The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-02-27
ORR wAsH1NGroN LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 20. 1873.

As the days become less before the
close of this session, tie anxiety Of those
having bills expected to be acted upon
increases. A strong lobby has been ia
| ATTENDANCE all the session, the most OF
! which are the continuation oflast session
Lit was surprise to everyone. even the
Democratic members to behold the Hon
Fernando Wood. OF New York, as slim
1 as bean-pole aud straight as an arrow
advocating the impeachment of Vice
President Colfax In tie Senate gallery
your correspondent sat beside gentle
man, formerly an attachee OF one of the
Metropolitan journal, who exclaimed
when the resolution of Mr.. Wood was
read Mayor Wood is the last man
whom Brooks should select TO offer such
a resolution" why" says he, Nv ood
is no better than Bill Tweed Tweed
has copied after Wood in his raScaly
transactions did Wood and have his just
desersts, he would now be saving term
ia the peniteptiary"
+ | saw in the Senate yesterday, num-
Der of witnesses in the Poneroy investi-
cation. One of them told me that Col
Yorkes 5 character ranuot be impeached
MIR. o.. who Is a member of the Kansas
Legislature, said, when referring to
Yorke: Il might have done the same
thing myself. but l lacked the moral
courage. Over twenty are here in all
they are about equally divided as
friends and enemies of the Senator
In the absence of Senator Sumner, a
bill is now pending 10 Congress for sta
tue for the late Chief Justice Taney
1t will be remembered that some years
ago Mr. Sumner defeated bill for this
purpose, because of the righteous deci-
sion of the justice that negroes have no
rights that white men are bound to res
pect- !" | well remember his strong
speech on the subject. in which he gave
, English precedents Of men who had dis
fraced themselves by retarding rather
IL an advancing the interests of their fel-
! lowmen.
1t is rumored that Senator Pomeroy
will present rebutting testimony, and
show that Yorke is perjurer and un-
worthy of the confidence of friend or foe
that it Pomeroy comedies Of having any
mones Transactions with Yorke at all, it
will be IN respect TO the establishment of
a national bank.
From the Statistical Bureau we learn
the coal DEPOSITS of England are declin-
ing in production and are giving evident
signs of exhaustion. Other deposits are
being continually developed The coal
fields of North America exceed million
of square miles, while later discoveries
indicate that China alone possesses at
least 400, 600 square miles. These facts
indicate that the coming chapter of civ
lllzatlon will be intensely industrial IF
| England, with work able area of about
5000 square miles, has been able to
exert a dynamic power of machinery
equal to the entire muscular power Of
the human race, what may we expect
when the resources of the entire world
are developed?
A very modest and unassuming little
man is DIR. Hayden, the Superintendent
OF the Geological Surveys of our Terri
tories But few have exhibited more in
tellieence and energy in u great enter
prize than he. His last report on Mon
| tana Is especially valuable, and is ia pro-
cess of translation into several foreign
languages. Many new and important
localities were discovered and their char
acters first presented to the public in
these reports The influence of these
great areas upon the development of oul
nationality cannot fail to be very great.
Congress is now considering the proprie
ty of enlarging the appropriation to this
work. in order that 1t may be still more
efficient.
The people here generally support the
demand of the President, that the organ
ic law Of Utah shall be so amended tha
the territ oriai legislature shall no Longer
have the power to thwart the anti poly
gamlc legislature Of Congress As
consequence the Saints are agitating tn,
matter of a removal, and propose to bu,
up one Of the Sandwich Islands.
theocracy Is no longer tclerable in the
present age Of free thought The foolisl
experiment OF lust and tyranny inaugu
rated by Joe Smith is very nearly played
out
The exports of treasure from Sal
Francisco. by sea, during 1872, amount
ed to $29 $50, 433 against $l7,253, 34f
during the previous year, showing an in
crease of over $l2, 900, O00 The pruduc
ton of the precious metals on the PaciG
coast has been gradually declining for
number of years. The above figure:
show reaction against the downward
movement, which Is especially encourag
. ing in these later days, considering tn
heavy balances of trade against us. Ih
difference is to be made good in spondu
ticks; 1t is very assuring fact that ou
production OF the latter is SO coplous.
Our home production Of railroad iron, during 1877:
reached nearly million (gI5 0o0) TONS while the fol
eign import was but little over halt as great-529
5el. In 1850 the imported iron was nearly thre
times much as the domestic product. During tn
current year ii is estimated that home productio
will enlarge to 25O,0o0 tons while tie import wi
scarcely reach half million. The chief source
| foreign import is England, where the iron indu
try has become seriously deranged of later years
the enhanced cost of production. Pennsyvania prC
duced about half our aggregate in 1871 but the in
dnat hasb nay of lat in
| New York Ohio, Maryland W iscousin, Massach,
setts, Michigan, Maine, Indiana Tennessee, Missouri
New Jersey, Georgia, West Virginia and Kentuck,
| Illinois is rapidly eyertaking Pennsylvania in thi
| productions fact omnous to free trade dogmas
! For several years project has been vgorousl
pressed on Congress for an appropriation to assist
the great silver mining enterprises located upon til
Gomstock lode in Nevada Adolph Sutro, a Germa
engineer, has engineered this movement with grea
pertpacity, and said to be fully confident of put
| ting it through this session. The groundupon whc
Congress is urged to interfere is that by the
| production of silver which this measure would :,
cure, great financial benefit, greatly transcendin
| the cost of the work itself, would accrue.
The statement of the Mutual Life Insurance Con
pany for 1873 shows a reserve of cash in hand hel
for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the Sc
ciety, of than fifty eight and half millions
| dollars The expenses of the management of tll
company during the last year are less than pc
| cent. of its receipts. When consider that on a
average the life insurance business of the countr
the policy holders 80 per of the premium
actually paid n and that no other company has eve
| succeeded in bringing its expenses down to low
| point this, ths brilliant example set by this
| by far the largest life insurance company in tn
. world is most encouraging. both for honesty an
| economy in the ADMINISTRATION of all public trust
| The guaranty which the company gives to the pull
| lie of honestly and economy IN the administration,
the project transparency of its busnes at all point
Ii secrets. and where othsr moneyrei corpor,
tions such railroads. banks, Credit Mobliers, an
| the like spend money freely to keep secret all the
| transactions, the only expose of the greatest an
| most successful assurances Is that for making know
INFINITELY and in detail all their transactions 1t
| within the power of every citizen to look in upo
| them, and TO trace. from the very beginning, ever
dollar with which they entrusted until is hnaIl
| paid ont in the interests of The policy holders
The aristocracv and pentocracy of England ar
scarcely less worsted by the result ;: the late 81
holdsrs rebellion than the asiors in it. Durin
| Iseo the South supplied to the English cotton man
ufactsre 0o0 pounds of lint, the basis of tn
| srandest industrial monopoly both of raw nlateria
| and manufacture, the world has ever known. 1t
scarcely possible to estimate the enormous infueuc
| of the break up of this monopoly SO every moEop
ly seems to hays within 1t the seed of decay Views
was slavery 50 aggreved when 1t fooshly measure
| arms with freedom. II is q thing of the pas
| The railway monopoly, now so defiant and ove
| shadowIng, will soon follow tie Tweed ring "alon
| the lambsat pathway of attenuatioa-'
L The hlu- hlUx demonstrations of Georgia denocrs
at the late election have reacted disastrousl
the cotton interest of the State. by provoking
| alarming emigration of coIored laborers the col
| ton States further west Interested parties froI
| these States are intriguing TO stimulate the NOV,
but their efforts wonld have been OF but litfl
| effect il the democracy had net developed settle
purpose to reinauguraie the old mobncratic ru
This will, doubtless, act settler upon the