Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1878, Page 4

« A e DR R NS il THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TULSDAY. JUNE 18, 1878, countable for its continued oxist- once; if he Incks tho power, then it is the Conncil and not the Mayor whom tho people of Chicago will hold responsible. 1t is not question of the rovival of the Sunday Iaw, orof another temperance crusado; it is a mont ditching lands, furnishing waler to irmrigato land, and building lovees where thore is too mnch wator; lending money to corporations, nud indorsing bonds and notes, and pnying intcrest and principal ; and generally doing for individuals ed, would bo much belter off by their absence, While they wera exporiencing tho beatitudes of Communism, the rest of ue would be satisfod witl socioty as 1t i, and goon trying to make it better, instead of socking to bronk it up by pillage, incendi- rnilrond practice of giving certaln porsons ndvantages not onjoyed by others. The efficiont enforcemeont of such a provision, if practicablo, wonld stop the pernicious policy of *‘cutting ratos.” . 8. Tho noxt rection covors tho practico of ‘We must have bread. Tie WonkiNawes, than ever known. unlonist and Iaborer in the clty, does not ex nalis E matter in which the whole people nro vitally | all the business whioh thoy havo hither- | rism, and domestio strife. Do thoy not sco | robato, which fa subtorfugo cmployad fre. | €30 DO that “mora than 100,000 workingmen Tartx % n':é‘fi,n:xlr"};;fizr L concerned, and gomebody must face tho | to done for thomselves, nud of courso | that if their systom is ronlly n good dno and | quontly to carry out tho ssmo favoritism ns :.::,{g:; :,’;dp;l::rfizfi";m’fi’;n.{,fi‘h:;"(': ;‘Lfiel‘: Frinraay Euitioh sy music, taxing overything produced by thoso who | worked well, they would mnke convorts xap- | “‘outting rates,” but still onable a railroad or cxaggerated tenfold, and the number of thoso —— The thousanda of frugal workingmen and T artror R vear, per in work to provide for.the paupers and others idly, nod Communism, baving taken root, puton tho national freo list. Tho orn of its officors to deny that thoy aro engaged in would grow and multiply ? If their doctrines ‘stacvlog " fityfold. auy such business, It fs, therofore, forbid. e copy, per yeas Cluby of fatr,, workingwomen in Chicago, and the widows claime and subsidies s about to open, and | by nctaal oxperimont shonld prove superior | den to return or pormit to be returned any [ require $30,000,000 at the rate of €500 aplece. f"'::',',‘u',';fi',f,n P B facludiox etateand | 970 Orphians whose all was' swallowed up in appropriation bills in the fatura are to ns- | to the prosent methods of socioly, thon so- | drawback or commission which shall result | It would bo vecessary for Congress, in order to County, the disastrous failure of the savings inatitu- sume such gigantio proportions ns tho necos- | ciety will yleld ita plnce, nnd the individaal | in glving ono party the same sorvice ata | COMPly with the demands of the lobby jobbers Frnancer migte ieouher by draft, express | tions In which they were depositors, will sity of paternalism will nocessitato. It s | will gladly sink alf his righta in the common | cheaper rato than is offored to otliers, Thia Jong lisve occasion {0 remember the Demo- [ not adviaablo to take from . Gongeens the | Lo With such v ; .| of additiional texes upon ther msople TERMS TO CITT SUNSCRIDERI. gre: 3 such o possibility in.viow, tho | applies likewiso to corporations aa well ns in Tally. delivered, Runday excepted, 23 cents e week. | Cratio majority of the Forty-fifth Congross power of appropriation, but it is advisnble o dividuals, of be Usited Btates, £4,000000 of Communistic londers ought to stop thooriz. ing and put their notions to o practical test, otherwiso tho world may well bo excused in looking upon them ns vicions visionnaries, WHAT THE POTTER COMMITTEE HAS GLECTED, The Porren Committeo is londed down with sina of omission as well as sins of com. missfon. Ithas been ougaged so continu. ously in the effort to prove perjnry by per. Jurers, and forgery by forgors, that it has ontirely neglocted to take up some of the most important and snggestive testimony givon. It may bo thatYhis testimony did not lead up to the things which the Porren Committee was organized to find out, but Ben Buten's pompous declaration that ho liad nobedy to protect ought to havo loft bim as well disposed to traco out the sug- gestions of Democratic frauds s ho has beon to oxaggerato tho suggestions of Republican frauds, The most conspicuons negleot of the Com. mittee has been tho ignoring of Judge Levis- see's testimony, M, Levisses was ono of the Haves Electors in Louisiaon. Ho waa ealled to prove that the Lonisiana roturn was a forgery, but proved, on the contrary, that the return actunlly connted was gonuine, and that bo and all the othor Louisiana Electors voted for Haves and ‘Wuezten, na thoy wore roprosonted to havo done. But, in tho courso of his ovidenco, the fact wns uninten. tionally brought out that Mr. Lrvissse had been offered Lugo bribes, first to voto in Llank, and next to vote for Titocy, Tho attempt to bribo him bogan at 240,000, but got up as Ligh as §100,000 bofore it was dropped. Mr, Levisser did not leavo this serious chinrgo to rest upon his own stato- mont. He gave tho names of those who wore cognizant of tho mattor, Tho first ap- proach was made in a note written {0 him by ono 0. W. JonxsToy, a Demacrat, roquesting Levisser to meot him “on fmportant busi. ness.” JomnstoN has mot boen summonod before the Committce. From what was sald to him in his boarding-louse, Levissex con. cluded that an cffort was o be mads to bribo him, and he immodiately communicated with Morshal Prrrv, Marshal Prrsiy has not boon summoned. Keoping the ap- pointment with Jomysroy, he was roquestod to meet ono D. M. Asaen, n Domocrat, which Lo afterwords did, and thizintorviow rosulted in the offer of n briba of $40,000. Aszzn has 70t been summoned. Asuen then went to consult his backer 88 to whothor the amonnt could be increased, aud gave the nameof that backer as Warren Puon, o Democrat. Puoy Lins not been summoned, Mr, Levissre, nlit- tlo Inter, was referred to Mr, Jo IEnNaNDEZ, a Domocrat, who incronsod tho offor to 2100,- 000. Henvanpez bas nof beon summonod, In view of tho neglect to summon any of theso Democrats, wa may rensonably con- cludo that the Porrcn-Burtes Committee does not care to ascertain who the guilty parties were that woro willing to pny so large a prico for a singlo fraudulent Electoral voto In Louisiana, Tho bribe in the Orogon case wna traced pretty - directly to Gramercy Park, Wasit the feor that tho proffered Louisiann bribe might bo traced to the same L atly, delvered, unday Included, 30 cer which would fall Autéress THE TRIDUNE CO) Lorner Madiron nd Dearborn -t Cl for their honrtless oruclty in refusing to waive the claim of tho Government for taxos upon the meagro assots of the broken banks, *“The Government needs the money,” was tho brutal response of thess Domocratio leg- islntora to tho oarnest appesls which wera made in bohalf of tho homes reduc- el to destitution and beggary, It s true; the Govornment does need the money, forin tho samo Lour that this humane and Juat propositjon was voted down the Demo- cratic majority cut down the Government to the extent of $15,000,000 a yoar by re- ducing tho tax on tobneeo and abolishing tho tax on matches; whilo it was buta day or two ngo that this same Domocratic major- ity voted $9,000,000 out of the ‘Tronsury in the sliape of tho infamous ngglomeration of ateals known as the River and Harbor bill, "Theso, among many othorsof the same sort, are the ronsons why the Govornmont noeds 1he money which the Domocracy smatched yeatorday from tho cheated and impoverished dopositors of the broken savings banks, —— VETOING BAD APPROPRIATIONS, A joint resolution has been rocontly in. troduced into the Sonato, proposing an amendmont to tho Constitution of tho Uuited States anthorizing the Prosident, in ofllctally acting on appropriation bills, to ap. prove or voto such portions of such billsas mny commend thonssolves to his judgment, Thero can bo no doubt of tho wisdom and Decosaity for anch an amendment. 'The first time wo beliove that tho principla of this nmendmont wagover put inlegal form was in 1872, when it waspropared by Alr, Torzy, thon Corporation Counsel of this city, and in. corporated in an st of the Legislature of Iliinols, giving to tho Mayor of Chicago the power to voto items of tho city appropriations without votoing the wholo ordinance, Sab. sequently the provision was put into o gon. eral law, ond the powor extended to all Mnyors of cities i this State. At n later date the attention of somo gentlemon in Pennsylvania was nttracted to this law, and the Convention which framed tho Constitu. tion of that Btate ndopted it. It was also, sbout the samo timo, adopted in the revised Constitution of New York, It {s possible that it has been adopted in mow Con. stitutions and municipal chartors in other parts of tho country, and thoro can bo no «question that it is ono of tho wisest pro- vislons of law for tho control of squandcring legistative nppropriations, Tho practico in Congress is to delay all the appropriation Dbills to the lust days of the session, aud the moro important ones are not presentod to the Presidontin time to enabio him toread them, and he hns to dopond manly on verbal explanations of what thoy contaln. Tho rosponsibility is thoreforo forced on him to veto the wholo bilt, and loavo the Government without any appro- printion of monoy for the army, or navy, or Post-Ofllce Department, or tho whole civil sorvico, This ho must do or approve the ontiro bill, with all its onormitios and frauds, All the rascally leglslation which is ac-,| complished is onnoted in the Inst days and hours of tho sosston, when thera ond an imperious necessity that the power of logrolling approprintions should be lim. ited by the Execntivo voto, whon tho cc. casfon domands it. ——— A PARADISE FOR COMMUNISTS. The Communists hnvo had their plenio. They hava enrried thoir red flng, They Liave wastod a whole day in drinking lager boer, smoking bul tobacco, and listening to worse epeeches. They havo pandared to ensntion, satisfied somo morbid curiosity, undoubtedly disappointed the roughs and thngs in not having a row, and whilo howling for bread bave squandered money enough to buy all the Lread thoy need for woeks, Thers were fully 20,000 peoplo within their gatos, the most of whom do not havo n spenking acquaintance with tlio Enghsh language. 'Theso people bave put 25,000 into the Communist excheequor, whicl it is now proposed to putintoa siove for tho benefit of Pansoys, MoAuvvrrr, GrotTRAD, Bcminuine & Co., who will run n poper with it until the monoy gots through tho sieve. It cost the Communists $5,000 toget into tho pienic, and it cost thom 810,000 more, to tho eredit of liquor, tobaceo, and nonsenso, to Rgot out ogain, This large sum wns placed, not where it wonld do the most good, but where it wounld do no good at nil, Do the Com. munists ever stop to think, in tho midat of their howling for bread, how much money thoy aro fooling away ? Do thoy over con. sider that thoy and their friends, who last Bnnday aggregated 20,000 poople, are an- nully spending at least hnlf a million dollars for liquor, tobacoo, and idlo amuse. ments ? . Community of property is tho contral idoa of Communiam. Tho individualmust bo sunk out of sight. To smoko out of one pipe liko the Indlnns, to eat out of one common fooding-placo like tho pigs, to hord in one common pasturage like the cattlo, with equal rights in the mulleln and hardhacks, is the beatitude of the Com- munists, over which Pansons, ScmLvg, MoAvwrr, oud thoir Franco-Tentonie-Bo- homian followers theorize; but why in tho name of all that fs Communistic do thoy not realize it? Thoe épportunity is cortainly not wanting. Sapposo they take the mouoy they squauder in one yoar and apply it to tho realization of Communism. Lot them send out n committoo to Kaueas, Nobrasks, or ‘Texos, whoro there aro milllons of acres ns foir and fortile a8 tho sun shincs upon, with instructions to pick out and purchnso acounty adapted to the necossities of Com. munism. They can buy on long time, and will Liave to mnke but a vory small payment down. As o matter of fact, the money now squandered by thom in one year will complota the purchase, Then let them divide thelr county iuto townshipas capable of accom. modating 200 or 300 families ench, and take out their 20,000 who are hostile to ropublic. ou institutions and to socloty on its present basls. 'Tho railronds will bo glad to trans. port them for almoat nothing, and the ava. riclous, grasping capitalists will bo mean onough to furnisn thom with almost every. thing thoy neod for thoir oxporimont, and 4. Tho law also prohibits tha charging of ony bigher rato por mile for a shortor than for n longor distanco in tho caso of any con- tinuous earringe of froight, whon the chargo for the Intter servico within a singlo Stato or Torritory is regulated by law or fixed by schiedule. This is intended, wo presume, to prevent railronds from taking advantage of an accidontal State-line boundary to ovada the Btate regulations. A broad prohibition of moking a cheapor rate por milo for n long distanco than for o short diatanco would probably bo resisted by the public ng wall as tho roilronda, for thers nro certain expenses—such ns handling, loading, une londing, ote,—which aro materially tho samo whether entried for a long or short distanco; theso exponses onn be averaged over a Tonger distance so ns to mako the rato per milo leas than for nshortor distance without unfair discriminatfon, When tho Tllinols Railway law was agitatod, the abuso was in charging loss ratea from points where thore happencd tobo compotition than from other points whero there wns none, though tho distance might bo shortor, 5. The law would requiro railronds and othor common earrlers to keop posted copios of a echedalo, printed in conspicuous type, doscribing tho differont classes of properly to bo carried, the diffcront places and tormi. ni, ‘and tho rato of chiarges for carriago from place to place ; that such sobedulos may ba changed from timo to timo, but must olways bo posted at lenst ton days beforo they shall go into effect; and that, during tho torm of any sobedalo, it shall ba unlawful to charge or recelve oither moro or loes than the schedulo rates. It is also provided that tho schodulo rates for servicea extending betweon Statos shall not be greator than the scheduls ratos for tho samoservicos performedentiroly within the boundaries of a siuglo State or Tarritory. 6. 1t is provided that, in cnso of overy un. Iawful act 0s defined by tho bill tho injured party may have recourse in tho United Btates Courts, nnd sball be ontitled to recover in damagos an nmount equal to threo times tho sotual damnge suffored, A fine of $1,000 is also provided for overy offense, one-half of which, whon collected, 3 bo paid to the informer, The oMcars of tho corporations aro also made personally responsiblo for willful infractions by impos. ing o fine of not loss than $1,000 in caso of convictions, Theso are the provisions of the bill as nenr: Iy as wo can understand them from the con. fusing vorbinge under which thoy aro almost effectunlly coucealed. 'Tho subfect itsolf fu one which, sooner or lator, Congress will bo callod upon to consider and dotermine. Tho right of Congress to exorciso this sort of supervision can no longer bo doubted, Tho doclsions of tho Bupromo Court in the Grangor cnses sottled that point. It was Leld, in gonoral torms, that ench Btato may exorcise control over common earriors and all quasi-publio corporations, even to tho ox. tent of regulating the chiorgos. If individual Btates mny exorcise such power aver corpo. rations operating entirely within their own boundarios, it cannot be doubted that the Qrders for the delivary of Tz TRinuNE ot i Fugirwood, and fiyde Park loft fn the countl Wilirecclve nromut stentio: —— TRIDUNE BRANCH OFFICES. THE CUICAGO TRINTAR has estabilshed branch ofices forihe recelptof subscrivtionsand advertiscments as folly NE RR.-Toom 20 Tr(bune Dulldlng, F. T. Mo- Fauoex, Manager, TALIN, France~No. 16 lue de Is Grange-Dateltare, T Mautxr, Agent, {1IOY, —American Exchange, 448 Strand, means two men are discharged. and ailver tn the world {s as follows: For use In the arta aud coln— Gola - Silver. " Theatre. Msdiron srect. between Desrborn and Btate. **Unclo Tom's Cabln," Ynaley’s Thentre, Tandoloh strect, * hetween Clark and LaSalle. Unlon Bquars Theatre Company. ' The Motber's Se- erot." Total . Abont one-half of this is in coin— Qold Haveriy's "hentre, Monroe street, corner of Dearborn, Tony Pastor's Combluation. Total gold and silver uscd an money...,.. Hershey Music Hall, Madlson street, opposite McVicker's Theatrte, The Midgets, Lako Front Park, Lake shore, foot of Madison street. Forepaugh's Clrcus, Merchants' Dank Ballding, Corner Dearborn and Madison. **The Btrasburg aud the arts. Clock,” TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1878, e e Greonbncks nat the New York Stock Ex. cliango yesterday closed nt 99, ——— There in a plonsing prospoct that the ap- proprintion for the consummation of the Iwlifax confidenco game will fail in the Hlouse, A motion to suspend tho rules and pasa tho bill was defented lnst ovening, Tho fousa Naval Committe has presont. ed its report, aud reconnnenda that ex-Sec- retary RonesoN and the subordinates and other persons connected with tho frauds cliarged Ly the Committso bo punished to the full extent of tho law, As indiented by tho cablo dispatches, tho proceedings of the Berlin Congress have thus {far been hmmonious, The question ns to tho ndmission of the Greok reprosentntive bhan causcd considernble debate, rs also tiho defining of the Bulgarian boundary ; but the prediction is confidently iuado that these tuatters, as well s other lending points to bo discussed, will in the ond bo amieably nr. ronged, had this personal ltem: Jnet mow—tired ont. niorning for somo a dty-hunters and lunatfcs nre unknown, Yo, B Kvery day now ho may be bean “teolin 2ho Bliohola Creck for trout. O, perhaps, ho wi fish for sounds. to an envious rival. It Is thus described: We regrot to bo comuellod to announce {hat Me, Eutson, after the fleh 1 thut vicinily (rom biting, wan's mackine from operating. ————e— wa bolieve, isa widower. possibility of Miss GaiL Hasiuron becoming Torren's class in experimontal investiga- ton is still harping on tho irregulnrity of ono of tho Louisiana duplicate Electoral re. turns, tho origival of which, and tho only ono which the Electornl Commission recog- bixed nnd acted upon, hns already boen #hown to hove ‘been in overy respeot valid sud regulor. Yesterdoy's session of the clnss wns wasted in trying to locate tho re. tespousibility for an irregularity which I ot of the slightest consequone: ———— tho “Heart Bowed Down." —————t—— MoDoxaLD and case agalust each other so that the lawyers shall = Park which has deterred B LER _Tho plundored mochanics and sowlng- |48 no timo to exomino the bill, | tho rest of the population will escort thom bis Do‘;o;nu;“monl:::. fr::n !:::n mo::llx:x‘; Unitod Statos Govornment hag o slaflay | 2841 e Birla whoso pitiful dividends from tho | nnd whon tho Prosident i procluded | 15 tho depot with n brass baud, and throw JouxsToN, Asurn, Puom, and HenNawpez, | Power over corporations carrying on intor. | About 160 Milwaukes cos-men, lawyers, brokon banks are to bo mnudo all thoe more | from investigating what Le s ex- | thoir old shooa after tham for Iuck, The i o ; 2 i doctors, traders, aud others ara out on o drime Btate commerco, the rogulation of which is specifleally vestod in Congross by the Cou. stitution. It fs cortain thnt tho more nota. ble abuses of rdilway managoment can only be controlled by the intervention of the Gon- cral Govornment, whoso jurfsdiotion extonds alike over all States nnd Territorics, ——— The bi-metallists are astonished at the ap- pointmont of cx-Senator FENToN on the Sliver Commlssion. Tho aclection of the Hon, W, 8, Uroraneck, of Clucinnotl, and Gen, F, A. WaLkru, Professor fu Yalo Collego, a son of the Jate Astans WALKEm, the political econo- most, are regarded favorably, Mr. Guors- hucg’s nddress bofore the baukers’ mcet- ing In Now York last summer in favor of remonetizing silver was *“‘onme of tho clearest and most cogent of argu- ments on tho side of remonctization which the silver sgitation ovoked. 1t rewalned unan- swcred, and Is unauswerable.,” Warkkn is well posted on the subjeet of mouey, and fsa man of sound lcarning, great candor, and good sense, But as the Graphic well remarks: Tho nomination of ox:Bunator Frxrox [v indu- feunible, He Is slmiply a tricky aud trading poli. tcian, o cared notilug for wald vor except B4 his presvnt sppolutment may bring him at sone fulure tune more Govornment "wnI:." Who can tell but after the wanuos of his tribe ha will, as soon &e the Conferency has buen organized, ou- deavor to sell out the iInturcets of tho country to thegoid ritig that brougt upon ww the curso of demonctizaiion, A person with the unsavory reputation the ex-(overnor has in this State and 5 Lo {4 well known, onght not 1o be per. miited tamnake s fuotball of the great monetary Intereets of the country, 1t 1 fdlo Lo talk ubout the plvdges o be ghven by wuch u porvon, Thy Semalu” dhght not 50 barmis 80Y V" Courtesy fo sn ex-member to prevent I from dolng itaduly. FENTOX oughitnot to he confirmed. Thg immoise wajurily of thu puople of this country ara in favor of tiie duable standard, Two of tho Comunlestaners ought to be woll-known uilver e, And the wlves-produciug fegiou of this country ought to b represeuted. ~Seuntar Joux P, Juxxu, of "Nevada, ought to bo oo of tie Commiysioners, Seoatur FENTON, ‘Iho Pachilc Slono welppi Valley would then bo repre- Iver men, whilo the East would be cnled by 8 gold wman. Buch o Commibssion Woulid e the strungest tho country could send. With~Fexron as o member, the result will al- ways b iu doubt, wx & persun'of hin thrifty turm of miod may Snd It to hie Intercatto be wingle or double sisudard, a¢ the consideration is latger or awsller, ————— To the Editor of Tha Tribune, New Ilavey, Coun., Juna 14.~Will you plesse inforin un Iyuorant vendor when Vienna became ot Queen of the Adrfatie," ay that ttle fs givon her by the Chicago Sunday Twaes of Juuo 7, Ppage 20, Groanaruy, ‘Tho learuing sud the lozic of the Zimes are cqually remarksble. After crowning Vienua “Queen of the Adrlatic,” the 7imes, comment- {ug upon the absurdity of O'DoNovaN Rossa’s criticls of Awerlcan freedom, used this ro- markable Isoguage: Any man who cBractenzes the American nation, who, amoug thom, could probably furnish the trua origin of tho attempt to bribe Judgo Livisser to voto for TiLpen Another notable omission on the part of the Torrzn Commitico hiaa boon tho failure to call Mra, Jexms. This s tho Indy who is said to hinvo been the custodian of the apoc. ryphal Smemuax lolter. M, Jevms was summoned nll tho way from Loulsinna, and Las been In Washington for saveral days, but the Domocrats do not call her, Aro thoy afraid that Lor testimony will show that thero nover was such a lottor, which is cortainly the most rensonablo conclusion from tho Presont condition of the testimony ¥ There In also roason to bollove that the Iate Mz, Wenen's name was forged to the paper pur. porting to be an ngrocmont botween Wepen ond Axperson, and this paper is one of the most important furnishud by Anpsnsox, Wxorn's widow is alivo, but she bas not boen summoned ; Is it beoause of n fear thnt sho wight pronounco tho document a forgory ? These and other oircumstauces will hand down the PorTzu.Bureen Comumittes as more romarkablo for what it bas failedto do than for what it has don BEGULATING INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Mr. Wazson, 8 Pounsylvania Congreasuan, introdneed into tho House of Tiopresenta. tives soino timo ayo a bill to regulate intor. Btate comerco and prohibit unjust diserim- ination by common carriers,” ‘bl bill was afterwards favorably reported by the Com. miitteo on Comumerco, but it never sucoceded iu securing serious attention, and of course uow gocs over to the next acssion. Wo have rewld the bill, and suspact that the real reason why Congresa never gave it the consldera.- tion which the unbject itself merits is becauso tho mewbors could not make out jts purpose or undorataud its provisions. ‘The bill is o mass of tochuical verbiago, abounding in end. less and unnccessary repetitions, nnd so in. volved fu oustruction that it is next to fm. possible to penotrate to its meaning, In fta prevont shope it will never fiad favor with Congresy for these reasons; but it s not ug. likely that similar provisions will some day be seriously disoussed with o view to legisla. tion that sball operate alike llxrnng!‘loul. the wholo couutry to prevent unfals combina- tions, cutthroat compatition, and unjust dise crimination on the part of railway corpora. tious. As neurly as we are uble to understand ud docipher the Warsox bill, its provisions pitiful by the exnction in full of tha Govern- ment {ax on their stolon doposits will bo gratified to know that tobacco ia going to bo o few cents per pound cheapor. "Tobacco ix n neceswity ; snvings bank dividends aro n luxury which 8 Domocratic Congress taxcs to tho full limit. This system of intornal revenuo taxation will commond Hself to the widows aud workingwomen, to whom cheap- er tobaceo is a pricoless boon, pocted to npprove. Bo crowded is logisla- tion at euch a time that it is no longer pos- sible to soud tho bills to the Iresident’s offico, thero to bo examinod by him; the Presidont his to go to the Capitol, aud there, at tho door of the Henato or House, to be Dpresont to sign bills ho has never rend, in or. der to prevont tho loss of appropriations or othor needful legislation, This is a mock- ory of intelligont legislation. It is an nbuso of logialation, The Presidont's ap- proval is made by the Constitution necossary to logislation, The Prosident's approval fs intended to bo an intolligent ong, and to be oxerchicd fraaly, The fact is, howaever, that It is ofton compulsory, and is also given without time to read or oxamine tho bills, and he s also compelled frequontly to uign bills which Lo kuows to bo in part unjust aud indofensible, ‘his practios of forclng on the Prosldent the responsibility of giving an official sanction to roprehensible lugislation or of dofeating a N0CESSNTY APPro- priation Lilt s an abuso of logislation which 3nt lenst a violution of the spirit of the Qunatitution. Tho bill passod on Baturday Inst uppropriating $9,200,000 for so-called river uud harbor improvemeuty {s o strong case inpoint. In that bill thore are appro. printions wmonuting to perhaps 3,000,000 for objects und purposcs of u useful, untional charnster. Tho rewninder of the appro- printions provide for a scamdalous wasto of publiv money. Tho bill was propared so gs to bribv o majority of members to vote for tho wholo or vata to defunt uppropria. tiona to bo exponded In their loenl districts, and the Prosidont {8 now confronted with Lo rosponsibility of veteing un appropria. tion of $3,000,000 for necessary nnd fupor- tant works, or of approviug the whole bilt, ‘Thu 3,000,000 is wade to carry the othor £6,000,000, and tho Presidunt {a compelled unjustly to become a party tothis seoundrolly legislation or to defeat sppropriutions which are absolutely noeded, ‘The adoptiou of thix proposed amendinent to tho Constitution would remedy this abuse of logislation; it would put an end to the log-rolling systews of appropriations, It would onable the Presidont to approve such approprintions as wero required by law, and oven for proper purposes, and compel Cou- gross to takoe the ruspousibility of voting for all others on their own morits. It would also take from u malignant clique the londers, like Pansoys, MoAvsirr, Bominixa, Berounavsrr, and Gnodrxav, should bg made to give bonds to romatu there, and to help in tho work and sharo whataver thoy niny have with tho rest, otherwise thoy might get their dupes out thore and then leavo them iu the lurch, As for tho rank and flle, they might be dopouded upon to do something, as nine-tenths of them wore brought up at mannal labor on tho sofl. Having located themselves, there nced be no deloy in lnunching thelr experiment, as their wants aro vory few. As they do not beliove in churchos, they wouldn't have to spend monoy for churches, HSunday-school books, Bibles, proachers, pew-rents, cholrs, strawberry-fostivals, oyster-solrees, or neck. tie-kettledrnmu, Not belioving in any here. after, their idens of immortality would bo satisfied with o small patch for & graveyard, and they could all be dumped into one grave, on tho true Commnunistio plan, Not dosiring tobe oducated beyond tho ability to read ond write, graded wohools, profussors, col. loges, toxt-books, laboratorivs, polytech- nics, the langunges, globes, lond pon. clls, indin-rubber, Borlin wool, pltuos, fuot.rules, and other dungorous monuces to the goneral liberty could be avoided. Hay. ing p horror of labor-aaving wachines, thoy could make it & capital crime for any Com. wmunist who should bo found with enything moro laborsaviug on Lis premises thau o spado aud hoe, aud auy porson favoriug the wso of the sowing.na. chine, printing.press, telograph, telephouns, ateun-onging, locoumotive, loom, uower #od renper, harvestor and binder, firc.ongine, streetcur, wind.mill, or wator-wheal might boshot un the 4pot na o malefactor of the deepest dye and o conspirator against tho poaco aud good order of the community, In this mannor tho viclous and tho virtuous, the strong and the weak, the sick and the healthy, could ull suitlo down togather upun & com. mou lovel, shnre overything in conimon, labor for the common good or not ld. Lor at all, aud have women, childron, etock, goods, ground, fire, water, and air in com. mon. Thoy would be out of the reach of pov- erty, and freod from the grip of the bloated capitalist. No factory chimneys would pol. luto thoir pure air. No wheel would vex their rauning streams, No sound of paalm would disturb thelr Babbatly worniugs, No shrivkiug ongines would traverie ming tour this weck over the Btates of Wiscon- slu, Miunesota, and Towa, “Last night thoy vartook of a free lunch fu LaCrosse, and this cvening thoy will dine In Bt. Paul, will forege upon the people along the route, pant wives talk of chartering a speclal teuln and @olug to Lake Buperior on thelr own account. —— White Gen. Jomy 1t was thoe Iltinols Democrats undor tho lendership of Eoex, of tho Fiftoenth Dis. trict, who were chiofly instrumontal in exact- Ing tho pound of flosh from tho savings. Dbuuks dopositors of Chieago in the refusal to exempt tho seanty nesets from the Gov- cruwent’y claim for taxen. It thoso Bourbon bratos hnd joined iu the urgant plen for im. munity mnde by Mr, Avomicn, there would have been no troubls {n sccuring tho passagze of the cxomption elauso of” the Internal. Rovenue bill, but they went solid against it, &nd their Lrother Democrats uaturally fol.: lowod their load. Ho ean inake bitsolf usefulin tho honorable position to which he has been ussigned. Qen. 8iinLDs had been recelving 850 a month. Congress has rutsed the allowancs to 81,200 o Ueuneral to pass the remalnder of his days i comfort. If it had uot been for Canrss I Hanuson, “ the buffoon of the House," as hie is called, Gen. Biiinnos would have been put in the way of makine thres or four thousand dollars this sesslon and next. But Haumison's Rebel couslu cut bim out of it, —— The Republican onemica of the Adminis. tration wore yesterdny atforded an opportuni. ty in thoe Bcuate to vent thoir #pite by voting ogninst wnd defeativg an appropriution to dufray tho expeuses of the Conmilssion ap- pointed by tho Presidout to adjust the Loulsinna Stats Government complication, ‘Tho umonnt of wolicitnde for the Constitution displayed by theso Lmplacables was BONIC- thing cxtroordinary, Mr, CoNkvina had a great deal to pay nbout, the egulity of such an appropristion; indeed, he uurrowly es. enped muking that * groatest offort” in con. nection with the debate, —— As the Democratic party will have a majority in both brunches of the next Congress,—thiat (s, on the assuniption that they can carry,the pres- 6.t number of the members of theHouse,~they cun agzitate a question of true refurm and ecou- omy by having Congress Liold blennlal sessions. ‘To cacupu the uarest, the devlltry, and the use less agitation of w sesslon of Cougress would vo such a relicf to the Amerfean people that life would be worth the living, ———— Thie Duily Milwsukee Wurphey is mad because the Republican mewbers of Cougress from Wisconsin sre all to be renominated and proba- bly re-clectod. It says that “uota vitizen can polnt to & singlo act which entitles the members of this Cougress to w re-clection.” Therp fs only ouc mau v Wisconsin that the Datiy Murphey thiuks is 8t togo to Cougress, and that is Mave Caursutei. To this end was the Duliy Murphey Vorn. Let us sce. Three most conspicuous blun. ders of the Confederats House at the late scuslon sre: (1) The election of a Confederato over & Unlon soldicr as Doorkesver; (2) the ut- tempt to abollsh the army wud the bid for the Soclallstte vote; (3) the uscless agitation en- talled by the Porrax Iuvestigating Commitiec. 8uch a record ougzlit to defeat every Dewmocratic wember vutside of the old Slave States, ————— . The question of privilege under which Braxvey Marrurws declines to appenr before the Potren Conuuitteo ay u witness s now reduced to w speatie form throngh the reso. lution adopted by the House yestorday, in pursuancs of the report presonted by Gen, Burien, requesting the Beuste to graut leavo to Mr, MatTaews to obey the subpaus of tho House Committee, The west grice- ful escipo ont of nunwkward dilomma would Le fos Mr. MarTuews to joiuin the request for leave, nud, when grauted by the Benato, 9 go beforo the Comunttes gud givo his testimony liko o man. Bug graceful osoapes out of dilctuuus ore not Mr. Marruzws' 4 best Lolt. e er——— Power of euncting important laws in an | their downin., No .hum of mower | ure as follows: ©Or the majority of it, as wanting o the higher in Utider the plea that existing lawe already | appropriation bill. It would, by oreatiug o | or whirr = of shuttle would disturb | 1, The oporation of tho proposed law is | Ang pey. 'Iel:gl:d“::{in’l:‘:“& '.‘«‘2.‘.':.‘5"."'.\'-‘0?.‘5“%’. The Bav. TuouLs & Bevousn yreechic) e Buccslaureato sermon on 8uuday evening befors the students of the Milwsukes Female College. Additional iuterest was connected with the oo caslou by the fact that Mr. Bexcuzu's sfster Carusuise, recently deceased, was the founder of the Institution. Prol. Fanuas, who s now at the bead of tho College, Is an old personal friend of Mr. Brcuzs. e — Where &s Corporal Kxruan while all thig Pot- tering tovestigation i guloz ont He i Jetting the red-headed young sy ANDERSON get abesd of bim as the champion lar of Awerica. KzaxaX should be on band to * streak the pale alr * with blood and goah. e ——— The Porrsr Comuitics {5 a good deal like the couutry fellow who druve his bull g long distancs W cuter bita ot an ogriculiurs) L, furnish the Mayor aud Buperintendent of Polica the nuthority to suppress the sale of liquor to winory, the majority of the Com. mon Couucil lust ovening refused to pasy tLo ordiuanco imposing apecitio penalties for such offenses, and placlog the regulation of tls wmutter in the control of the city authori. tics. DBy this action tho Council shisky the rusponsibility of dealing with a quedtion of vital intercst to the parents of children exposed to the tewaptations of the druwnshops, aud in effect transfers to tho shoulders of the Mayor the responsibility for the sals of liguor to minory, 11 tho Muyor Lo a'resdy the power through tha Police Departivent to suppress the evit powor to correot abusas, defeat their succosy. "Phere will bunodangerof the President dictat. ing to Cougress what suws should be apro. priated, because he has the power now to vito an entiro bill, aud QOongress; uuder the amended Constitution, would hava the vame power a3 uow to overrule a veto by a two. thirds majority. This amendment o tho Constitution is eminontly desirable at this time. The most aerious danger to the integrity of the Union iy the policy of couverting the Goverument into o natioual charity to fued, clotha, fur. nish homes, and genorally provide for the shiftless classes; make it an institution to pauperize the uation, to have the Goveru. tho drone of the beotle andboo in thelr broad acres. In a vory short time thoy wight solva the problom of maintaining existence without self-effort, solf.raspect, rosponsibili- ties, aspirations, or ambitions, und with no other object of life than food aud clothing. ‘Thoy should also consider that in adopting our suggestion thoy would leave tho rest of us couteutod and poaccabls, Thoy would reliovethe manual labor market, and thoseleft behiud, who really waut to work, who ara {udustrions and law-abiding, who desiro to get a little home and keep it aud not have to share it with some stranger, who want to go to church, and who want their children to bo piously educat- ~ gent Irishman, unless eutertaing such’ delief, We suppose the crowning of Vienaa as Queen of the Adristlc was tho work of some *latei- lizont Irlsbnan " who was “lucbriated or s fool® ——— Philadelphia bas s gaug of Jobbing contract- ors who * work " Cougress every session for sppropriatioud of taxes for useless public fm- vrovewonts {o thas city. The other day, tn order to strungtben the efforts of their Wash- ington lobby, they scnt the following dispatch 10 the M. C.'s from Philadelphia: PuiLaveraia, June 13, -1878. —70 4. 0. Har- mer. Chapman Freeman, W, D, v, Samuet o, Liandall, and Charied 0' Nelll, Wasaingion, D, C.: There ate in this ciiv more’ theis 100,000 of Talieh ive o berails 40s et limited to tho Landling and transportation of ¢ be susbriated or a fool, ot least the load cf an ondinary freight car by railroad, or not less than one ton in welght when carried otherwise, 4. The first prohibition of the bill is sgaiust clarging any ons corporation or per. son mory or less for tho same sorvice than is charged to anotler corporation or person. It i3 roquired thut every common tarrier shall furnish equally good, cheap, and ex- poditious scrvioes to all alike. Thls pro- vision is aimed st such rallroad combinations 83 hat out cortain connections from ad. vantages enjoyed by ono special connection, oud thereby discriminato agalnst entire sac. tions; alvo to Jut » stop to the comuwon vl (dle, 1w Improvoments hore, thern will bs riots greater As the entiro number of men in Philadelphia who work for wagos, Inciuding every trade- ceed 75,000, 1t fs diflleuit to understand how it To supply. 100,000 tmen steady work at living ‘wages for & year would who gent the dlspatch, to Tevy $50,000,000 upon Illlnols to pay, To provide work by Congress for 100,000 per- sons in Philadeiphin, the wazes fund of the reat of tho commuuly would bave to b depleted 01ty mililons, which would result In cuttlng down ‘tho pay of all those now at work for wages, and {u discharging great numbers of Jaboring men fn all parts of the country. The freater are appropriations, the ligher taxes must be fo pay them, and the higher tazes are, the morae men are crippled in thele business to pay them. For every man set at work by, such Tho Hon, J, . CAxxoy, of filinols, in In speech on tho monctary questfon, after carefut inquiry, states that tho totnl amount of gold 8 5,800,000,000 808 000 11,400, 000, 000 $2.000,000.000 413008007000 - o0 veeesens 85,500,000, 000 In nletter cited by Mr. CARNON, tha Chief of the Bureau of Statistics says tho present stock of preclous metals for use in the world (for coin- ago and tha arte) has been estimated by trust- worthyguthoritles at from $11,000,000,000 to £13,000,000,000, or sy twelve billlons of cofn, Of this total the United States posscsses about £500,000,000 of goid and silver, one-half thercof 10 money and the other balf fn plate, Jewelry, —— A few days ago one of the New York papers Enpisox, the Inventor, wrote from Menlo Park to a friend yenterday, *'I am prelty badly usod up Am puing to start in the ueatered spot whore curlos. Cun I flnd 62 3t is understaod that he has_gone Nshinge in Lnlu‘ Gles, nt Dlooming Grove Park, Pike Conne It sccms that he went fishing, but has met with anpoyances and disappointments, which b doos not sttribute particutarly to the 1lsh, but fisniug four aays in the Shohola Creek, Pennsylvania, has dlscovered that mome hated rival has Invented s machine that keape all Ar. Entsox has retired to a monntaln cadin, and {s now on- Faged inventing a devicy that will' keep tho other GArL TIAMILTON fn hor New York Tribune pa- pers hosnowgotafter Canr Scivnz, Mr.Sciunz, Miss Hasuwrox isn mald. Btrauger thiugs have happened than the Mrs, AviaaiLenunz. As G, 1. does everything Witk profound contempt for conventionalitics, 1t may bo thot her scolding Is a woolug fn dis- guise, and that her epithets and objurgationa ara meroly her way of oxpressing endeartnents. It 18 by wo means Iinpossible that we may again hear Becretary Scuunz at his plano dlscoursing I8 “Sylph" pot into the Clreult Court at Oshkosh last week, on the ap- plication of Mrs. McDoxALb for a divorce. Judge Puriso kindly consented that Mac aud lis wifo should -give & mortgage of £2,500 on the property for the purpose of MNtigating the not be thented out of thelr fecs, which is the chief consideration in all cases of the kind, In the meantlme, ** 8ylph** will probably foreciose lhier mortgage on tho old man, uud tho discarded wife will allow her right of redemption to goby As they aud save o week’s bourd at home,—a fres train being furulshed then,~they will doubtlcss mako & good week's profle of it. Thelr fudli- » FREMONT has not na many or as warm admirers us he bad in 1858, yet it waos a graceful thing on tho part of the President to nowfuste hlm for Goveruor of Arizona, und for tho Scnute to unanintously (ulmoit) contirm him, 11e had becomes very ro- duced {n efrcumstances, and with no proipects of earnfug auough bread to suppors his fumity, your, which will materlally help tho galiunt old After several daya’ absence, and the expend). ture of conalilerabla money, e returned home with his bull, diety and tired, and much the warse for the trip. On belnz questioned Wwheth. er he took n premfum on his animal, he replted that e il not, hut that he *had had o —p ool drive out of the bull.” So the Democrati party have made no capital whatever out of the {nveatigation, but they have had s good drive out of ANDERSON and Lha rest of thelr trainey witnesses. ——— Littte Congrersman BrAag, of the Fitth Wis. consfu District, put himself on record the other day as ons of the infamous tivenly-ons who be. lieve fu Mexicanization and all’ that the term implics, DBraca's vote agamst Gen. 8mirnys and i favor of the Canfederate F1ELD for Door. keeper was bod, but his vote on this question was worse, because the fssuc was greater, ——— In tho raco for notoriety, It fa nlp and tack between STANLBY MATTORWS and tho liar Ax. DERsoN. Takoupa hundred newspspers and count the times tho name of each s used, and 1t will astonish you to sce how evenly they run, MATTHRWS gots fu an linprudence as often ag ARDENSON gets off n Mo, ————— Only twenty-onemembers of the present Con- federate Houso of Represeatatives wero bold enough to put themselves on record as pre- ferring the Mexican to the Amerlean system of Government. The quicker thosa fellows wet over on the other side of the Rlo Grande the better—for the rest of ———— bo dirty-shirt membor of Con- gress from the S{xth Wisconsln District, ls snid. to be very much disgusted with Washington life, and wants to stay at home hereatter,—a fecling with which his constitucncy deeply sympathize, and which they will endeavor to gratifylu November, ———— Those Confederate officers who left thelr country for thelr country’s zood at the end of tho War, and took up thelr abode In the Bouth American States, were much more consistent than the twenty-ono Democrats who voted to bring Mexican usages Into Agerican politics, prassakatascain_sbhi Mn. TILDEN proposcs to mako the usurpation of 1aves and his own martyrdom the Issuo in 1530. ' Tho usurpation part of it won't hurt Mr, Harns then, and as for martyrdom, It it Is to be Ly the modern process of cremation, SBaMyy will probably bo dry enough by that time. ——— Think of the 350 school-teachers that are to cmbark for Europo next Saturday on ono steamer! If that ship should sink and all tiat Inteligenco go down und beburied in the depths of the deop blue sea, thinkof tho foy that would 11l thousands of juvenile hearts. — e t— BrAixg s becoming an Artfal Dodger. Tis namo does not appear fn the list on tho vote to maks greenbacks o legal-teuder for duties on fmports, taken fu the Senato un ‘Thursday, If J1xt cau't struaddle a measuro, ho dodges it ——— PoTTER seems to have been ncting merely as tho figurclicad of the fumous Committee,—Bur. Lem, McMauoy, and others dolng most of the work and bulldozing most of the wite nesscs. —— Miss SyeDLEY only wants 810,000 ont of 8trakoscm, und he would have plankea down tho cash and cuded t, but he wants the fre advertising that will como of ft. . | Tho Milwaukce Sentinel ;beglua the week with & paragranh urging I8 princlpal stockholder for the United Stutes Senute. The nss knoweth his master’s crili, % - e — . ‘The PoTTER pump s Ao dry that It wheezes, The last wituesses ylelded no fiuld, while the first ones responded-with lfes to the suction of the tubg, If BoN DurLen bad ablilty corresponding with his clicek, he would bu the most talented man in the United States or In the wide, wido world. % 4 “Will you waik into my parlori" sald the spider PorTen to the fly MaTrimws, *s Not if the court knows hersclf,” answered tho Ollo widgot, DBishup CueNEY [warmly indorscs the Chris- tlan character of Miss 8uzpLey, but nobody in- dorses the Christian character of STisxoscir, # | It any of the witncsses whom BeN BurrEn fs trylug to bulldozo will shake a sllver spoon at il he wilt bo treated with greater respect, f As the Confederate House fafled to mako an appropriation for the benefit of the Commus ulsts, a qulet summer la now anticlpated. PERSONALS, | | Yung Wing, the Cbinose mandarin who gradnated at Yalu In tho class of 1834, has pro- scted the lbrary of the collcge with a most val- uuble collection of 1,300 Chluese classical, hise turical, and poetlcal works, Wiiliam J, Roo, o woulthy resident of New Windsor, N. Y., bellovesin **Pickvick and Prin- clple.” s wife sued hilm for divorce, thouzh ho offercd lier 8 soparato allowanca of 82,0004 year, 8ho got“a docres with alluiony of $200 a month, 2nd rather than pay 1t Mr, Itos has sottled up bis affatrs, moved hly baggago and library into the Jail, where hua several pleasant roomy, aud o pro- Doses tu romaln In confinement for ife before he will pay hor u penny, The Pope’s favorita cousin and right-hand man, Mgr, Cesare Proapori-Busi, who will be made o Cardiual ere long, fs tremondously une popular in Nowe, where the supcretitious folk credit hiw with poescasing tho Jeltotura, or **oxil oye," Thoy used to cherlsh a slmilar bulief nboot tho lata Pope Pfus IX. 111l ho set it at rost by sond- Ingfur & womsn who bad madoe the customary #iyn of exorctym as he pased aud promlaing to educate Ler won for the priosthood as his own exiuse, & thing which vaturally ono givon over %0 the duvil would not have dene, In Browniug's last book ihe heroine of his touching and buautifu) eloglac paom —=*A, B, 8.," the initiuls are—waa Mlas Kgorton Hinlth, & tall, olderly Jady with a reflned face and gentle manner, often notlced leauing on the poet's Rris at couceris ond aoclal gatherings, Sho was vuo of hiv oldeat fricads, Iler death, st the Mtile Buwius hamlet that gives its name 1o the poom, was anfully suddes and unexpected, sud such an inie bression bad her gentlo wayw made upon tho vilia- Kera that they tnslated ou betng wlluwod 10 bear her u:nnhu 10 the geave withous secomppuse for the 1ol Nathaniel Dominick, aged 03, and Mary Marshall, sged 10, have been married at s fashion~ able church in Willlsmaburg, L. L, iu tho press ence of an tmmenss crowd, which ssluted them with cheers, howls, and romarks, as ** He parts bis Lair with » towul~hooray 1" The bridv's fe- Jected lover waugoing 1o auo her for broach of prowmliee and 19 recover 5250 he gave Lier to 8¢ up PPy hittlo home with, butat the Iast mo- Telcnted, and yemarked, as the bridal moved off, that ** the old man would bave & pretiy bard thme, Ttomance about Btauley, probably a los e loved a besutital and weallby Jewlsh maden, after whom he called his oxploring boat tho ** Lady Alice,” and when be got back to Zanalbar be founa that she had gono and got warried. Toe #hock Is #aid 1o bave unsettled his wind, She wasn't bis dratfove, for when In Creto ho Lud fallen in love with a beantiful Ureek matden of 15, and would havo wmarried her, only, on the wedding- day, bor bly brothers cams round aud Inslsted that e should slgn documents scitling so much a year oa them. sud their parents, and the girl's rola- tves. This was more thau Steuley had contracted for, aund be Oed, uumarried, *Aunt Mahala Weaver, of White Plains, N. Y., had a thoosaud-doller morigsge on her house, which welghed so beavily upon ber mind that sho sont out Ler two nleced, glels of 15, to service, with instructions o sical all the money tbey could and forward It to her, 80 that she could b8y off the obligstion. When Emily Weaver brouglt hows o modest $10 bill Aunt Mahals Whipped her out of the house, apbralding herss o disgraco to the fomily for dofng wuch picayuno plundering, whtie ber cousln Carriv bad brought Lowe tea tilnes oe much. Then Ewlly undertuok 10 polvon Ler master to secure more mowey, bk W found out aud lodged In jait.