Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1879, Page 4

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THURSDAY, I'EBRUARY 20, 1879, Sonator Crannien, of Michignn will tako hin gont in the Hounto Chamber at Washing- ton on Saturday of this week, Matorinl reduotions in tho rates charged nt Chieago for grain fnspeotion have been made liy the Ltailroad” and Warchouso Comunis- sioners, The report that yellow fever has reap- peared in Now Orleans is denied in o state- mont signed by Dr. Cioreis, Gov, Nionorrs, Mnyor Parron, nnd other prominent citi- zons, who sssert that no enses nor denths from yollow fover Liave ocenrred in that city this year, ' The movement for tho taxation of church properly has gained strongth in such a de- greo in Conneeticat that o bill has possed the Housoof tepresentatives providing for tho taxing of all property of educational, re- ligious, and benevolont organizations not ac- tually,in uso for the purposes of such or- ganizations, The Common Council, nt its second bout with the annual appropriations yestorday, fell afoul of tho queslion of vinducts. "There is gearcely an Alderman in the Council but conld if he triod name a fow streots that would bo improved in this way, and it certainly scoms a8 though they wore aul trying to think of ns many streels as possibla to provido for in the ordinanco. ‘Fhiore aro fow waya in which a million of dollars can be made to look slonder nnd emacinted quicker than by this rivalry in tho matter of vinduots, ——ee, Judge Moosr, of the Superior Court, hns rendered another decision on tha subject of divorco practice calculated to dissipate tho erroncous belief that Chicago is n placo where unhappy conples can bo unbitehed . With noatness and dispatech, Ho lays down the rulo that persons Lecoming partics to divorce procoodings in Illinois must first acquire a bona fide residonce in the State and county in which suit is bronght, nnd that a temporary sojourn dces not constitute a resi- donco. The decision is onleuluted to dis- conrage the practico of stopping over " *‘twonty minutes for divorces.” The latekt roport from South Afrien indi. cates that quiet prevails in the region whers the Biliish troops experionced such n dis- astrows reverse. 'Lho nows, howover, indi. cales that tho nutives lnve not yot given up tho bope of pguting in another Dlow that will tcll, if possible, siill moro houvily agaiust their coomies, Thoy arg s0id to be concentrating in Jarge numbors « in the vicinity of ono of tho British strong- holds, aud the supposition i that an sttack m foreo will soon be hazarded, in whieh, whatever way tho tide of bLattle turns, the slaughter will bo terrible, ‘Tlhio Commiltecs who enms to Chicapo to protost agafust ko much odor to the square mile along the lino of the Ilinols & Michi- gan Canal linve roturned to their homes in an improved frame of miud, if thelr expros. sions arv a correct indexof their altered feel. ings. "They discovered from tho statement mado by Olty-Engineer Cresnrovan that the evil thuy snffor undor is the result Jolntly of grout doul of dco and n very ltte water, nud from the assurances givon by Mayor Heari nud other Chicagoans they boenme convinced that thore §s every disposition to mitigato the nuisanca as far as possible, and in the future to guard agaiust ita recurronco, ——— 3r. IL N, Ruet, o member of the Mexican ,excursion party that left Chicago for (he purpuss of ojpening up a prosperous trade with the nelghboring Ropublie, presents his views as to the oullok in an intor- view which we print this morning. HMe hns "womo very positive opinfons, based upon careful observation and inquiry * coucerning the prospect of disposing of our surplus mavnfuctures snd agricuttnral prod- ucts in Mexico with protit to the merchunt, manufucturer, or farmer, and does not Lesie tato to avow his boliof that the vista of pros. purity doos not at present open in the direc- tion of Mexico, The taxpayers won a decisive victory, and the relics of tho County Ring met with o savero defeat, at the meoting of the Bonrd of Cuunty Commissiouers Mondny, That body, by a vote of 10 to 4, adopted tho re. port of tho Committes on Public Buildings v recommonding that the sculptural work in the attia story of the Court-Homse ba dis. . penged with, that the top balustrades bo left off, aud that some ofher modifications, all in the inforest of ccouomy, be made. ‘This action saves the taxpayers 30,000, and dis. penscs with n mass of usoless ornamenta. ton, which would have been atsuch n hight 84 o bo luvisible excopt with a spy-glass, » THE CHICAGO TRIBU TIHURSDAY, FEBRUARY nnd the only objeot of which was to furnieh work for {ha stone.contractor. The other chonges in the plans aro intonded {o re. mova any lack of harmony from a possible diferonca in color hotween tho city and county bLuildings. Thess questions onco nettled, thero i no renson why thoe county's Atructuro cannot Lo comploted, so far na the oxterior {8 concorned, by wintor. Tho Drazilian subsidy atinchment to the Post-Offica Approprintion bill hns geined Atrong headway in the Senate, and from tho various votes taken yestorday it is ovident that the job will receiva n majority of tho votes. Thera is mo lino scparating the two parties on the questfon whother Jonx Roacu's shipbuilding business shall receive Governmeont patronage and bonnty that is donied to any othor manufacturing or industrial entorpriso; Democrats nand Ilopublicans are found in about cqual proportions voling fo donate $3,000,000 of tho paople’s monoy to inerenso tho profits of a steamship line nlrendy said to be profitable, and_alrendy re- coiving a subsidy from the Brazilian Govern. mont. Last yesr the job was killed in the Mouse; this year the circnmatances are more favorablo to its succoss, ns tho lobby hns been unusually industrious, and a large number of votes can be had at rensonable rates which could not be con- trolled befora—tho votes of Ropresontntivoa who never expect to have anothier chauce nt n big subsidy and all that that implies, e —— The struggle began in tho 1louso yester- day which, in a party sense, promises to Lo porhaps the most important of tho session, and the resnlt of which now seems certain to bo to dofeat ono or more important sppro- printion bills, and- thus to necessitate an ex- trn scssion of Congress, It was the caucus programme to move the incorporation n8 o part of the Legislative, Judicinl, and Exccutive Appropriation bill of two strictly political sud partisan mensures, both of which should have been acted wpon sepn- rately, viz: the repeal of the jurors’ Lest-onth provision and of the Election law. 'This method was chosen by the Democratio ma- Jority beeauso by ita application the fate of tho appropriations necessary to carry on important brauches of the Government could be mnde fo rest with tho fufo of these portisan monsures, Gon. GanriELn charged, and trutbfully, too, ns every intelli- gent person knows, that under tho caucus dietation every Democrat was forced into the support of theso political amendments, and that oven the person occupying tho Spenkor's chair for the time being was uMer the snne duress, It was the sballowest and most abgurd of buncombe for Mr. Brack- nury to take up the time of the House to demy or roply to mo obviously corract o statement. The Re- publican minority has sunounced its pro- grammo In opposition to the Democratic cauens plan, which ig that they will by every stratagem known fo parlismentary practico endonvor to defont this baleful attompt to establish what ono of their number so aptly described as a bill to establish * freo fraud in elections.” N6 moro dangerons ploco of partisan legislation has beon undertaken by tho Democrats sinco tho exciting time of the Electorn! contest. Ita purposo is to remove all possibility of defendiug the purity of tho ballot-box at Congreasional elections, to ren- der it fmposeible to preveut or punish fraud and violenco. Tho Domoarnts hardly take tho trouble to deny thnt this i tho ol- Ject of thoropeal of the Election Iaw. They menn to arrange for n revival of the old frauds in Naw York which Uonrace Gneeuny %0 vigorously denounced in his lotter to Sasuen J, Tioen, and they mean to cnrry Californin at the next Congressional election thore, ‘I'his is what the Republican minority have undertalon to rosist. MORE BTATE-SOVEREIGNTY, Tho Democratio Ilouso of Ropresentatives at Washington seems dotermined to so pur- ulyzo the Gonoral Governmont of tha United States that it will Lo in fact whnt that party hiolds it to bo in theory, u mere ngeney, ox- ercisiug such powers as mny bo concedod to it by the sovereign States, and holding such powers only ot the will of such sovercigus, ‘I'he party hns beou pemsistently struggling for four yenrs to destroy the army, to reduce it to o very mengre skeloton, and at the snmo tive to take from the Prosidont the constitutional powers of Commnndor-in. Chief. 'Tho samo party bas undertaken by a claugo fu an approprintion bill to prohibit tho uso of tho army to enforca tho Inws, and to direct wharo troops shall bo quarterod and where they shall uot be, At the present momont tho whols encrgios of ths party are devoted to force tho repeal of tho law of Congress regulating tho eleotion of Rtep- rosentntives in Congress, nnd providing for tho punishment of frauds at such olections, e Dowoceatic parly deolares that its vory existonce dopouds on the repeal of thut luw, nud tho party in Congross thranten to with- hold all approprintions for the Government unloss that Inw bo repealed. The Intest movement to paralyzo the func- tions of the Governmont is to tako from Lho nntional nuthority the taking of the census, and placo that powor in the hands of the Lxecutives of the soveral States. Tho Con. stitution providus: * Nopreacutitlves and divect taxensliall hoappor- toned among? the several States which may be ine cluded within this Union according to thefr nume Lers. « The actual envmeration shalt be mado wiihin three yenrs ufter the first meeting of the Cunzrews of the Unitod States, and within every subsequent term of ot years, du such mauner oy they whall by luw direct,” "Ihe deconninl onumeration of tho popula- ton is a national net, to be performed for untional purposcs, wnde uccessury to nucor. tum the proper distribution of rupresenta- tion in the Natlonal Mouse of Roprosouti- tives, nnd, if necessarf, to npportion direct nationnl tuxos, ‘The States bave no possible power over such an act, which {4 purely and exclusively natloua) . ovory particulur. It is the speelnl duty of Congross to provide that all powers of the United States shiall bo oxerclsed by officors of {he United Btntes, ‘The porformaucs of on ofifcial duty of uccessity implies o renpousibility on the part of - the ofticer to tho awthority for whom the net g performud. Hencs the necessity of United States Marshals to axceuto the process of tho United States Courts, Thero must Lo responsibility on the purt of each Deputy to his principal, oud tho Governord of States caunot bo mnde responsible to the Genernl Govern. went for nots done by them o3 Governoss, ‘Lhis new Conguy L i o part of (ho goneral proposition that the uation ehall sbdicate its wnthority to the. States; that it shall rolin. quish to tho several Govornors tho power aud uuthority to take tho supervision of the whole machiuery for the cunmeration of the population of their respective States, Ouco clothed with this authority, and being iu no wise responsible for its falr, Lonest, or cf. floient exercise, it is within the power of oach Blato Execulive to wako any roturu of population whioh to him may reem expodi- ant, The devolopmenta concorning recont cloctions shiow that State officers, hold- ing olections for Btate offloes, nand cven for Iiepresontatives in Congross, corruptly, wickedly, and frandulently forged and falsified tho regiatry-lists and the poll- books, stufted tho bnllat-wxnn with tiesue- popor ballots, and returned the unames of moro adult mnale citizons as voting at such oleStions than thero wore inhabitants of all kinda in suoh voting disiricts. 'This was not excoptional ; it was genoral whenaver such falsification of récords was necessary to de- font tho olcotion of the persons actunlly vot- ed for by n nnajority of the votors. This wns tho exerciso of autbority by the State machitiery, put in motion by the Excontives of several Btates, and we do mnot think this precadont is of such a charnoter os to warrant any ndditionnl abdication of nation- al authority to the irresponsible Governors of the Blates, If tho Biato authori- ties, for n moro temporary partisan ndvantage, could so far tolerate or procure by perjury and forgery an ennmera- tion of votcrs five times grenter than the truo number, what might not bo the result of an onumeration of the whole population whoen a corresponding falsifieation could doubla the representation of such States in Congress? Representation in Congress is to bo apportioned by population to be as- certained by Inw of Congress. I'he whole country fa divectly interested in having on honest and truthful enumeration, and the country cannot afford to delogato the making of that enumeration to the Excoutivo of any State, particularly aftor tho soandalows ex- Libition tade by several States in the ro- cent olcotions. The circumatances of tho dny, tho frnuds, corruptions, lwiberies, and violenco wo gon- ernlly rosorted to, to grasp political power, all admonish us that this is no time for the nbdication of nntional power or nuthority, nor its transfer to Stato Govornments. The Gov- ernment ia menaced too strongly to yield any of ita defenses. Though the attempt to crush national authority and erect Stato sovereignty in its place by arms hna failed, tho purpose has never been nbandoned, nor lost sight of by its friends. State sover- ciguty ns opposed to national authority is as gnalignont snd persistent a3 ovor it was, It can be deteoted in every movement of the Domoeratio party, and the two latest and most virulent of its schomes Lo paralyze the Nationnl Government is the effort to repont the Inw punishiug fraud in Congressionnl elections, and tho transfor of the constitu. tionnl onumeration of the peoplo from the Tedoral to the State Governments, . - TUE CANADIAN MILITIA. The February number of the new Caua- dinn periedienl, the fose Belford's Western Mugazine, printed at Toronto, contnins * A Dlea for the Militia,” by *‘Cwo Militiamen," which suggests soveral considerations. Tho burden of the articlo is a lament the insuilicienoy of tho Canndian militin in pro- portion to area, and an appen! to the Gov- ornment to tako immedinto steps for its re- orgnnization and ivcrense by adopting ono of ! three systems,—tha old foudal plan of mak- ing tho laud, through its owners, responaible for the forthcoming forca ; the ballot, ng in Donmark; or that of Switzerland, wherein the entiro malo population takes its turn of service, thus minking overy mon a soldior. Contrasting the position of Canada with that of the smallor European Powers, the writors claim that Caunda haos a populstion of 8,727, 000, an aron of 4,480,310 square miles, which, of conrse, includes the 2,500,000 kquare milos of aninlabitable frozen north- orn region whero no roldier 18 ovor needed, while its militia numbor only 43,720,—n smaller nunber in proportion, it is alleged, than the Nutherlands, Switzerland, Swedon, Norway, Denmark, or Greeco. Admilting the corroctness of the figures and tho urgency of tho plen for an incronse of the militia, the only question interesting tho people of this country is the purposo in viow. Whnt does this agitation for the creation of a Inrge slonding sriny mean ? This point ia not clearly brought ount, If this lnrgo army is to be organized as.a local polico force to presorvo tho peaco, if it is ine tended to quell disturbavees like the Gumsonp, Grand Trunk, aud pilgrimago rlots, and to keep Englishmen and French- men, Scotehmen and Irishmen, Orangemon and Catholics from falling foul of each otber on anniversary days aud upon absurd provoeations, it is all rightif they need them, I'his purpose, bowever, is nowhere indiont- ed, and it {4 apparont on the surfnce that tho mere purposo of gondarmeris doos not noed any such incrense s is contomplated, Waiving this suggestion, there ean be but two other purposes which the sdvocates of tho incrcuso have in view, It umy be, though it is a forced assumption, that tho Canudinng (hink the time is not far distant when they will arrive at tho deoision to sover their slight politien] connection with the “ Mother Country,” and that the * BMother Country ™ will rosist tho attempted secession by forco, aa it did in our own case, The thoory of resistonce, howover, is an orroneous ono. 'I'he conncelion betweon Canada and Groat Britain is littlo more than sentimental, T'he * Mothor Country " hns not shown nny dosiro to resist whenover the possibility of indopendunco bins boon thrown out; on the other hand, has quito freely intimated that whonover Canada wants to go she can go in pouce, Sho has withdrawn oll her soldicrs long ago, and luft the militia to tuke caro of things. Thero avo ono or two war vesscly usunlly at Inlifax or some othor port, but thelr presenco hns no signifieance, nordoes the appointmoent of the Princess Lovwss au Viceroyess posscss any other sig- ‘niflonnce than that the Govornmont decmed this the cheapest and most sentimental man. ner of futensifying Caundinn loyalty, while ot the snme time it provided two very idle members of the nobility with something to do. It is nbsurd, therefore, to supposo that when the Onuadinns attempt to cut the very thin thrend which binds them to: Gront Butain, that the lattcr will resist by any other foreo thun that of moral pressure, As the ohjoct of tho incronse, thercforo, can neither b to presurva the pence against domestlo riots nor to fight Great Britain, it follows that it is agituted with dircot rofer- enco: to tho United Btatos, and that the advoeates of the measura think they forcsco that somo time, sooner or later, the United States nud Great Dritain may ¢ lock horns " upon somo disputed subject, wheraupon the former would iuevitably iuvade the Do- minion, occupy its points of vautage, and then aznex ity tervitory, following the uxamplo of Grent Britala ju similar situntions. The most that can bo said of this motive is, that it is fuyny and ridioulous, Tho idea that less than four millions of Canadion peo- plo could resist nearly ifty millions of Amerl- cany successfully is idiotio &8 well as ludi. crous, lowovor gallantly the Canadian militismen might fght, the vast American loglous would evaxwhelm them by sheer weight of numbers. If there wora trouble between tho two conntries to-morrow, nnd all the able-bodied niou in Oanndn woro armed’ and oquipped, tho Presilont would call out million of men and roll them ovar the border, and if that wera not onough another miltion could be hnd, and o on, until all Canada would swarm with Amerionn soldiors, ‘I'ho nrtfalo in quostion calls attention to the resistance which tho Canndinns made to the 1,100 American invadera {n the War of 1412, but it fs not considered that there were no mailroads or mothods of transportation in those days, and that our whole northern region, from Blaino to Miclngan, was nlmost an unbroken foreat, transportation throngh which was slow and exccediugly diffieult. Shonld o war broak out 1 the future, the OCanndiaus wonld be nstonfshied ot tho onse and celerity with which the Amerioan armnies would oross thoir frontiers and rush over their boundaries, "Tho most acusible thing for the Canadian Government to do is to incronse itd militia sufficiontly to provent its turbulent factions from breaking ench other's hends, and trust tho [utura to fate, All organized forca be- yond this auxilinry polico is utterly usoless, —morely a bill of ' cxponse, not noeded in timo of ponce, and impotent In time of war, LEGIBLATIVE BLACKMAILING. The schemers in the Ilinois Legislature will probably receive a sot-back from tho re- sult of the invostigation into the affairs of the Pullman Palace-Car Company. Thnat in- vostigation shows that the proposed arbitrary regulation of rates for sleoping-car berths would bava beon a gross outrage both npon tho corporation chicfly interested and upon the geueral public. Mr. Pornyar throw open his books and the outire business of his Compnny to tho Committes of the Logisla- ture, and proved very clearly that, at the rates now charged, the Company is making only a fair interest on'the henvy ecapital actunlly invested, when sllowanco is made for the great risk actunlly {ncurred by loss from fire, nccidents, railroad etrikes, oto, If tho arbitrary reduction of fares proposed Ly tho Legislature should bo made, it would not morely be n serious blow to an important 1n. terest, but wonld result in an injury to the traveling public, "inasmuch ns the eleeping- car compauies would bo foroed to allow their atock to doteriorate. But whilo it is prabable that the investiga. tion into tho Lusiuoss of the Pullman Com. pany will provent the passage of the pro- posed bill, similar schomes with a quostion- nblo purposo aro in'daily process of introduc. fion in the Illinois Legislature. Tho bill introduced into the Sounte on Tuesday to muke it unlawful for horse-railway com- panies in citivs of over $0,000 inkabitants to chargo moro than threo conts fare por ride, is ono of thoso suspicions schomes, Wo shall not disouss the merits of a reduction in streot-railway faves, for we have not tho data which warrants a judgmont in the matter, 'Tho point is, that no one hns the remotest idun that any such schemo will bo brought to maturity, In the meantime, it will cost cor- tain street-railway companios Inrge sums of monoy to placato tho rage for reduction that consumes the brensts of cortain membors. It "will probably be nocossary for the oficers of the companies to *“sce” the reduction mem- bors or to undorgo a legislativo inspection as Mr, Purniman bas done to couvince tho averago mombers of the Legislaturo that snch o Dill .would be & gross injustico to thoso who have their capital in- vested in theso enitcprises. If they should bo forced into specinl contributions ns n menus of proventing the proposod legislation, then the expeusu to the companies would be muol larger, In either case, howover, the ontluy would bo coutribnted eventually by the people who use tha streel-cavs, if not in incrensed faro, thon .in submitting to vory inforior nccommodations. A stwilar bill is pending to blackmail the gas companios, amounting to n notico to thoso concerns that they must send a lobby to Springficld to take caro of their own in- torests in tho way that shall appenr to thom to bo wost expeditiows and effactive. Thero aro indications that o similar movewont to “atrike” Lho foraign insu-auce compauies doing businoss within thoe Stato will be mndo, with the ostonsibile purposo of discriminating against such companies in faver of the home concerns, . It 3 of no momont to the porsons who originato such schomes that such diserim- ination woulil reault eithor in the withdrawal of mnvy of the snfost insurance companies wo havo, or & goneral incronse of rates of which the homa companies would be the beneflclarios and the public the sutforars, ‘I'his invvitablo ofect of discrimiuntive legs- Intion is uot, however, the real purposs in view ; it is simply designed that the fnsur- auco companies threatened with hostile legis- Intion shall sond their ngonts down to Spring. fleld to * disenss” the matter in tho Jobby with certnin members, 'L'he sooner all these tquestionable legistativo projects can be squelehed, tho better it will be for the repu. tatiou of the Iihnols Legislature nud for tho intorests of the general publie, Some new light has Leen thrown on the mophitic conditions of the eanal by tho fn- vostigations of Mr. Onavran ITiors, who cominnuioated the results thoreof in a lutter to e Tminuse yestorday, 'Uhoro has boen an uninterryptod outery against Chicago all tho way from Lockport to Peorla, on the theory that tho Chicago wewers aro responsi- Llo for the trouble, Mr, 1lioks, on the con- trary, hias traced (ho matter to o vory diffor- ont enuse, Lho Canal Cow'missioners seom to think that the chief end of the caual is not navigation, but to ollow Nouron & Co, to run mills at Lookport. A a result of this ugo of caunl-water for milling purposes, the ice at Lockport has incressed to over two feot u thickness. Tho way in which this has beon brought about, and the ¢ffuct on tho canal, s vory clearly describod in tho following paragraph from M, Hrcxs' lottors **In my last communication 1 aald that thero was not eix inches of fes in that canal this winter, but on my vieting Lockpurt on the 8th I found that was only partially trie, On the date of the publiction of that assortlon thero was no ice at ull on the snnuait, whilo at Brideoport 1t was less thian alx luctica, but 1 found over twu fout of feo at Lockport. Now, the caudo of that was tho raising and lowering of tho water to accommeadate NontoN & Ca, The large amount of water uceded to run their milte during tho day luwered the feo down during tho cold days, and at night the water would wlso and ovurilow tha fee, and thero congeal during the nlzht. On the Bth at poon the surfaco of tho lco was dropped two feet below the water-ling, where there was then two foot of dce. That was four fout duptl kono off the top, apd they admic that thera {s avout three feot of nud at the bot- tom., 'Fhut 1akea soven foet off the elght und a half fees (tho depith of tho cunal), leaving elghteen inchies for tho flaw of wator to bu tested this week by the cxports, The public may anticipate the roe wulte.” I'his statement of the case, which is uu. doubtedly the oorveot one, should rolisve Cliengo from tho blamo that hus been put upon this city, and eave us from tho fulure hinprocations of the cities and towns along the line of tho canal and river. DBut it should also assist in providing tho propor 20, 1879—~TWELVE PAGE remedy sgainst the obstinotion of the water- flow nnd the consoquont bad amells. What clalm have Nontox & Co, upen this publle water-way, nud what atops are nocessary to tnko from them the privilegn of practically exhnusting the current in winter? These are questions for the Canal Cotnmissioners to anawer, and tholr answer shonld bo pre- liminary to the proper offort for the preven. tion of futuro obstruotion of tho water.-flow in tho samo maunor, A NEW J0B BEFORE CONORESS. Public attontion was drawn by a Washing- ton dispateh in Tire Tninuse of Inat Monday to the faot thnt Gen, Baxke {s dovoting his Inal days in Congross to tho support of n mensiire ontitled, ** A bill to protect life and property, and to provent aceidants nnd delays of nila on railrontls and atennbonts oporated by steam.power within the jurisdiction of the Unitad States of Amerien.” This il is in general torms, and requlres railronds and stenmbonts to ndopt, and put into actual and oontinnous use, such inventions and im- provemonts as shall contribute to the com- fort, sccurity, nnd snfoty of pnasongors, and provont delay in tho transmission of mails aa woll na contribute to thoir safe trans. portation, It also provides for fivo Com- missionors (to be paid §£10,000 oach by the QGovernment), threo on the part of the Gov- ernmont and two on the part of the com- panies, who shnll bo vested with full powor to dotormine what iuventions aud improve- ments shall be used. This bill a suspicions on ita faco, and, it passod, would furnish an opportunity for nulimited Llackmail, oxtortion, aud injustice, But wo print a lotter in anothor column whioh, if it correctly stutes the oase, shows the bill to e o deliberate job, conesived and enginoered by n Ponnsylvanin corporation known as *“‘The Cousolidated Iire-Extin- guishor Company,” and designed to put millions of dollars into the pockets of tho poople interested by meansof Governmont coercion. According to the information con voyod in the lotter to which we refer, this Company is the outgrowth of a fraud prac- ticed by Congress, which was persunded by lobbyists to pass a bill nominally for the relief of tho heirs of one Winriast A, Granase,a Vir- ginian, but really granting a paton$ and mo- nopoly on tho ugo of earbouio acid In water iu portable machines (whioh is the basis of the chemical fire-extinguishers), notwith- standing tho application for such patent had Loen ropentedly rejected. It is now chargod that this Ponnsylvanin corporation is at the Lottom of Gen. Baxgs’ bill, aod that all the necessary preparations have been mado for the control of tho proposed Commission, and for thus, forcing * consolidated fire-oxtin- guishora " upon all tho railronds and stoam. boats operated in this country, This chinrgo involves o serious and ropro- honsible scheme, If it is truo (and the bill introduced by Gon. Banks certainly crentes a suspleion of special interost), then tho re~ sult would be o gigantic blackmailing opora. tion, which would extort millions of dollars from railroad and steamboat compnnies un- der Govornment sanction, and to euable which the Government itself would contrib- ute from $100,000 to $200,000 a year in sal. arios and expenses, A suspicion of such an origin of the bill should ba sufficiont to se. cure its defeat, sinco the bill hLns not merity of its own apart froih any private job that may be incident to it to warrant its pnssage. ‘I'ho railroad and stenmbonts companies are held to very strict account for loss of lifo and bodily ivjury resulting from ncoidents, Juries are universally inclinod to award heavy damngps for all losses nud injurics for which such companies are responsible, The railrond and steambont managers are natu- rally disposed, thorefore, to adopt all mens- ures of protection which have real morit without any compulsion, A law of Congross, and the coutrol of a pormaneunt Govornment Commission by some ono corporation or combination of corpdrations, would simply rosult in forcing cortnin dovices upon rail- ronds and steamboats without regard to werit, and at tho extortionate prices which a monopoly always produces, Tho biil should bo rejected, and we kopo thnt the attention we now direct to it may contributo trtla reml, ——— THE DEATH OF DISHOP FOLEY, Tho death of Bishop Forey, carlyon Wednes- day moruiog, was as uncxpected us it was regretted by the people of this elty, of ull closses and of all religlous denominations, No prelato of any Churet was more osteemed than he was, and uo one ever excrelsed a more rentle, but at tho same time widely extended, influcncy than ho did in the futorest of publie ordor, the elevation of public and private morality, and tho tem- poral and spirltual advsncement of soctety, A rlpe scholur, & man of *varied personal secom- plishinents, and a gentleman of asrceable vresence umd speeehy he was omlnently calea- luted to adorn the nigh oftics he held, and fn which ho was recognized Ly both clergy und luity with such confidence und respect. * Outside of the muembers of bls own Church ho was ns universally esteemed us vy those of bis own communfon. 1t was, however, in his own Church that his many qualitles, per- sonal uwd ofllelal, wero best known and under- stood, and best appreciated, In the varlous charitable orders, to whom he was both father aud friend, und with which he bhad adorned his Diocese, the innate benevolence of the man was most widely felt, und thero his death will be decply Jamented. o wus u man of great dig- nity, one who maintulned the elevated character of his othice, and, while & moat earuest und zeal- ous priost, ho was at the sutme thne a most tal- eront and Hberal Christiau. Never yleldiug in bis own convictions amd teachings, he never wuntonly or intentionnlly wonuded the feellugs of thuso who ditd not agres with bim, 1fo was unostentatious to a fault; ho avoided all parade und publicity, and never, we belleve, soucht o uewspaper to make publication of any kind un any subjeet. In Balthnore, where he was born and educated, ‘und where he spont tienty-five years of his miniatry, his death will be learned by all classeawith as much gricfas here fn his own dio- cese, A veuerablo wother, whose lfe-long affectlons wers bouud up in him, waits with stricken und incousolable heart the return to his old home of all thut rematns of her beloved son, while Khudred und friends sbare fn that seriet which knows no llinit, —— ‘The Palt Mall Gazetta {s sticred up on the sub. Ject of the proposed abrogation of the fishery clnuses of the Treaty of Washinpton, on motlon of the United States Government, 1€ there is onu thing cooler and more fwpudont than the actlon of Canada and Groat Brituin fn Justifylng the Halifux rohbery it s their objection to the abrozatlos of the treaty, Having choated the United States out of §3,500,000 by u confldonce- Rawe, they somehow uceuso us of not, wanting to play any longer on that basis, Thoy admit that he present arrangemon is ** unworkable, and yet wonder that {t s so. Thoy rake In over 85,500,000, for which they have given no con« slderation, und say it {s surprising that we shouldu't waut mors of these “*advantages,’ ———— The Schleswlz question, pure and simple, 18 one of thoso puzzles * no fellow can flnd out.” ‘fhe latest dovetopment of it, however, which has been wmado the subjuct of negutfation be- tween Austrls and Gonosuy, Is clear, After tho closa of the Bchloswlg-lotstein war, Prus- ola aud Aystria apuropristod a large slice of Northern Bchloawig, which fs almost entirely Dantah, with the undersandiog that at some day it would be given back. After the war between Prussia and Austrls, the Treaty of Praguo excluded Austria from Germany alto- gather, though the fifth artlcle of the treaty Rave Austria the right to entores the artiele stipulating that the northern districts of Schies- wig, In the evont of thelr (nhabitants by a plebiscita voting for nnion with Denmark, should be ceded to that country, Bince that ttme the North and South Germany of that treaty havo boen united in the Gorman Emplre, and the whole policy of Auatria has bean ta cul- Uvate friendly and even Intimate relations with Qermany, This policy las been so successful that when Bissanck recently desired Austria to renoance that riaht, In consequence of Den- mark's growing uncasiness and complaints about North Schloawig, she did so fmmedlately, thus leaving Bismanck free to deal with Den. mark alone and with no fear of an Austrian complication.” ‘The strip of territory Is -of no partienlar consequence to Germany, but Bis MARCK evidently Is unwilling to give It back un- Jess he can mako somothing by the operation. [t has lately been intimated that he s pob unwill- Ing that tho Duka of Cumberlund, the Hanove- rlan successor, who recently married the Danlsh P'rincess Tivna, shall 2a in and occupy it if ho will reounco his claim to the Hanoverian throno. As Roval claimants, however, ara usu- ally ready to renounco everything olse but their 1ien upon a throue, there {a litt!s proapect that Jthe Duke and the Chancellor will cometo torma, —— Mr. Gronor WitLiax Curmis, fn the Easy Chalr of the last Jarper's, writcs most cutting- iy—us he can write, when he chooscs—of Beacoxsriznn's artificlality and extravagance in his Houso of Lords speech on the death of the Princess Auice. Ho had describod the manuer in which the poor mother received * the kiss of death,” and there he should have stopped. But *“in the true JENRINS veln, ho must needs paint the Iy, *My Lords,’ quoth the Premier, *I bardly know an incident more pathetic. It Is one by swnich posts might be in. spired, and In which the professors of the fine arts, from the highest to the lowest branches, whether in palnting, sculpture, or gems, might bo insplred.! *'It 18 incredible,” adds the Easy Chalr, ““but it is true, Lord BEACONSFIELD sald it. ‘Chat fresh and heart-touching sorrow pre- sented {tsolf to his mind os worthy to be cut in shell, and perpctuated in camco, mounted properly, of course, In frosted gold of a unique Assyrian pattern, and worn ns a brooch on tho bosom of the Empress-Queen.'? The nomination of TArT for Governor of Ohlo seems to be declded on by a large wing of the party; -aud they would ltke to have Chanues Foster nominated for Licutenant-Governor, It is dyubtful, howover, whetlier Mr. Fosten -would consent to take the sccond placo, proban- bly thinklug that his qualifications for tho firat placo are as high ns Tarr's. The reason why ‘TAPT I8 particularly urged is that he is strong in Hamiiton County, and & man who can carry Hamiiton County has n good start {n the race. Tarr would also got a large vote in the West- era Reserve, ————— Minister Wetsi overlooked one great fact when ho wrota that lecter asking for an increase of snlury: 1If the salary had been larger he would not have recelved the oflice. His chiel recommendation was that ho bad a private for- tuue, and could bear the expenss of * keeplng up the dipnity of the office.” Aside from his supposed wlllingoess to spond $60,000 a year or 80 for “ flam,” thero were thousands of better men fn the country for the offiee, and hu would not have been thought of. ———— Young Buett, the sharp correspondent wiio hod such a tussle with Zacn CANDLER, {8 mak- ing n brisk cunyass for the office of Sceretary of the Senate. Wo fear his election would cause a new “uupleasantucss,” so to speak, when the sturdy old Senator from Michigan gets back to iis pluco. —— BAn TiLDEN las cleancd and ofted his old machine, aud it it doesn’t grind out the samo resulta in 1880 that {t did in 1878, so far ns the nomination goes, ho will be surprised. The Southern papers have lately begun to call him 4 Mr." TILDEN again, which Is surcly sign of the thines. : e Certaln Illinols legislative junketers passcd Sunday In Bt. Louls at the expcnso of the §fate. Of course they had no business thero; bng,wo can almost forgive them all for the remark of one of them, that he ** would rather be a lamp- post §n Chivazo than Mayor of 8t, Louls.” ——— The averago Southern editor now pores over the lost report ot the New York Elevated Rafl- road Company, and flgures out from the divi- dend actount the enthuslastic nomination of Dircetor 8. J. TiLpEN by the next National Yemoceratie Convention. ——— The Mexican junketors, swho are just home say that this country can't keep an eaterpriaing mas allve. “They have been in a land flowing with mitk and honey and rum, whilo bereeven the free-tap ot the County Iuspital has been close If (naxT and Titnes should bo tha candidates in 1880, & good many poople wil have to take to the woudn, —/udiandpolls News (Ind. ), The wmajority of ’em, however, will take to QraNT, The Nuw Haven Unlon says that Mr. Borcn- ARD, the new Dircctor of the Mint, 18 & **soft- monoy " man, lo s about a8 soft as Joux SnCAMAN, but uot much solter. e e— PERSONALE IL M. [8. Piunforo will donbtless bo ordered to the Afrlcan coaat. Milmors, the Boston sculptor, is making a buat of the Marquis of Lorne, P ‘I'he British Parliament should pass an act restricting the Zulus to fiftecn at s time, ‘I'ho Onoida Community doesn’t appear to harm anybody, and it ia probably fun for them, Logland's opinion of Catywayo is that Shere Ali would have boen a Lotter man in his place. Light travels many thousand imiles in a sccond, yet Edison's electric light secwa a long tlme coming. Iob Ingersoll is proparing a lecture on Job. ‘V'his would sorely try the patience of Jub, If ho were allve, ‘Wo must sond a man with a bigger voice, Tac audicgce could not hear Brot Harte, our Ject. urer to London, The Now York brokers sre struggling to Eet somo of the aama kind of ruln that gierfvdically vvertakea Jay Gould. I'hio vossel which ia bringlog Angell back tothis country {slong overduo, and fexrs are en+ tertained that he ia atolen. What doos Her Majesty's Opera CQompany in the United Staten, when it should be serving s suvereigy In Houth Africa? Au English clorgyman convloted of steal. Ing two paira of gloves miade the defense thal his yrandfathor was a wicked wan, Phe Chineso must go, and not come back until they. can stulf ballot-boxes snd exorclse othier privilegos of the regular voter, Mr, Tilden docs not eaddlo Dlackstone, e doubtles t}al Blackstone fs up to the samo tricke s Wada Hfampton’s mule, Bon Butlor is moking bimself solld with the Solid South, Wo had better pay for the Lost Cauac, principal and juterest,snd have done withit, EH Perking says hooften ruos over to Draokiyn and tatks ap hour or two o the Rov, Mr, Heccher, Wo now kuow whero Parkina lesrned to toll the truth, . Tho Congrossmen who voted for the Chinese bill had 0 to secaring the Irish vote, by reliaving the Lrlshwomen of the compatition of Washoe-Washee, ‘The Rochestor Frzpress says a boy, aftor Learing Wendoll Phillips lecture, asked hig fathers *Pa, why dou't they give hlm an officet Ho georas to know all about overythingl **le‘can wake more lecturlng," sald (h y absents windedly, Thls was tha yaath's first leason fu patriotim. i Death of the Rt.-Rev, h Foley, Bishop of (:hi:j oo \ cago, e He Succumbs to a Tep Days’ |11« ness, Caused by Tvph:i): L Pneumonia, —_— Fatal Progross of the Dy seaso Described by 134 Medica) e Attendants, T he Embalmed Romaing Will State at the Cathedral of tlflu i Holy Name, —_— Funeral Servlees Triday, Aftor the Body i o Taken hmm Baltinore, Blographical Skotoh of the Departey Prelats and Ris Ecoleatas- tioal Oareor, Qux Oatkolio Citivons Dooply Affoctey @t His Demise, BISUOP FOLEY DEAp, The people of Ctleago, Cathollc ang Protest. ant alike, have been deeply concerned durin, tha past wealt about{ tha condition of the mn.': Rev. Bishop Koley, and the annottncement, of his death yesterday morning, while not uney. pected, created & profound scnsation throygp. out the community. The death ol the digj. cufshed prelate was universally deploreq g calamity, and the public sorrow over the loss of 80 worthy a man, stricken down in the prime of uislifeand fn the midst of usefulaesy, wy| extend beyond the Diocese In frhich he has made himeell so well beloved. Blshop Foloy cxpired at his residence, No 278 Oblo street, at 8:45 yesterday morning, flg was not consclous at the very last hour of his carthly life, but ho was previously fully awarg of his approaching eud, and he passed away very peacefully, and seemingly without paln, Around the bedside wero bls two brothers, ong of whom is a pricst fn Baltimore, and Dr. Rior. dan, Chancellor of the Dlocese, with Dr, Mo Mullen, the Vicar-General, On Monday last. the Bishop, divinlng that his Inst hours were approuching, requested Dr, MeMullen to admiulster the fnst rights of th Cburch to um. He recelved Extreme Unetion, partook of the laat sacrament, and then almly awalted the coming of tho messenger who was to relleve him from bis carthly toll. The oaly cxpression of regret hio was heard to utter was o refercnce to his aged mother, to swhom hy felt his death would be s severe afilicilon. Not long Eoforo ha lost consclousness he turned to Dr. MeMullen, the Viear-Genesal, anl sald, * Father, [ appolnt you Adwinlstrator of the Diocese,” and this was hls last official act, which places Dr. MeMullen at the head of the Dioceso until a successor to the late prelate bas been appolated by the Pope IS LAST ILLNESS, From Dr, Frank H. Davis, son of Dr. N. & Davis, one of the oldest und most eminent phye slcinus fn the clty, o reporter obtained detalled Information regarding Bishop Foley's llness und death, and it ta as follows: The Bishop informed Dr. F. II, Davls a weeks 2go last Sunday morning, when be first visited him, that he had returned from Baltmoro the night before, and ho hnd been sufferiug for sere cral weeks from a bad cold, and that he had felt 80 unwell whito in Baltimore that ho had not been outside of his mother’s houso but once, Ho went to attend a fuveral at an old come otery there, in DBultlmore, where some of his rcolalives were burled, and that he never visited that cometery witbout taking cold, and sufteriug from it, becausc of itse belng ap unhealthful place. Although feeling 80 sick, he had made the journcy homo in tho hope of belng able to fultill an fmportant spe polutment on that day—the dedication of &t Antonfus’ Chiurch, He said he bad not suffered very mucti'on the journoy home, and did nob feel very slck, und bo was fn bopes of belng abla to fulfill the appolntinent as he oxpecied. Ho rested comfortaply through Baturday night, bo snid, but on attempting to riso that (Sunday) morning he found himself very falut and weak or, as he expressed it, ““lo felt that it would ba his death to mo out thst day" and he had therefore sent for the Doctor tosee whit ho thought aboutit. On cxamination the Hoc tor found him npparently euifering from symp- toms of a sevore cold, or brouchitls, There was rather more symptoma of prostration thaa couid bo accounted for from the bronehitls, sol the Doctor attributed them to the fatigue of the Journey howe, e preseribed for the patlonty and advised him to remain ot howo and keeo qulet, and not attempt to fI the nppuln(m!fl: tie had made for the day, The Blahup did no ntu‘slm‘ll the aedication services as ho had lne tended, ‘The Doctor saw the Bishop azuln the same Sunday evening, and noted no essential clmzlul'y but If ‘anything' a sllght improvement in : geoeral condition, ‘The same trcntmrnl'i 1 advised. On_ the’ Monday morning fullowiod the Doctor found that ho had rnuucdu:mfl” restless night, but stlll discovered l:nl‘ d';; alarming i lils condition, The evening o e sumc day, howover, he found [n his pa i symptoms of pueumonic {nflanimation mn Sy upper portlon of the right lune, and w“h|fim i creaso ln the fever and o gmcml L S all the symptoms. ‘The Doctor vemt.'n]ll':i,m'. atice that pileumonis in a person of | ’fimm op’a age and tomperament—nhe beipzot {u i —Was necessarily a grave and serfons condifis flo then sent at onca for Ur. [ N. hhnn‘x. b1 concurred with Dr, Davis in his diaiost, B, fu the serious nature of the disesse they T contend with, A course of !mflnum‘l B ugreed upon for stho night, i !olln}vtls A Early the noxt morntng Dr. N. 8, Davis, fathér of the attending pbysiclon, was €0 as additional counsel.” The treatment W it tined with a view (o combnt (he e e everything was dove as e nlm’l’cmnrcomlnuexl In reczulurutiendance upon o four the patient, vislting him fmmn "u'ffc“ u'n“m,, times a day. The discasc ran U 4 course of & somewhat morumfl:;“ln of poenmonia, the _patien it £ FRopt 3 belng wull maintalued, and oy Friday murvos it was apparent the crisls of the "“:l‘“;::o:.r fever had passcd, Jeaviug the Blshop hough 0ok parently fair state for recovery, slth ring tho then consldered free from danger. uun' Threr, same day there Was a relapso or return * chatact the delirium and abdominal symptoms SW0 teristic of o typhoid condion ~iusnifestit i he themselves, 1t was then apparcnt to the n fcul attendanta tlat the paticut muet base bt exposed to the cffects of L norsou at the same tlme that n“.'(lll‘("ul he was contructed, It was EVCEE e two discases had been rullfll(": of tha course together, but that the ul‘ umk the pueuuwionie fvflammation had held “1%»: Sy typhold clement up to that llllll"-ml b e toms contlnued as favorable as ¢ e fnfained peeted under the circuinstances, l. e natursl portions of the junjga reswning | Ir‘mm: s functions, and (he respiration m:: B eesaiyel unlly to its normal condition. A, e abdo- bloated, or tympauitie, condition bF {15 1iie men was Lhe most prominent uml 'fiiflv . com typhold symptoms developed, the e, With sinuin;;, however, sumewhab sl!u.rjm e tint oXceptlon, the case presente L aspect, the pu}au l‘:ml(:! ti:}:,‘:‘i.;::% Tav. ""mxhlu:,' eN) C| n! “’R{-‘I u:bdlfma nal ::{WD‘“““ re - d _througho! feard T callaped wero _ entertalned thut 8 el trotn the gastric or futestinal oL O b ble to resuit from the exireme tens o ' o ure upon the bawels—might ""‘r[‘:xru\‘—' de moment. Monday morniug a 8ubs ogeiber lirium and & return of wnu‘lnusnc]l‘: and teme with & {avorable condition of the PUERC e - perature, led to a booe that & 13y A ddes sudde 1 hemorrhs,