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

1 @ Tribne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. . PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—PCSTAGE PREPAID AT ‘THIS OFPFICE. Dally Editton, postpaid, 1year. Farts of 'a year, Per month... 1.00 ailed to any sddress fuur woeks for. 1.0 Sunday Editfon: Lit and Religi Sheet 3.00 Tri-Weeki 1d, 1year. a0 Parts of a year, per month. .50 WEEKLY - EDITION, PO: Postage prepald. Specimen coptes sent free. “To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Oftice address in full, including State and County. - ZemiLtances muy be made either by draft, express, Tost-Ottice order, or in registered letiers, at our risk. TEBMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBLES. Tafly, delivered, Sunday exceyicd, 25 cents per week. Datly, eifvered, Sunday included, 30 cents per weck Address THE TIIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Mzalson and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, DL CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE. The Republican party has now placed its national tickez and platform before the people. The ensuing Presidentlal canvass will be one of the most exclting nd important that ias ever occurred fn this country. Jivery manshould be furnished with full aad correct po- litfeal information. In ordertosupply thisneed, the pub- lshers of Tur. Culcao TEzvx, will prict 3 campaign cdiately, and continuing atthe followlni exccedingly low rates. postage pald: Treckly Campatin Twrpus x—slugle COpY-. -$ s.. mbers of the campalfu cdition canaot be e e Gmics Tt CaMrados” TE1De Tu. the preater number of fssues they will get for ALCF TOBCY: s AMUSEMENT! Adelphi Theatre. Adonroe street, corner Deatborn. ** Dad Dickey.™ Iicoley’s Theatre. TRandolph street, Letween Clark and Lasslie. **The Two Orphans.™ ¥ DMecVicker’s 'l'htm‘rt.‘ e Mdison street, between Statg and Dearborn, Engage- et the Alis Opera-Bodlle Troupe. La Joile Parfumeuse."” Wood?s Muscum. Mourog street, betwegn Desrirorn neop: _** Black-Eyed Susan™ and mond.” Everdng: Seven Sis i State. After- Rough Dia- s it MONDAY, JULY 38, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchazge on Satur- aay greenbacks ruled ot §9}@S9} centson the dollar. " P’flrfly cloudy and slightly warmer weath- er, with little probability of rain, is what ey ba expected in this vicinity ro-day. The congregation of Christ Church (Be- formed Episcopal) yesterday listened to an eloquent sermon by Bishop GHENEY on the death of his eminent co-religionist, the late Bishop Coyoarxs. E=4nd now the tailors are up in arms ageinst 8 proposed general reduction of 25 per cent in wages, and have adopted resolutions accordingly. . The reduction hes not yet been msde throughout the city, and the £rectionsl journeymen hope to avert it. it Sy Ay The disagreement between the Senete and ‘Housc on the Legislative, Judicial, and Ex- ecutive Appropristion bill is asfar as ever from adjustment, and a new Conference. Committee was appointed Saturday. The Touse bill reduces all salaries except those of Cabinet officors, and the Senate refuses con- currence on the ground that legislation of this character should not be sandwiched be- tween the items of an eppropriation bill, but ehould be actedgapon seperately. Our collection of sermons this morning embraces an excellent discourse by the Rev. Brooxe Herrorp on * Independence Day,” which, he urges, shonld be signalized by something more than the finucting of flags nd the fizzing of firo-works, something be- sides festivals and congratulations; there should be a mnew start in the direction of honesty and worthiness; in other words, though not exactly the preacher’s words, & genersl determination on the part of the American people to fitly celebrate the Cen- tennial year by electing Haves aud WriELEs. Servia is faily and irrevocably committed to the war policy. Prince M1rax’s manifesto was issued Saturday, proclaiming a state of siege throughout Servia, and throwing the whole bleme of the situation upon the Porte for ignoring the concilistory offer and con- tinuing to send fresh troops into. the country. Itis reportedthat anotherproclama- tion will shortly be issued informing the Bos- pians of the cppointment of a new set of officials throughont the country in the name of the Prince AMmax, vho also intends send- ing an envoy to Athens to incite the co- operation of the Greeks. There should no: longer be any hesitation in the Council to adopt a resolution instruct- jing the immediate suspension of ali public work for the prosecution of which the city is not bound by contract, and by suspending which it would not become liable in dam- zges, or when it would not cost more tostop than to go on. This movement might well be supplemented by orderingone-half the street guslights extinguished until-further notice, | and by & judicious location of the districts where tho greatest number can be extin- guished with the least amount of inconven- jence and aunoyance. Thus the outlying and sparsely-settled residence distzigts, which are always quiet after dark, can get along with " less lamps than the busiress streets and the thickly-populated residence portions of the city. Cestainly the necessities of the situa- tion suggest the immediate adoption of both these curtailments. B We print this morping a communicstion from o member in high standing of the legal professior on the interesting and important subject—especially so at this tiie—of im- munity to a witness testifying against his zssociates in crime, and particulerly as ap- plied to the case of Jaxe Rems. The writer takes the position, and fortifiesit with perti- nent citations of the law and. cf recogaized- anthorities, that the “bergain” between Remy and the Government prosecutors is in no manner binding upon the Court, and that, moreover, Judge BrepGerr wounid not be warranted in recognizing or carrying out’ the stipulation for immunity or lenicney en- tered into by the prosecutors. If suchis the iaw, and such the preponderance of au- thority and precedent, the peopls will expect Judge BropeerT to deal with Reme as his crimes deserve and without any regard for the compact mede between the lawyers. The Chicago produce markets were mod- erately sctive Saturday, and quite steady. Mess pork closed 15¢ per brl higher, at $19.45 @19.50 for July and $19.62}@19.65 for August. Lard closed 2}@5¢c per 100 Ivs higher, at $1L273@11.30 for July and $11.40@11.42% for August. 1dleats were firm, at 8c for boxed shoulders, 10¥c for do short ribs, and 10jc for do short clears. Iake freights were steady, at 2¢ for corn to Buoffalo. Rail freights were unchanged; gallon. Flour was in moderate demand. Whest closed §c lower, at §1.043 for July and $1.06 for August. Corn closed i@3c ‘higher, at 46fc for July and 47}c for August. Ozts closed a shade easier, at 30c cash and 294c for August. Bye was quiet, at 67@67c. Barley closed 1c lower, at 57c. Hogs were active, at 5c decline, selling at £6.00@6.40 for poor to choice grades. Cattle were steady under moderate receiptsand a fair demeand, at $3.00@490 for common to choice. There was a good demand for sheep at $3.25@4.65. The receipts of live-stock for June were 92,739 cattle, 369,581 hogs, and 15,958 sheep.” The shipments were 74,- 972 cattle, 125,185 hogs, and 5,255 sheep. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.37} in greenbacks at the close. There was a dead-lock in the Treasury at ‘Washington on Saturday, but it was not the fault of Congress, and had nothing todo with appropriation bills. The trouble was, too ‘many vacancies, and no legal way of flling them. Mr. Bristow had resigned, and his sSuccessor, though. duly appointed and confirmed, had not yet accepted and qualified. Ordinarily, the Treasurer would have assumed the duties of the Secretaryship, orone of the Cabinet officers could be as- signed to the temporary charge of the De- partment ; but it so happened that Treasurer New's resignation had been ten- dered and accepted, and Ais suc- cessor .had been appointed and con- firmed, but could not qualify becsuse there was no Segretary of the Treasury to approve hisbond. Morcover, the ten days fixe: law bad elapsed wherein the vacancy might befilled by tempcrary assignment, aud there was no possibility of supplying a head to the acephalous Department. Consequently the entire business of the Treasury came to ‘a halt for an entire day. The difficulty has ‘been bridged over in part by the withdrawal of the President’s accepiance of the resigna- tion of Treasurer New, who is still responsi- ble on his bond, and can transact business of an imperative nature. The whole dilemma arose in consequence of Senator Momnmy's deley in either accepting or declining the ap- pointment of Secretary of the Treasury,—a state of things which cught never to heave been permitied. TEE PROPOSED POPULAR LOAN. The municipality, of Chicago has received some hard blows within the last few days. It was bad enough to feel that the Colvinan Administrationhad wasted the public moneys, exhausted the standing funds, increased the debt without meking any preparations for meeting it, and destroyed outside confidence in the solveney and good feith of the city. But fard apon a realization of this came the announcement that the Chicngo bankers would not advance the money for the neces- sary expenditures, and, to cap the climax, the Supreme Conrt announced its decision Lolding Bill 300 unconstitutional and void, and rendering $2,000,000 of back taxes— $1,300,000 appealed and several handred thousand represented by taz-certifi- cates—practically uncollectable. The ecity is out of morey; it owes - sev- eral months’ pay to its employes, who are suffering for want of it; it cannot avoid the necessary expenditnres for sustain- ing the Police and Fire Departments; it is inhibited from adding to the bonded debt by constitutional provision; it can no longer raise money in the regular channels by dis- counting its taxlevy. This is the situation, and it must be faced just as it is. It suggests the curtail- ment of expense in every possible direction, and the necessity for this has become so im- perative that there will no longer, we think, be an efiort to postpone it. But in the mean- time the money due the city employes for services rendered must be paid, and money must be had to keep up the departments that protect life, property, and public order. In this emergency the single relief, and probably the best even if there were others, is the placing of » populer. loan of at least $1,000,000 to be taken by our own people. The resson the bankers are not willing to | come forward with aid is, because they do not feel at liberty to invest the money be- longing to their depositors (which is the bulk of their loanable funds) for so long a period as it is necessary for the city to take. It will not be sefe to agree to pay off tho new certificates before September, 1877, as. it will not be till then that the colloction .of the taxes of 1876 can be enforced. But itis reasonsble o suppose that many depositors who have money lying idle in the banks, and earning them no interest, will withdraw it and invest in the populer loan. There could really be no more =attractive invest- ment at the present time. The new certifi- cates will be of a very different nature from those now outstanding, which were issued in violation of law, and for the pay- ment of which the holders must necessarily wait until the city isin funds. The certifi- cates to be issued for the popular loan will be drawn against the tax-levy of 1876, and the money used to pay the city expenses of 1876, 50 that they will be in every sense legal. The security will be ample, because it is pro- posed o issue only £1,000,000 of them, or about one-fifth of the actual tax-levy. The texes of 1876 will be prowptly collected, for their assessment and collection will have been made under the General Revenue law of the State which the courts have susteined. These new certificates, therefore, will have as ample security, in their way, as the bonds of the United States, while drawing a much larger rate of interest” A scheme for this popular loan will proba- bly be introduced into the Common Council this evening. We would suggest some modi- fications of the plan already proposed.- The rate of interest should be 8 per cent instesd of 7, as the-city is in no. positiecn to dictate terms, and as the lower rate would fail to reach the savipgs banks and many private capitalists who ean make better Tse of their money in safeinvestments. It will be folly to make §10,000 the minimum at which subscriptionswill be received. Such s limitation will serve no good purpose; it will bo in no case a popular loan, and the number of subscribers will be few. Nearly 2ll the loans of France are pluced by popular subscription, and subscriptions as low as 100 francs ($20) are received. Durig the War the United States Government issued bonds ss low as §50, and $1,000 bonds were about the highest, except the registered bonds. There is no reason, then, why the City of Chicago, in making a popular loan, should not place their certificates as low 2s $500 and multiples thereof. Messrs. Mapsmarn Frzrp and GronGE AmMoUr and other wealthy and loyal citizens may still show their devotion to Chicago by subscribing $50,000 each, but hundreds of other persons who would be excluded by a limitation of $10,000 can then invest their idle moneys, and will doso. This is an important con- sideration, and must not be disregarded. There is no danger to be apprehended from counterfeiting, since the certificates will be Highwines were unchsnged, at $1.10} per |in no sense currency, and each-' one will require the actual signetures of several different persons, including the Mayor, Comptroller, and Finance Com- mitteee. Finally, these certificates should be made receivable at their face value with the foll amount of interest gdded for all taxes of 1876. It is out of these taxes that they must be paid in any event, and there ‘will be no easier nor better way of redeeming them than by taking them in payment of the taxes they really represent. Many per- sons would take them with this condition ‘who would not touch them otherwise. We are confident that certificates issued under such a plan a3.this may be readily negotiated to the amount of $1,000,000, or more if necessary. They certxinly can if the City Government Leeps faith in the rapid ‘and materinl reduction of expenses - below the figure contemplated by the appropria- tions for this year. In that event the city will find immedinte and permanent relief, for the moneys coming from the taxes of 1875, the payment of which may be enforced in two or threo weeks, will suffice to pay off the amounts due employes for services ren- dered prior to_April 1. - In this way slone can tho city extrieate itself from its present financial embarrassment, and the Council should not delay adopting it another day. TEE LAXE-FRONT PROPERTY. Tre Trsuxe yesterdsy published tho judgment of the Supreme Court in the caso of the Chicago tax cases. The effect of that judgment is a serious one, It blots out $1,- 304,000 of the hitherto deemed cerlizin assets ‘| of the eity; kponges out the supposed lien for that much rovenue, and adds that sum to the debt of the city for which there is no substantial provision. There is a difference of opinion among lawyers whether any por- tion of this tax can ever be collected. As the matter now stands, there is no remedy. The Court has decided that there wes no tax levied in 1873 or 1874, and, there having been notax levied, nolien couldattack. Some legal gentlemen assumo that the Legislature can in some way rescue the cily. But the Legislature can levy no tax for city purposes, nor can it authorize the city to levy taxes in &ny other way or for any other purpose than is provided in the general law for the govern” ment of all cities. The law provides that, where taxes levied in one year fail to be col- lected, they may be added to the levy for the next year; but the trouble in this cese is, there wasnolevy of taxes at all made in 1873 or 1674. The whole proceedings by the city intended for an assessment and a tax levy for those years, the Court declares . were void, not having the semblance of legality. The Court sweeps the whole tax operations by the city for those two years out of the record,—de- claring them to be void. -The City of Chi- cngo owes much of her finencial misfortunes to the policy of heving the Legislature try to put aside the Constitution. But, even supposing that in some now unknown way, the Legislature may be able to provide for the recovery of these lost taxes, it will be a long time in the future’ before such legisla- tion will be available, and the city in the meantime must have revenue. The City of Chicago is possessed of o large amount of unproductive real estate. Unfortunately, there is no salo for this at the present time. But thereis a standing offer of £800,000 for a quit-claim deed for what- ever claim or title the city may have to the three northern blocks of the Lake-Front. To these blocks the city has no possible claim except what it has derived from the TUnited States, and the title to two of them is exclusively in the United States. The ob- jection, before the fire, to the sale of these blocks was largely sentimental, but the sen- timent vanished in the flames. The refusal to sell that property now is pure obstinacy, —a clinging to an old prejudice which now hes no foundation. That part of the city is awaste; it has passed out of tho catalogue of residence property, and the refusal of the - city to sell the proparty renders it unavaila- ble for any other business, There are sever- al blocks of real estate west of Michigen avenne which are hung in suspense by reason of the inaction of the city. The three blocks east of Michigan avenue are wanted for a depot. All the property in the neigh- borhood is threatened with this pending proposition. If tho depot was made a cer- tainty, all the property in the neighborhood would at once advance 25 per cent in value, and would ot once be salable, and would be rapidly improved. With the depot, there would be in a few years several millions of dollars added to the taxable value of the district now an unoccupied waste,—a scene of desolation. 5 In addition to the appeal of common sonse and ordinary business intelligence, we now have the demand of imperative necessity. ‘We have lost $1,304,000 of our assets, on the collection of which tke city has been depend- ing for'the means to pay itsdebis. The money has to be hed, and it will be nothing less than unreasoning obstinacy that will any lenger postpone an scceptance of the §800,000 offered by the raiiroad .com- paniss for this land, to which the city has but a questiongble title even to a smell por- tion. Here is a means of practical rclief, the adoption of which will be of immediate ben- efit not only to the cmbarrassed Tressury, but to the owners of a large district of prop- erty, and add largely to list of taxables of thecity. REFORMING 1AL PUBLIC SERVICE. There is no guesiion but the great mass of the people of this comntry *¢ouiside of polities” look forward to the reformation of the public service ps the chief hope from the next President of ‘the United States. That is why this class of peoplehad their attention fived almost unanimously upon Mr. Brisrow as the Republicen condidate. Yet it is not strange that, es the Nation points ont in a recent article on the subject, Mr. Bristow should have had no chance in a convention composed in lerge part 6f Postmasters, Col- lectors, Pensior-Agents; Revenue Supervis- ors, ete., and, in addition tothe Federal office- holders, the Assessors, Comumissioners, and other State, county, city, and town officers. This is a class of people—mostly professional oftice-holders—who have become accustomed to governing politics, and through politics the nation, and they will not lightly give up’ there hold. But their disinclination to’ nominate such a man as Brisrow for Presi- dent on this account illustrates the truth of the following paragraph from the Nation's article: " One of the firsteteps taken by the reforming Gov- erninent must be to forbid all political activity on the part of oflice-holders. This reform. is neces- sary both to improve the service and to wrest from the politicians the power of thwartiag the will of the people. The office-holder will, of conrse, have his vote, though even that privilege is denied him in Great Brilain. DBut beyond the simple act of votiny, any connection whatever with the working of politics shonld be punished by dismissel. And the rule must be as rigidly enforced against those who support the reformers as it is mow against those who oppoee it. The outery vwhich may follow against *‘a tyrannical interfercnce with the rights of citizens” will prodrea littla #fiufl. Even . should the people not be able to sce that no man'is compelled against his will to accept an oflice, it is mot ia ' the mature of things that they should ever be profoundly touched with the wrongs of ofice-holders. The effect of this provision, if firmly carried out, will soon be feit. If the Government is in earnest, it will be hard for office-holders to evade it. To holder will find a Qiicnlt undertsking. A Tittle sharp dealing with a few offenders will indnce him to be very wary in his style of procedure; and as he will be assured of permancnce in his position dur- ing his proper performance of its duties, and as- sured also of immediate dismissal should he begin to tamper with caucuses and primary meetings, he will probably find it convenient and easy to become the quiet servant of society we wish to see him. 1f that should not be his disposition, it will not he hard to find one to take his place who will not in- sist upon ruling the country which feeds him. . The country, no donbf, would generally support action of thig sort on the part of ite Government; a suc- cessful resistance or evasion of itnecd not be feared {from the oice-holder. But the resistance from the ‘more powerful cluss of politicians will be passion- ate and formidable. 7 Without this enforced non-interference of Tederal office-holders in the- politics of the ‘country, thorough reform of the civil service will be simply impossible ; and ‘the Presi- ‘dont who shall undertake to enforce this principle will meet with serious opposition from the entire class of office-holders, from & large part of Congress, and from the social and partisan influences thrown around him at Washington. Yet the Nation is 1nclined to regard Rurmerrorp B. Haves as just the 1281 to undertake such & crusade ; dud it bases its faith in him upon a private lstter from o gentleman who knows Havyes inti- mately, and in whose judgment, the Nation las great confidence. /,This letteris of such importance that we reproduce it here just as the Nation prints it : 1 have known HavEs formore than twenty years. Ibelieve I know all about his work and his way of doing it, his opinions and how he came to them, *nd where they lead him. As everybody criticises his friends, [ bave made an estimate of his knowl- edge and abilities. In the first place, he isnota *‘self-made man,” Dut was regularly cducated, as that phrase goes in this conntry. He mever had to get over any ob- jection to learning, and has not piclked up bis no- tions of finance and political economny by observing the crops from the windows of rail-caz Dovr- weiL. Ile belicves In history and experience, and does not, like Morroy, hold that old principles are inapplicable to new countries. IHe believes in stady, and for more than thirty vears has studied public afiairs about as carerglly and quite as intelligently as the men whowere carrying themon. Inaword, he is not 8 new man in nu- tional politics, 1f people mean by **new ™ to imply thut 2 man lacks familiarity with the subject. To illustrate what I mean: he knows cvery bit as much about our trne politics (not about running a party) as Mr. BLAINE or Mr. JorToy, and his opinion is wworth twice as,much as that of cither ofthem. As to one of them, I think I put it very mildly. T should have eupported Mr. Bristow most cordi- ally, bat, kuowing both men well, I have to say that 1IAvEsisin every respect his equal. Meis certainly Bristow's equal intellectually, and has 1much larger knowledge and more experience. Tle is not & **mugnetic” man; he is not auda- clious; he is nota *‘leader”; he does not impress one ds a great force, and all that. But when he has a duty to perform he first proceeds to throw aside all nonsense, and, with a pecaliar singlencss and simpiicity, secs just what the matier is. After that the devil can't scare him. I never knewa man who listened with a franker willingness to Jearn, 2nd I bave known very fow men who were 50 sure to end with an opinion of their own which nothing could shake. T observe that the little po- ple of the Herald and. World peak of him asa *tcolorless™ candidate. Well, his color is mnot loud; but what they actually mean is noneense. They had better encounter him gome time when he Das n duty to perform, and try to turn him aside, and then tell us whether he has color. I have seen him tried, and noticed that Lis color was a good deal like stecl. A Undoubtedly, he is a party man. It would take much more to drive him from the Republican party than wonld sufiice for Sciunz; for he holdsthat the party is something else than its leaders, and that it canlearn. Butmy private tslks with him make, me feel that he is not, in the least degree, a parti- san. e isloyal to the Republican party ‘simply Decause he really believes it means eomething, not ‘because it is Ais party. Inced say nothing about his honesty; you've saen that mentioned in every paper that names Thim, although perhaps I might jnstas well add that Te is just absolute integrity. My main purpose was to speak of his capabilities, since that must be the chifef point of cariosity justnow. For what- eyer it is worth, ‘my clear conviction is that he is a vory able mam, “very Tkoronghly informed, of a good deal of eulture, of rare soundness of judg- ment, and of a courageous, high character. This is thie most intimate and valuable testimonial we have yet seen to the personal worth and character of the Republican can- didato for President, and we believe he is just the man' to undertake in the right way the great work of reforming the public ser- vice. SHALL CITY GOVERNMENT CEASE? Ald. Xieg has announced bis intentior of offering to the Cominon Council to-dsy the following resolution : WrEREss, Itisa well-known fact that the Fi- nance Committee of this Council have done every- thing In their power to induce the moneyed men of this city to come to the rescue of the cily in her present fnancial difficalties, by Inying before them a full and fair statement of the assets and liabili- tics, taken from the books of -the Comptroller; and WnEREss, It appears that the city is perfectly solvent if the taxes dueare paid in, and that a tem- porary lozn by the moneyed men of the city wonld suilice to pay w1 amonnts due laborers and cm- ployes; 2nd Woeneas, There I& no dizposition. manifested on the part of our wealihy &itizens to advance the city money in auy shape, or any secarity; therefore, Provided, That the Committee on Judiciary be, and is hereby, structed to report to the Council fortliwith the following ordinances: 1. An ordinance sbolishing the office of Superin- :nt of Police and disbanding the entire police ordinance disbanding the ofiice of Fire isbanding the entire fire brigade. nce cauceling the city's gas con- traets, and cutting off all the strect-lamps. 4. An ordinance abolishing the Board of Public Works, and stopping all work on city improve- meuts. : People will make a very serious mistake if they regard this asa joke. It is probably not the intention of Ald. Kink and Lis associates to press the resolution immediately, but there jsno doubt thet it will be introduced sand referred, and held in abeyance till the pro- fessional tax-fighters and those who owe taxes and are able to pay them shall show their willingness to meet their share of the public expenditures. - It ia no joke in the sense that jt foreshadows what must happen perforce unless the people of Chicago come forward to help themselvesout of the embarrassments into which they have been betrayed by the reckless mismanagement of those whom they selected to ndminister their funds. We have no doubt that~the present Council will ex- heust every means they can think of, and all that may be suggested, to avert the calamity indicated by Ald. Expx’s resolution;. but if, after all this, they shail fail to raise the money necessary, we belicve the present Council have the pluck and honesty to sdopt the measures herein suggested, and virtually leave the city without o government and without protection. Indeed, they would be forced to it, for men will not work as police- men and firemen without pay any more than they will in private business. Perhaps the full meaning of this proposi- tion will dawn upon the people when the necessity becomes s0 imminent as it now is. To suddenly cut off this .city from the pro- tection of firemen, policemen, and gas, would be to risk a very pandemonium of evils. It would be a notice to all the thicves and vil- lnins in the countrv to flock to Chicasa. follow the business of politics secretly the office- Tncendiarism, highway robbery, garroting, burglary, and murder would be the order of the day.. Meu would have to abandon their business ard organize into vigilance commit- tees to protect their property and the lives of their families. There would ba generalbank- ruptcy. The insurance companies would in- stantly cancel their policies and withdraw. Paople would desertthe city by the handreds, and money would sctually disappear from circulation. The ecity would be & thousand times. worse off than after the fire. The effects of such a course in a little city like Springfield afford no eriterion for judging of the results of great commercial metropolis like Chicago. The ulterior damage on trade and business would be felt for years to come. Yet the necessity for such a courss is by mo means impossible, nor even' remote. People niust pay their taxes or we must gome to it. The policeraen, and firemen, and gas companies must be paid or we shall lose their services. Men would rather be idle than work without pay. The hard times have produced o feeling of- desperation among-certain classes that have suffered the most, and it is the most dangerous time for pressing such extreme measures ; but they are simply ineviteble unless relief comes; and relief can only come in the Iong run by the ‘payment of taves, though temporary loans and a reduction of ‘exponses may bridge over for a while. ' . THE ELUE-JEANS HUMBUG. Blue-Jeans WrLrraxs was put on the Con- federate ticket in Indizna for Governor as 2 bait for Granger votes, tho theory of the porty managers being that any sort of a fraud, if done up in 8 blue-jeans suit, might be palmed off upon the Grangers. But the Blue-Jeans cannot conceal his Copperhead- ism, nor his trae colors, which werenot blue, but butternut. During the Wer he was a member of the Indiane Senate, the official | records of which show that throughout he was bittterly opposed to continuing the War for the Union, and refused to vote aid and supplies to Indiann Union soldiers in the fild; and that, after, by the Emancipntion Proclamation, the shackles had been stricken off the sleves, and they were rendering ef- ficient aid in fighting the Rebellion, he de- manded their re-enslavement. . On the 8th of January, 1863, while armed treason threatered at the front and insidious Copperheadism in the rear, he voted to refer to a Committee for burial CraypooL’s resolu- tion pledging the Legislature to appoint or elect to ofice no man who was opposed to the War for the Union, or who wes not * un- alterably opposed to severance of any State from the Union.” The proposition simply was, that the enemy in the rear should not be rewarded with offices of pub- lic trust. Wrznaws' vote on the official journal puts him on record as in favor of so rewarding the tresson that skulked in the Tenr. . At the same session he voted against the adoption as the motto of the Genernl As- sembly of the famoris utterance of ANDREw Jacssos, “The Union, it must and shall ke preserved.” To have voted aye would have been to put himself on record as in favor of the preservation of the Union. Ee voted sno, because he was opposed to the preserva- tion of the Union, and his vote was in har- mony with his entire course during the War asa Copperhead ally of the Corfederstes. Later in the session resolutions were of- |- fered declaring that the General Assembly of the State was unconditionally in favor of the preservation of the Union, and, to that end, of the vigorous prosecution of the War, and would aid snd sustein its prosecution with money and supplies. Again, on the 6th of Alarch, 1863, the Blue-Jeans fraud voted for Worre's amend- ment to the report of the Committee on Fed- eral Relations declaring it “ the duty of the President to immediately withdraw his Emancipation . Proclamation.” Tlis was three months after Afr. Lizcory had issued the proclamation, and after the colored troops, by their services, had bound the coun-’ try by every -obligation of honof and good faith to forever maintain it.! But the Cop- perhead in blue-jeansvoted tore-enslave them. When the resolutien wes offered declaring that resistance to the conscription act should be put down, he encouraged the treasonable Order of Sons of Liberty in their schemes for resistance to the draft, and of making an open fire in the reer, by voting to table that resolution, thereby voting that resistance to the draft should not be put down. So throughout the session, as oftzn as oc- casion presented, he recorded himself as an enemy of the country, opposed to the pres- ervation of the Union, and denying aid and support to the Unon sbldiers in the field. Letthe Indiana Grangers and al! other honest voters in that State lool over his record as ‘e has made it,and the Blue-Teans frand will be repudiaied by them as a Copperhead of the most malignant type, whom they are not prepared to indorse because he is done up in blue jeans. 4 THE LAND-GRANT POLICY. The Cincinnati Convention declared an opposition to further grants of- pnblic land to corporetions and monopolies, and demanded that'the national domain shall be devoted to free homes for the people. The St. Louis Convention, in response to this, declares that a reform must be had in the policy of divert- ing the public land from actusl settlers, by the Republican party, which has squandered 200,000,000 acres upon railroads alope. In this St. Louis resolution we have the two main points of a scandalous fabrication—the false suggestion and the suppression of the truth. The land-grant policy is of respect- able nge, antedating the Republican party by mony generations. As long ago as the days of Gen. Jacksox, Congress mnde grants of public land for internal improvements, and & large part of " the area of the present City of Chicago is on land granted by Congress to build & canal. Land was granted in the seme generation to build cansls in Indiana and Ohio. The first act of importence in the way of granting land to railronds was the act granting land to the State of Illinois to aid in the comstruction of a rail- rond from the northwestern corner at Dunleith to Cairo, with a branch to Chicago. This land was largely the most fertile and productive in the United States; but it was inaccessible ; it was impossible to get from the land to market, and hence for forty years ten millions of acres of the best land in this State was oficred by the Government for sale at $1.25 per acre, and could find no pur- chaser. In 1850, under the lead of DouGras, ‘backed by CarroUN and nearly all the Demo- cratic statesmen in, both Houses of Congress, 2 bill was passed granting alternate sections of land along the line of rozd, the reserved sections to be held by the Government at the increcsed price of $2.50 per acre. With- in a few years the Government sold” every acre of the reserved land at $2.50 per acre. and within five years thereafter sold for cash every other acre of public land in the State of Tiinnis. Thera was. thurefare. not an acre wasted nor a dellar lost by the oper- ation, but it was followed by a large migra- . tion to Tllinois, which State at once entered on that ers of prosperity and incresse which bas continued ever since. This act was followed in time by similar grants © of land for like purposes fo Jown, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Mintesots, and various States in the South- west. In every instance the land was unsal- able because inaccessible, and the construc- tion of the railroads opened a vast empire for actual settlers. In no case did the Gov- ernment lose one dollar. Its land was offer- ed at the standard price, and could not be sold; & portion was given for the construc- tion of the railway, and the remeinder all sold nt double price. All this was under Democratic rule, but so wise and prudent was the policy deemed that it was wniversel- ly ncqaiesced in by all parties. If there were any opposition, it was of a purely - sec- tional character. ’ That policy has continued down to the present time. The Republican party, how- ever, has supplemented the land-grant policy by the Homestead law, granting homes to actual settlers free of cost. This messure was for many years ficrcely assailed by the Democretic party, and once, when passed by Congress, was vetoed and defeasted by a Democratic President. The great number of the land-grants to reilroads has been to the Paciic rosds. Of the 206,000,000 acres granted since ‘1827, for railroads, canals, river improvements, wagon roads, and other internal improvenients, the following have been given to Pacific roads : Railroai. Acres. Tnion, Centsal, and Kansas .. 35,000,000 Northern Pacid 47,000, 000 Atlantic & Pa 42,000,000 Southern Pac "Fexas Pacific Other Pacifc raads .. _3.000,000 " 000 Total, BCreS..eevsencensarere Thus it will be seen that nearly three- fourths of the lend grented to railronds has been given to aid in the.construction of routes to the Pacific Ocean, and these grants have received the cordial support of both parties in Congress and the country. They have peopled Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Towa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska; have made Colorado & State, have brought California, Nevada, and Oregon within easy access, and heve opened the mining regions to our people. Moreover, it-should be borze in mind that the greater portion of this land granted to these Pacific reilways is ntterly ‘Darren,—worthless, not worth five cents an nere for any productive purpose. ‘To have reserved it for actual settlers would be a mockery, and the only significance the Dem- ocretic resolution can have is that the Gov- ernment should accept the offer of these railway companies, and purchase the land back. The Republican resolution simply declares that, the bounty of the Government having been liberslly extended, and having led to the establishment of the main arteries of communication through the nationaldomain, any further grants are unnecessary, and, if persisted In, would lead to abuses. It is time, therefore, that it should stop, and the Republican Convention said so. The at- tempt to hold the Republican party gailty of having wasted and squandered the public lands is as ebsurd as it is impudent. The policy was inaugursted by the Democrats, who have sustained it {rom first to lest. Already is being demonstrated what befors the St. Louis Convention was asserted by prominent Democrats, that Tmpex's popu- larity would culminate with his nomination, and wane'so rapidly that before the election he would be the most unpopular candidate for the Presidency ever nominated by either of the great perties. On a manufac- tured capital a3 & reformer, he has been thz- subject of a deal of paid puffery as a reformer which has largely imposed upon the public. But the facts as to his pretended reform ad- ministration in New York will explode all these false pretenses as soon as people come to understand them. They show him to have been the sccomplice of the very rings which it ig his boast he smashed, and that as Governor of New York he has prostitated his ofiice to protect the rings and secure immu- nity for the very thieves. He appropriated to himself all the credit for the overthrow of “Boss” Tweep, which was the work of o single courngeous Republican newsphper, the New York ZTimes; and he has never censed bonsting of that as establishing his pretensions as a reformer. He has had noth- ing to say of the sequel. But the facts are matters of public history. - TweEp, after contiction,was allowed to walk out of prison, step into a carringe, andidrive ‘off in broed daylight, and all the trumped-up reports of his pretended escape were too thin to conceal that Le was set at liberty by the Sheriff of New York. That Sheriff holds his office now, and Gov. TrpeN, the Chief agistrate of the State, whose duty it is to take action in the matter, has done nothing { toward calling that Sheriff to acconnt for permiiting TwrED's escape, by which, ac- cording to law, he forfeited his office. The Prooklyn City Ring was no less infamous then the Tammany Ring, and plundered Brooklya ss the latter did New York. Pro- ceedings against the Brooklyn Rling-thieves were commenced. But, despite TiLpen’s promise that they should be driven into the Penitentiary, they hove not even been brought to trial, nor has TiLvzs made any effort to smash that Ring, aud the sigrifi- cance of his courso is manifest from the fact thet at St. Louis the most prominent of the Ring-thieves, against whom indictments are pending, appeared as ardent supporters of TirpEN for the Presidency. There is plenty more of thesame sort in the record of this Reform (?) Governor, but these facts alone are enough to fix his connivance at the escape of Tweep and his relations to the Brooklyn Ring, and explode 2ll his pretensionsas a re- former. Relative to the proposed’ reduction in the Fire Depertment, we'would warn the Conncil against immediate action. We do not refer to a reduction of individual pay, but to the curtailment of the working force and the number of engines in the service. There will come a time shortly whensuch a cartail- ment may be made with safety. It is expect- ed thot, by the 1st of August; the new ‘Wator-Works will be in working order; and, if the anticipations of the City Eugi- neer shall be realized, there will be force _enongh in the water-pressure to exfinguish fires in what may be called the * cottage districts ” of the city,—say south of Twelfth street, west of Halsted, and north of Chicago avenue. In thatevent ordinary fire-elarms in those districts will only call out the hose- carts, and it will only be necessary to have the heavy engines for fires in the business districts, and for factories and large estab- lishments. In that case we believe the num- -y CHICAGO “TRIBUNE: MONDAY. JULT 5, ise. ' $ the rosults expected from the new Water. Work.s than risk extensive conflagrtions m& a panic among insurance companies, which would cost tho people more in losses and iy, creased rates than they would save by crip. pling the Fire Department at the Preseny time. — TRIUMPE OF THE HARD OVER : ; SHELLS, THE oy .. There was one test vote in the St. Lonis Con- vention on the issue of Hard vs. Soft Mopey, The Associated Press dispatches gaye the resyiy. but not the details of the voting on the ques. tion. To make the matter clear, we will re. capitulate the steps which led up to the test vote. At the conclusion of the reading of thy plutform— Tox Ew1xg, of Ohio, took the platform, the request of- several members of the Com:\nl?i;:t presented a minority report. which recommende] striling out the following clause in the major; repost: A As such s hindrance we denoun clhes OF 16 ek OF 1875, And e demand fps Tpumptoy 1le proposed to substitute therefor the followins words: i The law for the resnmptlon of the 15tor Januury, 1000, Btlog hien coaciel B Eepublican party without deliberation {n Congress sug without discussion Lufore the people, andbeing Doth . * effectual to sccure {ts object and hizhiy o ;:lex:l busizess of the counsry, -nmn.g'mr!flé':‘l.‘f’,z ‘This minority report was signed by Tnoxas Ewixg, Ohio, D. W. Voorness, Indiana, JomeC. Brows, Tennessee, sLcory TIAY, Pennsylvania, o H.JT:](Jan:.WIown.y g onx J. Davis, West Virginta, T. L. DAvis, Kansas, C. H. Harory, Missonrl. Gen. Ewixa, of Ohio, moved, and Mr. Eyroy, of Kansns, seconded the motion, thtthe ameng. ment thus'suggested be made. EWING proceeded 10 state his objections to the clause proposed stricken out. 1t denounced only one cl Resumption act, that one fixing the ti sumption, thas by implication leaving all the to stand s unobiectionable. The Constractiog piven to this will be, that the Democratic party wants reszmption eariier than 1879. Anoter ob. jection is that the resolution. as reported, palters Swith the question of which it treats. It commits the party to a redtction of greexbacks and perpete uation of the National Bauk system. leuves the Secretary of the Tregsury perhaps with tke power to_issue gold awaiting the day of resumption—s policy which the Western Democrats nnanimonsly oppose. _The regolution of the Committee supports Ly implication a bill for which the Demoemts ars not responsible; a measure which never receireda Democratic vote. Here time was called, and much confasion en- sucd in consequence of efforts to secure more time for Ewiyo. The Chair raled that, as objection was made, the time could not be extended. Mr. Cox, of New York, rose toa point of order, in which he was understood to reflcct upon the Chair for favoritism, and he was called to order by the Chair and directed to take his seat. Jr. DoRsHEIMER said he right here ‘propozed to make a straight issue betwien aard and soft money. [Applause.]” By that we will stand or fall. If yoa want soft money, give your votes to its most dis- tinguished advocate. bat. if yon want to give te any show to carry the hasd-money States, stand by the platform as presented. [Applause.] This iy u compromise in which the East husyiclded s¢ much as to have alrendy ted strong protests numerously sirmed by the States. On this we stand of fall, and, 1f yon 2dopt the amendment of the geatleman trom Ohio, then £00d-by to sout hopes. . The Committee’s report, however, gives us a living chance of success. In conclusion demanded & call of the States on the question. After some further ~discussion by Dax Voornzes, of Indizna, WATTERSON, of Ren- tucky, and DOOLITTLE, of Wisconsin, the roll of States was called amidst mucn noise and ex citement, mixed with great bitterness, and re- sulted as follows. Those voting aye were the ¢ gofts,” those voting no the * hards™: Ayes. Noes, Alebama.. .. ‘2 Arkansas b3 California 18 Colorado [ n. € 3 2% 2 Total.... 219 515 The vote of the Kentucky TiLpes hard-shell delegation, under the Icad of Warrzesos, of the Courier~Journal, with the rag-baby fellows is a puzzle which we have not seen explained. Perhaps it has been misreported. The Ohio delegation was instructed to act as a unit for rag-baby BILLALLEN, but nearly Lalf tbe Con- vention was for THURMAN and hard moncy. The THURMAN strength in the Ohjo dclegaiion i3 shown by the strong vote for the hard-money side of the fight, viz. : 1S votes for bullionagainst 25 for rags. The latter represents the influence of the rabid rag-baby Enquirer, asd the former the influence of the Cleveland Plain Doaler— hard money Democratic organ. The T delesation was nearly equally & vided, with a slight preponderance for “bulk ion over ‘“baby.” Neasly half the Pennsyl- varia delegateswere * hard-shells,” but the unit ; rule gave the whole vote of the State for rags. : - How Vermont came to vote with the “soft-.; shells has,not been explained. But taking the whole vote as it stands the hard-shells gave the. soft-shells a tremmendous defeat, from which . they will not soun recover. PERSONAL. Miss Dickinson Is in Philadelphia. - Gov. Tilden is 2 Presbyterian—deny ft who may. * Nervous people must summon up their Fourthi- | tude. . ¢ Yale graduated 120 in the Academical Depart-.' . mént. B ¥ ! T T o p ; i 3 Yale College has made Gen. Sherman s Doctor of Laws. Dartmonth College graduated a class of sisty- - nine last week. The Hon. W. D. Kelley has been renominated for Congress in Philadelphia. ** Reform Morrisscy and Tilden™ is our motto. © It reads best withoat commas, 3 Theodore Tilton made enough money by his Tec- tures last winter to pay off all his debts. Mr. D. O. Mills, Preaident of the Bank of Cali- | fornia sncceeding Ralston, is at Newport. Offenbach led the orcheetra for Almee's benefit atthe Arch Strcet Theatre, Philadelphia, Friday ber of engines in actual service may be re- duced from thirty-seven to one-half that number, or twenty at most. Certainiy the expenss of this department is enormous, but we can better afford to wait a few weeks for night. The Collegiate Department of Michigan Universi- tyturns ont a cluss of eeventy-six this year, [n cluding twelve Indies. Horatio Seymour has been confined to his honso at Deerficld for the last ten daya by a fever super- induced by the warm weather. 1t is cited as a singular fact that the corner-stone of the Churchof the Redeeiner in Balthmore was :1aid by Bisip’ Cummins, and his funeral was the firet held in it. William Callen Bryant says that he wrolo ‘¢ Thanatopeis™ beneath 2 group of majestic for- est trees at his home in Cummington, 3fass., be-’ ing then in his 18th year. % ! Mr. Clark Lipe, encouraged mo doubt by the resalts of his canvass for the oflice of City Treas- . ur: r. has now aunounced himself as a candidate £of : Congress on the West Side. The financiess of Chicago wonld not have been | worthy of their reputation if they had not gone - under, over, around, or throngh Bill 300. Vith . E [ all their experience in evading bills, It wonld bave ~ ~ been singular if they had been canght on the century. 4 ‘The two elder sons of the German Crown Princs, | now pupils at the public gymnasium at Cassel, | have struck up an ardent friendship witha young-. Jewish 1ad, the son of a poor woman, the widow of oneof the ill-paid teachers at & German public * school. e Gov. Hayes, though not a professing Christisn, 7. has alweyg maintained the practice of reading the s Scriptures, night and morning, In his family; oz after the chapter is read they all kneel down au Teneat the Lord's Praver. **Asif they belleved i 5