Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1877, Page 4

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S0 Varlety enters ., CHICAGO COMMANDERY XO. 19, K. T.—Atten: tlon, Sir Knightal” You are hereby notified ta mret at % the'Asylum, eyufpped only With unifarm cost and A fatigue unday, Feb. 1 77, AL 9:30 &, DL, for ) the purpose of attending dlving service st Free Baptist +J Church, corer of Toumis aud Juckeon-uta., Sir Knights of other conimanderie are cotrteousy Inyiled to meet with . JOIN 11, BANBORN, Em, Com. JA corder, BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1877, Groenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 913, + " 1s out of tho woods, Ho isgo nearly out " - that thore is but small probability of his + moeting any beargon tho remaiuder of the ' way. Our Democratic friends must there- . fore excuso usif we shont and make a noise, . . turnsome hand-springs, stand on our head, * crow like n cock, knock over the chairs, up- %+ set the table, throw our bat into tho air and ' kick it liko a foot-ball as it comes down, .. and perform divers and sundry other nndig- . nifigd and eoxtravagant acts. It can't be ., belped, for the long ogony is 50 nearly over i¢ that one need not wait any longer before < ; mnking rowme outward manifestations of in- 5 . ward joy. é 3Mr. HEWITT Wl I‘rn]-mrlly ask the'privilege . of ;nppearing before the Sonate Committee " on Privileges and Elections in order to make o statement regarding the Oregon affair, He will nsseverate his entire iguorance of nuy + < schieme for the purchase of a Republican . Elector, though he will-not deny that “it wns intended to arrange o case - that would nocessitate going behind the ' Governor's certiticate, anyd in this wny let down the bars for Florida and Louisinua. Ho far tho transiated tolegrams and other ~** developments confirm Alr. Hewrrr's state- vt went that ho was omitted from the privy conncils wheroat the purchnso plan was ma- tured ; Tioen, Peuron, Keity, aud Par- , mrox seem to have managed that little matter. " 'I'he debate on tho Pacific Railrond bills »< wag resumed in the Senato yeaterday, and * " 3r. Brare, who wes absont at the time the vote was taken on Mr, Boorn's amendment . to require the annual payment of $740,000 + . Inaddition to the other payments required ' under the origival scts, took Lis stand smong the friends of the Government, Ho advocated tho ostablishment of n . sinking fuud that would cancel the . debt of tho Companies by the year :i» 1905, aud showed that unless this were done . :they would owe tho United Btates nenrly $150,000,000, besides the #044,000,000 duo . the flestimortgngo bondholders, making LY <+ total indebteduess of $110,000 per mile on . the Pacifio Railroadn. Thero are other ab- rontecs whose specclies and votes will be watched for with interest ponding debate and action on tho bills now befors the Sens * ote, 1 & Mr Inwiy, who represents tho Union, *." Juckson, and Williamson District in the < House of Ieprosentatives of Ilimois, has < submitted n bill to amend the Rovenue -4 Inw Bo ns to do awny with the publica. *. = tion of delinguent tax.lists, nnd to substitute . , B general notice without the lists. Weare informed that tho passage of this law will + : #ave to this city and county some $80,000 a o year for ndvertiscments, which sum s now 5 literslly wasted, Lesldes being o means of * - corruption, It will elso save from $15,000 "2 10 §20,800 » year for extra clorlcal labor and + " for books, and will nvoid the countless errors *" nnd losses of revenue resulting from the ¢+ nistaken in copying and printing. If to this snn bo added the expenses for like work in ~ . tho other 101 counties of this Btate, the pub. He will understand how much mouey is thus uselessly wasted without the least benefit or ~' service, ‘That sum is added to the general *. ftaxation, 'The publication of the delinquent “ + tax-list in this county is & most costly abuse, ‘> No ono ever reads it, and it serves no pur. . poso except to squander that much woney, . dIr, InwiN desorves the thanks of the publio . for his bill, and it is to bo hoped ke will pross it successfully to its enactment, The Arbitration 'Tribunal yesterday de. cided, by o voto of 8 to 7, not to Lear testl- =" wony &s to the acts of the Returning Board _of Louisiann. This decision is in accord. , anco with the one made In tho Florida cgse last week. The Court could render no other decision. The Constitution peremptorily " gives the exclusive power of sppolnting Llectors {o the States, and the Stata law wust govern all questions of appointment. I'his decision narrows the question to the eligibility of tha Electors. Two - of tho Louisiana Electors who voted for Haxes wero jueligiblo when elected. They . then resigned their Federal Jofices aid re- signed as Electors, and wore reappointed to £l their own vacaucies, The question is, “whether they, being incligible, were over , - eleoted, and whetber resigning as Electors J' - hed the cffect of creating vacancies which . . wight be filled by tho other members of the + * Electoral College. Tuthe decision of this . @ last point the Court will practically decide ', thecase of Oregon,, The end draws near. {i~ There are buttLirteen working days lett to L Congress, and thero are twelve general ap~ %y, propriation bills to be scted on, besldes a + mass of other important legisiation, Untit * the Presidential question is out of the way, but Little busingss can bo done. = The Chicago produce markets were less . Betive yesterdoy and “irregular, Mess pork closed 100 higher, at §15.25@15.50 cash and +816.80@15.82} for March. Lard closed 2)o 2% per, 00 1ba bighes, 8t §10.45 cashi and §10.47) THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1877—TWELVE PAGES. for March, Ments closed firmer, at 5jo for loose shonlders, 8c for short-ribs, and 8jc for short-clears, Highwines were steady, nt $1.05@1.05} per gallon. Flour was in light demand and firm, Wheat closed e lower, at 2170} cash and $1.81} for March: Comn cloged steady, at 4240 for Mnrch and 460 for May. Oata closed dull, at 850 for March, aud 37]¢ for May. Rye was tame, nt Gde. Barley closed easior but steady, nt 5a@553e for March, Ioga were in light supply, and sold 100 higher, at $5,50@6.80, Cattlo were fairly active and steady, with sales at $2.50 @5.90. Sheop wore in domand, at $3.000 G374 for inferfor to extra. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $105.76 in green- backs at the close. o —— A report comes up from Springfleld that the Governor contemplates nppointing as tho now Hoard of Rallroad and Ware- house Commissionera Ropent T, Lavcory, of Chicago, Wirttax M. Saurm, of McLenn, and Jonx I, Opzrey, of Oairo. This wonld be a very acceptable Commission. The ap- pointment of Mr. Ropent T, Lincorx, son of tho ex-President, will undonbtedly pleaso the people of Chicago a8 well as of tho whole Btate. Ho Is n good lawyer, a man of grent firmness of purpose, clear and fair in his judgment, and entirely freo from nll en- tanglements, He conld devide and act justly snd fairly between tho Grangers, tho rail. roads, and the grain-denlers—both buyors ond gellors, The other two gentlemen areas eapable and suitable as any names tho Gov ernor could probably select, As the Post remarks, members of this Bo: “have a hard road to travel and got far more kicks than compliments, Tt is a thankless task to aet as coustant arbitrators bLetween intorests ‘whose warfare is perpetual, even though it is unnecessary.” e— Personal explauations aund disclaimers in connection with the Oregon infamy ars now in order. Sonator Kxuuy loads off witha statement, which was yesterday furnished to the Associnted Pross and appears among our dispatches this morning, in which he avails Llitself of the only defense possible under tho circumstances. He nasorts that he had no knowledge of the key to tha cipher used by Patnick in his dispatches to Ttroxw, and that whenho indorsed the telogram of Nov. 28, requiring a deposit of 10,000 with which to purchaso a Republican Elector to sct with Croxi, he had no kunowledge or suspiclon that any such stap was contemplated or men- tioned in'the dispatch. ' Unfortunately for Bonator Krrry, his statement is not borne ont by collateral circumstances, not to apeak of the extrome improbability that he wonld indorse a’dispatch whose contonts Le was ignorant of. Tho same cipherwas used in numerous dispatches which bear the signa- ture of ** Kerux" hlone, and in numerons dispatches addrossed to * The Hon, Jases K. Kruyx " alone, If, as cloarly nppears by at lonst oncof the translations, Patnick was obsent from Portland at the time Krrry re- coived the cipher messago from Tiupey, it will inevitably bo inferred that the Oregon Senator must have possessed tho key to tho cipher, and hience must have known all nbont the dispatch of whoso contents he now pro. feuses ignorauce, ‘Fhere is room and neces- nity for further explanation and proof before Mr, Kevry can clear hin skirts of the Orogon infamy. THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION BETTLED. The Electornl Commisslon lost evening finished the consideration of the Louisiana case, and by a voto of 8 to 7 decided that tha eight Electornl votes of that State shall bo cast for Haxzdand Wurerxn, This decision practically sottles the whole question of the Presidency in favor of Gov. Hares, as it lenves almoat no room for doubt that the Oregon caso of disputed eligibility will be decided fn favor of the Ropublican Elector, and in accordance alike with justico and oquity, honor and decency, and the unques- tioned will ‘of the people of that Stato. 'T'he Eleotoral Tribunal was created for the purpose of dociding who shall be the noxt President and Vice-Prosident of the United States, with the wolemn pledgo nnd agrec. ment of both political parties to accept such decision as tinal and irrevocable. If, gs now appears sottled and cortain, Gov. TiLoex hins lost and Gov. Harzs has won, nothing re- maoius for the defeated aspiraut to the Presi. dential office bnt to abide by tho result with the best possiblo grace, Having cousented to rest his. case with the Board of Arbitrators sppolnted with Lis assent and Ly the votes of Lis party ropresent. atives in Congress, without whoso co.opern- tlon the Compromise Plan could uot have been ndopted, Mr. ‘Tiozy, though smarting under the disappointment, must submit to the verdiot, g ‘There 18 overy reason to beliove that wuch will Lo the resnlt, and that Presidont Hayes and Vice-President Wazerxs will be lu- sugurated peacefully and without opposition on the Ath of next month, and serve thelr respoctive termy of office without lot or hindrance from the Democratic party, Mr, Hegwirr, tho Ohalrman of the National Domocratic Committes, * the personal represontative of Gov. Tioen on the floor of tho Houss, who wes n member of the Joint Commwmitteo that framed the Electoral bill, and who enrnestly advocated ita passoge, Inst ovening stated that thero would be 1o atteinpt by the Democrata—no organized attempt os o party, he is presumed to have meant--to delay or dofeat the count of the Electoral votes; and that the Demo- crats, although fecling that thoy wera entitled to tho Presldency, had agreed to accept the arbitration, aud intended to abido Dy tho result, Tho House, after the Joint Session to-day, will adjourn until Monday, ag was the procedure in councction with the Florida decision, and after the two houry of debate allowed by tho Electoral law will unite with tho Benate in joint convention and count the vote of Louislana for Hares and Warrren, Buch is tho view entertained by Mr. Hewirr, and such, wa believe, i the sentiment of the more conservative and moderato element of the Democraoy in the House and Bonate,~an element sufficiontly numerous and influential to prevent the execution of any plaus of ob- struction and delay that the partisan ex- tremists may attempt. The report of the Electoral Comminsion will be sigued by tho eight ncmbers counsti. tating the wsjority,—Justices Braprxy, Mirxs, afid SrnoNg, Benators Epmowps, Monzoy, and FRELINGRUYSRN, and Reprosent. otives Hoar ond (Garrixep,~—and subngtted to the Joint Convention ; sud there caubono minority report from the seven dissenting members, +the law providing for no such roport. Objections will of course be made by the Democrats when the ueport is presented in the Joiut Convention, and the twoHouses will thengeparate for deliate. The House will postpone its debate uatil Mon- day, and on that day the Joint Convession will reassemble and count the von N Louisiana. ‘The case of Oregou will be the next one reached under the head of tho Btates to be referrod to the Tribunal for decision, and it will be secn that the Iangungoe of the report upon the question of ineligibility in the Louislann casa clearly foreshadows the re- sult ns to Oregon—the connting of her threa votes for Havzs and WaEELER, And the declaration of their clection of President and Vice.President of the United States, And the people will say Amen! THE LOUISIANA OASE BTATED. The argument that has been made beforo the Hoard of Arbitration on the Lonisiana caso would make a pretty large volume, but we can state the gist of the case inafew words. Thers are fifly-nine counties, or par- ishes ns they aro called in Loulsiana. Tho Prosidential election was held with tolerabla fairness in ifty-four of tho fifty-nine parish- es; butin fivo every species of fraud, vio- lence, and villainy was practiced by the ‘White-Liners to wipe out thoe strong Repnb- lican maforities therein, and make them re. {urn heavy majorities for Tizoex, - For the purpose of easy comparison, wa place side by side the resnlt of tho elections of 1874 and 1870, The former eclection was well contested on both sides, but tho White- Liners did not resort to bulldozing and as- sassination to influence . the Republican voters 3 . Ouachita Republieanmajorty Hero was a Ropublican majority of Eon;ly 4,000 utterly wiped out, and a Confelorato majority of 4,688 substituted therefor, mak. ing o change in the result of 8,669, The Tupey majority in the whole State is claimed to be 6,649, Itis thus seen that it there had been a fair election held in these fivo parishes, the majority for Hates would bave exceeded 2,000 in the State. The rogis- tered vote in the five parishes showed about 10,000 Republicans to 5,000 Confederates; but by bulldozing and murder tho 5,000 Con- foderates succoeded in beating 10,000 Re- publican votes and returning for themselvea the comfortable majority of 4,688 for Tiz. DEN! ‘When these monstrous roturns eame before the State Riturning Board it called for testi- mony as to the degree of intimidation, frand, and assassmation that had been practiced, and, after hearing and reading the evidence of severnl thousand witnesses, the Board procecded to purge the retnrns by throwing out the votes cast in the bulldozed procincts, ag tho le;wa of Louisiann mado it their sworn duty to <o, and with this result: BOARL'S | cONPED'S Parish. East Ilaton Rou, East Feliclan, West Fellela Muorhousy By the Confede rate bogus roturns Tinoex had 4,688 majority. By the report of the Returning Board, atier the frauds had becn eliminatod as far aa practicable, Hayes had 1,/00 oajority. These oorrections wiped out 6,084 of the falser and protended TiLoex mojorities in the Stat e, 2 A fow correctipns «if notorious frands in some othor parishes left a majority of the logal votes for Haves jtnd Wizzren. What the Democrats who argnod bafore the Arbi- tration Board demand«xl was that the Tribu- nal should set aside the’ canvass made by the State Roturning Board, and gather up the onst-out, fraudulent, rmd bulldozed votes, and count them for Tmpmn! Thisnma. Jority of the Tribunal :have decided would be unlawful and wunco nstitutional, and ean- not be done without ufterly disregarding the rights of the Btate, B icause thoy refused to tramplo upon the laws and rights of Loulsi- s, they nre denouncc d and vilified by the rockloss and desperaclo class of partisans aud office-seekors. Let them howl, who cares! . THE DEMOCRAII0 MADMEN, It is vory avident that a ukase has beon ssued by Mr. TiLoEN, o.tdering the principal newspapers under his cmtrol to prepare the ‘way for a repudistion of the Presidential Commmission's declsion in case it shall be ad. ~verda to his claimg, The cue is taken from the New York Sun, whiclr is understood to be * {napired,” and which, though not op- posing the Arbitration Iaw bafore its passago, has harped upon its unconstil.utionality every day since the Commisaion. , was organized. The policy of the Sun is t»> onter a general plon to the jurisdiction of tk:o Commission, and upou this may bo based. .cither guo war- ranto proceedings or an etfozt to nullify the detision by the separate action of the House of Represcntatives, 'The ‘Demiocratic nows. papers throughout the courdry ,subject to AMr, TirpeN's dictation have chasen to advise the polioy of general resistance, the .quo wurranto proceeding ovidently be'mg dweld In re- serve us n final resort in oise m'awful and violent resistauce shall . not . find suf. ficlent popular sympatlly to' warrant pushing it to extremes. Tho utterances of the*l1LDEN organs leave mo doubt that au effort is lo be made to carry out 1his infa- mous programme, ‘The Clu sinnati Fa'quirer, for instance, saya **it is t.2e immediate and imperstive duty of the I)emocrats on the Comuission to resign their places,;’ Lt alio reiterates the recommendation that objection be made to the vote of every Elector, and that such other opportun’iies for delsy as the bill nffords uhall be imp roved to prevent o finsl decision beforo the 4th of Mandh, in which event there will be a vacancy.in both the offices of President and Vice-Preal. dent, and a new eloction must bo called The same journal fnsists tliat *the oconduct of the mafority of the Tribumal has given ample reason why it should be brokem up,” and that ‘it is the right and duty of Con. gress to break up the Cownmisslon.” Mr. Heypzrioxa' organ, the Indianapolis Sentitnel, thinks that becauss ** Democrats, in favorfug the bill providing for the creation af the Commission, did mot ooutemplate such o humiliating ' co:ntingenoy s has arisen In its deliberations and declsions,” therefors ‘“we sée no just reason why they should give tho Commission further consid. eration.” That is 83 much as to say that the Domgerats merely enterad into the compact fo. arbitration with the mental reservatiop that, {2 it should lead to apything but the success of thelr candidate, they would not be bound by it. They should kave 5o stated it in thebond. 'The Qhicago Y'imes, though & little slower, bas also whooled into line. It contented itself=for some vays with black- guarding and bullying Jus fco Baipeey, but yesterday it said that ** the: declsions of tho Commissipn, whatever they sre; have no constitutional validity ”; that these de- cusions can ouly be rendered legal - bther law of the land which has been passed tereat thereon at matarity, the seml-annnal pay- ‘ments shall be Increased ta anch sum an whl besnf- ficlent for that purpose. 1le also moved to strike out the 81th sectlon of the bili reported by the Com- mittes on Rallroads, which provides thatesch of sald Companfes ahall be entitled at any timo to an- ticipato any or all of the semi-annnal payments by payment to the Government of the then prerent valoe of such semi-annual payments discounted at the rate of G per cent per annum: but the snm so pald shall not be less than $1,000,000 st any one time, Hlere waspresonted the direct issus whether Congresn shonld give thess Companies a re- leaso of all their dobts, or whether they shonld be compelled to pay that debt, and on this amendment the vote stood; and binding by tho concurrent in- dorsement of the two Houses of Congress, notwithstanding the law reqnires the concurrent motion of tha two Houses to refect; and, finally, it appeals to the Demo. crats in Congress, ‘‘for tha credit of the country, for tha sake of showing that«the American Congress is not composed in tho major part of wholly irreclnimable idiols, to stop i1t,” and, in order * to avoid the greatest ealamity that conld befall a civilized nation, to break up the Boaprey Commission.” Theso citations sufficlently’ indicate the spirit and purposo of Mr. TiLDEN's organs, Itisnot worth whilo to argue a point of constitationality with people who do not | ayeom, Y k. proposo to resort to constitutional means | Anthony, Tlereford, Morrill, fo ostablish thelr claim, but desio | DOJNG Jobnaay | ogeny, thelr faction in Congress to bresk’| Boutwell, McCree adicfgh, down by violent rosistance [a Court S},’,’}f{fi‘;g‘fl")'}":‘,’:,“.m' “:,':fi"_'u that has been established by the two | Cockrell, Houses of Congroas in the regular and lawfal | popyom, m,,,,":f"‘ Mitchell,s legialative manner. The iden that the Dem- | Irnce, Dorsoy, Norwaod, ocratie Honso may refuso to be bound by the | Famgron (PAJ Hambne fanience decision of tho Commission, when the law 'éf:‘}f," %:Hn{;n '{“s:llt”r_a” requires the concurrent notlon of both | Haves, Logan, " i Houses to nullify thom, is simply revolu. tionary, It may as well be held that a single Houso by scparate action can repeal any Of tha 20 votes in the negalive, the car- pot-bnggera from Arkansas, South Catolina, Alabams, and Lonisiana farnished & ; Oregon furnished 2, Colorndn 1, Tennessea 1, Geor- gin 1, Nebraska 1, Mississippl 1, Pennsylva- nis, Maryland, Conneaticut, New Hampshire, Masaachuseits, Maine, and New York 1 each, and the twentloth vote was furnished by IIli nois, There were over thirty Senators ab- sent, and it may be that the lobby may yot rally to have this vote reconsidered, and have Congress relense the wholo debt to the Com- panies for a nominal consideration. We submit this vote to the publie to show Low strong these Companies are in Congress, and especially in the Benate, Here wore no less than twenty Senators on a direct vote who racorded their names in opposition to com- pellingthese Companies to beginnow andpay out of their enormous profits $750,000 ayear each, as a sinking fund to pay theirindebted. noss to the Government, on which indabted- ness thoy are now in defaunlt on interest alone to the amount of 827,000,000, 'Thera is no doubt as to the significanco of this vote, and tho public can judge how their interests aro always imperiled on any ques. tion of legislation where large and wealthy corportitions are concerned. Tho history of this subsidy to these ronds, and the inabilily of Congress to pass any law compelling them to pay even the inter- est on their liabilitics, should be & warning agalust any further subsidies, such as is provided in the bill granting o loan of tho national credit to a hundred millivns and more to Tox Scorr's Texas Pacifio Railways. That bill 18 pending in hopeful oxpeotation of being made o law in the last hours of an expiring session, and by the votes of mom- bers whoso successors have already been chosen, Dy the concurrent action of the two Housea. The House would have the same right to re- sist of ita own motion the decisions of any other Conrt that has been establishdd by Congress to carry out the provisions of the Constitution and laws. It may as well bo claimed that the decision of every United Btates Court in overy other controversy, public and private, may be objeoted to in Congress, and that, nnless such decision be sustained by the concurrent aclion of the two Houses, then it would be null and void. This is nbsurd, yet it is all that reaisting Democrats sdvance as their warrant for the propoacd resistance, There is, consequently, no good in nrguing with people who resort to the highwayman's tactics and say to the country, **Your Presidency or your life.” This is what the proposed revolutienary re. sistance moans. It would be the same if it cmanated from some of the desperate poli. ticlans of tho Republican party in case the drift of tho Commission’s decisions had been against the interests of Mr. Hayxs. We sus- pect that thero wonld have been some snch talk on the Republican side in that case, but wa ghould have denounced it then na wo do now. It would have been as infamous in Republicaus asit is in Democrats, The Com- mission is tho creation of a joint acquics- conce of both parties to secure a penceful solutjon of the ugliest controversy that has over prosented itsolf, All men aro bound by it.. The Democratas who are now desirons of repudinting tho contrnct’ suggest mno poaceable pubstitnte. Thore can be no peaceablo substitute. Resistance now means civil strifo. It it was not likely, before the sgreement to arbitrate, that the Ropublicans ‘would submit to. n rovolationary assumption Ly tho House cabal of the sathority to set up o President, it is still less likely when the verdict of n Tribunal of Arbitration shall bo violently repudiated. Doy Purr, tho ‘Washington represcntativo of the Cincinnati ZJinguirer, is franker aud more outspoken than some of his Democratic associates who advocate resistance. Ho kuows it means war, but ho says that armed resistance, threatening copital and property, is tho way to bring the Ropublicans to terms, and tiat *‘a .clvil war may destroy a few, but leave the many with n sonse of safety in possession of rights dearer to ns than lifa." Of courso revolution can only be resisted by cocrclon, and war only opposed by war, If Ar, Tr. DEN, or his newspaper orgaus, or his manag- ing politicians, believe they will find any popular sympathy in bringing such a calam. ity on the country, they will discover their orror and meet a deserved punishment about the same timo. THE EASTERN SITUATION, The news from the East, notwithstanding the allogod declaration of the Ozar that war is needless, seems to indicate beyond the possibility of donbt that Rtussin is preparing for her ondvance movoment sgainst the ‘Turka withont waiting for a reply from tho other Powers to the rocent circular of Gonr. sonaxore, which was sont shortly after the withdrawal of the mombers of the Confer. onca from Constantinople, If tho nowa can be credited, there is no resson why Russia should wait any longer upon fho pleasure of tho other Powers, since the Triplo~Alliance ‘it atill frm, and has not beon weakened by the withdrawal of Austria, as it wos expected would be the case. There has been no doubt about the position of Gormany, for BisMarox has publicly proclaimed the alliance with Russin and tho impossibility that anything can disturb it. Tho other member of the alliance, Ausiria, has nmow beon’ secured by the Russisn abhndonmont of Ser- via, which romoves tho great cause of rest- lossness and discontent among tho Slavs of Hungary, These three great Powers acting in hoarty co-operation—Austrin for tho sake of pequiring the Western Turkish provinces, Germany for tho sake of chockmating o Franco-Russian alliance, aud Russia, for the sake of punishing the Turks, getting posses~ alou of the tarritory morth of the Balkans and on outlet to the Meditorhnean—may safely defy all the rest of Europae to inter. fere with their programme. The only possi- bility of protest, in fagt, would come from Eugland, wero Russia to ‘develop any policy looking to the occupation of Coustantinople, —n consummatlon, however, which the Czar bas ofcially disclaimed in his interviow with tho English Minster at 8t Petersburg, All this preliminary work has direct refer- ence to the ndvance of the Russian army, and facilitates thnt advance, ‘The force now con- centrated ot Kisheneff or Kishnew, uear the Roumanian borders, is a powerldl ono, num- bering dbout' 200,000 mon and 720 guns, It is awply provided with war aterial of every deacription, s abundantly supplied with horses, and has transportation wo completa in the wayof pontaon bridges that the whole army can be moved over the Danube ina day, 'The progress of tho army through Moldavia and Wallachia has already been as- sured by n convention between Russiaand Roumania, which permits the pnssage of Russian troops through her torritory and does not grant the Tarks the same priviloge. Had Austria not remained in the Triple Allinnce, Russin's course must then have been south, where it would have met ita first obstacle in the passsge of the Danube at ils most difficult points, where access to it is almost impossible, owing to the marshiness of the shores, and where the Turkish fortresazs are the strong. eat, the crossing points being only {n the localities of these defenses. Haviug crossed the Danube, a still greater obstacle would bave confronted them, for the Balkans must bo crossed, and they are only masiable at seven points strongly guarded by the Tnrks, where a small force might seriously delay, if not prevent, the passsge of a powerful arny. The Austrian sgresment to the Ruaslan pol. loy, however, leaves Rusais free to cross the Danube st its most practicable points on the western frontier of Wallachis, and then, sweeping down through Bervis, turn the Balkans, and come face to face with the Turkish forces. There is but one cause of delsy to Russis, and that e the season. When the frost cores out of the ground and the roads are passable, it will be in order to hear of wars sud yumors of wars in Earope, and, when this war comes, it will bo a war sgains} tha .whole Turkish encampment in Europe, snd a war between two of the most powerful armies in the world. The Turks can put as many active txoops in the field as the Rus- sians, and as well if not better nrmed, but they have not the population to fall back upon that Russia has. Notwithstanding the admirablo fighting gualities of the Turks, it can oaly be a question of time—and of THE PACIFIC RAILROAD DEBTS, ‘Tho Houso of Representatives at tho last neasion passed a bill prepared Ly Judge Law- RENCE, of Ohio, compelling the Union and the Central Pacific Raflroad Companles to make some provision for the future payment of their obligations, interest and principal, to the Govornment. The Rallroad Companies Lave been prosent at Washington daring this wesaion for a doublo purposs, that of defeat- ing the legislation proposed by tho House, and rlso to get thyongh'nlaw of their own by which they can practically escape paying any portion of their debt to the Government. The Senate Committeo on the Judiciary has a bill, the Pacifie Nailrond Committee has a bill, and there are soveral Bonators who havo bills, These ave all, oxcept that reported from the Judiclary Committee, in tho inter. est of the Railroad Compaules. These bills provide for the payment by ihe Compa. nies to the Government of 8750,000 an- nually for thirty-six years in full pay. ment of all obligations to the Gov. ernmeut. Senator Doors has explained that this provision on one hypothesis re. quired an agarogate payment by the Compn. nles to the Government of £0,000,000, and on another of 10,067,000, aud this was to discharge $74,000,000 now due and $50,. 000,000 which will accrue in tho moantime. ‘I'he presont condition of the ncconnt of thesa roads with the Government stands ¢ Princi. pal, $64,000,000; intorest paid by the Gov- ernment and due by the Companioes, $27,014,- 450, This indebtedness s jucrensing at the rate of $2,000,000 a ycar, and the bLonds have to run until 1891 to 1900, 'This does not includo nny interest or the interest paid and to be paid by the United Btates. Theso same Companiea are now earning $12,000,000 a year protit, The Central Paciflo Company hasgridironedCalifornia with branchrailroads, includivg 400 miles of the Bouthern Pacifio Railroad, all out of the profita of the railroad built with the Government bonds. Itisa mere queation whether Congress shsll now make a contract with these Qompanies to re. leage thém from all further liability, or shall compel them to provide for paying their debt, principal and interest, out of their earnings. That this is the question, and the ouly one involved, is well understood in Congress and by the Companles. The lssue is plain and distinct, and therefors Senator. Boors moved an amendment to one of the Companies’ bills offering $750,000 a year, that this sum shall be in addition to and not in lieu of all other payments required Xrow the Companies under the original sots; a0, that— Tue Central Pacific snd Union Paciic Companfies aball cach pay Into tha Treasury of the United States $750,000, In equal semi-anncal lnstaliments, on the drat day of April and October in each year, commencing un the st of October, 1877, In Iawtul woney, uotil sald sums, with jnterest theroon a2 hercivafter provided, shall be suticlent, when sdded to othersums to the credit of the mnking fund, to pay of sud exfinguleh nx Government boodssdvanced, with G per cent Interest thercon, from their respective dates up 10 the date when they are 8o pald and extinguishied. Iutercat onall sama placed to the credit of sald slpking fand shall be credited and sdded thereto vemi-angully A = rate of 6 per cont per annaw. Provided, bow aiort tiiia' l” <1t h“'n soon, theso thit If the foregotug provision sball prove insum. | WUst be overcome by Rusmis. The cleut to extingulah the Government bouds and lo- dispatch printed this worning, jthat the Portland ** can mannge with 34,000 at pres- Elector. These dispatchés are only corrob. Las no money, no influence, no authority, private ‘hoira, in this Oregon infamy so far a8 he has had ‘Wherover Peuron’s name occurs in a dispatch snubstitute TrLorN's, and tha true inwardness of tho dispatch fs at onco revenled and the proposed to buy an Electoral vote, it was Tit. Jn Tipex's hands, to imposo the shome nnd Czar thinkd war s needlesa because the arkish Premior liaa been deposed, may be anthoritative or it may not. Tho declara- tion, howaver, does not taily with the astion of Russia, aud, oven if it be true, does not represent the drift of the feeling of tho Russian peopls, nor wonld it serve to coun- ternot tho overwhelming influenco of the Pan-Blavonio socicties of Russia. TEE REAL AUTHOR OF THE OREGON INFAXY. consequence of changes of plan which tlhey had assumed the responsitility of make ing, it wounld cost the taxpay- ers $687,432.41 more to flnish it! Two years ago they reported to the General Assem- Dbly that they would finish the structure with the uncxpended balance of the threeand a half milllons; but now, having squandered all tho money, they want three-quarters of a million morel In the conrsc uf his Investigations In the State-Hlouse bLusincss, our reporter ran across the contractor, RiciARDSON, Who has been playing the part of tonnccting-link between the Statc-Housa and Penitentlary Board. A little farther probing brought to light the re. markable case of the Cammissioners permitilog him to overdraw his account 841,000 on his labor bills. The money was in thelr hands before Le could get it, and they pald it over to him for the stons that ke cut, withont first deducting whag heowed the Board for use of tho prison labor| This struck Tra TnIBUNE 8s 8 most astonishing and extraordinary proceeding, and it has boen waiting patiently for a satisfactory cxplanatfon thereof. The Post will concede, of course, that ifnona {s made, the mombers of the prescut Board should be ** bouuced." e —e e The Washington reporter of the New York Tribune scnds this [diotie story to that paper: ‘When tha Electaral bill was drawn up, and whea 1t was under discuraion in both Houses of Con. reds, the Democrats expected that Judge Davis wonld be elected by the other four Judges as the fifteenth man of the Commislon; and on.acconnt of their faith In his appointment 'aud thelr beltef that bis swards would be in their fayor, they s I At the ast moment and frist be- ore the Lill was passed tlioy aay Secretary Ciiaxne iR and President (InaxT senta mesvage to Gen, LouaN, who was In Springdeld, INl., directing him, while outwardly appenring to melke n vigor. ous ight againat Davis in the Senatorlal contest, to sccretly pto#for his elaction, and thus render bim fneligiole for a seat fu the Hilectoral Commiy- slon. Gen. Lauax's reward for this was to he Secretaryablp of War under President Ilsrex, Thia plan, tho Democrata vy, worked beautifally, and Judgs Davis war ramoved from the At of efis giblecandidates for a seat on the Commission when the Democrats were comimitted to the sapport of :lhu"bl“ and when it was too late for them to with- raw. During the pnst few days several of tho Oregon dispatcliea relative to the infamous corruption business of Mr, Trmosn have been printed, and this morning wo publish a fresh installment, among them one ad- dressed to Pruron, stating thet hiz agents in ent,"—this sum, of course, beivg intended for tho corrupt purchnso of a Republican orntive of the othor villainous testimony that has been printed, In view of the pecnliar clrcumsatances under which thesa dispatches wore forwarded, and of the peculiar relations of Pruroy to TILDEN, wo do not see the propriety of loading all the odium of this business upon Perron's shonl- ders, Perrox is only a tool of Tiuoxy., Ho'| oxcept 08 he derives it from Trroew. Hols ons of Tipew's family, bis nephew, pocretary, nnd onme of his Mr. Tipey has employed him tho ability to mansge it, snd haa used his name as o signature to the dispatchea to avoid personal responsibility, Pzuron has never takon a atop in this case or any other without consulting the wily, plotting unclo, and the work lie hos dono is the work his uncle has out ont for him to do. He has becn tho apt agent of his principal, and there 18 no nso in farther concealment of that fact. This fs all very fine, but it lacks every Ingre- dient of truth. Looax Is not the man to be a party to any sell-sacrifice of the kind., He struggled for bis own re-election with desperats tenacity and importunity to the last; and when he found that his own case was utterly hopeless and imposaible, he took good carcthat no other Ropublican should succeed him, snd beyond that he was profoundly fodifferent. As to Judge DAvis, wo have no doubt whatever that, had he been choecn a8 the ffth Judge on ths Arbitration Board, he would have made the same decisfons in the Florlds and Loufsfana cases that Judge DRADLEY has done. 1lle waquld never have voled to convert Congress into a Presidentlal Relurning Board, and tram- ple the rights of the States under foot. S nuthority ‘that imspiredit. When Perron pEN'S proposition,’ ‘When the ‘noney was ront, it wos TiLoen's money. It is Tilnex, firat and last, all throngh the miserable, cor rupt business. Prrrox is simply the secro. tory writing ‘Cruoxx's lettors and in. diting Tiuoes's dispatches, It {8 un- just to tho hired ngent, who is but the tool ———— ‘Tho Kansas City Times, which has been a vio lent bulldozing Democratic sheet, has yet the manliness and honcaty to condemn the rascally advico of some organs of its party to break up tho Arbitratlon Tribunal, and refuse fo be bound by its award. It saysin regard tothe scheme tn procrastinate the count to the 4th of March, and forco another election next fall: 1t will bo found lhnnhrge mu]cné, of Demo. crats regard this method of heading off’ the Tribu. nal precisely s they rogarded it when [t was sup- posed that the Republicans might adopt such a plan, They thought then that It would be a breach disgraco of this business wpon him any longer. It is TruoEx's counsel aud Tiipex's monoy that sprung the Oregon infamy upon tha country. It Mr. Haves, instead of pursuing an honorable, manly course - throughout the campnign, without n shadow of susplicion resting upon him, without a single charge in the volumes of testimony that have boen takon impugning his reputation, had been guilty of tho crime of buying Electors and A fed In th secking to_ cloct himself by tho most un | of the sirciorl Wil They tusuehi that wuch s blushing fraud and corruption, the Repub- | meane of protmeting o damaging struggle and Torcing the country inid the tnrmoll of another bit- ter Presidential contost, would recoll upon the bead of. the Kut{ responsible for it; and there is no reason why thoy shonld not think o etill, ‘Ihiroughout tho stroggle thus far, the Democratic party bus held high and honorablo ground, and it cannot afford to swap posltions with its ndversary by sceking success through breaches of falth or Mhyatering tactica of any sort. Dy the adoption ot 1hat bill both parties pledged theinselves to submit peacefully to whatover decislon might be resched under It, 1o matter how wWrong either might con. sider such declaion to be. Democrats are Lound In r to submit to It, no matter iow impossible 1t may be for them to entertain & particle of re- spect for {t. They now hold & great toral ad. vantage orver the Ropublican par:{ which they wouldlose It they should sttempt {o stave off an adverse decislon by Interposing false and Inslucers objections to the votes of Democratic Ntales, only to gain time for eventually pleading the stntate of limitationy agninst the declslon of a Tribunal to ‘which they have volontarlly submitted thulr case, ————— The Richmond aig, perhaps the most [n- fluentin], Confederate paper fu Virginia, In its fssun ofthe 18th inst., apeaking of the Elcctoral Commisslon, says: ‘Whatever the result reached by the Commisslon, we ahall continue well satlsfed ‘that the Electoral Dill became & law, a¢ the country can afford to ac- uisace in the inauguration of & Presldont doclared elected bya Tribunal legally cordstituted and cluthed with authority to deterinine the resuit. IBut if we are woll satfelled with the paseago of the Elcctorsl bill, even though Haxx, uld bo declared alect- ed, how rejolced must those of onr Democratie frlends ba who have ever held that Iayrs wonld be illoqal!r and frandulently counted In, and that there wonld and should b¢ no restatance. Certaln- 7, 1f we are to have Hares, it would ho far better o have hiw under the Electoral bill—under the faw—than {llegally coanted iu by the Senate ur forced upan the country by GnaNT's bayonets, If the Democrats have biundered, it was {n not tak. ing u drm and decided podition froin the first, thut the country might understand that they intended not ooly to respect and uphold the law s it stood, but to compel others to du so liean party would long ago have driven him off the track and told the Democrata to take the Presidency. They nsver would have giventhe offico to a man who would have g0 disgraced it. They mnever would have suffered = candidato to go into the Executive Chair with s proven record of per- jury, dishonesty, bribery, snd fraud pub-’ lished to the wholo country. The decent and respactable eloment of tho Democracy should domand similar action in the case of TieoeN, without regard to the decision of tho Board of Arbitration, In -the long list of Presidonts, not ono has gono into tho office with such charges rosting upon him, If in tho face of such overwhelming testimony ogainst his personal and offieial charaater ‘Trr.oxx should bo counted in, his occupancy of the Prosidency would bo & shame and scandal, unequaled in our political annals. In rogard to Benator Kzmor's bill to change tho timo of holding city elections to the same day in April on which the town clections are held, wo made the suggestion that it ought to be amended to provide that both eleotions be held under the machinery provided by law for city election. We nre informod that Senator Kznoz would have so provided in lig bill, but fnds that it wounld be impracticable on account, for one reason, that the boundarics of many of the cities and villages and the townships containing them aro not the samu; and there are said to be other difficulties in the way. Sronzy’s papor suggests that so far as this oity is concerned the Uity Uouncil and the County Commissioners can easily agree that the samo olootion judges shall uct for both elec- tious, and tho voters can cast their ballots in two boxes at each poll. It romarks: In thls event it would only be neccssary to duplicata the ballot-hoxes in vrder that tha rutarne might bo made st the law diracts, —those of the city to the City Clerk, dhoss of the tuwus to the Town Clerk, If auch an arrang s rould ba made the city might well afford to assumie thu cosl, aince it would beno graater by this pian then tu the «cato of tho usual charter electiun. 1t adds: In this matter the Times does not wish to dlssent particularly to the positiun of (1s nelghbor. It slmply wants fo moke thia polni: Sinve Kxuoe's biil is on the highway to pecfection, aud the time of the charter election draws near, let nothing bo dons to impeds ite passage, stuce, if it vecures notbing more, it gives 1o this olection- riftden comt munity frecdom from one day's oxcitement over ttie ballot-boxes. ‘To do even thls und be uperative (Llg spring it must be wigned by the Governorbefore 1he 30th proximo in order that the Common Cuun- ol may give the notice of election required by the charter. Au the bII fs deawn 18 Bnds no opposttiou, and If properly presscd niay speedily become s law, Losd it with amendments which, in its present form, {¢ capnot carry, for It In iself but an swend- ment to the General Incorporatiou lgw, and ite passage this epring Is highly proulematicsl. The —————— The final success of Haves will not creats much bitter feeling fo the breasts of the non- office-seculng Democrats, because they are utter- 1y disgusted with the dlshonurable and corrupt cunduct of Bast Tin.DeN=s revealed fn the Ore- #on business. Millions of Democrats fecl that 1t he were counted in he would be o disgrace to the country, A candidate who undertakes to buy Electoral votes is an unfit man for Chiel Magtstrats of the American people, Never be- fore, sinco the Republiv was founded, did a can- didata for the Presldency undortake to purchase bis wuy foto the Exccutive Chalr, DBribery has heretofore been left to pot-house pollticians and professional corruptionlsts, Bkt TILDEN has depended on money for bis nomiuation, for lis canvass for popular votes, and for his count-in, in the Electorul College; but hls * Alwighty Dollar* fuiled him In the end, The New York Jerald of Thursday reproves the Sun aud other bulldozing Democratic priute which are counseling perfidy and dlshonor. Bpesklug for the mass of the people i Let both parties keep thelr hothaade and knsves wall under subjection, for the country will stand 10 nouvense, Whoover v defcaled junst bear the 1oes with imumediute and absolute subalasion, and i'e the lead: M ult |s kuowd, iu giviug the muet cou Q d cheorful mssent to that result. When Mr. mel.lx |wu ll!llkllu,' hl: x'x"Z"“;““'c'.‘I'.‘,’.'.":u.'.‘." at rival and opponent, Dovaias, Bemina iim wad ' fvod-atarediy” Leld hie Lat: Triding as the incldent oms it \-’n- f the m city may, thcrefore, loss tu April next the ad- :lfim",‘;m dibnon vantages which it would galn by the change, ulvscence from whalever party may now prove AC 1o bestes. = Justices Crirronp aud FizLp continuedto cast partissn votes, and opposo the solemn judgment of the mnajority of the Court duricg the investigation of the Loulsiaus case, just a8 thoy did il through the Florida case. Parly ties bind them down with astonishing strengtb. It is well that & majority of the Judges were uble torise above partisan trammels, snd de- cide according to the law and the Consil: tutlon. Judges BiLLER, BTaoNG, sad BRaDLEY bave Tax TrBuNE hes n0 desire to Iay a straw in the way of the passage of the bill; ft isa greatly-needed reform; it will be useful not only bhere, but in 150 other cities and vil- lagea in the State which are organized under the provisions of the General Incorporation law, The passags of Benator Kruox's Lill will prevent a ropetition of the rascalities perpetrated and the excitemont witnessod at tho town election in Chicago last spring. The sooner the bill passes the better. e —— ATB;IHKI st Pondunl.ll‘ find:‘;lu-:lnellon. thus far decided according to the lu':lml'til:; J up™ alle; munsge: ] e ha Penliomiitry. You the Lact of onakt: | Comatitution, aod Lave upheld State rig great moral firmuess, while Justices CLIFFORD sud F1aLD have weakly allowed themselves 10 be carried away by partlsan fealings, and vol asthe bulldozers desired. It — ——— The New York Herald remarks: Thero are, We euppose. men in the couniry wicked and beso enough, oven yet, to ho&' lhs‘ thogreat Arbliration will In some way (af, s, . even attew ] 3 Warn e aa 5ot o show thelr hesds oF thelr bands {00 plainly, sloners Tavius, BouTuwontd, and Noikwax. PORO bt literost can. Tk Tuine e have in that matter? Is It because tha Commlssioners suppori= Qov. Baveuivas for re-election? Or hasthe editor of that paper some friend whom he would Jike to get appointad? Or is the whole thing simply amatterof gencrsl patriotlsm snd disinterested bepevolencer The Fost hoves that the latter bypothesls is correct. — Ecening Poat, Tuw TRIBUNR ucver supposed the Commis- stouers would do otherwise than support the man to whom they owed thelr places; it never blamed them for 50 doing; and it {s profoundly {ndifferent whether they did or not. The *latter hypothesis” stated by the Post is the correct one. Tux TminuN® has no ono it wishes to get appolnted on tho Board. It is probing the Pen- itentiary management in scarch of facts for the information and edification of its readers. Its attention was first directed to the matter by the report of the State-House Cominissioners, who coolly inforined tho Legislature thiattbey bad cxpeuded the whole of the thres and u balf mille fous allowed by the Constitution, but that, i ——— Millions ot Republican prayers were made Iast night for Judge BRADLEY, that he might bold out faithful to the end. ————— £ay, old Wells street Mulldoser, how do Jo& feul this morningl Happy, eht e —a—— FizLp, BiLL Twasp'siawyer, has made socod Plete s fizzlg with his scoundrel witoesses, Li™ TLNZIELD, BPEARING, sud MiDDOX, that the Democrats in Washington are hugely