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Year: 1874

courthouse have, without knowing il. pre-.
sented to the consideration Of those who
have deeper interests at stake-this ia the
picture Of the future which our business
men have been called or to admire.


Our business connections with Louisiana
are among the most important Of those
which minister to our commercial well.
being. Exchange on New Orleans il y
leading feature Of our banking business,
and loans and advances and credits to
Southern planters and traders largely
occupy our capital. When We say that
this business is parslyzed now we state it
moderately. because if the state Of things
which caused it is continued the inevitable
consequence is death-and this is the re-.
verse OF the picture painted in such glowing
language BY the orators of Tuesday night.
The extent of this paralysis can not be
known to those who have nothing to lose:
the worse evil which impends can not be
appreciated by those who have no sense of
responsibility and know no other guide
than blind recklessness. But our business
men feel the evil and clearly see what lies
beyond it.. They have an account with
those who have done what little they could
to invite this ruin. and they are looking
anxiOusly to know whether they shall be
expected to cut their own thrOats at the
bidding of one set of politicians just az New
Orleans merchants have done at the bidding
Of another set.-St. Louis Globe.
Year: 1874

All misunderstanding as to the Presidents
course in this crisis is settled by the de.
cision rendered by the Supreme Court of the
United States concerning the DOrr rebellion
in Rhode Island. Then. as now. two rival
Governors and parties were contendiDg for
tho control of the State. 1t was decided
that the question, which of the opposing
governments in State is the esitimate one
Is not judicial, but political, and belongs
exclusively to the political department OF
the federal government to determine.


The constitution provides not only that
the United States shall guarantee to every
State republican form of government and
protect it from invasion. but on the appli.
cation of the Legislature, or of the execu.
tive when the Legislature can not be con.
vened. against domestic violence also.
Under this clause of the constitution it
rests with Congress to decide what govern.
ment is the established one in State, go
as to provide against case OF domestic
violence. They might have placed it in the
power of some court to decide the eontin.
gency. but they did not do so. But by act
of Congress, February %. 1895, they did
provide that "in case of an insurrecti0n in
it shall be lawful for the President of the
United States, on application of the Legis.
lature Of such State. or of the executive
when the Legislature can not be convened,
to call forth such number of the militia of
any other State or States as he may judge
sufficient to suppress such insurrection."


This, the court held, vests in the Presi.
dent the power of deciding when the ext
gency has arisen upon which the govern.
ment OF the United States is bound to in.
terfere. The statute constitutes him the
sole and exclusive judge of the facts. He
is to act upon the application Of tho Legis.
lature or Of the executive Of the State, and
consequently he must determine what body
constitutes the Legislature and who is the
Governor before he can act. If there is an
armed conflict, that constitutes q case of
domestic violence and one or the other of
the parties must be in insurrection against
the lawful government.


If it be objected that this power in the
President is dangerous and may be abused.
the same may be said as TO any other ar.
bitter. The ordinary course of proceedings
in court would be utterly unfit for such
an emergency. At all events. the power is
distinctly conferred upon the President by
the constitution and laws Of the United
States. and therefore must be respected and
enforced.-C Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1874

Rev. Mr. Bevan says there is a sort of
mute elo9uence in old Clothes" Since the
expulsion from Eden the sons of men have
realized this elo4uence of old clothes and
wearied Of its sameness. FOR in every cline
they utter substantially the same speech
and that is: when we're gone who'll trust
you for any more -
Year: 1874

IN, Rer IT. Chapin D., Of ne Dirin> Pdrpity


The Rev. Z. Ii. Chaplin, d. d., preached
yesterday TO large congregation In the Church Of the
Divine Paternity at Fiith-ave and Forty fith-st. He
took as his text the words Who he that oyercometh
the world but that beeveth that Jesus the SON Of
OF God ;" from John VS.. In substance he said:


There are two words which might be taken from the
text and considered" faith and world" The term
world " has various meanings 1t is sometimes ap-
Piled the earth, TO society. aud to the collective body
OF humanity. II be used in good or bad tense,
but we always know what is meant when the term Is
spoken In the primitive age OF the Gospel the world
became identified with all that was false and wicked.
and when Christianity made its appearance there
Immediately antagonsm between 1t and the world.
Against the world the apostles had TO contend at the
hands OF the world the martyrs suffered and over the
world Christianity has won its trumphs. And what has
made IN and than cOnquerOrs was
the conviction that Jesus the Son OF God Thus the
victory the world made by faith Man Is called
at all times and under all circumstances 10 contend
against the world the same elements exist now ss e1-
listed 500 years ago, aud the world in me antagopistc
sense still around The elements Of the world being
the the victory the world calls fath 10 our
notice. The question or assertion in the shape OF
question IN our is pertinent as II when
written, and what are TO understand by this prin-
also mauy meanings it is here especially spoken Of
AS not a mere opinion but in confidence ana trust


stretch over our country and wires run under sea-


and no man would think OF entering into business who
had not faith In the result The husbandman scatters
the seed the Spring, knowing that later the fruit viii


appear and science rests the gandes basis OF faith


All modern victories the world have been by
faith and not by opinion The speaker next referred 10
the temptations of the world TO men in business. He
said They have 10 choose either to do right
do not hesitate but up deliberately aud take
\ hold OF the wrong the right the case
| may be- but there is always left 10 man the
| moral power OF choice. Selnshness is the
| root OF all ssh. You eXalt your own
| self and your acts above God ana man. Men have
accomplished conquests over the world by the sword by
talents. ability aud social station but such men are
generally selfish. Do not yeaIn To lean on Hin IN
whom we have faith The heart knows It's own bitter


ness and IL must have support ana sueeOr. We must
have specific faith, trust III some one person who Will


sympathize with by kindred nature. Next week IL
passion week. IL brings mind the loyfni entry
into Jerusalem the arrest trial. crucihxiOD burial and
| resurrection OF Lord. The cross formerly al
enblom of shame death but its dark shadows have
Year: 1874




The Rev. DR.. Thompson, pastor of Christ
r. f. Church. at Fifthave and Thirty yGthst., preached
yesterday morning before attentive congregati IN.
His appropriate 10 the season OF Lent and
was descriptive the humility aud suferngs of the
Son of God Ordinarily, he said the man who hunbles
himself now is not considered a great man. The man
who asserts himself boastnS OF his work and'his
own power, is the man who seems 10 succeed.
This assumption and brazcnness, however, IA
not what we like. To be sure, it seems
TO receive its coarse reward but destroys decacy and
chvalry prosecutors OF Christ could not under
stand how God could humble himself. The picture OF
God made man. descending from the highest 10 the low
type The grandeur OF prose and Of poetry were in
man was not God, then created being who was
vastly superior God himself But it is impossible for
man 10 have created out Of his consciousness be-
ing OF such moral perfection and ii is impossible to
slider otherwise than that Christ is God.


God practced humility and humbcd himself, descend
ing from the highest 10 menia position. Yet despite
which was ever OF his attributes. There Is
thing like il the highest type of man The avorite
s he who when the occasion arises dons the dis
incons rank and, dropping from his horse puts his
shoulder the wheel of the delayed ambulance and
siss IL road Nowhere is the lady gentleman
more worthy Of the than when In the practical ex
ercise OF Christian charity. Ium~ is not only divine
but human well and the truly great men OF the world
have ever proved their humility.
Year: 1874

With sober faces and solemn mien the Ad-
ministration party at its National Convention
in 1872 resolved, as its tenth bid for public
favor and approval, that "the franking priv
"ilege ought to be abolished and the way
prepared for a speedy reduction in the rates
"of postage" Greatly to their own surprise,
at the last session of the last Congress they
did it-aboished the franking privilege and
prepared the way for a speedy reduction in
the rates of postage. Had they ever been half
as sorry for any of the manifold iniqui-
ties that have been carried on under
the protection and encouragement of the party
as for this. there would be great hopes for
them. They at once set off the Salary Grab
against the repeal of the franking privilege,
and upon the pretext that they had divested
themselves of an important and profitable per-
quisite, made raid upon the Treasury for an
increase of salary and handsome amount of
back pay. The general Indignation that this
action aroused alarmed them, and on the
assembling OF the present Congress the Salary
Grab was repealed.


But ever since then both Houses of Con-
gress (but particularly the Senate) have been
going round the franking privilege turning it
ONeT, III, w
up the courage to revive it. The debate over
the Post Office Appropriation bill has dis
closed great anxiety on the part of Senators
and Representatives to get back the privilege
which in spasm of honesty they gave up,
simply because they had in their Presiden-
tial platform promised to. The proposition
bluntly and squarely made by a carpet-bag
Senator to repeal the act abolishing it and
restore to the able bodied statesman of the
period the privilege of franking his cOrre-
spondence and his washing and his household
furniture, received the support of eight lead
ing statesmen who in 1872 thought the frank
"ing privilege ought to be abolished and the
"way prepared for speedy reduction in
"the rates of postage" That failing, they
have voted that The Congressional Record,
which probably contains imOre unadulterated
bosh than any publication of the same num-
ber of pages in the country, shall 90 free
through the mails, while the rate of postage
on newspapers which publish what the people
want to read is increased and prepayment
compelled.


These gentlemen are rapidly convincing the
people of the fact that-whatever they may
actually and honestly mean-the things they
positively do not mean they put in their plat
forms. We are coming by slow and gradual
processes to estimate platforms at their worth.
Year: 1874

pcribcd by the Indiana platfOrm-makers have
never been able to cure these evils. Besides,
IL il not honest, any more than 1t is for
hungry man to steal his dinner from the
shelves of the first bakers shop he encounters.
In promising to pay dollar the Government
promises to deliver to the bearer of its notes
certain quantity of fine gold, and nothing
else, To evade this promise, year after year,
is not only dishonorable. but bad policy. No
merchant could carry on successful business
if he habitualy neglected to keep his prom
ises. Neither can nation.


The Illinois resolutions show an equal def
cheney of the moral sense and an equal igno-
rance of the merits of honesty, simply as the
best policy. But they add to these faults
dash of hypocrisy. They are in favor of
"return to specie payments at the earliest
"practical day." Now what would be thought
of a spendthrift who should tell his creditors
that he would pay his debts as soon as 1t might be
convenient? Does this declaration OF the Illinois
Republicans mean anything moref Perhaps
they wish to be understood rs in favor both
of more paper money, and OF the restoration
of the legal-tender dollar to the constitutional
standard, by its redemption IN com. But
surely they cannot be ignorant that the two
things are inconsistent. The National bank
note is simply promise to pay greenback
ON demand. 1t rests chiefly Oh the credit of
Government bonds, and receives still further
support from the Government by being
received on equal terms with the greenback
in tho payment of taxes. Government also
forces the bank-note on all its creditors, ex-
cept the holders of its bonds or coupons. 1t
is at the same discount as the grecnback, and
neither it nor the greenback, under existing
laws, can ever be brought to par without
strictly limiting the combined quantity of
both.


There is but one encouragement to be de-
rived from the platforms of the two Conven-
tions, and that is from the one adopted by
the Illinois Republicans. Not because there is
any sincerity In the politicians who adopted
it, but because it indicates a wholesome fear
of the people and grave doubts of the popu-
larity of any scheme of initiation. MIR. Logan
tried to array them squarey against the Pres-
dents veto, and he failed. That is the only
good sign in the situation. For it cannot be
doubted that the politicians feel carefully the
public pulse, and estimate with their best
Judgment public sentiment. Otherwise we
are constrained to say that OF the two plat
forms we have much more respect for that OF
Indiana People who are sincere should never
be despaired of, but those who are alike desti-
tute of convictions and of courage can render
no service to a cause which draws Its strength
from mems cOnsCiences.
Year: 1874

will to protest against such Q grossly I'M
proper appointment, it was surely easy enough
for it to do nothing, and allow the nomlna-
ton to fall to the ground. The House has
already voted to abolish the Board OF, Public
Works, and unless the Senate means to set
itself plainly against this reform the confrma-
ton of Lieut.. Hoxie is merely matter OF
unnecessary form-signifcant as testimony,
but of no importance otherwise.


We are inclined to believe, for our own
part, that the Senate just now ia bent upon
being "ugly," for no other reasOn in the world
than because the newspapers are pressing 1t
to do right. Because the newspapers declared
the removal of Mr. Cluss indecent, the
Senate got mad and voted to approve it. Bo-
cause the newspapers insist upon the reform
of the Customs service the Senate declares
that the service shall not be reformed. Be-
cause the newspapers demand that the party
shall keep its pledges on the Franking ques-
ton the Senate determines to break them.
Children often have these fractions and con-
trary turns under correction, but discipline is
good for them all the same.
Year: 1874

We shall pronounce no opinion upon the ex-
traordinary testimony of Michael Hayes, re-
ported in our paper yesterday, until the per-
sons implicated by his statements have an op-
portunity to be heard. BY his own account,
Hayes was employed to commit an atrocious
crime, and he is evidently person whose
word should be accepted with the ut
most caution. That he has been hired
to tell this story of the burglary for
the purpose of discrediting the District
officers is in the highest degree i'm
probable; but he may have had motives of
his own for lying, and it is only prudent to
wait for his evidence to be impeached, il it
can be. At the same time we cannot forget
that his story has been confirmed in several
particulars by other witnesses, and it is cer-
tain that the outlines of it were told 10 two
reputable men in Baltimore, and repeated by
them to officials in Washington, before the
burglary occurred. Unless Mr.. Hayes, there
fore, should be Immediately and completely
demolished by Nettleshp and Whitley, the
case in which he figures would seem to be
proper one for the Grand Jury.


But the trouble is that the Assistant Dis
trct Attorney is the principal person whose
conduct the Grand jury in that case would
have to investigate, and it is too much to
expect thorough and complete inquiry
through his agency. We trust the Committee
Year: 1874

The European money markets are now in
a condition of great ease. The Bank of En-
gland yesterday fixed its minimum discount
rate at two-and-a-half per cent, which is
lower than it has been for more than two
years. 1t gained nearly five million dollars in
specie during the week. The Bank of France.
on the 4th inst reduced its minimum rate to
four per cent, having at that date brought its
note circulation below five hundred million
dollars and its specie reserve up to two hund-
red and twenty-eight millions. The French
mint has commenced the coinage of twenty
franc gold pieces. Meanwhile this country
looks idly on the scene, exporting its gold to
France and England and hugging the dear
greenback to its breast. Paper currency is
superabundant here; and Congress proposes
Tin the last Conference reporD to give us
practically fifty-slx millions more of it. Like
the sacred cats of Egypt, our dollars are free
to multiply, but woe to him who attempts
to destroy one of them. Egypt was pleasant
land for those who understood it. Congress
would have been venerated there.
Year: 1874

FINANCE-DO QUIT AND GO HOMEl


The details of the latest Conference Com
mttee's attempt to patch up something in the
way of financial legislation, are less encOurag-
ing than was yesterday supposed. The friends
of the measure declare their belief that Prcsi-
dent Grant will sign it. He may; but we do
not see how he can, unless he chooses
to set his foot on his own veto
and financial memorandum. 1t is nom
sense to talk about beginning to prepare
for specie payments with practical initiation
of at least S56OO0OO0. We have now S2G,OOO,0OO
of the "reserve" ont, which ought to be i'm
mediately retired. instead, this measure pro-
poses to keep it out permanently. We have
at least S3O,O0O00O more shut up in the Ma
tional Bank reserves, which this measure pro-
poses to pour out in tepid, facilitating flood
upon business community already drowning
in our watered currency.


We can see but one thing to recommend
the bill, and that is, that it will put stop to
the business of playing fast and loose with
the currency through the forty four million
reserve, which the President claims the right
to Issue or retire at pleasure. Against this
positive good are to be set deliberate aban-
donment of practical steps toward specie
payments, and an outrageous imitation.
1t is poor outcome for so much
conference, but it is no worse than the pe0-
pie have been taught to expect We still trust
either House or Senate may serve this rs the
House served the last Conference bantilng (;
or, failing this, that the President may add
to the splendid service he has already done
by another veto. Oh, for the twenty second
Year: 1874

The Maine Republican State Convention
yesterday renominated Gov. Dingley and
adopted platform which very properly con-
sidered the financial question as the leading
political issue, and took sound and sensible
position upon it. If platforms meant any
thing now a-days, this would be considered
good one But if this is Republicanism, what
is the article they have on sale in Indiana !
Year: 1874

will not drop the subject until it has devised
some means of submitting the incidents OF
the burglary to the impartial consideration on
a criminal tribunal, and taken care that Mr'
Harrington shall have nothing to do with the
Indictment mr. the trial.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Butler is said to have prepared speech
which he will deliver in the House tonight
on the subject of moieties and the Sanbon
contracts. 1t is kindly commended to public
favor in advance by friend who pronounces
it "red hotn We dimly remember Mr..
Buffers beng i'll at the time this subject was
under investigation and discussion, and that
it was said he was advised by his physician
to take a European trip for his health. We
have rarely known so sudden and complete
recovery. Mr.. Butler seems to be person OF
uncommon elasticity. ...f..I
Year: 1874

The recent death from hydrOphobia In
Brooklyn lends special interest to the letter
elsewhere printed from well-known business
man of this city, detailing his experience after
being bitten by mad dog fifty years ago.
There is no doubt that the remedy he de-
scribes, If promptly applied, is in almost all
cases an absolutely perfect protection.
Year: 1874

Within three working days of a final adjourn
ment, with business enough on the Speakers
table to occupy every hour of the time, the
House yesterday voted to adjourn at quarter
past three o'clock, making the shortest session
that has been held since the Christmas holi-
days. The position of affairs and the sincerity
of the Administration party will be better
understood when the fact is known that the
business pending at the time of adjournment
was proposition to go to business on the
Speakers table and let the Senate Civil Rights
bill be referred to the Judiciary Committee,
from which it could not be reported except
by two-thirds vote. Between the friends OF
the BILL who would not see it Drejudiced, and
its opponents, who would not release it from
its present position the whole thing went to
the wall, and the House lodged it by
adjourning
Year: 1874

The Philadelphia politicians of the Admins
tration stripe are already arranging for the
Fall elections Our correspondence from that
city shows how they propose to set up" the
nominations so as to support the Administra-
ton and retain the power and patronage In
the hands of the "purest and BEST" 1t is
barely possible that they may be reckoning
without their hosts. SO far in the elections
this year, people do not seem to be voting
regular tickets so much as they were two
years ago. Some have "lOst their interest
"in politics. and several more have taken
notion that it would be advisable to have
change.
Year: 1874

The President has finally SEPT to the Senate
for ratification the Reciprocity Treaty with
Canada, of which a full outline was given in
The TRIBUNE few weeks ago. Its friends
in Washington suppose that opposition to it
will probably come only from special interests
affected unfavorably, such as the timber and
coal trades. Opposition from the coal in
terest would be idle, since protectonsts are no
longer likely to make prolonged fight for
continuance of the duties on coal. The tim
Der interest may make more serious resist
ance. The real opposition 10 the Treaty, how
ever, is to be expected from the agricultural
classes, and from those high tariff men who
believe that its fundamental idea is at war
with the sound doctrine of protection to
American industry
Year: 1874

The willingness Of Congressional Committees
to "sit during the recess" is touching exhi-
bition of devotion TO the interests OF good
government Here is the House Committee on
Pacific Railroads. which has been wrestling
with the inquiry into Representative Luttrelps
charges of fraud against the Central Pacific
Road Nothing has been discovered yet, but
the Committee does not by any means give it
up. The members propose to sit-in Pull
man car-during the recess and find out all
about it. We have entire confidence that they
will do it if 1t "takes all Summer" and they
have to 60 to the Yosemite and the Geysers
and the Cliff House, and encounter the Whole
California Bank at breakfast.