Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1875, Page 4

i TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATES OF BUDSCRIFTION (TATANLK 1% ADVANCE), Mes Pare Wanrep--Une active agont. In each town and village, ngoments made with auch, 8 sont free, To jelay and mistakes, bs eure and give Post. Office addsevs (a fol, including State and Counts. Nem{ttancasmay bomade either by draft, express, Pont Gf.co order, of in registered letters, at our risk, ‘THRMA TO CITY BURECRINENS, Daily, delirered, Sunday excopted, 25 conte per week. Daily, delivered, Bunctay Included, 2O cents per weak. Address THE TRIRUNE COMPANY, Chicago, Il, ‘TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ADELPIHTTHEATRE—Doarhorn street, corner Mon- roe, Varioty entertainment. AOADEMY OF MURIC—Hals' fron Cand” Monron. | T'nga, ** Off the Ling,” ** Old F rics PVICKER'S PATRE—Madlron street, hetween netivcn and States Rngecomone of Aire: Howsby, Cialile,® GRAND. OPFRA-MOUBE—Clark street, on} Shartuan House, Kelly & Leon'a Minstrels, tint of tho Kitchen. cd stront bottom, Mud- tad the Dodger.” nite ellos: MEATRE—Renantnh, OOLEY'S TI ae Henry Dunba yet, between Clark and LaSalle, BUSINESS NOTICES. Y g8 TO THR NATIONAL Beye nad rovesn, witha tull Aeclats nid. filings, ware iatixfaction given ar money Handolpb-ate. Capital; ont aatof bent rauted, and uo refunded, Corner IK TRMPORANY BRASS WORKS FITTRD UP ri EE ey linydguvitiey, Mase tin which awopt away thoir ANI very nxtondieD Pro- ry though they bo, far head of ang eimilarcatabliahment in tha United Staten, ‘Tha Company, It will torememnbernd, publicly aunoaticad on the marniug afler tha Hood that they atould rebuild at once, aud whllo that work was gulng on ostablinned thelr maunfoctors In thele foundry buildings, eddime to them eooseitios required. and tn a fom dars were s ut ods to. No inmhad happened, 'Thoir patterns havo been rep! ‘d by skulfal workmen, nud” Iuore perfect than aver, and they fro now turning cut mare olegant. work thaa over bafar. Ae guatlty ot fie witk tatoe (excelled nur equated by any in tho world. Biaplozlag, ax they now do, three times ae many ncn 32 ant other ostablisumont in the country, their prosont facilities for executiag Into ordars aru east: Ay superior ta thoss of any other cogcern, and more than Pisany demand that oan posslbin nrive, z ‘Tha ateck at thelr warehouso No. 8 Bookman stay New ‘York, dacompiote In. ercry cepartinent, anit moch Jargor and of a hotter aries than they ever prosented bofore. aAmoug the ares bulktings “reeently supplied by this figmare ths Now bade Hotel, St, Louie; Pachle Hotel, ; nd Congress + Hoaton Fost= nln Hotel, San Franci ‘To Company 1¢ determined tliat the flood shall rot prove to bu any disadvantage to it; and Ja preparing, by tho ereetion af now endl onlarsed balldings, the construc tlom of » branch railroad, an increare of ita water-power, ab ous grounds, to du u mory extensive Che Cheags Tribune, Thursday Morning, March 18, 1875. Russian Royalty is peculiarly unfortunate in tho performances of its offspring. An illegitimate con of tho Czer of Russia was yesterday arrested on the charge of kidunap- ping a Norwogian girl to prevont her appear. ance agoiuet him for seduction, ‘Tho Erie Canal Board yesterday concurred in the report of its eommmittes reducing tolls 38) per cent on grain, 30 per cent on Iumbor, and 50 per cent on merchandise going from tide-water. ‘Tho Board will now report these recommondations to the New York Logis- lature. ‘The day's record of crime furnishes two unusual episodes. A wealthy ord highly re- spected merchant of Efingham, Il., wes ar- reated upon the charge of having committed smurder fourteen years agoin Rushville ; whilo in o suburb of Terre Woute, Ind., lonely otd woman was found dend, having first boen outraged, and then choked to deuth by a bow-string around the neck, elsowhere regarding tho financial condition of the University of Chicago, and in denial of the rnmor that the institution was about to be sold for debt, and that it would fall into tho bands of the Roman Catholics, ‘The case is not so bad as that, though there is maple reason why the Japtists of America should bestir themselvor if they would retain the denominational control of tho University. Sx. Parnicx had o chilty time of it yester- day, if it may be presumed that Ireland's patron saint hovered anywhere in the region of Chicago. It was the coldest St. Parnicx’s Doy known in this latitude for many yenrs, but there was no lack of warmth or enthusi- asm in the long ranks of tho civic and mili- tary soccitics taking part in the demonstra. tion, Onr dispatches indicate a general ob- servance of the day in all parts of the coun- try. Great Qisasters by epring floods and icc. Gorges aro reported fromvarious regions, In connection with tho account of the enormons damage done at Port Jervis, N. ¥., wo print f most interesting description of tho situation oa it was aftor tho formution of tho ico. gorge and up to the time of tho flood, Almost equal in pout of destructiveness is tho flood in the Wyoming Valley, Pa, In each case, howover, the loss has boon Hmited. to property, aud human lifo bas not, 80 far, been involved in the ruinous rush of waters, terial modification of tho existing law in rela- tion to tho nale of intoxicating Hquors in Uli. nols, and by the terms of which Iandlords ‘wero rolievod of responsibility, was defeated in the Senate yesterday. Another attempt will be mado to pgree npon some change in the Liquor low, as the Opposition in both branches of tho Legislature stand committed to the enactment of some inensure loss oncr- ous upon runsellers than tho present Jaw, Aprophet, it scoma, is not withont honor in his own State, after all, though Mr, Hes. iNo has had to go n good way for an acknowl. edgment. Tho Cairo Zutletin, published about 865 miles from Chicago, and in the ex. treme southern part of the State, prints a column and a half to show that Hestsa ia tho great Democratic “boss” in tho northorn part of the State, notwithstanding the tlerca opposition of the Chicago Zimes, the Demo- cratic organ, It is evident that Mr, Heema is appreciated at Cairo if not in Chicago, SS ‘The Chicago produce markets were again irregular yeswrdny, Mous pork waa in fair demand, and closed 200 per bri higher, at $19.30 cash, and $19,35@19.40 for April, Lagi waa moro active, and advanced fe per 100 tbs, closing at 814.70 cash, and 313.7243 @ 18,75 for April, Menta were more active, and ge per ly higher, at 7jo for shoulders, 1040 for short‘riba, and 110 for short clears, Dronu- vd hoge weru firmer, at $$.45@8.87} per 100 tbs, Highwines were quies and stoady ot $1.11 per gallon, Flour wos moro active and strong, Wheat was relatively quiet, and Jc lower, closing excited and strong at U3sto for March, and, 9320 for April, Corn was tnore activo, and $o lower, closing firm at G6o cash, and 7210 for Say. Qata were moro ac- tive and easior, closing at S3!c for March, and 53a for April. Rye was quict aud » steady et 974@080, Marley was active and buveue, Glowing ut Glu cash, and 91.04 tor he THE CHICAGO April. Hogs were active and firm, with sales at 37.00@8,60, There waa a good demand for enttle at stendy prices, Sheep were firm. er, owing to small receipts. The action of the Episcopat Standing Com- mitices in the caso of Dr. Jaacan confirins what has already been said in .Tup Cnicaco Trinuxe concerning the Low-Church pro. clivities of the Inity, Dr. Dr Kovey, a High- Churchman, lias been rejected, and Dr. Jaa. oan, 8 Low-Chnrchman, whoso indorrement of Bishop Crexeyv's position beforo he seceded created considerable excitement, has received votes enough to make his confirma- tion as Bishop of Southern Ohio certain beyond any doubt. ‘The result in there two cases settles tho status of the Inity as between High Church and Low Chureh. The officinl returns from the New Hamp. shiro election show that, although the Repub- licans haya lost two of tho three Congress: men, by a scratch, they havo carried the State, elected their Governor, and have con- trol of tho Legisinture, which in that State is n political fact of first-class magnitude. This shows that the Democratic tidal wave hrs stopped, and tho flood has set in the other direction. It gives New IUnmpshire to the Republican column onco more. It shows that (he people have lost their faith in Dem- veratic protestations of raform, and that they. aro not determined to go back upon them? selves or to give up what they have gained. Now that the Postmaster-Genera! hos been forced to suspend the now increase of rates on transient newspapers up to April 1, on ac- count of the enormous accumulation of under. paid newspapers at all the post-ofilces in tho conntry, could he not also suspend it up to the meeting of the next Congress? It is universally admitted that the provision ap- plying to transient newspnpers was a blun- der, not intended by either branch of Con- gress, nud it is now found that it is utterly impracticable to carry out tho law in this re. spect for somo time to come. It is also cer- tain that Congress will repeal this provision at the very first opportunity. Do not these circumstances justify o suspension of this feature of the Inw till tho next session of Congress? THIRD-TERM NONSENSE, ‘There never has been a more insubstantial proposition in American politics than the question of a third term. It was originally a sensation invented by the New York Terail, to which truth ia not essential. Like the stories of the eseape of the wild animals in Contral Park, tho burning of a thentre in Chiengo, and the sea-rerpent, it was never intended to provoke more than o faw days’ idle talk, and ought to have been allowed to perish in silence, But the Demo- eratic press, and thut portion of tho Republic. an press which had left the party to become ‘ independent,” took up the matter, treated it seriously, andsought to innke parti- ran capital of it against the President and the Republican party, Tho Prosident rightly treated it at rst as a joke, then as an in- tended ingult, nnd properly regarded it with contempt. Tho fact that ho did not mesh into print to deny tho story was thon used as confirmatory ovidence that the invention was trne,—that he was seeking an electionito the Presidency for a third time. Since then at intervals tho chargo ugainst the President has been rovived, and hos as often been treated by him with silont contempt, ‘This frequent repetition of the third-term story had an effect in certain quarters. It attracted the aclfish attention of a large num. ber of officcholders ; many of theso entered office in 1889, nt tho samo timo with the President, and these argued that third term for him nlso meant third terms for them. Others who had been in office a shorter time, warmed up to the third- term business, because it promised 2 renewal of their own official lenses, The army of officcholders who live upon the public, and who, courtier like, aro in favor of whatever the governing dynasty may favor, jumped at the idea of complimenting the President by tenders of their zealous support fora third term, Tho brood of tax-enting earpet-bag- gers in the South, who imagined that a third term would be a prolongation of their preca- rious political existence, were also yehoment in their advocacy of o third term. In conrso of time tho third-term policy re- esived support from o new quarter, The Prosident’s course in rogard to Arkansas, and his letter to Gov, Davis, of Texas, rofusing to interfere in his behalf, and advising himto submit to the adverse vordict of the peoplo, was welcomed by the whole Democratic party of tho South as an indication that tho Presidont was disposed to cut loase from tho Republican organizations in thoso States. Therefore, the ‘ White-Longue banditti” and the whole body of ex-Rebela and tho Democrats of the South declared their prefor- enee’for Grant for a third term, or 3 many torus os ho might want, if ho would only lot them have full sway over the unfortunate blacks, ‘Lhe third-term party became very strong in Georgio and Alabama, including many Democratioteadors, Thera wasaatrong movemont in official quarters in Virginia in the samo direction, In Lonisinna the Whito- Lenguers’ zeal ran away with their judginent, and, accepting the wish for tho fact, they committed the armed revolution of Bept, 14, ond installed Psxx os Gov- ernor in place of Kenzoaa, They assumed that the President would not interfere with this coup d'etat, and, in case ho did not, Lou- isisna was to bo unanimous for a third term, But the President did intorfere ; he did send troops to Now Orleans, le deposed Pexx and restored Kzruoaa, and the third-term party in Louisiana, and the South gonerally, fadod auddenly out of existence, That there wore in tho Inte Congress a number of parsons, undor the lead of Burizr, who favored a third term, is more than prob- able, ‘fhoy knew that, while there was noth- ing in tho Constitution probibiting a third term, or any nainber of terms, thero was o popular fueling amounting to # general aver. slon to re-clecting any porson Prosident for wore than two tonns. Precedont for ninety years had settled that quostion, It had become the common law, or tho lem non scripta, of the Republio, that there waa to bo no third term, I¢ hadtuever beon proposed nor attempted, even in the cases of Presideuts enjoying the unlimited conildence of the whole people, They reasoned, howev- er, that a renewal of the Nebellion, or any such combination of tho old Nobel cle- ment Jn the South that would indicate an armed or offenaive opposition to any meas- wes authorized or directed bygCongresy, might, on the ove of a Presiderxial election, induce the people to re-clec$ tho President, aud thus give him the opportunity of coim- ) pleting the suppremdon of tha Rebellion by the forclble crushing out of any possible attempt to xenewit, ‘Chis argunept was not altogethor groundless, The only possible contingency in which the ‘American people would over listen pationtly ton suggestion for a third term would be tho reorganization of the ofd Rebel leadors—JIrer Davis, Toons, and the other fire-eaters—in armed hostility totho Gov- ernment, But tho South is tranquil; there are, at lenst on the surfaco, no moro pence- ably disposed persons in the country than the ex-Rebel chieftains; and tho younger men who wero active in the War are extremely zenlons to obtain place in the service of tha Union. Hence it was that tho Force bill was urged by Burner and others, under the hope that it would provoke a conflict, produce a condition of public feoling that would warrant the President to take military possession of several Southern States, expel the local goveraments, excite the people of other States to remonstranco andextravagance, and thus rniso a cry that aro- newal of the Rebellion was imminent because the entire white population of the Sonth was united against the Force bill, etc, ‘Thanks to the wisdom and good nonse of a Inrge body of Republicans, the Force bill was frat emns- culated and then silently strangled, and the Inst pretense for a third term has vanished, Tus Cutcaco Thinuxz oxchangea with neatly every Republican paper in the United. States of any note, and, with the oxcoption of a email organ of chenp office-holders and beggars around Washington, thor is not ono Ropublican paper which favors a third term, Even those papers which are edited and cou- trolled by Postmasters daro not offend the universal senthnent among Republicans by advocating, oven indirectly, a third term. Under these circumstances of the origin of the story, its nse by the Democrats to projn- dice the country against tho President ond the Republican party, the signal failure of all those who have attempted a third-term party, ‘a it not time that the wholo nonsonsical busi- ness was buried, ond the Republican party relioved of all thought of any further dis- cussion on the question? As well attempt to repel on accusation of a purpose to eatab- lish a monarchy, as to deny the shadowy im- putation of favoring a third term; the ono proposition has about as much foundation in truth as the other, THE MUNICIPAL INCORPORATION BILL, Ald, Castpurn. was so much encouraged at his suecess in inducing the Common Council to declare agninat the proposed city charter that he thought he could oxcite n popular demonstration against {t, He has found this tobeavery different matter. After two at- tempts, the largest{‘* mase-meeting” he could get together consisted of thirty persons, who went to listen to a set of resolutions which he carried in his pocket. Popular sentiment does not usually run in the samo channel of that of the Common Council, and the present case is no exception to the rule. The Coun- cil joined in with Casrnezt, for the sama petty and selfish motives which actuated him; it was unreasonable to expect the people to do ro, After moking due allowance for Ald. Can. BELL's ignorance (and we suspect that he has never rend the bill now before the Legiste- ture), his misrepresentations of the new mu- nicipal project are largely due to personal considerations with which the public have no sympathy whatever. Tho adoption of the now charter will compel Mr. Camrnrny to go before the people again for olection, and he, is, perhaps, afraid of the result. It will also provide e Second Honse and enlarge the di- mensions of the Board of Aldermen, so that the log-rolling and rings will be much moro difgeult to form, and this might intorfero materially with somo of Mr. Canpnzn's “little arrangements,” and other Aldermen's “little arrangemonts.” These may be very good rensons why Ald. Caspnene and his colleagues should oppose the passage of the bill for a new charter, but they are just the reasons why tho people should fovor it. There isauother reason why Mr. Caspnenn and other Aldermen are seeking to defeat the bill before the Legislature ; it merely provides for submitting the charter to the people, and, as the ward politicians holiovo it will be adopted, they desira to deprive the people of the privilego of deciding the question for themselves. It is proper that thers motives bo generally understood ; they throw light upon the string of misrepresonta- tions contained in Ald. Cawpners’s res- olutions, which we shall examine scriatin. is first reason for opposing the bill is as fol- lows: Firat—That in effect it {93 measure of special and local legislation, to nullify that provision of the Con- stitution which guarantees to the inhabitants of this city tho right of municipal government upon tho sur- render of their present charter, under a general law for tho government of cities, md which, If conveyed into execution, would divest us of this common right of citizens of thia Commonwealth, ‘This isa positive and malicions misropre. sentation, ‘The bill is a gencral Inw for the reorganization of cities, Chicego may or may not be the only city to adopt it; but all the other citics in tho State may adopt it, if thoy see fit, in tho manner preseribed by law, It is, thereforo, in no sense a speciallaw. It neither daprivos any city of the privilogo of adopting it, nor makes it obligatory upon any city to tako it, The simple fact is that no large cities have organized undor the General Incorporation act, becauso it is not adapted for the government of lary corporations, while ita provisions for smn¥ places aro such as to havo attracted many of the towns to or- ganize untér it, Tho bill beforo the Legisla- turo is intended simply to render tho General Incorporation oct sultuble for largo cities as well as small, and it is tho privilege of every city in the State to uso it or not, ax it seen fit, decond—That, if conveyed into effect, aud subso- queutly set aside by tho Hupreme Court, as the mesn- ing of the Constitution would require, {t would involve this city in serious Onancial disiculty, confusion, and possible Laukruptcy, ‘This is a conclusion based upon false premises, As the bill isnot a specibl bill, but open to all, there is no question abont ita constitutionality, and it is consequently altggother useless to argue as to what might ensue in caso it were sct aside by tho Su. Ppremo Court, Not coming within the ban of special legislation, thore is nothing in it forthe Supreme Court to pass upon, But the terrible consequences which Mr. Car. b¥LL prodicts would not follow in any caso, ince we would beno worse off in an enforced return to tho presont systam thon if we vol- untarily elect to retain it, But all this isout. side the issue, as the bill is general, and not special, as Castner. ropresonta, ‘Third—That, {f mulntained In effect, tt would return Chicago to tho old system of special ring legislation, which so long curacd the city under the Coustitution of 1848, when evory General Assombly was beset by the agents of a Chicsyo city ring, sexing the enactment of new spaclal measures to promote some new scheme of robbery of tsz-payurs. How can we return to that which we have never ebaudoned? ‘The present City Charter in the same as that which was framed under the Constitution of 1848, with such additions, amendaients, and complications ay were tacked on before this practice was prohibited by the Constitution of 1870. ‘The bill before TRIBUNE: ‘THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1876. Ttisa bill which will enable tho peoplo to escapo from the “old nystem of special ring. legistation,” which still prevails, by opening tho way to them to organization under the General Incorporation act. Until the way is prepared by this, or some other bill of amezdmenta which will supply the dofictencios and overcome the objections, the people of Chicago will novor voto to organize under the general ret, and we shall be foreed to ondure the ring-legisintion of the Common Council under'tho prosont hybrid monstrosity called by courtesy a City Charter.” Fourth—-That it ta a most dangerous and addroitly devinetechome to pnt Chicago into the power of a Twrep ring; belog in ite mont eseontint features an almost exact counterpart of the Tween charter, under which the ring formed by Witttax ML, Tweep pluy- dered the Clty of Now York of $50.000,W0, ‘Thisisn moro vicionsmisrepresentation than any of tho others, ‘Iho fact ia that the pren- ent hybrid system is a counterpart of the charter under which Twerp perpetrated his robberies, ‘Tho trial of tho ‘Tween thieves brought ont the fret that tho Mayor was powerless, as our Mayor is, and that there was abundant opportunity for ench department to squander and appropriate the public moneys; that all the departments were irresponsible, and that there was no check anywhera upon incompetency or corruption. ‘he now chor. ter reaches after the samo results as tho pros- ent Reform Charter of New York, whereby the Mnyor is vested with powers of appoint- ment and removal, and the people have ono eontral authority to hold to account in the manner provided by law. Fifth—That, In effect, Uke tho Tween charter, it commita (he entire Government of Chicago into the hands of @ ring of soven persons appointod by the Mayor, and responalble solely to that official, who is responsible to no organ of authority whatover, thus concentrating every function of public authority in a Ting of offictal creatures of one irresponsible funo- tonary, Sizth—That committing to this ring the sale and the ‘entire power over the award of all public works and contracts of every kind whatever, it open the way to plunder more colossal in mngnitude than even that which was perpetrated by the inventors of this Dill, the Twaxp Ring of Now York, Mr. Cauppets’s fifth and sixth reasons aro cut from the same piece, and both manufac. tured out of whole cloth, Under the present system, contracts are let by small rings of three, which is the mystic number constitut- ing ench Board. Two men, at presont, can lond down the city with taxes to in- dulgo any oxtravagant or cormnpt job that mny present itself. Under tho proposed charter, every contract, to be valid, requires the approval o1 a cabinet con- sisting of the Comptroller. Corporation Coun- sel, the Public Works, Health, Fire, and Po- lico Commissiouors, andthe Mayor. ‘This ap- proval must be given by a public vote of ayes and nays, which goes on record. It is not tho work of o star chamber, as st present. Every member of this cabinet is appointed and removed by the Mayor, who canuot shirk tho responsibility for the incompetency or corruption of any of his subordinates, He is accountable to the people for them; he is ascountable to the Board of Councilors, who confirm his appointments and removals ; and he is accountable in the Courts in the manner provided in the General Incorporation act. Under tho present system wo have neither publicity nor accountability anywhere. Seventh—That the projected scheme cf x two-cham- ber Councll, of no less than soventy-fivo mombera, fs @ project of folly and absurdity too grose for deacrip- Hon, Herein Mr, Canpucin shows his ignorance, Chiengo has a population of nearly half a million, and within ten years will Lavo mora nearly a million, There is no other city in the conntry approaching this size which has not adopted the check of » Second House; thera is nocity in the country which needs this check so badly. Tho Board of Coun- cilors, being olected by the city at largo, will be free from the agotional proferences and projudices of tho Board of Aldermen, elected from the wards, an? will be inclined to check all legislation not in the intcrest of the city ass whole. We need sucha check agninst lobbying, trading, and log-rolling, as well os agniust actual corruption. Tho incrense in the size of the Board of Aldgrimen is one of tho best features of the bill, since it provides for minority representation. ‘Iho present Board consists of forty members; the new Board will consist of sixty members, Under the present plan each ward is represonted as, follows: ‘Tho majority... a ‘Phe amovity, peaa nt In tho how Doard, each ward will be repro. sented as follows: ‘The majority... ‘The intnority... 1 As the minority is raroly less than forty out of every 100, and somctimes as largo as forty. nine out of every 100, in award, tho justice and advantage of tho new plan is immediately apparent, . Highth—That, a0 far from containing a ningle foa~ ture of improvenient on ihe general law for citles, we regard (tag a measure in no respect better than our Tresent chartor, while iu imsny reapecta wo denounce ftasperkaps the worst achows of a city charter ever dovised for on honest cumminity, ‘This is Mr, Casrrpent’s last reason for op- posing the new charter, and it is nothing but his individual opinion. We have already ox- plained why ho holds this opinion, and tho xamo oxplanation will apply to the other Al. dormnen who voted with him, He is opposed to any reorganization of tho City Govern. ment becuse it will compel ‘him to go beforo the people for election, and becauso it will break up “the old system of special ring- Iegialation” in the Common Council, Ho kuows the people will not reorganize under the goneral law without the amendments, and therefore strives to defent tho bill, submit- ting tho amendments, Henco tho cry of “Mad dog!” Gen, Porr’s lotter io authoritica at Washington urging the corraling of the cap- tured Cheyennos, Arapahoes, and Kiowas upon tho Leavenworth Reservation contains some very sensiblo aud practical advice. Gon. Pore's plan is ‘to carry thei to the rear in- stead of the front of advancing omigration ; to march them toward, instead of from, the sources of cheap supplics ; to place them in the vicinity of a socioty and institutions well organized and well administered, where there isa sound public sentinont, and where the Jaws aro equally enforced against all offend. ers; where the Indian, secure under yle protection of the law, and cortain of pun- ishment for any wrong-duing of his own, uelther dopredates nor is dep. redated . upon; whore feelings of kindness and humanity toward the Indians are entertained, aud not bitter and relentless hate; where tho Indian cau be subjected under the best conditions to all the influences of elvilization and Christianity, and whence his return to bis own conntry is forever hépolesy, leaving free and open to the oca- pation of civilized man the great region which tho Indian has thus vacated.” ‘hero are several advantages which favor this plan, The expense of foeding tho Indian would be greatly roduced, the Legislature is precisely the opposite of | of transportation would be very slight, what Mr, Camroz. hors represents it to be, aa‘lve would make his warches upon ‘The incroased cost, foot, or on horseback, at © renfon of the yenr when his animals can subsiat by grazing. In addition tothis isto be considered tho diminished military force needed to keep them’ on their reservation, which in timo would render unnecessary tha stationing of troops at the distant frontier forts, Anothor important consideration in the fact that, if tho Indians wero kept as near as poasible to civill- zation, it would xerve as a check upon the atealings and corruptions of Indinn Agents, who now practico them with impunity be- causa they aro so far away that no one can find them out, Tho solution of the Indian problom sooner or later must depend upon setting Indians to work and making them earn their living, like white men, Thoy can. not always be keptas national paupors, and Gon. Pore's plan offers tho first practical opening for making such a solition. LADOR LEGISLATION. Pennsylvania lins been for years the grent Inttle-field of capitel nud Inbor over a parti- tion of protection spoila, ‘Its wealthy manu- facturers have demnnded and got “ protec- tion," simply for the sake, they snid, of thair employes, and wo believe them—of course. It is strange, but true, that the employes so bLenevolently cared for do not seom to got along very well. They are in continual hot water with the men who, through Congres- sional attorneys, ' protect” thom. Strike follows upon atrike, lock-out upon lock-out. Tho avorago miner, by dint of constaut prac- tice, ns become an expert in drawing coflins, skulla, and things, for a warning to his loving employers, and ‘Molly Mnguires” mas querade and murder through part of every yonr, The thorough bad feeling botweon the sellers and buyers of Inbor seems to have convinced the Pennsylvanian Legislature that something onght to bo donc. The ro- sult isn remarkable something in the shape of a bill which is now before tho House, This bill provides for the creation of an industrial eourt,—a fact which seems to show that ita author has somo hazy notion of tho French Conseils des Prud'hommes or the English Boards of Arbitration. ‘This court is to have absolute authority over any disputes betwoen empléyer aud omploye, Its decis- ion ie final. Thera can be noappenl. Tho text of the bill gives the new court power “to adjust and finally determine all questions and disputes relative to wages, salaries, or al- loged unfair dealings.” It ‘ may declare what shall be the wages or salaries of employes.” Employers must pry tho wages fixed by this remarkable tribunal, in money, under heavy penalties, Every employe is tempted to play spy and informer by the promise of pecuniary reward, If 9 mine-owner holds a large stovk of unsold coal, the surpiis above a certain small ainount in to be scized and sold. If any employer sells bis wares below tho market price, aud does so with the intention of ent- ting down wages, ho is Hablo to punishment by fine, imprisonment, or confiscation of his property. Every employer must make aworn returns, each month, of the cost, the prices, oud sale of his product; the amount of capi- tal invested ; and tho number, ages, and pay of his employes. ‘This wonderful scheme, which proposes to right the wrongs of labor by subjecting both it and capital to an irresponsible despot, who ean only be influenced by bribes and black- mail, muat be tho product of some dema- gogue or lunatic, ‘This industrial court would doubtless immediately fall into tho hands of corrupt demagogues, and would then morely ratify, legalize, and enforco the wrongs of the party paying it tho most money. Tho. fact that one of the first essnys toward labor legislation in this country is such a ludicrous failure, ought not to pre- vent further attempts. ‘Tho Pennsylvania bill moy servo os o perfect oxample of what the needed law should not bo. Tho Frehch Courts of Arbitration, established by the State about the yenr 1850, have boen a very great success. So have Mr, Munpxrta's Boards of Arbitration, in England. In Now York City, the Court of Arbitration organ- ized by the Legislaturo, in response to the ro- quest of the Chamber of Commerce, is said to be doing a good work, It takes eognizance only of cases between merchants, ‘ihe samo principle, however,—that of arbitration,—can bo just oh cas applicd in coal-digging as in morcanti® matters, os the oxamplo of En- gland and Franco has shown. The oatah- lishmont of industrial courts after this pat. tern is not only a propor, but a nocded, leyis- lntivo act. THE TRADES-UNIONS OF ENGLAND. ‘Thero was a notable Congress at Liverpool in Fobrunry. The 152 delegates who wero present represented 107 trades-unions and 084,602 unionists, If wo add tho wives and children represented through their husbands ond fathers, it bocomes ovident that this nota- ble Congress spoke for a very large propor- tion of the working classes of England. It sat for six days, Its official report lics before us, Tho session began with a storm, A certain Cnysen, who slipped in without eredentials, aud: who does not appear on the official list of delegates, made grave charges of treachery against Messrs, MacDonanpy and Bunr, tho worl en members of Parliament. The crimidal law of England bears hardly on strikes, aud gonerally discriminates between masters and men in favor of tho former, Tho Duisnarnx Ministry, in response to tho complaints of last year’s Congress, appointed a Commis. sion to inquiro into the atate of tha law, Mossra, MacDonaty and Bunr sot on the Commission, which has done substantially uothing, As they wero in the minority, thoy were helplesa. ‘lho charges against them were referred toncommittes, Creer up- peared before the latter, and failed to pro. duce any proof whatever, Thereupon the Committes reported that it believed him to have beon guilty of the ‘most wanton and unwarrantablo slander,” and ho apologized, ‘This mattor having bean scttled, the Con- gross proceeded to busincss, It heard Mr, Puiusox1, the apostle of the goapel of good ships, and sustained his proposod bill by an unanimous vote, It suggested the needed amendments to the criminal law. It de- nounced the “truck” systema of paying wages. ‘This prevails to an abominable ox. tentin England, In parts of England, the agricultural laborers are paid ono-fourth of their nominal wagos in cider and beer, They slorve aud get drunk in consequence. One of tho delegates to the Congress, the repre- kentative of a shoemakery’ union, said that his constituents were forced to take part of their pay in the brass screws and fron sprigs used in making shoos, and that these were charged to them at exorbitant rates, ‘The Congress asked Tartiament foran act which should make railway companies liable for accidenta to their employes, whether or not the accidents were caused by the negligonce of follow-employes! Tesolutions were pasved im favor of send. ing bona-fide workingmon to Parliament and in ratifiention of tho clnims of - feminina trades-unions to ropresentation in the Congress, The firat indorsos. cy doubtfnl policy. If tho poorer ard moro ignorant classes should make it a rule to seud mombers of their own sot to Parliament or Congress, a country would be ruled by its ignorance and poverty, Its wealth aud wis dom would have little todo with the Inwa, save to obey them, ‘The second of this braca of resolves was unoxpected and gratifying. ‘There are soveral woll-orgauized and rnpidly- growing trades-unions of womon in England, but they havo hitherto boon soundly snubbed by the nen. The Liverpool Congress, aftor admitting tho delegate of the National Work. ing-Womou's Union, adopted, in spite of his protest, a momorial in favor of the bill now Lefore Parliament for limiting tho hours of Invor of women and children. Prof, Paw. cetr has steadily opposed this bill, and has shown it to bea dodgo to prevent feminine competition with masculine Inbor, One featuro of the meeting was tho award of threo prizes for essays on trades-unionisin, ‘The second prize was tuken by a Shefileld knifo-grinder, Jous,Wt.s0N, who is known as a bitter opponent of trados-unions, He anid, in the noto inclosed in hie ensny: ‘For many years I have refused to Join the unions, because I don't concur in their restrictive policy, and I would not be an accessory to their unlawful deeds.” The Congress adopted two noteworthy resolutions on matters of social science, It unnnimously instructed its Parliamentary Committee to ostablish local Arbitration Bonrds throughout the Kingdom, for tho sot- tlement of trade disputes, The precept and example of Mr. Muxperta are evidently bearing fruit. ‘The second resolution was in outspoken advocacy of co-operation. This has been voted down once or twice in pre- vious years. Its passage now is a good sign, We have repeatedly shown that the best possiblo use of the surplus funds of an union would he to aid its mombers to start co-op. erative stores or shops, The sovonth annual Congress closed with the election of a so-called Purlinmontary Comunitteo, which is really an excoutive council, Tho only one of its eleven members who is known in this country is Mr. Groncs Opcer, the ex-President of tho Intornational Socioty,—a man of singular force and purity of character, and an indefatigable agitator for the righta of Inbor, who supports himeelf by shocmnking, not by polities, The moderate ani sensible tone of ihe pro- ceedings, as a whole, shows Anglo-Saxon blood and sound training. Tho Congress dis- cussed the wrongs of labor, defined them, and enggested fixed plans for their relief. A Congress of French workingmen would havo maved over abstract theories, and chatterod treason, and prattled over The Workingman in capitals, and devisod various pretty and im- practicable schemes for “solidarity” and Com. tounism, and would then have dissolved, or been broken up by the police, in a state of sublimo self-satisfaction and of confidence that the millennium was due in about ten days. PERRY ON STATE TAXATION, ‘The report of thu Moassnehusctts Commis« sion on ‘Taxation was n disappointment to tax-reformers. With something of good, it had much of bad, It is almost incredible that three men worthy to serve on sacha Commission should recommend the taxation of mortgages,—t, ¢,, taxing the sume property twice. , Yet this rocommendation forms part of the report, An appendix contains a paper by Prof. A. I. Pznny, of Williams College, author of the well-known book on political economy, Prof, Penny agroce with Davo A. Wents that ex-territorial legisintion is illegal. A porson living in Boston cannot rightfully bo taxcd on a farm situated in Ili. nois, Ho is so taxed, but ho can fight and do. fent the attempted extortion, os it is un- constitutional, Siuco Mr. Wexrs' arti. clo in the Adlantic has established this fact, we ‘shall be surprised if numbers of the men who have beon illegally taxed in this way, in nonrly every State of tho Union, do not hereafter defend themselves from such unjust lovies upon their obliga- tions, Pznry sketches what he considers to ‘be the best possible system of taxation for this country. It consixts of an nassossmont made by municipal authorities, and the col- loction of national, State, and municipal taxes on this essessment by the municipality, once for all, So far so good. It is somo- thing like this, barring the national taxation, which we aro trying to get adopted in Chi- cago. On the manner of making tho assess. ment, however, wo differ from tho Professor. He would have the tunicipolity as. sess real stato at its full valun. tion, and ‘‘ealeulate”"—which, in tax parlanco, is anothor word for ‘guess "— the porsonal property of oach tnx-payer. It ig better to know than to guess, and it is pos- sible to know, at least approximately, Indi- roct taxation makes every man pay in propor. tion to what ho apends, and go, very nearly in proportion to his income, It reduces the expense of assessment and collection to o minimum. It pressos Nature into service na atax-gatherer, Is it not better to adopt this method for personal property than to cling to our present system, which Prof, Preany him- xolf, admits to be but guoss-work ? It is alleged by believers in the hit-or-miss mothod of taxation (tho Citizons’ Association Committoo on Taxation among them) that indirect taxation, by mnaking morchants pay license fees, would put them st a disndvantage in comparison with their rivals in othor States, This, if true, would be something of an objection, But it is not true, Afinn doing o heavy business in this eity is now taxed on its store (if the store is rented, part of the ront ix duo to taxation), on the trado fixtures, on its stock of goods, and on its horses, wagons, stables, eto. Ifit paid a simple license fee, instead of having the trouble to conform to this complex and cumbersome plan, it would be better, instead of loss, able to compete with its rivals, This rule will hold good of all sorts of busincss, Morcovor, the gross amount to bo raised will be smaller, for tho Yost of collection will ba only 2 or 8 per cent, inatead of 20 or 25, a8 State taxes now cost to collect, when defeated taxes are réckoned in the account of oxpenses, It is upon collateral issues that the reader must mainly depend this morning for interest in the Brooklyn trial, as tho trial fivelf furnishes little which will ropay close perusal, ‘The nurse, Mra, Mirrorexz, cannot be considered on espocially valuable witness for the defense, since to show that Tx.70Nn was brutal toward his wifo does not lessen tho probability that she turned to her pastor for the tenderness which her husband refused, Mrs, Mrromxznu proves to have been a nurso of uncommon discrimination, She left the bedroom and was gone an hour when Mr, Tiscuzs called, but reaclutely refused to desort her charge even for a moment wh was simply the Mutual Friend mit raug tho boll, Tt noed hardly bo stated that it was upon cross-examinatioy that thoso atatements were brought ont, te will reliove the counsel for the dofense, hi wore anxious not to call Mrs. Trrox fon aL neat, aA woll as tho plaintiff's lawyors, who declared they did not need her teatimon os now that tho bill im the Now York Tegit! ture, offered for the purpose of Permittiy Enazanetit to testify, lias been dofented, The frionds of Miss Lovesoy, with whoso Toputa: tion tho dofonse hnve been tnking grent liber. ties, aro busily engaged in obtaining evidenes to show that the reflectious upon that youn, lady wore utterly bnecloss, and propose wnake it warn for her rlanderera, ‘ The Savannah News taker Tm Trinuny to task for expressing tho opinion that Aurxanprr H. Srevumna “ is ot heart tho enemy of ‘State Soverciguty,’ ang the {rind of National Sovercignty, and, consy quently, the enomy of the Southern fre. enters.” The Mera is quite indignant at tho imputs. tion, and asks if tho editor of ‘Tuy Tatnvyy has nover read the book entitled * Tho War Botweon tho States,” written by the Ton, Aunxanpen II, Srepnzs. ° Certainly he has, and also an answer to if by another Southern writer, whick mad) pulp of his '* book,” and rendored it useless for Srzernens over to complete tho Promised second volume, But behind all this we hava not forgotten that Sreruena was ‘born apt bred a Whig, Now,“ Whig” wasa meg who believed in the doctrine of Nation Sovercignty, and on that great fundamenty question once a Whig always a Whig, 4 once a Mason always a Mason, It will take moro than his book "ty make us belicve that nt heart” Atexaypry Hi. Srernens belioves our Govornment to be nothing bettor than a confederation of ings pondent sovereign States, and that ths National authority dorives its powers frog them, and is only their agont or creaturo, —————— The now Republican paper, tho Phil jadolp'ity Times, started by Col. McCune, hiss come ig hand. It is s baudaomo, nowsy, broad colntan, four-pago sheet, which looks healthy enoay! t: livo and have a docided intluence, not only avg Pennsylvanta, but the national politica, Itty ty. dependent Ropublican in tono, ns moy be infers] from the following oxtract from ity walutory ta tho public: ‘The ago of political organs han passed away never ty return again, No Journals confeasing, olther in or by unmanly obedience to partivn dictation, devotion to party whether right or wrong, can n97,cr henceforth, command popular respect and conftilraces norcan they mold the convictions of direct tleas Yous of men in this enlightened era of our posticl progrees, There ia not a alnglo groat newszayer is the country to-day that, doos not openly pute act boldly malntalu its independence of particy at pf minintrations, while the juttenata regarded w: (le roady apologists of power and party uatally Jat ris dn Uuelneva, and justly earn the contempt of all 1 teiik gout readers of every pollticil faltt, Its programme la abort, succiuet,and oxcsiient, and cntitios it to tho respect of all bonus I publicans, It asaya: It-will maintain the righta of all the peoploct Bisten, reqardlees of puilties, comditiour oF true it select their own Governments, in nbedience to sutntion and the laws, without the arbitrary f ton of natloual authority, or the employment laws and agencies of war In {ime of poace, lat that elections belong to the peoples that ti Uo tha honeat expreentous of the popular will, Penusyivanis and in Loulsiana, and not the a of military commanders, of of’ capricious Exec itire!, or of rovolutionary leagues, or of dobauched mnt ipulators of returna; and when the people nave de- clared thelr wishes in the clection of thelr rulers, qreat ‘or erua}l, that there aul! bo obedience to the jud saeat of the ballot-box by all parties, This ia good doctrine and gond Ropublican doctrine, and oatitlea the Times to a bapileums support. Tho energy and ability of its proprictor Jonvo no room to doubt that in all tho othor de partmonts, ss tell as the political, he wil! malt @ successful pi Lei An entertainment given to Spoakor Burzi: Phitadolphia seoms te have affordad occas:on {c1 commenting on Mr, Biatnn’s chancos tor tht Prosidoncy. Atallevents it hos furnieled the Pittsburg Telegraph with an opporiunity to as that Str, Buaixe’s candidacy will be inJared ty “his identification with the political wire-pull. ersof the country;" and thereupon therm paper rushes forward the name of Gov. Bry MIN H. Baistow, the Secretary of tlie ‘Treasur, asilkely to inflame the popular heart. Weare of the opinion that it Is » little carty to begin (ht work of making s Prosidont for 1970, su particularly on the Republican sida; at el ovonte it will bo wieo to wait until it bocomesa> parent how tho Democratic succosa of Inet fal! may bo beat overcome. Moanwhille, we suos!! say that Gon, Batstow's namo fails to a‘rike ut ag one caleutated to produco a tidal wave, unlot itbo somo euch tidal wavo os Honace Greritt found, Gon. Bnistow is tho instigator of tht ‘Tax bil passed by tho lato Congress, and sro Ter} much fear that the pooplo who pay the costot that bill would not flock about the author with anything like unboundsd onthuslasm, Cutit tht now Tax bill shall become # great nations! Lie ing, like Bast Witxeson’s public dobt, it mll b just aa well to keop Gon, Lnisrow in the back ‘groand, ‘The Now York Tribune, next to the Now York Sun, bas boon tho most violent anti-Rozublica papor in all the North for tho last three yest, but i scems to bo modifying its tone aud utter ances 8 Hitlo of late. It bogina to think that tho Republican party ia’ not entiroly depraved but lina momo good things in ityet. In « rece fesue it enys: Notwithstanding the overwhelming defeat ic the fil elections, thore is no desiro on the part of the pert for s final repudiation of the Nopublican party. 1 rather a ropudiation of the party leadore and i call A change of leadervliip and of policy, ‘The Desaocrtit party offers little in the shape of a policy except ¥! Poference to Southern affairs that can win poptlat sy port, and whore it hos bad the opportunities of port [ics too often disappointed thine wlio expecta 2 St anything tu tho way of {raprovement or reform. I fav aa there ia any affection for party names sed Fat} records remaloing, there ia s wtrong preference 10 | public mind for te Nepublican party, {te werk #0 Tecard givo it s place in the popilur heart that 10! orgauization can occupy. All other things ral equu), the Republican party with wiso leadorstlp #7 honoxt administration coitld hold the country. Jt mistake bas been in trusting too much to its Pel rocord and beng too caroless of the prestat hol future, ‘The Democrata also make tho mistake TDi aver thoy got m taste of power of taking it for s7s0/c! that they lave been taken back into pubiic conde and so with wild reckleasness they go on in sue jon as to forfeit at ouce all they havo gained, The Louleviile Courier-Journal indigusslly doniew that it is ultra-Demooratio, or thatit i unduly influecced by partisan motives, or that! cannot do justico to anything done or ae to be done by the Republican party, andth defines its position : al ‘Wo act with tho Democratic party 1n no welts 17 bocauas we seek nothing for ourvelyos tliat tha bens cratio party has to give, We oppose the Heyili’ party in no factious or hostile epirit, for, pee Fo reenmmble the old lady who weut Upte At for, sud, whon asked whether she did vos 10 ‘Lord, roplied that uhe'd “ nothin’ agin bin, Tt would bo beiter, howover, if it oantd® little to the nide of the Lord,—it would be mle! in the outcome. ae " ‘The Journal replies to our ‘equate quettien that, if the People's party supported Des unitedty, and if, in addition therato, he sho have the support of the Citizens’ Asso! a he could be elected Mayor, It might bare " i. the same idea in briefer words, viz.: If ve cleved votes onough be would be elected. Ae will not press the Journal further, a# it pete dontly not agreeable to anewer the gestloo didly. Afow dsys since a telegram snnoanesd tht “the Austrian Congress" had thrown it Diil appropriating $75,000 to pay Ceuten! ‘ ponies, and afterwards thet Baron 54 bed Minluter of Austria to the United Loe roslgned. The natural inference war thst tris bad withdrawa from taking part {a our ‘os teanial, Wo are officially informed te ©