Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1880, Page 4

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YT CHICAGO THINEDE has ostablisted branch offices for the recolpt of subscripons and advertises nta ns follows: WY YORK--Room 9 Tribune Bullding. F.T.MC- HEN, Manazor. GULASUOW, Scattund—All Agence, 31 Rentleldest, LUNSON, Enu—Amortean Exchanye, 49 Strand, MbNnty FB, Gn WASHING ‘s American News Mandolph street, Letween Cinrk und Lagaile. En+ gazoment uf Jarrett und Itice's company. "Fun on the Bristol” + Grand Opera-Honse. Clark streot, opposlt nuw Court-House. Engnzes ment of H.C, Jarrett, ‘The opera of “Cinderella.” Afterugen and evening. MeVicker’s Theatre, Maillzon street, betweon Stato and Dearborn. Engugement of Merrmann. Itaverty's Theatre. Penrtorn street, corner of Monrow. Engagemont of Rico's combination. “The Now Evangoling.” Olymple Theatre. Clork’street, betweon Luke and Inndolph, Engage went of Milton Nobles, “The Puoontx.”” ‘New Academy of Muste, Hateted strevt, neur Madison, Wont Sida, Knaaze- ment of C. W, Barry. “Eacaped from Sing Sing.” Central Muste att. Corner of Itundulph und Stage streets, The Troupe of 'T'ralyed Horses, Exposition Bultding. Lake front, upposlte Adana street. Uitlun. Whale exil- eT ' SOCILTY MEELINGS. TOME LODGE, NO, 60% F. AND A. M-Roguinr Connunication Friday evening, Dee. ti at their hall, Hitand LA renty-seurndiat,, Steiabers ore requent= td touttend. Via . e 1B. PAINE, W. Bl. INO, Je LD. WESTERVELT, Secretary, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1880. A previovs question in the City Council: “ Where Is Col, Scott's ofllee?” ‘Tre concern uf the Bourbon newspapers in the South for the welfare.of the negroes in Kansas is truly touching, If they were hatf as nauxious about the happiness of tho negroes in Alabama, Mississippl, and Loul- sina there would be no exodus to complain of. i One of the shost surprising hustances of oficial ignorance Is that displayed byso many Aldermen os to the merlis of vacating La Salle strect, fram Jackson to Van: Buren, "They know so lttle about it that some of them do not reeall exactly where the block Is, and wil really have to yisit the locality before deciding, Dt : =a Broosixoron viewspapers port that Seuntor David Davis would be gind tu exchange hia large char in the Senate for Astlil larger atid softer one on the Supreme Bench. No doubt he woulit, But it ts a grave questlon whether the Republican party in offering an exchange would not be paying too high a price for a vote in tho Senate, especially a3, from present Indications, that vote will not be needed for a majority, —_—_—_ By tho terms of tho contrnet Col. Scott agrees that In consideration of $40,000 lo will donate the new site for the Board of ‘Trade, bullding and have La Salle street vacated. ‘The question is so new, and the Aldermenare so poorly posted, that It 1s likely the argu nents necessary to convince them will con- sume all ho getsfor island. It requires hard Jogie to convince Chicago Aldermen, A Chi- engo Alderman on. an ‘fimportant question must be fully satisfied before he gives an ir reyacable yot Tne West Side Aldermen will of course taku an absorbing Interest inthe matter of vacating La Salle street. No question of equal Importance to them has arisen during tho year. Col. Scott will find none of them Indifferent when he asks for thelr votes. Ho may find that La Salle strect, from Jackson to Van Buren, is ngreat thoroughfare, by which the West Side Aldermen reach the City-Hull and thely places of business, and therefore not to be surrendered hastily or without proper consideration, ‘Tun fondness af ¥ pringer and some other Democratic statesmen for minority representation has been very recently «te veloped, ‘Thoy desire to esrry the principle now to the oxtunt of representing the mi- norlty on the Supreme Beneh, But there are some places where ininority representa. tion will not apply, Wherever an absolute wrong and an absolute right are Involved, there can bo no majority representation with the consent of the minority. ‘There will bo no niluority representation In Heaven, ‘Srene is nothing Iunmoral about a reale estate option. It eannot make rents higher, or (nerense or diminish the aggregnte wealth ofa community, It merely enables one per- son, under certain elreumstances, to enjoy the protit which another person would have had. ‘The right to purchase camiot mako the thing to be purchased dearer, “These aro plaln propositions, yet the opponents of the plan for the removal of the Bourd of ‘Trade have great trouble In understanding them, ‘She lozithnney of the plan hus nothing to do with tho real-estate options on adjacent prop- erty. ‘The only question to be decided was: whothar tha proposed site wus suitable, ‘Che Board decided by an overwhelming yotu that It was, ‘Phat ends the debate for the present, 80 far as tho Board of Trade Is concerned, ANcecentric jury at Fargo, Dukota, has acquitted John L. Mtoberts, who was charged with tampering with weights belonging to the United States, at Standing Rock Agency. One witness, u machtuist, testified that Lob- erts had approavhed him on the subject of fixing the scales, aud that he sald it would be Iinpossible to do so, but that the welghts nizht be bored. Another witness, asaddler, swore that Roberts brought the welghts to his shop, and In his presence bored holes hu thon. ‘Lhe holes were plugged with cork, and. the welghts afterwards treated toa coat of black palnt, Other witnesses saw the weights in Itoberts’ bugey, and Lieut. Chubb, the In- spector of Indian supplies, discovered tho fraud after welghing twenty hend of cattle by means of them, Inthe face of the testi- mony, whieh was all one way, the Jury found a yerdict of not guilty, and weakly pretended to helleve that the nillltary people at Stand- Ing Rock had formed a conspiracy to crush tho Indinn Agent. ees : Mn. Warrensoy, in the CourterJournal, advocates the appolntment of Democrats to the Supreme Benehi for tha reason that It 1s “tho business of the Court to seo that all Jaws are In nevord with the principles of the Constitution.” Precisely. Aud that ts why fn Presitent elected by the Republican party should never appoint to the Suprema Bench anybody who constries the Constitution In the Democratic way, Lf the Prosttent, hav- ing the power to do so, ahould imake the Su- preme Court three-quarters Republican and oneqtarter Democratic, te would in effect proclalta that the prineiples of his party were three-quarters right and one-quarter wrong. Mr. Watterson must know that a party can never compromise on Its fundamental prinel- ciples and survive. Ib must stand by what 6 believes to be right, or fall with it, Mit. Beate ts supposed by some persons wntriendly:to him to be deeply afliieted by by the refusal of certaln eminent Repnbiteans to apenk to him, But we haye not heard that he was suifering for want of socioty. Thereareon a low estimate fifty milllons of people in thls eauntry (exelusive of In- dinns not taxed) who would be happy to spenk to Mr. Blaine if they had the ehnnee, The plan of crushing an opponent by not speaking to him is a new thing tn polities, It was Invented by tho junior Senator from New York. Ho has applied it auceesaively to Senators Lamar, Bayard, Beek, and Blaine; and, so far as beard from, not one of these gentlemen has ednsented to beerushed. Gen. Grant and Gen, Sherman have tried iton ench other, amt Gen. Ian eock once tried It on Gen, Grant, but all are sul living and flourishing. Jossibly Gen, Grant's avowed determination to try it on Mr. Blatne will net have any more serlous vonsequences, Ix tho absence of sufllcient ore In Nevada to keep all the mining stocks booming hn tha iarket, certain Ingenious eltizens of that Commonwenlth have Int upon the happy plan of “salting” the mines. A short thine azo there was ndeal In Lady Byron. The dia- mond drill struck magnificent ore. ‘Tho stock, which had been seliing at 80 cents, rose to $5, First-holders disposed of It nt this rote. ‘Then it was discovered that the rich ore had come originally from the Con- solidated Virgin. Lady Byron filled up with water, aud ts now a superior well, The stocks fs down nzaln to WX ecents per share of $100, ‘The stock of the Alta Mine has more recently been through the same experience, An alleged “strike” gent tho stock from $2.75 to $20, Better knowledge of the facts brought it down again to $4.50, and the mine Js full of water. The editor of the Virginia City Enterpriac was apparently badly taken In by the deal. Hewroteof it: “Asitlooks now the Alta job is the most iniserable, low-down steal the Comstock has ever known,’ Ile advised the shooting of somebody, and des- ignated the Cook brothers by name as good marks for any sportsinan. But there was to be aslight difference of opinion on that sub- ject, for the next day the Enterprise con- tutned the following card: ‘The Ronrd of Trustees of this Journnl stata most emphitleally that tho series of editorinis iu yesterday's Enterprise denouncing tho mun: agement of the Alta and Standurd Stines, and connecting tho names of Mesars. Seth and Daniel Cook, or any other xentiaman, therewith, was entirely ungutborized, and published without the knowledge or consent of the Hourd, and is, by it hereby utterly repudiuted. So the editor of the Enterprise, beside being cleaned ont by the “deal,” has lost a situation In an uncommonly cold winter. :» THE RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE, ‘The Iniluences which are said to surround the New York Tribune would naturally lead that journal to antagonize the Congresslonal movement for the regulation of tho inter- Stato railways, which are beyond the control of any State Jaws, It is. not surprising, therefore, that n recent urticle In. that New York paper should misrepresent the matter in part, and In part draw false inferences from the rallrond statistics at hand. ‘To be- xin with, the status of the proposed legisla- tlon In Congress Is not correctly stated, It is not true that the Committes on Commerce has not been able to agres upon any mens. ure, ‘Tho Committee reported what is known as tho Henderson biti at the Inst session, and Mr. Reagan, of Texns, proposed a substitute, in which the provision fora Natlonal Ralt- way Commission Is omitted, but a more com- viete code and more adequate penalties for violations thereof aro proposed. ‘Tho most advisable solution of .the problein would probably lie in a combination of tha two systems, whereby’ both the Natlonal Commission provided in ono bil and tho legal requirements and penalties of the other should bo retained. It may be that tho Democratic majority In Congress will not be able to ngree upon m& measure and make room for its adoption at the present session, Ifitdo not, it will only add to its mistakes and confirin the public impression now pre- Xalling that the Democrats are not competent far public affalrs, Axlde from this misstatement of the ense tho Now York “v-Uwte is rather intentional- ly than fgnorantly in the wrong when it tukes the position (1) that the railroads have voluntarily made nll the concessions to the public during the past few yenrs that could have been forced from them under any sys tem of National regulation; (2) that National legislation on thid subject cannot be adopted without conflicting with Stute legislation; and (3) that the State legislation heretofore adopted hins proved to be ineffectual, Every one of theso points may be successfully con- troverted by the facts, 1, The Tribune quotes tho following table to show the Increased business and decreased rates on two ‘of tho Enstern ‘lines, The figures In the second column purport to give La relative charges in cents per ton per mille; N, ¥, OENTRALs EAR. Tony,t nille| Cts || Tona,t mile] Cts, "fed 80, 000 1,408 210,030,001] 1.5% 46) 11,007,420, 000) LL TOW Te QE 209 00,7071, Admitting these figures to be correct, it is ridfeulous to malntulny that the New York Central has votuntarity reduced {ts rate from 1,57 cents to 87 cent per ton per mile: between 1873 and 1880, The reduction has been constrained by lufluences tn which the Stute has been an important factor, Lower rallrond charges have followed the reduction {n tolls on tho Erie Canal, which was brouglit about by a movement among the people, and secured through the ugency of the State of New York, ‘The New York Central only re- duved rates ns it became necessary In order to compete for the business, and the Erle Nallroad was compelled to reduce ts charges a little below those of the New York Central inorder to compete with Its moro favored rival. But tho reductlons thus secured by” State Inwiagement of the canal are merely un average between falr rates during tho THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER season of navigation and extortlonate rates while navigation is closed, and this averige ig stil considerably tieier than the estt- mated living rate. of railroad charges, which Js Sy of 1 cent per ton per mile, In the whi ter senson the rafironds rarely {ail to Ine ereasa thelr rate to no figure . nearly double that of sthe summer, though thelr operating exposes “are but slightly en- farged, and they are ‘apte to, do this by tho virtual monopoly “ARG utter’ irresponal bility of the pooling systeni. "Wirt Stato ine fluence In the Control of the ennal fias.dono for the people in summer Government may do for the public protection during the season when navigation fs closed, and nothing short of Government regulation will secomptish this, Bestdes, a part of the assumed reduc- tion In. rates ts represented by the Inerensed value of the currency; the charge of 157 was inn currency worth only about 8 cents on the doilar. ‘ 9% ‘There is no danger of any elnshing be- tween the National Govermnentand theState Governments fu the proposed regulation of tho railroads. Tho State Governments are necessarily confined In the supervision and restraint which they exorcise to rallronds that He wholly within their territorial jurls- diction, They eannot control tho operations of railroads that He parily in one State and partly in another, nor the pooling arranire- ments of connecting Ines, All the legisia- ton that lins ever been proposed for the Gen- eral Government is contined to Inter-State railronds and Inter-State commeree, whieh States in their individual capacity ennnot reach. ‘The distinction ts clear and practical, and itis the more unlikely to tend to conft- sion or complication beeause Natlonal and State supervision would have tha common alm of prohibiting extortion and diserhnina- tlon, “8, It isa manifest error to maintain that no good results have followed the passnge of State laws tor the regulation of the rall- ronls, ‘The Now York /'ribtine can searcely hnagine that the aggressive Granger move- ment of a few years ngo would have died ont without to a large extent satisfylug the demands of the people, ‘The reason why compluluts have ceased Iniregard to West- ern raftronds under tho control of State laws fs because these rallroads can no longer resort to extortion and discrimination with- out incurring severe penalties. ‘The reason why such complaints have been transferred. to the Enstern ratlronds is because those roads are not subject to Stato supervision and prompt, ofltcial prosecution, and hence euntinue to rob and oppress the community in deflance of public protest. ‘The Railroad inw of Illnols works well under the admin- Istration of the. Stute Railroad Commission ns far ug tho jurisdiction of this State reaches. ‘Tho rallron corporations re- sisted {t unill! they satisfied theimselyes that it was cefliclent for the purpose tor which it was designed, and sinco thon if has rarely been necessary to go Into the courts, When a gricvance Is brought before the State Commission that body in- vestigates it, ascertains the measure of dam- age upon an equitable basis, and makes formal demand upon the offending corpora. tlon for restitution, with a warning agalnist nrepotition of the offense, ‘This process has been found to be effective. There 18 compar- atively Ittlo effort on the purtof any rall- road in this State to discriminate against persons or localities, Before the Inw was passed, the practice of charging more for a shorter distance fn the ubsence of compott- tion than was charged for s longer distance whero there was competition was tho unl versal practice of the railroads, All that has been stopped. Nor does the practice now prevail of favoring one. shipper by special rates, drawbacks, and rebates at the expense of others, and every effort In that direction is promptly checked and punished, ‘here ts no reason why the General Government ean- not, but overy reason why it should, protect. the people of the whole country against ex- tortion and discrimination In tho same way the State of Illinois protects its eltizens so far as it has jurisdiction. THE NEW, BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING. Tho proposition to remove the Bonrd of Trade from its present quarters to a new Dullding to be erected’ on what is known as the Scott property wrs adopted yesterday by an overwhelming majority. Tho vote was 4306 for and only 193 agalnst the report of tho Committee favoring this project. The ma- jority was in something Iiku the same pro- portion ns Garileld’s majority In Iowa, It ts afortunate circumstance that tho removal hos beon decided upon withyo much winntine ity; so preponderating a sentiment in favor of it will go far toward rovonciling tho minority, even {f It shall fall to convince them that thoy were in the wrong. ‘Tho minority in this instance Is relatively sinalier thin the minorlty of conservatives who op- posed the removal many years ago from the dingy ofd room on South Water strect to the new bulldiug on the site of the present Chamber of Commetce. It has been a long timo since anybody thought that removal was Injudiclous, and the Board of ‘Trade willsearealy have taken possesslon of its new teinplo on Jackson street before avery metber will agree that tha change now de- clded on was thnely and advantageous, It remalns now for the City Council to do itsahare toward promoting the now enter- priso by vacating Lo Salle streat between Jackson and Van Buren streets, ‘Cho votl- tion ‘for this will be practically unanimous from the proporty-owners on La Salle street, and It will make no difference to the remaln- der of tho elty whether La Salle atreet shall ond at Van Buren stroet, as It does now, or at Jackson strect as proposed, ‘To the own- ers of La Salle street proporty and all adjn- cent property the location of x capacious and magnificent Chamber of Commerce at the hend of La Salle street ts too obvious an act- vintage. to thor interests to admit of any op position, JTence tho duty of tho Council is perfectly plain, ‘There ought to be absolute: ly no opposition to the proposition to shorten La Salle street by one block when the public aud all tho private porsons whose interests are concerned unite in donanding thechange, Action In bringing this about ought not to bo and probably will not be delayed, ny the Hoard of ‘rade mon aro prompt and enor gotle in oyerything they undertake, and it may bo confidently predicted that the now bullding will be well under way In the spring. Now that the project for the now building has been adupted by such a majority of the Board as excludes any attempt at reconsid- eration, the cronkers and old-fogles who have opposed the movement by predicting 0 disastrous collapse In the values and rents of the property In the vicinity of the presont Ohumber of Commerce will probably abandon this outcry, As a matter of fuct, the ap- prouvtiing occupation of the new Court- Touseand City-Iall will more than compen: aute for the removal of the Board of ‘Trade a short distance uptown. It Js not unlikely that the present Chamber of Commerce, whon it shall be vacated bythe Board and fitted up for othey, business, will command more rent than itis now ylelding. ‘There is already some talk of Its aecupation by tho Western Union ‘Telegraph Company, and It could easlly bo adapted to the requirements of any lurge concern of & senil-public char- acter, ‘There iguo doubt that, by the tinie the Board shall be ready to move SJnto its, new quarters, the present builiJng and all 3, 1880—-TWELVE PAGES. the oftices Inthe nelghborhoud that may be vacated by the temoval will be in netlye de- mand at good rents. i A CORNER ON LIGHT. A sult at law has Just come to an end in one of the Cloveland Courts, in whieh It is no exnggeration to say that forty millions of the fifty inillions of the inhabitants of the United States nro vitally interested, ‘fhe parties werg the Standard Off Company on one side, 4} aud’ on the other, Messrs, Schotield, Schurmer, andl Teale, rotinersof oll, ‘The matter in dis: Male was ft contract to monopolize the refine Mie ot WAL tte Cuynhoga County, fn whieh Cleventiq fe altunted. ‘This contract was one of many Wiel tha Standard OW Company has foreed on tho refiners of oil in different parts of this country, and by which It has ob- talned a monopoly of what Is now the light of Amerten, and-Ls fast becoming, ns ts shown by our exports of kerosene to China, Japan, and India, the Light of Asti. Much of tho iystery that ling been preserved with regard {othe methods by whieh the. Standard O11 Company has built itself“up has been sent- tered by tho revelations muile In this Ntlgn-: ton. Somo of the nblgst lawyers of Ohio, among them the Mon, Stanley Matthews and Judge J. W. Tyler, argued the case agalnst , the monupuly, Mltterto the Standard has taken infintt pains (6 work tn tho dark, or at Jenst In no light stronger Uran its own keru- sene, That it should venture to ask the as- sistance, of a court of equity to en- foreo ® contract to Nmit tho produetion andwejse the prico of an article of so tnt- yers\ use as kerosene ofl shows that the Stevtard Ol Company believed itself to have reached a hight of power and wealth {iat made it safe to defy public opinion, Judge Barber's refusal to enforce the coutract Is worth no less to the people than the decisions of those Judges who first {aught the rallroad corporations of the West- hie States that thoy were amenable to the, WS. Aby the contract in question the Standard Oil Company botnd Messrs. Schofelu, Selur- mer, and ‘Peagte to reitne no more than 85,000 barrels of oll a year, although they liad a eapnelty for refining 180,000 barrels, ‘Tho Standard fixed absolutely the price at whieh they should buy their crude ofl, and that which they should zecelve for tho refined oll, It dictated the ralirond routes by which tho refineries should ship thelr product. It had. tho power to stop or start the refinery at Its dwn alseretion. It forbade them to enlarge or contract tholr works without the consent of the Stnudard, or to engage In the business of relluing petroleum or any of Its products in any part of the world, except In connection with the Standard. Lastly, the Standard not only controlled the price of snic, but the fact of sale, It said whera the sale should bo made, or, 1f It pleased it better, that the sale ahould not be mundo at all, ‘These powers the Standard by Its contract was to exerelse for ton years, Forten years tho Standard was to tio up the business of this refinery, as it hag tled up or destroyed that of scores of others in Olio, Veunsyl- yanta, New York, and West Virginia, Ten years! “Phe ten years,” ns was well sald by the Hon, Stanley: Matthews, “between 1870 nnd1$36,—equal toa hundred years of any other century,—nll that thie, In the midst of" all fluctuntions and changes, these}men were to be ground down ;with thelr noses to tha grindstone, incnnable of taking any ndvan- tage of any chang favorable to their own. interests or the interests of the publle. Ten yours! Why ithas been but a Ittle over thirty years since there was no railrond in the Clty of Chicagé.* On Its side tho! Standard agreed to keep $10,000 in the busliess, while It allowed that to go on, and to.guarantes the firm 285,000 a year as long ‘ns“tho? pialness wis proitable, Assoon as tho bushyess became unprofitable the Standard conid {ithdraw its capital and guarantee, and In the power to fix the price’ of the product, to tiisettie it in Cleveland or Now York, it held in tts own linnds tho prot Itabloness or unprofitableness of refining. Even thosdé business-men, and thore aro such, who adinire the ruling genius of the Standard Ol Company, Mr. Rovketuller,. be- enuse he has been, “successful,” may feel symptoms of nausea nt the disclosures made by the testimony in this enso as to the bust ness methods by which Mr, Rockefeller keeps up his monopoly in Might. It was notenough for him to contro! the prices at which his victims bought and gold, the nimount of work they should do, the number of labor ing-peopla = they ‘should’ employ, — the | new improvements they should = muke in thelr = reftnerles, At the meeting at Ins restdence' on Enelld avenue, where the “contract” was signed; Mr. Kockefeller warned Messrs, Schofield, Schur- mer, and Tengle that they must not tell thelr wives about the new arrangements, and that, above all, they must not drive fast horses or put on so mich stylé as to awaken suspicion that thoy were making much money. In order to deceive the public, and make them believe that they wore dealing with compat- Itors instend of confedorates, the contract was to be kept n profound secret. All meet- ings were to be! secret. All accounts wero to bo :so kept that the Stand- ard’s+ namo should not appear, Even the bookkeeper was not allowel to know, anything about the arrangement. Drafis that wero sent between the parties were In fictitious names, A special Post- Office box was secured, and when Aly. Rocke- feller had communications to send his con federates he wrote letters to an lmaginary Mn GA. Mason, box No, 125,” Are these tho ways of honorable men dolng an honest business? ‘They resemble more than any thing elas the blinds of dealers in counter- felt currency and obscene Iterature, ‘Tis contract was a gold mine to tho Stgnd- ard. In four yenrs it mado out of its $10,000 & profit of $815,345.58, ‘The contract, as Stanley Matthows sald, was better than a gold mine. It was amlats Without any personal supervision, without any Joss of tlise, with- out any expenditure besides the Insignificant investment, the Standard recelyed dividends that ard to be counted not by porcentages, but by multiplications of the original capital over and over again, ‘The Standard brought suit only beeauso the refluers insisted on making more ol! than the Himit, On this ex- cess tho Standard recelyed, os on that within tho Hilt, but half tho proilt. At wanted tho whole, Mr. lovkefeller mado these contracts, giving refiner buthalt their profits, or less than half of their capacity, tn order to keep for himsulf and the Standard tellnerics all tho profit‘on the vast fleld re- malning, A return of $315,845 was the profit the Standard maile’out of the Nmited pre- duction allowed Scholletd, Schurmor, and ‘Teagle, How uch tt mada out of the scores of stuilar contracts with refiners In othor cities no one Knows, How much out of the remalning alonopoly secured to it by thus Muniting all the othor refiners no one knows, Probably “not even thelr wives know." But it is known that ‘tho original capital of tho Standard has been watered by millions, and it ls belioved that tn one yer it hus divided 30,000,000 In dividends, How cane the Standard to get such a monopoly? How camo refiners like Selo fielil, Sehurimer; ond ‘Teagts to submit to such contracts? ‘Ihe auswer to these ques: } tlons isto be found In tho relations of tho | Standard to the rallroads. ‘The whole secret of Ruckefeller’s success Hes hidden tn the fol- lowing cliuse of the contract: “The sald Standard Ol! Company agrees that the said parties of the second part shalt have the full benefit to the oxtent of tha business done tinder tia agreement, of all agreements now existing, or that may here alter bo mate by sald Standard Ol Company, reinting to frelght on crude and re- fined off, and the sald Standard Oil Company stipulates ns n part of this arrange: ment that it will procure the shipment when mata in its own name, with tho consent of the second parties, of all oll made and re- celved by anid parties of the second part In anid business at the same priecs pald by tho Standard O11 Company for tho. shipment of lke products at tho samo tinie, by the same routes, and atlow the same rebates ns tt shinll recelye.” IL was by fts arrangement with tlio kallronde that the Standard obtatned tts power to monopolize the all business, and foree Its competitors to become its confed- erates Jia fraud on the public. ‘The Stand- ord has tho power to procure frofgt-rates on better terms than the others en- gaged tn the samo business. It was avell ensked by Mtr, Stanley Matthews, “ Flow dle thoy get this power? = What legal riglithave they te exercise IL? By what au- thority vf Iaw has any ratlrond company a right fo'combine with tho Standard Ol! Com- pany, and say to ft that for any dauso, or any consiferation, tho product of {ts refinery, or the protuct of any reflnery shipped in Its mune, Bhatl be taken from Cleveland, the -boint of production, to New York or else- where, the point of marketing, at a more favorable rate than the humblest and the sinatlest mnmnufucturer in the same business enn get??? , ‘Pho light of forty millions of'the citizens of this country Is “cormered” by this single edrporation. When Congross tikes up the rallzond question, let it investigate the Standard Oll Company. ‘ td 3 A SUGSESTION TO YOUNG PROBABILI- nt TLES, There Is n suggestion which .we would make In behalf of a suffering public to tho sitecessor to Old Probabititles, nud that ts to come down front his high perel and tell us what to expect In the atmosphere where other mortals Hve. All over this city, on Wednesday, the thermometers were record- ing a temperature from 15to 20 degrees below zero, whereas the Signal Service tells us it was but G degrees below. ‘Chis dliference, which has always marked Its records, is caused by the persistency of the Government ofileinis in taking thelr observations at an altitude of from sixty to 100 fect above us, where they strike a differont stratum of cold from that on the ground. In winter it is warmer whore they take thelr record, and in summer it ig cooler. ‘Thelr record of tem- perature fs unquestionably right at that nltl tude, but what people want to know Js the temperature where they Hye. When the thermometer Is 20 or 0 below in tha streets, where they are. walking and freezing thelr ears and noses, It {s no consolation to kuow that {t fs 10 below a hundred feet above them, because they can nelther walk nor work up there, Equally, In summer, when they are panting and swel- terlng with the hent and succumbing to sun- stroke, with the thermometer at 05 and 100, it is no consolation to know that it is only 80 a hundred feot above them. ‘Thoy don’t now what to maka of it tn either cage, ‘The whole discrepancy grows out of the fact that Intho freo breezes blowing at that altitude in summer It Is cooler, just as it 13 colder In winter at tho oarth's surface.” No one will object to the Signal Service keeping 9 scfon- (tie and confidential record x hundred fect uptn the ale for purposes of future refer- ence, or as tho bugis of theories; but itis expensive work, and the people are paying tholr anangy for information ax to the "cold wand sheat.on tho surface, and the iiewspapers are expending — thelr money for telegraphic reports, every quota- tlon In which Ss false, It Is creating con- stant confusion and dissatisfaction, aud un- dermining the popular confidence in the In- tegrity of thermometers. ‘There 13,728 we have sald, no objection to'the record Young Probabilities fs making In his lofty perch, but people will nover be satisfied until ho nso gives thom a record of temperature where they live, move, ant have their being. Sexatror Beck's suggestion that thera oughtto be two heads to tho ‘Treusury is not without rougon, says a Wusblugton dispateb. Hecunt dovolopments show that from tho ‘Treng- wry emanate grent_ numbers of Jobs consigned to outside agente for the purposo of taking out revenue. Attention hus been called tothe fuct that tho outrageous bIil for returning tonnage dues to certuin potty States of Gormany had been put in motion by tho agencies at tho Tronsury cmployed and saluricd to revise the laws thoreof, Finding a chance to go hnlves with an outalder, tho partios revising the laws, {nated of yolng to the Socrotary, polating out tholr discovery, and conferring with him to kvop the moncy fn tho ‘Tronsury, slipped outside, and if the Governatont had puld tha $207,000'to 1 conmmlasion to reviso ite Inws it would now bo in preelsely the anine situation as when it em- ployed ita own clerks, Almost every man of ability in tho Treasury bas his outaldo com- muniention, and it 1a impossible fur tho Socre- tury to know whnt they ure. There isa con- stnut movement of manufacturers and import- ers from New York to Washington, or of Treas- ury clorks from Washiugton to Now York, with tho hapo of gotting the best of the Government aud dividing the diiference, ——————___— A New You dispatch says the most con- sorvyative Hnanelal wuthorities in Now York bo- hove that tho wholo railrond stock Ist will break within a few months 20 per cent at least, They reach this notion on account of the pro- yailing low rntes of dividend, Following tho exatnplo of tho refunding of Government bonds, the prices of railroad stocks huve boon pushed upto a tiguro that, oven with tho largo divi dends now current, would bring only 3 or 4 per coutu your, There is n conscquont unoaslavss in tholncume class, which bave been flving on tho puticedent of 8 and 10 porcont. Estates and .trnst funds now seeking investment ura greatly perplexed to find anything thut will ylold re- apectable interest which bus not been marked upto a igure sevoral years ahead of its real credit. It {a said that tho Grangor attacks on many of the stocks tly winter wilt bo really In- spired by tho stock operutors. NR SAMUET TILDEN, 09 well as WIlllnm Van- derbilt, has boon buytug large quantitics of tha atpek of tho Pavitlo Ratlroad, in which tho con- trolling {uterost now belongs to the younger branch of tho Ames fainily, It’ somes that tho Amoges, having become Ingulfyd in the rallrqud, walted fort better times, and, with a flia! falth, bégun to take up the stock of tho roud at low Hyures, Gould coming in with them, and thoy, now havo tt good thing of it. Vanderbilt bought $000,000 dt the stock, and has added to It until he.bas $4,000,000, Juy Gould sold out of tha road bucuuso his nssociates would uot agree with him upon’ pooling receipts with tho Contra! Pavia itallroad, ba Tite census bulletins have now given the entire population of New Euyland. ‘Tho result ia as followss Mala... 00. Connecticut... ‘Total, AOLLG1S 9,618,127 Tnereuse tn ten y 406,185; per cent, 1. Excess of females, 80 Native population, 3,200,060; foreiyn, 802,2u2;" per cent of latter, 3. A nerano in Houston County, Texas, made 80 this full ploking cotton after be had gathered bisown. Ho aud biy wife bud proviously mado ten bales clear of all expenses, Ho owes nothe ing, and hus $00 in bank, Ho gua decided to buy a place for $100 and to advance his cash in part payment, ‘hough be cau have four yours’ tine on tho remainder, bo expects to cloar It alt ot next year, The editor why toils this story gives names and ciroumstances, and ndds: “About tho timo tho negro was buying bis now place, four or flyo heurty, strong young mon cume to the house of the writer plteously beg- wig for food."* ni Tis annual product of beotsugar tn France mutints at prosent to nbout 420,000 tons, of 2,200 pounds to tho ton, and of tho vatuo of $55,000,000. The Inborers emplosod in the beet- sugar manufacture in France in 1874 numbered 51,023 mon, 0,367 womon, and 8,!o2ohtldren, which frures do not Include persuns omptoyed in the cultivation uf the root. pap ipetetadicioe SS rererey ‘Sun Breneh havo recently orranized six how ateamslilp companies, to rin regular Ines to Now Vork, Canuda, Mexico, South America, and Attatralian, Tho French have a substly sys. tom, giving steamera n bounty of about $40,000, or nearly 36 per cent of tholr valuo, and the En- gliah are a good dent alarmed. Pistececaio hh Tire Cluctiuati Commercial omits an fm- portant fnot from Its hiehty-Interesting nad moral anecdote of “The Horsa Talked to Death." ‘Tho horse belonged, if the Indidations are not all wrong, tu that Hlustrious statosuan, Private Dalzeit. aa. Gronor Westinanuuse, tho patentee of thu brake, says that of tho relsauing of onoof hfs patents ho will have u sure thing, and hosnys ho is not seared at tho uttempt of tho railroads tu throw bln off, a Tue Distrlet-Attorney, George iiss, whose torn fs nbout expiring, hns Just discovered that 1 costs £30,00 1 yonr for police surgouns in New York, and $70,000 for police clerks. Seon Clarkson N. Potter, author of the grent Patter-Titden Committee, was kept on the rail- road between Washington and New York mor than alx hours a fow days ngu, while Vrealdent Hayes wns allowed to como through flying. Says tho verncious “Gath: “A public mnn toll ino yesterday, ngan Miustration of the chunygesin the hablts of pubilc men generally ainee tho days of slavery, that wnen he was quite young ha wad taken Into a fare bani In Waehingtou City, suinewhore about tho yeur 18%, aud wna shown John Sherinnn, wearing 0 wie, soft white bat, Myhting tho tiger with f+ cont chips, The futuro Sceretary at the play exelted uo furthor remark © than that, with hig characteristie prudence, he played a most modernte gume, Another publlo man, onco n Settator, anid that inany years ago he was pasalug along strect in tho old part of Washington, and he saw Inside 4 distinguished carpot-bugger, now -of Olilo, onc other person, and Gon, Garfield, playlag poker. Ilo rapped on the window, and told them that thoy ought to put down the bifnd before thoy nd- yortised the game." Theso gentlemen Lave sworn off * tiger und polurs' long nsgu,—ever sinco their halr turned gray. It {3 hurd to re- strain youthful blood, oven In the Y. M,C, Auso- ciation, ——=——_— PUBLIC OPINION. Sceretary Evarts: The peasant of Ireland or Germany, carrying a soldier on bly back, cune not compete with tha Amorican pensant, who hag no sukdier tu carry. : Indanapolis Journal (Rop.): A large pro- portion of the graduates of Weut Point for yours past havo been nbout half prig and half snob, The fnstitution neuds to be Americanized, Merldian (Miss.) Mercury (Fire-Enter): Prosecutions ure vain and furtic. Southern men will always take the rigk to touch tho votiug ne- gro that this (sa. white man's country and tho white man will rule It, ¢ Gath: At the New England dinuer Inst night, while Grant was spenking, somebody ealled out, * Thre chears for Grant, tho noxt Prealdent}" and two-thirda of the people at the table got up and waved thelr napieina, Knoxyille (‘Tenn.) Chronicle (Rep.): We bolleve Mr. Maynard fs tho cholce of a large ma= Jority of Tennessee Republicans, that he ean ho elected, and thut hls elcotion will du tho Stute more good than tho election of any other man. Boston Tranacript: “My wife lost her pockutbook with £15 in it to-day,” sald a sad~ looking mat. coming name? asked somobady. Didn't T tell you ahe bad some monoy In it?" do- mauded the sad-lookiug mun, and everybody Kuow whon sho lost it. i Kris Kringle will sume day clatm that he Is an Oblo man.—Daylon Journal, Oh, no, It would spolt Kria Kringle to become au Ohio man. Hu would then have to be a recelver ine stend or at giver. Ho would pass tho bat among the childron Instead of emptying tho grab-ba, St. Loula GlobeeLemucrat (edited by an Ohio —St. ann). Montgomery (Aln.) «dvertiser and Mail (Dem.):; Wo trust the Educationel bill will bo serut|plzed clusvly, da it no doubt will be, in the House, And if the Seorotury of the Treasury or other officer bas anything more to dothun to set ‘part and pay over to tho proper officinis of the seyernl States tho amounts respectively dite thom, thut tho bill wilt bo amended or defeated. Chncinnatl Commercial: ‘There 13 0 mol- anoholy ory because President linyes hus been making appointments in New York that aro known to be disngreenblo to Sonntor Conkling. itis fair to any that one of tho ehter political faults of Presidont Huyes Is thut he hus donv too much or too little of that surt ot thing. He should huye respected tho Souutorlal system or ‘waged rolentiovs war upon St. The New York Nations; Whether Mr. Conkling got anything [a still uncertain. He bus not denied it in tha correspondonve with Mr, Bayard, It was frecly asserted before the Com: mitteo of Congress that ho, ns woll as Butler, ro- eclyed a heavy counsel foo, but tho Custom- Houso olfioints declined au inyitation to appear before the Committee to testify on this point. which of itsulf looks ominous. Thoy have imude OB urcat mistake now in utteoking Mr. Buyurd, because, evan If they convict him of xauye tion or carcicsness, thoy all, excopt Mr. Mout- woll, do go ut the cost of directing public atten: ton once more toone of the worst scandals of thoir own carcer, Now York Nution: It seems horrible and sounds almost incrediblo, but It fa strictly trua, that no improvement in the condition of tha Trish Catholic had taken placo alnco 1700, until be had inedo his alecontent manifest by “Whiteboylam," “Molly Maguirotsm,” assasl- nation of lundlords and Daillfs, house-burning, and cuttle-hany hing. Ho kopt up this pleasing form of agitntion for seveuty years before be oltutned ordinary civil rights. lic again tricd it aucccasfully In order to yet rid of" tho tithes ti THe nnd once more, in 1867, It brought him tho digestablishinont of the chureh, and in 1870 the Land vot. Tho chances tre that itis now going to bring him © tho three Ha."" Quincy (IL) Whig (Rep.): Practically, Springield already enjoys ull the advantages to bo dorlyed from bolug the Capital city; and ao long us the Btute-House remuting unfinished It will by the Btate and not Springietd wat wilt Buiter for whatever disadvantage may onsuo. Possibly it may not bo best to complote tho Capl- tolat prerents although us # matter of economy it ought nu doubt to tinished before a great while; but so long as its completion ja delayed Jet the delay be bused upon rousonuble grounds, and net upon a silly desire of tho Common. woatth to wpite stelf in order to be wvoryed wpon three or four Springileld vitizons whose consciences bappen to be regnluted by law. Sau Franelsco Calls Thoro ts somathing delictonaly atnusing In tho way Bir, Bankoy com- bines mystical Instruction and religious fervor all in tho sumo broath, [Ho sings bls solo, shouts out bis instructions, and trolls out tho chorus In the most indefatigable manner, and varica the rovocdings inthis wise: Singe—"' What must it w tu be there, tu be there; oh, whut must It be tu be therg. (Now, wll aing--chorua: hy whut just tt ba (louder) tu bo thors <thut's god) 1 bo thors (now plautsstmoy o—ob, what oiuat it be tube there, (hore, now, you sung that vory well; lot'y bave bln tual, and by sure you mind. that planissimo, Now!) Whit must i be,” ete, Ttadds vo mach to gno'a rellglous feeling to roe Pout tho wanty vorso to got the oxust cuuphusls on the * tu,” E San Francisco Gall (Ind.): The appropria- ton for the urmy will be larger thla year thun last, tha aum of $30,000,000 bulug fixed upon as the probablo figure, ‘Ibis is pretty steop for an army of 25,000 mon. Tha wages of tho whole number of qniisted men fulla hort of 84,000,000, and tho cust of subsistence ta not moro than throo- fourths ng much as thoir wages. Tho sun Of 87,00),000, oF $8,00U,000 at tho outalde, goes to support thy 25,000 rank and file, while &22,000,000 Ig usod up for other purposes. It ja admitted: that there are twice ita many oillcurs as the yood: of the vervice requires, aud the Impression ia somuwhut provaleut that the lings number of geutlomen of elegant lelure, who are drawing sulurles us army alticers in vartous clties of tho Union, exerclad a social iatuence which réstraiug Congress front u reconstruction of the army on uw worklug bagis. Loulsville CourlerJournal (Dem): ‘Tho older stutcainen of tho older school ot ;Dom- ocratic politics are passed, or passing, away. They willnotsurvive in actuul affair. The younger need very much to ye to school, and the school “When; golnz down-town or “When? which Is open to thom fs the South, where tho felt is fresh and not too wide; where tho nceds are practtenl, not apecutative; and where, if the re. suits ntre what they ought to bey the future atutusinen af Amerlen, equipped witht resource +} aint expartonen, are to bo reared, | Innke a great State out of nlite one, gee elty out of a villige, tia been tn every ago con. silered the yrentest wtateaman, Thore is In overy Bitte of the South tha oppurtunity to adopt and adapt this aphorism, fo that, wher tho day of conipetitive examination arcives, he abal bo the greitost who shows tho gronteat’ ros Bulalo Commerctat Advertiser (Conkling organ): That Mr. (neticld hug raised a finger ta ladicato any desire to Intorforo with tho polite jeal altuntion in this State we do not belleves nor do wo antletpate that he will dogo. In his demonstration of oftafat maltentty and personal pottiness President Hayes must enery an unidi+ vied Teaunaullifss and for that ‘niatter ho may do what he Hkes—mav make or unmuke, erente or destroy. Alt wo nsk is that ho witl lave tho inuuiincra to admit, that he 15 trying to In Jure Senator Conkling's intlttonce, and that he willletup on bis homilles about Civil-Servico. reforin, nnd no longer try topersunily tho Atmor= fen people that thero is little purer and holier material in bis make-up than has over been found in the moral composition of any of his predecessors. Providence (1k. 1.) Journal: Both Puritan morality and Puritan thrift have not entirely lod ont of New England, if it ts tee, as res ported, that Mile Mernhnrdt's erigagemont ut Burlington, Vt.. has been eaneeled because the people are unwilling to pay tho bixh price for tlekets and decline to witness ber ne nu artist because of her te ns ao woman. It scema Hike x step bavk into the cold and arid Now En- gland of tventy or thirty years a0, when. thera were people who would nit, read. the MSenrlet Letter, beenuse It waa an Siursee hook, and found veension to vell thalr eyes betore plaster enats of Powers’ Greek Slave... ‘Tho social recognition of Sarah Uernbards fa one thing, aud tho nyoldance of her stage art Ig nother, and the ling of senaible conduct is ag plaln in ong enge ng tho uthor, | Cineintntl Gazette (Rep.): Observation of the way In whieh tho school gous with tho plonecr’s nx, and of tho way the school la sup: ported Inthe [ttle hamlets In ali parts of the country, leads to the Judgment that not the fis bility to support echools, Lut n Inels of upprecia= tion of tho value of achooting, ia thg cauag of the neglect in the Southern acction, If inhabltants had that idea of education which, In the North- ero parallels, all the wag from tho Atinutie to the Paeltie, holds thie the natural plice for hos or girl when not at work, Ja nt schoul, und ‘wilt hag built the low school-house by the sidu of the block-bouse, 1g migration went westward, add which mio it common for boys and gitls to walk tiles daily to sehvol, they would not Inck the means to pay the moderate wiges of tho tenchers who nto suilictent for these common -| sohoola, As for Government ald, its natural tendeney would be to mike the poople tess In= cllned to self-support. Montgomery (Alu.) Advertiser and Mail (Dem.); The Republican purty ts responsivioe for tho Kansas exodus and othor devitment of the sano sort. It wns but the other day Tan Citcago Trinune, one of tha leading organs of ita been aroused fn some quarters on necount of the movement and the misehlef It bad deno by saying, In tho fuce of well-known facts to the contrary, that the thousands of theso wretched «people, who aro shivering aud atarvius on the leak plains of Kansas, are thriving and happy. And it pretended to give Gov. St. donn its authority Foray lng. that such progress hid been. mado nlrendy in providing huMes ind alk tho needful supplies that only avoutduv were now dependent on the publle for support. Tum TRABUNE audvocuted further colured exodus from tho South, , Mho truth ts, not one of their leading papors UBtending men'have had a word tu suy against these schutmes that have entailed eo much needless sulfering and death upoa thoae pour people. Loulsville Courter-Journal (Dom.): Were the people of this Stato alive to tho dlegraco of & somewhat deficient pubiic-schuul eystem und a large population of iltterates there would ba no district without a good school-houyo and a competent teacher employed for seven months during the yearat o good salary, and tho Stuta sohool tax would be choarfully and Iangely sup- ponents, by, Uberal loca! voluntary taxation: ‘ox toral school purposes, Were the proper pub le spirit awakened bu educational matters thore would bo no ditference in the pet enpita of white and colored pupil obitdren, but bath would res evive the same, and nobody would attempt tha uitteul cont it task of proving thut, there should bu 77 Ifference between thein, With # proper up ation of the value of common-school education, the fict that thore are 478,060 white ebildvety and 0.004 colored ehildren in tho Stute, making an regregate of 645,101 ohlldren of pupil age, batt of whoin only attond schvol—such a fact would bo recognized us most deplorablo und Injurlous to the good unmo of Kentucky. _ Col. MeCture’s Southern letter to Philadel phin Times (Ind.)? No honest man can dispute the election of Lynch,.the colored Republican candidate to Congress in the “Sbhee-string"” or Vicksburg District over Gen. Chalmers, and the rejection of thousands of honeatly-cuat votes for Lynch by tho county returning officers Is aluply an uminitigotod fraud, without even 4 plausible colur of law. Fraud in tho votes is not ulluged, but merely because thore was un small printed dash undertho nunmoe of the ollico or in soma. \ythor position on tho tleket us a mutter of ty;po- graphical barmony, tho tiekete were rejectid on, the absurd pion that thoy wero thus marked to intimidate voters in vfolntion of jaw. Gen, Chalmers was fulrly benten by several thousand, aud he must dishonor bimeelt and the South by cluiming the sout on such a title. In tke mane nor, alhougt much less flagrint, Gen. Wheeler, nlso a noted ‘Confederate trooper, wes wrony- fully returned ag elected to Congress in the up- per Alabina Diatrict over Lowe, Independent, and there {ia little rvom for doubt that Mackey, Republican, was wrougfully counted out In the Charleston District of South Carolina, Voludo Blade (Rep.): A Major-General who always did hla duty, andadid it magnificently [Steedman}, writes thus signiticantly in last Sun« duy's Northern Ohta Democrat about 2 Mujore Gonoral who refused to do his duty ata most. critical Juneturo: “ We think the Democrats 1a Congress are overduing the Fitz Jubn Portor business, We have alwaya belloved, and bellove now, that Fitz Jobn Portor's disantiafnction with tho remoyal of StcUlollan Influenced him to withhold his aupport from Pope, whon if he had Riven it, promptly and energeticully, our urmy would bave won u victory, If this Is true, und Wo betluve it {s, ho ought not te bu relustated.” Tf Muj.-Gen. Stoadinun had heor In command of tho Fifth Corpa in August, 182, instead of Fitz John Porter, the second battle of Bull Run would baye had a very diferent cnding, Lying back In tho rear, with 1 fing corps, nnd disro- garding all appeals to come to bla gorely-pressed coinrades' assietnnee, waa tot’ Old Chlekamaus aa'u’ iden of soldtering, by 1 long chalk. If a luce 18 to bo made on tho rotired Mat for any emocrutio soldier, lot tt In tho name of com- mon decency and Justice bo fdr the man who did so much to save the day ut Chickamauga, and not for tho ono who did all be could ta loso it on tho plains of Managssus. L} <_< THE GOVERNMENT GREENHOUSE. Spectat Disvateh to The Uhieaga Tribune, , Waautnatoy, D, C., Dee, #0,—The Dema- cratic Committee, which started with a great flourish tn the enrly dnya of tho present Con- aress to Investigate the Agricultural Depart- ment; has, at Inst, beedme active, and {3 evl- dently trying to show same renson for Its ex- Istence, It has inyaded the Government areenhouses, and ts making a terrible attack un what ft classes under the head of “free bonguets.” Froin tho netivity displayed in preparing and distributing to some corre- spondents certain verslons of testimony, it has been evident for several days that somo one had a apecinl grievance against Mr. Smith, tho thorough and efiiclent horticul- turlut in charge of tho Bolanteal Gerdans, ‘The publication of this alleged testimony hero has brought out the fact that those por- tions Which had the worst look were deliber- ately manufactured, ————— THE TELEPHONE MANIA, Special Diapatch to The Chicago tribune. Towa City, Ia., Dec, 80,—The telophone mania has secured a successfuld hold upon our business people, resulting in the estab- lishment of the Telephone oxehange systent in this elty by the Hawkeye Telephone Com- pany, Mr, D. H. Ogden, Secretary of the Company, is now here puttlig up wires to the oflevs and residences of quite a large num ber of patrons, which will be conaummated and ready for uso next week, ‘Tho central office Is to bo atthe Western Unton Telegraph oflice, under the charge of Frank C, Mofitt. ae — LEGAL PETITION, * Sptclat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune Minwavkrr, Dee, 9,—A large number of the leading lawyers of this. elty have signed @ petition to have Judge Cooley, of Michigan, Appointed to Justles Swayny'a went on the Supremo ench of the United States, ———— * COAL, Prrnaperrimta, Dec, 80.—The Executiva Comittes of the Lehigh and Schuylkill Coul Exchanges has dvclded to recommend a con- {nuances of tho present prlees durlug January, thy party, sought to allay tho indignation that |