Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1878, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, Tarkey resfuung strenuously the demand for the surrender of her fleot ds a war indem- nity, while Russia fn unquestionably in rondiness to movo with lightning rapid- ity and resistloss forco the instant it becomes ovident that a troaty of peaco Tlye Tibane, " TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BT MAII~IN ADVANCE—TPOSTAGE TREPATD. 5 ""812.00 | cannot be agreed npon in aceordance with ffi‘.f,m"v"?"""fi" 1308 her requirements. Guounxo has organized Vo e o picked force from the flower of the Russian cavalry and light infantry, and at the word is prepared to dash into Constantinople before the Turks ean move {o oppose him. And it §a certain that Russiais not disposed to wait all summer for Tarkey to decide, The end of February will probably see the peaco negotintions ended, either for peace or for waron a more furfous and gigantio scalo Bpecimen coples sent free. Ulye Post-Offics addres Zounty. n fall fncladiog Btpjeand Itemittances may be mada elther by draft, express, Tost-Office order, or In rexistered letters, at onr risk, TERMS TO CITY BUBSCRIDERS, Tally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 35 cents per week. T'atly, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 cents per week. than ever. . Addren THE FRIBUNE COMPANY, i —— Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta.. Chicago. Il Tho National Greenback-Internationals * Orderafor the deliveryof Tniz TRISUNR At Evanston, Englewood, and fiyde Park leftin the counting-room . Wilirecelva prompt attentlon. ] 16;"_ TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. T#8 CRicAGO TRINUNX has established branch offices for the recelpt of subscrivtionsand adverilsements a4 tollows: NEW YORK~Toom 29 Tribune Duilding. F. T. Mo FADDEN, MADager, # TARIS, France—No, 16 Rue do 1a Grasge-Batellere. H. Manzz, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchsoge, 449 Btrand. Bexny F. Gintig, Agent. BAN FRANCISCO, Cal—Palaca Hotel. Communistic Workingmen's party met in Convention at Tolodo yesterday, and then and there doliberated upon the rights of msn in general, and the wrongs perpotrated upon said general individual by the other and more particular man who has, through the morcies of boneficont Providonce, becoma the posscssor of a bank acconnt (savings- banks always excopted), and is nawilling to submit to tho evening-up process. Thoso great reformers promise to verform wonders in the national arena in 1880. They desire a reimposition of the income fax, an unlimited dssuo . of greon- backs, the reduction of hours of Inbor without a reductign of compeneation, and tho speedy suppression of Chiness immigm- tion. They propose with this platform to catch the popular breezs and be wafted into the post-offices and custom-houses at tho next Presidential eleotion, and immediately thereaftor they will cut down the salaries at- taching to these' branches of the scrvico to the lowest living limit, and thus they will re- form tho orying abuses of tho ago. Taat is they say they will, but it wonld bo woll to wait till thoy get tha offices beforo placing entiro confldence in their platforms and promises, - * McVickor’s Theatre. Madiron strect, between Dearborn and Etate. The Two Orphans.” Afternoon snd evening. Hooley’s Theatre. Randolph street, between Clark, and Lu Engagement of Mme, Jansuschak. Afternoon, ** erine of Jtuesia.” Ev “* Macheth” le. th: ¥ New Chicago Theatre. Clark street, opposite Sherman Honse. Engage- ment of Miss Rose Wood, **Frou Frou.” Afternoon snd eveniog. Haverly’s Theatre. . Monroe etreet, cornerof Desrborn. Engagement of Colville's Folly Company. ‘‘Babes in the Woods.’ Afternoon and evening. *e Coliseum Novelty Thentre. Cisrk trect, oppositc Court-louse, Vatlely per- formance, —eee SOCIETY" MEETINGS. WILL THERE BE A VETO! AR The Prosidont has the legal power to veto M Neamiay I(‘:’-%'r’h’f-n«'fiflfi.‘infi"‘(sm}a-{) evening | any bill and overy bill which may pass Con- At half-past 7 p°clock promot. .!'V:YI.K and business o gross, But lhb President is cnntmlled, or the, M fmportance. By order ot i URLOP, gecrotary. should be controlled, by moral restraints and _——— = —————— SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1878, propriotics cven when his power is absolute. The doctrine of a voto under our Constitu- tion is well nadorstood. Ifi adopting tho re- straint of an Executive negativo upon logis- 1ation, the framers of tho Constitotion wisely guarded against abuses. The nogative of tho . British Crown is absolute; but it implies nn appeal to the people, and the fssue botween the Crown or Ministry is determined by the popular decision. Under our Constitution, we do not have the machinery for such an appeal to the popular will, but the Consti- tution has mado a two-thirds vote in both Honses of Congross in favor of a bill equal to what is regarded in England as an absoluto direction to the Miniatry. Y 500 The exerciso of the veto in {his country has .been of raro occur- ronce, and has alwhys provoked = storm of popular indignation, But cven 1n this country the President haa never re- sorted o a voto,”except in two classes of cases: 1. When there woa in the judgment of the Exccntive some violation of the Con- stitation or treaties; or, 2. When the bill was passod hastily, and ewidently withont information, or upon its face contained some error requiring correction. The cases whoro the President has votoed an nct of Congress upon grounds purely of oxpediency or discrotion are so raro that, if any have takon place, they cannot be recalled. So dis- tastefol has been the eyercise of tho veto povter that, notwithstanding tho presence of party excitoment and party rancor, no Presi- dont has ventured, not even the great Jacx- gox, to veto an sct of Congress withont claiming that tho act was votoed becauso of its unconstitutional character. No Presl- dent has over ventured to brave and defy the publio will by vetoing an act of Congress upon. the mere pretext of a difforence of opinion as to tho expediency of onacting such a law, What aro tho facts in tha prosent case? The Silver bill was passed by the House of Reprosent- atives by o vote of five to one. Tho bill was amended by the Senate, and passed that body by a vote'of mora than two-thirds. The House haa pdopted tho BSenate amendments by a vote of nearly throe-fourths, The President cannot be jgnorant of the fact that four-fifths of the people support the bill so strongly and nnprecedentedly passed by Con- gress. These are the facts as to the g0 of the bill, nnd what are the facts of the bill itsclf ? In 1792 Congross enacted that 3714 grains of silver should constitute the Amer- ican dollar ; that this dollar should be the unit of valuo of Americhn monoy, and be a legal-tonder'in payment of all debts, public and private. During the eighty years that followed, though tho aizo and quantity of pure metal in the gold coing wors changed moro than once, the silver dollar, the Amer- ican unit of value, remained unchanged. In 1878’4, as it was two years and more later discovored, the coinage of this silver dollar was forbidden, and silver dollars were demonatized by law, This act, which ‘was done secretly and astealthily, to the pro- found ignorance of those who veted for it, and of the Prosident who approved it, hiad, without the knowledgo of the country, re- moved one of the landmarks of the Governy, ment ; bad, under cover of darkneas, abolish. ed the conmstitutional dollar, and had arbitrarily, and to the immense injury of the people, added heavily to every form of 1n- debtedness, publio and private. This rovolu- tion was accomplished by an act of Congress, kis Bilver bill had for its objeot and pur- pose the restoration of the law ss it stood before this great fraud and outrage had begn enacted, It doea not introduce a now coin, nor a new legal-teggler, nor a gew form of money, nor a new metal. It grodnces no change. It simply restores the silver dollar to the coinago, and restores it as a logal- tender,—exactly . as the law stood In February, 1873, and had stood since 1792, That is the whole sum and substance of the Silver bill. That is the beginning md the end of the Bilver bill,—thoe restoration of a colnsge unwisely, it not fraudulently, abolished. 1t is clalmed that the Preaident proposes to voto this bill,—a bill passed for such a par- pose, a bill made necessary because of such a fraud upon logialation, a bill involving no constitutional question, and a bill sustained by more than two-thirda of one House, near- ly three-fourths of the other House, and by four-fifths of the poople. Buch a veto ot apy time would be extraordinary, but, under the circumstances, would be an exercise of arbitrary power which would be tolerated in.| no coustitutional Government in Europe, and wholly repulsive to every semblance of popular right and popular will iy this coun- try. The President is not a stranger o this subject, He Las studied it well aud delib- orstely. Ho has advised the people in ad- No invitation to participate in the Enro- pean Congress on the Eastern question has et been recoived by tho United States Gov- ernment. Nothing def is yot known with refor- enco to tho President’s intentions toward tho Silver bill, though tho weight of probability is on tho side of nveto. The curions rumor 1 current that in the event of aveto Sonator Coxrvg, the President's most implacablo foe, will assume tho lendership of the voto ° party in tho Bennte. o The Canadian Minister of Finance has been forced to announce to his Parliament & defcit for 1877 of $1,260,000. From his no- companying siatements of tho probablo ex- ponsos of tho Dominion Administration in 1878 it is deduced that the fish-money ro- contly gouged out of the United Statos would run the wholo Canadian General Gov- erumont machinery for thres months, As the expiration of the term for which Lord Durrermy was sppointed ns Governor- General draws to a closo, tho Canadian people aro busied with discussions na to the advisa- bility of potitioning for his reappointment, of letting him go with a large donation from the Public Treasury ns o mark of thelr ap. precintion of his nndoniably high merit, and other propositions, The natural opposition consequent upon free dobate bns furnished the tax-paying publio with the fact that tho yecont trip of his Excollency to British Co- lambia cost tho peoplo 17,500, which slate- mont, as o sample, is «aid to have caused a fecling that the Candians have been played {for too much money already. . Tho latest information from Galesburg gives no vordict in the RANDE caso, After on nbsenco of thirty-six hours, the jury is unnble to agree, and the belief provails that s between thoso who stick for hanging and those who aro opposed to tho infliction of the death-penalty a compromise verdict is likely to bo the result, giving Raxpz a long ferm in the'Tenitentiary, Upon tho sarface few trpees of dangerous oxcitement appear among tho peoplo of the vicimty, but there ia reason {o beliove that the failure of the jury to agree upon & death-sentenco would arouso such a fury of publio indignation at the judicial farce that & very un-judieial administration of justico would ensue, Busch an outburst would be deplorable, but scarcely more go than the cause which provoked it. mittee has fixed upou April 11 as the date of the Democratio Btato Convention for thae nomination of candidates for Btate Treasu- rer and Btate Buperintondont of Publio In- struction. This determination to be ocarly in the fleld with a platform and a tickot ghows that the Democratio inanagers mesn to preserve the party name and organization this year, and avoid & repotition of the dis- astrous coalition of two years ago. BSuchis the present tomper of the Committee,.ns indicated in tho epeechea ot yesterday's mecting ; - At it is too early yot to teade in politics, so that good resolutions and lofty soutiments moy be salely indulged in. When the time comes to dicker with the Nationals, the Greenbackers, the Industrials, the Work. ingmen, and the rest, wé shall see how the Jllinois Democracy values ita principles and party name. Bocial, judicial, and political circles in 8t. Louls are intensely sgitateg at the discovery tbat J, Fsroesiox Tuonnroy, Clerk of the Circuit Court, is a defaulter to tho amount of nearly $100,000, He was betrothed to the doughter of ons of the wealthiest - citizens, aRd bis position in society seems not to have been affected by the well-known fact that he was spending money at the rate of €235,000 & year on @ salary of 5,000, or. that he was leading the life of a debauches of tho most reckless type. It was not ustil the exposure of his eiwbezzlement came that society found out that Mr. THoRNTON Was & very improper per- son, Fashionable in overythiog else, ho has chosen the provailing mode of escaping the just consequences of his crime. His defense will be insanity, and when informed that his rascality had beon discovered he promptly perwitted his friends to' place him in an insaue asylum, St Thero is a feeling In London, shared even by the Times, which Las alwsys been the lost to get exciled, that the situation in the East is of a character which msy at almost any moment alter for the worse, The unegotiations at Adrlanople are not progressing favorably, vance that ho ias a proper appreciation of the relative rights and obligations of both Congross and of the Executive. Speaking of tho Br.axp bill, tho original Silver *bill of tho House, he thua expressed himself in his annual meseago in Decomber Iast @ Closely connected with this genoral sabject of he resnmption of Bpecio-payments s one of snb- ordinate but #till of grave Importance, I meanthe readjustment of onr colnago eystem by the renewal of the siirer doilar 8 an elemént In our specie cnr- rency, endowed by lezialation with the qfllllli of Tegal-tender to a greater or lens extent. Ax fhere 12 no doudt of the power of Uonqress, under the Conalitution, ta cotn money snd regulate tha valno thereof, and'as this powcr covera the whole range of suthority applicable to the metal, tho rated valne and the legal-tender qaality which shall be adopled for the coinage, the considerations which ehould induce or distonrage a_particnlar measiira connected v (he eolnage, Lelong clearty to_ the proziuce of legulatice diactetton and public ezps- ency, Hore, the President, speaking with rof- erencé to o bill then pending before Con- gress, and which bill is now, in a modified form, presented to him for approval, de- ‘clared that thora was “ no doubt of the power of Congrees, under the Constitution,” and that *“this power covered the whole range of authority " asserted in tha bill, the whole subject of colnnge balonging * cloarly to the province of legislative discrotion and of pub- lic oxpediency.” Itisnow claimed that he proposes to invade that **province of logis- lativo discrotion,” and, putting the will of the country and of Congress, as represonted by tho yolea of the representatives of all parties, at defiance, force npon the coun- try his own judgment as the sovereign law of tho Iand. Until there shall bo a veto, wa will not beliove that President, Hares' will assumo either the tone or the prerogatives of a dictator in arbitrarily arresting this nact of legislation, A8 LIKE A8 TWO PEAS" We natice that an assuranco comes from Admin- istration circlea that the Collector of the Port of New York, Gen, C. A, Antucn, is to remain un- disturbed 1n his oftice and the performance of his duties, whieh {s one instanca of wite action on the partof Prestdent laves. — Snch havo been the efforts In_ various quarters 1o obtain hla romovat that be has been brought consplcnously befors the whole country, and, aithough his trials moy havo nubjected hir to mich snnoyance, yet, on reflec- tlon, he and his friends cannot butbe grateful at tho fesalt. = No common_ man could paes through such a farnnce and escape unharmed, To him the crucible has only been an instrument for bringing out more fully a character that i8 an puro as gold. No secret Intrigue, no pubite commission, no rival foes, nor all the weapons used againet him, have been suceessful. Standing to-day, as he ever has, the most coartoous, the most popular, tho ablest Collector of this kreat port, now lof Him bave poace. —Bangor 1ALy and Courier. ‘We reprint the above paragraph from the columns of the New York Z'ribune, It should creato no surprise that the Now York journal prefers to print oulogies of Coliector AnTaun at sccond-hand, Thers is a Nemosis on the track of the bland, irrosponsible AnTrun that is destined, at no distant day, to overtako and crush him ; and it will bo more cradita- blo then for the Now York T'ribune to be able to eay, * We nover knew him; we mercly reprinted o vapid oul of his character from tho columns of the Bangor Whig and Courier.” Weo know not from what quartor of * Administration circlos ” the assurance comes that * Gon. C. A, Antuu is to remain undisturbed.” We don't beliove that it comes from any quarter. It is quite trus, as nas- serted in the parngraph, thet * No common man could pass through such a farnace snd escape unharmod.” Cortainly * no common man " could Jive long and prosper a8 an official in an otmosphore rank with every epecies and form of corruption daily practiced by his subordinates. But Gen, ArTuon hss so lived and prospered; hence we aro propared to admit that he is no common man, Jlarold Skimpole, that until now incomparable embodimont of solfish. ness and mganness created by Dicxexs, lived and prospered through- long yeava of tho most detestable mponging, upon the moro plea that ho was a child, totally irresponsi. ble. But it camoe out at Iaat that he was ro- sponsible enough and moan enough to accopt bribes from shyster fawyerd and cunning do- tectives; bribes, too, that involved the su. perlativo dogreo of moral tarpitude toward the friends upon whose bounty ho subsisted from day to day. Bhimpole said: *‘I tako it that my business in the social systom is to bo agreenble. I take it that ovorybody's business in thesocial system la to bo agreenble.” Anrnun's views sbout the officia) . system are evidently pre- cisely the samo ns Skimpole's views abant the social systom. 1f his subordinates chooge to steal tho public money, instead of turn- ing thom out of ofico and supplying thelr places with honest men, he ssys: “I take it that my business in tho officlal sys. tem is to be agreeable; if I disturb that thief, I shall becomo disagrecable,” And he proceeds to moralize still furthor, aftor the manner of Skimpole: * My subordinate, the thief, is no doubt endowed with an ambition to possess moro of the luxuries of life than his limited salary will buy, Vory well. Upon the prosentation of his wife's millinery bill, my subordinate, the thief, says, in offect, to tho Government: ‘I am out of monay, Will ‘you have the goodness to produce an extra pap-spoon, and supply me with more greonbacks?' The Government, which has taken upon itself the general arrangemont of the wholo system of pap-spoons, aud pro.- fensos to havo n pap-spoon exactly adapted tothe wants of my subordinato, the thief, does not produce the extrs pap-spoon; and my subordinate, the thief, therefore says: ¢You really must oxcuso me if I seizo it."" In response to this plausible reasoning of Mr, Skimpole AnTuun, the Becretary of tho ‘T'rensury says: ** Really, now; Mr. Collector, we pay you 312,000 per annum to see that thoe revenue Is collected at tho port’of New York; your subordinates are allowing it to be stolen, and dividing with the thieves. A cortain rosponsibility attaches to the offico you hold," ks ¢ Responsibility, my dear Mr, Becretary !" repeats tho Collector, amiling blandly ; T am the last man in the world for such a thing, I never was responsiblo in my life— Ionn'tbe. My friends offer mp fat offloes ; 1 accopt thom, and draw the saluries attached therelo; thera may be corruption,—there doubtless is more or less corruption among my subordinates ; bat I know nothing abount it; I don't want to know anything about it; it would make me disagreeadble to know about it, and I was born to be agreeable.” 'The Becretary of the Treasuary goes back to Washinglon and ssys to tho President: 1 can do nothing with Collector AnTyus; he is irresponsible; his subordinates are stealing the revemue and Mr. Anruua de- clines to remove them; I recommend the re- moval of Mr, AvTuvn,” Tho Presideut requests Mr, AnTaus to ro- sign; Mr. AxTaos rvespectfully and blandly declines. The Prosidont sends to the United Btates Sonate the name of a successor to Mr, Antaus; the Honate declines to copfirm bis succcasor, and Mr. Adtava remaing firm in his seat,amiling and drawing his salary, A. pewspoper-roporter calls upou 3Ar. Akrun in his private office and says: * You seoin to be much at your ease; you have comfortable quarters; you appear to bo undisturbed by the clamor for your ro- moval.” *Yes," responds Mr. Skimpols AztrUS, turning his bright face about. ** Everythiog sotts, Connocticut, and Vermont can be ono of the voting population of the United over a peried of many months. The donblo standard was nbandoned by a revision of the was not till two yoars lnter that it becamo genorally known that tho monotary systom of the country had beea radieslly changoed. connected with the Govornment, were pro- foundly ignorantof whathad boen done. Aa astrous effort to rosume spocie-payments in universal ery of ¢‘Halt!” The first step to FEBRUARY 23, 1878—TWELVE PAGES, goes on ns usna] here ; thero is no responsi- bility hore. This i tho bird's cage, Thisis where the bird lives and sings. They pluck his feathers now and then, and clip his wings. They Qsfi him to got off his porch, nnd threaten t6 knock him off. But he sings, hio sings! And—he draws his salary, he draws his salary! Thers is plenty of seed in the bird's kage 1" Another newspaper-reporter calls npon Mr, ArTrun and says: ‘* What is the mean- ing of theso charges of corruption preforred ngainat the Custom-House by the merchanta and newspapers of Chicago and other West- orn citiea?"” “Upon my honor I don't know; how should I know? Iama mere child; if my subordinates steal a share of tho revenunes I can’t holp it," replies Mr. Skimpole Axtrun; * why should the merohants and the prosa of the West quarrel with ns? Live and lot live, wo eny to them. Live npon your prac- tical wisdom, your native shrowdness, yonr sgricultural, mannfacturing, and commeraal enterprises, and—/et ua live upon youl" Jlarold Skimpole puthis theory in practica and lived upon his generons friend, Jarndyce. Aftor his death, among his papersa diary was found which showed him to have beon tho victind of a combinntion on the part of mankind against an amiable child; andin tho dinry was also found this sentence: * Jarndyee, in common with most other mon I have known, is the incarnntion of solfish- ness"! Detective Bucket estimatod Skimpole ot his truo value, Having occasion to use him, he bribed him with na £5 note, and, in rolating the ciroumstance to Alits Summerson, gavo her this bit of advico: * Whenevera person proclaims fo you, ‘In worldly mat- ters I'm a child,’ you consider that that par. son's just a-crying off from being beld ac. countable, and that you have got that per- son’s number, and it's Numbor One,” ‘Wo beg that no one will understand our parallcl between Antiun and Skimpols as go- ing boyond the point of frresponsibility. Wo foel assure of Ar, ArTHUN's personal honesty 68 we do of his ulter irresponsibility and consequent ineflicioncy. That he is *‘the most courteons, the most popular” Collector in the conntry, in the lnnguage of the Ban. gor Whig and Courier, wo cheerfully admit. Ho is too courtaous to importers who rob the rovenue. Ho is too popular with subordi- nates who disgrace and plnnder the Govern- ment by corrupt practices. Ha is tao goutla to onforce tho Department wegulations de- vised to protect the revenne from spolin. tion at tho hands of thioves. Mo is too childlike to contend successfully with an army of importers and brokers, in whoso ranks there are many desparate men disposed at all times to take advantage of wenkuess and imbecility, In mercy lot him be re- moved, and, in the seclusion of private life, s the Courier bogs, ** 1ot him have peaco.” THE SILVER VICTORY. After soveral monthh of the most thorough nnd oxhanstive discussion of the silver ques. tion, after an unparallcled pressure brought to bear upon Congress by the inonoy powor of the'notion, and in spifo of the declared opposition of the most influential mombers of the Administration, the main principle of romonetization of the old silver dollar, giv- ing it a full legal-tonder function for all dobts, public and private, has been decided affirmatively by moro than two-thirds ma. jority in both Houses of Congress. Tho strugglo bos been long and bitter, and tho reeult ia o notable triumph of the popular will over tho desporato resistance of the monoy-londers,—of the country nt large over two or threo money-contros. It has at no timo beon & parly quostion, since mem. bors of both political organizations have beon ranged on eitherside, If rogarded sec- tionnlly, then the result is a fair triumph of at lesst thirty-threo States over flve, for only New York, Now Jorsoy, Massachu. equitably counted as against silver, If re. garded from a popular polut of view, romon- otization wns demnnded by at least ten to Btates. Ho far, then, the Congressional in- dorscment of the principle is in accord with overy theory of popular government. ‘The story of this logislation may ba briefly told, though tho discussion Las extended Ooinage aot of 1873 which was made in 1874, It was so clandestinoly accomplished that it Moanwhilo many persons who had been mom. bera of Congross, and many others officlally soon ns it became ovident to the conntry that this legislation, in conuection with the Rosumption act, was forcing o futile but dis. gold alone, thore was an instantaneous and tako wasa the vestoration of the old money atandard, to tho abandonment of which the peoplo had nover consented. Mr, Brano, of Missourd, introduced a briof and sumple bill a8 long ago as lnst spring to rostoro tho sil. vor dollar sud provide for free coinsge thereof on the same terms and conditions as the gold dollar; this bill failed for lack of time before tho expiration of the session, At tho beginning of the now Congress, a bill similar in $orms was reported by the House Committos on Banking and Currenocy, and has been known by courtesy as the Brawn bill, It passed the Houso ‘by more than three-foprths majority, In the Bgbate, the bill was 80 amonded as (o eliminate the provision for free coln- age, limit the coinage of silver dollars to 81,000,000 » month, scoure to the Govern- ment any profft that may accrue from the purchaso and coinogs of ailver, and provide an appropriation for an International Com- mission to urge the goneral adoption of the doublo standard. Itis this bill, adoptedin the Benata after an able and elaborate dis cussion of severn! months, in which the House has now concurred. The bill now passed received an actual vote of 48 yeas to 21 nays in the Benate, or moro than twohirds, and, allowing for the known sentiments of the-absent Senators, & full vote would have besn 53 yeas to 24 nays, —also more than two-thirds, The vote by ‘which the House refused to tablo tho bill as it camo from the Senate (which was the test vote) was 204 noys to 72 yoas, which was nearly s three-fourths vote in favor of the bill, If all the absontecs (41) wounld havo' voted sagainst the bill, which i{s absurd to malatain, thero would st!l havo been moro than two-thirds mafority for it. The bill was accepted by the ouss, not becatise it is satisfactory in ita details to the silver men, but becauss it provides ®» logal acknowledgment of the double standard, and furnishes a bLasis for making this double standard fully operative by future logislation. An anolvsis of the vote in the House sbroad, —never, legal-tender, Wo huve coined in tlfihl{- four yesra but filfih sfly all totd, semi-barbarony nations, Clearly because they aro incenvenient and burden- some.” Will the members of this Hloase consent to rocelvo elipped deliar from tho Sorgesnt-at-Arms from month to month? Not one of us will consont tadalt, Me, Bpeaker (1), practice silver has never been a legal.ten. der, 8,045,000 silver dollara.' On whom does Mz, Carrrexpex expect to impose this quib- bling suppression of tho truth? Does. he not know that such a coin as a gold dollar was nuover scon in this country previous to 1840 ? Does he not know that for the first saventy-three yearsaftor tho Declara- tion of Independence, and for tho first sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, the only ¢* dollar” pleces ever seen in this country were silver dollars? He is old enough to recollect the fact, Doea he not know that, in addition to the 8,000,000 of dollar pleces, thers were coined previous to 1854 0o less than 77,000,000 of full-weight legal-tendsr half-dollars? Is he ignorant of the fact that, from 1792 until 1658, Bpanish dollars, halves, and quarters were full legal. tenders; that French 5-franc ploces were legal-tenders at sbout 04 cents for any amount ; that German thalers were logal. tenders ay about 73 cents for any amount? Does ho not know that thebe circulated in the Uniteg Btates for more than sixty years an average of at least $100,000,000 of those foreiga legal-tender ailver coins, in addition to the Americn legal-tender silver? If he does not, it is high time that he did. rexpex called the perfoct, full.weight silver dollar **a clipped coin " perhaps fifty times, His epeech was jnterlarded with such ex- pressions as these: clipped-dollsr mania”; ** the clipped .dollars will displace gold ¥; **the first issucs of the clipped dollar”; * the clipped dollar wilt provoke alarm ¥; ¢to shap clipped dollars"; $4the clipped Hollsr threatens s fresh na. tional calamity ¥; “threa hundred millions of clipped dollars,” and 20 on in almost every paragraph and sentence. It was the burden, of his song, and the only figure of speech he oould invent; what he lacked in diversifica- shows that, of tho 72 votes cast agninst it, £0 were Republicans and 22 wero Demo- orats. Among these thero ware only thres Westorn members,—GArrrELD of Ohio, and Brewarr of, Minnesota, Republicans, and ‘Wirrtams, Demoorat, from Michigan, There wero eight votes from the Somth againat tha bill, viz.: Brspee, Republican, of Flori- ds, Gmsox and Lxowanp of Louisiana, Jonaexaxx of Virginia, Mrroary of Mis- sourd, Somuxicmen of Texas, Bwawn of Maryland, and Wittzaus of Delawars. Of all the votes against tho bill, New York furnished 14 Republicans and 10 Democrats; Massachusetts 8 Republicans and 1 Demo- crat, Pennsylvania 7 Ropublicans and 1 Dem- ocrat, New Jersoy 8 Republicans and 8 Dem- ocrats, Vermont 8 Ropublicans, and Maine 4 Republicans. The extremo inflationists, un- der tha lond of Seamogs, of Illinofs, and Ewmvo, of Ohlo, developed very litile strongtfi in their effort to oppose the bill on ncconnt of its shortcomings, and this en- conrnges the beliof that, it tho bill be por- mitted to promptly become a Iaw under the sanction of the Prosident, the Greenbackers will be powerless to earry through their pot schemes of an nnconditiona! repoal of the Resumption naot, and the enbstitution of greenbacks for the Natiohal.Bank notes. Dat if the President interposs his veto, and that veto shall have the effect of preventing the bill from becoming a law, or even the effect of occasioning an indefinite and hazardous postponement of o final settle- mont of the quest®n, no man can foretell tho extreme lengths to which natural resont- ment and justiflable indignation will drive tho roprosontativos of tho people. The personnl sentimonts of tho President on the eilver question have long been known, but it shonld now be sorionsly considered by him whother ho hasa moral right to place himself in opposition to the peoplo after it hos beon absolutely demonstrated that they are represontod in this question by more than two-thirds in both Houses of Congress, 1t the original vote wero Yess than. two- thirds, and it were a matter of doubt whether tho réqnisite constitutional majority could be obtained to prevail over the veto, the President might justify himself in using his prerogative, if prepared to givejconstitu. tional reasons for doing so. Baut the two- thirds voto has alrendy been cast; it is not possiblo thot the President can urge any rensons, constitutional or otherwise, that have not already been ably presented and over. riddgn; and to intorpose his volo nnder these conditions will bo to assume tho per- sonal responsibility for all the exponse, dis- turbance, and anxioty incident to the un- necossary dalay o veto will oconsion, responsibility which no one man should bo willing to take upon himsolf. Itisn L “NEVER WAS ANY BILVER MOREY." 8aid the Hon. B, B, Currrexpex, of Now York, in his harangne it the Housa against silvor and Chiengo: ‘Wo have nover pald Interest in sitver at home or In practico sllver Lins never been ‘milllon forty-five thousan or dollars MMost of those were seat to Aslatlc and Why so few coined? Pray tell in- what was the interest and principal of the Revolutionary War debt paid, it not ineilver? It was not paid in gold, ‘certainly, because from 1702 until 1834—n poriod of forty-threo yoars—our gold coms were dearer than silver, and tho Governmont paid the interest and principal of tho bonded debts both of the Revolution. ary Warand of / the War of 1812 in the cheaper metal, aceqrding to its optional rights. Doesnot CTTENDEN know enough to know this? Does he not know thoj, during the firkt foriy-two years after the paasage of the Coinago act 0f,1702, .only ten millions of’ gold were colued? Let him in. spoct the officlal ¥oport of the Mint Dirootor and he will be made to blush at the hardi- hood of bis ignorant assortion, nevoer paid intorest in silver wt home or abroad,” says Mr, Omrrrenprw, when, . in point of fact, during the whole poriod of the first half of the existence of the Republic wo paid interest and principal almost ex- clusively in silver, and paid in that coin during those earlier, puror, and bottor days of tho Republio—in silcer—for procisely the reason that ho and other Shylocks like bim denounce s * dishonest, perfidious, ragoally, chenting, swindling,” ete., viz.: that silver being cheaper money than gold, and' the - Govornment having thoe option to tender cither metal, paid in silver bocause it woa less vyaluablo than gold. tion was mnever oonsidered dishonest or wrong, and the national credit never suffergd in the alightest in consequence of such pay- ment, Wby is it any moro dishonest o poy in silver now, when it is cheaper than gold, than it was before 1834, when it was cheaper than gold? Ifgood morals require us now to pay all our debts, national, State, municl pal, and porsonal, in tho dearost and scarcost monoy, why did not good morals demand an application of that samo rule previous to 18347 “Wo Lave The transac- But, says this mendacious momber, *In In cighty-four years we coined but In his anti-silver declamation, Mr. Omrr- # Examine clocer this tion, howsver, ha more than made good in repotition and fteration. Rnt thers was no point to it. No silver man proposes to coin n "' clipped dollar " or o light-weight doilar. ‘The bill which passed the Honsa provided for a full.weight dollar of the old standard ; the amended bill that passed the Bemate ordorn that thero shall bo coined at the sov- eral minta of the United Btates silver dollars of the weight of 412} grains troy of standard silver, as provided in the not of Jan, 18, 1837, which act modified the alloy to the ratio of one.tenth to nino.tenths pure silver. Thers' has nover been coined {n the United States asil- ver dollar that'contalned more pure metal than the Braxs bill provides for, The old standard Bpanish dollar contained no mors pure silver. How ridiculous, as well as false, to call such a fall weight, unchanged coin ‘“a clipped dollar.” A man who could make such an agsertion on the floor of Congress deserves to Liave his ears clipped on acconnt of thoir jnckassioal length and protuberance, If ho had said that the gold dollar wan *a clipped coin,” he would have spoken the ex- act truth, He onght to have known that by the act of June 28,"1834, the gold coins wers “clipped " siz per cont, of ono-sixteonth, and, after being thus * clipped, ” they weromado full logal-tonder in payment of all debts, and wore thrust upon Cnirrexpen's poor heart- broken, impoverished bondholders and mort- gnge-holders. Onrrrexpex's darling gold coing aro * clipped dollars,"” and they are the only dollara that have over boen *clipped " by act of Congresa. i3 pom[ehnrl and offico-nocking demngognos, They hovo anfforod teo much nndor sufrany to want it again. S To the Editor of The Tribune. Linentrvitte, HL., Feb of.—Pleass a e e T avia ohwey The Jast national debt statement reports 8130, 408,000 in coln In the Treasuty, 1, W hat amonn of ‘indebtedness—** greenbacks, ' bonds, ete, - conld be presented for redemption at the time of reanmption ? Uno mors: 18 Bob Ingersoll & Member of Con. ess . 1. All the greenbacks would be subject to ro. demption Io coln, and a1l the National Bank notes to redemptlion in greenbacks or coln. 2, Ingersoll s not & Member of Congress, —— The London Dally News declares itsclf 5o aat. 1afied with the result of its experiment fn intro. ducing the tolephone into the gallery of Farlfy. ment that it proposcs hereafter todo awny wity short-hand reportera altogotier. The Daity News would confera favor upon many perplexeq contmunities by explatning, even If the specehey ace audible fn fts office, how they aro toly transferred to its columns. There sccms to by & missing link somewhere. ——— The London correspondont of tho New York Times has interviewed tho manager of alead. ing steamship llno upon the condition of trajy fn Eogland and America. His opinlon was thy, thero woro signs of Improvement in the West, and it tho peovle of tho Eastern Btates woulq only go West more freely, and contldence werg n littlo more reatored, the advance in trade any commerclal prosperity would be raptd and in. portant. > ——— Acabledispatch saye that, on account of Servly belng slighted (n tho peace conditions, a conflicy between that State and Russia fs probable. ¢ is to be hoped, however, that Prince Miray wiil abate somawhat of his flercencss, and, at leas, walt until after tho Conference before mopping the Contloent with the Czar. BUFFRAGE ACGITATION IN WASHINGTON. The proposition which has been mada to rostoro municipal governmont in Washing- ton and unqualified euffrage inthe District Is meoting with flerca opposition from the proporty-holders and taxpayors in Washing. tqp and Georgetown, ninetoen.twentleths of whom refuso to give it any support, having had in the past sufficiont experiouce with its ovils and corruptions to mnke them content with their presont form of government, which is tho beat, most honest, and most egonomical they havo evor had. Until 1871 the governmont of ‘Washington was munfoi- pal in character, basod upon universal suf- frago, and was comprised in a Mayor and Common Counell in each city. The resalt of munioipal government was but a repoti- tion of tho old story. Affalrs were adminis. tared in the intorests of personal aggran. dizomont and greed. Corruption was ram. paut. Tho bummers and thieves came to the surfoco and obtained control. Wash. ington was in the samo plight as Now York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chleago, and other large citios wirdse govornments nre admin. istorad upon the popular, corrupt, and extravogant municipal systom. The office- seokers, the petty politiclans, and the bum. mers seized tho machine aund run it by the e ——— e In'Riodo Istand tho people who are tronbley with whooplug-cough find great relicf in sitting In the gas-works. It is unfortunate for Iilinols that ‘tho 8late Legislaturo s not In scssion this winter, but perhaps a temporary relief might be experienced by occasionol visits to tle Cut cago City Counclt, — e — ‘While the Misslsalpp! Legislature has just adooted the MorrETT bell-punch system, the old original Virginiane aro complaining at a cop stant deeline In recelpts from the liquor-sellers, showing cither that the barkecoers liave rown in wisdom or that the consumicrs have remur. phytzed, A bill is to be roported in the Senate appoint. ing a committes of five, not all of wnom shall be advocales of total abatinence, to investizate the subject of alcoholic liquor traflie. The pro. vision admitting Democrats unon the Commit- tee {s o proper onc, oll things considercd. —re— 11 the Biblo had predicted tho destructlion of the world by starvation instead of by fire, ong might think that the end was napproaching, and that the work had already begun In China, whers 0,000,000 people aro repoeted to be starving. et — =~ +The Turks attempted to polson Col. Varrs. TINS BAKER o few days ago, 'They were doult. familiar mothods of tho Ring, and | e airgld that ho would approprinta their at overy oloction they caried thelr | parom. This sscred Institution thoy declars points by the convontlonal procosses of ballot-box satufing and importstions of voting material from Virginia and Maryland, In 1871 tho chnrtars of Washington and Goorgatown wero repealed, and the terri- torlal govornment was created for the Distriot, with o Govornor, Legislature, and Bonrd of Pablic Works., The Iattef body, having control over stroots and sewers, and the exclusive powor to moke public Improve. mdnts, a8 well as anlimitod ability to raise money by taxation and borrowing, went to worlk to bankrupt the District, aud succoeded odmirably uader the oporations of Dass Buzrneap & Co. They loaded down tho peoplo under intolerable burdons of taxation without thelr assont, to make improvements, the most of which wore national rathor than loeal, Extravaganco ran riot under the name of improvemeont, and, as always hap. pens under Ring rule, the improvements ware of a temporary character only, and will soon havo tobe renswod, atincreased expense, The outcomo of Boss Snermmnp's work of ornamenting the Federal Capital was to embellish it with a debt of twenty millions and upwards, to discharge which would be tantamount o confiacating tho eniiro prop. erty of the taxpayers, Dy tho act of 1874, QOongress brought relicf to tho burdonoed Dis. trict by catablishing tho Commission form of government, placing the affairs of tho Dis- trict, including Washington, in the handa of thres Commissivners, np{mlnml by tho Presidont and Benate, who manags them under the legislation of Congreas as to tax- ation and public improvements, jta inancial affalrs boing monaged by the Treasury De- portment. ‘The systom has worked ndmira. bly well. The Commissioners have per- formed their duties faithfully and honestly, and all the affajrs of the District have beon managed with oconomy, It is the best form of governmont the District has ever had, and the proporty-holders and taxpay- ers aro satisfled with it and do not wish to ,have it disturbed. The office-seckers, the amall politfoians, and the bummers, howevor, ave left out in the cold under such & government, and thoy are now agitating and clamoring for the rostoration of o government ‘‘by the poo- ploand for the peopls,”—in other words, a government in which they can have the offices and tho stealings, The Washingtoa Star recently interviewed all the prominent business-men and preperty-holders in Wash. ington and Georgetown to ascertain their viows on the proposed restoration of suf- frage, and found that more than ninetoen- twentieths of them were opposed to it® Some wero in favor of suffrage it it were confined to the election of a Dolegats to look aftar their interests in Congress, bat this 18 ns far as any ono interviewed was willing to have suffrage extended, while the vast majority were opposed to it in any form, One or two- extraots will showsthe pre. valling sentiment of the people. One of the heaviest roal-pstato men in the clty said: * It would place the power just where it was before,—In the hands of the fonting populatign and ‘Murder Bay *pal- ticians, who are looking for personsl sggran. dizement and gain. To be sure, suffrage would furnish work for the laboring classes o somae extent, but to the injury of the tax- paying classcs. The latter belong here, but the former do nol, generally speaking. Wa have tried it once, and we don’t want it sgaln.” One of the leading attorneys main. tained * that the affairs of the District aro by law legislated by Congress, and that power of legialation, in fact, cannot be dele- gated to any other body. If suffrage were granted it would give local privileges only, which would bo in the hands of thosa who have no right to them,—offce-seckers and petty politiclans,—while, back of all, Con- gress would be the real legislator.” Buch spocimons as these, which fairly represent the sentiments of almost the entire popula- tion of Washington, show that tho tax. payers, having once tried the systom of bum. mer rule called municipal goverument, snd been released from it, are conteut with their preaent condition,- and have no desire to return to that systom for the sake of small must and shall bo-preserved, e e—— ‘The Atlantic cablo undoubtedly smiled whea it brouglit over thonews that the Australian col- ouies were adoptiog imeasurea for the defenss ot tho coast in tho event of Ureat Britaln en- goging in a war, e e— When o Bophumore calls upon a Freshman at Princeton, the latter unchals hia bull-dog, cocks his revolver, and cordially fnvites the vialtor to cnter. Such are tho amenitles of col- lege-life, —— Mr. TiLDEN maintalns with great fiemness that thia country is deeply {u his debt. Itisno more than yight, upder the circumstances, per hiaps, that ho should refusc to pay his income- tax. ————— Several new strcots in London have. beta named Osmsu rond, Baloum Gardens, Lovits road, and Plavna street, &, E, This {s, Indeed, carrying the war foto England, " NE BandAxiN BoTLsm s losiog Bls other eye-alght. This might be looked upon as a ter riblo misfortuno had not Mr, ButLEn always been accustomed to going it blind, e Borgeant Batzs belioves that he cauld carry tho Russian flag through England without meet- ng with any violent futerfcrence, It would ap- pear that ho is correct. — The New York newspapers minua thelr dafly grist of sllver slanders woald bo os incomplets as the play of *Hamlet” with the Count JoaxxEs left out.. Y e ——— King ALronso has about made up his mind to liberate Cuba, in order to devete more timo to tho vultivation of hls mustache. h —— e A large sbare of tho Democzatic press secms to belleve that tho Whito House has been bulls | with Returning Boards. } In the case of the Papal clection, wo hopo It was s falf vote, Weo trust thore was no bull- dozink there. f BisMARCK'S statcamanship rescmbles that of our own Hexpricxs. o doasn't like to com- mit bimseit, It {8 perhaps gofug tov far to call Mr. Bis- Manck the Prince of pease, His volce is all for tiermany, & 4 Admiral Hornny has rcturned to Bestka Bay. Evidently bo Is not the Golden Horn-by. 3 —eag———— r. BLaxD rises to declaro that no sfiver bils arp genuine without his siguature. e—e—— e Toronto has a better rower tban the Britih lNon, We refer to Miss HaxLoN. England will not go to war,, and ' Mr, GLAD- STONE l¢ & happy boulder. 0 Ts it possible that Mr., CoNELING has beed despeachetized PERSONAL, v One of the saddest incidents of the Oer man Royal marrisge was the Prince of Mockles: burg Behwerln, ) Goorge Franols Train says: ‘It waimy - misfortune to be born In Brooklyn, I apologize i@ Boston for It. A meaner place I never know." Dr. Lo Moyne, the cremator, has joined the Democratic party, -t least, hie has adopicd the theury that tha extorasl or Interna} applicstion of water s injurious, 5 The selection of Bayard Taylor as Minister to Germany 1s distaateful 10 the Peansylvanta pol- itfcians, whoss beau ideal of an Ambasssdorlsd weazoned old man with 8 partlality for widows. An Jowa Juatics of the Peace has ruled tbats fathegbas no right' to occupy his pasiof while the daughter and hep young man have pod* seaslon, The young ladics of tno Biato arosboot 10 prosent the J. P, with & tostimenlal of tucle o6 teem. 5 ¥ Mark Twain writes to a friend in Detroit denylng the cbarge that he is lazy, Instead of b ing 1a3y, ho says, he has no loss than four DoOkE undor way, with the title of cach nicely wrilieh out in a pisin band, sud the first chaplers beades off. The Independent reminds the Cbicago University thaty ia scaling ite dobt, 1 does nat roliove Itself of mora) obligation to'the "“""“f& company which wade bo ongtpal luan o8 I property. The Iudependant 18 much coucerns about the widows and orphans who may lo:¢ f the faflure of the University to pay ita just flhb_‘,‘; forgetting that the organ of lenry O, Bowen lu.-n bas dons more to disseminato falso lufornatld concerning fAnanclal investments io this counky thau any other Bewapsper, t