Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1878, Page 4

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G o ordur, UNSTIIMAN, 11, I, CITARLES B, WRIGIT, Kecrtary, e I LODGE, No, 3, A, T, IRIENT. 3 " & A M.=llali 132 Lasall pectal Communication this (Fritay) cvening. At 7:30 w'cluck, for businessand work on ths 34 Degrée. Member ato prqueated to ho prompt. Via- 18 fra ally Invited. By order of thie Master, 7 EN. TUGKEIL Socretary. WAUBANSIA LODGE, No. 160, F, and A, M,—Feg. ular Cominuniestion this (I’rmny‘l evening, at Masonia 1all, 76 Aonroe-at., at ¥ n'clock sharp, for work. Memn- yers and Visitors cordlally l.'vmle(k‘mum\lw WM, J. C. TIOWELL, Recrotary, A FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1878, Greonbncks at the New York Block Ex- chango yestorday closed at 09} in coin, Detailed accounts aro received of tho tor- fiblo tornado ravages suffered in portions of Iowa doring tho past fow days, Somo of tho horrid vagaries of tho wind-flend alinost surpnss bolief, Foarful storms appoar to have raged on oll sides of Ohicago, whose visitation has boen confined to two or throo days of almost incessant rain, but withont any violont nccompaniment of wind, Chi- engo is ovidontly a safo distance from tho destructivo storm-belt. The unconditional repeal of tho Bankrupt Taw hns now beon onncted by Congross, al though the bill passod yesterdny by tho THouno, having boon slightly amonded g0 as to mninke tho ropeal moroe oxplicit, must rotarn to tho Honato for conourronce, which will bo promptly givon, Therefore the completo re. poal of tholaw.may be rogarded s nn accom- plished fact, thero being no expectation of n veto by tho President. Stronnous cfforts woro mada in bebal of shaky dobtore by nt- tempts to rofor tho Lill to tho Judiciary Committeo, to mako the law take effect July 1, and to oxtend tho time for voluntary bankruptey to Jan. 1, 1879, hut all wero ovarwhalmed by tho vast prepondoranca of sontiment in favor of immediato and abso- lute repeal, and the bill finnlly passed bya voto of 206 yons to 39 nays. Yestorday's dovelopmonta in econnecction with the offorts of tho newspapers to got ot the truth concorning the presont movemonts ond future plans of the Communista and Bocialista nro all of o character confirmatory of the opinfon alrendy oxpressed,—that thoro is not sufficient material out of which tho police will succoed in work. ng up o firstclnss scare, If, Low- ovor, it shall bo mndo to appear that thero iz enough in it to provail upon tho Lbusineas mon to provide the police forco with rifles, and tho bankers and oapitalists to agroo to pratect tho city employes from a ruinous shave on tho now cortifientes just fssuod in payment of Jannary Anlnries, tho upshot of the busineas will doubtless be satiafactory to thoso who sot it on foot, and ot especially objectionabla to tho communi. ty at largo. Gov. Cuiion, upon rccommendation of the Bonrd of Railroud and Warchonss Com. missionars, yosterday removed Mr. Wirriass L. BwerT from the office of Chiof Graln In. vpector in Chicago, sud appolnted in lis place Col. Jonn P, Revnowns, the woll-known and wmuch-valued Hocrotury and executive raonager of tho Intor-Btate Lxposition Asso- ciation, Whatover view may bs had of tho merits of tho controversy which ks torminated in tho removal of Mr. Swerr, there will bo but ono opiulon respecting the sppointment of Lis wuccossor—viz.: that it would havo boon difticalt for the Governor and the Com- missioners to have choson o goutloman more competent for tho dischargo of the dutics of the offico, or ono whoso appointment would prove 6o aatistactory to tho graln.hondling Interests of Chicago, T —— According to the dispatches from Wash- Ington and olsowhers the so-called * con- fuasions™ of MoLix and Devvw have fallen #lat as political o sousatlon, and utterly failed of producing tho effect caleulated npon by the projectors of the performance, Like another confession recontly made publie, theso of the Florida worthies wall alter no opinfon alroady formed, and will not opor- ote to change tho settlod purposs of a large majority of the Democrats in Congress that no attemipt to disturb or test tho titls of Prosident Hayzs sholl bo tolerated. It ls probablo ihat an sttompt will be made to constituto the Florida confessions tho baus of an extended investigation by u committee of the House, the parposa being to use it s a helper in the campaign of this year; bo- yond this tho Eloctoral disturbance will probably not go, e ————— ‘The bill reported Ly Mr, Bourziones, ot Texas, the member of the House Committes on Foreign Affairé who has had charge of the Texas border investigation, embodics a roquest that the President keop at least 5,000 Federal troops along the boundary line be- tweeu the United Btates and Mexico for the protection of American citizons, and anthor- izes, in furthoranco of that cnd, tho crossing of tho border and the pur- snit of marauders by the United BStates troops. Tho latter clausa of the bill is to remain in forco autil it s renderod unncces- sary by such a reconstruction of tho oxisting tronty with Mexico as shall securo protoction to persona and property, The Texas Demo- crats oro 8o clamorous for the location of a Inrgo military forco nlong the Rio Grande that the Banxrvo bill for the reduction of the army should fairly ba opposed by tho solid dolegntion, Certainly if 5,000 soldiers aro neoded in Texas alone, there is no room for reductlon. THE FLORIDA CONFESSIONS, Tho Intest nttempt to get up a rensation comos from tha State of Florida. This timo it is not the confession of a deluded maid nor of n weak wife. It {s tho lament of two voteran political jobbers, each confessing that tho “other follow" had committed all tho crimes known in the calondar, from bal- lot-box stufflng and forgery to bribory and porjury. # Under the laws of Florida the Attornoy- Goneral, Becrotary of State, and a third of- ficor constituted tho Board to canvnss the ro- turns of the clection held in that Stato in November, 1876. Of this Board, one (the Attorney-General) was o Democrat, and the othors, McLin and Coawety, were Ropublic. ans. It will be remembered that tho vote of the Btate was vory close, and, s tho majori- ty oither way determined tho Presidentinl clection, the canvass of the returns in Florida had o national interest, attracting to tho State eminent and conspicuous politicians from all parts of the country. Tho Return. ing Board, aftor protracted sessions, declared o resnlt which pronounced the Ropubliean Electors duly clected; these Elcctors at the proper time mot nnd voted for Haves and Waeerer, That was in Novembor, 1876, or cighteen months ngo, In the meantime, 3r, Dexvis, a local par- tisan lender, was appointed to an office In the Intornal Rovenue service, which he has held until recently, notwithstanding that he lind been indicted by the Btate nuthorities (Democratic) in oight or ton eases. Theso indictments bave been recently pushed with some vigor, but Mr. Dexwnis’' conscience forcing him to confoss that tho official can- vass of the cleotion roturns in 1876 was fraudulent, tho Democratic Stato nuthorities linva boon moved at the same timo to dismiss all the indictmonta, McLx has mado his statement In writing (pnblished in Tue TRInUNE yesterday) to the effoct that, in 1876, Lo acted honmestly and conscientiously ; that ho acted on every polnt according as trath and justico dictated, nnd that it was only in cases whero the facta were uncertain that he gave tho benefit of the doubt to the Republicans,—n courso which Lo considored perfectly proper and according to partisnn usage. eln tho meantime, after Presidont Iayes had becn inangurated, ho applied for some judi- cial appointmont, and, & vacancy happoning in New Mexico, tha Prosident appointed him in October Inst to tho offico of a Justice of tho Supromo Court of that Torritory. Tho nomination was sont to the Senate, but was not ncted on by that body, Whon the ses- slon opened in Decomber tho Prosidentagaln sent tho nomination to tho Senate, where it wna suspended until late in March, and was thon' rojoctod. McLrv again appoaled to the President for an office, but was told thnt nothing moro could bo domo for bhim, becauso the Senate would cortainly reject Lim, no matter for what offico ho might bo uominated. McLax rotired to tho everglados of Florids, wharo ho has incubated this ** confession.” After protesting his own purity of inten. tion, honesty, and of his action as n member of tho Returning Bonrd, this disappointed office-soeker Lias tho impudonco to say : Reviewing my actlon at this distance of timo with nil calimneas, with my atdor couled and tny partiaan zeal chilled by tho Preaidont who b baso- Iy betrayed and mercilewsly destroved the Repul- lican I‘m’ of the Sonth, nnd crnsbied tho very mon wha diil ro mnch far his' election, Tum poraiiaded that the Florida canvaes was not condnctord with that cool, culm judument snd _honest, unblased deciston that shonld hnve characterized proceeds fngn fnvolving wuch vast and inportant intorente, 1lls conscience, sincu the Henato rojoctod him, has also been pricked by atorfes, which ho hns winco hieard, onough to eatiafy him, though he has no personnl kuowlodge of what ho heard, that— Had the 210 votes fraudulently added to the Archer returue, aud the 71 votea stuffed In the box in Loon County, and the 100 votea surreptitiously added inJeferson Connty, llcrk‘kfllnf B04 votew, been rojected, and the Democraticprecinets, which wero excluded for lrmiulnrllr and {llogality con. trary to the decivion of (he Supremo Court, been rataincd and counted, 3ir, TiLoeN woald have car. rled tho State., Mr. llavxs has denled the valldity of hisown itle In denylng Gov. PACKARD'S, He has ignored Ditw Florida teiends, showing that he belloved thom univorthy aud tuinted with o fruud, yot ho holds vn to tho Preaidency, which, in his own opinion, was eecured Ly this very fraud, Hu bas cowardly ubanduned and betrayed hls Southern Republican fricnds throusth fearof being ousted from ao oftice that ;IB beliwved ho never was olocted ta by the veonle., From all of whichtho reader will under. staud that this man with this alloged guilty knowledgo in his mind, and this hatred and contempt for tho Presidont beeause of his so- called botrayal of tho Republicans, waa loss than a month ago begging tho Prosident for o judicial offico! ‘Lhe value of MoLin's re. henrial of socond-hand stories s ensily weighied. 1lis acousations sgaiast tho Prosi- dont are silenced by the facts, Threo monthy bofore Mayes becameo Presidout the Stato Coverumont of Florida had passod Into tho hands of tho Denocrats, nnd tho State was thereforonot *nbaudoned” by the Prosident. ‘Tho wrath of McLin toward the Presidont because of Packaun of Louislana, ought, it sincero, to have been ne active from March, 1877, until Marck, 1878, during which Lo was laboring at Washington to Lo made a Torritorial Judgo, as it has becomo since Pacxaxp himself has censed to complaln, Token 28 a wholo, McLax's * confession ” amounts to nothlug more than thet he iaa scurvy knave ; that tho Benate neted wisely in rofusing to mako him & Judge ; aud that bis disappointment has ko wrought upon Lis walicious intelloct that he has rashly adver- tised Lis knavery, his malico, and his mental . deficioncy to the whole country, Tho other individunl, Dzxxis, has been wiser, Ilis confosalon so far has beon con- fined to vral statoments, Ko denfes that he ever did auy wrobg, but he claims that he ‘¢ knows who did,” and that he is induced to confess because Haves *‘is o wonk.brained fraud " and tho greatest traitor since Jupas, Duexxis i clearly under contract to the Dom- ocrats to swear to whatever may be necesaary to mako out tho case for Tiozy. He offers no explanationy of his silence of over olgbteen monthe; but it is not diffoult to reach a clear conclusion. If the Public Prosccutor of this coun*y will offer imma. nity from punishment for past crimes whero- of thy parties ary irdicted, Lo can obtain from tks County Jail or other prisons of this State all the witnesses he way need who will awoar to sany fact of any kind that Lo may suggest. We supposo ho could ob- tain sbunduut testimony, such as it will be, from indicted partics, to tho effect that Tre- THE CHICAGO - TRIBUNE: TFRIDAY. APRIL 25, 1878, DEX really carried tho Stato of Nlinois, and that tho retnms were manipulated and forged 80 as to givo tho vote of tho State to 1faves. The witnesses wonld be influenced by pre- cisely tho same motive which sooma to have controlled tho scoundrel Dzxnia—tho dis- missal of criminal acousations against thom, Tho wenknoss of the whole caso is shown in the purposo for which this testimony is taken, Tho Democrats do not propose to ugo it for the purpose of questioning the Presidont's title to bhis office, aa that thoy know {s unquestionable. 'Thoy propose to use it ns a moral indictment of the Ropub- liean party in tho election of 1880, On the other hand, the Implacables who aro insti- gating thoso proceodings have for their ob- joct, not the removal of tho President, but to have somothing with which to thronten him, tohold overhim tn terrorem,—toboused, firat, to coerco him into changing his Cabi. net, and next accepting Congreasional dictn tion a8 rogards his appointmants, or, in caso thie fails, to punish him porsonally by attach- ing to his Administration tho stigma of fraud and disgracefal assumption of an office to which he was never entilled. 'Tho fabrica. tion of avidence for such purposes is caleu. lated to aronse the indignation of the conn- try, and will prove to bo profitioss to the factiona who nare responsible for the shame- less proceoding. S — THE PACIFIC RAILROADS MUST KOT SHIRK THEIR OBLIGATIONS. Those people who think that public opinion bns lost its power in this country, and were not convinced of tho contrary by the manifest submission of Congress in tho silver question, may loarn n lesson from tho overwhelming mojority given to the Railrond Funding bill in tho Ilouse of Iopresonin- tives. Tho fight ngainst this bill Las boen formidable from the very opening of Cone gress, Jay Gourp nud Hontinerow, the chiefa of the two eorporations mninly inter- osted fu ita dofeat, were in Washington in porson, and they had behind them o largo and oxperienced lobby with amplo.monns ot tholr command. Tho struggle come in tho Senate, nnd at first it scomoed as though tho lobby might carry the day. But Tnonstaw, Epuunos, and Judge Davis kept pounding awny, and so forcibly demonstrated tho law and justico of compelling tho Pacific Rail. rond to provide for tho payment of their debis to tho Government that tho opposi- tion was forcod to give way, the bill diotated by tho rnilronds wns withdrawn, and only onoor two men like Bramwve aud Voomuees mado any show of nctive resiate nnca. The lobby's failure in the Senate was the signal for a perfect rout. 'The rmlronds withdrew their opposition as useloss, Mem. bers of the Houso who bad beon counted on to atand fast by tho railrond interests wero suddonly converted to tho side of tho people. There was n goneral break-down before tho menace of public opinion, and when the vote ‘wag taken thero woraonly fwo mon in the 1louso who dared go on the rocord ngainst tho bill, and theso two sought an cxcuso in tho protenso that they favored the prineiple of tho bill, but foared that it would fail to at- tain tho purpose contemplated by it ! Bex Butren was tho only conspicuons op- ponent of tho moasuro on its final passage. Ho professed to doubt that it would be sus. tained by the Courts, but did not eito a sin- glo reason for the suspicion. The law points in tho caso woro fully discnased in the Son. ate. Sonator Matrurws sot up flrst that ic would be unconstitutionat because it impatred tho obligation of n provious contract, but Judge Davis woftled that point by showing (1) that tho conatitutional provision agninat the impnairmment of contracts npplios to the States but not to Congress, and (2) that the Companies have no veated rights which nre affooted by this bill. Anothoer objootion way, that this bill proposed to enable tho Govern- ment to withhold the ontire amonnt duo tho Pacific Roads for sorvices, winlo the Buprenio Court had decided that the Government could not do this; the answer wad that it was pro- elsely beenuse tho Governmont could not do it nnder the existing law that it had be. come necossary to pnss an amondment, fully authorized by the roservation to alter, amond, or repeal, which both previous acts contained, A third objection wos that tho Rnilrond Compnnics would: contost the pro- osed law, and this was sllonced by directing ottontion to tho manifost purposo of the Companios to contest anylaw designed to mnke thom poy any portion of thelr indobt- odncss, Tho valldity of the proposed law ‘waa abundantly established during the course of tho Bouate dobate. BorLrn'sspeech contained only two points, and both woro falso. Ho said that * this country owes the Pacific Railroad Cownpanies a debt of gratitude oven if thoy should run away to-morrow with all that they havo re. ceived,” Al tho gratitude pertinent to tho matter is duo to the Government alono, which advanced all the funds that actually built tho road, and the Companies took no risk what- over, It I8 well known that the original owners of thoslock nover paid but £ por cont, und thero ia reason to believo that this whay ropresentéd by cliocks on which paymont wns nover demanded. It has Leen fully demoustrated that the £61,000,000 ndvanced by tho Govermment would have covercd tho entiro cost and oquipment of the roads if thoy had been honestly constracted. It is o 1nattor of history that the Govornment was induced to relenso ita first lon and thus on. ablo the Companies to borrow enough ad. ditioual monoy to build the road, aud fur. nish the Credit-Mobilior corporation the opportunity for stealing tho entiro smount advanced by the Governmont. Fiually, the Companies bpgan to loan large sums of moucy and divido them among the ownors of the fictitious stock, who re. fused to pay even the interest on the moncy advanced DLy the CGovernment, What is thore in this plain statoment of the case to exact any gratitude frow the people of this country to the original plupderers who bnilt the roods or tho stock-speculators who now control thom ¥ Burres's othor point was equally false and moro Inuulting to the intolligence of the country, Mo charged, in eflcct, that 1t was thobuildingof thoso roaduthat kept California and the Pacific Btates from seceding from the Union, and that they would otherwise have cast their doatiny with the Soutk, 'Thls re- flection on the loyalty of Califoruia is ecu- tivoly unwarranted, ‘Thero was mever any sorious suspicion that California was dis. posed to join the Bouthorn Rebellion or set up a new rebellion of its own, QCalifornla contributed 10,000 meu to the Union army, even whon thoy lad to go around mapy thousands of miles by sea to reach the scemo of action; and, had Cali. fornis been contrally located, her quota of men would have beon as large in propor- tion as that of any other Btote in the Union, Shio contributed bountifully of wonoy to the Banitary Department during the War, and it ‘was 08 infamous for BoTLrs to make a gou. eral charge of disloyalty against Californis as it would Lavo been to make s similar reflec. tion against Indiann or Illinois becauso they included Copperhends and * Bone of Lib- crty.” Asa matter of fnct, tho manner in which tho Pacific Roads were constructed warrants tho assortlon that the roads were built for the benefit of Crodit-Mobilior spee- ulators from Buren's own Btato more than tho cbiarga that they wero necessary in order to keep the Pacifio States insida tho Union. This Railrond Funding bill will become n law upon the siguature of the President. Its only fault is that it exacts too little from the ronds; it requires a payment into the Treasury of only one-qqunrter of tho net carnings, when at loast one-half of tho profits should have beon demanded till the dobt shonld bo discharged, with the aid of tho compound interest allowed on tho Sinking Fund. Even if the terms of tho bill Lo strictly onforeed, tho railronds will atill owe soma 910,000,000 at the maturity of the bonds, but this is certainly n great improve- ment upon the oxisting condition of things, which would resnlt in n debt of fivo or six times ns much, including principal and in. terest, at tha timo the debt will mnture. The bill originated in the Judicinry Commit- teo of the Bonate, which includes somo of the best lawyers in the country, so that there in good ronsén to hopo that it will sland the test of jndicial roview, though a stubborn resistauco from tho railrond compnuies may bo confldently expectad. STONE SLEEVE-BUTTONS AND PAPER- ‘WEICGHTS, Thera appears to be n great denl of truth nt the bottom of tho well which tho Custom- Honso investigators aro sounding, but it must be acknowledged that the truth thoy aro Inboriously dragging up to the surfaco is of avory dirty description. It is due to Mr, Muerren, howevar, to say that his indiscre- tions aro ingenious, artistic, and high-toned, His percontages are not drawn from vulgar sonrces, but represent brie-n-brac, ¢ bigotry ond virtue,” If ho lives long onongh, and tho people of Chicogo do not got ont of pa- tionco waiting for o now Custom-Ifouso, ho will furnish overy offico in tho city with paper-weights aud ornament ovory citizen with nbran new pair of marble eleove-buttons, Muztren's contract seoms to bo an India- rubber one, with indefinito olnstio capabili- tics, It hina nlready strotohed oversix yonrs, It mny stroteh six yoars longer. It mny strotch long onongh for his heirs to com. monco upon tho percontages. I8 may strotch to tho ernck of doom. No one ean calenlato tho clnsticity of n contract which nllows 16 por cent upon time in stone.cutting, Under such o contrnot mon ‘may como and mon may go, but timo goes on forevor at 15 per cont on 23 o day. It {s n plonsant littlo colncidonco that this ingenious rubber document was drawn up by A, J. Mrrs, then in tho Buporvising Architect's offico, now a partnor in tho sleeve-button and paper-wolght business. ITo could not have dono it botter if he had expectod to bon partnor of Mr, Muzrren's, It saves all hard feelings in the famlly. ‘To n man less ingeniously and claborately oudowed, and loss gifted in meoting sudden omorgoneies, such a contract might lave proved an olophant, Mr., Mueiren, how- evor, rises triumphantly over tho accidents of timo, and, like a busy but not very scru. pulous beo, hna improved overy shining hour, and sevoral hours that onght not to havo shono at nll. Muerrzs has got abend of time soma 25,000 doys, This has in. volved n charge of about 875,000 for work not performed. On this amount, Muenren recoived o commiasion of 15 por cont. Tho mon less ondowed with a goniua for indus. try and not so koon sfter porcontages, whon bie found himsell with moro timo on his hands than he lad work, of course wonld havo tonporarily rolioved somo of his work. men; but MoEriEn rose to tho lovel of the occasion, and keopt tho chisels of thostono.cut. toramerrily st work. When copings, and cor- nices, and window-caps gavoout, thoe industri- ous Cincinnatian bestirrod himself, BSleeve. buttons are both wseful and ornamental, Happy thonght! So tho lusty stone-cuttors and brawny polishers went to work upon the littlo cubes of varlegated marblo, It took throo days' sweat of the Lrow to mako n pair worth fifty conts, Tho Govérnment paid 89 o pair for thom, and MuzLren's percentsge wns BL36 on each pair. And there aro workingmon who complnin that thoy are ruined by cheap labor! After tho materinl for sleevo-buttons gave out, the vorsatile Morzrien turnod Lis attontion te paper- wolghts, Papor-weights nro very noccasary in bookkeoping ofiices and boudolrs, handy in tho ononnd handsomo in the other, With an eye to business, MueLren contrived to havo tho Govornmont ndvertiso Lim and pay him for doing it. Tho paper-weights were made out of his own Buona Vista stone, and the Government pald for the making of them at the rate of from H3 to 23,76 per diem, aud, na thero is nothing mean about MuzLrrs, he gave them away with the most rackless generosity, ro that nearly every ono bias o souvenir of Muenres, mado and paid for by tho Govornment of the United Statos. Muzrien is the first man on record who hgs mado the Govornment do his ndvertising, pay for it, and oven give a commission to tho advertiser. And they talk sbout smart. noss in Kt. Louis! Thero came a time when tho local narket was overstocked with sleave.buttons, aud paper-weights woro o drug. By every precopt of .political ccon- omy, whon tho supply exceods the demand labor fulls off, but Muzrrex kuow a thing or two that Apam Baitu and Joun Sruast MLy nover bit upon iu their investigations. He lovied a Httlo asscssmont npon tho stone- cutters and purchased o coupls of yachts, whoreln tho stone-cutters salled tho blua wators of tho lake and flshed for perch, piko, and pickerol off the quiet suburb of 11yde Purk, the ruins of South Chieago, and tho horon-haunted lagoons of Bheffield. It wos immaterial to tho lotos-enting stone. cutters whether fiab bit or not. Their lines - wero cast in plonssnt placos at 83 per day, and their em. ployer was hooking 45 conts per head. When fish wouldn't bite or ndverse winds provalled, then the Governmont paid these stone-catting sons of toil about a Lalf & dol- lur an Lour for going to games of base-ball and witnossing the athletio labora of thelr fellow-workers iy tho dinmond. 'The biggest dividend that baso-ball paid was 15 per cont to Murtres, and the dividend was tho same whatover the size of tho gats monoy. It would have paid lovers of the national game {0 have hired out as stone-cutters to Murrza. Thus with sleeve-buttons and paper. weights, and yachting and “baso-ball, the time . passed merily away, Never did stonc-catters pock to such purpose. Never was o contractor so busy, There yet romains much stons-cutting to be done in tho ahape of copings snd atopa. One coping can represent any number of sleove-buttons sad papor-weighta. One stons step can strotoh over a whole ball scason, or furnish pureh-fishing from now until next fall. Afr, Murrren's indnstrinl rosonrces, thorefore, still remain unlimited. Wo may look fora busy year in bijoutoria and base.Lnll. Does tho renson, in the meantime, occur to any ono why tha erection of the Custom-lonse has been 8o long delayed? Does the reason occur {o any ono why the buoilding has nlrendy cost £G00,000 more than the appro- priation for the comploted edifice? Mnch 08 we may admire the cutting of the sloave- Luttons and papor-woights, it strikes us tho neatest piace of work connocted with tho operation fa Mr, MoLuen's chiseling of tho Government, THE WORLD'S ~u!I\.:T1’!LY OF FPRECIOUS TALS. It iz pleasant to soo tho Atlantic Monthly, which fa supposed to bo the special ropresent- ativo of Now England opinion, taking at last n rational view of tha silvor quostion, An ar- ticlo entitled ** The Bilver Question Geologic. ally Considorad,” printed ia tho May num- bor, is one of tho most conclusive argunionts for tho remonatization of silver wa havo any- whore seen, The nuthorisMr, N, 8, Bnankn, o practienl goologist of considerablo roputa- tion, He advocatos tho uso of silver ns monoy on purely scientifie gronnds, holding that gold is liable to violent fluctuations; that tho addition of silver to tho mass of motallic currency makes its movement m cither direction slower ; and that of the two motals silvor is botter caloulated to dischargo tho purposesof currency, becauso the supply I8 larger and moro uniform, ' Ores of gold aro found only nmong rocks which havo beon groatly changed by heat. Theso rocks aro generally the older beds of tho carth’s surfaco. ‘They exist overywhore over tho earth, but nine-tenths of thom are A0 deoply buricd that thoy eannot bo ronched. Of the sccessiblo’ aren much is barren, or contatns an amount of gold too small for profitable working. Such is the char- nctor of mostof our Now England and South- orn States, and of tho rocks in Scondinavia, Switzerland, Grent Dritain, and the Domin- ion of Canada. Of tho disttiots whioh show percoptiblo quantities of gold, not ono.third will pay for working., ‘The gold-boaring rock is much roduced by this process of olimination, but the reduction must bo enr- rled still farther, Nearly all the mines known to tho ancionts have becn exhausted, Europo is nlready stripped of its stores. California and Australia aro now constantly decrensing in their yield. Onthe discovery of these supplics the oxploration of tha world was completed, with the possible excoption of portions of Central Africs. **Every conti. nent has now paid its goldon tribute to man,” says Mr. Buarzn, * Henceforth ho must extond his supplies by closor searching in tho flelds nlrosdy known to him, by more ekillful processes, or a groator elinre of toil." Tmproved methods of bydraulio mining in- troduced in Colifornin will no doubt assist tho dovolopmont of placor beds that have hitherto not been worth worling ; but the influenco of these improvemonts can only be tomporary, and, so faras they concern the stability of tha valuo of gold, injurious, Bilver is moro sbundaut, It is found in associntion with lend and coppor, as well a3 with gold. ‘Tho arca over which it may bo sought {8 muoh larger than tho gold-nrea. The silver mines of Euaropo havo continted thoir produstions for conturies with n stoadiness not equaled in suy other mining districts, In South and North Amerion it 19 still in good supply, ‘with no prospect of falling. Tho fact that it is not found in placer doposits rocom- onds it for usoas curroncy, sinco it is ou this noconnt less likely than gold to bo found in largo qnantitics on tho surface, or to bo produced without an amount of labor corre- sponding lo its value, In rogard to the recent alarm over tho re- production of silvor, AMr. Smaren shows that this haa beon chiefly due to the discovory of tho Comstock lodo, which ho describes s # the accident of o contury.” Ita production must soon fall off. Except forit, tho silver prodnction of tho Americas has hind a singular stoadinoss during tho last fifty yoars, nnd thore wore but two similar provious move. ments of production—thoso of Potosl and tho Mexican mines. All tho indieations point to tho stendy yiold of silver and the unstondy ylold of gold for tho century to come, In support of this statoment, Mr. Buaten gives n tablo showing tho rate of production of gold and silver during the first three-quartors of tho presout century In willions and tonths of millions: Gold, &tlrer, mllls it ton S, 1 Uold, 1 Stver, mitl- ton $. 2: This tablo shows that tho production of gold has varied about cightoen-fold and of silver ‘only two-fold,and thatthovariationsin the pro. duction of gold and silvor Lave served toneu. tralizo cach othor, Mr, Enxesr Beyp estimates the total valuo of gold in coin and bars in the world to be 83,750,000,000; aud of silver, §8,250,000,000. 1t wonld probally roquire all tho gold produced In thirty years to roplace tho silver in tho world's curroucy; aud this could only be done by the use of hydraulio appliances, which would destroy vast quanti- tics of fertilo lands, tear river-beds from their coursos, and, in tho ond, diminish the means of supporting lifo, alrondy so pre. clons to the world, to an oxtent not war. ranted by the intrinsio worthof the product, Mr, Srmarxs’s opinion ia unequivocal, Ile qualities it, to conciliato Enstorn prejudices, by saying that tho problem cannot be met by any iudividual Stato without doing some injustice to tho rights of mankind; but bLis saving clauso is too ovidently againat the grain of his argument, and too ambiguous as it standa to carry any welght, The problom was met by the United Btates by restoring tho status quo; and rectifying **the bitter injustico” of stealthy demonetization. Tho wisdom of that step is alrcody approved by many of tho best windy in the country, and Mr, Smavxs will help many others who have baeen mystified by tho argument of tho Wall strcot organs to a clearor understanding of the merits of tho case. o states tho wholo truth when he says that * Gold, essential as it ia to our currency, iy too irregular in its supply to afford, used by itsol? alone, the very first condition of & commercial staud- ard, Bex BoTusy, in the courso of Lis speech as the attoruey of the rallroad lobby agalost the ‘TuurMa¥ Refundiog bill, laduiged fo & dlog at tho Silver bill. He sald: You will romamber that I stood herc & short timu sgo, ono of sh ovegwhelming msjority of the Houso in the matter of remonctization of shiver, 2od (st & panic seized the wajority then Just s it has seized }t uow, and ther would not hear to o single ameudment to that bill. They eald, Lof tske what wo can gut, and got ‘whal afterwards, That was the “{l of the ma. Jozity of threo-fonrths of this House. I sald, ‘the Stop and consider, Let us aca f this In the only bill you can pans an this sobject this Congresa; lot us et It na perfect as haman in- Fenulty and human learning can devisn; but tho nnmwer wae, The bill wns adopted in the Eonate, and the Seriate has got it Just right, and men rugh- ed liko sheep over a wali withunt any leader, for they hiad 1o leade heil to pasa that Sliver bill, and, like the Sea frnit, it haw turned to arhen on your lips, and_{n not warth, for the pur- pora for iwhich ¢ was passed, the paper_on which it wanprinted, Tho Senate sent you a Silver bill, and you gobblod it ae o duck wonld 8 frog. As ButLaR did not explatn what he meant by this assartion, it will puzzle most persons to comprehiend his flen, In what respect s tho bill o fallure? What was it expected to accom- plish thatdt has broken down on? It fs only six or sevon weeks sinco §t becamos a law. Within that short tims the Mint Burcau mado designs amd dies, and without a day’s delay have procéeded to coln the now dollars, At the end of the first month 2,450,698 picces hnd been struck off and adaed to the “*rotn of the realm,” although the Callfornia and Nevada mints could only boe ot nt work during tho last dnys of the month's work, This month thero will probably be three and a half millions cofned, and next month still more. When Con- gress makes the amall approprintion asked to repair tho {dle Now Orlcans mint, tho coinago will reach the full four millions n month provided In the act, and at the end of the first year from tho dato of the passage of the bill we shall have at least forty milllons of the big white dollars in clreulatlon. Will that be a fallure? WIIL that be * Déad-Sea fruit turning to ashes on your lips"1 What docs Butten mean by such ranting declarations? ‘The pussage ot the Bilver bill, and the prompt cominencement of colnage, broke down the corner on gold o that it has alrendy fallen 8 per cent, a8 compared with greenbacks, and placed tho latter within a halt to s quarter per cent on an equality with gold in purchasing power. The passago of the Stiver il has rendered resump- tiut ot only certain, but casy, and removed all doubt from the public mind on that score. Al rendy the effect of tho Silver bl is scen fn Im- proved financial confidence, The panks in real- cstate values 1s subsiding, and capitalists aro ‘hegluningto fect that it will gono lower, that the botton bas been touched, aud therefere thoy have commenced to invest tn ground. All this in u short seven weeks, and yot BuTLER has tho sublime fnpudenco to assert on tho floor of Congress that tho Sllver blil is a complete fall- ure. It s Burren and his predictions that have proven faflures, and not the Bilver biil, which is o grand success. BuTren wanted unlimited fo- flation of * ilat money, and desired to banish all the gold and sflver from the country; but he broke down In his effort a8 disastrously as ho i In his attempt to defeat the TAURMAN Ratl- road Refunding bilt, ————— In a recent artiele, the New York Herald ably argues tho unconstitutionality of an fucome-taz, and then udds the followlug just obscrvations 08 to its odlous character: But even If on tncome-tax woro asfconstitations] 08 dutles on linports or ns an excise on whisky and tobaceo, it would stlll bo objectionnble and l’nlnl- erable, except In great exizonclen which straln na- tluual' resourced 10 the utnost and mlence com. Diainia by an urgont uppeal to prtriotiem, T odious and Intoleeablo featuro of an income-tax is the exerclao nf Inquisltorial powers which attend its unsonsmont and collection, It In pupngnant. to the whole epirit of our freo institutlons for the Government to bo maklng Innuisition Into the pri. vate affalrs of citizons. Anythingresemblingidomi- ciliary visita ia hatefal to frovmen. Our citizens <o nat chooss te have small Governmunt ofiiclals poering fnto thelr private aftaira, acting os splos upon their_transactions, examininz thelr account- books, and divulging thelr secruts to business slvals, Tho peldo of free-born Amerlcan cltizens will b beaton down nta tne dust boforo they anb- mitwith patienca to (nguisitoril meddling with thelr peivato aTalrs by oflicers who, on the repuh- lican theory, are mcrcl{ thele morvants, We inclino to think that the incomo-tax will 1ot ho eulmposeds but, If It should be, nothing is more certain than that § will bo rewisted iu the courts with excellunt chances of succens. We are sorry to bo compelled to add that the infumous attempt of the presont Coufedorate llousc of Representatives at ‘Washington to levy an additfonat and unconstitutional tax on the thrift and fndustry of tho North and West in ordor to raise moncy to pay Rebel elaims, s tikely to bo mado successful through tho nc- tion of the Ion. II, C. BukcitARD, the member of Congress fromtho Fifth Distrlct of this State, elecled as a Republican, It was by his casting voto In. the Committco of Ways and Mcans that the bill has béen ordered to bo ro- ported, Ie s belleved to bo the only Repub- 1ican member of either Houso of Congrosa who 11 In favor of reviving the income-tax, ereating afuew brood of ofliceholders, and filling the land with pimps, sples, and Inquisitors, to vry {uto tho private affairs of tho peoplo, nnd bring- fog in.its tralu fl-fecling, publlic demorallza. tlon, and perjury. ——— ‘There scems to be a strone demand In Massa- chusetts and other parts of the country for the scvere punishment of the defaulter HaTHAWAT, whose forieriesare more in number and amouat. than those of his cousin Citace. Both thiso men, 1t Is to be obaerved, were executiva oflicers of great mill corporations, nnd in that enpacity were accustomed to borrow larizely of the bunks, ‘The bunks that accommodated them most fro- quently, nccording to tho recent returns, wero the savings banks, 834,000,000 of whose money was mvested in socuritfes of this deseription, Tlaziawav and Ciiace havo thus been eniraged in cheating the poor, both through tha loans which they honestly mado and failed to pay, and through the forgerics which destroyed the value of property the stock of which 1s held {n largo part Ly peor men. No punishnent can bo too sovere for such roblicra, Alassachusetts shiould not forget, in dealing with them, the worlhy cxample sat by New York in dealing with Casx and GiLuAN, It might even go back with safe- ty to the honorable precedont of the Engllsh courts in 1853 when three great London bankers —all known as reformers and philanthroptats, and vne of them a Baronet allfed with some of the bighest nobility—wers scutenced to four- tven years® imprisonment at hard Inbor for mis- appropristing 800,000 of one of thelr customors, - e— The Green Bay (Wis.) Advocateof yesterday (the 5th) states that, at a regular mesting of the Green Buy Turners' Society, held on the 18th just., the following resolutions were unan fmously adopted: Wnenras, In‘view of the tranamismlon of a speech of the llon, Senator T, O, Howe, delivered by him in the Bonato of thy United States on March 25, 1878, in which he, according to our ovinlon, takes the pleasuro of eriticiving, yes, sbusiog, the Chlet Magisirato of our Ropublic, and by thi af him malnly tno Secrotary of the Interfor, fon, Caue Scuunz, jua dograding mann ind Whguxas, We deon such o proceduro of the 0O, Howr uncalied for, the transmfssion eech to our Socloly oven abusivo snd proe voking; therefore, ba it Resofred, That the dreen Day Turners® Soclety rolumn sala spoech, post-pald, to the Uon. T\ O, oclatlon, ho Ghesolsed, That wo, sa 8 Turnors’ freu from participating fu politica) transactions, in hiis case, hawover, wish (o express upenly our cone tent with tho stops of our presens Governuont, &8 far as hintod ut in said wpeccl, and that we at ‘the wame time acknowledeo unanfmously the sbilities and schiovements of the Hon. Caut Scivnz, dteaolved, That co&lu of thesv resolulons be conveyed for publication to all newspapers of {hls city, and the Zukunst, of Indianspolis, and one to Yion. Cauw Scuunz, ————— About s year awo Tum Cuicaco TRiBuNm mada an engagement to take forelgucablegratms In conjunction with the New York Limes, and share cxpenses cqually, Not long after this arraugciment was perfected 14 was found that other Western and Chleago newspapers wero recelving from New York the forelgu dispatches of the New York Times. Tum Tminuns, per- celviug that 1t could mot control tho trans- wisston of the Times® forelgn dispatches Weat after they bad been given to the public in New York, and not wanting to make itself ridizulous by whinfug about it, shinply dropped the ar- rungement and made other engagements which answered its purpose, Let the blubber-heads stop thelr whining aud do likewlse, 2 i e ‘The recent clectlon for the Commons in Sogth Northumberland ended in s tie, Mossrs, Gasr aud IUDLRY obtainfug each 2,912 votes. Pretty close, but perbaps not so curious, considering the number of votes polled, as tho run fa the Fourth Congresslonal District in Californla two years sgo, when Pacunco got 10104, aud Wig- aistoN 19,103, Thers was a famous election in Canada xomo twenty years ago, beforu.elee tlons were couducted by ballot, It was on the s . second day, and just on the stroke of the hour at which the poliing closed, when the Iast vorey was brought up with the two candidates o the, Tho Inst voter stammered. * Whom (o yoq vote for—8arii" thoy msked. partiann of Byt and fudignantly gasped, «p. dl-d-l-amn BWITa" but whila' he was ham. mering over that D the clock atritck, the polls closed, the returning officer gave the ;m. ing vote for Byitm, and the whole current of political history 1o that constitucucy way changed. —— Tha opinien of Bocretary Buxnxax 10:000,000 o htver doliary franed wfa'&'lfi'r‘?iafll’f,‘ il for gol Ines not a » ficd by tho facts.— Detrolf Free Lress. ' 0 YoMl What object would any one have to exchange old for sllver dollars whan tho Lwo coins grg of preciscly the samo valuel Whatever doty the one will vay, the other will pay; whatgyer quantity of anything the one wil buy, thy other will buy, Except for pocket-pleces, it is Impossible to concolve of any motive theholders of gold would have to exchunga it for silyer, or vico vorsa. Can the Fres P'ress think of anyt Gl o e A subscriber who professes to be posted s, that nine-tenths of tho stories told at tho potice headquarters about the Communiats purchag) arma and forming military compantea ace purs inventlon, and intended ss a bull movement to got up & scaro in the city, and to operate on thy new Counci? to enlarge the police foree by 200 men. The now Ring have enrolled fourteen or filteen members for purposes of blackmail agg plunder, and only need to sccure about foyy more to contral the Counct! and run things o sult themselves, —_— ‘Wa discover tokens of levity in tho manner fn which tho Washington Zostandunion alludes to Mr. Tsnogs. When in the Natfonal Conven. tion of 1880 some stlver-tongued orator arlses, and by reciting the story of tho ** Ureat Fraug» just ns such papers as the Postandunion keep on reciting It, and the delegates, roused to fury, whoop TiLDEN through on an uprising vote by acclamation, our Implacablo contemporaries wiil have to take it all back. They ara only far. tening up crow agalnst tho day of crow, ———— Bur.en assurcd the House, on his repatation o8 a great constitutional lawyer, that the Tucs. 314N Rallrond Refubding bill woutd “not holg water'; that tho railrosd companies woylg drive a span of horses and wagon right through it.” Thae confidenco the lawyers of the House bave in his legal opinion is shown by the vote that followed the delivery of hls *lezal opin. fon": For the blll, yeas, 230; nays, 2,—Buren and Lxxpe, —— The minimum price charged by bummer Al dermen for getting men on the pollce s §50. That {s the lowest regulation sum; 875 to $100 I8 exacted from ench successful apolicant, If be can afford {t. Thisis oneoxplanation of howsome fmpecunlous persons can hold the offca of Alder- man, which has no salary or leeal compensation attached to it, and make o good living, spend lots’'of money In tho prog-shops, and fallow ne other employment except Aldermanship, f The Z-0. threatens to dish up shortlyanother dogo of modern TILTON obsceno * confesslons * which will throw Its former spcelal roport into tho shade; after which it will b in order for lts clerical whitewnsher to write another * card of thanks * for {ts hizh-toned purity and recom- mend {¢t to tho especlal perusal of * ladles and children as o safe famlly journal,” The /-0, has probably hired him by the year to write It cards of thanks for its nasty news. —— There 18 n Ring movement to make the Com- munistic blathersklto, FRANK LawLzg, Chair- man of the Police Committce. FRAxE, it Is reported, has already picked out fifteenor twen- ty fellows ho has promised to ring in on the pollee forco when the order s passed throush tho now Council to Incrcase tho force by 200 men, regardlcss of - the condition of the city flnances. ‘We shonld like to know, slvoplay, Aosseo, what the New York 1World means by heading an e count of the Interment of & Communist, “Ls Mort d'Uno Communo "} ‘The man wasm'ts Communo at all, though ho was a Communiit or a Comnmunard, according to taste. Beiogs man, too, he could hardly have been *unc” Lolly-vous Fancy? Wel Wel t —— The Now York Sun says that ¢ the poet Bouruey was the originator of the phrase, * By the lving Jingo!’" Was hel By the lsing Jingo, we had always thought that Ouives Gorpsyrrn bad employed that phrase in ¢ Tho Vicar of Wakeflold " long before Boumier's time. Wo fear thut the lourcatc’s title is vitiated by fraua. e —— . Tt 18 perhaps Just as well that O'Lzanr did not go to tho cxpense of bulldings bridze across tho Atlsntic to enable tho New York pe- destrian, fluanes, to walk in Eogland. Nordo wo think that on any future occaslon Huanes' backer, the Hon, HAnny ITtr.y, will hire a ball for tho sake of exhibiting his profege, It {a sald that the now Councll Ring, who are organizing to * run ® thiogs, have concluded to leave Ald, PEANSONS 8t the head of the Floance Committes, and to put on it one other honest man with him, but to sclect three men who will voto them down overy time, —————— BeN Hurien wiolds a powertul Influence I8 Congress when it comes tovoting on an lmpar- tant blll. o controls his own vote aud that of Witeran Prrr Lyspz. Bono counts (w03 BiLLy, a naught. On tho TrurMaN Rallroad Refund question, BeN BUTLER “‘gobbled ' WiLLIAM PiTT LYNDE, of Milwaukee, as **a duck would a frog." | | ‘The Mouse of Represeutatives consumes 10, 500 cubie feet uf gas per hour, not Including tho specches of Its membery. BitLy Prrr LYNDR was tho frog; BENNYRUT L8R was tho duck that gobbled BiLLy with its bitl, * PERSONALS. The old Park Hotel, in Now York, is to bo torn down, The ramshackle bubidingat the cor- ner of Nossau and Beokman stroota was years 830 the ofMce of the Anti-Slavery Standard, Obllr":a and New Yotk Zvmes. Thers, too, Morse tolk s over Lis inventlon of tha electric folegraph, 'Tu: bis Improvements on Daguerre's process ot makiof sun-plcturcs, Tho London Daily Telegraph issued 290, 000 coplos the day after the fall of Plora. The papor nets $500,000 a year. Fifteon years 820 ;: wae nearly dead, and, through & nnl:lvmmr; for $20,000, fcll into the hands of a family DIJ;"C; type-brokers, nsmod Levy. Two of them o sinco had tuelr names changed ta Lawson, 80 " names of M, and Mrs, Bdward Lawson upy-:w tho list of guests at tha Prince of Wales' last e Mr. Edward Lawson, a fawtliar fece in the ol A of the House of Commons, {8 -rl.ltol-lmehlcl.w : ic about 47 yeara of age, asd has & keco eye Baronetcy, The big political families seem to bo m::; Ingalliances, Tho 8hermans sro reaching uul:'“. marrying with the Camerons, ihe powesfal A sylvaula leaders, The Bhermans cover 7 e ange: John leads the hard-money ochwé“" Ewing, his brothor-in-law, leads the -a:-l ot achool; Judge Bherm nhdoq ] l:'ll f::;m':n:lrkm- (e ntly the llfllmlln 1 Haycs lost the nomlination. Ig the State 0 \’nik. Conkling bas the Republican munln:“ s bls bmth"vln;:‘ & joywmous, the Democrs chine, —Gen. Eogland is scandalized st tbe ufl: method in which her Majesty's fulthful %":h e seceived bor Majesty's last mnuuil :J. e Hardy brought It to she bar of tha Tonae ¥ Tl {hst imoment Lord Hartington roso and was recof nized by the Speaker, and Mr. Hardy readerof there In & very ridiculous manner 1l the 16350 ) the Oppesition had Onlabed bls wpeech. T when they began reading the Roysl munzflm i had to yell **Hate off1” twico and pausé 80/ reading befors Sir Wiifred Lawson, Mr. T Potter, and other members Would uscoves Ho was ot 4~