Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1881, Page 6

G THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH DR =3y 1881—TWELVE PAGES. —_— "THE STATE CAPITAL, The Terminal-Charges Bill Ad- vanced a Peg in the Senate. ‘A Resolution Shuiting Off the Introduetion of Bills After March 31. Passnge of the Bill to Regulate the Sale of Deadly Weapons. The House Commiltee Nobly Repulses Chester’'s Charge on the State Treasury. 7 Another Stagger at Fixing the Pay of Members of the Assembly. An Exhibition of Loyalty to the In- tegrity of the School . Fund, A Fair-Sized Appropriation for the Canal and the Law- yers. Amdayits of Challenged Yoters—Aitach- ment of Shares of Capital Stock. | Tho Renate Investigating Committee Strug- gling Over tho Proparation of Major- ity and Minority Reporta, T BENATE. TOME FHOM TIE ASYLUMS, Speciat Diapateh to The Chicago Tribune. SeriNGFIELD, 1il, Murch 22,—"The Sennte met this morning at the usual lour. The speelnd order for the mornlng was taken up, belng the constderation, on second remding, of Senator Fuller’s Terminal Charge bill Senator Torranee presented anamendment that railrond companles might charge $4 por diem tor all ears held after twenty-four hours from reaching the point of destinution, Senator Fuller opposed the amendment. Tarties should not bo permitted to allow cars to stand on track without demurrage for forty-clght hours, Senator Adams sald the bill worked INCALCULABLE INJURY TO RAILHOADS, s shippers would hold grain on track when compunies needed and were entitletito thelr curs, . Senator Torrance insisted on his nmend- ment. Shippers should not be permitted to hold cars on track over twenty-four hours without paylng for it. Senntor Adams sald there should be s ren- sonablo time Inid down In the bill, so ns to prevent the tying-up of ears for weeks. Senator Whitlng favored the "forranco amendument, and wos good enough to adimit thpt the rallronds had some rights, Shippers who did not remove their grain within twoenty-four hours after notice should Lo charged $4 per dlem. ‘The Torrance umendment was finally lost, and THE DILL WENT TO THIRD READING in the following shape: A i for anaot io relation to terminnl charges Ly raflrond compunics und corporutions. BECTION 1. Be it cnacted, ete., "Thut it shull bo unlawful for uny ratirond’ compuity or corporie tlon, owning or operuting sany railrond In this Btaro, to sk, charge, or receive In additfon to tho regular frelght churges on uny car-lond of grain i bulk uny sum or amount of monoy for asny terminnl churge, trickngo, tricks service, switching, holding out fuor reim- spection, demurrage, usa of cars, or othor torininnl charge of uny kind, whoro the freight is dellvered or recelved within twenty-four Lours nfter notieo of its_arrval upon tho dellve ery=truck, or ot H0mo convenier b pikee Lor wie loding or delivering, und within twonty-four hours aftor tho same hus bLeou proporly o= speeted, I such frelght shall be of the kiod re- quiring nspeotion. And aftor tho expiration of 1hat first twenty-four hours after tho sane hns Leen properly fnspected, und _ nfier notlco ot fta arrivai upon tho delivery-track, or ut u cone wvenlont pluco for unlonding or delivery, such Tallrond company or vorporation shull not huve tho right to ek, charee, or recelve n greator chargy than & por duy for cuch car ronmlning Jonger than twenty-four hours upon the truck, Without tho fuult of the rallroud compuy or cor. porution, which ehurge shutl bo in full fartrucl servieo, switehing, holding out for reinap ton, dvmurrage, und nll othor tormhunl churges: Provided, 1t such car shull remain upon trick ‘without being unlonded for forty-eight bours or Jonger aftor notleo of its urrival upon tho do- Jivery-trick, then fur the time such car shall Temain upot trnok buyand forty-olght hourssuch compuny shull bo ontltiod to mnke o demurruge charge of not sxcecding #5 por duy. BEC. %, Any rallrond or carporation violating . any of tho proyisions of this tet forfeit and pay fur tho first olfenso w eun not less thnn $LUK and not exceeding FH.000; for tho sccond and cuch mhs«.-qunntnflumfi A sum not loss thun £4,00 nor woro than 31,000, and reasonnbile at- tornoys’ fees to bo fixed by the court. And any person may proscuto for iy such viohition I 1ho name of tho peaple of tho State of 1linals, and upon convietion tho person prosouutin shball huvo one-hnif tho rk‘,l\llll_v recovered, i the bikaneo shull bo pald futo tho County W'rens- ury of tha county where thu sult {s jnstltutod, ¢, 3. Prosecutions undor this uet may bo by any uppropriity netion {n oy county of this Btute, whero servico iy be iad upon tho rufl- roud compuny or corporation ugniust which the suit ts brougit, Senntor Torrance presented n resolution cutting off the Introduetion of bills ufter Murch 31, It was lnfd over, NEW HILLS, Hlls were introduced us follows: By Seuntor Merritt: Allowing cltles and villages 1o disconneet ndditions toreto, By Senutor Lemn: Offering w royalty on fox senlps, A3y Senntor Lemwa: Ttelmbursing one Shinnlek in the st of $5,000 for Josses sus- talned in filllme o contract of the Southern Insnue Asylum. orl‘kh;«ln)mlxul bill nm;rg‘prlg%lng il,gou f!ur the i 'y uxpenses of the Stute Laburatory at Normal fafled on its pussage, L5 GOT THERE, Morris® (of Ilardin) Ilouse bill on the Tazor und stufed-ciub tratle wus read o thind and [nat tme and pussed by « vote of yeas 9, m\{'nb. After-the transaction of cousidernble un- fmportnt routine business, the Senute ads Journed until to-morvow morning, HOUSE. FILLING Bemixarirny, 11, Mareh 2L—"Tho Appro- riution Commities got the floor this morn- fngg and turned fn @ conple of repurts—ono recommending the spprovriation of 850,000 for the ordinary expenses of Jojlot Penl- tentiury, und one reconnmonding the invest- ment of 85,000 for an aeteshvn-well ut Elgin, CHARGE, CHESTER, CHANGE] The Pealtentiary Committes turned In substitute for the Chester Approprintion bill, cutting down the wmount of money nsked for the erection of new bulldings and the purchuse of muchlnery from $250,000 to &s1,710, AXOTIER RTAGGLIL AT FIXING TIEIR PAY. Youngblood, of Fiunklin, kot in o bill to ix the pay of wmembers of the Goneryl Ase sembly after the adjeurnment of the present body, Thero hns been sevoral of these this sesslon, The Youngblood tarlft 1s $8 o day, 10 cents n mile for mileage, and 850 per ses- slon to each momber for postage, statlonery, ete,, ete., the pay to be certltiod by the Prest- dent of the Senute and Speaker of the House, entered on the journal, and published ut the closs of ench session. ‘Tho bill speclally provides thut uf tuewmber shall bu allo wed to draw his per diem except the presiding officer of his House shall eertify to tho Auditor that such member was in ACTUAL ATTENDANCE UPON TIIE BESSION for the day fu qguestior, or wns absent on the business of the General Assembly, or upon satisfactory proof thatsuch wember's nbsence was eaused by the sickness of him- self or famlly, Mr. Youngblood no doubt undorstands the faellity with which exeuses have been and ean be obtained. “FOR TN RELIER," ETC, Tearson, of Cook, intraduced o bill to ap- proprinte 82,400 for the rellef of the widow of Caleb Hopking, who appears, by the con- text, to ave aeted for some twelve years ng custodian of the State arms and ammunition by the authority of the Governor, but with- out pay. : Herrlngton, of Kane, introduced a bill amemling the aet tn relatlon to township support of paupers by requiring the ques- tion of abandonment of such townshlp sup- nort to be submitted on the petition of 100 legal voters of any town fn any connty, in- stead of n mnjority of the townships, S0 NEAIL AND YET 80 FAlte The same gentleman offered a resolution declaring that the lLeglsiature shoukt nd- Journ at the earliest dny practicable, guech o course belng imperatively demanded by the people. The wember sald he didn’t eary lo press his resolution now, but would let It go to the Committee on Rules, Chatfleld, of Kankakee, ealled up tho Sen- ale resolution relative to the hmprovementby the United States Govermment of the Kan- kakes nnd Iroquols Rivers, nnd got It adupted, SECOND READING The Tlouse then got back to tho regular order,~Dills on second readlng,—and a number of mensures, mostly unlmportant, were advanced u peg Iiigher on the ealendar, Among them was one by Chatfleld, of Knnknkee, nmending tho Revenue lnw; one by Teters, of I’ratt, on the subject of township organization; one by Morrls, of Ilardin, nmending the net requiring Indictments to Lo recorded; Cronkrite’s vill in regard to township In- surance companles; Dysart's bill to mnend the Revenue nct, 0. 8. Cruok’s bil, providing for the ap- portlonment of the State Sehwol Fund on the Dbasly of the census of 1850, was tabled at the nuthor's reguest, for the reason that what the bill proposed to do the Auditor hus inthe meantime done without any bill. MIND YOUI OWN NUSINESR, A bill Introdueed by Perrin, of $t. Clair, amending the act providing for the health and safety of persons cmvloyed in conl-mines, by the Insertion of & cluuse, on the subject of trespass, nlso went to third reading. The vroposed addition to the present law pro- vides that ** auy tresphss, or-concealment of trespnss, on the property of others, Involving lossof conl or dumage to the property of others, shall subject the owners of said mines, if they work them, or their lussees, to ufing of not less than $100 nor more than §500 for ench offense, or hinprisonment in the {all for nog less than three nor more than six months, with payment of full and adequato value for tho coal taken, and datnges for house, or houses, or property Injured, be- sldes nli costs at law."” Sullivaw’s bill, amending the act In relatlon to tho adunistration of estates, took the simne course, AN OFFICIAL SHOW-DOWYN. ‘The Park bill, prepared by the Commlttes on Corporatlons, and providing for sworn re- ports by the Park Commlssioners to the Gove ernor, was rend a second time, whereupon Harrls, of Cook, sent up o lotg amendment providing for additional reports to be mado tothe County Board, After some discus- slon, In which Weber, of Cook, led the oppo- sition, the wnendment was adopted, nnd the bill, as anended, went to third rending, A blll authorlzing State’s Attorneys to col- lect tho fines for various misdemcanors which go to the School Fund, and to retain tho fees nnd commissions nllowed them by Inw, wus diseussed at some length and finally decapitated. The House is nothing it not loyal to the Integrity of the School Fund, and the iden of incrensing the perqulisits of State’s Attorneys wus something not to be tolerated, A DATCH OF THEM. Another amendment to the Revenuo lnw, proposed by Morris, of Hardin; a bill of- fered by Bulley, of Champnlgn, providing for the retention of Regents in the Indus- trial Unlversity on good behavior: another Sehioot bl by Struckman, of Cook, lmiting tho tenure of School Trensurers to four years; one by Rogers, of Macon, to amend the Foreible Dotalner and Entry act; and :llnck’s Gurnislunent bill, went to third read- ngs. Another of the sorles of perennial hedge- fenco bills was brought up, read o second thue, and suved from deeapitation by the fact that its nuthor was absent, and tho Speaker guve the ensting vote on the tie. Its further couslderntion wus temporarily postponed, and the Ilouse adjourned until afternoon, AFTERNOON BESSION, Taser, of Murion, opened the ball in the afternoon by introducing bill striking out the provislion lmitlng proceedings to discon- nect the fand not lald out into ity or town lots, s0 thut nll lands may be disconnectod it s0 dealred. Irwin, of Willinmson, Introduced a bill to madify tho form of afidavit required of n clullenged voter. Art, VL, See, 5, of tho Constitutlon of_the State of Illinols provides as followss # No elector shull bo deemed to huve lost his resldence In this State by renson of his abseneo on the bushiess of the Unlted States, or of thls State, or in the mili- tury or naval service of the Unlted States,” Tho affidavit of the challenged voter now in use requires the dontltylng witness to swear that the parson offering 1o voto is an actunt and bonw fde resldent of his cleetion distriet, and hins reslded thereln for thirty duys, * atud, a4 1 vurllf bellove, in this county ninety days, tnd In this State one YOur Noxt pre- ceding this electlon,” A large number of voters in Iinols, 16 will be remembered, nre on duty ot Washington wd elsewliero, Thls requires n temporary residence out of this State. In thelr temporary ubedes thoy to not ‘mm n legal residence, and do not “vote, Whaon thoy come homo ta vote, ns they have n right to o under the Constitution, THEY MEET WITHL DIFFICULITY i findIng witnesses who can subseribe to the terms of tho witlduvit, which does not seon to bu dn full harmony with the turms of the Co stitution. 'The aquestion naturadly nrise How can they bo nbsent from the Statw on the buslness of the United States and stitl be fu the voting precinet defined tn the atlldavic uring tho preseribed timg Tho object of the bill Is to secure such a moditieation of the wlliduyit ns will leave no doubt inthe wind ot the ldentitying witness to an aillitavis thut on its fuce contilets with the Constitutlon, Youngblood, of Frankiln, introduced n runolutlun‘lxru\'mmu that the pay of County Judges aud County Supgrintendonts of Edu- vatlon shall be tixed by the Bourd of Supers visors or County Commissioners, Referred to the Judicinry, ‘I'he House then resumed tho order of BILLE ON BECOND NEAVING, and & measuro on the subject of township organlzution, euv in regard to sehools, ong on the subject of voluntury nssignmont, uid #hother un the subject of townshlp baupers, went to thind reading without deluy, The humanitarfan from Shelby, &lr. Cange hell, friend of the cunine race, mado ngallant fixhf for the wufety vt the Shoep ad Dog bill, ou whieh he ls mnssed his energles, with a toeal option feutire n the shupe of 1 committes amendmont attuched which loaves it to conty nuthorities to doterming whether the peacorul citizen shnll by deprived of the right to own at least one dog, — ‘T'he mmends :_néf\llnil‘l:zxundupwd and the bill went to third Cowcivs bIll requiring ofilcers having cus- tody ot ’mhllu funds losubllsh unuuul:lule- ments of recelpts and' disbursenents, and w it to uuthorize appeals from Judgments of Circuit und County Courts from Justices of tho Pencu and police tuugistrates In cuses of commnptl Were uinong those which went up 3 iwu without debute, louse bill 83, erstwiille known as the Mo- line bill, smpowering & wwjority of stock- hotders ln un incorporn comuany to change the number of Divectors from even toudd whery the President ana Secretary fall to eall a meeting or do thelr duty iIn tho premises, wans similarly advanced without any fuss or delay. TIE LAKE-FRONT, A bl appropriating $50,000 to eanal, and probibiting the nse of any vortion therent Lo pay lnwyers employed 1h suits to recover posseaslon of the Lake-Ironl, ocea- sloned sowe 1ittle discussion, Penraon, of Madison, moved to strike out the probibition, nud’ was seconded by Vuughey, of LaSalle, wlio 18 for the eanal aud for a- grab at the Lake-Front first, lu: il all the thne. ‘Che avguinent in favor of retalning the clnuse was thatit would pre t the Connnissioners from hiringn plethorn of Inwyers; but the Vanghey party tri- wmphed, the proliibition went out, nud the b was advanced to third reading, SALARIES OF MEMBERS, Murphy’s fumtliae bill fixing the salary of mewbers wb 8500 per reminr ion, 10 centsn mile, nud 850 for statlonory, with $4a day durlng extru sesslons, was remd w second thie, together with a evuple of Committen wmendments changing the salary from S500 1o &700, and the pay for extri svsstons from 24 to 85 n dny, “The first amendment was lost, but about this time 1t wos discovered that tho amendment hadn't been printed. After veconshdering the vote just taken, tho blIE was T over untll nnothier timo, ATTACHMENT OF $ILARKES OF CAPITAL STOCK, Roeckwell's bl providiug for the attacl- ment of shares of capltnl stoek—n subject not covered in any way by the statutes—iwvns advanced to thiid reading after tho adoption of u cowple *of unhuportant Committee mmendments, and one by Mitehell, of Lean, designid to proteet third part] The bill, ns anonded and sent to third readbng, 1s a3 follows: ‘The shnre or interest of nny stockholder in any corporntion may bu taken on attuchment and sold, a8 hervinnfter provided, Thoe oflleer hull loavo an uttestod copy of tho writ of ut- chiment with the Clerk, Croasurer, or Casbicr of the cum‘mny‘ If thore 18 any such ollicery otherwlse with any oflieer or porson having tho etstody of tho books and pnpors of the corpnrn- tlon, aid tho propoerty shull bo considured us rjzed on attachment “when tho copy 19 8o left, and the sane proceedings shall then be hud a8 in othor ruses of attuchmont. Tho uoflicer of tho company who keops n record o ficcount of ‘tha shares or interost of the stock- holders therein shall, upon the exhibiting to him of the attnehment writ, be bound to give n certiiente of tho number of shares or nount of the interest held by tho Judgment debtor. he refuses to do 80, ar i€ e willfully gives o fulso_certifieato thoreof, ho shall be finblo for slouble the umount of all dnmuges oceasioned by such refusul or fulse cortiticate, to bu recove cred In any uroper action, unless the judgment {8 satistled by tho originat detendant. Au ut- tested copy of tho nttachinent writ nnd of tho roturn thercon shall, within (iftcen days nff the salo, be left with' the olflicer of tho com- pany whose duty it 13 to record truusfors of anares, and the " purchnser shnll theroupon Lo entitled to nwert) or certilicatos of tho shares bought by hitn upon puying the fees thorefor and for recording the transfor: Provided, that nothing hereln contained shall be construed to fnterfere In any way with tho rights of persons or corporutions whe may be in possession of shares of stock of any corparation us eolinternt seeurlty for money loined or othor valuable und tuwtul consideration. Terrineton, of Kane, called up his blil to allow owners of mill property to draw the outlets of ponds or lakes of water, nud to provide for compensation to private property njured thereby, “The DI was passed. The House thereupon adjourncd until to- morrow wmorning, in orderto give the Com- mittee nchnne TOPICS OI' INTEREST. SENATE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE, Spectal Dupateh to The Chicugo Tribune, SeriNurieLy, 1, Mareh 22.—The two wings of the Senate Ruflrond Comunittee— the majority and the winority thereof—are engnged In lieking into shape their verdiets on the lute Investigation of the Rullrond and Warchouse Commissfoners, Tho mnjority met to-day, listened to the rendingof the rough diaft as prepared by the Chalrinan, worked in soveral suggestions rud amend- ments, and witl probably meet again to- muorrow, when all honds will bo on deck, for the purpose of putting on the finishing touches. The minority fellows have not been idle cither, and both reports’ aro in that half-cronted shape whers thoy are subject to revision, As wight be oxuected, both nre very long and pain- fully elaborate, and nre only unother - tration of the different ways In which.difter- ent people uay lovk at the sumo thing, The majority report, which will be fathered by Senators Fuller, Evuns, Boent, Fifer, Condee, ‘Tanner, White, and Needies, has been CAREFULLY GUARDED FROM PHOFANE AND PRYING KYES) but its contents have et the fate usunlly teeorded all public documents of any bnpor- tance. ‘Thoy huve leuked out, aund, In brief, here thoy ure: The thirty pages of legnl cap which tho mnjority found necessury to use up in order to fully express their views open up with o retrospective glanco at the Chiengo grain trade, n sort of & * Look-on- this-pleture-mnd-then-on-this”* arrungement, Having brought matters down to date, and shown just how blg a thing the Chlcago grain trade 18, the report tukes up the ques- tlon of inspection, reviewing the testimony on that head, and referring to tho dissutls- faction which has existed nimous somo of the graln recelvers ever siuce the Inspection was pnt into the hands of the State, The report insists, howoyer, that it property bolongs where it Is, and points to TUE REFUTATION OF CHICAGO INSI'ECTION . AHIOAD In substantintion of the position, Chlet Grain-fuspector -Reoynolds comes In for o dush of censuro, however, for devoling too much nttention to ontside pursuits and leav- Iiyr the oftice and the work of Inspectlon too much to his subordinates. In dlsnisslog thls subject, the mnjorlty In goneral phrase recommend n chauge i the oflice, on the principlo probably, as gravely unnounced by one of the members to-nlght, that It wouldw't do to uso up too many buckets of whitewnsl whiere ono would do, With regard to the Harding charges, the majority claim that they are not proven; that tha law In relatlon to rull- roud compunies Is good enouglh as It is; thut the Commissloners have slmply followed up tho llne of policy bequonthed to them by thefr predecessors, aud, b snort, that they Juwve simply done all thoy coulid to seeure A PHOPLS AIMINISTIATION OF THE LAW. I'ho troubls hus buen, necording to the re- port, that tho Cowmissioners have been crampod by the faflure of tho Loglslature to give them sufliclent approprintions to push s1its und to muke revisions of the schedule, run_the TITE Dostdes that, the Uulted States Su- preme. Court is sittinr on o cuse or two involving certaln nice questions us to thelr puwers in the mutter of rovising the mtes, Tho schedule, us Inld down by the Bonrd, howoever, Is indorsed ns u fulr one, nnd the somewhat curions nrgu- mont made that the raflronds regard it as suely, from the fact thut some ot thom nre livhiz up to it when evergbody Knows it s too high, while quite a naimber have cut wn der It in thelr unxioty 10 do the fair thi ete,, ete, L0 the opinlon ot the majorlty, the Commlasloners have done wll the visiting around the State that wus necessary, au tholr polley on that hewl §s FULLY AND EVEN WAIMLY INDORSED, In short, uucurdlnf to the wmajority, the Board has doue Jts duty ns woll ay any Bonrd could, hampered wd “eramped ns this ong has been by the faflure of the Leghslaturo to SUpply 1t with tho slnows of war on which to lu»udmlu und push sults ogalnst the rull- rouds. At this point the majority evideutly forgot thut tho railronds hadi't done mnything to be siied for, No attempt Is made to recommornd elthor the conliruution or refection of tho Governor's renppobntuients, ‘Tho mbiuut I earcfully dropped nt that polnt, und left to the individunl consclences of the Senate, THE MINOUITY BEPORT, which will express the sentiments of Whit- Iy, Callon, Lunning, Walker, Maytield, and Maner, it ho gots uround In time, §sa very lflerent sort. of document. 1t will contulit u sunnuary of the rlroad leglslation of the State, and the mluurllr will ciudin that by the wathuony of the raflrouds themselves the Taws haye been violated, and will by violated Luuwo long us the * Commissioners fall to rlng sults for diseriminatlon, lnstead of compromlsing n ease hure and there, and then allowlng the road to go on In owit sweet way, ‘l'o back up thils position, the minority will draw Jurgely on the oyldence of te rullroad peoplo theni- selves, 'Lhe present law, tn thelr opinlon, s goud enough us fur us it goes; but WIHAT 18 NEKDED JUNT NOW wore thun anything else 13 » stringent enaet- ment to cover tho subjeets of terminnl charges amd demurrage, In ndidition to that they will demund the establishment of a flex- ible _rulo_of rates, ono sct for one roml and another for another, In order to jueet the varyling condition of things atdifTerent places, The Hardine eliarges, us the minority vie it, are proven,—the ratlvonds convieleld of overehinrges and diserimination, and the Commissloners of falling to eall thne on them as thoy should have done, A good por- tion of the” report whl be drawn wnder the supervision of Farmer Whiting, whose binst ot tho rallronds will read very wueh ke n chapter from Jere Black, "The Comnlasion ty charncterlzed ng el and us not having done its duty, amd censured for not huvime given ns el attontion to verbal us (o Writs ton complniuts, TIE SUIMECT OF GRAIN INSPECTION I3 dlsmissed In nn alwost contemptuous sort of way us - insignificant compared with the svelhitler questlons of diserinination, cte. 'he Demoeratle members have naturall; souht to worl {nto the report matter which ay be warined over for eampnln lterature but the fact timt they want Whiting nnd Mamer to ngree with them hoas tended to curb the stump-speech business and Keep the thing down to faets, or what they regavd as faets, Just when the tivo reports will go In 18 uneertaln,—uot, however, until the vaeant seats in the Senate Chamber ar@ held down by Senatorial votlng materinl, - Fho minority I8 wise enough to hotd back Just long enough to hear or sco tho mujority report, and then go it ono bet- ter. Undler the ciremstances, it 18 donbttul whether the matter will be ripe enough to oper o-mnrrow. v THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON MUNICIPATITIES met to-day, and decided to report favorubly on Callow’s bill to allow gas companiesto lay thelr mnins in the streets on the petition of & majority of abutting proporty-ownors. Shoulit the bl beeome a law it Wil open up wway for the entrance of outshde gas com- panies which have been kept back nud shut out from having a fair show through the PI nt arrangements with existing monopo- 0 same Commitiee declded to rclmn fn- vorably on Tom Merritt's bill restriet u‘( tele- graph rates between any two points i the Stute to 25 cents, meluding delivery, I HOUBE RAILROAD COMMUTTEI will report favorably In the wmorning on Youngblood's bill to slect the Rallroad and Wareliouss Commisstoners, fistend_of leny- i thelr appointment to the Governor. ‘Under the bill these Commissioners will be clected next fall to take the place of the present Board, Very fow peopls who know anything about tho present Leglsinture, how- ever, have any sort of lden that It will ever pasy, THY VISITORS, The Joint Touse and Senate Committes to visit State charitublo institutions will hle n bateh ol reports in the mornine glvine tho results of thelr vislts to the " varlous institutions aud thelr Investlzatlions Into the subject of nppro- printions, “They wiil recorumend the nupros printion of about une-third less than the sev- eral Institutions were modest enough to usk for, and abont 100,000 more thun wis recon- mended by the Governor, THE AWWILLIAMS INVESTIGATING COMMITTER dldn’t go through the farce nf unothor meet- ing to-nlzht, MeWilllams was at home and slele, ‘Tho witness Streater failed to conneet, atul the clerk was having too much fun with limself tobe interrupted. One of the mem- bers pave ulterance to a wilse and now uelmmll{ previlent sentiment to-night when he © remurked that the d—d thing would report Inside of threo days and ask to be discharged. Ilowever brabse worthy my have been the Chafrman’s in- tenttong, the thing hus never advanced be- youil the diznity of n side-show. Tl Fariners’ Club resolutlon demanding o revision of the Rmlroad and Warehouss Commisslon’s sehedule of freight and passen- ger rates will come up In the House In the maorning as o speelal order, and another ‘elrens” is contittently Jooked forward to, FIRE RECORD. IN CHICAGO, ‘The nlarm from Box 34 ut 11:35 last night was caused by n fire in the three-story frume bullding No. 175 West Erle street, owned by August Swendt. ‘The two upper floors aro oceupied by Paulson & Johnson, furniture manufacturers, whi' lose about $200, upon Tho which ~there s} no insurance. lower tloor s occupled by Martin Joh furniture manufacture, s Is o ated at from $300 Lo $500, wpon which thero is nmple Insurance In_ Eastern companies. T'he building was qiifte badly damage the loss upon It is esthunted ut $1,600, whi Is fully covered by 52,500 Insurance, The cause of tho (ira s unknown, but it Iy sup- posed Lo have hod 1ts origin In the engine- roon * IN KENT.COUNTY, MICH. Speclal Disputeh to The Chicago Tribunes Graxp Raving, Mich,, March 22,—Georgo Johnson's dwelling and all its contents, In Grattan ‘Pownshlp, thls county, was destroyed by fire Inst night. Loss, S1,200; insurance In the Kent and Allegan Count Mutunl, The fire was cansed by n elild’s overturning a tuble on whieh wis n kerosene Jwmp which broke, The fira burned so raphily amud furfously thut the fawmlly barvely eseaped with thelr Ify Al G SEE, MICH. Dernorr, Mich., March 22.—J, 0, Rogers' grist mill, at Genessee, In Lthis State, burned this forenoan, together with u largo quantity of wheat, Loss, $15,000; small insurance, AT FLINT, MICIL, Dernorr, Mich, Mareh 22,—J, 0. Rogers’ flourlng-mill was destroyed by firo at Flint, Mich,, to-duy. Loss, 815,000, 5 L —— AN ALDERMANIC CONTEST. DostoN, March 2.—The Bourd of Aldormen, aftera protrusted und hitter discusslon yestors duy, voted 8 to 2 to unsont Ald. Flinn, & Tiomonrat, and give tho seat to Wilttam B, Frost, Ropubliean. Three rocounts huyve been mude sinee olection, and differoot results renched oueh thne, Framd hoy beon freely churgod, and much bud blood stirred up in the Deworutle catap, WANTED ELSEWHERE, A slick-lookIng young mun glving tho nnme of 1, C. Hulnes, who ackuowlodges huving sowo- thmes lved upon his steallugs lustoud of his enrnings, and who bas traveled oxtonsively throughout Indline and Ilinols, was nrrested Monduy aftornvon by Dotoetive Elllott, and {8 belng bell for tho polico wuthoritivs of Wabnsh, Ind., by whuin he {8 wanted upon some churge of thett, tho nuture of which |y not known here. ‘Pho prisonor siys he hes no ldeg whut ft eun be, Doteetivo Efflott s inellued to think from papord und otbor articles found apon tho young mun thut ho [8 un oxpert young sneuke thiot, who his inndo s practico of rifding hotols mmurrmm tho country. An oflicor trom Wi Dbush {8 oxpected hero to-diy, Waltor Grubbs, nllas Bt. Clalr, wis cleverly captured tust evoning by Deteotives Tersey and Dunton ut bls voom it No. 245 West Mailson street, 1o s wanted nt Clnclnuntl for burglary, but tho dotulls of the charge ave not known hero, fow diys ngo tho pollco wore Informed - by télegraph tiue 8t, Clutr was likoly to by found 10 this eity, uy his wistress Lud “shipped to i w prekuge by way of tho Amerlean Express, uind in uditrosslng him hud used the alius of John Price. The doe toctives wilted until tho packugo wus recolved at the delivery ollice [n thls eity, and when the ixpress Company notitled Prico that the package wwalted | hts ‘enl], thoy wero on hand to uscertaln Prico’s nd- dredd. As was oxpeoted, Prico proved to bo St Cluir, tho poraon wanted, Ho 8 very well known i Ill|l alty, huving In May, 1830, boen sentenced to Jollet for ene year for complicity with tho Miko Cusey band of cloth burglars, Bi. Cluir was tho only son of respeetuble und well- 10=40 pirents, who nre now {u Bt, Louls, und at ono timuo ho was In u falr way of u good practico as u dentist ut Memphiy, Tean, ‘ean, —— . A Parlstan Dodgo, Young widows nre not goterully adverse to thouter-golug, nelthor wus Muduino ., o resl- dont of Ruu do Faubourk 5t Hanord it Paris, whun, the other duy, the postinan brougbt her an envelopo with tvo stull tickets=-one for her, tho athor for her (ttle gon—rfor thae Toprosentus ton of u new und fushilonuble plece e a well- Kknown play-house, Upon tho pupor, stumped with u Count's coronot, she found tho mystorls Ho punetitul, 31y seat 18 Just bee hiud yourd" Wus thoro nuy 0uo of thy vidtors of tho bullding more punctunl fus the opening necurds of tho overture thuu sher Not evew hor goneroud unonymous bud Juurnt the not of puniotuulity so well us shu—tho seat Lobind beps wus winpty, and remyined so. "There sbo sat, waiting for the interesting ucouslntunce sbo boped to meet. Many u thue the deor of the still was opened, but thut seut belilnd hers con- tinuod unoccuplod for w lopy, foug thae, At Inst Madumo D, lost putivnce, und, consldering bersolf negleeted most outedgeously, left the theator, 8ho drove bomo diveetly, snd—ob, horrori—found the duor of her dwelllug open, Ler e nd gufos Toreod uneuund emptied of every ubject worth carrying olf, Blio con- cludud that tier suonymous friend bud, uttor all, been punctusl o appolutwent, und vowe: sho would never uguln uceept of tivkots from u strungers 1IE RAILROADS. Gould Charged with Having De- signs on the Baltimore & Ohio And Its Forty-Milllon Surplus @ood Foundation for Watered Stock, Throatened Trouble Botween tho Ri- val Routes to tho Paciflo Const, GOULD'S GREAT SCIEME,. Tho New York Finanelal Chronlele of the 10th Inst. davotes u groat deal of space to nreview of what Juy Gould hoa done 1n the past, in the way of rallrond consolidntion; and alsu to the horoseopo of what e proposes te do In tho future, 1t charged him with o' desiro to conteol one ur more lines from ocenn to ovenn, and from Mexleo to the Atlantie olties, Tho Western and Houthwestern divisions of these lines be hag al- rendy aequired, and he {8 now In seurch of tho desired Eastern conucctions. Tho Chronticle wantd to know why Gould bought tho Central of Now Jersey, und sought tho possession of the Attuutic, Miesissipp! & Ohlo, and then proceeds to nuswer tho conundritn i the followlug In- wiorlous manner: 1t enn wo not in somo way unravel tho mys- tery? 1y thore not n missing purt which cnn "ba runplicd, und Into which il tho othor purts will 11LWith perfect exactiess and nlcety? Dous tot tha Balthnore & Obio jtseif furnlsh the solution? Mr. Gould wunts outlets to the scu. ‘Tho Hulti- more & Ohlo ruus to Bulthoore, and, in conneg= tlon with the Philudelphia, \Vllmlnulun& Baltl- more und the Central of Now Jersey, would nlso buve given outlots to Philndelphin ana New Youk, What othor trunk llne is thoro which wonld at the sumo time rench tho threo rent citios an tho Atluntic conat? The ultiore & Ohlo controls the Marletta & Clnelnnuty, which extonag ita Hine to Clnetnnat!, und nlso controls the Obto & Mississipyl, whi furthor extunds the Hne to St Louls, kivine, in- deed, alust nn air-lino to the lutter city. Sinco Mr, Gould’s Southwestern lnos all terminato ut Bt, Louls, what bietter route to the sea conld ho wlsli tor thnn that furnished by the Ilnltimore & Ohlo? Nesldgs renching 8t. Louls that roud nlso hns aline to Chilengo. Weraho to acquiro tho Hultimoro & Ohto ho would _have, without cou- structing n singlo additional mile_of road, & route from ocean to_ocenn. Tho Union Paclfic would carry hin as fur 1 Omnhu, tho Wabash to Bt. Louls,” and the DBultimore & Obto to Nalti- more. If for tho Westorn business this routo were 100 fur south, thon the Luckuwauin route might unswer, or perhnos by the purchuss of tho necessury links nnothor through routumight be formed internediate betweot tho Lwo. In conncetion with tho altimore & Ohlo, thorefore, the Uontral of Now Jersey and tho Philndolphin, Witmington & Ialtimore would bo \'urf' valuablo ncquisitions. And in conunecdon with tho snmo road tho Atlantie, Misslssippl & Ohlo waitld bo =econd onty 1n importance ti the othor uequisitions. Tho entire valuoof that ling doed not by any menns lie in its furnlshing an outlot to Norfolk, It conncets at Lynchburi, Vu, with tho Washington City, Virginla Mid- lund & Ureat Southorn, In which tho Balthnors & Ohla 18 inrgely Intercsted, und with_these two vonds forims i vory direet ruute to Washington, Initimore, Philadelphin ond New York from Joints in tho South. At its southorn extremity, Bristol, 1t conucets with the East’lennessee, Vir- ginln & Georgla, tho. manngers of which, u8 already remnrked, © ure !|(l})pmxed 0 o uot _Inimienl to tho ould in- terest, Novertholess, should any difli- culty bo exporionced i this quarter, it could bo removed by buylog the road outright, which would ot le n very costly undertaking, as tho stock nimoutits to to only $5,000,000 altogethor, und seits bolow par. While tho present. owners might feol indigposed to setl under ordinary cle- ennstanees, yot it a tempting offer wero inndo umr might porhaps be fmduced to part with thelr interest in the cnterpriso. From firlstol the Eust Tennesse Line pructically oxtends to Motphid, us tho Memplis & Charieston 13 ope- rated fn the same Interest, buine loused to the Eust Tonnessee, At Momphis conngetion could bo madoe with tho Menpbls & Littlo Rock, awned by Iron Mountalun poople, und the Iron Mountaln woutd earry the lino into “Texns, thus forining unothor through route bes tween tho Suuthwest nud tho oveom. ‘I'ho East Tennessee nlso owng the Sclna, Rome & Dalton, which oxtends its system to Selmn. IFrom Holmn the Alabning Central, tho Vickshurg & Moridinn, and the Vicksburg, Sheovoport & “Pexus, form o lino to Moaros, La. Thoese lutter rowds could probubly be had for tho asking, or at any rata very cheaply. From Mounrao thoro is & gup to Shreveport not yot supplied with o rait- roud, but this gluen will have ta be butit sooner or lntor, und thon there would bo stili anather Houthorn through line to Texas, All this {s on the supposition that Mr. Gould would get tha Iinltimoro & Uhio, We inve thus far confined ourselves to tho advantages that would presont themsclves to tho mind of onv !ll‘!ll‘hlf 1o fortn & comprehons glvo aystem of rowdd, Thore §3 nnother napcut which would make upon 3Mr, Gould no doubt an oven more atriking impresaion,—wo rofor to tho _ finnncinl uspeet. A8 hy wants an Eastorn trunk line, ho might opon negatintons with nny of tho exist- ing lines. New York Contral would bu very de- sirable, but with stock amounting to $00,000,000, and the market prico nene 160, o mnjority intors st would cost i snuy little suis, Pennsylvanta, i it could be had, would be searcely less costly. Erle, with 877,000,000 of stock, solling ut u littla Jess than B, could be got chunper, but would hardly Lo the thing, us by thp terms of tho sohomo undor which the road was reorgunized tho Trustees in Londan rotuin the powoer to vote ol 0! Af tho stoek (common and profo=red) until dividonds on the preferred huve boen paid for threo consecutiva years; and, furthor, Erlo could not stand additionut enpitallzation, which is Mr, Gould's usnat mothod of slenalizing his ndvent into an undortuking. Mr, Gould ovordid tho matter when he wns. in the concorn bofore. All thoess lues, then, ore unavilinble. Of courso, wo have not lost slght of tho proposed Luckuwauna line. Tut to build a now line 13 tedlous work; it tnkes thne; ro- turng are slow, Busldes, tno routn 18 a tritle too fur north, wo thiuk, for the Southwestern busl- uess. Mr, (1ould, no doubt, woighod all these consld- orations und, n8 u Just resort, tell back un tho Bultimore & Onlo, The cupital stock of that rod 18 only nbout $16,000,000, nnd as tho vrica s but little nbovo 200, $16,000,000, even nt present rutes, would suilice to ubtaln control. This the Gouldl party could cusily ralse, und this, It will tso ho udniltied, would be n vory amull sum to puy for 2800 illos of rond—1,40% imlles owned di- rectly, and L influs moro (embracing tho Ma- rivtti S Cinelunatl, Onlo & Missieaippl, und Washe ington Clty, Virginin idlgnd & Great Southern) controlled, Wo do not, of course, moan to sny thut wo bive nuy evidence that the Gur- rotts aro willlng to sell vut, Probably they would bo the limt to disciubm auy such'intens non, But certainly appearnsces Indleato that Gould has his eyo on the property, and though the- ‘-rununt OWDOrs may protest hut thoy aro imwilling to dispose of thelr jutereat, there I8 no denyiug thut My, Gould's persunsive powers hive buen remarkabla in tho pust, and tho prey- ulent bellof 14 thut thuso are not yot on tho wine, Auslde from tho choapness of tho property, whut u splendld tield the lnitlmore & Ohio Come puny would alfer £or stook-watering o1 4 lurgo senle. Generully the ditlivulty Is to fod suio pretext for increnslng stock, ‘The plan which Hindd jnost fevor s to consolidato with halt a dozen branchus, ubout threo or four wites vach 1n length, and on the strength of this to doublo or quudruple the orleinnl stoek, It this can be vomblued with somu othor plan so much tho botter, And right horo and in this conneotion tho Haltimore & Oblo would uppoar In_its most fuvornble lignt, According to lts last ual report, It bad on Bopl, W, 180, surplus fund of $10,500,64%, ropresentiy Investud enpltalderlved from net earulngs,” Forty milllons undivided surplus! Not amuch need hore for_any pretoxt to Inoreaso eaplial, Insue forty millions ndditionnl stock nt ouce, to represent” tho surplus, gnd propurg suy twonly millions muro *to b teaveved for now oxtons sfong,”” cto. laviag sevonty-five millions of #toek, tho Haltlinory & Ohin conld stand proudiy vreet: nlungeldo of the Now Yurk Central, tho Pennsylvanio, and the Erie, and cluim thut in Oy vospeot ut lenst it wus us big us they'; and tho udititional stock—n portion of whicki could cortainly o disposed of without ondungoring the contrul—would allow dir. Gould to widon thofluld of bls vpovationd und repost the sume Provess olsowhero, Lut we luyve not space to pursue tho subject furthor, Fnough bus veen sald to shuw thut tho schons 18 entlrely feusible, 1t tho Qllult.llpnrly huve not alrewdy nde overturos (o the Sall mure Oblo~ peoplo, wo _usk nuthing for tho suggostion, Uecause Gould bus boen Latled i the cusy of tho Lbil- uaolpliln, Wimington & DBaitlioore, —and uppureuily ulso in the caso of tho Atiantlo, Mis- slsslppl & Obto, It must not bo supposed that the wholy seticano fulls tv_tho ground, On the con- trary, tho Batthnoro & Onlo is un oblect in fte sulf. It would tako somo thae to duplicate the Wilmington & Bultimors, but it could be dono uvontually: through the purchuse of the Dolu- wire Wedtorn by the Bultimors & Oblo, tne nounced ‘Mhursdy, tho latter will cortainly huve tha powor to 4o (L. OF perhups somo othor wiy of reaching Nuw York can by devised, It lsox- ceedingly fmprobublo thut Mr, Guuid'siagenulty will not "bo cguul to the occaston, As regurdy tho Attuntio, Missiesippl & Oblo, If tho Bultimoro ; Obio und tho Eust Tennedsce, \’lrrlnln & Georgla wero coutrolled by tho same (ntercst, the ruad could no doubt bu brought toterms, ¥, fndued, it ovinced auy dlsposition at ull to mup out in indupondent course for itaulf, But whotbior Mr, Gould secures one or il of thosy rouds, it 18 certuin thot bis pluns aud projects uro very enm\mm ive; snd timo alono will ro- veal tholr full import. AN AGREEMENT REACIHED, 8pscial Dispateh to The Chicuyo Triduns, PiiLAvsuraia, Morch 22.—Tho now ugree- went which wus reached botween the Baltimore &0ulo and the Pennsylvania Rallroad Cow- panios s tho resuit of correspondence aod ne- L wotiutons betweon Vieu-Presidont Kiug aud Proaldent Itoberts and Viee-Presldont Cassatt. Thero hing nlwnys beon a foeling In the Pennsyl- vanla Iatlrond offico that Presidont Garrett wns the strongest obetaclo in tho way of an agrees ment, amd whon he consonted to an offort to nre range matters thore was nothing to prevent it. In necondaneo with tho new conteact, which 18 understood tn ba more avorable to tha Baltl- more & Ohlo than tho old ouo, and fndeed ol thatean bo wishied by that rond. The Penn- sylvania will donll its business In ond out of New York us before, nud give It tho rights that It can demand on tho Phlladelphia, Wilmington & Daltimoro, Frelght wns recelved In New Yurk for tho Baltimore & Ohlo ns before, and the passengor trallic will bo returned to its former chunnels on Bunday night. This will #lvo the Baltimoro & Ohlo tho nso of tho Lest terminal facllities at Jersey City, do n grent d to Incrense the profits of tha Pennsylvania's Now Jersey Diviston, and nt tho same time injuro very much the prospeets of Mr, Giowen's New York lino and throngh route 1o the West, The control of the Fhlludelphia, Wilmington & Bultiutore by the Punnsylvanin hna for some thnoe been un wssured fact, na considurnbly moro than hnlf the the stock hns nlrendy pussed Into tho hands of thu Boston syndieato for delivery to tho Pennsylvanin, and it is highly probabie that that by tho st of July, when tho thing comes to innka paymoents, thero will be fully 160,000, and perhaps YinW0, of tho 2KL0 shures that muku up capital stock of the rond, Tho Finance Conuuittee of tho Board was to have talkon tp the gucstion of tho lssuo of tho now stock thisaftornoon, but . pross of busl- nuss prevented. 80 far nothing hts been anid in the Committee, but out of the meeting this ufternoon sprang o ramor that the Direators hud alremly votod to lasue ut par to the stovkhollors twonty-flve shures for every ong hindred now held by thom, The Compuy has nlwnys fssued 18 nuw stack In this manner, and ko mueh eres denco did thorumorgain thut thy stock after tho closlng ut tho loned with 653 bid, sold on the streot us high as 605, WITAT DOES I'' MEAN? A lotter recelved in this city dny beforo yes- terday from Goneral-Pusaenger-Agont White, of the Atchlson, Topekn & Suntn F6 Roud, states that arrangements are now belng mde which may complotely upset, the rocontly announced schedule of pussongor rates to the Pacltlo Coast, vin tho Atchison, Topeka & Sunta FO and the Souttiorn Pacitie. Just what 18 neant by this eannot bo stated, a8 tho gentluman who ro- celved thoe lettor would not divulge tho romaln- dorof its contonts. 1t iy known, howover, that the Union Pueliio people have foit dissatistied Wwith s number of matters that have nrison sluco tho opening of the new Sonthorn Pacifle route, among which may be muatloned the eircum- stance thut n person cun truvol from Chicago to Snu Franelsco by the wiy of Kunsas Clty and tho new route to the' const chenpor than by tho way of Omaun and the Unfon Pacltie. ‘I'hia 18 beennso tho rate to Kunsns City s cheap- or thau to Ginnbia, somuthing for which tho now 1o to tho Const 18 not ut ull responsivie. But it 13 suld thut tho Unlon Puclile peopie huve beon enpeavoring to arrange thut tho rute to Omnhin should be reduced 80 08 to onuble 1 porsun to travul thut way trom Chlcigo to San_ Franclsco atus sl a cost s he can now by the way of ICunsns City; and it is suld that thie Atchison, "Tupekn Banta FG cgrowd elrim that this 8 n scheme to defcat themn of a chaneo cireumstince fn favor, and thut thoy live threatenod to “‘upsot things” in alively manner, At any rute, Gone eral-Agont Iines, of the Atohlson, Topekan & Santa F6, started fram Chiengo for Topeic yes- terduy moridug in resputise to o tolegymm from one of tho mugnntes of the road, whils Mr. Juhn L. ‘Uruslow, Passenger Agent of tho Rond, ure rived In Chlengo yesterdny to uttond to tutters atthis palut. A war botween tha two rival Hnes to tho Puclile Const at 8o curly u dato would bo highly lnterestiog. THE BLOCKADE. None of the roads complain now, except tho Milwaukeo & 8t Paul and the Northwestorn. ‘The Northwestern penple In particular wero very much discournged, as thoro wus a prob- ublilty at one thoe that thoy would not bo ablo 1o run through tralus in any direutlon before to-morrow. Finully, however, tho delnyed tramng from St. Paul arclved, and st night tho Company started out regular trning from Chi- eagy for St. Paul, Green Day, nnd points be- yond. No train started for Counell Hlufrs, Tho Milwankeo & St. Paul started o truin for 8t. T'aut Inst nignt, but cannot run through traing west, Tho Litnols Centeat is open trom Dubuauo west on [ts Town Divisian, but, tho North DIvis- 1on heing still blocked, §8 unable to run o train from bero to Dubuque. To-dny will probably tind the North Division open. Tho losses sustiined by the prinelpul Westorn rallronds by the recent ‘snow-hlockides 1s estl- muted to b nearly ns much ns the net earnings of thoso ronds for tho mouths of Junuury sud February, it not more, SIHORT "LIME. Thero was littlo rifile of disturbance yestor. dny morning early ot tho In-freight house of the Luke Bhoro Rond. 8inco the snow-blackude tho tonms haullug from tho house havo been unablo to urrt off much frelght, and in conscquence it required o smaller number of mon to lond. Espoclally was this tno cuse with the night gung, and thoy wero accordingly Informed that fora while, nt least, thoy would bo puld only for nctunl *“time” put in; that s, If thoy worked only halt tho night thoy wonlid recelvo only half-pay~873; conts. On recclving this in- forinution ycaterduy worning, the vani, ubout thirty In_nwmber, mado u violent *kick * und somao threats, whereat tho foreman rald thoy might retire from the sorvico of the Compuny. About fifteen of thotn did, but tho athers con- cligded 1o work on short tlme unthl the snow moited sufliclently to moko wmore Inbor in de- mand, 1f nuy cifort wns mude to organize o gonernl strike It did nut beecomu spparon t. GOULD'S WESTERN ROADS, 8r. Lous, Mo, Murch #—A Kunsns City spoclal says it scoma to bo dofinitly settied that Juy Gonld will atonee extend his Kunsas ralle ronds wostward, Propositiong forald have ni- rondy been submitted, und In somo In- stancos votod upon, at points along the proposed routes. Tho Dissvurl, Kunsug &Toxas 4 belng extemled, vin Independenco und Sedany, to Medivine Lage: tho Missourl Pacitle trom_Leroy, vin Eurel Bidorndo, und Wiohita, to Mediclno Loage, nnd ulso from Ot- tawa to 'Topekan, Surveyors huve been lu tho fleld nearly two months pust, und mich prediml- nry work done looklug to the coustruction of thodo lnes. A NEW PROJECT, Speetal Disputch to e Chicaon Tribune, Br, Paun, Miun,, March 22.—Artietes of fncor- poration of tho Slilwater, Hustings & Roohestor Railway Company huve heen formed, Tho sahl rund purposes 10 Fun from some polnt in tho Clty of Btillwater southowsterly through Hustings to dumo palut at or near Rochuester. Hastings {8 numed as tho loeals Jty. of tho contral and prineipal oflices, The capitnl. stovk 1s fixed at £1560,000, divided into shures of $100 each, Tho mumed of tho Incorporators nre K, Voss, D, B, Eyro, Co il 1, Langy, J, Jo Rthodes, aud Jacob “Yanz, ull of Hlnstings. GRORGIA RAILILOADS. Bpectal Diapatch to The Chicago Tribune. ATLANTA, Gy Maroh 22—\ Dircotor of tho Georgla Rallronds Informs mo thut a lease of that lino cannot bo consumwmated until after tho May meutlog of tho stockholders, and not oveon then uniess the charter of _tho Company is amunded 80 18 to allow the Central to leasy othor than connccting lines, which thoe Centrat 18 prohibited from dolng under the present chur- ter, ‘f'o minond the churter requires leglsintivo notlon, and there ure yruve doubta us tu whethor tho Legistuturo would possibly nllow the Coutral to amend ity chay A mijority of the Di- roctors, 1 am informed, uro in favor of porfeets fuys tho lonse, —— APPOINTMENT, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, KANSAB CITY, Mo., March 2.~Tho announee- ment that 8, K, Hooper bad been appolnted General Passonger Awent of the Hanuibal & 8t. Josoph Itoad, vice Mmse, resigned, 18 recelved with grest satisfaction here, Mr. Ilooper hus buon Asilstant Genorul Pussooger and 'Tlckot Apuent of the Compuny duriug the pnst yeur, PIIT WABASH AT DES MOINES. Special Disvateh to The Chicugo Tribune, Dy Moins, u., March 2. —Tho Wabash yes- torduy purchusod a steip of lund clghty foot wido through tha entlro city for u rallroad right- of-way. Thowmount paid §s ecstimated at not lous thun $100,000. Tho truck will run one bleck nearor the centro of the city than tho Rovk Islund, and purallol to It, — NEW RAILWAY AGENT. PiTTsnung, Pa., March 2.—Tho resignations of ¥, It Myurs, of the Fenasylvaniu Cowpany, and W, L. O'Brien, of tho Plttsbury, Cinclnnatl & #t, Louls Rtoad, as Uonoral Pusseuger aud Tickot Agonts, and tho appolntmont of B, A, Ford to fill the vacancies caused thoroby, bus beon oticlally annvunced, the chauge to tako ufiunl April Mr. Ford's oflice will bu fu this city. TiTAT “PIG-YOKE PLATFORM! v the Editor of Th Uhicapo Tribune, Ci110400, March £2.—Your corrcspoudent, * T, ' n Buturday's TRIBUNK, hits wy idoas oxe nuetly fu rpgard to that hidvous oxoruscenos ou the tower of tho now Nurthwestoru puseunger duepot, Lyt e nai tho architeot whether bo or the rullropd ofticlals considered ut all how greuts ly that “yoko" tends to lessen t . BIKBE OF tho tower Dy entting tho Hnosnd 1118 two? And thon how perfectly the unmn..m,,'l' AYIMMOLES Of tho tower would hinve hoos o nerved Tind this dingusting * plieyoko * (e, omtted] 1 feol Buro (it 1t wolld Jover boud Leen put thoro had these poluts been consldey d Oz I0WA RAILROAD MATTHERSY, Eneclal Correspondence of The Chicigo Tribune, D Motes, I, March 2.—Tho Chicago, s winkeo & St. Paul Raliroud Company hinve ngw deolded on thely lown extensione, and avery curlous declston it Is In view of the past pro. tonslons of that Compnny. Tt hus been tho suppositfon that thia Company was o competitor of tho othor Chlungo touds in Lyg, nud thorcon the poople havo lven thom hers| encouragemont and hearty welcome, Tho orlgs inal Intontion was to go to Knnsas City, und to bulld from Macion, in Linn County, dve miley northonst of Cedar Rapids, to Murshatitown, thonco to thisalty. To this cnd a company way formed, 825,000 nld voted by tho people, right ot wity Sncurod, mid @ FIURe Surveyod, Teevently gy bavo detormined to oty Cothelt Hluiry with tholr ain line, und thls nrraigement appeard to huvo been dietuted by the Northwest. ern and Rock Ialand, i that & must not touch Cedar Itnplda, Marshalltown, or Dew Moinos. go tho rond will bo built & distunce of 260 wijey with serupnlons earo travold all townw of uny impurta The vstenatble reason for this is 1o R wo inilos advantiga in distinc over any atbier Chiengo rond, but_ruflrond men_ sy thy distanco 19 ten miles longor thau tho Northwoesta ori und twelve milos more than tho Rock lsland, Tho route. us determined, runs from Murloy dug west to ll'l‘)ulm. narthenst of Toledo, when it e fleetd tu that town: thouco sonrthwvest, crossing the main linoof tho Northwestorn two miley from Toledo; thoneo southwest, crassing iy Central - lown two miles south of Dijln: thoneo to tho south part of Bllen Township, In Marsball County; thence duo weat Lwenty-four milod north of thia city, crosge Ing tho Des Molnes & Fort Dodge Rowil' at op near Perry, In Dallas County, “Toledo, thery. fore, 1s the only railrond town on the fown pool rouds touched by tho Milwaukeo. The inferenee 18 very strons that it will becomo one of the pool when 1t gots to Chlengo, By special agreement tho puol do not build ronda into tho territory occupled or preémpiod by each other, nelthor dn they compotu nt points whero thoy mvet, Ity B0 to say, those who put thoie tuith (n tho Deg Molnes, Marshalitowss, Marlon & Milwankey project nre fighting mind over this quite unex. pouted turn, und {t s probable tho Milwaukes will not got tho $250,000 voted to It, ITEMS, General-Manager 8. 8, Morrill, of tho Milwau. keu & St. Paul, mado nnothor tying visit to Chl- eago yestordny. General Frolght Agent Smith, of the Chleago & Alton, returned to tho elty yesterday from bis trip to Michignn, ‘Whon tho elghtcon enrs rocontly contrcted forby tho Woodrulf Parlor and Sleeping-Car Comvnny nre completed, (o total number of cars {n uzo will be olghty-two. Mr. 1L, C.Wontworth, Goneral Passenger Agent of tho Michixun Central, bns gone to Detroit ln responso to o dispateh from tho Gon - Dr T30 Wik Drobaly Totars to-tua oral Slan 1t Is gatunated that g frolght-train now enters Now York every titoen minutes, ench tenin wvernglng thirty-five curs, and Chicugo can mnke a8 good 1 Rhowlng na soon as tho snows blockado 1s complotely ralsed. Tho aunual meeting of the Chicago, Burling ton & Quincy Rallwny Company will be hetd Tx: this ulty vne woek from to-day at 11a.m. The wnnual weoting of tho Chivigo & Alton Cowe puny wlit bo held on tho following Monduy, Within the last slx yenrs tho Torre lnute & Indiunnpolis itond has 'mhl M per cent on it stocks and dividends, v yonrs us_follows: 187, 10 per cent; 1876, 10 pur conty 1875, 0 per cent) 1878, 8 per cont; 1870, 8 nor cent; 1880, 8 por cent. Boven thousand mon are now at work on one scction ot tho raflrowd from the City of Mexico to Tolticn, The contractor Buys tho seotlon will ho fnnugurated in May., ‘Tho Central Ruilrond :Juuploy.-d 10,300 taborers during tho lust week in ANy, 5 Tho Flint & Péro Mnrfiuntln Rond has con. trneted with thor Detroit Dry-Docle Cumpull{' of Wyandatte, to have built threo [ron propellers, These vessels uro to run botween Milwnukee and TLnaington, and witl bo 900 tons burden, costiog $120,(00 onch, The round-trip faro to Chicago from difTerent potnts durhng tho Simgerfest will not be nt a one-third rite, 08 unnounced by u so-culled morning paper, but will be at o one and ones third rate; that is, full fare one way and enee thind the other. Mr. T\ J, Coolldge, of Noston, Presldent of the Atchlson, Topeka & Suntn Fé and a4 Diroctor v the Chlergo, Burlington & Quiney, and M, J. Unrdner, of Boston, nlso a Director of tho Chi cigro, Burlington & Quiney, acrived in the city yesterday and reglstered at the Grand Pacitie, M, umrfiu L. Cannon, Genoral Passenger Agent of tho Fall River Steamship Line, hus #ont elrealurs to tho Chionzo railway ngentd announeing that tho sccond-clu: on the Fall ftiver Line this season will be; ¥ Now York ta Newport, $1.00; to Fult River, $1. to Boston, $2.25. Ex-Senator Gordon, of Georgla, I8 gotting roady to bulld a rallrond front Columbus, Misi., through the great conl-flelds of Northern Alnbumn to Atlinta, It will be 300 miles long. Mr. Jewott, of the Erio Rabtrond, and a number of huivy men aro fntorested with him. This rowd 18" an air-lino from Texarkana enstwurd, il may boeame the grent middle-southorn councetion of tho Toxus systom of rallrunds. Tho Grent Western Raflwoy of Fogland loat In twn weeks, from sanow-storms, $260,000. They have just declured u dividewd of 54 per cent, nithough tho loss mentioned nbove bad to be In=: chnded in llll\klnlf up tho halt-yearly uccounts, on which tho dividend wans bused. Our English eousing hnve found that the plan of heating rall- way ears during the past winter with bot-water Tout-wirmurs hias not been o marked auce Thero seems to be g vory good prospect that i new roud 18 to be bullt this senson between Phil- wdelphin and Baltlinore, 8 u resnlt of the suc ceds of the Penusylvnn npany in its shurp struyglo with the “Hultlhdre & Ohlo for the poss sesslon of the existing line. It the contest il otuled difforeutly tho result would havo been practically the sumo, Fneh of tho two rival compunivs {3 dotormined to control u through 1ino botween Now York and Washington. ‘The noxt meoting of the Natlonal Assoclation of General Pussonger and lekot Agoents will bo held at tho Bouthern Hotol, 8t. Louly, ubout tho middlo of Beptetnbor, 1881, The Denver and Chicugo ollielula mado w hard Night for tholr Rpectivo clties, but raflvond men always like to stop nt line hotels, andd thorefore thoy selceted Bt, Lonls us the next pleos of mocting, Tho oplulon seoma 1o bo that Cileago has no hotel it whit compiro with tho new Southern §n size and elegunco combined,—St, Lowis Hepublican, Tho above 8 supposed to give un Idew 48 to how uny guests thy now Southeru cin necomine dato, Tho Convention uauuily nuimbors ubout fitty gontlmnen, Ono of tho New Y DUSSONLE It car-works hns nt'present anordor for 1,000 curs for tho Denver & o GUrande, 0no huudred gots of licld . Instrumonts have alse beon urdered from n Philusdelphin housa, which will e used chiotly on the Mexlean extonston, This snme Cotmpany has pluced onlurs Tor 4,01 tous of steel valls, 5,000 tons of which arg in transit by way of Now Orleans, soveril burgo-londs having alrendy beon broght tn St Louls for roshipment by way of the Mixsour! I oltic and Atchison, 'Lopekn and Swntn F6 ondd, for tho Colonido oxtensions, Tho rulls for tho, Mexteun Lranchos, i order to gave duty—o speelnl goneeasion wudo th the Company by tho Mexiean Governmont,—wlil be Junded " ut somo port on the Unoltle const. Bantn Fo ls now tull of enterprising men rom tho Enst, futont on minlug, Itis the grent con= tre of the rich mitoe coulitey of Now Mexleo, Until n compurutively recent dato tho gold un sllver hus beai too inaccosaible to wirrnt large operations: but now the Atehlson, 'Foprka & Bunta F6 Roud Illmu!‘mrllm{Al.\lmlxmllsl oftruve clors down the rich Valloy of the 1tlo (3vandu to tho border of Ot Mexl and will soon enrry thom futo that Joountry, "Freight-traing heuvily louded with oro' aud sliver bricks nro rumbling utony tho Itio Grando where two yeurs ugo the allonco of nuturo wus undinturbed, 'Towns uro n‘lrlllulllll up fun it ufight, ensy of nocess to mounts awins full of preofoiis motats, awalting tho musclo and pluck vl tho prospector, A Now York papor savs that tho bill recontly Introduced {nto the ilouss of lepresontutived 10, by tha iHon, Mr. Quuers, of Ariza u entl: tiod ** An act for thoe profection of rallway trave clore,” doxorvos euroful consideration, [t pros ra, vitles that whon nny man or boy shull bo neeused of vating poanutson i raitwny passenger train 1t shull bo tho duty of A conductar to fustuntly fmpunel & jury of tivo male pusse whom the’ ofender shull bu trled, and whosy ct ghall bo Unal, ~In cuse the aceused shull Be fouud gutity, hois to be bound hund and foot and throwi from the rear platform whilo the train la runnmg at a speed not luss thun twenty miles por hour, Thoe reconl of i conyiction by Jury of poanuteontiug juvisdiction shall Iwb: Lar to sy sult for dunuges whloh iy b brought by suy convicted penion who survives the fiiliution of the penulty provided by this uct. *Fho bill furthor provides that tho rallway conls piny sball In all casey muke un_allowyncw of & cach to jurymen, and that tho brakemun il bu charged with tho exvoution of all soutvuceds e —m———— SUICIDAL, Bpecial Dispateh to Ths Chicago Triduns., DBuntisoroN, In, Mareh 22—A young man named Cluy Weddel, s bridge earpenter in the employ of tho Chicago, Rock Islund & Paciflc Rallrond Company, comwitted suleide this afternoon at Columbus June tion, La., by shootl Ho has a waother 1e- slding 8t Wilton, In, which place he lft this morntug for Columbus Junction. No causy is known for the net. ————— PRICES OF OIL, TiTusviLLe, Pa. March 2.—Oll opened 8t 80%c.: highest, BlMo.; lowest, 80c.i closudy %w shipmonts, 28,200; charters, 48,400; Jruns 3