Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1878, Page 4

'I'H1s CHICAGO - TRIBUNE:" WEDN datios and fnnctions of his offico he has no copception of, *Tho presiding officer,” #ays a standard anthority upon the subjoct, “‘though entitled on all occasions to bo treatod with tho groatest sttention and respect Ly the individunl mombers, because the power, and dignity, and honor of the resembly aro officinlly embodied in his per- son, §s yet but the servant of the House, to declare its will and to obey implicitly all Vs commands” Raxpsrt needs to look into history a liltle, and he will find ample precedents for. taking » more on- larged view and moro exalted notion of the duties of bils position, Harsziy cites the Innguago of Speaker LexTHALL n8 containing the very ossenca of the Spenker's rasponsibit- ity. Tho cnso was this: Cmastxs L came into the Hongo of Commons on one occasion, and, having taken the Bpeaker's chair, asked him, * Whether any of the five membera that ho came to apprehend were in the Houso ; whethor he saw any of them ; and whoro they were.” The Speaker, having 8 proper appreciation of tho dignity end SDAY, MAY- 22, 1878, room for a Confedornto Drigadier. It was necessary they shonld offor tha amendment in order tc atamp tho original bill as an un. lawful, dishonest, cowardly, and despicable effort to cover up parly meanness and in- gratitude, 'The most domagogical feature of this bill s the utter recklessness displayed in pushing It forward for pnssags withont regard to tho precedent it sets. If Gen. Bmizrps, not having had the reqolsite time of service, is allowed to go npon the retired list, thon why not opsn the door and silow scores of officers who hava hiad mach longer service to retire upon full rank and pay? QGen, 8aixeps has had bat fivo years of serv. ice,~tho brief perlod of the Mexican War, and the termof the War of the Rebollion, He bas not hod the service of Gen. GnanT, nor bave his services been as distinguished. Gon, GRAXT I8 one of the few great soldiers of the world. Ilo led the armics of the Ra- publio, He put down rebellion. Hia mili~ tary genlus aud guccess are recognized the world over, sud for the past fow months all Europe has been recognizing him with the ——— Domocratic aituation. A rocent Washington dispatch telterates tho allesntion thus: SitirLoa and hin friends are more Indigna his defeat becanse it han tnrned ont Uit ent Fimio, of tho Eyypilan army, is a Reonblican nod g been one ever since oar \War, After ho snr. rendercd with LEx he went tn llaliimore as a cony. mimion merchint, and in tne campaign of iy took an acilve partin sapport of GRANT and 1) Republican ticket.: 118 was an ofiicer of the Kte. pudlican Club, and not only voted, hut muge syeaches for the lepublican ticket. ~ After Gray was elected, Fixup came fo \Washington, and, wecuring ¢ . poso of organization. It will not bo sur- prising if activa operations should be delayed for soveral days. Among othe# thingy, the ringing deflance of Becretary Buerman's lotter furnishes food for reflection and oc. caslon for deliberation. Hore ia & man who refuses to be preambled into disreputa without first being heard from on the sub- ject, and who sots very much ns thongh he wera resolvod to turn the tables and invee-, tigate the investigators, Gen, Norzals in Franco, but Secretary Baxruax {s in Wash- inglon, with no endof ability and inclination to make matters very interosting for Por- TZR's Mexicanizors, Obviously thers is reason for moving cautiously, and the Dom. ocrats have just discovered it e Gen., Baxxixa fs of the opinjon that the country need have nofear of the Communists it the nrmy should be reduced, provided thare is immediately brought about a relurn of political Lonesty and a revival of the in- tegrity in high places which prevailed in the days of the fathers. A good place to begin ing for them. Thero are in lilinols, on n rongh estimate, 250,000 farmers and farmora’ sons. The 6,000 or 6,000 Communista that Bonuive might mustor after a vigorous canvass of tho Btate would not make hesd- ‘way againat this forcs. This js not a conn- try of land monopoly like Great Britain, whers the few own theland and the multi. tude work for rent. The vast majority of farmers here work their own lands. No party s large enough or strong enough to dispossess them. Woe are in thia respact bet- ter off than Belgium and France, where a system of ineritanco, similar to ocur ownin practice, though different in law, has pro- dacod an even distribution of the lands among the people. Communiem has no root id either of Wose countries. It was put down in France effectually, and is now deader there than in any other country of Europo. It would be put down gven more promptly and severely if it were tried here. SomttaNe and his fellow.conspirators can give their principles a fair trial in one way. Lot them move out on the tnoccapied lands for years, and tho taxpayers hinvo mot boon ablo to reform it even by the most desperats efforts; tho City Board haa for three years peat beon under control of the better repro. sontatives of tho people, and no Ring has ever attained 8o strong a hold upon it but the people have beon ablo to break ita powor by a determined effort. The County Board s deliberatoly voted lis members twice ns large & compensation sa they are allowed by 1aw, and 1t has boen noticed that members Iaying claim to honesty and respoclability have almost always favored this excsssive ale lowance and taken tho money. Not to go outside of Ohicago exporience, then, it is evident that thero is no prolection in a salary sgninst rings, plunder, and bummerism, An a matter of fact, a salary attached tolo. cal legislative position servesnaa bait for the ontire class of place.hunters and ward poli- ticians. Men who now do the dirty work for local parties and look for thelr compen- sation in some subordinate eapaclty will turn their attention to the Alderman's place whon It shall promise $3 a day or $1,000 a year. ' 4. - Tlye Tribmne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DY MAIL—IN ADVARCR—FPOSTAGE PREPAID. ally ll'dlflan. onbae{s. 3 poart of meveral fla. Ynnhun Congress: asked Presldent Gnysg o mppoint' his son s & cader " p large to the West Point Military Acaileny. 8oon afler he went fo E;ynl. nnder A contract wity the Khedive, and served fonr years as s ofiicer | a. 0 W fi fApecimen coples sent tre Glve Post-Oftice address fn foll, tnefoding Btats and County. emittances maybe miade efther by draft, express, Yout-Ofice order, or in regiatered letters at onr Hik, TERNS TO CITY BUBSCRIRERS. Datly, dellvered, Sunday excepted, 25 centd per week, Latiy, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 cents per week, Address THE TRIRUNE COMPAKY, the Egyptian army, About A”year aco hie cain to ‘Washington, and upon the recommondation salely of Republicans he received the npjointment o Assistant Enginecr underthe District Government, where he nerved efectively antil elected Doort keeper. Il has tarned oot to De (ho best Ioor. keaper the louea hua had for several yeaes. Thoeys facts, of course, a8 they becamo known, galled the Democrats, and especially those who ‘enloy (nti. mate reiations with ‘Gen, BuizLos, It wae a eqeq of the Houne choosing a Confederaie, even thueh Be 18 » Kepnbli instoad of & Federal soldics even though by Demaceat, * ————— When the report came by telegraph In the evening papers that Lord Jonw Roussert hag | died, tho editors of varlors morning papers Corner Madison end Dearborn-ata.. Chiesko, it Orders for the deliveryof Tuz TRIBUXE 8t Evanston, Engiewood, and liyde Park left In the couating-room Wlirecelve nromot attentl —ee TRIBUNE OFFICES, THE Ci1cA00 TRIRUNE has catablished branch ofces fortherecelptof subscriviionsand advervisements a8 4 follows: would boin the Seccond Ohio District. The | sacredness of his high office, made this an. | homago the world always pays to its groat | of the Government and grow up with the It will be primorily nttractive to them be. | rushed into the obituary business, and wrote up Py ‘{{:fi;{‘:"’""'mm'““‘}“’ #.7. 3" | gisting member slipped in by a mafority of | ewor : ** May it pleass your Mnjosty, I have | conquorors. Geh, Satztos cannot bo placed | country, Thero are 1,000,000 aquars miles | cause they will thus make suro of a larger the defunct statesman, the Clnctanatl Commer. saventy-fivo *‘on the face of the roturns,”— s numbor of votes considerably less than that which Erxt Horraxp confessed to having polled with the gavg of repeaters which he manipuiated {n tho intorost of the present sitting member from the Socond Ohio Dis- trict, Hore is a chanco for Gen. Bannixo by immediately resigning to inaugurate the res- toration of the days ‘whon high-minded patriots scorned to squeczo into office by fraud and rascality. cla! among the number (and Tua Cicago Taisunmalso). Along towards moroing camg another cable dispateb that old Jonxs was not dead, but steening. ‘That bit of nows spoiled the obituary notices,—at least tho one prevared for Tne TrisuNe. But IIALSTRAD was not to be 80 *done® ont of his pains and pralses. Iig slmply wrote a preceding sentence: “The ofd Engllshman is not dead,” and, with this adilition to the obftuary, *slapped It 10" A weck henve the old Englishman will enjoy tho rare advan- tage of perusing his own obltsary from an American standpolnt, and i€ he finds any errors therein which ho thinka ought to be corrected, ho van polnt them ont in time for the publiea. tion of tho actual shufliing-o of the morty) coll. VALIS, France—No, 16 Rua de I Grange-Datellere, 1. 3lanLze, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchangs, 449 Strand. Hexnx F. Ginito, Agent, BAN FILANCISCO, Cal. upon the retired list without doing dishonor to Gon, Geaxt, to numerous other distin. guished officers, and to the thousande: of brave men who now only have little ponstons and noed help as much as Gon, Smxtps, The mere passage of the amendmont by the Sonate to placs Gon. Grant on the list does not alter the injustioe, as the bill will go back to the Houss, where the amondment will be rejected. BMuch as the coun- try may bomor nnd sympathize with Gen, Snmeeps,—and no officor holds s higher place in the public esteem,— the country will not allow that esteom to blind it to tho fact that the proposed bill fs n gross {njustico to othor velorans; a stigma upon the Genoral who led its armies to vin. tory; a palpablo violation of existing law; amean and contemptible effort to cover up the enbsorviency of Northern Domocratic demngogues to Bouthern Brigadiers. The Repnblicans of both Houses should hold those demagogues strictly to tho record, that the country may oxactly understand the roal meaning and purport of this bill. Thoy must not be allowed to cscape the penaltica of their own partisan moannoss and Incon. sistency. It will not bo surprising i Gon. Smzrps himeelf, disgusted with the manner in which his name is bandied back and for. ward, expresses himself in & manper which moy be understood by these partisan snenks, of land still to bo had. 'Tillable soil suffi- clent to make ten States of the size of INli- noia s walting for the laboror, Milliona of acres are nunclnimed in Toxas. In the language of Col. Sellers, Mr, Somirtive may romak, “Thero is my spot.” Why doesn't he go thoro, and tako his frlends along with him? Tle will find single countioa in Texas large onough to liold- them all. Kind neighbors will, if ho behaves himsolf, give him aid and comfort; Nature will welcoma him with Ler mout graclous and beantiful aspects ; and Lo will have that simple contentment which comes from the practica of frugulity, hon- ecsty, and industry. If he and his fricuds go to work {n tho truo spirit, they will soon havo increased the value of their land ton. fold more than it is at presont; and they will then Lave the sawmo opinion of their rights to jmprovemonts made with their own liands that the farmors of the United Btates now hold. neithor oyes to ses nor tonguo to speak in this place, but as tho Houso is ploased to diract mo, whoso servant I am here; and T humbly beg your Majesty's pardon that I cannot givo any other answor than this to what your Majosty is pleased to demand of me,” Thick of & man braving the wrath of his sovereign fn tho discharge of his duty os his honor dictated it to him, nnd then look st Raxpatr subor. dinating the abligations of his office for more partisan purposes, and violating the well-eatablished and long.recognized fules to carry qut the mean intent of his faction. Ono looks in vain mto tho history of Con- gross for n precedent as bad as that to which Rawpary has given his namo. DBut many & ronder 50 yenrs old will ramember an ex- ample of dignity, and impartlality, and fair play that risos up ont of tho past to rebuke stch littlencss of spirit as wo aro now called upou to condomn. At the commencement of tho Auti-Slavery agitation in this country, resolutions wera introduced to expel Jomw Quincr Apaus, thon & member of the House, for having brought in a petition praying for » dissolution of tho Union, Apaus had ex- pressly denled having any sympathy with tha object of the petitioners, but, holding tho right of petition to be sacred under our form of government, he ,had it for- mally presented to the Houso, A Bouth. orn man and a slavoholder was Speaker at the time, but he was too good a parliamenta- rian and too honorable a man not to enforco the rules and sce fair dealing. 8o day after day, oftor the morning hour had elapsed, the regular order was declared to be tho resolu. tion to expel Apaus, nnd that gontloman was ontitled to the floor for o defanse. The op~ portunity to discuss a contraband question was too good mot to bo ombraced by so shrewd n diplomat ag Mr, Apaxs, and beforo the fTotspurs of the South knew it thoir pe. culiar institution was arraigned befors the bar of public epinion sud undergoing a most searching ond damaging exposure, The opisoden of that remarkablo dobato were numerous and exciting, but the Bpoak- er rigidly cuforced the rules, and the vonerable culprit at thd bar seemed to have had his lips touched with a live coal taken fresh from tho altar of liberty, Ono morning the late Gov, Hennx A. Wise, who had fust entorod Congress, arose and asked thae Speaker how long the business of the country waa to be suspended for tho sake of allowing’ the gentleman from Massachu. sotts to discuss the sin of slaveholding. Apaus turned quickly upon Wisk, and, walting until ho was done, replied that he did not know how long the dlscussion would ‘continuoe, because it would ba {n order for others to apeak aftor he hiad concluded. As for himself, it was his opinion that he could, {f not interrupted too often, close his remarka in ninoty days. Itia vufllofent to eny that the vonorablo ox-Presidont was not oxpolled, snd that the ruling of the Chair gave him {ull opportunity to disouss tho Slavory ques- tion to an extont Jittle rolishod by those who proposed to oxpel him. This fucident s reforrod to with the hope that Mr. Bpoaker TanpaLL may profit by its study, and that an example so illustrious in the linc of his official duty may be thonght worthy of his {imitation, incoma than they can get s an employa in oneof the departments. Iaving acquired an Alderman's position by the usual methods, they will not become any more capablo or apy moro homest by ronson of the pay atiached to it. Thoy will then procecd, as the paid mombors of the Uounty Board have dons, to grab twice ns much pay as is coming to thewm, and to blackmall sud plander as much more as thoy can. The chief objection to tho compensation for Alderman, which {s not wrong in princl- ple, is that the Qonneil will immediately be. como 8 bummers’ paradise, The impecu- nious ward.politician does not now strive for o seatin tho Council in preference to all other places, bacause thers is no pay attached toit, and enchmoney a4 can be made out of it is precarious and may subject him to prosecn- tion, With a ealary attached, the oflice of Alderman will have/special charma for him, bocsuse he will bo sure of a certain amount of pay, and have opportanities for plunder which he wonld not onjoy as a city employe, Ald. Gmeenr was very usfortunats in olting New York as an oxamplo of the good effects of paying Aldermen. ' We pro- sume there is mot n more corrupt and rapa- clous sot of scoundrels in control of tho dostinles of any city on earth than the Common Council which runs Now York. Tbo chiof bummers of that city hava run up the Aldermanio pay to §4,000 a year, nnd tho higher the pay tho more voraclous do the bummers become, and the more difficult it is to socure the oloc- tion of compotent and proper men to & place which i8 so rich n prizo for the bummers. We do not baliove that all, or evon a mn- Jority, of tho good citizons of Chicago agree with Ald. Gruoenr whon ho says,that nobody aots from patriotism nowadays. We do not boliove that $1,000 a year, or mora than that, would make an Aldorman's place nny moroe attractive to men of standing and char- acter than it s now ; but it is very certain that the offico would thon bo in greater de. mond nmong & class of people who ought not to have it under any conditions. ‘The digoussion of the subject has boon adjourned i1l Friday, and Messrs. Turzr and GiLpent wilt probably rovise their opmnions on the subject if they will givo it a littls more thought in the meantime. The ¥ Mnxl:an bulldozer editurs say that the Porren Committce can dish up a very foterest- Ing report out of the CIANDLER telegrams that wera scnt to Florldain bohalt of Hares and -WIEELBR after the clectlonof 1870, First,says the Democratie editor, lot Porren's Committeo publish the following dispatch from the Chalr- man of tho Republican Comumitteo in Florida: Nov. & 1916 ~Judge J. M. Kimunds Chuirman Rroubitedn Nafanal Esicuitge Committés, hashing. %om, 1. C.: {norder to prerent frauds we must have money.. 1f ¥ior{ds ta tmportant, suthorise 130 to draw on'¥ou for two tionsand dollars. ~ Answor, CraxpLem, This was & request of CIANDLER for money toboused in preventing the purpetration of Democratic frauds, There (s no use in denying that fact, ° Having discoursed upon the exceoding wicked- nees of uring toonay lo prevent frauds, let the Tlemocratic editor next brlnf himself to the task of proving that the following dispatch from Mr, Tit- pex'sagent in Oregon to Mr, ‘TiLDEN's nephow, Perrox, 1a 8 legitiniate metbod in the TiLvEN roe forn programmet o 2% T Ber i s a Likat irsrchete o Hepublical ce Hotel AMUSEMENTS, McVicker’s Theatre, Madtron street, between Ucarborn snd Siate. “*Onn Lie Leads o Another * and *'8weethoarta” Afternoon snd eventng. Hooley?a Thentre. Nandolph sirect. botween Clark and LaSalles Tark Theatro Company, **Champsgne and Oystera’™ Afternoon and eyesing. A PARTISAN BPEARER. Ono of the most contemptible thingsina legislativo assombly is o parrow-minded, illiboral, portisan presiding officer. Party machinery may be nccessary to cloct him, and to that extent party spirit may havo full scope without offense, but-the moment a man is cliosen to perform the daties of the Chair, n8 '*moderator™ of the Houso, that moment he must leavo behind him every party focling and prejudice, and rosolve to act fairly and jmpartially ns the oxponent and mouthpiece of the entire body over which he las beon called to preside. The rights and the privilages of the minority of auy legislative body are, in a large degree, in the hands of the Bpeaker, and, as ho 1s always chosen from ths side of the majority, it is the tme theory of par. liamentary practice to jealously guard the rights of tho wenker party, becauso tho mafority has it always in its power to overrule tha decision of the Chair and en- forco thoir wishes. An arbitrary or unjust ruling on the part of the presiding officer, where it infringos upon the rights of the mi- nority, bas ever been held to bo a moan and dishonorable nct by all ncceptod authoritien upon the subject. The man who will tram- ple upon the rules of the body aud the well- established principles of parliamentary law for tha sako of alding his party friends upon the floor, or who will ignore the ordinary usages nnd customs of public assemblages in order to cripplo the minority that is polit- ically opposed to Lim, advertises himsolf to the world as a dishonorable person, who s unfit, by roason of Lis bittor partisanship, to nct as tho represontative of n deliberative body. Mr. Spoakor RawpaLy mado such an cxhibition of himsolf on several occasions last weck, doring the protracted strug- glo in the Houso of Ropresentatives over tho adoption of tho famous or rather {nfamous PorTes resolutions, Instend .of tha clear-headed, impdrtial, dignified, and honorable cocupant of s high offico, charged with the grave duty of protecting the rights of all the mombors of tho House, he ro- peatedly turned to the gazo of the country that phnso of his oharacter at onco dis- graceful to himself and degroding to the responsible position to which he had beon olovated. Ilanparu's first ruling in rogard to the Porres rosolutions being of high privilego bocause thoy involved ‘‘the eloo- tion of President,” {8 not founded in pariia mentary law., ‘When the question comes to be fully discussed and the suthorities ex- amined, that elaborato opiufon of the Bpeaker will be found to be lsmo in logle and unjustifiable by nuthoritative precedent. In order to meet the mocessities of the case, Mr, Raxnoars had to stretch hLis ruling until a gap was torn in it wide enough to let in tho light of day, snd all observers sco its unfairnesa and {nconsistoncy. Wo have not tho time nor the space to go into this branch of the subject aa elaborately as wo might de- glre, but if’those Interestod In the study of tho law and practice of parliamontary bodliea will puniue this mattor to the end, they will find the cssonce of Ilawpary's ruling on that occasion to have been atterly wrong, and ‘made on purposo to fit the oxigencies of the cnse. The presumption upon which it is founded is illogical snd absurd, because overy well-informed lawyer, who is not crazy upon the question of Titpxy bolog entitled to tho Presidency, is well awaro and admits the fact that if the Porrza businesa pans out ag well as the Demoorats expeot, it will not, and can not, lnvolve the election of Presl- dont. ‘This waa tho initial crime of the Speaker, which ho committed premoditatedly, and the second was like unto it, We rofer to his re. fussl to onterialn a motion to loy on the table, one of the most customary motions that Is ever mado in Congress, and, except in very raro cases, one that is always in order. But tha courtesy that belonged of right to tho minority was not extended to it by the Spoaker on that occasion, beeauss he was noting nolaly in tho Interest of his party, and not os tho guardian of tho rights of all the members of the House, Other rulings of less importance than these two, made dur- ing the noted struggle lnst week, are all off the same piece, inspired by ths same parti. san parrowness aod malice, and taken alto. gother they stamp Mr. Bpeaker Raxpary as & one-sided bigot, unwortby of the place he occupics, and a disgrace to the eminent men who bave preceded him in ft. Ho ought to Lo ssked to step down aud out § pud some member of the minority owes it to the dig- nity of the American Congress—if such a thing as dignity is not impossible undor ol the circumstances—to enter a formal and solemn protest against the unlawful scts of the Bpeaker, He scems to have no adequate conception of the obligations resting upon him, Ilnverly’s Theatre. Mouroe eireet, rorner of Desrborn. Rice's Rxtr ganta Combination. **Evangeline.” Afternoon evening. —— Partisanahip controls the press of France to adegree that far exceeds anything I this coun- try, unlees it be upholding the Moxican revo- lutlonists in Washlogton by the Copperhead nowspapers: Mr. BuaLtey, writing from the Taris Exhibition ndnr or_twou after tho ouening, asve the Lora- partlat, Legitimist, and Clerical press havo not consed to ridicule the Fxhibition, which i reeard- ed parety 89 8 Repiblican enierprive, and that, on the other han far as he han obscrved, *inot n singlo Republican paper has dared {o admit that the Exhibition was fn an unfinished atate, " thou h avery visitor must nec ata glance that it Is lny chaotlo state of Incompletion. Those facts leal Mr. SxarLer to romark that **the vurely pany paper, printing only the news which makas for lia own side is, and of eonrse always han been, wholly nuknown in America.” It 18 the regular thing in Taris to-day, ——— New Chicngo Theatre. Clark strect, opposite tue Sherman lleuse. **Juse tica " aod a Varlety Ullo. Afternuon snd syening. SBOCIETY ETINGS, BLANEY LODGE. NO. 271, A.. P, & A, M.—~Slated Comimunication .flh (\udnnm’n“ oveniog, & 4 o'clock. Hail 70 Monrue.st. Visitlag brethern cor- iatly favited. "GEONGR GARDNE Wa Sie P=——————e WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1878, P S M D S v Groonbaoks at the New York Btock Ex. ohonge yesterday closed at 994, ENLARGEMENT OF THE COUNTY RING. The Connty Ring seems to havs extonded its membership, and to haye gainod new con- fidence at the sama time. In the Ring mensures passed at donday's rogular meats ing tbere were only four dissenting votes,— thara of Axans, Borsz, Srorvonp, and Senwe. Mr. Bunting was abseut, Al the others, in. cluding Messra, Mryra and Woeeren, who wore olected as Reformors,” railronded a conple of estimates through the Board amounting to $55,000, though the Building Fund has only $20,000 to its credit. Thisis tho same sort of proceeding that ran up the cost of the domo-foundation, or rathor one- lilf of it, to $72,000, or one-third more than tho ontire cost of the city founndation for one-half of the whole building. It is tho somo reckloss extravagnnea of public money which enabled tho contractors to swell the cost of the oounty building's founda. tion to nn amount nenrly throo- timos s largo as that of tho city bullding’s founda- tion, Ono estimate for $30,000—that nllow- od Warxzn—was voted without any datailed statomont whatever; indeed the architsot, Eoaw, had for n long time refused to make any further cstimate for WALZER, 08 we un- dorstend it, beoause Lo was not entitled to further payment at present, and becauso ho bolieved it wounld bo unsafe to advance money to WALxxn in his present condition, Bat, in the last moment, gome mysterious influonce . waa brought to boat on tho arohi- teot, and he rocommended the $30,000 bo- cauge that waa the amount tho contraotor demanded, and without oven specifying what entitled him to the ollowsnce. This was supplomonted by 25,000 to Bzxron, and thero was an attompt, all but successtnl, to rush through an allowance of nearly $30,000 moro to Warxen for *‘oxtras,"—a universal, never-failing expodient for plunder; but it was finally fhought prudent to postpone the last itom, which will probably be voted at tho noxt meoting, . Ono roason, and tho only one we know of, for voting tho eatimate to which Warken was not ontitled, was that it was alleged the work would have to stop without it. 'This is about tho same thing as: snying that tho contractor is not able to go on un. losa the county shall advance him money moro rapidly than he ocarne it. In other words, tho contractor’s finnuces are in the worst poasiblo condition, and the County Board oomes to his ald with the pnblio monoy, - From this it would appoar that actual or probable insolvency is the bost Lnals for borrowing public money which is at the dlmposition of the County Noard, Wo venture to eay that there la not a single member of the Board who would follow any such rule in loaning bis own money, and by dlsposing of the publio money nfter this menuer every member voting for it gives evidence that some private or personal consideration induces him to betray tho tax. payers to whom the monoy bolongs., Mzybs and Wuxxsen are espoolally answerable for thia villainy. Mcyes betrayed bhis con- atituents at the very outset, and it bag been ovident all along that ho entered thoe Doard for inproper motives, Waerres has hold out louger for the Interests of the people, but perbaps it was becauso it had not pre- vionsly been made to A/s interost to do othor. wise, It is cortain that, aven before he was elected, his motlyos were suspected: but he succeoded in quieting the susplicions by testi. monials from former frieuds, and by the most vigorous promises, and the poople of 1iyde Park accepted Lim. ‘Ihe whole peo. plo of the county are obliged to suffer from the mistakes inade in cortain districts, One protentious reformer (FirzornaLp) scems to havo bocome tho actual ¢ Boss" of the Ring, and these two othor reformers are at command whetover thelr votea are ngeded. This is & choerful outlook for the proposed higher asscssment, which will enable the lovying of more taxes and the borrowing of mora wouoy to squander on Warxen, Six. o, and the other favorito contractors, The end {a not yot. b A snit to recover damages of $600,000 was begun in Pittaburg yestorday by the Lenox Plinto Glass Compnny against Witiiax E. Dobok, of New York. The sensatlon-loving Mr. Antnony Cost- #TocK haa recelved a check In New York. The Grand Jury has refused to Indict Dr. Sanra B, Cuase, whom he arrested as a deulor {n unlaw. tul instruments, and the Governor has pardon. ed out 8 man whose conviction Cousrocx hat sccured on a chargs of dealing in Indecent pictures. Reform fs all right envugh, but fn soma of his recent prosccutions Mr. ComsTock has shown himself more concerned for personsl notice and applause than for the preservation ol the publlc morals, Ralormerswho b}l them- sclves extensivoly are apt to como to bo regard- ed as nuisances, CITIZEN SCHILLING'S IDEA. At the meeting of the Methodist minis- ters, Monday, an iavitation was extended to certain Communist leadors, who happened to bo prosent, to oxplain and defend their principles. Qitizen Gronox BomrLriNo ro- spondod. Ile laid down two propositions. First, that personal proporty s not to bo jm- medlately confiscated ; second, that land is to bo treated as common property., This distinotion moy bo {mportant in the mind of Oitizen SonrLuirg, but it is paroly fanciful %0 far a3 the main fseue is concorned. If one kind of confiscation takos place, tho other will spoedily follow. Ieal estate is not so differont from porsonal property as Oltizen Sonurane imagines. The origin of valao in both instances is labor; and real eatato reprosents mors exaotly than personal proporty the amount of labor expended upon it, Porsonal property is often o direct benefit to Iabor, but it may also bo n form of capiial unproductivaly eme ployed. . It may be monoy used in foreign travel or in wastofal self-induigence. Lnnd, on tho othér haud, must omploy labor, or be a useloss incumbranco to its owner, Honca'land genorally falfills its obligations tolabor. Tho fruits of labor also are fixed and made visible in land, The additions madoe to it romain as long a8 it is in use. These additiong are callsd * bottormenta " or improvemonts, and they are as distinotly socretions duo to labor as any form of per- sonal proporty, Most of tho land of Illinois was sold originally by the Government for $1.25 to 82 per acre. It s now worth, for farming purposes, 810, 825, $50, or B100. Oholeo lands for gardons may sell for 200 to §600 por scre. City and town lots run up to almost fabulons figurcs, but ihey owe their value to the agricultural industries abont thom, If there wero no wheat, corn, hogs, cattle, or lumber coming into Ohicago, tho ity would scon shrink to the slzo of a fishing community. Tho agr- cultural lands aro the basls of the whole system. What s it that gives them the value they pow possess over thelr original gelling price? 'The labor that has been expendod upon them. The tilling, mavuring, fencing, and draining of ton to thirty years have added to their value, They have been brought Into closs communication with the markets by railroads bullt and pald for chiefly by farm.labor aud still supported Ly that labor, The towns which have grown up about them are the products of farm.lifo, 8o with the steamors and sailing-vesscla that uavigato tho Western wators, the warohouses that receive the farmors' graln, the stock. yards in which thelr hogs and cattle are ex- changed, and the banks which furnish the monoy to carry on their business. All those roprosent in ' great part the labor pub upon the farming lands. On no principle of justice can Citizen BomLring and his associates claim the right to selre theso lauds snd redistribute them. It comes to tho same thing whother they propose to give compensation for the * bet- tormonts” or mot, Buch compensation, if given, must be mado by Government. Gov- ernment has no sources of reveuue excopt what it can derive from the taxpayers; nud the principal taxpayers are the land.owners whom Qitizen BoniLuing and his associates proposs to rob, - To tax them to pay for their own petterments would be robbing thew as surely as if tholr land were taken frow them by a brigade of red-shirted ruf. flans from Qitizen BomiLtina's own ward. ‘With or without preténded compeusation the scizure would be downright robbery, having all the charscterdsties of tho crime so doscrib- ed except that it would be s taking of a form of property which the law.makers havo al- 'ways congidered boyond the reach of organ. ized bands of robbers, The matter reduces itself to this: That ninefeen-twontieths to ninety-nine-one-bundredths of the prosent valus of the land in the United States has been created by the Iaborof the propristors and their predecessors; that they cannot honestly be dispossessed without compensa. tion ; and that there 8 no way of making compenustion, Tho propristors of real eu- tato, including thelr families, costitute two- thirds to three-fourths of the white people of the United Btates. Who is 0 pay them $20,000,000,000 or §80,000,000,000 for the valuo they bave given the realty? Can the voluntarily idle, the shiftless, the pauper, the spendthrift, the dissipated, the orininal classes, make such compensation ? Auother interesting question for the Com. munists to consider is whether they have he power {0 take these lands without pay- Gov. Burra, of Wisconsin, has issned his proclamation convening tho Legislature in cxtra session on the 4th of Juno noxt for the purpose of porfecting tho rovision of the Goneral Statates, Property in COarncas, Venezucla, to the amount of 100,000, was destroyed by tho enrthquako of April 14, The water in tho rivers bocame so hot that the fish mought rafuge on tho shore—n case of jumping e ——— “The Leavy (res from the great guns of the Engulrer,* savs an Cincinnati paper, ‘*‘have fallen harmlessly to the ground, where they should be burled so Geep that nothing short of the sound of the Iast trumpet should awale or revive them.” This {loquint paper, it Lardiy ueeds to be sald, Is the Jrish Cittzen. The En- qQuirer's great guns, having shown thelr cloven lioofs, should now walk off ou thelr cars. —ee—et——— Tho Benste Committee on Finance yos- terday roported favorably tho bill of BMr. Forr, of llinols, which hns already possed tho House, forbidding the further retirement or cancallation of legal-tander notes, There ia every probability of its passage by tho Bonato without amendment. The mind of the latest plous murdercr—ho was hanged in Guoorela—was ovly harassed by ona doubt: he feared thst the wau he killed might not be waiting at the pearly gates to wel- come him to Heavon, This reflection ralses a singular thoological polnt. Howme ot thess days wa shall be haviog murder one of the methols of an advanced sect, oven aa missfons and re- vivals now aro emoloyed ta convert slouvrs, The enmity shown by the Honse Demo. crats toward . the Military Acadamy at West Point 1s not shurod by the Detndirats in the Benate. The latter joined the Republicans yestorday in an unonimous voto inalsting upon the Benato amendment providing for the hospltal bullding sud for an fncronso of tho water supply, and rofusing to conour in that clauso of the House bill which orders tho immediato dismissn! of graduates who do not recelve appointmonts in tho army, With this emphatio notice of dlasont the House baters of West Point will have to modity thoir exhibition of spite. ——— Tong watking, long waltzing, and long slog- ing are the popular amusements at present. It will pext be tn order for Mr. MoxTuoseny BLAIR £0 back himself for s small waxer to yell “Fraud!" for s bundred and thirty-two hours without stopping to take breath, or for the Sun to .nakoa thousand requests for tho avolitiun of the army iu & thousaud consceutive puragraphs. Sets e e o] Mr. En160% has shown thist it Is possible to mako amachine by whicha crying buby will rock ftaclf to slcop agnin. Let him now apply his ingenuity to tne construction of an instru- ment by which, whenan eloguent statesmian like Sam Cox begins to speak, he willlo vlalently kicked behind, A aystein of cogsund ratchets connecting s phonograph with u Bo- gardus kicker would suffice, — Tho statemont is mado through the Wash. ington dispatohes of the Associated Press that Democratio Congressmen from the Bouth, aud alse from the West and North, aro in receipt of n large numbor of lottors from constituents protesting ngninst tho rooponing of the old Eleotoral fend on ac. count of the injury certaln to be in- flicted upon the business and financlal intcrests of tho country at large. If & gon- eral expression of the sontiments of tho pec- ple throughout the United Btates could be promptly obtained, thore ia not the slightest doubt that an overwhelming majority would disapprove of the useless and mischievous disturbance of a question long since irrev. ocably sottied. m— For tho present the Bitrzroa bill with the Ouant amendment Las received its quistus in the Sennto, The amendment anawered the purpose for which it was offered—that of strangling tho bill. Perceiving how adroitly tho matter Lad beéen managed by the Ropublicans to the disadvantage of the Democrats, Mr. Tuvawan yesterday under- took to got hie party out of the scrape by sbandoning the proposition to place (len. Bureups on the rotired 'list, and in its place ULringing forward an amendment to increass hia pension to $100 per month, The friends of Gen, SuteLps could not be induced to unite on this compromise, and it fell through Ly a mixed voto of 81 yeas to 88 nays. Then tle Lill aa previously amendod waa defeated by avotoaf 30 to 88, -~ KounTix BuoTuxas, Wallatreet, Aniwer, Intnle connectlon, the Democratio editor will confer & favor by showing that it was entirely cou- slatent for Alr. TILLEN'S rapresentatives in New York ta sond the following reply to Agont Patuicx in Oregont New Yorx, Nov. 20, 1870.~ToJ. N, JI. Patrick, ritund, Ore.: No. 1low ssaon will (overnor declda cariificata? If you make Gbligatiun sontingent an ihe Foult 0 Marcl (6 cun be” dane, and alfgbiiy, i€ ety casnry, When it has boen sho bofluad » doubt, that the trauenctions shadowod forth in the abuva telu- grame are entirely proper, the Democratic editor can turn upon Congressman PURMAX fof sending the following dispatch 1o the Chalrmen of $he ie- publican Committes in Floridas 11l have funds from Washington in ten days, Draw oan Ofteen days' slght. Our lumu Mflflw After properly dencuneing the sbove, let bim sbow us that the transactlon indicated in the fol- lowlng from Agent Patuicx to Nevliow PLon i3 i -‘ccunhnu with the Democratic idea of political parity: PURTLAXD, NoY. 80, 1870.=70 W, T. Peion, No, 13 sy PUrk s Governur il TIEHE without Taward: WU| tsdue certidcate ‘Tuvsdey, Thisis sscrot, ite: publtcanethreaten, [f eeptlacald tuuea, ta {gsare Dem ocratle cisjmants and 01] vacancy. aod thus dofaat ac- ton of Goveruor, Oue Kiector must be. pald 1o recoy. plored o - —————— 1t was tho Sun's Washington corrcspondent who got up *the facts concerning the great Rlectoral fraud* Mr. IlAYEs can slecp 18 peace, then. —— PERSONALS, Miss M, J. O'Fake and Mr, Pheez Hoff aré fgaring in & church scandal in Brookiyn. Gen. McClellan {s #o stroug that ho can bend a ofiver quarter botween hisfingorand thumb, Tke Duchess of Edinburg is to proceed to Coburg for~that s say, to—or rather, that sho— to cut it short, sho Lopes It will bo boy. Mr. J. Daff Hendorson hLas uot given up his intentlon of walking round the world In two years, but has marched from Torouto to Whitby aad given an exhibition thera. Devoe Bailoy, of Now Castle, Westchester County, N. Y., is tho latest oldest Mason in America to report, llo , andhealtny snd Mvely, nnd joinud the fratornity sovonty-iive years Y THE SHIELDS BILL. The debate in tho Senato day before yes- torday upon the House bill to place Gen. Bnreros upon tho retired lst was eminently characteristio of the demagognes upon the Democratic side. The bill was sptly stig. matized by Mr, Epxuxps as a bill to corvect o party mistake. That description sufflofent. 1y covera it both in its origin and its pur. pose. When Gon. Buier.os was proposed as a candidato for Doorkeeper of the Houss there was no opposition mado to him by Itopublicans. They rocognized the distin. gulshed sorvices ho had rendered his country iu the war with Moxico aud in the War of the Robellion, They recognized him as an old soldier, mmmed for lifo in his country's wars, poor in thls world's goods, rich in soldlerly honor, unspotted in character, and deserving of roward at the hands of the Gov. erament, and they voted solidly to give him aposition which would ylold him a hand. somo subsistence, nud which he could havo nmccopted without violating the sphit of any law, The Democrats, though Gen. Bmzos has been a life. long and ardent momber of thelr party, opposed him, and but two of their number bad the manliness to voto for him, ‘They refused to elect a gallant soldier who had fought for the Government in two wars, and who in hisold sgoig still erippled by the wounds he received, and selected a man whoso only record forthe place that he could offer showed he had fought to over. throw the Governuwent, ‘They substantially declared that Gen, Bareos waa not it to bo Doorkeeper of the House, or to be employed in auy department of tho publio service, so long as any man who fought sgainst the Government, in the Civil War wanted the place, It was an invitation to him to go tq the rear of the Confederato Brigodiers asd walt his turn, If the Bouthern crowd shonld not happen to want the place, he might bave it. The insult that was pat upon the gallant old soldier was an insult to every officer and soldier of the Union army. To cover up their subsorvienoy to the Soutbern Prig. adiers, these demsgogues now proposs to' place him upon the retired list withous ve- gard to provisions of law or the consequences such & precedent may entail. The Repub« ‘licans did right to protest sgainst it by offering the names of other gallant ‘officers who had dono good service and® who certainly have ss good right upon the retired list with full rank and’ poy as Gen. Smxios. In wakiog this pro. test the Republicans did no injustice to Gen, Smxrns. They had alresdy shown their ap. preciation of him by sustaining bim whon his fellow-Democrats kicked Lim out to make nize Democrat, to socure majority. Have am ures lawvors: edlior of auly Iiopuliiosn Daper &8 Ooe awyery fee, S0 Wil tako 88,060 for fiopublican t.m:_wr. Mud; Talss tnoney, Ceu's make fvs contlu ke Also the followlnz, which show that the $8,000 required to muke tho alove *‘purchases ™ was fusnished by Mr, Tinoex's fricnds: Bax Fragctaco, Do, o, 1810,70 Kuuntu drotkers, fro. 13 Hollstrve, Vet Fork: 'Flaa oy aacouns credis ¥ a2y llllulllll!l‘" “"v' fl"’f-m oux N, Nxw TORK. Doc. 8. —Juhn 'V, clace: Davis dopoatied $3,0U0 Aleo the following: ol bt o daltacy o1 Girecied, Cals ploroiods ot : hu'snua tochulcality pravent winalug, “Use your oe on, Of courss our Democratic friends will not bo at Joss Lo fully expluin tho sbove transactions and show thut all such elforts woro misde {n the intereat of reform and good guvernmout, go. 4 Jonnlo Juno's” daughter, by her hus band, Mr, D. Q. Croly, managing editor of the Uraphle, 14 about to take (o tho stage 84 a pro- feaston. Miss Msy Croly—hor stage uamie i» Esthor Hernuon—is about 10, agd {s describod 83 baviag guod looks, talent, and a likiag for scting, Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth Royesen s to be married on tho 27th of June to a Chicago girl. e Ellzabeth M. Keen, daughter of Mr, W. II. Keen, torwerly of Kesn, Cooke & Co., but now & resident of New Yok, The bride that s to be s 22, sl und gracetul, with regulaz, clear-cut features, and bighly educated. Tweod's dsughters hiave besn defonted In their anit to compel the Kalckerbocker Insurance Company to pay them the aniount of & feo-year endowment policy for $10,000 on thelr father's Iife. Hobad patdthe premlumon ft for elght years, snd the Company realated payment on the ground that he baa violated its conaltions by vs- caplng from the Ludlow Strect Jall and fylng to Spaln without glving It motice snd obtatning 18 permlssicn to travel abroad. Mary Anderson fs mora than pleased with her success on the stage thus far. At Shroveport La., sho says, **tbe ralu was four bours behind , and tho audionce waited until 10 o'cluck foe he performance to begin, aud durlug It tbey were not only goud-ustered, but cachusiastic, Bub tben, Now iaven 19 the place for me: (hose dear Yale boys are 80 delightful, low they raved over Partaenia, you don's knbw, Pusitively the far- tawmed gullesy gode of San Pranciaco were notbiug tathem. Nota santiment cecapod them unbeard, not & movemens was made which they did vt see.” " A Now York dootor lias & daughiter who ia Dow 22 yesrs old,—s perfectly-formed womas, with 1he exception of ber head, which'ls that of & pig'e. lerwotaer dicd n giviog ber birth. 8lo spesks 8 half-dozen langusgvs perfectly. She ) thoroughly sducsted. Belng debarred from all bomanu sssociation by ber mistortune, she bas sought and found partial alleviation in the cultiva- Uonot srt in sl ils forms. Bho bas ons of the purest, bighest, dnd truest souls. Bhe ls very religlous, —natarally s0. 8bo gocsoutlns closod carrlage snd with ber bead closely maffted, sod she spesks withoat any truable, but owlog W0 the pecalisr formation of her throat, wouth, sud nssal oryan the sound of hervoice ressiubcs yory closcly e aqueaking of & plx. cx, Orand Notel. . Puiriet, Bun Fran- 0. 1. UNTZE DROTUEDE Gen, Nutezs deliversd a fragment of a speech in the Houso yesterday in which he strovo to fire the heart of the workingmen of the Fifth Maasachusetts District snd the outlylng States, Tho Genoral's spesch was frogwmentary bocauss the idsa has somehow got abroad that when B, F, B, launches out upon the labor question ke, in common par. laucoe, gives bimself away, and lays bhimself opeun to the charge of demagogism, Indeed, an overgrown whisper, taking the form and semblauce, 50 to speak, of such a charge, wad wafted through the House in the widst of the Geueral's remarks, somewhat inter. fering with bis eloquent periods. Time was when tho averago legislator hung upon the glowing words of Burcza end tired mot. Now, one brief hour suffices,and no thought of extenslon of time Is eutertained, e —— Mr, CuirLEs FRanois Avaxs, thy *fraud- shricker,” improves the occaslon to unbosom Dimselt to s Herald interviewer, o denouuced the Republicans for moving an amendment to the Porren resclution declaring tbat the * gb- stinate conduct of the Republicans in Conuress strikes me ss & confcssion of guilt on thelr part! 1 T were in Congress, and s member of the Republican party, I would asslst io uo- carthiog a!l that might be charged sgolost that pasty.” Doea the refusal of the Democrats to permis the smendment to investigate Demo- cratic frauds ¢ strike him'' as a confession of nnocenced Blr. ADAMS also thinks the conduct of tbe Democrats Jn this crisls witl give them vrestige. Thbeir one-slded jnVestigation is gly- {ng them *prstige’! very fast—moro of it than “ will be bealtby for them. . e—— The Domocrsts blunderod badly oz the BuisLoa-Fietp Uoorkecoes business. They wero detcrmived to bave a Confederste to ro- place ths expelled FPorx. By voling sgainst Gen. Bristos they offended bis Irish frieuds, and to curo that act they rushed through the House a resolution restoriog bim to bis former rank in the army, and then retired bim on futl vay. Where such a precedent would lead to they did not stop o consider, aud did not care. What they were lotent upon was to get out of 8. bad scrape. It bhas been stated soveral times in the Washington dispatcbes that ¥15LD, tha pew Doorkceper, was 8 Republicsu sad oot 8 Demo- cra, and this sdds to the embarrasament of the A NEW BAIT FOR BUMMERS, Mr. Turey s a gentleman who does not - often make foolish romarks fn public or in private; wo biope his election as Alderman, in which capacity much good service is ex- pected from him, wil not betray him intoso bLad & habit. He spoke thougltlesaly, or else he made & palpable error in judgwent, when ho became sponsor for tho assertion that * the public sorvice will be much bene. fited by the payment of p fair compensstion 1o thoss who perform the onerous duties of Aldermenof s city like Ohicago.” Nooonfirma- tion of this statement can be found in ex. porience, aund we know of no theory which justifies it. For experience, weo need not go outside of Chicage. Wa bave two Logislative bodies,~—one a County Board, the other & Oity Board; the membors of the County Board sre pald, the members of the Oity Bourd mre mot. The County Board has besa notoriously under the control of a Ring ) ‘The author of the * Lex Parliamentaria,” in the conclusion qf his treatise, addresses himself to the people of Givest DBritain, in language equally applicabls to the people of this country, and declaress * There is noth- ing that onglt to be so dgar as & Free Parlis- ment,~—that i3, & House of Commons every way fres and independent; fres in their #peachies, debates, and determinations; + . . JSree from the fear or influence of others, Liow great sosver; fres to preserve the liber: ties of thoe subject; snd fres to guard the interests of tho pablic” But Ranpais seoms to bave uo idea of serving auything but the Dewocratio partv, The dolicate There s not that alacrity shown that might Lo gxpected of the Damocuu"_when it is raynuubered that thelr souls ard on fire . with tbo boly crusade they have uudertsken sgelust election frauds,—that is, the election frauds commwitted by the Lepublicans. It wonld naturally be thought that no time would be-lost in sallying forth on this mis- sion of political purification, the accom. plisbmont of which the country is supposed to await with feverish impatience. But some. how the Select Committoo scems in no hurry to gut to work; it has oot oven been anlled together by its Chairman for the pus.