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

| ) l i 21 an unusually fine cro| 'SATURDAY. JUNE 1876—TWELVE PAGES. ¢ @ribwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PATADLE 1N ADVANCE—TOSTAGE TPRETAID AT TIIS OTFICE. Patly Editon. pou 2 Mafled to an) dreea 10 veekn far, . 100 Bunday Editlos iterary and lieliglous Doubls am Tri-wed y 6.0 7" TArie of yonr WERKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. One cOpy, per Fear.... TP Rk ndreany. &t twenty, per cop; which we will prepay. The postage {8 15 cent, £pecimen coples fent frec. To prevent delay and mlstakes, be sure and give Post: Office address in full, Including State and County. Ttemittonces may be made rithier by draft. express, Post-Ottice order, or In registerc letiers, atour Fisk. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIBERS. Datly, delfrered, Runday cxcepted, 25 cents per week, Dafly, deilvered, Sunday Included, S0 cents per week Adiiresy THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Corucr Madison and I Chicago, Ll bor, TAMUSEMENTS, Hooley’s Thentre. s TRandolph street, between Clark and Lasaite. **Roto Michel,” Afternoon and evenivg, New Chicago Theatre, Clark atreet, hetween Randolph and Lske. Hooless' Minstreis. Afternoon and evening. Wood's Muncum. T Sl et. hetween Deathorn an: e, Fra E e i+ Te Hicker-of- Leave A Alfteruoon asid eventig. 25 SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 187G, Greenbocks at the Now York Gold Ex. change yestordny closed nt 88} The United States Court at Now Orloans turncd ont its quota of crooked-whisky manipulators yestorday. 'The lot comprised ono rovenno ofiicer and five distillers, the first of whom received s sontenco of sixteon months' imprisonment and o fine of $6,000, whilo the distillers wero allotted flnes of 1,000 and from six to sixteon months’ im- prisoument. The partics will do penance in the West Virginia Penitontiary. Next Tuesday will settle tho fate of a large number of the Chicngo whisky-thieves who will then receive their sentences ot the hiands of Judge DBroperrr, of tho United Statos District Court. Saoveral will be held over for futurause na witnesses in trinls yet to come, but tho remainder, Mr. A, C. Hesive among the number, will know next Tucsday all the particulars concerning their respective places of sojourn in the future. A ballot-box repeater in St. Louls was yes- terdny sentenced to two years in the Peni- tentinry, ‘fhe punishment falls upon a ne- gro, who claims to be, aud probably was, the victim of unrightcous persecution, but other tepeaters, of Caucasian hue, aro under in- indictment for tho same offense, and, if the Court of Appeals shall affirm this sentence, will journey to Jefferson City with the swart son of Afrie, leaving o salutary terror in the hearts of their unjailed ilk. At St, Louis yesterday, after the list of conspirntors had received their light sen- tences, District-Attorney Dyen aunounced that & very few doys would witnesss clearing up of the whole business, and that his con- uection with the Government would thereaf- ter inunediately cense. Mr. Dyen's rccord has been one of uncompromising fidelity to the interests of the peoplo against obstaclos of gigantic character, and in » moral atmos- phere noisome with corruption of every con- ceivablo kind. Just what was needed, and what came in the nick of time, was the henvy rainfall of T'huraday evening of this weok, Its extent wn over & wide section of country, and its duration sufiicient to thoronghly moisten the ground, which in many places had becomeo ro hard and dry that the young growing crops wera griovously in neced of u liberal wetting. Reports from various parts of the West agreo that tho big rain was o big bless- ing, and that the farmern feel almost assured There is no doubt that some very fast rail- rond running is being mado by tho special train on its way from Now York to San Frau- oisco. In this respect the trip may bo phe- nomenal, but sinee it secms to have been un- dertaken by o New York theatrical manager for the purpose of advertising his attraction, it may well bo doubted whother the end jus- tifics the means, and whether o flnal accom- plishmont of the design will compensato for the risk of huwman life ncident to the run- ning of an irregular train ot a break-ncck rate of specd for no higher or more impor- tant purpose. The Rev. Dr. WiLLiam Brevexs Perny, of Genova, hag accopted the Jowa Episcopate to which ho way elected a fuw days sgo by tho Dioceson Convention. Dr. Pirny iy ahout 40 years of age, o preacher of emiuent ability aud power, 8 man of extraordinary sdministrative ecapacity, and a Iligh-Church- man of liberal, moderato, nnd conservative tendencies. o will moke Iowa an oxcel- fent Dishop no doubt, and prove indeed a Godsend to that bitter and distracted Dio- cese. Thoro is no rosson to doubt that the consent of the Btanding Committees will bo promptly given in, and it is expected that the cousecration will take place in Septem- ber next. . Judge Moone huy refused the application of Mixe Evans (who was not electod) fora quo warranto, inquiring by what right BenNarp Carvagnan (who was appointed by the Town Bourd) nssumes to act ns Colloct- or. Tho refusal is based on the ground that br, Carracuan bias uot yet so qualifiod as to be 1n actunl possession of the office, and that in the absence of a user by defendaut, lenve sannot be granted to filo tho desired informa- sion. Evans’ counsol gave notice of appeal, ft i just ns well to lot the cato go this way s any other, Judge Moonx hud uo ocea- sion to inquire iuto the facts; but if it should over coma to trial on ita merits there s 1o doubt that Mr, Oartacuan will retain 2is oilive, ny Mixe was not elected Collector, and knows it very woll, It i3 a mighty arassy pieca of business for him after the ixpoaure of the ballot.box-stufling villsiny to wk for the oflice, ———— ‘The Chicago produce markets were gener- dlly casier yesterday, with a fair business doing. The receipts continue largs, with fa rshipments. Bless pork wns 80@60e per brl lower, closing ut #17.90 cash and 18,05 ©18.10 for July, Lard was 16@250 per 100 B lower, closing at $10.77i@10.80 cash and" $10.87}@10.90 for July. Meata were o per lower, closing at 6o for boxed shoulders, Jo for do short ribe, and 930 for do short gleard. Lake froights were moderataly activo and steady, at 2o for wheat to Buffalo, Rail freights were quict and unchanged, Uighwines wero firm, at $1.09 per gallon. Flour was in light demand and easier. Wheat declined 1jc, closing at $1.02§ cash end §1.03 for July, Corn was easicr, closing at 431jc cash and 44}o for July. ~ Oats were ensy, closing at 281 cash and 24jo for July. Ryowns steady at 63@C8jc. Dar- ley was steady and quict, at Gic ensh. Ifoga wora fairly active at 10@15¢ decline, the bulk of tho sales moking at $6.00@6.10, Cattle wore dull and ensy, at £2.60@5.00 for inferi- or to extra. Sheep were weak. Ono hun- dred dollars *in gold would buy §112.62) in greenbacks at the close. Tom Scott, being pushed to the wall on the question of plausibility, if not of actual verncity, and no doubt perceiving that the Tresidontinl jig is up anyhow so far as Mr. Braing is concerned, is disposed to clear his own skirts, let the mud fly upon whom 1t may. Col. Scorr's friends claim that his testimony—that he roceived the Iattle Rock & Fort Smith bonds from Carvwrin, and that Mr. Bramse wos not connected with or leuncfited Dby the (transaction—can ensily bo reconciled with the testimony of Mrruraay and Fismen upon tho theory that Col. Scorr traced the bonds as far back as he know, not being aware of the fact that tho bonds had been forcod back on Mr. Brarse's hands by his friends in Maine, whom he had porsuaded to invest in the worthless securities. It isnot a very clear showing for Col, Scorr at the best, though probably the most that can be done under the circnnistances; but it significantly de- notes a rutlsh dotermination on the part of the frionds of the great railrouder to deserta siuking ship and pull for dry land. er——e——— The eall for a meeting to organiza n Bnis- Tow Club in Chieago camo at a time when tho public mind was ripo for such a move- ment, and the result was a large attendance Inst ovening of prominent citizens. The Club was organized under the most flattering auspices, the membership roll having re- ceived n surprisingly long list of names, which will be augmented by hundreds of others as soon as an opportunity is afforded for the further -enrollment of members. The officers of tho Club are gentlemon of the very highest standing in the commu- nity—gentlomen of brains and character, and who will fitly represent and successfully utilize for tho nims and purposes of tho Club tho strong Bmsrow sentiment which un- questionably provailsin Chieago. It was de- cided to hold a grand BrisTow mnss meoting nest Mondny evening at some suitable place to bo herenfter designated, and thus afford the thousands of anti-machine Republicans in this city an opportunity to publicly proclpim thelr approval of the movement to securo the nomination of DBumrTow at Cinciunati on the 14th inst. The time is short in which to labor for the grand result, but so was the time short in which tho great popular uprising ceme about which sccured on honest and deceut Government for Chi- engo o fow weeks ngo. Other largo citics have organized offectively in nid of the Iristow movement, and tho ropresentative metropolis of the Northwest will not be found wauting. Chicago will be heard frown uoxt Mondny night on the side of honesty and capacity in the National Government, MR. BLAINE AS A CANDIDATE. Do Republicans give full weight to tho consequences upoun the success of the Re- publican party which may result from the furious onslaughts upon the personal and official record of Mr. Bramve? It should bo borne in mind that theso charges are not prodaced or presented by the Democratio party; they have been propared in advance, and fortified with circumstantinl evidence by the rivals, or the friends of the rivals, of Mr. Brare, viz, CoNkrryo and Mortoy. They have succecded in establishing the no longer deniable fact that for a long series of years, whilo Mr, Braive has beon in Congress and while 8penker, he has been an extensive dealer in tho various forms of wild-cat rail- road investments, acting for himsoelf, and for tho corporations, and for brokers. All this doces not involva criminality of eonduct ; but the fact of his eclling these speculative bonds for speculators is attosted by lus own account of sales furnished in his own Landwriting. Thero aro rumors that ad- ditionnl scandals of tho samne genoral char. sctor are yet to ba produced. ‘Wo Liavo at all times hed a high opinion of the personal and political charncter of Mr. BraiNg, and of his patriotism and intellectu- alability, and have considered him as eminent. ly qualified for the dutics of the Exccutive of- fice. But tha Republican party owes adulyto thecountry. Webelievothosuccessof the Ite- publican party in the present eloction of vital importauce to all the great intercsts of the Aworican people, and we consider that tho party caunot jeopardizo the interests of the country and its own success by nominat- ing a caudidato so overwhelmed with accusa- tions preferred Ly Ropublicaus, that from first to last tho party must act on the defen- #ivo o4 to the personal integrity of its eandi- date. 'Tho country is oxtremoly sensitive, and justly so, ns to tho interference of the great railrond corporations with the legisla- tion of Congrens. ‘There ars now beforo Congress, in various forme, applications for Governmental aid in the form of grants of bonds winouuting to severs! hundred millions of dollars, besides o pormanent addition to the payments for intercst. It is undoniable that all theso railroad speculators regard Mr, DBraiNe's probable election with extremo fa- vor, and their advocacy of him will have an immonsely domsging cffect upon pub- lic sontiment. Ilin record on this railrond subsidy business Loy ulrondy boen oxtensively published by his Republican compotitors. Lo eutered Congress iu Do. cembor, 1863, At that session tho Pacitio Rnilroad Ring proposed tho greot frand by which the security the Government betd for its previous grants of $64,000,000 of bonds with thirty years' interest was changed from u first to a second mortgago on tho ronds. Mr. Wasusunng, of Illinois, thoroughly ex- posed this fraud, and moved to striko out the section making tho change. Mr, Braxe voted with the majority agamst striking out, and tho mortgage of the United Btates, for prineipal and interest, nmounting o over £100,000,000, became utterly value. less, Blr. Brains voted for the bill aud sup- ported it. 'Tho Government granted F0,000,000 acres of loud to the Northern Pacifio Railroad Cowpany, for which Mr. Braing voted and worked to pass it. On tho bill to grant $49,000,000 of bouds to Jay Cooxx's North- ern Pucifio Railroad, when tho vote was takon, Mr.BLAiNg aroso and said that he was poired off in favor of the schemo against Mr. ‘Tooaas, of Marylond, who, if present, would vote against it, and in that case he would vote for it. The bill was defeated through the powerful opposition of E. B. Wasusunne, Joun Wenrwonrn, and J, 1Y Famyewontd, of INinois, who looked upon it s & gigoutio swindlo on the National ‘I'reas. ury, Mr. Braine hes supported gonerally all the proposcd legislation asked for by the rallrosd companies, though during the six years ho served &8 Spenker his nawe does uot wppear ou the lists of yocorded votos, becnuso Spoakors are only required to voto on a tio, We have faith in the integrity of Mr. Braing, end his advocacy by Tox Scorr docs not wenken our confidenco in his personal honcaty. DBut wo do not think the Ropub-. lican party can afford to take any sorious risks for tho mero sake of exprossing confl- dence in Mr. Bramse. Just imagine the character of the canvasa: Ench Republican sddressing tho peoplo will hinve to take np the six or oight scnndals concerning Mr Braisz and argue his innocence, nsing for that purpose the afidavits of JAy CooxE, Toxt Beorr, Jor 8rewant, CarvweLy, sud all the railroad stock and bond brokera in all parts of the United States, te tho offect that no person named BraiNe over was concerned in railrond jobbing, or, if there was o BLamng, it was not Mr. J, G, Braive. The press would teem with oll manner of articles, prepared and now used by Coxgrixa and Morron's friends, showing a lang and continuous deal- fug on his part in the wild-cat, worthless, and «uestionnblo securities of speoulntive railronds. Belioving that thore is no Ropublican who is willing to risk tho snccess of the party, and risk the transfer of tho wholo political power of tho Governmontin all its branches, and the political control of a mnjority of the States'to the Democratic party, for the mere sako of porsonnl fricndship to Mr.' BLAINE or any other man, wo suggest the propricty of adopting thoe policy which the time domands. The Republienn party can only hope for success, and can hardly desorve success, nn- less it cau eatisfy the peoplo that it is able and willing to purify the administration of the Government by weeding out tho dis- Lonest and corrupt. It connot satisfy the peoplo of this by resolution or platform. It must claim this confidence by naming a8 candidate that man whose namo alono will satisfy the people of hia ability, willingness, conrage, and fearlessness to grapple with corruption in overy form, and strangle it. "I'he refusal to nominate such a candidato at this time will b largely accepted as ovidenco that tho nomination of such o candidate wus dofeated because of the very reason which shiould havo caused his nomiunation, ANOTHER MORAL INDICTMENT. Great and obvious truths that have been permitted to pass out of mind are often ren- dered notably impressive when recalled in somo suddon and uncxpeoted manner, and applied to a condition of things in which theroe is a vividinterest. It is for this renson that the most striking roflection contained in the report of the lato Grand Jury occurs in the following paragraph : We have had the fact painfully impressod on ns that, In its dealings as a corporation, & Municipal Govermment ks at great disadvantage. Inal the ordinary contracts between men and corporations, cuch party has some one to represent it, o guard 118 interents, protect its rights, and to recure to it commion justice. Tho raflond or other private corporatian in ull it dealings has the protection furnlehed by the vigllance of managers pereonally and pecuniarlly Intorested in the carporation, Tho municipal corporation hos no such defeuse, It «oes not lack officors in number cqual tu any rer- vice. Its ealary-list and pay-roll grow lucessantly, 1t has an oflicer for every duty, aml new dutles arc created that new places may bo provided. But as s rule the oflice-holder does not conslhier it to be hls duty to protect his employer. T often ho adopts (he fdea and acts upon it, that the princlpal func- tlon of Government is to provide offices for menun- sble otherwlso to carn o liviug, The evil theory doen not stop here. Tt Includes the argument that ofilce {8 an opportunity, and that no man should neglect his opportunities. In tho course of our in- vestigationn we hava found a vast number of per- sons, drawing liberal salaries and allowances from the public, cmployed In ofl manner of places of trust, and we bave found but fow who have be- trayed any consclousness that they ows the least duty of patriotiam to the county, and wa regret to say that we bave found many whose notions of ofi- clal duty aro Jimited by thelr opportunitica to cn- rich themsclves at the public exponse. Herein is succivetly and forcibly stated a great aud important truth, which no ono will bo found to deny, but which all men are in tho bnbit of ignoring o if by com- mon consent. All tho abuses and plunder practiced npon tho people in their govern- mental capacity are duo to the growth of the idea that public corporations aro grand elee- mosynary institutions for the support of men who cannot mako ps good a living in private business, and great machines for turning out plunder to rings, cliques, and combinations, It is for tho toleranco of \this notion that tho peoplo themselves are to blame, They have permitted it to obtain almost universal recoguition. They have sanctioned it by concenlment and condone- ment for party purposes. They have en- couraged the Courts to sustain it by all the forms and technicalities of law. ‘They havo submitted so long that resistance socms nlmost out of the question, and lucal Government hos come to be little elso than u mnagnificent oppor. tunity for plunder, tolerated and excused be- cuuso nobody in particular has been robbed. Municipal Governnent ought really bo noth- ing moro than a comprehensive police power, to which is delegnted the protection of lifo and property, the alntement of public nuisances, und the performance of thoro things nccessary for tho public good which individuals cannot do for thomselves, In. stead of this iden provailing, which necos- snrily makes the public officials subordinate and limits their authority, tho office-holders buve becomo 80 numerous and powerful o class 0a to subordinnte the whole peoplo to their purposes, und to use tho public purse a8 their own. Public office is now genorally regarded by the professtounl oftice-boldors ond office-seekers o4 o monopoly, carrying with it tho power, and lhence the privilegy, ‘of approprinting as much of the public woney for their own uss and that of their friends as tho resourcos of the people can possibly bo mado to yield It is all con. snmption and no production,—an ox- travagant waste of tho substance of the peoplo without any return. Tho Into Grand Jury has demonstrated in the woat practical and effectual manuner how this notion hus been applied in tho County Government. “T'he oxternal evidenco of ity provalence iu tho City Government is eqnally couvincing, It s o matter of almost common notorioty that tho eity corporation hus beon used forseveral years to support hundrods of men who wure not needed, to conceive con- tracta and bring forth jobs for the exclusive bonofit of the tax-caters,aud in the aggrogato to squander and misopproprinte at least 1,600,000 annually more than the necessi. tios and welforoof the peoplo dumnud, Whon this schemo of plunder had gone on so long that people could no longer afford to pay their taxes, and the credit of tho city was ruined by the acoumulation of au illegul dobt, tho office-holders atill porsisted in holding their places and continuing their plunder in spito of tho popular protest at the polla. And now they have opplied to the Courts to rein. otato them. ‘The suit has beon brought in the uame of one OorviN, who claims the oftico of Mayor, but it is really broughtin behalf of the entiro horde of tax-eaters, con- tractors, and hangors-on, who have beencon- swning nearly $2,000,000 aooually over and above the real cost of tho sorvice done the public. It is time that tho Courts should take cognizance of this phaso of the ntter. When n vast gang of theso public plunderers fight for an extonsion of their opportunitios, wo conceive that tho will of the people and tho rights of the plunderedshould havo moro woight in a court of justice, sitting inn land whero all Government is supposed to bo by the peoplo for the people, than nny array of precedunts or arbitrary construction of statutes, Ar in local Government, so this toleranco of fraud and apology for corruption are tho nost serious chargos that threaton our Gon. cral Government and tho American rystem, The smme improvement of opportunities, the snme indulgonce of groed, and the samo in. differenco to atealing from the peoplo ns a whole, have permented almost overy branch of the public service. 'The doctrine that it s no ‘crime to rob the Govern- ment nsseris itself at primaries, in caucuses, and beforo conventions, ns well as in oftico. Xivery efiort to obliterate this doctrino and punish tho professora thercof s mot with tho stubborn resistance of the goneral class of office-holders, ex-olslce-huhlem, and oftice- seckors. Wo spenk of ' clnss well known to the community, and do not intend to includo cor- tain estimable gentlemen who have served tho public Lionostly and faithfully ; we refer to tho rule, ot tho oxcoption, It was this clnss that scized the Springficld Convention and ignored the Bnmistow sentiment of Illinois. It is the samo class which now howls for *“‘anybody to beat Bnistow,” which sympathizes with the Pentotar erowd in its indictment, and which hopes and depends upon the restoration of Corvix to tho offico of Mayor. 'The same people ave in favor of tho namo rule of plunder in nationnl, Btate, county, and city politics, and thoy aro strik- ing at the very roots of all popular govern- ment, THE CENTENARY OF AMERICAN BANKING. One of the features of tho Centennial, briely described by telegraph, was the opon. ing on Decoration Day of the Dankers' Asso- ciation Building on the Centennial grounds. 'I'bo chicf interest of the wvecasion attached to the elaborate nddress of the lfon. E. G. 8ravLpiNg, the * Father of tho Legnal-Ton- der," alias ** O1d Greenbacks,” who sketched tho progress of banking on this continent for the past 100 years, At the beginning there wero no banks, now thero are 907 State banks ; 2,218 National Banks, 666 savings banks, and 2,375 private banks, making o total of 6,066 banks and bankers. Mr. SpavLpiNe dwells on tho establishment of the two United States Bauks, one in 1781, the other in 1816, The former put tho immature finances of the young nation on a firm foun- dation; tho second restored the prosperity which had been dissipated by the failure in 1811to remew the churter of the tirst bank, President Jackson's bank war is described and disapproved ; tho pnnics the country has suffered from aro ascribed to the excessivo specnlations and debts of tho various cras. As would bo expected, the bulk of Mr, Sravwoive’s address was devoted to tho greenback introduced into our finances by an mat of Cougress drafted by bim, Mr. SravLpiNa has olways defonded the legnl- tonder s n necessity of tho War, but held and holds that it was o mero temporary form of indebtedness, nnd a currency that must bo got rid of at the soonest possible moment. The great mistako of the ‘War, says Mr., 8ravLoing, * greater than all other mistakes in the management,” was the abolition of the right given by tho original Legnl-Tender act to fund the greenbacks in G per cent gold Londs of the United States, ‘This abrogntion, ho says, was a grent in. justico tothe holders of greenbacks, and “ lot tho Government and the whola country, bonks and people, down into the slough of an irredeemanble paper enrrency, whore we bave remained cleven years,” It waa this backward stop that nlono atuod in the way of A self-ncting roturn to specie-payments in at most two or three years after tho War, This is tho path through which now to sook the restoration of the speeio standard. With free banking, and our ample annual production of gold and silver, the * currency question ” may bo safe- ly left to tako caro of itself, whilo the Gov. ernmont, regarding tho logal-tonders ns o past-due paper debt, provides for thoir pay- ment by exchanging thom for a Lond running on long time und bearing a low rate of in- terest. This is tho first stop to tnko to offeotuste resuraption or improve tho cur. renvy. ¥ 8TOP BUILDING THE COURT-HOUSE! Among the many cxcellent suggestions contained in tho roport of tho late Grand Jury isone which requires immedinte and prompt action on the part cf the poople. Wo refer to the recommondation that the peoplo shall take steps to arrest oll further oxpenditures on the construction of tho Court-Houso until such timo as public opiu- ion shall havo producod a higher standard of officin! morality and the County Government shall bo transforred to men having a higher sonso of offtcinl duty. Itis at ouco absurd and outrageous that this work should be per- mitted to go on under the control and diree- tion of men, some of whom have connived at and all of whom have tolerated the whalesals ond systomatio frauds practiced upon tho county for soveral years, Inouo senso it is o farco; in another almost n tragedy, If on individual or o, private businesa firm engaged in erecting o buildivg to cost soveral millions of dollars should discover that its agents had beon robbing it for years in other transactions, thero is no doubt that it would suspond tho work immedintoly aud postpoue its continuance until othor agents more com- potent and trustworthy could be secured. I'he same policy should be followed by the people in their aggregato capacity. The necessity is prossing, ‘The County Board is burrying up ita contracts to anticipate the popular protest. Alrendy it has undoer con- sideratiou the contracts for the supply of stone and the work of stone.cutting, which together will not fall short of a million of dollars, Wao boliové it is tho intention to close the mutter up within tho next ten days, Whataver is to bo done on behalf of thepeo- pleo must be done quickly. As the Grand Jury mado no specifio ree- ommendation a8 to tho courss to pursue, wo would suggest that tho Citizens' Association, or somo individual citizen who will com- mand publio counfidenco, shall apply to the Courts for an iojunction restraining the present Board of Comiissionoers from mak- ing any further contracts on the Court- louse, on the broad ground that thoy lave Jfotfeited the confidenco of tho poople, and that there is ample reason to suspact that the publio moneys will be wasted. Thoy may 80 beforo tho Court with the reports of the two last Grand Jurles; with a showing that thore bas been constant fraud in nearly evory branch of the county service for yoars; with tho fact that soveral of the prosent Commissioners aro under indictment for robbing the publio; with prima fucie ovidenca that there waa frand in tho Jetting of the foundation contract ; with proof that a responsible offer is made to do tho entire work at $2,100,000, for which an oxpenditure of $3,600,000 at the very lonst is contomplated ; and with tho allegation that tho people ean take no steps to purify the Board by election bofore next fall. Wo should pny on goncral principlos that this wonld make a caso strong enough to justify an injunction on furthor contrncts for tho presont. Blr. Turey succeeded in having o fraudnlont contract for city scavenger work sot aside by a similar process. That wnsa specifio inatance, it is truo; but tho convie- tion of fraud was not moro certain than in the case of building a Court-House under the supervision of the very men who havo nssist- ed ond winked at tho fniquities exposed by the Into Grand Jury. Another pressure may bo brought to bear, porhaps, by a resolution by the Common Council to discontinua for the present all worl on its portion of thn Court-Ionse. It in no# probnblo that the County Board will bo o Lold and insolent as to proceed alone under the present condition of things, and theso two movements together may conatrain a mnjority of the Commissioners to give somo heed to public sentiment, and ecither nccopt the proposition to build tho en- tiro structuro ot tho cost of £2,100,- 000 or to suspond work and let no more contracts for the present, The people aro entitled to some protection in this matter. Tho construction of the Court-Houso will afford opportunities for fraud, by comparison with,which the routine county stealing is insignificant. 'The vonnlity of tho Bonrd ns a whole—by whicli wo mean the power of tha majority—is no longer o mattor of issue, and if there is any action in Inw or auy sssertion of public sentiment that can tako the Court-Honso out of the hands of the Ring, ceriainly one million and probably two millions of tho public money may thereby bo savod within the next two or thres years. No offort should bo spared, thorefore, to put the recommend. ation of the Grand Jury into immedinte operation, e ——— ENGLISHE LAWYERS' FEES AND MORAL SENSE, I'ho lawyer, according to the average pub- lic notion in this country, iss fellow of quips and quidditics, sharp enough to get nny ras. cal out of tho meshes of tho Inw, defeat one’s croditors, and, through tho courts, enforco tho most unconscionablo contracts. Insbort, ho is regarded by some people s the person who will do whatever you want done that is so especially sharp and underhand that you have neither tho canning nor the daring to try it yourself, and oy tho person to whom that application may bo made with the firm assur- ance that, if you pay hiin enough, he will do it. Our Erio lawyers, and ‘Tammany thicf lawyers, and distinguished counsel in cnses for claims ogninst tho Government, have by therr sharp practica noturally led tho public to that opinion of the profession gonerally, In England it is otherwise, ng wo gather from the late debate in Parlinmont on the **Brrristers’ Fecs Lill."” There thoy bonst that under the English system of jurisprudonco the barristor is o disinterestod officer of the court, who, without feo or rownrd, champi- ons tho cause of his client from pure love of justice. Bo it is by their common law, dat- ing back from timo whercof the memory of mnan runnoth not to tho contrary. Of cotrve this is ny proposterous n legal fiction ns is Joux Dox or Ricmanp Rox or any of tho other antiquated tictions of the common lnw. But it is the law ; and by Iaw of all Her Majesty's subjects the barristers alono at all times aro rendy to serve their fellow-men without price, and stand around waiting their opportunity to play tho good Smmari- tan in and sbout Westminster. Such, ac- cording to Iaw, is the fact. In fact, howev- er, the wayfurer who has fallen among thieves, and everybody olse who nceds the services of these good Samavitans, hns to pay roundly for tho same. But in English law the feo is simply a gift,—a trifling tostimoni- al of estaem, * honorarium,"—tho acceptance of which does not place the barrster under any logal obligation to attend to his client’s cause, nor render him linble for mismnn- agenent or noglect of it. In truth, then, the barriater is o lawyer who can pockot all the fecs ha can got without being bound by law to render tho servicos for which he is food. As the debnte disclosed, the London barris- tors hnbitunlly take advantngo of this state of the lnw to uccept fees in n number of cases that may como on to be heard on the sne doy before differont Judges, so that tho bar- rister has to neglect all but ono of them, ns ho must have known ho would have to do when ho accepted the foes. ‘The * Darristors'{Feos bill " met this ovil by providing for legalizing the feo-charge, and making tho barrister linble for faithful performance of his dutios when feod. When the bill was bronght forward, tho Bar, os rep- resentod in Parlinmont, uprose and protested agninat this innovation, In bohnlf of the barristor it wna solemnly urged that to mako him legally liablo for attending to the cases bo wus feed to attond to “would put such a strain upon his moral sense” a8 would quito ineapneitato him for the dischiarge of his duty nforesaid. Parlinment, with a mnico regard for tho inoral scuse of tho Bar, profoundly pondered the conndrum: Would that lofty moral #onso which sustoined burristers in pockot- ing their clients' fees, with o dolicious senso of irresponsibility for negleet or misconduct of tho clients’ cases, brenk down utterly if barristers wore made legally responsiblo, liko other mortals, for performnnce of their con. tracts? Besides, pathotic appeal was mado to snve tho independonce of the Bar, without which it would bo hopelessly degraded,—that independenco consisting in freedom from nll respousibility for neglect of the business for which their clionts paid thom. It would be oll well enough, argued tho President of the Tucorporated Law Sociaty, to give counsel a right to aua for their foes, but never would it do to degrade them by making them linble to rofund their fees and pay damages besides for neglect of their clients' business, The rosult of it all was that Parliament discov- ered that tho moral sense of tho profession wna 8o delicato that it would give way under the strain that would bo imposed by an act waking thewn liablo for broach of their con. tracts; that, to save the barristers from degradation, they must be left freo to break their contracts with impunity after having pocketed thair fees; and the bill was de. fentod by ou overwhelming majority. The wholo goes to show how euperior, with this singular moral senso of his, is the English barrister to our Erie lawyers; and how to preserve that high moral sense Parlinment will on no consideration interfore with the liconse the English law extends to tho har- rister to choat and plunder his clionty, since such interference would deprive tho barrister of his proud independenco. Aud yot the English pross will doybtless continuo to lee- turo ns on the low morality of lawyers on thin sido tho vater, THE HANDINESS OF A HAREM, The anddenncss, swiltness, snd porfect onan with which "Furkey chnnged ralors Inst Monday suggest some pointa of tho govorn- ing system in which tho Insty Turk has the advantago of tho American voter. As ong Tooks forward through tho dust and amoke of tho pending conflict to the election of next November, and looks back and remem- bers that this hurly-burly began last Novem- ber, it oxeltes n fooling of envy that tho Turk in one day enn accomplish what it takon us a wholo year to do, and with infin. itely less trouble and more satisfnotion. In one respect the Lark has the advantage of na. o always has a stock of Bultans on hand, ready made, and nall of an approved pattern, "The seraglio is a State institution, dovoted to tho purpose of breading young Sultans, If tho 'Turk bLocomes dissntisfied with n Sultan, he requests him to step down and ont, gocs to tho pen and selects another, and puts him on the throne. This ho did Inst Monday. If the presont Sultan proves unsatisfactory, lo will throw him over ond tnke another. The pen s always full, for the Turk I8 indus- trions in the manufacturcof Sultans. We pre- sume thore aro people 8o straight-laced in their notions of proprioty, nnd so bred in the conventionalities of morlity, that thoy wonld object to n seraglio at Washington or elsowhore whero n perpetunl stock of young Presidonts might bo kept, born, nnd bred to the business and manufactured to order. 8o long na theso nnrensonablo peaplo object to the organization of an American sernglio, in which only the fittest would survive, the poor stull being bow-strudg, bagged, and thrown into the Potomae, we shall have to make Presidents in the long, tedions, and costly American way, rathor than by the landy Turkish process, But, waiving tho moralitics, sco what inestimablo- advantages tho Turk hos, If be wants a new Sultau, all lic bos to do is to go to the pen and take onv, ond notify the ofher Powers. 1f tho new ono fails to please, Lo throws him ovér mnd gets another, and eo on, until he is at lnst suited. Wo malio n President, after in- finite trouble got him into tho White-House, and then, even if he doosn’t suit, are obliged to keep him four long years anyway, Again, tho ‘Lurk gots his new BSultan without the slightest tronble, oxpense, or moncy. ITc hns no nominating conventions to ma- | nipulato, no caucuses to pack, no dolegates to buy, no State Conventions to stnff, no newspapers to peusion or purchnse, Ho doos not have to count votes or stuff ballot-boxes, or stand in a lino to vate between n highly- intoxieated bummer and o highly.sconted loafer, 1Ilis stock of ready-made Sultans saves him millions of dollars. All Turkey is not kept in a row and uproar for a whole year. Eminont Turkish citizens aro not in- vestigated by other eminont Turkish citi- zens for stealing mules or doeling in bonds in order to prevent them from hecoming Sultans, nor do respectable cit- izens of Constantinople, mspected of want- ing to Dbe Bultans, wnke up in the morning and discover to their lorror that their grandmothers took in washing, that their grandfathers wero suspocted of grand Inrcony, and that o fourtcenth cousmn was known to have stolen pennies from n blind orgnn-grinder. The Turk is saved all the trouble of being patriotic through n wholo year. Ile does not have to listen to Bansey Cavrrrerps or Canten Iannisoxs, join the Wide-Awnkes, carry torchlights, or Lo tho last man in a procession of patriots. Botter than all, he docs not huve to wave his Crescont flag or mako an ongle scream. Ilo i spared nll tho trouble of boing patriotic, and can sit cross-logged at his ense, smoking his chibouquo ~sercnely, knowing thut lis harem is well-stocked with promising young Bultans, Moralista may prate of the hein- ousness of the harem, but it is handy to have in tho house, nevertheless, and saves the wear and tear of patriotic politics, which makes such an immense de- mand upon the American people in the shape of S8tar-Spangled Banners, stuffed ballot-boxes, ecorrupt rings, fire-crackers, stump speechos, birds of freecdom, personal investigations, bass drums, humbug, bun- combo, and Dbosh for twelve long months, which aro necessary’to clovato Jonx Surra to the highest oflico in the gift of tue nation, and provide for his wifo’s relations. In all theso respects, howaever much we may howl ngainst his havew, the effote Turk has the advantago of us. We waste onr time and our tomper, throw sway thousauds of dol- lary, got our backs up to nu unnecessary do- gree, inour desperato efforts to save tho country, when all this troublo might bo spared wore it not for purely conventionnl uotions of moralily, by the cstablishment of .a soraglio, kept woll-stocked with Presidents, Wo invito tha attention of Itepublicans to the following list of States and their olec- toral votes: MEPLBLICAX aTATES, DEMOCRATIC STATER. Votes, 10 [ 6 [N 7 b T3 Florida .00 4 11/Gicorgia 1 Miunnesof o Kentucky 12 Nubrawka. 3| Loutrinn, [ New llaw G Maryland 8 Omo... 212 Il ppt 8 Pennayivania. £0(Allvsunrt . 15 Rundo Tutan b south Carol Vermont W ikconel Total ., 160, Virginia . West Viginia New Jerse; Iudiann,... Necensary 10 & chole Republican States Deinocratic Htates. Debutuble State: Which of the States named in the Demo- cratic list can any Republican claim for oither Congrixg, MontoN, or Bramg? Which of tho States in tho Republican list can the Re- publicans afford to loso? What Republican is willing to take tho risk of running a candi. dato, alrvady denounced by Republicans as a ruilrond jobbor, in tho Btates of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ilinois, Minnesota, or even in Ohio, when the publio sentiment is strong and vigorous against railroad influenco in tho Govornment, and agoainst monopolics aud corruption in any form? 'I'o eloct any Re- publican candidate, e must carry all the Re- publican Htates, and must get thirty-four votes from tho debatable Btates, We cite theso figuros to show that tho cirewmstances of the eampaign do not adwmit of taking any risks. It is not a time to carry onadefon- sivo campaign, and thore is no precedont for the oleotion of a candidate who was put on tho defensive. Buccess can ouly be accom- plished by an aggrossive canvass, aud with Mr, Brave tho Republican party can do nothing but explaiu and defend accusutiona mndo agoinst the candidato by leading mem. bers of thelr own party, The Democratic porty evidently hns detormined th fgnora the Rog-Baby, and the eanvam ia to be madg nupon the issne of reform in the administry. tion of tho Government. Tho candidate will be Trunex, or a eandidato namod by him, ag DBaxanp or Tiunstan,—men having noassnil. ablo personal reputations, and whose glec, tion will give nssuranco that dishousaty nng speculation will have no rocognition in the Exocutive branch of the Govorniment. Wity fuch nn opponent needing no v|ndlcntlnn, can the Republican party afford to run s eap, didato whoso personal and official rectitudy will roquire a defenso at evory oross-roads in the land ? It is dawning upon the Democratic man. agers in Indiana that this is not a good year in which to run forthe Suprome Court the renominated Judges, who, as appears by the court records, hnve availed thomselves of thoir oftico to have their houschold furniture ond family washing charged to the Stato and pnid for ns conrt oxponses, Thore wore too many chamber-sots, and pillows, and spring. mattrosses, and stylish bedstonds, too much shooting and blankets, and too many rose. wood sofas and tho like, required to enable tho Court, while theso ronominnted Judges snt upon the Dench, to administer justico, Tonest Granger Democrats, who nover owned n curled-hinir mnttress in their lives, it is fenred, eannot bo made to comprehiond that, without n supply of curled-hair mnttresses sufllcient to equip a good-sized hotel, it was altogother impossiblo for the learned Demo. cratic Judges who have been renominated to decido kootty pomts of law. 'Tho manngers have arrived, indeed, at a lively conscionsness of tho fact that it eaunot be made splain to the averago Indinna voter why tho - old lnw. yers, who compriso the Judges of that Court nnd are tho Democratic nominees for re. clection, couldn't dischargo tho duties of their high office without the aid of hundreds of yards of carpeting and sheeting, and of arble.topped burenns, and lace enrtaing, sud spring-bottom mnhogany Dbedsteads, aud the like, besides having their family wash-Lill paid out of theT'reasury, the whelo * court expenses" footing up ¥649,000. Or- Qinarily the great Democratic party of Ind ana might have essayed to carry theso pick- pocket Judges on the ticket for tho highest judicial office in ‘the Stato. But that is felt to be too hazardous an undertaking for thia year of tho Presidential canvass, Particu. larly is it folt too perilous nt this tiine, for ‘the Democratic managers, who in and ont of Congress, oro cngaged in the business of investignting ofter Ilepublican corraption, to persist in running theso self-convicted pilfering Judges, who wero nominated nfter their thiovery was exposed. 8o, with many twinges of regret, tho renominated Domo. cratic judicinl plunderera are, it is under- stood, to bo thrust off the ticket to esenpe the overwhelming defent that elso would bo in storo for them at tho polls, —— 1t grows worse for Speakor Kenm, and there is moro of it aa the investigation inta tho nppointment of Gnecx, of New York, progresses. Lawnence Hanver, the witnoss who it was exultantly proclaimed by Kenn't partisans had convictod himself of perjury by running away, very much to their dis. comfiturs nppeared bofore tho Committce yesterday, and, on most searching oross. oxamination, repeated, without material va- rintion, his original testimony thnt ho paid Kenn $450 us tho price of Gnrex's appoint- ment. Tho cross-examination by Kenn's counsel was protracted and rigorous, but did not shake Hanxcy's testimony, 'The attempt to connect him with the anonymous letter to Kenn failed. ¥ad it suceoceded, it would have ovailed nothing in Kenw's bohalf. The question at issuc is not whether Hanxey wroto an anonymous lettor, but whether Kenn accopted from IIanNey a bribe, as Han NEY tostifies, for nppointing Gueex. The peoulinr circumstanco about it is, that with all tho timo that has olapsed in which Mr. Krnn has had opportunity to prepare his defenso, ho has not oxplained why ho went outsido his own distriet aud Stato to confer this much-sought nppoint. mont upon young Gneey, of New York, who unquestionably paid for it. If Mr. Kean didn't get tho money, then what was it that induced Mr. Kenn to give the appointment to Gneen, who was a stranger? If the transaction was wholly innocent, it ought to bo very ocasy for Mr. Kenn to oxplain what induced him to appoint Greex. Nobody is going to be so verdant as to supposo thal Kenn thoughtlessly throw nway such a valu. able pieco of patronage upon a mero stranger from anothior Stato without somo strong in- ducement. That need not have been cor rupt, But, if it was innocent, why doet not Mr, Kenn show what it was? ‘The longer ho delays it, tho strongor will bo the conviction that ho eannot offer such vindica- tion becauso 11snyEy tolls the truth, We dosiro to direct attontion to o letter we print this morning from Maine. It comes from a gentleman, a loading Republican of the State, who knows whoroof he spenks, ond who i, in overy way worthy of conll. dence, It concerns tho status of Mr. *Buaivs in his own State, aud sets forth somo very striking evidencos of his lack of popularity nmong his own people. The purpart is that Mr, Bramve has Leen running the State of Maine, politically, for several yoars; thal his arbitrary conduct as Chairmau of {he Republican State Committee has alienated thousands of Iiepublicaus from him; that ho hoisted old worn-out IIaNNIpAL Hamrin back into the Sonate in opposition to two. thirds of the Republican voters in that Btate; and that, finally, the Hoptomber olection in Maino will probably show a docreased ma- jority in that Stato in case Bramne be nominated at Cipelnnati. In support of this prodiction it may be cited that Gen. ConNon, though personally popular, wa olocted Governor last fall by tho smalles! majority in the Btate since 1862 ; by 6,00 less than in 1874, the year of Republican dis aster ; and by 11,000 loss thov the averag majority of tho last twelvo years. Yet it wn in the lorgest voto over polled in Maina, Tt was o protest agafust tho Buarve rulo, whicl hnd dictated Coxnon's nomination, It I8 hroadly asserted that, in Maine and all Now England, Mr. BLaiNe woula bo the weakest candidate whow the Republicans could nom- innte, notwithstanding th. success of tho politiciona in getting bim delogates, and that Buwstow would command tho vote of overy mwan in New England who hes ever voted tho Republican ticket, This lottor was written beforo tho recont disastrous revelntions agninst Buanig, which will ouly intensify the Now England opposition to hin awong the peoplo, Tho worst fears of DBrane's friends avo ronlized. Ho hus refused to lot the Investi gating Committeo soo the contents of thusd fatal lotters. +He confidentially submiteed the lotters to the inspuction of Jraiy BLaos, Democratio lobby lawyer, sud Marr Ciz renTEe, Whisky-Ringattorney, and both, afte oxnwining tho letters, advise bLim to turov