Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1876, Page 4

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1870, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yestordsy olosed at 984, The Board of Education last evening did a gracefal snd ominently just and proper thing in the adoption of a resolution, offored by Mr, Reep, ordoring the repayment to the widow of the late Franois Hanrorp of the sum of $1,105, this being the amount bor- rowed by Mr. Hanrorp and subsequontly ~pnid back to the Teachers' Relief Fund, which was contributed for charitable pur- poses in conneotion with the great fire of 1871, and ita distribution intrusted to the Bonrd of Education. Tho money could not hava been more worthily bestowed. Gov. Haxes mado n npeech at Dayton, ®,, last ovening, in response to a soronndo by the Republicaus of that city. Il slluded to tho prosent state of excitoment in a mauner most craditable to his judgment and patriot- ism, saying tbat whatever decision was urrived ot by the lawful anthori- ties he shonld submit to cheorfully and quintly. Won't somebody serenade Mr. 'T'rivex, and give him an opportnuity to say asmuch? What the country stands particu. larly in need of jnst now ia a declaration from the Democratio clnimant that Lo too stands Teady to quietly nequiesce in the de- ciuion of tho lawfal anthorit Houseé Dom- seratio caucus are outspoken in the oxpres. sion of their hearty conterpt for the North- ern fire-eators who bluster, aud rave, and threaten war, Tho cenous on Tucsdny ;Mght was prolonged to "n late hour {)y tho discnssion of moasures of Policy in connection with tho Presiden. tinl imbroglio, sind when Fznvaxoo Woop hiad [finiched a most sulphurous and gory speech, Bey Huy, of Goorgia, who seems to have boen gelocted to reprosent the pence men of the South, throw the assembly in grent confusion by a fow sharp aud well. directed remarks, indicative of the low esti- wate wirich he and his brethren of thoSoath Liold of tho bravery and fighting qualities of the averago Northern doughface. Gov. TiLDEN is roported (whether truthfal- Iy or mnot we shall not undortake to deter- mine) ng saying that ** he thinks the House of Represontatives can provent an election, ond pencefully defeat tho inanguration of Gov. Haves, sending the whols question back to tho people within o year,” Weshould ko to kmow how this is to bo accomplished. .1t (he Touse has the power to prevont an election or declare there has been a failaro to elect (and this needs to be pointed out), then it bocomes the duty of the Ilouse to cloct & President by States. The only way in which the whole question can bo seut back to the poaplo within a year is by the insuguration of a President, aud by resignation of both President and Vice-Prosidont within the Yyear, when & new clection muy bo called under tho law. Returning Board, yestorday made an informal call upon tho Congressional Committes now in session ot Now Orleans, on the invitation of the Chairman of sald Committee. Mr, Wrrra was courtoonsly received by the members, and ruturned the compliment by smiling bonignly upon the entire body. Mw, Weirs, os President of the Board of Canvassers, in. formed the Congressional visitors that he was willing thoy should lave access to oll documonts in possesslon of the Board, provided thoy wounld furnish tho clerical asglstance necessmy to do the work; ot the same time ke should decline to answer nny questions regarding his action 4s o member of said BDoard, for the reason that ho deniod the right of tho Committee to interrogate him on the wubject. Whereat MMr. Mornsox, Chairman of the Committees, unuounced that hie should not presa the mat- ter, and Mr, WrLLs withdrew, with tho un- derstanding that tho other members of the Board would be invited to appear and show couge why they shall not be required to elu- cidate, — The defeat of Senntor Epmuoyps proposed coustitutional omendment by the very dool~ sive vota of 81 to 14 probably puts an end to sll attetupts for the present to adjust oxist- ing differences by altoring the Constitution, It is oxpected, and very earnestly to be hoped, that betore the Forty-fourth Congress ad- Journs finally somo mensure will be devised that shall secure the concurrenca of both Houses und the ratification of tho requlsite sumber of Htate Legislotures, whercby the ananifest dofects in the prosent systoin sy be remedied. Mr. MonTon's plan for the election of President and Vico-President by o direct vote of the people will doubtless bo Lrought beforo the Senmato at an early day, One thing is evident from yesterdny's vote on Ar. Epsuaps’ proposition—that no amend. ment giving to tho Suprems Court the power to decide Electoral contests can hopo to re. ceive tho approval of Congress, As the muatter now stands, thero is little prospect of s compromise on tho Presidential question, slnce the Democrats show no dlsposition to listen to any proposition for adjustment that does not make TiLpen President. The Chicago ) markets-woro gon- erally firmer yeaterdny. Mess pork closed 12je per brl higher, ut $16.35@10.87} for Decenber and $10.45@16.47) for January. Lard closed 2jo per 100 Ibs higher, at §0.97} cash and $10.023@10.05 for Jauuary, Deats were steady, at Gc for new shoulders, bazed. 3¢ for do short-ribs, aud 8o for do short-clears. Highwines were 4o higher, at $1.07 per gallon. Flour was dull and steady. Wheatclosed jo higher, at $1.174 for Decom- ber and #1,177 for Jannary. Corn clored fo higher, at 46jo for December aund 4Gic for January. Oatseclosed a shade ensier, at 330 cash and 33k for January, Rye closed easy, at 71jc. Barloy closedstondy, at 63§@G4}o for January and 04}@64jc for Fobruary. Iogs wore dull, at Tuesday's prices, or at $5.40@ 5.85 for common to prime. The cattle mar- kot was active and unchanged. SBhoep wero dull and nomiually lower. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $107.37} in greanbooks at the close. ‘Wa are rejoiced to announcs that Braxp's Silver bill, after adequate debate, passed the Honse by the immense majority of 167 ayes 1o 63 noes, belng mors than throo-fourths of the votes cast. The report says: ‘The House dobate on the Sitver lll being closed, the substitute proposed yeaterday by Mr. Braxn wan agreed to without division. Itfs that silver dollars of tho wolght of 412!4 gralns shall be colned, and ahall ba a legal-tender for all debts pudhc and private, excopt where psymont of gold coin I8 required by law. This weight of 412§ grains is tho same s that of tho old logal silver dollar which wns a full logaltender for eighty years, Now lot tho Benate pass the bill before the holi- days, and it will raise the members in popu-, lar estimation more than any ono thing they can do, The people insist upon romonetiz- ing tho American silver dollar, and giving every man the privilege of having his silver bullion coined free of cost. Thero is not enough of gold as a basis for curroncy and credit ; tho stock of silver is also necded. Nothing will more poworfally contribute to a spacdy restoration of good times and gen. oral prosperity than to lot the poople put the product of our silver mines into eircu- lation. This'is & kind of ** inflation” that will harm nointerest, but benefit all branches of business. In a dispatch from Bpringfield, IiL, which wo print this morning, mony interest- ing facts are furnished relative to the nims and purposes of the ** Constitutional Demoeratic Veteran Legion,” of which the ‘Veteran Reform Association in Chicago is a subordinate anxiliary organization, A true copy is given of **8pecial Order No. 8,” issued from headquarters in New York, emn- bodying the oath taken by each person en. rolled in the Legion, binding him to carry out the objects of the organization, nnd to obey tho commands of his superior officors, ‘What these objects are, and what the com- mands are likely to bo, is clearly aet forth in the preamble, which declares that on the 7th dsy of Noverhber Sasrues J. TipeN was duly elected President and ‘I'niosras A, Hexpnicxs Vico-President of the Unitod Btates. In "anothor circular groat vigilance is enjoined in the selection of the members of the Legion, who must * con. form in all respocts to the requirements of tho present United Btates army as to nge, physical ability, habita of life, ate.” From this it will be plainly scon that a movement for tho organization and equipment of a mili- tary force to resist the innuguration of Haves o8 Presidont has not only been sct on foot, but hns been carried forwardto the extent of appointing Division Commanders and tho enrolling of members. In OChicago the movement is strongly disapproved of by the more moderate and prudent of the Democratio leaders, and 08 a oconse. quonce a pressure has already begun to bo oxercisod for the displacement of the present Chairman of the Iilinois Btate Democratic Committeo, and the solection of a man who will co-operate with the plans and purposes of the Legion. A WORD TO THE HOT-HEADS. Thore are two classes of hot-heads in this and every othor commaunity in the country trying to foment war. The one in rookless and the other ignorant of cousequences. They belong to both parties and they would put Haves and Wareler, or Tinoey and Henpricks, into offiee by force, rogardless of all logal questions or moral rights, Each clique inaists that it is right nnd the other wrong, and s bound to put its waninto office, nnd, if necossary, fight to keep him in, and plunge tho country into the snarchy and horrors of civil wtrife. Beforae nccepting such n sottlemont of the existing complications as this, it may be well for these hot-heads to consider what it menns, what it covers, and what will be tho consequences and ugishot of their programme, It is to be considored first that such n atrife will not be a war of races or of seotions, It will not be waged for the maintenance of any principlo, It will not beawar for the emancipation or the enslavement of a race, nor for preserving or continuing the liberties of a people. It will simply and solely bon miserable, murderons, internecine contest ovor a fow oflices,~—a strifo botwoen offico. seckors and office-holders, betwean politicsl bummers and partisan horn-blowers, to decide which shall control the epoils and divide the plunder of the public service, How will such a war bo carried on? There is but one way. The poople who engnge in such o war must onroll themaclves in two organizations of rifle-clubs all over the country. Every ward In every city will have its opposing organiza. tions. 'The men who during the recént campaign carried banuers and torches and hurrahed for Haves and Tiuoen would fure nish the staplo of these clubs, The farm. ers would ouroll themsalves in rival shot-gun organizations, and theso clubs, Indian fash. jou, would seek out each other, killing, burning, and plundering. It would of ne- censity bea war of massacre, extormnination, ropine, and conflagration. In the large cities theso armed mobs of the sort proposed by Cauznon aud RopmsoN would destroy property and lay them inashes, Mills, gran. aries, and warehouses, containing the vory means of gubaistouce, would be burned. IRailroads would be broken and telegraph linea sovered, Banks would be robbed and private houses plundered. The Govorn. mont's funds would bo stolen from revenus oftices and customn-houses. Police would be disbanded nud orlminals turned loose to proy upon socioty. All over the United States one class of citizens would be arrayed against tho other,—fathers against sons, broth. ers sgainst Dbrothers, frlends ogainst friends, and members of churches against each other, as in the South American Re- publica, And why? Bimply that oue Beotchman, Oauenox, mny have the Post. Oftice, and another Bcotchman, MoAnTuuz, msy be turned out of it ; that one class of ‘ward-bummers shall have the delivery of the lotters, and that the present corps of trained mon shall be turned out; that the present .Collectora of Oustoms and Internal Revenuo shull give place to new men ; and that the presont custodiaus of distilleries, and koep- ems of lighthouses, and sweepers-out of Gov. ernwent buildingy, may be compelled to give placa to other famishod patriots. 'To accom. plish this result there aro thousands of reck- less, mischievous bot-heads plotlng to THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1§76, fomont a conflict of the character which we have described, The causo for such a conflict is utterly in- adequate, and, as these hot-lheads will soonor or lator discover, the peoplo will so decide, Thoy ore not yot ready to throw aside all forms of law, to imperil their lives and their proporty, aud to subjoct Republican Govern- mont to anothor shock of civil war, unless thero is some botter causs for it than tho office-eoeking mndness of politiolans, There ia a well-definod issue Lotwoen partios which may bo sottled in some poaceful man. nor. Thers i8 & question of doubt which party has won fairly, owing to tho loosenoss of eloction laws. It is cortain that the Demoorats cast tho most votos, It is equally certain that the Republicans would have cnst the most votos had the’election boon falrly conduetod, and had not fraud, and intimida. tion, and bulldozing beon apenly used in Southorn Roepublican Btates as o part of the mnchinery of election. If it can bo held by the Republicaus that thoy are one vote aliend in the Eloctoral Collegs, it can be held by the Democrats that they have been cheated, and vics versa, Dut oven in this distracting condition of thinga there is no cause for war, and no reason that men shouldgo to murdering each other. It is not going to help matters to kill a million of men and burn cities, It will prove nothing ns to Mr. Hares or Mr. TioeN. The people of this country are too ovenly balanced in political sentiment and power for one party to try to force tho other by thrents and intimidaion or by war, 1t tho Democratathink they aro going tosnuft out the Republicans by forco, thoy are foolish to the verge of madness, for the Northern army that fought in the War of the Rebellion {8 now an army of mature mon who will resent it, and it is the samo species of folly that would induce Republicans to inangurate Bfr, Haves by force, right or wrong, Blnster, aud bombast, and threats of war are not going to sottle tho prosent com- plications, Neither party can run over the other or over the pooplo in that mannor ; and yet there aro thousands of thesa desperate porsons who are bent upon precipitating war untess they can have their own way, and who are heaping abuso upon all who do not join them in their mad crusade ngalnst tho ponce of .the country. It may be well for these men to reflect that, if they do suc- eced in precipitating such o cousoless, wiok. ed, and murderous war, there will be threo parties in the field, and that ome of those parties will be the people, who care not for office-geekers or offico-holders, but who will organizo themselves Into Vig- ilance Committoes for the protec- tion of life and property ngainst tho mobs organized in the intorests of mur. der and rapine. And it may be that the peo. ple, in tho absence of law and to quell sedi- tion and restore order, may find it nocossary to omament the lamp.posts with theso des- perate, reckless hot-haads as the punishment for thélr conspiracy agalnst the peaco of the country. Moderation, sobrioty, regard for justice and tho right can alone sottle the questions pending betwoon Mr. Havza and Alr. Tizox¥, Any acheme of violonce will only racoil upon the hosds of those who in- augurate it, e —— THE “REPUBLICAN CONBPIRACY." It Dax OanmzroX is to be held up to altor- nating scorn and ridicule for the preparation of aschome for uniting the former sailors and soldlers who are now in sympathy with Tioey and Hexoaics, what shall bo sald of a nowspapor like the Olicago ZTimes, pre- sumed to bo governed by an intellact of some- what highor order and addressiug itaelf to n wider counstituency, when it prints in dead earnest a cock-and-bull story of a conspiracy of longstanding among the Republicans to innugnrate Havzs end Waezres without nany regard whatever to the Electoral votes? That journal yesterday lent itself to the pub- lication of a professed erpose of the deop do- nigus of this conspiracy, It atarted with the assertion that the Prosident is * secretly orming tho partisans of the Graxr Adminis. tration in avery Ropublican Congrossional District in tho United States,” doing tho work ““secretly, silently, and swiftly,” and appointing the Custom-Honses and Govern- ment offices a4 theplnces of rendezvous, It alleges thot this process of arming now in progross i in conformance with the pro- arranged plan to inougurate the Repnblican candidate, whatever might be the result of the P:osidentinl vote, and names the lenders of the couspiracy as Jor Gourp, Tauarow Wzep, Zacu Cmanpirs, Nores, of Ohio, Monrox, of Indiana, Ciarnon and Fonnzx, of Pennsylvania, and Kexes, of Wisconain, Gens, Looan, Howanp, Buriee, and Bavxa are namod as the men who are to command the forces. The purpoae is stated to be * to disporse tho House of Reprosentatives, im- prison it if necessary, and inaugurate Haszs,” then to sent Republican Congress- mon from Misslsalppl, Loulsiana, Florida, and South Carolins, 80 s to give a Republic. an mojority in Congress, and, finally, to sustain all acts by forco of arms. ‘This {s the programme which the Ohlcago Times prints and indorses. It is evident that Gen, Keenan has got to Washington, but it {ualso evident that his spirit {a in chief control at the homo office, As this is early in the stage, and tho count of the Electoral votes does not occur beforo a couple of mouths, it may bo confidently predicted that the Kezxan order of journalism will have the streets of Washington running with goro, the Bouth rising en mnasse, the large cities liko New York, Philadelphis, Boston, and Obicago, sacked and 4mrned, the office-hold- ors now arming secretly and silently strung up to tho lamp-posts, Grant imprisoned in Fortress Monros, Sfemaan and Buznman in irons, Havxs banishod to Ban Domingo, and TrpeN commanding the triumphant patriots fn person, For, of courss, it wil uever do to lot the Re- publican conspirators hLave it all their own way. The report of the secret warlike proparations which Keenan alone has dis. covered would be ineffective if it failed to excito slmilar proparations on tho other side, Bo the next it of nows to bs expected is of equnlly olaborate and determined moyements by the Democrats, to be followed by actual hostilities. Meanwhile, the editor of the Chicago Z'hmes haa such suprome confidenco in tlioIgnorance aud gullibility of Lis renders that thore is nothing too wild or absurd for L to print, : ‘Iho rosponsibility for all this malicions and incondiary stuff mpst be sought inhigher circles than tho 7%mes’ Washington editor, ‘I'lere {s little ‘doubt that it is merely the reflex of certain utterauces in the Democratic cauous, It was reported the day beforo tHat Ranpavr, Woon, Osvrrizrn, HontoN, Oana, and othor unsornpulous party leaders, hod expressod themselves ns conviuced that thors ias some such conspiracy, to which the reportoriul imagination Las now supplied the detaily, and that they opeuly charged that the Administration has loog beon determined to inaugurate Harzs, and to support this determination at the polnt of the bayonet, RaxpaLy is reported as saying that Prosident Gnaxt intends to throw enough Demoerntio meombers of the Ionse into Fortress Monros to give the Republic~ ans n mojority at tho joint meoting of Con- groess to connt the votes, Thero are no words in which to comment on‘meh oxag- gorated partisan malice as this, There in not a suggestion of patriotiem loft in a party that wiil indorse such uttorances. Tlero is not a particle of trnth in tho composition of men ‘whd make such statomonts without war- rant, Human patience i strained too much in finding that thero are nowspapors that will eircnlate and cradit them, - M. OERRUSCHI AND HIB PLANS, M. Hewur Ozexusont, who arrived in New York the other day, will not fail to attract attontion and scoure n hoaring for his viows of the bi-motallioryatem of monoy, whother ornot he shall succeed in accomplishing the purposs to which his visit is designed. He in 8o remarkable a man—so successful, ver- satile, vivaclous, and enorgetio—that, if any- body can divert Congress from the considera- tion of the Presidential troubles to the im- povtance of the silver question, ho will be ableto do it. He is an Italian by birth,ond it sald that he was serionsly implieated in the political troubles of Rome during the earlier part of Pope Prus IX.'s roign. Tho story goes that ho was sontenced to the galloys for lifo on acconntof the part he actedthen, but that he was soon enabled to escape through the influenco of Navorxon IIT,, and then took up his residonce in France, where hoachieved prominence and wealth, Ha wns connectod with tha famous Credit Foncler of France, and nmassed a fortuno in financial operations. He has evidently been n closs student in the philosophy of finance, and is tho author of a volume entilled the *‘AMo- chanique de I'Exchange,” which has bocome o standard work, besides several other hooks of asimilar nature, But, unlike most theo- rotical political economists and profossors of financo, ho haa himself benefited by his study ond observation to accumulate n for- tune of his own. He is an accomplished linguist, spenking French, German, Itnlinn, and English fluently, is gifted wilh ready wit, onlivens the dry tople of finance with anccdotes, and makes himsolf entortaining at all times. Ho Is o Republican in feeling, and achieved a notoriety during the Franco- Prussian war by giving 100,000 francs to promote the famoua plebiscite which broke the power of the Third NarorzoN. Ho was sentenced .to bo shot by a Napoleonio Gen- oral, but escaped long enough to-profit by the turn of the tide, and as a member of the Paris Commissariat during the siego rondered groat service to the poor of tho city. During the last two years M, Crnxuscmr has token great interest in the silver ques- tion, nud visited the lending Governmonts of Europe with the purpose of counteracting the tendency that lias set in, under tho lend of Germany, {0 domonetizo silver. Ho comes to this country with the purpose, firat, of convincing the American people that they can only hope to attain resumption of speclo payments with the help of silver, and, second, to start & movement for an Intor- uotional Congress to agroco upon a uni- form ratlo for a bi-metallio currenoy. M. Ognnusont will visit Washington, go before the Silver Commission, interview the Becretary of the Tremsury, dine at Weroxen's with the finance members of Congress, and probably accomplish a goed denl in tho way of illustrating the folly of discarding silyer as a part of the money of o country which produces it so largely., His ultimate scheme. for a univorsal system of bi-motalliam, based upon & common ratio, would without doubt maintain anequilibrium betweon tho two metals, and, if adopted, would ennble the employment of sllver in tho payment of the interest and principal of United States bonds without any loss what- over to the Faropean bondholders, But that is the affair of the Earopeans, since, in restoring eilver to the place it held always in Amorican monsy up to 1873, the United States will only exercise an acknowledged right which it would’ be rank folly to sur- tonder. THE BOUTHERN PERIL. ‘Whatever occasion thers may be for un- onsiness because of the lurid efforts of the Bouthern fire-eators to inepire in the stomach of the Northern Democrnoy an nppetite for * wal,” thero {sreason for much more serious apprehension as to the barbarous hostility of the Sonth to the free.school system. Tho “wah" talk is eimply the older Bouthern gosconnde, 'Tho hostility to free schools lan barbariam that escaped ‘destruction with the barbarism of which it was an outgrowth and which it survivesluatily. In thesoolal and po- litieal order which obtalned under the slave- holders'7egime when there wers only mastors, chattels, and poor white trash, there waa no placo for the schoolmaster. No more s thero in the presont social and politioal order, con. sisting of the old mnater-closs, niggers, and white trash, The abyss st by the slave code between the mas- ters and tho chattels has boon closed. But there remains that set by ignorance, which cuts off alike ** niggers " and poor white trash, leaving them alike in a condi. tion of practical serfdom to the aristoorats of the slavery regime, The chasm between the old master-clasa and the others can only be bridged by the schoolmnster. Undor his guidance, and with thanid of the epelling. book, the dosplued ** nigger,” if Le docsuot succood jn working his way into the ruling olaas, will at least oscaps from the wrotched bondags of the fleld-hand into which the ‘* froedmen " Liave fallon. The poor white trash also, under tha like guidance, though they do not take to the spelling-Look so readily, might emorge into civilization ond the possession of thatshare of independ- ence and of political power which in this Republic must attond upon their attaining civilization, None more oloarly perceive than do they of the old master-olass that tho days of their dowminfon will bo numbered when the sohool- aster stands in tholr midst. Roconstruc. tion did fetch the schoolinasters and left a few of thom; aud those fow tho ex-slave. holdors, on acquiriug the ascendant, hastened to hustlo out of Arkansas, Georgia, and Ala. bama, with scarce a protext of decent respect for civilized opinfon ; and e fast as the ex. slaveholders get the ascondant, manifestly do they intend to hustle out the schoolmas. ter throughout the South, Bo enger aro they to accomplish this that they cannot content thomselves with the quiet strides, so to epeak, which already have they made toward that end, Bo is ia that from Georgia, where they ocortaluly have made ropld progress toward ridding the Btato of schoolmasters, comes the most ferocious of all assaulta upon the public-school system,—the very assault of barbarism ftself,—in a speech made by Col Tuomus Hampmax, styled by the Macon Z'elegraph und Messenger, one of the most influential papers in Geoxgls, and which publishes the speech, ‘*onr popular follow-citizen,” The speech undoubtedly reflects the sentiment that ia popnlar among the dominant ex-slaveholding olnss, which is what gives it significance. Adverting to what is left of the freo achools which tho earpot-baggoers of tho re- construction ors, with of course unutterablo malevolonce, sot up in Georgin, Col. Hanpe- X tolls plainly why, in tho ex-slaveholdors’ catimation, there must bo an end of the schools: * Education,” he doclares, ‘*makes the negro flckle, unreliable, and insolent.” Insolent onough, we should say, baving learned somowhnt of their rights, to inslst upon thom ngainat tho ex-mnstor-olass, and thereatter unrolinblo as to their acquiesconco in the lot to which tho ex-mnater-clnss has assigned them, and which, in truth, is no botter than alavury.l A little learning would lead them to demand for themselves a largor share of the products of their Inbor then is loft them aftor thoy have been skin- ned by tho system of supply-advances at 5 per cont per month, A little learning would prompt them to rolax no efforts until they had seoured the ownorship of thelr flelds instead of farming on the '‘share ” plan, by which, when the orop is ratsed, tho whole of the negro's share will not pay for his supply- sadvances, and ho is left to bogin tho noxt soason in debt. Educate the negro and he will not be content with such a lot; more than that, you will have taught him how, perchnnce, to escope it—which i3 the last thing the ex-master-class would suffer him todo, That is the whole argument there is in Col, Hanpraan's statoment, in which ho couples the twin evils, voling and schools, saying: * Voting and froe schools awaken in the idle young negro foolish and absurd aspirntions which will surely engender much tronble and evil.” Educato them, he says, and “you teach thom to sock a living withont work, for o little lenrning unfits them for their irue sphore,—manual labor,—and thoy grow up to be restive, surly, and insolent to- ward tho whites.” In other words, educate them, and thoy will find tho means not to escape labor,— education does not teach that,—but to make their Inbor most profitable to themselves and to embark in mora profitable oceupations, instead of life-long toil, like pack-horses. That is the extent of tho mischief that can como of freo schools in the South, Aund in viow of that miuchief it {s that, rising to the ncme of Southern rhetorio,—thnt s, to the point of profanity,—the Colonel doclares: * Nover, o help me Gop, will I usoe my volae to urge the appropriation of white men's money to educate their most infioxi- blo nnd dotermined enemies,” And yet what is the enmity all? What but the sullen, stubborn determinntion of the whitea of the old mastor-class to practically re-enslave their lnte chattela? And the wholo hatred of publicschoolais that these will aid the negro to his freodom. It is tho same spirit that inspires the bulldozers, and no more can it triumph, though it may lead to alnostin. {lnite mischief. COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE, v 7o the Editor of The Tridune. S, Cnanuss, Ill, Dec. 12.—WIll you pleaso print this—ond your replics—to the following questlons: Firat—DId tho United States Sonate and House of Ropresentatives vlolate tho Conatitution or net in accordance with its meaning when at both the elections of Gen. GRANT they took the business of counting the Electoral votes Into their own bands, and rejected tho vote of Blates when either House resolved that thoy ought not to be counted? Second—As the *‘twenty-second joint rule™ has never boen resdopted since its first adoption In 1805, and has nover been repealed, Is it not ae much in force now as it was in 1800 or 1873t TAlrd—1¢ the Constitution Itself does not give ‘the IMouzes of Congress nny right to determine what votes shall bo counted, could s *‘rule" adopted by the said louses confer such right? Fourth—1t the Constitution does give such right, then what difforonce doea it make whether thers is8ny **rule" ornot? Fifth—In 1805, when tho *‘twenty-second joint rule" was adopted, wero not both the Honses of Congress which adopted it Repablican by nearly thren to one, and do you think they deliberately violated the Constitation in adopting that rule? Very respecttully, ete, J.F. Fanxswonrit. Gon, Fannswontn served in Congress dur- ing the period covered by the twenty-second joint rule, and is well experionced in all mat- ters pertaining to parlismentary law. Not. withstanding this, he evidently prepared his “questions”™ to lead up to a conclusion al. ready formed in his mind, but his questions fall to cover an essentinl point, and this we will endeavor to indicate in the answers to his inquiries 1. Wo understand that under the Constl. tution * cach Houge may determine the rules of its proceedings,” and in this respect is independent of tho other House, We fur- ther understand that the two Houses of Con- gress have the power to adopt rales for the government of proceedings between the two Houses, The rules of all parlinmentary ‘bodies expire with the term for which the body is chosen, No House can make rules for its suocessor. One of the first things which each new' Houso does, upon organ- izing, is to adopt a series of rules, which {s dono by ndopting the rules of the Inst pre- cecding House, with excoptions or additions, a5 the House may at the time indicate. 'The adoption of these rules includes or carries with it the jolnt rales, unless an exception or reservation be made, In 1805 was adopted thé twonty-second Joint rule for the governmentof the procced- ings in the jolnt mesting for counting the votes for Presidont aud Vice-President. This rulo was ndopted by both Houses, and, when in operation, had the force of law. We do not beliove that Congress violated tho Con. stitution when it ndopted this rule ; it was a rule to enable the Congress to executa a con- atitutional duty. Buch a rmle, not in exact terms, but -essorting the power of Congress In the premises, was adopted in the caso of Midsourd, Lialf a century ugo, - In that casoft wna provided that, if the Yota of the State of Missouri chinnged the result of the election, the Prosidout of tho Senats should not count the vote; but, if thatvote did not change the vesult, he should count it, Iers was the ex- ercise by the two Houses of Congress, by Joint rule or order, having the force of law, of the power to regulate and direct the count. ing of the votes in such wnanner os the two Houses of Congross had determined. Tha two Houses, in 1808 and in 1872, exercised the samo power that had Leeu exercised in the days when the Constitution was defonded by a8 gblo and a3 puro men asnow. We are aware that tho exerclse of such a power in any form has boen denied, and this denlal haa boon made most conspicuously by Demo- oratio atatesmen, In his inessage to Con- gress, in 1867, ANpeEw JouwsoN used this language* The mode and manner of recelviog and counting the Electoral yotea for Prealdent snd Vice-Preal- dent of the United Btates are in plain and slmple terms preacribed by the Constitution, That in. strument lroperutively requires that the President of the Fenato **shall, In the presence of the Ben- ate and the House of Representatives, open all tbs cortifical d the votes ahall then be counted," Congress bas, thervfare, no power, under the Con- stitution, 0 recelve the Electorsl votes or re- Jectthem. The wholo power is exhaustod wnen, 1nthse presence of the two Houses, the votes are counted and the resnlt declared. In thisrespect the power and duty of the President of the Senate are, undet the Constitation, ministeral, : This is but a repetition of what has beon snid by meny others, and within a short time wns thoe accopted modorn doctrine of the Democratic party. DBut assuming that the oxerclse of tho power in a perlod covering balf a century s, in tho absonce of any rostriction by the Constitution, and of any othor power anywhora to question it, a sufil olent nuthority for the present time, wo do not think tho procecdings under the foint rule in 1868 and in 1872 wore unconstitu- tional, § 3. Tho joint rule, like all rules, depends on its being adopted, dircotly or indireoctly, exprossly or impliedly, at each Congress, by tho two Houses. In January, 1870, a year ago, at theboginning of the present Congross, the Benate ndopted the following resolution: Rexoloed, Dythe Senate (the Houreof Representa- Hresconcurring), That the joint rulesof the Sonate sud House of Representatives in force at tho close of the last scasion of Congress, excepting the twenty-sccond jolnt rule, be and the mame are heroby adopted na the jolnt rulen of the two Houses of Congreas for the present seaslon, Hore wns the adoption by the Benate of all the joint rules proviously in operation oxcopt the twenty.second. It was mot a question of the repenl of that rule. It was anow Congross, and there were no joint rules; the Benato adopted nll the joint rules in force in the.previous Congress excopt the twenty-second. It requires the concurront vote of both Houses to adopt a joint rule. No one Houso can ndopt a rule for tho gov- ernment of both Houses, and tho Senato re. fusing to adopt the twenty-second joint rule it cemsed to exist. On this point, on the formal voto of o fow days ago, the Senato doclared, with remarkable unanimity, that that twenty-accond jolnt rule was not in force. This vote was concurred in by the affirmative vote of a large number of Demo- oratio Sonators, and only four Sonators in all voted the other way, Weo therefore, upon the facts, and enlightened by this almost unanimous, nnd cortainly non-partisan, de- cision of tho Sonnto, ara of the opinion that thint rulo is not now in force. 8, Tho Constitution authorizes Congross to employ whatever means mny be necessary to enable it to carry into excention any of the powers vested in Congress. The Con- stitation provides for tho openingand count- ing of thio Electoral vote by tho President of the Senate in the presencaof the two Houses of Congross, and the deolaration of the re- sult. Congress hns by law fixed thedato when this proceeding shall take place. Congress may by law, or joint rule having the forco of Inw, preseribe regulations govarning the pro- ceedings, and to meet the contingenoy not provided for by the Constitation of duplicate roturns, contested elections, and returna (as wes the case of Missour) from Statos whoso right to vote at all may be questioned. Such law, or such rule, must be tho action of Congress ond not of a single Hounse, and wo suppose it competent by Oongrass to au- thorize eithor Houso to exercise certain functions under certain circnmstances, In such case tho House exorcising such funo. tions wounld do 50 not from any inherent power in that House, bat from tha nuthority conferred by both ‘Houses acting conour- rontly and jointly in making the law or rule on the subject. As no member of either Houso can act as tho House, o neither can ono Houso act as Congress, which can only not by the conourrence of both Housos, and in somo casos of the Prosident, & 4, Whatever power exists 18 vested in Congross, to be exercized under some law or rule adopted by Congress, nnd in the ab. sonco of such law or ruls such power cannot be exercised. * 5. Both Houses of Congress in 1805 were Republican, The two Houses exercised the powor vested in Congress by n law or rule having the force of law, and therefore with- in the authority of the Constitution. Mr, Fannswontu is familiar enough with the Oonstitution and parliamentary law to know that no one. House of Congress can make rules that can haye life beyond the legal lifo of the House adopting them; any rule intended to romain in forco beyond the legal existence of the body adopting it must be made in the form of law, rs nny other law; and that when a new Congress meets it moets without any rules for its pro- ceodings, and of necessity forthwith pro- ceeds to adopt such rules; No House can bind its successors by rules for the govern- ment of its proceedings, and rules and or- ders oll fall with the closo of the life of the body making them. While in existence they bava all the force of law, and then thoy be- come waste paper, THE EUROPEAN CONFERERCE, Tha Confsrence of the Europoan Powors at Constantinoplo to consider the Russian proposala for settling tho questions pending betwoen the Turks and the Slavic Christians hag thus far progressed favorably, and com- Pplots harmony seoms to exist between all the nations represonted, not excepting Russia and England, who are in accord, notwith- standing the duplicity and recklessncss of* the English Promior. The Parls correspond. ont of the London Z¥mes, who alone of all European correspondents can spenk by tho card, having access to offlelal information, gives the varioua points proposed by Russia with more of detail than thoy have yet been presonted, and a brief statement of thom, therefors, will give our readers the pro- grammo which, in all probabllity, will be adopted by the Powers as their ultimate docision of tho whole question. The poluts of this programmo, eleven in number, are as follows: 1, A general digarma- mont of the populglion in Bosnis, Herzogoving, and Bulgaria, 2, The clestion of all functlonaries by the parishes, 8, The formation of a militia and police composed of Ohristians and Mussulmen, according to thelr relative numerical strength, 4, Tho concentration of tho Turkish troops in cer. tain localitios specified beforehand, 6. The payment of the Irregular troops and the sending of the OCircasslans into tho purely Mussulman provinces. 6. The abolition of tithes and of thefarming of the tithes of taxes paldin wouey. 7, The use of the Blavio languago in the Courts of Justice and Ad- ministration, 8, The meeting of an Assem. bly of Notables, to be consulted by the Con- feronce on the adminlitrative reforms to be introdaced, 9. The sppointment of Ohris- tian Governors by the Porte, with the ap- proval of the Powers, for five or six years, 10. The punishment of all those impllcated in the masancrea and Indemuity to the fam. illes of the viotims, 11, The creation of Congular Commissions for supervising tho oxecution of the reforms.* The TVmes corve- spondent sums up the following as the noces- sary conditions to fulfill the points maderby Rusala: 1t {a necessary to adopt the enfranchisement of Beryla, the ontire independunce of Kownania, and {te noutrallization undor tho collective guaruntee of tha Powors, To Montenegro must bo ceded the plain of Grabovo sud the port of Bplzzs. Two Otizlatlan Guvernors approvod by the Powers wmust be rvquised—aue for Vulguris, the otlies for Boauls and Herzegovina united, the Govern sonally respomible for the real sxoeapie "k Per: roforme adopted. Lastly, the Porte, afjer 2t solomn engagomonts towards the uniteq porL28 must be allowed tho timo no i) s COsIRTY Lo carry \h:u; In addition to the above, it our foroign dispatchios of 'youuanx; tg‘l.‘:;l t:,n Conference agrood that the Valley of u,‘ Drinn shonld bo constdered as the Weato; . frontior of Barvia, the rectification lmpl,i:n tho dafinitive cession of Little Zworrick, nn5 o partof Bosnis, to Borvia, If the I‘::wan are agrood npon those points, the only gnos. tion of interest remaining is whather Tyy. koy will acoopt thom., It wontd appear um; under such a prossure she could not do other. wise, Undor any eciroumstances, the Blnv; are sure of the reforms which they have olaimed, for if Turkoy rofuses them, they TRussin will sooure them by a war with Tur. koy, in which the rost of Europo i3 bound to romain a spectator, There soems to bo not even so much ag 5 protest ngainst the nction of Judge Boyp, of tho United Statos Court in Bouth Cavolipe who has discharged the mombers of the Re. turning Board committed for contempt of Mr. Moszs' Court in that State. It will be remombered thot, after the Roturning Boary had completed its work and adjourned when its legal existonco had terminnted, Mr. Mosss ordered the Board to reconvene aud reconnt the votes to suit his pleasure, and then com. mitted the individual members to Jail and fined them 81,600 ench becausa they de. clined to do 5o, The case was taken befors Judgo Boxp on a writ of Aabeas corpus, and he ordered their dischavge, as a matterof course, holding that Mr. Moses' Court hed no suthority to meddlo with the dutics of the Roturning Bonrd, as .defined by Inw, and no right to punish the ingi. vidual members thercof for contempt, bo. emso they refused to obey a mandate of the Court nfter their offleinl lifa had consed, 'This Mr. Moses, along with his Bon, were original secessionists, but joined the Ropublicans after the War to get oflicg ond enjoy official stealings. After Gov, Onamerrare made war upon them and ex. posed the villainy of Moses fils, who wag Coavmenramy's predeccssor s Governor of tho Btate, they awaited au opportunity to got oven, and flopped over to the ex-Robel crowd again in tho hope of renewed oppur. tunity for stenling,—tho Confederates not hesitating to use thom for dirty work that has signally fatled. Wo have probably heard the lnst of tho Moses family as Judgos, since it haaboon discovored that the elder, whila Judge of the Supreme Court, hes nccepted a salary of $2,000 ns a professor in g law school. This being in violation of the law of Bouth Caroling, his successor will be ap- polnted, and fathor and son may seck such consolation as they will bo likely to find among thoir formor® Confodorate associntes aftor all the dirty work- they have done on both sides, " The Now York Heraldoften receivescorrect political information, but frequently it fs im. posed upon or colors its news for sonsational effcot. Thus it publishes a speclal from Cincinnat, which we are inclined to beliove true. It purports to be the substanco of somo remarks made by Gov. Hayzs, who way in that city on Tuoeday. He is thus roport. ed: *‘Ihave cxamined the altnatlon carefully and thoroughly; and besldes, T have solicited snd ob. talned the opinions of tho best constitntional law- yera of the country, and I am now satfsficd thatl have been honestly clected Presldent of the Unfted Btates and om entitled to the ofice, and I fully ex- pect to be inaugurated a8 such, " Rogarding the attitnde of the Southern Demo. crate townrd him, It {a sald that Gov. Haves e per fectly satisfied, from the expresalon of feeligthat he gots from thom In letters received dally, that they aro willing to co-oporate with him in hisef. forta to restore peace and harmony 1o the Soath, Gov, Haves would never havo said this it ho did not fally believe that he had honestly received o majority of the Electoral votes. He is s man who believes neither in bull- dozing nor falso counting,mor yot in grab- bing votes, as was done in Oregon. He would never consant to be inangurated if ko thonght his election was tainted with fraud, or that his opponent had a better title to the seat than himse The Hon, Jastes R, DootirrLr, who was & United 8tates Scoator for twelve years from Wisconsln, and considered one of the ablest lawyers in the Scnate, cxpressed limself very emphatieally In regard to countlng the Electorsl votca, When the Electoral votes of 1584 were opened by the Prealdent of the Scnate, In Feb- ruary, 1805, Uc took oceasion to declare as fol- lows: Now, Mr. Presidont, what Tmaintain under tbls provision of the co’r'nmuunu Is, thot affer (he T0fes have been given, there {8 no poter In Cone gres, az a legislatice body, (o declare orriuin m‘u valld or tnvalld. Congress is not the tribunit (0 which {£18 referred ; but the tribunai to uhich ll':l referred is the Dresldent of the Senale of (he 'nited States, presiding over the Joint concention of both Housei, Yodmit that the Presldent bt ln hie hande tho power to count or bot to count !h: votes. . . . 1omnotmmntaining the rlzhtsof the Btatcs as thoy aro secured by thu Cm“"mumi Iam for maintaining tha ”fhu of the Guvernien! against Statos or individuals when they undertake to robol agaiuat it, 3 We bavenot heard of Judge DooLITILEY golng back on this opinfon sluce then, and be undoubtedly entertaius the saine opinion now. ————at——— The Atlants (Qe.) Conatitution, Confederate orgen, 1a disgusted at the raving und rantiog uf the frothy Copperheads who cdit such shects s the Chicago Timer, Cluclonati Enguirer, lmll!llk- apolls Sentinel, Bpringlleld Jeyiater, New Yor World, Peorla Demiocrat, Detrolt Mret I‘rw; Fort Wayne Seutinel, sud spits its contemp! upon them thus: % . The war talk we see I the newspapers s ool n:' frosbing. It makos usabudder, “here lesume: thing ko sanguinary in the spectaclo of & :cnwnf‘vk tive editor, withs Lfs shizt collar cut low 1u the e and bls antaloone calling loudly for rutoroly squatting hinwelf upon hix eloquent h-nuchrm‘ Bring off {maginary horso-plutols, thut mu"u- untarlly desiro to rotreat lo the rear, Nutl L are opposed to wat—not at all; but f "‘"f‘ W Ue war we want the patiots of th North and We to have it ont amoug thewmsclves, The bg-u(mm beon censhod In the wtruggle, sud the Norifel Domocrats have stood by uud watched the ctuslin rocuus with iulnitely more carlosity thao Iuieiet, Flowbelt, tho turm of tie whoel oy bruught thes fuce 10 face with tho amme deadly elenien 75 despotivin, If they submit—well. "1t thoy resith they must fght on fhelr side of the Hoe. e e— The New York Zimes takes c:nnx.xno’(.‘z_): m thodistingulshed Bourbon lawyer, to tas 4 tho brutal remarks contalned in his letter t0 8t. Louis Copperhend, Tt says: Thiy {4 llr.pD‘L‘asnn‘- way of l!llldlnl“!; :g: Presldent: ¥The drunken l‘ann.:ucnr:l;e:‘n an, bt oat ol VoRncared with fie bioad o hiv countrymen 611 in domestlc broll and Mfted to a high ptl 'nn\ll . the Moloch of thelr worship, rule, s 4 une great chauge in sentimens shall take vlace SO continue ta rule over tho prostrute rufud o sxotoN's Jtepublic,” “Aud this fa Mr. O estimato of the reaults of the War: *+ Thit Hic porishiod on th day that MeDOWSLL WOveL IF 10 Richmond," From which jt would appest fig.’ nccording to Mr, O'CoNpu, ** WASHINUTO: bl public " 1s another nama for tho Rebel Confedeitiiy and that when the ltepublic revives sga sty and B anctar o gt el o i e veuess for tho 4 o eaitty of abeading 1he blood of thelr coustey wen. - AR T X The Richmond (Va.) Waig heads an .xdt:u:; #We Have Had Our Funeral,” and prou:: free its inind on the subject 1:( :I:k pr: “ywah* which the Demoerntic sec Tt Bat-oftices and gaugerships wunt to get VP saya: » 'i’hn South has made her fight for lnde&enlflx; for freedom, and that sgainet the 'é"m h And now, Laving been overwhelmed, efgled in Yo witlice Govermiaeat 1o promote (us asens” aftel