Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1879, Page 4

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Eogsgement Erpasition Building, Laka Bhore, foot of Washington street, Anderson, the Pedestrienne, Msdsme MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1870, == A party of swindlers have been (dstocted in Philadelphia in tho attempt to roalize band- somely on o subsoription for & momorial to the lato Bavanp Tarron.. Thoy found poo- ple quite willing to be plucked upon this protenso, but wore luckily ecxposed and frightened away beforo thoy had made much of o hanl, Brief intorviows with a numbor of the ending wholosale merchants of Chicago nre printed in our columns this morning, the subjoct being the outlook for the spring trado. Almost - uniformly the expressions aro confident in toue, the expeotation baing that a period of incrensed business activity is ot hand, and the prospsots aro set down ns flattering. S— ' Epwanp O'Meacuxs Coxpox, the returned Fonian, whoso liberation from an English prison was largely duo to the efforts of the United States Govornment in his behalf, was Jnst ovening tondered o handsomo recoption ot MoCormick Hnll by the friends of Irish lLiborty dn Chicago, He was welcomed in nddresses by well-known citizons, and made to feel that ho was among friends full of sympathy for his sufferings and tho wrongs of the people for whom ho sufferad. e | Mr. Brame recently mado a business trip Into Virginin, and on one occasion troated the T, F. V.u to a speoch, or, a5 tho irrover- ont glang of the period would stato it, ho 4 gave them taffy.” He told thom how he had opposed the reduction of the tobacco tax, but, now that it had becomo n law, he should with equal stubbornness opposs any inarenso in the tax ; how ho wasborn quite noar the Virginia lne, while his grand. mother nctnally sprung from the sacred soil. Nobody can tell how useful a grandmother may'be. InMr. Buamve's caso tho old lady may be worth twonty-two votes in tho next Ropublican National Qonvention, that beiug the nnmber which Virginia is ontitled to cast'in that Convention. e e Tho contingency is pow recognizod of Ro- publican votes boing cast to socuro tho elac- tion of a Domocratio Sponker of the next Houso, and if, 08 now scoms probable, the choleo roats betwesn Ranvarn and Braok- BURY, thore is little doubt that the former would receive tho Ropublican support as in evary woy proferablo to tho Dourbon Con- fodorate. The idon of capturing the House ‘organization by aon° sllinnce with the Groenbackers apparently roceives no coun- tenanco among the Republicans, who oould .dorive no party advantage by oleoting a Bpeaker whoso rulings they could not gustain, and who wquld bo perpetually at war with the majority, It is considered far more deairablo to occnpy the position of & powerful minority solidly organized and opening for parlinmentary shrowdness mani- festa itsclf. It will bo a victory of no menn proportions if the Ropublicans shall bo able to provent tho cleotion of the worst of tho two Domooratio candidatos for tho Bpenker- ship. Tha ocmbarrassments of an nlliance hetweon the Domocrats and Fiatists have already bo. gun to.crop out in Michigan, whero such o combination has been made. The sound. money Domocrats in that State are protest- ing in vigorous terms against .tho prostitu- tion of the party organization to the will and pernicious gchemes of Fintism; and, at the samo time, tho honost Groenbackers who sympathize with tho Ropublican party in other national fasucs doclare ontright that they will not bo used to further tho causo of Btate-Sovereignty, nor to approve the schome for dishonest eluctious, nor to restore the ¢ Holld Bouth ” {0 undisputed control of na. tioual uffalrs and the Publio Trensury, Mr, Hangison nud his frisuds are likely to find tho same discord in a similar alliance in Oht. cago. Thoro are men who belleve in State. Boverolguty who will not subseribe to the Fiant folly, and also men who dream foudly of the benefits of * alsolute mouey " who will not take any part in restoriug o State. Boveroignty parcy to the suprowe control of nationsl affairs. . Becretary Buzauax has managed to recover the breath taken away by some of the flnau- cial performances of the dead-and.gono TForty-fifth Congress, and {4 in p conditlon o yresent his views rogarding tho position in which the Treasury is placed by the reckless manner in which expouses were increased and rovenues diminished. He was, he says, greally astonished at the passage of the Arreari-of-Pension blll, not nnticipating that’ Qubgross would pay Aoy pendous prior ‘Then onmo tha reduction of thoe tobaceo tax, which operates to docrenss tho -revenus about $10,000,000; . and aftor this tho River and Harbor bill, with ita nine or ton millions moroe of outgo. by the Inte Domoorntia cconomiats in Con- gresa with the problem of how to pay $280,- 000,000 of approprintions out of $200,000,- 000 of revonue, and sometling must suffer to mnke up tho discropancy. He willhave no alternativo but to witbhold soms expendi- tures that are within his discretion, and among them, fortunately, are tho River and Harbor appropriations, nine-tenths of which ought under mo circumstances to be ox. pendad. . emondment to excopt Jery Davis from the benofits of the Moxican Pension act have nnturally attracted more than usunl atten- tion, eulogy 6o extravagant in terms as to ocension surprise, and Zacm Ouanpren evinced n power of oratory in recalling tho scenes of the War, and Davis' part thereln, of which most people would not have belleved bim capablo, spoke in bohalf of Davis have modified their oxpressions as they are to appear in tho Record, and this indicates an nppr chen- sion that they have made a mistako, aran will probably find ho’ arred when ho spoko as follows : am ipetrocted by my Loglelature fo support the granting pensions to soldiers of tho Mexican War, 1 donot read anywhers in those instructions that I am to excopt Mr, Jerrrnsox Davis, nor dol sce In thelr spirit that it 1s the opinlon of the General Assembly of tho Stato of Ohio that punishment of the people of the South ought to be vicarlous of JEYTEREON DAvis, ana 1do-not anywhero seo in those instructions that it 1a the desire of the peonlo of Ohloto elngle out JerrensoX Davisand make bim o martyr, while other mon, who went quite as far as he did, oro not oniy not punished, but are ro- ceived into tho highest statlons in this Govern- mont; and I am not the least bt afrald of the vor- dict of tho people of my Statoupon this subject, mor of the people of tho nincteen other Btates whose Leglslaturca have pasacd rosolutions In fa- vor of theso posions. " * ncenratoly stated by Tuumvaw,, Tt is true that nobody desires to singlo out Davis per- sonallyffor martyrdom, nor for a punishment disproportionato to that moted out to others who partook in the Robollion, less T'nunyan misapprehonds tho sentimont of tho North if he imagines that it will be a popular thing to ndmit Jerr Davis to any specinl bonefits at the hands of tho Govern- ment, Politically ho was one of the vilest of all tho traitors, and bocamo tha chief of the Robel Government, and porsonally he romaing obstinately unrepontant and glorles init, Any sorvico which Jery Davis may lave ronderod his country in the Mexicsn ‘War was oxpunged by his subsequent be. trayal of tho Government. Tho Northern peoplo havo 50 far forgotten tho rancor of tho War that they are willing to let Jere Davs go in peaca ng other ex-Rebels go; but, 60 long 0s ho mokes an ostentations exhibi- tion of his continued hostility to the Govern- mont, thero is no desire to pension him, or to romovye his disabilities so that he may on. tor tho Senato and live upon Government pay in that way. ern poople to got a recognition of Davia from tho Government is not due to any foeling of nffaction or respect for Davis himeself, but in order that, by such rocoguition, thoy may completa their renssertion of dominion over tho peoplo of the North; nothing would be so typical of tho accomplishmont of their purpose as to have Jerr Davis, tho ex-Presi- dont of the Confoderacy, resume o place in tho Senato in spito of the oath he had broken, and thon defond the dootrine of so- cossion and oxcuso the horrora of Anderson. sought to break down, there would bo almost an approval of the Rebellion, and cer- tainly an encouragomont for men of similar ambition in the future, floe of principlo, self-respect, and good pol- icy to thus surrender to Jxrr Davis while he remning in an irroconeilablo and doflant ntti- tude. Democrats loyal to the Govornment are no more anxious to witness a spectacle of this kind than are the Republicans, and Mr, Tronsay mado a mistake in nssuming that his coming fo tlio defense of Davis will not injure his Prosidontial flight,—for he confes. sodly had that in view, as may be gatherod from the tono of his romarks, Ilo may ro- coivo some addition of strength from the Southern but none from the Northern Dem- oerats, and it is the latter who will nominate the candidate for Prosident, ond notablo orror Trunaax Lins mado since ho avowedly becamo a Prosldential candi- date; tho first was when he adopted Ewmva's finnncial viows., Neither tho advocacy of Fiatism nor tho champloning of Jere Davis will enable Tuunaax to beat Truoex in Con. vention, in the Mouse of Ropresontativos at Bpring. flold to croato about 160 udw officod to bo paid out of the Treusury, .ond for this Dill thero is not tha elightest pretoxt of ne- cossity, juatico, or propricty, It provides that “nany Judge of n court of record” in this Btato may appoint a stonographer for his Court, to bo styled tho *‘official re. porter " of such Conrt, and who shall be g ‘““sworn officer” of the Courl; thot this stonographer shall ake fall notes of all the tostimony, including *the rulings and re- marks of tho Court and remarks of counsel "; day for cach day the Court is Leld, and the ' THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, scripts mado for tho 141 conrta at the low sum of $15,000, wa havo the followlng ag. grogate of the probablo sum to Le.paid ont of tha Oounty Trensurics nunder this bill: Por dlom of stenographie Mileagoe of stonographe: Stationery for rtenograp) ‘Transcripts for cOnria, ...t e Total publlc costevicrss o cas srveaes$204,000 This is but the opening of the job. Noxt yoar the por diem will bo incronsed to §10, aud erch stenographer will have nn assiatant at $5 per dny, nnd once the job bocomes fastonod on the State it will grow, as all such things grow, with Increnshig forao. ‘The bill, howover, goes much farthor, It provides that the offteial reportersshall be ontitled to demnnd ond recoive 156 cents per 100 words for every copy they make of tho roports of tho procoedings; including tho speeches of the counsel in overy ense. This chargo is onormous. Tho cost of moking a tronscript of any rocord of the Circuit Courts is but 10 cents per 100 words, The actunl prico paid for copying notes or records is from five to six conts per 100 words, and this bill is to givo theso official ro- porters the monopoly of taking theso notes, of Thaving them copied out for them for five cents per 100 words, and thon making the public pay for them at the rato of 15 conts por 100 words, The law ot progent permita the 'partics to any suil, whon tho cnso Is of sufficient importance to warrant it, to ongage a roporter to minke o short-hand roport of tho wholo cnse, or of such parts as may bo neceded, They make their own contract with the roporter at an ogroed cost per day or per folio. But this bill creates an officor who is alone to bo rec- ognized by the Court and by the parties ns entftled to mnke nn *‘official” roport, and compels the parties to a suit to pay such re- porter an ontrageous and exorbitant fee, be. sides compoelling the public to psy a large por diom oand furnish stationery to tho raportor. 'This bill creates ot least 141 new oflicors, ot an avarage ocost to the public exceeding $200,000 n year. For thia bill thore is no apology or justifica- tion oxcopt to plunder the publio. The fuct that thig bill is lobbied by somo young women docs not extenuato the oriminat dis- regard of tho public interest in voting for it. It is o shameloss ond disgeaceful abuso of logislative powor,—tho creation of utterly usoloss officers nt an enormous cost to tho publio and to litigauts, Tho bill to bo do- fonted must be defentod in tho Legislatuaro, because if passed it is cortain to bo pproved by the Governor, who seems to bo wanting in the moral and physicnl vigor to veto any bill which crentes now offices or plunders the public. TAXATIOR AND REVENUE, ‘Wo printedlast Baturday thosrticle relating o taxntion and revenue proposed as part of the new Constitution of California, It must attract attention because of tho sepecial ef- fortsa mado in tho way of doublo taxation. It scems to be modoled something after the Tevonne law of this Btate, which is, in all that departs from straightforward, legitimate taxation, a confessod failure. Itwill bo seen, however, that the California Convention evontually educated itself up to n rocogni- tion of tho solf-svident fact that to tax prop- erty, and to tax the mortgnges thereon, is double taxation ; so tho Cenvention proposes to tox the proporty in tho nsmo of tho owner, deducting from its valuntion any debt secured thercon by trust-deed or mortgngo, nnd tha valuo of such, mortgage or sacnrity shall be taxed to the ownor thoro. of, Tho means provided for the collection of tho taxntion on the mortgago or scourity is to doclare that, when such taxes nre pmd on the secarity by the debtor, such payment shall oporate na a poymont to that extont of tho dobt. All coutracts by which a debtor to the date .of appileation, The Prosidont is presented taxos pay on the basis of a lavy of $30,000,- 000. Moro than 80 per cont of tho tnxes lovied nro not'pald. Consequontly every mnn who pays taxes pays his own sharo and 30 por cent moro to make good the deficiency caused by those who do not pay. Tha cost of aasossing is enormous, and the work is in- efficlontly aud ' froquently dishonestly por. formed. Tho cost of collaction is so great that it amounts to profligacy and dishonesty, thongh warranted by law. The times for col- lecting all the taxes lovied for olly purposes aro 80 fixed ng to keop such citios perpotual. ly embarrassed and able only to oxist by wenk, costly, and practically illegal ox- pedionts. The Supromo Court hias pointed out thoso ovils as appealing strongly to the Logisiatura for relief, If, thereforo, the Joint Conmmittea of tho Logislaturo desiro to rondor dircct nnd praoticil roliof to tho 8tato, lot it adopt & fow remedial amend- monts to the , oxisting law that will cnsblo tho authoritios to collect tho taxes that are levied, that will roduce the cost of assowsment nnd collection, and will onnblo municipalitios tocollect their rav- onuo within the poriod for which tho taxea ore lovied, There are sovoral woll digosted mensures having theso objects in view now pondmg in the Liogislnture, which tho Com- mittee might' presont ns furnishing immedi- ato nud direet correctives of notorious aud confessed nbuses, The groater and more olaborato scheme of moking n general rov- onuo codo should bo postponed to somo othor dny when the Legislature caun consider it oxclusively, and nct on it unombarrassod by othor legislation, ) — THURMAN AND JEFF DAVIS, Tho speeches - brought out by Hoan's Benator Liastan delivored bimself of a It is said that the Demoorats who Trone ** Mp. PremipenT: I havo alraady stated that X An Eastern paper, speaking from a per- sonal knowledgo of tho facts, has thiu to eay concerning an officer whose proceedings are Lnown to fame in this city, It saya: 4 In our issuo of the Sth inst. we called alten~ tion to tho fact that, nothwithetanding Architect Hist wag indleted and suspended from oftice, ho still denwa his pay of over $100 per month, and never rendered any sorvices, There was no ques- tlon that this waa unlawful, That editorial, as wo are inforined, has causcd tho Architect's oficogront alarm, andinondeavoring tocover up one wznng thoy have now perpotented & groater ono In lgnoring the order of Hisy's suspenslon, and directing him to perform the duticao! the Suporvising Architect out- sido tho ofilce. In otber words, thoso duties whiah require the Buporvising Architect to visit differont ‘bulidings In othercitics for tho purpase of inspoa. tion and direction ore now nerformed by Hitr, tho indicted and suapended Archltect, Everything connected with Hini's case has heen collnslon, fraud, and againet tho Ilaw. Tho President's order of suapcnaion has been Ignored contemptibly, Money hasbeen fllegally drawn from the Treasury, What has tho Attornoy-Gancral, Secretary Surne. AN, and the Prosident to eay about this modet case of reform 1 - Bupervising-Architect Irtr was indictod with othors in the United States Court of this diatrict bocause of his trananotions in the building of tho United States Custom. Houso and Poat-Office. The indiotment was found dospito tho hardly-disguised offorts of tho Treasury Dopartmont and of the Attor- noy-General’s offlco at Washington to pre- vont it. Tho Presdent, however, gavo an order susponding Hiwy, whilo the indictment wns pending, and special counsol was om- ployed by the Govornment to prosecuto the cose, This woa last fall. It scems, Low- over, that Hirz, was nover susponded in fact, and that ho hoa been porforming the duties of the offico nnd drawing blis salary just ag if his official integrity had, nover beon questioned, In the moantimo the proscoution hero hus nover made the lonst progress, Tho only offect of the indictment hins been to tnorenso the oxpenses of the Govornment to the extent of the com- ‘Tho attitude which Davis ocoupios is not Noverthe- Tho anxicty of the South- . 3 it ville, In thus rostoring tho chief of | ig obligated to pay any tax on monoy-loancd E:!Tnt:;“;'wmn: ‘m::lhl Jic:l‘:;"]l:" mr;::;: tho Robollion fo the honors and | on mortgage are doclared to bo illogal and | \"ly bability will bo entitled nnd i omoluments of tha Government he | void, B BrouBL W %5 ancen g, special employmont to a fee oqual at loast to 310,000 n yenr whilo tho oaso lasts, which, according to presont appoarances, may bo for five years to como, if not longor, If this bo the intention of the Attorney-Gonoral's offico nnd of the Treasury Department, it {s difficult to understand why Judge Lawnexcr, ar auy apecinl counscl, was ovor engaged. If nothing was to be dono in the mattor, Judge Baxas had shown himself as compotent and ns willing for that kindof duty as any otloer porson the Governmont could solect. ‘Tho Logislature of Tllinois has now fn sos- nion a Joint Committeo to preparo n rovised revenue codo for the State, It is not probn. blo thint tho Committeo will ever agreo upon such a code, becausa of tha wide differences of opinion upon tho fundamental principles of taxation and the menns of applying them so as to collect the Inrgest revonue at the lenst cost to those who pay the tax, p The Constitution of the 8tate requires that all property, of whatovor kind, shall paya tax according to its valuation. If n mortgage bo assessable proporty, ns well as the laud on whicl it is o lien, then both mortgsge and 1nnd must bo tnxed, and this is the theory of the Illinois Revenus law to whick a majority of the Logislaturo has always porsistently and blindly ndhered, If tho mortgago bo not property in tho sonss of being taxable, thon, under our Conatitution, the property on which it ja o lien romaing 08 taxable as if no such lien existed. The Ilinols Con- stitution deals with proporty, and not with individuals or interests; where. ever it finds property it taxes it, leaving to all persons intorestod in it to ot~ tle tho pnyment among thomsclves. Any doparture from this priuciple must lead to ondless confusion, and compel the Btate to bo a litigant in every cnse of divided or dis- puted ownership aud title. The Committeo may sesumo a8 au unquestionable faot, veri- fled by the unbrokon oxperienco of every Govornmeout of overy kind, that any tax im- posed upon crodits, whother in tho shape of loaus, \morignges, or othor ovidences of debt, must inevitably, to tho oxtent that it is paid nt all, bo paid by the debtor,—tho bor- rower, Tho offort by the Culifornia Con. vention to declare sueh payments, and all contraots for such payments, illegal and void, will not change tho result in the loast, Tha man who borrows money must pay—other- wise ha could nover borrow—all dues, taxes, and liabilitios of whatever form that in any. wise roduce the sum of the principal and of tho stipulated ' intorest, Al efforta of law and constitution, let them tako what form they wmay, to colleat taxes from creditors on money lonned, can Lave noothor rosult than to add that much additional burdon to the borrower or debtor, ‘When it reaches the creditor, then the means of borrowing must coaso. Unless tho Com. mittea of the Illinoly Leglslature aro pro. pared to recoguizo this fact, and to frame their Rovenue law on that basis, it will be porhaps a waste af tiwe toattempt to patch up a code to accomplish an imposaibility, The experience of this Btate during the last eight years in the matter of taxing orodits, and of various othor forms of double taza- tlon, is hut a repotition of the experience of ovory othor Btato, during all thme, and any attempt to reverse that exporienco s as idlo aa to attempt to changethe laws of Naturo, The Joint Committes of the Illinols Legls. laturo will find that to framo au intelligent aud comprehonsive rovenue code s'w work of labor, and espocially of canfliot with wild aud fanatical theories, 1t is best, perhaps, for the Commitlee to abandon all Lope of reconciling the various opinipns peovailing on these subjeots, aud lot the law in these respots stand u tonument of i ewa in- " A 1t would be a sacri- OARTER HARK AND THE MAYOR- (ALTY, Oanren HannisoN has takon the second stop in his progress toward the Mayor's office, The first was to declare, immediately upon his arrival, that the' Domocratio parly had returnoed to its old Jry Buonanay issue of Stnto-Bovereignty, and intonded to *“fight it out on that lino™ at overy coat, This np- peal to the * Bovereignty” olnss of Demo- ornts'scomed to meot with a hearly responso from tho thiraty crowd to which Mr, Han- nusoN addressed himsolf, Ouly a day or two Iater the redoubtable CarTkR is nominated for Mayor by the Ohicago * Greenbackers* whose quick ngréement upon him as tlelr onndidate seoms to indicato that they are satisfled ho will bo indorsed by the Demo. crats, ond also that Lo will serve thoir ends a4 woll as n man who avows exclusive alle. ginneo to tho Fiat causo. It only rompine now for the Demoaratic Convention to nom. inato Canrzg, which will probably be done, tomake him a full-fledged oandidate, with the purpose of combining all the Domoorats, tho Greenquackers, and the Commuuists sgalust the Republican nominee, ‘Wo prosumo that it bhasn't occurred to Mr, Hanamoy that this is not only a vory incon. gruous but au exceedingly hnzardous com. bination which ho eor his friends aro secking to make in the interasts of Lls candidature, ‘Wo will assume thiat all tho elomants of the combiuation contain a certain proportion of lonesty and conviotion, In the Graenback organization in this olty, for instance, there must be a large numboer of mon who vote that ticket hocauso they really believe that Tiativw is to bo for tho good of the country, and a proportion of this number were for. morly members of the Republican party, How will the * Nationala” of Republican an. teoedents relish the subordination df their party and priuciples to the Democratic party for the purpose of electing a **Btate.Bav. eraigaty " Mayor and organizing the Demo. oratio forces, a8 n means to carrying Ohicago for tho Domoorntio Presidertial candidate in 18807 Isn't it likely tbat n good many of the Nationale wbo were farmorly Repub. lioans, aud who have not pow any sympathy with the Btate-Sovereignty and dishonest. elections programwa’of the Democratio par- ty, will efuso to bo used ps more tools for shaping a Democratio suocccas? Will thoy not recogaizo that thoy have loen sold out, and that the purpose is to prostitute thelr votos to a'cause to which they are opposed ? If the Demooratic Convention shall carry out §ts park of the programmo and nomiuato Mr. Hinnmow, it is -probable’| that his Natioual nomination will do bim more harm thau good \within his own sy, Lhat Rt W ‘This is the sec. A BCANDALOUS FRAUD, A bill hns been ordered to s third reading that such stenographor shall be paid 87 per snme wilengo to and from the Court agis now paid to jurors; and that when the Court or auy individual shall want o transcript of oy, part of euch proceedings ho shall pay to the stonographer thorefor ot the rate of 1 cents per 100 words, the cost of any such copyiug for the Judge to be paid by tho Connty Tyensurer on tho order of the Court ; and the stonographor shall bo fur. nished by the publio with il the stutionery Lo may noed. ‘Thore aro in this State 102 County Courts, which are each ordinarily in sesslon at loast 280 days in the yoar, 'Fhoro are some thivty Cirouit and Appellate Courts outside of this county, and there are nine courts in this couuty in session 800 days each evory year, Estimatitg, therefore, at only 141 courts of record in tho Btate, wo havo an sggrogate of £2,000 doys on which the courts will bo 1n sossion onch year in the Slate, aud the per diem alone will amount to $154,000 to the 141 mew ‘sworn officors” of the courts. Outside of this city the Oiroult Courts embraco soveral counties, and the stenographers are to be entitled to mileage, whiek in tho aggrogate will not be loss than $15,000 a yoar. 'The etenographors are tobe turnished with stationery on which to take their notes and on which to ake then transcripts, the cost of which will probably not fall below $20,000. Placiog tho trau. . MARCH 10, 1879, consistonoy, But thera nro praotical ovils’| which the Leglslature may corraot. Tljo’ total taxation of this Stato for all purposes; exceeds $30,000,000 n year. This s onor- mous and confiseating,. Thoso who Oy, nomination wonld indicato that tho Green: back manngors have full faith that Hannison | will sorva thoir onuso as well as would any tona of thelr own number. But thero ara [ thousands of Demoorats in this city who havo no desire to havo their party run in the {ntorest of so-called Groonbackism, nnd who drend n triumph'of a party that will ro- new the agitation for a repoal of the Resumption not aud seek to throw tho coun- try back into the condition of donbt and uncortainty from whioh resumption has rocontly farnished an esonpe. Tho most active and efMeiont supporters of Mr. TN in'this city hre in'favor of sound monoy. Thoy will not look compincently upon the possible eloction of Mr, Harnisox aa Bayor in order that ho may uso the influence and patronage of -that position to advance tha interesis of somo' soft-monsy Democrat in the noxt Presidential Convention, ond to commit thé Democratio party to a new suspension of spocie payments and the ovils that would follow. The ‘Cily Council socem to have fallon pratty much under tho control of the Law- 1zr-8TAUDER clnss of taxenters, - At Inst nd- vicos thoy had voted appropriations amount- ing to $4,207,086. The total rocommenda. tions of, the Finonco Committeo, who wont over the whole subjeat very carofully, wns £3,862,225, which wns believed to be ample, considering tha condition of ‘tha faxpayers. But the Aldermen who anre frec-and-sasy with othor people's money piled onn helf million extra to *‘make work for the poor men,” or for some such domngogical renson, Thoy voted o largo sum of monoy for half-n. dozen viaducts, when two wero all that need be built at present. They doubled the num- ber of school-houses that ought, in justice to the overburdened taxpayors, bo erocted this yoor. They added $30,000 to bo frittored aud fooled awayon *street cleaning,” hocing up mud in piles to bo loveled down by tho stromn of vohicles; $32,000 more was votod to the huge Fire Depnrtment ; $00,000 moro for school ealnries; 200,000 moro in n log- roll for sowers ;50,000 extra to dradge-boat ' contractors, ote., ote, Since ‘Corvin's exib wo have had no such lavish handling of othior pcople’s money. Thera are n lot of profligate follows in the Council whom the soonor the people kick out tho betler "Tho thing for Mayor Hearn to do is to apply tha veto-knife to tho oxtras nisparingly. In notleing Mr. Payyns Coruizn's allegod dls- covery of another play by SIHAKBPEARE Wo re- ferred yesteraay to a pussago therein sald to re- semble the courtship scene between Ludy dnne nnd Qloster in ¥ Richard JILY By request tins pussago Is elven in full herowith. Anne 18 the wife who has consented to the murder of her husband, Brown ia the murdercr, and her par- amour, Drewry, is & common frlend: i Droury:-Sea whero Master rown 18 in bim take com(for And learn to tampor your excesslvo griel. . Anne—Ah! bid mo food on polsun and e fat, Or Jook upon the basllisk and lve; Ov nrfelt daily and bo still in health, Or leap into tho sea and uot b drown'd, All theso are ovon as possible ay tnis, That I should be recomforted by hun That {a the author of my whole lnnent, Hrown—Why, Mistross Anne, Ilove you dearly; And but for your incomparaule beauty, My avul had never dreamt af Bandors® death, Then give me that which now I do doserve, Yourself, your lova; and I will be to you ‘A husband o devote os none more just, Or maore affuctionate shall teend this enrth, Anne—1f you can crave it of me with & tongue That hath not been profan’d with wicked vows, Or think it in s hoart did novor harbor Trotonse of murder, or put forth a hand A not contaminate'with shedding blavd, "Then will 1 willinzly grant vour request, . But, ohl your hand, your licart, your tongue, and oyo Aro lll’nrclcnwn af my misery, *“If this bo not by SHAKSPEARE," vemarles Mr. Corrien, * L must adwnil myself strangoly mis- taken. It could proceed from mo other mind and pen.. I atake my reputation on the fact thut the abovo-was contrlbuted by our great dramatist,” The title of the play Is * A Warn- Ing for Falr Womon,"” and ft was prioted tn 1690 anonymously. Whilo thero 18 80 muth talk In the Democratie papers about fraud,” incited by the appear- anco of PoTTER'S report, ft may not bo amiss to repernso the following resolution, passcd by the House, June 14, 1878, by a vote of 215 ycas to 21 nay! Wizuzas, At the rxlut meoting of tho two Iousea of the Forty-fourth Congress, convenud pursuant to law and the Constitation for the pur- oso of oscerialuing and counting the votes for President_and Vice-Prosident for tho terin com- mencing March 4, 1877, upon r.oulluuft tho votes, fturnsnronn B, Haves was declared elected Pres= ideut and WitLiax A. Wieeren was doclared electod Vico-Presidont for such term; thereforo, Ilesolved, That no subsoanent Conuress and neither louso ban jurisdiction to reviea tha actlon at such joint meéting, and any attompt by cithur House 1o annul or disrepard such aclion or the titlo 10 office arising thorefrom would be revelutionary, and is disapproved by this louse, Auollier resolution of Hke purport, roported by the Judiclary Committeo, was put to vote tmmediately after the adoption of the above and passcd by 235 to 14, showing that it wusdup- ported by the Democrats as well na the Repub- leana, the opposition coming from a fow fm- placables, . { ——— One branch of Now Jersey Legislature, pandering to Communlstic demands, passed o patarnal bl prohibiting the manufacturo of shoes in the Stato Prigon, but o Sonato Com- mitten, after loking .into the matter at its Ielsure, dlscovored some Important facts, Says the New York T'ribune ¢ One was that tho convicts it Jdlo grow mentally and physically weak. Auothor was that the State recelves §70,000 per annum from the labor in thy prison—that is, about half of fta cxponsca., Etill another was that whila thore were 10,000 norsaus enuaged in making whoes ontside- the prison, there wero only 250 cunvicte ewmployed inthe work, Pue Comumtten, Lherefore, came 1o the covelusion that Icgislation upon the subjoct might be prudent- ly dispenacd with, und the Senate wasadvised notto aas the bill, Probably it willnot, In this mu!n {ke offorts have beonand probably will be made to azrest the industry of tho prisuns; but convicts mist do something, and all uxfilflenvu s shown profitiess toil, more work for the sake of work, to Do dangerously demorsiizing. > ———— The New York Times cxpresscs surprise nt tho ereat considoration, tenderness, aud len- {ency with which Avchbishop Puncury’s shock. fug financial mismansgoment has been treated by tho press geoerall, d by Protestants ag well a3 Gathiolica, It snys; 1 a Protestant Bishop had been fnvolved fu any such horribly discreditable entauglement, ths country would' have rung with coudemuation of hia carclosancas of sacred (ruats, hly thoughticss avuse of confidonce, his hoedloss Resuming of cbe ligations ta pour people whivh ha was tucapable of properly managine, and though, as in the present caso, tho honesty of his intontiuns might not be linpugned, honcel intentions aud financial alm. plicity would not ba admitted to justify a man in assuming (0 act asa tinancial natitution whion he posseascd peither the capacity, the fachities, nor 1lo reaponatbility for ita u N —————— It Tun Cuicaco THDURE kuows any facte cane corning Mr. WiNbox's connection with the sub. sidy Job, why doesn't 1t out with them?—5¢, Paul Pionears Press, Tun TrivoN® kuows that Jonx Roacnm is s notorfous jobbery thut the propused subsidy was an open, almost an avowed, steal; that Mr. Winpoy, as Chalrman of the Scoate Committes on Appropriations, tacked thia subsidy as a rider on the Post-Office Appropriation bill, und that he was moro zealous In its behalf than on bobalf of ooy other legistation beforo Congress, ‘Thiese ara the facts plainly stated. If they aro creditable to Mr, WiNpox he will bo gIAd ta have the . poople of Minnesota kuow them. It is not §Jouraalistlo- bullylug® to stato facts about public men.and ask the people to keep account of then, 4 f e — Tho New York Times says that Gwonan II, banged Admiral BYna in 1757, This statemont do¢a not 'cord with the facts. Bryo was shot, : —— (&womln bas prosentod the United States Witk 8 Centonnia} safe and an autograph album, o safe I3 to be opeued In 1976, when she ex- vects to be famous. Thisfaall very welli but while sho was about {t, why didn't she make a patch-work qulit contalning 100,001 pleces, walk 2,700 quarter-miles In 2,700 quarter-hours, or perform some of the other feats by which the womon of the present day earn distinction, and incloss cortificates thereof in the safe, to lot the women of the future know how thelr great- great-grandmothers occupled themselves ¢ . — e ————— Mr. Crnus W. FizLD lias put upa temporary addition to his house, covering the ontire apace botween {t and the houso of Mr. PrTER Uooran, in order to maln nddltionnl space for the recop- tion ho zives on the twenty-fifth anuiversary of the laying of the Atlantic cable, on the Loth of this month, being this cvening. More than 1,000 gentlomon have accepted Invitations to be present on the occasion, ———t— The Now York Times says that *an applicant for n school tn Mississippi spulled ¢ plece ! saven different ways, and then falled to epoll it cors rectly. Ho was not enzaged.” This sccms to us nn entirely unjustifiable intrusfon foto the personal affalrs of the versatile etymologist rom Missisaippl, It was nobody’s darn busl ness whother ho was engaged or not, except his ‘and tho glrl’s. e — The New York Evening Post saya that It fs an outrage for Mr. KELLOGO to take a seatin the Bonate, and that **{t 13 n question how long self- respecting men will consent to sit in the Sonnte {n such company.” It there are aoy Senators suporlatively scnsitive about sitting fo the Sen- ato with him they can stand, and when they aro tired, resigi. & ——— “BAYAnrD and SmieLDs fs a ticket that s golog the rounds of the lxnorant newspapors thatdonot reflcet that Gen, Smimnps, bolng born in Irelund, ts not cligiblo to the Prestdency or Vice-Prestdency, It Is necdless to stato that tha Juter-Ocean started this ticket. e —— An enterprising resident of Malnohaa married the “Living 8keleton’* woman of a circus, Ho can address her as his bony bride. e —— Enelund has favested In foreign loans and en- torprisea nbout £1,900,000,000,—Is the **Great Loan Land," as it were, * e —er— A pedestrian at New York has becoms {nsans and shot his tralner, They ought to call it o walking madch. B . Mr. TILDEN is being seronaded by a large and growing chorus of bar'l orrans, ststleten bl N PERSONALS, Emma Thursby is singing in Seoffand, The operais coming. In times of peaco preparo for war, That Olinege Bill is the' only one that wonldo't ‘*wash," . Onlifornin advises the Chineso to go to Obio and run for tho Presldency. Emperor Willlam isso exceedingly popu- lar now that woe fear ho will be shot agata, The only bair tho Indinns nover attempt to ift {s Dishop 1lare, the Indlan missfonary, Taul Hoyton'’s swimming apparatus is so perfoct that ‘wo fear he cannot pussibly drown, Tho wintor outtor which slid along tho snow now furnishes a swcet refuge for the sctting hen. Bimon Camoron is 80 yoars old, sud the Widow Oliver says sho can never forgat that old four-score, s ‘I'io nbsonce of ex-Senator Christianoy will be rogreitad. 1t appears that his pretty wifa will toon follow him. Tho stock of ethoronl mildness which spring has bronght fa sbundantly snfliclent to sss- ialy all demands. Grave-robbors aro rapidly betaking thom. selvas to tho localitien whore the newly-graduated medical studonts intend to practice, Ar. Eben Leathor, of Barrington, Maas., hns had his name chansed {o Rutherford B, Hayos, Doosn't e kuow that there's nothing lke Leatler? A Conadinn couplo, en route to Dakota, welgh 614 poands,—the man 810 pounds and the wife 304, They go West Lo grow up with the conn. try. X Mary Olemmer says Sonator Conkling 4 mlanca greatncas becauso 1n his moral nature he bas never risen abovo the lower regions of hime aoif." . T'hree hundred divorces were granted in San Franclaco Iast year, —from which wa infer that thore are a good many married people on the slope. ‘Wo had intonded to publish Mr. Kearnoy's remarks on the veto of tha Chiness bll), but we find thero are not **dashes™ enough in Tuz Tain. UNE ofiico, v Bpring, gentle apring, is here onoe more, All nature smilas, with the exception of tho un. fortunato boings who bave no money snd don't gt treated, Jefferson Davls is described by the Merald, of Vickeburg, as shawing his ago, but it adas that, though by no mesun vigorous, o could hardly be consldored foeblo. A Green Bay mon knacked & burglar down with afamily Blble ihie other night, and for the (irst timo there has beon quite n domand for family Bibles In Greon Bay, T'rance Lng ot last sucoceded in establish. inga republican form of government boyond alt paradventute. Ono of her Cabinot ofiicera has been detected iu corroption, y In viow of the incronsing number of fo- malo tawyors it may be necessary to remind jury. men that woman's toars are very eaelly started and soldom mean anything, L Brick Pomeroy claima to be ono of the leaders of the Greenback party, whon, dear wman, he basn't socn & groonback in so long that ha docsn't know what it 1, A Kontucky men, nged 83, offers $700 for a wife, The suin offered is not large, tosbe sure, but it muost be remembored that arsenio is only ten or fifteon cents a pound, AMr. Vanderbilt has not compromiged with tho contestants of is fathér's will. Very faw of us will give up 8 conple of millions unlesa we aza abaolutoly compolled to. An old gontloman rosein the gallary of the Houso last Sunday and declared that ** Congross shall be cast Into hell," We look for this s0 soon ua it has A Democratlo majority, Au exchauge tolls us that Prosident Grevy 18 n the habit of carrylog his hands In his pock. ota, ‘Thia fs & hudit which cortainly enhances the safoty of other persona’ pockets, The loncsionio country must now worry along without sny Potter Committee, and t¢ will come hard on the {ndustrlous llars who are sud- deuly turown ot of ewployment, Wo learn that tha Rov. Mr, Murray hag Invented a new currycomb, This ought to mod. orate tho cyniclem which i persistent in doclaring 1liat no good comes out of tho puipit, . Joff Davis, wo'are informed by a Vicks. burg paper, 1a 8 tectotalor, Even oidor ho never tastes, though this may be on account of its asegs clation wiils the idea of sour-applo troes. Mr, Talmage belleves that few newspaper men go to heaven, 1liaidea of the realm of the last fa evidontly that of a place whero there are faw exposures of gontlomen af tha pulpit, Mr, Vunderbilt hes compromised by pay- ing tho conteatanta of s fathor's will a million aploce, Thero appear to lave been no provisions in the will compoiling hin to pay bis taxes, Dr. Fulton’s uew clurch contains one member-—-, Dr. Fulton, —and tho effoctof hlapreach ing is thorefore =0 concentrated that we hope Dr, Fulton will bring Dr, Fulton to repentance, The family physioclan in China is paid a regular salary until a member of the family Is taken elck, and 1f sald mewber diea the physiclan dice also, They msnsge those things better in China, "Fhe English will néver subdue the Zulug by tha ordinary modes of warfare, aud hence wo auggest that Cotowayo and his forces be scared o Qeath by supplying thom with lrrors in which they can seo thamaelves, . Mr. Beecher has been sued for not com. pleting the **Lifo of Christ™ as ko contracted to do, Ae My, Doecher contomplates writlng an autoblograpby, wo suppose he regurda the '* Lite ol icochor " ne & worthier sublech CASUALTITS, A Horrible Affair at s, * Resulting from Incen- diarism. — Five Persons Burned to and a Bixth li‘nlallgrr’ ettty urt. Louls, —_— Two Other Sad Cases o1 Bu Flesh and Blood, Fied FE S Full Details of Baturday's Oataatroph gt Ottawa, 1l ¥ DBURNING HORRORS, 8. Louts, March 0.—Tctiveen Lnn?.a 2 this moralug a fire broke out fn e Wagon.ahg of Mra, Ilearlsttn Bausch, Brondway, o o Louls, and, owing to there being no fire :lpp:; tus, and no call bolng mads on the Fiyg l)enm-: ment of this cltv, one brick und five frame bullg. ings wore deatroyed, ontalling n loss of lbuu; $10,000. - In the second story of the wagon.ahy where the flro. started, which was ncaupfeq “n, resldence by Bausch, there were sleeping u,_-. thres childron by a former marriage, n:unm: Charles Guchenbach, about 10 years old, ang John and Emma Zelpp, several years )’o\l’m!" Henry Bchoepperkostter, a blacksmith, and Mu: Catharlun Borst, who was spending 3 oightwith Mra. Bouscls, all of whom burned to death, they being unable to cscapo by reason of (e door leading to thelr apartinents bolny fastened on the outslde. Mrs, Bausch was nlgo aslec g the samo house at the time, but she Jumpey from a window. 8ha wans g0 severely injureq slio will probably die. At the inquest this atternoon testimony wag clecited pointing so strongly to lnwndlnmm' that John Borst, husband of Cathnring Tonat, Audrow Marshall, und Thomas Hnmmona vm; arrested oud locked up, Svectal Dispaich (o The Tridune, Burraro, N. Y., March 0.—Mrs, Cathering Voolker, of this ecity, while combing hep daughter's hair early lnst night, tipped overa kerosens lamp near her. ‘The fluld fgalted anq set firo to her clothes. Sho rushied about the bouso, and floally spraug down & stairway, knocking down her husband and two mon, wh\: were rushing up to oxtinguish the flames. 8ty stood In the allovway, st befors the flames could be put out she was so badly burned that she died at 2 o'clock thls morning. Al of hey clothics except a nacrow strip around the hips ware burned off, o W AII:XNGT;JN,‘D‘. U':' Ahmhhvl'_ln a-flrs ay eorzetown last niwnt threa children of D); Martia (colored) wera burned to d:nh. ekl o'clock TOE OTTAWA EXPLOSION. Speclal Correspondence of The Tribune, Otrawa, 1N, Mareh 8.~Tho bofler in Mr, Stlofol & Co's warolouss on the Canal Basio, ln this city, und nearly opposite the starch faatory, blow up atnbout 8 this nfternoon. Boveral men who were at work about it wero blown into the basin or out along with the boller snd ene gine on the other side, and badiy bralsed and scalded, whilc somo had bones broken. Thers were five in all, of whom only two or tirce wera at work about the englne, which was an old one, just set up, and mmking a sortol trial trip, Jasper French and John Rouz were thrown, the former clear across the basin and the Iatter into the fce and water near thesida of the warchouse, French Is badly scalded about tho breast and inbaled ateam. o was cut ubout the face, and presented n sickening spectacle as howas led up to Dr, Hand’s office. Reuz was seslded, had hls knes cap sinashed, and his Heht arm brolcen. * Jol Coffey was, very badly sealded ncvoss the bowela, James Herald, a young man from South Ottawa, was scalded, buf not dan- gerously. A young man or boy namned Hare Tlson was stunding near tho track of the boiler as it lalt the bullding, and, nearly stuoned, ho ran ioto a house near by nnd explatued that he had boen blown up and was full of powder, ‘The oller weighted with the enzine which Was on its top, loft its bed bodily and leapud across the alioy in the rear of the warchouse, where it stands in nhout the samo positlon ) occupled under cover. Both ends sre blown off The vltal point was just under tho fire, whera the thick plate was bulyed fnward and up, leay- ing a hole lorge enouygh for Lwo men todo through. Whilo stay-bolts festenod the outer and {oner plates at tho sides of the fire-boy, there appearcd to DLe mone on the bottom, g0 thut, while it would laye taken an fmmenso forco to force the plate vutward, the head of steam, about seyanty-five pounds, easily bulged u!) the plate und broke it acroes. The flues at that ond are filled with fragments of the fuel used fn tirlng, Whon the cxploslon occurred a large crowd was attending an auction wear by, and several teams were hitched juac in the rear of thehoute, ‘Tho hofler landed between two of them. ‘Tha explosion resoinbled moro the report of an old shot-gun than anything else, but it was not loo bofore an fmmense crowd collected. As Freneiy was belng led way with grimed and biecding face, a South Ottawa man, who Is subject to fits on Blizht excitement, thress up_his batds sud fell like a dead man, adding to the excitements THE SPRINGFIELD FIRE. Spectal Dispatch (o The Tribune ArmngwizLD, I, March D.—Four bundred man havo been at work to-day clearlng away th debris at the rolling mitl, ond it Is expected that the building will bo replaced by Aorll 1. The bar mil will resumo oporations Tucsday, The loss was corroctly atated fin last night's dis patchies. A carponter named Danlel W, Aholtz, agod about B3, wus found dead this morning oo the porch of a new bulldlng near the rolllag miil, An Ingucat was hcld, the jury returalng verdict of death from soms cais o thein un- known. Duccased was ot the flre Saturday night, and told ssyoral persona thut, whila cute ting away oneof tlig supports to tha trestleworky ha was struck fn the nock by & plank throws from above, There \was no sign of suchsn i Jury on his porsan, ACCIDENTALLY BRHOT, fpeclal Dispateh lo Ths Tribune: Tarne Havre, Ind.,, March 9.—Four personky at noon to-day, wero taking a ploasurc tripoa the Wabash itiver. Whou asbout a quarter of & milo below the city ono of their number, Wil fam Luce, hiad geeaslon to go on lon, leaviog tho others in the bont. While Lucowasos Jand a plece af timber was egpled by the partics In the boat, when oue of thelr number, Wilism Regelein, took afm at the tlmber, buty mlsllnf the mark, the bullet entored Luce's body, ml: although not causing instant ueath, Wil PIOH bly do s0 bofors mornlng. Lice is o clgare maker, and has a wifa aud_fwo children, e shoatitiy was purely accidental, sud {3 decp regrotted by the partlcs concerned: hstislany UNDER THE WIEELS, Special, Dispatch {0 The Trivuné. = LaBavwn, 11, March 0.—Yu:tordnyumrnfi t aPolish boy of the name of Stalask!, “Muurd- years'of aze, attemptod to bosrd 8 nmln;mL bound frelght train of the Iilinols Central road, a short distance lemr:hl:p} ;h: nd'u::l"!t::a 1 the cars, [Iia loft lo ficzlnrhffi: ‘ig:ly, and) tho injury hus siuce resulted fatally, DROWN fi?‘mm Special Disvageh o Egnis, Pa,, Alarch 0.—Josepb Grnndln.:xa?: man, fell through tho feo und was dro breake o-duy. The fee ln the bay 18 l"".hflfi,rl:utd mi prospocta are thst nayigation wfil be open by tho 25th. GLOOMY FORKBODINGE, Grovcestss, Mass, March 8.—30 “:‘A’m hava yot boen recoived of tho fourleed TP o) voasola which went out from hero 1o GeofEly Banks, und the fosling 1a generslly l'l" 1 thei? that the entlre number weut down with ! crows in the severe gule of last month. QCFAN DISASTER, uh EAsTrOAT, Me,, March 0.—1he .h!:n:l":’r:m Emplro, from 8t, Johns to Dubltny ¥eut o o st Big Duck fslsud, Orund Mane, ~ o night, The Captain und stx men were e — ISIANA POLITICS. Naw Onx.&?g',s March 0.—The Rnnub{[:;;:: tho Scnatorfal Distrigt composcd of u:: dotwt ot Bt, Jemes und A-:gn;lom :'fir_:"]f Cons m’ll"‘:}’llvh% 3&“33353-: tion over Morrié d Custo mvuu cangidute.