Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1879, Page 2

‘i 2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1879—SIXTEEN, PAGES. - although no proposition were formally adopter several amendments to the sixth section, o which notice has bora Biren an se Beane oe spoken of w.th gene! * Eubinitted by Blaine and Paddock From the tenor of the remarks, it seems prob- sue many speeches will be madeupon the Army IN THE HOUSE. STATE RIGHTS. &pecial Dispatch to The Tridune. Wasurcrox, D. C., April 12.—There bas never been a more grotesque illustration of the absurdity of the States-Rights dogma than is furnished by the debate in the House to-day. As Gen. Brag put it, the State of Virginia, which in the closing days of the last session only was opposing the national quarantine on the ground that such a system would be a viola- tion of State rights, to-day asks the National Government to protect that Commonwealth from sick cows. A great Government which could not interpose to keep the yellow fever and the plague from the sea coast of the Old Dominion, and from the whole country, was to- day, on motion of one of THE SAME VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN: who opposed the Quarantine bill asked to step into the farm-yards within every. State in the country and to kill at discretion any cattle which a Federal officer might think or suspect was cick with the pleuro-pneumonia. It is not to be wondered at that Blount, of Georgia, a consistent State’s-Rights Bourbon, said that nothing more radical had been proposed in the wildest cays of reconstruction or of Federal election legislation. But the attempt serves to show that to the ereat muss of the Southern Democracy State’s rights only means non-interference of the national Government in matters intended to keep the ballot pure, or to protect the negro, or any case where the diznity of the United States isat stake; but, with these exceptions, interference is to be tolerated EVERIWOERE AND AT ALL TIMES, especially if that interference brings with it the Federal purse. Thecry of the old flag and an sppropriation is not to be put down by any assertion of State Sovereiguty. It is only when the oppressed call for help, apd fhe purity or the ballot-boxr is to be protected, and the honor of the nation Vindicated, that the South in the name of State’s-Rights cries “Hands off.” That is cer- tainly the meaning of the aebate on pleuro- pneumonia to-day. Itwas proposed to appro- priate $250,000 to gire the Government power to control or eradicate the disease. The Repub- licans were of the opinion that THE BEST WAY to reach this was not by an amendment to the Legislative bill, whicn it was ad- mitted.for the first time on the Dem- ocrstic side might not become a law, if ever, for two months. Accordingly, by ulmost unanimous agreement the. subject was taken out of the Appropriation bill, and re- ferred to the Committee on Agriculture, with instructions to report tack a special bill for that purpose, of the specdy passage and approval of which THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT. The prospects arc that the Government will be clothed with whatever authority it has at its disposal for that purpose. Much can be done outside of the rights of the Commonweslths by the regulation of cattle in transit from State to State under constitutional provisions to regu- late inter-State commerce, and by rigid inspec- tins of cattle at the seaboard designed for ex- portation, or being imported. There was one other topic in the House to-day worthy of notice. The Democrats, in their caucus, had decided that there should be a ses- sion Monday for the introduction of bills. This was a cuncession to the Greenbackers and to the vast inflation sentiment which has taken hold of the majority of the Democratic party; but it was found that there were A HALY DOZEN DEMOCRATS who believe more in honest money than they do in the dictates of the caucus controlled by dem- 2gogue politicians. Accordingly Frank Hurd, of moved that, when the House adjourn to- dav it adjourn to meet op Taesday, which would bridge over the dreaded” Monday, ang on betig reproached by his Democratic associates for having violated the decree of King Caucus, he id, ‘Damn the caucus.” The motion, how- cver, was defeated, but by only four majority, ibe vote standing 105 to 109. If the Republic- ans nad been in their places this MIGHT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED,» and itis to their shame that twenty were ab- sent, many of them without pairs. The only recourse for the -Republicans now is to exhaust the morning hour Monday, during which alone bills can. be introduced, by exercising their constitutional right to call Tor the reading of all bills, and to present long orgs Nothias cen prevemt this from being done except a change of the rules. The misfortune is that Ladd aud Murch, the Greenbackers, are from the State of Maine, where the call begins. It will rest with the Speaker to determine whether he will recomuize the bard-money men, with long bills designed to consume the time, or THE RAG-MONEY LUNATICS, with bills drafted to disturb the monetary sta- bility of the country, and to make mischief. Gen. Braggz threw a bombebell into the Demo- cratic ranks by ntoving to strike out the clause of the Appropriation bill relating to the South- ern Claims Commission. He said distinctly that bis object was to abolish that Commission. ‘The discussion goes over until next week. The propusition will, of course, be strongly opposed by Southern men, but it is scarcely probable that the law will be repealed. A SCREW LOOSE. RECENT LAND-OFFICE BUSINESS, Apectal Dispatch to The Tritune. Wasnixeton, D.C., Aprit 12.—The repre- sentations of the riparian owners on Caluniet Lake have undoubtedly created a strong im- pression upon the Land Office, and the survey of Lydecker has probably done much to destroy the effect of that of Alerander Wolcott. The mystery remaine, however, that 23 a matter of fact the Land Oflice, without notice to the par- ties interested. was about to graut e patent to the bed of a navigable lake for the improvement of which the Government has already expended almost $200,000, and which has appeared in every river and harbor billfor yearsas one of the items of improvement for which annual appropriations are made. But as the Land Of- fice has found txe authority to give part of the City of Chicago to Valentine scrip owners, and was aboutto grant this patent to the bea of Calumet Lake to land-grabbers, Chicaro is li able any morning to be advised from Warhing- ton that speculative parties have obtained the title to the Northwestern Lakes and the Missis- sippi River. Lawyers and -property-owners are complaining at the wonderful ease’ with which rpeculators succeed in getting recognition of yrima fatie rights to property tiat has been owned for a halt century, the value of which can lisrdly be unknown at the Land Office. HOW LONG ? ECHO SAYS UNTIL JULY. Special Dispatch to The Tribune, Wasarncron, D. C., April 12.—It now seems yrobable that the present session of Congress will iust until duly. This is ihe opinion of those most competent to judge, The discus- sion of the Legislative bill in the House will propably not be finished for ten days. The de- bate upon the Army bill in the Seneate is likely to consume tivo weeks. After the disposition of ihe Army pill the Senate will next con- sider the Legislative bill, and in such aslow body it will take at least a week to dis- pose of it. There wil elso be a pro- tracted discussion in both houses over the President's vetoes, first of the Army bill snd next of the Legislative bill. The veto mes- gates will of course be sustained. ‘This will be followed by caucuses, conferences, negotiations, @ parieys to avert the danger of ees the ithout appropriations. The Dem- oo ete what iney ave not the strength requisite to carry out the programme of the extremists of their varty, heuce it is thought qbata compromise of some kind will be reached. ‘This is the opinion of the conservative Demo- rats. ‘ NOTES AND NEWS. © POLK VS. HARRISON. Special Dispatch to The Tribuue. ‘ Wasmratox, D. C., April 12.—Ex-Door- on Monday and give his testimony against Mayor-elect Carter Harrison on the , charge of haying obtained money on irregular pay-roils when Chairman of the Committee on Civil- 8 ervice Reform _ CARD FROM ALEX STEPHENS. Alexander Stephens, in a card published this morning, referring to a telegram from Allanta, Ga., which has gained currency in the West, eays: I notice in the iesue of your paper this morning atelegrzm from Atlanta, Ga., dated yesterday, stating that in an interview, which was io be pub- lished in the Constitution of that city, Thad said: **The bogus President will not veto the Army bill,” etc. Now, who was the author of this tele- gram I do not know, but I do know I never did use such’ language toward the President of the United States in any speech, inter- view, or conversation whatever. I entertain for the present Chief Magistrate too much respect to apply any such epithet to him personally, and my Well known opinion as to the legality and irrevoca- bility of tne tenure of his office (however I may have differed from the highest Commission, by whom the matter was in my judgment constitu- tionally settled) wonld forbid the use by me of euch a term toward him personally. RECTIFIERS’ BONDS. ‘The rectifiers have presented s memorial to Commissioner Raum, protesting against the clause in the Internal Revenue bill, passed at the last session of Congress, requiring rectifiers to give bonds. THE RECORD. HOUSE. Wasuricton, D. C., April 12.—Consideration was resumed in Committee of the Whole of the Legislative Appropriation Dill, the pending amendment being that increasing to $250,000 the appropriation for controlling and for erad- icating contagious diseases among domestic animals. A After long debate the whole subject was stricken from the bil! and the proposition agreed to recommending that the House refer the whole matter to the Committee on Agri- culture, With instructions to report promptly. On motion ot Mr. Haskell,,the appropriation for investigating the habits of the cottot-worm and other injurious insects, was , placed under | the control of the Entomological. Commission. ' The political portion of the bill having been reached, it was passed over for the present. Mr. Young submitted an amendment provid- ing that investigating acents under the Soutnern Claims Commission shall give notice td claim- ants it was proposed to investigate of the place and time of taking testimony, who shall have the right to examine Witnesses, the ageuts also to examine any witnesses who may be pre- sented by claimants. ‘Mr. Houk stated he had acted as investigating agent and he knew of instances where he had been misled by ex parte statements and had re- ported against claims which should have been allowed. ‘The amendment was agreed to, Mr. Bragg’ moved to strike out all provision for the Southern Claims Commission, and to in- sert 2 clause repealing the law creating the Com- mission. Consideration of the amendment was post- poned until Tuesday next, Mr. Bragg stating it Was a grave proposition, and one which could not be broperly discussed under the five-minute rute, because he proposed to show that the Government had been paying these claims as a mere gratuity, and be thought that woere a fratuity was to be bestowed it should be a per- sonal matter, and that Congress should not ‘vote to give away what belonved to the people at large. The Committee then rose, and the Chairman reported back the recommendation to refer the paragraph in regard to pleuro-pueumonia io cattle to the Committee .on Agriculture, with instructions to report thereon forthwith. Agreed to. Mr. Harris offered a resolution instructing the Committee on Accounts to report what com- inittees are entitled to clerks. Adopted. Mr. Hurd moved that when the House ad- journ to-day it be till Tuesday. ‘The motion was understood to be made for the purpose of excluding the introductior of financial and other bills Monday. The yeas and pays were ordered, and the motion was re- jected—yeas, 105; nays, 10S. All‘the Republicans yoted ir the affirmative and all the Greenbackers in the negative, as did all but the following eleven Democrats: Bick- nell, Blount, Clymer, Cook, Covert, Deuster, Hammond (Ga.), Hurd, Jobnston, Morse, and ‘Talbott. Among the pairs announced was the Speaker with a Republican. Kelley voted with the Greenbackers. i ee House then adjourned—yeas, i; nays, OBITUARY. GEN. RICHARD TAYLOR. New Yors, April 12.—Gen. Richard Taylor, of the Confederate army, dicd here to-day. He had been ill for some weeks at the residence of 8. L. M. Barlow. ALFRED BURNHAM. Hazrrorp, Conn., Avril 12.—Alfred A. Burn- ham, former member of Congress, is dead. $a THE WEATHER. Orrick or THE Cnrer 8iGNAL OFFICER, Wasurnctox, D. C., April 13—1 a. m.—Indica- tions—For Tennessee and the (hio Valley, in- creasing cloudiness, possibly occasional rain, southeast winds, generally veering to westerly, stationary or higher temperature and lower pressure. For the Lower Lake region, increasing cloudi- ness, followed by occasional rains, warmer, southerly winds, lower pressure. For the Upper Lake rection and Upper Mis- sissippi Vailey, partly cloudy weather, occasional rain, warm southerly, generally veering to cold northwest winds, rising preceded in the south and cast portions by falling barometer. For tne Lower Missouri Valley, clear or partly cloudy weather, cold northwesterly winds, gen- erally shifting to armer southerly followed by faliins barometer. ‘The rivers will remain nearly stationary. Local onsxpvaTion: im <1 IClouay. ‘Maximum, $4: minimum, 34. GENERAL OBSERTATIONS. CuxocGo, April i2-10:18 p.m. Wind. W..Jtght. .. IS Ee fren, IS. en, aini Weather, ‘Stations, jBar. { seusaeaueees|§ OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Haver, April 12.—Arrived, Labrador, from New York. Queenstown, April 12,—Arrived, Baltic, from New York. New Yors, April 12.—Arrived, steamships Republic; from Liverpoo!; Deeruyter, from’ An- oToxDOS, April 13.—Steamship Australia has arrived out, FAIL TO RECOVER, Burraro, April12.—Judge Wallace, of the _ United States Supreme Court, to-day decided the case of the United States against the Buiia- lo Driving Park in favor of the Recap The suit was brought for the recovery of 2 per cent of the gate receipts under Sec. 108, Chap. 1, i St sidered a test. _ keener Polk wil) go before the Grand Jury here | laws of 1863. ‘The case was C01 FOREIGN. Fearful Slaughter of Student Pris- oners at Kieff, Russia. They Attempt to Gain Their Liberty - by Burrowing under the Walls. And the Tunnel Proves a Grave to Most of the Party. A Enropean Deputy-Governor to Be Ap- pointed for Eastern Roumelia, RUSSIA. SLAUGHTER OF PRISONERS. : Sr. Prrenspune, April 12.—A Kieff corre- spondent of the Si. Petersburger Journal gives the following account of the outbreak among the political prisoners last mouth: “Persons under arrest in the Kieff prison resolved some time ago to tunnel under the alls and escape. ‘The scheme was betrayed by one of the conspir- ators. The authorities allowed the prisoners to continue the excavation. When the tunnel was completed, and the prisoners had entered it, one after the other, intending to come up through the opening beyond the prison precincts, the soldiers previously posted at the opening shot the escaping prisoners as they came up.. When the bulk of the prisoners, terrified by the noise of the fiting, stopped and rethained in the tunnel, soldiers were sent in from behind, and the unfortunate wretches, caught between two fires, were all shot down, The proceeaing seemed to give the oflicials much amusement, and the Director of the Kieft prison was praised and decorated for having acted with such cleverness ond deciaion.”” ae ANOTHER HORROR. : ‘The correspondent adds: ‘Quite in keeping with this is the statement published by the Russian chaplain in the central prison at Char- Koff, in the official Eparcial Wedomoste. He de- clares that of the 500 prisoners detained at that prison, 200 died within four months. One‘of the heaviest charges made by the Nihilists against the Russian official administration was the brutal treatment of the prisoners, in con- sequence of which the health of most of them has broken down, many dying and some being driven mad,” JAPAN. RETRENCHMENT AND REFORM. San Francisco, Cal., April 12.—Advices from Yokohama to March 27 says that, at the Mikado’s banquet to the Ministers, he censured- their extravagance and Iuxury. A notification from the Prime Minister followed, ordering the cessation of all superfluous expenditure, the development of commerce, and stoppage of the expenditure on. the public works. The Em- peror’s houschold expenses are to be reduced. Okums, the Finance Minister, and Evomoto, the late Ambassador to Russia, have peen ap- pointed to negotiate the revision of the treaties and the settlement of the difileulty with China respecting the Linkin Islands. Native paper currency is 25 per cont discount; trade is depressed, forcing sales of imports at low prices. EGYPT. TUE ORISIS. Loxpor, April 12.—The Times says: “The unequivocal attitude assumed by the Sultan relative to the Khediye tis doubtless an advan- tage which England and France will be able to turn to account, but we cannot as yet discover any valid reason for England abandoning the policy of extreme caution with regard to Egyp- tian affairs. The proposal for a joint expedition is manifestly premature. If a display of force was resolved upou, England might find her in- fluence directed to securing good government, while France would be occu ‘ith even great- er energy in defending the ‘claims of foreign creditors. Halim Pasha, the Khedive’s uncle, is educated, enlightened, and liberal-minded, and has lived qusetly for several years past in the European fashion on the Bosphorus.” TURKEY. “CLEMENOZ. CoxstanrinorLe, April 12.—The Sultan, Jlelding tothe urgent representations of the Grand Vizier, has recalled several: exiles, and ordered several prisoners to be released. THE ALBANIANS. Rome, April 12.—The Fanfulla states that Premier Depretes informed the Albanian dele-, gates that Italy, while remaining faithful to the Treaty of Berlin, would, if possible, consider the national aspirations of Albanians. EASTERN ROUMELIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 12.—It is expected that a European Deputy-Governor will be ap- Pointed for Eastern Roumceiia. ‘GERMANY. FREE TRADE. Berit, April 12.—Free trade seems to gain by the uninterrupted agitation in its favor. It is doubtful if the new electious would give Bis- marck a larger majority. COINAGE. Berwry, April 12.—In the next coinage, gold crowns amounting to 50,000,000 marks will be truck off. SAMOA. BERLin, April 12.—An‘apparently semi-official communication, referring to the dispatch of the American jron-clad to Samoa, points out that the German ships Ariadne and Albatross are there, and fully suflico for the protection of foreigners. FRANCE. DEAD. - Pants, April12.—J. H. Cartier de Villemes- sant, journalist, and long Director of the Paris Figaro, is dead; age 67. THE MATACONG AFFAIR. M. Waddington, Minister of Forcign Affairs, has informed the Council of Ministers that the Matacong affair is in process of settlement. France withdraws the eigut men who landed on the island. NO CONCLUSION, The Council of Ministers came to no resolu- tion with regard to Egypt, simply deciding to act in antagonism with England, ROME. DEAD. Romz, Italy, April 12.—Willism Palmer, M. A., brother of Lord Selborne, is dead. : —a CONSTRUCTIVELY IN JAIL. Sr. Louis, Mo., April 12.—E. 8. Brown, Man- ager of the Western Union Telegraph office, was before the Grand Jury again to-day, and refused to produce the telegrams called for by the duces. tecum; whereupon the case was reported to the Criminal Court, and Judge Laughlin ordered ‘Mr. Brown into the custody of the City Mar- shal. He is constructively in jail for contempt, but as this isa test case he will not pe actually incarcerated, ae TELEGRAPH SUIT. CoLumpus, O., April 12—In the District Court to-day, in the suit brought by the West- ern Union Telegraph Company for an injunction to prevent the carrying out of the contract be- tween the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Auantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, to allow the latter Company to attach a wire to the poles along their line of road, now used by the West- ern Union Company, the decision was reserved to the Supreme Court. a The Man Who Wont to Leadville. i Burdette. The Burlington young man who went to Lead- ville in February to make his fortune, returned Dome yesterday evening, having made it. He reports the wallring from Leadville to Pueblo ag terrible, but from: that point on as {gr east as Larned it improved, and from Larned to Osage Cityhe got along with comparatively little fatigue and nowbing-to cat; from Osage City to Atchison the walking grew rapidly worse, and his fatigue increased. out: of ali proportions to bis rations; ‘and from’ Hopkins to Burlington the walking was so’ beastly that the occasional lifts he was able to'beg or steal on freight-trains didn’t count for anything. He expresses ‘bim- selfas highly pleased with Leadville, aud thinks of going back again, but not this century. He excused the style of his raiment, by saying that nobody in Leadville wore any more than one leg to their pantaloons. RAILROADS.. —— ANOTHER POOL GONE WRONG. The Missouri Riyer pool, or the Southwest- ern Railway Association, is no more. It passed away peacefully gnd without a severe struggle about noon yesterday. The Committee ap- pointed at the meeting of the managers of the roads in the Association @iy before yesterday totry surmount the. difficulties in the way of a reorganization of the pool, and to get the sev- ¢ral roads to agree toan allotment of percent- ages, Met again at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. They considered several propositions for a set- tlement, out all failed, owing to the determina- tion of. the St. Louis roads to agree to no com- promise of any nature. ‘These two lines, it is understood, insisted on get- ting the same percentages hereafter that they hnd heretofore, that they divide equally the 45 per cent of the Missouri River business allotted to St. Louis. They were vot willing that the Chicago & Alton should haye any portion of this business, although they admitted that the Alton bad as good a line to that city as either the Missouri Pacific or St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern. The Alton people at first claimed one-third of the St.Louis business, but seeing that the St. Louis ends would never submit to this, and in order to prevent a disruption of the Association, they submitted a proposition that the question at issue should be submitted to three disinterested railroad officials for arbitra- tion, and that all the “roads ehould abide by their decision. But this unquestionably fair proposition was also rejected by the stubborn St. Louisans. it was now evident that no compromise could be eflected, and that the pool was doomed to destruction. The exasperated Chicagoans charged the St. Louisans with actin in the in- terests-of- the stock gamblers in New York to help them “bear” the market. The St. Louis- aus smiled a sly smile,-as if to say, ‘We know it, but we can’t help it,” but made no reply. It was then deeided to close the Committee- mecting and to report to the general meeting. After the general.meeting had been called to order again by the Chairman, Mr. J. F. Bat- uard, the Committee reported the results of their dcliberations.- A resolution was then in- troduced by a member of the St. Louis side of the house, that the Western Railway Associa- ton be considered dissolved. ‘The to St. Louis roads and the Wabash voted for it, and the three Chicago roads and the Hannibal & St. Joe and Kansas City, St, Joe & Council Biuils against it. One of the Chicago members then introduced a resolution that the pool be contin- ued, simply for. the purpose of fastening the blame for its dissolution upon the proper parties, as the previous vote had already decided the fate of the Association, for the arrangement could not be continued without a unanimous yote. The three Chicago roads and the Hanni- bal & 8t. Joe and Kansas City & St. Joe & Council Bluffs voted ior this resolution, and the two St. Louis roads and the Wabash against it. ‘This was the end of. the Southwestern Railway Association, and the meeting adjourned solemn- ly and mournfully witnout a berediction. The death of the. Missouri Jiver pool is greatly deplored by all the parties who parti¢i- pated in it, asithad been a great source of profit to the roads, and, besides, theré is little rejoicing among shippers, for this pool has cer- tainly never been . extortionate, and always maintained fair and equitable rates, that met the approval of most shippers. Previous to the formation of the Southwest¢rn Railway As- sociation, the ronds leading to Missouri River points were engaged in a yery ruinous competi- tion, and st times the rates went down to almost nothing, while at other times spasmodic advances were made to make up for losses. ‘This state of affairs was not only disastrous to the roads themselves, but the shippers: also derived no benefit from it, for they never knew on what basis they could make their contracts, and the low rates at one time were offset by the high rates at another time. On Sept. 1, 1876 the railroads ‘leading to Missouri River points from Chicago, and St. Louis and Missis- sippi River points, held a meeting in this city, and established a pool on the Missouri River business—that is, on business to Atchison, Leavenworth, St. Joseph, und Kansas City— which was then known as_ the Southwestern Railroad-Hate Association. The pool was found of great advantage to.the railroads, and every- thing, went, slong smoothly and. satisfactorily until March 15, 1878. “The pool struc 2 snag at this time, owing to the demand of the St. Louis inen for a larger share of the business, claiming that under the old arrangement Chicago ha the best of it, and was getting ahead of - St. Louis. . The Chicago roads, however, could not be persuaded to believe that they were getting more than their fair proportion of the busincss, and re- fused to accede to the demands of the St. Louis roads. The result was, that the latter with- drew from the pool, aud there was a fierce war, out of which Chicago came out victorious. Chicago, with its superior advantages, got the best of St. Louis, and, after seven weeks’ hard fighting, the St. Louis roads pleaded for peace, and, as the Chicago lines were ouly too glad to stop the war, a meeting of the various inter- ested roads was called, and May 6, 1878, the pool was re-established’ on substantially the old basis, and the name was changed to the Southwestern Railway Association. Up to this time the following roads had been members of the Association: St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern, Missouri Pacitic, Chicago & Alton, Chicago, 1 ington & Quincy, Chicago, Rock island & Pacitie, Hannibal & St. Joe, and Kansas. City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs. Now, the Wabash was admitted to membership and given a small share of the business in connection with the Hannibal & St. Joc. This was done to keep the Wabash from continuing the guerrilla warfare which it had been waging sgainst the Association for some time. Everything worked smoothly and harmoniously again until the present time. This trouble arose from the fact that the Chicazo & Alton, which heretofere had been doing its Missouri River business via the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern from Mexico, Mo., to Kansas City has constructed a line of its own to the latter point. The construction of the new extension by the Chichgo & Alton gives this road an additional liue to St. Louis fully as good ag those of the St. Louis roads, and the Alton therefore demanded ite sbare of the St. louis business. This made a redivision of the per- centages necessary, and, as the St. Louis roads would not agree, the pool, as already stated, went to pieces. During the existence of the pool, from April 1, 1876, until the present time, excluding an interrernum of seven weeks, the amount of nearly -$11,000,- 000 was divided amopg the various roads in the Association, ‘and so ‘successfully has the division been mado that it was only $9,500 out of the way, Another fierce war on the Missouri River business, between the Chi- cago roads on the one haud and the St. Louis on the other, will now result, and a lively time may be anticipated, Shortly after the dissolution of the Southwest- ern Railway Association the Managers and Gen- eral Freight Agents of the roads leading to Mis- souri River points held a meeting to make an arrangement for doing s uniform business, and meeting jointly any action the 8t. Louis roads may take. There were represented at this ineeting the Chicago & Altou, Chicazo, Burling- ton & Quincy, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Hannibal & St, Joe, aud Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Blais. It was agreed to stick to- gether through thick and thin until the St. Louis roads should come to terms. They also decided to continue to pool their Missouri River busi- ness from Chicago. New rates were established, but will not be given for publication, in order to prevent the St. Louis men from finding out what their rates are, The lumber pool trom Chicago will also be continued on a similar basis as heretofore. ‘The lumber-rates from Chicago were reduced 5 centa, This makes the difference between Chicago and Mississippi River points only 5 cents, instead of 10, as heretofore, and will pacify the lumber-sbippers at this point, who claimed that, under the old arrangement, their business was diverted to St.Louis and Mississippi River points.’ Mr. J. W. dlidgley, who has given great satisfaction as Commis- sioncr of the Southwestern Railway Associa- tion, will continue to act as Commussioner for the Chicago roads. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL. Spectat Dispatch to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 12.—In conversation with a reporter to-day, the Hon. Alexander Mitchell spoke as follows .concerning the effort now being made to induce the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St. Paul Hailway to extend its line from Cedar Rapids, Ja., to Kansas City, Mo.: “I heve no doubt tie people of that section desire a direct connection with Milwaukee through the medium of the St. Paul Company. But nothing will be done toward gratifying this desire the present season. The St.‘Paul Company have their bands full already. The intention is to reach the Missouri River, if possible, this year, by extending the Blavk Hills line westward from attersonville. We shall reach the James River easily early in the fall, but do not propose to stop there. The work will be carried forward vigorously beyond the James, and as much of the 195 miles of territory intervening between Pattersonville and the Missouri River traversed as possible, We may not be able to reach the Missouri before Srinter sets in, but the intention is to progress in that direction as fur as possi- bie? ean Ep SOUTHERN ITEMS. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. _ AtLaNts, Ga., April 12.—Railway matters in Southern circles are still unsettled, but some important points -have been adjusted. To-day the passenger-rates have been dropped to $36 from $42 from ‘NW Orleans to New York, and correspondingly between points. The Govern- ment has ordered {Vhite-Line mail-cars on the Piedmont Air Line, that route agreeing to make New Orleans to New York in fifty-one hours,— a quick schedule, to begin May 1. ‘The freignt- pool succeeded in re-establishing rates, but the members confess that the arrangement is only temporary. The Committee of Investigation reported that several roads were to blame for the late cut- ting, without naming any. The fecling is bitter and the situation unsecure. Cutting In pas- senger and freights may be looked for any day. CASUALTIES. -HYDROPHOBIA. Special Dispatch to The Tribune . Minwavunze, Wis., April 12.—At an early hour this morning a sailor.named Peter Sacll died from the effects of hydrophobia at his resi- dence, No, 311 Reed street, South Side. The facts connected with the case are these: Capt. Paul Harry, of the schooner, Mary Lyons, who boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Snell, hdd a dog, a yellow mongrel cur, that appeared to have been voted the freedom of the domicile. One after- noon late in January or early in Febuary last, while Snell Jay stretched upon the floor for a pap, cur, which happened to be in the room, discévered a scratch his (Snell's) ‘nose and lexed it, Snell meanwhile raising no objection to the proceeding, 28 he with others formerly believed in the curative properties of the saliva of a canine. The scratch healed and was soon for- gotten, and the death of thedog, which occurred a week or two later, under circumstances that led to the belief that poison had been adminis- tered, did. not serye to awaken any fears of danger. About a week ago Snell complained to his wife about a severe pain in the region of the heart. It made an invalid of bim £0 to speak, yet he did not take to his bed, but walked around and about on the strects, on Mon- day and Tuesday of the present week. Dur- ing ‘Tuesday evening or early- Wednésday morning his throat became affected. The glands swelled so as to render swallowing difficult, and the membrane became parched and feverish, while the pain in the chest appeared to reach the throat also. Dr. Senn was called, but the remedies prescribed by him failed to produce any relicf, and as Snell gradually grew worse it was observed that he manifested an aversion to water, and at such times as it was offered appeared to suffer a spasmodic convulsion. ‘Then the incident of the licking of the scratch on his nose by the dog, aud the. subsequent death of the animal under peculiar symptoms, was re- called, and it became evident to the physician that he had a clear case of nydrophobia on his hands. Snell rapidly grew worse; the light became painful to bis eyes, his aversion to water seemed to increage, while the swelling of the throat in- creased constantly. Food aud water hud to be injected into thé stomach at last, as it was im- possible for him to swallow either sofids or fluids. Of course, under such circustances, death became a question of hours rather than days, and final dissolution occurred at 6 o’clock this morning. Daring the closing hours of his iulness Snell continued rational, and maintained. a harmless attitude toward those who attended him, He assured one and all to bave no fear of approaching him, as he would do them‘no injury, and he was enabled to keep his word, as his spasms never rendered it necessary to hold or even attempt to secure him. ‘Two dogs that were bitten by the cur belong- ing to Capt. Harry in fights, huve died within a few weeks of hydrophobia, and it is believed that other curs in the neighborhood may be similarly affected. The seaman Snell, whose death {is here re- corded, was 30 years of age and married, but has no children. MINE FATALITY. YorTTSvILLE. April 12.—Peter Kehl and Pat- rick Monday, miners, were killed by a fall of coal at Locust Gap. on ‘IN PEORIA. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. PrEor!A, Iil., April 12-—A fire was discovered soon after 10 o’clock last evening in L. B. Hartz & Co.'s bat and fur store, on Main street, and most of the stock was either destroyed by fire or damaged by water. The entire stock was valued at $25,000, and the insnrance amounts to about balf that sum, The store is situated in one of the finest marble-front blocks in the city, but the fire did not extend beyond the in- tertor of the store. The proprictors had left the store only fifteen minutes before it was dis- covered, and areata loss to know how it started. IN TOLEDO. ToreEno, O.,April12.—A fire broke out in the Chamber of Commerce building at 12:80 p. m. to-day, originating in the mansard, and par- tially consuming the roof. Damage by fire and water, $5,000; fully covered by insurance. The building is owned by W.J. Hinley, and occupied by the Western Union Telecrapa Company, the Second and Commercial Banks, and Jaw and insurance offices, most of which suffer consider- able damage by water. AIMEE. Opening In New York—Flattering Prospects. Svectat Dispatch to The Trioune, New Yors, April 12— Maurice Grau’s New French Opera Company,” au organization headed by Miss Marie Aimee, opened at Booth’s Theatre to-night, before an audience which filled the vast butlding beyond its doors. Why it is called Maurice Grau’s company is another East River mystery, a8 a sensational morning- paper would remark. Mr. Grau is simply on a salary, aud Aimce is understood to be the boss. She certainly outdoes all the other opera-bouf- fists we have ever scen before, or bebind, either, for the matter of that. Her external appear- ance has not changed in the slightest degree since she was bere last; her voice is just as full of melody as ever, and_ her manners are just’as sure death to bald-headed auditors as of yore. . It is seldom that I have seen such an in- stantancousand predisposed success as oceur- red to-night. From the moment of Aimee’a first entrance until the close of the play, the enthusiasm boiled over and oozed ontat the pores of the dense crowd of people in front. The last seat in the house was sold this morn- ing, and those who came for accommodations to-night had to stand up or Ieave. Aimee, of course, played the “ Little Juke” and she was perfection in the part. Little Baudet, who was the Wuchess of Duff's company, appeared in this party to-night in the same character, and renewed the triumph formerly achieved. Besides these were Mile. Raphael and M. Jonard, Dupinc, and Salvator. The entire performance was extremely satis- factory. ‘The comoany will remain at Booth’s for a period of six weeks, and wit then take the road, playing through to California, In New York they are under the management of Henry E. Abbey, who cugaged Boowh’s in order to avoid interrupting the extraordinary run of “Engaged” at the Park. He will reap muaifi cent ducats by the experiment. = FOLLOWING THE TRAIL. Alexander Gagnon, of Neenah, Wis., arrived in this city yesterday in search of his wife, who ran away Iast September with a man named Joseph G. Haines, taking with her a little S-year-old daughter. Haines has found employment in this city doing odd jobs of calcimining. The in- jured huspand put up at the Windsor Hotel on West Madison street, and instead of prowling about, shutetn in hand,’ went quietly to Justice Morrison and procured a warrant, charging Haines with adaltery, und took his revenge by witnessing the destroyer of his home behind the bars. Grevy on Life. President Grevy being asked recently to write something in a lady’s album, indited the fol- lowing: “Life is like a game of chess: each one holds bis rank according to his quality; but, when the game is over, kings, quecas, knights, and all the rest are thrown into one common box.” : . 2 a ‘This is a dangerous season, and often the fondest mother’s care is no protection against coughs, colds,"and hoarseness, Dr. Bull's Cough Sirup should ve kept in readiness. Price 25 cents, “~~ CRIMENAL RECORD. A Colored Woman to Be Hanged for Infanticide in Wash- ington. Witnesses Endeavor to Prove the Good Character of the Nebraska Man- Burners. The Chicf Counsel for the Defense Dis- barred for Insulting the Court. Two Men Waiting the Hangman's Touch in the State of Kansas. TO BE HANGED. Special Dispatch to The Trivune. _ ‘Wasurvatos, D. C., April 12.—Judge Agner, the new Judge of the Criminal Court here, to- day sentenced a colored woman, Louisa Wal- lace, to be hung for the murder of her infant child. This is probably the first time that a woman has been sentenced to be bung in this District. The Court, in pronouncing the sen- tence, stated the terrible truth, that this of- fense was more prevalent. here than in apy other city in this country. He“ had no doubt . of the guilt of this party, and, notwithstanding the lapse of time betieen the commission of the offense and the arrest, and the efforts of able counsel, they had convicted her. The crime was an evidence of the redest barbarism, and, if suffered to go an- punished by any-country, that country would become a field of blood. The laws of this cotiutry probibit brutal sports because of the demoralizing-effects upon the nation, and noth- ing could ‘be more demoralizing than the com- mission of this offense of infanticide. The prisoner was called on to stund up, and the Court imposed the sentefce that she be taken to the jail from which she came, there to be confined until Friday, June 20, 1879, when she shall, between the hours of 12 m. and 2 p. m., be taken to the place of execution in the jail-yard, and bung by the neck until dead. THE MAN-BURNERS. Hastrvcs, Neb., April 13.—The arrival’ of Maj. Burt, in command of a company of sol- diers, has allayed all alarm, if any existed. ‘The defense began to-lay, introducing testi- mony as to the character of Olive. His neigh- bors and stock-growers in Custer County gen- erally give him 2 good character as 2 law-abid- ing citizen. Seventeen witnesses examined on this point so testified. it is supposed that the defense will close pos- sibly Monday. - During the examination of the witness to-day a dispute arose between Laird, chief counsel for the defense, and Thurston, for the prosecu- tion, in the course of which, the Court, assuming that Laird made remarks reflecting on it, fined Laird $25. Laird then arose and protested in a speech, gaining applause, and was disbarred until the payment of the fine, and left the court-room. Gov. Vance and Adjt-Gen. Alex are here, and are thanked for invoking the aid of the military, whose presence has a wholesome influence. * MaAIL-ROBBER. Yankton, ‘D. T., April 12.—vr. Jobn 8. Par- sons, arrested in the act of robbing the Yankton & Sioux Falls stage Thursday night, was brought before the United States Commissoner this evening, and waived examination, and m default of $3,000 bail was remanded to jail to await trial. The prisoner, who is a man of education and well-connected, claims that whisky and the overzealous machinations of the Government detcctives have brought him chief citv-of that part of France which the way had left untouched. Paris was still in-the ha: hy of the Germans, and M. Gambetta’s Govern. ment had been forced some months previons, by the victorious advance of the German trog,’, to withdraw from Tours to Bordeane “YS sooner, however, Was peace concluded’ thas ’ the Assembly resolved by a larze mer ity to remove to Versailles. ‘This took Wes on the 10th of March, 1871: On the 18h“ the sanie month the revolt of thé Comm broke out, and the return of the Assembly to Paris was delayed, as events have shown. for eight years.. On the events of those cight 5 itis unnecessary to dwell, for they are Stil fresh in the memory of all, and it is casy to that they offered few occasions, if any, on w! a proposal for a return to Paris could have beey discussed dispassionately or regarded as oppop. tune. ‘The Constitution of M. Wallon he the seat of the Chambers Getinitery ab Versailles, and even if it were ne fer the Assembly to remove elsowherg in consequence. of o revolutionary mors. ment which threatened it, a revision of the Constitution would be needed forthe purpose. Gradually, however, though the formal sittings of the Chambers are stil} eld sg Versailles, the real seat of Government has re. eStublished itself in Paris. The Ministers re side there; the President is installed at the Elysee, though he still has an official residency at Versailles, which he rarely occupics; and the Committees of the Assembly, in which the real work of lesislation_ is done, meet at the Palais Bourbon. It is only when _a formal sitting takes place that the Deputies go to Versdillés. ‘They: take the trainin the afternoon, sit in debate for twoor three hours, and return to dinner jg Pails. Such being the case, now that Paris ig tranquil and contented is the poscession of g Government which represents the wishes of France it is natuaral that the Assembly should be anxious to return to its legitimate scar, ‘The question from this pofat of vicw, at least, is hardly more than one of convenience now that the vital questions which have so long sgitated France are set at rest, we will hope, fora long time to come. As Sepnriis Paris itse! the question is one to which 2 very natu degree of seutiment attaches. The pride of a great city is wounded by the withdrawal of the national Legislature even if in all other respects it is the national Capital and the virtual seat of Government. If the Chambers were not td re. turn, their hesitation would be set down to some misgiving ss to their security and inde. pendence. A Monarchical Assembly, or one dis- into trouble. Ho says the stage-driver, whois a private detective, gave him the revolver with which he halted the coach, told him when and where to use it, aud urzed him to rob the mail-bags, which he positively declined to de. (TO BE HANGED. Special Disnctch to'The Tribune. Lrxcorer, NED. April I3.—rhe Supreme Court has réndered a decision in the case of Henry A. Scblencker, refusing.a new trial, and fixing his exccution for the 13th of June. Schlencker was originally sentenced to be hanged on the 18th of March, for the murder of hia mistress, Flor- ence Booth, last September. Dr. St. Louis, tried at Wahoo last October for the murder of his wife by poisoning in 1876, will be hanged next Friday noon. His case was re- viewed by the Supreme Court three times, and new trials granted on each occasion. The pris- oner appears to be indifferent to nis fate. IRREGULARITIES. Bosrox, April 12.—The Savings-Bank Com- missioners demand the removal of Isaac A. Barnes, Cashier of the Foxboro Sayings Bank, on the pround of irregular transactions. Barnes was appointed abont a year ago to take the place of Lax, then Cashier. Men are guarding the bank, Barnes having refused to surrender the keys of the safe. : ESCAPED, Special Dispatch to The Tribune Sroux Ciry, Ia., April 12.—Livingston, con- fined in jail at Dakota City, Neb., for horse- stealing, escaped Friday night by boring a hole in the floor with a hot iron bar. He'was to have been tried at. the session of Court beginni Sonday.- Officers are on his mse enn DIED OF HIs INJURIES. PHILADELYHIA, April 12.—William C. Martin, the real estate victim, mysteriously assaulted in his own office Saturday last, died to-day. FRENCH SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. Its Proposed Removal from Versailles Back to Paris. London Times, March 24. J Saturday’s sitting of the French Assembly at Versailles will hereafter be regarded as a memorable epoch in the: history of France. With the sanction of the Government, the Chamber adopted, by 315 yotes to 128, @ report recommending that a con- gress of the Senate and Assembly should be held for the purpose. of revising the article of the Constitution which fixes the seat of Chambers at Versailles. For more than eight years since the National Assembly first met at Bordehux in February, 1871, to ratify the terms of peace with Germany, the seat of Goy- ernment in France has been removed from the Capital of the country. The Assembly was transferred, indeed, to Versailles, after a few weeks’ session at Bordeaux, but from that time to this the question of its final return to Paris has scarcely even been seriously mooted. First came the Commune, when Paris was held by a hostile mob against the Government and people of France. Afterwards, during the brief but eveutful Presidency of M. Thiers, po- litical feeling was too bitter, animosities were too recent, and the task of reorganization was too urgent for such 2 question to be peacefully discussed. Then came the Presidency of Mar- shal MacMahon, and with it the interminable struggles and intrigues of monarchical and re- actionary parties, ending in the abortive at- tempt of the Duc de Broglie and his col- leagues to coerce the will of the nation. Throughout this organic struggle the gues- tions coutinually at stake wera.too vitul and absorbing, the antaconism between the po- litical sentiment of Paris and that of the major- ity of the Assembly was too deep-seated, the issues Were too stern and uncompromising for time or atteation to be seriously given to such 2 question as the return of the Assembly to Paris. Now, however, the situation has happily changed. France is tranquil and content ‘ander a Govern- ment of her own choice. Paris is at last recon- ciled to the Assembly, and the public powers of the State are working in harmony. The ques- tion, therefore, of the seat of the Chambers, whether at Paris or at Versailles, has ceased to be a vital one, and bas nappily become in the main one cf convenience and expediency. Nevy- ertheless, its prompt and emphatic decision by the Assembly in favor of Pans will rightly be considered, both in France and abroad, as sym- bolizing more significantiy than any single legis- lative act, more almost than .the recent change of Government ftself, the close of a painful period of French bistory, and the opening of a new one britht with fresh hopes of tranquillity and of orderly progress. 4 - When the Assembly first met at Bordeaux in the beginning of lo71 it was because the seat of Government:had already been establishes there, and because it bad no choice but to meet in the” tracted by parties and ‘factions hostile to the national will, might be excusea for entertaining such a iniegivine. But in an Assembly like the present, in full harmony with the people and Gosernment, they would manifestly be un- worth and out of place. In fact, the question has-been virtually decided by the recent chan; which baye made M. Grevy Presideat acd in stalled the Left in power. The return of the Assembly to Paris will be rightly reaarded es the crowning of the Republican edifice, the outward and visible sign that organic struzgles ste over, and that France is at last In the cnjos- ment of a form of government under which she i8 determined to live in peace. i In the abstract, perhaps, some good reasons could be given for establishing the seat of Goy- eroment apart from the national capital, and the example of the United States in this respect was quoted with approval by- a speaker in the Freoch Assembly. Bat America had the ad. yantage of beginning its political career de nove, undisturbed by the associations of along na. tional history. The United States had no his. torical_capital and no centralized Government. when Washington was founded. The case of France und of Paris is wholly different. Paris is the seat of a hicbly centralized administration; the Chief of the State, the members of the Cabinet, the foreign Ambassadors, and even thereat majority of the Deputies, live there. It was an accidental and temporary necessit; which fixed the Assembly at Versailles an afterwards retained it. there; and, as that, neceselty has now passed away, mere con venience, if nothing else, would dictate its re- turn to Parts. On the other hand, it would be idle to deny that the political history of Paris, from the taking of the Bastile in 1759 down to the outpreak of the Commune in 1871, to which the long banishment of the Assembiy from the Capital must be more or less directly’ at. tributed, has been both omicous and san guinary. If some of the more timid of the Deputies are still somewhat scared by the retro: spect, it cannot be said that their miscivings are without historical warrant. But the Assembly as a whole bas shown a wise and prudent conti dence in declining to yicld to such 2 feeling. Confidence begets conticence, and Paris is far more likely to be tranquil if it is trusted bya Government of its own and the nation’s choice than if the Assembly were sfill to show. thativ. hesitates to take its seat in Paris. The recent history’of "France has proved that Frenchmea; ever of-oxtreme parties, can practice” paticnee, moderation; and ‘opportunism. The love electoral struggle was conducted, unuel .great provocation, without a sbadow of disturbance, and -the late change of Pres. dents took place in Paris itself as quietly as 3 change of Ministry in England. Paris has thug shown that it can control itself when it as s frovernment that trusts it. France is thus mis- tress of he: , and would regard any attempt at disturbance as treason to the national: eover- eignty. The vote of the Assembly js, accort- -ingiy, a proof that it no longer hesitates to re- store the national Legislature to its proper and legitimate place in the National Capital. If the Senate is of the same mind, the Con tion will be revised in Congress, and both bodies will return to the Capital as soon as suitable ac- commodations can be found for them. Every one who wishes well to France must, hope that the new order of things now happily begun will thus be consecrated and established by the final reconciliation of Paris and France. MARINE. MILWAUKEE. Special Dispatch to The Tribune, © Minwauxkre, Wis., April 12.—To-day the schooner Alice B. Norris was chartered to delit era cargo of grain held on board all winter storage at Grand Haven for shipment to seaboard by rail. The schooner Guido Pfister returned this: afternoon trom Grand Haven, where she delit- ered acargo of grain. She came back light. - . C. W. Norris, of this city, has purchased the schooner S. A. Anderson for $4,792.17. so A one-sixth interest in the schooner Kewanee has been sold by William Byron to J. H. Kelly, of Racine, for S100. Macxisaw City, Mich., April 12.—There is very little change in the condition the ice in the Straits. Towards Lake Slichigan it looks rough, compact, and solid. The prevailing winas are northerly, and prevent the ice from melting rapidly. Uniess we have warm rains soon, it is not likely the Straits will be open be- fore May 1. A report from Point St. lenace states that the condition of the ice is bad. No crossing sinca the 10th. ST. CLAIR RIVER. Dernort, Mich., April 12.—The ice blocksde in the St. Clair River considgranly impedes nav- igation. Tne steamer Kewaunee and propeller. Bertschy lett here to-night to try to force * passage. ‘The propeller City of ‘Toledo, WI left. Port Huron early Friday for Detroit, hes bot arrived here yet. THE INDIAN COUNTRY. © Prairie Fires—Tho Northern Indians Uneasy Spectat Dispatch to The Tribune. g BiswaRck, D. T., April 12.—Forta Stevensoa - and Lincoln both came very vear being dé stroved by*prairie fires. In cither case-the 23% risons turned out and fought the fames with feelings of desperation. The posts were sav “4 after along tight, buta large number of pet sons Were scorched. ‘ A telegram from Fort Buford, the nearest, post to the British tine, says the Indiaws ste coming restless, aud are beginoiny to move. ‘The Yanktons are dissatisfied, and_scarcely com trollable.. A scarcity of food at Poplar River and Wolf Poiot is the main cause, Runners from several hostile camps have made overtures to the Gros Ventres and other peaceable: tri a with offers of presents, asking them terfoin the hostile movements. Unless inore provisions granted they will unite, and, the vprioas tri ant once cemented, the Indians of this country-W make @ bloody campaizn. > St. Louis, April 12.—The Globe- Democrat 10. peka (Kas.) special says: Gov. St. Jobo : consultation to-day with Jim Cannon, dian guide, scoat, and interpreter, from Southern Indian Agency, regarding: th FF bis design of the indiaus to make another raid fig season. Cannon said the Cheyennes and Am pahoes ere sulky and bear close watching ies capture and turning over to the civil authoriti Soy trial of the Cheyenne Chiefs who led the Jast year caused 2 great deal of dissat ‘tb in the tribe, and other tribes sympathize WE them. Cannon thinks they can be qt however, and kept on their reservation, sf and important measures sre taken. : MINISTER MAYNARD. FHILADELPUIA, April 12.—Horace Minister to Turkey, sailed to-day. ‘A prompt and pleasing way of easing anhsty wheezing. Use Hale's Houvy of Horehoum Tar. _ Pike's Toothache Drops cure in one minatés e reported *-°