Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1881, Page 4

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Varloty cotertalomant. 5 v TFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1851 3 A Nuvsnenr of Demoernts weakened In G their opposition to Mitehell's resolution enlo- v, gizing tho distinguished serviees of Gen, ¢ Grantand urging Congress to placo ‘him on 2+ theretivedlist with thefank of General, Of the J:- %1 Democratic members of the Hlinois House, ¢ only 54 had the Copperhead aud contempti- 1 ble hardihood to vote against it, and muny of 1 thiem wit) yet be ashamed of thelr unpotriotic voto agatust dolng simple, decent Justice to +. the great Unio " T actlon of less than- one-third of ‘the City Council (10 ont of 50) at the Wednesdny ght meeting inndopting, unread, some 1,200 11 sectlonis of tha elty ordinances was o seandu- . lous disregord of law and u triffime with L' publle Inferests for which thora 1s no. apelo- gy: ‘Tho Council ows It to the public to - serutintzo this so-called revision of the’ ordi- 1. .adoptine it, and thus protect tho clty against tho serfous consequences of error and blun- adrs which are fnevitable In u work of this Ipivort., ons- into Mexico prove {o be wilit * Moxlco has, béon credited ‘whhually European goods to the 000,000, * BuyMr. Warner 11, Sut- Iort furnisifd to onr State De- | partmeity 15 h o sed op Inf eal GOV, nient, sfiows that,the average <value for ;- S N ,5 two years of European finports, In Mexledn engle dollnss, was S19,- e On the g6l basis the vaine of these 3 ‘t“‘;l,“_n_a was bup16,640,020 annually, 1t ape iy j‘ud.l‘“ {rom these figures that the new systom sfpoAlexiean railways will not open such o ayolconda as has beon promlised,” o \ = : ‘ < Pitgyor104 of the amount of Earopean { ! 1 statistics of the Mex- .77 . DEMOCRATIC-Organs m various parts of I;/-the country'grd ostracting n simall degree of omfort frolf n.tnble In the Daltimore Sun’s - politleal almanie which gives IHnncock -} poputur plurality of 6,42, The Baltimore Sun s not o statistiénl authorlty, and, nsoften happens In tho Border States, itismore Bour- *,_bon thun the Bourbons themselves, 1ts tablo ‘L. 1sof o' surt of value, It robs Garfield of over 6,000 votea In Loulsiann and 4,500 In Téxns; aud with these corrections, which unquestionibly should bo made, it would . BIve’ Garfleld a plurality exceeding 5,000, - which Is very near the flgures reported by all v (hq other political almanacs, thoso of the +New York Lribuneand Philndelphla Pimes - Included, It may seen harsh and cruel fo 4, deprive the supporters of Gen. lluncock of thie small consolutlon they derive from: In- ecorrict statisties, but the truth of history - st be prese A Loutsia¥A Democrab wlo lias topre- sented the Stato In Congress, nnd whose ovlnlons are vouched for as “ontitled to | * great respeet,” has written to the New Or- ledns Demaoorat in commendation of fts bils- tering cditorial on tho Northern Deniocrnoy, - The correspondent complains that the South -8 *fed on ‘that now stale beverage callea v Ktate-rights,” while the Northgrn wing of ., the party earrles oft the hog and hominy In the shape of large appropriations from the Natlonal- Treasury, o declares that’ for : hbmselt ho shall In futuro net independently . 0f both Jiollileat partles, and oxpresses tho i hopo that the Southern Democrney will hotd sloof from the next Nationnl Conventlon 5+ * and support that party amd those men who i WHI go furthest In glving to the South her Juat rights,”=I, e,, appropriations, The Dem- ocrat prints (his communication In s edis ”_,:‘»mkrlgl columns, und glves it quaghindorses ment, but evidently desires to try yet a little FiJonger its polley of threatening disruption ns & weans-of whipping in the Northern dough- faces; That polley was alwpys cilenclous beforo the War; it may not have lost its vir- 6 yet. ", SUPEIINTENDENT DuTcnes, In his annunl tla Cunnl, recommends that » $he., Belglan cablo system bo entirely To- poved, There are now 103 iiles of cublo in ‘operation, distributpd us follows: Buffulo to ;Yonawnnda, 12 mlles; Lockport to Roches- ter, 63; Lodl Lock, to New London, 84, Total, 02, ‘Phe principal ditliculty In the woy of succosse Ful nuvixution by 1o Belgion system, Mr, V. Dutchor nl)n’ll fui the shurp curves or bonds of 15 Hyo canut lisclt, On strulyht portlony it canot £ bl anld to huve dono wuch damnge vxcept ju siocgasionul fustunces, but ubnndunt testiuony 1§ W be found of I destructivenoss upon the fi cnnal Luuks at - I polnts whoere short bonds ooeur, At thoss poluts the cable fnatead of Lok (n Lhe centra uf the cunul i8 always hnrd 10 shorg on tho short slde of tho hend und i3 froe Jhguently lefton top of the tow-pith or berme s Rank; us tho cuse way Le. Jn consegtience uf it dbis, When the cuble (4 picked up by tho cablos 5w, the mhk forced burd to shore, ang bas tho greatst ditfoulty ja pussing the bead, the sud Wy rking bard on shore, pulling o d nances with care and deliberation” bofora’ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNY: VFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 188I—_TWELVE PAGES. gravel, and éausing tham to fnll it the onnal, Great damitgn s beoy donis to the hirldga abatnienta whenever they hapnon to be situanted on berme=hunk bends, ud the cenble Is tnken tp closg to the nhutmenta and the enblestug wid tow dro continially colliding with the same and tearig them to plecos. Thero nre special difienities in operating the Delgian and the connmnon systems to- gether, A boat towed by horses 13 subject to long and expensiva delays in consequience of thie Llocking of the way Ly tho enbles, Mr. Diiteher belloves that the enble has hd a falr trinl un the parts of the eanal mast favorable for snceess, and that §t has tatled, The prop- nsition to have 1t extended thronghout the eanal Is therefore not deemed by it worlhy ot conalderation, aned he advises that it bo ro- moved from the levels where it Is now In use as speedily s possible. Turis Is ona featnre of tho apportlonment schieme before Congress that pnzzles peoples and that Is, why the Seuthern States should gain four or six or any wther numboer of members relatively to the North In the now Honse. The population of the sixteon Southern Btates nmd the twenty-two Nurth- ern States in 1870 and 1880 and the guins of ench section In tho decade compare as fol- lows: g 150, 1850, Galn, COLTITOND G0BGLIAS G.OZL050 UEIEAG IS0 4,005 Excess of Northorn galn., 1,053,084 Why should the North, which has galned absolutely nearly 2,000,000 more in popula- tlon than the South, b given but twior gix new mombers under the new apportionment, while the South {3 piven six or twelve? The explanatlon of the phonomenon Is that tho South has Increased in populntion relatively n triflo’ more than the North, and also that sl States gain relntively over lurgo States fnnsmall House, and the South has more of the former comparatively than the NoRh has, . e ‘I'ne Loglstative report of Thursday con- talns this iten: Iy Sonator Munn (of Will), for tho rurclmsu of Lo cug)lm of Bdwird J, '8 digest of tho 1linols State luws, ut §0,50 por volume. As EdwardJ It has published no ** Digest of Illinois Statelaws," we presume the Munn resolution means 11I'sdigest of the dectalons of thelllinols Supreme Court, of which two volumes ure published, bringing the digest down to lotter J. Two volumes mors wil probably complete It 4 Munn's resolution then proposes to pur- chase from the aforesaid H1ll 1,000 coples of his fragmentary digest.of the Illinols Re- ports for tho snug sum of 86,500,—the money to Le ob talned by levyinga tax of thatamount upon the people of this State, The revolu- tlop, if envried Into effect, will be a nice thing for Hil, undoubtedly, and it insures the uh- stractign of o like sum from the T'reasury two years hence to pay for tho remalnder of his digest, if then completed, making fn all $11,000 of taxes for tha 1,000 coples, Dut who are the 1,000 copies of HHl'sdle gest for? Is 1t proposed to take the public money to purchaso this Iaw hook for the private usa of members of the Leglsiature? What right huve the members to supply themselves with law librarles at publle ex- penso? . And, fhen, all the members are not Inwyers,—a goodly number of whom are Grangers, who know nothing of 1111l or his digest, to the letter J, and core less. DBut, tvon i ench member snatched 0.0 nm.o* tho Stato 'Freasury to buy from Hill the pub- lighed portion of s digest, thers aro only 204, members of both Ilouses all tolg, What does Mr. Munn proposo to do with the re- malning 100 sets? Parhaps he wit! soy, fur- nish all the Judges; but, tncluding Probate Judges, that would not consumé: inore than 200 covles, und there would atill bo 600 un- disposed of, Are the members to divido theso up anong thelr moro Intimate fegnl friends as presents or to sell them and pat the procewds Into thelr pockots? ‘The’ passage of the Munn-IIill resolution will be a good thing for I, but It Is ex- ceedingly questionable whethor the taxpay- ers will dlgest IHI's scheme with ns much | rellsh and complaisance as will' that enter- prising Inw-book publisher, Tur arrest of Davitt aud the temporary snsponsion of thirty-two Irlsh members of Parllament from the Housw of Commons for thelr oppositlon to tho “cloture” resolution of Mr. Gladstone, Indleate beyond u doubt that the Dritish Gov-' ‘ernment hns made up Its mind to wage an nggressive warfare on the Lund League. ‘Tha rullog of the Speak- er on the provious day In ‘cutting off dubato on tlie Irish Coerelon BiIL, or rather the motion for Its introduction, Is admitted to bo without precedent, Tha London Thnea even admits it. Tho - wholo course of peoceduro was arbitrary, unjust, with- out warrant, and tyrannienl, Mr. Glad- stong and Mr. Forster “seom to have Jostall control of tholr tompors, Instend of proceeding In the regnlar way and sccording to the forms of the Ilouse, thoy proceed in an indirset way and eontrary to the rules governing any dellberstive assombly,. When Mr. Parnell, who, as tho leader, of. tho gront mnjority of tho lrish poople, supposed to be part and parcel of the Queen's subjeots, nsked Sir Willlam Harcourt n legitimate questlon yesterday, hie was conteniptiously denled an answer, The scenes which followed have not been equaled in the House of Commons sinco Cromwell drove out the mem- bers who wore objectionable, to him, Grunted that Parnell and his collenguos wero ucting the part of obstruetives, thoy worg net- Ing according to the rules of the Ilfouse, Until these rples were changed they were aeting within their Jegal rights, Obstruction hos been practieed fro- quently” in_ the * Commons, amd not always by Irish amembers, When Pecl brought in his bill to suppress the Repeal nzitation it was obstructed for threo months, and finally dropped, and Mr, Gladstone's party, the Liberals, woro tho men who ob- structed, 'I'ho Torles lind thelrtury when tho Irish Church Disestablistnent bill enme up, and when Mr, James Lowther, afterwnrds Lord DBenconstields Chlof Seerotary of Ire- laud, obstrueted the bill for weeks, ‘ThoTrish wembers had' oxcellent roason for obstruet- Ing the Irish Coorclon bl By itit ls proposed to put down an agitation which has odu- cated Mr, Giladstonu's party to promise some nived of justico to Ipetomd, It wos largely on the strength of the issue which that agitation refsed that Mr, Glade Rtong’s party attalned power, Mr Glndstone himsdif told the House of Com-' nions Just yonr that o fullure to pasy a misors able make-shitt bill to curb the felonious lundlords of Iroland woukl bo oqulv- alent’ to possing sentenco of death on 15000 persons threatened with evictipn, | It Is owlng to the gentlomon oxpelled from theJlouse of Commons yestordny -that the sentences Mr, Gladstone spake of wero not pussed, It was owlng to the unwearled ox- ertions of two of them, Parnell and Dilon, that thousands of the Irish peovle did not starve lost year whon the Dritish dov~ erument and the Mritlsh landlords wero hosdless of thelr cries for help, But the affulrs of yesterday and the day before wero only mero incldonts, If the Irlsh peo~ ple havo patiency and courage, it they do not rush mudly Into & hopeless strugelo with the leglons of “the landlords and the ey | overpmend, 17 they will onty stand firmly by . ‘;.1?" RusOLIS BLOB from slupo wills, curtb, sods, | Paruell and bls colleagues and relegato to politieal abllvion those wembers who w Mr. Shaw deserted Parnell at tho erltlenl wmoment, thelr victory s certain. A great causy cnnnot be gagged by parlinmontary ruless tho spirit of n natlon ought not to be crushed out by hot-temper stateamanship, M. JAMES P N'S 38 for the Cabinet 1s still o tople f discusston In'some of the Jowa newspapers, "The Keokuk Gate Cityseems to assuma that Tae Tirineys hns n general terms dented Mr, Wilson's qualifi- catlons for any placo under the now Admine istration, nd In support of this assertion the Qate Cily Leols moved to sny': Pt e Trinuys maked the ""lfi point Hkely to harm Mr. Wilson of ull in this workd that truth or mallgnity nacht Bay neainst him, 1t thinks his rolations to the Pacille Rullway ahouwld 1o 4 bir o bin 'This abi Jootlon I8 suporiiclal, but its_esdgoof danger ‘comes from ity pluusiblencss, Mr, Wilsoh i3 at- torney of the Union Pacifie Raftway, o hns roprosented it nt Washmgton fn this na for seva eral wititers, o nikes and secks no congenls mentof it. 1Mo hua conragecousiy necopted any disqualifeation that that professional seevico s an attorney puis upon bim as o bae to publio placein the thonght of the fow or the many. Jt Is not truo that T Triwess has ob- Jeeted to Mr, Wilson for any Cabinet posl- tlon beeausy he 1y Jay Gould’s U. I lubby Jnwyor in Washington, but Tne TRIBUNE hins deemed it unwlso to urga the elalms of Mr. Wilson, not for an unknown or fndoter- minate office under President Gartield, but for a edrialn designated and specitie position —namely : the Secretaryship of the Trensury, I'he objectlons to the selectlon of My, Wilson for that pluee lmply no attuck upon hid rep- utatlon or good intentions, but nre proclsely the snme us those which he himself advanced when he was offered the position of Seere- tary of State by Prosldent Grant twelve years ngo, Ho said then that he had no special knowledge of tho duties of the ofice, ad that his experlence and tralning did not Jle in that diveetion, The same Is trwo of Mr. Wilson's present relations to the ‘I'reasury Dapartment. 1le has been wholly out of public life during the most eritical pe- rlod of our finanelal history, and even when he was in Congress his nttentton was direct- ed rather tu details of Interlor and domestic administration than to quastions of publie finnneo In goneral, Mr. Wilson would be insomo respects peculinrly quallfied to dis- charge the duties of the interior Ofiice; al- though he might feel embarrassed to accept it by veason of his contidentinl, legal, and lobby relations with the Pacitic Rallronds, which rre direetly supervised hy that Depart- ment. As hisnbsened from pubile Hfe has prévented him from liaving the nocessary knowiedgo of the conditlon of the finances which the Sveretary of the ‘Creasury onght 1o possess, 80 his private ocgupntions in the interfor have disqualified Ihm. even In his own opinfon we presume, from siiting In judgment on tho vast corporations created and controlled by Government. Leavine out the two oftices inquestion, there- fore, und the Secretaryship of State, for| which Mr. Wilson himself disclulms any specinl eapnelty, there remain n number of other Cabinet positions for which ho i3 fit, and his appotatment o nny one of . them wotlld excitea no special eritielsm. If the Gate City is a friend of Mr, Wilson it is do- ingg i wo service by pressing il fora Cab- inet position for which. o hins no quatifica- tlons by exporionce or stndy, THE - COUNT OF ELECTORAL "VOTES, Congress s practienily agreed upon a makeshitt for the declaration of thie result of tho Inte Presidential election, In the sbsence of specifie constitutional direction as to how .the Electoral votes shall be counted. Fort- unately tho cholee of .flun. Gurileld “was so amphatic that thore was no roont for any dis- pute or partisnn trickery. Nevertholess the Dewmooratic leaders mnde n desporate but futlle effort to acopt & joint rule of Congress ~thus oxeluding the Executive and Judiclary Departments of the Government from pass- Ing thereon~which would linvoenabled either Ilouse of Congress to reject the voteof any State. The gentlemen who urged this courss protested that thoy had no sinlster deslgn in the proposition, but tho Republicans efiiciont- 1y and very properly resisted the procedure. ‘I'he rule was unfalr.and dangerous, notwith- stunding it was substautinlly the same In operntion as tho twenty-second Joint rule, wiieh the Itepublicnns ndopted sume yenrs nago as o sort of emergency menasuro; there was no necessity for 1t In-the present caso, and, 1f-not intended to give the purtlsan - Jorlty In Cotigress an advantago to which it 18'not entitled, then there was not ovon the explanation of selfishness to' nccount for the Democratle persistence. When, however, the Demoorats beeame convineed that they could not pass the Morgan proposition, they agreed fn eatcus npon the following method, which wns uromptly passed by the Sennte:, e it reanlved bjj the Senate, the House of Repre- zontaticea concurring, ‘Ihnt’ the two Housea of Cangreas shill nssemble in tho tinll of the House of Reprosentutives on- Wednesday, tho 0th of Fobrunrs, 181,88 12 m,, and the Presldont of tho Bennto shall bo prosudung oflieer; that one person be appointed teller on thepart of tho Seunte and w0 oh the part of the House of Roprosentatives to mako nlist of the votos ns thoy Al be o« clured; that tho resnlt shill bo “declarcdt that tho result shall be dulivored to the President of tho Bennte, who shull aunounce tho state of the vate, nhd the persons oleoted, to the two Houses nkeembitod, na nforesald, which shull o doomod u “dectarution of the prrsons vlvotod Prosidony und Vliee-Fresident of tho United States, und, to- aethor with the IMs of votus, bo entered in the Journul of the two Hlouses, . » Hoo, 2 provides *that if it shall apponr. that uny votes ot Llectors for Prosident .and Viee- Presidont of tho Unitod Slatos huve besn given on o day other than thit Bxed for the castlig of #uch votea by uct of Congress, in pursunieo of the Canstitution of tho Lniteil Bintes, and If tho counting or tnitting' to count such votes shail not essentinlly chunge the mAuIn? the vluction, they shall be repuried by the Président of the Hemite In tho fullowine inanner: * Wore tho yotea of Elootors, cast on the — duy of —=, M50, 1o bie conuted, tho resnit would, bo, for A 1, for Prosidont of th Gnlted Stutes, — votes, and for O D, tor President of the United Htntoes, b voles: If not counted, the result would. for A I3, for Presldent of tho United f’uulco\ for 1;' D.lnn{ }'r mll:l‘tlm'!. of lh‘o e votes a3 Ur Bven| e tectod Dresident »f o Uuited. Statast and (n the sumo manner for ¥ ive-President,” ‘This plun Is practienlly an acquiescenco In ‘the Itepublican position, so fur ns the pres- ent count i3 concerned. ‘The situntion is such that It Is not necessary for anyhody to assume judleinl funetions In Tho declaration of tho result, 1t 1s a mere matter of opening cortiflieates that are not, dispated, entimerat ing the votes, and aunduncing tho aggre- gates, Tho only exception s in the case of Georgln, where the Prostdential leetors uiet and voted one weck Intor than the date wreseribed by law, The sseond section of the ahove rosolutlon provides for this cnse In the-sanio munner in which foriner complica- wlons In the caso of Michigun aud Wisconsin wore decldod; and thore 14 no disposition In elther party to opposo -thls method, shinply Deeauso the vote of Goorgla cannot ¢hango the result, : 3 Whila it is fortimate that the open ‘ques- tlon ns'to how the Presidential vote shall bo counted has been settled by common consent for temporary purposes, 1t still romains to wature a proper and enduring method whieh In tho future shall afford & reasonnble guurnntes ugalnst party conitiet over the count, Hud the vote for President this yenr buen s close or complicated as it was four Jears ago, [t 18 oxtremoly doubtful whether any agreoment ‘could huve been reached in Congress which would have commatded the support of tho people, nnd Moxicanlzution would have beon fmminent ‘T¢ 13 alto- gothor probable that the Demoorats, who are In control of bLoth Iousss of Congress, would havo uvalled thomselves of a uajurity conferred -upon them two years agoto pyt 4 partisan coustructlon upon tho siights est doubt, and thus have seized the. privl lege of uuming the Presldeut, notr 154 [ withstanding thelr present partisan mo- Jorlty was repudinted by tha peopls at the cleetton of Inst fajl. And heneo the slgiil- cance of Scuator Blaine's remnrks, In the coutse of which he gavo the permntient sot- tlenient of the Electoral connt grenter lm- portance than any other pending or prose peetive legisiatich that muy como before Congvss. 'The falfure to dovise a constitu- tlonal seheme to thisend during the past four yeurs rests wholly upon the Democrats, and it has subjected them to tho suspiclon that they have held the question apen In order o take advantago of any dispute that mizht be concocted for thelr benefit, After thedth of March nuxt the Republicans must share the responsibility for continued neglect of the menachiyg uncertainty which surcounds the countof the Klcetoral votes, beeauso they will be in control of ot least oneof tho two Houses of Congress. The situation will be pecullarly favorable {o an agreoment upon some fulr plan for future connts, shiea the parties will bo very closely divided in hoth Tlouses, and one Howse will be Lepublican and the othor very likely Democratie In’ mne Jority. The Amerlean peoplo will demand aud expect an erly settlement of this vexod problent, There ought {o bo n general agreement In Congress and out of Congress that the wholo question of eleeting the President of the United States should b revised and simpll- fled by an amendment to the Constitution, Such a scheme should ineluda (1) the exten- slon of the Presllential tern to six years with Ineligibllity to consecutivo retleetlon (9) hxing the Congressional terms so that the Congress chosen at tho same time as the President should be intristed with the counting of tha Electoral vols and the duelaration of the result, instend of reposing that duty in o Congress cleeted two years bufores (%) romuving the confusing fiction ot voting for o mlmberof Electors Inevor; State, and substituting therefor n certaln number of Electoral votes to be determined by dis- triets, with two for tho Stute at lnrge, the whole vote of tho State tobe counted nsnow; (4) providing that, In cases of dispute, the Slectoral votes shall be detormined In ench State by the kighest tribunal before certifien- tion to Congress; and () limliing the voleo of Congress as far as possible to the mere adminiatrative duty of opening and counting the votes and duclariug the result ns thus ns- cartained, withoutnuthority to reverse ordlis- pute it Mr, Blaine’s suggestion, of a Com- mniiteato sit during reeess to conslder nnd devise a constitutional schemo ought to be taken In earnest, though it seoms to have heen mnde on the spur of the moment to ward off n eritielsm. A Congressional Commlttee conslsting of Democrats and Republicans in equal number, and nn Independent In politics like Senator Dae vis for Chairman, ought not to fiml it dif- ficuit to agreo unanimously upon an amend- ment of the Constitution regulating the elec- -tlon of Progident and the count of Eleetoral votes Intelligently and falrly, If the subject bo sorfously ond honestly consldered four years previously to the recurrenco of o Presi- dentlal electfon, Patriotism, and not par- tisan politics, would scem to be almost neces- sarily the ruling motive of such a Com- mittee, THE OHICAGO BEWAGE PROBLEM AND MUNN’S PREAMBLE, . The Munn whereases-aud-bill, or Jolnt reso- lutlon, relutive to Chicngo sewngo and the canal, which has pussed the State Senate, Is objectlunably rather on nceount of thé exag- gerated and outof-placo preamble it containg thun the conelusion it renches In the shupu Inwhieh it was Ihjnlly pagsed, To state tho ense In brlef, this “resolutlon provides ounly conditionnily for the érectlon of slulee-gutes to empty the waters of tho Desplaines and Caltimot Foeder futo the cannl, but regulres that tho Cannl Commlissioners shall first satiafy themselves that the City of Chlengn dues ot Intend to furnish pumps te flood the cannl from the Chicago River at.tho rato of 00,000 cuble feot per minute. The Canal Comulésioners aro Instructed fo nccopt such provision of o wator-supply In llou of the other expedients, and to tanko ears of tho water thus furnished. Tho addltion that tho “ State reserves tho right to require the Clty of Chlengo In future years to take caro of its. suvenge through other ehannels ™ hns no vur- tienlar significance, and in no way affecta the prosont situntion, 1t 18 unfair to Chiengo, however, to permit Senator Munn'a extravagant guneralizations about Chiengo sewaxo and the Injury 1t does to other portlons of the State to o on record without proteat, ‘The resoltion, n this re- speet, draws upon tho.rural imngination to nluiost o ridionlous oxtent when it asserls a8 follows: © Witeneas, Sald sewage, in an ontlrely unde- composed and puteld innss, {8 earvlod by the oure rentof the eanad nto the Desplaines River, and llwl&un nto the Hlinois Rivor, und iu ita foulest conditions I8 thus teansported to ana below the Clty of Poorln, Iu anid Stute, renderiog the air,nt all puints nlonk ita . puwsage, ko impure and faul 1810 bo oxcaodingiy oltensive, and taking witl 1t gorma of disease of nll kinds provulent in the City of Chlcago, and thussprowdinge them browd- ouBt through the entire Despinines and tlinols River Valleys, cuu»lufi thoroby inuch lliness, as woll ug |mllmvll%0f tho blood nud debilitutiug th systeing ot 200,60 poople; and . Wi mus' Carolul fivestigntion lends our puos ple to fearthat an opldemio niny aprowd over sald setion of tho Stuto of Hillnois from tho cuuscs abovostated; and Wiikneas, In additlon to the above disiross, ove b hoon o kreat loss to property, business Induatries, nad tathe communitics (nsuld region, by rewson of tho cruses hereln mentioned, If tha conditlon of things were half or quarter as bad as Senator Munn had set forth In this stump-speeely, it Is ovident that o City of Chicago would necessarlly be n sort of huge pest-house, swept and dcel- wated by rivor oxhnlations. If thoro is not suficiont flow of water in the canal to earry ol tho sewago, then It stands to reason: that this sewnge must exist In grenter volume and more offensive shapo In the Chicako River, and in tho midst of this community, than 1t does at Peorln, Joliot, and tnterme-, diato cities, where but a small pars of it has been earried,—nud that in o condition at loast partintly deodovized, Tut It this smull part, partlally deodorized, 13 50 hmpure and foul at Peorln and other points ns to “sprend the germs of disense,’” * eanso ithess,” * polson tha blood,” and * debilitato the sv'stems” of 200,000 peunle, thon It follows that the (00,000 people of Cook County must bo even more serfously threatened and dumaged by the largor and fouler acoumulntion in the Chl- engo River, 'The faets do not bear out tho loglenl conelusion of Mr, Mumi's declamn- tory preimble, . Chilengo I3 notoriously a hiealthy city, Sta- tiatics complled by the Natlonul Hoard of Hoalth sliow that for she year endlng Nov, 1, | 1880, the more hnportant citles of the world smnk ns follows m comparative healthtul- neds, The death-rate shows the number ot deaths to euch 1,000 poraons durlng tho yenr: | Cllp=— Chicugo Fuiadel phila Now Urleal Londun sy, Luods... It willba aden that: the death-rate of no large clty In Europe or Aserlea ranks low- er than that ot Chlengo. " . T4 13 stlll o matter of doubt swong sanitary oxperts whethier “the “pccaslonal otfensly, odor from the Soulh Bruuch of tho Chleago —— River enrrles with it, any gorms bf disense, though the gases that come baek through the sewers Into dwellings, which ean only be averted by ventilation, are certainly injurl- ous, But the sownage self, dituted in tho river and catal, cannot bo se fatal 100 miles awns from Chicago, afler pussing through sufilelent wator Lo earry It thet distanee, as it isat Coleago, and Chicago ls as fres from epidomic ond contagious disensys ns nny large community In the world, . The Munn Whereases also omib unfalrly to take* uny necount whatover of the lnck of sawerngo In most of the Tlinols River cltlen and towns In question, and the hurtful con® ditlons of sewage that is left to bofoul the air on the surfaco of the ground, or to permento the satdy soil near the surface, Tha theory of the premnbla fs to throw tha entire binme wpon Clitego, while this eity shonld right fully hear oitly n sminll proportion thercof. ‘Thore 18 no objection, however, to the rega- lutlon so far ns 1t Is calenlated to spur the Inggard Municipal Qovernment of Chicago to spuedy jirovislon of the proper machinery for pumplng water, from the Chloago Itiver, drawn from Lake Michigan, Into the canal at the rate of 00,060 cuble feot per minute. It 13 to tho common Interest of Chlengo and all tha eities and towns on the lino of the enunl and Itlinols River that this should be done without delay, ‘T Trmune has main- talned all along’that this s the proner reme- dy, pending tho construetlon of the ship- canal between Lake Michigan and the Mis- sissippl River, and (hq Legislature is Justificd in prodding the Chicago City Government to do its duty. GREGG'S BILL 'TO PROMOTE' LITIGATION. Tho Committee on the Judleinry In the Tlouse of Representatives atSpsingfield have reported 1n favor of o bill originally intro- dueou py Alr, Uregg, of Saline, amending tho existing law so asto compel the Appel- Iate Courts to file supsrfluous written opin- fons in all enses they aflnm, and allewing ap- penls in all euses, no matter how amall, from that Court to the Supreme Court. This Com- mittee conslsts of the following mumbers, all of whom are presumably of the gulld or craft ealled lnwyers: Naldwin, of Rurcny: Chafeo, of Sholhy: Mook, of lluur'-: Ilundy, of Douglne; Allen, of Whites Rldes; MeWihinms, of Montgomorys Harels, of Cook; White. of Cooki Cownn, of Magouping Bumner, of Winnebago: Youngblaod, of Frank= l(l_n: Munuy, of iregg, o Vermition: Murphy, of Porry f Bnline: Young, of Mussuo; Shaw, of Bullivan, of Cank. ‘I'ils Committeo of lawyers wero true o tho Instinets of the trade; no * union” of conl-heavers could have been more faithful 1o thelr guild than the majority of this Com- mittee. How Lo promote the interests of the eraft, and how to fucrease the costs and busi- ness of the profession, and how to Instigate litigation: and multiply lawsuits, were the ruling and governing motives of thoir action on this il The Constitution' authorized tho establish- ment of Appellato Courts, bhut excepted cer- (ain elnsses of cases to which appeals should be taken to the Supremno Court, The Consti- tution, by Inference, elearly lntended that, outaide of tho oxcepted clnsses of cases, np- peals might be taken to these .Appullnte Conrts, whoso decision should be finl, o objeet was to repress, instead of encourag- ing, ltigatlon and tho vosts and delays of MHul- gation. But tho hupecunions lnwyord of tho Loglslature propose tw make the Appellats Courts a menns of Incrensing the costs and delays of Htigatlon, If not Inviting and on- couraglng fuereased lawing. ‘The law ns It now stands provides for four Appelluto Courts of threo Judges ench; each Court meeting In o separato district, These Courts have jurlsdletion of nil mattars of appoal or writs of crror from the ot Judzments, orders, and decrees of tho Clr- cult and othor Courts of the State in all casey atluw or In oguity, dthor than In criminal cases, and cases Involving n franchlse or o freohold, or tho valldity of astatute, In the cuses of Which thess Appollate Courts have {urisdiction, tholr judgments are not final, exeept where the judgment appealed from 18 for a less sum than 21,000, It will bo seon, therofore, that tho Appol- Inte Conrts, nt the most, Iutercept nppeals to tho Supreme Courtonly In enses whero tho Judgment of tho lower Courts {8 for less than 51,000, nnd oven {n these cnses the Courts have the rightin thelr diserction to grant appenly. ¢ “The law, however, provides that, except where tho Appellnte Court roverses a Judg nient, no’ written oplnion shall bo requirad, This Inse vrovision hag been tho wisest of all the legislation. 1t bas relloved the Court of the wholly useless Inbor of writing opln- Jons In all cases where the judgment below 18 uflirmedd, and the Appellate Court luw -has therofore ke the effedt of roleasing the Su- preme Court from the lnbor of considering mnd ot fitlnz written opinfons In all the appeal enses whoro the judguiont below was for less sums than §1,000, 1f tho Legisiaturo would how extend to the Supreme Court the woreiful exemption from filing writton opinions In any of tho appenls brought before it, except whero tho Judgment below s roversed, an hnmpensity of Inbor wonld bo saved, n vast amount of useless reperting would be spared, nud tho transaclion of the businoss of the Court would b greatly expedited. Instend of pro- posing o bIIL of ‘this Lenetielal kind, to ac- complish this wiseand proper reform, n mu- Jority of this- committed of Inwyers has recommended n return to the old systom of appeals to the Supremo Court of everything without exception, and of wrltton opinlous by the Judges of the Appellate aud Supremo Courta In nll cases, in order to multiply lnw- Bults, Increnso lnwyers' fees, dolny justlce, dud plunder llugants. It this bill contained n section abollshing the Appellate Courts nltogethor, it would be L Jeast consistent, But, outside of the legal profession, and ontsida of thoso interested In the dolays and costliness of judieinl proced- ings, it Is difeult to understand the proprl- oty of having an Appelinto Court whoss de- cistons are not flual in any case, Inthe. list of ensgs apponted last week to the Clreuit Court from Justices of tho Ieaco, there. was ona for §2.20 and ‘ono' for 14, Under this bill recommended by this committoe of law- - yors, no appeal in each of these cases may be prosecuted from the Cireuit, through tho Apnvliate to tho Bupreme Court, and the three Judges of the Appollate Conrt and tho soven Judges of tho Supreme Court be com- pelled to deliver weitton_opinlons upon the merlts und Jaw of the two cases. Including the Justice of tho Peacs, these cases_mny be carrled by appeal through. four Courts, ne- cessitatini at lenst one firm of atternoys on ench side ln each Court, and delaylug final.| Judgment perhaps two, or fn. caso there should o roversal, three or fivo'yoars, ‘I'hnt 13 the kind of legal harvest which Mr, Qregg, of Baline, thinks the Inw should se- enre to the legnl profession, and which ama- Jority of the Commlttee has decided It 15 the duty of the Legislature to provide, ‘I'he Appetlate Courts haveo, by rendering finul ||¢.-ululqmlxmnnmbnr of cascs, Jurgely reduced the nppenls to the dupreme Court, and have cut off much. usolesa ltigution, The hungry members of the Gregg Commlt too hinve combined not only to repeal the re- strictiun, but to open the deors of both tha Appellate’ und Supreme Courts for all ap- penls i all coses, and thug furnish fucresed tolls to the eraft who overata the Jegal mills. Tre newly-eléctod Pirls Mun|cipality cons #lats o oigbteen merohants and wanufucturers. fifteon - Journalists or publiniats, twolve doc- tors, soven bRrristers,alx professors or school- mastors, three -artists, throo: ongincors, ono architoot, one contritctor, 0N ERErAVOr, UNC BO- Hultor, one noturs, oun Anancler, and ten mon ot independont menns or nondescripts, olittoe ally, thoy muy be divided Into thirty-three more or less advanoed Republicas, thirty<nino Radl- cals, and eleht Tteautionarics, The twelve doo- tors nroWiepublicans to n man, and five of thom Extrome Republienns, This 1s not peenlinr to’ Pards, for all, or very nenrly allthe medieal men o the Sonate and Chamber aro lkowlse Repuolicaus, e ‘Tmnc"J'f""“ Wribune in Jowa, e Motnes (a) Stale feglster, The l)uhlumu‘ ‘nea siys ‘in Cineaao TNIBENA *haan't the toaat pariieln uf poilileal intine nt once in thinstnte." The Thnes could havokone Oirthor atrd anldd *or iy otherBiate " and then keps fur withe in tha Nemits of 1ho truch—iWankee (f) Herall, [Witiel Is not dead-boadod on THK TRIBUNK'S 0x- chanyo list.| Wo shill nmiove to amend, THg TRIDUNK'S aplendid tight on the monoy gueation n 1878 nnd 1870, and its mngnlficent work In the goneral campaign of lnst yenr, were tho ablest, strong- est, ost powerful, and most offeatlve, con- tests over waged in Western Journailsm, and nover surpased by any fourtal i Amerlen, and scldom equaled. The ‘infiuonce thoy had with tho Waost, and In Towa ns much ns in any othor Btate, wus well nigh boundleas, aud the proof of tha recognition nf thia wus seen In tha fuct that i1 tho enpnigus of thaso throo yoars thore wue bardly an lowa epublican papor that ‘did nat almost weekly quoto at leat ono of i TRin- UNE'S strong artlcles, Ho wo dissont from. tho viows sibove, and eay that T TRIBUNE. onco so far out of tho right wny, Is ot only bnck to favor and Inltucnca In tho party, but i stronger with the party than it evor has heen before, We arosorry to difer with such good Judgos, but the Iaborer i3 worthy of his hire, and such a magnificent fghtor as Tug CiioAGo TRIBUNE is,when itls in earnest, I8 worthy of ila Just recognition amid propor pralse, » LA Tur glst of Republican newspaper com- mant un the nominntion of Stanloy Mutthows to tho Supreme Bonch fa, that ho i ameexocllont Jurlst, though not always a Judiclous polltiolan. ~New York L'ribune, No,uot exnotly that. They *comment” on tho Prostdont for Jumplng tho Seventh Distriet, which {8 vacant, aud to whieh the appolntment helangs, ta confor the appolntmont on thy Sixth Distriat, whioh hus nlready two BupremeJudgos, and one of thom the Chiof-Justice. Tho Rapib- liean nowspupers ** comment ** on this nesousn- bloand disgrrooful favoritism, Thelr objuction to Stunloy Mutthows himself s that he (s Juy Uould's porsanal property; that he s onc of Gould'a Instriumonts, working for the nbusos of munopoly and ngninst tho intorests of the pov~ lo; that whon ho was Senntor from Ohlo ho cmployed his offielal position In tho Senato- Chamber to lobby und work for Gould's Inter- osts, and ngninst those of the people, as tho roo- ord proves that he dld; and thoy obe Ject to plnclug such n muan on the Sne preme Donch, to represent Jny Gould, and there usa his Influcnce to reverse tho declslon of that Court decroelng thut the Thurman bill waR constitutionali—Matthews florcoly holding that It Isnot. Whatever the Eenato may do, it 18 vory clenr what they ousht todo In tho ense of this lobbyist avd partfsan of Gould who ls trylng to break fnto the Bupreme Court, ————— ‘I'iys gradually:unfolding developmentsare bringlug to viow tho extont’ and charaster ot Reinko's rasenlitics, The question s nsked, what ho did with all the monoy he obtnined by forging and steallng tax-certificates, and In other eriminal mathods Inconnecetion with thxes, o found plenty of waya of gotting rld of tho money, Flrst, ho was a liberal patron of tho bucket-atiops, und dropped conslderable sumns Inbeta on the price of produce: next, ho wag attrehed to tho fasclnating gamoof * Phraok," and dropped constderablo of iy piiforings into that Dond Kea; " thirdly, ba was fond of tho com- pany of fancy fomales, and the rosldvo of his Atoalings went to thoir support and emolumont, 1o was whut was called o fast young tan, and hua alrendy renched Jall on tho ruad to the Pen. Itentiary, Tnr Oswego (N, Y} Palladium has the curious story that Justice Swayne was Jumpod In the muking up.of the Eleotoral Commission becauso he was known to be personnily on very friondly torms with Mr. Tildon, 1t wis oven statod that in Mr. Tliden's Gramuoroy Purk man- slon was u room act apurt for Justice Swayno's uso whonever ho should Yisit Now York, which the Judgu was always oxpocted to oceupy durs ing his New Yurk sojourn, and which was knowi A8 * Jndge Bwayno's room.” Cortain It wusthat the [tepubilicans wero varetul to uxaludo Juitice Bwayne from the Elodtoral Commission, ——e—— Tue Nashville Amecrican thanks the Re- publican’ members of the Legislature of Yen- nesseo who alded In clecting the Domoeratia United Btates Henntor, and offers thom this queer Uit of vonsolation: * [u thus not oaly nse slating I tho ropresentation of Tonnessoo Ip tho Sonate by n first-class man, but In presery- Ing that evon balanco in’the Senute whioh pro- servos tho country from an extreme legislution nand fosures wiso legislation, thoy buve dono thut net whick, ns oltlzens of Tonnozses und the United States, they will tho more rojolco tho Turthor thoy o on townrd tho future." e e—— Iy nuother place will e found a friond- Iy notlce of Tis CricAGOTREBUNE from tho Jots State Register. Thie Register’ 18 printod iu Dea Moincs, tho largest city of the Btats, und ls tho most widoly-clreutted and most fntluential Journal In that scotlon of Iowa, If not fn tho wholo 8tute, 1L has not always been an admlror of Tng LRIBUNE,~quito tho contrury; und on that account its present comumondution i3 tho more tattoring uud gratifyling. | m———— . Tne Martford Courant relates tunt somo years awo & Now Haven nuthor was. walklog with s fanious Cumbridgo poet, whon tho lutter broke vut Into tnost cuthusiastie culogy ot tho, genlus of Dante. Nover bad there been such a poet} tho “ Divina Comedin " was the incowpare nblo poem. *And I will tell you one reason why 1t 13 50, replied tho Naw Huaven Professor, “Dante wns orthodox." v e —e— PERIONALS. . Selvin snys that Mary Anderson is nprom- {slug uctress, Protnbly Mury satd Saivinl was * & horrid old thiug " whou st beard this, Ilenry Ward Becehor says that -he recently réfused’ an ifer of 00,000 to lecture for vne yonr, Mr, Becobies's cako I8 ready for him, Tho red men are bolug rapldly exterml- nnted. "Pwonty-six Croek Indian boys bive boen sont to tho Quvernmaont suhool at Carlisie, Pa. Women own 674,000,000 worth of United Btates bonds. Those flgures uro subjuct to .ohungo aftor the spring atyles of bounets wro out. Iy earefully porusing an nrticlo’ entitled “Tho Drama ut Home," In the Sentinel, we learn {hut tho whalo {s on exbibition In Milwaukeothls weok. “Tha saying: * Never kick n man when ho is golug down Lill' Is cortainly & very praper. Wostern papera plonso gopy."=—fRuscos one, Conkling: fit. Touls newspapers are writing the up oplum duns of that city, doubtloss with tho view of mislending the public into the bellet that the slooplness which provalls thore 18 produced by artiticlul mewns,—Ixter Cooper, ‘Ilie Goorgln papors arc telling about n te- cently deoeascd rutivond ounductur of thut Btate who "nover smokoedn plpo or drank o glass of whisky.” It I8 Just tho suwine with Chicago con- ductors, Fifteon-cont clgars mod champugno aro good enouxh for them, p A Doston man found n rough looking Indl- vidunl Iu big ellar, *Who ate you?' ho do- munded, “The gus man; como 1o take the moter,” was the ruply. *Greut hoavens)! orled “tho hwuscholdor, *1 hoped you wore only aburg- lur,""—Charies Francis ddams. Ilere Is a funny item from the New York" Post: “A gontleman the other ovenlug objectod 10 plaviug cards with » lady, bocnuso,ho-sald, she bud such o winulng way abeut her!' We cannot priut - thesv side-splitting witticlswms very ofton, -Many of quraubscribers bavo yuns Busan Coolidgo hag,written another poem, that 1o which she remarks Couehl PIE: beneatn lowny broust; TLoy ciuster Avath the covarlot warii uud white AGAbide the wiator-ime Iu bopelul rust, Thero are the hyaainiha, bolding ivory ipa P «uw§u1¢ feudy for's biutut vant And toudd vivlute with din, fragrunt ips, Asluop pud dreanilng falry dreuiis cach bnos Yoy urv uydoubted|y gorruct, Busan, but shere aru othor thiugs under thosnow, such as old lioots, aud vysterrvang, and boop skirts, that you “whic seem to have forgotton, A roally Nest. always works up tho real as well ng tha g, ndge, snld o Western lnygor, o o-t-1t-1 tho wy ta apall aquinamtegzs 5y S0 80, Anld tho Judgo, * but 'l jonk §p un hink ster's Dictionney” §1o fiumbied oyep ll'hnwm for ive mlutos and thon suld, in nogy, - WLIRES I've heun o Webstor: mnn and voteg fop g ¢l Preskdent, but any man that will wrirg ':‘lm tap ey und Leavo oL mils comimun wor oot nomieal’ can't bave my v Claries U'Conor, T VOl iy wore, 0las poy o AR PUBLIC OPINION, ‘Tho Philadelphin Record (Ind,) 1q of oplitin tit tearo Fruncis Trutn wogyy m:&u 8 goodd Hearetury of SLute na Stunley ey W Hhwromo Judko. Sty Sty Indlannpolls Jowrnal: Rufory 2 tucky, was thought to bo fusang Lugn(uqm‘“. thouglit Cirist and Napoleon two of g o, 58 gt s Ut gcr v, 1€ tioy i oy st n Keotueky o entul Y 5 {0 feudy ¥ eRIuns would 1‘"‘""&!\‘0‘; Now York Sun (Ind.): The Stanley Mutthowa 13 st ndult ty thg Sy, an vutrige on public decency. It japy cm-.,‘md nouncement to all the workd that the Iruhun. of Inst rusort 14 0 hu packed with enrpornd duger and Ut o Sidanont b G e eitle dtalivou i constitutionatity o -tho. it ik i rman e Hhiom (0 avcont, 14 o by acten et callig Tegui-tendor Judimnnc wan reveraed. - 24 440 Congressmanssloet Townsenq, D land, says: “1 do not think there hu"! mfi.'pfiv.‘" between Miniator Noses aud Guifigtd, 7o ot sure, when Nuyes was running for im‘umnr‘: Onio tho secoml titne,—~nn honor Presumed mx',' Ginte—le took (tg nstepping-stone o tho & gronnd thut thi party sboulil for the [08ry up unty unsniirehed inen far ofllee, ung thut \l(‘u: e tig, constried 08 un witack on Gartiold a thy New Yok homination o Ingplred Clnelinnti dispateh to Herd: You muy tike it for wranted thay Me, Blatnio will be Seuretary of State, 1 notice wify regret that the Heraid does not thiok this g Judie cious appointuient, Tho Herald wor profar S onklinie, s wotd ‘s (i tuko” tho piagoy Undonbredly he ouey U and no oni can donbt tutt Mr, Biaing'a g ppninte mout wilt gIvo stremgth 1o the new Admlitiem. tlon tuall parts of the country. Ho will uuRy nu nble aud briltiant Becretury of Stute, ung, [ g T £ ioat wldcly pubiilar sucn. f0'tho bre 0 all purts of tho country, by will wlve nlmost universil :musrumIml'."“"muml Bloomington (IL) Pantagraph : Whily o admit that Mr. Lincgar's btll has some good features, that which permits our rultroads o s cipe loeal tuxution st be very curefully cope sldered, Tach loeatity will do well 1o look gt tho new proposal from 1ts vwn standpolut, and. whon wo earn low aich will bo uffected we esn form an neeurate aplniun 1 10 the general efe fect of such o inw. Tu the ense of Blovmington, wo find tho rallronds puy 1 the shime of ety and loeal tnxes nbout ST3000, whito they pssist s on State and connty taxes to the uuieunt of nbuut 24000 ur more, or 4 totsl of €130, Bluomington's share of the Stito tax is yuum, AU that wnder Mr, Linegzae's bill we shouli | about $4,000. In addition to this loss we luse uny prospective wdvince In the value of suifrond property in this clty, us well 43 any possible riso In the rate of loend tuxation, us aps plied to ralrouds, New York Dulletin: "U'hat verennial scans dal, tho River and Hurbor LI, At this ecssion, it 18 reportad, will foot up at least $10,000,000, 0p 2,000,000 In excess of the appropritions of last year. There nie but few memffers of Congress who have not rlwnys on hand a rlver or harbor to “{mprove " for tho bhenofit'of thele constitue ents, though it sometiwes puzzles ono todlse ouvor whero theso water wuys nrw on the wap, In lust year's bill n good wany thousunds of doie lurs wero in this way filehed from the publio trensury for * lnproving' ehallow troutstreams misealiea *rivors™ aund “harbors™ thut were lueated up In monntuln districts; yetsome mems bers, who are hulf nshnmed of {lege that they Bave {o voto for those fraids to save ipproprise tlons for really needed improvemeuts elsewgers, The President ly competied to bo particeps crips {nda for a llko renson. ¢ 18 surely bigh time that this burefacod annuil stenl shouid be stopped by nmkiu{: It discretionery with the Exceutive to aflix his slgnature only to such spproprintions ja the bill that are beyotn susplcion. Jf therois any Benntor or Represeutative renlly desirous of proteeling tho Sreasury from- this Rort of log- rolling fvt i introduce a bill to that cffect, and el the yeas and nnys upon it. The country will then be onablod to determino Just where (o place the responsibllity, New York Ttnes: 'The Administration of Tresldont 1ayes bas Loen very acceptable 1o the temporanes people. 1t 1s belleved thitsinco Mr. Tinyes entered tho Whito House nelther huer nor wine, not to spenk of spirits, has insde it3 appenrnnico on tho Presidentinl table, Guests whu bave dined with the President bave beea compelled elther to drink water or to brlng thele ¢ own botties and to slnke thelr thivst privately Letilnd tho door, Still storner hind beey tho o position shown by 3r. Huyes to drunkemiess In tho army, Oficers wildioted to that vice have heen tried by courtemartinl, and the gret majority of those who have heen found gulily have been puuishicd by tho Drosident whaas Dracontun severity that, howover palnful [t may seom to tho humnue mind, must buve been o Inestimablo benwllt to tho army, Under previvis ‘Adminlstrations, ofiicers found gulity of drunke ounoss wero mrely punished oxcept by diss missul, Tho ollicer who beenuty ntoxicated whilo on duty, or who conducted himself lu s disgraceful way whilo Intoxicuted, was tried by court-murtial und i mose enses senteneed 1o bo ensbivred, Unfortupately, the predecesson of Mr, Ilayes in . thu Dresilentisl cbale wore not professed frionds o tbe eause totul abistinenco, and they morely confirmed ha sentonces pisaod by courtseiuurtlal - upog drunkon ofiicors, Presidont Hayos b dealt mara sevorely with tho drunken olticerd W59, have beon seintonced to by cishiered and whisd seutences have boen forwarded to Liw for sp proval, No luss thin sisty ofticers bave convieted durmg his Administration, but fu osly ninoteen cuses wore tho santences o the gl mets upproved and the mon thomsolvos suored 10 seapo with the mrely, nouinal punlinacy of Loing cishiored. Tho President bus, ut (8 cull of duty, hardened his hoart, wnd intileied o forty-one dennken offendsr tho terniblo pat tehimont of it full or partini pavdon, thoreby e taining thow in tho urmy, Wien an ollicee \IM‘ hns been thus punished retlocts that bia cond u:l hus but the good President 1o the trouble of Lmnlunhu bt and thut be bas brought upalll {msolf thio palhrul nuuunnlx{ of remaliig fa tho army, mid wuaring w uniform that m"lfinr impodatblo for him to got drind quletly ao :n. uapy observation, he must feel eutto tho bgart Letter of o Loulslana ox-Congressman l:: tho Now Orleans Democrats [ um, and alvsy! hitvo bun, Domoorat of tho straightest 36 baving never cust any . other bultt than for! e regular nomineos of the party In my ll(c.nu\f‘ 3 tho sady sidoof 40. But I candidly cob! :w thal tho arrogance of tho ledur of tho hu:m arn Democrupy, tholr bypocylsy, thele coos > oppasltion to uvery wensura luoking to the m“. torinl interosts of tho South, nod thelr v‘“"]‘:" ng nirs, huve profoundly disgnsted me. i havo the snmo uso for the Sontnern Nemocr that tho Reputlicans huve for u'fi ';.";‘xmm- tho South, that 18 {0 vuts them. 0 shit thoy' wii kiok wnd cuff ua nt thele e puensire, wnd thut thora s nothing left ruru:n“’ do_but, spanlel-like, to eeing s nand m.m.m,m liuk tho bund that castlgates us, These .\:Jrl i ontey of tho Democratio porsuasiuil 1ek B0 rnn prinoiple thut we Leling mm-""uy “ure tholr dog*; und kick us as they Bl wiil enmo whi nln< homo and vo \:“ RS tlon=coy comes. Why whoutd this “!‘acy ] shuuld ‘the waite peoplo, tho m"wiri Tt's tho Bouth, the fnteltigonco and britd S grent puaplo mlmlwrln(( la.tm.im.l o ealted whose statesmon and sohliors nude 1'1 Sl Btutes what thoy ure to-duy,—1 8uv, ¥ ’.{mp.o wo play sccond fiddlo to i set of sluuyr twm 4 Tiengi 18 a fulr typot [The cofresil unt hiro rofers Lo tho fuut that the lnum' i the Forty-fourtl Congress, huving U R, of neity, rofused to mnko i stall appropr Hnen 2,000,000 0r BLOGNAN Tor thg Mixlesibby Wy whilo thoy voted. to give $INWIDY 10 o onualtzntion of sotalers’ Lounitios, Thon b8 o tinuess] 'hodn Northorn Dumoeitih BEgev. lently uppoaed to wll expendit by per grnnicnt for Internal gupro 1, otenis, "wuilfl' ' chulicg, thoy sco we ave to durlve 4u¥ PR . nvuntige, bt nro prompt Lo Vot WY Eg jons for tho bonelit uf their own um;m' nodh ‘Lo teuth 18 that wa aro now Fed Upon gy dituted and now tale boveruge CiiCC, o, (b riehts.” Thut 18 the " buubli with MEC e Northern Domocrnoy cx?nlu us, “’"".f,mum"“' o thomaulvas ull tho valusbles wid S6CHTpous Wo nak for u faje provordon of o B0 e g elly vated for publis imprn cments, & tulil, Oh, W kive you,hu every G0% Sigpin ‘l‘}:‘nllfuru ‘ tlu:l grout u\llllv‘li:fl‘(l"“ o gt woro o _you Wan 1dints, and thadk God that we SUPLOTt Lo g thut oxtunt” Now, It ls my oD 'Ilhl‘ wmml Bve tled aurselvos fong unouil W LR, ?n'.; s 184 o W corpsn, aud jhat the time hud cumé 4 Shoutd docldro our umatol paton trom 1hee lont dominution, 1 aav let us n&!l depondantly of both purtled, uim i port to men and_measures, Wit B gunce and respect for aur oW Intery and lulwm; b put off with * gowguws b atraotlons,"™ & o Tho Domocracy of tho North _hucrlg_i:‘“-m cantidenco or support bf Ita betied il merebants, - s bankord, tarmors, It manufucturoers, ita 64 Why should tho mu-m%cuce. “x:'w tho Ifiwllbllll ' 0f tha Bouth to ltsc o thio vlir-raff of tho Novih? Ntlonal € Last us buld gl from tho next Rt wnlcz ventions, uni aupport thut parky 800 b b8 wha will o furthost In xiving 10 {ractiook ok - tuu;lniluhu.l Le:ufif- nb:msuulg}fl o u.:‘p“m % wi ) R nf-::;a."wmu %% st srue aiws of JSRAGS 4o manship ;