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4 — Conclusion of the Majority Report of the Potter Committee. REPUBLIGANS © BITTERLY — DENOUNCED. Messrs. Hiscock, Cox and Reed Present the Report of the Minority. Se TILDEN, MARBLE AND PELTON. Shonting “Fraud” While Bargaining for Illegal Votes, Florida, South. Carolina and Louisiana for Hayes and Wheeler. Wasurxcron, March 3, 1879. Iu order to complete the first two reports of the Potter Investigation Committee the following de- spatch is forwarded, the first portion giving the con- clusions of the democratic majority of the commit- tee, part of which was sent yesterday, and the latter portion summarizes the statement of the republican minority. The majority will make a separate re- port concerning the inquiry into the “cipher de- patches” :-— END OF THE MAJORITY REPORT, First-—The power to appoint electors of President and Vice ‘President for the States of Louisiana and Florida wes legally and constitutioually vested in the people thereot. Second—This power was duly executed in 1876, On the day, in the manner and xt the places preseribed by law the ballots of the people were taken and counted, showing a clear majority of 7,000 for Tilden electors. Third—This majority was wholly mace up of voters legally qualified, their right to vote being subjected to the scrutiny of hostile registers and commission- ers appointed by their enemies for every polling lace. Bg Fourth—The election was free and le. There is no proof or pretence that intimidation was prac- tised on the day of election. Fifth—Nor were the people prevented by intimida- tion or any cause from assembling at the polls. All ullegations to the contrary are effectually disproved by the undisputed fact that the vote was larger in proportion to the population than at any previous election ever held in the State; larger than in most of the other States where elections were held the same day and where every exertion was made to bring out the last man, Sizth—The Tilden electors were thus “duly ap- pointed” by the people, who alone had the right and power to appoint. ‘I'kis thing was not done in a corner, It was seen and known of all men. The act of appointment was immediately placed on the pub- lic records of several parishes. This fact was as in- disputable as any other in history. Seventh—The legal, just and constitutional effect of this appointment upon the Presidential election could be avoided only by falsifying the act of the people— that is to say, by fraudulently altering the election returns in such manner as to make them ap- pear hke an appointment of other persons instead of those who in truth and in fact were appointed. This was the crime by which the authority and will ot the people were defeated in the case under con- sideration, a crime—consideriug the extent of the corrupt combination required to carry it through the vast chaimwork of frauds, false pretences and perjury, and connecting it together, and the yagni- tude or the rights prejudiced by it—of the highest Muaguitude. SEVERE ARBAIGNMENT OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS. Fighth—The agents of the republican party sent into the State to get its electoral vote for Mr. Trasea ‘were among the ablest and most conspicuous men in their organization; they. were designated for this service by the then President, and many of them were known as the intimate friends of his successor. These men, notwithstanding the ‘Tilden electors had been fairy, peaceably and legally, chosen by a large majority ot the people at a fuil oll, eucouraged by their presence the fraud, false- ood and crime by which the vote was used to elect Mr. Hayes. They affected to believe that the Return- ing Board had lezal and constitutional power to set aside the appointment made by the people aud make another appointment themselves. They pronounced the warmest encomiums on members of that Board who bore characters notoriously bad, and they dis- tinctly refused to unite with democrats in au effort to have an honest count of the votes actually cast und legally returned by the proper officers of the election. Nimth—No direct evidence has revealed what bar- jain was made, in words or in writing, with mem- ors of the so-called Returning Board, but.we cannot doubt that they did their corrupt work with the understanding that they should not only be protected ageinst public justice, but rewarded tor their vil- lany. This pledge has been kept. When Wells and Anderson were indicted, federai officers at Washing- ton interfered with the administration of State law at New Orleans, and those same men and the others who gave their active assistance to the per- petration of the fraud have been quartered upon the uublic Treasury, aud the people whom they have de- randed are made to pay them for their crime. Tenth.—All the foregoing propositiqns of fact apply nomine muiato to Florida as well as to Louisiana. The majority in the tormer State was not so large as in the latter, but it was decisive and well attested. The appointment miade by the people was frnstrated and tered in alike way under the instigation of ‘*visit- ing statesmen" of th ame class and wes followed by similar reward. ‘The fraud was aggravated tn Florida, because the Canvassing Board had no | power under their statute but that of mere clerks, and their Supreme Court had expressly so decide and becanse all the departments of the state, judici: legislative and executive, protested against their tion a8 not only: false t mere usurpation, Th -necessary effect of ssful and prosperous falsi- fication of the choice of the people for the Chief Magistracy of the country is to tempt all those who profit by the wrong and those who suffer by it to re- peat the same corrupt methods on future occasions. THE MINORITY REPORT. The minority of the commitvee— Cox and Reed—presented their report In it they dissent from muny of the vi in the report of the majority, both as to the per- | tinence ot the ne to the investigation and to the | conclusions expressed upon the imony taken, but they take pleasure in testifying that the rulings of the chairman and his manner ot directing the | business were marked by the most eauitable and even generous spirit. They differed from the ma- jority as to some resolutions adopted by them limit- ing the scope of the examination, but this difference of judgment did not diminish their sense of the per- | sonal courtesy shown to them, They then refer to | the origin pointing out that the srs. Hiscock, 18 afternoon, presented f the committee, original resolutions for its appointment did not ask for general investigation ot all frauds connected With the last Presidential election, bat ouly what Might be found in the acts of officials and persons of one political party in only two of the States in which frandulent practices were charye They took this’view in the comanittee, | ted the investigation as one Wholly unneces- tary, made without probable cause, so far as the in- | dividuals named Were aimed at, und likely to add ,nothing of value to public information on the gen- eral subject. They coniined themselves, therefore, to the task of trying to make the inquiries invosti- gated vy the majority something more than a gemo- cratic juvestigation of republicans, so thac whatever was put before the world might have some of the elements of an examination of both sides, This would —— why they did not move for original inquiries beyond those commenced by the majority, and did not ask for new investigations of the trauis in Oregon, South Carolina, Mississippi and other Btates. When the Florida investigation was begun they offered resolutions that the <i trends at the ballot box, as well ax tho and returning officers, sh voted down ss | tho majority, altho notoriety and was by them brought to the attention of the inajority that both kinds of charges were made. They understood the majority to base their action upon the imitations they thought were put to the investigation by the origitial resolations, and did not quarrel with their judgment, though this would show the original resolutions to be untair and tisan in their character. They have condticted examination on the interpretations thus given, UNFATRNGAS OF THR DEMOCRATIC COMMISSION EIS, But what sorprises them and what they desire most emphatically to diseont {rom was the action of the majority in affecting to report for whom the vote of Florida was actually given after they had thas Fefused to examine both sides of that very question, While their work was in rO- ress & publication was made in @ leading journal of the cipher despatches. The startling Character of the Fevelations made the Inaction of the minority appear singular in this case, as common: happened betore, but they quietly waited to see what course the maj: 'y would eel it ersary to take, They had learned that the majority treated these despatchos as & separate matter of investigation and report. They could not so ani it; @ Feport upon the frauds of TMoride with the would be like the cipher despatches omitted play of Hamlet, ,with Hamlet left out. The incts were too notomous to be lett out and therefore they dissented from the method of making up the report suggested by the other side, The majority report aiso that they would have preterred to sit with closed doors, but yielded to thé wish of the minority. This was trae and they saw no re to regret this course. ‘They thouglit the sm of the cipher investigation; that the publicity was a necessity and that the public judgment is just, THOSE CIPHER DESPA TCHES Uyon the cipher despateh investigation the mi- . NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, nority report that they present their views under the disadvantage of not possessing auy indication of what the views of the majority will be. They would coufing themselves to the investigation they them- | selves had made, with regard to which it might | fairly be said that the whole investigation rested | upon what the Tribune translators brought to light. The original subject of their investiga- in was the honesty or dishonesty of the election in Florida, Lonisiona and South Carolina, For two years prior to Octob 1878, Mr. Tilden and his agents, in season and out of season, hal iterated and reiterated the charges that the canvassing boards of the doubtful States had acted traudulently and cor- ruptly in the discharge of sworn duties If these charges had been fortified by any proof the charac- ters of those who made the be se would be of no consequence whatever. ut in fact, the whole inve tion, with the 3,000 pages of hearsay falsehood, had not afforded the slightest proof of what was asserted. No man had come forward to say that any bribe was accepted or any member of any canyassing board indicated any desire to betray his trust. Every intimation of that kind had been traced to some democrat and there ends, and that democrat had never been brought be- fore them. Mr, McLin, to whose testimony Mr, Ti:- den referred, although goaded by sickness und imaginary wrongs, never for a moment admitted any improper. conduct at the time. He only thinks from after knowledge that he may e been miktaken, General Barlow, whose con- duct has received the compliments of the majority, after full knowledge of the workings of Mr. Cow- gill’s mind, admits his honesty of purpose, and that of all the others. Asto the South Carolina Board, the full, free and uncontradicted testimony of Mr. Dunn satisfied every man who heard it of the absence of fraud in South Carolina, These charges, then, of frand and corruption with whieh Mr. ‘Tilden and his agents had filled the air were nothing but the unsupported assertions of litigants against whom the courts have decided. ‘The tribunals‘in the three States decided in favor of the Hayes electors. Straightway the defected party, with his agents, set up the assertion of wrongdoing. To bolster up that essertion by proof was the object of the original consultation of this committee. They toiled until the Ist of August and found no evidence. CRYING FRAUD AND PRACTISING CORRUPTION, In October the publication ot the cipher gespatches in the Tritmene showed conclusively that the very men who had been loudest in their denunciations of the tribunals before whom they had failed bad them- selves cndeayored to corrupt with money those very tribunals. At that moment the accusafious ceased to be the assertions and opinions of honest men, and became the slanders of foiled and beaten sub- orners of’ corruption. The country, which had been deceived by the apparent earnestness and honesty of Mr. Tilden and his agents, began to realize the intense hypocrisy of all that Mr. Marble had written and Pelton circulated. This fabric of alleged fraud thus fa!len was whet the re- port of the majority is endeavoring to build up again and upon the old foundations. No wonder, then, that they preferred to make a separate reporg on the ciphers. When the parties to the attempted briberies were put upon the stand they were forced to admit the receipt and transmission of the criminating despatch each and all of them. Colonel Pelton, whose appearance before the committee was really pitiable, seemed to have been selected to bear the largest share of the burden. Mr, Manton Marble occupied a different situation. He hed, prior to October, 1878, taken a conspicuously high toned position. He hal written the Ark and Shekinah letter, and had otherwise conducted him- self loftily before mankind. He could not, therefore, avoid an attempt to preserve himeelr. It was not for him to take the bold position of Mr. Smitn Weed— that it was right to rescue stolen goods from rob- bers. Such an. ark of refuge would have wrecked him long before reaching Ararat. Nevertheless the committee had two propositions to buy the Florida Returning Board, in his own handwriting) two replies of Pelton and his own rejoinder. ‘These he was obliged to admit, and also to admit the “substantial” accuracy of the transla- tions. His explanation of the two incriminating despatches which the committee had, and a possibie third one which the committee did not have, was that he sent them as danger signals. The burst of con- temptnous laughter with which we audience greeted — ee cima 3 Mr. Marble will probably never- forget. PELTON SHIELDED TILDEN. They did not intend, however, to comment upon the ok of particular witnesses. A wider audi- ence than will ever listen to this report had long since passed judgment upon them. The evidence that Mr. Tilden was ignorant of these transactions was limited to the denials of Mr. Tilden and Colonel Pelton, and that the latter should endeavor to shield his uncle, upon whom he was dependent, was natural, but the idea that this penni- less man, living in the honse and sitting at the very table of his wealthy uncle (Mr. Tilden) should have conducted negotiations involving such Jarge sums without word or hint to the man most deeply interested or to anybody else could not for a moment be entertained by candid men. If Colonel Pelton’s story be true he must be removed from the category of knaves to that of fools; but the man who conducted the campaign of 1876 as acting secretary of the Democratic National Committee was not a tool, nor did Mr. Tilden after election centre all his in- terests in the hands of a fool, Mr. Til- den’s denial was of course to be ex ted. Precisely what the arrangement wa: Siem Mr. Tilden wae kept posted as to the doings of his agents, and yet left in condition to make a general denial—it he was so left—the comwittee probably shall never know. Against these denials ‘are set all the facts and circumstances of the case, The men who went South—Messrs. Woolley, Marble and Smith Weed—were on terms of the closest po- litical and personal intimacy with him, They were selected by his nephet, furnished with a cipher which contained ample substitution words, fitted tor the very transactions for which they were a‘ter- ward used, One at least of them had an inter- view with Mr. Tilden betore his departure. It was arfanged that Woolley and Smith Weed, who were pretty well known, should send their telegrams to Havemeyer; while Mr. Marble, heretofore of good ute, should send to 15 Gramercy Park. t may be said that if Mr. Tilden bad contemplated wrong he would not have had despatches sent to hia house; and_yet, if they were in a cipher known to the National Committee, he would vot waut them to go to that body. His only fear would be, not that the despatches would fall into the hands of those who could not read them, but into the hands of those who could, WHAT MR, TILDEN MUST HAVE KNOWN. It had been urged in Mr. Tilden’s bebalf that as soon us he became aware of the South Carolina nego- tiations he promptly suppressed them, and they were asked to draw the inference that he was guiltless of all. Had these transactions ceased when Hardy Solomons went home, had Pelton been dis- charged from his plenary superintendence of Tilden’s affairs, there might have been some show of reason for this plea, But Mr. Pelton remained in full control. The Florida negotiations went on. The attempted bribery in Oregon foilowed ; all under the guidance of the reserved nephew, Mr. Pelton. It seems more likely that it was originally intended that the plan of Mr. Tilden and Colonel Pelton was that Mr. Cooper should be called on for the money, which he was to furnish without com munication with Mr. Tilden. Pelton says he totd Cooper not to tell Tilden. That night Mr. Cooper | did not; but on reflection the next day, probably thinking that he hud already over-advanced, and that if Mr. Tilden wanted the Presidency in that way he had better pay for it himself, he went to Mr. Tilden. Of course Mr. Tilden could take part in no such open transaction as it had now become. Add to these cir- cumstances the fact that no demand was ever made by Mr. Tilden for an opportunity to vindicate himselt until the last moment—until, in fact, it had got to be a choice between coming on process or appearing to come voluntarily, The minority were driven to the conclusion that if Mr. Tilden hed told all he knew of these transactions they would have been in pox session of material to form an undisputed judg- ment. The investigation bad been neither tuil, searching nor systematic. They dia not say thix in any spirit of criticism on the action of the majority. The latencss of the commencement of the inquiry precluded thoroughness. FLORIDA AND SOUTH CATOLINA RETURNS. The next question to be considered was whether either the Florida or South Carolina Returning “is were for sale. The South Carolina part is | quickly disposed of. The testimony of Mr. Dann, | uncontradicted, clearly shows that Mr. Smith Wi was played with by strewder men than himself for purposes entirely propor aud in a manner entirely | Jusdinable. As to Morida Mr, Woolley hed not been called, and’ Mr, Marble had ‘probably not | iven’ the full facts of his attempt. So howbver, as he has — indicated the source of his proposition (or “danger signals’) it ended this way:—Mr, Dyke, the party named, tele- graphs that he never knew anything about it ‘him- selt, He was told by a Mr. Robertson that a repub- lican © man said they could be bought. Mr. Marble’s statement amounts, then, to this: man told him that a third man told him that the Canvassing Board could be bought. This may not consistent with his preparations for bribery, but it 1s all the evidence he vouchsafed. The truth was that al! this clamor about trand was made because the canvass changed the e of the ret i was nothing sacrod about the “face of the returns.” The very existence of a C: vassing Board implies that the “face of the returns’* are not a safe guide or a final arbiter ofelections. In Florida the “face of the returns” gave but ninety- one majority to Mr. Tilden on their most favorable construction. The fact that the final count gave the State the other way surely could be no ground for charging corruption without othe evidence. A&to whether thers were any republican despatches similar in character to those of Mr. Tilden’s agents, the report says there is little evi- dence on which such an “gos can be founded, but from the first there has m going on a kind of shadow hunt for some despatches supposed to be destroyed. This hunt had not been successful, In concluding the committee's views on this point the report says:—"We cannot close our comments on these despatches without expressing at least & hope that hereafter the country may be spared that epectacle of hypocrisy which is involved in the lit- pan of fraud written by men who made ready to ribe. DEMOCRATIC FRAUD AND VIOLENCE IN FLONIDA, In reference to the election in Fiorida the report reads :—‘'The democratic party was composed in the main of the native white yoters of Florida. On the one side was arrayed northern immigrants, many of whom were Union soldiers, and the lately enslaved colored men, On the other side the former masters, e soldiers or contributors to the lost and if Florida elected Tilden electors the men must be won to their support we desire, most emphatically,to deny thatit attempted by peaceful methods. Resolu- tions of conventions tor Northern constmption were » but fraud and violence were resorted to, and ath inflicted, We assert that the eapporters of Mr. ‘Liiden, to carry tat election did resort to the colored and most open illegal voting, fraud and personal violence.” After reciting the duties of the Returning Board, the report goes on to criticise the conduct of the Florida Board; threats of personal violence, it states, were made against a member of the Retuj Board by the democrats, and he was followed by armed men at night to his house from sessions of the canvassecrs, and a distinguished representative of the démocratic party endeavored to otter of money. In -conclusion the minority de- sire to say “most emphatically among all the men of Tallahassee while the Board was in session, in the interest of the Tilden electors, including those bearing gifts; among all the supporters of the Tilden electors in Florida in attendance, including those who threitened assassination, with the aid of private de- tectives, who; in consultation with the majority of the committee, have been hunting for testimony, no one has been found to testify toa fact bearing against the honesty and fairness of the republican mem of the Board of State Canvassers of Flori: The attack on General Noyes is denounced as unwarranted, there being no evidence that he held any questionable communication with any member of the State Canvassers. As to the result ot the Florida election, adopting the rale contended for ty the majority report, that the Canvassing Board coul only canvass the county returns Db: a Py coren J the vote appearing upon their face for the respective candidates, and Hayes electors had 40 major- ity; following the rule laid down by the Supreme Court and they had 200 majority; pars ing the county returns of fraud, according to the decision and ad- vice of the democratic Attorney General, and they had 900 majority, LOUISIANA AND THR SHERMAN LETTER, With regard to Louisiana affairs the report devotes most attention to the Sherman letter. The majority report, it states, fails to say explicitly whether the testimony sustained the charge that such a letter as Anderson and Weber had testified to had been writ- ten. They, the minority, emphatically declare that it does not, and that the palpable perjuries of both the witnesses named justify a feeling of deep disgust; that they should be treated as capable of creating 4 serious attack pos the character of a man who has borne a bigh character in the most respon- sible service of the country for five and twenty years. The conduct of the visiting statesmen at Now Orleans is then considered, and that of Messrs. Sher- man, Gartield, Hale, Kelley and others, whom it was" sought to impeach, was declared consistent and frank. The attempt to single out Mr, Sherman for u special attack seemed to have no original foundation but the testimony of Anderson, and the character of the évidence of ‘such witnesses was shown in his effort to assail Stanley Matthews. Thé minority thought the whole committee should unite in reporting that the whole foundation for the origival resolution, so far us this part of the case ix concerned, had been shown to be false testimony, and the manutactnred doci- ments of a man totally unworthy of notice. Before the Returning Board were many ailidayits to acts of gross violence and — intimidation in the so-called “bulldozed” parishes. The majority assumed in their report that these affidavits were falsely and fraudulently made, and that this was known to the Board and to the Visiting Committee. We find the testimony takon before this committce rather sustains than imn- peaches them. The report then reviews at some length the testimony upon which this criticism 18 dased, and from that goes on to discuss the making of a second set of election returns for Louisiana. The minority admit that two of the electors were absent and that their names were signed by other parties, and that this made the certiticate spurious; but they claim that the spurious certificate and re- turns were not considered, as the records of the Electoral Cominission clearly show. CONCLUSIONS. ‘The last point the report touches upon is the Wormley conference, in regard to which it distinctly denies the alleged “bargain to seat Hayes” altogether. The report concludes:—‘We are not aware that any- thing has been found more signifloant of wrong than the notorious circular of the Democratic Campaign Committee of 1876, in which they advise the parade ‘of the democratic clubs “on horseback, and their marching organized bodies to ‘the central rendezvous’ for the purpose of impressing the negroes with a sense of ther united strength; the recommendation of systematic warning to the negroes that ‘we have the means to carry the election and we mean to use them,’ aud tho like. To ignore this, as the majority have done, forces us to conclude that the time has not yet come when a fair review of the case anda just judy- ment in regard thereto is possible. We report that the new matter referred to does not im- plicate Mr. Sherman or Mr. Noyes in any improper conduct or corrupt proceedings, but that the cipher despatches have been confessed to be systematic and deliberate efforts to corrupt the re- turning and canvassing boards of the States of Florids, South Carolina andsOregon by bribes offered inthe shape of great sums of money. Whatever are our differences, with the majority of the com- mittee in other respects, we should most heartily re- joice to find some methods by which all opportunity for fraud or violence might be removed from our elections. As to Presidential elec- tions the matter of choosing electors is by the constitution so exclusive! comunitted to State lezislation that we see no method of federal interference. The proposition of the majority, there- fore, that the election of electors should be passsed upon by the highest court of each State ‘is impracti- cable, ecause federal legislation cannot deal with the subject. We can imagine that it would have been satisfactory to the autnors of somo of the cipher despatches to have that court determine who were the Presidential electors in South Carolina, but in view of this testimony, we ca! + join in the report that the cause of houest elections would necessarily be turthered by such achange. The change needed isin the spirit and temper of the community, the cultivation of respect for law and right, the recogni- tion by the strong of the rights of the weak, and when progress is made in this direction we shall wit- ness equal progress toward purity at elections, and not till then. We regret, therefore, that the result of an investigation in which the taking of testimony continued till the last day but one of the Congress, and is still incomplete, must be the report that, in obedience to the directions of the House, a great mass of evidence has accumulated which can neither be cousidered nor acted upon by Nongress, and that the advautage gained by the pub- lic in the daily.consideration of it, upon which the minority insisted, is the only matter ot profit to any one.” VICTIMS OF RUM. A SOBER MAN DRIVEN To THE BOTTLE BY NIS WRETCHED WIFE—THEIR CHILDREN LEFT TO STARVE. Officor Chiardi, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to, Children, yesterday caused the arrest of Ellen Doyle, a young marred woman, ybom he found ina drunken state at No. 113 Suilivan street. About fifteen months ago the officer's attention was first directed to Mrs. Doyle, who was then living with her husband and two children in South Fifth avenue. Her fondness for drink often led her away from home and at such times the children were dependent upon the kindness of the neighbors. Mr. Chiardi hed her arrested at that time, and she was released upon taking a pledge to abstain from the use of liquor. She kept it fora short time only and was again arrested. A second promise was exacted, and she was given another op- portunity. Her husband, James, was ¢ H. B, Claflin & Co., in whose service he had been for fifteen years, a sober and industrious man. He struggled hard to reform his unfortunate wife, but in vain. Their third child was born in No- vember last, and before it left its mothor's breast that unfortunate creatare again gave way to her weakness for liquor. A little before Christinus Mr. Chiardi, who had heard of it, calied at No. 3 Vandam ot, where she was then living, and found the honse in a terrible state. Searcely au, article of furniture remained and the three children were ory- ing for food. DOYLE DISCOURAGED. ‘The husband, thoroughly discouraged. agreed thet his wite ought to be plicod under restraint and her arrest and imprisoument on Blackwell's Island for three months followed. She was set at liberty on oe h of last month and re- turned to Tive h her husband, She was drunk again within a week, and, in & moment of frenzy, assaulted him with an iron ber. He w fined to his bed for some time, and was no sooner re- stored to health than the fighting qualities of his wifo reappeared. Hopeless of curing her of her love of drink he took to it himself and was discharged by his employers. On Saturday inst he disappeared from his home and has not since been heard of, Yesterday morning, when Officer Chiardi visited their house, he found the children in a starved condition. One by one the little store of provisions and stock of furniture had gone for Kae until even the stove wax sacrificed to the in- vatiate appotite, The little girt Elizabeth, four years Old, the little boy Michael, two years of age, aud tho baby of five months were given over to the care of the police, and the mother, who was arraigned before Justice Wandell at the Jefferson Market Police Court, was sent to Blackwell's Island for half a year. THE GRAHAM AVENUE BURGLARY. ‘The trial of John Wilbur was continued in tho Kinga County Court of Sessions yesterday, He was indicted for complicity in the burglary committed at the flour store of Ibert & Son, Graham avenue, Brooklyn, in August last, in connection with “Billy” Porter, Johnny Irving and “Shang” Draper. Tho counsel will sum up to-lay and the case will be given to the jury. Porter, or Morris, as he is called in the indictment, was tried about a month ayo, when tho Jury disagreed. His second trial will held this month, and the District Attorney is also Propari to try Irving and Draper at an early day. On Fri last Lewia H. Cole, of No. 14 South street, this city, who was a witness in the present trial, testified in the Court of Sessions that at four A. M., August 11, 1878 (which was about the time the burglary in Graham avenue was committed), Jolu il- bur, alias Gilbert York, was in New York, Sergeant Murphy and Patrolman Woodbridge, of the Ninth precinct, caused the arrest of Mr. Cole on acharge of perjury. They allege that at that time Wilbur was at No, 162 Patchen avenue, Brooklyn, where Porter and Irving resided, He was arraigned before Police Justice Walsh yesterday on the charge of perjury and his examination was adjourned. The Judge said that he pever before heard of a wit- ness while under the protection ot the Court having been arrested for perjury. He would not impute wrong motives to any one, however. Mr, Cole was roealied and wae oxaunined by the District Attorney, but his testimony was not of puviic interest. fluence his action by the | ployed by | MARCH 4, 1879.-TRIPLE RIOTOUS REPUBLICANS. DISGRACEFUL SCENE .IN THE THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT ASSOCIATION—THE POLICE CALLED IN. Disaffection still exists amo. the members of the Third Assembly District Republican Association. The action of the Central €om- mittee in deciding recently the contest be- tween Stephen Mosher and Thomas H, Riley for president of the organization in favor of the latter has been @ bitter pill for the defeated can- didate and his friends to swallow. It is claimed by members of the association that at the December election for officers of the organization and members of the General Committee Mr. Mosher held a primary in a buteher’s shop next door to where the regular district association held its elec- tion, and that his claim to having been chosen as presiding officor of the association was in the wildest degree absurd, Last evening being the occasion of the first regular monthly meeting of the association since the General Committee decided against Mr. Mosher’s claims, several of the members betrayed by their uneasy movements an apprehension that there might be some unplessantness. Promptly at eight o'clock President Riley called the meeting to order, there being about fifty persons in the room atthe time, The President announced amid an ominous silence that the first business in order was the reading of the minutes of the last meeting, and requested tho ocrotary to perform that duty. Before tho latter official had time to commence, however, John H. Fanning, an ex-employé at the Cystom House, opened the engagement’ by springing to his feet, ex- claiming hurriedly :—“Bofore the proceedings com- mence have a protest to present, and T appeal to the members present to listen to ine while I read it.” OPENING THE BALL, He then read the following preamble and resolu- tion:— Whereas there wore cortain irregulariti the last pritnury election, whereby a maj bors of this assoc ‘wore deprived of their rights as perpetrated at tf oF the. mem: at such by the nnlawfnt and uncalled for action of Mr. Thoms 4. y in cansing to be isenod ed ticket of admission tor @ select few 0-4 And ignoring the majority of the meinbers of this assobia. and thus excluding them from their rights and_privi- ritmury clection; and whereas at aseparaic ‘on the sane promises the majority so. denies whore all members could yote, and, adod by Stephen Mosher,for President* horefore be it iat Stephen Moshor, the only identified and logully elected president of thix ‘a tion, be now duly installed and called upon to take the ebair and procevd with tho osnal business of the association, pending the de- cision of the Central Cominittee in reference to tho affairs of this association. When Mr. Fanning had finished reeding the inflammatory document President Riloy, with on air of unmistakable determination. said:—*It will not be entertained, sir, We regard the advocates of whom you have read as interlopers and not members ot this association." A member—I move that the resolution be adopted; all in favor of the same ‘kay Here a strong chorus of “Ayes” was heard, whilo, strange to state, there was but a solitary ‘No,”’ and this from an enthusiastic young man who made the best use he could of his lungs 1 pronouncing it. A SCENE O¥ CONFUSION, Meantime Mr. Fanning, who had turned his back completely on the President, roared, “I move that Mr. Mosher be now escorted to the chair.” An Indignant Member—You face the Chair, President Kiley (ussnming a standing posture)— Don’t make a mistake; I want you all to understend that you ace not going to ocoupy this chair, * Here Mr. Fanning lifted a chair, aud setting it down vehemently in the centre of the room took hold of “Patsy” Callahan, an ex-letter carrier, by the cout collar, and ordered him, as vice president, to assume the chair. At this moment every man in the room jumped to his feet, and at least half a dozen rushed toward Callahan, several shouting to him that he was not a member of tho association, he row had been precipitated, and bloody work was momentarily expected as the rival factions seemed to be worked up to the highest’ pitch of ex- citement. President Riley leaped from his chair and with a bound was among the angry combatants, who by this. time were clutching at each other's throats, anxiously feeling as though for their weapons, blaspheming and glaring at each other like beasts of prey. Above the disgraceful din was heard the voice of the president, Riley, exclaiming, “Don’t draw your Porn here; if you do it will be worse tor your- selves.” ‘By this time a policeman had entéred and made his way to the scene of strife, where the redoubtable Callahan was about peragets out to resent the inter- ference offered to his tak: the chair. President Riley directed the police officer to arrest Callahan and atter a slight show of resistance on the part of his friends the alleged disorderly individual was jerked out of the room and down stairs to the strect yy the police officer. President Riley accompanied the officer, after first shouting to Vice President Henry Jones to take the chair and hold it until he re- turned from the police station, Meanwhile the friends of Mr. Mosher had substituted for Callahan Charles McManue, whom they put into the impro- vised chair in the centre of the room. RETORTS DISCOURTNOUS. Bernard Brogan (a Mosherite)—I move that this meeting adjourn and tuat the Central Committee be requested to call a new election in this district. ‘Thomas H. Keating vio. tne last speaker)—Dry up. Brogan (savayely)—You're a loafer. Keating—You can’t prove I'm a loufer. Brogan—Oh, get ont; I won't talk to you. Amid the contusion one ot Mr. Mosher’s friends moved that the nyeting (of which McManus was chairman) adjourn to the corner of Hester and Mul- berry streets, and this motion having been declared carried the malconteuts thinned out of the room, The orgenization presided over by Mr. Jones then proceeded with the regular business of the mect- ing, while Mr. Riley accompanied the police- man and his prisoner to the Mulberry street station, where the former made & charge of disorderly ‘con- duct and disturbing the meeting against Callahan, who was held, When Riley returned he ordered all but members of the association and representatives of the press to leave the réom, which was done after somo little difficulty, amd a threatened renewal of the disturbance. George E. ‘Thomas moved that committee ot three be appointed, with power to prosecute any and ail persons who had disturbed the meet President 1 replied that a motion to that eflect was not necessary, as he would take upon himself the task of prosecuting such offenders to the fall extent of the law. Tie meeting was then declared adjourned, ges at ck election held NINTH DISTRICT REPUBLICANS. At a meoting of the Ninth Assembly District Re- publican Association, neld in Bleecker Build- ing, Bleecker street, last evening, resolutions relative to the President's veto of the | Chinese Immigration bill were adopted. Tho protest against’ tho bill #6 being st variance with the spirit’ of American institutions, aud they indorse the action of the President in vetoing it, aud approve the opposition to its passage mude by the Senators from this State. After some slight discus sion the resolutions were unanimously adopted, A motion of dir, Thomas ‘G. Collins to the effect that a committee of three be appointed to wait on the Mayor and the Police Commissioners with a view nting political or religious parades to pe held Jith of March or the 13th ot July, was laid on the tabie, acter which the meeting adjourned, TAMMANY SOCIETY. The regular monthly mecting of the Tammany Society was held last evening in the Wigwam in Fourteenth street “half an hour,” according to the call, “after the setting of the gan; Manhattan, sea- son of blossoms, third moon, yéar of discovery 387, of independence 1034 and of the institution the 90th.” The attendance was unusually large, the political opponents of Tammany being in. stron; force. Grand Sachem Schell, as usual, too! the chair, and a resolution was offered by Mr. Henry L. Clinton thanking the counsel who lately tained the defendants’ side of the case before «ige Barrett, in the matter of an injunction re- straining the Tammany Society from counting ina certain number of members claimed to haye been illegally elected, for the ability and learning with which they presented and conducted the proceed- ings. A vote was taken on Maro ig ye of the resolu. tion, and about one hundred and eighty bailots were pene in the aflirmative, but as the rest of the membérs, muimbering nearly three hundred, declited = to vote at all the resolution fell to the ground and there was nothin, left to be done but to adjourn. It was expected one of the men who was instrumental im having th famous batch of 147 Tainmany adherents enrolled tho society, and who received instructions to s that none out of that number were disaflocted in the smallest degree to the reigning dynasty of the Wig wam, and to see, further, that no announcement of the election should be published in any paper where it might happen to get noticed, would stand up and make @ clean breast of the whole affair, but like Bob Acres, he found at the last moment courage oozing out at his finger ends, SOROSIS ELECTION. ‘The eleventh aunual election of officers of Sorosis was held yesterday afternoon at Delmonico’s, The meeting passed off pleasantly, and but one ballot was cat for any officer. The candidates for the presi- dency were Mrs. D. G, Croly and Mra. Rebecca Morse. Mrs. Croly wae re-clected, notwithstanding her expressed wish to the contrary, This makes the fitth consecutive year of her reign. When Sorosis ‘was founded the late Alico Cary waa olected Prest- dent, but she resigned, owing to ill health, having presided over but one meeting. Upon her retire- wa Mrs. Croly was unwnimously elected to the office, Outot one handred and eighteen active members of Sorosis sixty-nine were present yesterday. The annual report of the treasurer was read, which showed the club to be in @ very tlourishing condi- tion. The of the recording secretary, Mra, Mary A. res rg stated that there had been eight social meetings during the year, at which thirty-six essays and twelve ori poems had been Sixteen new members have been admitted during the year, The membership of the club includes ladies from almost every State in the Unionand from England, most of whom have been present at some of the md meetings. The following is the eom- lete list officers elected :—President, Mrs. D. G, ly; First Vico. President) Mrs. Rebecca Morse: Second Vice President, Mrs, E. M. Gray; Third Vice President, Mrs. Henrietta Marvin; Fourth Vice Mrs. Mary Av Newtods Corsenpouding Sectetarys Mrs irs. le ; Correspo! See! , Mrs, Fannie J. Helmuth; Treasurer, Me Sarah Ac! King; | Auditor, Miss Annie M, Ryder; Chairman of Execu- tive Committee, Dr. Anna D, French; other Members of Committee, Mrs. Sophia Hoffman, Mrs, Martha Powers, Mrs. Julia Thomas, Mrs, W. Ravenhill; Custodians, Miss Allen, Mrs. Van Brunt, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Bur- bank, Mrs. Ackerman, Mrs. Edna Smith; Cheir- man of Committee on Literature, Mrs. iter M. Poole; Chairman Committee on Art, Mrs. Helen M. Burt; Chairman Committee on Drama, Mrs. Anna Randall-Diehl; Chairman Committee on Music, Mrs, Cc. V. Winterburne; Chairman Committee on Phil- anthropy, Mrs. Esther Hermann; Chairman of Com- mittee on Science, Mrs. Adelaide a an an ot Committee on Education, Mrs. Sarah L, Ho,, 4 Chairman of Committee on House, Mrs. Bronsin.! Chairman of Committee on Business Women, Mrs, George Vandenhoff; Chairman Committee on Jour- nalism, Mrs. Helen M. Cooke. In conversation with a Henanp reporter Mrs, President Croly positively denied that there were two factions in Sorosis. She said that none of the la- dies believed in discussing the question of woman suf- frage in the club meetings, but that that did not make them any the less suffragists, “We have Episcopa- lians, Methodists, Baptists and Quakers in Sorosis,”” said she, ‘bat the tact that they do not discuss their religious belief in the club does not make them any less Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists or Quakers.”” SECOND AVENUE “L.” PROGRESS OF THE WORK IN DIVISION AND AL- LEN STREETS—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION WITH THE STATIONS ON THE SIXTH AVENUE “1.” The work of putting in the foundations along: Division and Allen streets for the Second Avenue “L" of the Metropolitan Company, which was begun only a week ago, has proceeded with remark- able rapidity, Already about one hundred and sev- enty-five holes are dug, and on Division street some of the foundations on the north side of the strect arg well nigh completed, The brick picrs are built, and everything will be ready in a day or two for the reception of the cast iron bases on which the columns will be placed. Yester- day the number of men at work was about five hun- dred, and on Thursday ground will be broken on First avenue from Fifth street northward with a new force of men. Mr. Mills, one of the contractors, will have nearly one thousand men employed .next week, and he says that by the first of next month the foun- dations will certainly be well under way on doth sides of the streets up to Second avenue and Twenty- third street, by next month a large quatitity of the iron now being manufactured at Phanixville, Pa., for the superstructure will be ready and will be set up as fast as porsible. SCENES ALONG TAR Wonk. Division and Allen streets present a strange scene ot chaotic confusion and disorder just now. The dirt and stones dug out of the excavations are banked up in huge heaps alongside the holes, and the whole street looks like a succession of hills and pitfalls, as though there had been some voleani> upheaval, What remains of the roadway is blocked up with carts lade with cement, broken stones, bricks, sand, planks and other material, so that there is hardly room to move slong. The carpenters are busy pMining the planks for “shoring up’ the excavations and shaping the “templets,” and, to make confusion worse con- founded, a crowd of curiosity seekers gather round every hole to look on at the progress of the work. ‘Tho spectator, has the greatest difficulty in pushing his way along, not only through these crowds of curious people, but through the serried ranks of laborers in search or work. Suddenly there is a dead rush toward a certain point and about a hundred men bear down upon one unfortunate indi- vidual. This is Mr. Mills, and a hundred voices cry out at the same time for work. Every cne of these men exhibits some letter, either from a politician or an officer of the company or a brother contractor, and the invariable reply to them all is that they must apply at the office, Thirty-fourth street and First avenue. Yesterday morning there was a crowd of about one thousand men in front of the office clamoring for employment, and none of these would leave until they were assured that they would ‘‘get a chance” by and by. , Along Allen strect yesterday a Japanese was carefully tay hig out the sites for fonn- dations. ‘This Japanese is a graduate of Harvard, and is said to boone of the most efiicient assistants among the engineer corps employed in locating the foundations. THY TELEPHONE ON THE METROPOLITAN. The Metropolitan “L' Company have adopted of late several improvements on their Sixth ayenuc road. At tho Murray street and West Third street curves blue lamps have been placed so that the engineer can tell at @ distance that he ix spproaching a curve and slacken up accordingly. Another improvement made by General Manager Johu (not Job, us printed the other day,) Baird has been to establish telo- pbonie communication nearly all along the tine, fhe telephone wires have already been carricd as far as ‘Thirty-fourth street, and will soon be extended to the Park, This is con- sidered to be & great improvement on the telegraphic communication established ou the Third AVenue “L.”” If any accident occurs, if agateman or ticket agent suddenly becomes ill and wants to be relieved, if anything gets out of order or any other occasion arises for communication, the mien can speak directly with the superintendent or his assistants at Rector street. A reporter of the Heratp yesterday spoke to Fourteenth street sta- tion trom Rector street, and the replies to his queries were plainly heard. The telephone wire is also to be carried to the new station at Fifty-third streot and Eighth avenue, which has been doing a very large business ever since its opening. WRETCHED HENRY “LANE. IS THE OLD MAN UNJUSTLY IMPRISONED ?-— WHAT HIS WIFE AND JUSTICE OTTERBOURG HAVE TO BAY. Poor old Henry Lane, who claima that he was un- justly sent to prison by his wife on Sunday after- noon, was hobbling up and down the hall in the Tombs prison yesterday when a Henawp reporter ad- dressed him. The old gentlemen seated himself upon the bed in his cell and unbosomed more of his troubles, “I have read the accounts in the papers,” said he, in a feeble, trembling voice, “and they are quite correct, with the exception of my wife's state- ment, I never used # pistol in her presence, and she knows that her extravagant living brought me where Lam. MISER WELIS AS A PRECEDENT. “What convinces me. that this was all rehearsed before it was brought to court is this:—When the cousins of Miser Wolls attempted to prove that ho was insane my wife took a great interest in the caso and we talked much on the prospects of proving hig insanity. Hearing us talking about it, my children became interested and asked me to explain it. ‘For Tsaid, ‘if your mother should consider me ul prepare evidence to prove it, it: the result would undoubtedly be that [ would be re- moved to an insane asylum.’ My explanation has been verified to the letter. My wife 1# # strict Roman Catholic; I ain a Protestant and a Freemason, From thet you can see where the trouble comes. My wite brought the children up herself and taught them to disrespect my teachings, and to keep peace. in the family I let her have her own way with them. Ihave thought while in my cell that if I wero tree I would preter charges of perjury against my wife. But then should hate to bring my young daughters into pub- lic disgrace. . “Will you take a meas: to my wife?” said he, as the reporter was about leave, In substance the message was that he desired an interview with his daughters and, if possible, with his wife befure he ‘was removed to the Isiund, The measaze was delivered. In reply Mrs. Lane said that she had no objection to her daughters see- ing their father, but she herself never wanted to see him again. “I have had trouble enough with him, My lite has been threatened and I am compolled to do this for the protection’ of my childrea. When he comes out he will not find us. Iam sorry that I did not give him a year.” JUSTICE OTTERDOURG'S EXPLANATION. “The family explained * said Justice Otter- » “that Mr. Lane was insane and beat them, and that they were afraid to stayin the house with him, They all testified to this, and I issued a war- rant for his arrest. The charge was disorderly con- duct, He was arraigned, and ¢ remanded him each day for three days to see df the keepers of the prison could detect any symptoms of insanity, He was in x private room and related his story twice, and when he asked to speak lust Sunday I did not want to listen to a repetition, as I knew it would be such, I committed the man pga mg The thought that his family were trying to put the old gentleman out of the way did come into my mind when first heard the case, but the evidence of his daughters was such that I could not do paetres than I did. 1 have been on the bench too sentencing men without a hearing.” Mr, Lane,rays that when the Justico sentenced him the charge was represented to be insanity, as well as disorderly condnet, SUICIDE BY HANGING. Coroner Simms, of Brooklyn, was notified yesterday to hold an inquest on the body of Philip Runge, who committed suicide by henging himself at his resi- dence, No. 714 Atlantic street. Runge, who was forty- seven years of age, and married, was aGerman. He camo to this country twenty-two years ago and was for many years engaged in the manufacture of weiss beer with a brewer named Seidler on Carroll street. much depressed, and itis believed he was from temporary aberration of the mind, THE CATTLE DISEASE, GENERAL PATRICK'S LATEST ORDER—ACTION OP THE NEW JERSEY LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE, The slanghtering of cattle at the Johnson avenue stables has been suspended for the present, but it was announced last evening that the 200 cat. tle remaining at the stables in Blissville will be removed to the slaughter hquse be- fore the end of this week. General Patrick and Professor Law will then remove their headquarters from Brooklyn. Sheriff Rushmore remained at the stables yesterday, in charge of his deputies, by exe press order of General Patrick. The following notice was issued yesterday morning by the Gen- eral's order: ‘A statement has gained currency that the cattle plagne stat intend to stap the sale of mills from all promises where acoworothor animal snfforing from eontazions plow pneumonia shall be found, and is whol s and highly detrimental to the wos are engaged, a8 Well as to the b -st interests of th it demands at our hands a pointed and emphatic deni Such a course has never been contemplated by the catt disonso staff, und although the course pursued at Blissvi! may have appeared to support the current i udopted fur this one case only, to meet the ex conditions and the unusual risks of infection, aud these conditions are to be again encountered in the course of our wor! therofore, assure di dd milkmen that t milk shall not be interrupted for a si day if they will ue forward and co-operate with the staff, Our sing! is to promptly remove ull sick animals. fro ind to disinfect the places, and in so doing we but really are giving th © to tl that tho imiik from places shall couveyin likely moved wo can 0 snio of 8 airect! public Pure and good, In other words, thouzh our work is prima- rily directed to that end, it will furgish the best possible narantes ax to the quality of the milk sold. It ean only 9 Where dairymen hide the fact of the existence of tha disease in their herds and keep animals that are slightiy affected nnd still yielding @ little milk, that that geeretion can it vjectionable, and such persons are defying the law and laying themselves open to the penalty incurred by disovedionce of the Governor's orders, and to the of indemnity for cattle slaughtered if found sick, as ws 3 to the withdrawal of their liconse from the Bourd of Health to sell milke The first two qualities are connected with the desaiionion, of the cattle disease staff; the last, tbat which Involves the suspension of the sale of milk, iz the duty of the Board of in our spocial work. ‘AN APPHAL, FOR CO OPERATION. Duirymen may rost assured that wo have their best in- torosts at heart, that we will perform our duttes in no harsh or invidious spirit: and whilo it {x absolutely necessary that every sick animal shall be promptly destroyed and tho production of the poison urrested, yet we do jealth alone and is not involved all in our power to xtipport ” the ato¢kowrier and secure a ood market for products, We would therefore appeal with cunfidene® to the owners of live stock to cooperate with us in our work, to report to us at once all cases of this disease, and to avoid keeping the sick animals among the other cattle, te decline to inoculate the uninfected stock or to do anything which will increase the material and poags it in buildings whero it m infect other animals in the future. Your interests aro the country’s intorosts. With your hearty co-operation we can speedily remove tha incubus of dises pres digastrously,on this section for over thirty yours, und restore to the nation & foreign live stock trade Sich. teas h Wye recent origir had already grown to # value of $25,000,000 per annum, gated M. BR. PATRICK, IN NEW JERSEY. Professor Chambon submitted his views finally to the Legislative Committee of New Jersey last even- ing in the following terms:—‘In the third stage of leuro-pneumonia, when the exudation occurs in the surface of the pleura and when the hollow caverns are produced “in the tissue of the lungs the meat and the milk are infectious and poisonous.” ~A case of pleuro-pheumonia was reported to Health Inspector Cronin, of Jersey City, yesterday. Tho in- spector visited the stables of of John Price, on Mer- cvios. avenue, Greenville, and ordered that the afflicted cow be despatched. None of the other cattle exhibited symptoms of the disense. UNSOUND AMERICAN EXPORTS, HOW OUR COMMERCE SUFFERS FROM INSUFFI- OIENT INSPECTION—IMPORTANT LETTER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. The Department of State transmitted yesterday to Collector Merritt the annexed important document received from Mr, John Wilson, Cousul at Brussels, Belgium, in relation to spoiled meats and grain shipped abroad by American exporters, with sugges- tions as to remedying the evil. He declares that American commerce must suffer greatly if irrespon- sible inspectors continue to certify to the soundness of exports which on arrival are found to be defec- tive. The letter is as foliows;— Coxsvrate oF tue Uxrtep Sates, Brosstrs. Sir—Several months since # ehipment of American hame arrived in Autworp and wero thero distributed through this country for sale.» large quantity thereof was sent to Brussels and sold in the murket to grocers and small deal- ers, but shortly after these sules had beon mude tho city inspector of moat selzed and condemnod as untit for human food large proportion of the entire lot, upon which several of the purchasers, whose meat had been seized in their and insisted that this action of the inspector was simpl; American hams out of the market, They then came to ma with an argent request that I shoald investigate the mat- ter, as. such geisurom and conflacations were not only Just to them, but were calculuted to seriou: injure the ‘Ameriean trade in this article of food. I immodiatel, iuvestigation, and, notwithstaud- certificates of the Inypector at Autworp nd good quality of the furnishod moe, to say wn compelled to admit that at least a portion of them w: badly spoiled. But upon closely interroxating. the inspec- wre ay to what they considered @ spailed ham I became con- vinced that too sweeping a condemnation had been mado and that they had confiseated a portion of the mont on ver: insufficient grounds, As, however, most of it had tributed before Lwas notified of the seizure I could not verify this conviction by personal inspection nor disprove b; the statement of the city inspector arties aggrieved had to, aubmnit to cu measures for damages again mn what I loarn Hyroagh reli sontes of the frequent arrival at the various ports of Europe of spotied rican hams and buco: wellas grainand especially Indian corn, Lam sttongly ‘convinced that there must be at least some great lack of care in pre- paring aud selecting these articles of food for these mar- Rete Rnd that if we wish to hold this trade a botter system of inspection must be adopted than that which now oxtets, Tiere can be no doubt that much of this class of our merchandise is brought into great discredit either by tha negligence or design of shippers, aided by certificates from their own paid inspectors, und our foreign trade is therely greatly damaged. INSPECTORS’ CERTIFICATES DISREGARDED, In the grain aud produce market of Chicago, and I be- lieve in other similar markets of the the Board of Trade appoints what is den: luspector, But it is » well known tact that almost every exporting hoase has its own paid inspector, who is respon- sible to no other party’ than his emeteres. tor the manner in. which be performs his duty, aod that only in casos of dis- e between buyer and seller, within the limits of t} ‘Trade iutorfore, For the Ine there are. officers beyoud its territorial European couutries, the cortiicates inepectors Gre hut rogardod as haviyg au official character, and are conseququtiy of jo value whatover a cvidence in disputed cases. Tt is wren inany exporters of our food products, buying these pro- Visions us they generally do on the Board of Trade, do not Bivo that attention to shoir quality aud preparytion for shipment that thoy should, aud as a consequence often find themselves with an article on their hands {uferior to which | thes, bargained; and _ althouchh by the regulations of these boards of trade they have th Fight to retuse such » dolivery. being bound by @ forely contract to deliver within a givon time a specified quality of grain, they resort to many questi orderto cover the defects of thoir injudiciow Indeed, so frequently do our exports now arrive badly backed, spoiled, or othorwise in in: 4 that purchasers lieve conse to attach any importance to cortification of inspectors, and hedge themselves with con- ditions of delivery whieh greatly c cate trade and de tor many honest men pbarking in is, . A REMEDY PHOPOSKD. As our exporters of thi produce are archases, unprecedented efforts tha markot of Buropo, thele future anccoes, notwithianding the sapetior ehurel Sd enjoy, will greatly depend upon Wiig ot the starchaediee they of “iin, Ot least, must necessarily be by sample, I am inclined to believe that some system of in- spection, having @ government character, would not only see eare and honesty in foroign ship id give & higher sanction ty Ainorican ents, bub bills of d would also diminish the casos of dispute i “tl Be es ral gover Atmont from the general gove Lable thet the true cause of ite andergrading o been much more ouelly, sscorsaiued end in faalt me ore readily dis dif ports of what are known as food prodacts were sub~ Ject to surveillauce of government in before shipment to foreign countries I cannot but think thas better results would follow than under the prosens a} As to the practteatility of shenging to the practte, chang Iinepection T wonld ronpeettuliy. miawont hata yt jun, the f w paid to te and irresponsible in- apectors of this clags of merchandise would amply dofray 08 of such duties porformed by ® government tho custom houses ot the United je that there are good and valid neral govern. the reasons, of whieh I ment should not ot, 1 do duty; but assuming that thore are nm 4 boliove that any measure con- hectod With our foreign trade Would inspire gromter conti. donge in foreign purchasers of this of our products uw the appointment bree general government of sible inspectors w certify as to their quality for shipmont. before hay other measure would 80 surely tend to obviate the di already referred to, or to guard against the oc+ Cumon ot thelr occurrence. Yory Fespocttully, JOUN WELBON, To Hon, Frepanick BewAnd, Assistant Secrotury of Staley Washington, Buussnis, Feb. 10, 1879, DETECTED BY “SIPPERS,” Faward Murray, of No. 16 Water streot, and Charles H. Bowne, of No. 313 East 114th street, mem- bers of Dr. Crosby's Society for the Prevention of Crime, mado another raid Sunday night upon the Harlom saloon keepers. Having assumed an appro. the pair were prompt; itted side doors of some twelye or fil drink! 4 pl They took a “sip” of whiskey in each an then retired The proprietors did not sus) and the amateur detectives had a good time to themselves. Yosteriay morning Messrs, Murray and Bowne obtained warrants from Justice Bixby, which wero —* the hands of Officers Flanagan, Sin- clair, Walters and Hitchcock, ‘The com; ant ac. companied the latter ieee out to them the parties who had sold thom liquor. Thefollowing wera arrested and taken to the Harlem Police Court:— Bernard French, of Third avenue and 120th street; Christopher Weisenbach, of No. 1,333 avenue A; Anton Wetnisch, of No. i91 East 126th strect; Jolin Stilson, bartender for John Nolan, of Sovond avenue and 124d street, end Henry Hoover, for J, Ebling, of No. 2,862 Third avenue. Justice Bixby id each in $100 to Fon s:4 6 Basse pac Sessions, Other offenders are trembling & visit tro: the Harlem Gourt Squad, iy