Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1881, Page 9

THE CIHICAGO TRIBUNE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1881~ TWELVE. PAGIS. T GREAT HONOPOLY, —_— ; o History of the Standar 0il Company. It Has Obinined o Corner on the World’s Light, JE— Now Refincs Nino-Tenths of the ¥ Potroloum Product, P TS And Dictntes the Price of the Other Tenth, Tnsid Mow Extraordinary Railroad Discriminations io Its Favor—A Startling and shameful Story. 51, 10, Lloya (n the March .llh,mm. T wene hins become, by Its eheapness, the R.'.;:': light the world over. Tn tho United '-":m}u i 250,000,000 grallons of 1t Inat year. i:llms pome into such demand abrond that our sports of It inerensed from T04B8RE8 gullony b 'pm [ L0 KL TE roes all over B e, and (o 10 Tk Eust, Fho Oriontul do- d for It 13 tnercusing fuster thn uny othor. We are nssured by tho cloquoent etrolowm editor of tho New York Shipping List that *it lazes neruss the rulng of Bubylon and wuste Tencopolis,” and_that *uli over Pojynosin, und far Cnthny, in Burmah, In Slam, Ao Java, the yronzed itenfzons toll and drenun, smoko oplum sl swallow husheesh, woo und win, love and pate, and sleken and dlo undoer tho ravs of thl_? wonderful product of our fruftful cuverns. Afterartlcles of food, this country hns but one export—cotton—moro yalunblo than petroleunt, Tt was wortn 41780438 [n_our forelgn trado in 1457, $46,A74,078 §nn 1478, and $56,000,000 n the yen ening Junn 30, 150, In tho United States, in eeities 08 wellng ther country, petroloutn is tho general Muminator. We uso MORE KEROSESE LAMPS TILAN. DIBLL: The raw materint of this world's light fs pro- dueed in - territory beglnuing with Cat- taruugus County In New York, nnd extend- jng southwesterly through efght or nine counties of Peoneylvanlu, muking a belt slinut 12 1niles long, and twelve or ifteen mites wide, nnd then, with nn inteeval, rsnnlug nto West Virglulu, Kentueky, and Tennesseo, where the yield i3 undmportint. The butk of tho oll comes from two counties, Cattaraugus, in New York, and MeKean, {n Pennsylvantn, Thero are afew pinces clsewliero that produce rock olly such a8 tho shinles of England, Wales, and Scot- 1and, but the oil 13 8o poor that Amerleun kero- fene, after belng earrled thousands of miles, e wulersell i, Very fow of tho forty milllons of people I tho Uniled Stutes who bten Kerosene ktow that its produetion, wnnufacture, and ex- port, M8 prico at homo and shrond, buve beon wmtrolled for years by u aingle corporation,— i ANDARD OlL COMPANY. “Thts Comvany begnu Ina partnership, it tho early years of tha Clvil Way, botween Smnucl Audrews and Jolm Rockefeller, In Cleveland, Rockefeller had been . bookkeeper In some fus terior town fn Ohlo, and had afterwards mnde afewthousund dollars by keeplng a tlour storo ln Cleveland. Andrews bud beon w duy luborer f1n refinerics, and so poor thitt his wifo took In wew- fng. Tle fouwd o way of rellning by whicli more Xkerosene coulil be gt out of a barrel of petro- Jewm thin by any othor method, and sot up tor bimself a ten=barrol still in Clovelund, by which becleared 5% In slx months, Aundrews' still and loekofelier's suvings havoe grown jnto the Standurd Ol Compuny, 1t hua o eapltal, nom- Iuatly $L500.000, but really muieh more, on which It divides nmony §t8 stockholders overy year 4 willlons of dollnrs of profits. It hns refineres 2t City, Clevolud, Bitimore, Now York, and other polnts, 1t8 own neld works, wluo fuctories, Bardware stores, and burrel shups supply 1t with ull the nccessories it n in {18 busuiess, 1t bai bought land ot Indianupolln on which to ereet thy. largest birrel tactary by tho country, It bas drawn fts cheek for £1,000,000 to sup- resd @ plval, 1t buys #L000 to 40,000 arrels of erude of] a dny, at a prico flxed by It- #elf, uud mokes wpecinl eontracts with rofirondy for tho transportation of 110,000 to 1,K0,0 barreliof ofl 'n yenr.” The four quurters of the wlabenro PARUTIONED AMONG TIE MEMBENS 'O STANDARD COMBINATIONS. One has control of the Chinu trade; anothor thst uf gome country of Europo; anothar thnt ot tho Unitea Stutes. In Now York, you cane wotbuy ol for Eust Indinn gxport [rom tho botise that hus beon glven o Europenn tridos repracally, the Bast Indinnhouse i3 not nllowed W kil for éxport to Burope, ‘The Standard pro- duees unly uno Bftlethor 8lxticth of onr petro- et bus diettes tho prico of all, and retind Nine-tenths, Clreulurs aro fssued at intervaly by which the price of ofl i flxed for all tho cltlesof the country, except Now York, whoro # httle competition” survives, Siuch §8 the | difierenve of tho Ktundard 01l Company to ruil ol churges thal tho prico 8 mulo tho 4 for pointa hundreds of mlies wpart, Thero 1§ " mot ‘to-day 6 merchunt of s lmportanco tn Chlengo, or in wny other city )‘“ tho ‘New Eugland, Westorn, or Soutborn tales, denling In kerosone, whoso prices l.w not fixed for him by tho Btundard. 1In al tuses theso prices ure yraded so that o :’:‘L;r‘\lbnm JJu ane clty ennnot _export to Hoothor. Chleago, Clucinuntl, or Cloveland 18 it rlrul 1o «upply tho tributary towns, ‘Thut Uonn by tho Standard jtself, which runs ol In Uaown tauk gurs to wll the prineipal potata of rhution. This corporation has delven into .T‘YIIkrllplvy,ormlt of business, or into uunlon ahitsell ull tho potrolotin_ rofinerics of tho u'"ull".?.,f.f&”":‘ [ luv‘ Iu‘);lluw York, aud aonia of Nobouy Koo ! neuoo n Western Pennsylvaula. oW MANY MULLIONS ROCKEFELLER 18 P wonrrw, o Hfigfimflu(mlmonz his business nequaintanco Teapeselund puts bis Income st yeurat i tiguro oy onlys CHE second at Call, to - that du-w.".':"'m"" 1iia purtner, Hamuel A ey po® boor Enuligh duy 'Inboror, retired Difuae wiin millions, Just who the Stundard e w*;u“fl) ure, exnctly whit thelr capital fs, Ty hat are thelr rélationy 1o tho radivonds, MW{ kuows except in purt. Thelr oificers res Pennsgivamir¥ befoeo tho Bupremo Court of Vogiunia, tho Juto Now Yorie Itatlroad In- (-,,W:':} g Cominittee, und & committeo of et e nenho, Now York committoo found 4 Coraponey 1o bo lenrned from thont, and i aaboltod t confess it imability to wscer- criong pik U 1t destred to Kinow ot thig iy actlgpy UrEMlzution, Whose business und trans- ol AP0 OF wuch L ehiructor thut iy moinbers their o l¥ir o "history or desceiption, lest crime. HONY be used to conviet' thom of Tuelr greut bust & siness enpucity would have (n- rroad iho IS of tho Ktutidurd sievess, but b by whilch thoy uchioved monoply'was ,,q:'“‘-\;:l'u:.\n\' WITIL FILE RATLROADS, By A lonsplraoy, tho munugers of tho \u“xfli“{,‘,' Weru celminally ndicted In. Pennsyl- T ,s.‘(‘_llu»r- vor dured to stund tril, Mr. Sew \'l;rkl{""} cunnsel for tho muorchants of tlired sy :‘h:‘xl: l{};nw“ hrrkumwfi"w}"m' "lB. tandpiy o £ s 0F tho rullronds to' tho g 1.xll|lhllml tha muost shnmeluss per- Yer B “";;l‘.“::‘r 0 dutles of W common envrl bistiry: ur,u s that bas tuken plico in the als, Iy peig VORI Tho Stundird kil i i ran{' by getting tha great trunk lines Ya oot I transportution. Commodore n it e 3, FEPORLE 't Buve sald that thors Tate gy e M=Rucketellor~who eould dio- Hackureiims oy Bethoe oe not Vandorbilt sfd it Viny w";;r;ll:d lx.‘ ‘Lho Standand has dono every - piiye 0 Pennssivant Leglluture, ex- Venaght poelte I 1836 lls organtzation ‘was vetoro Congrons, und- roferead to 1 “nd prominent moinber of the Blands fnnber ot Congrows, conducted the o ity from beitlod “the sent of the 0way 1 ealither member of the Company, i) GineBber of Congress, cane with (16 Healicors ot th iy before i ' uuu:‘mn l”hlmm mru:uuul 10 zation, 18 mumbers, HOka with 140 rullvawi, Ko Thets thoy tol out through newss '+ Inemorials from tho oil produs ey ur'cn“m'» ol luwsuity, roports of A anieree, sl of Mylshitive fie T of tutorm s Andothor miseellancous THE (N s v Mk CONTRACT 15 1IN PRINT A uiflf.:hf.',‘fi Punokylvunin tatirond ngreed with Poveinent (o Wer tho e of the South Tin- 10 py gyt 10 doublo the frehebls on I eyury foody, LUt to vepuy tho Hlandurd §1 ery Lt OF 0l it whipped, und. §1 for Cntryg \re U T8 computitars shlpped. Ty Migigipo'S, Produced fa Congreds, wid was G dagh s, SERECSERILVD Conget us * tho Sueg U0 wnd startling evidoneo yot proe hussibllity or pallroad o U i sontruct wus kiven up, e, ' ndixtiu o gy DO Rocketuller, the ‘tannuer of tho G e U Who' could Tearh from du- tunfy 'rlm"~“" more telltuto contracts thut ety gt Tle elfeetad socrot urngges Sruteal, 1, 10 Penuaylvantu, the Now York ey, ptitlos wid thy - Atlantlo’ & Greut Plirme,* 'y Bt Iiluences bo used 10 wike tho sy gruntaens pliabls way prouadly bo Ao fact thul ong-quurier of tho m: ?Il Company, i purtner in tho bHols, o WhICH houvy mountly Alvidends are prli, 1 ows kefellor would never rey Presiitent of thol. unddd finder onth e ha tho Suprema Court of ' Pe been nblo to nd oxt, In petting from Mr. Vanderhllt RANRPORTATION FOR 1T8 CRuDg ot | free. The Western rallrands favor the Standard 15 1nifes, to the | 118 Ne Rimo way that tho L ThIs it il by persons whoso [ was without effect, The Prestdents . wiileh | that i mpuny, from the ‘"l‘lilnllu ll'um’m' 4 n at Cleveland, i e 3 : 5 DL Com et AT ion b by St m,_‘ these hal Leen kitled off, equal mtes with tho the raw malerial of thiv riots of Yundorhly, s wregmeat, il " nyre o trausportition of oil nfter this date sinll by | S10ro churge wpon w hnals of peefeet cquality,” sinen iua glven thy Standur Ho bua i 1L ek i vebotes mill- whieh have onabled ftto censh tors, nlthowgh nny of thein, onpuny i tho Titusvillo 44 over his , braken b nonts for thy and ever Tites aod iong of dollar out all eomy. 1 oo wl e (AR R R e itracts with the Stundurd, s unlted with Pennsytvanle Balleoud, THE Ol WAY RUNNING ON 11 bttt thts Standngd all ita reiner: THE WELLY, hieenuse thoy ould not et transportation, Tho was enrrled | nonupoly of the pipe-line hen Jolmod 2 rond il tiioy. s In o war on tho U plpy lines, oton water i1 e mis. Trom the wells to tho ralronds, with tha Brie and tio Pennsyivanin by siral uttuek on tho Hultimoro & Ohlo, which hud to | eing thomse el out to the Standard STANDAND ONFAINED THY; CONTROL OF | forty ALL THE PIVELE nnd of the transpoertation, of everything, in e Committs which thy oit, fuet, nd e wits New York Illrond Investl, y eacept tho Vanderhilt bes Ty aid Pennsylvanin Radlrond tho Standurd, hut to ntof §ts freuent bilts, | xowe® vo Wik ono concossion atte ane | o Lork othor, L when he was dolng the hush othor stippers at 2140 und §1, ehurged the Standned only K0 uid 81 cont, and | ik hin wis pfterwards reduced 1o 60 contsn barrel, | B Turing tho war mpninst tho Pensisylvanin Itand tomake fLacll out to tho Standard, the New York Central earried oll Tor jess thiun nothing, allowuniees, Mr. Vanderbift through it9 illig, the cuan Transler Compuny, n rebnte of with puytiig ek t awr othiet shilppor, 1) fier Il conthnee o barrel, o Tiesldes the oth Duld tha Standur o Ame OIF fronk all necess to the world ox it, FoupEhit un exit throtgh an ol and 'tho Frie: Canul, or down tho Ohfo | Bttt tndreds of miles to Huntlngdon, thanes | * o Ly the Chiesapenko & Ohio Huileowd to itlehmand, and 8o un to tho sem, Mrs Vanderbllt lowerod hi: rates to tho Standurd so thut It could unde uny one who used thego_devious routes, the pratucers, June, 1870, completed thelr own Hdewater plp ling, 104 mites Tong, to a Junetion with the Rending Raliroud, obtuinibg In thix wuy i direct connection with tho seabourd, Mr. Vi derhilt reducel his rate to 10 212 u barrel 1he Stidard 2, 16, finndly bat 10 couts M. Vanderbilt hunled for the: Stanidard u barrel wolzbing 3% pounds over 400 nmles, ana Lnuled brek the umpty e thnt he chnrged 45 eants for houllng a ean of milk welglihig ninety pounds for sixty mllcs. Bo closely bad pt throtgh of=tho-wiy ho publie from 81.40 und charged For 10 s, at tho sauie tine OCTOPUS GRIPPED 1T ABOUT Mit, VANDERBILE that even nt; tho outside rates its compotitors B couhl ot got trnsportution rrom bi. Nl soaed 1o Toweid the Standard to beeons tha aweer of ull | Ty bon Fiti over his foud, s of alt by ter- | fisls il fucllitiey For oll. As tho Standard o ull bt 200 0! a ofl enrs run_on the Brle, and el Teused tho terminil feilitley of I Ly could clinrge ity © tho privileie: Vanderbilt y of tho Nuw York Committ Ho nl- | qull iisoll toitat prices ranging from below the lowest market rate. i prodlucer of oll, wis un ront lmaupuxllecn.‘nlnll Lrll wlhlcln T nsportittion by the Standard, I the voids, it | upd forced to Sell to ltntita’ price, He saud, for | 4 Wogo down to the ofllce wid stand b line, Mry | gometimes half o duy; peoplo in i e renchlig Iumuswnw‘ out luto tho street, sIxty wod seventy of us, When our turn_comes we o I and nsk thom 1o iy, und they graclotsly will take (" This wis Jewigivt [y the tritda 18 i » immedisto shipmony o Standard O Carapung Whroigl fisathorselt, | SEFHLE tho ol s wis wandl thie awy tho Ameriean Transfer Compuny, wis recelving | gl part of it and’ ref Trom tho New Yorle Centralsis conts n barrel oit [ Yo reat 'tifl it wos shipped, months later, ull oll shipped Dy ftscll or Its competitors, aud | Aw an * jnedinto” resuit of theso mnnips was gettlnie othor rebates which cost tho'New | 6000 from Oct. 1%, 1873 to | g Marenii, 3, Mr, Vinderblie tostified positivaly hetoro tho New York (nvestigating Commitico [ iho tende, 1n 1 thint hie knew nuthing whntever ubout iho Awer- | haprol nt the very time the. shipy fenn ‘Transter Compuuy, Its oflicers, or tho PrY= | wolls wora 5,000 brerels oy, tho fnrgest o mudo thil that time, All this, 0% one of tho luy st | est producers testitied, wits'| wns not less completo thun 38 hold of the' Now [ our commodity 1o ono buyer and a York Central, The Belo suipped only ten enrs 3 X for outsiders i “wwholo year, and _those wevo | 10 Flght of appeal. Altbough o publie corporn= | IUNDREDS AND TIOU Erio fet tho B s roud-hed, minal facllities for oll. v When M about those at 1 don't kno t remomber,” to 10 ques- tunl count, At tine W tons owt af 24 by York Central ovor $2, TANDARD'S CONTROL OF THE wivon by mistake, tlon widn common envrier, tho Standard slnk hundreds ol wel il stenl the oltol the nelghborbig wetls, After th L hid hundreds die, pers, tho Erle withdrew thom tho Btuntdnrd, promising curd, of wh to Independent shi ut the ictutlon o tnd 10,000 barrels of oil brought déwn to thosida | gt G5 of o track by pipeline tobe put futo ens | FiR-5 promised him by the Eeie, The swent of (ha b dard nppeared und stopped the shipment, hien this ghipper told his story, wonths later, boelore tha Now York Comumltten the oll, hud not n shipped, though meatwhilo tho market valuo of ofl hid gone down 0 per cent. In gy~ ing-tho Standard speclal rates, rebutes, and tho like, tho Erfo followed tho same course ny tho Now York Central and tho Pennsylvanin Rail- Ono shipper When tho Pennsylvanin Rallrond begnn its diserlininations ngalust tho ol producers, thoy unpealed to Prestdont Seott for equul rates witit the Standurd. At tho Interviow thoy obtained nfter ropontad solleitntions, ne answered thole petitlon by recomuiendimg them to mako A COMI'ROMISE WITIL STANDARD OIL ITe dil not wnant, he sald, to got fnto any trouble with that con greatest common arrior under the Constitudon of Pennsylvaain, which overyboldy shall” havo Representimy the xpressly provides thint equal rights'™ on the rullronds of the State, President Seott netaally offored to got from tho Standurd OIl Compu rivilewo of trunsportution o volunteered his porsonnl services to edinto botween thow, the Penosy vauls Rudirond, and the Standard, More Ameri- cin than he, thoy, refw One o tnem, u Now York refiner, in_doseribing ve bim very distinotly for tho shipperstho over his own rond. i tho proposud suryie tho seene, Buys: ** Wo to understund that we dido't praposo to any *x-up,’ whero wo would fose our ldentityy orsell out, or be under unybudy else’s thumb,” Presidont Scott told these outsidors that lllt?' could not huve the samo rate ns the Stundarnd, noteven i they shivped the same amount o oll, und retused to tell them what diserimin tions were belng mude. Ho refused to give wurd over wiged butween ANDERBILT, producers In writing, nety days® notlco in weiting Ao othor fegiures of the systematio arfd chronlo vielntons of this com- ;vhlfih lwulmbullwwstpllnlnuilhlttl-h'ik’m:‘u l; al wllowanue by tho Pennsylvaniu ltoad of i b Couts u burvol o tho Stuudurd ou niloll | TFpoE oM dust Shipped by fts compotitors or itsoll, fdont Cossntt, of the Peansylvinla, salil undor onth, in the Ponusylvania suit ngainet his rowd, thut ho dlil not think this specinl nllowines wis fny ylulntion of tho wgrepdient, it by, it M. E. G, Pattorson, of Titusville, suld beforo £ o s Tnvestigntinge Committeo, tho [ TIRY DID NOT DARE VlieesPros- the Nuow York Btandnrl wis ablo to soll rolined oft ut less thun st ol munufucture, aed pie it buyers of In tho cud tho rebute eamo out { would not sell out b oF the unfortanuto producer, Aftorthestandurd | ‘Ihie Btandard hud u had usedd the rebate 1o ceush ont the othor re- | which mudo thoi mus flnery, who wors fta compotitors In tho purchugo | terms, wiid seil for £65,00 0 rotinory which v 0 tho only | hlm §160.000 und wis making monoy, Hetdne y> | after rotiner fn Fittsbury, buylng his cerude oll Iu the open markot, menutucturiog it at by Ly mnk= | works, shipplog 1t to the seabousnd, mel e us puy whnt it pleases for kerosene, und | continuod sories of losses, und way Toveed fnto compelling the owner of tho well to tiako what ho cunget for his product. For putroloum, n | ard, whi nlways hud 8 buye for gradn, the rullvond Nxes tho prico tho pro- | right thue. Tho great niujo diteor receives, Ttoger Sherman, of connsel for tho com= | wntlod mid tho ** pMubnants in tho suit brought by tho State of | refineries, The Vi alnat tho Stailand and tho ratle rotgh thy ollicurs uf the Penns’ sylvinia Rndlroml o find some one who know WIAT BEBATES THE STANDARD WAS QET- | Which wis 1 of petrulewn at tho welly, { bees buyor, and dictated the price, ing more thin cost for erade oll, and tined ol Tor less than cost. 1t hud e) an by pr g roe fonnwyivauin ng ronds, hunted t Most of tho ofticors know as little na My. Vandor- i li‘mullly. B'In‘('illmml(lt :vus' puton tho stund, 6 testlied s to thu rubato o e d o, und simiur robutes of 43’ conty i | LIMITING TIE PRODY Central, nnd 2 to 0 1o showed thut, | than by giving tho peoplo cheap light, The whilo_tho upen rute to the publio was #L00 t | Standurd bectme pravtienlly tho only voi w York for caryivg n burrel ot rotined ofly | oil In Western Penusylvaniu, und its rulo wis 1| Lankruptoy to il atiemptiog to lewd un_ nde- und 80 | pendeut oxistence, One of 1ho indopsndent re- luum; tolls ns how the ngents of tho Blandurd jo to bl with tho threat that i b did not 0 Ita thelr combiuation thoy wonld drive o bhar- | him to the wall, Tho Standard cille enty, ulready burrel frot the New York barrel from tho Krle. dard hid tho work douv for $1.10 um rek 1sd, wiid thut outuf tho 3 conts the Peuns, widie received It paid 10 cen storago uand wix cents for the Standand, trunsporting — eride rel, but tho Htandiard pald only 584 cents, und finudly but 10 centd. lghtery, rate for While the Penus, ving nll thiese special wllowiun aL unu thne, nece Prosident CussutUs sworn declarutlon, for jess | of §to 12 per cent. Tho selling, storhw, transs thin nothlng, it churged sbippers hke Goorga | porting, and price of s oll bo wis o lvave not i with tho oflicers of W, Cachinng, who wer oifect of these disol Dy Me, 11, 5, Campbell, b witness for the, Bty af Penaylvantu, who ' whon usked whiat ‘proliv roplled, * Yo any ono pay= | who i thoro was b ety frelght there would bon fug tho open rute of barecl thore wounld ba a beavy profit) rio Radlvoads und thelr counections lost, L ) Junuiry und October, 1570, nbout #1000, 4 thoy would buve bad bue b the Standurd, unnual reportof the Itendiug Copnny gives u krous donl of Bpnieo 10 those bunvy lussos. to 1ts statements, ‘They could not, bo sald, tull ufure the | ma to do thens * most surious dauago ™ Ho uppeated to the bur of publle uplnion. trunk-line Presldonts at thelr meotiug onJun, *tho wusteful aud ubsurd ( nt ngnot to alter thelr rtes, The re- batesgiven: to the Stamdand_extend to nearly | ot been told, und which | overy Btatg in the Unfoi. Theso rebntes nro henisyIvanin tins not yet | nhout eaunl ta tho aversge volue of “the ofi at tundard suceoeded | the welts, Tho railronds of the Gnite Ntates virtunlly give tho Standard {ts raw tonterinl refused eompethine Rhippers, Stondird unless thog did an eguil business, rdlronds ereate tho monapaly, and_then ins tho_manopoly Mielr exeise, m N 1 hand aud 1o Chieny Ared have by menns or these speelal pri ronds, A 10 18 competitor: Now Yark had often to e K10 while whieh the railra guve it anndo the Bandord the master of the it of ol from tho producig districts, 1y thoy stood between tho produe 1o triek tho Standa apprentl. It dellvered itw competitors Inf T 0l w hrands their customers cull received as n common enrrl thngton 0fl for tran nlted_Pive-tadne, Lot, w dealer outsh eoublinution retused to dell l(llmrhll;llm Ol 1o one of tho de Itors In Now York, 171 ed by which alone oF producers could g ¢ from fur Dl to huve thotn emptied, s uppll Btandurd’s United Pipe Li Wits met by refusal to move his oll wile: 1t to the Standard, Tuo following extr ket price ? Itetow tho market price. ~Always helow tho murket priee? AlWnys below | Taylor & 1,600 harrels 1l When f olln duy. Thelr ta 10 which thoy tho pipes whiel ground, TIHE STANDARD CARRIED 1TS POINT, When thy Like noninaily 4 conts i brrel and ey off [rom Clivis slnees for tha Btandard at 70 cents a barrel and 2 cents a hun- s do. Thes ho fuys before 101 It gooms Ineredible that Amerfoans shonl) willing to do swhat the Stundurd, by Flleges from the rnll= The refinerivs ne M GROUXD AT i it o=t toth of the il gield, of thaothier nine-Nrticths and tho workl. Thero Wiy 1 would not pl | they lnd ordered tho high-priced avticles, out of whith nlone thoy conld manufacture tho funey § for. Tho Stand.asd W, Cenle ortution throwgh the - he sold utow tho Standnrd ot it wt the swme 8 cotpel- ntrolied the dgton and wll 1 to market, When tho W from his wells had filled his tanks, and ho cution to the varrier, ha rolil frot b Lents | (le wtenogreaphle repovt tells the story plalnly dpped | e e et “(?Jm:s —Upon what conditions woutd they ran Jpon conditfon 1t wus sold to certnin purtles,—), A, Bostwick & Co., members of the Ques.—At what price compared with the mar- t, of " Petrolia, hud wells pro- ks 18 were Tull, Thoy ownerd othor tithks, 1l got. tholr oll only throngn the Standard nwned und opers ated ns common cnrrler. Thoy nppied to It fur transportation, and wero refused, ‘Thowells could not be sbut down for fear of water, and £ thousands of Lurrets of oil ran Intu the forafter that the firm sold all thoir ol to it, v | nlways: o hiul flowlng wells and o ONIN Ty owner ol six il lans, the p 0il went down t 34 01 Ml HU N 1 ‘Whole gouumnmties have bes out to Gy, ety eiured that * the Standited and the rillrowd e highor luw of naturel™ Tho vel the reprosentntiye of anuthor gront N dutily, wrote from\ Titusvills, P, N would havo required all Ity and cheek, and the dange Araulil nve been an outbrenk that conte abliity tho bur Iaborers or tramps, They aro mon who' belle I order and nw, and huve buriness 1o nite |t Mr I3 I Cinplicll, who es P i to be upintercatinr to th sumerd ol korogene. Ono duy, retu homo ar Parke: gront oil distriet, he fonnd tho el o Into and tuon declared it could not huy b tho oll, & HUNDREDS O1* WELLS WERE STOPPED, uence of u fow lends ties. thosnllrouds « 0 trnish cars, hus o Jtonient hevo that tho conservative cltiz aggravated forim, It 8 | 1 go usittio thoy eouhl. FINENIES, 25 cents n barrel betow the murket price. 11 Caldwell was unother producer who ity tnnks, which the and who hud to o 50 (0 pay for co of ofl began i stendy deeling n S130 to B couts & bnrrel, 1 tho fuee ol ait inereused demand unequaled in tho histary of A cents t Trom tho centiso * we tike 1AvE by these nets of the Staudurd and tho raflronds; 1 rendored despur- ute, and tho penvo of Pennsylvinin Tmperiled wmore than oneo, Tho thoisands of mea thro iployment fn Pittshurg betwees 181 were netors inthe Littsburg tragedy of Thu ofl produeers, in their memaorial DML, Aug, 15, 188, [or help do- . Al certiin men glven the word tiero nplnted tho selzure of the raiironds and vwtoning thom, tho capture und control of tho United Pips Line's (tho Standurd’s) property, und in ull prob- \ ing of all the property f tho Stundurd Ol Comuny in the region. ‘Fho men who have done this, snd may do it yet, uro not ribed hlnselt #4 tho unfortunnte vwner of nearly n bundred lucing welly, told n story before tho Bu- rome Court of Peunsylvinbit thut ought not million of con- ing to hig near Plitshurig, the centro of 1 Itizens tn n stuto of excltoment. The Standurd, throigh Its pipo Hug, had refused to run off unless sokl to thom, snuge tha vidlronds could furnish i nu enrs to move away to thelr groat dumnege, Thousauds more, whoso uwner were afrali o eloss thom for fear of ine thent trangportation o to tot them put their | Jury by salt water, were pumptng tho o ownearaon tho road, ufthough they hiud been | ground, All tho I Its heaviest customors k- tho years when tho Btandard was nn ul); the flerocst rudlrond Lo tho men wis hindly enough to proveat an umbwnrz of his competitors fu oncof | and tho destruction of rallrond and plpo lines. Mr, Campbell telegrnphod the raflrond wuthori- *Cho refusal of the Stundanl to run oll JEWETT, AND M1t | unless sold u*u)n Immedinto shipment, lllllll ulf od such 18 will nut b ublo to cunteol o poace, and ) fonr *not Lo givo any party the slleht- CONIER G "t ¢ Wi s 1 wal ditforunce 1 Thteds oF disorniation ot aay” | UG SCones of tust juty will o ¥ churaeter whitover, i rutes withoug, o to thovraducers. AL ; ul-mlw‘! 'Il“ m'l ‘Lo Interview that fallowed it 2+ to ko 10 chungo | gonyinced th wullrond mun thoy bl gony too far, andl In a few hours nltorwards hindrods of empty oars suddunly uppeared st Parkor, and for o weok tho rulirond which bad sudd it could Turnlsh noears tovk awuy from Parker 50,000 burs If wo turn 10 the experlenco of tho refluers wu find_thut thoy fared us bucllv us the produ- cers. Tho hundful of Now York refiners who survived the consplraey ngalnst thow testify that thoy had to koep thoje capieity lnltod, und 0 BUILD LARGE RE- hecause they would not ho nble to got ofl enough oll fnto the fleld, und erughout tho Lushivss of | carried to tham to keep them golng, M Alux- any rival, by biddug tits 245 conts, or part of | andor, uf' Clevelund, 11, ubove tho prico uny one not gotting this ros bito could puy, 18 how he wad Tiformed by Hockefellor, of tho Standird, thut If he shiould by erushed out, ract with tho raitronds Ho it to tako their Tankruptey or nsule of s works to the Stad- ol thy gpot at tho Ly of these refln- cried, whon bought hykll;m stunduvd, were iy W to s toll Penusyivania Radlrond guv wuney by TION AND MAINT. ING AN ARTIFICIAL PRICE o freo mun to choosu helwe Jolnlig tho on thusy tor ”, Vicos | 1o puy thom n tributo of yne cont & gl Hetl hundreads of thousands of dohur. 1870, thut there wery TWENTY-ONE OIL BEFINERIES I0LE hanled 10 othor tn und Cosmod retinerivs, which cost nbout EKXL000, wern 801d at Sherlil's #ulo to the Stundard for F0,000, aud nre now run vigorously by that Company. The Germml, pineily wa loni us ti 1ts proprietor trunis- portation, 8 now lewsed to the Standard, bue stands fille, ws thut conecern can mako mory 1IN or of d upan this Mnuneinl rato und ho wus to retlie only il ag much as he hwl been dolngz, und wis ot tnx tirely to the Stundard, 'This testimony with ve. ho extretho rto of £ barrol, The | gard to regulution of prices by tho Stuudard 1y (nutions was all expressed | gonfirmed by tho unwillg ov Vundergrlft, President of the Standued’s Unitel Pipo Line, and n stockholder fu tho Stundand, L that the Btandard xes for the other rutiners in tho combinution bow much thoy shull henvy loss, but with w $L10 robito onevery | produce each muonth, thus “keeplng up thy The | price.” 1uis also proved to have manipututed Nuw York Centrul, the Pennsyivanin, und the | the llrll:o of ol ou tho exchungos by tho issus of lous pipe-line cortificates to the nmoeunt of neo of My, J, Jy ‘Tho Pittaburk Chamber of Comtueres roports ‘Tho lutest | od Aprll t i in that vity, owing to frelubt disechninations THE PUESIDEST OF THE BALTIMORE & 0110 u,,d"'t.(,,mjf,’,'.mo,:,_“ e Brer ER000M0 e vested fu thoso rellnceiva, und i oporution called tho attontion of the trunk-lno Prosidents | thoy would huve requlred tho Inbor diraetly of 000 men, besides tho nuoh lurger number ot 1o snburvusy the ruliroads betors Congrss, und | curponters, brivkluyera, bofloruakens, pumpe o1, uid othor workinguion, wio would have ovmploymont If the ol retining businves were wosporous. A minuto prepursd I 1570 by the {on. Lewls Buery, Jr., & momber of © the u oll,” which virtually for the Staudard | Peansylvunls Legistutur whows thut of amounted to freo trausvortation. His uppenl | the dlry-clght retueries fu - Pittsbure fu e twentgeclght have heen ushed out and dismanticd, angd thit of “the remaining thirly twentv-ning’ hivo been Lought 1up or lensenl h{ the great monapoly, A partinl Jist pured by Mr, Fanery of ™ the petsoleum re- iinerfes i Penneslvantn bankrupted. squenzed ont, howght up, leased, or disnutied ' by the Ktandurd containe _soventy-six refineries, of which thirty-one woere dlsmantied, twenty-fon Tensed or bought, fome to be_ rii. and same to Deeshut down, and twenty-ono wero driven out of businesy, . JTH GENIUS FOIt MONOPOLY haa given the Ktandierd control af mors thin the prodoet of oil and §ts muntfactire, AWhol tha cities of the count Tigve to buy and sell prctinnts whe buy ol of tho iwenl to sell to dealors who By of {ts tew competitors. Bome who hive done so huve heen warned not to repeat tho erse, wied have been informed that, If they e Rtandynl, though under contruet t #upply them with oil, would eut them off, ‘il woulil ght nny cult they might Lritge throngh il the eotirty Without regard 10 expense, At 1 ne cnse 18 known where tho Deputy Ol eity to which ol kil “beon utsiide deater, received front tho i peremntory orders by telegeruph, berore the ull had areived, to eondemn it IN THE SOUTIL, THI; STANDAUD'S CONTHOL, 15 ABSOLUTE, ; It hag now stretehed ont its handa (o grasp tho > not al In ept tha. prieo ho chuoses to wive us, witbout redress,with nunies leavo to tho peaple, whoso ereatures thoy ire, but two remedies,—ni appoul for protection first to the law of tho fund, wikd next to tho intelifgent und falr carresponddent of tho Now Yurk Sun, whom tho Standird eould . not seduce, us ig 0kl New York v, 4, 1838 *Tlig fuot I8, the State of Pennsyivania hns bud A nurrow eseapo from mr ntermul war, that csources to control is noL over yot. with .| turpenting trade, and ‘that s cottonses and linseed oll, and [t pecuinie tretics have nlrewly Been disastrousdy (el i thes cta, Those ol proditeers and reliners whom the Standird wis robbing with and without forms OF Inw fonght with every weapon they could cominnnd, ‘The strigielo hus been golig on von- tinuonely for nine ra, Al that men cowld do whu were tHehtig for selfspreservation wis dones They enusel to be introdisesd inte Cone gress (he test ovizlon] DI to regalate rabironds by Innterstate cammeree, 'Tho outrrges do the roids and the Standard were proved bhefo) - investioating eommittes of Congress, but Congress did nothie, Tho Leglsiature of Pennsy Ivunit wag besutieht t0 pasy luws to ens w0 “thy constitutional provision for equnl rights on the ruitromds of tho State, hut tho :l’mmlj' of the Struduant was more powerful thin o ctitlon of Lusiness. 1 wha nsked anly tor rehunee. Numbers of suls wero brought, ndividnade wd nombinlly by the State, ha by the hirmaontous etforts of “the Hover nor, the Attornoy-Generat, the Conrts, und tho e provented from coming to ouceludlan, Indictments for eriming conspirs v wore founi! by i Grand Jury, but when Gov, Hoyt, of Ponnsylvaning i diie coirse of law, wad endled npon to lesie requisitlons for tho o tradition of the two Rockefelicys und thelr complices, ho refused 1o do so. Worst fniluee of all, tho Siprome Coirt of Pennsyivania stuyed the teinl of the mest importent of the enses I progress fnoa lower Cotrt, and ko Dbrowght tho fegal proceedings agulnst tho Standurd and the raflvonds to un end, in steiking ngreement with the prediction of one ol the d fendants that * tho case would never be tried Inahort, tho plundered fonmil that tho Courf tha Governor, and the Leglsluture of their State, and the Cong of tho United States were thy tool8 of the plunderers, nnd were foreed oeom- promise, This compronilse, signed Feb, 6, 1840, wus nvietory In forelne o pledae Stanuard and the ratirond2of tha nbandonment af the worst of their practices, but therelies in it,ng In st compromises, A GERM OF DISASTEIL 1t permits the Standard to receive any rebato the rallronds have n rlight to grant, and atlows the ridlront torive rebates to lurge shivpers, of whom thers 18 but one,—the Standurd, "This 18 tha relntive position of the partles to-dny, The Stannrd holds fts vantnges-ground, und Amerien has the prond satisfaetion of having furnlshed tho world with the groatest, wisest, und meanest manopoly knuwn to history, Poeiday, it every part of tho United States, people who burn Keroseno wie puying the Standaed Ol Company f 0% ol overy sallon amounting “to several times ity origliul cust o that eoncern, I Pennsylyania, the tax levied by tho Stand- ard ntove ol expenkes nnd legitiinate profits wid culenluted In 1850 by an oxpert ut THeents o sullon. ‘This mude o yearly tax on the light jn mast general use n thint Stato of 2235500, 1 an ollidayit submitted recently at Clevelund in Juwsukt, It wis stated by M 1. L. Taylor, nre- finer, that the wonopoly of tho Standurd in- creased tho cost of oll elghit cents u gullon, When the workingman buys kerosene hecause It 18 chenper thut gus, o the student beenuso 1t s better, euch puys the Stundard this tux. The whole country tonsumed st yenr, at 1 [ow es- tlinnte, SRR rillons o7 Kerosene, Putting tho Stundi t: id ull possibllity of e onts i inllon,we bnve 'y ou thio wholo country of $LL00KH, hesines o millfons taken from tho rallronds i rebntes, Th it Lo tho sworn evidenco of 1ho ollivers ot the rallronds und tho_known fHzores of shipuments, nmonnted In 1856 (0 SMEL0, In the purind between Oot. 17, and - Maren 31, o I, to o Sk, 16, These figures makd rensanable tho curs ‘rent estimato that the Standard pays dividends of SLKROM0 R month, 1t ean do this, nnd nave millions lert to ||:|f' tho sulta of refinerlos it has lensed nnd keeps {die, jts neksheesh to vallrond mon, tho bribes It bas hid o give Judies, State Legistatures, and Htuto Inspectors, aud s kali- ries of bundvods of sollirs o month to men whom fc s turned ont of tho business, und who nro neting as 18 puld agents. o R ADS TIAT IAVE BRED AIMES who nre now buying newspapers, and getting up corners in whent, corn, anid ¢otton, und nro k- gz enilrond consolldutions that streteh acrosy tha continent, 13y tha Snwe tietles that tho il roils have used 1o bulld up tho Stamlawd, they cun give othor combinntions of eapitullsta tho cantrol of thy whent, lnmber, cotton, or uny othor product of tne United States, Thern 18 more than n suggestion of this In the netion wiuter before last of tho rillronds connceting he Enst und West, by valsinr rates at u stroko of tha et frou 16 and 20 cents o hundresd poitnds, Letween Now York und Chicago, to 40 md 46 conts - hundr to result was no Juni at Chleago 000,000 o the produets of tho farm, Chicago was filled np, nud word had to by sent back along the rall- raids to take uo moro erain for shipnont. Tho rondsid elovators filied np, and tho farmors fouml thelr warket gone, A& It happened, ot this opeasion they had nirendy Yold tho most of thelr erop, but tho wuurrunmfi»hmm Low tho ontlet for whent eonld be cut ot by n combinn- tlon of rulbroud mon and specutators, jist us tha outltow of oll was cut off by the Stundard and the rullronds, otu of tho oporators o3t frominent ln tho recent grent speenlutions are POWERFUL RAILROAD OWNERS AND DI- [ s, Given tho f!mvnr to raiso und chnngo the freleht ruto nt will, these speculuting Direotorseun eot- trol tho prices the Wost shall get for grain andeuttie und thos the Enst shall pay for ity bread and mont. The New York Chamber of Commures on Feb, b, 1880, nnunimaously ndopted n report=glgned by Chivies 8, Smith, Juekson H. Schuliz, Nonfanily 14 Shermma, Pranels 3. Thurber, HenJamin G, Arsolit, Jucoh Wondel, uned Chirles G, Dodigo,—in which thy Ignliicant words oceurs * What hus hupponed in the cuse af thy Sundurd OIf Compuiy g lagiien fn ather lines ot, business, With tho fuvor ot the managers of (e frank lnes, what 18 te prevent commores fn tho rest of thoe great staples from Deing monopolized (h a sitine manner? Already It i mkmr this course, Onu or two firmsin Ialtimore, Phlladelphin, New York, and Boston, with tholr Lranch liouses I “tho Wost, ure, s the fuvor of tho yalleends, Gist monopolizing tho CXPOFE tralo I whont, eor, Cattio, sl provise fong, driving thelr competitors 1o tho wall with nhisolnto certulity, brealing dowe und erushig out tho energy mid centerprise of tho wany for the benelit of tho favored Tow, erm——— AN IMPORTANT ADMIRALTY DECISION, Dernors, Fev, 2L—1n the United States Court this morning Judye Brown remdered an impor- tant deelston 1 the enso of thestepmer Garlund, 1L appenrs thut an orlginut el agaiust tho Guir- lund was fllea by Jumes Cinldy on n ctabn for dmaged for the loss of hig Lo anlnor sons, killed on the Uurlund fn a marine collislon, A wipplomental Hihel was hed setting up the pe polntment of libelunt ux adminlsteator of his Bons' estato, il clulming to rocover i this o pacity mider anaet of the legisliture requiring compemation for enusing death by wrongful ety negleat, or dofunlt. Excoptions wero thod to Linth 1bels, on the ground that e Conrt of Admiralty hud o Jurlsdiction of ‘tho - subject mutter. The guestlon wi uld an originad 1ibol be matutninl for luss of sorvices? Judge Nrown quoted vierious declslons For und agalnst thls construction of the lnw, ud upon the whole concludesd to overruty tho exeeptions, 1t 1% i slursttnnl the enso will he tuken 1o the Unitod Blutes upronmo Conre, e e—— . THE MAYOR OF GALENA, Spegtal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune. QALENS, 1L, Fob, 20,—The Hon. Darlus Hunking, Mayor of Gulent, und- Fresident of the Keokuk Northorn Line Packet Company, 18 confined to his realdence in thils elty by sicknuess of u sevlous niture. Mv, Hunking was fiest tuken I at 8t Lonls, nbout ten duys “ngo, while ate tending to the stonmboat enso In Judge Lind- Toy's Court fu thaut city, mul, before fully recove ering, started for iome, wid wis caught in tho snow-atorm un the way, Ho wid vory il on his areivul at Quteny, and bay sinco boen contined 10 hi3 bed, GOV, WASHBURN, Epecial Dispuleh to Tie Chicigo Tribune, LA Ciiosse, Wis,, Feb. 21.=Ex-tov, Washburn I8 reported us bofug not so well usa week ago, Lo bus beon worrylug considerable tho pust tew duys, but nothing serlons s entertunred. Juis hordly probuble that he will be nblo to loavo his roou for soime e yor,—nol 8g soon ts Lo vx- peeted 8 week ngo. < e — SUFFERING FROM PARALYSIS. Derrorr, Mich., Feb, 21.—Tho wife of tho o Dr. George D, Bukor, paator of the Firat Preaby- terlan <Cwreh of this eity, sutfered o paluful stroko ot Biul’ul)‘ill Batuedny evonbue, iler ugo s ubout 40 yeurs, ‘Tho atiliction oxcltes lnrgo Bywputby, us tho lady ls widely belovod, - — Vardiet of n Coranor's Jury, “Iied from want =of Dr. Bull’s Cougn Syrup,” Prive 23 conts, THE FRENCIL DECREE, Reasons for Shutting Out American Hog Products from France. Effect of the Ordesr on Consignments Now iIn Transit=The Banks, A Desire to Encourage Homo Products, or a Foar of Trichinam, Tho provislon deaters o ‘Change did not wear the air of surpriso yesterdny that they did ¥ute urday, but had quite as much talking to do over the edict of the Freneh Government prohiblting the fmportation uto France of Amerienn hog vroducts, Some sald 3t was an example of the despotle charreter of the French Republle, and othors consldered tho injunction tempnrary ouly, eral cables were recelved hero stating that w clegution of French fmporters from Iavre, Bordenux, Marsellles, und uther parts hai gong to Purls ana neked for nn undlence with the Min- Ister of Conuncree fn regard to tho matter, und they then applied to the Amerienn Consul nt flavre, who has requested the Amerfeun Minister b Froneo to Intereed It may take eeveral duys to et nn fntervlew, for etiquet In Frunce does not permit persons tu rueh into thepresence of Governtuent fficlaly with tho sume freedom thut the Ameriean ree porter exercises in enltiug on the oceupant of the White House, Mennwhile the people In this country interest- cd in provisions ure left to CONJECTURE THE NEASONS for lesulng guch u peremptory deeree. Tho fin- Presston gabted yesterduy by inferviewing so eral focal tiems was that the French Govern- ment was clthor ahont to imposo o tarit or ine Atitnte u rield tnspection of Awerfean meats, 1t 18 betleved that the country members of tho Freneh - Assembly buve heen working to getu duty (n the ‘intorest of tho furmers, who have been well nlzh vulned by tho competition they have bl to endure from the United States I the pust Few yours, 'This keen competition 4 equilly teite of other countrles fn Enrape, and applies to graln ne well s beer and hog prod- ucts, The English farmers have felt the eifeet af freenrrivids of Ameriean wheat nnd corn, and hnve tried thele best to probibit the lmportation of our eatilo by raistng the ery of pleurospneu- n Chottem advoent monin, About a year ngo M. e 1 In this country nsort uf reciprocal trenty hetiv the two conntries—1runee and Amerien—which would give Loth cqual wdvantige in tho ex- chnnge of goode, * Gur people did not_look upon 1t with fuvor, nud it s wow thougnt tho French Government proposes to get even with s by putting u duty on tha articles exported 1o then, A turil? would, of cotirse, rise the priceof Amer- fean meats 0 Franea and benetit the French produeer, and pechaps eheek tha outflow of gold 10 thls country, Germiny mmposed u duty of two conts per portl on meats whoug 1 yer g, A leadinie packer suid he wished Franee would INSTITUTE A IHGID INSIPECTION. That conntry, us well ns others In Eur haa teen flooded with Amerlcan ments thatWero not properly enred. They don't keep, aod whei they arrive they are founl to be sonred, tinted, or In u stiate bordertng on decomposition, When asked why the packers did not thoroughly cune thelr product, tho reply wita thut thero was 1 big export demand for cheap meats,—those thut hud heen ln salt only five llllf . ‘The packers reckon on enpplying their trade, These ments have to he solit ut sueh u low price that there §s no magin of profit or yvery little in thom, and tliey ire turned out rapidly fn order to get qulck URCOL tho money, Shioulders und meats constitute the wrent bulk of tho hoy product that I3 sent 1o Frunee, bo- cinge they nre tho cheapest. Ehonlders ure tho most ditfieult pure of the hog to cure, It is well knows that the shde-cut of ment will begin to Kruw sour on the outslde, aud this tainted part cun be pured off, Jeavivg the rest sweet, Tho shoulder, huwe A flrst In the knnekie or Bbone, where 8 not penetrato rendlly, und the bad portion cannot be renched and cut awiy us In the other ense, Shoulders eontaln fo much bono welght that they are far leas valun- Dle thuat other cuts, and are sokl at relutively tow prlees, there being no speenintion in them, The value hid also been diminished by extend- fng the length of the wmiddle proper, et ting of the shoulder nt ~ an unplo which ~tukes nway much of tho meat, Although the sulier the shoulder the more Bony 13, y'et it 14 thon the easlest to eure(when it feenredi, A Freneh exporter stuted yesterday that Fen prefers tho big shonlder, whily Eagland takes the small one. ~Tho Freneh bhad an inapeetion of all fmported meats geve years llr mt have allowed ftto full fnto disuse, Probably ut the fnstanco of lcurlu who wanted w bulid up & foreign trade, fn Germany {ln meats uro fnspeeted” before they lenve tho cuse toms oflicers, Anothor dealer "sald a rlghd fn- spection in France WOULH DI A Guon THINA, beeauss it woull kIl this - trade in poor, haif- eured ments, and the |lcn‘llu woull soon denen that it is better to pay n littlo more and et n good nrtlele, The paekers would learn thut it is mare to thelr eredit to eire ment so It witl re- min sweet i reasonable length of e than to turn out ano artlclo that - stinks almost goon st fs out of thele sl cry pilcker 18 llkels to bayo sour meats on b s, utid tho BHOFt-cure process 1s not peeuline Chlengo, It extends pver the whole country, There ls 1 home denund ulo for tho sour goods, 1o eheapners of whith atiencts the notive of the poorer clnsees, ‘housands of pounds are Aunt South, It iy nlso sakl that tho Treneh ure nfllleted with - THE TRICHINGE SCARE. Fvorybody kunows, sald n purty, that cases of trichinosla nre extrenioly rre, ind ure far mor likely to oceur In Burope, whero swine plutmped out on Bith wnd garbage, than rlei, whero Mr, Hog luxuriates und grows corpulent on corn, Besfdes, It (s not likely that tho peaple who are the best cooks in the world, und also tho gourmands, kit ent Hve teiching ey 1Ot Lo ko purtienlne what thuy eat, hut they are preity sure to have It woll-covked nud dished up i a prlatable man- ner, The Germuns eat raw poris, and thls ter« viblo diseaso usuully appears fu people of that nutlonality. Export ‘houses hore that had goods nireaidy bought on Freneh ordera bl nstruetions by telegruph yesterdny not to s, und to delay (€0 possible thio goodd I trangit, One lurge trai re- celved vrrdors to send nil thoy bl bought to Be gl 1t I8 KOPposed RO CON Do SONE 1eros tho houndury na the product of othor countrics, The poor Fronchmin §s bound 1o buve the chenpest fod, When nsked If the action of France would Injure the trade here, the dealers sald no, It wanld only eause i ripple of excitement, Plenty of peopls at home want tho ineat, und it woulid make uo diiferencs i no moro wentto the Gauls, A reportor ealled during the afternoon upon MIL SAMUEL RUHOENEMAY, o gentleman who @8 nterested fw the oxport tride i meats from this port to France, und asked him for any formiution ho might possess thrawing light upon the subject of the deemston by the Frenet Chnmber not to admilt Ameriean wivats juto the country, Mr. Shoencmnn suid thut ull tho parties interested In tho trude w very much’ excrehiod ovor tho matter, wh though Its effect upon the general provisid trade of the ity wonld bo only temporar, would eause conskieruble trouble 1o those who hud mado’ shipnients 10 FPreaeh ports, or hd purchased for tuturo detlvery In order to 1111 urders From that eountry, No definit aows on tho subjeet hid been yet recelved, and thoy were still nislons to ledrn whothor the decreo b an_absolute” one or not, and also whether It gues into unmediste ' eifeet or whethor tho consignments fu transit wilt | be permitted to enter tho country. Tho wueneral bolict among shippers to Franeo wos that the decree 1s an nbsolito one, and that un- dor 1t 1o constgnuents will e allowed 1o land withorut 1uvro of Bordenttx. AL tho simo thne, tho bieller was that tho Prench Govermnent, upon proper representation, would revehyd the dverca anid wimit Amerloan pork subjoct 1o (y- speetion, i thing to while none of 1ho shippera wonld objeet, With regind to the provislons in trausit, Mr. Shocueman sild thut, whatovoer tholr five when thoy renched Franew, thoy would huvo now to go forward, In cascd where uwr- were not alrody stowed away i eurgo, the Trelyht bad been enguped for thom, und it wis Just wswell to let thom o, and 1o redivect thum {osumo othor polnt uftor thoy arrived av thoir dustinatio 3L M LOEWENTIAL, President of the Internutionnd flank, informed tho repurter that the bankors who bid mido ud- vinces upols outs cotsigned o Froneh porta Ald not sntivlonto nuy serions loss aeming from tha recent netdon of. thy Frenel Govoriment, Ho belleved that nltogetior over a million dol- lurs’ worth of ments was roprosented on tho bills of hiding upon which Amorienn bunkers hid a vuniced ooy 10 consignors whose bilts of o K0 WOED 18 Fut uniecepted by the driwe Ho fully oxpreied tint the druwe it those hills, us the Freneh e signeo hius o vory clustle conselenco, und wonki 0 ek on i eontract with greater ense (o nybody etso, ** | suppose, thon, that If the couslgneos refuse 0 peeept theso bills, tho consignors will huve to addittonul mayging to- sevure tho bank- tha repocter aukcdl. I o not think that tho majority of thom wilt bo able to, A unkgin 18 yesorved when the nid= vanee b Hrst mudo, and, us pricos inve gavineed sinew then, §do ot ik (ot thots will be uny 1083 0B LHes0 consinmonts. ovon 1f thoy bhuve 1o bkt to atlior poris® WL tho mgis b nllowed to landi” o 1 wnouly thinks s, | supposo the French overnment will allow that. Thoy surely wiit budleve that the trichitnoe thoy aro afrld of cans not do any haew us long as thoy aro i U open alk. L hape thit, whon proper sepresentation (s it o thut Govermment, they will ailow the Lnportation of_ Awerican inests subject Lo such i duspeotion as §s made Iy Germany, Al BOLTON, who wanages the Forelyn Exchange Department of the Fint Natlonu) Hank, sald that if the Fronch deceeo ngalnst Awericun nieats tad buea lssued sowo weoks agu the buuk would bave been deeply Interested fn {t, a8 it held a large yunntity of unnceepted oxchange secured by DiF of " latting for meat shipments to France. Theas bad ufl areived, however, and tho ox- chunge wis gecepted, and ot present tho hank Al not. have nioro (han £0.00 warth of bills o French eonstgnecs, Te wgreed with Mr, Loowens thal in his estimate of tha very off-hand manner I which the French alrnwe Ined to aecept when it sult him toda ko, and salid that the only thing to do with the goody when they nre | L e woull b to reship themn 1o aome otlier port where w legislative prejudice against Amerfenn m il not oxist, ‘The provision murket yesterdny wa: y irregular, but not mueh worse Hutunday, Mess york declined nbout 12 e per harrel from tho lntest prive of Enturdiy and Aeonts from tho price nt the regnlar closing hour of thint day, Rhort ribs were down ahout 20 cents per pound. ) VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, “NIcking$ Morsen. To the Eititor of The Chicagn Tribune, DAK Pank, Iil, Feb, 2L—1 regret that the articlo in your Sunday issue on “nieking* harses did not have n anoro conspleuous place, £0 that evorybidy mikht ko it, fn my youth, forty years awo, I was for soine tmonths cane nected with u Hyery-stuble, and have ae this suleking ™ prictics know it to hon needs lees, burbnrnog, and devilish custom, It Ia to be hoped the Humane Soclety will keep this mwntter before the people until public opinion shull protest so strongly, that the eruel practica bu abundoned. Ciceno. Tha Fire Celebration. Th the Editor of The Uklcago Tribune, 4 Cmeaan, Teh, 20.—Your views in to-iny's 1rsue regunding the tomfuolory to Lo displayed next October in conpemorntlon of the de- struictln 11 we ghould celebrate enlamitics why not post- vonu the ebservance of Washington's hirth ta hls death duy, tho Hth of December uest, und then have n regulne {l!lllhnrl"!'f Or A tho projectors of the fire celeébrution are spolling Tor it [lttle diversion and cnonot walt wntil De- cember, thoy might tackle tho 15th of April next—the dute’of the ussasiuntion of the la- mented Lincolt, 3 A HUFFRIL OF 70 Grain Inspeetion. To the Editor of The Chicage Tribune. Curcaan, ¥ ~It uppeurs to me thag tho nrtlele In yesterday's TRIBUNYE on graln inspecs tion is liable, withont expluoation, to fewd to misapprebension as to tho true purpose of the persons who are now endeavoring to seeuren reformation In the graln Inepection rervice in tho City of Chicavo. The evidence thus fardee veloped at Sprimefleld, I It proves nnything, proves that the graln reeelvers do ot dealre fowt inapection, It does show, however, that thoy wunt unfform luspeetion. - It Is not to them o wnuch n matier us to what e grades shall be, us that the grades shall be uniformty malntalned, und thut the Inspection gervice shall be intellis getly and curothily perforted. Tl ik abont S recelvens esiriig to dubnso grades s mer ALE ™ put forth by the friends of the present Cotnmlrsioners tu ralse n fl te und to mis- lead pubtic senthinent. Respeetfully, ) A M Wiianr, Affairs In Utali, I the Lidttor of ‘the thieago Tribune. 8ALT LAk Crrv, Utah,, Feb, 16,—In your dally fasuc of the 10th Inst.a special telegrnm from Pittsburg, Pa., contuning o notleeable blendlgof fruth and flectlon In conncetlon with a brlef mention of the Hom, Arthwr L.fhomns, Seere. tary of State for this Territory, and In the ub- acnieo of Gov, Murrny, our present Acting Gove ernor. Mr. Thomna was horn In tho City of Chicagn, and caunot thereforn Lie, o8 atyled I sakl die: pateh, *anative of Wale: Instend of reced ing un nppointment as *private scerotn the Governor of Utuh * 80mo two yenrs #yzo, ho was appointed Seoretary of tho Territory of Utah, and ns such, In tho ‘nbsence of the then Governor, Emery, nequitted bimselt with great ereditng Acting Governor of ah dirlug the tast gession of the Mormon Leslslnture, ov, MUrmy, provious to bis prosuit. tempos senee from Utan, im n certitleats of cleetlon to Cumphiell, the Gentlle cundiinto for Delegute to Congress, on tho ground that e (Camphell) received the blghest uber ol votes of auy of tho candidites who w oitizens of the Ublted Sen Cannon, the Mormon candl- date, now applies ta the Conrt for it writ of mnan- dumits compeiling neting Gov. Thomns to give him (Cannon) w eortiflente of, tion nlso, Tho muddie i3 in keeping with the mixed stato Of things exlating n this modera Zion, whero o arehy thannts detianee in the fucs of ation, and through tho cormipting inth- ence of 118 lnmenso revenie, subaldizes legisine tors und tho press. CORRECTION, Mr. Vandoerbilt's NSon=in-Law. Ta the Editor nf The Chicago Tribune, Nrw Yonk, b I~You In tho West have been quick to recogntze and denounce the greed of the grent corporations and thelr determins tlon te have thelr representativesinntl branches of the Govermment, Your journul was very prompt (n pointing out to President Nayes his politleal mistuke ns well as his personal Ingrati- tude In_eending nannother nnme to sueceed Mr, Woodford us United States Attorney for thly distriet, This lstako ho hus now repeated, anil eapped by a greator. Not content with the nombiution of Mr. Stanles Mutthews for tho SKupreme Heneh, reeognlzed everywhere corporttion noninutlon, hn bs just sent Iy tho of 0 son-ln=lnw of Mre. Wil 15, V- the Governmene aftorney § great distriet, M, 1SHliot F, Shepard” s fiumy standing 08 n lawyer aro 1oL grent, and he g dumi, 11 over, vepresents Bls futhor-in-lnw in cotirt, Jut it must strike overy hody that this wenknese o3 luwyer would muke him cven more useful to his fathorsin-lnaw ana tho inter- ontd behlad bl when he stunds between them and the legatl intoresta of the United States in this metropolitun distelet, For dn the United Btutes Attirney’s oflice thoro are already pro- credings pending to enjoln the sayment by thy Central Paciflo i dividends of tho money be- longing to the Govermment undor tho act of Conuress known ns tho Thurman aet, ut it is not the embiroad eorporation intorests I geneenl that Mr, Shepand witl It conlirmed bo culied upon 1o oppose: but thero ure speeltio sudta plremly bronght by Mr. WondTard e dust Vanderbilt's Now York Contrat for over 00,000 and ngwinat Vanderbil's Havlom for nearly £100,0005 und thore ure fu tho oitleo Kits netunnl or prospeative neaingt tho Frie iallway, tho Dol- awire & Lackawannn, and other rallronds for futarnol revenue taxes clslined to be duw the Goevernment., hus Presldent Tluyos Inys himself open to tho alnrgo of rately fuvoriig the rapaclons nilirond [ntorests by seekine 16 put tho Trivnas of these [nterosts ot only upon the Henel, but In the pesition of counsel (o the Government whase duty It wili bo to opposg theso Interests, Jusion. Defends Mauj, Miawlk, a0 the Editor of The Chicag Tribune, Mount Mowng, N, Feb, 1=Will you allow moafew Mues to reply to w sourritous artiels retlecting upon tha Howresentntive frowm thiy ietrlet which nppeared in Tur TRIBUNE of nbout ten duys ugor The article (8 duted ut Sterling, and i3 ovidently tho work of anuy- grioved purty, and | suspect that tho nuthor Is o defented onndidato for n Post-Oflics, or soimo simllar positlon. Tho tone of s articls proves him to be g gontlomnn, Ho pestns to be much Dteresied in the uppolntisent of u Collector of Internal Novenue to sueceed Mr, Joues, the present Ineambent, who, It ks rumored, Is to be milo United Btates Marahal, and i s even pos- slbilo that your corrospondent hng tried to pro- cnrg lindorsements for the Colleetorship, and, having Lpled, glves vent to his gpleen by nttaeks lllit Mad, vk, rom time hnmomorlal it has Lieen tho cus- tom for the Fedoral uppolutiients to b made: ut the suegestion of - the Repres sontative of the distrlet i which cancy oeeiirred, Mr, lluyes, the groat vice reformer, deelded (o pinnthe Goys prineipled ot his owa devisig, and into his Cabiuot i renegi prblicun and mi unrepentant obel, pror 10 {gnoro ¢ wders Of thoe Hepublieun purty, ‘Fho reader dors not need ta us referred 1o tho ruptura thut followed botwoen Mr, inyes ind Conkling, Zuch Chundls nd other 8tulws O tho death of Mr. Nuse, Mul, Huwk r mended e Woadeook, of Oxie i, tho pusitlon, but Mr. Huyes, for veasons of hia awi, chiwty 1o appolait M e, Jones, tiereby (L0 uo tho olegunt lunguego of your Storling corrye spowdent) *Rittiug down " i the Mujor, From rending the urtiele in question, one might supposo that 1t waus e uimsnal oeur- renee for the Prostident (o disregurd the wishes af members in theso mutters, bt had speciully Kuleatml onr member Tor the purpose of “elting ™ upen Blng but 1 hmve it tron goold authorlty that’ It I not uneone- on for stitesuen to leave the White House after an_fnterview with Me. Iluyes Tndiciant ut disvegardod wishes and thwarted plans, The Huon, It Waraer, the *shirewl and sly,"” sueeec WO YUurs ko (there bomg n nv{hpm\mum In_having bls couuty stract Tor him Tor Congrossiman, hit tho other Hes (i tho district, faiting 1o recognizo bis Inr fitness fur the pinee, he il ot recelve tho nominution, 11 probublo thint B s stiil wille Ing to kerve, bt 13 keeping the fiet pfnlly concealed, Porhap b thedatis to ) fore the poople of his distriet bear of i, the hint o Lelug bened From B an anoxs peted phice.” Tknow nothing of Mr, Esstomin Personnily, but, hiving alwiys b okl that hy win i genteman, am sure tbat he could bave Kuown nnfhing of tho urtiele wntil Its publien- tion, Mul, Huwk f¥ not ut ull of umnrl‘mur 3 pot-honsa pollfivien who goes through s dls. triet tho pleture of wisdom and Congeessional pompodity, threatening 1o mako war on the Athminlsiration unless his wishies aro compliod Wwith aud attempthur (o bribw voters by proises of {114ro putronage. A geniul gentivman and o gullant soldier, who left one lew on Bouthorn 8ol indufutiguble n lookiug nfter the interests af his ronstliuents in tho varlous departmonts, uttentlve to his dutles in the ilouse, the peoplo of tho Fitth Dlatrict huve reuson to bo satlaned 01100 of Chicago ure souted and conststent, Pl with hlm. That his course In the presont Cone Kress had heen neceptablo mny bo Inferred from tho fuet tbat he wny wnanitnously renominated and run ahead of his tieket, polling tho heaviest vote whero be was best known, 8. 11, Joxes, ( Gambling In Wiheat the Curse of Chls cngo., . To the Editor of 'The Cheago Tribune, CitreAan, Feb, 81.—Thd extentof this so-eatled businesy, its wide-spread ramlileations, and the chitracter and humber of tho men engagod In It KIvo to this wheat-gambling & prominence reached by no other pursult except perbaps tho stock gumbling In the City of Now York. ‘That it 13 gambling of the most desperate and villuine os chureter I8 0 patent and serlous. fuot. Draw-poker, faro, roulet, Sand othor games of chnnee played for money, are chiidish nmnsos ments whetn compnred with the fac-renching and devilish influetices of this powerful fuctor forovil, In thocity atl clnsses Imluleo In it The clerk with n smull salary and a whiowed mothier to support, the hookkeeper, the salos- nean, estilers, Inwyers, doctors, and othor pro- Teasionul men, merchants, mechanies, and lnl oars. Bven women and children indul; thix bad pussion for play. feibmtary to Chiengo, by wiro or by rall, tho sume Caplelt — extends, Tho = conntrs’ merchunt Invests s carnings apd I In all the country his mavings D hls Nttle doal in Chlcado. Itis neediess to sny thae it i3 all tost In the great maclstrom. ke s n thiv mn{ Chiengo tribute from tho surrounding country, i the surplus carnines of the wholo Nosthwest are demwn Into this pool for the '.'IK{ gamblers to plek up and enjoy. Tho men who labor and toll ure slived for tho men who don't, Thess hang- ora-on atont the Bourd of Trade, who follnw thls tinng for u living, do not earn n dollar i years they nve sharpers and tricksters, whi de- coy the fenorunt and the unwary, nud tnke nd- yantage of their pnssion for gambling o load thom on to poverty wud runt I8 it a wonder thut Chleago grows rich and prosperons: that thesa idle und useless men becone millionaives md mutobs? Thoy have mitlions of men digwing and_ delving for “thom, 1t 3true that thexs workera nre fools nnd lluts to plico tholr say- gs and earnings Into_ siuch w money-tray the Chieago whent market, but it 13 none the fesswenndulous and disgeracetul thut the bustneas I permitted to exist, In nfit of spasmodia morality the Pollee Degactment will pull a gan, of e who o bet o the tuen of a o lr: but e fatls to comprebend that the wheat, snmblers who het” on the - pext eficl of i telegraph wire are not one whit better thy the common wamblerd, AR men ar with sunbling propensities, it 19, pructicubile by legisiation or 1 constituted hapd, fore poilee puwer to dnesd: bt you, 45 18 0f 0 great newas per n widesprewd influence for wood, ean ex- the teue churceter of this banetul husl- L und et out o word of wirniog to tho ig- norunt dupes who squander thelr money b thy Chiengo biucket-shaps ana foard of Teade, Let e Tully il ond that these so-called “ Produs hungres ' ures started without nny eapital exeept what the deluded enstomers con- tribate, amd thut tho commissions they tuke, liko the_percontuen it keno, finally alorbs uil tho marging put up, and that the men who ran tho eoncerns ara mnostly ol and pecuninry lmnl(rll}»lfl. settlng 1p the business, not to ko money for their it to put It all In thielr own_pockets under ‘fulse protenses and busotess promises, and the thing witl xoon rin T The ndult nnn who €ends his money osted ln those coneerns s n naturai- 1 fool, nl ought 1o lose it, but tho young i, the hoys und women, who deprive thele mothers, sisters, amd fumilies of thy belp they can always glve from thole salaries and woekly wokes, ure entitled 1o sympathy and words of emution. ‘I'n these wo sy, R these pestllent thieves'ns tho smull-pox. vold RELIGIOUS. METUHODIST. At tho meeting of tho Methodist. ministers terduy, the Rov. W, (4 Willing presidmd, A letter wis recelved recommending the coiiperation of Chleago winlsters with tho Woman's Christlen Assoctation in the speclut wwork of providing epiritital advice for working i‘lllrlzl, und purtientarly for those glrle who come ¢ from tho raval districts, and are employed i shops and fus ¥ The letter was refern to the htsines aud was indovaed b the ueeting later, s recomniended by the Comi- mittee, 1t il nlrendy beenr indorsed by the Baptists and Paiversillets, 1t s probabie thut printed_efrenlurs Wil bo lssued containlug up- propeiute advice to working girls us to thelr awanelntos and visiting pinees, ote, The 1tev. Dr. Parkhumttend o paper glving brietly the history of tho Free Churen o Seot- land, and the frinl, by the Assembiy of thut Churel, of the Rev. ftohertson Smith,” who IS 1 for wivineine views about Bib! istory In opposition 1o the recoxnized standurd of Celstiunmity, The paper, though deeply In- ferestiing Wits quite lonie, Gnd wils not diseus: 11y reguest Pe, Berkhurst will contisne tho di. witauiati oF 1he subjects hrought up yesterday ut next Monday®s mecting, 2 BAPTISTS, Tho weekly conferenea of Baptlst ministors met yesterduy, furenoon {o tho clib-room of thoe Grand Pacitle, The Rev, 3. B, Howand, of Dawner's Grove, read npaper on *The Influence of the High Preasure of the Age on Chrlstlun Charnete: was & plen against the too” hurrled wonn which thiugs were dois nowndays, and vapecial the snort timo devoted toa study of the Bibl and sisa to prayer, The erend gentieman i anorn taie AONLT Lo APEL an KCYuLns. A minister shonht not tish tirough tho streots s thougb he was practiclng for s walking mateh, 11 vio sees aniythivg witrnetivo on the strect, he should stop and Jouk ot it. It my turnish the text for usermon, "The missing or o tenin ls not agreat enhunlty, for w person en take tho nest one, T'he easuy ulluded to tho b mann In which hymna were sung, rendering it ims possibie at “thnes to follow the wonds of tho singers, Ihe uso of abbrevintons for suerod TS 10 AUBJECIR Wil aRother fstineo ol the modern bigh pressure, and should Lo avoide I possibie, and more e given so that name eoutld be weitten vat in full, Tho Itov, Mr. Watermun praised tho essay, yet tonk exeentlons 1o what he enlted tho exil views of Mr, Howard, 1o akl nat Lelle oy Kluw, Tt woul be n roturn 10 monnsti und 1ormer nees, o belleved I ubbreviations, and safd every minlster ought 1o learn shorts hund, 8o s to ledsen the time devoted to writing BOEIONIS, 0 1tov, Mr, Raymond dld not belleve in short #ermong, More thealogienl vigor wis needed I preaching, nud thivey minutes wus (oo short for tho minister w do the subjeet justiee, Ho did Hot enve 1 peopls sunppind thole watehns Lo bis fucoat tho explintion of thiv or forty, or HIty mlnutes, he always kept on with bls sab- nuntil ne inighed ity Phu eseny wis furthor diseussed by the Revs, Thurhoe, aeon, Gunt, Pereln, Ougnan, and others, N1l af whom spoke favorably ut (ts spirit, though dittering from some of bis deduetions, The ltev, W, Il Purker will read o paver, next Moudny mornfug on * The Service of Song.' Jdust “hefore adlournmoent, the Rev, Dr. Ans derrbm, I'restdent of tho Chiengo University, gl fow words velntive 1o the sults con meneed upninst the University m tho Gireult und United Seates Courts, Hodld not Kiow bot unothor one wonld be canrmenced by the Dougs nsg helrs, sult The Doctor salit ho was “glidd thoso ra brought, The question bid to be at some tin Tho Universlty could be bullt up with such an Ineygbus of w bt i tho ono aL present extsting, and e be. veud Lhane tho sults wonli end this utter sut- Isfuctorily, TITE BURNED CHURCIT. On lase Wednesday night the membicrs of the Michigan Avenue Buptist Chureh deelded to dis- banit wnd to give np thele lnte field of lobor and vutned place of worship 1o the aptist denomin- avon us n whole,—all with a view to a reorgunis zution of the Hovlety and the erection of o new: building over tho nehes of the obl, Mesars., Cyrus Bentloey, LS llnunix. Lo . Hoou Thamns Foater, und Witlhnmn Hansbrongh wed uppointea a colmmlttoe, with it power to ai ninge for the vonveyuneo of the charen praps oty to any Buptlse Chitrelt which ight o or- seutitzed 1o maditntn g publi pliee of worship hy theorlginal tacality, "Fnis Committue, with thy exveption ul Mr, Hooue, yestenday met ju tha Grand Pactile Hotel with the Advisors Conmit- teo ol thy General Buptist Associntion of Ui uttor Known iis the ** Committee of Fif- '—toconfor s t the best coueso L0 by purs sued {n tho promis . The Hov, (eorge U Lorimer called tho gathers e to order a2 o'cloek, nt which e there were present, besido tho burned ohurel Uoln- mittoe, the ltevs, J. P Burhos, C. Perrin, W, M. Lawrenee, BB Holbwer B 0, Tuylor, Joseph ftowley, Ac K, Parker, 1,1 Wateenuan, J. N Ilnbert, W, W, Hulgh, nnd Clurk, und Messes, B, 8, Belden and Gilson, Reporters wors sxelnded, Astor thres hours' ddeliboration the meeting adoptedd the following, which wis propared by comimittee vomposed of the Revs, Hulbert,, Pervin, and Hulzh: Wieitkas, The Miehigan Avenuo Church bus Inld bofore thy Committeo repreienting Lo Chiengound Lakeside Assoeiations und Haptisy General Axsoclntion of Llnels o series of reso- Ditlons to the elfect that thoy are about (o dis~ band, wid express 0 willingnesd 1o transfur thole ebuveh Property ta any new - Iiaptist hureh which nny Lo organized and locuted upon e fleld lutely oecupled by the Michigan Avento Church; ahd belloviug “thut the inier- st of our denominurion huporatively demamit that suech flold shoulil tu 8o oeeapled and reals g that tho Flesg Buptist Churceh t5, tuore than nny other, vitally concerned T to settle ment of this grave question, therefure s Committee woldd most courteonsly “aud as brethren desiring the best Interests of tho de- nominnton, suggeat 1o the First laptlst Churen thy proprivty of vonveaning wnd prayerfully consilering (o wholo subfeot, and, it agres alde to thow, 10 uequulut us with tholr views un the desivabllity of sneh w new organiaation and Bow Far they cun codperate in it, L'lie eeting then ndjojir subject 1o the catl of r, Lorimer. Thy fire or Dr, Tapper &id not enter at alt Into tho disvussions.~ouly the yuustion ud 1o how the debt of tho Michigan Aveaue Courh coutd bo rulsed aud u new soclery orgaaled,