Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1876, Page 1

- The Chicage Dailp Teibune. VOLUME 29, DRESS GOODS. XTRAORDINARY BARGAINS SPRING DRESS G00DS M fl ‘ 'BROTHERS. > Will offor this week largo lots of Scasonable Dreas Goods, inoluding all the novelties of the season, at popular prices, 100 pos Damasse Goods, in assorted col- s, 35 ots, worth 60 ota, 76 pos Arabesque Poplin, in combination oolors, 50 ota, worth $1.00, 6 oasos Twilled Debages, 15 ots, desirable at 30 ota 120 pos All-Wool Dsboges, 37 ots, regular 500 goods. 2 oases Small Black and Whits Check at 25 otm 60 pos 6-4 Osmel's Hair Sultings, very now and desirable, 60 ots, coat $1.25 to im- port, SPRCIAL I@UGEMHNTB Black Goods. 6500 pos 40-inoh All-Wool French Cash- wmeres, 65 ots, 76 ots, 86 ots, and $1.00, 300 pos 48-inchk All-Wool Fremoh Cash- wores at 80 ots, $1.00, $1.15, and #1,35. Drap d'Ete, extra wide and superior qual- {1y for Saoques, at $1,60, $1.75, $3,00, all fully 30 ots per yard under value, T Black ond Colored Silks Wo offer Bargains from AUTCTION Soldom offered in this country. 121 & 123 State-st. Twenty-second-st, and Michigan-av, TO RENT. esirahle Ofiices TO RENT IN TEBR TRIBUNE BUILDING. INQUIRHE OF WILLIAM C. DOW, Room 10, Tribune Building, FIRM CHANGES: DISSOLUTION. The copartnership herstofors existing tnder the fing nwmo of Warnsr & Williums axpizes by lmltation Apri{ 30, 1870, 3. O, Williama and O, E, Fitch having u right to succeed the Iste firm, wall continue in ths Genorsl Commission business, The books, paj and sccounts of the late firm will bein the hands of Ed. D. Warner for sottlment, to rhom all dsbia il be Taid which see owiog sald 2fm, snd who Wl claima ag frm. by ED, B, WAR 3, 0, WILL! The unders} have this day entered into co- pertnership under the firm name of Wilkams & Fitch, % transuct s General Commisalon buainess, J. 0, WILLIAME, FITOM, [ DISSOLUTION. tuership hertotore e under the 72 mares o B A otene & O i 1ho Qe orbinces at31¢ Exat Division-st., is this day dissolved by mutual cment. 2. A Tosend wll ontluvie the busincss, pay ‘olloot all bllls fo the old frm. el 8, K, UAANSHUTS, JOHN HAFHTEN, EDWARD A. ROSENE, NOTIOE. Notice 1z hereby given that 1 have withdrawn from the Arm of Armatrong & n, and that I will con- saue u;."%xfi&“:- of % Ahiicot % No.To Mouth n my own name, Critoxto, My 1. 160, JAMES J, EGAN. TOR SALE. WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF SEV- ERAY, OARGOES NEW SAGINAW FINE ALY, ‘Which we offer to the Trade by car- €0 or car lots, ELKINS & WHEELER, Office, 41 Lake-st. FOR. SAXE. The furniture, and & ten years’ lease, of loas if do- sired, of tho Nobertson House, Joliet, 1. The hotet s tirsi-class in every reapect, Address I, ROBERT- EON, Joliet, 111, FINANOCIAL, e e e e i 8 PER CENT--MONEY TO LOAN On cholcq property in any sam over $3,000; under that smount§ per cent. Fundsboers, A prompt anawer toapplications and low commisslons, TURNER & BOND, 103 Washington-at. 7 PER CENT. Money foloan st BEVEN per cont'on firstclass Busines property. Other loans made st current Eatea, BOUDDER k MASON, 107 and 109 Desrborn-at, PHILAOELPHIA ADVERTISEM'TS CENTENNIAL BOARDING AND LODGING MRS, J, HAMILTON THOMAS, 'ormerly baoksoller and publisber), Terme §2 perday, i l.;d Cfl .\‘NUT—}:’T.. l'llllAbLLPulK 7 Cars to the Exhibition pass the door, ENTH GING ROOMB—ACCOMMODA- [ e T Ly ey LI 306, A 28 G w A LU Leuth Eleveni Phtlaas & s raltire WATesoomily TIRE INSURANOE. JAMES H, MOOBE, JOHN J, JANES, INSURANCE. MOORE & JANES, Buccessors to 8, M, MOORE & 0., 119 & 121 LaSalle-st. ‘WH BEPRESENT THE HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CO, HARTFORD, CONN. Assets, over.............$3,000,000 EQUITABLE INSURANCE 00, NASHVILLE, TENN, aes0ees..$300,000 GERMAN AMERICAN INS. CO. NEW YORK. Assets, over... Asgets, over.... ...12,000,000 NEW ORLEANSINS.ASSOCIATION NEW ORLEANS, LA. Assets, over...............4500,000 NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE €O HARTFORD, OONN. - eeee. $1,000,000 IRVING INSURANCE CO. NEW YORK. Assets, over..............$300,000 ST.PAULFIRE & MARINE INS, CO0. 8T, PAUL, MINN. Assets, over...... NORTH BRITISH & MERCAN" TILE INSURANCE CO. LONDON and EDINBURGH, --$13,000,000 Assots, over. $900,000 Assets, over. OFFICH, 119 and 121 LaSalle-st. MOORE & JANES, Agents, REDUCED. On and after this date, until further notice, the price of Wil- mington Coal will be $4.60 per ton delivered. Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Co. Wilmington Star Coal Co. . Wilmington Coal Mining and Manuf'g Ce, Enreka Coal Co. GROCERIES. IF YOU WANT THE BEST, FANILY GR FRESH FRUITS, WINES,LIQUORS, & CIGARS, ERIDEIER essor o Stanton & Co, 1868 STATE-ST. REMQVALS. Nerchants Despateh TRANSPORTATION COMPANY HAVE BEMOVED TO 95 Washington-st. REMOV.AL. J.A.SMITH & CO. Hatters and Furriers, HAVE REMOVED TO NO. 83 MADISON-ST. DERIES, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. dfltnlg'nad, hercby agree to pay travoling Ten Dollars in Gold Coin, to any person who will come to_our Office, 1 st Chilcago, and uss Zoline according to our printed directiona and demoustrate to us that it doss not per- forma whsd e clatus for 1 1n our pricted clrcular, ON & EVENDEN, IL TARKS 4x0 SHIPPING CANS, 47 & 49 West Lake Btrect. OXXT S 335 POu €ATALOGUR. BLANK BOOXS, STATIONERY, &o. BLANK BOOKS, Stationery and Printing, rafshed promptly and st falr prices, by J, M. W, SO Ea. 104 ana 100 tadison.st, * : SPORTSMEN'S GOODS, & TACKLE, ETC. S o T g At T B EATON'S, 53 Statesst, ESTABLISHED 1833, SHAWLS Of every description clesned to look like ne ice, Ud, BOLIWA! Olark, 158 Illinols, and 263 W, Madivon-ats, s WATER OURE, KENOSHA W. KENOSHA, Wi Fiune Jake view, and g markably cool, and climate dell Discases ATER CURE, Recently eularged sud tuproved. d good boatiug. Summers ro- btful. Curoaio Dis- of Nervous Syslem. For circuiars, ER, M, D, Physi® E. PENNOYEE, Rropiletor, CHICAGO, TUESDAY, AT LAST. The 0ld Council Holds Its Final Meeting, Comptroller Hayes Sends in an Ordinance Relative to City Certificates, Those Drawn Against Any Appropri- ation Not fo Exceed 75 Per Cent Thereof. Mr. Hayes Also Addresses the Council on the Subject of the City’s Finances, And Rejolces Over What He Con- slders the Vindication of His Policy. What the Present Administration Has Done 10 Save the Oity's ' Credit, The Council Then Proceeds to Canvass th Yoto for City Officors, The City Attorney Advises Them Not to Touch That for Mayor. And Also Holds that the Now Connoil Cannot Elect Ove of Its Own Members, It Can, However, Call a Special Election If Thero Be a Vacancy. Acoordingly the Oity Fathers Deoline to Record Mr, Hoyne's Vota, The Councll met Iaat svening, with all the membora present oxcept two. The body of the Council Chamber was well filled, probably 1m expectation of sometbing intoresting coming up, and partly, no doubt, because it was to bo the Isst mooting of the old Councll for the traosaction of business, After dispensing with the reading of tho minutes, on motion of Ald. Cullerton the report of tho City Clerk with regard to the canvass of the returns was tomporanly postpened i1n order that a communication from the Comptroller should be considored. ‘TEMPORARY LOANS, The Clork then read tho following communica- tion from Mr. Hayos : COMFTROLLER'S OFFICE, CmIOAGO, May 1, 1870.— To the Honorable the Mayor and Aldermen of {he City of Chicago n the City Council sasemblea: T pre- sont herawith “ An ordiuance eoncerning tomporary Ioaus and the anticipation of tnxes," 1o view of the fact thut alirge number of lsborers and employes of the city in needy ciroumatances Luve for some time remained unpaid, that heavy labilities tor money loaned aro to be met before tho lst of June, and that nearly & half o mililon of tho Interest on our bouded debt will fall dus within sixty days, and that large loans will be required fo meet thess Habitities in ndvance of the coliection of taxes, I ask ita immediato consideration by your honorable body, At the boginuiug of the fiscal year on tho 1sy of January, there wers outatauding of cor- tificates of ‘Indeltedness for cash advano- ed {o the city by tho Relicf and Ald Ho~ cletysund tho Burr-Fund,. ... Dus other partics in Chicago, . Duo in New Yorkuesessers Total... Among our cash aar To Due in personal yvopecty taxes, warrant of 1871 5 S5 $ 03,806 pe property taxe 184,785 Dua on porsonal property taxes of 1873 185,234 Duo on personal property tazea of 1874, 474,670 Total 033,225 Tax certifly doemed. 10,011 Tax cortifl 145,128 Tax curtificates, salo of 1874, 263,899 Tax certificates, sale of 1615 802,323 TAZ doodB,uescansarsnsiorannnne 8411 Total tax certificaten and deeds, 219,175 Real estats tazes appealed and onjoined..... 1,503,709 Tax-warrani of December, 18i6, real and [L T TT RO . 5,003,005 Total of tax.certificates, personal and realiazes, aud tazes sppesled 8, ‘Tazes collected sincs Dec, 31, 1876 ;nr i} and two precoding yoars, ‘or 187! 387L—lioceivod by Treasirer, i ll;'b—‘ln County Collector’s hands, approx- nate. oo 'Total coltectiona stnoe Dec, 32, 1676, Total of oertificates and tsxes to be col- Ia 1§ 0,770,901 . 313,829 + 1,844,307 1,410,359 Total of cortificates now outstanding...$ 3,278,927 Funded debt water-bonds, towards which we bave snnual {ncoma of abous $700,U00 from reats,., . . 4,617,000 Other loug bonus, oos B,360,000 Total bonded dobt, ... 813,457,000 All our cortificatos of indshtedness and coupons on the funded debé have been met punctually atthelr susturity, Allour loans stuce Doc, 51, 1815, have been mada 816 snd 7 por cent iuterost,—in Do inatance higher than 7 per cent, We hava pald commission of one-faurth of 1 per cent ou $100,000, Lelug all the commbaalons pald, "Our succoss in mocting our obliga- tiona under tho Insolent and peraistent efforts by sundry desperats parties to ruls the credit of the clty and force 1t to suspension of paywentais just causo for congratulation, I submis Liesewith & copy of the opinion of tho Hon, William K, McAlitsicr, Judge of tho Oircuit Court of Cook County, in'the cass of The Doard of Yublio Works Iayos, Comptroller, upon full srgument bofore hunself snd faur associales ou the Bench. 'Tnis opinion relievea us from legal quilibles raised agatust the legality of our loaus, sud it is now domonstratod that thia great city, with ita four hundrod miiltons of tazable proper- ty, and ita tritling debt, which cannot be increas and its bigh character for lutegrity aud puuctusiity, can lawfully continue to mainiain ita corporala existe ence, and that its temparary loans, sa wall as ita other scourities, will always contintie to furnish inveatmeuts for judicloun capitalista, I hiope that tho sccompauy- | orsllllnlnfil“: ) ll" e lhel l]lmgnl of your Loucre able body, Mespectfully submisted, Ty o tes, Camptroller, THE ORDINANCE. Tho following is the text of the ordinsnca: An ordinancs concerning temporary loaus aud the anticipation of taxes. Lis 1¢ urdutnied, elc, That wheroas the city 18 fudebt- #d (o the smouat of $3,200,000 for cash sdvances he tofore made to enabis {t'to defray curront expent snd mest the interest on the funded debt accrulug be- fore the collection of tazes {0 pay the nme“ and Warsran, Baid indebtedneas fs ovideuced by certift- eates Licroafter fo mature, alf of the certificates here- tofora waturiug havity been paid by the Comptrolier attho day of mialunity; sud \Witrukas, 1t {8 tho purpoas and fatention of the city to coutinus o neet all e obligaticus at the appoiuted timo, without relying upon technicsl or frivolous obs Joctions to thelr form or phrascology, 83 a1 pxcuao for non-payment, a3 well as 1o provido now snd heroaftor for lg: intorest on ita funded debt, and for its ordina- Ty e3panses socruing and 10 accrus before tho tax <0l lections can be made; and the ciiy ba slso willing to Temove Any uncertainty of insuMclency fn the worde of 1ta obligations, if such should extss § thersfo Azotion 1, Tha Comptroller fa herel uthorieed and directed'to continus 1o pay punctus iy n i of maturity all certifioates of indebt City of Chicago, issued tipon the sppropriation: tax lavios of the city, whether the fact of their 40 1asued appear upon said certificates or not. Heg. 2, The Qomptroller is authorized to make an indorsement, tn snch form a4 ha may elect, upon all certifiosten presented to him for that purpose, shows lug that they were fssusd upon the appropristions sud tax leviea of the city, snd that the proper propor- Uon of the taxes will be held for their payment, or ho imay in hia discretion, with the coneent of the holderw of the cartificates, iarua tothem Insterd new oertifi~ cates payabla on the Ist day of June of the next fscal yesr, with interes per anoum, or at designate, and the Mayor and Finance Committes shal l[zpmve, out of tho tazes levied for the s ropristions upon which such original eertin- tes wers issued. Frovided, tbat such new ificates, snd sny coriificates for advances or ex- penditures’ horeaflor ieausd, may be drawn payablo with or without interest out of the taxes, withont otlierwiue apecifying sny certain tims of payment, or thie Mayor and Comptroller may, with the consent of ihe Finance Comimitiee, draw their wairaota oo the ‘Tresaurer for such advances as have been or shall bo made on any of the Appropriations for which taxes shall have Loen levied, fixing therein the time of their presentation for psyment, and may seli or discount the aame 80 that the use of the maney shsil not cost tho ity » rate of interest excoedlug the rata aforesald, or may draw said warracts to bear intareat ¢o the time 50 fized for much presentation, and thereaftar upon such amount s the urer shall fall to pay st such time of presentation, Brc. 3. Certificatos or warranta may be drawn pay. able out of the tsxes with interest, upon such noticoas may be thereln given, or apecified tobe given at a sub- sequent time. Hro. 4, Certificates or warrants for sdvand penditures upon the approplations, and taxes, §ages of any Bacal year winy bo Yaued Ly tis Comp- troller, with the sanction of the Mayor and Finanes corgmhuo, after the tax-levy of saiq yesr Lias been mado, - ‘To insure the payment by collsction from the taxes of the fall smount of each and all of such advances as may bo made upon them, the smount for which such revenue certificates or ints may be severally {s- syed is hereby liited to and shalt uot excoed 75 per cont of the smount spproprisied for the amount or expenditurs for which thaadvancs is made, nor shall it excood 76 per centof the amount of thic taxes ap- portioned to the payment of such certiicate or war- it and remalning uncollocted st the time of its ue. Ald. Schafiner moved the paseage of the ordinsnce, and asked that Mr, Hayes be iavited Lo give the Coun- cil auch further explanation aa ho mignt deem proper and they might require, MR, TAYES was sccordingly requested to address the Council, Hy d they together had had chargs of tha interests of the clty for the last two vears, This associstion, ‘which had been pleassnt to hum, and he trusted hsd been profitabls to the city, woa about{o ccass, The Council was about to 1d to those who had been elected to take thelr places, It was proper for him to #3y that ,whatover objoction ho might have found at one ime or another to some of the acts that bad boen passcd,—he belioved insdvertontly,—a tribute or- Topool was Tdus o fhem fof tho bigh, g nitied, and mnly position tkey had taken in Teferonce to the chiaracter and credit of thecity. When they came iuto power they found A clty which bad recently been almost desiroyed by fre. Tho lota had been immenso; $300,000,000 of [roperty bad been latd o ashes, Greit forfunes bk n scattered to ho winds. The crippled city, with 8 large defaleation in the ‘Treasury, secmed o Lo almost at the merey of the elementa, Thsy found an enormous smount of {axation, and sppropristions largely o oxess of those which hat since boen made, They found lso s great commercial crisl ‘whick had prostrated the industries of (he country. ‘Those thingn fucreassd the dificully of admind; ering theimportant dutfes which they had In charge,—~of protecting the {ntereats of tha city, During the iwo years, he was proud iy tiat the measurcs of rotrenchment and economy which hio had continuslly prosssd upon tbe Councll fn tho estimates and reports he had submitted hsd met with {helr favorable considoration, In tho last appropris- tion bill they had mado sn_extreme reduction of ex- penses, aud liad shown & determination toput Chl. cagoin tho strongest possiblo condition, The whole sotint of tho tax-levy was about $4,000,000 for threo- fourths of the flscal year, snd in that amount ws in- cluded an appropriation of §300,000 whih had been faserted to protect the crodit of tho clty, withont any other expenditura during tho year. Leaides, $300,000 or $400,000 in this smount wero rendersd necessary by tho expendiiurea preceding or oaused by tha firo, Mr. Hayes then rocited tho other troubles which had befallen the city einca tho first fire, and the atrong ef- fort made after the July fire {0 Secure au-appropris- tion of an additional miltion of dollars to protect tho city in futurs, In 1875 largo appropriations wero miade for the completion of onr wmagniticont water systom, which was now the admimtion of (s World, It wan Dhis duly to meet Large obligations to enable them {o completa thin and othier necessary Improvements, When ho came into ofice we had & 10 per cent credit, but he bad been en- ablod to reduce the rate of intereat to 6 and 7 per cent, and, when at_Now York rocently, be would have suc- ocoded 1n placing tha credit at s jower rato than G por cent Liad it uot been for the determined purpose of certaln partles and interesis o DESTROY THE HONOR AND FINANCIAL STANDING OF THE CITY, and to diegrace it in tha eyes of mankind, That deter- mination was eviniced overywhore. It was seen in tlio Tiout unportant newspapers; hie found it in the oticen of New York bankerw, and in leiters from prominent cilizens, Persistent efforts were made to defest the negotiations he was conducting for the honor of the clty, Tha nowspapers declared to tho world thut th indebtednesn of tho clly was {nvalld, that the certifl- cates were not worth the paper they wero written upen, sud that ko was caniracting & vold delt, which conld mot be " To com: bat those assortions, he ~ told (ho _poople of New York that our citlzens wore Lonest, and woild never repudiatea justly-lncurred dabt: that ninety- nine out of every hundred paid thelr {azes, or_an mitted to the judgment of the court; thst of the taxea of 1573, thicro were only $100,000 still unpata, excapt thoso taken by tho gentlemen who - care ried tho agliation to fbo Supreme Cocrt, and that iy amount unpaid tho following yoar was only $3.0,- €00, usiilo from the porsonal tazes, which could ot be collected, oxcepting sleo the amount taken to tho fu- premo Court, e told them that it aid not matter What was the form of certiticates,~iLie moncy they represented would bo honently paid, What did we do whea visitors cameto the city? o Look them round and showed our magnificont public works. 1f our debt were repudiated, we would Lo ashatasd to show them §n future. Under all the pressuro and the w’!rffll combination brought sgajnat us, tha city had 0 able o malutsin her credit, and bad patd $3,000,000 siuco tho 1et of Jsnuary. Why had they bects obleto aothin? Decauss, whets Dincan, Sherian & Co.fullgd, the Clty Goveramontdoclirod they would puy sgain tha $40,600 in the bank il necessary, Wo iad §400,000,000 of property subject o tazstion, and o debt of only $8,000,000, which wus a little over tho tax- fovy for & single year, A constitutioual provision for evor fortado them to fncreaso that debt, or foincur any olhor witliout st the ssme time providing means {of (s paymuent, These facts coustitntel a power of wealth and strength, The law allowed bo more than 8 Just appropriation for just and proper taxes, aud our paper wis good Lefore the world if the government waa properly adininlstered, ond, sven 1f i wero dis- Lioucatly adininisterod, it could 'not bo broken dow wiihout an extensivo system of fraud and rascality, Notwithintunding all the frauds which had been perpo- trated {n New York, its paper was worth mare thxu any other paper offered 1n tho city sxcepting that of the Governmont, The City of CHICAGO TO-DAY 18 A GREAT DEAL BTRONOER THAN NEW YORK, the proportion botween the amount of fndebtedness sud property being so much smaller in one than the other, We Liad, therefare, all the eloments of strengih and credit, and ho was not afraid of our fuper beiny refused. Whatever temporary sicltement was cauica, ourcitizens lisd sound, sober judgment, which was notinfluenced hy{[\nrty yalitical, or persensl predi- Irctions, A man of fntelligence cduld not be found to get up before a reapectabla audlenco and sssert that wa oughit not Lo puy the debts of tha city, or that wa should disband ‘our police, put out ous lumps, aud closo the activols, becauso wo could uot collect our taxen every your, 'If such extromo measurts Wero e sorted to we would soon hiave robbery, pillage, raplue, murder, and {ncendlsriam, and the men who sdvo: cated tho aten would be tho first to call for a few omillious to protect their Lves and property. As far as ko was personally coucerncd &4 Comptroller of tho city, be know uo party, person, Mayor, or publio afticer, except of- feially, lio was not under ‘obligstion to ‘suybody in tho city, except to maintain the crodit of the cily, 1o Xeep the nccounts, bonestly and ,moot tts Just obliga- tions, They would uot find {utercat taken on sny suotioy 1hiat bisd been in his hunds, snd tiey would tfiud no check given against the account of the Comnp- trollor that was not on tile In tha oflica, aud subject (o inspection at any time, He, therefore, epuko as the trieud of ll cltieny dad urged tiom' nol (o be in: ftuenced by the ozcltement of the day, and never to aliow ths liouor and welfare of the ciiy to suffer iram temporary pasalou or agitation. He hoped the ordi. wance read by the Clerk would provall. 1l had drafted it carofully, in orderto conform o the opin- fon of the Court which Lad been given on the subject, No paper belonging to thecity was out which had uot been fairly met when presented; thore was uo creditor “who Masd the Tight fa clata suything ou accouus of previous defsult. The East wat regarding tho seitlewsnt of the question with 1u- :u‘chn‘ Lo bisd cousultod s number of gentlemen as o tw E¥YECT OF TUK OFINION of the Court and as ta the probable future pros- pects of the city In ioaking losna. The opdi- nauce Lad that evening been trauswmitted by tele Rrapli to Now York. ‘Tlose interceted had the whole subject bofora them, and they bad .\:pmuu of the plan. 1is whole object was to enable theu 1o prepare certificatos conforwmable t Judge Mcallister's opin. fon, und 10 provide for the tsaus of the cortificates to 5 lmited amaunt, o bad feit1s Lis duty to but them 1075 per cont of the amount of v spprojfation againat which thay wero fuaued, 8o that every person Wwho recelved one Would kuow tuat Lu was 1us bettey rodition tlan if he hud n bond suthorzed by the Constituticn or lawa of tae Biate, aud nl.on which Judgment had boen obtained at maturity, 1t wasouly Decesssry to uake the fnaucial system conform <o fuai plan, snd atthessme timo to doclare by that oxdinsnce that they deaired to maintain the honor of b city a3 inthe past, [Applause.) MAY 2, 1876. The ordinsnce wse fhen passed, Messrs, Spalding snd Watermn voting In the negati Ald. Gunderson moved that th f the elty be tendered to Comptroller Hayes for the able manner g“';:;cn he nad conducted the finsnces of the city, slad, THE CANVASSING COMMITTER. Ald, Cuallerton, of the Canvadsing Commilive, re. [orted tiat the canvase wag completed, snd moved bat n;'h- result Lo declsred and spresd upon the urne were then resd by the clerk and the candidates declared duly elacts The canvass of ths vote for city oMoers and Alder men having Leen coucluded, Ald, Behaffner moved tlat the Clerk 1 directed to spresd the record a3 an- nounced on the records Ald, Bpalding movad that the Olerk ANNOUXCE THE VOTE FOB MATOR. pifilld.l Behaffner was moved to sjsculste “Ob, i ”A!:g 4{5. Ryan chimed in with * Ob, watt t1ll snothe year. Ald. Fitzgeraid moved to Iny the motion of Ald. Bpaldiog on tbe table, 1t ed & second, but Ald, Cumpbeil wat on hix feet In & second and eald he hoped the Iast gentleman would withdraw his motion, ‘The Chair sa{d there was an opinion of the Law De- psrtment bearing on this subject of canvasing the Yots for Mayor. Ald, tysn—Give o the oninlon, Ald, Schiaflner boped Ald, Flttgerald would withe draw bin motion, and thet geutlemaa Goally ylelded, Tho Cleck thed read the following OPINION FROM THE LAW DEPZRTMENT: CITY Law DXPARIMENT, GIICAGO, May 1, 1878.—To the Honoraule, the City Cou he Oty of Chicago— Gexriesux: The quentions submitted by the reso- lution pasned by your honorabls Ludy at its Isst regu- IaF mecling, and upon which you sak tha opinion of thin Dopartment, ara: Firat—1a it the duty of (he City Couneil to canvazs the votes cant ot the rocent slection for Mayor? Second—1 not, can the Councll or ita nuccessors doclare & vacancy to exiat in the office of Mayor, and eloct to 0l auch vacancy one of its number 7 Thens queations, in my opfnion, must be answered n the egative, auld T aksll give you my roseons there- or, Under oue protent charter, oo Conatitution (the act of April, 1872), the City Gouncil are authorized thealt a0 election '*whenever s vacancy ‘happen fn the attico of Mayor, snd the unexpired term atall be one Jear or aver,"—-Art IL, Bec,. It alao providen the mude of conducting mich on elsction, and requires that noties thervof shall be published * for the same Iength of time and {n the eame manner aa required in the cass of regular annual elections,”"—Art 1V 563, 61. From thes provielons It follows, that if s vacancy happened iu {ta ofico of Stayor befora the time of holding the lsat general eloction, to-wit, April 18, it becamo the duty of the City Council $2 call a special election fo fill such vacaucy, sud to publish a notice thereof, and. in the same manner sa is requied in tho ‘case of regular sunual elections, A vacancy so hanpeaing could not legally be lled in any other manucr; the unexpired term being more than ono year, Dot the Council refnsed tocallan election for the office of Mayor, upon the ground that 10 vacancy oxfated in the otfica, and bence it was that 10 notico of such eloction, to bo beld on the 16th day of_Aprll, 1576, was ever given or published. Whothier suthaction on tho part of the City Connell was tight or wrong, it is unnocessary to discuss, be- cause, if you please, Iet it bo concedsd to have been wroog, the couceseion In na wise changes the ritua- the sction was, aud the fact is, that o election was called for such oficer, or notico given of any such eloction, aa raquired by Liw. 1, then, 1o specisl _electionzhias Lecn called to All vacancy in the oifico of Mlayor, and no notice of such election was given or putilished by the proper author~ Ities as thio law royuires shall bo dons in euch caso, tha eloctlon is void, This doctrine has been fully recog- nized by the Buprema Court of this Btate.—Viley va, Thomypaon, 4 1, 0, Harding v rairosd compea, 63 * Elections zed by law at s certain time and place may be legally holden, slthough notice has not boen putlished or givem, but if the time be not defined by statute, and st in to bo fized by notice, the nolice re- quired 1 imperative,” Yeople ex rel. Henry W. King et al. va, City of Chi- cago, unreported, aud cases theredn cited, ‘The act of 1871 authorizes an election for AMayor to ba held §n 1673, and _ blennially thereafter; and at no othior time, excopt in caso of & vicancy, when the Counctl {3 empowered to call an_election, If the unex- dirod timo slall bo one yesr or more, It will bo secn, therefore, that the eloction for Meyor i forced by law sta certain Hme, to wit: At the gensral election held in 1679, and blonaially thercafter,” and an eleo tlon for this oflice, beld at s time thus fixed by law, would be legal, althongh notice of such eloction bad nat been previously publistied or given, But an eloc- tion for auch oificer held at any other tims than that fixed by law, although such election should be held on tho pame day on which tho geaeral election was held for other city oflecrs would be n moecisl elaction, snd” smblert #n tha pmevisions of law applicable’ thersto, Itis true thatthe act of 1872 provides for sn snnual election, which isa gen. oral slection, but such sunual election is not in any year a general election for all city oftices. The recent aunal election held on the 18t day of April wasa goneral eleciion, butnot s general election for the office of Mayor. The law fizes the tims when s gen- eral elcction ehall be held for sluyor, sod s wo iave scen that event is tized o the third Tuesday fu April, 1833, and bieunially thereatter, so that an election for Mayor Lield nt any other time must of neceasity bea sperial ele-tion.” Otherwine the term of oftice of Mayor {5 shoriened one sear, or the next succeeding general slection for that oftice takes place at a time one yeur later than tho timo ixed by law for wach eloction, Lvery election, the time of holding which fs not rmmvely fixed Ly Iaw, sud is to bo tixed by notice (as n the case under consideration), i a speciat election, and when held without notice belng given as required by law, auch election is simolutely void.i Neveriheleas it appoars that an’ election for Mayor wan held and such ofice was voted for by the electors at tho late general elociion, and returns have be: maaw of aticks votes 10 your houorable bedy, and you now aak what your duty s in the premises, Holding the views aliove expressed,my advice to you i8: Do notking which will be in-onaistent witn your former action {u refusing to call an elsction for the oftica of Mayor; and If you follow this advice you will decline to take ofieial cognizance of the votes cast for that offico, It {s no more your duty to canvasa the votes given for Mayor, thun it would be your duty to can- ‘vasu the voies, if any there should be, which had been caat atsuch election for the otlices of Governor or membor of Cougress, Suck action on your part can- not fu any wisa prefudice the legal rights of any gen- tleman fur whom votes Lave beon given for Aasyor. Tha return should be proserved, 50 thut any gentle nian feeling bimself aggrieved by your actlon, and desiring to resort to the courta, may oblain snd wre tuem aa ovidencu of dhe vote he received. Upon such proofs he may pursue his legal romody aa emectually s though the roturns hisd been canvascd by your body, and the result thereof declared, The docirine hern conteuded for fs decided in tho case of tha Feo- I Gochienow, 64 111, 124. 1n that case the Court a tmandatmus to compel & catvasn of votes, be- catse, a4 1liey Kay, * tha rocords show ,that thero was no action by th City Council Oxing n place for bolding ithe olection in such & maoner as would give the public notice;: aud no notice of the cloction scems ever to have becn given, The votes af whicl we are asked tocompel & ciuvass ars votes of a motely voluntary collection of citizens, given undor circumstances that take from them' wll olaim to Tegality,” The remaining question to belconsidered is, *Can the present Cound | or tlsir wua -casora 11 otfice declars that s vacancy existe in th oitice of Mavor, aod lo- gally proceed to ill such vacancy by the election of somie vuo of its number " A vacancy cannot be sad lo eust in any office ex- cept upon {he uappeniug of one of four eveuta : tirat, death; second, resigmation third, sromoval; aud, fourtti, by operation of law. To devlaro ftat s ve- cancy exista tu_u particular office will not creats such vacaucy, Sach fact cannot bo assutaed, but muvt in veality exist, when it may follow the decisration of #uch oxisting fact, and all necesmary proco:dings may be Liad which thie law authorizes to fill the vucancy, 1f, then, 4t can be sald that a vacancy Lss happeaed fu the oflice of Mayor, auch vacaucy bas occurred by operstion of Jaw, ~ N uming for the purpose of the arguinent tht a vacancy has 8o occurred in the oftice of Alayor, tho question tlat irst presents itaell for our comlderation (s, Howand {n what manger can such vacancy be legally fited S, 2 of Art, 11, of the act of 1872 providea: “That wheuever a vacancy sball happen in the office of Mayor, when tho unexpred teru shall ba oau year or over from the dato when the vacancy occirs, it stiall bo flled by on election.” And Bec, Sof the sania articlo provides that, 1f tlie vacanoy is less than one year, the City Council shall clact oue of its members to ict 88 Mayor," From tiess provisions of the statute, it {s manifest that tuo solution of iho question, liow can euch vacancy bo lugally Blled Y doponds entirely upon tho answer (o the inquiry, Wheu did the vacalicy ocour? Hecause, #f tho upsxpired time beone year or over from the date when this vacancy ocours, ho Iaw says 1t shiall bo Biled by an election, and, if it Le less thau oue year, the City Council ahall elect ono of ila hum- ber fu act aa Meyar, The auswer to tho latter question is that the vacane; occurred elter upon tho adoption of the act of 18! or upun the irst Monday in Decomber, 1873, the tiue wheu, but for the adoption of thoact'of April, 1873, the torsa for which Mayor Colyin was elect ‘would bave exjired by limltation, At oneor the other of (ieas times the vacancy oocurred, if, dndeed, it has bappened st all, and it is immaterisl which of hese dates 14 Bzed upon s th to whea the vacancy oo curred, 3 1 eithor cass the unezpired term would be wore than one yesr, 1f, thew, 8 vacancy in the office of Mayor occurred eftuer upon the adoption of the actof 1871, or on the Arst Moudsy in Decemnber, 1875, 1t is plaln that such vacancy cau ouly be fillad by an efection Lo bo called by the City Council, and for the reason that the unex- pired 1erni 1u sithior case {8 more thad oo year from tn date when the vacaucy ocourred, The langusge of tos atatute |s fwperative and un- mistakable, aud cannot be toriured iutoa difsrent weaniug, The mode and manner of S1ling & vacancy hapyening in the ofice of Mayor dej ends wholly upon tue fact whether the unespired term be cus yesr or orer or lcus than one year. If one year or mors, thy statuto saya it shall e filled by an election, and if leau t-au oue yoar, the Oouncil shali slect, Iy sacertatuing the date when tho Yacancy occurred, and compating the time from such date 1o the next ieunial eloction in 1817, the length of the unespired ferui is determined ; and If & vacaucy nccnrred in the ottico sitlier in Apri, 175, upou tho aduption of tae act of 1872, or ou tho tirst Mouday 1n. Dscember {0l lowing, {n either casa Lks unsxpired term is found o te more than ons year, Hence I say that the law ve- quires that such vacancy shall bs y an elsction 10 be called by tba City Council; and it canuot legsll be 2led tn aDy othier manner, The date upoa lu E3 ok altalion mey be called of hold_ Bsa notbing whats ovar to do with determining the unc:m 5! the unazpired term, That ~ fact s deters mined by the dute when the vscancy escurred, An slection, therefore, lo 4(l & vacsncy io the offics of Mayor may be legatly called and held at any time dur- ing the term that remains une: ired, If the dats when such vaoancy oocurred was at a fime dsting from which the unexpired tarm b X Biace Decemsbor, 1875, tha dute woas 1t b Sliacd s obeyed the faw, and until his ba betn olected ad auaiiced, it 5 Dounden daty et e law Lo exarciae ths d"v“" i "h“"”- » powers and perform the No vacancy his occrzed in the offics of Aayor since tho uab goneral lection 1 April, and hewcs tiacs 1r g yacancy which the City Council’can legaliy fil by the slsction of oneof Ite number. Tt {a trus that tha un. d term now rematning is lees than one yea but 1 the atatute requires that the lengih of the v torm aball be determined from (ha dste when tha i~ caney oocurred, h B , then, & vacsncy bas cecurred, it mned o April or Deceraber, 1376, and {ha, leagth of ths hrets rod term, dating’ from eitsier of thuse dates, i mors one year, and in_atch ease the law requires that the vacancy shull be fllled by s election by the peos Pl#, to be called by the City Council, snd such election may be ordered at any {ime during the unexpired term, ~Aud it {s imply ridiculous to sy thst a person elocted ‘st such election would be elecied (o Bl & va cancy in tiue past. A greater absurdity could not pre. seut ftaelf to the understanding of man, ‘Tho neglect or refusal on tho part of the City Cont el to call an election for Mayor, before tlio recent an. nusl election was held, does not aeprive their succer. sorsof the power and anthority to rall such election st sny time befors the expiration of the unexpired term, withough euch nbexpired term should be lesa than ong year. And, if it should bs contended that the vacancy mentloned ' in the third section has reference toa vacancy which might now bs sald to havs occurred by reasnn of such default or neglect, the anawer is, that the vacaucy referrod 10 {n the third roction ia the Yyacancy meationed in thy second soztion, Lotk mec- tlons are apeaking of the mame veeancy; in thaone eate requiring it 10 be tilled by an election and m tha other by appointment, In order to arriveat thetrus intent aud tmeaning of eithier soction both must ba rosd tozetier ; And sgatn, if 1t be sald that by resson of the fact that Mayor Colvin has held over unill the precent sime, therefore no vacancy haa occurrod, and will not occur, untl the Clty Council shall so declars by the election of ona of ita number to act an Alayor, my an- awer is, that belng true, no vacancy now exista ; an such vacancy must of necessity exist as » condition preoedent ta the rizht of s Council to alect one of 1ta inter, For Uhio foregolng ressan, T am cleatly of opinfon that the City Council has no power or lfllbzl;lfyw elact one of ita number to sct as Mayor. But if it be tzuo that a vacancy occurred {n the office of Mayor, elthier in April or Docember, 1875, tha Council sy call a speciai election to'll auch vacancy, "This i the mods provided by iw 10 A1 #uch vacan- l:z, 1f it han occursed, and that mode, and that alone, nbiould be pursiied, 'And the sdoption of any other or different oua by thie Council wonld bo atsurd and useless, and subvoraiva of every prineiple of law and good order. 1 have dincussed these questions upon the hypothe- sis that & vacancy exists {o the ofico of Mayor, either by reason of the adoption of the sct of 1873, ar by reason of the Limitation {n the law under and by vir- tueof which Mayor Colvin ws elocted, but a4 to whether such vacancy in fact exiats, I express no oplnion, becauts it {s unnecessary to the determina- tion of the questions submitted, = Reapectfuily, Eapret Jamirsox, City Atlorney, Ald, Schafiner withdrew ols motion requeating the Clerk 1o spresd the roault on ths records, under the Iater {mpression that the same motion bad bean pat ote. On motion of Ald. White, the communteation from the Law Department was, after some discusaion, or- dezed published and placed'on lo, ASKING FOR INFORYATIO! Ald, Waterman wanted to know, a3 a matter of ine forzmation, what the vote for Mayor wi "Alfl.nschln’nu—l ©object to ruch information being ven hore. < Ald, Mabr—You can get it at Republican headquat- guees, Ald. Waterman—TI am surprised that there should be any reluctance abont giving information here, As I understand the oplnjon of the Law Department, T don't consider it i3 in opposition to it at all, I think we should have recorded upon our minutes just sxactly the returna that were muade—alnce |t -ppoars that re- turns were mnde—an to the number of votes cast for Mayor, 1t does not follow frum thst that we are to declare Mr, Hoyne elected, That is a very different thing, Butft scems to me that clearly our duty is to declare tho number of votew that were cast, Even if there had been votes for Governar of the Biate, it would be our Lusiness to put upon the records exactly Uiy returus that were made, Thcre was, of courss, some opposition to thls from Ald, Flugerald, after which Ald. Bchaffner moved o take up tue appolntment of Mr. Woodbrdge as Cor- poration Couneel and confirm the same, Toe Chair said the motion had prevaled, that the Clerk tead the returns, and Ald, 8 hafioer maintstned tht they had been resd and placed on record. ‘The Chair remarked that tlie question was the can- y2os made by the Commiltee, and Ald, Gullerton tue Comuittee Lind followed ' out its instructions, can- vassed the vote, aud it was now for the Council to do Just 2a they chosn with the vots for Muyor, Aid. Bpaidiog requested that the vote for Mayor be aunounced. e would not make & motion £o that ef- fect, but stmply make the requeat, Ald, Schaniner said tho Committes 14 not decids to canvass the vote for Mayor, but aimply to take an fo- formal minute of the vata cast. Ald. Bpalding safd {t wse understood and agresd upon that the Commitiee sbould canvaas tho raturna &cr ‘%Ilyor. and leave the matter for tho Council to ter lecido, Ald, Campbell saw no objection to announcing the vote, ' 1t could nat affect the ntatus of the present Asyor ouo way or the other. Some 36,000 or 40,000 rwons had voted for Mayor, sd 1t was politic, as o iatter of courtesy to thesa individnals, to snnounce tuelr vote. 'Ly 80 doing, tho Council ueed not declire auyvody elected, foe it conld not do that. It would not chango the siatus of the City Government or its ofliciuls to announce tho vote, 1t would give noman & placo unless there was vacancy, aud it was pretty clear that no vacancy existed, Tho City Clerk waa called upon to state whether the Committeo had agreed 10 cauvaes the vole for Mayor, and stated that ho understood the matter just as Ald. Schaffoer did, Thera was un Informal conversation, but no motion made ta canvass the vols for Mayor. The Chair—Did the Committea with the Glerk can- vasa the vots tor Mayor? Tho Clerk—No motion was mado st all, The Chafr—Dut &id the Committes canvass the vote 7 Befors the Clerk could answer ALD, WIIITE AND ALD. SCHAFFNER were on thir feet. Tho latter was abaut to commence an_explanation, when Ald. White intimated pretty polntedly that Le had bad the foar about all i hng. zld that o bad beat give others a chan be ear Ald. Behaffner—Ob, don't you spresd yoursslf 1o much. I want toask the Clerk a question for informa- tion, &nd ordinary decency would suggeat to you tiat 1 biave that right. Ald, White—1Well, T propose to give you s chanie to make yuur farewell spoech, 1 willgive you anhour or two Iater in the svenlog, Notwithstanding Ald, Wiite's antmadversions upon Schaffuer's prupensity to make a spocch, the Iaiter kepl;lm floor, snd put the followiug questios to tha Clerk : * 130 the rocords show any act dona by tho Council in refercnca to tha vote for Mayor 17 The Clerk~—No, sir, Ald., Scbaftner—Thst is all. Ald, Whito then induigod himaelf st somelength to abserve thal the whols bustncas was out of order, Tho Council had calted no election for Mayar, it way only through the courtesy of tie judges of election that tne voles wera taken st all. They wernall illegal, and thero was 1o legal power by which the Cowicil could pocelyo ther, ~1ie wanted 1o kow Lf thers was a motion t presd tha returns of the vote for Asyor ou the rocards, The Chatr—Thers {8 no motion to wpread on the records, but almyly & raqueat for the annolinceiment of tho result. All, Winte~Do T understand, in case ihe volels anuoiinced, thnt it {s 10 be placed upun tho jourue. without beitg to ordered by vots 7 The Chialr—It will take & motion to dothat, THE DISCUSBION WAS CONTINUED for some time, All.Bpalding mantamiug that the Commities had agree 10 cauvass he vote, and All, Bebsfiner asserting the coutrary, Ald, Bpalding, to inake bimself fully undersiood, sald bo bad mado no motion to announce Mr, Hoyus se Mayor, but had 1y requestod the clork Lo announce the vota for or, Then, if the Council choa to take auy action they could do so, ir, Hildreti—I will bo In favor of granting it pernonal request, by s vota of the Council, Ald. Byalding 'ead (s was substantiatly his ve- uest. I E}ally, stter » dosl of wrangling on the partof Ald, Balley and others, Ald. Cullerton mioved that the Clerk bo {ustructed (o ainounce (e number of yolcs caat for Thowas Hoyua, The annouucement of (he ‘yols was ono thlng, and spreading 1t in the records wasanother , He' did not think the mere sanounce- ment would’ give Mr, loyns any legsl grounds, but bo bellaved. sa 8 member of the Comnmitece, baving canvassed the vule, that at least §t should be au- nounced. If the geutlomen did mot desirs ik thoy could vols 1t dawn, but Lo inslated that his motion bs put and votod ou, ALl Wooluisn ‘mored the previous queation on Ald, Qulterion's motiou, Tae mnotion was put and lost,—~yeas, 17; oays, 18, ‘This seltled the tnatter onco for A1, 1dreth ralsed the question’ss 10 whother the new or old Council should DIVIDK THE MEMAERS of the naw Councll 1010 two classos,—thoss 40 cantinue in oltios one yost aud thaso to codtinus In office two yosrs, Hemuntained that it lay Iu ths ald Councll snd altuded mysteriously to a talented Iswyer who Lad bim, Lut whoas uate bie neglected 1o mention, e Chair said the Law Depatiment was divided on the question as to whether the old Councll could do ore Lusiness or uot. o Culerton said Le did not believs thoy ought to transict otlier bustucas, Next Munday eveniuy they ‘wouli re: low the mewly-slectea Aldar- men 10 tako their scate, io thought uny other pro- ceedings would be void, and they ought mot to taks chauced, ‘Ald. Hildreth called stteation to the fact that the newly-elected Aldarmen muat qualify or thair elsction would be declared void. He moved thabihe Law De- paztment be tnatructed to teport to the Conncil s to . NUMBER 250, itaduty In relation to the . gl.ae'" l:)dflmron nto Mfimfln‘n t‘.‘n'e'w'{l Tho Obalr said he was, and Ald, Hild, fheding to explaln s motion when, to mbn?:um ther taik, Ald, Behaffner moved to sdjonrn, Ald, Woodman wanted to know who wonld s N‘;: I::“lr;‘mum. and the Ghsir sald the now Ja’m Ald, Campball wanted . ha ol Gounc had there el 5 codny i rataes (e “The Cliatr hoped the — Council ‘would oome to- £ thelr seats, asther and induch the ‘members to That had slways been thf =ytom, Ald, Csmpbell moved! < an amendment to Ala, Behafner's motlon, thaf % Counciladjourn eire die} bat the motion was d «= wl out of order, as no amendment could bem _’ 1o & motlon ta adjourn, The vota then %o adjourn, and was de “d in ths aflicmatira, And thus ended the | )usiness meating of tus old Council, i BIET 7 ODISH, Couvocation of 1e Great Oouncil of the Church in Anericn—The Strong Pecuniary Charncteristics of the Denomination Fully Felt—The Gnll ing Unpopalarity of tho Presiding Elder. anecial Dispatch ta Tha Chieao Tribune, Bartigonz, Md., May 1.—Tho soventsenth quadriennial sesslon of the Methodict General Conference opened to-dayat the Academy ot Munic n this city, the place of meeting having been chiaoged from St. Lows, whors it was firat sppointed. Notwithatanding the rednction of the ratio to oue delegate for forty-five minis- tora in oach of the eighty-one Annual Confer- ences, the bady numbers 856, including abous 120 lay dolegatos, who for only the second time form a part of this great Congross of the othe oaist Eplacopal Church. A young delogate one said to ono of the ven- erablo Bishops: *1 hope to obtain s rich spiritusl blessing at this assembly of groat snd good man.” The old man shook his bead, aod afterwards, in speaking of the circumstance, he romarked: “I don't think that brother h ever been ot s Goneral Conferonce before. However, the spirit of tha body is aa religious a8 conld be oxpectod of an assembly met solely to olect church oficers and transact other church busness, The day of fasting and praver appointed for 1ast Friday, to be abserved by Mothodists every- wheroin view- of the spproaching Conferencs, bas evidently been of service already, It is evident that this is the * Centonnial" Conferenco. Tho Dishop's address {s largely patriotic, and bas also 8 good strong flavor of business angacity, proposing to utilize the great aoniversary for epocial educational collections throughout the denamination, Thees two questions are in the air—firat, the extension of Iay delegstion to tho Annual as well a8 tho Goneral Confereoce; and, second, the modificstion of the Presiding Eldersbip, Ths men from Now Eugland aro hero to press for makiog that office elective, and for baving fower men o it. The Presiding Elders aro now ap- polated by thoe Bishops, and thelr districts avore aga about twenty-five churches and pastora. ‘There is a tone of health, aud bops, and vigor. The feeling is that in apito of the general busi- ness depression four good years' work have been dane. ‘Theie 1a & Iarge majority of the old leaders presont, hence wise and conservative action 18 to bs oxpected. Ona would-bo reforme<s Brother - Pisrrine, of Michigan, sttempiet’ to start a movemont for dividing tho bodn 10to two bonses,—lay and clorical,—but hig~bpoech was endured with much impatiencofl and ho was coolly shut off by the fitteen-mimhits rule. In'its orgenic structure, tho Couference is a unit, and scouts all idea of division, T4'0 the Assscialed Preas.} Bartovonr, Md., day 1.—7Jho seventsenth dolegated Geueral Conference of the Methodiat Episcopal Church sssembled this mormuog, sud was called to order by Dishop Jaues. Afcer relizious services, Qoorge W. Woodruff was choton Becretary, whon Bishop Amea mado the address of welcome, sod Bishop Jancs res- ponded. A resolution was adopted ratifying and con- firming the sction wheteby tho piace of holding the present General Conferoaco was changoed from St, Louis to Balkimore, ‘The Rev, C. Porsh/ug, of Pittaburg, waschossn Asuistant Eocretary: 1o pursuance of ihe resolution sdopted st the laat Goueral Conference {1872), that tho Board of Dishops propare & commemourativo address, aud present it to this Couference ou the fimc day of ita sesslon. ta bo fmmediatoly pubtished to the Church, with such rocommendatione from this General Conference sa will enlivt all our peaple in o chieerful and Jovout obsurvance of thoso spocial thaiksmving services which shaly Do the most appropriato and ferveut oxpression of gratitude 1 Almighty God; of faith in Jesus Christ, tho Saviour and Ruler of the world ; of lovs to our country, aud loyalty to free institutions which are baged upon the im- mortal Dechration of Iudopeudence, Bishap” Androws read the addrees. woich amoog other suggertions, has the follawiog ¢ Let generoun gifts, dovated in permanence to tha Christian ynuth, aud thereby to the higheat aezvice of tho Sute, attest the love we bear to_our country snd its {ratititions in this day of Teloicing 8s in the past dsys of trial. Let it bo soen that fho froe Church is re-eminently the frlend aud ally of tlo freo State, Fhia upecia religloun commenioration i) mot withe hold you from secular celobrations by which the whiols peaple will mark tho occaslon, O he contrarv,n community of history, of interontn, and of destiny, will jnsute a commuity of patrivtio senttment and action, In comjany with your fellow-cltizens you wiil joyfully reviow the land which God haa given us; the aunals of aur colonial settlement and training; the At tune, and men and deeds of the Rovolutiousry struggle: the furmation of & 1more perfect unfon une der w Conatitutlon of cousummate wisdom; the mare velous increaso of our ferrilory, our population, oud our resources; our (rumphs in ara iu wrma; our progress $n sclenc literature, and adtuication, snd undecased faith {n self-ovident truths of tho yreat Doclaration, sud their Tecent stupendous reamsertion fu tho cmancipstion end_onfranchisement of a servile population more numerous than that of the Coloutes at the Ruvalution; our contributions to tho natious from which ers sprangt, and our predeatimed part in the great drama OF Bu3an hisory ~-snd in S0l fecta, nnd al forces which have niade the century memorable, snd_ whicl 6 a mare sigual future. ~With your' fallow-citi- zenw, you will alau solicitoualy study, aud as faras sible remedy tho ovila which threaten onr uatioual life, {saning some of them from the defects of our political systum ana_methods; some from soc- tfonal antipathics snd nspirsions; soma fromn sntago~ {am of social clasacs; suime from wachinatious of & forelgn spiritual despatism, and alt Laving thelr power for barm {n tho lamentable prevaienco of individusl signorance, indiMereuce, s vice, Upou all thcso as- sembiies of peoplo we favuks the apirit of concord, of patriotian, and wisdom, May they fitly {ntroduce & ceutury of largor civil good tuan’ the world hLas yet known; » coutury of wider intelligence aua_botter morals, of liberty and order moro peroctly allied, of cunforiniug unity, peacs, sud prosperity, The ussal atanding committees ware appoint- od, and the Conferouce adjonrned. THE WEATHER. Wasuinoror, D. O., May 2—1 s. m.—For the Upper Lake reglon, Upper Misslesippl and Lower Missouri Valloys, rising asod high ‘barometer, northoast to worthwost winds, colder, and clear or partly cloudy weather, fol- lowed by light raine from Missourl to Lower Misaiselppi. LOCAL OBRSERVATIONS, Cuicaoo, Msy 1, 1Bar, Thr Hu, | Wind, Haln | Wo'thor $:00 p, m,, 31 20:18 p. 1iiS08] 41 “Matimum thermometer, 44, Minimum, 35, OENEBAL flllll'A’l;llD‘(L Gloudy, Cloudy, Quic Btation. (Bar, Thr, Cheyenne., Bismarck.. ... 30, Breckinzidgo., Davenport, 1=Midnight, ao|| 39| Rortel %.30] Balt Laki . Xt By wonl