Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1880, Page 1

VOLUME XXXIX. LINENS, &c. COMBINATION 1880. SALE 1880. [NDUCENENTS. HOUSEKEEPERS, We think we are not assuming too much tn saying that our NEW SPRING IMPORTATION: of LINENS AND House-Furnishing Goods Is ono of the finest-selected stocks ever shown to the retail trade of this city. Prices made on these goods have been tnaccordance with our pronounced custom, “LEADING PRICES.” We offer, in the shape of a few spe- elalties : g00 doz. 5-8 Double Damask Napkins, $1.60 er dozen. . We ate confident this Nap- in cannot be duplicated elsewhere for Jess than $2. © 75 pieces 64-inch full-bleached Table Dam- ask, in 1a new designs, at 75c per yard. ‘This Linen is the same quality that oth- er houses ask you $r for. 240 doz. extra size Loom Damask Towels, clean, bright borders, $1.50 per dozen, or x2 r=2¢ singly. LEADERS OF POPULAR PRICES. Madison and Pooria-sts. SHIRTS. SHIRTS “ORDER. WILSON BRIS, 113 ‘and 115 State-st., Use only the best Linens and Mus- lins, employ SKILLED help in thelr manutacturing department, and produce GOOD goods at LOW- EST prices. They carry in stock fut | ines of Shirts of their own make, Retaill--First Floor, Wholesale--Uppor Floors. MANERAL WATER. Save THE SILURIAN MINERAL WATER 1s the ole known CURE for DIABETES ond BRIGHTS DISEASE of the KIDNEYS. It is NATURE'S MARVELOUS REMEDY for nil Kldney disonson, Urinary disorders, Constipation, Dropsy, Gravel, Liver Complaint, Dyspopaln. ‘Thousaiydy live to tostity to thospood and parsaa- Denoy of Its cures. It {eoxtolled by Mysiclans, Literary Mon and Ladios, whorover used. Suffer tio Longer,but buy a gallon for 40 conte anddrink ft athome. ‘Pamphlet mailed froa, Do not pormlt anyother wator to be substituted for SILUIIAN, Af your druggist doas not keop it order direct from the Silurian Springs, ANDERSON & HASLAGE, Propr's, Waukeshu, Wisconsin, Chicago Office 101 LaSalle Street, Roum 6: For sale fn Chi- cagoby Muck & Rayner and other first-clessdrug. gistswhoareaupptied with printed directions for suse Prico por {-barrel! PATENTS. PLINY uy, sMITII, ‘T. 8. R, DIXON, DIXON & SMITH, PATENT ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS, Rooms 48 & 45, 145 TaSalle-st.y Major Block, Chicago, Patents procured, and Patent Litigation ~ conducted. Charges reasonable. Correspondence invited, (Tako Elevator.) BMANK BOOKS AND PIRINTING, BLANK BOOKS, an STATIONERY AND PRINTING, ETRE SUSRY Slathery ana einting Co, MMonrce uid Dearborn BLANK BOOKS, PRINTING, AND STATIONERY, J, W. MIDDLETON, 65 Statesst, Large Btock, Good Work, Low Vrices. ADVERTISING, Space securad for City and Count Ia Urioua rates tall un Gradgtons Cra COOH ELOY 1a Ciicagu. COPARTNERSHIP, glbaveadmitted HERBERT DARLINGTON and . A. HARVEY to an interest in my buslness,”* GEO. C. CLARKE. » _tét and 163 La Salte.st., Jon, 1, 1880. = Serene CELLULOID Goons, CELLULOID (1 Water-proof Lin- oe Cuffs, Collars, and Bosoms.. Price ts anu Goods sent by mal, Call or address BARNES! Hat Store, 86 adlson-st, Tribune Bullding, S¥ousords §5.86.4 0.88: 0. Jour, So Onder Rrliaklo Ronda hed rein ow Orions Moiudio Outre AB. hyo. tua.ht5. shan. VittsushtaiheillnGs Sidish Oleitiow coll Ahomaclaes ie Deedlors Anondore. boratt Mil book, ie STERLING Cad EXTICAL WICK, For Lamps and Oil Stoves. Saves Trimming, Odor, Cinders, and Dirt. Costs but a trifle more than common Wick, and lasts six times as jong. No connection, past or present, with any Red Felt or so- called Perpetual.” Sold by dealers gencr- ally. tion a few wholesale Chicago houses where all sizes may be found: Felix, Marston & Bilsir, Gray Bros., Knowles, Cloyes & Co, Sherer, Shirk & Co., Sibley, Dudley & Co., Towle & Roper, Wm. M. Hoyt & Co., also all Lampand Glass Houses generally, * WOOD & CO., 85 Madison-st., ed States, FINANCIAL. Assets, $18,000,000. Money to Loan. The Northwestern Mutual Lifo-Insuranco Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Is prepared to. Joan, Mo fl _pro- luctivg pronorty, in the City of chieba and on J ltuproved property in Cook County, at Jowost, cure rent ttos of interest, in sume of $00 and up- wards, freo from commissions, Applicat june fur such Jonna nre invited und may be made to the Company ut Hts office In Mllwankes, of ta the undaralgned, who are provided with blanks for that purposu, and who will Varnist wil needful information, OFFICE-—-Corner Kandolph & Dearborn-sta, DEAN & PAYNE, General Agents. REDMOND PRINDIVILLE, Special Agent, Chicago, Jun, 25 1. MONEY TO LOAN Dy J0S1MH IL, REED, 52 Williamast., N. ¥., | Innmounts os yield on IMPROVED CHICAGO Pe . HUKLBU'T, 15 Rendulph-st. REAL ESTATE LOANS On improved city property, at lowost rates, made by BAIRD & BRADLEY, 10 Lusalid-st MONEY TO LOAN Inaumea te suite on chofce clty or Hyde Park im- proved property, st towest current rates, PURNEN & BOND, M0 Washington-at ART STUDIO, OTP DEOL Brands ‘ omptly attonded to by 210 & 212 Wabash-av. NOTICE, aifhearrant given to the Cullector makes, I hie uiy to tewy an tiie proper eons win ike EP ULECE corny tole PRISON AL PIOH ‘A AX when domunded, Notice ts therefure diver tail purione owloy ‘such Lax thut thy awe Mist bo pad og ur bufore thy lds day of Februur hust us Lshall proceed t lovy un the property of Wl acti wito have not put on dha date, hat dato. HEL PLEKCH, Collector, a Waaluyuansst, “FO RENT. Nos. 262 & 264 Wabnash-av., 125, uire of Store and Basement OFT EWUDICY, 104 LaSatle-st FOR RENT, Uriel Hiding, 40x18 feet, contrally lucated, AMES WILM 1d Dearborn-st, Room 2. | WASHINGTON. Mr. Bayard’s Greatest Effort Given to the World at Last. His Bid for the Support of the Gold Sharks Made Public, Ho Foresces Terrible Danger in the Popular Fondness for Legal- : - Tender Notes. The Railroad Interest Still Actively Opposing Rea- gan’s Bill, Charles Francis Adams Jr.’s Argument Before the Com- mittee Yesterday. An Abstract of the Minority’s Report on Fitz John Porter’s Case. It Opposes His Restoration to Rank or His Receipt of Pay. Sugar Importers Urging a Uni= form Specific Duty on That Article. Gen. Logan Introduces an Immedlato- Transportation Bill in the Senate. Miss Josephine Meeker Gives Her Version of the White River Massacre. BAYARD’S BOOM. THE BENATON ON FINANCE, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunte Wasutnoton, D, C., Jan, 27.—Senator Bayard, whe eccupted the floor of the Sen- ate this afternoon, Is uno of the new repre- sentatives on public Ife of a historic. family, distinguished through several generations as statesmen, His grandfather and his father preceded him in the United States Senate as Senator from Delaware, and the family has always exercised a controlling In- ueneo in that State, while jt has been prominent in the National Coun- cells. Mr. Bayard is .a stanch partisan, and yet he lias, on rare oceasions, shown that contempt for personal aggrandizement at the expense of principle that places him above ordinary politicians, Ile lias a youth- fulappearance for one who hns passed his 50th milestone, le isof pleasing personal ap- pearance, middle statue, and of courteous manners, His volce 13, however, weak, and his sight is defective. 113 MANNER OF READING stich n mags of manuseript as he had before him when ho rose to-day is very prosy and tiresome, He took deelded ground, yet sought adroitly in sone passages to concill- ate his party opponents, espectatly by his as- sertlon that the system of Incorporating, which we have'introduced in all industrial pursults, has been nearly equal to what the effect of primogenitura and —entaitments would have been in aggregating wealth. He was listoned to with marked attention on both sides of tho Chamber, but the galleries were not lulf-tilled at any thne while he was speaking, Ills speech, which wes in type, has possibly been mulled to every leading newspnper In the country. THE SYEECI. ‘To tha Western Associated Press, Wasinnaton. D. C,, Jan, 37.—In the Sen- ate this morning consideration wus resumed of the joint resolution introduced by Mr. Bayard to withdraw legal-tender power of United States notes. Mr. Bayard spoke in favor of the resolu- tion, He said his object In urging the adop- tlon of the present resolution was to bring about the netual resumption of specie ay ments, Wihiatever elsu might be effected by the resolution was secondary and merely tie eldental to this one enrdinal object, Sound prosperity must rest upon a sound basis, and real money fs the only sound currency.} To resume by the existiig system is as idly as to boil water with n sieve. Paper notes are an essentinl auxiliary. to coin, but they fre not colu, not money, byt sub- stitutes for it, ‘Thelr acceptanc® must be based on thelr credit, on thelr conven- lence, and must be always yoluntary in order to be sate. When an evidence of debt 13 made & compulsory tender In payment of debt, tho great law of honesty and of money, that valte is to be glyen for value, Is broken, Keferrlng to the fuar expressed by many of the “money power,” he sald capital ts tho result of Inbor and frugality. Was there to be discrimination agulust those individuals who had been more succussful than others in accumulating property ? 1T WAS THE “MONEY POWER" that enabled the poor laborer to become the owner of tools whereby he accumulated hls own little and growing, enpital: it gave his ehildren education, ayd made \is old age more comfortable, Ho did not ignoré the fact that the equal and wholesome distribu- thon of property sought to be obtained by our fathers through the abolltion of primogenl- ture, entailments, perpetultivs, ete, had been ton prgat extent defeuted, and he Inclined to think the system of incorporation which wo have Introduced in all branches of Industrial pursults hud been nearly equal to the effects of primogeniture and = mortualn com: bined in {ts Influence upon the aggre- gation of wealth inte a single and neveralylng grasp, But he could not understand at what polnt the denunciation at accumulation was properly to commence, He attributed this unequal division of pro; erty, however, more to the use of convertible legal-tender paper money than to anyehing else, Jefferson saktl that-by ** breakfiy up the measure of value it makes a lottery of all private property.” ‘Mr, Buyard continued: [ attribute the dan- gerous projects, fallacious schemes, and at tempts te array the forces of numbors aguinss the pro; perly rhich we witness over the couns try, and whieh afford such opportunity demagogs to ply thelr arts and excite all une tiduklug ariel aulteriny people to the adoptlon of false remedies auf destructlve measures a supposed rellef, I consider the constriction of the Constitution by the Supreme Court in the legattender cries tor be alarming and mogt dangerous, for 1 understand it to vest tue power to Issue legal-tender notes upon the existence of ‘ 8OME GREAT EMERGENCY, of which Congress {s the judge.} As tho Constitutlon was intended for the restraint of majorities, aud to keep all payer thers not deleguted within the assigned Maite, It is obvious that the necessity for maintaining Its provisions 1s greater In’ proportion to tha excltements and dangers of the hour, | Yet, by the interpretation of the Supreme Court, tho hour of trial of tha Constitution ts, the hour of Its fallure; it 1g never so weak as when ft should be’ most strong. It this be the doctrine, we cannot be tou prompt, now that the storin ig passed, the sea sinootl, and the wind fuvorable, to put our Ship of State in a condition to weather further storms. Let us see where we now stand. Secretary McCulloch, tn hig annual report of 1865, having expressed the opinion that the Jegal-tender nets were passed Jnoa great emergen nd that they should be regarded only as temporary, tho louse of Hepresen atives, underasuspension of the rules, by 144 yena to aunty, 6 nays, re- solved, ““Llat this House cordially concur hn the views of the Seerctary In relation to tho nee ¥ of the contraction of the currency, with a view to ns early a resumption of specie payment ag the business Interests of the country will permit, and we hereby pledge. coGperative netion to this end as speedily as. possible”? Among the 144 supporters of ‘this resolution 1 find’ the following who are to- members of this body; Messrs, Allison, Conkling, Dawes, Ferry, Morrill, Rollins, and Voorhees, Mr, Bayard went on to show how this palley had been abandoned,and the notes relssied and kept In ciretlation, During the debate, he sald, which attended the passage of the Kesumption act, the pres- ont Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Sherman, who had charge of tha DULY this body, was asked by-several Senators, myself among the number, whether by the redemption of United Slats notes under that act they were finally lo be yar measures RETIRED AND DESTROYED, and he declined to give any construction whatever to the law on that point, Mr. Edmands—Will the Senator from Del- aware permit me to ask whether there 1s any. doubt tn his own iind ns to what the con- struction of that act wis? Mr. Savard am unable to say what Its construction was. I thought it was a double. faced Juggle, intended to eateh the votes of the contractionists by one construction, and of the Inflationists by another construction, I thought it was a snare, ond nota worthy trentment of a grent subject. Mr. Edmunds—L voted for the act of 1875 because it seemed perfectly clear to me that the redemption it provided’ for was the re- demption that took out, in polut of law, from existence all United States notes that should come $1 In themethod provided for in thatact. Mr. Bayard—Of the ability of the Senator from Vermont to forman opinion, no man haga doubt, At the saine tine, L repeat that the measure was supported here by the gen- tlemen who had just been adv ing ‘Initia. tion to the full extent of tho f hundred initiions, ‘Phere was no reference fn my re mark to the opinion of the Senator from Vermont. Iwas referring tu the fenticmen put forward by the advocutes of the bill to answer for them, and who refused to pubs construction upon It. Continuing, Mr. Bayard said: ‘The issue of ‘Treasury notes was at no time Intended a3 A PERMANENT MEASUKE, with or without the legal-tender power; yet we find that this measure of confessed tem- porary —expedienco .is still forced, and by many < urge to be continned in perpetuation. And Senators say: “These totes aré now at par; are re- deemable by the Government, at the will of the holder, in gold and silver coin, ‘Chere fore let well enough alone.’ ‘To this com- plexion have we come: that a proposition to ndopt measures of admitted safety and wis- dom to secure a permanent prosperity fs called “ tinkering with the finances.” Mr. President, such a condition of senti- ment alarms me, and only causes ie to be more Vigorous in my efforts to secure my eountryimen seal’ such inanifest dangers, ‘This ussiuned Jegal-tender power ts like the erm of the dendly fover, nnd needs only the heat of the excitement of speculation, of war, or of «stresa, to develop its deadly powers, and itis while 1t is dorinant and 1 would PUT AN END TO.1TS EXISTENCE, ‘The present condition of prosperity may soon. bo ull reversed. light, and ria, and drought may destroy our crops; ($ COM mon inthe history of natlons may demand frou our exchequer extraordinary payments. The seheme of uuittig the two great oceans by ne cunal across the lsthniusof the southern border of this continent ke one of world-wide Importaney, and the Lela? every American proclaiins that It 1s to be under control of the Government of the United States. Our power my bo questioned, but it will be maintained, Every counsel of |. lsdoin therefore exhorts us “to selze the day,” and In time of peace to prepare for war, for it is the surest way to avert it. ‘The withdrawal of the legal-tenier pense from United States notes can do injustice to no man, and cannot Jessen the value of the notes in tho hands 0 any holder, because an equivalent for the fuey value fs offered In gokland silver coln, in case any creditor shonld refuse to accept them. ‘The endowment of Government notes with Jogul-tender power has nlways FAILED TO PREVENT DEPRECIATION when public confidence had once been shaken in them. It is worthy of note that when, in 1870, the first decision of the Supreme Court was reached against the power of Congress to make notes legal-tender for debts, the ef- fect was raisy the value of such notes in the market, by diuluishing the premium upon * gold from 10 to 15 per cent, and, on the contrary, when in the year following this decision wis reversed and the power in Congressattstained, the value of notes declined and the previa upon gold Immediately advanced. By the public press we are Informed that a wide expression of public opinion 1s to be brought to bear upon Congress to Intluence the passage of the “Weaver bill?! Edo not propose to discuss its merits, except to say this: If it be just to relieve these discharged fers and sailors: from tho effects of a depreciated legal-tender, currency, the same mensure of justice Is dug the oflicers of both branches of the service, Fand we cannot deny, in equal justice, to the wounded and crippled pensioners: of tho War, nor the clvil servants of the Government. Nay, L doubt whether justly we could stop there, for the Injustice caused by. the Government In theemission of such notes and muking them Jegal-tender for all private debts should also be remeddicd, and where debts contructed In gold and silver piloe to 1863 (When such coin alone was the awful imonvy of the United Stutes) were pald off in depreciated currency, the dit ference in tho value of such currency with doln showld in equity and justice be made gooil, and for such Ineredible payments A FLOOD OF LEGAL-TENDER PAPER CUR- RENCY would be needed. ‘The present Congress nay not yield ta such solicitations, but wo cunnot answer for our sucecssors, On the tireshald let us anect oll such schemes so fatal to geod government, “Like causes, will over produce like effects,” and £ eurnestly appeal to my coun trymen and ie Senate = to shut thio door, forever lock It and throw away the key which adults lemabtonder currency to take the place of a stable standard having untversal and {ntrinsle value, ‘The one ali gle function of a currency Is to effect the ex- change of commodities by an equivalent measure, but when that measure lias no in- herent valug, or a fluctuating yalue, as must always be the caso when it 1s founded upon credit along, itis radically corrupted, 1 be- lieve the necessity is admitted of a rediffu- sion and redistribution of powers, which, in the emergenctes of civil war, have been unduly absorbed by the National Govern- ment; but what act of centralization hot which assumes to create value by the fiut of Congress, and compels such values to -be accepted as tho equivalent fur any indebtedness, In any view, all thor steps towards centraliza- tlon are as nothing compared to this, ‘There ig uspiritef Irrevorence in these flat-money plans of assumed omnipotence that ought to shovk the minds and hearts of men, Mr, President, I haye not considered this great question trom a purty standpoint, | 1t touches too closely the welfare of every hue man being In our ‘society for me to dwarf it for tho mere futerests Of a party, But this debate hus begun: and ahd close, and the name of no Democrat will be uttered who at any time approved or in any way counte- Utica ao Monstrous an assertion of power the emission by Congress ot will of legal-tender notes, ‘It 1s uttorly beside the uvation to read here long extracts frou efurson and duckson, denounelng — the abuses of power by great poveninient vorpore ations, It Is a: profunation of their great names; It ia an insult to their honest fame: to suggest or even polnt that they or any 0: them ever countenaneed or approved the emulsion of legal-tender paper money, Gold and silver colus are the ONLY TRUE AND CONSTITUMDNAL MUNEY, according to the doctrines of. true Dem- ocracy, I do not propose on this occasion to consider the Interesting and inportant ques tlons of bunk or ‘Treasury lysues of notes as currency, refurms in the tariff, navigation laws, nor the parity between ullyer ay gol und the practicability of retaining both mejals by thele free colnage and tho present regulation of their respective values, The question I have assumed to discuss {8 of such importance ag to warrant consideration by itself, Ihave tried to treat the yu ation ina worthy spirit and do my best In the service of truth and justice. Whether the Senate will concur in my View, IL know not, for « subject Ike this jas never been, and will never be, made by bject of party ca Pus OF perRonal cani- vass for votes, But 1 believe that coud sense and right fee pare permanent and endurly forees in Ainerican potitics, nnd tn that faith Tshall rely npon these qualities vindicating themselves in the minds of my countrymen ng thine sll pass on. The palnful earnings of dally toil and the accumulated wealth of generations are alike Involved; the creation of property by Inbor, and its transmissjon to. posterity, are all alike affected by what £ have proposed, and, not being a believer In Congressional alchemy, L ask that wo now abanttpy sluilar attempts to make It suc- cessful, After executive session, adjourned, REAGAN’S BILM. FURTHER RAILNOAD ANGUMENTS, Spretat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasiinaton, D.C., Jan, 27.—The House Commerce Committee had an important hear- ing this morning, the speakers being Charles Francis Adams, Jr, and Mr. Mr. Gowan, of the Reading Road. Mr. Adams began by sny- ing that he nppeared not in the Interests of tho railroads, but for himself. Ie deprecated nll legistation as an essential evil and only to be resorted to when ft cannot be ayulded. Unless, then, it can be shown there isan evil existing In our Inter-State commerce, noth- ing should be done, The entire welght of railrond competition in this country falls upon Odessa, a port In Southern Russta, which competes with our ports for exports of breadstuffs. The qurarre! between our railroads is a matter for States alone to reg- ulate. If there are evils-beyond thls, and which affect Inter-State Interests, then Con- gress should remetly them, All the evils inentioned in the blll, and which this Comsit- tee would cure, flow from unregulated compe- tition, Itis nothing more than the principle of the “survival of the fittest.” The same principle controls other large interests in the country, The pork-packing interest has of late been confined to Chicago, Clacinnatl, and a few other clties which are the centre, ‘The country pucker hns ceased to exist. THIS LAW OF COMPETITION pervades all business, affecting railroads, steanship lines, telegraph and telephone companies, mines, and in fact all branches of industry where large amounts of capital can be employed. Wherever competition is al- lowed, there will thls principle of the “ sur- vival of the fittest” prevall, No amount of legislation caf avatl against this principle. Congress may as well enact a law that ruses shall Hereafter grow without thorns, The only jaw which will meet the case is the. law of Ialsser faire. The speaker said he felt so certain of lis position that he hardly cared to argue the question, The railroad problem {s to-day solving Itself with tremendous rapid- ity. Our people are unlike those of South- ern Europe,—they will cure abuses when they appear. The remedy for these railroad evils, which are truly ¢vils of magnitude, ean'be cured only by federation, or, to use a word very much In disrepute winong a re- spectable class, pooling. {le said this view was not of recent adopilon, but was embodied in his book on railroad management written long before he entered tho service of the rallroads, i IN DEFENSE OF THIS BYSTEM of pooling, or federation, ax he preferred to term it, he haid it was.tho parent of economy, ‘Under it s low rate forced by competition Is bound to regulate rates atall other points. "The rates at Chicago, Induced by the water competition of the lakes, is enfoyed hy Peoria and other interlor points, Federation brings many rallroads under a few, or even one, Te- spotisible head, go that an evil can bo traced home. All that ean be done fs to let the rail- roads alune. Let them federate—let them coma ton responsible head, which can be struck off if necessary for the good of the country, ‘This is all there is ot the Amer- fean rallroad problem, whieh is very differ- ent from European raltroadt systems. In Germany the Government owns and controls the roads, In France the State allows six great corporntions to do all the carrying busi- tess. In England, after many years of in- quiry and hivestfeation, Parliament has come to the conclusion that tho railroads should be left to govern themselyes, ‘That ts what we want. Mr, Adams concluded by presenting a bill containing two sections only whieh he regarded as of importance. One provides for the APPOINTMENT OF A COSISIBSION to take cognizanee of and act upon disputes between rallroads, ‘The second provides for the manner in which this Commission shall proceed! to examine complaints and diserlin- nate between conflicting corporations, to- ether with its mode of making reports, ete. fit is objected that a Commission will not work well,—that honest, disinterested men are not to be found,—then the railroads had better bo let ulone, If honest men cannot be found by the Government for this work, then the Government ought not to undertake to regulate rail roads at all, The so-called - Reagan bill Js founded on correct principles, except that it proveeds from abstract prinelples to con- erete legistation. ‘The process ought to be reversed, Legislation, if any be hud, should be built up from concrete cases of absolute experience, If the matter were Jeft in his hands, Mr, Adams would establish federa- tion by legisiation, and establish a clearing- house system which will apply to all inter- State rallrond business, Ar. Gowan, representative of the Philndel- phin & Reading Railroad, was the first repre- sentative of any rallroud company to advo- ente the peneral principles” of the Reagan bill, ‘This is, perhaps, not strange when 9 remanbered it _- is that it was the Reading Railroad which frst attempted te secure legislation to prevent diserlinination, and that the first bill Intro~ duced In Congress upon that subject was, If fs generally understood, drafted by the at- torney of that Company. THE INJUSTICE OF RAILROAD DISCRIMINA- TIo: and tho enormous power of monopolies has seldom been more graphically set forth than it wag in tho argument of Gowan to-day, was shown that, in order to destroy competi- tion and to prevent the success of the pipe- Tine that had been constructed tw codpe- rate. with the Reading Road, the trunk lines suddenly reduced rales wut transportation on oll ahi pped by the Standard oll Company from"a rate which sometiines reached $1.40 barrel to 10 centa per barrel, and this upon the enormous trafilc o 73,000,000 barrels annunily, The consequence is' the ruin of the pipe-line, Neither does it appear that the praducers have been in an way benotited by this reduction, as the Stand: ard OlL Company, knowing In advance that this reduction was to by made, made cons trata for the greater portion of the product at the ald rates and pocketed tho reduction ti freight. One result is, that no producer of off can slip a burrel except he sells to the Standard Ol Company at such: tates as the Company may be dispoxed to pay, ‘Tho vy for such diserimination,. Gowan Thawed, existed in a statute iiving ; the United ‘States Courts the power of “per- emptory mandamus to execute the common Jaw as fo common carriers, so that the ship- per could, within 8 few ‘hours, compel a Tallroad that {3 attempting to discriininate ta moyo frelght at the sang rate, °- Mr, Charles Francis Adams, Jr, privately expressed the opinion that to enact such 0 statute would result In the demoratization of the Federal Judiciary, snd that there would be danger that every railroad would own its own Judge. : : —— FITZ JOHN: PORTER, THE MINORITY REPORT, Apectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasutvaton, D. C., Jan, 37.—The minorl- ty df the House Committee on Military Af fulrs, consisting ‘of A, G. McCook of Now York, B. F, Marsh of Wlinols, and Thomas M, Browne, of Indiana, in their report on the Fitz John Porter case, oppose the proposition of the majority of the Committee that Fitz John Porter bu restored to his rank and pay. “tain thelr native color. ‘Tho minority, in expressing thelr views, care- fully examined tle findings of the court- martial, They say: “J1is trial was held within a month of the battle of Manassas, and when witnesses who were present on tho side of the National forces were easily obtained, The movements of the armies were fresh in the minds of those Interested. ‘The Court was composed of men eminent in their profession, six of them graduates of West Polnt, some Inllmate personal friends of accused,. and some haye become equally eminent in civil life, and. nothing has been shown to convince us that they were not honestly anxious to do Justice in accordance with thelr oaths, without partiality, favor, or affection, : PORTER HIMSELF MADE NO OMECTION to the detail of the Court, and, in addressing it, sald: ‘Yourselves, most if not all, have known me well’ They con- clude that Porter was without excuse for having remained so long inactive in the presences of the eneny with two, fine divisions while o great battle was bein fought in his: vicinity, and that had he acted ag he should linve done, by freeing the rest of the Union line, he would probably have prevented the reverse which the latter suts- tained at the close of the day, The Com- inittee say they “have concluded to recom- mend the passage of a jolnt resolution re- moving so much of Fitz John Porter's sentence as prohibits him from hold- ing any office of profit, or trust under the Government, Its _ passage will give him no claim, however, upon his former rank or upon the Trensury of the United States. Logically, perhaps, the imi- norlty should not recommend it, but when we consider that amnesty and pardon have been given to those formerly in arms against the Government, and that tle removal of dis- abilities for offenses certainly as dangerous as his to the perpetulty of the Union are of every-day occurrence, THE REASONS FOR TINS ACTION in Porter's caso are obvious, One of his complalnts is that hig sentence is a continu Ing one, and that he has h deprived of the righls of citizenship. The passage of the resolution will remove these disablllues and enable him to remit: the whole question to the people, or to: some other tribunal than Congress. It is, in our oplnidu, quite clear that he should not be restored to his former rank {n the army, and that he should not re- ceive the retired pay, amounting to $50,000 or $60,000, provided “in - the ll fer his rellef, but his restoration to the rights of citizenship is an act of grace and clemency that the Government can do without In any way manifesting Its approval of the findings and sentence of the Court- Martial thut tried and convicted him, ‘There were perlods of lls life when his services were of value to ils country, and Jt is but fair, periaps: that they should be considered now in determining his case; but that they should go to the extent of the rellef proposed by the majority would be fn our opinion un- wise, Inexpedient, and unjust.” ————- SUGAR, THE MATTER OF TARIFF, Speclat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasuinatoy, D.C. Jan. 97,—Tho ques tion of the sugar tariff came up this morning before the Committee on Ways’ and “Means, the entire sesston being devoted to the hear- ing of an argument by J. E. Searles, of New York, in support of the petition of the sugnr refiners and fimporters for 2 uniform specific duty in place of the present graded duty on that article. The argument was directed against the practicability of an ad valorem duty and the still greater {mpracticability of n graded specific duty, Tho unfair operation of such g tariff both against the Government and honest operators-in sugar was forelbly illustrated by a caso in which’ identical car- gues recently paid duties in Now York which yaried $3,000, , The action of Secretary Sher- man, last summer, in changing . THE TARIFF ON TIS ARTICLE, by a Treasury order, was severely comment ed on, and the statement made that suits were being brought for the ‘return of the duties pald under those orders, It was claimed by Mr. Searle that substantial unintinity’ on this question now existed among the sugar importers and the refiners, with the exception of those refiners who find their main profit In supplylng the people with arefined sugar chiefly made from low-grade sugar, Which, though low-priced, Is not. cheap, because containing many articles which are not pure sumer ‘Towards the close of his argument Mr, Searle took up the question of the effect of the tariff on low. grade sugars. ‘This portion of the argument ellelted many questions from the Committee, and seenied to excite much fiterest. The hearing Will be continued to-morrow, aNAT MKAY, who was commissioned by the Committee of Ways and Means to exaniine the eau plalits inde by the ‘Treasury Departnight that the Demarara manufacturers have been mending, sugars here which contain a high degree 0 saccharing, matter, but which are so dark~ colored as to exempt them from tho high rate charged on lighter-colored sugars, will address the Committes to-morrow. He will, endeavor to show that the charges that these dark sugam are aritticially colored are wit founded, and that instead of bleaching them, 13 forinerly, the hnporters allow thein to re- Ihe Treasurer main- tains the contrary view. Mr. Havemeyerss of New York, who Is an advocate of the present tarlff, Will soon speak in opposition Searles. SENATOR LOGAN. THE GOVENNOUSINP AND PRESIDENCY, Speclat Telegram to the Inter-Ocean, Wasmsxatox, D, C., Jan. %,.—Senator Logan says that the dispateh to Tim Crica- co Thi of the 10th inst, from St Louis, and others of tho same finport, stating that he had combined with Secretary Sherman or any other man to carry Ilinols for him, and that he was running a candidate for Govern- or, is wholly fatee, He say's he is not inter- fering in the Gubernatorial contest, nor does ho expect to do so; that the Republic ans of Y£linols are perfectly competent to decide that question without his Interforenco; that, so far as -the Presidential question is concerned, his position ts well known by all his friends and enemles; that he is and has been from the first a Grant man; and has not in an: disguised the fact from anyone, He thinks Grant coul! be elected “without a doubt, when any other candidate might render the contest doubtful: that Grant would carry froin thres to tiveSouthern States, and would surelycarry Now York; that the mes for the last few monthy portend evil; and that Grant would be a safo and rellable man ina great enurgency. Senator Log says he can Bub. port any good wan, but, if we want to elect without 8 doubt, Grant’ is the man, and If It bo left to the people he will be the man, THE UTES, ‘MI88-MEEKEIS TESTIMONY, Rpectat Dispatch to Ths. Chicago Tribune, Waasutnaton, D. 0., Jan; 27,—Miss Josie Meeker was boforo the House Indlan Com- why -Inittes to-day} and told the story of the massa, cro of her father and of the causes which lod toit. Ske talked without embarrassment and with great clearness. Sho said the In- diang were {nelted to the deed by tholr in- tense .native aversion ta -take on elvil’od modes of life, Thoy argned that if once they began to plow the ‘land and raise stock they would be oxpected to continue’ In the new life. ‘Thelr young mon would grow up with no- tasta for the chave and the wild, sayage life whieh” has characterized them for centuries, Another’. hardship would be. the atoppuge of-Govern, ment gunulties, which is now the sweetest boon to the Indiana of Colorado, ‘Thorn+ burgh may have acted with too great prov cipltancy, and his campaign threw ‘the Utes Into great consternation, Miss Meeker re+ iterated tho story told at the tine of the mas- sacr bs DUT NEVER SUBSTANTIATED, that pletures drawn In the rude Indlun style were found on Thornburgh’s body after death, representing fhe persons who were afterward actually jaurdéted with wounds - fn different parts‘ of the body, as it they had been ¢rawh from the «dead bodies themselves. ‘These pictures would - naturally have . incited Thornburgh -to make the attack promptly, as he would naturally believe tho: pictures told a story of massacre.. Some of tha members of tho Committee who ‘know most about the Indiait character say that tliis story isn fabrication, whose purpose itisto excuse the Indians. Miss Meeker says, moreover, that a good many of the soldiers of Thornburgh’s com- mand were furlously drunk at the ‘time of the fight. There wore barrels of whisiy in the vicinity to which the soldiers had full ac- cess. At the time of the massacre of her father the Indians were in Iquor, Sho denies that the exchange of the 18,000 acres for 7,000 acres by tha Southern Utes could havo furnished the pretext for the ont- rage, because tho White River Utes lost nothing by the exchange. ‘ . MORE THAN TITAT, they professed to be glad that their Southern ; brethren had been ontwitted, “It you had held on to your land as we do, you would not now sitffer,” sald they, In derision. She also disposes of the sBry of the Fort Kaw- Hns affalr, wherein it 3 alleged by Leeds and Gen,-Fiske that the Indians were deprived of food and clothing for a long. tine. She says that this never affected White | River Utes in tho least, and that they never inade it the basis ofa complaint, member of the Committeo who hag heretofore taken the humanitarian yiew of the Indian probten sald to-tlay that the testimony of Miss Meeker quite staggered hin. He hing all along believed that the In- dian {s capable of civilization, but doubts i¢ now, It is beHeved that the testimony of Gov. Pitkin will be very Important as showing tho great ditticulty of maintaining the Ute tribes of Indians ina State which Is rapidly filling with an energetic and enterprising race of people rendy and willing to develop the wealth of the State to a marvelous extent. TIE MONROE DOCTRINE. ITS APPLICATION TO TIE DE LESSEPS CANAL Speciat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasiunaton, D. C., Jan. 27,—The House Special Committee on Interoceanie Canals held n conference with the Secretary of the Navy last evening. The purpose of this mect- ing was to hold 9 preliminary informal con- ference upon the canal question, and to ob- taln the views of members of tho Committee. The proceedings, for somo unexplained reason, {thas been decided to keep secret; but, while no action wag taken, It is knowz that the Interchange of opinion showed that the Comimittes is o practical untt in favor of the Monroe doctrine, and that sonte members of the Committea are such en- thuslastic advoentes of the doctrine that they would be ‘willing even to go to war to prevent tho construction of an Interoceanic canal under the auspices of France, or. of any European allied Powers, without the prellininary consent and codperation of tho United States. ‘The State and Navy Depart- inents are sald to have made an examination of all treaty rights.with tho Central Aieri- ean Governments, with a view toa consider- ation of this canal question. It ts reported also thatthe State Department has recently recelved communications from sume of its diplomatic officers in Europe to the effect THAT A BECRET ALLIANCE ' has been mado. between Great Britaln, France, and Germany, the: purpose of which is to sea to it that an interoceanic canal be built in accordance with Da Leaseps’ Yanama scheme, without the intervention, and in splte of the defiance even, of the United States. This Intter report may be sensa- tlonal, It is very doubtful whether there is any official knowledge that such a tripartite alllance has been made or that a combination has been formed. There Is, however, one fact whieh has probably been forgotten by most Americans, and which may cume to have avery serious bearing upon the Inter+ oceanle-ennal question. It is, perhaps, forgotten that in 1802, under the act abolish- Ing slavery in the District of Colnmbia, an appropriation of $100,000 was made to aid in the colonization and settlement of such freo persons of African descent then resident in the District of Columbia, Including the slaves then about fo be emancipated, as might de- sire to emigrate to Liberia, to Haytl, or to such country beyond the limits of the United States ag tha Prestdent might determine, Later In that same year, In the law relative to taxes in the insurrectlonary States, IT WAS PROVMED . that one-quarter of the proceeds of the sales &f lands or of lenses of lands conilscated and sold for non-payment of direct taxes shoul bo paid to the States, to be used in a alinilar colonization purpose, Still later, in the Sun- dry Civil bill, approved fn uly 1862, there was an Spprepriatian of *$500,000 made to en- able the Prealdent to carry out the purposes of tho emnncipation act’ in the District of Columbin, and assist In, colonizing the ne- roes beyond the limits of the United Bintes. Tn the process of carrying gut this purpose of Congress a conmission wad sent to Central America, and it is now sald to ben fact that the United States Govern- ment parched a tract of Innd along the line of route of the DeLesseps Canal, An American gentleman of wealth and enthu- slasm in the scheme is reported ot that tine te haye obtalned from the Government of Now Grenadan grant of some 2,000,000 acres on condition that he SHOULD RUILD A CERTAIN RAILROAD, which he did bulld. This strip of 3,000,000 acres extends from the Gulf of Srexics to the Pacific Ocean, and has a good harbor upon It ateither end. ‘This tract of Innd is known as the “Pink Slip,” and {a so marked upon the map, A ginnlt colony of negroes located upon this * Pink Slip,” and the Gov- ormment expended some $25,000 in the eree- tion of bul dings and for other purposes In their behalf. ‘The relotions of the United States to this grant, and the possibilities of, maldng se of such property rights as the United States may now have in thatcountry, wert among tha.things considered at this preljininary conference with the Special Com- Inittea on tha Panama Canal, but thero cor- tainly Is manifested a very earnest purpose on the part of a majority of the Comnilttes to insist with such vigor as may be upon the Monroe doctrine, and to procinim before the session is ended’ to all European Powers, “Yonds off!" + —— NEW BILLS. RELIEF OF KANSAS SETTLERS, Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasitnaron, D.C. Jan. 2%.—The bill intros Gueed by Br, Ryan, of ‘Kansas,to-lay provides: that thé 250 settlers on the Kansas ‘Trust ond Diminished Neserve lands may proceed to pay for thoir lands unter ‘the appralsoment had under the law of 1870, in installments, the first payable in 1881. Under the act of 1874 several settlers made entries, but that act having beea repealed by the Inw of 187), they were left without any capacity to prove thelr title, and thls defect is corrected In this bill, and they sre allowed to perfect thelr titles under the law and appralsemont act of 1870, Tho, bill further provides that the class of settlery, wlio had lands deeded to then by the Governnient; which they purchased as the highest’cash - bidders 111872, may retain these “lands, whether they have .resided on them or not, ‘Tho requirement of actual res!- deuce by. the purchaser has beex considered to be a great hardship, f IMMEDIATE TRANSPORTATION, Senator ‘Logan to-day Introduced tn tho Sennte a bill relative to the {mmiediate trans- portation act, which has the same text as the Aldrich bil. ‘The purpose ts to huye the subject considered py the-Senate coutenpo- rancously with the: House, iu order to suve thie when the bill shall come up for final: action, An attempts now being made W- the , ? ; i