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

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Iako front, oppostte Adains street, Whato exhi- bldon, 8 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1880, Tuc siguifieanco of the changes in the Federal offices nt Albany dnd Butfnlo ie that tho antl-Conklingites are to haya the aid of the Adininistration In tho Senatorial clection, It is folly to presume either that Gen, Gar- field bas been consulted on the subject, or that, if he were consulted, ho would Inyolya Inself In g politicnl squabble two months and a half before his thine. CAsEnoy, Ioyt, Quay, and all tho leaders of that wing of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, have united in support of Henry Ollver, of Pittsburg, for the United States Senatorship. Oliver Is a sort of part- ner of Caincron’s Inn manufacturing busl- ness In Plttsourg. He is a man .of somo prominence fn local politics, and has made a study of taxation and finance. But he would not bo nearly so worthy a representative of the State in the Senate ad Galusha A. Grow. ———— Srmrriva appeals are annually made to the lndies of Chicago ngainst the practice of offering wine or punch to visitors on New- Year's Day. But, in point of fact, that cus- ton has never prevailed extensively In this elty,—nt least not for many years, ‘hero are not in the whole City of Chicago six Jadles of any standing In society who Invite visitors to drink Intoxicating Nyuorson Now- Year's Day, The host, lf ho happens to bo at home, may-ask his Intimate friends Into the butler’s pantry, but that is a very ditfer- ent thing froin indiscriminate drinking. On the average In tho last three years 11¢ percent of tho deaths in the Province of Ontario, Cannda, have been due to pulmo nary consumption, ‘The percontagesof deaths from consumption In some of the most com- mon occupations lnst year were as follows: Farmera, 183g; luborers,. 1044; shoemakers, 1034; carpenters, 19!4; merchants, 24; sorv- ants, 80; tonchers, 873¢; bookurs and clerks, 40. No other country Inthe world makes a more terrible exhibit than Canada tn tho matter” of deaths from lung diseases, tho prevalence of which arodue not only to tho rigors of tho ctimate butto tho fact that a large proportion of tho inhabitants are not acelimated, + Ex-Senaton Iowz's Jotter on the Sen- atorial situation in Wisconsin fs not likely to have much influence on tho ennyass, ‘The taste of It fs questionable. Tho writermight truthfully havo sald what he las of Mr, Sawyer's merits without disparaging. Mr. Keyes, Tho ox-Senatur makes, it too plain that he has an old score to pay off, Ile does not quite forgive Koyes for defeating his rd- election two yeurs ngo, Yet hls defeat was duo more to his own Injudicions conduct, and especiatly to his extraoficia! utterances, than to the active Interference of any of his opponents, Mr, Iowe's experl- ence on that ocenslon should havo been a warning to him, Yet ho seems totnke pleas- ure in putting himself Inn worse light than before. Hu betrays the secrets of friendship aud Impeaches the Integrity of one he was formerly glad to claim ay among his most ine timate acquaintances, If any further Just! ficatlon were nveded for Mr, Howe's retire inent to private life this letter would furnish one, And this may bo sald without rofer- encoto the merits. of tho contest between Mr. Keyes and Mr, Sawyer, both of whom are good men, and elther of whom would bea fit representative of Wisconsin in the United States Senate, Ly 1875 the United States atood sixth In the Ust of countries from which purchases wera inade by the French, In 1879 Jt had Jeaped to tho first place, Jeading England, Belgium, and Germany by a large amount, ‘Pho ox-' ports from tho United States to France were $58,000,000 In 1875, anu: $143,000,000 In 1870, In tho same period French purchases from England deqlined from: §125,000,000 to §120,- 900,000. The French believe in the balance. of-trade theory as davoted!y as the majority of the peoplo of the United States do. The former haye found in thiy surprising in- crease of trada much occaston for alarm, espeefally ag it $s not counterbalanced by any addition to tha yolume of exports from France to the United States, ‘Tho valuo of American purcliases in France, Which was $53,000,000 111 1875, was only 855,° (000,000 in 1870, Jt fs sald that tno French now contemplate the levying of heavy tmport dutles on all American products. ‘Tho'enore buous tax fately put on petroleum was the be Bluntny of the new pulley, ven breadstutts vould bo taxed, as the Jute qarlit debate tn Parllament showed, but for the fact: that the Country has a pressing need of cheaw feud at present. But tt Is belleved that, unless amore friendly polley !s adopted by the United States toward France, the latter will take measures for vigorous retallution, extending in time even to tho partial interdiction of Aterican food-supulte ——_— : Ex-Sexaton Sanount, of California, has written a remarkable letter tothe Salt Lake Tritunc in defense of hls amendments to the Poland bul for the suppression of polygamy in tho Territories, ‘Mint bill, as passed by the House, gave plural wives a right to sue for divorce and n diviston of the property of tho husband, and took the franchise from the women of Utah, who nro now entitled to vote after ninety days? residence in the Ter- ritory, without having subseribed to tha oath of allegiance or being naturalized. Sargent caused both those provisions to be stricken outin tho Senate, ‘ho Gentile population of Utah have had a grudge against hin ever stuce. Mr. Sargent dufends himself by sny+ tug that polygamy is a religious institution, and that he hag never known persecution to be effective against a religion, But the very obvious answer to this argument ts that plural marringes are nota necessary part of tha Mormon religion, and if they wore !t wonld ben falth founded upon fist aud a Violation of the laws of all civilized untions, Mr, Sargent has fatted (o draw the tne be- tween the regitlation of domestle fnstitue tluns by law, and the attempt to control opinions by the site means. THE TRIAL OF PARNELL. Tho pending tal of Parnell ‘and his ns- Socintus justifies astatement and explanation of what they are to be tried for, MrT. DP. O'Connor, in the December number of the London Contemporary Review, gives a graphic but earnest statement of the pur poses for which tho Irish Land Leaguo was established and of its operations, Lefore entering upon this, however, it !s of tiuch Importance, especinily to the American render, to understand that almost all the news, or what is published a3 news, concern Ing Irish affairs, fs received fron London, and that the London Thnes has its hend- quarters In Iretand for the collectlon of Irish newsein the ofice of the Dublin Express, whose chief is the representative of the Lon- don Thnes, This Dubiln Express Is a most intolerant shect, and is devoted to Toryism and feudal Jandterdism. In violence and madness It isa British rival of what In this country may be remembered as the Okolona States. This {s the channel through which Engiand, and espectally this country, is Cur- nished with news from Ireland. ‘The London Tinea ts published some six hours earlier than the American papers, atid American correspondents In London tele graph from that paper every. morning the irish nows it recelyes the night before from tho Tory Dublin, Express office,. This nc- counts for the hostile tone of tha news, the lying reports of Inwlesa disturbances, and agrarian erlmes, Nothing is sald in behalf of the rights of the downtrodden Irish tenants, andthe utter poverty and misory of the masses under tho rack-rent vractices of tho English fandlords, ‘The purposes and actions of the Land League are misrepresentdd, and everything they do ts fulsified or distorted. The Amorican reader is led to believe that anarchy fa running riot, and the country elven over to rapine and murder, when fn foetit hua not inna hundred yenrs been so quiet and free from crime, ‘The Sand League has alinost put a stop to erime or Jaw-breaking, ‘To understand the objects and purposes of the Irish Land Lenghe of 1879 It $s necessary to recall events in the previous years of Irish famine, The Jatest previous period of famine was from 1846 to 1819, From the expericnee of those years the mon of 1870 knew whut to expeet under Nke elreumstances, and they took measures to prevent a repetition of the enlamities, In 1841 the population of Ireland was 8,175,184; counting by tho previ- ous rate of Increnge, this population in 1816 itist have been 8,760,000, and in 1851 should have been 9,000,000, In 185t, after four yeurs’ famine, It was In fact 6,652,085, The number of Inhabited houseg In 1S4 was 1,225,899; In 185t it was 1,046,223, ‘Che loss of population by denth ‘and by forced emigration was 2,500,000, Quoting from a great number of anthori- ties, the writer gives n description of. the frightful extent of deaths by starvation. One hundred and seventy-four persons dled In Cork work-house Jn one week; an In- spector of roads picked up 140 bodies on the roadside ina slngio town in Galway, fi 1817 the: Coroners considered [t useless to hold formal inquests In starvation eases; houses were frequently found with tho boules of whole familles dead; In one house tencorpses: werg found out of a family of eleven; in Roscommon sixty persons alive at nlght were found dead in the morning, and wero buried without coflius; out of a parish of 9,000 in- habitants 500 dled {n six months; dogs, his Ing no other food, fed on the dead badtes found In the ditches; auch was tho unlyersal” failure of the food crop that death from starvation was common While famino and death wore thus doing their terrlblu work aniong the people, what wero the feudal landlords doing? Of course mon whose crops hind failed to such an ex- tent as to leave tho Island without food could pay norent, In 1817, 70,000 farmers, equal to 300,000 persons, were evicted fram thefr farms, In 16i{9 Utero were 60,000 farm- ers’ evictions, and In tho four yenrs follow- {ng the famine, from 1849 to 1853, thore were 221,815 evictions! These wholesale evictions nearly depopulated many dlatricts, Ono dis- trict, which in 1811 contaiicd 2,200 families, ten years Inter had but 1,000. In 1817 grain was distratned for rent falllug duo in May following, Tho whole spirit-of the landlords was relentless and cruol, With fuw excoptions they gayono aid, and thoy seemed to sharo In the fecling expressed by one-of them when asked concerning the loss of population by death and by forced migration, ‘Delighted to get rid of them.” ‘Thoso who cnigrated fared but Jittlo better than. thoso who remained at home, From ISH to 1853 no less than 1,436,803 left tho island, ‘lhe ordjnary mortallty on shipboard rage from five in 1,000 to sixty, and at quar- anting from one to torty,—muaking 100 deaths on ® voyage, histend of six. Of the 80,738 who left In 1817 for Canada, 15,530 died on the voyago or fn hospital, A result of fam ine, pestilence, and landlord evictions during those years was a reduction of peasant cab- ing from 401,000 fy 1811 to 185,600 in 1851, Having given this pleture, of which we pre- sent a faint outline, of tho ravages of the famine yeurs and of the heathen brutality of the landlords ag 9 body during that period of terrible distress, Mr, O'Connor says: With thowe facts before thom, tho Land: Leaguora were cnutled to draw lhreo coyclu- sions: (Db 'Thut the failure of the potato crop in Ireland wag kely to lead tou faming, and that the proportions of 4 funine mnust in Treland bo gpiganitiog (=) that fuming wauld lend to equally: luutructive pestilence; and @) that the lunds lunie would toe navantago as the funilne on pest ct Wet OXtFOINO UssUS HON | thelr rights. Hs, + Potatocy are the maln food on which the irish. peasantry subsist, A fallure of that crop means starvatlon, because all else that can bo produced Js carted away by the agents to pay the rent, The League had before thom the oelal igures as to the product of thiserap, ‘fhe yleht of potatoes fn 1870 was T8) tones in 1877, only 1,757,875 long; in Wis 20,008 tons, and in 19 only und actual famiue was wt hand, The three sucecesive failures of tho food crop left no doubt that a famine was imml- nent. How far the Inndiords of 1877-80 were anl- mated by the same spirit ns those of 1847-49 fa shown by the records. Kvletton processes were sued ont: 1,260 in 1876, 1,823 in 1877, 1,749 In 1878, and 8,803 fn 1880, Eviction tn Ireland means starvation and death. Mr, Gladstone thus forcibly stated the conse quences of evletion in Ireland: Tho two bat! harvesta of 1877 and 1878 wore succeeded i 1879 by a harvest which in parts of Ireland wns tho vory worst kiown alice the great Trish farmine. " With theso bad harvests tho number of evictions Incrensed. In truth the act of Ged fn the fatlure of the crops hind replnced the Srish occupler in that condition in which he stood before the Land det, beonuse te was deprived of tls usual mean id had to contemplate eviction for non-payment of rent, and, a8 the consequence of eviction, starvation. 2213 no great exaggeration to say Uut fn coun. try where agricuttural pursuits nro the onty pursuits, aud where the menus of the paynterit of the rent aro entirely destroyed for tho tina by tho visitution of Providouce, tho oveupior mniy' regard the sentence of eviction ns coming very near to a aentenee of starvation. =. Whut ts tho grontest of nll loss to n min?’ To Jose his tinprovements is something, to lose his future pratlts is Sure es but what [s tho grentest fuss ton min? ‘To tose hia dally brend— to toro his mens of livelihood, ...°. Whon wo think olglous, it many bo loss of profit, but in fretand it is tho loas of Ilvelihood—tho right to vO, lle also referred to the number of eviction notices In 1880, and sald that this mennt that 16,000 persons woul be “ejected from their homes without hope and without remedy in the course of the present year,” Ilaving established the two propositions that (1) there was falr ground tu antictpate o famine in 1879, and (2) that the Inndlords would be rendy to take advantage thereof to evict thelr tenants, Mr, O'Connor stutes what the Land Lengue undertook todo. The first thing was to proyent a famine, and the next wns todeal with evictions, the Intter belng the inevitable sequel to distress, Io claims that a recurrence of the scenes of 117 was prevented by the agitation .by the Land League, All the meastres of good resulted from that agitation, In like manner the agitation arrested and prevented the work of evictions,—only 8,000 evictions in 1880, when there were 70,000 and 50,000 o year In tho former season of fanine, i. The great danger which the League had to contend against was that tho spirit of the farmers would be so broken by tho distress aud want that they would submit to what- ever steps the landiords might take, ‘Tenants under the pressure of dire want might go to the work-house, the cinigrant-ship, or the grave, as thelr fathers did. ‘The present raving of tho landlords, tho incessant out- pouring of calumny against the Land League, are alone suflicient evidences of- the success of the means adupted to prevent evictions. The principles of the agitation have beén that only a fair rent should be paid, and that no ona should take o farm from which an- other person lind been unjustly evicted; and the Leagno has recommended combination among tho tenants for self-protection. Tho prohibition of taking a farm/from which a tenant had been unjustly evicted was necessary becnuso of tho fatal fact in tho. Irish Iand: system that almost nll the people depend on the land for a living, there being no manufactures or commerce, and that competition for it is fleres and self-destruct- ive, Land worth only £400. year has, under this competition, been taken at £450! It was to put an end to this destructive competition at rufnous rates which induced’ the pro- hibluon of taking a farm froin which a ten- ant has been evicted that the landlord may rent It at far beyond Its value. * Mr. O'Connor very successfully disproves tho nssertion that the ngitation by the Land League hag been followed by an increase of crime, by a dininution of the ordluary offenses, and various stntements of specific acts of crusty nud brutality are shown to have been untrue, Upon the whole, the paper of Mr, O'Connor {s 1 very fair and temperate statement of the purposes and actions of the Land League, and for these acts these chiefs of the organi- zation are now to be tried. Of course no such proceedings could bo in- stituted for such offenses in this country, nor if tho same land system existed In En- gland could an agitation for its overthrow be suppressed without @ popular royolution, In England the land-owners are resident En- gllsimen; in Ireland the Jondlords ag a body are non-resident aliens, 1n England the ten- auts aro lessees, holding rights protected by Jaw and contract; In Ireland they are tenants- at-will, with no legal rights, and subject to eviction at any time by the Iand-owner. ‘The agitation in freland {!s peculfarly aggra- vating to the landlords, because it is eminent- ly peaceful, Tho combination ts for no illegal ‘or violent purpose, The ten- ants offer to pay on fnlr rent, and they pledge cach other to take no farm from which another tenant has been unjust- jy evicted. ‘The fidelity with which they ad- here to these pledges has prevented evic- tlons by taking away the ordinary result of such evictions, aud the ssue is directly pre- sented to tho landlords of n fair rent or no rent. For ndvising the people thus to com- bine for their own protection, the Jand being to them the only menng of malntaining an existence, Parnell and his associates are now on trial before the court in Dublin, Is thelr agitation for a criminal purpose? ‘To the result of that judicial Inveatigation the world will look with Interest, , se THE NEW CABLE STREET-RAILWAY, ‘Tho decision of tho South Stdo Street Rall- way Company to adopt the Casebolt method of locomotion, which has been so success- ful ln San Francisco during tho. past four years, promises to work a complete revolu- tion In the system of street travel in this city, and It !s.q Ittlo remarkable that It has not beon adoyged before this, ‘The details of the method have already been explained In ‘Pus Tununy at length, and its workings have been canvassed go thoroughly by tho man- agement of tho road that thoy have no hesita- tion In ndopting it, although it will Involyo an outiny of nt least $50,000 a mile for a singlo track, making the entire cost for their tracks In the South Division about $2,600,000, At tho rial of, repetition, wo niay briefly say that the new method {ts simuly an endless steal chain or cable, sunk in # trench, running round drums at the termini of the road, and driven by steam-power, operating upon a huge wheel which reyolyes the enable, loented imfdway on the course, For instance, if the termini of tha roqdt were Madison and ‘Tweuty-second streets the power would bo located at ‘Twelfth atreat, ‘Tho cars are provided with a grlp or clamp, which, by the nctlon of leyer, seizes tho cable, which thereby propels the ear, while it fs stopped by simply relaxing tho grip, and tho momentum of tho car can bo stopped, as now, by the operation of a brake, One car Js used for tho grip,.and one or two cara can be attached ns inthe ease of tho dummies now running to Wyde Park and Lake View.” As to tho success of the new plan thore hardly seems to be a doubt. pro- vided the dificuities In turning cornera and crossing other railroad tracks can be over- come and the danger of water freezing In the trench can be obyinted, 3{r, Holmes, however, hag plans for removing the first two of these dificulties, and the last can be over- como by providing eateh-basing which will draw off the water, and thoreby prevent its freezing. ‘The advantages are so numerous that thoy will occur to uny one upon a moment's re- flection, It will, Inthe first place, prove an Sumense saving In horsetlesh and tho wear and fear upon horses, which ts fearful, owlne tothe strain upon them bi starting so fre- quently and In taking such heavy louds around curves ag they are now obliged to haul, Steam faa tireless motive power and always ready, 1s not affected by epizobtle dls- eases, ineclemency of wenther, weight .of londs, or any Injury of any sort, provided ordinary cure is exercised, It will also, of course, obviate the necessity of emmloying so many men upon the road and in the sta bles, ‘The advantages, however, aro not all ujion the side of the railroad company, ‘The “public will equally share in them, Under this arrangement tho cars will not be crowded, for, with such powerful motor, the Company can put on any number of cars, and thus the crowding of platforms and aisles will benvelded, and every one will have asent. Their motion is very easy, and they cnn be stopped and started with perfect ense, and they ure absolutely safe. Thero will also be a deelded gatn in time, At press ent, ineluding stops, our cars make about four miles an hour, while under the new sys- tem they will make six, and can, whonever the emergency requires ft, make elght. Fortunately the plain Is not an experhinent. On the contrary, It lag been followed’ It has been on trinl with successtul results for four years in San Francisco, where It is operated under opposing’ difleuitics that do not exist here, for in that city the ears have to be hauled up very steep grades, sometines to altitudes 100 or 400 feet aboye the slarting polut, while here the ronds are perfectly level, There {t has veen such n sttecess that noone would think of starting 9 horserall- road, and there docs not seem to be any ren fon why it should not prove to be oven a still greater stic cess here, Jt is unquestionably amethol which will settle the system of metropolitan transportation. for a long the tocqme, and tho South Side Company de- serves credit for {ts enterprise In adopting It, CONGRESSIONAL. RULES, Gov. Pound, member of Congress from the Eighth Wisconsin District, indicated In his recent Interview with a reporter of ‘Tie Truuxk tho renl cause of the turbulence and inefleleiteygt the House of Representa: tives, Roferring to tho disgraceful seene be- tween Weaver and Sparks just before the hollday recess, he sald: It Js atrange that such shameful scenes do not oftener occur in the ferco purtisnn debutes that are beld on the floor of tho House of Rupresent- atives. Itig uot u dignitted body, It Is hardly deserving tho name of a purlumontary pody. A better und tnore appostt title would bo ‘an ui- parliamentary assemblage. Our wholu practico of trying to legislate is vicious and boisterous, rather than deliberative. Almost every debate ig out of order, and no attompt is made to con- ne spenkers to the real question before the Ifouse,. . . Therenre tworensous why the louse did not expel Weaver and Sparks.” Ag [ have dust been snying, the House itavif is ta binine for such riotous conduot, and In the second place It really hasn’t any dignity to preserve. There is not t State Legiatature unywhera that not proceed with more deceruin and deconcy than wodo, Our dobates nro often after the rough and-tuinble vattern, and the man with the loud- est voice mukes the best specebes, beenuse ho can bo heard above tho din and confusion that generally provait, Hesides, the business 18 80 comtnjtted now to tle control of tha Stunding: Committees of the House that members are often complied to proceed out of order, Untlt the presiding olllcer shall make somo sorious attempt to preserve order find enforce pariine imentury IARI AG, things will go on from bad to worse, and tho “bear-garden” -witl be tho epithet that will bo appiled to us, Gov, Pound's statement outtines, the true theory of Congressional Incompetence, ‘ho House fs n large body, aud would with difl- culty bo constrained to an orderly and busl- ness-like consideration of public business under tho most favorable clreumstances, Le dividual ambition, selfish partisan purposes, and section! influences are the rullug mo- tives of almostevery Congresstonal career, and thess Jenad to constunt conflicts. ‘Tho -fules of the House ard badly constituted to tho end of averting or controlling such con- filcts, The dvills of too much government fre nowhere more apparent tha’ In the Mougo of Representatives. ‘here are too many rules, decisions, and precedents, Searcely nny condition of the Honso is pos- stble which does not suggest some point of order, or,more properly speaking some point. of disorder, and-it is safe to say that more time is consumed in wrangling over such polnts than is devoted to ‘all the legislative projects together, The manunl and digest make up a formidable volume of several hundred pages, and itis a sealed book to the great majority of members, Probably ho man connected with Congress is ablo to disenthngle the knotty situations that are always coming up except Mr. Menry 1, Smith, tho Journal Clerk, Duta small num- ber of Congressmen «levote themselves al- most entirely to the study of the rules, not with tho Intention of facllitating tho public business, but in order to suggest complica- tlons and secure petty advantages in debate and procedure, ‘The result is an enduring hindranco to business, accompanted by ag- gravating and nagging Interruptions which ure provocative of bad tempor, If the now Apportionment shall Inereaso the memberstiip of tho House, ind shall not bo foltowed by any Jntelligent effort to simplify the methods for the transaction of legisintlve work, the popular branch of Congress will bo a ehnotle and uncontrollable body, more ike aimob than a parliamentary and deliberative as- semblage. ‘rhe recent effort in that direc- ton seems only to have resulted In Increased complications, , ‘The Cominittee of the Whole House is a fictlon which enables membors to indulge in almost unlicensed debate, A motion thatthe the House resolve Itself into tho Committea of tho Wholu has preeedenco over other propositions after the morning hour, which is devoted to n call of Committees for report- ing what they may have rendy, All bills for rajsing revonue or inking appropriations must. be considered first in this Committee of tho Whole, which Is nothing moro nor less than the House itself divested of all strict re- straint. It ts provided that ‘tho rules of proceeding In the House stini! bo observed in Committees of the Whole Nongse so Sar aa they may be applicable,” Asa matter of fact, they nro not regarded ag applicable to any effective degree, For Instance, it Is a rule of the House that “'n member shall con- fing hiinself to the question under debate and avold personality”; but it hag been held by repeated declsions that this rule fs not appll- cable, and that a membor ts not required in Conmilttes of the Wholo on tho state of the Union to confine ihneself to the question un- der debate, Moreover, ft Is the rolo that the Speaker shall enll soma member to hls chalr to preside over the Committee during {ts deliberations, andthe amateur Chatrman thus selected {s* usunlly unadapted to the Work of keeping tho House inorder, It fs easy to covalent under these conditions how personalicuniiicts are actually encour aged, and, while they rarely take tho shape of pugilistle encounters, nut 4 day passes In which there is not more or Jess oxchange of verlnoniotis words, ‘The whole system 1s artificial, and apparently designed to ald in the wasting of time and neglect of public Alfaira, ‘Tho Weaver-Sparks flurry was only Heensational manifestation of the personul and partisan squabble which goes on more or Jess all tha thag during a session of Congress, One of thy jnost urgent reforms needed tn the Amerivan system of government is tho Improvement of Congressional procedure. Decorum will only follow strletly defined and well reguluted methods for tho consideration of public business. If someof the Demo- crats who have recently endeavored to mako themselyes conspicuous by thelr new-born zéul for ClvilSerylee reform (since tholy party was defeated in the recent election) had turned thelr attention to properly dl- rected efforts for reducing Congresslonnl ehnos to an intelligent system they might have done the country vastly more service, Thecontradictions, complications, and fietlons: of Congressional procedure must be lnreely done away with before studious and phito- sophie consitoration and earnest, prompt, and practical disposal of public business can beaccured, Tho tno hns come, tuo, when a reduetion rather than an enlargement of Membership in the Mouse should bo the ain of reapportionment. Without these reforms, Congress wlll continue to have and to merit tho reputation of a" benr-garden.? . ns NATIONAL RAILWAY LEGISLATION. Judge Rengan, of Texas, who fs the leader tn Congress of the movement for proper Natlonal regulation of the Inter-State rall- Way commerce, is undoubtedly sincere and farnest in tho ideas he has to accomplish that purpose, and in the main his ideas are correct. But he seems to have an unrenson- able objection tothe creation of s National Railway Commission, whieh is an essential purtof the English machinery for the sub- ordinatfon of tho railroad corporations to the Interests of the public. It is probable that Judge Renan has acquired this’ prejudice from two elrcumstances—viz.2 (1) Beeause the ratlrond-men themselves have Indleated A preference for 6 Commission, in ense they cannot defeat altogcther the proposed legts- Jation to regulate Inter-State ratlway trafite; and (2) becnuge the. Wenderson Dil, whieh was reported by. the Commeree Commit- tee, provides for Commission without tho necessary and proper directions for pro- ceeding, and without adequate pennltics for enforcing the principles involved, But Judge Reagan ought to be aware that ono und the same law can establish a code for tha reguintion of railways and also.a conmis- ston to assist In carrying out tho provisions of that code, Ina recent Interview with a Washingion correspondent Judge Meagan admits that he {3 not frmilinr with tho Erie lish system, ant he will do well to study it. ‘The purpose of a commission 18 to afford 9 prompt remedy in every ense of extortion or discrimination, and throw upon the corpora. tluns the burden of appeal to tha courts, If he werd'to ndd this adjunct to the bill he hns proposed in Congress, and at tho ame time retain the wise provisions ho has put {nto it, ‘restricting tha powers of the corporations, requiring publicity, uni- formity, and reasonable permanency of rates, prohibiting discrimination against versons and localities, and punishing infractions of tho law by heavy fine and dam- ages, Ils mensure would be more complete and eflctent. ‘The Commission would not deprive the public of the privilege of making sueh Individual effort in the Courts to main- tain their rights under the Inw ag they might see fit to undertake; but the Commission, held down to the spirit and ternis of the rall- way code, could not yield to the Infltence of the corporations and betray the people, but would necessarily net asa powerful auxiilary In every struggle against injustice and ex- tortion on the part of thorntlroads, We fenr, however, that Judge Reagan’s Democratic collengues will not give the Inter-State com- merce question much chance during the re- mainder of their control, and that he will need to look to the next Congress for some detinit action, In any case, tho best bill that ean be devised will be to unite the Commis- sion feature of the Menderson bill and the Code feature of tho Rengan bill so (hat they inay work together, Tins new Canadian Paelilc charter gives tho syndleale outright 700 miles of rallway, ‘eosting the Domlnion $28,000,000; also a bonus of $25,000,000 more In cash ani 25,000,- 000 neres of selected Innds worth $75,000,000, innking a total of $128,000,000, nnd hands over the completed road, without Hen or mort- gage of any kind, to the Company, It ex- empts tha land-grant from taxation for twenty years, and the ronds, statlons, build- ings, and capital of the syndicate In per- petulty. It admits free of duty gil iron, steel, tles, and othor materia! used in the construction of tho road, It imposes no restriction’ on the Company in reapect to fares or frelghts., A disproportionate bonus {g awarded for the building of tho prairie section of tho rond, thereby offering an inducement to tho syndiente to build this portion and refuge to build the line across the mountains and bad lands for which com- paratively less Ja allowed, ‘The substdles aro enormous, ‘Those granted to the Union and Central Pacifle dwindle into Insignificance by comparison, cspeelally.as they are sup posed, by courtesy ut Ieast, to be secured by mortgage on the ronds, while the Canadian contractors, after they havo fulfilled their contracts, are to be sole ownors of the whole Mine, It would pay them to build it if they should not run n train of cars over it once a month afterwards, = Tue new law of Sonth Curolina relating tothe carrying of convente weapons adds one tothe usupl iat of such instrumonte, Soc, 1ia a8 follows; i ’ i Be ft enacted, ete... That any perso apistol, dirk, aaa aiuuirsence, metal ennobion ruzora, or other suintlar deadly weapon teually used for the tfletion of personal tijury,s conceulod avout big person ahall be guilty of na mixde- Meanor, And Upon conviction thereof before a court of competent jurisdiction slialt forfalt to tho county the wenpon go carriod concealed, anil be ned ina sum tot inore than $200, or fmpria- oned for not more than twelve monthe, or both, in tho discration of thy court, Itistrue,as avery burbor will toatify, that razors tro“ usunily used for tho jniliction of personul injury"; but whettor thoy are deudly wenponsor not deponis somewhat on clreum- atunces, They are ofton 20 in the Bouth, it is well known, aud the South Carolinn Logistuture muy have dono weil in Including them inthe law for tho speolal tenolit of the colored-populution. But fe will be diiticult in practice to deaide when: a razor is “a deadly weapon” and whon itis a legal Instrument of torture, The Charleston Newaaays: “Tho razor ian favorit weapon with the negroes, aud & more uNplousant Instrument to encounter In bostiio hands than yéhotgun or revolver." a A connesponpEnt of tho Council Blufls Nonpareil ingenuously replies to Try Cnicaco ‘Tribune's articlo on James Freeman Clarke's new tomperance movement fn Boston, There are plenty of such saloons in Towa na Sr, Clurke alvises, 60 tho correspondent says. ‘Thoy havo “lager beor, mnuale, coffee, rooms for smoking, and rending-rooms,”” ‘Thoy do not havo loutures and stereusvople views, but those might easily be provided, tf thoy wero called for, Tho corre- Bhondent ngroes ontirely with THe Tiruune thot such places, If opancd, would be surpristugly successful,—trom a pecuniary point of ylow; but ho would not ho willlng to trust tho educa tion of bis own sons to tho burkgppers, whether thoy shonld be icoturersor uot, Tho frony of the reply ia oxoollent, but itdavg uot cover the ground, Tho question has hoon slnply whether rooms in which luger-boce should be an tucl+ dent, inatend of the attraction, would not bo an improvement ou tho pot: honses now Hourlahing } on every corner, and have the olfect of rodus elng Intomperauce groatly, Certuinly, if thoy wera sunottionod by yood people, the intiuence thut might bo exerted through than woyh! be far moro boneliclal than that which ts ulregtad toward tho total suppression of all drioklogfand, tho appetites of tha peupla bosides, —— ex, Guant and Gon, Sherman sat near ench other at the Now England siinnor, but shore was a manifest want of cordiuthty bajweon, thom, They did not abgt or speuk to cach othor except inthe most formal way. Tt te evident that Ucn. Sherman's ylows on the subject of the Captalu-Generalship uro pot approved by the vx-President, Coxsut Eowann L. Hanen, at Buenos Ayres, dendg an Iuturcating report of the dis- coyory of coal ln Patagonia, Hoe adds an ex- huustive report on the uyriculturpl proenects uf tho Argeutine Republic, Tho Argentino lepub- Ho was inat yone congratulating {taclf upon tho fact that [thadatiast become an exporter of Dreadstiita, but for seme time i has been ape Parent that the whent-crop of the pnat harvest is very oonaldorably sbort, ‘This [8 oxplatned by tho piaguo of grasshoppers which devastated a lnrgo part of tho Province of Santa Fé, tho prin elpal wheat-producing acctlon of the country, Owtng to this deflolenoy the price bf brendstutts in the Buonos Ayres market bins already ad- vaticed todnisinl Agiecsand, until anothorerop can be matured, it will bo necessary todepend on, Iinportations tosupply tho honie demand. Constds erable tour bas already beonalilpped vvor thore froin Montovideo, and two or thrue cargovs of wheat have just arrived trom Chill, and moro Aronnnounced nson tho way, Informer years the United States Inrgely supplied that market with flour, anid it may be that the price will once more juatify the shipment of flour eargoes to Buenos Ayres. Acconiing to tho Inteat quotns tions the price of whunt in this market fs $280 (paper currency) per fanga of nine arrobas, equal to $9.14 wold per 225 pounds; and tho prico of tour {a $47 (papor currency) per neruba, equal to $1.60 por 25 pounds, or $6 wold por 100 pounds, ‘The duty on whoat iinperted Into tho Argentine Republic fs $1.60 gold per 100 kilograms, mid on flour it is 4 cents per kilogram. Ancelfort ts now bolug made in tho National Congress to re- peal those duties. a ’ Oxr of our Canadian Consuls reports that Canallan tnumigration to tho United States this year alinost amounts to an exodus, and tho nowspipers, which formerly devoted space to erftielstug, explatniug, or denying tho correct- ness of tho former reports upon tifa subject, havo generally fallen into Une, and thoy now ndnift the truth ns revealed by honest mntho- matles, The total number of emigrants from Cannda direct who crossed at Port Sarnia in acarch of homes in tho United States for tho year ending June 80, 1880, wos 46,059. Tho wall of prejudice which for mnny years seemed to hold the peeplo of Canads aloof from tho United Btates [s no. longer a prominent fenture; Unt disiike for the Yankee (ns Amerleansnre usually” formed fn Caunda), which was doubttess largely engendored by the Warof 1812, {snow principally contined to tho fow aged veterans of that war or their immedinte descendants, those whose eblldhood recollections carry them buek to tha stirring scones of that period, With thla class there appears to be still a lurking distike for everything American; but the young Canadian, with enlarged views and & better understhndtog: of the naturo of men, and whose introduction to tho United Stutes comes only through the friendly avenues of commerce, gradually loses Wwhoatover of dislike or tnimogity he may. hayo Inherited, ——— ‘Tre recent irrttatton displayed by Conk- ling, Houtwoll, and others about aspeceh by Senator Buyard comes Into when we consider that the following ja nn extract of a speech mide by Mr. Meck, of Kentueky, May 19, 1874, in the House of Representatives: It requires no argument to prove how utterly helpless these morchunts (Phelps, Dodge & Co. were in tho hands of such a paworeatiinuinted by such Incentives to fasten guilt upon them, Not one of these men could get a dottar If they did not get it aut of tholr, vice thus: all could reap a rich harvest if thoy vould by any means force thom to yield to thelr demunds, “The costsin Court, though nothe ing wis done, amounted to $815, Che share ot tho Distriet- Attorney In the €271,000 was over 85,40); that of the Collector, Naval Oniver, nd Burveyor was $21,000 coch, or $65,718 fn all Jayne got 265,718, which ho was to divide with the thief who stole thopaners. Gen, Butler wa: pald A largo fev out uf iis und tho thiet's portion by Jnyne. daw much Senater Coniling got as the Custom House officers toes not ap bear, ‘Chey failed to ayall themselves of our ine yitution or notification that we would gladly boar thom if they hud anything to suy, 80 that we were unable to prove achat {heir ‘ute Ure rangements with counsel were, With gueh an are ray of high officials nguinst the merehunts, what wis tn appeal to the Scerctury worth? Every villcer on whom he could rely for information was 'drectly and lurgely interested. in hav! tho highest penalty imposed, ing en AN ndvanced position on the responsi- bilities of tho manayara of Hfo-Insurance com- nantes was taken by Judge IughesIn tho United Stutes Cireult Court at Hichmond, Va. lust week, An insolvent company of that clty mado application for n Receiver to wind up the busl- ness, Upon the question whether or not tho Court would allow the Company to appoint tts own Reaciver, Judge Hughes said: Tthink that the mere failure of tho Insnranco compnny fs prima facile proof that its operations have beech cotiducted ina frauditent manner, and If the fajlure is not explained by some greut ensuilty, such as widexprend -pestilence, or a sudden tanelal convulsion or physteal cutanilty, L thin it per xo proof of fraud, Tisitt not pro- tond to say that {t creates tho: presumption of moral turpitude in tho manners of tho ‘Com- puny, but It cortuinly does of constructlye fraud. —that is to sny, of that fluancial imbeclilty, of reckleanesa or extravagance, or that gross ‘noy- ligencg which Is equivalent in ita consequoncos to fritid, und which a Court is bound to regard as constructive fraud. Judge Hughes then donted tha motion af tho Company to, appoint {te own Iecelvor, and aclected a Necelver ucceptabje to tho Court, not connected with the Interests of the Company or Mkely to whitewash its reckless managoment or ‘pervert ita assots. " rr Tum Boston Post man, ! After tho ‘Thea- tre," indulges in pensive rellectiona: ‘Tou doltura, Quite a umm to pay . For one who earns but four a day, For Just a stnglo eveulng's fun. At suoms ao, now the thing ta done. : ‘Three for the currluge, for you know Inever could tsk her to go With that swell itresa—tha shade gern, And train strung out a yurd or two dna plain horaueeare And eo nico - Sho looked, 1 do net grudge tha prico, ‘Threo more for eeuts—down ventre nislo And four rows buck —Just right for stylo. age ourtuin rosa, How time will pase Willa pruziti Aeiugh na opern-ginss, ‘Tho curtalu felt, Once more we stood Outside, and then tho thought of food Itself presented, Bho anid yes, Bho felt quite hungry. You enn gucsg ‘That whut wo ate, with just a ble OF rosy wine to sonsen ft, J st es Used up that other four. Tine sped. 2 took hor home, Good nixbt was said, pene to my own home came Latralghty Aud tere fat and meditate, Tho cnsh I bad four hora ago Jsgony. I'¥o naught for it to show, Have { rogrets for lt? Not one, “twas folly, but, by dovo, ‘twas fant a Tinsne are thro English dictionaries now in common, use,—Wobster's, Worcuster’s, and ichnrdson’s,—and it ja no small honor to Amor- Jeun scholars thit two of these huve been pro- duced on this aldo the Atlantic. But tha Ene #lish lexicographers on bath alies tho ocean havo been loft far behind by tholr rivals in other countrios, Tho fullowiny table shows tho num- bor of pngos in tha most cofebrated dictonaries in ihe world, aud tho space devoted Ju cach to tho letter A: , 5 * ba Whole number Pages devoted of payes. tw teller st, 10 Viulra (Port.), rin) Grluin Ger.) to if 1G Jt willboseon that Webster's work Ian puny: affalr In comparison with elthor of tho groat French dictionuriog, or tho. murvolous Portu- guose enterprise, or tho cnuormous unidortaking of the brothors Grimm, wha lop since paescd away, and hild tho good fartune to loave tholr task to compelont successors, <<< Tite Denver Tribuncbeing a ttle cramped for spaco was only able to print a skeleton of a Christmas cdttorlal; but tho rosuls wie very uvatifying to its readers, Tho whole subject was disposed of jn this paragraphs Tho Tritune hus hurdty space sulllclent this tnorning to devote to tho ordinary Chriatinns homily, but tt will briedy sugest an outline whien each ruader may uso in shaping bis own, editorial on tho subject, attorthigstyles Evolve ing —cycle—sear—Yily tide —rotruspect—| cunturiud — barbarism — progress ~~ enlightens Ment—good cheer—mersy—tradidonal—hollday: <toanks—good thdlnge—rejoloing — grutiiude— Lr et Paar ee oar EDA IR SH er fied Ruartentheeeyetiviy urchin~mory clyi> atlon~governuicnt—wivked—retribution, Tix Consular reports from Southeastern Iusgla show that the development of the lus. Wan potraloum reglons, nn tho Cusplun sencoust, has made very romurkublo progress sinco the year 1873, under the auéplcus of tho improved synteny of boring wolla, retina the all, storing itin fron tanks, trahsportation in rullway tank card and Irof tank steamers and by pipe, and that under tho Intluonce of those Autertenn {deus thls Jtuesian off bag become the pringlpal source of supply for ult southern and Juterloy Tussla, aud lenlready entering into competition with the American potroluum in Germuny, —<— AMERICAN cottons: aro slowly driving En- gilsh makes out of China, The reports from inerensed in tho snino timo from64,208 to 69,048 plecos, Ta nnothor place tho finports of Engiiats driila had fallen off 21,000 pieces and those of Amerlean drills gatned 12,000 piceer, At Newel wang tho difference tn Imports of sheetings was 60,00 pieces In favor of tho American, Tho higher-priced classes of Atnerican goods find a steadily tmproying market, tho Chineso having discovered, to thoir cost, that tho cheapest cate tousare infact tha denrest. Many of tho En- Bills makors haya oversized thofr goods In order to Juorenso tho selling value, 08 the fabrics are sold by welght inChina, ‘his Isan adulteration of tho worst kind. 3 ro Tur New York Nation, according to a Cambridge University paper, will either be aise ponded at tho closo of the present year or bo converted into a high-priced magnzine. Tho Unally newspnpors are forcing, by their compett= Aon, almost avery form of publication aside, ox- cept two or three Picture maraxines, whose lit» entry contents aro gonerally inferior ta nowspne por writing, Ultimately the peopie will have to choose between the Nbrary ond the nowspaper, ng there ts no middie ground to occupy, — Or Judze Woods, the newly -nppolnted Judgo of tho United States Supreme Court, tho Atlunta (Ga.) Constitution says: “In politles ho Js a stalwart Republican, but bis tegal attatne mentsure of tho Inrgests indeed, he may bo ranked amongtha great lawyors of the coune try. In his position na Ctrcult Judyo of tho United States be hn won the respect of tho Har, and his fitness will not be questioned by those who are best qualified to Judge of the naturo and extent of his professional roquiremonts,”” ———— Hexny Berar advocates flogging In every Btuto of the Union, ns well as by the Natlonnl Government, in place of imprisonment, Ne enys: There nro 12,000 crimiuats in our State Prisons, and 80,000 more in our jalle and ent tentlarles, of whom New York City alone sup. plies 65,000. Tho criminnt clusses cust 26,000,000 a yeur In New York, and thore !g one church to every 2,000 eilizens, aud a rum-shop to avery soventy-fva."” —<———_—$. GEN, SuERMAN ins favorably indorsed 4 petition of several subordinate . ofiicers to tho War Departinent prayqug for leglstntion by Con+ gress to guard against the restoration of ex- olticers to the earylee on ez-parte hourings. Tho General suys: “ No army officor {8 ever dismissed. until bo has had a fatr trial by his peers, A judgment approved by tho President should nuver bo reversed." Tho bearing of this on the Fitz Jotn Porter caso would seem to be sut+ fcluntly direct. —— Berntevens in Dr. Tauner’s euro for dys pepsin will plouso take notice that “a Journal ist out of employment” In New York has tris tho plan of cating but one meal dally, and poy> ing for hig sumptuous repnst but 10 cents, and reporta only tho happiest consequences, Other wontiemon who have reduced thoir food toon meala day for hygicnio reasons write to the New ‘York Post that thoy have derlved great bouefits trom abstinence. . Ari the Chinese lepers in San Franclseo hays beon transported, Tho city was searched, and only fourteen wore found. They wero ine duced to consent to return to China, and wera quietly shipped away beforo tholr friends ox countrymen knew of tho plnn. It was a good riddance. Leprosy never his been and never proyent it, an Amoricun disease. —— Jin. Woons, the “oratorieal miner of In- diana, 1s proposed for Doorkeoper of the Na~ tonal House of Representatives by soveral In+ dlina pnpers. Ho did hard and oeffactive work, for the Repyhlican party in tho oritical State, and, a8 he $8 thoroughly competent and honest, there would seom to be no reason why ba should Chefoo, Chinglang, Newchwang, Wu-flu, Hank= kow, and Kinktuo are all to the game elect. At one ‘place tho sule of English drillauad de- crogeng froin 1,67 pieces fn 1878 to 4,177 plucus in 187, while tho sale of American drills bud not have this, or a better office lf ho can got It ——— Ay attempt will bo made in tho Albany Legtatature at tho coming session to regulate eloyator churres at Buifulo by law, Tho mono oly at that point is oppressive. The Tilinols lay $s quoted ng 1 modol, aud precedent for whol) the Now York legislators hope to accompilsh. aan nets AN Irlah priest was addressing his flock on the dangers of {ntomporance, and concluded hit harunguo with thoso worda: “Drink, my obll« dron, makes you beat your wives, atarve yout fumilles, and shoot your landlords—aye, and miss thom tua!" ————— - Tin Sweet Singer of Michigan has bear hourd from at Montor in tho folluwing termss O mighty Garfield, thou dost fitlost ‘fhe sent which for thee people willest. Thy faure resouuily through alt the land, in/palace great und peanut-stand. A LARGE doposit of kaolin has, according to tho Nuw Orleans Demoorat, bean discovered ona farm near Bremond, Tex, It ts said to bo clay of excollent quullty, aud suitable for tho lucat porcelain ware. ————___. PERSONALS, Forney is troubled with “plutocracy” now. Why doesn't ho try raw onions for It? It Gen, Weaver will wipe the earth with Bpurks we shall boronfter hola the Greenback leader fa high respeot.-<tlclifson Champion (ep. Gustave Doré is working every night, and Fomothnes almost all night, on bis iustrationa of Shakepenro's plays, Some of the drawings arcsaid to be extrmordiuarily powerful. Ho thinks that * Coriolanus "Js tho poot’s inastorm pleeu. . Senator David Davis ts said to have voted regulurly with the Ropybjicuns durlug the pres- cnt session of Congress, 1t Is, to be hoped that ho will be given all tho cucouragement possible in hig offort to got tho Domocritio tusto out of hismouth, — « One of tho Austrian Prince Rudolpl’s woddlug gifts Is to bo tho marriage ring of Marla Theresa, It isto be preacnted to him by the cloister of Bt. Eljzaboth, at Kiayonfurt, to which it was bequeathed by tho grent Empress’ daughter, tho Archduchees Muriy Anna, Mr. Qsgood, tha Boston publisher, was asked at n dinnof by Aldrich, tho oot apd nov- list, how 10 per cent came to bo hit upon as tho remuneration for the poor author, Osgood replied gravely. that it ropresonted a happy compromise between tho broad-mindod Ilbur ality of publishora and the greed and rupacity of authors. : For Christmas decorations this year the oltizens of Phitadotphin uscd 15,000. trees, £00,000 yaris of Inurol and other wronths, and 1,000 bat -Tela of moss, costing in tho aggregate about $54,000, to sny nothing of vast torcs of holly and. dowers, The trees cama principally from Staind: and tho Isurol and moss from tho swampy of Now Jeravy, A Christmas scene at the telephone office in Manchester, N. fl.: Mr. Sluyton's ttle girl, & tot about 4 or 5 years old, ballooed Conucct Afr, Slayton's house with Santa Claus.” What? - Bald tho coufra) operator, 1s this Santa Clave?" eume over the mnglo wire, “No; this fs tho con- trul office,” was sont back, “ Hasn't Santa Claus wot a telephone?" was the anxlougs inquil from tho little. telephonor, "No; his Isn't pub, Jn yet.” “All rignt; good-by,” was tho final reaponee, coming in a very disappointed tone of yolco, and tho scone closed. Guribaldi says ino published lotter that tho emigrants from Italy to this country are, as f clnss, undesirable, both physically and moril- ly, ‘The causyof this ho tluds in tho fact that tho picked monof Italy are in the army, tha alyil serviced, and the religious orders. [Lika most swooping statements, thig goubtiess has many Imitations, Bfany Italian hnmigrants ure Induatrious eltizens; but {¢ is upfortunataly true that the ftullon colony In Now York City breeds an oxtruordinary share of wrotvhedncss and oriina, : ‘The helrs of thelr respective Graces, the Duko and Duchges of Bomorsot, are selling of tho’old clothosand tullet urticlogor their parents Jy a London auction-roo, and the pavers are ¢ od donl nmused to fod the deqg Duke's toothy prushes on ealo, “ Porhaps,”” gays tho Londos World, “(tla thought that thoro ave people wht hope to olyain a duent polish by tho acquisition of those brushes.” Hut L, J. Jennings seos tt the sale only another proof that the English no bility understands 4g Jittlo as the Frenoh nobles of "80 how near the day of Judgment is. TLouls Froéhette, tho Canadian poot recent ly crowned by thy French Acadeiny, bas signub Ized' bla first subsequent publichty by welcoming Sarah Bernhardt to Montreal ia un etfysive copy of vorses, suying ‘thut it would ba a mighty sbasng to a cominon blood if she were uot wele contod, any dceluring jo ber that the star abe ears sa beautifully on ber torchead ty still ought to ba, if good sanitary regulutionscan ,