Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1880, Page 4

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Five ladies were elected members of the Middleton, N, Y., Board of Education yes- terday, defeating flve men. More than 100 women voted. PARNELL telegraphs from Montreal that he shall leave for Ireland tmmediately, but ‘will return as soon as possible to resume his labors in America. —————— Tux visit of Gen. Melikoff to the residence of Grand Duke Constantine lins added to tho + suspicion that his Grace 1s connected with tho Nihilistic party. The upper ten of Rus- sia are sald to bemuch agitated over thenews, —— Tue Emperors of Germany and Russia continue to oxchange compliments and con- wratulations, and to protest that the relations between the Governments of thelr respect- ive Empires are of the most pacific descrip- tion. ———— ns Even In Ohlo the Sherman boom—that Is, If Sherman has had one—is deelluing rapidly, and It is not improbable that Blaine will re- ceive ® handsome vote from the Ohio delega- tion on the first ballot, while in the succecd- ing ballots his vote will be ereatly increased, AN effort will be made on tho part of the City Government to compel the horse-rail- rond companies to remove the mud ond rubbish lying between the tracks,—not to the guttors, but clear off the street. Either the companies or the City Government onght to have done this tong ngo, Senaton McDonatp took up the defense of Fitz John Porter yesterday. His military knowledge fs sald to have surprised, de Ughted, and bewildered tho grave and rev- erend Senators, That the Indiana statesman. nover was in tho imminent deadly breach, or dld not have many halrbreadth ’acapes, was evident to his brother Senators. Tne city authorities have not yet taken any steps towards the enforcement of the dog ordinance, 1f the Mayor will spare timo from the contemplation of his monumental wrongs to instruct tho Police Secretary to instruct Superintendent O'Donnell to ine struct the patrolmen to enforce tha ordi- nance, thero is no question that Simon will do go at once and satisfactorily, It is high thne that something should bo cone in the matter, Suacestions ag, to the solution of the sewage question continue to be offered by parties who have given the subjoct careful consideration. Ataspeclal meeting yeater- day of the Civil Engineers’ Club of tho Northwest two Interesting papers on the “Woater-Supply and Dralunge for Chicago” were read, and are given in full In our col- umns this morung. Tnenn was a decidedly squally feeling on Change yesterday regarding the wheat mar- ket, the price for April delivery undergoing many fluctuations, the general result being a marked downward plunge. Apparently the anxiety to sell was due chiefly to a desire on the part of holders to convert thelr deals from April to May, and thereby save the ex- pense of carrying thelr wheat, together with the disinolination, except among those who ~ were" short,” to purchase for so near ade livery as April 1. OnE of tho beauties of the new rules just adopted by the Democratic majority in the House Is the extruordinury privileges granted to lobbyists and the added restrictions placed upon the gathering of information of public iutorest by tha press, Ex-members of Con- gress, who 24 a rulo largely blossom out into sud thieving jobs, are allowed to circulate at will on the Hoor of the House, while report- ers and correspondents are excluded sven froin the ante-rooms, Mi Panwein will sail for Ireland to- morrow to take active part In tho electoral struggle in that country, ‘The agitator will have no dificulty In securing his own re- election, und will probably devote himself to securing the election of as many members favorable to his policy as possible. ‘Iho issue In the Irish elections will be the change in the Land laws, and everything Indicates, that the Land-Reform Liberals will be able to wrest several seats from the Tories, especially in Ulster. ————— , ‘Tie United States Senate, on motion of Mr. Balloy, of Tennessee, yesterday adopted aresolution instructing the Judiciary Com- mittee of that body to fnvestlgate the recent contract entered into by the Pactiic Railroads snd the Paciilo Mall Company, and to report a bill which shal! prevent the contract being carrica jnto effect and to protect public interest, The preainble to the resolution in * effect indorses the views of Tux THisune ln this matter, It declares the contract inimical to the Interests of the people, and a conspira- lobbylsts and attorneys for special interests’ ey to fleece thom, while It Is directly contrary: to tho aplrit in which Congress conferred on tho rallroad compnnics large subsidies in Innd and money, The Judiciary Committee should report a bill which will leave no op- portunity for the partics to the contract to rob the public or. conspire against thelr in- terests, CaNprpATeEs for the City Council aro be- ginning to appear. It Isto be regretted that of tho Aldermen whose terms oxpire this spring the most mischievous and least worthy aro most active in secking retlection. Among those who haye been fixing matters to secure & renomination {s tho pestiferous little domagog who represents the Eighth Ward. All the respectable citizens of that section of the elty should unite In relegating this party to the obscurity for which Nature Intended him, and from which the people of the ward have unaccountably allowed him to emerge. —— ‘Tre Committeo on Ways and Means has decided to report favorably the bill which provides for changing the duty on malt from 20 per cent ad yalorem to 25 cents per bushel, 'The same Committes will give a hearing to parties Interested In retaining tho duty on salt, and to those who favor 6 repeal of the duty on paper and the articles which enter {nto Its manufacture. ‘The members of the Committce have evidently arrived at the con- clusion that it will not do to completely Sg- nore public optnion In the interests of mo- nopolles, rings, and close corporations, —_—_—_——— Is reference to the complaint that sone No, Sspring wheat drawn from Chicago ware- houses was ground into flour which Inspect- ed unsound, the Chlef Grain Inspector sub- mits to tho State Board of Commissioners the reasonable explanation that the rules do not require that No, 8 shall be “sound and of good milling quality’; and urges further that to exclude from the No. 3 grade all whent not coming up to this requirement would cause dificulty and embarrassment, the millers favoring such a change, while tho erain-receivers would oppose it vigorously. Axx Is bustle in Great Britain and Ireland over thd announcement of the dissolution of Parliament, Tho telegraph-wires are loaded with dispatches from candidates to constit- uents, electloneering agents are moving about with uucxampled celerity, the news- papers are filled with election addresses to thea “free and independent voters,” and the owners of cabs, jnunting-cars, and other conveyances are gathering ina rich harvest. All the signs favor the bellef that the coming electoral struggle will be one of the most nerlmontous in the history of modern England, ‘Tie soventh clause of the French Educa- tional bill, providing for the exclusion of the Jesults from the position of teachers in France, ling been defented. Julea Ferry is said to have threatened that, in the event of his defeat in passing the clause, he would vigorously enforce the Inws against the re- Ngious orders, including the Jesuits. An- other report, which lacks confirmation, states that Senator Ferry has tendered. his restgna- tion. ‘The debate over the clause has stirred up considerable bad blood, and threatens to cause serlous dissensious among the French politicians, Tue Citizens’ Protective Union of San Francisco has issued 9 manifesto calling on alllaw-abiding cltizens to unite themselves with that body in its efforts to maintain peace, to protect Mfo and property, and re- store commercial confidence. It charges the Kearneyites, without, however, naming them, with inetting to decds of violence and blood- shed and organizing bodles of arined men to engage in riot and pillage, and tho Jeaders with arrogant threats of violenco, The Union expects to accomplish ita purpose within the Inw, and It Js evident that, If Kear- ney and hls followers persist in carrying out their thrents, the respectable people of Call- fornin will be able to given good account of the irrepressible Sand-Lotblathorskiteand his rabble of ignorant and deluded followers. Tur Democrats in Congress, being no longer ablo to fight the Election laws on the score of unconstitutionality, owlng to the recont decision of the United States Supreme Court, and having learned by experience tho folly of attempting to nullify existing laws by tho attachment ot political riders to ap- propriation bills, aro now driven to the neces- salty of innking open war on the Election laws, Accordingly the louse Judiciary Committes has agreed to report o bill obviously intended to make the existing Inws Inoperative 30 long as the Democrats retain control of both brancties of Congress. This bill pro- vides that no fees shall be paid as compensa- tion to Federal Supervisors. of Election or Deputy Marshals except in pursuance of an express appropriation by Congress tor that purpose, and that it shall be unlawful to exe- cute on the day of lection any warrant or process against a Stato election offlcer who may bo guilty of violation of the Federal Election laws, By withholding appropria- tlons for the pay of Federal election officers and also praventing any Interference with ballot-box stuffing while {t 1s golng on, the Democrats hope to remove all restrictions upon ‘frea frauds.” ‘Tue main issues on which the Torles will appeal to the British constituencies are; Opposition to Mome-Rule, which they de- clare would tend to the disintegration of the British Emplre; the keeping up of closer rolations with tho British Colonies; the maintenance of the principle of English In- torforenco, “not to say English ascendency in the councils of Europe”; and the success of the war policy of the present Ministry, The London Z'imea, although supporting the Torles and Inuding Lord Beaconsfield, {9 forced to admit that the Premier's reference to the ascendency of England in the councils of Europs is “ imprudently strong,” and most unprejudiced peoplo will find = it) ditiicult to understand Beaconsfield's statement that the ‘Ineffable blessings of peace” cannot be maintained by the passive principle of nun-intervention. ‘Tho: adoption. of o contrary policy by the Torles has not been very productive of peace, as witness the wars in which England hag bean engaged almoat since the Insugura- tlon of the present Ministry. All reference to future doniestle and reformatory legisla- tion Is studlously avolded by the Premier in hls manifesto, which, on the whole, fs a rather pecuilar pleca of audacious pretense aud skillful word-Jugalery, ‘Tus Virginia Leglstaturo will not be com- forted, The memberg have heen plunged into a state nlmost akin to despalr by the re- cent decision of the United States Supreme Court, which held that negroes are entitled to servo on juries and that the Federal Eleo- tlon laws are constitutlonal, and they have adopted a preamble and resolutions deploring the decision us threntening “the very existe ence of the State Governments as distinet sovereignties,” and urging thelr Senators and Representatives fu Congress to procure the repeal of all Jaws which confer on the ‘United Statea powers In thelr opluion not given by the Constitution, The Virginia Legislature fs a much-injured aud imuch-abused body, and deserves the heartlest sympathy of the Confederate Brigadiers. Unfortunately, however, for thelr purposes, the Representatives and Seir WHE CHICAGO TRIBUN WEDNESDAY, ators cannot do much to alleviate thoir mts- fortunes, and the people of the United States seem to lave taken it into thelr heads that It would not be just the thing at the present juncture to confer on the oforesald Brign- adlers the opportunity to repeal the Inws which have so worked upon tho fine sens!- bilities of the Virginian tegisintors, 'Tis a wondrous pity that things are so ordered, The Supreme Court Is n very unsympathetic boy, Mow happy it would have been with Messrs. Field and Clifford wore the other six Judges away. A ysny remarkable bill has been intro- duced into Congress by Mr, Fott, of I{llnols. It provides for pensloning all sailors and sol- dters of all wars who have been “ineapael- tated forearning a lvegthoou by sickness, ne- eldent, or any other isc than that of thelr own wrongdoing.” It is dimicult to deter- tnine whether this bill is seriously offered by itsauthor or Intended to expose, by a reductio ad absurdum, the echemes of the demagogs and clalm-agents who are secking to enlarge the penston-rolls by every conceivable device. There are sald to be 200,000 applications for back-pny under the Pension bill providing for arrearages that was passed by the Inst Congress, There 13a bill now pending for o roving Commission of surgeons to look up new clalmants for pensions and persuade every man who ever served In the army that ho Is now suffering from somo disease there contracted, There {3 also n bill conferring penslons upon all the men who wero in any way attached tothe American army in the Mexican War, though they were pald in full, given a farm aplece, and also provided for in ense of disability or sickness contracted in service. If this sort of thing goes on, the thine {ts not far distant when the penston-roll will be a transcript from tho muster of all our wars, with the addition of widows and orphans, It will amount Iu the end to a transfer, through the agency of taxation, of pretty much all the income of the property owned by those who were not actively In the war, though they pald the expenses thereof, to those who en- listed. It will become such s burden upon the people as to restore alt the hardships of the long period of depression from which this country {s just emerging. No nation las ever been go liberal to its soldiers as the American, but such a scheme of pensions as is projected by the attorneys and agents who fatten upon clafinants {s boyond the utmost. stretch of National ability, and it would amount to confiscation when carried out as now projected. THE MONROE DOCTRINE AND THE IN- TEROCEANIC OANAL. M. de Lesseps’ Panama Canal scheme has undoubtedly encountered n serious hindrance In the President's speeial message and In the resolution reported to Congress by the Inter- oceanic Canal Committee, which seem to have been presented slinultaneously by agreement. These two documents agree in substance, and the Impression is very gen- eral that Congress will concur almost unant- mously in the House resolution, Such con- currence, if given, will amount to an In- dorsement of the President’s position, and the American Government will thus author!- tatlvely assume for the time being a hostile attitude to the Lesseps canal and every other project for n water-way between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans which shall not be under the immediate protection and control of the United States. It is almost certain that tho declared hostility of tuis Governmont will be & formidable, if not insuperable, obstaclo in the way of obtaining the large amount of capital required for the construction of the Darien Canol. M. do Lesseps has in- yited subserlptions to the stock npon a business: basis; but, even if he shall succeed in persuading enpitalists that his project for a level canal Is teasible, that the enterprise will bo profitable when com- pleted, and that the French Government has no political purpose in chartering the com- pany, the prospect of protest andinterferenco by the American Government will probably 80 diminish the confidetics of moneyed men in the peaceful operation of the canal and in the earning of dividends that they will bo disposed to withhold their encouragement and their subseriptions. ‘The position taken by the Presklent, though communicated to Congress in a calm and dignified tone that cannot give offense to foreign Governments In Itself, Is the broadest and most extreme expression of what has been known ag “tho Monroe doctrine” that haa ever. found officinl utterance. Tho President declares that “the polley of this country Is [that Is, demands] 2 canal under Amerlenn .control.” Tho reasons he gives In support of this strong, unequivocal statement of the ease are these: (1) No company of eltizens of other countries would undertake the con- struction of an interoccanic ennal without counting upon tho protection of tho onoor more European Governmonts of which they are eltizens, and Government Intervention to assert auch protection would involve moas- ures which the United States Government would regard ag a menace to its rights and in- terests. (2) An Isthmus canal will necessa- rily be the great ocean thoroughfare between tha Atlantic and Pacific shores of the United States, and thus virtually form a part of the coast-line of domestic trade of this coun- try, (3) Tho Interests of American trade, of political and geographical unity and of Na- tlonal defense, allicd with the now traditional doctrine that the United States will tolerate no furthor European encroachment upon Amertenn territory, demand that the Govern- ment shall assert jurisdiction and control over any canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacifle Occans, P ‘There is reason to believe that the resolu- tion agreed upon by tho Mouse Committoe, and likely to be adopted hy Congress, is equally emphatic and sweeping. It was Jaid over to be printed only under the suggestion from the Iepublican sido of the House that itmlght obtaln a unantinous vote when all tho members should. thus have the time and opportunity to become famillar with its pur- port. This resolution is understood to set forth that, in tho cuse of any canal, rallroad, or other communication across the isthmus, by whosoever It may be undertaken or completed, the interest of the United States and the right to possess and control the sama will be asserted and malntained, The aplrit of the resolution Js evidently the same as that of the President's message, though its exact phraseology may admit of a more Uberal construction, Voth point to the con- clusion that the American Government will deem it a duty to the Interests and welfare of the people of the Western Continents to es- tablish actual and oxclustve jurisdiction over any interoceante enna) that may be con- structed, as the only practical means of as- sertlng and maintaining the American pre- ponderance and future European exclusion in the affairs of the New World, ‘Tue Tupune has Inclined to the view that -the proposed construction of the Panama Cunal by a private company, which forelgn capital may control, is not such s menace of foreign interference in American affatra as demands the resistance of this Government, It Js certainly a condition of affairs out of which auch menace and such Interference wight grow. In that event, the United States should unguestionably be prompt and vigor ous in the reassertion and maintenance of the principles of the Monroe doctrine. If we assume, however, that the completion of the Lesseps canal would place the French stock- holders fn control of its affairs, the best pro- tectlon which the French Government could possibly afford its clitzons would bo to avert any complications with tho United States of Colombia granting the right of way, or with any other Government whose eftizens would use the canal and pay tho tolls, The pur- pose of any company owning such a eanal would be to carn dividends on Its stock, and any discrimination or ustrpation which should bring about a con- filet between any two: great Powers would result in deatroying the business of the canal for the time, and would wipe out tho profits of tho enterprise. ‘The American Govern: ment might, therefore, safely trust to the selfish Interests of any company ownlng the canal, and the national Interests of any Gov- ernment protecting such company, in a re- linnce upon the commercial Inatinct of the American peopte, who would becomo the chief owners in case the project were profit- able, and in the powor of the American Goy- ernment to assert and defend its rights when- ever the necessity should arise. In this view of the ease tho Executive and Legislative protests that have been formu- Inted at Washington aro premature. What- ever view may be taken of the attitude ns- sumed by thea Presilont and apparently favored by Congress, it cannot be denied that the French project for an Interoceantc canal has recoived o serious set-back from this Government, M. do Lessops will scarcely ‘bo able to proceed with his enterprise unless hecan raise the majority of the necessary subscriptions in this country; and the Amer- Ican Government, as such, {9 certainly not prepared to undertake the construction of an Interoceanic canal upon the Darien or any other route, It looks now as though this great commercial project must be postponed foraperlod which no one can determine, ——— THE NATIONAL ELECTION LAW 8Us- TAINED BY THE SUPREME COURT, Tho !mportant decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, aflinming the constitutionality of the National Election Inws providing penalties for fraud in tho management of the election of members of Congress, cannot fall to attract general ot tention and to elicit as general approval. The atestion Involved Is the authority of Con- gress to protect the clectlon of membors of Congress from fraud by providing penalties for inspectors who are convicted of Mega) conduct, ‘The decision of the Court is to tho effect that tho act of Congress provides that it isa penal offense for any officors of election atan election held for Representatives in Congress to neglectto perform or to violate any duty in regard to such election, whether required by the Inw of tha State or of the United States, or make o fraudulent certificate of the result of such election; anda penal of- fense for any officer to obstruct, bribe, or in- terforo with a Supervisor of Election or Marshal in the performance of. any duty, ‘The decision also declares tt to be constitu- tional for Congress to authorize the Courts to appoint Supervisors of Election. Tho Court decides that in making regulations for the election of Representatives in Congress it 1s not necessary to assume exclusive con- trol, but Congress may, at any time, under the Constitution, make or alter such regula- tion; Congress may make entirely now regu- lations or add to, alter, or modify the regula- tlons nado by the State. Congress can im- pose penalties for the perpotration of fraud, or provide officers for the prevention of fraud. There cnn be no conillet between the State and the National Inw on this subject, because the Intter 1s by the Constitution paramount and must supersed4 inconsistent regulations by the State, Tho laws of the United States on this subject being gonstitutionnl, the State Jaw when Inconsistent censes to be in force, and therefore there can be no collision of au- thority. The Constitution provides: “The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be pre- seribed by ench State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make oralter such regulations, except as to the pluce of choosing Senators.” It also provides: “This Constitution, and tho Jaws of tho United States which shatl bo made in pursuance thercof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall bo the supreme law of the Innd, and the Judges fu every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or Jaws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding,” ‘Tho act of Congress providing officers for the supervision of elections for Representa- tives in Congresy, for tho prevention of frauds, and for penalties In ease of fulso re- turns, is but the exorcise of power granted by the Constitution; and the Court holds ‘that the Congress may mako exclusive reguintion for such elections, or may partially reguinte such elec tions, and to the extent that the National Inw conflicts with the Stato law the National nw of necessity supersedes the other, When- ever Congress, therefore, preseribes regula- tlons governing the choiceof Representatives in Congress, these regulations take preced- ence of any State law on tho subject. ‘The Court in this caso asserts the doctrine thgt In all cases where the Constitution con- fer$ a power on Congress that power, when exerelsed, overrules any State law on the subject. The contrary doctrina was nssorted by the Stato of South Carolina when ft undertook to nullify the Revenue law In 1883, It was the same doctrine which was dented by the Secesslonists when the States in rebellion declared the supremacy of Stato law. Tho matn objection to this dectston is that it upholds tha power of Congress to provide punishment for offenses committed by State ofiicors, Tho Court holds that a man holding 8 Stato offico {a no more at Hberty to violate the laws of tha United States than is any other person; and that whenever an officer under authority of State law violates the law of the United States his crime ts in nowlso relieved, because the Constitution In express and direct terms declares that the Inws of the United States are the supteme Inw, anything {n the Constitution or Jaws of tho State ta the contrary notwithstanding. State officers, therefore, are bound by the superior laws of the United States, and are personally responsi- bie for offenses committed under these laws, Btate authority cannot rolease thom from this responsibility, Otherwise tho United States would be unable to enforce any law, Tho reasonableness of this interpretation of the law must ocour to any fair-minded, ro- flecting person, It {is fatal, however, to the theory that the State Jaw is superior to the National law, and to the pestilent Southern dogma that the allegiance of the citizen is due first to his State and through the State to the Union. ‘Narrowed down to practical re- sults, this decision {s but the affirmance of the principle that the Government of the United States in the exercise of the powers granted by the Constitution Ss supreme In its jurisdiction, and that in the enforcoment of the laws made in execution of thesa powors It overrides, overrules, and sweeps away any law or Constitution of the State which may exist to the contrary. Whatever ponal- ties Congress moy impose for violations of National law may be enforced by the Na- tonal Courts, despite the interference of Btate laws, State Courts, or State Governmenta, In the particular cases involved in this In- MARCH 10, 1880. stances certain judges of election at an elec- tion for Representatives in Congress were indicted, tried, and convicted of fraudulent practices at the election and with the ballot- boxes, ‘The guilt was admitted, the defense being that the oflcors wero appointed by State authority and worse not responsible to the United States. The violation of the act of Congress was none the less putifishable, tho State officers being bound by thelr oaths to respect the National Inw, especially when the same conflicted with the State law. ‘The Democratic doctring, that tho United States cannot punish a violation of United States law governing the election of Representa- tlves in Congress, 1s mado in this caso to protect avowed criminals convicted of violating the bailot-box, According to the Democratic theory, the corruption of the bal- Jot-box Is not 8 crime punishable by act of Congress, and therefore may be practiced with impunity; and in this judgment it has tho sanction and approval of Justice Field, of the Supreme Court, who seeks the candl- dacy of the Democratic party for the Presl- dency, We question whether he will thereby win the favor oven of the ex-Rebels and the othor advocates of State-sovereignty. BRITI8H TORY INSO0LENOE, New You, March 4.—A special London enable has tho fallen The Standard this morning, referring to the United States’ claim for # pro= ponderating influence in tho Panama Canal saya: “This pretension tho British Government is ‘bound to watoh, aud, if necessary, to resiat, No more at Panama than at Suez cin the pree pondernting Influence of anothor Power bo allowed to lay hands on tho trade of England.” This dispatch must have struct our read- ers yesterday as exceedingly impertinentand offensive. Though this is not an officind ut- terance of the British Government, it has 0 special significance because the London Standard is Beaconsfleld’s recognized organ and the exponent of the Tory views. It 1s particularly offensive because, so long as the preparations for the construction of the canal wore confined to the French com- pany, under tho protection of tho French Government, the Tory organ had nota single objection to urge against it. Butat the very first Intinatton that the American Govern- ment will Insist upon tho preponderating in- fluence which the French Government 1s ap- parently ready to assume, the preposterous elaim Js sot up that the British Government ig bound to watch and, if necessary, to re- sist” the American pretension to a pre- ponderatiug {ntiuonce In a Panama canal, and that no other Power must be permitted in this way “to lay hands upon tho trade of En- gland.” Of course, all this is mere bombast. British protest against American prepon- derance In a Panama canal” would have no more effect, though considerably lesa justice, than a similar protest against French pre- pondorance in the construction of the Suez Canal. Lord Beaconsfleld and his party have. now on their hands all the coimplica- tions they can mannge, and, if they hope to maintain themselves, they will not permit their organ to give the English people an Impression that thoy may involve the British Government in trouble with tho United States upon this or any other pretext, ‘The Liberals want no better issuc on which to unhorse the Tories than belligerent demonstration against the Americans on this Panama canal schemo by their Tory op- ponents. As to the Americans themselves, they will not be prevented from slecping soundly by the braying of the Iong-cared Tory organ. If any crisis arises they will know how to take care of their part of it, and seethat thelr * preponderating Influence” in American affalrs shall not be lost or changed to other hands. Let no Tory lay the flattering unction to his soul that the Monroe doctrine will not be successfully maintained against all who traverse it. Tho Americans are not only willing and able to “resist” encronchments upon it, but to enforce It to the full. Tim copyright question fs daily increasing in importance. Suits are multiplying, and thoro {8 1 gonoral dissatisfaction proyalont among both authors and publishers. Tho Boston Ad- vertiser, nn timely editorinl on tho subject, montions somo facts well worthre membering: Gormany produces some of the most learned works In all branches, and almost. monopolizea theology; her books aro copled everywhere, and not one author out of a hundred gets a penn: from forelgnors. Franco furnishes tha worl with comedies, and her authors raroly obtain any considerable rewards outside of Paris. England supplica good Hternture for balf tho reuding world, and almost any American printer can copy costly books at ‘the price of tho mechanical labur and tho whito Paper. Tho most complate and tho cheapest, collection of best Enyllet Mterature Is published at Lelp- sic. urls used to be tho great homo of alt plratical publishers, Our leading writors are treated In precisoly tho same way by tho En- glish, tho French, and tho Germans. 0 legitl- mate reprints in this country are now being out- rivalod by tho illegitimate reprints, and tho ro- cont custom has beon to offer a volume gold In England for a crown or bnlf pound for 10 ors cents in this country, Itis practically {mpossi- ble for the Jeuding English reviews ahd magite zines to obtain a subseripuon-list in this coun try, which, in turn, makes It dificult to pay remunerntlvo rutes to tho writors, On thoother hand, even tho novel-ronder who depends on tho ShHup reprints ia morally cortain to Joga much of whut ho wants and is willing to pay for. ‘Thoro ought to bo some romedy for thia stato of things, and simplo realprocity !s the best ono suggested, Most plans proposed attempt too much, As itis, American authors and publish- era would bo satistiod to bo placed on a lovel with othor authors in the country whoro thoy sis voeutaln 8 conyetyae AREVISED and full list of State Conven- tone alrendy called is as follows: Republican, + Demnecratio, Greenback, Tt, by Maroh 18, Towa, April 7, Mich, Muron 1%, ‘Vox, Murch 24, Texas, Aprit20. Pa. Kus. Murch fl, Kas, May 2. Cont, April 7. Iitnois, May 20, "April, AlubanaJuno® Towa, Bassi, April 16. ‘Tonn,, Juno & Oro. April 21. Indiana, Juno 9, Ky., Junelt. Mich., Muy 12, W. Va, Muy 12. Mlnola, May 19, ‘The Republicans of Ponnsyivania, New York, Vermont, North Carolina, Maine, and Indiuna have atroady been hoard from; and tho Con- ventions of twelve Stutea are yot to be an- nounced, ‘Tue Philadelphia Press of Saturday con- tains the following; = + ‘Thoro tro alxns of rovolt In York County. Tho Chuirmun of the County Commnittes bas called a convention of deteuted to obtuln the provulling sontimunt umong the Republicans of York ua to thoir cholce for Presidential nominee, with a view tothe elvction by district action of now delogutes to the Chicago Convention. ‘ole is in the IIne of the action proposed to bo taken in Lanouster County. There may be a lively timo Jn the Chicago Con- vention over the contesting detegutions from Ponnsylvunia; and whatever the reault may be nobody can doubt that delogutes choeon dirvctly by the poople ought to have the proference over delegates appointed by machine County Com- molttoes, for that is: virtually what was done in many instaticus in the Harrisburg Convention. Codrenation having succeeded so well In somo branches of Industry, Mr, Holyoake pro- poses to extond ita benefita to publishora and autho; “ Publishing, Uke shopkeeping,” ho saya, “ can only bo improved by cooperation. If @ sufficiont number of authors could agreo among themselves to form a publishing com- pany, conducted by u reul publisher, who under- Gtands the business; {f a sufficient number of authors of publications of real popularity could ugroo to put their works in their hands, such a company could make money, Thoy would have to comply with tho ordinary usages of the trado, except in tho mattor of credit, undors selling no other houdo, giving no just causo for the combination uf other pub- Mshors against thom. By dividing tha profits among the authors fu the ratio of the procoods from tho works of cach, all the profits thas could accrue by the economy of codperation and tho morits of cach author would surcly come tohim, and might be paid to him avery quartor day.” ‘Thoro arc too many “Ifa” in this schemo to render ft practicnblo. Thoovils due toalack of an international copyright system would stitl be in full force, The latter part of tho schome embodins moro explosive olemonts than a can of nitro-giyeerino, Moat authors aro very averse to having tholr “ merits como to them,"~-whatover that oxpression may mean,— and this aversion would be strengthened whon tholr share of tho profits was dependont on the aule of their tnoks, “Outda” would tako tho money, and writers of real merit would havo sone diliculty in making a Hyin; Gov. Hort, of Pennsylvanin, says that the unit rule adopted by the Harrisburg Convention is entirely artificial. It did not bind the district delegates. Only the delegates-nt-large wero shackled by tho resolution, and thoy would doubtless stand by Grant as long as thore was a reasonable hope of renominating bin; but the district delegates aro tn no acnse buund by tho resolution. The Albany Journal romarks on this: Whether thla view of tho potenoy or Im- potency of the resolution of instructions ts tho Tight vlow or not, it{s the common-sonso view, especially in this State, whoro tho delegates wore choseu by tho representatives from tho Con- gressional districts, Such 1 mode of sclection was 2 clone recognition of tho rights of tho dis- triots to be represented {n the Convention by men who knew and would givo expression to their wishes.” Tum votes of 7 to 6 In the Committeo on ‘Ways and Means aro quite as romarkablo as the votes of 8 to 7 in tho Electoral Commission. In tho Ways and Means Committoo, Frye and Wood occasionally changed sides, but the result was always tho same. Tho Washington correspond- entof tho New York Journa’ of Commerce ro- marks on this: ‘Tho puzzling fenturoof this businoss is that All the votes should be 7 to 6, und that on sugar and steel rafis vortain members voted in tho nflirmutive on one and in the negative on the other, Tho inquiry is freely mnde in Congres. slonnl circle, Did all this happen within the space of a fow minutos in tha committes-roon this morning without any previous understand. ing? It {a nagerted by soine who had an inside view of this procecting that if Mr. Wood had ‘not voted to postpone consideration of thesugar question tho result on stecl rails would have been different. “We will noxt hear, gentlemen, from tho debatable land, tho’ old ‘Tenth District, which was tho battleground of tho last campaign. I'm euro you will all be glad to keep quict and hear what tho old Tenth District has tosay.” ‘These were the prefatory words of Chairmnn * Long” - Jones ns tho Inst district was called at tho Paciilo Hotel conference. Thoreupon the old Tenth District stood upon its bind legs and through threo of its chosen representatives said it was tor Bluina or Washburne, but not for a third term. Somehow tha third term isn’t popular on “the battleground of the campaign,” which elected its Congrosaiman last thme by a plurality of only S78 votes. A neponren for an evening newspaper hns elicited from Mr. Dillon, Mr. Parnell's traveling companion, the important information that tho Marquis of Hartington, not Mr. Gladstone, is tho lender of tho Liberal party in England; nlgo tho thrilling intelligence that “ There isa vory wide distinction botweou tho English Liberals and tho Irlsh Homo-ltulers.” After this interview Mr, Dillon politely but guardedly anid that “tho Chicago newspapers, in thelr editorial utter- ances, manifested a more thorough knowledgo of tho Irish land question and people than any papers he and Parnell hnd encountered In America.” Gov. Cornet1, of New York, boing much elnted by the capture of the Utica Convention, has undertaken to keep John F, Smyth, tho un- savory Insurance Superintendont, and boss of the Albany machine, in office. The nomination of Smyth was tent to the Sonate, and, whon it appeared certain: that a majority would vote against confirination, withdrawn. Cornell's friends have since had tho auducity tosny that ho does not intend to send in ancthor nomination, but to lot Smyth bold over. If ho docs this, itis probable that tho Legisinture will take a rocf in Mr, Cornell's sails by Impenching Sinyth, Tire Milwaukee Sentinel, which started out to be 9 Sherman organ, has about abandoned tho cause as hopeless: If thore {8 uny ono thing # sagncious, far- seolng mnn fs deflclent in, it fe in bis eapno- Ity to his political popularity, for y felt suro of his election and waa tho worst-surprised man in the United States whou tho returns came in. Bull there is areserve power about Sherman whieh must bo considerable. No man with bis record could but. ocoupy nfalr share of tho popular thought in connection with tho candidacy, Io has mount- ains to overcome, however, If ho is successful. ‘Tho Sentinel 1s atill, however, consistently op- posed to tho third term. ConxKLING has been out of power sinco March 4, 1877, and in the minority. A Republican dofont with Grant would leave him in no worse position than a Republicansuccesa with anybody unfriendly tohim, Ho cares nothing about the party, but is wholly solOah in ble politics, This man will divido and ruin the Republican party if ho lgunt promptly rebuked by the Republican voters of the wholo country; and tho nomlina- tion of n candidate so strong that he can carry evorything bofore him would be the best pun- ishment that could bo moted aut to him. - Tne At that Don Cameron admits privately that tho opposition to Gon. Grant .may become fo strenuous that his. nomination, when the Convention meets, may bo inadvisable. Sonator Cameron {4 aman of horse sense, and is by no means 1's much tied up to Gen. Grant as Senator Conese: 1s.—1Washington Correspondence Boston fered . ‘Thie tallies with the statoment of Gov. Hoyt, of Pennsylvanin, that he didn't beliove Grant would bo nominated. Thoso Pennsylvania chaps have boen broiling over a slow firo ovor since tho Harrisburg Convention, and oyidently thoy don't like it, Srcnrerany Suenman fs just o little an- noyed when ho roflecta that his admiring col- ored frionds in tho Virginia Legistature, who signed a testimonin! on bis behalf, have aince voted twice to repudinto tho State debt, Vir- ginia Republicans, it scoms, area little slow at learning, and thoy havo only gotten half way through Bon: Porloy Pooro’s blography of Sher- man, to that page on which thoSecretary's great offortain fayor of paying tho bonds in grocn- backs ought to be recorde \d are not. Proven simply that _ho lives In a doubt. ful Stato, no man is too small to be nominated for tho Eresitunoy. at rare nee Foal TER monaro soldom, if over, thought of.—IWaahin ton Post (Dem ne mF It ien't safo to goncralize, Tittnols is a suro Btato, and thore are two mon within her bordera very muoh thought of, If ono of thom tan't Pemineh next time, tho othor yory Ikely will bo. Frvr-cenr fares on tho New York clovated railroads are protty sure to come, The Lower House of tho Legisiaturo bas passed the bill to this ond by an ovorwhelining voto, and tho Sen- ato will burdly dareto refuse, though eome of the mombors would like to * protect” the companios if they dared, Dox Conxrixa and Ios Cameron blun- dered. Thoy should have watted ‘until Gen. Grant camo back from Mexico, and then begun to make the people “spontaneous.” By start- ing the thing th January thoy fixed themselves liko n boy who takes too long a run before ho jumps ‘Tre Trrbuye sald “the friends of Conk- Mug and Atorton accusod laine in 1876 of a va- rioty of ots,” which Is true, To this the sour- rilous biackguard of the then “ whisky thtovoa'""” organ rvplica: “We dony that Conkling or Morton assailed Halo. Who sald thoy did? CAN It be true, a9 reported, that Col, Qooryga 2. Davis egyed on other’ men to speak forGrautat the Pacttic Hotel conference, and discreetly refused to spoak himself? Some of the men who wore loft in the lurch by Davis dont ike bla pout overmuh Winr the 3.-0. pretends to ba friendly to Grant it bas a weather-eye open toward Dlaiuo; and It{natete that it is the ouly original, truc- blue Blaine organ in Chicago, There's nothing like having two strings to ono's bow. Epwanp McPirerson, former editor of the Philadelphia frees, Owned one-tonth of * the stack of that paper. fo suld aut to “tho owner of thy majority of the stock,’ The pow oultor, Charieg B, Smith, owned ono-elghth of the stock of the Albany Journal. Ho also sold out to big coparceusra, Querys Is ouc-eighth of the Jours | hal equal in valuo to one-tenth of tha Prag) Quory No. 2t Can it beprotitable tn re ly hin to muzzle a nowspaper? Monoy spent in thet way in tho West fs aa good ns thrown, Qway, Ar Inst, at Inst the horrid trath Tho * boom" is stuffed with anwa falr proportions are vozing out. _—— PERSONALS, | 's Known,*: ust, ond {ty The American horses in En been assigned tho heavicat weight, reox. Thoro is no doubt that n mi fraud. « Tilue-Hyed Birdie—¥es, a hors sald to bring luck, but a Tuletahoe mane o untess you can havo ft applied by the mule t rich unclo who has made a will in your favor. : A Rochester paper warns pcopto tu “tool out for tho carllost spring in twenty years,” It the ontorprising editor will reprint the item nincteon years from now, folks will still hayo twelve months to sparc, Tho young Queen of Spain suffers from nervous agitation, Sodoosa slipper when th fomale hoad of the house resolves to hayo the gardon kept clear of woods, von If tho base. Dallsonson fs split right in two, Wo notico by the Boston papers thal engincer died in that clty the othor days nett vor a civil conductor dica tho pubtie would tke to be apprised of tho fact In order that a mong. * mont aubsoription may atonce be started, Tho Popular Setence Monthty \s discuss. ing the question, “Do animals resiat temptae tion?" If the editor will go to see bis girl some night when tho old man has given the dog tha priviloges of the front yard, ho can sottle tha matter in about two minutos, Do not weep for Jason Rogers, Ho has gono away for good, Quickly passed his Intest moments, BShoving little blocks of wood. ‘When was brought that awful puzzio ‘To bla happy firosido; Little thought hls wifo and childron~ ‘That from thom hesoon would glide. “ What will the spring bonnets bo Iku, asks Clara, You do us proud to ask us, Clara, They'll bo tho prottlost yot Invented, with great ruches of silk on top, cut ontrain, and fichua on, tho sido, and passementorio flowers, and water. colored velvet, and rufiles, and rubber rings, and Jack roses, and gros-grain clastic, and thoy'll be about a foot and a hale high, and thoro'll bp lots of othor things on thom, Clura. Oh} thoy'll bo. scrumptious this season, and the cost—well, doar, nbout $60, This 1s n good ttma to begin to tell your husband ghost sturics about how you, love hin, oto, ‘The well-known fondness of the Czar fora Joke, oven under tho most depressing circy- stances, was nover Lotter iustrated than on tho ocenston of the recent explosion under the din- ing-room of the Wintor Palace. Tho dreadful event occurred just as the Royal party wero ap. Proaching the room, two Inrgo ples and a vast quantity of nuts and raisins being thrown with grout violonco In thy? direction. Quickly turn- ing to the nenrest Duko, tho Czar nsked bim why tho explosion was Iiko tna alkali flelds of Now Moxico, Tho Duko gavo it up, “Be cnuse,” said tho Monarch, * it {a.n dessert waete,” 1t is belloved that after this the Nihilists will go about their work with renewed vigor. A distressing occurrence, which should boawarniag to all unmarried men, occurred the other evening on tho West Side, tho victim, boing a youth of the most exemplary habits, and almost tho sole support of a pokergame into which ho had been roped early in the season, For somo time past ho bas been paying attentions to a beautiful but experionced girl of 20, his natural timidity, howover, serving as ashicld to ward off tho dangers which always attend entorprisca of tho kind In which he was ongaged. Seeing that he was not to bo captured, by ordinary means, tho cold-blooded alron.con+ ectved a plot which sho Immedintely proceeded to put into execution. The next thno hor vio- tim called ho Was ushered into tho Inlr com< monly called parlor, and induced to deposit himself ina large arm-chalr, while tho assasin of his happiness ocoupled an adjacent sofa, Knowing that bo was an admirer of fast horseflesh, tho stripcd-stockiuged do mon artfully directed the conversation in that direction, and finally - asked what a handicap was, Why," sald tho. young man, ‘itis a raco in which tho horses carry difforont wolghts; for instance, ono that carries 120 pounds, while all the rest aro in at 100 ors0, is snid to bo handicapped.” “Then,” sald tho sorceress, while a cold light scomed to ba emittod from her oyoa, “If I wore tosit on your kneo you would be handicapped at 45 pounds, wouldn't you?" It {s hardly necessary to say that tho unfortunate man mado no resistanco; that In a momont she was sented thoro, an that tho old man opened tho door at precisoly tho right time. ———_____ POLITICAL POINTS, 3 Bland hare sin all thotp OnnrChY fgg, For pure and unadulterated cheek tha threo firms manufacturing quinine in this country aro uncomparablo.—Ulwaulce Sentined (Rep.). : The Cineinnat! Times is canvassing Hamil- ton County, Ohio, for sentiment on the polltical Laney Tho county stands so far, 1,083 for Inino, 1,064 for Sherman, and 408 for Grant. The Demoorntic candidate must bo unas sallable as to uny question of his fealty to the Talon from 1860 to 1865, ‘This ia a sino qua nom 80 plain that tho most ardont ndiniror of Mrs Bayard must admit the fnct.—Mobile (dla.) Rege faler (Dem). ‘Tho argument of Gen. Grant's supporters, ifwo understand it,1s that thoy can take the Republican party within six inches of the preeipico af defeat, and still anve it, Why isis pascnsary $9 ut tho party in such Joopardy?= New Yo une (Rep.). In Mississippl, where legislation has been more or less talntoed with repudiation, in tho shapo of stay-laws, redemption-laws, rellefe laws, exomption-laws, ond ll othor “cussed lows demagogs can dovise, it {4 dovilish hard to borrow money at any price,—Vickeburg Herald ‘Tho aspersions upon Gen, Porter’s loyalty, which grow out of tho pnasions of war and the _Jenlousios of the army, wore undoubtedly cruct and unjust... Wo buyo novor seen any reason to queation his loyalty and patriotism. But that be deol yan. ordors, and thereby subjected himsclt to milftary punishment, is ofcarly established — Boston Herald (ind.), A canvass of prominent Republicans ia Kansas showa that of 648 indloations re colyed, 538 wore for Dlaino, 8% for Grant, + for Sherman, and the rest scattering. ‘Tho singular fact isalsoshown that of the number bv aro for Hiaine aa a first chuice, 63 as a second choles, and Tare tor him aa Vice-Frosident. In other words, all but 6 mention Mr. Blaino a4 ee [yeferenco in some way.—lowe Stato Hegis __ Up to yesterday noon it could ‘bo sald that tho votdls of the Buy State had not oxpressod an .opinion, oxoept in tho nowspapors; and that, as far_os politicians wore concerned, ber people were by ha means averso to tha nomination te the o2-Preaident. Now, howover, a suid oa change has taken placa, for the Young Kepule Heaps bave pronounced thelr options In an Ht mistakable manner, and, in $0 dolug, have ral ae. up an elomont of opposition which ‘tho’ regula arty Convantien, ou IE meats, will bo farce tora ett serious considuration.—Buston Here de It fs undoubtedly true that any chill which the popular enthusiasm for Grunt hag receiv : during tho last twelve months has been due, no} tothe four of any dangor to popular lberty from hia eleotion for # third thine, but to ape hensions touching the character of an Ay ministration which might be controlled by Ea mon as are dome of tho most uctive partisans this State... ..1f his couse is to bo pro moted in other Gtates by men end meth wellcaloulsted to alluuate pubjlo aupport at hus been the cuse in this State, ibis gui ps in. dle that the absence of papular enthusiagn iu bis favor will bo a8 marked noxt Juno #6 1) hel would buye boon had, t Convention Jen’ hold ‘@ your ago.—New ¥ Times (Granturgan). ‘ Tt 1s'of no tmportanco at all whother this or that Republican is popular in tho South oF not, aud whether one Republican may be able got a larger popular vote than another, Act e even the name of our Savior Josus Christ sho! nt adorn the head of tho Ropublican Vrosidentl 7 tieket, und if, moreover, an undoubted majority of the oltizans, without distinction of race ¢t color, should voto for that Hepubltican ticket. novertheluss would not ruculve a single onu OF the 138 Electoral votes of the South! « - ai glance into any paper issued in the South, ft Teviow of the occurrences at the oloctions o! wit Jagat three years in all tho Bouthorn Biatos, show that no Republican candidate for be Presidency, whatever, bo bis uume, can rece the Electoral voto of oven a slugle Souther Bate, evon if tho Republican Electoral tickes should receive an undoubted majority ae ¥ fodu! sn ol sat from thet tn the West of Nortb—-New On leans Deutecho Zeitung (Deas.