Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1881, Page 4

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Busi- nessand work. By order . ._F. G. BEECHER, W. 3. CHARLES CATLIY, Secretary. 7 agtflo'dnck &bz, J;:r"' x!. CAER, M. P. Sov. tary. “H.B. AUSTIS, Hecord BLATR LODGE, NO. 3, A. F. & A. M.—Regular Gommunicatiop Monday dvening, Maceh B ity Freemasons' Hail. No. 16 Monroe-st., American Kx- pross Sulidlne, nteresting lecture by Brother Ak erly. Vi I3 cordial ny] . order = B BozZedll Socretary. ‘YORT DEARBORN DIVISION, 0. 1, U. R~Regu- Jar meeting on Monday evening, March 3, ut Armory, Nos. 18 and 131 Washington-st.. for drill #nd conter~ Ting the rank. £ L. BRAND, Commander. LLO COMMANUERY, KO. 1. ENIGHTS TEMPLAR—Special _Conciave Tuesday. March 2, 155L at § o’clock for. rehearsal. Drill carps 3l aasomb.e prompily at T:X o'clock. By order of the Eminent 4 Barians O H. 8. TIFFANY, Becorder. LA FATETTE PTER, NO. 2 R. A. M., Hall 7§ Monroe-st.—diated Convocation Monday evening, 3laren 2 8t T oiclock, Work on the It A. Degree! ting companious weicome. By order o < WAL K. FOHSYTH, . B. 5L P, Y. 5 -WM.J. BRYAR, Secretar; D, C. CREGIER LODGE, No. 6%, A. F. & A. M~ Eegular Communication Wednesday ovening, HMarch e A I e T A nvites T Ve V.. TOHNGINOCHIO, Secretary: SUNDAY, MARCH, 27, 181 . Ix these times of panic in Kingeraft it is more common to hear of 2 King *losing his job? than to read of accessions to the force 7aw' employed. Nevertheless, Roumania “Festerday took her place among the King- doms of this world, and Prince Charles is idg hedged with divinity. — ABOUT 125 clerkships In the Pension-Office are practically in the gift of Segretary Kirk- wood. The. appllcants are about ten times that number, and the Secretary is making in- quiries into the fitness of each, through Con- gressmen and others. YWhen the appoint- ments are made, it will be on the under- standing that if, after two or three months, they shali fail to show themselves capable of performing the duties to which they were as~ signed, they will reslgn and make room for others. ‘THE meeting at Central Music-Hall last evening in favorof a Memwmorial Public Li- brary Building was a great success. The speeches of Mayor; Harrison, Bishop. Me- Laren, Messrs. Hoyne, Storrs, MacVeagh, .Hynes, snd Shorey were to the point, 'and the reception accorded to thelr senti- ments by the audience . is an indjcation that the response to the call for Yunds will be -generous, and in keeping with the enterprise -of Chicago and the Jiberality ot its citizens, ‘The Committee appointed to devise ways and means comprise some of our best men. The work is in good hands, and is bound to succeed. A p1spaTcrfram Rome says that the en- tire- osteological specimerts purporting to be elics of early Christian martyrs freshly dug from the Roman Catacombs, have been shipped to this country. The object, no doubt, is to exhibit them to a number of easiiy-gulled peovle for a small sum. The Ymplous versons who engage in this sort of " business doubtless have great faith in the gullibility of American Catholics, and in their abllity to pay that their religious cu- riosity may be satisfied. The dispatch says, also, that the Cardinal Vicar has written to Catholic Administrators throughout the world saying that no relics have been taken {rom ‘the Catacombs for thirty years, and ‘warning them against the proposed impost- aures. K is to be hoped that the Adminis- tratofs will warn their fiocks. B ——— Irisnotat all certain that the. Republican Senators will succeed in electing thelr caucus ‘nominees as officers of the Senate before the adjournment of that body.” Some of the Senators have already given signs of weak- enine. Don Cameron is absent in Virginia. Conkling absents himself occasionally when -his vote and presence are required, also Sherman, while Platt isin New York con- sulting the Conklingites as towhat course shall be adopted in reference to the nomina- tion of Judge Robertson. & ruior that Stenley Matthews’ ease will ‘complicate matters. The report goes that ‘some’ Republican Senators will withdraw thefr opposition to. continuing the present Bevate officers in thelr places till November, «if the Democrats help to confirm Matthews, i godt that ‘other Republicas &Senators will notified 1o attena a Keguiar Com-. There is also. defeated for confirmauon by the: help of Democratic votes. Itisnot pleagant to con- template the United States Semate as gov-: erned in its action by a mere handful of petty appointments, or that the confinnation of a Supreme Court Judge is the result of a petty Intrigue. = — Cor. J. J. 8. WiLsox, Superintendent of the Western Unlon lines In this telegraphic district, resigned his position yesterday. Col. Wilson has been connected with teleg- rapyy for thirty-three years, and las been twenty-five years in the position which he resigned yesterday, and in which he gave unvarying and universal .satiafaction. Under his management most of the lines in this district, now comprising a’bout 30,000 miles of wire, have been put up, and it was under him that the {mprovements in the telegraphic service which have made this the pest supplied and most efficient system perhaps in the world have been intro- duced and perfected. It is thought that Col. Wilson’s services may yet be brought into requisition in connection with & new enter- prise, and to the great advantage of his fel- low-citizens. Ir has been officially announced that there will be no estra session of Congress before fall, if then. The President is'not at all cer- tain that the mew Congress would pass n better Refunding bill than the one vetoed by President Hayes. Some of the Republican Representatives favor a 3 per cent bond, and others favor the Carlisle anti-Natwnal- bauk idea. Such Congressmen are sufficient in number, scting with the Demoerats, to be able to pass an objectionable refunding measure in spite of the more conservative and far-seeing Republicans. The Secretary of the Treasury intends to use the surplus money now in the Treasury and the surplus revenue throughout the year, which will amount in all to $150,000,000, to redeém the 6 per cent maturing bonds. Itis announced that under a Jaw ‘of Congress the Secretary can borrow about $150,000,000 at 3 and 8} per cent Interest wherewith to-redeem that amount of the 6 per cents. — ey MAyor Harnson’s speech to the Demo- cratic City Convention yesterday .was re- muarkable both for its length and its charac- ter. It was more than an hour long, and was addressed not to the audience before the speaker, but to the reporters, and through them to the public. It was au apology for the present City Administration, and the be- ginning of a defensive campaign; diffuse and" egotistical, as all the Mayor's oratorical efforts are; and disingenuous, as they are too often. Mr. Harrison admitted that he had not enforced the laws and ordinances. He said, in effect, that they ought nut to be en- forced. In other words, he made himself the judge-of what was proper and what was wrong in the statutes of this State and the actsof the Common Council. He assumed that he was both the law-making and the law- executing power; and that he deserved the credit for all the good work of - the Common Council, while that body was responsible for all his blunders and follies, Ix the report of Friday’s legislative pro- ceedings appears this somewhat blind sen- tence: “ Ampong the measures advanced to a third reading in the afternoon was one to vay Richard Shinnick $55,625 alleged dam- ages suffered by the State’s failure to per- form a contract.” Failure of whatcontract? What contract had Shinnick with the State whereby he expected to pocket $55,625 clean profit out of it? When was this contract made, and by whom, on behalf of the State, and when and why was it rescinded, abro- gated, or violated, or whatever the act was? 1t must bave been a pretty large con- tract to have afforded* a certainty Of $55625 net profitk. Who Is push- ing this claim against™ the State Treasury in the House ? And why has it been slid alongtoa third reading so gently asto at- tract no public notice,—and no noticebeyond a four-line, careless, blind remark on reaching its third reading? Toe TRIBUNE wants light. The sum involved is as much as an average county contributes to the State Treasury in two years, Tre Committes of seven business-men— more or less—who indorsed Mr. Carter Har- rison’s financial administration the other day virtually admitted that he had only adopted and confirmed the policy bequeathed to him by Mayor Heath. Sald the Committee in their circular: : A policy of retrenchment was enforced [by Mayor Heath]. and to cnuble the city not ouly to meet maturing indebtedacss, but provide for the futuro, the expenditures were limited to 85 per cent of the tnx collecdons. L'hc sume policy was adhcred to by the present Administration (o a larye extent, but to Lring about cash payments as early as possible curtailments were made in directions where thoy had not been mude he- fore, and where théy would the lcast alfect an emclgnt performance of public duty and de~ mand. ‘Thereitis all in a nutshell. Mayor Heath had begun the 85 per cent policy. Mayor Harrison merely continued it. His financial policy was Invented and handed over to him by his predecessor. But Mr. Harrison as- sumes not only that he originated it, but that he carried it outalonc, whereas a Republican Council controlled the appropriations. He had not the powerto be extravagant if he had wished to be. Ile never had and never could have the power to spend more money than he had. A good Council and the con- ‘stitutional limitation prevented him from so doing. The Committee of good business- e, when they enfarged on the city’s credit and low debt as compared with other eities, * must have known, or should have known, that the State Constitution has regulated all that by liniiting the power of contracting debt, aud neither Mayor Harrison nor the Democratic pa; . had the power to increase the debt beyond that constitutional Iimit if they had been ever so much disposed. HARRISON'S EULOGY OF HI8 ACTS, . The ‘Administration of Mayor Harrison has been noted for the prevalence of every form of vice and profligacy in the City of Chicago. The gamblers, the houses of pros- titution, the bunke-dens, the low concert- saloons, the confidence men, and eriminaly of all classes have 1o a certain extent, direct~ ly or indlrectly, enjoyed his protection. He boasted yesterday in his speech to the Demo- cratic City Convention that there were “only ” fourteen gambling-houses in the City of Chicago. This is the number of such institutions, all of them illega), which he bas authorized and stands responsible for, How many more there may-be outside of his pro- tection, but’ connived at by his police, he cannot tell, because possibly le -does not know. But this many Le is aware of and bas publiely avowed full knowledge of. So it is with the houses of prostitution. He spuke of them as lightly as if they were licensed institutions. They do exlst, he ad- mitted, and from his manner it was evident that he knew what they were, where ty were, and hiow. many of them were juexist- ence, and who patronized them, He con- fessed. virtually, that he had established or permitted a system of inspagiien and author- ization of disreputable Jrfstitutions of all kinds. He has done,. therefore, without authority of Jaw or $1e consent or. knowl- edge of the Common Couuncll, what no City Administration before him has attempted to do~—in effect, established m this City of Chi- cagopublicgambling-housesand an unknown numher of hausrs of prostitution. all THE CHICAGO - TRIBUNE: ' SUND. . MARCH ' 27, 1881—TWENITY PAGUS venture to say that never before wassucha tevolution in the municipal.affairs ofa city wrought by one man, or, having. been accomplished, publicly acknowledged and boasted of. . Along with these authorized sources of corruption there has grown up a number of other evils for which the present Adminis- tration is also primarily responsible. While as yet no licenses have been granted to thievesge their business has been indirectly encouraged by the protection given to dis- reputable pawnbrokers and *‘fences,” to whom stolen goodsare carried andsold: The Mayor did not state in his specch how many receivers of stolen goods were on the books of the police. But we judge that thore must be more than fourteen.. They have plied their calling with such Industry that it is much easler to get back stolen goods than to prevent their being stolen or to punish the stealers. The arguments in favor of a sys- tem of licensed *fences” are precisely the samo as thoso which justify public gam- bling-houses. The Mayor might bave said that “Men will steal and will dis- pose of their stealings, and it i3 bet- ter for the police to have an under- standing with receivers of stolen goods than to persecute them and blackmall them,” The same argument can be applied .to all lawbreakers and eriminals, and municipal government in the end be made only a com- promise between society and those who proy upon it. i ‘Thebustness of the police being now chiefly to inspect and regulate unlawful institutions, it follows that lIaw-abiding citizens do not get the protection which they need. The streets are not patrolled with that view; crime is " not prevented, but compounded; the youth of the city are not gaarded, and the resorts of suspicious and evil characters are not broken up. There are scores of places/ivhere minors may take easy lessons in drunkenness, lewd- ness, and crime‘every day i the week, Sun- days included. There are headguarters for thieves as well as for gamblers. Thero isa complete league of crime which is, if not authorized by police headquarters, within its immediate knowledge, and tolerated by its extraordinary policy of license. Mayor Harrison went into the Convention yesterday well knowing that he had the sup- vort of all the disreputable classes in the City of Chicago. Ilis knowledge of this fact ought to have moderated his enthusiasm and made him at least doubtful whether his Ad- ministration had been in all respects fault- less. But it did not. Ile justified and de- fended it at all points, and in so doing as- sumed full responsibility for the disgraceful state of affairs which now exists. It willbe the duty of the decent-minded and law-abid- ing classes to bold him to a strict accountfor it, and to zrray themselves assolidly agaiust his reglection as the lawbreakers are united in his favor, —— POLITICS IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE- Mr. Iarrison had the bravery or hardihood to say yesterday, in his speech to the Dem- ocratic City Convention, that he had tried “torun the Mayor's office on ' strictly busi- ness principles, and to keep it clear of pol- ities.”” His memory is very short. A few monthsage he was serving both as the Mayor of Chicago and as Chairman of the Demo- cratic Campaizn Committec; and he mixed up the duties of the two offices in such a way that it was difficult to tell when ho was act- ingin one capacity and whenIn the other. At that time the Mayor scemed to be com- pletely under the power of the Chuirman of the Campaign Committee. We have never been able to tell precisely whether it was the Mayor or the Chairman that got the city employés together, and had them sworn to be faithful and true partisan Dem- ocrats on election-day; whether it was. Mayor Harrison or Chairman Harri- son that had the clerks, policemen, fire- men, and other city employés levied on, and assessed, and intimidated by the Campaign Committee; or whether the right hand was at all times in ignorancé of what the left hand was doing. It was ** Chairman * Harrison, we beliove, who fssued a'circular to the faithful all over the State informing them that Cook County Was going to roll up such an'enormous ma~ Jjority for Hancock and English that thelr election was sure. But it was * Mayor” Harrison who appointed 800 to 1,000 illegal ‘*special” policemen, the offscourinas of the slums of the city, to “protect? (?) the polls against the honest and decent citizens ‘who had the right to be there, *““Mayor” ‘Harrison first signed and then erased his name from this fair azreement, in~ tended only to preserve the public peace at the polls, which no man cun say was unjust or partisan in any particular: WHEREAS, It I3 tho_desire of all good citizens that the clection on Tuesdas next, Nov. 2, 1680, muy bea falr and peuceful oue, sud that no coullict of uuthority muy urise between persons acting under orders froin the undersigned re- spectively, therefore I, Jesse Hildrup, Uaited States Marshal for the Northern District of Iili~ nois, and 1, Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of tho City of Chiicago. und I, Jotin Holfmann, Steri( of Cook County, hereby order that when tho line of voters Is formea at” the pollsin the respective voting precincts of the Clty of Chicugo on the 24 day of November, 138, the voters in the line shall deposit thoir ballots in the order in which they stand in the line at the opening of the polis, wwhich order of voling shall contmuc durlng the day, and no person sull be ndmitted to tha line except at the rear. All persons found in the line after having voted, and all persons tound twice fn the line without having oifoied their ballnts, shallibe 4t onco removed. This order is binding, and all "persons acting under the au~ thonity of tho United States Murshal, the Mayor of the City of Chicagy, or the Sherifl-of Cook County shull sce that it i3 enforced. _ Duted 25 Chicago this 3)b day of October, 1550. But it was Carter 1arrison, Chairman 6f the Campaign Comittee, who issuved the following circular to Democratic judges and supervisors on election-day: HEADQUARTERS DEMOGCRATIC EXECUTIVE CAM- PAIGN COMMITTEE, CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 2, 1880.~ In cach precinot of the ward, where there IS any Pprobability of uny voters boing unable to cnst their votes, you will select five men—three for Judges ana two for oleris of election. Demand that the polls be kept open until every vote i3 polied; and, in case of 4 rofusul, let the Democrat,c supervisor, or same other son, announce to the mon i lino and around the polis that the election is not closed, und that it will be continued until every voto is poiled. Nominate three good wnon for judges, and have them clected. Chen geta tuble aud somy light (totches will do), and fet the Notary or Deputy Clerk appointed on behalf of tho Demoeratic party fill out tho oaths in both poll-books and 8wear in the judres. Then ouo of the judges can swear in iwo clerks. You will find in the bullat-bax poli-bouks, tally-sheets, pens, iak, covelope; ete. Proceed and receive’ votes untii gvery voto s polled, and have evory vote swora n, Do not adjourn untll eversthing is done in ac- cordance with tho flrinlefl instructions on the face of the poll-book, and conduct the election in every respect as thoush reyulurly appointed by tho County Sourd. Retuin the balfot-box {or one ddy at least. and until further instruc- tions are issued. e careful to haye reliable, honest citizens sclected as judges,—men whose standing is good. - 3,6 e T Give strict atiention to the above, and there 18 o doubt but that, under the Constitunon, the Bupreme Court will bold the ¢lection good 'and vaiid. Carter H. RARRISON, Chairman Campaig r m Committee. Finally, it was pfain CarterH. arrison— whether ““Mayot™ or “Chairman?” he pur- posely refrained from saying—who caused to be posted up at each poll on‘the atternoon of election-day’ a flaming placard bearing these words: Lo SRea d TE Workingmen! Stay inline. Do not leave the cewved. Your votes will bs reclved If It takes all night! ... CARTER . HARRISON.: The placard, whether so intended .or not, was 4 directinvitation to riot; and” would have restited in bloodshed if ‘the vote fiad not been all polled at the legal hour for clos- ing the polls. N Mr. Harrison, during the campaign, acting both as Mayor and as Chalrman of the Dem- aeratic Committee. assumed to creato the Electioh law, actording to Harrison, 'was promulgated for ine guidance of the city po- lice, and the putild peace was put at the mercy of ‘gangs ol junscrupulous and igno- rant mercenaries at each of the 214 polling- places in the iy, i ‘The partisan metlon of the Mayor was scandalous, disgraceful, unprecedented. There as rio glettlon for city officers fm- pending. No gficial duty required Mr. Har- tison to deserfl:ls:oflice. step down into the mire of politics, agd prostitute his.powers as Chief of the City Administration to_low par- tisan {ends, ‘The truth Is. the Mayoralty under Harrison-always has been and always wilbe & mere political office when election- _day comes argund. Mr. Harrison. has been an officeliolder bight or ten years, and ex- Ppects to continne ip the same line of busi- ness. . Political advancemert Is the breath of hisnostrils, He hss used the powers of the Mayor's office for political purposes hither- to; he wiit uge them again Tuesday, and, if by any strange fatality he should be elected, he would use them to return a Damocratic successor, who fn farn would employ them, as Mr. Harrison djd, in the Presidential elec- tion. Theonly wsyto keep politics out of the Mayor’s office'is to elect to fill it a man who ls not g, pmfasslonn! politician, as Mr. Uarrison Is, and jone who s asound busi- ness-man, as Harrison is not. HARRISON FIL(HING CREDIT BELORG- ING TO HEATH. ‘The main, in fact, the only substantial claim which Mr. Harrison will present asa commendation of his Adwministration is that the financial comdition of the city is now rood. This is trae, but Mr. Harrlson’s credit in the matter is limited to the simple fact that he has adnered closely to the policy established by Mayor Heath and practiced by him for the three years immediately pre- ceding Harrison's election.” : When Mayor Héath Jvas elected in 1876 the City Government was*practically bankrupt. It had neither money nor credit, and was burled under niegrly four millions of protest- ed, overdue, and, in fact, illegally issued, serip. 1t could not borrow money to pay the half year’s interest on the city debt. In May, 1876, the city had by the most vigorous up- rising . routed. the whole Colvin Democratic régime, which had openly deficd public sen- timent, and was insolent in its supremacy. An almost entirely new City Council was elected. As soon as the Republican Coun- cil could get rid of the hold-over Dom- ocratic Mayor it proceeded to the work of reform under the lead of Mayor Aleath, It dismissed one-third of the army of city officers; it reduced the salaries of others; it repealed or susperided wild and extravagant appropriations made by the pre- ceding corrupt Democratic Counclt. In the tragment of the first municipal year the city espenditures, were reduced nearly two mill- ions, more thih a million of the floating debt was prid . off,.and the annual tax was re- duced one million. The saving of that year as repeated on ab enlarged scale during the second and third years of Mayor lleath’s Administration. In the meantime the Re- publican Legislature, at the request of the Republican City Government, had enacted the law reimposing all the taxes of 1873, 1874, and 1575 which had not been collected through Democratic obstinacy in refusing to comply with the State law. In 1877, 1838, 1379, and 1850 these back taxes have been coming into the Treasury. So far as they were collected during Mayor Heath’s term, they were applied by him fn discharging the floating debt. w+At the same tine, added to the new: policy.of reserving a portion of each appropriation, there was laid the foundation for that surpiyd of cash in the City Treasury which has enabled the city to: gradnally sus- vend the issue of scrip and carry on the City Government with cash and without borrow- ing a dollar, When Mr, Heath went out of office a com- paratively small portion of the back taxes had been collected, but still, with what had been and with what he had saved during his three years’ service, he had paid off nearly all the millions of scrip outstanding when he entered office, and left in the Treasury to his suceessor nearly $600,000 cash to constitute a fund with which to begin cash payments, AMr. Harrison found this policy in success- ful opération when he entered the Mayor's office two yearsago. He found the policy of saving, economy, and restriction in expendi- ture actually in successtul progress. He found $600,000" cash with which to berzin official housekeeping, and with the old taxes calling for nearly two millions of dollars levied and’ awaiting collection. Without proving personally dishonest,” he could not depart from this established, successful, and economical system instituted and carried on by. his Republican predecessor, and to-day the highest credit he can claim is,that he has adnered to and carried out the financial sys- tem founded by that Republican predecessor and Republican City Government. The very existence, or the possibility of the existence, of the present cash surplus in the Treasury with which to carry on the City Governmeut without scrip is due to the Republican Councils. elected in 1876-'77-73, and their policy, continued since then to this time, and to the energy of the Republic- an Mayor who. governed from 1876 to. 1879, Whatever economy Harrison has practiced ranks. fearing that your'vote will nat be re-. has been mainly due to the offorts of the Republican Aldermen in the Council, and to the 2 per cent limitation act passtd by a Republican Legislature two years ago. The credit Harrison is taking to himself for economy must thersfore be divided among others, and those others are Republicans, A JUDICIAL MENACE TO CHICAGD TAX- i PAYERS, Ttis very probable that few persons have been impressed with the full significance of the recent degision of’ the Supreme Court which awards idamages to property located on adjacent cross-streets in cases where via- ducts have been constructed. The practice has been for. the city either to raiso the houses to grade which abut on the line of the approaches or to assess damages ad- judged to be equivalent to the cost thereof. But there has never been any allowance for damages to property located on the streets which approach from the side the inclined plane leading to the bridge or viaduct, or along the street on which the trainsrun. The Supreme Court by 8 bare majority, in the case of Rigney vs. The Clty of Chicago, haye decided thet the former is entitled to com- pensation for alleged injury to his lot front- ing on Kinzie street by reason of a viaduct. which was ereited on Halsted street at the intersection of Kinzie. | ° If thisis to be-a ‘settled principle of law, then the city hag sssumed au indefinit. lia- ility in constructing or . compelling the rail- roads to construct vinducts. On the street of which the vizduct or bridge is a continua- ton tha extent of injary to abutting property -can’be specificaily determined, for it begins+ af one ‘end ‘at-the point of approach and stops at the other end:where the natural grade is resumed. . But if damages are to be- awarded to, property on- tha -cross-streets, tiécause it is necessary to make a detour in orderto avpla ‘certain portlonsof the eleva- Tow construction of that-clause in the present Constitution of the State which was designed 0 protect private property from invasion for public uses. -This clause stipulates that “private property shall not be'taken or dgm- aged for public use without just compensa- tion.”” The phraseology of nsimjlnr provis- ion in the old Gonstitution.omitted the words *or damaged.” The rule in the past has been to award damages for what is knofn as “physical injury” to property. Thatis to say, In the case of. the constructionof a viaduct, the owners of abutting houses on the approach wonld be entitled to compensa- tion to the ‘amount necessary to placo their houses on the new grade, and make the street and the use thereof just as accessible asithad been-before. But the new theory of law Iaid down by the Snpreme Court in- cludes a recognition of indirect or conse- quential damages {n cases whers there has been no actual or physical changes in the conditian of property by reason of the public improvement. - This new element in the law of damagesis 2 most serious menace to the taxpayers of the city. Wherever a bridge or viaduct has been constructed—and bothr are necessary to business and essential to public safety— claimants for damages will come forward by the score and hundred from the cross-streets whenever they shall be able to show toa sympathetic jury any depreciation from whatever cause in the estimated value of their property or in the rental they are able to obtain forit. 1tis well known that fn all cases where a private person is the com- plainant and the city the detendant the sym- pathy of the jury is with the former, and, contrary to the rule of law, the defendant is deprived of the benefit of any doubt. sThe verdict is almost uniformly against the myulcipal corporation., The general tax- payers may be fleeced in enormous amounts under such a construction of the law as the Supreme Court has laid down, for specu~ Iative lawyers will be ready and eager to bring sults against the city without retain- ers, and trost to a division of the spoils for their fees. The 2-per-cent limitation of taxes does not include the judgments secured against the city, and the taxes may and must be increased to the extent that consequential damages to property on the cross-streets shall be allowed, not merely in the case ot bridges and viaduets that shall be construct- ed in the future, but also in the case of those which ‘have already been built within five years. Theonly protection which the eity has against the cx-post-fucto damages is in the general statute of limitations, which pro- vides that *Actions to recover damages for an injury done to property, real or personal, . . . shall be commenced within five years next after the cause of action accrued.” It is very plain that the case in which this new rule of indirect damages has been de- veloped should have a rehearing and more deliberate consideration. The Jocal Conrts, with afull knowledge of the peril which would be visited upon the Municipal Treas- ury by admitting the theory of consequential damages, decided against the complainant. This decision was sustained by the Appellate Court, which followed the old rule. The re- versal by the Supreme Court seems to have been determined by the Judges who huve not had the.same opportunities to estimate the great cost to cities, tho defeat of needed public iinprovements, and the large amount of injustice to taxpayers which must result from thisnew and sweeping theory of dam- ages. Ii the opinion of the Supreme Court is to stand, then the pmceeding'm every proposi- tion for a new viaduct in any part of the city must be cautious and provisional. It will not be safe to order the construction of any public improvement, in fact, withouf first obtaining a legul release from all property- owners whose interests may be affected in the most remote and indirect manner of all claim for damages. Any other process will involve the general taxpayers ina risk of serious loss to which their representatives cannot fairly subject them. If it shall be- come nccessary to approach every public improvement with such great caution, the result will certainly be to retard the progress of a great and growing city like Chicago. BETTLEMENT-CLERKS AND TEEIR WAYS. The investigations of our reporters into tho methords and habits of the young men con- nected with the Board of Trade as settle- ment-clerks shows a condition of things in that juvenile clearing-house which loudly calls for reform. And this demand, if any- thing, is emphasized by the recent tragedy at Lake View, the prineipalactor in which was connected with thisdepartment of the Board. It Is the universal testimony that the young man Seymour, when he was first employed in the clearing-house, was steady, industri- ous, exemplary, and good-prineivled. That he did not long remain so is shown by this tragedy, by the associations which led up to it, and by the company he was in the habit of keeping at the time hecommitted thedeed. From his own cbservatians, and from con- versations with members of the Board, THE TRIBUNE reporter formed a by no means flat- tering estimnte of the character of these young men, of their conduct, or of the influences which surround them. It is ndt to be ex- pected that seventy-fivg or a hundredyoung fellows, ranging from .16 to 20 yenrs old, thrown together without responsibility and without any real restraint,—for the room- keeper gnd private policeman stationed there exercise very little of tho latter,—would con- duct themselves with the good order, dignity, and decorum that prevail inthe ordinary walks of life; nor is it tobe expected that they can refram from levity, and fun, and practical joking. If they went no further than this, there wonld be little ground for complaint, but they go so far beyond this that their conduct appears not only in the liznt of & nuisance, but of a positive evil that needs prompt and thorough correction. Said a member of the Board of Trade to our re- porter: . 3 They are a nuisance and a_ disgrace to the Board, and should be abolisked: They aro ut- terly witbout restraint, and thelr room isa col- lege of crime where the purestand best brought- up lad becomes tainted in a few weeks, provided e can stund the moral atmosphere of the place tor that leogth of time. These lads sweur, drink, gamble, and worse. Up in their room there they gamble for quarters and dollars, und -1 notico that when one of them obtains a decent gituation be I8 bardly ever able to keepit. Ho has 103t all tasto Tor the respectable, and be for- folts bis position elther through neglect of his duty or tbrough dishonesty which he has fallen into from induifi{ng oo n larger scale in the vice of znmbl'ng. which he had acquired when a set- tlement-clork. This is not a very pleasant picture to con- template. 1t Is not a very desirable place in .which to locate a boy of good habits, for there are very few who would be able to withstand such influenges, The tendency of such a crowd of excitable, boiling, seething, and dissolute young men isto drag each’new- comer down into the common vortex of smoking, swearing, drinking; and gambling. 1f the newcomer should resist he would only be chaffed and tormented until one of two things would be certain. He would either |- be compelled to'quit, or else to identify him- self with the rabble and plunge Into the same riotous course of conduct. “The habit of lite pursued by these boys in this training-school for the Board Is.unhealthy enough, even at tioh, then its a matter for dispute'as to how far back such. an Injury extends, and how mugh of the property may clalin compensa- tion, and to what extent. 5 The decision of the Supreme Court in this cage creates & now ruléof damages to private the best, and' perniclous enough in its tendencies; but when the clearing-house, in addition to its natural influences and sur- roundings, which are inseparable from grain- gambling, assumes the characterofa school of vice, then it is high time that there was transactions, because this settlement-room is graduating young imen who are to become members of the Board of Trade. The Board owes it, therefore, to its own semse of dignity and decorum as well as of morality to place some restrictions upon the conduet of thess young rioters, and throw such testraints about them asshall comoel orderly and reputable conduct and proceedings. If this cannot be done, then it should drive them all out and have the settlie3 business handed over to men, which could easily be done without severely taxing the firms who avail themselves of this mode of settlement. e semene LIGHTING THE CITY BY MOONLIGHT. ‘The plan in use in this city for liziting the street-lamps by reference to the moon as well as the sun, has saved a great deal of money to the taxpayers of Chicago during the seven and a half years that {t has been in force. The idea of 0ising moonlight is an excellent one, and it was especially valuable, in an economical point of view, while the City Treasury was 1mpoverished by the fire, and subsequently by the panic of 1873. But, like some other good things, it has been slightly, overdone. The plan, as laid be- fore the Common Council Committee on Gas, Involved the lighting of the street- lamps in the business portions of the city -during the whole nighs ~and extinguishing them daring moonlight in the much larger area outside. The reason for this proposed diserimination was the fact that the moonlight is of very httle yalue when intercepted by buildings; in other words, it must shine directly on the streets to be.of service. But it wasthought by some members of the Committee that any discrim- ination might be complained of by taxpayers, and so it was decided, to serveall parts of the city alike, except the bridge-approaches and the tunnels under the river. 5 Since that time no offort has been made to effect a change; but the evil of dark streets has gone dn increasing with the growth of the area devoted to business. A great many more people are now satisfied that the busi- ness portions of the city ought to be lizhted up during the whole night, and not a few of them have at times loudly blamed for the omission the man who argued azainst it. During about a fortnight in each month, if the skies be clear. the moon gives more light than the street-lamps, and the Iatter are entirely unnecessary, provided that the moonshine falls upon the place where people want to see. Otherwise the moon’s rays are of scarcely any value, as they do not * shine round a corner.” Any one familiar with the topogravhy of the city is well aware that in much the largest portion of the corporate area the ®reets are open emough to make the moonlizht available on the sidewalks and in the roadway. He also knows that there are smaller areas within which the moonshine is of o avail, except as it renders the darkness more hideous by contrast with walls illuminated for a few feet below the cornice. Such should be lighted by zas. There are other portions of the city in reference to which a difference of opinion might be entertained; these should be passed on by the city authorities. Perhaps the latter areas would bave to be left as now for awhile, butthose which un- disputably belong to the second noted class ought to be attended to forthwith. The ap- propriations for streot-lighting, etc., are now before the Council, and should be made with refercnce to this very point. Let us have more light. PULLING TEETH. The disagreement of the jury in the caseof Miss Bales against MlcChesney Brothers, dentists, looks very much’ like an outrage, and one which naturally is’calculated to arouse feelings of indignation. 'The lady in question went to these dentists to have five decayed teeth puiled out. While under the influence of laughing-gas they pulled out every tooth she kad in the upper jaw. Of course, being unconscious, she was at their merey. If they had been so disposed they might have pulled out every tooth she had in lher lower jaw, and then finished up the job by pulling out the jaw also. Other vietims have made the same charges against the same dertists, and for anght we know their office may be filled with teeth ‘extracted without authority; but this Is not particularly to the point. One case is sufficient for comment. The McChesney Brothers claimed that they pwled out the other teeth because they were unsound, while the plaintif claimed that they were healthy, though she could net prove it, be- cause the dentists had the teeth in their possession, and dia not care to produce then:. Miss Bales wanted five teeth pulled, and these dentlsts pulled fifteen. It is to be presumed Miss Bales owned her teeth and was compe- tent to say what should be done with them, though the McChesney Brothers seem to imagine that the moment a patient gets into their operating-chair and is under the in- fluence of laughing-gas he surrenders all control aver his jaw. Haviig ordered them to pull five teeth, it was their business to pull five and not fifteen, and it was none of their business whether they were decayed or not. A surgeon who is ordered to amputate a finger might with equal propriety claim the right to saw off the whole ten, ora physician called in to | cure one disease administer wedicines fora dozen others. If this is the style in which’ the McChesney Brothers do business, if they are the seif-constituted judgesas to the num- ber of teeth a patient must lose, and the Iat- ter has no right to specify how many he wants out, then the public would do well not to all rush to that office at once, if they have any regard to the condition of their jaws. Meanwhile, the jury which could not agree in this agzravating outrage ought to be com- pelled to undergo asession in McChesney | Brothers’ chairs when the latter felt them- selves to. be ina peculiarly cheerful and ac- commodating mood as to other people’s teeth. If there is no other relief, then those who patronize them ought to takea shotgun with ™ them. Astronomical, Chicago (TrIBUNE office), north latitude 41deg. 52m. 57s.; west longitude 42m. 18s. from ‘Washington, and 5h. 50m. 30s. from Greenwich. The' subjoined table shows the time of rising or sotting of the moon's lower limb, and the of- tical time for lighting the first street-lamp in cach circult in this city, during the coming week, unless ordered sooner on account of bad weather. Also the following times for extin- guishing the first [amp: LDay. Moonrises. Light. Extinguish. March 27.... 4:19% a.m. 625 p.m. 4:%a.m. Monday...... 4493 8. m. 6:2 p.m. 6:25 p. m. Tuesday..... 65:17% & m. Seta. 6:35 g. m. The moon wiil be new at 4:12 p. m. next Tues- dry. She will be with Mercury to-night, and Friday night will pass taree degrees south from Venus. i ‘The sua's upper limb will rise on Monday at 547K a. m., eouth at 4m. 40.55. p. m., and set &t 8:223 p. m. . The sun’s upper lfmb rises Friday next at 5:42 8. m., Bouths at 3m. 46.1s. p. m., and sets at §:=261 P om. . . .t The sidereal time Thursday mean noon will be Oh. 38m. 50.76s. ’ +] or Dunne has fnt gffifigll ll;‘l):prac. resnlution to xenehns:‘lzl‘u At the timo the sun’s centre was on the equa- torial plang, last Sunday morning, the storm bad partly abated fn violence, with the alr movement from the northeast. # . " Mercury will south Thursday at 10:28 a. m. He 13 now westof the suo, rising before him, | o St Westorn elongy, m, rn, D] south at 9:25 a. m, starimow feading the stars Ppussing {nto the constellation Aquartes, from Jupiter. Next Toursday shy oy ¥ 20222 p. m., and S0L 48 083 p. m, Spe ather greatest brilliancy, an duzaling object If the ubserver be blgsgeg clenrsiy. A [fctlo losa than hate nated side is turned towards moving (appareatly) ut a slow P stars. and will be “stationary™ 4, tiat date she will move rapidiy T Fro &nd be n inferlor conjunction Bet at T:dd p. m. .btightaess, butls still a co the early twilight. set at7:51p. m. Hedoesnot now, belug much Jess bright tha; rather low in the west at e The greatest apparent diameter of hf tem is now about 363 seconds, and 10X seconds. ing then In right ascension 10 utes, and north declination 8 de:r?:'n'i’f e Ho 13 00w In the posicion of maraing e e only Interesting ns a telescople nwm‘b"‘ Be oan be scen with the R Xnow Just where to look for bim, sus, has prepared a tablo showing thy tion of this country by drainagn Desing. divisions are as follows: coast extends from the eastern border of to the Hudson; the Middle Atlantje tends as far 0S the mouth of the Potomy cluding this stream; the South Atlantiy comprises tae country from the Potomac gty 1 New England Coast . Middle Atlantic Const.. Bouth Atlaatic Coust.. Great Lakes. T'll bit you with my weapon's biggest Oh! come and let mo'hit you fot thinga about editors that 1 bad lears! carcor as a nowspaper man, At oDy sidored the correct thing for £72:7 ArEe Dave a German editor, who was 8up! able In writing articles aboat polltics 12 G Tk s 1355 Mr. Charlos A. Dana, now of tha Ne¥ cameto Chicago to run. nuwnua:":d the He was determined to show Westorn Journaliam how & frat-cisss SOTIRT ought to be conducted. So he hired and his pipo before leaving Now York, ) theth to Chicago. The zrlsflz mt:l::fl o editor wrote Mr. Dana not e Tead, ana when It nppeared the next day the 8%t tenca was: “Often are we roadlng alr pers of Germany thas the palicy of Blsmarek ¥ opposed fa.” the German aditor that at that ses108 0f cltmate of Chicago was pecullarly faal 10 in Prassia German editor. Ho calls him *the Iatess —prabably bocause he is the last man Lo zgfl In tho morning.—From * Jala for the MUK Murat Halsteud. J withdraw opuosition if Judze Robertson is | avowedly under the caré of the police. We | Election laws ard to interpret them. The propertye The principle turns.uponanar- | & settlement of other things besides grain | but so obliquely that ho fs not faborat 2 ated for observation. His g 3t Iy sitg. ngal ¥ of lon. Mars will riso Thursday atécqy o He 13 visiblg as o of Capricy Venus has practically purteq comp, Peareg d to-nigne '"1!:". wl bait of he.m.,'n,, us. Stp gy ace Anong i S now towards May g o, well IDdet, Juptiur wil south Thursday at 13p, g, 5 g wg s He is fast losing nys 2pDareqy nspleuony ni(eah‘ Saturn will south Thursday at 1,15 3 “sBowap» r::; lter, an; un! sar 3 ring syy. Yeast g 1p. o by, the time oy oy ty A, 1ty Uranus will south Thursday at 10; ine 1s Dked eys whey :E Neptuoe will south Thursday at sy Right ascenslon 2 hours 4315 ming L declination 14 degrens 025 minutey " - A T HENRY GANNETT, geographer of theoep, Tha Xew. gm:l; const e 0, loe Rd ward to Florida; the Gulf of Mexi cipg with the Peninsala of mmfiifil“&' coust and the whole Mississippi Valley tg 1y mouth of the Rio Grande, stream. The tableshows that, of laton ot the United States fn centurs live on the Atlantic Sio ceatum In tho Gréat Dusin, aud2 41 40 por s um on the Pacific Slope. Of those inciuding the ly the total, ool 158,97 1100 pep Using o iy Atlantic Slopo. tho following proportion, tho various sections: e Pereent, 15 13, 1] 13 [ a5 $ A} Mr. HArrisox put himself and his A3 ministration oo the defcosive In hislung g rambling speech to the Democratic Convantion yesterday. He admitted that ne bad net e forced the laws, and justified his failurs tody 80; confessed that the business-men dig pot trust him; and glaried 12 the fact that he vasyg poor 2 politician as be was a publle officer. ————— Mavor HARRISON having for two yan refused utterly to euforce the ordinancey ngninst gamblers, thieves® resorts, whisky-sell ing to boys, open solicitation of prostitutes, and riotous revelry, it becomes the duty of ‘decent people to elect some one Mayor thas will enfors tho ordinances of common decency and manlty, —— For the next eight days Carter will besd- ministering taffy to the Irish day andaight. Bu a great many of them learned to estimats bly blarney at Its actusl value—nothing. Carter will be a flerce and ferocious Fenlan untd after the election. ———— Two YEARS ago the Republicansentered upon the municipal campaign divided, i heartened, and apathetic. This time ther we united, enthusiastic, and conddent of succes, ana determined to win. y —— ThE city bas had a Bourbon demagog for Mayor for two years. IS it not high time totry a plain, practical business-man for the nexttvo years? Four years of demagogism atastretch 415 too much. ToE fourteen gambling-houses confessed to by Harrison each bad a representative ia e near the Convention yasterday. Mg. HARRISOX cast a gloom over the Dem- ocratic Convention yesterday by sayiog that the police were honest ana efficfent. ——————————— “WHERE Is Miles?” asked Mr. Harrison yesterdsy. He will be beard frocy.bufore slscr tion-day. | PERSONALS. ; *“You might say that the streets of Chicago are in on offal condition. There will be no charge tor this.—S. J. Tilden. “ 1t is 2 naughty, naughty story about my stripe.”’—IVhitelaw Reid. The forelgn dispatches state thal the leaderof the Nihilists Is named Drazomanoll We thought all along that some Chicago police- man would turn up at the bottom of the 1% over there. Gen. Wood says that in thelr war Witk ihl; Boers tho Dritish soldiers *lost Do prestige This Is probably true, but a grest maoy of thed arealittlo short on arms aod legs, which ¥ quite as useful as prestige when 3 man v 10 geta living. 5 The roses in the garden are abloom, racrant ns they wore o year sg AR fr 0: The liiies ill the alr with sweet periame, ‘e wummer-iime has come agalz, I kIO, A thousand preclous gems the eurtd disciosed T'0 those who Billi 1t boauties rare may se8, But the flower that way fairer han the 1oseh, Qur duriing Dimple-Chin—On! where !s § —S8ick Poet. . Iam walting in the wildwood witti a olub, ikt T’It meet you twixt the gioaming mi ‘l:: And knock you protty much across the prk. A thousand shinlug stars you'll son discovers And pyrotecholcs till you cannot Fesh. ot H r your mother 3y tangle-hentled poet of the West: —Levd-Headed Editor. 9 . When the maiden isn’t hugging of her fello% Of ber fellow; When her fancy doesn’t lightly turn toDAIE Tura to baog Tt 15 ten to one that she s getting yellom Getting yello® And all broken up by jealousy's wild pangs Qusy’s wild pangs” ‘When you never see ber zating the tred ogsten ‘The tried oystery’ And she docsn't scem to carv for Baster, Easter clothes, Don’t forget that she's preparing for the claisieh | For the cloister, = And will no'er agala invest In striped hosé,” *Vest instriped bose o Not long ago, children, I wlflmlz“’m’: r 0 18 W83 v': Enster pants being mauve colored. They are ashes-of-roses, with a moon-on-the-water z Bopublics® xponenta of ¥4 German 447 and. prosat o the troudle eady tn 4P A< hen M. Dans saw this hie n’m _t:{":’,, ”flu‘ il e 2L 1 the yesr 00 people Db s | pors g ir. Storey, of the Chleagu Times, Tocently birkd § e — z v N THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: SE'VAI!E z'mm: The Chicago W';:d oot Crmaaco, Mavch 26—I am very £l fato 20 1t will be do! B here. 1 ho) - e Biare hmpoctant T our children's edaCAtly 1 hope that every parent baving schools will try on the Board, a colld 10 0% this done, bY. vy %ad hope rourpaper TR the twolllustrious stars nearwhich o tobe recently. She is now aboqs hfn'«