Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1876, A —————— e — ——— — —— — — — — — e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATEZS OF RUTACRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) = Postnge Prepnld at this Oflce. Dally Rdition, postpald, 1 year.. 18.00 Tarte of year at same rais. KRS for. 1.00 Bt et o T PH-Weekly, post ik Partaof yoar WEEELY EDITION, POATFA One e 81.5 138 tisb e ;L The postage ropay. Bpocimen coples sent frse, 'To provent deley and mistakes, be wure and cive Post- Dffice addross in fall, including State and Oounty. Remittanocs may be mada sither by draft, c1press, Post-Office order, ot in reglstered lotters, at our risk. TEAMS TO CITY SUBSORIPERS. I'Ill;’. se“u"dq Banday nmm fi(fi, un‘u er 'Ov:. slly, deltvered, Buaday included, () centa por woek. Vi daitvered, Bunday e O nmvh Corner Madlson and Dearborn-sta., Chiosgo Il AMUSEMENTS. NEW OII0AGO THEATRE—Clark sirest, bstween Randoiph and Lake, Looley's Minstrels, Afterncon and evening. ADELPHI THEATRE—~blonros streel, corner Deare torn, Varfety entertainment, Afternoon and eveniog. HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, botween Clark and Laalle. Euqlk!munl of Baldbury's Trou- ours, * Patchiwork,') Afternoon aad avéning. AMOVICEER'S THEATRE—Madison street, between Deatborn und Btatas + Rickatloner o™ "% ITBC(;I“UGK HTALL—North _Olark stroet, corner Rinzle. Concort by Hans Von Dulow. The @bienge Tribame, ‘Wednoadsy Mormng, Moy 3, 1870, Blightly warmer wenther is predicted for tho Lake Region to-day. Greenbacks &t the Now York Gold Ex- thange yosterday closed at 88§. Extradition is ot an ond as botwoen the United States and Groat Britain, and antil some new treaty on the subject is negotiated there will bo'no further surronder of crim- Inals by cither Governmont. The action of the English Government i releasing Wixs- Low agninst the protest of tha United States {s regardod by the latier as an abrogation of the oxtraditior: clause of the AsnnunTox tros. ty, and a notification to this effect will bo immediately forwarded by Secretary Fisn. It is eminently proper and in every way deirable that there should bo a clearing up of the mystery surrounding the extraordina- ry transaction of the Union Pacific Railroad Company in worthless Arkansas bonds, snd an effort is to bo made in this dircction. A’ resolution ordering un investigation by tho House Judiciary Committes was yesterdny adopted unanimously, and a Sub-Committeo has been . appointed to conduct the inquiry, which will ba pushed with all possible dis- patch. It occasion...y becuwics necessary for the courts to demonstrate, by stern and decisive sction, the fact that their anthority in regard to percmptory mandates may not be defied without unplensant consequences. Judge ‘Wirriaxs, of the Circuit Court, found it nec- essary in the ease of two thentrical manngers who had been guilty of an aggravated form of contempt of court, and whose respect for the mojesty of the law has probally in- crensed somewhat since the discovery that it has the flowc: to lodge them in the County Jail for n pericd of five and ten days, ro- spectively. t Late in the afternoon yesterday the Honso Committoe on Banking and Curroncy made o report recommending the adoption of tlLe resolution providing for the immediate issus of $£10,000,000 of the sllver goin reserve in cxchange for legal-tenders. As the roport did not eome up under the regular call of the Committees, unanimous consent wes neces- sary to secure action, Of course thore were plenty of inflationists to put in objections, and tho considerntion of the resolution was necessarily postponed. There is no doubt of ita passage finally, though tho greenbackers may bo expected to secure all possible ob- struction and delay. The political campaign in Louisiana has been inaugerated with assassination and murder, if tho accounts contained in our dispatches furnish n correct version of the terriblo erimes that aro chronicled. The Hon. M. H. Twircnery, o Republican State Benator, Mr. Grorar Kmva his brothor-in-law. sud & colored man were shot while crossing the river ot Coushatta, La, by o man who stood on the bank with a repeating riflo and picked them off at leisure, and was a sufficiently good marksman to kill both the white men. Tho night befors two Republi- cans were murdered in West Feliciana Par- ish by the Regulators, who appear to have taken this method of enforcing their demand for the remignation of the parish officials. Arguments eard yestorday befors ¥ndge Fanwts, of the Circuit Court, ou the motion for an injuction prayed for by Ep PurLires to prevent his successor 85 Bouth Town Assessor from enter- Ing upon tho duties of his offico. Tho appli- ration is vigorously resisted by able counsel, backed up by n vast amount of testimony showing that the election upon which Pnuams bases bis claim was lllegal, void, and of no efect—a fact s0 thor- oughly well-known that if the question of {he injunction hinges upon this iusue, Purr- zira will surely fail in his sttempt to invoke iho 0id of the Courts to install him in an ffice to which he was never elected, and, in. leed, scarcely voted for, e —— The question of liquor-sclling continues to kouble the Centennial managers. They aro between two firca—their obligationa to- ward purties who Lave paid large sumw for Jonses and privileges which which will gr atly diminish in productivencss if liguor.selling is excluded, and the temperance element in the Centennial Cowmission and Board of Pinance. Tho foes of beer and wine buve ruked up an old forgol- ten etatute which probibits the sale of mtoxicating beveriges within the boundaries of Fairmount Park, within which the Expo. sition buildings ars situated, and insist that ihe law is peromptory on the point. What the issne will be is uot now apparent, but if there is such a thing as evading the law and sanctioning the sale of lager aud light wines it will probably be done, The Chicago produce markets were again active yesterday, and most of them were weuk and unsettled. Mess pork declined 450 per brl, and closed 25c lower, at $20.17} for May and £20.35 for June. Lard declined 850 Per 100 1bs, and closed 30c lower, at §12.15 for May and $12.25 for June. Meata wero o per & lower, at 7jc for boxed shoulders, 1030 for do shart »ibs, and 10je for do short clears. Lake freights were dull, at 4o for wheat to Buffalo, Highwines wero quist and stoady, at $1.07 por gallon. Flour was onsier, ‘Wheat declined 13, olosing jo lower, ot 96j0 cash and 09¢ for June. Corn de- clined 1e, closing jo lower, at 44} for May aud 4570 for July. Onts wore jo lowar, clos. ing at 80} for May and 80§o for Juno. Rye was quict at 620. Barloy was quict and §@]o lower, closing nt 61jo for Mny and 58¢ for June, Hogs wore inactive, and closed wenk at 30@10c dacline, late salea making at §7.00 @7.26 for common to prime. Cattlo wore quiet and esasy, with nales at $2.60@5.80. Bheop weoro scarce at $4.00@0.26. Last Saturday ovening thers was In store in this city 2,477,809 bu wheat, 1,487,871 bu corn, 649,216 bu onts, ©5,728 burye, aud 157,656 bu bLarley. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.87} in greonbacks at tho cloge. Oate, of Wisconsin, is convinced that he put his foot in it when he procured the in- vestigation of the **Mary Merritt” charges sgainst Becrotary Brisrow. Not only was the nffair a dismal and disgracoful failure, injuring nobody but those who were Instrn- montal in bringing about the investigation, ‘but it is considered not at nll unlikely that the result of the conspiracy against Mr. Bristow will be to give him the Wisconsin delegation at Cincinnatl, Thero is somo talk of reviving the mule cage and of pressing an invostigation of tho story that Mr. Bristow gave improper information to Loufsville whisky-toalors concerning the increased tax in 1875. In tho Intter case the correspond- ence on tho subject will probably furnish rensons why some other State should send a Bristow dolegntion, and, if the whisky- thioves and dotactives can only bo induced to extend tho scope of thoir conspiracy, there is no telling what the effect may bo upon the Dalloting at Cineinnati. Scwexck and Park confronted each other in the room of the Houso Foreign Committeo yestorday, and each told Lis story concerning thnt much-talked-of lettor of resignation. It seoms there are two copiesof this letter, ono in the handwriting of Somexcr and ono written by Pang, Pank contends that his is tho original draft, and that the ex-Minister copied it. Pank explained certain interpo- Intions in the Bemexck copy which he said wera designed to convince the publio that Mr. Scmenok did mot dissolve his offl- cial connection with the Mining Com- pany becauso of any want of confidence in the valuo of the stock. To most of Panx’s story Alr, Scnevck gives an indignant denial, How this question of verncity will bo settled to tho satiafaction of the Genoral's {ricnds it is ot present difficult to imagine, I Mr. Scuexck i8 not more ‘successful in sustnining his testimony in this regard than Lio hing been with reference o alleged trans. nctions with the London broker, Fisuem, there will be many who will be forced to look upon the General's story as lame and impotent. The lotters in the bands of the Committoe showing Scmexck's communica- tion with tha Emma Mino Dircctory after his resiguation placa the ex-Minister's testimony on that point in an unenvisblo light, THE MAYOR'S ELECTION, Mr. Jasuzsoy, tho retiring City Attorney, furnished tho rotiring Board of Aldermen with a retiring opinion to the effect that they ought not to canvasa the vote for Mayor polled at the rocent election, and Le also ad- vised the Board that the present Council eould not clect ono of their number Mayor, which is good law, and that tho incoming Council could not, which is bad law! Afr, Jaszsox's argument may be stated briofly to be: 1. That no vacancy has ocourred in the ofice of Mayor since Cornvix's oleotion in Decomber, 1873; and that no election for Mayor can tako place (nnless a vacancy shall hereafter occar) until April, 1877, 2. That if o vacancy has occurred in that office, it happened in April, 1875, when the charter was adopted, or in December follow- ing, when the term for which Cownviv was olected expired, 8. That in cither event the vacancy oc- curred moro than ono year before the cxpira- tion of tha legal term of Mayor, and thercfore under no circumatances can it be filled by the Qommon Council. 4, Thatif o vacancy happosted nt either date, that office must be filled at n apecial election to be called by the Common Council, 5. That notice and a call are indispensable to give validity to a special election. 1t will bo noticed that Ar. Jasrcsox as. sumes that the chartor, by oporation of law, extended tho logal term of the Mayor until April, 1877, and of the other city officers until April, 1876, There is noither common sense nor legal warrant for this extension of official terms, which is, on the contrary, spucifically prohibited by the Constitution. 'The char. tor has boen tho sbsolate law of the city from tho day the voto thereon was canvassed and the rosult declared. The adoption of the chinrter terminated the officinl existence of all the elective officers—Mayor, Council, Treasu- rer, Collector, and Attornoy—as completoly und o8 effectually g if their terms bad ex- pired that day. Tko only right aud authori- ty that cither Mayor CoLvix or Attorney Ja- Mizsox hud to exercise the duties of thoir of- fices after that day is given in the third sece tion of the first article of the charter, which says: 1f & majority of the votes caat at such election shall ba for city organization undar geners! law, such city ehall thenceforth Lo deemed to be organized under thin act; sad the city officers then in ofice shall theroupan excrciso the powets conferred upon lke officera In this nct, until Wiele successors shall be slected and qualified. This soction does not extend the official term of any officer; it assumes that il theso ofticers are legislated out by tho sdoption of the new charter, but it directs that during the interval or interregnum preceding the next general eloction theso ex-officers shal) exercise the powors of like officers directed to be elccted under this act. When was this election to take placo? At the next regular election, When was the next regular elec. tion? The charter says: ¢ A general election for city officers shall be held on the third Tuosdsy of April of each year.” That was the shortest time fixed by law for the eloc- tion of all the offices made vacant by the adoption of the cherter. Mr., Jamizsox will not pretend that the charter extended his official *‘term” to May, 1876, He must concedo that bis sole suthority to act as Attoruey after April, 1875, was obtained from the clause wo havo quoted, which allowed Litn 410 exercisa tho powers” of tha City Attorney to bo elocted until that Attorney was clected. Ho was not City Attorney af- ter tho charter was declared adopted ; thence- forth ho was u wmere lcum tenens, author- ized to exerciso the powers of Attorney until an Attoruey could be elected, As with the City Attorney and Treasurer, 80 with the Mayor, Al these offices were wado vacant by the mdoption of tho new charter, and the incumbent gessed to be Moyor; hissolo suthonty wasto “exercise the powers " of Mayor until his successor was clected. ‘When waa this election to take place? The chartor states that ‘‘at the goneral eloction in 1878, and blonnially therenfter, the Mayor shall bo elected in each city,” but that does not proclude an elaction in 1876, thero being no Mayor in office,—tho office not Lav- ing been provionsly filled, Al the limit im- posed by this’ provision was thot a Mayor must be elected in 1877 to serve two yoars, and that the Mayor clected in 1876, to fill the void in that office, shonld serve only for ono year, The Iaw having vacated all the elective offices, laving abruptly cut of the offiojal terms of all tho then oxisting officors, the in- cumbenta wore direoted to ocoupy the vacant premises until now tonants wore sclected to £ill the places. Mr, CoLvin has nover been Mayor sinco tho charter was adopted, oxcopt in tho senso of a tomporary custodian until a Mayor could be duly elected. Tho charter provided for a ¢ general election for city ofii- cers” in April, 1876 ; it was not a * gpocinl election,” but a gonoral election, at which nearly 40,000 voters doposited their ballots for o man to fill the office of Mayor, which has had nono other than a temporary ooou- pant sinco April, 1875, " Mr. Jawrmeson concludes that the failure to give notice, ote., eannot avoid or defeat the logality of a *‘genoral olection,” tho dato of which isfixed by law. The voluntary election by tho people gf a Mnayor at a * general olection ” was therefore valid in Inw, and tho odvice of tho City Attornoy that the Council treat the action of 40,000 voters with con- tempt, oven to refusing to record the fact that thoy had so voted, was not only dis- conrteous but presumptions. 'The City Attornoy advises ths Council that it hnd once held there was no vacancy in the office of Mayor, and therefore refnsed to cail o gpocial election, aud that it should adhere to that position, The question whether a vacancy oxists is n question of fact. Tho Inte Common Council having refused to rec- ognizo the fact of a vacancy in the ofllco of Mayor does mot preclude the new Common Council doing so. The new Common Coun- cil mny assumo that the vacanoy becomes a fact from the date at which they can take offfcial cognizance of it, and, the vacancy being for less than a yenr, may proceed to fill it by the election of one of their own numbor. Should they do so, and disro- gard Mr. Corvmy's official existence in the future, they will have, with the Mayor of their own choico and thoir own Finance Committee, absolute control over the city affairs. Will Mr. CoLvin take notice, and ronder such a municipal conflict unncces- sary ? THE ¥INANCE QUESTIOR IN CONGRESS, Perhaps tho most senseless of all the great varioty of sensoless things done by tho Dem- ocratic majority in the House of Representa- tives 1s the monthly forcing of o vote to sus. pend the rules in order to repenl tho act pro- viding for the redemption of the legal-tender notes in coin on tho 1st of January, 1879, A suspension of tho rules requires a two- thirds vote, and it is well known o both tho resumptionists snd the repudiationists that a two-thirds vote cannot bo obtained to war- rant o vote on the rapoal itsolf before it shall have been duly reported from the proper Committoo. The call for a voto on the sus- pension of the rules can have no other pur- pose, therafore, than that of affording Con. grossional demagogucs the opportunity to deceivo their constituents by o vote that counts for mothing either way. Thus Afr, Parne, of Cleveland, who pretends to favor rosumption, moy eny that hoe voted to sus- pond the rules citherin order promptly to defeat the proposed repeal or mako room for another resnmption schemo. Likewise men who vote in the negative on & motion to sus- pend the rules to make room for tho re- peal bill may vote for the ropesl when it is duly reported. There is nothing binding about the vote to suspend the rules, and nothing which authoritatively indicntes the sentimont of the voter on the'real issue. Its only use is to cnable cortain domagogical Congressmen to make up flctitious rocords for tho deception of their constitutents, For the rest, it meroly enables the Democrata to carry out their do-nothing policy, and devote their time to the misreprescntation of com. mittee investigations. Thero Is just one thing the Democrats can do with safety in this currency matter,—an action that will probably have the most ben. eficial results, but which will still be non- committal initsolf. Thisistoadoptimmediats measures for bringing the available silver into circulation, thereby relieving the famine of small change, snd affording an opportunity to teat the popular sentiment on tho eirculation of coin. This can bs done, fortunately, withoat any cost to the Govornmont, and without in the least disturbing valaes. The first stop will bo to adopt the resolution pre. pared by Mr, Frost, of Boston, which au. thorizes thio Secrotary of the Treasury, under such restrictions and rogulations as will secure o fair circulation, to issue the silver coin now in the Treasuwry in exchange for an equal amount of legal-ten. ders, the latter to be reissued for the rotire. ment of the like amonnt of fractional curren- cy, which shall bo canceled and destroyed. "I'ho object of this proposition is merely to maoke the law of April 17, relative to the iasue of gilver in exchange for fractionals, immedi. ately operative, ‘Cho people have hoarded their fractionals for exchange, but the Treas- ury and Bub-Trensuries have not the clerical forca adequate for the labor of counting, sorting, eto., and tho result is that, though thore were 214,000,000 of silver coin in the Treasury at the time the law was passed, only sbout §1,600,000 of that sum has beon put out. The adoption of the proposed resolu- tion will ¢nable the Treasury Department to avail itsel of the assistance of the bonks throughout the country, to which the silver may be {ssued in exchange for greenbacks, on condition that thoy will pay it out for frac. tionul parts of checks and In exchange for {raotional currency, Asit is now, there bns not been enongh silver coin issued to go around for pockot-pieces, though in the mean- time the fractional curroncy has largely dis. appeared. . Tho next step for Congress to take is to adopt tho new silver bill offered in the Sen. ste by Mr. Suzay, or ono similar to it, suthorizing the coining and {ssue of silver dollars in exchange for the legal-tender notes of 31 in denomination, The Treasury De- partmont announces that it Las facilities for coining silver at the rate of $2,000,000 per wouth without interfering with the gold coin- aye, und probably theso facilities could be in- creased. Bilver might be jssued up to the full limit of the sinking-fund required by law without putting any more restraint upon the Governwent than jt bears nmow in the purchase of bonda for that purpose, and tho destruction of legal-tonder uotes of $1 ds. _nowinstion would be just as much a reduc- tion of tho dobt sa if the sams amount of Londs were purchased and dostroyed, Nor would there bo any contraction in the ocur. rercy, the only differenco being that silver would take the placo of a cortain portion of tho greonbacks, The equilibrinm of values would bo retained, and the groonbacks and silver would cirsulate wide by sido, It tho Domocrata in Congross will acoept this a8 a sort of tacit compromise for tho present, and agree to do nothing more about tho ourroncy, we are confldent of tho most benoficial rosults, They might then adjonrn and nwait tho effoct upon the people of this partinl coin circulation, We would advise the placing of a large proportion of tho silver is- st in the two Btates of Ohio and Indiana, which alone seem to bo serionsly infected with the shinplaster mania, and we ara con. vinced that it would work a radical change in the sentiment of those two States on this question. If the ** grosnbackers " in Con- gross dnre to trust their constituonay with an nctaal contact with coin, oven for subsidiary uses, let thom simplyadopt the plan proposed and await tho result. If n yenr's exporience shall show that thore is nothing very danger- ous in the ciroulation of cdin, after all, per- haps they will afterwards be willing to make s much concession in favor of gold na in fA~ vor of silver. THE COURT-HOUSE PROPOSITION, Tnr Tanuse has alrendy printed a full description of the plans for a Court-House, propared by Mr. Borrxatox, which e, in connection with Aaos Graxys, N. 8. BouToy, Monten & Tarees, and the Oanten Broth. ers, proposes to orect complate for &2,100,- 000. Every tax-poyer should endeavor to got a view of these plans, which mny bo scen in Mr. BorivaTox's oflice. Thoy compare fav. orably with any of the plans that were sub- mitted originally, and are much suporior to the so-called compromise plan on which Eoan and Trouiey have partially agreed. Tho Boy- motoN plan proposes building on the new foundations now being prepared, and pro- vides for intorior light and air by n spnce 150x 160 feet in the contre, which is to bo utilized Lotk for light and for a large publio room on tho first floor. This immenso hall will bo roofed with glass and furnished with ven- tilators, so ns to give light and air to all the insido officen. Tho floor of thia room will be covered with tho sidewalk lights, so os to make tho space in the basemont under- neath perfectly availablo for offices, This centro room itsolf will bo a vast political ox- change, kopt for public purposes, and open. ing upon all the corridors and entrances to tho various departments, Tho room takes . tho place of the dome contemplated in the Eaax-Tiziey plan, which, besides being n uscless nppendage, will cost certainly half a million and probably three-quarters of a mill. ion of dotlars. In place of any ornamenta- tion which the dome might farnish, Mr. Box- 1NaToN's plan proposes two great clock-tow- ers, fronting on Randolph and Washington stroets, tho cost of which is included in the general estimate ; they will be as ornamontal as the dome, and much more wseful, Tho exterior of the building is massive and beauti- ful; without any lavish wasto of ornamenta- tion, and his plan of construction contem- plates fira-proof walls running from founda- tion to root at every corridor. 'The building would b in every respect a crodit to the city. Now, tha cost of the building on the plan that Trurey and EoaN are trying to agree upon will be, according to their own sdmis- sion, about 38,600,000, nnd it will probably not be less than $4,000,000, and this in spito of the understanding botween the city and county that the total cost should not oxceed $2,500,000. But Mr. BoviNoroN and his ngsocintes, occupying the lending positions in their various branchos of building, offer to construct 8 Court-House equally desirable, with a guarantee in any sum that may be de- manded that it shall bo built strictly in ac- cordance with the specifications they submit, that it shall be completed within two yonrs and a half, and that no claim shall be made for more than $2,100,000, the contract-price. Every one knows that this sum is ample, at the progont prices of labor and material, to construct a8 elegant and snbstantial s building as Chicago nceds. A ro- fusal to accopt their offer will cost tho tax-payers of Cook County at least a million and & half, and probably two mill. ions of dollars, in excess of this sum. Horo is an admirable opportunity for the Board of County Commissioners to show that the moral indictment brought against them by tho late Grand Jury is uot well-founded. If thoy will abandon the opportunities for job- bing incident to the building of the Court- House, and save the people two millions of dollars by mccepting the offer mnde them, with smple guarantee, thoy will be relieved in part of the suspicion of corruption which now attaches to thom. But, if they reject this offer, their action will be a strong con. firmation of the sarious charges which the Graud Jury have put upon them. A BUNDLE OF JOBS, The Democratio mpjority in the Houss en- tered upon the sossion carefully holding themsolves to keep from bursting under their own tremendously high pressure of economy and rotrenchmens. They wore thero, aa thoy hod so long loudly advertised, to save the Government, which was imperiled by Repub- lican profligacy nnd corruption, The sixty Confedorates wero algo culistod for that great work of saving the country. Tho Democratic mafority hLeld the purse-stridgs absolutely, They had full power to stop every leak in the Trensury, to lop off overy extravagance in every department, and put an ond to stealings everywhers, and not a dollar could be taken out of the Treasury except wpon appropria- tions made by thewm. Never had reformers fairer fiold. Four months have they Iabored under that Democratic-economic- tromondous high pressure, and they have placed the cadets at West Point upon starveling allowance, and aftor cutting down our diplomatio gervice have made such scant provision for what is loft of it that our representation abrond must needs bo upon the shabblest footing of that of any civilized nation. If, in tho way of retrench- ment, the Domocratio House, which promised to reduce the Government expenditures at least ono-third, bas* dono anything besldes worth mention, nobody has yet found it ont. With this niggardly, and in reality most ex. pensive, retrenchient the Derocratic-eco. nomie high prossure was exhausted. Now come the Democratio schemes for emptying the Treasury. Foromost among these is the River and Iiarbor Appropriation bill, ‘This it is, evidently, that hss been singled out by the Confederste mewmbery as the medfs by which to got their rights for their people, Every member in whose dis- trict there is a croek, inlet, or bayou has had an appropriation for its improvement tacked upon tho bill. There is $40,000 put down for the improvement of the Coosa River, in Georgin. The classio ‘Tombigbeo ls down for n 218,050 improvoment. The Cape Foar River, North Carolina, is to bo improved nleo $160,000 moro in addi- tion to $100,000 alrendy squandored for the like purposs. Pamlico River is down for $£26,000 worth of improvements ; Ocmulges River, $25,000 ; Tonnesseo Rivor, $300,000 ; Jamea Rivor, $60,000 ; tho great Kanawha, $300,000 ; Galvoston Bay, $100,000; Galves- ton Harbor, $200,000; and lessor sums for an innumerablo lot of siroams, bealdes the in- ovitablo $100,000 for the mouth of the Mississippl, $50,000 for the Misafssippi op- posite 8t. Louis, ote. To got this all, the usual log-rolling and trading of votes was xesorted to, and we find $100,000 put down for the Red River of tho North ; $125,000 for tho Delaware River; $75,000 for the ‘Wabash Rivor, which for yoars practically has not boon navigated ; and the usual amounts for the Ohlo, Upper Mississippi, and out-of- the-way ports overywhere. The heavy ap- proprintions, howevor, are for the unnavigablo Sonthern rivers and inacoessible harbors for which thereis nocommerce, and the sole beno- it dorived from the appropriations for which will be tho sponding of so much money in the district, and the consoquent reinforcing of the claims of the momber therefrom for re-cloction on the score that he * did somo- thing" for his constituents, The total ap- propriation, as the bill passed the House, is in round numbers $6,000,000,—a million mora thon was appropristed by the extravagant Congross of 1873-'4, and the oxponditure of at least three-fourths of which will be so much monoy absolutely wasted. The only possiblo geod that can come of it all will bo to tmpross upon the country the truth as to the dexterity with which the high-pressure Democratio reformers Lasten to empty the National Treasury. MR, BLAIKE'S BECOND BTATEMENT. ‘Wo are glad to nots Mr, Bramng's second appearance on ths floor of Oongress in his own behal?, and his friends will now agroo with him that he is justified in announcing that he will not take any further notico of scandnls with which his name shall be asso- cinted. His statomont in regard to Knnsns Pacific bonds is as comprehensive ond con. vincing a8 it was in rogard to the Fort Smith & Little Rock bonds, and he now stands ac- quitted bofors sll fair-minded men of both parties. In this second statemont he die- poses of a chargo which, howaver incrediblo and malicious it may have seemed to him in his innoconce, was stated with great partiou, larity, and, owing to the alleged confirmation inthoreoordsof tho United StatesCourt in Kon- &ns, had an ugly look. It had beon industriously ciroulated for a couple of years, and the allo- gation was that Mr, Bramve had corruptly ro- ceived fifteon Konsas Pacifio bonds from a lawyer named Josern B. StEwant, who waa acting as lobbyist for tho Company. Several persons were cited as having knowledgoe of the transaction,—among them Srewant, his formor portner named Ripprg, Tnomas Ewmio, Jr,, and some newspsper correspondents, It was also copiod from the Court rocord that, wlren the distribution of these bonds wos mada pablic in the shape of 8 suit brought by SrewanT against the Kan. sas Paciflo Company, thers was a stipulation by tho attorneys that Braine's bonds should bo set down to his brother, “Jomn E. Bramg." In his briof statement of the case to tho House, Mr. Brane produced a lotter from StewaRrT showing that Jonwn E. Bramz was alwnys the owner of the bonds, and ao- quired the intorost which they represent as far back as 1866, beforo Jases G. Brame enterod Congress; also a lotter from Rmpre saying he had never seen Bramvs in his offieo, and never knew of BIswAnr's transforring bonds, o8 charged, or mny other thing of valuo to Bramvg; also a lettor from Tromus Ewixno, Jn., who, having been a Director of the Kansas Pacific, testifies that he knows Bramz never bad any interest in the Com- pany ; also letters from others of liko tonor. The charge seema 1o be complotoly and satis- fnctorily answored. Mr. Bramve said in his firat statoment that it had been the rule of his life not to doanything which he would ba averse to having publicly known, and we be. liove he told the truth. e A PAINFUL RUMOR. Thers {s s painful rumor n circulstion that s cor- rupt bargain and trade hava been olfected, or are like- 1y to bo effected, batwsen the usurping scalawag in tho Mayor's office and » majority of tha members in the new Clty Legislature, The rumor fa to tho effect that the new membera (or enough of them to constitute, with the ten or elaven Colvinisn sealawags, a majority of the body), have agreed to recognize CoLvan ax tho rigntfal Mayor upon the condition that CoLvix shall not assume to preaide in the Counctl, nor interfers in the appointment of ila committees. This corrupt arzangoment s said to have been negotistod between the usurper and cortain “weak sistors” among the new members, tirough a certatn out-going member of the body for one of tha South Bide districta, If any auch infamous trade haa been entered Into, the publia wiil qulckly know it upon the convening of the new atsombly, And the parties to it in the assembly will apoedily learn in what estimation tho pubillo hold such buckstering charactors.—Chlcago Times, Wo do not beliove there is a particle of truth in this suggestion. Wo regard the story as a foeler put out by the Colvinites, nnd os an invitation to.trade. Wo do not beliove that the majority of the new Council {4 composed of ** woak sisters,” or of men in tho lenst disposed to compromiso or bargain with Convin aud the corruptionlsts in offico. It thore wore anything upon which the ‘whole peoplo wero unitod at the recent elec- tion, it wasa the protast against Colvinism, The vote would havo been unanimous had thero not been some questfon aa to the efficacy of the voto for Mayor. As it was, more than seven-tonths of all the votors voted directly for a successor to CoLviv, and, of the other throe-tenths, two-thirds were equally aa op- posod to him. Both political parties united in denouncing the usurpation, protesting againgt its continuance, and in demanding that a successor bo chosen, Wa do not be- liove that the twenty-five and moro gentlo- men elected with direct reference to the dis. placemont of CoLvix have already wenkened and consented to betray those' who vated for them, The result of the olection has been can. vassed and declared, and the membors of the now Board will, within a fow days, re- ceivo official notice of their election. They should not leavs matters until Alonday night before taking counsel of one another. Thoy should Lave a meeting, and determine beforehand upon & policy to be adopted, snd’ ascortain who and how many of the new membors will adliere to that polioy, and agres to carry it out. Wa repeat, that we do not believe that there is any truth in the scandalous story of the Z%mes, and lhave no doubt but that all the Reformers elected to tha Council will prove truo to thoss who electod them to work a reform, e T—— ‘The evils of the system by which the House of Hepresentatives is made the final arbiter of contosted seats is shown in the case of Awzsorr, Democrat, who contosts the seat of Frost, Republican, from Massachusotts. It | sppears that tho two clalmants entered info an agroemont, which is in accordanco with the Inw, by which Mr., Fnosr was to have forty days in which to take testimony after the answor of Anporr waa recoived. Upon a more technicality, however, the Committes allowed Mr, Frost but twenty-five dnys, and thoreby excludod the tostimony of twenty- aight important witnesses, By the mnohine- 1y of party, theroforo, rather than by the real merits of the case, Mr. Frosr will in all probability be exeluded from his seat. This caso is only ono inatanca out of many similar onos which clonrly siows that tho settloment of contested sents should belong to the judi- cial branch of the Governmont, whorae it oan bo treated impartially and without partisan pressure, The Confedorate mud-flingors but befouled themselves when they trumped up charges of corruption sgainet Bonator MorTow in the disbursomont of $275,000 appropriated out of tho National Treasury for equipping and sonding to the field Indiann volunteers dur- ing tho Rebellion, The facts aro simply thess: When the Robellion wns at its hoight, and the poed for troops most press- ing, tho Rebel sympathizors who controlled the Indians Legislature rofused to vote a dollar toward paying tho expenses of reoruit. ing, equipmont, ote., of the Indinna Union volunteors. Senator Monrox, then Governor of Indiann, notwithetanding, with redoubled vigor, went on with the work of raising troops and sending them to the fiold, and it is woll known, by hisown personal exertions, succeeded in borrowing the money re- quired until funds could be procured from ‘Washington, aa thoy were, solely through his enorgy and address, and becauso of the high confldenco roposed in him, Every dollar of the money was honestly disbursed, and, though tho vouchers wore lost by the sinking of a slip, the witnosses survive to prove the monoy was faithfally applied, overy dollar of it, to the raising and oquipping of Union goldiors, Consoquontly the charges of cor- ruption have been abandoned, and the charge now is that under tho Constitution the Gon- oral Governmont had no right to pay nor Gov. MorTon to receive the $275,000 in ques- tion, Wo uscd to hear a dealof that sort from the Copporhends during the War, which in toto they denounced na unconstitationnl, It seema we aro to hear more of it, and if tho Confoderates in Congress are to invosti- gnto tho conduct of the War, unconstitutionnl disbursements of public moncys to exactly tho amount of the national debt will doubt. lesa bo exposed. For tho rest, the more Mon. Ton's rocord as the great War Govornor is at. tacked the brighter will it appenr, for thereis no flaw in it. Tho only significant feature of tho whole affair is the cool Confederato chial- longing of * unconstitutional " expendituro of Government funds in putting down the Ttebellion. That will not be lost upon the country, The worst and most corrupt Common Council which over legislated for Chicago wag the ono whose torms expired just after the great fira. Half of them were indioted, several were put into jail, and had it not been for some technical ruling of the courts near- 1y all those indicted would have been pun. ished by imprisonment, That was o bad Council; but tho one whose existence hna just terminated was, if anything, worse than tho gang that stole and blackmailed botween Docember, 1869, and 1871. The Iate Ring hove stolen ond blnckmailed more monoy during their term than the former gang; haif adozon of them have mannged to get ro- clected, but thero will bo shorter pickings for- thom during tho next yoar than the last one. " Ay It tho Houses of Congress would promptly pass the following joint resclution which has beon proparod, they would po guilly of dolvg one useful and meritorious act, Bift aa there Is no partisan advantage to ba gained, it {s doubt- fulif thoy willboin & hurry to pass it. The proposition fa contained in theso words s Resolved, ‘That the Bocretary of {he Tressury, under such }imita and regulationn as will best secure s Just and fair distribution of the sama through the country, may {ssue tho allver coln now {n_the Treasury in ro- demption of an oqual smount of legal-tendsr notos, and tho notes so redeemod ahall be relssued upon thg retiremont of & like sum of fractional currency; snd said fractional currency, wheu 8o subatituted, s deatroyed and held as” part of the ainkiug fund, s provided in the actof April 17, 1876, It this resolution were adopted, the fourteen millons of allver small change lying idlo in tho Treasury could ho quickly got 1ato oironlation, 10 the groat rolief of the poople, who are aaffor- ing 1o their daily business for fraciional cur- rency. Cnnnot the blatant, windy domagoguos stop their nonesuse just long enough to put the resolution to vote, and lot their suffering con- atituents got tbat fourtecn millions of small change ? —_—— Tho Hon, Jaxres G, BLAINe hag shown pretty conclusively that be had nothing to do with the soventy-Ave Litilo Rock bonds sold to the Union Pacific Tailroad ; but the publle curiosity is excitod to know who did sell thoso worthleas bonds totho Company, and pooket $04,000 thore- far, and why the Company was purchasiog such wild-cat securitics. The Clnclunati Gazette makes this statoment about the transaction : Thu bonds wero sald ; wero unloaded onto the Unlon Pacifio Rallroad Company; wore talked about n the Board of whizh Mr, Jamra ¥, Witaox, Mr, Avauszus Bouzny, Mr. HaknisoN, Mr. JAsZa Diooxs, and otlicrs were mombors, and fually whea Lho talk could not be atopped, OLIVES AMEs bought the bands which cost the Union Pacific Company $61,000 for $25,000, [y did tho Union Paciflo Company buy the worib: fean bonus in the Orst place? Why did RorLiwa tell IfARnts0N 0nd MILLABD, two of the Directors, that an invostigation of the transaction would. mvolve ar, Brao? Aud finally why did OLIVER Auxs pay $35,000 t0 the Union Pactfio Nairoad Camipany for the worthless stuff 2 It may b that all theso qucations can be sstisfactorily anawored; we hope 1i can be me. o The corrupt Ring in the 'ommon Couneil exhibitod its spite at tho sction o the people In relogating » majority of thom to private lifein refusiog to sunounce tho vote cast for Mayor at tho late eloction. We quote from the proceod- Ings ¢ Ald, OULLERTON 8ald, a8 & member of the Canvassing Committes, he desired that every momber of tha Councll should be placed on record, and moved that the yoles cast for Mr. Hor~x for Mayor be snnounced. ‘The molion was then put by ayes and noea sud fost 28 follows s A yce—Cooy, Spalding, Blone of the Fourth Ward, Stoue of the Fifth Ward, Clarks of ths Fifth Wai Leldy, Oulsrton, MaDonsld, Woodinan, Olark of the Tenih' Ward, Gunderson, Heath, Waterian, Campbell, , Oleveland, Quirk—17, o#a—Dizon, Warren, Fitzgerald, Bommer, flildreth, O'Drien, White, Hyan, Eckhardt, Hiout, Mabr, Langachar, Balistiuer, urphy, Bweency, Lynch, and Diokin It will be noticed that it was Dixon's yote which defeated Currenton's motion, Had he voted aye, it would Lia: ried by one majority, i Y The Baron Yox Reisciaon, the head of the famous Corra publishing house in Germany, ro- contly committod suicide on scaount of troubles in busioess cooneoted with the firm. His pre- decesaor iu the businoss was the son of Jouawy Frixpaion Corra, whose fathor was one of the most emivent men Qermany hias produced. He was the publisher of Goxrak, ScuiLixs, Jean Pavs, Ricurxs, Ficurs, ScaeLung, Tixck, and Bomizaxi. e foundsd the Akegemasine Zeitung, 11798, whicth still exists, introduced the frut sieam printlog-press in Germany, and sctively promoted the {ntroduction of ateamboats on tho Ruine and Lake Coustance, —— The report made to the President of the Unlted Bistes by Gen, Hawrey, Prosidsns of the Centennial Commission, giviog tue full pro. gramme of the opening cetemonies on the 10th of May, shows that the prograame will be quite {aterostiog from & muzlcal polut of viow. The munloal numbors will Inotudo $he national afry of all cauntrles represented at the Exhibition, by the Tuosas orchestra; Waaxzn's Centennla) Innuguration Maroh ; hyma by Jonx G. Wain' TIER, music by Jonx K, Parxe, with orchestral and organ accompanimentas cantats by Binnxy Lawzn, musio by Dupt.xr Buck, full chorus, ors, gan, and orohisstral accompanimont; and Han. pEL's * Hallolnjah Chorus.” 1t will bo apt tq mako the teaty old composer of ** The Mesaiah™ turn over in bia grave if heshonld happen to earn that the noble chorus will bo sung to the- aocompaniment of bells iilery, The New Orleans papers are quits enthuoaias. tic slready over the success of the Eapa' jotiley in deoponing the month of tho Misslssippl, a). though tho work {a as yot far from completion, On tho 20tk Inst, an oxcureion was made dows to thio Jettles, and the load was cast to ascorialn the depth of wator. At the head of the passes, whoro tho firet work of the jotties can properly e said to have boen bogun, the load was thrown, and 15 foet wan the shoalest water found. Thlg was at & polot whore thore wan but 8 feet of wa. tor bofore tho jetty-channel was conatrosted. This vory decldod improvament is alroady laok. odupon s an indioation that the work, when comploted, will bo a success, and shat thia seri. ous obatacle to tho commorcial interests of New Orleans 18 Iu a fair way of compl ote removal, Truonern i3 noted for his impudence aa went a8 hia * erookedness,” but we hava not sesn any. thing mors chicoky than the tollowing motion by tho ** Llatherakite” : Ald, IrLoRETH 8aid that hoe had been {nformed that 4t waa the duty of this Council to determine by lot thg time of the new Councll, and moved that this Coun. cilask the opinlon of the Law Departmont whether iuhol.n O;Lundl dotermine tho status of the incoming un( Tho Chslr vary proporly trestod the motion with contempt, and refused to eutertsin it. The peoplo of the Boventh Ward have committod g nulsance ou the new Council by gending thay indicted *‘orookod ™ back to 1k, Tho now oity officers having baen deolared daly olected, let them loso no time in qualifying and taking possomsion of thoir respective ofoes, ‘The Aldormen oloct shonld not nogloct this dai~ —_— PERSORAL. . Qon, Grant 7as 64 yoars of age last Friday, Galiloo said on Msy-dsy : * The world doeq move, though.” Mr. Beccher {a to deliver a locture for a chan itablo objoct at tho Daltimore Acadomy of Muale May 11. 1t was & witty roply—and wit koeps a long time ~—which Mathows gavo whon asked if he had avor beon to Cork, ** No, but I bave seon many drawings of ft.” Josoph Guibord's grave, it Is eald, already ‘wears & noglectod look, It has been depressed sovoral inchos, as though somothing had beon removed sinco the burial. 1t {a considored & matter of tone with colored Congressmen who have boon in Washington " long onough to afford a carrisge and span to havo a Caucasixn cosohman. Astorisk, tho philosopber, obsorves that walke ing up to tha fifth etory, whon tho elevatoris broken, would bs botter axorciso for the lungs if tho staircase wore o winding one. **Bayard Taylor's Centonnial ode will ba abont twenty minutes’ long in the reading of it,” sayx the Philagelphia Ttmes, Wo hopo it will not ba longer thau that in **the hoaring of it.” A workingman in Parla namod Hobay was making an oxcellent canvass untll it was discov. ared that ho ownod & honse worth 850,000 franca, when his rionds descrted him in a body. Mrs. Anna Chambora Ketchum, tho *'South- orn pootoss,” widely known in Americs as the author of the * Bonny Dlue Flag,” * Bonnle,* oto,, has ontered upon the novitiato st a con. vent in Kentucky, Mr, William M. Evarls has gons up to his country-plsce at Woadstook, Vt., whore hs pure poscs to spond the noxt fortnight on his Cene tonninl oration. Contrary to his usual custom, Lis will put this work on papor. Benator Sharon, of Neyvads, the millfonaire and mining priuce of tho Paciio Cosst, with hic family, Mrs. W, O. Ralston, and a party of {rionds, leavo for Ban Fraucisoo this morniog in special car via Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Tbe Boston Journal says of Gov. Rica's veto of tho Parton marriage bill: ‘It is justifiable on the ground that it is noconstitutional for the Loglslature to make a special excoption nnder a gonoral law. While a law stands thers iano power to suspond a provision, oven whon the end spparently juetifies the monns,” Tho Khedive of Egypt is 45, and has four wives. From this timo forward his judgment of womon will docroase, and the number. of hit wivos will incroase in arithmetical progression. Butas bis judgment of men and affaira will be improved n & contrary ratlo as he grows old- er, he will be better abla to support a harem. A dispatch to the New York Ierald, dated April 29, saya: * Fever is making sad havoa amoog the Americans in Rome. Daring the past woek nine dead bodles wers sent to Leg- horn to awalt tranmsportation to the United Btates. 'The excavations now belng carried on at tho Campus are sald to bo the cause of ths slcknoss.” Mr. John Jacob Astor has authorized the cor~ poration of Trinity Chureh, Now Yorlk, of which ha I8 » constant attendant, to have ereoted athis 0xpenso A new altar and altar Bcroen, of whate over matorial sud deslgo may be chosen. It Is thonght that the structure, which will uodoubt- odly be vory maguificent, {s intended as a memo- rial of the lato Wiliiam B, Astor, ‘The phyaicisna eay that Commodoro Vandes bilt Is rapidly golug to pieces, and cannot live many months. Itis eald that his business has boen arranged with a view {o hia death at soy moment, sud oannot suffer seriously whonsvor it shall take placo. Bat tho Btock Exchange it prepared to be excited by an snnonncemsnt of his death, whother true or falso. Kate Fiold made her London debui atths Galoty Theatre last Thursdsy as Volanis im “ The Honeymoon,"” Genoviove Ward taking the part of Juliana. The speolal character of t porformsnce was entirely uoannonoced, sod under the circumatances $hio auccoss of the deb- utante was gratifyjng to her and to her friends. Bhe hiss sssumed tho stago name of Mary Keme ble, Gambetts attempted $o ridicula M, Menior, the propristor of the Bien Public, because he made his fortuns by selling chocolate, ** Istould like to koow," rotorted Meuler in his paper, it Gambetta pere, the jolly and honest old grocer of Cahors, had not sold 2Menler's chooolate, with what ho would bave rearod the lttls Leon.” A disputo of thia kind between two ardont Repub lioans is somothing of an anomaly, < HOTEL ARRIVALS, Patmer Houss—M, D, Wilbur, NewsrX, N, J,; Hugh - Groons, Mipnespolis; & B Burk, U, 6. A% Capte Cary Borrer aud wifs, and the Rev, O. ¥, Stover and wite, England; H, R. Comly, Helens, M, Ty; O K Lewls and G, Il Gongdon, Leaver Daau} G. W, Keo: ney, Bostan Hayes, New Mezicoi ; Eiwin Cla Mo....Grand Paey D, " Ackeraiis, Detrott; ‘Teardaley, Tiock Inlsnd; T, E, Mages, Peoris; O, £, Burling- on Judgo . . Bowning, Quiney | . Farl York; Hosmer, ‘Obillicothe, Tll.: D, L. nwlnnudd&:fl.l. Han Franclsco § 3. N, Studobaker, Soulh Bond; Judge Kanlakes;' . A M, B, Plitafleld, Dlacherd, ,ll!udvrd’.;"x.h M, Bzl urg: P utige iepton 1 oorer . J. Millar, ‘California ; tho Hos, W. * Dako s Gol, 0, . Blockwell, Boston : Jdgs wall, Milwaukse; ihe Bev, 0. B, Oubb sod fam~ ugzliurg; the Yo, J. W, Eddy sod T, Mt e et Houts 2y g ion, T Dea - oines Ruguur the Hon, T. P, Trsynor, Councll Bluffs; B Emers, Peorts Tranaeript ; Anton "n”f;;'h::."l..og&gih P 'H, L, Adams, P, ¥rown, K| £, tora} e it Fuistipia: H, Lo % New York ; e tiop. W, If. Mekinne, Cleveliad; 8, 4, Anitooy snd Judge 1. J, Maoadeld, Valperal Gardner Houte—B, E." Orr, Columbus, 0. ; v Matnlesor ontreal : J. J. Bre » tow, Albany ; Clifford Mamilico, §iadsgr, Ganm i ¥, G, Rinsdaly, Hew X0tk