Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1878, Page 4

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Randolph strect, ULetween Clark -~ and Latalle. Eogagement of Elfzabeth Von Stamwits. ** Deborsh.” MeVicker's Thentre. Madlson street, Letween Btate and Dearbora. %*Lost In London * and ** A Quict Family,” Hinveriy'n Thentre, Monroe street, cornerof Dearborn, Engagementof foho A.Stevens. *'Unkoown." Colisoum Novelty Theatre. Clark street, botween Washington and Randolph. Variety performance. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1878, CHICAGO MARKET BUMMA RY, The Chicago prodace markets wero moderately active yorterday, and generally casler, M closed 23¢¢ per brl lower, at $10.75@10, 77 Fevruery and §10,00@10.024% for March, Lard closcd 21c per 100 lbs higher, at $7.U21@ 7.5 for February and 87, 40@7.424% for Morch, Mcols closed firmer. at $3.87% per 100 1bs for Loxed shoulders and 8$5.50 for do short rihe. Whisky was oull, at $1.04 per gallon. Flonr was dull, Wheat closcd Xc lower, 8L 81,03% cash or Jan- unry and 81. 04 for February. Corn closed @ %ic Tower, at 30Xc for January and 0%c for Fobru- ary, Onts closed at 23%@20c. Itye was dull, nt 63c. Barley closed 3(clower, at S1ic for Febe runry and Glie for March. llogs wero active ond firnier carly, but closed dull and wi ot $3.80G24.30. Caltie wero moderately a and unchanged. Hales wcre nt S2.00@3.%5. Fhecp sold at $1.10@4.50, Inspected Into stors In this city yestcrday morning: 100 cars wheat, 18U cars corn, 47 cars oats, 20 cars rye, 00 cora burley. Total, 51D cars, or 200,000 bu. One hundred aollars in gold would bLuy 810200 in greenbacks at the close, Dritish consols wero quoted ut 057-10 and ster)ing oxchango at §4. 813 @3.84, Greenback at tho Now York Stock Ex- chinngo yesterday closod at 93, e il A Constantinople dispatch yesterday said that a great battlo was fought on Monday between 'I'artar-Bazardjik aud Philippopolis, nand Svreisan Pasha ofterwards took mup positions nonver I'hilippopolis. ‘This, being trauslated, means that Surenun got a lick- ing and had to ski A decislon in favor of tho defendant, now known to the world ns Bishop Cnexer, of tho Iteformed Episcopal Chureh, was yester- dey rendered By tho Iltinols Supremo Court in tho celobrated nnd long-pending Caexey ensg, in which the judgment of the Cirouit Court of Cook County, rondered Deo. 14, 1874, is afirmed. Savtoce, Bowees, editor of the Springficld Republiean, died lnst ovenivg aé 11 o'clock, nfter n lingoring illness, during which hopes of his recovery wero at times ontortained, but which Iatterly left no encouragemont for tho anticipation of a favorable result, but ‘prepared the minds of anxious frionds for tho occurrenco of dissolution at almost any saomont, Ex-Gov. Wasnnuny, of Wisconsin, has just mado o tender to tho State of his beau- tiful residonco proporty at Edgowood, two miles from Madizon, and valuod nt 100,000, £ the sito for an industrinl school for girls, 1o hna long been impreased with the im. portanco and valuo of such an institution, nnd has testified lis interest and sincerity in tho most practical manner possible. — ‘Tho officors of tho Continental Iifo of #lortford complain that gross injustico has boon dono that Company in the roport of tho Legislativo Commisslon, an abstract of which was printed yestorday, and declaro their ability to show conclusively that tho Continental is porfectly sound and solvent. Itisto bo hoped that thoy will bo nble to demonstrate the truth of this assertion. e ——— The temperance agitation in somae of the Michigan cities has broken out in n new spot. Socioties of young ladies aro now the sage—Pink Ribbon Boclotics, they call them, and every momber is pledged to accopt at- tention from nono but Red Ribbon young men. Inthe event of a stubborn rofnsal on tho part of nuy considerable number of tho winlo eligibles to bo bulldozed in this way Lhere is lisblo to e n terribla tearing up of pink xibbons before spring. erre————— Tho bottom has dropped out of the prose- cution of ex-Gov. Burrock, who wna the last Ropublican Governor of Georgla, and ngainst whom tho Democrats have for sev- eral yoars dirccted their partisan malice. Gov, Burtock was not o carpot-bagger, bot s nativo of the Btate, o wealtby and highly. respected business man untilt he wam drawn into politics, The hatred of the Domocracy took tho form of a criminal prosecution, und numerous in. dictments wero found by Democratic Grand Juries charging Lim with complicity . 1n frauds vod irregularities committed under his Adwministration. Uls friends bave always ¢laimed that ho was in no way rosponsiblo or bluuable for theso wmatters, aud the verdict of “not guilty” rendered yesterday s o actical confirmation of their confidence in Lis integrity and innooonce, The fresh complication hinted atin tho csble dispatches of the past two or thres days is now mado known definitely by tho auvouucement that Austria has given notico of an intention to participato in the peaco uegotintions betweon Nussia sud Turkey, ‘Chis declaration bas been communicated to dhe Porte by Count Zicuy, the Austrian Anbassador ut Constantinople, and a similar notification on behalf of England is said to have boca forworded to 8t. Petersburg by Lord Deuy on Mondsy last. Information to this effect comes exclusively from Constan. tinople, both Viennasod Bt. Petersburg being slent on the subject. Tussia Las ot uo time duvied tho right of tho Powers under the ‘Freaty of Varis o sovicw tiyo terws of a peago || Bubject in tho Wisconsin Senato, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1878, troaty after it should be agreed upon by the principals in the negotiations, but has mani- feated n decided disposition to object to any outside intervention in the preliminary ar. rangemonts. \What offect upon tho situntion the action of Austria may hiave remains to bo seen. Tho bridge nccident on the Weat Qon. necticut Railroad Tuesday night proves to hato been a repotition on n reduced scale of the Ashtabula horror. Eleven passengor cars, crowded with people returning home from tho 3Mooor and Baxzsy revival meoting in Hartford, wore hauled by two locomotives across a rotten bridge, and thirteen corpses, five porsons badly injured, and twenty-threo more or less hurt is the result, Tha bridge, like that at Ashtabula, was regarded as por- fectly safe and sound by those who would have hiad to Lear the expenso of replacing it with a botter one. Very little business of any kind was trans. acted in Congrosa yesterday. Tho Senate, after refusing to rofer the MarTnEws resolu. tion to the Committee on Judiciary, davoted tho romainder of the sossion to the delivery of eulogica upon the late Senator Booy, of Missourl. Tho oulogies upon Senator Mon- ToN will be dolivered to-dny. The Housa received ond roturned thanks. for the tonder by Erizaneran ‘Troxrsoy, of New York, of OArPxTRR's painting of the first ronding of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lixcoux and his Cabinet, ra a gift to the Government, A bill was passed sppropriating 810,000 for clear- ing away tho snagsin various Weslern rivers. Not, howover, until the assurance was given that thig sum should not be deducted from tho regular annual jobbery known as the River and Harbor bill, did the House con- sent to pass tho appropriation. Notico is glvon by the Sscrotary of tho Treasury that on and nfter Jan, 26 subsorip- tions will bo roceived for the four-per-cent funded lonnof tho Unitod States, the bonds boing 1ssued indonominations of from 850 to $10,000. Thosale of the bonds has boon taken from the hauda of the Byndleato, and hereafter subscriptions will be received from tho people diroct, All banks that can fur- nish tho necessary security will be sup- plied with bonds, and it is hoped that the convenienco of the arrangement will in somo degreo ovorcome the disadvantagoe of the requirement that the bonds must bo paid for at par in gold coin. The law does not permit of thoir issua in smaller donom. inntions than £50, nnd the Government will not bo on tho right road to the funding of its dobt among its own people until Congress nuthorizes tho fusuo of bouds better adapted to tho investment of savings in small amounts. A test voto on tho silver question in a small way was had yestorday in tho Senate, on CoNrrixe's motion to refer tha Marrnews resolution to the Judiciary Committee, The Chairman ot that Commnitteo isEpuuyps, the spocial advocato of the bondholders, and ho wonld of course do ovorything in his power to pigeon-liole or delny tho resolutions. Tho Judiciary Committeo consista of Epxunps, Coxguiva, Hown of Wisconsin, Davis of Illinois, CrnnisTiaNcy of BMichigan, Taun. 3N of Ohio, and McDoxarp of Indisnn. Threo of tho soven nro Lostile to the resolu. tions, and could delay reporting them back for somo time, Tho motion was defeated by ycod, 19; nays, 81.* The vots of ono of tho yess will rather surprise his conmstitu. ents, viz.: Benator Pavpock, of Nobraska, Fully nine-tonths of the peoplo of that State Dbeliove in tho doctrina set forth in tho Mar- Tuews rcsolutions, and don’t want them turned over to tho hostile keoping of Ep- aoxos and CoNgring. - Hamburg Burnen, of Bouth Caroling, voted the same way Pavnock did. On tho other hand, Dox Oawmzrox, of Yennsylvanin, and Savrsnuny, of Delaware, voted ngainst tho hostilo reforence. , Both of these havo been counted on by tha goldites for their side. Tho vote was n very light one, ns twonty-six Bonators wera abscnt, nineteen or twenty of whom are consldered to bo fricuds of silver remonetization, m Madison, Wis,, says that ** Bonator Price's rosolution, favor. ing the passago of Dranp's Siver Lill, came up on its specinl order in the Somate. An amondment to the effoct that a silver dollar #hould contains n dollar’s worth of silver was unanimously adopted, and in such a shapo the resolution passod.” Of conrso a silver dollar should contain a dollar's worth of silver, A dollar's - worth of “ailver s 4124 gralus standard (with alloy) or 8714 of puro silver, This standard woight was adopted by Con- gross i 1792, nnd has never been changed; 471} groius of puro silver constitutes ox. notly o dollar's worth of silver. Wo are glad thoro is no division of opinion ou the ‘Thero are some abaurd poople who want the woight of the Cbineso trado dollar adopted ns the standard, and there is another class of crafty ** antls,” who are hypocritically in tavor of remonotization, that propose tho clap-trap achemo of chauging the weight of the Ameri. can standard silver dollar to conform to the ftuctuation of gold in London a8 compnred with silver bullion. Thoy know well cuough that this schomo is uttorly impracticable, ns it would require a comploto chango of tho cofungo onco o mouth or aftoner. As long a8 tho Qerman Government is engaged in sclling its domonotized eilver it London there will bo fluctuntions In the gold market, whereby moru gold to-day and less to-mor- row nay be required to purchase an ounca of tho Germausurplus silvor, A cablo dispatch yesterday annonnced that n marriage was proposod between the Crown Prince of Austria and tho Princess Bxataice, the youngest dauglter of the Queen of En. gland, It i moro than likely that this rumor Los no other foundation than that Prince Runorrn iy contemplating a visit to London, as has beon herotofore stated. Mar. risges among miembers of Royal families are not mado in a hurry nowadays; thoy are dis- cussed by atatesmon, made the subfect of Cabinet meetings, preached and prayed about by Archbishops, and talked over at the hum. blest firesides. ‘This Ruporwn is said to be a fine young follow, o is 20 years old, and resembles the Emperor in intelligence and liberal fdens. But the fact must not be ovorlooked that ho {s o Roman Catholie, and tho Royal family of England have not con. tracted o single Catholic allianca since that absurd Gronoe IV, married the lively Firz. urapenr. ‘The Royal-Marriage act prohibits tho marrisge of any of tho Royal family cxcept with the oxpress permission of the Crown, and, considering the strong antipa- tby which Vicromis is known to ooter- tain towards the Catholics, there is no probability of bher cousenting to any such arrangemcnt. Desides, there i avother considerstion which would have great weight with her. Beatsice is the fa- vorite danghter, and for soveral years hns never left the side of her Majesty, S8ho reads to her in the morning, Innches with her at noon, and walks or rideswith her in the afternoon with tho regularity of clock- work, dny after day. Tho Queon wonld hard- ly know how to got along withont the Prin- cess, and, as for the poor girl herself, why, her opinions or wishes in this or any other matterara of very littlo consequence. Blio ia 21 yoars old, having thna tho advantago of a year ovor the Austrian Prince, and is not 80 handsome as to compol the adoration of an unprejudiced beholder. Although the Church of England is at war with the Roman Catholia Churoh, its relations with the Greok Church hava been fricndly onongh to allow the marriage of the Duke of Enixnura with the daughter of the Czar ArzxANpER, Al- thongh, wo belfave, the stipulation was made that the offspring of thnt marriage should be bronght up in tho faith of their father, BHERMAN ON CLIPPING THE COIN., In 1868, Sonator Joln Buxnyaw, then Chairman of the Senate Financo Committee, roported a Lill (No. 217) revising the coinnge, which bill was accompanied by o written re- port. Benator Moraay, of Now York, mado o minority roport at tho same iime sdverse to the bill. 1In the light of subsequent ovenis this bill and the report havo n pecu- fior valuo at this time, sffording perbnps much information. In tho year 1867 there was held in Paris an. Intornatiount Monotary Conference, having for its object tho es- tablishment of an international systom of coinage, by which the coin of each country, by whatever namo designated, should be equivalont in weight, fineness, and valuo to thio coina in other countries, Br. Sueruax's bill hed for its object tho adoption of this system. Tho bill proposed: 1, o single standard, cxclusively of gold; 9, coins of equal woight and diameter; 8, coins of equal quality or fiueness, nino- tenths fino; 4, tho weight of tho Fronch five-frano gold ploco to tho umit; 5, the colus of each natlon to bo logal-tonder, public’and private, in all. Tho bill further proposed to abolish tha sflver dollar, and to mako the silver coin subsidinry and equiva. lent to the French silver coins and a logal- tonder for $10. This was tho beginning of gilver demonotization. But this bill pro- posoed, when the silver dollar was demonc- tized and abolished, to reduco tho valueof tho gold dollar to 96} cents, and this was by the recoinage of all tho American gold and tho reduction fn each coin as followa : The 100-cents dollar to contain gold worth 06) conts; the $2.50 coin to contaln gold worth 32.41}; the 36 coin to contaln gold worth $4,824; the $10 coin to contain gold worth £0.65; and the doublo eagle, or 220, to contain gold worth only $10.80, And this reduced and debased coin waa to Lo legal. tender to all amounts, ‘This provision was {n thonature of scaling debts, It abolished tho ailver dollar, which was thon worth moro than tho gold dollar, and in nddition reduced thoe weight of gold in the gold dollar 3} percont. This was at n time when the debts of the country, nation. al, municipal, corporate, and privato, wero nt their maximum, and the present Secrotary of tho Troasury proposed to abolish the silver dollar, worth 101 conts, nnd subatitute as tho oxclusive logal-tender of the country gold dollars containing ouly 96} cents werth of gold. : This schemo, however; was not satisfactory to tho bondholder andthe money.lender, They were thon struggling to have the whole national debt doclared to be payable in coin instead of papor, as it liad beon claimed, and thoy had no desire to.havo the sizo of the metallio dollars reduced. Indeed, ot thnt timo the production of gold was 8o great, and tho anticipation that tho railroads to tho Pacific would mncrenso the quantity so strong, that tho subsequent decline in the produc. tion of gold was unforescen. For this roason thoy entered a protest ngainst thoe reduction of tho gold dollar, or the demonotization of silver, nnd it reduction in value. Mr. Snen. san's bill was thereforo killed. SBonator Monaax's adverse report crushed the life out of the bill, and tho scheme of reducing the gold coinage in valuo onded. We roproduce iho listory of this bill in order to show that tho policy of coining cheap dollars and making thom logal.tendors did not then horrify tho present Hecrotary of tho Trensury, and ho was then perfectly will- ing to clip nll the coin and pocket the profita, His argument on this subject s at this timo amusing aswell as instructive. Wo inake some extracts nnd invite atteution to them ; In determining this question [exiating contracts], & distinction must be made between public and privole debts, - All privato contracts are made in viow of the power of Conuross toregulate the value of colnn, *"Thle power haw been repoatedly oxers cined by Congress, and In no case was nny provision made for anforcing cxiating contructe fu the ol rather than tho now standard. — All property and may be aflected by legisistlon, but it s imed Ahat in tAs exercias of tte leqlalativs nower ulfll will ba controlied by elther the debtor or the creditor, but only hv tho gen- eral finud. To continuc o distinction hetween tho old snd the mew coln I tho payment of privato dobts wonld result in gruat Inconven- fence, while by making the new eoln d logn! ten- der for all debte after a ressanablo thno would e sblu our citizens to conform the great body of thelr contracts Lo the new alandard, Such Aus been the practice not only tn (he United States dut in other vountries, where from time to time the standard of coin has been changed, Such was the principle adopted In the passage of the vresent Lecal-Ten- der act, Vl)llch.&[ made applicable ouly to Future contracts, would hiave banl mPlcd & large portion of the actlvo buein business compelled 10 contract debte, 1t must bo remembered that all privato debts ara now on the baule of legal-tonder hotcu of fur less Intrinslc value than Lho proposad coin. The de- prociation of lezal-tenders had tho effuct to dimln- sh the value of all debts and the property of all creditors 1o tho extent of tho depreciution, and fu unly justifiable by the highcst conskierationa of natlonal satct nen of the country whosa y. ltine process of retuzning to more severe on the debly depro onof the hurden of debt cluss generally benedled by the Increased valuo of fixed property, sud better able to bear the duninu- tion of thelr capltal, but an increass of lie burden of ths Jebt to the devtor clase, by the paymentof coln astead of depreciated paper money, offen nroduces adeolute ruln witnout fault ju the dubtor, All contracla are now on the legal-tendur Lasts, Every privato creditor would now take the new coln and would be largely benefited Ly tho chanued wmedlum of payment. The smatl relief of the dubtor by the ulightly dlinluished standard of coin will tend tu that degree to lessen the unavoldable hardehlp to him ol re.urn 1o specle vayment. ‘This rolief would be cepeclully Just ou the paynient of Toug bonda hisued by rallroacs and other corpu. rations during or sloce the War, which wure alinnst unifurmly wold fur depreciutud paper money. Yuur Cummitice, therefore, conclude, thal uata wll private debts or contracts, the ouly proviston necersary in this Lill i tu postpone thie operation of ite legal-tender ciaune fur a reasoaalic thing aiter the paseage of the act, Haviog thus demonstrated to his full satis- faction that it was not dishonest to clip the coin before paying private debts with it, and that the creditor was a fool who made any legal or moral objection to the process, Mr. SBuxsuan discussed tho question, ** Does not a different principle prevail as to publio debts?” and on this polint he sald s As to pudhic debls, 1be conlract of loan |z the only luw thul auml o affect the creditor until his debt le fully wischarved. Cougress, s tho authos. ized suizent of the Awerican peoule, is one party 10 b coutract, and it may po wore nrz 1he contrect b{ subsequent acts than suy othur debtar way vary hls contract. . As 1o the public creditor, nulegis- lative powkr@isnds between bim sod the exact erformance of his cuntract. Public faith bolds Uie sculcs between bius and the United Staies, and tho pe for a breach of this fuith 8te fur wora severy sud disustrous to the nation than Courls, Coustablos, oud bheritfa can Lo fu the private debtor, Thesw peualtice ure uationsl dishonor snd fuabllity to botrow money in cuse of waror public distross, aud the ultinate result s tn sad speedy decline of uatioual power 2ud prestize. When changes were made i 1834 and To33, United States had no pablic debt of any sig- nlficance, and_the precedents then mado do not apply {0 the prosent time. Now the publle debt {a #0 Tnrge that ' chanze of 34 per cent In the valae of our coin ia & reduction of the pubile debt of $00, 00V, 000, The render will hardly bo able to reconcile tho distinction ina legal of moral point of view of Congress arbitrarily nbolishing 5} per cont of all Stato, municipal, corporate, and privato debts, and doing the same with the pnblic debt. The reasoning is far-fetched and wholly Indefensible; and tho suggestion 1t it wonld bo moro dishonorable to scale a large debt than n small one is espocially weak. Every word of the argnmont in favor of the excrcise of tho nrbitrary power of Congress to clip the coin for the purposo of paying private debts, and debta duo abrond by corporations, npplies with equal force to the payment of public dobts., The whole proposition was impolitic, dangerous, dis. honest, and grossly immoral. The distinc. tion betweon public and private debts was, a3 tho Becretary admitted, nn nfterthonght, and was not provided for in the original bill, Wo snbmit, however, that Mr. Snenvan was right when ho nsserted ** that tho con- tract of loan is tho only law that ought to affect tho creditor until his debt fs dis- charged.” If that confract provides that he shall bo pald in gold, or silver, or paper, that contract binds him os well as the debtor. e can only demand what tho contract ro- quires. If tho contrast stipulates that bo sball be paid in gold or silver at the option of tho debtor, ho can no more rofuso cither of these coina than he can demand that his debt bs doubled. It mny not be inappropri- atetoadd that Sonator Monnuy, of Vermont, who Is now so strenuous in opposing pay- ment of debis, public and private, according to the contract of the loau, agreed to this report, nad approved the bill providing for clipping threo and n balf cents from every gold dollar beforo using it to pay debts, To-morrow we will give tho report of Benator Monaan opposing the chipping of coin nnd opposing the demonetization of silver. AROTHER TILDEN “PLAN." Pending the Electoral Count, Mr. Tizpex secms to have bad o great many dinner par- ties, and at ench dinner parly somo now modua operandi was presonted for olovating him into tho Presidentinl chalr, The latest plan that has como to light was nover put into oxecution, although it wasdevised by the lending Domocratio luminarios, and was con- wlderod to bo much moro foasible than Davip Duorer Frewp's quo warranto proposition, The foundation of the plan was found in Bee. 8, Art. 8, of tho Constitution, which providesthat **in all enses affecting Ambassn- dors, other public Ministors and Consals, and those in which a Stato slall be n party, the Bupremo Court shall have original juris- diction,” Starting from this polint, it wns nccessary to framo n statute which would empower a State. to becomo a party to the proceedings, roopon the case, nud define the manner in which it should be couducted. Granting, howevor, that the Bupreme Court would lhave jurisdiction, low could tho necessary statute have been passed to conble n Stato to becomao o party to tho suit, with a Ropublic- nn Benato? Itis not within the bounds of possibility to nesumo that tho Senate, which was ot that timo clearly Ropublican, would aver have consonted to roopen this question, {o pincoit in litigation aftor it was onco settled, and to plunge tho wholo conntry agnin into Dbitter contentions and hot- blooded wranglings, Lordering upon elvil strife, from which it had just narrowly es. caped. It is oven quostionablo whether the Houso, which nt that time had a largs Democratio mnjority, would have consonted to it. Tho President, Gon, Grant, would never havo approved of any such loglala. tivo contest, nftor Hayes had been awardod the offlco by the concurront nction of the two Ilouses. Dy what right or by what conslstency could Gnanr chal. Ienge tho title of his suoccossor, ofter it had boen doubly confirmed? Buch aclion would not havo beon in no- cordanco with any usnges or precodents, Even if the attempt had boen mado, it would lavo been abortive. ‘The Benate nover would have consented. The House might not, Tho President would not. Huppose, howover, that tho law bad boen passed snd tho ceso had beon referred to the SBupromo Court, it would havo perished thore, Tho majority of the Bupromo Court nover would havo gone behind the roturvsin any way that could have beon of interost or valuo to Mr. Twory, Tho position which Judge Braoxa of the Buprome Bench nssumed in tho letter which wo printed some time sinco would have beon tho position of the ‘whole Bench, uamely, that this was a mattor for Stato action, and that Congress hind uo right to go behind the roturns. When thoso returns woro sent up from the ofiiclal Btato cauvassers, under due forms of law, Congress was bound by them, The statute contemplated by BMr. Tinpex's cunningly devised plan wonld lhave beon ex post fueto, Mr. Iaves' titlo having boen good undoer the existing law whon he took tho oath, As thera was no statute to the contrary when ho went into offico, it was too lato to framo such a law aftor ho was In, Good titlea ro not tried. If, however, Mr, ‘TrLoxy ond bis Demoorste frionds are so- licitous about Presidential titles hercaftor aud desire to have the power to review them, it is not too lato to frame a law to take effect in futuro, Meanwhile, ns there is no manner in which JMr. Iaves' titlo to hiy seat can be disturbed, and as thero is no disposition to interfere with it, in Congress or out of it, or onywhero oxcopt in Grameroy Park, Mr, Tioey and his funediate friends ought to have tho graco to conse sny further public cxhibitions of their imaginary griovances, o ——— CABINET OFFICERS IN CONORESS. It is stated on good authority that the President, in o forthcoming message to Cou. gress on tho Civil Borvice, will recommend that tho members of the Cabinet bo al- lowed soats on the floor of the House of Ropreseutatives and the privilego of partici- patiug in the dobates on qmaonl Telating to their Departwents. ‘Chis is a proposition to adopt as far as practicable under our Con. stitution and laws tho theory of direot, per. sonat responsibility of tho Cabinet to the roprosentative brauch of Congress. Materi- ally the samo proposition wes futroduced during the Thirty-eighth Congrees (1861.'03) by Mr. Grosax H. Pysprerox, then a mem- bor of the House from Ohio. His Lill, re- portod favorably by tho Committee to which it was referred, was in the following terms ;3 De it enacted, ste., That the Secretary of State, th retary of tho Treasury, the Hecretarz of W tlwmmu?ol Lo Navy, thu Sccrotary of the Interior, 1hs Alturney-General, and the - master-General, shall bo entitlod 0 nccupy seats ou the door of the Huusu of Kepraseniatives, with the rlght to participate lu debate upun wattery su- lating to the business of tuciz respoctive Dopart. wents, under such ruls wa way be prescribed by tha & Bee. @ be I8 Further enacted, 'That the sald Becreta Altornoy-General, and the Post- susater-Ueueral shall attend (e ssesions of the House of Repreacotatives imwmediately ou the wpcning of tuo sittings un Mondays aod Thure- duye of each week, to give lnfurmation fu reply to qaestions which may bo proponnded to them under the rales of the flonse, ‘There was also n draft of rules submitted for carrying out tho intentions of the pro- posed bill, which provided that members shonld give notlce of sn inquiry for informa. tion from any of the heads of the Depart- monta; that such hotico should be conveyed to the proper Cabinot officer; that the in- quiries shonld Lo first in ordor of business Mondays and Thursdays; and that thero shonld ba no dobata or statemonts in the questions and answors furthor than should Lo necessary to a clear understanding of the same, No voto, wo believe, was ever takon on the proposed bill, but it was widely dis- cussed pronndcon in the closing days of the session, The most olaborate argnmonts wero mado by Messrs, Pexpreron and Gane rreeo fn favor of the proposition, and by Mossra, Monzirt, (of Vermont) nnd Cox, opposed to it. As Presidont Hayes' recom. mendation gcoms to be much the same as that incorporated in the PenpLerox measure fourtoon years ago, it will Lo profitable to recall the leading features of the debato ot that time. The discussion then turned (1) upon the constitutionality of tho proposed mionsure, nnd (2) npon the advisability of making tho chonge. Thoso who hold it to bo unconstl. tutional based their argnmont on the consti- tional provision that **no person holding offico under the United States shinll Le o momber of either Houso during lia continu- ance in office.” It was contondod that this provision would oxclude persons holding of- fico nnder tho Government from ndmission to the Touso na Territorial delegates, who have soats nud may participate in dobate but who may not vote, and that tho soats which it was proposed to give Cabinot membors wero nnnlogous thereto, and henes the Cabi. net officers should be excluded by tho snme constitutional law. 1In regard to the ndvisa- bility of the change, it was mnintained Ly those opposed to it that tho Cabinot ofiicors wore tho personnl adherentsof tho Prosident, that thoir presenca in Congress and privilege of debnto wonld groatly enlarge the powers of the Administration, and thnt tho new in- fluence thus givon them wanld be practically an oncronchment by the Exccutiva on the Legislative provinco, and n monnte to the fundamental independenco of these two co- ordinato branches of the Government. It was not the forco of these arguments that prevented a final voto on tho measure, nor yeot tho usual olfort of Mr. Cox's to make the proposition ridiculous, Lut partly be- cnuso at that timo any measure looking like on imitAtion of England's custom twas re- sonted, nnd chiefly becauss, in tho face of tho war measures aund complications, it wna not possiblo to ougage for this proposition tho serfous consideration whic it deserved. The nrguments advanced ngainst Mr, Pen- oLeToN's measure wore vory cffectively au- sweored in the courso of debate. Nothing seemed to bo loft of tho constitutional ob- joction. Tho constitutional prohibition ap- plics only to n member of tho Honso; a Tor- ritorisl delegato is not n member ; the Cab. inot officors would not be members under thoir proposed admission to cortain privi- legoa; n mémber can only bo ono who enjoys all the priviloges of memborship, and this wns not and {8 not now asked for tho Cabi. net members, Mr, Prypreron demonstratod that tho Houso has tho power to open its doors and invije to tho floor any person whom it chooses, and that it had alwaya ox- orcised this power at its own discretion ; and that Congress hna power to impose upon tho heads of Dopartmonts such duties na it bolloves proporly belongs to them, sinco those Departmonts and Chiofs oxist by virtuo of laws of Con. gross, cuncted ot varians times. Mr. Gan rrewp showed, in the courso of the dobato, that there woro several recorded instances in tho enrlior days of the Government whon members of tho Cabinet oruliy addressed the House in answor to Inquiries, and that in othor discussions over the proprioty of this proceeding tho right was nlways ad. mitted and only tho expediency donied; indeed, tho law croating tho position of Boc- retary of the Treasury provides that ho shall report in porson or in writing, ns either House may direct. Mr. PrNpLETON Success- fully denied that the Cabinot mombaers aro merely tho doputies or ngonts of tho Presi- dent. The Prosidont ia the sole constitu. tlonnl Exccutive. Ilia authority over tho members of the Cabinot is the samo as over other mombars of tho Government—no moro norless, They aro creatures of Congress, oud therr ofiices may be abolished by Con- grosa ot any timo by the ropeal of the laws croating them; then, certalnly, tholr dutles nnd responsibilities may bo changed and doflned at any timo by Congross, Indeed, Congress has ex- plicit anthority undor tho Constitution * to makoa all lawa which shall be necessary and propoer for carrying Into oxecution . . all powors vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United Btatos, or in any Department or offcer thereof." This outline of tho argumont, which might bo materially strongthenod by citation of the laws creating the varlous Cabinot positions,. is sufficlently conclusive 85 to tho constitu. tionality of a law adwmitting Cabinet mem. bers to the floor of the Ilouso and ita do- bates, and subjecting them to interrogation respacting the affalrs of their soveral Dopart. menta, The case made out in favor of the expedi. ency of the proposed change wna fully as strong. It was admitted on all sides that tho Cabinet officers had tho free entres to both Housea in practice, and that they exerted o decided influence in shaping legislation by buttonholing Congresamen, by private ropre- sentations, by seoret lobbylng, and by per- sonal and parlisan appeals, Mr, Pxxoreron characterized this practioo as n secret, hypo- eritical, and partial exerciss of a priviloge that might be rendered serviceable by strip- ping off the mask. Now thoinfluence of Cabl- uot officora s one-slded and irvesponsiblo ; they may make falso or unfair representa. tions in private concourso with members on the floor, but cannot ba confronted and called to account openly and in detail for their statements. “I1 propose,” sald AMr, Pgyorrtox, ‘‘to substitate open argument, fair debato, intellcctual power, knowledge of facts, for private oonversation, partisan ap- peals, promise of secrot roward. Thon,” he added, “the influence of executive oficers will bo diminished justasrenson is Jeas potent than persuasion, and as argumont is less ef- foctive than patronsge.” Ho lLikewlss pre- ferred the proposed plan to the one in actual operation for tho same reasons shat advo- cates aro allowed o addreas juries in open court, but not to go into the secrot jury- room to labor with thom. A number of striking instances were cited, also, to show that the delay and evasion incident to the proseut practice of calling for information by resolution, and receiving it in writing at the pleasure of the Department chief, work great injury to legllation and tho public service. A caso in pomnt was the conduct of Buomanax's Becretary of War, just before tho ontbronk of the Rebellion, in send- ing arms to the South, Thera was a resolntion of inqguiry; the Judleiary Committeo went to work with the usual ma- chinery of subpmnns, clerks, stonographors, and o onj sovoral weeks woro spont with- out cliciting much information, and the cov- ert trcason wont on, ‘‘Tiad that officor stood upon tho floor of the Iouse,” sald Mr. PeNprLxTON, ‘aubject to thoInterrogatories of my collengues for fivo minutes, we would have known tho exact trath with roference to those arms.” The fncronsed porsonal re- sponsibility of evory Cabinot officor, undor tho proposed syatem, wonld bo tho chief gain of the changa for tho present, ‘The advauco that has beon made In conati- tational and responsible government through- out tho world in tho Inst dgzen yonrs, the thought that lins since been given to the sub- joct, and the botter condition under which the matter will now bo presented, will give the proposition more prominence, and prob- ably sacure it groater favor than when it waa brought befora Congress fourtoen yonrs sgo, nnd Presidont Haxea has noted wisely in resolving to recommeond this chango in our systom. [ — In our commenta yestorday upon the nc- tlon of the Council with referonco to tho wholesalo paving business, the facts were somewhnt overstated. The original roport covered only o fow of tho principal atreots in the bnsiness portion of the city, which are notoriously out of repair and need ro- paving for public convenience. Othor stroots were added upon the motions of individual Aldermen, uutil the list swelled to its pres. ont formidabld dimensions, Tho action of the Council was simply an instruction to the City Attorney to proparo the customary ordi- nances in tho caso of each street, which would then como before tho Council to bo referred to the propor cowmmittees, who would report to the Council for after-conaid- orntion, Wo oro nssured that in the final disposition of tho business only thoso strools will be paved in tho business part of tho city ‘which aro in snch a wretchod condition as to imperatively neod it, or those streots where the property-holders aro desirous of having tho improvemeonts and aro willing to pay for them, If such be tho case, thero will be no serious opposition to tho paving, but if it should {nvolve any jobs sot np merely to favor contractors or spend monoy, thero will be a very sorious and bittor opposition. When Geonor Auvgustus SaLa, of the Lon- don Telegravh, was a very small boy ho went Tvith his mother to visit ;PAGANINT, who was then lodging at *The 8hip," In DBrighton. 1lls wother had been civing concerts, and had en- gaged thy famous violinist to assist at the per- formance on the previous evening, and tha oc- casfon for tho visit was the desirn of the lady to pay the 25 guineas which was the atipuinted feoof the composer. They found him in the breakfust-room, gnawing a terribly undoue mut- ton-chop in 8o flerco a nanner as to call up in the boy's mind all the storles which were then extont regarding PAcaNiNt's connection with the Dovil. Hlolad agaunt, angular form, his bluck olf-locks falllng fu welrd confusion over his neek and shoulders, a cadaverous face and shoggy Lrows, long, bony hands, with the velas standing out like cordage, amazingly large feet, nnd o neck alaproportionately long, scrag- gy, ond corrugated. He awept tho little pile of gald towards him contemptuously, when the whiowr modestly counted it out, and calm- ly finlshed his chop, dralned o large cupful of coffec at. a draught, and wiped his lips on tho table cloth. ‘The lady rose to depart, when tho violinfst Leckoned with a long bony hand, crying, *Stop, lectle boy, take dis! it will buy you a cake,” ot the same time thrustiog a crumpled pieco of paper into the hand of the terrified child. It was a bank-noto for £50, This story is rolated at great length by Mr. 8ara (o the Zow Dells Annual, and, supposing it to be true, it affords another instance of kindly and charitable deeds performed by his Batanic Majesty, which deo- serva to bo notlced Just now, as he is being sub- Jected to an unusual amount of vituperation. ————— Tho New York World juakes o mistake In say- ing that Frank MiLLETT, who wroto the graphic description of * Inside Plovna ' for tho Lonaon Dally News, 18 an Enplish artist. MiLuarrisa Boston boy, and an artist of abllity, who for some years past has syelled his slonder income by writing for the newspapers. He was corre- gpandent for the Boston Advertiser at tho Phila- delphia Exhibition, and svon afterwards ro- turned to Parls, where hio and all other artists delight tolive. Last summor ho maden trip down to tho Danubein order to galn insplra- tion for s Lrust, and whils thore obtalucd a tomporary cugagoment as correspondent of the Dally News. When Fonnes came buck to London In ili-health, bis place at the Russlan headquartcrs was supplied by Mr, McUanay, an American who had also gulned a favorable repu- tattor. by his letters {row tho front. DBy-sud-by ‘OaxaN Pasha capltulated, und McOanan rods off post-haste to Buchareat fu order to put the news on tho telegraph-wires, Thew came Mite LETT'S opportunity, While Mctauay was gal- lopping night and day through the mul and mire of Roumanla, MiLLETT munaged to effect on entrance into the fallen city, snd thus fur- nished ono of the most remarkable and blood- curdling descriptions of the war. S imcimi—e To the Edlior of The Tribune, Cn1caao, Jan, 16,—The sliver men way, ** Remon. etize silver and it will appreciate in value aud gold deprociate, 80 iat the two metals will come nesr toyether fu value,* The yold nien say that such would not be the case; that remonctization would not affect tho valuo of wilver L exceed one or two ponce por vunce, WIIL you plenso Inform your rendors Aow remonetization would marrow up the difference between gold and silver—now about D per cent—30 that the two will come nursuxfin lflm ‘This man seemsto have just waked upon tho subject, and not to have read any of the scores atid hundreds of artlcles, pro and con, on the question ho waks. We havonot timeor apace togo oll over the crounds awain for his benelit, s he should uot have siept over tho question so long, Let it sufiico tosay hero that *‘the law of supply anddemand™ will “narrow up the difference between gold and silver,’! Restore allver as a full legal-tender, and coln plenty of it, and everybody will pay thelr debts In silver and buy aud scll Ly that standard, witle gold coutinues to be the dearer metal, Qold befpg ‘*ueglected,” andthe de- mand for it baving fallen off, the tendency will bo to reduce its valuo as compared with stlver, until the two metals aporoach an equillbrium, e —— A letter tothe London Times from Its regu- ar Rome correspondent describes one of the dally papers published fu that city, Tho writer says: 7 ‘There is ono of. the curlositics of Rome which haa bitherto escaped the attentivn of wany dili- out teavelers. It ds tho onice of the journal Vanfutla. 1t is something unique in its way, docs not bosyt any of thusy grest mechanical con« trivauces which weke the printing-pross uf sume Eaglish or Amerlcan levisthan of periodical litern- ture sn object of admirstion for intoillyent forelgm vigltors. Aunfulia s sn unpretonding shect, and mecds hardly the of ibe complicated ma- chinery which Lhi w York Jeraldand Tius Cut- cauo TIunUsE enable thewseiv meet theever- increasiny demnand of theie readurs. The wonder about Hunsulla lics In the braln of its editor and writers, snd not so much in tho transcendent doplh or width as ju the peculisritivs of the intelloctual faculties titiing them fortholr work. Let me by well vudersiood. Funfulia 18 unde bl{ one of tho clever tuings of Italy. and its original founder, Signor Cxeaxs. docidedly a4 greata bumorlat as suy in the whole rsnge of contewporary Itallan literature. ‘The solemn fact canuot be denied'that we are drifting, futo a titular arlstocracy. While wany of the falr daughters of New York are nobly sacrificing thewmsclves jn matrimony with foreiguers of rank, there {s a constant tendency on the part of tho * malo sect to assume, whether rightfully or not, melliftuous and mn'. sounding titles. Of course, thera 18 no ane g buld ns to dispute the claim of the chivale Count JOANNES to bis position as leader of thy now Amerlean aristocracy. That noblemag stands, ready to defend with the sword the laurclawhich ho has won upon 5o many hloudy flelds, Neither.wonld there be a general dispo. sitlon to revile Mr, MAckaY, n proprictor of the Bonauza Mine, for bis purchase of a slmllsy title from the French Government. ** Count MackrY"” would sound well, although for rhetorleal purposes, perhaps, the noma of hiy variner, Mr. O'DRies, would posscss the trug aristocratic ring. A more novel titlo Is that ge. sumed by Consul Bapmav, who, during hjy Journey as traveling-companion of ox-Presideny Gnant, describea himsell ss * denoral U, g, Army, in walting.” As far as our knowledgs oxtends, no such military title as Generaliy Walting is recoguized under tho United States Qovernment. Consul BApzAu is therelore vn. titled to the credit of originality. To Lo sure, there are In tho retinuc of foreign Kings and Princes certaln Individuals who are known ang described as *‘gentlemen-in-walting, but thy it will Le seen, 1s more pretentious, and at oncg clevates Gen, BApEAU above the soclal rank of the obscuro Lords and Margulses who wear thy humbler title, A dispatch from Washinzton savs of somg recent votes in Congruss ou the Deticlency bl Tho House, by n cluse vote, in which Fully 1lney weore pretty closcly drawn, rejected the Senate amendinent to the Deficlency bill, providing for the printing of the Union and Contederate ar. chives,—(hu Democrate nll vuting against, bein afralil of tho exposures and the record it woul exhibit, It adopied tho Sennts amendment appro. pllallnwfi(}o,mfil for the Star Mail Bervice, \vgleh amount will be alnost entirely expended In far. nlllxlnwudxll(l&nll niall faclifies in the Boather and SouthweMern States in all branches exceps rallroads, The opposition to the latter nmuns. wment was based upon the argument that it wagly em.;cl*l 8 subsidy to steambont lines for carrying thy malls, P By a typographical error wo wero madeto say yesterday that tho colnage of the sfiver dollar fn 1878 was $07,716, whereas it should lave read, 807,150, or ten t{mes as much as thae stated. This nmount of the * dollars of the dnddies " was colned tho very year Congress suspended their colnage. The year bufore thay thera wero colued 1,112,001 sflver dollars. Yot Benator Epxunns had the unblushing effront. ery to ask the Senate to paasn reaolution declan ing that the silver dollar had Lecome “*abso. lutely obsolete "1 ————— ‘Tho Rev. Dr. Fowan, editor of tho Aethodi Chrlatlan Advocate, 18 credited " with haviog written the following paragraph: 1t Cunisinado nlcoholic wine o must be put on trlal, nutns nsot, butas n moderate drinker, who, nccordlng to the Inwa of humun nature, wity oo many mililon illustrations, was pe ly saved from becoming an oxamplo for sots by belng crucle ficd In early mianhood, This s u triflo more radical in sentiment thay any of the recout sermons of T1OMAS or SwiNg. ————— There {8 a certain Berzasux Disnaztt in En. gland whom people have supposcd to bo a Jew. But the Philadelphia Press argues that this iy an nspersion, s he was admitted into the Church of England by the usual ceremony of baptism while yet in his 7th year, But it can hardly be supposed that the grace of water has the power to change a man's nationality, Isit an aspersion against BISMAKCK to aflirm that he 18 o Germani ———————— v Before the PAPPENuEIM opera troupe lost thelr manager, Fayzn, they had bheen dofugs loslug business in Loutsville, Cincinnatl, and Moemphls, Frrzn beeame discouraged and de- parted between two days. But tho troupe went to 8t. Louis and succceded in drawlng good houses. ‘Then the missing manager turned up to claim his share of tho profits. e ——— Happy Nevadal The rccoipts of tho Btate Treasury during tho past ycar have been so much largor than the expenditures that it {s pro- posed to call an extra session of the Legislature to reduce tho tax rate from 00 cents to 40 cents on the $100. — A subscriber inSterilog says In a postscript to you on this questi editorialls display on this quest.on 18 wondesfal, ——— A herole barber of this city has redaced the price of shaving, aud his deilance to the rest of the fratornity Is no siampoo. 1llis motto is 4 Never say dyel” - . . | Eulogies upon the herolsm of OsmaN Pashs should bo tempered by the reflection that he had no Jess than scven wives. ——— PERSONAL, Mr. Dowles is growing weaker, and his Irlonds have given upall hope of bis recovery, Duc de Montpensior gives his' daughter 25,000,000 frauceas & dowry on the occaslon of bor marriage. Octavius Crosar fa supposed to hiavo beon & noblo Roman, but at the Cincinnat! Opera-Tlouse the other eveniug ho spoke ina broad Scotch sce cent, It is seldom that six notors of such ropu. tation s Booth, Wallack, Fechter, Coghtan, Boucls cault, and Mmo, Modjeska aru to be found at once in New York, Jomes Gorden Bennett denles that ho is proprietor of the Now York Jlerald, but thlsle meroly 8 form of law In a libel sult Lo throw the burden of proof upon the platntif, Mrs. Lily A, Thorue, daughter of E, L. Davonport and wifo of Frost Thorne, who wae lost on the Mohawk, dled Sunday evening at Philadel- phia. She had beon 11l tor some wmontlis, but her death was quite unexpoctod, A choerful American story is being printed in & Parle paper. ‘Terry Dennysou {s the hero. Cryatal Hliggina ts his Jost betrothed, and Mistress Uordon Kennedy and Lady. Dinely are two of the other prominent character, Cinciunati bad a centenarian in the person of Mra, Angels Podesta-Onetta, only she died the other day at the ogo of 100, 1ler second marriaxe took piace when sho way 80 ycaraold, aund In her 100tk year sho danced all night at a ball, AL Dugue, o Parlstan dramatist, had nearly $20,000in gold In his dowk, aud besldo the wold wus & sack full of bright uew sous that his wife had long been saving up in accordunce wilh the superstition that their predence Lrings luck. It did; for an enterorlsing burglar, taking the sows for 40-franc pleces, carrled thom o with the nezé bay and left $17, V0O untouched, A correspondent vislted the tomb of Gen. Tobert B, Lee, and **was gralified to find that fresh flawersare still regularly brought toadorn the graves of tho Qencrul, Mrs. Lee, aud Miss Agnce,— thats student's guard of honorstill keeps watch and ward at tho tomb, —that Uen. Leo's ofiice fe atll preserved just a8 he loft It ontlio day of his fatal slckness, and that inementoes of tho great chief~ talo are clierished with increaslng efection s the yeoars goon. The mausoleun which is 1o contaln Valenilne's beaatiful recurubent figuro 1s soon 10 ‘becommenced, snd will be pushed to an early cowpletion, " Tucldont of the Communo of Parla: Ad severs! Yersailleso were boing led away to be shioty man in the crowd thal accompanied them 10 ses tho shooting wade himself consplcuvus by taunting and reviling the prisoncrs. . ** Thers, confound you," said one of tho prisonors at last v+ don't you try to ges out of It by udging off luto the crowd and pretendlng you are onu of them. Come back hore; the gamo fe up; let us oll dle Lo~ gether," and the crowd was 50 porsuaded that the Commul vehumenco was only anssnmod t0 <cloak his escape that ho was marched into filo with the prisoners aad duly shot. The late George Washington could lose his tompsr on occasions as well as more common folk, It is related that when he and tho other Commissioners were Jocating the City of Washind- ton they found a certaln David Buras, the ownef of some property, rather disgruntled. After en* doring for a while hix opposition, the Fatber of bis Country hastlly remsrked: ** Mr. Burns, if the Federal City had not bean located here, you would bavo Deen & DoOr tubicco-planter, instesd of 8 rich lsnd-owner." ‘*Vers weel, Mr. Wasblug: ton," replicd Burna, **an’ if ye hadus marsied the Widow Custis yo wad ha' been & poor laud sui- veyor instead of a rich woer, 't Hubed queatly the two becazae great friends.