Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1879, Page 4

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Madame Andarson, the Pedestrienne, SATURDAY, MARCIL 15, 1879, A biil hins been passed in one branch of tho Indiana Legislature allowing barbers to ply their trade on Sunday, If this should be- como a law thore would bo no longer ono day ont of seven whon a mnn was in no danger of being talked to death, The mombers of the De Broours and Tocuxnovgr Cabiuots propose to enter n protest agalost the vote of censure passed on Thursdsy by the French Chamnber of Depu. ties. It is denied that the Chambor, having refuscd to impeach, had the right to censure the dinistors, The new tarill schedule ndopted by tho Cnnadinn Governmant wag yesterday submit- ted to tbo House of Commons by the Fi- nonce Ministor. Au incrense has beon made throughout, nnd the experiment of protoot- ing home industries by the probibition of imposts from the United States saems to have bden tho policy had in view by the Proviucial Ministry., The onnunl report of the Chicago Commis- sioner of Hoalth shows thattho mortality for 1878 wna less than that of 1877, and, what is still morv remarkable, loss than during any yoar since 1871, Cousidering the. steady increase in population during the past eight yeors, the deorense in mortality makes a showing that testifies to tho truth of the nagertion that Ohicago i the healthiost lnrgo | aty in Amorica. Out of all the mnrdorcn‘in‘tho County . Jnil awaiting trinl or sontonce thoro is one at least~aud porbaps at most—who doos not deserve hanging,—TFuaxz Dowauve, who Lilled tho poor old paralytic at Irondale last January beanuse ho fancied the unfortunate cripplo was muking facos at him. Tho evi- dounce submitted at tho trinl yestorday was such as to leave no doubt that the prisonor wog ot the timo of the tragody and now liopelessly inaan: Genoral sorrow and rogrot ‘will be ocon- sloned in Chicago nt tho nows of tho death in Washington yosterdny of Dr, Jomn M, ‘Wooowontst, Supervising. SBurgeon-Gonaral of the United States Marino Hospital Serv. ico. Dr. Woonwont was o rosidont and for many years a practicing' physioian and gurgeon iu this city, and was held in high catecn by nn extanded circle of frionds and sequalntances in and out of tha profession of which ha was an honored membor, Tho resull nooratie primaries hold yestorday for the clestion of delegates to the Convention to-day has been to lenve tho oulcotno g8 to the Lend of tho ticket very much in a muddlo of doubt aud uncertainty, Apparenlly Ganten Hannwox hns o majority *6 on the face of tho roturns,” but there is no felling what chnnges tho “bar'l® may produce bofore the Canvention comea to a vote. The only thing that is certain fs, that whatevor tickot mny bo nominuted will be beaten, Tha only now thing in conneotion with the Bposkorship contest is the throwiug out of woll-baited houks by the Greenback Con. gressmon fn tho whaps of B formnl proposition to umite with cither of tho old partles in the support of any one of mnine mon, amonyg them but two Republicaus, 'T'ho namo of Bunsat Cox hends the lat, and for the fAmt timo in " Lis life this fucousideralle demugogne ne- sumed some prominence pa n passiblo condl.’ date of n Democratic-Nationa! conlition, ‘What thne ** Qur Qaursn " that was fs on- goged in selting up the pivs for the Demo. orativ nomination for Muyor of Chicago his old foo, ex-Doorkocper Povx, is setting up the pins to securo the indiotmont of thy man who caused his downfull, Yo hoa Lrought to the notico of the Districk-Attornoy nt ‘Washington, with a view to an inquiry by tho District Grand Jury, soine allogod faots rogarding Mr, Hannmox's doctoring of the poy-rolls o Chairman of tho Houso Commit. tee op Civil-Bervice TMofarm. Porx haw al- ‘ways claimed that ho was made to sutfer for the sius of the Dewmocrats, and hay pronmised to lavo his revenge all in good time. It would seom that the good timo has about ar- sived, In the ovant of tha repopl by the Demo. cratio Congress of the Rlection.Suporvisars law, it s sald the Republicans of tho New York Legislature will pass a law for appli- cation in that Btate proclyoly similar in plan nud scope to the Foderal law, thelr objoct belog to provent the repetition in" 1880 of the euonnous clection frauds of 1808 by’ which tho Now York Btute Eleotoral vote wus ptolen from Guanz, 16 would be inter- esting to know what the Domocrats would doin such a onse, and whethor the Demo- cratio Govornor of Now York would facl cnlled to interposs his veto to prevent the proposed interference with the nntural and inaliennblo Democratic right to repeat, stuff ballot-boxes, and doctor eleo. tion roturns, 'Tho dootrina of Btato’s-Righta conld cut no figars, nnd Domooratic opposi- tion to tho mensuro would have to bo con- fegsed a8 nrising from n determinstion to brook no restriction of a time-honored privilego, Thero fs n bill ponding in the Legislature, prepared and proposed by Mr. OanTen, to abolish the legal machinery of indictmont of criminals by 8 Grand Jury, and the substi- tntlon of trinls upon legal information by the Btata's Attorney. The Jaw contemplates that ovory person aconsed of crimo shall havo o proliminary inveatigation of the facts (unless he walve tho same), and, whan com. mittod or hald to buil, the Btate’s Attorney shall thereupon, if in his judgment the evi- dence and oircumstances warrant, file an in. formatfon in which ho shall charge thae per- son with the crims in non-techuical, but in torms go clear and spooifio that the prisoner shall undorstand with what he is charged. Any etrors or mistakes in the information may b correoted at any time by the Court. This systemn is adopted in Miohigan, and works woll, The proposed bill makes a com- prohensive and sweeping raform of the pro- ceedings in oriminal prosecutions, reducing the ploadings, ns hna been dono in England, to short, conoise, matter-of-fact statomenta freo from all unnecesssry words, but distinatly stating the oriminal mot of which the party is to be tried, We do not know how far this bill hes any chance of pnssing into n law. Its merits na a reform of oriminal practico are snfficiont to com- mend it to ninety-nine out of every hundred intelligont men not criminals and not at- tornoys engnged in tho defonsa of oriminals. If the bill nccomplished nothing clso than tho reduction of the criminal code to n law for the prosccution of crimo and the punish- ment of those guilly of crime, it would be tho most honeflaial law enncted in this State for many yonrs, 'I'he abolition of the Grand Jury system {4 allowed by the Constitution of this State, and {ts abolition will hardly bo serionaly rogrottod except. by thoso who aro intercsted in the protection of crime. If its nbolition be ossentinl to or neccssary to authorize tho other reformain tho criminal code for which this bill provides, then the reform will bo cheaply brought by getting rid of tho cumberaomo, costly, and almost usoless Grand Jury system. THE PARTY OF REVOLUTION. Xt is not necessnry to hunt for precedonts in order to justify tho nction of the Ropub. licans of the Iast Congress in refusing to be dragooned into consenting to tho repeal of certain statutes by throats of withholding appropriations for tho ordinary expenses of Govornment. Tacking propositions for in- depondent legislation to appropriation bills is n confession that such proposed measures cannot bo ndopted in & constitutional man- ner. To completo the smallost act of logis- Intton the affiemative consent of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Presidont is cesential. It ja tho constitu- tional right of the House of Reprasentatives to originato revonue bills, and that of tho Seuuto to nmend or rovise thom. But after both Houses have come to an agreement the Presidont moy Interpose his veto, nnd the voto ls offectanl until overborne by a two- thirds vote in both Houses. Thus the con- stitutional power of the President over leg. islation is the oxact equivalent of two.thirds of both Houses—loss ome vote. It js only whon majorities in both Honses are in accord with the Prosident, or. when two-thirds of both Housos are in nccord with ench other, that radienl menanres of legislation can be logiti- mately and constitutionally adopted. It is thus that the Constitution nffords powerful protection to tho rights of the minority. And as the Qonatitution is tho act of the people, it muat o presumed to embody their exact will s to tho checks it imposes upon legislation. Honce tho absurdity of Hoontor TuunMAN'A assumption that tho Tousa of Repreaontatives, moro than the Senate or the Prosident, rapresonts the will of tho poople, In choosing o mofority of Democrats to ropresent them in the Ifouse of Rteprosontatlves in 1876, tho puople willed that the power vested by tho Coustitution in tho Lower Houso of Congress should be confided to tho Demooratic party,—thia pud nothing more. At the same timo the peoplo willed that the poweor vested by tho Constitution in the Executive should be confided to the Ropublican party, Dut ovon "if Tupey bkad boon chosen President, ono chock upon partisan log. islation would still have remained, tho TRopublican Senate, © Nor could it havo beon wurged, In that oveat, that the pooplo desired to confido to tho Domooratio party absolute control of the Govornment, but failed of. their deslra on acconnt of tho peculiar character of the Banato organization, The people themsolvos havo provided that tholr will can ba expressed only through cortain prosoribed constitu. tional mothods, tion, pud in it provided for its smendmant; nnd.thoy have not 8o much ns hintod a desire for tho amendment of its provisions impos. ing chooks upon legislation, It follows from this analysis that an at. tempt on tho part of one Lranch of the Logislative Dopartment of the Gavernmant to forca ita political views upon the othar two branchas, or of two branchos to force thely political views upon tho third branel, by tackiig indopondont propositions of logis. Intion to the rogular appropriation bills, s n violstion of the spirit of the Con. atitution, And o violation of tha spirit of tho Constitution da destruative of ity lottor, boenuso its lotler is nocossnrily conflucd to brond gonerslization from which its uplelt must be daduced snd ap- pliod to tho administeation of the Govorn. mont, Lo illustrate 1 Tho Constitution pro- vidos that ¢ All bills for raling vevenne shall originate in the Jouse of Reprosontn- tivea." Buppose thu first Houso of Repre. sontatives convenod under the Qonstitution hod negleoted or rofused to *originate * a rovenus bill? The Cloverament of (he new Ropublic would have died of inauition,— starved to doeath! 'Tha Qonstitution pro. vides thut ** No money shall bo drawn from the Treasury bu¢ in consoquounce of appro- priationy mudo by law.” Bupposs one Holse of Congress persistently yefuses to convent to the passage of any appropriation bill? Tho exlsting rovenue laws being in force tho revenue wight be colleoted s long as Government oftlolals would consent to work withont pay, ‘L'he Trensury would overflow with monoy, but nat a dollar could be puid out either to employes or croditors of the Government. The intercst on the pulic dobt could not be paid, and goupous Thoy formod the Constitu.® would go to pratest, Tho anny conld not he paid, and would have ta be disbanded. Tha Indian annuities conld not ho patd, and tho Indlans wonld massnaro the frontior set~ tlers, Tho ninvy conld not bo pald, and ita ships would rot at the wharves; nota vessol could put to sea for want of supplies, The Cotirts wotd fall Th Riceon of thele own weight, tho oporations of the machinery of Juatico would bo suspondad, -and criminaln ngalnst tho lawsof the United Statos wouldgo frooof trinland punlshment, Finally, through the withideawal of thoe right of disbursomont of publio monoys, the collection of Lho reve- nne would censo aliogwtlior, The importer would Iand his morchandise without fear of moleatation &t tho hands of the customs offl+ oer, for {here wonld be no such offfear; sad tho distiller would put his highwines on the nu-ket withont fear of the Internal Revonne Qolleator, for that offleer wonid long since hare retired in disguat. And yet the lattor of tho Coostitution wonll not have bnen violated. It would havo beon allowed t» rot morely like n wdrthloss ploce of parchmont, to lie unused like alast yenr's almanse,— robbed of its lifo and eplrit by tho willtal negloct of the peoplo’s represontatives in a singlo brauch of the public sorvica Lo abide by thoir onths to uphold and support it. But to preciacly this course tho Democrats of both Housos of the last Congress bound themselves during the last houra of its olos- ing sossion, In voting to refnse the ordinary appropriations for the conduct of the Gov- ornment, thoy voled to destroy the Govern- ment. 'Tholir refusal to vote appropriations nbsolutely essontin! to the continued exist- onco of tho Governmont waa a refusal to por- form their aworn duaty, and conseqnently equivalent to an aot of revolution, The not was of the samo charnctor as that of tho Bouthorn Ropresentatives in, Congress who, in 1861, desorted their posts to commit overt nota of rebollion. Bo far as tho Demecrats of the Forty.fifth Cougress aro concorned, they did their ntmost to stop tho wheels of Government, and henco to disrupt the Gov- orament, At tho moment of tho conatitu- tional dissolution of that Congross thoy said by their votes to the Presidont chosen by tho people to administer the Goy- ornmont : * * Wo decline to furnish you with supplics even at the peril of Gov- ornmental dissolution, and we know that it is boyond the power of the Congress of which we are membors to rocall the act, for it dios to-day.” To discover tho nature of n given politioal courso it is only necessnry to trace it to its logical conclusion, Tor the consequonces of the original act thoss who committed it aro morally rosponsible. Henco the Demoeratio party as represented in the Inst Congross is rosponsible for an attempt to dostroy the Govornment by the process of forcad dissolution throngh lack of supplies with which to administer it. This responsi- bility cannot be shifted to the shoulders of Republicans, Demooratic mombors of Con- gress, oqually with Ropublican members, ‘were bound by their oatha to provide for the continuance of the Clovernment,: irre. spoctivo of -nll othor considerations. ‘The Republican moinbers offored to pass the appropriation bills; the Domoeratic mom- bers refused, oxcept upon a cortain condi- tion. This condition, under tho circum- ntances, was a threat of rovolution, bocause TRopublicans wera not and could not be bound by thoir oaths to vota for the ropenl of o statnte which their judginont approved, while Democrats tcere boaud by thoir oatha to vote the necessary appropriations for the continunnco of the ‘oxistenco of the Govern- ment thoy had sworn to support and up- hold, The Demoaratio party is, by the record to- day, tho party of revolution. If tho Demo- oratio Congross scon to nssomble maintains the same nttitude as that maintained by tho Forty-fifth Congress, the Democratic party must and will suffer hopeless shipwrocel. THE DIVISION OF BULGARIA, In viow of tho recent diplomatic negotin. tions betweon England and Turkey ns to tha execntion of the Treaty of Borlin, tho now question of the division of Bulgarin assumes unusual intercat, Itis npparent from the vorrespondenco of tho two Powers that En- gland has boon seriously exeroised concerning tha dotermination of the Bulgarinus, north and south of the Balkany, to achiove thelr noity, though Russin, at first seoming to favor this unity, hins beon sivgularly reticont of Iate, considering that slio has mnade herself the chomplon of tho oppressed Chrlstiaus, both in Bulgnria and Roumelln, while orafty Austrla, susplolous of futuro tronblos in this direation, Lins sant hor ngents into Macedonin with theviow of investigating the possibilities of seenring tho largo atrip of territory botwoon Novi-Bazor and the ZEgoan 8os, Tho rocent notion of Russia, whil it has boou a myatory to England, hns beon a cnuse of such indig. nation nmong the Bulgarinus that thoy hava npanly threatened to throw thomsolves inte the nrms of Austrin, & A wollsinformed correspondant of tho Lon. don Times, writing from 'Ilrnova, sheds cons sidornble light upon the changa of feoling of Russin, in some suggeations which he mokes, why Ruasia is willing to allow the Turks lo garrison tho Balkans. Ilo shows that the Provinca.of Roumelia will have a milltia thut 18 hhoatile to tho Porlo, and that tho fighting population of Bulgaria aud Roumelia, both hostile to the Porte, so long sa tho two provinces aro soparated, will outnumber the army which the Porte oan maintain upon tho Balkeans, . If tho Turks conld not rally upon any polut after the Russiang crossed the Bal. kan Mouutaing s year ago, how cau thoy ox- peot to do 8o, or avgn eseapo bang erushod whon they aro obliged to fall back thyough n iino of armed and disciplined onemios? 1t m caso of an invasion from tho north the ‘Turks shonld adrunce towards the Danubie It would only mako their position worse, bo- cause thoir lince of communleation would Lo grontly extonded, aud fu onse of defont thelr ratreat through a hostile population fn their rear would ho attonded with foarful dis- astor. Tho assortion of somo critics that the ‘nrkish population in Roumella will coun. ternot the Olirivtinng, aud that the oMcers of the militin, being Turks, will hold 1t ju chuek, this gorrespondent pronauucey to be o fatal delusion, Ou the other haud, ho As. sorfa that tho Chrlstlon Govormmont will 1ake it 8o uncomfortable for the uppar-olass ‘L'urks that thoy will Lo glad to got out of tho country, while tho pensnnts do not onre who rules thom o long ps thelr familios and thelr cattle are unniolested. From a strategloal point of viaw, therofore, Lie declares that the Turkish oocupation of tho Balkans is a mis. tuko, und that the Ttuaslan Gonorals know it, and ara willing the garrisons should ga thera to ba oruvbed nt somo futuro day betwoen the uppor and lower millitoues of Northern and Houthern Dulgarin, Further than this, ho bohiwves that tho Rusalan Government is not favorable to Bulgarian unity, bocause, that onoo aacamplished, * the Taxamieres of tho future will be powoarless to sl up dis- content in tho Balkan Peninsula; but with o Turkish garrlson in the Dalkans and this unsatisfiod longing for national unity, Russin will always hiave toolsat hand with which to arouso the Bulgarinns by promising thom their unity and the removal of the Turkish gnrrisons from thele loncly porches on tho Balkan summits," Auothor suggostion which this oorrespond. ont mnkes, and, ons whioch tho logia of ovonta indioatos may yot be nocomplished, is that tho only hopo for Turkoey in Europa lios in making tho contral point of hor frontior at Adrianople, with a line of atrongly-forti- fled positions proteoting enoh flank towards tho Dlack Ben and the Son of Marmorn,— which is ‘substantinlly the frontler that would havo baen ostablished hnd the Troaty of San Stofauo boen earriod out, To clnims that tho twonty-two rodonubts of Adrlanople con ba hold by 40,000 mon for a long timo agalnst hnlf o mitlion of the best soldiers in Europs, and, if this frontior-lino should provo untonablo, a rotrograde movement, owing to tho nature of the country and the linda of communtontion, would concontrato their forces upon the hights of Tohataldja, no mattor how badly tho retrograde move. maont wns gonducted. If theso hights conld not bo hold,Constantinople would fall. Thero is all the moro_forco in this corro- spondont's romarkablo latter from the fact that tho recont war shows no reouporative power upon the part of Turkoy, Other Europenn Powors after groat wars havo ro. coverod, somo of them very rapldly, 78 in the cam of Franco after tho recent Gormaun invasion, and Rus. sin nfter tho Orimean War, but Turkey is hopolesely brokon, If sho is to remain as nn independont Power in Europe, tho smallor hor limits the mora strongth sho will have, The position of Russinn diplomacy seems to bo to maintain for the pregont o masterly innotivity, and, as Englnnd sooured tho Treaty of Berlin, to lot England look aftor its oxe- cution, whilo sho (Russin) avades any respon- sibility in the matter of tho Bulgarinn divis. ion. If unityis nccomplished, it sccomplishes ono of tho principal onds-which Russia con. tended sho was fighting for, nomely, tho doliverauca of tho Ohristians from Turkish oppression, If it{s prevented, it must be provented Ly England, and this throws the responsibility upon England of siding with tho Turks against the Christians, and reopea- ing tho troubles which led to the rccant war, SUSPENDING ANIMATION. In the last issuo of Taz Terbuxe was print- ed aremarkable story of the success of Signor Rorona, n keientific gontlomnn of Now South ‘Wales, 1 suspending animation, It appears thnt tho Bignor has discoverod n subtlo South American ‘vegolable essenco that hus tlio power of perfectly - susponding nnimation, and that tho trance continues until the ap- plication of nnother vegolable essence ro- stores ths cironlation of blood nnd the wheols of tho body go round again, In his firat ex- periment, the Signor was tronbled by tho of- feots of the warm olimate, which cansed de- composition to sot .in, though the subject was not dead, 8o that his goods spoiled on his hands, This was remedied, however, by reducing the temperature of thoe body in froezing chamber #o that the subjoct ro- mained in its inanimato condition very com- fortably, and when it wns woked up by saturation-into n warm bath, g0 that thé tom- pernturs was restored to blood heal, it was not shocked by finding its extremitios in n vigorous state of decomposition, Thero 18 nothing pow in the idea of Signor TRoruna's process, for Friar Laurence pro- ducod tho samo offect upon Juliet with his distilled liquor, and so deceived the headlong Romeo with * the borrawed likoness of shrunk daath " that the lattor suspendoed his anima- tion altogother with tho powerful poison procured from tho apothaoary **in tattered weeds and overwholming brows,” Friar Laurence's procoss aldo had - the advantage over Bigoor Rotuna's that the vietim did not havo to bo frozon and then thawed out, Juliet awoko horeolt *‘ ns from a plonsant Zeop.” Noris it anysccrst that skillful operators havo susponded smmation in cor. tain parts of the body by freezing thom when thoy wish to perform operations upon those parts, Some of the lower cold-blooded nnimals, like frogs and eels, freezo without tho slightest inconvenionco or danger to life. There isnarocord, howavor, that any oporator has hiad the coursge to freeze tho whola body of warm-blooded nuimals, Signor Roruna himaclt bos not yat oxporimented upon n human subjeot, probably because there i8 no human being who oures to take tho chances of his polson and rofrigoration, o has confined him- wlf to' cattle, sheep, dogs, cnts, snd hogs, with whnt e claims to bo the most success- ful results. If his claim is substantiated, tho process of courso will ba of gront com. merelnl voluo to farmers aud stock.raisors, s 1t will enabla thom to freoze thoir enttlo, shaop, snd hogs, sond thom to Enropeinlarge quantitios, nnd th them out whon thoy arrlve, Thoso which do not eutirely rally will stiil bo good ment for the markaet, and those which do oan bo sont to pasturo, pro- vided those wlo nnload them do not handle them aftor the manuer of baggage-smashiers nnd broak off a leg or arack their ribw, ‘I'ho most importaut foature of theBignor's disgovory is the possibility that it can bo applied to human boiugs. Considering this possibality, lowever, thoro is ono contin- goncy whick tho 8ignor will have to ment and overcome, Let us supposa that a mnp, 44 yonrs of ago, tired of his own generation and the prosent modes of life, should dosire to project himself into tho futuro ono hun- drod or a thousand yenrs to seo how things will bo bo mannged in those far-off days. ‘Whion he wakes up, will ba still be 45 yoars of age, or will ho be 145 0r 1,045 yoars, ns the cnsomay bo? Or will he, when tho ordi. uney Limo comes to die, sny twenty-five or thirvty yoora hence, dio without knowing nnything about it, and go to a belter world in u frozon condition? Supposo some old lady, going on 70, should toke a fanoy she wantu to go to the uext Contennial, and cop. #ent to ba paoked awny in a freczing oham. Lor until that time. Whon. she wakes up and starta for Chicngo, will sho be n brisk old lady of 70, or will sho be a withered old hngof 170 or therenbouts? Buppose Mr. ‘C'1Loey, in hisinsane dotermination to bo Pres- ident, should doolde to run in 1980 ond em- ploy Bignor RoTuna to congoal him, carsfally lay him awny in 8 Grameroy Park rofrigora. tor, and make arrangoments to thaw him out an hundrod yoars honos, would he then bo o hobbling old jnen of 67, or will Lo be 167, with not onough left of him to make n yooduhalk line ? Aud-again, dreadful thought, supposa the poople about CGramercy Park should let the foe allinelt off, or should forget to thaw him out, or dsoldo that it wouldn's poy todoit! For long perfods of timo it {s evidently an uncomfortable process until all contingonoles are provided for, but for sbort spalls jt ouglit to combd into very goueral usa, Yor instance, a person afflioted with a tum- poatnous mother-ln-law might freeze her up, with fustructions to thaw her out when ko THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. - MARCH 15, 1879--SIXTEEN PAGES waa gono. A young conple in tight timos, finding it impossible to got along, comld practico tho most tigld economy by lnying wp forn fow yanrs on n sholf, locked togothar inan ioy ombrace, ILittle ploasura partics, wishing to gofo Eurona and nvoid tho discom= forts of tho tossing sen, conld frooze up in Now York nnd thatw out in Liverpool, and save oxponse by going ns frelght, Parties afiliot- ed with boolk-ngents and lightning-rod men, or boras of nny other doseription, vould entoh ono of the tribe, freezo him, and atand him up in ncorner a3 a warning to tho reat, ‘Thero is 1o ond to tha applioations that might' bo mado of this *big thing on {eo," but ovidently Signor Rorura must remove tha contingencies to wyghich we have alluded and many others hefors any considerablo numboar of peopls will consent to be frozen np, TRE BOUTHERN GRABBERS, Thero have beon n good many evidences of tho faot that the mnin purposs of the Sonth in seeling oontrol of tho Genoral Governmont iato opon tho doors of tho Nn- tional Tronsury to sectionn! grabs, Thoro is no longor nn exouso for n *Sold South" in tha protenso of * Homo Rule,” for the lattor condition in and hins been for two years thoronghly assured to the Sonthorn Btates; indecd, *Homo Rula” is so firmly cstah. lished thot the laws and evon {ho Conatitu- tion of tha United States aro violated under tho toleration and sanction of tho Stata Gov. ernmonts, Bupromaocy in the Gonoral Gov- ernmont is not sought by a sectional South a8 A means for scouring any monsitres of po- litieal justice, for it urges only tho old issue of Btata-Boveroignty which wan defented on tho binttle-floll, But the Southorn whites feol that, by close communion ameng thom- solves and assiated by the clnss of Northern Domaorats who cherish tho tradition of sub- mission to Southorn dietation, thoy may Aoizo tho bulk of the ofilces, enjoy most of the omoluments, and volo themsclves vast sums of monoy out of the National Troasury for seotionnl improvements and trumped-up claims, Tho remnrkable unan- imity with which tho Southern politicians and press have supported the proposod Toxns & Pacific and the Mississippl Embankment subsidies, whether goographically located or not located so As to enjoy the benefit of such donatlons, s nn evidence that the Confodorates aro making comnion cause in this gigantioraid on the Tressury, and that it is the hopo of spoils which binds them 50 oclosely togather. Tho snvage attacks mode by Southorn moembers on Geu, Braag, in tho Inst Congress, whon he' dared to proolaim himself and A largo faction of Northern Democrala nagainst Robel claiws, shows a disposition to make war upon Demo- crats 08 well a8 Republicans whenever the former avinco a disposition to interfere with tho Southern grab-gamo. A job in the closing hours of the Inst Congress, put into the Sundry Olvil bill by the Democratio msjority in the Houso, furthor illustratos the greed of the Bouth and tho willingness of the daongbfaces to pander to it. 'This was an itom of over $71,000 voted to tho State of Georgla, which consisied mostly of com- pound interest, reckoned on 20,000 since 1842, Tho 320,000 was itsclf intercst on a claim which Georgin mode on the Genoral Government for fighting the Indians; the sum of $04,000 kad alrendy Leon paid, which was more than the principal, The olaim was, in faot, no claim nt all, ns Benator Cuaxpren explained, and the United States Gavernment had only pald these demands praviously in recognition of a patriotic pur- pose on the part of the States that had aided in the suppression of Indian hostilities for their own protection. It was not the original claim, whioh had long boen paid, but the com- pound interest, that Georgia was after, and the Domoorats insiatod upon this factitious sys. tem of accumulation, which would bank- rupt a Government with a gold-mine for ita voults, The payment of this spurious olaim shows that tho South s willing onough to admit, and even to insiat, that the United Statos avo o nation whenever thero is quos. tion of supprossing an outbrenk in which the Bouthorn whites do not take part, or in prying tho cost of a foreign orIndian war, or in voting subsidlos for any seotional job south of Mason and Dizou's line, howaver dovoted it may bo to the doctrine of State- Soveroiguty whon it is desired to nullify the United Blntes laws, This Georgia steal iy but o small foratasta of what is to como when both Houso and Bonato eball vio with ench othor in advaucing Southern olaims upon the dockot, and there is now a procedent for allowing compound interest on all Reboel claims, THE LATEST DEMOQ-CONFED, FRAUD, ‘The dosperation of tho Democratic manag. ars to repeal the only law od the United States statno books which affords any proteotion ngainat frauds in National and Qongressional vlcotions, is woll 1lusatrated by the proposi- lion that the Olerk of the Houso of Rupre- sontativos shall excludo the ontive Towa dole. gation from the organjzation of the House, o4 a monns for assuring Democratio control, The Iown dalegation consista of nine mom. bors,—sovon Ropublicans and twd Greon- binokers, If this number of tho Opposition by omittod from the roll-call, the Domo.Confeds will havo n olonr majority, and will be rea. sonably safa from any comblnation among n faw'p! their own number to act independ. ontly of tho oauous. Thoy could then pro- coed to eloot a Bponker favorable to the policy of nullification, and seoure such an organization ns would stand fismly by the wchome to aut off supplies unfess the Prosi. dent will consont to aign tholr bill repenling the Nationa!l Eleotion *Jaw ond guaranteolug immunity for trauds on the ballot-box, _Tho vall of the House i1 in charge of the Clork, whose duty it is to make up the liat of prima fucls membors, and only such mom- Lars oan take part in tho work of organizlug the Houso, The enrolling of members is in. tended to be merely clerlcal work ; othorwise' it would not bo intrusted to the Qlerk, It may be actually within the power, but it is altogethor outsido the functlon, of the Olerk to undertake to dotormine who are and who aro not entitled to soats, The Constitution provides that each Housa shall determine jta own membership, It is a flagrant outrage, therefore, for a mere clerk, in making up the roll, to ausuma to admit or oxoluds npon his own judgment; it is simply his duty to enter the namos of those who pre- sent themsalves with propor cortifioates of -olootlon, without any regard to any contests or the allogation of any conditions vitintiug the eleotion, In tha ouse of the Towa dole. gatlon, the Olerk of the Touss would assume to canstrue snd determine alawof tho na. tion, and olso the law of Towa, if he shonld amit from the roll those gentlemen who hold their cortifieates of elostion from Iowa, 'Thera is & United Btates statute requiring that Congresslonal eloctions shall be Leld on o first ‘Puoaday after the Arst Monday in Noveubsr, exosot in thoss Biatén whish have n constitutional provision that the-Congres. stonal cleation shinll bo hold in Ootober. The queation was raised long beforo tha elastion of lnat yenr whothor or not Iown was oxempt from the opoeration of tho United Btates atatute, nud, after belng thoroughly can. vasaed, {t was decided that Town could eloct in Qotober. This was done, Tho clection won falr and regular in every way, and prob. ably the rosult wonld have been no different had it ocourrad four weoks lator; if the later dnte had made any differance it wonld have boen in the defent of tha two Groenbackers and the election of Republicans for the en. Live delegation, ‘Tho prosont; Olerk of the House—Grorom M. Avams—is o facllo tool of the Demo- crats, but it is hard to believe that he would be williug to asaume so grave arosponsibiiily a8 fo the excluslon of n wholo Stato delegntion of nine members who were openly and fairly electod, simply be- caugo they do not bolong to tha party which lio represonts ; snd it would ba a ourious fn. atanco of Demooratic inconsistonoy if that party, dovoted to the doolrino of Btate- Boveroignty, should thus order an insult nnd indignity to ono of he chief States in thb Uniori by excluding its entire delegation in Qongress beenuse it had (perhaps) techni. cally confiicted with a United Btatos statute. If Apana shall daro to attompt this ontrage it will not bo lie, but the party that diotates it, whom tho country will hold responsible, It will be an exhibition of partisanshipaltogather unparnticled in the history of tho country, and it will bo a striking warningof the daugoers of n Demo-Confedorate oligarchy in the con- trol of the Natfonal Congross, Apams will do this, if at all, under the promise of re- olection to his position s n reward for his crime.—for tho ot will bo nothing lesathan o high crimo,—and ho mny find hispunishment in not being re-sleoted, for the Denoorats, after accomplishing their purpose, will scek to transfer the responsibility from the party to Apana individually. If this conspiracy to excludo the Town delogation shall suceeed, it will serva to incronsoe the resentment at the North ngainst the bulldozing polioy of the Demo-Confedarates, and help to insura the olection of a Ropullican President and Qon. gross next year; if it shall fail, 1t will bo from lnck of nerve nud not ihrough any obianga of heart, ‘and the very suggestion of the schema puts another blight upon a party that secks powor by cunning, frand, .vic- lenco, intimidation, nud revolutlonary methods, AT, LUB, The particulars of ths foreign trada of the year 1878 aro astonishing, oven to the most snuguine Americans, Prices of bresdstuffs and provisions were much lowor 1 1878 than thoy weroin 1877. Noverthaless, tho aggre. gnto valuo of the domestio prodnots exported roachied the enormous sum of $748,048,022, This was for the onlondar year endiug Dec. 81. The total value of the importa was only $443,305,600, and the exaess of oxportr, or balance to our oredit, was $805,844,028, Tho highest balance to our oredit-in any provious year was in 1877, when the sur- plus of cxports over imports was $140,050,~ 112, 'Theso figures ave puroly on morchan- disa recount, Ilerein we find the stability of our finanoinl condition, With a eash bnlance to our credit during 1877, thero has boen no danger of any demnud on us for coin remittnnces nbrond, Tho figures arve really remnrkable, Tte Blowing show the bolances for each montl for the callendar years 1877 oud 1878 4 ——1877, —— 1878, DBalance In Jtalance Balance In J‘nf]nr Sol' uagainst .(amn-g aof 211,814,007 10,460,840 :‘l)nmombnr. ovomiee. Docember. Net bal.. $140,050,113 $403, 400, 028 A comparative statoment of the oxports of aoma of tho principal items of domestio pro- duetions during the same year, es compared with those of 1877, will bo of interest, na showing where thla inorense ocomes from. Hero are some of the itoms: 1178 ATOCK, Horsea. 168 M 400,271 580, 802 BArlOy susuveee cred B 0TB76 irgad and biscutt 12 ' 700,000 Iudjan cern. 3 i Indlan-cor Rtyo i g o flour, L hy " Wheat..., . OT,080,508 75,674,560 Wheat fiour. e1,6a7,H02 - 27,550,090 Faring ~ and r preparad food... . 815,287 1,042,040 CQOTTON AND THOVISIONA, Bacon and b $ 43, b4, 084 um," frosls B, 244, 00K s B b ies yato 10,005 - 08, 16¢ 45,300 COLLON +v 1eee -oev 157,103,805 182,031,319 "Iho value of our surplus of exports over imports ia equal to & million of dollars for oach busincss dny in the year, and with this monoy wo ave calling baok our Londs and othor forms of debt, tho interest on which now romains at homo, inatend of going abroad. The cconomy onforced after 1873 by tho destruction of oredit in that year, and tho nbandonment of pro‘ection by the mauu- footuring industry, ond tho production of goods for sale in competition with the goads of olher nations, rovolutionixed our former foreign trade, Wo bogan at onco to produce surplusos for sale, and the story s told -iu the figures of the notual sale of surplus product equal to o million of dollars per husiness day of profit in the yoar 1878, This began in 1875, and has beon continded through 1870, 1877, and 1878, and, by adhering to oash valuos, sound money, and national - economy and pence, tho United States will rapldly grow into o creditor uation, and, instead of being a porpotual borrowor, will become g lender to the producers, merchants, and nations of other lands, : Tho French orisis has passed without leay. ing bebind it auy foars of violence or disor- der, and tho Minfstry, sustained by the voto af tho Assombly, rotains its place, The re. port of the Elsoloral Commission in favor of the impoachment of the Dx Drooris and Ttoomenourt Oabinets was dofeated by the - large voto of 817 to 159, though n conces. slon was made to the Radioals by passing tha ordor of the day, namely, “'That the Dx Broaris and Roouxsovsr Oablnets, by tholr oulpablo schomes, batrayed the Government thoy should lhiavo ssrved, and that the Ohamber dslivers them over fo the judg. ment of the nation,” by a vote of 240 to 154, The impoachment resolution was a most ex. traordinary proceediug, and oue which has nover before qhmnlerhoq & . yopresantative Governunent, ualess it " be in Moxico,’ ;vhdm psuld Minlatrien in expired, and who hag forevor out of public life, hava lmonpfi,;d ished for political policion, The order n; the day that was passed, liowavor, wag noy out of custom or practics, Tt was Bimnp], vote of disapproval, tantamount to cnnn\l’ru“ Tho Radicals havo met with & temporn 3 check in thoir design to avarthrow the mz ent Conservativo Goveramont, but {t will not bs in nccardanoe with tradition or sent}, mont it they do not salzo the very first o : nortunity to renow the assault and to I.mz{; ovor tho control to the Ultras, ——————— whosa time BAMUAL J, RANDALL, Who Was Spea] last Cougress and who will umhn:ly‘g:g»{n‘utu Speaker of the cxtry sesslon, was horn in m.“: delphia and fs 51 vears of nge, He rocelyed an acagemic education, and before ho became A polititlan he was enzaged In mercantil b suits. Ho has been & membor of the Hause n’f TRepresontatives for the past sixteen years, beiny firt alected o tho Thisty-clzhth Congress, o bolding his seat ever since, Hls mnmuf(mfl ‘Third) Is comoosed of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Bixth, Eloventh, Twolfth, and Sixteenth Warg, ot the City of Phtladelphia. Ho s a man of medinm hight, brown halr bespancled with aray, a little hald, wears giasses, nnd altogetier presents rathier d fino porsonal uppearanco, Ay the prestding officer of the mast nolsy ang Also. bediont deliverative (i) body in the world, RANDALL I8 6o groat shakes, and f bardly up to the average standarg of his lllustrious predecessors, e no doubt alms to Lo impartinl in the chalr, bub hio Is such gn inteuse partisan that hle judzment ls warped out of ling hy his political afiliations aud pref. cronges, IHels notonlyn thorouah partisan but be fs a demagoguc that {s. cunmnll)‘luuklné forward to hia own profermont. Tle has the viclous hablt of argulng points of order with members on the floor, or adozen of them 3 once, while * confusion woras confounded " refgus around, With alt his faults and defects [ a parliamentarfan, and bischronle bablt of play- inginto the handa of hia polltieal nesoclates on the floor {n his rullngs upon questions involy. Ing party politics, RANDALL f8 much sunerior to BLACKBURN, who hos all of RANDALL'S bag traits, with loss to redoetn they ———— The Greanbackers in Congress who hays been trying hard to muster members enough to hold the bolunco of power nud oreanizs the Houso at the extra session aro doubtless caleulating upon the prevalence of the old cus- tom that the successful candidate for Speaker must have o mejority of all the votes esst, * The Fiatists fizure up twenty-two members certaln, with n prospect of getting others, and with the hopo that they can holid the bal- nnce of pawer. This Is on the theory that they can hold all thelr own lunatics; that sev- eral siek Demotrats will be unablo to attend, and that the Republicans will suppart no ong Lut a man of thelr own party. But cven in such a case the Democrsts may conclude to depart from the custom requiring o majori ty. of all the votes cast to Lo necessary to acholee, aud ndopt the plurality rale. A precedent [s found for such n departuro In 1840, in that remarkablo contest over the Speak- crship of the ITouse between the low. Ronenr WinTnnor, of Massachusetts, and the Hon, Howstt, Comp, of Georgle. The coutest - opened on the 84 'dny of December, md ended on the 22d, after sixty-three balluts had been takon. Hefore tho Just Lallob was ordered a resolutlon was adopted that, at the next trin, Iu order to socure an urganization, o nlurality should b sutliciont to eleet. At the fnst ballot- ingg Mr, Conn recelved 102 votes out of 222, nud was declared eleeted, 'Fhevote had previously stood 100 for Mr, WinTiRor, 102 for Mr. Conn, und 22 seatterlng, Cowun and WiNTAROP hoe longed to different parties, wherens RaNpaLu and BLACKBURN are both Demozrats. sttt The New York Zribune has g tnost amusing editori.] on the * Gop Forbld » business, valled forth'by tho éxelted anpeal of the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitutionalat oy heholf of JnFIRRION Davis. . “This adjuration,” remarks the ¥ uscd In the slap-dash way which no doubt eeems forclble to the weiter, but {s entirely Incompre- honalble to any one else. ‘Snall Jrerensuy Davis,' ho cries n shelll interroration, ‘ask pardon for that, and In o bondsnan's ke ' and then ho pulls lis adjuration on the startled reader like an abrapt horse-pistol. * Foroid it, Almighty Gont' . . . This is langunge that indicates oxcltement; the kiud of lanzuere that a man uscs ina bar-room—where apprals to the Delty aro most common |ust beforo he throwa a tumbler.” But i a bar-room appenls to the Deitynre mora cominon after tho tumbler 18 thrown, and it should bo tho care of thos on our &ldo of the housa to see thub the compll- ment fa not returneds 1f oathis would only sull for n cent nplece, the Bouth woult have no further occaston to complain of {1l-treatmont or poverty to the Doty or any one clse, et Bome of the newsoapers print a list of the ¢lg passcd special souslons which, as o mutter of history, fa worth preserving und putting n scrap-books. Correspondents who are on tha polat of wrltlng to tho newapapers for Informs- tlon on the subject will pleaae take notles: t—1707-~Bneclal _session called Uy Jon¥ :\g:r):-, lfiénol }lny 16, 1707, to wrovlde Lar the Lrentone ch war, LT Boeeral eeston called by MARTIC Vax Bunex, May 10, 1837, to mect Sept. 4, 1817, o vl‘nVJfl: ){nr 11:"“1‘;:}'-;’] exigoncies, |1ho banke Rt 1841 -Spocial sesslon called by Wiktiax Hrsuy Hapuiox, Morch 17, 1811, to inect 34y ul, 1841, to comldur tho Fovenuo and fluauces of 'tho country, 'Thia waa s change of partica an policles, - ‘aurth—1850—Bpecial seasion callod by Praxxk: mf( Pigce, to mcpel Aug, 21, 1460 sthreo dayd ufter adjournment of Congross), lu provide anpros priatlons for tho Army on uccount of Indiali Wsrs, Fifth—18(1—8pecin! sesufon called by ABuAt LincoLs, Apri 16, 1861, to meet July 4, 1861, 0 provide for the Clvll War simorgency. . g e T Yrs, to moet Oct, 15, 1877, ) B o i ey tho Gl uaving failed (o pave, s The statemont that o now cataloguo s L3 preparation for the Publle Library {sgood nows. erotoforo tha classification bas been arbitary and confusing; and it has beon lmpoaslhlndul times to 1tnd dealgnated books fn any of the ’e- partments thut would naturally Do searched ‘nr them, Bupploments have been aidded to tha catalogue, and still the want hus nob been nulp- nlicd, No ouo lins been mora conselous of the deflclency In this rospect than the cxucllcnlvi Librarian, Mr. PooLz, who has been nmbu;ru::v 4 aimost from the start 'by a plentiful luc l;‘ fupds, It {8 to bo honed that, os the C“"“E-r {8 becoming mora {ntelligout, ho may nl:’uf again be reduced to such shifts us huve fic: nccessary in consequenca of the cross prejul gt & und injudicions atinginess of past Clty Governe ments, The efficacy of good Kentucky Bourbon wh'l:; ky is helng proved at Washlngton in the ;‘lnu‘!0 s for Speaker of the next Houss. JoB lLI o oy Leops a prime article on draft for t 1:' ¢ al bis fricnds at Willard's Hotel, while mln l'u'\'y‘n‘ aylvanin opponont, RANDALL, 18 condueting = side of the cawpalgn on atrict tompersnce %m ciples, Wo greatly fear that BLACRUURN s understands the uverage Democratic appe w: and that his method of eloctioncesiog 18 mgro popular of the tw Mr. ITaraTuAD remarks that desr nll«‘il 11.5“:1:’: Jrsny WitLtass—by which tnmllhf‘ s Governar of fndlapa fs meaot—has 1O R " and *uo mora bad the Uovernor But he ougbt norve than a mud-tortle, bong than a dish-cloth.” ;IMI for calling pn extra session. 0 f;:nvn wome gwredl; for tha way In \vh:‘::nl:'f scolded tho Legisiature. There s not un'u“ crnorout of the whote thirty-cleht wlmd i use plalnor Jangusge than Bluo Jcuns message. R BTEFUBNG D m:':h‘:.‘:z'l stroak of senttient in hlha [D«:: lttlo body; sud that Is probehly w!x.y h posed ta call Als uow 84 woln v Btelln e ——— - i tal-card corraspondont sayes * Thero dlfiyw;lpflt published in lllooui(uflwn'::“:: the Lantugraph, WBAL doca tbo title mi ever having beett