Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1878, Page 4

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Mc- Fannes, Manager, PARIE, France—No. 10 Nue de Is GrangeDateltere. -American Exehange, 440 Btrand. eme——my— AMUSEMENTS. McVicker’s Thentra. Maditon strcet, botween Deachorn and State. ** After Dark, " floaley’s Theatre, Tandolph atreet, between Ciark snd LaSalle. fiaryigan and Hart's Grand Comblostion. Haveriy’s Thentre Monroe strect, vorner of Dearborn, clalty and Ballet Troupe. White Stocking Tark. Lake Shore, foot of Washington street, Gamo be- tween the Indisuapolls and Chicago Clubs. TUESDAY, MAY 14, " Mtiepeire Spe- 1878, Greenbncks at tho New York Stock Ex. chango yestorday closed nt 003, ——eeeee Reporta from numcrous points fn the Northwest indicato a vory gencral damage Lo fruits and gardou stn by the sevare frost of Sunday night. Some interesting reminisconces of the great whinky campaign of 1875 are givon in o Springticld, M., dispatch, embodying an interviow with (Gen. Bruronp WiLsoN, ex« Bolicitor of tho ‘reasury. It apponrs that Seerotary Batstow Lisd his doubts about tho efiiciency of the revenue-collection forco under command of Collocter Wrirzen at Cinciunali, and waa in favor of a change “for tho good of the service,” but Prosi. dent Gnant conld not bo induced to shinre in DBristow's viows, aud the rcorganization of the Cinciunatl offico was indeRnitely post- poned. In tho conrao of tho discussion 6f the question of Communism nt tho mooting of Methodist mnivisters yesterday the iden was euggested that tho ministers might sct as medintors between labor aud capital. Lator on, tho Communistio idea found expression in the desire of a brother that tho salaries of all preachers be mado oqual,—tho well-paid pastors of prosperous churches to share their poy with thoso in charge of less pecunious pavishes, It this application of tho Bocialistio doctrine sbould become popu- lar to any considerablo extent, it is easy to seo that somebody would have to serve asa medintor between the ministors and the winisters. Austria {8 now creditod with an exceeding- ly comprehensive programme of torritorial onlargement, It §8 reported from Derlin thst ANpRassY has hia oye upon the several provinces which have bacomo virtunlly indo- poudent of the Porte, nnd his design is to gather them togother under the wing of Austrin, the wholo to form o Slavonio Confederation aftor the model of Germany, ‘Lo military occupa~ tion of Bosnia by Austria is no longer in- volved in doubt, as a Constantinople tole- gram annotunces, without commont of any sort, that tho Turkish Government fs os- cupation will only be temporary, ‘The Chicago Comuion Council has adopt- ed resolutions indorsing tho recoption given to Gon. Sutrips in this city, aud also ap- proving heartily of the bill now pending in the United States Bonato providing for the placing of the gallunt 0ld soldler and statos. mun on the retired list of tho wrmy oy a full Drigadier-General. No ono will guinssy o siugle word of the high com. pliment conveyed fin the resolutions, but while tho Common Council was engnged in the consideration of na. tional affairs it might as well havo amended the record 80 as to correspond with tho facts in tho case by the insertion in tho pronmble of o clausoe reciting that the intro. duction of the bill in Congress was au after. thought suggested by the ovidont peneusity of counteracting the effeot produced by the whabby treatmont which Gen. Buretns re. ceived at the biunds of the Domocratio msjon. ity 1u the louso in the recent election of Doorkecper., ‘Thio County Board might have saved itself tho trouble of passing Frrzaeraun's rosolte tion proposing to buy the. foundations wlready crectod by the city fu the west half of thu Conrt-Houso Bquose in consideration of the opportunity such an arraugomont would ufford for preventing the use of the Balford stono in the now City.Ilall. The rusolution is in itecl o taclt confosalon that ths Cuunty Bourd is certaln to fail iu its eflurt to restrnin tho eity through the courts from using such stonn as it sces 8t in the construction of its own building, but ity rlso n proposition which, In the ovent of its acceplanca by the Common Council, would iuvolve the crection of the entire building by the County Board—a project which the Counell, having {n view the in. tereuts und desires of tho taxpayers, will not serionsly consider, much less ansent to, As was renrked by one of the Cowmissioners yusterduy, the peoplo want the city's portion Luilt ** ou tho equare,” a thing which would bo out of the question if the County Ring had anyiing to do with the award of cone trocts, ——— By tho oxerciso of tho parliamentary priv- dlego of refusing to vote, tho Republicans in the Ilouse wory yesterday able to briug sbout s deadlock iu the Electoral investiga. tion project, which was presented in tho form of o resolution calling for the appoint- weut of & select committeo with unlimited discretion and power for tho collection of testiwony for campagn purposes. By their refussl to vote the Republicans breke up a quorumm and prevented tho further cessider- ation of tho resolution, belug driven o this recort by the refusal of the Dewmoesats to perwit vven 60 much as the readivg of an uwendment offered by Mr, Harg, of Maine, coutewplating the widealng of the scope of tho investigation by taking in the Domo- eratio frand and intimidation practiced nnd attempted in Florida, Lonisinna, Mississippi, and Oregon. 'Tho rofusal of the Tit~ DEN managers fo make the inves- tigntion thorongh and impartial amonnts to an opon declaration that the movoment is sot on foot for party purposes solely, and that 1t is not the exposure of frand so much as the political eapital to be realized by a partisan investigation, dragged along through the entiro summer, that is aimed at. As tho case now stands, the Republican minority control the situation, and will continue to do %o un- til the Democrata® are able to bring in ab. sentees in suffiofent numbers to obtain a quornm of 147 votes. e — Tho publio wonld like to be informed why the Senate bill providing for tho issue of popular 4 per cont bonds has beon smothored in the Ways and Means Commiltea of tha House, When this admirable projoct was first auggested it wns naturally thought that it svould be more difficult to socuro its pas- sogo in the Senate than in the Iouso; but the former body, in conformance with the demands of the people and the intorests of tho Government, passed such a bill two months ngo, and the House lias boen given no opportunity to act uponit, pression of this Senate bill canuot be owing to any prospect for passing a postal-savings measnre, for all the bills looking to that ond have likewise been suppressed. Nor would the fers with each other, but only nfford two bharmonions ing the Government debt and reducing tho Gavernment jintorest. The special ad- vautago of bringing the Senate bill Leforo tho House is, that it will probably find Iriends nmong those who do not rogard tho Postal-8avings bill with favor; and tho pas. sngo of tho popular-bond bill would be somo compensation in caso the postal-savings schome should fail altogether, that this popular-bond bill js suppressed Lecause it is known that its passage will mako resnmption casler than ever? Con it \be that pestilent demagoguos in the House debiro to koep the financial questions open for their own dirty political purposcs ? What- ever the motive, it i8 uuworthy, and the most direct way of ascortaining just what it is, is for momo momber of tho House to introduce a resolution inquiring why the ‘Ways and Means Committeo withhold the Dbill, and inatrueting that Committes to re. port. delay. WHAT SUPPRESSES THE POSTAL-SAVINGS BILL} ‘The virtual sap- two Dbills in any monner inter- methods for refund- Can it be ‘This should be done without further Tho ouly instances whorae the present Con. gross las given a full responso to the de- mands of the people are those in which the popular will asserted ilself so aggreasively that rosistance would have been equivalent to political suicide, Pacifie Railroad Funding bill are the notable casos, But in oll other inatters thero has been such dolny and hesitation as to Indicate a conscjousness of incompotency and a cow- andly disposition to aveid all responsible action, no mAtter Low nocossary it may bo to the publio welfare. Boforo the oponing of the prosent Congress, it was widoly con- ceded that ono of tho wiscat and most bene- floial things to do would bo to pass a law providing n national eavings system, which should furnish Government protection ' for tho surplus carninga of tho industrious poor sud middle classes. The savings-bonks fail. ures had already set in, and it had Lecomo evidont to mon of oxperionce nnd judg- ment that they would oxtond all over the country, ‘This has proved to bo tho case, Every largoe city and overy populous manu- facturing diatrict has suffored to a greater or lesa extent, ‘Tho nggrogate loss from nctual defaleation, bad juvestmoent of deposits, in. eflicieut managemont, and payment of too largo nn interest, has probably beon noarly $10,000,000; und this logs has mainly fallon upon those clasaes loust ablo to sustain o loss, and at a time when they aro in sorest neod of the monoey they had saved. In Massn. ohusotts the Stato actually camo to the res. cuo of the savings-banks owners and man. agers with a etay-law, nnd hag thereby pro- vented the people from tho ordinary reme. dies, The laws for the protection of savings. deposits in New York, which wore confident. ly asserted to be perfeot, have praved so in- ofiolont that thero Las boen an actual loss of over §8,000,000 since the pasic, with greater losses to bo approhended. With theso focls before it; with the knowledgo that the largor capitalists have a Government protec- tion fu Federal bonds if they chooss to invest; swaller capitalists (a term that Includes overy man, woman, and child who has a dollar ahead of tho world) demand an oqual opportunity ; and, fnally, with the dem- onntrated success of the Euglish Postal. Saviugs system for nu example, Congrons has Jailed and rofused to provide the noceasary logislation fo attain the dosired roform, ‘Cha Silver bill snd the with every assurance that the This neglect of a groat popular domaud is not owing to uny lack of Willa; sevoral, all biaving moro or less merlt, hava been sug- gested, and threo are actuslly bofore the House,—ono from the Ways and Means Conunittes, known as the Rommins bill, which is founded on a bill originully in. troduced by Mr, Buncuann; another from tho Banking nnd Currency Committec, known as the Yuinrses billy aud a third from the Post-Ofice Committee, known ns the Wabprwn Lill, Lull fs tho most satisfactory, to tho Wapbrin bill is that it places tho machinery of inge-systens almost haunds of the Post-Office Dupartment, which is uawiso. properly belongs to the Urensury Depart. mout, which bas fewer branches and moro certain protection against loss and dofales. tion, Tho Postmasters should slmply Lo the ageuts for the reception and transmisslon of suving-deposits through postal orders, . Thoe objection to tho Prwps bill i that it prac. tically provides a reserve of $50,000,000 without ouy rogard to the amount of sav- ings-deposits, since it sutborizes the reissue of the $50,000,000 retired groenbacks for that purpose, sud to bo_used solely for the paywent of savings-deposita when called for; tLis ties up $50,000,000 indefinitely, so that the real aum of the Banking and Currency Comwittee to get this additional amounut of greeubacks into circulation would not be Of these, tho Robnisa Tho objection the proposed sav- oxclusively in the The safckeeping of imoneys accomplished by thiv method. The Rossing (Ways aud Means) bill erry, perhaps, in not providing for less than $1 deposits, while an smount ps Jow as 25 ceuts ought to be ve- ccived, aud also in praotically limiting the 1o of the proposed certificates to one year, after which they draw uo interest and must be converted into permancut 4 per cont bouds, But these poiuts could be easily modified or set right, and then the bill would provide as follows : 1. Apy person wmsy deposit at any postal wonvy-order office sums of not lass than 25 ceuts, aad shall receive a postal monvy-ordes for the smount on the United States Treas- ury. Such doposits shall draw interest at the rato of 3 per cent per annum, computed and credited quarterly. 2, These orlera nre convortible, at the option of the holder, into certificates of deponit of 310, and multiples thereof, which shall draw 3,65 per cent intorest, and run a term of years, subject to a domand for a withdrawal of the deposit in lawful money, 8. The certifionton of deposit shall bo con- vertible, at the option of the holder, into permanent or long-time bonds, drawing 4 per cent interest on sums of 326 and multiples thereof. After running the pro- seribed term of years, or renching the sum of $1,000 to tha credit of any one depositor, tho Secretary of the Treasury shall have the option of calling them in and issuing in oxchango the 4 por cent funding bonds. Tho certificates may also be held by National Banks as a part of their roserves not reqaired to be kept in specio or legal-tender notos. ™. The doposits may bo withdrawn in sums not excceding B100 on ench postal monoy-order,-~tho cost of such withdrawal falling upon the depositor, and being equal to tho charges now made for postal monoy- orders for like sums, &. All moneys deposited in the Treasury under this system shall bo applied, after the payment of oxpenses, to the redemption and refunding of 6 per cent bonds, except a reserve not exceeding 10 per cent of the moneys subject to withdrawnal. By such an aot as this the Government would begin at once to save several million dollars annunlly by changing & 6 per cent indohtedness into n 4 per cent indobtedooss, This wonld represent an annual saving of just that amount of goneral taxation, 'The peopla would then enjoy an option of abso- Iute protoction for thoir savings at n mod- erato intercst, instend of the promise of larger interest and the prospeetive loss of both principal and interest under tho private eavings-baok system. An ultimate result of the successful operation of tho law would be to withdraw the bulk of our national indebt- edness from the hands of foreign holders, thus deprivo them of tho opportunity of disturbing our monetary system at will by rushing bonds on the home matket, and ot the same time moro thorouglly identify the mass of the American peopla with tho credit and welfaro of our National Gov- ernmont. No botter protection against tho ovils of Communism and the monace of re- pudiation could possibly be dovised. 1t is more or lesa 8 mystery that legisiation, 80 obviously dosirablo for both the Govern- went and the poople, should be indefinitoly ratarded by & lodgmont fn tho Committec of the Wholo on the State of the Unmion, where it ia rarely reached. The only explanation for this inexcusable delay mnust be looked for m the joint action of two causes, viz.: First, the avernge ignoranco of the averago Con. greasman, who cannot sce for himself tho important advantages to bo gained from the proposed system ; and, second, the influenco of the speculative interests that control the private savings-lnstitutions of the country, and are opposiug the passage of sach a law for selfish and unworthy purposes of their own, It will bo well for the hionost and in- telligont members, however, to resurrect this projfect and insist upon a falr and open dis- position therco?, in order that the public may know who its encmios aro and who its frionds, NATIONALIST CONTRADICTIONS. The carliest Communist, or Nationalist, in the English langungo was Mr, Jack Cade, who exhorted Lis followors: Blo beave, thon for your Captaln s brave ami vows roformation. Thcere shall be In Kneland #cven lalfpenny lonves wold for a pz-nun tho threo-hoopod pot shall have ten hoops; and | wall make it felony to drink small-beer; all the realm sball bo {n common, and In Clicapslde {London} shall my palfrey go to ?m!l. And when 1 am King (as Kiog L'shall be) {nere snall Le no {coln) noney. Mr. Cade's platform has been criticised as self-contradictory ; and wo must confess to having experionced some difficulty in recon- ciling all its planks with certain tyrannical rulos of arithmetic. But it is no more con- tradictory or absurd than the platform of the late National Greenback Labor, alias Communist, Convention in Philadelphia, '"Lake, for example, the resolution which demands * the protection of labor.” It pro- poses to accomplish this object by paying wages in o deprociated curroncy, by enncting a high tarif to onhanco the cost of liv. ing, by establishing Govornment savings. banks on the irvedeomable-greenback baais, Ly limiting tho rate of interest to be pald on loans, by taxing the publio to build rail- roads aud ships that aro not needed, by foeding snd clothing 1dlo convicts at pub- Yo exponso, snd by discrimloating against capital which employs and pays labor, Tho schemo fa to incrense the cost of living aud decrense tho means of earning money to pay living exponses, What can bo thoughtof a party which declares that labor shonld be diminished in overy departmont of industry, while taxation on overy articla imported and consunied bylabor 14 to be jucrensed 7 That i not more reasonabla than Jack Cude’s plan to sell three and a balf pennyworths of bread for ong penny, Labor has no means of supporting itself excypt by devoting a part of its earn. ings to this purpose; nnd if it is forbidden to oarn a8 much as it does ot present, whilo its presout cost of living s Increased, it can. not bo kept from starvation, All tho money propositions of the Phila- delphia Couvention aro in a line with Juck Cade's rosolution, e said: * There shall be no mors money.” Thoy say virtually the snmo thing. Tho scrip which they propose to fssue and call wonoy will not bo money, It will neitber bave intrinsic value nor the promise of value. Being isbued as tho rop. resentative of nothing, and paid out freely, it will have no standing in commerce, Its Qepreciation will bo marked uot solely by its volume, but by the moeasure of confidence in tho ability and desire of Goverament o tako it up after its fraudulont cliaracter has been discovered, Threo thousand millions of this mouey would be worth next to nothing, because it would bave stamped upon it the fuct that it was ultimately exchangeable for nothing, aud hed no value in those metals which (ho world has established ss (he standard of exchangeablo value, ‘The advocating of such money by the Phila. delphia Convention was a gross coutradiction of its declared concern for tho welfare of labor, A bad currency is the curso of labor, because all wages are paid in it; aud laboris not s0 well uble a5 commodities to escape the fnjury of a'depraved logal-tender. 'I'his Iudicrous inconsistency is dus to the alliance of tho Greoubackers und the Trades-Union. ists in tbe Convention with.the Communists, which resulted in a compromise expressiug pustially the views of each. .Tle name of 4'fho National Grecuback Labor” party expresses this cooflict; it is self-contra- dictory, liko the platform. The platform declares that ** Tho wealth of the nation is founded on labor,” and, on thiy nccount, dewands a limitation of the hours of labor. If the first proposition iy true, the second ought not to be urged. The Con- vention stultifies itself in nsking that the sourco of national wenlth should be dried 1up. Bince labor is tho basis of national wealth, and national woalth is the condition of nationn! prosperity, wo should say, ** The more Iabor the botter.” To diminish labor is to impair and rednco national wealth and prosperity. Dut these are necessary to the comifort of labor, as Iabor is to them, When labor seeks to limit or impair them, it alms & blow nt its own interests. So with the ar- gument against Inbor-saving wmachinery. History teachos that every improvement in machinery has bsttered the condition of workingmen as a whole, The sewing.ma- chiue bas given more employment snd higher wages than lhand-sowing did. The spinning - jenny has occupled fifty men in manufactories whers formerly there was ono. Consider the benefit to labor derived from the plow, reaper, and steam-gngine, Labor should not cry ont agninst improvemonts, each one of which nltimatoly widens its fleld of employment. Nor should it seok to do at great wasta of timo and muselo that whick can be done at small waste, The Philadelphia platform is Inconsistont In demanding that labor shall hdavo shovter hours nnd larger pay ; that it shall incrense its divisor aod dimin. ish its dividend, or set itself a bigger tnsk nnd give itsell less timo to do it It labor- saving machinary is to bo diponsed with, sixteen hours will not be too much for aday’s work to Lalf supply the world's wants, and wages can only bo in proportion to produc- tion, There are other curious resolutions in the national platform, particularly those which proclaim an alliance between the monopo- lists—Tox 8corr, Jar Gourp, and Jony Roacn—and the leaders of the poor.man'’s party ; but tho discussion of them could liardly make tho absurdity of tha whole thing clearer than it is at presant, Tho only con. clusion that can reasonsbly be drawn from tho platform is, that tho Natiouslists have oxemplified the absurdity of their lsbor-sav- ing doctrines in1t. If thoy Lad given more time to it, they might nt lenst have con- structed a platform which would not bea laughing-stock to members of their own party. Bat the platform only indicates con- cesston to opposite sad incongruous factions which, from vastly different motives, have been gathered . tomporarily into the same party-organization. It was impossible to frame any consistont declaration of prinol- plss to moet the viows of Communists, Molly -Maguires, Greenbackers, Trades- Unionists, and monopolists. The party formed by the union of auch clementais bound speedily to fall topieces. A PROPOSED RADICAL REFORM. In fta fifth roport on the Now York Custom. House tho Jax Commission snys : The Custom-House brokers, whoss number fa represented at about six lundred, constituto, It is raid, o force which, while unrecomnized by the Customs regulations, and uncontroiled b( ihe Guverniental anthoritics, occupica s poaitlon of importance In the oxlating system: and (Aeir tnfer- vention contributes materially 10 the delay, the coats, the facorttism, and (Ae collusion of which the marchants comptain, The Commission further finda that it is from tho haunds of brokers that Custom. Houso officials recoive * gratuities,” * irreg- ular foes,” and *‘bribes"; that ‘' officers frequontly recelve businoss from favorite brokers to tho dotriment and detontion of those who rightly have tho procedenco "; that ** the rolations betweon the brokers and the Custom-Ifouso officials seom to bo at timos attonded with somo scandal,” as in Jrequent oasos of tho acceplance, as suroty ou bonds, of Custom-I{ousa brokers of ques- tionable rosponsibility. In conclusion, the Commissiqp enunciatos the following as o fundamontal essontial condition of reform {u tho Oustoms Sorvico : Ve tiink that tho task of roforming ond simoll- Iying the routine of the Custuna Seryice, of ex- chuding all favorivam and preforence. and ayante | Ing equal facilitien and equal vromotnoss in all caves, demand that (he dusiness of the Custom. Jiouse ahatl be strictly confined to s owen ofictals, ‘and that therd shail be o unnecensary particlyation o it management 0y outaids and irresponsisle partles, “T'his is cquivalent to recommending that the Oustom-Iouse broker be banishod from tho Custom-House, It is a radical propo- sition, but it s sound, and Tuz Taiune supports it hLeartily. It is demanded alike by publio polioy, Ly the intercsts of honest importers, by the honor of the Government, and by the common obligation resting upon all citizens to seo that the laws aro onforcod. Oustow-House brokers are a hindranco to the faithfal exccution of tho laws. They are a standing temptation to Cunstom-House clorke to Lecome dishonest, uince it is thoir intorest to induce violations of the law. Thoy aro equally corruptora of importers for the same roason. It is com- mon for importera who employ brokers to profoss ignorance of all details of tho pass. ing of merchandiso tbrough the Custom. Houses, 'They say, * We loave that entirely to our brokers,” It is dnubtiessa fact that hundreds of importers Lave first found themselves guilty of participation in tho crimo of the fraudulont cuiry aud sppraise- ment of goods en the presentation of their Lroker's bill giving, in round wumbers, tho result of such fraudulont entry aud sp- pralsemont, with the broker's price for his corrupt services in the transaotion. 1t i quite probable that the broker's foo in the caso of such first corrupt trans. action s the rogulur fee of an or. dinary transaction, and that the importer reaps tho full benefit of the fraud. The bait is o tempting one, and, if the importer swallows it without making a wry fuce, the broler rotiros kuowing that ho bas secnred o valuable client. When the (ransaction is ropoated the broker doubles, quadruples, or incroases his feo ten-fold witbout fear of question outhe part of the jmporter. 'The first corrupt transaction made the broker a partner in fraud with the importer, and therepfter Lo divides with him the prof. Hts of the Joint crime. It s in this that the broker's inducement to fraud conslsts, In tho case of a fraudulent jmportation, the broker's feev are two, four, ten times what they wonld be in the case of anhonaest fwportation, Hence it Is that the wrmy of Custow-Houso brokers is the deadly enemy of the law and of its honest adwministration, and astanding menace to the integrity of the Cuitom-House clerks with whom it is brought in contact. How shall this army of rovenuo robbers ba got. ten ridof? They cannot be driven from the halls and passages of the Custom.House, as Cuzwr scourged and drove the money. changersfrom the Templeat Jerusalem, They are the legally-authorized ageuts of import- ers, The Secrotary of the Treasury caunot probibit such lawful employment, but he can organizo the Onstom-Houses of the country so that it will not only not be uecessary o employ brokers, but so that such employwont will be a badge of fraud upon the jmporter who employs one. And thia is precisely what he ought to do and can do by adding to the force st esch Custom- Houso & certain suficient number of clerks to ba ssuigued to the duty of making eutries for those fmporters who do not wish to make thoir own entries. A mcale of fess should be establishod sufoient in amonnt to cover the actusl cost of tho serviee, sud no more. This scale wonld be much lowor than the foes now charged by brokers for perfectly honest transagtions, And this lessening of the cost of making entries would at firat be sufficiont inducement fo every honest im- porter {o confide his business eutirely to the Custom.House authorities, Doabtless those bLrokers who were not Immediately driven from business by the loss of \lients would reduce their fees to the Government scale. DBut such reduction would not avail to rotain clients from among the clnss of honest importers. = Hence, as we have already said, the now system being once in succesaful operation, the employment of a broker thereafter wonld e a badga of frand. The Invoices of such importers would bs justly regarded with suspicion, and irested accordingly,~that fa to say, scrutinized rigidly. The present system of employing a corrupt go.betweon—the broker—being thus practically abollshed, the dishonest im- porter would bo compolled to do his own dirty work, If, to effectuate his corrupt: purposes, it became neccossary to buy an entry olork, he would hava to sneak into a corner grocery with him aud pay the price of orime out of bis own hand; nnd so of the de- bnuchment of an Examiner or an Assistant Appralser. We commend this proposed re. form to the careful consideration of the Soc. retary of the Treasury, believing that it would be a long stride toward a more pure administration of the Customs Service, INTERNATIONAL COINAGE REOULATIONS. In o recont letter (published in Tue Tnin- uNE), Mr, Hexnt Ceryuscn, the French finan- cial writer, in discussing tho restoration of tho silver coinage in the Unitod States, dis- cusses aleo that part of the Bilver law pro. posing an internationnl ngreement by which tho gold and ailver coins of France, England, and the United Btates shall havo correspond- ing or equivalent values, According to this plan, the British sovercign, the Amorican half-cagle, ond a French 25.frane piece, all gold, will be of equal value, and the common woight of fingness will ba that of the English sovereign, < The frano is tho unit of French monoy. Franco now coins a gold pieco of 20 francs, which is about equal to 33.86 in our gold coin, 'This it is proposed to onlarge to 25 france, worth $4.83 of our money. Tho Eu- glish pound or sovereign is worth 84.80}. The Freuch 25.frane plece will have to be incrensed in weight of gold to the extent of three ocents and one-half, whilo the weight of the American half- engle will have to be reduced nearly 8 per cont, or 13} conta ou ocach five dollars, Theso changos, which are vory slight, can be ensily made, and then the gold coinage of the threo vountriea would have equivalent values, and have that uniformity which would render them all equally current in the three nationa. Exchange would be greatly simplified,~£100 Eughish would ba equal to 830 American and 2,000 francs Frouch,—os the coln of ench country would have a readily undoratood valuo in tho othor countries,—the American eagle being equal to two pounds sterling, or 50 fraucs, and tho half-englo squal to ono pound, and the 25.frono pieco equal to ono pound sterling ond five American dollars or half-eagle, The change also includes the silver coin- ago. The present English shilling is svorth in our money 24} conta; the French franc is worth 19,8 conta, Our subsidiary silver colng—the Lalf-dollars, quarters, and dimos —correspond in value with the French coin- age. Our American silver dollar is worth four shillings and one and one-fourth peuco Eoglish, and five francs and 184 centimes Fronch; but two balf.dollars of the subsidi- ary silver aro equal to precisoly five franca Frouch, and to within s minute fraction of four shillings English, The plan of new coinago involves the colnage by Great Brit- ain of a four-shilling silver pieco which will be equivalont to the five-frano silver ploce of Franco and the Amorican dollar, such as is roprosented by two half-dollars of our- sub- sidiary silver. CznNuson: then insists that the American dollar be reduced to the weight aud value of two of our half-dollars of tha presont coinage. As the gold and silver coinage of Belgium, TItaly, Spuin, Switzerland, Groace, and Rou. mania aro jdentioal with those of France, theso countries wounld bo 1ncluded in the scope of the international colnage system of Frauce, Great Dritain, and the United Btates. The German mark varies but little from the English shilliug, being 1-560 greater, and, in time, so. far as the wilver colusge is con- cerned, could be roadily adapted to the silver colns of the other countrivs, The {nternational convoution asked by tho United States on this subject noeds to bo pressed strougly, in order to bring about any result. The Btates of the Latin Union, especlally France, will in all probability con. sent totroat on this subject. They want, bowever, a guneral couveution to fix the relative value of gold and silver jn all coun. tries at 16} of silver to 1 of guld, 'They wunt this established as woll in those coun. triew baving o gold standard as fu those whero silver and gold are both in use ; other. wise, they ussmwe, the counntrles of the world will all become monometalllsts, —some baving all gold aud the others all silver, The advantages of a counformity of values in tho coinage system of this country aud of the principal States of Europe can resdi. ly bo uudemstood. The eutablishment of colus having exact equivalonts in the coins of other conutriea would groatly fucilitate oll transaotions and exchanges, The tou. dollar gold plece of the United Btates would circulate freely in England as £2, andin France, Spain, Bwitzerland, Delgiuw, sud Italy ss 50 francs; and the winor gold coins of the Unitod Btates) as equivalents of the smallor colus of those countries, In all com. morcial tronsactions @3 would count as £1, or 26 fraucs, and o the minor exchanges the fefrano piece, the 4.shilliug piece, aud the Auwcrioan, Spanish, aud Mexican dollur would Le equivalents. Bilver ss well as gold iv au American product, sud its uso as movey Lus lately beeu swply disoussed and satisfactorily sot- tled. Tho United States canuot afford to Lave it discontivued, snd should devote {ho na- tional encrgy sud influonce in bringlog about an juternational agreement as to the relative volues of silver and gold. Ia the Usited States we uuderrate silver, giving sixtoen weights of silver to one weight of gold. Iu all the rest of the world fifteen and one-half weights of silvor are equal to oneof gold. The result will bo that other countries cannot colu silver ia competition with the United Btales, sud, unless we re- duce oor proportion of silyer to gold in the coin, other countries must discoutinue silver colning. The disuse of silver ss mouey 1must reduce the value of that metal and eu- bance that of gold and debts. It is to the luterest of the Unted States, thercfore, to conform the propartious of silvor and gold | @ood fn making reapportionments; but e in our cofunge to that of other coun- | tries, and to give A permanency of val- ue to the metal by making it of ilie samo money valuo in oll countrios, T}mn ita colnnge ean bo nnlimited, except by demand, and, once coined, it will offer no preminm for exporiation, becanse wheraver earrled it will be of no mora valuo a2 money in one place than it will be in all other places. The establishment of a com- mon standard for the proportion of silver to gold in coin will remove the last posaible ob- Joction to fres and unlimited coinage in this and all other countries. So long as we have a different atandard, silver will not be coined freely in other conntries, and the tendency will be to ship it to this country ; the gen. oral coinnge of silver will therefora be re- strictod and reduced. But when the silver coing of Europe and of the United States shall alike recognize the samo weight of sil. ver for a given weight in gold, then silver will be equally valuable in all countries, and oach nation can coiu at pleasure to any smount it may be desired or may be consid- erad noedful, — The Janesville Gazeite Intentlonally or igno- rantly misrepresents the position of Tus Trin- uxe when It savs, ** Tho scrvices, the ability,and the motives of the Wisconsln delegation In Congress recelve condemnation at the hands of ‘Tue Trincse," This charzo Is quite general, aswell as false, but we will angwer (t. The *abllity * and the “motives * of the Wisconsin delegation In Congress have never been **con- demned ** by Tig TRIGUNE, s e now remem- Ver, butsomo of the public ** services ' of several of thoso gentlemen have fallen under T Tripuse's censure. They are public men, and, when they act fu a public capacity, a publie Journal need not Leg the privitege of anybody to criticise thelr public performances. Thus we disappoved of Senstor Hows's ill-advised sveech abuelng President Ilaves and Scerctary 8cuunz, and In this we had the lively supoort of our sprnightly critlc of the Gazette. No mare did we approve of the *services' of “CHARLEY "' WILLIASS when hie publicly gave s approval of Howe's philipoie, though we did not asttempt any linpeachment of his * molives " fir his *ability” Next Tns TRivune gave toe flon, L. B. Cas- WELL & pretty thorough overbauling—first through an Interview by ita Washington corre- sponduut, with appropriate comments, and after- wards cditorlally—becauss of the “‘services’ rhich that gentleman had rendered Tox Scorr and his subsldy business as s member of the Committes on Rallroads, Afterwards our columus wera upened to Mr. Cawetr, for the best defense he could make of his course, and if ft was pot s good ono he cau apply to the Gazette and have a better one prepared for him, Lastly, Tun TRIBUNE, lu the exercise of that glorlous freedom of the press which f4 guaranteed to the humblest of us by the Constitutlon, did falrly seview oud tildly critleise the literaey * abll- ity " and pubife * services " of Senator ANous CaMERON, whose naino was found appended to av article on Civil-Scrvica ruform, and other political subjects, (n the current num- ber of the -North Amerwcan fievlew. In all that has been written and published in Tue TRISUNE concerning each and all of thess gentlemen, not a slnglo word has been set down fu wallee. And if our self-constituted meator atJanesville will be a litilo more specliie in Lis charges, the unswer that ho will et may prove niore sntisfactory to lim. The Gazette admits that “Tua TRiBUNE Is a good newspaper.” Our stelet regard for trath provents us frum return- fug the compliment. e —— With the spread of Soclallsin fn Germany a new class of pspers bave made thelr appear- ance, some for and soma against the Commune. ‘The Zukunft, of Berlin, and tho Neue Gesell- schaft, of Zurich, aro among thy journals that advoeato Soclnlsm, Dia Sociale Fraye devotes itself to opposing the soclal heresy; as do tho Staats Soclaliste, the Social-Correspondenz, and tho Arbeiter-Freund. The moin idea of the Zukunft, tho most rabld of all tho German Boclallst journals, is that tho State should as- sume the dircction of all industry, but with siugular Inconslstency It opposes the State con- trol of raoilroads. Tho Neue Gesellschart has been published six months, and has for 1ia object the cultivation of ‘*‘so- clal sclence. Ono of Mts principal editors ts Mr. Bcuaxrpie, who Is described by s French eritic as once an_exeellent Professor of Politicul Ecouonsy at Tublugen, thes a poor Miatster of Commerce at Vienns, nod now a transcendental Soclalist ut Btutigart. His favorite themo is that the Darwiutan * struggle for existence "' prevails ln Bumen suciety as well #8 among ¥rasses sud bugs. ‘e articles of the Soctal-Correspondenz, anti-SBoclallst, gre repro- duced by 217 Geroan periodieals. Thls paper and, the Arbelter-Freund, of Berlin, are publlshed by the **Bocicty for the Promotion of the Wel- farc of the Working Clasees." —— ‘The Nation distngeouously suys that “an un- exceptionable oltiver " was retoved to make way for Fackanm as Cousul at Liverpool. Whether the referenice isto ex-Gov, FAltciiLD, who was teausferred from Liverpuol to Parls ut au equal salary,or to'TonsgRT, who was removed fromthe nost of Consul at Parls, does not elearly appear, but (o elther case the statement {8 only ball true. Faireminp got a better place than he had betore, and Toruunt was reinoved because he had been too long abroud. “The objection to keeplug representatives of the iovernment ubroad louger thun eight years was stated by Jepeeitson, who renioved two of his pereoual friends, Immedi- ately on hieaceession tu office, because hy feared they had ceased to be in symvuthy with the American people. One of the oflicers "thus re- moved was for o number of yesrs bis own Scere. tary of Legation at Varls, und Wis teria of ultlco as such was counted agalnat bim |u reckoning his absence from the vountry, TORBENT hus been constantly abroad lu the seivice of the United States since 1809 § Brst aa Minfster to Salvador, then as Cousul-General st llanover, whene ho was trausferred to hla prosent posi- ton, 1t ought to be no hardship for him to come lumo sud dlscharge for a white the duties of an Amerdean ditizen, PR Mr. Braiws has now straddleds (1) The allver queatlon; (3) the Halifax-award questlon; (3) the timber-stealing queation; (4) the tari questions (5) the bankrupt repeal question; (¥) the Pactile Raltroad questiow, . Thers are several questions yet to hear frum, and we fuel authorized o say thut Mr, Brams will strad- dle them severslly ns they approach him. Jio s now tvugsged In weeting *questlons® In this manner; auid, uoless somo miskop befalls himy, hie whl clear the entire field of vronomics and politke Lefors harvest, This couducs s sup| to be prudent and statcemanlike in a Trestdential candidate. We feel, howaver, that it In Bt Just to she houorably Biate of Malue, which is entitled to bave two thinking aod votlug members uf the United Btates Seuate, Mr, Bcains ought tostop straddiivg and re- stzn for this yeason. No Seuutor has ever been tranaferred from his seat to the Preal- deucy. MoNuOM, JOUN QUINOY ADAMS, JACK- 80N, VaN Bukes, Hanuison, Tyieu, Piescs, Bucitanan, und Jounsun were Scuators before they were Presidents; but nunie of thew pasacd dircetly fraw the Benuto to the Walte Nouse. Mr. Bramms will ouly have rexard for an hou- orable precedent Ly leaying the Benute befure b secis to become Prestdent. ——————— ELsuipae Urkky, who had the misfortuna to bequeath his uame to the wost perniclous of Auwcricun political pructives, was a pure aud avle patriot. le was concerned In procurivg the redlstricting of hls Btute,—Blassschusetts, —but % wos always clafined by nim and bis fricuds thut thy new Wstricts wero natoral di- visious of territory apd poputstion. Fortunate- ly be did not live to s¢e gerrymanderQiz carried toau extreme, as it has oeen of years in verlous Westeru States. These Laa wiwage becu Wl now some pretense of regurd for the public this pretenso I8 thrown off by the Ohto l)em;‘. cratle Legislature, ‘That bo:dy has resolved ¢y redistrict the State, and It fs not clalmei thy the good of the publle, or au Increase of pupuia. tlon, or any other conslderation than n desteq by promote seltlsh party ende, has controlled thiy resolution. The plaln fntention Is to redistrice the Btate fn auch o manner that the Democratf, majority In the National Houee of Hepresenta. tives can Lo preserved, Speaker Raxbag, Feaxaxpo Woop, nnd several other Demozet. fc statesmen, are safd to have advised this coursa strongly. We sincerely hope the schemno wi be defeated, hoth because It contemplates o fraud on the people of Ohlo, and lLerause 1t le n demorallzinzz anectacle to the cltizena of other States. Tho State was divided Into dls- tricts six years ago, and a new divisian wiil take place after the next census, There (3 no publle demand for a division uow, 1f hg Democrats of Ohlo persist in their scan’alouy and corrupt intentions, they will ret a rehyke from the people that they will be hikely tore. member, ———— The New York Herald publishes a long list of wouden and Iron American steamers—old and new, mostly coasters—which it says can be pur. chused by any Power golng towar. The prefaca to the catalogue of steamers rups as follows: e publieh to-day & lst of 171 sicamors availa. ble for teangformation Into_armed Crulsers, which ean bought in this countey bY uny ons who has the money and will pay the Nearly oll of thero verseld are new, ahey vaty in elzo from 500 o 5,000 tons, They nre sianch ships, Luilt both for service and fot sperd, and aro just what 8 wanted by n nation that proposes to go to war and neede 8 ready-made navy tocat up its_enomy's commerclal Feaonrees, ‘These sulps con bo warranted to completely Ala. bamalze English commerce (f uroperly equipped and commanded by the right sort of men, Ritsas can biave them all §f abo planks down the cash st once, otherwise o portion will onbn‘)\y fall tuto the hiands of England, which Is also reported to bs on the lookont for good steamers for sale. 1t 1s re.. ported that the prices asked for ahlps hsve sud denly Increased vory groatly, and that biyers are llkely to Da deiven ta athec canntelea by tidls fally uf awners, tvho are llk:li to apoll thelr market through thelr greed, This swtden demand for Auserican steamsbips, 1F taken advantave of, migut ve an impetus 10 oo lhlnbnll(linz and make busle a To the Editor of The Tribune, Pircusrvitig, i, May 10.—~Will yon pleass anmwer the following quertions through Tne Twin. vxe: Can any of the United Btates bonds be now Faid with creenbacke withont repudiating the otig. na)_contra if g0, how many? (2) llow much money w here In circulntion’In the years 1505 and 18601 onrs, AL M. Huanies, (1) The currency 0 per cent bonds Issucd to the Pacifl: Raliroads are pagable, privclpal and futercat, fn greenbacks. They amount to §64,- 203,612, (2) The natlousl currency in clreulation 1n 1805, Including Intercst-bearing notes of the nature of bonds, was $093,018,800, and $603,- 870,825 In 1806, when somo of tho greenbacks and of the intcrest notes had been retired. In 1865 the National-Bank circulation was $171,. 321,000, ond in 1863 it was 8230,253,818, Adding the bank notes to the national notes, and it wiil bescen the volume of currency slightly in creased 1n 1800, ——— Tucidentally, the Loudon Times mentions o fact In its financla) columns that shows thy direction of German symupathics n the disbute botween England and Russin. It says that, In Berlin, enormous quantitics of Ruseian bonds, rouble notes, snd othier obligutions, have been sold, The Russtans have there found the mar. ket they coulil not find in London or Parls, The refusal of London and Tarls to buy the Ilussian eecuritivs, and the opposite action of Germany, reveals the drift of natfonnl sympa thies us uccurately as the favor with which Lon don duriug our Clvil War Jooked upun Conted ¢rate bonds, ——e——e— Mr. Trioxas A, Episoy, the phonograph-in ventor, writes to an acqualvtance fo Chicago follows: Mexto Panx, N. J., May 10, —Dzan Sin: The many letters that 1 have received on the snbject of sn apparatus for the deaf has couvinced me that the demand would ba enormous, So 1 have put 1wo of my most skiliful arsiatanis at work tesing lll{ fdean, 1 fec) sure that | wili produce a practis cal apparatus within aix mouths, e e—— “ Blehop McCoskny vs. W, F. Sroaxr, of the Chicago Times. Bult for livel. Caso con- tinued at request of delendant’s counscl for the rcason that his clicut s absent In Europe.” “That will be the brief record of the procecdings before sowe of our courts oue of theau flue mornings, ———— e Ex-Scuator Canrentan's editor In Milwaukes inust be writing by the yard. He wudes through two columos in MaT's persunal orgau to prave that “we bave uot a suspicion that he (Can- PENTER) would accept Seuator Uowsz's seat,” Aceept " ls go ’ —— ‘The trouble with tho whisky men fn Cinclu- natl s that they call Mberal gouging * liberal wauglug™ 1t they would guuge moro and gougs less, the Treasury would be *{u " fostead. of “‘out” about a millign of dollars. g I Mrs, TiLTOX keeps on makfug confessions, she will do well to adopt the Moryrrr bell- punch, or suine vthier method o keeplog acors reet record of them, - —— PERSONALS. Dr, Oarruthors has just completed the Gftieth yoar of bia edliorship of tho Inveroess, Scotland, Courter. ‘Wade Hawpton and Dan Voorheos will ate teud the snnnal rennlon of Hood's Texsn Brigade At Jiauston on the 10tk of July. Tho Charleston (8. O.) News anys that what lttle opposition thero was to the ronomina- tlva of Guy, Wade Jlampton bas died ont, and hie re-oluction {s as certalu oe s renomiaation. The Emperor William has sppointed M. Tlolzer, head of the Chapter of tho Cathedral of "T'reves, & lifo member of tha Prussian Senato, 1o Is the first Cathollc ecclestastic sdmlited to that body, Mr, Moody the otherday pralsed n fine farm near New Haven, whereupon one of the Evangellet's friends aud aduwlrers, 8 Connocticut gentleman named Trowbridgo, offored to buy it for him if bhe would live thero, Mr. Moody declincd the vffer Mux Muller's lectures are so popular with the Engilsh poople thut he fa ubliged to ropeat the courew bo 18 now delivering in tho Chapter-1louse, Westmiuster, lecturing i tho afternoons fortne bonedt of thoss whu conld not aud roow i 1b9 morningé. Capt, B A. 8, Hare, the commandor of the {li-fatca Burydice, aud a Christian, e witness & poom of hie on **Borrow on the Soa (trom Jeremlah, xlix,, 23), which has Just boen un- carthed from & friend's album sud pubdliebod in tho Engliah pavers, . Joln Dubert was found desd in his bod at Constable flook, N, J., last week, hls death boing caused by cougeation of tha braln, superin- duced by excesslye drinking. An fnsimate fricnd teatlficd that fn tne twoaly-sovon years of their acquaintance ho had nover scen Dubort sobur, Bishop William Btevens Perry, of Iows, though oaly In middle age, has already lasued fort three volumes, elther odited by hitnaal( ar orizina works, (listory ta bie favorite fuld, and uomau Liua done 60 much us he to gather miteriale fors full sad accurate biustory of the Episcopul Chureh in Americs. Blawarck, when Lo spoke of o war be. tween England and Runis as o war betwova hurers and fishos, had in Wis mind, without & doubt, Pleftel's fable 1n shywe of **Tuo Livn aad tho Whale," which undartovk ‘to declde la ono geeat encounter the lordship of the whale world, Loth advauced to the encounter furions with rave, vut the wiale found be couldu't go on dey laud, Mo his couroge, the lon wouldn't g0 onsuquuatly their warfure was con- gned to yiariug at each otber snd oxchauging tSunte aud challcogea. It iu doubtful Low Morrissey's estate will turaout, Iils confidentls) agent o will foel wore than eatlelcd 3t It pays the dead wan's debts and the legacies tu his siaters, the property belug valusble 10 & man while alive, but agificali to cavltalizo 40 as 10 ylold # pruflt to the Lelry. Oa tbe uther band, tuy dcad mau's friends who Agure awnong bis crediturs eay that ho uwed them uoth- jug whatever, Blrd. Morrissoy possesscs §2: 000 wisde over to her years 8g0, with which she will rewaln content, upless lhere 1 & clear susyles aficr paylog thw debts snd lefacica.