Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1875, Page 4

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TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS HOOLEY'R THEATRE—Nandoiph street, between Clarkand LaSalle, "Catto," ADELPHI THEATRR--Dearborn street, corner Mon ‘Variety entertain: M'VICKEN'S THRATRIC—Madlson strest, between Dearborn and State, “Engagoment of Ge rgo Fawoett Rowe. *' Litde Em' D) )F MUSIC—Halated strest. between Mad~ ——— QRAND OPENA-HOUSE—Clark | strost, oppouite Pinrman House, Kelly & Leon's Minstrels. ‘Tho ellos of tho Kitchon,” CHICAGO NUSKUM~—Monrns atreot, between Doar. formand Btate. ‘Jeuia Brown," Aftornoonand evening. “BUSINESS NOTICES. UMPTIVES.—MANY HAVE BEEN HAP- ir testimony in favor of thoneo of * Wil Lime, Eapertence line proved ma, Di Zntge. iat, Boston, GLEN FLORA-TIt LATE PROF. BLANEY stated in writing that the prosence of nulpuate of Ilino in, ‘waler was injurious to tho aya If you aro using mineral r. examino elosoly ite analsals, If sou tind it contalna seven graina or mare of sulphate of ims to tho United states gallons if not satishod with the opintonof the Into Prof, Bli for tae matter to your family phyelctan. BURNKTT'S COCOAINI:—A PERFRCT DRESHING for the hair—The Cocoaine holda in a iiquid forma larco proportion of dooderized Cocoanut Ul, propared oxprose- 7 for thin purpose. No other compound possesses tho po- ctular propertioa which so exactly suit the variaus conti. flonsof the buman hair, A siaglo application rnulore tho hale (no matter how fl) and d ry) soft and glosey for y all ho havo teed it tu bo Che Chieaga Tribune, Friday Morning, March 5&, 1875. Tho aggregate of tho appropriation bills ymssed by the Forty-third Congress is ap- proximately stated at 91. ‘The Compulsory Ednention bill beforo the Minnesota Legislature, which required four- teon weeks of school attendance, was yester- day defeated by the Democratic vote. ‘The railroad war has now begun in earnest, snd a bittor conilict, in which other lines aro likely to becomo entangled, is precipitated by tho action of the Ponnsylvania Road yester- day in reducing to $8 the faro from Chicago to Baltimore and Washington, A further re- duction by the Baltimore & Ohio is quite cor- tain, and it docs not appenr possible that the Michigan Southern and Michigan Contral can much longer keep ont of the melee. It is proposed by tho National Butter and Egg Association to urge tho passage of State -laws prohibiting tho adulteration of butter. They agree to the employment of coloring substance whereby the sickly hucof the winter product of the churn may bo given the rich gold of the genuine Orange County ‘gilt. edge,” but they will have no lard in theirs, Gontlomen of the Association, don’t split hairs in butter, but lot us have the straight article (of butter) while you nra about it. Massachusetts is tired of waiting for Con- gress to do anything in the direction of specio resumption, and proposes to do some resum- fog on her own account, By consent, o bill was yesterday introduced in the Legislature of that State which provides that after Jon, 1, 1879, all taxes shall bo paid in coin, gold certificates, or National Bank notes roe- deemable in gold upon demand; while all contracts in which some other kind of dollar is not stipulated shall be fulfilled with gold dollars, {u 1871 finds herself possessed of a dower in- terest in the site of two elegant residences on Wabash avonuo, Her husband conveyed tho title in 1858, forging his wifo’s signature to tho deed, and after his donth sho began the dower suit, which yesterday terminated in her favor, Sinco tho fraudulent convoyance in 1858 the property has increased in value Porhaps fifty-fold, and tho widow's dower in- terest ia now enongh to make her vory com. fortably off. ‘Chat was not a bad forgo for her, ——_—_—- * The moro important acts of logislation passed by Congross were: 1. All the regular Appropriation bills, 2, The Rivor and Har- bor bill, 8, Tho Civil-Rights bil, 4. The bill lovying odditional taxes, 5, Bill admit. ting Colorado in 1877 as @ State of tho Union, 6, The bill making banking freo and making provision for a return to specio payments in 1872 7 The “ Little Tariff” bill, by which taxes were incrensod by sev. eral millions in asncaking and surreptitious mannor, tho advocates of the bill denying that it incroased taxes, when thoy well know thoy wore lying, The question of railroad regulation in Wis- consin has boon finally sottled by the paasage in tho Benato youterday of the Asserably bill, which is a compromise between the extrem- ists on both sides, It is not what the rail- road mon desired, but it is still farther from mecting tho viows of tho ultra Granger ele. ment. The people of the Stato may con gratulate themselves that wiser conusels ond moderate action ts prevailed, and that tho ‘anendurnblo Porr<. jar * as been so moilifled as to atill permit the eastonce of railroads, In the now law the principles of State rogu- lotion and fired rates have beon retained, but the old rates havo beon raised for all excopt abort distances, Tho Chicago produce murkets wero gonor- ally tame yesterday, but nrost of them wore steadior. Moss pork wos quiet and a shado easier, closing at £18,10@18,15 cash, and 818.80 for April, Lard was quiot and un. changed, closing at &13,20@18.22} cash, and $18.86 for April. Meats wore quict aud ensi- er, at G§o for shoulders, 9}@0$o for short ribs, and Ojo for short clears, Dressed hogs were in good demand, at $7.60@8.15 per 100 ibs. Highwines were irregular, at $1.08@1,10 per gallon. Flour was dull and firm. Wheat was lous active, and a shade casior, closing at 86%o cash, and 87jo for April, Corn was doll and casisr, bat closed firm at O4}o cash, and 71jc for May, Oats wero active and 3@jo lower, closing at 530 for Murch, and 53jc tor April, Rye was quiet and steady, at 98@08jc, Barley was quiet and firmer, closing at $1.06) for March, and $1.03} for ‘Apadl, “ Hogs were in falsly active demand and ruled stendy, with sales at $6.00@7.90. Cattlo were firm and in good demand. Sheop sold at ateady price * Tho bill to equalize bounties of . soldiers in the War of tho Rebellion had n troublous time. The Iouge refused to concur in tho Senato amendments, and the bill went ton Conference Committee, This Committco made a report which wan adopted by tho House, but the Sonato Inid the bill on the table. Subsequently the bill was signed by the Vice-President against the protest of a number of Senators, It was at first supposed that the President had signed the bill, but subsequently it appenred that ho had refused to do eo, and, had time allowed, would havo vetoed it. The bill appropriated a sum vari- ously estimated from 120,000,000 to $200,- 090,000. Tho Force bill was not touched or taken up in the Senato, and there. fore foiled. Tho action of tho House upon the Louisiana and Arkansna mattors sees to havo been considered as final, 'The River and Harbor bill, appropriating $6,300,000 directly, and in nddition $8,000,- 000 indircetly, for the Eans jetty plan of im- provement of tho mouth of the Mississippi, was passetL ‘Tho mojority, or at lenst a largo proportion, of tho items of this bill nro abuses of legisintion, aro outrageous plunder of the Treasury for purely local and porsonal objects—mere grabs, The bill regulating the imode of counting the votes for President and Vice-Prosident failed to recoive action in tho Tiouse, a3 also the bill for tho admission of New Moxico as a State, while that for the ad- mission of Colorado passed. This Congress, two-thirds of the members not having been ra-clected, seams to have devoted itself almost exclusively to levying additional taxes, and to appropriations and oxpenditures. It seemed tonct onthe assumption that this was tho “Inst chance” to raid the Treasury, and it made much of its opportunitics, THE CLOSING HOURS OF CONGRESS, The closing hours of the Congress that ex- pired yesterday wero no exception to the general rule, They were marked with even more than ordinary waste, oxtravagance, and recklossness. From Monday at 100. m. un- til Thursday ot noon, tho session may be said to have been o continuous carnival of rascality. There was no time for debate or deliberation, no time to read bills or amend- ments, and no explanation of their import was allowod; and during thoso three days Congress voted appropriations oxceeding 150,000,000, and voted an increase of tax to the amonnt of tens of millions. Taxes wera Inid and moncy nppropriated with hardly more dignity and consideration than aro shown at a town meeting in Chicago run by bummers, The two Houses sat every night, and the members, worn out by fatiguo and exhausted by intense excitement, were fncile voters in the hands of tho importunate lobby and their sgents on the floor, interested in plundoring the Treasury and the country. Tho evils of this systom of legislation have been patent for many years, Its rosulta are shown in the glaring frauds which have been perpetrated on many occnsions in tho last hours of tho Nationnl Logislature, Ditty havo been presented to tho President within five minutes of the time for adjournment. He must either approve without reading .or refuge to approve, When Inwa thus passed have beon examined, thoy havo been found to contain provisions not heard of in cither House, or susceptible of construction not dreamed of by any ona not cognizant of and parties to the fraud, Nearly all the wicked legislation has been enacted in tho last hours of Congress, ‘The back-pay grab was an in- stance of this kind, Tho legislation under which the Cuonresnmva steal was nearly sac- cessful was contained in an obscuro parn- graph adroitly worded and hastily voted. It is within the Inst thirty-six hours of a Con- gress that the lobby reaps its harvest, and members, particularly those going ont, grow liberal with other people's monoy, for it is then thoy fll theirown pockets with spoil. It is timo thera should bo some Jegal restraint or prohibition on this outragcons evil. Among the joint rules of the two Houses of Congress are tho follawing : 10, ‘No bill that sual! have passed one House shalltbo tent for conctirrenco to the athor on either of the lust three dayx of the session, 17, No bill or resolution that shall have passed the Houso of Ropresoutatives and tho Senate shall be pre sontod to the President of the United States, for his sprrabation, on the last day of tho session, ‘Those rules meet the question directly, and are all-sufficient to provent this evil system of legislation, but, unfortunately, these rules aro linble to susponsion, and ero always auspended without any objection or difficulty, ‘Tho rules, excellont as they aro in theory, aro practically of no avail or uso whatever. If thoy wora enacted in the form of a law, thoy would be more offcetive, but they ought to bo put into the form of an amondment to the Constitution, and bo thus minde irropeal- able. Thoro is anothor rulo providing that bills shall be rend three times, aud not often- er than onco on any ono day; but this rulo is avoided by ‘general consent,” and is en- forced only on raro occasions. It provonts no linsty or inconsiderate legislation. ‘Iwo wiso provisions occur in the now Con- stitution of Mlinois which might with great benofit be mado n law for the governmont of Congress. One of these is that on tho final vote or pnssngo of every bill tho yeas and noys shall be taken in each Honse; and tho other ia, that the final vote on no bill shall be taken until tho LIN, with all its smendmonts, and in tho form in which it is to pass, shall have been printed, ‘The Houso of Noprosentatives on Wedues- day night partinlly re-established the frank. ing privilege, rofusing to have the vote taken by yens and mays; ond the same Houso passed the River and Harbor bill, appropriat- ing $6,000,000, boldly rofusing to lot the yeas and nays be called, Tho proposition to ra- vive tho frauking privilege could nover have passod had membors been compelled to record thelr votes in favor of it. As it is, thero ig now no responsibility upon any individual for the viclous or corrupt logislation, Tho right to demond tho yeas and noys ought to be conferred upon any four or five members of tho House. It now requires sixty to order a votain that way, No bill should bo allowed to pass until it had rocolved a ima. jority voto of all tho mombors entitled to sents in the IIouse, At presunt it only re. quires o majority of a quorum, which is o most vicious rulo, and promotes and protects dodging evory question, as woll as absentee. It will perhaps take two or three daya to discover what the bills passod by Congross contain, aud the country wjll be fortunate, mdeed, if the enormous Tax bill be not sup- plemented with acts of waste and oxtrava- gance equaling the worst days of the past, —_———. Among the men who have been conspiou- ous in Congress, and offensively conspicu. ous, wos one J, H, Syrnen, holding a seat ag @ member from the City of. New Oxleans, This man nover was elocted, and that fact lias been notorious to overy member of the Tfouse from the firatday of meeting. Yet the House pormitted him to retain his rent to the exclusion of tho mau rightfully elected until the last hours of tho session, when thoy deolared him never to have been elected, and then admitted the rightful claimant, Syrnen in the meantime has drawn his two yenrs’ salary, At tho same time, the Tlouso admit- ted Mr. Smermpan to a scat from Now Or- leans. In 1872, Prxenpacn was n candidate at largo for Congress on tho Krtroaa ticket; in counting in Kexzoaa and thoothors, Pinon. pack was also counted in, Subsequently Prsennack was elected to the Senate by tho Kerroao Legislature, and has spent two years vainly trying to got into that body. ‘Tho House has kept the placo vacant for two years, for the ronson, it was alloged, to admit Pincnnacg, should he abandon tho claim ton seat in the Senate, and in the meantime has excluded Srentpan, who had been lawfully elected, At the last moment, the Houso ad- mitted Saentpan. It is hardly necessary to comment on this gross injustice, and we refer to it more particularly at this time og another evidence given by the Iouso that the election of the Kenzoaa ticket in Louisiana, in 1872, was, to say the least, very dubious. Tho House at last repudiated Prxcimacn’s elec- tion to that body asa fraud; and tho Senate repudiated Prxonnadk’s election to that body ag the act of a frandulently-clected Legisla- ture. Justice, at Inst, has been done, but it has been tardy justice. A DEMOCRATIC HOPE DEFEATED. The adjournment of Congress without ae- tion upon the Force bill in the Senate is a Democratic defeat na completo and disastrous to their hopos as the defeat of November was to the Republicans. More than any other measure ponding in Congress, the Democrats wanted this Force bill passod, and their dis- appointment at the failura will be of the keenest description. They wanted it passed, so that they could go on the record against it to make political capital in the next Presidon- tial olection, But ithas not passed. It has mot ita death by suffocation in the Sennte. We now commend this fact to the Louisville Courier-Journal, to the New York Iferald, World, Express, Tribune, the St. Louis Re- publican ond Times, and other nowspapors which have been howling themselves black in tho face over the assertion that Congress was suro to pass the Force bill, and that the President, by menns of it, would foree him- self into a third term or inaugurnto civil war, Said the Louisville Courier-Journal a few days ago: Bat Congress has no thought of anything excopt the perpetuation of the faction lod by Montox and Bur- tn, Te Can.ico Tainunx my affect contempt for theae prognostications, Lat those laugh most who Jaugh last, We aball not havo long to wait for tho verl- fleation of aliwo havo said, ‘The candidacy of Gen, Guavr fora third term iss fixed fect, and that gloue ought to satisfy tho pecullar akepticiam which bas visited ridicule upon every effort to keep the country advieed of ita real situation and danger, The New York Trijune of the 1st inst. took substantially the samo ground. Mr. McDonaxo, the newly-olected Senntor from Indinna, on tho ove of his doparture for Washington announced to his constituents that the Force bill was ccrtain to pass; that Gnanr would make use of it to secure n third term; and that it would involve civil war. Now who is the truo prophot? Whose prog. nostications deserve contempt? Tux Cur- osco ‘Trinuxz has novor believed that the Forco bill would pass, and has always been freo in the expression of its hostility therato. Thero wero o few crazy Republicans, headed by Ben Burren, who wanted it passed, nnd who wora rondy to join hands with tho Democrats in raising a commotion and having another war, but the bill was never oven seriously considercd in tho. Senate, If it had come to s vote in that body, it would have met with a moro disastrous dofeat than Wanp's Arkansas cnr- pet-bag bill did in the House. Only one bill which Tu Cutcoaco Tamoxe hos seriously opposed has passed, and becomo a law this session, viz,: the Taxbill, and it only squeezed through by one majority by means ofa tromondous combination of influences. ‘Woe commend this fact, therefore, to tho Courier-Journal to show that Tax Tarnunn is ngafo prophet, and that its views have beon in the main in accordance with the action of Congress, It is hard to contemplate the death of the Force bill withont s feeling of commiser- ation for the sad plight in which it has left the Democratic leaders and their soothsayers of the Courier-Journal sort. Thoy had pre- dicted it would pass, Thoy wero euro it would pasa, * Thoy wanted it to pnas. ‘They wero waiting pationtly the time whon they could take the stump and expose ita ‘ en- ormity” and flro tho popular heart. Now, the Democratic party is robbed of four- fifths of its anticipated capital in trade. Ita denunciation of the ‘ Third-Term business" muat stop, It has no “ bayonet bill” to howl at, no martial law, jurisdiction in the South, no suspension of tho Aabeas corpus, no pros. poot of civil war. Tho Now York Herald must invent somo other bugboar to frighton timid souls than Third Tonn and Cosarism, The Courler-Journal must consult some now oracle, Its.man of straw is scattered to tho winds, Ita mayro's-nest has nothing in it. It {aa false prophot, and should it not be stoned? The Courier-Journal should makea handsome apology and quit the business of prophecy. It has no gift in that line of business. Mr, Banyzy Cavnyierp, Democratic mem- ber of Congress from the South Division of Chicago, has written note to the Chicago Times in which ho explaing that he did not voto on tho Tax-Grab bill because he was paired with Mr, Farweur, and thot thia fact will ba found in the Congressional Record of Fob, 24. A roferenco to the Jtecord of that date shows that Mr. Farwzin announced that ho was paired with Mr. Cavurrenp on tho vote upon agroeing to the substitute offered by Mr, Dawes. But no such announcement appears in the J?ecord concerning the vote on tho final passage of the bill, Besides, the bill finntly passed was the Dawes aubstituto, which was sprung upon the House during the very day on which it passed; and, os Mr, Cautriexp soya ho was uot in Washington that day, wo do not seo how ho could havo made arrangoments wit). Mr, Fanweny about pairing on tho bill which finally became ao law, But perhops Mr, Fanwenn know what Mr, Caunrtzzp would Lave dono if ho had been present. Mr, Caunvixtn also failed to vote on Mr, Wano’s Arkansas proposition, which was eo overwhehwingly defeated; but, oa Mr, Fanwern likewise neglected to vote, perhaps Mr. Cauzriziy did not know which way he .ought to vote, Mr. Caunyienp voted in favor of the admission of both Colorado aud New Mexico, in direct oppouition to al- most the entire Democratic delegation in the House; but, as Mr, Fanwzzu probably voted that way, Mr. Cavzyrety vory likely felt Jus tied in dosorting his pariy. But this ques. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: * FRIDAY,” MARCH 5,7 1875. tion inovitably auggesta itself: Why should there have boen the expense of a special elec. tion in this district, nud why should the Gov. ernmont have beon forced to pay Mr. Caute riety about $1,200 for nix weekw’ eervico, in- elnding mileago, when Mr. Fanwsnn could just as woll havo east Mr. Caunrienn’s vote, and just as well have told when Mr. Caure FieEp would not voto, as Mr. Caunrixup him. self? INSURANCE AND ASSURANCE, There has been a good many uniqne and ridiculous propositions, legislative and pri- vate, concerning tho principles and practice of the business of insurance, but wo think the present Illinois Legislature has ont. run tho wildest vagaries that have hore- tofore been committed. We supposcd that the bill to tax the promiums of insur- ance companies of other States doing busi- ness in INinois had been allowed to dio n natural death, But it reoms that tho Com. nitteo laving tho matter in charge havo listened to the persuasive voice of somo speculators who sce millions in the organiza- tion of home insurance companics, ‘I'he re- ault of this conferenco is that Min.en's bill has beon reported favorably with tho single difference that the proposed 6 per ecnt tax has been reduced to 2} per cont. This is a tax on gross receipts, siuco the bill provides only for tho deduction of losses, and leaves tho foroign insurance companies undor the necessity of paying taxes on thoir agonts’ salaries, office-rent, advertising, and every other expense incident to the business of an insurance company. It is positively tedious to go over agnin the obvious objections to the taxation of tho receipts of foreign companies, but the danger that it moy find opproval from sheer igno- ranco and headstrong folly on tho part of some members, gross neglect on the part of others, and interested motives on the part of afow, prompts us to restate some of tho arguments ngainst the bill. Tho whole principle of ‘' protection ” being false and op. pressive, it is as wrong when applied in Ii noia as when appliod in Ponnsylvania, and as outrageous whon intended to “protect” homo insurance compnnios as when intended to “protect” pig-iron, salt, and lumber, at the expenso of consumers, In both cases tho oppression falls upon the mass of the people for tho bencfit of the fow. Thus, if tho Ili- nois Legistature Zpute a tax of 2) per cent on the gross receipts of insurance companics organized in other States or abrond, elther it is prohjbitory of foreign insuranco easpital and limits proporty-owners to tho inadequate and ,uncertain supply of home insur. ance, or elso it taxes every policy- holder, and forces him to pay 2} per cont more on every policy he takes out than he otherwise would. The foreign insurance company gets the same or evon more that it did before, Lut all policy-hold- ers pay at lonst 2} por} cent more than 2they would otherwise pay. The only benoficiaries are the fow organizers of ‘home companies,” who aro thus onabled to charge the public considerable more than the previous rates. Tho whole object of tho bill is to make dear insurance and oppress policy-holders, in or- der to “protect” cortainhome companies, Is it right to make o man pay a double tax on the same house or gooda? In othor words, the proposed tnx is one levied upon careful. nessa and good business habits, is intended to promote a contempt for the principle of in- suring property, and is calenlated to bring into existenco a number of worthloss com- panies which, having no business outsido of one or two cities or counties in Hlinoia, will collnpso at the first sovere scorch, Of akin with this proposition to tax policy- holders in foreign insurance compantos, and only a little moro ontrageous, is another proposition in tho Legislature to shut out all insurance companies from doing busincsa in this Stuto which shall have carried any suit ogainst them from the State to the Tederal courts! Hore is the nasertion of the Bourbon doctrine of State Sovereignty with a ven- geance, Its consideration would also seom to indicate an impression in the Illinois Leg- islature that tho people of this State have tired of inauring their property, and want the insurance business broken up by law. It would boas well for the Legislature to lot the people of IMinois decide this question for themselves, and according to their individual inclinations, There is no law eompolling people to insure their lives or thefr proporty, and wo certainly do not want a law prac. tically prohibiting thom from doing eithor. This is about what the passago of the Mien and Konan bills would accomplish, NEW RULES OF (OUREDOARD OF TRADE, In another column of this issue we pub- Mah an ab.tract of the rovised rules submit- ted yesterday to the Board of Trado of thia elty by the Committee appointed to make auch revision, The work has occupied about three months, and its rosuit appears to bo a great improvoment upon the rules and rogu- lotions now in force, Tho prominent fea- turos introduced into the new rules aro as followa: | Five Directors to be elected annually, exch to serve threo years, ‘The flyo sonior Direct- ors shall conatituto 2 Committee of Refer- enco, which shall make preliminary invosti- gation of all complaints mado in writing that involve tho discipline or reputation of the member complained of. Tho President is empowored to summarily fine any momber guilty of indecorous conduct, and to auspend from membership until the fino be paid, Improper personal conduct within tio rooms of the Association, willful violation of contracts, noglect to settle on terms awarded by committees of tho Association, making or reporting fictitious bargains, attompts at ex- tortion, or any act of bad faith, must bo pun- ished by censure, suspension, or expulaion by the Board of Directors, A discharge in bank- ruptey shall operate as a bar on claims, ‘The Committees of Arbitration and Appoals must construe the rules of the Board ns be. ing designed to seoure equity and justice in trade, and their findinga must be in conform- ity with the law of the land, In determining the value of property in dispute, its valuo in other markets, or for manufacturing pur- poses in this city, with other facts bearing on tho case, uhall be considered, irrespective of any flotitious prico it may ho selling for here, Flvo members of the Committce must concur ina binding award; the evidence must bo taken down in ehort-hand; and no profes- sional counsel may arguoa caso before the Committao, ‘The mombership fea shall be raised to $1,000 on the Ist of next July, Good char- acter aud crodit, residence in Chicago, ton dfya’ notice posted on the bulletin board, and a two-thirds vote of the Directors, are required tondmit. BMomberships to be transforable to unobjectionable parties, and corporate bodies may be represented by some officer of the core poration, Visitors sre allowed siz days in eaoh month; and brokers aro Hable on con- tracta unless they give the name of thelr cipal. Tho annual meeting shall be hold one sock after the day of tho annual election, Trading by members out of businosa hours is punishable by fine, for ench offense. ‘Tho rules also provide for reciprocal discipline, on complaint by, or of, membors belonging to othor associations, ‘The most important commoreinl improve. ments are those made in tho rulos rolative to the deposit and recovery of margins aa fo- curity for tho faithful performanco of con- tracts. Manks receiving such margins must filo good bonds, with approved sureties, not only for tho safe keeping, but also for tho proper disposal of such moneys, holding themselves responsible for tho sottlemont of tho differonces adjusted by committeos of tho Board ; nnd any member on calling for o margin may object to its being placed in any bank or banks he may designate, Inasmuch as tho Committees ara required to ignore all claims for fictitious damages, and to prosecnto parties who may attempt to extort such damnges, whilo men. bers are also subject to disciplino if they keep property for delivery until the last min- ute of the business day, the rules appear to be so framed as to offactually prevent any repetition of the disgracoful proceedings re- cently witnessed, as well ns to take away all temptation to run a corner in produce, ‘Tho new rules, if adopted, will undoubted. ly rniso the status of the Board, in its own estimation and thatof thecommunity. They tend to check sharp practices; to provent tha necessity for resorting to litigation, and offer an inducement to the impecunious members to sell out, while making it unnecessary to the welfare of the wicked ones that they should retain momborship in the organizo- tion, THE YOUNG DIVORCE. Aday or two since wo commented upon tho decision of Chief-Justice MoKran, of Utah, awarding alimony and sustenance, pendenta lite, to Ann Eusza, who has brought an action for divorce against Brramam Youna, and took occasion to presont some of tho esthetics of tho case, The decision itself having come to hand, we are ennbled to pre- sent some of the facta in tho case which will bo of gencral interest, aa tho case is no tent one, which opens up a vista of possibilities pleasant enough to the Prophet's other wives, but discouraging to the Prophet himself. It appears from the complaint of Ann Entza that sho is an Tilinoia woman, hay- ing been born in Nauvoo, and that khe has been o resident of Utoh since 1818, It was on tho 6th day of April, 1868, she being then but 25 years of ago, that sho marricd Braman Youno, and at that time she had two children, the issue of aformer marriage. During tho poriod of a year after the marriage Brroas lived and cohabited with her, contributed to her main- tonance, and treated her with some degrao of kindnoss and attention. During this period she alleges that sho was a dutiful and obodi- ent wife, and discharged with fidelity all the dutios incumbent npon ao married woman. Novertheless, at tho end of this year, for some cause unknown to Anx Extza, Batanam, rognrdless of all his marital obligations, com- menced toward her a systematic course of neglect, unkindness, eracel and inhuman treatment, ending in on absolute desortion of her. To this complaint Bnianast has much to soy in reply, of a curious and ingenious character, First, ho denies that he was mar- ried to Ann Exiza in April, 1868, as she avers, or at any other time, and claims sho is not his wife, because in April, 1808, she was married in Utah to one Jasms L. Dez, who is still living, and from whom she bas never been divorced, although ho supposed she had boon at the time, After having denicd tho marriage, then ho’ proceeds to affirm it by claiming that in April, 1868, tho date to which Ayn Exizarefors, a coromony was per- formed which united him in what, is known asa colestial or plural marriage, in accordanco with the doctrines and usages of tho “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Snints,” ond that ho was novor mar- ried to ler in any other senso than tho celestialor plural, Antherois, howover, in the ordinance passed by the Torritorin! Legis- lative Assembly incorporating the Ohurch a provision that the Church has tho right ‘to solemnize marriage, compatible with tha revelationg of Jesus Christ,” tho wily Bniomaat seeks to break tho binding force of tho marriage by alleging that he was married Jan. 10, 1834, at Kirtland, O., to Many Ann Anoetn by o minister of the Gospel, and that, although sho consed to bo an Anoett at that timo, sho was his wife and has been so ever since, and theroforo, Many Ann being his wife, Aw Etiza cannot be. In other words, Buianast not only charges Awy Exiza with a felony, but confesses himself guilty of ono also. f Upon these points urged by Briawam, the Court held substantially as follows: ‘That where Axx Exrza alloges that a cortain mar- riage took placo in 18¢8, and Bnianas de. nies it because a certain other marriage took place in 1863, the denial is bad in law, and Aaw Exiza's allogation is admitted, and that whore the defondant (Youxa) both donles and admits on allegation of the plaintiff (Any Exaza) it amounts in Iaw to an admission thereof; or, logically stated, a negative and an aflirmative make an aflinnative, 2, That a marriage solomnized in Utah, either accord- ing to tho forms of the “Oburch” of which Brrowam Youno is tho head, or according to tho forms of tho common Iaw, is a lawful ond. valid marriage, pro- vided tho parties to tho contract are, at the time of entering into it, logally compo- tont to intermarry, 8. That whore a woman married according to tho forms of tho “Church " snes for a divorce, and presents a good complaint, and the defendant, adinitting the marriago and cohabitation, alleges that the plaintiff had auother husband, and he, the defendant, had another wifo, living at the time of such marrlago, there being no raplication under tha Practice act of Utah, the law de- nies these allegations for tho plaintiff, and tho defendant niust prove thom, 4, That in a aut for divorce, where the do- fendant admits marriage and cohablita- tion, but secks to avoid responsibil. ity by confouslug himsolf guilty of a hoinous felony, a cloar caso 1s presented for the exerciseof authority to grant alimony and sustenance, Upon theso and other technical grounds, the Court mado Any Exiza happy by awarding that Burouas should pay her $3,000 with which to defray the expenses of tho prosecution of her anit, and tho further sum of 3500 per month for hor maintenance, temporary alimony, Tho amount of alimony seems to have beon an impartial compromise between tho cstimates of Awy Exiza ond Batowam es to his income, Ann Exim in her complaint contendod that he was in the monthly receipt of an facome of not less than @40,000, which would give him a yearly income of $480,000, swharefore ale thougls 91,000 per month nod ‘unreasonable. Briana, on the othor hand, contended that his proporty all told amount. ed to but $600,000, and that his gross income from it does not oxceed 30,000 per month, whoreforo he thought $100 per munth would boarcasonnablo allowance, 'TheCourtaplit tho difference and awarded $500, ANN Extza having povei the way, it now romains to be seen whother the othor twenty or thirty wives havo anything to say why Baroni should not open his pocket-book and suppor! them pendents lite, : SUPERINTENDENTS OF ASSESSMENTS, Wo regrot that Senator Kruoz thought it his daty to oppose the passage of tho bill in- troduced by Senator Rontnsox authorizing tho County Board to appoint some * disercet and compotent person, being a frecholder,” for Superintendent of Assessments of State and local taxes in such countios as may neod such on officer; and we aro convinced that he is in error when ho says that such a pro- vision would imposo now burdens upon tho people of this county. ‘Tho fact {s, that this seems to bo the only way in which the people of Cook County mny bo relfoved from the burdens of a loove and wnoqual assessment, which, if correct in any specifia instance, is so merely by the accident of hav- ing been copied from the city asscasmenf roll, Cook County can well afford to pay $33,000 snlary ton Superintendent of Asaess- ments, and such clerk hire as he may require, if wo may thereby save the enormous sums uow paid out nonually to the Town Assessors for their six weoks' work, and secure an equitabla valnation of the property and a fair distribution of tho taxes in this county. One reason why tho Chicago City Govorn- ment hesitates to abandon Bill 800 for the collection of city taxes is because it would throw the elty upon the present incomplote nud botch-work county system of assessment in tho three towns of this city; and many prefer to bear the illa we have undor Bill 300 than to fly to others which may bo worse. Our present system of assessment in the city is simple, thorough, and comprohonsive. There are threo Assessors, ono for ench division of the city, appointed by tho Mayor and Common Conncil, who are permitted to have assistants at the busy timo of making assessmonts, These three Assessors, to- gether with ono Tax-Commissioner, also chosen by the Mayor and Common Council, form a Board of Assessors, who must pass upon the work of each Asscssor and his subordinates, Tho Tax-Commissionor is a suporvisory officer, and has one vote in the Board, which enables him to protect the people of all seotions from unjust discrimina- tion, and to oract a proper valuation in each division. The creation of a county office of Superintendent of Assessments would apply this excellent systom to county assessments hero with equally benoficial results, ond the City of Chicago might thon stop collecting the taxes under Bill 300, which is woak and objectionable in so many respects, without suffering the oppression of an unequal assess~ ment under the prosont loose and defective county system. ‘The present county asgesamonts are made soparatoly in ench of the. three divisions of the city by Lown Assessors elected by 2 mob of bummory every spring. They are selected mainly with reference to their power to con- trol votes, and the places aro kept as rewards for the local ‘boases” of ward caucuses. ‘The Town Assessors are gonornlly saloon. keepers or political loafers of the worst description. Each is indepondent of tho othera, and responsible to nobody. They are nenrly always ignorant, and gonerally cor- rupt. They surround themselves with low political bummers of a kindrod naturo, and pretend to assess property by actual inspec. tion, For this they domand an avorage pay- ment of $10,000 cach from the town, making $30,000 for the threo divisions of the city, which is paid for six weoks’ profcased work, Of course, tho assessment is not made by personal observation, and, if it were, it would bo equally worthless, since tho Assessors and their subordinates oro notori- ously incompetent. The inevituble result is, that the assezsments are unequal and ina. quitable, and for a consideration ara too low in all paid instances, which is mado up by excessive valuations on the property of other citizens, It is to escapo this loose, costly, corrupt, end irresponsible system, to obtain a proper valuation of property for taxable purposes, and to distribute taxos with something like uniformity and fairnoss, that supervising officer, like the proposed Superintendent of Aasevamente, ia needed in Cook County. It is probablo that he would save to the county, in dispensing with the sorvioes of incom- potent men, much moro than tho salary of $8,000 which it is proposed to pay him. 'The bill, though onco voted down for a third reading, is again{intho hands of the Committee, and wo hope uot only that it will be favorably reported, but that it will meet with no op. position from the Cook County delogation, FAILURE OF THE BOUNTY GRAB, Presidont Grant camo to the rescue of ‘tho tax-payers and tho dofenso of the National Treasury in the last hour of Congress, when both people and Trensury ad been aban- doned by both Houses of ‘Congress, He ro- fused to sign the hugest grab of tho session, — the so-called Bounty Equalization bill,—and would havo sont in a voto message, it is ro- ported, if there had been tine, The iniquities of tho bill ax finally passed wore conceived in the Senate, As the bill came originally from the Honse it was objec- tionnble only on the score of hard times and an empty ‘freasury. It provided for tho pay- ment of bounty at the rate of 3100 a year for the timo of actual service to all who had car- ried arms in the Union army during the War of the Rebellion, after deducting in cach case any Federal, State, county, or Tocal bounty that had been paid. This was literally an ‘ Equalization ” bill, since it provided for the paymont of bounty to actual soldiers who had onlisted and borne arms from patriotia motives and had rocolved no other compensation than the pay of tho rogu- lar troops. But the momont tho bill reached the Senate, some of the demagogues of that body—including thoss who imagine them. solves Presidontini candidates—scented an opportunity for making political capital at the public cost, and the bill was loaded down with amendments dostroying its original character, and embracing the following classex ; 1, Lhe Home Guards,—taking in tens of thousands of mon in Missouri, Kentucky, ‘I'en- nessee, West Virginia, and other bordor States, of doubtful loyalty, who morely did guard duty at home over thoir own and neighbors' prop. erty, werd never under froin the United States service, and recelyed all the poy that was promised to them, 2, Teamators, wagonors, arifficers, musi. olons, and all the manifold dependents of ac. tive army sorvico, who are not oalicted, rare- Jy if ever inour danges, and onter the service of the Government for the same motives they wonld enter private servico, 3, All the ox-alaves who had been in any way atinched to the army, and who were amply paid in gaining their euraucipation from alavory, . 4, Cortain Indinn tribes in the West who Ind engaged in war for n period with athor Indians of supposed Rebel proclivitien, 5, Sonmon ougagod all along the Atlantic const and on the rivers in transportation business, 6. Even these additions did not entisty tho reckless demagogues, and they mado q final, grand, and comprehensive bid for votes striking out the provision deducting Stqy, and local bounties, They thus destroyed tho equalization feature of the bill, and provide} for paying thoso who enlisted in the tatte; part of the War, and who received local boun, tios ranging from 3300 to $1,000, at just thy same rate ns thosa who enlisted early int, War and did not receive a dollar of Jog) bounty. ‘Tho Senate amendment changed the ori), inal appropriation of $25,000,000 or $30,009, 000 to $150,000,000 or $200,000,000, ‘Ti, Senate then added tho provision that the Sec, retary of the Trensufy might soll bonds m,] inerense the public debt to any amount neo. essary to pay the multitudinous claims und. this monstrous Dill, ad tho bill been pe, mitted to becomo a law, it would have 9, sorbed all the revenue from the new Tox bi for two or three yenra to como, and aly added $100,000,000 to tho national debt, The Scnate amendments wore agreed to ig the Conforonce Committee, approved by tty House, and rescued from oblivion in thy Senate by the special effort of Vice-Presile.y Witson, who was trying to out-bid Gon, 1, Gan for Presidential votes. Tho bill ys only defeated at last by President Graz, refusal to sign it; and the country moy the: him for saving $150,000,000 or $200,001, 000 of the public funds from n reckless, intis criminate, aud unjust distribution. 1h néxt, Democratic, Congress will scarcely ey to seek votes by reviving this scheme y wholesale plunder of the tax-payers, THE CITY CHARTER, We referred some tima ago to tho seer opposition proceeding from this city toty legislative action for the reform of the ctu. ter of Chicngo, At every step in the pr gress of such legislation "this opposition lu shown itself. The renson on which this op. position reste is that it abolishes several br. sponsible Boards, and substitutes thorefor cy. ecutive officers, responsible and removab's, and whoso action is subordinate to the a. thority of the general government of th city. Tho bill abolishes the presont Boanle Polico ond Firo Commissioners, and pteces the police under a chief exccutive officer, vt is hinaelf subject to the goneral control of tho Mayor ond othor heads of department: In the samo way tho Fire Department placed undor tho charge of a chief executiz officer, Both Police and Fire Departmnt are made subject to a discipline which w quires sobricty, competency, aud fidelity; any exhibition of unfitness or inattentioas: duty, inebriation, or official misconduct, r. quires the dismissal of the offender. Thisis very different from the present arrangem:t where §Snertax, Kroree, and ko: ait ag © suprome court, and hit daily farcical trinls; where men aro lected by the favor of the Commissicze: or Aldermen, and are retained a dismissod through such interest as cank made with tho Commissioners, In there is nothing worthy of the namo of dixi pline now in the police force. All that: man has to do is to’ get some friend to “mt: it all right with Manz” or with Krox, and that settles all questions of appointme: or dismissals, The now charter gets rid of this wortl.ka and ineMicient syatem, and, whilo securing every policeman and fireman permanency is hia place so long as he performs ite duis faithfully and well, #t authorizes the sammy dismissal of every man who fails in thes: spects, It seoms that Mr. Kenor, Setatt from the Third Distriot, and represeotir; the old Board and the old system, objects!) this reform of the police, objects to any iz provement of the dixciplino, and therfc proposer to oppose and defeat the bill, 4 he is a member of the ruling mafority Io tlt Senate, and as that body will not giv thiscily on honost, and vigorous, and responsible gor ernment against the wishes of our own Rept sentatives, itin Hkely that the Suznroan-Kis0l faction will defont the goneral commarils, and remand us indefinitely to tho conditio which ig drifting the City Government 1) distress, embarrassment, and oventually ine solvonoy, Tho intensely cold weather of the past to Months or so bas given ocexalon to mauyies* donts of this city, ne woll aa of our noighbor, expressa disbollef in tho healthinoss of ot climate, It is true that tho range of thern0z* tor in Chicago ia moro distressing than is eitht! St, Louls or Cincinnati. The cold has tet more intense, and the maeroury has destcle! lower hare than in the citicu named. Our[t* vyalling discomfort fa tho wild prairie wiad lic f sweeps the city from end to ond, seats! through the warmest clothing, and pouett:! the best built houses, But this wost wind, nti wo are apt to sogard with suck avorsice tho pure airof the plains, “The warmern' towns, lying in a valley, and victims of mr matic exbatations, sre by no means a8 hhoslthy Chicago. A compariaon of, the mortality stat tica of Chicago for ast wools with thoso of Cix cinnati shows tho advantages wo ovjoy. cago, witha population of, atthe lowest we mate, 450,000 inhabitants, has a deathecoron , 110, while Cinctunati, with only 275,090 fol ‘& tants, records 124 deaths for the ssv0 ia" ‘Tho dosthe by pulmonary disoases were i cago, 23; Cincinnati, 62,—showing that ee for “weal lungs the bolsteroua winds Lae prairies are more healthy than the 00% ne vapors of the river oltios, ‘Tho compsall statement would show in Obicaga one deat i overy 4,009 {oliabitanty, and {n Cinciunatl rH 2,216, or about 60 per cont groater mortality Cinoinuati than Chicago. ‘Tho same would 7’ ably prove true of 8t, Louls. ———— Blnce the task of computing logaritbs completed by Banpacs’s calculating ma the value of that iuvention has tively amall except as a actontifle ouriosity: iD E. K, Waaney, of Throe Oaks, Mich, wl ‘Tux Tarpuns a few words upon s new © v7 which has boon put together by resident i that town, and from the socount he gives ul capabilitioa it la likaly that semothing Leet intoresting hes beon accomplished, with bilitiew of stilt moro valuable developments machiue is described a9 welghing 20 Po be and containing 2,100 spocially-formed pieces material of whioh it is constructed hae a It con perform foata in the firat four ideo? arithmetio, and prove ita work ; cea di bet number by another, add tho quetient to bry lh number, subtract or multiply scoording: bs port at ouo operation. By putting the ‘Aire! pot] of a number into the macbing the Pte oo that umber up to the full capacity of ‘ed? chine can be qblained. 2s can also be Mn eon comer |