Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1875, Page 4

4 5 i — —— wworo oasior, closing nt 63 5-80 for March. Ityo was firm at 90 1-2c@$1.00, Barley wan dull and £-2@10 lowor, closing at $1.09 for March, and $1.07 for April. Hogs wore dull and ensy at Fridey'a declino, Salos at $6.25 @7.40,. The enttlo and sheep markets were inaderately active nnd stendy. standing, upon which bonds the Government haa paid over 28,000,000 interest, hns offered to pay $500,000 a year for twenty yenrs and $740,000 o yonr thorenftor, until ita pay- ments, reckoned at compound interest, equal its debt, reckoned at nimple interest, Now the Central Pacific, which owes ‘827,855,630 principal and nearly $10,000,000 interest, modestly offers to pay 3200,000 overy yenr, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. “MATER OF EURECRITTION (TATARLE TH ADVANCE), Voxtage Prepaid at this Omces 00 | Sanday OU | Waekl ‘To prevent dolay ant Offco address in fall, ini Remdttances may be made either by draft, exprosa, Post- Oftca order, or in regtetored letters, at onr risk. ANNMA TO CETY SURRCKIBERA, In another column will bo found an ab- Bene bss ne ules: sere ials 2 cent ne ey stract of n letter by Tnunnow Ween, roviow- until its paymonts, withinterest compounded Address THE TRIMUNE COMPANY, ing the political situation and expinining the | overy six months, equal its debt nt simple in- Cerner Madison and Deatharn: Chicago, Hl. causes of the recent Republican defeat. Mr, Weep, of conrse, finds that tho party was badly hurt by back-pay, Sanbornism, ‘rens- ury imbecites, Shepherd, nnd tho rest. He thinks, too, that the third-term ery frightened mony ; but, strangely enough, ho scarcely touches at all upon that most po- tentof all causes—tho panic, ond tho vague tin- reat prowing ont of itamong the poorer classes. Mr. Wren's letter is most emphatic in that part which touches upon tho squander. ing of tho public domain in sub- sidies and bounties, To srgues, not in distinct terms, it is true, but impliedly, that the Government is pooror for avery acro of Inud it has given away. We nro not pro- pared to go the whole length with Mr. Ween, but there certainly is much in what ho terost! As this simple interest amounts ench year to more than $1,600,000, the reader with o year or so of leisure before him can calculate when the rond will dis- charge the obligations rightfully duo in 1892 and 18%, In return for this munificont yearly donation of $200,000 by the Central Pacific, the uation is to stop its suits against tho corporation and give up its second mort gage on the ron. Thatisall, This cheeky proposal is contained in a letter to Secretary Batsrow from 0, P. Huntixaron, The Int- tor, ten days ngo, was begging Congress for o grant of millions of new bonds to ousblo him to build a rond across Arizona desorts to meet Tom Scorr’s westward-bound track. Now ho coolly announces that the Central Pacific, which has alrendy got its bonds, can- TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. IMY OF MUSIC—Halsted atreot. between Mad- eee one Hngagement of frsok Casfrag, “+ Ths Uctoroun.” IVICKER'S THEATRE —Madieon etrent, betwoan paegen ea States Engsgemout of Obarlotte Cushman, Macbeth.” | ADELPHI TIBATRE—Doathorn streot, corner Mons wes. Wantly sutettelnivent “The Moodfum,” A-ItUUSH—Clark atrast, opposite Birease Houen. eal Plgowe Htnatrelns Brow pat NOOLET'S THRATRE—Nacdalnh street. between Olark and Lasalle. Fenny Lins Dora" aud ' Jonny Lind." fonras atroot, between Deare 1 Robinson,” “SOCIETY MEETINGS. ptiAponto._tatazetta Chanter, Na. %..Te Aso | says; and his oatimato of tho great | not or will not pay its dues, but will kindly and work on the to meet wlilt resourse which the Government would have in this hour of its emergency, if its affairs hed been prudcutiy administered, is enough to stir the most benovolont henrt with fool. inga of remorse, We hope to recur to Mr. Weern's letter in 9 future issue. tors a few dollars into our ompty Tronsury,— provided the nation grants it fresh favors, ‘The two things need to be taken together to appreciate the vast difference betweon Hont- tnaton in possession of bonds and Huntina- ton in search of bonds, lors. cate of tia lt. B UKE, See. ALL THAT ART OAN ACCOMPLISIS IN DEAU- ee TA Attn: aud Teonereing the human batr is euected. by Burnett's Cncosine, This lacomparabls Hatr Drossing imparts a gloasiuess that le healthy and uatural, itis a cooling veratatve oll, agrosable aud slceu, and treeina tho hair porfectls. The Chace Tribune. Monday Morning, Fobruary £2, 1875. THE DUTY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. The result of tho recont Scnatorial contests and tho fall clections suggosts one fact which ought to impress itself with great force upon tho Republican mombors of the present Con- gress. Tho result of thoso olections is that there will be cighty-fivo membors in tho noxt or Forty-fourlh Congress who havo either served in tho Rebel army or held positions undor tho Rebel Government, notwithstand- ing the fact that the Republican party bas been stigmatized ns tho “party of hate.” In the next House, the Democrats have already elected 161 inombors, being a majority of 6O over the Republicans, There aro only sov- entecn seats moro to fill. Of tho wholo Democratic strgngth, 82 is a majority. Of those 82, the ex-Robels will also havo an un- questioned majority, and, even should thoy not, they can safely count upon sufficient Northorn Bourbon doughfaces, with “Sonth- ern principles,” to do their bidding, Tha ro- sult of thi fact is very tersely put by tho Albany Evening Journal as follows: Now what follows? Tho itouso of Representatives, with its power over legislation and all the appropris~ tluns, 1s uniler tho control of the Democratic mem bern; the Democratio memters aro under the control of the caucus which determines the policy of tha par- ty $ tho coneus fs under the control of the majority of its members; and that mnfority, a8 wo have scon, is mado up of those who acrved in tha Rebol army or under tho Rebel Government, Thus it comes to pass that those who were only the other day Sighting to do- stroy the Government havo now, through the Demo cratic party, secured possession of Cougress, and have the power to say what if shall do and what it eball not do, Tho situation suggests tho duty of tho Ro- publicans in this emergency, Tho Demo- crats themselves aro alarmed at the character of the monagerio thoy have on hand and the danger lest the “animals” may get loose and do some irreparable damage, Thero nevor was o time whon they were so oager to finish up business nud get away from Washington. On Saturday, the Army Appropriation bill, in- volving $27,000,000 was passed after half an hour's discussion, although the Democrats have mado more fusa about the army during the session than about any other branch of ‘Tho latest compromise offered hy the Con- servative members of the Louisiana Legisla- ture appears, nt this distance and viewed through the Inminous transparency of a Now York Herald special, to ho a remarkable prop- osition, These nro the torma: The Kri.oco Government to be rocognized and upheld as fie facto na long as it issustained by President Grant; the Lower House of tho Legisinturo to be roorganized with n Conservative majority, according to the judgment of tho Congressional Investigating Com- mittes ; tho Senate to take care of itself, with the tacit undorstanding that it is not to bo disturbed; tho Conservatives not to ac- knowledge Krn10co as Governor by right, or the Haun Legislature a3 having boen in ox- istence, A majority of tho Congressional Committeo, the dispatches published yester- day say, will report in favor of most of the concessions domaniled by the Consorvatives. Wo have attempted to show in another col- umn .this morning why it is unlikely the re- port will bo adopted, and in what renpect it is defective, It will bo observed that tho ob- jections to the report do not oxtend in their entiroty to the proposition of a compromise; for tho argument of the Conservatives, that thoy cannot be expected to concede more than tho National Government demands, is eminently sound. Tho intermission of the Brronen trial for to-day in ono of the blessings we have to thank Gronan Wasmnoron for. ————————— ‘A sufficient number of the creditors of Mr. B. F. Auten have united to commence pro- cecdings in bankruptey against him in the Court of Iowan, ‘Tho required numbor of creditors, holding claims oxcoeding $100,000, Baye signed the application to the Court, which will probably bo filed todny at Des Moines, In extending its session from the 25th inst. to the 4th prox., the Wisconsin Legislature bas held out some hopo of a modification of tho Porren law. Very much of a change neod not, however, be oxpected. When Gov. Tarzon, in his annual message, recommended in essential modification of the lew, he did not mean that it should bo mado satisfactory to tho railway companies, but less burden- tome. —_—— The Ponnsylvania Railrond Company has made reductions in passenger rates botweon the seaboard and the principal Western cities, excepting Chicago, The people heraways, perbaps, have boen somewhat too warm in tho support of the Baltimore & Ohio, and much too cool towards the Toxns Pacific, Thisrailroad war is a personal matter with Mr. Tox Scorr. Io wants revenge, not ravenue. So he put his poor old noso to the grindstone, and bids travolors from Chicago to take the opposition line. ‘Mr, Tom Scott, it seems, has succeeded in molding tho National Grange into a seeming indorsement of tho Texas Pacific subsidy which ho is now trying to procure from Con- gress. This action of the National Grango is utterly ridiculous, in viow of the fact that it is tho outgrowth—n sort of fuhgus growth— of s movement among tho agricultural classes against the ills they imagined thoy suffered from the railronda, and in view of tho othor fact that all the actual abuses they have en- dured on this account may bo traced directly tothe anbsidy and protection system, Stato, local, and National. ‘Tho effect of this action will be rather to bring the National Grange into contempt than to help the Tox Scorr ' The Republican Congressional caucus, rop- resenting the Republican party which existed in this country two years and a half ago, has aot and resolved to put the so-called political bills through Congress, If thie cannot bo oie done without defeating tho appropriation eeeaes donate National eae the Government. They declinod any dis- Dills, still it must be done, The responsi- it is tho agricultnrists of + the cussion, Bir, Cox had the temerity to Lility of an extra session, say tho cau- cus-manngers, will rest with the Domo- erats; if a factious opposition is offered to tho political bills, business must come toa atand-atill. The Republican party which lives cud moves to-day has not, we imagine, 8 good opinion of the political bills; it would be glad to sco them defeated on their merits, and especially if their defeat would bring about on extra session and force the Demo- erats to their trumps, offer an amondmcnt for which ho was snubbed and rebuked as violating s caucus ogreomont. ‘Thoy aro afraid to consume any time, To devote a day to the fancral ou- logiums over members was gall and bitter- ness to them. They want to finish up all the business promptly by March 4, and do not care toshow thoir hands or to develop any programme until Docember, 1875, ‘Thia will carry thom past the spring olections in Now Hampshire and Connostiout, pastthe summer and fall elections for State officers in nearly all tho States, and bring thom squarely up to tho Prosidential year without showing their hands, whereas, if thoro is on extra scesion, the Sonthern fire-eaters may got loose be- yond all possibility of restraint, and prejudico the elections and chango the popular current. Tho speech of Joun Youna Drown was a warning of what might happen, and has set the whole Northorn Democracy into anorvous fover of drend that the whole managerio may get upon the rampage in tho event of an extra session, and knock the elections and their Presidential prospect higher than a kite, Tho Ropublicans now have the powor to make thom show their hands and devolop their programme, and it is thoir duty to do ao. Now thatthe control of the Hous of Ropresentatives has been placed in tho hands of the mon who fought to break down the Government and destroy the Union, 'we can know nono too s00n what thoy propose to do hereafter. ‘The country wants to know whore our now rulers stand on groat issues, and it will be for the best interesta of the country to have on extra session, ‘The interests of Domocratic wiro-pullers aro of no conso- quence in comparison with the interest of the nation, country who are on the record everywhero as unconditionally opposed to tho granting of subsidies by Congress, The Houso of Rep- resontatives has the samo record, Iaid down in a resolution adopted early in the session, so that we may roasonably doubt Mr. Tost Scorr'’s claim that he will havo a majority of twonty in the House in favor of the bill. Tho Republicans of the Hons will do well to turn this job over to the Democratic Con- gress which succeeds them. ‘Tho Domocrats havo mado many of their late gains by pro- feesing opposition to all subsidy schemes, and now wo find the Southern Democrats al- most unanimous for this, the biggest and most reprohonsible of all of them. Stull, if the prosont Congress vote the subsidy, tho Democrats will say tho Republicans did it; let the Demo- erats take tho responsibility at tho noxt session, which should commence on tho Gth of March, ‘The audionca which met Mr. Onanurs Baaptavon in McCormick Hall yesterday was o high compliment to him, and must have been oncouraging to the promoters of tho Sunday-afternoon lectures. Wo doubt if tho peoplo of Chicago gonerally know Low succossful these lectures have lately beon, or how grent ia the missionary work they aro doing. Tho rogular attend- ants ore ns fine o body of men as can bo found anywhere on short nolice, em- racing not only mechanics and miaster-work- mon, but many persons of superior: cultiva- tion and refinement. ‘Tho danger is, indeed, that tho lectures will becomo fashionable, end cones to be useful, ‘Tho monagera of tho course, we hope, will appreciate this peril, and strive to moet it both by continuing the edmission-feo at the present low rates, ond by keeping the range of discussion within easy comprehension of finito minds, . pocevennas 1 aacr leanings to the Treeldent wera elthor ridiculed or de- nounced, Itis now reduced to acettainty that he is not merely reaolved upon a third term, but that ho te plotting o civil wie to make aure of {t, The South does not proposo to be msdon party to this, We havo had warcuongh, . . . . Wobavebeenthere, Wa know all xbout it, Within eighteen months wa shall weo elthor a Presidontlal Dictator, Supromo Miltary Chiof of a Govorument conducted by the White House, the Army, and the Navy, or elso we aball sca tho Northern Btates givon over to internecine battle; for Gant means business, and has no ides of giving up without a fight, bofog no man for a foot-racs—Louie- ville Courier-Journal, We would ask in ell candor and sincority what the Domocratic press hopo to gain for themselves, their party, or thoir country, by eroating vague suspicions and arousing basc- less approltensions, such os the foregoing paragraph is calculeted and intended to pra- duco, Tho extract is from tho Louisville Courier-Journal, probably tho ablost of Southorn nowsprypers, and it would be alto. gothor ridiculous if thoro wero not a tinge of violousness about it, It is the product of the most rattlo-brained imagination, and devoid of very ascintilla of probabil. ity. Thore is nothing in onr political condition, in our social relations, in tho attitudo, nttorancos, or actions of tho Presidont which can furnish tho slightest pretoxt for thus unnecessarily, eruclly, and iveacheroudly working upon the minds of tho ignorant and bigoted clasics in the South, Nobody knows all this better than tho con. duotors of the Courter-Juurnal, who are in- telligent poople, and may not plead the ig- noranco which dlono could excuse such silly and vicious utterances, But whore is tho honor or profit of {t all? fas sensntionn! journalism gone oo far thot it is necosuary to resort to the low drivolings of imbecility, to scrape up the drogs of political bigotry, in order to attract attention? If this be the purpose, tho Courier-Journal might bottor bo content with ite prosont reputation than seck new notoricty at tho sacrifice of its intelli. gence anid patriotism. If this bo not tho pur. pose, we utterly fail to comprohend it, ena We referred come months ago to tho Troas- ury regulations which wore caleulated to break up tho export of alcohol from tho United States, and in fact had, toa gront sxtent. The rovenuo officers scem to havo acted on tho theory that overy gallon of high- wines exported from tho country was a loss of 90 couts revenue, aud that, thereforo, tho export trade ought to bo regulated to death, ‘The regulation intended for this purposo ro- quired thot all bonds given for exported al- cohol should bo signed by thoso attosting that they held rab catate to double tho amount of the gum named in tho bond! Morchants who could give bonds for millions of dollars found it dificult to obtain surcties who could justify with real estate, and thus the trade was crippled by this ralo not ex- acted in any othur caso, Br, Fanween has applied himself diligently to this subject, and has succeeded in inducing the Secretary of the Trensury to rescind the regulations. Col- lcotors of Customs are authorized to accept any suflicient bond, without regarding tho real-eatato qualification of {ho sureties, THE LOUISIANA CASE, ‘The prospect of a sottlemont of the Louist- ana caso is not very flattering, Tho House Comunittee is divided. Pens, Foster, Man- suALL, and Porter will report that thoro was no intimidation in tho election of 1874; that Kexzoae is de fucto Governor of Louisiana, and that the fiva Democrats ejected by tho nillitary wero duly elooted members of the House, Mosars. Hoax, Wureien, and Pave wilt agroo that Kettoaa is de fucto Governor, and that the five Domocraty wore elected and entitled to their soaty, But tho minority, Hoan, Wureren, and Furx, will inalet that thero wos intimidation of tho nogro vote at tho election of 1874, All this settles noth- ing. It docs not touch tho question of tho election of 1872; nor does it roach the dan. gorous question na to the legality of tho present composition of the Louisiana Sonate, In tho meantime, efforts continue to havo a compromise on soine basis thet will compel the recognition of Kezxoao, ignore any dis. pute ox to the election of 1872, and give the Democrate ono House of the Stato Logisla. ture, Mr, Eparunps, in his proposition to the Benate, proposed the only direct and efficient romedy, Ifo reponted tho declaration mado in 1873 hy Mossrs. Oanrenten, Logan, An. ‘Tuonr, and others, that the election of 1878 was void becouse of fraud, and directing a now election in the State, Against this the Democrats gonerally, and a large number cf Republicans, have strong objections; they » The Chicago produco markots wore ir- reguiar on Saturday. Mesa pork was moro sotive and $2-20 per bri lower, closing at $1810 cash, and $18,15@18.17 1-2 for March, Ward was less active; ahd 2 Ivo per 100 tba lower, closing’ at $13.37 1-2@ 48.40 oash, and 9$18.40@13.42 1-20 sellor March, Meats wore quiet andashade firmer, at 6 1-2@6 6-80 for shoulders, 9 1-2@9 5.80 for short ribs, and 9 7-80 for short clears, Dressod hogs woro active and weak, closing’ nt $7.75@8.10 por 100 tba, Highwines ware In bette? demand, and firm at $1.04 por gallon, Flour was moro active, and a shade fimer. Wheat was speculatively active, and 1-20 higher, but closed wonk at 850 cash, and 86 1.2e for March, Corn was in good de-| with tho knock-down blow of the Central | claim that, a3 0 precedent of Congreaaional mand, and stronger, bus closod' heavy at | Pacific proposal. ‘Tho Union Paoltic, which | judgment as to the logality of State cloctions, 68 Bho for Maxoh, and 710 for Moy, Osta | bas $27,340,612 of Govormuent Luuds out | i$ may load to groat abuses hereafter, Never. The impudonce of tho Union Pacifo prop. osition for o so-called compromise” with the Government was atartling, but it was only o tap on the shoulder in comparison i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1875. theless, no one proposes any other remedy for what all concoive’ to bo a gross fraud, which tho President, in the absence of any Congressional action, must uphold by the uso of the military, It is to bo hoped that during the prosent week somothing may be dono to settlo this mattor. An adjournment of Con- gress, leaving Louisinnn in its presont disor- ganized stato, is a most hazardous experi- ment. If the prenont Congress feel unable to acttlo tho question, let them provide for an ently meeting of the noxt Congress, and let the Demoernts try their hand in bringing order out of confusion, and restoring ponco to the distracted peoplo of Louisiana, THE ILLINOIS INTEREST LAW, From 1257 until the adoption, afew months sinco, of the rovised statutes, tho laws of Hinois allowed Joana to be mado at 10 per cent intorest, whenover the partiosso agreed, In rovising the sovoral statutes on the sub. fect, the gentlemen intrusted with tho task worded the law through inadvertonco—ns they themsclves stato—in such a way that on ambiguity now exists in it, A citizen or cor- poration of this State can loan money at 10 per cent intorest, but it is doubtful whether a citizen or corporation of anothor State can. Of course, this distinction was novor intended.* It did notexist under the old law. Its pos- siblo existenco, under the now, was duc, as tho compilers atnte, to an ovoraight. It is doubtful whether we have tha right, under the Constitution, to allow our citizens to take moro interest than those of another Stato may, but, outside of this consideration, it would be tho height of folly for us to do so. Wo noed forcign capital here,—need it to keop open our workshops, maintain our rail- roads, and furnish a market for our grain and other products. Yet this foreign capita! will not como here unless it can get as much as one citizen of the Stato is willing to pay on- other, It will flow around us, quickoning the production of wealth on overy side, but leaving Ulinois to get along os best sho con with her own wholly inndognate stock of money capital, Tho discovery of this unintentional ambiguity, by which the intentions of pravious Legislatures wore defeated, has alrenily injuriously affected tho loan market in this city and throughout the wholo State. Undor these circumstances, the following bill las been proparod and submitted to the Legislature : Bro, t. He tt enacted, et., That Sec, A of An nck to revise tho Iaw in folation to the rate of interest,” approved March 25, A.D, 1874, be amenuod to read as f : ogre. 8, When any written contract, wherever pry- ablo, aball'bavo beon or ahall bo made in this State, or Letween cltlzona or corporations of this Stato, ora clt- izen or a corporation of this State end a citizen or cor— poration of any other Sate, Torritory, or country (or Bhall be scoured) by raorigage or truxt deed on Janca io. this State), such contract may bear any rato of interoat allowod. by law, to bo taken or contracted for by por- fons of corporations in thia tate, or which ta, or may Le, allowed by law on any contract for imoucy duo or owing in thia Stato.” Provided, that no moro than 10 per cent aball be coltected, ‘Exrnaency,—Whorcas, by ronson of an existing ambiguity in Hoc, 4nd 8 of tho act approved March 25, A. D, 1874, above referrotl to, a neceaslty exista for this act to take effect {mmodiately ; therefore, this act shall take effoct and be in force from and after its pansngo, ‘This received the high compliment of an unanimous passage in tho Sonate, and has since renchod its third reading in the House. ‘The best intoreats af the State demand its passage there. It docs not increase the rate of interost now allowed by Juw. It concoala no hiddon meonings, It simply pute tho citizens of other Statos having money to loan on an equality with citizons of Illinois, andso enables usto borrow monoy whore we can gotit cheapest, instead of restricting ua to tho seanty stock of loanable capital owned in Dlinois, Morcover, it merely re-enncts the settled law on thesubject, which was changed, not by legislative intention, but by the innd- vertance of the compilers of the rovised stat- utes, It was inovitablo that a fow errors should have crept into the revision, and wo must look to our law-makora for prompt re- liof Insuch cases. ‘Tho necessity for tho pas sage of this bill and the grave consequences of a failure to pasa it nro clearly shown in this oxtract from the speech of Mr. Branson in its bohalf: We havea comparatively undeveloped country, We hava borrowed money to austain our industries and maintain our credit, We have owe manufactoriea and our workaops throughout the State, which wa maln- tain by foreign capital, We heve our large eitica to be inilt up, snd the grain in the bins of onr ogrictrltur- fate must be purchased with fomign capital, We havo not tho money in the State torun the legitimate busl- ness of the State, The moncy does not exist between Cairo and Chicago to buy the corn of our farmers, and thocattle which wa ship totho Kasten markets; to run our manufacturing establishments, which are fill- ing up our territory, with o now and skilled population, Whst must we do? We must get capital from sourcea whore it exists in much abund- ance that toy cannot utthze tt and fund thore, Restrict it to 6 per cent, and not ono dollar will Low into thi Stato, Mestrict it toG per cont, and those trust doeds and mortgages which are maturing avery day in evory city and overy county in tho Btate,—and thero fnatrumenta must be foreclosed, Most of them allow no regomption; and if these forelgn capitalists are not to rooolyo more than 6 por cont, they will juutruct thelr trustees to uso the power delegatod to them, and sell and closo out every farmer, avery busl- ‘ness man, and every manufacturer who has catabl/ahed and carried on his busines upou the falth and basis of this capital, AN HONEST CONFESSION. A notablo incidont of Saturday's dobnte wos tho speech of Joux B. Stonu, a Domo- erotic membor from Ponnsylvania, This gon- tleman went into Congross a ‘*Protectioniat,"* and sivocated the sophism on *ho floor that the more tho masa of tho people wore taxed’ for the bonefit of special interosts the botter it was for tho country and its prosperity, Ho is now a convert through tho actual workings of tho falso system na ho has soon it among his own “protected” people, Ho has dis- covered Lis error, and is honest enough to admit it, and to endenvor to retrieve the wrong he may have done. Ho finds that “protection” in his State has only served to mako a fow rich mon richor ond tho poor mon poorer, Evon tho rich mon havo suf. fered in many instances, for high protca. tion hos stimulated manufacturing indus. try to such o degreo that tho sovoral branches aro ovorcrowded and killing one another, vast amounts of monoy aro invested in mills that are now unproduc- tive and idlo, and tho country is overstocked with high-priced goods for which there is no demand. Having barred out all foreign mar- kets, protection has now drained the homa market and broken it down. The collapse hos come, and tho "protected classes” aro sufferers along with tho unprotected. Tho only remedy they see ia in incroased protec. tion! Tho new stimulant may revive the drooping industrios fora bricf timo at the exponso of the public, until the unnatural exhilaration shall have worn off, and then will come another reaction and collapso moro complete and disastrous than the first, Mean. while tho laboring classes aro constant suf. ferors, They get none of the stimulant dur- ing the drunken uproe,” but thoy suffer all ita consequonces. ‘Lhoir pay is little botter whilo tho revival lasts; they have no work and recelve no pay whatover when the reac- tion comes. Tho Congressmen from tho South and ‘West who aot with the monopollats of tho Rast in thie solfsh scheme for plunder are well represented by such manne Marndan, of lds fathor, ‘Tennessco, and Frerp, of Detroit. withont constituencios, trict and Stato, represcnts no other interest in his District. Both mon go out,of Congress altogether in a fow days, and take advautago of tho brief span of thoir official life to betray the intor- ents of tho people who sont them thore. auch are tho Congressional represontatives who vote ngninst tho interests of their Went- orn and Southern constituencies, and play into the hands of the subsidized classes, The only hope for tho defeat of tho bill now ia, that somo of thoso who voted to retain the 10 per cent inerensed tax on the people did so in order to ouablo the country to protest against the entire mensure. THE GRAND-JURY SYSTEM, A resolution was passed by the Illinois Honso of Representatives directing that a bill bo reported to nbolish the Grand-Jury system, Itis to bo hoped that this subject will bo more thoroughly discussed before any such radical change be made in the law. We enn understand that in Montgomery County, and oven in Kano County, tho onds of sub- stantial justice may be obtained without the intervention of o Grand Jury. communities the Grand Jury is an indispense- blo protection to the public, ‘Lo obolish the Grand Jury in this county would ba to break down every protection to the community. Wo ndmit that, in large majority of criminal eases, auch ns larceny, robbory, forgery, burg- lary, and kindred crimes, the Grand Jury might be dispensed with and tho persons tried directly upon tho ovidence. In such casos tho ovidenco is known, aud the witnesses may ‘bo summoned as well to tostify incourtasin the Grand-Jury room, But there are other classes of cases whero the evidence is not accessible ; where thers must be powor and authority somowhere to investigate the facts, and com- pol reluctant witnosses to roveal their knowl- Thia canonly be dono by a Grand edge, Jury. No public prosecutor or private citi- zon will acenso n man of erime unless ho bo ablo to sustain the charge. He and the wholo community mny feel a moral certainty that the crime was committed, but, having no power to enforco the attendanco of witnerscs at a proliminnry sifting of the ovidence, they daro not go into a trial ignorant of what tho witnesses will prove. Included in this kind of cases are the now notorious aud common crimes of official bribory, gambling, conspira- ey to rob and plunder; frauds and confi- denco games, extortions, and receiving stolen goods. Without somo legal boty clothod with power to compel witnesses to tostify, and to produce books and papors, all those classes of erimos would pass beyond detection nnd con- yiction. Wo have no hesitation in saying that the actual session of a Grand Jury in this county evory thirty days acts asa wholo- some provention of a class of crimes of the grossost chrrncter, including Jury bo abolished, then these srimes will bacome practically legalized. Thoro will bo no more prosecutions nor danger of prosccu- tions for any offenses of that kind, and Chicago will become the paradise of public thieves, gamblors, and confidencs mon. Shonld the Legislature ,tako up the bill to abolish the Grand Jury, thoy should aot lenat except Cook County and Sangamon County from its operations. THE MASMETT MURDER. The details of the Hasserr marder—or butehery it should be called—oxcol in myste- rious and horrible intorost any murdor which has occurred in thin city since that of Sornr In diabol- ‘Wennen, mistress of Jusrenrz, ism it vary closely resombles the latter caso, It adds to tho horror of the crime that its alleged perpetrator is an old man, now 72 yonra of age, and thnt the witness against iim is his own ron, who, after carrying tho torrible secrotin his breast for four years, now comes forward ond charges that the mysterious stranger was murdered for his money, some $400, by tho old man, who, after killing him, out off his head and limbs, placed the trunk in a barrel, wheclod it to the river and dumped it in, the son meanwhile boing in another part of tho house and aware of what was going on at tho timo. Tho story which is told by this young man, although it was delivorcd to the Justice ina hositating nnd suspicious mannor, is strong and, to a certain degree, convincing in its circumatantiality, and the young man, appar- ently, isnot possessed of that intelloctual or imaginative power necessary to the construc. tion of, a utory so well put togethor, It docs not seem probablo that it isa fiction of the imagination, contrived by him out of o spirit of,revenge or from feor of bodily harm from If ho was seeking rovenge, thera havo been previous opportunities which of- ferod greater inducemouts, as his father has placed him in tho Bridowell sovoral times be- He could not foro for his violent conduct, have been in foar of bodily harm, for his fathor is an old, feoble, palsied man, and he is a strong, able-bodicd young man, and at the time of his confossion had just been sontenced to the Bridewell for ‘beating his father. In addition to the atatement of tho son, the old man’s character ig not such as would militate ogainst tho possibility of his having committed the crime, and, according to his son’s statoment, another murder in Oloveland over twenty yeara ago is to bo credited to him, Thus far the statement of the son and the bad‘ropnta- tion of the old man aro against him, and it is possible that the police, with such clows, may discover moro facts corroborating tho story; but on tho othor hand there ara facts, and very strong ones, which may bo urged in his defense, In tho first placo, it docs not seem credible that tho murder could have been ‘committed 80 quiotly oud noisolessly as to havo attracted the attoution of no ono, Thoro must have boen a struggle and an outcry. How could he have wheeled the body a quarter of a milo to the river without being soon? What did ho do with the head and limbs of the victim? How was le so succcssful in clonr- ing away all records of the orlme? These moy bo smell points in themselves, but they suggest many theories which may crime be kopt four yonrs eo aecrot that nono of the other membors of tho family heard of cure his punishment so many times? Would he'not have foared that this boy, who fa vio- lont, ugly, and desperate in his conduct, might at any moment inform againut him? There was nevor apy love wasted in this fnmily, ‘Thore was no affection betweon gon ond fath- er to induce him to keep the seoret.. On tho other hand, tho two seem to have spent tho larger part of the tinie in assaulting cach other, and the son has more than once gone to the Briduwell upon the testimony of the father, Again, the son know Hoth aro Marynanp is almost alunatio on this question, and opposes tho intoresta end good of every man in his Dis- Fintp is tho Congressional attorney of Wanro’s vast estate in Detroit, and or But in othor especially officist bribery and corruption. If the Grand ‘be urged in his defense, Again, could sucha it? Would the old man, knowing that his gon possessed tho secrot, havo dared to pro- that the murder was about to bo committed, for ho anys that his father urged him to help, but that ha was unvilling, and would have nothing to do with it, Why, then, did ha not interfere nnd provent it? His orense, that he was afraid.of the old innn, is hardly tenablo, a8 the old man on every occasion secms to havo been tho vie- tim of the son’s brutality, and ins had to place him in tho Bridowell to protect himself. Lastly, tho bad character of tho son throws disoredit upon his story, and few people will bo inclined to beliove it upon his mero of- firmation, unsupported by circumstantial tes- timony. a ‘Tho narrative as it is told in Ton Trinuxy, derived from interviews with the fathor, sou, and family, is not more romarkablo in its criminal aspects than it is as a picture of social depravity. Ibis diffloult to conceive of more depravity huddled under one roof than is collected in this home of the Ilasserrs, An old mon, drunk and quarrol- some, with a chargo of two murdors resting upon him; an old womon, equally drunk and quarrelsomo; the son, a drunken desporado spending most of hia timo in the Bridowell, and all threo beating and potinding each other liko brutes, and the sister living at homo in prostitution. In view of this misory, squalor, and brutality right nt our very doors, it is n fair question to ask whethor the churches aro altogether judisions in sonding their mission- aries to the isles of the sea while wo have tho Ginx family in onr very mids! THE LOUISIANA FRAUD. Tho Springfield (Mnss.) Jtepudlican hiss this to say concerning tho Louisiana case and tho resolutions of tho Ionso of Representa- tives of tho Illinois Legislature : ‘Tho Republican members wore thrown into a atate of the mort violent oxcltement by thero resolutions, and the uproar for a tle was prodigious, But the Hpeaker was equal to tho occasion, and the vote wae finally taken, with the rosult noted abova, In the pro- liminary serlatim voting, the frst resolution obtained 132 yoaa to 7 nays ; third, 197 yeas todnay, Tun Cute vago Tipoxe finda some of tho rosolutions ‘ro- markably weak and vapid,” and usserta for tho twens Math timo that Preatdent GRANT lias repoatedly called the Reviooe Administration 3 buge fraud,” Will Tux Tuwone obliga us with chapter and verso? In tho President's speoial message to Con- gress, three weeks ogo, ho usod this lan. guage: ABtote Administration was orgenized, with Write ast P, KELLOGO as Governor, whieh, ju the discharge of my duly, under Boo, 4 of Art, 4 of the Constitution, I have recognized as tho Government of tho State, It as boon bitterly and persiatontly alleged that Krtq 2000 was notelocted, Whether ho waa or not {s not altogether certain; nor fs {t any moro cortsin that his competitor, Metzny, waa choson, ‘Tho olection wan a pigantic fraud, and there are no reliable returns of Sts remulta, Whilo on this subject wo may as woll re- port tho judgment of other eminent Ropubii- cans ns to the fraudulent charactor of tho election of 1872, ‘Tho Senate Committoo, all Republicans but ono, in February, 1872, made fn investigation of the caso and reported that the Krnzoaa Govornment was fraudulently “counted in" by the Lyxom Board of Can- vassers, of whom tho Committes say : ‘Thoro {s nothing in all ho comedy of blunders and feaude ander conaidoration more indofonstlie than the pretonded canvaa# of this Boant, , . The teall- mony abundantly cstablishes the fraudulont character oftheir canvass, . . It is quito unneccenary to waste time in considering this part of the caso; for no por son cau oxamino tha testimony ever so cursorily with. ont soeing that thie pretetwed canvass had no som- ‘lance of intogrity, . , Dutfor tho interference of Judga Doneut in the matter of this Stata alection.—a matter wholly boyond hia jurisdiction,—the McENeny Government would today have been the de facto Gov- ernmont of the State, Indga Donet intorpoved the army of the United States between the poople of Loula- jana and the only Government which has the sern- bianco of regalanty, and tho result of this has been to establish the Krutoga Governmont, wo far as that State now has any Government... . Your Commit. teo are ted to the conclusion that, if the clection Leld in Novembor, 1872, be not absolutely vold for fronds committed therein, MoENzoy ond his associates , . ought to be recognized ox the legal Government of the Stato, The Committeo, thereforo, whethor there was fraud, and say: And, although wo cannot approve of such » eanvass ‘as that made Ly tho Lrnom Board, who oom to have netod upon the principle of “fighting tho devil with firo,” and circumventing fraud by fraud, and cannot say that Krtioaa’s Government was olected, nevore tholess we bollevo that KenLoo@s Government wos defeatod, and the popular voice reversed, by tho fraud- ‘ulont manipulation of the election, This Committes declare that the wholo election of 1872 was yoid becouse of fraud, Attached to this report are the nomos of Sen- atore Canrenrun, Looay, Anruony, Axconn, snd Hix, all Republicans, Mr, Morton differed with the majority of tho Committes on some points, but on the character of tho election of 1872 he said: ‘Without concurring in the opinion that the election ‘was vofd, Fentortain no doubt that it was an organ+ izod fraud of the largest dimensions, ‘Tho Sub-Committes of tho House, Messrs. Foster, Puxtrs, and Porrrn, roport, so tor ea thoy investigated the cloction of 1872, thet itwas afroud; and the other part of the Committeo have substantially reached tho game conclusion. All, thereforc, who havo investigated tho Louisiana business indorse omphatically the Presidont’s declaration that the olection in that State in'1872, ‘under which Kexxoae holds office, was a “ gigantic fraud.” Does the Republican want any furthor cite tions by chapter and verse? A BRISK EXPENDITUBE, ‘The Board of Auditors appointed by Con- gress to roviso the accounts of tho Govorn- mont of the District of Columbia report that tho orponditures, so for as at present audited and allowod, from Juno 1, 1871, to Deo, 22, 1874, foot up os follows: ‘Work on stroats..., Yor roads leading to the cit; ‘For damages to butldings invostigato $11,410,494 8,232,020 2UH,481 claims for damages to real estate. Tho work on stroots was for grading,—that is, outting down certain places and using tho oarth to fill up other places; paving with wooden blocks, and laying asphalt roadways, Most of the wooden pavements havo rotted away, It ia allogod that tho ozpondituro is ont of proportion to tho amonnt of work dono, in tho fact that the prices paid wero an avorago, porkaps, of 80 por cent too high; about 20 per cont more work was paid for than was done, and the work itself, in many instances, wos horribly executed. Wo undorstand that those amounts do not include tho sums paid by property-holdera under special assessments, Token as a wholo, the Distriot Government whilo their power lasted were pretty activo in their exponditures, and made hay rapidly while the sun continued to shine, It is true thoy beautificd the City of Washington, filled up tho low grounds and out down the hills, but thoy did not soem to mind the coat, As tho offlcors wore citizons of Washington, they may have considered it patriotic in them to inour all the expenso in the shortest poasiblo space of timo, so that the indebtedness would bo so groat that Con- gress would have to assumo tho debt, It looka very much that way at present. Tho whole cost of thoso works, and much is yot to bo dono, will have to be paid by tho people of the country, through direct appropriations from the ‘Treasury, Thus the District Gov. ernment, during its abortlived aoendoncy, waa an industrions and somewhat Tecklesy agent for expending tho money of (ho Ameri ean people, and found: justification, Perhaps, for extravagance aud weate in the consefons, ness that the bills would havo to bo paid hy tho nation, and not by tho people -of Wax), ington City. —_—— BECTIONAL ROBBERY IN OONGRES3, ‘Nhero is a special significance in the yotg taken in the House on Saturday on Mr, Bur. onanp’s motion to strike out that section of the ‘Tax bill which adds 10 per cent to the presont exorbitant tari on all manufocturey articles, ‘This section is tho grouddwork op tho whole bill, ‘Tho mensuro was conceires with tho single purpose of enneting this pop, tioulnr clauso, and in order to bring ty, momentary reliof of now protection" tog elnsa of peoplo nt tho East who nro noy suffering tho iils incident to too much “pro. tection.” IInd the motion to strike ont this clause provailed, tho wholo bill would cen tainly have failed, and tho very men who tte now the loudest and most zealous in its gp, port would have beon tho first to deny it, But Mr. Bunonann’s motion failea by vote of 97 to 103, and the fight against tho sectional robbera nt the East musi now bo inndo on tho prasage of the bill, Ifa) tho 10 per cont clausa been stricken ont, thy meaning of the voto would have bsen plain: tho bill would have been abaudoued at onee, But tho retaining of this clause may mey one of two things, viz. : Eithor thet tho voy of Saturday was a fair test of tho strength ¢ the supportors of tho bill, and that tho attor. noys in Congress of tho protectod classes ay aufliciently numerous to carry it through; o that somo of those opposed to all present iy a eroaso of taxation ag unnecessary voted 4 | ratain this especially obnoxious clause in te hopo that it will woigh down and sink the whole bill. Tho latter is now the only pron. iso of exeapo left to a sorcly-oppressd people, already grosning under the burden: imposed for tho profit and greed of osm and unscrupulous class of Enstern monoy. lists, Assuming that the vote of Saturday was) gaugo of tho etrongth of the monopoliss, na wo fear it is, and that it signifles that ty Dill will pass unless somo of those favoringi; may bo brought to their sensos, we ore fore} |’ to the contemplntion of tho most shamela; and unnecessary robberies over commits! {2 under tho name and cover of legislation, |; is a schomo that has been planned with! the cara and ingenuity of o gang of burgly; who spend sovoral months in their propa. tions for blowing a bank-vault, and it de: Batif i F safo which contains the carnings and saving; of an entire peoplo in this caso be plunder, it will be with the co-operation of tho speci! guardians of the lnw nominated to prote: asaored trust, For tho robbors have exposal Tho debnto of Saturday rovealsi the real object of tho bill. During tho onlin § discussion, there was uot one word wih would indicato that the bill had been proy ed for the purposo of incronsing the raven® 5-49 This was morely the pretext which sorved fx Ry} But, once fairly before ts § House, tho high-tariff men threw off th clonk and exposed their design in all its nuke fi doformity. They openly declarod their decx to plunder the Wost and South for tho ben: of tho protected classes of tho East. Thy want todrive off all tho importations nor not diffor materially in purpose. their plang, ite introduction. tion of consumers of tho stocks on hand, tho tho people. tho oxcoption of » fow from Now Yor! Denofit of this class by excluding competitin ‘Thus they propose at one and the saino tis to plunder the peoplo and swindlo the Gw ernment, They openly declare their into exacting $100,000,000 from tt the country by the vance of 10 per cent in the prico of 0 whola d BX which shall revort to the manufactunn (4% jobbers, and speculators, and not ono dl to the Government. Thoy intond that, i tho stock on hand shall havo been redceel, 1h tho consumors shall continue to pay thir}! per cont increnso to tho manufacturer, c! f§ import less than thoy do to-dey on that & count, They made this confossion Sot day, for the attornoys of the high-tarif my boldly announced that they would not ta for the bill unless tho 10 por cont clause te rotained. In othor words, it isnot reve for tho Government, but plunder for the p> }# teotod classts which thoy aro exacting {v1 |g ‘Tho attitude of the Eastern Democrats 2 | this iseno was ospecially discouraging. TM Demooratio party have alwaya mado boast professions of devotion to tho principled froedom of commorco, whilo revonne ref ix a conversion among Ropublioans {3 their own orporionce. Republican opposite? to the high-tarlif doctrine is, therefore, 52 and agratulty, But the Democrats haviy poarad before the peoplo as traditional el uncompromising opponents of a high pri (3 tivo tariff, and have claimed this asono of! ek distinctive dogmos of tholr party, Yet! the trial comes wo find the Demoer? Ponnsylvania, and of the East gonerally, wi i, TS ing themselves on the side of plunder #4 spocial privilege, and voting for an tisan, but scotional. Itis the East clases, tho Loglelaturo of Now Yori, demonatrating to an admiring world the of harmony among brethren of one fa! the way they aro doing it Is, to easy mail. the original, They aro just uow embraile incre arriys against the Weut and tho South. Test : plundorers loagued together against the pe g dored, tho protooted against tho unprote | HE MEW YORK DOM OUBATIO SPLIT ‘Tho Ton, Saxcoes. J. Trepey, Democratle O°? ernor of tho Btsto of New York, tho Hop. ct raw Hf, Wrorttans, Domucratio Mayor of (b0% d of Now York, and tle Domocratio memtert are at this Wor poaeld pretty a quarrel among themselyos #4 soy: would dosiroto wee. Aud thia la the sbout: Acting in obedience hoad of the Law Dopartmont, Josxru iy, RoaweLtz D, Haron, cause, and transmitted his ordor to Gov, Tipgx for bis approval, 8% and Constit) | Corr, of the Bosrd of Fira Conrmalssioner® th My oe we sot of 1878, entitled "An act to 1008 way it: to Tammany Wioxuaxt proceodod to oxercise bis gutho the removal from office of E. Dewarme? yo w fi the local Government of the City of Now Xe 4 ‘The Governor wrote back to the Mayor for the testimony agalost them. Plled somewhat tartly that the coves was none of his business. ornor had to do waa to approve oF and if Gov, 'iupen know what waa bod ho would spprovo, ‘The Governor top it column or two that lie could not thick ing any valueatall to Mayor Wi0x! ecquiremiente, and weald not approve evidenot ear e The bale on the Got ai rates : b ris ty of the very tari! which thoy havo for yan & donounced aa already oxorbitant. Whsth'7! is thera from the Demooratio party ot I {asue, if thelr ropresontatives thus boldly! tray tho peoplo, and belie their own poe sions? Tho fact is that tho iésuo is not stele we saws we 1 % é