Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1879, Page 4

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Tme Cricaao TRmuxe has estabitshed branch ofices i or the recelpt of sutacriptions sad sdvertisements 84 i jows: it T YORK~Toom 20 Trioune Datidlng. £.7.Mo- 4 ADDEX, Maneger. | TARIS, France~No, 10 Rue de Ia Grange-Datellese. B 3. Manezn, Agen J LONDON, Eng.—Ametican Kschangs, 449 Strand. i Aixwny F. GiLtia, Agent. 3 EAN FRANCISCO, Cal. L3 ‘WASIINGTON, D, Palses Hotel. 1319 F atreet. Bl AMUSEMENTS. MoVicker's Thentre, Madison street, between Dearborn and Btate, *‘@reen ‘Bushes,™ Tinverly's Theatre, Dearborn street, corner of Monroe. Engagement of Tier Majeaty's Opers, **Les Huguenots.”™ s Hooley!s Thentre. 5 Ttandoleh street, between Clark and Lasalle. Ene Maum Cre.” & @agement of Joseph Murpky, Academy of Muslc. . Halsted street. hetween Sadisun and Mooroe, Va+ tiety entertalnment. Hamiin's Theatre. ‘ Clarkatreet, opposite the Court-Tioms. Vartety eo: . tertalument. BOCIETY MEETINGS. ORIENTAL LODGE, NO. 3% A. F. AND A, M. O Lrahlia bt —epetIny Comuntcation Uit (FFL: um')f;dl'lllhfllrl H (flul NIH'I (IT::::Y*. Visit- A ! ro ‘ bicaiiei i N TECKRR, Becretary. WAUBANSIA LODGE, N0, 100. A, F.-& A, M.— Riegulss Communf Friday) eveoing ot Ma- sor Insialiation of uiicers Inchiel. " inication ti . 70 Blonroe-t, Viatiors cordiaily FRIDAY, JANUARY 2¢, 1879, The Senato yesterday passed tho bill for . tho codification of the Patont laws, with . somo modificatlons designed to protect in- i) nocent infringers from undue penalties in tho shapo of damages. The bLill contains nany important changos from tho lexisting laws, and wad passod with but one dissent- ing vote~Davis, of Nlinols. X Tho Florida clection cases tried in tho United States Cironit Court are turning oul . wvery badly for the Democratio officors charged H with making falso returns, Threo of them, comprising the Brevard County Canvassing I Boanrd, wera yosterdny sontonced by Judge ks BerTe at Jacksonville,—Lre, the County P Clork, and also Btate Senator from Brovard ; County, getting throe yoars, and Wriomnr and Jouns, Sheriff and Justice of the I'ence re- spectively, ons year each 1n the Pouitentiary at Albany, N, Y. The romaining trials have boen postpuned yntil the May torm, The publication of tho story of Mrs, Kew- 1EY, of Port Huron, given in yesterdny's Tamuse, together with Lhe recent reversal % by the Michigan Bupremo Court of the ver- . diot obtained by Mrs., Newcosmen in her suit e agaiost Dr. Vay Dsuaen, has directed publie * attontion to the mansgement of the Iusane e Asyluin ot Kalamazoo, and the nocessily for n thorough investigation by s committao of 2 the Legislature is everywhere recognized, 'The officeriof the Asylum will hardly dare to oppose the movemont, and the friends of those who allego the infliction of torture i and atrocities upon inmates of the Asylum B will take good caro that the investigation . docs not lag for lack of testimony in mup- ! port of the charges, An impartial commit- %% tao shonld bo appointed with n view either ) to vindication if desarvod, or severs punish- & aout if the proof ehall warrant it, . Tho details of the onding of the Choy- enuo ontbrenk aro na bloody and tragio as tho outbreak itsclf. ‘Tho Indiaua when over- taken asked no quartor, but, with their huat- ; ing-knives ns their only wenpona after their . ammunition was exhausted, thoy rushed ! upon the well.armod lines of infurintod soldiers to moot their cortaln doom. 'I'wen. b ty-three of the forty-ninc were found to havo > Loen killed, among thom four squaws aud two papooses, while ono solitery : wounded ‘‘buck” was tho only fighting 4 Indiau token alive, seveutoen escaping. Anothor jtem of interest in the Indian nows printed this morning i the nccount of the arrival at Fort Benton of iwo runners from 1 tho camp of Srrrive Buwr, bringing from o that redoubtable Chief a messnge to tho ef- 3 fect that, having been forced by starvation B to quit the war-path, he desires peaco and permiesion to return uumoleated with his people to tho various Agencies. ‘Tho supporters of President Hayes in the warfare instituted by Bcuator Coxkrixg on T account of the Now York Custow.Ifouse changes will find their cause wmateriully M strengtlienod by the result of an uppraisement of Lkid gloves made Ly D] Eoglish makers and dealers. Bamples : of the gloves sppraised ot 49 francs per £ dozen, and which had been admitted at 42 i A franca, were submitted to thesa foroign ' judges, whose decision was that tho g gloves should be valued st G52 francs. It ia snid the DLemocrats on the Cominittes on Commerce are beginning to doubt whether thoy can conulstently sustain Mr. Coxzriva's war on the President in tho {faco of accumulated proofs of the justico and soundness of the latter’s position regarding the romoval of Antaur and Coexzry, und it {4 cousidered doubtful whother CoNxLiNg can command the votes nocessary to dufent the pending nominations, — It has remained for the Democratio ma- jority of the Porren Comunyjttto to put upon e, 'Rioexn the contuwmsty of vefusing bim the privilege of appenring before the Cowm- . mittoe, oither in .person or by counsel, during the iavestigation of the cipher. dis- patches. -~ /A resolution wccording ilus 5 f privilego ‘to the distinguished rcformer - whose - integrity, s seriously . called in «uestioy by the existence of a conspiracy to Luy Elgctoral votoa was offerod yesterdsy by Mr, Breo, o Republican wmember of the Coigmittes, und supported by all the Repub- licanw, doubtless upon the .ground that to deny to Mr. EN the right to pro- tect bis intereats wnd his Presi- dentisl prospects by being represented by counsel during the investigation would bo & gross injustice. Yet, struugely SV enough, the Democrats, with the exception of Gen, Brren, who refrained from voting eithor way, united in laying this resolution on the table, The old man of Gramercy Park is to bo left unprotected while his eno- mics are damaging bis chances for success in 1880, Tho farmors along the Illinois & Aichigan Cnnal continuo fo manifest n strong intercat in ita ‘presorvation ns n perpetual shield against extortion by the railway companies, whose prosent policy is to reduce rates be- low the point whero the receipts from jolls will render the cannl self-sustaining, the de- sign being to forco its nltimato abandon. ment by the State and its romoval from tho field of compotition. The earncstness with which the farmers are bent npon protecting tho canal s shown by the procecdings of yesterday's mooting nt Ottawa. Able, well- directed offort of this kind will in tho end surely succeed. ESISTANCE TO NORTHERN DEMOCRATIC R REBEL CLAIMS, There is a prospect for n very serions tamily row in the badly-united Democratic party. 'Thers ara two inciting causes for the impending disturbanco, One is the urging of Rebel claims by the Confederatoes, and tho other the demnnd of the samo ele- ment that thoir Northorn allies shall sustain them in the nullificationof the constitutional amendments, 3 Tho controversy over Rebel claims lins slready becomo bitter enough to throaten a permanent breach between the Northern and Southern wings of the Democratic party Tho Bouthern politicinns aro porsistent in their offort to establish a precedent nnd force an oponing which shall eventually ongble them to indemnify tho Southern Rebels for losses incident to n war which they brought upon the Union. Itisonly n fow davs since they received an emphatic rebuke in the defeat of the Willinm and Mary Collego Robel-claim bill, against which o wnjority of the Northern Dewocrats voted, ns well as tho nenrly solid Ropublicans, But this defeat was immedintely followed up by another bill reported from the Confederato House Committeo on War Claims recowm- monding an adjudieation of the claim for Rebel property destroyed hy the Union nrmy. This pertinacity brought two Northern Democrats to their fast with outspoken protests against tho entire clnss of Bouthern Rebel war claims. MM, Porren, of Now York, declared that it was the purpose of tho Bouthorn Domocrats to sccuro an ontering-wedge into the Treasury, and then flood the Government with an ond- less mass of Rebel dnmage-claims, involving thousands of millions of dollars, and threat. cning tho ‘reasury and nation with bank- ruptey, 1fe charged that tho South was full to cverflowing of such claims, and thal it was an onsy matter to oblain sny required amonnt or kind of testimony as to loyalty and extent of damages. Finally, hs pro- claimed that at least one Northern Democrat would bo found protesting againat tho dan- gorous schome,—menning himself. Mr, Porter was followed the noxt day by Gen. Bnaoa, of Wisconsin, who was even ore emphaticin the lesson he read to Bonth. orn Domocrats, Gon. Braca waa an officor in the Union army, and has no sympathy with disloyally nor with the effort to reward treason. Ife gavo tho Bouthern Democrats notice that they should not be permitted to use tho Democrats of the North a8 they wero in the habit of doing beforo the War, and that, if the South were golidly Demooratio only to mako & concentrated raid upon the Treasury, they would find Northern Democrats bresking away frowm them and rofusing to do their Lidding. This specch of Draco's was like a firo-brand thrown smong the ex.Confed- oratea. Several of the Iattor sprang to their feat, livid with rage, nud thore would lave beon trouble then aud thero had not Bpeakor Ravpann shut off further dobate by an- nouucing tho closo of tho morning Lour. As it was, Ervis, of Louislana, seizod the opportunity to taunt the Northern Domo- craty with tho rominiscenco that the South resorted to secossion in nccordanco with the teachings of the Northern Domocrats, and wont uta the Robollion rolying upon the promises of aid mada thom by thoir Northorn frionds. A good answor for Gon, Braaa to havo made to this tsunt would bave boon to sdwmit thint the Northorn Democrats had made ouno sorfous mistake in submitting to South- orn dictation, aud to announco that they do not proposa to repeat tho error, 1t ia dificult to sco how tho Democrats and Confcderates are going to avold tho dis. sensfon that threatous them, It has become apparent to tho most casual obsorver that thu great mass of Soutborn so-called Demo- crats are utterly selflsh in their soctional or- gonization, ‘They are not governed by any duvotion to the Democratic party except:in o far ad that party can be proatituted to their scotional schemes, They insiat that the Boutl shall take the same nutocratio position it Leld in the Dawoeratio party before the ‘War, oaud aro determined to use thoir power to mako good the Bouthern losses growing out of the War. DBut tho Democratio poli- ticlans of tho North, thongh mauy of them may bo willing to submit to the dictation, dare not surromler now as thoy did formerly. Dowcoratio constituencics at tho North have experienced a radical chango of beart as to Sonthern supremacy. Thousauds of men who vote the Democratio ticket in the North fought in the Uniou army, and are as much opposed as Republicnns are to rewarding disloyalty; other thousands of Northern Demuerats ore taxpayors, and are in no mood to contribute of their substance to mako good to the Bouth the losses which it Lrought upon itself by treason, It fs this condition of thingy which lbas Lrought out from such men oy Porres nud Braca, ultra.Democrats a8 they aro, these vigorous protesis against the pressing of Iebel claims and these timely rebukea to Sonthern groed. lut, ns the central and mling idea of Southern Democracy is to mako the Democratio party tho justrument for opening tho doors of tho ‘I'ronsury, thero §s littlo doubt that there will bu pn attempt to compel the acquicsconce of Northern Demoorats by using the party lash {u caucus. When such an attempt shall be made, Dewmocrats like Geu. lsica will ro- fuse to obey the whip, aud then the breach will becomo wider and pasty dissension will bo frrepressible and uncontrollable, ‘I'hobit. ter words that passed from mouth to mouth on tho Democrutic side during the briet debate ou ‘Tuesdsy was ouly the cloud threatening the storm, It iv not unlikely that the impending troubles in tho Democratic party will be Lnstenod and jucronsed by o dubate over the construction and euforcement of the consti- tutioual amendments, The, resolutions in- troduced at tho instance of tho Democratic caucns as o substituto for the Epmuxps resolution is u apecious attempt to evado tho dssue, but it will ot be successful, Nurthern Dewocrats will find that their constituents domaud as explicit and outapokon an opposition to Southern nttempts at nullification ns to Southern raida on the Trensury, Senfiment at the North has settled down into an nequiescenca in the Home-Rulo doctrino of the South, but this acquiescence doca not include n supino Bub- mission to defianco of tha Constitution, to the exclusion of the blacks from their eqnal political rights beforo tho law, nor toa de- liberate overthirow of all tho resnits of along- fought and costly war. The Domocrats of the North will oxact from their representa- tives a manly support of the Constitution a3 it is, n desperato opposition to the nllowanco of Rebel claims, nnd a steadfast resistanco to sectional enbsidies such as theMissisalppi Embankment schemo. Such opposition to the Sontliern Democrats in the party which they have been nccustomed to rule in the past can searcely fail to result in an open ‘breach, and there is hope that such s brench may ultimately lend to the extinction of sec- tionnlism in American politics. CONRLING AND HIS MAN ARTHUR. 1t is o misfortune, indeed, to an ** jutellec- tual ginnt " like tho Hon. Roscor CoxxtaxNa, to loso his montal equilibrium ; for when a great man doos, he necessarily makes him- solf ridiculous. It isonly jnst to sayof Sonator Coxkrixa that his roputation for porsonal honesty aa a public man s excel. lent. 1o has not been suspcoted of associa- tion with jobs or jobbory., He wasnot mized up in Credit-Mobilier, whisky frauds, or any other of tho Iate notable erooked. nosses. He did not defond the railwoy-ring stenls; ho did not try to explain awnay whis- ky-revonuo stenling nor say a word to shicld tho thioves, Ho scomed willing to let tho ax of reform fall, cut off whoss hend it might. Why is Mr, CoNkLING norvous on the subject of customs revenue frauds at the port of Now York? Doos Mr, CoxzriNg dispute tho fact of tho oxistonce of fraudsat thot port? If he does, ho un- fortunately disputes o record. In 1873, under Gen, Artnun's administration, frauds in overy branch of his office wero actually discovered, proven in dotail, and pushed to recoveries nggregating o vast sum of monoy in stolen revenus, Docs Mr, CoNgriNg af- fect ignoranco of the notoricty thess frauds have gained? Wo point him to a mooting lately bheld in the City of New York, at which onespenkersaid: I beliave that the Custom-Houso has been rotten from centro to ciroumforcuce for ten years." Doos Mr. Conxrino deny that specifio cases of frand have been shown? We poiut him to the Iato disclosures in regard to kid gloves, wherein it was shown that for yeara all the first quality kid gloves imported into the port of New York had beon undervalued 26 per cont, thus robbing the Governmont of a fourih of its rovenue on that article. Does Mr. CosgriNa maintain that tho sdministration of Collector Arraun was characterized by vigor, ability, wisdom, ond economy? Wo disputo the proposition in every branch, and ocite the roports of the Jox Commission to prove that his adminlstration was distinguished for wenknoss, inefficiency, and corruption in overy branch of the service, Wo nlso cite to the samo offect the roports of the Bixo. mar and Tlivps Commission, And if Mr, Conxring wants more light after studying theso reports, we recommend him to call upon the Becrotary of the Treasury to furnish tho Bonnte with copios of the roports, for three years past, of Bupervising Bpocial- Agent TixaLe aud those of his subordinates, affecting Custom-Houso management at tho port of New York. Hns Mr. Coxkrixa over road the report of the Bixomaa and Hivos Commission on the record of Joun R. Lybxcken, Gen. Antmus’s chicl doputy ? If not, we recommend it to his careful pernsal, Wo vonture to sny that if ho will do this with judicial fairness he can- not escapo the conclusion that Mr. Lypecxer is o bold, bad man, unfit to hold any place of honor or trugt In any civil service under the sun. ‘We respectfully suggost to Mr. Covk. viNag that he is not great enough to sneer down tho caso ngalnst tho New York Ous- tom-Houso management under Gen, Antnun, Great crimen wore comumnitted undor his ad- ministration, and the public man who under. takes to cover thomn under tho mantle of his own honor will find ita folds far too small to conceal thelr hideousness, Railing at the President and tho Secrotary of tho Trensury a4 ** Mr, Hayes, tho so-called Prosidont, and his clork,” because thoy havo dared to attack this wmonster of corruption, will not raigo Mr. ConNxrixg in the cstimation of tho couotry. Messrs. Mezmrr sod Bunt may bo dofeated, 'They will not bo defoated, howuver, if other Boenators do their duty. Benators have only to look into the rocord to convince themsolves of the justice of the Proxident’s action, This ia the case in n nut- shell: Gou, Anrmun permitted n riog of scoundrels (mnostly foroigners) in Now York City to rob tho revenuo through undervalu. ution, and obtaining oxcessive damage-allow- onces, and fraudulent classifications, and so to monopolize tho impottation business of the whole country, excluding the morchants of other cities from tho forcign markets. ‘The roports and papers alrendy rofurred to in this orticlo furnish ample proof on tho subject. When Mr, Coxxrine interposos o gonerul denial *‘on his honor," backed by cmphatio nssortions cloquently cxpressod, lut Bouators call lua attention to tho record, and demand that ho explain it away or bold bis penco. ENOW INSTEAD OF ,MUD, ‘Thero are very fuw people so constituted that they can view the vagaries of the weathor with the calm contontment of the Bhepherd of Salisbury Plain, who was eatisfied with whatever pleased Gop, ‘Thero are some peo- ple whom no weather snits, In summer it is always too hot: in wiuter it is always too cold; in spring thoy wish it wes autumu; and in autumn they wish it was spring, Bome are chrouic croakers at the weather without any special reasou, while othors se- lect it as the recoptacls for their discontent with other things, usiug it for the same pur- pose that Lord Dundreary used his servant. ‘Ihoy never consider the compensations of the weather, or recognize thut Naturo always offuots, and in the long ruu shows adwirable averages, 'fho change of the season from last win. ter to this illustrates this: goneral principle, Last winter the country was in the muddy slough of despond. ‘Tho farmers wers mud- bound, The roads woro fmpassable. Their produca yotted on their hauds becauss thoy could not haul it to wmarket, 'They could Lardly get the pecessary supplies for. their own consumption, ‘They were shus off from rallroad stations and citics as cffoctuclly as it they bad bevu quarautined under police reg+ ulations,” ‘Thiclr whole talk was' of draininj their roads, improving methods of trunspor. tation, ditching, diking, tiling, and paving. The uewspapers wero full of plans. All kinds of * suggestions wero thrown out for the consideration of the Legislature, and every farmer had some pot plan for gettingrid of mud. meantime tho harvest came with its abun- dant wenlth, nud Nature thon silently nnd spocdily solved the problem by temporarily nenrly two months tho farmers hnve had roads in splondid condition for hanling, and thoy have improved their opportunities un- bursting with plenty and the railronds are noss which are not nffected by chinges of wintor, find all they con do to meot the de- wera gnayor than mow, despondency s nnd giving lowed cach other In quick succession. and have boen largely attended, sud for the In the paving all the rands with tho bost pavement ever known for quick and easy transporta- tion, Iaving first deposited Lor roaterinl, & few cold days hardened it, and now for til the great olovators and warehousca are choked up with business, and commerco cries * Hold, enough.” Thua Naturo offsets her churlishnees of Inst winter by the goner- osity of thia, Having provided a great crop just when it wns needed, she next providea ihio easicst and speediest facilities for mov. ing it, adds to the farmers' wealth, revives trnde in tho grent rallroad centres, provides work for the unemployed, gota all the wheels of business in motion, and once moro stimu- Intos industry and points the way to pros- perity. Aunotherof Nature's compensations appears in tho thermomotrical changes between last summer and this winter, Whilo sho was lavish of hoat in bringing forward her groat crop, humanity suffered under a burden of discomfort, and tho fear bocame general that 1ho extrome heat wns preparing the woy for the ravages of epidemica sund the endangor- ing of thio public honith. The fuar was woll- founded, nnd it incronsed when the yellow faver broko ont and spread through the Mis- sissippi Valley with such fearful virulenco and fatality, But once again her componsa- tion nppears. She has sont hec waves of cold from the far north even to the orange- grovea of Florida, Tha seeds of fever in the Houth have been destroyed. 'The gorms of imalaria ongendored by the intenseheat of the summer have been killed. The pure, bracing northwest winds havo dispolled the onorva- tion and lassituda that the burning south. wost winds brought, and every man brenthes more frooly, atops moro quickly, and is rein- vigorated, 'The result is seon in tho cheerior nspocts of life and the eagernors ond enthu- sinsin with which people work and enjoy themselves. Basincss of nll kinds feols a now impetus, Freed from its trammels by resumption and the restoration of public coutidenco, a new notivity is felt inall its do- partmonts, and business mon tako hold of their work hopefully and with fresh doter- mination. ‘The vigorous, bracing winter has not only developed those branches of bnsi- wenther, but those which lnst winter were stagnnnt, so that dealersin wool, coal, furs, and other artioles that are a drug in a warm mands upon them. Tho offoct of tho winter is nlso seen in our social circles, which nover The fecling of over aund people aro bound to onjoy themsolves, cost what it will. Hops, parties, recoptions, marrying in marriage have fol- Threo sensons of opers have alroady been given first timo in several years there has beenn disposition to mnko & display of toilots. In avery sign there is hopo that tho ora of good times hos begun, and in the ndvent of this ern duo credit should Lo given to the com- ponsations of Nature, 3 TEXT OF THE PENSION GRATUITY BILL. Wo print Lelow tho text of the most mo- montons plece of uational legislation that hos been ndopted for many yoars. It iatho Dbill granting arrearogo gratuities in ol pon- sions herotofore provided for and hereafter 1o bo ndmitted, sud dating thom back to tho disclinrge from the army or from the termi. nation of the right of the porson having prior title to such pension. This bill, which only needs the signature of tho President to be- coma a law, will add an accumulation of ponsion for from one to soventecn years to the claim of every individual now on the pension-rolls, and every ono of tho many thousands who are sooking a placo thers, nnd all who may hereafter be admitted; and, as affecting so large o clusa of citizens aud involving Eo enormous a sum of public monay, it is propor that the mensure should recoivo the widest possiblo publicity. Tho il §s a8 followa: - ¢+ An act to provido that all penslons on accoant of deutl, or wounds recelved, or df tractod tn the service of tho Unlted States durlng the late War of tha Rebellion, which kave been granted or which shall hereatter bo granted, shall commence from thy date of death or dischargo from the service of the United Btates for the payment of arrears of pensions and other purpoues, Mlie it endcled, elc,, That all" punsions which have been gronted under the gencral law regulating pensions, of way hereafter bo granted, in consu- quence of death from caunes which originated in thie United Statex aervice during the lato War of the itebellion or in consequenco of wounds, inju- rles, or discnscs recolved or contractod In satd serv- tce during sald War of the lebellion, shall com- mence from the dato of dischiarge from said serv- ice of the person on whowe account the claim bas been or may bereafter bo granted, or from Lo ter- ‘mination of the right of the party haviug prior title to suct pension; provided, the rate of the pension for the fntervening timo for which arrears of pen- sluna are beroby grauted shall bo the samo per month for which the veusion was origtuslly granted. *+8ze, 2. That the Commiselonor of Penalons ! hercby nuthorized and directed t adopt such rul sud regulations for the paywment of arrears of pen- sluus hereby granted as will bo nocessary to causo 10 be patd Lo such peusioners, or, It the pensious ere shall have died, tothe F persous eus titied to 1he samo, all such arrcars of pension as the pensioner may be or would bave beon eatitled to under this act, **8re. U, That Bee, 4,717, Toviwed Statules, which provides that no clalw for pension ot prose- cuted 10 8 succeastul fssuo withia Bve years from the dato of Uilog the sawo shall b aduntied withe out recorded wvidence from tle War or Navy De- partuient of the injury of dlscase which resulied fu the Inablity or desth of the pemon on whose account the claim s made; procided, that In any casc on woich the luitstion prescrived by thie wectlon bars furtbor pros- ecution of tho clalm, the clalmant may present, through the Pension Ofica, to the Adjutant-General of tho Ay or Surgeon-Genoral of tho Navy, evie denco that the dlseavo or fujury wiich resulted in the disalility or deatl of thie person on whose sc- couns the clalip 14 made origluated iu the service and In the boe of guty, oud, If such ovidenca.is deemed satisfaciory by the ofic be submltted, he stiall causs a record of tho fact proved to bu mad, aud 8 €0py 0f LU0 Mo L8 witied to the Commissioner of Pensluny, and the bar to the prosecution of $30 elain slisil thereby be rewoved, sud the samu 16 horeby repealed. *48xc, 4. No clal agunt of other persun shall be eatitled to sscure any cowpensation for orvices 1o makiug spplication ror arrears of prusion. *+8ge. 6. That all acts or parts of acts, 80 farss they siay conflict with the provisions in tbis act, be, aud the same are bereby, repealed.” We buve ulready Toxpluined that this bill was passed in both-"Houses of Congress uu. dyr’s prewsyre alinost ‘uparalleled for ity portivacity, and .was assisted by .8 gross undentatement ps to the amount of the nuw obility which it will unpose. upou the tex- jeyers of the country, It is a radical de- parture from the upiversal rule for allowing pensions from the date of presonting the claim, It s impossiblo (o estimate how wany huudred willions of publiv money witl be needed to meat the requirements of the bill. because the number sud character of 0 whons 1t may pensiona.yot to be admitted are Leyond compntation. Heeretary SuraMAN etates tha immedinte demand on the Government at 150 millions, and closer entimntos excced that fignre, It Ja cortain that the provisions of this bill will exhaust the utmost surplns of CGovernment rove. nnes for many yoars to come, and probably ndd largely to the pnbllc debt and the bur- don of tnxation upen the American pcople for awhole genoration to come. It is as- tonishing that a bill of such momentous conacquonces shonld be allowed to pnss Con- gress without serutiny or consideration, or any knowledge on the part of the members ns to how much public monay it involved, or how the funds were to ba obtained to mecl its demands, or the effect of such sudden and enormous demand upon the publia crodit and on the taxpayers. It is manifestly tho daty of the President toreturn the bill to Con- gross for moro maturo consideration; but it is generally belloved that ho will not havo the firmness to resist the claim-ngont pressure which originally sceured its passage in the dark ns to the magnitudo of tho sum of pub- lio money it will ongulf. R OLD STALE CLAIMS AGAINBT THE STATE. A “claim" ngninst the Government is ono of the moat insatiable and inexbaustiblo in- vontions that aro known under our Govern- meont, 'Thero are “claims" ngainst tho United States now ponding befors Congress which date back to the days of tho Rovolu- tion. Theraare **claima " which wero ¢ sot~ tled in full " sixty years ago, which lhave beon ** settled in full” more than unce since then, but which are stiil beforo Congress, demanding greater suma duo now os bal- ances than were claimed originally. Tho State of Tilinols once engaged inbuild- ing tho Illinois & Michigan Canal. This was in the great internal-improvement ora beo- fore the panfc of 1837, The State becamo insolvent, and work was suspended. In 1842 or therenbouts tho Btatw and tho foreign oreditors roached an arrangemont by which tho Inttor should ndvance money enough to comploto tha caual, and the State was to turn over the work to Trustecs, who were to npply tho earnings of the canal to the pay- peut of tho principal of the debt, and tho State was to pay tho interest. The Trustoes, of course, mado new contracts and finished the work at the least possible cost, and in duo time their debt was paid and the canal rovertod to the Stato. At onco thera wan n demand for damages by a horde of speculators. Violations of contracts were urged, Alloged losses of profit which would have boen mado had the Btate not Deen baukrupt and hed gone on with the work, and alleged lossos on canal scrip which the contractors had received in payment for work—nll these wore prascnted. Finally, the State, in 1817, inatitutod a sort of Board of Claims, nnd by law provided that no claims not filed within two years would be forover Darred by hmitation. Thoe Stato mnde somo sort of sottlement nt that time, Binee, how. avor, the Btato has bocome solvent and hos been able tomaintain hor credit a nd pay off {hio debt, theso old clalms have beon revived and ara coming to the front. Last winter the Legislaturo wna induced, by the old claim lobby, to pass o bill croating a Court of Claims, consisting of tho Chief Justico of tho Supreme Court ond two Circuit Judges, to hoar all these wretched old canal claims. The amount of them filed oggrogated in tho neighborhood of $2,000,000, but when tho Attorney-General pleadod tho statute of limitations somo of the claimants withdrow thorr papers to avold o judgment egainat thom. The Court overraled mearly all the bogns old demands; and the trumped.up old tresh, many of thom forty years old, woro supposed to be disposod of finully and, it is hoped, forover. Among the claimants wore some old sattlors of Chlcago,—mon who had hield contracts on the canal. Thoso claims professedtobe for act- ual or constructive damagos, and, not includ- ing intercet, amounted to perhaps more than $600,000, Thirty or mora years' interest would havo vastly increased this sum. A bill has already been introduced into the Lagislature by one of the Chicago membors for tho rolief-of somoe of thessold outlawed, dofunct claims. It is an entering wedge to more and worso ones behind it. Itwould bo well for tho taxpayers, out of whoso pockets the money must como to satisfy thom, to keop o sharp.eye on theso attempts to rob them., ——— A number of Eoglish scientific men are en- deavorlng to trace somo connectlon betweon epldemica of diphtherla und sources of mitk-sup- ply, anid thus far aoparently with some success, Mr. Powzn, the Government Medleal Inapector, ascertalned that, fn a certain lufected district, 473 bouschiolds were supplied by two milk ro- tailers, who obtained thelr supptics from the samo wholesala dealer. Of theso 473 houscholds, sixty-cight, or, roughly, ono in seven, were ln- vaded, Of 2,227 houschiolds In the same dis- trict which obtalned thelr mitk from other sources, only thirty were {nvaded, or, roughly, one i soventy-live, so that the discaso wus more than ten thines as frequent in the former housebolds as fu the lutter. Mr. Fowen di covered many other lnstances of a similar con- nectlon between diphtheria and sources ot mllk- supply. ilis surmise, which still of course stunds In want of sclentific verification, 18 that dipntheria will probably be discovered to be the effect of ik rendered polsanous by somu dis- easy produced In It by chavges in the cow itself. —e——— The Lower House of the Loulsiana Leglsla- ture has passed n bill repealing the charter of the Loulsisua Lottery. But the thing is by no cans doue until the Benate approves the bill, Iie Lottery people are’ pounog out moncy like water to sccure & repewsl of thelr charter, Wansorit bit certuin Democratic opponents of the Lottery a square blow in the face when he sald they were down on It not for moral rea- sous, but beeause it was throwlug Its luflueuce in favor of the wrong Democratle cllqus, o adyised them to get down from their high- moral horse ind adinit thut they hated the Lot- tery, not becauso Is was_a lottery, but becauss it meddled {n polivies. Wansiornt said further, that the Lottery has always been & political fu- stitution. Iu bls day, it was o Kepublican insti- tution now it is & Demovratic Institution; wind {f any other party gets into power, it will favor that party. We should not be surprised to seo tturn up, one of these duys, as sn Old-Line Whig Lottery. e ¢ Ty Tower house of the Michizan Leglalature ‘s commitied somethlug which, i1t be not a Joke, 18 very Hke an outrage upon the venerabla and digoided Protestant Eplscopal Church in that Btate. When about passing & bill relating to that corporation, suime mcmber offcred an amendment {nposiug female suffrago upou the Clurch fn Its busiuess mectinge, ‘Fhe fdea was caught up ut oncy, the gwendigent accepted, ang the bill passed. It is hardly possibie, how- ever, thut 1t will go through to tho ends and, if it does, women gro not ltkely to fnterfere tnuch wish the buslupas alfles of e Church. Tbe Contemporary Review hos been priutiu papers by the leading physiclans of Evgland on the alcobol question, Among the writers are such great autborities as 8ir Jaues Pacxr, Sl WiLLiax Gurr, Dr. RapcLierg, Dr. GAxgop, aud Dr, Rispox-Benngrr. The conclusions reached are that aleobol is {ojurious to the youog; that it should always be taken st weals: that not wmore tban one Quid vunce should be taken In twenty-four hours. A bot- tle of stout or porter contalns about this quan- titvof alcoho! ; an fmperlal pintof champagne hina twlce too much aleohol for safe drinking; and & pint of port, sherry, or Madelra, threo and one- third times too much. Ao ounce of alcohol is contalned In two ounces and a quarter (or four and one hall tablespoonsful) of brandy, whisky, arrum. This amount of aleohol, if taken only with the cvening meal, would not, the physi- clans hold, be Injurious to persons In middle 1ifo or ol age, STATE AFFAIRS, Senator Carpenter Leavas Mad. Ison in a Whirlwind of Glory. The Legislators Curb Thelr p,. thusiasm and Declino to Go — to Milwaukee. About thirty Princeton students were over to Trenton, ten miles from the college, Saturday night, There they got drunk, made hideous Tnolses, and Insulted 8 number of women, The resitlt was that twenty-fourof them weee locked up nned fined. The young men, of course, are deeply injured, declaring that they were driv- ing about the town in a quict and respoctable way, and the collegs authorities support them. But they needn't expect men who have been to college, and know how those things are done, anit how they aro rcprescnted afterward, to take much stock in the tale of injured fnnocence. Sel o Arrival of the Car of the Conguer. ing Carpenter at the Cream City, Gathering of the Multitude In the Chip Marty to Hear Mis Speechi. Long Jones Takes & Long Torm in the Illinois Penitentiary aa His Wagas, Bir JAMES MATnRSON, whose death was re- cently reported, was the sccond largest landed proprictor in the Dritish Isles and the richest - subject in Scotland, In boyhood he accepted & clerkship in Calcutta, and was dismissed as * tgo stupld even for trade.” He got another trial in the China branch of his first emoployer's business, and mnde s splendid fortunc, He was the sole proprietor of the Istand of Lewes, and didd not get on hiappily with his subjects, who coutd never bo made to understand that his in- tentions really were benovolent. The Bright Prospects of the Tep. ritory of Wyominga-- Her Resources. WISCONSIN, Bpecial Dievateh to The Tribune, Mavison, Wis., Jan, 23.—In the Benats to day bills were {ntroduced amending the Keviged Statutes so that the law prohibiting the seiling of Hquor within one mile of the Wisconsin aug Northern Insane Asylums snall apply to g aslylums that arc for the careof tha lnsanc; ap. propriatiog $2,000 annuaily to the Board of Henith; to authorize & certain credit to Simeon Mills, late Treasurcr of the Btate Ilospital for the Insane; also, to amend the general laws of 1875, relative to tho ercction of the vl County Normal 8chool. His Excellency the Governor sent in the fol Jowing nominations for Regents of the Normal Schools for a term commencing tho first Mondsy in February prox.; Jobn Phillips, of Portage County; 8, M. Hoy, of Winnebago Couuty; James MacAllister, of Milwaukee. In the Aseembly Lills were introduced to securo to the people the proper completion of the Bturgeon Bay ship-caval; to restore and continne the Buard of Trustecs of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, The Select Committeo to whom was referred that part of the Govornor's message which re- ferred to a school for destituto ehildren, and the donation by ex-Gov. Washburn of s Edee. wood property, reported In favor of devoting ibat property to the purpose of such a school, BENATOR CARPBNTER left hero at 11 a. m. for Milwaukee, accome panied by o large delegation of friends. Many of our citizens flocked to the depot toseethe maguetic Sepator offon the cars. He will reach Milwaukea at 4 o'clock, where his reception will be worm and generous. Pressure was brought 10 bear to-day to have both Houses of the Legis- lature adjourn over till Monday ulght and ate tend the Mutivities held In Milwaukee In hionor of Senator Carpenter’s election, but, like wise Bolons, they refused, and at onuce commenced the business of the sesslon, which has beea seriously interruoted by the Senatorial struggle. IN MILWAUKEE. Spectal Dispatch to The Trivune, MiLWAUKER, Jan. 23.—A spccial train from Madison, bearing Benator-elect. Carpeater, prome {ucut members of the lobby who battled for him 80 obstinately during the recont struggle, nears ly the entire Republican delezation in the Legls- Inture from this clty and county, as well as Mil- waukeeans holding positions under the Legisla- tive organization,—In all about seventy-five per- sons,—arrived herent Op.m. Between 1,08 nnd 2,000 people Were gathered at the Unlon Depot tu welcome thetr honored fellow-citlzen. The approach of the train was the signal fora sceno of wild enthuslasm. Cheer after cheer rent the air as Me. Carpenter stepped upon the platform, {n comoauy with Cant. Vunce, Edwani Sanderson, and others of his backers. Avsounss order could be restored, the party embarked in sloighs provided for the oceasion, and, preceded by Bach's Baud, were drawa In PROCESSION {hrough Recd, Bouth Water, East Water, and Michigan sticeta to the Chamber of Cumnmerce. bulldivgs slong East Water street were guyly dressed with bunting, and the sidewnlks wers througed with people, all anxious to greet the familiar countenanco of the hero of the bour. Simultancously with the arrival of the party st tho Chamber of Commerce, the largo hall was thronged with peoplo, who felt a desire to bear what the man of thelr cholce had to say, Pres- tdent Ray mado & happy Introductory speech, after which e —— A DBoston woman and poot—Mrs, ZADEL BAnNEs GusTArsoN—has discovercd that Mr. Lzwis James knows how to play the part of Shylock far hetter than Eowin Booti does. Mr, JastEs has won great praise In Boston also for his personation of Jean Valjean in the play of “(Cosctte.”” All of which we are pleased to notice because Mr. Jaues 1s a Chicazo man, without honor In the theatres of this city, where' he has often acted to empty benhes, e ‘They have got one of the Popes—ALEXANDER ‘VI.—aon to the stage in Rome, for the first time in modern history, The Church, of course, for- bade the performance, but was nowerless to prevent it. The Itallan dramatists naturally think that they will find in the historles of the 250 ot 260 Popes a hitherto unworked mine of wealth, The Popess JOAN nlone cught to be rood for 100 uights a beneflt. ——— Chilef Jastrs W, Hannisox, of the Natfonal Board of Fire Undorwriters, says that * New York s the worat-bullt city in the world.” This Is reatly bad—much worse than weo sup- posed, 1€ there's suything the Chicago Bulld- foi Department or the Chicogo Fire-Marshal can give .New York in the way of voluts, wo hopo the World will mentlon it. ——— The Trustees of the Lick estatodoubt whether they can get the big teleacope ready for the next transit of Venus, which takes piace in 1882, but they promiso it for the next but one, which will not occur until June 8, 2004, .Tuam TrIsUNS has couaged special commissioners for both events, and will make club-rates to sub- scribers for the long term. ———— Grest intercst {a taken fn Boston in Mixxie Hauk's confoaslon, first made ln Tie TRIDUNE, that Lo Chevaler Enner pn Iigsss WaTrzoo I her betrothed, 'The Jlerald says that the Cheva- Iller made many friends fn that city, where he was known as **a man of * culture.’ " ———— . E. Fonsten, the eminent Liberal member of Parliament, bas anuounced his refusal to submit to the rules of the Bradford caucus. This {s & blow to the new Assoclation, for it seema tolerably certaln that, §f Mr, FonsTeR re- fuses to run, uo uther Liberal can e elected, . — e Both the Colorado Benators—TzLLxR and Hivt—are natives of New York, So there ought to be no more growling about the dls- proportlonate represcutation of the Emplre Statu In the Senate, " s Ricuanp Guaxt Winta will fall down and worship almost anything in Evgland, but in the new Atlantie hespbuses the architecture of the London churches, not excopting the Abbey. e ———— Zaci CuaxpLen e almost too zood a man to gt the Michizan Senatorship. 1Me returned the salary-grab, Men Mo hlm have beeu shelved in 1ilinols und Wiscoustn, ———— The New York Zimes says that Senator Conx- LING s u timc-server. Read it out of the party. —————— — MACKEY’S MONEY. The Tennsylvanin FPoliticlan Alleged to ave Contracted n Loft-Manded Mar- ringe. Svecial Diwalch (o The Tribuns. TITTSBURG, Pa,, Jan, 23.—Quite a scnsation was causcd here this afternoon by the announce- ment thut the witl of the late Hon, R. W. Mackey {s to be contested by awoman who goes Ly the namo of Murray. It was goncrally belteved that Mr. Mackey was a bachelor, but this ts do- nied by the woman, who says she was legally married to hlm twenty yeafrs ago, the issue belog n son and daughiter, both of whom sro ltvlug,the former betug 10, and the latter 17 years of oge. It is stated that sha hias the docu- ments to prove tho marriago, and that sho las as clear a title to & dower as any wife could have. It s furtherstated thatthe will wiil soon bu offered for probate fn Philadelphls, and that tho contestant, through her counsel, has noti- fled the executors numed in the will of her pur- pose to ¢lalm dower, 'The woman is now lving {n this city, and says that Mr, Mackey frequent- Iy visited her hiere, and that she Jived for » time fu Pufladeipbia, ler ottorncys are Messrs. Arthur Kueedy, John H. Hampton, and John Dalzell, but these gentlemen decline to give any Information on the subject as to the chil- dren. Some of Mr. Mackey's fricnds say that a young man sbout the age given Isa resideat of thiscity, and bas always been regarded by them as o child of the deceased politician, One of theso, also, stated that Mr, Mackey bad more than oneu confessed to belng the father of the boy, but never thut the mother was his wile, Mr. Mackev's will was wsde two years ago. ment provides thut the property and all be divided equally amony ceaged’s threa siaters und otig brother—3rs. Gil- way, Mre, Brockett, Mra, McGregor, and Will- fam H. Mackey. Witson McCandlessand Mrs, MR, CARPENTER took the platform and apoke substantially 2 follows: MR, PRESIDRNT AND GENTLEMEN: There st6 times when men are hardly able to apesk at al, and this to me {s one of thosc times. My beart 18 full of gratitudo to all the people of Milwau- kee, who, in sl my experlences and throuh =y blundevs, have shown me pothing but syops thy, and’ through everything havo falibiuily stood by mo Jike friends and brothers. Yol gentiemen of this Chamber, know well the questlons that bow cugross thy attention uf tie nation, und you, above other classes, know liow necessary to our welfare {s s thorough ly sound currrency. Other than whst s sound, wmnd [s0 rccounlzed by the nations, fs to the body politie as bormiful 3 discaso to the physical body, Qur greenbacks LOW are 88 us gold, und_the duty of ouf nation I8 to keep them so. Our debless & L tion need not to bo pald to-day, nor to-worrer, 1t only there shull bo for us & belief extant in the world that we are honeat, Let us galn hold the contldence of the nations, and twentf or twenty-nve years henco, when our counyt] shall have grown, as it will, ths natlun's dett will bo the merest bagatells to pay. “The st taken by Wisconstn on financo fa~ the keypote that sounds ncross the Atlantle. ~Our veopls purposy to pay their debt to tho uttermost. THE SOUTIL Mr. Carpenter then referred to tho presest conditlon of tho paoule fn tho South, und ssth in substanco: A chlef duty, and a chlef means to tncressiog the prosperity of the country, fs that the exbts {og differcoces in the Bouth be healed, lhwll‘;l rulo has bad {ta ruo ns long' as {t was usclh and civil government Is_now the proper fustre mentaiity to_use in dealivg with llmnflalrl'; he Bouth, The people of the Bouth are 0 vegarded as of the nation, und should be & required to carry out all the provisious of ke liiay’ are imade ‘executors, T value of the | Toduiitationstiy smendmenta, © Our . sacride Etate 1 vartously exiuated at from $160,000 0 | o B0 " Was " Towever, should o A, ba allowed 'to for . poling o and It must be the work of the natlon that 'IIJ: people of every race stand cqual and be ¢ u:m rotected before ths luw—agye, und the bs! i or all fo the Bouth, Everywhere there mist be protection by the nation's ta and meln; tiou's authority. Rights arc eutitied to prote tion there as in other Btates, and there 15 w‘u‘ sccured an eotire freedom fu State riplts 1o South a8 fu the Nortti, ‘The work tbus outis is for accomplil hmem' wot by uny party, but LANSING. Bportsments Conventlon—bleeting of Super- inteudonts of the Puor, Hpectal Dipasch (0 The Triduns, LANSING, Mich.,, Jan. 28.—Tha State Bports- mew's Assoclation re-etected officors to<day us follows: President, E, 8. Holmes, of Uraod | yhonation, the futare of vur wrand cous” Hapidey Secretary, Prof, Rooy, of Esst Bagl- | try there othi§§ o Sppretieud und botbist naw; Treasuror, N. A, Osgood, of Battle Creck. | tofear. It ia for herto fullow the baouer ¢ 1 ual rights sud caual justice & l!:len:"n:ggxet 3 un‘figm of the world, sud? leador of tha people. o Edward Ssoderson spoke next, and jropos | thiree cheors for the valiunt twenty-ive who L stood out for the Benator-elect at Mudlson. GEORGE W, ALLEN, was mext called to the stand, and, lnd w; speecp, declardd the faalty of those nhm opposed Benator Carpenteras long as ke 1a o for, the best Intereets of the country and of i party.. Inhia opioion, the hattle for the Scd ‘fhe Assoclution have been hard st work for three days on a bill which the Legislature will be asked to pass for the better protection of fish aud game, At last eveulng's sesalon of the Superiatend- ents of the Poor, the Hon, Heory W, Lord, Secretary of the State Board of Charities, read an excellent paper on “Education i Relation to Crime. This afternoou the following ofl- cers were elected: President, 8. D. Humphrey, o; l‘s? “"“gj V|F-Pr§ul%gat.b\:6?hwurmn. of Berrlen: Secretary, J. T.Col 108200} s e Uredte of Axanbiaw: Toia evogs | torstip bad been honeatly foughy und bovesfs and Dofects,’ * 'Fhe mectlog will adjourn {m ':;z: :(m::g ’:fi,.ggfl'fi‘ ::lfi:l nu-spaudml. evsnluk slog i, : : 1 | motion to adjourn prevatled, and the gateriss HOLLANDERS HOLLERING. dupersed: o vesinG: Special Digwatch to The Tridunae. W )] i 1 uss Gawp fapios, Mich, Jus, 38.—The Hol- | ByS celock toulihl, e Ao o 1uls lanlers of our clty, several thousand in pum- '?00 ey ": et lncluded o largo nuuber ¥ Ler, have been colebrating the three bundreth 13. dl;;f:&m b ncludad 6 et 0 auniversary of the Unlon of Utrechit, the Dateh peotor. Owlog to the unavoldable wbaesct o Indevenuence Day, this afternoou aud eveniog. a HE R N aiflr, ' ax-GGov. Ludinstas from the city, Acting3183¥