Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1878, Page 4

e Tribware, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. T MAIL—]N ADVANCE—~POSTAGR PRRPAID. i ® 188 Specimen copl tre Give Post-Uttce addrexs in fall, Including Stateand County, Remitiances maybs made elther hy draft, express, Post-Oftica order, or In registered letiers, at our tiik. TERMS 7O CITY. SUBSCRIBENS, Dally, delivered, funday excented, 25 cents per week, 1 atly, delivered, Ennday Included, 70 cents por week. Address THK TRIBUNE COMPANT, Curner Madizon and Dearborn-ate,, Chicago, M, Ordera for the delivaryof Taz TRnoxE ot Evanston, Engiewood, and llyde Park leftln the counting-room S ilirecelve promot attention. \ TRIDUNE BRANCH OFFICES, me co Tnx Cnicago TRIRUX® has etabiished branch oflees forthe receipt of subscrivtionsand sdvertisements as follows: NEW YORK—-Room 20 Tribune Bullding. F. T, Mce Fappxs, Mansger, PARIS, France—No, 10 Rue de la Grange-Dateliere, H, Mantxn, Agent. LONDON, Eog.—American Exchangs, 440 Strand. Byway F. G1Lute, Agent, BAN FRANCISC AMUSEMENTS, MoVicker’s Theatre. Modison street, betweon Dearborn aad *'One Lie Lesds to Another ' sad ‘**Bweethel Afternoou and evening. 1looloy?’s Theatra. street, between Clark and LaSalle, **Chsmpaguo and Uysters.” Tiandolph Parx Thestra Company. Afternoon and evening. Haveriy’s Theatre. Monroe street, corner of Dearborn, Rice's Ratravas Ranza Comblustion. **Evangeline.” Afternoon and evening, New Chicago Theatre. Ciark street, opposite the Sherman Ilemse. ‘*Juse tice " and a Varlety Ollo. Afternoon and evening, ‘White Stocking Park. Lake Shore, foot of Washington street. Game be: twaen the Chicago and Cinciunat! Clubs at 3:43 p. m, BOCLETY MEETINGS. MMANDERY, No. 1, K. T, Asylum A D onctova: on thin (Samtian) sfternoon at ¥ o'clock prompt, sito at 7 o'clock in the istiorS wolcome. By order. oF 1ie Commander " ¥ - T o i DUNLOR: Nocorder. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1878. e Greenbacks at tho New York Btock Ex. chango yestorday closed at 99, Tornado reporta occupy a considerablo &pace in our columns this morning. A vaat destruction of property, with cousiderable loss of lifo, is the showingmade in namerous localities dovastated by the furious visita- tion. Mineral Point, Wis., seems to bhave beon the heavicst suffercr, though'a village sottloment near Barringlon, Ill., was foar. fully scourged by the storm. — e As n striking evidonco of tho progress of the rovolution in trausportation chiarges, we notice that yesterdny lard was sold in Liver- pool at 37.43 per 100 pounds, whilo the same articlo was solling -in Chicago at $0.53 per 100 pounds,~—showing that it costs less than $1 per 100 pounds to move lard from Ohi- cago o Liverpool. Cheap traneportntion bringu the producer nearor and noarer to the consuer, —_— The mischiovous practice of tacking all manner of legislation nupon nppropriation bills 4n Congress yesterdsy received a wholesomo check through the porstatoncy of tho Republicans in objocting to the considerntion of soveral clanses in the Army bill making obavges in the sys. tom of organization, Tho objections wero so clearly warrantod by o rule of the Houso prohibiting tho inserlion of new legislation in such bills that thoy wero sus. talned by tho Bpeaker, und Mr, Hewrrr, aftor roponted ubsucoossful attompls to avoid the strict npplication of tho rule, was finally compolled to move an adjournment. pia e katadiia Ay The anniversary of tho birthday of Queon Victosta wns yestorday colobrated with patriotio fervor by thu Euglish.born resi- dents of Chicago by n banquot wheront the bealth of tho **First Lady of Europe” was drank in numerous hearty tonsts, At Mon- tranl the Quoen's birthday was tho occasion of a grand military review, tho chief fonturo of which was the prosence of a visiting cown- pany of militin from 8t, Albans, Vi, 'Thelr appearance was tho exclting causo of much enthusiastio demoustration of good will, and of a vory handsomo spcech by Earl Dur. reaN, who welcomed tho visitors in the felicitous phrascology of which ho is such noted maater, E——————— The mafority report of tho Senato Com. mittoo on Prosidentinl Elections was yester- day submitted by AMr, EpMunos in the form of a bill embracing the viewsof tha Ropub- lican mombers of tho Committce. Frowmthe Lrief telographic summary given of the Lilt, ita essontial fontures appear to be tho naming of tho first Tuesday in Oo. tober for Presidential olections, and the socond Monday in Jonuary for the meoting of the Electors, thus greatly oxtending tho time during which any dis- pute way be sottled by a Stato in ita own way. Incase of an uusottlod disputa, it is provided that a single return from any State shall not bo rejocted except with the con. currenco of both Houses of Congress, and, iucase of double returns, neither shall bo rocoived exoept with the concurrence of both Houses, ——— The result of tho trial of the Gammrry l{mlhem at Genova, 1., iu a matter for pub- lio congratulation. Thoy took their cause to Kano County for hearing, swearing that they could not obtain justice at homs, and ou intelligent jury in the rural distriots has roturned them guilty of asssult with intent to commit murdor, and fied their punish- ment at two years' imprisonment in the Pevitontiary. For the vigor aud unceasing zesl with which the prosecution has been carriod forward to this satisfactory con- clusion the thanks of the communily aro duo to Joun Dowrixe, the complaining witneas whio o narvowly escaped death ot the hands of the two ruffiaus, Upon emerging from their retrent of two years at Joliet, tha Gan. wirys will find Mr. Gosx ready with anothior indictment for them to auswor to, so that soolety bus tho cheerful prospect of thelr absence for some years to come, The prudent and conservative wombers of the National Democratic Committee, at the recent meeting in ‘Washingtou, proved to be in & hopeless minority, and their wise coun. sels wero overborne by tho reckless rush of the younger members. The ndvicoof Mr. Goupy, of Nljuols, as to the injurious efects upon the prospocts of the party in this State of any step looking toward rovolution was unheoded, and Lis earncst appeal for the sdoption of a resolution dis tinctly disavowing any pwpose to fw- THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY. MAY 25, 1878—TWELVE PAGES, pair the title of President Harea was rejeoted by an overwhelming majority. Mr. Gounxy correctly represented the state of fecling in Ilinois when heasserted that a fails ure by the Committes to disconntenance the disturbance of the President's tenure wonld injure the chances of success of the Demo- crats in Hlinois in tho fall eampaign. His prophecy will be verified just ns surely as & single step is taken by the Democratic majority in the House looking to any inter- feranco with the result lawfally proclaimed Ly the Electornl Tribunal and ratified by tho action of both Houscs of .Congress. Tho Boston Commercial Bulletin states that as oarly ns May 11 all tho available space for tho transportation of livoeattle in the steam. ships leaving that port had boen engaged up to the 1st of July. Thisinclnded twenty-twa steamers, which wonld earry 6,100hend of cat- tle, The contraot price for freight wns from $27.50 to $00 per hend, the contractors be. ing Cnondian and Chicago shippers, The samo paper statos that tho season for Ameri- can enttlo in Eogland will ceaso about tho 1st of July, whentho Irish and Scotch enttle come into market and drive the American cattlo out. The prices in Tiverpool ond Manchester in April, May, and June range from 2105 to .$175 per hend. The English butchers, nat yet favoring the purchasa of stock by livo weight, continue to buy by the Lead. Contracts have also boen made with the steamors for the transportation of live hogs and shoep up to tho 1st of July. We undorstand also that tho steamers lenving Baltimoro have alrendy taken ont live cattle shipped from Chicago, and that the ship- ment of livo atock by that lina will become s permanent branoh of their business, WHAT “MEXICANIZATION” MEANS, Tho consorvativo citizens of this conntry have rocognized in the Porren echeme the first stop in the process of *‘Moxicanizing " the United States Governmont, and they propose to resent and resist it primarily on that account, The gonoral use and pointed application of tho term in the prosent situa- tion makes it desirable that every one should know what ** Mexicanization” menns. The word hnas acquired its meaning through the successivoe overthrow of overy gressor Ad- ministration except one,—that of Juanez, who probably escaped the common fato of his predeccssors and successors bocauso he died m office, The prematuro and compul. sory rotiroment of a President of Maexico is almost a8 certain ns his election, A now President ia scarcely innugurated before thare i charges of fraud of one kind or an- other; tben thero is a popular agitation stirrod up by the dofeated candidate or the partisan opponents of tho succesaful can- didate; then tho discussion extonds to the greaser Congress ; thon soma self-constituted leader of tho opposition **pronounces” a new Qovernmont; tbon follows elvil war, which resaits in tho overthrow of the existing Governmont, thongh not always in tho success of tho particular opposition that incited tho rovolution, beesnso some thirdand stronger faction may have grown up moanwhile. The process of overthrowing one Governmont and sotting up another va- ries, of course, according to the pecular con- ditions of each case, but, as the aim and the rosult are tho same, tho goneral term of ¢¢Mexicanization” applies explicitly to any project which overturns n Government prop- erly doolared under the forms of tho Cousti- tution by resorting to mothods outside of the Constitution, The Democratte majority in ono Houso of the American Congress inve entered upon just such a project. The very first Glovornment established after Mexleo achioved ils independonca of Bpanlsh domiuion laated less than a yoar, Ironsoe wan declared Emporor of Moxico, 08 the man who had lod tho successful rovolt ngainst Spain ; in less than six months Baxra Axna and others organized an insurrcotion and declared n Ropublic; a few months later Itunnior obdicated. This was in 1823, Porhnps this first rovolution under nn inds. pendent Government may be justified be. cansa it was agalnat o mouarchical form of government; unfortunntely, it sarved ny a precedent which lins beon followed perslst- ontly under the ropubllican form of govern. ment. A Republio was formed on tho model of tho United States, and consiated of nino- teon Btatos and five Torritorles. In 1828 Pepnaza nnd Guenneno were opposing can. didates for Prosident, Pronaza was olected, and, of course, Guenneno's partisans took up arms ogainst Lim. Thera was a long and bloody contost, which rosulted in the down. fall of Peonaza, who fled from the country. Thon Guzaneno was Prosidont & fow months, But during his Administration Spain at. tempted to regain possossion of Moexlco; QGon, DBustamextr, Vico-Prosidont, was in command of the Mexican troops, and took advantago of his position to * pronounce” agalnst Guzanzno; Guenneso was doposad, sud BustaMENTE Was President for a time, But Peonsza had come back, aud Le soon succosded Guznniho, only to give way Lim. self to Banta ANNA within less than threo months. After several yeara of revolution BaNTA ANNA becameo virtunlly Dictator of a consolidated and contralized Government, All tho Btates but Texus noquicsced, which led Banta A¥XA to altompt the coercion of tho Texans. This reunlted in his defeat and capture, Dustamente by this time was again on hand, and had himself proclaimed Presldent,—n ** revolutionary, provisional President.” Thon thero was n Nicors Buavo President for n woek, This was fol. lowed by a loug termn of dissensious, during which tho Government was batted about asiu 8 game of shuttlocock,~BaNTa ANNA, Bravo, Oaxarizo belug tho chlef playors. In 1844 there was another attempt at constitutional government, with 8ANTA ANNA 08 President, Heo woa deposed to make room for QOanarizo within a few months; Oanirizo sullarly gave way to Hesena ; Henena was driven out by revolution ; Gen, Pankvzs tried his hand for n tiue during the war, but a mau named Autsta soon succeeded the eud of tho war ; thon Santa Axwa, for the fifth time, was made President, ouly to meet with his customary fate shortly after, Alvanez wos the lender of the uext revolution, but ro- sigued {a Decomber of tho same year (1855) in favor of Comoxrosr, who lasted for quite 8 while by diat of coucuiation and strategy, but was finally ousted by Zvrosaa, who was imwedistely opposed by Juanez, the Ohipf Justice, who claimed the right of succession, Then thero woro two Govarnments ngain, Minaxon meanwhile deposing Zuroaaa, until Juarxs finally conquered rocogaition in 2861, But the vory next year the posscssion was disputed by Araoxte, who was deposed by the French General, Foszr, Then followed the unfortunate interregnum of MaxamiiaN, which resulted in hisoxeontion. Juanrzwas tho leader of the Mexican troops; and, tLough his term as President bad expired in tho weautime, ho *pronouuced” au exten- sion till ho could be re-elocted. He had the good fortune to dio in office (1872), oud was suceeoded by Leuno px ‘fazava. Of course this meant a rovolation, which was headed by Duz. First Diaz was driven out, but he returned and drove out Lerpo, Tarksias, Chief Justice, was Provisional Presidoht for nshort time; juat now Diaz is President, but, ns ho has Leen in office ever siuco March, 1877, ha probably will not hold the seat much longer. 'Fo-morrow, Lzrpo, Toreatas, or some other man may ‘¢ pro- nounce " and assume for a time the functions of Ohief Exocutive. s This running skotch of affairs in Moxico duning the past fifty years gives o bettor 1den of what is known as ** Mexicanization ” than conld be gnined from the most elabor- ate description. Tho strength and dura- bility of the American Government haveo been maintained by voluntary and enforced submission to the Constitntion nnd laws, A singlo departure from this rulo will throw this conntiry into all the confusion, anarchy, olvil war, ond instability characteristio of Moxican Government, Popular governmont without submission to tho forms of law Is n myth, Mexico would have been infinitely bettor off ns o colony of the most despotio Government of Europe than she has been undor mob rule, and her only permanent refuge will be in submission to her own laws or enbmission to n superior Powor. In aim- ing an iuvestigation now at the very ocen- pancy of the Presidentinl chair, the Demo- cratio cabal in Washington aro inangurating the Mexican plan’ Any chango in tho Prosidont’s offico, except by death or impenchment, will be a literal application of the Mexican mothod, and will inevitably be followed by Moxican exporie enco, As the Nashwille American points out, ** Congress exhausted its constitutional authority when tho two Hounses met and passed upon the Electoral vote.” The Eleot- oral Commission was just about ns much an sgont as a Speoial Joint Comimittes of Con- gress would hiave beett. Tho result was do- clared by Congress itself, Haxcs theroby becamo President for the constitutional torm of four years, If deposed before the expl- ration of that timo,—~no mintter what the protext may be or what clection frauds mny be sot up,—it will be au extra nnd nnconsti~ tutional procoeding, and will lead to the adoption of the Moxican methods, with all* tho disastors incidont thoroto. The Ameri- can people must be, aud we beliove they are, alive to tho torrors throatenad by any such procoeding. Tho only way in which they can bo averted with cortainty is by crushing the Moxican attempt at its very beginning,— for, ouco given a headway, tho monster of Revolution can never bo utterly and finally destroyed. Tho roal issue thoe Democrats have mado ia tho life or death of the Amerl- can Repablie. ‘THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOORATS, Tho Democrats of Penusylvania have just held a convention to nominate Btate officors, and though the Moxican programma adopted by the Damocrats in Congross is not ton days old, and wos in part of Penusylvania origin,so ovidont was the popular fudignation that the Couvention promptly denouncedany attempt to ralso nny question touching tho Presi. dent's title to oflico ns *“dangerous to our institutions,” Tho platform is a goneral do- nunciotion of the Republican party, and of its past and prosont policics, Horo is the opening paragraph, which may be taken os illustrating the wholo: ‘The Dcmacne{ of Penusylvania unanimously declaro that the Rapublican party, 1ts mensures, and {ts men are respousiolu for the financial dis- trevs, tho inisory, and want that now oxlet, It has liud control of the leglatation of the country, and hna eoocted 8nd perpeteated .EQ“C{ that has en- ncheda fow aud ftapoverlstied tho mauy, It wysiem of nance has beon ol of favors to tho moneyed monopoly, of unequal taxatlon, of ex- omption of clnseed, of high rates of interest, and of remorsulces coniraction, which hos destfoyed every enierprisg xhnz.gwc omployment to labor, 1ts prosent hold upon Fedoral power wus securod by fraud, perjury, ond forgery. Its laws are un- Just, anults practices ure humoral, ‘They distress the people aud destroy their substance, ‘The causo of all our proseat and past troubles, distress, finoneial soverity, and commorcial disaster, dates a littlo before the olavation of the Repullican party to power. ‘T'he Blaveholders' Ribellion was not the work of tho Hopublican party, and the War thus forcoed upon the country by tho Democratie followers and Cabinet officors of n Poansyl. vania Demooratio Presidont was the founda- tion of all our exlsting nationnl troubles, That War produced a rovolution in tho laws, customs, business, and finances of the whole country, A miilion of Northern mon were withdrawn from production, and put at the work of crushing reballlon in sixtoon Btates, ‘Whilo ono million of mon ceased'to praduca, thoy consumed or destroyed more than another million of men could produce, To sustain the uatiounl existence n debt was incurred, ranging as highas thres millions of dollars o day, Bocloty was largoly demoral- ized. The currency became inflated and deproolated ; wild speculation became gone- rol § tho old liablts of steady labor, plodding industry, slow galos, and prudent thrift wero abandoned. Mon sought to bocomo rich inamonth, 8 woek, or a day. Work be- came distasteful, and gambling and an ex- panded orodit system succceded. All men who could get credit plunged recklosaly into debt. Couniless stock companies or- genized without capltal, purely on gas, ‘The nation was tlooded With bonds and stocks, to pay large dividends upon which other bouds and stocks were sold. Oredit was 80 expanded that at last there was an oxplosion,—balloons burst, the air escaped; and all that was left was the shrods and patohes, the small substance surviving tho wrock aud ruin. The oxtravagant habits and modos of living adcpted by the people as an inevitable nttendant upon & wasteful war bave had much to o with onr national distress, Poople who abandon labor, and economy, and industry, and saving to engnge in spoculation flad it difloult, if wot im- possible, when tho doy of failure comes, to return to old slow-going Liabits and econom- foal modes of living. It 18 moro to the false tastes ncquired in a timo of extravagance, to bocowmo sharpers, gamblers, sdventurers, plunderers, aud generally dishonest operators. Ewbezzlements in publio and private busi- nesd wffairy, which were rara before the War, bave become so common at this day that thelr non.ccourrence i3 mow more remark. ablo than their duily auncuncement, ‘Tho financlal systom, the revenue systom, tho comwercial practices, tho jndustrial aud transportation interosts, were all revola- tionized by the War, and by the counse- quences of tho War, avd tho panic of 1873 was direotly tho rosult of the inflated crodit systom, aud we aro but fust now re- covering from the general prostration of 1878, 'Tho Pennsylvania Dimocraty, theres fore, will hardly ‘wuocosd in satisfying the country that the Republican party is re- uponsible for the general social, political, and financlal revolution produced by the Democratio Slaveholdors' Rebollion, and the distress and crime growing out of that wicked rebellion, As well denounce the Ropublicang for ereativg the War debt, or for the deaths of tho meu who fell in the fleld fighting for the Union. Tho rest of the platformis of the sawme lying, stamp.speech charnoter, and, whon it doos deal in specific charges, tho falsity is no lors apparant. Thns tha declaration reads ¢ The Republlean nartfi. by 1ts logisiation in 1872, which reaueed the tarill on bituminous conl from $1.23 10 75 conta per tan, and upon fron, stecl, wool, metals, paper, glass, leather, and all mane ftfacinres of each of them 10 per cent, struckn ‘:(‘a:llu?mwat the Indnstries and labor of Pennsyl- "Thae reduction of the tarif in 1872 was inspired by the fact that the Government 1iad ovor $100,000,000 surplus revenne. The amount of coal imported into the United States in thoe six yoars following that reduc- tion bias not nveragod an ounce to each ton extractod at home. It the fmportation of 450,000 tons of Dituminous conl aunually has been n ** fatal ” blow to Ponnsylvanis, then the welfare of Pennsylvania has been hanging on o very slondor thread, This Imported Nova Beotla coal wns used in Now England, where it had been used long befora the reduction of the tariff, and tho reduotion was made in the in. terost of tho manufacturera of thoso States. It nover Interferod with the salo of o ton of Pennsylvania coal, With rogard to the reduction of the tariff 10 per cent on the other articles nameod, it is only necessary to say that tho tex was re- storod after two yenrs, and that the quantity of those articles imported during the period of reduction was nearly 80 por cent less than it hnd been in tho two years previous, If tho prosperity of Pennsylvania is of such a fooble and preearious charactor that tho im- portation of coal to tho extent of half a million of tona a year, and a slight reduction of tax on other products, are suf- ficiont to provo "*fatal” to the property and to tho Iabor of the State, then Pounnsylvania is but one point removed from pauperiem, to which her own politicians, Democratio and Republican, have bronght her by the pampering proteative system. Another accusation is thns made: Our public dobt should by held at home, and the bonas representing it ougnt to be of small denom- inatlone, In which'the savings of the masses may be safely invested. A Lill authorizing the issuo of 4 per cont bonds of the denominntiona of $25 to 100 waa passed by the Ropublican Scnate throo months ago, but tho Democratic Houro hias rofused to lot that bill bo considored or voted. upon, having no timo to waste upon public mensures, thoir wholo attention being given to maturing the Mexionn plan of putting out a Prosident every time he disploases clique in Congress. ! THE HALIFAX AWARD, A correspondout ac Brussels telographs that tho Belgian Government is about to forward to Washington a complaint of the mannor in which Maunice Drrrosse, tho Balginn Minister and umpire of the Halifax Commission, has been treated Ly our Gov- ornmont. For the sake of Mr. Derrosss wo hopo tho Belgian Government will do nothing of the kind, Our Governmgnt has only failed of its duty to Mr, Dervosse in ono respact : It should have * bounced ” him 08 so0n 08 he yeturnod from Halifax, The verdict at Halifax was obtained by impropor moang, It was the result of an nnimus against our Government, or of the corrup- tion of Mr, Dzrrossz. In oither case, tho umpiro who made it Is unfit to act in adiplo- matio eapacity at Washington. Ifdie shonld get tho justico which tho Belginn Govern. mont ig enid to bo about to request for him, he would bo recalled on tho peremptory de- mand of tho United Stat:s Governmont, The moro tho Halifax Cominisslon is look- «od into, the blacker 1its transactions nppear. ‘Wo know not how to characterizo the action of the majority fitly excopt by describing it an knavidh, Bocrotary Evants' lotter on tho subject, recently submitted to Congress in connection with the Presidont's mossagoe, makes this cleor, Ho roviews the history of the Commission in a jndiclal spirit, and finds: *'That the represontatives of tho United Btatos Inld all tho facts before the Commission with diligence nnd candor; that the ouly privilege for which componsn- tion could bo claimed was tho ndmission of Ammericans to tho inshore mnokerel flsherlos; that the value of tho Amorican catel in these flsherios, on Onnadisn ostimates, did not excoed, for the five years in which the treaty had been in operation, 8472,368; that tho profit of these five yonrs could not have oxceeded $1256,000; and that (ho total mar- ketable volue of the privilego for which the United States aro now condomned to pay 485,433 por snnum cannot oxcood $26,000 annually,” This reckoning makes uo account of tho romisalon of oll dutios on Canadinn fish and fish-oils imported into the United Statos, whick was mado an important consideration in the Treaty of Washington providing for the Halifax Commission, The duty oxacted prior to this concession, If exacted during tho fivo yoars mentioned, would have produced a ravenuo of $200,000 annually from mackerol alone, and of £300,- 000 from all kinds of flsh (mackerel in. cluded) and fish.oil, If the balunco were proporly struck, the United States would be awarded §250,000 to $276,000 por annum as componsation for its concess ion of free trade to Cavads, instead of being ordered to pay to Canada nearly holf a million per annum. The jmportant point made by Svcratary Evants s that *‘the pecuniary messure aunounced by tho two Commissloners is wholly iucompatible to the very limited sub- ject subuwitted to the Commission for ad- measuroment,” The argument 14: 1t the Iigh Commlsslonars on the part of the United Btates coustdered {as they did] 1,000,000 as o liberal sum for the purchase, {u perieliity, of tha whala privileo of the iiatiors Hahiery, without any further advantayeous cons cosslonn In_exchange therofor, and 46 the High Commissioncrs on the part of Great firltsin con- widered tlo cxewption of the Canadian tuherlos from dutics on dmportaiion into this country so yaluably that such concesslon on bur part could not. ba dlvpensed wiih as an_clomout 1n tus vegotia- tlons, It seows dififcult Lo bellove that these emi. neut persons could have bad in miud, 1n the *4ube wiselon* of Art. 22 0f the tresty, the sume sub- ey of valuation wiilch in the uinds of tne two whery Comaiestoners furnied the basts of the valuation of (he award, It fs vital principlo of all arbitrations, whother publio or private, that * the award should comport with aud not transcend the submission of tho parties.” Hence tho fail- ure of the award to moasure the sybjeot sub- milted to the Commission may invalidate it, Congress must detormine; Becretary Evants says, whether the question of nou.conformity of the award to the submlasion should be presented to tho attention of the British Gavernment. Meauwhile, ke abaurdly advo- cates the appropriation of money to pay the awand, ‘We regret that Becrotary Evants did not have the courago to follow hus arguments to thoir logical conclusion aud sadvocate the re. pudiation of the award by our Governmont, That would be the only proper course for our Gavernment to pursue. The award s ox. orbitaut ; it was obtained by sharp practice, end the Government will be most rascally cheated if it pays the sum awarded. We bave no sympatby with the grand, lordly, *‘maguanimous,” and unbusiness-like way of dolng things introduced by Mr, Fisr into the State Department, which saddled this Goverumeut with an umpire secured in the British intercst, aud, by & procoeding of the moral complezion of a game nt three- card monte, bound us to pay £5,500,000 for twolve yonrs' enjoyment of a privilego worth loss than nothing to us, This was not' A caso for the exerciso of ‘“maguanimity.” Nothing was required but plain business principles, and noth. ing is reqnired now but the snme prin. ciples. The Government has two sufficient ronsons to refect the awand : the failure of a0 unanimons verdict, and tha fact that tho verdiot of the two Commissfoners ** does not comport with the submission of tha partios.” On either ground, or on both, payment should be refused at once, absolutely and forever. Tho money which it is proposed to vota nway is the people’a cash ; and noi- ther Becrotary Evanta nor Congross has the right to be wrongfully * magnanimona” with it. THE INDIANA LUNATICS, The National Greenback Labor party of Indiana began its platform thus: *'We declaro one feally to the Amorican monetary syatem,” It then * platformed " mensures of financial legislation which were distinet and flagrant contradictions of the American monetary system, and of ovary other mone. tary systom known to civilized men, The American monetary systom, beforo tlie War, recognized only one form of monoy ns legal- tender, and that waa gold or silver. In 1802, under the presanre of military necessity and as a temporary expediont only, Congress passed the firat legal-tender act. Every member of Congress who spoke on the bill ndvocated it as o war mensnre only, and as intended for temporary purposcs. When firat in. troduced the act read, ** For temporary pur- poses only the Sacretary of the Treasury be and beroby ia authorized,” ete. 3, BpAuLDING, the author and jntrodneer of the original Dbill, described it ns '*n mepsure of necessity and not of cholce.” Tnavprus Brevexs used precisely the sama languago in thesame connection. Mr, Frssexpex called it ** a tomporary measure,” and defended it on the ground of * nbsolute, overwhelming necessity.” Mr. Bouwzr was only brought reluctantly to connont to it **as a temporary expedient, renderod imperative by tho exi- gonoles of the hour” An examination of the debate shows that not ono member of Congress favored the bill excopt as s war moasure, and that all admitted it would bo ruinous a8 n permanont policy, Other mom- bors rofusod to vota for it oven on this pre- text, Owex Lovesor said, when tho propo- sition was flist under disoussion: *Bir, thers {a no precipice, thero is no. chnsm, there is no possible yawning, bottomless gulf boforo this nation so terriblo, so oppalling, so ruinous, as this same bill that is now beforo us, and that it ia proposed to pass under the prossure of {tho influencas brought to bear upon it.” These oxtracts, and many moro to the same effect, have been compiled from the dobates of CJongress nnd published. They show clearly that the irredeomable groenback legnl-tondor was not intonded by its found. ers to bo a pormanont part of the American monetary system. The Bupreme Court has since docided that the powar of Congress to issue legal-tonder papor wnsdorived from war nocossitios which overrode all writton laws and tho Constitution. The American mone- tary system now consists of the groonbacks thus anthorized, which are promiscs to pay gold and silver; of Natfonal Bank notes, socured by Government bonds and redeem- able in greonbacks; and of gold and silver, ‘What do Bucmaway and Lis foolish fol. lowers mean by confounding this American raonotary systewn with the fool's fiat monoy which tliey proposo to creste? Fint monoy ropresents nothing ; it is not redoomable in the only standards of value the Governmont of the United States hos eatablishod ; and it is opposcd to overy one of tho fundamental principles of finance laid down os tho Amorican monotary system by tho authors of the Constitution, and reaflirmed by Hax- 1LTOX, Apams, Franxniy, Jzrrensoy, Oat- nouy, Ouay, Wepsren, Jacxson, BenToN, Lixcory, Cuase, Brevexs, and every othor statesmaun of cvery political party, from the foundation of the Government to the pres. ent day, MORE BOUTHERN CHIVALRY, Ono oplsode in tho insuguration of the gronser plau] by tho Domocrats of the Houso shows tho partisan nnltnus of theso demagoguos in a very clear light. @ Poending tho vote upon the Porren rosolution, Mr, Onaro, of Massachusetts, moved to have Mr, Lonmya, who had been ill nearly a fortnight, excusod, s he was poired with Mr. Goobe, of Virginla, The motion was in order and proper, as it asiigned a satisfactory reason, Mr. Goope, however, arose and declared that the puir no longer existed, ns the Ropublic- ane wero obstructing business by flibus. tering. 'Tho declaration was an jnsufficlont one, and nmounted simply to an evasion aud pretense. Filibustering has always been rocognized as parliamontary by all partics, It it wore uot parliamentary, it could not be resorted to by the minority, Thers was then no. parliamentary reason why Mr, Gooox should break his pair, aud the question became ono of porsonal honor alone, and Mr, Conuzn was right in his statement: It is simply a question of hounor whether tho gentleman will break Lifs pair.” 1Mo put the wholo matter in a nutshell, There was no- other question, and it was not ouly & right, but a duty, for Mr. CoNoznto remind Mr. Goook of that fuct. Mr, Goope, how- ovor, did not regard the statomentin its rolations to Lis duty as the pair of Mr, Lou- 1xo or asamemborof the Houss, but as affecting that very sensltive quulity of Bouthern inombors, * personal honor,” A display of the old-time plantation manners of the chivalry onsuod. Striding down the alsle in melodramatio styly, aud brandishing bhis fiats in Mr, Conorn's fave, he dolivered himselt in & yell of the stereotyped sonti. ment: *Lat tho gentloman from Michigan underatand that I can taka care of my own honor, and if he ausails it he shall be beld porsonally responsible,” Having relleved himself of the oustomary Bouthern bombast that has been Leard so often iu that Chamber, Mr, Goonx roturned to bis place, and demands wore made of the Bpeakor that the language should be taken down and ruled upon by the Obalr, that a precedent might be established as to what was proper in dubate. The language having been written out, the Bpeaker ruled: * Tho Chairdeoides that the ofensive provocation (f) came first from the gontleman from Bichi- Ran, and that. you might as well oxpect & child not to *holler’ when struck, as expect & geutluman not to resent an offensivo ox- pression.” The ruling was what might have boen expected from'the pertivan demagogue who occuples tho chawr. There had been uo offeusive provocation. Ar. Coxaxz Ladstatod the exact truth in the fewest possible words, snd there was no other question, parliament- ary or otherwise, that could present it prop- orly and procisely. After tho fashion of the Southera bully, Goopz had con- atrued an entirely proper remark into an aspersion upon his * honor,” and fumed and blnsphomed ns scoros of othora had done be- fora him. Therenpon the Bpeaker trackled to the braggart, nnd, instend of regarding the question in its parliamontary aspeots, or making n decision in ncoordfnce with tho rules governing dobate, ruled in the interest of partisan profit, It is not tho first timo that this Bpenker has shown hiy Inability to rise above partisan meanness and malice in dealing with questions of parliamentary usage. By the strict laws of equity ns be- twoon man and mnn, Mr., Coxoxn shonld have settlod tho quostion himsolf, ©f e? armis, It Mr, Covozn had dono so, it, for- getting his Northern breading and code of conrtesy, ho hiad knocked the braggart down for shaking his flsta at him, the not would have been mora parliamentary thanthe parti- san ruling of the Bpenker, and would have tanght somo-of the Southorn Brigadiors a usoful losson in manners. ‘There may como a day whon somo Northern member, in a fit of absont-mindedness, will give some of theso Southorn gentlemen who aro so finical about their ** honor "alesson in politeness that will bo of value. Slavery having disappear- ed, it is timo that the manners of the planta- tion went also. The country is gotting sick of these periodieal displays of the Southern Goneral Boums, snufling powder, striding up and down tho floor of the Iouse, and bellowing about their honor, every time a Northorn member vonturos to spesk to ono of them. . Hotw compliment y be madae to ovolve ojit of nothing had a tina {llustration in Wisconsin tew dsys since. Somebow the report zot a start that tho Ilon. Horick Runiee, Chalr- man of the Republican State Central Commit- tee, was about to enter (nto business relations in Boston, and would immediately romove from the Badger State, sad also Imincdiately reslgn tho office that he held. \hereapon everybody began to compliment Mr. RusLes as ono of the soundest and best Ropublicans, and one of the most dlscrect and prudent offlcers this world of sin ever kuew, and to bemoon hia sudden doparture to the *kulchured City of Boston. And, procceding upun the assumptlon that he had or would resign, tho newspapers took a lively interest in his probable successor, and spread thelr soft-soap over the Hon. A. J. Tunxen, Rallroad Commls- sloner, the Hon. J, M. Rusx, late membar of Congress, and several other conspleuous cftl- zena who wero muntioned os fit persons to suc- cced Mr. llonace Runies as Chalrman, cte., ete, ote. Not only did this false report act afllrmatively, ns it wore,~for we hasten to ns- sure tho breathless reader that it was and fs false,—hut, like a sclt-sharpening agricultural implement, It acted negatively, and afforded the opportunity to display personal malico and other mean traits of human nature. Thus, for oxample, some of the newspapers made it the excuse for stabbing Mr. Keygs, formerly known fn polltical parlance as * the Boss,' aud for a long time Chalrman of the Ceatral Committoe, And the scab Munrner , who sapervises the edito- rinis written by MATT CARrPENTER'S Milwaukee hireling, {got in so%ie of hischaracteristic work, Impuguing the motivesand belitting tho serv- Ices of several prominent Republicans men- tloned a8 RubLEx's probablo successor. Mr. Ilzroert Brexcer, who is just now writing somo very interesting artléles on * The Evolu- tion of Ceremonial Goverminent,' such as mak- {ug obolsanves, giviug presents, and the like, might add snother chapter Lo his work on * The Value of Compllincnts,” The Dally Murphey ot Milwaukeo swouldfurnish him with some very lvely specimens of left-handed compliments conceruing prominent Ropublicaus taken at random from its editorial columns, In the neantime, tho Republicans of Wisconelu are to be congratulated that they are not to loss Mr, Rusniae, though they may bo glad that tho re- port of his resignation ufforded the opportuuity to discuss the merits and demorits of several lively and ninbitious politiclans, e ———— ‘The President of the Reading, Pa., Coal Road, Mr. Gowzn, writes a letter oxpressing his opinfon that there will be no “rallroad strikes ** this summcr, 48 many have apprehended. Mr, Gowzx eays In hls letter to the Philadolphia Tress; Bin: [ have baen much surpriscd article in your pavor of to-day, headed the Knights of Labor, "o which 8 great many loortles arc tuken with my name aud with that of the Company of which 1am Prusident. WHI you kindly eny in tue next lssue of yonr paper that thers is no truth whataver In the statemout that Tam_ apprebensive of any lawlosanoss, of that I huve at any timo sinco Ias wnnmor taken any steps to gunrd the property of the Company. ~No armed forco v belng organu- ized, nor do I belive that thero is uny necessity for way. ol:r reading an ‘Tho Press, commenting on this, remarks: AMr, Gowex's judgment tnd Informatlon difer from our own, aiid also froh that of tho Mayor of Philadelphia and the military nuthoritles of tho Commounwealth. Hoth tho city end the Btate ad- mintstration are taking wise muasures 10 bain coudition to elluctively renress the first outoreax: of dunger, and prevout tha reputition of the do- structive violence of last aummer ~aud that with- out any apaclal stiomnt at wecrecy. ‘The Indianapolls Journal speaks thusly of tho partisau demagogue and revolutlonary rascal who uow dlsgraces the 8peakor’s chalr: ‘When Sax ItaxpatL, of Penneylvania, was noml- nated for Bpeaker of the lfouss of Heprescntatives, the Journal wpoke of him as a narrow-winde demagogue and unscrupulous partisan who was chasen to do the dirty work of tho Confed, Domoc. rucy, and who, {f° occasion uruee, woul bluisolf the most malignant and law- wan whko had ever occupled thy Spenlier Hls courec as Speaker has fully Justified this pro- diction, aud recent events yive very marked vm- Phasia "o it. Thuaretically the Speakerof tha louse knows nothing of ‘party politics, 1Mo is therv to sdminister parllumontary law and to hold tho scale of justice with cqunl hand regurdlcss of opular of partlean clanor, Speuker RanvaLs ias dono nothing of tho kind, o .has shown fa- vorittum aud prejudice in many fustances, and in the Jatast rovolutlunary weheino of the Democracy own himsolf to be o malignant and con- t celcns partiean. 11ls rulinge were {u ulter de- flance of parliamentary luw, snd the record will show that he piayed the paLor tvrant as woll as rascal. It mnay be thet hls bigh-handed course will secure him the approval uf the revolutionary elo- mant In the Demucratio party, but it witl ruccive the unqualided condomnation of all bonorable snd tuir-winded men. - ——r—— Scuator Oaresny opposed the LIl to restore Gen. BiixLLS to the rank of Drigadler-tieneral, and then retire hlm on a ponsion of 84,152 year. Ilu opposed 1t on.the grouuds that it would be an unjust discrinination sgoinat scores of oflicers of equal rauk, and thousands of brave and deserving offlcers of lawur rauk, In the course of s remarks ho saids An occurrence took place recently, {n connection with which Gen. BuscLos’ name, clthor wittingly or unwittingly, was brought pronsinently befure the couutry, aud 1t so happeued that in ihat Aeld be feli sgaln. 1o was wouuded severcly and foll in the Moxican war; Lo wad wounded aud fyll in tha last war: and fu the unfl‘fumml which accur~ red but & fuw days aco lio foil again, Llerotufors he had falion by the bauds of the cnemy; the lust time, 1 beliove, ho fell by the hands of nis friends, And on accouut of this wound recelved {n the house of his friends, it is formally propoaed to placo his name oa tho retired Mst with the ranic and pay of & Brigadler-General. The purse of the taxpaycrs, then, s to assusge the blood which fows from the last wound. ——— The New York Sun—TiLDEN'S ' fraud’- howliog organ—argues that the wixed Commis- slou of Congressmen and Judges appulnted by Congress to ascertain who had & majority of the Electoral votes—Haves or TiLDuN—was an il legal Commission, Docauss it wus fllegat, it conferred o title on Hayes, and therefore no title wis conferred. - Bam TiLDEN [furnished this “legal oplulon,' aud the Sus howls it; but sl the Bouthern papera do uot arrlve st the Sun's ** therefors "—that Haves filegally bolds the Executive office, and that TiLpx should bo put into it The Nashville Awmerican, com- meating onthe TILDEN-Sun view of the *fraud" question, says: The Sun aays the Commissfon wos fllogal. It gconferred 1o title, therefore no title was conferred. ‘The concluslon s 8 non sequitur. 'fhe Comumie- o conferred no titlo, but Congress did. Thbat ¥ oxbausted it cunstitutions] sutbonty whea the two H % met and passed upon the Efectofal Yote. 1ta functions u the Presidentisl etection are Hmited by belaz dofined {n the Coustitutivn. ‘Fbe expresslvn 02 ouv thing In o kraud of power is the cxclumon of another. excapt a8 to neceses monna to carry Into offect puwors anocifiod In thy frant. Notitle s complots untll the two thoneiy ave met and passod upon, or counted, strictly—counted fn _thicie b{ themselver—tho Electoral i s In done, the Congroes e, ax to that duty Junetus oficio. 1t han exhansted la conatitntions powers, It can never, uuon Any pretense, ruvive hem or use thom again, If fraud were mountair high, it were better left alonc nntil the nezt clec. tlon then to attemot to do what is clearly buying any grant of power cxpressed or Implicd. Aa 1o menns of sxecuting the power, there e little room for tatitnde; but ae to tho manner of its exercisg in 1877, thero la no room for discusslon. ‘It the Commisslon were clenrly iliegal, which 1t (s nog necessary to afiirm or deny, it was mere surping. nge. The two Houses mat and performed na to the count all that the Constitution requlres, Al tugether it appears to us that the agreement ho. twveen thewe oxtrenies [ of little consequnnce, and not ikely to mako a revolution In populae sentj. ment ur political activn. - The story has been wolng ths rounds thay Fisx's famous phrasc, ' Gone where the wood. blue twinoth," orginated in tho fact that hig cronles were particular patronsof a popuiar metropolitan drinking-house, now being torg down, called * The Woodbine, from the fact of its belng covered with greenery. Fisk's owg cxplanation was that he had, as & Yankes peddler, noticed how frequently In houses in tho country s woodblne or some other creeper was trained round tho spong conveying rafn-water from the roof, and that, having occasion In court to answer s questfon as to what had becomo of an acqualnt. ance, and thinking that *¢ O, ie’s gove up the spout,” would sound vuolgar, he replied, poet. feally, “0, he's gons where the woodbing twioeth,” ——— The eminent Italtan publicist, Sianor Rug- areno Bonant, Is the latest contributor to the clucidation of that puzzlo about the triple alij. ance between France, Italy, and Austria on the cveof tha warof 1570, which European diplo- atlsts are discussing so angrily, Ho makes out that Italy never contemplated seriously taking part i an offensive alliance, being in. clined to rest satisfied with the results of Badowa, but Inferentially points out that Naroreox coulduot see what VoN Beust did,— that aoy actlon of Ataly for Austria und Franco against Germany must Inovitably ba preluded by a satisfactory solution of the Ro. man question. Probably tho secret of the whola matter Is this: NAroLzos's counsolors of tho moment would rathor risk svelue tho Prussiansin Parls than the Italiags io Rome,~ and saw them both. —— BioN CaMERON s sald to have remained away from his son's wedding becausc of his fear of raflroad-uctidonts, which keeps him from rallrond-traveling. And yet a acat on a loco- motive rauniug under the guidanco of an intox- fcated engincer over o rond haunted by fufurl. ated **Mollfo Magulrcs" is as nothiug com- pored with the Blege I’crilous on the enfoty- valve of Ponusyivania polith e ——. An coterprising flrm of New York theatrical managerd is sulug ao Enelish actress gwho wauts an engagement, beeause in & recont lects ure she sald something that hurt their alleged fecllogs aud damaged their alleged character. ‘The correspondouce s spicy and the parties to 1t can bave it given the advantage of Trg Trin. UNE's advertising columns at tho usus! rates— cash, ——— Our friends of tho Bouth used to declare that, under the rule of Mr. Hayas, the South en. Joyed more benefits than 1t conld possibly have recelved undor that of Mr. TitorN. When they are reminded that thoy are just now conspirlog torevlaco the rulo of Mr. HAYES by that of Mr, TiLDEN, they witl probably rcply that this proves thelr disinterestedness. ———— The sentiment of tho American people is decidedly against the introductlon of the “rgreaser'! movemont, They prefer the Mexte cans should have the monopoly of the Institn~ tion. The Porrer Democrats who are so ent amorod of the “greascr" style of upactting Presidential clections had better go to slexice and stay there. Tncase tho Domocrats should prove all they would lke to, and Mr. Hayes, forgotting ‘whenco ho derlves his title, and laboring under arush of quickened conscicoco to tho head, should resign, the next Prealdent would bo WitLiax A, Wueeten, and the next Vice Prosident Tuoxas W. Frruy. f Tho culchah of Boston s shown by the fact that at the swell theatre, the Globe, during the past scason, of fourteen companies that pald & prufit, slx wero devoted to burlesque or smuttis ness, aud that the most profitable of all wus that engagotuent where tho ‘most lo—imb wus dlsplayed. —_—e—— How long will lavzestuy in the Whito Housel-+ New York Sun, ‘TIt March 4, 1881, sonny. s i e ‘This timo the Dumocrats have got the 7, bup we've only got 8 and Dex. e —T— Imported Republican orators will be allowed to take the stump fu the South this year, but native Republiean voters will have to tuke the mp, as usual, either apulied to the back or the necky unless they stay at home, et — . Our New York namesako [s always speaking obout “Tho Wouders ot the Fress.” Onu of the wonders of the American press is what Jar QouLp keeps ou publishiug the Tribuns for. ———— “Mexicanized" {sa zood and popular word, Bo used to be “recoustruction.’”” Yot wo fancy that “recoustruction {s now a phitologival rathor than o political survival, PERSONALS, The Trenton (N, J.) Stats Ggutls hat nominated Gen, Orant for 1880, Marfori, tho ox-Queen of Spain'a friond, bhas Just been elocted to the Spanivh Cortes from Lojabya @. M, The Bhah of Porsin has takon a villa.ab Yieons, sud will settle down there for some mouths, (Vienua 13 noted for the besuty of ite women, ) Wade Hompton has sont to Mrs, Custer, #t Monroe, Mich., her husband's flold-glas, which hud been plcked up by a Southern cavalrymen &b the Lattle of Brandywine, Mrs. Grontorex's * Summer Etchinge " hat been printed In an Kastern suction catalogue a8 *‘Urvat, or Ex-Sumwmer Etchings.' Which it nearly as good us the well-known novel, **Baroy— by ludge.” It does 1ot seem very likely that New York will got Its musieal collego aftor ail, aa Mz Samuet Wood's relatives Intend contesting the will 1 which ke baquesthed hls property tor the fudd datlon of such an fustitution, ‘Tho Countess of Paris has given birth to a Princess, and Fronch papers recall, the evend baving tsken placoat 1 s, m., tho superstitious bolief which exlsts In the 1louss of Orleans thal »ll of its members born alter widnlght ate deatined ta be lucky in life. 8inoe 1818, according to the Euglish re- ports, more than & hundred English Jows bave beva convertod snd ordalucd, and o the ity yeard ondlog In 1875 there were Laptized into the Protestant faith at the Falestine-placa Chapely London, 760 sdalt and 615 younger Jews. Provost Paradol's daughter took the black vell o fewdays ago at Parls. Casimer Perer's nloce, & widow, who Lad vnlered rellgion at bed busbend's dostb, died the same day of dissass cuns tracted while nuring & sick child in her ward of tho convent hospital, Oardinal McOloskoy was welcomed upos bls return o Amerlca by Father Lewls, of Statel Island, who bosrded the or from the Quaran< tlue boat, and, hastos 10 the quarteg deck, selzed the Cardinsl's hand, prostrated himaelf, and rovereatly kissed 1be ring, almost before the Cardloal saw bim. Au entarprising Brooklyn gexton, having ztroduced the father of & younz man (o the motber ©of & young woman, sad tbus cuntributed to bringiog sbout the marciage of the youny veople, got $0 from the old geutleman (or securing & wife por- tioned with 82,500 for his son, and tried to geb $75 trom the old 1ady for gotting a huaband for ber daoghter. Whea be weut luto coust, Lo was nods aulted, of couzss,