Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1875, Page 3

" a ¥ ki Q3 £ & ofico of o ¥hich buch resl estate, or any futerest \ere) | Brd for the dalu thereof, and 1t abiall bo the duty of 5t fhery bu no such paper publ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNLE: TIIURSDAY, o by simplo action of assumpeit,— a men nodnwmih Bteolo and other of the host Jawyers of the Henato say ia tha most effectivo yot offered for romedying the ovils of tho pres- ont systom. It is now in thoordor of sccond AFFAIRS OF STATE. Proccedings in the Ilinois Legislature Yesterday. The Now Incorporation Bill Passed by tho Senate. ng. 5 m;‘e‘xhn the Tlonas Ravonuo Committee'a bill, tlio maln provisions of which nra wn followss Tn all casenaf appsal fo tho Suprome Court from the Judgment of the County Court for faxes or nasers- ments leried upon real estate ander this act, tho Buprema Court mny render fitdgmont agatoat all ihe Tote and lands, or any particular lot or tract of laud embraced in (he nppenl, for so much or ruch part of the tazos and asscenmentn, orany particulsr fax or nscasment, it may find to be lezally chiarged ppainat {ha rame:’ and, fi caso it sl find any part of the {axe8 OF aaRcasments, or any parilcnlar tax or pasoss ment, charge:d agaiuat tho gamo Lias not been legally charged, it inay eliher remit sald tazor or arressmcnts, or particular tax oraazesament, o founi to ba fllegally eharged, or misy reverss no much of auch part of {iie Jadgnent of L Catinty Court sy relatos 19 roid taxes or nrreramonts, or particular {at or arscss- ment ro fllegsily charged, “and retnand the mame Herringlon’s Union-Depot Bill Also Passed by tho Same Bodys I.l to snid ln{:rlnrh (;luurllh that ml{e; “pro«‘n;d. b ereon, 101 iy Both Monsurss Go Back fo th | lum ‘mer "o hed theresn, ' wien Sy against any Iot oF tract of land embraced fu Auch aps Tialy it sl bo tsa dhty of o Cleri of tho Suyrema Court tn make and deliver to the Connty Clerk of tha gotunty for which stcl apeal i takou, o recori of the tands and Jota ngafnrt whieh judgment s rendored, Wil abnll sct forth the nama of tiie awner, if know, the description_of he propesty, the total amount of thio Sudgment on each tract of Iot, anid alill nttach therelo o copy of the onler of tha Siprome Court, nml Lifs certitleate that Auch rocord {a eorroct, which shnll ho filed In thie ofiica of wald County Clerk, and ehatl 41 process on which such real cstas or Aty infereat therefn shall bo soll for such faxes oe asacasments, or particular tax or asserment, 18 weil as Lbn rorord for ihe mala thereof + aud It ehali Lo (ho duty of tho Coun. {y Collector, nanlated by the County Clerk, $o procoed and seil the kame for thio smonnt of h Judgmont and costa, in {he manner provided when Judiment fa ren- dered by the Connty Court agsinst delinquent. real estate, ‘Tt Collector shiall publish & gonersl notico.of such rolo In n nowspayer Lublisbed i his conuty, if any such there bo, and, if thera be no such paper pib- lshed in Lia connty, then in tho nearest newspaper publishod f the Staté to tlo county Acat of el voum- ty,—sald_notico to l:e so publishcd once In pail nows- paper at least three weeks provious to the day fzed for sach rale, Upon the dismissal of any ajpeal, and upon Mling I the oflico of tho County Clork of tho county from which the appeal fa taken' s corlined cop: of tho order of auch dismissal, tho County Olork nhall mako a rocord of tha landa and real crtato cmabraced {n sucliappeal, whiich shall bo the procoss on which tha real estnts embraced in such appeat sliall Lo sold § and 4t shall bo the duty of the County Collector to proeeed and scll (e sama in the mauner provided Lorclbefora In cases of Judgment rendered againat ronl estato by tho Bupreine Court on tho hearing of an appeal. Thia bill hns besn ordered to socond roading, Ilesldon thero Is Wallo's Sennto bill for tho amendment of tho Assosament act 60 08 to pre- vent doublo taxation under tho guito of roaves. ment of capital atack, It is on recond reading, and i opposed b{ such donno ignorauce, bitter projudice spainst incorporated companies ganer- ally, and determination to tax oversthing oxcapt farm lands, that tho prorpocia of its puskago aro almcest nil, House for Concurrence. Extended HNotice of Seme Imporiant Bills that May Be Smolhered Another Inroad upon tho Opposition Btook of Political Capital. Tho State-ITouse Investigatlon Faulls to Revenl Any Fraud. Painful Absonco of tho Dosired Proofs of " ‘Ropublican Qorruption, ILLINOIS. PROCEEDINGS AND PROBABILITIES. ATPOPRIATION DILLS, Special Disrateh to The Chisago Tribune, BrRINGFIELD, March 31.—After the stupendons contest and glorions victory over the Senate in tho spolling-match of last evoning, the louso came up emiling this morning; and, content with lnurols gainod, quictly submitted to Cul- lom's leadersLip, nud, without a show of roafst- anco, went an with tho consideration of appro- priation bilts under his resolution of yestorday. Tho bill making appropristion for the Normal Univoersity at Normal was taken up, aud, aftor the dofeat of divers nmondments .offored, re- ducing the ealarios of toachers, wans ordered to & Ibird ronding. Tho Reform Bebool Appropria. Hon bill was noxt taken up on considoration by sactlons, and, after various ineJectunl offorty to reducs tho appropristion by amondmont, was ordored to third reading as “mended by the Appropriation Committee. Pbo bill making appropriations for the Ohicago Liye aud Ear Infirmary, at Chicago, was taken up on second reading and the appropriation for ordinary expenses reducod from £12,600 to €8,000, and the bill orderad to athird reading. ‘Tho ftom of £140,000 for robuilding tho soiith wing wos struck out of tho Southern Insano Asylum bill, and tho bill was, after some dobato, recommitted, Tho Doflclonoy bill, which, it will bo rememborod, Halnca attacked somo timo siuce, as {involving n priut- Ing stenl, or what looked ko n ateal, waa takon ap. Areduction of §1,000 in tho item for printing was mado at.tho suggestion of Jouos, of Jo Da- ¥licas, author at tha Iill, sud tho bill was order- d to a third reading, TIE LAST BT. LOUIS JUDGE, 3 Tho joint resolution for tho appointment of a comtmittco fo 1nvostigate the oharge of incom- petency proferred againet Judge MoGowan, of Eagy St, Louis City Court, was dofoatod. UELT-AND-BUGKET BAILWAY, The bill providing for the iucorporation of compunion to build and oporate clovated railways for tho tranuportation of grain by tho eclevator lulh-aud-hucklu plan was passed In the Benato to-day. THE CHICAO JUSTY Juatices Bogden and Walsh and Afr. John Sul- 1lsan, disappointad spplicants all for appoint- mont as Justicos of tho Peaco In Chicago, ara hero thls morning to labor with tho CGovernor to obtain the withdraw- al of tho mnominntions sent to tho Hepato (publishod in Tni ‘Tnmuse of yestor- dny) ; also, should that fail, na‘doubtless 16 will, to socure n refoction of tho (Governor's nomina tions, Qov, Daveridgo states that, eo far ag o is concerned, the nominations ho hias mado arn final, oxcept upon recommendation of changes by thio Cool County Judgas, which, if made, will Lo duly considered. The indications aro that etrongz opposition to coulivmation will bo doval- oped in tho Senato in tho interest of Boyden, Kehoe, who fs moro iaferestzd n behalf of Walsh, declares the uomiuntions will be “ buratod." P THE STATE-HOUSE INVESTIGATION, MAJORITY REPOLT. Tho Oppoeition moembors of tho State-House Investigation Committoo presonted an elaborato report, of which a synopeis fs givon. Tus apiu-~ ion i exprossed that bad the Stato-Ilouse Com- missionors not been required by lnw tohave pro- curod materinl and Iaborat the Penitentiary a soving to the Stato-ITouss fund wonld have ro- sulted to tho atmount of £450,000 to £200,000 in thy opimon of tho Commlissioners and architoct; and In this ocouncction, tha Commlittos rofer to tho fact that in 1869 the Lenitentiary was only eolf-sustaining in tho stone-cuiting dopartment, whilo in every othor deparimont the Stato was suffering loss, Vith this fact bofore them, tho Legislature, ot tho Instance of the Govarnor, with the end in view of making tlie Panitentiary sclt-sustaluing, and to provont further appropristions being mada direcs from the Stato Trossury, cnacted a Inw requiring tho State-Ilouse Commisstonors to procuro of tho Penitentinry, and at no other placo, all matorialy and labor of overy mamo and naturo necded in tho conatruction of tho now Slato-ITouno, which conlibe farusalied by tho Denitentiary. As totho oficot of this law, the Committeo say : Y¥rom the tllg auch & courao was resorted to the fm- pression has obtainod that the Penitentlary swas de- Tving all he prof Legislaturo aud &t cnitosao, The Citizens' Association Municipal Incorpora- tion act was takou oo third roading in the Sonato, aud encountered 1o opposition desoryiug of noto, savo from Daw, of Cook, who nsmaled it on tho #coro of its one-man-power centralizing foatures, e ho styled them. He eaid the majority of the aoplo of Chicago wore agatust it, ax woro a)l tho nglish papors, oxcopt UitE Trinuxe, and that it wax yupported by parsons who wanted to perpot- vato themselvesin oflico. 1fo moved to recom- mit the bill for the purposo of having amend- monts added, 1lis motion was lost, Canflold disposed of Dow's spoech, which was an elaborato affair, by stating that tho objoct of the bill of this aetion on the part of tho el Buch {mpression {s not warranted by tho focts, I ly, 1472, tho Penlten- ary Comminsioners let the stone-cutters to W, D, Richardson, thereby dastroying tholr power to cut the Htato-lousa slone, and piaciug Nichardson In & posls tlon of independence ns to the prices he should ro- was to ensblo tho pooplo of Chicsgo | ceive if he did the worl ; or, it ho withed, bo coulil o rid thomuclves of omo of th woret | hava refusod todo tho work st any prices, ua Lis bid lovernmants on oarth, and that the boen accopted, and the atonv-cutting labor wus sbulutely hin awn,’ Trior to tho contract of Bicharde 20n aud the Venliontiary Commissioners bolog signed by Juclardson - folut meting 'of tho two sots of Commisnioners, Btate-Iouse and Ponltontiary, was held, at which Iichardaon was present and oxomined tho pricos which the Penitentinry way recelve on enlliates: the catimates were rovised aud lio Tonle tentlary Cominissioners pasxed over to Richardson tho stons-cutting contract, and from that day to (his the Venitentiary ond tho State Liave lost the profits of (b atone-cutting contruct, and the same havo {nured bill ehould not bo forcod upon tho peoplo if it #lould bocomo o law, but onty would afford them an_ opportunity 'to accept ar roject it Atter prolangon discussion, tho bill passed ms ouwended Eaturday—29 yeas to 13 bays—and was l:mt;u tho Housa for concurrouce iu the amond- meuts, THR UNION DEPOT BILL. lerrington's Union Dopot bill was passed in thio Eenate as amandod by utriking out the Pro- 3 rOr | dircctly to Iilchinrdson=the vouchors for work i vislons snbjocting dopot companion to spocial u,me buing by the Btate-Louse nonuv:fr'.m-n?: fasogementa for stroot improvomont 3 wlso that | favor of tho Warden, 8a withctsos siste ot comply roquiring thom to condemu stracts {0 bo vacated or uca:f)ml for depot purposes, eto., by tho lika proceedings now rar,ulrnd for condemnation of right of way, ote. Tho bill was sent to the Houso for concurrenco in the amondments, IMTORTANT MEABURES WIICH ABE LIRELY TO DE SMOTHERED, It geoms, at this writing, utterly bootless to ¥paculate as to tho possibilitica of Liin passage of Ray measures pooding fo cither Houso. Tho faonsured of most Importance, for tho present at lonst, appear to havo received their quictus, and thera iy discouraging proapeot of a consumption of tha romaindor of tho sossion In Lickerings ovor tho appropriation bills,—which, Lawover, it may eatoly be aseumed, will pass withont mate- rial reduction below tho cuts alrondy made by thoCommittoes, Awmong tho billa referred to aro ‘Waito's Sonato bill pomlimz for tho sssossmont and colleotion of taxes. I provides that it slall bo enficlent for tho Clork to make afiidavit tothe delinquent linta filed for Judgment that it ia tre 84 o vorily bolioves, in cases whera such sppilca- aade or wuay be mude to County = Conrt by muels genernl offiecr Of any oounty, for Judgment agalnst auy lands or lots dor auy clly taxes oz spoclal auscssmaonts, or for either} aud where such application 1s based upon the report ©Or Foliirn of any Uty Collector, sccompanted with tho AL of such “City’ Colloctor, as ta tlis carroctuoss of such return, {n such caso the afidavit provided for in Shis section shall not be required mor shall it bo tiocessary that auch list no returned contan o atafoe tuent of the valuation of wuch lots or parcols of landa ; Lt {t shiall bo sufficlont in suzh cass that . saturn e wiade Ly such gonoral oflicer presentiug the repart of tha City Colleetor, aocompauied by e foquirel aft- avit of such Olty Colloctur, aud such refucn stall b Lod with the Olark of safd court, sud this shatl, primg. with tho Tetter of 'ths Inw," then passtd over to Richandson ; the Tenitentiary Commissioucrs moting scoording to their vwn_ lostiniony *se s go-btweon fram tho Btate-1ouaa Cominissionars to Richardeun,” Tho report instancas sevoral cases of nllogad violation of the State-Ioune law in the letting of cantracts, and oomea to tha following conclusions ou this point & To sustain themeclvos in this violation of Inw, thoy (tho Commirsionors) present to your Commitico ah apinlan of Attarney-General Edsall, whial is herowlth wibmittod, and which in 0o senvo jUatifios themn fn dis~ Tegarding tho Legislative will to tho exteut clalmed by tho Commissionera:” thoy clatming the pawer and flant so cxpend ibo entira wum " dasired to Do oppropriated | $100,000, withious _advertisin for a ainglo Lid, Tho opinlon Gf th Attorney.Geuora concodea the power Lo tho Commtssioners to disregard tho provision refersod (o only in wuch canca s aro dltleult to advortise, by roason of tho pecullur eharnee. fer of the work, aud instructs the Commissioners that such & procceiding should be an excoptiona) case and not thorule; yot with this shadowy foundation tho Comuilsslouers hiavo in tho past yoor expendod $184,000 for labor aud materfal not advortised for, bought aud paid tor ou tlelr awn responsibility— settini asido thie staluto of tho Hate under wiich they Liave uilictal existenco—$115,000 of which auny wery ald onday {sbor which action fn_ thwarting tho oglelative will (s opas Lo serve criticism and daunpcias tion, Maj, Wham, one of the Penitentiary Commi sloners, lrru.\rld Lefors your uonuum«r’mnnlfol'-‘:d_ 8 dispoaltion to conceal nothing within Lis knowledgo, aud his evidence, verlal and documentary, adds much to the chaln of clroumstantisl svidence, 'Krom Msj: Wham we ascertalued that the wractice had obialne on tho part of tlo stato-Llouss Commissloncre of sony tap blank voucliers to the Warden, which: fominally ropresented tho smount due tho Venitentiory, but by tia evaslous of the law, horelnafier koo clted, really ropresentod © ‘amounts Dlichirdion ‘and ofher ocontraciora s Llank vouchere (six of which wera sent Whath sooe o6 tor becartng Warden, by J, 11, Devoridge, Bate-Houso Commissioner, and Beerstary of the Board, with requent that Lo indorso them to satd Beveridye, aug Fetvrn ttiom (o him), being atill Llank in all respacts 8av0 tho Wanden's ansigumicut, Whaiw, sflor somo e gotiation, afgned somo of those Liank vouchers s Tolurnod them st senettod, voudy 1o be Bilai up by othior partios will sniounts of which Lo was outirery tguorant, but ko docliued to continue the practice snd thersby chocked for a {ime & moat quastionsit and uubis{uesslike procecding on (he part 67 pobli oificora charyed with great responalilirics, Wa also loara through this source that Maf, Wham was urgea to muu‘(o work done fn othor Etutcs o though ft wero dona at tho l’lmhnlhr!. Thls he Protested sgainst doing, We furiher report thet Commissloner Boverldge 8ds Warden What & proposition descrving (1o mogt Sevore denunclation, i which Lo "'“fif“"" that Wham advanoe to Jichard on $15,000 of tha money of Ihnl‘emuumrx and take fn Lo thereof a vouclier from the Btato-liouse Commisslouors, thnt Richanisos El.a:;n;‘u;t' Lis |;.nn rltxula,' tho ?bjl.:clmbumr 10 relluve afitea of a privatd par! o of pubilo Privato party by proper uso 1t 4 avidoat, from the testimony takeo, that Corme mlssioner Tiaveridge fa o encimy of 1he maln e 7: bt wo suggest that the relations of intimaoy 1o not end bere, &4 in Jul, y 1474, when Warden Wham Jras prowaing Juchardaon {3 niake paymiont to the leas dtcatiuey of ho smount ne ‘lad fallon bebfud for con- aud special asvessmenta with which aucl, £¢ln of lands respectively stand chlrnes il!olll.lfl‘:rl‘lmfi of auch Cit, ¥ 80 returasd Lo the general om{er. LT The bill alvo provides s 1t fudgment ahiall bo rendored aguinat any parl oty 18 Diarcel of tract of Iand eibraced o ee “-hy: shall be the duty of tie Olerk of said Ujreuss 1 ll casca of appesl, tomake aud delivor 16 ity Clerk a record of the lands and lots sgatnat Whicl Judymeut fa Foudsred, which alall set forth the fnine of the owner,if known, tho description of the Property, the total smount of udguens on each trast Delot, aud year or yuars for which the samo is due, in $ime deactlptive order av mald property may be et forth iu the Judymont liat, and shall attach thersto s sory of the ordor of the Court, and hia certificate that suclk recard tu orreet ; which 'record when filod in the sa1d Couuly Olerk aball be tha process on uch taxes or ‘sasesamoniy, as well a4 the rec- Mie County Oallactor, ssslated by the Cownt precosl aid el 'the - mane, - for .:::m'x#: mhans it andsone ' he reudered by they Uounty Court aguinat delinquent resl eatat Subliah & foueral otice of ek wats (i rChial Llished 1u bis county, 1 any gu, 1l s Ihud:g lere bo, lmlpll E, gmen ont. Y | tho nearest nuwapaper published fu th ) received L following letter fro; ERPA TR ot | S AR N Eistous to e day fixed for wukh salee ey et | V¥ anarin, Juy 21, 1874,~Maf, Wham: Mr, Richcrdson fails 1o get suything of (ho State-House Commistioners, nad i wil By uconveulent for him-to :Ill.:::":":'::x“;lk“.l m[:!'nn-llll at tho Icnit Foceivo funds froin (he Compuimatoncn ' us L. BRvEADGE” Withina few days atter (1o ] ar the roceipt of_Gov, Beve eridgen lotter, WIAG: ws reovad, a how Wenias ap- ted, who wilhin tires daye cértified to cut stoge or Rlchardson to the amount of about $30,0.0, As {0 Alio posaibility of measuiing and eatimatiug which in ¥ 8ozt 8 tiine, e oxprous 1o oyinion. Wa wake B0 Tecaindiendiiipie, evidence, Bzed in dia Lallys that peary o ioumnlt tbe Yy Upon Rigaal of any sppeal, snd Y bl f sezatoses wad woow iy et alfalt; lhlulll.k “.l ounty Cletk shall ek s urs truly, s manzer Jrovided Lo rial of au apj taw glall apply to -nex':'-fi:,"-fi: oty 18 blll Langa fire on third readin o m‘ ie Azutzen's bill for the ctfimlkm of UL amsent ot conclisloun arrisod sty upon 8 i atiliaiton uf 10 record. thorouga oxatitu: Ay E. Lu MEnmITT, Jonx Mr, It fa to ba added that Merritt and MeCoy votod for tha Lill appropriating £600,001 for the completion of tho Niale-l{onse, which thoy dil after all the teatimony had Lacn taken, and no objection wns mndo on oithor sido to Ity panae nga, though, if thera wore any fraud in the inan- ner in which Lhe work was belng prosecutud, thien was the timo to have mado it kuown. MINORITY REFORT, A minority roport was submitted by Meaera, Jonen and Tiranson, in which fa emEodied the correspontdence between the Committee and tha State-Ilouse Comminsioners, the latter relating that at tho closo of tha fiscal year ending Nov. 80, 1374, there romalned unexpendod the snm of £62.205.61,—altorwards rodiced ot tho timo of making thoir 1enly to £23,402.03 : that no aum of monoy had heen drawn out of the Yreanury in advanco of ita pavment to any eon- tractor for work ona or nccapted § that no ndvanco lnd beon made to any contractor for worlt to bo done and accepted’; that in their opinlon tho sum of &800,000 will ho requisad to complota tho buiiding according to tho origmal plan, The Committes also made n detnlled atatement of all tho moneys pald out for work or materinl upou the buiiding, to whom paid, when, and for what objects, and that ol the material and Jabor hod bean procirea, or dons, at tha lowest markot prices. Whe Committee dircoverod nothing to cast n doubt upoen tha truth of tho ansxcra of tho Commissloner, but, on the con- trary, find that ail ino money hna beon faithiully applied for labor and mnterlals for tho uso of tho Luildings : that nono of the moneya have been advanced to contractors or others beforo tho work waa dono, or materialn funished, and that In 1o instance bas work and_material boen paid for until tho same was delivored on tho Blate-1lousn grounds—oxcopt the utono-cucting at tho Penitentiary, nor thon until estisfactory proof that the woik had beon done, Fayment for stoue beforo the delivory on tho State-ilouse grouuds has beon informally mado over slnco the Lenitentinry firat undertook tho work, and snch naymont was rondercd necoesary. ‘Iha Sfato- Houso fund was awple for that purpose, and it seems o tho Conunittes ronsonablo aud proper that propayment should thus bo “mado. Yor various good and sufiiclent ressons tho penctico was adopted in 1870, during Gov, "aliner's admlmstration, when the Doniteutiary st biegan to cut the ntono, to pay forithe stona whon quarried and delivered nt the prison, aund £a pay the Peaitentinry for tha cutting monthly, on catimates of work dono furnished by the Wardon. These paymenta monthly were only payments mnde on s running account, kept bu{\mon tha State-1louso and Penitentisry fands, and to ke adjustod on privato settloment. The Committee flud no roasonsblo objection to this mode of dealing Lelweon the Htato- Ilouso and Penitentlary funds, The two Commisstann nro but Jbranches of the Executivo Dopartment of the State, aud thers cortainly could be no danger or loss to tho State-tHouso fond and, as & mattor of fact, na such loss has happened, On tho contrary, all the stone cut bas already been placeid In the building, excopt a portion of the domo stone, which, it i3 expect- cd, will boduring tho coming swnmer. The Committoo express the opfaton thas the building hor beon constrncted of tho beut matorial, ond in tha bast manner. It would seom algo, from theovidence, that the Stato-Nlanke Commissioners have mado great reductions of tho ux[:undimm. on many paria of the building holow tho original estimates, while they increased in prico othors in order to have tho'wotk firmer or boltor, 1In relation to tho additionnl resolution re- uiring the Committoo to investigato tho rola- tlons “now oud horetofore oxisling be- tween tho Stoto-Houso Comnmissionars and tho Denitentlary Commissionors and all contractors at tho Fonitontiary, for delivering worlt and materials tosald State- House Commisrioners, eto., the Committdo ro- port that tho ralations betwean tho two Boarda was ostablishod by tha second soction of an nct approvad March 11, 1869, and ontitled an nct to amend ** A act to [mx\‘hlu for the orection of n now Btate-House,” approved Fob. 25, 1867, and to nmoud an nct supplementary to au act to pro- vido for tho erection of & new State-Ilouso, ap proved Faob, 25, 1867, Tlo Committeo do not wish to be underatood a8 indorsing tho practico of signing blank vouchors, yot under tho eyatoin of chocks and guards now In usa nndetected fraud commite ted throngh such practico ia imposstblo, and all blank youchere which hnve actually beon used corraspond with tho cstimates mado, nud tho wmonoys have nll been proporly necounted for, The Committeo stato that the removal of Wham a3 Warden of tho Penitentiary can in no way bo attributed to his refusal to sign vouchers in blank, ne the last lettor referring Lo that was daled Doc. 2, 1878, soven months prior to his re- moval, and Wham'’s appolutmont as Lenitentiary Commissfoner follosred immediately ntter his 10- noyal ns Warden, which fact fo a comyieta rofu- t n of tho Idea that anv of {hese acts by Liin induacd his ramoval as Warden, The report concludes au follows : This Investigation lina covorsd a perfod excesding two monthe. Tho Committco has beon alded by a ekillful accountaut, who has beeu brought to the Cajd- tal for thie purpose’of examining (ho records and files of the Audlor's office, Wo bave tad tho ravices of & stenographer, We have brouglit witneeses bofore us from all parts of the Blate, and the teatimony of every orson Hkely to throw Jight upou tho subjoct Lias boen nlien. All recordn of the Blato Commivsioners wnd tho Auditor's oftica have beon laid open fa view, Tho nvestigation tias been conducted with an unususl do- grea of dilfizence and thoroughuess. As tho vesults of tia wholo matter, the undersigned find that ~the Blatedlouss Commiuslonurs have dlecharged thelr dulfos © wiih " raro el and fidelity, end If gny orrors havs been commiteed thoy woro errors of Jjudgmicnt s to matters aboutb which reasonable intolligint mon srould naturally dif. fer ¢ evrora not detructicy in tho slgltcat degreo from woll-formed reputations for probity and uprightnogs which the gentlomen componing tho Board of fiste- Uouee Comumiusloners have loug and descrvedly en. iuycd iu this State, andd, a0 far as the relutlous of ths enitentiary with fho Blato-Honse Hoar 1a concorned, wo ind tho Penitentiary Gomm{sslonars have uniform- ly mhown good practieal Judguent, snd maniested such & degree of diligonceand iulogrity as to merit the dpprobation of the paojla, N. W. Tinaxson, A, AL Joxws, Ono thousand coplos of esch roport were or- derad printed for the uso of the Houso, Ry OTHER STATES, d MICHIGAN, DILLA AFPIOVED, Svectal Dispateh to The Uhicaaa Tribune, Lavsixg, Mioh,, March 81.—The Governor has approved tho following bills : 'To amond tha act providing for & atenographor for tho Recordor's Court of Detroit; to repeal tho Dog law; to smoud the Btato Publis Hchool act ; to provide for rucordiug certiflod coples of lost deods H to omond the Railrond act of 1873 ; to amend the act for collecting atatistica of tho {nsauo, deaf, dumb, and blind 5 to amond the net for tlio esloction and caro of agricultursl Inuds ; Lo authorize the Doard of Ktate Auditors tondlust cortaln epecillo taxos ; bosides a few privata bills, THE BENATE to-day adopted a rosolution H:ovlulng for a floal adjournmont on April 27, and it 1y oxpocted that tho adfournment will tako place about that timo, Tho Henate passed the following billa: Au- thorizing the Clork of 8¢, Jotiopk County to a polnt 8 clork ; to legaliza tho scis of tio Rlver- sida Cometery Associutlon, of Hastings; to au- thorizo tho Biate Trosanrer to wottlo for apecliie tazos with fudividusla engaged in mining, tho same sa with corporations; to regulate tho salo of wheat; to mmend tho not for the Bault Sta. Mary's Canal authoriziog the City of Dotrois to make and soll Ba8; proposing an amoudment to tbo Conatitution' In regard to constitutional smendients, TUE ItovsE dovotod a largo part of tho day to tha lquor qQuestion, ' Tho Damocrats sought to compel tho Pssage of an act repealing tho Probibitory law, or, at all ovonts, to put the Itepublicans on the rocord againat such ropeal prior to tha olectiona of noxt Monday, The Republicans gonerally do nat doslre to ropaal the Prolibitory law until tha Tax bull is perfocted and passad. " 'Tho rosult of to-day's proceedinga Los simply boun to tablo overy liquoe bill which, carae wh fof paseago, and Plich did not contain tho repealing clause. The Houso adjourned pending the consideration of smondments to tax tho trafilo according to the pofinhnnu of cltiey, othing 1a agread npon yot as to the terma of tho proposod uz bill, aud it Is doubilul whiothar auy mirangomont will be made bofore the olec. tions, ‘Tuoro fs, thus far, the utmoat diversity of opinion us to tha obracter of thio Tax bill Which will bo adopiod. Parker's bl, to leave the mattor of taxing to municlpalitios, was tabled, but ia favorably thonght of, and may be ausod, psthnnu, though it {s doubtful whother t gola through, e THE WEST VIRGINIA CAPITAL, Cixonxam, 0., March 31,—The Enquirer's Cliarleston (W. Va.) apocial vays Judge Wait, of the Niuth Judiclal Cirouit, has grauted an Ju- Juoction staying the romoval of the Capital to Wheeling, The Capital will romain a$ Uharles- ton untll the courts have an opportunity ta pass upon tho validit; llpnlnmed'h fll ity ;;t. ‘111‘1:“.:; &l romoval, which it CL.OUDED TITLES, The Examination of the Turners Continued, History of Fanning, the Dutective. ’xtensive Operations of the Deed Forgers, Trancaotions in the Military Tract, The aunouncomsunt yesterday of tho arrest in Quiucy of James Roed, and of I, K, and Iloward Turner and James B. Btrong, in Chicago, upon ruspiclon of bolng membors of a gemg v ho Liavo beat engaged for years In Inmning forged deeda, provoked consldorable commaont in roal-cstate circles, and many & ** Thank God" way uttered Ly ownere of Jand who liave been defondantt in todioun law-suits, or heen olliged to pay largs s of money to removo a elond upon their titler, cauned by tha recording of deods which had apparently bren dug from somo Indian mound, 1lio cxistenca of much n gang hias long boon susprcted, on account of tho larga number of ** antedated instrtmenta™ tiled in Lliinois, especially in what is kuown as tho “AMOATARY TRACH," which embizces part of Mercer, Knox, Teury, MeDonough, and other counties, The land ju that alstrict waa given to noldiers Ly {ha Gov- ernnient many yoars 8o, —at a timo when prop- orty In tha contral part of this Stalo was woith little or wnothing; and, consequently, the majority of tlo patentees, not caring to rattle in tho **wildoruoes,” mover claimed ownership ; aud, when thoy died, thoir Leirs, it thoy Liad any, woro equally indifferent, 'Tho tract fa now mostly occupled Ly farmers, whoto titles aro not 28 perfeet aa might bo de- slred, still thoy lhave beon in possession for such a lopg timo undor tax titles and by virtue of limitations a8 to Lo rensonably socure. ‘They have, however, been wubjected to continual nenoynnce slnce 14536, when proviously unheard-of deeds began to mako thelr appearauce, tho supply beity apparently inoxhaustible, sinco hundrods of (hemn have been recorded in tho last fifteen years. A suit in ofoctment supplemented tlie recording of overy deoed, unless tho formers would pay & sum proportionato to tho valus of tho laud for a quit-claim, sud searcely & term of the Uuited élnt:u Circuit Court hay sluce paseed without the trinl of balf a dozen such smuita. In many, tho compleinant, o nou-residont, would be suc- cesaful, it being nexs to impoasiblo to prove tha deeds tiled to bo forgeries, us tha grautes was urually doad, s wero tho grautor, and oven tho notary public, Occasionally s doefondant would securo tho servicea of an nstute attorney, and epend money 10 traco up the history of the part.es through whom tho chain purporied to run. ‘Inis genor- nlly rosulted in proving tus deeds to Ls abaolute forgeries, but tho crimo could nut bu fastened upon any person, IN ONE OF THE NECENT 8UITS, which was suddenly dropped, (ha chain sot up run Irom the original patontee, who bad been o soldier in a DMuenachukelts regimout in the War of 1812 It was claimed that he nd mado o deeds,—ouo in 1819, and tho other in 1848, —the latter being hold by the complainant. ~After a diligent search, it waa diecovorod that tho soldier died in 1843, and the facetious attornoy for the defond. ant wrote to the claimant. ronquosting him to give Lim tho namo of a Commissioner in heaven or hell,—whorover the patentee might Lo,—ko that lio could takio his deposition, tho complainant, Indging from the deed, huving had access to the decensed, Somo ides of tho FXTENT OF TOE OPERATIONS of tho gang mny bo gathered from {hie fact that forty of theso doeds wero filed for record in Knox County alone in ovo day. Intmth, the military tract has been o covered with thore documents, that it ia not o profitablo a fleld as formorly, and. it is on this account, as alloged, that o chango of base Lias been made. Fortu- uatoly Cook Couoty was solected as the next olnt of atttack, for, while sevoral porsons have Eaen compelled to give up n portion of thoir fund and otnors to pay thousands of dollara to gocuro & roleasp, the coming to Chieago and car- rying out the nlleged schiemo hias resulted in un- earthing the gang, and may end in tto separa- tion of ita members for a period of vears, The gentloman who rolused to bo frightened by an efcctment Auit into paying an cnormous sum for a quit-claim i 1L, QLORGE W. RILL, a part owner iu & acra truct Jocated in the town of Hyde Purk, 1o had 1ure courago than Dr. Loony, wha handed over §15,000 rather than Joopardlzo tho £50,000 Lo Lad loaned ou boule- vard property, and than the hiolders of land near Bloe ?uhmd who patted with torty acres in order to retain the rest. The person who exposod tho gang iu JANES FANNINO, formerly s forger, who was serving out a four years' sentonca in Jolot for that erime, 1To was **gun " {n his line, es is shown Ly the aunexod account of Lis manuer of doing buntuess. Hoveral yosrs ago, & wealthy resident of Fnle ton County died, and, whon his estaio wis rot- tling up, Fanning presonted a nole of the de. conged for £10,000, Tho adminfstrator bolioved it wasa forgery; but tho making had boen wit- neesed by a third party., Objectiona wora flled to tho claim, aud, when the watter was to como up bofaro the Court Fannlug gavo no- tieo that ko desired to take the deposition of tha witness, who, as he stated, lived 1n Now Orlcana, Fanniug failed to got his ** Commissioner ap- pointeq, tho attorneys for tho estate, through an andorstanding with the Clork of tho Court, having a porson whom they know to ba roliable subatituted for tho ono suggested by Fanuing, Thoy wrate ta tho Notary in New Orleaus to ad- vise® them of tho "day got for taking the doposilion, and * ho dolug w0 thoy wont to the Croscont City to watch tho procacding elandostiuely, Thoy wero put futo a room sdjoining tho Notary's oliico,and hnd bocn thore but a sliort 1ime, whion in camo * the man who had witnessed the signing of the note,” 1t waa none other than Fanning, who awaro to all that was nocessary, tho sttornoys overhear- ing overythlug that occurrod bLoiwoen him and tho Nutary, ~Aftor tho doposition had boon signed and acknowledged, the lawyers camo from their hiding place and salutod “the forger with *Why Faunmg, howdo you do?” ‘I'ho cluimant was talion avack, and lis hopes of got- ting tho 10,000 vanished. Egm*u Lis fucarceration he Las become very onltont, and whon Mr, Hill promised Lim libor- !’, if ho would toll what hio knew about the dead- forgors, ho romdily assonted to turn State's avi- denco, A pardon was (mlnudlnmy procured, aud, an was montioned {u yestorday's 'Cuinusig, Tio tracked Iteed to Quinoy, aud eccured A HAIATOGA TROUNK full of ovidoncs against him. Its contonts con- sisted of soveral undrod dies of coort and not; aial soale, signed doods, witnessed and aclinowls edgod, without any specification of proporty ; old yparchment, abstracts of titles, otc,, otc. Tho oxact connaction, if any, tho Turnera hava with tha forgoers ia at present nnknown, as Mr. Hill refuses to give all the dotails proviona to the preliminary exsminatian of tho dofeudauts, 1t is aseerted, hiowever, that thoy ara implicated l‘zy I}uud, who, it would soom, has mado a cons oesion, THK EIECTMENT 8UITR agmnst LY, Mr, Scammon, and ofhers, were called for trisl in the United Klates Circuit Court yosterdsy morning, 'urnor baving mads two unsuccessful atteinpts to havo thum con- tinued, and, desiring not ta go to tilal, or being unpropared, judgmont was given to the dofend- anta {u the fouy casea at Turuer's suggestion, ha baving 8 right under the statute to reinstato thom within & yesr, upon payment of conts. g At 2 o'clock In the aficruoon, tho time fixed or THE EXAMINATION of the charga of forgery, all the defondants wore in Justios Halngs' oflice, on Clark street, near Madison., 3Mr. Darnum appeared for Mr, Hill, who had tho Baratoga trunk noar by, so that ttio wax dios, open deeds, ote., would Do avail- ablo ; and the Hon, Lootard Bwott roprescntod tho Turnor Lrotbore and tho othors. APRIL & 1875. now perding in the United Biates Cireult Conrt and, on necount of his provioua atanding in tho nominunity, ho (Turnor) did not wish to anter iteon tha eare nntil e lisd made proper prepara. tion, Hence, 88 the charge was a grave and sorion ono, o mekod for a contiunance of ten daye, holieving that fasts aud circumstanees wonld devolop which would exculpato lutn, fiis nh{cct wan to avold the maling out of n rrima fecle caso agmwnst Lis client [n nmoment, and it roered t3 him that his ro- «ticat was b reasonable one, tha defewlant hejng a gentieman who Liad up tothis potiod sumtained a good characler and moved In respectablo clreles, IR, BARNDS, ¢ who sppoared for Mr. IiM and Mr, Chittick, tald, 4 thero was no afiidasit fn writing or #worn ktatement before tha Court as a barls for tho motion, and aa statements outside of the record had boen made by Jr, Bwett, Lo doubtiers would ba_permitted 10 do the wama. It was true that Rodolphns K. Turner was an attoruey, and had prasticed in the Unitad Etates Ciremt Court, wiora ho bad, nt this time, no loea than fifty or roventy-five suits, four of which had been declded that morning by Tarner giving Jndgowont to his finumumn) clienta. 'Thosa four muits Lind rolation to titios, the doeds sliow- ing which, it was chaiged, woro forgarics. To- Ing an attornoy himeelf, ho (Turaer) wa3 Mo- eunod Lo know tho nature of tho title undar which ho climed, Ifo cortainly hat known for a weelt that Lho chargo of forgory was mady againat bim. 1le hnd beon pnt under #0000 Luil, which was farnislied by Mr, Goudy, who would probably agipear for kim. Tha cako liad Leen continuad onca ; tho present was tho res ol appearance In the Court ; and Lo (Darnum) nupraod, when he came, thatit would he (ried, Thioy had' madu thelr proparations, #ubpwnned Uieir witnerner, and wero ready for trial, Ie- cauge Turuer had not attonded to tho matter #8810 reason for thwarting justice, and dofay- ing fnvestipation into thls very important subject, t wns not au easy matter to get together thu witnesaes of this particnlar crime, and keep them toguther ana prevent (he tnterviowing of aud tampering with them, and overbauting doesmentary ovidonce, Mr. 8wett rojoined thit the arrosts were sud- donly made, aud no harm could result to any- body by a stiart delay. Tho reason given by the presecation in opporition was a singular one— Auch & ono as hio had nover heard Lefore, It wag urged that thero was danger that tho evidenco would ot keep ten dava: it must be covered iy wome way or it wonll epoily lence the Il Imlugo was aaked of dixgorgiug LeforoLou days ¢lapsed, COXTINUANCE, = Tho Court remarke thut the roputation of th defondunt was worth gomcthing to bin, and ho was entitled to tho right to vindicate Limaelf from the chiarge if ho could do it ; aud this con- eldoration should ovarcomo uny that might arive rerarding (he cousclonco of witncrses. Ile was willing to fix upon any time that was ngrecablo 1o nll tho parties, Aftor somno furthor discussion, & continuanco for o week wad granted, tho Latl remmui it ot £25,000 for nach of the'Turners, and #2,600 for Btrong, Reod boing stall tn custody. Tho dovelopmeuts promised when tho exam. ination docs take placa are of tho most atartiir character, and, judglng from what Lna been in: advertently stated by the ycrsous who are un- derstood to Lo famihar with all tho oircum- ntances, it is probablo that one of the most ex- tensive gaugy of deod forgern tint ever existed will bo temporarily, if ot finally, preventod from further cloudirg titles and blackmailing rrogerty-awnord who dprn!er paying for quit claims to being involved in protracied and uncer- tain bugation. LLETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. CLEANING TIHIE CIIICAGO RIVER. Te the Editor of The Chicaao T'ribune: CiticAco, March 90.—** Citizen" fuhis commun- cation to Tue TRIDUNE yestorday ‘opposcs shut- ting tho guard gatoa of the canal at the Summit for o short timo to creato a current in the river towards the lake, and pives theso ns Lis roa- soun thorafor: Mr. Utley says that # the canal will changa thawater in the Clicago River once In vvery forty-olglit hours,” Dy thocaus! fmprovement tho Clilcago River was vir- biially extended to Lockport, a distance of 24 milos, where, by & aystem of wasto-gates, It is emptied fnto the Deaplaiucs River. The canal han & mean width of over 40 feet, and a depth of from 5107 feet, with o ourrent, when unobetructod, cf 2% miles per bour, Now, I aver that It Is no {usult to common scnso to say thal a stream of this capacity, flowing continually the year through, fa uot sdequate drainuge. The fact ir, that, were it utilized to tho full capacity, we might driuk the water of tho Chilcago River every day in the yoar) and never mistrust but that & was Jorfectly wholesowe, This extract from *Citizon'a" letter repro- sente o good deal of Ignoranco of t ° facts. ‘When Mr, Utlefi ayB that tho caual will chango tho water in tho C hicago Liver ouce in forty- cight lours, he allows notbing for tho large quantity of drainage-water that runs into tho canal botween ridgoport and Lockport, At this scason of tho year, aud uutit Jnue, porhapa, ot lers thau ono-third, and it may bo one-half, of all tho water discharged by tho canal nt Locke port is not drawn from ihe Chicago Rivor at all, but is derived {from sucfaca and undorground drainay A great deot of it comes from tho Deuplaiuos Liver, whick rans paralle] with it aud whoso bed is several foot highor than tho esurface of the canal. ‘I'no wator sinks through the gravel and crovices of tha limestono rack, and finds its way into tho cunal in largo quantities, Iy the sume mor sesson uearly all tho waler iy the Desplalues thus leaks nvrn{ and disappears in tho caaal, From now until Muy a groat doal of water will find ita way into the Nouth Branch of the river from tho natural surface drainnge or watershed thoreof, which embraces mot only most of the ares of Chicago, bot nearly all of Cicoro, and a_considerable part of Lake Towne ships. This draiuage water, togother with tho surfsco and under drainago of tho 80 miles of couutry through which the canal runs, from Indgoport to Lockport will furnish tho caval more than it can without drawing a drop from the lake, wad tho caso lust yoar, and coosoquently the river was in a bornd condition until late in tho scason, when all tho dralbage wator was run off. It * Citizon " will sland on Twollth streot bridge Lis will percolve the watar to be almost motion- loas; there moy bo o shght current tosards tho lako, At Btafo streot bridge, there la quito 8 pereoptible curront towards the lake; but tho water in tho wholo South Brauch, from Ldke atract to Bridgoport, is almost on au equipoise, aud soems as ready to flow in ono dirsction 80 in the other. 1f tho gnard gatos at the Bummit wore closed for awhile quite a current would flow through tho Bouth Iranch aud digs chargo into the lako, taking with it tho lightor dirt and Iluilfl!ll! now lying on the bottom of tho river, which would be thua awept out to sca. ** Citizon " {a wholly mistaken fn supposing that a current of 214 miles por hour could Lo ostablished through'the canal. As thers la only s fall of aniuoh to the mile, it is queationablo if wora than 1 mile an Lour ean bo producod, sint halt o mllo an hour is about all the navi- gating tho caual by horso powor wilt permit, and tbo Canal Conmissionsra do wuot aliow afarter flow than that during tho soason of pavigation, Al the oxporiments loretafora made of oponing tho lock-gates at Lockport to induge a rapid passage of water through tha cansl have proved fallurea. Tho rapid flow only reacbes back a fow mifos, and at Diridgepore 18 dearcoly percoptiblo, Whero the wator runs fast W dropi down fu pnam whera tho canal is nare rowost and hos Jeast capacity for conyeying wator, It ¥ Citizon ™" doubta thia statoment, Jot him ask Col. Utley, or the Board of Publio Works, or the City Euginecr, Mr, Chesbrough, Tha only way to got the channel of tho river frood of iis fuie {mrflln 8 that which *Oitizen " opposes,—to ako ntagoe of tho fuflux of wator this spring iuto tho river aud let it all run out uto tho lako, THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE, Tathe Elitor of 1'he Chicaga Tribune : Cutcago, March 81,—The followlng resolu. tions woro originally drawn up to be lald bofore tho Chieago Board of Trado, but, sftor consulta~ tion with some of the mombers, the party who drow thom up discovered that they soowmod to bavono property intorests Iu the Siate worth looking after, snd fearod tho effect of prababla rotallatory moasurca tbst might ba fulminated agaiust them by that immaculate snd august body,—tle Legislature, Accordingly, the Leg- {alature fa Lereby publicly notliled that thoy havo nothiug to foar from the Chicago Board of Trade, Tho resolutions were too good to bo lost, howevor, and £ rocommand that they bo Half au hour was spent by Mr, Swatt in con- sultation with Lis clionts, Klr. Darnum in tho It‘lmnf":l: pl';&l‘l’l::g an n?c‘ndod wm&lnlnti |.lfl1 ng fo B acty of forgory, the original hnvhu{ boon somawbiat {ndeiluito, aud therofora open to objoction, if not to dismissal, Mr, Bwott, at length, sald the complaint charged the dafendaniy with forgery in refo: enco to deeds spocifieally namod, one from Lichard P, Robinson to Empson Hamllton, dated Aprit 1, 1836, aud the other from Hamillon to Helon O'Ilsra Harrell, dated Juno 22, 1842, Ho bad, a8 an sttorney, just boun spoken to on bolmlf ot the dofoudsnts, and they had bad no time to consult ss to a defenso. Mr. Turnec was a gontloman who, for ton or fifteon yoars, had boon & mombor of the Bar in this Btate, and thoso deeds, which it waa alleged Lo Liad forged, Ogured in ejectmont suits taken up aud discussed by our public Athenmum aud by the various socleties of ** Grangers ” throughout tho Btate Jicaolted, That this Board of Trade, with (he history of the * curpet-bag ™ Governmenta fn tho Boutl, and olfcola theruby produced ou the property valucs and comuuerclal fiitoreats of tbat soction of wur cowmon counry before us, viow, with slari aud syprenenston, the outrugeons aud Hlogal procovdings duriug tho Last fow doya u tie Legialaturo of our own State, RHeaoloed, 'Ulat “dishonost and unscrupulous men, Liaving learned how comsparativoly vasy it lv, by foius of law, 10 alaze upon the property of an {idustrious ud law-abldiug people, Liave bocuine embaldened, aud, 1u the opluion of this Bosrd, ure now ploitlng sgaiuet o iglits, proportics, aad ilvertiss of tuo poople of ur . ftesoled, That usurpations in our Legtalaturcs can ouly bo suet Ly & revolution of the poopls, aud We horeby call upon the peopis of the Btata of Miinnls tn sosable fn tnans-incetinge and taks cownsel tog:iie £ to what ahall be done {n the emergency now press. Ing upon us, ‘The dincussion that the shove-mentionnd rosolationn will eall forth will prove tho Durity aul righteouanons of tho Logislature to tha eatisfactlon of the most hardened unbelievar, - which cano all those taldiog part in tho dis- cussion will retiro to their antaxed homen emilieg and happy, and wondoring how thoy over could hava had any doubt ebout. 1t; or olso, with teeth shit bazd mnd lips cam,'umm. wone g at the cowardice and pusillanimity of & t peanle, and demanding fo know what have bacome of tho duscendanta of the herons of Lax- Ington aud Bunker Hill. Linksty oo Drazin. LIV TXRUT: Tothe Editor of The Chizagn 7 p.4 Cittcaao, March 39,—* Tunnre: writing un- der dato of the 27th, oxpressed tha hope that the discusaion on life inurance going o in yonr columns might develop soms information ipon a subject which is agitating the publie very genorally, viz.: how (o reeurs tound and ye. liabla life lusnranca ot falr rates. Tho desira- bility of ifo insuranca has come to bLomo uni- versally recognized, and its cost go woll catab- lished, thnt the public are anxious to soo somo method aunounced by which thoy can kecura 1t Lenefits at ratey within thelr meana. The Boston Leard of Trade Inat Septemher appointed n commitice to examine and roport upon this question, which Com. milteo, m ther roport, gave roms figuren showing tho aetual cost of carrying rinks, nnd pointed out the Emcllccn of life companics in certain respocts to bo unbuninesslike fu them- rolven, a8 well as a very great obetaclo to the application ol life-fusuranco to peopla of wagos aad amall malaries; and safd, In conclnding their report: * Tha peapla who most need fe-insnr- Aanca canuot well aford the luxury of the ageucy expenres of tho prosont exatem. Tho untried experiment is to reliove thein of thee expenses,” The forve of thns will bo appreciuted by those who know that the companies pay direct com= minslous to their agents of from 30 (o G0 per cont of the firat preminm, and from 5 to 10 per cent on all subsaquent promiums while tuepolicy remaius in force, Nov, if companios can pay such commissions fo agentr, maintain magpificent marble and plate-glass oflices, and still accumnlato euch o eurplua that, after from tive to eipht years, thoy nre ablo to pay their ioases from tho interest on thelr surplus, why may not theno mupertluitics Do dispened with aud tbe inenred Lave tho bouefit of tho reduction of cost? Ona way to saccomplish this result would bo for 500 or 1,000 men to combine ani do for themselven what they sevorally pay tue lifo compauica to do for then, viz.: earry tho risks ou their own lives, and in- vest their own funds—for both thess functions aro performed by life companies, Thus a man nt 36 yoafs of ngo pays for an endowment policy of 1,000 payablo at'deatls, or &t tho expiration of tive yearw, fivo nonnal premiima of £227 each in edvauce, Of this amonnt €13.80 nt most goea for carrying the risk, and the balance, $213%0, " is fuvested ot Boy 10 per cent. At tha expiration of tho fiva years tho Company, if tho insured survives, pays him lue policy, ‘%1000, und adda to it eurplus £430.12, twhich it hos mado upon Lis money, If ho dies at any timo aftar the sccond premium 19 paid the Company makan still more,—thore being & timo duriug the term when his doath oy by worth to the Company an amonnt exaetly equal to the face of hia policy, notwithstandine that it is generally suppuked ‘the Company’s interest is in tho coutlbued life of the iusuied, nud not in Lis death, A plan that will for tho same outlay Kive tho insured 1,436 inrtead of 1400 at the end of five years if L lives, and his beirs £1,300 o £2.000 if Lo dies during the term instead of only £1,000, will ho Letter than tho rrescnt syu- tem, and can be showa to be perfectly plain and practicable. 1. MaD DOGA, To the Editor of The Chicaga Tribunes Cuicado, March 30.—I desire o slight spaco in your columns. Last Thursday my boy was Dbitten in soven different placea by o mastid owned Ly E. Bergmann, cigar dealer, 998 State streot. Foaring Lydrophobia, I requested Lim toshoot the dog. " Ho rersed. Therenpon | ot & wartant to-doy, and shot tho dog tmsaclf. ESill mao Tarsmaun for S10,000, 1 weste thi o attract tho attontion of the anthorities to n fot of dog of tho same dorcription roamnng it the wutuo vicinity, Respectfuily, Jous WENAJIL. MADISOXN, TOE CENTENSIAL—FIGEONS, Sneeial Dispateh to The Clacago Tridune, Mav1sox, Win., March 31.—A spirited meeting, wider the auapices of the Woman's Coutennial Hate Comunittee of Wisconsin, was beld at tho residonca of Mre. J. S, Chorp last ovening, at which muoh intereat wss mavifosted and a club organized, ombraclng sevoral promivent ladies and gontlemen of the eity, who sro to hold mentlly meetings to advance the Centennfal Exposition and socaro the ropreaentation of Wisconaln therein, Tho following are the ofticora : President, Mrs. David Atwood ; Vice- Preeident, Mrs, Gov. Yazlor ; Trensurer, Mrs. L. W. Host; Bacretary, Alra, J. D, Dutler. Milons of pigoons were flying lLiers this moraing,—moro than eeon 10r many years., WISCONSIN STATE INSTITUTIONS. Special Dispateh to The Chicavo Tribune, Mapisoy, Wis, March 31.—The Executive Committee of the Ktate Normal Bchool Board to- dny awarded tha contract for orecting thoe ad- ditional Stato Normal School building, at White water, to D, Bteplons, of this city, for 816,000, Thero were eix other bids, two from Whitowator, ono of thom for §31,500, aud ouo cach from Mil~ waukoe, Shaboygan, Fort Atkinsou, and Prairio du Chien, tho latter a fow dollars loss than tho Madison bid, but making excoptions to ths P85 Govarnor has appointed. aa Temstoss for Deaf nnd Dumb lustitute, J, Hamilton, of Mil- waukes, and Witlinm Isham, of Delavan, who Las boen a membor of the Board befura, in placo of Hollis Latnm and Jawed Araw, whose tormy oxpire to-morraw, —_— LATE LOCAL ITEMS, The houso of J. Neomer, No, 118 Weat Jackson streot, wos entored yesterday aftornoon by snoak-tinef, and 890 worth of clotbing stolen, Roboré Daly, residing at No. 41 Main streot, was badly Lurood by tho upsetting of a lighted keroseno-lamp laat night. His injuries are not fatal, Iugh Muldoon (not the solld mun) was arrest- od Iast ovoning for au allowed assault on o Mrs, J, 1L Hudnett, of No. 127 West Washington stroet, 1t was reported that 3uldoon struck aud kickod tho womau, who is & consumptive, Yoatorday forenoon while two laborors woro eugaged mn drilliug at the qnarries of tho Unlon Lime Company, at tho cornor of Wood and Eighteentls utroots, preparatory to blasting, somo powder in & bag closs by them becsmo ignited from a spark, and exploded. Ono of tho mon, Dennia Drorne, was badly burnod about (Lo face and hands, and the other, Joun Wagnor, had his hauds wjured. e e e TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. ‘Tha steamer Alps dopartod from Derd yoster. day aftornoon, towing four barges of {ce for Now Orloans, Capt. Ransom, of tho United States stoamer Colorado, roporta that tho yollow faver ia epl- domic at Havaus, A new trust deed of the Lick estate, In San Fraucisco, iy bolug drawu, dilfering from the fisst only o increasod buquesty to relativos. Tho Janayillo, Wis., Joard of Iducation mads & raport to the Common Council yesterany, The total expenditures during the year ending April 1 wore ¥16,425, Number of pupils in attond- ance, 3,888, Mr, W, K, Matloy, of Dloomington, chilof operator In the Wrein-Mustor's oilico of the Alton ltoad, Lus beon choson to bo Huperin- taudent of Tolograph of the same road, in ‘gha Pluce of Mr. Clinrles 11 Buaver, resignod. ‘1ho oftico is to be moved from Cnicago to Blooming- ton, Mr, Marley is only 20 years ol and {8 ove of tho most successful young men in the ralirosd Lusiuocss of tho Wust, I0WA TEACHERS, Special Disaleh to The Chicaan Tridunae. Ouaua, Nob., March S1,.—Tho Btato Teachers' Couvention s in sesslon in this city, The aver- 80 nuwber of nclmll:'u :u tho filltnmils;j,m; tion of school proparty, 81,873, :‘l’llnlllu;:l:l. toachers' llluhlm pl;m o 1874, 5823,! 693 . — OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, MovitrLe, March 3l,—Steamship Prusalan, from Portlsud, arrived. New Youk, March 81,—Arrive teamers Al gerls and City of . Lrookiyn, from varpool, RAILROAD NEWS, - General Reduction of Fares tq tho East. Agresmont in Regard to Railroad Ald Bond Buits, The Chlcago & Alton, THE NEW RATES, Tho General Passengor Agonts of the Michi- ran Central, the Lake Shora & Michigan Sonth. orn, and tho Pittaburg & Fort ‘Wayne Railronda, held a meating yesterloy mornlog at the ofiica of the latter Company to make the final arrango- ments for tho reduation of Passenger ralea to the pringjpal Enstern points, Home cliauges were mado from the ratesalready annouacod,but thosa aro atill mora in favor of the publie, Tho tmo for the commencemant of tho sala of the teducod tickats was oxtended until to-morrow, am tho necensary tickets and poctera conld not bo gotten ready in timo to begin tho sala to-day, Tho rates an now deflnilely docided upon witl be a= followa s T'rum Chieago to Now York, €15, tlcket gond for threo days instead of two, as horototors - uounced ; to Boston, 19, tlskota good for threa daya; to Bufialo, &12, tiekelu good for ¢wo daya; to Philadelphls, 12, tickots good for (hroa days ; t onltimore and Washington, 89, tickots 12004 for threo duys, Tho rates horetoforo woro: Ta New York. €24 to Boston, $35.55; ta Lhiladelphia, 220} Lo Ialtimoro and Whshington, £19, Tuera are no othier drawbacks or congitions to the uso of these tickets cxcopt that thoy munst ba uscd within thoe time specifiad above. 'Flis conditien has Leen made to proteat the Jocal trafic of tho Toads, * ¥Flaming posters will Lo out to- doy announcing tho reduction, Those of tho ¢ Pittsburg & TYort Wayne are head. cd “thus: *Another Gun, Down (hey como.” Diepatehes wern received hiero yontore day from the General Passonger . Agents of the Now York Central and Erie Railrund, stating that they would pro-rate at any roduction de- cided upon by tho Ciiicago roads, provided thoss roads swould do the samo it thoy shiould docide to reducoe rates to the West, Tho Michigan:Cen- tral and Michigan Sonthern will ol no tickets to Lallimoro und \ashington at tho roduced rates, Bocoud-clags raten on unlimited tikets will bo tho eame ns the gbovo to points whicro tickota are already on ralo. Reductions will also bo made from other Weat~ erm cittes. The rales from_ Quincy, Ik, will bo s follows ¥ tickats goad for ‘I'o Now York, £20, to Iioston, £24, tickots good for flve ffalo. 217, tickels good for two dasa: ta ‘loledo, ¥12, tickets pood for two days; to Clove- laud, £14, tickets zood for two dayd, Tho rates from 8t. Lows wil bo as follown: 1o Now York, $18, tickots good for fiva davs: to Boston, £22, tickets goudl for fivo days; to Buffalo, &1, tick~ ots guad fer two dasa; to Cloveland, =13, tickets good for two dagy;” to Toledo, €11, tickels good for two dayn: to Detroit, £12.65, tickets rood for two daya, " Tho Illinois Central will also mako n corresponding roduction from Ceiro, Tuo Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has thus far taken no mensures to moot those rates. Tho oficers of this road wore loa:h o boliove that tho otber lies would tako this wtep, ‘hoy wero under the imprassion that tho sunouncement was morely o scare. Mz, Uarry, the Goneral I'assenger Agont of this Roud, i, bowever, in tho vity, for Lie purpose of taking somo mensurcs to moet the new ratea of othier ronds if deemed necessary. Mr. Darry, 0 convinced last evoning, when ke saw tlig ters announeiny tho raduction, that the othor roady wero roally in ournest, and would horeafter tako part in tho war, Ho was unable to teil what action to fake av yet, but lie aanounced hia de- termivation to do somothing within & doy or two, It I8 believed that ho will make another Todiiction to Laltinore end Washington. in this ovent the rates on this rosd to tho latter cities will come down o about £5. Hhould this comrma ho deeided upion by the Haltimore & Ojo, then thera 1y & robabulity that thio other ronds leading to the Laet will uake aatill fustier reduction, Thero ara kome talroad men, howover, who thinik that the Ba.timore & Olio will adliere to its Tresent rates, und make them pormouent. Shouwd tuis bu the caso tha other roads will e corypcllod to koep up their rednced rates until gueh simo as the Baltimore & Ohio wonld Le compotled Lo join them iu making o higher tantl, swhich may tuisa Aevoral vears, Eiforts nre, however, atill wake ing to Dring abont & peaceablo esttlemont of the difficultics betweon the Balthwote & Ohio and the Peunsylvania Hailronds, and there ara some who prophosy peace and higher rates witks 1n thirty days, "Te war betwoon tho Grand Trunk snd Great Western Raiiroads, which Las boon guing o sco January, bas finally boan scttled, and a dispateh from Manager Hickson, of tha Grant ‘Tritnk Hailway, was received at tho Alichigan Central Hailroad oflico yestorday, anucunciny that tho Ureat Western, Grand Trunk, aad Ca ada Southarn have again restorad nll passenger fares botween Detroit and Buffalo to tho rates that existed prior to the 1st of January, THE SWT AGAINST THE ALTON ROAD, Syecual Dupatih ta The Clhicago T'rivune, Towauosviree, I, March 8L—Iu the Mad- ison Circuit Court, held Lota to-day, the easo of thio Stato agaiust tho Chicago & Alton Railroad Caompany, for extortion and unjust discriiniua- tion. was called for trial. Tho Btate was repre- aoutod by Commissionor Steala ond A. W. Motealf, of Xdwsrdsvillo, and the Come pany by Judge Deckwitls, Qonoral Balicilor of the Company, Judgo Gillosplo, and C. I, Wiso, of Alton. Mr. Motealf madoa motion to continuo the caso, on tho ground that tho Commissioners wero not ready for trial, and, the defenso not objocting, tho caso hns gono over until tho next torm 1n Octobor, The case was commenced uix months ao, aud la the ono in which Tux Tatnuse bay published sfildavita showing that all partics said to bo aggrioved ntate that thoy nover Lad any csuse of com- plaint. The result (s regardod biove a8 & come pote failuro ou the rart of the prosccution, A lnrgn number of wituesses for tho ratlroad were in attoudance. THE BURLINGTON & NORTHWESTERN, Dunivotos, Ia, Mareh 81.—A rousing rait. road neeting waa hotd n thia city this afternoon, to take action in rogard to tho proposed Burlington & Northwestorn Narrow-Gaugo RNuilway, All bnsiness luuses woro clowed, aund tho cutire busiuces cnmmnultf aftended tho meoting, which waa markel by the greatest cuthneiasin, Over £40,000 wera sub- seribod on tho spot, and the sum will Lo very roadily incroased to $75,000. 'Tho road fs an as- sured fact, and will ba running trains next fall, ‘THE UTAH NORTHERN. BaLt Laks, March 31.—Tho Utah Northern Rallroad {s to bo exteuded 256 miles northward from Frauklin, Idako, at onco, SHERIFF'S SALE. Reanivg, 1'a, March 81.—The Bherif bus seized the Wilmiugton & Noading Rtallroad. The wale takioy placo April pe ITEMS, Tlie Goneral Passonger Agonts of all the rosds in tho Unitod States will hold a time-table must- ing at the Windsor Ifotel, New York, on the seo- ond Wodnesday In April. The object of tho mooting i4 to proparo schedunlos of time for this summer, The Indiavapolis, "Cincinoati & Lafayetto Railroad, which heretoforo mado fts Kansas aud West lino via Dunvillo and the Indiavapolls, Bloomingten & Weatern Hailrond, bas decided to mako ity line Loroafter viw Lafayotie and the ‘Tolodo, Wabash & Westorn Railroad. ‘Tho Gonerat Freight Agonts of the roads lead. ing to tho Mississippi River, Leld another mioete ing yosterday aftornoon st tho offico of she Uhi- cago & Northwostoru Hailroad. Tho all-rail rates remain tho eawme ma thcso of aet year, bug tho rates by rall and water havo been reduced & ceuts per 100 pouuds. e e SUDDEN DEATH. Br. Louws, Mo., Msrch 91.—Jonathan L. Jones, lately of Washington City, and well kuown ju the differont depariments thero as au Iuventor and bridge-builder, was found desd 1o Lis bed at tuo Lacledo Hotol tol-dlly.h He hu kiug freoly sinco hisarrival here, am miunfii‘?ndnzuuu{ in spirits, owlug to thy faituro of Cun.%mula pasy upou s claim fop 300,000 he had against the Navy Departmen t.ur work done under Commodore * Parter uuring War, Lis death was probably caused by }:‘n:: .:fm of the hmn.vuu sesult of hard’ 13