Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1877, Page 4

THIY CHIUAGO 'TRIBUNE : WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1877, TERMB OF SUBSCRIPTION. TOSTAGE TREPAID AT tinn, twelve pages Kiy, rostoaid, | year. 4 of & yéar, permontfi,.. WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. nt free. Togrevent delay and mistakes, he snre and eive Poste ©Oftce addresa in full, inclading State and County. Remfttances may be made either Iy draft, express, Tout-Oflicc order, or in reglstered lelters, at our Fisk. TERMS 7O CITY SURSCRIDERS. Tafly, el eercd, Rnnday excepted, 23 cents per week, Lslly, dellvered, Sunday fncluded, 30 centa per week ddress THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Lomner Madison and Dearborn-sta.. Chicsgo, Tl AMUSEMENTS. averly's I:ir;lrea Lagie;: i , bet Ciatk an e el Klan Qe ad bl P FJ'I:MII of Trebizond Me"ll‘!lvr'nh'l‘hfnlre- AR 1 street. between Dearbiorn an ., Ene nx‘:g;.: oF At Lettin Alien.* Crabbed Age.” Adelphi Thentre, Motroe street, corner Dearbora, Variety enter- tunment. wgmx'- Musenn, fonroe stres rtween Dearborn and Stste. ** Fane M ehon, the Cri [,174 Twene | 127, R, A. AL G ArTER m‘lllgfl this fl\'murma{.: ty-second-st. ” Tiewutar #vening 8t 7330 o'ciock, All the nflcers tequested . Viditing Companions cordially Invited, By ordir e ibe MR ELL 8MITHI, Bee, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1877, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex. change yesterday closed at 942 SE———— It nppears to be deflnitely sottled that the Lonisiana complication will not be disturbed by President Gnaxt, bnt will be transmitted to his successor for ndjustmont. Such was the President's positive assurance yesterday to o delegation of Lonisiana gentlémen, by whom it wos recoived with great satisfac. tion, — The Common Council has entered npon the consideration of tho appropriation or. dinnnco item by item, and a commendable disposition is shown to adhero closely to the economical recommendations of the Financo Committee. Tha rule scoms to bo to cut off every dollar of cxpondituro that can bes avoided. A fow years of such local legisla. tion ns this will mako onr municipal finances the soundest of any city in America. It is & rulo of court practico that neither party to an action shall be permitted to im- peach hisown witness, If this rule obtained in Congressional investigations Gov, Paraen could not be summoned by Duprer Frenn's Committeo to contradict tho testimony of the scoundrel Lrrrrerrern, Thero is thus raised & question of veracity between two witnestes on the same side of tho caso— Pavuxn vs, Litreerienn. Who shall docida when two such eminont Domocratic authori- i+ ties disagree ? m—— It hns beon agreed that bygones shall ba bygones 5o far as they relato to tho respect. ivo bank nccounts of tho Ropublican and Domocratio Nationnl Committees and the money spent for campaign purposes. Cer- tainly the Republican investigators of the . Bonate Committea can afford to ery quits after their success with tho Orogon tele. grams, the deciphering of which so indis. " putably traced the purchasc.money straight "to the “barcl™ that it s of . trivial consequense mow . {0 exam. % ine Tmoex's bank nccount In order . toaacertnin the precise amounts furnlshed x for corrupt purposes. On tho other hand, “ " the Democratic dotectives hava failed to demonstrato tho impropor expenditure of n *. single dollar by the Republican. National Committeo or the Republican eandidato for tho Presidency. It is a good time to discon. tinuo the bauk-account inquiries. — Two notable specches wove delivered in the Houso yesterdny during tho debate un . the Electornl count, 'The first was that of " Mr, Wartensox, whoso earncst nppeal for tho honorablo fulfiliment of the obligations reat- ing upon the Democratic party to abidae by the decisions of the Electoral ‘Critmnnl was . listened to with close attention, and 1ondo marked fmpression upon his auditorn upon the floor and in the gallovies. Tho speech was doubly cffective coming from a man who, provious to the pnssage of tho Arbitrn., " tion bill, talked nbout the presonco in Wasl. ington of 100,000 Kentuckinus to assist in the inauguration of Tiwoes, Tha sccond . 8peech of peculiar interost was that of Mr, Fosrer, who represents in Congross the dis- » trict iu which Gov, 1Taves resides, and whose t pledgo of especinl good-will toward tho » Bouthern States seemed almost to come from tho lips of Tresident Taves himself, v The voto of Louisiana wos yeaterdny ", counted in the Joint Convention for Hayra and Wuerren, and tho canvass thence pro- - ceeded without interruption to the Stato of . Mlichigan, when a factious objection was ._ -, made to thoe counting of the vota of an Elector " i said to be incligible, This nccessitated n « 1 separotion of tho two Fouscs, and the Sen. ~ ‘yste promptly and Ly a . unanlmous :voto overruled tho objection, TLater ,1on tho louse concurred . upou o .showing that the objection wny | unfounded, and again the count proceeded. + The next hitch was at Nevada, the charge of i ineligilility boing trumped up this timo by * . Brmivarn, of Illinois, merely for the pur- i poso of delay, ‘The hour being late, nearly *3 6 pom., n motion for a recess until 10 o'slack - this moring was carried, sovera! Itepublic- { and voting in the affirmative, The Senato, beforo adjournment, voted unanimously to non-concur in the Nevada objection, and there is every remson to expect that the Housoe will decido similar; e ——— ; The Chicogo produce markets wera gen« %! erally weak yesterday, provisions being active iiand breadstuffs dull, Moss pork closed 600 er brl lower, at §14.00 for March and $14.32@14.5 for April. Lard closed fully 150c per 100 lbs lower, ot §9.456@9.30 for 1 March and $2.62§@9.65 for April. Meats ficlosed easier, at 5o for looss shoulders, T30 i for sbort-ribs, ands 7jo for short-clears, Highwines were jo lower, at $1.0{@1.03, . Plour wes quiet and weak. Wheat closed 780 lower, at §1.27f cash and $1.28} for *March, Com closed §o lower, at 41jo for 1March and 45)c for May, Outs closed o Vlower, at 834c cash and 83jo for March. . Rye was ‘dull, at 68c. Barley closed easy, t 5540 for March. Tho hog market was jidull and fully 20@40c lower, closing $5.20@ 8.00 for common to choice. Cattle were dull v4and casier, with sales at $2.75@6.00. Sheep wero firm, at § Last Satnrday evening thera was in stora in this city 3,417,- 791 bn wheat, 2,614,112 bu eorn, 42 b onts, 260,496 bu rye, and 948,482 bn barley. One hundred doliars in gold would buy $105.50 in greenbacks at the close. ———— Mr., Kenoe's bill providing for holding the town clections and charter clections on the rame day in April, which nndor the oxisting Inw ocenr two weekn apart, has passed the Illinois Henate by n vote of 40 to 1. 'Tho unanimity of tho voto attests tho necessity for the measurs, and promises itr ready passago in the House. Iut befors tho Honso Ppasses it, oceasion should be taken to mako siich amendment nx will provide for having two ballot-boxes at every voting-previnct,— ons for the lown oflicers and the other for the city officers, and for the samo Judges ncting for both elections, Otherwise, the threo towns within the City of Chicago will not be protected from n recurrenco of the frauda practiced ot the town elcetions of Tnst yoar, for it will atill be within the power of the Counly Board (o pro- vide for only ono voting.precinct in each fown for {own offfcers. Such nn arrangement we nuderstand to be actually in contemplation by the Cook County Bosard, and this, of conrse, would givo tho bum. mers a8 much tho control of the rosult of the town election, and 08 good an oppor- tunity for stuffing the ballot-boxes, ns they had before. Mr, Kenoz's bill simply pro. vides for changing the date, but this is manifestly not enongh. —— Ex-Gov, Joux M. Pataten, the champion of State-Righta nud tho self.-appointed conserv. ator of the Democratic party, has appeared bofore the Honse Committea aud given ovi- dence of tho most weighty character. In addition lo his completo contradiction of many of LirTLErELD'S sensational stories, ko bns given the world an inside viow of thot fashionabloe terpsichorean sennco which ho and other ominent and scholarly gentlo. men honored by their presence, the relation of which will go down in history as n neces. sary, importaut, and eulivening adjunct of the Lonisiann unplensantness, . True, the press reporler hos vouclisafed to n listening world only tho bricfest abstract of the ex-Governor's narrative, yet oven in this little sketch of the scene in the brilliant balls whore yollow beautios held undisputed sway, and where their paler ad. mirers tripped tho light fantastic tos ns thoy drank in the silent Lut stirring musie of thoso sparkling oyes, the render may dis. cover how the unbending politician may. be inducod to crook the pregnant hinges of the Lnee, and even consont—under tho bowitch- ing influences of a sylph-like partner—to drop tho politician and play the enamored courtior, So may it have been with Paren; for, although he studiously avolds all men. tion of tho conquests he himself made, ho froely admits that the affair was strictly non- partisan, e — HMORTON FOR PRESIDENT OF THE SEVATE. Inspite of the fact thatthe Democratic caucus of Iast Saturday adopted a resolution pledging tho party to procced promptly with the count of the Electoral votes, and not to resort to any dilatory proceduro in the treatmont of tho Electoral Commission's decisions, it has become exceodingly doubt. ful whethier tho country may safoly roly upon this promise. In fact, there are sig- nifcant indications that enongh of the con- servativo Domocrats may be whipped in by tho extromists to provent a completion of tho count beforo Saturday, March 3. Itscoms certain that a dosperato offors is to o mado to bring this about, Tho nction of tha cau- cus, in pledging the Demmoorata to keep faith, lins been denounced by the Copperhend nowspapers throughout the couatry, and the oxtremists have galned new onergy to urge their villainy forward, Thrents of violent resistanco aro miore numerous and outspoken than ever, Resort to nssassination.is publicly suggested. Noth- ing has eon, and nothing will be, left un- done ta incita the disappointed greed and o nrouso the partisan passions to defeat the outcomo of the solenin agreement which was recelved with universal joy by the peoplo as assuriug a peaceful solution of tho contro- vorsy, It istimo for the Republicans to take of. ficlal coguizance of tho proposed perfidy and threatened resistance, and to preparg for pro- tecling the Government in caso it shall bo. como necessary. There aro but two things which the desperndo class of Democrats, In their madoess, con ate tenupt. Ona plan suggested in Monday's Democratle caucus wus that tho Ilouse shonld declaro thero has Leon a failure to eloct a Prosident, and should proceed to choosa I'1LbeN succossor to President Gravr, Logicully followed out, this coursa wonld necessitato au attempt at the inuuguration of 'T1LDEN without any warrant of law or sem- Llanco of constitutional claim. This wonld be ruvolntionary, and would call for tho samo stern and aggressive troatment as way meted out to the Rebels of the Houlh. ern States fifleen ycars ago, 'I'he other courso which the bulldozing Democrats may adopt is to use thelr present party mnjority in tho Honse to delny and procrastinate the count of the Electoral vote by objections and soparate consideration, so that it may not be concluded beforo the 4th of March,—only a week from next Bunday,—in which cvent there will bo a vacanoy in the ofilces of Prosi- dent and Vice-Prosident roquiring & new clection. In caso this latter courss bo adopted, it will be with a view of renowing in the following antumn, when the new election must bo held, tho same polioy of fraud and intimidation, only on a larger scalo, a3 that which charnc. torized the last cawpalgn, and moanwhile organize a reign of terrorism by systematia bulldozing, and crippliug the power of tho Government by refusing adequate appropria. tions. The Government must be prepared to meot either of these emergencies. In case tho bulldozers of the Democratic Houso shall succeed in preveating s completion of the count before the th of MMarch, tho President of the Sonate will becowe the acting President of tho United States, and Lold the office until the vacancy shall be £lled in the following November by & gon. eral clection. Senator Feser isnow Presi. dont of the Senatc, but his term as Benator cxpires the 8d of March, It is true that he has been ro-eleeted, but his new term doen not begin tilt the 5th of March (Sunday In- torvening), aud he wonld then have to he sworn in and chosen again on thal day. But it is highly neccessary that thero shall bo on the morning of the 4th of March a President of the Senate whoso titlo cannot o qaostioned, and whose succession under the law to the temporary ocenpaney of the oflice of President of tho United States shall bo recured by his nndonbted porsescion of and qualification for the ofice of Presidont of the Bennte. Under theso cireumstances, it in clesrly the duty of Sen- ator I'ennr fo retiro from the position of presiding officer, inorderto enablathe Senate to chooso oue of its own members whosa present terny does not expiro on the id of March, and who will be fully qualified on the 4th of Mazch to enter upon tho dnties of President of tho United States. We lave no donbt Mr. Feany will readily consent to this chango 3 but, if ho should not, the Sennte ia at liberty to chooso a new presiding officer at any time it tnay see proper. I'ho man of mil others for tho Senate to seleet to nct ns President of the United #tates for nearly a year, in case Democratic perfidy shall necessitate §t, is Ovrven D, Monroy, of Iudiana. The emergency will be one demanding all the enmergy, promptitude, and fearlessnesa which Mr. Moxrox possesses in so eminent adegree, Whother thero shall bo an attempt to inangurate Titorw, or to mako o nine- months' campaign of bulldozing in a repent. ed effort to ‘elect him, Ortven P, Monton may be trusted to keep tho peaco n'nd enforce the laws. Ilo has beon tried in almost ns sericus an emergency. As Governor of In. dinna daring the War of the Rebellion, when the Copperheads of Lis Stato sought to ac- complish in tho rear what the Rebols failed to accomplish in the front, Mr. MonroN was quick to grapple with them and powerful enough fo crush them. With n Copporhend Legislaturo organized to opposo him; with nssassing lylng in wait for him; with a moro insidious foo than GraNT encountered on tho fleld of battle, Gov. Mortoy, without a uinglo sign of fear or an indicntion of falter- ing, crushod ont the now sodition and saved tha Union from thoso who threatened it at the North, None who know him doubt that what ha did Lefors Lie can and will do sgain, if it shall become necessary. It will not bo ensy to deceivo him ; it will be impossible to frighten him,. With Onrven P. Monton acting as Presidont, the Governmont will be safo during the interregnum, if the Demo- crats forco it upon the country, There will bo littlo danger of any attempt to innugurate TaLozN nchioving success; and, If this mad- ness bo abandoned, peaco will bo preserved nnd o frea eloction insured throughout tho entiro country. Mr. Montoy should be elected President of tho Senato atonce, If tho better counsels of the Democratio party succoed and the Houso ncquiesco in the docisions of the Arbitration Tribunal, no harm will have been dome. If otherwiso, the Repub- licans will have dona thoir daty in proparing for an emorgancy which is certalnly not un. likely to ariso, and which may bring terrible consequences if no preparation bo mado. Readers of Tz Toinuxe will bear us out in tho ussertion (hat wo have not beon among tho extromists of the Republican party, but have favored all honorable con- cessions and compromises. But if o solemn compact, into which the Democrals entored eagerly and tho Republicans reluctantly, is to bo broken by tho men who had most to liope from its adoption, then there is vil- lainy in the Iand that requires tho strongest Land, the stoutest heart, and the most re- lentless trentimont to deal with it. Such villaiy will deserve no sympathy, no quar. ter, no resting-place, but should be hunted down iuto the snme abject infamy that over. took tho Indians fire-in-tho-rear Copper. heads when Montox got after thom during tho War, EPH. HOLLAND'S DEMOCRATIC REFORM, Mr, Twozs, In his lotter of accoptance, wrote: * What the couutry wants is real reform,” and this was made the rallying ery of the Democracy throughout tho campalgn, avd deluded many credalous Republicaus into voting for the slippery humbug of Gramerey Park, low the Reformors want to work to Inaugurate reform has been shown several timos over, but at last we have tho testimony of ono of the prominent Tirpex managers in Ohio, who ran the Qotober elec- tion for the Democrats in Hamilton Connty, showing how the Democratic county ticket waa clected, and how twa Domocratic Con. gressmen, Daxvivo and Savees, were re- tumned. Tt s an mstructive and significant chapter in the history of Democratic reform, and we call special attention to it Eru, Howraxn, a well-known Democratio politiclan of Cincinnati, and the manager of the Democratio party in the October elec. tion in Humiltou Connty, called ns a witness in the Cox-Hanston (judicial) contosted elec. tion caso, has made a clean breast of the ing famous frauds which resulted in fhe clection of Banniyo aud Sayces, His testimony in full ocenples soveral columns of the Cincin- natl papers; bub we can veproduce the #allont points of it in muck shorter space and still tell the fnfamous story of Demo- cratio corruption. Morrano testifies that he took nn active part in tho Qctoler election ut tho request of prominent Democratio politicions, among thew Bavres and Banxiva, the Iatter promising him that Lo should bo well looked sfter, and contributing lib. erally o the fund which wasplaced at Lis disposal for buying votes, 1o himself was ulso to be pald liberally for his services, but, as Lo says, **I was promised to be well pald, aud was not paid o cent after the clection was over; they played ‘me for a sucker the same a8 they did the balance.” ‘fhe prelim. inury arrangements having been made, Hoz~ LAND went vigo-ausly to work for reform. 1o arranged in New York with one Mixx GLeasox, a bruiser and emigrant runmer, who brouglt ejghteen men with him to Cio. ciunati, He then turned to Chicago, and Basxey Aavoy, the pugilist, took such an interest in the watter as to give Ep Buaxs, one of the lambs who went with Lizn's and Cauenoxs flock to Indianapolis, and who has been a Reformer fn Chicago elections, aletter to Horrasp. Busys wout to Cincinnati with twelva men from tlis ecity. Pittsburg contributed its qucts of eight men under tho lead of ons Famemws monte man, and Maysville, Ky., sent ten or twelve, DBaltimoro and other rtlaces also contribnied, but as therxa gangs wero nnder the control of others, wo confino ourselves to Mr. Houtanp and his own Reformers, They nrrived in Cincinnal two days befora election, wero quartered in saloons, nnd thair expenses were paid with monoy lhanded to Hotrasn by the Chairman of the Demo- eratle City Comnmittee. Theso fifty Re- formers under their respectiva leadors cnst £00 votes in Cinclnnati, and elected Banning and Bavzen to Congeess. Tho following ox- tract from the testinony will show how suc. cersfully they operated : Q.—DId 8ll the men get thelr votes in? A.— Every one, ‘Thero was not nman lost hls vote In all of tha precincts of the Ihiree wards. Q.—What tieket did they vote? A.—Tho Demo- eratlc ticket stralzht ont. [ gave them the ticket. Q.—Please examine that ticket (handing Demo. cratle ticket to witness) nnd alate If it 1s & fac alintle of the tickot they voted? A, —Yes, alr, Q.—No scraiches? A.—0 noj didn't bellevo In zeratehing. Q.—Where did the Greasox parly gontter loav. fng? A.—~Ileft thetn thers In the Sixth Ward and sent them {nto the Weet End. Q.—DId you dircct them where to go? A.—I thoned Urrasox two days before the election the dlrectinn hio should go through the fown, Q.--\Vhat report was mada 40 you as to thovoting done by that party after they left you? A.—Well, T met him at threo different times that day, liad AD cngagement to meet all tho leaders of thuso men at the Empire. They sald they had voted in the neighborkood of 150 or 100 times, Tho tota) atnight was In the neizhiborhood of 123 tmes, atter leaving out theso threo wards, \ Another extract will show that the Chicngo Reformers got in their work nlso: Q.~Haw often did you eay Duirss voted In the Fourth Ward? A,—Tlicy came there twlce—to tho Flrat Precinct, Q. —How many men waswith itnxs? A,—DBenss had, believe, ten or twelve, 1disromeinber now which, in the beginning; but the last time he voted only seven, Q.—DId they vote at the First Precinct of the Fourth Ward? A,—Yes, sir, ¥ Q.—~What ticket did they voto? A.~The Demo- cratic tiekel, without n scrateh, Q.—What roport dfd Bunss make of the total nauwmber of votes cast by hlamen? A,—I don't ro- member tho exact amount, How things wero mannged in the Fourth ‘Ward, the following testimony will show : Q.—You report over 100 votes being cast in the Fourth Ward, nearly all of them in one precinct; bow do youaccount for the fact that the ward caat smaller voto on that occasion than §t did on elec- tions proviousto {t? A.—That Is very casily ac counted for—becauac we could not getat the ballot- boxes, Q.—In what way at the bajlot-boxcs? A.—They had eentovera judgetherethat wasnot acquainted, and the Repubiican partyalso hnd o clerk thor of the nameof Pience, uperate, Q.—Operate in what way? A.—It would be very caey to operate If we had the consent of the clerk. Q,—1low do yor operate with the consent of the clerk? A.—Get him (o write down moru names than there were Lallots In the box. Q—Then? A.—~Then, when the polls close at nizht, ot Interested and hustle things around. Havo a little dispute thera; cast all the vote eight into the box to correapond with the tarly, tho clerks would give the amonntof namea they had written on the (ally; that s tho way tho Fourth Ward gave such a nice majority. This tostimony of tho man who managed the Democratic corruptions in October con- clusively shows that if frands Lad not been practioed, Baxxino and Savuer would have been defentod, and the Republicans would bavo carriod Hamilton County. It adds to tho emphasis of this infamous business that on tho Monday bofore the October election Troen himself telographod to Cincinnati to place £5,000 to tho account of MoLeay, pro- prictor of the Enquirer, at the Commercial Bank, to bo used to help on tho campalgn of economy aud reform, and that on election dny Tiroex's flscal ngent telegraphed on or- dor for £2,000 additional to ba paid to Mo- Lran and charged to the "Third Nationnl Bank of New York. In these shameful and scandalous dsvelopmonts of pars tisan corruption and fraud wo lhave an illustration quite as clear ns that afforded by the Oregon tolegrams, wnit- ton at Mr, TiLpeN's own hoide, of the hum- bug and demngogism and startling dis. honesty of the Democratic candidate for the Presidoncy when he wrote *Reform fs necessary.” In all candor wo would ask of honest and respectable Domocrats what they think of these dovelopments, With equal candor wa would ask thoso crednlous Repub- lcans who wore begufled by his slippery words if tholr oyes are opeued yot to the im- position that was practiced upon them, and to the injustice thoy have done to the Re. publican party in throwing away their votes upon TiLpey and his Tammany gaog. —— There was no chance to LORD SALISBURY'S FIASCO, Thero is something almost comical in the contrast botween the doparture of Lord SaLspuny from London to Constantinople and the return of Lord 8avisnuny from Con- stautinoplo to London, Whon tho noble Lord was about to start, {his intention was tolegraphed all over the world. Ile kel out with a grand retinue of servants and a small army of private sccrotaries npon a Govern- ment vessel magaificontly appolnted in every respect. Had the English sea-monster been carrying Queen Vicroria hevself, there would not have been moro splendor or eclat, e was wined, and dined,and lunched before Lo sturted, and he was wined, and dined, aud lunched all the way to Constantiuople, and a bottomless exchequer was placed at his disposal. Hao visited all the principal Capitals of ° Europe,—Paris, Dresden, Munich, Vienns, Berlin, Rome. Ilo hobnob- bed with Dissancx, MacMaxoy, AxDBAssY, and . Gontscuaxorr, He was regarded as tho ablest diplomat in Europe, the man . who knew . it all, and who when he arrived at Constantinople would either talk or terrify the Grand Turk into submisalon to the demands of the Powers, At lnst his steamer arrived at Constantinople amid fanfares of trumpets and boaling of drums, He was placed at tho head of {ho Conterence, e did talk and talk and talk, but it waa all talk, although uven IoNatizer scondad all he smd, He made demands of the ‘Turk, but the 'Curk refused them, Then he whittled down hLis demaudy, but still the Turk refused, and the more ha whittled, the moro the Turk refused. Then he sought tho Bultan and Miomar Pasua, begged, en. treated, warncd, and threatenod, offered compromises, but it was all iu valn, and only resulted in his bewg shown the door, snd now the great Lord Is burrying home without rotinue, without cither ac. claim or eclat, a wrotched failure, ‘The rocket went up very brilhantly, aud now the stick iy coming down, Even the London Z'imes, in & rather serfo- comic style, is compelled to make note of the contrast between his* golng and his coming, and says: “No busy sgencies now chronicle his progress. No eager and envious concocters of telographic dispatches siruggle for the privilego of re. porting & hint of his thoughts, Perhaps they would fail to obtain auy share of his confldence, Lowever keenly they sought ity but they err if they think that the knowl. edge he could jmpart would be held uniw. portant by us at home. Whatever the cx- Pplanation, wo are left almost entircly to casual private information for intelligence of his homeward journey.” Ono of {ho crucl- est flings at the Commisnioners is that of Caas, the Paria earienturist, who has drawn o cartoon in which they aro soen leaving Constantinoplo baroheaded, having left their hata behind them that they may have an ex- cuso for goiug back ngain. e m——— THE SPECTAL STATE TAX BYSTEM, The Senate Committee of the Illinols Leg- islaturo has prepared a report upon the sub. Ject of excrcising that portion of tha Stato Conatitution that autliorizes tho General Assembly to “iax peddlers, auctioneers, Lrokers, hawkers, morchants, comnmission tuerchants, showmen, jugglers, innkeepors, grocery-leepers, liquor.dealers, toll-Uridges, forries, insurance, telegraph, and oxpress in- terests or business, venders of patents, uud porsous or corporations owning or using franchises and priviloges, iz such manner ns it shall from time to time direct, Ly goveral law, uniform as to tho class upon which it oporates,” . The Committes Liava confined their inves. tigation to an oxamination of the Pennsyl. vauin system of Stale taxation, That systemn, it will be remembered, consists of special taxes mninly upon corporations. 'I'liess taxca are n tax of 0-10 of a mill on each 1 per cent of divideuds on {ransportation compa- nios, or when there is no dividend a tax of ¢ millson the appralsed valuo of the capital stock; & tnax of } a mill on each 1 per cent o dividend on the capital stock of all other corporations excopt banks and foreign insurance companies; a tax of # mills on capital stock of banks; n tax of 3 cents per tou on all coal mined; a tax of 3 per cont on gross receipts of foreign iusurance compa- niea; a licenso tnx on brokers, saloons, ete, The result fs the Btate bas no oceasion to levy any tox by valuntion on real or personal property, ‘Che Commilieo ngvee that this systom may bo ndoptod in this State under the Constitn. tion, and in this thoy are sustained by an opinion of Attorney-General Epsatt. Tho alloged ronsons for adopting this plan aro thus stated Uy the Commiltee : Firs{—=This syston divorces entirely the Stato from local toxation,. Whila towns, cities, and countles are permitted (o vote n tax on themselves for any amount permitted by tho Constitution, they caunot vote It on any other town, city, or connty, ard whea the people know they have themeclves to vay any lax they may order, it will naturally make tbom very gnarded In the smonntsso lovied, —In other words, it bringa the tax down to the people without the Interventlon of State authority, Second=This aystem doos away with the State Toard of Equaliration and its difliculties, as there fa nothing to equalize beyond the counties, 1t hins eaved a large amount of money to the peaple of the State, and a still larger amount of dlzcontent and acrimonious feeling betiween scctlons, Third—It waves tho percentaze pald Assesnors, Collectors, and Treasurers, with tho lossos by abatement or defalcation,—sometlmes placed a8 high ns 15 per cent of the amount asscased, Fourth~1t saves thoso persons, town , conntles, and munlicipalitics that pay their tax upon tho cali of the Callector the necersity of paying an addl- tional taz for those who decline to puy, and fight the payment of tholr tax to tho State. Tifth—It would go far to do away with the local Jenloustes engendored by diiferent scctions of the Htato toward other sections, as thero would bo no feaction of interest, Tha needs of o vast commer- clal clty like Chicago, demanding one class of 10z {slation, would not he brought in conflict with, and in antagonlam to, tho wanta of o rural disteict do- manding avother; alao, it would enable each nece. tion to adjust its taxation to its nceds, avolding tho half-and-half legislation which nnderthe pres- ent syatem makes & zeneral Iaw necossary ta car- ryoutalocal purpase, Inthe end proving nelther matistactory nor adapted to the wants of either cx. tromo, ‘I'lie Committeo proceod on the nssumption that this system could bo carried out in this Btato without any chongo in tho present Constitution, Even admitting this, never- theloss it would brenk down one of the wisest provisions in tho Constitution. Un- der that instrument all municipal corpora- tious aro prolibited from {nowrring any in. debtedness boyond 6 per cent of the valuo of tho taxablo proporty thereln, to be nscor- tained by *tho laut assessment for tho Stale and county taxes,” Thoro being no State taxes on Stata valuntion, tho *“Iast nsscss- mont "™ would bo that made for connty taxes, Ench county would then have control of its own assessmont. Many of tho conntles have an indebtodness exceeding the constitn- tional 1limit, nnd all are restrained by that limitation from incurring additional bonded dobts. 1If, howover, each county bo left to mako ils own nsscismont, all that it will havo todo is to increnso tho valuation of tnxublo property to whatever anount may bo nocessary to nuthorize any desired incrense of debt, aud the constitutional limitation will bo pructically nullified. 'T'he State assess- went keeps this business in coutrol. No county is willing to increnss its asseasment to bo taxed beyond its propartion with other countics, and hence the Btato assessmont is gouerally rensonable, To abolish thae Stato asmessmont 18 o give free license to tho fnx-caters of overy communily to moko thelr own asscssmont and to iucrense the debts accordingly. No greator calamity conld ‘befall the people of the Ktate, The argument is, that now there is $1.15 of tax lovied to ralso #1 of reve. nue, ‘This heavy porcentage, howevor, ap- plies to all taxation, and ns thut levied for Htato purposes is Lut 10 or 12 per cent of the wholo taxation, the aggregate cost of col. lecting the State taxation iy but a small pro. portion of the whole cost of tax-collecting in the State. Ttistho dnty of tho Legisla. ture to apply tho needed legislation to reme. dy this heavy loss in- collection, and reduce taxatlon to the lowest possible revenue standard. The taxation of the State for all purposes veaches $26,000,000 a yoar, and it is a roproach fo the Legislature that it should cost 15 per cent to collect this reve- nuo. We suggest, therefore, to the Legisla- ture that if it put this new system in opera. tion, it do so by slow degrees, leaving to experienca and time todevelop an enlarge. ment of tho system, if such should be deom. ed advisable or practicable. We are propared to admit thal a large revenuo, moro than the 8tato needs, can be collected from these spe- cial taxes; but the total abolition of Btate taxes {s a radical change which is full of peril to the local communities, Suppose, there. fore, thnt tho assessments for county purposcs bo continued as mow; that tho machinery of the Stats Board of Equalization be discontinucd ; and the Gov- ernor, Auditor, Becrelary, Trensurer, and At- toruoy-General bo mado a Board to Equalize theso assessments, This Doard might then fix a rate, say Lalf or one-third of a mwill, to raise a sum, say, for school purposes, ‘fhis would proserve the standard of Stato valus- tion to goveru all local valustions, and es- peclally fix aud presorve the limit of local in. debtedness. The State sliould theu take'the roilronds as & class, aud by general law, uniform as to the class taxed,” imposo a tax thereon equal to a cortain percentagg on their gross earnings within tho Stato, Assuming that the gross earnings of the railroads with. in the Bate to be 50,000,000 a year, & tax of 4 per cent would yicld §2,000,000. This should of courss be in full releasa of all other taxation, State and local. This tax would release ull counties, cities, and towas of all payment of Biate taxes, and would mora than componaate them for the rovenus they now derive from lacnl taxation of raitroad prop- orly, Wo think thisis ns far as the systom of specinl taxation shonld be extended nt this time, The Committeo reports tho ordinary wants of the State nt 82,268,000 a yoar, including $1,000,000 for school purposes. The rail. road tax, with n small {nx of lesa than half a mill,wonld produce an cxcess of ravenne, In Ponneylvanin §6,000,000 aro ralsed annnally, but that Stato is largely in dobt, and in en- gaged in paylng itofl, What littls debl thia Blato owes i otherwise provided for, and no {ax {8 required for that purpose, It may bo in time that ‘this system can bo extonded, and that specifio taxes can be levied on corporations nnd interests of other classos than transportation companies, and that some provision may be possible for the distribution of the largo surplus back to the countios in which it is collected., It may ba found, also, possible for the Stats to ennble locul municipnlities to include a liconse sys. tom for tha various occnpations and interests designatod in the Constitution, and thereby avoid the unsatisfactory, ungertain, and to a large extent farcical, attempt to lax notes, due-bills, book-nccounts, bonds, and mort. Bogos, of which not one dollar in a hundred Taxing evidenco of indobt- edness in addition to the tangible property for which mortgngos and notes aro given, is a blundor in political economy and n finan- is over renched. clal folly. Ravenuo syatems cannot be changed in an instant. Lot the new system bo tried in tho ono case, and then in the light of experienco 1t shiould it can bo onlarged nnd extended. bo remombered that the burden under which the peopla of Illinols are laboring is loeal and not State taxation, local and not Btate deht; and that merely to discontinuo the State tax on Innd and admit an fucrenss of local tax 100 per cent on tho samo land, isno rolief, THE FOREIGN TRADE IN MEATS, The London Spectator considers, from the English housewife’s standpoint, the subject of fresh meats imported from America, and concludes that this cxcellont lady Is likely to bo disappointed in her pleasant visions of cheaper meat and getting aven with the Tho notion of tho Spectator i that the quantity of fresh moats that will bo imported from America will not bo sufliciont for some years to coma to affect 1t points {o the fact that the im. port of American- meats in London {s now ono thousand tons n week, while there are imported from the Continent some 220,000 extortionata butcher, tho price, tons of fresh meats annually, which must bo drivon ant before tho price of English monts will be nffected. 'This strikos us as o rathor short-sighted view of the matter, since it {a admitted {hat the American resonrces aro practically withont limit, and grass is to be had in vast reglons of this continent for al- most nothing, The only limit on the price of meats compoting in English markota is the cost of transportation, which must of necessity bo large, and the larger bacanso thero is no bulky freight for the stcamsbips to bring back to this country. Asthe return trip must be made largely with ballast, our bulky exports must pay rates corresponding- 1y higher. But tho fact is that the American meats are alroady sold to the English, Scotch, and Irish butchers ot one cent a pound Joss than the nativo growers nsk. As this export trade In ments is still in ita infanoy, thore will be steady improvements in tho procoss of ehip- mont; probably before another year it will La possible to ship twice ns many carcasses in a steamship in the samo space now ocen- pled, aud when 1,000 killed animals can bo transported eafely and . in good condition and occupying no mora rogm than 500 do now, the freighta will be very considerably loss, and American meats will be sold in the English markets at correspondingly lower figures. Then it is likely that the meats from the Continent will disappear in the English markets and tho native growth must come down iu price, unless a distinction can be cuinblished in the quality of the mests which does not yet obtain, The espocial blessing of this now trade to tho peopls of Great Britain is the prospect thatit will enable classes of peoplo to eat fresh meats who have heretoforo hoen doprived of them, and give, othera fresh meat onca a day who have lertofora had it only ouce a week, If the English growers can main. tain their prices for home production on account of superior quality, well and good; the rich and well-to.do can indulge themselves, and tho poorer people will be happy in gotting Amorican meats, which are good enough. If not, thon English meats must come down, nnd the land-owners must como down with their rents to meet the cmorgency., So far from the Continental meat-growers boing able to compato with the Amorican growers, the time is not proba. bly far distant when they will have to com. péto with American meata on their own ter- ritory, ‘The extent of the trade will only be limited by the freights, and the prico will be regulated by tho American supply just so long as American growers can land fresh meats in Livorpool at a lower rate than the English growers chiarie, ‘The honsewives are prelty sire to get the bonefit of the trade in the long run, e — Mr. Frnny's terin a4 Henator expires on the tid of March. Ho haa been re-slected by the Legialaturo of Michigan, and on Monday, the Otk of Barch, will be sworn {n and take his sent again for another six years, But there will be an futorim of & day—Sundsy— betwaen the termination of the old and tho begioning of the now term, Mr, Frauy is now President of tho Senato, and a new one will have to be clected betweenmow and Haturday a weok, In the present threat. ening aspect of tho political wkies a strong, fearless liand is required on the helm, The selection should be made some days before the end of the session, The name for ths place that comes spontaneously to every Rte- publican mind is Honator O. P, Monton, If the purpose of the perfidious desperadoes of the so-called Democratio party fs to break their contract, and violate their engage. ments, and undertake to bulldoze Sax Tu- oey into tho Presidential chair, the Repub- licans want Senalor Montoy at the head of publio affairs to take the bulldozers by the throat. ‘The threatened violation of the Arbi. tration agreement has united the Republican party into a solld mass, actuated by one de- termiuation,—to resist aud defeit the con- tomplated coup d'ctat, and punish perfidy. A quarter of a million of Republicaus, cap- tured snd captivated by the crios of econ- omy, honosty, and reform, voted for TiLpeN; but not one man of them will go with those who undertako to break the Eloctoral com. promisc, They will be found stauding shoul- der to sboulder with those who uphold pledged foith. They will give nb aid or countenance to dishonorable wretches whose craving for partisan spoil is such as to over- cowe ull sense of houesty or woral cbliga- tons. If the Presidenlial connt in 1ot to hy completed, and another election must by hield next fall, Oiven T, Montom is the man for President ad interim, 1Mo is the man {n hinvo in chargo of tho Governmont when the Copperheads begin the work of terrorisy and intimidatio O —— OBITOARY. REAR-ADMIRALS DAVIS AND GoLDSnORovan, The United Btates Navy has lost, two mory Rear-Admirals,—six In all during the past four weeke, Wo have already wrltten the obltunries of Josepnt 8s1it, the oldest ofliver fn the eerr. fee; JAMES ALveN; CitAnnes WILRES, the hery of muncrous explorations; and TuEononey Baizmrs; and now the telegraph brings the newy of the death of the fifth, Rear-Admirg Cnantes J. Davis, Buperintendent of the Natfonal Observatory. He as horn In Boston, Mass., Jan. 16, 1807, entereg tho navy as Midshipman in 1823, and from 1844 to 1840 was engaged In the coast sur. vey. Intholatter year he discovered the New Bouth Bhonl and other shoals in the track ot salling vessels between New York and Europe, In the autumn of 1856 ha was ordered to naval service in the Paclie, as commander of the sloop-of-war Bt. Mary's. On the outbreak ot the Cisil War he was assigned to the Missls. sippt 8quadron, of which ho was appolnted flag oflicer May 0, 1802, succceding Comniodory Foore, Ife repulsed the Confederate fleet fn June of that year, which was followed by the surrender of Memphls. e then joined Fin. nacuT and was engagod ot Vicksburg, His ap- pointments have been na follows: Licutenant, 1834; Commander, 1854; Captaln, 1861 Com. niodore and Chlef of the Bureau of Navigs. tion, 1803; Rear-Admlral, 19633 Buperinteudent, of the Naval Obsorvatory, 1805-'73 Cominang. erof the Bouth Atlantie Squadron, 18673, since which time he has been stationed at the Observatory in Washington, Among his aclentifc works arc o *Me. mair upon the Geologleal Action of {ho Tidal and Other Currents of tha Ocean,” *Law of Deposit of the Flood-Tide,” several arfleles on astronomy and geodesy, s translation of Gaves' * Theorla Motus Corporum Ceolestlum, aud he was also one of the founders of the National Almanac. The slxth of the lat fs Louis MaLesisRoEs Gorpsnonovai, hor o Wasbington in 1805, 1o was appointed Mid. shipman {n 1812, and Licutenant in 1895, In 1841 hio was made Commander, took part {n the Mexican war, and was afterwards made senlor ofllcer of a jolnt army and navy commisslon on the Pacific coast, 1o 1855 he wes appointed Captaln, and from 1853 to 1837 was Buperin. tendent of tho Annapolls Naval Academy, In 1801 he was placed in command of the naval part of Bunnsipz's North Carolina cxpadition, was made Rear-Admiral In 1302, commanded the Europenan squadron in 1805,-'67, and after that wus In charge of the Washington Navy- Yard, o was on the retired liss at the time of bis death, BIR WILLIAM FERGUSSON, Tho telegraph has already announced the death of tho eminent Scotch surgeon and medi- cal author, Sir WitLiax Frnovssox. e was born at Prestonpans, March 20, 1803, and began Lis professlonal studies at theage of 13 under the noted anatomists, Drs. Kxox and Torxen, the latter of whom fllled the Chalr of Burgery in the Royal College of Surgcons, Edinbursg. Inless thana year ho becamo the confidential nssistant of his teachers fn tho preparation of *‘subjects.” 1n 1828 he became a llcentlato of the Ruyal Collera of Burgeons, and a Fellow of that corporation in 1820, In 1831 he began to lecture on the prineiples and practico of sur- gery, In 1838 was appointed Assistant Burgeon to the Royal Indrmary, sud fn 1839 tas cliosen a Fellow of the Royal Boclety of Ediaburg, In 1840 he was made Profcssor of Buargery In King's College, London, and for sowme timo was Professor of Burgery aud Auatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons. e was also Examiucr In Surgery at the Unlversity of London, a Fellow of the Royal Soclety of Great Britaln, Vice-President of tho Rogal Medico- Chirurgleal Socloty, n Fellow of the Obstetrical Baclety, and President of the Pathologiual So- clety, Preafdent of the Royal College of Surgery, Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital for Con- sumntlon and Diseases of the Chest, to the British Iomo for Incurables, to the Mospital for Diseasos of the Throat, to the Scottish Hos. pltal, to the}Caledonian Asylur, Honorary Sur- ®eon to the Bt. George's Hosplial, and Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen. Among the works which ho has left are: “A Bystem of Practical Surgory,” which Is held fn high cetimation amonz surgeons, and * Progress of Anatomy and Burgory fu the Ninetcenth Century,” which was published {n 1867; besliles speclal papors on Cleft Palate, Lithotomy, Lithotrity, Exclsion ot Jolnts, Aucuriem, and other subjects. GEN, CHANGARNIER. The death of the distinguished French Gen eral, NicoLas ANNE TuEODULE CUANGARNIER, was announced yesterdoy by cable. Ho was horn at Autun, April 20, 173, was cducated ot 8t Cyr, served as o Lieutenant (n the Spanish campalgn of 1823, and linally entered the Royal Quards. Hebeeamto a Brigadier-General in 1510 and General of Division in 1843. For many years ho was Governor-General of Algeria, and, when Louis NarouroN becaino President, was fnveste ed with the command of the regular troops known as tho Army of Parls. Iio subsequently opposed the FPresicent’s mensurcs and lust bis command fu 185 Ho wus arreste ed in the same year after the coup d'etat and - baulshed from Franee, Io 1859 ho avalled himselt of tho gencral amnesty to return to France, On the outhreak of the Franco-German war, Marshal Las@ur, tho Min fster of War, declined to ciaploy his services, but subsequently the Emperor sent him to Metz, where hio folned Bazatng, who employed Lim In the negotlutions with Prince Fnepzmic Cuarees which led to the capltulation of tho fortress, e was a vrisoncr of war fu Germany until the conclusion of the armistice, after whivh he returned to Puris. Bince that time he bas occupled a scat fu the National Assembly, —— ‘The Lower Houso of the Kaneas Legislature has passed the following bill by a ncariy usauls nous vote: An act making silver coln & legal-tonder. Seeviox 1, e it enacted b, tiis Legislatare of tho Stata of Kuusas, 7Aat all silver coln nads by the authority of Congress shall ba a legal-tende? for all deble not required by contract to b paid la gold coln; provided, that the trade dollar shall be valued snd counted |u the paymient of debis oz the nln; t.H the sume on tho busts of 41215 gralus for one dollar, Bec. 2. Al forelgn #liver caln shall be s legale l«l"mlnr in payiont of debls, st the value fzed there colu, which cannot be wade unlimited legsf- tender. As the Ciucinuat) Comrmercial ubeervepy two ot our hall dollars, of four quarters, or teu dlmes, do not contala as much fine sflver as our old silver dollar, but are equal to the 5irunc plece. Connvess, under tho Coustitutlon, hias the right “to coln money," and * regulate the value thercof,” aud *uo Htate eball make any- HAlug but gold AxD siLvER COIN a tender paywent of debis.” e —— The Republicans of Ciuciunati are contestiog the late clection on the grounds of Deinosrstic frauds. ‘Fbey have uuearthed an engrmous mass of fraud. Opbe of tho repeateys, Erx lloLLanp by name, bus equealed. TiipaY I8 hisJetter of acceptance salds ** What the coun~ try wants Is 8 real reform.” Epi wgs one of the Reformers, Iu bis confesslon he sald: 1 hed 8 man from Chicago named Buyxe, with & inu uf twelva wen. ond & man uamed Paigouitl, roum Pittaburg, with cighit men, and Miks GLES: sux, from Nuw York, with eightocp wen, Wl cast in all about 500 Lewocrutlc votey. 1t was by tcss votes the Demgerats elected two members of Congress—SayLgs snd Bax- d1¥a—and thelr county ticket. ‘TUE TRIDONX bas from time to time notlced the uew iudustry that Las spragg up In Epglaod iu counection with the fmportation and eale of fresh Awerican weat. A new development bas tow tuken place nthe trade. The ingenious and unscrupulous retall butchers of Mauchester bave adopted amesns ol disgusting their cus- tumery with tho Awericas meat, Scrawny asd