Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1879, Page 4

[ & ‘ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1870—TWELTE PAGES, tion of such alaw, It is certain that the .@iw Teibane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Epectmen capics rent free, Cive Fon-OMce sdress 1a fall, fncloding State and County. Tiemiitances may bamade either by draft. express, Tost-Office order, or in registered letter. at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRINERS. Dally, Gellvered, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per week, Datly, deltvered, Eunday Included, 70 cents per week. Addren E TKIDUNE COMPANY, Corner 3adlson and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, 1il. Orders Tot the dellyrry of TRE TRIBUNE at Ryanston, Englewocod, and iyde Tarx feft 1a the counting-room ‘will recelve promptattention, ——— TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Tz Crrcaso TRIRUNE hay eatablished tranch offices orihe receipt o subscriptions and advertisements a1 ollows: NEW YORK—Room 20 Trioun¢ Bullding. F.T.Mc- ADDEX, Mansger, PALIS, France—~Ko. 16 Rug doIs Grange-Batellere, H.Maxrzx, Agent. LONDON‘: Fog.—American Exchengs, 449 Strand. Eaxxr F. Gtrite, Agent. BAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Dalace Tstel, PSRN e TAMUBEMENTS, . McVicker's Theatre. MMadison street, between Dearborn and State, “Des- ting." Afternoon and eveniog. Haverly’s Theatre, Dearborn street. corner of Monroe, Engagement of the Park Theatrs Company. **liurrichnes." Afternoon sad eveolng. Teoley’s Theatre. Randolph street, tatween Clark and Lafalle. Eae gagement of Hem Opers Company. Afternoon, *'Chimes of Normandy," WKveniog, *'Dohemisn Glrk" Academy of Muste. Falsted street. betwern Stadison and Monroe, Va Haty entertainment. Alternoon and evening. Ifamlin's Theatre. Clark street, opposite tho Court-House, Engsge- ment of Miss Fauny Herrine. **Red Hand," Metropolitan Theatro, Clark strest, oppoaits Sherman House, Varlety ene tortainment. Afternoon and eveniug. White Htocking Parlc. Lako shore, foot of ashington strest. Grand Skating Carntval. ‘West Enit Opors Wouse, . Nor, 471 and 473 West Madison street. Dalabiego the Bwedish Wonder, 1n feats of Legerdemaln. " WEDNESDAY, JANUARY &, 1870, The people of Atlanta, Ga., are eojoying tho luxury of good ekating for the first timo in twenty years, and there is a Lright slde to the picture of suffering among the poor pre. wsentoed by this unparallolod cold term afford- ed in tho reflection that ico will bo choaper in that rogion next'summer than over bofore, a8 thousands of tons are now beiug cut. The royal rako of Holland, King Wirt- 1mx IIL, was yosterday married to tho Princess Apzratpe Esoga Witneisia Teresa, daughtar of Prince Gronar Vicron of Wal- dook-Pyrmont. The brido is sweot, tender, and 20; the groom fotigh aud 62. Thero may bo political ronsons for such o mar. ringe; it is difficnlt ‘to imagine nny.other reasons, 'Tho case of Judge Bropurrr is Ly the action of the Houso yesterday placed in the hands of the Judiclary Committe, the lawfully-constitnted iunvestigators of that body, who mifly bo relied on to carefully cxamino and impartially report upon such evidenco ns may be brought ULefore - them tonching the truth or falsity of the charges! It is probable that a Sub-Committes will be deputed to procoed to Chicago and receive tostimony, & A dooision rendercd yostorday by ths Ap- pellats Court is calculatod to bring penco nnd contentment to the minds of tho Londsmen of Davip A, ‘Gacr, who are now assured that the thing which they signed and thought & bond was of no snch cffoot, and they are held to be freo from any lability thercon, It will be remembored that the bond was signed in blank, aid fllad out afterwards; and it is for this renson that the Court holda tho instrument to boyoid and of no force. Congressman Acxrex yosterday had the chesk to ask the Hounso to nppoint a Com. mittea to investigato his morals and report thercon,—a thing which the Houeo declined to do. It would cost §20,000 to send a Committeo to Now Orloans for tho purpose of whitewashing Ackrex, and tho gawmo Is not worth the candlo. Dosides, it would os- tablish an undesirable consorship over the private conduct of members, few of whom cou'ld stand this sort of thing. - It is choaper and gafer to lot AcxLEX go unvindicated, Next to being Prosidont of a savings bank and eafoly quartored in foreign lands, the Comumnissioners appointed to wind up tho affairs of the Freedman's Bank in Washing- ton have had ono of tho pleasantest sitoa- tiona going. In thepast five years they have “wound up" things vory sucocasfully, Their total expenses foot up, 8318,753, and if there should not be cnough remaining out of the assoty, originally estimated at §2,600,- 000, to maintain this rate of winding up, the depositors might be asseased for the Iml*ucv. Tho defendants to tho indictment chargifig couspiracy upon the former oficers of the OCharter Osk Insurance Company—DMessra, Furoen, Warxerry, Warre, and Wican— ‘were yesterday acquitted by the jury in tho trial that has been pending for several weeks past in Hartford, The defenso enjoyed the benefit pf eminent and ablo couusel, and every loophole in the law or weak poiut in the evidence turned to their advantsge. O, tha other wide the case wasnot managed with equal vigor and sbility, and the verdict of acquittal is therefore not eurprising, ———— ‘We print this moruing an interesting in- terview with Judge Catoy rclative to the advantages or otherwiso,.of a reciprocity treaty between the United States and the Rudwich Iidaads, Jufge Oartoy, having faken pains to post ),hmall rogarding this auatter during a wuit ‘to Iawaii, is ablo to give an intelligent opfnion as to the effoct of the treuty. Ho tpkes issno with Secretary tuzemayn on the question of advantage to the Uaited Btates, aud shows wherein rec- iprocity with thd Sandwich Ilonds Las boen and must continue to be a decided benefit to both countries. i Bome cregdit is due to the citizens of Kear. ney, Nébj, and - vicioity for thelr steady resistance of & strong temptation to arrive at justicody a short cut. They have in; their 1nidst several of the most atrocious criminals known in the prescut sge,—Kisuazve, the batcher of & women sud three clildren, * besides several other persons; and also the perpetrators of the awful crime of buruing AMircuzin and Kxyxeoy to death over a slow fire. It is regurded as suther surpri.iug that the law is permitted to take its coumrse in spito of the indncement to savo the law that trouble, The first round in the Senatorial dispute has resulted in a knockdown in favor of the oppononts of Loaaw, The -forces of tha Iatter wore concentrated in the contost for the Bpeakorship upon Iaaac L. Monnmox, of Morgan County, whose re.clection a8 the cauens nominea for Spoenk- er of the IHomso would have been a pronounced Loaax victory. Hia dofeat is is therefore & Toax defoat, and the success of Mr. Jauzs, of Lake County, who received the support of the anti-LoaaN eloment, is oncouragingly confirmatory of the donbis expressed rogarding Loaan's ability to con- trol tho cangus nomination for Uniled States Benator. . Tho three gontlemen who have nominated thomsolves ss candidates for the United States Benste, to bo confirmed or rejected by the Wisconsm Legisiature, are all repro- sented at Madison, either in person or by proxy, even before that body is organized. Mr. Kxyes resides there, and knows the ins and outs of Wisconsin politics better than any other man in the State. He has taken command in porson, and, if he handles his troops ns effectually for himself as he has often dons for others, he will do well. Senator Howe's interests are in charge of throe of tha Lest managors in the State on the Republican side, axoept Mr, Keves, to-wit.: the Ton, Honace Runree, Chairmanof the TRepublican Stato Central Committes; Col. Jaxxs H. Howe, formerly Attomey-General, and better known as the General Managor of' the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Com- pany ; and the Hon. Putrrros Sawyzs, who was for ton yoars a member of Congress from tlio Oshkosh District. Theso are nble, discreet, and exporionced politicians, who hava tho great advantage of a thotough ac- quaintanco with the people of the Btate, and aro recognizod at home and abroad as men of character and influence, Marr OarrexTER'S case sooms to be in tho hands of a few obscure politicians from Milwaukee, who labor under the doublo disadvantage of being strangers to most of tho membors of tha Legislatnre and having & broken-down horse to train, THE SALARY-GRAB BILL OF 1873, The Milwankeo Sentinel and the Chicago Inter-Ocean have been earncatly urged, and we may without oxnggeration sny affection- ately importuned, to give the history of tho Congressional Balary-Grab bill; and al- though large stockholders in both concorna were lending sactors in the concootion and passaga of that bill we have not been ablo to induco either of theso personal organs to publish an sccount of it. This {s to be re- grotted the moro becauss both of those “ organs” conld relate the bottom facts and give the true inwardness of the ** grabbery” from the personal knowledgo of the two gen- tlemen who completoly control and partly own them., - In tho absence thereof wo will give astate- ‘ment of the matter taken from the Congres- sional Record, and tho Washington speclals of the time, and the recollection of persons who wore thero. In January, 1871, the. Logislature of Illi- nofs clected Jonn A, Loaan Senator for six years from tho 4th of March, 1871, o took hia sent in December, 1871, Tho datos have on‘importance, Near the close of that Con- gress tho scheme was proposcd to increaso tho annual pay of Seuators and Ileprosenta. tives from 26,000 to #7,600, Matr CanveN- 1en of Wisconsin aud Jomun A, Looax in the Bonnte, sud Bex Burren of Massachu. sotts and Cmanter Enpnxvor of Wisconsin in tho 1louse, wero tho chief snginecrs and advocates of the scheme, When tlo bill was in Committee of the Whole in . the House, whero no rocord of tho yeas and nays is made, the scheino was easy to carry, When, lLowever, the bIll got out of Committes, and where tho yons aud nays could be callod for, its *friends" weakened,. and it failod. The rascally grab was dofonted on sevoral votes, Finally, howaver, it was concluded to get tha mattor before a * con. feronco committee,"—which is tho trick gen- ernlly resorted to in order to pass Indefensi- ble bills, Originslly Burnea's Grab bill raised tho salarics of Bonators ond Ropro- sontatives to §8,000 a year. The Legislativo Apptopriation bill passed the 1Tonso without including any provision for incrense of the pay of mombers, under the cxpectation that the Bonato would include it among tho nmendmonta to the bill. The Benato rofusod to do this, but otherwiso anmended the bill, In committes tho House, on motion by Buz- 1zm, added to the Bennte amendmont one ncrensing tho pay of members of Congross intho future, and also backward for two years, to 37,600 o year for each member, When the bill was reported to tho House, and membera Liad to voto by yeas and nays, they again wonkened, and BurLes's ealary. grab was roluotantly nogatived. Housos, sud the grab was complete, were: y . Attorn, 3ise., o, M, Weat, La. Of tiess 36 Senators, only two hava been re- elected,—Baxazp snd Raxsow. Aot one of the other 84 i3 now u Renalor, Not one of the 26 Rupublicany who voted Jor that glaring roblery has boen reclected, Vicker On the 1at of Marck Butren explained to tho House that it was necessary to adopt somo such amondment nt that stage of the bill or tho incrense of salarics would be lost, If the 1fonso would vole for any sam, it made no difforenco what, the bill could bo given to a confercnce committeo, aud the full grab desirod could Lo secured, Tho Tlouse rcoonsiderod tho vote refecling the grab, and, after painfully.protracted pro- coedings, ralsed thelr pay to 86,500 & year, and it was passed in that forn, When this amendment veached the Benats, it was ro- jeotad. ' This was exaclly as Durren and the *grabbers” designed. Tho bill was thon referred to a *‘counferonce commit- teo,” acoording to tho original plot, conaist- ing of AMommriL of Mnine, Camrzxrxn of ‘Wiscousin, and Bayann of Delaware, of the Benatd, und Bex. Burren, Bax Raxvpavz, and ‘GaxrieLy, of tholipuse. This Committee reported back a provision fixiog the salary at §7,600, and dating the increase dack two years. 'this report was adopted in both Iu the Bunate, the vate ou adopting the roport of the Conference Uommittos, which Liad ralsod the salary from #5,000 to $7,5600 a year, and made it grsb backward two yenrs, was: Yeas, 80; vays, 27, We sk particalar sttention to this vote, Thosé voling yea ' and not oneof them i+ now & member of the Senate. Imamedintely, Sonator Jorw A, Louan drow from tho Trensury, in addition to his regunlae pay, the $3,000 back-grab, and, though he did not take his seat until Docomber, 1871, he drew both regular, and extrn, and back pay from March, 1871,~—nine months before ho took his soat or servod a day in the Benate, , Daring the waeks that OArvrNTZR, And Lo- oaw, and Brescer weore ploiting with Bex Butren to porpotrate this legislative frand upon the Public Treasury of $5,000 each man, the Legialature of Illinols was clocting Ricnarp J. Oorrsny o the Bonate in place of Trumpuil, who had united with Looix and Oaxrxxran in the *grah.” And when Oaresny took bis seat in the Benate, tho first legislativo action he was called upon to per- form was to urge and aid the passago of & bill repenling, so far as it could bo done, the *‘Balary.Grab” aot. It required consider- able effort. The *‘grnbbers” united and voted down every proposition to make them refund the money, and finally, when the bill was amonded to permit them to hold on to the $5,000 dishonest back-pay, they voted, in obedience to tho universal and augry popu- lar demand, to reduce tho future ealary to what it had been beflore the Grab act pnased. Every man who voted for the ealary-grab know that his comrpensation was already fized by law. Ho knew that, after ho had sorvod Lo years, to vote himself in the last hours of his term sm extra compensajion covering the previous two yoars, was a dis- honorablo and dishonest act, and for him to vote fora repeal of the law—he to rotain the 86,000—was a fall confession that ho know the money had been improperly ob- tained. The plon that it had cost a Banator 6,000 to got elocted was neither a logal nor amoral defenss for pillaging the Treasury. We have already noticod - that Senator Ooresny was one of tho foremost and most aotivo Sonators in having the *Salary.Grab” nact repealed. Thero is another candidate for Senator who had o hand in that matter, Alr. Fanwzry, was & momber of the House at that timo. Dnring the entire proceedings on that Balary-Grab” act BurrEn got no aid from Fanwerr. He did not vote for the swindlo steny time nor in any form, When Con- gross adjourned, the Troasury Department decidod that the money belonged to the mombers, and that the only way to refuse it was to draw the money and pay it back into tho Treamury, 8o Mr, FArwrEs roceived the check for tho money from the Sergeant-at. Arms and remitted the same to the Treasurer, and had it in this way returnied to the public fands, : Benators and Representatives to a largo number adopied the same course. 'Their namos are on record; but he who desires to know the names of the men who honostly restored tho money which the grabbers forced upon them will loak in vainin the list for the names of Jonn A. LoaaN or Marr H. Canrextae, ‘The historian will soarch the records in vein for any disclaimer (or return of the money)on the part of either of.theso men, How sublime is the language of LooAx on tlio noral degradation of the ngo. - Bpoaking nf the * Blaok Republicans of Iinois " and Gov. Breaetr, ho used this language: . Were I standing in the uncnviablo light in which they stand. I wounld prefer 1o clothe myself in sackcioth and athes, and weep botween tho porch and tho aliar for my transgresiuns, as An acces- sary 1o one of tho most unnaralieled instances of disregard of moral obligations in the history of man'a achfcvements of power.. Buil, while weeplng * botween tho porch and the nltar,” ke lolds on to the $5,000 salary.grob, And further—ns Looax said: Ar, Speaker, m( lieart growa sick, and 1 tarn away from the thouchts of this Lold and un- precedented act, unparalleled In the histoty of Eiviitzed and enlightvacd governments, with feet ings of commisaration and sorrow, 8till, ho has naver felt so sick as to retnrn tuo 85,000, 1t In a fact, Mr, 8peakor, and I8 as lamentable as true, that the principles of the Itepublican aety ara rapidly driving Itx mombera into the prac- tices of {nfidulity und a total disregard of sll moral and social duty, Nevertheleas, his own faith has never boon strong enough to induce him to return that #0,000 o the Treasary of the natlon where it rightfully bolongs, The Goneral Assembly of Illinols is soon to pass upon tho question whether Riomanp .J, Oarespy shall be ejected from the Bonato for votingfor the ropeal of the Salary-Grab bill, and Joun A, Loaax elovated to his placo for supporting the **stenl” and fobbing tho money, The people of Illinois are looking ‘with inquisitive oyes to aeo what rocord their ropresentatives moko on. this dolicate ques- tion, ¢ ADDITIONAL BILVER LEGISLATION, which he introduced beforo the lLolidays; good in both the Iouse and the Honato. beliove either House will pass it, demanded. silver dollars would mock the 'Treasury in exchanga for gold, beoause the bullion value of tho latter is larger than the buliion value of the former. It is equally coriain that the gold dollars wonld not seek the Treasury to be exchanged into silver dollars on account of the same relative condition. The resnlt, then, would be the disappearance of the present limitod stock of silver dollars ; the coinage thereof would stop undor tho torms of tho now law; aund thersa wounld be no action on the part of this conatry towards restoring the old ratio of valuos by creat. Ing a now demand for silver and diminish- ing the demand for gold. Mr. ¥rwirr's proposed law wonld also destroy the vitality and nsefulness of the donble standard (1) by recognizing tho gold dollar as the sole unit of value, and (2) by giving the creditor in- stead of the debtor tho option, and thus forcing a rolinnce upon s single standard of the doaror metal, In one word, tho bill once alaw wonld bring about ns exclusive and pormanent a gold basis, with the incidental miserios of incrensed debis and doing busi- noss on a falling market, asif the silver dol- 1ar shonld bo wiped out altogather. A Bilver bill moch mordikely to find favor &t tho hands of Congress as well as from the people i that framed by Mr, Litmror, the member from the Fourth Illinois District. MMr. Laturor's bill is enlitled ““An act to place tho stlver comage of the United States upon the basiz. of valuo,” and provides generally for free coin- 1 Carolina in the Revolntion, and haa given to Sonth Carolina some of her worthiest sons. Reyond this, the one thing to look to is, where are the broadest thouzht and highest cniturs, dent purpose Lo frown down whatever undermines soclety and destroys trade. Haxne, brought out the sams sentiment: *Jot mo remind you," said he, ** that in early times no Btates chorished greater hare mony, both of prineiple and fecling, than Mpnssnchusetts and Bouth Carolina. Bhonlder o shoulder they went through the Revola. tion; hand in hand they stood round the Administration of Wasmmxarox, and felt his own great arm loan on them for support. Unkind foeling, if it exlst, alionation, and distrust are the growth unnatural to such soils, of false principles sinco sown.” The sontiment of afliation with the East, how. evor, is circumsoribed within rigid geo- graphical limits. The old Revolutionary States stretohing along tho Atlantlo coast— Maryland, Virginia, North Oarolina, Bouth Caroling, and a part of Georgin—a80 far as they havo any atlachmont to the North, turn to New York and New Eugland, The Bintes in tho Mississippi Valloy, howevor, have no sympathy with the East soclally, politioally, and commercially, Thoy turn to the West, and these respective tendencies are every day oxprossed with more and moro earnestness by the Southorn press. It will mnke little difforonce, however, with the majority of the people of the North with what section of the Democracy tho North mnkes its olliances ; but, so far as South Carolinn is conoerned, the etornal fitness of things wonld suggest that the Bourbons of that State should loso no time in making an offensiva and defensive alliance with the Tammoauy Dsmocracy. ‘Their methods are the samo, and they both display the samo irresistiblo gravitation towards corruption and goneral scoundrolism in politics, The nssocintion wonld be mutaally benefieial, In considerntion of the monoy and influence furnished by the Tammany Democrats, the South Oarolina Bourbons could teach, them many new and interesting devices for stuff ing ballot-boxes atd disfranchising Ropub- licans which would bo new even to Tam. many, subsidiary silver relativa weight and standard of the silver Tho only chargo to be made for mintage is that for refining and separating when the silver brought to tho mint is not of tho properstandard. It is only through the pnssage of this or a similar bill that genuine romonotizaiion of silver in this country can be secured, for it is only under such conditions ns this bill provides that silver will bo "on a plane with gold, which is the only rational construction of tho double standard, Then would bo restored for the first time tho option of paying in either metal, for then for the first time would it be possible and easy to obtain either motal, ‘Tho operation of snch a law, too, will be the qunickest ond most dircct way of restoring the equilibrium of bullion values botween gold nnd silyer. Tho coinoge of silver dollars during the past ten months haa not equaled the curront production of American mines; thero has been no draft upan the European stock of silver in disuse, but a further contribution to that stock Ly export from this country; Indecd, thero has searcely been mo of silver for colnoga purposes ns thoro wins during the coinago of subsidiary silver prior .to tho paseage of tho act restoring the silver dollar; henoa thero has boen mnothiug to check the decline in the bLullion valuo of Under the operation of free coinage, bowover, the demand for tHat metal for monetary nso wonld excoed the native sup- ‘ply, soon oxhaust the Europoau surplns which was tho rosult of Gorman demonotizn- tion, and specdily reatore silver to thesame relative valuo it had provious to its disuse in QGermnny by creating o now demand therofor equnl to the extent of demonetization clse- where, *When this state of things shall have bedn brought about, it will only bo necossary to adopt in this counlry tho Earo-, pean ratio of 15} to 1 in ordor o securs tho actusal presoneo of the double standard as it oxists to-uny in Prance, It may bo that '{t will hot be socaro any additional legislation on the silver -question during the sliort life of the prosont Congress; but, if thore bo aoy, Mr. La- inor’s DIl is more likely to pass than Mr. Hewrrr's, and thae lattor ought to bo defented whothor the former can pass or not. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCES, 1t is an interesting foature of politics in the Bouth that tho papers in that scction are casting about to 800 whera thoy can best make tholr allinnoes in the next Presidential countest, nnd are warmly discussing tho ques- tion whothor they sliall go with the Esstern or Westorn Domocrats, ' In Bouth Carolina tho discnssion {8 growing quite Intoresting,— thoe Ncws and Courier of Charloston, the most influentisl paper on the Atlantio conat south of Richmond, having coma out boldly in favor of affilistion with the Enstern De. mocracy, by which it means the Domocracy of New England, New York, and New Jersoy, Ita proposition, howover, is not rocoived with perfoct unanimity among the rural fire- ontors. T'he Greenville News roplies that such an affiliation wonld bo insulting to the feclings and intelligonce of tho Bouthern peoplo, aud its reasons for this declaration are that New Eogland has wado war upon Southorn institations, interests, and trade for fifty yoars by the imposition of burden. somo tariffa, by financial schomes which con- contrated the money power in its ands, by warrlng upon the South and it institution affront offored to Gen. GraxT by the boorish National bigots of Cork, we ware not then in posscssion of the oxact langnago or sonti- monts expressed by tho General that led to this disgusting display of religious spleen, The speech in which oconrred the remark that wo inilamed the Nationals of Cork was deliverod before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, at Dea Moinoes, Ia., Bept. 29, 1875, nnd, as onr correspondent who has kindly farnishod us with theextract romarks, wns ono of the best tho Gengral has ever made, in this, that it was tho longest and seemod the most pungont, pointed, and prac. tioal, The following is the extract: n consumption ence, 1belleve it a good time to bogln the work of strancthening the fonndation of the honee com- manced by our patriotic forefathers 100 yeara nenat Concord and Loxington, Let ne all labor to add all needful guarantces for the more perfect securi- ty of freo thonght, frea spocch, and & free press, of equal rights and privilezcs W all wen, Irro- apectiv of natlonality, color, or roligion. En- conrage frd schools, ‘and resolve thas not ons dollar of money appropriated to thelr support, no AUppOTt Of elther the Btate or nation, or both combined, shall support institutionn of leamning snfMcient to afford to every child growing upin tho land tho oppor- tanity of & gooil, common-achool education, un- mixed with scctarian, pagan, or athelstical tencts, tlr&ly by private contribution, Keep tho Charch an & **The Arny of toe Tenncesce fought In vain. tract are tho seutimonts of the vast majority of tho American people, and no man could advocate tho dootrines which Gen, Gmanr doprocates withont meeting with swift con- domnation. In putting this affront upon him, thorefore, the fanatical bigots of Qork hinve put an affront upon the American peo. plo. Gen, Grant made no discrimination in his romarks ngainst Catholics, Tho views ‘which he expressed apply with just as much forco to Baplists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Jews, Mormops, and Nothingarians as to Oatholios, and tho latter are no move justi- fled in insultiog him than the former wonld be. Qen. Grant has nothing to tako back. His declaration is In porfect accord with the sontiment of the American people, and they The statement comes from Washington would hold him rosponsible if he should that Mr, Asnau 8, Hzwrrr intends to devote Lis enorgles during the remainder of the ses- of Cork will do no good by their contemp ti. sion to securing the passago of the Silver bill bla condact, nor can any person in this cono- try who indorses them expeot to retain the that five members of the Banking and OCur. rency Committee are already pledged to §t, 80 that only one mors vote is necessary to obtaln a favorable report; and, finnlly, that the prospact for the passage of the bill is | to a military dospotism. To all this fanfarronnds the News and Courier makes & pat reply when it informs its contemnporary that the West has dous no more for the Bouth {han the Eaat, in peace or iu war, and that Lincorw, Graxt, MontoN, and Suznsax aro o suficlent sot-off to Brivens, Epsunps, ‘I'wo othor papory, tho Colume. bia Straight-Out and the Columbia Register, also protest against the News and Courier's proposition, and take the grouud that, as it holds the balauce of power, the Bouth must not onter into any entangling alliances with any scction, but observe a strlct neutrality, nud whou the tima comoes to act go solidly to that man whoss eloctiou will he best for the intercats of the Bouth, and thus * com- port with tho digaity, honor, and bost inter. edts of tho whols country,”—the position of these papers evidently boing that what is for the best intcrests of tho South will be for the best futerests of the whole country, Tho News and Courier, howevor, which is very practical, and recognizos that money is about the only thing wnow tbat s necessary to the Bouth, sinks its antipathies and answenrd that tho only thing that can benefit the Bouth is o straight-ont Democratio plat- form from tho monoy-ceutre. Tt is not re- warkable that it should havd this feellug that monoy 14 the cure, not the root, of all evily, for tho vary effort which the pebplo of Bouth Carolina have made through sush in- famous meaus to establish the supramzoy of tho white race sud the political solidification of the Bouth has destroyed the sources of thrift and jadustry. labor having boen taken awoy from the ‘negro, who is the sole reliance of the Slate for'work, business hss steadily' diminished datil §f &&'substéutislly at au end. The lazy _whites have no idea of workiog, and nothiog. rould kg Gnéy, thirftora, than a close sfiilia. tpn with the wuonpy-centras of the Hast, and. | tho election of au Administration w would securs thom largs uppropriations) pousibly the paymont of their- enormous 'fhis may bo taken as Mr. Hewirr's view, and wa sy be permitted to doubt its mccu- racy, inasmuch as tho bLill in hand fa de- signod to practically demonetizo the silver dollar undor the pretenso of convertibility, Any such mensuro is so flagrantly at variance ‘with the popular sentiment that we do not My, Hewrrr assumes in his preamblo that the gokl dollar is gha sole unit of value,—an assumption which jgnoros the purposs and effect of tho act rostoring the standard silver dollar, On the basis of this assumption his bill provides that the silvor dollars shall be redeomed in gold at the Sub-Treasury of New York when prosented in sums of $100 snd multiples thereof. It is truo that Mr. Hewrrr has sought to conceal the real pur- pose a3 wo biave stated it by making his bl provide also that silver dollars shall ba paid ont in exchange for gold whon tho latter be presouted in similar sums for exchango into silver; but it is with the knowlodge that, under tho preseut relations of gold aund sllvar, there will bano gold scekiug exchange for silver except for smull-change purposes, and hones the purport of thoe bill is shuply to redomption for silver m gold, and thus pave the way for the retirement of the legal-tender silver ‘dollaz. \To make this purposo the more cortain of accomplishment, his bill further provides that tho existing law requirivg & coinage of not less than $2,000,000 and not more than 4,000,000 of standard silver & month shall be repealed, sud that thercafter only such standard silver dollars sball be coined as'may be absolufely Yvery 'fucentive to s ‘as & part of the roligion of tha Mormous, ‘Fho pastagu of thls docaptive lijtlp bil} of Mr. Hxwrre's would placo. in. $hs gwer of the Becrotary of the ‘Krcasury.tha ,provend tion of any issue or circulstion of {he ailven dollars, for that official would bs the-judge of the * demand.” Indeed, it is doubtful whether & Becretary of the 'Iveasury favor- able to the double standard could keep the silver dollars iu circulation under the opera- ‘i}xhfl"h@ké uo_ Isw rospecting an_ gstablish- et of' religion or prohibiting the freo The News and Couricr, u its discussion of the subjeot, gives ntterande to one expres- | urged miainly that polygamy is a part of the sion which strikes tha key.nole of tho senli- | Mormon religion, and that Congress is pro- menta of ono part of the Bonth, It says: hibited by the Constitution from interfer- VHAL we 1naist on ta that whatover the fanita of | ence in religions bellefs and institations. fi::::;"%','.'fi}".é:gh:,‘:‘f,," f;: ‘,]f,:',k,,’;‘;,thf,:l 5‘::",'.::"'; All thesa Cour.u snccossively havo hold that A PSR e AR Gy | Tlon of slgione couvllion e pol o e fine as oriminal. ‘Good government, good morals, and good sonse alike demand this constrnotion of the constitutional (pro- vision; otherwise religions convictions cotld bo made the cover of all the erimea in the calendar, and onable men and women to kill, tortare, mutilate, stenl, and indalge’ in ail sortsof lewd and lecherous practices which, at one time and noother, have been sanctioned by so-called religions seots. Thero is nothing in the United Blates law, or the judicial conslrnc. tion thersof, which is calculated to interfero with tho free practics of the Mormon ralig- ion, except inso far as that religion pre- tends to protect a practice which is con- domned by good morals and the best interests of the community, and even n large faction of the Mormon Church deny that polygamy i8 n nocessary practico in the Church, Tho construction and enforcement of this Jaw against bigamy are two very different things in Utah; but, now that the validity of the statute has been cenfirmed by the Qourt of lnst rosort, that fact certainly ought to promote a mora active interference of the suthorities to prevent tha infraction of thelaw. Porhaps it would bo nuwise to opon up ‘a general and unrelenting prosecution ogainst nll persons now living in 8 polygamous siato; such an attempt would probably meot with stubborn resistance, anil might work great injury to many doluded but dopondent and helpless women, But a propor enforcement of the law as to nll future polygamous mar- riages will confine tho evil whero it is and ultimatoly erndicato it. Tho dootrines and practices of the Reformed Mormons will bo of great assistance {o the work carried on in this spirit, aud the policy should Le oponly promulgated and rigidly enforced of punish- ing to tho full oxtent of tho law all persons who shall be guilty of contraating bigamous marriages in the future, Michican |, for Massachuuetta was with tha evi- Mr. Weoster in Lis famous reply to It s sald to bo the intentlon of the Democratic members of the Wisconsin Legislature to give thelr vote for United States Senator to the Hon. ALEXANDER MrroneLy, of Milwaukee, AMr. MircnzLt ts well known to the people of the ‘West ns the President of the Milwaukeo & Bt. Paul Rofiway Company and aa tho richest man (probably) west of the Great Lakes, 1le was four years in Congress, trom '71 to '75, and If clected would make an excellent Scnator. He is one of tho few honest-moncy Democrats in Wisconsin, and when the last Stato Convention of that party promulgated its soft-money theorles, with the hope of catching tho Urecnback vote, Mr. Mrrcnesn refused to give his consent to such repudiation of the Democratie creed and traditions. A solid vote for Mr, MITCIELL nowy for United States Benator Ly the Democrats wonld ba an evidence of returning reason safter arun of the flat epideniic e ———— Now York Afall: “A New York firm re- ceived @ dispatch from Chicago proposfug s shipment of 200,000 bushels of corn to Balll- more. Tho New York firm inauired, *Why to Baltimore In preference to New Yorki' The reply was, * Transportation to Baltimore fs a half cent per bushel less than to New York.! Thecorn went to Baltimore, and the Chicago dealers saved $1,000, while New York lost sev- eral times that eum in the sgeregate of direct and Indirect returns the business would have socured.”, THE AFFRONT T0 GEN. GRANT. In our recent editorial comments upon the « _o Now, in this year of our national exist~ Dare morals, unfettered religions sentiments, an — It TnumMAN goes to Ohlo to spoak at the Sth of January meeting it is respectfully sucyested 10 lini that ho embrace the opportunity to flop back again on the linanclal question. *The day wa celebrate ™ suggests the memory of ANDREW JAuRsON, who, with all his faults and foibles, was never a soft-monpy lunatic. It 18 & good time for tho prodigal Senator to “* coms to hin- self” nud eay, .‘s‘l will arlso and go to my father,” and let” tho ‘Ohlo fdes ! “go to tho devil." e — ‘The crowned heads of Europo will find pleas- ant reading fn & Venotlan journal which gives the following as a apeclmon of letters sont to it by Ioternatioual correspondents: “For my part, I swear that, if all tho heads of the Depti- ties could fall at onc blow, I would be willing to act oa exccutloner for one day, nt tho risk of belug confined in hell for a billlon of years.” matler bow ralsed, shail bo appmpriated to the any scclurlan schiool, Wesvlve that Leave the mattor of religion to the family circle, the chureh, and tha privale schoola supported en- Ntate forovor sepamts, With these wafe- ris, 1 bellove tha batiles which created ns wili not have been ‘Tho sentiments expressed in the abovo ox- ‘When tho Milwaukes Daily Murphey answors our interrogatories fn regard to its Benatorial candidate'’s votea in favor of back-pay aud sal- aryrgrabs, will jtnext loform the public wheth- er MATT CARPRNTER was not the ouly momber of Congress who had the audacity $o publicly defend thuse disrcputable schemes in sot speechid ‘Troxas BAILEY ALDRICIH, the poet, writes to & friend at Grand Rapids, Mich., that lie leaves on the Cunard steamship Abyssinia, from New York Jan. 8,in company with ex-Congressman Tigncx, of Boston, for & lourney of a yuar or more lu Greece, ‘Turkey, and Kusala, ohiange or rocall s word of it. The fanatics It Mr. Hayes should be the Republfcan can- didate for Prestdent in 1890, a great nuinbier of Mr. Ciarres A. Dana’s leadivg editorials on the * Creat Fraud " could be reproduced, thus saving an fnmense amouut of mental effort In the Sun editorial rooms. e ———— e The lata Congressmian WiLL1AuS, of Detrolt, 1s to have a monument erected to his memory. Aud yet LEwis Cass, who was a Senator from Michigan for muny years, sud once Secretary of State, sleeps fu an unmarked grave iooneof tho Detrolt cemeteries. A sympathy of the -American poople. We do not romember that this spoech ever elicited tho slightest advero criticiam from any closs of the poople of this countr; POLYGAMY IN UTAH. It {u 16 tho credit of the Amwerican people that tho highest judiclal tribunal of the na- tion Lias declded, with the unanimous con. currence of all the Judges, that polygamy is unlawful in the Territory of Utah as well as in other portionn of this cpuntry. Some people will be wurprised that any such de. cision was neceasary, and others, who havo come {o acquiesce in polygamy us a part of tho Mormon religion, and to regard Utsh as tho home of Mormotism, will folgn aston. istmuut, and perbaps feel sojue apprelien- sion at taking o stand aguinst that established institation, To both of these classes a brief statemont of the law of the case will prosent, the matter clearly. § ¢ Tho Constitution of the United Btates pro- vides that the Cougress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and rugulations respecting tha territory belonging to the United Btates.” It is the duty of Con. gress to provide laws for the governing of organized Territories. Among the laws thus passed at tho instauce of public morals and public welfare is ope which provides that * Every perion havinga busbaud or wife living who murrlos suother, whether married or siugle, iua ‘Lerritory or other place over which tho Unitud Btates have exlusive juris- diction, is guilty of bigamy, snd sball be puaished Ly a fue of ot more than $500, aud by fmpriso¥ment for a tera not mors than five yeans." Bloca the passage of this law iu 1863 as well as before, po- lygumy bas besns tolerated in Utah Territory e ———— HoRraTio Beysmoun sald, * Your randidate 1 vaunot be,” but after all he was tho Democratie candidate for the Presidency. TRHURMAN says the same sbout the Ohio Quvernorship. Whis- pering “ £ will nc'er consent, consented, R e —— e The 81. Louts Kepublicansays that Bt. Louts 1s tho wost healtuy Jargo city tu tho world. ‘That fsthe reason probably why everybody in 8t. Louls rets out of town duriug the sunimer soa- sou who can afford it e —— ‘The City of CGalvoston Is just mow experi- encing the troubles that come to s munielpality sometimes. ‘The autloritice csnuot colleet taxcs, and caunot poy the city's debtsor even its runniog expenscs. e — The City of Memphis {s so badly in debt that arepeal of its city charter is the ouly method samo of fts cllizens sce for paying its debis. This is & short cut to repudiation, or Lankeupt- ey, or botb. L ' A Yargo number of housekeepers who bave had theie water-plpes frozen ‘up ary anxlously Joqulring for the address of the weather-wise scieotist who predicted su open winter, L ——— The members of the Califorola Coustitutiona Convention bave about wade up thelr minds that the Chiuese question fs beyoud thelr pruv- fuce. A wise conclyston. 3 o i3 The Obio Gavernorahip fs Tooked upon now a8 & sort ol hobby-horse that the politictans may uso 83 @ stepping-stone to & higher offo:, Ta 1873 only 703 yettle wers fwported fato Eugland from this couutry, while iu 1878 phe’ Butber was 60,0 I g ot e ——— Gy Vaspexsirt 1 sakj . o the sicligst man fu.,| New York, ‘Tho Astor estate was ouly worlh The Terreg Comumittee fsconsidered a strong oue fu Wisbinzston. and so {ppression has taken a hold among the Moymoas that they will be proteoted in the 2ontimyed practice of polygamy by tho | capstitutional providon that * Congress excrcisq thareof.” There 'was a conviction of oue RersoLps undsr the statute probibit- ing bgawy. Mo carried tho case to the Supreme Court of Utab, and thence to the Supremo Court of the United States, and PURELY ' PERSUASIVE, Testimony Taken by the Taeller Committee in New Or- Means by Which Lon’lslnna' Deme ocrats Pile Up Large N All Speeches by R2publicans Prohibited as Incen- While Demooratic ‘nnctflne Alono 13 Considored Oithodox. This State of Things Vouched for by an ex-Confedorato Soldler, ¢ Nnw OntEARS, Jan. 7.—Tho Teller Commit- teamet at 10 &, m. In Burveyor Wells' vrivate olfice in the Custom-House. All the members Senator Dailey thought that, &8 near as possi. Lle, some definite plan of proceedings should be adooted, 8o that the charges could bo et by ovldence on the otlier side. The Chalrman declared that he would alloa il necessary tima for the prodaction of sucn evidence, but no detailed plan wonld be pub- J. BRNEST DREDA was then sworn and testifi Natchitoches, and has always rcalded in the parish, Berved doring the War'in the Second Has been o Republican since 1871, Ilas. been a stump-speaker, but did not take part in the last campalan, having been driven away fromhome on the 224 of September, Witneas gave an account of the manner of or. ganizing Republican Ward Clubs and the forma. tlon ot Executive Committces. ITe then sald: One ward club was tomeet on the 2d of Septem- ber. On that day there was to be a Democratle Conventlon. At our meceting there were13 Reoublicans present, and I addressed the assem. biy, After adjourminent wo started home, Iand my brother, on horseback, We had gone about 100 yards when, at tho corner of a street, n body of prmed cavalrymen opposed our passage, Plstols were drawn and strong language used. At this moment & saw some more armed men coming My brother and I took down = side ‘stroct, wont to the woods “enclircling lbome during the night. There we' stayed until tho next day. On that morniog my uncle, a former Mayor, roso up. Ho hiad not spoken to me since 1874 on account of my volitics. He told mo that my house was to be attacked, aud DESIRED MBE TO BURRENDER. Itold him Iwould fight, and never sgrrender. My uncle sald he would bring s guarantes from 8 bodv of armed men that the housc and vrop- erty would be respectedhf wo would Jeave the placa within two hours. My uncle went back and conferred with & committeo of armed men, My brother left in the meanwhile. I followed. Wo remalned in tho woods untll ‘the 25tk of October, Onthat day my unclo came agaln to the housc and told my sister that we were 1o Lo hunted with bloodhounds. On the Blst of October wo loft for 8brevesport,and have ro- mained thero until summoned before the Grand Louistana Regiment. Witnees produced o copy of the Vindicator, ealliug 1t the organ of the bulldozers, otherwlse Democrats (sclf-styled), of the parish, nnd read CERTALY WARNINGS therofrom. Also 8 copyof a document pur- porting to bo an sgreement to which, if witness beeame a party, ho could return home, The document was rcad, Itis in the shape of a preamble, narrating, from a bulldozing point of view, all the thiogssald Brodas bad done to exclto tho Iroof the good citizens of Natehitoches, aud ending with a promise, to bo signed by the Bredas brothers, that' thoy would lcfeafter bolave themselves, cte. statod thut the formality of sfgniog this docu- ment waa respectfully decliued on the ground that tho statements in the preamble are faiso o ‘To Senator Teller—There i3 no lawlessness among the negroes,—miserable individuals. Taoy hardly dare strike back. They aro mur dered there liko sheep. Political soaeches call- {ng upon tho negroes to cut loose from the Democratie party aroatyled incendiary specches, and I never mado a spepch that was +not strictly ON BIMPLY POLITICAL BUNJECTS. The negroes aro ground down ana cannot oven soll their erops under thelr own names, There aro 1,700 white and 4,000 colored ‘votcrs fu the parish, and thera aro mors whito men who vote the Republican ticket than blacks who vote the Democratie ticket. The Democratic majoritr in the recent eloction, given in the ofticial jour- To Benator (larland tho witness gavo the detalla of the orranization of armed bands. Witness was formerly s Parlsh Judge, and held the oftice unti) Nicholls’ Goverament came Benator Cameron—Ars any prosocutions agalost fraudnlent voters, etc., belng carried oo {n any of the Btate Courts? Witness—No, sir. For, {f 20, the whole SJudiclary of tha State would have to be brought Tstato this ou hoarsay only. Iknow nothiog from persoual obacrvatlon, brother wers driven out simply because wo were oolitical leaders. was sworn and testitled: ‘The Repubilcan mee*s iog on the 21ac of Beptember was held for tho purpose of lustructing tha colored people as re- gaxls tho changes which hag been madu in tho d Loundaries of the diffcrent wards sh so that they might vote fotell Ths doctor corroborated tho.testimony of tha previous witness, Dr, Bredas, continuing hls testimony, sald tho oaly speech lia ever made was ou the day after thakilliug of a uegro fn Natchltoches “{n 1876, in which speach hosald the law was still oxiat- ent, and such iurders were inexcusable. 1 was Coroner for two torms, while my brother was Parish Judge, Nearly all the white people I kuow lu the parish wero members of the Knights of the White Camcllla organization. The namae waschanged afterwands to the White Loague. ‘Tho same budy is now known as No, 208, It is nad always has bean a politics) organization. and testifed that he s s os Mississippl. He said; T fought through- the Consedcrste army. T was Sherif? of Natchitoches up to 1876." Wit- ness gave an account of the meeting on Bepte 21, and testified as to thg proccedings of the a of armed men who obstructed the street. oft the town ana took to the wi fterwards came home, aud was toid n, Mr. Cunnipghim told me the ad ordered 1no 10 leave the place. ¢ (s called the “ Advlsory Com- % compused of Democrats. Hsv- 1me soinu buslaess, L left 1o see my brother 1 was abscut ten dsys. \Wheu 1 returaed Cunniugham out the War in 1s0. The reason iven was that the Democrats wished all of the Kepublicau leaders to get out of the way; that tha rulfog d 1o tbe Uemo- lett tawn Cunnlughaw told we Ineccd onlv go as far as my brother's, sud added that [ could return after the tlection. roperly belonge: 13 3 o3, testified that after the adjourument of the weetiug, Scot, 31, bid bouss wis broken into by o ‘with rifies and revolvers. seprchlog tha bouse for bl he hi yard. The party was much i1 hlm it they " Witness managod to effect bls 4 pe Trom the place, und, uads bis . JOuN Q. (colored), of Natcbitoch HAYOLD RLOUNT (colored), of Natclitochys, stuted that ternoou, bis bouse was surrounded b o Lody o anued weuw, uwumbering 250, t‘Ofl‘l‘