Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1880, Page 4

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Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels, Afternoon und evening, Exposition Building. Lako front, opposita Adams atroct. Concort by Levy. Afternoon and 5 SOCIETY MEETINGS, CITICAGO, COMMANDERY, Ni Conclave SAturday evening, Ma} oat ae ee TURAM T. JACOBS, Recorder. T.—pecial ‘ah tad o'vlock, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1890. Siaxon Fanrst -was yesterday clectedt Prealdent of tho Italian Chamber of Doputics, but it 1s doubtful if he accepts, Two FARMERS wero suffocated i a wel noar E:l Dorndo, Kas. Thursday, One of the victims was trying to roxctic tho other, ee In ensa Grant ts nominated, Scerotary Bchurz threatens to resixn and advocate tha nomination of Bayara by the Democrats, —— Dr. Menvinne, of Peottne, in this Btate, shot and kille ‘ayoung merchant of that town ‘Thuraday night during n politiaul discusston, | SunxAtons Kellogg, Conkting, Blair, Brice, and Moar lett Washington last night fur Chi-+ cago. Senator Carpenter witl be here thia morit- ing. Tis Independent party in tho United Btates Senate will not engage in any legislitive work til uster the Chiengo Convention, He hos paired with Conkling. Ty a recent encounter between o regiment of Chilfan horse and Peruylon infantry the lntter wero badly worsted, thelr forco gut.to pieces, and many of thom made prisoner... Tue Blaine Club of Maine, numbering About 200, and tho Now Hampshire delogntion, willarrivo here this morning on a spocial ens. ‘Tho party will do good work for tho “ Plumod Knight.” a ‘Tire Ragstan Goverinent has decided to imposo tt protective tariff on agricultural impla- monta now ndniltted froe of duty, add to In- eretse the tarlif on those on which o duty is al- ready putd. DECORATION-DAY will be protty menorally observed throughout tho country to-day. Tho Senate and House of Represontutives! have ad- Journed, and the principal public offices will bo closed in honor of the duy. Dunine the rainstorm near Galveston, Tex., Thursday night,a family took rofuge iu a cave, and two little boys, mumbera thereof, were drowned, Their mothor and alster nore ruwly escaped the same fato. Ses Denis KrAnNey was relensed from the Ban Francisco House of Correction Jast evoniug, in obedlence to tho decision of tho California Bupreme Court. A harangue ot tho Sund-Lots to-morrow follows ns u matter of course. ee Tun Nevata Democratic Convention In- structed {ta delegation to Cincinnati for Tilden. ‘The individual choice of three delugates is the Sago of Grameroyt of two, ‘Thurman; while Judge Fietd has one backer In the delegation, «.- es ‘Tumery cases of malarial fever are re- ported amony tha students of Prinectan Co}- lego, Ono of tho students dled Tuvaday, and nuothor cut bla throat with a razor Thursday ate while delirious from the effocta of tho ever, | Nuwsraprr enterprise 1s not appreciated Ly tho Rugsiun Gavernmont. Ast. Poterabure Journal whlch {publighed the sentences on tho Nihilists before they appoared in the Ofictal Gazette has beon suspended for one wook fortha offense. ‘To arve an opportunity to those who could not participate in tho anti-Boss mectings at ‘Farwelt Huth and the Central Muslo-Hall Wednesday night, arrangements are bolug mado for a monster meoting at the baso-ball park next Monday evening. —_—_ ‘Tire boller of a sawmill at Toronto ex- ploded yesterday, completely wrooking the Atructuro, killing three men outright, niortally woundlag two, und serjously lyjuriug about five other persous. Tho onuge of tho explosion has not yet beon ascertained. ews Iris rumored in Ottawa that Prinog Leo- pold, aecompaniod by the Princess Loulso, will visit this elty Tuesday or Wodnesday of next week. Wo will baye so many celebritica hore on those days that even Hoyal porsounges will hot wttract much attentior Menry Tantin, who shot a watchman connected with tho Connectivut Stato-Prison, in Beptember, 1877, was hunged ut Hartford, yer terduy. Ifo axprossod sorruw for bts orime, and sald that ho hud no otention of killing hla yloe Hm, but that it was purely wecidental,, A Freiacie and passenger train on the Wilmington & Northern TWillroad collided near Heading, Pu, about @ o'clock ‘Thursday night, and eight yentlumen and four ladica were vory seriously Injurcd. Tho injuries of one of tho tien, It la feared, wit] CLEMENCEAU, ono of the most ultra-radl- cal mombers of the French Chamber of Depue tic, ebarply criticleed the Government for in+ torferipy with tho Communist demonstration in Turis lust Sunday, but tho action of the wuthorl- ‘Uca wus sustained by a vote of 800 to BL, See reny A DILL which permits dissenters from the Hpiscopalluu Courch tu bury thoir dead in tho English public comotorics was lutroduogd foto tho House of Cuminions yesterday, As tho lyvasurp baa the support of the Liberal pariy, wok CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SA'TURDAY, MAY It will undoubtedly become law very goon, and thus an absurd and ridiculous custom which hag becu permitted to provail too long will be ended, pa "Tyosras Epwauns, who killed his reputed wifo and child In Washington Connty, Arkansna, About a year and a half ago, was hanged yes- terday ot Ozark, in that Stuto. L. L. Ford, an- othor Arkansas murdoror, was also hanged yesterday at Marlow, Crittondon County, In that Btate. Puntre opinton in England favors an carly scttloment of the Fortuno Bay fishery quostion, Tho Manchester Guardian, ono of tho nblost of the provincial papers, has published a very cons ellintory artiola on the question, which may be considered as inspirod by tho Govcrumweut of Groat Britain. » ree A -SMESRENGER from the Congressional Li- brary presonted a draft at tho Trensury Depart- mont yastominy morning for $2,700. The monoy wns paid oyor, tho messenger Iuld it down on the teller’s desk and turned to pick up a pack- figo, when the monoy mysterigusly disappearod, Itisthought that the messefiger knows moro about the digappearance than he protonds. + Tus consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill took up seven hours of tho time of tho Houso yosterday, and it {s now In #0 complete a stato that @ voto will bo taken on its passage Monday morning. All efforts of the Ropubliern members to amend the bill as it came from the Committee woro dofental. Tho Democrats refused to ninke any concessions, Fortier developments in tha Christiancy dlyotoo ease do not redaund to the credit of tho aged Minister. I¢ is-alloged that charges of criminal intimacy with five differant porsons are now contemplated in case of failure to prove the ono specific charge made In tho pinnt- a's bill, The cross bill Mod Thursday charges that Chrietinncy spont considerably sums uf money in trying to get his young wife into sus- pleious and questionable society, so ns to ald in procuring a divorce ———— ‘Tne Canadinn movement to bring about o commorolal union betweon this country and Canada bos assunod considerable proportions nt- ready. A pormanent orgaulzation for the pur- pose has Leen formed in Montreal, and tho of+ ficcra ure inong the wealthiest and most re- apeoted of the French-Canadian population. An English branch will bo established during next wook. .Mr, Perrault, the orlginator af tho move~ mont, is indefatigable in workiog up public son- timont in favor of the union,.and proposes to estatiish branoh clubs in connection with tho project In every considcrable town in Lower Canada. ——_—_ A xosr disnstrous rain-atorm vistted pRrackett, Tox., yosterday and vontinued nillday, Tho rain came down in torrents, flooding the atreots so that towards evening the ground-floor of overy building In tho town was from five to eight feet under water. Houscs word swept away by the torrents, and in many of them were human boings. At lenst twenty persons aro known to havo porished inthe floods. Tho storm algo visited Culvest, and did serlous dumugo, It had notceased at the thne the latest tispatch was sontto this puper,and greatanxiety pre- valted In tho surrounding districts tor the anfoty of the townspeople and tho farmers dlong tho crecka aud rivers. Tim propositionot the United States Gov- A comiulttes of ono {rom each Congresstonal district (to bo selected by the delegates from among theinselves) to nominate six dete- ‘gatca-nt-larga and alternates; also to select two dolegates fram oach Congressional did- trict. Ifere was n clear ense of nn attempt for the first tine to take from cach district tts exclusive right to appoint its own dolegates. It 1s exactly the resolution proposed by Lo- gan in 1880, ow was it thon troated ? The record reads: ‘ Mr, Cook, of Ln Salle, movod to amend tho lost branch of the regofution su ag to road that the delegates from cach Comoreastonal district aclect (ion delegates to tha Baltimore Convention and two niternates, and one candidate for Elector of President and Vico-Presidentin each district, and report thoir names to the Conven> fon through fe Chairman of the equnty doles. ations, severally, Tihonmendmont wad aacopted by Mr, Seam- man, wid tho originul resolution ad amended adapted, Rach district therefor. nppointed Sts own delegates to the Baltimore Convention, and no ninn dared to dispute thotr right. In 1868 tho usual Committee on selecting delegates and Electors ‘at large’ was np- polnted, whose report’ was accepted. The saine Committes reported also tho list of del- egates appointed by theseveral Congressional districts, to whose appointment no man ever objected, In explanatian of the stx delesatas-at-large, it is necessary to state that Itinois at. that tho had an extra Representative in Congress, chosen’ by the State at Iarge, and not by a district, which added two to the four ‘stand- ing for Senators. In 1872 the netlon was precisely the samo ns In 1868, A. committeo reported n list of del- egates and Electors at large, and also re- ported the Iist of delegates appoluted by the st-yeral Congressional districts, each for :it- self, . In 1870, though there was a diviston in the Convention o# to Bluine and ant!-Blaina, the usual Committes on delegates and Electors at large reported the names of the delegates- at-lni ge, nud also the list of the delegutes ap- polnted by tho several Congresstonal dis- tricts, No man ventured to question tha right of the districts to appoint thelr own delogntes, scyornl of whom were antl- Biaine,, altho the Convention was over- whelmingly for Bisine,—not less than four to one; but in two or threo districts tho friends of Bristow predomingted, and their choles was respocted, ‘The record we take from the Springflold Grant paper is corrcot, oxcept so far as It suppresses tho fact that the several lists of district delegates repurted to the Convention were lists of delegates appointed by the sev- erat Congressionnt districts, ‘and were re ported merely for information and to goon record, . In the whole twenty-four years’ record there Is no instance of any vote being taken by the Convention for or against these dis- trict appointments, and tho reason was, that the appointment of the delegates by ench (listrict was accepted as final, absolute, ernment to pay $0,000 por your to the Uto In- diana on coudition that the tribe shall cedo tho Quanison country docs not scom to incet with tho approval of tho redsking, and 2 serious outbronk: on thelr partis ‘anticlpated, Gon, Mackenzio, with twenty compantes of soldiers, is about to establish a military post twenty-five tllos from Gunnison Clty so ng to bo in readi- ness for any, hostilg movemont Speculators have transgreased tha treaty righta of tho In- dians by working tho mines within their resor- vation even now whila the proposed treaty of transfor ntrnlta tho action of Con-- gress, and there appears to be ' some grounds for the discontent and impatience of tho sayvuges. Tho country is suid to nvound in mineral treasures, which tempt tho cupldity of the adventurous toBuch on extent that thoy not only brave the danger of an Indlan attack, but bet at doflunce the orders of Gon. Mackenzio in invading and working tn tho territory. 80 grout has this ndvonturous fover became that scyoral soldiers havo desorted to join in tho inlining on- torpriee. . Tir publie proceedings in the Whittaker ense ended yosterduy, and tho matter was taken under advisement by tho Court of Inquiry. Nocorder Senra summed up the case against ‘Whittaker, charging that bo was morblily sengl- tive on account of divappolnment in a love affair, and that knowing thut he could not pass the examination he mado up bis mind to play tho role of martyr, Tho Iecorder was rathor bevore on tho colured cadet, necusing him of cowaniico, stupidity, deceit, perjury, and fraud, nnd ended by demandjug that Whittaker bo tried by court-martial for conduct unbo- coming a cadet and 9 gentlemin, and for perjury. Tiout. Knight defended Whittaker, and ina masterly address ridiculed tho evidonce of tho exports, pointing out vari- ous contradictions In thelr testimony, and wont nud complete of itself, and beyond the juris- dictton of the Convention, Tho power of the Convention was limited to tho appointment of tho delegates and the Electors at large, Never In the history of the Stato lag any Convention of any party tolerated or por- iitted a motion that the Convention should Rppolnt delegates to represent Congressional districts; mueh less has it ever tolerated n motion to appolnt delegates to represent any Congressional dJstrigt after that district had already performed that duty. In the Convention of 1880, ench of tho nine- teen Congresslonal districts met separately, organized, aud appointed ita two delegatcs to represent that district at Chicago; ten of these districts appointed antl-third-term dele- yates; whereupon Boss Logan had a comn- inittee «appointed which reported twenty names of delegates to bo substituted by ‘the Convention for the: twenty delegates pre- viously appointed by the delegations to rop- resent the ten Congresstonal districts. ‘That crowulng act of outrageous Boss pol- itics, that rovolution {n the: practices and usages of tho Republican party of IMnols, that’corrupt and dishonest disfranchisement of the Republican voters of ton Couresatonal districts, was reserved for John A. Logan in 1880, The question befor the Nattonat Con- vention is, Shall the villainy stand and be- come a precedont of the party for the future, or shall {t be rejected and the popular will of the party be reapected ? DO TWO BAD TERMS DESERVE ANOTHER) Common prudence demands that the Re- ou to show that the mauuecr in which scraps of tho young man’s writlog wero obtained surrep- tttously from his trunk, tho gonoral anxioty evinced by the authorities nt West Point to ob- tain ns conviction, and the rathor dishonorablo way In which they sought to entrap him into folschood, was by no meanscreditable to thom, Ife aleo atgued on tho unreugonableness of a young man in the primo of life being sodespond- ents to blast his overy hope and his chanocs for an honorable career. y APPOINTMENT OF DELEGATES—Tige ILL1« * NOI RECORD. - * We publish this morning from the Spring- field Journal o statement of the action of the soveral Stata Conventions of Ulinols in the matter of appointing delegntes to the Na- tional Republican Conventions, It will be seen that the pmetica has been uniform in two respects: * 1, That the delegates Inthe State Con- vention from euch Congressional district hayo always appoluted the delegates to rep paute that district in tho National Conyen- tlon, 3, That no State Convention before tho lust ono attempted aven to take from the neveral dletricts this tight, or ever attempted to chunge the uppolntment of a delegate destgnatad by the Congresstonni districts, ‘The Republlegn party held Its first State Convention fn Tlinols In 1858, It adopted the rules und practices In tho matter of np- polntlng dulogutes which bad been In use by the Democratlo party In LMnols,—tha Re- Publican party. beth a union of old Denio- crate and Whigs, who followed the tme- honored usage of both partics {n this par- tleular, A ‘ a In 185, on motion of John Wentworth, the . following was adopted: Resolved, That:the dolegates in: attendance from the suveral Congresiounl districts bo ro- quested Co suggest tho name of one person fron euch Congrumiunil district for real dontia Hiector, and threo persons tor felegatea ig tho National Conyention to be held at Philadelphia A mt CAC] higrosslors a! djstrict, be eboulnted ny tho Chair to rooommurt publlcans who have been delegated to select the Presidontial candidate for their party shall forecast the nature of tha campaign that may be made agalnst such candidate as well as tho campaign that may be made in ils behalf, This consideration has nn ossen- tial bearing upon tho probability of success or defeat, In the event of Gen, Grant's nomination, the opposition to his electlon will not bo «lreeted merely against a third term per ae, though that objection will be urged with tell- ing forea, but {twill be based upon the record. of ils two previous terma, “Is there any promise that a third torm under Grant will bean improvement over the two: proylous terms ?”? fs the question which will confront thecountry, “Do two bad terms desorve nother?” tho voters will ask, \ No protest against n discussion of the blunders and scandals of Grant's Adminis- tration of eight years will avail at the preg- enttimg. ‘Tho fact that such 9 discussion eunnot bo avoided in case he be nominated is the vital polut In tho case. There ero plenty of men who feel themsclyes prepared to defend Grant personally agninst the charge of collusion. with the rascals that brought disgrage upon tho Natlon during his ocou- pany. of the Prosidential chatr. ,‘Thero may bo paliticluns in the Republican party who ure willing to Justify the conspleuous pollt- {eal events af Grant'y two tons, ‘hero ato advocates of a third term who approye of the prostitution of the Civil Service and long for a revivgl of the carnival of. spolls, in which the pnbile revenue, internal and extérnal, aay be plundered and divided: There are those who look forward with keen relish to the restoration of ‘tha old . crowd” and {ts train of dependents, But when all these men shall unite In ex« pitining, denying, defending, and apologizing for the events in Granv’a previous Adimints- trations that excited publlo indignation, and: hurled the Republican purty into. defeat, thejr campaign will nevertheless be defen- twosuch Electors and six de otlarye. odes for tho State for Tho reptesentation in tho Philadelphia Conyentiqn was. threo delegates for onch Congresjonal district and six from the State at large, © ss C The resolution recognized tho long-catab- Ustied practice in tho State, requested ench Congressional district to appolut its ‘own’ delugates, and then appointed 4 committe to report the numos of “the delegates-at- large.” ‘Tho delegates-atlargg;:wyero:“con- firmed, and the otheys wore recogntzod as appointed by thelr respective districts :. In 1860 & committee was appulnted, each district naming a member, to non inate, four: delugates “at large, with alteguates,”' to tho: Chicago Natlonul Convention, © ‘Lio nominge tlons by this Qonunittes wero caifirmad by” the Convention, It was also ordered “ that’ ‘the vartous Congreastonul dlutrigts, vrough! the proper persons, hand tn te’ tat of dfs- Crigt delegates selected by thom”. ‘These district delegates were recognized as vledtad, sive in character, They will be met with an ayalanohe of facta and charges on the one side, and on the other a popular disposition to avert » repetition of the scandals and rascailtles that blot the history of Goyern- ment In thts country betweon 1868 and 1874, A proper conception of tho dangars of such a campaign may be falrly drawn from tha fearful experlences of the Republican party In $874, when Grant's Administration vas In issue before the: pedple, The stronx clatin which Gen, Grant had upon the gratl- tude and affeetions of the. American people, allied. with’ the universal distrust in the exacutivo capactty of hs opponent ty 187), led tq hie reflection for a gevond term in sylte of tho errors of tha frst tor. But ithls reClection was secured upon the most sprafuse promises ‘that Gon. Grant's exverl- sence of four years in civil governmeng iad ‘opened ils eyés to the seltish and unwortly motives of certaln politicians who bad ‘attached theniselves to him, ond that Tu 1864 J. Y, Scainmon, af Chicago, moved | he ‘would In the future ayold the aay 2, PAGIN. X'TEEN mistakes ond = serapo off tho barna- eles that ‘liad atrayed. so formidable an opyoaltion to Dim within his party. ‘This promise was not realized. ‘The second term of Grant was characterized by far more and worsd public scandals than was his first term, ‘Thero was a spontaneous and unl- versal protest, and tho Republicans were ernshed fn defent nearly éverywhore in tho gencral election of 1874. A Republican .ma- Jority of 60 in the Natlonal House of Repre- sentattves was converted Into 1 Democratic majority of 100, ntl thd way was paved for revolutioniaing tho political control of tho Senate, . Notwithstanding theso ‘manifestattons of popitlar protest, thero wns still no improve- mont in tho affairs of tho Admintatration. Gen. Grant continued to show himself singu- Inrly indliferont to public condemnation, and slugutarly obtuse to the selfish ats of the rascals who surrounded him, The members of Iifs Cabinet who sought honestly and vig- orousty to purify the publle service and pun Ish the tnnlefactors either faund thomeelves embarrassed at cvery. point or were dls- missed. The men who disgraced the Ad- ministration wore -retalned till forced to resign or retire in tho faco of publie scan- dnl, and were then permitted to go with. ex- pressions of regrets Ono of the chief Issues of a campaign un- der Grant will be: If the proriise of {m- provement in 9 second term miscarried, what rensonnble hobe !s there for any botter condition of things In a third term? ‘This {s the ground the Democrats will take in combating Grant as n candidate for athirdterm, Can he be elected tn spite of thls powerful arraignment of his provious terms and the logical outlook for another? ‘The Chicago Convention must assuine the reaponsibility which this question involves if Grant be nominated, It fs 0 responsibility. that includes the life of the Republican party and the maintenance of Republican princi- plea, ‘To aysist in Grant's election, if he bo a candidate, the Republican leaders will agaln deny, explain, and promise, as they did in 1973. ‘Vo this course {t will bo replica that the people were decelyed in 18%, and attested their resentinent {1 1874, They will bo told that it wilt be nnudness to trust to the pledges of men who betrayed them first In dragging down the Government, and a second tlne in failing to give tho reform they had promised, It is not Grant’s personality that will attract a dangerous opposition. It is not the anti- third-term precedont alono that will em- barrasg his campalgn. [tis the popular ap- prehenston, which will bo incrensed and ine flamed by a vivid rovival of old abuses, that ono bad term and a second worse term naturally Tead ap to the superlative of do- merit and not to thatof merit, If the pcople, feeling they had been betrayed, condemned Grant’s Administration omphatically in 1874, fs the public memory so short and the public Judgment so fiekle ns to condone It this year? Is it wiso and prudent to hazard the experl- mont of appenting to the popular support under the weight of such abuses 15 thoso with which Gen. Grant’s civil administra- tlons nre associated, and with the dlscour- agement of universal defeat in 1874 under’ slinilar clroumstances, when the Republican party can be refleved of the danger by sclect- ing some other enndidate? ees THE DISFRANOHISED REPUBLIOANS, ‘The ten Congressional districts of Illinois which Jolu Logan has attempted: to -dis- franchise in the Chlengo Convention are th following, with the majorities given in 1876: eMajonitican District, Bee Dem. Tae BATT - eeene TL, oes e If its Ty. dd: Deduct Domocratio majority. Not Republican mnjority. 27,071 Now look at the whole vote In Mliinols in 1876, when the Republican party was united: Hayes anion: Mnyes ovor Ti Huyes aver all, rl freee Total majority over Tilden. etiory 4a mojority outal oe jee Logan asks the National Convention to ex- chido the delegates appointed by these ton Ulatricis and to’ admit:tha whole forty-two delegates appointed by tho nine districts which gave ‘Pilden over 8,000 inajority In 1870, and whieh will give him 20,000 majority in 1880..-Tinve thesa Congressional districts, which contain a Inree majority of the Re- publican yoters of the State, no right to bo represontdd in a Republican Conyentioh to nominate a candidate dependent on tholr votes to be elected ? ; 1 On this quostion of nduitting the delegates from those ten Congresalunal districts will depend at lenst 25,000 votes for or nuninst the enndidate nomlunted by meaus of thelr dis- fronchisement. Party allugianey fs not Mke- Jy to weigh heavily on men who haye been doprived of thelr represontation. . eee ALADAMA, E On tho same day that Logan fastened his gag on the Sprlugiteld Convention and rode rough-shou: over the will of ten Congres- sional districts, a similar scone ona smaller soale was being cuacted by the Grant faction In the Alabaina Conyention, whore the rights of one district were trampled upon, and the Republican principle of representation was subyerted, 1t will be remembered that, attor the ton districts had beon disfranchised, the folowing oxulting dispatch was sont to Alo- bamas , icaulved, That this Convention send greetings ta the Kepublionus of bama, now in Sinte Conyendon ut Sole, and luform thom that eles sends forty-two Grant delegutes to Chi- e . Acting on this hint, the third-termers at Belma proceeded to make it “solid? by the same process, Ex-Senator Willard Warner thus explains the cage In 8 leltor from Tecum- seh, Alu., May 25, published among the dis patches In yesterday's Trmune; , Tho caso of Gov. Smith ond Hivealt is oven Btrougur than that of the distranchlsod dlutrlots dn Minols, The custom in Shibama in our party haa altoaya been tu elect Nudgnul dolegates by ilse tricts, gomotinies by conventions, ncotiig fn the dletriot, and sometinod by or through delegates to Btaty Convoutions, and no fuatance has ever oc curred here where State Convention ussumed the right to cluuae delegates for tie districte. ‘Tho row cunt Stato Convention adinitted this custom and right by calling: Ai Uistrigtd for report of delus utes viceted. Thy Chifripan called on Gach clegaty ta come forward and pledge himself in the prevence of the Convention to abide by the inetruvtions, which all did'until my district was" Toauhed. = Goy, smith. uud myself hace been choses tts ckelegala at our district necting, every county being fully ropro- souted, Gon. Hurke, our dutogation, stated our actlon for tho sufarmation of the Convention, but denied the right of the Co vention to instruct or Interfere with our dela ates, I upawered the agll of the Chairman, saying that { was gind to answor any call of the Convention uaa matter of guurtesy, but utlorly dentud ita rlgbt to requieg pledges of me ar to question me us to my intended ution atChlouge, vlted the custom In Alubujua und tho action of three .sucaestive Republican Nuatlonal Cons ventiona, sud told them with omplusie that I should give thou no plédyo cacupt toda at Chicugo what P should thew and there think best for tho party nud the country. 1 Curthor stated that ju all Leald | alse spoky for Goy. Sinith, A. wart dhcussion followel, in which Lowls Be Parious, dry a Geant | deleguto-olvot, sustgiued my — position, farce bat the went on, and Goy, Smith and myself re voted out as un wol plefuctory, . . Whe Convention iprovoedual ty elout two dulegates, “ ono of whom, Mr. Whugham, tated been heaten in iret Convention, Tho unit rule was adopted, and may be turned te nlagua tho ine ventory, us 1 dovibt thor iw imusority of the aust-oloet are for Grant. Daan to-day nd- that four dfelrtet deleqajea, losides Gov, Vt Rolth and inyeel, have wlrendy dechled ta pee fuse oredoutiats Crom the Chairman of the State Convention, nud to xan an thelr dlatrict eredene fala, Cov. Bntth nnd inyaele wil be at Chiao to olvin our sents. and onr cases will ho tho frst to be enlled, and will open tp not onty the ques. ton uf tho right of State Conventions to darn aut delegates already ttuly elected by aiatricta and to Mil thelr ptaces, but the deetstan in our enses will bo likely to decide the nomination of Cen, Grants It will be seen that the Alabama ense raises tho preelsu question {nvolyed in’ tho [linets case, excopt ns to its magnitade, tt covering the rights uf one district while that of Ilinots covera ten out of ningteun Congressional dis- triets. ‘The Natlonal Convention, as the High Court of Appeals, inust settle the question, If the outrage committed in this State and Alabama be confirmed, tho National Conyon- tlou beromes by that act x consolidated body, aud ceases to bo representative of tha peo- plo tn thelr various Congresstounl districts, It wilt establish by such deetaton the doce tring of State-sovercignty and tramps on the fundamental principles ag well as tho prec: edents and usages of the Republican party. ‘This subversive, despotic work the Nationat Convention will not be guilty of unlvss tt de- sires to dig the grave of the party and bury it at Chicago, j ns Tits Republicans of Pennsylvania ara adopting the unit ruloin a way that Boss Caineron Ittle dreamt of when he forced his “rulo” upon the Harrisburg Convention. They are holding Conventions all over the Stata, instructing delegates to the Chicago Convention to vote. for the nomination of Diatne. We have already reported the action of Lancaster and other Republican strong- holds. ‘The great. County of Washington on Monday, at its regular Republican Conyon- tion, alopted a strong resolution of instruc- tlons to the delegates to Chicago from the Twenty-fourth District to vote for James G. Blaine, ‘The delegates from that district ara J. IL Uarrah and Jolin MeKinley, Grantites. Wo shall seo whom they will obey, the sovereigns or Boss Don. Some of tho “Instructed” —third-termurs . have grace- fully yletded to the vox popnll. Mr. W. A. Crlor, a delegate from the Eleventh District, who has -heretoforp boen classified ns. a “Grant man,” told our reporter yesterday that he must not be put down for Grant; that if he voted for Grant he would have to move out West, so intense was the fueling of his district against third-termism. Ho re- gards the unit rule ag all wrong, and will notoboy It, In the next district to his,—tho ‘Twalfth,—Aloxander Farnham, who has also been elagsed for Grant tn alt the -lists, 15, like Mr. Grier, for Washburne or Blaine, and not for Grant. Wo had previously reported nineteen of. the Pennsylvania delegation ns anti-Grant. ‘These two make’ it twanty-one, and the de elsive action of Lancaster County adds tivo more, The yote of that district on tho straight question wag for Blaine 8,107, to 8,706 for Grant, n majority of 4,461, Tun Albany Journal las prepared x table showlug approximately the result of 2 new ap Portionment of dulegates to tho Iepublican National Convention on the basis of tho party yoto. ‘Tho oatiinntes are made on the voto for whose Legislature appointed the dolegntes, In tho caso of that Stnto the vote of 1 lator eloc- tion 1s substituted, Tho table shows: (1) Tha number of delegates which each State sends to Chicngo;. 2) the’ number of Itcpublicun voters represented by.each dolegnto from the yarlous Btates; (@) tho ‘proposed nunnber for cach Stato if tho basis of representation wero to be tho number of Ropublitenn votes caat, aa follotrs: ' De.to "' Repre- Proposed States, Chicago. . sentation. «eleyates. oe aan wes Batacteado§vesaratSeay: ‘Tre attempt ofp fow of tha more desperate third-torm munagors to stent the Expoasttion Thuilding tor tholr movie * ratitiuntion” necting hua Loen properly defentod and rebuked, By all fecountathora wero somo lively confuronecs on this subject at tho Paliner House yestorday. Mr. 3. @. Asny, Preakiunt of the Board of Direotors of the Exposition Building, gavo tha toosenthu- sinstie Sonutor fron Ponusylvanin distinctly to undorstand that tho boum" meoting could uot. bobeldin-that bulldlng. There oun ‘be to dia- pute about tho morits of the cuge. The Exposl- ton Huilding was handed over to the Nutiouwl Committee for one spooific purpose, nnd this purpose wag not the manufacturing of bogus thind-term “enthusiasm, The sub-committea that assumes control of the building might with ‘ astmuoh ronson rent the bullding for a cirottsor a furnato minstrel shaw as fora third-torin meating. It ia undorstood that futr-mingod gupporters of Gen. Grant—{noludins suoh fron aa tho Hon, John O. Now, Mr. Jusso Spalding,. and. Gen, Btrong—bavo not at any timo bean in favor of using the building for a mvoting In tho intcrost of wny vandidute. dir. Now'n few days ayo ngsured two gentlemen who made a format de mand on bin for tho uso of tho duilding for an antl-Graut meeting that [¢ could not be had for any such purpose, and® added, voluntarily, that. it would not bo ranted althor for & Grant, or a ‘Washburne, or a Blaine, or any othor kind of a incotlay, prior to tho halding of the Convention, ‘Thia fixed tho position of Mr. Now, and oven tf ho were disposed, a he fa not, ta dlsorlminate tn | favor of bis own candidate, be could ndt now do so. It is cortain that any attumptto uso tho building, with wll Its decorations and novel ar- Tungomonts, for 4 partisan purpose, would meet witPan cnorgutig and effective protest fromu Jarge majority of the stookhalders and Direot- ora, Happily, tho mutter bas beon acttlad with- gut recoureo to strong moasures, but If thera had been need of any such they would havo been forthcoming, — # ‘The TriguNe {a mistaken In Wentitst tho statement made by Mr, Magon tn Myslo- Hall Wednesday night, avout Gen, Logan's record at the ontbrenk uf the War, with tho charge he bas so often refuted af having recruited: soldiers for tho Confuiuracy, , Mr. Muson sald nothing about Uuit polnt—Evsning Journal Tho Juurnal Is In crror, Tam Turunen has made no charge that Gen, Loygun recruttod sole divrs for (bo Jouthorn Confederacy; Itls Ezyp- tian Domovrate who make that allegation. ‘Tua TRipuNs has almply publishod what Mr, B. Mason hes publicly statud, and has intér- viewe! bim asto particulars, how, be cane to her Logan's disloyul spoech, when and where, and inde cuitorial referpnee thorota; but it has ot ehirged that ba, puvrulted soldiess for to Cupfederacy," nor dova fy, Myson. Lis Taius hae often dohlod, In: Gen. > Logan's behalf, the Egyptiun Dyumoeratio revrutiug allegation, und had diebelieved the, disloyul-speech part until it was attested by un varwitnese of tho high credibility of dir, Muson; and It-would be glad now to bellovg that ho was mistaken, Tus ‘Tawune fully concurs in what the Jpurnal says in regard to Gen. Logan's oxcellvnt and gallant ailltary record after be espoused tho Union Pres{dent in 1876, with the exception of Colorado, ‘| caugo, Ita prosent contention with Gen, Logan covers procisely the same grounds as tho tsguc made agalnst him by the Journal. In his overs reat to forced tho nomination of Gen, Grant for a third tarm down tho throats af n protesting majority of the peopls af Miyata, he hua cotn- Mitted A greut moral and politlerl wrong, and hos wounded Hepnbioaniam in tie house of its frionda, And Tin ‘Thun resista the con- Binmation of tho otttrage In Innguaga that dan bd comprehended by the dullest inindg. Tho Journal Itself has discovered that throwing WASILINGTON. Action in the House on the Sun. dry Civil Appropriation Bill. Rrass will not induco bins todosiat, and ta pelting | Senator Beck Tells tho Demo. him with stones, a Since Gon, Grant went out of office le has beon travoling abrond almost ‘continue ously, Whon he cime bono bo found n move- ment for his third clectlunt had heen started by the men who had been .tntimately nssocinted with him it his previous Adminlatrations. ‘Tho cordial re- evptton which the people gave him as tho Iead- ing eltizon of tho Hopublic may bave mislod him into the bellef that thoro was sumething Ike a untyersal demand for bis return 4 olpeat a but this impression must havo bee digsipatec cratic Party Wherein It Has Failed, ss ne Prosidont | Itoms in the River and Harbor Bit) —The Obristianoy Scandal, IN TID HOUSE, THK SUNDRY CIV, DILT, Bpeelat Dispatch to The Chteago Tribune, Waaixartox, D. 0,, May 28.—Tho Hons, fter a atormy session of goven hours, con. long since by tho popular opposition whioh hfs | gluded tho cousiderntion of tho Sundry Cty eandidnoy hns recoived, and especially Injtho Ro- | A pprypriation publican States, If he shall be nominated after Whole. and 1 adespernte struggic, andas a result Ingpart of fn fraudutont misrepresentation of lepubliean sentiment tt the Natlonal Convention, be ernnot itl in Comnilttea of tho moved tho previous question upon it, so thatthe vote will be taken the first ting Monday morning, ond then ad. full tofeci that hoowes the third opportunity for | Journed over Decoration-Day, Such progress runntug ts the Repubtican candidate to the vory | could not lave beon mde on the bill had two Adininistrations, and he will bo bound to .thosa mon by closer tiea than over before, Un- ‘mon who woro nearest to bim during bis frat | not Speaker Rnndall raleed and placed in the chair, as Chairman of the Committac of the Whole, Hunton, of Viralnin, n man lesa thoro is some striking evidence that tha | mare skilled in parliamentary methods splritof roform bns possessed * the old crowd," there is certainly reason to-predlot. that any future Administration under. Grant secured by these men will bo vory simttur to those whivl preceded ft. : ———_—_ ‘Tire Cinelnnatt Gazette fs an ardent Shor- man sheet, xnd haa lut Its xenl carry itso far 06 to throw cold water on Binine, ‘Tho editor says he fs receiving postal-cnrds and Iettors consur- Ing his paper for so doing, of which tho follow- ing Js given as 0 eninpla: Having leon © subscribor to and constant renter of the Datiy Qazette for the pst twenty: three years, J claim tho right to protest aginst tho course betur pursued by tho editor oF od- itors on tho Presidential question so far as It ro- intes to tho second choice pf the Republicans of Ohio, Asa business man 1 am brought into, datly and hourly contact with farmers, mechan fes, Inboriug men, na woll ua professional mon, and Teay toyou that James G. Blulno te the accond choice of OMn Republicans for President, 1 wit hazard tho oplnlon that, if a vote of Ohio Republicans could be obtained na botween Grant and Wiaine, it would result In favor of the latter by ten to ona. Anothor writer, who wns a delegate tothe frat Republican National Qonvention, says that, while he thinks that She@ian or Blaine would carry Oblo, he thinks Washburne would carry it by alarger majority, but that “Grant cannot scoura tho Republican vote of Ohio by 40,000.” pb icdlinbsanat CostmuNTING on tha high-handed outrage porpetrated by the Logan faction on tho peopla of ten Congresatonal districts of Ilinols, tho Cleveland Leader says: : ‘Tho cull forn National Convention tssued fe Don Caincron, as Chairman of tho Nutionnl Committee, says that “* Repithlicans, and all who wil codpernte with thom in supporting the nominees of tho purty, are inviled to choose tir deleyatea from cach Conyresatunal dfatrict ond four nt latge from ench State.” Tho Faunce of this en}! distinctly implies that the Republic- aus of cich Cougresstomil district aro to select two delegates to Chicugo to represent tholr dls- trlgt, ‘Thut botig the case, whore Is tho wround nastmed by Logun & Co. for ignoring tho ap- ointment of twenty anti-Grant delegutes nado In regular District Conventions, reprosouting the distinct wilLof tho Ropublicuns of thoso dle tricts? ‘This arbitrary gutting aside of thuse reguitrly-cleoted telogutes shows tho bight of folly ravehod by the maority of tho Springtiold Convontton. hoy seemed to have lost thoir heads completely In suppostug that the Ropub- Heans ‘wit! aft auictly xutmit to such ny out. rageous Intgoduction of a new machine mado for the purpose of gaintug control of tho entire Btate delegation to a National Convention. “Garis” pon slipped o Itttle the other day when ho roprosented a Wisconsin dolegate us saying that Grant's nomination would tin- pgelt the Republican State ticket this fall. Thero ig no State election in Wisconsin this your, and the fear expressed by the delegate must hive had roferenco tv tho elcution of Cangrosamen, ‘Tha Republicans hope to guin two Congressmen thore this fall,ong in tho Fourth {n placo of Douster, ond ono in tho Sixth in pluce of Gabo Bouck, if some popular mau fe nominated for ‘President. But’ buth those districts contains. very large German clement that will not sup- port Grant if Ho {s nominated, and tho Repubd- Heans fecl that both districts would return Domocrats incaso thoy aro hundicappod with tho third-term jnoubus. Ag it fy In Wisconsjn, go it ig in many of the doubtful districts in otber States. If Grant ts nominated here next week the hope that the Ropubtteans will. gain control of the House of Representatives next fall yan- isbes Into thin alr, a Senator Don Casmuon 1s now a flerea advocate af tha “unit rule,” Tho New York: 4.2ribune'’s Washington correspondent hus :been Joking up his rocora on tho subject, and telo- kmiphs us follows: ; : WaAsJUNGTON, May 25,—Tho allusions in tho Tribuic of to-day to the brouking of the “urtit rule” by tho present Senator Camoron und big friends Inthe National Convention of 188 hava ted to un examination of ita preveedings, Tt ap. pee Uat on the tirst bullot shore wore four Alling delegates frum Ponnyylvauta, on tho seoond efght,and on tho third twelvo, After the third ballot Gov, Curtin was withdrawn, and thy bolters were victorias. ‘ Tn the fico ‘of this record tho Sanatar would dowolt to cligy «down toa lower limb, where bo will bo in ‘lope; danger of being shaken off unllerGleteubair . ° ‘Thm thivt-term penny piper ts all torn up in, ita ining, because jt fears that the opponents of den, Grypt'aro not sound Republicans, What docs ft nyt this Het of third-tormers, all of thom ox-Democrata or Greeloy men In 18725 jlofin A, Logan, who (tr, Musou aye) ndviged his Juckson County frlunds to hold Culro for tha Sputh inde -s ' Stephen A, Douglas, born and bred a Dem- ocrat. . . . Fottor Pulmor, a life-long Democrat, J. H, MoViokor, n sod Democrat, Leonard Swett, who tried to uomlnate David Davis at Cinclountl iu 187: RY Ages ‘Wentworth, who wont to. Cinclonatl in ‘Josoph Chestorflala Maekia, omlnout Demo- erat of the First Ward, ‘The Chicago Zines, Domocratio organ. _——————— Mas. D. C. Fuston, of Wisconsin, who was nppoluted ono of the Managers of tho Bul- lors’ Honus tha thor day, 1s an ox-soldior and old nowapapor mun. Heserved in tho Union urmy, and durkig dnd after tho Hpbollion acted with tho Republican party, He quit voting as ho abot iu 1833,-when ho waa struck by the groat tilal-wave of Reform, und hos aluce been somo- what pronilnent In tho Domo-Greouback party of Wisconsin,’ Maj. Fulton ting nuyer filed any iinportaut office, tut has been gn ynguccesstul candidate for Congress and for Licutenant-Gov~ ernor, His tiustrious prodecossor in tho office to which Congross has now appointed him was tho Lrte Dr. E. B. Wolcott, of Milwaukeo, ono of the most eminent surgecns in the West, p te _ TLwenty-Ftvy years before the little News ‘was bora or tho J,-0, inventog, Tus Curcago, TuIvyNE belped to found the Republican party, Its sorvicea to that party duriag the wost trylag porlod of Sts exiatencu are known to all mon. It has sume battor rights tospeak for tho party thuu the barnacle writora that havo fastened on tho old organisation {a its prosperity, and would . be the first to drop away from It In dofeat, —<—————— Arnoros of tho Logau despotism tn Ililnols and tha dark ways of tho third-tarmorg.in, tho Springtleld Conyuntion, 18, the favorit expres: sion of Horace reel oy * Tf thiy bo not nak Sjlainy, where le tho Hy-louts"—Concord (N. 21, fonttor, es ‘The fy-leaf has Deon seat tothe machine-shop for repaira, .A PIULYATH loiter to the editor of the Reg- ater, from 6 iguding Rapublican of Tounosseo, says that Mr. Blaine will havo twoivo, and pore haps sixteen, of tho pouaxe tion. from thut State, The Blue Club at Wash! eto only cluim alx frum that Btale.—Juwe Slate Reyistor,, * . 1¢ 1g totorably cortain that Grant will not havo uioru than half of the ‘Tennessee dolegation on tho first or any othor ballot, —— Now tu. third-tormors plalntively say, Why, you dou’t. propose to throw aut the dole- gutosx-at-lurgo’ front IHnol¥y, do you? They think it wouJd be an uct of impiety or treason to lvavo Booutor Logun, Emory Storrs, Greou D, Raum, and Davo Littler ont fn tho cold. i ee Can ihe unit rulo'be applied in determin- ad whether the yuit rule ahall bo adgptod?, Whon that gueation Js presented te the Conven- tuon every delegate will voto according to ble own troo wil S i and much more anxious to hasten adjoumment than Blackburn's appointes had been, The contest over thy bill to-day was sharp and bitter, the Denio crate, of course, by power of numbers, care rying all political polnta,. The Western men had Influence enough to securo an increasg of the appropriation for surveying the publig Iands from $300,000 to £400,000. Selentifig survoys reoelved hard hits, and a proposition to give them an additional appropriation wes defeated, McGinnis, of Montana, charged that they were an Imposition on the Westen country in tho Interests of Jand-sharks and moneyed corporations; that the old systom was good ecnough—nand ft was adhered to, Scfenee had few friends in the Iouse toxlny, as the proposition to appropriate money to complete the topographical survey west of the 100th meridian snd to continue ethnological researches among tho North Auiorlean Indians were both defented, ‘THE CENSUS, Mr. Cox endenvored to have added to tho addittonal appropriation for the census an amendment which would avoid the necessity of posting exhibits of population by the enue merators, except nt tho request of five cli zens,on tho ground that this would save $140,000, Tho Republicans mindo earn: est objection to. It, ns not ono eltizen In inillion would — thivk of imuking this request, and it was too Jate to chang the law, :and the proposition wag defeatod, The Republicans feared that there ‘was something politica! in this proposl- . jon, sor ate ire KIND OF ANCHiVES, Although the Howse yesterday went Into the bysiness of purchusing a War history of dead Confederate suldiers, 1t. refused to-day to spend $10,000 to purcliass records of the Post-Oflice Department of the Confederacy, whieh it was claimed wight prevent the pay- peat of the Southern mall contrietors who have been knocking at the doors of Congress since the War. Tho poiut in belialf of this ‘purchase was that these recorils would show whether the contractora had really been viald by the Confederney, the Government already having proved in many arstanees that such. Js the fet. Reagan, Postmaster-General of the Confederacy, gave the historical information that tho books of hits departinent had been taken tu North Carotinn, and were there, he supposed, seized by the Federal forees. At leust, he knew nothing of their whereabouts, He had re cently seen 0 book purporting to be a record of that departinent, mutiinted and torn, but he had none of them. A Republican men: ber, ‘Thomas, of Iilinols, said that Congress ought not to allow ftself to be binckimalled yn party of scoundrels who are unlawfully holding from the Government what Is its own, nae La : PAY OF MANSIIALA : ‘The Democrats of the Appropriation Com mittua py papgeud an awendment appropriat- ing Sob for the payment of United States Marshals and tholr Genoral Deputies, except tur services of «the latter rendered 9 elections, | Of course the Democrats carrled thelr point, and the deticieney of United. States Marghols, whieh has been running for twe yery, fs to be pald, exeapt that special Dapul ea cngaged at elections will not be paid by the Democrats, ‘The Republicans made a fueble hut unavalling resistance. The House could do {ttle for seience, but it we Mberal tower Aig, employes. an mmuendinent appropriating $5,000 to. pay Hi the deceased olllciat the sistor f reporter of the House, was adopted, 8 was bua to yay Avie uilan $237 pe th loss of horses which jumped over a bridge al funeral of the Inte Beverly Douglass, ML C, AMENDMENTS ACTED UPOX, 70 the Weatern Assoctated Press, Wasmsaton, D.C, May 24—The House went into Conmilttes of the Wholo (Mr, Hur rig iu the chalr) on the Sundry Clyil Appro- priation bill, > Mr, Dunnelt moyed to inorense the appro priation for the survey of public lands from 300, 4 $400,000. Adopted—79 to 78. The Committee at this point rose, and Mr Cobb inoved tacancur In the Senate amends ments to inp Pension Deticluncy blll. Agreed fo. and the House again’ went ‘inte Commit, 00. Mr, Bragg move to strike out the pars grap Sppropriating $10,000 tu enublo the Postinaster-Ceneral to purchase the records of the Post-Oilics Departinent of the late Con federnta Hoverment touching 8 payment of antebellum inoil coutractors, Yesterday the douse hud decided to give the Secretary of War dixeretionuary, power to purchase cer taln private papers for tho purpose of cow pleting h higtory of tha Confederate Governe ment, ° To-day It went further and proposed. to authorize gumebody ‘to buy the records o that defunct concern. If thera were any such records In existence, THRY NKLONGRD TO Ti GOVERNMENT. Aftor some debate Br. Kelfer, protested nealnat paying for the recorily it they werd in the hands of mere speculators. He In aulred, of My, Reagan, ex-Postimnster (en eral'of the Confederate Government, if ha send fuforia the Housy in whose possesslva rage recoria were, Mr, Roagun stated that on the fall of Hiei mond all the arehives of the Post-Onlce J partment had been conveyed Inty North Cate oling, whore they werecaptured. Hs ett books and books of the Finance Bureau bh been sent to Augusta, Qa.. and had thero been turned over to, the Federal authorities. Tle had no information as to those books cept tint ono of then had been shown to fin within the fast month, but the name 0! i person In whose possession tt lind been hi not been disclosed to him. tion Mr, ‘Thomas sald the practical anest ss} was, whether the Government would allo itself to ba binckinalled out of $10,000, ‘The minendment was adopted and the pare agrph stricken out. ta Lr. Blonnt submitted an amendment ay Pp oprintings &40, 000 for: the pa viento a i shala and the! eral deputies, the services of fio Intter rendered at cleo th ‘Mr; Iiscocke moved to amend by striking “qgueral. Relocted 48 to 102. ‘ced to, th se Bnd report ay reed to, fhe miuiittes ra: Mr, out the exception, Rejected,—74 to 9. wal ig Hlount's amondment wus then agreed to withont divislon, louse, it. ‘The mat question was ordered an the b! and anionuimentsy and thon tho matter weut {yricks, fr. Conger muyeu to atrike out the After soveral minor amendments Lis] |) Over, . —— THE SENATE. TRUTHFUL BECK, Epecial Dispates to The CAtzaga Tribune “Waagninoroy, D, 0., May 2.——Phe pr ne . pal Jucldout {u the Senate was a tariff baie sion on the Eaton Comisslon bill, in w? a Bock, of Kentucky, bewalled the present a tem. His speech will not boo very 8 Democratic campalgn document, asitehar in the Democracy wlth utter Incompatenc? the management of economical ques' ia 4 and with having violated the tarlit pl ei that It had made to tho people. ‘The free! ff plankat tho &t, Louis platform was alia ,coutrasted with the fact that the Denver - ‘annjority In the Uouse had elected a prety: ‘tlontst Bpealcur, Randall was charged having constructed the Tarlif Counltie opposition to the St, Louls plutforun .