Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1880, Page 4

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Gate betweon the Cleveland and Chicage Clubs at + SH0p.m SOCI. ‘Gs. onting 1s ordered to toon Abs oolook @ ATRANOTOTIES ently requested 4, Comoandter, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1880. Two men weto killed by a boiler explosion + at Hallfus, N. 8. yesterday, pel Aad a It arprans that the news of Indinn dep- redatipns in Arizona have been greytly exag- gerated. 5 Ti Now Jersey Demoerntic Convention meets to-duy. Tho delegntion to Cincinnati wilt !_ be probably uninstructed, ‘Tire Blackburn (England) strilce will, it fs, thought, bo ended to-day by tho unconditional eurrendor of the operntiver. > Apyrers from Berlin are to the effect that +2, Gerninny will lurgely inerense her fleet in tho #" event of war between Chinn and Russia, t Two marten girly, whity playing on the bank’ of a river near South Nend, lost tholr balunee, fell lute the river, and wero drowned. t A nace has been arranged between Han- = Inn and Riley ta como offen the With on the saitio course over whieh Hunan and Courtney rowed yesterduy, ‘Tite General Asseinbly of the Presbyterian Choroh wilt converts in annual session at Mudl- son to-day. That city is crowded with tho at- tending delegutas w Fiery Turkish (more likely Grock) trlgands were recently killed near Silontea, andy num ber of athors were captured and thalr booty and prisoners tuken from thom. . “Tue strike among the Montren) dock In- ‘og: boters haa proctleatly onded, Tho wages de- ‘ys muinded by tho strikers are being pald to the best men, Tho {ueillclent men are all dle, Tur French strikes, whieh are said tehave ‘veon duc to tho innebinations of secrut political soaieties, are neurly at an end, The operatives aro rapidly returning to work at tho oft rates. i AN attempt was made yesterday to bring \ thoTarlff bill reported by the Ways and Means Committee before the Houso for action, but was = doroutot by the muanouvering of Fernando food. ‘fins defert of the Scotch Lord Advocate dn tho Wigtonahire olection is attributed ta tho displonsure of the Prosbytcriuns ut tho nppolut- mentof tho Marquis of IMpon, Roman Cathe olfc, to the Governorsbip of India, Tur: President yesterday nominated Poste master Key United States Distriot Judge for 2)’ Bustern and Middle ‘Tennessee, Horave Maynard — for Postmuster-Goneral vies Koy. and Gen, Longstreet Minleter to Constantinople to suc cced Mr. Maynard * Tum Pacific Rallrond Committee of tha House evince n decided disinolinution to Invos- tigate the charges mado by the porson George. agulnst members of tho Forty-Hrst Congress. Itia questionable If the present Congress hus. any Jurisdiction In tho matte: Sie Winners Wancousre will not have a walk-overoyan In Derby, from which Mr, Plimsoll has resigned to make way for him, Tho ‘Tories are determined to contest tho gent, and will probubly adopt Sir ltobert Pool, who was driven . out of ‘Tamworth by Luss, the brewer, Tim: California Worlkingmen's Convention yesterday, by voto of 1 to ndopted Keure > ney's ndvicu to sond delegates to the Chiengo Greenback Convention. A soction of tho mact+ iw ing Intho interest of the Democrats thon ute r tempted to provent action and trlod to orgunize . Swput, but fulled, i ( Tur German emigrant vessel Gollert ar » Fived nt Now York yostorday morning, but waa * not allowed to land its passengers, 1,283 1 nuns ber, owing to the provalonve of a virulent form of sinall-pox on boar, Bost of tho passongora. are German hnmigrants bound for the West, ; many ot thom Intending to muko Chicago thelr Y stopping plico, + ‘Tue Queen’s specch to bo delivered to the + | English House of Commons thig afternoon will i ~ probably make reference tothe ravont eleutions, ¢: Whe Iris distress, the torelygn poliey of England, y Q@nd to the reorgunization of Bouth Africa. Moasures for the amelioration of the tvondition cf the Irish farmers, the retnactinent of the « Butlot act, and tho puoitication of Indla witt bo 2) recommended in all probability, re North Hungary, and tha people ure Jeaying tho country by thous sands. Bogreat has been the cinigration from thero that tho Government hus forbidden any more persons to louve, This is a ruthor high-handed course, The poor starving people woutto go to a country where thoy will not starve, and the Government will nvithor allow ;° thom to gu nor provido thom with food, ee Sit. Prassors, the great champion of the rights of Engilvh seamen, consents to resign his seat for Derby to make way for Ble Willium Hare court, who has beon defeated for retloction at Oxford.” Mr. Pilusoll bas been in very poor : health for some tine, and it was only by the quost urgent solleitation on the purt of bly con- * + stituents and thy English Sailors’ Unton that bo, consented to be a cundidute at the recent ele on, Mr, Plimgoll is greatly loyed tu England for his sturdy honesty and his onttialaatio championship of what he con: Justice and right. Hs rctiroment creates a vacancy which Sir William Harcourt will not adequately fll. eats Tir London journals discuss Scerctary Eevnrts' recommendation on the Fortune Bay question In a very coneliiatary nshlon, oxpross- ing tho hono that all points of diiforence bes tween this country and Rngland witl be specdily: und atmienbly atranged. Tho Tandon Times oven goes to tho oxtontof saying that no Btitte could consent to any materia tmitation of th troaty rights by municipal or tocal legislation. Pant of the Clty of Scranton ts built over anabandoned mine. Recently tha ground nt- derlying this section tins begun to settle ina Mannor by no means agreentilo to tho residents or the property-ownera, Tuesday night tive Houses were thrown frum their foundations, grout gaps have made thoir apperatico in the atreot, aud many gardens and wells have been spoiled, Tho people of the section are leaving as quickly ns posaiblo. ‘Tae [autan-Courtney race ou the Potomac yerterday was, ns far ns genuine sport {8 cons cerned, a frand, a delusion, and a snare.” Some persons go so farns to say that it was an organized swindle, The race, if raco it can bo called, was badly managed from tho start, and on tho part of Courtney was a spiritiess and groceicss affair. Hanlin's rowing was tnugnttl- eent, nnd his yin and cnorgy were rewarded by an casily-won victory. A nepostron in the Butchers’ & Drovers? Bank of St. Louis, whieh fattod tn 1897, has ted apetition Incourtusking Cor the appolntment of a Recolver, and charging Tf, M. Chambers, the President of the bank when It failed, and sine then ona of tho Trustucs to wind tip Its business, with gross and fraudulent mismanagement of tho nssets of tho bank, and with endeavoring to get control of the remaining asdets with a view tosceuring his relatives and personal frionds from loss. ——e Aron Gonvox, of Georgia, has for- dled hls resignation to the Governor of that Btuto, It appenre that this act fs tho result of a rafirond combination. Gordon wilt become at- torney of tho Loutsville & Naahvilto line, and his successor is to be ox-Gov. Joseph Irawn, now Preatdentof the Western & Atiuutle Rod, Roth roads will probably be united under ona management for tho future, and will then te- come tt formidable rival of the Cincinnatl Southern, For some time past thore ‘lins been grow- ing nsuspteion in tha minds of the Londoners that the affalrsof thoir olty ave bolng munaged it avwny that will not bear close serutiny, that tho taxes which are pall are extravagantly spent, that too many sinecures exist, and genermly that the London City Government ts not whit it ought to be, and that reform is necessiry. AS goon aa Parliamont assembles it 1s said that n Commission will bo appointed to investigate uttalrs and reeominend such changes ag may be found essenthal. Tuts Minnesota. Republican Convention yeaterday adopted resolutions tnetructing tho delegation to Chiengo to use all honorable menns to sucure the nominntion of Henator Windom for President, betleving him ta be a capable, pure, and tralned statesman who would unite fn bis fuvor all acetions of the Republloan party. Tho Convention ntso adopted resolutlons Indorsing tho present Adminlatration. Istaino ts the see ond choice of all the delegates but three,—ono of those being for Graut, one for Shorman, and ono for Edmunds. AcAnt has been Issued fora mass-mect- Ing in Montreat to consider why Canadian agel- culture, commorce, antl manufactures ure sut- fering, und why thd people nro without work and nro emigrating en masac to the United States, Tho enll goes onto state that to romedy for thie atate of things fs to be found only in com- moreinl unlon with tho United Stites, and in Canada’s possessing all tho rights and privl- lowes of an Independent nation, The meeting Is eulled for this evening and will doubtless bo of considerable interest. Speakina at Bridgewater Houso yester- day, Lord Beaconsfield tried to comfort about 40 of his followers, principally noblemen and Members of Parilument, for tho dofeut of tho partyin the recent elections. He eld, ovident- ly alluding to. the TAberal defents at Oxford, Sandwich, and Wigtonshilre, that thoro were nl- rendy aigna of encourngement, and thut tho dis- cordunt eluments which compose the Liberal party could not long act In concert, and advised his felends to maintain w watchful and dignified attitude. The recent dofent of his purty, ho sitd, was owing to the pertodienl desire for change whieh tnkes possession of the English people, Tho ox-Premlor did not fall to mike sarcastic allusion to Mr, Gladstone, expressing surprise that he should avcept two otiices after his repeatad declanitions that bo wishud to retire from tho political arena, Lords Salisbury and Carnarvon, Sir Statford Northcote, and Sir Robert Poot algo casayed to cheer the drooping spirits of thelr defented comrades, who, though beaten, are not vanquished, —— Senator Burrer, of South Carolina, apnko yesterday on the Kellogg caso, and gave 48 his rongons for Intending to voto ayulust tho ‘ungoiting of Kellogg (1) that tho Sonate has not the power to unseat ono of its members who hus heen sented after a contest as to the merits of hiscase; (@) tho uction of the Sonnte In senting Kellogg was binding until It waa made to appcur that such action was obtained by fraud; (3) the rule of uppoaling from one majosity to unother of different complexion is unsafe. Sen- ater = Butlor reptile «to tho nslnune don of Ben HE about oo bargaln botweon hitnself and Kellogg, and rebuked bim for using: tho “ bniting luguage of funuondo,” “the pol- aonous words of ambiguity," “and tho polluted gouslp of busy scundil-mongers,” and finally challenged him to speak Ky and drive “deadly dread from his presonce," Aftor the usual deularation that ho (Mr. Butlor) was pro- pnrod to defond bis own honor and the honor of his State, Ben Mi of courso disclaimed all fin putation om hla brothor Confoderato's honor, and. It fa probable that tho wholo affalr was a pleco of ueting which will end bapplly but not honore ably, —_—— THE STATE CONVENTION, ‘The Republican Convention met yesterday at Springfield at noon, Gen, Rawn, Come intssioner of Internal Revenue, was made ‘Tomporary Chairman, The State Committes, acting under the alrections of Jolin Logun, jad issued orders to nduilt nono of the Cook County delegates to the hull, and’ they were vefused by stalwart doorkeopers, ‘Tho ox- clusion of the ninety-two delegates from tis vounty left the third-termers ina majority In the Convention, Gen, Logan, who was almost unanimously rejected ns a delegate by the Republicans of the ‘Thirt Ward, his plyeo of resitenca in Chicago, appeared as a delegate from Juck- son County, and took personal charge of his forees, Every census-taker and enumertor, every Collector, Gauger, and subordinate of. tho internal Revenue Service, every Pension Agent, and every man holding Federal ofica In tha State, was there, summoned by Logan to do battle for his master. Logan offered a resolution swearlng all the dolégutes to abide tho action of the Convention, and this resolu tlon the majdxlty (the Cook County delegates boing oxci.udoit) adopted, ‘Phe Credeitials Committco was appointed, whereupon a resoluilon was propasud In that Committes that tio Cummitteo receive and consider no credent{als of any contested delegates who did not fst pledge themselves to able the actlon of the Conyentlon fn re gard to their adnilssion or rejection, ‘This was debated until late In the evening, when the Committee made o report with a lat of all the delegates-elect except Cook and Greene Counties, This Mst was adopted, ue the Convention adjourned until morn- ig : Nover in tho history of conventions was thore such an extraordinary demand made by a Committee on Credentials, Tho ques- ton reforred to that Committee was one of ¢lection, and that was tha only question of which that Comuilttes could take cognizance, “Was the Farwell Hall delegation duly elected to represent Cuok Couity?? That questlon tho Committee ou Credentials refused Feountry at large. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. even to cunsider until the delegates should first pledge themsctives ty ablie the action of the Comunittee and of the Convention, 100 mnembers of which were excluded from vot- Ing. ‘This demand is all the more unrenson- able because tho action of this Convention ts not « final ono, ‘The delegates from tho three Congressional districts of this county have tha right of appeal tothe Nationnt Coit- vention. ‘To demand of them that thoy slut! not take such an appeal in case thoy sliall bo aggrieved, however appropriate as putt of Mr. Logan's tactics, will not be neeepted ns fair, togal, or honorable by the Stato or by the country. Even if the pledge were given tt would not dind any delegate in ease the Convention shall depart from the regular and ordinary Jaw of all conventions, "Tho delegates to the National Convention have always been appointed by the delegates representing each Congressional _ district. The four delegates-nt-large only havgever been nppolnted by the Conventiow. It tn well understuod that Logan proposes that the entire forty-two delegates to the Natlon- al Convention shall be appotated by a majsor- ity of the State Convention. In such a cuse ag this does any sane man stppose that the detexates from the elmht or ten Cohgrea- stonal districts which are opposed to Grant's nomination wit subintt to sued an outrage, and not appeal to the National Convention? Docs Logan assume that these antt-third- termers are afrakd of him, or afraid to go before the National Convention and de-. nounce such a fraud and such an outrage as he proposes to commlt? ‘The Republicans of Ilinois are not slaves. They ara free men, ond dutermined to malutain that free: dom, Gen, Logan may as well understand now that ho is playing a desperate game with the Republican stceesy in this State and In the Tho exclusion of tho winety-two delegntes from Cook County for a failure to tnke this lronetad oath not to appeal to the National Convention, or for any othor cause, must of necessity peril the success of tho party, not only in Ilinols, but tn the country. ‘hint it will be resented Is beyond all question, and it ts for the Conven- tlon to decide whether the party shall bo divided and defeated, or united and suc- cessful, Wo he to the madmen who at this time shall divide the Republican party In IMnols by denying to {ls snembers thelr Inw- ful representation, or by denying to them their free right to appoint their own dolo- gates to the Chigago Convention! ‘The Convention will meet at 9 o'clock this morning, when the contest will be resumed. Unless the Convention shiall to-day take the business out of Logun’s hands, and reject ily dictation, ho will so outrage justice, and fairness, and long-established usaze ns to defeat the Republican party In this and other States and in the Unton, = CARRYING THE SOUTH FOR GRANT. Whistling to keep thelr courage up ts whut the third-term inanagers are doing now, ‘Tho Washington dispatches to the Hlinols Boss’ organ in. this city consist of reported yeliemént nssertions on the part of Senators Conkling, Cameron, and Carpenter that Gen. Grant will be nominated on the first ballot and elected sure by tho ald of Southern votes. Senator Conkling lins “too mele re gard”? for his colleagues ingho New York delegation to Chlengo to credit the reported “defection from Grant? Woodin'’s speech in the State Senate openly declaring hts de- fection, and Robertson's letter declaring Is defection, and the declaration of a dozen more delegates have no effect upon the “great Senator.” “They musn't, you know,” says tho Senator. “But they have, you know,” responds the Interviewer. "Ah, but they can’t, you know,” rejolus the Sena- tor, Senator Cameron !s not quite so sure that Ils packed “instructions? will not be vio- luted by sume of the Pennsylvanta delegn- Hon, Ho admits that there aro “ four or five’? dissenters, but" hopes they will thik better of it before the Convention assembles.” At all events, says the gon of his father, the third-term scheme “ will recelve tho entire yoto from Loutaiann and Alabama”! Ile might have added: “ Who cares whether the votes by which Grant is to be nominated come from States which may give him Elect oral votes, or from States which are sure to vote against him or any other Republican on clection-day, provided the nomination 1s se- cured 2” “Do you think Gen. Grant will bo nom- {nated 2” queried the orgun’s interviewer of Senator Carpenter, “Tam confident of it,” responded the Senator, - : Of course Mr. Carpenter thinks Gon. Grant enn be elected for a third term, if nominated, “Tow 2 queries the Interviewer, “ By carrying some of the Southern States,” responds Mr, Carpentor. “©What States could he carry?” Inquires the organ's Interviewer. “S think he would carry APkansas (1), and he would have on even chance -to carry 'fexas (1), and with anything Uke a fair election he would carry Tennesgea (1), North (1) and South Carollua (1), and Flor- indy (1). Probably the Senator from Wisconsin winked a sly wink when ho coneluded this mnazing reply, but tho serlous reporter took nenotles of the wink, but swallowed hoolc and line, bob and sinker, ‘Tho Wisconsin Senator dldu’t say what he thought about the probability of n “fair election” in the South. Nor did hoe explaln by what occult process he expected theovorwhelming Demo- erntle majortiics In ‘Cexas, ‘Tennessee, and Arkansas are to be overcome by Gon, Grant, Republicans who are tinportunad to support the nomination of Gen, Grant would liko to know from Senator Carpenter how the ex-Prestdent is to -wipo out a Demo- critic majority of. 60,000 In a total voto of 149,000 In ‘Texans; and a Dem- ovoratio majority of 19,000 In a total vote of 07,000 in Arkansas; anda Democrat- Jo munJority of 50,090 Inn total votu of 223,000 fn ‘Penneasee, ‘Tho fact,is, thore is nothing loft of tho third-torm campatgu but despera- tlon, Itisagune of blu. ‘Lhe Sonutoriat Syndicate tovk the third-term contract and proposed to“ ralse" everybody clsa out of the game on a palr,—a large palr,—New York and Pennsylvania, to got which palr they had “stocked tho cards, But In" draw. Ing’? thoy fallod to better thelr hand, and thore was nothing loft for thom but to accept the loss or win by bluit, ‘Chey woultl with- draw Gen, Grant now could they feul sure of bulng able to transfer Ils delegate strength to Edmunds, or Windom, or nnybody olse except Blaine and Washburne, ‘They realize the forces of Lincoln's nputhogm, ' It is dane gerous to swap horses while cross Ing « stream?’ ‘Whey don’t cara a rush for Gen, Graut- personally, ‘They would anerifice hhn at once In the faco of the tremendous opposition which exists to his nomination, But they doubt thelr ability to handle lis delegates ns they would dispose of so many bales of dry goods. Ionce tholr determination tg carry tho ox-President into the Convention pogardiess of the probablll- tics of his slaughter and the consequent wreck of his fume, It Is fit that the third-term managers should be likened to a parcel of gamblers, for they are gambling on a great expectation, hazard- ing a grand career, staking the fame and re- nown of a noble character agulust a sacred polltical priuciple. Agulust an unwritten, bit (ime-lhonored, law of the Republic they offers man, oman high in the afeettons of tho people, but stfll only aimans and tte to name and person of this man thoy Insist that tho unwritten law, the great political princl- ple, shall bo violated! A DANGER TO BE AVERTED, Itcantiot bo dented that there fs now, and ms been ever’ sficd the election of 1870, 0 serious and whiespread apprehension pore vading all partica as to tho trouble which may grow ont of anothor disputed eleetion, "hore isn feeling thats similar controversy cannot be settled so penceftlly and sotistac- torily n second time, in the absence of a law governing the count of Electoral votes and reasonably assuring justice und falrness, ‘Tho present Democratle Congress, ke tts predecessor, has been confronted with tiie popular apprehension froin the outset, but it hing willfully and ‘atmost erlminally neg. lected to agreo upon aug mensure caleutated. to reassure the Amertean people, Neatly nll tho popilar demands upon this Congress have been elther evaited or defied, but fn no case has tho Incapacity or bad faith uf the present National Legishture been go siguelly demonstrate’ as by its Indifference ty the threatened dangor of dadlsputed Presidential election without a specific and competent tule for determining auch a dispute. ‘The blame in this anatter unquestionnhly: rests upon tho Democrats, who have a clear majurity In both Houses of Congress, Tond- Journ the present session without agreeing ttpon a law governing the count would be to given partisan Congress tho opportunity to decide upon any mothoil after the cleetion whieh should seem to bu best suited to the party interests, Lt would warrant tho bellet that the duty had been neglected for the ex- press purpose of seenuring this party ad- yantage, and sult o suspicion would only in- crease the bad blood that any disputed count would naturally stir up. ‘The situation is critical oven now; Ib may become tppalling In ense Congress shall purposely leava open the opportunity for dissension, It may bo sald that tho Denwerats, In acting upon this matter aven before election, will be able to determine It from x party point, but even such a determination woukd be vastly better than to have It undetermined, for the country will then be prepared to abide by a certain rule and know what to expect. But any disposal of the matter before election will be necessarily made under the eriticismn of the people and the restraint of the Execu- tive veto, It is better thot fight should bo made now, when personal interests are not actually Involved, than atu tine when the friends of disputing enndidates shall range themselves in conflict for selfish rensons, No opportunity, provocation, nor excuse should be given for n coup ett on either side, or even na prolonged struggle. ‘The National interests of the country would suffer more serlously from such a contingency thin they alt fro the pante of 1873, or the long porto of depression that followed, ‘Yhoso are some of the reasons, in addition to the cause of exact justice, why the Presi- dent should be encouraged in the reyolution which he is said to lave taken to call an. extra session of Congress In case an ad- Jour mnent shall be reached without passing a law governing the Presidential count. Nelthor of the two parties which “will con- test the next Presidential election can look forward to such an overwhelming victory as willrender sn dispute out ofthe question. Onthe Democratic side it 18 expected to carry every Southern State by so decided a minjority that no controversy will bo practl- enbte; atall events, all the machinery of the Returning Boards in the Southern States Is in the hands of the Demoernts, so that Democratic Electors will be regularly corti 4 fied ton Democratic Congress, Ou the other hand, tho Republicans lave equally good reason to expect that ihoy will carry the great tinss of the Northorn States by dechded majorities, ‘The result, according to the present outlook, will turn upon two or three closely-contested States, nnd there ts the danger, ‘The authority to decide In ease of contest should be so specific and final that the people will feel an assurance of protec- tion against usurpation or anarchy, no matter how close the returns may be, It may bo that tho! consideration of this subject would bring on 1 conflict between Congress and the Executive, but this Is only to be apprehended In case the Democratic majority should seek to nequire a grossly un- falr-ndvantage. President Hayes ts neither partisan nor unreasonaule, and he will nob vefuse hig assent to any law which is based upon prineiples of justice andequity, Butit there should be nconfict between Congress and the Executive, and If the Democratic unjority should refuse to pass any Di regu- Inting. the count which President Muyes could sian fn fustlee to the common ine terests of tho American people, the sltuation would then be less hozardous thin It is now, beenuso tho merits of such x controversy would come before the people fn the ap proaching National clection, and that issue would operate to make the triumph of one party or the other so deulded that the danger of a disputed count would be Inrgely avert- ud, Wenes there ls every reason to hope that Prosidunt Hayes will tnsist upon an earnest attempt to pags a proper lw, even though an extra session be necessary to that end, GEN. GRANT IN 1872 AND 1880, Ever sluce tho struggle for tha Republican nomfuation for President set in, the third: termers have been in, tho perpetual habit of Hkentng tho present opposition te Gen, Grant's enndidacy to that which was mant- fested In 1873, and on that basis have predict ca that thelr favorit will be both nomlaated and elveted for n Uilrd thie with the same ease and trlumph as ho was nominated aud elected at tho end of his first term. It inust’ be a very obtuse person who caunot Alatinguish the enormous dlfference between the sltuntion to-~lay and that In 1873, se far as Gen, “Grant's presence Is cons corned, If anybody really fails to recog- nize tho change in conditions, he may be enlightuned to some extent by reading an ex- vlanatory article which we reprint this morning from the Cincinnatl Commercial, It Is brief und to tho‘ point. _ It sets forth the real connection of certain gontiomen then editing certaln newspapers with the move- ment to nntagonize tho redlection of Gen, Grant, ‘This moverent set out with the con- yietion that Grant's nomination by thy reg- war Republican party was already assured, antl it was the avowed purpose of those who entered Into it tu defeat his second election, if possible, by the Independent nomination of a Ropubliean who might or night not be ace cepted by the Democrats, Mr. Whitu's choice was ‘Trumbull. Bowles, Halstead, and Schurz were In favor of Charles Francis Adams, My, Wilbur F, Storey, Leonard Swett, John Wentworth, and others wanted Judgo Davis, Mr. Watterson, an independ: ont Democrat, was “a looker-on tn Vienna,” ‘The nomination of Ioraca Greoley was & stunning surpriga to all tho pring moyers, and tha’, miscarriage of tho entl-Grant movemont, neting independ. ently of the Republican party, was tueltly confossed from that moment, A fight was still mado with the aft of the Demo- rata, who were ad nuch disgusted ins tho Independent Republicans with the nomina- tlon of Qreoley, and for a the thera seemed to be a prospect that the forlorn hope would win, ‘The North Carolina State election, however, destroyed the Inst vestlke of Greeley’s chance, and his fate was suttled by tie suecceding elections In Matne, Ohio, and Tniliana, ‘The Independent movement to beat Grant for redleetion In 1873 was cortaltly a disas- frous fatlure. But the reat test of the popt- Jar dissatisfaction with the polltleal methods that were charactertstic of his etvil_ admints- tration came In 1874, when Horace Creeley And been ellminated fromthe struggle, and when the opportunity for testiug tho motives of the Grant partisans had been enjoyed dure Ing nearly two years of a second Ad- uilnistration, In 1873 the people wero witl- ing to averlool much of Grant's first Adinine istration which they were notrenty to tle fend, portly fn the hope that the mistakes would not be repented, and that thd more luring abuses would be corrected, but inatnly because thera wis a aeneral convie- tlon that a second term with Grant could not possibly beso menacing to the business {n- terests of the country as would boa Govern- ment committed to the guidances of tho un- Talnneed and erratic Greufoy. But tho see- ond Grant Admitistration was evidently dis- appointing, for tho Demoeratle party, acting done and ino strictly partisan character, swept the country In 1874. ‘The Republican defents of 1874 were so widespread and over- whelining that the party has never fully re- covered from thom, ‘That both Houses of Compress are to-day tn the hands of the Dem- ocrnts iy n tact that miy be traved directly to tho anthGrant elections of 1874, when his elytl nduiinisteation was to direct beste be- fore thu people. As wresult, the movement in the follow]ng year for a third term was sunumariiy ‘squeluhed by resolutions fn yarlous Republican State Conventions, ‘Tho solenn pledge of radical re- form was glven to the people by the nouttnation of a’ conservative amo, by a platform iu which conelliation ana the im- provement of tho Civil Service were cons spleuous fentures, and by the personnal pledge of Gov. Hayes that he would not be a eatdldate for retloction, Even under these elrenmstances, the elee- tion was so close thats spectal tribunal hid to be crented to determing it, and tho de- elston, though acquiesce in, has” always been remurded ns of questionable justice by 0 Jarge part of the people. In comlng hack to Gen, Grant this year fora third term, there fs a revival of the conditions of 1874 rather than those of 1873, ‘The Muyes Administration has unquestionably satisfied the peoplonsa whole, It lins been clean, respectable, well-meaning, and decent. It has done much to put the Republlean party in good order and standing with the country. ‘Thosugeestion of Grant scandidacy anturatly: reealls ‘the situation just preceding the Hayes Adnintstration, with the powerful additional opposition to the election of any- body fora third term. ‘Chis year tho opposi- tlon within the Republican party lias not taken.thy distinetive form of an Independent movement to defeat Grant if nongnated, but hag been directed against his nomination, which has not been, and Is not now, 0 foregone conclusion, as it was In 18m. ‘The nomtnation of Gen, Grant has been power fully opposed in all the Republican States, Including his own, because It has been and iy att! believed by a large majority of the Republiean party that it will be harder to wih with him than with any othercandidate who Is likely to be selected, ‘Lhe elections of 1874 furnish the best warrant for this ap- prehension, which the third-term Issue only increases, If he be not nominated, that fact will show, not any overwhelming opposition to Gen, Grant personally, but tho prepon- derating Influence of the clreumstances that threaten defeat. If ho bo nominated and not eleeted, the party will simply suffer from the vielous efforts of tho Senatorial spoils mae chine, In any event, the Republlean who is now striving honestly and disinterestedly for tie suecess of hls party and the welfare of his country, without coveting the spolls in dispute, will be no better off and no worse off thaw other people. It Iss suprenie folly to regard the widespread Republtean onpo- sition to another nomination of Gen, Grant In any other Hight. REFORM IN SONGRESETONAT LEQISLA- In these days when thero is such 1 do mand for “strong” and Irresponsible goy- ernment, and when itis expected that Cone aress shall male special provision by lnw for tho ‘support, malutenanee, and: enriching of private individuals and corporations, it may be unfashionable to suggest severe and aweeplng reform In Congressional legisla tlon, but never was sueh reforin more needed: than now. ‘Twenty yenrs ago thero was prodyced by the State Printer of Illinois a yolume vf the private ws passed at ono seaston of the Leylslatureot this State, which was a curiosity both as to the shape and di- inenslons of tho book, ‘The printed volume was nearly elght inches thick; it contained nothing but acts of special fegialntion, matn- ly private charturs, and these laws wero passed during a session of forty-two days, on which tho Legislature was In sesslon not over twenty-six. days, That volumo did much to bring about the subsequent prohibi- Uon fn the State Constitution of ull special Jegislation, Congress Is running rapidity Into the special legislation business. ‘Tho private calendar, the anbstdy calendar, the back pay, tho extra, pay, the fnerease of pay, the special privi- lege, ond the elniis calendars are Increasing with the faellity with whieh claims em be presented in Congress In tho form of bills. A correspondent of the New York Eventag Post furnishes a list of the number of bills introduced In both branches of each Congress fur n munber of years, The life of eneh Cons gress Is two years, The table also gives the number of bills which haye become Inws, and the percentage of those passed to those Introduced, ‘Lhe tablo states the enso as fol- lows: TH 60K | DBT BMS cy is LUV... 1875-07 Bay a3 il XLV...61877-"V BT Ww Bhs The number of bills Introduced during the prosent Congress & about 7,000, but the fifo of tho presont Congress continues untll Mareh 8, 1881, so that in all probability the whole number will equal the highest of any previous Congress, The permanent bills, whieh ave known as the anuuat Inws, do not execed at tho utmost moro than 50 each session, or 100 in xR nt each Congress, Al- Jowing 400 bills for the amendment of exlat- Ing lows, and ag inany for naw Inws, the whole number of bills for purely legitinate Jegisintive business ought not to exceed 1,000 or 1,200 In any one Congress. It will be secn, however, that this number fa increasing an- munily, so much so ax to clog the'wheels of legislation and render deliberation uttorly impracticable. As it 1s, the majority of the sppropriation bills are patched togethor with- out debate, and finally, after manipulation by Committees of Confereiice, are passed with- out any very clear Intelligence on the part of members ag to what they actually contain, All experience has shown that the uppro- priation bills ought to contain nothing but specific appropriations pravlously authertzed by existing aw. ‘Tho nnounts, unless they nlso be speoliied by law, should alone be dis erettonary with Congress In the form of an appropriation act. * Pho great bulk of the bills before Congress are for elniins, for renewals and extension of patents, and for oxtri. compensation te con- tractors, ‘Mheps should be no oecnston for any of these bills, Sho General Ponsion Jaws’ of the United States. aro Mbernt in the extreme, ‘The bills before Con- gross asking pensions or an Incrensa of pensions are In cases where the applicants are not, under any extstityg Inw, entitled to pensions or an Inereass of pension, The Kenerat Jaw should, if It be defective or tn- sttfictent, bd so enlarged and Mberalized os to Inelude every class of enses In which tho Government should, under any reasonable elreumatanets, grouta pension, The sane rate of ponsion should bo ollowed in every ease of the sane kind, and then the wWhele business should be remanded to 8 propar tri- bunal to hear and judicially act upon, and finally determing all applications. Congress should not undertake to hear aud try several thousand cases of pension applications every yeur. H : ‘There are now general laws governing the settlement of elatms against the Govern- ment. Under one bravelt of those Jaws, the accounting offleers of the yarions branches of the public surviee hear and allow clalis, that are paid at the Treasury, Other classes of eloims are by nw patd and determined by tho Court of Cinhns, with the right of appeat to the Supreme Court, ‘The eluhns presented to Congreas are of those kinds which the nceounting oflicers of the ‘Trenaury and the Court of Claims have rejected, or are of aehnracter the payment of which Js prolilb- Itad* by Inw. ‘Tho great mass of these elaima are elther fraudulent or grossly exng- gerated. ‘They are presented and sity. ported by ae professional lobby, consist” Ing Inrgely of ex-Sonators and Representa- tives of Congress, who have the privilege of tha floors during the sesslons, These claims aro exaggerated so ns to afford, Incase of snedess, a lnrge margin for the componsa- tlon of the lobby. Congress should by a par- emptory law provide what clnsses of claims shoutd be allowed in anyevent. It should compel all claimants to go before the proper oflcers and the proper courts, and haye these euses determined ‘judicially and finally, ond no claim not gvproved by the finding, of a court should be heard or acted on by Con- gress, So with alt applleations for re- newal and oxtenston of patents, Tho Inw should provide in what crses and unter what elreumstances such claims shoull be allowed, ond no bil of that kind should be heard In Congress which lind not the judgment and finding of the proper tribunal established by uw for that purpose, ‘That thore aro claims before Congress appenling strongly to tho justice of tho Government and which should be allowed ig unquestionable; but they aro buried under the welght of thousands of fraudulent cases, which, offering large rewards in the event of suecess, ure able to support. a lobby to engl- eer and advance them, Congress should therefore get rid of the mass of special legislation with which {ts dockets are crowded, and remand all bust- ness of that kind to the adjudleation of proper Courts, where the Government can also be heard and protected, Tims Dublin Nation, which ts the chlef organ of the advanced Home-Rulers, ls not at all well pleased with tho program that the Lil- oral party hug Inid down for Irctand, Its prin- vipnl objection Is to the appointment of tho Hon, W. 1, Forster 6 Irleh Secretary, 0 post held undor tho Inst ‘Government by Mr. Low= ther, who made himself particularly disagrech- bio to thu National party by tho cool way In which he treated thoir cpmplaints of the in- justicoe of cortnin oftlcin} practices in thelr country, Tho post of Secretary for Ireland 16 yory important one, as regards the shaping of new luvs and tho ndminfatration of old ones; in fot, {ts inoumbent fs the parllamontary rep- resentative of tha Government upon all Irish questions. Now, tho Nation ossorta that Mr. Forstor has vory Ilttie sympathy for the aims of tho Irish people, as embodied in tho Homo-Rule party, and hls appointment indl- entes that that organization will have to practico in tho future, as it hus in tho past, tho poligy of obstruction, in order to gain any polnt it desires. As it looks now, tho issue is to bo rulsed much ‘sooner than any one had aup- posed. Tho Nation snys, in commenting upon a remark nttributed to the now Sceretary, that he Propoeed to oxtingnish obstruction: “Wo can promiso Mr, Forster nmpilo scope for all his powor in the next Parlinment. Let him, for ine stance, attempt to renow tho Coercion acts, which expired this year, and ho will be taught some of tho clementary lessons in connection wit bis offluc.”” Now, ats tt bnppens, if the news by cuble !s to be trusted, this is Just what Mr. Forster proposes to do, After a brief stuy In Dublin he hus returned to London, impressed with tho boller that {t 18 necoasury for tho ponce of Ireland that these nets should bo continned, and tho Daily Nota, a staunch Liboral newspaper, while regrotting the faot, uttirms that the Gov- ernmont will bo compelled to abldo by his de- glsion, If all these evil omens come truo, tho Hame-lulers will go into opposition to the Libs eruls and do muck to weiken and embarrass thom. —<———— A-‘Wasnivaton letter says of the present Dumoorntic do- nothing Congress: Congross 1s paralyzed, first through moral cow- ardico and second on account of the hateful vhuniyincas of Ita parliamontury methods, Elec- tricity Is good for paralysis, atid Congress noeds to be struck by Hyghining, by tho lghtuing of an Jndblrnant publig sentient awakened to a senyo of the crimlant lmpatiance of those citizens to whourtt bus delogited Inwemaking functions. Why, things hive come to such i pitas that Cons gress {4 ratbor dispused to congratulnte and ad- Tare {Isclf {Cit does nothing bit piss the wppro- printion Dilla; thia it calls 8 business session” ag If It was the moral ruiction of tho Federal Logisinture to act ns in kind of anditing mid roviaing comniittce to the heads of dopartmonts, whose duty wns done when tho cathoutes of | tho burew — olltecs were cut down some thousands of dollars, and: thon acecpted and the requialt uuthority given, to tho disbursing oillcers of tho Government to yay the bith. Afany finportint menses de- mind legislative actlon; and not one will Hot it, Membors inentioned as particularly deserving of consideration such mensures ais refunding, tavilt reform, tho Electoral count, inter-Stute commerde, und govern) contosted-clection cnsod, Lyenture to prodiot that not onoof thee Litsand no othor billof generat charactor und NaWonal “dnportanes, good, bad, ar inditerent, will ho Punsed ut this session, bo Its continuance fongor or shorter, Some inay pissy ono house and aume tho othor, but Emuke bold to prophesy thut not. one measure of thoac partionturl urged upon Congroas 8 of imperative importance will bo- coma a Inw this anmmor, . ——<—————$ Tue Democrats held a Conyention Inst weok In Wisconsin, Its twenty delogntcs go to Clnefunat! uninstructed, but are understund to bo olght for Tilden and twelve for Boymour, Tho Domocratlo tally now stands about as fol- lowss Conventions will bo hold this weck in Now Jorsoy, Virginia, California, and 3ilnnesata,— the two first Wednesday and tho inst named ‘Toursday, Theso States cloot sixty-two dulo- gates, —— er ELAteEp with the success of log-rolling the. nlue millloy River nod Hurbor bill, thot spend thrift Congressuien have ussigued Saturday us a ‘cloudy duy, but a'poem, 3t ls very special order tu put through some . aehemes for untiocosaary puiblie ware ty different scettons of tho United sintee et game lato get smull-alzed appropriation ee starters thon to keep on auditing to it ene until It runs up in tho millions, It ino try t “Robeson used to bulld ships of war,—nne, Plan port-hole, and thon bull round ite gpyeets no dotiut the acheme will Hitecced, ne the Geet Stufos has been staked off geographlomen nuitly altho “boys who can Ing elagy md publla buskdiug have been let In, mo gira ea a A CLEVELAND paper thus dos now iron-ore duck constructed at Tecra the Patong & Northwestern Ratlrond: y tld thirtyenine fect in hight surtace, and 24 fect tone, timer tio water imasdlye Uinbors, and bulte on ping ecetot standing in water whieh has n mixin (hues Of twenty foot. On olthor aldo wre Ta tee esd cuch of whiten wil eustaln out oP ek, Of ore, and coe elt it Vessel oF Front ong to tivo hoes ote toute In cars ru on 10 lock time, duinping tho oro Into ne sme eta, To provide | for tho —tremondong prvasuro of bushicas which call for nigree his and the old docks itty to be wravided tk cleotriu Tights. ‘Tho old docks hid enya handling ‘about 6,000 tons of ore per dee eee they, tygotlior with the new lock, ts ui aud ed, clit handle 15,000 tons per day. Twente hundred oro cant are ocenpted tn energy SS from the mines to the docks, nnd ao erage ee? demand far the movement. Of are at ee se is beltoved that theso. docks will bo ome qent thelr utmost cupaotty, “Here within tweneseq® years cnterprisy hne forced ‘n ‘commeres ang's creation of values of which any gee Union mijae indeed bo proud.) +f Ne" Of the a Tue best and ‘largest part of Soy Z i Jersey bas been latt waste by: fier Cranborry hogs to the valuo of $100,000 nro ie. stroyed, and the huckleberry crop lkewiee, whleh gave employment to over 2000 womer and ehitdron in tho summer season, Anothe Hom of tho lors Is thus noted: . The Hehtog villages and rportin iilonig tho count ave almost wholly depernt aeons tho sume in tho marshes, which Attracts vistors from tho citles in summers now tho marshes yell as tho woods aren binckolied wnslet net “dead birds and animals atrew tho ground’: tho thousnnd.” Tt will require twenty yorra te tho xrowth of treoa und vewetntion, ieeetnny slow in tint chilled atmosphere, to damuge of the last month, ! eee. Sepals te a ot tho Springfield (Muss.) Repubtican (Inds ‘Tilden ns 0 candidate would bo as to his own party as Grant would be eunnerond pubitean gartys and more go, Miden ip tho one Demoerntic nomince who would put Grnnt's election within the Ine of political possibitity; nothing olge can, Tho nomingtlon of This, would make the opon support af the Demoeratis tlekot by thoughtful Hepubdlicuns practically fmpoysible. AIL den's signal nbllity asa poe Titleal lender would nvall nothing agalnst the Diighting fact that under his candidacy tho Demooratle purty could make no eouverts, and receive no reinforcements, ‘Lhe moral odds of tho aiatalen weal bo agninxt the pnety, and very doubtful Stato in the North wo over to the Repuibitean column. na pes ‘Trunry years ago tho British consumption of Amertcun and foreign cheore was not quite one pound per enpita; to-day It ts nearly sx Pounda, Or 137,000,000 pounds fn tho Inst flscat yenr, us ngainat 121,000,000 pounds tho previous yeur, Imported from Atmerica. Jolin Bull drinks more ten, uses more sitgar and more wheat flour than ever before, Our choice grain-ferl steers are neknowledged by him tu be equal to tho best. domestic beef, far botter than the frozen, grass fed flesh of Austratinn enttle, Tho grent Atlane tle forrtos and our trunk lines to tho West have practicnlly, na fur as food supply Is concerned, annoxed the English shires to our Etepublle. $$. Democrat to anti-third-term Republican —Seo herve, my good Radical friend, you may ns well bo getting ready to oat crow. ‘The mae chine Is going to foree Grant and the old crowd down yourthront; rark my words." Repubtican—" Well, 1 shan't relish it inuchy ‘but it will bo somo satisfaction to see the Demy ernts who jeor ut us feeding on turkey bnzzanl, for Sum Tilden Is the eandidate you ‘reformers’ will have to swallow if Grant 1s nomlnated, anc don’t you forget It." . ———_—____— Tue efforts to secure steamship subsulles from this Congroas with only cease when Con gress expires. The House Committee on Poste ‘Onlices has just deoited to report, n Dill empars erlug contracts with steamers for carrying mails to tho West Indies, South Amerlea, and Chia and Jupan at a rate hot to oxeced $30 per mille, iurgregating some miliiona a year, With a pros: pect of finn ndjournmont noxt week, tho bill muy not be passed this session. a ‘Tie cotton crop of 1879 was 5,070,511 bales, It was tho Inrgest cotton erop ever gathered, boing moro than 260,000 bnies greater than that of 1878, and jnore than 200,000 bules Inger thin the thon unparalleled crop of 1860-'0, Itured to bo nn infalllblo articta of tho Demoerntle fulth that n negro would not work except In & stuto of slavery. Tho Democratic creed of twenty years ago Is blown to rigs and tatters, —aa, Ox of the most unmitigated swinlles ever aided by act of Congress was that which. fastencd the “Tico moter” ‘upon distittors, and Congressman Whitthorne recently Introduced A Dill to try $280,000 worth of the same or 606 othor patent moter humbug, —<—— Tuy relaying of the Chiengn & Prelfio Tatlrond—now a part of tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul—with stwol rails ty progressing rapld- ly, steol having atroady been substituted for fron for n distaneo of twelve miles from the Chicago cnd of tho road, 2 PERSONALS. Tho circuses and half-dollars In this coun try soem to balance very nicoly. An English paper says that Soldene, the singer, {8 coming to this country again. Barring hor mouth,—which resembles n freight depot with the front doors open,—Soldene Is a very pleasing young woman, * “Happy Man”—Yes, wa would recom mend you to take a wedding trip to Nias Falla, as tho roar of tho eaturact will propio you for what will occur aftor you aro com: fortably sottled and ma-in-law comes for a short visit of threo months, In Europe opera-bouffe singers and famous dancers think ita great bunor to appear before the crowned henda, Thoro aro no crowned heuda inthis country fur thom to appear be fore, but tho buld heads aro far more numer ons, and pay tholr way to the show, A London paper, referring to a recent evel ing entortalnmont, says: Nothing could a looked moro unique than Mr, Lanciry as EA Deans, She wore a simplo serge pettlooat ti Jacket of flowered print.” ‘This may be #0, dit H in point of uniqueness wa should bave belo monvy on Mr. Langtry in the aame rity is “Tho exodus of our cooks and honsemal is to Aniorica,” anys the London Netw, "18 lool : upon by many persons with alarm." Thee odus of our backmon and plumbers ohne Is viowed Ina similar light by tho people of be country, Wo shull have to pay for it when they return and go to work agnin, Firat-Itout. Jaines O'Tlara, of Saugettles N.Y, graduate of Woat Point, has Bees pointed Professor of Spanish nt that institutot. It bus boon known for somo timo that adese antof sume anoiont Castilian family wes 10 0 appointed to this position, but the selector . Mr. O'llara is 0 surprisa, na it was genceally & coiled that tho O'Rourkes or McSwynneys Wo secure the coveted honor, tion ‘The fact that Gov. Cullom's prociams! regurding Decoration-Day commonced anh’ roturn of tho beautiful spring with ite Wer of flowors reminds us—," caused must rut tolmagine nt first that tho hon of the boy had ihudvortontly sont ono of bia sche thot compositions to tho Publlo Printer, A Lat ‘all perusal of tho duoumont shows that right, but Shelby tid a narrow escupe- is Io A Burean County correspondent 190 formed that The Blue and the Gray”) a8 Boston girl's stovkinga hung out aes in pooplo baying been kuown to wats milled ‘order ta got around tho place where 3 waste road by an utuatour elocutiontat dt sit os oer ment given for the purpose of ralslus purchase Hoonses for friondless doxe in intl A selontific papor says that Dr. Sung! pure famous Bwedish iubthyulogist, bas US Cag nulng investizations in regard to the Tt, Huhorlos of that country, statistics of contained iu the State arebives from | : nlug of the fourtuuuth century, aud puloe has disvoverud that tho yicld fe deter! eee the occurrence of sun spots, tho bert ore and wolug with thom, If this theory et people wha Hive in countrics wher en obscured for a great part of the year he to bu thankful for,