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FEVER IsNEsTIGAYioS.
Partial Report Of the Homeopathic Com
mission.
New Orleans PicaYune.

mission.
New Orleans Picayune.
The homeopathic yellow-fever commissioners
in the report of their Investigation in this city
say:
Yellow fever is d specific disease caused by
morbid germs, which requires for its genera
alton and diffusion q combination of factors.
among which are the aggregation of human
beings in a foul atmosphere, high eInporature
long-continued calm weather humidity. peg
tilential exhalations from the earth, and
deficiency of ozone in the air.
They class the fever as being both imported
and indigenous. The national health is much
too i'm portant TO be intrusted to inefficient
boards OF health. They recommend the crea
ton OF a permanent sanitary com mission com
posed OF medical men, yellow fever experts
and scientists, Raid commission 10 devote itself
exclusively to matters of public hygiene, and
| to be well salaried by the government.
The present quarantine system will not keen
out tropical fever, and the following recon-
mendatlons are made to prevent the inporta-
ti2n of yellow fever:
l. An intelligent oversight Of all the tropical
ports during the summer months. The SAM
tary commission should have agents in all those
ports connected either with or consulates or
with responsible commercial houses. 1t should
be their business to keep the commission 1e-
gularly advised of the appearance o. progress
of the fever, the sailing OF every infected yes
sci, and to furnish all information required
2. Thedeciarstion CT discri,nina auaran-
tine only against ports VIGOROUSLY infected
regulated in character and duration by the
actual facts obtained by the commission.
8. The thorough cleansing, disinfection and
refrigeration of every vessel arriving from vel
low fever ports during the summer mouths.
e. The sanitary surveillance for thirty DAYS
after landing of all persons coming from
tropical ports and remaining in the city.
The germs OF yellow fever exist here, and to
prevent their Development, the following meas
ures are recommended:
l. The thorough drainage Of the CITY.
4 The constant irrigation or flushing of the
street cutters and canals by fresh river water.
pumped IN daily by steam apparatus.
.. The consumption of all the garbage by
cremation.
4. The generation of ozone to supply its de-
flclency in the atmosphere when detected bv
the proper Instruments.
In closing remarks the commission alInd, In
public hygiene as babe. new born. and the
sanitary commission would be the one to de-
velop it. Their final report Will not be made
for some time.
lie commission has adjourned to work nv
sections at Vicksburg Memphis, Chattanooga
and Mobile, DR.. Holcombe will attend 10 the
commission at this point
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GENERAL CAPIrAL NOTES
The S,yrer Dollo,.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.-The House committee
on banking and currency heard Representative
Burchard, of Illinois, in advocacy of his bill
to prohibit any discrimination by national
banks against the standard silver dollar. Mr..
Chittenden, of the committee, made an argu-
ment in reply. Gen. Ewing submitted sub.
stitute for Buchard's and all other pending
bills relative to the silver dollar new meas.
ure embracing three propositions, viz: First,
that any national bank which discriminatea
against the standard silver dollar
shall be placed in liquidation and have
it's circulating notes Withdrawn by
tue government. Second, to make United
States notes aud standard silver dollars inter
changeable at the treasury. Third, to provide
Tor exchange at the minis of standard silver
dollars for trade dollars and The recoinage of
the latter into standard dollars, with prohi-
bltlon against the further coinage of trade dol
lars of the present weight and fneness. The
committee without action adjourned until af-
ter the holiday recess
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TIE HdRBoR CONVENTION

The convention which assembled in this
city yesterday to consider the question OF
improving our water highways, was an ex
cellent gathering. Not only the attendance
but the letters received showed the great in
terest felt in this movement. The real bust
ness Of the convention will be transacted to-
day, and there Is every evidence that it will
wise and strong. The committee on sta
tlstlcs is engaged in preparing an elaborate
report, which will demonstrate the necessity
of the aid which the government is called
upon to render. This convention will set
an Irresistible ball in motion which can never
cease rolling until the seaboard is trans
planted from the Atlantic coast to Mime
sotas lake port-Duiuth, The convention
should, and doubtless will, confine itself en-
tireiy to the objects specified i'll the call
the improvement Of Duluth harbor and the
straits OF the Sault Ste. Marie.
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ANOTHER PERIL.

Startling Discovery bya Washington Cor
respondent--T7.e Pension Office ns n Pol;t
icuI Engine.
Washington Special (Dec. 16l to Chicago
Times.
A correspondent living III Washington, in
private letter to Mr.. Springer, conveys, as
he thinks, some very startling and important
political revelations, which he says will be of
value to the Democratic party in the cam
palgn of 1880. He thinks he has discovered
scheme which, it carried out by aid of an
act OF Congress, will place the entire coun-
try under the official control of the Republi-
can party. His object is to disclose this
piece OF political strategern, in order that the
Democratic party may be able to take time
by the foreiock aud thwart the execution of
the plan. His discovery is substantially az
follows: The commissioner Of pensions in
bis annual report calls attention to his former
report, in which he recommended that the en-
tire Union be divided into sixty districts.
and that each district be organized into
session court, to be presided over by ono
learned surgeon and ono jsension clerk.
These officials are to be appointed by the sec.
rotary of the interior, and to hold Office dur
ing his pleasure. These pension courts are
to be held for the purpose of taking evil
dence In pension claims, and which will, the
correspondent thinks, work a cruel hardship
on pensioners, and put them to an expense
that they in their impoverished condition can
Ill afford to bear. Besids, very MANY Of
them. being wounded and disabled, cannot
travel. These considerations, he says, should
alone defeat the measure, but here is
the real object, as impressed
on his mind These Nurts and
officials will be under the control. of the Re-
publicans, and subject to the instructions of
the campaign committees and Republican
officials, who will use them as safe channels
through which to circulate all manner of
campaign literature at the expense of the
government. These sixty pension courts to
be foisted on the people under the euise of
reforming the pension service, will be head
quarters for holding and whipping soldiers
and their friends, through them, into the Re-
publican party, and for collecting from pen
sloners and others general campaign fund.
This discoverer says, in conclusion: ~
believe these sixty pension courts have their
origin in the greedy intentions of the
enemies of our free institutions
With Grant as Republican nomi-
nee and this new piece of political machinery
added to the Southern returning boards. Won
will, in 1880, as in 1876, be invited to back
seat, with instructions to yield loyal .obedi-
ence to military dictatorship from which
there will be no very speedy deliyerance.''
The bill creating the military despotism, as
he terms it, was introduced in January last
by Mr.. Rice, chairman of the invalid pen
sion committee, at the suggestion of the
commissioner of pensions. He says that he
communicates the discovery he has made for
the benefit of the soldiers and our common
country, in order that the matter may be
looked into and averted.
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reconstruction of the navy, the committee pro-
vide that the proceeds of the sale OF condemned
and worthless ships be applied to that purpose.

reconstruction of the navy, the committee pro.
vide that the proceeds of the sale of condemned
and worthless ships be applied to that purpose.
THE POTTER COMMITTEE.
Chairman Potter and General Cox will be
the sub committee of the Potter committee to
Continue the investigation of the Louisiana
canvass. They start at the close of this week,
and expect to finish before Congress reassem-
bles. Nothing was said to-day about the cipher
kilograms.
CONTESTED ELECTION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-The subcommittee
on elections to-day heard the final argument in
the contested election case of Frost vs.. Met
calfe, of the Third Missouri district. Each
made an argument in his own behalf. The
case will be reported to the full committee i'm.
medlately after the holiday recess.
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.-Representative Will
llams physicians report a slight i'm provement
in his condition this morning, but no hope Of
his recovery.
YELLOW FEVER.
Among the experts to accompany the com.
mlttee on epidemic diseases to the South, are
DR.. A. 81. Mussey, Cincinnati, and Dr. R. w
Mitchell, Memphis.
NOMINATIONS.
The President has nominated l.. Bradford
Prince. New York, to be chief Justice of the
supreme court of New Mexico; Augustus J
Cassard, Louisiana, consul at Tampico.
INSPECTION OF CATTLE.
The secretary of the treasury has issued 4
circular to collectors of the several ports tina,
they are authorized to cause an inspection t.
be made of cattle proposed to be shipped tc
Great britain, and to give shippers a certificate
that the cattle shipped are free from disease.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
The Senate has confirmed John Lowell, Bos
ton. United States judge of the first judicial
court; Joseph O. Ullery United States marsha
for the southern district of Ohio; Henry s.
foote, superintendent of the mint at New Or.
leans; Lewis j. Sauer, appraiser of merchan-
disc at New Orleans; II. ". Stiner receiver OF
public moneys at Benson, MINI. Pustmasters
w. .; B. Desiring, Ashland, O.; A. l.. Whit
man, Wapakoneto, o.; E. n. Talbot, I.ogans.
port, Ind; A. W. belong, Huntingdon, Ind.
James Gallup, Grand Rapids, Mich: William
A. Noble. Monroe. Mich; Benjamin +. Wright
Charles City, Iowa. Jacob S. Totter, Emporia
Kan; Chauney g. Howley, Girard Kan: John
Parsins, Black River Falls, Wis.
INTEREST PAYABLE.
The secretary of the treasury has authorized
the payment of coupon interest on the public
debt falling due January, 1879, without rebate
and in coin or currency as the claimant may
prefer. Registered interest will be paid in like
manner as soon as schedules can be prepared
CALL
was issued to-day by tic secretary of the treas
ury for $40, 1886, 100, being the rest and residue
of the bonds outstanding under the act Of
March 8, 1865. consols Of 1865, not included in
previous calls.
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blR. CHARLEY FOSTER accused tho Demo
Gratis in the House on Tuesday of q deliberate
fraud in claiming that there had been q re-
daction of expenditures during their majority
IN that body. AS the Democrats drew THEN
information from the records kept by the
Republican officials, Mr.. Fosters charge
necessarily recoils upon them. II is hardly
to be presumed, however, that the treasury
officials would SO manipulate their books as
to show that the Democrats were guilty of
the unpardouablc sin of economy unless they
We're obliged by the facts to do SO, and hence
we may conclude that Foster was guilty of a
fraud in charging the Democrats with pre-
vericaton
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Notable Temperance GatLeriar.

New YORK. Dec. 18.-The cause OF temper.
ance found earnest and able opponents last
evening in a social gathering that took place at
the Hon. VIM. E. Dodges residence. The par.
lors were filed with gentlemen prominent in
benevolent and religious enterprises, the fea-
tnre Of the evening being an address on SIN
temperance in its relation to crime" by Chief
Justice Noah Davis. Rev. DR.. Jno.
Hall, Rev. DR.. VIM. Adams and
Prof. Hitchcock also spoke briefly
on the general subject of intemperance, after
which collation. served. Mr.. Dodge. in
Producing Judge Davis, said to his intelligent
and influential auditors, when they realize that
this country is expanding annually between
$500, 100000 and s700,0O0,O 600 for Intoxicating
drinks, and that an equal amount is expended
as the result of their use, they are convinced
paying the taxes should bestir themselves and
see If something cannot be done, not only to
lessen this financial burden, but to remove the
terrible results of the traffic and use Of intoxi-
eating liquors
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house Of Representatives.

THE HOLIDAY RECESS.
WASHINGTON, Dec 18.-The Senate amend
ment to the adjournment resolution extending
the recess from December Goth to January 7th
was concurred in.
THE YELLOW FEVER COMMISSION.
bill appropriating $4,000 for expenses of
the committee on yellow fever epidemics was
then taken up. The bill passed and the House
went into committee of the whole on tho In
dian appropriation bill.
NOT APPROVED.
The Senate amendments to the fortificsticn
and consular and diplomatic appropriation
bills were non-concurred in.
FEDERAL SUPERVISORS.
Mr.. Atkins, chairman of the committee on
appropriations, asked leave to report back a
resolution calling for information as to the
number OF supervisors and deputy marshals
employed during the late elections, out of
what fund they were paid, etc.
Mr.. Garfield objected.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR TIE INDIANS.
MIR. Sparks, who has charge Of the Indian ap-
preparation bill, explained that it was subatan-
TALLY the bill OF last year, and hat the unani-
nous approval of the appropriation commit
tee, and that it had the approval of the Indian
Office.
Mr.. Hooker opposed the amendment proyia-
ing that the interest due to the Winnebago In
dams shall be paid to the authorized chiefs of
the nation.
Mr.. Luttrell supported the amendment. It
Bas high time that the Indians who were COM
petent to manage their own affairs should have
chance to do SO. He was in favor Of turning
the whole management over to such able men
as sherman and Crooks, instead of leaving it
IN the bands of men who robbed and plunder-
ed the poor Indians. The head of the Indian
department. Hayt, knew no more of Indian af-
fairs than hog did Of cholera.
Mr.. Baker, Ind.,) opposed the amendment.
IT the money was given to the Indians they
would be Immediately swindIed out of it-be
robbed by border men. He defended Hayt
from what he characterized az the vulgar attack
Of the gentlemen from California. Amendment
rejected.
The committee then rose without further ac-
ton.
MIR. Boone introduced a joint resolution ex-
tending until the 1st Of February, the time
within which the joint committee on the trans
fer OF the Indian bureau may report. Passed
Mr. Wood, IN. W asked that the 18th of
January be set aside for consideration of bills
reported from the committee of ways and
means.
mr. Whyte-And what bills?
MIR. WoOd--Not a tariff bill,
Mr.. Whyte--That is satisfactory.
On motion Of Mr.. Whitthorn leave was given
the naval committee to sit during the recess.
NEW BILLS.
The following bills were introduced and re-
ferred
By MIR. Ryan-Giving jurisdiction to the dis
trict and circuit courts of Kansas over the In
dian Territory.
By Mr.. Corlett For the improvement Of the
Yellowstone national park.
Adjourned.
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SENATOR PLUMB. Of Kansas, has reported q
bill modifying the provisions of tho enact
lnent of the last Congress relating to the
posse comitatas. The amendment provides
that the posse comitatus clause in the army
appropriation bill shall not be construed as
applying to the army employed in the pro-
lection OF life and property in the States and
Territories subject to Indian incursions.
The clanse as it now stands does not prohibit
the use OF the army for such q purpose, and
we cannot see wherein the amendment is
needed, except it be to afford loophoe
for the employment of the army for other
purposes, of which tho country does not
approve.
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THE FoRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
The Senate.
MONONaAHFIA RIVER

1fte Senate.
MoNoNGAHELA RIVER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l8.-By Senator Davis, of
West Virginia, making an appropriation for
continuing the improvement OF the Mononga-
hela river. Referred.
QUALIFICATIONS OF JURORS.
I Senator Beck called up the bill introduced by
him the 10th repeating the sections of the re-
yised statutes prescribing additional causes of
disqualification and challenge of an additional
oath for grand and petit Jurors.
senator Conkling said the subject was being
considered by the judiciary committee, and
should not be acted upon without a report
from the committee.
Pending the discussion the morning hour ex-
pred and the subject was laid aside.
TIE CUSTER MONUMENT.
The House bill giving twenty condemned
cannon tothe Custer monument at West Point
passed.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES.
Pending discussion on the bill to amend the
statutes in relation to patents, the Senate went
into executive session, and when the doors re-
opened Senator Harris called up the House Joint
resolution -appropriating ZOO for the pur-
pose OF paying necessary expenses incurred by
committees of the Senate and House investi-
epidemic disease, passed. Senator Paddock
called up the bill recently reported from the
committee on military affairs, to amend the
posse comitatus clause of the army appropri-
alton bill for the present fiscal year. SO as to
provide that it shall not be construed to apply
| to any part of the army or portion thereof en-
gagged in the protection of life and property in
States and Territories subject to Indian insur-
rection. Amendments We're agreed to SO as to
the names of Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado,
Oregon, Nevada and Territories subject to In
dian instructions, etc. The bill then passed
On motion of Senator Window, the Senate
insisted upon it's amendments to the consular
and diplomatic and fertilization appropriation
bills, and committees of conference on these
bills were ordered.
On motion of Senator Beck, the bill discuss
ed during the morning hour to repeal sections
o2O and I'll, revised statutes, was referred to
the committee revision of the laws.
The pension appropriation bill was passed
without material amendment. and the Senate
adjourned.
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THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE Mex
CENSUS,

TIE POSSIBILITIES OF THE NEXT
CENSUS.
The Republicans have recently evolved
from their inner consciousness a new scheme
for retaining control Of the government Of
Ter 1880. It is the mani pulation of the cen.
sns IN such & manner as will deprive the
Southern and other Democratic States OF
their due representation i'll Congress. It is
generally conceded that the population of
the States of the South has remained al
most at standstill for the past ten years,
while those at the West have increased
3 largely. The Springfield Republican, in al
luding to the subject, pronounces the
scheme impracticable from partisan stand
point. 1t states that while the South NAV
have remained as it was ten years since, the
New England States have receded, and will
therefore lose as much, if not more. in rem
resentation, and that while under now ap-
portionment, the South may lose at most
four members, the New England States will
lose at least eeven, while the Middle States
will lose probably two or three. Presenting
that the number of representatives is al
lowed to remain as at present, the loss at the
East would be about nine or ten, that num-
Der would be gained by the West, and there
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The Responsibility Fixed

New ORLEANS. Dec. 1S.-The Unised States
board of local inspectors has rendered decis-
ion in the case of the loss Of the eamboat
Cotton Valley, resulting from collision
with the Charles Morgan. They
fnd the officers of the Cotton Val.
ley responsible for the collision, and have re-
voked the license of Captain NJ. II. Kouutze
and Mate w. A. Duke, and suspended the IL
cense of Pilot A. G. Swain for thirty DAYS.
The board exonerates the officers of the Charles
Morgan from all blame.
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THE Congressional committee on the con-
duct of the navy have determined to give
Robson another chance to save his bacon
by introducing evidence on his own behalf.
It is hardly probable that he will succeed in
proving himself innocent of the charges
laid at bis door, but perhaps it will do no
harm to give him little more rope.
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We hope that Blaine is happy now that
his resolutions calling for an investigation of
the conduct of the Congressional elections
have passed the Senate. The committee to
look after the matter has not yet been ap-
pointed, but VIC take great pleasure in in
yiting them to come to Minnesota at their
earliest convenience. We can give them at
least thirty days work here that will prove
exceedingly interesting to them and to the
country at large.
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GOLD was at par on Tuesday, and all The
big and little resumptionists throughout the
country were in an ecstacy of delight at the
success Of resumption. But the dispatches
failed to state The magnitude of the trans
action in which the precious metal brought
only an equal yolue in greenbacks, and WE
are therefore left in the dark as to whether
it covered dollar or million of dollars
Probably the former amount is nearer The
absolute transaction than the latter.
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-M,SceLLetneona.
THE BLAINE COMMITTEE


WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.-The Democratic Sen
ators met to-day to select their representatives
on the committee of investigation under the
Blaine resolution. Several prominent Repre-
s 9 were also present. number of
Southern Senators were absent. Whyte Ran
som and Salisbury were authorized to prepare
a list Tor appointment by the Vice President,
after ascertaining the views of absent Senators.
There is considerable difficulty in obtaining
the consent OF members of either party to
serve.
THE NEW LOAN,
Subscriptions to the 4 per cent. loan, 81, 297,-
250.
NAVAL AFFAIRS.
The House committee on naval affairs TODAY
amended the bill providing for board Of
assistants to the secretary of the navy. The
provision that the admiral and yice-admiral
should be mem bers OF the board was stricken
out. Instead of appyopriating $4,000, 600 for