Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1878, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TIURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1878. Thye Tribune, TERMS OFMURIPTION. DY MAN~IR ADVANCE—POATAGR Pl?:;lfl:’i:‘ favor Lis nomiantion by the Btate Committec, Buch leading, rcputable, ana trustworthy Ro- publlenn newspapers aa the New York 2(mey, and Kvening JFost, Harper's Weekly, tho Utlea Jlerald, the Buftalo Commercial Adeertisrr, and Rochester Lemocrat and Chroniele insict that o Conventlon shall bo called so a8 to enabla the half-a-miil{on Republiean voters of the Empire Btate to express, through their ropresentatives, thelr views upon tho vital fssucs that have been raised alnce the assembling of the last Convene tion, But Mr. ConrLiNG I8 too wisc for that, and as he has the State Committeo which holils over, and it 13 not at all certain that he conla control ono chosen Jnat now, hoe {s likely to pre- went the holding of a Conventlon. How asshiu. ously the man works to make the election of a Republican Prestdent in 1830 an impossitility ! . i Licut.-Gov, DorsnsiMar, of New York, has been baving s long conference with Citizen Justus Bonwarf, ona of the heads of the New York Commune. He does not deny the story, though he s alittle annoyed at the publicity that has been given to the affalr, and declures that thero was nothinz political {n his mission, tint it 1s the duty of members of the State Gov- ernment to post themselves unou tho wants and feellngs of tho humblest of thelr constitucnts, and soon. Our grandmother’s ducks! thopnper. An intoresting episodo ocearred in the shape of a collision betweon Jndge Cox and Gen. BuTrer, in which tho latter wns sgvoroly taken to task for his partisan rowdyism in the cross-oxamination of witnesses favorable to the Ropublican side of tho investigation. DBurrEn was first permitted to show his hand as more hostile to the Presidont and the Adminlstration than any Democratic membor of the Commitleo, and thon was robuked in a manner that ho felt most keenly. In slort, Buren was thoroughly sat down on for the time being. intorest on lonns which of themaclves woro illegal and void waa also illegal. 2. Tho case now progontod diffors from that in tho Law caso, IJoro it ia not a enso of temporary loan. It is nn fssue of orders on the Treasury, drawn agninst speciio taxes, appropriated for specific purposes, payable by the Treasurer whon such taxes aro collected, which Treasnry orders aro paid ont and acoeptod s payment nnd in fall discharga of all liability on tho part of thocity, This charactor of paper tho Bu- promo Conrt bos affirmed to bo legal, be- canso ita fasue involves no debt or fature linbility on tho part of the oity. Tho fesno of such orders enn only bo considered valid on the ground that the tax levy is a vosted right or a lion in favor of tho city on the proporty taxed, which lien takes precedenco of all othor kinds of in- dabtedness on the proporty, and can only ba discharged by payment. It also concedes tho legal right of the city to nssign the whole or any portion of its property for corporato purposes, The City Government may nsslgu it proparty in a fire-engine or a house in paymont of supplies or servicos it the purchaser will accept it. In like manner it mny nssign for supplios and services a part of ita property in the tax lovy., If for ma. threat of tho Privy Councillor sto the Lib- erals that Lo wonld lot looso an army of workingmen npon them; his presonce at the Gotha Bocinlistio Congresa ss the repre- sontative of Bisvancx; tho contribution of publla money to the Biledian weavers in thoeir couflict with the manufac. turers; the friendship of ' the Gov- ernment with Lusaite and his snccossor, Vox SBcniwrizen; the contributions of prom- inent Bocinlists to Govornment papers; and tho refusal of the polica to quell Socinlistic demonstrationa ngainst Liberal meotings, It was this Government nntrition, the Lib- orals claim, that has developed Socialism ns an active force in Borlin, and it was not un- til it began to nssume & very formidable as- pect tinder such encourngoment that the QGovernment abandoned it. , Do this os it may, the Government recontly introduced & Dilt authorizing the most absolute And snme mary mensiires agninst any eocieties, meot- ings, or printed mattor having Bocialistio alms in view, and loaving tho police a3 judges of what was Socialistio aud what waa not, Aunamendment was also offered de- fining tho torm * Boolalist,” and restricting tho action of tho authorities to those who aro gecking to mako radienl ¢havges in ox- isting property lnws Both the bill and the Union was prociscly tho samo which sug. gosted tho invitation to an {nternational conference that has beon issmed by the United States Government, For somo yoars provious to the formation of this Union tuere had beon a gront Influx of gold into Earope from the Australisn and Californian mines, incronsed by the incidents of tho Civil War 1 the United Btates which led to tho use of gold a8 monoy in this conntry, The dis- turbance ocensioned between the two motals by this circumstance taught tho ndvisability of intornational union to maiutaln a fixod standard, Tho practical domonetization of silvor by Germany, occnrring ot a timo when the silver yield of the American mines was oxcoptionally abundant, was a new element of disturbanco which indnced tho States of tho Latin Unlon to limit the colnage of sil- ver, This Union noeds now strength to re. sist tho disturbanco ocensioned by the ad. herence of Germany nnd England to the ox- clusive gold standard, nnd such sssistanco is offered by the United States, juat on the ove of our own rosnmption. Of course, thia proffer will ba recolved favorably by all the States of tho Latin Union, and it {s not un- likely that, a8 a rosult, England and Germany will stand alono in the effort to establish and featiffed that thero wns a deiiherate conspiracy amang the Republican managers not to have a eingle Republlcan voto cast in the parish, but In this same letter he dctalls hia own work In sccuring the registration of the negroes, says he is making an effort to get up & parish ticket, and urges AxToins and PACRARD to como down In porson to give the Republicans some conrage . Itvonldbodiffcult for ANDER- B0X to have condensed more lies fn the brief time given him when ho was recalled. DAiR- RALL'S testimony fully beara out ANDERSON'S sclf-confessed character as & tar, DaRRALL #ays that ARDERION always told him that the so-called SnERMAN letier was signed by Stovon- TON a8 well as SurnMAN; but the alleged “‘copy ' of ths letter submitted to the Commit- tew has BiERMAN'S name alono. For this and other reasons, including AxpEnrsoN's false pre- tenses a8 to tho powoer which be could exer- clse In Washington, DARRALL has come to the conclusion that BiERMAN never wrote ony such lotter as ANpEnsox says he wrote. This DARRALL swears to Lo his honest convie- tion, and it 13 the conclusion that impartial peo- ple camo to somo time ago. DARRALL also awears that ANDERION always told him that there bad been so much {ntimidation and vlo- Ienco fn East Fellciana that the Republicans did not dare to vote, and that he nad menttoned the names of many prominent Republicans of the parfsh who had been bulldozed. Is there any limit to ANDERSON'S capacity for lylog? § 7, one Yartsof a vear. per moni WERR T Onecany, rer yeat Chertaler . Frecimen coples gent tres. Give Tost-Uice sddress in fall, (ncluding Btate and County. Rew:lttances maybe made elther by draft, expres, Post-Ofice order, orfn registered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY BURSCRINERS. Dally, delivered, Runday excepted, 28 cents per week. 1 atly, delivered, Sunday tneluded, 90 cents per week. Atérems THE TIIBUNR COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Cheago. Il It would appear, from tha conclusion renched by Hewxny ¥, Frenom, Assistant Becrotary of tho Tressury, in the matter of tho investigation into tho charges of fraud and collusion in the construction of the Chieago Custom-Honso building, that tho only persons of prominence guilty of any ncls deserving of consuro are Mossrs, Wirrray Iexgy 8urra, Collootor of Customs, and 1L W. Tnoumsoy, Assistant United Btates District-Attornoy, the gentlemen who have B0 earnestly and patiently Inbored - to protect the Government ngainst the raseality that has been practiced in the work of construction, Mr, Orders for the dellvery of Thx TRinuXz at Rvanston, Fnglewood, snd Hyde Patk leftin the counting-room Willzceelse promot astention. TRIBUNE B H OFFICES, Tny CNICAGO TRINEXR has catabiished branch ofiees for the recelpt of subscrintionsand sdvertisements as tolloys: NEW YORR~Toom 20 7ribune Bullding, P T, Mo- Fapnax, Mansger, T'ARIS, France—No, 10 Rue ds Ia Grange-Datelfere. . Maniun, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 440 Strand. lirsny l’: L] A t. ———— The Thiladelphla North American began its existence in 1771 ns the Pennsylvania Packet und 4 e TR General Advertiaer, wihich in 1784 swallowed tho BAN FHANCI ~Palace Hotel. Fuexcn hing po words of roproach for the torials worth 8100, the party furnishing will | smondmont were rejeoted by tho ‘very | maintain a singlo gold standard. Tho significauce of the election in Belgium | Amerlean Datly Advertlser. Then cawmne (1789) AMUSEMENTS, contractor who ronped tho benefit of the | necopt ag paymont in full on onder on the | decisive vote of 267 o 32, show- | Tho Zimes professes to regrot tho necassity | Wil scarcely bo misunderstood by careful stu- | tho Gazelts of the Uinited States, the Fveniuy {frauds, nor for the officlals whoso duty it was to deotect and prevent them. Tho blamao is chiefly loented upon the 15-per-cont contract system, together with tho partios who prosecuted the investigation. dents of European politics, Tha Liberal ma- Jority, though small, Is suiliclent to Jusuro the downfall of the present Ministry, which ropre- sents tho Church party, and with ¢ wilt go much of tho repreasivo and reactionary lezfsla- tion for which it is rcsponsible. The drift of affairs fu Belglum during tho past twenty-five years has been {no this direction; but the pre- ponderance of the Cathollc strongth at the be- ginuing of the conflict was so great that [t has not been overcoma until now, Perkaps it 1s still too soon to say that it has been floally overcoma., ‘The victory may not b pormancat. Another election may show & Catholfc success. But whether this shall bo true or not, ono thing 15 cartaln: That the prestige of the Catholle party is gone, and Its absolute supremacy deatroyed, There is no evading or mnlsun- doratanding & result of this description, The issus in Belglum has been sharply defined, 1t has not boen merely between the Ultramon- tane and the Liberal parties, as in [taly, Swit- zerland, and Austria, but between tho Catnolles aod aoti-Catholica, The Catliollcs baye been outvoted at lnat,—~for the first tima since the election following the Franco-German War,— snd tho voto mcana that tho scparation of Church and Btato bas been decreed by thoe peo- ple of Bolgium to take place sooncr or later, Ona other consequenca ts that the Catholle Church in Belgium has lost numerleally, It has so strenmoualy fuslsted upon its claim to the tomporality that it has driven into disohe- dicnce muny of Its former adherents, They liave been compelled not merely to vote azainat, but to leave It; and havae left It because the bit- terness of party passion hias destroyed whatever affection thuy onco had for tho Church, e STANLRY MATTHEWS has richly earncd the titie of the donkoy of the Senate, As Congress adjourns ina fow daye, the Scoato Investiza. tion Committeo s pressed for Lo to go fnto Matrimwa* delectable relations with *Trathful Janmes,” and It was proposed to hold Bunday scsslons. When this was objected to on ro- liglous grounds, the Bountor who urged t—per- haps Judge Davis, of Iliuola~justified the secming violation of the Sabbath Ly quoting tho followlng Scriptural passage: * Whichof you shall bave an aes fallen into o pit and wil not o straightway and pull him out on tho Sabbath day??” Without undertaking to defend MaT- THEWS agolust this aspersion, It reminds us ot another Scriptural conundrum cqually applic- nblo to the Oblo Benator’s antagonlst, ANDER- BoN: “Doth the wild asa bray wheu ho hath grass? " Troasurer for $100 payable out of the tox lovied for the purchnso of supplies when colleeted, tho transaction is entirely legit- imato and Iawful, All this is conceded by the Supremo Court in the Bpringfield case, But when n man farnishes supplies to the value of 21,000, and ngrees to accopt in paymont an order on tha Treasury, he is ontitled to an order that is worth at tho time $1,000. A noto pay- ablo one yoar after dato is not worth its face unlesa it boar interest. A Trensury ordor, payable a¢ o future day when the tax s col- lected, hns not a present worth equal to the sum named on its faco. If the city havo o horse, or an engine, or a lot of land to give in oxchango for aorvices, it assigna the prop- erty at ila ngroed value. Is tho city, having tho legal right to nssign an interest in tho tax-lovy, the right to sssign so much of that iuterest in the tax-lovy as will bo equal in wvalno at tho time to the agreed valuo of the | supplios fornished ? In other words, can tha city, having no cnsh, nssign 8100 of the uncollected tax in paymont for services worth 8100? The present worth of an order for money, payable in the future, s that anm which at the tima of payment will bo worth tho amount ngroed to Le pntd. Tho diffor- cuca may be assumed to reprosout A just rate of interest. Thus, n note for £107, paynble a year henco, may bo considered as biaving a present worth of $100, Is the city precluded by any law, or Coustitutlon, or other obligation, from giving for §100 worth of supplies an order on the Treasury, pays- ble o year honce, for §107, tho present worth of tho order being tho ngreed equivalent in valuo of the supplies farnished? The legnl right to nssign tho eity's right of property in the tax.lovy, in whola or fn part, belng declared and recognized, has not the eity the logal power to nssign such portion of the tax-levy ot tho best rates it can obtain, at o premium, or at a discount, or at its prosent worth in exchango for monoy, sorvices, sup. plies, or other valuable consideration? If the rate of 6 por cont per annum bo accept- od as the measuro of tho present worth of tho oty orders on the Troasury,—being the fonn of assignment of tho uncollocted tax,—hns not the city tho legal right to assign to the payes. o certain sum equal to the considora. tion recolved, with an addition, computed at G per cont, for the time clapsing bolweon the dato of the assignment and tho collection ot the rovonuo by the holder of the ordor? Admitting the powor of tho city to nasign tho tax-lovy, or auny portion of it, {a thore not, of necessity, included tho power to fix tho amount of tho considoration to bo re. ceived? And ia thero not of equal nocessity the power to troat the timo Intervening bo- tweon the date of the assignment and its fu- turo payment ns part of tho contract of snle, and to jucludo in the assignmont and as part of tho considoration an nllowance computed at n givon rte of porcontage? If the clity have powor to assign £107 of tho un. collocted tax in payment of 100 worth of supplics, 18 it not oqually legal for tho city to nssign §100 of uncollected tox and interost at tho rato of 6 per cent until such {ax {s col. lectod? In neithor cose is thero any now dobt crented or lability fncurred. Tho Tronsury order, once accepted, is final pny- ment, aud no furthor obligation reats on the city. This rensoning, itseem to us, has somo forco, and it is possiblo may have nn lu- fluonca ou the Court, which tribunal, it must be remembered, has not decidoed that interest cannot bo pald on Iawfully-dssued papor, It ing thnt thero was an inflexible do- termination by the Parllament that the Exceutive should not be vested with extraor- dinary powers, that were in fact oxtrn.jn. dioinl, in dealing with Socialism. Following quickly npon this rofusal tolegislate in favor of the Governmant camo the two infamqus and cowardly attempls to take the lifo of the Emperor. Thers is evidence to show that Dimtapck had detormined to dissolve tho Parlinment bofore theso nssanlts. Had they not taken place and hiad Booialism gone be- foro tho peoplo upon the lsstes of the bill allnded to nbove, it is not imnpossiblo that tho Bocinlists might have turned tho scale of the elections, or st least have largely in- cronsed their majority. Now, however, Ly their own insane fury and cowardly assnults upon the Empoeror, thoy have inconsed the German peoplo and brought odium upon thelr eause, Thoy struck at & man who above nll other men in the Governmont was onshrined in the heartsof the Gorman peo- ple. With the oxception of the fanatical So- cinlists, all Germanarospected him for hisirro. proachablochiaracter, for hisplain, simplo way of life, for his frank intercourss with them, and for the glory ha had brought to the Ger- man namo. Tho reply of thoe Crown Prince to tho addross of the Municipality of Berlin, in which ho declared that his faith in tho logalty of an overwhelming mojority of tho nn- tion was unsbakon, indicates that this eleation will be based upon tho issue of the loyaity of tho peoplo as agalnst Socialistio nssasaination, With such an isaue it is almost s forogona conclusion that tho peoplo of Germnany will most emphatieally condemn the Socialists ond reassort their unshaken loyalty. If such shall bo the verdict, tho SBooinlists havo only thomselvos to blame forit. As. snasination has mever proved n permanont romedy for any ovil; on tho other hand, it has nearly always recoiled upon the heads of thosa who have connseled and committod it. THE SILVER _CONFERENOE-' TIMES" NONSBENSE, The Chicago Z'imes has somo particular writer who scems (o havo boen assignoed to trentmont of finance on nccount of his con- splenons ignorance of all tho historieal and scientifle facta connected with tho subjoct, Thus untrammeled by any {aformation on the mattor, ho feols at liberty to make all statamenta conform to hia thoories, with a bonignant disrogard of the truth., This freo and independent writer onfinance has under- takon to corroct Tae Trinune in the matter of the International Bilver Conference, and 08 n basis for the corraction calmly snya: Now the fact happena to bo that Bwitzorland and Tielglum have accepted tho invitation, while France and Ilaly hare not, 'Tho only countries that have thua far wlenifled thelr accoptanco of the Invitation aro Belrlum, Switzerland, (iroece, Rumia, and tha Hungarlan sectlon of the Austriay Emplrd. Tlo' fgnoramus noxt asserts that Grecco doca not belong to the Latin Union, and could not, forsooth, because Groece is not a “Latin" Stato! It scems liko wasting time to give informa- tion to porsona who don't want it and won't use it, but the Z¥mea’ iguorance moy botray othora equally ignorant. Tho fact {s, that Bocrotary Evants recoived dispatchos last Sunday potifylng him of the nceeptance by both France and Italy of the invitation to Jjoln in the Conforonce, and signifying thelr intontion to appoint Commissioners, On Monday Inst Trne Tainoye printed this Wash- jugton dispateh s fecretary Evanta to-day recclved cable dis- pathies announcing that France and ltaly lave sccepted the invitatlon of the Unlted States to by present ot the International Monetary Confurence. Becretary Evants ways that thie scttles beyond of admitting that the **Conference is a fail- uro in advance.” If the T¥mes is sincero in this profession (though its former position on tha silver question makes this very doubt- ful), it will bo glad to loarn that its despond- enoy is morely the result of its own igno. rance; and that, so far from being a ¥ failuro in advanco,” the Conforenco suggested by the Unitod Biates promises to Jond up to an international monetary leaguo inflnitely stronger than tho Latin Union over was; that this Loaguo will agree upon o bi-metal. lic money of a fixed relative valuo; and that even puch Powers 08 England and Germany will discover evontually that they eannot af. ford, for ronsons which we have herotofore {ndlicated, to rofuso their racognition to tho double standard, Advertiver (1703), the United States Gazetle (1504), the True American (1320), tho Commercial Chron- fels (1820), the Unlon (1820), the North American {1890), tho Commerctal Heraid (1840). and Jawns E. Anprnson (1878). It lsapaper of an un- bounded stomach, e—— The Texas Pacific bill 1 one of the few sneanuren before the Forly-Afth Congress 1ehich npena @ icny of relief to wi loyed labor and capital, No ono denies tule, —Lourarilte Cour,-Jour, The sentenco should bo amendel so as to read: * It §s the chlef one of meveral measures befora Congress which opens s way to relles the Treasury,”? Mortgaging the proverty of the peoplo to furnislt subsidlcs to a rallrond-con- struction ring is & poor way to help efthier labor or capltal, ——— Mr. D, P. Stunns, the Jowan Greenback patrle arch, began o speech at Mount Plensant tha other day i n somewhat ramarkable manncr— for a Natlonal, the first and fundamental article of whoso political creed s that all exlsting pollt- Ieal organizations aro naturally, fnherently, and hopeleasly corrupt. IHo maid that thers was something good 1o all partles. Te ought to know, for, like Gen. BANKS, he has bolonge:d to them all 1o tho coursc of his checkered politicat exlatence. McVicker’s Thentre. Mndison street, between Dearborn and Btate. # Uncle Tom's Cabln," Hooley’s Thentres Ttandolph street, Dbetween Clark and Lagalle, Union Squsre Theatre Company, **The an of Buce ceas.” Judge WiLutama yesterday dolivered n judgment on tho bill filed by the County Commissionora asking an injunction to pro- hibtt the uso of Bedford stone by the city in tho orcction of tho west hnlf of tho building on tho public square, and to compel tho city to use Lemont atone, ns is now used in the cast wing of thebuilding, The Conrt rofused the injunction. The contract of 1872 botween tho city and tho county contained no pro- vision reqniring thestonato be used in tho two wings to be of tho same character or from tho same quarry, and the Court did not dis. cover any power on ks part to cularge the contract or to changoe it. Tho only sgroe- ment was that tho two parts of thoe building sliould Lo of *'uniform character and ap- penranco.” 'There was no question s to tho qnality of the Bedford stono for the purposo. Tho evidenco ns to tho color of tho stons after tho lapse of timo was varied; it was conceded that both kinds of stoue wonld change in timo, and after all perhaps the differonce in color, if any, might bo slight. IHowever desirablo it might bo to Liave tho wholo building built of the samo stono, the parties concerned had decided otherwise, and tho Court had no power to compel thew in their cholco ono way or tho other. Finveriy’s Theatre. Monroe street, vorner of Dearnurn. Afterncon, **Butteray Ball," Evenlng, ** The Black Crovk.” Terahey Musle all, Madison strect, opposite McVicker's Theatte, The Midgets, go Thentre, horman Iouse. Cal Wagner's New Clark street, oppos! Miustrela White Stocking Fark. Lake Shore, foot of Washington sircet, (Game be- trveen the Milwaukee and Chicago Cluba at 3:45 p, m. McCormick Iall. North Clark street, corner of Kinzle. Apolio Club Coneers. Tho Europenn Congross moots to-day in Borlin, It will consist of all the Powers who wero signntories of tho troatics of 1856 and 1871, It will discuss tho etipulstions of the prohiminary treaty of San Stefano, concluded botweon Russin and Turkoy, and tho accept- ance of the invitation nssumes tho consont of thesa Powoers to the froo disoussion of the wholoof tho treaty. Boyond this, however, nothing {s binding. Not one of the Powaors binds itself to accopt tho deeision of the Congress. Should any of thom refuse, it is not obligatory npon the others to go to war to onforce it. 'Thero is good reason to bo- liove, howover, that the decision will bo such ns both Russia and England can accept without any injury to their amour propre, and that Dmsanck haa looked out for this in the momorandum ho has pro- pared alter intorviews with Deacoxs- rzLo and Gontscmaxorr. If Russia gets Boasarabin, a foothold in Asia Minor, and'n fair indemnity, thoro will be no prospect of difficulty, 8o far s Bulgnria s concerned, tho genernl question of the emancipation of the Christinng from tho Turkish yoke Is nlrondy wottlod, and ‘the ndjustment of the bonndaries is a mattar of dotail that noed not involvo any ruptura’in tho relations of Rus- ein and Englaud. If Russia, howaver, s dissatisfled with tho terms declded upon she can insist upon refusing them, sword in hiand, and it England is diesatisfied sho nlso ling tho privilege of fighting, and none of the other Powers aro bound {o help oither party. This Is the sum and substanco of the Con. grosa, Merchants' Ilank Duilding. Corner Dearborn aud Madison, **The Btrasbneg Clek," THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1878, 4 Greenbacks at tho Now York Btock Ex- change yesterdny closed at 99, Gen. Dick Tavzon, one of GrANT's critles, has been building up an claborate story on the strength o! an nlleged conversation with YIaL- s.eck which he had *In 1874 or 1875." Inas- much as Uen. faLueck died n January, 1872, it 1s urged, aud not without force, that thers Is something dead in Dicg's doughnut, s tho mountaincereas safd about the fsh-ball, L Whether the plous and sympathizing Con- greaslonal Cummittee, by violating the Babbath day, can pull tho ass (8. M.) out of the pit, s very auestlonable. Clristlan duty perhaps requires them to try, but heis too deep lu tho mifre to leavo much hope of successful extraca« tion. And if ho Is holsted out, in what a plight ho will bol e ‘The New Orleans Democrat, the organ of the Loulstana bulldozers, speaks of Jery DAVIS o3 tho *honorcd Chfef. of the Coufederncy.” Evory timo it takes his name it makes a salaam osud hows ita empty pate to the ground, Tho fallen Luclfor of tho Slavoholdera® Rebellion s tho god the bulldozer organ worships. Yesterday's progress in the disposal of necessary legislation wns such ns to give promise that businoss will bo tolorably well inkeu caro of by next Monday, tho date fixed for the adjournment of both Louses of Con. gress. o Senato in partioulor put in some Lrisk work, pnssing sixty-four bills on the talendar, among them the Deficlency bill. THE LEGALITY OF THE CITY ECRIP, There {8 now outatandlug city serip of threo kinds, and covering oxpenses of dif- ferant yenrs. These nro: 1. Serip issnod prior to 1870, bearing interest and drawn generally agalnst tho tax-levies of thoso yeara; 2, Tha acrip of 1877, bearing fater- est, but drawn against specifio taxes levied to moot specifio approprintions; 8. Tho serip of 1878, similar to that of 1877, except that it bears no interest. Of tho first, tho nmonunt outstanding is now sbout §400,000, and fa gradually ro- dnced 08 the unpaid taxes of those yoarsare colleoted, Assuming that the city bad no anthority to jasuo auy of this class of serip, tho Appellste Conrt at its lnst torm docided that a court of equity would not interforo to prohibit the city paying over to the holders of tho scrip tho tnxes against which tho scrip wns drawn, s0 that class of scrip will ro- main until itis flanlly oxtinguished by the collection of old taxes not yet paid. ‘The Suprome Court, in tho casp of Law sud tho City of Chicago, held that the city could not pay intereat on borrowed mionoy oven whou thero was o direct approprintion of intercat and a tax Jovied for that purposo. As there was no appropriation to pay in. terest on tha scrip of 1877, aud consequontly o tax levied for that purpose, it has beon sssumed that, in addition to the legal objec- tion to tho issue of auy serip in any form for any purposo, tho intorest-bearing obligation renders the serip of 1877 illegal ond void. This caso was argued beforo the Appellate Court at the lnst term, and it was then held by that Court that che scrip even bearing intorest was logal. In the case of the sorip of 1878, the question was claborately disoussed be- foro the four Justices of tho Oircuit Court, and subsequently Lofore the threco Judges of the Appellato Court, and thesoven Judges unanimously held that the scrip of 1878, beiug drawn against specific approprin- tions for which spocific taxes had boen o slico of the Lake-Front property received o final set-back yesterday, so for as tho pros- ent session of Congross s concerned. Tho Honate, vpon motion of Judge Davis, in. definitely postponed tho bill graunting the Bravrpiey heirs cortain pre-emption rights to a portion of the old Fort Dearborn reser- vatioti. 4 Tuesday's premonitions of serlous dls- turbance in Quebes were reslized yostorday, "Tha civil authorities wero of no sccount in the adoption of mensures to successfully «opo with thq mob of rilrond kttikers whish' had set all law and order at dofiance, and the tardy nrrival of the military falled to anaterially improve the situation, For one day, atleast, Quebec was given ovor to mob rule, Tho Star {s a hrl‘zht. sonsible, able, spirited, capital paper, We like It. ~The worat thini about 1t Iy that ona Who gots hold of It is obliged to read the whole of It This touching tribute to Josx KzLLy's morn- Ing Tammany organ appears In the New York Ezpress. (P, 8.—The Ezpress 1s Joun Knrix's ovenivg Tammany organ.} ——— Profs. Youxo, Bnrackerr, ALEXANDER, and Rackwoon, and about half-a-dozen post-zradu- ates of Princeton Collego, will go out to Den- ver to observo the solaraclipse of July 20, Tho expensos of the trip, including tho transporta- tion of much apparatus, have been goneroualy assumed by ono or two friends of the fustitu- tion, 1t hns boon proposed that tho Junlor Class of the Chicago University go out to the samo vicinity, in company of a counlo of the Pro- fessors; but the number will probably bo small, a8 no ono hero has volunteered to assume the expenso of tho trip. Miss Mania Mitcnxrs, of Vassar, {s also oxpected at Douver with a party of students, e — Wa learn from tho American Sociallst's Chica- go corrcapondence that Comrade MORUAN has lield a good meetlng at ilyda Park, L, and established & new section in tho Rock Island shops. It also turns ogoin nod rends Mrs. Bwissnzny for cnticlsing Citizen A, I Pan- soNs’ views on * Economlcal Liberty," saylng, gracefully and gently: 1t in so difficult to turn upon 8 woman, even ree man-mungl{. (ar lcse in o spirit of denunciatlon, that we hardly know low to deal with this empty wranglors. thie, what the Scotcly would call, * iy o auld "bodfe.! 'Shio s evidently ignorantof" tha laeger meantng of the word *leconomy.’ 8lme plicity s oeautifol fn many things, we admit, but in the diecusslun of the comiples, and fn the criti- cism of the profound, it iu at ali'times In the way, —— BTANLEY MATTIRWS 15 not only an nss In g ity but & braylug donkey out of i, fifs loters viows In the Cluclnunati Commerciat are as unfor- tuuate as his letters to ANDEUSON, In tho last —————— The New York Iferald’s *Roman Prelate® has come to the surface again, though ft has been shown that his letters are literal transla- tions from & Fronch boolk published somo months ago, Of such is the journalism of the motropolis! ten transaction, showlng that purchasiog snd selling the votes of States Is no new thing for tho leaders of the Domocracy. In 18H the vote of .Buuth Carollua was sold to Porx iu con- slderation that Brain should not be the organ ol his Administration, ¥For proof reaq the fol- lowing, to be found on page 050 of tha sccond volumo of * BENTON'S Thirty Years ¥: 1L was In tho month of August, 1844, that a lesd. ing cftizen of South Cavolina, and a close friend of r. CALIOUN, one who had boon at the Baltimore Presidential Convention, but not in it, arrived at Mr. Pul’s rovlonco in Tennessoe, Liad an inter- view with bim, and made known the conilition on which the vote'of South Carolina for bim might be depondent, The condition was to discontinue Mr, ILainas the organ of tho Adminiatration, If he shonld bo elocted. Tha Electoral vote of the Siate botng In the hands of the General Assembly, and pot in tha peaple, was disposaulo by tho pofts ticlane, ond had been habitually disposed of by them, and even twico thrown away i the space of o fuw years. Mr, PoLK was eorialn of the vote of the State if ho agroed totho required condition, and he did wo. Mr. Brain was agreed to be given up. ‘Fhat svas concossion to Mr, CaLuouy, to whom Mr. BLAin was gbnoxlous on account of hla Insxorablo cpposition to nullification snd ite sutior. B, BLain was aleo obnoxious to Mr, ‘Lyean, becausoof tla determied opposltion ta both him and his Adminlstration, 'Tho Giobe nowspaper wax a xpenr in bfw side, and would con- tinne to bo so, and to get It out had been ona of the unxletics and labore hie Presidontial life. 1le had exhausted sll the schemed to quist or gain it without success, A printing Jobof 0,000 had Sotna of the geod fruits of tho revolution- nary movement gel on foot by Titpey's Mex- jcanizers were snade manifest at yesterdny's meeting of the Ohio Republican Convention. ‘I'ho necessity of union and harmony in the Ttepublioan rauks was so clearly recognized by the Convention, thanke to tho combined efforts of Porren and Gen. Burnen, that tho implacablo olo- ment wos placed in o lopeless minority, aud a &quare-toed iudorsemant of the Presi. dent, and an equally square-toed condemna. tion of tho P'orren conspiracy, were adopted Dy o majority so great as to amount to a vractically unanitnons voto. ! If a rope over a pulloy could be fastened around BTANLEY MATTHRWS, Judge Davia mizht nave avoirdupots cnough to puil him out of tho pit. | The New York Sun hasa heading, # Nat Much of a Rovolution.”” The New York Sun Is right. 1t lan’t much of o revolution. l ‘The Democrats are always dropping thelr TDread and butter, and it always falls with tho buttered sldo down. ? Has the Bonate Cowmlitteo a derrlck witn which to holst STaNLEY MATTIEWS OUt 0f tho ANDERSON piti PERSONALS, Queen Viotorla rides in a $30,000 railway- car. Honry M. Childs, of Buffalo, was the flmt mole boarder to reglater at tho Park Aveunne (lato ‘Women's) lotol, Mr. Tlewir's attack on the Rock Island Arsenal onded in total fallure yosterday. His nim was to eripplo tho institution by cutting down the appropriation for its support to a fignro which would practically compel n susponsion of operations nnd turn over its manufactures to the iron bousea with which ho is supposed to bo connocted in intorest, but the House, } dontt the auestion of hulding tho Conference, tholssuo of th scrip bo lawful In any in- | The acceptance of France: thesin. (iroece, and | deot Sons o sation bl 1o avold thet suspiciun | Interview lio says: “Stump-talled, yellow-haired pup,” is Ly a declsivo mojority, rofused to despoll tho | lovied, and which whsfssucd withoutracourso | oyonoo 1 Gonrt will hedly sny that lawfal | 1aly Wil posibly cause il the reat bowste of | fess et e hanlor. and tho Job was takes awoy { - T udmlt thas T was not long In dlscoverlng, aftos | What tbe Cyntbiana (Ky.) News calls Sonator La- maguificent Goyernmont property at Rtock | agninst tho city and without intercat, was blo ¥t tha fiib ¢ bone | EUtme o participate, Austto-llungary 1s ox+ | whon partly exceatod. | It niw becamo tho in- | 1obtalned posterelon of those yapots, that AkpEns | mare of Miselaslppl, Island, and voted & handsome appropriation lawful, In tho Bpringfleld case, tho Eu- paper, payablo in the future, may nol ar | pected to accent, while tho Cablnet In | turest of Alr, Poii 10 aaslsl Mr. TYLEW, und It was | ¥OX was willing, If opportunity should arise, to Enzland la dividod, becretary Evants says o nlehit ho would not e aurprlved i1 (ireat Hritain should finally nccept, The place for holding the Congress hnd not been declded, but It {u thought Tarte will bo selccted. The New York Tribune had o slmilar dis. patch from Washington, Its dispatch said: With the addltlon of Russla, Holland, Greece, and _probsbly Austro-lungey, the twu Powerd named (Franco and [taly) will ‘constitute quite an august and tmportant body, whose delibwrations wiil doubtlcas iead to valuable aud interesting resulta n all Internatlonal manotary questions, hesides giving 1o Uik country the benefit of tho oplujons and results of sho policy of those nations, Tho Now York Zlerwld hind tho same 1nfor- mation on the snme day, and enumorates as the Towers that hinve already consented to tnke port in the Conferonce France, Italy, Russia, Ilungary, Holland, Switzerland, and Groece, and adids that “tho Conferenco will Lo strong enongh to command the attontion of tho world,” and that, **if tLe Couforence can ngree on & propor ratio botween silver and gold, founded on tlelr prospoctive fn. trinsio value, thoro need Lo no difieulty in muintaining silver as part of tho goneral money of the world.” ‘Thls is equivalent to sayiug that tho mouotary uso of silver at a slewdy ratio can bo maintained by the co. operntion of tho nations which havo not dumonetizod silver, and that the assent of Germany and Eugland can. bo dispensed with, if they shall porsist in zefusing to sequiesce in the double standard. ‘I'be Chicago 1'mss seoms to have been “loft" in rogard to this importsut news itew,—a thing which constantly bappens at the Washington ond of its live,—and this accounts, porhaps, for tho misatatements of fact which i{ makes, Thoasscrtion of tho Z'imes fhat Greeco is not 8 member of the Latin Union 1s equally untrue, aud that it could not Lo because Greoco g not & Latin nation is absurd. Tho **Latin®” Union is simply & designation adopted because the proponderating eloment in the original combination was of Latin origin. It was formed in 1885 by France, Belgium, Italy, and Bwitzerland, but Greeco waus adiittod soon after, and haa siuce been reproseuted at the annual conferences, and beon governed by the rules and regulations of tho Undou. Tho purposo of forming tLis Mr. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, is authority for the statement that not ono mombar out of ten makes uso of tho Congresslonal Library, Honry Bergh is at presont conducting o crusado agalust the practice of docking horses® tails, Nexthe will atcompt to stop whipping horses in races, A chianco for Goorge Francis Train and that 8t, Paul doctor wa once heard aa much about: Martin Moran, of Cosington, Ky., challenges any ona to compete with bim In fasting. The Ancient and Honorablo Artillery Com- pany of Doston has had the same drummor, Maj, Dan Bimpson, for sixty-clght years, sud the same 0fer, Maj. Sianley, for Afty-seven. Lawronce Barrott will not appear on the stage with 6 woman dressed in tights, ecently at Han Francléco they had to altera cast of *¢lawm- let* whero an actress had beew cast for Osrle, Edward Eddy's sou, Olinton Edd, been indores, e sack mischio i ot und fn dnir 1o prompted by & wish to take from Lim the tompta. tlon to make mischief. ‘The Democrats sro making the most of this asinine admigsion that ho wanted to ged AN- DERSON an aopolntment in order to induce him to keep his mouth shut! e bad botter bo lefs 11 the plt—Sunday or no Bunday. e ———— The Tox 8corr Texas Pacldc Bond Subsidy bill hias been postponed until the first Monday of unext Docember, whereat tho Loulsville Cour.- Jour, weeps aud guashesits tecthaud says: “The poor hirelinga of HUNTINGTON, from the South, who declare that the Texas Paciflc bill will not beneflt the Bouth, aro not so Idiotic as to deny that it will Infuse Iifo fnto the Industrivs of the North." If the Tou S8corr obstructionists will staud asido and ceass playing dog in the manger, the HusrinaeToN Company will speedily push their road from Fort Yuma across Arizona and Lower Now Alexico to El Paso ou the Rio Urande. S It will ba remembered that Bex BUTLRR, who is reported to be anxious to have President Jlayes impeached, was the Jeading prosecutor in tho Impeachment trial 0f ANDREW JOUNBON. ‘The success that attended bis efforts on that oc- caslon {s not caleulated to Inspire confidence fo tho public mind that the Genoral would achiove greater results with the uvscatiug of Br, Havzs ss bis objective point. If be under- takea {t, the effort will be & socond Fort Fisher flasco, There will be considerable smoke, a great. nolse, and & terriblo smell, but nobody burt, The Utles Hepublican, Seustor CoNkiiNag's private convenience, remarks: It s often ssseried that sho F'reafdent e carrying out the Cincinnati platform. i v dolng nothing of the kind, aud be knowsit. 8o does evury well- {nformed man. le bis, as regarda bis conduct toward his plr({. violated nearly every principle A Clekraty Ttk Dot Tosemood o e ) s fala . Senie. wheihor thay know itor por 0S84 Ban What oflice has Mr. CowkrLing recently souglt for a frieud that bie thus wourus bessuse ho found 1% not? & e e——— “ Convention or no Conventlon," is the ques- ton in the Republican partyln New York, The only Blate officer to bo elscted this foll is s Jus- tiee of the 'Court of Appeals, and the ConxLiXG orgaus with one accord declare that it would be u pity to goto the expense sad trouble of call- 12 8 Couveutton to nuwinuts & candidate, sud done, Commenting further on tho above, the Xe publican wigniticantly romar! The State of South Carolina sold herself to Porx vory cheap. TILOEX tnid 8 great des] more to get the asmo vote in the Nominallng Couvention. While Porrsn's Commitive has its hand in, why not {nquira huw mach money TiLuxx pald for the vote of Texas in thar Conventlon? Hiu umissary to thas Htate le nuw in the cliy, sud hle teatimony will bo luteresting, prewmo Court stated that it was Inwful for Ao city to fssne an order against the rove- nue, the appropristion belng wado and the tax lavied, provided theae orders involved no futuro liability on the part of the city, and wuro {asued and accopted as paymont, Tho Circnit Judges and tho Appellate Court Lold that tho kerip of 1878 was cloarly within this dofinition of o lawful Treasury order, and theroforo waa constitutional and legal, The scrip of 1877, bearlug Intoreat, wos acceptod whon issued at par, and iy now worth par and interest. Tho scrip of 1878, not besring interest, has nevor boon markot- able, and tho streot prico is 85 cents, though the Cltizons' Association hns agreod to toko a part of it at 92 conts, It will not bo avail. able in paymont of taxes until after Jauuary next, when voluntary payment of taxes may bo mnado; Lut as the enforced paymont of taxes will not take place until August, 1879, the holder of tho scrip will bave to hold it until ho pays his taxos, Theso soveral casca have beon takon to the Buprome Court uow in secssion at Mount Vornon, and the importanco of the decislons, as well ss that the doclsions ho bsd at an early date, s obvious. In tho first place, the uso of serip for moeling ourrent expenses has bLecome a nocossity, but the timo which this scrip has to run, from ten to eightecn months, is too long to keep it at pur unless interest be allowed. Unless the Court sbiall admit that such scrip may bear intcreat, then the further fssué of it will be attended with the greatest loss and embar. rassment, There {s, howsver, a strong expectation that tho Bupreme Court upon the rehearing will revoke the judguent against the pay. ment of interest, and among the reasons for this hope msy be stated the following: 1, In the caso of Law, the Couvt decided that tho city had 0o legal authority to make temporary « loans, its indebteduess being already in excous of the constitutional }uit, ‘I'his point having been dotermined, it fol- lowed that to levy a tax for and make on sppropriation of wonoy and the payment of to keep tho ansonal {o full operation for tlie ensuing year, THE NEW GERMAN ELECTION. By virtue of its authority and with the gaunction of the Emperor, tho Foderal Coun- ol of Gormany Lias dlssolved the Parlinment and orderod & now eloction. For tho first time iu the history of the Empire, Bacinlismn is made the Issue of an eloction and the Governmont appeals to tha people to ascer- tain thoir sentimonts aud decido what sball be done with an jsm which doos not stop short of assassiuation to carry out its ob~ Joots, In view of so important an election, the ovents leading up to it are not without interest, Booinlism in Germany is not con- fiuod to ono class, There i4 & Hoclalism of tho lower classos which s cquivalent to the Red Ropublicavism of France, and haa iu it all the elamnonts of disorder, which aro linble ot somo time to bresk out in au cmoute oy violentas those which have characlerized the Vronch Comumune, or our awn moba last summer, Thore is a Socialism in tho lit- erary classes which takes the shapo of fruve criticism of tho lawa of proporty aud equally froo suggostions of sweepiuy changos in the methods of holding and diswributing it. Thero is & Soclalism in the Ohurch, led by certain clergymen, who, upon the assuwption that Oumist was s Ho- cialist, seck to carry out its dootrines among the workingimen by urging them into strikes and making them dissatisfiod with thoir con- dition. With all theso differing elements of Boclalism tho Governwont has had to con. tend, and, according to the statemonts of Deputies in Parliament, it has pandered to the Boclolism of the lower classes in order to old the Liborals 1o check. In the do- bato upon the Anti-Socialist bill, Herr Lasges, the leader of the Moderate Liberals, allogod that & Soclalist was roturned from Dresden in the last elsotion because of the active endeavors of the Court to provent the roturn of & Liberal candidate. Duputy Riouten alio mads charges to'the samo ef- foct, and cited several instances of official connivance with Soclalism, such a3 the Tho Committeo of Bonators assigned to the duty of making a report on tho oxtraor- dinary propensity for ** putting his foot in t” displayed by Mr. Braxtey Marruzws in his denlings with Axpenson yestordsy took up that part of thelr task which jucludes tho cxamination of witnesses, M, Epuunps heing absent ou necount of ill-health, Mr, Avumoy will act as temporary Chairman, Out of defurenco to BMr Matruews' feclings and wishes, it s to be . Diesumed, the OCommitteo docided not to admit roporters o its sittings, but will allow o roport of the proceedings to “bo takon by tho Associated Press, It ix not unlikely that Mr. Mayrapws’ comfort has slso beon cousulted in the declsion of the Committco to proceed with thelr labors forthwith, justead of waiting until after ad- journment, as this arrangement prucludes nny clush of authority between the Benate and Housu on tho subject of Mr, MarTruews' appoarauce boforo the Porres Commiltes, The latter body will bo uuable to demand Lis obedicnce to their subpwna so long as he i iu attendance upon the sessions of tho Benato Committee, which will probably bo uatil after Congress adjourns, —— Aniong the dovelopuents of interest ve- sulting from yesterday's scssion of the Por. 71k Committes a notable foature was the tes- timony of the Notary who acknowledged aud tho persons who witnessed the siguing of tho sc.called Awpruson-Weses sgrecuwent. All of theso wituesses swore to the execution of the paper as appears on its fave, but none could bo found who, by identifying Wenzn or his signsture, relioved Axprosox from the vlear iwputation of forgery. While the question of the geuuineness of tho document yet remains undetermined, the edwission of ANpxusoy himself that it was & forgery und all the testimony so far taken goos to show beyond question that Awves- wox Linuclf wrote Weoes's siguature upou e ee—— Col. E. A, Carxins, who was formerly editor of the Milwaukes Dally News, and who is one of the best-posted Democratio politicians fn Wiszonsin, ks been reportlug the proceedings of the extrs scesion of the Wiscousin Legisla- ture for a Iocal paper. {fo declares that there wus nut a member of cither branch of the Leglslature who was an oatspoken friend of cither flows or Matr Canvextss for United States Scoator, and that the two strongest and Jivelest candldates to-day are E. W, Keves and the Hon, PuiLerus 8awryse. Mr. Krres wos formsng years Chalrman of ths Republican Btate Central Committee, and Mr. Bawrea was for ten years & Reprosontative in Congress from the Bixth Congressional District, Keyes is apractical “Machinist " fn olition, and s deadly opposed to Gencral Order Nuimber Oue, by which he was retired from the Chalrmanship, to look sfter the dutfcs of the Madison Post-Ofiice, Mr. Bawres, ac- cording to our Milwaukee correspondent, is ln faver of the re-electlon of Benator Hows, but 1t that cannot ba accomplislied he bas no obe Jjection to becominy a caudidate himaelt, it the Repubticans in the next Leglsiature arc anxious that b should, —————— The reappearance of AxpEnsox and the orig- inal appearance of DARRALL before the PorTen Cowmittee have only resulted fa conflrming Mrs. Jzxxs’ reported opinfon of tho East Fell- vioua Supervisor and Philadelphla pight editor, tothe slfeet that *“he is the biggest laron carth.” ANDBRION, upon his reappearance, ad- witted that be had oven pald $350 by a Demo- crat Immediately sfter he made out bis return without filing Lls protest. Hariug recelved the mouey, he went of to New Orleans aud wrote out tue protest. -Now be says the protest was false, sud that b perjured bimaeelf when ho made it. Upon this ho is confronted withs letter bo had written to ex-Lisut.-Uov. An- TOLNE, previous to the election, testlfyfug to such wuccessful bulldoziug that the Republicany Qido't dare to puglster. ANDEuSON had alvo has reated at Nesv York, as Jossce of the (Jayety s disreputable don whe ‘slualo ‘Bathers™ and such acts Were on the programme. The Rev. McClintio R, Baruitz, colloctor for tns pastienyosrs of the Awerican Bible Union) Lias been dismissed by & publication warning peo- ple that ho 18 no louger entitled to rocelve coutris butious, Lord Carnarvon, Earl Hardwick, tho Mar. quls of Normanby, and the Earl of Hosslyn, are ull mentloned Dufferin ju the Governor-Goneralship of the Do- mlulon, A Miss Maxwell Graham has just died in England, leaving £20,000 for the reitef and sduca- Uos of the deserving poor Protestant children named Maxwell or Hutchinson. Probably sho once bad & lover named Hutcblnron, Jog Coburn is in the Auburn, N. Y., Peni. tentimy, where lio fs engaged in bricklaylng, o 18 gonuidosably reduced in ttost, and it Is gvident that prisoa Jife duep nol agees with him, but the roports that bu wus dying are dclared to have been exaggerated. Commodore Maury's daughter has issued an address to the women of Virginla, arging them +410 make 8 dotermined offort Lo redeom tha fnsn- cla) honoz of the Siaty," by orysalzlug futo local socletios, sud vy makiug sud soliciting coutribu. tions for the paywment of the publlc dubt, Charming persousl from a Parisian paper: *+Milo, Tanbello do Poyronnet, niecs of the wi known Minlster of Charles X., is aboutto y M. Brown, Feor of Englsud. The Browns sre amoug the richest of Euyleh faitiics, snd iho word frown iy often used a3 an exyrasslon fof wuoey it 1