Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1879, Page 4

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Ma- Fanney, Manager, TARIS, France—No, 10 1tun de Ia Grsoge-Datellero. 11, Mansxn, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—Ametican Exchange, 40 Gtrand, 1symY F, G1LLia, Agent. BAK FRANGISCO, Cal.—T'ataca Hotel. WABHINGTON 310 ol "AMUSEMENTS, ¥McVicker's Thentre, Maditon street, vetween Dearborn and Btate. Ene -gagement of Itice's Burprise Party, "llnrm." Tnverly’s Thentra. ‘Dearborn street, corner of Monroe, of J, K, Kmmet, ‘‘Our New Frite." Engagement = ITaoley?s Thentre. Tondolph street, between Clork and LaSalls, En- fagement of Lolts, **Musctte," Jiamlin's Theatre, Clatk street, opposite the Court-Tiouse, Engagement of C. W, Barry, **Droken Fettera.” Varlety Ollo. Academy of Ausie, Tlalsted atreet, between Madtson aud Monroe, Vae riaty entertalnment. Merahoy Muslo ¥all, Madlsan street, oprosito MoVickor's Tecture by Prof. O'Nelll. Subjects Furope.™ Theatre, Art ‘Trip Through Exponition Tullding. -Lake Bhore, foot of Wnshington street. Madame Andereon, the Pedestrienne, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1879, Tho faulty construction of o public hall at North Berwick, Ma., resulted in o eatastro- pho that imperiled the lives of #00 people. Tho floor gave way, snd the audienco wero preolpitated downward in ono fearful mnss, . One hundved and fifty wero injured, and {hreo will probably not recover, The Brooklyn Prosbytery bLns voted to proceed to the trinl of iho*Rev. DeWrrr 'Taratack upon sovernl chargos of faehood nnd deceit, nmong thom being the scurvy {rick ho played upon tho Clristian at Work aftor ho"had severed his conuection with that papor, and the decoption practiced in tho uso of names (s admitted by bim) for 1l purpose of ** working up * a subscription list. The Indinun Leogislature yesterday ad. journed mne die, and the Indiana Legislature will to-doy asséfable in oxtra session pursu. ont to call by the Governor. It was perfect- Iy feasiblo to llavo finished all necessary leg- islntion nnd passed all approprintions within tho time allowed by lnw for the regular ses. sion, but tho Demacrats had, no intention of {inishing up and going homo without undor- toking a gerrymandor of tho Congressional distriots, and so forood an oxtra session. -'The Republican primary meetings yester- day for the nomination of Aldermanic candi.. dates and the clection of delegates to tho City and Town Conventions were 08 o rule well altended, and o full averaga vote cast, 'Tho City Convention meots to.day, and from 1iho lists of delegates chosen it appenra scttled that Mr. A. ML Wmonr will receiva the nomination for Mayor by acclamation. 'The contosts in the Convention will bo over the nominations for City Treasurer, Oity Attor- noy, and City Olerk, BrorTED Tam made a greatado nbout the promise that Lis crowd should have the privilege of choosing their new reservation, oud was permitied to goto a region 200 ,miles from the nearest point on the Mis. souri River, Now the Indians find that this long distanco separating them from water transportation is not alone nn extra expense to tho Government, but a sovero tax on themsolves through tho additional prico ex- torted from them by tho post trnders, 'They aro gotting dissatisfed, and will want to move again protly soon, The Rav. IL W. Reen, a Bapiist minlster of Ban Francisco, has got himeelf in veryhot water through the roporty ho gave currency in New York regarding the views, of Baptists andreligious peoplo in general ou the Paciflc Qoast on tha Chineso quostion, The gontle- man would scem to havo.been unduly anxious to eater to the Coolie-loving sonti- mentalists of tho Enat, for by a unanimous wvote his namb dvas yesterday ordered stricken from.tho roll of the Baptist Miniaters' Meot. ing in 8an Frauolsco, It will not be long ‘bofoxe it will be understood that the poople of the Pacific Coast aro terribly in earnest about this quostion of white slavery. Tho House Ponitentiary Committeo yes. terday submitted n report embodying the re. sults of its observations among the Btato penal jnstitutions. In nddition to rocom. mending oll thoe appropriations askod for, iuclud;ng £409,000 for the Chestar job, the Comuitteo tonch upon n ¢uostion ealeulated 1o oxcito some interost in connection with tho subject of prison-reforms, Itissuggested that sontences of lifo-imprisonment bonbolished by law, and the mnaximwn term fixed at thirty- {hree years, which, with the timo-allowance for good bohavior, would reduce the term to about twenty years, Fow people will be pro. pared to dispute tho proposition that a erim. inal who cannot bo reformed by twenty yenrs' imprisonment ought to have been hanged in tho first place, Briof extracta from the official correspond. enco of the time of the Rocnevouver Ministry jn France Indicato that that Onbinet was o revolutionary body which only necded the opportunity to earry out its - schemes, . 'Tho - charnoter of the orders em. aoanating from Miniaterial sources shows oconclusively that plaus were Lelng perfooted wheroby tho arny was to do the llon's share in the propossd coup. Tho anuy commanders who were intrusted with 1hese important Btate socrets are shown to havo been §n sympathy with tho movement, But tho tiwe was not ripe. Presidont Mao. Mauo¥, according to the roport of the Investigating Committeo, was -the great ‘ gtumblivg-block fan the way ' of the rovolutionists, The Marshal, whichovor way Lls sympathics sy Lave tonded, could not fife of tho Ropublic would bo produotive of good to the nation, and, besides, his respon- 1ook unfavorably upon a ventura which could safor nor moro decent than it was in 1835, Tho Prosident, under the advice of Secre- be convinced that the proposed blow at tho ibility ns Prosident must have led him to st best have beon viewsd as one of very doubtful expediency. —re The courso of, tho Democrata in Congross on the political nmendmenta to the Army and Logislative Appropriation bills is pro- cisely such ns was twenty-five yoars ago do- tiounced ns dangerous and revolutionary by the leading men of that party. A soarch through the history of Congressional legls- Intion showa that tho parly has in this ns in many other points of principle wandered far away from s old traditions and precedents, 'The practice can no more bo defended now, and {s neither whon sintesmen were not 8o raro in the Democratia party as they are now, and when Hrezenex A, Doveras, Jaxzs A. Darasp (Inthor of the prosent Sonator), and othern rofusod to countenance the attaching to np- propriation bills of mensures which should Le considored indopendently, -The citizens of Columbus, O., are still fighting with tho advanco forces of militant Communism, and bave not had an ensy night's rest for over o weck. All tho in- condiary paraphornalia of tho iden that proporty Is robbery are discovered duly in increasing quantitics. Tho mnewspapers rocoiva nuonymous communications de- claring thot the only way for the #workingman " to get wealthy is to prosont {o tho property-ownor tho necessity of em- ploying him, nnd to present it in thoobvious mnoner of reducing nll habitations to ashes at an early dny. This fasoinating programmo ja coupled with n confident call mpon the banks for certain funds needed in the presont ‘depressed condition of rocint nnd commorclal intercourso in Colnm. bus, The citizens have authority to shoot nt everybody seon in a brick olley, and henlthy sentiment is growing that Commun. ism s & monstor of micn moro hideous when seon at home than whon read about as em- braced in Paris, QUICK SOLUTION o&g‘n CHINESE PROB- Thoro is ronson to beliove that an act will bo pnssed early in tho extra session of Con- gress which will nccomplish all that was cxpocted from tho Anti-Obinese bill vetoed by the Prosident, and at the same time ns- sume o shapo that will virtually compel the President tosign it. It will be a simple and ensy matter to frame a bill that will aveid the objections urged to the former bill in the Prosidont’s veto-mesango, and it is snid that Sonator Joxzs, of Novada (probably with the nssistance of Sonator BLAINE), is at work on #uch a bill, and that it will bo ready for the opening of Congress, Turning to the President's ‘moessage in which ho set forth his roasons for vetoing the Chinose bill of the Inst Congress, it will o found that his chief objection was to tho authority of Congress to abrogate or- ‘modify nn existing treaty, since the treaty-making powor is vosted by tho Constitution m the Prosident, by and with tho cousent of the Senate. Asthobillwont tothe President, with an amondment which had beon proposed by Senntor SAnceNnT, it contained an instruction to the Administration to ronounce Arts. G and G of the Bunnivaaaz Treaty with China, tary Evants, construed this instruction to bo o virtual amendmont of the treaty by 'Con- gress, and ho held that there was no law nor precedent for such legislation. Ho pointed out that, in the case of tho Fronch Treaty of 1798, Congross based its nction upon the fnot that France had ropeatedly violated the torms of that treaty, and declared the United States Government to bo freed from tho obligations of the contract by reason of such violation. The action of the late Con. Rress cortainly differed from the course pur- sued in the Freuch caso, and it may be that the Presidont’s tochnical conatruction of the Inw was correct, At tho samo time his ob- joctions were confined almost entirely to the form of the procedure, and not to the sub- stance or purposa of tho not. Indeed, his massago loft the improssion that, if tho same objact could be reached without endangering the righta and privileges of American citi- zons in Chinn by fotal renuncintion of the tronty, and without trespassing upon the Exceutive function of trenty-making, ho avould approve o bill to that ond. He spoke of *the vory grave discontonts of the poople of the Pacifio States with tho present work. ing of Ohineso immigration, and thoir still graver approhiensions thorofrom in the fu- ture, ag deserving tho most serious attention of the people of the whols country anda solicitons intorest on the part of Congress and tho Exccutive.,” In the light of this judgment the Prosident will scarcely assumo tho respousibility of vetoing n messura cal- cututed to remove the cause for the discon. tont and approhensions he deplores, if such Dbill ehall not put the Chiness troaty in jeop- ardy nor cxceed tho police power of the wation, The bill which Benator Jones will report will probably sot forth in its proamble that thero has Loen n roprehensible and unlawful traflio in Coolie InLor, amounting to a viola- tion of tho treaty in regard to snroluntary omigration, which is subversive of the mor. ols aud huriful to the material intercsts of tho American people. It will not be diffealt to establish the truth of this charge, The bill will then procoed to set forth that, for tho purposa of better enforcing tho pro. visions of tho oxisting treaty, and nt the samo timo to superviso and control involun. tary and objectionable immigration, the number of Chivese emigranta shall be Jimited to fiftcon in any ono veasel coming to tho United Btates, oxcept fn cases of an official embassy, of shipwreck, or for tamporary so- journ with the purpose of seeking an educa. tion, In thisshape the bill will conform to tho well-oatablialied prinelplo of international law (succossfully nsserted by Germany in re- cout diplowatlo correspondonce) Ahnt every untion Las tho right to rogulate immigration and the sofourn of forvigners ss n police mensure, no mattor what the existing treaty may be, aud that each nation must bo its own judgo of tho necessitios requiriug the polico regulution. Indeod, thero is no other way in which a counlry could enjoy the pro- tection of its own laws, or prohiblt trafilo in juumigrants such as has been going on un. dor the ausp'ces of the . Bix Companies, which have a lien on the Mongolian labor which they import and on the labor of the family left behjnd. The principles of our Government, the cnuso of good morals, and tho interests of the American pooplo alike, demand that this traftio in flesh and blood bo stopped. ‘Lhe President can wcarcely rofuso to sign such a bill as wo have outlined. ouly leave the BDuniioinys ‘Lreaty undis- turbed, but {t will be aetusily based upon ono of tho prominent provisions of that It will not | THE CHICAGO ,TRIBUNE: 'TUESD. treaty. Indeed, it is reported from Wash. ington that such n bill will recaive no oppo- sition from tho Chineso Government, which olaima that it has made an effort on {is part to chaok the Uoolie traflle so far ns its an- thority goes, and that tho British port of Iong Kong furnishd¥ tho exit and facilition for emigration under tho contract systom. Nor can tho sentimontalists criticise tho Prosident for sigaing such a bill, since they will searcoly bo willing to placo themaolvos m the attitude of opposing n mensuro de- signed to suppross n quasi slave-trade. Yol this bill will afford oll tho rolief that would have been obtained from the ot which the Presidet vetoed. Bo long as immigration fromn Chinn shail be limited to fiftoon por. gona in any ono veesel, thera will bo no fur. thor opportunity for the trade in Coolies, and thero will be oo end to tho apprehension (which is unfortunately too well founded) that Ghineso contract-labor may work fatal injury lo tho prosperity and well-being of the Inboring men who are citizeus of this country. UMRECONCILED AND REBELLIOUS. Bex Borren proposes that the Government sball tako all maimed Rebel soldiors into ile tender charge, and supply them with tha nocossaries of lifo, Bonator Tnunsaw, not to bo outdone by Burren in donghfacism, do- claros that the trenson of Bnssachusolts hing been mora violent and longor continued than that of any other State in the Union. Cou- gressmnn Winers, of . Now York, de- nounces a proposed National Quarantine law on the ground that itis an infringement of the sacred doctrino of Stste's Rights, Ho prefors that yollow fever should sprend right and loft, rather than have it stopped by an not of Federsl powor. * Oasex Youna, of Momphis, is the only Bouthorn man in Con- gress whose horror of the plague ia mnot oxcoedod DLy his hate of the dootrino that wo aro o nation. And now comes tho Hon, Luows Quintivs Cuntivs Layan, of Mississippi, and doclaros that ho is insulted by the proposition to exclude Jrvr Davis from tho benefits of the proposod Mexican demagogical Pension bill. 'he Hon. Lucivs Quintivs Ountios Lanan is tho man who knocked down and dragged from the court-rooran United States Marshal because ho insisted upon the strict performanco of his officinl duty in capturing and holding cortain Ku-Klux clients of the irate ex-Robel Gon- eral and lawyor. Soon afterwnrd he repaired to Bunker Hill Monutaent sud gushingly di- Jated upon the lamb.like qualitics of the Bouthern poople, their desire for poeace, harmony, sud reconciliation, and an oppor- tunity to repair their shattored fortunes, LiAxaz is as gentle as o dovo whon there 18 8 point to bo gained by ** etherenl mildnegs.” But ho is as blatant and noisy as auy Gthor Southern hot-head the moment a comparison i instituted betweon theadherentaof tholato QConfoderacy and the Union to the advantage of tho latter. Thalk. of patriotism, and tho Hon, Lucrus QuiNTtus CunTios Lasan will call all the gods of the Greeks and Romans to witness that in fighting for tho Rebel Confedoracy ho was a better patriot than Gnaxt, or SHInMAN, or SHERIDAN, or suy- body else on tho Union side, and that Jere Davis iz o bettor patriot than he (Laran) ig, because Jerr was tho ohief of all Rebols, ¢ He " (Davis), says Lasan, ¢ will continue to be honored in that great movemont that was inspired by as noble a sentiment as ever snimnted the henrt of o IamrpEN or a Wasu- waroN,” The dispatches give this passago a8 A roforenco to Hauerox ; but it is ovident that Lastan monnt to refor to Jomy Hasrpex, the mnn who, in {he saventoonth century, re- sistod Royal perscoution in Englsnd, and who in history has beon as. signed the supreme place of honor among English potriots. By citing ‘Hamrpen and Wasnivoroy, two of the most distinguished londers of resistance to tyranny known to the world's history, Lastan charac. torizes tho contest for the preservation of the Constitution and the Union as a tyran- nous opprossion, with LixcoLy in the role of tyrant and Jevr Davis in that of his viotim, But this s not all. Mr. Laman ia careful that thero shall bo no doubt about his real nttitude in regard to tho merits of the late contest. Ho declarea that ho sponks na n Union man, but ke gives tho lio to his own ointless nssortion. Ho snys: *“Tho result f the War hos atiached to us tho technical name of Rebels, and we ncceptit. This is difforent, a8 1t is an attempt to fix an odium and moral turpituds upon a broken mnn.” 1f Davis and Laaag wore only technically,” not reatly, Rebels, and no moral tarpitudo legitimatoly attaches to them on account of their course, moral turpitude must neces- sarily attach to thoeo who resisted and op- posad them, And that Lawan takes this ground is nbsolutely demonatrated by his institntion of a parallel betweon IMamrpew and WasuiNaron sud JeFp Davia, Hamroex «rosisted tyranny, and in resisting gave up his lifo as a eaorifice to his adheronceto prin. ciple. WasnmoToN resisted tyranny, suc. oessfully defonded Lis country against op- pression, nnd oatablished an indepondent Govornment, What Laxan moans to say is that the Rebels who died gave up their lives as Haxrpen did In dovotion to tho right, ond that those who, on tho Confed- crato side, survivod the strugglo aro liviog monuments of n patriotism as purc as that of Hauroen, the chiof of English patri. ots, The Hon, Luows Quintivs Contrus Lawan stands in the attitudo of the King who wrote, after defent in battle, ** Allis lost save honor.” Honor to Lanman consists in {usiting that tho Robels woro right and the Union men wrong. Who doubts that he would fight on tho saine side ghould a similar contost again bo precipitated? Iis protesta. tiona to the offect that ho is a Union man aro nothing but idle declamation ;. his rensoning points {rrosistibly o the conclusion that ke is utill unreconcited and rebellious, THE WALKING MANIA. Tho couse of the suscoptibility of the Ameriesn peoplo to manias is a mystory past fluding out, and the category of maniss sooms to bo ondless. Forlunately it is ¢ ayorything by turns and nothing long,” so that the infliction of the discaso is some- what offset by the varioty ‘of ils forms. It socins {o make no differenco to the peoplo that thoy are porfectly well aware that these moulas are manufactured by ocunning and unsorupulous speculators, tradlng upon tholr credulity and gullibility, "Luey aro dotor. mined to have' manius, aud tho only condi- tion they fmposo is that the stook shall be continually frosh, Provided only thoy are new, it mattors not if they are idiotio, In looking back over tho post fow yoava the reader will rondily recall the various forms of tho disease that havo spread through the communily, such ns the mania for old oolns which advanced the prices of old bungtown coppors so far boyoud tho value of tho coins of tho realm ag to make the dol- Iar of tho fathers nshamed of its insigoifl. canco; the mania for tulips, which led men to squander thousands of dollars upon worthloas Dutch bulbs; the mania for prize concerts ; the manin for tight-ropo walking; the manin for Blinnghal roosters, the ngliest and most worthless fowl Divine Providence evor allowod to' be oreated, good for nothing daring his.life, and unfit to eat after death; the manin for cnts by the sonfors and but. tons by the juniors, both being comparative- 1y of abont the sama valne § the mania which hing attractod overy woman in tho country for yninting napkin rings, sowor tites, and din- nor plates, the valuo of tho daub dopending upon itg ugliness; the mania for base.bali, which bas driven out the nobler game of cricket; thd mania for tho filth of opera bouffe, which fs now suporcoded by the ma- nin for that nonontity *' Pinnfore,” which, however, hns tho morit of being clenn, Tho Intest manin is of a peripa. totio sort. From walking cortain long dlstanges without regard to timo, it pro- greased to & walk of a givon number of miles in o given timo for monoy; then to walking. matches belweon man and man, next bo. twoen man and womaa, then belwoen woman aud worgan, nnd now wo hoar of men walk- ing against horses, which wa presume will Ybe followed by a thrilling match betwaen somo fomnls peflestrinn aud o horse. From, such matchos it progrossed to walking so many consecutive miles in s0 many aon- socutive hours, then hinlf-hours, thon quarters, ond now there are womon walking so many consecutivo miles jn o many consscutive ton minutes, to the accompauiments of brass bands and yelling crowds, Bo long as n mania is harmless in its re- slts and injures no one, and. people are plensed with it, thore is no particular ronson for finding fault with it. :l‘hunu walking- mntches, however, as thoy are now ocon- ducted, are not harmless; on the other hand, they are so much in the nature of an outeage a8 to coll for police imvestigntion. The scores of wretohed women now walking in| various cities are in the hands of heartless spoculators, who forco thom upon the track at the rigk of lifo and with tho cerininty of impnired henlth, that they may pooket tho gate-money sud such sums ns they can mako by gambling upon the venture. Onco in the oclutches of thoso barpies, it 1a very diffieult to get out, and no amount of suffering and physical oxhaustion can in. duce them to relont or givo thom rost, If noturo secks to nssert hor domnnds for ro- poso and sloep, thoy aro forcod to their wearisome task, and doro not rofuss, Tho brato who should treat n horse in this man. ner would promptly be punished by the au. thorities, but a woman mny bo driven mile by milo without rost until nature is ox- Liousted and she drops in hor tracks. It is nlmost inoredible that a crowd can be gath- erod o applaud ono of these haggord, mis- orable crentures, with jeded pirits, tired limbs, and Dlistered feet, urged on to her somsoless work with stimulants and sometimes with thronts nnd even blows, and seoking to accomplish a fent which can only be accomplished at the ox- ponse of all the vital forces and at the risk of lifoitself. Itis somowhat nstonishing that many papors hove commended this walking mania for ita hygienio bonefit, when thero s 1o benefit but positive injury acoruing from it. Teoplo who walk in the cool bracing at- mosphere, not to tho ulmost endurance of tho body, but in modoration and systomatic- ally, improve their health &nd find n tonfo bettor "than eny the drug- storos contain, A brisk morning walk stirs tho blood and stimulates the vital orgons of the body, and is specially beneficinl to thoss whose duties aro of a sedontary character ; but this is something differont from tho censeloss tramp around n sawdust ring, hour after hour, day after day, night aftor night, until the body is com- plotoly oxhausted. It dogrades tho woman who attempts it and ruins her health, for naturo connot bo abused withont oxacting fonrful penaltics. It affords n gang of heartloss spoonlators opportunitics to proy upon tho vulgar ouriosity of the publio, nnd to flecco poopls through the vavious dovices known to gamblers. Of coursq tho mania will have ils day, Lut tho public cught to make that day na brief s possible by refusing to patronizo such vulgar and brutal exhibitions. THE ILLIKOIS MILITIA. The consideration of the Militia bills has been made the epecial order for next Thurs- day in tho Hlinois House of Reprosentatives, Thera are soveral propositions which dlffer in dotail, but ono, introduced ns a eubsti- tuto, should bo thrown out without cere- mony, beeauso it provides that no appropria- tion whatover shail bo male for the equip- meont of the Stato Guard nor for their pay while in nctual service. This proposition is utterly indofensible. If introduced in the interonts of economy, it {s simply niggardly, and, whether 80 designed or not, it amonats to n speolal act for the encourngement of Communism. A Legislature which tolorates log-rolling in favor of local boneflts and im- provements, and which turns n willing ear to g0 palpablo a job as tha *offioial roporter™ achome, is searcely in a position to urge oconomy a8 a reason for abandoning ono of the most useful eloments of Btate Govern- ment, for which it is proposed to appropriato only $100,000 et the most, Chicago has a lively intorost in the passage of a bill whicl shall furnish proper though not extravagant support for n State Guard of, say, 8,000 or 10,000 woll-drilled and offi olent volunteor soldiors, It is not possible undor our form of Govornment, nor would it be dosirable, to maintain a gendarmeris, or military police, ns do Franco and Germany ;' at the sawo time it is not practioable for n city like Chicago to keep up a polico-force thot will bo sufficient for an omergency like n Communistic attack on property or a riot of nuy kind. But the intorests of Ohicggo nre likewiso the interestsof the Btato, so far as the publio order i8 concerned, and the Btate can woll afford to support a State mill- tiu, aubjeot to call in, emergency, when Chi- cago pays and will continue to pay more than its sharo of tho.taxes for such militia, ‘The Stato might save more property in the quick suppression of a single outbreak than tho entiro cost of the militia for fitty yoars, to say nothing of the coneidoration for hu. mon lifo which enters into the question. ‘L'bero is o Bonator in’ the Illinois Legislature who bonsts that ho can count on 10,000 men who will follow him at any time to back up ¢ Bond-lot " Keanxxy in any undortaking he may suggost ; those 10,000 men live in Obicago and a large portion of them are aqually ready at any time to join in"any other demonstra. tion of violence which thoy bolieve to be warrauted by their ideas as to a divislon of property, Chicago, as the chiof oity of the Biate, is entitled to such protection from theso posaible outbreaks us will giva its citl- zons aud property-owners a sonse of sccurl. ty; in uny other case, Chicago will be tho sufferer and the Btato also, But it is not Chicago alone that has need of this protection against Communism. The siots of tho summer of 1877 proved that the saller cition and ralway-centres are oqually in daoger. The mining.distriots of the Bate MARCH 11, 1879—TWELVE. PAGES. , furnish eause for alarm from time to time, nnd oncs alroady the: quick responso of tho Btato Guard saved Draidwood from nsceno of bldod. Such rlots ns occurrad Inat sum- mor at East 8t, Louis, growing ont of a con- flict of nuthority botweon looal officlale, onn only be controlled by Stato police; the samo is truo of the scandalous eventa in the Will- jnmeon County vondatia, The other oitics and towns in the Stato, and even the farming disteicts, should unito in demanding n proper militia law, for they hnve an intercst in the mattor soarcoly second to that of Chicago, whilo they are not roquired to pay auything liko the same proportion of tho taxes, As we have sald, thers nre several bills which differ somewhat in detail, but any one of them that provides about §100,000 as necessary for the ourront expenses of about 8,000 or 10,000 voluntoers, subject to eall, will eatisfy the people, This is the recom. mendntion of a majority of tho Militia Com. mitteo ; the minority favor much the snme mensure, oxcopt that they want to nbolish the division hendquarters and mnke the Govornor Ohief of the National Guard. 'The prosent law approprintes only one-twontioth of ono mill of the tax-lavy for the militia, whiol: {8 nlmost fatally inadequate, and the proposition of the new bill reported by the Committea is to raise the regular tax to one- fifth of one mill, Tho detnila moy bo fixed afler proper conanltation, and there will bo no serious objection one way or the othor; Lut, if* this Logislnture shall refuse to moke yroper provision for support of the National Guavd, the people of the Btate, without re. gard to party, will teach the gontlemon re- sponsible for tho action that thoy cannot pandor to the Communistic eloment with im- punity, The shepherds of this Btate will not bo allowed to call off the watch.dogs be- cause tho wolves object to their presence; in the present condition of society, on the ‘contrary, tho howling of the wolvesis tho best of ronsona for increasing tho number of watch.dogs. ANMENDING TH: E8 GISLATION. At the closo of the Iate session of Con- gress, Mr, Monnisox, of Illinols, submitted for tho consideration of the members of tho next Houso a plan for tha reorganization of the Committecs fn order to facilitato busi- ness, tho control of which is now concen. trated in a fow hands. At prosont there aro ton appropriation bills, and generally ono or moro doficioncy bills. Under the present rules of the 1fouse all theso bills have to bo cousidered, prepared, and roported by one committee,—the Committee on Appropria- tions. 'I'heso Appropriationbills are: (1) Tho Consular and Diplonintic, (2) tho Army, (3) the Navy,. (4) the Fortification, (5) the Mili. tary Acndomy, (G) the Post-Oftice, (7) the Indlan, (8) tho Legislative, Judicial, and Executive, (9) the Sundry Civil Expensos, (10) the River and Harbor, (11 and 12) Doficienocy bills. On all theso subjocts the Iouse hsa Bpecial Committes in naddition {o the Com- mittee on Ways and Moans, Tho goneral legislation of Congress is not of snch mag- nitude as to requiro standing committoes on thoso various subjocts if the approprietions be withdrawn from their consideration. I, instead of having all these approprintion bills prepared and comsidercd by ono com- mitteo, thoy wera ench sasignod to a single committoo charged with the gencral subject of the appropriation, tho businoss of the House conld bo greatly expadited, and the active participation in that Lusiness ho more gonerally apportioned nmong the mombers, fhus thore aro 'forty-seven standing committees of tho Iouse, but the whale subjeot of appropriations I8 confined to one committeo of thirteen members. Thus the Army Approprintion bill might be prepared by tho Committeo on Militiry Afnirs, aud the Naval Appropriation bill by the Commit. too on Naval Affairs, and tho Consular nud Diplomatie Appropriation, bill by the Cor- mitteo on Foreign Affairs, and that on appro- priations for the Postal Service by the Com- mitteo on Postal Matters. In this way the whole bnsiness now monopolized by the one Committes on Appropriations would be moro cffectually, intolligently, and satisfactorily transacted by a much largor number of mombors, ‘The Committes on Approprintions consiats of thirtoon membors, Thae work of prepar- ing these billa ia committed to sub-commit- toen of three mombers. The whole Com- mitteo bias elght members of ono party and’ five of tho othor, and ench Sub-Committee two mombers of one party and ono of the other party. Each bill, therefore, is propared originally by threa mombors, of whom two are o majority who dolermine what shall go in, and in what form, and what shall not go in, Itis only in excoptional cases that the full Commitleo override tho nction of the Sub-Committees. Thero aro 203 membors of tho Houso, and 280 of theso have no moro voica in the preparation of the appropriation bills than i€ they wera oxcluded by law, Tho Committes on Approprintious is privileged to report and make motions in proference to all other committeos, Their bills are regarded a8 essential to the support of {ho Govornmont, and of that clasy which “must pass,” no matter what tae situation of other bille may be, Thore isna morel sentiment a8 woll as a political necos- sity that all other bills must give way to the consideration of the appropriatious, and that the Committeo, na a goneral thing, must be sustained by tho party to whioh it belongs, Itie {ruenll those approprintion bills must be referred to the Commities of the Whole, wharo they can be dobated and amendod, but the House can at auy time limit the debato in Committeo, and the mnjority can report the bill bnck to the Houso, whore it is sub- ject to tho provious question, aud in the *t control " of a momber of the Comtmittee on _Appropriations, Ho alono speaks by anthor- ity, nud on hia suggestion amendments nro generally tolorated, adopted, or rejeoted. Ag moro than holf the sossion is wasted withe out any action on any subjeot, the appro- printion bills, when they aro reported to the House, may he sald to monopolize the atten- tion of the House up to the time of tho ad- journment of the session. All the other legislation of Congress must be proposed by some committee, and com- mittoes oan only report when called in regu. lar ordor. Each committca whon called ia entitled to ocoupy the morning Lour of each of two nuccessive days with its monsures. Thore are forty-seven committeos, The average number of days on which committecs can bo called during the two sessions of each Oongress is eatimated by Senator Hoan in a rocont paper published by him to boone hundred, This gives an average of two Aours aplece to the committees of the Houss Lo re- port, dobate, avd dlspose of all the subjeots of logislation committed to their chargoe, From this tima muat be taken tho time con. sumed in oalling the yeas and nays and the readingof the bills, It will be understood,then, that, when the Committes on Appropriations lannclies its bills upon the House witha priority over othor ' buslness, praotically thero is no other kind of loglalation posatble, #ave what Is pushed through nnder the pro vious question or by n two-thirds vote. Any. thing like dobata is utterly ont of the ques- tion. This will explaln why natlonal loglala- tion has hooome so Impossible that euch bills cannot be passod excepl as wa have atated, withont debnto under the provions queation, or a susponsion of tha rnles, or tacked on to one of the approprintion Lills. And this has become the curso of our logislation, In the Bonate thore Is aleo an Approprintion Com- wmittoo, but thore thore is froe dobate, ‘The monopoly of the gronter part of the timo of the Houso by the Appropriation Committee, which has priviloges not shared ‘by the othor Committees, throws tho con- trol of neatly tho whole leglslation of Con- gress into the hands of the thirteon mem- bers who compose that Committes. All others are practicslly’ excluded. On all theso npproprintion bills there aro disngroe. ing votes botween the Bonnto and the House, and invariably the bills are “oven. tunlly roforred to Committeos of Confor- ence. These Comiittecs of Oonference, in furn, oro appointed mninly from the members of the Commitices on Approprin. tions of the two Houses, and thus tho domi. nntion and control of thess Appropriation Committeos aro perpotunted to the last, be- causo, after all, thomain qnestions of the appropriationa are finally settled In tho Con. feronce Committoes. If Mr. Monuisoy, who is now an experi. onced membor of the Ilouse, can success- fully break up this Appropriation Committes by distribuling its business among the other Committoes, and permitting the 280 other mombers of the Houso to have something to do and to say in regulating nud controlling appropriations nnd Jegislation generally, he will accomplish an act of great national ben. efit, It would break an odions monopoly. It would disontanglo legislation excoodingly. It would enlarge the amount of intelligence, ability, nud experience capable of conduot- ing tho legislation of tho Ifouse, It would admit of the participation in active logislas tion of that gront nrray of members who oro now overshadowed by the thirteon wiso mon of the Appropriation Committee, It is- to ba hopod that ho will resolutely press tho cbange, aud that the Houso will adopt it. 'The present arrangement is aa intolerable ovil and dlsgraco, In the lmr;y of the closlog )mu_r_u of Congress “comparatively liztle attention was paid by the press Lo the smendmoent to the Sundry Civil Ap- propriation bill adopted in Conference Com- mittee] concerning the Rock Tsland Arsconl and the Mollue Water-Power Company. As the blll went into conference, It had an amendment, numbered 41, which rend as follows: For comploting thg development of the water- power at the Reck fsland Arsenal, in pursuance of contracts made with the Moline Water-Power Company, $25,000. ‘fhe repurt of the - Conference Committce recommended that the Scoato recedo from the amendment, and, {n lieu of it, adopt the follow- Ing: ’Li“lml the Secretary of Warls hercby asthorized and empowered to lease the water-nower'at Mo- line, or auch portion as may be agreed upon, totho Alolina Water-Power Company, upou such torms and condliions and for such term of years 18 may bo agrecd upon, If thessme can bo done conalstant- 1y with the interesta of the Goyernment of the United States, sald lease to be made upon the con- dition thut tha said Moline Water-Power Comunny #hall 7o on and comulete the duvelopment of tho water-power and maintaln 18 at its own cost and oexpense, 0 Mr. Epmoxps fostantly objected to this amendment that 1t was new lcgislation, and proposed to lease to a private corporation, ap- pirently for its exclusive use, & nccessary ad- Junct of the Rock lsland Arsenal, namely, fts watcr-power, which the Gorernmont had created at the cost of millious of dollars. * The astute or patriotic gentleman who fn his closot or office framed thut amendment,” sald Mr, EDMUNDS, “{ndustriously Jforgol that this water-powor should be 'kept wup for the benefit of the United Stdtes,” Further on In thede- bate it waa Insinuuted that this amendment wos inserted nt the instance of the nrms companics with a vlew to crippling the arsenal. * When the United States shall censo Lo usa the water- power,” sald Mr, ArnLisoN, ‘an argumcnt will be made, *Why bave an arsenal on Rock lgland? ** Mr. Avutsox further said that tho wator-posrer was worth from $300,000 to $500,000 per annum, and thut he should bhe very much opposed to the amendmont if ho supposed the Becrotary of War would uso the discretion it reoosed {n blm to make a lease. But he did not think the Sectetary would use this power, and hoped the bill would not fail on acconnt of it. Benators Davis and Wixpost comcurred In this opluion, and nereed with Senator Avtt- 50N that it would bo better to adopt the amend- ment, with full fulth {n the disposl- tlon of the Secretary of War to re- fuse the ‘lcase, than to let the bl fail, Scpators EpMmunps, Dawes, Kennax, uud others thought that the amendment was binpropor; that it dolegated davgerous und ox- cossiva powers to the Secrotary of Warj and that it rendered the Government liabletongreat wrong at the bands of a futurs Becrétary of War, if not of the present one. They thought it would be - better to defeat the bill than to tet the amendment go on, Notwithstanding, the report ns a whale was adopted by a voto of 83 to 24, This is the ruport that the Now York Times characterized os o ' Job,” In justice to Bon- ators AvtisoN und Wixpoy it should bo sald that they wera opposed to the principle of the mmnendment; Indeed, no mombver of the Se¢nate had the Lardibood to defend it.” Butitisa groat question why Republican Senators voted for an amendment which they know to bo wrong, and which involved militons of money. e Mr, Joseri C. 8, Brackuunn, of Kentucky, who proposes to dispute tho clalms of Bax RANDALL for the 'Speakership of the nexi Iouse, 1a now serving his third term {n Con- grees, and 15 o recognized leader on the Demo- craticslde, Jog is 41 years old, a eraduate of Cen- tre Collego, Kentucy, a lawyer by profession, en- tered the Confederato ariny lu 1861, and gerved 1o the close of the War. Ho walks with a bad limp,—the effect of a Unlon bullet having beeu devosited in bis left leg by & boy In blae to re- mind r, Braockuuny that his attempt to aver- throw the Constitution und the Unlon wasa somewhat serlous and reprehensiblo undertak- fug. Helsa free and omsy apeaker, and his oratory largely partakes of the usual surora- borealls stylo that characterizes the typleal Southern stumper. IHls preseoce is good, and bls volco rescmbles the sound of a fireman's teumpet, which s & ‘nceded qualification in a man who wishes (o be heard in so bolsterous and turbulent & body as the House of Representatives. Undoubtedly ho would make as good a presiding ofticer as Rax- DALL, but that {8 saying very litle In praise of Josern. e lacksa little of the digaity that RANDALL poasesses,~and RANDALL never Lad any to spare,~but that Jom wili rival Basas s pattisan, if he over gots {nto the Bpeaker's chalr, therocan bo little doubt. BLACKOBURN repre- eents in his own proper porson tho very lateat sud most approved style of modern Democracy, und {8 therefore a most it man to be made the conspicuous figure-head of nn extra sesslon of Congress that hias been called In consequences of thie partisan bllnduess aud stubbornness of his perty, A dyed-n-the-wool Dourbon, a Biate. Rights Democrat, and, an ex-Confcderats Briga. aler, all united in one ond the sawme person, present clalms for consideration that cannot be fizuored by the noworder about to be catablished In Washington. et — Probably ons of the tough subjects that the Dewocratic party will begin to chaw on m the extra session of Coniress, which 1s tocommence moxt week, will be the Jmpeachment of Mr, Geonas F. Bxwarp, our Minister to China, At thy Jast sesalon Mr, BEWARD was fuvestigeted to somo cxtent by a Commities of tho tlouse of which our distingulshea corn-fod BILLBraiNoRi, Chalrman; 80 stubhorn that Big, m:ln :::t' ::;ll?.“m"“ #hava until the vory last hours of mconmu" i :Congress, and then the Iapsa of tiine, ““erng of athor Cotmmittees, and the frionds of txs" il proved too much for our Wirtiaa, Th Gl mitteo tried to got Mr. Brwann 1o to)) :, Com. kaew and ha refused; ft tried to lnnk\“ L stvenr and ho refused to take an onth ( |° Hin the Committee sworo worse than "uur! Ao Flanders ), and h tried to gethola of 1o 10 but failea in that also, Finally, Genrecy ™™ Bpeakor RANDALL to lssuo his wn{m‘? Had BEwARD was brought to tne hn = tho House for contempt, where he cnrrg: o to dely Bivt, and atood upon his conatit, 1?““‘ rights a8 an Americnn cftizen, White : s stlll in the custody of the House for cop : e 8rrinorn Introduced articles of Impn;‘hm“ for bigh crimes and misdemcanors, whj -hmm manifestly ont of order.—uvnnlear; cn\:nt'" the fndictment,~and all night long, durip, i Inst weary hours of the scesion, Mr, S(.mm‘ tugged away at the subject Whenover hy i get the floor, and he got it very often thy oy the partiality of RaNpALL, Bt B‘nr:“luh Iriends fought it fnch by inch, ana nay we A faction of seeing the Forty-Gfih Conm.m" pire and ho neither imprisoned for cnmemux“. 8erinoen's Committes nor presented u? o Benate on articles of Impeachment. The mm ber from Bpringfiold hes been anxions y)f .le 4 to have the Porrar Committes, of whieh h:nl an active and useful member, present nnmu of tmpenchment, against, Presidont, Havgy e not accomplishing thut, be fell backon Brway feoling cortaln that somebody ouzht to b ;"” ponchiod. Burx, will prooably begin aggy BrwAnD where hie loft off us soon as the exlf-‘l scasion commonces. i ¢ —————— Bpeaking in o figure, as the fellow whon ho ‘reforred Lo the Amencan é?:;fi,“,’h” Wisconsin Democracy is azain endeavorin, |° mako an nss of itsel?, nnd the effort lluf S asrolling off @ log. For example: Wiseony lis an clectivo Judlclary system, and tho term ql; one of the Assoclato Justices of {he Supreme Court—the Hon. Onsamus CoLx—exlres on the first doy of noxt January, and the law provides that his successor shall bo clected on town. meeting doy in Avril. Judee CoLn hay been upon the Buprome Bench elzhteen years, andis acknowledged to be an able, consorvative, cone scientlous Judge, standiug so high in v.lwu’um:. tlon of ‘his fellow-cliizens of al pariley that o' call upon Lim to be agiy a candidato without the Intervention of 5 Btats Conventlon has been sizned by nearly all thy leadlng lawyers in tho Btats of both politiest vartfes, But thls does not scom to salt the ex. tremo partisan . Detcocrats, and they harg fasued a call npon Judge Cornunax, Hourbon Democrat, to run sgainst Corw, nod (¢ Is un. dorstood that he naccepts, But happily. ihls {foolish attompt to maka a partisan foot-ball of a high judicial ‘ofice s not lkely to succeed this year fn Wisconsin. The people are too In- telligent und wise to dispense with the services of an experienced and upright Judge, who t emiently fitted by age aud tralning to sdum thelr court of lust reaort, mercly to sult the caorlco of a few uofsy politiclans that aro erer ready to subordivate the highest {otercsts to accomnplish sclflsh designs. ——— The Tirnova correspondent of the London Times writcs to that paper, * from trustwortty sources,” some very important intellizence, to the effect that there are numerous Austrian ageots in Macedonla socking to perfect arraugo- menta to bring about an Austrian oceupation of the territory. botween Novl-Dezar and the /Egean Sen. The Russlans meanwhile, fearlng thut anv trouble ab the preseut time may tn- croaso Austrian lofluence south of the Danube, are doing oll they can to qulet the Bulgariacs upon the subject of tho division of terrltory, The Bulzarians, however, are all the more dls- posed to press thelr demand for unlon with Roumella, or nt least to exact the promise from Rusala that the Turkish garrisens shall not b allowed to ‘occupy the Balkan Passes, as provided for fn thoe Berlin Treaty, awd threaten, f these demands are not complied with, {hat they will o over to Austri, The Times intimates that ¢ the European Gov- ments were properly approached on the subject they would cousent to the abolition of the * clauscas to the Balkan occupation, und urges the English Government tosccurc theabolitionof the clausu bofora the advance of the Turkisharmy oce caslona fresh [usurroctionsand cruclties by which elther Austria or Russia will profit! And set thig 18 the treaty by which BeaconskEiLD obtalns ©d peaco with honor! As events arenow progress. ing in Eastern Europe, it is only a question of time how soon the treaty will be In shreds, e Bl ol i The Assaclated Press abstract of tho Porrsa Committee's report was in the Democratic fo- terest, but tho fault was not, we are glad tosay, in the Now York ofilce. As sout from New York and printed In the Cincinnat! pewspapers, the Assoclated Press disputch read: ‘i Porren's raport is regarded by Democrals who have perused It as singularly fmpartial and judicial,” As reccived und printed by all ke Chleago nowspapers, ftroad: * Mr. Porres's roport 18 regarded by thoss who have perused it an singularly tmpartlal and judiclal The cluiaugs must have been made in Cinclonatl, or fn the course of transmission from that city to this; and it is charitable to presume thot anls take {n copylng or telegraphing was the csuo of It. At ody rate, the New York sgent L] completely oxonerated from the chargy of se- lecting Mr, TILDRN for his Sunday-pight sube stitute. Nobody ever supposed that Mr TorxTon himself wes responsible for thaopla {on complatned of. ———eet——— i The New Orlenns Timess dreadfully outraged by the voto sgalust tho Brazilisn aubsidr. 3! ralses the cry of sectlonallsm; but really docar' et a5 much support in the figures as it clalmed and looked for, Ita recapitulation is ss fok lows: Den:;m-l!lc vote—Yon "The proportion of Southern Domocrats b0 voted x;ur the bill to tho Northern Dcmorrll: who voted for it {s large; but thatls really I::’ tho way to test tho question. From the fii")“m- of the Zlmes it appenra that tho Southern ; i aeratie yote against the bill is two aud oue- Io a9 larye a8 the Southern Democratic 1o lmrl ft. Inview of thass Nigures i fs absurd to 647 tho Bouth wants the subsidy. Oniy L"l‘""“‘m’{ Mississippl, and Texas want it. Woshoul e tho above summary would be vory consoling Mr, RANDALL. et The English Government 18 Mkely to ::n'.: another war an fts hands befors 1086 '"am out of the inhuman barvaritics of the e s of Burmab, who secms to be uven uwroL e clous than the old onu, reccutly dccwfi‘; prod sigualized bis accesslon to the mrmmI !ydr cuting over slxty of bis mulo’and (um’erk b tives, aud bas beon busy with his m:”w' slaughter ever aiuce. A reignof Lumnrm o and the fobabitants of unthh"lh:x;‘-gfl;;'“” e at state of cxcitemeat, ol mmuued them aleo, ‘Tho British mséde‘n:lhl“ remoustrated agalnst the exesutiond ;ltlu "t out ayall; and the London Zinus lnlun: et 1t the King persists in these coursts sooner or later will be (nevitable. e—— tues of the decewed vir! It wes ons of the Sontaas, 8s e miner eulogized by BcoTTY e o e more W But ¢ 18 muc] . ::::h:: stand by bis maternal gmulmmhtr Mr. Bragus did lndhiu speech Mr, BLans now clalms rc Btates,—Maluo, Ponnaylvanis, ond lm we should not be surprivady before % tion mects, to Lear from many more purpose. = The River and Harbor bill uvem:"tllllm “ that Gov. PoowD, of Wisconsioy T monet whon the different ftems approor s et were incorporated foto the bl,“- B scsslion efore the electiondir Pou! i iy gotting lberal uppropristions s provemuat of: oyery riven o