Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TATEA OF AUDSCRITTION (FAYADLE IN ADVARCE), Tastugo Frenald nt this Ofice. 8 1.0 Fen0 14100 #ctlvo sgont In each town and village, ents made with suah, psoimen coples ssat froe. Toprevent delay and mistakes, be sure and glra Post. ©ffco sddress in fall, inolnding State and County. Ttemittanceamey bamadaoither by drnft, eapross, Past- Obicoorcer, or in registored letters, at our risk, TEAMB TO CITY BURACRIMENS, Dtly, delivered, Funday excented, £ coats perwask, Dalls, delivered, Banday incladed, $() conts pr waok, Addrers TIR TRIDUNE COMPANY, Cornoz 3adison and Deatborn-sts., Chicago, it TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. GRAND OPERA-TIOUSE-Ciark strrat, oppeaits Bhorman Hovss, Kelly & loon's Minstrole. *'liarue Blove." ACADEMY OF MUZIC—Halried ptrest, hotwosn Mad. faon and Monros, Iingagomont of Josoph 'Murpiy. ** Maum Uro," LPHT THRATRE~Dearborn atreet, cornar Mon- L T R . M'VIORER'S THEATRIE-Mndison ateeat, batwoen Dn');.n{n“lml titate, Engagemont of Lawronco Barrott. L R MOOLEY'S THEATRI-Tandolph street, botween Olark and La! *Maznolta, SOCIETY MEETINGS. PLETADES LODGE, No, 472, A. T and members are horeby notitied to GHF(‘IV at Thursdsy, Apei 1, 8L1L A&, m., for (ha puEioss of attend- B e, pon hvo Hrpbormdlly broited. 1y oce i oa aro Irntornally 3 3 dor o tuip We Be 0¥ © G MOWELL, sao. A, M,—Tle their hall en KNIGHTS OF OHICAGO COM- ATTT 2 SN N T 3% a0 hotay Badined 10 micot it aur Asrlum, cor. Randolpht_aud Halsto 1 Tl ing, Antill, 1575, at 11 o'clack 8. m,, for N o (aatra) 0F ot tote fr Kalght, theo, “rdl"l“mlxl‘.fllrl‘: l;‘uln:flnl‘oll. s‘l!mrll‘full’r;- an: ittod jo mest witls e, - 117 o 3:!"0“!’!')‘1’!‘5‘.:.‘6!1“1: S b. A, WILLIAMS, llncalda’l. REQULAT. COMMUNIOATION, OF THOMAS 1. LODG! No, 49, A, F. and A, 1] o ‘at 8 . ity 8% Masonio Tiall, o, 13 i:lll. ot orican Fapress Bulldiag), Husiuess Herchrsoriiod £ Misid, © ¥idiora oorlixlly JRYEATH 7o v, Y Gligrs ] et vith us.. iy ordor of W. 3. JOHN T PEITL BONL;, Secretary. BUSINESS NOTICES. WE MEAN JUST WIIAT WE BAY. RFEADY TO DERt s “eaetin FiCaTdis Sua Wiia At halt 1ho on ; o . nrud) aics, whrrantod: We Dt MCGLLSNEY'S, coruor Clark and Randolpl-sta. @lw Chitagy Teibune, Thursday Morning, April 1, 1375, The expectant rendor must rest content for nanother day. Mr. Beecuen did not testify yesterday, but positive assurance is given that the defendant will occupy the witness-chair to-dey. Winter comes by telograph this morning. While Clicago is oppressed by the languor which comes with a temperaturo not too low for July, Omsba and a portion of Nebraska aro bracing up ngainst the soverest snow- storna of their season, An important case, involving not alone the direct issuo of the constitutionality of the Eunfcrcament net passed by Congress in 1870, Dut incidentally the question of State rights, was argued yesterdny before the Supreme Cowt in Washington, It is tho lear ing of tho appenl on the Grant Purish cases from tho Louisiana Court, in which eminent lawyera havoe beon employed to contest the conctitutionality of a Isw possed by Congress for the purpose of enforcing in tho various States tho amondments to the Conjtitution of the United States, An ab. stract of the argnments will be found in our Washington dispatch, Tho Iinois Senate yesterday passed, by o vote of 20 to 12, tho Municipal Incorporation nct, with the amendments adopted lnst Sat- urdny, and it now goes to the Ilouse for con- currence. ‘U'ko bill wad violently opposed by Senator Dow in n long speech, which was couverted into wasted breath by the point mado by Seuator CaNriELD—that the people of (lieago were the best judges of the merlts of thoenactmont, nnd that their views, whother for or ngainst tho same, would find expres- sion at the polls when the law was submitted for their ratification or rojection. It was n neat way of saying that the wisdom ond intelligence of the entire City of Chicago aro not concentrated benoath the raven treases of tho Benator from the Fourth District, Estremo necessity for the protection of the peoplo living near the Nexican boundary w3ainst the depredations of organized Lands of marderers and robbors is urged by the Governor of Toxns in his appeal to the Presi- dent for military .assistance to provent the brealting up of the settlements in the Rio Grande region. ‘Tho military protection po- titioned for is promised by tho Scerctory of ‘War to the oxtent of the ability of the Govorn. ment to furnish it, but, as tho complete pro- tection of the Texns frontier would require n force double that of the present standing wry, it is clear that, if Gov. Core’s repre. sentations are true, the caso necessitates the udoption of mensures moro effective than the plan of distributing a Government polico forca along the entire border. The report of the Opposition members of of the Comumittes appoiuted for the purpose of discovering enormons frands in connection with tho operations of the State-ouse Com. miseloners and their denlings with the Peni. tentiary Toard was submitted yesterday to the onse. Our spaco only permits o synop- sis of tho document, but we publish all the waterinl points. In respect of uucarthing corruption and dishonesty the report i s failure, and the best proof of this is found in the fact that the appro- priotion of 3800,000 for the completion of the State.-Flouse, which came beforo the Houso o fow doys ngo, rocoived the support und the votes of two out of the three Oppo- sition members of the Investigativg Com- mitteo, Inthe facts stated and tho conclu. sions renched by the minority roport the merits of the {nvestigation are fairly and in- telligently wot forth, and the State-Ilouse Comuissioners are complotely acquitted of the charges uade ngalust them, A Now York paper recontly printed & won- drous schemo for preventing fioods on the Lower Mississippl, which has been exten. sively copled in tho Bouthern press. This scheme gravely proposes the building of cighty dams “at on estimated oost of less than 8600,000 " (11) on tho “Upper Missis. «ippl, which dams are to turn 14,092 square miles of swamp into a big reservolr. Then, when o flat-boat wantsto go down the river, an inch of vater willbe lot out to flonat it down, ‘Whon there js danger of n flood at New Orleans, howover, tho resorvoirs will bo ght, and so, says the veracious journal, all the dsugor will be removed! 'Thero aro ono or two little objections to this plan, In tho first place, the Upper Mis- slasippi i & third-clasy streswn, and a flood which would sweep the eighty dams to Jeri- oo woald not by itself reise the water-lovel THE CITICAGO TRIBUN at Now Orleans 6 inches, Then, ngain, the floods on the luwer part of the river are due to those on the Ohio, Missouri, Arkansns, and Ited Rivers. Unless a man with o tin pail s detailed todip up each of theso strenms be- fore it reachies the Mississippi, we fenr South- ern plantationg wonld not bo safe. Iowever, if the plon is ndopted, tho ears of the genins who devised it wonld do excollently woll for two of the eighty ds, Tho Chieago produce markets weresteadier yesterday, Mess pork was active, and ad- vanced fi0¢ per brl, closing at $20.02) cash, and $21,20 for May. Lard was active and advanced i per 100 1ba, closing ot 14,22} @14.25 cash, and $14.45 for May. Monls were quiot and stendy at 7ic for shoulders, 1140 for short ribs, and 113¢ for short clears. Highwines wero quict and tame at 31,12 per pgallen, Flonr was «quict and firm, Wheat was moderately activo and firmer, closing at H4}e ensh, and 08}e for May. Corn was ore nctive, and advanced Ic, closing at 67 for April, nnd 76}e for May, Oats wero in bel- ter demand, and je higher, closing ot 4ife for April, and 593c for May, Rye was nominally firn at 9c@$1.00. Darley was active nnd easier, closing at $1.01 for April, and 98¢ for May. Ifogs were activo nnd strong. Sales nt 57.00@8.50 for poor to chioico. The cattle nud sheop markets were dull and wenk, THE LAW OF CONTEMPT. In the discussion of the law of* vontempts, tho ease of The Peoplo vs, Wirsoy, decided by the Supremo Court of Illinois, was n lead- tug authority reforred to aud relied on by both sides and by the Court. The circum- stances of that case may bo briefly stated. Anan named RArrenty was tried and con- victed of an nggravated murder. Pending his trinl, his friends nnd nssociates raised a fund of $1,600 for his dofense, After the conviction n supersedeas was granted, and, finully, upon o hearing of the cnse, the Su. preme Court granted a new trinl, RArrenTy was ngain tried and convicted, and the Bu- premo Court agnin granted him a new trial. Theso roversals of the conviction of n man thus twice convicted of the mur. dor of an oflicer provoked considernble comment, and the Chicngo Journaly in dis- cussing it referred to the fund of £1,i00 raised for the defense of Rarrerty, and got thut fund and tho granting of the new trinl mixed up in some not over-intelligible sen- tences. There wns not aman in the Btate who read tho article who eover dreamed that it seriously charged that the action of the Court had Dbeen in tho loast influenced by money or by any corrupt or improper agency. But the Supremo Court somchow or another got a copy of the paper, and cited Mr. Wiz~ so¥, the proprictor, and Mr. Snoaax, the ed- itor, to auswer for contempt. Both gentle. men promptly disclaimed any intention to reflect upon tho integrity of the Court, and disclnimed the injurious inferences that had been ingeniously drawn from the article, but the Court wns inexorable, and fined both ed- itor aud proprietor heavily, This judgment was rendered by a majority of the Court,— Judges LAWRENCE, TmonyToN, Warkee, and McArusTer concurring, Judges Suzrpoy, Scorr, and Breese dissenting. This was a clear case of coustructive con- tempt. “Tho paper in which the article ap- peared was prblished in Chiengo, and the Court was sitting a hundred and moro miles away at Ottawa. It conld hardly be claimed to hiave been committed in presence of the Court, or that it wns written to intimidato the Courl in its action on a cnso alrendy decided, It was, moreover, n case in which the con- tempt (whatover there was) was in o sugges. tion nffeeting tho Court collectively. Tn that cense, thoe disclaimer by the defendants of all neandalous intent, and of nll thonght or pur- pose to question the integrity of the Court or eny of its mombers, seoms to havo been considerod almost an nggravation of the offcnso, Judgo JIoAruisTER especinlly so tronted it, holding that whon the articlo itself wns found to be in contempt tho Court could not and ought not permit sny dis- claimor of intent to influence the judgmont upon the offonsa found to have been com. mitted. In therecent cnse of contempt the eirenm. stancen wero wholly different. ‘There was no allogation that the defendant hiad treated the Judgo with countempt; tho allegation was, that in denouncing the Grand Jury, collect. ively and by name, forhaving indieted him, the defendant sought to intimidato them in tho discharge of their dnty upon other mat. ters pending beforo them againat him, This, it was cowplained, wes an effort to impedo, obatruct, and embarrass the administration of tho Inws by the Grand Jury, whick, for the timo, wos a constituont part of tho Court. There was no similitude between this case and that of Wireox, and tho only bearing which tho ense of Wirsiox had upon the recent case was that tho Suprome Court hed asserted as thelaw of the Stato that constructivo con- tompts were punishable by the Courts ns well as those commitied in thoe presence of the Court, oven if that contempt was committed by n publication mnde 100 miles away, ‘Whilo we have conceded that Grand Jurors and other jurors are entitled, as are courts, to protection from violenco or intimidation when in the performance of their official duty, we are not villing to concedo that o judgmont by aCourt, or n verdict by a jury, or the find- ing of a Grand Jury whon complete, are not a4 legitimately the subject of proper eriticimm and comment ns aro tho ncts of n Logisla. turo or the ofllcial ncts of any exccutive offl- cer. Wodo not undemitand that because n Legislaturo passes an obnoxious law, or the Governor perform o roprehonsiblo nct, or a Court prononuce n dengerous judgment, or o Graud Jury make a questionnblo fiuding, or a trial jury ora Coroner’s jury ronder an extraondinary verdiet, tho newspaper pross is closed to any oxmmination and disoussion of suels official acts in tho one caso more than in tho other. If thero Lo anything in the per- sonal charnetor of individual mewbers of the Logislature, or of the members of a court, or of n grand or {rial Jury, having any control- ling iufluenco ovor their official notions,we do not understand why tho conuection between thom may not be a proper subject for com. ment, 'Thus, if n Judge bo n notorlons drunk. ard, and while drunk ronders a decision which is avidently tho result of mental obfoscation produced by drink, wo do not understand why in commenting on the decision the connection betwoen it mnd his in- toxicated condition may not bo le. githmately discussed without subjecting the pross to proocedings for constructivo contempt., Bo with the jurors, whonever thelr affivial action can bo shown to lave been produced by their personal vices and thefr porsonal inisconduct, the right of the pross to couplo them ns causo and effcot i legiti. wate criticlam, and not contempt of court or an interferenco with justico. Wa do not ad- wit or claim that auy nowspaper can assail the private character of an officor baocauso of on official act, unloss that ofilvial mct is dus THURSDAY, to, or tho result of, some personalt frailty or impoerfeotion or weakness of eharector, Wo thought nt the timo, and think now, that tho decision of the 8npreme Court in the caso of Witsox was an arbitrary exerciso of legal power, wholly unnecessary for tho vin. dication of the Court, nnd (assumed intimn. tion of corruption left out) was wholly un. warrnnted by tha article itself. It was snb. stautially n denial to the pross of n right to comment upon the proceedings or official ne- tions of tho Conrt, and that right caunot be surrendered withont an abandonment not only of tho liberties of those who publish newspapers, but the liberties of the great 1unsa of tho people whom they represent. THE TOWN BOARD FILAUDS. Tho threa own Boards of North, Sonth, nnd West Chicago are just now rehenrsing their annunl farce which ia so costly to the general publie. Tho performance on the Houth Side was materinlly interfered with by an injunction against dividing up tho pro. ceeds of the pluuder nmong the four ben- eficinries,—the Collector, Assessor, Super- visor, and Clerk, 'Iho division of the spoils hind niready boen agreed upon in a former meeting, Tho Assessor wns to reccivo £15,- 000, $6,600 for himself and 8,600 for ns- sistanta; the Collsctor $15,000, $10,000 for himself and £5,000 for assistants; {he Su. pervisor 82,600 for himself and $1,400 for the expenses(?) of hisoflico; the Clerk £1,650. Tho total oxponso of tho townofficers, necord- ing to this distribntion, was $85,450. The compensation of theso ofiiciels, as defined by law, is as follows : Callector (not to exceed), Anstesor (elxty daya at § Supwrvieor (513 daya ut 31,50 Clurk (ditto) Tatl, In making up this estimate, the full num- ber of working days in every year bas been nceredited to the Supervisor and Clerk, though tho lnw expressly provides that they shall only bo paid nt this rate for the time necessarily dovoted to the public business, But, on this liberal estimate, it will bo scen that the Town Board of Sonth Chicngo pro- posed to grab moro than $82,000 in exces: of thoir lnwful compensation. They were only checked by the temporary injunction issued Ly the Circuit Court on the application of Mr. NoutoN nsn tax-payer; tho Inw is so clenr that we can searcely doubt but (his injunction will bo made pormaunent, and the three towns in Chicago thus saved from an annual plunder nmounting to nearly $100,000 in the aggre- gate, If this decision is once made, it will not be necossary for the town meectings to voto more thau 213,000, as there is no other use for town mouoys in Chicago than to pay the ofticials, It is no answer to say that the compensation provided by law is incdequato to the service in a city like Chicago. Nobody is compelled to take tho ofilees, aud the city would be better off if they were not token. If tho Conrts force tho Town Boards to con- flne thowmselves to the logal compensation, we shall soon bo rid of the annual disgrace abont to be repeated, aud known ns town meetings. It in a pity that Mr, Bourox's suit conld not havo extended to North Chicago; but, nsit did not, tho Board of that town had an oppor- tunity to demonstrato how town affairs aro mnunged. The Board is constituted of the five Justices of the town, the Supervisor, and the Clerk. But it is provided that, in the absenca of any one of the Justices, the va. cauncy mny be filled by the Collector or As. sessor, or two vacanciesby both, In thisway the town officers usually have an opportunity to vote their own smnlaries. In the North Chicago Board meoting there were only four Justices present, and the Assessor (Korv) was called to tho vacanoy, There were then three town officers in this Board, which had no other busiuess than to fix their snlaries, One of the Justices who had not been reap- pointed (Cavvox) voted with these threo, so that thoy hod o mojority and were able to overrido the law. They voted themselves salaries s follows Callector., Araceno Buperviso lerk o $1,5600,00 This was not so bad a8 the South Town Board had done, but it was still $10,000 in excess of the limit mllowed by law, But when wo romember that theso officials are useloss nppendages, tax-eators with obsolutely nothing but tax-eating for an occupation, isit not timo that tho Courts should stop in and prohibit thom from robbing the public? The Town Bonrd of West Chicago was the only one of the threo in which a show of de. cency was made. All the Justices wero pros- ent, and Justico Davip Warsu opened ‘by throwing o bombshell among the town offi- cors, Mr, Waran hins been fighting the West Side town fax-esters for a year or more. In his aflidavit at Wednesdny's moeting ho swore that RarvenTy, the Assessor of West Chieago, hnd told him of his intention to pay $1,000 for o copy of the City Assessor's books, and that he intended to make no s sessment of his own. When asked Low Le would get the 1,000 to pay for the copy of the city assceament rolls, Rareenty answered thot e would make out a fictitious list of nsalstants and draw pay for them, The man- ner in which the town nssessments are made i4 thus revealed; the cily mssessment rolls aro merely copied off. Wao do not doubt that this is the best way it could be done, but we fail to see why the peoplo should pay therc- fora §15,000, We begin to hopo that this vicious Town Board system, with jts flagrant contempt for the laws mande to govern it, may now be broken down. We nro confidont that the ‘Justices of the West Side will conflue the offlcors of that town to thoir Iogal compensa- tion, and the Courts ought {o probibit the vislation of tho law in South and North Chicago. It is roported from Springficld that at a caucus of tho Opposition, held on Tuesdny night, it was resolved to allow no bills to pass, oxcept the Appropriation bills, until the Houso passes the Dbill repealing tho Registry law, and the bill amendatory of Bill 800, to onablo Cook County to collect taxes. ‘This is, of courso, compulsory legislation, 'Tho Conetitution provides that no bill shall pass unless It havo an aftirmative voto of a major- ity of all the membors of each Houso, It ra. quires, thereforo, 77 affvmative votes to pass a bill fu ¢tho House, 'The Opposition have not been able, thus fav, to muster this vote in fa- vor of o repeal of the Rogistry law, unlesu Ropublicans shall come to their ald. Hence the action of tho caucus, It proposes to ar- rest oll logislation until the majority of the Ifouso shall surrendor their convic.,| tions aud voto for tho abolition of honest olections in this city, It is o bill to hand over all elections in Chicago to the mob, We submit that the Domocrats from this city in the Legislature do not rep- resent tho futelligent aud respectable portion of their party in demanding either the ropeal of tho Registry law or tho arveat of all Ieflmr legislation, much of whichis of vital importanca to Chieago, This policy of co- eércion is neither honest nor Just. Itisnn ahnso for which thevo is no apology nor jus- tifieation, The interests, politienl, pecuni. ary, commoreinl, and porsonal, of the people of this olty are involted in a number of bills pending beforo tho Legislature, and to sacri. fico and trifle with those interests for any rea- son i n botrayal of trust which cannot be justified, and for which the peoplo horo will hold the guilty Reprosentatives to o striet re. spousibility, We trust, therefore, that the Caok County Representatives will not take part in this seandalous attempt to arrest log. islation, and will apply themselves to pro- moto and expedite business, and bring tho session to a rpeaily close, BOURBON BRIDERY IN OHIO. Ohio was one of the first Slates struck by what fawell ealled the Demoeratio renction,— action towards Bourbonism must bo bock- wand. “Riso up Wrnrisst Aniex " went into power, and forthwith began to plan for rising higher. e mennt to be President, and so meant to show the depth aud forvor of Dom- ocratic purity in Ohio by wny of commond. ing Democratio rulo in the United States. ‘The purity hos not yot become npparent, Its opposite hny, As scon ns tho Leginlature met, bribery begnn, Ono signal exposuro has been made. A bill was passed for the chango of the county-sent of Wood County. ‘There wns moncy in tho bill, and somo of it was squeozed out by pure-minded legis- Intors. Rumorsof corruption were so strong that an investigation wans ordered. The Committeo appointed heard n good deal of testimony, part of which implicated its Chairman and nnother of its members, The Cincinnati Commercial, reviewing tho ov- idence, snys that thero is probably not s man in Ohio who docs not belioved that the Wood County act *was procured by the use of monoy.” Under theso circumstances, what does this reform-purc-minded-Bourbon Leg- iglaturo do? 'The Committee reported, rec- ommending that three members of the Houso should be *‘exonerated”; that three others wera ** deserving of censura”; and that two, Judge J. M. Hoae and J. M. Coorry, ‘“ be brought before the bar of tho House and so- veroly reprimanded. Four members of tho Committee recommended tho expulsion of the last two. The llouse exonerated the first kot with rapidity; it then ex- onernted the second with quickness; it then exonerated the third sct with- ont delay. DProfessional whitewnshers could not have dono better. The vote, viewed in the lght of tho evidence, is simply ludi- cious. A commitlee, after paticnt examina- tion of sworn witnesses, finds some Demo- crats guilty of teking bribes, It so reports to n Democratic House, which at once rejects the finding, ignores tho testimony given un. der oath, and lets the culprits go scot-free, So Democratio reform turns out, in Ohio, to be auother way of spelling Bourbon bribery, The Cincinnati Enquirer, tho leading Deno- eratic paper of the State, pays its disrespects to tho Democrntic Legisiature in this fash- on : "o Ollo Honeo of Representatfver, in tha closing bours of the ecasion, has divgraced {taelf, In the Wood County {nveatigation it was clearly shown that fu sev- eral cases bribery wau attempted or accomplished, The sdjournment cuts off tho lnveatigation, but in tha aco of all tho testimony submitied the Iouso votea to ex- onerato all thio membors implieated by GoRpoN's In- vestigating Commiltoe. Thio action was shameful, 1t 18 nothing less than sbielding brbery and smothoring itn exposure. Tho Mowso of Representativea of onr General Assombly hos chosen to pass out of publis wight, advertlaing itself asn body whoso votes wero purchasable Ly * Jokes* rangiug from $15 10 $109 fn value, solemuizing that dlsgraceful fact, in oficet, by avotoof spproval. With svidence Loforo the House that 600 of 18 mombera were corrupt, it pals thomn on the hiead, prononuces a benediction upon them, nud eays: “ Well dono, good and falthful servants,” It lias placed & promiun: upon bribery instesd of fizing upon it tho seal of condemnation, The Legislaturo dislandn exhaling odlous odors, The individual mem- Dera that have Lrought dlsgraco upon thelr coustitu- entaond upon the Htate procipitated shame onow; upon ug, but when ono branch of the Legialaturo ranctions thefr corrupt procedurca that body aught to Lo doubly condemuad. ~ Let our people and our party Fea to it that men incorruptible and undefiled are hero- after sent to the Genoral Araembly, 2N ORJECT OF CHARITY, The peoplo of Chicago bave, during the re- cent severo winter, heard frequent appenls from their countrymen in the distant States of Konsas and Nebraska, and the remoto Territorics of Montana and Dakota, who wera ouduring privations of the soverest character. We havo had also appenls for aid from our own suffering poor, to all of which the people of thik city lont willing ears and responded with liberal hands, We linve now beforo us a long and earnest printed appenl addressed directly to the Common Council, but indirectly to tho pub- lic genorally, in belialf of n case of severo pri- vation and suffering at our own doors, which is withont parallel in tho bListory of Ohicago or of auy other city. Tho disclosure of waut and distress is made under compulsion, but it will hardly prove less nstounding. It haa been gald that one-lglf the world i ignorant of how tho other hinlf lives, and this memorial is but proof of Low often those that are poor hide that fact from the goneral eyo and suf- fer in seeret. The papor beforo us is signed by 8. B. Copn, President, aud O, B. Hovxes, Buperintondent, of the Chicago City Railway Company. ‘Thoy represent ¢ That the Chicago City Railway Company wad organized in 1869 beginning to run cars in July of thatyear. Ita capital stock is B1,260,000. That until 1860§ the Company ran two-horse cers with n conductor, sinco which time it has run one-honie cars without nconductor, Chat from 1859 until 180Y, ex- cept some trifling returns to stockhiolders in 1866, not o single dividend was paid or earn. ed. Thatin 1872 and 1878 extra dividends ‘wero pald; but sinco 1869 tha annual average dividends have been only 10 per cent on tha par value of tho stock, That in 1869 the Company was 5o distrossed it had to borrow $76,000 to remodal its cars ; and is now run- ning 200 *‘hob-tnil" cars, which roprosent $200,000, That the Company, having in- crensed its capital in cars and other property, hos exponded sinco 1869 $198,747 on the streets ; that it as paid soveral judgmonts recovored by persons ejocted from the cars ; aud that it vow trausports policomen freo to the sum of $8,000 n year, ‘I'his statement of ita condition may bo thus summed up, 1, 318,743 "‘w,’wa Company out of pocket,sesessseresvers $3,693,748 Tho appenl beforo us truthfully declares, #“No sans man will ask or expect any com- pany or individual to long prossouto & busi- ness hopelessly unprofitable,” f'he Common Council, however, havo re. contly passcd an order soquiring all streot- cars to be provided with a conductor in nddition to the driver, nud itis tho passage of this order which compels this long-sufor- ing corporation to mako kuown how hopeless. 1y uuprotitable hus boen ite businoss in the APRIL. 1, 1875 past, and to present how the enforcement of this ordor will complate the wreck of the cnpital invested and used for the public beno- fit. They ropreseut that tho employmont of 130 conductors and the purclinse of 500 ad- ditional horses, besides hnrness and stables, | and tho cost of feeding, shoeing, aud groom- ing, woull rendor tho present disiressed financinl condition of the Company beyond remedy. Their increased expenses would ba s followa : Wagoa of 130 conductors retiara of R herres, Hartican, foodiug, ool Total soarsensssinnn sesnstessasnen As the avernge present annual dividend is only £125,000, nnd as this would be cut off entirely by the abolition of the Lob-tailn, the Company would get no interest on its capital and would have to borrow nenrly 800,000 to meet its annunl expenditures, not including tho interest on the borrowed moncy. Nothing in tha reports from tho grasshop- per districts shows grenter presont distress or ntore inevitnble futnre destruction than does this piteous appeal and remonstrauce from the Chieago City Railway Company, and tho Heverity of the caso s nggravated by the fact that the Company feels itself under a mornl and legal obligation to continue this ruinous busiuens for ninety-nino yenrn! We com- mend the memorial, the appeal, and the re- monstrance to the kind and liberal considers- tion of the public and of the Common Coun- cil. DIRECT NATIONAL TAXATION, To (he 2 titur of TAe Chicayo Tribune Citteaao, Mareh $0.~I read with pleasuro your cdl- torfals on tazatlon ‘and revenuo 08 they appoar, but Tuvo sometimes been surprised that yon should advo- cata a aystem of roventio from Imgori of uny descrip. tien ot all for the wupport of tho Natiounl Govern. ment, The (sxation of imports s certalvly nnt frc trade, a8 I underataud it, The United Statea Conntltite tlon teads, Bee, 8, caption, “Towers vested in Congress ¢ Tho Congresa aholl hava pover to lay and collect taxes, dutica, Importa, and oxclses,”ete, Ttmay usocihieroraltot (hesomethoda of rajsingn revenue, but which #4 thofalrent one? Lot us lookatthent, The lusiuesa of tho Natfonal Government ia fo protoct property, not life, (Tliat beiongs to {hofitato to sttond to.) Therefore, properly should support (lo XNa~ tional Qovernment, And 28 tho Natfonz] Government protects all property, then all proporty should bo tazed equally for iis suprort, that 1s, ona dollsr should pay a8 much as onother, Does {t? I think mot, Tue mothods In usoare: (1) Imroals, or tho taxation of Imporin; (2) excires, or tho taxation of home products ; and (1) tho taxation of drafls, receipts, ote. A for tha Lttor, thoro fano autbority in tho Couatitution, drafts and recelpts not Leing property, ond thereforo it 12 unhawful, As for tho first snd sccond, all fmports sro mot taxed, noither nre ‘all home products, And thows imports aud fiome products which aro taxed, are not taxod allko ; that fw, ono dollar fu valuo 1a taxed more than another, And as real ostale, which is property (al- fhough neither a forcign norn bome rroduct), s not taxod at all, tho system {s manifestly unfair. All property shoulil bo {axed alike, dollar far dollar, Now, under s system of equal taxstion of all propor- ty, imports wouid bo tased the same as othier praperty, wherever found at thotlmo of tholovy, Aud as ficice taxing the samo property {s unfatr, then tho Jevy of an finpoat must bo wrong, There might ba diifienlty in tho arsessment of prop- erty by the Natfonal Governmnent in making valuse tons: but theso could bo made by tio States, a8 they arv ot presont, snd the Natlonal Gove ernment might requise of vach Stalo a proportion according to ita woalth of the amount necded for revenue, There would ba one gond thing accomplished by this raethod, as it would necexeftate s real valuation of property, instesd of a low or a Lifgh ono ; or else eome States would pay more than thelr sharo of tho whole, Coustuxe Doxuar. Reriy—Tine TrmoNe has never been an ndvocato of 2ree T'rade in the liternl meaning of the term, that is, tha abolition of all tex iff on imports and the substitution of a sys- tem of dircct taxntion, Dut it is in favor of tho largest practicablo freedom of trade, and opposed to a systom of duties whose object is to discriminato against the consumer in order to increase tho prices of the producls of priv- iloged classes, whicl viclous system s mis. cnlled * protection, ” We might favor an abandonment of all im- posts if wo know of any equitable and prac- tieable way in which the necessary Govern- ment rovenue could be raised witliout resort- ing to import dutics, So long as the expondi- tures of the Government hold the samo dis- proportion to its internal resources ns thoy now do, wo sholl advocate a taviff, dut a tariy’ Jor revenue only, Our correspondent above snggests the sub- stitution of a *direct tax.” Ilofoels somo of the embarrnssments of such a system himself, but not all nor the most serious of them, To begin with, the State and local Governments depend upon direct taxation—which ‘prac. tically means a land aud house tax—for raising tho rovenue necessary to defray their own domestic oxpenses, Of late ycors there hns been s movement to induce State and local Governments to abandon this system for an indircet or exciso tax. This move- ment s gaining strength on account of its nore equitable division of burdons, tho loss coatly menns for collection, and the greater corteinty of securing tho entive lovy. It would bo notably retrogressive on tho part of tho General Government to resort to a systom which has ever beon found ob- jectionablo for State Governments, And whilo the Stato and local Governmenta retain the direct system, it would impose an unagual burden upon land-owners to exact from them the support of tho Geueral Governmont, But o more effcctiva argument than all these ngalust direct taxation for the Geueral Gov- ornment is found in a provision of tho Con- atitution which onr correspondent has iguored altogether, viz, (Art. 1, Beo. 9, 4): “No capitation or other direct tax shall bo Inid, unless in proportion to tho ecnsns or enumer- ation herainbofore directed to bo taken,” Under this provision each Stato wonld have to pay its share of tho Goneral Government's oxpenses, not in proportion to tho value of its property, but in proportion to the number of its inhabitants, Thus Mnssnchusotts would not pay more than Jown or Georgis, the population of the former bolug about the samo na the Jowa; but tho woalth of Anssachusetts and ita ability to pay aro prob. ably threo times greater than the woalth and obility to pay of tho State of Yowa, The snme disproportion could Lo traced among all the Btates ; many of the pooror ones would have to pay as much os, or moro than, the rich ones, Tho levy of adirect tax by the Goneral Govornment has never been tried moro than two or three times, and has always partially failod. Tho last occasion was dur- ing the Robellion, and the result was that the Northorn States had to pay thoir share and tho Bouthern Btates havo not paid yet, The vory nature of a direct tax, tho fact that it is the means whereby tho local Governments ralso thoir revonue, and this constitutional provision,—~all militato against the proposi- tion mads by our correspondent, But it must bo romembered that Tag Trrz- ung s in favor of & tariff for rovenuo alono, And, inselecting thearticles for duty, thoso of 8 luxurious or quasi-luxurious nnture should bear tho heaviest fmpost ; and thoso not pro- duced to any great extent, nor yet tho raw materials of manufactures, shounld also be tax- ed, o tax heavily thoso raw materials which enter into manufactures has the effsct to crip. plo domestio production, and render tho arti- sivo homo consumption, Tho revenuo derived from suchntariil will nearly all find its way in- to the United Btntes Treasury. Wonroopposed ta the existing tariff not only because it is excessivo, bt beeanse it purposely and studiously relcets that clnss of products and manufncture which aro produced and mado in this country, to tho end that special classes may collect an incrense of priees equal to the duty lovied upon tho snmo arii. cles of foreign production aund manufacture. Thun $100,000,000 of dutios levied npon ten and coflee, sugar and molasses, forcign liquors, certain drugs, Havann cigars, a lino of fancy gooils, tropieal fruils, cte,, would yiald §100,000,000 of revenno to the Govorna ment, less the costof collection. But of 8100,- 000,000 duties lovied on manufaclures of which four-fifths of the consumption are produced at homo, the result in as follows: Tho people pay $100,000,000 all the same, but only F20,000,000 go to the Government, while 380,000,000 go into the pockots of certain manufacturers,—tho * protected clesses,” It is this systom of tariff which wo opposo as unjust, oppressive, aud unlnwful. It is un- constitutional, in &pirit at lenst, beenuse thero is nothing in the Constitution of the United States which nuthorizes tho Govornmont to levy n contribution upon one clnes of the people for tho benefit of another. This i not legitimnte taxntion, but blackmail and vobbery of the many for the benefit of the few, Tiast week it wns Fathor WaLnrn, of New York, Tle said ho would not administer tho sneramonts to Catholies whosa children wore in the public schools, Now it is Father Sas- 1w, of Des Molnes, who writes to one of the papers there: *“Say, therefore, the greatest shaino instead of gom in the erovn of Amer- ica is tho public schools,” Father Sassty has on Episcopnl backer, in tho shape of o Rov. J. Baxpess Reep, who hns been de- nonneing unsectarinn schools from his mis. used pulpit. Attacks like theso will only rully the grent Amorican public to the support of the public schools, the very cor- ner-stono of our institutions, We boliove that the majority of Cantholics, including nearly overy educated mon ouiside of the priesthood, aro in favorof the prosent sys- tem, And, indeed, it is strango that religious sects, no one of which has ever, in any sin- glo case, educaled all the youth of a country, shiould now strenuously object to the State’s doing what thoy Lave shown themselves in- compotent to do. The question is not Le. tweon scetarion and unsectarinu eduention, It iy botween the latter and—for tho wmass of the people—no education nt all King Kararsva's botel-bill in New York City bna lately beon published by the nowspapors, with various pertiuont remarks, Itis tudocd s matter of public concern, tho municipality boing held renponsbie for the amount, The Kiug and his suite stopped al tho Windsor ITotel cight daye, TFourteen persons in =il wero provided for, and tho total charge wad €0,236.91, or an avorago of about 50 per day for oach pgnest. CGood ronml sums wore charged for **extrns," undor which heaa wero ncluded tho ura of vartons parlors for apocial purposcs, tho sorving of moals at tho King's pri- vato tablo, and such indispensablo tacidentals ay wines, cigavs, earriages, statlonery, medicine, tolograms, ancd washing. Thero is this to bo said of tho bill : It shows an amplo margin for raductions by the City Qovernmont. ‘Tho hotal propristors donbtloss based their enleniations on thio presumption that any bill rendered by them would bo objected to. It one-half their claim in sllowed, tbey will Luvo & Iarge profit ; but they will not in this caso receive more than their usual ratos, The Windsor has becowo famous during [ta briof oxistence a3 an oxcolloot placo to spond monoy in. —_——— ‘Whatovor may bo said of Mousrs, Aoopy and 8axxkey, and thelr rovival work in Groat Dritain, it must bo adwitted that tho varions charges of dighonesty preforrad nguinst thom have boon thorougbly oxploded. Tha story that thoy Lad received soveral thousand pounda on private sube seripiions, and intended to reimburse thomaelves from this fund, bas boou complotely mot by their refusal to nccopt o cast donation of £2,000 from Ledy Bonoers-Courrs, Tho further assortion that Mr. SANxEY was noting as ngont for a Bos- ton organ company, and recelving a commission on all tho organs sold by Lim, has boen poxitive- 1y donled in o published card by respresontatives of the company reforred to. No charges of tho kind iave been for a momont entortaived in Ohl- engo, whero tho reputation for Integrity of Mossre, Bankey and Mooy needs mo vindiea- tion, and whero tho worst that has beon alleged against thom toaches only the mothod of their ravival-woik aud its valuo. — Flogging a8 a punishment has not passed out of bictory, Kindergarten idoas of elvilization have brought it fnto some disrepute ; bot it is etill o aerjous question whother brutality cannot bo most offectually dealt with by tho lash, and whother thoso classes of gociety which perulst in takiog the physieal viow of humanity cannot bo beaé inatructed by a vigorona application of theic own priuciples. Tho subject Is now baing widely discassed In Lngland, in coundotion with a proposition to rostoro flogging on the roll of Dritish punishments for such offensoy ns wifo- beating and garroting, Mr, Briaur has just written a lattor opposing the iden; but it is sald that his argumonta run countor toa fast-grow- ing public opinion, Thero s, indced, a* cortaln attructivenoss in tho suggostion, 1t might pro- vido a ouro for flagrant wrongs in Amorica, such oy havo rocontly boon conspicuously illustratod bath in Chizago and Broolkiyn, A good denl of quict amusomont has boon af- forded by the Now York Evening Post's suggos~ tion to Archbishop McCroskey that Lo docline the Cardinal's hat lately sont him from Rome. Tho J'ost vaya it does not becomo Ameorican oit- 1zons to wear the lnelgnia of lorarchlos or pow- ors, Common poople think it e not reasonablo to keep tho Archbishop out of what ho conslders 1he livery of Iloaven merely boeauso allmen woro created froo audoqual. Onoof tho proudest pro- rogativesof Amoncancltizons I8 the righttodross thomselvea as thoy pleaso. Witucss Dr, Many Warnzn and Judgo Porany. The Btandlng Committoe of the Wostern Diocoso of Michigan of the Eplscopal Church mot {u Grand Rapidé yostorday aftornoon. Itis composed of the Rov. WiLLIax Stowe, of Grand Haven ; Dr, Sanuen Baur, of Grand Raplda; tho Rev, J. ¥, Coxoven, of Kalamazoo; tho Rev. Mr, 8xyoen, of Muskegon ; Dr. A, PratT, of Graud Raplds§ Dr. L, 0. Cuarix, of Kalamazoo and N, P, Lovenioaz, of Coldwator, The Com- wittee fully canyassod the question, aud unanimously rojscted Dr. DzKovey for Dishop of Northern Illiuole, aud unanimously {ndorsed Dr, Jacoan for Bishop of Southern Ohlo. —_———— A rumor ia ourront in the nowapapers outsido of Chioago that Mr, Lg Moyne hns abandonod bis contoat, and will allow Mr, Fanwzrt to take Lis seat in tho new Congress unmolosted, Thoro is no authoiity whotover for the statemont, It doubtless originated from & wmlsspproehousion of the announcemont through the Associated Pross that tho taking of evidenca had beon concluded, ond tho case mede up for tho conslderation of Congress. . . —— Wo are in rvocelpt of a lattor~a lotter of oharactoristic longth and echolarly profundity— from Dr, ManTiy O’BrENRAN, of this city, rolu- tivo to » communication upon the College of Cardloala published fn Tug Tuipose the otler day. Dr. O'BrexNaN woudors how the lattor cles too donr for exportation e4 well 83 exton. | couldbavo boon published withous his kuowledgo. 1t was written to him by a friend in T,o; waa lucomplote. Tho Doctar would have Writtes 8 profaco to It oxplatning the somawhat wnep 3 ing chargen therotn wmade againit the Cullogn:; Cardtpala. Tho fact was simpiy thiss A nen. tlonian bionght 1t 1o hls oflica and offored. sy tho lettor for publication. An an ohject of h: toreat to our rondora it was published, : — don, ang Cortaln Fastorn nowspaporn nro inventig, abeurd hypothescs to oxplain Col. N, g, ()mf ‘waY's rotirement from tho oflico of Horgeantag, Arms to thoe Natlonal House of Rnprcnmlllflvlu ‘Tho Boston Journal sirionsly sesumes that g, Colonol ind koma cliolco in th premises, aog * guoeass” that hin motivo in accepting ay elege tion to the New lampehire Leglalaturs wa3 1y provide a stoppivg-atone to the United Statey Sonate. A much botter guosa would be thay the Qolonel hind benrd of the Congresslonal election in tho fall of 1874, and was awato that the orpan. ization of the noxt Ifonso of nopmunmlm would be controlldd by a Domacratia ma]um,_; —_— Unkind hints aro thrown out that Mr, Ty Titcx well is n very difforont person from M, Janrs Lok i1t 3 and honco the rovecation of m; magniflcout trust-doed, and tho Joka on gy, Franciuco, Mr. Lick's licn on Ileaven fy ope posod to bo not so groat as it wan. PERBONAL, A queer boast for Banxvx—The Equina 0y, Arcadian. ‘The Hou,'J. G, MILLER, ono of the wea!(hjuy and mont prominout citizens of Lirooklyy, iy o tho Palmer House, A Milwaukeo baby, born on tho coldast dar oy tho sosson, has bLoon clriateucd Zrmo, iy baby smouuts to nothing. ‘Wercken, who furnisboed the brains wigy mnko our national Inws, {8 dead, Ko wag reataurateur of Wasbington. Anothior braiu has sucoumbed to tho weak jp. ventiouw of tho madium. It In thet of by, ot LAND BanuEn, of Lower Lako, Cal. *8lim J1ar” wants to bo in with Ganmpuy deagglug tho Tibor. Walt till Lo's up 1oLy neck in mud, and thon won't ho feol at homa| According to tho Now York Sunm, Me Jy Goutp ie going Lo start & beor ealoon In gty bacemont of bis new Tribune building in Nay York. So Dr. RuTit, of Washington, 18 engageltyy Philadolphia heiress, and tho languivling beiy of tha Capital rosent Lis ruthless iroatment ¢f thom. Mr. J. 0. Cranx, Gonoral 3fanagor of the It nois Contral Railrond, hns gona to Calro to usiy somo arrangaments in rogard to tho Bouthyy counections of his road. A Harvard Professor corrected 8 yonng lsipy spolling of MeNDeLssonn's namo, and direcis] ler to torminato 1t shon. And ho now shansth spolling-school more than over. An inhospitable and impollto combination of Dbig-lettered posters on a Kouth Eud billbex{ rondn thus: *Epwiy Baorn| Tako the Fall Rk er Lino to Now York!"—Doston Globe. Axaprus, haviug lost his situation as ffnz et Spalu, is rapidly golvg to tho dogs like rayvy othor Lialf-witted clerks, 1o is losing mosey of Monaco. N. B.—ouaco s not a now game, Benator Arcony and wifo, after reachis Momphin yestorday, ou route to joiu theSe. torinl oxcursion party at Now Orleans, deds] to abandon tho trip, and returned homo ety day afternoon, T. ¥, Bouroy, Esq., editor of tho Jonestys Guazelle, ia stopplng at tho Mattosou House, Ly says that the proapocts aro that tho frait cropla hig section of Southorn IMinois will ba rar largo. Ile wiil bo in town for a couplo of disi Dolegato CAnxNox, of Utab, shoots ont the Lk lowing uotico: * God fs working for Misch wz poopte.”” 'L'o judgo fiom the recont roversti uf tho boss taint in matrimonial watters, Y Cavxox's peoploare not Jikely to bo remsiel) bouotited, ** Alr, Anytoun bos withdrawn hia resfgotit of the Presidency of the Phitadelpina Boad Trado. Vive VAnsoonl"—Loston Post, At A, Dercuen vows that ho will not give up lit Cardinal's hat for all the gibios of the B Post. Triend Post ! Mr. Ansioun ia & Chica Gon. Buznuax evidently looks upon Javal Faps oy tho modorn MeTousrLAl, At o e dinoer o prayed (50 ho said) that tho ongizeert life might bo spared until tho. Great Liste went up tho Misslesippl to receivo 25,000 ke Ht, Lowe flour to carry bosk (o Bliooruet. Loudon, A new banting vontare Is announced fer Cble cago, Tho sonn of Honator Susustay aid e Gov, Hexny D, Cooxr, of tuo District of (ol bin, are about to eatablioh a branch bsukof I Washington houso. Tho most Interestu: {a taro of tho brauch is that Fanp Graxzwill Cashier, having resigned his commission, Mr. L, A, Panks, senior oditor of the Atn Telegraph, died last ovening after n lingerivz it uess, o had boon prominant inhis protee: and wna ono of tho oldest editors in th ¥ tlo foundod the Telegraph in 185G, and bivent since beon connoetod thorowith, At the tine d his death, ho was Prosldont of tho Busiel Trusteos of tho Stato Raform Behool. The wioked flos of Fiorids will make thiot lively for Bercuen when tho voleog of I'tuie To¥, Besocir, and Pryon are huslied, nd tholu! Juror Las gona Lomo to rocaperato, Lrssrlit invested in s tract of land adjoining Hiswmi proporty. And on cool evenings tho affextosst bLrothorand sistor will meet at tho rail-feace 1 comparo notes upon the two delicious soandil thioy have given to tho world, Thoso who are intoreated In tho game of &® pokor will bo Intercated to koow that {Lokes tucky Logislatura at its Inst sosalon was asked intorfero for the protection of tho unfortunsis and enact n Iaw making it s penal offenso for 3 plager at draw-pokor to draw two cards “"“3“ should not bo in the enjoyment of * thtdcé q to draw ono card to *threes,” by whish m‘a'r‘ tious and mean dovices much uncortsin!y many mischances aro brought sbout, £iod {his grme bo playod s muoh an usual, $his & becomo un fssue fn the next campaign. Btato's Attornoy teep Ia in paioful muepes owing to bad nows rccolvod from his fan, -'g" are at Jackuonville, Fla, Mes, Reep and 44 chlldron wont to that place about a meath !L for tho boneflt of thefr hoalth, snd wero ffl“g quite well up to ton days sgo, when Mrs I . was attasked with sguo, and s physiist ',, callod to attend hor. Among the poworfal d‘\:r which tho doctor gavo tho paticat wod 2t ® = doso of strychoive, which throw her h'wr vulsions aud vory nearly causod hor doath. ,‘ Reep recelved tho dlatreseing news late Tu ¢! night, aud bis eleoploss auzioty mxflnml.lfll““im business yestordsy, o felt compalled ~°m 1 draw from tho Criminal Cours room ¥t S wmoming and foave the businosa L tha Ea® Lis aselstant, 14} Dubuque, E. Griswold, baltimiores A Douver s 3. As Tace, Milwaukees E, ik o fugton; W, 1L, Lawls, Cincinnati ; George W Boston'; thio lev, 1T, Mtoot, Btorling; O, Ja0lS ) Now 3 ) Tlo exy Now York J, ta, 1, Louls ; V. ¥y l'lmmv,d iy 2. Bualer, neid, 1oc Cinciunati; Jumes H, Coo ingtoy, Iowas Jumos ¥, Davis, Rochesfer; Georiy B, Kenn Chnzlts A, Baziy, Philadelphia; O. ¥ 0.3 1, oul [ 3 101 T Wardwall, Worceator § J, Phillipson, Bi ¥ ¢8 411, L. Dier, Now Yorki Tt 1, Postert "G "cl‘“ %rxy' it 01§ Goorgo W, T irg 3 3, 1 oo Qoo N Sethany W b, Holdes E. A Willlace, liavina,