Year: 1874

capital that can possibly be made out OF
feigned attempt to pass a Civil Rights bill Is TO
be secured But it will not be passed. MIR.
Butler has it in hand, and he manages such
matters very deftly.


The banking firm of Turner Brothers,
which announced its suspension yesterday,
has had an excellent reputation as solid and
respectable house, little given to speculation
and generally successful in its enterprises.
There is perfect confidence in the integrity OF
its members, and a general hope that, with
the removal of the embarrassments OF the rail-
road to which it has been making such heaVy
advances, it may be put upon its feet again.
The furry in the Street to which the sus-
peusion led was not unnatural, and shrewd
stock operators made the most OF 1t.


The report of the Conference Committee on
the Moiety bill is signed by all the members
of the Committee except Senator Howe, who
is chiefly remarkable for the extent of the in
formation he is lacking in. The reform effected
by the bill agreed upon is not so thorough as
might have been desired, but upon the whole
the merchants will have reason to cOngratu-
late themselves upon very decided change
for the better if the bill is passed. Positive
opinions as to the measure OF relief IL actually
affords may better be delayed, however, I'LL
there is opportunity for careful study or Its
provisions.


The Judiciary bill, In the folds of which
Messrs. Carpenter and COnkling have tucked
away their nice little scheme for getting even"
with the newspapers, by means of the provision
that process against publisher may be served
anywhere upon an agent or correspondent,
came up in the House Judiciary Committee
Yesterday and found fitting champion in the
gentleman who describes the power of the press
as forty times larger than his own. On motion
of Mr.. Tremain the section upon which the
two great statesmen had set their hearts was
stricken out and the scheme came to grief.


Republican State Conventions meet to-day in
Indiana, Illinois, and Vermont, and Temper
ance Convention at Springfield, Ohio. The
question of greatest interest and Importance
in the Indiana and Illinois Conventions will
be as to the position the party will take on the
currency question. In Illinois, Senator Logan
is said to be exerting himself to the utmost
70 secure the adoption of an initiation platform
but according to the dispatches, present appear
ances indicate that majority OF the delegates
will be "hard-money men, and that they will
reatfirm the Philadelphia platform on the sub
;ect of the currency. The Convention will
have to choose between Logan and Grant.


The action of the Conference Committee in
increasing the salaries of the several officers
of Customs whose income is affected by the
abolition of moieties will be approved as well
by the people as by the merchants and others
who have been most active in promoting the
reform aimed at. The movement against the
system of mOieties has not been with any view
of cutting down the pay of Customs officers,
but rather with purpose of giving them ample
and sufficient remuneration for their services,
and at the same time correcting the gross and in
excusable abuses to which the mOiety system
has subjected all who have dealings with the
Custom-house. The whole theory of perqui
sites is pernicious. Better be extravagant even
in the payment of salaries than to continue such
a system of abuses as this has been and is.


The strange fluctuations in the political
gauge at Versailles are again illustrated by
the kilograms published to-day. There is no
doubt that portion of the Right Center
large enough to give majority to the Re
publicans can accept the moderate policy
favored by the Left Center. 1t is the timid
disposition of these men which is the chief
obstacle to an organization of permanent
government in France. After having per-
mitted Republican success on Monday, they
instantly became frightened at their own te-
merity, and concluded to support another bill
tending to perpetuate the state of disorganiza-
ton. The proposition of the Left Center to
declare q Republic under the Presidency of
MacMahon would provide solution at once
tending to give solidity to the political insti-
tutions. A provisional government during
the seven years Of MacMahOn's term of Office
such as the Right Center favOrs is in no very
important particular different from the plan
of the Duke de BrOglie.


In the opinion of the ablest and most en-
lightened Of all who have visited Utah since
the Pacific railroads opened lthe way to it,
and of all who have given the Mormon ques-
ton serious thought, the very wisest treatment
to give the Mormon Church and the insttu
ton of polygamy is to leave them just as they
are, open to daylight and TO the influences of
civilization. All the signs of the time point
to gradual change in the condition of the
Territory and the people which will remove
existing evils and assimilate both to the other
States and Territories Of the Union. The dan
ger of such special legislation as the inter
ested parties in Washington are asking of
Congress has already been pointed out. A
hundred other things Of vastly more i'm
portance than the Utah bill are pressing upon
Congress for attention. and'it is to be hoped, for
,b,a .asnn as well as In avoid the dan 0erous