Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1880, Page 4

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APOTTO COMMANDERY, NO. 1. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR—Attontion, Sir Knighte~rhe funeral of Sir Knight foomie H, Bullock will take pinco Friday Journing. Sir Knights who desire to attond will ron- Meavousat tho armory, 7 Monrio-st, at 45 o'clock, The Commundory wil! lonve tho Arylum wt 10:15 WABILINGTON CIITAPTER, No. 43, R.A. M.—Spa- efal Convocation this (Friday) evening at 7:00 o'clock, qr work on ing dnsk and Mt. : a reer, enteine eppentons cordial ride. ik WICUIU n & change fa not remotely probable, To 9 friend who wrote urging him to tse Ils Influence to bring about a reduction of the German army, Von Moltke writes that tho power of the Emperor fs unequal to the tnsk of convincing the other nnttons of Hu- rope that “even a victorious war Is 9 nae {onal misfortune,’—n conyletion, he adds, that “can only bo tha result of the moral edueation of tho nations, the frultot which we shall ticithor of us live to sec.” ee Tir Mayor, at the meoting of the Council Committeo to consider the matter of provid- ing for tho removal of tho river nuisance, seemed to make the question of Improvement depentent on the cost, and also indleated that before Chicago should do anything in the matter the State should contribute to the expense. We think this was ungractous. Tho peoplo of the State have oxpenied $10,- 000,000 on the canat. ‘Tho present improve ment is only remotely connected with the purposes of the ennal; the City of Chicago cut the ennal down so as to cable the sowage ofthe city to flow through that canal, and the people of tho State, in our hour of dis- tress, promptly paid the elty bnek all it could Inwfully claim for that work. The nuisance 1s a local one; It {3 created fn Chi- engo; the people of tho Stato have no more coucern in it than they have in cleaning our streets. If tha city cannot expend $100,000 for such a purposo It should shut up shop and quit business, The duty and the obliga- tion rest upon the elty, The river invites a pestilence, and now is the tine tonct. Let the Counell yote tho money, and do so promptly, and not go begging through tho State for money to remove o purely locat nuisance, ——e eee ‘Tre Shormaw plan of working up the Sher- man boom in the solid Democratic States of the South by o judicious distribution of Specin] Treasury Agents nt $6 per day and a manipulation of ‘Treasury patronage to the samo end fins galned Its first success In North Carolina, a State which fs said to have been most thoroughly canvassed by these Government-paid wire-workers. By means of offices parecled ont to tho State Central Committee Secretary Sherman was able to obtain the support of a majority of its mem- bers, even to the extent of weaning some of the Committeemen from their previonsly- declared allegiance to the Grant. moye- ment; and yesterday the-Committee, thus reconstructed ns to Presidential pref- erences, appointed four delegates-nt-lurge to the National Republican Conven- tion. It is hoped by a contimiation of the polley of appointments and promises to similarly manipulate the State Repub- lean Convention and Insuro a solid Sherman delegation from North Carolina. The Special Agents of the Treasury Department will, it is understood, bo kept at work until the State Convention meets, when they will be transferred to othor fields of usefulness in the same line of industry. In this way {t is cnleulated — that n remarkable amount of Sherman enthu- sinam willbe developed In the Solid South, so that States with sedrcoly a Ilving possl- -| bility of ensting a single Electoral vote for FRIDAY, JANUARY 80, 1880, Ons of the famous architects of the world, Edward Middleton Barry, who designed the British House of Parliament and many other {important buildings, died yesterday at the ago of D0, . * A RULE was Inst ovening- adopted by the * Board of Education which In effect declares celibacy to be an Indispensable qualification in female teachers in tha public schools. Entrance into the estate of matrimony ts to ‘bo hereafter considered equivalent to a resig- nation. i ‘Iv was doomed unwise by the Mouse Dom- ocrats to press the amendment proposing to deprive the minority of the negative power ‘ of tmpatring a quorum by declining to vote, and !t was yesterday withdrawn. It was feared that tho minority would uso thelr privilege under tho existing rules to defeat tha entire now codo If It contained the ob- noxious clause. ey Tue 145d anniversary of the birth of Thomas Paine was celebrated Inst evening in this city bya big audience in the Contral Musle-lInli, Col, 2. G, Ingersoll being the speaker of the ocension. The lecture, which we print this morning, was of a character to Immensely entertain the large gathering, while the receipts maken good boginning for tho Paine Monument Fund, ———— Tie Fronch Chamber of Deputies yester- day passed the Governmont bill providing for thq suppression of political clubs and for tho prollbition of meetings where dis- iturbances are apprehended. ‘Tho opposition chiefly camo from tho Legitimist group, a3 tls only the enemles of the Republic who have any renson to find fault withn hw which ounbles the Government to suppress plottings agalnst itself. ‘Tix Secretary of tho Interlor yesterday notified Indian-Commissioner Hayt that his services In that capacity were no longer re- quired, This arbitrary. removal is placed ‘upon the ground of “the good of the service,” the developments in the recent in- yostigation of charges nguinst Mr, Hnyt liav- Ing been such as to convince Secretary Schurz that tho affairs of the Indian Bureau can be placed in better hands, err Tne Senate yestorday, for the first time since the Democrats obtained control, dl- -vided Into strict party Nnes on a nomination by the President, the cnse in point being that of Mr. Howard M, Kutchin, editor of the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, whose ap- pointment as Collector of Internal Revenue for that District was yesterday rojucted by anadversemnjonty. The avowed cause of this solld Democratic combination against Mr. Kutehin was the publiention in his paper of articles denouncing Democratic Senators with rather moro vigor than was conslatent with o reasonable probability of obtalaing the yotes of the m& thus abused. ———_—— Tne most’ unique and remarkablo stock transaction in tho history of the New York Stock Exchango took place yesterday, when 50,000 shares of Central Pacific were put upon the market openly after ‘smple public notice had boop given and gold to’ tho highest bid- der. “So large a block of shares has never -before been offered for sale jn this manner, and tho fact that thoexpectationsof tho sellers ‘wore surpassed inthe price obtained and that. the market valuo of the stock was materially Increased by tho large sala shows how eagerly capital-seoks fuvestment in railroad securities, About one-half of the 50,000 shares was bought for export to fill the , order of a Gorwan firm. pon Vox Mourne, the Chief Marshal of the Gennan Empire, {5 now over 80 years of age, vhaving reached fourscore on the 26th of Inst Octobor, and has-not the reasonable expecta- - tion of remaining much longer in 9 position to note the progress of events on earth, Still, the old warrior nas no notion of jolning “the bivousa of the dead” for some years yet,and when .ho expresses the belief’ that he will not Hye to see any material reduction of European armaments, he “mwahs ‘to say that in his judgment such the Republican Presidential ticket will be brought to Chicago in an unbroken phalanx, and, it may be, turn the seato In favor of the nomination of a candidate toward whose election they will be able to contribute abso- lutely noth SENATOR BAYARD'S NON-SEQUITUR. In his speech defending the Sherman prop- osition to demonetize greenbacks Mr, Bayard recognized the public sentiment which de- mands that the present monetary system shall not be disturbed, and this reflection led him to make the following remarkable argu- iment; “Mr, Prosident, such a condition of sentimont. atarma me, and only causes me to le more vig- orousin my cfforta to secure my conntrymon against such manifest dangers. This assumed legnl-tonder powor Ig liko the germ of tha dead- ly fovor, and needs only the heat of the excite. ment of speetilation, of war, or of distress, to develop its dendly powers, and it fs while it fs dormant that I would put an end toits existencn, ‘Tho present condition of prosperity may soon be all rovorsed, Illght, and storm, and drought may destroy our crops; eventa cominon in the history of nations may domand from our ox- chequer oxtrnordinary payments. Tho schomo of uniting tho two grent oceans by a canal across tho Isthinus of the southorn vordor of this con tinont {s ono of world-wide Iniportance, and tho heart of ovory Amcrionn proclalins that it {s to bo under control of the Governmont of tho ‘United States. Our powor may bo quostionod, but it will bo maintained. Every counsel of wiadom therefore cxhorts us ‘to solzo tho day,” and In time of peuco to proparo for war, for it is the surest way to nyort it, Tho withdrawal of tho legnl-tendor power from United States notes can do Injustice to no man [7], and cannot les- sen the valuo of the notes In tho hands of any holder, because un equivutent for the fneo value {a offered In gold and silver colin, in case any creditor should refuse to acocpt thom.” To begin with, Mr. Bayard should have paused in his argument long enough to ex- plain why it ls that nolther the statesmen nor the people of England, France, Germany, Italy, and other European nations share his alarm at the power possessed at all times and frequently exercised by thelr Governments to maka paper money Iegal- tender, Tho notes of the Bank of England are to-«diny legal-tender, Tho Russian paper rubles are legal-tender, ‘The notes of the Bank of France were legnl-tender for insny years following tho Franco-German War. ‘The notes of the Italian banks arolegal-tend- er. ‘The Treasury-notes of tho Austrian Government are legni-tender, Theso and other Europenn Governments are not re- strained by constitutional obstacles from authorizing at any time a now Issue or an in- creased Issue, of legal-tender notes. Tho evil and danger of legai-tender paper, then, if evi! and danger thera be, are more tmmi- nent In other countries than in our own; yet we do not hear of European statesinen, ocou- pylng rolatlvely the snino exalted position Senator Bayard holds in Atmorles, alring thelr apprehensions of impending catastro- pheon this account, There is no agitation toalay in England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, or sny other great com- mercial nation like that which Mfr, Baynrd would vitalizo in this country, No ono in England is demanding that the Bank of Engtand’s notes shall be divested of their logal-tender function, No one in France, or Germany, or Italy is ask Ing that the Government powor to authorize legal-tendor notes shall be revoked for al! tine, Are wo to conclude that the statesmen of othor grent nations aro singularly bilnd to an iinpending disaster, or that Mr, Bayard has conjured wy an imnginary couse for ‘alarm to sorve his own partisan purpose at this partleular thine ? Mr. Bayard knowa that the Jegal-tonder power In the American Government can only be exerelsed In an emergency that threatens the very existence of the Government, while the other great nations possess {t asa mattor of undisputed right, to be governed only by the sumo considerations ‘vf economy and public welfare that [nfluence the exercise of other sovereign powers, This authority, If dangor- ous, is not sq alarming In the United States ‘undor etrict Hmitation ag it is under other Governments, But Mr, Bayard declares that he would “ put an end to Its existence,” and that he would take ndvantage of o peaceful and prosperous condition, ‘while: ft is dor- mant,” to strike it a fatal blow. That ia to say, he would seek to persuade the Amorlean people in asereno and conil- an authority which may bo essentin! to Na- tlonal existence In some great emergency of tho future. He would use the present pros- perity to put nway a safeguard agalust pos- sible adveratty. Ifo would have tho Amer- {ean people place thomselves nt a disndvan- tage ns compared with othor commercial people of othor nattons because thoy may not Just at present feet tho necessity for 0 renewed exercise of power which other nations mny oxerctso at any te. Tho non seputtur of Mr. Bayard’ argu- ment appears more strikingly, however, from tho further reasons ho proceads to givo why Congress should proceed to wipe out three-fifths of all the debt-paying money In the country. “Blight and storm may come,” he says; “the crops of the country may fall”; “our exchequer may require ox- traordinary payments’; the producing and Industrial classes may be prostrated.’””? Hence the people should be limited toa small pro- portion of tho presont volume of legal cur- rency In thalr possiblo necessities. Tempo- rary reverses may Joad to a general panic; creditors may press hard upon debtors; the banks may be foreed inte suspension, Hence the volume of debt-paying moncy should bo reduced three-fifths and tho distress of tho people increased! Tho eurront of forcign trade may be changed; tho money balances may turn against the United States; the gol may flow out of the country to meet foreign payments, Ifence the people should be de- prived of logal-tender greenbacks, and have no monoy for tho legal payment of debts, butbe forced to snerifica thoir property to thelr creditors in the vain effort to, procure gold. Thore may be war; demagogs may betray tho country into a ridiculous attitude of hostility to the construction of an inter- oceanie canal with foreign capital; trado re- lations may be interrupted, and the resources of the country may be sorely taxed. Hence tholuternal exchange of commodities must be cmbarrassed, and the debtors must be hard-pressed in thetr extremity for lack of legal money recognized by law asa discharge of indebtedness, Tho Government may be unable, by reason of the foregoing or other circumstances, to continue the redemption of its notes to the point of extinction; its credit may bo Impaired, and now sus- pension brought on. Hence the country must be deprived of three dollars outofovery five which it hnd for tho payment of debts, and the ayofdance ofa monetary panic at a time when there was not so much need of It. In one word, tho possible and imperative necessity of a legal-tender paper currency in 8 period of fiscal stress 1s used as an argn- ment why such neurrency should bo aban- doned and exterminated! We do not think 1¢ would be possible for any opponent of the Sherman and Bayard contraction schemo to demonstrate more convincingly the utter selfishness and greed that lie back of the Wall street effort nat demonetizing greenbacks than Bayard’s own words havedone. ‘That portion of his speech to which we havo directed particular atten- tion is a virtual confesston thatthe real pur- pose in view is to antielpnte a possible inter- ruption of good times, and place tho debtors and Dbusiness-men of the coun- try—the men who aro engaged in industrial, agricultural, and mercantile enterprises—completely ot the meroy of mereitess creditors and money-shavers, Sher man and Bayard havo mado a bid for the support of the moneyed cliques of thelr re- spective parties, the one by proposing and the othor by fathering thisschome, Itremains to bo seen how the people of the country will trent thls astounding claim for preferment, ELECTING THE PRESIDENT BY POPU- LAR VOTE. Mr. Townshend, of “Egypt,” Dlinols, has introduced Into the Natlonal House of Rep- resentatives a resolution proposing an amend- ment to the Constitution which shall provide for the abolition of the Electoral College and the election of Prealdent and Vice-President by popular. vote, The details of Mr, Townshend’s plan are as follows: (1) Tho citizens of conch Stato shall batlot for candidates for President and Vice-President on the same day ns they now vote for Electors, (3) The returns of tho votes so cast shall be made within ten days to the presiding Judge of the highest judiclut tribunal in tho State. (8) ‘The manner and place of holding elections, the canvassing of tho votes, and the certifylng of returns shall be determined by tho State Legistatures, (4) The Supreme Court, or highest judiclal tri- bunal, shall count the votes, and: make out three certificates, which shall bo transmitted to the President of the United States Sennta in much the same manner as tho Electoral yotes aro certified under tho present system. (5) The certified votes ara to be counted by tellers In a joint sesston of tho two Houses of Congress, (8) The person recelving tho greateat number of votes shall be President, “1 such number be equal to a majority of tha whole’; in the absenceof s majority over all, another election is to be hetd on the first Tuesday after tho first Monday in the fol- lowing January, In which the persons haying tho two highest numbers of votes shall bo the only candidates; in case of a tio between the two highest, the House of Representa- tives is to elect, ag now provided by the Con- stitution. (7) Tho process for electing the Vice-President is tho same, except that, in ense of tie or when a second clection of Vice-President only shall bo necessary, the Senate shall then clect as now prescribed by the Constitution. Townshend's scheme could ba materially {improved by providing that a plurality of all tho votes cast shall elect the President and Vice-President, as is now tho ruloin nearly all the States for tha election of Governor and State ofiicers, The provision for 6 sec- ond election would result in on embarrassing interregnum and two Presidential elections at the ond of almost every torm. Tho American people cannot afford the time, cost, and agl- tation of any morg elections than thoy now hnvo. There is entirely too much ballot- boxing now for.tho public good. Nor is there any adequate reason why the plurality of votes should not determine the election of Prealdent of tho Nation as well as of the Governor of a State, It may bo falrly aa- sumed that a majority of the votes of the minor fnetlons would have gona to the lead- Ing candldate if there had been but two cam didates; eyen an exact division of the minor parties would still give tho lead to the candl- date having « plurality of votes, Nor would it always be possible to confine the second election to the two candidates who received the largest number of votes at the first oleo- tion; for death or the determined with- drawal of one of the two would lead to the election under that rulo of 8 man who was not the chuice of the people,’ Tho recent political troubles in Maine furnish a fresh {Mustration of the dangers that are always: Ineldont to n system which requires.a ma- jority overall, Had the plurahty rule pro- valled In Mulno as it docs In nearly every other State, Gov, Davis would have succeed- ed Gov, Garcelon hnmediately, and the State Government would not have been reduced to the verge of chaos and revolution over the disputed possession of the Gubernatorial ofiice, A proposition for the election of President and Vice-Prealdont by direct popular vote will undoubtedly be recelved with much favor by the American people; but, in. order to galn the necessary confirmation of three- fourths of the States, It should be presented THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, dent state of mind to renounce for all time | In the foltowlng simple and direct shape: (1) Tho porsons reeelving respectively tho highest number of votes for tho offices of President and Vice-Presiitent to bo“elected, whether aneh number bo a majority over alt other candidates or nut; (8) the Prestdentinl term to bo extended to six years, with 0 pro- vision that no President shall be eligible for retlection except after an {nterval of a term in the office; (8) the term of a Congreasman to ba threo years, with the provision that the Congress elected on tho same day ns tho Presittent shall enter upon Its dutics contom-" porancously with the inauguration of tho new President, Such 9 plan would reduco the excessive frequaney of general elections, Onco In slx years soften enough to subjecttho Nation to the turmoll, torture, demoralization, and enormous cost of Presidential struggles. It would promote a desirable harmony be- tween tha President and Congress and defent the manipulation of Executive patronage for the reflection of tho person in office,—all changes which nre desired by the people. If Mr. Townshend would cominand the earnest attention of Congress and the people for his proposition ho will put it In that form, Thora is no resson to apprehend the danger of fraud in the chao of electing by popular vote any more than there fs under the present Electoral system; fn fact, local fraud in tho former cnso would not be so apt to affect tho general result, us it is under the present method, when a few thousand fraudulent votes in the City of New York, for instance, may neutratize half 9 million honest votes {1 that State, and defeat the will of the majority of tho American people. SHERMAN’S SOUTHERN ROTTEN-BOROUGH DELEGATES, Tho Washington correspondent of tho New York Thnee (in a letter which lias appeared in Tie Cntcago TrinuNe) makes the charge, and supports it with very strong cvl- deuce, that Secretary Sherman 1s buslly at work using the inachinery of lis department in violation of tho Civil-Service rules to secure the vote of the Southorn delegates to tho Chicago Convention for himself, The writer says: “In all the Southern States there are traveling to-day so-called Special Agents of the ‘Treasury Depnrt- ment—men who receive $0 a day ant their traveling expenses,—whose solo duty seems to boto drum up recruits for tho Sherman ary and secure for Mr. Sherman rotten- borough votes in tho National Convention.” Thus far his canvassing lus becn mainly confined to Virginia, North and South Caro- na, and Loulsiqna, and In these States numerous appointments have been made upon condition of securing tho delegations for him, whilo in other States direct offers of positions haya been made to lending poll- tieinns if they would pledge themselves to bring their delegations to Chicago for him. It $s a little remarkablethat Secretary Sher- man, who has some reputation for perspleu- ity and good judgment, docs not seo that it would be utter folly for any candidate to ob- taina nomination by such 9" rotten-borough't vote. Such s nomination would be of little use to any candidate thrust upon the States which elect, against their will, by Statesthat cannot be counted upon to cast a alngle Te- publican voteinthanextElectoral College. If itbe true, and unfortunately thore Is too much evidence that it is true, that Secrotary Sher- man{s “fixing up” thodclegationgintheSouth through Custom-lHouse officials and revenue agents 80 18 to obtain thelr vote In tho Con- vention and override the sentiment of tho Re- publican States that nlono glye Republican Electoral votes, his nomination will turn to ashes In his hands, Unless he can command the support of the delegates from a majority of the Republican States, so ag to show that he isan acceptable candidate to those who elect, it will be the gheerest folly for him to press himself or pursue his canvass any fur- ther. Of what avail willit be to him, even conceding that he obtains the complimentary yote of his own State and the voto of the Solid South, if such States as New York, Pennsyl- yaula, Ilnols, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Town refuse to indorse s nomination forced upon them by the votes of Democratic States in the Conyention? Of what avail will tho vote of the Solid South” obtained through the machinery of the Custom-Houso and In- ternal Revenue Bureau bo to him if it alien- ates tho States that cast tho Republican Elect- ornl votes ? Apart from this yery questionable proceed- Ing, to put it in the mildest Nght, lo lias al- ready placed himself in o financtal attitude that docs not commend hii to the masses of tho people of the country, Ie has foreed the issuo upon the public, first, of demon- etizing, and then of abolishing, the logal- tender redcomable greenback. Ife has com- initted the President to tt and urged 1t with the purpose of placating Wall stroct ant securing Its support, Ifhe goes before the country upon such a currency-contraction platform hu will surely bo defeated. Ie could not oven carry his own State, but would be left !n Ollo many thousand votes inthe rear, He hag enough to do to take cara of himself, with his notorious hostility to silver money, without furthor making himself obnoxtoua ns a candidate by using the machinery of the Government, at the expense of tho people, to secure his nominn- tlon by rotten-borough votes from Southern Democratie States, If theso statements of tho New York Times botrue that ho ts “fixing” the vote of tha Democratic South to override the wishes of tho Republican West, {t shows that ho is not na safe, suitable, or available candidate for tho nomination, without considering n alngle othor objection that might bo urged aguinst. Diin, It will not lead him to success, but to aiiscrable and mortifying dofeat, Tho Ke- publican party of the North Js not ina mood tonccept any candidate forced upon itin such a manner, The Southern detogntes will be welcome to take part and vote In.the Convention, but no Solid South dictation of Demoeratle States will bo welcome there, It will be the true polley of the Southern dele- gates to vote for the’ candidate who will be most acceptadlo’ to the Republican States, and not.forn candidate who does not com- mand the votes in the Convention of the Ro- publican States, Oun New York dispatches 9 day or two ago contained the declaration of war mailoe by Taminany against ‘Tilden, It was a vig- orous deelarntion,—war to the knife, and tho knife to tho hilt, It ls put into practical shape by tho resolution of the snchems to ent entirely Juose from tho ‘Tilden-Itobinson vombination, eal! o convention, and send delegates to the Natlonal Convention, Ono of tho head gachems sounds the war- whoop In the follawing Justy imanner: “We killed Gov, Nobinson last November, and as sure as tho sun rises on cleo- tlon-day next November wo will ki Sam ‘Tiden Ie the Natlonal Convention fs foaltah enough to nominate him for President. Without tho thirty-flye votes of his own State he cannot be electel, and we aro strong enough to prevent him from get ting thoao thirty-five votes. ‘This Is no child’s play. We mean war to the end, and that end will be very bitter to Tilden If he perslats in forcing himself upon his party as a Presidential candidate next summer.’* Tho ringing toneg of the whoop have reached the ears of Mr, Wattorson, the editor of the Loutsville CourterJournal and one of the principal tuglemen of Tilden. He calls itthe “climax of insolence,” and the 1880, hho goes for them In the following savago manner: , “Wo do nasuro thom thoy nre mistaken In thinking thoy can devolve any honost or intelll- gont Domocrat. They nro boltors and rebels. Thoy are without political honor or fidelity. Nover again shall tho faco of one of thom darken tho interior of a Democratic National Convontion, Thoy are tho sccrot tovla of tho enemy. Thoy are owned, body and soul, by the Republicans. No decont Democrat can reengulze thom. Thoy aro tho scoff, acorn, and byword of the great purty they havo betrayed, Lot thom take thomeaclyea off to those who own thom, and, sinco they havenot the courngo to hang thomsolves, let thom mako &. morit—that, of courngo—out of the only sito course which {8 loft thom, and doclare boldly for Grant, Conkling {a thoir maater, and Conk- Ung is for Grant. Under the Kmpiro they may thrive. As Republicans thoy mny be allowed to plok up alittle offal. But ‘the Democracy of tho Union, to which they appeal, knows thom not excopt ns a gang of odlous renegades whom to romombor {9 to dospise.” As tho fight stands it 19a very pretty one, and Tim CntcAgo Trinunn, being in tho position of the lmsband who was witnessing tho fight betweon his wife and the bent, fs In- clined to wish them both success. 16 isn Kilkenny-cat fight of s very enjoyable nat- ure, and we trust the animals will mot bo separated until they have had a fair chance to.claw cach other in the most approved fash- fon. HOW TO OLEAN THE RIVER AND : ABATE A NUISANCE. Tho Mayor and Clty Council of Chicago are brought face to face with the responsi- bility of Immediate action upon tho condi- tion of the Chicago River, For varlous reasons, the canal no longer carries off the water of the river in sufficient quantity to keep it-in an endurable condl- tlon, and, owing to tho undiluted state of the sewage, tho flow from the ennal Is proving to be an offensive nulsanco along the line of the eanal and to all towns for many miles down the Ilinols River. ‘This state of affairs has now reached that pomt when some remedlat netion 1s tinperiously demanded, and thot ac- tion must be taken by the City Government. Woe, published some two weeks ngo the re- port of Dr. Rauch, President of tho Stato Board of Health, on this subject, and unless action be had soon the condition of tha river will startle the peoplo of this city, and will call for the most vigorous mensures by tho inhabitants of the towns on the Illinois. The City of Chicago has certainly no moral right to ercate a nuisanco extending to other towns and celtics fora distance of ono hun- dted and fifty miles. Sho has no right to afilict the people of other cities with her sow- age, to the detriment of thelr health and comfort, if 1t can bo prevented or remedied; and It {3 therefore an imperative duty on her part te reduce the offense to the minimum, whether sho is legally responsible to those communities In damages or not. Comity and fellowship demand at least this much, The present condult or canal has cost too much money, first and Inst, not to utiliza it to the utmost. It hns cost not less than ten millions of dollars, It{s now carrying, not 30,000, ns It should, but only 15,000 cuble fect of water per minute at tho Inke level, which nt present, on account of the provailing winds and other causes, is very low. At the ustial high-water level of the lake, the canal can carry off 30,000 cuble fect of water por ininute, Owing to tho low, flat level of tho city, Chicago can only exist by the artificial rais- ing of water, Tho city has to pump water from the Inke for drinklng and domestte pur- poses, To remove: the stagnant water of North Chiengo bayou she must pump water into it from tho lake, In liko manner sho must Introduco water from the lake to-move the sewnga of the elty wostward into tho - canal, and thence tothe Illinois River. If the sewago wero forced Into tho Inke, tt would poison tho supply of water obtained nt the erlb for domestic purposes, To move tho river water and sewage to the Mlinois River fs therefore Inperative. ‘The city some years ogo exponied nearly $5,600,000 In principal and interest for the purpose of deepening this conduit sons to onable it to carry off all this sewage from tho rivers and aftorward, following tho fire, tho State genorously refunded somowhere about, $2,600,000 principal and a half million nddt- tlonal in the way of Intorest. When this work of deepening the canal was dono, tho lake level was from two to threo fect igher than its present averngolevel, and the yolume of water passing Into tho canal was so great that the pumpling-works previously used were deomed no longer needed and wero abandoned by theCanal Commissioners, But experience soon showed that that high Jake lovel wns oxceptionnl. It has not main- tained that hight dne-tenth of the time dur- Ing the nearly ten yeara alnce the deepening of tho canal was comploted. Tence tho amount of the flow of water has been disap- pointing, and especially in winter, when tho Ico reduces {6 still more. It may bo safely atated that for nine-tenths of tho time the wator flowing through the canal Js insufll- elent for good navigation purposes, and alto- gothor lnsufllclont to carry off tho sewage in ® properly diluted condition, Thera is o genoral concurrence of opinion that tha most direct, Immediate, and effectual proviston for tho present condition of affairs iy to restore tho lock at Bridgeport and pro- vide now pumplng-works. Tho most liberal estimate of tho cost of this restoration of lock, gates, and pumpling-works is $100,000, ‘This sum is nbout equal to one doWar for cach family In Chicago. What is that trifling sum when compared with the previous out- lay upon the canal, and compared with tho yalue of keoping the Chicago River and Ite branches pure and clean, and of removing the nulsanco from down the Iinols Rtver 150 miles? Can anybody measure the value of this deliverance to the health and comfort of tho wile city? The: cost of operating will be comparatlvely insignificant. When tha water In the lake fs high the pumps will not need to be worked; when the lake fa at a medium elevation, only ona te two feot lift of the water will be re- quired; and whon the Juke 1s low they will only have to lift enough ‘water to keep tho river clean and abate the nuisance, A litt of three fect, an additlon of three feet to tho low-water luke lovel, will more than double the outflow through te canal ; will Increaso it from 15,000 cubic feet por minute to 33,000, or 80,000 euble feet per minute, Thepressure of water ina full canal will hold the banks from “stumping?! or slipping into the canal, aways a danger when the water ts low. ‘The deeper the water In the canal the easier It fs for boats to bo moyed, whether towed by horses or propelled by steam, With seven or elght fect of water, Iustoad of four or four and a half, a more rapld current can bo maintained, as well na a wider aurface, as can be goon ate glancos Towpath, TB feot_sartace. ¥ ied facie It must be borne in inind that the bed of the canal was doepened eight feet, but the banks were not cut down, go that the loyel of the water can be raised not merely three whoopors a mere handful of traltors,” and ; fect, 4 shown in the dlagram, but even oight, without tha least Inconvenlence or alunger of ovorflow. During tho four months of closed nayiga- tlon, and when the sewage Is most offensive to the people down tho river, tho gutes at Loelport shontd be kept open and a heavy head of water foreed through; 40,000 to 60,000 fect could pass through per minute. The city has juat expended half a million of dolisrs to make a conduit from the lake into the North Branch, and erected puinping- works to operate it, ‘This work will tax tho ennal still more, and will render an inerensed flow throngh the Intter an absolute neces- salty. ‘This rush from the North Draneh {nto the South Branch will make the latter more foul than over, un-| leas the flow of water through the canal ean be nlao incrensed. What is the expend!- ture of $100,000 for the accomplishment of thts Important end, when tho results are considered? : When the pumping-works nt Bridgeport: are retstablished, tho clly will bo abioto keep tho river and Its branches clean for the next fifteen or twenty years without any enlargement of the. canal. Every foot added to the flow of water in tho cannl will inereaso tho discharge of water from tho river 10,000 to 15,000 cuble feet per minute,— ench’ added foot gives not only n greater width and a swifter flow, but reduces tho friction. Thus the first dopth of eighteen inches on tho bottom of the canal docs not probably carry off over 8,000 cuble feet of water per minute, beeauso of the great fric- tlon on tho sides and bottom and the narrow- ness of the channel, A. foot deeper will ndd 4,000 cuble feet to tho flow per minute, an- othor foot will move 4,000 feet, and alll another foot 5,000 feet additional, giving fora dopth of four and shalt fect a flow of 15,000 cuble fect of water per min- ute. In ike manner and for the same rea- sons, fo inerease the depth of water In the ennal three fect more will add 21,000 to H4,- 000 cubic fect per minute to the flow, and by {nerensing the water in the canal to cight feet tho canal will carry off from 86,000 to 40,000 cuble feet of water per minute with ense, \To add six feet to the present depth of wator in the canal would enable n flow of not less than 75,000 cubic feet of water per iminute,—a discharge whieh would change the water In both branches of tho Chicago River threo or four times In every twenty- four hours, Can any member of the Coun- cll hesitate a moment as to tho duty and ne- cessity of this work, no matter what its cost may be? And especially}can he hesitate when the cost will only be a trifte? CosT OF PAPER. ‘Under tho heading of “Save the Rngs ” tho Milwaukee Wisconsin gives the follow- Ing bit of advice to Its renders: “Tho price of paper has been advanced from 6% to 9 cents all ovor the country. If thla price ig maintained, the public will bo compelted to pay moro for thelr newspapers. Some dally papers bavo alrondy bad to incrense their price from 20 to 26 or 30 conta per wevk, and weekly papers from $1.50 to 2. i “The ndvance in paper can bo stopped if tho people will save and sell tholr old paper and rugs. ‘Threo months’ saving of rugs and old paper by tho entire population, and solling them in tho murketa, would check tho nayancein paper. Rags aro worth 8 to 3X cents per pound, “Evory newspaper in tho land should appeal to tho pcoplo inthis matter, And thoy should also Boonen in tho consumption as much us pos- sible.” An advance In the price of rags will natur- ally Induce people to more carefully save them to sell, but that will not accomplish much toward 9 reduction in the prico of print-paper, more than’95 per cent of which consists of pulp made from straw and wood, Tho thing that will stop the inord!nate rise in tho price of print Is a repeal of the duty on paper, And, in order to compensate the pa- permakers for the loss of tho Congressional bounty tax on publishers and subscribors, let the duties on bleaching chemicals and soda- ash be remoyed, This will place the paper- mills in o solld and advantageous position andennblo them to defy any forelgn compo- tition, and atso to export thelr surplus papor to other countries whenever the homo de- mand fails to furnish them o market for all of their production. Both tho newspapers and the paper-manufacturors are now injuri- ously handteapped by Congressional obstruc- tions which should beromoved,—the press by anoncrous tax on imported paper, and tho mills by an equally oncrong tax on bicaching- chemicals. Congress first levied a tax of $5.00 a ton on soda-ash in order to protect a few insignifi- cant papsucking “infants,” who manufact- ure the article. But finding this tax injurl- ous to tho papormakers and operating to the advantage of foreign competitors, instead of repealing the duty on soda-ash,. Congress levies 4 tax of 20 per cont on publishers who venture to Importany papor. Thus bleach- ing-powders are artificlally mado dearer to the papermakers by 20 or 25 per cent, and to counterbalance that, n tax—nominally 20, but In effect 25 por cent—is levied on yublishers to make the paper they consume that much dearor to them and thotr subscribers, so as to equalize the damage dono to the paper-manu- fucturers by the wrongful duty on blenching- powders, It $s by such unwisdom and victous legisla- tion that Congress las greatly Injured two leading industries, and inflicted a lundred- fold moro mischief than benefit. It has re- duced the consumption and production of paper, and in making the cost of its manu- facturo artificially dear has provented its ex- portation to forelgn ports. No country In tho world can make maper ns cheaply os this if the duties on bleaching-chemicals were re- moved and a freo field! and no favors shown, Congress can altogethor bettor protect both papermakers and paper consumers by re- moving the crippling and burdensome duties it has forced upon thom. ‘Tne wo of tho avorage tax-fighter Is serious, In tho fret place a legul luminary se- duced the property-holder into a combination todofeat the taxes, he to bo paid 35 por cont of the tax for his legal services. Obtaining a Judgment againut tho tax, tho tax-flghtor aforo- said promptly paid tho logul Juminury aforosaid tho 04 per cont and congratulated himself upon saving 65 per cont of tho tax, Then tho case was taken to thoBuprome Court, and tho Judgmont bolow was rovorsod, and the tax declared valid, Now comes tho legal luminary again with an- othor bill, equal to 50 per cont of tho tux, for “oxtra services in tho Supreme Court.” Total result to tax-Nyhter; Originul tax, $100; com- mission to legal luninary, Intervst on original tax, WN; costs of procecdings, $10; total to bo pald by tax-flghter, $210; tux-tlghtor out of pocket, $110, If tho tax-iightor objects to paying Beo- ond Dill of legal Juminury ho witl bu auod, and Judgment obtained, and ho will be compolled to pay It, with $20 additional for costa and feos, Moral: Bowaro of seductive logul luninarios offering to defraud tho publio of Ita legal reves Ties on shares, Pay your taxea when thoy be- como duv, A Massacnuserrs gentleman of some distinction at home has bven spending song months in Chicago, the guest at ono of our principal hotels, Els wido soquaintance with the people of hia own State gives his opinion oonelderable value, and his view of what would sult tho Republican masses in Massachusotts In regard toa Prosidontial candidate is worth ro cording. He says that Gon. Grant is not popu- lar in Massachusetts (1) bocause they are op- posed toa third term for any man on goncral principles, and (@) because thoy think Grant's second term was not as good aa his first, and they fear that a third would bo worso than tho second, Blaine js not popular thoro because ho bas spoken in tho Bonate very disrcapuctfully of tho poople of Massachusotis, and thay bavo not yot condoned his fault, and do not propos f until he roponts, Sherman fs tnoro populne th olthor Grant or Blaino, espectally with the ue eyed mon, who think hehasbeen eonind Judleet oMecer (frum tholr standpoint), but many Ob foes to bis candidacy Wecausa they eto that both ho’ nnd Mr. Tnyen Ste using ll the means at thelr comm fo secure dolegations to tho Chleago Convoy. tion Int hla favor, to the scandal of tho Admini tration, and fn’ deflance of tho principier Civit-Bervivo reform. Netthor Grunt nor Diaing could got tho Independent voto that totteg Grant In 1872, but which voted again with ty Republicans Inst yenr, But tho candidate tue would suit all fautions and wite all tho Oppo tion to tho Democracy and poll tha largest ¥; is E, B. Washburne, of Illinols. Hig nominatiog by tho Chfengo Convention would ho necep by the Republleans of Maesachusctis of all shadea of opiiton na a renewed pledgo of the party's fidelity to tho highest standart of no. bility ond patriotism in the ndmintstration of our publlo affatra, Tho diatingulehed gentle man whose opinions aro hore imperfectly ata sald that ft must be undoratood that, while the old Boy State would cast her Electoral voto toe the nomince of the Chicugo Convontion: Whoever ho might bo, ber eftizons would not bo deterrsy from using tholr Influence In favor of the mag who {4 not only unobjectionudle, but Anherenuy atrong with all classes of voters, A Wastinaron dispatch states that: “ Soveral meinbers of the Committes of Ways and Meng have privntoly expressed thomsclyeg in favor of roporting, an Passing, thia session, 4 Dill to roduce tho duty on atecl ralls to about Fie It $s faund by conversations with Southorn ang Western moinbers that the disposition to ayop Buch winengure ia Increasing, Bud railroad ine tercata generally will bo brought to bear on ig support." It Is to bo sincerely hoped tho Committes wy bring inn bill to reduce tho oxisting most pressive and unnecessary duty on stecl mils But tho snme Washington dispatch has this in teresting nddondum: “A Pennsylvania Ropresentattvo eal to-day, when these suggestions were made, that b¢ would guarantee tht bis State will cnat twenty. seven votes solidly-ngalnat {t 'That no Kepre sentative of that Stato would dare to avow him. self In favor of such a proposition a8 nincasury indepondent of a gunornl and equitable rovisiog of tho tariff law. He aitd any man who would seriously push a bi through this winter for, large reduction of tho duty on stect rails would strike at the most vital interest of Ponnsylyani nnd would find her twonty-scven. voles armed turainat him, not only on. that, but. on any ober little Dill be'inight want to get through.” Supposo tho nineteen Representatives from TitInofs, and tho nine from Towa, should “pool thotr lesucs," and tho twonty-clght should ray to tho Pennsylvania twenty-soven, “Gentle mon, fetchon your bears; wo are ready for them." What would tho twenty-seven do about it? Surely tho twonty-cight Representatives of IllInols and Town havo as good a right to vote to protect their constituenta from tho blond-sucke ing rapacity of the Ponsylyanin steal milla ns the Ttepresontatives of that Stato have to continue tho excessive duty. Twenty-elght dollars a ton duty on steot rafis 1s 4 most outragcous tax on the country. It cannot bo defended upon niy plen of necessity. No such rato of duty is required by American steol-makers, It umounts to a tax of 140 per centon ths foreign cost of stcol rails, in addition tothe large natural protection which tho exponso of transportation always affords. It is giving 9 special interest an undue advantage of the con auming public, and tho tondenoy and effect of such nn oxorbitant tax fs (1) to ropress rallroad> bullding and (> to make it so dear aa to furnish oxouse to rullrond companies for overcharging farmers and merchants on transportation and tho traveling public on fares. It remains tobe seen whethor tho representatives of Westen ‘And Southern constituencies will allow them ‘gelves to he bulldozed by tho threats of the greedy, grasping Pennsylyanin steol mills, ant browbeaten or bumboozled by thelr attornoys ia Congress. \ Tim sudden death of Mr. 8. 8. inyes, Wednesday ovening, was a shook to this com munity, of which he bus been an honored citizen for nearly. thirty years, No man over enjoyeds brighter charncter for integrity ant enterpris and for ubility than be did. An onorgotle, en thuslustle mun, be devoted the grentor part of bit lifo to buitding up this city, to advancing {ts In toresta, and to administering its affairs. Honored ond respected by all men, of all partics and creeds, his death will bo mourned by ‘all who know him. Actlyo in all public affairs, ond strong in his convictions, bo disarmod hostilo criticlsm by tho purity of his Ifo, and tho scrupulous integrity of all his dealings, public and private. He wass gentleman of inuch cultivation, a lawyer of ac knowledgod ability, and a polltician of inflexible convictions, Ho wns quite n student in political economy, and bag added much to tho offlelal contributions to the literature of that question ‘Wo served this State and also this clty on re peated occasions, aud with marked ability, To the grief of his immediate family and of bis in timate fricnds will be added tho gencral regret and sorrow of the community ho so long served, and who held him in such unqualified respoc PERSONALS. ‘The Empress Eugenie will start for Natal March 24, Miss Emmo O, Thursby says sho fs not ongaged to be married, itch in, boys. ‘The Duke of Edinburg has reslgned from the Royal Acadomy of Music, Porbaps bo to tends to got married and start one of bis own. Ernest Longfellow, son of the poet, is ex bibiting in Boston 9 largo allegoricul patntlag called “The Chotes of Youth." Tho name of tho young lady has not been mado public. Tho breaking of the marringo engagement betwoon Lord Wontworth and Biss Dudt Fletcher was duo entirely tothe mun, and bit ction fs sovorcly condemned by tho fricudsot both purtica, Nellson and Mary Andorson recently playee in Boston at the game ting, and, in consequence, the unfortunate people who live by boardlos Harvard students are ina condition to appr clato tho necessities of Ireland. Mr, W. D, Howells {8 described as having “a Western face, with square jaw, heaty mustache, and balr parted in the middte.” A squarc-Jawod man with an equatorial part lo his hair must iudood bo pretty. ‘The Orderof tho Gartor hns been conferm on King Humbert of Italy, the coromony col ing $50,000. That amount would buy 200,000 palrs of gartors {n this country, which shows the ad vantages of a republican form of govornment Wo hayo noticed somo powerful editorials Intoly in various papors on “What Witl Gere many Do When Bismarck Dies?" but none tho writors scom to have thought that perbapd tho moat appropriate thing for Germany uote? tho clroumstancea would be to bury hitn. There {s the Rignold kiss and tho Sarah Rornhardt kiss, but tho Castlo-Abbott kiss dl counta both, and fs the only exhibition kiss eve? encorod rour times in Kansas City, and repeal with yarlitions to tho paroxysmal cliviat~ Kanaag City Times, . A person sends in a poem entitled “The Maldon's Dream,” but before printing It 8 should like to know what tho mafden bad for supper that night. It doesn’t read like ono pro duced by a boiled dinner, nor ta {t an tce-creatl mutdrigal, All pooms ubout dreams should be esoom puted by tho Di of faro on which they aro . Cannot Mr. Dana stop slirleking stout fraud long enough to tell an anxlous people ho his 610,000 trotter {6 gutting along, and whetber or not ho will appear behind him next sons” Tho sight of the Sun editor calmly scated 12 * 4%-pound sulky and holding down Keen Jin's tall would causo 9 great many pooplo to patroo" izo the turf. Prof, JolnMulr, tho geologist, who bss beon studying. the gluclers of Alaska for tbe past five months, has retusned to Sun Fran is and minde an elaborate report concerning bs work, The peoplo of this country, ereapectle of purty, will be glad toJearn that the glacier wore nover in better condition, and may bv ™ Ned on for soveral years, Notwithstayding the recent death of ne only gon, the well-known name of Morgun ts ¢o bo porpetuatad. Ho 1 ‘cuusod tho name of hig grandson and only lines descondant to bo changed from Arthur De Morgan to Edwin D. Morgan, Jr. Tho 0! choerfully granted the order upon tho ncocsss77 affidavits establishing tha’ fucts, first that Gor Morgan approved this adoption of pla names ant second, that the chango waa uot a dovico for caplog peounlasy iabilitics, It may well imagined that little pyidonce was needful establish tho grandfathor’s willluyuoss oF 1 grandson's solyeauy,