Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1881, Page 1

TUESDAY, he SUBEGER | OLOTITIN Gs... CLOTHING. i 4,500,000 SPECIAL BARGAINS PUTNAM CLOTHING HOUSE, THE OLD RELIABLE. | the Only Rotail Chthing Honso in Chicago that Manufacture their Entire Stock, We offor to-day a largo lot of Men’s Donhlo-Breast CASSIMERE SUITS at $11 Former Price, $16.50. ° The above lot of Suits are i of Suits aro strictly all wool. 00 MEN'S SUMMER CASSIMERE SUITS, Elogantly made). marked down this morning from $18.00 to $12.50. gar! Broken Suits and Odd Garments at Half Price 109 MEN'S DARK GRAY AAY SINGLE-BREAST SACK COATS, ‘\Warrantod ail Wool, marked down from MILES LONG, So the wise men tell us of the COMETS TAIL, 4 ‘That's a much longer tafe than we've got to tell you about our Summer Clothing, but : we would like to have you remember when _ you ae sweltering, that A.J NOTING _& CO. ave an on hand large quantities of fgeasonable Garments at Reasonable Low tPrices, Just “BREAD AND SUTTER oRO! OFITS, Lig a Full line of sizes. 112 Men's Single-Breast Sack" Suits, Mado from a HAMELTON CASSIMERE,. iioted for sorvice, strictly all wool. This lot of Suits wo offor at the low prive of 88,00 for the Full Suit, whichis a great bargain. Please romember we can fit male men and youths only in ts lot of ue as tho large sizes hayo beon cleared at B15 per Suit. Wonderful Bargains tn val Boys’ and Children’s Department. Special Bargains in Men's Cassimere Pantaloons, ‘ - Bear in mind we ‘aro Largo Manufacturers, and can.offor great inducements to the RETAIL TRAD Hanuples ofany AF ‘the aloye goods sent. by mail‘on application, Goods sent to any part of the country, C. 0. D. by. Doe Putnam Clothing ‘ House, .. (3fand/133 Clark-st.,. 17, Ss MINER, BEAL: “8c WACKEDT, Bee Proprietors and ‘Manufactuters - WwW. HL FURLONG, Resident! Manager. es 38,00 to'$30.00 | -B1.50 to $9.00 | :.75¢ to 33.50 $1.00 to $7.60 Ory Ory &c. B 3 “BN OUTFITS, | Fine Tailoring, AND “ “Furnishings, Ghose Cheap! ¢ Cheap! | \ Good! Bi Better! Best!’ : AY “104 & 106 | “- " State and Washington-sts., ‘Chicago, é ~ |The Olest andthe Leading Jel Louse nt Ts, . Visitors to Chicago can ) can here find all, Novelties in SIL- || VERWARE;, ‘the: Latest, Most Artistic,;and’Choicest -Selec- tions in: DIAMONDS, and: all. descr tions:: ‘Of: PRECIOUS -STONES.*> : The most perfect: ‘\WATCHES and HORSE-TIMERS which can be procured in America. People visiting Chicago are: requested to call and ex- amine our stock. . No, trouble.to show Goods. BABY CARRIAGES, &c THE. TURF. VERGHO,RUHLING & C0, THE SECOND DAY <1 “ST. 138-144 STATE OF. ir HE GREAT eee Hecting To iy Tusay June 28, “Your attention Ja called to our-tine of sc sae Baby. Perambulators: CHILDREN'S SLEEPING COACHES, THE LARGESS STOCK IN THIS CITY, AMERICAN BUNTING : USEFUL—CHEAP—DURABLE. -Fypry Hotel tn n This O City Has Thom. = aig t ~__ JYREWORKS. | fal KOTHING LHS. For Bale by PERFECTION WiNDOW “CLEANER C0., \7_Madison-at., Chicngo, DIAMONDS, WATCHES, Lc» Tho Largest and Best Field of the Year. : FIRE FIRE WORKS! ‘DIAMONDS! ; i {Pint ace chub Pure FS, for tl en. 14 sollegs "waTcHest | Taylor's, 3 Clarkst, | Cece rae ae jecond Mace-"'The Iinols Oaks for 3-yoar-old gies, iu 1, Hana gash Us large Stock! Fine Goods! Low Prices ! BAYKRUPT GOODS! UNREDEEWRD PLEDGES | AT GOLDS 3, * Most reliable works mado, Only house which, furnishes fnstruotions with onch billsold. on’ buy trash. Batluong, Flags, Lauterns, Bombs, cto, 4TH JULY), ‘Third Nace—Clob Pus A for all agos, two miton: ‘ape Goneat Mary Aa 30, for aloes, to ide Dia Established (8S) To: 1 Buttion Office, w East * ¥Yourth Raco—Belling Turse, ft ‘alt unt mile I etn 0, "AN Goods Warrantad'an Gh presented, ; Wain tn iat i isos Stud for " BiaweWinding Wateh for fu. Array! agra Hotter, 4 FIREWORKS; |’ mee / Aanision Only 50 Cents, “Raping “ Commences’ Promptly at 2:30 p.m, Madjson-st,. Cars Direct to the: ‘Track Gates, : OFFICIAL POOLS Sold at the SHERMAN HOUSE Morning and Evening: : adiea’ (oid Watches fru: se ie second anly We eqour pris evand, fou val bt ranch Onicer M614 Lorime Flags, Lanterns Balloons Togpedoen; a Firo-Crackors, Ete.” om : Calt cory to avoid tho rush, at CHARLES MORRIS U7 Michigan-ay,, Near Cor. of Madisor-st, OCEAN 3 NAVIC NAVIGATION, Pans NORTH GERMAN LLOYD. New York»-London=<Paris., Steamers sait Reery Saturday from New York PRESTON, KEAN & C0., B A N K E S for Southampton and Bremen R 9 ae Eat ert | ane ASOELLANEOUS, LLANEOUS. 100 WASHINGTON-8T,, Chicago, a ee sat Fae feeratan facilities for all classes of Banking ie et ren ee steurnge toby, ihe me ust: v a 4 rae a ar trerebantey and | SSG Gy gets eutganend al uege gion o7_t 2 South Clark- ote Ganural Age nia erite LIKE Invest money carefully for others. ; Nos. 122 and 124 South Clark ‘: UMMER bE SORTS. Pools sald un alt raclug vente tn this counters nlso —. JOW,, pf lyerpool. Dublin, Bette hand London: | on Loy Varzousne fe Manitou Springs, Colorado. Rae Sn eras Sie gn | Eee Re a sau whoop, nF pla. MANITOU ito HOUSE, . AUSTIN, BAL! ;DWIN & oe 8B. JENNING bions “Senate eae S. Brainard’s Sons, ENP A yew Ao EER. ty vcs r Ao. 36. WAIL and 164 Handolph-st., - CANOE Clarke 5 5 . Bon and aftr ei bare ‘Munio Publishers, 135 Stato-at., have isausd joann Deon entaryed jo t fry, Hide have he seh $34 refurnishe ughous ab Hy oners cduoonisnus hover boure. equal ‘eat to Summer Tourists, Terms reasonable. “LONG BRANCH. WEST END HOTEL, - COTTAGES & RESTAURANT,’ SANGERYEEST Qrand a by It, E, Honnings, Be sure and call f; ANCHOR I LINE MALL STEAMERS “take SnatA mite SS eae ty “ don direct. ree ried ee, Beh cntay only 14 9 a 3 UNNDERSON ENUTIERS, o6 Wasbinson-at, ‘The only exclusive frult house eave tae say mithoutt skage sirel sols te a eouth Clatkeat™ or OE TIOA: AL L GOODS. GUNARD MAIL LINE, Balllog three und four tiiness week. lessauo tick Lo and from all parta uf Europe at lowont rates, ita for Lt wod upwards, pany's on ™ Chart and Handolphs : open for the Hessen of Ut Thuredsi SCS C BNET Golernl Awent” anager Wextorn Dupartment, pnnnnannnnnct Gt Uli btids CUBA, PREXBUUY & itAeR af, Ch jem HOLE. CQLUMBIAsg | oy Ocean each, New Jereey,, 4, Asses June 1s For etreulary, terms, 1... A... LESALB AND iL. Sout anye ie aie oa te Fathers * AK WOOD, GREEN Taian fue, Saxe woop, < now open: 1t bps Hpectacles suited to all sisi aclentiga Hea, pant ilies, Norn and Bout laasca, Telescopes, Bt Faslllos Norey end Fine principles. Opera and Field Gi COpOR, Baromotors, OL, Handsome $8.50 to $5.00. Ve JUNE | 28, with: Every Purchase, , Suits like the above, and in many other shapes; at $3, $4, $5, $6,'$7,$8; two weeks ago they were eagerly sought, after at from one to two dollars more: per suit. The fault is not with the goods, but it is.the closing.of the season, which means better: Bargains from now on, INES. WILDE, JR,, Our - large growin, trade we have enjoyed this seasdn is an em- phatic tribute to thela eeptability of our goods and prices, « $10 and S15. This means Men’s' Suits at $10 and .$rg .per-suit, of far greater value than the price ‘indicates, We have-selected New Lots and Broken‘ Lots of Suits, irrespective of théir-actual value, ; and | offer them as above. It is.the winding up of the’ ‘season'prices, : WHITE VESTS, = ~ You‘oughtito' see’ ei ag0d a one we sell for $x. Traveling Dusters, $1 - Summer Coats, 50¢. . Gauze Underwear, 25¢, 50c, Balbriggan Underwear, all sizes,$] Lace Undershirts, 50c, 75¢, $1 The: coolest Undershirt | ever made. Fancy - Handkfs., 10c;. British Hose, 19¢ ;' Bathing Tights, 1§c3 Night Shirts,. $1, $1.50, $2; Extra large Undershirts,” s50c and up- wards. Our Furnishing Dept. has become a regular Bee Hive; the public are finding out. our’ Low Prices. Handsome Fans Given with Every Purchase, JAMES WIDE, JR, & C0, Cor. State & Madison-sts, FRANK REED, Manager. AUCTION SALES. THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC SALE AT :AUCTION, Gn the promisos, of lotsin Blocks 8 and ¢ of tho Reform School Grounds, 70 lota tn Ah Rejoin ng Droxel Bonlorard, between Forty-second and Kurtysthirdeats, Thursday, July 7, at 2 p.m. ‘Theso lots will be suld an cane) terms: Ous-fourth can b balance tn three saual annual paymonts bs watt 4 A depuait of 10 Ufinueceastut Uiddere ut red f mat is fe furs ti nad Uitte a eee cee nore Af He helt havanidcpot at Korty-thtrde ot ie trains, suodivinan, The Michigan Noutusen reals Daadiiey Bae aoen ial, eusiae oppor 19 ily urder of the County Naurds OF yours, HUNYADI JANOS UNYADI JANOS, Bunpadi ™ aut THE, >»BEST CH PAPEST NATURAL “| APERIENT tren JANOS SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHER: LAXATIVES, “‘ SPEEDY, SURE, & GENTLE." Prof, Roberts, FRCP, London, ‘The most certain and comfortable cathar- tle in cases of constipation and sluggish, liver or piles, Ordinary Dose, a Wineglassful before breakfast, Of alt Drusgits amd Mineral Water Dealerty MACHINERY, DESIGNER AND BUILDER. | Special "Machinery, JNO, J. CLAUSE, 15 tu 1 Bouth Caoaleat. CELLULOID GOODS. : OELLULYID (Water-proof Lin- en) Cuyfs, Collars and Bosoms. Price Lists and Gouds sent by mail, Call ov address BARNES £ €O., 86 Madison~sta, Tribune Bullding, |. .| Dunbar Furnace, at Dunbar, Pa., was bru 1881—TWELVE PAGES. atntement, and {t is evident It wil! go rather hard with Mahmoud, Ruchd!, and Midhat, Tho public prosecutor demanded that ench should be sentenced to fifteen vena impris- onment, ——— t ‘Tn Now York Saloonkeepers’ Organtaing Company Js on association formed by the New York dispensers of corn-jutce, They are of opinion that It would bo to thelr own ndvantage and profit If they could manufact- ure their own beer, and are meditating do- ing so, They have already subscribed 25,000 worth of stock In a projected Union Dewars, and the Secretary of the Association Is quite sanguine of success. eens She Crilume. (2 Persons unable to purchase copies of THE Cittcaco Trrnunn at News Agenctes andon rats |. way traina there Chicago papers are sold will cone Sera favor hy reporting the facts lo this office, glv- ing, full particulars, Panty cloudy weather, oceas{onal rains, and stationary or higher tensperat re for this region to-dlay, TuA pony-drivers of Yorkshire, Eng., Colllery have struck for an Increase of ‘wages, Two thousand workingmen are out of employment as a consequence, ‘Tho pony- drivers are a power In Yorkshire, Secnrrany Wrxpost yesterday recelved 2 letter from Capt. Hooper, of the revenue- steamer Corwin, dated Ounalaskn: Istand, May 20, 1881.. The letter states that he made the voyage from San Francisco in twelveand ahalfdays. le expected to leave for Seal Island on the 22d of May, and after reaching that point to proceed: north -nlong the Sibe- rlan const in search of the Jeannette and tho whalers Mount Wollaston and Vigilant, ‘Tur operative nailmakers of Staffordshire, England, to the number of 0,000, linve atruck foran advance of 30 per cent in wages, They struck about a yearagu, but had to go back at.old rates, Itis probablo that they will make a more determined fight this time. ——— ‘Tire President, accompanied by Secretary Hunt, Mrs. Hunt, and- Miss Hunt, Post- master-General James, Attorney-General MocVergh, and Col. Rockwell, returned to Washington yesterday from Long Branch. Tho President wilt rejoin hts family on ¥ri- day of this week. WASITINGTON was visited yesterday by a fierce storni of thuuder and Nghtning, which was accompanied by hail, Several houses were blown down and others were unroofed, trees were torn up by the roots, and their branches strewn In‘every direetion. ‘The sewers were flooded, and burst in many places. Among the buildings unroofed was the Armory Medleal Museum bullding, for- merly Ford’s Theatre, in which President JAncoln was killed. Maurice TALEY, Superintendent of’ the tally murdered at isown door about3o'clock Sunday. The murder, it is thought, grew out of Il feeling engendered by the reeent strike. In the -Connellaviile con! region, Ualey leaves a wife and family. Tue Mayor nominated James J. Mealy, Thomas Brenan, Dr. Norman Bridges, Adolph Kraus, and Adolph Shoeninger for members of the School Board Inst evening, in the places of Messrs. English, Brenan, Bartlett, Annstrong, and Frankenthal, whose terms have expired, The Mayor nom!nated for members of the Public Library Board Dr, Ermest Schmidt, Willism J. Hynes, and George B. Armstrong.- W. J. Onahan was renoininated for City Collector, and was con- firmed by the Council, A Nuspen of Lalallee (Tex.) horse-thicves Were overtaken ‘at Fordillo Sunday by a party of eltizens, some of whom had suffered from the thieves’ operations. A. fierce fight took place, The thieves were badly worsted, and retired, leaving onc of their number killed and another serlously wounded. " Mn, GuApstonr gave notice in: the House of Commons yesterday that he would mova to-day that after: Wednesday discussion on the Irlsh Land bill would have precedence over other business ntl! the House should otherwise order, The fourth clause of the bill passed through commilteo last night, Str Cuances Dinxe stated in the House of Commons yesterday, in answer to 9 question, thut ‘the - Russinn: frontier’ Is now within 180 miles. of ‘the Afghan frontier. Most Englishmtn will fear that this Is too near. Lord Hartington told an ingufsitive member that the English Goy- ernment had’ granted Abdurrahman Khan subsidies amounting to $1,995,000, The En- glish taxpayers will have to pay. about half the sum,.and the British Indian taxpayers will have to stand the other half, , ee Whine a: passenger-train drawn by two engines was passing over the provistonnl wooden bridge: on the Moreles (Mexienn) Railroad Thursday night the structure gave way, and the engines and cars tumbled ‘over’ the precipice. One hundred” barrels of brandy wore set‘on fire by tho. engines, and the mangled victims of’the disaster were, in’ many Instances, burned to acflap. .‘Thedend number.over 250, of whom 197 are’ Mexican’ soldiers - and. seventeen” Mexican - officers, . ‘About forty svoman and ¢\tldtent-wero-more” or fess Injured by fire or by. falling over the precipice, Sixty persons were saved... . Tn lumber dealers of Chicago at meet- ing held yesterday adopted: svale of prices which isan advance of from 50 cents to $1 per 1,000 on all classes of lninber, The 50 cents advance covers: siding, fencing, and cult lumber, while the St advance is on se- lect timbers, flooring, clear poards; seantling, ete, i Banon Maenus, late Gerinan Minister to Copenhagen, the sume person. who: mude hinselt' so ridicutons by his attention to Sarah: Bernhardt aud her sister,.and who was recalled from Copouhagen for attending a banquet where the sllm Sarah made slight- ing reference to ‘the Gerinan nation, ais be- come Insane. Tae wife of the Rev. Ephraim “Antony at- .temptad ; to? shoot fn, hawic sat. Shelbyville, Vem, yesterday,’ and succeeded “In ‘fatally shooting herself. Mra. Jane Miller and her son’ Thomns wore- killed-by lightning at Sturdevant Station, Aln., Sunday night. An infant held in the woman’s arms . escaped without a serate! THERR was a scene in the Howse of Com- mons yesterday when O'Donnell, an’ Irish member, belng. dissatlafied nt the reasons given by Secretary Forster for the proclama- ton of Waterford under the Coercion act, moved the adjournment of the House, and denounced the Government for having ina cowardly and unjust manner made use of the powers conferred on it by. the Coercion act, ‘Tho course of the Government was sustained by a vote of 405.to 23, During the debate one trish member charged that the district was: proctatmed in order to render ft more easy for the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Harting- ton’s father, to collect his rents; another member referred to Forster asa Brum: magem Cnstlereagh,” Mr, Forster, seems to have a hard’ time of it. M Dovrauns, one of the most prominent public men of France, who held oflico under thé Kingtom, the Presidency of Louls Na- poleon, and under Thiers and MacMahon, died yesterday in’ his 83d year, Amos II, Trow- bridge, President of tha Second National Bank of NewYork, died suddenly in An- soni, N. Y., yesterday. es ‘Ir was announced In the British House of Conimons yesterday. that twenty-seven Jus- tlees of the Peace were’ guilty of corrupt practices in connection with the election Inst year.” ‘The office of Justice of tho. Penco Is honorary In’ England, and is ong of the dis- tinctions bestowed on ‘Tory Squires and well- to-io farmers to please tho wives and daugh- ters of the recipients, _—_—_—=_—__— Tene areelght Repiblican candidates for Spenker,of the next Ilouge of Representa- tives—viz,:, Kelfery. of Ohio; Kasson, .of Jown; Hubbell and Burrows, of Michigan; : Hiscock, ot Now York; Robinson, of New Jersey; Reed, of Maina; and Orth, of Indi-, ana, Kulfer, who {gs the Ohio candidate, Is! the most active at present, but the chances are thut either Kasson or one of the Mich- igan candidates will win. Sam Randall, Sain Cox, and. Blackburn are the Bour- bon candidates, Ladd* will: probably get the empty ‘honor of o -nomina- tlon from the Greenbackers, whilo Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is spoken of as an inde- pendent candidate, ‘fhe declaration of Spevr, of Georgia, that he would act with the Re- publicans, hag put » damper to the Demo- erntic hopes -that ge antl cepapeeas eandi- date can be elacted AN organization named the New York Metical Misslon has been inaugurated in the mnetropol fhe purpose of It Ig to give eratultods medical ald to tho worthy. poor, and at the same time to alye Instruction in the Gospol and Christian doctrine to the suf- forers, thus combining cure of body and soul, Such organizations, it Is elaimdd, have beon productive of innien good elsewhere, =~ Over 400 molders and other workers in iron employed at various shops in Newark, N.J., struck work last Saturday because of the refusal of the employers to grant them half-holidays on’ Saturdays without a corre sponding reduction In pay. Tho employers proclaim thelr purpose to stand firm, and hove sent for men to New York and other polnts to take tho places of tho strikers, Mf. BnooKs! the American Consul at Queenstown, Ircland, has returned to his. post from a visit to Ieury O'Mahoney, who” elniins to bo an American: citizen, and who {a confined in Limerick Jal} under the Coer- clon act, Mr. Brooks says there js no doubt that O'Mahoney was a bona jlde naturalized. citizen of the United Stutes, Last spring ho was clected-to the office of Poor Law Guar. dion, © munteclpal ofce created by the laws of Great Britain and Ireland,.and though Mr, Brooks does not say that this fact vitintes hia claim to Américan protection, he intimates that ‘it does, “It ts strahge that O’Mationey, Boyton, and other Land-Leaguers who have interfered «In Irish © polities, have tived In Ireland for years, and have acted as citizens of that country, dislike so much to meet the responalbilitles which they aye voluntarily assumed, It seems ridicus fous and unmanty in them to try to shirk such responsibilities now, by getting out of their troubles through third parties, ane Freveh Government jing assured the Spanish Government that. the citizens of Spain who have recently sustained losses throngh the Algerian Insurrection at Oran will bo redressed and compensated. Soveral thousand Spanish settlers are returning from ‘Algiers In consequences of outrages, and the Spantards on the Mediterranean coust Ato subscribing money to relléve tholr wants after Ianding. Turn value of-the exports from this coun- try duriug the twolve months cniing with May ,exceeded tho value of tho fiuports by $20, 77,800, During the twelve months end» Ing with May, 1880, the value of the exports excoeded the valuo of the Imports by $102,- 970,801, The excess In value of the’ bullion and coin Imports over the bullion and coin oxports-during tho ven ending® “with May, 1831, was, 903,008 5 ° Avronnex-Genenat, MacVRAat has, at the request of Secretary Kirkwood, given an oplmon in reference to the troubles between the Indlans of the, Choctaw and Chickasaw Natious and the white settlors in thelr tere titory, growing out.of different, Inturpreta- tions of the “Permit” lawg'of the Indian Nations, Mr, MacVengh holds ‘that, except Government omployés, their’ famllica and servants, employés of Internal:fmprovement: companies, travelers, temporary: ‘sojourners, holders. of pormits from ‘the Choctaw or Chickasaw ‘ authority, and white ‘persons such as teaobors, mechantea, and ekiliod age riculturiats employed by-the ‘aforesild, Ine dian Nations, are utruders, and should Jeave, the Indian Territory hnmediately, Tha Att tornoy-General also doclares. tha ‘ Bermis laws” valid. Secretary Kirkwood, acting onthe Attorney-Goneral’s opinion, has dl- tected the United States officials in the Ter ritory to see that the laws are enforced in accordance with tha Attorney-General’s tn- torprotation, ‘Tren were two shooting affairs In Phita- dolphin Sunday night, both. growing out of domestic troubles, Gvorge Hillyer shot and killed Walter Flut while tho latter was in: conversation with Hillyor's wife, to whom) ho had been forbidden to ‘speak, James Gourley found - Danlel’ Dougherty In bed with his (Gourtey's) wifo at il o'clock Sun- day night, and shotat him twice, inillcting serloug but not fatal wounds, Mrs, Solty. yas alsa wounded, ‘pang telat of the parties charged with the murder of Abdul Aziz was commenced yes. torday, Hourt Pasja, ono of the alleged con- aplrators,; stated that he ordered Abdul! Azz to bo jwurdered, “but that in doing 80 he acted at the command of 9 Conunis- sion consisting of “Mldhat, Ruchdi, and, Mahmoud ‘Pashas,Midhat Pasha denied the truth'‘of Hourl's atatement point blank,” and made along speech in which ho urged the sulelde theory, - A number of witnesses were examined who -corroborated Hourl's ag t rh js‘an outline of th arguinent‘ynada -by Bank of Montreal. one Before the Internal Rev- ‘enue Officers, The Ageregate ‘of Moneys to Be or it te! Do Taxed Is'About Seventy - Millions.’ : - Statement of ‘Mr. Bentley; the Out: going Commissioner of... Penslons, - . ee . . News from Capt.-Hoopor, of. tho Steamer Corwin, Exploring | the Arctic Regions. o's The Attorney-General Deoldes that Ine’ . truders Must Leave the Ins dian Territory. r— A Deadlock in. the Spanishe American Claims Com. © mission. : The Bondholders Number Less * 1: than 100,000. Out of. 50,« 000,000 People. — The Canvass for tho Next Speakership’ - "Now in. Fall Blast at. the « Capital. : gosh New Congressmen Being Towed Around the Departments by the. Benignant * Candidates, “ THE BACK TAXES. ARGUMENTS OF THE HANKS, Spectat Dispatch to Tha Chteaze Trine, | Wasuinaron, D. C., June27,—Mr, Boutelle, | i the attorney for the Bank of Montreal, made; protracted argument to-day before the Come! missioner of Internal Reveuue ‘and the: Solleltor of that Bureau, In the matter of the’ clalm‘of the Goyernment-upon that. bank. In this case there is uo. claim of false re- turns mate by the Government, and no claim for penalties, ‘The question is simply one of Jaw which has never been . passed -upon-by the courts of the Department. \Itwascialmed <° for the bank. that there never, had been any concealment; that the books had alway.been open ;-and. tlint; to this tine, no, demand for’: payment has been made": 1°" REVENUE‘AGENT RENNE : ‘elafmed that the andoy i the attorney for the bank:.'The fundamental error of the position,’ as’ first taken: by. the Government, Is that o bank is’ Mable for alt the money that it uses, in, some shape or other, for taxation, The bank answers that it Is only lable to tho taxation. which has, been Imposed. By the law of 1861 there wasa: tax oncirculation, on deposits and capital, but the law of 1870 repealed the tax, on surplus, The matter of circulation: performs no part In this bank, ‘The only question is whether" itis Mable for tax ow capital ‘and doposits. ake het has decided these two aunstlonss rat SURPLUS 18 NOT CAPITAL} second, that money borrowed by a, ‘bank for i ‘Mls temporary use is not capital. ‘The banks, i says, In.reply to the first claim, that th -braneh or agency at Chicago fs almply a pai of the Bank of Montreal, and that the mone; is Its own money, ‘and is not Hable to tax as4 depoalts nelthor is it borrowed money, as. tho bank does not borrow of itself; that w. deposit is money | which s bank recelves, and} which itis Moble to pay upon check, bu whatever {s furnished a besnels bank by me parent bank isnot tax able le, and that those amounts cannot be considered 0 deposit. THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION tg Whether ¢ tha money is capital. ‘Che reply { ot the bank to that Is that theterm “capital ’” means: fixed sum, permanent] ky be In the business of the — bank, as to ese sims they cannot el garded as capital, because» thoy bo, fone of the elements of fixity or pernlanency-s ‘They are borrowed of tho surplus money 0! the parent bank, which it sen Chicag for feiptar oats tv oan bl al ry f LOANS ON.CALL ON PRODUCE. —*! As showing that these banks could not bb:, - regurded a8 Independent banks, all thelr prolits are credited to the head ofiice, and all the moneys except the allotted capltal deposits are suns which at any tle the | panic: may legally withdraw, whereas’ cap! 1, Ag fixed and permanent quantity, and is Hable te orders asa trost fund, which surplus funds and temporary funds are not, Comniissioner Raum takes the case undor consideration will deelde this week... THE AGGREGATE ‘AMOUNT ‘of moneys returned by Nevenue-A, ney In his report on the Bank of 3 si 000, fh 1s representa the surplus‘cap= Ital and deposits, or whatever It may be entled, that has been in the bank since 1670, the year of Its organization, but this, o: course, Tepresents the inoney dupligated many thmes, ——-. PENSIONS, STATEMENT DY HX-COMMISSIONER BENTLEY, Special Dispate to ths Chicago Tribuns - Wasutnaton, D, C., June 97.—Mr. Bent Jey, Commlsstoncr of Pensions, surrendered his ofico to hls’. guccessor, Col. Dudley, this afternoon, Before leaving he made to your correspondent the following statements as to the condition in which he would leave the oftice, and na to the future of the Pausion Service: “The number 5 at es new pensions granted di ure e the year w! ut 25,000, exclusive of the War of 1813 tras This {gan lnorense of more than 8 per cent ovor nt Kine ° ontrenl is. +| the number granted last year, Aportion of - this increase ts nscounted for by the fact that we have handiod very Jarce number of new laine during the year, many of which were or sunehot wounds, or for nome disease of which there was a record, — ‘This element will enter more largely into the work of uext year, and ae : SonEINUy 0 iromaaas avai tho number of acuaa settlements uni “claims that are a ding pu not yet reached, for adjustment bxqd, After thas: the allus ‘k will agai in air ack into Its usual, ‘The settlements next yar ourhe’ to 7,008: ¢ on™ “tiles ready, or nesrl $0, for the Issueor cortifeutes "Sesund” th ue whl bee an increase of the examin oe tne! usd ne Oy that qelleved from the wor pon, ual ta nearly 50 per cent, vied t tiers: Ww wil bo 6 large Increase tu the number of special agents, which, under the Say os modified last winter, ough$ considers rit increase the number of cl elias th wil be settled, Theso advantanes, Vogethe the character of tho cial lore Fined to, ought to nearly if not quite ire i the ouinberof allowances, WE MAVH EXHAUSTED THK PRENUION APS PROPRLS-TION- this year, $10,303,906, 3, and pave Deeg comes -