Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1875, Page 8

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TRUBS: ‘Che Chicago Gribune, Saturday Morning, February 27, 1875, ri WITH SUPPLEMENT. ——- Mr, Mixz McDowatp has been indicted for perjury ; and this world scems to him hollow and treacherous. Ifo would like to experienco sspiritaal stato in which the wearied keno- player can havo rest, The passage by the Illinois Houses of tho Interest bill, intended to remove discriminn- tions agninst foreign capital secking invest- mont in this State, is a matter for gennino congratulation. Wo havo alrondy shows both tho justico and oxpedioncy of protecting for- eign capital as jentously as onr own, —= Bru MoDaxrers, one of the Muncio train- robbers, who has been in eustody for soveral months, has about decided to turn Stato’a evidence, in which eno, ft is bolioved, somo of his confederates can easily be captured, But wo do not seo how any amount of State's evidonee could bring tho Jamrs boys within reach of tho law. Tho Democratic members of the Nutional Senato confessed thomselves yestercay 8 being cxhnusted on the Civil-Rights question, yet they refused to allow a voto until tho timo designated. Probably tho mattor will “be disposed of ently this afternoon, Mr. Ep- xcoxps having given notice that ho will movo for thoenapplication of the five-minute rule aftor 2 o'clock, As if it hnd not wasted enough timo al- ready, tho Illinois House has agreod to go THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1875. per 100 Ibs, IHighwines were modorntely ac- tive, and strong at $1.06 por gallon, Flour was dull and firm, Wheat was active, and 1-2@3-+4o higher, closing at 85 1-80 cash, aud 83-40 for April, Corn was moro active, and 1-2¢ higher, closing at GL 1-20 for March, and 71 1-4c for May, Onts wore moro activo, and 1-4@1-20 higher, closing at Sie for March, Ryo was dull amd ensicr at 98, Barley was in better demand and stronger, closing at $1.18 for March. Logs wero fairly active and stendy, Salos at $6.15@7 Tho cattle and sheep markets were quiet and ensy. As wo anticipated, the Hon. Anaus Cam. Enon, Sennter-elect from Wisconsin, denies utterly tho statemenia Intely attributed to him by the Milwankeo Sentinel, Ho-says ho has sivays been a Republican, and always intends to be; ho will go into ao Te. pblican caucus; ho will not net with fhe Independents. ‘Iho Milwaukeeo Sen- tinel, which set the story nhout Mr. Castenox afloat, has been notoriously inaccurate and disingenuons in allmattors relating to tho Iate Sonatorial caucus ; but wo ara somawhnt sur- prised that it should assait Mr. Catrrnon with tho samo weapons it used against tho activo antagonists of Mr Canrenren. Mr, Cascenon is not to blame for being Senator. Tho minority roport of the Mississippi In- vestigating Committee comes from tho two Democratic members, one of whom, Mr. Svrrn, isa Diatnat partisan. Tho report is full of strong statements, md some parts of it, which can be ensily vorifled or disproved, aro grayo cnongh to domand exam- ination. For iustanco, it is —msnorted that the white people of Vicksburg ond Warren County pay 99 per cout of tho taxes collected there; that theso taxes are assessed, collected, and disbursed by colored men; that the debt has grown from 313,000 in 1869 to 21,400,000 now; that Crosny re- tired voluntarily from tho office of Sheriff; and that tho negroes wore solely rosponsiblo for tho late massnere, Grief has swoope scion of the Maryland chivalry, Inst linger- ing offshoot of a dying stock, who was too good to associate with “niggers.” ‘'Thoscion referred to was, until Istely, a cadet at tho Annapolis Naval Academy, » Ifo had beon ordered to fenco with © colored com- rade, and rofusod, He was then given the alternative of - obeying orders or boing dismissed tho servico-; and, after n consultation with his father, he aecepted the Intter proposition. Of course, ho thinks by this timo that bo ims vindicated a glorions and eternal principle; but how disagreeable it must be for a person of his convictions to necept martyrdom on account of ‘a blasted nigger"! Two items of the Sundry Civil Appropris- tion bill designed, in s feeble way, to recog- nize nnd concilinte tho artists’ lobby were stricken out yesterday by the House Commit. teo of the Whole, One of them allowed 825,000 for the purchaso of Canryntrn's “Emoneipation Proclamation,” and tho other approprinted $10,000 for Miss Ran- sox’s painting of Gon, Tomas, Weare not, ayn general thing, opposed to small expondi- tures for the enconragement of the fino arts and the adornmentof tho National Capitol; but this seems toe boa peculiarly unfit timo tor the gratificationof msthetio notions, And even if tho timo were proper, tho Sundry Civil bill is not the placo for such on appro- printion. Senator Monrow’s bill to establish a per- manent method for counting the vote cast for President and Vice-President passed the Son- ate, and, strange to say, there wero as many ag twonty votos against it, ‘Tho presont into Committee of the Whole on tho headless- | mothod ia prescribed by what is known os government bill conceived in tho Chicago | the twenty-second joint rulo of Congress, .Simes oftico, Persons of ordinary intelli. | Under that rule tho Senate and Honso meot ‘genoo must understand that this “acepha. | in convention, and the roturna of tho Elcoto- Joua” bill was gotton up puroly as a political | ral voto is opencd and announced by tho senaution, It ia unworthy of a moment's | President of the Senate, In caso no objec- eonsidoration. tion ia mado, the voto is recorded. If objec- = eared tion is mato, tho two Houses separate and Mr, A.C, Uestwa was arrested md taken | considor the objection, If cither Honso do- hoforo a Justice of the Pence in Springtleld | cido that tho voto shall not be counted, tho yeaterday on a chargo of assault, preferred | yoto of the Stato is rejected. ‘Iho result is by o. newspaper correspondent. A man 60 | ihat it requires tho consont of a mnjority of conspicuous in publio affain, and who hs | both Housos to count the roturned voto of been so long engaged in journnlisn os Xr. | any State, ‘Tho possible’ consequences of Hestva, ought by this time to bo pretty well | such a rulo when tho rojeotion of the voto hardened to newspaper criticism, Tho fact that he is not, may be necepted as evidence eithor of sensitivoness or wenknoss, Jzrr, Davis, it is said, has counseled the -Ganzanp Government in Arkansas to offer an armed resistance to President Grant in caso ho attempts to reinstate Brooks withont tho authorization of Congress, ‘ho rumor is o likely ono to come from the friends of Brooxs, It is ingoniowsly celculated to in- jure Ganranp, Jerr, Davis was so unsuc- cessful in his own rebellious enterprise that his advice is not now held in high repute, Tho Forca bill repurted by agreement of the Republican caucus was debated at on evoning session of the Lowor House of Con- gross yesterday, A vote on it will bo taken et io'clock to-day, Mr. Ruane and other prominent Republicans have spoken strongly in opposition to certain fontures of the bill, and will uso their utmout ondenvors to secure’ ita essentini modification. 'Lho Aabers corpus clauso is the principal object of attack, Teporte this morning from Louisiana hold out small hope of a final acceptnnes of tho Worzren compromise proposition by all the partios concerned, ‘Thu MeKuneryites and tho Antorz negrocs, it is enid, aro irrocon- cilnble, But if all this is truo, there may still be a fair prospect of peace in Louisiana. A Govornmout recognized, upheld, and bo- longing to the majority would be a gront im. provement over anything Qouisians bas had Gor many a long year, A Washington digpatch this morning soya that the announcement of the final scttlo- ment of the Virginius question is premature, Aurnoxso hoy not yet been formally recognized by our Government, and it is therefore impossible that tho jations § toucng the Virginius should have cometo o final termination. Doubtless theevent will show that sowo sort of an understanding has been arrived at; and that the recognition of Arruoxso will be immedintoly followed by a transfer of tho Virginins pepers, The Chicago produce markets wore gener- ally stronger yesterday, Moss pork was in good damand, and a ubade firmer, closing at $18.19 1-2 cash, and $18.42 1-2 seller April. Lard waa less activo, and a shada firmer,’) oloaing at $15.25 cash, ond $18.45 for April, ‘Meats wore more active and firmer, at 6 5-86 of # State may change tho result of tho elec- tion, oro dangerons. If a Hopublican Sonato xefuso to cb tha vote of Alabama be ‘counted, a Democratic Honso may roject the vota of Mass chusetts, In this way tho wholo elcc- tion may be wet aside, ‘Iho refusal to count in a candidate having tho majority of tho Electoral vote conld only result in civil war, Yo avold thesa consequences this bill was prepared and has now been passed, Under tho original bill it required tho concurrence of both Houses to roject tho vote of the State, Unt to this an amendment was mado thnt, in any caso where thero wero two or moro ro- turns from a State, the agreoment of the two Houses na to which of theso returns is tho truo anid yalid ono is mado necessary, In cases ouly of contest is tho agreement of tha two Houses neceesary. It is to bo regretted that this bill providing 9 practical remedy for avery dangerous possibility will fail to bo reached in tho House. hat body had time to pass tho izfamons bill to incronzo taros for tha bonefit of awhisky-ring aud tho protected classes, and dayn to waste on sontimental leg. fulation, but will probably lot this measure lay on the Speaker's tablo and bo lost. Wo print this morning an oxplanation of the brief dispatch in yesterday's paper an- nouncingthat J, W, Trorxy, n momber of the North Carolina Legislature, had been expelled for expressing his non-beliof in ‘ tho exist enco of n God." Tt seems that Mr, ‘Tuonv was expellod not because he did not believe in God, but beenngo ho did not believe in the particular kind of n God which the North Carolina Legislature wanted hin ta belfove in, The Demovrats probably voted to axpel hi because he was a Republican, but tho cclored Republicans voted to oxpol him on orthodox grounds, Mr. ‘Tuouse, some time since, it seome, wrote n pamphlet in which, whilo ex- prossing his belicf in o Supreme Being, ho took the ground that tho accepted God of the Bible, who makes “tha dovils believe ond tromble,” isa ‘cruol Deity, to the existence of which he could not reconcile himasolf,” In othor words, Mr, “uoune, who belousi to a sect called tho Progressive Friends, n soot of Quakers, is probably an advanced moralist portuking somewhat of tho Uritarian and somawhat of tho Universalist iaith, Now, tho Constitution of the State of North Caro- Jing expreases a belicf in God incidentally in its preamble by acknowledging a depondouce onthe Almighty for biessingy, and it alsa for shouldere, 9 5-80 for short ribs, and 9 7-80 | disqualifica a citizen from holding ofico who for short cloars. Dressed hogs were in better | disbelieves in the existence »f God. The Gomand and frmer, closing af 67.0U@7.06 | Legislature have coustrued thisto inoan what age the Raleigh Mees calls “tho Christian's God,” or, to defino it more exactly, tho God necepted by the orthodox sects; and so thoy iavo expelled Mr. ‘Tnonnn for not being orthodox in his belief. 'They must havo drawn thoir inspiration from tho original Constitution of North Carolina, adopted in 1778, excluding fram ofiico every per- son “cho shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the dicine authority of either tha Old or New Testa- ments,” Without indulging in tho comment which this intolerance naturally suggests, wo will only say that the North Carolina Leg. islature has gone back just a contury in tho history of civilization ; nnd that, if tho rulo they havo Inid down were applied to all our ‘Legislatures, including Congress, many of our most usoful public men woukl be lost to the public sorvice. Tho conviction is almost forced upon us that Gen. Tracy ian blnnderer, It was his counsel which first drove Mounton from his neutral position, Now ho has attacked Bow. gy, aud this is tho result + Nrw Your, Fob, 26,—Tho statements mada by Mr. ‘2B, F, Thacy in lls opening address to the Court and Jnry in the Brooklyn acandal easy, so far na sald state ments refer to mo as having been engugeil in any cons spiracy whatsoevor, aro malignant falsifications from Depinning to oud, destitute of even ano particle of as eald Treacy can learn if he seill call me to the witnees-stand, in which ovent ho will find out that Ido uot beHleva in the doctrino sald to be taught by him,— “that lying is JustiOable under cortain elreumatancos,” Menny C, Bowen, We only hope that Traor's assault will havo the offect of bringing ont Mr. Bow:y asa wit- ness, Ho is the very man of all others whom everybody, except, perhaps, Beecunn and 'Trsrox, wants to hear. Wo have an iden that ho will bo summoned in rebuttal of Bexersn’s ovidence, Certainly, now that he has de- clared his willingness to testify and tell all ho knows, the case will not be completo without his appearance: ILLINOIS TAXES ON CREDITS AND DEBTS We suggest to thoso mombens of the Ili. nois Legislature who are giving attention to the grave errors and defects in our Stato Rev- enue law that they consider the consequonces of taxation as an important consideration in dovising o tax system or in amend- ing the present bad law. Great Britain is the great moneyed nation ofthe world, and it is dua to hor system of taxation, In tho first place, all her taxation is for revenue, and none for “protection.” Sho has no part- nership with privileged classes for a division of the taxes, When sho levies a tax of ono shilling sho gets it all, aud the people havo but to pay the one shilling ; while we, to raiso one shilling of national revenue, impose a tax of o dollar on tho people. hat applies fo the national system of revenue, In regard to domestic taxation, tho revento is produced by a tax on incomes by excise duties in the shnpe of licensca on yayious occupations, including vendors of spirits, beer, ete.; on carriages nnd horses ; on game, gald and silver plate, peddlers, pawn- brokers, ote.; on distilled spirits, raco-horses. and dogs, railways, sugar, stamps, lunds and tenements, inhabited house tax, and voric- ty of miscellancous items, It wili bo seen that, from beginning to end, there is nota pouny of tox laid on money, or credit, or on ovilences of debt or capital atock of any kind ; nothing itangidle or shadowy is tar- ed. The tax on improved proporty is a rato based upon the rental value. Uninkabited houses oro not taxed, aud livo stock and tho improvemonts on farms ora not taxed. Tho menns of production, such os implements and machines, aro not taxed, but the thing produced, put in tho form of tn- come, is taxed, But tho point we wish to diroct nttention to is, that monoy, mortgages, stocks, and credita aro not taxed, A conse- quence is that Great Britain is the treasury of the world. Tho Government can borrow monoy at 3 per cont; individuals can borrow all they want at 4 por cent; tho British buy our 5-por-cont bonds, and are ready to invest their money in any moderato interest-bearing securities, England has not only cheapmoney, but an abundanceof it; money being free, and its use uninenmbered by any tax whatever, productive enterprises of all kinds are thero- by fostored and encournged, and tangible property, as n consequence, ia cnormously produced, and money is abundant at tho very cheapest rates of any nation in the world. England is, therefore, full of cheap money and aparo enpital secking invostmont abroad as wellasathome. ‘Thero is no usury law in Great Britain, but londer and borrower agroo on tho rates of intercst just as buyors and sellers do on tho price of grain or goods, . Now compare this with tho Rovenue law of Minoia. Hero we put capital in fettera. Wo tex it in the form of money; wo taxitin overy form of credit; wo tax the property of aman, and wo tax tho promissory note ho gave for the payiont of it; we tax the Innd and wo tax the deferred debt duo for it; wo tax not only tho horses and the cows, but their increase, the feed on which they live, and the cradit given on their salo; wo swear our Assessors by special onths to examine every man’s pocket-book and his lodgors, to find how much he vcs and how much is owed tohim, and tax them all, Wa train our Assessors a3 sleuth-hounds to follow the {nintest scont of money, or credit, or dobt, Woe especially train them to discover whoro two or half 9 dozen persons combine their capital to employ Inbor and produce property; and to make such oxamples of those as will warn othora not to repeat the crime. In England, overy mon is at liberty to invest his money in any business or industry; the As- seesor has nothing to do with it, Tho man who londs another a hundred dollars to pur- chaso tools, pays no taxes on tho note; in Ll. linois, wo tax both tools and the ‘note given forthom, We taxiho substanco in overy possible shape, and then wo tax the ahadow of that substance tothe faintest trace, Wo notonly tax active capital, but wo tax it twico, and sometime: thrice, A nocossary rosult iv, that withus monoy is dear ond cupital ig searco; aué men ure afraid to lond money unless they aro paid almost doublo in- torest, Now, let us consider what would be tho offect it tho Jaw of Illinois repeating the tax on inoney and oradit were repealed, ‘There would be no loss of revenue that would not bo amply compensntd by the im. mensa relief to the poople, ‘There ere probably ot this time mortgages on Jund and other rel estate in Milinola to the amount of two handred millions of dollars, boariug an averaye rate of 10 to 12 per cent intorest, ‘The ropeal of all lawa tax- jug mortgages and othe: forma of credit would go cheapen money ix Llinois that coach of these mortgages could bo replaced as fast as it fulls duo at from 7 te 8 percent, This would bo tho remission of 3 per cent a year onall the borrowed money fu Iilinols, ‘the repeal of all tax on tho mero paper evidences of properly which is already taxed, would in. vito hither capital for juvestment in indus trial corporations, and would give au iuope- -TWELVE PAGES. tus to production in every village and city of tho State. It would utilizo the water-power, develop the coal mines, lift the railronds out of bankraptey, and give employmont to tens ‘Tho fame of thousands now wemployed. of Illinois aa tho great Sinte of tho West, the first to adopt tho wise policy of making money circitinte freo like the blood throngh the body, and ita investments untaxed except when in tho shapo of tangible property, would clovate enormously the credit of the Stato, and of all its municipnlities, and of ita people, in’ Ho soon ag the prohibitions against capital and credit every financial market in tho world, ato removed and tho oxactions upon erpital stock abolished, sosoon will the capital seeking invostment flow hither, and, fiuding a vast un- occupied feld for production, would put nm. ehincry in motion, would purchnav tho fucl, food, andzaw matoriala, would dovclop the skill and enterpriso, and croato not only wealth but property, which would bo legiti- mate subjects of taxation Is it too much to ask that the legislators of Illinois consider tho presont disnrstrons evils of the Rovenuo law, aud the prospective benefits to result from the repent of that Inw, in renching cone elusions npon the reform of tho revenue sys+ tem? ‘The euterprising classes aro now handenffcel, crippted, and weighed down by » system of taxation which is a disgrace to tho intelligence of tho State. A REMEDY AGAINST TA: GHTING, ‘Tho City of Chiengo will derive great ben- efit from tho passage of the bill introduced into the Senate by Mr. Auntzey, of Quincy, providing for the colleation of city taxes by n suit in nesumpsit brought against tho indi- vidual property-holder who is in arronts, ‘The bill na originally introduced was proba- bly too swoeping in its application of the proposed plan, since it cut off tho right.of appeal; but, this clause having been stricken out, the bill should bo passed just as-soon ng its dotails aro considered and adjusted, Tho proposition is simply that every City Govern- ment, without losing any of the ramedies it now has for tho collection of taxes, shall have in addition theroto the privitxge of ev- ery private cititizou to bring suit for the re- covery of a debt, scoure jndgmont on proof of tho claim, and havo oxeoution issued agninst tho property of tho debior, Tho right to bring this suit is mado conditional upon the serving of n notico in writing or, in tho caso of non-residenco, after publication of snch notice in threa successivo issues of n city paper. We do not beliova that thera is any other way than this in which tho City of Chiengo will ever be able to collect the bulk of tho taxea which have been contested for the pnst six yenrs, amounting to moro than &2,500,0U00 in tho aggregate, It is the only plan, too, which will discourage and check the growing and vicious practice of fighting taxes on ac- count of mere technical and formal defects in the levy. The collection toxos in this Stato is oxcoptionally dificult on account of the constitutional provision that uo-salo can bo mnde excopt upon the rendering of a judg- ment in court. This provision opons the courts to all who eso fit to contest, not only on merits, such ng unjust and discriminating assessment, but on informalities of tho moat trifling nature ol- ways likely to occtr so long ns nssessmonts aro made by inexperienced and incompotent Assessors. In most other Statos these in- tormatitios can only be comtestod boforo the proper officer or board having charge of the assessment, ‘Iho opening of the courta in this Stato to nll who desiro to contast tho col- lection of taxes has created a class of profes- sjonal tax-fighters who contest all taxes year after yonr, without any regard to tho actual inerite of the lovy; nud the city is powerless to cure the informalities without beginning do novo attor two yonrs' dolay in carrying the matter to the Supromo Court; and, oven thon, formal dofects in tho now lovy ore ns likely to occur as in the old, Thus tho city finds itself powerles$ to collect ita taxes against the rogniar contestant, and is obliged to run into debt to meat expenses for which it holds obligations past due. No othor single cirenmstanco contributes #0 much as tox- fighting to tho presont embarrassments of tho City of Chicago. ‘Tho proposed law simply confers upon tho city tho right posuessod by every individual to collect a debt dua for services rendered. Every tax, which metes out to individual proporty-owners their fair proportion of tho common oxponditures for the maintenance of the city, is a debt which ean only bo dis- chargod by its payment. Tho city maintains ‘8 police organization for the protection of tho individual's Hie and porsqual safety; a fro department to protest his property against dostruction by fire; besides free education for all childron; wator and sewers for tho health, comfort, and convenience of the citizen; keeps streets in ropair, builds bridges and tunnels, cto. All thexo, and hundreds of other inoidental provisions maintained by tho body corporate for tho benefit of the in- dividanl, constitute services renderod by tho former to the Intter, and furnish oo lien in law for tho payment from cach individual of his propor- tion of the expenses nooessarily incurred in this echomo of common protection. Thoro is no reason, therefore, why an action in as- sumpslt should not lic against overy individ. ual who enjoys his share of these services and benefits, and refusos.to pay for them in favor of tho city, ns well as in favor of o pri- vate person who has rendereil sorvices for which ho cannot collect his pay. ‘his is oll that Mr, Annrzen’s bill proposes, a3 wo un- dorstand it, and, if so, it should be passed. "The offect of it will bo not only to onablo cities thronghout the State to compel those bad and dishonest citizons, who attempt to eseape the payment of thoir just proportion of tho public oxpense, to pay their dobls to tho vorporation og well as to privato citizens, ‘but it will also discourage tho practice of tnx- fighting when it becomos known that defocts of forin may bo cured as in a private suit, and judginent entered os soon as the claita is fair. ly proyod, ‘The only criticism wo aro inclined to make on such a bill is that it should covor State and county taxes as wollas city and villago taxes; for the collection of all taxes is ham- pered nnd delayed under our present system to the axpress hardship of thoso who honestly pay their proportion of the public expondl- tures, ‘Tho first section of tho bill contains tho purpose to bo attained. It is ax follows: ‘That in all caica whore taxoa have heretofore been, or hereafter may be, levied by the proper authority of any incorporated town or elty in this State, whether upon realor porsunal property, aud remaln or shall hengaftor remain unpald, st aball be lawful for euch town or city, after demand in writing mado thorofor, to sue for and recover the wamo by an action of sa- sumpsit agoinat tho pasty or partion who ought, by law, to pay the same, 1f this wero xo amended os to read “levied by tho proper authority of tho State, avy wounty or avy incorporated clty, villago, or town," tho bill shonld be promptly passed, end it would probably bring greater reliof to the present perplexities of collecting taxes than any other measure that could be de- vined. JERSEY JUSTICE, Tho Statoof New Jomwy and tho Town of Paterson in the State of Now dersoy aro just now thoroughly excited over n ensa which has been partially overlooked by tho public, in the excitomants of tho Berner trial, tho Forco bill, tho 'Tax bill, the Louisanna im- broglio, and “ sustaining Hatnes.” It appears that Inst fall, tho pound-keeper of Paterson, whilo strolling abont, discovered n cow with her hind logs in tho Town of Paterson and her fore legs in tho adjoining Town of Man- chester, quietly cating Manchester grass, The Paterson pount-keeper, seoing a chnnco for loot and being withal n greedy, avaricious soul, took the cow and impounded her, to await her owner's application, ‘Tho owner of tho auimnl thereupon got mad and sued the pound-keeper for scizing her, Tho coun- sel for tho tail end of the cow, who appeared for the pound-keeper, argued that tho tail ond of the cow was her best end, inasmuch as the udder was tho most yalaablo part, and therefore that tho tail end was really the cow, nnd that tho cow was in Paterson, and thereforo in tho jurisdiction of the pound-keepor, Tho connsol for the front ond of the cow, who appeared for tho owner, contended thatthe mouth of the cow was in Monchoster, and that tho mouth was apart of tho head, which was ao vital part of tho cow, and consequontly that the front ond was the cow, aud tho cow was out of tho jurisdiction of the ponnd-keeper, being in Manchester. ‘The learned Justico bofore whom the case was brought, after consulting tho authorities ag to both ends, decided in favor of the front ond of the cow, and fined the pound- keeper #100. ‘Tho counsel for the rear end immedintely appenled to the higher court and the caso was rehenrd. During the see. ond suit it was, satisfactorily provon that tho cow's hind legs rosted exnatly upon tho lino, and that only her tail was in Paterson, and that the pound-keoper, with malice prepenso, stole quietly up to the innocent atimal, who ‘was unoware that nino-tenths of herself was away from home, and that sho was in grent danger growing out of hor ignorance of geog- raphy, meanly and ferociously pulled hor back into Paterson, and thon triumphantly car- tied her off to the pound. Notwith- standing this sticwing, the upper court ro- versed tho finding of tho lower, and the pound-keeper did not pay his fine, ‘Tha coun- sel for tho front end of the cow now proposo to carry the caso up to the Supreme Court, not only to sea which ond of tho cow is tha cow, but whethor tho tail end of acow can bo exposed to such indignities at the hands of apound-kcepor. If so, thon thera is littla hope for the country and for republican in- stitutions. Meanwhile, we await with anxio- ty tho decision of the Supreme Conrt of Now Jorsoy, which wo trust will settle which ond of the cow is the cow, and at the samo timo rebuke the growing oggressions and en- eronchmonts of tho governing power upon the righta of people and cows. THE FORCE DILL, Tho House of Ropresontatives oxhausted two whole days ina contest to got what is known as tho Forco hill before tho House. ‘Tho Republicans number two-thirds of the House, and yet for twonty-cight consecutive hours wero unable to obtain tho attendance of amnajority of the Touse, Tho Demoernts refusing to vote, the House was helpless until a suflicient number of Republicans wero whipped in to attendance. ‘Iho reason was an obvious one. ‘There was nlargo body of tho best Republicans in the House who doubted tho proprioty or necessity of tho bill, aud who wore opposed to it With all duo rospect to the majority of the Ropublican caucus, we question tho wisdom of enacting any such law at this timo or at ony other time. ‘The bill makes itn folony against the United States for two or mora persons to “in, terfere™ with the due execution of the laws of a Stote or of tho United States.” This is a sweoping definition of felony, which folony ix to bo punished with imprisonment for ten years and a fino of 310,000, Anoth- or section punikhes a conspiracy to overthrow a State Government, or does ‘ netually over. throw” such Govornmont, with a fina of only 5,000 and two years in jail, Anothor section doclares that no person ow author- ized to vote shall over bo deprived of such right. Tho wenrlng of arms on election-day is nado presumptive ovidones of intimidation, and intimidation of voters in mado a crime, It also provides for putting all State cloations under the personal supervision of United States officers! Ono of the main provisions, and insisted upon most strenuously by Gen, Borzen and his kind of politicians, isan au- thority to tho President, upon his own mo- tion, without any application from a Stato Government, to declare that a rebollion oxists in such State, and to suspond the habeas cor- pus and tako military possession of the Gov- ernment and adininistor it ! When this bill was beforo the cauens it was bittorly opposed bya large number of the bost and ablost of the Republicans, Gon, Ganrienp especially opposed it on tho ground of its extraordinary and dangerous provisions, Ie said that in 1871 Congress undor special cir- cumstances authorized tho Prosident to sus- pend the habeas corpus and employ tho mili- tary in certain Southern States, but Congross was particular enough to provide that this authority should scasa six montha before tho Presidential olection, his bill, howover, is unlimited. It onnbles tho Presidont to sus. pond the Aabeas corpus, wud to tate military possexsion of a Stato during the Presidentinl olection of 1874, and tho country cannot fail to regard and trent tho onactmont of auch a Jaw as pointing toa ‘third term,” ‘Tho of. foct ot such a law upon tho public mind ho considerod would be disastrous to the MTtepublican party, ‘Thus spoko Ganricep, Myr, Speaker Hoare also op- posed tho bill, Hae soid that tho Dill proposed to give to the President tho power to suspend the Aahras corpus in and take possossion of tho reconstructed States, and he was unwilling to vote for tho oxercixe ofa power in othor States which he wonld not bo willing to havo exurcisad in Maine, It would be no dofonso of such a law that it applied or might apply only to cortain States ; tho law, if propor at all, should be applicablo to all tho States, ‘The Constitution authorizes the President, upon the application of the Governor or Log. islature, to omploy the military to suppress insurrootion in any State. Is not that power all that ia required? Why should tho Presi- dent have authority to take military posses- sion of any State, upon his own motion, do- pose the Stato Govorumont, aud have all the ¢loctions and Btate affairs conducted under the supervision of a military ofticer? ‘Lhis bill is domanded by tho carpet-bag- gera and other adventurora who havo used the Republican party for their own solfich sod corrupt onda, aud who have bean de. posed hy the people of the Sonthorn States, Chey want to bo porpetnated in office and powor against tho will of tho majority, and they want to havo tho army of tho United States at their korvico for that purpose, Ta theron man in Tinois who ix willing to givo tho present Prosident or any future Presi- dent the power, on his own motion, to march fn army into Ilinois, deposo tho Governor and the Stato oflicom, tarn the State Govorn- ment over to a corps of military offivers, suspend the courts, establish martial law, aud havo the elections of 1876 or 1880 controll- ed, managed, aud directed by ofiicors of tho army in direct rubjection to his own orders? If notin linois, why in Georgia, or Ken- tucky, or 'lexag? Every reason that opposes tho oxercisa of such a power in Illinois ap- plies against its exercise anywhere, Can tho Republican party, undor the ques- tionnblo probability that by tho exercisa of such a power the Electoral voto of four or fivo Southern States may bo forcibly secured for the Republican party in 1876, afford the ef- fect of the passngo of such n Inw upon the popular mind nt tho North? Will tho froo people of the North submit to such au ont- rage? Will thoy not resont it at tho polls, and will they not, with cordinl unanimity, seok to protect themselves in tho future against similar outrages by a completo chango of rulers in all branches and departments of the Governmont? Woe trust that the wisdom and prudence of a sufliciont number of Republicans in the two Houses of Congress may defeat this most dan- gorous nnd impolitio Inw. Its onactment will prove to bo a gigantio political blunder, A BILL TO DRIVE AWAY CAPITAL, Wo are inclined to think that Mr, Min.er, formerly a ‘Town Collector in tho West Divis- ion, aud nown membor of the Loyislature from Cook County, is entitled to the credit, or rather the discredit, of having introduced. the most absurd and unjust proposition that lina beon inndo in tho present Legislaturo, ‘This is saying a good deal, but not too much, Wo refor to his bill taxing foreign insurance companics doing business in Mlinois 6 per cent on premiums received, which moans their gross receipts. We should pass by this proposition as too monstreus tobe in any danger af sdoption, if our present revonuo system did not contain ono just a3 outrageous and not unlike it in nature, viz: tho taxing of mortgages after having taxed the also Innd. We theroforo are constrained to no- tico Mr. Mintcn’s bill in tho fear that it miny receive serions considera tion, thongh it is senrecly necessary to ro- mind thinking men that it is wrong in prin- ciplo nnd ealculnted to work tho greatest in- jury to tho-business intorests of all the cities and villnges in this Stato. We should think, from the naturo of it, that Mr. Miner lived in tho country and entertained the most pro- found contempt for a commercial metropolis, Living, as ho docs, in Chicago, wa can only explain his proposition on tho hypothesis’ that he has 4 profound contempt for all prop- orty-interosis, ‘Yo begin with, n tax on tho gross receipts of any business is unfair, sinco the gross ro- coipts by no incans roprosent tho profits, or income, or ability to pay ; under such a tax one morchant who makes no money this yenr moy pays vory Inrge tax, and anothor merchant doing asmaller business, but en- joying some profits, imsy pay but a ‘very sinall tax, To this falso systom, og ap- plied generally, the proposition to tax the gross receipts of foreign insurance companies doing business in tho State is also an unjust discrimination. But, worse thon all this, it is aimed directly at our own citizens who havo their property insured, and its offect will bo to drive the beat of the forcign companics out of the State, encourage tho formation of wild-cat companies, and furnish aon exouso for excessively high rates to those which re- main behind. It is the falso principle of “protection” appliod to the Stato, with the inovitable result of loss insurance, poorer companies, and higher ratos to tho policy- holders, Tho resemblance betweon this proposition aml the practice of taxing mortgages consists in the tendoncy of both to drive foreign capi- tal ont of the State, ‘Tho largest and most ro- lable capital which comes into this Stato for investment is the capital of the great insur- ance companios,—lifo and fire, Tho moment tho great companies withdraw, this capital will be withdrawn, and, with it, all the nd- vantages it affords Chicago and overy other city in the State. Looking atthe proposition on all sldes,—it is not necossary to go overall tho obvious objections to it,—wo think it is altogether the most asinine that has put in an appearance in Springfleld. OUR EXPORT TRADE, Wa have already called the attention of the rendors of ‘Tnx ‘fniune to the cronlars sont out by the “ Anti-Orisis” Longuo of Philadel. phi. Ono of thom is addressed to “Our Law- Making Ropresentatives, Washington, D. ©.,"* the other to the publio gonorally. Two moro absurd dooumonts woro naver circulated in this country or any other, Thoy ara issued by an Anti-Crisis Loaguo, Tho fact is thoy come from tho hot-bed of Protection, They are both Protectioniat papors ;'But the League docs not wish to bo known as a Protootionist TLeagne, Thera is o Jargo portion of tho people of this country to whom the word “protection” is not a ploas- ant ono; and so it comos that our Philadelphia friends dub thomselves ‘ anti- erjsia.” ‘Thoy would havo it appear that thoir efforts aro dircoted to the provontion of those scoular and destructive catastraphos too familiar to the commorcial world ns crises, It waso happy thought of tho League to drop the word ‘ protection” for * crisis," but it was not very ingonuous, Protection @ocked out in tha garb of anti-orisia is the wolf in shoop’s clothing, Protection means favoring tho few at the oxpenso of tho many: but how amiable anti-crisis is} Who would not join an anti-crisis lenaguo? = Orises* hove no frionds, , ‘hoy aro as little welcomo as the nmall-pox, or the plague, or a Chicago fire, ag a grasshopper dovastation, or the Dol- uge, Wo repeat it, it was a hoppy thought of the Philadelphia Protectionists to call thomselvea ‘‘ nnti-orisia” mon. It is a woll-known fact that before the year 1800, under a low tariff, the United States ox- ported moro than she imported. Owing to various causos, not the least of which was the ennotmont in 1861 of a high protective tariff, tho reverso of this is now true, ‘The United States ia largely in the debt of foroign coun. tries, In 1872 alone, the axcesa of our im. porte over our exportyamounted to $120,000,- 000. Not only do our oxporta not cover our commercial liabilities, but we are largely a debtor to Europe on financial account. On this alone wo havo to pay to Europoan capi- talists annually the sui of $100,000,000, ‘This is o large amount, and means must bo found of mooting it as well as of reducing the enormousdebt of which it is only the interest. To these foots the Anti-Orinis League calls attention and proposes a romeily. ‘To pay of our English indebtednoss, the Leagna Bays to our law-moking ropresentatives, * You must increase the duty on finporta nnd give all tho monoy received from increased duty to thy oxportor ns a bounty.” ‘Tho old morcantilo system over again, Tax fmports, pay 4 bounty on exports, and grow rich, ‘Tho Ant. Cricis League's recommendation is only a plea for a higher protective tariff than we heyy yot. What else can an inerense of duties oy imports menu? Protcetion has not protected cnough, and the “Anti-Crists " mon cry ont for more, We should have taken tho circy. Jorg sent us a hugo joko were it not that wo havo too many reasons to know that they war, intonded in all rober onrnest, Yet they bre theirownrofutation on theirface. Woprant tly in order to liquidato our foreign indebtedness wo nist export more than we are now doing, But we eanuot, by inseribing on our statute. books an ennetinent to the effect that thers shall bo n bounty on exports, pay our Bur. pean creditors, or find thomeans to pay them, Whero, wa wonld like to know, fa the Lounty contemplated to como from? From an in. crenso on the duty on imports! But wonly uot an increnso on the duty on imports, high ag that duty is already, provent importation nnd tend to diminish tho revenue obtaing, from that sources at present? Rats tho duty: and you diminish tho imports and obtain no bounty to pay any one. ‘Tho only effect of tho passazo of the law rocommended wor beto “protect” the privileged classes sti] more. Tho means of making our exports equal to or to exceed our imports is not that recom. monded by the Anti-Crisis Lenguo, It is the very opposite of it, We do not export mor, not because we do not produce it, but bo cause the protective tariff hhns for effect to increase the cost of production of overy arti. clo protected. Our protected articles, becana of protection, cost moro than the same arli. eles produced elsewhere. Ience tho world buys them elsowhere, not from us, The moment the Government taxes the imports tion of any article, thnt moment tho hom producers put up their figures or the labors put up theirs, Without protection, we con'd afford to compete with Manchester and Shef. ficld, Paris and Berlin. Mr. Games, one cf the most eminent economists in England, probably tho most eminent sinco tho death of Mr. Mint, puts this question: “I beg the reador to consider what is meant by ther legod inability of Now Englaud and Penns). vaniato compete, Ict us say, with Manches tor and Shefileld in the manufacture of calico and cutlery? Whatit means, and what it only can mean, is, tlat thoy aro unable to do so cousiatently with containing that rate of remuneration on their industry which is cuz. rent in the United States, If only Americsn laborora and capitalists would bo coutort with the wages and profits current in Great Britain, there ig nothing that I know of to prevent them from holding ther owa in any markets to which Manchester ond Sheffield send their wares.” Now, if the Inborers and capitalists roferred to above wora amajority of tho laborers and capitalists of this nation, we should not argue very strenn- ously ogainst protection; but they ara nat. ‘They aro o small minority of the peoplo of the country; and Mr, Cares’ reasons will hold, ‘The best way, thon, to increase our er. portations is to produco our goods at a lowor cost of production, so that we may ba able to cohypate with other nations in thy markots of the world; ond this we can do not by increasing our rates of tariff, but by decreasing them Tn March, 187 le Cuanits, a stock. holder in tho Pacific Mail Company, appliel 1o the Suprome Court of Kings County, New York, for an -injunction to restrain A. B. Sroonwext, then Presidont of the P. M., aud others from misapplying and wnsting the funds. Tho matter was sont to a roferes, Mr. J. 8. Lawnenox, The tostimony taken Doforo him March 16,18, 19, and 20, 187%, and now published, shows some interesting facts, Srockwety was as ignorant on the, stand as Scnumaxezn, He might have soll $1,000,000 of bonds belonging to the Com pany, ond ho might nat; he might have loaned the Company's funds to mon who used them to speculate in tho Company's stock, and ho might not; porlaps he had aa intorest in those speonlations, and perbaps he hind not ;—ho really could not romomber thest details! It was shown, howovor, that the funds had been recklossly lonned for stock jobbing purposes, and that the stockholdes woro being ruthlessly floecod by the Direc ors, ‘Then camo this interosting bit of testl- mony,~—especially interesting now : Q.—Ia thore a bill ponding before Congroas rolatisg to tha Pacific Mail Btosmehip Company ? ‘Wituess, by advice of counsel, rofused to answer. Q.—Ie there any bill pending in Albany relating # tha Pacific Mail Steamslitp Company ? ‘Witness declined to anawer thix question also. Q.—Ia thoro any peruon, or are there are any persons at Albany or in Washington, represouting the Pacis Mall Steamship Company or its affairs in reference any such Li? A,—Mr, Irwin, the Agent of the Com pany, fain Washington at this the, looking oat for tho intereata of the Company, That te tho only pr son in Washington, Albany, or New York, outside the regular ofticera of the Company, on imainose cf tt Paclfio Mafl Steamship Company, ‘Thero never bu boon any one In Albany or ia Now York on that bas nese, Mr, Irwin is our Agont, and has boon with H+ Cotopany six or elght yesrs at Ban Praucleco, Q.—Llow can he reprosont the interests of the Com pany in Washington? A.—Thst {s beat known to oa selves, Q.—~Well, Task you to make it known tous, Counsel objected to witnows anaworing thie que: fon, soying that they have no objection at all to #97 question which tends to show bow tho funda of Paciflo Mall Steamship Company are being ompl at Weuhington or olsewlore, bat they object to die close what Mr, Irwin's buviness was, 'Pho thon Vice-Proaldont, F, W, G. But ows, confirms tho facts about loaning, sto! jobbing, ete. When the quostion of sul expenses eame up, he was suddenly male Thus: Q.~IIow mnch money hava you apent tn Washingtos for billa pending ? ‘Avjocted to, F Q,—Thero ia a bill ponding before Congress for ht graut of # subsidy to tho Pacifio Alall Sleamshlp om pany, Do you know personally whether of 50 any money or funds of the Pacific Mail Btoamabip Com peny havo been expended in the promotion parsing of that bILT Objected to, ed. At this point, the hearing wes adjonrae: Boforo it rocommonced, the Company co promised with Ouazz1e, ‘Iho latter now »* sorts that he forced the defendants to dob by threatening to expoao tho doingy of ane at that timo. ‘They wero scared, aud ae him all he eaked, Oustizs might mabe good witnoss, eee With what unqualified abliorronce_and 90m) tonjpt innst tho Sainte of Balt Lake City Fee! 2 tho man Picartip Siaven, the convicted marde x er of Van VaukxNuna, Yoare aod yoare ae jegal ousctmeut of the Torritory loft it opto 4 with the orriog Gentila whether ho should down and ont of his mortal coll by any oe ro throo modos of execution, —whether, ia ie should bo hanged, uhot, or guillotined. + tho Kindly offer was oxtendod to Purtir eared Hist depraved being sat stolidly, aad re ait @ Beutel indifference to the bumand Coad