Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1881, Page 1

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UnES of T ke, . aceariance with the Crok Lol ieations uf th snino wow on flo at ;. 4 aen J, R, Archituet, oo 2 e e i 011 izmes UG aceiminanted by o penal bond ity i Thoneand D execuie o o0 miasluners, Jul oo formancs aurailos iy the sum of Fivo renteeing thut tho blddor whil nll’ml\{ required I\{ the Boand of Com- ni nlso furnish s further bond In the M Tho contruet for tho propor pors the sune, i Tiond and Proposal will e fur- Pemted torm W RN Architat's Ofica, signed o8 BRI wecess {0 tho Pluns and Spocls e, Fiy' i tha urder of appllention ot tno Ufico of tho Archilect, e oe il blda e resorvad, "Fho right to zeleq Commiminnoars of Cook jer of the Boned bt FOmIBIMIDNOT Ly of Clerk, gontty < DRMNIFING IMATERIAL AL Abbott & (o, 147 State-st, Painting and Draw- | ing Naterial, I FINANCIAL, GERTARD FOREILAN 0. 102 Washington-st., OFFER FOR S8ALE CAREFULLY SELECTED INVESTMENT SECURITIES Paying from 5 to 7 per cent Interest, HONEY TO LOAN On Improved Real Estate at Current rates. MEAD & COE, 149 LaSalle-st AX LOWEST RATES i b BAIRD & BRADLEY, Mada promptiy b7 oo A 07,0 oAt “MONEY T0 LOAN o Improvod City Propery and ou liinols Farme.at | : RISALL, VOSE & Co. e > 1 el bune tutidto, SLEIGHS, Sleighs, Sleighs, AT COSE, T0 CLOSE OU'T, AT STUDEBAKER BROS. MANURG. CO., 101 & 163 WABASI-AY, SELECT TAILORING, T NOTICE! 20 per cent Discounton all heavy Winter Garments, during Feb- ruary, 1881, and 10 per cent Discount on all other Garments during same time. EDWARD ELY & €0., Tailor OPTICIAN. ! Fine Bpectacies sulted to all sights on actontifia Priociples. 0 il ¥ Bl iR, L Clacs Tircovon 41 CEAN NAVIGATION, [7) NORTI GERMAN LLOYD. New York--London--Paris. \Bteamers sail Every Saturday from New York 1or Southampton and Jiremon. sTinencors bookad for London wnd Parts at weetrates, Halos of pusssge trom New York to outhauipton, Lundons, lavrs, and Lremen, trat @bin, 807 sccund-claws eabun, £ g {uru tickets ot requced rates. ¢ 4 N IIIH& ( N. V. 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ZZERESEA%E: it s EIET L L ELE L LTI F LR R L E R L L L LT LR LG E T L LT T L E L L LE L LT FREE LR R AL L E LR ELL P L ELEE R LERE R LA R R AT LT BT LR ET R T AT E LT BT L EL LT LR LT LEZES 18 15 13 12 I8 =a i [ il 14 1 15 13 15 £ § 8 B azz2sgagaaszdaanzanniais E<EEAEESERESSSEEZES i) nirsolors, - S S S S S S £LLELEToESSLLTLLTIITIIIIL 2T = EECEoCaaatonana EEEERE ZZEEEEESE crcreie) ) AT A A A A Rt 3 E<<FLEIIILITE P e e CEGECGCEEaaaoaast LR GEE =% Police Department, CITY OF CHICAGO, GIICAGD, 10, Jan, 1, 1881, Publisher of ** Saturday Night"'s Dear Sir: From occur- rences within myknowi- ¢dge and experience while in the detective service, I have furnished for publication in “Sat- urday Night” a local Detective Story,--THE LEAGUE OF CRIME. Chicago mnever had a more formidable combi=- nation of ¢riminals than those who formed this League. Thewholestory relates to their doings in the City of Chicago and suburbs. The boldness and ex- pertness of criminals, and the methods and plans they adopt for the successful carrying out of their various schemes, are beyond belief by the thousands of good peo~ ple in our midst. Yours truly, E. J. KEATING, Fx-Chef of Defectives, Chicago Polico Force. TILIS (el Delecivo Slry, THE LEAGUE OF CRIME! WILL BE FOUND IN THIS WEEK'S "Saturday Hight” NOW READY, AND FOR SALE BY NEWSDEALERS EVERYWHERE., Ask for No. 23, WHICH CONTAINS THE BEGINNING OF THE LBAGUE OF CRINE! Police Department, CITY OF CHICAQO, CHICAGD, M, Jan, 1, 1881, Publisher of **Saturday Night": Dear Sir: From occur= rences within my knowl- edge and experience while in the detective i|service, I have furnished for publication in “Sat- urday Night” a local Detective Story,~-THI LEAGUE OF CRIME. . Chicago never had a more formidable combi= nation of criminals than those who formed this League. The wholestory relates to thelr doings in the City of Chicago and suburbs. B The boldness and ex=- pertness of criminals, and the methods and plans they adopt for the successful carrying out of thelr various schemes, aré*boyond belief by the thousands of good peo= ple in our midst. Yours truly, E. J. KEATING, Bx-Cliof of Deectives, Chiago Police Force, DA WA DA 1% DA DA A A DA i B 1% IXY DA A DA DA JA tDA DAY, SESESSEESSSSIICEE SR by thelr deeds of violence and injustice and A GRAPIIE PARAGRAPID mj};e @:x’ihfinfl, Sttt Sareny fo it hamt 1o | A PPORTIONMENT, | Tuis b sati sroster s than tho et THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, IS8t Srxator MoraAx’s Eleetoral Count reso- lution was ndopted by the Senate yesterdny after a long debate, In whieh Senators Thur- man, nunds, Ingafls, 11 of Geore gln, Junes of Florida, Garland, Eaton, and Blalue partlelpated. An amendinent proposed by Mr, Edmundy, that the count take ptace In the Senate Chamber, amd not in the hell of the IMouse, way rejeeted by n vote of %5 to 22, nnd an amend- ment by Enton to strike oul the words In the resolution “as they shinll be declared,” and substitute therefors thie words *as Lo certificates shall ho opened,” was rejeet- ed by a vote of 33 to 27, Thurinan and other Democrats voling against ity aithongh in nc- eordanee with Dumocratle ldery ns an- neunced and enunciated four years ago that the Viee-Prestdent hind no power in the watter of counting the vote, During the debate, Ben 11 and Thurman stated that they hud no doubt that the vole of Georgla ourht not to be counted for Iluncock on ne- eount of the fact that the Eleetors did not meet on the day provided by law, [aton pertinently remarked that neither I nor Thurman would say so If the vote would eleet Haneock, e NorwirnstaxniNo the nretion yesterday morning of the Speaker of the llouse of Commons In stovping further debate on the motlon for introducing the Irish Coerclon bill, the Irish members so mannged to ob- struct business that, although M, Gladstone and Mr, Forster were quite anxtous to pro- ceed with the consideration of the bill, the louse was obliged to adjourn at 8 o'clock Iast eveninz without making the siightest progress with the measure, One member sarenstienlly moved the, adjonrnment of the Iouse to give the Speaker op- portunity to lovk up. precedents for nis cnetlon” In cutling off debate; ane other member gave as. his reason for obstructing, the desire to prevent Mr. Forster from maoking an inflammatory speech. As if to foreibly show the state of public opinlon in Ireland, My, Parnell, just before adjourn- ment, introduced a new recruit {o his follow- ing tn the person of Mr, Redmond, who was elected from New Ross last Monday., Tur Presldent sent & message to the Nouse yesterday, accompanylng the report of the Ponca Commission. Ile difters mate- rially from the conclusion of the Comnls- stoners, and holds that the evidence given before them amply proves that those gf the tribe who are located in Iudizn Territory are qulte well satistied with thelr present quar- ters, Herecommends that thoge who remnln in Dakota ought to be allowed to continue there. lle then proceeds to autline a general Indian policy, which would embraco the ciluention of younger. members of the trlhes, so ag {0 At them for the dutles of citizenship; tho allotment of land among the members in severalty; o folr eompensa- tion for such Iands as aro not used by the Indlans; and in time he ‘would havo tho Indians Invested with-the rights, privi-’ leges, duties, and responsibilities of cltizen- ship. The President recommends the appli- cation of these principles to the cgse ot the Poncas, Brsck small-pox, said to hava been communieated by Russlan Immigrants on their way to Yankton, hias prevailed at Jof- ferson, Union County, Dakotn, a French Canadian settlement, for soveral weeks, When tho disease first broke out the peopie of the settlement were wholly unacquainted with its contugious nature, and the funerals of fho first vietms were largely attended, which of course tended to the spread of the dread pestilence, At the present time there are no less than sixty crses nnder weatment; thirty-two persons have died, nnd several other fatal cmses are predieted. The district Is completely lsolated, and the people of Sioux City, la, and Elk Dolnt, Dak., are doing all In thefr power to keep 1t so, while at the same time thoy are working with vigor and energy to nlleviate the suilerings of the unfortunate people. Arameeting of the Tory leaders which was attended by Lord Beaconsfled yester- dny, it was resolved to oppose certain por- tions of Mr. Gladstone's resolutlon to put an ond to obstruction. Mr. Gorst, onc of the lenders of tho fourth party, Is strongly opposed to the resoclution as It stands, Mr. Parnell will move it vote of censuro on the Speaker, which will Le rojected, of course, and Mr, Sullivan will move an amendment to Ma Gladstone's reso- Intlon that a select conunittee bo appointed to Inquive into the mode of condueting pub- lis business. Several othermotions of n dila- tory character will bo proposed, and another doso of obstruetion and another row is prom- Ised in tho *first assembly of gentlemen in the world,” EvEY Radleal journals like the Pall Mall Gazctte npprove of Speaker Drand’s actlon {u putting sn ond to the debate on the Irish Coorclon bill, It acknowledges that the courso adopted was revolutionary, but, sup- posably on the ground that the devil must ho fought by fire, 1t commonds the netion us Justiflable and necessary. Mr, Gladstona's hill to provent obstructlon in the faturo pro- poses to glvo the Spenker power to cut off debnte, and confers on that functlonary full diseretion, ‘The 8t, James Guzette, the orgnn of the Young Torles (tho _Fourth party), condemns this measuro ns execedingly revo- Intfonary, and as an nvaslon of tho rights of minoritles, ‘The Pull Mull Gazelte also con- demns tho proposed nmeasure.s —— AFTENR ncontest with Reagun, who wanted his Inter-State Commerco bill brought for- ward, and our own Sparks, who wanted tho itz John Yorter ense coushlered, Cox got perinission of the Ilouso to tuko up his Ap- vortionment bill yesterday, 1le then pro- eeeded to exptain the provislons of the bil), which have already been set forth in theso columns, Ile indulged ina pretty pieco of oratory nbout the growth of the country In wealth, population, and prosperity ; referved fotho westward courso of the star of em- pire and the added ULrillianey which the Houthern cross has attained durlng the pust decode. The House generously upplnuded, nud, nfter tho concluslon of the speech, ad- Journed, . AT o meeting of the IRoman Catholle clorgy of the Archdioceso of Boston, held .at the vesldence of Aychbishop Willlams yesterday, resolutions wora adopted oxpressing sy pathy with the Irish people in their efforts to seeuro o reform of the land luws, aud pledg- Ing them moral and materlal support, The prinelples of the Land Leaguo as set forth by tha buffalo Conventlen were Indorsed, and the attempts of emlssarivs -of socret thelr wild mouthings were vigorously con- demned, SeerETAry Scivnz osent to the Senate yesterday a copy of the report of the Ute Commisslon, and eoples of other documents relating to the Utes and other . Indlans, and with it a letter In which he defends hlmselt against the charge matde by Senator Dawes that he veluntartly amd willtully withheld in- formation from the Senate. 1o ayserts that heset about preparing coples of tha doen. ments s sonn a9 they were ealled for, and commimieated to Senator Coke as much of their substanee us could have any materlal bearing on any legistation proposed for the Indians fn the Senate this session, ‘I'ne: haegage-ear and passenger-conch of n tratn on the Alr-Line Diviston of the Miehigan Central Railrord were thrown off {he track ot Barron Lake, ahont four mfles east of Nileg, Mieh., yesterday, and one | Cant. Joss, an active politician of Connty, who served in the Unfon army and lost n lex at the Wildernesz, was killed, Col, Waood, the eonduetor, had an arm broken, ik lady passenger was somewhat brulsed, . - =] AN enst-hound stage voach on the San An- tondo & El I'aso line was stopped Tuesday night near Boeme, Tex., by twvoinasked high- waymen. ‘They appropriated whatever was valuabledn the mail-hags and the driver's watel, and then made off, There were nn passengers, The two desperadoes are sup- posed {0 have committed several robberies in the vicinity recently, ——e INTENSE cold prevails all over the East- ern nnd Middle States, The thermometer throughout New Englaud averaged $9 below zero lust night, At Ottawn and other Cana- dian polnts the thermometer marked n stil) lower polnt. A sharp, plereing wind pre- valled at New York, und large masses of fee huve formed at the entranco to several New England ports, ‘I'me. Woman's Natlonal Antl-Polygaumny Soclety, In sesslon at- Salt Lake City, yester- day sdopted resolutlons Indorsing the netion of Gov: Murray in withholding o eertificate of election fram Cannon, and exlling on Con- gress to Indorse the Governor's actlon, and not allow an allen and o lnw-breaking polys- amist to continue ns 2 wewber of that body, Tue Senate Committee on Apprapriations agreed yesterday to recommend that several items In the Post-Oflice Appropriation hill us It passed the llouse he Inereased; among others that $125,000 be added for the Star mall serviee, $50.000 for fust-uail service on trunk lines, $15,000 for mall-bags, rud £50,000 for tast-mall service on stemmbonts, Tite: action of four Deniocrats of the Ten- aessee Loglsiature in voting for Republlcans - for Seeretary of State amd Controller gave vise to ungry discusslons in that body yes- terday, In which the ferms *“lar,” “pol- troon,” “coward,” “scoundrel,” ete,, were freely used. An Investigating Committee has been appoln I W, FAmrclinen, of Petrolia, Ont., who had been u student in the Pharmacy Depart- ment of Miehigan University until the Intter part of December, yesterday shot himself dewd In the presence of two women who came from Detrott to Ann Arbor to visit him, Oneof the women claims to have been his wife. M. GrLADSTONE'Ss house in Downing street is proteeted by polleemen night and day, and hie is guarded by policemen on his way to aud from the House of Commons. ‘The Feulans are suspected of harboring wieked Intentions In reference to the honorable gen- tleman, A nesorrTIoN has heen Introduced Into the City Counell of Concord, N, H., instruet- g the Mayor to shut up all liguor saloons. The resolution will not be ncted on until the end of thy present month, but it causes con- siderable stiv among the lquor men, —— Arcunstior I'eretng, of Cineinnati, 13 very serlously 111 at the Ursullue Convent in Brown County, Ohlo. 1Te has only just re- covered from a severe attack of pnenmoning his rvight sldo is completely paralyzed, and his friends feel that the end Is near, Tne Leglslative, Judicial, and Executive Apbropriatlon bill was reported to the Housn yesterday hy Congressman Atkins, of the Appropriation Committee. 1t recommends that §17,151,000 be appropriated for the varl- ous purposes numed in the bill, Winnias MeKissey and Colunbus Cass, oneun Blder in the Methodlst Chureh and the other a Sunday-school superintendent, quarreled near Somerset, Ky., last Monday, Cass knocked McKinney down and beat his heud ton Jelly with un ax. CONTROLLER GURNEY'S repost to the Fi- nanee Committes of the Connnon Counell shows that the bonded Indebtedness of the clty at the close of last year was $12,762,000, having been reduced §201,000 during the year, s T tow-boat Joseph W. Genet camo Into colllsion with the propeller Stelln MeCloskey, 1 the Ohto River, near Pittsburg, yesterday, I'ho latter was sunk, and her firemun, Mr. Bults, was drowned, F sy 4 Srxaton Cocxnrry hos introduced abill Inthe Senate providing foy an appropriation of £5,000 for the publiention of .u descriptive eatalog of nll publiv documents from July 4, 1870, to date, Gnear appreliension provalls among the peoplo residing along the lower portion of the Sacramento River that the levees will wive way, Much uneasiness I3 felt at Sacins mento wlso, — Tus; Touse passed tio Distrlet of Columbla” Approprintion bill yesterduy, Soms slight anmendments wero wads on the bill as re- parted by the Appropriation Comnltice, Trix; ‘Town of Scoobi, on tho Mobile & Ohlo Rallvoad, was partially destroyed by fire yes- torday mornisg, The loss I3 estimated at 385,000, ‘Tho Insuranco 187,600, stttk g Two nroTiens naned Kelly and two men omployed by them woera killed veéently by wn uvalanche whilo eatlug tholr supper near Wood Rtiver, Iduho Territory, —————p— PanrTLY cloudy weather, accasional snowy, winds wostly southeasterly, and higher temperaturo ure prousised for this region to- day, Anout one-fourth of the population of Wiscousin—g)2,800—are Romau Catholles, - The Bourbon Valedictory to Be a Gigantic Ger- rymander. Representation in Congress Ahout to Be Divided Among the States. The Ex-Confederacy Will Gain Twelve Votes and the North Six, Speech by 8. 8. Cox, of New York, Introducing the Bourbon Scheme, An Eloquent Effort, Glittering All Over with Stars of Empire. Effcte Monarchies Dragged Nine Times Around the Tem- ple of Freedom. The Floor of Congress Fairly Mopped with the Sub- ject of Census. And Stifl the Wonder Grew that One Small Head Should Carry All He Knew. A Poor Mr. Reagan, with His Great Bill, Compelled Either to 8it Quiet or Oheer Oox, COX’S DAY. 1118 SPEECH, Speetal Dirpateh to The Chicagn Tvidune, WasniNGroN, D. C., Feb, ‘The pros- peets of the consideration or passage of the Inter-State Commerce bill are rapidly dimin- Ishing. There are so many teasures con- stantly coming np which nre consldered by the Ilouse as of more Importance, that the Commerce Lill s repeatedly put ashile. The bills which will be presented to ** antagonize the Reagan bill,” us Congressmen phrase it, Inerense in number and huportance as the end of the sesslon approaches, To-lay My Itengan browght up the bill, whercupon M, Cox, having charge of the Apportlonment mieasure, Immediately raisd the questlon of consideration, and Mr, Reagan was. voted down by 85 yeas to 150 nays, IN ANY EVENT, if the Inter-State Commerce bill could he brought toa vote in the llouse there is not the remotest chance that It cian become a luw in this Congress, as, 1t It should be sent to the Senate, It wonlit be referred to the Com- meree Conmmittee, which would prove fis tamh. Mr. Regan thinks that Mr, Randall is opposed ta the bitl, and that he will, §f pos- sible by auy parliamentary expedient, pre- vent Its conslderation. Cox, atter the JDis- triet Approprintion bill hid been finally d posed of, at Inst hrought up the subjeet of apportionment, und made A VERY ELATORATE AND ELOQUENT SPRECTE upon it. Mr, Cox has a Natipnal reputarion ay n humorist, and does not generally receive the eredit which ho deserves as oo of the most thorotigh students of polities in either Ilouse of Congress, 1Iis speech to-diy, as wag remarked by many of thoso who heard iton buth shdes, will rauk with his best .efforts, It showed great learning, nvast amount of palnstaking research and skitl in arrangement, and was delivered [n fine spirit, ‘Tho speesh was an elaborate history of the censuses of the world, and will be quoted a3 anauthoritative treastise upon that stibjeet. M, Cox did not to-day explain in detnil the scheme of apportionment presenfed by the Committes of which heis Chairman., When that question 13 rerehed Iv whil be found that the measures will meet with tho wnited opposition of the Republicans, and may not secura the upproval of all the Dem- aerats, Mr. Cox Mimself Is opposed lo It, and is QUOTED A8 TIHINKING IT UNFAIIRL The propoesed scheme zives to the South a #nin of twelve Congressmien, while the en- tivo © North and West are given n gain of but six over " the census of 1570, Thoe Southern mambers of the Conunitteo Justify their we- tion by elniming that the census of 1870 was defective in the Southorn States, and that it is but just that the South shoull receivo now what seems tobe a disproportionate Inerense, n view of the fact that for ten years jt has heen doprived of Its proper number, The Tepublicans aro not disposed elther to admit the premiso or to submit to tho conclusion, Inall the numbers presented by Mr, Cox 1t appenred that the old Slave States get not goins over the North, 0 PREVENT THE SOUTHERN STATES from losing, it Is necessary to add twenty-six members to the House, Mr, Cox opposwl the proposition of the Republicans of the Committee, led by Sherwin, of 1linois, to fix the number ut 310, Ho characterlzed this vroposition as n_scheme adrolt for votes but unwise for legisiation, By his bwn plan of 801 ho clatmed the speelal advantage that it would give an additlonrl number of Repro- sentative, and prevent the possibiiity of o tio In the louse, 'Ils bill gives u @min of only four to tho - South, iIn- stond of twelve, a8 proposed by the mnjority of the Democrats on the Committee, 1o elatmed that the considera- tions which should control the system of ap- portionment should bo, first, the conveniont waber for business, and, sceond, the nume- ber chosen should bo ns fully representative as possible, by lessoning the fractlons, Stilf, ho showed that there were strong arguments for n lurge House—among them theso: Firat, that large districts wero apt Lo have adverse Interests, and wero not so homogencous; second, thut tho Iouse grew less than the population, and should share its growth; third, that the Increnss of bushiess required morelt spresentatives; fourth, that It was more republican to have smaller districts and more 1pembers, THE POSTPONEMENT OF APPORTIONMENT untll the next Cougress, My, Cox elulmed, would bo unwise and very expensive for the people, ‘The fact that there ure many States whose ' Legisiatures are blenninl would greutly add to the expense, It costs, for ine stance, §100,000 for u sesslon of the l'ennsyl- vania legislature and Mr, Cox esthmated that it would cost $6,000,000 to the twenty States which woukl have to haye speclal ses- stons of thelr Leglslatures, should the np- vortionmnent not be wade by this Congress to the wonderful Increase of the five States west of the Misslssippl River. Ho showed that in twenty yeara they hiave doubled thele numbers, representing from one-tenth of our Wwhole peaple to one-fifth. These States have inereased 87,3 per cent, No State east of tho Mississippl has attained to 50 per cent, while , tho Pacific States have galned 54,8 per cent in tenyears. ‘The Inereaseof Iitnois hasbeen 21 per cent; ot Jowa 56 per cent, of Michigan 89 per cent; Nebraskn, 26,8 per cent s Kansns, 135 per eenty, while Colorado, the mining State, has increased 38,9 per cent. E THE BILL INTRODUCED. FROM “TiE REconn,!” Wasmyatos, 1. G, Fe ~A struggle then ensued as to the possession of the fluor, Lieagan] demanded the * regular order, and further conslderation of the Inter-State Conimeree bill, Mr, Cox (New York) assert- ing Lis right to eall up the Apportionuent il w8 a privileged question, end M, Sparks antagonizing both propositions witha motion to proceed to business on theeslendar “Tor the purpuse, os he stated, of calling up the L'tz John 'orter bill, Mr. Iteagan contended that it was a matter of the zreatest interest to the Amerlean peo- nle that the question involved in the Inter- State Commeree LIl should recelve consld- erution und attention. ie wonld ask the Huuse to el apart two days for the consid- erntion of that measure, and to order two nlght sessions for debate only on the same subject, MR, COX ralsed a question ot consideration. Tle ealled upon the House to fulfill a high dnty,—one which must be performed every ten years. State Legistures were awalting the netion of Congress on the Apportionnient bilL, and T it ‘were not passed this session Congress would roll up an expense on the neople of from §4,000,000 to 85,000,000, 1le Lnew the fmportance of the bill of the gentlemun from Texas (Reagzan), but ‘ho ulse knew {bat, even should it pass the llouse, thero. was . not mueh probabllity of {ts passage in the Sen- ate, If the Apportionment blll were not passed now an extra sesslon of Congress wanld be necessary, or extra sesslons of thir- ty-two State Lezislatures, The question of consideration heing sub- mitted, the House—by a vote of yeas 19, nays 120—refused to consider the Inter-State Com- merce bill, SPEECH OF MRt COX. The House then procceded to the consid- eration, of the, Apportionment bill without 1lmit being placed on debate. Mr. Coxexpluined and advoeated the pro- visions of his bill. Under it the old Slave tes wonld gain’ eight and loso two e the Midile States would Jose three; the New Engluand States wounld Inse three; and the Western States would gain ten and lose two, The el Slave States would ‘make wonet pain of six Representatives, while the rest of the' States mnde n net gain, of two,—that I3, the West wounld galu eight, while New Eugland, New York, and Pennsylvania would lose six. If any ons complained that ‘this was sectlonal or parti- san he might caleulate the net gaius North amd South froni the numbers 290 to 819, and the South had a net gnin over the North, Under the Inst consus the general increase of the country had not differed from ante. Beflum ‘times more than” 80 por‘cent. It woulil nut be accurate to say the Southern, States had {nereased more than the North- ern, TUOUGIE PRACTICALLY THEY IfAD DONE 80, owhy: to the defectlve census of 1670, Whether true or not, such divisions of the North and South had lost their significance. Inany event, the North continued to exceed the South in Congress, in the Electoral College, in the Senate, and in population, But the wonderful Increase of the five States west of tho Mississippl was the featurs of the census, In Lwenty years they had doubled their unmbers, leaping from one- tenth of tho whole population to one-fifth, ‘T'hese tive States had Increased 89 per cent., No State east of tho Misslssippl had attalned to 5 per'cent, while the I’acific States had galned 55 vper cent durlng ten years,® The orb of power might be departing from .the Enst, but yet, with its radlance full, it was THE STAL OF EMPIRE, holding its western way for new conquests, Along with it arose nhove the horizon the Southern Cross, to addd its symbolic cluster to the constellatlon. The Federal repre- sentation of this country was, In every sense, republican in fact, forin, and spirit. It might be sald that, with all that popular basis and {ts vesults, the people of the United’ States had gome greed for gain, ambition to excel, love of rule, desire for intrigue, and play of unruly projudice, Jealousy, and passlon that had mude the history of other nations tragical even tothelr declinoand fall, Still, in spite of that de- moralization, In its worst aspeet, the answer might be made WIIO SIIALL COMPETE WITIL US in abundant harvests, our rich balances ol trude, our increase In commereo and expats slon of Inbor, our Injlux of precions mutals, and our Inexhnustidle mines of coal, copper, wold, and silver, our unexampled exporta- tions and Importations, our attractive forces, our stupendous inter-communications and thelr incomes and outgoes by rall, canal, lake, river, and #ea, our In- ventive faeilty with Its mirncles * of manufactures? And above all, and be- youd all, what ean rival tho star which as it moved westward from over renewlug centres of restless population, has In o cens’ tury ndded 47,000,000 to Its nctive onergles? "These extruordinary advances in greatness and glory wers duo to the representative sys- tem, which struclk its nmme, howeover hume Dblo or dependent, from ts whole roster of nutionality, France and Spain might indulge thelr revolutlons. Russin and Govmany might TREMULE BEFORE COMMUNISTIC AND NUll~ 1STIC TERRONS, and England might bonst her rule In Asln, Afriea, und Ireland, und proudly echo the prulse whieh her Poet Laureato lavished on- lier us— A land of seltled government, A, land ot Just and old renown Wnero frucdum broadons slowly dowa Frum precedent to precedont— hut sho had no popular representation in her Parliament, tounded on the people. It was left for the beopluof Anierien, 6¢ hercolonies a centiry ngo, to erect n monument high and splendld around tho temple of Hberty, and to guard L with a unity and foree which the division and varicty made by mountaln and river and the strong passion of hostlls urmles could not sover, By It socloty was ussured protection, stabllity, and progress, 1IN BEARING TUIS MONUMENT, overy ono -had builded over agalnst his - house, ns In the days of dismautled Jernsa Teu, s0 that, by the wholo mass of the living peoplo of the United States, freedom brond. ened decounlally, not *from precedent to precedont,” but expanding, and strengthon- ing, like the boles of the oak, by lts lnnerv growth, drawa from the soll, sun, and sky, luto Iutense, robust life, which detied the storms of eenturles,” At the conclusion of Mr, Cox's speech, which' was loudly ap- | plauded by Doth sides of the llvuse, and for which hereceived the congratulations of the: -+ members, the House, without further action, - adjourned, ) . 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