Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1880, Page 4

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Frans Chunfrau. “Kit, the Are kansas Trovolor.” Farwell Wall, ‘Madison streot, batweon Clark and LaSalle, Lect- ‘ure by Alfred C, Thomus, Subject: “Facts and Tho- ories About tho Bkfus.” THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1880, — By the purchase of the lines of rond run- ning from Selma, Ala, to Pensacola the great Louisville & Nashville Rallway combl- natlon yesterday secured un extension to the Gulf of Mexico, completing an unbroken Nne from Chicago to the deap water of Pensacola Bay. re DANcERous counterfeits of The $5 gold pleco are circulating quite freely In Catifor- nia, the Imitation being so perfect that the bogus coins can only be detected froin the genuine by weight, as the former, while con- taining apparently an equal quantity of gold, are only 700 fine. es ‘Tue sharp freezing wenthor of the pnst two or three days In tho vicinity of Chicago ins materially brightened the lco prospect, which until recently was very unpromlsing. Ice to tho thickness of eight Inches or moro has already formed, and large gnngs of men are busily at work making the most of the favornble wenther. A OASE of hydrophobia resulting fatally is described In our columns this morning, and will attract attentlon among medical men by reason of the remarkably short tle inter- vening between the first premonition of tho disense and tho death of the victim, Theblte oceurred about alx months ago, and no Bie- picton of fnnoculation was entertained until early yesterday morning, ‘Che person bitten was nyotng man of robust health and good Dablis, and in twenty hours from the time the first feeling of uneasiness manifested itself ho was a corpse. eres _ WE present to our readers this morning new weather map, showing the results of the Signal-Servlee observations in a district of @rentor aren than ever before covered by the meteorological reports. From Winnipeg in the far Northwest {o Mobile on tha extreme South and from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlanile the range of observation extends, {including many polnta not hitherto mien- tioned in the weather bulletin, Tuu Tutn- ‘UNE inap, as given this morning, will, we think, bo recognized as superfor In scape and detall to any weather chart published in America by a dally newspaper, ‘Tsre criminal record this morning {s bur- dened by an account of « horrible tragedy in Canada. ‘Tho scene of tho murder—a quin- tuple one—la in Lucan, Ontario, and the vle~ tlms a family of five persons, who were sus- pected by their neighbors of belng the authors of frequent incendiary fires In the town. The family were attacked during the night by a party of unknown persons, and its jwanbers, one after another, beaten to death, the house being then sct on fire and the corpses reduced to cludera, Tho fitth person wags shot at his own door, some distance from tho house where the remaining four re- sided. As an act of barbarism, this Inatanco ofinhumanity puts to the blush anything re- cently recorded even in Kentucky, ‘Tre lumbermen of the Northwest are in Chicago in large numbers for the purpose of .” agreelng upon measures for the good of the . Vast trade and enormous capltal which they represent, more especially us to the prices which should provail at points west of this clty. At their meeting yesterday the lumber situation was thorouglily can- vagsed, and 1¢ was sgreed on all hands that the supply would be Inarge and the demand something unprecedented during tho enguing year, and It was to tho Interest of the trade throughout the Northwest to bring about an equitable unt- formty as tothe pricelist A resolution to this effect was adopted, and ‘without going into detally as to prices the dealers trom abroad ended thelr conference and went home pledged to coBperate with thelr breth- ren in Chicago In tha falthful fuluulment of the agreement, eee Aw Important meoting of Chicago Import- era and merchants wus held yesterday to take action In connection with the Aldrich Junmediate-Trausportation Lill now peuding in Congress, ‘The spirit of the meoting wos oue of unanlmous aud earnest desire for the passage of the bill which proposes to enan- cipate the Importers and merchants of the West from the impediments and disadvan- tages lwposod upon them under the present systain of direct importation to Luterior ports of entry, snd the resolution and petition adopted for presentation to Congress are entitled to have great welght in intuencing favorble action on tho bills now ponding iu the House and Senate, It ts proposed to circulate the petition for signa: CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY _ 5, tures among the business-men of other West- ern cities, and when tha movement fs made on Washington it will bein tho form of solid nnd resistless column whose demanil for Justice and fatr play Congress will nat be Nkely to disregard, ‘Tne first notable event in connection with the Presiitential eampaign of 1880 occurred: yesterday In the holding of the Pennsylvania Republican State Convention, wherent were appointed delegates to represent that State {n the National Republican Convention which meets In Chicago June 2% As previously foreshadowed in our dispatches from Har- raburg, Senator Cameron, who assumes the Jendership and virtual contro) of the Re- publican party in that State, went into the Convention with the fatlextbte ie- termination of making good tls pledge that Pennsylvania should formally present to the country the name of Gen. U. 8, Grant as 9 candidate for the Presidency. The manner fn which Mr. Caineron was enabled to fulfill this pledge has been hinted at and described suMlciently for present purposes; that he was successful is the main fact of interest. It must, however, be recorded to the credit of: the friends and supporters of Mr. Blaine in the Convention. that they stood to thelr guns with a pluck and determination not often witnessed under Ike efreumstances, and that they ns- serted their rights manfully as a minority, though unsuccessful in securing the State delegation for thor idol, But they were not unsuccessful in the enforcoment of thelr pro- test agninst the Cameron methods, nor in thelr purposo to demonstrate to the country that Pennsylvania is far from being a unit for the Cameron candidate, They were able, moreover, to prevent the consumma- tion of the scheme to disregard district selections of delegates and send only such as Cameron should decree. Such an attempt was made, but was de- feated, and the delegates previously chosen by District Conventions werealloweil to stand. ‘Upon the question of Instructing the full del~ egatton to vote ns a unit for Grant, the sup- porters of Blaine mado such a record as to justify the doubt whether Cameron’s victory was not more disastrous to him than thelr defeat was to them, and whether they are not after all the real victors of the contest. This motion was adopted by plurality of only twenty votes In a Conyention numbering 246 delegates,the Cameron plan recel ving 133 votes in its favor, while 118 were castagainstit. The Pennsylvania delegation’ therefore stands instructed to cast its entire vote for Gen. Grimt, but Jt Is believed that fully one-third of the delegation are Blaine men, and that aino will get evory vote in the event of the abandonment of the Grant movement either before or during the session of the Natloual Convention. ——_—_— ATTACHING PARTISAN SCHEMES TO AP- PROPRIATION BILLS, ‘Tho Iouse of Representatives at Washing- ton hasbeen for several weeks discussing the system of rules for the regulntion and control of Iegisiation, particularly of all leg- Islation appropriating money from tho Treas- ury. Tho object sought 1s to protect the Treasury agnlust hasty and Jmprovidentex- penditures.. One end attempted ts to require that every expenditure shall be authorized by some previously-enacted separate Inv, and that the appropriation bills shall bo confined to approprialing money directed, authorized, aud required by existing law, This is eminently proper, and Jf It could be adopted the country would enjoy a sense of security to which It has long been a stranger, Anothor rule !s proposed absvlutely ex- cluding from appropriation bills all political legislation, This ts Intended to prohibit the practice of attaching to tho appropriation bills for the necessary support of tho Gov- ernment 9 rider containing the ennctinent of somo new Inw or the repeal or amendment of some existing Jaw, In order to compel Con- gress and the Executive to accept the one under the responsibility of defeating the other. This ts one of the most yiclous forma of legisintion, It is a gross .abuso of the forms of legislation, and Js one of the most dangerous and corrupting schemes for the concentration of all the powers of tho Gov- ernment in the hands of a mero majority of both or even of ono. House of Congress. Such schemes have been attempted at yarious times In our history, and generally at periods when the political majority in Congress has Deen opposed to tho ‘Executive, ant even at times when o single House of Congress has tried by such means to force the other branches of the Government to sub- mit to Its dictation, All such efforts, when- ever and by whichever party attempted, have been revolutionary, but fortunately have rarely been successful, Durlug the Mexican war the House repeatedly attached a River aud Harbor bill to the Army Approprlation Dill, in order to compel-the Executive and the Senate to accept the former, to which they wero opposed, .A moro recent and striking Instance, however, was the deliber- ate refusal of the House of Representatives at the session December to March, 1879, to pass certaiu of the appropriation bills un- less the Senate and the Exeeutlvo would consent to a clause repealing the vital sec- tlons of the Election laws. This necessitated an extra session of Congress, during which for three montha the majority both Houses Inbored to compel the Executive to consent to the repeal of the Election laws, or let the Governinent starve without the necessury appropriations, Owlng to the finnuess‘of the President this scheme was defeated, but tho urgency and persistency with which the two Jlouses endeavored to put political ridorson the appropriation bills oxhibited tho enormity of that system of legisinilon, ‘The House fs now engaged In discussing the propriety of adopting a rule having the forca of law prohibiting such legislation hereafter, It 1s strongly supported by o number of Democrats, who, to thelr credit, consent to walve this present advantage on tho part of the majority, It 1s, however, a troublesome advantage; the Democrats are ina majority in this Congreaa, bus no one enn gay which party will control the noxt Congress, ‘Lhe opponents of this salutary prohibition base thelr strongest argument won the fact that when the Republicans were inthe majority they made free use of the appropriation bills for all manner of legisla- tlon in the sliape of riders, and that the Demo- rats bad vainly protested against the lnjus- tice, If this be true,—and we are prepared to admit it to be s0,—the ovil charactor of the legislation still remains unchanged, ‘The fact that the bad use or abuse of the forms of Jogislation by one party 1s now used asa prec- edent justifying the, same practice by the other party but confirms the inigulty of the whole system, Now that both parties have had their chance at tho business, and have both hrad a severe experience, it 1s an appro- priate the for both parties to unite and give to this rule the form of law, ‘Vhe only objection ever urged against such a rule excluding political riders from the appropriation bills hag been that, In case of a great emergency, when time was short aud a factlous minority might iuterpose, legislation of an urgent character could be attached to pn appropriatton bill and enacted, when it would certajuly full In the course of ordl- nary legislative proceedings, ‘I'he answer to this {3 that under such @ rule’ unanimous consent, or # vote of three-fourths, wou\l meet the didiculty, and any legislation vise i } urgency and propriety ennnot command such nvoto ought not to be enacted at that tine orin that way. Whenever such 1 National necessity shall exist, and a needed Jaw can only be passet by altaching $t fo an appro- priatton bill, there wilt be patriotisin: enotgh fo secure its pasange: and if such legistation {snot so commentable na to commanit tho general assent, then It will be better to post- pone that legislation to sume appropriate time. Nearly all the vielous appropriations by Congress—nil tho Jobs, stenls, and other ts- cally measures to rob tho ‘Treasury—have Deen accomplished in the Inst days of the acssion. Congress stiowld render such things imposstble by prohlbitory rules; no bill, and particularly no report of any committee of conference, should be passed In either House of Congress during the last threo days of the session untess tho samo was first printed and placed before the members. In- deed, legisintion appropriating money: shoul be prehiblied peremptorily during the forty- eight hours preceding the adjournment, thus affording ample time to carefully revise tho enrolled bills and detect the secret jobs and fraitds now so easily perpetrated at tho Inst moments of protracted sessions. Dotter have an extra session than risk the frauds and raseallties covered up In scandalous leg- {station prepared by conference committees and foreed upon members wholly unin- formed of what is proposett. ‘There was never a better or more appro- priate time for the adoption of these reforms in the rules of Congress than the present, and {t 1s to be hoped that the good sense ant patriotism of mentbers of both parties will sueceed in having the proposed rules, so es- sentini to the protection of the Trensury and of the country, adopted at the present ses- sion, and that they be made as permanent as possible, at —_—_—_— THE DUTY ON PAPER, Last Monday Col. Fort, of Ittnols, intro- duced an Important bill into Congress, of which the press dispatch sunkes this brlet mentions “By Mr. Fort—To put soda-nsly and certain articies {mported and used in tho manufreturo of paper, glags, and woolen fabrica on the froc Ist, and tu roduce the duty on printing-paper used for books, pamphicts, magazines, and nows- popers."”” We bellave the bill proposes to reduce the duty to 5 per cent ad valorem, instead of placing It on the free list. ‘The present duty Js prohibitory in practice, ns the Government derives no revenue from that source, Print- paper Is very bulky in proportion to its welght and value, and consequently the freight on it ts quite high at all tines, This pecullarity of bulk to weight and value con- atitutes a natural protection to the American manufacturer of prper,—one quite ample to secure him n monopoly of the home market whenever he desires it, More especially would this be tho fact if. bleuching-pow- ders and other chemicals used in mak- ing paper were piace on the free fist, as they should be. Let soda-ash and other bleaching chemicals be imported free of tax, and the Amerfean papermaker enn thereafter snap his finger at foreign com- petition and defy it with case. ‘The papermakers have long complained of the onerons duty of $5.65 per ton on soda- ash as a grievous tax on thelr business, and whenever they advance the price of paper on publishers they never fall to aseribe that ns the chief reason for so doing. Now is the time to move In friendly conjunction with the newspaper publishers to have soda-ash pinced on the free list, ‘This will place them in a strong position in tho business of making paper, and with the reduction of the paper duties to 5 per cent ‘both branches of busl- ness will be nblo to live and let live. What each needs {s the removnl of Congressional taxes on their business, and they should act together to Induce Congress to remove those burdens on paper-manufucture and publish- Ing newspapers, magazines, and books. But its not paper-making alone that will bo benefited by a removal of the tax. on sotta-ash, It is an essential in tho manu- facture of gins, which 1s a large and im- portant branch of manufacture. Tho duty on soda-nsh itdds heavily to the cost of mak- Ing glass In this country, and docs much to handicap the business and encourage forelgn finportation, notwithstanding the high pro- tectiye duties on glass, Ifthe soda-ash tax sere removed glass could bo made a good deat cheaper in the United States, and tho works would bo ablo to sell cheaper, and therefore seeure n Jarger demand and greater sales, All the gloss-moking establishments should join the press and the paper-manu- facturers in urging Congress to place soda- ash on the fre Ist, ‘Tho manufacturers of textile fabrics, who uso largo quantities of bleaching-powders, will promote thelr own {nterests by moving in the samo behalf; but, whether they do or not, the publishers should push the repeal of tho duties, They will not otherwise obtain relief. WHY DEMONETIZE GREENBAOKS? ‘The Now York Times, in a recont article, undertakes to tell why the United States notes should be deprived of thetr logal-tender character aud then retired. Hero 1s what it says? “ne answer Is very Wmoplo, It is that tho presuut aystem of redemption, which must be kept up if tho notes ure to rematu 4 safe cure rency, Iga vory uncertain and risky ono, Wmny bo broken down by n drain of gold from tho country and the continuous coinuge of allver, It 1a in still greater danger from tho ussortion of the powor of Congress to keep lexal-tenders in olroutation,—t, ¢, to constantly make forced Joans,—which power would not bo abandoned it redemption sbould become ditteutes which would, in fact, bu used and extended in such an emergency. ‘There is no doubt that if the paper- monoy party oan resist successfully the prosont movernont to put the ourrenoy on # sound bnais {t would be greatly strongthoned, and the difl- culty of renewing that movement would be greatly Increased, The principle of the pupor- money mon would have gutned preatige, Jf a royerso should happen in our foreign trade, and the gold which wo refuso to incorporate pormn- nontly in tho currency should flow out aguin, a situation would be creatud in which the green: past iden would instantly and strongly assert, wht!" ‘This may sot forth the strongest reason the gold clique can urge for the proposed du- monetization and extinction of greenbacks; but, if it be, thon it is a very convine- ing demonstration of the weakness of thelr case, for, after reducing the argument to {a tulligible shape, it will be found to be one of mony reasons why tho existiug legabtender fund abould be maintained, ‘The apprehended Inability on the part of the Goverment to redeem the greenbacks on demand is trumped up for the occasion, A now suspension of specle-payments 19 not kely fu the absence of some unforeseen Na- tlonal calamity, ‘I'ho resumption law pro- vides amply for ordinary contingenctes, In addition to tho large stock of coln which the Government hos in its vaults, the Secretary of the Treasury {s authorized to sell bonds, bearing a rate of Interest us high as 5 por cent, for redemption purposes, Such bonds, at the rullng rate of 4 per conts, would be worth from 135 to 120, ‘To conclude that the Government will aguln be forced into sus- pension, it Is neceasary tolmagine acontition of things in whlch the Government credit will go to pieces, ‘Nothing dort of a dis- astrous clvit or foreign war threatens any such collapse, “The continuaus coinage of allyer,* which the Z¥mes so absurdly cites a3 arcason for apprehending that redemption may be broken ‘down, 13, on the contrary, a” strong hope for the maintenance of apecie- payment. Tho coinage of sitver could Le en- lnrged in caso, of a run upon the Treasury, and gopt, solid money would be forthcoming In response to any demand therefor. Final- ly, there is no demand for the redemption of grecnbacks sv long as they are legal-tender anid serve all the purposes of specio money; but the quickest way to precipitate a new auspension wont be to divest the green- backs of thelr debt-paying quality and foree the people to seck legaltender cuit In ex- change, . But, If there bo an actual dangor of en- forced suspension of speelepayments by rensonof the drain of gold sway from the country and an impnimment of the Govern ment's credit, that danger Is certainly a warn- ing against tho proposed demonetization and destruction of the tegal-tendor notes, The power Is not ordinarily inherent in the Gov- ernment to supply a Iegal-tender paper cur- reney slinply because the requirements of trade may demand It, Such a power Is pos sessed by other Governments, and Is exer clsed upon emergency, but fs prohib- ited by the American Constitution ex- cept when absolutely, uccessary fo save the Nation from ruin. Yet it cannot be success- fully denled that no fegal-tonder paper cur reney will be essential to the internal com- merece of tho United States, and the only effective relief in a case of general panic, In the event thats revulston in foreign trade or other cause aliall drain the country of its coin resources and force the Government and the banks Into suspension. Henve the very apprehension which the New York Times makes the basis of its argument in favor of demonetizing and destroying the grcenbacks {3 astriking Wlustration of the necessity for retaining a Hintted legal-tender fund which may save the protucing, Industrial, mercan- tile, and laboring classes from the oppression of the money-sharks and the extortion incl- dent to a corner on the money market, re IRELAND'S DISTRESS, Mr. Phelps, of Connecticut, has introduced in the House of Representatives a bill appro- printing $100,000 to the relief of tha present suffering in Ireland. ‘That there is the most pressing nevd for help no one can question, in view of the startling reports of destitution and death that ore dally coming from that unhappy country, but Mr. Phelps has gono aboutits relief in tho wrong way, first, be- enuse Congress ling no right to make such an appropriation foraforelgn country; and, scc- ond, becanse if Ithnd the right the appro- printion would not suffice for more than ono day. ‘Tho reports are appalling, and as they como from yarious sources we linve no reason to dscredit them, ‘There aro fully 300,000 peo- plein that afflicted isinnd on the verge of starvation, and the number is constantly In- crensing, for famine travels fast, ‘The out- Jook Is horrible, for these people hava been squeezed dry. Unless help comes to them promptly they must starve. It is said that some of them are living on one meal of tur- nlps a day, and thousands are consuming their Iast potatoes, From almost every part of Ireland the agonizing cry goes up for help, and every day tho area of destitution spreads, while British landlords look coldly on and take no steps to relleye it. While wo believe that the people of this country will be quick to spring to the rellef of Ireland, as they ave done in tlmes past, they should notloso sight of the cause that has produced this hor- ribjo destitution, Itmay be summed up In the statement that the British Jandlords have squeczed tho Irlsh tenants dry, and that the latter, rather than risk eviction, have given up everything they possess to satisfy the greed of their taskmasters. They have been contributing to pay theso landlords, who hold their tlttes by confiscation, a million and o quarter of dollars worth per week of cnttle, hogs, sheop, calyes, potatoes, eggs, butter, linen, and flax, about all that tholr coun- try will produco, and nearly all of which is food, without which food they aro now starving and dying, It takes this Inrge amount, and even this Is not enough, to pay rent to ten thousand English fam- ites who hold then in tho arip of avisoe, Thisis the Dovll-Fish that has grasped them with its powerful arms and is squeezing out thelr very !fe-blood. Five millions of miserable people living In thelr own country, upon land which neithor they nor thelr ancestors ever voluntarily gave up, are absolutely lving by the sufferanco of ten thousand families of England, who haye tho whole military, police, and constabulary’ power of that country at thelr back with which to collect their rents, and when the en- thro produce of a tenant Is insufficient to pay that ront they have the assurance to Iean upon the people of the United States for tho remainder, This is the punlshment which England has been {nfleting upon Ireland for 200 years for fighting against her, not to de- clare her independence or to separate from the United Kingdom, but simply espousing tho cause of one King as ngelust another, Is itnottime that Jt was stopped? Is it not time for tho English Government to put an end to the scandalous spectacle of thousands of {ts people starving to death, and, even In the best of times, living in ilsery and squalor and piteously calling to their friends {n thls country every year for help? If this drain of food from Ireland to pay ox- orbitant rents were stopped, the tenants would have enough to live on and the Irish people In this country would not have to contribute $100,000 a weck to help them pay these rents, Mr, Phelps’ bill Is no doubt In the interests of charityand benevolence, but the sppro- printion for which itcalls would only boa dropinthe bucket, It would only amount to thirty cents for euch ono of the 300,000 sufferers, and In a few days would amount to nothing. But even supposing thatit were sufflotent to ralleve the suffering, what right has Congress to make such an appropriation to people not living In ourown country but in a foreign land, and under the dominion of one of the richest Governments on earth, whose peopla are rolling in wealth and lend- ing thelr money allover the world? It{tcan take a hundred thousand dollars out of the pockets of our people, it can takea million or ten milllon and scatter It broadcast, ‘The only practical measurv of relief fs private Deuevolence, and that will neither be unwill- ing nor stinted, The wiser measure for Mr, Phelps to have introduced would have been & resolution authorizing the President through the State Department to uso the friendly offices of the country in the way of moral {utervention or protest agalnst this Infquitous system of the English landlords and Land Jaws, which entalls auch horrible sufferings upon the tenants In Ireland aud In- directly reflects auch unfortunate Influences upon the Irish people in this country, ———— “Sere $100,000 subscription of Jim Bennett "to the Irish rellef fund eclipses anything of the port that has been dono in modern thmos by any private individual for the rellet of the distressed, and stands out in extraordl- nary contrast to the donatlon of the Queen of the fsland, whose Income Is $9,000,000 a year, a clear hinif of which {s not expended by her, but is saved and invested. So faras known, her aubscription to the present Irish famtno rellef fund hag been tho nuunificent sum of £500, or $3,500, representing her net savings for abont a halfa dey. But Ben- nott’a contribution, made by a man hay- | represents at lenat six months’ net proflt ; between the two donors, Sho has many -| boxes (or teas than ono in, 100) were enol and Thore 1s, {tis true, ono linportant differenco | Inwyer snd a trained Appralser his appoin elilldren, for whose stipport, however, the | State Is heavily taxed, while Bennett ts 0, expended by remote rejatives, "The course of the Herald in apparently i taking the side of the landlords against the | tenants on the questton of Innd reform, as | advocated by Mr. Parnell and his associates, has created n great dent of disappointment and anger on the part of the Anish of | the United States, who have always tlonnble name from the Sennte, SS} atd, constituling the larger share of its { perfect s measure for the protection of the patrons, both as advertisers and as, readers, | publle against rallrond extortion and abuses, Hennett’ has unquestionably felt much an- | Jthas appolited two Sub-Committees, —one and has perhaps been somewhat In- » to draftand report to the full Committee a | substitute for the Reagan bill, and tho other tility to the antagonistic views that ho to modify and perfect the Inttor bill, In both noyed, jured pecuntarity, by thelr expression of hos- has taken on tho Issue ralsed between thelr frlends and the rack-renting English land- lords; and perhaps one motive which he may have had in making a subscription of such an overwhelming character was to placate them and crush them with obligations so strong as to make ft diMcult fer any Irishman hereafter to find any fault with any position’ that his paper may take on tha politicnt question Involved in the present conflict. If that vlew of tho matter be correct, his donation was a stroke of policy. : But Bennett, It must be remembered, is in the habit of doing extraordinary things, IIo ling surprised the world often before,—once wi he sent ont Stanley to discover Dr, Livingstone, and, Ineldentally, to find the sources of tho Nile and of the Congo, and to fix the geography of tho unknown portions of Central Africa; and, secondly, when ho sent out recently an expedition at his own oxpense Into the north seas to endeavor to reach the Pole, or a point as near it as human power cau appronch, But now he has ont- | done himself by this donation of a cool $100,000 to assist the people of Ireland to pay thelr rents and save them from’ starvation. While an Amertenn may give such a munifi- cent gift as this, the Irish londlords, who have plundered the wretched people of Ire- Innd, Instend of giving back ony portion of the money which they have extorted from | them, stmply give an extra turn to the screws and strip them of the last article of food that they may lave, in order that it may be ap- plied toward payment of the enormous rack- rents with which they aro burdened, Whether Bennett gave this money as 0 politic act or in order merely to outdo his previous exploits, it was cortainly an act of amazing generosity, which ought to have, though it will not, many imitators on elther side of the water, eases the proviston ofa Railroad Commission acems to be contemplated. ‘One of these Sub-Committees consista of the presence of the first-nnmed gentleman stitute that shall probably be recommended, Department. ‘This Board {s to have yolying excessive tg required to make an annual report to mendation of such remedial Jeglstntion os the Board may think proper, Tho objection to this plan is twofold—viz,: (1) Tho ofll- ters whom its proposed to constitute nsa speci! Supervisory Board havo already enough to do, if they attend to thelr duties properly, and an effort to impose new duties upon them would probably result in a neglect of both branches of the public service com- already been determined Ina general way by miso upon this scheme for delay, but tho public will not be satisfied with any such expedient. ‘The Reagan bill is the best basts for a satis factory mensure, It Is right In genern} principles, and needs only the machinery Messrs. Reagan, Russell, and Bent compose the Sub-Committee in charge of thismensure, and they should add the provision for n National Rutlrond Commission, formed upon ARD, a model of the English system. ‘Thereshould ‘A: Woatington auavaten atatea thay owTave | 02. tures, Commissioners. xi ae Abe York delegation hi Congress are very much Snougi 10 ore 0 4 The English Commissioners ara pald £3,000 sree vere intanenit of vanes (about $15,000) each, and are allowed nasist- York; that both Senators Conkling and Ker- ag rechar capers, a Be Ee nan will object to ls confirmation; that the their Quiles. ‘This Commission might prop- appointment is purely a personal one; and ' that it Is severely erilicised onall hands, Mr ony a Mere betty aes Chittenden, a warn personal friend of Prest- Secretary. One Commlssioner should boa dent Hayes, it 1s sald, ardently supported tho person ‘ot experience In tho rallrond candidacy of Gen. Ketchum, and it is added: bustivesss another ‘a person learned in the “Ho has entered a vigorous protest against : i law; and tho third selected with special ref- Howard’s nppulntinent.” One of the reports resentation of the popular In- of the Binglinm and Hinds Commission of crane Io n xentaden to Une aad Coos rollented “abverely [uo 1loWard's terests, The approval of the Commissioners 7 ete ere] 1d be necessary to aschedule of rates conduct of the Damnage-Allowance Divis- rac aaiaaer earned for ench rallroad, which should bo public, fon of the Appraiser’s office, of which he was | should endure for a stated length of time, the chief, Tho Commission selected @ par should be changed only by and with the con- tleular case—that of the Artos raisins—as.an | cont of the Commissioners, and then only illustration of tho Inefficiency of Howard. | utter definit notice to the public, No combi- In that caso there was a flat violation of the ° nations gould be allowed between rallrond regulations, and an effort made subsequently | corporations save sitch as should .be accepted by Howard to bolster up his action by two | and approved by the National Commission as aflidavits of alteged experts, When the Cont- | sade tehe to tho public as well as to the mission came to investigate the case they | raitroad interests. ‘The rulings of the Nation- found the aflidavits to have been made, one | a] Comnisston in eases ot complaints or dlf- by tho damage-nllowance broker of tho tn- | ferenees between the rallronds should porter, and the other by the damageallow- | pg pinding upon the —_corporntlons ance broker's frlond! Following isan extruct | ponding an appeal to the United frome the rou i ar Corhinlsslont States courts, In order to throw the burden of “In roviow of the case wo nts Maye vl inuethe axtmiantion of Oticors Lenk and | legal delays, upon the corporations, instead Howard was entirely ineutticlent to conatitute n | of the public, as Ib is now: ‘The Commlsslon should have the powers of a court to sum basis even for a proper ostimuto of duinuge. It nion witnesses, compel the production of ac- uppeurs from tho ulfidayita of sald examiners that not over forty boxes of said lot of 5,00) counts, punish for contempt, and otherwiso. enforce its jurisdictlon. It should also bo empowered to bring suits In the name of the people to inflict. proper penalties upon core porations and their managers for every re~ fusni to comply with the terms of the luv. If the Commérce Committee is disposed to report n mensure to Congress that will con- form to the public demands, the undertaking will not be found dificult, for the English aystem will furnish a good model. There will be no Injustice to railroads In compell- ing atrict responsibility to a, National Comnilssion which shi] never be tempted to exact from the corporations more than ren- Lorber & led Hot appears eter pays sonable charges and equal justice to all, View to asscasing damago. iia langage 1% | Foohtoal akotch of Senator Conkling bus not “Depotient, remembers of an examination, eto. It tepinin from tho furthor language of hits aflic | impressed the poopie of the United Stites with tho ides that he isthe bestman for tho next Gayle Sant bo baw 8 ver} im erkuee: Rhorelaen pt iW actual condition of anid merchandise, for he | pProgidont. He ts compared to Bismarck amon, oe oO ot enrages vast suid ratains | Pecaldent, 7La ts compares von we took at what the great German has actually achieved Cor his were darunged, and that bo 80 expressed himaclt: at tho time,-sume. mors, goin. less, bul all more or les’ Since the ollicial examiners found } country, and how bho has changed the map of nbout 2,000 boxes of the lot of 6,000 boxed per | Ruropo,—soundly whipping ono of the most footly ound, it fe plain thae Sr, Hippo wit | warlike vations on the Continent and thon chunutse, for he suysallweredamaged. Mr. Kip- making her pay,roundly for it,—ono fs at-a loss pou further deposce as follows: to aco just where the compariaon holits good, ‘ePhy grenter part of said mportations wero | Porhaps the Herald writor Js of -tho opinion that damaged ‘by heat of the hold of the vessol, Pro“ | yr, Gonkling's manngemont of the New York Republican * machine” entitles him to the clas- aification and comparison that ho mukos, and, if that {s the ground for his adiniration of the ducing sweat of contents of sald boxes, sukt damage not bein perceptible by wie external ap. pearance of the bares, but only on examination uf contents uf same.’ “Curiously onouph, this roport after having | Now York Senator, it must bo adriittad that the dleplay of pecniing talents is great, but not ox- netly Blsmarokian, Tho Herdd ought to know that it ta doing Mr. Conkling no favor by com- paring him with Cresar, aftor it hus spont tte declared it tm ble to mecertuin dumuge i qront ability {n educating tho people of tho ralsins by ‘sweat’ pacept ‘upon actual examl- nation of the fruit Itself, and io viow of the fuct United Btates to buwaro of *Cwsnrism" In tho Presidential oflice, ————— THE INEFFIO(ENGY, OR WORSE, OF ‘HOW: subjected to the test of nctunl Inspectlon. “2, Dho tostimony of Sr, Williata ©. Jones and of Mr. J. Q. Howard, whlch we have to-day taken, shows that aaid Jones {3 a professional diinage-nllowance broker, nnd that in the onse of the Artus goody he represonted and acted for Messrs. Hard & Mand, the importers, In securing i damnge-allowance uward, We submit that Mr, Jones acted iu tha cage not ag an unprelit~ (iced expert, but ng the agent or attorney for the peinclpats, Hurd & Rand, and thot bis opinion in tho rst instance was entitled to very ule, If uny, welgbt, ond thit bis ulidayit should not have been introduced in the care. “8, Tho testimony of Messrg, Howard and Janes also shows that Nr, Churles A. Kippon, whose affidavit in regnrd to the damnge sustutned by the mercbandise in question appears among tho pers, was and is a personal friend of gail jones; that he merely happened to be present when the oxumination for damage allowance ee —_—_—_—_—_— «te hut lens than 1 per cent of the burea had been opened, BIAteS on oath that in his opinion the amaye on said Iniportation was from 7 to er cent! In examining tho records of the muge-Altlowance Division of the Apprulscr’s ofice, at this port, wo tnd *heat of veasel” was Frequently. assigned ns tho solo cause of auunaye, If it bo true that damage so caused can only bo ascurtained by actual Inspection uf the contents of tho packages, us stated by Mr. Kippen, ao export of fifteen years’ exporicnce, on his own anowing, the fuct ‘constitutes @ powerful argue mont syainat Guy allowance for damage for such cause nut bi upon an notual inxpeotion of very peckuge embraced in the dansye warrant, Mr. K{pon's allldnvit tu of iittle valuo as afoct~ ing tho casy under consideration, but it is a sovere arraignment of the priolice of this port on tho subject of damuye allowance; for the practice is, in alarye proportion of tho claims considered, to examine the contents of not more than one in ten packages, and by this mothod Mr. Kippen declares thut it 1s linpoasiple to Ba cortain whethor or not damage hug accrued to the contenta of the packages not oponod.” Wesubmit that this plat history of Mr, Howard’s attempt to impose upon be De: partiment the testimony of partes directly in interest ns that of disinterested experts piece Mena apr temp ri ly for the tn shows his utter unfitness not only Jat war, but hor annual disbursements for oflice of Appralser, but for any office In the | ponsions to suldlers amount to only about one- Government service. Ina word, Mr, Mow: | Bfth of ours, srd’s sepost to the Treasury Departmentin | sory ev Republican: “Washburne is 4 Gufense of his action In the Artos cave was | cigun man; his bands have never boen stained worse than misleading; {6 was esseutially | with money, A careful man; he ti not acoused false, No wonder, with the report of the | of making mistakes. An evonomical mau; bo hom and Tiinds Commission contain- | was known as ¢ tho watch-dog of tho ‘Troasury,’ jing ry: ing this severe arralgnmbnt of Mr. Howard Acompotont man; ho has been succosaful in Departin overy undertaking. A man of brain and brawn, on the files of his Departinent, that Mr. | a 'ycry prince in porional appearan qd Sherman protested against the promotion | man whu bas tod before Kings and em perore mperors of the arraigned oficial, It is astonish | unawed. His reputation Is world-wide, and ho fog how tho Prealdent could have | would rotleot bonor upon the Presidential office, proferred Howard to Gen. Ketchum, ‘The aa ho did upon the Miulstry to France during its latter hes stood the brunt of the battle of most momentous history.” tho consignment-undervaluation clique for er nearly two years, aiid there 1 no stain upon | ,O%E Of the soundest, sufest, and most relia. Mt iain ilo aw sly seconde te | Sy auenyteta htt et efforts of all the reformers of the customs | Milwaukee, I¢ {a now of ago, and celebrated ita ——— Peorrr who complain about the vast sums of monoy collected and required to pay the aur- Front expenses of tho United States Government must remoniber that an immense amount was exponded to save the Nation's life from 1861 to ‘1605, and that tho Iegacy of debt which tho Ho- bollion has loft us has como tostay, Asunox- ample in ono ling of expenditure, thera aro 260,000 applications for pensions, and the Com missjonor says that during the noxt ten years, If tho samo rate of increaso Is kept up,—and ho seca no reason to doubt that it will be,—tho pension roll will be doubled and the annual disburee~ ments will excead $60,000,000, It takes 15 por cent of tho whole revenue of the Government to pay pensions, Tho sum required Js stated to be about equal to the aggregate amount puld by account of his Inrge experiencd naa trained ment to tho vacancy crented by the retire- ment.of My. Duteher fs demantted by overy considerntion of propriety and public juaticr, | brehelorwith no direct hetrs, and who fs not W spocially anxious to accumulate moncy to be ! retrace his ateps and unto the threntened evil | to the service Involved In the nominatton of Howard by promptly withdrawing tho abjec- Fo hope and beliove that tho President will RAILROAD LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS, ‘he House Committes on Commerce lias taken nstep in regard to the Reagan bill for {the regulation of Inter-State railroad com- been the leading supporters of tha Zer-! merce which seems (o Indicate a purpose to Messrs, McLane, Ross, and Nenderson, and would seem to point to his. bill as the sub- "Tho McLane bill, so far as the Board of Com- missioners gocs, provides for five Rablrond. Supervisors, consisting of tho Sccretary of the Interlor, the Assistant Secretary, a Com- missioner of the rallronds, a rallrond en- gincer, and the law officer of the Interior the power to {Investigate complaints in- charges and unfair | discrimination and the snfety of travel, and H Congress which shall embrace the recom: | 1 mitted to thelr charga; (2) the bill proposes | tho 2th of Innunry, The ri patent. Prealiont, tho Tow tee ot Patmer,—one of the mort dlstingulehed oltizert of Wisconsin,—and his able assoointes aad Hoard of Directors, will bo n giiarantes tune ee Company is to bo kept in the front ennke t Trustees number some of tho wealthiort “ mnost relinblo buslness-men of Wisconsin and Northwest, including. tho Governor of theme? ta assots are over 818,000,000, It loaned on ies and mortgage during the year 1870 over 84,09, ‘on property yalued at over 2,001.00, "Wee, loaned altogethor over $10,000,000 on real cat, io valued at over $37,000,000, ae in all enna elaiin (8a first Hen. It Iaied polletes durin, sie year covering risks to the amount of 7, ee ; Ita incom for tho year was ShITALIG “Tt leney $1,000,000 of Insurance In 1879 more than {t aM 1878. It looks as If ite future career wastote onsvard and upward. a ton Tue Chicngo Thacs advocates the Lgl kee ANS of Col, Fort’s bill repealing tho duties on mare aah and other chemfenals used In paper. snaking, and nlso tho reduction of tho duty on paper, : anya? ed “Tf people want cheap nowepnpers, Int Pe A An A feula used {n the munufavture of print-papee, Peint-paper can be bought In Canatla today abont three lwo) cents per pound cheaper the in the States, This is because of free netnleale in that country, Sut there fean Ainerienmag on foreign pelit-payer OF 20 por cnt. ao ‘thet the cheapness of tho article nbroud is uf no avait here, If we, in this country, could have chen feals freo of duty, tho Atuerlenn paporinaces would bo able fa! heat the foreigner very men torinily in tha price at which ho could well) Teg us have free chemleals, Let everybody pra Congress to give freedom from those ‘unten nome nnd eelppling tuxes, When wo get them removed, we thall buve chenp newspapers, At present, ‘there eannat be cheap newspapers Se the same timo shall be good SEVERAL papers aro printing a dispatch from Washington which reads (in different phraseology) ns follows: “Several years ago nt prominent distil in Jowa, Hhombery & Coa was Convicted aE a lating the Revenue laws,’ A penalty of 8230; OO was nrgoseed agninattho Mra Ih the October form of the United States Court of 1836 the Guy. ernment, after an expenditure of $25,000 In thy way of attorneys fees, reventie officers’ pas, ete,, obtained w {idginont ngiinst the firm tothe mimount. of $103,011.65. This judgment f6 pers fectly good for tho reason that Mr, Graves, Pres. Ment of the Chiengo, Burlington & Cedar Raphiy Ratlrond Company, tampon tho bond of the fm This judgment, though, haa never heen caltecte and within the last: week his been compromis for $5,000! One reason given for this compme mise Is that Mr, Graves Is avery powerful poll. todelay remedies which the necessitics of | the people demand at once, and which have i necessary for enforcing these principles. | tlefnn, and would have a good deal of int for Mr, Sherman in Town. sd Becrotary Sherman's attention should be called ; to this charge, If trite, tt ia pnying pretty de ample public experience. The railroads } for inttuonce, and the worst of it is, itp extone would probably be very willing to compro- | comes out of the Government. —— Tue census reports slow how the tnhat- itants baye flocked into tho cities, One bun drod years ugo only one-thirticth of the popula. tion of the United States ilved in cities of over 4,000 people. Since then the tendency has been. enormously tho othor way. In 1800 tho propor. in of population living in eltics haying shove 7000 was One-twenty-fitth; in 1810 and also fn 1820, onc-twenticth; In 1800, one-sixtcenth: In 1840, ono-twelfth; In 1850, one-eighth; In 1%, one-sixth; in 1870, 0 Mitlo over one-ACth. It is thought that the next.census will show a still further inerense of the population of cites, and’ that thoy will contain fully 12,000,000 inatend of 8,000,000 In 1870. In tho Eastern States tho pro- portion will be grentor, and greater all over the North than in tho South. In tho new States, Californin shows nn excess of city population, ‘Sun Francisco holding onc-third of tho inhab | tants of tho State, and tho othor cities contain. ing three-tifths of tho entire population. — Tur Union Pacific Railroad may not pos sess 0 soul in ita own right,—corporations never do, {tis satd, or “hardly over,"—but it 1s not neglecting its opportunities to look after tho comfort of ita passengers. It contributed to thair plonsure when it equipped its rand right royally with palaco sleeping and dining-rom curs, but it 1s now golng a step further, and will endeavor to brenk the monotony of tho vast love! plains that its line penotrates by planting trees and shrubbory along the track, Ir ts sald that plats af land from 200 to 500 feet wide, fore distance of 291 miles, have alroady been plowed ‘up, and will bo fonced in next spring, after belng sown with grass and clover seeds, and planted with evergreens of various kinds, obtained from ' Colorndo and tho astern States. Tho plan cone tomplates interspersing thoso with flowering shrubbery and frutt trees, Traveling overland will bo a luxury after all this bas beon done. +. —_— Tr was through Emma Abbott's efforts that, ‘Mrs, Smith, arrested, tried, and sentenced to be hung for the murder of hor husband, with Cove Honnett, was enabled to got a new trial, Miss Abbott went {nto Wall street with her agent, and raised $1,000 outof the bulls and bears, and Mrs. Smith 8 now a free woman, having beet dcelured not guilty. It was a loud call anda. narrow escape for Mrs, Smith, and great credit ig duo Miss Abbo! Tur Peoria National-Democrat bas taken tho dimensions of hia party assoolates in the business, and this ts tho estimate of thoir intel: Icctunl abitity and party uscfulncss: “If tho Idlota who edit nino-tenths ef tho 8 called Democrntio papers could be knocked in the head and buried n milton of smiles deep, i would bo the Dlessedest thing thut could bapy pen to tho Democratic part; Juner Ken. asylvania, popularly known in Congress ag Pig-Iron Kelley,” bo cattse of bis efforts to get tron “protected,” must bo satistled with the present boom In the price of bis favorit article. Protection certalnly protects with a vengeance this year. —— WE presumo it is true that tho French scholar’ who abound in the Journal ofico 40 all drop the sin tho prontinciation of Aiinois; hut, {¢ tho editor only gets the votes of those arho do whos he runs for Governor, bo will "get left” pretty badly , —— Mayor Katocn, of Sun Francisco, hae! so fur revovered from his wounds frotn 4 pistol all fired by tho editor of the Chronicle that holt golng to make a pubic specch in favor of ths autforing people of Ireland. ——ees Ponta Journal; “Increased pumping: works in Chicago means simply increased ney intho HilnotsItyor. Itbath this outcome, co less. Wo ought, thorefore, to protect ourselves against it." Rocuronn Gazette: a Chleago Joure nalis working quite faithfully for tho succes of Livut.-Gav. Andrew Shuman in the eontess for tho Republican nomination for Governor —— Atmno Banner? ‘0 satisfied that Mawley would make a good Goveruor, but are not so suro he would mako « popular candidate. — ‘Tne Woodstock New Era, a Greenback organ, hus renounced flut Junacy and Jolued the Republican party on probation, ————a PERSONALS, ’ There docsn’t apyonr to bo any brows horsoin the Prosidential race this time, © Mr, Algernon Sartoris, husband of Nellle Grant, departed for Europo last Tuosduy. On his return from Mextco, Gen, Grant wil ‘visit the San Juan and Loadvillo silver regions Mrs, Ouray has become clvilized since ' poaching Washington to the extent of wearing & bealakin eacque, After all, the new year opens auspiclously ‘Tho talk of an international boxt-nice bas at substied, and the Loy. Mr. Cowley 1s 1 att ’ Chang Yoo, a very intelligent Celestial who rune a clgar-atore in Inqluuupotla, has taken out naturalzgtion papers, and will yota at thomex election, The Jatest cruel blow at St. Louls women Iscontalned in the atatoment that “everything {a at sixes and at sovens” in a Indica’ shoo-store of that city, ‘i ‘The sous of the Princo.of Wales aro de scribed by » London paper aa “fresh youns f lows." If, thls 1x 80 their spharo Is tu u Chleas? dry-7oods store. Men aro tho only order of creation, 60 Its sald, thst can laugh, and vory fow of them ce% accomplish the feat within an bour of two aftot reading one of Eli Perkins’ funny stories. King John of Abyssinia has converted over 100,00 Mostems to the Christian religion. His argument {a brict but offoctive, conslaing of pouring bolling tallow into the gara.uf ‘hoe ing an Incomo. of perhaps 2200,000 a year.’ servic, and for this reason no less than‘on | twenty-dret aualyorasy by un cleglan of ote | whouy oplulgng dies frou bly,