Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1877, Page 4

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Monroe street, comer Dearborn. Varlety enter- tainment. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1877 Greenbacks were ‘worth 951@95% at the "New York Gold Exchange on Saturday. ‘The 200th anniversary of the death of Barvcm pr Spmvoza, the renowned Jewish philosopher of the seventeenth century, was observed yesterday in this city by the Rev. Dr. Korres, Rebbi of the Sinai Congrega- tion, in an able and interesting memorial sermon which we print this morning. In another column will be found a letter from 2 New York correspondent giving an account of a visit to the house of Mr. Jomx THarperToN, the suthor of * Helen's Babies,” fogether with some interesting facts con- nected with the inception and production of that remarkably popular and successful ‘book. The draft of an address by the National Democratic Committes havingbeen approved by the House caucus, the document is daly distributed by telegraph through the coun- try. In tone and temper the address was what might be expected,—a purely partisan presentment of the Presidential question with which Democrats will coincide, and from which Republicans’ will just as unani. monsly dissent. Nobody will be any the worse or the wiser for it, and everything will move along just the same. Spoils-seekers’ and place-hunters will do well to postpone for a time a trip to Wash- ington to “fix things.” ‘One of the first things to be ¢ fixed ” by the new Administra- tion is the country at large, and the claims of the army of patriots who are expecting their reward will be for the present a second- . ary consideration. President Haves will chiefly concern himself with the selection of 8 Cabinet, and\ when that is accomplished the Southern question will take precedence over the aspirations of the office-solicitors. They can save the expense of a useless jour- ney to Washington by staying at home awhile. The Chicago produce markets were less sctive Saturday, and generally easier. Mess pork closed a shade lower, at $14.40 for March and $14.60 for April. Lard closed steady, at $9.55 per 100 1bs cash and $9.70@ 9.724 for April. Meats were easy, at 5c for loose shoulders, 7§c for short-ribs, and &c for short-clears. Highwines were dull, at $1.06. Flour was quiet and tame. Wheat closed Jc lower, at $1.224 for March and $1.23F for April. Corn closed steady, at 403c for March and 44)c for May. Oats closed steady, at 33}c for March and 36}c for May. Rye was casier, at 62@63c. Barley closed firmer, at 50c for March and 49c for April. Hogs were auiet and closed easier,—sales at $5.40@6.00 for common to choice grades. Cattle were moderately active and unchanged, with sales at $3.00@5.75. Sheep were dull and un- changed. One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $104.62} in greenbacks at the close. The closing scenes of the Forty-fourth Congress were vot unlike those which usual- ly attend the bresking up of the national law-making body. The customary compli- mentary resolutions relative to the presiding officers were presented by political opponents and passed 0s & matter of course. It is none the less pleasant to be able to admit that they were in this instance well merited. Certainly the Democrats of the Senate could truthfally bear witness to the ability and invariable fair- nessand courtesy which have characterized the incumbency of Mr. Fesnr as President of the Scnste; and, remembering the best and the chiefest among the official acts of the Speaker of the House, whose firmness and consistent adherence to the letter and spirit of the Electoral law defeated the attempts . of the desperate faction of obstructionists of - his own party, the Republicans paid a de- sexved tribute to Mr. Raxpavy in the resoln- tion moved by Gen. Baxzs and unanimously adopted. Itis gratifying to note that the Senate was brought to its senses in its closing hours, and that it reconsidered by a vote of 29 to 11 the previous appropriation of $500,000 to® the Pacific Mail for the China and Japan serv- ice and the same smount for carrying the mails betwoen New Orleans and Rio Janeiro. A clear millign of dollars was saved to the ocountry by this vote. When it cometoa direct question of voting this amount toa concern that had been convicted of systemat- jc bribery, and when the Senators had to go on record in the affirmative or negative, only eleven of the entire body bad. the face to sustain it. A good meny others, however, sulked away in the lobbies or smoking-rooms, and the two "Illinois Senators are notsble for their sbsence. In the House, Mr. Horaux's per- sistent and useful ** I object!” was made to serve an excellent purpose in the closing hours. In the role of chronic objector, which has made him so unpopular among the lobbyists and jobbers, Horaax has been the legitimate successor of E. B. Wasa- sunsein the House, and, though a Demo- crat, we almost regret that his constituents Tefused to re-elect him. There ought to be 8 scramble among the new members to adopt hic motto, *I object,” in the next Congress, and succeed {0 his useful position, — Oxne of the closing acts of the Democratic msjority in the House was the attempt to bulldoze the incoming President through the interpolation of a clausein the Army.Appro- priation bill farbidding the payment of any part of the monsy appropriated to troops, employed in Louisians and South ‘Carolina. Not a Democratic lawyer of the meanest in- telligence voted for this measure but _knew perfectly well that it was unconstitutional, and that it would be inoperative and futile if it became a law. The President is by the Constitution made the Commander-in Chief of the Army - and Navy, and by the same supreme instrument is mot only empowerd, but directed, to employ the Federal troops when a demand for their as- sistance is made by the Governor of a State to suppress violence and insurrection. It 'was an impndent and in every way unworthy act of partisan spite, this attempt to dictate to the President as to the cxercise of a con- stitutional prerogative, and the Senale rightly chose to let the Army bill go by de- fault rather than be coerced into legislation of this kind. Better that ten extra sessions of Congress be made necessary than to yield to a pressure so outragons, and be forced to commit a wrong act at the dictation of a partisan majority of 90, of whom all but three have been repudiated by their constit- uents. Novw that the Presidential question is set- tled, Corporal Keexan has hung up his bruised arms for monuments, and is making tours of investigation. As the result of the first one, he has discovered that the filibus- ters have forgiven the law-and-order Demo- crats, Barsey Cavirrerp has taken BEN Hnx, and LaMar, and Bavarp to his manly bosom, wept over them, and forgiven them, and Bruw SPriNGER has blessed them all, and they have promised him never, never to do it again. Corporal Krexax has found other things. He says: The Interior Department and Post-Office Depart- ment are at present set aside for the two Southern men that Gor. Haves hopes to persuade to enter his Cabinet. How this is to be brought about is mnot known. One of his Republican advisers has suggested that certain of the Southern Democratic leaders, such as Laxar, Bx HiLi, Goroox, and others, be asked to unite in & conference and recommend two men for these places. This prop- osition would be regarded by the gentlemen men- tioned as nothing more nor less than a deliberate insult. Notoneof them would accept the places, much less recommend any one for them. If Corporal KEexaN's statement be true, it might be as well for Southern Democrats to follow Mr. GREeLEY's injunction,—never to decline an office until there is some intima- tion that the office will be offered. From the GREELEY point of view, therefore, it ‘would be well for the Hotspurs to hold their temper till they find out whether there is anything to provoke it. As it is the heaven- born mission of every Democrat to get an office, and get it in any possible manner, we have little doubt, Corporal Kzexax's bosh to the contrary notwithstanding, that there are plenty of Southern patriots ready and will- ing to take all the offices Mr. HAYES can offer, and more t0o. That Democrat is not yet born who can withstand the offer of an [+ office. THE NEW FPRESIDENT. . To-day President Haves enters upon the grave and important-duties of the Chief Ex- ecutive office for a period of four years, after a contest the most prolonged and bitter, the most stormy and dangerous, ever known in connection with the Presidency in this coun- try,—a contest that has soverely tried ths self-governing capacity and the law- abiding and conservative character of the American people. With any other nation in the world such a contest would have led inevitably and directly into a bloody and destructive war, deluging the land with the blood of its own people, and leaving of our cities and towns only heaps of smoking ruins, The very closeness of the contest was in itself an element of peril, but the fact that there had been no tribunal established and Do enactment of law provided for the deter- mination of the result added fearfully to the complication and the danger of the dead-lock. But it is over now, and we can all rejoice together that not a drop of blood has been shed, not a weapon drawn—nothing worse than hot words and sharp, vitupera- tive talk in Congress, where a faction of deperadoes failed miserably in the attempt to precipitate anarchy and chaos upon the country. The great mass of the people, however, have remnined wonderfully cool and calm throughout the exciting and critic- at interval preceding the final declaration of the result. ‘While the Republican party rejoice that their candidate has at last been duly declared tobe the President of the United States, it is gratifying to see that the vast majority of the Democrats accept the situation in good faith, and acquiesce in the final decision like good citizens,—in short, conduct themselves just as the Republicans would have dore if the count had gone the other way, or if the Eight-to-Seven had been against them and in favor of the Democrats. Now, let the new President have a fair trisl and opportunity to demonstrate his policy and intentions. He undoubtedly wants to do right, to be the President of the whole people, to give to the country what it most needs—rest from the long and distract- ing agitation just brought to a close. With peace and contentment will come a revival of business prosperity as the result of cofi- dence in the future. Let us all rejoice that itisto be so; that the great agony-is ended and the tremendous contest settled without spilling a drop of blood, and that a profonnd calm is rapidly taking the place of the raging storm. * GRANT AND HIS ADMINISPRATION, Gen. GRANT has censed to be President after a service of eight years, being the only Executive who has held the office that length of time since Gen. Jacksox, who retired in 1837. His Administration covered a period of unprecedented importance in the history of the nation. Entering West Point while a boy, and the army immedintely after his graduation, and serving actively in the army until advanced inyears, he had no education, direct or indirect, in relation to national pol- itics. After a brief retirement from the army, he enteredit-again in 1861, and was made General at the close of the Rebellion. After his long and arduous labors in the field he sought repose in a life-office, with arank befitting his successful career us a soldier. The War was over; but, taough no hostile arms were raised against the Union, the most difficult of all the questions raised by the Rebellion were still to be disposed of by statesmanship. There Wwas an immense national debt ; there was .a vast system of the most searching and exacting - taxation ; the national credit was: sadly impaired; and the country was flooded with an irredeem- able and depreciated paper currency. Eleven States of the Union were prostrate in ruins; their whole labor system was overturned; the slaves had become freemen in law, but lacked the education, the knowledge, the courage, and. the civilization requisite for the exercise of the rights #nd privileges of free- men. - Were they to bo remanded prac- tically to the bondage from which they had been emancipated, or were thoy, unqualified and ignorant as they were, to be endowed with all the privileges of freemen, and thus made a permanent protection against any possible renewal of rebellion? On this sub- ject there was a wide divergence of opinion. The Executive took one side and Congress the other; ‘and the whole system of recon- struction mensures was cnacted in spite of and against the vetoes of President Jomn- son. Thero was more hope than faith in the, success of those measures. That success was dependent on the promptitude and en- ergy of the Executive in their en- forcement, and, ‘seeking for & Presi- dent who united public confidence with the coursge and firmness of purpouse to enforce these laws, Gen. GmaxT stood con- spicuously before the country. Against his ‘wishes, against his tastes, habits, and incli- nations, the Presidency was forced uponhim in 1869. ‘We suppose that, of all the men called to that office sinca 1789, there has been no one who was less qualified by education, mode of thought, reading, information, or experience in all that pertains to the civil government, laws, and history of the country. Ho had, during his previous life, voted but once, and then without any acquaintance with the political questions at issue. This want of political knowledge was shown in the selec- tion of his first Cabinet. He seemed to re- gard the Cabinet offices not as places of high responsibility, sharing in the exercise of Ex- ecntive powers and duties, but asso many places of distinction at his disposal, to be given to personal friends as evidence of his friendship and regard. He also seemed to regard the public service generally as a sort of attachment to his own office,—a patronage pertaining to him personally,—and therefore he incurred much reproach and evoked loud complaint that he had chosen his personal friends without reference to their fitness for his Cabinet, and hed dis- tributed those claiming kindred all through the civil service. His selections for office were such as he might make for his personal staff in the army duringa period of peace. His Cabinet was a constant weakness of the Administration. The combination was wenk ond the men were weak. The Secretary of the Treasury was the weakest. and at the same time the vainest and most conceited, man that ever held that office. The first At- torney-General resigning, he was succeeded by several who were wholly unfitted for the place. A vacancy oceurring in the Interior Department, that was filled by something worse than weakness. The Navy Depart- ment can hardly be said to have been sup- plied witha Cabinet officer from the beginning to the end. When Gen. Rawrnins died, the ‘War Department was conferred as a present, and the country is familiar with the result. Tt is unnecessary to detail farther, unless it be to except Secretary Fisu from the general verdict of wealmess. All this was the result, not of any want of general intelligence or want of patriotism on the part of Presi. dent GraxT, but was due to his total inexperience in civil affairs. At a later period, this theory of the personal prerogative of the President was shown in the unfortunate breach with Senator Sox- ~ER, who had undertaken to oppose and de- feat the scheme for the annexation of San Domingo. The President resented this as a personal affront, and treated the Senator ac- cordingly. The instincts of the President were just. He readily understood the pro- pricty of reform in the Civil Service, and made an earnest effort to have the co-opera- tion of Congress; but the machine politicians opposed it, and after a brief struggle they starved the proposed reform out of exist- ence. Another illustration of the Presi- dent’s notions of his personal rights was to consider it his duty to stand immovably in defense of the personal friends who held office. Agninst these he tolerated no criti- cism, choosing to regard all imputations upon them a5 aimed at himself; hence it was that the men like SmermeRp at Washington and others elsewhere were able to maintain themselves against the universal sentiment of the country, they artfully convincing him that he was the real object sought by all ac- cusations against them. It was not strange, therefore, that the President had alienated a large proportion of the people from the support of his Admin. istration before the first term had expired. The practical exercise of the Executive functions after the mauner of a personal government had excited the alarm of many of the warmest and most influential mem- bers of the Republican party, and this feel- ing took the shape of organized opposition in 1872, and only failed in defeating his re- election because of the disintegration of that opposition following the nomination of Mr. GrEELEY. President Gruvr, while lacking when elected all knowledge and cxperience of civil affairs, as he in his last message 50 frankly admitted and regretted, took with him into the office a patriotism beyond all question, and a desire and s purposo to be just and right in all respects. Tha execu- ticn of the Reconstruction laws, supple- mented as they were by the extension of sufirage to the enfranchised blacks, was a most embarrassing and perplexing duty. In the successful performance of that duty he bad to employ agencies and means which did not always commend themselves to his Jjudg- ment. The violence of the White-Line Poj ulation, however, left him but little choice, and the use of troops became a necessity to prevent a war of races, with all its barbari. tiesand cruelties. Whenever, however, the opposition, by their conduct, gave him the opportunity, he permitted and enconraged the transfer of the State Governments to the hands of the majority of the people who conld maintain them. This was notably the case in Alabama, A-kansas, and Texas, and in Mississippi. Compelled by necessity and by the letter of the law, he upheld ' the Government in Louisiang; but he has given frequent evidence of his- regret, and in the last ‘days of his Administration has shown the force of that regret by his direct action in the case. : President GrANT's Administrationhas, when all the attendant circumstances are consid- ered, been a successful and a brilliant one. Despite the mistakes, possibly blunders, and the moral and ictellectual weaknesses which have existed during that Administration, and have to some extent become identified with it, there is much in the history of the last eight years of which the nation can justly- claim pride and satisfaction. .The national credit hos beén lifted from the dust. Order and systom -in’ the national - finances have taken the place of chsotic confusion. - Con- fidence has been established whore distrust prevailed, and the capacity of -the American ‘people to maixytain their plighted faith,-and to overcome all. invitations to dishonesty, has been overwhelmingly demonstrated. The President has, from the time when he first addressed his attention to ‘the subject, dono all that he could to promote a final re- covery from the cmrse of depreciated paper and to establish specie payments. Though this measure was not completed at the expiration of his term, he bas left but little for his successor to do in that respect. He has so wisely and prudently administered the national finances that, while tases have been largely reduced, the principal of the national debt has also been so reduced that the annual interest payment has been less- ened over $40,000,000. In addition, $500,- 000,000 of the debt have been changed from 6 to 5 per cent bonds, and now another $500,000,000 of the G per cents arc being re- placed with 4} per cent bonds. The admin- istration of foreign nffairs has been not only eminently successful, but has embraced many new and important international ar- rangements. The principle of the right of denationalization . has become recognized in -solemn treaties with mnearly all the nations of Europe. Our relations with ‘Great Britain, which when Gen. GranT succeeded to the Presidency were exceedingly unpleasant, have been managed so satisfactorily .that & better feeling exists between the two countries at this time then at any previous period of our history. Itis due to the retiring President to say that, when satisfied that a, gigantic fraud on the revenue had been practiced, he unhesitating- ly supported Secretary Baisrow, not only in his efforts to uproot the conspiracy, but also to bring the guilty to punishment. - He gave the Secretary full power, and the successful exposure and conviction of the guilty could not have b2en made had the President been opposed thereto. It is tobe regretted, how- ever, that the record in the great revenue conspiracy was not left to stand as it was made up by Secretary Bristow. The subse- quent interpositions of Executive clemency in behalf of the convicted conspiraiors has done much to weaken the moral effect of the exposures and trials, and to encourage: others to regard crimes against the Government as deserving of sympatby rather than of punishment. To-day President Gravr is once more a pri- vate citizen. Hoisin the prime of life; he is ripe in experience. The eight years of his Presidential servico have been years of hard experience and anxiety, He turns the Gov- ernment, which when he rescued it was em- barrassed and distressed financially and politically, over to his successor, blessed ‘with restored credit, and in established peace and unison. With a military record such as the proudest Captains of ancient and modern times would be glad to claim as their own, he returns to the great family of American citizens bearing civic and military honors such as have been borne by no American ex- cept WasmivoToN. He will take his place in American history as a soldier-President who performed his duties ably, and who, com- mitting mistakes and blunders, had the courage to avow and regret them. THE LAST OF THE DESPERADOES. There was a time when the Desperadoes, . threatening obstruction and resistance, were dangerous; now they are simply making themselves ridiculous.. The adoption by the Democratic majority of tho House of Rep- resentatives of a resolution declaring, as the sense of that House, that Sivver J. Tiupex and TroMas A. Henpricrs bad received 196 Electoral votes, and were duly elected Presi- dent and Vice-President, was, as Mr. Wmre said, ‘‘revolutionary, treasonable, and damnable,” but it was also absurd. All the Democrats who voted for this resolution but eighteen had previously voted for the law ereating the Electoral Commission, and had bound themselves to accept as lawful and final the award of the Presidency according to the decisions of that Commission, unless set. aside by Congress. Under these decisions, Haves and Waeerer were adjudged to have received 185 Electoral votes, and the House of Representatives the day pre- vious had assisted in joint convention in de- claring this result. Nothing could be more inconsequential than the passage of a party resolution, which has no more value than a Democratic caucus resolution, to the effect that TrLoey and HENDRICES were elected after Hayes and WaeeLer had been duly and law- fully declared elected by Congress. The ouly result of such action at this time is the stultification of the party responsible for it and the Democrats who voted for the resolu- tion. Nothing is mors puerile and despicable than an exhibition of impotent rage, and it is to this extremity that the desperadoes have been reduced. Of a kind with the House resolution to which we have reforred was the appearance on the same day of the New York Sun in mourning, the refusal of Senator McDovarp, of Indiana, to serve on the Semate Inanguration Committee, the fiying of flags by New York and Brooklyn Democrats at half-mast, and other childish demonstrations of spleen and ugliness which have baen made by the irre- concilables. It is very much like the con- duct of a vicious boy who has lost a prize for which he has been contending. It is. unmanly and unpatriotic, with the additional chagrin that it cannot be and will not be followed by any other result than an empty and disgusting display of tem- per. If there. was any indication that the Desperadoes intended to follow out the consequences of their resolution; if they proposed to act upon Doxy Purr's advice and assassinate President Haves; if they were going to assemble Warrersox's 100,000 lambs at Washington to-morrow ; if they intended to make an effort to inaugu- rate TILDEN in spite of their defeat, their action would be more appalling, but at least it would be less ridiculous. A small cliquo of traitors has been transformed by malice and petty spite into a great lot of fools. " The thorough investigation of the dis- puted States has shown that the only State which the Democrats can with any show of renson claim should be awarded to them is Louisiana. If it had been given to them, Jthen Mr. TiLpeN would have been President, but he would have gained the office by means of the most revolting system of intimida tion, violence, and ‘murder that ever TO- ceived the sanction of a party.. It has been proved that in forty of the counties of Louisiana where there was no ‘bulldozing the Republican gains wers so large that Hayes would have carried the State by 10,000 if the election had been equally fair and free in the other seventeen counties which tho bull- dozers scized. In one of these latter coun- ties (East Feliciana) not a single Republican wns pormitted to cast his vote, though neafly 2,200 Ropublican voters hod regis- tered.’ But not only ‘were Republicans pre- vented from voting, but the Democrats stuff. ed the ballot-boxeaso 83 toreturn 1,736 votes, or more than double the number which they'|.is had cast at the preceding election. In"five.| to of thess counties alone, bulldozing and bal-- lot-box stuffing made a change of over 8,000 votes in favor of the Democrats, and had Mr. Trpex taken the Presidentinl chair he would have owed it entirely to this system of outrage and fraud in a small section of the State of Louisiana. Now, because TILpEN has not been permitted to attain the Presi- dency on this state of facts, the desperate office-seekers who were depending upon him | do act like escaped lunatics, and commit them- | or selves to-such absurd positions as the House | is resolution znd the conduct of individual | If Democrats we have noted. ‘They are in a pitinble plight. ba RESUMPTION AND SILVER. he Perhaps it is as well that Senator Smen- | 4o aan’s Resumption bill was formally post- poned in the Senate till the next regular ses- sion of Congress, in view of the fact that there has been no agreement as to the re- monetization of silver. The session of Con- gress just closed has been so much engrossed poi by the Presidential controversy that it has not been possible to secure for the finances the consideration which they ought to have. | tp, Senator Smenywax's scheme for resumption | ¢p anthorized the funding of greenbacks into | ¢ 4 per cent bouds to the extent of $100,000,- 000, under the limitation that not more than | j¢ $25,000,000 a year nor mora than $4,000,000 amonth should be thus retired; it also au- | 4, thorized the increass of the silver coinage sy from $50,000,000 to $80,000,000, providing that the new issue of silver should be in ex- change for the greenbacks of the smaller de- | 4, nominations, which should likewise be re- tired and destroyed. Senator Smenaan’s scheme was in the right direction, but the objection to this or any other scheme for resumption at the present time is, that thero has as yet been | fiyf “no provision for remonetizing the silver dol- lar. The Senate did not agree to the bill | th which passed the House, the hitch being on the extent to which the silvgr dollar shouid be constituted a legal-tender. Any schome for'resumption at this time, therefore, wonld be on the single gold basis, which could not be brought about without a serious contrac- tion and grent danger to the business inter- ests of the country. Itis as well, therefore, that a definite and practicable plan for re- sumption be postponed until it will bring into circulation the product of the silver as | j¢ well as the gold mines of this country. This will be the principal work for the new Con- gress to accomplish at its next session, and | ea; it is the duty of members-glect to give it their special study. The Silver Commission, which reported a | Ses day or two ago, agreed that the spasmodic and temporary decline in the value of silver was owing, not to increased prodnction, but to the demonetization in Germany and de- | to creased demand for silver coin. It agreed | of that the double standard is the only safe basis for resumption in this country, and that thereby we may avoid the depression which followed resumption in England, | ¥ Union. these machine politicians have exceeded their legitimate legislative functions. It was with-- in the bounds of propriety for them as citi- zens to have memorialized the President and recommended Gen. LoGAN or any other man, any such purpose. nois does not reqnire it of them, much less recognize more noglected sections of the In this view, as well as the other, t aslegislators they were not elected for The Constitution of Illi- the requirements of political propriety the sentiments of their constituents. It no pait of their political or legal daties. ithas any effect at all, it can only be to embarrass the President and Gen. Locax * himself. "It isnot even koown that Gen. Locan desires the place. It may be that is intending and anxious to retire private life, and that .he would not accept the offico if it were offered him freely of the President’s own motion. He has expressed no public desire for it, and we are not aware that e has even manifested any private in- clination towards the Cabinet. If the ap- intment comes at all to him, thercfore, it must come as the free, unbiased, and un- embarrassed selection of the President. If e latter cannot select & Cabinet withont e dictation of legislative cliques, it is time call ahalt. What is the use of protesta- tions of reform in resolutions and platforms the moment that a President is elected we are to fly in the face of them, and thrast em one side and adopt that very Tammany stem of spoils upon which the Democracy was fought all through the campaign. There is another view of this question. If e President is disposed to make a Cabinet selection from Illinois, it may be that he would prefer to take his Attorney-General from here. Locax available material 2 but one answer to the question who is the If this be so, is Gen. There can be test and strongest man. The unquestion- able answer of the people of this State and e whole country would be Col. IxcEesors, K3 i rule that HAYES should never zet into of o~ by thisllomse ™ Now you mh;en-":"lne r?-f' n';'a""'l% O the past two days, “Why. be whl 1o it Onlinary PAriementars Honty, e g Another member who sat-close oy remarked: 1 am 2 food frind of Sxx, but this is a deg bea gl dag for him.” allading to Ar. RANDATL for the mext Spoakership. Jony Youws B and Brxsiy s came in for bitter deqpag® tion in the talk of the fiibustering faction, gos them said: ** Hirs got his instructions by o fo-day. Ty wert in these words: > Glorgiy fers war and anarchy o fraad and villawgy, o B other member said: **1iad the Demoetuie pal: stood firtm_for one hour, we conld have exiart) from the Senate the passage of FrzrLo's b ore new election, and then, with IExpmcks at n: head of the ticketand sumebody else than g Now York Democratat the tail, we wonld hare sue the conntry. ™ »* A SERSIBLE S0UTHERN PAPER, The Memphis. Avalanche thinks that “Southern members who favored the adoption the Arbitrationplun, andopposed the des; who tried to break up the compromise and {eat the count, did right and acted for the besy interests of all sections: Had the Sonthern members yiclded to the pro. gramme of tbe altras, rejected the Electon] (oo, mission and resolved to install'I'morx atali ha; what then* Undonbtediy the Repablicans ed the power to inaugnrate HAvrs andpatbig Into the White House. * The army and nary wonig bave been placed at hls disposa’. He wouly gas Lind & Cabinet already orsanized, and a Senate o confirm his appointments. Every revenus ofieiy Would huve recognized his as the only Governmery Ar. Tivgs woald have been without an ol organization; not one of his appointments wossy have been confirmed. He would have beenpower. less, notwithstanding his popular majority, ablé to aucceed by the sword; and both North sy South -united in condemning a resort 10 extren. meastres. - 3 With Ilavs thus installed, the ublican nltray. wonld hal'echn‘*;cd the South “fifl‘h design to plunge the country into another war. Ot numeri. cal strength in Coiigress. and_co-operation in. the **all-bazard™ movement_ would ve pointed to ot roof, and the hands on the dial would soon bave cen turned back to the time when Northern senty went, olindea by sectional prejudice guickened by the memorics of the War, Justified tgs barahest, most oppressive treatment 'of the Sonth, By their course, while mot in any way eom. promising thewmselves or lessening the chances of their own Presidential champion, Mr. Tiory, for whom they did everything they conld, the Southern Conqressusen liave arerted war, and’ placed thoy people in the most facorable attitude oecupled be. Jore the country for tiwenty years. Whether, by dmmlmplejnsfigo to the Sonth, the Kepubiicay Administration will show its recognition of all thus, time will tell. That the great public will understand and appreciate it, there can: be no doubt. Notc, jor the firat time since the Way. thy South can confldently 70 to the Republican- North on her yecord, and demand justice. aman of large brain, of eloquent power, of pure character, of unblemished reputation, of immense legal ability. His voice was the trumpet-call in the campaign that was heard from Maine to California. He aroused the Dpublic, woke up the sleepers, infused the apathetic with fresh determination, brought back Republicans to their old allegiance, and added thousands of votes to the ticket. He was the DEMOSTHRENES of the campaign, and, the President have any such purpose in view, this thrusting of Gen. Locay upon him by the importuuate machine politicians a only serve to seriously embarrass him. Some respect mast be paid to the rights of the President and to his viows upon Civjl- rvice Reform. He must be allowed some will and discretion, and we believe he is the man who will exercise both without regard to caucuses, and who will not allow himself be made the sutomatic registering clerk politicians. % THE SENATE. President: GRANT by proclamation has con- ned the new Senate to meet to-day at noon, The only point upon which it was not able to agree was the relative proportion of for the disposal of executive business. Presi- deot Hares will bave 2 number of appoiut- ments to be confirmed, including a new Cabi- net. Itisthe custom to call the Senate to- ‘weight which the silver dollar should have as to the gold dollar. The weight of the | ge American silver dollar some time previcus to its demonetization in 1873 was at the rate of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold, much more valusble than the gold dol- lar that it disappeared from general circu- lation. At the present time it would not be out of proportion owing to the depreciation of silver, but itis a question whether the remonetization of silver in this country, and the demand for it as coin, would not soon give the dollar of that weight too great a | 18 value, which would result, of course, in its disappearance from circulation. At all events, it is certain that for thirty years previous to the demonetization of silver in | 18 Germany and the United States, the silver and this made it so | 1g7p. 1883 o 1831, Newton Booth. 1881, J. B. Chaflee. 1883. Uenry M. 'Teller. 1881 1870, 18! 1851 ther at the beginning of a new Administra- tion. The new Senate will be as follows, Re- publicans in Roman, Democrats In italic, and In- dependents in SMALL CATS: ALABALY sussissirr, 70. Geo. L. Spencer. 1881. Branch K. Bruce. Ji organ. |1883. L. Q. C. Lamar. A As. 1 nssount, . S. W. Dorsey. 11870 Zouis V. 1883, A. I, Gurland. [1881. F. 1. 187 1883 1881 11883, B. Wadloigh. E. H. Eollins. NEW JEgeEr. 7. P. Landolph. J. . 3fcPherson. arrent. coLomaDO. CONNECTICUT. KEW YORK. 70. Wm. J{. tiurnrm.|1870. Roscoe Conkling. Wm. W. Eaton. [1881. Francis Kcrnan. DELAWARE. NEBLASEA, 70. Thos. F. Bayard.'1831. A. S. Paddock. 81. Eli Saulsdury. 1383, Alvin Saunders. FLORIDA. NEVADA, 370. 8. B. Conover. 1870. John P. Jones. Charles 4. Jones.|1881. William Sharon. GEORGLS. NOBTM CAIOLINA. 100 goid S piscn of France whero | 358 0532 orpon. k" L1 S0, the proportion was 154 ounces of silver to ILLINOI. o 3 Lot gold, wero constantly at par, sod. that, | 350 R0 Gy, e, Joug Sheeman, when one temporarily became worth more INDIANA. OREGON. than the other, the demand for it very soon | 137 Qiver I' Morton. 179, Joun I, Mitchell. restored the equilibrium. This is the only APy 10W. o _ PENNSYLVANIA. guestion to be decided in regard to the | 158 Ja i ANeen- a7, Simon Comenon. remonetization of silver and free coinage of 3 RIODE 1SLAND. the silver dollar, and the cours of silver | {37)- Jobn ). Ingalle, 161, 4. E. Turuside. throughout the world will enable Congress KENTUCRY. SOUTH CAROLINA. to determine it fairly ot the next session. | 1933 710, 0 eCreery. om0, ., Patterson. Then, ho for resumption ! Fovistaes. S’ 1870. (Vacancy). ¢s Ex Bailey. = 1893. W. P. Kellogg. (1583 Zsham G. Harris. THE FIEL] - MAINE, Xas. GEN. LOGAN AND CDS.EPBWG D CAU- %ggg Jfinnnibel ILnlmHn, 1581, S_("}'\-" . The action of the Republican cancus at | oo sumey G, l18ine: (185 Hickard Coke. : Rbg 2 inoi 1870, George £, Dennie. |1870. Justin S, Morrill. Springfleld, in instructing the Ilincis dele- ( 1370. fisorge , Dennie. 1870, Justin Gdmnas, gation in Congress to press Gen. Locax upon MASSACHUSETTS. the President for a seat in the Cabinet, was, to say the least, singularly indelicate and un- becoming. No matter how many people in 1 Dlinois desire to see Gen. Locax in the Cabi- net, they must universally feel and acknowl- edge that the action of the caucus was T neither proper nor respectful, and that such action, from a caucus barely numbering one- third of the members, is tantamount to an | oul attempt at bulldozing the President into the | tio appointment of Gen. Logax to a Cabinet po- sition. 'We contend, and the people of this State will admit the justice of the claim, that o thisis carrying machine-politics altogether too far. Under the Constitution, the Presi- dent is authorized to select his own Cabinet. Itis his confidential family. It must be composed of counselors in sympathy with | Lo him, whose views are in barmony with his, I and who will not be likely to embarrass him of with factious opposition or with the present- ation of counter policies. It is a matter of public noterioty, so openly avowed that no one will .care to dispute it, that Gen. Looavs views upon ap- pointments and the general issue of Civil- Service Reform are directly at vanance with those of the Premdent. Gen.Locay is in sympathy with the machine system which installs men in office or removes them from | be it upon no other motive than that of spoils, and which, if continued in practice, will not only increase the extent of corruption and demoralization; but eventually jeopardize the existence of republican’” institutions. Not satisfied in grasping at all the offices be- low the Cabinet, the spoils-hunters who run the machine now propose to invade the Cabi- net itgelf, and dictate to the President who shall constitate his confidential counselors | ™ without even allowing him independence of choice. The President knows Gen: Logax, of fac no its and his fame as the people of Illinois or the cancus which has been so impertinont and forward in ts dictations. If Gen. Loaan, therefore, is in sympathy with the President and in harmony with his views apon the Civil Service and other questions, and if the President is disposed to take him into the Cabinet, he will send for him and tender him the ap- pointment. It isbyno means certain that he thinks Illinois is entitled to a place in the Cabinet after having had the Presidential of- fice for sixieen years. . Pechaps his intention for his 1881. lcury L. Dawes. 1883, George F. Hoar. |1833. ./ 1881. 1. P. Cl 883. Thomas W. 1881, 1889, FRELINGHUYSEN, of VIRaINGa. 1881. RoberiE. ivithers. 3. /. W. Johnston. MICHIG. WEST VIRGINLS, lancy. (18S1. Frani: Hereford. erey. 1883, Henry G. Davis. : i MINNESOTA. illan. |1879. Tim. 0. Howe. William Windom. 1551. Angus L\!m!rucn. The new Senate will stand, according to party strength, 41 Republicans to 32 Democrats, and 1 Independent,—Judge Davis, of Illinols. The troing Senators who have failed of re-elec- n are ALCORY, of Mississippi; BoutweLt, of Massachusetts; CLAYTON, of Arkansas; CooPER; Tenncssee; CRAGIN, of New Hampshire; New Jersey; Gowubp- WAITE, of Alabama; HAMILTON, of Texas; Hanvery, of Kansas; HITcHCOCE, of Nebraska; EELLY, of Oregou; Losay, of Illinols; Nom- WooD, of Georgia; RoBERTsON, of Souta Car- olina; STEVENSON, of Kentucky; West, of uisiana; and Wiier, of Towa. e —— t is said that when HENDRICKS was informed ProcTor KNOTT's foolish resolution declar- ing that TILDEN had reccived 195 votes, ‘‘his ‘e wore 2 puzzled expression, but. his cantion and reserve were impregnable. Afterward, fna conversation with Gen. Moxsox, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, he said that the passage of the resolution by the House was well enongl, but that it wonld bave practical effect as to the election of Mr. Tirs DEN, as HAYES was sure of being inaugurated, and his occupation of the Executive Chair would: acquiesced in by the country.” - He has dis- approved of the conduct of the filibustering desperadocs, and could not see that any good could come of it. * 3 —————— If the Washington feporter who sent this was Dot such an incorrigible liar, it might be consid- cred significant,—s sort of straw showing the direction of the wind: Se ' o ke e T2 ey Cobonian o conversation Haves said: this **1 intend to take two lerate Democrats from the South into_my Cab~ t,” eaid PATTERSOY, ** why don't yon go the whole thinz, and take as’extremo a man as re is, —H. %, for instance?’ HaYEs re- d Py ks lied, **T nid take Hax: and is quite as well acquainted with his mer- | bomd get Mo “Pale onrioN il L were sure T 7ERS0%, Who had not anticipated et ot andsintad Sax_ RANDALL, the Democratic Speaker of the House, had a rongh time trying to control the firc-caters and filibusters who were trying most desperately to raise the d—1 and defeat the count. A New York dispatch says: The filibusters are farious d get him. “This sompletely stagyored Pat- reply. it Jlr, RaxpaLL what they call his treachery. —One of them said ‘1o 8 knot of eympathizing mombérs to-day, shaking, finger at the Speaker: Tonder f8 the firat tratto X adiouier fothe e tralior fn om midst and the fes; e The New York Tribure recommends quite warmly for Secretary of State Mr. WiLrras AL Evarts, of New York. It thinks that— * Besides reflecting lustre upon the Administra tion, the clioice of Alr. Evanrs as Sceretary of State would bring the new President an Increasa of positzve political strength. It would tend to heal the nnfortunate divisions in the party in New EvAETS has been allled with neither side, and ousht to be entirely acceptable toboth. It would rally to the active support of the Administration great many indepencents whose sympathies hive aiwaiys been with tae Be- - puvlican party, bui who have been able to giv it under its recent management only a hulting and uncertain approval Mr. EVAIrs is not a machine politician, but the party has had aitogotSer top many machine politicians, and what 1¢ aeeds now is a few statcsmen. ————— Considering that ticy have lost both theirbets and the oflices, and got ‘scuoped all ronnd, the great mass ol the Democrats have acted in a way to challense admiration. They have acqui- esced in the result with fortitude and resiena- tion. Betterluck unext time, is their motto; 4and, unless the Republican leaders bebave very mauch better during the next four years than the last four, the Democrats will make 3 clean sweep of everything in 13%0. The Republican rulers must be on their good behavior, or thers will not be 2 grease-spot of them left next time. Let them take heed and act accordingly. —————— The Democrats have never luoked upon edu- cation with much favor, and now they are suf- fering the conscquences of such neglect. They submitted their case to arbitration where the weight of argument must prevadl, and their logic was so weak that they could only convince seven of the fiftcen Judges, while the more in- telligent Republicans convinced eight. Thiswill teach ‘them the necessity of compulsory edn- catior. Ignorance may do for bulldoziey and ballot-box stuffing, but it can’t go behind the returns. ———— One report from Washinzton is that Gen. R P. KeNNEDY, of Dellcfontaine, O., will be President HAYES® private secretary. He wasat onc time alaw-partoer of HavesatFremont,0., and during.the War served nnder him in his regiment; but the quidnuncs may be mistaken as to the private secretaryship. — The Democracy of thirty-seven States are still cursing the Democrats of ilinols for electing Judge DavID DAvis to the United States Sen- ate. The Republicans of the country, on the other hand, rezard his elcction 2s a blessing in- disguise- York Staie, for Mr. ——— PERSONAL Mr. ‘Daly, of New York, has written play called *“Blue Glass,” which will be produced & weck from to-day. Readers of the Englieh novel called *‘Sidonle," translated from the French, will be gricved to hear that it has been carefully expurgated by the trans- lator. Gen. Von Stelnwehr, of Cincinnati, whose death in Buffalo last weck has alrcady been noticed, had his life insuredfor $60,000, 520,000 mthe New York Life: $20,000 in the Germania of New York; and $20,000 fn the Connecticut Muataal. In the session of the New York Board of -Educa- tion Thursday, nearly 250 Principals and vice- Principals of schools asked the pririlege of sharing Inany cartailment of ealaries which it is founa necessary to make, and the Clerk of the Bosrd offered up 10 per cent of his $5,000 a year on the altar of economy. The Springfield Republican has no apprebension that the telephone will supersede operatic entor- tainments. **Thongh it will be very convenient for Crasus, with his gouty foot, to have hisopera wired to his impatient ear, the average man sud woman will scarcely care to divorce the eye and caria such cnjoyments. The New York Zribune sald Mr. Garfield made & mistake in accepting a fee for preparing a brief in behalf of the De Golyer paving-contract, —bis friends had best acknowledge that; beyond that, there Is nothing to ssy. No human beingwith an ounce of brains has the least doubt sbout Gen. Garficld's personal Integrity in the matter. Mr. Sylvester, Professorof Mathematics ¢ Johos Topkins University. annonnces that heis on the eve of making & mathematical discovery which be hopes will prove to be of considerable importatice. He has been led into the investigation of the co- variants and invariants of aigebraic quantities, and has found food for thonghts which hive engaged: him for a long time past, and will probobly 0¢zapy: all his powers of contemplation. adsantageously for some years to come. 3 Young **Corneel ™ Vanderbilt ia well known fn Hartford, where ho used to indulge himself lsrze- Jy in varions extravagances. The old Commodors’ paid hls debts several times, and then peremptori- Iy refusedto be responsible for him any longer- *‘That boy would spend a millions yearif be could got it, * said the Commodore. **Comeel™is now tryingtoget it by contesting the will. The advantzge of spending a miilion a year s, that the person who spends it cannot long stand up under the presqure. 4 Mr. Story, the American sculptor in Rome, was, drawn into the com petition for the Byronstatae without his consent. Ie modcled a statnette of Byron for an English friend as o gift. Thisstata- ette wassent, without his knowledge, to the com- vetition for the Dyron monument under the name- of ‘*Edward Marion.” The litfle figure, although not intendea for s monument, was returned o138, owner with the request that he try agsin. M& Story does not approve of competitions in works of art, and would mever have agregd, if askod: 0. engage in this one. 5 Mr. Halstead scems to take It for granted that Senator Sherman will be the new Secretary of the Treasnry. In that event the three principal candi- dates for the vacancy in the Semate will be Gar- fleld, Gov. Noyes, and Stanley Matthews. Hal- stead objects to Garfleld beeause he is wrong on the siiver-dollar question, and says that Noyes pame has been associated witha foreign sppoint- ment. Matthows fs evidently the Commercials favorite. He has, in addition to his othef claims, the virtue of living'in the Southern past'of the State, which has not had a Scnator since the days of Salmon P. Chase and George E. Pagh; besides, . Northern Ohio has the President. The, contestof Matthews for Banning's seat is merely formal, ify a3 supposed,” the Democrats have a small majority IntheHomse. . : . .. . it pe T