Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1881, Page 4

| ie apt 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Che Cribune. HY MATIN ADVANC Pistty eaitton, ong year. fartaofn Te ee HON! Datly and, arone F: ‘Tuorday. thurmiay, and atuday, londay, Wednesday, and Friday. HUNIAY, AG-pago edlon, porsoar., WEEKLY CRIP TION. Specimen copier ront free. Give Post-Ontes address in full, and Stato, Homittances mar be mado either by draft, oeprost, { Post-Cntice order, of {n rexisterod lottor, abour risk. TO CITY SUNSCRIDENS, | Pallgaaiiveress Bunday oxcoptod, 2% conts per weok. Including County. is, delivered, Bunday Included, 80 conta per week, Address THE THUIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, lll. —— POSTAUE. Entered Gt the Post-Ofice nt Chicago, Il, aa Seconds Class Matter. Forthe benent of dur patrons who desira to send: single coples of THE THIDUNK through the mall wo glvoherowith the transient rate of pustazot Domestic, Flat and ‘Twelve Page Papor, ixteon Lage PADOT sev. g5 141 Eat and Twelve Pago Vapor, Eistean Pogo avor. 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Engaza- mMentof Mr. Joseph Proctor, “Nick of tho Wuods’* Exposition Tutiding, et Lake front, opposite Adnms astrost. bition from 9a.m. to 10 p,m, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, Iss1. Whale oxhl- “As WILL be seen, from a communication addressed to the CourlerJourmial, reprinted tn another part of this paper, the colored people of Kentucky have at fast been aroused to’n senso of to Injustice which thoy are inade to suffer by the Bourbons of that State. They ate dented the equal. protection and benefit of the laws, and ure not pormitted to enjoy © proportionate sharo of the school- fund per capita, though their educational needs are confessedly greater than, those of tho whites, Thediserinination agalist them’ of the State which. once bonsted representatives a Henry Clay ant Orittenden, . : noug fs. Jobn J, Senator Conppy has introduced in the Stato Legislature a bill “ concerning’ sewar- uge”’? Thig bill has for its purpose to nue thorize the City of Chicago to carry out, tho, soheme discusdvud last atimilér to “copistruct an enormous sewer to drain the, Chicago River Iuto the Minols River, “Tho, scheme ‘was written up for-the Uitizens’ Assocation, and the report, with elaborate diagrams, was published: in ‘Tutr'."Trudy, ‘The ‘whole thing wag a proposterous affalr, It’ proposed an expenditure of, $8,000,000 to make fin/un. derground sewer nlongslde of the canal, and Desplaines River from,Chicago to, Ngf It was a wild, visionary measure, contrlyed for the benofit’of contractors, and was utterly impracticable for any usctul ond or purpose, —_—_———_ = A Masonity of tha Senate has voted to take $100,000 out of the Public Treasury and donate It to Ban Holladay to compensate him for the champagne dinners he has given them. ‘The pretext for this stent is that ho lost some mules by Indian depredations when carrying tho mails In the Far West at au enormous profit, ,. No court of claims would allow him acent, fortho shnple reason that tlie Government owes him nothing; but the Scnators owe hh for feasts, and now yoteto pay hhn an hundred-fold out of the National Treasury, Some Senators have very pe- cullar ideas of rightand wrong. Thoy aro ‘ also wonderfully benevolent with other peo- plo's nioney, It fs a rascatly swindling claim the Senntors haye voted for, and thoy well know It, : —_—_—_——_— ‘TuE Governor of Texas in his annual mes- sage recommends the imposition of accupn- Hon taxes ns an easy and convenient method of raising revenue, ‘The State Constitutlon exempts agricultural and mechanical pure suits from such taxes, but the Governor bo- loves they might be levied on other callings, + mid especially on commercial occupations, without injury orlnequality, as the Incidence of taxation would Inyarlubly fall back.on consumera, It isa noteworthy fact that the subject of taxation far moro than uny other Is'engaging tho attention of State Logiala- tures this winter. Both Goy, Cornell and Speaker Sharpa advised tho appointment of anew Comission to take tho wholo ques- uon in New York State agath Into consld- eration, ‘Thore are syioptoms also of the re- vival of the periodical agitation concerning persountand real taxes ond the burdens of each In the Iilnols Legislature, ————— ——S——S Senatoi unr has proposed a bill to con- solidate the soveral Grand Divislons of the Supreme Court of LMnola-and to locate said Court at Springfisld, ‘This bill oughto be come a low, Whatoyer season may havo existed In former times for a peripatetic court, It has long alnce passed awny, Spring- fleld is ns convenient now to the Bar of the whole State as fs Mount Vernon or Ottawa to ony of the divisions, Tho whole question is now reduced to one whether the hotels; boarding-houses, and saloons of Ottawa and. Mount Vernon have not & vested right fn the business resulting from 9 session of the Su premoe Court In those towns. Even this claim fs mitigated by the fact that an Appel- Jato Court now meets nt each of these places Whenever thorg is. uny business for It to do, ‘The Supreme Court should shave but one Dlace of meeting, and that should be at the State Capffal, and this bill of Senator Hunt sliould be passed without question, ‘Tuy Dill introduced In the Ilnois Sonate the Board of Canal Commisstoners is only tho first of a series of measures Intended to reduce the oficial machinery of the Stateand abolish & number of oflices whlels ary prde- (cally sinecures. Senator Murshall writes tohia paper, the Kendall County Record, N caucus of Republican Senptors, and {¢ has been agreed so far os the Senate can accom- 1g.n shamo and disgrace to tho rulfpg’ glass’ plish it: (1) To consolidate the Rallwayand the Canal Commissions, (2) to roll the two Bonrds of Penitentiary Commissions of three members each Into one board; and (3) to do away with the Boards of Trustees for char- {table Institutions (2 dozen of so in munber, (al) drawing miteagd dnd espenses but no salhries) and substitute yin, their place ong salaried Board of throo hiembors, It Is estimated that $15,000 perannum would be Sayed by ench of the “fist two suggestions, ‘}-and that tho salaries, alc, of the Charity Board would not exceed the present mileage and expenses of the numberless ‘Trustees, wlilte the administration of charity affatrs would be made by the change more compact, eficient, responsible, and economical thna at present. Tire Trimunxe Indorses all three propositions. The: Railway and Canal Com- missloners enn work better {n ono body than in twos itts ludicrous and wrong that two State institutions like the Joliet and Chester Penitentinries should be competing, as thoy are at present, for contracts; nnd tho charity ndininistration eaunot ‘certainly be changed for the'worse,” It will be a linppy day for the Legislature when tha appropriations for all charitable institutlons are sought by onebody of throe men, Instead of by a shonl of Trus- tees all pulling and hauling in different: (iirections, and none able to estimate tho rela- {ivo Importance of tho Institutions which they represent, Undoubtedly algo the State might save considerable interest on mon eys appropriated for the charitable Instl- tutions, which are now distributed among the yarious Boards of Trustees, and lodged in country banks, which pay each ‘Treasurer interest on his balances, ANattlele In the February number of the’ Atlantic Monthly on “Tho Future of Amerlean Shipping" directs attention to tho growth of a powerful competitor for our carrying trade on the. Pacific, The China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company, or- yanized less than six years ago, has sueceed- ed in driving out of the finland seas of tho Empire, not by unfavorable legisintion, but by performing the service at low rates, all the forelgn conipanies, which formerly did a, thrifty business in transporting the Imperial grain tributes, or taxes, from one port to an- other. Tho native company now has more than forty first-class steam vessels and on enormous cash capital. It has sceured o monopoly of the consting trade, and is laok- Ing for n general nayigatlon of, the high seas, A pioneer, steamer enterdd the Bay of San Francisco tho 80th of Atigust Inst, and, ominously cnough,lt was one of tho stx. vessels with which the Chinn Merchants be- gan thetr operations in tha home country tit 18t4.. The magazine writerdoes not mention, because probably he did not know, the very significant fact thatthe head of this Com- pany, Le tung Chang, who appears to be a sort of Chinese Jay Gould, was une of the Comnilssioners who negotinted the Inte moul- fied trenty with the United States, and it was at hls instance unquestionably that the re- strletions heretofore inposed upon the ad- mission’ of Chinese tonnage to Amerlean ports were removed. The danger of Chinese competition would seem at first glance to be remota and unimportant;. but there aro rensons for regarding it as. serlous question. ‘The Chinese have all the materials and the skill for bullding fron ships. ‘There “are immenie deposits of coal nnd fron in the Empire. ‘The labor is the most décllo and the chenpest Ju the world. There are pleuty of skilled artigana nmong the Chincse, “All that fs needed; thoreforé, to Inunch the coun- try on a career of successful sily-bullding Is the temporary ntroduction of skilled ship- builders from the Clyde, The Chinese Goy- ernmont could cnsily afford to pay handsome- ly for the services of the instructors needed. ‘The Foiigh labor of getting iron and con) and working It Into shapo under -skilled labor could be done with anmzing chespness; and when’ the ships should be once bulit, they could bo manned ard run ot less expense than those of any othor nation inthe world, It will not do to sneer at the China Aforchants’ Steam Navigatlon Company, ‘Tins New York Nation, in is usunl self- suilelent and bumptious style, hnsobjected to tho apvointment-of Mr.-Binlne to the position of Secretary of Stato on the ground that he is “not a Inwyer.’, ‘Tho answer to this very silly and superficial objection Is threefold: (1) Mr. Blaine Is something more than a lawyer; ‘he is a lawinaker, Ilo has been engaged In: making Inws for attorneys to hngglo about and construe during o long and britlinnt public career; and wo have nob heard that 0 greater proportion of the legista- tion shaped or recommended by him was found defective than of that put through in opposition to his views, (2) International law, so-called, with which the Secretary of State has to deal, isnot a sclence, and has no cast-lron code, It Is simply. a body of precedents, with which Mr. Bin{ne fs per- fectly familinr, No practicing lawyer with- out experience In Congress or diplomatic business can pretend to have halt the knowl- edge of these subjects that Mr, Blaine hasac- quired in the regular discharge of his ofticlal duties. International law has nothing to do with local jurisprudence, as the English Government has Intely been compelled to confess iu the Fortune Day affufr, (8) The safost and most brillinnt Secrotaries of State thig country has had (with the solitary vx- ception of Mr, Webster) were not practicing Jawyers. Many of them had been through the law-schoul, to be sure, but-thelr profes- slonal traning censed before they had begun their life-work. ‘Thomas Jefferson entered tho Virginia louse of Lurgesses two years after he was admitted to the Bar, in 1700, and remained almost continuously . in public ‘Ifo untit ha left tho Presl- dontint chair in 1809, lio was ono of tho most distingulshed lnwinakers this country has ever known, but was In no sense a famous practicing Inwyor. ‘Thesnme fs true of Jumnes Madison, Monroo studied aw with Jefferson, but his coursu was interrupt- ed, and he was dot ndmitted to the Bur, and did not practice, Edward Everett had’ pre- elsely tho sine exporlence, beginning In the ofttce of John Quincy Adams, who was hime aclf a filplomat mud statesman, not a pro- fesstonal lawyer, Ienry Clay was a brilliant erhtnal lawyer In his youth, but his experl- ence in that respect could not have helped nin- terinlly to qualify him te deal with graye Ine ternutional questions, and he was known to faine only as an orator and’ statesman, “Exe actiy the sume fa true of William I1, Boward, Marcy morely began tho practice of law, but forthe consolidation: of the Board of full, ay’ and Warehouse Conmutssioners and: . Hug the whole subject hus been considered In: beenmne a soldier and editor, and passed most. of his long {fe In pybile office," ‘Tho sume is truu of Lowls Cass, except thathe never was an editor, Hamilton Fish entered publig lite when he was28, aud remained In ofltce almost continuously for twenty years, Mr. Eyarts, the only distinctively practicing lawyer who over held the position of Seuretary of State, bas also been the most consplenvus fallure du that position, In Europe, where diplomacy bas been made a fine art, It fy an ontirely weparate profeasion, Distinguished lawyers look for promotion to the Bench, kut do not Asplro to positions inthe Forelgu Ofiice, be- cause itis not supposed that thoy have the right klad of training for usefylness In that departaient, “ho Nation werely presumes on the projudices of Its readers when {t intl- Diates thata man Nko' Mr, Blaine, who has beun continuously In public life for -twenty> three yeara, and all that tle lu Jawmaking bodies, is Ieas qualified to discharge well the AEHURSDAY, JANUARY 0, dutles of Secretary of State than ho would belt he had slipped through somo loose, make-belleve examination Inn New York or Cambridge Inw-sehool thirty years ago. eens ‘ THE REFUNDING BOHEME IN THE HOUSE. Kho Refunding oll, as substantially agreed upon tn the House of Representatives, re- tains many of tho objectionable features urged by tha, Democrats, and, it passed by the Senate tn its present shape, will be at the best of doubtful issue whon theattempt shall be mnie to negotiate at par the class of secu- rities which It provides, tas See, 1 provides for an issue of $400,000,000 of 6-10 bonds, ranning ten years, anid redeom- able at the pleasure of tha Government after five years, and Treasury certificates to tha niwount of $300,000,000 1-10notes, running ten yoars, and redecmable after one yeat,—both forms of securities bearing 3 per cent inter- est. At stands to reason that these two elnsses of securitics cannot have an equal value, If tho certificntes ran a short tine, sons to be available ag n eall-loan is uvon the market, and the bonds ran a tong term, in order to secure the Investment of trust funds, both night be placed at tho same rate of Interest, at that the very lowest, whether tho mini- mum be $ or 84 per cent, But both securl- tes become speelfically payable at the end of ten yenrs; the bond cannot run any longer and tho certificates may run as tong. Con- sequently there is no attraction for either short investinent or tong investment, and If it were feasible to sell 3 por vent securities the terms Imposed by this bill would seem to bo designed to destroy such opportunity, ‘The failure to negotiate tho bonds under auch a Inw would make !t necessary for tho Government to continue the payment of 6 and & por cent interest on the bonds now out- standing, which Ithas the privilego of call- ing in during the year If ithas the means to “pay them, Even If tho tering of this loan were such as to promise successful negotiation thereof, there [s another provision in the first section of the vill which ought to defent It, and whieh, {f passed, will menace the malnte- nance of specie payments, It provides that the coin held in the Treasury for redemption purposes shall be reduced to $50,000,000 In gold by paying out all gold and siiyer In ex- cess of that sum for the purchase of out standing 6 and & per cent bonds before any of the new 3 per cents shall be Issued. ‘This seems to be a blow atmed directly at resump- tlon, and intended to foree suspension. ‘Lhe most experlenced financiers will agree that a elreulation of 3350,000,000 of notes cannot be reliably maintalned at par witha eoln re- serya of only $50,000,060, or about onesev- enth of the whole volume, Such wenkuess Will expose the Government at all thnes tonn organized raid upon tho ‘Treasury that will compel it to suspend the process of re- demption on demand, and with that event the work of resuinption will fall, Tho ouly pro- tection the Treasury can seek in such ense fstouse the authority given it under tho Resumption law of 1875, whieh provides thet the Secretary of tho ‘Treasury may “hase, sell, and dispose of, at not less than’ par in coin, either of the desorlptions of bonds of the United States deserlbed In the actof Congress approved July 14, 1870, with like gualitles, privileges, and exemptions, to the extent neccsaury to curry thls [the Resump- ton] act Into full effect”? The bonds thus deserlbed ara ten-year bonds’ bearlng 5 per scent interest, fifteen-year bonds beating 43¢ per cent Interest, and thirty-yenr botids beur- ing 4 per cent iuterest. The exercise of such authority under the Resumption act, how- ever, after exhausting the Trensury, of Its necessary coin reserve, woultl practicaily amount to refunding at4 per cent at the low- est, Instead: of.'8 per cent, ‘The whole pro: eveding would be Wogical and unprofitable, ag itis demogogicat and absurd, «| The second section 1s apparantly unobjec- tlouable. It is designed to guard against the puyment of double interest nnd foellitnte the exchunze of the new 8 per cents for tho G and Sper cents that may be called in. It* pro- vides that the ‘lreasury inay Isste tha new bonds In exchange for the old ones, and nt- low the difference of interest between 8 per centund Gor5 per cent to the thne when the tattor become payable, in addition to the * interest on the new bonds, Such a provision night, under favorable conditions, hasten the direct exchange of the new for tho old. se curltles without tho Intervention of brokers and ngents, Tho third section. allows 1 of lper cent as expenses in negotiating the Joan, which may bo enough, and the fourth section might also be admitted for tho pur- Hose of facilitating the exchange of bonds, it itwere not for the terms of tho first section, In connection with the first section, however, tt seems to be designed to strip the ‘Treasury of tho Inst dollar of its coin re- serve. ‘The flrat section requires that the coln reserve slinll be reduced to $50,000,000 {un gold,—tha excess to be used fu the pur- chase ‘of maturing bonds,—and this third section provides that the Secretary of the ‘Treasury may use the remaining $50,000,000 for the same purpose, The theory of thls section, wo presume, is that tho £50,000,000, thus employed would return to the Treasury in subseriptions to the new bonds, Asn Matter of course, no Secretary of tho ‘Treas- ury, would think for one moment of using this discretion aud thus exhqugtiug all re- serve for the redemption of greenbaeks, for sucha condition would be instantly fatal to resumption. ‘Tho fitth section is Intended to coerce’ tho Natlonal banks Into n subscription for a 3 per cent loan which the Government shall haye the privilege of redeeming at’ the end of five years, ‘To do this, it Is proposed that none but tho new 8 per cent bonds shall ba reeelyable on deposit as security for circula- tlon after May 4, und that interest on all bonds now on. deposit shall cease Apon call ofthe Government after they becomu pay: able, ‘There aro also penalties In case of any refusal on the part of tha banks tomnke such oxchanyo within thirty daysatter notice, ‘The chief reliance upon the proposed coercion of the banks, however, is In the repeal of the section which suthorizes every National bank to reduce Its clroulating notes to $45,000 and the restoration of the old sections which requlted banks to keep one-third of tholy cupttal on deposit as security fur thely circulation, ‘This action will destroy com- plotely the theory and Intention of what was known ng the “Free Banking Law," which was designed to enable the banks to contract within a reasonable Hinlt, or to ex- pand without Mult, thelr clreulation in re sponse to the business demands of the coun: try upon propor security,. But this coercive measure’ may fall; for Sec, 5,160 of the Ry vised Statutes, which it Is proposed to ra- enact, not merely requires that the banks shall keep one-third of thelr capital on de posit with the ‘Treasury In the shape af United States bonus, but also proyides'that any banking association " which yuny dealra to reduce fts capltul or closy lip ity busluess, and dissolve Its orgaptzation, may take up Its bonds upon rotyrulug ‘to. tho Controller Its eheuluting unger ‘tke Proportion” of 90 por cent of noter' £6100 per cent of bonds, It will ba merely question for the banks, then, whether thoy shall aubinlt to tha proposed cosrcion or reduce tholr capital to bring it within tho Hmit of 4 and 43¢ per cent bonds which they now haye on deposlt jn the ‘Treasury, and which cannot be taken from thom, If they shall deturmine that It will not be profitable fur them to take 8 por cent bonis, which may bo called in by the Goy- ctumehtin fyb years, they will undoubtedly determiHeto reilyee thelr capital, and wit thus can{gact thelr base of operattons and tn ure the bushis of tho country... - ‘Tho House bill described above is made up of uncertalnttes, contradtetions, and antmos- itles, It hnplies hostility to, tie National banks, an impotent attempt at cagrefon, and. a direct menace at resumption, Whether or not a Government,toan bearing 8 por.cent {n- |. terest con be negotlatedts a question that has . been subordinated to tho prejudiees and pare tlsan purposes of the Democratle majority in the House, The pravtienbility of such s loan cannot be fatrly tested under tha bi that was framed by the Committee of the Whote inthe House of Representatlyes. It ts at once a spiteful and experimental measure, and wo crinnot betleve (hat tie Senate will concur init. If sich n bill bo adopted, iIn- cluding tho proposed destruction of tho tréu- banking priucipte, the continuation of the War taxes, the attempted coureton uf the Na- {onal banks to ndopt a tosing policy, and the mennee to specly payments, there {3 little doubt that it will call out an Exceutlyo veto, and it fg probable that it will make necessary an extra session of the new Congress to tyres upon a practical fundhitg scheme, ADULTERATIONS, The getting of money by frandulent com- binntlon, by stock jobbing, by the running of inouopolics, deserves all the reprobation that It meets with, But that, and all the other erlmes fn the gradation down to “flat burglary,” are Cliristtan virtues cotpared with the obtaining of money by the ndulter- ation of what wo eat and drink, A man may getrich agatn after having been robbed of ait hls property, but stelt recttperation ts not possible when health has been lost. ‘The doctor may pronounce theman tobe well ayitin, bit the sear on hie constitution re- talus. at best, and fn too many enses even the nominal recovery is tmpossible. ‘The Individualdies ns a direct result of poisoning, which deserves punishment equal to thatdua the erlue ofa Lucrezia Borgia. ‘The fact that the Individual ates by tho slow method, instead of belng killed off by asingle dose, does not lessen the enormity of the crime; It should not lessen the punishment due to the erlminal. These be strong words; but we snbinit that they are not a whit stronger than is warranted by the facts. We belleve that If the public really understood the perll of the situation, the yast extent to which human henlth and life nre jeopardized by the frauds under consideration, it would riso as one mani to abolish the evil, even though the do- ing so would fuvolve tho sncriiice of the evil- dvers, ‘The public never wall -undorstand thomisehief which humangreed has wrought In tha direetion of wholesale polson- Ing of food and drink; but it may comprehend. enough to seo that the evil 1s, one whieh, unehecked, would attain i'inuch. greater magnitude than at present, The.trith Is, that inveertaln direc. tlons the evil Is yet Incipient, A Ilttle fonger, and the venders of honest food and drink will be utterly unable to compete with the fellows who make and sell tho bogus article, Let us stop néw, Let us have legat provis- Jon made, right away, for the puulshment ag A FELONY of all-adulterations, and Induce- ment held outitér the exposure of the frauds” wherever fouiid, in high as well os in ‘low pinces,’ It must come to this sooner or inter, Better take hold now! WHITING ON TAXATION ON MORTGAGES, Father Whiting, the venerable Senator from Bureau County, has mnde hig auritial attempt to reatify, the Revenue law. of this State, For ninyy years he,hus been tho most: persistent of dur ‘legislators fi the endeavor’ to hayé 2 tax. placed on Intangible credits, and the taxntigh of mortguges has always been a hobby With that school of filosofers. Since the actlori of tho Kearnoyites and Coin- inuuists In Calffornia the polley cuncerning: the taxation of mortgages has been moditied, At present tho;mortgaged ‘land. and tho mortgage Itself are alike subject to taxation: in this State, though practleally there fs no tax collected ay the mortgages. Senator Whiting at last, recognizes that to tax tho Innd and also the mortgage thercon Is dupli- ente taxation, ‘and In his bill of this | session he declares that o mortgage or othor Hen ,upon real estate shall be deemed, for the purposes of taxntion, “at Interest In the- property,” and the holder of such mortgage a font owner! He, therefore, provides that tho holder of the fee may claim adeductlon In the nssessinent to tho amount of the Incumbrance, and report to the As sessor tho nameof the owner of the -Inetim- brance, and tho Assessor shall assess the owner of the land and the owners of tho In- cumbrances or liens ag near as may be to the yaluo of the Interest of ench, ‘The whole tax shall bon Hen ‘on the property, nnd, If the taxon the mortgage be pald by the mortgagor, then for such poyment he shall be entitted to a credit on tho prinelpal of the debt, The title of ‘the bill is strangely incon: sistent with its, provisions, While the titte of tho billreads “An act to prevent double assessment,” thereby conceding tha present Inw to provide for the double taxation of In cumbered rent estate, it undertakes to shift tho rerponsibility for the taxes on real estate to persons who are not fu any senso owners thereof, Lot us'illustrate: ’ Father Whiting, we will assume, owns 9 yalunble farm worth 820,000, froe of debt. Tle ts in comfortable circumstances, and, in order to better enjoy the Ife which he has made honorable by his private virtues and his long and faithful public services, decktes that ho will make that farm more valuable, more remunerative, and more attractive. Ho therefore borrows from a capitalist $10,000, payable In ten years, at 7 percent Interest, and glves n mortgage to seenre the loun, With this money yo builds n new house; ho substitutes barbed-wire fences for his some- what worn boards; he bullds a larger and moro conventont barn; he purchases some superior dairy stock, some Norman horses, 9 flock of Cotswold sheep, and un Improved breed of hog; a new carriage, and a lot of elogant houschold furniture, A portion of tho money nd profitably tuvests in tito dralnage, and perhaps an artesian well, and thus enriches his estate In every aense, Maving mado this loan, what would be the relative condition of the parties thereto? Father Whiting would have ils tand, and tho $10,000 of money Invested productlyely and profitably; he would have absolute and unllnited control oyer the property, Hoe could lvase it toa wastoful tonunt, or sellit, auibject to the mortgage, ta aby person, In the meantime the mortgagoa who. presum- ably had $10,000 would fave nelthor monoy nor land, and nothing to sliow for thom but the notes of the, mortgagyr,’ payable In the future, Pending this mortgage, Senator Wiiting’s bill would be Intorposed, and whon the Assessor should return tho farm ag worth $10,000 for taxable purposes he would appor- tion the assessment by charging the Senator, who holds bath the land and the $10,000, with $10,000, and charging tho man who has neither money nor lund with, say, 83,000, ‘The taxation oy the whale assesment for State, county, and town' purposes at 8 por cent would be $300, oné-third of which would be cullected of Aha creditor, reduclog thu Jatter’s Sntesest..on bis Joan from 7 to 0 per cent, whijgitie statesman’? who Invented this lan, sud lind all his original ‘property and the $10,000 of the other man’s money In addition, would escapo one-third his taxes, or substantinily rave 1 percent interest on his ontstandlng notes, Tnatent of being entitted “A bill to provent. ) double taxation te bith should he entittod “An act td enadlo uebtors td‘hWindle thelr screditors of thotr Inwful uobts,” or, auippos- ing tha bitte become a pormationt Jaw, “An: -act to prohibit the torrowing,of money in _Alinojs,* % ‘Cho first effect of gio vyehérnble Senator's little bit would befor mortgage creditors to domaqu)fall payment of tholr toangs tho In- stant thoy, became duat the second effect «would be to demand enough additional Inter eston any monuy hereattur foanod to cover Any probable or possible taxation and leave asinall profit besides, Instead of farmers obtaining chenper rates of Inturest and longer {fue of payinent, the rates wonld be th- “stantly ralaed and the timo shortened, ‘The sin Would work tischief to the borrowers Bi Qe of nv good to anybody, It Is a short- a nted, foolishly-coneetyed scheme, “and shoutd be allowed to sleep in the Committee the sleop that knows no waking. Tho “advanced” Muanciers and legislators of Tilndis having discovered ‘that tho taxa- tlon Of. inortgages on real estate is double taxatlon;-t! toy may in thine diseover that the taxation off mortgages or asslgninents on all forms of perggyal property ty.also double taxation, a9 of heeessity all taxes on credits miutst be, aud, having maile that discovery, they should promptly repeal all laws provid- ing for such taxation, “ oes Tur Hon, Phifetus Sawyer, who was nom- inated Inst evening by the Ropublican members of tho Wisconsin Legisiature ns. their caudifgte for Unitod Stutos Senator, {3 one of tha moat fo- marknble mon, i, somo respects, that hus ever resided In that mpllant HRopublican State. Mr. Sawyor was burn Iu Vermont about sixty years ago, of voor parents, and his early life was apent in alding hls fattior to support n large family on one of tho hilly, ‘focky, aterile farins for which the Greou Mountain Stato tis long been famous, His seanty educntion consisted tn auch knowledge ag ia acquired by threo months’ attendanca orch winter at the district school and suoh mifsvelluncous bits of reading oa a furmer'a boy {3 en abled to plex up during tho long, winter oventngs. At the ago of 17 ho purchased his tine of bis father, nad emigrated to the then Territory of Wisconsin, and hired out by the Inonth to work In a aaw-mill, All be brought with Lim from Vermont way good hentth, good. habits, stern Integrity, tennclty of purpose, and adcterm{natton to be o manawong mon. He soon saw better opportunities for making money than working by the month, aud ‘be improved them; for he pogsossed raro bust- ness tact, onergy, and sneucity, all of which he put to good usc. Me wis soon known as onu of tho richuat lumberimen In Wis- consin, and ag a tunn whoso comprebensive iaind and eorminon senso might well be wtllized Tor the benelit of his fellow-citizons and the public. Sr. Sawyer was accordingly sent to the: Lexislature, and after that be was twice mnde Mayor of the Clty of Ovhkush. Thon It was determined (1801) to elect Republican in tho Sixth Congressional District. of Wiscun- aln, which contained about 2,000 Democratic mujority, and Mr. Suwyer wag chosen to make the ruce. He ucevptod the nomination, and went ubout his canvuss, a8 he did overytuing else ho undertook, to win, and win he did by handsome mijority. Five times he carried that district, and it was only lost to the Republicans, and Gubv Bouek elected, after Philetus Sawyer dedlined peremptorily to be any lonyer a candi- date, . is ten years in Congrosa, from 181 .to 1871, covered tho most Important and exclting period of our Nutlonal history, and cailed for tho exercise of tho Lost talent und greatest wis dom that the country.cuuld produce, Mr Lin- coln bad great ndidiration for whut ho,used ta call. Sir. - Sawyor's “‘"horso sense.” * and often consulted with him In the dark days of tho Reballlon in regard to the cone ductof public affairs,“ Sawyer bad risen from Ky obscurity, like Mr. Lincoln,—ono wags a ralle aplitter, nnd the other was a Saiwyer,—ond they hud many things in common. Now thathe bus bean elected to the United States Sennte fo pluco of Augus Cameron, he will carry with blm tho’ rich experience that ‘yas acquired by his ten yenrs of active suryice in the House, to which is added the vensible theory that ecopoiny and frite uallty can be applied to the, public service ag " well ns to private business, Mr. Sawyer ta to be congratulated upon bulng chosen to represonta Stato that contains many able. and worthy mun, and tho Republleau party of Wiscunaln will ueverregfot having clovyated him to such au honorable poaltion, —_—— Tne Democrats inves. one plalu motive to Keep the membership of the House under the new apportionment us low ns possible. In pro- portion as the mombershfo fs {ncreased the Hep- resentative divisor Is diminished, and the lurgo States vain relutively to tho small Btates. The North has the four largest States in the Union; hence It would deriyo a considerable advautage froma tig Hours, Tho workings of tho rule tay Ge seon pintufy in such States as Naw York and Ilinots on the one hand, and South Carolina and Arkungas, on the ‘other. ‘faking round nurnbers for the auke of convontenco: Supposo tho population of ‘New York to lo .5,000,000; of IN inols, 9,000, of Bouth Curollna, 1,000,000; and of Arkansas, 800,000, If the Representative divisor should bo 170,000 (ag ft would bo neurly on the basta ot 203 mombers) New York would have thirty memucra (one on-a fraction), AlWuols oighteen members, Houth Curolloa aix imombers (nearly), ond Arkansas fyo members (one on a fraction. If, now, the membership shoulg be increased, and tho dy faor dhiainished tp 160,000, which would be ubiout tho true figure, ‘New York would have: thirty- threo membors (0 gain of three), Ulinols twenty (a gain of one) South Carolina alx (tho sume ng before}, and Arkangus only five, ug before. The two Northorn States would thus gain four, and thotwoHouthern States none, The full-etfect of changing the rutio in giving propondoranco to tho lurger Stutes may be seen from the fuct that on Mr, Cox'y plan of 001 mombera tho Southern States will havo glx of tho now scouts anu tho North only two; while {na House of 25, tho North would get soventeon of tho thirty-two now mombors and the Soyth only difteen. Tho dlminishing of tho ratio.by :2,000 makes a great diiference tu tho quotiont whon tho dividond fa ag lurye as fn the case of Now Yurk, but dues not afect In the samo, degrce n smuallur dividend Buch og thal presentgd by South Carolina or Are Kunsag, In tho ono cggo tho difference of 10,000 oveurtlug to euch of thirty dibtticts ylvoa tho Bate an additiondl population of 600,000 to bo ropresonted!'while, fo ¢Re athor, being mutti+ plied by orfy five add si¥ respectively, It pro- duces an ‘diduitionil reprosentative population of only 100,000 and 10,600 respectively, — ears. A MACHINE-ONGAN clalming to be a news- Puper printed in this efty hud @ turgid sereod yesterday * Abont Boltery." It sald; ‘Thia business of. holting his become tho great and yrowiny evil which threatens the disintuygras ton of the Képubticun party, Men go conventions and cauguyys of that party fully ved, if thoy do wot win, to bolt. ‘hoy did It In the: it Conventions lust sumninert thoy did it In th! National Convention in June; they are dolyy it in -Senaturial cuntests thls winter, “Goveriity sunorablo tens foccuibeltse hace nye 4 vepte theo yf uaivelsion of the wajuritys eee Tho muoblue organ dovs not specify the Stato Conyouttons ft rofers to, ‘Thera hn been uo bolt: iuday Northorn Republican Btuto Conyputiun thit) yout’ Thera was abylt intho Loulsaua *Itgffabifein Convontion fust spring, but the ma- ching Orgau supported and appluuded It. There wasjalsonn unprovoked and Indefonslble bolt from 'tho Conk County Conyention held in Fare woll {At Inat Mny, Dut the machine organ des olurod,suat nlso to be en uot of tho purcst and Most oxulted patriotism, Thore was no bolt froin the Litinols tate Convention of tho Ropube eau party, nor fram the National Cunvonution, Oxceptot.n fow delegates who.wore " bolted” Out by the-Comtuittco on Crojentiuls, ‘Tho mae ohine orgun bos mixod its fucta and fyures, Ut recallg tho familar adago that "It mukes a heap of ditfereuce whose vx js gored.” te Tue fact that the, fon. E. W, Keyes failed torccolvo tho nomination Inst night us the He- publican canaidaty for United Stytes Senator Trom,Wisconsth ynust not-be tukon asun erie , Gouoe of that geqteman's unpopularity or uns worthiness, Lig Napotoon at Watorloa, Mr. Aeyos bad to succumb to suporior numbers, bis opponent, Mr. Sawyer, belpg in charge of the heaviest battalions, Yhe. support thug dr, Koyos recolved (wo years ago when s candidate ayalost T, Oj Howe and Mate. H. Curpenters, both, 188i—TWHLVE PAGIEN, of whom hind served In tho Senate, was no sub- stantial that he led both his conspicuous op- ponents on avery vote for over ulnety bollote, and wns only defeated nat nat by a unlin of tha Howe and Carpenter forecs, Thie your he hos received un ine dorsemunt frim' tho tepubiican preas af tho Statd and prominent gentlemen of whieh ans min might well be proud. Moro than soventy nNowspapers, among thom sume of tho ablest and most widely clrowlutod in the Republican party, havo given Mr, Koyes ncordint and Intelligent support and urged his election ta the Senuto ia placo of Angus Cameron, with earnest onthusl- Asin, Thathehas.not been chosen is not bis fautt, nor the fault of hia frionts, and should cause fielthor of thom any more regret than 1s {neldent to such a disappointment, It Mr. Keyes will carefully oxamine tho Net of dofent+ ‘od uandidutes for the Senate in othor Stites, he will find hitnsetf In quite us good compiny, and Otte almost as numerotts, as If ho had been elected, he —$- CorFek from Coutral America, it 's prom- {sed, will bu ono oF the firat fritits of a liberal eammnercint policy and new rullways penctrat~ Ing that aectton, Tho Central Ameriouna eliian greater productivences for the cuifee plint with thom thau fs tho engo with the Brazilian plant- cra, Two pounds to the tree is sald tu be tho ordinary yield in Central America, ong pound in Brazil, und a half-pound in Coyton, tn a come munication to the Sun Franelsco Merchant, Mr. Caleb 'T. bay glyes the appended table of our yearly purchases of tropleal productions, which could be exported by the Central Ameri¢an Re- publics: Mein Jute and grosses, Sugar and mulasses . Tobacco and clynes. sere. Cabinet wood... Paper materiala, 4, Total Mn. Enasrva Brovxs' resolution, lutro- duced in the New York Assembly, calling on tho Judieinry Committee of that bods to report on tho expedioncy and constitudonnilty of amend fngtue Election flaws sv as to muke a provtical Auplication of thelr requirentonts to voting at primary meotings, waa adopted by a unanimous vote. Tho New York Jincs and tho nowspapers of the Stato gonerully, without diatinetion of party, heartily approve tho suggestion. -Itisa well-known fuot, as tho Times anys, that In New York Clty the primury action of tho Republicans fg tnien by a mumber of assoctations whose meniberahip constitutes fess thun one-tenth of tho votorsof the party, Othor ubusos almost os ‘flngrant provail in othor purts of the State, and fudeed throughout the United States, By wecuring some system of reylstration which Would guarantea party men and no othors tho right to vote at primaries the evils complained of would Lo, to a great extent ut least, doncaway: with, It is belleved that yuters might bo ine duced to como out at primaries If thoy wero ns- Sured that their honest vallota would not bo overslaughod by those of pursena not entitled to Vote, oe ‘Tne following table shows the popuiation of a number of States and ‘Territories as mulo Gud female, nutive and foreign: Statea, Totat. | Mate.) Pent. (Nattve, |For'n. Calttornia| 8684,090{519,271| 81 or, . Conne ctr) 622.083 305,880 10) 80 Dehuware,| 148, 74.168 24 AG | B18 25] 57,243) 1 GAB ANG (A OS ee UT 8 | GYR00 Musaach's| OSU] ROH, GEE | m5 | 1,850,070 448,716 Michigan, 802,258 | 774.057 | 1,207,988 [Bas Ho Nebraska, PGT 209,107)“ BHS,OU) UT,EIKD NJ TBE Oy 2,U80) BOO,BODI SED A Oreg Wh3gs] T1070] 144,07)" D00 XK, Taland., 105,004 /48,400) 202,600) 78,000 8, Caroll'u! ABET OULUTY) Oh Ta Vermunt, 100,883 | 105,008] | StH HO] 40,016 Virginia, 725,597 1708,050)1, 407,005) 14,038 West Vir. a4, 39|Ba3,e06] ‘Gos ArO) 18223 D't.of Col, OSS) EXCL) BEO14F 160,03) 37,116 Idaho. 21,818] 10,703} .! U8 BR LBO| 10077 ei2] 1LGIS U We300T| TAT} U9,i06] GUUTa) AAS a ‘Tire removal of the duty on quinine hasn’t matorlally dininished the price of that Jrug, In. 1890 tho avernga of cost was avout $2.00, the maximum being §).25, the winilinun $2.60. ‘This lg nbuut the sumo us the quotations for quining “between 187 and 1878, Che reagon way tho price has notcome down is that duties on caustig sadn, oug of tho necessitics ,of quinine manu- facture, and on fueil-oll, which i¢ used ns solvent, have not been removed, Morcoyer, wo nya duty of 10 per cent on all bark not Import- ed in Americun ships. .Ag the treo is grown by Incans Of Engilan cupltal and usually on English territory, the product goes in the ordinary course of things first to Londun, whenco it Is tynnehipped to Atwerien,. Tho purehnse of tho bark by tho cargofor Amorlean use would be a bazardous venture, and prictlouty all tho barle 4s imported from England, anda duty of 10 per cunt pald on It recording to law, : ‘ — ‘Vio Woonttunt, who {3 now in London, snysitisalt a erucl calumny. Sho never be- Neved Iu free love, Some of hor subordinates wrote up the subject in hor paper when sho wags, away on lecturing tours; but, bless hee innocent: heart, sho didn't understand whit they mennt, So she writes to tho Court Journal. [tis under stood that Victorin had a rood chanco to marry, but tho innteh was broken off beonuro of somo rumors of her early escapudes, Hence theso tena. In the United States tha finpresalon bas ‘been that the worst things Victorla Woodhull did were by no smenns in her paper, <<a AN act providing for minority representa- tion in corvorntion elestious wns ratitied by the people of New Humpshiro at the Inte etcotion by fh vote Of 22,600 to 10,375, and went into effect on tho 16th Inst. It allows stockholders in public companies to give nlt tho votes to which thoy aro ontitied to ono peraon In electing ofticara, or todistriute thom ainong two or more persons, ns thoy prefor. . In this way. a minority of the stockholders enn insure themaclyes representa. Mon In proportion to thulr Interest, by eumu- lating or piling tholr voto on a amalt number of candidates, Se Renn ERENT Pratt, tho now Senator fron New York, is nota talker. It fynot known that he opened hiv mouth for» speech during hls two terma in tho House, Mfr. Fatr, of Novada, t6 also n allont “worker,” Bo nro Mr, Oliver, the cuncus nom!- neo from Pennsylvania, and Mr. Cameron, tha Present Senator. Sr. Suwyor, of Wisconsin, 1s not an orator by any meuns; though an eflictent commiticeman, On tho other band, Besars, Halo and Fryo of Maine, Hawley of Connecti cut, and Congorof Michlgin aro forcible and elfect{yo speakers, ———_— ‘Tne growth of cities at the expense of the country generally In tho United States has been becoming more marked during tho wholy of tho InatJiiy yeurg, In 1850 our total urban popula Hon was only about one-stxteanth of tho whotc. In J850 fthad grown to La ono-mphth, In 1870 it wae ono-Hfthi and tn 1860, out of about itty nilltions of juhabltauts, wore than cloven and a halle quititons lived inthe cites, —s— Ex-lurvr.-Cdv, Buusan: ‘Tho Chlengo Eventiy Journal und nobody -connocted with tt fg u candidnte for uny oilice below President of tho United Stutua—Journat, But Promiery of tho Iitebon Cablyof Js tho power, babind the throne, greater thun tho throne ieclf, Think of that, and reconsider your rash reaoly P nn Tue crafty lea-denlers of San Franelsco Baye z trick that dova bonor ta the trade, They annually buy up the crop of un Alaska ica come pany to the amount of 10,000 tons, which !u Joft to suelt whore it Is cut, whilo Sau Fronelsco and California are served with Ico artificially made at an exorbitant price, ——————_— ‘Tue centre of population has moved alittle south as well a¥ west Ju the tavt decade, It was ten yours ago nenr the City of Coluinbus, O, It is now just over the Judlang burdor on a boos Mine drawn between Cincluuatl and Iidlanapolis, a * ‘Tuey call the new Seuntor from Connuctl- cut Gullaut Jo Hawley” because ho is the only btu fu publie life and tho firvt mun in thy Stato who eolisted us "a high private inthe front rank” aud camo out a Major-General, ne PERSONALS, Wada Hampton has’ Just purchased a now artidvial lex. Hly addres tlt Columbia, 8. C, AAlgpatch from ‘Erle, Pa, saya that Col, BRobort G. Jagersall broke down at tho funeral of hls slstor on Buturday, and could nut deliver tho oration ng expected. In appearance ho hag eget ten yonrs since Friday. Very ant nows comes from Detroit, One of tho papors thero tnlka seriously of enlarge ing. 4 Cinetnnatl gas stocle ling taken an Wex. pected rie, stiee no editor'bf that city has dicg for aeveral yenta, at King Osenr, of Swedon, has published 4 volume of pocms, Peoplo unfamiliar with the Swedish language aro tn luck, Tho expression, "t should smiley” ts be Heved to have orlginnted In Canada. "Thay country consumed 5,000,000 waltona of whisky Jast yenr. “Tnotiee that a young man in Omaha hag committed suicide beenusvot frequontand heasy Josges nt poker, A jiek inthe hand Ia worth: two. in tho deck."+S, J. Pilden. Mr. Wheeler, who Is soon to bo tried fop murder in Sin Feanelseo, has bad two fumnte lawyers appolnted by tho Court to defend hia, Misfortunes nover como alngly. A young Indy at an Enstern cotleze 19. cently struck n male student with ‘& club, ine Meth serious jnjurtes. Cocducation fy a goud thlng—provided tho boys go armed. ‘The Cinelnnatl Commerciat ts to put up a new butlding. Cincinnati, it will be remine bored, Is I Ohto, whleh fs near enough to Che engo to glvo It some prominence, Iu National atic, a Tho widow of Ole Bull says that she ts not golug to marry BJOrnstjerne 1Urngon, the Nor. Weulin poet, This will be good news to Mrs, BjOrnstJerno BjOrnson and her tive ebildren, who wre Nving In Norway, Frineu, Leopold fs to net as best man to Lord Brvoke on tls marriage to Misa Florence Evelyn Maynard, eldest daughter of tho lato Col. Maynard. The Indy Is tho beauty and belre css to whom tho goselps some tine alive said tho Prinee was betrothod, ‘ Mr, Gerald Paget, fourth son of Lord Ate fred Paget, and hie wife have beon hunting in Wyoming and Montann Territorles, whore one night thoy slept in an open tent with the thor. ‘Moinotor 29 degrees below zero, and tho wolves howllug about thom. Ono §g not surprised to {earn that Mr. Paget and his wife ench wore four balers of woolen sucks, with moccasins over thom, and fur shoes over nll. ——— PUBLIC OPINION. Buffalo Express (Rep.): Au Ameriean can buy everything ho wants—it he hos money enough—except a ship, Thatho la not perinitted to buy, ut any price, unless Jt Is Dusit Jn this country. Buffalo E:press (Rep.): The Expresz would be glad to sea tho comet of 1881 n great polltfen! and moral reronernting power. Let tho four of it Ue sedulously cultivated, and thore Ig no Khowlng what good may result. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution (Dem.): Wo have every reagon to bolleve that Mr. Bialne will make the Department of State ns respect able and us brilliant na it was before It was dis. graced under the Aduilnlatrations of Gen, Grant and Mr, Hayes, At auy rate, lot us hope so. The Legisinture of the State of Vermont bua told an noxious world just what 1 tramp js, These nro the words: “Amato person over 16 years of nge (not a blind person), rotog nbout from place to pinceand aking or subslsting ‘upon charity, or whois without ascertainable neans of legitimate subsistence, shall be deemed a trump. Washington Post (Dem.): Since a Repu Uean minority, under tho lend of such a man ot Conner, has demonetrnted its capneity to dom. unto a Doiocratic majority inthe Forty-stxth Contress, itis but reasonable to suppose that a Ropublicun majority in the Forty-soventh Cone gress, undor almost any Jouder, will be able te tuke cure of itselfe The New Yorke Sun made tho statement that Dantel O'Rellly, the Brooklyn member, bad not beon In his sent this season, On Monday Sr. O'Reilly made a personal explanation, suying be bad not been absentaday. O'Rellsy said be Wontdn't have noticed the matter but for tho fact that his wife out tho statement from tha newapaper, and wrote, * Where tro you, Dant* Vicksburg Herald: Chartie Nooker [mem ber of Congress from Misstsa{ppl] 1 a good man, A very good man, a very eloquent, talented man. He 1g very sucial, tov, But he shouldn't get too convivial in the House of Reproseutatives. Ie should pot foruet that tha Merald wets all tha, news from Washington now, A winks’ ts ag gould 9.8 nod toa Dilud horse. Memphis Appeal (Bourbon): Jelferson Davis is nota traitor, aud to dewand ellence of hitn ig to admit that our long fino of martyrs, with the plous and heroic Jackson nt thelr head, Woro traitors all. Let {t not be required of us te place the brand of Infamy upon the grave ot tho yreatost Christian soldier tho world husever iproduced, or to repudiate tho Ilving representa: tive of our cause by deny toy him the liberties of unexro. Philadelphia, Bulletin Rep.) Blaine, be ingn Mainy mon, haga very strong feeling re- specting tho fluhery question, and particulary with regard to tho scandalous frauds by meant of whiob Canada ewladled ug outet tye anda hal€oniilions of dollars. We ought to ‘inked Tormuldemnnd for tho return of this money, ‘and tho opinion prevails that Mr, Evarts, In do- clining to present auch a dumand, 18 ‘displaying mitch too great caution, Mr. Mialne, if he bal succoed Mr, Kvarts, will probubly not fmitate his example, St. Louls Globe-Democrat: One of the paragraphs of the Detroit Free Press isto tho elfvet that lovely woman doca not believe ult that sho reads Inthe dnlly papers; it Is only whon sho pay ber dollarto tho cinirvoyant that she oxpeots to get tho salld truth, No better Muatration of thie gould Ya found than the ac Uon of tho fair denoaltora in the Woman's Bank of Boston, who, Instund of seeking to punish the fraide who guaranteed thot 8 por cent a mouth - on their deposits, have clubbed together to re- tain a lawyer for the defense, und tre contident that tho bankors will pay If thoy are only given Afilrobunce. Chore is a bnutewltted old cul: ored woman In Bt. Loula iho jhrows a i dent of light on ber religious beller by sayings “Tulways pray to the Virgin Mary; Lnever pray to tho Father nur to tho Son, "Yo tell the truth, [never did have any contidence in men. The Boston deposftors are of ber way of thinks ing; thoy never did huve any confidence In men, ‘but when ft comes to trustiag one of thelrown aux no indietment from a Grand Jury could shake their confidence, Vicksburg Heratd (Dom,): As we are ot tho class of Southern men who bellove It best for both races to treat the colored race with ex- uot justice, and recoguize uny claims leading colored men bave, we feel i¢ duo tu hin to say 6 wood word for Senator Bruce before his term expiroa, Ho will go out of oftico very dilferent ¥ to tho way ho went ju, Aftor a strugeo wih tho curpot-lagyers be was triumphantly elecied to tho Umted Stutea Sennte. He was fooked ‘upon with distrust and bitterness by tha Demo: ctuts of tho Stute, for it was oxpected ho would nuke himself un oifensivo purtisan, While be has always acted with hie party, be has does? Ina manner that bas allayed bitterness. He bas novor lndulged In abusing tho South und Souths ern noople and be bas been as trud ug stcol te Bouthorn {ntorosta, In ono way bo bine galied the heurty esteem and codperation of luwdllng fuurboriies ate f i much opposed io pies wumgers and thelr ireitating work ys any Del craveun be, Hols hourtity in favor of tho races In tho Bouth regulating thelr own sffalrs with: out the ald of men who murély scok ollie a4 8 nicans of plundering both races ulike. ‘Thomns O, Platt, New York's noxt United Btutes Benator, fs no friend af Civil-Service re form, Io takca Conkling’ vlow of that subject: In a apcech dolivored nt Rochester, in 1877, be aul}; “ Thoro i one subject of political discu* sion which donimyoys have maguitied into uae aeomly proportions, [refer to the incessant ceF whioh fs rilsed that tho Republican purty plodyod to reform in thy Civil Service, Hungry expectanta of ollico stand on street corners any shout the sbibboteth ll they ure hoarse aay woary, Thy Independent Journullat rolls it a4 aweot inorel undor his tonguo, and dilly bu! it In tho face of 8 uausented public, The Bitty Bulls and Crasy Horses of tho Tammany tried invarporute it tn tholr war-whoops, and are Pet slatent in demanding that the most rae schemes for tho readjysting of the publicscr’ rm should be rigidly gntyrced against ail kent Heavy, iy unquestionably | trie tr the Republican: party {a pledged to tntez, rity du tho Civil Bervive, an ry know dovs fio! nu Feed, lepul who that it shall thik any TI Ita pledges Or dlyugreomont, if tore be nny, is Involved vers hiothods of vocomplisting the object. Aa tite dorstand the easy, tho Republica purty 13, pludged to nny plus of Civil-Service rer which iy not proctical in its bourhngs and xt, exal fn its upplication, equally applica Ne avery State in tha Unton and every ¢ Eat of the Government, ns binding upon the Cal 4 ollver us upon the tide-watier, ov eurneally bowed to politieul faverittein in the bleh Bs a8 well avin the low, The Mepnblicar Gi ce Dot pledged to any m of Civil. ete os reforn which abridves 10 any deyrou the Fant uurunteed to avery Atnericau citizen Uy Vy Constitution of tho United states und the lene Tuo Reputlican party ly not pledged to any aa or Civil-Bervico reform which tost ae. ‘snd men ure sincere Iu believing will demorg ies ‘be destroy tho organigaon and result lundety thump) ne shat old purty of Spolte and prerevee Whowu past curcer and present course, WHEE Tebolds amiss denmulnate iy to po tho luvetcooe =: fue of return.”