Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1875, Page 4

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Ki “CRI” Ni RA-HOUBIZ-Clark etrest, opposite suiarimap tense, Heeliy © Leute Minstroles trie Belles of the nitchea," CHICAGO MUS! bomand State, fonree strat, botwecn Desr- yen! Afternoon aud evening. ‘YY Mi RUNSSALEAR GRAND LONGE OF PER. VAY ? BHCNos ming e rogninr asaumbiy this (Thurdsy) eral r inetallation uf viflcers end for wuts on tho au Pate fy 5 derof ¥. VW. WALL, T. RoR TOF OOD Ue. Be Gian! Sehalf lis usual ratoss A lich: IN FLORA, GEES PAO tinkaax, Jan. 6, 186, Fog? te IT, Park * pan 7 wife has hoon aflicte? orors fall and wintce during the past fteen yours with n xerniwlous eruption on ber haude and arme, which at tines rence Heralmost helplow, She has boon preserlbed for by som of the leading physiciingin this Sists and also in iowa, without recolring any particular henoilt. Some thren Innuthe since eho commenced tha unot the Glun tlore Wator, antl at ths peeaent time her lands ars complately weil, She gives the Glen Fleca Water tha credit uf effeat: fuga cure, Youre yery trate, TW. Mizerers., Che Chitaya Tibvae. Thursday Morning, March 4, 1875. ‘Tho Stato Senate yeatorday voted down the Dill providing for a Superintondont of As. sessmonts in Cook County, Dr. Dr Koven continues to gain. ‘Tennes- aec, Wisconsin, and Maino yesterday declared for him, and Minnesota against his consecra- tion, Of the cleven Standing Committees so fat heard from, seven give consent. Once more tho use of Tuomsos’s absurd invitation to Spring is perinitted tho local re- porters in their weather articles, Another in- stallment of snow has come just in time to fill up tho cuts mado Monday, thongh tho intorforonce with travel has not ‘been so Be. rious or extensive og that attending tho last: storm, ‘Tho bill for the bettor protection of foreign capital loaned in Illinois has becomo a law, Goy, Brvenmoe having yesterday oflixed his sigunture to the enactment. It permitsnon- residents to loan money in this Stato at a rato not exceeding 10 per cont, and places them ‘upon an equal footing with residents os to the recovery of principal and intercst at maturity, A distinction which has long beon an oyo- sora to Western dairymen and dealers is wiped out by the action of the National But- ter and Egg Association, now in session in this city. There will bo no longer a grado Imownas “ Wostern” butter, a term lere- tofore implying inforior quality, and the ship- monts from tho West will go upon the mar. kot on their merits —_—— The action of Congress in reforonce to Arkansas is the occasion of great satisfaction in the South, In the Stato Legislature yoster- aay a resolution was introduced declaring that the Republicans cheerfully accept tho situation, and calling for the disbanding of tho militia, A lettor thanking Judge Ponanp Tor his efforts on tho sido of uon-interference was yesterday signed by alargo number of Louisville merchants, who had held back heavy shipments of goods to Arkanaas, appre- hensive of the lawless condition of things certain to result from tho adoption of Mr, Wano's minority substitute. ‘The question whethor the lawyor ‘Tracy has or has not violated professional atiquette Ly appearing os counsel in the Bexcurn case, is creating considerable (alk in the East, and provoking acrimonious discussion in the pa- pers. Ar Tnacr’s own version of the factsin the case show that somo tine in November, 1872, he was asked by Mr. Woonrurr, Mr, Movxron’s partner, if he would consent, ay a friend of Becourn and of tho firm, to hear the fasts concerning the Woopuuit publica tion, with a view to an opinion whether an answer should be made to it, Hoe consented, aud a long interview took place, at which Messrs. Movnrox, Woovnuvy and ‘I'nacy wero present, oud afterwards Mr, Tinton, who camo bringing o roll of manuscript, With regard to what followed, Mr, Tnacy says: He (Trxtoy) wat down, and beforo ho began to read. that manuscript, or read anything, he turued to me bod said to me im substance: “Mr, Tracy, do not know what thuetiquotie of your profession permiln; if I yive you a statement of my case againut Henny Wann Dyxenen, aud Lo and I should afterwards come intu collision on that euse, would the etiquette of your profesalou permit you to be counsel for Myur Wany Bevcuen2” Idit say to Mr, Winton, av L remem. Der, without discussing what the etiquette of my prom Keston would or would not permit, that, if L conwentod to receiv statoment froma man who hada contro. verey with another and then they cate inte colluion on that case afterward, £ should not feel at Mtberty to bee come counsel fur the other party; and thereupon hu * Hrovooded to read to my the wtatemont, ‘Mr, ‘Luacy now sucks to break tho force of tho charges made aguinst him by alleging that he subsequontly notifled Bb, ‘invon that he should violate his proinigu in case Mr. ‘Citron accused Mr, Buxcuen of adultery, and that, Mr, ‘Tnuros having done this, he is re- Jeasod, This is the issue as it stands, ond us tho matter is oue which is creating a great deal of interest in Now York among lawyers aa well oa clients, the viows of Western lawyera on the otiquette of the case would not be out of pinco or season. ‘ —— ‘The Chicogo produco markets wero gener- ally fat yeaterday, oxcopt wheat and whisky, ‘Mess pork was moderately active aud 10¢ per Dri lowor, closing at $15.10 cash, und $186.35 for April. Lard was snore sctivo, and 1u0@ 12}0 per 100 tha lower, closing at $13.17}@ 13.20 cash, and §19:874@18.40 for April, Meats were dull and easior, at 6fo for shoul. ders, O1@9jo for. short ribs, ond 9ju for short clears, Dressed hogs were dull mud nominal, at $7.C0@8.00 per 100 in, High. wines wer in better demand and highor, at @L.09 per gallon. Wiour was dull ond firm, Whoat was active, and jo higher, closing onsier nt 86Jc cash, and 8740 for April, Corn was dull and ensier, closing at (4c cash, ond Tie for May, Oats wero steady, closing at 53Jo cash, and G0}e for May. Ryo was quict and unchanged, nt %3ic. Barley was activo, ant 8@ Ie lower, closing at $1.05@1.05$ cash, and $1.02 for April. Moga were active aud higher, closing firm at $6.60@8.00 for com. mon to fancy, ‘There wis n good domand for enttle at 18@25endvance. Sheep were scarce, and 25¢ higher, eg ‘Tho Inst full day of tho Vorty-third Con- gress was chiefly devoted to the various ap- propriation bills, to which a host of amend. ments wero attached, involving an ence. mons increase of expenditure, In tho Senate, the additions to tho Rivor and Harbor bill as it camo from the House amounted to about $15,090,000, Confcronce Committecs are now the order, and Washington is scoured for experts to on- gross the bills previous to their final passago. 'Tho sessions in both Houses will continue -through the night, and up to 12 o'clock to- day, when the present Congress expires by imitation of lnw, ——$—_ The trial in Brookly erday wag not especially intoresting in episode or develop. ment. Mr, OvixoTo was given an opportu- nity to patch up the chinks in his faulty memory, and told how the Plymouth collec- tion in behalf of Mrs. Tinton and her chil- dren had reached the sum of $1,245, From Mrs, Ovinaton the jury learned of that good Indy's Inbors to bring abont a conference be: tween Mrs, Tinroy and the Investigating Commnitteo previons to tho ‘giving of her tes timony. When Mrs, Putwast took the stand, a juror fninted away, ond the Court ad- journed, It is now believed that Mr, Buecu- Eb will not bo called this weok, THE INCREASE-OF-TAX LAW, The Senate on ‘Tuesday night, by a vote of 80 yens to 29 nays, passed the bill incronsing the annual toxes, as estimated, by $35,000,- 000, The vole on this bill is somewhat re- markable. Tho actnal voto was 659, and + other Senators wero announced as pairs, ‘There being ono vacancy in tho Senate, thero wero 10 Senators absent or not voting. Tho vote may bo thus classificd, counting those paired na actually voting: For the biit—Maine, 2; New Hampshire, 2; Vere mont, 3; Massachusetts, 2; Rhodo Island, 13 New York, 1; Now Jorsey, 1; Pennsylvania, 2; West Vir- ainta, 1; Alabama, 1; Florida, 4; Loufslana, 1; Tex- as, 1; Miralexipp!, 1; Arkansas, 2; Oregon, 13 Calle forma, 1; Wisconsin, 1; South Carolina, 2; Indians, 25 Michigan, 2; Minnosota, 2, Total, 32, Against the of!l—Connecticut, 1; Ihode Island, 1; New York, 1; Now Jereey, 1; Delaware, 2; Maryland, 9; Virginia, 1; West Virginfs, 1; North Carolina, 2; Georgis, 2; Alabama, 13 Toxas, 3; Tennersee, 1: Kontucky, 23 Tliuola, 2; Lowa, 2; Novada, 2! Ohio, 23 Ualitornts, 1; Oregon, 1; Bssisetppl, 1; Missourl, 2, Total, 51, ‘Tho absent and not voting, and not paired Bonntors, were the following : Fenny—Connecticut, scucnz—3issonri, Lewis—Virginia, CanrentEa—Wisconsin, Haowntow—Tennesses, [iauver—Kaneas, Monto; INGALL#—Kaneas, | Urrton—Nebrasks, RECATITULATION, For the bill, including pairs... Against the LIM, Including pal Absent or not voting Of thoso non-voting, Mossrs. Scuonz, ‘Trr- tox, Hanvex, aud Lewis, and perhaps In- @aLts and Carrenrrn, would havo voted against the bill, making 87; so that in a full Senate the bill could not have been passed, and that, too, under circumstances of the most extraordinary charncter. ‘Iho pressure to force the passage of this bill was unpreco- dented, It proposed a gigantic robbery,—an annual dividend of thirty or forty millions of dollars to one class, » cash bonun of 20 conts a gallon to every holder or owner of whisky ; neash bonus of 4 to & per cent on tho value of all tha woolen, cotton, paper, iron ‘and steel, lend, tin, zinc, copper, and other metal goods, and on manufactures of glass, in store in tho country. The bilt had the support of every whisty-distillor in tho United States nnd of all the owners of spirits, It added $10,000,000 cash to the value of the whisky on band, and exempted it from taxa tion, All this clnsa of persons, and they aro numerous in every Congresstonal District, wero represented on the floor of both Houses of Congress urging and pushing this bill, Every mannfacturer of carpota and woolen goods of every description, every ianufac- turer of cotton goods, every manufacturer of glassware, and evory manufacturer of iron and steel ware, was represented on the floor of the Senate, in person, by attorney, by let- ters, and by dispetches, urging and pushing the postage of this bill, Every merchant and deoler in carpets and in cotton, woolen, pn- per, glass, iron, atecl, and other metal goods, was represented in Washington by those urg- ing and pushing this Dill; and all tho sugar- reliners and sugar-producors in the United States wore urging aud pressing the passage of the bill; aud yot so monstrous and Dare. fuced was the robbery that it passed Ly a baro majority in both Houses, In tho Hennta it reccived tho votes of a number of Senators whose oficial lito hus now ex- pired, and who, it is to bo hoped, will be hoard of no more officially forever. It was supported also by the four gontlemen oficial- ly representing Florida ond Arkansas, and a fifth from Alubama, but between whom and thoir constituents thero is no passible comm. munity of interest, Nor wes' this all, ‘Cho River and Tarbor DIN, with ite $6,000,000 of plunder, intended for distribution among a majority of the Congressional Districts of the country, was held in reservo, and Senators wero warned, in decided and emphatic terms, thut, unless the Tax bill wore first passed, tho Harbor bill shoutd not bo allowed to como to a voto, ‘Tho sugar-retiners, in whose interest tho people of the country have been unmereifully tuxed for fourteen years, were prosont urging this bil, ‘This class of persons are among tho weelthicst aud ost pampered by protec tlon in tho country, ‘Lhis bill proposes to add to tho annual tax on sugar &80,00u,000, of which @3,000,000 aro to be paid to the United States und the other $22,000,000 to the sugar-refiners, ‘They wera roprosentedin both Houses of Congress by their attorneys auting as nembers, Every man in the United States who was interested in this gigautle uchemo of robbery Wes represented ; but the people, who are to bo robbed, had fow mombers t6 speak a word in their behalf. Despite all these extraordinary circum. stauces, the LIM would havo failed; tho Sen. ato and the House would have recoiled from the enastment of such an outrage had not tho Secretary of the ‘Treasury, armod with his fiomenso patronage and power, appeared in tho Senate and personally and for hours importuned Senators to vote for the bill, avowing that unloss it were pawed he would have to resign, or that he would arbitrurily refaso to make expenditures authorized by law. And yot, to the uredit if Honators, the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1875. Dill thus supported conld command but a baro majority of ono in the Senate. Tho Democratic members could easily have talked the bill to denth, as there ia no provi- ous question in tho Senate, but they pre. ferred td have the political capital of the pns- sngo of such a bill toitsdefeat. ‘They record- ed their votes against it, ‘Thero was but na single Democrat in tho two Houser that voted for this Lill, They propose to adopt Gen. Toaas'a timely but unavailing warning to his Republican associates, Wher they go home thoy intend to auswer the question, What did Congress do? by saying the Repub+ licans passed a bill imposing $35,000,000 of aiditional tox9g on the people, and so suaped the bill ns fn snable the speculators and pro- tected clnsses to pockat as much more. ‘Thoy will ehed crocodile ssara over tho onactment of the bill, but ‘vill -seretly gloat over tho blunder of their adversaries, THE VOTE ON ARKANSAS, Tho lessons of Louisinua have not been lost. ‘Tho action of the Mouse, Tuesday oven. ing, in defenting Mr, Wanp's monstrous prop- osition to overturn the present Government of Arkansas and substitute for it ono that is utterly repugnant to tho great ioajority of the people of that Stato os well os of the United States, excuses many errors of tho past, ‘The Mouse did oven better than this, It adopted the resolution submitted by the majority of the Committca which investigated Arkansas, and thus declared that “No inter- ference with tho existing Governmont in Ar- kansas by any department of tho United States Government ia advisable.” As tho President bas announecd that he would bo ruled by tho action of Congress in this case, tho Arkansas problem may be taken as defluitely settled. Attorney-General Wrttams will havo to chain up the dogs of war ho has been so anxious to lot loose, and Bnooza, Cuarroy, Donsex, et al., will havo to give up their plans for electing Arkansas Governors at Washing- ton, Now thot the long contest is over, a summary of it will be of interest, In 1872, Bnooxs, Liberal, and Baxrzn, Io- publican, ran for Governor, Broous was probably elected, ‘The Charron and Dorsey clique nevertheless counted Baxren in. Bnooxs appealed to the courts, which decided against him, ‘Then ho appealed to the Legis- Jature, which also devided adversely to his claim, ‘Thon he turued Radical Republican, and so secured the support of Charron and Dorsey, the very men who had counted him out, but who had meanwhile quarreled with their own candidate, Baxrezn. Relying upon their influenco ot Little Rock , and Arkansas, he appenlod to arma ' and the rosidont. Both’. decided agninst him. He disappeared, to the great relief of honost men. Soon after his last outbreak, o Constitutional Convention was called in Arkansas, It met, framed a good-cnough Constitution, much better than the one then in force, and submitted it to the people, It was ratified by an overwhelming vote. ‘The majority for it was something liko 50,0CO in a vote of 100,000, There were sumo technical defects about the calling and the procecd- ings of the Convention, ns there have been, according to Judge Janceson, in tho manage- ment of overy such Convention held‘ in this country, Ratification by the people, how- over, cured these defects. It is a sottled principlo that the popular vote on the adoption of a now Constitution las the power to cure all technical or formal defects, The people then act in their high- est capacity, ov tho sovereign source of all authority, What they will becomes law. Under the now Constitution of Arkaneas, the Gubernatorial term for which Baxryn and Brooks contended expired, and Avuvsrus H. Gantanp wus clected the now Governor, Since thon the State has been at peace for tho first time since 1861, The laws have been respected, ‘Lhe courts have boon open. No class of citizens is disfranchised, Tho negroes hold many offiscs. ‘hore aro no authentic cases of Ku-Rluxism, Life, limb, aud property are os safe na in any frontier State. Uusiness is improving, confidence re- yiving,—n sure sign of internal peace and of faith in the futuro, Al, Warp proposed that a State, thas pencoable and prospering under the Consti- tution and Government of its free choico, should be ruthlossly interfered with by Fod- eral soldiery, deprived of both Constitution and Government, and handed over toa man whoéo pretensions to place and power have ‘een denied by tho courts, by the Legislature, by tho President, and now by the ffouso of Representatives, Afr, Wanp is backod in his impudent demand by a class of membors whose companionship does no credit to Mr. Wanp or to anybody elio, Tho desperate fight mado by tho Arkanuas carpet-bagyora is explained by the plight in which defeat has left them. According to tho dispatches of this morning, they have spont all they had in prosecuting tho caso and aro now beggared. Fifty of the crowd oro under indictment at Little Rock, and dare not return thoro, Bnooxs is uttorly broken down, The voteon Wann's proposed resolution was significant, Less than half of the Ite- publican members voted for it, Of tho 79 yoas, 67—nearly three-fourths—wore cast by men who have been rejected by their con- stituencies, and will cease to be members of Congress ot noon to-day, Onv of their last efforts was to forca the Republican party to abandon its prosent sensible policy of letting «| tho South alone, oxcept in the casey whore Foderal interforence is expressly required by tho Constitution to prosorve the pounce. ‘Tho fact that three-fifths of the Republican Con- &vessmen were unwilling to unseat Gannann, despite their political opposition to his prin- ciples, shows that the party, beforo losiug its hold qn the Lowor Iouno, has put itself on record there in favor of 9 policy of recoucili- ation, peace, and mutual goodwill, —— And now come tho silly landlords of the Southern hotels, at Nashville, Alexandria, Baltimore, and other cities, cuncel their licouses and close their honsus because of the passuge of the Civil-tights bill, which gives the colored class the same priviloge in a hotel agawhite. It would have been in bottor taste had these Southern hotel-kcepors waited to sea whether the blacks were going to avail themselves of the new priviloge before they made such an exhibition of their sploon, As a rule, the negro knows his place, and keeps it quite ag woll, if not much better, than the white man, In this very City of Nashville, whero tha hotel-kecpers are canceling their Heenses so a4 to turn their houses into pri- yato bonrding-places and evade the law, a convoution of colored men waa hold a fow duys ago, at which it was the general sonti- muont that they’ had uo intoution of making themselves offonsive or thrusting themselves unasked in the way of white men, It is ovident either thut these hotel-koepers are moro scared than hurt, or that they ure adopting this course simply out of epite or for partisan reasons, Thero might hero and there bo a negro obstinate enough to force himaclf in whore he was not welcome, but thore is little danger that white guests will bo inconvonicuced. Tho negroes would rather eat, and drink, and live with their own kind than with whites, Tew of them have tho spare funds to stop at first-class hotels, and, yon if they had, a landlord contd easily nr range matters so that they would not incom. modo the whites, We have not heard of any Northern hotel-keepers exprossing any alarm that their business will be projuiiced, al- though the Northorn noegrois much hotter able to stop at tirst-clees Lotels than the Southorn, ———— THEI STATE BCHOOL TAX. Tho only opposition to speak of which the small appropriation for the Copperas Creek dam has encountered in tho Illinois House of Representatives has como from thy southern counties, which have been enjoying for years tho benefits of tho unfair, discriminating sys. tem upon which the Stato school-fuud lng been distributed. ‘Tho two tatters should, of courae, bo considered separately, and each on its individual morits ; but the members of the Legislature from the southorn countics have discovered a relation between them on the old ground of sectional trading. Some of them havo threatened, oy wo aro told, to vote ngninst the appropria- tion for tho Illinois River Improvement (which is not a sovtional inatter but of ine terest to the Stato), unless the school-fund bo distributed hereafter as heretofore, whereby they can mako the northern and western counties pay $145,000 of subscription toward sustaining the schools in the southern and eastern counties, ‘The threat iss mean onc, and suggested by the worat ideas of political liuckstering. Wo aro willing that the Cop- peras Croek dam appropriation should ba presented entirely on ils own morits. It has passed the Senate by a two-third voto, and was yestorday read a second time in tho House, Wo do not think that mero section- al jealousy because of tho probable ropent of an unjust gud inequitable school-tax will bo permitted to defent it. a In order to illustrate, however, tho unfair- uess of tho State school-tax, we print in an. other column a table showing how the schoul- tax is lovied and distributed, nnd the countics which suffer as well as thoso which grab other people's money, Of $1,260,053 raised by the Stato for school purposes, thirty-four counties, including Cook, are required to pay $145,564 moro than they receivo in the ro- distribution of tho fund, aud this is divided up among tho remaining counties in tho State. ‘The reason for this is that tho tax is levied on property valuation and distributed according to the number of pupils of school nga, Among tho counties bonetited by this system,’ some receive largo sums and somo sinall; but it isn curious fact that if a lino be drawn east and west through the centro of Illinois it will bo found that alt the coun. tics south of that line except three ore the ben- eticlarios of thia inoquitable distribution of tho fund. Theso southern counties receive about $127,000 out of the $145,000 excess, or the great bulk of the entire amount. Cook County alone pays $87,841 of this amount, Ag ail tha countics in tho State aro obliged to maintain o separate system for raising school taxes in addition to their proportion of tho State fund, thero is not the shadow of an oxcuse for rotnining the State tax which is thus unfnirly distributed. It should be ro- pealed without reference to any ather proposi- tion before tho Legislature, Another reason for the repeal is the large cost of collecting and handling tho Stateschool-tax, Tho com- missions of Lown Collec.ors, nnd Coun y ‘Treasurers, and othor middle-mon, consume 9 heavy percentage of the monoy, so that the schuolmasters in Egypt do uot bogin to got all of the school-money raised in the north- ern countics which scoms to atand to thoir credit. ‘Tho sooner this unjust and oxponsivo system of raising and distributing school- funds is repealed tho bottor. TAXING FOREIGN CAP: TAL. ‘The fizat opportunity wo have h.d for con. gratulating the prosent linois Legislature is afforded by tho defeat of the absurd proposi- tion to tax mortgeges iu tho hands of non- residents of tho State given for nionoy loaned within the Btate, It is the firat Legislature organized in Ilinois which has appeared to comprehend tho real nature of tho cnso—ite unconstitutionality ag well os injustice—ond we think much credit is duo to Mr. Cunzost for hin intelligent explanation of this featuro. Notwithstanding his elucidation of the sub. oct, there wero thirty-nine membora so ob- tus ns te ba unable to comprehend it, and thoy put themselves on record in favor of tho proposition, to tho disgrace of tho State. It should not be necessary to go any further in combating a bill after demonstrating its un- constitutionality ; and Mr, Cunzos cited soveral docisions of tho United States Su. preme Court showing tho unconstitutionali- ty of taxing tho eredita of a resident in ane other State. Tho broadest of theso is quoted by Mr, Davip A. Warzs in a recont urticle in the Atlantic Monthly. In 15 Watzacr, OU, 828, tho Supreme Court holds that ‘property lying beyond tho jurisdiction of the Stato is uot auubject upon which her taxing power can be legitimately oxercised.” Tho Court adds significantly; “It would scom that no adjudication should bo neces- sary to establish so obvious a proposition,” But the Supremy Court evidently ignored tho kind of material of which a portion of the Illinois Legislature is composed; for, not- withstanding the obvious charactor of the principlo laid down by the Court, thirty-nine members voted against it,—whother just or unjust, constitutional or unconstitutional, ridiculous or not. e ‘The remarks of such members oy Wintzn, Panken, Lanpnigan, and Canuitan were ex- troordinary utterances to be hoard inn logislae tive body, Wivren thought that “ thoindlaput- uble and imimutable laws of business" do- manded o tax on foreign credits. ‘Capital was donouneedas “plunder,” and Panter and Lax- para.n insisted upon forcing these corporate cormorants to disgorgo their ill-gotten gains” by taxing the notes for money thoy lend in thia State, which money is alvoady taxed, Why not, then, pasialaw authorizing tho State to possess ituelf of al tho intorest charged by foreign capitalists? Mr, Oanzt- Hax did not caro, he said, if the borrowers did dinally pay the proposed tax on the foreign credits, ‘Lhe borrowor gets the beneilt,"” said the astute Car.iman, “and ought to pay for it.” ‘That is, ho onyht to pay it twice, to wit: Onco on tho property in which he has inyssted his borrowed capital, and a second timo in the shape of incroased interest on obligations or promises of ropoyment of the Joan, This wiseacro thought it would be right tp tox tho borrower not only on tho borrowed inonoy, but on his promise to pay dt back ! Tfad tho proposition to tax foreign credits succeeded, it would neither havo equalized tuxes nor inoreased the revenue, as its sup- portors believed. It would havo failed jn the matter of equalization for the obvious reason that the borrower would have paid the tax in addition to the current unto of interest fixed a a any by the general Inw of snuply and domand. It would have diminished rother than increased revenne, for the renson thut the borrower, be- ing forced to pay adonble tnx on borrowed capital, would find it unprofitable to borrow money to put into building or business, and. the taxable property of the State would bo diminiahed in proportion, ho imntediate offect of taxing foreign credits, therefore, is to deprive property and business built upon this outside enpital, Thus, $100,000 loaned in Spring- field by a Now England capitalist ennbtes the borrower to erect n block of buildings upon ground that would otherwiso remain unim- It also gives at proved and miproductive, least 50,000 days of Inbor in tho aggregate to tho men who ent tho Iuimber, quarry the stone, make the brick, burn the lime, handlo the materials, and construct the building, It also inercases the valuo of the ground, not only to the extent of the actual yaluo of the building orected, but aso by enlioncing tho nominal and taxable value of the ground upon which the building lias beon erected. It also ennblos tho State, county, city, and town to levy and cgilect an aunual tax on $100,000 moro property than could havo been taxed if the monoy had not been borrowed, Now thero oro thirty-nine mon in tho Illinois House of Representatives who are not content with one tax on this extra 100,000, but thoy want to tnx it a second time in the shape of a mortgage held by the non-resident who has eunbled them to levy tho first tax hy bringing thin amount of mon- ey into the State, towards his neighbor as theo grasping, stu- pid mombors would toward lenders of cap- ital, ha is set down as n knevo of very swin- ish propousities and considurnblo of a fool to boot, THE FRANKING PREVILEGE, The return of tho Honso tu the exorcise of ita proud prerogative of sonding seedy and specchos to tha country at large at the ox. peuso of the National ‘freasury shows that af- ter alitho Houso is human and that the Rep. resontative flosk is weak, Patriotism, politi. cal economy, and public virtue sre powerful sentiments, but human nature is stronger thou all combined. It is uselass to discount for any length of time the yaluo of one’s speech. ‘The average Congressman, os well a tho Congressman who is nat avorago, ro garda his speech with feelingn of personal, or rather paternal, affection. It is his child, and he has more than paternal joy in contem- plating it, To is confident that it is the speech of the session, Ho no} only wants it in the Congressional Record, bu8 he desires it in pamphlet form. Ho wants ib in tho mail- bogs, nently dono up in a wrap. per, with “Joun Ssnrn,'M. 0.” on the corner, written in 9 bold hand, and ho knows that every familly in his dire trict is yearning to havo it in the house. To feels that his constituents aro longing to get his viows in full, and that the ordinary nows- paper sumtnorization is only taatalizing, Ho wanta every man, woman, alu child in his district not only to mow that be has mado a speech, but to know what he has seid, and to proserve tho speech as n little syuvenir to bo hiandeé down, autograph, wrapper, and all, to an adur‘ring posterity, And thon the farmers must have the Agricultural Reports, and the mechanics the Patent-Oftico Roports, aud the school-teachers the Educational Reports, and. the editors the Statistical Reports, ‘The springtime, meanwhile, is coming,—at least the nlmanacs say so, although appearances are the othor way,—and how ern thero be a harvest without seeds? How c#m the farmor raizo tho latest improved watoumelon or pat- ent pumpkins without Congressional seeds, and how can tho member niford to pay postage upon all these thiags now that salaty-grabs and back-pay steuls aro stopped? Must tho dissomination of knowledge in his district be hindered by such national parsi- mony? Evidently not; for tho House on Tuesday got together in a quiet way, tho membors shut their eyes so that thoy should not seo cach others’ weakness, refused to call the ayes aud noes go that they should not hear each othors’ voices or know how any one voted, aud restored the privilege until the meeting of tho noxt Congress; and prob- ably by this timo tho trains and steamboats are burdened down with Pateut-Office Ro- ports, sceds, nnd Congressional washings, hurrying to the rural districts, Now knowl. odgo will increasa again, maro speeches will bo dolivored, moro statistics will bo gathorod, more patent pumpkins will bo invented, and tho “horny-handed Grangera” can now revel at their own sweet wills among tho thrilling pages of tho Patout-Ofilco Ruports and devour commorcial statistics by the yard, Now Prren Posarns, M. ©., will no longer bo 9 dummy, but will carn his por diom, nnd the Congressioal speeches will onco more disturb tho pleusant slumbers of the Post-Oillce clerks, We havo no heart to abuso the House, We recoguizo in its ac. tion a universal weakness of human nature which induces all won, 2s well og Congress- men, to suppose that tho whole world, or a liaudsoine part of it, is broathtessly waiting to know what wo think upon a givon topic, We hopo, however, that thisinct will not muatoriully increase tho bull: of Cougrossional talk or the oxponso of Govornmental print. ing, and that tho frankers will not think that every ono wanty a Patent-Ofllee Report, aven if evory one wants their specches, rene catecomanentomeemteemsn Tho Pacific Muil Company haa turned another of thove remarkable somorsaults for which it is fainous, und now comes up with Jax Goutp as tho figuro-head of tho concern, It Jax Gousy really intonds to build up the businoss of this Company, ond hes not in- vested in its stock maroly for speculation, it may provo a very oxcellent arrengoment for the Company, oven if it should entail a heavior tax upon fraights and travel to and from the Pagitle Const, ‘The prosout arrango- ment seoms to be & consolidation of tho in. terosta of tho Paciflo Mail steamors with tho Union Pacific, Contral Pacitic, and Panama Ttoads, Jax Goutp owning a controlling in- ‘teveut in the Unlon Pacific and 100,000 shares of the Puolfio Mail, Such a consolidation will increase the reyenuos all round, and givo these Companies a moropoly of the business of the Pacitis Const, but what tho details will bo cannot be known until the now Di- rectory is established so ns to'reprosent Gouzn's inturost. It is, in any evont, o hotter condition’of thing than hag uxisted hovetofore, Congress having refused togrant tho additioual subsidy to the Pacific Muil, it can no longer lean upon tho United States ‘Treasyry, and Jay Goutn is probsbly as good 8 support 2a avy ono else to lean against, It will uow have to strike out for itsolf and bo- come 8 business corporation, instead of a stock apeculation or a football on the Now York bioak Exchange. If it stcors clear of tho dangers which usually threatens monopo the property-holderm and. business inen of Illinois of tho advantages of outside enpital, and to daprive tho State of the revenue accruing from tho taxation of When sm individual acts Nes, employs and increases its resources, and seoks, in combination with these other great corporations, to develop tho business of thu Pacific Const, it may racover tho place it has Jont in the public extimation, cease to bo a seandal, sud hereafter prove an important ageney in the condnet of tha business of the country, ‘Lime will tell — FACTS ABOUT TRE TARIFF, Tho new Tox hill, whieh raises tho duties on iron, steel, lead, cotton, woolens, glass, leather, clothing, ote, 10 por cent all around, aud which was forced npon the country by a bare majority of one voto in the Sennto, is designed, nominnlly, to increaso tho revenue. Possibly somo of its rovonno reform (?) supporters roally think it will. But it won't. ‘Che increase in the price of all manufactured goods on hand will so diminish the domand for them, by onforeing ceonomy on tho part of tho people, that imports will fall off, ond the revenue from the tariff will probably grow less instead of greater, ‘Tho manufacturers will mnke incroased profits on the stocks on hand at the expenso of the gen- eral public, bat the Governmont will inko nothing, ‘Tho inerensed tax on whisky wilt lead to moro smuggling and evasion of the tax in overy possible manner, including brib- ery of excisa officers, So much for fact No. 1. Fact No. 2 is, that the now tariff taxes aro higher, on the average, than thoso now in forco in any other country in the world. Tho Cincinnati Comercial publishes the follow- ing table in proof of this: eeanees| En= (Germany, | Auetria, Artic, — | peret. [gland | per the | per ted 15 In 10 Ss Froe, Free, Free, Fre, 10@30 | Free, 20 | Free, 10 | Free. | H@2 of 4@ 90 386 ¢ H@ Be England, the grentost manufacturing na- tion in the world, imports all these staples free. The other grent inaunfacturera admit them nt rates which nro uomiual when com- pared with our barbarous percontages, We, in order to “encourage,” and * stimulate,” and ‘protect” our manufactures, depart ng widely an possible from tho policy which has encouraged, and stimulnted, and protected manufactures in other nations; but, then, our logislntors are wisor than thoso of all other peoples. Fact No, 3 is that tho United States has nevor had, except in time of war, ay high a tariff as the now bill fastens upon it, We ara again indobted to the Commercial for the following table,—of interest to avery con- sumer ; : 1409, | WsTs, | 13%, 1600, Articles, per et.) per et.} per et.) per et. Carpets, ik oa +0 a8 Clothiy, iM 2 30 a4 Cotton tn: is 49,23 sh Lurtheaware. 10 v 20 20 ‘Tron manufactures, 16 oS. 23 at Leather manufactur Uy 35 uo 2 Woolsn manufactures..{ 7 | Su] 50 gy | New 1949, | 1987, | furig; atrticles, berct.) perce, 1875, —— $$$ $$ _ |__| ‘< 39, pry oe] a aw my 4 Trou mamitfaciurcs, ae Lerther manufactures, a6 Woolen manufactur 19 [45tol0L Thero is ono satisfaction in the contem- plation of these figures, that they aro now at the highest point they will ever reach in this country, .All changes hereafter will bo in tho direction of decrease until a roventie-tarif basis is reached, ‘Tisis Inst“ raiso” is tho last grab which this genoration will live to see, IMPROVEMENT IN IRELAND, Tho muterial prosperity of Ireland, which has been slowly progressing for somo years, is uow a conceded fact, A revolution has been accomplished in that worst ofall classes, the pauper nobility and gontry, whose pride and birth forbid them to work, and whose estates wero moroly sanctuaries from arrest, ‘fheso baukrupts held in possession a large body of thooultivable land in Ifeland. Thoy Wore axeckless, improvidentraco; thoy earned nothing; they inherited incambered posscs- sions which they proceeded to oncumber moro; their ono occupation was to spend, aud when they could not borrow thoy extorted from thelr misorable tenants; they were bankrupt, spendthrift, unpro- ductive vagrants of gentle blood. ‘This class has cursed Ireland for many genorations, ond their prodigal poverty ‘wos sustnined by tho ever-increasing suffer- ing of tho tonantry.. It is but reasonable to suppose that this condition of things would havo reached its Hinit at somo time, but tho famino of 1810-'7 fell with crashing severity upou this shiftless, thriftless clasa of propric. tors, It destroyod their income, cut off thelr rontals, and loft tenant and proprictor upon the rnmo peonniary level. ‘Tho land was mortgaged to its full rontsl valuo, aud whon tha rontal was cut off tho proprictora wore helpless, The timo had como for a change not only in system but in ownership, ‘Yo meet this oxtraordinnry but natural consequonco of tho past mismanagement, tho British Parliamont passed what ig known as tho Incuinbered Estates act, Undlor this act ao especial court was organized having for ita object tho rolicf of all Irish estates from their incumbrances, ‘Chis was accompliahed by the salo of tho land to whomsoover would givo tho greatest sum therefor, Petitlons for proceodings under this act sere allowed tobe presented by creditors or by propriotor, Ac- cording to somo particulars given in au articlo on the subjoct in the New York ZYmce, no leva than 1,085 petitions wore presented during tha first yoar of the court, Tho court lasted nino years, or until 1879, Of tho casos bronght within tho frst year, the indebtedness or incumbrances amounted in round figures to over 802,000,000, whilo the total rental was 90,827,000. Com. puting the interest on tho incumbrances at 5 per cont, it swallowed up tho wholo rental in most cases, Assuming that the ealos realized equal to twenty yoars’ purchase, tho value of the estates sold was about $114,000,000, and the incum. brances reavhed $112,500,000. Some of tho estates wore so heavily incumbered that they sold for much less than tho debt, Thiv proceeding gavo on opportunity for the investment of capital by new propriotory, noarly all of whom woro Irish, Of tho pur. chasers 8,258 wero Lrich, whilo only 824 wore English and Scotch, Mr. Aran Poxzox, great in the annals of farming, becama tho proprietor of an immense tract, the estate of tho Evues, of Eyre Court, in Galway, formorly the cuntre of tie rockloss crow alluded to in “Charles O'Malley,” whose “ uncle” wes one of tho hospitable, spendthrift, bankrupt class which the oct dispossecsed, ome of tho ola proprietors were able to discharge their dubts by the sue of putious of thoir atates, some merely retuin. ing their residences with small trates or parks attached. Many of the bankrupt om. ors left the country, others ongaged in bur. ness, others sought ewployment of Variong kinds, and still many mere ronted 5, near tha lergo citicy, The now gone composed of men of hetter eduertie, different Labits and notious of living, reckless, spendthrift, idlo, and Dowpraa . tive tribe of petty nobles and gentry 4,4 been xueceaded by a much better clasg roy rale, Later this law gave way to another, thy wise and humano suggestion of Jou Brats by which tonants were converted into ownery of such improvements as they malo on th land, and for which they nro entitled to CON. pensation in cnves of eviction or refusal ot renowed lenues. A result of this is an jn. creased providence among tennnts, a frat improvement of the small holdings, and the encouregement of thrifi, It bry substituted caro for negligence and providence for Watlo, Still another law has been enacted, under which a courtis ostablishod differing somowhnt from tho first, whereby tenonts, in certain cy en under certain cirounmstances, upon paying jg ensh one-fourth of the price of the land, ory sided by the Government in completing the purehnse, Under this ect, a munber of sma tracts of bankrupt estates annually pase tite tho hands of tenants, who eventually becoiny freoholders, Stil, notwithstanding those changes, thy transfor of the ownership of the soil fro: the fow to the many has beon slow, but the change, so far as it hes taken place, has b:¢r attended with most bencticial results, "That great worl, however, crn never be brovaut about until tho abolition of tho law of jn. mogeniture and entail. ‘Tho materisl ond eduentional condition o the island has, however, greatly improve, ‘Tho number of the middle class or “ Welle do” people has largely ineroased. Tho pro ductions of the soil havo increased, aud thy yooplo really enjoy oxomplions from taxuticg unknown to the English and Scotch, ‘Ther is, however, much to be done. ‘The bull: of the population are as far as over from becom ing owners of tho soil, ‘Lhey sharo to samt iden. 3 extent in the general prospority of the Em. ‘ piro; but thoy will probably remain tounnty ond pay over their surplus earnings to lind, Jords during all their Hives, as their fathers havo done before them from gonoration to gonoration, Aud yet with the diffusion of education and the spread of intelligence, some remedy for this sad and discourning state of existence inuy be discovered and put in forco, Congress having foilod to discover the whereabouts, or at least to got possession uf the body, of the Hon. But Kina, the Pacific Mnil Steamship Company, at tho instigation of Rurvs Haron, has undortaken tho job, aud {i uow looking through the courts for $125,00) of Pacific Wail money which Kina has in his pockota, delivored to him by Inwiy, who pieced it where he thought it would do tha most good. An attachment has boen levie) upon his real estate, which will undoubtedly draw Winntast out of his hole, The tane Company is also after Donn Prarr. ‘thet mildanaunorved tman recoived the Compiny's solicitor graciously, and at first offered to settle up by paying $3.60. This being do clined, he proposed to givo on order on the Committee of Ways and Means for $10 witnoss fees withheld from him oviug to tho financinl distress of the Government, ‘This, too, was declined, Then Down Put magnanimously offered to turn over a whole drawer full of Senoca Sandstone, Codar Tap ids, and North Pacifie, but was again reccivel with o negative, As a lest resort, oxy Piarr sent word to Rorus Haron thet in thirty daya he would pay him off in Pacitic Mail, which by that tine would nat be worth wasts paper, Perhaps tho Hon, Bir Kyu may decide upon the samo course, and pay off the domand upon him in Pacific Mail. ‘Ia any ovont, Mr, Rurus Marca will gratify public curiosity if he succeeds in raturnit3 the Hon, Bunn Erxo to his anxious fricuds It will bo a matter of little intorost whctha the Company recovers the money or not, bit it it ean rocover Kia, so that the public cm Jook upon his face again, it will bo entithd to universal gratitude. A correspondont of the Now York Ewniny Post wuggesta that horse-raliway compeuict should stop their usoleas attempts to prevers “knocking-down,” throw away thoir Loll-puuct- os, and dischuryo their apices, aud lense eso cat to ita conductor and driver for s fixod cum +t day. Tho suggestion ty based on tho Lordos cab systom. ‘ho Hansom caba of Loudor at all managed fn this wey. Tho cab-ownors hire out oab, horse, aud harness to thoir regusr drivors for 10 shillingu—¢2.G0—n day, ‘Tha drivers have to turn in that amount oach eve ang, Whethor thoy make it or not, Thoy retsid anything they earn aver that gum, Chea-ins the company is tmpossibio, but tho publis fors womy, They aro toupt from ovor-worl.l tho horses or injuring tho cabs by tho knonl+ adge that thoy canuot hiro them wolewa gol caro latakonof thom, I¢ Hunsomu are lv: 5) succogafully, why not horao-cars, auka the Jcil? A writer in the Bibliopolist haa been hunting up the origin of tho phraso “Gone to Jericl.o, and haa tracod it as far bock as tho roige of Ouanues I, In the Aercurius Auticus, » sul known Royalist papor of that timo, the date be jug in March, 1648, be flude the following vere: If tho Upper Uousy, ond the Lower House Aid alt che bles Countess, they ware tn anotbet Aud buth thu ships wers Lotlonussso, dud sayling on ty Mayne; Let tnem ait gos (a Jericho, ‘Aud niere Le wuon ayaluo, ; Upper Honsos and Lower Housen‘and Coma:t toca have not" changed much uinoo thoso days and the wentiment expressed by tho old Royals} will fud a hearty ocho nowadays in tho casa cf nioro than ono Upper and Lower House wit 1s bose Committoos. ee eee The Post and Afail is exorcised with tho fe2° of tremendous cousequences If the water of tte Juke should grow half a degree colder, snd 8? bolow tho freozing point. There ie ao reason} foar that tho lake would freezo wolid in auch #2 oyenut, Every pound of water in the aot of fee" ing yives out (latent) heat enough to raise n temperature of anotbor pound of water to Ji degrees above the freozing polut, It is ne oavary, thoroforo, that the whole of the waters the lake whould Joao » great deal more heat thea itis likely todo now in order to freeze {nto8 solid masa, Another English clergyman, tho Rev. J, Coutts of Cowloy, noar Oxford, baa gor into hot wstet by rofueing to read the burial worvico otor body which had boen dead elght days, He rofased | allow ita interment io the parish cburcl-) becunse ita previous occupant had “lived 8 DO tortous life," In thas assuming the prerogatitot of O1nnipotonoe, which has, so far as heard £500) not Joaged the power to" judge both the @ and tho doad,” the Rey. Corey in wrath of a mob, who drove bim from ‘God's Acro” as @ prowumptuous intruder, gia ier ears ‘Tho girls attending s semivary in miigols et two chickens fighting iu thelr room lavt San! ie Beta on tho result rau high, and at the cone is lou of the contest the wivaing maldoo hae “batter” by a gold watoh, a pair of silk wto x ingy, a Freuch corest, ¢wo sole of fale her