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TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MAUCH 18, 1881-TWELVE PAGES. THE CHICAGO 9 THE COURTS. irSlAttlAPITAL Postponement of the University Argument. sle Subject of Savings Banks Brought Up in the Senate. or other be brought about upon the tines of free trade and protection.

Gen. Garfield ift a politician of a somewhat neutral tint, who is well fitted to be at the head of affairs it such a period of transition. He has not been concerned in violent denunciation of the South. and be will, no doubt. follow up.

though perhaps with some difference of method. the conciliatory policy toward the Soudiern people initiated by INtr. Hayes. If politics are likely to be uninteresting in the United States during Gen. Gar-field's Presidency.

it will almost certainly be marked, on the other hand, by an enormous development of material prosperity. and. should no cheek be interposed, of populatiOn and trade. With this measure of success the Republican party may be well content to be hientitied. Nothing could contribute more powerfully to the maintenance of theiz influence in the country.

A Man Locked UpJudgments and New Suits. iutbless Decapitation of the Bll i Establishing a Fish STANLEY MATTHEWS. i Crews, Pearson (Cook), Wood (Knox), Du rf ee, Peterson, Vood We Kalb( niggins, Petrie, Wright (I) Page) Dysart, Pierson (Gre'ne)Wright atooneN Hand, Plotke, Mr. Speaker-43'4 Linegar changed to the negative side at the last moment, in the vain hope of securing a reconsideration at another time. The majority report, which kills the bill beyond hope of resurrection, was then adopted by a viva v'oce vote.

THROWN IN- THE HOPPER. Veile, of St. Clair, introdneed a bill to allow corporations to elect "other officers" in addition to trustees, managers, etc. Shaw, of Cass, introduced a bill to make wages due servants or laborers for services performed for a decedent during the next year preceding the decease preferred claims in the administration of estates. Rumley, of Iroquois, who seems to think that horse-thieves have altogether too much rope, figuratively speaking.

introduced a bill to antlicnize the formation of companies for the detection and apprehension of that class of gentry as well as other felons, and for mutual protection. The number of persons who may form such companies is limited to tell, and the offieers are given the power of Constables in hunting down and nabbing the offenders. The bill also provides for assessments indomnify the members against losses of horse flesh and to pay the expense of pursuit, arrest, and conviction of the equine depredators. The Judiciary Committee reported favorably on Wriglit's bill to revise the exemption law, and unfavorably on the bill to confer additional povers upon Boards of Trade and the bill to abolish dislress for rents. The House then adjourned until to-morrow morning.

eption of the Resolution for Adjournment from April 15 to Feb. 15 Next. tsurection anti Amellment in the 1 House of the witness' Fees Bill. THE UNIVERSITY LITIGATION. The motion for injunction In the foreclosure case of the rniOn Mutual Life-Insurance Company against the University of Chicago, and others, came up for argument yesterday morning before Judge Drummond.

Mr. Kistler. of the firm of Decker, Douglas Kistler, said he would like to have the matter postponed for a day or so. Mr. Decker bad been and still was engaged in the active trial of a case, and Mr.

Douglas was confined to bis house by sickness. so that neither of them bad bad any time whatever for preparation. The Judge remarked Unit he supposed the main object of the motion was to suspend any action in the State tourt. He wished to hear ail there Wai to he said on both shies. and.

while be was entirely ready to gu on with the hearing, he was willing to accommodate counsel. Mr. Swett, tine of toe counsel for the insurMe inceilrell what the University would 410 atiout a stay of proceeding if the matter was postponed? Mr. the counsel for the People in the suit in the State Court. said he was ready to go oe.

He represented the University, though not retained by it; but he had no serious apprebenSiOnS Pnytnink would be done during a short delay. wished to know if the Judge was acquainted with the character of the litigation. The Judge replied he thought be was, and stated what he knew of the matter. M. Gregory suggested that one important point bad been Witted.

and that was Una the litigation WaS begun by the people. The institution ivas an eleemosynary institution; the Trustees had combined with the Company to teen mit a breach of trust.and be people were interested in seeing the trust carried out for the benefit of the general public. The Judge inquired: Suppose there had been a breaell of trust, what WaA it proposed to do with the property. in relation to which the trust was emitted? Should other Trustees be appointed? And what became of the property in the meantime? Mr. Gregory replied that there could be no forfeiture exacted of a public trust.

no matter how deretiot the Trustees might have been. The property would still be held for the benefit of the public. and the Trustees should be compelled to du their duty. If they had been guilty of some moral turpitude, then new Trustees should be appointed. Mr.

Swett suggested that the argument ought to proceed or there ought to be a temporary stay of proceedings. After a little consultation. the argument was postponed to to-morrow morning, and it was agreed that in the meantime no steps should be taken in the State Court to prejudice the Compan3'. Messrs. Leonard Swett.

J. L. High, and Bliss represented the Company. C. A.

Gregory the People, and Louis Kistler the Douglas beim Er, Linegar's Revenue Bill Taken Ili and Discussed at Great Length. ite Author Makes a Desperate Struggie in Support of the Measure, Jotsrithstanding Which It Is Defeated by the Decisive Vote of 69 to 53. rOCATOrlible Rep t-t by the Judiciary Corn. znittee on the Bill to A Distress for Bent. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TOLLS. Special Dispatch to The Chicaao Tribune. SPRINGFIELt), March 17.Senator Merritt's bill for regulating the telegraph tolls within this State reads as follows: SECTION 1. BC it eamcb7fi, That an set entitled "an aet to revise the law in relation to telegraph companies," approved 2klarch 1671, in force July 1, IS71. be amended.

SEC. 11. It shall be unlawful tor any telegraph company incorporated or hereafter to be incerporated in this State for the purpose or operating a telegraph line for the use of the public, to make a greater charge than twenty-five eents for each inessage of ten words or oho address and name of the reeipient and the name of the sender not to be included therein) between any two 'stints within the limits of the State of Illinois in which offices save been or may be established: and. in ease any message shall exceed ten ivords. it shall be uniawful for any telegraph company ineorporated or hereafter to be Meerporawd in this Stat.t for the pit rot ese of operating a telegraph line tor the use of the public.

to make a greater charge than eniye cent for each and every additional word in excess of the aforesaid ten words. All messages shall be delivered as soon as possible, and without unnecessary delay from the receiving telegraph office to the business office or retodenee of the party to whom the messages are addressed. by messengers in tile service of the said telegraph eompany, and no additional charge theretor shall be required or imposed by said telegraph company. SEC. 12, For each and every violation of this act the telegraph company engaged in operating a telegraph line for public use shall.

upon conviction, be tined a sum not less than 54) nor more than 1 tion of the bank. and do not differ essenlaity front general laws affectua. corporations lu this regard. COUNTY ColTIITS. The special order for the morning was then taken up, being the ca nsideration of Senator Lewis bill providne that in all counties in vhich Probate, Courts are or may be here- after established, in addition to the jurisdic- tion now confer ed upon them by law, Coun- ty Courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Criminal Court in all cases at law and equity except criminal cases where the punishment may be death or punishment in 'ettitentiary It applies ore partieu- Itthie rl to Cook and La Salle Counties.

A bill is pending in the House establishing a Couny Court in La Salle County. 'Senator 11 lint made an able and exhaustive argument to the effect that the bill was unconstitutional. establishing. as it did, two Courts of the same grade. Senatar Archer, who was one of the late Constitution-makers of the State, delivered an oral opinion that the bill was framed in, exact accordance with that document.

Senators Adams. BI, Clark, and others participated in the debate, and the bill was finally ordered to a third reading by a vote of yeas. 22; nays, 21. Senator lwards bill amending the law of criminal jurisprupence in relation to the collection of costs was ordered to a third reading. Senator Fuller's bill amending the law establishing the Fish Commission.

was ruthlesly decapitated. SANDWICHED IN. Senator Tanner introduced a brand-new dog law. Munn offered a hill amending the Canal law of the State. It is intended by this bill to supplant the one buried yesterday le the Senator Edwards introduced a bill amending the law of administration of estates.

It puts physieians' bills in the second class of claims, while widow wards are put in the third class. Senator Munn's bill allowing the employment by Judges of official stenographers went to third reading, as did a bill introduced by the same Senator giving Penitentiary officials police powers over grounds contiguous to such institutions. MADE A SPECIAL ORDEN. Senator Mayfield's bill giving State's Attorneys power to bring suits on written complaints of extonion and discrimination against railroad companies went to a third reading. After the order bad been made, the Senator moved to reconsider the vote.

Senator Callon said that for. four years past the laws of the State had been boldly violated by the railroad oat. companies. lie desired the law carried into full execution; and, inasmuch as this one would render the present law more operative, he opposed the motion to reconsaler. The debate drifted into a squabble as to whether the Commission had done its duty or not.

Senators Munn and Lanning made long speeches on the affirmative and negative side of the question. The motion to reconsider prevailed by a vote of yeas 23, nays '2-2. Those voting in the affirmative were Adams, Bent, Berggren, Campbell, Clark, Condee, Do Lang, Evans, Fifer, itunt, Kirk, Lewis. 3to1Iett, Munn, Needles. Secrest, Sunderland.

Tanner, 'Tor-malice, White. Whiting, Wright, and President Hamilton. The nays were Archer, Artley, Bell. Callon, Cheaney, Edwards. Fletcher, Fuller, thorn, Kuykendall, ning, Lemma, Marshall, Mayfield, Neece.flice, Rinehart, Shaw, Vandeveert Walker of Fulton.

Walker of Maconpin, NN ilson. The subject was then made a special order for next Wednesday. SENT TO Tntnn LEADING. Bills were ordered to third reading as follows Senator Torrance's bill requiring the construction of connecting tracks at railroad crossonzs. Senator Fuller's bill making the rates as established by the Railroad Commissioners conclusive evidence of maximum charges to be imposed.

Senator Tanner's bill prohibiting the consolidation of parallel lines of railroad. Senator Marshall's bill authorizin g. the election of School Boards in cities of 1,500 population. House bills were ordered to third reading as follows: Morris. of Hardin's, famous pocket-pop and razor-in-your-boot bill.

The bill amendinm the law establishing Probate Courts by permitting their authorization in counties having 70.0, inhabitants or over. THE ADJOURNMEN'y riEsomloat. Senator Clark called up his joint resoluth )11 providing that when the Legislature adjourns on April 15 it stand adjourned until Feb. 15. Senator Fuller offered an amendment cutting off the pay of officers, members, and employs 1)etween the two dates, except as may hereafter be provided by joint resolution.

The amendment was acceaaed. Senator White offered an amendment Which would make the adjournment from April 15 sine tile. The amendment was finally withctrawn, however, and the reso 'talon adopted. The Senate then adjourned until to-morrow morning. 12:1 Text of Senator Merritt's Bill for the Legulation of Telegraph Tolls in This State.

PATENT-MEDICINE MAN'S GRIEV-, AN CES. Last Thursday Judge Tuley entered an order committing John C. West to jail for contempt of court in refusing to obey an order requiring him to pay his wife, Elizabeth West, CIO for solicitor's fees and $,8 a week alimony. He had previously hied a bill tor divorce against her, and this order was Illibilb in December last to enable her to Lktfend the suit. Ile tented to respond, and yesterday, alter having been sent to jail for disobedience, tiled a petition for habeas oorpus.

His claim is ellat to evidence as to his financial condition and his pill business were grossly erroneous; that he 1, kt present not worth anything, and is working on a salary for one Josephine Ottman, and only makes about $5 a week over and above his board. And as he is not, according to his statement, able to pay the alimony decreed against him, he thinks it eminently unjust that he should he kept in prison. State for ISO, that the gross receipts from fire insurance in the State for the year 1s79 was Mr marine insurance it was tor life insurance it was V.2e11.1'411: for accident insurance it gross receipts wf(airs ifis1117r.ate;epiemnratekh;Inisirttatthttisefxsoltrotillhalell I find from the same report that the not earningsof ttoitraelannedt marine insurance for that year in this State amounted to and for life and acci- dent insurance. the profits on insurance in the State for that year, Nearly the whole of this was taken from this State to hill the vaults and swell the capital of insurance companies from other States, without paying any tax worth naming for the protection given and the privileges enjoyed while doing business in the State. The proposed mode of taxing insurance coin-panics places the home and foreign insurance on the same basis in business.

Under the present law the home insurance company must pay takes on all its tangible property and capital stock, while the foreign company enjoys all the privileges of the borne emnpany and escapes with its large profits without taxation. Is it any wonder that our home companies languish and die, while the foreign companies live and prosper? IS THE BILL CONSTITUTIONAL. The constitutionality of the bill has been questioned fly some. and I shall nosy proceed to examine that question. It is an easy objection to make to almost any measnre.

end sometimes difficult to answer. The Constitution is a limit pen the powers ot the Legislature and the peoMe. It is not a grunt of power. therefore that which is not prohibited to the Legislature may be exercised by the Legislatnre. When an act has been passed by the Legislature of the State every presumption is in favor of the constitutionality of the act.

Our Supreme Court has said that it will not hold an act of the Legislatnre unconstitutional unless it is a plain and palpable violation of the hitter and spirit of tne Constitution. THE FUIIPosE OF THE BILL. Some have desired to know why I have not selected other subjects of taxation besides those named in the bill. My purpose. as expressed, is to raise the revenue to run the State Government from DLit class of corporations that are general and not local.

It is my purpose to leave local corporations to be taxed tor local purposes. Railroad. telegraph, and express hues are not local to any eommunity, and insurance companies', especially foreign, are directly under control of the State, and report to the Auditor. I incline to the opinion that sleeping-ear companies ought to be included in the bat and taxed upon their gross earnings. We must not lose sight of the cardinal point in the bill, and that is le separating the subjects and objects from which Statweventle is to be derived from the subjects and objects from synich local revenue is to be derived.

There is no reason why we should hesitate. 11t is not difficult nor complicated. It is a plain. practical business transaction. It is insisted by some persons that a mystery surronuds every question Of revenue, and, if it is not wrapped in mystery and so trained that none but the extremely wise can comprehend it, it must of necessity fail.

The State must raise revenue to pny its appropriations or debts. If a man is in debt he must look to his assets and ascertain the simplest and surest mode of raising money to meet his obligations. The State. wnen it has debts or appropriations to meet, must do the same thing. It is.

as I have said. a plain business transaction. The greatest complication in it is that so many minds have to agree upon the plan of raising the- money. Mr. Speaker, I hope the bill will be placed upon the calendar, and if it can be improved by amendment it should be done.

THE MIDDAY RECESS cut the gentleman's argument in two, and it was nearly half-past 3 ill the afternoon before he came to the peroration. Allen, of Whitesides, Chairman of the Revenue Committee, in replying to the author of the bill, started out by saying that the condition of things where the people did not depend upon themselves to pay taxes, but looked tj corporations to do it, was an unhealthy one. The burden of taxation should press on all alike. The argument on the bill was apparently based on the sunposinon that the old Constitution was in force. See.

6 of Art. 9 of the new Constitution declared so plainly that nobody could mistake its meaning that the General Assembly shalt haver, power to release or discharge any counts-, city, township, town, Or district whatever. or the inhabitants thereof, or the property therein, from their or its proportionate share of taxes to be levied for State purposes; nor shall commutation for such, be authorized in any form whatsoever. THE MAJoRITY REPORT, recommending that the bill do not pass, was based upon that prohibition, and in that report the House should concur. If the percentage system were a good one, why ilinit it to four classes of 'corporations? But the Legislature should hesitate to pass any law which could be attacked- in the courts as mteonstitutional, especially a law on the all-imporliint subject et revenue.

NV the present System was by no means perfect, Illinois had prospered it it, and was peospering to-day. But the bill was also repugnant to the first section of the same article, as well as to the objection that it did not tax the tangible property of me corporations in question. but released it altogether. The Board of Equalization had not always done its duty, as he was ready to admit, but its members were elected by the people, and Nviten they did not do their duty it was the fault of the people whoelected them and who HAD FAILED TO CALL THEM TO ACCOUNT. Any other system would in actual operation be found as defective as this until perfected by the teacnings of experience.

But, even supposing there were Ito constitutional objections to the bill, the proposed system was objectionable in other particulars. he railroads ran through Illinois and other States, and the companies were to do all the figuring, while an otlicer who knew nothing about those tigures did the swearing. Conviction for perjury be as imposSible as conviction for false swearing in the matter of the income tax or as in the case of the Chicago banker who swore blindly to the statements prepared by his clerks. In behalf of the good mime of the Legislature and of the people of Illinois, he remonstrated against the passage of a bill widen wou'd plunge the State into the ohl sea of litigation. For two sessions the Governor liaS recommended the a neointment of a Revenue COmInission.

Was it wise, then, to commit the House to a given scheme, especially one so ratikal as this, in advance of an investigation by such a Commission EVERY CONSIDERATION OF SAFETY demanded the adoption of the majority report. The Committee report favorably on a couple of bills to tax telegraph companies and express companies a per cent on their gross earnings, and experience with them. if they became laws, would show nearly they approached a better system. I'llese two classes of corporations could be taxed in this way because there was no constitutional prohibita in against and because they had little or 110 tangible property, and. as it was, paid little or nothing into the State Treasury.

If the two bills referred to shall pass, the experiment of a per-centage tax could be fairly tested with It view to its possible extension in other directions where it was allowable. As for the benefits which the author of the bill had claimed would accrue to certain counties, it nitist be remembered that where smile were benefited others must lose. The bill, in short, was A DISTURBING ELEMENT, N-hich ought no longer to be allowed to exist. Ile therefore appealed to the House to get rid of it as soon as possible. It had been-printed and before the members for months, had been fairly considered.

and, being unconstitutional, and objectionable in a variety of ways, should be gotten rid of by the adoption of the majority reporn Mitchell, of 2.IcLean, spoke in favor of the bill, and Cellins. of Cook, Bailey, of Champaign. Iturfee, (if 2Nlacon, Chafee, of Shelby, and Parish, of Cook, against it. The to adopt the minority report in favor of the bill was lost by a vote of nays 69, yeas 53, as follows: A DULL TIME. The close of the Senate investigation, and withdrawal by to-night's train of a number of the investigators, Senatorial and high privates, has dulled the edge of things tor the rest of the week, and the visiting.

business, VlliCIl is to be reinangurated to-morrow. promises to leave both 'louses without a large quorum. The House and Senate Joint Committee to Visit tho penal and reformatory institutions Win get uo with the birds in the mornmg and start for Chester, while the Itouse and Senate Committees on State Institutions vill embark on the night train for Kankakee, where they will spend Saturday in looking over the Illinois for the insane, seeking that Nvisdom which alone can guide them in disposing of the biennially-moinentous question of how much money is needed in the way of appropriations. TUE 31.1VILLIAMS1 SPECIAL INVESTIGATING COM xurrEE of the House was short of-witnesses to-night, and knocked off until Monday eveni ng. without doing anything, A.

J. Streator, who will be remembered as having run for something once or twiee on the Greenback irA Wilt he the star at the next meeting, and NV i proceed to tell the What he 'knOWS or don't know about discriminating and things. ITEMS. Judge Rowers a short time ago sustained the demurrers to the pleas in the quo warrant case of Shumway vs. Tinker, involving the legality of the election of the Aurora Board of Directors of the Chicago, Rockford Northern Railroad.

Yesterday the defendants elected to stand by their demurrers, and a judgment of ouster was entered against the Aurora Board. An appeal was taken to the Appeitate Court. Judge Blodgett, after a Winter of hard work. is about to take a little rest, and will take a vacation next week and part of the week following. A Grand Jury will he called in the District Court in about two weeks, and after that a petit jury.

-Judge Tuley was under the weather yesterday. and not in court. Discharges trom bankruptcy were issued to Charles A. Hoyt and W. H.

Thompson, moved the adoption of the minority report. In support of his motion he launched out upon what, up to date, was confessedly the most elaborate speech of the session. Fel' lowing are extracts from the speech: Nit. SPEAKER: The bill reported back to this House auversely by the Committee on Revenue, is, to my mind, one of more than ordinary importance. I think I am not claiming too much for it when I say that this Legislature has not bad, and will not have, before it a bill of greater importance at this session than the one returned by the Committee.

It pertains to the revenue, and is of importance to every taxpayer in the State. It proposes a radical change in the manner of levying and collecting the reveuue necessary to carry on the atate Government. At present. revenue for State, county, town, and city governments is raised and collected by a direct levy upon all the tangible property of the State and localities. according to valuation fixed by assessments.

or what is commonly or popularly known tis the ad valorem system. The pendinsr bill proposes to raise the revenue for State purposes by a tax upon the gross earnings of railroads, telegraph, express. and insurance thereby releasing all real and personal property from taxation tor State purposes. THE NECESSITY FOR A crtiNGE. The first inquiry should be: Is there any existing necessity for a change in the present revenue laws of the State? If so, will the proposed enange give the desired relief? If it will, the bill ought to be enacted Into a law, if it will not.

it ougnt to be defeated. We owe it to those who have chosen us to maintain their liberties. protect their property, and supply their treasury. It is for us to examine the ways and tneans that have been pro- Netted and see if the burdens of government are properly imposed and justly distributed. PRESENT MODE OF TAXATION.

Let us first proceed to an exatnination of the present mode of taxation, and ascertain its results, or show its justice, if it has any, and lay bare its injustice, if any exist. I am aware that the ad valorem system nppears the most just. and -is almost universally favored. It is Si) fixed upon the minds ot out people that few ever inquire into its practical workings. It is to my mind a wolf in sheep's clothing.

It promises justice and equality, and gives forth injustice and inequality. BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. To aid this system of taxation and improve its justice and eituality. a Hoard of Equalization has been established, whichenteets once a year and is presided over by the Auditor of State, ivuti a representative from each C-onaressienal district, nineteen in number. The Hoard has done its work honestly, I have no doubt.

but it has failed to accomplish the purpose of its creation. It Etas tailed to give satisfaction becauee it has been unable to produce equality in taxation. It has, however, done one good thaw' in -Its effort to produce justice and eientlity in has exposed the impracticability and rottenness of our present system of taxation; its records ere most useful to the inquiring mind upon this subject. It is the duty of this Legislature to see that the burdens of State Government are equally and justly distributed. es near as may be.

Our constituents expect this of us, and will hold us, respousatie if we fail to give them relief. A LOW ASSESSMENT IMPAIRS VALUE. The injustice of the present mode of tax levy upon the lands erred estate of the people is not only that it bears an unjust and unequal pro. portion of the burdens of government, but it goes farther. The lanz-ti rate of taxes imposed upon it by iState, comity.

and city, together with we local aseessinents, ereatly unptus its value as an investment, either for purposes of nuprovemeut or a security for loans. To-day the real estate of Illinois is without a market value, and this is mainly due to a low rate of assessment and a high rate of taxation. Tee time was when real estate was regarded as the best investment for surplus money and the most reliable security for loans, but that day seems to have passed. Formerly it was the first sought, now it is the last. The welfare of our people demands that real estate shall be restored to the confidence It once held as an itIVeSt merit Veen real estate Is sought aS an investment improvement necessarity follows and gives einpioyment to our inectianics and laborers.

A man may invest Leiden's in bonds aud stocks and it gives no employment, but he cannot invest even thousands in lands without giving employment. he must have ins lands improved to make his investment remunerative; but as it is. almost everytaing but real estate is either exempt from taxation or can easily esaittpe it. If a man desires to invest in lands--a farm, for of the first thiugs that he does is to go to the tax books to ascertain the rate ieir taxation, and when he sees that it is 4 to 5 per cent, as it is in many of our counties and cities, he immediately turns to seek investment in some other property that is either exempt from taxes or can easily be hid away. He knows that the tax is sure to fall due, and the tax collector is sure to come.

The tax is a lien upon the lands and there is no escape. NO JUST ASSESSMENT UNDER THE PRESENT LAW. There cannot and will not be a fair and equitable assessment of property under the present system. Just so long as the revenue for state, city, and couuty purposes is drawn from the same source, just so lung this injustice and inequality will uoutinite. Before we can have justice and equality in matters cif revenue we must separate the objects or subjects from which State taxes are derived -from the objects and subjects trom which local taxes are to bederived.

At present, when the County or Town Assessor starts out. be is remitidel that there is a State tax to pay and that he must put the assessment low. so that his county or town will not pay wore Man its just. proportton of the State tax. The Assessor sees the point at once.

He puts a low assessment upon real estate and IDIOLCS a slow hunt for personal property, and when he unavoidably or inadvertently DildS it no places a very low estimate upon its value, for fear it will have to pay au uudue proportion of the State La x. tVlien the work of the local assessor is clone, then comes the big a ssessors nineteen in num- ber. from ninettieu different Congressionai districts, to try their hands at eqUitliZati011 aad justice. determined to ascertain the true value of property that few of them have ever seen and Lew of them ever heard of. They meet in the North Cnamber of the Capitol.

call the Auditor to preside over them, appoint a trierjeant-at-Arms, clerks, puree, and janitors with as much diguity as the Howse or Senate. They sit at it cost of about alitaaal per annum to the taxpayers of the State. Each member is advised by some of his constituents that he must not allow his district to be over-equelieed. Each is anxious to make a record, --each works to procure a low assessinent for his district, and especially for his county. The result is a shamefully low as that greatly depreciates the value of real property and dues hut reduce the burdus of taxation one cent.

THE PROPOSED CHANGE. The true rule of taxation is: That which occasions the expense of government should bear its burdens. The change proposed in the bill is a radical one. It proposes to change from the ill-working ad valorem system to a system of taxation upon business, umform in its operation upon the class of business taxed. It is the object and purpose el this bill to raise a revenue eutticient to defray the expenses of the State Government from the sources named in the bill, and leave the real and personal oroperty and local business to pay the CXOCOSeS of the local, county.

city, anti town governments. If we can adopt it system et this kind kind make it suctiesstul it cannot fail of good results. If we can relieve the real and personal property from taxation for State purposes. the Board of Equalization will become a wieless apperidage to the State Government, and can be abolished at once, thereby saving an expense to the State Government of more than thaatill a year, and prevent the gales injustice that is now betrig done to the present taxpayers of the State. Now let us exatulue the bill and see whether It will produce WO results claimed for it.

The first section of the bill provides the mode of taxing railroads. It puts the railroads into two classes, according to the earnings of the roads. Those railroads earning less than aalate per mile per annum are taxed 3 per met upon their gross earnings. Those earning more than alma) per mile per annum are taxed at the rate of 4 per tient upon their gross earnings. This is not a new nettle of taxing railroads.

it is only applying the manner of taxation that has been so successful in gathering' taxes from the Illinois Central Railroad, from which this State has collected in past years aielittalall. without the loss of a dollar or one cent a cost for collection. Such a mode of assessing and collecting State taxes must commend itself to an intelligent. thinking people, and especially so if the collections cati be made with justice to the railroads and the people. I do not desire to impose an unjust or an unequal burden upon the railroads of this State.

I hold that railroads shouid receive at our bands the same treatment that we would accord to the citizen or the individual under alike circumstances. TELEGRAM' AND EXPRESS. We have no data upon which to base a reliable estimate of the gross earnings of telegraph and or express companies. I lind. however, that express cotnpanies pay in freights to railroads and COUltuou carrion's, on account of freigiits in this State.

near $1,000.0.10 per annum. It will tie safe to estimate the gross earnings of express companies at three times the amount of treigats paid out. or adalatatatO per annum; deduct therefrom alaitataluit on account of freights paid. and which is taxed under See. I of this bill as a Part of the gross earnings of railroads, and it will Produce atisasie annually of revenue.

where at present we get comparatively nothing. The gross earnings of telegraph lines will exceed that of ex press companies. While we have DO very reliable data to estimate these earnings upon, we do know as a matter of fact that the Western Union Telegrapa Company is one of the richest and DOOSt powerful corporations in the world. It swallows telephone companies and other telegraph companies as readily as a full-grown pickerel will swallow a minnow. In conversation with a well-known gentleman trotn (-Alienate and one who.

I am satisfied, is fully posted as to the earnings of telegraph companies, I was informed that in the busy seasons of the year (and it is all busy seasons in Chicago) the earnings of the telegraph etunpanies in that City were not less than Wai) per day. At this rile the average in Chicago alone woujd be aajaaitaSper annum. If the earnings are so great in Chicago. the earnings of the state would surely produce enough to make the gross earnings in the State $4,000,001) per annutn. This would yield a tax to the Mate of per annum, Iwhere we get nothing now.

INSURANCE. It appears from the insurance report of this More Press Opinions of Ills Candidacy for the Supreme Bench. Iowa State Rofister There may be some good reason for the renomination of Stanley Matthews as Supreme Judge. It is said it is done to meet a request on the part of Hayes. If so.

that was about the only thing that could make the apppointment worse. The Senate ought to eject it. New York Graphic It is to be regretted, for several reasons. that President Garfield hal nominated Mr. Stanley Matthews.

of the Ohio Sixth District, to fill the vacancy existing in the Supreme Court of the United States from the Seventh Illinois District. Mr. Matthews is not qualified by temperament and disposition for such a position. There is nothing In his record to commend him for a Judge of the Supreme Court. There is a widespread feeling that his course as a member of the Senate regarding the Thurmau bias relating to the Pacific Railroads, and his professional connection with great corporations in the past.

ludicate either by in- i ciination or education. he leans strongly to the side of tbe corporations in matters wnere their interest and that of the public conflict. With tthileheielneieas have erethePeprIrt(sss'nai nomination Of Mr. Matthews by President Hayes, has very generally opposed his elevation to the Bent'. What are the potent influences at work which are so persistently pushing Mr.

Matthews candidacy for the Supreme Bench? Bloomington (ILL) Leadir The President has apparently made the first serious mistake of his Administration in the nomination of Stanley Matthews to the Supreme Bench, and this is a legacy, perhaps a parting injunction. from the retiring President -which Gen. Garfield may tave felt bound to respect. and for which he should hardly be held responsible It remains to be seen whether Stanley Matthews coming from Gartield is any more palatable to the Senate than when tendered by his predecessor. Omaha (Neb.) Bet The Supreme Bench has up to the present time escaped the suspicion of corruption.

While the monotsollea have disgraced our primaries, packed political conventions, and filled Legislatures and Congress with their paid tools, they have not succeeded in polluting the fountain-head of justice In the Supreme Court. Ever since the celebrated Grainger decisions they have been struggling to attain this end. Vacancies in the court have been made by the corporations offering to ermined Judges higher salaries than those commanded by their positions. while men like Stanley Matthews. whose records are a guarantee of their monopoly affiliations, have been pushed forward and indorsed by the railroad managers to take the places vacated by their predecessors upon the Supreme In-knell.

The sentiment of the country is decidedly against this nomination, and President Garfield is deliberately setting bia lace against public opinion when he persists in forcing upon the Supreme Bench a man so totally unlit for the position as Stanley Minneapolis Tribune We believe President Garfield has committed the error of over-amiability in yielding to tee importunities of Stanley Matthews and renominating that gentleman for the Supreme Bench. It may be assumed that the President Is reasonably assured of his confirmation or be would not have sent in his name. but the appointment could well have been omitted. Boston Journal There is a very general feeling of regret on the part of the President's friends in the Eastern States that he has renominated Stanley Matthews for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. That Mr.

Matthews is a brilliant lawyer there can be no doubt. The general judgment in the East is that Mr. Matthews lacks that balance necessary to make him a memoer of the highest court in the Nation. In his transactions with the Louisiana tricksters he was placed in a most unenviable position. In the Senate his brilliancy was eclipsed by his advocacy of fantastic schemes, usually turning up on the wrong side of every question, and disclosing on no occasion that curate judgment and judicial demeanor which I are reouisit in a Justice of the Supreme Court.

St. Paul Globe President Garfield lins matte his first mistakeand a serious onein the nomination of Stanley Matthews to the vacancy on the Supreme Bench. Ile is totally unfit for tne high position, tor he has long been the attorney of the railroad monopolies in their war upon the Government. He may, if confirmed, be called upon to give judgment in cases in hied he has heretofore acted as an attorney. The Senate.

it is to be hoped, wild have no delicacy in rejecting the nomination. The interests of the Judicial ISepairtment of the Government demand it. Boston Herald President Garfield has erred, grossly and unaccountable, in renewing the nomination of Stanley Matthews to the Supreme Bench. Its ratification by the Senate will not redeem it. No nomination to that position was ever so emphatically rebuked by the people as this- None was ever made with less reason or smaller regard to fitness.

It would be interesting to know the nature of the obligations" that induced President Garfield to so disregard public opinion. The country had hoped that this sort of thing ended with the Returning Board rewards. It is a bad start for the new Administration. St. Louis Republican The renominae Lion of Stanley Matthews is the first serious blunder President has committed, and will be deeply regretted by his sincere friends of both parties.

Although predicted by Washington correspondents a week before the inainturation, we were unwilling to believe that a man credited with so much sense would do such an extremely foolish thing. But the thing has (keen done, and the doer must now pay the penalty. not only in sharp criticism, but In very considerable loss of public confidence. Richmond Slate It is well known that the proper requirements for the seat of a Justice are not found in Mr. Stanley Matthews.

Avhose name Mr. Hayes sent to the Senate with a judgment as bad as the indelicacy that kept him from withdrawing it. Springfield Republican Presidcmt Garfield has disappointed his best friends and injured the standing and character of his Administration by renominating Stanley Matthews for the vacancy on the Bench of the Supreme Court. As the first important nomination made outside of the Cabinet, this sets the standard low, and disregards the plainly-expressed judgment of the public. of the press, and of the extremely able group of lawyers on the last Judiciars Committee in the Senate.

It ought to be rejected. and will tie, if the Senate does its duty. Stanley Matthews' opinion on questions certain to come before the Court and his course In public life make him an unsafe man in temperament and in judgment to sit on the Bench. The corporations want him, and the people do not. New York Times March 15: Whatever may be said in extenuation of the appointment by President Hayes and of his adherence to the choice bas no application to the coliduct of President Garfield in insisting upon it for him.

President Garfield surely was under no obligation to Mr. Matthews. and had no political or personal debts to pay by his advancement. He could hardly be blinded by personal rein- tions to his conspicuous unfitness for the eminent judicial position to which be aspired, and certainly he was not ignorant of the very strong opteksition whiela the soppointinent had evokml, the ret of the able Judiciary Committee of the Senate in the last Congress to report it favorably. and the reluctance of the Senate to have It to act upon.

The expiration of the Congress and the lapsing of the nomination gave an opportunity for making a new and propereppointment without in any way reflecting upon events and motives that pertained to a past Adrninis-- tration. A decent regard for public opinion arid the interests of the public service should hnve led the President to Ignore the contest to which the appointment had given rise and tip send in a new name. Ile has nut only reneated one of tbe most injudicinua and objectionable aces of hia predecessor, but has done it without his.exense, and in the fate of an expression of public replignanee which that predecessor may not have anticipated. What 11110tiVe3 and eonsiderationi con id have led him into this blunder it is impos- feble to understand. They are beneath the surface, and cannot by any possibility be creditable.

lie has thrown upon the new Senate and its vet unnamed Judiciary Committee the alternative of rejecting his nomination. an 'ungracious thing in itself. or of agreeing to as appointment which will weaken In the estimation of the people a Supreme Bench which ban already been too muca eompromised, and needs above-all things to be strengthene(L i i DIVOncES. James A. Dustin filed a bill yesterday against his wife Harriet askIng for a divorce on the ground of desertion.

Sarah Marks asked for a divorce from Isaac Marks on account ot his cruelty. i UNITED STATES COURTS. The Connecticut Mutual Life-Insurance CornPany filed a bill yesterday against Charles GSmith, Eliza L. Smith, W. A.

Thurber, A. R. Foskett, and others to foreclose a trust-deed for on Sublot 2 in the Canal Trustees' Subdivision of B1ick 41in the Original Town of STATE COURTS. The new North-Side Planing-Mill Company, fur the use of Reno Little, began a suit yesterday against Lyman Baird and Francis Brad-Ley, laying damages at TOWN CONSOLIDATION. 71., the Editor of The Chicago Tribune.

CHICAGO, March 17.I ant a daily reader of THE TRIBUNE, and approve all you have said about the bill on the consolidation of the three towns. Who killed the bill to allow the people to vote on the consolidation of the towns? Ask R. IL White and O. S. Cook who they were working for, and, if they answer truthf oily, they will say the old ring of the Fourth Ward Club, in the interest of the present South Town officers.

The old set want to be continued in town ()nice, and the ring of the ULit doirg their bi.st to continue the present ()Meer from the Fourth. think it time that a ertange was made. If a third term for Town Clerk was one too many, why will not the rule apply to the Assessor as yell? Cook thinks that the Fourth Ward must be run by the rime again at the coming election. the same as before.only six or ten Wen being allowed to manage affairs, and cone of these the third fugleinan, a man who took shelter under the Vag of Great Britain ist the time of our late unpleasantness" with the South. Last Sunday I was present and heard a conversation between our Repr(sentative.

the Hon. R. H. White. and Col.

C. IL Gaubert, in relation to the bill before the Legislature to permit the people to vote to consolidate the towns. White asked Gkillocrt what his opinion was, and the Colonel answered that any bill that was or would be brought before the Legislature with a clause Au it requiring it to he submated to the people before becoming a law was a safe bill, and that the servants of the people should pass it and leave the rejection or acceptance to the taxpayers, for it WaS their business, and they could be trusted with conlidenee to vote on them own affairs; but White did not think so. because the old ring be represented was afraid that if ever the question of union came before the people they would adopt it. Hence he lobbied, labored.

and lied to deteat the bill in the interest of the cliques of town taxeaters. The way to punish this misropresentadon of the people is to deteat the old rings that egged him on. Vox POrti-Li. PI1013ATE COURT. In the matter of the estate of Martha C.

Lathrop. deceased, letters of administration were issued to Edwin b. Lathrop, under bonds for WO. CRIMINAL COURT. John Alum was found guilty of assault and remanded.

William Halpin was tried for larceny, and acquitted. aarles Anderson was tried for larceny, and acq nated. Charles Aldrich and Walter MacDonald were On trial for receiving stolen goods. ENA 'Fre NEW BILLS, Special DigpatcA to The Cilitago Tribune. SFRINGFIELD.

March Seuate Let this morning at the usual hour. Stuator Wilson introduced a bill appropriegnz $35,660 for the relief of James Utley, a contractor of the Eastern Illinois Hospital for Insane at Kankakee. His claim is based on Mt advaace in labor and material. SAVINGS-BANKS. Senator nice introduced a bill for the orpuization and supervision of savings-banks.

The bill provides that all savings-banks thich may be hereafter organized must have net less than thirteen stockholders, and two-. thirds of them must reside in the county in which the bank is organized. Savings-banks shal not have similar names. The articles of association must specify the name and resi- dence, street and number, of each member of the Association. One copy of the article shall be filed with the County Clerk, oue with the State Superintendent of Bauking.

and the third to be retained by the Association. The Superintendent of Banking shall ascertain whether the savings-bank is actually needed, and the density of population gives promise of adequate support whether the incolaorators are responsible as to character and general fitness. If the Superintendent be satisfied on these points, he shall issue a ptrmit to the persons named in the articles of association to open their bank anti begin business. This permit shall be tiled with the County Clerk. If the Superintendent is tatistied that the proposed bank is net expedient and desirable, he shall notify the County Clerk that he refuses to issue the certificate.

The bill does not authorize corporations with general banking powers either of issue, deposit, or discount. The business of such savings-bank shall be managed by a board of not less than thirteen trustees, who may from their Dumber elect such officers as they may see tit. Meetings must be held as often as once a month, and teveu trustees shall make a quorum. Should move from the State, become a trustee in another savings-Lank, or BORROW ANY OF THE FUNDS of which he is trustee, or become surety for any borrower, the office shall become vacant. No trustee shall borrow for himself or as agent or partner of others, any of the tunds of the bank, nor shall become an indorser or surety for any moneys loaned by the hank.

Deposits shall be paid to the depositors tinder such regulations as may be made by the trustees and printed in the pass-books. The trustees way limit the aggregate amount Which any one person may deposit, and may at any time return all or any Part of a deposit. it limits the aggregate deposits of each depositor to but this limitation does not apply to trust funds or deposits arising from judicial sales. The deposits of Miners and females shall be held for their exclusive. right, subject to attachment by It a husband sue to recover a Wile's deposit, she can be called on to testify as unmarried woman.

The bank can invest Its funds in United States bonds; bonds of Illinois; bonds of other Stares, except those which have defaulted within three Years; bonds of any village, town, city, or tounty Of the State, issued in pursuance of law; in the stocks or bonds of any city in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, or Dakota, provided the funded debt of such Municipality shall not exceed 5 per cent tf its assessed value; in the dividendDaYing stocks of any bank or trust company of this State; in the first-mortgage bonds of any railroad company in this State which is operating its own road, Lid Las and paid dividends for two Years; la bonds, notes, or mortgages, or unincumbered real estate worth twice the sum loaned; if on unimproved real estate only to one-third its value. The bank may keep nENry PER CENT OF ITS DEPOSITS On deposit with any bank in the State. The of notes, drafts, bills of ex-thane, or other personal security than that specified. IVIlere loans are made on real estate, the borrower must keep the build.1ng insured for the benefit of the bank. The Panic is forbidden to engage in mercantile biusiness.

No interest greater than per cent allowed, and the business shall be umnaged a's to give the profits, it's Menses and an annual amount set as a -surplus fund, to the depositors. surplus fund shall not exceed 20 per te," of the 'deposits. Depositors may be and dividends regulated according amount and nature of dealings with the 1411k- Extra dividends may be declared hi three years. An annual report shall ma dq to the Banking Superintendent, ''5WilLg the condition of the bank on July Ie usual penalty for failure to report is Provided for. The bank shall not be required t11i4ke a report to any other authorities.

On two years the So perintemlent shall lie a personal examination of the savings- Ilks the Stan. The powers of the Lupetietendent are very much like those for ia the National Bank er-it of the Su perintend- vice aud con'se all Vt in the iovernor, wit the al- a or the and lie" shall IU a Dowl of His tenure of office 41 be four years, tind naxx. corracLi; stia LI. BE ELIGIBLE. any savings-oank 6 ()thee.

compensation per Year. 'the closing sec- ILL Ica the winding up and hquida TIIE CALL. JunGE DRUM mosnSet case Herrick vs. Western Atlantic Railroad Company. JuDG BLoritivryMotions.

The call of motions for new trial has been nearly concluded. APPELLATE COCRTMotions at 11 a. M. JUDGE GARY-78 to SI, 85, 290, 293, 206 to 359. Condemnation case 3.953, Chicago Western Indiana Railroad Company vs.

Itaberbascb, on trial. SMITIINo preliminary call. Trial call 2,838, 2,818, 2,070, 2,01, 2,610.6, 2,700.2,702. and 2,701. JUDGE WILLiAmsovAssists Judge Gary.

'Do J.tmEsoN--13. NO case on nearing. JUDGE GARDNER-11 and 15. No case on bear- RociEns--356. 33.

and 361 No. 355, McFadden vs. Armour, on trim. JUDGE ANTHONYNO preliminary call. Trial call 81.

310, 331, 332. 336. 341, 342. 313, 314, 345. No.

328 Lewis S. Grundies, on trial. JUDGE TULEYlat 20, 21, 22, 23. No case on hearing. JUDGE kR NUM NO call.

No. 24, In re estate of Henry W. Kingsbury, on bearing. JUDGi; LOOM LSSet ease No. L331, and Nos.

91, 125. 2o0. 223. Zit, 2:3. and 4-82.

IktoliAN--No. 873 on trial, and os. 4A 50, 1.013, 1.030. 1.031, and 823 to 628. JUDGE 114 WESNos.

72, 102, 115, 930, and 116. MORRIS NEWS NOTES. Speen' Correzipondence of The Oticago Tribune. 3totta1a, 111. March PIThe Circuit Courts TOW In session.

bas a very light docket. Yesterday the day was occupied with resolutions on the death of Judge Grant. One of our oldest citizens was buried yesterday. Samuel Hoge, who settled here among the very earliest; a man of strict integrity and reFpected by all. He had become a wealthy farmer, and left a large estate to be divided among his children.

The Opera-House was filled night before It with the best people in the city to listen to the Original Tennesseeans," but they have so sadly degenerated that many people were disgusted. and left. With the assistance of their end man," they have endeavored to tnalte a combination of negro minstrelsy with the religions plantation songs, and the whole affair is extremely poor. Most every one expressed themselves as disgusted. The Illinois River is again out of its banks, owing to the melting of the snow.

The Allen Paper Car-NVticel Company have let the contract for their buildings to Morris mechanics. HOUSE. RUSHING A RIPRAPPER. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. SPRINGFIELD, March ItThe first thing done this morning on the opening of the House was to push to third reading a bill introduced by Martin, of White, which appropriates for repairing the lock- and dam, dredging out the -race, rebuilding the walls, and riorapping the banks of the Little Wabash at New Haven.

THE RESURRECTION GAME. Moore, of Jo Daviess, essaying the role of resurrectionist, moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill to pay witness fees in criminal cases in counties of the tirst and second class out of the public purse was slaughtered a couple of weeks ago. The motion prevailed. and the question recurred on the motion to strike out the enacting clause. Durfee, of Macon.

opposed the bill because it made it easy tor Justices, Constables, and witnesses to enter into COLLUSION TO INCREASE LITIGATION. The question should be left exactly where it the discretion of the County Board. 'Yancey, the Maeoupiu infant, naturally favored the bill, while Morris, of Ilardin, anti Buckingham, of Union, opposed it for the reason that it would impose unjust taxation upon if not actually bankrupt some counties. Cowan, of Maeoupin, argued in ravor of the bill, claiming that it was right in principle, and that several bills had been passed which would put money in the average county purse, and make the alleged burdens no burden at all. As for collusion and fraud, the claims for fees must be examined by the Judge of the court before they were paid, A enEtk AGAINST FRAUD which was very properly inserted in the bill.

Joe Mann attacked the bill as unconstitutional, denying that the Legislature had the right to divide the State into counties to regulate the fees of witnesses, though it did have the right to divide it so as to regulate the fees of officers. If the bill was a good one, why not insert Cook County? Simply for tilt reason that to do that, as the author of the bill well knew, would be to kill it deader than a door-nail. The motion to strike out was discussed at considerable length, and lost by the hairbreadth vote of 61 to el Mann thigteupon offered an amendment including COUNTIES OF THE THIRD CLASS. This, of course, meant, Cook County, just as the mover intended it should mean. The amendment was rushed through by a vote of 66 to 61, despite the frantic appeals of the friends of the bill, who saw far enough into the future to convince themselves that the Cook County delegation would vote solidly against the bill and help to EVERLASTINGLY KNIFE IT when it came up on third reading.

The hour of 11 o'clock having arrived, the House took up the special order of the day, the censideration of the Linegar Revenue bill, which proposes a tax On the gross receipts of railroads express, tolegraph, and insurance companies, in lieu of all other taxes from such corporations. The majority and minority reports of the Committee on Ilevenuethe one reciumendi. ing that the bill do not pass and the other that it 'towere read, whereupon Linegar AMERICAN PORK. To the Editor of The Chicaoo Tribune. CHICAGO, March bear a great deal about prohibition, present and contemplated, by European countries in reference to American pork, but we do not bear anything about any contemplated action on the part of the Amerean authorities for inspecting our pork.

Now, it is a fact that a large proportion of our own people, in Chicago and elsewhere, will not touch our pork because they are afraid of it Thig can all be remedied, and can only be remedied by its inspection, so that when tt citizen goes to buy a ham or a piece of sausage be may feel and know that he incurs no danger in doing it. Tnis is the remedy; and if the newspapers. Instead of browbeating European peopie. would go to work to secure the necessary inspection they would avert from mg agricultural classes a great and threatening danger. SUPERIOR CoURTJU-DGE SMITIIA.

C. Treadway vs. Robert Greer, ffitSIK.I. JuDGE GARYJulia M. Bliss vs.

O. R. Keith, Edson and E. G. Keith, and J.

C. Woodward; and motion for new F. Wnlienstik vs. Patrick J. Sexton, s19.0r, CI Rothgerber vs.

John Livingston. Jt-noy, ANTHONYLielElriLli Rapp vs. Mathias Klein, 35. Enzlish View of American Polities. LOTOdOn TiMett.

3. Apart from the minor issues and superficial incidents of politics in the United States. the prospect before Gen. Garfield is, on the whore, hopeful. if not brilliant.

The Republican party, now about to enter upon the twenty-tirst year of its monopoly Of the Executive power. has no such reason to fear the attacks of the Democrats as it had at the close of Gen. Grants Ad-Eritrea ration. The Democrats have distinctiy lost ground since 1s7r3. and their party ortranization.

as welt as that of me Republicans, has to repeat obsolete war-eries and to dtsinter deal issues in order to keep up the semblance of political warfare. The old sectional antipathy North and South is flying out. and, as a geistration is growing up to triannood which was Actively engaged iii the secession struggle, and idt wnien tne bitter teelings of the period istely preceding trecession are only bistoricarw known, it may be hoped that before Presidential campain the ancient teu s. which bad its root in slavery will finally banished from of Party controversy. If.

of questions eonneeted ht the rct; frg. with the rivalry bev4een North Lind Sauth may be put aside as pt.tetacally settled. it becomes dithcult to perceive the distinguishing characteristics of the two competing parties in the tinted States. The ostinction is corning to be more and more one of individuals rather than of principles. awl thers is as yet no sign of a new cleavage of as must some day IEllings, HarrisYayettel, Niehaus, Bitner, James.

Paisley, illa(kaby, Keen (Wabash), Perrin, Boyd, Keen (Wayne), Po flock, Bryan, Loucks, Buck. Lucas, Richardson Buck inghim, M(tnn, (Cumberland), Bundy, Mart Campbell, (White), Shaw, Coultas, McAdams Shumway, Cron krite, McDonald. Smith, crook, McKinley, Spann, Duffy, McLeod, Sullivan, English, Mieure, Thompson. Erwin, Mitchell, 'Weber, Gallup. Morgan, Welsh, Gorman, Mort-is, Yancey, Green, Murphy.

Young-53. NAYS. Allen, Harris (Cook), Parish, A es, Herrington, Reno. Bailey, Heryer, Rubinson, itaidw in, Hoblen, Rockwell, Black, Kelly, Rogers. Brown, Linegan, Burnley, Butterfield, Little.

Sharp. Carter, Ludington, Simmons, McCune, Simonson, Chandler, McMahoue, Stover, Chatfield, Mock. Stowell. Cnisholm, Nichols, Stratton (Will), Clark. Okesou, Sumner, Collier, O'Mara.

Tnornton, Collins (Cook), Otman, Vaughey, Collins (Will), Parry. Veile, Cook O. Peters, Welch. COWILLI. Pearson (Mal natl.

ASSIGNMENT. Special Dispatch to The Citca vo Tributur EAST SAGINAW, Maren T. 3IelleavT, a lumber jobber at Midland, made an assignment to J. T. Burnham, of Saginaw.

for the befit of his creditors. Ills liabilities are estimated at assets not known, but supposed-to be nominal. SMALL-FOX. Spector Dispatch to The Chicato Tribui14. BLOOMINGTON, March 17.

Three cases of small-pox, of a mild form, exist in the vicinity of Lexington, in this (McLean) county, and have excited a gookt deal of con steruation in that community. Winchester's Itypophosphites will cure consuinTrton, cou-ills. weak bin" bronchitis. and gLneral debility. Established twenty-one years.

Coughs! Use Brown a Bronchial Troches. Robust and blooming health in Hop Bitters, and 110 family eau afford to be without them. l'.