Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1877, Page 4

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Fa- {}f stgementof Loulse Pomeroy. **As You Like It."” e McCormlck Tail. 1 Rorn Curk atreet, camner of Kinle, Lecture by '\ Prot, ¥owler. ure."” at bubject: ** Succesvand Falli Waood’s Muscam. Letween State and Dearborn. Afternoon sud es@niog. * Jack SOCLETY MEETINGS. BLANEY LODGE, X0. 271, A, F. & A, M.~Tho memberyof aney, Lmlsunrn requsved to attend tha uneral of our Isic Bro. Jushua B. Fiske, of Winslow wis. Lodge, loston, at thie Church of the Mesial, omer %’l:rlnn'nv.' d Twenty-third-at., thia 'ednesday) afiernoon at § o'clock. R e i s el v 0 b sent. Ko Musonte clu eremony, 8 EDWALD CUOK, W. M. £ ‘WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1877, {. Qreonbacks a¢ tho New York Gold Ex- - change yesterday closed at 944, ; Another day's debate of the Arbitration 7; bill in the Senato only serves to strengthen s tho conviction that the mensuro will bo Iy adopted by that body. It s expectod thatn . vote will bo taken and tho bill passed before ; to-day’s session of the Benate is tenninated, »- a3 it is tho intention of Mr. Epauxps, who has charge of the bill, to press it to a final vote before another adjournment is had 7 Tho chances of {ts passage in the Houso ara ; -favorably estimated by its supporters, nnd it ;; 18 believed that tho bill, when received from ¢ the Benate, can bo given precedonco over all other mattors on the Bpeaker's table, and be passed by the end of tho week, s wn from the uncomfortable and precarious position it took in reference to tho case of Burrz, tho member elected in South Carolina to fill a vacanoy, and who wns refused his seat, al. thongh thero was no contestant, simply to 1 loave an opening for disputing the South .} Carolina Electoral return. In seating !. Borrz the House virtually sbaudons tho [; collateral question, If 18 an met i’ of tardy justice, tho undoing of n deed done wholly without warrant of law or equity. Colorudo enffers from a like abuse of parti- san powér by the House Democracy, being i, Heprived of her rightful representation in §y order that a peg may bo furnished on which o hang an objection to Ler three Electoral C votes. ', During the discussion in tho Ifouse upon the first presentmeont of tho proposition to violate the privacy of telegraph dispatches, Mr. Hewrrr stated on the floor of the House % that his own lettems had been tampered with ¢ in the New York Post-Oflice, evidently with % » view to spying upon his political + -correspondence, This remarksblo state. 7. ment attracted general attention, and, At tho earnest request of Postmaster Jases, of New York, tho malter was s luvestigated, Mr. Cox's Committes on Elec. ton Frauds in Now York was iutrusted with the inquiry, and yesterday reported A com- plete vindication of tho Postmaster and his subordiuates, and declared that no such tam. pering as that alloged by Mr, Hewirr had béen done. It was o reckless and malicious X nssertion for partisan effect, and it is plensant /% tonote that nobody Las Leen made so un. f u;t;flarmflu ag Alr, Hewirr in consequence o obit {x Poneull Hall, with all its listorio mssocla- . ;.; tions, has rarely witnessed a gathering more R | notable or interesting than that yesterday, V4 when 4,000 people, Republicans aud Demo- ‘;1 crats, assembled fo give expression to the 19 nlmost unanimous = ntiment of Boston in : "g‘ favor of the arbilration plan mow before Tl Qongress for adoption. Distinguished men yg of both political parties met upon & common i% platform—thesafety and welfare of the nation, und as ofticers of the meeting and spenkers -% united their voices and their influcnce in be- ! ,t% half of the speedy adoption of the plan of settlement which gives assurance uf a luwful | auid peaceful termination of the Presidential difculty. Resolutions wero adopted with 1 ¥ }1 great unanimity und enthusiasm iudorsing ‘s [§ thewrbitration plan, and tendering the thanks of the people of Bosion to the members of g {he Joint Cowmilteo for their lubors and the i @ratifying result thcreof, 1 { ! { b e The Chicago produce markots were less active yesterdsy, and gralu was casier, Mlows pork closed 2ic per Lrl lower, at $16,65 for February and §17.124@17.15 for March, Lard closeduncbanged, at §10.871@10.90 for Febroary ausd §11.02)@11.05 for Afarch, Mants closed steady, at Go for shoulders, LI O VR S T S S e B Gk wew syt THE Ly the solid party bozed ; 8]e forlehortribs; and9e for short- clears. Highwines wers dull and ensfer, at 21.05 per gnllon, Flour wes quict and firm. Wheat closed Jc lower, at $1.80} ensh sad £1.20] eeller February, Corn closed jo low- er, ot 43}c cesh and 43%c for Febrnary. Onts closed stendy, at 35fc eash and 33le for Febrnary. Rye was quict, at 72c. Bar- ley closed {c lower, at G1je for Fobruary and 62}c for March, Hogs were in fair demand and higher, closing at $5.90@6.75. Cattle wero nctivo and averaged lower, with sales at 23,00@5.90. Bhoep were nctive and finn, nt23.60@5.25 for common to choice, Last Salurday evening thers was in store in this cily 8,536,733 bu wheat, 2,051,990 bu corn, 641,300 bn oats, 234,94C Lu rye, and 1,080,- 496 b barley, One hundred dollars in gold would buy 106,25 in greenbacks at the close. Thero is genuing canse for alarm and an imperative demand for prompt action in tho stato of facts ret forth in the address of the Chicago Commission of Iealth, calling at. tention to the great fatality in this city from searlet fever and diphtheris, and suggesting to the physicians of hoth schools the expedi- ency of n meeling for the interchange of views as to the most approved methods of treating and proventing theso discases. Commissioher Watant's suggestion {s timely and excellent. During the present month there love bren 104 denths from scarlet fover, and 48 from diphtheria, and the mortality rato is still incrensing. Let the doctors bury their professional jealousies and bickerings for the present, and confer together and deviso some goneral plan for the arrest of the ravages of the twin.destroyers—scarlot fever and diphtherin. I cholera or smnll-pox were enrrying off such n list of victims, soma pob- lic action would bo taken; it ought to be taken now, aod that, too, without delay, The Senntorial contest has now assuwed n new phase, and one which soewns certain to gettlo tho fight in short order. publican caucus last evening Gen, Looaw At the Re. was dropped and the ¥on, C. B. LawgtycE, formerly u Justice of the Iilinols Ha. premo Court, was chosen as the Repub. lican candidnte, to bo supported to.day’ vote. The Demo- crats, on the other haund, last evening took up AspEnson as their candidate, and great efforts will Le put forth to secure for him tho vote of every Democrat in the Legis- Iature. It is doubtful, however, whether this can bo cnrried ont, as there were several absentees whose failure to attend tho caucus is regarded as an evidence of their determinn. tion not toaid in the election of the soft- money demngogue and political nobedy, AxpensoN. In Judge Lawnence the Repub. licans have chosen o candidate who, if clected, will reflect honor and eredit upon the party or the set of men by whose votes Lo is sent to the United States Senate. fle will recelvo overy Republican vote, and Le ought to receive, tho votes of all tho Demo- crats and Indefendonts who desire to avoid the disgrace to the State of Iilinois that the clection of AxpersoN wonld infliet, The situation looks hopeful, now that the more respectable of tho opposition nre at least afforded &n opportunity to voto for and cleet some other Republican besides LocaN. THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF ARDI- TRATION. The solicitudo which is felt in the post- oflices, tax-collectors’ offices, and ail the Federal departments high and low, and smong tho vast multitude of patriots who oro anxious to serve tho country, lest the Constitution bo viclated by not having the Presidential vote counted and exclusively determinod by tho Republicau President of tho Scnate, is remarkalle, and indicates tho firm Lold which the Constilution has upon the affections of the American people. In order to judge how far the chargo of uncon. stitutionality is applicable to the Arbitration bill, it should be n.ked what the bill pro. poses. The bill assumes that the voto shall bo counted under the concurrent action of tho two Houses of Congress, and that the power of the President of the Sennte s sub. ordinate to that of the oxpressed direction of the two Houses; and this sssumption is tho same that las been made by Congress at overy Presidential election since 1789, It further provides that on tho day designated by law for counting tho votes the Senate and the -J{ouss of Ropresenta. tives shall meet in the hall of the House, and the President of tho Senato shall thero, in the presenco of the two Houses, open all the certificates. Theso certificates, ns opened, are to be handed to the tellers ap- pointed by the two Houses; the papers are to borend and recorded. As each paper is read, the question iy to be put whethor thero Lo any objection. All objections shall be nado in writiug, to be signed by thoss mak. ing them, ‘The two Houses shall thereupon soparate, and each shall cousider tho objec- tion; if tho objection bLe to tho vote of o Btate from which there is but one return, and the two Houses sustain tho objection, then that vote shall not Le connted ; otherwise it shall Le counted. Where, Lowever, there shall be two ormore papers purporting to ba roturns of the Llectoral vote of n State, the questious nx to which of eaid papers is tho true and lawful Electoral vote of such State are to Le submitted to a Commisslon, com. posed of five Senators and five Representa- tives, to Dbo elected by the respective Houses, who sre to act with five Justices of the Supreme Court, 'The members of this Commiesion aro to be sworn, and are to examine and decide whether any and what votes from such States aro provided for by the Constitution, und how many and what persons were duly appointed Electors in such State, aud report to the two IHouses, and then the countiug of the votes shall proceed in conformity with such report, unless upon objection thereto the two IHouscs, seting reparately, shall decide otherwise. 'Tho legal objection to this scheme js, that Congress bas no wuthority to delegate o othiery the power of counting the vote; that to do o is u renunciation of its powers tou tribunal unknown to tho Constitution. ‘This objection s wore technical than real, and is more imugivary thun substantiasl, It has Leon the custom of Congress to deleyste to o coumuittee of tellers the duty of counting the Presidential votes, oud the reportsof these tellers huve always been accepted asun euthoritative count, and so recorded; and, while the power to object theroto and ru- verse the swne Las existed, the report of tho tellers hias been accepted, cousidered, and res corded us the count by the two Houses. This bes been the uniform practice in oll legislative bodies in the cxercise of their powers to count snd canvass votes. The two Houses of Congress, in the cxerciso of their powers, may employ ex. ports or any other persons to uid them, and the actiou of theso persons would bu the acts of tho two Houses, unless the two Touses abould divapprove them. The acts to be peformed by this Commission aro not of a legislative character ; there is nothing of legislative anthority delegated to them. Congress may establish any number of courts or commissions and define their jurisdiction and powers, by whoso ncts Congress as well as all other branches of the Government are committed and bound. Congress has the ex- clusive authority to admit new States ; but Congrees, in n line of precedents extending over fifty years, has aulhorized the Presi- dent, in certain contingencies, to proclaim the admicsion of new States. 'This was not a delegation of legislative power to the Pres- ident, but was the adoption by Congress in advance of the ncta authorized, Congress in thia caso does mnot delegato nny of ila powers; it by law creates o tribunnl for hearing and determining cer- tain questions of law and fact; and it maken Ly Iaw, in ndvance, the judgment and find- ing of this Court the judgment and finding of the two Tlouses of Congrers, unless the two Houses of Congress shall, by concurrent act, disapprove the same. The samo law makes the opening of the certificate, the rending of tho same, and tho counting of the votes therein by the tellers, the authoritativa count by the two Houses, unless upon ob- jeetion the two Houses shall decide other- wise, So Congress by this bill, enacted as n law, males the finding of this Courtthe find. ing of tho two liouses, unless, in casoe of objection, tho two Ionses shall otherwiso decide. In bLoth cases, tho mction of the tellers in the one case and of this Commission in the other, beconies by Jaw the action of tho two Houses, unless upon objection the two Houscs shall roverso that finding, In this enso the authority cxercised is that of the two Houses and not of tho Commission; the examination and finding are made by law binding and conclusive, not by virtue of any original power in the -Commission, but as an cexercise of the power of the two flouses, and is to stand or fall, ns the two louses shall decide. And this is the unconatitutions ality of the bill which so startles and alarms every man in the United States of both par- tics Liolding, or expecting and willing to Lold, ou oflice under the President who may be declnred elected. THE 8! ED. Tho English are fairly squirming under the contempluous manner jn which the ‘Turks have snubbed them. After befriend- ing them for yeara and saving them from Russia, the Turks, thinking that ono good turn deserved another, borrowed several hundred millions of dollars from them, which they at once proceeded to squander upon luxuries, and then repudiated payment of both principal and interest. When the new difficulty arose with Russin over the Servion complication, England stepped in with its counsels, nll of which have been rystematically and contemptuous- Iy refused. Whon the DBritish Govern- ment demanded that the Turkish Govern- ment should sift out the Bulgarian mnssa. cres, it appointed a Commission, which ro- ported thnt no such massacres had taken place. When, as tho next stop, Lord Denny, upon tho strength of Mr. Baniva's’ report, peromplorily demanded that the persons re- sponsible for tho mnssacres—among them Suerger Pasua; Acnyer Aoa, and others— should be punished, tho Turkish Ministry took ita own timeforiuvestigating the charges ngainst them, and then neqnitted the whole of them. Next, when Lord Denny proposed a schemo for the better administration of the Turkish provinces, and enumerated in the scheme a demand of amneaty for all the Bal- gariany accused of insurrection, the Turkish Commissioners peremptorily rejected the de- mond. There is nothing more sardonic in all history than tho action of tho Turks in this regard. At first they refuso to punish tho nuthors of tho Bulgarian massacres, and then turn round and refuse to forgive the victims, and charge them with being the anthors of the horribla cruelties. And this isuotnll. When Lord Dersy instructed Sir Ilesny Ervtorr to leave Constantinoplo if tho Turks did not grant an armistice that Servia could necept, thoy immedintely offered one they knew Scrvis would not nccept. When -Russia, Lowever, proposed a two months’ armistice, the Turke yielded at once, Finally, n Confercnco, which was proposed by England and over which England pro- sided, sonds nn ultimatum which Turkey utterly rojects, and when Lord Satispuny, the English representative, remonstrates with and even threatens -the Turks with tho loss of English sympathy and co-oporation, the Turk treated him with the utmost cool ness and sang-froid, and probably laughed at bim after he lad possed his threshold, A foebler, more impotent, or unfruitful result nover waited upon the diplomacy of a great nation before, and that such snubs should come from tho Bick Man of Europe would socm to indicats that hio i not so sick after all but that he can appreciat the exnct purposcs of Eugland and dare to be imperti. | nent to o useless ally. MR, MORTON'S 8PEECH, In his specch against the Arbitration bill, Benator Aontox takes position upon two points: 1, That it has been the uniform doctrine of thie Republican party that, in the nbsence of any action on the part of Con- gress assuming control of the couuting of tho votes for I'resldent, that power hes to Le exerclsed by the Lresident of the Henate, £, 'L'hat the duty and power of tho President of tho Benate in such case s _purely minis. terinl; that ho must follow 1he law, Mr. Monrox thus deseribes tho duty oud power of the President of the Seuata in tho caseof Lis acting without any Congrestional au. thority aud direction : Tha Llectors In the several States are to send up thielr votes, und the iiuts made up by the Governor, sud faclose thew to the President of the Fcnate, indorsing the numew of the Electors upon the onte wide of e envelope, Me L6 thus notited who the Electars, or pretended Electors, are who Lave voted, whose votes sre contalued fu the covelope, 1t fe a certbileate from the Electors, aud noneother, thatbe la required toupen in thepresence of tha two Homses, 1l fe 1ot in fact, required to recelve the curtiticutes of snybody but the true Electors of he ttate, e lethercfure required, Inthe discbarge of the duty of his otlice, tu determine ad prescnt the trus cartiilcaty from the Electors of o State, He: fa buund a3 an oifices of the Governmeut of the Vrite States to take notice of thuse wno bave ticen declared elected by the proper autboritles of the State, wed when o certiicate comes {nte lis bands 1t s hia buslucss ot once tu lovestigate and determine for himeelf whether §t comes from the Lilcciois of a State, He must declde that queation upon s peril, und proacnt that certidcate ¢a tho two Huusesof Congress. ‘Tho luw of the United Btates prescribes the wauver iu which tho Electors shall make up their certifieates of theie proceedings: 1. The Goveruor of the Htate shall deliver to themn three certificates coutaining the npames of the persons sppointed Electors. 2, 'Thoe Electors, after voting, suall make out three separate lists of the persons voted for by them; to each of theso lists of thoir votes they inust eppend one of the certificates of the Goveruor, showing who had bocn ap- pointed Electorr= the certificates thus made up shall by forwasled, one to *ho President cn e s e e CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24, 1877, of the Benate, one to tho Becretary of Btate, and one to the - District Judge, Tho certifi- cate of tho Governor as to the appointment of tho Electors is an esscential part of the Electoral cerlificate. Mr. Morton insista that tho President of tho Scnate must in- form himsel! a8 to who is tho Governor of each State, and when he opens the returnsho must {ake those bearing upon them tho Gov- ernor's certificato of the appointment of the Electors. Having found the Governor's certificate, the President of the Seunta must be controlled by that, and must. count that certificate. This at once brings up tho cnsa of Oregon. In the returns from that State there {a no certificate from the Gov. ernor as to the appointment of Electors ex- cept tho onoe containing tha vote of Cnosin. ‘The returns from the other Electors bear no legnl evidence such as is roguired by law, and Crox1x's votes are tho only ones attest. ed by the certificato of tho Governor, nnd, nccording to Mr., Monroy, the only one which tho President of the Senato can count, Notwithetanding the notorions irregularity nttending Croxty's appointment, it is, nover- theless, technically sustmned by the law, and cannot be sct aside by tho President of the Senato unless ho go bohind tho returns and docldo judicietly, It he have®power to de- cido judicinlly in the one case, then he can doso in all cases, and therefore, instend of acting ministerially, he must also net judicial- 1y, and his doing so demolishes the wlole theory of Mr. MonTox. Summed np, divested of all its surronnd. ings, Mr. Montox's argument begins and ends with tho demnud of wachine politicians that 4! We nro tho Republican party ; Ifaves wns the Republiean candidate ; in the absence of legisintion, tho vote must be decided by the President of the Henate; tho Presidont of tho Benato is n Republican, and, of course, will declare the Republican candidateelected ; why should we legislate, when without leg. islation we lhave tho whole game in our hands 2" Mr. Mozrox has for many years devoted himsclf to nrging legislation. Twico has ho pressed bills of his own proparation, and had them passed in the Bepate. Ho is moro re- sponsible than any other man in the country for committing Congress and the Republican party to tho doctrine that the Constitution Lios imposed the power and duty of counting the votes upon Congress, and not upon the President of the Senate, and he is on record over and over agnin in denunciation of the dangerous, unfair, and unrensonable policy of committing to any one man the sole and cxclusive power to count tho Presidential vote, and to declare any result which his in. terest, or liis feclings, or Lis ambition might suggest, THE REFUDLICAN CASE. It is a singnlar thing that so largo & part of the opposition to the propored Congres- sional arbitration should come from the Re- publican side,—especially in view of the fact that the Joint Committeo was first pro- posed by the Republicans (3r. McCrany, of Iowa, moving it), and that the measure agreed upon in the Committeo nand finslly reported was tho product of the Republican members, led by Mr. Epauups. ‘Thero is also a purblind indisposition on the part of the Republicons opposing it to recogaize the obvious advantages which aro to bo e cured to the friends of AMr, Iaves by its adoption,—advantages to which the Re. publicans are fairly entitled, it is true, by the strength of their case, nnd which it will be supremo folly to forego. The partisan offlce-sockers who are arrayod ngainst tho mensure seo only a possibility of defeat, which they aro not willing to accopt in any event, but intelli- gent and patriotic Republicans foreseo that a decision favorable to tha clection of Iaves will place him and the Republican party bo- foro the conntry with a ptrength and confl. denco that could not otherwise be acquired under the circumatances, It wmust not be forgotten that, after the arbitration shall have been agreed upon, the case wiil then have to be tried. It is hera that the Repnb- lican advantago comes in (1), beeause it will bo only after long hositation that the Su. preme Court Judges will go back of tho prima fucie cpso, which presonts tha Electoral votea ns thoy have heon cnst under tho lawa of tho scveral Btates, and (2) becauss, if it be decided that the cauvass of the votes may in- clude a roviow of the lnws made by tho State Legislatures direching thio appointment of Tlectors, then the Republicans have the somo evidence of froud aud intimidation which governed tho Loulsiana Roturning Board in its decision. 'True Republicans will not fear o resart to a test of the law and to proof and arbitration. POPULARITY OF THE ARDITRATION. No observing man who over takes pains to inform Limself of the opinions of hiu neigh- ‘ors nud assoclates can have failed to remark the exceptional unanimity with which the Congressional compromise schewe has been indorsed. Wo do not remeniber any propo- sition of o political nature that was ever ro. ceived with so much favor by all classes, and this at & timo whon party feeling is running higher then ever before, 'Ihe explauation for it is obvious. The very suggestion of o penceful settiement of the Tresidentinl div. puto has had the cffeet of quicting the ap- prehiension and turning the attention of the business men to the revival of trade, Hev- eral of the gentlemen interviewed by Tne Tripuse reporters have adultted ss much. Care has been taken to ascertain the senti. ment of oll the commercial « clnsses,—tho bankers, Board of 'Irads imen, mer. chants, manufscturers, wholesale dealors ju various Dbranches of trade, the railrond nud insurance men,—and the verdict §s so uniformly in favor of the propased arbitration that it is sufe to sny thatoutof the 60,000 vatersbere, 535,000 wonld express themselves in favor of it ut the polls if they were given an opportanity, What is true of Chicago is probably truo iu an equal degres of every other community in the Northwest, for Chicago sontiment is nlmost invuriably a fair index of that of the country of which it is tho centre, Indeed, wherever meetings have Lecen hicld, as at Bloomington in this Btate, or whero tho nowspapers havo callceted evidences of publio acutiment Ly interviews with representative mien, the citi. zeus belonging to both politieal parties have united in urging tho adoption of the pro- posed wmeasure. The orgenized cxpression of public opinion will increase from now on till tho nccessity for it sball have disap- peared. ‘Ihers is another reason besides thy en. couraging influence which the proposed arbitration has exerted on business prospects that has wadoe tho wen outside of politics 60 unanimously in favor of the proposition. It commends itaelf to all men who are ac- customed to scttle their own disputes in the same graceful insouer, and to abide by the result. When there are differences about comumercial transactions, disputes about titlns, smottloments of estates, etc, upon which the partfes cannot agree among thmsolves, itisthe custom of thotime to rofer the matter to an arbitration, either in tho shape of courta establishod to adjudicate sueh disputes or persons. solectod by the disputants, Men no longer appenl to the wager by battlo or tho ordenl of firo, as in the Middle Ages, but refer their differences tointelligent and fmpartia Jludges or jurles to determine their respective rights. Tho busineas men of this conntry sce no reason why = disputed election, whero the claims of both partics are so stubborn that thero is no hope of an egreement in o Congress rop- resenting both sides equally (the Scnnto being Republican and tho Houso Democratic), should not similarly Lo referred to arbitra- tion on the basis of Iaw and evidonce. The course uggested is tha very one that would have been unanimously agreed to in a Com- 1miltee of 1,000 Republicans merchants and 1,000 Democratic merchants outside of politics, if such a Committee bhad been ealled together, ** Arbitrate your differences as to the clection just held,” say tho business men to tho politicians, * and then remodel your Constitution and laws so that such differ- cences connot ariso inthe futurs.” It the Congress is tho ropresentativo body it was intended to bo, the proposed scheme will be adopted by o nearly unanimous vote of both louses. THE MAN NAMED AND FROOF PRODUCED. To oll suggestions that thero were other Republicans in Tliinois who eould get miore this which involves a sacrifico of principlo? ‘Was there a sncrifice of principle in arbi- {rating with England the award of damnges done by Rebel privatecrs fitied ontin En- glish porta? A very great principlo was involved, and if ths two Governmonts had remained ugly and obstinato n bloody war would have been the resnlt. Did tho United States, in conscnting to arbitration, abandon its position that England waa responsible for ita laxity and falturo to enforce tho principles of nentrality? It was not so considered, and did not so svontuato. Each party to the disputo sclected its represenintivos in tha arbitration, and impartial judges were eatled in to nssist, and the resnlt wasn de- cision that tho aggrieved claimnnts wero en. titled to damnges, and the amount satisfac- torily detormined. Binco thon, disputesas to boundarics and otherinternational differences lave becn settled in the samo way. The dispute between two faclions in one country may certainly be submitted to arbitration if & dispute between two great nations ean bo 80 determined,—especinily since thero is no issue of the future involved, but only n question of law to be construed by compe- tent judges, and a question of fact to be de- cided after hearing all tho evidence, Itis cither an Inexcusablo erroror nde- liberate purpose to mislend twhich hns in. dnced cortain extremists to comprto the pro. posed settlement of tho disputed clection to the compromises on the Fngitive-Slave law or tho boundaries of the slave territory. There are no points of resemblance between the two cases. Blavery was yotes for Senator than Gen. Looav, thero | o0 onnatural and criminal institution, hine been one stereotyped roply, ¢ Who fsthe and sny compromise ndmitting its way,—neme Lim? " Thua tho Jater-Ocean, | coniinned existenco was necessarily & the epecial organ of LoaaN, day before yesterday snecringly asked: Who {s the man that can get more votes in the inols Leglslature, for Unlted Btates Senator, than Gen. Looax? Tus Cmicavo TRIBUNE has never ceased ta Insinngte and assert that there is snch & man; but it does not name him. 1tfs well known {hat Loga cannot be elected without Tnde- pendent votes; but it fe equally well known that o other Republican can be clected without lke afd. Isitknown that any other Republican can commaund this ald? If Tne Trinuxe knows that any other Republican can secure the whole Ropub. 1lcan strength and three Independent votes besides, itought to name Llm. Why this mystery? Why not name tho fortunate man who has power to unite one hnndred Republicana with threo Inde- pendents? There would bo s0mo reason in the de. mand upon ltepublicans to turn thelr backs upon Looax wero it coupled with 2 presentation of the name of the man who can command the vequitite outside ald with the exldence of the fact. DBut, un- ti] thls appears, the constant fteration of the de- mand can be constraed only In one way, namely: as 8 purpose to disorganlze aud domorallze the Ra- publican party, which now stands firmly by Gen. Looas. ‘While Tue Tniouss has known for several days past that thera were other good Repub- licans who could command three or mora outside votes, it was not wenk aund silly enough ** to name them,” and also to namo tho * outsiders” who would vote for them, for that would havo been tho next demand. The information of * who's the man " was sought for the oxpreas purpose of driving off the * outside” votes, aud proventing any Re- publican but Loaax from having been tried. But the Inter.Ocean and all its class re- ceived an answer to their questions yester- day, greatly to their mortification snd dis- comfiture, and it is now in order for them to explain why & Ropublican Sonator was not yesterday electad. On tho twenty-ninth ballot (the first cast yesterdny) the result was: Looay, 96; Wasm- neene (Rep.), 65 total, 102, Axpensow, 88; secattering, 12; total, 100,—showing that cuough of the opposition voted for Wasn- nunyE to have electod him it the Republican voto lind been cast for him. Oun the noxt (thirtieth) ballot, Logan hed 92 and Wasnnosxe 9, making 101, against 87 for Axprrson nnd 11 seattering; total, 98,—~showing that Waisunvaxs could have been clected on this ballot. On tho next, or thirty-first, ballot Loaax Lhad 90 and Wasmnunne 11; total, 101,— ‘which was & majority of all present. On the next, or thirty-second, ballot Looan had 89 nnd Wasanuanz 13; tol 102,—belug a clear majority of all tho votea cast. On the thirty.third ballot Looaw had 83 ond Wasununxe 18; total, 101, against 99 for all others. . On tho thirty-fourth and Iast ballot cast TLoaax lind 92 and Wasnsunne 9; total, 101, ogainst 00 for AxpEmsoN and 9 scattering, which, if concentrated on Wasnnunxe, would have elected him, i Thus, for a wholo dny’s ballotings, there ‘wero enough opposition votes cast for Wasn- vunNe to have elected him by two and threo majority if hie had roceived the full Ropub- lican strongth, Tho taunting question was yesterday an. swored five times—* Who is the man that cau get cnough outside votea to elect? Who is tho man that can poll more opposition votes than Gen, Looax? Who is the man that can commaund the raquisite outside aid, and why don't you produce the evidence of the fact?” Tho evidenco of the fact and tho name of the man wero produced five soveral times. But Loaax forbade his clection. A ring of machine politiclans, calling thom. selves Ropublicans, Lave determinod that nobody but Loaax shall bo elected to repre= sent tho Republican party, COMPROMISE AND ARBITRATION. 1t is a mistake to refer to the messuro pro. posed iu Congress to regulato the count of the Electoral voto as a compromise in the ecnse of o sacrifico of apy principle con- tonded for by cither side. It is a compro- mise only to the extent tlat each party abandons & stublorn fight for party advan- tage. More properly speaking, it is an agree- ment to arbitrate a certain jssue of law and fact that is in dispute betwoen the two par- tics, to conduct this arbitration conformably to the usnges of the nation, and to abida by tho result. Ts it a compromiso for two men disputing a3 to tho rightful posscssion of a plece of property to go into court, try the {ssue beforo a Judgo or jury, end hold them. selves bound by the verdict? Is it a com- promise for iwo men contending that thoy have been elected to the same office to seck tho Intervention of a court, each contending with all his strength to convinco the Judge that lLe and not his opponent lins been chosen to the coveted place? This isdone in nearly every election. 'The State courts sre constantly called upon to deterwine between clalmants for BState and wmunicipal offices, and the laws of all the States designato the tribunals end prescribe the procedurs for trying such fsaucy, Tho misfortunc in the present case is that tho United Btates Government Lag beon loft without the clear, judiclal process of determining a disputed election that the States have all provided for themsolves, The law-making power of tho nation—Congress— now proposes to supply tl:at defect tempora. rily in order to disposs of wa ugly and threatening dispute, leaving it to the more Qeliberate and unblosed judguent of the future to provide a permauent tribunal and procedure, s there any comprowmise aboub sacrifice of prineiple. The present case does not concorn the fufure; il-is an issuo ns to tho actual result of an clection which lias been held and done for, and which cannot be determined without referoncetosome tribunal on acconnt of disputed law and facts. 'Tho one was a compromiso of principle and the futare, the other simply a reference for n decision a3 to a contest which is pnst and gone foraver. A DOUBTFUL TEMPER, EXPERIMENT. An experiment is to be tried in Birming- ham, England, which will at onco eugngo the attention of all persons interested in tem. perance reforms, 'Tho Council of that city, Ly a voto of 4G to 10, has decided that it ie desirable for tho municipality to obtain the requisito power ** to acquire, on payment of fair compensation to bo fixed by Parlin. ment, all existing interests in tho rotail rale of intoxicating drinks in the city, and there. after, if it secs {it, to carry on the trado for tho convenience and on behalf of tho inhab- itants, but so that no individual shall hnve any pecuniary interest in, orderivo any profit from, tho sale.” Tho experimont is substan- tially that which Lias been pnt in operation in Gothenburg, Bweden,whero the town con. trols the salo of liquor, dictates where itshall be sold, who shall sell it, and at what prices, and thus becomes responsible for tho condition of the peoplo so far as sobriety is concerned, In Gothenburg it is claimed by the advocates of the system fhat it has worked well, and it is atated that intemper. auce has been materially reduced. This statoment, however, is decidedly controvert- ed by official reports. In lctters from our Consul at Stockholm to the Btate Depart. mont numerons citations are made from medical nuthoritics in this very district of Gothenburg, testifying to the cffects of in- tomperanco os & causo of pauperism. The universal testimony is to tho effect that in. temperanco has steadily incrensed, and that tho Inboring classes devote alargo part of their wages to the purchase of intoxicating drinks, Since tho passage of the motion in Birmingham numerous criticisins of tho de. sirability and feasibility of tho plan have been made, the ablest perhaps by Mr., Lowe, member of Parlisment, in an article con- tributed to the Jonuary number of the Fortnightly Revietw. Ho Dbnsea his objections to the experiment, first, upon the immense exponse at which tho exporiment is to bo tried, amounting in the caso of Bir- mingham to nearly o million pounds sterling, necessary to cumpensate the dealers whose licenses are to be oxtinguished. Second, upon tho great dangoer of corruption in the vast amount of patronage which 4ke opern- tion ‘of the schemo would throw into the hands of municipalitios, upon which ho says very pertinently: ‘The Birmingham Town Council are cutting out for themselves an enormons nmount of patronage. As the one publican of the town, they will have some thousands of lucrative places to give away, and to give away to porsons who will necos- sarily becomo thoir own constituents and tho clectors of the borough, Are thoy quite suro of their own virtuo? And if o long and unvaried experienco has made them scoure on that point, can they an- swer with equal confidenco for thoso who mny come after them? Havo they no fear that their well-meant ondeavors to pre. vont Birmingham from becoming a city of drunkenness may result in turning it into o hotbed of corruption?” Third, and perhaps strongest ground of all, bo questions whether the scheme would attain thoends for which it is sot on foot. Howovoer tho plan may work in Bweden,where, owing to therespoct for law that prevails, and the passivenesa of the peo- ple, it is tricd under tho most favorablo cir. cumatances, or however it might work in England, it would be a failure in this coun. try. Onowould contemplato with a feeling of horror the widespread aud all-pervading corruption that would overflow cvery com. munity that had a monopoly of tha liyuor business. The Board of Comuissioneru of this county, for instance, would desiro nothing better than to get controlof the liyuor-shops of Cook County, They would undoubtedly be willing to sign u contract to give up all other coutracts and jobs, and all the pickings and stealings in which they are now engaged, it they could Lo guaranteed the plunder and profits from this oue monopoly. 'The whis- ky-shops would give them a continual carni. val. Oune can faintly imagine the wretched quality of the stimulants they would fur- nish, tho extortionate prices they would chargo, and the persistency and perfection with which their numerous agents would be bled. Whatover action may be taken in En- gland upon tho Gothonburg experiment, it is to bo hoped the plan will uot bo fmported to this country. = There can be uo doubl that the uewspaper senti- ment of the country is againat the Plan, With tho exception of Tux Cincauo Tuinee, we have yot tosce & Repubiican puper that is 'In favor uf ‘It J\mun‘f those that have up‘rn-wd 1t are the Ohlo State Journal, the Cleveland Leader and llerald, the Dayton Journal, tbe Loulwrille Commerclal, New York Times. Tribune, wud Commercial Ad~ vertlaer, Chicago Jaler-Gecan ond Journal, sud the St Louls Globe-Democrat. " Among the Democratic papers that oppose it bre the Clnein- natl Enguirer sud the Chicazo Thmes, Tho Now York World rgives it bat u fukewarw support.— Clucinnati Tunes. Awoug the leadiog Republican popers that accept tho Pian are the New York Evening ost, Qraphie, and Mall, the Boston Advertiser,Journal, and Transeript, Clucinnst! Commerciul, Buffalo Commnercial Advertiser and Express, 8t. Paul Llonssr-Fras, dluncapolls Tribung Pittsburg 5 . Chrontcle, Detrolt Tribune, Mllwankes Sentinel, Tochester Democrat, Philadelphia Ingutrer, At~ bany Evening Journal, Quincy Whig, Dubuque Times, and the 8¢, Louls IWetliche Post. And the 8t. Louls (/lobe-Democrat—whieh, in the aborva extract, is stated to bo opposcd to the Plan~ig in fact favorable to fit. e — The New York Eeening Post (Ropublican) re. Jolces at the defeat of Mr, Gronox 8. Bour- WELL for re-clection tothe United States Benato from Massachusetts, and tho election of Judge Hoan, onc of the Joint Committee to devise some plan for scttling tha Presidential dispute by some other method than fighting. The Lost calls it “the burlal of & Bourbon." It saya: ‘The Napolone definition of a Bourl £hat remembera nothing and for Fots HothInE 1a very trite, hut 1t Wil bear repetition when It ti{astratcs 0 antly a8 it docs the public 1ifo and acts of Mr, Gronon &, Hovzwes, late candidate for United States Eenator from Maseachuactts, e was de- feated, ot becanne ho was chauged, but becanse he had remalued siationary whilo the times haa fone an. Tideed, nnlesy we conld belleve that the period and the clrcumstances which could make #uch & man prominent were exceptional, we should begin ta faiter in our falth In Amerfean judgment, Amerlcan character, and American desting. i e The Doard of Trade of Philadelphia Is come posed of about nine parts Republican and ons part Democrat; aud the Republicanism of Phila. delphlals of o very etubborn and pronounced deseription. Inregardto the proposed mode of settling the Prestdentinl question wo read the following Associated Press dlspateh: PurLavetruia, Jdan. 23,—The Board of Trade has adopted a resolution heartily spproving tho Congresslona] Committee's plan for wettling the Trealdential question. The radlcallsm of Doston will hardly be called in questfon, and this {s what was done there yesterday: BosTox, Jan, 23.—At 8 Jarge mecting In Fanenil Hall to-day, Mayor Pnixce presiding, the Confer- gnce plan of reitling tho Presidential question was leartlly approved. e et— More than 550,000 men voted in Iilinole for TPrestdent at the late clection. If we may judge what they think of the Congressfonal *count planof ecttling the Presideutinl muddle, it fs nafe to divlde them as follows: For tho ‘-lnn. decidedly. ... Agalost lt, or undecided, ., 0444300, 000 000 eseesees 5O, Majority for it vo vevvveaes +000+.450,000 In this city the proportion 1s still larger,—em- braciog fully € per cent of all the voters. ———— PERSONAL. Offenboch's book on Amerles has cansed disap. pointment in Paris. Ono critlc says it contalue too much about the author and too little about the great country he afllicted with his presence. It s #ald that M. Leon Gambotta, in #pects the foremost politician (n France, Ing from a complication of heart-ducase and dropsy, and cannot llve more than two years longer. Some curlons compller of statistics and genenlo- gles has discovered that eighty-nine descendants of the Huguenota banished from France by the revo- cation of the Edict of Nantesreturned to that cona. tey In 1870 as oflicers fi'the German srmy. The Emperor of Germany lotely presented to Vicomte de Gontant-Biron, French Ambassador at erlin, tho Prussian medal for saving e, the French diplomatist Laving arrested & runoway liorse attached to a carriage In which syere two Indics. The efforts of Prof, Masson to preserve the liousa in which Milton lived during the Common- wealth havo proved unavailing, and it is now la course of demolition. There Miltonbegan ** Para. disc Loat.” Jercmy Bentham and William Hazlitt aftorwards occupled the house. 1t Is sald that the rallway oliclals In Englond are annoyed ot the bad example of tha Marquls of Waterford In riding third-class, They tried to break him of the habit by glving asweep a seat bealde bim, but he simply bought a fAirst-class ticket for tho sweep, and returned to his former seat. Tho excommunication of & Protestant Eplscopal clergyman~0 solemn and unususl ceremony—took place at Trinlty Church, Pittsburg, last Friday. ‘The person deposed was the Itev, Perclval Beckett, lately of McKeesport and Munongalel City. The charge was immoral conduct, DBishop Kerfoot read he sentence, Alittle granddanghtor of the lats N. P. Wilifs, only 8 years old, has written a play in four acts, entitled, **The Play of the Two Lovers,” In which she takestho leading character, The language 13 #ald to be immensely fuony and conventional, but entire] Iginal, aud was composed without the least tance, The Pruesian Fleld-Marshal, MantenfTel, who i also titular Flold-Marshal of the itussl was askedgto take command of thelr troops Turkish frontler. 1o was given to under from headquarters, howerver, that, while a Qerman subject and a Prussian officer, it would be Impos- sible for him to nccept the offer, Toadylsm must ba o dellcate subject for Conrt- Journals and **soclety™ papers to deal with, yet there scoms to be & publication in Nindostan bold enough to defend it. There 1a no man more fntole erant than your accompllshed toady, for the re- fussl of another to play the tondy Is an accusation of hisown standing in socioty, and & denlal of his sclf-respect. Gov. laycs remalns hard at work at the Capftol of Ohlo, Mcis very reticent In regard to tho pres- cat aituation, but one of bis friends, the President of the Nattonal Bank, says the Qovernor feols that he hos been honestly elected to the Preatdential chalr by 183 votes, and that he haa uo ideaof future trouble, feellng that all will go right through a legal channel. ++Does Tuz TRISUNE mean to say,"” inquires the Cinclnnatl Commerclal, **that Sherifls’ visita are as common In Chicago as the hugglng of survaut- girlain the basement hallY" In the case of 50 per- plexing o conundrum ss this it might be possiblo to fall back on a bill of particulars, but it will be suf- ficient to ask whether in Clncinpati the hugging of servant-girls is ne uanal as Sherlfls’ visits, A precocious thief has been developed at Mon- treal In the person of a boy of 7, who has an une controllable propenaity for running off with things that belong to others. With proper tealuing sad {ndustry this yonng man may rise to the hesdof & Credit Mobliler by tho timothe Canada Pacific Rall- way requires hle services, Or be may fall, sea Lilious studcnt once #ald of his superior officer, untit he becowes 8 Doctor of Divinity and Presl- dent of a College. In hie young days the sculptor Glbson was bandsome and very inuch of dandy, e used to wear o groen coat, white buckskins, and top- boota acconding to the fashion of the day, and even fn later years, when ho was not alwaye quite a8 brushed up e wight have Leen, bo had cor- tain lttte fancles stlll Hugering about the set of hie collar, which he bad never worn In avy other way than turued down, In this last clrcumstance, 1t ls to bo Liaped, the fow defenders of the conservative and Judiclous turned-down collarof the present day wilt iind comfort and justication. 'The Racheeter Democrat and Chronlele, having snbjected its own editorial pago to a careful scru- tiny, hae come tathe couclusion that newspapes Icaders aro **ugnueccasarily long, insufferably stu- pd, unpardonably srrogant, and in too many caves intolerably viclous.” Uaving discontinued the vublications of lea 1t has recelved no remon- strunces. Then Tug Txisvxx deslres to remon- trate, The Danocraé aud Chronicle 11 oo yalus- paper to be ewayed merely by 6 smart para- graph-writer, It bas in the past bad {dess on Important suhjecls, aud has known how 1o expros them Iu other thau the bashed-up style. A uew mind-reader, calllug himself Prof. Dald- win, has appeared at Boston, and his Jnstantaneous success naturally prompla tho fugairy, ** Whathas become of Junes, the mind-readee? Jones could rend further fnto the human mind than any other person who has visited Chivago. Onons occaslon, when he uad called npon 8 geutlemsa for tha pute pose of effectiug a small but necessary temporary loan, be read so farinto the mind of his subject that he did not even put the delicate question, but extended an inyitation to dinner fnstead, \When this wos refused, Lo retired, still in s conditivasp- proacbiug penury, but with marks of & moz} vic- tory besming frow Lis expressive countenaace. The receptlon of the Enpress Eugenio and her son st the Vutican was onything but cordlal. The Pope declined herrequest to sttend at his Mass snd recetve the wafer (roin bls hand, pleading age sad weakness to avold the appesrsuce of dlicouriesy- Tho Prince Imperial took 8 full rovenge for the action of the Pope by attending the salon of Victor Ewauuel ot the Quirinal. s it uot poslble tuat thery miay be o mlsauderstsudiog bere, walch may be removed by 3 few. lowinvus words from proper quarter? The Pope, conseluus of Lis weak- Besd on the stde of worcy, may bave feared to sub- Juct hlmaclf 1o iho blandbhuents of 3 wuwad cvery wa, ** superior 109 Kmpress Ku- genle. b ight bave obtalued from biw by supe licatlons warks of political comslderation Which 0 prefeos aot 19 Deatows .