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;# 5' s - - * t||r«rg *Cl<uudra!ct I. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. IfcHENRY, •*= ILLINOIS. •.'•Sift tHE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. ONE year ago, says a New York dispatch Gen. Grant signed a contract for the pub­ lication of his memoirs, by which it was •greed that he should receive 70per cent, of the profits of the work, if1,000 being paid in advance. An edition of 325,000 of the first volume has been printed, and less than 12,000 copies remain on hand, while forty presses are banging away turning out a complete book at every revolution of their cylinders. Last week Mrs. Grant received • check for $'200,000 on account. The fmblisher expects to give Mrs. Grant a check or a similar amount before July 1, and is confident Mrs. Grant will receive in all $600,000 from the book. F. W. NICKEBSON & -Co., importers, West India traders, and commission mer­ chants, of Boston, have failed, with liabili­ ties of $900,000. The firm is largely in­ terested in the Eastern Steamship Line, which is reported to be affected by the failure. AT New York the pallium was conferred, i Archbishop Corrigan with imposing cer- THE WEST. VTHE Kev. Sam Jones^ the evangelist, v|peached three times, in Chicago, last Sun­ day. Fifteen thousand people heard him during the day, and he seemed to hold the audiences spellbound. J. V. LEWIS, of Cincinnati, has organ­ ised a cotton-seed oil pool or corporation having a capital of $20,000,00(1, to be known as the Cotton Oil Trust Company, and controling 60 per cent, of the mills of the entire country. It is said the syndicate is besieged by applications for admission of mills not yet in the pool Explorei-s in Nebraska found within three miles of Chad- ixm an ancient stone wall extending for seven miles. It is over a foot in thick­ ness, from three to four feet high, and laid in cement-with great regularity.... The bursting of a boiler resulted in the ex­ plosion of 12,000 pounds of powder in the Jfiami Powder Company's works near Xenia, Ohio, killing three men and blowing the dry house and its machinery to pieces. ... .The Illinois Central Iioad. in its report for 1885, shows an increase of $4(U.4!S5 in the earnings of the Illinois and Southern lines, and a decrease of $34,054 in the Iowa leased tracks. The gross earnings per mile were $G,108.90... .A masked mob expelled the Chinese working at East Portland and Albina, Oregon, displaying revolvers to menace the Chinese, who were driven to a ferryboat and then carried to Portland. A TEiiEPHONE company at Hannibal, Mo., violated a contract with its patrons by charging $4 p£r month .for instruments, whereupon the City Council repealed the charter of the concern. NEAR Eumpas, Mexico, Apaches killed ail American and a Mexico, wounded an American and a Mexican, and decamped with their supplies El Paso, (Tex.) special: "During the. past few days an un- nsual number of Chinese from California liave passed through this city on their way to New Orleans and the numerous Texas cities along the route. They are the van­ guard of the mighty horde of Mongolians who are certain to sweep this way to escape from California, where they are now being mercilessly driven out by the white settlers. News come from Socorro. Tombstone, Tuc­ son, Deming, and other cities in New Mex­ ico and Arizona that the influx of Chinese has struck those points, and that strong, anti-Chinese Leagues have been organized in each of these cities, and also in this place, to dure the hunted Mongolians on toward the Eastern cities. The password is 'move on.' " ) IN demolishing a bujjdfng at Alton. Dili- : nois, formerly occtyrted by E. P. Love joy, there was found a small quantity of type once used in publishing The Observer The roads in the Wisconsin pineries are now in excellent condition, and the loggiug crews are pushing work so rapidly that the desired cut will be made without*diflicultv. WASHINGTON. FOLLOWING IS a recapitulation of the national debt statement issued on the 1st of March: XNTEBEST-BEARIXO DEBT. Bonds at 4>£ per cent Bonds at 4 per c?nt Bonds at 3 per cent ^funding certificates at 4 per cent. Wavy pension fund at 3 per cent..... Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. Principal Interest rsso.ooo.oao •J37,7 > ).• 0 > 184,'W,350 21 "1.8OO 14,000,000 64,623,512 ..•1,2 lf',540,8+1 Total $1,291 50« VZBT OK WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED BINCK MATuurrx. Principal »l,w,465 Interest. 237,383 Total.... $1,475,349 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. <Hd demand and legal-tender notes. (346,733.690 Certificates of deposit 14,9 0,000 Gold certificates 105,t>:t7,tj50 Silver certificates 88,393,816 Fractional currency (less $8,375,931, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6,959,133 Principal 5U,oi ,,715 Total debt- Principal.... Interest $1,817,588,843 10,748,223 , Total fl,828,334,071 Less cash items available (or reduc­ tion of the debt. 13.953,748 Less reserve held for redemption of U. S. notes 100,000,000 Total.. f323,953,748 Total debt less available cash items81,5 '4,:s7-<,322 Net cash in the Treasury 72,7/8,2 2 Debt less cash in Treasury March 1. 188(3 SI,432,083.319 Debt less cash in Treasury Feb. 1. 1,434,782,272 Decrease of debt daring the month. f ±l< 02,151 CASH IX THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOE REDUC­ TION OP THE DEBT. Gold held for fold certificates actu­ ally outstanding S1O0L637 050 811 ver held for silver certificates act- * nally outstanding 83.390 816 U. h. notes held for certificates of dejiosit actually outstanding 14.920 000 Cash held for matured debt and to. ' terest unpaid Fractional currency the month of FelnUttiy umuauUiJ to §!230,- 08'J The United States Supremo Court has sustained the decision of the lowei; courts in favor of the defendant in the case of the State of Tennessee against the Pull­ man Car Company, brought to recover taxes on the cars of the company passing through the State. OOKSCXI HUOHES reports that the Imports of American meats into the middle counties of England far exceed all other articles in bulk and value.... Secretary Bayard says that a number of consuls stationed at im­ portant English cities have sent in their resignations, made contingent upon the passage of the House bill abolishing notarial fees. Mr. Bayard says that the enactment of the bill would reduce the in­ come of the Consul General at London $20,000, of the Consul at Liverpool $10,000, and of the consuls Manchester, Bir­ mingham, Bradford, Tunstall, and other large manufacturing towns from $8,000 to $2,500. THE SOUTH. THE Missouri and Arkansas division of the Texas and St. Louis Railroad has been sold to representatives of the bondholders for $7,401,000... .The Louisiana Board of Pardons has refused to yield to the petition of 26,786 citizens to release Ford and Mur­ phy, the murderers of Captain Murphy. The Governor fixed March 12 as the date for their execution. THE Mississippi Legislature has repealed the agricultural lien law, which allowed mortgages to be given on crops fifteen months before planted. The law has been in force fifteen years, and its repeal will produce a marked effect upon the commer­ cial interests of that State. ELI BEAKDF.N, of Harriston, Ark., who was twice sentenced to be hanged for the murder of a neighbor, has on the third trial been acquitted. The cost to the State was $20,000. DDHINO a personal difficulty in the Ken­ tucky Legislature, Representative William Jackson invited Representative Robert G. Thomas io go out on the street and be thrashed. The latter secured a pistol, and the belligerents had started for the door when placed under arrest by Speaker Offutt. By the burning of a dairyman's barn near Owcnsboio, Kj'-, thirty-live Jersey cows were cremated. gagvs- upon Lis.]* estates. Tho stock is now quoted at 263, which is the lowest point it has ever reached. It has fallen seventy points within the past fou,- months. The stockholders of the institution very naturally complain in bitter terms of a govermental proc eeding which they consider no better than robbery of one class of citizens for tho benefit of another class.... The municipal authorities of Paris have ordered the School Committee to expunge from children's books the name of the Deity. A PBOPOSAII is being discussed to es­ tablish state granaries in England as a pre­ caution against famine in time of war.. March 22 Emperor William of Germany will be 89 years old. Great preparations are being made for celebration of the event. A cablegram announces the death at Rome of Cardinal Jacobiai, in his 54th year. Gooi>noDY*s tobacco factory in Tulla- more, King's County, Ireland, was de­ stroyed by fire. The lose is $400,000 The forts of Pans are to be abolished.... At the request of1 the Episcopal Bishops of Ireland Lord Plunket, Archbishop of Dub­ lin and Primate of Ireland, has convened the synod for the 23d inst., to obtain an ex­ pression of the opinion of the church on the political situation in Ireland. Similar action was inaugurated by the Presbyterians soiim days since. PRESIDENT AND SENATE. $e Sent'to the Senate in Regard to the With- l - h o l d i n g o f P a p e r y $ The Bight of the Senate to Call for Cer­ tain Information Strongly D e n i e d . . . . • > > POLITICAL. THE Supreme Court of Ohio upholds the Governor in removing the Police Commis­ sioners of Cincinnati. The Mayor alone has power to fill the vacancies... .The Sen­ ate Jndiciary Committee at Washingtonhas decided to report adversely on the nomina­ tion of Zachariah Montgomery, of Califor­ nia. as Assistant District Attorney General for the Interior Department. The senti­ ments entertained by the nominee with re­ spect to the public-school system, which were publicly expressed in a pamphlet is­ sued by him several years ago, form the grounds for objection. A WASHINGTON dispatch states that the Senate Militiirv Committee "has agreed on the House bill for the relief of Fitz-John Porter. Senators Cameron and Sewell voted with the Democrats in favor of the bill. There will be a majority and a minor­ ity report. The former will probably be prepared by Senator Sewell ana the latter by Senator Logan: The bill will have a majority of four in the Senate, as Senators Sewell, Hoar. Cameron, Jones, of Nevada, Sabin, and Pike will vote with the Demo­ crats in its support." t THE Ohio Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the lower court in refusing to grant a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Daniel J. Dalton, of Cincinnati, held for contempt by the Ohio House of Repre­ sentatives. THE Iowa House of Representatives has ordered the trial of Judge Hayes, of the Davenport and Clinton District, on charge of aiding the enemies of the prohibitory liquor law. 15,006,691 1,189 Total available for reduction of toe Jebt #823,955,748 _ ,, , , RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. 8. notes a«te Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, ™ <100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt-- t2yil,037 "531,3J8 •2V4->,:*3 6H,"J L.C,70 72,'i02 Fractional silver coin....... Minor coin • Total Certificates beld as cash...!"**"*" Ketcash balance on haud...°!"ll" Total cash in Treasury an shown by tbeTreasurer's general account.. 8491,480,981 THE following cable telegram has been received by the Chinese Minister at Wash­ ington from the Governor General Canton: GENERAL. of SK' • taM „ .. CANTOS, Feb. 25. i? His Excellency Cheng, Chinese Minister, Wash­ ington. D. C.: Cablegrams received from Chinese merchants f t Sim Francisco hta'iu- that Chinese in the Jutted t-tatew have been most outrageously ut- !'• - *: ^lacked. Hearing this news Canton people arc V."'- furious. Uetaliution is threatened. IIo-,v did •*-|he American < ioverument act in tins mattery /|Un y< u not ask the President to ndopt utcas- lire8 for the protection of the Chinese there and *, for prevention of these inhu oi.n i cts in order to .jweserve the good friendship <,f the twocoun- i' tites? Otherwise the eonhorjuexic^s here niav serious. CHAN;; C;JI TUNC;. ' ^ „I THE issue of standard sjlver dollars from fhe mints for the week ended Feb. 27 was *'.j|j05,060. The issue during the correspond- s ** ing period of last year wan 18G,4y7. The (4 . ahipmenia of fractional silrer coin during THE Canadian Pacific Railroad depot-at Winnipeg, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $200,000, with insurance of but $40,000. LETTEHS and telegrams are published in the Xorth American Review showing that there was no enmity between Generals Grant and Halleck. General Sherman, in the North Afnerican Review for March, answers the charges of General Fry, alleg­ ing that Fry deliberately distorted phrases from a private letter belonging to General Grant. General Sherman insists that his respect and regard for the dead commander was genuine and hearty. Ex-SENATOR WILLIAM H. BARXUM has retired from the position of general man­ ager of the Iron Cliff Mining Co., and is succeeded by John Abeel, of New York Reports have reached Canada that six mounted policemen were killed by Indians near llcgina, and that the police at Edmon­ ton and Saskatchewan bicl defiance to their officers. THE Champion Reaper Works, at Spring­ field, Ohio, has declared war on the Knight^ of Labor, and has discharged 300 men, while 400 others have been locked out of the Champion Malleable Works... .It is re­ ported that the strike on the Texas and Pa­ cific Road is likely to become general on ill the Gould lines in Texas, and may ex­ tend to other railways in the State The employes of the Case Plow Company at Racine, Wis., have struck for an advance in wages. HCGH SUTHERLAND, member of the Canadian Parliament, stated at St. Paul that the contracts for building the Hudson's Bay Railroad had been let, that work would be begun immediately, and that an English syndicate was ready to put on a line of steamers between Hudson's Bay and Liver­ pool. FOREIGN, THE appointment of ^Ir. John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland is received with moderate friendliness by the papers of the Green Isle. In the event of Morley's defeat for re-election at Newcastle, Mr. Par- nell offers to find him a constituency in Ireland. * AT Monte Carlo a young commercial traveler who was on his bridal tour and had stopped for a few days at Monaco, commit­ ted suicide after ruining himself at the gaming table.... The cable announces the death of the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the famous Baptist preacher of Liverpool, who in early life ran a locomotive on the London and Northwestern Road. A SPECIAL cable dispatch from London reports that "Mr. Gladstone still maintains reticence as to what he proposes to do for Ireland. The most credible statements as to th<i programme which the Premier sub­ mitted at the recent Cabinet meeting all point to state purchase of the land as the cardinal princ iple of the Government's Irish policy, with which Lome-rule is associated. Reports differ as to the terms of compensa­ tion to be offered to the landlords, but agree that appraisements are to be fixed by land courts established for that purpose. The landlords will be offered either rental valu s at an average number of years' pur­ chase or cash amounts based upon the the­ ory of compulsory Side. Tho plan, also includes a pro rata reduction of mortgages, the holders of which will be therefore mulcted in ns nearly as possible the same proportion as the landlords. The growing certainty that tbe landlords' rights are doomed to extinction is visibly weaken­ ing Bank of Ireland stock, as the assets of tlmt institution consist largely of inert- ¥ ADDITIONAL NEWS. MRS. MART L. TRRRT, for the past eighteen yean keeper of the lighthouse at Eocanaba, Michigan, was cremated in a fire which destroyed the structure.... George Scoville, a Chicago lawyer known throughout the country, was summoned for contempt in neglecting to pay alimony to his divorced wife. He of­ fered to surrender some books be­ longing to Charles J. Guiteau, but was ordered by Judge Moran to pay up or go ta jail. Mr. Scoville stated that for two years his divorced wife had befn engaged in writing a book... .The McCoimL-k Reaper Factory in Chicago has 98"2 men at work. The cigar manufacturing firm of Goldsmith & Brother raised the boycott upon their goods by employing only union workman. The trouble with the Dueber Watch-Cas.» Company at Philadelphia has been settle J*, by compr jmise. JAMES HOLLAND, the Texan who killed Tom Davis in New York, last year, during a quarrel oyer the purchase of som? counter­ feit money, has been acquitted. THE strike of 15,000 s reet-car drivers in New York, which commenced promptly at 4 o'clock one morning last week, left the people of that citV wholly without surface transportation until 2 p. m., when the com­ pany offered to pay $2 for twelve hours' work. Railroad Commissioner O'Donnell was selected as an arbitrator in fu­ ture troubles... .Miners of the Wyo­ ming Valley have resolved not to work for the Susquehanna Coal Company unless effort is coutinued to res­ cue the bodies of the men and boys en­ tombed at Nanticoke... .Thomas Christie and Hovatio Kiug, clerks in the First National Bank at Bradford, Pa., were ar­ rested for embezzling §00,000 through an ingenious system of "cooking" the accounts. P. H. Huntley, an old broker, was also ar­ rested for abbetting the fraud. CHOLERA has been discovered on board a Greek brigantine at Venice Mr. Par-y nell, in an interview, declared that he had not been consulted by Mr. Gladstone, di­ rectly or indirectly, on the subject of home rule.... An American named Flood has created something of a sensat\pn in Ireland by bringing suit for the recovery of what are known as the "Kilkenny estates." He claims to be heir to the property, and wants heavy damages from the present occupant. TtfE Blair educational bill passed tbe Senate cm the 5th. The sum appropriated is S7'J,00J,000, It provides for eight years after its passage there shall be annually anpropriated from the Treasury tbe following sums in aid of common school education in the St it and Territories, and District of Columbia and Alaska: The first, Si',000,000; the second, $10,000,000; the third year, $15.000.0 M; the fourth year, $13,0 0,000; the fifth year. #11,000,0 *); the sixth year. $0,010,- 10 >; the seventh y» a \ $7,000,000 ; and the eighth veir SS.OOJ.OOJ; in all, $77,000,000. Besides this there is a special appropriation of $2,0U),000 to aid in the erection of schoolhouses in spirsely settled district), making the total $79,- OJU.OOO. The money is given to thj several St.it?s and Territories in that proportion which ' the whole number of persons in each of the age of ten years and over who cannot writ9 bears to the whole number of such persons in the United Stntas, according to the census of 1880, until the census figures of 1890 shall be obtained, and then according to the latter figure. In St ites having separutj schools for white and colored children the money is to be paid out in support of such white and colored schools rjspect- ively in the proportion that the white 'and colored children between ten and twenty-on years old bear to each other. No State is to receive the benefit of the act until its Governor shall file with the Secret irv of tho Interior a state­ ment giving full stat sties of the school system, attendance of white and colored children, amount of money expanded, number of schools in operaticn, number and compensation of teachers, etc. No State or Territory is to receive in any one year from this fund "more monay than it han paid out the previous year from its own revenues for common schools. If any Stite or Territory declines to take its share of the national, fund Nuch share is to be dis­ tributed among the States accenting tbe bene- fiits of the fund. If any State or Territory mis­ applied the fund, or fails to comply with the conditions, it loses all subsequent uppoition- ment. Any State or Territory accepting Jhe provisions of the act at the first session of its Legislature after the p umige of the net shall receive its pro rata share of all previous annual appropriations. Tnc right to alter or repeal the act is reserved by tho Senate bill. The Senate adopt3d a resolution offered by Seuat >r Hale (Me.) calling on Secretary Whitney for all tho papers and information in his possession relat­ ing to the Dolphin affair. The House p.issed the urgent deficiency bill, appropriating $034,- 452 to meet tbe emergencies in various depart­ ments wberj the appropriations have prove*' in- adequato. THE MARKETS. " NEW YORK. BEKVRB $4.50 HOGS 4.25 WHKAT--No. 1 White 97 No. !i Red 93 CORN--No. 2 .49 OATS--White 40 PORK--Mess •. 10.25 CHICAGO. BEKVES-- Choice to Prime Steers. 5.50 Good Shipping 4.50 Common r, 8.50 Hoos--Shipping tirades ..... 4.00 FLoujt--Kxiru Spring; 4.75 Choice Winter.;... 4.5) WHEAT--No. 2 Spring...:. UO CORN --NO. 2 .37 OATH--No. 2.» .30 RYE--No. 2 .T........ .58 C® HAKI.EV--No. 3 : .49 HUTTEK--Choice Creamery J.28 EI Fine Dairy ./ ;.|H ni CHEESE--Full Cream, new..1.1. <.'.ll><jiy> Skiuim«d #l&ts •, .00 Vil Eaos--FrtBh " .15 1'oTATor.s---Choice, per bu •.. • .#a (4 PORK-- MOSS 10.00 *<<10.50 MHAVAUKBE. WHEAT--No. 2 '.60 CORN--No. 2 ; .37 <?5 6.25 <$ 4.75 <$ .98 <$ .94 Kb .51 <«) .45 @10.75 m 0.00 & 5.00 <# 4.00 Vi 4.50 ($5.25 <$ 5.00 (.'!> .81 <«', .38 <4 .32 ('« ,<so <3 .51 .30 .It .12!s .07 .10 OATS--No. i .28 IIYE--No. 1.,.,". .'... .58 PORK--New Mess. 10.00 TOLJCDO* , WHEAT--No. 3 .\.. . .92 CORN--No. 2.;.. .38 OATR--No. 2.... .31 8T-I/OUI8. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed .90 CORN--Mixed i*-.4, ' .94 OATS--Mixed *•'»*. -29 PORK--New Mess 10.50 CINCINNATI ' WHKAT--No. 1 Red. «.... .45 CORK--No. 8.. ' .30 OATS--No. 2 .32 PORK-- Me«s . 11.00 LIVE Hoos 4.25 .DETROIT. BEEF CATTUB.;.... I.' 4.90 Hoos a, ,3.25 BlI HHP.. , . . . 1 4 , . . , . 3.50 WHEAT--No. 1 Whit«......90 CORN--No. 2 !.*• .38 OATS--No. 2.......^. .38 INDIANAPOliiS. WHEAT--NO. 2Ked. .#1 CORN--New .84 OATS--No. 2 .so EAST LIBERTY. CAITLE--Beat..... ............., . 5.00 Fair 4.50 Common 9.SO Hoos: 4. SO SHEKP 8.00 BUFFAIX). WHEAT--No. 1 Hard.. .04 Co aw--Yellow. .41 CATTLE. 4.75 ('? .81 C* .38 <4 .29 (<5 .00 <410.60 .91 & .30 e* .30 (<4.11.00 .97 ('? .38 <<4 .32) (311.25 @ 4.75 (3 5.50 4.25 <4 4.50 C<« .91 ~ .39 & .92 & .85 & .32 & 5.50 & 6.00 & 4.25 & 5.00 Hi 8.75 i .98 .43 5.50 3%*?Ma{dent seat to the ftmato, «n the 1st of March, a message stating his position in relation to the suspensions of officials, and defending his action in refusing to send to the Senate papers on file In department} upon which it is assumed by the Senate that the suspensions of certain officials are based. The message was read in the open session of the Senate. It is as follows: To tbe Senate of the United States: Ever since the beginning of the present ses­ sion of the Senate the different heads of the de- < partments attached to the Executive branch of the Government have been plied with various requests and demands from committees of the Senate, from members of such committees, and at last from the Senate itself, requiring the transmission of reasons for the suspension of certain officials during the recess of that body, or for the papers touching the conduct of such officials, or for all papers and documents relat­ ing to such suspensions,or for all documents and | papers filed in such departments in relation to the management and conduct of the offices j held by such suspended officials. The different J terms from time to time adopted in making these requests and demands, the order in which they succeeded each other, and the fact that when made by the Senate the resolution for that purpose was passed in executive session, have led to a presumption, the correctness of which will, I suppose, be candidly admitted, that from first to last the information thus sought and the papers thus demanded were for use by the Sen­ ate and its c< mimttees, in considering the pro­ priety of the suspensions referred t">. Though those suspensions are my executive acts, bassd upon considerations addressed to me alone, and for which I am wholly responsible, I havo l a l no invitation from the""Seiiate to state the position which I have felt constrained to as­ sume in relation to the same, or to interpret for myself my acts and motives in the premises. In this condition of affairs I have forborne address­ ing tbe Senate upon ths subject lest I might be accused of thrusting myself unbidden upon the attention of that bouy. But the report of the Committee on the Judi­ ciary of the Senate, lately presented end pub­ lished, which censures the Attorney General of the United States for his refusal to transmit certain papers relating to a suspension from office, and which also, if I correctly interpret it, evinces a misapprehension of the position of the Executive upon such suspensions, will, I hope, justify this communication. The President j-efers to the resolution of the Senate calling for the Duskin papers and the re­ ply of the Attorney General thereto, and says: Upon this resolution and the answer thereto the issue is thus stated by the Committee on the Judiciary at the outset of the report: "The important question, then, is whether it is within the constitutioual competence cf either house of Congress to have access to the official papers and documents in the various public offices of the United StateB created by laws en­ acted by themselves." I do not suppose that "the public offices of the United States" are regulated or controlled in their relations to either house of Congress by the fact that they were "created bylaws enacted by themselves." It must be that these instru­ mentations were created for the benefit of the peoplo and to answer the general purposes of governmeutlunder the Constitution and the laws, and that they aro unincumbered by any li 'h in favor of either branch of Congress growing out of their Constitution, and unembarrassed by any obligation to the Senate as tbe price of their creation. The complaint of the committee that cess to official papers in the public offices is denied the Senate is met by tho statement that at EO tine has it been the disposition or the in­ tention of the President or any department of the executive branch of the Government to withhold from the Senate official documents or" papers filed in any of the public offices. While it is by no means conceded that the Sen­ ate has the right in any case to review the act of the Executive in removing or sus­ pending a public officer upon official documents or otherwise, it is considered that documents and papers of that nature should, because they are official, be freely transmitted to the Senate upon its demand, trusting the use of< the same for proper and legitimate purposes to the good faith of that body. And though no such paper or document has been specifically de­ manded in any of the numerous requests and demands made upon the departments, yet, as often as they were found in the public offices, they have been furnished in answer to such ap­ plications. The letter of the Attorney General in response to the resolutions of the Senate in the paiticu- Jar.gase mentioned in the committee's report waswritten at my suggestion and by my direc­ tion. There had been no official papers or docu­ ments filed in his department relating to the case within tho period specified in the resolu­ tion. The letter was intended, by its descrip­ tion of the papers and documents remaining in the custody of tho department, to convey the idea that they were not official; and it was as­ sumed that the resolution called for informa­ tion, papers, and documents of the same char­ acter as wove required by the requests and de­ mands which preceded it. Everything that had been written or done on behalf of the Senate from the beginning pointed to all letters and papers of a private and unofficial nature as the objects of search, if they were to be found in the departments, and provided they had been presented to the Executive with a view to their consideration upon the question of suspension from office. Against the transmission of such papers and documents I have interposed my advice and di­ rection. This has not been done, as is suggested in the committee's report, ujion the assumption on my part that tho Attorney General cr any other head of a department "is the servant of the President, and is to give or withhold copies of documents in his office according to the will of the Executive and not otherwise," but because I rogarded the papers and documents wi'hheld and ad­ dressed to me or intended for my use and action purely unofficial and private, not infrequently confidential, and having reference to the per­ formance of a duty exclusively mine. I con­ sider them in no proper sense as upon, tho files of the department, but as deposited there for my convenience, remaining still completely un­ der my control. I suppose, if 1 desired to"take them into my custody, I might do so with entire propriety, and if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. The papers and <1< euments that are now the objects of the Senate's quest consist of letters and representations addressed to the Executive or intended for his inspection ; they are volun­ tarily written and presented by private citizens who are not in the least insticuted thereto by any official invitation or at all subject to official control. While sc me of them are entitled to ex­ ecutive consideration, many of them are so irrele­ vant, or, in the light of other facts, so worth­ less, that they have not been given the least weight in determining the question to which they aro'supposed to relate. Are all these, sim­ ply because they are preserved, to bo consid­ ered official documents, and subject to the in­ spection of the Senate? If not, who is to deter­ mine which belong to this class? Aro the mo­ tives and purposes of the Senate, as they are day by day developed, such as would be satis­ fied with riiy selection? Am I to submit to theirs at the risk of being charged with making suspension from office t;pon evidence which was not oven considered? Are these n>erto be regarded official because they have only been presented but preserved iu the public offices? Their nature tin! charactor re­ main ttie same whether they are kept in the Ex­ ecutive Miniion.or deposited in the depart­ ments. There is no mysterious power of trans­ mutation in departmental custody, nor is there magi:: in the undefined and sacred solemnity of department files. If the presence of these pa­ pers in the public offices is a stumbling block in the way of the performance of senatorial duty, it can be easily removed. The papers and documents which have been described derive no official character from any constitutional, statute ry, or other requirement making tliem necossary to the performance of the official duty of the Executive. It will not bo elenied, I suppose, that tho President may suspend a public officer in the entire absence of any papers or documents to aid his official judgment and discretion. And I am quite pre­ pared to avow that tire eases are not few in which suspensions lrom office have depended more upon oral representations made to me by citizens of known good repute, and by members of the House of lieprosentatlves and Senators of tho United States, than upon any letters and documents presentad for my exam­ ination. I have not felt, justified in suspecting the veracity, integrity, and patriotism of Sen­ ators, or ignoring their representations, be­ cause they were not in party affiliation with the majority of their associates; and I recall a few suspensions which bear the ap­ proval of individual members identified politically with the majority in the Senate. While, therefore, I am constrained to deny the right <:f the Senate to the papers and documents described, so far as the right to tho same is based upon the claim that they are in any view of the subject official, I ain also led unequiv­ ocally to dispute the right of the Senate, by the aid of any documents whatevor, or in any way save through the judicial process of trial on impeachment, to review or reverse the act of tho Executive in the suspension during the re­ cess of the Senate of Federal officials. I believe the power to remove or suspend such officials is vested in the President alone by the Constitution, which in express terms provides that "tlto executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America," and that "ho shall take care that the laws be faith­ fully executed." The Senate belongs to the leg­ islative branch of the Government. When the Const tution by express provision superadded to its legislative duties the right to advise and con­ sent to appointments to office, and to sit as a court of impeachment it conferrod upon that body all tho control and regulation of executive action supposed to be necessary for the safety _ of tho people; and this express and special j grant of such extraordinary powers, not in any general plan of ear Government, should bo hold, under a famlltar maxim of construction, to ex- elude every other right of interference -with ex­ ecutive functions. In tho first Congress whioh assembled after the adoption of .the Constitution, comprising many who aide# mits preparation, a legislative construction w^s (oven to that instrument in whioh the independence of the Executive) in the matter 0C removals, from office was fully sus- Stalned. I tninJk it will be found that, in the subsequent disaosstons of this question, there was generally, if not at all times, a proposition pending to in some way curtail this powor of the President by legislation, which furnishes evi­ dence that to limit such power it was suppe>sed to be necessary to supplement the Constitution by such legislation. The first enactment of this description was passed under a stress of partisanship and {>olitical bitterness, which culminated in the 'resident's impeachment. Tho law provided that the Federal officers to whom it applied could only be suspended during the recess of the Senate when shown by evidence satisfactory to tho President to be guilt/ of misconduct in office, or crime, or when incnpable or disqualified to perform their duties, and that, within twenty days after the next meeting of the Senate, it should be the duty of the President "to report to the Senate such suspension, with the evi­ dence and reasons for Ins action in the case." This statute passed in 1807, when Congress was overwhelmingly and bitterly opposed, po­ litically, to the President, may be regarded as an indication that even then it was thought nec­ essary by a Congress determined upon the subju­ gation of the executive to the legislative will to furnish a law for that purpose, instead of at­ tempting to reach the object intended by an in­ vocation of any pretended constitutional right. Tbe law which thus found its way to our sta­ tute-book was plain in its terms, and its intent needed no avowal. If valid and now in opera­ tion it would justify the present course of the Senate and command the obedience of the Exe­ cutive to its demands. It may, however, be re­ marked in passing that under this law the Presi­ dent had the privilege of presenting to the body which assumed to review his executive acts his reascas therefor, instead of being excluded from explanation or judged by papers found in the department. Two years after the law of 1867 was passed, and within less than five weeks after the in­ auguration of the President in political accord with both branches of Congress, the sections of the act regulating suspensions from office dur­ ing the recess of the Senate were entirely re­ pealed, and in their place were substi­ tuted provisions which, instead of limiting the causes of suspension to misconduct, crime, disability, or disqualification, ex­ pressly permitted such suspension by the President "in his discretion," and completely abandoned the requirement obliging him to re­ port to the Senate "the evidence and reasons" lor his action. With these modifications, and with all branches of the Government in political harmony, and in the absence of partisan in­ centive to captious discussion, the law, as it was left by the amendment of 1809, was much less destructive of executive discretion ; and yet the great General and patriotic citizen who, on tbe 4th day of March, 1809, assumed the duties of chief executive, and for whose freer administra­ tion of his high office the most hateful restraints of the law of 1867 were, on the 6tlt day of April, 1809, removed, mindful of his obligation to de­ fend and protect every preioyative of his great trust, and apprehensive of the injury threatened the public service in the continued operation of these statutes, even in their modi­ fication, in his first message to Congress advised their reipeal and set forth their unconstitutional Character and hurtful tendency. I am unable to state whether or not this recommendation for a repeal of those laws has been since repeated. If it has not, tho reason can probably be found in the experience which demonstrated the fact that the necessities of the political situation but rarely developed their vicious character. And so it happens that after an extension of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desue­ tude, these laws are brought forth, apparently' the repealed as well as the unrepealed, and put in th® way of n.n executive who is willing, if per­ mitted, to attempt an improvement in tho methods of administration. The constitution­ ality of these laws is by no means admitted. But why should the provisions Of the repealed law, which required specific cause for suspen­ sion and a report to the Senate of "evidence and reasons," De now, in effect, applied to the pres­ ent executive instead of the law, afterward passed and unrepealed, which distinctly per­ mits "suspensions by the Piesident" in his elis- cretion, and carefully omits the requirement that "evidence and reasons for his action in the case" shall bo reported to the Senate? The requests and demands which by tho score have for nearly three months been presented to the different departments of the Government, whatever may bo their form, have but oife com­ plexion. They assumo the right of tbe Senate to sit in judgment upon the exercise of my ex­ ecutive function, for which I am solely respon­ sible to the people fronr whom I have so lately received the sacred trust of office. My oath to support and eh fenel the Constitution ; my duty to the peoplo who have chosen mo to exe­ cute tho powers of their great office, and not to relinquish them, and my duty to the Chief Mag­ istracy, which I must preserve unimpaired in all its dignity and vigor, compel me to refuse to comply with these demands. To the end that tho service may be improved, tho Senate is in­ vited to the fullest scrutiny of the persons sub­ mitted to them for public office, in recogni­ tion of the constitutional power of that body to advise and const nt to their appointment. I shall continue, as I have thus far done, to furnish, at the request of the confirming body, all the information I possess touching the fitness of the nominees placed before them for their ac­ tion, both when they a-e proposed to fill vacan­ cies and to take tbe places of suspended officials. Upon a refusal to confirm I shall net essume the right to ask the reasons for t.ie action of the Senate, nor question its determination. I can­ not think that anything more is required to secure worthy incumbents in public office than a careful urid independent discharge of our respective duties within their well-defined limits. Though tho propriety of suspensions might be better assured if the action of the President was subject to review by tho Senate, ?et If the Constitution and the laws have placed his responsibility «pon the executive branch of the Government it should not be divided nor the discretion which it involved relinquished. It has been claimed that, tt.e present Execu­ tive having pledged himself not to remove of­ ficials except for car Be. the fact of their suspen­ sion implies such misconduct 0:1 the j a t of a suspended official as injure a his character and reputation, and therefore tlie Senate should re­ view the case for his vindication. I have said that certain officials should not, in my cpinion, be removed during the continuance of the term for which they were appointed solely fcr the perjoie of pV.tting in their place those in p litical affiliation with the anpointing power; and this declara'im was immediately followed by a ctescriplion of official partisan­ ship which ought not to entitle those in whom it was exhibited te> consideration. It is not ap­ parent how an adherencs to the course thus an­ nounced carries with it the consequences de­ scribed. If in any degree the suggestion is worthy of consideration it is to be hoped that there may lea defense against unjust suspen­ sion in tho justice of the Executive. Every pledge which I have made by which I havo placed a limitation upon my exercise of Executive power has been faithfully redeemed. Of course the pretense is not put forth that no mistakes havo been committed ; but not a sus­ pension has been made except it appeared to my satisfaction that the public welfare would be improved there by. Many applications for sus­ pension have been tlenied, aird the adherence to the rule laid down to govern my action as to such suspensions has caused much irritation and impatience on the part of those who have insisted upon more changes in the offices. The plcdgos I have mad > were mode to the people, and to them I sm responsible for the manne r in which they havo been redeemed. I am not responsible to the Sonato, and I am un­ willing to submit my actions and official con­ duct to them for judgment. There are no groirnds for an allegation that the fear of being found false to my professions influences me iu declining to submit to the demands of the Sen­ ate. I have not constantly refused to suspend officials, and thus incurred the displeasure of political frienels, snd yet willfully broken faith with the peoplo for the sake of being false to them. Neither tho discontent of party friends nor the allurement constantly offered of confirmations of appointees conditioned upon the avowal that suspensions have been made on party grounds alone, nor tho throat oroposed in tho resolutions now be fore the Senate that no confirmations will b3 made unless the demands of that body be complied with, is sufficient to discourage or deter 1110 from following in the way which I am convinced leads to better government for the people. GROVKR CI.EVEI.AND. Executive Mansion, Washington, 1). C., March 1, 1880. | any deficiencies in tho Dopartment of Justice** is asked to remove these officers, without know* log the condition of the administration of their OffiCPH. I Mr. Edmunds moved that the Pre sident's mes­ sage be referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Hams, of Tennessee, remarked that, for reasons to which he could not then refer, he had no desire to discuss tho matter involved, and moved that the messxgo be printed and laid oo t h e t a b l e -- t h e u s u a l c o u r s e , b e s a i d . A f t ? r a little narrying between the two Senators tbe motion of Senator Edmunds was agreed to and the message was sent to the Judiciary Com­ mittee. ' SENATOR PUOirS REPORT. The Minority Report of the Judiciary Com­ mittee Replies to the Majority. Mr. Pugh, of Alabama, submitted to the Sen­ ate, on the 1st of March, the report of the minority of the Judiclaty Commit­ tee on the Senate papers relating to the removal from office ot United States Dis­ trict Attorney Dustin of Alabama. It is very long, and contains no resolutions. It says that when President Cleveland come into office 95 per cent, of the offices were filled by Repub­ licans. Notwithstanding the great demand of his supporters for offices and the fact that good rdasons for the removal of Kepublicans were abundant, removals from office have been spar­ ingly made. In the case of DuBkin the report says that Duskin has made no complaint that he was wronged. The whole point at issue is the right to the possession of a single document relating exclusively to the removal of Dus­ kin. The decision of the President that this document is not a public one must, the report sayB, be accepted as conclusive. The minority admits that all public documents re­ lating to any subject Over which Congress has power are subject to call, but denies tbe right to demand documents relating exclusively t > re­ movals or suspensions. The only rightful cus­ todian of such papers is the President. The minority expresses surprise at the ap­ pearance in the majority report of the reso­ lution relating to the preference of appointing honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, and asks by what authoritv such a resolution was reported, and what it has to do with the Duskin case. The information of the minority is that Duskin never was a Union soldier, but on the contrary was either a Confederate BOldier or sympathizer, and they believe the intent of the resolution was to se­ cure political and partisan advantage. In con­ clusion, the report denies the right ot the Senate to try the President for an alleged violation of his public pledueB. It admits that the President did declare that he would not remove officials merely because they were Bepublicuns, but says he at the same time declared that he would decapitate officeholders who had been guilty of offensive partisanship. The President, it says, declines to submit voluntarily to the decisions of a trib­ unal having no jurisdiction over the question, the sufficiency of such cause for suspensions, especially when bis fear is that such conduct in the officer might be regarded by the Bepublican majority as a reason for the retention of the in­ cumbent in office. In relation to the reasons of the President for removing officials the report says that the docu­ ments in nearly every case contain only a par­ tial statement of the causes, facts, and reasons, while in a large majority of the cases the President relied on oral testimony, which it would be impossible for him to re­ member or reproduce in every case, so as to put the Senate in possession of all the facts which governed him in tho suspension, even if the Senate had the authority under the Constitu­ tion or laws of the United States to call l»»»n to an account. Way related to or growing oat of general Sena­ torial duty, and in itself a departure from the | to say nothing of THE MESSAGE IN THE SENATE. Edmunds Like-lift It to One of King Charles I.--Referred to a Committee. When the message had been raod in tbe Sen­ ate, Mr. Edmunds arose and said that it re­ minded him of the communications of King Charles L to the British Parliament. The Pr< sident, he said, had, unintentionally, no doubt, entirely misstxt >d the question involved between himself and the Senate. Continuing, the Senator said: I think I am safe in saying that it is the first time in the history of tbe Republic that any President of the United titates has undertaken to interfere with tho deliberations of either House of Congress on questions pending b< fore them otherwise than by messages on the state of the Union, which the Constitution commands him to make front timo to timo. This message 1B dovot 'd solely 1o a question for the Senate itself, in regard to itself, that it has under consideration. That is its singular­ ity. I think it will strike reflecting people in this country as somewhat ex­ traordinary, if, in these days of reform, anything at all can be thought extraordinary. The Senate of tho United Statis, in' its com­ munications to the heads of departments--not his heads of departments, but the heads of de­ partments created by law--directed them to transmit certain offic al papers, and that is all. The President of the United States undertakes to change the question into a consideration by the Senate of his reasons or motives for putting acivil officer, as it might be called,"under arrest" --with which the Semite bus not undertaken in any way to make any question at all. By every message he has sent to this body--and they are all public--he has asked the Senate to advise and consent to tho removal of one officer and tho ap­ pointment of another. That is what ho has clone, and the Senate la calling for those papers- wider considerations about How to Recognize Good Wood. There are certain appearances char­ acteristic of good wood, to whatever class it belongs. In the same species of wood, that will, in general, l>e the strongest and most durable which has. grown the slowest, as shown by the narrowness of the annual rings. The cellular tissue as seen in the medullary rays (when visible) should be hard and compact. The vascular or fibrous tissue should adhere firmly together, and should show no woolliniess at a freshly cut surface; nor should it clog the teeth of the saw with loose fibers. If the wood is colored, darkness of color is generally a sign of strength and dur­ ability. The freshly cut surface should be firm and shining, and should have somewhat of a translucent appearance. In a wood of given species, the heavy specimens are generally the strongest and the more lasting. Among resinous woods those having the least resin in their pores, and among non-resinous woods those having the least sap or gum in them, are generally the best Timber should be free from such blem­ ishes as "clefs," or cracks radiating from the center; "cup-shakes," or cracks which partially separate one layer from another; "up-sets," where the fibers liave been crippled by com­ pression; "wind-galls," or wounds in a layer of wood, which have been covered and concealed by the growth of subse­ quent layers over them; hollow, spongy places in the center, indicating the com­ mencement of decay. It may be added that the microscope, is of great value m testing the qualities of wood; its evidence is, indeed, de­ cisive on this point. Samples and micro-photpgraphs of bridge timbers which have proved faulty, but which a preliminary examination with the mi­ croscope would have thrown out, have been exhibited. The timber was ffom a railway bridge wreoked in 1879. An­ nular rings appeared about three times as far apart as they would be in good wood of a similar kind. The medullary rays were few in number and short in length, while in good wood they are of considerable length, and so numer­ ous that tangential sections present the appearance of a series of tubes seen endwise on a number of parallel chains. After once seeing and comparing samples of good and bad wood, it is easy to recognize the difference with a pocket magnifying glass. The trunks and limbs of exogenous trees, as is well known, are built up of concentric rings, or layers of wood fiber, which are held together by radial plates acting like treenails in a boat's side. The rings, representing successive years' growth, are composed of tubes, the inter­ stices of which are filled with cellu­ lose. The slower the growth of the tree, the thinner these yearly rings, and the denser and harder the wood, other things being equal. Not only is the closeness of texturo an indication of the hardness and strength of the timber, but the size, frequency and dis­ tribution of the radial plates which bind the annular layers together may be taken as a sign of the character of the wood, and its ability to resist strains, especially a breaking-stress. In the stro: g kinds the concentric lay­ ers are close in texture and narrow in width, and the radial plates numerous, wide, long, and stout; while in poor staff the opposite characteristics pre­ vails The practical application con­ sists in having such enlarged photo­ graphic sections, longitudinal and transverse, of standard p'eces of tim­ ber bearing a certain known maximum or minimum- strain, and rejecting any piece which tho assisted eye detects to have fewer rings per inch of diameter, fewer fibers, or fewer radial plates per square inch of section, or to use such pieces with a greater factor of safety. The advantage of the method is, that it allows a'l timber for important posi­ tions to be tested before being used.-- American Cultivator. PHILADELPHIA proposes to erect monu­ ments to the memory of Generals Hancock and McClellan. QUEEN MAROHARITA of ' Italy--"the Pearl of | Savoy"--is said to be the best- dressed woman in Europe. GEORGIA can beat Kansas on sheep sto­ ries, and tells of fifteen sheep locked together by cockle burrs. LORD SAIJISBUBT has declined a duke­ dom. / THE cable cars in Kansas City carzy weather signals. HENS are very exclusive; at least IT* one likes to stick to her own set. 00NGBES8I0HAL. - * Tbm Work at the Senate and of XeprwMtattvw ••4 BMINRITINT VOUOBD, of Kentucky, who was a Colonel In the Union army, made a speech to the House on the 27th ult.. giving credit to tbe Southern members for voting for all the pen­ sions asked. He then gave notice that he woul4 introduce a bill to give to every Confederate# soldier in need of it an artificial leg or arm. Mr." Weaver, of Nebraska, discussed the silver ques­ tion, and predicted that the effort of the*,, money oligarchy, assisted by the Executive of- fleers or the nation, to double the. people's bur­ dens and cripple the business of the country by: the suspension of tho silver coinage, would provaf unsuccessful, now the attention of the peopled was attracted to tho subject. He favored un­ limited coinage, and asserted that if the whole yield of the mines was coined annually it would be twenty years before the per capita circulationtf of the United States would be eqnal to that erf France, and this calculation, he said, had bd6Q made without taking into account any increase in the population of the country. Mr. Candler, of Georgia, submitted an argument against the suspension of silver coinage, and contended that there was no sound basis few the prediction made by the "goldbugs" that the continued coinage of silver would have the effect of driv­ ing gold out of the country, Mr. Clements of Georgia, thought that the true test of tho value of silver was not the gold standaid as established in countries where the value of gold had been enhanced by the demonetisation of silver, but the purchasing capacity of silver. There was no session of the Senate. PHESIDKNT CIJTVKLAKD sent to the senate, en March 1, a special message declining to furnish unofficial documents relating to suspensions * from office, and claiming the right to destroy them. When the message bad been read Mr. Edmunds said it re­ minded him of the communication of King Charles I. to the Parliament. He also said thai the President, unintentionally, no doubt, had en­ tirely misstated the question involved between himself and the Senate. It was ordered printed. The donate, in executive session, re­ jected the nominations of Messrs. Pillsbury and Chase to be Collectors of Internal Revenue at Boston, Mass., and Portland, Me., respectively. The nomination of John H. Shaffer to be Post­ master at Kankakee was confirmed. The nom­ ination of Surveyor General Dement, of Utah, was reported adversely. In the House of Representatives a member from South Carolina introduced a bill for the dis­ tribution of the surplus moneys in the Treasury, during the next four years, among the respective States in proportion to their represen­ tation in the Senate and House. Mr. Brumm asked unanimous consent of the House to have printed in the Record a memorial signed by J. P. Brigham and others, asking for the impeach­ ment ot Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury, for high crimes and misdemeanors in the execution of the silver law. Mr. Beach ob- jeoted. THK Blair educational bill was again the sub­ ject of debate in the Senate on the 2d inst. Sen­ ators Call of Florida. Riddleberger of Virginia, Berry of Arkansas, and Hampton of South Carotina opposed the Allison amendment relat- : ing to colored schools, and Senator Saulsbury of Delaware opposed the bill with or without the amendment. Senator Ingalls of Kansas asked who was to administer the fund of $77,000,000 provided by the bill, and, answering his own question by saying that the Secretary of the Interior was to do it, launched into an attack of Assistant Secretary Montgomery, reading many extracts from a book entitled : "Drops from the Poisoned Fountain; Facts That Are Stranger than Fic­ tion ; by Zacli Montgomery, of the California bar." President Cleveland sent to the Senate a message urging measures to protect Cbinameu in tho \Ventern States and Territories, and insisting upon th9 punishment of I citizens who commit outrages upon them. In the House the pensions appropriation bill came up for debate, and Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, supported it. Mr. Wilson, cf West Vir­ ginia, vigorously defended Pensions Commis­ sioner Black from the attack made in the House recently. He then said that he saw in the war j the stately stepping of that Providence which j used the wrath of men to work out its beneficial purposes. It had secured the preserva­ tion of the Union, but it had -secured a greater result than the preservation j of the Union in the extinction of slavery and greater than the extinction of! slavery was the utter annihilation of any ground, cause, or excuse for further sectional prejudice or sectional hate. Mr. Matson llnd.lj supported Mr. Bla"k in his charges against ex- Commissioner Dudley. Mr. Butterwortli (Ohio) j criticised Commissioner Bbick's reuort as an in-1 suit to every man and woman in the employ of] the CommisH oner of Pensions. He spoke bitterly I of the witnesses before tho Warner Ccinmittee, I especially Maj. Clark, who were so swift, hoj said, to assault their chief that they might be-| come the pampered and favored menials of a| coming incumbent. Mr. Butter worth declared I that every one knew that wherever Democracyl reigned an honest ballot and a fair count was al lost art. Secretary Munning sent to the House, in] reply to the Bland resolution calling for inform a-1 tion in regard to the past and future poliey of thel Treusury Department o;i the silver question, al document of foitv pages, containing a vast! amount of correspondence and statistical infor-J lnation. The Secretary declares that ho has! used his utmost efforts to get silver into circula-| tion. and says that he has alieady given nia opinion as to tho propriety of expressing hisl views concerning tue p-ist and future policy of" the department upon tiie subject. SENATOR KAHRISON, of Indiana, supported the Blair education bill in tho debate in the Sonat on the 3d inst., and opposed the Allison amend-1 ment. He would leave the fund to be adminis-j tered as all education funds of all the States were administered--in the hands of the people of the States. An amendment of the Allison amendment, offered by Senator Hoar, was adopted, after which Senator Edmunds Offered a substitute for tho Allison amendment Senator Blair accepted it, and it was agreed 1 It provides that wherever separate schools foil whites an 1 negroes ar.t maintained tbe moneji appropriated by the bill shall be paid out foil the support of such white and colored schools! respectively in the proportion which thfj white and colored children between th<j ages of 10 and 21 bear to each other! Prior to the adoption of the su&etjto*»J Senator Logan made a speech in wlmvl he attacked the South for suppresslntj the negro vote, and charged that tho present! bill was intended to raiss money on the sti eiigtll of the black population of the South for the! benefit of the Southern whites. <a»fr. Frye pre! sented a petition from citizens of New Jerse;! for the legal protection of young girls in all lot callties under the jurisdiction of Congress. Mr! Evarts introduced a bill to permit tho sale oi goods by sample in any State or Territory bjj non resident*. I11 the House the pension appropr' ation bill was debated. Mr. Weaver (Iowa) repor edbnek to tho House tbe resolution directing th| House Committee on Expenditures in the Int rlor Department to investigate the past and pred ent administration of the Pension Bureau. Thl army appropriation bill was reported to thl House by Mr. Bragg. It sets asido 523,887,588. THE debate of the Blair education bill Wajj continued in the Senate on the Gth. Tbe Fitz John Porter relief bill was reported to tlie Senj ate. Secretary Manning reported to the Sonat that ?6,385.550 of the bonds maturing April 1 ar< held by national banks. The Senate passed 1 bill accepting for tho United States the Gran memorial collection presented to the Govern ment by Mrs. Grant and W. H. Vanderbill The President nominated James C. Matthewfj of New York, to be Recorder of Deeds forth District of Columbia, vice Frederick Douglas^ whose resignation sent to the President on Jai| 5, is made public to-day. On motion of Senat l'latt (Conn.,) the Senate adjourned, in expred sion of their sympathy with Senator Hawll (Conn.) in his bereavement. A minority repon on tbe Eads ship-railway bill wa? sun mittcd to the House erf Representative! It says that the bill will take from -tftj public treasury 837.000,000 for the "benefit of private corporation, located and to be operate! e>clusively in a foreign country, without anf correspondim: benefit to our country or picplJ The pensions appropriation bill was passe| after a lively purtisan debate, during which th House wrs often hi cxcitement and confusion also a bill extending the limit of the cost of tb Peoria public building from $225,000 to<f275,000> I 4 £: Survival of the Provident. In their new province of Burmah ti British traders will have to encount the competition of very shrewd rival --the r gents of the Chinese expo^ merchants. Canton and Hong Kc merchants have their agencies on a| the neighboring coasts of the India Ocean, and in the espionage of bus| ness opportunities would heat a CI cago drummer at his own tricks, the' Tartar frontier they are equall! successful, and seem to make a livic where other bipeds < ould hardly posl pone starvation. The secret of thel success is not penuriousness--for the! wealthier classes are liberal to a faul -- as much as their far-seeing thrif The poorest Chinaman will always ma age to forecast the probabilities of year's income, and contrive to live witl in his means, though it should cost hi] four last-days a week. "With the brigu ening of liis prospects his asdefci«| will gradually relax, and misers proj --i. e., rich skinflints--are said to l>ee| tremely rare in the Flowery Kingdor but even the wealthiest always attei to the supervision of their own fina| cial concerns. Prudence, in the widt business-sense of the word, is a natioj al virtue in the land of Coniucius, our redsk ns must have strangely generated if they are really of lian origin. t,S