Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1878, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WED frightful respon ly in imposing these manifold and enduring injuries wpon the conntry fn order to seck a doubtful partisan advantage of n tomporary charactor. If tho robos of the Democracy wore of virgin white, thero might be some excuse for making n public exhibit of the political virtus which shudders at the very suggestion of fraud, and for endeavoring to mako it odions by plan rpshed through. The only hope of proventing tho ngitation and excitement nttendant upon the wholosale attack on the President's title which the Domocrats evi- dently intend is, that n few of their number may, whon the pinch comes, refuso to abide by the nction of the cancus, and join the Republicans in putting a stop to tho danger- ons rovolulionary machinations of the Tir- counter evidenco he can procure, The Aud itor is to report the awards to the nest Gen- eral Assembly, The tejection of n claim is to be conclusive ngainst the partiea- unless the Commission otherwise directs, and **iho jurisdiction conferred upon the Commission shall be and ia Lereby declared to bo ex. clusive.” Under this Inw thero ind been filed np to ault Collector Suitn, of thia city, to n degree whizh imluced that gentlemnn to gond in hia resignation, Of courso Mr. Swurrn's resignn. tion was not nccopted. Of course Mr. Jaues was roprimanded; but he onght to hiavo beon removed for this and tho other offenses and delinquoncies named. The po- sition of Beorotary Suxmuax with re. gnrd to Jamzs has undonbtedly beon n whero from 2,000 to 25,000 troops in any Btate, on demand of Stalo anthorities, on twonty.four hours' notice, the Communiat agitations would subsido into insignificance, It would not Lo necossary to sirike a blow ogainst thom. Tho army should be in. crensed to moot poasibla demands of this kind. ‘Theroshould bo men onough to gare rison the forts, protect the fronticrs, fight — fund and working capital, and force ft toaly chare workmen for want of capital to empjy then. This would be helping the talor| ! classes with & vengeance. But \vlmlluheu., of building levees anghow? Al that Is needey Istotanthe Mississippl River o few miles b, low New Orleans, by opening the preseny em. bankment, and letting the BUPPINS, Overfloy watef run off Into Lake Borgne. The riyer 0 Migh water can thus be lowered alr tho way g, Thye Tribwwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIFFION. DEN managoers. exposure. But the Democrncy is the histor- | the last day allowed, My 13, nomething like | very dolicate one. Jaazs has powerfal | the Indians and Bloxfeans, and put duwn | to Memphls, and the “ten milllions * £y Teseny e S feal party of 'fraud fu this country. An far | sixty claims, asking about $2,760,000, ex- | friends among the importing swindlers, | the Commnnist Mmurcections besides, | b saved. But ten times ten milllans wag, el The Wshington dispatches Lavo atated back as 1844 the Btato'of New York was | clnsivo of interest. One.alf of thesaclaims f and they have importuncd the Soore. That is why we said, Increaso the army fo | Ot restrain the river-foods by embankmenty, that Burren, of Mnssachusetts, and Forr, of Hllinols, wero the only Republicans who voted with the Democrats in favor of Por- TEN's resolutions for an Investigation. Bur. LEN'S vote wns expected, bocanss it s gen- erally believed that ho hna been associated with Covxriva in seouring the cheap *“ con- fossions " which have nfforded the protext for investigation. Iis significant roforence to ‘“impoachment " daring the course of debato rovenled his hopeand that of the Republican malcontents whom ho represents. But thero hns beon no' resson to sus. pect Mr. Fonr of any connsction or sympathy with the Coxseing faction, and it is not likely that his vote is to b explained on that ground, It may be that he thought a Republicnn votein favor of the Doocratic resolution would secure oqual fairness on the Democratic sido in widening the investiga. tion sos to include a roview of the Oregon aud Mississippi frands; if so, he sadly over. catimated the Democratic notion of fairness. It may bo that ho is of tho opinion that any investigation will damage the Democrats more {han the Repnblicans, which 18 not an irrational view of the case. At all events, he should state his roasons for hia own sake, and to satisfy his friends, Srecimen 3 Give l'oat-tl.ce address In tull, Inelnding State and Conntr, Jentitrances mayho made either by draft, exoress, Fort-Utiice order, or In regiatered letters, ar onr risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS, Taily, delivered, Gunday excepted, 25 centa per week. 1 rty, detfvered, Eunday {ncluded, 50 cents pee week. Aluiess THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Lurner Madison ned Dearborn-sts., Chicago. 1l Ordere for the deliveryof Tux TANGAE at Kvanstan, Frigicwood, snd liyde Park left In the counting-room W ulirecelve promiot steention TRIBUNE B, What is wanted *'Tho family ¥’ Is now agitated by th " fear that MArr’CAnw.xna could t{e !ffi:;r'!‘é,d":: accent Senator [ows's seat, which will €xplan thy motives of Titr Trinune. — Mtater Aurphey, 1t Matrcould not be persuaded 1o aceept Scnator tHows's scat, nerhaps Mister Munengy might be induced to take it, It Proper presyury were brought to bear upon him, carried for Jamza K. Porx by the notorions frauds committed undor the auspices of the **Bubtorranesus.” It was in the same cam- paign that tho Democrats inangurated the corruption of the ballot-box in Lonisiana by the Plaquomino frands which gave the State to Porx. Tho State of Now York was again carried by Traud for Sxystoun in 1868 ; and, had the issus of the election depended on the Eleotoral vote of that State, Gnant would have lost the Prosidency on account of such frauds. Theso frands were abnn. dantly proved up in the Litrvesons investi- gation. It wasshown that the Tween Judges issued nattiralization papors to thonsands of newly.arrived immigranta who were not entitled to them; that othor thomsands of frandulent votes wera cast under the names of dead men; that names of Repub. licans were used by repeators to cast Democratic ballots, and thoe renl votors wore challenged when thoy presented them. solves on the ground that they had already voted; and that Tammany held back ballot- boxes till it could be ascertained how many mors frandulent votes were necessary in ordor to mako sure of carrying the State, It is tho party responsiblo for these, and similar brazon and wholesale frauds through. out tho country, that now sceks an ndvan. tage at the nation's cost by alleging frauds against thoir successful opponents, ‘[hie proposed investigation is to ba entire. ly ez.parte. Though Mr. Porrer declared the purpose of his resolutions to achieve n full exposure of tho frauds committed during tho Iate Presidential election, ho refused, and the solid Dewmocratic majority refusad, toad. mit Mr. Hare's amondment, which would widen the scope of the investigation o ns to include the Democratic s well as the Repub. lican frauds in Florida and Louisians, and also add Mississippi and Oregon to the fold of inquiry. The refusal to extend the inves. tigation as demanded by the Ropublicans is tautamount to a confession that the inquiry will be partial and prejudicial. The Demo. cratic managors must lLave a yoor opin- ion of the intelligence of the Amer. ican people if thoy think that so bald o decoption cnn pass for genuine soarch for truth, Even if the Republicans shiall auccoed in shaming or filibustering the Domocratio majority into acquiescing in a general and comprohensive investigation, there will bo littlo hopo for a fair aud fmpar. tial inquiry, The Democrats will have a majority of the Committes, composod of such men ns Porres, Sramvarn, Tucker, Houytox, ete., while the Ropublicans will have to contont themsclvos with BurLes, who isin full sympathy with the Domocrats, and others whom tho Democratio Speaker will galect with special reforence to thelr ina- bility to battle against Democratic chicanery. Taken altogather, this Democratic offort to reopen tho Presidential controversy for the avowed purpose of gaining a party advantage ia the most treacherons and dangorous step the Democrats have taken sinco they sought to destroy the Unlon by sccession and rebollion. grow ont of the contracts for consirucling the canal, and dato back to 1836, 1837, and 1818, For forly years they have been wait- iug for a Legislaturo like that of 1877 to pass Just such a law whoreby thoy may get o quasi indorsoment of their claims. All the contractors who have been building asylums, and hospitals, and colleges for the Stata during the Iaat twenty years have thoir claiins for extras, and the demand for dam- nges from the owners of low lands along the Tllinois River, becanse of the dams at Honry and Copporas Craok, will, whon nll recsived, Lo equal to a new interaal-improvemont debt greater than that of 1837, At tho next meeting of tho Commisslon, in August, 1880, the claims, in afl probability, will reach aix millions, nAd in due time will roach twenty millions of dollnrs, and the Lord only knows ‘whero they will stop, The Iaw went into foree in July, 1877, and the claimnats havo bad ten months in whick to maunnfacture evidence, depositions, and papers, all taken er-parte, and thon with this mass of papers, covering sixty claims, ex- tending back some of them forty years, the Altorney-Goneral is limited to ninety days to make answer, oxamiine the claims and ovi. donce, find witnesses, and tako counter dopositions in all parts of the State, The Inw does not permit delays or extonsions of timo in behalf of the State, becauso it ig provided that the Commission **shall con. tinue their session until the: businesa boforo them shall be disposed of.” We Leliova that thoe bill as originally intro. duced provided that the awards of the Com- misslon should bo paid from tho Tressury, and that such was the bill as it first passed the Honso. Inits presont form, however, it does not so emast; tho findings of tho Commission when thoy make an award are to Lo presonted to the Legislature nt its next sesslon, aud that body will be * lobbied” to make an appropriation. to pay theso awards. There is no law compelling the Logisinture to mnke those approprintions, nor will the award of tho Comuission carry auy legal obligation upon the Legislaturo to vota tho monoy ; but the award is intended to furnish a cover or protext for mombers under which thoy can vole an approprintion which they would not dara to do under any other circamstances. ‘This legislation was extramely ill-adrised, a3 well as corruptin itsinception and purpose, The provision that whon the Commission shall rejoct a claim that shall be final, is absurd. A man cannot be prolibited from moking o claim. A claim {s not a legal demand; it is a mere appeal to the discrelion of tha Btato—to stop outside and beyond tho law, aud to give to the claimant that to which ho has no lawful right or demand. This law, therefore, opens the door of the State's chinrity wido onough to admit of claims from the romotest days; it romoves all law and judicll detorminations; it authorizes throe gentlemon o Lear cascs of supposed hardship, of bad bargaing, of un- fortunato speculations, of the bad faith of partners, and of dishonest and faithloss superiors and subordinates, The Commis. slonors are to hoar cases which have no legal standing, or merit, or support, and sitting ns kind and gonorous men, ¢ good fellows," foeling kindly townrd all jobbers, and having soft spots iu their hearts for the misfortunes or bad fortuues of others, to certify to the Legislatura that the State js rich aud theso speoulators poor; that, aa the members are not asked to give away any of tholr own money, but to vote away other people's money, therefora it would be n generous aud liboral act to vote 31,000,000 o make theso claimants and thelr Iobby- lawyers bappy. ‘This is what fs expacted of a Commission appolnted to hear claims outaido of the law, and the Legistature isex- pocted to vote all the awards. It will ro. quireonly o few yoars under this law to havo o list of claims agninst the Stato that will rival that of the Coufederates of Afis- souri ngninst the United Stats. Tho next Legislature should begin their scssion by re. pealing tho abominablo law creating this Commission on bogus cnims, rm——— JAMES TO BE REORGANIZED OUT. On tho 2d inst. Tus TniuNe called atten. tion to the inefficiency and frrespounsibility of the Customs Division of the Treasury Do- partment, and urged upon the Bocrotary the importanco of its roorganization, We showed that that division is o headless concorn, pro- elded over by a mere clork so absolutoly witL. out authority that he may not sign the least important document emauating from his di. vision of the Department. It meoms that Becrotary Smeraax is about to not in accord. ance with the plan suggested by Tne Tamn. use, He proposes to oreato a Bureau of Customs to which all questions affooting the nwdus-operandi of nssesaing aud vollectiug the customs revenue will basubmitted, Tho Becretary of the Treasury has ample powor to effoct thls reorganization, Tho authority 13 contained in Sec. 24 of the Ravisod Btat. utes, Chapler 2, title, *The Bucretary of the, Treasury,” ns follows s The Secretary of tho Treasury shall direct tha seperiutendence of the collection of the duties on 1mports sud fonnage as As shatl judge beet, A dispotoh states that Mr, I, B, Jaxes s intriguing to be appointed Chiof of the pro- posed Bureau,—that is to say, intriguing to retain the coutrol, which ho at prosant Lolds, of the collection of customs revenuss, Un. doubtedly one of the objects of tho reorgan. ization is to get rid of this nulsance without kicking Liim out of the servics, Oue of the most to be deplored featurvs of the adminis. tration of public affairs on the part of bigh oflicials in this country is that of moarbid solicitude for tho feelings of wubordinates, There is au Indisposition to promptly rewove worthloss subordinates whoso incfiiclency has been abundantly proven; aud, worss, an_indisposition to press for the pusishment of ofticials of all grades found guilty of actual crimes. Mr, Jaues was onca rewmoved from tho position be at presont holds on the charge of having willfully do- ceived his chief, the Becrotary of tho ‘Treas. ury, But under a succoeding Hecrotary Lo orept back fnto place, Recently he had the impudence to possess himself of tho private personal correspondence of Bocretary Suen. MaxN, andthe audacity to publish it far and tary, in his behalf, fn meason and ont of sonson. No doubt thess {mportunitios have contributed to hasten tho reorgnniza. tion proposed. Through the reorganization tha Becrotary can get rid of James without positively ndvertising him as inefoiont, {¢ not corrnpt, ‘Wo do not see that tho roorganization of the Cnstoms Division necessarily hns any di. rect connection with the proposition to dis. ponse with tho services of Cuastom-House brokers. It is, howaver, perfectly practica. ble to accomplish this objeot, and it is a con- summntion dovontly to bo wished. Wo have discussed that subjeot in a previous issue. — THE ARMY AB INTER-STATE POLICE. Mr. Jonx M. Patsen—formorly Governor of Illinois, but now editor of a Demooratio newspapor at Springfield—has been greatly disturbed by Tnz Trouse's proposition to incrense the army by 25,000 men. It is not tho number of men that distresses him 80 much ns the suggested intorvention of them to protect tho property of a Btate or city againat Communist attacks. Wearo not surprisad that Mr. Pazsen should protest ngainst the nse of troops for any parpose whatever. Wa remomber that he made similnr protost after tho Ghicago fire, whon tho United Btates troops nsaisted the citizens in patrolling tho streots. He has had the Stato-Soveroiguty mania ever since; and, thongh it is highly inconsistent for him to hold opinions hore which bLe fought to sup- press in tho Soutl, we know that, na n con- vert to Domacratic principles, ko long since outstripped his teachers in advocating ex- tremo doctrines. Mr, Pazuen's mind will be relieved and restored to a healthy condition if ha will re. floct-upon a fow plain “coustitutional prin- ciples, First, ho onght to remember that the National Government is not a foreign power. o scems to be laboring undora grave misconcoption in this respect. He seems to think that the Government at ‘Washington represents an alion population ; that it is supported by the taxes of a people hostile or indifferent to American jutor ests, and owos ita first duty to that other people. We assure him that this is not tho cnse. The National Government, roughly speaking, is supporied by the people of all the Btates in proportion to populntion. It belongs to them., It wag ostablished by them “to insure domestio tranguillity, provide for ths common de. fenso, promote the general welfare, and go- cure the blessings of liberty " among the States, When it neglects any of theso duties it fails to accomplish the purpose for which it waa establishied. It keeps an armysimply to carry out theso fundamontal ideas in practico. Secondly, BMr, Joun M, Paruen noods to bo reminded that United States troops cannot put thofr foob on tho soil of Tlinola for Btate purposes without a requlsition from tho Leglslature, or from the Govornor when tho Logislaturoe Is not in sessfon, Thoro isno proposition within or without the State that troops shall bo called in excopt in tho con- stitutional manner. Wo cannot conceive, theroforo, why Mr, Paryen should feel o badly about it. Boing a stickler for consti. tutional principles, and knowing that the Presidont will striotly obsorve tho constitu. tional provisions, Lo ought to bo glad, rather than sorry, to ses one of the soldom.used clauses of that boneficent instrament in act ive operation. Can it be possible that ho, able lnwyor thdt he is, kms failed to perceivo the difference betweon the prosent circum. stances and those which he had to meet after tho Chicngo fira? Tha troops were ot work then with. out o requisition from the Governor, thinking it no crime ngainst the Constitution or the lawa of the naotion or humanity to ongnge in acts of aid and comfort at such a timo; but Mr, Parmen will ses that thoy do not propeso to ongage in similar benovolent aulerprises in the future without observing all tho formalities presentod by law. Thirdly, Mr. PaLmen ought to be in- formod that, when a requisition has been made on tho President’for troops, in the mauner proscribed by the Constitution, ho hoano discrotion to reject it, Art. 4, Bec, IV, of tho Conatitution reads as follows : fire, 4. The United States shall gusrantes to every Btato m this Unlon s republican form of guvetnment: and aball protact each of them againetinvasion; and, on application of the Legts- latnzo ar of tho Kxecutive (when the Legialat cannot bo convened), ngalnst domestle vivlence. This {s very explicit. 'The language in ‘“tha Unitod States ahalt™ protect each of tho Btatos agalust domestic violence, The promise of such protection was ono of tho inducements to the original States to cons sent to tho Unlon. The United States are os much bound to preserva it ns the Statea aro to pay taxes for the support of the Gon. eral Government, The Prosldont who should refuso to recognize and fulfill this obligation, when properly called npon to do so, would ba lable to impeachiment, The intimation of Mr. Jouw B, Patuen, that the Presldent would bo encroaching upon State liberties in soifiling troops, under constitntional requisi- tion; to protect those liberties, is illogicat and nbsurd, Wa regard tho army aa n police maintained by tho people of tho Stalea for their common protection, Wa will consent to call this body of armoed snd dlscip- lived men a National Police, or an Intor-State Police, or any other kind of & polico that Mr, Parmres aud his qualmish Lrionds will be satisfied with, Tt js po wmore divgracoful for tho citizeus of a Stats to call in tho inter-State police for their protection than it is for them to confide the ordinary dutics of arrcsting murdorers, thieves, and other evil-docrs to 8 local police or aBherifl's posse, Police are maiutained because it fs mora convenient aud ecouomical to hire cortain men for theso uties than for oach ocitizen to dlscharge {hem for Limself. On the same principle, it is casior for the States to support an inter- Btate police, to bo used in an emergency by auy of them, than for each to masintaln a soparate standing army. The advantages of an foter-State police are : That it is adapted for service In auy part of the Unlon, aud costs Do wmoro for all thoe Statos than for one; that it is ready armed and disciplined; oand that 0,000 mon. We want regular troops not merely for ordinary armny duties, but na s nnclena for tho citizens to fight around in caso Communist outbreaks should oceur in soveral Blates at the saine time, and as an sssuranco that whon thoe focal militin frator. nizo with noters, as tho Piltsburg militin did, thoro will bo othor and Lettor men to tako their places, In such emergencies it fg 1o more subversivo of popular libortics for tho Govornor to call on the Presidont for troops than to make a requisition on him for arms; and Mr. Pavugs, or auy State. Hovorolgnly apostlo, who says it s, ouly shows that ho lina falled to study the Consti- tution which ho has undertaken to expound and uphold. — The County Commissionera liave rosolved that the City of Olicago is notof Cook Coun- ty, aud that the county shonld dispossess the city from any occupaney of the Puablie Bquare. The County Bonrd, therefora, pro- poses to buy ont the claim of the city., Who is to pay the city? ‘The oight Commission. ers do not proposs to foot the bill them. selves; any oxponditurs for that purpose must bo paid for by taxation of the clty. Cook County, with the Gity of Chicago left ont, wonld ba a vory small corporation. ‘Tho troublo is, the city proposes to build the City-1Inll At n cost of from $800,000 to 81,000,000 les than tho cost of tha conuty half of the building. Thisisa crimo in the oyes of tho County Board. It is, in the first place, o great saving; in the second place, it ia of itself an exposure of tho corruption and dishonosty in the contracts and expendi- tures of tho County Ring, and it will be n standing rebuketo any attempt to increaso the cost of the County Building, For these rensons the Oommlssioners propose to exclude the city altogothor from the Publio Bquare, Tho ndoption of the Bedford stono by the city iaa porsonal ‘misfortuno to the Commissioners, When they let the contract for tho Lomont stoue for tho County Build- ing, it wnn intonded to compel the city to use tha snma stono, and the coutraotor acted upon that expoctation in hix dealings with the Commissionors. The sotion of the ity lins, however, doatroyed all these littla ar- rangements, Tho trouble with the Commis- sioners is not about the color of the stono, but as to the man who sball furnish it. The Bodford stone contractor Is not within the control of tho Commissioners, and under no obligation to * whack up " or pay them any. thing. e ——— The Hon, Titosas 1lore, ex-Mayor of Chi- €ago, and ono of the leading Damocrats of the Btate, has addressca a letter to ex-Gov, Joux ' M. PAtyEn, fndorsing the position of tho latter in his voudemnation of the ‘‘flag” money lunacy Incorporated Into the Democratle State creed, known as the “Goupr stultification platform.”” We make the following uxtract from Mr. Hox~g's letter: Citivaco, May 10, 1 —The 2on, Jonn A, Laimer, Sprinafleld, 1.3y DEan Govenson: 1 havo been greatly pleased tolearn that vou refase 1o indorse, even by your silence, tho ‘*new de- partars ™ of tho lata Demacratic Convention, which for tho Gret tine in our history affirine a power fn Congrees to make papor eredit of the Government 8 leyal-tender in payment of public and privato debts, After s lifa-timo of scrvice in tho Demoe cratic ranks, I had subposod that If thero was one more cardinal point In our Domocratic croed than anatber, it wan that Cangrous, under the Constitue tlon, conld excreiss no puwar not oxpressly qrantod by that Instrament. DBt this power. waich has been made 80 often a subject of palitical contro. versy, so often disclabmed by us, and, on account 0 Often ‘scified by so many anien, against the claim that n the Governments I had sup. Iandmark of laentity that no emocrat could mistako or fail of its recognition, oxcant undor the penalty of falling himsolt outslas tho well-defincd pale of tno Democratic brothors bood, During overy Adminisiration of the Demo- cratle wr:{ In the past, aince the founda. tlon of the (iovernment, the'wollcy and wisaom of this ductrine have been vindlcatod, The Admin(s- tratlon of AKDUEW JACKsoX I3 nuecllll‘ luatri. ousin American history, because of the war of extermination he waged ugon tie Unlted Ktatos Bank, Tho eloquence of his ofiiclal utternnces are prophetic warninge sgainst the aanger of trans. forring to any Uovernuicnt agency the exerelse of auch & power over the fortunca of the people an that of contracting or expanding at Pleusure the oarruncy or monoy standard of tho country, b; which the rise and fall uf the prices of sllves ang all_commodities -arc regulated. It would be in etfoct, as the statesmon of that day deciared, plac- ine under tho control of such an anency tho per. sonal fortune of avory Individual citizen, For If #uch an agency can at any momont ralse the urices of all articlea and than depress inem, what is it 1n affect but to place the values of alf proparty. as well as labor, onder the control of a Gorernment #lock-board of Orokers! In which chance, caprice, or money greed would control the markets, and fortunes would bo made or toat, s the mdividunls governing tho stock-board clique might detarmine; and in susie coses, the saniw ns (liustrated dunng tha existence of tha Unitod States Bank in 1817, the wlola country would suffer universal bank- rimkcy uf the commorcial and wanufacturing classes, ort-cut outlets to the sea, Mister Munriey savs that ho has “ ncoopeq ‘Tug TRIBUNE on basc-ball reports ™ in Ljs Sene tinel. Itis the only thing, except Iying Dlag, Ruardism, in which Munrnzr’s Senfiuer ever *‘scooped ! any nowspaper, A base-ball Feporg engrosses and exhausts the Intelleetual e sources of that concern. — FrrzoEraLD, the professional reformer, pyy carrled through his little scheme to create thy office of County Plumber. Frrz'a “reformt has taken the shape of multiplying officenold. ers and tas-caters, As a Celt would 8ay: “Tpy divil fiy away wid sich reform, ——— 11 OFFICES. blished branch offices nd advertisements as Tiz Cnicaao TRInCax bay ferthe receiptof sebmerlutl fullons: NEW YORK ~Roam 20 Zvidune Dullding. F. T. Moo o Manager, X, France—No, 10 Ttne da ta Grange-Datellere, Agent Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. Agent. MeVicker's Thentre, Modiron etreet, beiween Dearcorn and State, ** After Dark.* Afternoon and evening. The old Mitwaukeo law-firtn of CAnreNteg § Monrnzris so far dissolved that Marr hag gone to Washington to ply his vocation, whily Munrtter stays at homo to defend his fame In the columns of their jolnt concern, the Senting, ———————— 1laoley®s Thentre. Tandoirh street, hetwosn Clark and LaSalle. iarrigan and Mart's Grand Comblnatlon. Afternoon and evening. Citanter Rexn woald makoa lively Cangress. man from the South Side, but he won't Tun, - Journal, . Buppose the people say that Le shatl, what 1y CroAnLEY going to do about ft1 —————— PERSONALS., Gen. Bristow's name is suggested by a Re. publican paper In Kontucky aa the party candidate for Governor of the Btate. The Xtev. Mark Btaple and wifo cele. Drated their golden weddingat New Canasn, Cann,, recently, Of tho largo party presentat the otlge inal ceremony, only two—ons a brothor, the Other 2 nephew of the bride—witnessed the goldeq event, An exchange sadly romarks that, during all his investigations at Myccnae, Dr, Schilemany hias not dlscovered a singlo cuspadore, and it jy disheartening to a lover of the classlcs to think of Agamemnon wandoring distractedly about tis pale ace with & cigar in his fingers, looking for a house. plant or a coal-scuttlo, A Democratio momber of the Kentucky Leglalatura ssserted 1n a speech In that body og the Gth fnet, that **no carpet-bag, scalawag Goy. ernment of the Radical-curscd, down-troddea States of the forsaken South was ever aubject to auch legnllzed robbery as has been Dorpetrated by Leghalatnzes compored of hign-tancd Kentucky gentlemen, " A corrospondent of tho Galveston (Tex.) Neiws reporta that Mr. Throckmorton s an unirille g candldate for the Democratie nomination for Governor of tho State, and consents to run only at e urgency of party managers, who, as ls alleged, apprehend & grand bolt on the part of the largs Northern element in the northern section of tne Stato, unless a departure s had from the custom of making nominationa from what they call the **Confederate bloody-anict ahakers, Tho Boston Journal's ‘Washington corrg. spondent recalla that at s night session in Cone gress away back in 1830 & membor called Henry + Wika 1o order, saying: **Though the gentle. man from Virginia is a bully, he shall not bally me.” **T bully that gentleman!” exclalmed w *I would as soon think of ballylng a fy." aro n scoundrel, sir," retorted Bynum, “‘Yousrea scal and aa lmportinent puppy " screamed \ise, and they made for each other, Other niembers got betwoen them, and in balf an bour tha belligeronts had shaken hands, Tho lnst of the Van Renssolaers has just died at Now York, Alexander, son of the Youoz Patroon, Stephen, and grandson of the Ol Patroon. Btephen wus the cldest of the Old Tatroon's fivo sons, and had as his pateimony ‘‘lands on the ludson extending twenty miles south of Albany and twventy miles cast and west of tho Hudson River.” The land foried the major part of the Van Rensseiner patent, which was the first grant of real estata given after the cesslon of New York to Great Dritatn, Novortholess, all the Patroons' male descendants died poor, Thers wna a livoly oxchange of compli- monts In the Ilouse the othet day betweena pale of Panneylvania Congressmen, Judee Kelley and Mr. O'Netll. The latte, rted the circus by call ing the Judge an ** egotlat." Tho Judga fired back the word ** blatherskite," and then It went on in about this fashion, O'Nellt loading off and the Judge following: You misropresent your cons sticuontal” sald O'Nelll. ** Whan 1 becume your dog Il wonr a collar!" rejoined Kelley, *'1 wouldn't M such 8 uuppy as you are," said on ever speak Lo ma again I'll alap "' replied the Judge. ** You may go to t's where you may go to," rejoined . At 1 siphurous potut friends fnter- fored, and no blood was loosed, A Gourd Club hns been established in Now York with some 200 members. The member who prodacea the biggest yourd of hls own plant- ing takes the Prestdency. Jerry Thomas, o sse loon-keeper, obtains oflice this year with a gourd thirty Inches long and shaped like an Indlan chud; otner officials qualifed by showing snake-gourds of great length and slendcrness; carnuted gaurds liko donble-barrelod boomerange, gourds with leapard-spots, and shsped like French luaves, and gourds rcaembling a yoger's bunting-lorn, A throne-chair composed cntirsly of gourda hias been designed, and wiil be complotad as soon ss tha gourds have been selacted aud matched. The legs will be formed of **Hercalca clube," with carsed backs and arms, made of trained snake-gourds, and ornsmontal beadings of small gourds of the lemon, apple, and pear shopes. A figure of Atlas I8 also belng constructed, the world resting on his sboulders belng represented by an enormous pumpkin-gourd, A Boston correspondent takes the troubls tadeny that all the solld menof Dostan, Includ. 1ng Lougfellaw, Gov. Rico, Presldent Eliot, and the Rev, Phillips Brooke, bave gone, or sre sbout to gu, over to tho Roman Catholic Chuich, Gov. Rice is an Episcopallun, & member of & very Low- Churcli ucongregation, and tho rumor In bis care may bo sttribated (o hls regular ndauce at sit recent Catholic coremontals of an unususl charace ter, —uothing extraordinary In & Governor, Longe fellow is » Unltarian, and doclares that he has oo Intcation of going over; reports sccrediting him with auch an inteation ha ascribed to carelens gos- sluers wha bad mized bim up with Thomas W, Varsous, the transiator of Daute, & co-worker wita the author of ** Evangoline," As for tue others, the Cstholic clorgyman, Father Fulton, sald 10 buveo announced thele near prosclytism, declares publicly that thero §s nothing wlatever in the rumor, Nevertheless, the Rowan Cathollcs have made great progress {n the Day State, and notably in Boston, whers many of thelr cleruynicn a1 Bostonisas of high family and cultare, Pope Leo occuples his predecessor’a apart. meaots at the Vatican, but has changed their order. ¥rom the outer chambers a door {eads ta tne sl of Noble GGuards, the only furniture of which |38 wardrobe, with wooden chalrs. Nextlsthe tbrope-room, where on Fridays In Lent his I uess Lears scrmona delivered by special pro Ou tha right of the throne, 1n & corner, 18 wouden confessional, To this the Pops enters by & dour fn the wall of the asdjoining roow, sothat he is not sccn by tho preacher, who stands 81 tho foot of sleps ng to the throne, n; by Cardials, who ted on two rows 0 y apprised of his presence, hn:- ever, by the rustls in tbe confessiona). and, rlsins, bow profoundly towards 1t. The ncxt room I.- the ante-chamber of bonor, bung wita red sstin; be- yond it Is the sudlence-rooin, wiih red and "m: bangloge, eatin-covered stools, ands bum'm ln. Awo wardrobes, Beyond this is Leo XIIl.'s diu: Ilnveriv'a Vhentre, . Monroe sireet, ratner of Drarhorn, 3fitchell’s Bpe. ctalty and Hallet Troupe. _Afternoon and evening. That solid old Roman, Senator Ebaruxns, of Vermont, who nover lots an opportunity slip to oxposo a steal or unearth a fraud, got in a stunning blow at the subsidies yester- day, whichdemoralized the army of lobbyists wailing with breathless susponso in the onterooms of the Honato to learn the fale of their pot project,— tho proposed nppropriation fn aid of a steawship line betwuen certain ports in the United States and Brazil, Mr. Eouuwps, with tho incisive language which he is apt to use in discussivg such schemes, exposed the ‘wenknoss of these subsidy jobs, and espacial. Iy tho one under consideration, which has boen clonrly domonstrated to be one of the most barefaced attempts ever made to filch a goodly sum from the National Treasury, The result was that the Senate by a decisive vote uipped the bold attempt {n the bud, and sorraw now reigns whoro yesterdny high hopes provailed. Whether these subsidy men will, like Mr. Pickwick, refuso to put up with being thus summarily put down is not 8 jquestion of much doubt, Of course they will pick their flints and try ngain ; bat the natural inferonco to be drawn from the Sen. ate's action yesterday would ba that the swarm of grabbers will bave a hard timo to convince the Upper Houso of Congress that the success of thoir schemes is necessary to tho national welfare. ABOLLO COMMANDERY, XO. 1, K. T.—Arylam, %2 Monro Special coaclave of this Weagesiay £ A glock. - lio Urder ot the Temp eried, Vinltors welcome, Iy order of i r. Jo 16 DUNLOP, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1878, _—— Greenbacks ot tho New York Stock Ex. change yesterdny closed at 99}. Ihe successful opening of Cincinnati's great musteal festival is chronicled in the dispatches this morning. For'the presant Chiengo can only ndmire and cougratulate, {rustivg to timoe to enable her to do some. thing equally uoteworthy on ler own ac- couut, TT——— Tho cotton strike at Blockburn, Eng., has culminated in a sorions riot, in which the properly of the mill-owners has suffered cou. stiderablo damage, tho residenco of one pro- prietor being burned to tho ground. It was found uccessary to call ont troops to quell the disturbauce, T —— Our Canadian neighbors seem to bo thor oughly persuaded thot the reports of projects ed Fonian incursions have o foundation in fact. In consequence unnsual activity pre. vails in military circles, and from the prep- arntions making for their recoption, the un. welcoma visitors are likely to fiad a differont. ftate of things from that which existed in tho affair of 18C6, ] THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC FRAUD, The schiomers aud demngogues have so far provailed as to teoure the introduction into tho Houso of Reprosentatives of tho Pprofect for nu investigation into the Florida and Louisiann clections, This is equivalent to a1 nuuonncement that the prescat Congress will concern 1tsolf about no farther leglsla- tion, but enter upon n partisan tournament in which the prize is to bo the majority of tho noxt Congross, to be clocted the coming fall. 'This iu the waln purposo of the pro- rosed iuvestigation, though it will servo at tho same time to conceal the incompetence of tho present Domocratio majority, which dares not tako the responsibility of disposing of logislation demanded by the public inter. ests, ‘The political balance fn Congross 13 held by o frail tenure. The Domocrats have no liope of carrying the strong Republican districts, and uo fuar of losing the strong Domocratiodlstricts, ‘The struggle, therefore, Issolely for the pnrpose of influencing tho clec. tions iu n score or loss of doubtful distriets, and to this end it i deliberatoly proposed to arouse the most bitter partisan passion, to involve tho Government in a needloss oxpenditure of hundreds of thousands of doliars, to postpone indefinitely the passage of*lawa that aro sorely needed, and to dis. turb and alarm the businoss interosts of the country, The good sense and consorvative disposition of the peopls of this country are 8 warrant for the belief that the party ro. spousible for so selsh and unpatriotic & schomo will sufer more than it will benefit from the results, Wadisiniss the ideathat tho proposed fnves. tigation ia designed to vitiate Presidont Hayss' Litle to the Presidential chair, for two res. sous: Firat, becauso such o purposs was distinetly disclaimod by Mr. Porten in offer. ing the resolulions ; aud, secondly, because tho inveatigation cannot possibly have that rosult, Presidont Haves' title rests, not upon the frauds that may have been committed by elther side, but upon a law of Congresa, constitutioually vested with the wuthority of counting the votes and declariog the result. Thero is no law. ful way of disturbing President Haves in the possession of his offics except by im. peachment, There are several reasons for thinking that impeachment is not contem- Plated. It is uot likely that the Southern motbers could havo been constralned to ac. Qulesce in the investigation without an as. suranco that Hares should not be disturbed. Tho romoval of Havxs by impeachmont and conviction would place Vice-President Wuezren in the Prosident’s office, and the Bauthorn people bave too much reason to be satisfied with Prosideut Haves and his treat. ment of tho South to risk a chaugo to another Republicun from whom they can scarcoly hopo 0 much generosity. There i littls doubt that the Conkxriva and Bureen crowd, who aro really at the bottom of this scheme, havo incited the investigation nu g means to the displacemont of Haxes, but there is just a8 little doubt that they will bo disappointed in their treschorous de. sign, It impeacluucnt should Lo tried, it would be impostible to prove a guilty con. nivanco on the purt of Haves with any frauds that mzy Lave beon committed, and this would bo uecessary to Lis conviction ; Lut there will be no attempt at impeach. went, for the reuson given. Thore is nothing to be gained, then, but the wanufacture of political capital for the Cougressional campaign this next fall, And it iu for this that the entire business of na~ tioval legialation is to bo suspended. It is for this that the public money s to be ex. peaded without stint. Ttis for this that weuuce of rovolution 1s to bo hold over the Predictions relative tho Ponnsylvania Republienn Convention, which assembles at Harrisburg to-day, point very positively to the complete succeas of what is known as “*tho Canrno slate,” both 28 to candidates nnd platform. It is o peculiarity of TRepub. Jican politics in Ponnsylvania that predie. tionss of this kind con ba made with jmpunity, and thot they gonorally prove true. Tho gollant canvass mado by the Ylon. Garusua A. Grow for the nominntion for Governor is tliought to have been incffeotunl ns ngoinst * the Caxenox slate,” nlthough the second place on the tickot mny ba tenderad ns o consolatlon to the friends of Gov. Gnow, As for the plat. form, it will ignore the Natioun! Administra. tion and devots its upnco chiefly to denounc. ing uny nttempt to reduco the measure ot ‘* protection” which Pennsylvania eujoys under the existing Taviff Inw, e —— CLAIM3 AGAINST ILLINOIS, There is nothing more aggreasive and nothing more perilous to publio safety and even offfoial integrity than a **claim ” upon some publi tronsury, Thero aro committeos in Congress at this day to whom are roforred claims for losses sustamed during the Revoly. tionary War. One poculiarity of a claim Ig that it nevor dles. It lives forever and grows vigorously, There have been mauy claims ngainst the General Governmont which were paldn full fifty or sixty yoars ngo, which being rovived have boen pald again ¢ in {full,” and are yet as unsatisfied as ovor, 8o full of promise is the advocacy of swindling claims that many Souators, and ox-Congross. men, and Cabinet officers have abaudoned publio lifo nnd established themselves ot Washington to prosscute claims; and the Court of Olaims and tho Claims Commis. slons are a greater danger to the country than is to be spprebended from all tho enmity of foreigu nations, When the Counstitution of Ilinols was adopted, it removed from tho Logislature the corrupting influonces of special logiala. tion; but the last Logislaturo, ns 1f with the purpose of making things lively for tho membors and providing for leglslation that would give futuro mewmbory gowething sub- stantial to denl with, established what thoy called & **Commission of Claims” against the Btate of Illinols, to which every man who could imagine himsolf entitled to monoy from the Blate was invited to appeal for payment. The actfon of tho Logislature on this wholesale jobbing operation was ro- markable, Oa tho 27th of April, 1877, the bill was in. troduced by Mr. Wirpenuax in tho House, and on the 7th of May was ordored to a third rending; on the 11th of May the bill was passod—yeas 118, nays 0. On the same day the bill was read the first time in thoBeuate; on the 14th 1t was refurred; on the 17th it was reported with amendments; which wero adopted, Henator HaiNes moved to exclude the McArristen & Erenoms claim, which motion was rejectod, and tho bill was at once ordered to a third reading. On the 181k the bill passed—yeas 38, nays 1. On tho same day the Ifouso concurred in tho Senate amondments—yeas 01, nays 0. Tho Govern. or, afow days after, approved the bill, aud itbecamoalaw. It will be secn that the mewmbers generally voted for the bill, either without knowing what it contained, or for the purpose of creating a tribunal that would lead to a grand system of plunder of the State, and to leave to posterity for all timo to come cleims that will grow with age aud become fusatiablo in their damand, Tho law provides that one Judge of the Buprewe Court and two Judges of the Cir- cuit Courts to be deaignated by the Chiet Justics shall constitute the Cluits Conmis- slon. This Commission is to hold & sossion on the second Monday in August, 1878, and every two yoars thoreafter. The Commis. sion igto *‘hear and determino® all unad. Justed claims of all persons against the State of Iilinois according to the principles of cquity aud Justice; and if they allow any claim shall mako au award to the claimauts, paming him and the awount due, which A yenr or more ago wa published a letter from the lon, A. O. Wares, of Massillon, 0., deicribing his method of cutting, tandling, and enring corn-fodder, grown o4 6 substituto for hay or clover, for feeding horsen, enltie, and #heop, By roquest o has written anothor letter for Tug Tmz- U on {hie same subject, giving tho result of further experienco, which we print elso. where, Lust year ho sowed and harvested Rixty ncres of corn, and obtained over threo hundred tons of excollont and nutritive fod. dler, an which he carrled through the winter, from Novomber until April, 20 head of horses, 50 hend of eattle, and 2,000 shoep, and kept them in fino condition, 'Lhe climate whero Mr. Wares lives requires nbout as much Land-feeding for stock ng in Northern Illinas, Sonthern Wisconsin, or Towa. Last sunmer was o dry one in North. crn Olilo, olso Lis yiold of corn-foddar would Liavo beon considurably largor per acre, Mr, V/arrs regards six tona asa falr average yiold in sensous of modernte molsture, From wha his experionce demonstrates, it mny be st down ax cortain that fivo to seven tony of splendid eorn-fodder ean bo produced per nere in all the Western States. This js somo. thing that farmers shonld know about, and lose no time in trying the oxpeniment for themselves, NEw Yonr, slay 14, —The Syndicato have anttc- fpated their optivna for Anguat and Septomber, and to-duy tovk $10, 000, of 4% bonds, Tho lotal amiount thus far takun bs 343,000,000, —As~ soctated L'ress Duspaleh, The Becretary of the Treasury s now able to Tesume at auy moment he pleases. Let him facelve coupons for duties thisty or sixty days in advancu of their waturity, and very littlo colo will then be ucedsd for dutles or payment of foterest on bonds; and, as the balance of trade is heavily in our favar, thers will be no danger of a forelgn demund for gold. Under thodo clrcumatances, the SBecrotary can begin to redecn on dewaud oo the 1st of Juae if he chouses. —— Ucen. BuLpy, “the veteran of two wars and the wounded of both,” has accepted an invita- tion to speak ln Milwaukes on Decoratlon Day, theidOth lust. As theold General bas pecently been wuada somewhat prominent by the slight which the Democratic House of Represuntatives put upon him fn the elcction of a Confedorate oflicer over him as Doorkeeper, he will naturally sttract alarge audicace on that occaslon, Itas 6afe 10 say that Br, W. P, LYNDE, 1ncmber of Cougress from the Milwaukeo District, and who voted agalust BiisLos, will not be prescutto Introduce bilm to the people. Munrusy in his Yllwaukes Sentluel: 11 18 nosecrot that B, B, Wasusuaxs and his brather, ¢ C. Wasusua, furnlsted half tho muney for the purchasc of “fiun Tuisuxs, aud still own balf of that jourusl, While Mukrugy was ln so communicstive a mood, why did ho refrain frum telllug the other ‘“halt" of the story: that Mart Cakexnten and his fAdes Acbates, Murrnxy, furnished the other half of the money, und “still uwn balf of that journal" Notblog but luuate modesty could bave preveated Mister Munruey from'divaiging the whole *socret,”~thus gut fafyiug & burniog public cuziusity. ———— Yesterday'a dovelopm, n connection with the dead-lock on the Electoral nvosti. gatlon denote o mora elaborato conspimey' on the part of the NDemocrnts than kns heon wicribed to them, It hay heon generally sup. posed that the project contemploted no at. tempt ot disturbiog the Presldont’s oficial tenure, but the contrary ssoma likely to prove truc., In the Demceratio cancus enllcd yesterday immediately following tho fuilore to obtuin a quorum in the Houso o resolution was defeatod which Caser Yousa, of Tennessoe, offered for thy purpose of assuriug the country that ho ultempt wonld be wade to unseat President Haves, That an atlewpt at ulti. mate impeachment is p part of the pro. grawnoe is 8 warrantable inferauco from tho procsedings of the caueus, slthough no ac- tion was tuken directly bearing upon the yuestion other {han the tubling of Casxy Yousa's resolution. Quce the Dewmocrats get thelr Llood up and are in a position to put thirough suy plan the caucus way decide ouy liere iv ua telling to what lengths thoy mmy go in the couspiracy. Thoy 4re now w0 jutensdly rusolved up- on carrying forward the undortaking i to deliberately resolve in caucus wasomblad that no other Lusiuess shall bo transacted ju While Jo MsuiLt was with E. B. Was, NG 5 Pa schonie was srranged for the election of tue lattar to the Presideucy, ~Auster Murphey. There s a slight mistake herc, Tho * scheme arranged® was for the election of MaTr Cake FENTEA Lo the Presidency and the appolutment of Mister Munrigy as Minister to the Court of 8t. James or attorney for sho Whisky Rivg, ) 5 L Awardis to bailed with thy Aulitor. ‘Tho | wids throughons th country. In conneetion | bt ot s likely to bo disaffocted by sympatby | whichever ho proferrod, o e e e e eeaves ot The tho House uutil tho Porren resolutions are | heads of the people,—terrifying capitalists, | claity are to be filed in writing, aud all the | with that sudacious publication he confuased | with any local mobs. Noono of the Statey e — ana to ¥ bigh table Is fn the rtwent aze of rod damask; :1pl.d;lc of the floory at which the Pope aloes l|o]n:. seated on the throuo. His bed-room, the lmfl Pope's dinlog-ball, sdjoins it,—s room bung Vil yeliow dsmask, sud baviog & bod ia sa -Ict;“ formed by wasble plilars. A beth-room in mn‘m opeps from it oo one side; on the vther i lurary, s room i white and golds disposed of. The Republicans are ready and willing to break the duad-lock for any pur. Duss save this, but the Democraty sullenly rofuso Lo atteud 1o tho people's busiuess, and will permit no legislation of any kind until baontocy cau bo whippod in snd the Porres returding the rovival of business, impairing the natioual crodit, disturbing the com. woreial relatious between the different sec- tlons of the country, and, perhaps, restoring the duuuging Huctustions of the our. reucy. The Domocrats are assuming g evidence is to Lo in writing, ju the way of depositions. These papersure lo be filed three mouths before the weoting of the Cowmission, and then the Attoruey-General iu to ropresent the Stats, He is to obtain axd file within (he three months whatever to inefficiency by adumitting that the customs Toveuuo laws are habitually, boldly violated in the passage of forviga morchandise through the Now York Oustom-House, In purloiuing the letters of his chief and pub- Lishing thoir contents hy tuok oceasion to iu. Ths Memphis Appeat wants Congress to “ judiclously tax the surplus wealth of the couutry,” and expend **teu mitilons™ of the ooey right off *in loveeing the Musatssippt River.” This, it says, would * reliove nearly” every fudustry in *the country.” Yes, It would “zclieve every luduatry of @ part of its wugcs- eares to waintain an army, but all would like to have the sssurance of protection which a sufllolent force would give. The wers knowl. edge that such protection could be had would generally be sutBclent. If it were kuown that Presideut could put auy.