Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1878, Page 4

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BOCIETY MEETINGS. , N . F. & A, M.l A L Xk uication, (hin (¥ rinay) exening. at siness and work on tha ¥\ G, Déwre y tnvited to attend. 1ty rder of the N, TUCKER. Sccretary, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1878, = ——————————— Groonbacks at the New York Stock Exe change yestorday closed at 993, The degree of Doctor of Lawn wna yoater- day conferred by Princeton Collego upon Gen. WiLntax T, S8nensan and Gov, Geonse B. McCLELUAN, of New Jorsey, Two men who were in custody on the chargo of hnving outraged the person of Mrs. Graves, living near Mitchell, Tenn., on the 16th of May lnst, wore yesterdsy taken from fnil and lynched by a large body of armed nen. 4 No member of ngross desorves more thanks from his constituonts for his fidelity, ability, and industry than does Mr. OanxoN, of this State. To him the country is maiuly indebted for the defent of the subsidy voted by the Sonnte to the soveral linos of Brazilian stenmships,—a subsidy that had no possiblo justitiention or protext other then to tako oney from tho Treasury to enablo one man tu eafry on his private busineas, There is o disposition amoug the militery authorities o regard tho alarming reports from the Cllppewa country in Wiscousiu as exaygernted, and to discredit the rumors of a projected allinnce between tho ponce- ful Chippewns aud tho hostile Sioux, their hereditary onemies, for s gen. cral war on tho whites.’Qreat alarm pre. vails in tho northern part of Wisconsiu anong tho settlers on that sparsely-peopled rogion, but Gen, Snzniwax has the matter iu hand, and bas no fear of any uprising that cannot be promptly chocked by the forces within roady reach. It hnappened fortunately that there was ono member of the Iouse section of the Juint Committeo on Envolled Bills remaiued scber aud nttended to his Lusiness, This was Representative Rainey, of Houth Caro. liny, the colored mumber whom the Demoe- racy lutely attempted to unscat, in spite of tho fact of his clection by an un. doubted mufority of legal votes, Rarwey was alivo to the mecewsity of promptness oud hurd work in getting onrolled billa in shinpo for tho final formalitics, and his duties wero so faithfully performed. that he re. ceived an official compliment from tho Bpoaker for his {ndustry and eficiency, It s nn exclusively American privilege to shirk work aund got drunk iu the closiug houra of Congroess. A suspiclous error has buou discovered in the engrossment of the Sundry Civil bili wliareby the amendment velating to the Hat Bprings reservation s so bungled and dis- torted s to become entiroly destroyed, and the mensure o4 effectually defeated as though it had never passed. ‘Tho amend. ment was stubbornly fought by the tob'py in both Houses, and at tho lust o way was found to galn the desired end. When the Demoeracy obtained control of the House thoy Insugurated ¢ re- foriu " by dismissing the enrolling clerks who Jid learned thelr business aftor twonty years of Lusy experience, aud by instaillvg Demo- crats without abllity or training for the work. The result is the gross perversion ot tho Mot 8prings clause of tho Sundry Oivil Lill, which will probably be found to be not ulto gether aceidental. The New York Z¥mes printy a tabular stat cment of somu of the new appropriations which will givo some iden of the national cxpenses for the ensuing flscal year, In the Htale Department, the Blinistors will cost §2580,600; the Becrotaries of Legation, §32,- L0 the Consuls-Geueral, §70,600; Con- suls and Vice-Consuls, §874,210; 1niscella- neous, §382,485. "T'ho total mmouut appro- priuted for the navy s $14,152,603, besides ¥2,003,801 for certain deficlencivs. ‘I'he umount sppropristed for fortificutions and works of defouse is §275,000. The appro- pristion for the Indian Service Is $4,748,275, of which $201,400 goes to the general serv- ies, 3,033,710 to carrying out treaties, the 8ioox consuming $1,618,200 of the amount; ©1,147,000 to removal, settlemont, subsist- vnce, support and civilization of Tndians, asd $167,000 for lnnhlel_xul expensos, —— A pointed commentary on the meanness oud petty spite manifested by the Implaca- bles of the Benato in refusing to vote the swall sui pecessary to defroy the necessary cxpenscs of the Louisiana Comumission is contained in the correspondence be- tween Becretary Soesaan and the Hon. Jous ¢, Brown, s member of the Com. lesivn. A4. latter, upoy hearivg of the tho statuto, posa boforo 9 o’clook this morning, the oxo- cution will take place aud justico will bo sat isfled. It s along time since a hanging Ling takon place in Ohicago, and the wmurderous and brutal rufians who infest the city have almost come to beliove that they can chbmmit nny crime with ympunity, the two murderers this morning may con. vincs them that justico s not dond iu Chics- o, and that lnws can be enforced. Socioty will feel moro secure whon these two men ara gono, 8 it gives evidence that others | mny meet with a similar fate, if it does not deter them frow following out their villain. ous purposcs. Fexton 08 nwombor of the International Mouetary Commission; tho refusal of tho Prosidont to withdraw his nnme upon the demnnd of the bimetallic Beuators; his rojec- tion by tho Henate; the subsequont nomina- tion of Judge LawneNce, and the Prosidont's action of the Sonnte, promptly forwanled to the Bocretary of the Trensury a sight draft on Now York for £827, this sum inclading his own personal expenses snd o pro rata sharo of the genoral expanses of the Commission, Becrotary Suzauan declines to recoive the money, and hns roturned it to Gov. Brown, oxpressing confldence that Congress at fts next session will appropriate the amount just refusod by the Senato, and stating the President's in- tention to make good the sum out of his private funds in tho event that no appropri- ation is made. Washington dispatches bring the informa- tion that Bonator Marruews Las decided to put in an appearanco beforo the Porren Committes in responsa to the summons alrondy fssued. ‘T'his doclsion, though com. ing rather late, Is certainly a wiso one. To put the most charitablo construction upon Senator Marrnews' conduct in this affair, it mey be that ho simply dotermined to nssert first Lis privilego as a Senator of the United States to resist nrrost, which was the length to which the Porren Committes proposed to go; that, having dono this and heeded the advice of judiclous newspnpers to appoar bo- fore the Committes, hie has decided not to inuke a bod matter worse by refusing to sub- mit to an examination, He will first make his statement befors tho Senate Committee, apyointed at his roquest, and afterwards sub- mit to the cross-examination in store for him at the hands of Burvzn and MoMamox, result mny not be very flattering to Benator Marrnews' judgmont, but we do not baliove 1t will conviet him of any guilty connivance at fraud, or of the suppression of the evi- dence of fraud known to him to be such. The e Unless the Governor shall futerfere in be. half of the wrotched mon Sneanv and Con- NeLLY, thoy will to-dny expiato their brutal and cold.blooded murder of Huax McCox- viLiE by paying the extromo ponalty of the law,—a penalty none too oxtreme in con. sideration of their crime. thoy porpotrated was one of unusual atroc- ity. thesa two thugs started out with the avowed intontion to kill some onme. tims to fall in their way wero Huun McCox- virre and his niece. an indecont assault on the young Iady, and in dofonding hor Mr, MoOonviLis was killed. The two wretchos Love had o fair trial and boan found guilty. The Supreme Court has refused to grant o suporsedens, and Judge The murder which Aftor laving nssanlted several others, The firat vic. They sought to make Moone, of the Criminal Court, has refused the Lwenty days' respite which was at his discretion under 1t the Governor does not inter- ‘Thoe oxecution of THE MONETARY UOMMISSIONERS, The original nominntion of ex-Gov. withdrawal of his name at the request of the sutisilver men ; the renomination .of Fex. tox; Mr. Consuing's tardy but enthusinstic support of bia appointment, and his final contirmntion by the Sozate,—thuse form o chain of circunustance that augur badly for the success of the Silver Iuteruatioual Con. feronce, has by no meaus given up the struggle for n singlo gold standard, and that these persons, having failed to dofent the remonetization of silver uccomplished by Congress in spite of the Prosident’s voto placed at their dispoanl, ure now determined to defeat, if possibls, tho permanent establishment of the doubls stundard by internationnl agroement, situation is that of n selfish clique opposed to the 'popular will, and the former has ob. tained n temnporary advantagoe over the latter by methods which will not bear impartial scrutiny, The New York Post, an iwploca. blo onetny of sliver remonetization, says of Benator FextoN that, “during his last yenr in Congruus, he made rome of the ablest ar- puments that were listeued to in behulf of u wound eurrcnoy, aud ho will be certuin to op. pose any views wehick look to any trifling with the national konor.” ‘The meaning of which is that Fexton iy oxpected to do whatever Hles in bis power to provent'tho adoption of the bimotallle standard by the International Conferenae, aud to defoat the objoct of the law undor which he s appointed. I'hey indicate that the golil cligne The The [ost donounced tho enactment of the Silver bill ns * tritting with 1he national honor," It i useless to disguise the feeling that the President is olearly consurable for the part ho has taken in this affair. Ilu started out with the knowlodge that the Rewonetization act, providing for this Couference, had been passod over his veto by threc-fourths of both Houses of Congress, aud was approved by rully niuo.tenths of the American pooplo. 1fe had beun very proporly rebuked by the immediato and overwhelming passage of tho law over his veto, without any referonce to a cominittee or further consideration. This rebuke should have taught him that he had orred ju settiug up his own preference aguinst that of Oongress and tho people. Hlis plain duty thereafter was to doevery- thing within his province to carry out the law in the spirit in which it was passed, and to lend up to the roalization of the purposo at which it was aimed, In solecting the Comnissioners to serve at the Qouforenvs suggested by the Ubited Btates Governmont, it was clearly bis duty to sp- point three mwen who would be thoroughly iu sympatby with the maintenanco of tho doublo standard in this country, and who would do everything in their power to secure an fnternational agreemont upon the relative proportions of the gold aud silver coin as {ho surest meuns for sustiining the double stendard. The purpuse of the Conference, so far os this country is concerned, is not to detormine whether the double standard shall be continued or abandoued in thus country, Lut, in tho language of the law: ‘Tho President shall invite the Covernments of the countrics comprising the Latin Union, so- called, und of such other Kurupeaw nalious as he way deem sdvisable, to join the United Staies in confercuce to adupt o coumon ratlo belween gold und slirer, for thy purpuse of colaolbanlog dnter- nattonally the uae of biuetallic money, sud s f:.f;':fl & Azily of Telatice ralus Letween theso T'he very charactor of the Conference, therefore, damuuded th exclusion frow the Auwericas Comiission of overy persou op- vosed to the double standard, in doubt about in the But- tho breach betweon them, nofninated for almost any other position, its desirability, or In favor of adopting such an excossiva proportion of silver to gold s would ultimately impnir the usefniness of the donble standard. Tnstoad of following this clear line of duty, tho Presidont ap- poluted only ono member—Judge Gnors- BECK, of Cincinnati—who is at once compe- tent and really in favor of the denble stand- ard; of the other two, Gen. Warxzm is at best lakewarm, and will probably contend for a higher ratlo of silver than the Enropean Powers will agree to, while ex-Gov, Fex- 70N fs an nvowed advocate of an oxolusive gold curroncy, The Prosident's subsequont action in the nffair further sttests that he s used his power for the bonefit of the gold clique, nnd in opposition to Congress and the peoplo. e refused to withdraw Fevtoxn's nnme when tho silver men ro- quested it, but readily withdrew Judge Law- nexoe's name (sent in after FexToN's rejeo- tion) at the demand of the anti.silver men, nnd renominated the defented Fexton, who was at last confirmed. We cannot reconcile this conrse with auy fnir conception of the President’s duty, and ho is equaliy blamablo whether hio wns guided by his motives of Apite nt the silver men in Congress, or by the pressure of the gold cliquo whom the people had overthrown. CoxgrLiNG's advoeacy of FryToN, after the Iatter hnd onco bean rejected, is a curious instance of a politician's elasticlty, Cong- r1xa and Fexton liave been at swords’ points for years, They fought originally over the division of Federal offices in New York, when both werc in the Sonate. Fexroy wont over to the Liberals, and Conkrixe end gained the mastery. Fexton's defoat only widoned Had FexroN boon Coxxring would have opposed him bitterly; 08 it was, CongurNa gratificd his spleen to tho extent of nllowing Fextox to bo rejected at first. Then it ocourred to this high-mind. od Benator from New York that he Lited the silver men aven more than he hated Fexton, and 0 ho booamu Fexrton's champion, It was not to Fextox’s roscue that CoNxtmno came, but to the rescue of the gold clique; it was not n generona sct to & former oppo- nent, bat au nbjoct servico to Wall atroot, 1t is strango that the silver men in the Scnate permitted themsolves to bo bam- boozled in this way. a majority of them allowed personal and political spite to influence them. JIndge Lawnence wag known to e an able and carnoat advocate of bimotallism, and woll qunlified to ndvance American intorests in the proposed ®Conforenco. But it was also known that he wasone of tho Preaidont's warmost supporters and & former membor of the Louisiaua Commission. tion of Fentox instend of Lawnexcz was a sacrifice of principle and the futuro interost of the country to gratify factional spite. It is probably becanse The confirms. If the Inlornntiontl Bilver Conferenco shall result in a failure to agree npon a fixed and common ratlo, it will not be through any indisposition on the part of European nations to give the subject proper considers. tion, be represented at the Conferonce excopt England and Germany, and tho Loague might eventunlly ncquiro such advantages na to induce thess two Powors to acquiesce. The presont danger is from tho misropro- sontation of tho American intercsts by the American Commissioners, This can only bo averted in ono way, viz.: Mr. Fenron, oven though individunlly opposed to the doablo standard, and Mr. Warken, without refer- ence to bk own uotlons as to what tho sizo of the silver coln should bo, must keop in mind that they go into tho Conferonce with practical instructions from Congress, in- dorsed by the Amorican poople, to bring about an internationsl agroomont upon a ratlo of silver and gold that will strengihon the doublo staudard in this country; and to thiv eud thoy must consciontiously and Leartily act in conjunction with Mr, Groes- All the Great Powers of Europo will peck to carry out the full intont and spirit ot tuo Bilvor law. LEGISLATIVE ABUSES, Congress has adjourned, After o mession of more thau eight months it adjourned, —the mombers boing too fatigned, worn out, and sowme of thom too drunk to bo able to ogroo upon voting awny any more monoy oud levying any moro taxes, two Houses voted over $170,000,000, inde- pendont of tho standing” appropriations for intorest on the publio debt. This will neces- situte a large incrense of taxatiou or a largo doflclency in the rovenue. & more profligate Congroas thinn that whioh olosed its firet sesaion at daylight on Thurs. day morning. The scenes had beoome so disgraceful,and tho inability of tho House to act intelligontly had become so ovident, that the Bpeaker dnring tho night declared the Houso wdjourned for two or three hours, It waa considerod better to suspend the session than to continue the nttempt t3 do business. The members from Philadolphia consumed throe or more hours that night In an attempt to dofeat n post-route bill from which a sub- sidy to a line of Philudelphla stesmnships had been oxcluded. The Nuvor was thero Au ordor had boen passed sevoral woeks ago to adjourn tho session at 6 o'clock p, m, on the 18th. Lusiness of the Congress lucomplete,the time of adjournment was postponed for twenty- four hours. It was agaiu postponed until 10 o'clock at nigbt, and again until 8 in the morning, and again uutil 5 a. m. During the seventy-two hours preceding the final adjournment tho ,business of Houses was delegated to Committeos of Con- ference, Hix mon hod charge of cach bill, aud they ngreed or differed, altered or changed, struck out or inserted appropria- Thut hour finding the the two tions as they thought proper, and the reeling, stupid, nud disorderly Iouses sbouted thelr approval or disapproval with. out knowing in one case outof ten what bud been done by the Committees, Aud this was thelogislation of whatis supposed to boa doliberative body | ‘This wasthe actionof » Congress to whom the Coustitution had intrusted the exclusivo legislative peyer of the nation, Noither House was in the physical or mental condition on Wednesday to legislato at all aud much less to legis. late on the appropristion of money. The weakness of the present Congross bay beeu the cxponditure of other people's money. Outside of o bill to draw wmoncy {from the ‘Treasury, the Cougress seemod to lack knowledgo, lack exporience, and lack unity of thought and purposo. Even the Porres investigation lacked iutelligence of purpose, Originated to furnish & pretext for declaring the Presidential election void because of fraud, the Houso paused mid. way in the investigation to sunouuce, by an almost unanimous vote, that the declared re. sult of tho Presidontial election could not be questioucd by Congress or eliewhere by any allegution or oven prool of fraud in muy form. The whole machinery of the Houso of Hopresoututives wos organized o advance and promote tho payment of the clnims of persons in the Robel States for damages and lossos sustained during the War of the Re. bellion, and tho House stopped suddenly, in tho hight ot {ts delirinm, to pass au amend- mont to the Constitution forever prohibiting tho payment of any one of thoso claims. The time has coms when Congross must mbjeot its proceedings to tho control of law. Rules of ench Iouse, or joint rules, arc of no avail 80 long as they can be suspended, and they are alwaye susponded when the contin. genoy arises for thelr enforcement. No bill of any kind for any purpose should bo rend mora than once on any day. No bill should be passed without the affirma- tive vote of n majority, recondoid by yons and nnys. No bill should be considered pnssed that shall not bo presented to the President ntlenst throo or flve entira days boforo the timo fixed for tho adjournmentof the session, This is & matter that must be settled not by rulo, but by a Jaw which cponot be sus- pended, and cannot be ropenled except ns other Iawa are repenfed. Tho Constitution provides that® ** each Honse may determine tho rules of its own proceedings,” but this does not preclade Congress as a whole estab- lishing such rogulations by law as may be deomed necessary to govern the proceedings of both JHouses. This power las already beon exorcised by the enactment of various laws on the sab. ject. Any rule which eithor House mny adopt for its own government, or which the two Houses may adopt to govern their joint proceedings, may bo anacted as a law of the United States. 'Tho necossity for such a law has long been appartent, aad, if any doubt evor oxisted aa to such n nocessity, the action of Congross sinco Monday last should be suf. ficient to satisfy any one that in such a law only can Congross, tho President, nnd the conntry find protection against the shameful sbuses of the logislative power. Withsuch o Iaw, the business of legielation wonld tormi- nate at least three dayas before the adjourn. mont of the session, in which time the Presidont would havo an op- portunity to oxamine what each bill contained, and be enabled to consider intelligently the propriety of approving or vetoing it. Buch a law, with another nu. thorizing the Prosident to approve any part of an sppropristion bill and to roturn the othor parts to Oongress withont his approval, would do much to protect the country ngainst tho reckless, wasteful, and scanda- lons system of making appropriations for all manner of improper objects, and compelling the President to approve the whole bill or defeat such appropriations as may bo noces- sary to support the Govornmont. 'S BOMBSHELL, Mr. Coxaen ia doing good service in fight. ing the mmonstrous demands of the South that have ropeatedly como before tho House in the shape of claims for lossos incurred during the War of the Rehellion by reason of disloyalty. 1t is notlong sinco he ox. posed tho attempt of Mr. Rzacan, the ex- Tostmnster-Goneral of the Bouthern Con- fedoracy, to sccure tho clalms of cortain Bouthorn mail contractors who had already been paid io full, and provented o deliberato robbery of the Treasury by confronting him with the archives of his own Departinont which contained tho evidencs of their com. ponsation, On Wodnesday last he made a hotme thrust which exposed Dewmocratic in. consistency upon the Rebel ¢lalms business, Ho brought out the Northern doughfncos snd the Houthorn Brigudicrs * from their skulking places, and compellod them to go upon the record. The whole Demooaratio crowd who have boon protusting so loudly that thoy are not in favor of the puyment of those claims was brought squarcly np to tho rack upon n question which conld not be dudged. Tho quostion was upon the possage of a jolut resolution propesing a coustitutional ameudment forevor prohibit. ing tho payment of any claim fur property takon, used, injured, or destroyed by United Btates troops during the War of the Rehell. jon, unless the owner was loyal to the Gov. orement, and gave neither aid nor encour. agement to the enemy; also including all claims to Robels living in the North during the War—and thore wers o good mauy of thom—who could not prove their loyally. It was, a3 will b seen, a sweeping resolu. tion. It covered tho whole ground. It loft no loophole for escnpe, and thore was no way of dodging the ironclad rocord which it presonted. It was o time that tried the Democratio soul. A ULombsholl suddenly lighting in a camp-meeting could hardly huve cansed more consternation than Alr, Coxara’s bomb that suddenly burst upon the Dewmocratio camp. Every expedient was tried to avold it, but Mr. Conars leld them utifly up to it. The Northorn doughbfaces joined tho Bouthern DBrig- adiers in tho varlous tactics known to parliomentary warfare ‘to provent o record vote. They ware upon the ragged edye, with o cast-iron, unrelenting fasue be- foro them that was to lay bare thoir insin. cority and bypoerisy. The Republicans, of course, voted for the resolution, Most of tho Bouthorn Drigadiors boldly faced the musie and voted ageinst it, thus ehowing that they wera not willing to havo an amend. ment mnde to the Constitution which would spucifically squoloh every claim of o disloyal porson, North or SBouth, although they hiave oll nlong pretended that all such claims wore barred by constitutional ameudment. The Northern doughfaces squirmoed. A handful voted with the Brigadiers, Many of them dodged voting. 'The rest, looking forward with alarm to the future and suxlous o save their cloction in the fall, voted with the Re- publicaus, and the amendment secured the necessary two-thirds, the vote stauding 144 yoas to U1 nuys, Although tho amendment bhas passed the House and is now in order to be taken up by the Senate at any time, & renewal in the House being unuecessary, the Democratio vote which helped secure its passage docs not mean anything and does not indicate anything exocpt their own fear of belug loft out in the next eleotion, - They did not dare to face their conutituents with a nvgative voteon the record. Their' bypocrisy was not only shown by thelr twisting and squirin. iug, but by their actlon of thé day before in voting solidly for the Porrzn bill providing for tho .lnvestigation of all' such claimy against the United Statos. ‘This bill vests tho whole machinery for claiming, proving, and collecting acoounts ju the Court' of Claims. It provides ** that any person who moy have a claim of which the Court of Claims hasuot now jurisdiotion, but founded on equality sud justice, and not barred by any statute of liwitation, may file his bill in the Court of Claims, setting out the grounds of his claim aud the relicf desired. The Court, after trying the case, shall report its findings to Congress, which body shall not oconsider, or allow, or authorize the psyment of auy pri- vsts claim not paysble under the exliting law, until the same has beeu heard and ve- ported to Congress by the Coust of Olaimu.” MR. CONGER' JUINES zZ1, 1875, It further provides that all claims provided for in the ot not proscented within mix yoara of iis passnga shall be barred by limitation. It is in this Court of Claims that the Sonthorn Brigndiers have centered their hopes of mnking the loyal peo- ple of this couniry pay the losses of the disloyal, and compelling the Govern- ment of the United Btates to assumo the expenses of the South fncurred in the attempt to destroy it, Tho Porrer bill mot ouly vests this Conrt with full power in the premises, but it gives o six yoara' additional lense of life to their claims, by which time the Domocrats nsrnmo they will be in com- pleto control of the Government, after which Rebol claims can live forever, and the doors be thrown wide opon to any raid the Sonth may be plonsed to mnke upon the Trassury. ‘This was thelr hope. It may be, however, that thoy hinve holsted thomselves with thelr own potard. Shonld the constitutional amendment which has passed the House pasd the Bonate ot ita noxt session and be ralificd by tho Btates, according to law, it will knock the bottom out of tho Porren bill, so far as claima of disloysl persons are con- cerned. This will not pnss to the credit of the Northern doughfaces, Lowever. Their vote upon the Porres bill showed thelr in- clination ; their vote upon) the Conozn amendment indicated personal necossity, Dispatchos from Derlin indicate that thers is little doubt of a thorough understanding betwaen England and Austria, or of the like- llhood of its continunnce durlng the antire doliberations, If this statement be truo, thon it ia evident that they will be likely to insist upon the carryingout of their pro- gromme oven at the extromity of war, and that nothing can prevent it unless Russia is prepared to fight both. France, Italy,'and Gormany, the other three Powers, have as yot indicated no purpose to presocut any views that they are rondy to back up with an army. Thoy are presont s mediators, and if England anud Austris docide that tho San Stefano treaty must be modified, it is evi. dont it will be, unless Russia is prepared to appeal to the sword, sinco tho other Powors onanot overralo the decision. Unloas, thore- fore, England nnd Austrin fall out, their pro- gramme is likely to bo adopted. The admis- slon of Greece cornts for little boyond the right of being consultod in matters pertain. ing to her intorests. England alrendy hav- ing suggested that the Congress has no power to slice up territory not involved in the war, Grecco has littla hope of obtaining ofthor Thossaly or Epirus, and will have to content horself with the empty promise of ‘botter governmont under the Porte. L BAVINGS BANES, «ditor of The Tribune. . Cntcano, June 10,—It 18 strange 10 sea the alo- quence onco displayed by the press, irrespective of Illrllel. lffllnll tho robbories of savinge banks; it To th s mysicrions to see the same press, Congress, and ovon tho Secretary of thoe Treasury, ail pointing to a slngle and the same remedy, viz: the postal sav- nge ka! Evorybody cunceded that the plan or plana on the Pdst-Oftica savings was the safest and more accotnmodating process for tho peopls. How in it now that, after 80 much fuss, s0 mnch good will_expressed,—all through the country ~the alr wos Olled with the cry. '*Glva us “postal eavings banks,"—and anddenly atillness and silence stop nll ideas about that popalar dealderatum! Tho pross i ellent on the subjoct; Congeoas has forvotten it, and tue prepared billa to organize uiider that beneficial system are lald on thu shelf, and tha Secretary doss not remember cyen the (ime of theso proposed plans, Whatdocs that mean? Wil Congress adjuarn without taking action on that vital question? Ilavo toey boun wllencad? By what power has that happened, ote, 1 Tur Trisuxe must know somcthing of that sporadic fover of H;‘mncerlnn savings. Pleassin- form the penple of tha trne state of facts concorn- ing those promises about the good, aolid, and pop- uiar institutions o wuch needed, And why, oh why, have we thom not? Q. Dexans. Mr, DEmARs ssks soveral questions. The falluro of any national savings bilt niay bo as- cribed to two causes,—first, the secret but active oppnaltion of the cxfstlng savings banka and the private banks which recelve small de- posits from tho working classes. Tho oflicers of those banka keot a lobby in Washington working quietly and sccretly against the pas- sogze of any postal savings blll. And they also uscd thelr influence by direct appeal to mem- bers, Thereasun s obvious. The keepers of tho savings banks don't want the Government to provido o sale pluce of doposit for the earn- ings of the laboring clasacs, lest thoy mizbs tranafer some of thelr mpuuy from the unsafe aud rotton institutions to the perfectly safo Government depositorfes. The pressure tho oflicers of thoso banks brought to bear on mem- bors af Congresa (somo of whom ure barrowers from them) was very great, and In somo cascs as fereslstible as that of a® creditor o & dobtor. The sccond cause of faflure was the opposition of the *Stute-Soverelgnty” Dowmocrats who made objection to any such bill on the ground that, fn sume oceult and Inconcelvable way, it would treuch upon the *sovoreign® right of the Stutes tor the National Governmont to pro- vige safo places of deposit for the Industelal classes or to take charge of the bualocvs and {nvest those savings fn ita own securitics for their bonotit, Those guardians of “8tate Bov- erclinty ™ were mostly badly-reconstructed Rebels, but they had some Northorn douihtare backers. Theso two classes of objectors—the rotton savings-bankers and the Bourbons—in- terposed a froczlug, perstatent opposition to the advancement of the bill, and preventod it from beiug consldercd. But the fallure to pass the bill must In port he ascribed to the strange apathy of the working-classes themsclves, who did nothing to fuflueuce the enxctinent of a Postal Savioge bill. The. )trades-unlons, so many thousaudsof whose el hsve suffered vy brokeu savings bauks, néyat ‘lifted a fiuger in behalf of a natioual savings system, 7The workingmen held no meetifizs anywhers, and passed no’ resolutions, and wrote no letters to members of Congress urging the enactment of such a blll. They acted with strange (ndiffer- ence. All that was done to promoie the schews was by a fow newapapers, who recelved no sup- port ur backing trom the cluvses whose interests they espoused, 1s it any wouder, then, In view of the forexoing facts, that Congreas adjourned without passing the bill} 12 the trades-unlons of Chbicago aud B few otber cltles hind moved in the matter by meotings and resolutions, the bilt could buve buen passed. Perbaps next winter they will stir themselves, Whenever thoy do iu & way that couvinces Congress that thoy really deslre the cuactment of & nutlonal saviogs sys- e, the bl will bo passed; but uutil they do move, the bill will rewatnin committes dor- want, ‘The Iilinols crimival code seoms to be u desd letter 80 far as lottery advertising Is concerned. Wae bellove that Tus TRIsUNE Is tho only nows- paper that refratns entirely from the pubilea- tion of notices and lists of lotleries; we are certain that the Thmes aud Jaler-Uooun, and wo think the Journal nod F'ost, derivo a considera- ble proporfion of thelr revenue from this iMicit practice. ‘The law provides that .** whoever kuowingly priuts, publishes, etc., or causes to bo printed, published, etc, any advertisement of uuy lottery-tickes or scheme, or any share 1n any such ticket ‘or scheme for sale, cither fur himaclf or by auy other person, or sets up, or exbibits, or dovised, or makes, for the pur- pose of belog set up or exhibited, any sign, symbol, or emblematic or other representation of s lottery or the drawiog thereof, in any way indicativg where & lottery-ticket, or any share thereof, or any such writlng, certificate, bil), token, or other aevico befure mentioned sy Lo purchased or obtuined, or fn avy way ftavites, or outives, or attemots to fovite or eutico auy other person to purcLase ur recolye the same, sball, for esch offeuss, be fined not, excoeding $100.” Now the phrasvology of this law s certaluly . explicit enough to cover overy pousible advertisemont of alottery, and uothiug is casier of proot thau & notice printed in & pub- Lic uuwsoooer, But the luw gocs furtber tuan this. If{tdid not, the Times and other law- breaking newspapers would probably pay the 8100 and proceed with thelr nnlawful trafile, Anothior section, however, provides that, in the case of asecond offenss after conviction, the offender *sahall, in additton to the fine before provided, ba conflned in the County Jall not ex- cceding ono year.” In compllance with this law Tus TRinuss constantly rejects lottery advortlsemonts for which -1t s offered Iarge prices. whila Its eohtempora- rics aa constantly print them fo open deflance of tho law. The Btate's-Attorncy takes the ground, we understand, that it is not hia busl- nesa to prosccute the offending newspapers unlcss a complaint Is formally made which he can present to the Grand Jury, 1f hels right in this position, then we should think that the scrupulons and consclentious persons who nro- cured tho passage of the law in the first fu- stance would bestie themscives to socuro fts enforcoment, There is liitle use in making efforts to have a law passed by the Lerlalature, which {s then to be dropned without caremony, and treated as if §t were noton the statute- books., All the injury done by lottery adver- tlsements before the passage of the law is done now, so long as only 8 singie newspaper volun- tarily refuses thelr publication and all the other newapapers aro permitted to violate the law with impunity. et — PHMLADELINIA, June 17, ~JAxza B, ANDERfON, Iate nicht editor of the NorlA American, of this city, who fignred no prominently in the Porren in- vestigation, has severed hin connection with that avor. y And yet what a good character tha North Amerlcan gave him! What s Untruthful James ‘golng to do? Lecturs? (o into paortnership with Gmoras Avenepl Or what? Really wo must drop {uto poetry in a frlendiy way on this auspicious occasion. What, hot Within there, bring forth the sounding barp—or, stay, the tuncful llar will be more appropriate. Hore goes: Not & deum was heard, nat a funeral noto, As ont from the ofico thoy ran yer, As tho edltor put hixfaroweil foot Where—n womsn—you'd wear your panfer, Thoy bounced yo, Jux, sadly on Monday night, pYaueahears o ahother Lo atraguling ias- on the necond story tands Few and short were tho swears you satd, 'nmmi’h your mind was filied \ith sorrow, As you bitteely thonght of tho biif diaplay Liead ‘wu hiad meant to write for the morrow. Dat half of your nightly task was done, When tha bosn gave the order ** Bounce him} 1lim dowa the atalrcasc swiftly run, And if he reslats, why—trounce him1" lehlly lhu‘y,‘fl think of the night.ed. that's gone i o'or his dry pasto-pot uporaid him; But Jittle he'll reck if they'il let him lle on Before Porren—fot 8AxY has pald im Elewl{ and eadly flle{ fired him out, East Foliclania's gl u?; Ho gave not a kick, and he ralsod not & shout, And they left him alone with his story! ——— Mr, Congrring is in quocr company again. Ho was the forcmost oppouont in the Benate of the bill authorizing the use of greenbacks In payment of customs ducs a8 Mr. Ewixog was in the Iousc. The Senate LIIl, it will be re- mombered, could not be reached in the House. But a similar bill had been passed (o the Houso and sent to the Senate for its concurrence. It waa Inid before the Senate by Mr. Fennr, Act- fog President ot that body.. Mr, CONKLING &b once made a point of order ngainst it, holding that it could not be constdored under the rules out of tho morning hour excopt by unanimons consent, The Vice-Presidont declded agalost him, and was sustained on appeal. CoNKLING then objected to two readings uf the bill on one day, and was -sustained, thua accomplish- ing fts defeat, 0a tha seasion ended scon after- wards, It is to be hoped that this wus not the long-heralded ‘greatost offort of his lifo 5 for 1t was, according to the best {nformation wo have, a direct move against tho enforcement of the Resumptlon act. It proceeded from Igno- rance and not from hostliity to the policy of the Treasury Department iu this respect, but it was not the less objectionable on this sccount. Senator DAN Voouuses ls s candidata for ro- election to tho United States Senate, and, ju viow of this fact, the Iudisnapolls Journal ap- propriately re-cxamines his record. It quotesa lotter written by C. C. CLAY to JAcon Tinoup4| son, defaulter and ex-8ccretary of tue Interfor under BUUHANAN (both partica then belug in Cunada), n which the fealty of Voorurss to the Lost Cause is vouched for. This letter ls dated at 8t, Catherines, July 11, 1864, Aunother lattor, written from Long Dranch to Voonuexs bimsel? by James W. WALL, approves **the ex- cellent quality and great officlency of certaln rifles, which, it {s wall understood, wera to be used {o the Westeru Rubel rislug. But no new testimony {8 needed to show tho disloyalty of Dax Voonuszs. e bas attestod It over and over agalo out of his own mouth, If tho peo- plo of Indiana wish to smirch the memory of thelr lamented War Governor and Senator, they can do it in no manner more effoctivoly thun by returning this blatherskito and reunegade to his scat {n the Seunte. e ———— Aftairs arc not golug so smoothly {n New Orleans as we wero promised they should when the Democratic Administration came fn, Cor- pot-bag corruption, it appears, has o worthy and lineal descendant in the Demnocratlo Gov- erumont installed by the Commisaion of March and April last year, A judement of £20,300 ob- tofued by tho State agalost the Canal Bank, worth every cent of its faco, has been compro- wmised for $20,200,15 Iu warrante and 85 ceuts In cash. Thess warrants wore purchased on the street for 16 or 17 ceats on the dollar,—say 84,000 for the Jot. Bownebody has made the difference between this sum ond the amouut paid by the bank, popularly estimuted at $3,600, It 18 not known whothogullty officlule are. The payment was tmade on an oplulon rendered by the Assistant Attorncy-Goueral and approve i by the Auditor, " RIS . ‘The Republicans of Alabama propase calling a Stata Conventlon to meet ou the 4th of July, and the Moblle Reylster nffubly romsrka that they think of carrying the Moblls anl Belnn Congressional Districts, for which thoy witl uomi- pats & ‘*“most contemptible scalawag' and the last ross of carpet-bageery left blooming alone.” The Democrats of Alabuma practically turned out the two oegro Dumocrats who were sont up to the recent Convention as renrescota- tives of the colored voters who placed the Democrats in power. Aud unow they arc be- gloning the wild old war-whoop whon the Re- publicans propose & campalgn, Proceed, gen- tlemen. For every voter you bulldoze hall galn two up la this direction. ———— Tou Nast docs not think that Communism in this country amounts to much, It started out to Lo a roariog lion, and euds in nothiug moro formidable than a barking dog. Everybody bas ssen a long-bnired poodle so shcared as to re- semble the kiug of bessts, ‘Lhat’s Nast's (dea of Communtsm in tbe United States. Ile draws a picture of a clipped poodle fu tho likeness of & terrible lon chalned to the door of a *bler halle.”” Outhe door is written, * Vive la Com- mune! Boware, or the lon will get looss.” e ————— Nast has a plcture of & vast crowd of people from all arts of the Uniou stauding in front of the Washington Capitol whon Congress was adjourning ‘‘without dasy,” and cheering like mud, waving bats, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, and cancs ovor their heads to give emphasis to thelr joy attho dispersion of that dangerous, mischisvous body. ‘The picturc is emblomatical of tho untyersal feeling throughout the United States. Every honest’ man isglad that Con- Kresa has at last cleared out. —————— Tha starving laborers of Quebeo broke fnto & Bour store and stole 400 barrels of flour. To- stead of wheeling the food home to thelr starving wives and starving chlldren, they sold it to starving grocers at $1.50 & barrel and (nveated the woney fu geod substantial whisky, ———— ‘Thoe New York Tribune ssys, Prince Gonts- CuAkorF is the oldest diplomstlst fu the Con- gress. As be sits iu the councli-chamber of the Radaiwcll Palacs, bls thouglts must rovert to the Uret European Coufercucs in which be took port. Tt wasin Viennaaquarter of a eentury ago.” The rematnder of the Trilmne's oxielleny articla shows that fts writer has read closely Juttan Kuaozre's Lrilllant book, “Tho Twg Chancellors,' henco we are surprised that hy didn't recollect that Prince Gontdcnakorr ap. tonded the Congress of Verona, thirty vears before the Vienna Conferences, 88 & member of the sulto of NraseLnops. e e—— “ A bolle of old Llill, Nev., plays the plann with lier fingers and tocs simultanconsly.'— New York Sua. It would have becn hetter to prosent this Ho In a lierical form, as follows: Tide on 8 pad Ta (lold i1, Nevad., To sce a falr lady a playing like mad The plano with hier Sngers and Hkewies her tons And thua she inakes music and shows off hee striped hose. 3 e The feroclous Mobile Register, which looks upon it as high treason, and flat burelary, and wrson in the soventh degree for the Aladama Republicans to entor the political ficld, Is edited by & man named Rarinn. As hels a peeullarly bloodthirsty man, but not so sharo 88 he miglit be, the nsmu is hardly fittiog. MEATAX—Joux L. Maatax—would be belter, e —et— ‘The New York Zimes will do us the favor to remember that Bex Boten ana 8ax Cox, the members who made the closivg hours of thy 1ato scaston hideous, wers not ** Western states. men." les,? ———— PERSONALS. Fdwanl Eggloston wants American olties to name tholr atroots after tho groat menof the country, Sothey do. Charles 0'Conor, when ho was 8 yoars old, waa a noweboy : at leaat ho used to nct as caceler of paper printed by hin father. Samuel Williams, tho oldest printer of New York, and a feilow-journeyman with Thur. low Weed sixty years ago, has juss died at Rondount, N. Y., nged 80, Nilsson is taking a holiday and doing no singing whataver, for when sho sings sho hasta tako o many precantions againat catching cold that ke cannot onjoy herself. ¥ Brothor Kimball bes a rival in Brother Roawell 8mith, who has, by similar mothods, ralsed tho debts of savoral Jorsey churches, Ilis services are 1n groat demand, The Duchess of Edinburg is sald to be responsible for most of ¢he scandalous storfes about the escapadea of the Prince of Wales, which have made such troubla botween him snd his wife. ‘The monks of Grottoferrata, near Frasent{, rafusod to entertaln Fathor Curel, on sccount of his hasing written his famons book on the policy of the Church, but the Pope gave him & lodjing o the Vatican. Bishop Ssymonr, of 8pringfleld, has heon preaching a farewell scrmon to the colored Eplaco. palians of New York who worship st 8t, Phliip's Church. After the servico he shook hands with many of the members as they passed out., Tho truthful Irlsh papers declaro that the soto helrass to Willlam 8. O'Brien's honanza millions is Lis agod and Indigent sluter, Mra, 3c. Carthy, of Limerick; also, that the miilionalre was transported many yonts 520 for Whiteboylem, and oscaped from Australl to Califorala, Thore wore 20,000 shares of Kooloy motor stock, fssucd originally at $100 face value, actling first at 800, then going up to $300. Now no ona will touch them. 1In the construction of the ma- chincry $1560,000 havo been expended, and the Company has peat sl its funds snd $10,000 of the Directors’ money. Tho site of Thoreau’s hnt on tho ahore of ‘Walden Pond Is now marked by a calrn hegun sev. aral years ago by a Weatorn Iady, o many pll- grims bave added stones to the plle that It has grown very large. The Alcotts now live In the house at Concord which was occapted by Tlhoresn in his Iast days, Among the passongers on the Germanic on Saturday wore Dr, John Ilall, the Bishops of Long Ialand, New Jorsey, Ponnsylvania, and Ne- braska, Clara Loulse Kollogs, John W. Garrett, Willlam I, Douglass, tue milllonalrs, Mora, the plotographer, snd nearly 200 others of political und sacial promineuce, In u rocent trialin England It onme out that cconumical band-leaders were in the habit of tnuing **duminy violius'* in upon the managers whom they had contracted to furnlsh with - sicians atro much o head. The dummy violln ln played with a greased bow by & man who knows nothing of maale, and rendors no audible sound, ‘The Bible gotten out by the Bmith eistors, of Glastonbury, Conn., must be an (nteresting work. **laupy the compassionate, for thoy shall be commleerated, "' {8 ons of its beatitndes, und In ono of the parables occura the remuarkable verss: 44 Friend, bow camest thou in hither, not havinga garment of the nuptial feast! And he was mui- zlod 1" A curlous defonse s sst up in a lawsull in New York, where Mrs, Tegotmiordeclarcs thatsha was mareled to her huaband by an act of mutual sgreoment, followed by cohabitation and pubhic rocognition as his wifo. BShe declaros that he awore he would ‘bo & faitbful busbund to heros long as they livod, and ho swears that he sald **vo long as wo live togethor,"" which piakes & very os- soutlal difference. Frasculeo, the chiof toreador of Madrld, 18 worth $400,000, and wears $20,000 worth of dtamonds on his fighting costume. e 18 much ‘cuurtod by the highost soclety i Madsid, 1a a inom- hief cratio club; yot his wifeiaa laugnter, and wtill helps her mother On daye when her husdand por- ulty at her balcony with hor children to tecolve courlors, who cane on horsebrck, wavivg 8 whita flag as sign of success in the nrona. MueGaban, the dend journallst, did ex- cellent work for the New York Herald, which, wfter bia return from the Arctls expedition, cut down his salary BO por cent, so alsgustiug him that he left the paper at once aud went to the Londua Daily Nows, which troated him more lihorslly, ‘Tho New York Sun says that the Heruld *‘suftercd oneof the most brilliant and solld of American Journalists to separate from the press of his coune try solely because he was too much of & yontlemun to submit to anybody's inobriated whims, and too much of & mau ot to know bis own vale,' Amenitlos of the bost socloty at the virtu. ous Victorlan Court: The Marquis of lluntley lost money st cazds to Sir Kobert Poel, and gave him ck which huppened to be fuforwal in sume way, 40 thal tho Baronet had 1o walt & weok for hism ‘Then the Baronet luat money (o Lord Huntley and sald he'd make Atn walt for il & weok. Then Lord Huniley walked up (o & card- table where Bir Itobert Pool was playing and warn- ed the other players to Jook ous ur they would mever get pald their winnlogs, Thon Blr Hobert Puel called my Lord Munlley & d—d lar, ‘This took placa between two moblomen at the Turf Club, & swall resort, bat it reads very much like snanccdote of a quarrel betwoen two *‘brace” players in an Archer svonue gin-mill, ‘Wa rejolce to Lear, from tho almost magic precincts of Menlo Park, that oar wildest snticl pationszogarding the **phonos" that awaltus in the future are likely to be apecdily reslized. We are evezn promised a new science of voat propore tions. tobo known aa kosmophouics, and 1o con+ taln many subdivisions with suphonlc names, such s zoophionics, phytophonics, physlophonics, etc. There may be something rather startling fo the sudden anuexation of solarge a field to the domsin of homen koowledge and study, which 18 already 50 extensive that no man cap asplrs, Ilke Bacom, to take it all for bis province; uill it promises to be s0 sttractive, and withal so fraliful Inpotea- tialitles, that we can only bld Mr. Edison god- sped in bls work of discovery sud favention. — New York 1vmas. A CARD FHOM KOBEAT T. LINCOLX. 7o ths Editor of Th Tribuns. ; Cnicaco, June 20.—An srticle in Taesday's Inler-Ocean would nob have recelved aitentlon from me but for another appeartog yusteidsy mozning, purporting, withont sutbority sad erro- neously, to contaln statements of mine. 1t is proper for me, therefore, Lo sy that the are ticle of Tusaday is false throughout. 1 naver knew 8oy such person as Mrs. Tewple. 1 uover saw John Wilkea Bouth fu my lifa. Durlnz tho winter mentionod fu tho atory I wat 1n Washingloo not more than two or thees days Iu all, sud that oaly in passing througt to the srmy at City Point; 1 romained with the army oa duty uotll the surrender of Geo. Lev, and artived 10 Wasbington agaiu only on the ulltxtrnluy of iho M A 1803, Vury sespecitully yours, LA i Bossuz T Lotoki ———— Epitaph of the Pottering Committes—*'HHeay 4 -y