Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1877, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY., DECEMBER 1, 1877—~TWELVE PAGES. Yens, 275 nays, 20, Patterson and Conover hoth voting with the Liepublicans sud David Davis, of Iilfnots, With the Democrats. THT DEBATE, NMAMMERINO AWATY. WasniseroN, D, Uiy Nov. 50.—Consideration was resumed of tho Kellogg case, and Mr. Ennlsbury spoka In favor of recommitting the mubiject to the Committeo on Privileges and Flections, with nstructions to take testimony, Me. Hawag safd Mr. 8pofford made no charge of fraud agoinst Kellogg and the Returning Rusrd befora the Commitice on Privileges and FElcctions untiltke22d of November, atterall the world had been adised that fn order to hurry on the Butler case it Was nccessary to postpont the Rellogy case— Mr. Hill sall Judge Spofford proseuted his charges and offcred to prove them in October. Mr. Howo sald he took tssuo with the gentle- man, and sppealed to tho record, Ho DBEFRNDED THE RRTORNISG DOARD, and sald it was 5o more poesible for that Board 1o perpetrate a fraud when it examioed the re- turas of the election in 1576 than it is poesiblo for the Supreme Courtof the United Etates to perpetrate fraund In giving judgment upon a cause T¥hieh had been argued. Mo J arjnes. that Spofford made certaln chargen aEaintl Kellogg, and offered to prove them fwOctober, 1le then read tho following telegram, which bie eaid had been handed him to-day: Nxw OrLeaxs, Nov. 20.—7T0 tAe 2op, E. Jokn Eilis; Thero is documentary evidence Lero in HKellogg's_office to ehow that he nused {nfluenca with 1he Retorming Boand, Tell Spofford. (Slgned) TLARRY L, SxiTiL PATTEOSON RISES. Mr. Patterson said: In maintaining the titlo of Totlertoa seat in ths mix bt recognize tha Jouic of political events. Thoes events were not any acts of mine, They were molded by the hand of snothe. It in unncceasa AL for me to roview in Betail tho tauscs that have fed to the assnmed trl- umph of tho Democratic party In South Carolina at tho luat genorsl elcetion. It was, In my judg- ment, the triumph of might over right. "1t was not won by any just and Iswful methods known to an elective system of tho dovernment, To nchiove it a free ballot was crushed in the fron raspof armed farce. 'This was iy judgment in E‘abmnry and March Jast, based upon testimony et forth In & memorial sont to Congress signed by Republican“State officers, nnd Scnators and Rep- rescotstives in the General Alumhl;. That memorial was Jald befors ~ tho President {mmediately alter his Insnguration. Gov, Cham- berlatn filed at the Executive Department an . elsborate argument In support of the legal proposi- tione tuat it contained, and voluminous testimony 10 sustain its allcgationa as to matter of fact. When It became known that the Preeldent conten- n\“efl the romoral of the troops from the Htste anae, 3 A THNILL OF HORROR went throngh the hearts of the Ropublicans of South Carolina, and_thoy crowded the National Capltal to make & sulemn protest and earncat ap- peals agalnat an act which they wero bound to hold n the foujoat. treschery and most nndeectved and sintimely weong of which tho_ history of polittcal parties furnisbed any record. Rade, 8nd {unorant. #ud unlettered o3 tho Kreat mass of South Catolina Tiepublicans may be, they wers yot loyal and trao to the grest principleaaf the Repablican pnflg. and In war and peace they had gathered around tha fag of this Unfon with all tho devotion with which the devout Christian clinga to tho cross of his Ke- Icemor, As Ropublicans thoy hud 4 NEVER DETHATED THEIR TRUST, ind they did not cxpect thermselves to bo belr:‘{ed. Through eight long years they had been hunted for thoir opinions’ eake, but they held tholr falth un- changed, nnd aseeried it by their ballots with in- flexiblo fidelity to thelr parly. They kaew cnogh o love thelr Govornment and trust ‘its dofenders, In the face of violence aver tho dead bidles of their meurdered brethren, they went to the volls and pave n clear majority for tho National Rtepub- lican candidates, and havingdone so they expected justice and protection. In spite of their remon- Ftrunees, tho President, who hed secured bls elec- tion through their votes, - RECOGNIZRD TUE DEMOCHATIC STATH GOVERN- MWENT, ond turned them over to thoe tender merclesof thelr exeited and embittered enemices, Wo are all familiar with the incldents of the last memorsbla Presldontial U"fl}“’lln‘ Wo all know that had the Electora vote of South Carolina becn cant against the lepabllcan nomineo 8 Democratic Preatuent would uwow lo occupylng the Whita Tlouse, and a Democrat would now b presiding over this hody, The Hopublicans of South (erolina then carricd CreeoY awl hls fortuncs. The Iiee publicen ollictals whe ennsiltuted the Bonrd of LI e Canvassets guorded tha integnty of that Electoral vote witta fidelity which neithicr throate of personal violency nor tho mandate of Judicial authority could swerve from the path of duiy. TThey attested that Milelity even fn thesdungeons vf thecammon jati of the county, to which they werg conslgned for refusing to obey an order which, 10 thelr fudgment, was designed to OVERTINOW,THE PLECTORAL VOTR of the Siate. ‘Thers wa# no hint given then that npen the ugcesaion of Mr. flayes to the Presidency his would remove the troops whose presenco aloue cnabled these oflicers to exerciso the functions of tle ofiices 1o which they bad boen falrly elected, No such comlngovent cast its dark shadow through the Iron bura of their, lvmon fn December, 16870, Verily may the Republicona of South Carolina ani of the entire Nouth exclutm, ** I have been wound- cd in tho house of my frienda,” The alm that struck tho fatal blow was nourlshicd by their de- voted and unsuspecting eervice, 1jrrosiatibly hore tecall to momory tho lince of Bnglana’s great poet: 0 the sruck eagle, atretchicd upan the plain, No wiore 1hsouka Foling cloudts Lo rusr agulu, Viows Ita uwd feasher ui $ho fatal dart ‘biat winued thy shalt that qulvored in hla heart, Thuugh keen bls pangy, yet keencr far (o feel Tie nurscd the pintan ¢t imrelied tho steel, The liapublicans of that Statc owe to-day to the clemency of thie viclors whatever of protection re- malns to them, ond not to the Administration they belleved 1w, tofled for, ond inaugueated. They wonld bave suflered in silence and borno thic s that Kepublicanimu fs helr tu In that reglon conld they but dtrcover clsowhera in the South that ern of good freling, the dialnteyratiun of thole n“;.o- nents, of cven the uprising of the ofd-line W (5 element which was o confidently prophesied an fondly unticipated, The good fesling Is confined to exulwtlon over universal Southern Domocratio Jomination, The South 1 wolid, and TUE OLD-LINS WHIGH fn undircovered exceps through the offer of remluma in the ehape of lucrative dowmestic srd forelgn appolntisenta. With thosostrong In- centlves o pal in ua sppesruucy, tholr numbers cun be counted upon the dogors, aud they have fof- lowed s mony strange gods slnce the deatu of thst noble ol party sud buenso frequontly rehabllitated u new coatusues that they defy recoznition by thole wmont futiolate scqualntauces. ¢ While the I'r nt was known to be medltat. ing this nc* which ** let slip the dogw of war* upan tue Hepubilcans of tno Bouth, some Repnblican Lors who now sseall me with harsh criticinm becauro I vote according to thedictates of my Judg: mentand my consclonce upon a quostion which (e §n nopropursense a party guestion wore elllor coid« 1y nentral or wereactively mving aid and comfort to the Hampton Government. I repudato and disown b aulurily uf such aa thess 1o pasa Judgment upan uy fdelity o the Jteoublican. pariy. | ros member, uir, the tremendous polltical “crisis of last March, when the fate not ooly of the Hepab- Dican party, butof this grest uatlon, seemed to bang (o the trembling Lalance, ‘There weore whispers of holy or unholy alllances then, and it was spoken in tunes louder than whispors that the distinguished Sevator from Now York, wow the Republican Actillvs of the Seoste, would cither joln the war ugainst hid ftepublican compeers ar i NETISR IR MOOUE Vuiti 0 bil4 tent, Learing no part in the baille that was . big with the fute of biv purty. Net wy voice, air, did not awell the curgent of false surmise that tm- uled meditated perddy 1o the hoporable S¢nator Mr. President: T capnot refrain from noticinj Driniys - ami juetice fo_ mysell demunie hat | should notica [t the furocioua aitack made upon wme by the Senator from Verwont (Edmunds). That henutor read upen tho floor of the Senate on Jast Monday a libslous article azalust me, written Ly sowe upkoowsn perwou. That sriicle, fulae, scandalous, mailcious, was Tetaled 10 the countr by the honorable Sendtor, wha virtually cave to it tho ngnt aod sanctiou of Lis high authority by makiug It the declazed Rround of a resotution aub- mitted to the Seuato 1o investigata conduct which §t miast falecly toputed ta mc, aua which 1 had froum wy place in the Scnate most solemaly denled enzagivg ln. Whilo the gentleman was thus en- gaged 1 making thls maligusnt attock upon me, ke DISCLAIMED ALL PEKSONAL HOSTILIEY 40 mue. and expressed bia regrot that his sonso of duty compelled hlw thus to wove in vindicasionof the honor of the Senste, ‘I'he old Scotch poet For- guson must have fin:d witn the eye of prophecy into the future when Lewrota the verse: 1 robes of aceiniug truth and trust came aly disslmula- A, Aug fléfl-mu(h & Klided crust lurked dirty detams- Thewajorlty of (he Sénate by their vote upon th motlon of the Benator (rom Vermont decided tha the hogor of the Senstedid nol Tequira that "“fl shauld give their sanction to8 prosecdiug 13 whic u Bouorably Senator converted blmaclf juto amere Buckstes of auonymous libels. Milton describes tho grim ‘:amcu of Hell as hal? bumsu sud Lalf suske, Therc are acts, 0 basely mallzusut and s Judecenily venomous as to sutiofy e thai this borribla compound Suds ite counterbart I nature teclt, 1IN REGAKD TO TUR INDICTMENT spainetme, 1dceire to aay that Tawm ready to meot it belore aby tmpartial Jury ol my countrymen, Lut 1be tribugal in which that indictent was found s glrvaly (oreatalicd thy judgmons of the ury, and denled the aceused the privilere of su wpartial beariug. ~ The bill was found un the 301k day of August lart ut Colwubia. Two daysprevious ho Auding the presiding Judyge, sddresnng the o uil # charyed with offenses zhilited in opeu cuurt, o kuowy ullgruhlxu\n. guage, which 1 exlract frum the full change as publisbedin the Charlcalon Nows und Lourier of Auf‘ =4, 1877, and which | am ss- sused was priated lrom TuS ORIGINAL MANUSCRUT n the Sudge'y own band: **The party 10 whick they [the accused] be- longed, Waa the crvature of milllary conqucat, kS :d frow the eother panty the soulh ¢ And azatu, tou apt 1o porwit the vullty'tu cacans throush Gear that the Inuocent Bisy astfer. You wuet avold this swtable esror,” MY GVGE poresis wquovd Of Sreve OUsnws on ths rpectively taken by them on the befare discuased. of opinton and action, so eonspreuonsly & part of Ttepublican principles, has been, been purencd, impugned, have billingagate that would at onco nppa) a fishwoman. A distinguished Cabinet ofllces can leivo the party ranks and voto for the nominees of tho Baltimare Conventlon; leading daly journals can do_the same thing, and no hard nunies more, on their return Chamber ¢ and concillat} ool feellng wh down together, " but in thele fenotant and fanu- cont hearta they did not kuow that the Jamb must consent, {o lie within the Hon, rel duct. When that tima comes its Kluantic bo v; {c{riied il class: Inent of the vrentest boon vouchsafed to man, con« stitntionst Jiberty. a word mote as to the Southern ol inauguraled by the President of the in March lauk, and since provecuted by him: with the nuost eingular urdat, aod with av effuct most damaging to the cause of true Nepublicaniam In the Southern States, ing reapecs of the Prosident, but I must bear in wmund that he owed biy US: of the Itepublicans Bduth os wall North. Asl uudvrstand that policy, In it final anal PurS conAEAUENEs, It ficans tha abandon political friends to concilate polliical fuos, makes tho further mistake of assuning that 1t 14 the Demgcratic whereas 1t ls the might ahould be conciliated, conciliation fnvolves, [am {ntormed, the reliabitl- tation or revival of tne old \WhIg party as tha neces- sxcy agent Lo decuro tha champlon resurrectiogist of the sge. 1t cannot bo done. architoct stteqypt Lo eroct groat clf stones of an anclent village graveyard, now an open secrel 1hat 100 frasliunt intends to relnforce or supplement the rosurrccted Whig Twpte lug. and Savaunah Chambers of Commerce; aud for the ratigious clemeatof the South, they who befriend them and those who bel Jbetraying i agninat the statntes claseed befare by thelr polit] cnl or party relationa? Did ever a Judye, heforo thie, boldly attempt to rererse the merciful maxim of the Jaw, toat 1t Is hetter that nincty and nino gailty men should caeapr punlshment $ian ono e nocent man shonld uffer? The liw hamancly Jiolda that the Judge Ia connsel for the prisoner, k0 far as may_be neceasary losectre for every man accuned o falr and Impartial trlal, bat this dmice Eonnaola againat tha accusod, sid avakos tha hatos and passions of civil war and pohtlcal excitement soninst him by teanding him avn **ereature of milltary conquent, ™ In euch a court TIAAL SEANS CONVICTION, withont recard to law and evidencs, and1hiase therefora defermined to renist, by afl \rful meais, the exccution of any process designed to bring mo within its jurisdiction. Patterson srgued that M, C, Butler had no conneetlon with the llambnre rlot: that the Uamp- fon Government hail been recogniaed hy the Preat- dent and the Suprome Court of South Carol! 1lle commented on the Adninlstration of ¢ Chamberlatn, and sald at ong time ho was aceep! able to the Democrate of Symth Carolina; and agaln, commenting on the potley of the Adminis: tratlon, eafd the reason the Hambirg risford were not punished lald with the man whnom wy ‘phcvd in the (WChita ltanse, That's tie man who {acke tne arm of Justice, that murndorcrs may go frec. And yet Scnators tatked ta hlm of LEAVING THR RRFUBLICAN PARTY. The mian at the other end of tho avenue was re- sponsiblo for these kambnr,e criminals not being punished. He was the man who protected the murderers, but wanted the thievea eent to the Pens itentiary. ' Scnators had the right fo vote against tho seailng of Kellogg and Plnchivack. I have the same rigr to vote tu soat Geo, Butlor. mean {n what I have eald {n recand 10 tha votes of Senators or the policy of the Admintstration to as anll the motives of any one, directly or inilrectly. 1 Am dealing with facts snd resuits, s well known 1o Senators and mysell. imputation has Loen cast on the motives of the dis- tinguished Senators to whom I have referred, of ¥ do ot Nor nm 1 nware that any Preaident on account. of the parts ree subject 1 have On the contrary, that frecdom FULLY ACCORDED TO THEM. Tiad the same course been puraned fowards me on- der circumstances of the most annoying and paine ful character, 1 should have given a eilent vote w‘lthonz treapnsaini ate. upon the patience of the Sen. Unfortunately, a very difarent course hae My moMves have not only been and my character calumnlated, but 1 ecn denounced and villided by a torrent of aro called. Nay, TIM FATTED CALY WAS KILLED, a great feaat made, aod niew robea from tho State and Interlor leparimonts are placed upon iho ehoulders of the returned prodizals. 1ho muaty Aye, more, folds of tne Confederate flazare rently untolled, sud a Key {s found to lock the dvors of ¥ fce u:ixmmonl agminst Southern RHe- publlcans, and all the raints fn the ous_with vae volce, ‘' Tils on, from which will flow that era of when the lion and the Jamb will lle in my case haw difercnt. I have belonzed to the party from tho moment it cama inlo existence, and nuw siancen I feel combpelled to give thie vote, the ul tempt Is made not only to read me outof tho party, Dat fo place my character . becauso in thie coninncturo of circume DENEATIL CONTRUPY. Mer. Premidont. when did the question of the high priviicge of admltting a Senatornpon this flovr vee cume parklxan? Wil to do with it? T have never beforg heard such duce trine. Tho question is onc of lnw und justice. and cach Senator shonld vate acoording to the dic~ tates of his juilgment, and not wihh reforence {0 mero.party needs or expediency, hear such'a criticism agatn, . 1t fa #g derogatory to the Senato as it fsnnjust to the individunl Senaior, 1am actuated by no other wotives or interest in the mattor than those I have stuted, thought It due to the Hopublicans of South Caro- lina, to the Senato, and to myecl, that Ishonid briefly allude to Tps mero party alieziance Ihope never to bavo tho facts upons which thls caso ts, sud the principles which control iy con- Having dope so, I shall not permit mysell be drawn inty any farthor discusaion of the suti. o Jact here or elsewhere. § uhall boar jn sllence with such philasophy ns I may command the spoers of encmlce, vitaporution of clem of triends, Une thing way aa well be undar. stood: 1am, and shall remain 8s long se lfe losts, in heart, soul, and actlon, blackgnards, and critl- A MEPUDLICAN, true to tho party traditions ana principlos, and all the Jaboremployed todrive me oat vf its organiza- tion, ar make nie falter i 1wy devation to its hu- mane principles, will e uiterly thrown away. Mr, President, ‘It s the fashlon to sncer at the Northern man who ramovea to tho South for m:!y purpose: nu mattes whother J1i-hoalth or the laud- ublo desire of fmproving s conlition by tnduatry and enterprise bo the motive, ridicaled by 1 of North and and who row disonler | had hoped wanld never reappoat ln the North. s was quito prevaleat befora tho War,and 0 all cascs proved fatal to mavhood and seif-ror spoct. facedne: to-day, with too inuch exclusivencss and {atolerance, will lo 19 sacered at and o poople of both parties in the 3wuu ought to know better, shouid _bg ashamed of wuch nar- It betokeus Lhe return of s rejudices. ‘e political ductors called it *‘donghe feol assurvd that the solid South of ating 62 1t doos upon the past Imbued MAKE A SOLII NOATH. Y‘n\ver will not to oppress any part of the country for or ravange, bat to restora and protoct and races in the full and equal cnjoye. r. Vresident, before I conclude, I desire to pay \lcb catled, nited States 1 shiall speak with oecom~ ited position to the volas nd South that iust bo conciliated, Repubilican Notth tbat Thls schome or pollcy of 1TA PERMANENT BUCCESS, It the- Preaident can uffcct this, If he can go down into the polltical valley of dry bones and In- fuse Mo aud motiun Jnce wore into the seattesed lito of tho Whig pe.uy, ha will stand c ufcssod No, siry An Well might womo deludes thousand palaces of & out of the brokun uud moldosing tomb- 1t it e arty with the mercnant und rellgious clomont {n [ue South, and then f{ncorpurule this pulitical mn‘lly tuns rormod jnto thu Astiousl lepublicun party. tuerchanta 1 am nut sware there are soy live the buuth wulnln;u pieaent thoro are Iy WOISHIF UOD AND DEMOCRACY, and will nat bow down to tuls graven jmage callad | ++flaves’ Boutheru poltcy, ** which Noouchadueszzar the Kime bath st ap. Hut whatever this policy I In theory wu know what it s not in pracica, cectainly 18 not the protection of Bepublicans in the Soulkern Btates b tov freo exercisg of all their rlfhu as Amorican citlzend, and a fust recoznlition o it tbeir groat and Laely potltical sorvicos, . We know It 18 bullt on & broken potitical teust, aud 1t coruer-ston fo lurd in black ingratitude and coe monted by tha blood of betruyed political friends, i, the Republicans of the Soath ary not doad, NOL ALK TUEY BLEEFING. The Alhenlans erccled s wonament to time, and Jusceibed It **To hlw who aveuzes!” Time, sir, will Surcly avengu this grest wroug, and that in uo facadistant future, The now duwp-trdden No- vublicans of the Houth will remamber buth those tray thom tn BF etr need. Loubticas Ropublicans of i bave been guilty of msny crrors, and are tugunllhln for much of the malsdministration of the Soutbeen Statu Yovernments duriug the past eigut years, buy whatever thelr grievous fauits, Lele friouds was not one of thewm. 1 bave vaid that whataver peotectivn ltopublicans enjoy inthe Suuth, a0 far ad their porsons aud Property are guarded azainat sciua) violeuce, they oweto Lhe clemuncy ot tno viclur, ‘Thiv s em- rhnl cally true in BouthCarolina, 8o faras the intlucncae ot Uav, Hamplun sxtends, 1 boliove that ha 18 3 Just sud-bonorable man, sud itends W ens forcua’fust aud impastial aduinistratin of the iawa without repard b raco or party: but benign sre hlsporposes, there s & power behind tlirons sirouger than e turonc 1tel!, wud ho wits mlent aud inactive while the Stats ' terrorized, snd Hepublicans ars crowded jnlo the jail ay culumb:ndlh':;n hl:“flm::nl &Qll:':li“l SsaiLer, prosccute ! oliiciale aiaioat the undor the forms of lawa. i TIE SUBSTITUTE DEVEATED, The questivn belag on tho aubstitute of My, Eaulsbury, the Yol resulted—ycas, 205 nsys, 29, —aa follows. ) the da; the Hu, Ratle Pl resn, E....’a. fegerord, Fatteramn, ack, L, Hoiph, Cockrall, Jouss (Fla.), 4 “\:;a:{. Darii (W. Va.), o0 anls, 5 ,w,n[u..- slua, Whyte. a:‘ruu. wil Allison, Antkr. iy Boolb, Jucl reae, oar, arxeut, C ) Howe, 5 G, ¥, B hales, 12k w0od, 1ler, Gurtitianer, 5 McMjiiaa Wadlslgh-29, Mcaars, Blains, Plumb, Hamlin, Oglesby, Perry, Ioreite, and Wikdoe, who: Would have yoted tho negalive, wero palred with Mesate, Grover, Arwsiropg, Baruum, Davis (1ll.), Mezey, Han- sow, aud Jolinston, who would bave voted Iu the alisiuativ Mr. Oglexby, 1o agoounciuz ble palr with Me. D3vis, vald he retratued fom A ulu-'u-P;u e 4 coualder 6 cerlain (hay bis coliearus ald vote aye; ho hoped he would yole no. nehter. ) “The Vice-Preatlent, inannonncing tho vote. did notzivelthe dechdinz vote, but rakd **The substitate Dot baving recoived & majotity, tha voteof the Benate is dlangreed to, AN AMENDMBXNT. Morgan submitten an Rnendment a8 fole ravided that nothing in thin resolntinn shatl e #a construcd an to precindo_tho Sanate from the rizht to drigaad an isestipetlon of the charges in thic nmendment offered ity tho Senator from Dela« wato and upon_ which tho vota of the Sepate han {ml( bren taken, an affecting tie richt of William Pitt Kellogg to a seat In the Senate,” A{lsr dl:uunlom Mr., Morgan withdrew his aniendment. 4 Wr, Wadletah aent to the Clerk's desk and had rc;mi a latter of Gov, Kellogg denytng tho charges e SpofTand, 11111 skl ho twas anthorized Uy Fudce Spof- forl 10 eay tho chataen wero true, and he coul prove every word of them. % RYCCUTIVA SESS1ON MOVED, ! Panding dlscusslon, Mr, Tharman moved ihat the Scnate procord to the eonsideration of vxecn« tive haainean. Rojectod—~yeas, i1: nays, U1, & 1lu'\ote, bt ihe Vicc- Eresidont did nat vofe. lle rlmpty annonnced thas the benate refused to go into cxecutive sessioi, ; “The Motioceats voted In fasorof executive sos- afon, and Ltha Kepablicany azainst it Ar. Sarcont, from (he Committee an Aporopria- tians, reported the Deficiency Appropriation bill, with amendments. Dlaced on the colendar, 'The scnata then took & rocess hntil 730 p. m. EVHNING 3EJS10N, Upon. reamomsling, Mr. Tiayan] sald he must rolemnly avor that in tho preecntation of auch 8 resolution as that now before the Sennto to reas Wiillam P, Kellogz as Scnatar from that Stato wad 2 biow mors cruol and nnjnst than any othor before strack ng: t the pouple of that cfln\mnll{. He wae shocked at guch a propoyition, He il not think that party spint could cver have bronght adout snch an end aa thls. o thonght that after last spriny, afterfa wise and patrietic resoluiion had (ndaced the Kxecutive to tako the hund'of military power from the turoat of tho peoplo of that Stale, when pence ncemed again to hover her blessed wings over .that Xiato, the timg had come waen reconclilatian with the ncoplo of the South was to bo established npon tho basisof shnpleond eternal fustice. lnt tho resolution now before the Scnate disturhed his hopes, and catled torth thcre sincere l'Xl:m”lflnl upon ap- nronchiny the discnssion ta this taple. "The rent iny of Kellogg would e ovorridina the will of the caple of Lonteiana and dlaregarding their chalco, Mr. Bayard then read extracts from the opinion of Judges” Strong and Hradley as mcmbers of the Eloctorsl Commission. 10 show that the do- cislon of that Conimisslon regarding _ the Prosidontial vote could haves:mo bind- ‘"i elfect on cither - Touso of Congrest in {nquiring into the electfon and qualificattons af ono uf l1a members, 1t had been sttempted to ahow that tho rdocision of the Flectoral Commis- slon was binding in this cass, It was A TOTALLY MISTAREN IDEA that tho jndgment of that Commtsslon could, in any degree in law of fact, fouch an ele:tion of & member of either House of Congress. The oplnfons of thcae two Judites are to the eoct that tbo right of each lvaac to iatitulo any scruilny s to tho eloction of & member was absolute, and Messrs. joar, Giarfleld, and other members of tho Conmis- ston took tho same ground. 1lad the Electoral Cumnmission thuaght ltself nuthorlzed to makoe tho werutiny intu tha |, Prosidentisl election, which ~ the two llouscs of Congress can do in regardito its own rmeubers, that scratiny would liave mado the result arrived at an impossi- bility, ‘The Cangrcas tunder whose control tha Elcctoral Commiselun blll wds passcd had ceared to exist, but the law which organized It had warrant in the Constitution, Although the resuls met all e opposition which s powets enabicd him ta uae, e held the decisfon to bo fnal, and could not bo distarbed durlng th teem of ofic for which the candliates were declared elected, ML JIOATL : eald that such was the cfcct of party splrit on the mind that, with the eingle exceotion of Reverdy Juhneon, 30 far as he kacw, the Democrat was yot 1o bo fonni who had dune anythingto prevent mur- der for political purposes, or refused fa prodt by auch erlmes, or had even reported tuem hanestly. He did not mean_to alicgs for a moment taat the members of the Democratic party were not mon of xind heatis, of gencrous nature, and of intagrity, liad there "been a single contested clcction cass In vithor ranch of Cougross wiiere theso facts had been proven that the Democratic part; had nut voted for the Detnocratic clatmant. Ha the Demograts not vndeavored to say, cvory time, some other party bad contro} of the tate where such crimes were cominittad? Amid all the Ku- Rlux gutrages, smid the actions of tho White Leagus, amid a1l the transaciions which had driven fron) powar tho Repuhlicans in the South, conld thete be found a condewnatton of the (act in-a sin- gl lnstauca escopt by Roverdy dohuson? Il (I{or) thought tno comdltign uf things In tha coun- iy brought about by this party spirit was a matter which well demanded the aitention of the statce- men assambled here, nnd that man would be the greatest frieud 1o bis country who .~ - STATED THE PACT TLAINLY, One-half of the Amerigan péoplo tu-day belleve that tho polltical power ot the other ead of the Capltol and someo of tng seatu In this chamber bad been atned by celme, Whother It was tras or not, tho people belteved (k. On the other hand, one-half af tho people belteved that tho President of the United stutes and Vice-President held tho titles to thelr ofices by fraud. 1t was of nu consequence whuther thoss beliefs were trus or not, they oxist. ed, and hov fony could & Rupubiic which depended upon the affections of Ite Jwaple endure with such feelingst Naw, ltecamed to bt to be tha part of truw statesmanship to denounce the party feel- inus which wers moro dungerous to tho life of the Hepublic than the lcglons which marchicd to Qute tysbuty under Lee. 1le told the Hopublicans of hin Stale that they ought not to domsnd of thelr Prosident that he administer this Government by excluding from (ta atfulrs men who had Leea op- poscd to nim, but that ho shoul CALL TUE DEST MEN TO OFFICE whesever found. Mr. Layard mald ho wonld be quits witling to subinltto suy lmpartial man as tu whother or not the Senator Lad in hiu speech just closed oxhibited tho vory party spirit Le rebuked in lits hourors In Mussachusetts. Tho Benutor from Massachnsetta was sadly ignorant of the true wl(cy and claracter” of his poiitical opponents, Whathe cr it resuited from his wental orpanization of not he (Bayard) could not say. 1t was not for him to wtand ou this finor and Jisclala hin aBlolty with crime. ‘Fhose who Kaew him could apswer that. Tho hoaris of the Amorlcan people had beon estranged too long, Had the Executlve a sinule represcutative on this tivor who would echio biw promise in_rogard to Louisiana, and s1y tho State ahould not be tho victim of 1he unjust biow now pending? Mt THURMAN said the Sonator from Massachnscits made two -.-Imnfu ainst the Democralic party. Ono wi thwt {t aever denounced tha Southern ontrages. Mo (Hoar) was unover more mustaken In his ilfe, e might occupy much of the time of the Senate In Doving rosd as savere a denunciation of Bouthern outrayes by Dumocrats us wero ever mudo by o Ropublican. Mo denounced thom jycsrs aio, and in terwia ug strong that o leading Hepublican Sen- ator fram Alabuuia at that time 8rosu and thanked blw ta the Benate. Ho (Yharwan) vaderatoad the Bunator from Massachusotts to way that Democrats nover failed to prodt by thess outrmues, an never fufled to scat a Senator or member of the Houwe af Jtepresen'silyws elected in puranance of such vutrages. It was pot for him to speak of whst had taken place in the Iouse. but ko bogged the Benator from Massachusoits lo obserye “"? the afirmattve rested with i 1t was for him t specify what an aver obisined s seat un this fluor b{ any auch meuns, 1o callud on him Lo pawme sny ol thasa henaturs trom the Boatn who ublained their election Ly any such means, 1y dufied bim to do s0. o could'not do §t, s there was no trutl in tha charge. 1low could a Democratic Senator ‘be seated by Demuorate? The lepublivans had had contol of tho Nunaty, and had it yut, suchas It was, anu‘m- ter) There wat iy Benstor: from Misslesippl, fust elecied; who voted'against biui? Let the benator from dlassachusetls point to ona of thoss Southern Senntoss wad sny §t was thebluad of the elaughtured which elected you. 1f he conld, let bim do so; otlerwise, bold hls peace. MIL LAMATL began to discuss tho Butler case, bul after speak- {ng » short time said he muat ask to bo excusad, sy lie was not able to go oo to-night on account of puysical judispositivn, ¥ Nir. Merriwon said if the Sonator would yisld he would subauit & motion to adjaurn. Mr. Coukling sald ould regret to staug In the way of such a motion, and especlaily made o ac- commodate 8 Seuator rny-lull( judlsposed, but thero was only ons seculas day of this session left, snd businces should La dispased of, Mr. Thunuan sald he would be sorry to have the Beusio adjourn now, wilkout an etfort W reach aumne sgrecinent as o when u vote could be tskea, Mr, Coukling ssked if tho Senator from Ohla could name &n bour to-morfuw when 1o vole cuuld ba taken. Mr, ‘Thurman sald he thought be couldafter & 1stis consultation. “ankl ald he thought the Senator would empting 10 reach tha vote nI coupity, y other mstier with thle. 1 the nate 4 w _tak WO o & voto gn thiscase thers would no " ditdcally about goinz un with the South Carolins case, Beyersl Bonators saygesied 2 AN EXBCUTIVE SESSION, 23 theru wero somo 93esutiva watters Lo act wpon, but ub{.u‘cuou- were uude. m“l:l'x an wald ba waald go on with his remarks ¢ aaid the Leglslatare which slected Dutler was the tegal Legislature of the. Stats. Senators bad been talking about the trausfer of wajoritics. There ‘was 10 puwer In tho Senata tu chanyge thu eveuts now golug ou. Thy refusal of seaty Lo Scuatoss who 124 been elected, and tha secitug of meo wilh no constitucnts whatever would uol, chsuge them. Thé dosa of that m( ting to the Reoublican slde of tha Sensie] con scaled, [twasioa minority in thtecountry., I had been lutba wi- nority ud notbiDg could proveas ita AQGALXN BHOXE DOWN, and sald be was 6ot able to proceed to-night. Alr, Mclonald Look the duor, sud spoke at leoglh f[ b frauds couunilted by the Loulsiana Betura- ng Board. Me guoled “extepalvely from the testl- mony taken ia that State, and said Kellogg bed no fig'n. x:.',“fl: :‘o‘ k- uuudiml :‘:‘uwr from Loulstans socredil FrRER Hgee A BULSTIEUTE. Mr. Hill submitied tue following ag 8 subatitute for the g‘nndl resolation; **TLat Meury M. 8pofford be admiited from the Blaté of Loulslsna on & brims fecie litlo and subject to the right of Willtam Pits Kell to teat bis rizht to the scat," Mr. Edmun le subiudiied the followlng: Fus—That & vole be taken on tho Eellogg- | and did not know that there was to be o meet- ing untit {t was over. The Democrats, however, do not complain that any decoption was prac- ticed, and wish no mention to be made of tho facts relating to them, as they say thoy will haye & volca In tho Benate Chambor. The Com- mitteo unaer thess pecullar clrcumstances re- ported adverscly upon the nomination of Roosevelt tobe Collector, and Prince to -be Naval Officer, bué favorably ubon Mcrritt to bo Burveyor. The lattor was nomlinated to fllla vacgney. ‘The two furmer wers nominated after the suspension of Arthur and Cornell Demaocrats say, Bowovor, that If those cazos ary fi‘:l'm‘llml&(::unued ns thore are but vy fow Benocrats who will o will doubtiess be Bupreme Judge, oven if no action Is taken on tho motlon to recons{der, and hl:l ;.,nu will not fall with the sesslon, but will be tain that reconsideration canuot casry, s the Democrats wlll vote solidly aizalust it, 88 wonld a large numbier of Republicans, lio will becomo Assoclate-Juatice by Mondav uext, and posslbly before. eration is moved tha nomination stands oA if contirmed. ‘back tho nomination of Willistn Heury Sulth to bu Colluetor of Chicago without rocowminenda- tion. Senator Oglesby says ho bas got op‘polul confirmation, an L ex- ecutive st will bo conflrmed. Nothing affecting bis fltness for the place has been alleged from any quarter, but the action In his casa is under tho general ruls of Republican Senators, adopted fn regard u; appolutinents whero place. = which {s belng made npon Alex Roed, of Toledo, by his encmics, ho was confronted this murning in tho -Committee on Post-Ofttecs and Post- Koads, by o tely and purportiog of Toledo, in wbleh it was charged ho was g dis- honest nan, and unflt to bold any publle oflice, aud bad insde o dishonest assignmeut of his iR, floar, Howe, wonld hava voted In the aflirmative, with Meanrs, Plumb, Tn;calle would have voted Iu tho nezative. U the bar of the Sexate the testimony he offered lo agreement just made, that gquestions shonld be vated on, it a3 that lew was taken of the amendment Le withdrow it, Intion to seat Kallogy, and it was agreed to—yeas 30, rays 28,—Conaver and Paltorson voting with the ltepublicans in the afiirmativo, roll-call, vota Lawmar, with whom he had come in wince tho flrst call, In_the negative, sworn os scnator from Sonth Carolina. =—Yeas, £0; Nays, 28, a8 followa: e Darin GV Va. ), o, Marrie, liercford, HHIL' Jonea'(Fis.), Kernan, Lawian, Mecraary, Mclionald, Mbiierson, Hterrimon, Morgan, Patte) 'k Handolph, & ury, Thurman, Voornees, and Wither, —20. Hpcuoer. el KeTloga an Vica-Frosn X was adminlstered to them, the latter taking the mudliied oath, ecntivo session, adjourned unti} 2 o'clock to-uny, meoting of the Scnate Commerce Comumittes to-day which Is being commented upon very cxtanslvely to-night. None of the Democratic Senators wero present, and one of the Repub- licans was absent, yet tho Important New York noniinations were unanlmously roported upon, twoof them 'adverscly and one favorably., It was reported that Conkling, the Chalrman, had not scut notices to the Democratic members, but lie indignantly denica this charge, and saya that notices were sent to all last night. Tha facts mecting was to have been held yesterday, byt was postponed on account of the caucuscs of the two partics. Dennls, of Maryland, Is the single Democrat who agrees with Cunkling that Roosovelt aud Prince as Cullector and Naval Oileer respectively, be- cause there s wo cause for tho removal of Arthur and Cornell, Accordingly, Denals, who was absont In Baltimore, sud could mot b present at the meeting to-<day, gave Conklinga proxy tobe used in his discretion, Conkling used it to palr Burnside, 8 Ropublican, who is an Administration tho Democrat at vertigo thoother night, and could not come. Randolph did not recelve his notice of the mect- ing until 1t was tov Iate, and (en. Gordon, the remalnlng Democratic meinber, Frederick inent dry I Cummings, Dlrector of the Merchants’ Natlonal glllk{ N. Marrington, Police Judge}Jobn B. uut; City Solicltor." most promiuent, were telegraphied, aud in roplg stato thay pever nuthorized or signed suy sucl etatement. ‘The probatulit; names are forged, and the Reed no harm, bus will react upon {ts authors, miagloner of the Districs ot Coluwmbla bas not morping, unless the Bepato should sit all pight to-night, at whi favorablo action shall be taken on Mr, Bryan's sppolutiucot, Comulttes on ta report all threo of the New York ouse nominstivus, with the recumimendstion that lhvzebfl wot contirmod. The fve Republic- &n nieul but four Democrats were abuiol which eack of theac nominativns ls understood to bave beon as follows: Agaiost coofirmatlon—Conk- ling, Bpeucer, fayor—Hurus, SECEETARY SUEBRMAN WOULD MAVE TUN DUTY Spofford tare at of before 2:130 A, m.. the Chair. man of the Commfitee orany ona nuthorized by him to have one honr ta Aum up If dceired, Second—The vuta on the Bter-Corbin easo to bo taken at or boforo the explration of onn hourafter {ho Keliagz-Spofford ease {9 djsposed of, the time o he eaually divided between the two sider, MrThnrman sakl he hoped the pruposition wonld ba arreed to, e asked hia Democratic. frianda to agree fo )t, Anil to truet him that it would reenlt in an nrrangenient jnst to boih pattles. Tuo question heing on HiiFs enbmtitute to rwear inifenry M. Spofiordon his prima facle caee, 1t waa rejeciod, —ycas, 273 nayr, 20, —as follows: TYeas—Roiles, Bayard, Tleck, Caskrell, Uooke, Davle Wy Daete 5\r" flnt D aton AartAma Qo o, ‘tiarrie, Herefird, I, Jonca (FA.). ~Kerman, Metreers, Mcbonald. Melheron, Merrimon, Morzan, itaniiotpti, Kagisbury, ‘Tharman,’ Voorhees. \Wallace: d Wihera -7, Nays—\Mesrs, Alilson, = Anthony, footh, Rrnee, Dienside, Camiepan (Pd.). Camepun (Wit ), Chaflcey lancs, Coa avrer, Dawes, Darsey, Fide Ty, Howey Klecrond Sk Eatiermn 1 e Hadors Shencen Tler: ad Wadicl g, Mesars. Armstrong, Darnom, Grover, Maxey, Rantons, Johnston, ~lLamar, 8nd Whyle, who wero pateoed Ttamiin, Hiaine, Verry. ‘Windom, dones (Nev. ), and Eargent, who ANOTHER AMENDMEST, ) Mr. Merrimon submlited an_amendment allow. tiie contestant, H. M. § to_produce at roduce before the Conimitieo on Privileged and Elections, and that further consideration of the case bo postponed untll then. Mr. Edmunds saki this was & violation of the Nr. Morrimon saidio did not so understand It "~ EELLOGO SEATED. Tho questlon then recarred on tho original res who did not vote in the former in the afiemative on this call, en palred, lmlna avis (TIl.) votes 'Ar. Thirman moved tha¥’ A1, C. Datler be now Jones (N-v.:i Jeas~Nalley, Dayard, Beel Coke, Cono« el heneis r:nnu,“bnumL Tiors 2. Rooth, Truce, Burnside, oo Wie, Chaltos, Enriaganey Unden borrey, hitinds_Hoas, sHtome: ortlu, Ogieshy u’{fi"‘l’z’;‘ oo Sauaders, eller, ‘and Wadlelgh—: Butlor wera thon escorted tothe k, and fones Ichell, nt's di THE OATIL OF OFFPIC ‘The Sonate then, at 2:10 a, m., went into Ex- and_when the doors roopened, NOMINATIONS, TR NEW, YORK OFPICES. Spertal Diepatch to The Chlcago Tribune, Wasuinerox, D, C,, Nov, 30.—Thero was o arc ascertalucd to be these: A SUOULD NOT BE CORFIRMED Benator and favored coufirmatlon, Rausom, another of the Committce, s sick his hotel .from Dhis sttack of RECEIVED NO NOTICR, The resident’s nomination will cer- vote ngalust them. GRN. UARLAN equivalont to a covlirmation. It 18 cor- Ha to any event noon of revonsfd- and not carried or taken up, TIE CitLUAGO COLLECTORSIIN. The Comumitteo on Comweruo to-day reported the “expectation 1s that slon occurs during the nlght Bmith removals bad taken THA TOLEDO POSTMASTRUSIIP, As an fnstanca of the natursof the attack m directed 8o the Chalrinan 0 be slzned by some 20 citizens roperty for the purpuse of defrauding his cred- tors, “Among " tho alleged slgners was aton, one of the most prom- (soods merchants . of Toledo J. Couuty Recorder; and J. Keut Hamilton, These, belog the pamea of the is that uilchese patch will do alr, TUOMAR M. WHTAN, The nomination of Thofmas B. Drysn as Com- et beeu roported. The Districy of Columbla Comniitoo 8 to hold & mecting to-morrow b it s {utended that final and TON ¥NW_YOUK NOMINATIONS, Ta the Weatern Asioclaled Press. WasuniotoN, D. 0., Nov, 80.—The Benate Comuaeres this moruing declded Custom- rs of tho Commiites were present, ut. The vote by ths adverse report was ordered ool Pattersun, i, In TBA AND COFFER, RESTORND, Hpacial Dizpatch ta The Calcago Tribuna. Wasminaros, D. O, Nov. B0.—The chief recommendations of Becretary Bherman in his anoual report will ba that tho duty upon tea aud coffec be restored, and that all articles be placed upon the freo 1ist which do not yiewd an anppsl custom reveaue of $10,000. Becrelary Sherman thus takes & very differant position as to toa and coffes from that assumed by soms of his predecessors. Bccretary Boutwell waa op- posed to the abolition of the duty on tes and coffe, and clalmed tuat it would take §$19,000,- 000 from the revenue of the Government, At thotime tho repesl of thateaaud coffes tax wus passed, the questlog of TUK FEEN BREAKFAST-TARLE was exicosively -agitated, mod the bill wes adopted by botk Housea by & very empbatio vote century previous 15 to 25 poutt. In the huo Dreakfast-table, re Teavine some of the S8tamp nct in vossibly obtalnod firat reductlon of duced n over-Im| the pound, _uud purchased for ligher prices notithstanding stocked. * Secrefary Sherman Is undersiond to Le of oplnfon thaut, of all tartilx, thy duty on In tha Housa only 33 members voted agalnst it. For something like & quarter ot n to 1331 tea and coffco were admitted free, From 1863 to 1871 tea patd from cents, and 1873 Congress, and cuffeo flye conts per folnlng In cry of tho freo epented the teaand coffee duty, tho most affonsive features ol force. ‘The result of this abo- litfon of duty has shown that the consumer ONR-IALP 71N DENZPIT on tea and absalutely nothing un coffee, +Tho tho tari(f {s safd to have pru- portation at an enhanced_cost. As soon ns the news reachied China aud Jupan lncsndvumi(i-‘l four nnd uigut cents per ha larger _quantity was the U;"mq Btates at over tha. prevlous = year, the market twas already bver- tea and coflec s tho most cconomlcally coblects od, and that tne people would by utterly und conscous that their breakfast-table was {uxed I the duty were artlcles, Tleved of tho annoyanceo of taxation on petty restored nnd they coud bo fo- THE BANKS, RECOMMENDATIONS DY TNR COMPTROLLER OF TIIR CURBENCT. Boeelal Dispalehto The CAienas Tylbune. Wasminotox, D. Cyy troller of the Curreney,gives the fullowing statistics of the total nmount of bauking capl- tal and deposits fn_this country: Tho canital of tho 2,078 Natfonal Banks of June 22, 1577, was 431,044,702, and Btate banks, private banks, and savinga banks having capital stock was for tho six monuths endlng May 8J, 1877, loss than hulf that amount, belug 823,003,173, toe National 215,746, omd of thootlicr banks abave designated wero 8508,- 719,645.40, Tho devosits of 670 snvings banka having wo capital od, $813,154804.83, If the number, anital, and deposits of the Natloual Banks onJuno &, 1877, be combined with Nov. 80,—The Comp- the avcrage capital of 8,825 The net deposits of Banks wers $703,- the aycrage deposits stock were, for the same pori- the nurber, averaga capital, and average depusits of the ¥tate banks, privato banks, savings bas panies, for the six months ending May 31, 1317, nke, and trust and loan com- it wil) give n total number of §,570, o total banking capital of $704,047,043, nnc total de- posits of $2,120,113,300, oN TnE the Comptroller gives the following interesting facts, and makes BUBJECT OP MESERVE Important recomnendations, It 18 estimated hy the best authoritics that the Beotch banks, which bave long enjoyed tle reputation of belng well managed, and tho Jolut-stocic and other incorporated banks of En- Fluml. not jocluding the Bank of England, hold not excecding. B labilities In ready money. The remsinder of their rescr in the Euglish per cent of their ves aro largely lnvested consols, bearinz intercst at the rate of 8 per cent ‘mrmuum. the averago price of which cents to the dollar. Tho Fronch Governmont Issucs small coupon bonds, fnations us low us 100 h slnco_ 1850 has becn about U3 ur rentes, In depom- rancs, or $20, for tho convenleuco of thuse who desiro to invest thelr savivgs In_tho uros of savings having on deposit large amounts of the peoplo’s carnings has surgested she propriet, ol an issuc by tho Government . ol bonds of s denomination lcas than $50. Thero 1s but 1ttlc doubt that ublie fuuda. The recout fatl- anks throughout this countes and pollc} 4 pv': tnu{' THE BAVINGS OF THR PEOPLE wonld be lugelX vided they couls invested .in such bonds, pro- bo readlly negotlated by the holders when desired without imaterlal “loss, The National Ba: quired to kee nks in the resorve cities aro re- a reserve of 25 per cont npon do- pssit, one-half of which mny bo on depusit with their reserve agents In the. Clty of New York, Tho country -banks arg 1e- utred to hold & “rcseryo ol 18 &:rmnt upon _deposits, threc-fifths of which uay consiat of balancos With thelr correspond- onts in the reserve eitics, An maouut equst fta moro than ouc-alzteenth of tho capital of the Natlonal Banks, or about $87,000,000, is thus CONTINUALLY KBPT, QN DELIOSIT with the banks of the reserva citles. A consid- probably coe-half, of thisarauunt crable portion, 1s sent by the fur the pur ban can’t b fuvested authorit think proper, o lazge Investment by them in theso sccuritles, and the savinga-bank depositor, If Lo shiould so desire, would theo find no diffienl of the small bonds among the 3 Banks, ons mn'ull;nlnh .L‘r Imii“%.'i“l in “u.l- most over, o In the country. pollc; would nhc'x' have the effcct of 7 STRENGTUENING TILR AVAILADLE REIOURCES OF of rotalning fn thelr banda o considerable por- tion of thosa idie funds which are now scut to their correspondes loned by the latter upon call to speculative sccuritics. Tt is cstintatod that an amount varying 0w In York be allowgd reserves not roquired to be kept on hand in cash in small 4 lasucd for thio use of that class of pgraons now dopositiog lo savings banks, ¥ PAOIFX TN PROJECTED OVARUAULING, Apecial Dapatch 10 The Chicago Tridune, ‘Wasuivaroy, D, C,, Nov, 8k—8enator Pad- dock has intrgduced & resolution which be pro- poses as an amendment to the Chaffeg resolu- tion relative to which has already passed tho House, but which has boen opposcd fu'the Senate. The followiny s tho resolutions Wuznnas, 1t lsalloged that the Unlon Pacific ruuch companies have liroad Company sud its eretofore noglectod and atill do noglect and ro- fuse to 0 acts of was antl ruto Lhol ‘ungress rized; defaull been, and still and on fined, snd agr ¢ resolce: Lo and ho ls Stat Bouata what lugsl lmpedients, 1t sy, exist which pruvent bim cordanco with thu obligatiun accepted and agres- mepts wade by sald Unlon P pany sad branches with tne Un! ulated and agrevd upon in the scveral scts afore- uaid. ¥ ‘The purpose of antagonizs to somo extent tho features of Cbatlea's resolution which relates to the Kausas Pacific Rosd. The opponeuts of the Chaffeo resolution lusist that while 1t designates other e af legitimato busiucss, bat in order to obtain latcrest upun Idlo funds which wero given to the hold in 4 per ceut bonds of a denomination less than $50 such portlon of thelr reserve on de- toslt with thoir agents ns 000,000 to W0, English " consola” fs held by the banka of tho Uuited Kingd ana there does uot seem to be auy good repson why the 4 per cent cunaols of tho should fiot bo employed for 4 similar purpose in this country, and” tho Comptroller recom- mends that banks outalde tho City of New ud, . Wiiguzas, It ls alloged that, Ly reason of safd count of the same, the Govern- ho United States and the public have arg _belnyt, deprived of thelr jual and Jswiul righls and prlvileges d npon in vaid acte; ‘st the Presigout of tho United ka to thoir correspondents, not by then In avallable loans, If National Banks to they might it wonld result in t{ 1o disposin; 00 National TUE BANKS, and arv calers {n nts Jn central cmc:l from §200, om 03 o reserve funds wited Statey to hold that portion of their per ceut bonds, which may bo O RAILROADS, the Unlon Paclc Railroad ir roads In accordauce with the under which thelr constructlon stipulated, ‘do- 1borefore boreby raquested tu fnform the frow oxocuting said law in ac- {la Ratlraad Comn- States, as stip- this resolution evidently s to roads as branches it appears to have beea pre- sentcd rather {n tho Interest of tho Kansas Fa- citic than of the other reads which clsim to be branches. The purposa of thes amendment pro- sented to-day ls claimed to bo to direct atten- tion to the grievances which all the other roads bave agalust Yhé Unlon Pacitie, AUBURDITY OF Ti8 PROPOSITION 70 RRTROOEDN LANDS AT A CONSIDERATION~—TUH LANDS UN- SALAULE AND WORTLLESS—TWO MOKTOAGES ALHEADY VISTUALLY UFON THEM, Dispateh 10 New York Times, Wasumgrox, fress and made man bill, so-call tho Goverument. tlou, and there 8, 42 i that E:f‘u:'tfl. ‘The ye 1cas Congrcas 1o the trst pl turocd are tnsal not, falr snd equitabl abgalutaly rejec :\é«: passcgo of any bill wight us well bo neglegt- D. C.,, Nov. 24.—Tho Tacific Railroad Companlies will endeavor to have their proposition for a sloking fund to rcpey thele fn- acbtedness to the Qovernment accepted by Con- sn inflexiblo law. The Ihur- d, docs uot meet the views of tho railroad men st all. They may sccent it if they can do no better, but a great eflort will be made by the rajlroads to secure tho right to make the foundation of the muking fund the return of 12,000,000 of thele granted lands to 1t Congress would appropsi sto ample moneys for the carrylug on of tiga- could be sny cersalpty of tho Government case recelviog ss good mavage- ment 88 the defenss of tho railroads, the ques- tious at lssne mighs very well be lelt to wdjudi- cation by tha ~ourts, -Hut it hl cumatances, beat, thal sn adjustuient should be wade by act ot Cou- inauger & falr setticweps can bo under all cte- doubtless, that without delay turn of the lsnde osed 1y ¢ for waoy reasons, and uu- b propasition, ¢, the lands proposed to ba re- able and worthleas, Tbo salle = cortaln amount on its railfoad and telegraph National Dank notes At for circnlation - riod banks of road companles taok them for what they were worth, knowine they were ot best not Talnable. There has been, amd wiil bo for years to come, 8 great deal of controveray as to tha possiblo ultl- mata development and tise of these fands: buty na far futo the future s anybody can now €00y the best of them will be used gnly for wrazing purposcs, A large quantity of the land tc he retarned s the [Humboldt alkall desert. Another large part Vea on the munmit of the Rucky Mount: ddivide, 6,100 1cet aml more ahové sea-level. Tha comparative value of this azing purposes may be fllusteated by ent that 140 acres of pasture land 1 Now York or Pennaglvania woull keep sy filty cows; hut thero are very few tracts of tho rmlroad lands whero 160 acres in one field feaced (n would afford feeld for two or three cows continuomily, Tn tho country around the headwaters of the - Humboldet 30,000 head of beel-cattlo are sald to be foeding, But they ranze In smail henla over a country probably ns larze as the State of New Jerrey, ~Tho prstites w18 free, betng mostly upon dovermnent and railrond lands, “Under existing law it i3 im- posgible, If caplitists desired Ity to ity enottgh of tals land v body to mnke stock-ralsing profitable or possible. 'The Government eantot sell the Tund it now owne, and could not scll the raflroad Jan:ts, atud thele aceeptance at any val- uation woull he n new gift 1o the companies. 1t tmust be remembered in this connection that all fucral rlghts (exeept the enal and lron) are fu the Uovernment, so that the possible rich- ness in ores of certaln of tho lands I8 not n tion for conslicration. ) icre fa another muost serious’ obstacle in the way of usine these eranted lspnls as pugzested. Tlivy have heen mortgaged (those granted tho Union Pacitle Compuny) for 810,400, on con- ditions that the proceeds should be pald over to trustces, a8 the lauds are soly, for the redemp- tlon of the Iand-grant bonds, Those bonds wera Issued fu 1867, Thera tea vast legal probtem oponed up by this fact, Sce, 10 ot the act of 1564 authorlzed the Company to fssuo bonds to fine, und subordinates the Guvernment bomis to those 0f the contpanies lasued ns provided for. Nouuthority Is fih‘cu to mortgaga tho lands, and none eould havy been inlonded, since n first imortgazo 18 pleeed upon them to the Government by the very lssue of the subsldy bonds, 08 may bo scen fn See, 8, act of 1862, and the wortgage thiere provided for 13 aflter- ward mado subordinate only to bonds upon the road nand telegraph. ‘There cun hardly Lua question in law but that ths Government In fact holds a valid first mortgago on the very lands proposed to Lo restored. Clearly, Con- gress should not tako back at an extruvagant valuation property on which it hizs a mortgaze 1o secttry its proper ducy, Moreover, how will the road be able to give a good Htle to the Gov- crnment If {ta land-graut bonds are legal and thedeed of trust Rood by which thelr holders are supposed to be sccurcd] 1I this mortgage must first bo ** 1ifted,? why not use the money necessary to make up'divectly a part of the sink- fuy tumdl Agmatn, thero Is a proviston that the title to the lands shall not pass to the compa- nles till the costs of surveys bave been pald, Verylittle of the land bas been surveyed, and the ilsle has not passed to tho companids, How vould they mortgago that to which they eould pive no title, and liow conld they we back that which thnr never held? Would the Gouvernment, by taking back tha lands, becomie Hablo for the payment of the mortzage ibat lias been laid on them, or s tha mortgage itaclf of o value and a fraud on tho land-grant bondholders, Theso are only n few of tho questions which the Unfon Pacifie land-grant mortgugo forces Congress to slder In conncetion with tho Company’s propo tion, Oakes Ames' evidenco that tho lands were mot od saas to preveat the CGovern- ment from’_takiog them away from tho Com- pany {8 to the point, and 't Is n bad rulo that dun't work Loth wava.” There s o fact concerning these lands nat geuerally known., Itls providoel fn Scc. 8, act ©of 1804, that threa yours alter the cowplatiun of theroad the rallroad lands not then sold sball be open to scitlement and pre-emntion Ike other lands, tho priee, 81.25 per acr®, to bo pald to the Company. The time has nearly ac- rived, sluco tho {inal nceepiance of tho Padlilc Raliroads, when the granted Iands will bo re-" duced fn prico one-half. It they were good agricultural lunds this would be a fact of yast Importance. Thero Is another reason why Cou- gress should nat healtate te rc*m:l. the prapost- tion to restore lauds. ‘The Raflroad Companiea will inatas upon this conditlon as lony na pusst- ble, but will accept anl comply with the terns of an act that does not contain it, They must accept any reasunable settlement, Huntington sad Gould have very dUTeront roasona for deatr- ing tho establishment of a sinkiug fund, but ln the cod botl ace largo properties to be protected or lost and broken down. Of courso bothcom- panfes want-to protect the future by as small o ‘payment as possible, but 4 the bill is looked up- qn as a trade, Congress should secure tho beat bargain it is abie 10 inn! . NOTES AND NEWS. INTRUDING INDIANS. Swectal Disohteh (o Ths Chicazo Tridune, ‘Wasuinaron, D, 0., Nov. 3%.—A dclegation ol six Fox Indlans from Iowa arrived bere this morning, unnannounced -and .uvoxpected, In nattvo costume. Thoy Immediately proceeded to the Wasblngton House, where Indlans gen- crally stop, but were {uformed that no arrange- ment bad been made for their board, They then wero conducted to Sceretary Schurs, who inforined thom that aa they had left their reser- vatlon without permnission, notwithstanding there was 83,500 to tho credit of the tribe, ho could mnot order thalr ex- ponses pald, ood they would have to uso thelr own means to live on, and conld not use tho Department funds. “They repiled to this that they had pald their own expensca here, and would pay them at the hotel. The Bccrotary fuquired thelr business in Washing- ton, but thoy. declined to stato it, remarking that thoy wished to sce the Great Father, and would make-thelr gricvances to him. Thoy theu roturned to the hotel, and natwithstand- ing thelr cold reception ab the Interlor Depart~ ment appeared quite cheerful auring tho afternoon. They desire to bo pald a balancs on account of an cxchange of Kausas for Jowa landa. ‘ TUB REDEMPTION AGENCY. To the Western Anociated Prass. WasmnagToN, D, C., Nov. 80.~The following {a the statement of the operations by the Na- tlonul Baok Redemption Aggucy for the month euding this day: ni T cl tlon assoried and deliverod to Comp- trollor of the Currency for destrug- tion and replacomont with new notes - Noutes of failed, liquidativg, und re- ducing National Lunks doposited In the ‘LTeasury.... vessses 707,300 Potaliierres aes oo v0.810,370,800 THR GENERAL DEFICIENCY LILL, 88 revorted to the Nenate from the Committee on Approvriutions to-day, {s smended by the fu- sortlon of the followinie Jtems; $500,000 for the Stur mall-service, 824,500 fur rallway post-oflica employes, $175,000 for the completlun ot the cast wi "fim the State, War, and Navy Dopart- wont bulldivg, and 8130,000 for commencing tho north wing; 830,000 14r the Post-Offics u’.‘nn, 800 buitding st Little Hock, tols amount have ing been granted by the lust Cou- grese, but waa {oadverteutly omitted In for cootinu- the eurollment of the bills; $15, ing the work of the Hot burlnm Cominispton; and 820,000 for the publication of the records ol tha War of the Rebellion. ‘The Committee roc- omnmend the reappropristion of $5,000 for ex- nses of the Cowmissloner to represont thio nited States at the rutuuuud Iutgrnational Prison Congress, to be hold next year in Stock- bolw., They tucrense tha Housc item for the colloction und p%x:nt of clalms of colored soldiers from 810,000 ta $20,000, and strike out the provision for turning vver the bustuess from tug War Departmeat to the Penston Bureau. $ENATB LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGY. In the Beuato jmmedlately alter the yeading of the journal, the House juiut resolutfon ju relatiol to the Freuch Interuational lndustrial Exposition was taken up, and the Beuate Coiuiulittee's amendments wero agreed to, resolution was theu read a third time and ed—ycas, 803 nays, 20, The smcodnents provide thue a Commission- er-Geperul shall b appoloted by tne Presi- dent and confirmed Dy the Bonato; incresss the . compenaation of twenty addition. al Comuwisslovers from §L0W to §1,200 each, aud strike out of the House resolutlon tho clauso “ providing for an exhibit from the several depastments of the Governuent of the United States which coutributed to ths Centun- nlul Exbibition.” 'The general sppropristion is gt by ‘ r. Harrls futroduced ablli to provide for ::mldm:; a marine bosplial at Mumugb. Refer- AvaueTa tl:."fi“‘u‘)‘.m Blalne laft for \Vnhm'gum ‘(o-d‘:"y.. = L —— THE HURON HORROR. Krrrr Hawx, Nov. 80.—A wessouger has arrived from Gommaoder Jawes G, Green with dispatchies statiug tuat the bodtes of Comnand- cr Ryan, Mr, Gillett, and Mr. Loomis haye been found, and will be burled there, 17 miles north of Nagéhead, ot the Currituck Shootiug-Club Nouse. Fortg other bodles hava been Jieney tram, reattered along the beach 15 miles nyrh of Currituck. TREIGIT Urand Truuk; D T 'Gyze’}u.flmbum Cincinnott & 81, L Hron. was sent by telegrapht to the Ueneral Acents of the Lastorn trunk lines, and also to tho Genaral Frelght Agonts of the Westeru and Southwest roads Jeadlug to Eastern acaports:}|} Hemer than as pregont, . notes. | at the rate of 81 ments to ship thelr goods via feels himsetf constraiued to seb RAILROADS. NATES TO RBE MAIN. TAINBD, For the last week or two. ptrentons efforty have heen made by a eertaln clique of Boar.f. Trade men to break down the frelght rates fn order to Influenco the grain market. It ey afrcady been stated that these partfes hnga Hought up 080,000 Lushols of graln which they offercd to evory raiiroad in this city feading 1o an Eastern scaport. All tho efforts ol {hesq meil to secura a reduction have fafled, but they began ta spread tho rumor that they had ane. ceeded i contencting for tha pratuat e reduced rato. ‘Thess rumors had the cffeet of. Injuriyg thie business of tho roads, as nearly all the ship. pers thought thoy should bo slso allowed o to. “bate,nnd ns & consequence shipments fell o considerablys : Yesterday morning tha representatives of the various Eastern roads In thia city hold a meet. Ing at tho office of the Lake Bhoro & Michigsn Bonthern Raftroad Company to take some de- cisivo action in vegand to ‘this watter, Therg were presant at tho meoting Megnra. Clinrles M Gray, Assistant Goneral Frolght Agent Lal Bhore & Michigan Boutliern; R. U, Meldey Qeneral Wastern Freight z\iom. Wayne & " Llttsburg, Farg Urler, ' Ganeral Freight Azent Michigan Centrals C. M. Wick. %‘nbf\aslllnnk General Frelght Avent Baltimars I Chleazo . F. A, _Howe, General Wostern Agent ouls: s .\lchLbcLDlvlslnn Frelgnt ' Beott, Western Agent Chleago & “‘3 All the gentlemen present oxpressed thele Indgignation about the rumors that had been set afloat reflecting u; proved by thelr reight had been coutracted far Ly any of them ot less than tho regular tark to sot ot rost all tho rumors and false reports, n_thelr intexrity, and th oks that not n{' puund.fl rates. In order thoy adopted tho fulluwing xuolmlnn‘: which refight Rumors having been circulated by specaiators and shippers $hat rFates fram Chicazo and points West to poinis In the East are nnstendy ani lure been cut, sve, on behall of the Companies we ren. resent, tako this meana of notifying nil Inter oot that. the. Dubliaed. 1A oW In force hns not boon deviated from, and rates wers never Wo also pledge oursoives to agherg fo tho rates os now publivhed unpil changed by mutual agrecment, The rcoresentatives of the varlous Eastern roads clafm that tho shippers bhwe no cause to ba dissatisfied witli tho present rate, 40 cents per 10 poands from Chicazo to Now Yurk, which Is Jower than the rates usbially ure e this season of the year, — IOWA RAILROADS. Bpecial Correspondence of The Tribune. Dxs Moinns, Ta., Nov, 23.—8tockholdors and bullders of raflroads in the State will bo inter- ostod In a recent deefsion mado by the Suprenta Court relative to watercd stock. Tho Albla & Knoxvllle Rollroad Company sccured, ns ald to bulld the road, subscription-notes of indlyids unls,—It being ‘understood, and a part of the contract, that, when the mnotes were pald, the maker should recoive tho equivalent of the value of thonote in stock of the Railroad Come pany. the Company, buils a portion of tho road, and Ex-Gov. AMerrill, under o contract with recelved dn payment o portion of thesy aubscrip- tlon-notes, some of which wore not pald, and actlon was brought to recover on them. ‘Tho defenso sct up a want of consideration, in that Merrill had so watered the stack of tho Compay, a8 to obtaln control of the rond, and the unm{ had therefore little or no value, Tho SBupremo Court decfded that, If the stock of the Company nad beun filexally Invieased, and Merriid was tho party thoreto, ie coukl not recover on the ‘The cases wero sont back to the Court below to ba rotried on the questlons ot fact, The lowa Pacille has been revived, and the track will bo Iaid to Waverly this year, and the robabllities are it wlit reach Heluond, Wricht Jounty, next year, Shoull tho Legtslature this winter show o friondly spirit toward ratiroads, it is bolleved the money cuns be ratsed to pur- chaso the fron for the completion of this as well ga soveral other uniinished roads, which have Leen stopped by the withdrawul of Eaatern cap- {tal from the Biate for all rallroad purposcs, Twonty miles of the Des Moinos & St. Jo Narrow-Gauge Rosd has Loen let to John Me- Carthy,of Leavenworth,—toba comploted March 26, 1878, Ono hundred teams will "begly work atonce, This will reach a polot in Andrew Couuty, from which to o polut in Gentry Couns ty, thirty miles, the farmers agres to grado and Y‘rupnru Tar the fron, and give tho right of way. rooks’ Mogul locomotives Lave been pure chinsed, aud whl arriva soon. TITAT SETTLES LHE SCALPERS. The danger that tho agrcement adopted by tho General Tickot and Passenger Agents of the roads loading East fromn this city might bp broken on account of tho jeatousy hetween tho repreacntatives of soms of the roads and tno opposition of somo ticket agouts and scalpers, has been averted Ly settliog the principal pulat fn dispute—that nbout the redemption of sccond-clasa tickets now In tho lands ol out- eldo portios. At s mecting held yesterdsy afterncon at the ofico of the Pittsburg, Forb Wayna & Chieago Rallrond, at which wero pruvout Mcur:w I, C. Wentwortti, General Ticket and Pasacuger Agent Micllwan Centrali ¥, R. Moyers, Gonieral “Tlcket ani Psssongor ‘Agent Pittshure, Fort Wayne & Chieago, and . £, Morse, Western Genural Passcnger Ageut TLako Shore & Micnigan Bouthorn, tho polut in dlsputo was_ discussed at sumo length, aud finally tha following resolution was adopted: Resolred, That Articio fonrih of the joint agres- ment entered into st Chlcago, Nov. 24, @ smunded I\:lkmt\w rl‘t';p lt\' w{nnll'nh:o:l:l‘i:ll;: Cl 0 Lo Now York ma) i R e o At $10 7 uhia bo bo continued watll fur- Kery lmlm.'l tated in Tirs TRIDUNE, tho ratg As already stated in Tua Tript o o iesited Hokots has been $13.25 and tiat of Jimited tickota §10. Tho sualpors congpired together to get tho former prico for thelr tick- cta, ‘The aetion -taken yesterday. which waa foreshadowed fn Tum TRIDUNR two or thres days ogo, spolls thet littls game for tho salp- erd, uud no nllfrux[nll{vn: lnt l.xww hlr.‘:: flnor 'u;‘::r;"l‘::‘lj tho tickets they ba fotiuoaial J o,‘w'incn an’munl all the roads aro willing to pay. . YTEMS, L4 Tn an ftem publisned fu Tiw TRIBUNE on the 22 1t was staled that owlng to the high frelght ratas grovalllngon the Unlon Pacific Rallroad the firm of Case & Co, of ltaclue, Wi, had de- clded to sbip » largo quantity of sgricultural im- plewments for the Taufie Coast vis Now York, and ¢List other shippers wero making atrango- tho mnomm;l:; his it was ulsoatated th: {I?n%‘:v‘:::‘l:’:ll"i" ;l‘n‘x‘l‘:: Agout of tho Unfon l'm:luj nad sent a rud Jeiter totho flrm mentione: v applied fors reduction iu T when oY “Phister _mascrtion \r. E. P, Vinlog, General Freight Agou of the Unfon Yadts Rullroad, takes 4 claims that be has never treated :‘:h.ig“o?'nflmdly. nor has he treated Meusrs. Case g Co. 1a sy 'wtLier thau the wost gntls- mauly way, Mr. Vielog produces 8 Jetter % c) deny that . hosa gentlomen in which they deny l‘z‘::‘v:r wm&thcm an (mpolite letter, 4 They "d' smember having had o correeponds :::; ‘v‘-'fu‘f“fuf." Viniog for oearly @ yeor, Tud goods they have sent 'via New York to Ban Fran- ut hcmusal.un mrc.uuml D{vli:'l‘: I ratos they could not compete b s i s it i ) te L %Tfu(hul:mu‘l’.lgn“ n rezurd to the item of the 241 was furuisbed by & gentleman of hivt char- acter from Rucue, who 13 ou Iutimate hsmuTwIlLl P iy RIBUNE 3¢ ¢! w s foreguing S s e, e ol b 3351 l‘flt;'i:‘:xuullumcn say such s uot th? lm.'i Mr. Vialog staods completely exnncn_ud. au "Tum Tuisuxs s glad to make tho correction b A uw day ag0 (i TrISUNR stated that bl ' wey hudwl;wux"]nd r:::‘trzlu«:o tho Chicayo & Southern ilallruad, 8o b un of the Cincnnatl Kuguirer s u that {toin rights scems to ba o foundativn hase of thu Cauada clico, Wero 80 & the Srm. It Bppears ftem was entfrely Caso & Con sud statcs that thers of the purchase ‘B‘g\l‘\li:l': fof: by the Grund Trunk for the pur- Doss of wakivg 8 through freight line to Lnl g0, f Superintendent of the Il ol p bl sppolutineuts, to take cffect Doc. 12 e u‘(‘! . P, Trula-Masters jurtsdiction frow the Co- i Uinuesots Braveh to Sivux Cityi S ?orfi:mum" Air, F. A, Rugg, Tran-Mass tee; Jurisdiction from Centralla to Calro; Ce’flfi:fl::mpnfluon between tha Unloa Paciie sud Denver Fadte Ratizosds bas had tus z"thl of reducing thu rato of passcuger furod $1010 85