Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1879, Page 4

1eily Ediiton. cne rear.. Jurn of Tk CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1 Tiye Tibu TEIMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. B—VONTAGE rmer,m. 100 2.4 2.00 £ Y MAIL—IX ADV per mont| T, tweive o PRKIY EDITIO! Une copy, ner year. 1.80 dnhul Lore 20.{‘“ #eeimen copleasnt tree. Cive Post-UDlee addtess {n full, Including Btate and Conoty. emittances may bemade eltyer by draft, express, Tost-Cifice rder, of in regletered tetler, At our Hik. TRNMS TO CITY SUDACRINEDS. Tafly. Gelfvered, funday excepted, 25cents per week. Detiy, colivcred, Sunday Included, hocents oet weck. Adcrein THE THIBUNE COMPANT, Correr Madtson and bearhorn-na, Chicago, Tl Crder 1ot the deliveey of Tig TRIBUN® aL Evanaton, £nglewood, and Tiyde Park iefe fn the countlux-room wilizeceive promitattent TRIBUNE BRRANC! 11 OFFICES. e Cnieann TRINTRY has eatadllshed hranch offices ferthetecelst of subscriptions and sdvertisements a1 fotlows: NEW TORK—Toom 20 7ribune Bullding, F.T.Mce Annex, Alanager, TAWE, “No. 16 Ruc de Ia Gronge-Bateitere, 1.Mam ent, LOND ~American Exchange, 449 Strand, urany Agent. LAN FIRANG [ 1310 F atreet. MUSEMENTS. MoVicker's Theatre, Madison strect, between Dearborn and State, *‘Two ‘Women." Afternoon and evening. Hnverly’s Thenatre. Tearborn strect, comer of Monroe, ‘‘Aronnd the AWorld In Kighty Days,” Afterncon snd evening, # Hooley’s Thientre. Tandolph street, betmeen Clark and lasaile, En- gagement of the Engllsh Opera Company, **H. M. B. Pinafore.” Afterncon and evening. Academy of nusie. aleted street, botween Madison and Monroe. Va- rlctyentertainment. Afternoon and evening. Tiamlin's Thentre. Clatk street, oppostte the Court-lonss, Varicty en- tertaloment. Tlorshey Munic-5Tall. ‘Madison street, opposite McVicker's Theatre, Tala: “Urega the Wizard. Afternoon and evening. e —————__ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1870. —_— The destrnetion by fire of the almshouse noar Loalsville, Ky., yosterday was o fine oponing for a firat.clngs horror. There were 340 inmates, chiefly aged invalids, imbeciles, and cripples, and it is only surprising that a Jarger nuber did not porish. The decislon in reference to tho Chicago Post-Ofice queation, holding tho CGovern. ment to bo responsible for the rent of the Ionore Building, is n virtunl order for tho reoccupntion of those premiscs pending tho completion of permanent quartere in the now Governmont buildin; According to n statomont. made yesterday {u tho report of a commitice of the Woman's Christisn Temperance Union, n majority of the churches of Chicago are using the un. fermontod julce of the grape for commuoion wing; and it was also stated that not n Methiodist church in the city now uscs fer- monted wine, Jouy J. Inoarrs was yesterdsy olected by the Republican majority of the Xansus Leglsinturo as his own successor in tho United Stotes Scnite for tho term of alx yenrs «from tho 4th of Maroh next. ‘'Ihe Democrats of the Louisiann Legislaturo oloctod Hawren JoNas as tho successor of Bonator Eusrra, whoso term expires March 3. Tha city and couaty building authorities aro making excellent progress in arriving at on adjustmont a¢ to the joining of the two wings of the big structurs in the Court. House SBquare, nnd other malters portaining 1o the finlshing touches. 'Lheir consulta- tions give ovidenco of a desire to sacuro o creditablo building at a cost which allows for o margin for dividonds botween contractors and officials. Bonator OnntsTiancy very frankly states ‘his reasons for resigning his sest to ascept the Porn mlssion. Ifia hoalth roquired o changs of climate, and the President kindly offered him the cholco as between Berlin, Peru, and Central America. Ho chosa Paru, becauso the climato was desira. ‘ble and the salary such as under the circum- stances would enable him to live comfortably and lsy upalittle for a rainy day,—or, ns thoy say in that country, for an earthquake, Thoy eall them *‘political * prisonera down in New Orloans when steamboat-loads of persons arrive who have boen arrcsted for violating the election laws, From the fact that theso partios have beon held In $8,000 ball for future appearance, and con- sidoring that partios fu Florida guilty of tho same kind of crimo have boen sentoncod to from ono to threo years' imprisonment, it would scem to tho non-Democratio mind that thero is something folonious as well as 4 political " in thoso violations of law, The ground covered yestorday by the Sab- Comunittee in the Brobarrr investigation, in conneotion with the charge of improper in. terference to provent the indictment by the Qrand Jury of Rogister IHisuanp, hasal vesdy been made familiar to the readers of Tux Tuisunx through interviews, pamphiets, discussions by the Bar Association, sud in othior ways. It now becomes, howevar, new torritory for the purposes of this investigo. tion, snd the testimony token yeuterday Ppasses into history s a part of the record in » caso that promises to be memorable. pETRES Y .Buzee Avt, Amoer of Cabul, snd involun- tary cxile from his Oapital, after a tedious journey through u country where evon the # guo-hoss-shay " is considered an unusual luxury, bus at last arrived at the Russisn border, and before he could koock for ad- mittauce Lius beon told by the minlons of the Czar loitering thereabouts that ho cannot come in, ‘I'ie cooluess of the reception hias greatly nstonished the Ameer, who is jnured 10 o low temperature, aud bis Excellenoy is somewbat in deubt #s to the propriety of proceediog further under the circumstances. Fhis notion may be a part of the quarautivo regulntions ruceutly established by Russia egainst Contral Asle, but no mention of such personal provision s herctofore been men- tloned. ‘fhe rofusal of the Beuats in cxccutive session to ot forthwith upon the Now York Custom-House nomioations, and the adoption of the wotion to postpone until next Mon- duy by avote of 83 yens to 26 nays, is ro- gorded in Washingtou that Mr. Cosxuse Las lost bis grip upon the consviencu of the Beoate, and thet the Adwminlstration hag gained wround by its earuest sud vigorous wansgement of the case in behalf of con- firmation. 'Phe mussnge of the President ls o cloar und unbiused preseutment of the grounds on which @ chagge iu tha con- duct of the New York Custor-House i in urged by hin, and this, together with Bec- retary Snenaan's loiter in reply to Gon. An- TRUR, brings tha controvorsy before the bar of public judgment in n manner such nn to compel & caroful and respectfal considera- tion at tho handsof the Benate. Thorois reason to,iope that Mr. Cownxuina's *‘one great effort” will prove futile, and that when next the New York nominations aro taken up by the Benate the victory will bo on tho side of eflicloncy and purity in the Civil Bervice. ] 1t hna been nrrangod that the investigation of the cipher dispatchos shall be continued by sending & Sub-Comnuttee to New York, where superior facilities will be afforded for seerot and frequent conference with the co. parconera ns to the best method of gotting Mr., Tiroex's front door freo from the dam- nging imputation of recoiving those torrible dispatches. Nophew Perrox will be handy by, and can be roadily coached a8 to the kind of testimony ho must give in order to prove that ho was working for his uncle snd spending the old man's money without so much as a suspicion of the ‘business in band penetrating the perception of tho guileless usufruct. New York is clently tho place to make the investigation {horough and complete—that is, thorough and complete 1 the hiding of the uncle behind the nephew, — Lost tho people of Chicago might forget, it indeed they had ever genorally known, tlnt thia city had among ite Represontatives at Bpringfield a porson named Munnay, the nforesald Murnax has introduced a bill, and put the fact on record, and thus mado pro- fort of Lis existenco, This bill is for the purpose of roviving and re-ostablishing in the City of Chicago, and in all the other in- corporated citios of Illinois, a Board of Tolice and Fire Commissioners, o whom shall bo deputed all authority and jurisdic- tion of ths Polico and Fire Dopartments of thelr respective cities, This bill comes na noar to o proposition to revorse the wheols of time, civilization, intelligence, and Jaws of governmont a8 anything that has been produced 1n a legislative way for some yoars, We liope Mr. Munnay will devote his abilt. ties and his cnergies to the affairs of modern civilization, and lot that old system of irre- sponsiblo * Board" governmenta sleop in the oblivion to which outraged and tortured communities havo long since consigned it. FORECLOSING MORTGAGES, Home weeka ngo wo called attention to tho bill proposed in the Btate Legislaturo by Henntor Basa, of Cook Couaty, amending tho existing Inw of the State requiring fora- closures of morigages. Under the eoxisting law, when o mortgnge is foraclosed and the proporty does not fotch as much as the amount of tha debt, the creditor obtaius a judgmont for tho difference. Insuch cases, gonerally, thera Is no bidder save the mort- gageo, who offers what ho plenses, nnd then tnkes the property and also & judgment, and then levies on any other property the victim may have left, solls that for what it may linppen to bring, and then holds over the wrotch for the residus of Lislife the remainder of his judgment for Interost, costs, and at- tornoy’s fees allowed under the cut-throat mortgnge. ‘The bill proposed by Senator Basnt amends this law .to the extont of providing that whenever a creditor shall in any proceeding obtain n judgment for any purchaso of n claim not satisficd by the procreds of a eala of tho mortgaged promises, such jndgmont shall havo the effoct of orening the fore- closure and permitting the dobtor to redeom tho property wilbin two yenrs from tho date of the judgmont. This bill has provoked an outbreak of virtuous zeal in behalf of maintaining the snnctity of contraots, and Basn's bill is held up to public reprobation as an act of legal ropudiation, 'There are men living who aro old cnough to remember the violent denun- cintions onco henped upon the proposition to sbolish imprisonment for dobt, That was rogorded g n gross violation of contract, Tho creditor sold n man $20 worth of goods, and if the debtor could not pay he wus put into prison. The repenl of tho law for im- prisoument for debt wasatrenuously opposed, and in many States it was accomplished only after long popular agitation end in installmonts, In tho earliest agos, tho dolinquent deblor ‘was not ouly sub- joct to imprisonmont, but became tho slavo of the creditor. Tconage In Mexico is based on tho same priuciply. Our present 1aw on the subjoot of the'foreclosuro of mort- goges is only o degree removed from the upirit of tho medieval dootrine on this sub- ject. In fact, imprisonment for debt has beon abolished in England only quite re- contly, and has not beon fully sbolished in Prance oven nt this timo, Lonns on mortgoges arerarcly mads unless tho property is valued by the louder at fiwice the amount af the loun. That possibly ap. plies to every loan made in this Stato prior to such renowals as may havo been effeotod during the last few yoars. The wonoy was loaned on (he valuc of this double scourity, and not upon the other probable means of the debtor, nor was it loanod undor nuy ex. pectation that tha lender would ever Liave to seek boyond the ample property mortgaged for repaywment of the loan. We much ques- tion whetlier any loan on real estate security wau ovor madu in Illinols because the exist. fug law gave to the croditor the right of judgmont against the debtor in casa the mortgaged premizes failed to pay the debt. There s, therefore, no equity which this bill of Honator Basu willropeal ; no part of the consideration or inducement leading up to the lending of the money i taken away by this vopealing bill. All that is proposed is a change of the logal remody, which change in uo cnse fukes from the creditor his right to the wmortgaged premises or tho full puayment of his debt. The bill simply provides that when in tho ordinary course of business the valuo of money shall, between tho date of a loan aud the waturity of the mortgage, so increase that the suwm of tho debt in money shall ox- cood in valuo that of the property pledged ss security, thon the creditor sbsll have the choice of taking tlie property in full watis- faction of the debt, or, 12 that Le not satis- factory, then the debtor shall Lave two ycars’ additional time in which (o pay the debt and redeem tho property. Wa fail to sce the want of honesty, jus- tice, and equity in such & humane provision. We fail to sce in it the least symploms of repudintion. We fail to see any more dis hooesty in it than was involved in the chango of land which, while giving to the deblor the right to take n man's property for debt, took from the creditor the right to enlave orimprison the body of the debtor. "fhio proposed chunge in the law does not wpair the cbligation of coutracts any more than does thqAppelate Court aot impair the obligstion of contracts by taking away from pustivs to certuin classes of suits the richt to appeal to the Bnpreme Court, in the manner of vollecting or enforeing pay- mant of debts do not impair the validity of contracts so long s tho right to collect the debt is left undisturbed, chiange the modo of legal proceedings and of the time and mode of enforcing liens is ono of the essentlal forms of all governmonte, in- nlienable, and oan nover basurrandered; and All contracts, inclnding mortgages, aro made subordinnte to tho power of the Htale to changs and amend ita laws from time to time, fsaory note might prolibit tho State indefl nltely from chnnging its collection laws, nnd tho owner of a mortgage would forever con- trol the legisltive power of the State, A legal correspondent informs na that the hill of Senator Basn proposes nothing now. says that such nlaw is in force in Massa. chusettr, Connecticut, and other Btales, and ho cites the following example ¢ noring the subject, or of the remained in ignorance down to tho present of ravenue Mero changes The power to Otherwise the mere givingnf a prom- it} +'Chap. 140, Sec. 30, Lawa of 3 asachusetts, providea: *If, after forecloanre of a morteage, the ceeditor recovers a judgment for sny part of the dabt on the ground that the value of the mortgagel preinises at the time of the forcclostre was leen than the snm due, such rccovery #hall open the JSore losur the premises, notwithstanding the three yeara lim- ated in that behalf may inve explred."" nd the person entitled may redeemn Massachusetts, with an equity of redemp- tion of tAree years instead of n baro fiwelte months, os in this Btate, gives her debtors this ndditional equity in caso thoe creditor will not rest satisfied by taking the land for his debt. F Tho bill of Benator Basa is almost n lit- oral copy of the Massachusetts Inw, nud the money-lenders of that and other Eastern States ought certainly not to object that this State should extend to its citizens the sameo yprotection and equitics which the people of those States enjoy when thoy borrow money on realty. NEITHER PARTY CAN AFFOBD IT, If thera aro Republican Senators who be- lieve that they nra contributing to the strength nnd power of the Republican party by opposing the confirmation of Gen. Men- nirr and Maj. Bonr, they err, in our opin- ion, grievously. is & Ropublican, and whatover frauds have accurrad in the New York Custom-Honse have oceurred under Republican Adminis- tration, DBut it will hardly bo pretonded that the exposures of tho frands and tho punishment of the guilty perpetrators of It is truo that Mr. AnTiton them by a Republican Administration can work s0 much injury to tho parly ns would nacrue to it by offorts, even if successful, nt concenlinent. It may be that Repub. lican Senators generally have, by ig- loaving - it en. tirely to the judgment and discrotion Bonntors from New York, time of the fact that great frauds havo long oxisted in the New York Custom-Ilouse, But if they have, thoy stand alone. To every other clasy of cilizens the fact is notorious. It hns beon published far and wide, and noithor tho officinls of the Custom-House, nor the press of New York City, nor the under-officers of tho, Trensury Dopartment, have had tha courage to deny it. It hnseven boon admitted in defensa that * irregulari- Uies " existed, nnd that the magnitude of tho bLusiness trausacted by the offica rondered thelr suppression practically impossible. Benators, whother Republican or Demooratic, sisouldreflect seriously upon thqshameful char. nctor of thisadinission. It coversthe country and the Goverumont with disgrace, aud no Administration would be justified in mniu- taming n possiva altitudo in the presonoo of a situation so humilinting, T'ake thib slngle fact as an illustration : It {s notorious that in neveral lines of goods the frauds in the New York Custom.House by undervaluation have long been so great that thoy have grown into a system which operates as an absolute pro- hibitlon against importation by auy merchant outside of the ring of corrupt agonts of foreign munufscturcra, 'The werchauts of a dozon cities in the interior aro thus driven from the forcign market, and, in addltion, tho Government is robbed of n sbore of its just rovenuo, For five yonrs this syndicate thievos have stood at thoe Oustom-House doors of the port of Now York and barred tho way to tha foreign markets ogainst thousands of honest merchants who stand roady to import lnrgely of foreign merchandiso, and pay to the Government thoreon overy dollar of its just and legal revenue. Thesa aro facts, and it Is also a faot that thias dis. graoeful stato of things came into existonco and flourished nuder tho administration of Mr. Antuur, The country caunot efford to have it continued, and neither Republican nor Democratic Benators can afford to vote for its continnnnce. Certain Ropublican Senators may desiro to cmnbnrrass the Al ministration, but they canuot afford to stop in between it and n reform demand- ed by the wholo country. Democratic Honators may bo willing to widen the breach Letwoen the Adniinistration and anti-Administration factions of the Reopublic. an party, but they caunot nfford to do this ot the expensoof the revenuo and against the demaud of their mercantile constituents, who insist that the embargo laid upon trade by o syndicate of forcigners shall bo removed for the boueflt of Lonest merchouts, East, West, North, and Bouth, standing ready to fmport and pay full revenuo whero now a part is filched from tho Government, Wa venture the nssortion that every mem. ber of the ring of **crooked " importers in New York City desires, and is luboriug for, the return of Mr. Anrtuus to tho Collector- whip. This of iteelf ought to bo sufliclent to induce every Benator to vote sgainst tho prop oaition. The * Rebel claims™ division in the Dew. ocratio camp in Congress is caloulated to in. spire a foeling of choerfulnoss on tho Iepub. lican side of the }ouse, more particularly ns it is the first time that the Republicans have Liad an opportunity to shiow thielr generosity and good will to the Southeru Brigadiors, aud at a time when the Northern Domocrats are disposed to smother and bulldoze them, By all rules of courtesy and mathowatics, as the Nortbern Democrats aro only tho tad to the dog, tha rest of tho doy, bolug the larger and wore iwportaut part, Las the right to ex- presa ita sentiments in raply to tho attack of Gen. Byaaa on Rebol claima, It i not fair to pull them back by the coat-talls and hawmper &nd obstruct them sud gag thom. Tho Brig- odiors bave borne the bruut of the battles in sucuring the present Democratio proponder- ance jn tho House, Have thoy not mada the Bouth *“solid”? Did'they not carry lnat fall’s clections, when their Northorn allies were whipped out of their boots? Did thoy not hunt negroes, and drive away negrozs, sud kill? Did they not stuff ballot-boxts to bursting with the tissue-paper frauds? Did they not roll up Confederate majoritics that wera bigger than the whols vote of their dis- tricts? 'The Now Orleans Iimes—and Tur Cwicaco Taisuxx is glad to agroe for oncs with that sheet—is not far from right when 1879—BIXTEEN PAGES. it says that Gen. Dnaco in one of the thirty or forty Nerthern Democrats who maintatn that they ara the party nnd that the hundred or moro Bouthern Democrats have no rights except those of Inboring for them and taking a back seat ot tho feast. Thero is no renson why the Northern tail should attempt to wag the Bonthern dog. The dog has somae rights in the premines, and, as he owns the tail and earries it behind him, it has no othoer duty, in & sitnation ro stern, except to fol. low him nnd let him do the waggingof it. In this contest it is tho duty of the Repnb- Tieans to help the dog and give the Brigadiers nchance, It is nono of their fight, but ordi- unry humanity and sympathy diotate this course, ——— e THE CHINESE AGAIN. Tho ohief objLotion ngainat the excessive Chinenc immigration lics in thae nature of the contracts under which tho Chinese Iaborers come fa and remain in this country, and which offer no inducementa to them to nasim- ilato themeelven to our manner of life or to couform to the spirit of any of our inatitu- tions, 'Thoy biave nothing in common with 14 except their Itbor, and over this we have no ultimate control. It i regulated, ns- sipned, and fufluenced by the great Chinese compnnics. The laborers are mere tools in the houds of these companics. The latter nre very wealthy, and thegreat mass of the people of Ohiva nre impecnious, nod usually in astarving condition and ready to jump at anything that offers the prospuct of even n seanty subsistonce, for they will live where others would starve. Ience wo seco them loaving Chinn by thousands and pouring into Australia and New Zealaud, tin- 1il tho peoplo of thoso colonies aro striving to bar them out in self-defonso, atocking the plantations of tho West Indies in a condition of quasi-slavery, and flacking to our Pacifio Slopo in great numbers. Tho Chineso com- ponies open business agencles and offer ont- fits and pnssage-money to any of their coun. trymen who will entor into a five or ten years' contrnot to divide the product of thair Inbor with them. ‘Tho contract is mado ns bindiug ns it can be, and holds the laborer with the tightness of a viso, The company lina its ngents in Oulifornia, who receivo tho fnmigrants, register thom, lot them ont in- dividunlly or in squads, nssign them to labor, keep watch of them wherover they may be, nscortnin their wages, how long tiwme they work and how much money thoy reaoive, nnd they exact their proportion with tho rolontlessness of n Shylock. Now and then an individusl mny broak away from their clutches and keep his carnings to him- aclf, But ns his roturn to China is batred uutil ho makos restitution to the companies, and ns {kis o part of his roligion that some timo ho shall return to China, or that if ho Qes here beforo the expiration of the con- tract lis bones shall be carried Lack to China, ho i3 cortain sooner or later to con- form to his contract. Undor such contracta s theso there §s no inducoment for the Chinaman to become n citizon or to tnko any intorest in our affalra, He ia of no service to tho conntry, except so far ng Lis lnbor tends to help develop its re- sources, and this vory lnbor is under ultimate Chinese control. e has noth- ing in common with our system of roligion, education, or socloty, Io hos no sympnthy with our politics sad no wish to hinve any of the priviloges of n citizon, $io long ns ho romaing hero he is an alien, subjoct to the polics laws of the country, but still amonnble to all the laws of China. Our own Government hos no further hold upon him than to puaish him for infraction of ita laws, It cannot demand of Lim the yerformance of any of a citizen's dutios. It cannot expect him to support it. Other foreigners como hero, adopt our hinbits, and at tho proper time bLecomo cltizons, accept oll the privileges of cltizons, aud support tho Governmont either in peace or war, ‘Thoy bring their familics with them, sottle down, nand become . part of the body politic, 'he Chinamnn never brings his fanmily with him, and if women coms thoy only como for improper purposes. This is tha chief "objection that the peoplo of Cali- fornia mako to him, Thoy aro not willing that he should como hero as an nlien, subject to tho laws of Lis own country, remaining horo only for n speciied time, owing our QGovernment no nllegiance, and crowding out white Inbor. Under such circumstances tholr objection is well taken, and s n strong argu- ment for regulating thoir immigration, If the BunriNaaxe treaty stands in tho way, then it should ba so amended as to conform to tho needed loginlation ; if that cannot be done, then it should bo nbrogatod. Asit uow stands, it is an instrumont which allows great privilogea to Ohina for which we do 1ot roceive corrosponding bouefit in return, THE PRESIDENT AND REMOVALS FROM OFFICE. Ilurper's Weekly of the current week finds fault with Tug Cuicaco Tmnunz because of 1ts undorstanding of the President's uclion in tho caso of tho removal of the Collector of Customs nt New York, The Weekly in. sista that when the President makes a ro- moval it is to be assumed that ho does so for sufllclent cause, **but of the validity of those reasons lie, and not the Buuate, ia the judge,” It further ndds; 4'Where dues Tus Cicaco Tnin: autharity of the Senata (o ask the his runsons sither for removing A or for nominat- fug BT For ofcial actjon yood reasons are sumed. 1t fs not to be supposed 1hat tho Prosi- dent would demand of the Senate tholr reasons for rejecting his nomindtions, Ilu yresumes thelr reasons 10 Le satmfactory to thew, and hie ace quierces, 1o I entitled to precisely the same cunslderation. Especially when be bas publicly stated tht, in his judgment, officers should not bo " nded or removed without good ¢ s ko to be supposed to know govd causo when he proposes achange ? That such causcs may 1ot be known to (he Bcnate, or, it known, not admitted to be sut. ficient, is not a reason for roquiriog the President 10 state the grouuds of his action. 7! grounds must satiefy him, not the Senato, aud 1ho new nomination 1s evidence that they do satlafy him and justify action, whother they sallafly the Benate or not. The ‘Penurc-of-Ofice law provides that during any recess of the Honate the Presl- dont is suthorized, in his discretion, to sns- pend auy civil officer appointed by and with the ndvico aud conssntof the Senate (vxcept Judges, ete.,) *until the end of the next session of the Senale,” and to designate some suit- sble porsou to porform the duties of the office, It furthor adds that tho President shall within thirly days after the beginnlog of cach sessiou of the Beuate nominate persons in the place of all officers suspended ; and if tho Benate during such session shall rofuse to adviss snd consent to au sppolut- ment’ln the place of any suspended officor, then'the pemson originally suspended shall be restored to his office. A previous section prov.des that each officer shall hold his office for the term for which he was appointed, “unless sooner removed by aud with the advico and consent of the Sonate.” Iu (his caso of the New York Collector, the Presidont’s power to remove is limited ; the ofticer cannot be removed except the Henate consent thareto directly or by advis- ing and consenting to the appolntment by tho President of acother person, The law, therefors, makes the consent of tho Senato osaential to & removal, and the question of removal being directly presented to that body for its aotion, the Bebate must be pro- sumed to act not merely upon tho assump- tion that the Preaidont is satiefied, but npon such information aa will enable tho Sonators to act intelligently, and not blindly and arbitrarily, on the guestion of romoval. Tha removal of the Colleotor of New York was referred to a Committes of the Benate, and that Commitlee in 1877 reported that tho Colieotor ought not to bo romoved, and the Benate aflirmed that report. At the prosont ression, the same cuestion was roeferred to the same Committee, who in tho prosseu- tion of their inquiriea asked cortain informa- tion of the Tressnry Department and also of the susponded Collector, As the question was directly on the snbject of removal, wo do not considor the Tressury Depariment wont beyond its proper duty in furnishiug tho Commltteo of tho Senate with full infor. mation on that subjeot, 1t is truo thnt the Tenure-of-Offico Aot no longer compnts the Presidunt to furnish hia reasons for suspending an officer, but the law still prohluita the removal of an officor with- out the previous consent of the Benate. ‘The Bennto has jurisdiction over tho ques- fon of #emoval, and hea to determine that question on its merits, aud thorefore, whon requested for information by the official or- gan of the Senate, the Socretary of the "[rensury might, with proper regard for the Erecutive dignity and from consideration of tho good of the publia service, furnish what information ho possossed on the subject. The mistake of Jlarper's Weekly is in assum. ing that tha Preaidont hasthe power to make removals without the consent of tho Bonale, and in assuming tliat tho Sonate hns no anthority over removals, and that its func- tlons are confined to the mero approval or rejection of nominationy, BISMARCK'S “PI0-STIOKING.' It [s rolated that Disvanox, immodiately upon the passage of the Socialist bill, rubbed his hands and with n omckle remarked: * Now for the pig-stickiug.” IIow succoss- ful the Government hax been with the ¢ pig- sticking™ fs told by the Borlin correspond- ent of the London Times, who, ina lotter under dnto of Jan, 8, roviews tho rosulls of the *“sticking” for tho first two months, —that is, from Oct. 21, the dato of the passage of tho law, to Dee. 21, It requires several columns of the London Times to glve tho details, 80 comprohensively and complotely hng the iron hand struck Sooinlism, As the tolograph hias given but a very falut ldon of tho manner in which Dissanox executes a Iaw agninst bis enomiss, somo of the results natod by the 7'¢mes will boar reproducing as part of tho history of a movoment which ia attracting vory goneral attention In this country. P Upon tho very day after tho passngo of tho law the polico commencad tholr work, and had plenty of it to do, ns thoy found that Germany was* falrly worm-oatan with Socinlism, or, to oarry out Bisaanck’s offen. sivo simile, the piga had rooted nll over the Empire. Daring the first month 270 in. tordicts woro issued, involving 800 domi. cllinry visitations, About 185 clubs, 35 nowspapers, and 100 non-porfodical publica. tions woro supprossed. Fifty-four of the clubs, 11 of the nowspapers, and 67 of the other publiontions were Prassian, the re- malnder being moatttored all over Gor- many, Of the clubs, 21 were trades-unions, 55 workingmon's clectloncering soclotios, 86 choral nocloties, + dramatle clubs, 10 workingmon's mutual improvemont soclo- ties, @ nowspaper olubs, and 6 workingmon's mutual aid associations, Of the 21 trades- unions, 15 ware scattered all over Gormany, sud with them woro afilisied the smiths, cabi. net-makers, carpenters, metal-workers, sad- dlers, pottors,glaziers,painters, printers,wood- warkers, tallors, shoomakers, gold and aitver workers, and othor trades, and with them fell wany of their special orgaus, such as Das Paunier, the journal of tho metal-workers in Drunswick, Der Wecker, representing the whoemskers in Gotha, and the Pineer in Hamburg, which was tho contral organ of tho trndes-unions, Among the non.periodical publjeations forbiddon wera tho writings of Lasavre, the * History of tho Parls Com- mune,” by Lissanaaay, and the two Boolallub historion of **'The Teasant War,” by Ixnee nud Exorts, Beveral large printing houses in Berlin nud other oities were forbidden to issuo apy further publicationn, Tress prosecutions wore brskly Instituted, and of the suppressed llar)ln XLrels Press alone soven of its contribufors went to prison, During the second month, Nov. 22 to Dec. 23, the ‘‘pig-sticking” was kept up, though of courso the viotlms were not so numerous, The ban was proclaimed agulnst foreign newspapers of Hoclalistic tendoncles, and nmong those which were forbldden to entor Qermnuy wera Dis Tagwackt, the organ of tho Bwisa Social Democrats; Dis Neue Gesellschaft, a journal supported by the contributors to the suppressed Cerman paper, Dis Zukunft; Le Tocsin, & poper pub- lished In the intorests of tho Russian revo- Intioniats; S Mirabeau, an organ of the Intoruntional; the Atant Gards, whose praises of king-killing gave rise to the dip- lomatio negotiations botwesn the Swiss and German Goverumonts; INe Laterne, n pa- por after tho manner of Rocurront's Lan- terne ; tho Caleulator on the Eibe, and the Dresdoner Volkseitung. Three photographio groups, the first representing tho twelve So- cial Domocrats roturuod to the Rolehstag in 1877; the second, the Bocinlist Deputies re. turned in 18783 and ths third, the female Ltusslan’ Boclalists who were eoucerned in the agitation of 1877, wore supprossel. The shopkeopers waro forbidden to scll tho piclures of Illoknxu and Nopriwig, the assassius, and their life-size models in the Pauopticon were destroyed. ‘The work went ou so thoroughly that one book, ‘‘'The Quintessence of Boolalium,” by Dr. Bomaxr- yrr, was destroyed befora the police roulized ita meaning and found that 1t was adverse to Boclalism, During the two months there were 875 in. junctions sapplied to 174 clubs and societies, 44 newspapers, and 157 non-periodical pub- licatlons. The greatest alaughter was in Saxony, as the headquarters of Socialism are st Leipsic, Tho least prosoription was in the Catholic Btates. In Bavaria, which is al- most entiroly Catholio, It was very small, and the fow Boclulistio agitators were almost invariably of Bwiss or French birtb. Itis the most hopoful sign for the ultimate suc- cess of BlaManox's repressive measures that the mass of the German peoplo express no hostility to the *¢ pig-sticking,” and belleve that at the nuxt election not a sivgle Social- iat will be roturned to the Parliameat, Thosa who aro the most anxious for the welfare of thelr country approve of the policy, and those who huve thought emough to foreses tho rulnous results of Socialium, if it should ever gain the upper hand, are contented to let the woik of * pigaticking™ go on, asit inanrea them tho enjoyment of thei individ- unl rights and their acéumnlations of prop- erty. P Ta the Editor of The Tribune, Orrawa, 1., Jah. 50.—1f Cnpt, Cownrx's plan for controiting the waters of the Missiasinp! ean he mada eifective Jtholeven ayatem shonld not be even thonuht of. V&u liave offen nrged as an abjention 10 tho Iafter that ita eficct Ia to rairo tha bed of the stronm and neceaeitate higiiet and still higaer om- hankmenta, [ut how fs it tiat confining the stream ntite mouth, as Capt. Kapais doinw, doevens (he channel, If fo coniing the river withi its banks, nxnl Vickatmeg, will make it more ahallaw? nd 1a It not nronabie thnt (he whole yakt current of wiater In eesrnilal to preservo A channel of any navigabie aort inta the Unlf? Ie it enfo to ' fool ™ with the river? [ shiould be giad of & httie more 1light vn the malter. Yours teniy, L1 'he Misslsslppl River discharges into tho Gulf by numerous outletr, Capt. Eaps Is making his Jetty *experhnent on the * South Pasa,”—a comparatively small outlst. His jetty docs not redtice the outflow of whter; on tha contrary, ho claims that it will vold more water than o Pass did Leforo he put In his willow work, 'The fettles, as we understand them, do not but siightly reduce the former width of the South Pass at {8 narrowest parts, but they tend to deunen the channel, and hence allow moro water 1o ctcape Into the Gulf by thut outlotthan proviously, Tho outflow be- fora the jeitius wera put fn could not oxceed the quantity of water that ran through the Pass at its harrowest or [ts shallowest parts, and as more water fs now clalmed to be flowing botween the jotties than in the old channol they are no obstruction. The jottles make artificlal paraliel walls ncross the outlet bars whera the Pass was wide nnd shallow, and by confining the water to this comparatively narrow channel 1t naturally runs in a scronger current and cuts away the crest of the Lar, and theraby deepens the chantel. Capt. BADS® thie- ory ls, that the faster the water flows the less mud or sediment I8 dropped on the bottom. Where the river widens out the flow becomes nuturally slower, and the sediment drops, there- by creating bars nud shallows, At low water tho present outlets of the Missiasippl are suf- clent to discharro Its waters without submerg- ing the vlantations; but the diffeulty 18 to re- strain tho river at lilgh water from breaking tho levees and overflowing the plantations. Capt, Cowpxx contends that if a ncw outlet wore opened belosr New Orleans o few miles, Into Lako Borano, it would carry off a lurga part of the surplus ood-water by giving it a short cxlt Into the Guif. At high watee the surface of the river at Now Orleans is perhaps twenty- five to thirty feet above the surface of the Guif. The distance fruin the river to Lake Borgne fs but five or aix miles. Buppose parallel em- Lankments a mile apast wera thrown up ot the proposed * Lowpezx outlet” to keep tho water from overflowing the npeighboring plantations, our correspondent must percelve that a heavy volume of water would flow through there into the Gulf, as there would be a fall of twenty-five or moro feet in & distance of only half 8 duzen miles. ‘Lhis new outlet would noccasarily creale a more rapid cutrent from Vickabure down, widd thereby lower the frestiet level of the river and roliovs the prossure on the levees. ‘There would atiil ba .a superabundance of wator flowing through the passes. \Whoo the river subsided to its ordinary stsgo the outflow at the * Cownnx Paes? into Lake Borzne would of couras bo propurtlonatly reduced, as Is the case now at the Bonuet Curre Cravasse above New Orleans. The reason the mausging men down in Loulsfana do not favor tho outlet plan Is be- votsa it doesn’t cost cnough money; it is too cheap; 1t affords no prospects of profits fof contractors, go-betweens, and speculators, ‘There Is an essential difference hetwoon the ox- pense of cutting through an embankment to lot the surplus freshet-water run into the sea by & short cut and buflding thousauds ol miles of stupendous mud walis to confine the mighty spring floods of the Fathier of Rivers within an artifictal channel from Cairo to the Gulf, Tho spocuintors insist on the method of plantativn protection thut will dsburse tie tmost money. e —— e+ In the Fenruary number. of Appletona® Journal thero {s a fiuc articlc by Mr. ArrLeToN Monaax ontltled “The Shakapearcan Myth,'? in which no points out somo of the objections to thu bo- Net that WiiLiam SmaRareAre srote the works thnt bave borne his name for 300. yenrs. Mr. Monoay travels over sone of the saino ground that Judge HoLaxs does in argulng the samtyquestion, oxcept that hie does not tryto prova that those famous plays wers written by Lord Bacox. Ho contents himself with pro- duclng evidence which goes to establish the fact, as he thinks, thut Biaksrzanz could not have wrltton them. Jlo thinks Lord Bacow tnay have produced somo of them; that Bir Warren RaLE1Gu may have been the author of others; that posaibly both, and possibly nelther, had a hand in it, but “‘whoover did, the statement thut WiLLaM Buaxsrrans did not, talffies with all tho interpal evi- dence of the plays themselves.” Those who wish tu find the entl-SiakssraruAN theory briofly and solidiy atated will do well to read tho compact and Jucld argument of Mr, Mon- AN, **Lot any ono Lry to concelve," says the writer, “of the busy mansger of a theatre, who succcedod by vigilance, exact accounting, busl- pess sagacity, und prudence, In securing aud saving not only a competency, but s falr for- tunc; in the meantime,—while enzaged In this engrossmont of business,—writlng Jfsalella's magnificent sppeal to the Duke's deputy, Anqe'o, or Candinal Wolsey's tnst sotfloquy! Or conceive ol the man who gave the wife of his youth an old bedstead, snd sued a nelghber for corn de- livercd, penning Anlony's otution above Cresar, or the sollloquy of Macbeth debating the mur- der of Duncan, the invocation to slecp In *King Ilenry 1V, or e speech of Irospero, or the myriad swoet, or noble, or tender passages that nothing but a human heart could utter! Lot lim try to conceiva this, nud his cyce will opeu to the abaurdity of the belief that thess 1lnca were written by the lesscu and joint man- sizor of o theatre, and ho will bo satiafled fo his own mind that no such phenomenon 1s reason- able, probable, or safe to have prescated Itsell?? After using his iconoclastic clup in this way to break our Idol fato very smull pleces, Mr. AloR. A consoles us with tha reflection that theso wrand works are sitll the rich logscy of man- kind; that, o natter about the suthorship, we stlil have “that great book whose nfinite vae riety for threo centurics has beeo, and, untll tima shall disappear, shiall be, cioss to the hearts of overy sgo und cycle of men—housshald words foreyer and ever!” e —— e A scrious thlllon that has been well die- cussed §n tho columus of our gastronotnical con- temporary, the New York World, concurns the customnary dlot of that noble animal, Lhe canyas- back duck. It hina been supposed that the deile cute favor ot this “estcomed” bird t4 due to the wild celery which i eatsIn large quantitivs, Bul the World says this {s not so, uud prints & letter from & good suthority, Mr, JouyN Butu- EHLAND, to prove thalit is not so. Ho tust!- Ocs that whid celery I8 pungent und rank; that it docs not grow at all fo the fecding-ground uf the cauvas-back; und that, i it did, a ton of 1t would ot favor a sloglo duck. ‘The vallsueria is the plant on which the duck chiefly feeds, 1t 1s coverod with small fnsects sod crustacea, which make the cauvas-backs fut, but do not “ilavor” them, any mure than other poculiar food fiavors tho auimals that cat ft. In this connection Mr. BUTUEULAND tells an excwllent atory, which is our justideation for refersing so st length to his argument about the fl-lor of the canvasduck. ‘I remember well,! he writes, ““laughing at Mr. Evanrs’ story ol the Massachusetts mau who fusisted that bis tame ducks were as well flavored ss canvas-backs, or would be i they would only cat celery, ‘but, dumn 'em,” be would say, ‘thoy won't at wel- ery"; vor will wila ducks est wiid culery.’™ ————— In the courso of his testimony before tha Congresslonal Committes Mr. Vocky made one statoment that requires peremptory, contra- dlction, us it s utterly untrue. He was relativg the conversation that took place ia Apiil, 1874, between Judge BLoboxrt, A. C. Hmeing, aud himscl! fu regard to the value of the sfaals- Zeitung stock, YockE sald: ‘When the Judge bad been informed whayIdid bold sgaloet Ar. Hzsixu, be saked the question wlsttie stuck was wortly 1sald I was d stoek- . _plek the ezge out of the grouna in it bo wight subailt or resigu. Uy b4 holder myrelf, And I to: Do, Hecanes JCwat, Daying ekl !mm‘.‘:;" "ory 178t once broke in Anon Uhat, ana aetd e i value of that mock denended entirely a gt it 06 sxement ot the Directara; that thay’ gy, D20 Ahe ntocke very valuunle, ‘and cont deay 0 ‘every cent of value. 1€ Any man Aol purt ol #et 1nto the papet whom the Ditectnra g oot =1 nm.at present in thet wnforiunare conqe, % they eould freéze him out v (he proser 0.~ #ald Tits Tnuxe bad shortly hefore. pesct b voting to the officers largo. malatice:. (he by Zeitung] ecampany was & closo corpormia 17 PN A B R rbed and re Siare no dividends at ail, 0 rinCed i g The mauagers of Tns Trinvy, “shortly betore" nor at any time ¢ officers large salarics,” That cou; heen pursued in Titk TRinuxe ofiice. A . No holder of Tns TRIAUNK was over “lrnun‘::m‘; or had his dividends diminirhed by Jarge :;1 arica, Mr. Vocke hins got things mized In m; mind, and has confounded the management of Tun Tabuxe with that of some other ey paper; or, Il he rolutes what HzsiNg satd, ghe, the latter was wholly mistnfotmed, and hbon: under erroncous linpressions, % - e— To the Editor of TAe Tribuns Tuma, fl., 1870 January 1Rth, '.'\'bo':x |f:!m"' “36‘&"' ;;ll:‘lmf:d. fbronsh: -hpwm‘ made i:'.': A onn doath, Thin commiencings ek T3k Afler by 0 the snbw, the heautifulenow! Filling the dk % :’3' ;'::' :tu.'nln?ffii?.':’l‘f-fe'l?}f oy on calles the st poem & promisad, to ing 1 ofteadr in your pesga i 100k that timy two coples of Your paper: bty tiem T rent to. Germany, tho, oher ons ] kenctl afriend wanted, to have it. Now, 1 woul] pl.;k" tiave tivo coples more of thin mine poem." Ll would pleass me, If you wonld send o coplerss yoar newepipet (never mind how ol tne n°' containing this poeni many peopls hoto sre sy foue, 1o rean thin renawned oem aud 1 2k maybe bring a chaneo for custon to saur papee, " s GEnxAN SuBscingy, ‘We regret to say that we cannot comply with the request of our excellent subscriber, Ty poem to whichhe refers wasno douht mngy admired fnits time, but hasbheen forgottey since. Few persans now Hving have evce beary of it, andthose old subscribers who remember do uot know how to lay thelr hunda ony, Many persons, to our knowledge, would like 1y Jny henda on it, and on the authorof it teg, it such n thing were noesible. ® had gy voted to ghe TA¢ has nerey B T ——— Wintian 1. McCanory, Esq, of Miyh. tippl, a very chivalrie charactor, and formeriy editor of the Vicksburg fera'd, has written 19 the New York Jlera'd o atrong letter disputing Its statoment that Jerrenson Davis! letter og “The Right of Instruetion was nlmed at fep. ator Lasan. Col. McCARDLE—Wa presumehy is = Coloncl—saya that DAvis hasalways friended Lastan, and that Lastan luves Dasyy, and DAvis loves Laxan, and everythogfy lovely bstween them. At whom, then, my Davia' letter ohinedi’ Tlers scems to barg been no sufficlont provoeatlon for a blak carteldge from *the melancholy isolatlon® of the ex-statesman of Miaslssippl."* e — A number of ablo critics in Enpland are now canvassing seriously tha question whether By. nox dld not tistake his vocatlon in writieg pootry Instead of proso. One enthusimtie writer, actuslly carried oft his fect by s food of cmotlon, declarcs that If Bynox had takes to prose he might have become a novelist of the IieNry Fraupixg school. Great as any one's sdmiration for FImLbiNag moy be, it herer scemed likely before that his fame wonld b placed above Bruoxn’s by sn intelligent man, There 1s, bowevor, judiclous criticlsm fn the statement of the same writer that Briox nerer discovercd untll he had written “*Beppo™ that bo could be o humorist, and ** Don Jusa* wu the reault of hils discovory: e eem— e King Usnoento L., of Italy, must have smiled when ho read the following scntence io thr Popo’s new encyelical: * The majesty and rule of Kings, that should be respected, hin met such an {ll-will on the part ot o sedition multitude, that criminal traltors, olng loow from all restralnt, havo souzht by impfoas ale tacks to assassinate the rulers of inany States” ‘This 18 an olive-branch to (ermany also. Bab further on wolearn that Republivs only ars une falthful: DBy a new godlesancss, unknoa oven among pagans, Republies furm themselve, taking no account of Qob or of the onder s set.” ST R The Clocinnati Commicrelal has stirred up i wrrsth of many clergymen by its recond of “ D'renchers’ Pranks " for 1878, which extendsl ever several columns, and gave a chronologiod record of ali the tlerienl misdeeds thst could raked und seraped from the nowspapere. T editor of one rellelous mawspapor Inquirel: “Why not acolumn of *Lawyers' Pranks'cr +Doctors’ Pranks,’ or ‘ Fditors® Praoks' ' To this Mr. flatsTeAD respouded by offeringto print a similar record for any or all these cluses it anyhody would furnish it. st ‘The phrase ** of the people, by the people, ot tha people,” was first usod in substance by Dy 181 WansTER 1 bis sccond speech on Foors'd Revolution, 1t scems probable that both Tnzo- pone Pansanand FPrestdent Liscorx lothd? usoof the plirase were gulded by an uncoptclott memory. Mr, Wxnseai's words weres ity sir, tho people's Constitutlon, the people's Gore ernmont, tade for tne people, mado by the pee ple, und ausworable to the people.” - s s B 1t seems to mo that it [s due to the whots? not to barrow up hits feellngs in regard tothis matter in his preseut state o health," sald 3t LApuAx Thursday, and so the qucstiooing d Mr, Vocks was turned in_snother directiot But the croditors of the Germonfa Insursice Company will want to know moro about k¢ falp of the §5,000 deposited fn GingeNERATN DBank, —— BTANLEY'S new expodition to the Interor of Africa ls supposed to bo for rommerds! pete poses. 1o goes literally to mako ** the nigeet show thelr tvories; perlinns alao to cscaps bl Interviewsd by the Heraid ruporiors, whoss & rors be fully knows. e has alreauy stariel Zanaibar, The Graphic suggests that his escadd from the fover thls tlmo is hardly possible. e ———— The Bt. Louls Republican mounts s high mon! horae, and says the Democrats wure grest J not to get access to the clpher alspotehes, 1084 Republicans did, when they wero (b Beolot Montox's possession, What would the ead crats have dovo if they bad bag “access"! ————— Eptson's work on instruments for musl* {ng sound is an instance of misdirceted gen ‘The commuulty wants an fnstruwent to b sonud, A maching that should prevail ssit8 wcrying baby or sn Oblo orator would put it sutbor on the highest pinnacle of fame. o ———— The rufiied shirt, awallow tall, stik stockl® and especlally tho kid-glove politiclaus of .\It' York defend the Roveous Undervaluation Bt of thatelty, Theyallhavea commercial folef est in making Now York the sole port of #3847 1o this country. —— ‘The Princess Loutsa has scon Nisgsr "fl the American shore, and sha wanta to £ b2 Tt fs reported that shewill svon mnakes PS longed vislt to her Royal maunna, louvitg Lusband forlorn {n dismal Jittle Ottavs e — Prof. PACKABD says the way to esterulit grasshoppers is to bave womien sud ‘fvfl”" What docs tha Dress-Dafor Lesgue 7 that? ————— Nothiog (s sald In the O vernment nw“,:: Krasshoppars about the coudltion of e el siuce the mummoth free uch cxcursin terod that once green and smiilog countrs: et MaoManow by this time k. ows thst 0‘:1*4 BETTA cheated him. The Presideut W3t compelled to do both, —————— Mr, Pansw Gobwix 15 agala the C‘"L“"(M bead of the Now York Pest, which 8xcous 1ts bracivg toue of late. e Dr. Joux Loun's new lulm—ne‘ul‘i‘m“ 18 10 say, than the OId Bay Psal Boax; [y ducing a senuine erneation tn Nev Yor o e pagey —“o® OR- e