Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1877 " 'TERMS OF SUBSCRIFTION. 5! MALL~IN ADVANCE—PNSTAGE FREFAID AT THIS OFFICE. e , postpald; 1 yes e : I;M'l Eflnl“ lont L‘Iltr‘l’] !;x Ateligions Double 2.00 . iweivs -WWeekl Aid, 1 yeal b of R 320r, permont, WREKLY BDITION, TOSTIAID. gmm:“ ! Tuh of twe Fortego prepaid. Rpecimen coples sent free. To prevent delay anil mistakes, be sure and give Poste Dftee addrens in full, tncinding Etate und County. oI+~ Remittances may be made elther hy draft, express, Fost-Ofee order, or in registered letters, st our Hek. 4 TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRINERS, Dally, delfeered, Bunday excopted, 23 ccuts per week. Daily, deltrered, Bunday Inclnded, S0 cents per weok *Addren THE TRIBUNE COMI'ANY, sts., Chicugo, Il {Corner Maditon and Dearbo: ms. Occupants. 1. CTARTER OAK LIFE (Inmurance Dep't. ). 2. TO RENT. ., GUSTIN & WALLACE, T T. DAL 4. DUEBER WATC K MAN'F'@ CUMPANT. 5. ROBDINS & APPLETON, € KEW YOIK WATCH COMPANY. 7. TO RENT. > 8, WM. C, DOW.s A1 RROWN. W. 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Grand Inaugural Concert, Unlon Park Congregationnl Churche Washington street and A shland avenne, Lectura by | prof. Foworon ~ Lite-ileiin ana T Hociutoar o Y PR 3 SOCIETY: MEETINGS. g 9 1 | | THOMAB J. TURNRR LODGE, NO. 4, A. F, & A, M., will confer the Mavter Masons' degres nt Fi oo’ Hall, 50 Eart Monrurest, Jiulldlog), Thursday evenly £ Visitiog Trethren are cordlmly iny us, Al members of this Lodgo prescat, ‘Gatel sounds promipest o W M. W, M. 8T £ o i ) wierlcun 3, 16730 U'C0CKs ed t ineat Wit cqnested to e n, iy urd Greenbncks at the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterday closed at 943, " Action was taken In tho llouso yesterday i ‘}} which will probably result in preventing the }‘:‘, ‘I'exna Pacific subsidy job from sneing dny- {3}’ light again during tho present sesaion. The "{ bill was referred to the Commitico of tho . Whole, and & two-thirds vote will be neces- lary to got it before the Honse ngain, Wo lave mever supposed for & moment ;¥ that Wasnnunwe had any prospect of being %! elected Senstor, aud therefora hawo not ad- vocated, ndvised, or favored the preseutation of his name. We knew very well {hat, whilo the Wasnoonne men lad tho fairness and manliness to voto for Looax dozenss of times, tho latter's crowd would never recljiroentotho favor after his chauces had faded ont. They have shown tlnt the olection of n Iepub. lican Benator {s not a parmnount considern. 7+ sdon with them, notwithstanding entinent fit ~+ ness and great nbility. Onco more the brillinut philosopinar and metaphysician who by oud of thoso ra-o ac- cidents in local politics has Leon twice eleat- %, od to nn offico for which he is peentiurly jualified, that of Coroner of Cuok Connty, hes lightened up tho dull and heavy files of ficial literaturo with an acnuel report wlileh will command very goneral attention i by reason of its unique and interesting con- ¢ tenta, Coroner DieTzsent Is o jowel of an ofticer, and no one, excopting, perhaps, Conn- 2 ty-Commissioner Coxry and Couuty-Attor- L’ uoy Rovuxtarx, can possibly read his nnnynl Y. report, which we print this morning, with- . ont koping that he may long be eleoted aud i ypared to presont the nubjects of his official :§ Iabors iu the exceedingly instructive and en. 7ii tertalning wey for which ho has become * Senator CosguiNe yesterdsy resnnied in ;" the Benate his specel ou the Arbitration bill, _.‘f and mnde what iy characterized as the greate g est politieal wpeeeh of his life, Gesides by speaking with the force that carnest convic- #y tion Jmparts to the words of such an orator ‘57 n3 Mr, ConkLINa i3, Le was strongthened by 14 tho vearly unanimous sentiment of the most n.. ‘powerful constituency, in polut of numbers *J, and business fwportauce, roprosented in tho :f Senate by any ouo juan excepting his col- 1y. league, His was tho voica of the great i} Btate of New York pleading for re- ;-Yef ot tho hauds of Congress from the 5;1-.luxc<|rminly and distrust that have clogged ¢ the wheela of industry and commerce. 11 Measry, Banoent sud Dawes made speeches ; in’ opposition to the bill, tho latter presont- 1) ng an amendment providing that the quea- + tlou of votes cast in any Htate for Presiden- 31 tial Eloctors sholl not bo roviewed by tle } Commission. ‘Tho purpose of this proposi. tion I8 manifestly {0 nullify tho effect of the | bill, and it will undoubtedly Le voted dawa. 9 ‘ At the evening session, Henator Bavaup de- livered a suasterly nrgument in favor of the i ihin, as did elso Benator Cuntstaxer, and at §; 8 1ato hour (1 o’clock a. m.) the Kenate wns #tll occupied in debating the all-importaus J [t ward, Mess pork closed 150 per brl higher, . [l at $17.00 for February and $17.27} for i March, Lard closed 740 per 100 1bs higher, 1l $10.020@10.95 for February aad §11.10@ 1§ 31.12} for March. Meats closed firm, ut ¥ 6lo for shoulders, boxed; 8cfor short-ribs; W1 and 9o for ahortclears, Highwines wore dull 8} and unchanged, at $1.05 per gallon. Flour s ;:vj wes quiot_and strong. Wheat closed 1o tilower, at §1.283 cash and §1.2 seller Feb- {ivuary. Corn closed o lower, at 42jc cash and 420 for February, Oats closed iclow- ¢r, at 85jc cash and 85§ for Fubruary. Ryo was jo lower, at 7lic. Barley closed stendy, at 62¢ askel for February, Hogs wera in fair demand, and wers firm st the advance of Tuesday, sales making at $0.00 @6.65 for common to choice. Cattle were stendy, with sales at 3.00@5.60 for commnon 1o choice. Sheep wera lower, selling at $2 @5.00. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $106.12} in grecnbncka at tha close, In view of tho fact that Junce Davis has been prominently identified with party pol. ilies of late, having been a candidate for the Presidency at the 8t. Louis Democratic Con- vention, nnd being at the prasent time the Democratic eandidate for United States Sen- ator from Hllinois, it is regarded in Washing- ton as practically settled that Judge Davis will not be named as the fifth by the four Tustices designnted in the Arbitration Lill. Under the cirenmsatances Judge Davis himeelf would probubly prefer that some other selection should be made, and it wonld Lo ominently proper that this wish shonld be respected. Justico Brabrery, of New Jer- say, who wns appointed by President Gaant in 1870, is likely to ba the fifth member of the judicial section of the Commission in the vvent of the passage of the bill. Affairs at Springfield took a curious and exciting tarn yesterdny, and tho balloting closed with tho Senatorial contest ns far as over from scttlement, 'Tho nomination of Judge LawnzNcr ns the Republican enn- didate led to a sudden chinng - of front by the opposition, who incontinently dropped AxpERsoN, although they had solemnly made bim tbeir caucus candidate, and con- centrated their forces upon Davits. They would lave clected the latter but for the stubborn resistance of Ben- ntor Kemor and Representative Hickry, both of whom bolted Davis ontright, and could not be induced by threats, curses, or cajolement to give the two voles necessary to elect him. They settled down npon Hamzs, and stuck to him throughout, en- couraged by the votes of a large nniaber of HRepublicans, who stood by them until Davis' back was effectunlly broken for the day. 'This policy involved a henry draft upon Lawnesce's votes, nlthough the latter re. ceived cleven Democratic votes on the thir- ty-ninth and last ballot, nnd if the matter had been skillfully managed this Democratic reac. tion might have been taken ndvantago of to elecct Lawnrxce; at lenst, tho efort might have been made, but there seemed to bo uo concert of nction planned to meet such o contingency. A suflicient portion of thio Demacratic support of LAwnLSCE was in thorough carnest to hnvo warranted a general change of Republican votes from Jaines to Lawnexce beforo tho result of the thirty-uinth ballot was anunounced, and the fact that no attempt was mnade to test the possibility of electing some other Republic- au besides LooaN augurs poorly for to-day's renowal of tho contest. Our Intest advices from Bpringfield aro to the effect that Representativo Iicxex has at last been whipped into the Democratio ranks, snd will vote for Davis tolay, who will apain bo prescuted ns tho Democratic-Independent candidate. Thero are still several Democrats, however, who are counted upon as liable to assist in tho clection of Lawnescr if they are allowed tho oppertunity. 'Fho situstion is donbtful and complicated, with the weight of the chances against tho clection of o Republican Scuator. POPULARITY OF THE ARBITRATION BILL ‘Tho wmore the Arbitration bill Is considered, the more strongly is it ccmmeuded to the upproval of the geuernl public. The very reporting of (he bill with such unanimity by tho Joint Committeo has givon new hopes to the country, and under the assurances that the Lill will specdily becomo a law thore is a visible revival of ‘confidence in all business circles, Tho professional Yolitician, who exista only by tho success of his side of poli- ties, refuses to consider and refuses to undor. stand how tho business of the country can Lo injurod or paralyzad by political compli- cationn, Hiy anwwer is, ** Ouly pnt say man in, and if anybody wants to fight, 1ce can put down n rebellion in 1877 just as ‘we’ put onodown in 18GL"” But tho country does not want to put down another rebellion; it demnnds that there shall be no rebellion to put down. Tho Democratic parly violently insists that, in the absenco of sny legislntion by Congress, each Houso Las tharipht to object to the connting of thoe voto of any dspnted State; that lo count s voto requires the ap- proval of both Housera; that, under theso cirenmstances, the House of Representatives should object to the vots of Louisiana, thereby defeating an election by tho Eleet- oral College, in which case the Domocratie House will be authorized to proceed to the election of 11, Ou tha other hand, the Republieans insint with oqual pertiuzeity that, in the absence of legislntion, the exclu. nivo anthiority to count the votes is vestod in tho President of the Henote, who, being o Nepublican, muat 80 count the votes as to clect Gov. Haves. Inthe absenea of legis- lation these two plans will, in all human probability, e earied ont; nud from the 1Hh of February the country will e sub- jeeted to the strife of tho two purtien, each backed orled hy one House of Conpress, preparing to innmgurate twoe Presidents osud twe opposing Governments. Was there ever an ocension which o imperiously demunds that legistution which shall render thiat teerible condition of atfairs fmpossible shonld ba promptly cnncted ? Tho geueral public hay uo sympathy with the man who declares ** Unless our candidate be wade President, I caunot bo nppoiuted, or eannot hold my oftice.” ‘The general public have no share in the hopes and fears of office-holders or office-seeker, Lut jusist that, wheu the absence of law or legislation means civil war or a strife growing out of a partisan count of tho votes, Congress shall yrovide the legislation which will prevent such a state of things. ‘I'he bustuess of tho country, the financial interests of overy man, the industrial ewm. ployients of the lund, the yreat transporta. tion und uavigation -interests, and the vast multitude of wage-laborers, all deaud that thera be pecco; that there shall bo an Lonest aud fair count, not by a parti. san but by a tribunal in which the wholo Lody of the people Lave full confidence. 'Fheroin not un honest man in the United States who is not willing to trust, sud willing, even in advance, to accept o fiual, the judguent of the tive Justices of the Supreme Court on the question to be submitted to them. Four of thess five Justices wero appointed to office Ly Re- publican Presidents, and were selected for oftico because they wero Republicans, They sre all cxperienced lawyers and Jndges, and will Lave no disiculty in reashivg o judgment upon the plain and direct guestion whether the Legislaturo of Louisiaua had tho power to euact an Electiou law and provide thercin, &3 is provided in &ll other States, for a Board to receive, reviso, and cauvass the returns of the election for Presdential Flectors. ‘That | A is a naked question of law, npon which five experienced Judges will hardly fail to agree, and the American people, who are sc- customed to accept law from the courts and not from party cancuses, will nnhesitatingly adopt the decision as their own, Iave Re- publicans so little faith in tho legality and justice of their claim that they are unwilling to tmst five Justices of the Bupreme Conrt to decide a question of law on which that claim rosts ? Wo approve this bLill becanse it is just, wise, and expedient in itaclf; becauso it gnarantees such an ultimate count according tolnw aud justico as is not possiblo to be obtained from two opposing Tonses of Con- gress, or from two contending and hostile Presidents and their followers. Wo approve it becanse we considor it essential to the suc- cess of tho Administration of President Iayra that he shall be declared clected with the hoarty and cheerful acceptance of the conntry, Declared elected by this judicial serutiny of the law, there will not be a mur- mur of objection in the land, The whole p2ople will accept the finding of hat Court as fioal, and, instead of entering his office confronted by a rival President, nnd treated a8 an usurper by one House of Congress and by nearly one.balf the members of the other House, with the Governments of one-half the States disputing the validity of his elec- tion nnd probably supporting tho opposing President, he will enter it with ns much unsnimity as to the legality of his election 28 Wasmvatox or Gnavr did. We con- sider that an Administration organized nuder such circumstances, with every serious ob. Jection removed, will be able to oxercise n power and a control for public good such as it can never hope for with one-lislf the peo- plo holding it in hostile contempt. ‘This is a nation whero public opinfon reigns su. preme., That public opinion is always en- listed on the sido of law and justice, and the nan or party who refuses to be bound, by theso invites, if not deserves, the often sweeping retribution of public opinion. Gov. Haves s President sustained by thoe whole country, and Gov, IAves a8 President in n war with ono branch of Congress nnd an op- posing President, will occupy widely differ- ent positions, In tho menutime, the na- tiounl credit, the national Lonor, and the national integrity will suffer, and we will take our rank with Mexico and Costa Rica, Chili and Peru, States where the sword has usurped tho law, and Constitutions are found in the pronuncinmentos of adventurers. The timo to stamp out Mexicanization is now, Tho passnge of this bill will clevate the American Government in the opinion not anly of our own people, but of all na. tions. It will bo a great American lesson for mankind to study—the subimission by the whole people of the United States of o flercely-vontested controversy to tho arbitra. ment of a court of lnw, A WORD WITH THE JOURNAL, After o snarling preface, in which the Journal indulges in rather wild remarks about Tk TrinuNe and the Henatorial con. test, it ndds: An for Taz Trinvsx's clalm, that Mr, Wasi- atnse conld have been clected yesterday on tho Cierent ballots, had the Itcpublicans united on Ui, that 18 the theerest nonsense(!) The merest politicat child knows that kad the Republicans fo united, one or fio [four or five] Pemocrata who voted for him would have instantly changed and defeated s cholco, The lepublicans have not, and nover had, tho strength to elect a Senator, If they had, Senstor Loaax would have been his own suc- cesor, deantte tho sottled personal hate manifested toward hilm, fnslde and outalde of the Republicsn party. : Ou Monday ovening we received a dispateh from Springfield which was published on ‘I'nesday morning. It read as follows: SeuNorierp, Jan, 22.—Five Democrats havo agreed In wrlting to voto for Wasnnunxe all dny te-morrow (Tuesday). The Hepublicans are in caucud to-night. They minst do Hkewlse, or many Reoubllcans will leave tho caucus, ‘I'nat those five (four really) Domocrats, who woull mnot support AxpEnsoy, lnd pledged themselves in writing to voto all day for Wasnnunse wns mado known to the Re- publicans, and every one, from Looax down, who chiose to kuow it, was aware of the fact, They carried out their agreement In good foith, nand cast their votes fivo times for Wasupunyr., There is no authority what. ever for unylog that they would havo gono Lack on their pledge, They would have gained nothing thereby but tho scorn and coutempt of thelr fellow-members; they could havo clected no Democrat by violating their written guarantee, and wonld bavo Liclped rather than harmed Looax. After LooaN reccived the caucns nomiua- tioy, ‘T Tninosy: took the ground that Lo was entitled to the full Repubhican strength, IHis especinl backers vociferously declared that ho conld bo elected right off if the 99 Itepublican votes were cast for him. ‘Pur ‘Tuineys called on those members to vote for him who did ot like his salary-gral mis- conduct, his activaopposition to Civil-Servica Reform, and his malignant warfaro upon Sec. retary Umstow whilo tha latter was fighting tho Whisky Ring, Every Ropnblican mom. bier mwallowed his objections, and ignored his repugnance to Toasx’s bad record, for the sake of the Republican cause, and supported Liw in solid phalanx, day after day, ‘The friends of Wastnvsse voted for him thirty odd times, but all in vain. The threo or four outslde votes could not be procured ; no Democrat or Independent could by any per- stusive argument or influence be induced to vote for him, ‘When it was seen that ha could not by any possibility Le elocted, and that thero was grave danger of s opposition combination being formed that would elect joma snti Republican, Tk Tumsuse felt in duty bound to sny tlnt it was time to try sowmno other can- didate, For dQuing this, the Journal ma. liciously or thougltlessly nays ‘I'ne TRious: wos actuated **by deep-grounded hate to- wards Senator Loaax" 1 and, after Indulging in divers oud sundry other groundless s cusatious, threw up tho sponge itself, and called on T,ooAx to step down and out, as he had no longer any Lopo of gettiug the req- uisite outsido votes, snd warning him that ho was imperiling the chauco of secur- fug u Itepublican Henator. After {hus going back on Loaay, it would lave looked better if the Journal had preserved silence iu regexd to its morning contemporary. Tt is not cusy to understand Benator Surn. 3aN's coustant reference, in his specch de- livered Tuceday on th: Arbitration Lill, to ** the chauce which selacts tho fifth Judge of the Supreme Court, who will be the fiftcenth member of the Commission,” As Senator Burnyax said repeatedly that the decision of the Board of Arbitration will be by lot, it looks as though he intentionally perverted tho meaning of the bill; if not, then ho has cither failed to read it intelligeutly or ns- sumod to do for the Bupreme Judges what the bill authorizes them to do for themselves, As to the appoiutment of the Justices on the proposed Comuiasion, the languagoe of the law is as follows : v O thuTuesday nest preceding the Sost Thursday 1o February, A. D. 1877, or as 3000 thercafier as may be, the Assoclate Justices of the Bupreme Courtof the United Sates now assigned to the Flirat, Third, Lighth, and Ninth Districts ahall eclect, in snch manner ar a majority of them shalf deem fit, another of the Ateocints Jusilees of snid Courl, which iive persons shall bo members of antd Commilsslon, and the person Jongest in commiraion of the salit Justices ehall ba President cf the Com- milsslon. The members of sald Commission shall _reapectively take and sdbeeribo to the following on '*1 (blank) do solemnly sivear (or afirm, as the ease may be) that T will impartially examine and conslder all questions sabmitted to the Come misslon of which T am a member, and n troe judg- ment glven thereon, agrecable to the Constitution and lawa, so help me Giop, " which oath shall be flied with the Secretary of (he Senate. This confers upon the four Ju-tices ap- pointed by Congresy tho authority to select the fifth, and we do notree that Senator Smreyan has the smallest warrant for assum- ing that they will make the selection by lot, —that is, by placing the names of tho other Juatices in a hat and drawing one. On the conirary, there is tho strongest presumption that the four Judges will not resort to any such device, and that they will have no difi- culty in agrecing unanimously upon one of their associates to act ns the fifth, Senator Burnyax is wrong in sccrediting his own sirong partyism to Judges of the Supreme Court when called upon to adtina judicial capacity, and when taking a special oath to judge impartially according to tho Constitu. tion and 1aws a8 they understand themn. THE TREACTIERY-TO-PARTY BOSH, Ono of the most nbsurd political contra- dictions of the timo is to be found in the effort which cortain Republican nowspapers that have always set tho grentest stors by party fealty are now making to coerce Re- publican menbers of Congress to oppose tho schemo for arbitration proposed by tho Joint Committee. It tho measura can be regarded at all in a partisan light, it is much more of o Republican than n Democratic mensnre ; and if fealty to party is to Lo mndo the test of support or opposition, then everybody who cluims to be Republican in polities is bound to support it. The history of the scheme will sufliciently domonstrate this, As carly as tho 10th of December lost, and 03 soon &s it beeamo apparcnt that the two Houses would not ba able to ngree upon the count of the Elcctoral voles, Mr. Mc. Crany (Republican), of Town, offered tho following resolution : WiEnEAs, There are difforences of opinion as to the proper mode of canvaralug the Electoral votes for Preaident and Vico-President, and as to the manner of determining questiona that may arine o to the legality and validity of returns made of such votes by the reveral States; and Wurnzas, It 1s of tho utmost mportance that all differences of opinfon aml all doubtn and uncer- tainty on thero questlons shoald bo removed, ta the end that the votes may be counted and the ro- sult declared by o tribunal wliose authority none can questlon, and whose declaion all will accept as fnal; Jie 1t resolred, That » commlttee of five mem- bera be appolated by the Speaker to act In con- Junction with any slmilar committee appointed by the Senate to prepare and report swithout delay auch ameasure, elther legislative or conatitutionsl, as may In thelr judgment bo beat caleulated to nc- compllsh the deslred end, and that sald Committee have leave to report ot any time, 'Llhis was the initiol step in tho proceeding which kas resulted in the report of the bill, and it was taken in tho Democratic Honso by tho ablest lawyer and the leader of the Town delegation, which is all but unanimonsly Re- publican. That Mr, McCrany did not take it without provious consultation with his fellow-Republican membens is proved by tho fact that the very next day it recelved n nearly unanimous vote from the Ttepublican side and passed tho House by 8 decided nin jority. 'Then it was taken up in tha Senate, which hns a Republican majority, sud was passed by thot body. The Republicans in the Houso hnving taken tho first step, the Repullicans of tho Sennto took the second by appointing their Committeo fimt, which wns mndo up of four Itepublicans and threo Democrats, 'The Democrats in the House nccepted this actioy ns indieative of tho Republican iden of tho proper pro- portions of the Committes, and appointed on their rido four Domocrats and three Re- publicans, though tho Democratio majqrity in the House is nearly two-thirds. At every step thus far tho project was Republican, and it did not cense to be so after the Joint Committeo met. Then it was a plan pro- posed by Mr, Epsoxps, Ropublican Senator of Vermont, aud Mr. McCnany, Republicen member of Towa, which wau considered and finally adoptad. During tho consideration the only apprehension of its failure was from tho opposition of the Democratic ment- bers, but it was finally ndopted by the vote of all the mombers of Loth Committeos ex- cept oue, Coming back to Congress, the firut advoency the measure found was In theo Ropublican Senato, where it will have also firat o pass. Thin is, in hrict, the history of the incep- tion and growth of tho project mow beforo Congress. It is evident that in its Initintion nud in overy staga of progress the Ropublic- ans in Congress took the lend, and tha Re- publicn Vresident, ndvisod Ly his Re- publican Cubinet, has already sald that he will approve tho measuro if it pass, In the light of this history, it ia rather startling to bLe told that an advocacy of the bill is evi- denco of * desorting the Republican party and its interests,” nnd altogether nniquo to find those newspupers opposing it thut huve nlways held party fealty to be the first and highest duty of man. Whero shall wo go hereafter for authoritative information ay to what constitutes party fealty, it we may not follow the joint nction of the Republicens in both Housus of Cougres, indorsed by the Republicnn President aud his Republican Cabinet? Ts the Ropublican pacty worely what some obseure ovimpecnnions newspaper wets it up to be, and aro: Republiean princi. plesoand futerests those alono which hnve tirst been submitted to and indorsed by s small junts of jouraals that happen to claim allegianes to the party 2 Whe fact scems to be that the newspapers which are loudest in their denuncistions of party disloyalty urethe quickest to deacrt In any case whero they happen to be overruled. Aftor tho presont experienco with them, it is to be hoped that they will print fewer essays in the future upon the Lorrors and outrages of treachery to party. The * uuphilosophical fackass ” who pro- sides over the columus of the Chieago Huil dozer iuflicts upon his disgusted readers a full column of fish-market diatribs, of which the following are tho wildest samples to Lo foungd . 3lr. 0. P 2loutox Is one of the foremoet of the traltorous conspirators who have been plotting to uaury the Exccutive Government by fraud snd force, 1o 1s uot a person guided by auy Sxed no- tiuns of priwary truth upen any snbject or ques- tlon: but fs a political ewmplric, 3 quack to which charucter, & plentiful lack of weatel and moral tralulng, hove added tho qualitics of o recklcus nud vivleut partlean and dulidozer. Tho specch of this vlolout humbug In the Seaste on Monday was one of the wost choracterlatic manifestations of the wan's depraved and reckless pollucal character that has ever appearcd in print. It cannot befalrly called an argument for tresson snd revolation, for it lacked the method of roason whieh the torm or- gumeut lmplics. The furlous shaker of tho bluody- sbirt dld not besltate o ssscrt the programme of treaton sod all that 13 inplics, But the traltorvas demacogue §s not appalled, is not in tho least fn- timidated. He accepts nnhesitatingly the rovoln- tlonary consequences of the treasomable theory, ete., cto. Ovven P, Mortox hes proven himself to o one of the vory strongest men In the Sen- ato for many years pnst. Whoever hins risked a fall with him, hns oithor como off second best or fonnd hoe had n Ienourza to deal with. When Montox attacks a messiire, he leaves very little more to ho snid agninst it; ho exbnusts the subject. When ho advocates n measure, fow mombers can adduce any stronger argumenta in its behalf, or find much of valuo to sny in its favor that hie has omitted. He is as powerful and pungont in debate ns ho is fearloss and open, Scnator Monroy finds himsclf opposed to the Arbi- tration biil to settle tho Presidentinl muddle. Ho docs not like the schema of the Joint Committee. Ilo thinks Congress hasnot the right to delegate the powers to the Bonrd of Arbitration which the bill calls for. We pre- sumo le also thinks that Hares' chances aro wenkened by adopting it, although other cool and clesr-headed Republicans be- liove they avo groatly improved. But Bena- tor MonToN haa a perfect right to express his opposition to the measure, nnd to present the strongest objections to tho scheme he can conceive of. If tho Plan is not strong cnough to withstand the blows of his baltering-ram, it ought to fail. Senators Eatoy aud Mengmsroy, Democrats, also oppose theo bill, and what Republican denies their right to oppose it? Instead of flinging scur- rilous inveetives at Senator Montoy, lot the Chicago Z'imes, if it can, answer his argu. ments, If it has not sense or ability enough to do that, silence would best becoma it The renders of no newspaper are cdifled or pleased with ribnld blackguardism of such a statesman ns Senator MorTo! —_— SOME CONSTITUTIONAL POINTS. Biuso the opponents of the Congressional scheme of arbitration bogan by pronouncing it unconstitational, they have been wildly socking for arguments to sustain their posi- tion. Sonntor Snemaax's sirongest point acems to Le that Congress cannot doelogate its logislativa function ; the best way to an- swor this is to ndmit it, since it has no bear- ing upon tho prosent case. Congress does not sack to delegato its legislative function in tho mensuro proposed. It exercises thnt function itself by establishing n tribunal to perform an act, the performance of which has been loft indeterminate by the Constitu. tion, As the Constitution declares tho votes “ghall Lo counted,” and as it authorizes Congrens to pass all necessary legislation to carry out tho constitutional provisions, it is for Congress to determine how they shall bo counted nand who shall count them. Thero tho legisla- tive act censes, and the ministerinl duty of counting begins. Even this Con- greas roserves to itaclf by the proposod nct, except in caso of a disagreement, when tho polnts indispute are referred to n Commis. sion croated by law to dotermine them. But Congress doss nuot even then part with its authority over the connt, since the bill ex- pressly roserves tho right of reviewing the decision of the arbitration tribunal. It pro- vides that tho two Iouses mny agrea to ro- ject {ho award of the Commission, It would have been folly to provide that either House wight request it, since that would have en- abled one Ifonse to repeal an nct of* Con. gress, which is o legislntive absurdity, Tho followers of Alr, BmensaN are conse. quently constrained to look further for o demonstration of the nnconstitutionality of the proposed measura; one of them thinks he hias found it, and sets it forth in tho fol- lowing langungo : Tho Constltutlon declares that the Congresashatl have power **to make all laws which shall be nec- ensaryund proper for carrylng Into execntion tho toregoing powers [powerd gxpressly granted], and all other powers vested by this Constitution In the Ooverament of the United States, or In any depart- ment or oftice thereof,™ Tt it clro declaren with equal cmphasis that the President shall have pow- er, ete., ta appoint all officets of the United States whose appolntiments are not thereln otherwlec pro- vided for, and which shall Le extablished Ly law. Tho notion intended to bo conveyed by this is that Coxfgress, by the proposed act, nnconstitutionally assuines the appointing power expressly conferred upon the Pres. ident. Tho inforonco from the argument ia that Congress has tho right to establivh a tribunal of nrbitration of tho kind projected, but not the power to name the pemsons who shall conatitute it. This tribunal consists of only two clagies, viz. : members of Congress and Justives of the Supremo Court, It will searcely bo denied that Congress may ap- point ita own members ona Commission, sinco this has been done time without number, A Silver Commlssion is still in sossion, conmsisting in part of mem. bors of Congress. Commissions of mem- bers of Congress have been appointed to visit tho Bouthern Hiates, summon wit. nesses, and take evidenco in regard to the Into elections. As to the Justices of the Su- preme Court, the proposed nct simply adds temporarily to thelr duties, and does not nominate or appoint any new Justices or any new members of a new tribunal, That Con. grers may add to the powers of the Bupremo Judges is best proved by citation of thio fact that thoy have dono so heretofore without having their action called into question, They conferred upon the Bupreme Court Judges authority to hold Circuit Court sepa- rately, which they do, and also to nominate tho Ttegisters in Bankraptey, If the duties of tho Bupreme Conrt Judges, collectively and individunlly, wmay Lo thus enlarged by O:n- gress, they can bo still further enlarged by ro. quiringthew toserve inan arbitrat 'on,without any encronchment upon the Presidont's con. stitutional power of sppointment. ‘This will sorve to answer also an objection which has heon urged to the effect that it is dangerous to confex a power of arbitration upon certain Bupreme Judges which may be presouted for review to the entire Bench. It iney well bo doubted whether the declsion of the Commission oy bo presented to the Bupreme Court for review, sinco the pct which erentes tho Commission expressly re. serves to Uongress the right of reviewing oud reversing that decision; but, setting this uside, tho contingenvy of a review by the Supreme Court of an award of certain wembers thereof is no moro anomalous or dangerons than the review by the Court of the verdiety of individual Judges reudered while udjudicating cascs on the Cirouit. In. deed, it was very easy to cry ont ** uncon- stitutional ” to justify sn opposition to o measuro which tho representatives of the offiee-holding and office-seeking classes con- ceived to.be antagouistio to the interests of their clients ; but it is quite another thiug to demonstrate the- unconstitutionality and to discover the means wheroby it shall be nuthoritatively prowmulgated. Four Republican Scuators, all constitutional lawyers of the first class, and unfaltering Ho- publicans, devised and recomunonded the scheme of arbltration for settling the Presk- dentlal wuddle. Tuelr names are Roscom CoxkLiNg, of New York, Judge Gzomam ¥, Hoagn. of Massachusetts, F. T. Fazuouvr- BEN, of Now Jersey, Judee G. F. EpmuxDs, of Vermont. To these must bo added Gronox W. MeCnany, leader of the Towa delegation, and QronGr Witrinp, an (nfluentfal member of Michigan, All those men are now being bull- dozed by bankrupt newspapers and machioe partisans, B OBITUARY, THE TON. BAMUEL JIALE. Onr columns have already briefly recoried tho sudden death of the Hon. Sasuer IfaLr, of this eity, late of the well-known firm of fave, Aren & Co., which accurred on the evening of tho 23d lust. from the effceta of a paralytic shock. At the timo of his death he was, althongh an okl tman, apparently very vigorous mind robust, and promised to live many years yet. 1o was hotn fn Onelida County, New York, in 1709, and cor¥menced his active life as o ped- dler. In 1835 or 1838 he removed to Kenosha, Wia,, of which place ho was one of the firs set- tlers. Fora perlod of twenty years he was one of the most enterprising terchants and active publie men ln Kenosha, and for eome years took a prominent part in Wisconsin politics, He was a Democrat until the outbreak of the War, which converted him to Republicanism. In 1857 he nand his partner, Joun V. ArEn, removed to Chivago and went {nto the furniture husincss, which they subscquently abandoned for the fron business. Two years ago Mr. HaLr witudrew from the firm, and became connected with the Josgu [1. Baown Iron and Steel Company, of which he was Vice-President at the timeof his death. He was a lending inember of the Presbyterian Church, a true Christian geutleman, and an en- terprising citlzen, whose death 1sa loss to the shole city, e ——— THE ELECTORAL BILL. The Jolut Committee appuinted by both parties in Congrese to devize some method of scttling the prave and dangerous Presldential dispute thus close thelr reports All conalderations of interest, of patriotism and of Justice, unite tn demnnding’ of the lnw-making powern mensure that will bring peaco and_ pros- perity to the country, and snow that our repub- [icanInstitationn ave cqual to any emergency, And In thin connection we canaat refraln from the ex. presalon of our satisfaction that sour Commuttee, cumposed of equal nunbers of opposite parties, by riunately hieen able to do what has been at- din valn heretofore: uimost unAnimously a3 upon A plan conxidered by them all tobe Juet, wire, und ciilcient, Wo accordingly recom. mend the proposed nct to the patriotic and just Judginent of Congreas, Ueonur I, EoxoNns, T, FRELINGHUYSEN, 0N, Toscor: CONKLUSG, . Hewire, A. Q. Trensay, \ A% M. Sriusaen, T 1%, Bavanp, Granug W, McCnaunr, M, W, Raxsos, Gronag F, lloan, Gronaz WiLLAnD. e The Cincinnatl Commerclal puts in this re- minder for the benetit of that class of Repub- lican politicians who have been taken with a dreadful colle on account of the violation of the Constitution contalned in the Arbitration bill to scttle the horvible Presidential muddie: Once upon a time it was preity cood Republican doctrine that. given the fact that the 1ife of the natlon waa to suve, the Conatitution was open to Targe und Tiberal lnze?rcnnxlnx:—nhn Constltution not being thechief end of the country, bat_rather the fine casket in which the precions jewel Literty was Kopt. fhe doctring i+ not yet, ws think, wholly assoclated wita political total depravity, ————— To the Lditor of The Tribune. INDEPEXDENCE, I8, Jan. icnso slate sshether or not tho recanvaus of votes by the Flor- i Canvassing Board, in obedlenco to the mandate of the Supreme Court, lucluacd the vote for Elect- ors, b 'The sccond canvass by tho Board did not In- clude tho vote for Electors, but pending the declsion of the case by the Court the political complexion of the Board was changed, and tho newly-clected Board, belng Democratle, de- clared that the TipeN Electors lad a ma- Jority, —_—— The Clncinnati Times, Dayton Journal, and other Republlean papers of the extreme sort, are already reading out of the party all who favor tho Arbitrution proposed by EbMUNDS, CoxEriNg, and FreuiNonurses. Tho Clneln- notl Commercial dryly remarks: * It does not seeim to us that the Republican margin Is sufll- clent, cither in the Senateor the country, to afford that sort of thing to auy great extent.)” ———t— ‘The New York Herald rays the sncering re- mark Is heard among the nfuchine bosses fu that city that— **unly the bosiness men of the country favor the Electural bill™ 1a the cry of the politiclans, **and they do wo because they think it will benefit the fudustelal and trading interests,' Well, are not thu **industzial and trading interssts™ a little more importaut than the question nd to which et of purtlrans sliall uniuy tho fat ofices of the Gov- ernuent fur tho next four yearat —————— PERBONAL. Tt was the poet Gray's idea of heaven to lle for- cver on o sofn cating macaroons and reading eter- nal new French novels, Prof, Longfellow's danglter Alice Is to Ls mar- ried to Mr, Richard I, Dana, sonof I, H. Dana, Jr. Young Mr, Dana was Captain of the Iarvard crew In 1876, The Locedwmonians, ssys tle IWorld senten- {lously, murdered sickly children, although not 10 the extent to which they are elanghtered in Now York, An Inqulaltive old lady once asked tho ey, Stop~ ford Brouks at & dinner-party what his theologicul opinlons were, **Theology,™ ha replicd, ** o, I gave that up years ago. " Viscount Matdstone, wlo attompted unsuccess- fully to enter the Hirltish army, has eloped with an anclent lady of lincage, or, perhaps It may bo bet- ter to say, with a lady of anclont ineuge, It secma a queer thing for Charles Focbter—the friend of Dickens and in avme respocts the moat admimble actor allve—to be playlng at the Howard Athenmum, @ varicty establivhment in Boston, while Mr. Jodcph Murphy, & comic minatrol-man, occuples the stage of tho Boston Theatre, The Hev. T. Du Witt Talmage sald last Sunday that if he were to bo trled for his integrity or his 1ite, hy would prefer a Jury of lawyers ratlier than u Jury of clergymen, Mauy wouid llke to hear what he would think of & trial by a jury of bis prera, It any such thero conld be fonnd, Treno A, V. House, who recently shot lier hus- bond, tho dlvorce-lawyer, hav been declared fne sane, and a guardian has been sppofnted. Bho ls sufferiug from pulmonary troubles au welt na from mental dizorders, She lsbors under thoe hallocina tlon that she sbot lier son as woll as her husband, Will thie correvpondents never be done with tell. fnz of the man lu Parls who cut hls mlistress In pleces aud theew lier into the Bolne? Many & mls- tress who has cut her man in pleces—**shivered s hesrt,™ I the language of the weekly ramances —han not even the kluduces to dlspass of bis frag- ments afterwards, Mr. A. 3. Johndon, of New York, proposes to celebrate the completion of hls Cyclopiedia by o party in honor of Uls coutributors on tho Hlat fust, "Twenty-five hundred {nvitations have been Tasucd, and o farge number of them have been oe- copted. Alr, Jubuson b vory wealthy, and bis residence Is the most costly in New York, with the exceptiun of the Btewart wanslon, Dr, Decmu hat been sttacked for driving away tho poar peopls who cawe to hils dovrs un the an- nouncement of a Jegacy of §20,000 having been made 1o m by Commodore Vanderbllt, but Dr. Yoward Crosby takes up the cudgels in hisdefense, The lutter say4 there are well-appointed channoule for charity, and vne of them lv not the dlspeosing of woney at private doors o the rabble that way gather about the: Mr. Thomas G, Shearman sald (without tears)as the last Plymouth pruyer-mecting, that Socrates ve been kicked out of any ** respectable™ ndt for the companlonship of deceat wmen, W fancy Socrates would never have asked for adulssion to any church that pardeularly prided iteelf upon its ** respectability.” He would more likely bave beeu found at the Taberna when Me Moody and Sankey were here, and la their abscace would base Lelped to carey forwand thetr work. “ Mr, Evarta’ forthcoming report ou the new Uity Churter of New York will, it §s sald, proposs two constituencles, ~ono W elect a Lower Board, com- posed of the Mayor aud Comwmon Council; the other 3 Board of Apportionient, composed of city ullicers baviog the power to do with the public moneys, sducational matters, and the like, with & power of veto, this latter Board to be elccted by tazpayers only, The udvocates of womau-suffrage see {o this propoaition on vpeniag for tho thin end of the wedge. Some of the women properiy-own- ars, it 1s clalmed, should be sllowed to vote for members of the Board of Apportionment, and to bold sepls thersln, if duly elected. Perplexing Progress of ‘the Senatorial Contest at Springfield. - The Republican Jonah, Logfin, No Longer Shows Him- self on Deck, Yot His Presence Somewhere Below Is Rapidly Sinking the Party Craft. The Republican Legislators Again Decline to Eleot a Ropub- licen Senator, Eleven Democrats Vote for Lawe renc:, Who Secures Only Forty-two in All. Davis Comes within Two Votes of Election, but Hickoy and Ko- hoe Say ‘‘Nay." The Obdurate Members Vainly Battered with Storms of Prayer, Etc. Gov, Palmer, in & Ferment of Rour Dis. ,Bppointment, Bmites an Oppozer. How the New Jerscy Republicans Wore Cheated in the Senatorial Coutest, SENATORIALL FORTIER QUEER OPERATIONS, Spectal Dispateh to The Tridune, 8pnrvaricep, 1N, Jau 23,—The break that was predicted when Logun was out of the way came o8 soun as he had got out of the way, The change of front on the part of the Republicans completely flanked the Independents. Had the contest remained between Logan and Anderson, that fs, If Logan had been kept in the field, there could bave beeny but one result, though that might for & few days longer have been delayed. That result would bhave been the clection of Anderson, But when. Judge Law- rence was put in nomination neither Democrats nor Independents dare hazard forcing the {ssuc to Anderson or Lawrence, Senator Hanna and otbier Democrats lad announzed that i toreed 1o it they would vote for Lawrence, 8o, despito the caucus nowmination of Anderson by tho Democrats last night, the Independents this morning IASTENED TO TAKE IIM OPF THE TRACK, and presented the name of Judge Davis to the Democratic caucus at its session this norning, ‘The result was the unanimous ratification of the nomination hy the Democrats. Y The whele slgnalized the success of the House Independents detalled to go out and bag the Benato Independents, The House Independ- cnts went out to capture the voters for Judge Davis. Meanwhile, the Demovrats, under the management of a few men in the secret, divert- ed the Inacpendents by voting for Anderson, They thus closed the door against the abandon- ment of Anderson. e could not be abundoned while so near an election s he seemed. Mean- while, too, tho action of the Logan men n per- slating In keeping him on the track provented o break among the Independents. Loran was the one Republican they could not and would not go to, THE INDEPENDENTS DEREFT OF THEIR FOWER, After the actionof the Republivan caucus, last night, the Independents wero left only this alternative: They could disband as a party and a8 individunls go over to the Republicuns, or they could make a nomination which at least would aave them from the entire sacrific of thelr position, by putting up aa thelr candilate soincbody less obmoxivus to the Democratic party than Anderson, Tley could not regnin the mastery “of the situation; they could at least save appearances. They did so by nominating Judge Davis, whose nominatlon was really dictated by the Democracy, The uomlination was ratified by tho Demacratle cauzus only about an hour before the opening of the jolnt scsalon. As tho news cireulated, TIE DEMOCRATS' IIOPES RAN IHOT, and Herrington, and Ashton, and the others who have been enginecering the Davis move- ment, were confldent of succees, But ono cle- ment they had overlooked. That was IHalnes, the Independent Benator whoso Scnatorfal ns- plrations the Independeats had nivped, in the bud, They bad forgotten Hamnes. But Halnes had not forgotten them. The porty which ho bad built up fur himnself, consisting of Benator Miles Kehoe and Representative Hickey, proved, if Insufliclent to clect, a sufflcient balauce of power ta defeat the Independents’ new nomi- nee. That is what ITaines dld, and in dolng it he came within halling distance, so to speak, of the Senate Chamber bimsell, When the roil was called on the tirst ballot to-day, which was THE THIRTT-PIPTU BALLOT for Senator, the Democrats led off, according to caucus programme, for Judge Davis, but Kehos stuck to 1alnes, and when the House roll was called, so did Hlickey, aud, witbout the votes of both Kehoe and Hickey, it wus finpossible for Davis to be elected. The Republicans were quick to sea the peril thero was in the possibility of Kehoe and Hickey's desertiug Halnes and golnz to Davie. To ald fn kecplug up tho deadlock by encoursging Kehoe and ickey to stick, Scontors Buehler and Jostyn and lepresentatives Reed and Fusly, of Covk, voted for Halnes. 8o did Denul, of t! eratic side. Dewey obtained leava to explain his vote, Hu wanted ta till the place In therear guurd ranks, s N‘{dh! in the retreat from Moscow. Ifc should give his’ vote for Mounohan also voted for Logan. Busides, as pulitfy the action of the Republicau caucus last night, and to make gooa the bLoast of the partl- ¢ons of Logun that no other Republican would ever get tne full Hepublican vote, Evans ot Kunc voted for Cullom, Fountaln for Jebu Tukur, 8ittle for Cul. Ingersoll, Wilkerson fur B. Rudu, and Winter for Beverldge, The jolut vote on this ballot was: he Demo- Bevesid everi Pulrej oft—Senators Lee and Morgan; Buna- tor 8mlth nod Revresentative Remau; Repre- sentatives Raley and Raooey. ON THE 1ungml;:n l\‘x‘”v;“hmught t the tremendous pressure was :::w:’:xbu Kehoe sud Hickey to whip thew . ‘Uhe spectacle was entertaining, In !tll.n.uu l&"f‘m alsle th lanking Haines on either slte. The trlo einocrats, 0 | g d Indepeudents. By the Demo- len‘:‘n‘ I‘};nn‘:.c:: vlzumnp\sly lamwed, and threat- cued, and suj gumw‘lfl by the Republicans they were told not to let theniselves bulldozed; dependents they were regarded with e pereiiosion %4 thy verktable bl a thelr china-sbwp. HkikEs wore on alr of cheer.ul composure, as if it were the hour of bis funeral, or 54 If_ he could bear it with Curistisn reslguation. To bim looked Keboe and Hickey for comtort and consolation in tuelr perils, aud as often as Miles looked ab Halaes tl med to ex:hange 8 kpowing ay s ** Weuun play th " sud they did. lie #tood up to the work " pluckily, ' Hickey .nud ™ lcum?mk:‘nd Halues lnoks{more than Searney, of Cook, who bas el K Sk Ll STATE AFFAIRS.