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two candidates now before the ConEenuon r',ss 1ee
delegation will vote solfdly for hlalne: ~ -
| unit rule will not be enforced out auopeeo 40 q
| matter Of State policy.
The absence of all stmachfne" Influences
or packing processes was very notaole III LII
diana when compared with the proceedings
of the New York and Pennsylvania ConVcn-
tions run by Conkltng and Cameron. Ihere
was no attempt to stifle the preferences OF
any part of the Republican voters. There
were no instructions, except in one dlstrlc''
and no resolutions calculated to create dis
sensions in the party. The Blaine men were
nominally in the majority everywhere, put
they took no advantage OF their preponderat-
ing strength to crush out the minority. The
delegation is of character that is free to act
at Chicago for the best interests OF the Re-
publican party. There were indications that
Mr.. Washburne can command even larger
Republican vote than Mr.. Blaine In the State,
and that the delegates are ready to agree
upon him or any man who shall develop the
strongest hold upon the people. The only
stubbornness exhibited was in the uniform
opposition to the third-ter1n movement, and
even that sentiment was not manifested In
all offensive or injurious manner. The Indl-
ana delegation to Chicago, though inferior In
numbers, will exercise more Influence in the
National Convention, for these very reason3
than will either the New York delegation or
the Pennsylvania delegation.
The popular sentiment Of Indiana IS en-
titled to the most respectful consideration in
the Republican Convention. Indiana is a
doubtful State as well as New York. 1t is
the one State-the only State-to which the
Republicans can turn in case the loss Of New
York be threatened. If the Republican sen
tlment of Indiana be avcrse to the third
term movement as the action Of the District
Conventions certainly indicates, then the
National Convention cannot commit itself to
the third-term idca without incurring the
danger Of losing votes enough to make Dem
ocratic success In that State certain. This
danger does not exist III any other case.
Washburne would probably poll a much |
larger vote in Indiana than any other candl-
date could, because of the powerful German
support he would attract to his side; Blaine |
would undoubtedly poll the full Republican
vote; and If Grant is nominated the Hoosier
Republicans will do the best they can for the
ticket. There is strong faith in Indiana that
Blaine can carry. the State, and a moral Ger
tainty that Washburne would sweep it If the
Convention placed him on the track.
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In the Convention retained their 1lsnI " op
point their own anti-third-term delegates &c
Chicago. When this had been done the; dei
egates representing anti-third~term districts
were instructed to vote at Chicago 1or t'lio
term along with those representing alsIrlcts
in favor of third term. The ne" 1ofk
delegation will thus come to Chicago ap-
parently unit, but really divided against IL
self. Thirty of the seventy delegates Young
for q third term under compu1slon VIII ex-
press their opposition thereto in every way
except through their instructed votes. What
respect can the New York delegation COM
mand at Chicago under these conditions
What moral Influence can 1t hope to exer-
cise2
There is one essential feature In this struR-
gle over the third term which has been ig-
nored by both Cameron and Conkilng' Dy
both the Pennsylvania Convention ana tne
New York Convention. Tie rule adopted oy
the National Convention at Clnclnhau III
1876, which is binding upon the party until
repealed, and which will have the force OF
precedent In making up the rules Tor the
government of the Chicago Convention, pro-
vided that every delegate should vote lndl-
vidually according to his own preference or
the sentiment of those whom he directly
represented, without regard to any unit
rule" which a majority OF the delegation
might seek to enforce, and without regard to
any instructions that had been given by the
State Convention. This procedure was
based upon the true principle that the people
of every Congressional District represent
ed in the National Convention have the right
tog1ve expression to their preference through
their delegates. It was a proper and COM
mendable negation of the State~soverelgnty
doctrine in Republican Convention. II the
Cincinnati rule be continued at Chicago, as
justice to the people and Republican prin-
ciples demand 1t shall be, then the anti
third-term delegates from New York and
Pennsylvania will be at liberty to vote ac-
cording to their conviction and the desire OF
their constituents. The State Convention
instructions will be binding only upon the
four delegates-at1arge from each State, ap-
pointed by a majority in the State Conven-
ton which gave the instructions.
Under the peculiar conditions in which the
New York and Pennsylvania delegations
have been made up, their votes at Chicago
will either be divided, or represent in large
part the votes of men under partisan duress
voting against their own convictions and the
instructions OF the districts which gave them
seats in the Convention.
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AVOIDING TIE POINT.

The management Of The TRIBUNE en-
crossed prettymuch all the editorial thoughts
and space of yesterdays 10. One Of its
articles it commenced in this way:
In yesterdays TRIBUNE Mr. Mcdtll had a long
and powerful leader Hgainst the third term, and
In the course OF that lender he frequently cried
out to the friends of Grant to give him reason
why this great bugnboo would not prove dis
astro1s to tue party # Grant should be nominate
to other people, will put Mr.. Mcdill to sleep in q
heavenly calm and with a smile Of peaceful con-
tcntmcnt about his lips.
We looked with some curiosity, mingled
with little hope, for IN answer to the
serious matter Of that powerful leader"
but found nothing except paragraph quoted
from an article in THE TRIBUNE Of last No
vember, that Washington might have accept
ed another election after the expiration of
Adams term,+ if he had lived, in. the event
that the American people had asked his
services; and we still think so.
after an interregnum Of four years, If the
office had again been pressed upon him by
his countrymcn irrespective of party and
without an opposing candidate, we believe
that he would have felt it to be his duty; to
accept it. But George Washington was the
last man in America who would have ac-
cepted third term of the Presidency if tend
cred to him through the machinery of the
"unit rule" which compels nearly half the
delegates Of the greatest States to vote for
candidate to which both they and the districts
they represent are bitterly opposed. Wash
ington would not have considered third
term nomination thus secured and procured
as one that he could accept; nor is it yet
known that Gen. Grant will allow himself to
be candidate by such unrepublcan means
and devices.
But the most serious matter in the s' long
and powerful leader" to which the 10. at
tempts to reply is not so much as mentioned
by it, but is carefully avoided and eyaded.
Some very thin wit and slushy invective are
substituted for reply to the portions Of the
'8leader" that were too "powerful - to be
grappled with, at least until instructions are
received from the boss at Washington.
Here is what THE TRIBUNE said, which
the 10. has not answered nor even ventured
to refer to, much less to give the assurances
without which even it will hesitate to ex-
press confidence OF victory:
Aside from the third term issue oe- n. thara
undoubtedly exists in the minds Of the n3asses
well as Of those who accustomed tn ref1n~ff
seriously, O perple1iug doubt whether a thir1
term for Gen. Grant would bring about q rt.stn-
ration OF the machiEb and spells systen, With
disgraced the last Administration, squandered
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ANEW installment OF peppey corresponds
ence on the subject Of the quarrel between
Gen. ". T. Sherman and Gen. II. Y. Boyn-
ton is given in the Washington dispatches.
Gen. Sherman writes that he holds himself
in readiness to defend himself in any libel
suit that may be brought, having already Sc
cured the legal services Of Senator Matt It.
Carpenter, but does not encourage the idea
of Military Court of Inquiry to try ques-
ton Of purely civil character. It is there
fore to be presumed that this Is about the
last that will be heard Of the unpleasant
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For tie onense OF declaring prefer
ence for the nomination Of Gen.
Grant as the Republican candidate for
the Presidency. Robert T. Smith, the Col
lector Of Customs at Mobile, has been asked
BY Secretary Sherman to tender his resigna-
ton. 1t appears that ITO reason exists for
this demand other than that Collector Smith
does not favor the candidacy Of Secretary
Sherman. He declares he won't resign,
ind that 3lr. Sherman is at liberty to remove
him for that cause if he thinks proper.
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SAYS the Philadelphia Press, which fau,

SAYS the Philadelphia Press, which fayors
Blaines nomination and denounces the sttfing
unit gag rule imposed on the Blaine delegates tn
the Chicago Convention from PennsJlynnia:
The National Blaine Club" a publication IN
Washington, states that it has assurances that
more than tlcenty Of the ffty-four district dele
for Mr. Blaine on the first ballot and that there.
after they will be Joined by many Others. This
revolt Is evidently attracting attention 1t ash
ington. It is stated in several newspapers that
4 confidential agent Of the Grant men IS now
in Pennsylvania, armed with full AUTHORITY to
stay the revofr-if he can find out how to Dc it
If he will make the Press his organ OF cou1mu1f.
record his experience. He'd better not agsra-
vnte the "kickers," as they might harm him
And yet we doubt whether "hckling" themwtl
answer the purpose. The case appears to bedes-
peratc. The people are an unmanageabie ele-
ment when reused, and this appears TO be their
present condition.
, 1880-02-27

The amendments to the Land laws of the
United States proposed by the Commission
appointed to investigate the subject are
most of them clearly just and proper There
is an immense body Of land, especially in the
eating, perhaps, million square miles; other
bodies are not arabic without irrigation,
while the remainder is divided among land
fit for pasturage and that which is known as
timber and mineral land. The amendments
to the existing laws will propose to confne
the disposal of the arabic lands to the Home
stead law. The privileges of the Timber
Culture law will be confined to those persons
holding lands under the Homestead law.
The most needed and perhaps important
change in the law will be to enlarge the
number of acres Of irrigable and pasture
land which may be entered. The present
limit is 160 acres, but this irrigable land is
worthless unless watered. The irrigatiye
process is too costly to justify any person
holding only 1G0 acres to engage in it; hence
the inability of settlers acting separately to
take such land It is proposed, therefore, to
allow settlers to enter this land at Is cents
an acre, payable in five equal annual INSTALL
ments, the Government retaining the title
until the land shall have been irrigated, or
until at least So per acre shall have been ex-
pended for that purpose. This will offer in
ducements to settlers to occupy lands which
are now not habitab1e at all, and therefore
remain barren waste.
Another class Of land is that fit only for
poor pasturage. This land is not nrable, not
irrigable, is untimbered, and not mineral. It
is fit only for pasturage, and can only
be employed when in tracts admitting of
long ranges for cattle. A homestead Of 160
acres Of this land Is Of course valueless. It
is proposed to allow persons to enter such
land in large quantities, as well the irriga-
bic as the pasturage lands, and to allow
twenty or more families to unite in forming
q village settlement, and to reside there
without prejudice to their homestead rights
on the larger tracts used for pasturage or in
process of irrigation. Two thousand five
hundred and sixty acres Of pasturage landsare
to be regarded as equivalent to 160 acres of
arabic lands, and these pasturage lands and
the irrignble lands are to be offered to actual
occupants in large quantities as an induce
nlent for them to be taken up All these
changes in the law are proposed in order
to have the immense tracts which are now
impossible for occupancy taken up and
eventually reclaimed by actual settlers.
Practically such amendments will vastly ;il-
crease the area Of land open to settlement
under the Homestead law.
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BOARD OF TRADE DELIVERIES.

Leading members of the Board Of Trade in
this city have been for q long time past ex-
ercised in regard to the risks attendant on
making deliveries in the usual way on con-
tracts. The warehouse receipts for grain
and provisions, which are as truly property
as bank-notes are money, are carried through
the streets By messengers In large quantities,
and often delivered over the counter without
waiting for the money in the hurry Of getting
the stuff out on the first or last business day
Of the month. The plan endangers loss
through negligence, and gives opportunities
for swindling on a big scale; the wonder be-
ing that the latter has not been attempted
more than two or three times in the history
Of the trade. A change would have been
made much sooner but for the existence OF
the wcll-known legal difficulty in the way Of
proving actual delivery unless the ware
house receipts have actually been presented
to the buyer.
1t is now proposed to so amend the rules Of
the Board Of Trade as to permit the seller to
send q written notice to the buyer to the
effect that he is ready to deliver the property.
The notice must, however, state in detail the
warehouse receipts proposed to be delivered,
and the contract price; also the net value of
the property at that price. The service Of
such notice is to be held as valid tender of
the property on time contracts, under the
rules of the Board; provided the property is
actually delivered, or is shown to have been
ready for delivery on presentation Of the
notice by the buyer or his agent. The in
tegrity Of the notice is guarded by pro-
vision to expel from membership any person
found guilty OF issuing such notice without
having the property in his possession, or dis
posing of the same except in the manner
provided by the rules which include means
Of action in cases of default.
There is nothing in the proposed change Of
rules to prevent parties from delivering re-
ceipts as at present, if they wish to do so.
The object is simply to obyiate the dangers
which beset the present method OF transact
ing this part Of the business; and the details
Of the proposed new rule seem to have been
framed so as to make working under it
smooth, and satisfactory to both parties. 1t
speaks volumes for the commercial integrity
Of the members Of the Board that the absence
of such q rule has not been taken advantage
Of ere this to defraud on mammoth scale.
, 1880-02-27
POLITICAL POINTS.

The defeat of Mr.. Curtis is due to MS
known political honesty; and when, to ao'''ss nss
the cause Of Gen. Grant, it becomes necessary =
thrust political honesty into the bacKg1ouhe.
what good can be expected from the cause ~
from the man who profits by such transac''ons
It will be like the false hope Of expecting hss
grow on thstles.-Boston HerdM- =
The anti-Grant Republicans OF AIoany
have printed an address giving their feason, ss
for not fayoring Grants nomination. In II lA''
say:
The Republican party was strong when ne 1ee w
elected. Dissatisfaction was rnmpantr oca,ade ande
the close Of his first term, promises ol uIe II .ho
ment we're made, but never kept, and u aashtie liz
close OF the second term It was 1oT Tpan.,nhIic- "
doubtful who was President, and the Hepuon1t Hepnnt
ans were minority in Congress ana Il ~. u.a1 1r-
should be again elected we prnphcsg u -" Wv ~
suit, and worse one for the Kepuoca.n hiift hp;ifty
So much for Gen. Grants historical aVa1iap'A''
Thurlow Weed writes to the editor Of tao
New York Tribune on the third-term quesuon -
a calm and Judicial spirit He says:
There are, in the judementnf large c1ai1 ~
Republicans, objections to third term oo.t lan tn
hons. Usages, in the course Of time ro*renI oort@
possess the strength OF ennctmen.s. ,tinI. ref
for example, has no written COt15tltuuon; ' ~
usage has given her q form Of governmeIhse Zen
we'll defined and binding rs It could nann Tatson
by = fundamental law: washington, sG sf;r after
serving two terms, loft examples WORTHY u a1ist
tatfon. IT, therefore. exisc4cy saoatac cennf mt
demanding the reconciliation OF Fresioene aetane- u
that exigency will be manifested by q sponehIn nnhIcn
Gus popular moyementaa H. m0vefin ,nrfnafinn urder
other circumstances would be nnflesirao1e;; o1ee;;,nlT
THY yiew Of the question after 1f,setg tst
yent1ons were called in Pennsylvania ai1 - r ~.
York before the public mind @ was PHenf Senator
Blaine, Secretary Sherman, and Mr. "asnodas ":anda IS
are recognized by their respec6,ves Eve lell and Nj of
candidates for the Presidency. Encn anu aner+hr. 81
these gentlemen arc capable and tr1lsl"oti Inui-
Either Gun be elected II hs haImqnonst ,,4 q}nortan IN
this aspect Of the question. that our deleSaht leSghout
should go to the National Conrentl66hi TRnnub-
Instructions? If intelligent aud reliable hsput mt
Icans are designated ..s delegates may tne5 The
be safely trusted to ascertain c ana esaapntI@entf
With delegation appointed In accortlancsd d tafk
the views Of Congressional dist11ctss atu of
FREQ to act upon the latest and best reaecun ufunnW
popular opinion, Gen. Grant, nomfnnuon nther
be vfndicated by his election: Il, however, If
and Objectionable methods obtain the sucs<@:
cur ticket would be hazarded-
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knew to be true. Nobody can tell WIN !, 49,
candidate Of the people until the peon1a lug oe
named a candidate. Ger. Grant mav ha .a'e ~
candidate, and he may not be. It Is attooo.saat sat
premature to say who the candidate Ut thu W.
pie is. On the other hand, it is clear thar ~ ~
Grant is the candidate Of some Of the moe esn"
spicuous professional politicians In this cn,,s.
including Senators Cameron, Conklins, cnr.a!'
ter, and Logan, each manager" in his sts.t psn~
and each at the head Of an organized po]itfne,
machine. Some Of the politicians WIN asa. a,n,.eu
Gen. Grant are Russell Errett and secretatr ~
State Quay, Of Pennsylvania; Gen. Artbnu
ex-Collectors Arthur and Murphy, Superintan,'
ent Of Insurance smyth, and other u.
New York; Long Jones, Dnn'l Shepard ~, y,
others equally prominent of Illinois, and a..a
Der Of Carpenters henchmen in W...' Wiscoa.a
though there the support from au classe. -
notably weak. 1t was almost ludlcrous ~ ~ =
Larned to make such statement befora ~. ~.
crowd at the Pacific Hotel Wednesday. rhtos
contained some Of the most adroit political ,n.s
ayers In the State, not few Of whom Rere -.
Gen. Gr1lut.
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DR. BRASDRETH, who lately died at his
home in Sing Sing, N. T., left very large
fortune, but, when 1t is divided between his
wife, his seven daughters, and his six sons,
the share of each will not be 50 considerable
after all. The Brandreth House, on Broad
way, valued at s4oo, 900, is bequeathed to the
daughters; the remainder Of his property,
consisting OF real estate, trademarks, and
stocks, goes to his sons, subject to q payment
of 81, 600 per month to his widow, who also
retains the Sing Sing homestead.
, 1880-02-27
THIRD-TERMISM IN NEW YORK.

Mr.. Conkling may be said to have won q
victory in the New York Convention very
similar to that which Don Cameron achieved
in the Pennsylvania Convention. Cameron
carried the day by q majority, Conkling by
81 majorjty-relatiyely about the same. The
Instructions of the two Conventions were sub
stantiaily alike, and they misrepresent about
the same proportion Of Republican voters
who expressed themselves through their del
egates as opposed to third term.
There is this peculiarity about the New
York instructions: they were carried by a
majority in the Convention made up in most
part from the districts that give Democratic
majority. The $50 delegates who voted
against the instructions to vote for Grant
represented the Republican counties without
which New York cannot be carried for the
Republicans. It is estimated by those on the
spot that, if the vote on the instructions had
been confined to the Republican districts,
there would have been majority of so
against the third-term ,dictum. This fact is
Important as showing that Conkling's instruc-
tions do not fairly represent the effective NIL
jority of his party in New York State.
AAA~ <At4AAANO VI A4AV 4sC" AOAh AC!Es5dl1tA
to the Chicago Convention will be anomalous.
The Convention instructions require that it
shall vote solidly for third term, whereas
30 out of the 70 delegates will be personally
opposed to third term, and represent con-
stituencies equally opposed thereto. This
curious condition Of things has bee N brought
about By q partial failure of Conkling's pro-
gram. 1t was designed that the = machine !"
should appoint tlird-term delegates from
the anti-third-term districts. This was to be
brought about by taking from the anti-Grant
districts the right to appoint their own dele
gates, and by comforting this privilege upon
the Grant districts. That is to say, the
majority in tbs New York Convention
was to dictate general instructions and
then select unanimous delegation to
carry them out This program would
have deprived every district in New York Of
its representation in the Chicago Convention
with the exception Of those that had ma
jority i'll favor Of a third term. This tyran-
nical proposition failed. It was too perspicu-
ously dictatorial and unfair. The result was
that the districts which we're antl-third term
, 1880-02-27

TIE alarming condition of affairs in Russia
continues Fresh evidences of the activity
Of the Nihilists are being discovered hourly,
and the greatest exertions are being made to
discover the conspirators and to trace their
operations. St Petersburg is almost in a
state Of siege. The populace attribute the
recent attempts on the life of the Car to the
University students, and threaten to burn
the University and lynch the students on the
anniversary OF the Cars accession. Several
Of the most active Nihilists have left St.
Petersburg and sought refuge In Geneva and
, 1880-02-27

Inndon. The Panslavists, in the meantime,
are reported by Berlin paper to be prepa1-
inp the minds Of the people for an aggressive
foreign policy. Another account states that
tha Gar will soon announce many important
constitutional reforms, and the release Of
several political prisoners. Should the pro-
nosed constitutional measures be Of COM
nrehensiye and radical character, they may
have more effect in putting an end to con-
spiracics than the repressive measures Of
Gen. Gourko, the precautions OF the RUSSIAN
detectives, or policy of conquest and
ofpressi0n
, 1880-02-27

THERE are indications that a vigorous
lnti-third-te11n demonstration among Mis-
,ouri Republicans will soon be made, and
,ome expectation is had that the delegation
rom that State at Chicago will oppose the
nomination of Grant. 4 meeting Of anti
:hird-tcrmers is called for tomorrow night
IN St. Louis, whereat measures will be taken
looking to some active work to prevent the
7ote of Missouri from being cast for Grant in
the National Convention.
, 1880-02-27

TIE Louisiana Senate adopted aresolution
yesterday suspending Senators Denas,
Cahen, Sinlms, and Stewart, charged with
contempt In signing the Kellogg memorial.
The Sergeant~at-Ar1ns has been ordered to
keep the rccalcitrant members in custody
until further orders from the Senate.
, 1880-02-27
TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES.

TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE has established bsanc
ses for the receipt Of subscriptions md advertise
xuente - follomB:
NEW YoRK-Room = Tribune Building. FIT. Mo
FADDEN, Manager.
GLASGOW, Sco&land-AlAo's American News
Agency. 81 Renneld-st-
LONDON, Eng.-Ameficau Exchange, - Strand.
1aENHY F. GuL1G, Agent
WASHINGTON. D. C.-13l9 F street
, 1880-02-27

scared, and expected rather rough treatment
at every station passed. They may have had
more to do with the murders at the Agency
than they would like to have proved against