Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1881, Page 2

: DIAMONDS, WATCHES, &e. Evenings : In order to afford ‘purchasers “of HOLI- ‘ DAY GIFTS a better i opportunity for mak- ing selections, we shall - keep our store open ; evenings during next ' week, commencing on Monday. : ‘OUR STOCK OF . DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, STERLING | SILVERWARE, FRENCH CLOCKS, ‘ BRONZES, | Has not its equat in the ; West, either in quan- tity, quality, or reason- ableness of prices. No trouble to show goods. No obligation to pur- chase incurred by an . examination, Every article marked in plain figures, from which there is no de- viation whatever. _ NMAtsoN & Go, : ' State and Monroe-sts., s 8 CHICAGO. — OS. 5 ‘ HOLIDAY Bu et ' ~ Boos ror Gets, Reminding our customers that our store is always over- : crowded on the last few days before Christmas, we would earnestly request them to , - and while our stock is still : full and complete. now many choice and,rare things which later it will be impossible to duplicate: JANSEN, IPCLURG & C0, +. 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Continue to offer the lergest stock and unbroken aasortment of Rare ‘make their selections at once |’ We have | gation of ‘the May Inws will bo supported by "| morial services. are held tn tho: House of r vent tsta ty ualait. receive a deputation on the subject, - signers in the world in | ton for tho moditication of te Clayton-Bul- Olt Mine Gem Diamonds to’ be found Inany establisinnent in the elty. In proof of which they beg to sny that experts and persons contemplating purchase. will be cheerfully shown through for pur- poses of comparison. —, ‘Their stock consists of finely- matched puirs for Ear-rings, care- fitlly-selected Stones for Solitaire Hinger-ringa and ‘Studs. | Correct and elegant designs in Lace Pins, Stars and Crescents, Lockets,- Crosses, Bracelets, and Senart- Pins, Making Fine Diamonds thetr spe- elaity, and a great’ many of their goods having been purchased by.cx= perts at prices of one year ago, thus saving at least 26 percent over the present prices, they are In a posi-+ tion to offer their customers the Denelit of advantages sot enjoyed by any other house. . S. Hyman & Co., State and Madison-sts. Telegraphic and Mail Orders from the country will receive prompt and caretul attention. * VIENNA LEATHER GOODS. VIENNA Leather Goods COBB'S LIBRARY 20 WASHINGTON-AT. NEWS IN BRIEE. —Prince Bismarck Is suffering from in- flammation of the veins. ove -—Gon. Longstrect will probably succeed Judge Hunt as Seeretary of the Navy. —~A fire at Custer City, near Bradford, Pa., déstroyed $50,000 worth of property yes- terdayi 5 . —G. Hofhelmer & Son, wholesale cloth- ters of Norfotk, Va., have falled. Ltabilittes, $75,000. ae —Fair weather, southerly veering to westerly winds, and sfationary or lower tempernture for tlis region today. . * —<Collector Robertson, ‘of Now ‘York, had an interview with President Arthur yesterday. Ex-Senator Boutwell also called. —Jaines Galenting, a flouring-mill owner. of Bourbon, nearPlymouth, Ind, was caaght in the shafting of his mill yesterday and In- stautly killed, . . —A boat containing fourteen persons left Galway Thursday for the Islands uf Arran, When about midway on, the passage a storm frose and al! hands were wrecked, —The total vatues of exports of domes- tie provisions for the eleven months ending Noy. 80 were $210,918,492, as compared with $257,231,045 for ‘tho corresponding: eleven months of last yoar. 2 —Jnmes J. Payne, of Carolina County, Maryland, quarreled with lis tenant, John Binnch, aboyt rent. The quarrel ended tn Payne's fatally shooting Blanch, Payne him- self was serlously hurt. . —-The Gernumia, Ultramontano organ, states that the motion Introduced by Windt- Horst In tha German Reichstag for the abro- tho Centro, Aluatians, and Piles. —Sueretary Blaine has beon. invited by the Garflelt Memorial Coninittes to duliver. the chief oration when the Presidential me- Representatives soon after New Year's, ——It Ig rumored that Seoretary unt will soon retire from the Cabinet, and that he will be appolnted to succeed: Judge Bancroft Davison the Court of Olaims, ‘Itls succes sor, It Ja sald, has not yet been determinad on,, ~——Spenker {Kelfer yesterday announced tho following-as the, committee on the ex- penses attending the -ilness and burial of President Garfield: Taylor, Pound, Cox, Lefevre, Belford, Binckburn, Page, Springer, O'Neill, and Shelloy, x ie —John Butts, Jolin Connor, and ‘fhomnas J, MeKey have been arrested In Poweshiek County,.Lowa, on the charge of couiterfelt- ing. ‘They have confessed their guilt, De- Avctive Vernillya, of Keokuk, is entitled to erudit for making the nrrosts. ‘ —It ls probable that the President wilt f00n appolnt a snecessor to Postmaster-Gon- eral dames, Rumor has it thas Mr, Flay, of St. Louta, will bo the, Iucky mun, but there. ‘are those among the knowing ones Who say that another man will be chosen, —~Tho ofliceys af twanty-ane telegraph and cable compantes have meniarialized tho Beltish Government. ta place “submarina enbles under the protection of International Jaw. It fs probable that Lord Granville will ——Secratary Kirkwood, Ina lotter to tha Depastinant of Justice, takes very. strong &raunds against the yalldity of the Maxwell land-grant of Naw Moxico, denouncing ‘it as fraudulent. He rellects sayoraly nn‘ the olllcials concerned In axtend|ng the Mitta pf the grant, and fayara the recognition of the bottlers? cinina, os -——The London Standard ¢Tary organ) seems to'thlnk Secratary ‘ Ujaing's ‘augges- wer ‘Treaty preposterous, and. the Dally News (Gladstontan organ) thinks that Brit aln can neyer cansent to the moditications, and Is inellned to bolleve that the Amorlcan people do not domand thon}. * —Col. Strachan, of the -Njnth Massa- chusetts Regiment saya that after a most soarching Investigation Into the charges of mfecunduct made against hig segiment during the visit to Virginia in’ connection with the Yorktown colebration, he fluds that twenty-one menonly wore gullty of improper conduct, and that this tmnroper conduct cons sistad pf slinple Intoxlention, disobedience of orders, and unsuldierly and yugentlemanly conduct committed under tho {nfluerice of Hquor, Tho other charges referred to by the board of investization appointed by Gov. Lon, Col. Strachan says he has been inablo to fad any proofs of; on the contrary, tho ofiicers of the regiment positively assert that these charges are baseless, ——The Baltimore & Ollo Rallroad Com- pany, whieh fs going Inrgely tito the tele graph business, made application Inst even- Ing to the Council for permission to string additional wires on the poles qlready in, use, nid to erect other poles on which to place wires to connect with branch offices, to be located in varlous parts of tha ity, -—Mr. Robinson, of Brooklyn, evidently intends that fie shall bo heard from on tho question of the imprisonment of Aincrican eltizens of Irish Uirth tn Lretand. Le tried to bring up tho question In the [louse of Representatives yestorday, but was called to arder by the Speaker. Ho gave notice, how- eyor, that lie would be heard from on the saine subject ngain, As was anticipntet, Benjamin Harris Brewster, of Phitadejphin, has beon nonil- mited for Attorney-Ganural ‘of the United States. The nomination will bo confirmed tomorrow probably, ‘The appointment Is very favorably regarded, The choice 13 looked vit ny excullent, The star-route ring- sters do not look very favorably on the ap- pointment, however. 5 —Ilatel, of Missouri, introduced a bit in the Iouso yesterday to permit planters to Bell tobneco of thelr own production without payment of flconsa or tax,-to ‘the amount of twentyHtive pounds atintially, Hateh’s blltis that which is known as the Farmers’ bill, The billewas referred to the Ways and Menns Committee, though Mr. Hatch wished It re- ferred to the Committee on Agriculture, ——Tho convention of General ‘Passongor and Ticket Agents which assumbled In Chi- engo last, Thursday finished. Its Inbors yes- terday and adjourned sine dic. The subject under consideration was the proposed aboll- tion of the systemn of atlowlng commisslons tongents upon the sale of railroad tickets, and the convention adopted. an agreement which conteniplates puttlyg an end to the practice, ‘ -—Onco more Cannon, the Mormon, has reecived n sotbuck In lls attempt.to get Into Congress, As a result of n rehearing, of tho case, Chicf-Justice Hunter, of the Utah Su- preme Court, yesterday refused to modify or | set aside the order: previously made holding as fraudulent and vold the certifeate of nat- urailzation obtained by Cannon, and In effect, once more declaring him to bo an ailen and not entitled to a seat in Congress. Speaker Kelfer was given a compll- niontary recoption at the Musonic Temple in Washington last night under: the auspices of the Ohio Republican Association. Judge ) Lawrence delivered the address of welcome, which was vory Inrgely tnetured with Ohto- ism. Speaker Kelfer responded approprinte- ly. Speeches were also modo by ox-Sperker Randall, Senators Logan, Pendleton, and Sherwan, Representatives Orth, Dunnell, Hiscock, Robeson, Reed, nd Gov, Foster, - s———Senator Voorhees read a somewhat eloquent and torciblo speech in the Senate yesterday condemning the recommendation of Secretary Folger as to’ the limitation of silver coinage. ‘He sharply criticised Secte- tary Sherman’s financial policy, and inti- mated rather broadly that President Arthur and Secretary Folger were mere’ agents of the National banks. Ue defended the grean-. buck theories of a few yearg ago, and clalined. that they had triumphed; He was very ge- vere on monopolies, corporations, ete. ——Represontatives of the thirteen States called yesterday introduced 867 bills, Moro will follow. [tmnay.console our readors to: know that few, If any, of tho bills wilt pass, Among thosa Introduced were the following: By Mr. Townsend, of Ohio,‘ to appropriate $50,000 for the ralief of the widow of Preal- dent Garfleld; Mr, Neal, of Ohiy, to Mheorpo- rate the Garfield Momorfal Hospital Society; by Miller, providing for the discharge in bankruptcy of one or more of the Innocent members of a partnership when snother partner has,been guilty of some ilexal act; by Shallenborger, to pravent persons living In bigamy from holdlog any oftice of trust or emolument in the United States Territories, also regulating marriage Jn the Tereltories, ——Tho eet incident of the Guiteau trial yesterday wis the examination of bly former wite asa witness, Sho testided In very plain innguage that she never thought the assasin was Insane, For a wonder Gulteau kept quiet while she was giving her testimony, which was probably owing to tha. fact’ that ier present husband stood by hier while sha ‘was testifying. . Guitenu-is considorablp of a rufilan, butinuch more of a coward, [lo made up, howeyer, for his abstention from abuse of hls wife py wholesale abuso of Col. Corkhilt and Gen, Reynglds, .On the whole, however, he beayed moderately ‘well yeas terday. ‘Judge Folger, who decupted s seat’ In the court-room, !sunderstood to hayesald that the testimony given yesterday Is of {t- self suMetent to hang Gulteau, ee. —A St. Paul dispatch, given in another column, contains some Interesting fgets cone cerning an extensive and peculiar land swine dle beipg: perpetrated: 1) Dakota, just south of the Manitoba line, by parties res|ding in Emerson, Manitoba, , {t appagra that these. Canadians hays by means of misrepresenta: tion enteréd “lunds in: Dakota fre cultivating these; lands,” » and’? at the same tina retalning thelr residence and ‘alleriancs as. subjects ‘of . Queen Viotoria. In nearly every case there has been tiled no valid declaration of Intention to bycome citizeng of the United States, and of cotirse there fs no sueh intention. ‘The bust- ness and soolal standing of some of ‘the pare tles engaged Jn this nefarjous business is such ns to create surprigy that they should engaxe in it, Keing citizens of gnother country, thoy are beyond the. Jurtsdiction’ of the United States courts, but'sojnea way will doubtless bo found to wrest from them the title and posadssion of the lands thus wrong: fully obtulned, . Bits Seb. —lreland a in @ ferment, Tho Land- Loaguers seam to be unsubdued, United dretand, the Land-League organ, has been suppressed Ii Dubtly and Cork‘and other parts of Ireland, but It threatens ta come to Jife tu London, and, f£suppreased in London, the owners say Jt will bp published from carrespondent sald the circulation of the da per was 123,000 weekly. ‘The recent course of the Government mugt have’. dqubled tho olrculstion of the paper, The Hart ‘of Dunravey, who has posed “ good? Inndlord’ ty thls country and-In Europe, denies the report that ha has roducud” hie rents qne-third, Jie says that he fas -ace capted tworlhirds of the runts'gt his ten- autry, ponding the revglugtion af the farins of his estate, “This Is a itd way of denying that he. jing been rack-ronting his twnantry for saverul yoars past, ‘he Irish: Ianitlords liuve shown themselves to be Irish—-ghoy have quarreled among themuap}yes. Two myegtings will be hold, one on the dd of Jany- ary, whan toy Duke of Abercorn, at ane tine Lord-Lleutenant of Ireland, will preside, and the ather‘on the 24 of December, when the Karl at Qesart will preside, Mr, Biggar hay written o letter'to one of the ‘Irish “papers objecting to the Queen opentig the proposed. -Irlah Jndustrial ¥xhigition, and urging that Athor Davitt or Parnell ahould open It. and” Parla. Some tine ago the Now York Herald” SILVER. Voorhees’ Answer to the Recommendations of . Folger: A Speech Delivered from Manuscript in the - : Senate. i Shall the People Trust Themsslves ‘to the Mercies of the Bankers? Shall Legalized Cruelty and Pub- lic Usury Bo Increased Among Us? Have Bankers ‘Byer Shown Mercy, Unselfishness, or Genuine Liberality? ‘These Are Senator Voorhees’ Questions, and He Says “No!” to All «>, Of Them. F's Hoe Believes the Silver Dollar Cured ..Us of the Terrible Panio -. of 1873; And if the Goldbugs Contd Strangle Sil- ver Currency, They Would Bring the Hard Times Backs: Tho Speech Was Intended for Popular Read- ing, but the Senators Also Liste ened to It, ° fe VooRrunggS, M18 SPEECH IN THE SENATE, * Special Lisvatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasutratom, D.C., Loc. 10.—No suggestion “Of the Sccretary of tho Treasury: in his recent raport cauaed! moro opposition than that in relo- Uon to, tho discuntinuanco of tho colnage of tha silver dollar, and tha withdrawal of tha allver cortificates, When tho roport was read this sug> gestion awoke outspuken opposition. It wasnot anticipated, however, that furmal notice would be so speedily taken of it ua ‘wes dono taduy. Senntor Voorhees, a8 soon as the report was road, in private and by Intimation in public .oxpressed hig total disaent from the recommendations of Mr, Folger. Heo deolded that the sconor the recommenda tons wore met -with a protest tho better {t would be. Hy therefore prepared with a good dent of care a speech which ho rend to the sen- ate today, Allowing whut Js gcttiuy.to bo av ‘almost invariable custom of Senutors, bo HEAD Hs SPRECIL FNOM MANUSCRIPT, \ and In tloing Bo, n goud deal ut tho Ore and ve- bemence which churictorizos his public specehes* waa lost, Voorhees’ was tess of an argumont than 4 statomont of opiuion, Ho made the broad assertion, Iu starting, that tho pafic of 167} was,c. us d more by tho demonetization of siver than by ony other. one agency, He pletured with a good deal of - grapble word-palnting the five yeara of business depression and-its continuing evils through whilob tho country had pussod subsequent to 1873, He thou made.anothor assertion, ‘with. all, tho foree of convictiog,- that tno tide of business prosperity begun in 1878, when Congress remon- - utlzed silver, and, according to his fdea, nearly all the prosperity that is now enjoyed is the re- sult of thatuct, He regarded Hayes’ veto 08 . A PUNY PROTEST, entirely In accord with the other acta of an Rx- ecutive whom Voorhees regurded as extremely werk. Ho sald that by an overwholming vote of tho House thia voto was blown away as by a breath, As the panjo wag cayred by domonctl- zation and overcome by remonetizution fa his- opinion, Voorbees regurded the auggcqtion of the Secretary of the Trensury us Ill-advised and criminal, From this point an the speech which tho Senator had ao carefully prepared read as thoygh it were prepared for gonoral reading more than for the cars of tbe Senators, In fact, Voorhegs anid that the farmers und laborers who should read these remarks could not fall to be Impressed’ by certuln suggestions which be mace. ‘These suggestions were in the naturo uf strong is BXPRESSIONS OF DISAPPROVAL at tho grasping efforts which, in his opinion, obarneterjzed the Natlonul bunks, We very pininly tatimaced, if he did not directly assert, that Prealdeut Arthur and’ his Secretary of tho Trensuyy: were the merest nyents of the Nay onal banks, Voorheca bad-o great deal tu say about ysurious money-lendgra and ubvut tho grip which tho money-power was getting upon the country, upon Iubor, jhe manufucturing in- “erests,und tho farmers, In hiv opinion, auch recommondntions as thoso of the Secrptury of the Treusury and those mude by the President would still further increngo this muney-power, and It ‘was che duty of Copgresa tu atund bo- tween those suulless corporaduns, us he re- garded thom, and tha common people, Thus, in Drlof, che nature of Voornees’ remarks may ho outlined, Tho spaéch was LUstenod to very closely by + i ae PAM AND JONES; OF NEVADA, tho latter of whom was In tho chamber for tho Qrst time toduy, What Voorhees had to guy ubout the trluniph of the Ureanback {dea caused 2 little air of Interoat,for'he jnglsted that the Gropnbackers hod demonstrated the gorruciness of their views, aid that those who were opposed to the Greenbuok (dea must now admit they had been wrong.* His argument In favor of this sygtain was. that, {o 1478, shore wera botweon $200, 000,000 and $400,0W0,000 of wrewnbuuks Ia cire culation, and that totuy thoro-was about tho sumo amount, ‘This amount hns been noither Increased nor ditniniehod during the puat tour yeura, since allyor was remonctized, SENATOR BUERMAN Ustened very closely to. Yoorhees’ speceh, many parte of which referred to him aud to his polley while Secretary of the Treasury, Vourhecs euld, with some sarcasm of tone, that wheber the prusperity of the cauntry was dno to Bhur- mun or to g bountifyl Providence was d quae on which he would leave to the country ty dus cide. Yourkoes ‘bud: introducpd p seaolution Practically statmg tho recommendations of the Secrotury of tho: ‘Treasyry were bud, and this resolution waa yimply 8 pee fo hang his speech Upon. Jt te not known that the diacusslon of hla matter will go any -fyrthar just now in tho .Sunute. “It {6 ‘quite likely, howaver, that a bill may be Introduced either io thy Hon- Ato or House to carry guy the sugepstions of the Becrutary of the Trovaury, If it is introduced, it ‘Will bo tikoly to causa a. deduto In tho Hausa, Tho Pest fippregyivo now seying fo bo that tho Feoommendation of the Sporetary of the Treass wry will fal. : bene eo TUK FOLLOWING, MORE IN. DRTAIL, aro the points made by Mr, Voorbecs on the silver quesuons: Hexinning witb the navsnke of, the Hot of 1873 domonotizing sllyor, be spoke of, the indignation It drow oyt fram the peuple, and- Byld that tho act of Bye remunotiaing silver wag, in obedience to the volca of tha Americuh poo- pla~a’ victory = gajngd = by = the tndys- trious ‘classes through * tugir, representus tiyes Ip Congress oyor tha bondholdiny, lazy droaes why constituth the moncy power, Passing bagtily aver the yoyo of she Dili, remouutiging ailvay by Pregidout Hoyos, and {t4 ayorriding by Congreas, he auld: é r five yours during aii nol Thy whigh olive; exist in. tha country marked 8 petiod of Unyne, cial dypreasion, wreck, and ation. Honest dubteé umoynting to $4,000,000 were wipyd out by cuforcod bankruptey, somes were bruken vy and busloces wrecked by an CNipayestug Hoanciy! ey, The uot Homonettsie wllver wie tho fo rtaut, potent suctur in thle overthrow of busigges enterprisas, It was ane of & sericea of Acts Vf (ugislation intended fur THE PENKFIT OF THR BONDHOLDERS and shaving Shylock mortguyers. It cur down the amquns of money ta thy byuds pf the people THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER I7, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES ao na ta make the enpltal of tho bonuholdera Moro jniliontinl In tha affaire’of tho country, ‘Tho olroulating of eliver stood In the way of this, and {t was as hateful to the money pawor ou tho algnt of our tiret parents’ bappinors waa to tho arch enoiny of tankind. Siiver monvy fell bos quae it wad obnoxious tothia power, Tut it has been restored to cireulation, aod | stand here asking what casualty it Urourht nbout, what erlme it has wrought, (hat calls for this Intost dead{y neanult upon it. Tt was the fegisin« Uon of the Forty-ftb Congress that broky tho Spoil of. urnetal prostralion and quickened Into Ue the enterprise of the country, The act re- storing tho comnge of sliver was the potent {ctor tn jthe restoration ‘of the enterprises of the country. Yea Coining to ‘ * ANOTHER WRANOI OF THR AUNJECT, Benator Voorhees alluded to the power of tho Secretary of ‘Trensury to curtall the currends, and and it was tho capriclons exorcise of this vast and dangerous powor ‘by diferent Secre- tarles of tho Treasury, ‘followed by tha demane- tization of silvor, that brought nbout tho Punto of 1873, ‘The idea of business stability or prosperity under gion n system was the bight of folly, sufd Mr. Voorhecs. Of tho silver cer Ulentes, he ent that overy dollar of allver cer tifcates in efroulation had 1 allver doliae bebind it, Such a ourreney was as engerly sought 18 any other kind of money, Of tho coat of tho sil- ver monuy, ho. said allver camo from mines by private enterprise, pald tho Government for its coinugo, and almost $100,000,000 of It had been added to the currency without cost to the poo- ple. “And yet," sald the Senntor, ‘it ts con- corfning thissute, cheap, atuble currency that the Sceretury makes - the recommendations con- talned jn his message. Quoting fran TNE SECRETAUY'S RECOMMENDATIONS, herald: In my tnind this fe a oriminnl assault upon tho fnnttotul stability and business Intorost of the country, Ryen the bare proposition to contract tho currency would at thia timo create a puule but for the faith of the peupic that Con. gress Is wixer than tho executive deprrtinentsof tog Government, und that it will refuse its, in- dorgcmunt to such a proposition. There fs dot A CIMME AGAINST THR INTERESTS, OF -iU- ey fo grent aa tho destruction by act of the Government of Its ourreney In the hands of tho people, Bur the Seeretury “does not stop with’ the recommendation to retire" $00,0K,000 of sliver * cortitivates, {to uskod for tho reponl of gho Coluaye law of 1878, and wants Congress t yive thu power [1 his bands to coln what hy thfWRs necessary. | It fs very obvious that this recommendation ts in- tunded to drive silver entirely out of elreuiation, ‘This 1a shown by tho Sccrotary's itttempt 10 prove that aitver ig not ficiroulation. “Report BLOWS 34,000,000 of coin and $60,000,000 of certitl- eatesaro in circulation, Whocan Justify this assault on $100,00,000 af enterenoy posueaied of the ene ciroultury power as gold? Such w movement must baye powerful Inspiration from: sume quarter. THE SPUEROH, .- FROM THE © RECORD.” Wastrnatox, 1. C., Dee, 16.—In ‘the Senate Mr. Voorhees’ resolution, referring to tho Finance Cominittéa parte of the President's mes suge reluting to a repent of tho Inwa authorizing silver ‘coinnxo and tho fasue of silvor certifi- ontes, was tuken up and that Senator addressed the Senate. He referred to tho fnanalul dis- tress of the country duriug five yoars prior to 3878 ana following the nebdemonetizing silver, aud sald that, while this distress was not dua to that [egislution the act wag a potent factor in the general suhbumo for the contraction of monoy and tho consequent ovortnrow of busincys pruperty, It was ono of several kindred meas- tres designed to the samo evil, and looking to the benaflt of the money-londing usurers on- raged in muking money scarce and deur, the rato of Inturost blah, Wages low, and tho times hard for all,but bond and mortgage holders, ‘The Jaw of: tho Demveratic Congress, in 1878, restoring tho silver olrvulntion by means of cortiticates and coin, - broke the nigbtmare spell of Onancial prostration’ and quickened the vitality of every business one turprise. Itsave positive assurance of a mucs-" needed gradunt Incrense of our’ clreujuting: medium. Eyerybody gould then know how tnuch was coming, nnd ‘at what rate, und could Prepare for businesa accordingly. None of THE VEUEMENT PROGNOSTICATIONS OF EVIL. thon inate against the use uf allver mono had beon verliied. Tha cupricious exorcise by tho different Becrntarics of the Troasury of the vast and dungerous power of contracting tho currency gud tightenmy the moncy market nt tho In- stance of the Nalonal banks, whu would bavo driven out the efroulniion of all kinds of monoy but their own, int order that thoy might have the whote tnanolal Held, und all its protity,.to shom= selves, togethor with tho demooetization of silver, more thun all other causes combined created and continued the paniv.of 18%, Tho net of Mny 31, 1878, -prohivited.. greenbaok monoy from being touched, and the Treasury wns thercpy told to lot the zrecatmek clroulution alone at the amount thon outstanding. The an: awer to the cry that the greepbacic fanee was a fallure is ulven in the fact that the amounta of eroenbacks In clreulauon in 1878 and 188l rd- apectively are exactiy tho same, .That cause had nchioved 4 grent and Important victory, for the greenback currency rematied@h steadfast, undevinting, and honored ong. Bealdes the act of avcuriuy the yroenback from further inolesta- tion, a subsequent stop making It recoivuble tor import dutios raise! it toa par with gold, und THERE IT HAS REMAINED EVER SINCE. Ry those measures tho currency hae been reas, wonably expanded by the yse of Allver, aud our entire clroulation rendered stablp wod ugiforin Jn vatue, and to this was due tho business pros- perity of the country. If had beeu accomplished against the avowed hostility and the active oners gy ofa Ropubitean Administration: Under tho act of Fob, 28, 1873, about $02,000,000 uf Jogal-tendor silver inoney bas been coined, and allvor cer tlontga td tho amount uf $04,003,800, Lasnd, dojlur for dullar, on thas amount of coin now in tho Treasury, und pledyed for their redemption. - |. Those certiicates are in the pockots’ of. tho Pouple, performing a)! the offices of money In dully huginess, é Voorhues characterized: the secorstion dation of the Secretary of the ‘Troasury for. repepl of the authority foy silver Certificates, and for their curly..retiremont, a wanton and, to his tnind, criminul ussault upon the financial stu- bility: ang business proaperity of tho whole country. ‘ , JT WAS DELIBERATELY PROPOSED to retire more than sixty-aix millions of money and destroy It, and the consequence of thiscould ‘be imagined. The bare pruposiviog to cuntragt Gnd disturbythe currenoy at this time would opepte disorder ang panic. But Congrese ts wiser than the Executive Department, and ‘will pay no heed to thie recoipmendation, « In agkiog Quthority aver the giver colnaye and disoretion to guin much or iittip. or hong at all, tho secre: tary’s obvious objout Isto drive aiiver entirely: out of olrculation, The Sccretury complaina that $60,000,000 of coin is fit the vaults and will Hot clroulate, although great porta have beon smadoto thut end, aud yot ho also makes sho statement that $64,000,000 of par paper money bneed on tlils vory coln {4 In circulation In every Btate in U Union, Tha Aeoretnry's roport shows aallvor clraulntion Ip-ronnd numbers of $10H1, 000,000 $60,000,000 nn certineatop, 41,000,000 In colu. What, then, can be thought, of hig candor aud Intolligance in trying to leave tho Impresstun that aliver manoy Is me A DUUO AND A FAILURE, and that the people don't want'it? ‘This assault Upon $100,QH,0W of eurfency on & apocla busld will be tet by the poyntry and fle authura .btebaly rebuked. , The squrog of the, Inspiru- ton for it is” apparently’ the Beeretary, ‘who, 44 tha mouthplyce of the banks and ta. guiet the -fonr of the publig, mind of destructive nancial cantraotion, saya“tn hts ropurt: " Those need be no. apprahension of a too limited papor clrquiation, The Nutional bunks ara roudy’to issue thelr notes in-such quantity-as the laws of trade dgiqand; and uy security therefor the Governiient will hold an oquiyaleat in (tq awn bonds! With aupsemo, and bo .(Voorhers) might FAY Ingolont. com- : placenoy, thu entire control ‘of the supply and elrgnlutien of the currency jg banded over, inn Tow wordy, to the guru gr puongyed coyperations whose tondérest wurctos aro Sr eae te LEGALIZED CUUELTY AND. MULTIVEIED. sae ‘ VAUNTRS: F The country'ia to depart dn’ the goncrosity of- tho banks for its supply vf money. Mon nelthar analitigd by Knowledge, yudolsivhbesa,nor breadth ‘of views to pute upon the wanta of fabor.and of ‘aotivg business aro averayo National bunkers. ‘Pho banka tesira to destroy sliver aud grown. bucks, 60 that thelr fabuloug proijts tray ho ex- +] tended over tho entire currevoy of the country, AU Hverage of TOF nog loss than $17,000,000 pay year {h reuelyed by she banks In Interest on Noy= ernment bonda, pledged for ofroulations and for elghtcen years thle bus aggregated over $300, O0u,0uu, which the people have had tq poy far the *blogalnys of bank mopoy. Add tothis tho protity of the banks op sholr clreulation and depnalta, Nad jhey payg received trom the pogkyss of the peuple since their creation enough gains to pay Of at longs fwortbinds of the Napopy! debt; and all thiy gupniy $oF our privitege af Tegelvitur through their hands a little more than one-third of our currency, of no better quality than uiber currencies for whose creuintion there was no fax, Was thla such a showlng as would induco Congeesa to avandon the wholo Quanvinl quos- tion to the banks? cetyl WHY WILL THEY NOT LEAN WISDOM, and forbear thelr greedy and repulsive demands? Wo have heanl, hore and elaawhere, many enre nest ndmonitions aginst Hnanclal Iegislutton. Who havo bern the agitators? ‘Those who nuke now, avneletous, and nrrogant demands at cach session of Congress, or those who ‘stand here to resist encronchmont nnd: oppression upon the rights and Inbor of the peopto? : Mr, Voorheca charged that overy tnunclat agitation from March,,187, changing tho contract under which bonds wore to bo pail to the prosent hour have been forced tyion Congress by an inantinte, re- lontless demand hy tho banks und owners of bonds fort unrienteons privileges and .powars, Pople ware worry and alarmed nt thoir poralstent nl tatlon of tho business of the country to promote their own seltlan onds, aud. If thoy peralsted, bo know it wus only a qucatten of time when tho peopl woutd turn and render them powerless. Ho would commend tho history of tho downfall of tho Unitod States Bank hulf a contury ago to the present nssoctated banka and thoir oilicint friends tn high places, fte then quoted from the Poilndulphin onpers of that dny, descriptive of the popular indignation atteutling the closing of that inatitution. The resolution was ngreed to, ee DISGRACED MILITIAMEN. Soveral Membors of tho Mnssachusctts Discuarsed, and tho ation Pinced on Probas ‘Svectat Dispaten to ‘The Chieaco Tribune Boston, Mass., Dec. 16.—The result of the oft clal investigation into the charge ngalust the Ninth Itegiment by roaidents of Richmond and somu other Southern places is no order by tho Governor diacharging twenty men for {ntoxtea- tlony taking mules from carts, and similar frisky fete, The regiinent [s aleo placed on probation until June, and meanwhile it cannot appear, as fn whole or in part, in uniform, This attempt to settle all sectional fecling on tho part of tho State authorities ig not very stcecssful, Tho south will probably be pacified; but the Irish citizens nro’ deeply * incensed at tho disgrace of tho regiment on necount of the frolics of a fow of the inembers, Tu his report. to tho. Cormmandor-in-Chicf, Col. Stragbiin, -after. narhing: the offenders brought forward in the’ souren ug Investigacion of elght- een dny's, saya: should not do justice to tho reghnont ICT did not say, after the most thor- ough investigation, Iam unable to substantiate romp of the charges referred to-by the Honrd of Investigation appointed to go to Richmond, It must .be, remembered that all the ovi+ dence. wis tiken. In Richmond; that no tostiinony- was heard In rebuttal; that the report was made in Now York and forarded to headqtarters In Roston without Any bearing on tho part of the regiment. Jt js not surprising, therefore, that. the Reginontal Board of Inquiry has been uniblo to learn that certain alleged offenses, auch us taking cheap Jewelry, inating young white glels, striking uw horae and currluge which’ was we driven through tho streots of Richmond, ant othor imls- denennors, have any foundation in fact. On the contrary, notan alllcer nor enlisted man of tho regimone‘eltbor saw or heard anything of the ud, and no such article or articles of Jewelry ng were reported to havo been tken were seen with uny man or \men of the command. The repurt of Improper? conduct at Libhie Prison is denied by.overy oticer und nan who visited tbe prison, and sonie of the ofiders tostitied that the Iueper.of the prison, after all the .inen hud lott the buitding, Informed them that everything was satisfactory, and. that he ‘ad no complaint to muke, FE duve spared na olfort to search this mutter to tho.bottam. 1 huvo. shielied no man. Lain sullcitous for tho honor- of tho regiingnt and * the Btate. As to the ‘former, the Bonrd ‘of Investigation aforesolt cartitics tu its oud conduct us itn organization and its excellence in mibtary discipline, and thnids that only two Indl- vidual men when ontof the rauks Were gusty of mixeonduet; and yet.for tho many outri- gvous chirges sent brodeast over tua country und reported as false by-thy euld beard thelr ebmnand bus no redrest LANDLORD AND TENANT, Ny : A Fatal Affray tn. Maryland, in Whieh the Tenant Was Killed, - * Epéetal Diaswatch to The OMeuw ‘Trihun:. Tartrmonn, Md, Deo.44.—Particulars reached hero tonlght of n-tersible and fatal atfray whicn occurred Wednesday near Dover Bridue, In Car- oline County, Muryland. [1 appears that James L. Payne and John Blancho, two well-known farmers of the above county, were landlord and .tennnt respectively. Blanche, if 1s stated, falled to.pny bia rant when duo. Payno fssucd 2 dis traiut warrant fof tha araountiet which Blunobo heeame ynritged. ‘odnesduy the tvo men pis mi our eed, aid Ulunche truck bia Junde Jord ovr the bynd with’ a: atlck. aayne, Naalis: wrested tho hunvs stick from Bunche and struck bim gover! heavy blows on the skull, in- filetiug Mal wounds. "Blanche deg a short tine ufterward, und Payne was remuved to h home unconscious trom tha Injuries be bid ri colved during the tight, Both men wero abut OO yours uf nye. At list aecounta Payng bad not sel Ween stad . 2 8 LAND FRAUDS. : ee ati Progress ln tho Trial of Lindsny at tous * i “henvijle., O. : * STEVBRNYVISLE, 0., Dec, 16.—Tho trial of Lind: Any, one of the alteged conspirators in the Mig sourl land-fraud oases, progrosscs ‘slowly, .The principal effort s: ‘fur of the prosecution his beon to Wentify papers, syoh ‘as doeds, notes, letters, ete. The principal witaeas for the Ideny tiflcution of theso pupera is the Notary who touk the acknowledgment, go called, ot the forged deeds by writing all tho sluantures bimsolf,.and then allixed the acul uf bly office. | ‘This witness bus ning Jud ovments Byulnwe Bim in Cho conrts: of Bt. Louis, -elght for turgery and are for perjury. His oxamination bug bear todlans, bat wid devotoped the fact that, while Lindsnydid not write tho, douds, which werg qent ta this city, thes were written ‘at hid iustance und dietuton, There Ia. a urent stuvk of papyre for identitica- ton, aud the trial promises to be a long one, Tho defense hayg beon.trying 10 impench the admitted character of the Prinetpal witness for the State, 43, upon his own admission, to besuch that he canuot be belleved, Whether they will aucceed oF fut {3 to be'determined, a _ A CLERK'S TRICK, He Worked in 8 Pos}-Oflce and Governs mont Oficers Now H4vg sign in Cuss tody. ve <2 Svectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Prirrenuns, Pa. Deo. 10.—Dayjd M. Keliter, clerk Ii the Maunt Pleagant Post-Oillica, was ure rested today by Inspeejar’ Camp, of the Post- Oltive Dopurtment, Keister aent out cirowlurs duted Altqany from the Mount Plyasant officd, Corpyapandents dirceted bls Igtters ta Altoona, but tha Rostmagter ut tho latter point yas dl- rected by mall to. forward all: muil matter ad: Urpssed tu W, KK. Tallof, his asaumod amo, ta Luurotvilty, Pa, and when tha innil runoned Mount Pleasunt ho tnturcepted it, . He ulso di- reotud ie Luurelvjiio Postinuster to send all of Tutlor’s letters tp ce. and thus be bud two ‘ebances ta intergept all letters to Tailor, There eireulars advertiaud bloyelvs, for #2 oacb, and Kelstor pocketed all tha mdney. ryovived but never sh.pped ust hwy. The priguner i498 yegrd of ago und holongy toa gyud faully, * 5 Sccamunececanenndiananal PROHIBITION RUN MAD. “Phe Cuieqya Tribuue! Publicly Dee nounced by Goy, St. John, o1 Kansas, ave Whirky Organ - fe ‘Special Digpatch ta The Chicago Tribune, Ougita, Neb, Deo, thoy. st. ony, of Kane gn, uddrosged n prohibition meuting hero tar night, iy the course of which heYonuunced Tha - CHLCAGQ TRIBUNE 48 B Wwhieky Oran, Whe bl willfully mleroprosented the reault of probibi- ton Jn Ita colusnug, and banjo ohgracter.zed the Onwhe Herald ne a.smatt whisity wheot, John ft. Finch,.tue furpmont pramation uyltator OF thiy Btute, who spoxe with 8t. Jobn at Plutismouty Iuat ight, guve thy. oclty editor of the. Pintta. youth Journal a pumipoding thle morning for -Pypllebing rolleppuny Upon Bly maruis, Rs ‘JUDGE COX'S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, . pic Liewatch ty, The Oprqueg Tryouns, PAULy din Ned I—-}n thy Kennto, aft- aa blgb eauEt Of fmpeusbment, argument has been going on for twa days on tho domurror af Judze Cox.ty tha artivjes of Jmncaunmenf spresanted uzuinst him by the louse for ‘drunks }enncas and lowdnesg.; The case was nrguod for ithe reepoudoys by Jgrouza Alig apd Gen. Joba 2B, Sanborn, and fur the managers of tho House (by My, Hicks und others. ‘The damurfor'ads rinitted s the chary but claimed the atfenses word not indictubie, and theruture not iuipeacor ble, Ab thy ent 4s she uygumens the Benato went into exepulive yesgiun and eo remeiucd until o'clock, when the doorg wero opened gn Sho resuit unvuyncod, After voting Oo weverul propositions tosustaiy the demurrer iy part, 10° wag Overruled wba whulg by u yoto of Bt to 6: Tho Sonate then adjgurued tu Jun, 10, wheg the trial will best. seated by. Byncrolt Navie, . The ' "WASHINGTON, Benjamin H: Brewster Noi. inated as Attorney. ; Ggneral. The Selection Conimenacg ‘by: AIL but’ Star. Routers. Hunt Will “Be a Judge, and Longstreet Will Come. In. The Senators All Sct to Laugh. dng by a Specch of Mr. : : Vest. A New York “Congressman Rises for Ireland, Only to Be Squelched, Thirteen More States Heard From on the Bill Question—871 New ° “Projects Offered. Ex-Setretéry Blaine to Deliver _ the Great Garfield Funeral R - Oration, A Brilliant Recéption Tendored to Speak. er Keifor at tho Masonic Temple. Twonty-six Postmastara, Made Happy~ Sherman's Barn—Soenate Commit- : teea—Ohicago, THE CABINET. BREWATEWS NOMINATION AS ATTORNEY Le GBNEMAL, ° 2! Bpectat Dismiten to The Chtengo Tribune, Wasirxatoy, D, 0, Dee. 1—The nomination of Benjamin Harris Browastor, of Patlutalpala,to bo Attornoy-Genorat of the United Stutes wa - Bont by tho Previdont to the Senate toduy, The nomination was referred to the Judicinry Com mittee, and wilt bo confirmed at the noxt tnecting of theSenate, -The appolntment wasn surprise in one Rengo*only, “When Mr,’ Frellujhuysen was mado Searctury of Statd the Prostdent di notintend to name any of the-other member of the Cabinot until after tho Hollday revess of Congress, Tho necessity for the nppointmentot dnotliciont hend of the Dopartmont of Justice wes Bo great that ho reconsidered his determination, anit informed Mr. Browster that bo would nom inate bitn fininediafely. rae TUE -NEW- ATTONNEY-GENERAT, wad tolograpbed for by Gon. Simon Cinema yesterduy, and ho arrived here last night,‘ Hl: nominution was soat to thu; Sounte befure te had ‘an opportunity of paying hfs respects in person to tho: President, Mr. Mrowster's name has boon mentioned for soveral weeks 1s ono of those most Itkely to recelve tho fuvdrubte com sideration ‘of: tha’ President, for the position of Attorney-General, .Tho very. mention af bis name in this connection. carried cOnsternaticn to tha mombers of tho star-route ring, oof thelr orguns fi this city ndsailed htin with great hitternesg, mee y THE PRASINENTS HAD VERY LITTLE TO 5\5 on thu subject except to ona or twa intimate frlonds, and thoy werd rather surprised to leu that frum the tine ‘of: the resignicion uf Mn MavVeugh tho selection of Mr. -Rrewster wa Practionily determined by tho President. The now Attorney-Generut, comes into tho Cabinet ot.es,the aclygtion of any one min of veto Pennsylvania politics, but-ns tho first choice ut .the Preg.dont, who hoa the. bighgst opiniudut Mr, Beowster's legal ubjitties, and Who roy nized’ in’ him the one “man needed -in the present emergency at tho heal of tha Department of “Justice, Hi selcotion meens With the entire approval of nut only the membory pf the Penosyivunia adeleys Yon, but. of Republican Senaturs und Repre rentutives xoncrally, Pb NOTHING BUT. WORDS OF PRAWE WEKE HEARD ‘on every hand af the wigdum of the Presllentt choice. That the selggtion of Mr, Bruwgter hui 8 algniticange upart fro big capectal Myness for tho position cannot be doubted. He was retalnel by ex-Atturney-Gengral MacVeagh ns epecial as Jstant attorucy on bobnif of the Ggyeutment t¢ aid (the proseguiion qi the stur-route caitt while Gen, Gurileld was President, In tou Draoy Juforyoqtionsegsa’be mde by Cyr the ablest at gumoot- that was preseuted, and hig vdyie oat beon obtiincd on every movement conte Platod or mude by the progegution. Mr. Meo PVeown : 3 RECOMMENDED MR. BRRWSTER’S APPOINT Nok MENT ‘Tho new incumbent enters tho office familar with tho dotajle of the atir-rovte cases, and ult appointment ja tangible prouf ot tho determina: ton of the Pres.dgnt tg prosgoute Lngia to” the ond. « HUNT AND KRLTOGH, A paragraph .{s floating throygn the pressof the country credited to the Boston Held Wushington currespuneence whton asserts that Secretary Hunt, of the Navy Department, os incurred the hostility wf many old South ero , friends; that ono of bis | biter criticg «is Senator Kellogg, of Loullens who,; {5 - appeura,. becuma — Intoreated In. the Chirlqyl Bay conling-station Jub $200,000 were approprigted by tbe Inst Congress ‘Tor the establishment of couling-stutiony on tbe cagst of Columnist, on Jund claimed by Aubron W, Thumpsoty, g cousin pf Seergtury Thom ps0a AG spon 48 Congress adjourned Kellogg and bit friend wont uP. te.. Hunt. and demanded tho money,, Mr. Hunt toaked into the matter, und decided that he wouldn't autborite the payment pf the munoy. Kutlogy yourbt (0 compol him toda qo, but he waa Neu, und the $204,000, moat pf whloy wag fo hava gone into the puckets of n fot of neoily lobbyists bere. re tiuined in tho ‘Trousury. Beaorattry Huut to diy sont tha stent, cyt from u paper inte which it bad beun auplad, to Songtur Relloga, with tha following nates» . 1.0, B66 . li rN, TP, Us, , Dea ery ond you ake. incor f am convinced dat the ingenuity of the ere {9 mrouter tbun the truth.. Stn never spuke meat py mutter, wad J peluve naver bea! it. Vory truly, ° W. HL, Hest ‘Thery ia no. hostility of bitterness, betwee? Socrotary Hung and Bonutor Kellowg. + QUESHES, « TWthe Weatern Associated Press ‘i Wasninatox, D.C, Doo. 10.—The Presiden! will probubiy nominate a Poatnuator-Genery Dofure the hotlday adjournment. so we ae Inepyhent pouy.entey. upon bis dutica (be a of Janyary.* Rump otilt: gastgne Pillay 1 - plugs, though there are gome who say Willey et been pusded over and that another mun we . it. All indications, huwayer, point to Fil 2H Tuunt with bo succooded “vofore Hon a jo Court of LIA Prabably gat pluge the on thi Ao leat i Sgnntor. why was yeqiaye Amyy for tha apps iuent on the Caurt of Chayina today that 1a te Bldop Was promisod, and be could put conte cany npiwe for it, It ip bollyvod ho hus Lana “the plgog-t9 Hung, Longstreet will prove ssucoegd Hunt : " Sc AT-THR OADINRE MRETING | ig today Socretury Blaine took ofliautt leave © ies asabolates, ‘Toe Ppru-Cnill inbroglio was cussed. IN THE HOUSE. + *. ROBINSON'H DRRAK t + ° Bpediat Dupusch ta dae Unieugo Trunk Wanngrotox, “D. 0, Deo, 18" fichelleu” Robinson, of Brookly utay indicated Saat Brupoaes Fo hopany tha apeotal vuamplon ty Trish cause in Congross, and tbat be La one Intond Lo pay noy more sespéct to tho mele “tha Hoyyy Jn bjs ttyriy te bri phe mule type tha pyblig hyn Heda obliged to dy