Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1877, Page 4

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Evening, ** liomca aad Julict. ‘ MeCormick Hall, North Clark sticet, corner of Kinzle. Concert by Mme. Pappeahetn, Wand?s Munenn, Montoe street, between Kiate and Dearborn, ! Jack the Glsat Kitler," ing, 8. A, F. ANDA, ) erenling g1 aud work! W, B WARREN LODGE, NO. 200, iar cominunicatioh this {af ar'Tial, 74 aud 76 MoJroc-st,, for b Viniors welcume,” 1iy erdezof, the ecretary, 27, 1877, BATURDAY, JANUARY Greenbacks ot tho New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed ot 94} Tha Joint Convontion of the Senate and Houso of Represontatives will assemble on ‘Thuredny noxt for the purposo of counting the Electoral vote. Deforu that day tho Arbitration bill will have received tho signa- ture of the President and become n law, so that disputed quostions upon which the Jalnt Convention is unnble to agreo may be ot once referred to tho Trpartite Comnnis. sion and consldered and decided on in time to admit of the declaration of the result prior to the 4th of March, I# Tho investigation into the manogement of tho National Ropublican Committeo by the Douprey Freeo Committeo has now reached such n degreo of nbsurdity and disgrace that the Democracy should sbandon it if they " have any mclf-respect. Tho sad mess that J, B. Desenny, telegraph operator at the rail- road depot at 'Pallahassee, mndo of his testi- mony after being proviously conched by F1rLy and Tuoupsoy, is tho most disgraceful partisan display that has yet been mode. It the Detocracy has no better mothod of iu- vestigation than to menufacture n witness' testimony, and then rohiearse him so badly that Lio caunot tell his own lios straight, con- not remember his lesson andrecite it without Lungling, and canuot daliver his hashed-up ovidenco withont cornering himself and criminating his employery, the Democrats hind either better select more intelligent wit- nesses or quit the business, Tt seems to havu been generally conceded in Washinglon that the choico of a #ifth member of the judicial branch of tho Arbi- tration Commission will not fall upon Judge Davis, who has not yet signified hisintention with referonco (o tho INiuois Bonatorship, though it is considered alnost certain that he will sccopt. The four Justices named in the bill—Justices Crirronp, MiLLen, BnoNa, and Frero—will probably not chooso the fifth until the Senate and Houso shall have coustituted their parts of the Commission, Four woparate cancuses will ho Leld to de- termine who shall bo cliosen as the ten Con- gressional arbitrators, and it seems to Lo muntually understood and pgreed that great care shall bo exercised to muke the political brauch of the Cowmmission notable fn the mntter of statecrnft, and a3 nearly as possi. ble equal to the judicial brauch in point of legal ability, A spirited session of the Finance Commit. tee of the Board of County Commissioners was held yestorday aftcrnoon to consider the subject of borrowing money to pay billa slready audited amounting to ubout 16,000, There being no fuuds in the Treasury applicable to this purposs, the plan of the Riug is to borrow, Against this ruinous policy two of the members of 1ho Financo Committee, Messsrs, Avans and Frrzoenavp, have finaly set their faces, aud yesterday's bulldozing by Howpey and Tavon, assisted by Houxtaey, was power- less to wove them from thelr purpose fo fight any further borrowing und to inslst upon a reduction of expenditures to worrespoud with the present cuaptinoss of the Treasury, All the talk obout closing up ‘he county institutions is bouh, and will not wove thew. ‘Ihe only thing that will Le sosed up by the enforcement of this policy of retrenchment and honesty is tho rapacious waw of the devil-fish that has eaten the sub. stance of the taxpayers until tucre is no more {0 eat. The Chicogo produce markets wers gen- enally easier yestorday, aud most of them ‘wero active, Meus pork closed 850 per brl lower, at §16.46@16.60 for February and $10.70@16.72} for March. Lard closed 20¢ per 100 lbs lower, at #10.67})@10.70 for Febrnary ad # Meats closed } boxed sliort.cle 81.05° W ARV AL W s T RN THE CHICAGO o ,10,82)@10.85 for March. Lo lower, at 6o for shonlders, . for short-ribsat and 8jc for ars. Highwines were firmer, ot per gallon. Flour was quiet and firm, .eat closed e lower, at 81.26 cash and 128} seller March, Corn closed jo lower, at 42Jc cash and 42}0 for February, Oals closed Jc higher, at 353}¢ cash and 85}e sell- er February., Rye was quiet, at 71@71jc. Barley closed ic lower, at €0c for February. The hog market opened firm but soon weak- cned, and closed 10@15¢ lower, at £5.90@ 6.75, Cattlo wero dull and easy, with sales at $2.50@5.80, Sheep wero dull and un- changed, at %2.75@5.00. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $106.25 in green- backs at the clos e Already speculntion is active concerning the personnel of the Congressional branch of the Arbitration Commission. Among the Senate Republicans Mr, Epxuxps’ appoint- ment is regarded ns n matter of course, be- ing n just rocognition of the zeal and cficiency which characterized his labors in mataring the plan and directing its consider- ation in the Senate, Mr. Howe, of Wiscon- win, i3 named as likely to be chosen as repre- senting that class who, though not entirely approving of the measure, gava it his sup- port from high considerations of patriotism. Mr. Montoy will be strongly urged ns ono of the Nepublican members who vigorously opposed tho bill, and who, as Chairman of the Senate Committeo on Priv- ileges and Elections, is thoroughly conver- sant with oll the facts that must form so vital a feature of tho abritration. It isas good ns seftled that Messrs, BaTarp and ‘PrunMaN will represent the Democrats of the Sennte. In the Houso tho Republicans who voted agninst the bill aro in a strong majority, and from present indications they will not agree to the appointment of Messrs, McCrary and Hoar, the former the original mover of the resolution for the Joint Com- mittee and the Intter the most powerful ad- vocate of the plan. It is to be hoped, how- ever, that both theso gentlemen will be ac. corded the woll-deserved lLonor of serving on the Commission they lnbored so hard to create. } Bje 0 clection of Bex Trin to the United Stntes Bennte by the Georgin Legislature afler n stubborn contest for the placo will be received more com- placently by tho American people now than it would have been some months ago, ‘The debnto in the early part of the last session on the Amuesty bill, and the flerco asseult of Mr, Brans, drow out from Iz imnioderato expressions which gained for him n reputa. tion s tho representative of the unrepentant TRebel. But the caucun consultations of the Democrats in the early part of tho present seasion, when the Northern donghfaces wero howling for **wah," gave Mr. HirLan oppor- tunity to remove this impressiun by his mod- crate connsels and by the repeated declarn- tion that ho nnd his constituents had come back to the Union to stay, and did not pro- pose to do any more rebelling or fighting, Of courso the batteries of the old secession- ists were opened upon Hirn, and it was freely prodicted that this dixplay of conserv- atism would defeat him for the United States Sennte, for which he was kuown to ba n can- didate. Ifis trinmph under these circum- stances reflects eredit upon the Stato of Georgin, and it mny be accopted as another notice to tho ‘- wah” Democrats of the North that tho Southern people intend to hold off in tho next fight until their Northern allics tako the initiative, and prefer not to fight at all, FLECTING A PRESIDENT, Tho passnge of tho Arbitration bill by Coegresa offors the menns of extrication from n very complicated entanglement long forercon, often predicted, and at last au act- ual, present reality. In 1800 tho old systemn of voting for President rosulted In o erisiy which threatened the termnation of the young Republio. 'There were a few men ot that day who rose nbove party considern. tions, and to their patriotisin tho country owed its escapo from a wreck, and the Con- gress, impressed with the sense of publio dnuger, promptly provided, by a constitu- tiousl mensure, against a recurrence of that ovent in that form, DBut the change in the Constitution left the country oxposed to perils not then foreseen. Fifty years ago, Chancellor Kext, in his commentaries on the Constitution, as if posscssed of the gift of prophecy, wrote ns follows on the sub. jeet of Prenidentinl clections s ‘Plie mode of hisappolntment presented one of the mest diftienit and importans queatious that oc- cupled the deliberations of the awembly which framed the Constitutlon; and If ever the tran- quillity of this nution Is to be distarbed and its lilerties endingered by n struggle for power, 1t will be upon this very subject of the choice of a Prealdent. Thix Ia the question that fs eventually fu test the woodness and try the strength of tho Constitution, aud if* we shall be ablo for halfa century horeafter o coutlnue to elect the Chlet Maglstrate of the Unfon with discretion, modera- tion, and Integrity, we ahall undonbtedly stamp 1ho highest value on our nutlonal character, ‘e country i just now passing through the crisis thus foveseen, and the test of the gooduess and strength of our Constitution is in the passago of this Arbitration bill, and thu cousequent avoidazee of the threatened calamity, Dut this measure, however satis. fnctory a8 n temporary expedient, will not cure tho radical defects in the prosent sys. tem of electing the Presidenty, Thess must Do eured by an amendinent of the Constitu. tion which will be permnuent, until, in the progresy of time, other changes will bo re- quired, Home of the defects of tho presont syatem ore: 1. Tho usvless machinery of the Ilect- oral Colleges, with all the linbilities to fraud in their appointment, fraud and corruption in their voting, and errors ond illegalities in their proceedings. 2, The injustice of the clection of Presidents by the majorities of the popular votes in States, Jeading to cor- ruption in tho elections by offering to a few voters tha opportunity of eclecting both President and Viee-President. 3. Tho stifling of the voice of thy winority in a ma. Jority of States in tho choice of President. 4. The wsbseuco of nuy general rule for assuring the validity of electious, and tha absence of any recognized authority to do- cide contested clections. Au amendmont to the Constitution must be ratified by the ILogislatures of three- fourtls of the several States, and it is not likely that the smaller States will ever volun. tarily surrender their Scuatorial represcnta. tion inthe voto for President, nor is it likely that they will ever consent to havo tho Presi. dent elected by the ogyregate voto of the whola people. The voting by Btates, there. fore, will have to be retaived, but this does not includo tho retuining of the present sys- tem of voting through the agency of Electors appoiuted for thut purpose. It has Leen re- peatedly proposed that Elcetons besppointed o8 Congresswen are,—by clection in single districts,~—but this would place it in the power of partisan majoritivs ju the State Legislae tares to so apportion the districts as to prac- tically defeat the popular will Wo have read all the schemes that have been proposed or suggested, and to our judgment there is 10 eno which is s0 commendable in all re. spects a3 that framed by the Ilon. G. R. Bucratew, of Ponnsylvania, That plan is simple m operntion, easily understood, is freo from all opportunities for fraud, and gives to the vote of every man in overy State its full weight in deter. mining the choice for President. Briefly stated, that planis nsfollowa: Each Stale shall liave, ns now, as many votes for Presi- dont as it has Senstors and Representatives in Congresa; thnt at the clection each voter shall voto directly for n eandidate for Presi- dent and for Viee-President ; that this vote shall bo returned and canvassed by {ho Btate onthority as it is now for State officers ; thnt the aggregate vole polled for all candidates for President be divided by the nuinber of votes for Prosident to which each Stato is ontitled, and the quotient will be the ratio of popular vote to nvote for Prosident, The Governor, therefore, has nothing to do but to ascertain the number of voles lo which ench candidato s entitled from that Stato, Thus, ot the late election, New York gave TiLpex thirty-five votes, Indiana gave TiL- pex fifteen votes, while Penusylvania gave Hives twonty-uine votes, Californin six votes, Wisconsin ten votes, aud Vermont five votes, The popular Electoral votes of these States was ns followa : ~Popular tote.— ~FElectoral rote— Nden. Hayes. “ANtden. Layes, States, California.. i, B: 78, 01 o 8, 0 15 43 o o 20 0 o Wisconsin 0 10 ‘Total 4088 1, 50 50 Unde: plan suggested by Judge Buck- Arew, the Electoral vote of theso States would have beon thus divided 1 Stales, Hayes, Callfornia. 4 7 17 15 i3 1 . n2 The Ropublican majority of less thau 3,000 controlled the wholo six votes of Cale ifornia; the Democratic majority of 5,000 in Indiana controlled the whole fifteen votes of ihat State; the nearly Lalf-million Repub- licans in New York had no voice in the Electoral voto of that Btate, whilo the Dem- ocrats of Penusylvanis and Wisconsin wero excluded in like manner. 1t is to be expect. cd that in largo States liko New York, I’enn- sylvania, Ohio, and Indiaus, and other States, the popular vole will always be so clogso that frauds to the extent of 4,000 to 8,000 votes may change the wholo Electoral voto of ono of theso Htates and determine tlo clection of o Prosident. The transfer of tho Electoral vote of oue of theso Htates from one caudidate to nuother offers a con. stant terptation to fraud and corruption, the colonization and importation of voters, and the other crimes ngainst honest elections., Ho long na & bare majority of the popular vote controls the entiro Elcctoral vote of the State, it will afford an inducoment for vio- lence sund intimidation in the Bouthern Stales, when, if the contest was reduced to tho mero mafority of the Elcctoral voto, thera would bo no sueh inducement, Iad this plan been in operation at the reacnt | olection, the votes of the Houthern § ites would have buon divided somowhed¢ fol. lows: i Staler, Alaban Arkanea: Delnware Flori teorg Kenti Lonlstana Maryland Minatanipp Mimsourd North Cara South Caraling, Tenneasee Texan . Total.... d .81 w7 The actual rosult is that TiLpex got 119 votes aud Haves 19, of which the 8 of Louisiaun and thoe 4 of Florida are disputed nnd denied. But, had this rulo been in opera. tion, tha loducement for violence and ball. dozing would liave been out of the way, a full voto would have been liad, and the Re. publicans would ba entitled, beyond what we have given them, to at least five addition- al votes in Alabawa, Georgia, Mississippi, and Bouth Carolina, In like manner tho Democrats would have obtained aditionnl votes at the North, But the eloment of fraud would be largely climinated from the clec- tiona for President, bocauss in nenrly ovory Stata the contest would bo for the odd voto ortwo votes which wonld pertain to the mnjority of the popular vote. Every Demio- crat in Vermont, Massochusctts, Towa, Illi. nols, and Ohio would have his vote counted in tho general vesult, just as overy Ropub- lican vote would be connted for President in Indiana, New Jersoy, Kentucky, Tonnessce, Goorgla, and Missourl, The machinery of oleation.returns would be reduced to the sim- plest form. Somebody must Lo trusted in tho end. 'Tho State oficors, or the Gov- ernor, dircctly responsibla to the people, or nuch porsons as may be trusted by tho people of a State to canvass the vote for State officers, can be designated to make tho com- putation of votes and certify the result. In no Btate conld tho contestapply to the wholo Electoral vote, and thereforo the possibility of tha general result being dutermined by the voto of any one Htate would be reduced to s minfmum, e think that the mora this plau is cousidered the moro it will commend itself to the country, at least until some other and better ono i propos The ' Inter-Ocean uffects to sncer at “a local oveniug paper called the J’ust, claim- ing to be Republican,” which advocated the election of the Hon. Joux O, Hamxes for Senator. This insignificant * local paper” happous to havo st least 6,000 greator circu. lation than thoe Z.-0., and by persistent peg- ging away succeeded in geotting the very respectable number of 69 votes for its coudi. date,—commencing with but one or two. Aud, what is more, if Mr. Bpeaker Suaw had not declared the motion to adjourn on Wednesday cvening carried, and thus sd- Journed the session before the forticth bal- lot waa taken, either Joux C. Hatnesor O, B. Lawsence would have been olected Sena- tor, Everybody says that on the motion to adjourn the snoes were twico &9 numer. ous as the ayes; that there wus a pertect voar for ons more ballot heard on all sides of the Chamber. But the Speaker, for some reason not oxplained, decided that the ayes bad it, and declared the session onded, amidst grest noise, excitement, and tumult, On the thirty.ninth ballot quite s vuwber of Democrats dropped Davis and voled for Lawnence. Thoe Haixzs vote hav- ing mouuted up to €9, aud Krsog snd Hicxey voting for him, slarmed the Demo- crats, and on the next ballot, if one had been taken, the bulk of them would Lave sup- ported Lawaxxce, placing him s0 close to an s gl ek URDAY, JANUARY election that n few Ropublicans could have made him Senator. Dut the ndjournment blunder destroyed the chance. During the dark hours of the night, whon honest mon woro in bed, the Democratic leaders wers intimidating Kenoz and Hickeyr and bull dozing nil their fellows into solid cohort for Davra, FAILURES AND THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. If wo were to accopt on their face tha statistics of the mercautilo failures of the year just closed which nra roported by the commercial ngencies, and comparo them with the failures of the provions years, tho conclusion would be that the country hns not yot suffered the worst effects of tho panio of 1872, Tho total number of failures re. ported for tho year 1876 is 9,082, with og- gregate liabilitios amounting to 8101,117,786, and averago linbilities of 321,020; in 1875, thore wera only 7,740 failures, but the nverage linbilitics wero $25,900; in 1874, the total failures wore 5,830, and tho average liabilities #26,627, It will bo noticed that, while tho number of failures has increpscd steadily ninca 1872, the average linbilities bavo decrensed. This may be explained in twoor three ways. There aro atill large numbers of firme doing business who wero too scriously affected by the panic and shrinkage in prices to warrant thelr continuntion, and® their nffairs mnst bo wound up soonor or later; but the firms that wero spread out the most sue- cumbed some time since, whilo those that have held on have reduced their liabilities, Hence, whilo the actunl number of failures has incroased, the nmount of linbilities which the failures represent has been mn- terially reduced. The facilities of the bank- rupt court nro likewise to be held responsi. Dblo for a lnrgo part of the increase in num. bers, It is notorious that tho Bankrupt law nnd the general practice thereundor have encouraged frandalent failares in large num. bers, and sorved asa means to onablo many debtors to compromiso obligations and settle with creditors when they were able to pay dollar for dollar, The showing for the past year contains many encournging foatures for the prospect. ive business of the United States. Tho best attninablo statistics show the fail- ures in Canadn during the year to havo been ono out of overy thirty-two firms doing business, and avernge linbilities of $14,767, while the failures of the United States aro only 1 in every 62, or about half s many in proportion, The failurcs in England in 1875 were 1 in every 36 firms, with averago liabil- ities of &87,870, which indicates that tho de- pression lins been moro serious across the water thon amongus. In the United States thero ia a great differonce in the nmount of foilures roported from different sections. Thus in tho New England States, the fail- ures wero 1 in 59, with average linbilities of 28,628 ; in the Middle States thoy were 1 in &7, with average liabilitios of $24,800; while in the Western States tho failures wero only 1in 72, or nearly one-third less, with avernge liabilitics of only $16,843, or nearly one-half less, Thera conld searcely bo n Letter ovidence of the nnperiw resources of the Western States, which is explained main- 1y by the fact that their production is of the kind wliich the world demands and must have in hard times 08 well ns good times. ‘I'ie compnrative statistics really prosent a promising outlook for tho current year, which will bo materinlly Lrightened by the disappearance of tho political troubles. Not- withstanding the scrious apprehension that has grown out of the Presidentinl dispute, tho failures during tho last quarter of the year 1870 wera 20 per cent less than those of the corresponding period of 1875, and tho nmount of liabiliticsnot one-hnlf as large ; so, too, tho failures for tho last quarter were considorably less than thoso of tho previous quarter in tho same yenr. Thia Indicates pretty cerlninly, along with the better feel- ing that provailed bofore the political com- plication paralyzed lusiness, that tho turn- ing-point has come, and that only peace and qquiot in public affairs aro necessary to per. mit a restoration of confidenco and a general rvovival of trade. This outlook in furthor confirmed by the Incrense of our exporta and the decrease of our igports,— showing an increased production and de- creased extravagance, All oor products needed abrond—cotton, grain, sugar, tobac- co, gold, and silver—have been moro prolific than ever, The present winter will bo favor- ablo for tho fall crops, and the good ronds which the snow has given will make the counlry trado much livelier the coming spring than it woas last year. At the same time, prices havo gonerally touched bottom ; oven the resumption of specic-payment would not affect them very wmuch, and the tendency will probably be upward from that time, Tortunately, tho political troubles Linvo not depreciated the national currency nor the Government credit, and all the con. ditions are favornble to & healthful reaction after the definito settlement of the Presi. dential contest, “PUT YOURSELY IN HI8 PLACE." ‘This is an excellent motto, in politics ns well ns clsowliere, for present ny well as for past times, Not only does it conform to the most tigid moral principle which any one could suggest, boing a condensed statoment of the famous Golden Nule, but it contains a world of practical wisdom, No statesmau can be sagacious unless he practico according to its direetion, For whaot o statesman needs, in addition to gniding principles, is an accurate Lnowledge of the vircumstances in which he will be called toact. 'These can nover Lo undenstood simply in the light of oncd's own opinions and wishes, or of thoso of a single parly, any more than a varled landscape can be fully seen from oven tho best singlo point, A wizo Goneral begins, of course, with a study of his own position, army, and resources. But that is only half his anxiety. e says to himself: **There i3 my antagouist, with his forces. Lct mo put myself in his place aud consider what I should be likely to do ot tho head of his army, and with the oppor- tunities which apparently offer. Perhapu I cau thus penctrate his plans.” No (encral is fit for his responsible position who fails to pursue this method, As littlo is a statesinan qualified to judge of appropriate wessurcs who has a sot of abstvact principles and party aims which he proposes to carry out regardless of circumstancey, ignoring the op- Pposite party aud tho geueral fecling of the country ; with which, nevertheless, he has to do, in tho measures which ho proposes, both in their cunctument and in their execu- tion. 1lcre is the source of the opposition which certain politicians offer to the so-called com- promise measure for counting the Presiden. tial Electoral votes. They regard it from tho partisan side entirely, or from the point of view of their personal opinion ss to tho merits of tho caso. 'They have uo doubt thot Havrs has received an Lonest majority of oo iu the Electoral Colleges of the 27, 187/ ~TWELVE Union, They feol cortain that tho Louisiana Retarning Board acted both lawfully and justly in ruling out roturns from * bull dozed " parishes. They aro suro that, in the aboenoe of any othor constitutional provis- fon, the Presidant of the Scnate, who is to open the votes, must also connt them, Thns they see tho way clear to tho official nn- nouncement of Mr. Hares' clection, and, with the present Administration in the hands of the Republicans, to his triumphant inau. guration, With such vantago-ground, they deem it folly to throw away a victory, nnd to consont to a moasure which renders the result uncertain, All this is plausible, so long »4 one looks at this singlo set of opiniona and judgments; or 8o long as the views of tho opposito party aro regarded a3 without any reason, and as Dypderitically put forward from ** purc cuss- odness,” But in ench nn estimnate of others noman who ealls himself astatesman should for nmoment indulgo. A Republicanmust put ‘himaclf in the place of a Domocrat, who lon- estly believes in his own party, and in tho necessity of its triumphs to the prosperity of the land. Such a Domocrat is convinced that Mr. Tipex has been actunlly and logally chosen Presidont of tha United States, and he suspeota the Republican lenders of a plot to cheat him out of his victory by re- ducing a majority of 8,000 in Lonisiana to a minority, through the corrupt action of a Returning Board, composed wholly of Rte- publicans, and deciding in scerct session. Ho s equnlly sure that the constitutional remedy is in the right of oithor Iouse of Congress to object to the counting of spu- riousvotes, and the Iouso of Representatives {0 judge whother thoro has been o failure of the Electoral Colleges to clect, and thus n duty of eleotion imposed on itself, All this is aa certain to his mind as the fimst-named sories of opinions is to tho mind of the Re. publican ; snd he is fortified in his concln. sions by tho published opinions of eminent lawyors, Judges, and statesmen, and by the excited ery of n great party embracing half of tho nation, In fact, each of theso opin- jonated men has back of him threo or four million voters, deoply interested in tho re- sult, and with no menns of judging of tho facts but the statements publishied in the papers. How can a sagacious, statesmanlike Re- publican ignore this firn Democratic judg- mont, and act as if it did not exist, or as if it bad no plausible rensons to offer? Lot him put himself in a Democrat's place, and nsk what ho wonld demand, with such n belief, and backed by such numbers. Lot him con- sider, nlso, the hnpossibility of changing that opinion, in the present excitement, and with tho testimony and the roports of Con. gressional’Committees diamolrically conflict- ing. Let him further roflect that tho nation has but recontly cmerged from n well-nigh *fatal civil conflict, the passionato offect of which has not yet subsided, and that the present contested clection hns unfortunnato incidental connection with tho sectional dif- ferences on which that war hinged. After such & survey of the political ficld and tho perploxing circumstances of tho case, be will be less inclined, wo think, to, adopt the policy of riding rough-shod over op- pononts, as though his own judgment wero infallible and nothing were duo to the dis. sent of hnlf tho nation. 1le will learn not n little by thus putting himeelf in o Domo- crat’s place, and looking for a whilo through his eycs. And then it will be fitting to notice that tho business of the country is at a pause, till this new danger shall have beon averted, Tho long, dark days of ** the panic” have como neatly to au ond, hopo is in overy heart, o readiness to engage in now cnter- prives is beginning to maonifest itself, bLut no prudent capitalist will stie till the political cloud ehall pass away., In Europe, too, our good namo is onco more at stako on our abllity to wonther n fresh storm from an unexpected quarter, and to rise auperior to tho dificultics which bave been fatal to Moxico and South America. They will havo faith in our people, in our institu. tions, sud in our various entorprises, when they seo us cmorge safely from theso compli- cations, Wo know of a large railway loan negotinted abroad for un onterprise impor- tont to this city, the papers of which wait to be signed till this Presidontial contest is terminated. As, therefore, no hops exists that a purely party courso can be wisely and safely taken, it becomes ench patriot to con- sent to such & special arrangemont to meet the emergency as shall satlsfy the reasonable wen of both parties. Tho proposed measure is of such a charncter in ita relation to present circumstances, and promnises a peace- ful solutfon of the complicated problem. ‘We have no doubt that Congmess will enact what the nation demands, A BAD CASE OF I'LOP, We understand it to be one of the high privileges of so-catled **independent journal- ism " to hold ono opinlon one day and anoth- er the next. Wo huveoven known this prive ilego to be excrcised to tho extent of printing on the same day aud on the same page two judgments diametrically opposed to each other, and both delivered in a superlatively dogmatic stylo that admitted of no dispute, But of all the journalistic ground-and-lofty tumbling that haa como undor our notice of lato the double-someruaults of the * unphilo- sophical jacknss " who writes in the Chiengo Times on the Presidential clection are the most remarkable. Ho started out with the asgertion that the whole matter was in the hands of the Ifouse of Representatives, and inslsted that the Democratio njor- ity in that body should proceed to elect the President, whether or mnot a nomination were declared. Next, he wmalntained that every Electoral vote must receive the assent of the louso of Repro- sontatives in order to bo counted, and called everybody names who would not agree to so sbsurd a proposition. At this juncture an outline of tho Congressional schemo for arbi. tration was made public, and he immediately denonnced it as ‘‘a delusion and a cheat,” vowed that all arguments in support of it ara *‘argumonts of cither ignoranco or kuavery, or both,” and disposed of it not ouly on his own motion, but for everybody else, in the following summary fashion : ‘There is ample reasonto say that the *‘High Court of Arbitration " schome s not satisfactory to anybody, und f¢ not regarded by snybody as anylulug but & temporary expedient to bridge over a possible bloody chasm.” Every intelligent pervon percelvos that there fs not a pasticle of honeety i tho contrivance. Every member of the two Uom- mittecs that Lave lncubated and batcbed this non- deacript contrivanco of mutual banboozlement perfectiy well knows that & more dishonest scheme of mutual self-deception never was devised. The two factions cawe togetber and meutally at sllovents, Let usfovent something that will in. volve tha outcume fn @ f0g; let usaet ups screen of bumbug befury the eycs of tho counlry beblud which we the managers cau procecd (o play vur own litilc gawe, throwlag Constitution, law, sud principles of public right meanwhils to the devil. Having thus consigued the proposition, its originators, and its advocates, to tho bottom. leas pit, some higher power secmed to fater- vene and inslst upou a milder characteriza- PAGES, tion of the arbitration schethe. The *un- philosophical jackass” was evidently bull- dozod by somebody, for the next day hoe an. nonnced that, “‘solely ns & measure of ex- pediency, aud for tuis time only, the project may ba admissible,” and tried to break the {all on follows: Itianaplan to take the place In tho present emergency of n constitational provislon which hias utterly broken down, and of the breakdown of which the Introduction of the plan Ia a confceston. This fact that our wrliten Constitntion, In the mode provided for getting a Prestdent, has come to an ntter fallnco, may be a humiilating fact to per- #ons who have too blindly worshiped that grotesqae instrament ! nevertheloss it {n & fact which It Isthe part of wirdom to meet face to faco and candidly acknowledge, Tho roomer the American people nre bhronght tc perceive this fact, tho sooner will the natlon procecd to the cstablishment of some wiser arrangement in the place of that which lias proved a completa fallure, But tho higher power and successful bull- dozer of the Times was not satisfled with this half-way flop; heinsisted that the * un- philosophicnl jackass” should show his ngil- ity by turning clean over. So thenoxt thing ‘wa bavo from him is a furious bray nt Sena- tor Montox for opposing the measure. This is the way he put Morrton down: It can hardly be consldercd that thls reckless tirade of ridiculons and revointionary asecetions by the viofent political quack of Indinna has hurt the prospect of the adoption of the tripattite com- misslon scheme. The utterly worthlces character of the revolullonary hypothesia of the treason. plotters hias not been set forth In a way more offen alve to the good senso of tho American people than it was done on Monday by the rambling declama~ tlon of the Indlans member of tho consplracy, Ho also said that, if Monzox ** believed Mr. fIaves to have been clected under the forms of Iaw nnd according to law, he would not object to submitting his case to the adlest and most impartial Judpes of the law/" Oh, liol What, less than o weck ngo, was “a delusion and a cheat,” the product of ** knav. ery or ignorance, or both,” haa now become n schome for *‘submitting tho caso to the nblest and most impartinl Jndges of the law.” Thus enddenly have ignorant petti- foggers and conscienceloss knaves beon transformed into learned Judges, most righteousJudges, second Danters, Andnow it iadiscovered that nobody but thooffice-holdera and their attornoys are opposed to this most excollent dovice, which but yesterday was to sond ‘‘ Constitution, law, and principles of publio right to the dovil.” The conversion, fortunntely, s in the right direction, and if the *unphilosophical jackass" of the Chi- engo Z%imes were bulldozed a littlo more, and it tho chief bulldozer of that concern had n botter knack of forecasting public sontiment on issucs that arise, * independent journal. ism " might be spared a good many humiliat. ing errors, THE POLICE FOROB. Superintendont Hickey has put in the usual plea for which an onnual report af- fords tho opportunity. o wants an inoronse in the police force, and attompts to justify his claims Ly n comparison with other cities. Iio hns not made out n vory good case. In tho first placs, b ignores altogether tho fact that the City of Chicago has Iatoly been verging on what would bo called bankruptey in ordinary commorclal rolations. Inhibited from incrensing its bonded indebtednoss, and having call loans which it could not meet, it became necessary efthor to forfoit oll eredit for the future, or so reduco tho current oxponditures a9 {o save monoy cnough out of thae tax-levy to recover a con- ditionof solvency. The Council, clected by the people especially with n view to retrench- ment and reform, wisoly ndopted the latter courrs, If profligate cities like Now Yorl nud Brooldyn, which have sct the examplo of oxtravagauce and plunder for all munici. palities in the country, chooge to continne their reckless course, th))y should not be cited a9 models for Chicago. The work of rotrenchinont hos only boon falrly bogun in Clicago, and it would be ridienlous to abandon it aftor the atruggle that was neces- sary to securo its adoption, and beforo any of its boneficial offects havo beon folt. And to iucreaso the police force' now wonld Lo a practical abandonment of the whole scheme, for any roturn to tho old practices in ono branch would be speedily followed by a rolapso fu all tho others. Tho Superin. tendent Las also made & most arbitrary and recklers eatimnto of the comparative sizo of the cities in order to justify himsolf in his demand’ for an increaso in the force. Mo says Chicago haa £00,000 fnhabitants and 8¢, Louls 450,000 ; if this were the case, Chicago would’ still havo its proper proportion of police, for the forco in this city comprises sixty moro men in the ratlo of 617 to 417, or 1nore in proportion than 500,000 to 450, 002, Dut thero {s no warrant for catimating the population of cither city so high. The last census of any authority gives Chicago 420,000, and tho city can only be sald to have 500,000 by including tho suburbau towns mado up of the fami. lies of wen doing business in Ohiengo ; but thesa towns lio out of Buporintondent Hiceey's jurisdiction. As to the increased dutfes of the polico, put on thom by the reduction of tho number of streot, sldewalk, and sanitary inspectors, it may bo said that theso additional duties ought only to increaso tho officiency of the forcs, sinca they serve to fill up uscfully the time the policemen aro walkiug their Lents, and prevent themn from becoming carcless, slothful, and aimless Juneurs, 'Cheso now dutics have not made the post of policeman auy mwore irksome, and do not certainly requiro any increnso in the forcv, Suporintendent Ilicxry has now woro men than Superintondont Wisunuay had, and his effort should simply Lo to make them fully as cflicicnt in the work they have todo, The proporition upon which Congress must act fs a proposition to convey into effect & poaitive mandato of the Constitution. Can one Jlouss of Congrees convey into effect a mandate of the Cons atitutlion which is addressed to Congreas? 10 4t cnanut, then a disagreenent of the louso ls & fail. ure of Congress tu determino anything, to convey auything futo legal eflect,—Chicago Hulldoser. It may bo asked, in reply to this superticial sophistry, How can one Houso of Congross nullify a mandate of tho Constitution? A disagreement of tho two Iouses in regard to counting the Electoral vote of a State neces. sarily fails 8o provent tho count. When the Prosident of the Benate opens the certificate of the vote of tho Electors of & State, prop- erly atteated, that certificate Is of right ad. mitted. Oun its face it bears the authority of the National Counstitution, declaring tho ex- clusive authority of the Hiate to appoiut Electors, and of the authority of the Electors 1o vote, and of the Btate and of tho nation to lave that vote couuted. = The vote must be counted, ns a matter of course, un- lesa it e refected. No motion thet the vote of the Btata of Illinols, for example, be counted is in order or nesdod ; the Conatitu. tion declares that it shall de counted. The ouly motion that can be mads is that the vote bo rejected or not countod. 'That is an afirmutive proposition, and cannot be car- ried Ly tho voto of ons House. When the wotiou to reject -fails to receiva the concur. renco of both Houses, it of course must be counted. The right of the State to havae ita (R4 Electoral vote conntad is one of the righte mot only resorved 'but guirantéed by the National Conatitution to the" States, How doca it requirs the assent of Congros to do or enable what the Constitution commands? It objection be mado to the count of any Btato's voto, it ean only Lo on the gronnd that it in not a voto, but merely n pretondeq and frandolent vote, Ttis, then, for Con. gress to decide whether such objection {y well-fonnded,’and one Iouse alona cannot determine it. The Constitutlon oxplicitly commands that the votea returned in the manner and form prescribed shall by counted, ‘and one Tlouse canmot’ lawfully defy tho Constitution and prohibit the count. If the vote presented fo bo counteq is not s gonuine vote, Congress may so de. clde, but ono Ifouso of Congross cannot, The question is not, *“Shall tho voto be connted?” because the Constitution says it shall be. Tho question of counting or not counting can only arisa upon the objection that the vote is bogns, and it is tlien for Congress—not ono Ilouse alone—to deter. mine this objection. No intolligence higher than an uuphilosophical donkey will nasery the prepostorous proposition that the Elect. oral voto of Iilinols and Yows, Ohio and Pennsylvania, can bo thrown out and not countod by the objection of a partisan ma. Jority of tho House of Represontativea whon tho two Houses meet on tho 14th of Fobru. ary. If the constitutionsl right of the Btatos to have their Elcctoral vote counted can ba kicked ont of doors by one House, ag this partisan idiot claims, what is tho use of holding a Presidential eloction? Why not leave it to the Houss of Representatives, olected on side issucs two or three yenrs pre. viously? . OBITUARY. THC REV. DI JONN C. LORD, The telegraph, & day or two ago, brought the Intellizence of the death of the venerable Rev, Dr. Jony C. Lorp, for many years pastor of thy Central Presbyterfan Church at Buffalo, N. Y, Thedeceased was horn at Washington, N. II, Aug. 0, 1805, and was the son of the Rev. Jony Lonp and S8Anan Ciase, the latter a cousin o the late ChiefJustice Crasx. e was o graduate of Hamilton College, New York, and In 1823 he went to Canads, where he became the cdltor of a paper called the Canadian, In 1825 he went to Buffalo and entered a law oflce, and two years afterward was admitted to practice, On the 8th of December, 1828, he married Mant E, Jonysoy, daughter of Dr. Eneneznn Jonwsoy, afterwards first Mayor of Buffalo, In 1831 Lo commenced the study of theology in Aubum Bcmloary, and fu 1833 was Installed pastor of the Presbyterinu Church at Geneseo, N. Y. In 1835 he resigned his charge and went to Duffalo to occept tho pastorage of n newly-formed church oa Pearl strect. In the years 1850 and 1852 a now church was creeted under the name of the Central Presbyteriau Church, of which he took charge and where he remalned until 1873, when he resigned on sccount of the infirme ities of age. He wus o man of richly-endowed mind, generous culture, and ardént picty. Tro voluines ol his lectures have been published In book-form, the frst, * Lectures to Youny Men," and tho second, * Lectures on the I'rog. ress of Clvillzation aud Government and Other Subjects.” Tho decensed has three brothen living: Tho Ilon. 8corr Lonb, of New York; the Rev. Dr. Wintiax Lo, of Cooperstown, N. Y.; and the Rev. Craupivs B. Lony, of Knoxville, Tean. WILDUR A, FULLER. Thie Belvidero Northwestern hins the followlng: A telegran was received on last Baturdsy from Gen. FuLrr, Denver, Col:, announclng §- tho death of his ouly son, WiLnur A. FuLLer While the nows was not cntirely unexpected, as the deceased had been sufferlog from cone f sumption for some time, yet it was rccelved with pain and sorrow, for Witt, Forrzn stood high in the esteem snd regard of the people of this community., Asa boy he vndearcd him- self to nll his acquaintances and friends, and as ho grew older theso ties wero ripened and strengtheoed. In his collegiato course at Yale Collcge, whero be graduated at an early age, ho won high bonors in bis class, and then life scemed to be fall of most pleasant promiscs About this tlmo the terrfblo disease consump tlon marked him ns. its victim. The greater part of the timo since tho close of his college courso has been spent In Callifornfa and Col orudo, in the hope that a change of wimate might help him, but no permanent improre ment followed the change. Everytbing tbat kint and loving heatts could sug- et or thut wealth could procure was furnish ed, but oll fn valo. The doceased was 22 year old and an only son, his two brothers huving dled several years since. The remains were brought to this place by Gen. FuLier, who ar rived on the night train laat Tuesday night. The funeral services wero held at the resfdence of Gen, Foruer last Wednesday afternoon at 2:3 o'clock, the funcral scrmon belng preached by the Ttev. T, C. Easton.” ——————— Hard times tell on newspapers as well a3 o5 a1l other classes of business. In Toledo therel un Evening Blade and Morning Commerclal, bott Republican and both well conducted papers; but cost ot publication cuts close upon rocelpts: ‘The proprictors have devised a sort of poolioz Fg! schieme, not to divido profits, but to reduce o1 penses. ‘They uro unow both published in the sume office, aud printed on_the same press, aod uas the samo wmachinery, thus cconomizing o rent, and lighting, and [u severnl other respects It 1s found that conalderablo type-setting canbe saved, especiully In commercial and market re- ports ond Assoclated Preas news; olso {na good ™ deal of lucal reporting. Ilow much per cent of expensc it s expected to savo {8 not atated, bub 1t must amount to considerable, If this expert: - ment succeeds, it 4 lkely to be tried in other cities of tho second and third class, The New York Graphic remarks; There ars too uany newspapert I the countrs; = (o New York City alonu could do without ut lust 199 of the morming vapers and three of the cvening Jouruals, The uwspaper buslness lisa becn orcr done. Already the \Vashington CAroniels Is in tbe hands of ths ‘Sheriff, snd suspensions and siop: puges of newapapers will be {1 order during tut coming year, ‘I'iosw which will be sble o huld oub will hava thelr roward upon the revival of busincs, £d tho jousnalem of the countey will bo Luproy Ly thoe ellinination of the weak, worthlces, ssd bankrapt cone s, ‘There was somo amusing testimony taken by the Loulstana Senatorial Committce, aod occasfonully the laugh cume fn agalnst 86 TRopublicans, ‘There were a fow negrovs who were origiual Demoerats,—blacks who hud beed body-servants of fodulgent masters. Thls «as0 for example: A negro who testified to baving voted the Demd: cratic tickel In Ouschita was seked by Beustd Qarxeuy how he coma L change from the Repub licana 1o the Democrats. 1l replied: ** Well, nhl my old massr was sn old Jacksox Democrat, “x‘ld was hla body-seryant. {would always bave voic) 1o Dymoczatic teket, bub the niggers wouldn't ket me, This tlwe 1 had s chance, lmllvul:dlb:' ticket." 1o wasthen osked if ho thought It W tue proper thiog for bim to do 1o lenve the w;{ thathad achioved hle emancipation—if he thous! he woold furc as well in the hands of tiw Democ! ds of the Itepublicuns. e swered, **Idon't kaow abuat that. I think w all inetruments in the hands of tho Loun. 1 gucst thie Loun ralsed up ol' Masar Davis to be on lustr weul, just 83 much as ho did Masar Lixcus.' TH uext question put to ths philosophor wi you auy other reason for Juinkig with t| racyr'snd be snswerod: ‘*iwell, causo tbe gemm'n.' Mo was then saked if he wesn the ll?ubllcpnl ‘wers unot govtlemen, swered: **Well, 1don't allow "r’l:m" no but them whut we got In oar pa ateal.! ——— The way Mirzs Kxuox snd T.J, Ticssh who represent the claasic precinuts of Bridg® port Iu the General Assambly, were detached from Ha1ses and attached o Judgu,Davia¥ thus explained by one who profcsses to b3 secn the dispatch, or o copy of the orjginal: B¢ says tliat the Bridgeport byes got their *Insd up” to the bsugriug pojnt, and the leaders #ob those two gentlemen s telegram which abous as follows: *The Deimocrats of Bride®