t. =: The Javwx.Bornen-Sannoay crowd are try- ing to moe oapital oat of the discovery of emugglin:s since the abolition of the moiety blackmail plan. The truth of the matter is, that the amuggling ante-dates the abolition of moictiea by soveral years, ssy from tho birth of the high tariff, while the discovery of smuggting ts of very recent date. It is due to men who are not too busy in *squeer- ing” merchanta and in lovying blackmail to discharge thoir duties, Within the lost six months, moro amuggled goods have beon seizad at New York than during any year since tho Jayne-Sanpomn regime, One. result of theso seizures has been the, detection of organized companies for ev nding the revenue, which plied their trade Wacaught under the very noses of Jarny's Taoioty-hunters, The criminals have been at ‘work for years; thoy have just been caught ; end now the moiety-men, who did not catch ‘thom, say that tho men who did are unable to rlop swwuggling on account of the abolition of the moiety system} Under Jarnz, honest men wero blackmalled and rogues went froo, Undor his successors, the fortunes of the two slassea buvo been reversed. The Chicngo produce markets wore gener- ally easier yesterday, with less doing. Mess pork was active, and 21-2¢ per bri lower, closing firm, at $18.15 cash, and @18.26 for March. Lard was active, aud 6@10o0 per 100 Ibs lower, olosing firm, at $13.50 cash, and $18.55@18.57 1-2 for March, Ments wera active and easier, at 6 1-2@6 6-80 for shoul- ders, 9 1-2@95-8e for short ribs, and 9 7-80 for ahort cleara, Dressed hogs wero quict and firm, closing at $7.75@8.15 per 100 ths, Highwines were inactive, Flour was quiet and uteady, Wheat was moderately active, And 1-2c lower, aloging at 881-20 cash, and 6b t-do for March, Corn was quiet, and 14 G@l-20 lowér, closing at Go for March, and 70 3-86 for Muy, Outs were quiet and # shade finuer, closing ut 52 84o for March. Rye was quiet and firra, at 981-20. Burley was.in Lotter demand, and 4@5o higher, olosing at $1.18 1-8 for March, and 91.09 for April, On Gebasday evoulug lest there was tu uture io THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1875. Pn eeeeyxyx——— thia city, 8,605,011 bu wheat, 1,450,525 bu corn, 627, bu oats, 8,163 bu rye, and 273,774 bu barley, Hogs wera quict, with sales chiefly at A0@7.25, averaging 5@100 lower. Cattle were quict and steady. Sheep were dull and weak, Ono of the most powerful instances of the power of the human willis that testified to by one Ditton, who for a number of years wns clerk and bookkeeper of the Sergeant- at-Arms of the House of Representatives at Washington, Two years ogo he tostified that shortly after the pnssage of the Pacific Mail subsidy ho was surprised at tho number of {$1,000 Treasury notes proscnted by members to have changed into smaller bills, So nu- merous were these cases that he noted down the initials of the names of a great many of theso membera, and the list of these names ho Inid before the Committee, Subseqnontly the Committee advised him to withdraw his list, and his evidence was stricken from the record, Now, in 1875, when called on again to testify, ho says that after his examination two years ngo ho ‘ erased the nomes from his tablet and from his memory,” and there- fore could not now state them. This blot- ting out of facta from his memory by order of acommittce is an opernt on that is as ex- traordinary and marvelous as it seems to have been successful in this case, Ditzon is a good witnest Yesterday was perhaps the most important day thus far in the Beecuen trio. In the morning a long controveray occurred be- tweon the Inwyers as to the admissibility of testimony from Tinton going to show what his intentions were in preparing the so-called “Tne Story.” He was finally allowed to ex- plain. Ilo said the ‘True Story” was in- tended to deccive the public; that it was submitted to o number of persons, among others to Dr, Sronns, for tho purpose of ascertaining what would be its probable «fect upon the public, and that it was tiuany withheld and destroyed be- cause it did not seem to be calculated to pro- duce tho impression desired. Dr, Stonna was told, it appears, that the “True Story” was in the main alice, since it was o suppression of truth anda suggestion of falschood. Im- portant as this testimony was, it was not in itself tho most immediately interesting part of the day's proceedings. This consisted of developments made by a now witness, formorly ao house-servant in Mr. Tittoy's family. Sho testificd that sho had soen Mrs, Triton sitting on Mr. Brecurn’s knee; and that the attentions of Mr, Brrou- tn to Mra. Tinton were so marked as to boa common topic of conversation among the servants, The witness, it will be observed, is not altogether trustworthy. ‘The Pacific Mail investigation has dwin- edinto insignificance, The testimony of Messrs, Dinton and Wnrrina was a mero farco. Driuon bad as ‘bad & memory” as the rest of the unwilling witnesses, but still recollected that there were more $1,000 bills than usttal floating about at that time—the “52 sows’ cars” of Sat Wann's allogory. ‘Wartino found that his brother-in-law, Sen- ator Coxz, like Barkis, was willin’, and did not need to be urged to vote for the subsidy, and so, of course, he pock- oted the wholo $66,000 himself (?) though he swears he did no work for it, All this is simply insulting to the public. The fact is, that the Ways and Means Committee, which has been investigating the Pacific Mail swindle, has had too much other business on hand to do it justice. It should have report- ed immediately after Inwin’s last testimony, os we then suggested, recommonding the ox- pulsion of ScuusaxeR aso member of Con- gress and his detention as a witness to appear before a special committeo to be appointod by the Honse. This special committee, with tho materiol at hand, with Scrunarer betwoen its fingers, and ample tima to devote to the investigation, might have made some valuable discoverios, As it is, the affair is simply o Congressional disgrace, without fixing the guilt where it properly belongs, A few days ago Col. Tuomas Soorr loft Washington, having ostablished to his dis- satisfaction the impossibility of lobbying the Texas Pacific swindle through the present Congress. It may be supposed that Col. Scorr was inno amiable framo of mind. He had boen defeated at every point, and kept out of somo score million dollars which he wanted to develop theresources of the country with, What, then, must have been tho fino frenzy of Col. Scorr when he fully under- stood ‘the great encronchmonts made upon tho business of the Ponnsylvania Company, during his absonce in Washington, by the Baltimore & Ohio Company. The warfare between these two great corporations has now reached a point when it becomes of almost nationalimportance. The questionis nolonger ono of mere business advantage, but of per- sonal feoling. Col. Scorras much as says, in the letter to President Gannezrr, which wo publish elsewhere, that the Pennsylvania Company will spare no pains to cripple the resources of tho Baltimore & Ohio; and that, with this object in view, all necessary steps will be taken even to the building and equipment of new linos, 3 . The response of President Gannerr to Col, Scorr’s manifosto is quite as decided as any friend of the Baltimore & Ohio could havo oxpected. It is the prompt announcement of 8 grant reduction in passenger-rotes, the par- ticulara of which will be found in the column of railroad news. ‘Tho real contost is, of course, but just begun. ‘The Loulaville Courier-Journal has not yet discovered that Tom Scort's 'Toxaa & Pacifio has “gone where the woodbine twinoth.” ‘There is no more hope for it now than for Jay Coorz’s Northern Pacific. As farasCon- gressional subsidy ia concerned, they are both au dead asadoor-nail, But the CourierJour- nat still shrickw for bonds with an energy and Persistoncy deserving of a botter causo. It says: ‘Ihe Southern Democrat who goes back on ns in this matter is a traitor, to bo visited with political condemnation for all time to come.” That is to say, every Demo- crat at tho South must vote for this encr- moua job, whether the country can afford to add a hundred millions to the Natlonal debt or not; whether the road will ever pay running expenses or not, and whether it will ever be of any value to anybody except the ring or not Louis. villo iy situated almost on the latitude of San Francisco, and has a direct, almost air-line route to that city cia Bt. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake, and the Central Pacific to ‘San Francisco, Instead of going this short, atralght way, the Courter-Journal wanta first to go about 700 milos south to Jackson, Miss., thenco by tho Texas & Pacific across 1,200 to 1,500 miles of treeless, rainlesa, tropical des- ert to tho Pacific coast, and thence about 500 milog north to San Franeisco, Te editor of the Courtor-Journal evidently has not had his pasulon for travel sotlaied by his Inte Euro. penn tour, He insists upon going to San Francisco by the longest and worst route, and atan expense of $100,000,000 to the Gov- ernment. We fear he will be disappointed, ——<—_—_—_—— THE TAX BILL AS A PARTY MEASURE, We have herotoforo discussed tho 'I'nx bill jntroduced by the Ways and Moans Commit- teo of Congress on its own merits. We havo opposed it as unnecessary, unjust, and dis- criminating. As one of those measures in which all mon of ail parties are concerned, wo have regarded it simply asa now burden on tho mnsses of the people to be imposed in favor of o privileged class already too much favored by our National logialation. Thus far party politics have not entered into our consideration of the subject, But it is legitimate nnd proper that the bill be scrutin- ized asa party measure. If the Republican party is to regain the lost confidence of the country, and resume its formor position as a majority party, and be restored to power and usefulness in 1876 by the American people, it is certainly the duty, and should be the ambition, of its members to ox- pose aud defont every subtle effort to under- mine it, and every corrupt movement to be- tray itinto the hands of its enemics. Wo are therefore prepared to condemn tho new Tax bill in the light of a party mensure os aweepingly as wo have alrendy condemned it aaa moans of needlossly increasing the rove- nue. It is to-day a greater menace to the ex- istence and perpetuity of the Republican par- ty than nny of the causes which led to the Democraticvictories of Inst fall, If the Repub- licans in Congress who are honestly in favor of roforming the revenue permit themsolves to be dragooned into passing it by the attor- neys in Congress of the '' protected classes,” they must bear the responsibility for the ca- lnmity almost sure to follow. ‘The successive steps from the passago of this bill to politicen! disaster ara as readily traced now as if we had already gone over tho ground. The Demoeratic opposition in Congress will turn tho bill to party account from the very boginning. They will go on the record as vigorously opposing every prop- osition to increase taxes, no matter what form it may take, They will opposo the only tax which may be fairly and beneficially levied at this timo—the restoration of the tea and cof- feo duty. They will get their speeches in op- position to the bill printed in the Congression- al Record, copied in thoir home organs and distributed about the country in pamphiot form as electioncering documents, They will propose amendments at every point in favor of rolioving the burden of taxation, Their yotes will be recorded solidly against every proposed item of increase and solidly in favor of every proposed decrease, They will probably vote for the repeal of the match tax and certainly against the increase of the whisky tax. And, after the bill shall have beon finally disposed of, thoy will be in s position to point thoir constituoncy to the faithfulness with which thoy guarded their interests against the tox- grabbers. If tho bill shall become a law, for the first eight or twelve months succeeding, it will be marked by an increase of prices and a con- sequent decrease of consumption, and o dectine in the receipts of revenuo, By the time the next Congress assembles, in Decem- ber of this year, with its great Democratic majority in the House, the people will have endured all the ills growing out of the now taxes and will not yet have reached any of the benefita, if indeed there are any bonefits to be attained by it, They will havo paid out something like $100,000,000 in ad- vanced prices on stocks of whisky, sugar, to- bacco, eloths, silks, woolens, cottons, carpets, boots and shoes,—on all goods in store of ordinary end necessary consumption on hand at date of passage, ‘The mid- diemon ond manufacturers will be the only beneficiaries up to that time, and oven they will be somewhat disappointed and dis. gusted with tho consequent dorangoment of prices and falling-off in their sales, and de- mand for thoir wares, for as prices advance consumers nocessarily retrench in thoir pur- chases. But the entire agricultaral commu. nity, North and South, comprising one- half tho total population of the country; the laborers and salaried classes generally; tho vost majority made up of consumers who are not “protected,” will all unite in a grand and univorsal outcry against the additional burdens put upon them without adding one dollar to the public revenues. ‘This will bo the golden opportunity forthe Democrats. With majority of 70 in the Houso, the very first thing they will do after organizing next December will be to rush through a repeal of the Tax bill which will have become 0 obnoxious in the meanwhile, ‘The repeal bill will then go to the Senate, where the Republican majority will be 6 or 7 at the most, including some who are exceed- ingly unreliable for caucus drill and others who are honestly opposed to the prosent Tax bill and all “protective” taxation, Under the unmistakable popular demand for repeal, the Senate will not fail to indorse tho action of the House, ‘The tax will then bo taken off after it shall have enabled the specula- tors and middlemen to extort at least B100,000,000 from the people's pockets, and before it shall have returned penny into the United States Treasury, Meanwhile the “ glories” of the Democratic party in persistently opposing the increase o3 the popular burdens will have been sounded throughout the land, and usod to carry tho Stato, county, mynicipal, and other local elections for the Democracy next spring and fall, whereby that party will havo strongth- enod its organization enormously for the giant atruggle in 1876. ‘The Demoeratio repeal of the extra, un- necessary, and odious tax laviod by the ex- piring Republican Congress will strike the poople with full force just about the opening of the next Presidential campaign, which will follow closo upon the heols of the next Congross. Whon this next Congress shall ad. Journ, therefore, the Demooratic leaders will go before the people with an argument that the Republican leaders and newspa- pers will not be able to moot, They will claim to be the “party of the people,” and point to the record and effect of the presont ‘Tax bill as a proof that the lost oflicial act of the Republican party, before going out of power, was to in- crease the taxes, und that the Darnocrata availed themeelves of the first opportunity to deorease them. Here ie Mr, Dawzs' estimate of the increased revenue which the Tax bill will yleld: From distiited spirits... From tobacco From sugar an Weom repeal of the $16,810,000 Hest eo 13,100) 20,000 Lod —— TOL sereeesevee seersesetevecse ven sees B97,003,000' ‘This ie the amount of increased taxation which the Demoorats will point to ay have been put upon the people at one swoop by the Ropublicans, On the other hand, they will make up @ statement of what the poople will have paid to the mannfacturers and middle. men on stooks on hand, in the advauced price of goods, during the eight months which will intervena between the onactment of the tax and its repeal, which will be some. thing as follows: Eight monthe’ consumption of whisky at on advance of YO conta a gallott.........ee ee! $ 22,000,000 Elght nionthe’ consti thin ef tobaces at an advauce of 4cents # pound 3,000,000 Fight monthe’ consumption of molssees at 28 per cent advan 16,000,000 Efght monthe® conaumplion of all more—atock ott haud—10 per cent, 75,000,000 “This,” the Demoerata will say to the peo- plo, ‘is the amount wrung froin yor by the Republican Tax bill for tue benefit of the jobbers, middlemen, and speculators, You have paid out $£106,000,000 in eight months on account of it, and the Government revenue has actually fallen of meanwhile! We, the Democratic party, have repealed this infa- mous legislation!" Can the Republican lenders, in ar out of Congress, afford to go before the people in the next Presidential election handicapped on this issue? Let the bill dio in the hands of its progenitors, A SETTLEMENT WANTED, Why is not something done to scttle this Louisiana question? We have had state- ments, manifestos, protests, affidavits, speeches, public meetings, investigations and counter-investigations, and proclamations sufficient to have settled a general European war, and still the ‘Louisiana question” re- mains in statu quo, The public mind has only been confused by this constant clamor and denunciation for political purposes, and, apparently, the Congressional mind is as much muddled os the public, Sifting the mass of evidence down, it is clear that ench party to the eontest down there has made out a good esso against the other, and that neither has mnde one for itself. Do- ducting all that may bo charged to par tisan = malico and political oexaggera- tion, it is clear that intimidation has been used and many murders committed by the Democrats upon tho one side which have not been punished, and also that the Kentaca crowd is corrupt, imbecile, and oppressivo, and yet it romains in power, supported by the United States army, without which it would go to pisces in aday. In noithor caso are the demands of justice met or satisfied. The despair of the situation is that oach party occupios itaclf exclusively in impeach- ing tho other, and in proving each other rotten rascals, a process which might be kept up until doomsday, instead of making itself worthy of recognition and support by exc- outing law and justice. Tho fight is a parti- gan one in its every aspect, The Democrats of Lonisiana would long ago have com- mended thomselves to the sympathy of the country if they had punished these murderous crimes as they should have been punished, and kept thom- selves and their cause within the limits of the law. The carpet-baggers would have had their causo in much better shape than it is now if they had denounced the corruption and imbecility of tho ‘gigantic fraud” of the Kzxzoae Government and the fraudulent action of the Returning Bosrd. Either party long ago could have obtained a vast advantage by punishing the crimes of its own odherants and showing a willingnoss to do right. One thing is certain. Tho country is tired of hearing these stories of murders, outrages, corruptions, ballot-box-stuffing frauds, sick of manifostos, proclamations, and statements, and denials, and wants to hear no moro Committee iteration and reiteration on this everlasting Louisiana business, It has had enongh of it. What it wants now is action on the plain facts of the case, The majority in Congress must be brought to look at the matter in this light, and nothing short of this will command the respect of the country or settle the Louisiana imbroglio. A partisan sottloment will be temporary, and will hurt the party making'it mora than the other. Is tho Republican party in Congress so hope- lesaly split into foctions that it can arrive at no understanding? Is it about to shows Moxican or South American incapacity for organized action of a just and intelligont character? Why does not the Investigating Committce make its report? But ao very few days romain in which the party can eave itself from the reputation of being incapable of settling the question, and it is all the moro important, therefore, that tho roport should be made as speedily as possible. The factsin tho caso are all in, 23 fully as they will proba- bly evor be known. The field of investigation has been exhausted. It can be settled to-day - as woll as ot any time in the futuro, and that acttlomont should be made upon tho basis of what is right and justice without any regard to partisan considerations, Such a settle- ment would be the best thing not only for Louisiana, but for the whole country, and what is best for the country will be best for the Republican party. If the party is inca. pablo of settling it, let it be acknowledged. Ifit is capable of settling it, why isit not done? JOHN 0, FREMONT AND TOM SCOTT. The Now York Sun has published a fresh chaptor in its alleged history of the Southern Pacifio Railroad. It is diafigured by various reckless partisan statements of corruption by individuals, of which no proof whatever is given. Thus the Sun says: Ho [Farwont] bought Brit Strwaer, paying bim a large price, probably over $25,000 iu gold, 2 4 A larga block of the atock was held in trust for the bens eft of the Proadent'sfrmily, , , . The influence of Gen, SOHENOK Was auflicient tokeop Minlater Wastt- BunNe quict, It ig true that Senator Srewanr first op- posed and afterwards favorod Fuarmont, and that his name has been smirched by his con- nection with the Emma Mine; but these facts offer no justification for the Sun’s state- ment that he was “bought.” Not an atom of proof is given of the second scandalous statement we bave quoted, The third haa alrendy been amply disproved, Itia in evi- denco that the Hon. E. B. Wasnsunne, far from being ‘kept quiet” by Scmzncx or any- body else, promptly exposed the El Paso ewindle and incurred thereby the bitter hatred of Faremonr some time before the French courts condemned the latter to two years’ im- prisonment, and clapped his noble brother. in-law into jail for complicity in the job. Aside from these gross blemishes, the Sun's article ia valuable, It shows by the Congressional proceedings, and the letters of the conspirators, that ‘Tom Scorr's Texas & Pacifico wild-cat railway is tho legitimate successor of Farmont'’s Memphis & El Paso swindle, ‘Yho bribos of the latter were util- ized by the former. The stock and bonds of the two wero interchanged, The El Paso franchises, land-granty, etc., fell into the clutchoa of the Texas Pacific, In 1869, Fremont returned to this country from France with @ great sum of ill-gotten gold, given him by his Fronch dupea in ex- change for worthlesa Memphis & El Paso bonds. The unsavory reputation of his Com. pany mado it impossible to carry on buule neas under its name. A new corporation, the Southern Transooatinental, was planood, Fob, 21, 1870, Heaton, of North Carolina, introduced 9 bill into the Iouse to incorpo- rate this (Compauy, grant it Innds, and authorize it to nequire ' by purchase or other- wiso” all the belongings of the Memphis & El Paso, Among tho incorporators named woro Frewonr, EL. L. Faxcuen (Iacific Mai! lobbyist), M. ©, Hunter (Democratic Con- grossman, with El Paso bribes in his pqck- ets), A. H, Wurrina (Pacific Mail lobbyist), Powenn Crayton (earpet-bagger of the worst sort), and a sprinkling of respectable mon. March 9, 1870, before this bill had been con- sidered in the Howse, Kernona, then Senator, now Governor by the grace ofa gignntio froud,” introduced into the Senate a bill to incorporate the Texas Pacific Road. Ho stated, in tho Senate, that it was the rond asked for by the Commercial Conven- tions held at Louisville nnd other Southern cities during the preceding summer, The facts were that all these Conventions had been worked up by the Southern Transcon- tinontal (Fnemont’s) men, while Scorr had had nothing to do with them, Kr11000's bill rallied the clans at Washington. After 4 long battle, attended, as the Sun alleges, by indiscriminate bribery, & compromise was made. Fremont and his associates wero bought off. ‘They got a representation in the Texas Pacifle Directorate and received bonds and stock besides. Tom Scorr got control of the job, and has since been sup- ported in it by the same inen who were ‘tin. fluenced” by Frestont. The following quo- tations from letters of Frevont to the Now York Zridune, published March 15, 1872, and therenfter, show tho intimate connection of the two jobs: Tho passage of tho Texsa Pacife Railroad,bill, the continuation of the Memphis & Ht Paso, was u vine Ajcation of my actions, and one of the most valued uonora of my Ufe, . . . Early in 1868, momorial af the Memphis, El Paro & Pactfc Rallroad Company was presented to Con- greca, . . . In 2960 a bill was aubetitoted, asking for tho extension of the Memphis, El Paso & Pacific to Ban Diego, This bill paseed the House of Nepresenta- tives, and finally, after many changer, waa approved by both Houses, tender the name uf the Texas Pacyle Ratlroad bill, The road {s now building by Tuostas A, Scorr, The new road has now collapsed, with Tnosas A. Scorr, and the Intter is begging Congress to give him $375,000,000 of the peoplo’s money with which to lay track across the desert, There aro too many tools of his in Congress, with El Paso bribes in thoir pockets, but there is fortunately small olance for the job. ‘The people are awake to its iniquity. THE PROPOSED SUGAR TAX. 'The robberies practiced under the form of so-called ‘ protective” tariff are universal, and, though we have exposed many of the instances in which these robberies hnve been veiled under n pretense of patriotism, tho tariff on sugar is one of the most ndroitly planned in the whole scheme. We con- sume in the United States, annually, about 2,000,000,000 pounds of sugar (one million tons), including that produced in thia coun. try. Our tariff isso planned that no sugar, execpt loaf, lump, and sugar in the form of candy, ete, is imported that is fit for consumption. It all has to go through the hands of the ‘ protected” refiners, How this is done may be-seon by the following rates of duty: Sugars, rofined and fit for uso, duty 661-2 percent; raw sugars, eto., 87 per cent. The sugars imported into tho United States during the fiscal yonr.1874 were 1,644,709,767 pounds, having a value of $81,478,890. The revenue collected from this was $32,480,100. This sugar was thus divided: Raw augar, n Reflued agar, 2 1,109,087 ‘Tho importation of refinod sugars las been practically prohibited, in order to secure bounties to the refinors in this country. Lf sugar were taxed on uniform rate of 2 cents por pound, the revonues of the Government would not bo decrensed, and, instead of im- porting raw sugar, we would import sugars refincd far enough for immediate use, ‘The great bulk of thesugarimportcd paysatax of 37 per cont; the duty on sugar fit for consump- tion is 57 per cent; the protection to the ro- finer is 20 per cent. ‘That is to say, tho people of tho United States pay a tax of 37 per cont om all tho sugar they consume, which tax goes into the Treasury; that in addition thereto they pay ‘a duty of 20 per cent in gold on all the sugar they consumo to the gentlemen in Philadelphia who enjoy the protection of Congress. This certainly ought to be enough, but the new Tax bill now before Congress proposes to increaco theso taxes as follows: Raw sugars, $19,708,059 Birup and melado.,, T to 48M Dutch standard, No, 7. buy to 415 Dutch standard, No, 1 BUX to 49% Duteb standard, Ni a7 to bay Bofiued sugare,... to 1 Here is an averago increaso of 91-2 per cent on the duties on raw sugars which have to be refined, and an incroase on refined sugars 16 per cont. The protection bounty to the refiners is increased from 20 to 25 per cent. The bill proposes to levy an additional tax to produce revenue, but o much greater increaso of tax for the profit of the refiner, Under the law as it stands, the Government collects $82,000,000 of revenue, and the sugar refiners and producers get 20 per cent on the whole consumption of two thousand millions of pounds, Under this Dill, if it become a law, tho Treasury will receive $40,000,000 and the refiners will collect 25 per cent on the whole consumption, Tho effect of this change in the law will be to add 1 1-2 cents per pound to the price of all sugars con- sumed in tho United States, That consump- tion is 2,000,000,000 pounds, or an increaso of $30,000,000 tax, This additional tax paid by the people will be thus divided ; Collected by the Treasur: Oollocted by retiuers, to, Total... 30, 000,000 ‘That is the way ‘ protective” taxes oper- ate, Eight dollars to tho Treasury, and twenty-two to the refiners and dealers! In addition, this incroase of price to the con- sumer will be put upon the whole stock of sugar now in the country, and upon that stock the consumers will pay perhaps $20,- 000,000 additional, of which the ‘freasury will pot get a dollar, This bill, if it becomes a law, will inpose upon the poople of the United States, from March, 1876, to July, 1876, on additional tax on sugar of $50,000,- 000, of which the Tronsury will receive just about $8,000,000, and the refiners and dealers will get the rest. It would be cheaper for the country if Con- gress, instead of passing this bill, should vote a cash subsidy of $25,000,000 to the re- finers and dealers, and acl! bonds to raise the money. In fact, that is the real purpose of the bill; the pretonse of raising increased revenue is a0 lacking in thicknesa as to do- edive no person, ‘The eame Committee that reported this bill to impose » tax of $30,000,- 000 annually, besides $20,000,000 immadiate- ly on the stock of sugar on hand, had not the courage to propose a tax on tea and coffee that now pay nothing, and which would have yielded $18,000,000 per annum, all of which would have gone into the Treasury. Thera was no “ protection” grab in the tax on toa and coffee; there was no genteel pauperstove pensioned; no robbers to be appeased; no private constituents to have a dividend, The tax on sugar, however, mot these emergen- cics; it would extort $50,000,000 from tho consumers, of which four-fifths is to be parceled out among the hungry gang who insist that it is the duty of the Government to enrich them at the public cost. The country can judgo of the zeal with which certain Congressinen in the last houra of their official existence propose to levy additional taxes to the amount of $150,- 000,000 in order to produce $20,000,000 of rovenuc, Is it any wonder that tho people, and expecially the Republican party, want this Congress to bo adjourned quickly, lest it do more injury to the country than could bo inflicted even by a panic like that of 1873? “THE CREMATION A aed OF RESUMP- iN.” Davw A, Wets has published in the New York Iferald a long letter on “the way to resume,” He gives his theory the title which we have used as the enption of this article. Hoe would have the Secretary of the Treas- ury “burn” at least $500,000 of greenbacks overy week, or $26,000,000 9 year, If this wero done, the greenback's becoming worth par in gold would be a question simply of timo, not fact. Mr. Wes estimntes that the time would be between three and four years, so that the avernge annual inercase in the valuo of the legal-tonder would bo only about 3 1-2 per cent. A debtor's loss, thore- fore, by such gradual resumption would be, he thinks, little mioro than nominal. The contraction, by making resumption certain, would give capitalists confidence, and would thereforo induce them, he argues, to make long loans, which they are now so loth Lo do. Coutraction, therefore, instead of diminish- ing the amount of money available for use, would really inerense it, Moreover, it would strengthen legitimate business operations, becauso long Jonns are usually em- ployed for such operations, while specu- Intors fly their thirty and sixty-day ‘ kites.” Again, gradual contraction would not injure the commercial prosperity of the country. France cut down its currency by contraction 200,000,000 between October, 1873, and De- cembor, 1874. No bad results havo followed, bat, on the contrary, good ones. In fact, as was shown the other day, business has thriv- ed greatly during tho operation, Contrac- tion under Scerotary McCuntocr caused no bad results. Congress stopped it in deference to a foolish ontery that it was going to do harm. How absurdly wrong this outory was isshown by the fact that no actual con- traction tovk placo! It was a mere mat- ter of bookkeeping. Part of the greenbacks in the Treasury were transferred on the books to the reserve from time to time. That wasall. The circuiation remained the same. Wo agree with Mr. Werzs that contraction of irredeemable notes is the only rond to re- sumption, and that it would not, if gradual, disturb commercial values one whit. But we do not agrea with him that the Secretary of tho Treasury should buy and burn hulf a million of notes every week. For this would make necessary on increased taxation of $26,000,000 oa year, which the people will not stand, ‘Tho best method of contraction is to issue a 4+ per cent gold-bond, running thirty or forty years, and allow anybody to fund greenbacks? in even sums over $100, int. these bonds. Then let tho business take care of itself. Every greenback retired in this way should be “‘ cremated.” ‘hia plan, while insuring gradual withdrawal of tho greenback notes to the point where they would appreciate to gold value, would not produce any stringency in the money market, because the 4 per cont bonds into which they wore converted would bo used in all large transactions for. the pur- chase of property or payment of debts, and would be always of the same value as the notes plus the accumulated intorest, and at tho same time would give steadiness to the outstanding greenbacks in circulation ag well as to the bank notés. Why is not thie the easicst and simplest way to work back to a spocie basis ? THE BRAZIL COAL-STRIKERS, The strike of the miners at Brazil, Clay County, Ind., is peculiarly illustrative of the unreasonableness of this class of workmen in charging their ills on capital, Three yoars ago, when Indiana “block coal” was tho rage, the minors demanded $1.25 per ton, and received it, Thea other mines were opencd, and competition put down the price to $1.10 perton, ond the minera “struck.” Nine months afterwards, a reduction from tho same cause—compotition—was made to 91, and ogain the miners struck, Last summer a fur- ther reduction had tobe made to 85 cents, with half-time work, followed by the inevitable strike," Now has come another roduction to 10cents, full time being offered, and tho miners have struck again, and are bent upon inaugurating a ‘‘ war against capital,” as thoy call it, Meanwhile the proprietors cannot help the situation, as they have offered to pay all they can possibly afford, and so the mines lie idle, and tho miners arospending their sny- inga ond running into debt and unablo to support themselves, the National Miners’ Union having declared itself unable to help them, ‘The reasons why the proprictors can- not pay more ore sulicient. The chicf mar- ket hitherto for the Indiana block coal has boen Chicago, which has takon 70 per cent of the whole product of the Brazil mines. At the very: time when the min- ers were striking last. year and the mines were lying idle, the proprioters of mines in Ohio improved the opportunity, and opened a vigorous competition by estab- lishing » market in Chicago at such cheap rates that the Brazil proprietors could not compete without again lowering the cost of production, It was that, or close up and abandon the mines, ‘The advantage thus gnined has been followed up by the Ohio and Tinols mines, so that the recent reduction became necessary. Either the reduction must be mads, or the Chicago mar. ket for Brazil coal must be eban- doned, This, however, is a fact which the miners will not look at, With the blindness, ignorance, and miscalculation ao often charactoristio of this clasa of workmen, thoy have organized a war of ven- geanco upon capital, thatis, upon their em- ployera. And what are they fighting? Cer- tainly not the propriotora, ‘The latter have refused to accedo to the minors’ terms, be- cause if they pay more for the production of the coal than they can scll the coal for, it is only 8 question of time, and # short timo at that, as to how goon they will go into bank. ruptey. The City of Chicago is the ‘*oapi- talist,” the elemont of opposition which they call capital, and which they are fighting. When thoy “struck,” it looked elsowhore and brought cloaper eoal from other quarters into Chiengo in great quanti. ties, and this has been truo eva, time thoy have struck, ‘and will bo trio 50 Jong a3 they continuc to atrike against their own bread nnd butter, Every strike that they make gives other mines an Opportunit to place their coal in Chicago, and the poopie of Chicago agaiust whom there 2,000 ling Brazilian miners aro fighting nro hound tg buy conl where they can buy tho cheapest They are therefore fighting the people of Chicago, and it docs not requira a prophet tg foretell how such a fight will come out, ‘po nro virtually demanding that the Proprietors shall pay them moro than they can ot fey their coal after it arrives at market, and after having by their own foolishness allowed oh, or mines to come into the Chiengo market and compete with them. Tho proprietors are helpless. Thoy can do no moro than sit ly and watch this ‘struggle between tho miner and Chicago; and Chicago, not tronitin herself about Brazilian miners, will go a buying conl where it cna purchase it chen est, Thoy nro wasting thoir timo and littis savings, therefore, in denouncing their em. ployers. ‘They are losing money Overy day, ‘Their four strikes have cost thom tena of thousands of dollars. Their familicg re sorely snfforing through their blindness ong obstinacy, and, when they do go towork Again, they have got to work harder than ever, and h pinch and scrimp themselves and their fam, b , ilies to make good their losses. If they enn. not afford to work forthe wages offered them, which is all the proprietors can offer them then they should go elsowhere, as other mea do; but to sit down and wasto their time, and squander their savings, and make thei fomilies suffer, in o senseless war against thoir omployers, who, in this case, ns wo hare said, aro controlled by the demand for thei eonl by the City of Chicago, is simply ingane and anicidal. The experienco of the pas ought to havo shown them this, and orn now, while they ero lying idle, Ohio is pou. ing in coal hore at a rate which will soon eat off their prospects of supplying the Chicago market ontirely, 8omo of tho Rov. Dr, Rxpan's friends deny that he is a “ probibitloniat,” because he bas uot fa:th in the efiicioncy of prohibition laws, They rofer us ta the following extract from ono ofhs publiahed sermona, winch defines his postticn, viz: ‘*Doos the present attitude of the tem perance reform intlicato tho need of any Surber legislation ? So far as what is callod prohitition is concerned, I am satisfied that it is impractics ble, especially in tho West, and that any attenpt to forco such @ statute upon the poozly will ed in defeat.” PERSONAL, Gov. J. UL. Pexxivatox, of Dakota Territory, arrivod yesterday at tho Palmer Houss. The St. Louis Republican says De Banari Falstaff are a8 thick a8 Tom and Jerry. The Italian proof-reader has converted Ca Forvey into un Capitano Grovannr Fonez, Senator Anpntw Jounson loft Nasbville lat evening for Washington, vin Giconvillo, Teun, Mr. and Mrs. Scorr-Smpoxs and Mastet Tlexny Waxuen ariived at tho Grand Paciy yesterday. Epinauna (late ALFRED) ig going to play fist fiddle in an amateur orchestra, He bas ovidet ly become a misauthrope. “Nuddor man allee samoo good," in the oom forting reflection uf the Heathen Chines wha the doath of the Emperor is mentioned to bic. ‘Thirly-soven degreos below io Ottawa, Tr wo pity Bint, Kina, a Reausren on the Fame urite of Canada l—New York Commercial Ab vertiser. ‘s Musrara, the celebrated soprano of the fs | tine Chapel, sings for the Popo alone. ig to be his sucocasor, if tho old gontleman vives the young ono, A San Francisco newspaper called Cut Morus a “blonde bonanzs,"” and Wane promenades before that ofice with an arsed from kunrige to sundown, A contemporary commenting on TiLton'sttst+ mony, “maryola at the fact that, while tryinzt i ostablish in court tho adultery of Lis wife, bt porbists in maintaining her purity." a Mra. Gen. Meven, of Washington, has om ‘4 advantegaoverher nelghbors. eing then F of “ Old Probabilities,” she knows what kinid : weather to expact for hor receptions. & Mr. Lewis Martnovse, tho woll-known is manufacturor of Kankakeo, was in tho city) teiday, at the Brovoort. As usual, ho fouud casion to rejoice in the posscadion of a ‘:ttut tickot.” Mr. Munnar, tho great London publisher, t09 of Brnow's publisher, immortalized In bis > try, has been knighted, aud ie the first of tt trado whose namo was over ennoblsd witht handle. Sopnta Broce, « tineal descendant of Rotts Bavce, has not the same love of spidera that be ancestor had. She ix a domostlo servantint Nova Scotia family, and swoopa away cobaelt without compunstion, It {a gout which troubles Spunarzoy, and fo Is usually caused by high and reckleas living. ft must therefore bave beon a remote ancestor the reverend gentleman who entaiod the a: cratic disorder on tho family. ‘Tou Countway, the contractor, finds bin tho powsessor of a widoaproad literary fame, 14 It takes all his spore timo to assure puople 1-4 he is uot the author of certain letters to Ht fF newspapers criticisiug the Volice Byard, we ‘The Erie Railroad Company havo sold Fra! Groud Opere-Houso Iniquity for $760,00 I was stated that Sevater Srewanz, of Nenis { was the puichavor, but that 19 now denied. 1 names of the buyers will bo made known alorlt The Hon. Mr, Wexw, of Halo County, 6 of ored membor of the Alabama Lemislutara bY introduced a bill to rogniate agricutture 10 1 Btate. Ono of its provisions iv to tin any ft er 9500 who docs not plant one-third of bt Jand in cotton, ‘Tho Observer givos the tollowing acene ont care not many miles fom Utica: Ruter 8 la! who addrosscs @ woll kuown railroad of a “Mr,—, do you think that Mr. Bevours4 guilty?” “Quilly of what, madam?” Exit lath 2 suffused with blushes, Ys Tho oldest nan in Now York fe an Irish named Epwanp McGovern, who ix 106 yr old, aud a former. This New York Hiperuitt Neator livea at Harlem, He was born the a year with Naporgon, Wrtuixaron, and were! other Irivlmon not so well known in histor- So many applications for divorce pare made to the Idato Logislature, that Mr. F pock has introduced « bill divorcing #!! at married peopte ta the Yerritory, aud placios ; i in slatu quo ante matrimonium, This, be ee ; will save time, aud those who wish cam be” | married, aytody Prof, Nar#an Saxrranp leaves the city ! ae) for agocond lecture tour through the Es tates. It isnot often that the Wedt fur the Fast with lectarera, but ahe tas dove i good purpose io this instance, Prof. DUE? iy a wan of powor, origiuality, and oulture d has lootured in Great Britalo aud the States with signal wuccesa, Hue Loarors ways his admirers, at The priewts usually capture the paect the motion of the lagies of Guanajuato. cae shows that aweet-econted town to be 00 Oe tion to the rule, Observe sherr osth ee 7 promise not to recognize as father, Panaet husband auybody who, directly of tnd! took part in the action of Congress expelling Bluters of Oarity.” Ife squad of paaltiy Yuuke got abruad Ln Guanajuato th i ¢ er Ewe: ec