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VOLUME 29.
BLACK GOODS.
HACK 6608 S
DEPARTMENT.
Great West End
Dry Goods House.
CARSON,
PIRIE & CO.,
MADISON AND PEORIA-STS,,
(jill Attention to tbo following reductions
which they hove just mode in thoir
boat mako of
11l MOHAIR BEItUAHTINES.
80 cent quality reduced to 05 cts yard.
90 cent quality reduced to 70 cte yard,
SI.OO quality reduced to 75 cts yard.
sl,l quality reduced to 80 clayard.
$1.25 quality reduced to 85 cts yard.
Tbo prices at which tbo abovo grades oro
cJared oro much below cost of importation,
iad make thorn tbo cheapest goods in the
tountry to-day.
Two caaoa Clack Alpacas at 30 and 30 ots
tdi a spooial bargain.
1 AliSO,
ig.lncb Black French Cashmeres, All
ff 001,76 ots yard.
42-lnoh Black French Cashmeres 00 ots,
forth $1.16 yard.
tf.iacb Black French Cashmeres SI.OO,
till worth $1.30.
All-Wool Black French Cretonnes, 45 ots.
tell worth 06 cts.
Fall Linos of all Latest and Desirable
Haunting Fabrics.
GREAT BARGAINS IN BLACK SILKS.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
BBIT
«ssmss
Wo oro adding to our Tory largo
(took daily, and olfor tho host se
lected stock of Jowolry, Watches,
Diamonds, Silverware, &0., over
opened in Chicago.
!. m & co.,
State and Monroe-sts.
WB AIUD RETAILING
AT COST,
for (bo Next Ton Days, $30,000 Worth of
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Chamber of Oommerce, Chicago,
MOSEY on Produce, Uoal Estate, City Cm-
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dissolution notices.
ni-SSOLUTION.
*y* heretofore ozlsUnf between Wn.
****** has ibis day been mu-
L. Jobnaton will contlnne the busloeee as ane
to Johnatou 4 Parker, and will iMume all Ua
collect »U debU duo said arm.
DIHSOLUTION.
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Uei. .u.* ihe uodcraigued. under the dm
u 0 * * Kielu, u hereby diaaolvodjby mutual
Klein retiring from the arm. All
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Kn.v the lualuses under the title
Hou. O. y. GIUBB. *
s laj*. UENBX KLEIN.
ISbt pallu Eftbtme.
CLOTHING.
TRUTH.
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PRICES I
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Boys', ai
Cliilflm’s
CLOTHING!
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Finn
mn
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A3NT3D
117 Madison-st.
CARPETS.
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221 and 223 STATE-ST.
Carpets
FOR
HOTELS, CHHEOHES, AND
PEIVATE DWELLINGS.
COMPLETE LI.VK9 OP
Foreign Carpets & Rugs,
Am! all (ho well-known styles of Arocrlcin Manufac
ture. To order to malto room for spring Importations,
wo shall offer for the nest THIRTY DAYS, oar entire
stock at greatly reduced prices, and lu atylea and qual
ities which challenge competition.
Cuh euatomora can save from Id to 30 per cent upon
all goods purchased at this bouwe.
CHINA, &o.
LESS TMN COST.
DECORATED DINNER SETS,
DECORATED CHAMBER SETS,
AT A (5 HEAT HACIUPIOR,
AND BALANCE OF OUB UETAIL STOCK AT FROM
10 TO 25 PER CERT LESS THAN COST
As we aro determined to close it out entirely
by Jan. 1. Parties selecting
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Wilt be consulting thoir own interests by
examining our atook beforo purchasing,
elooweore. We save you irom Utl 1-3 i<»
dll per ci, on anything in our line. Call
early, while atook is complete. We will
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GOAL*
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
COAL DEALERS.
die-corner Adam ana Martet-sls.
fCor. Adams and Market-sis.
Cor. llith-st.i South Branch.
Cor. Krlc.st. A North Branch.
TO RENT.
For Rent,
To a reliable firm, for jobbing pur
posed! second, third, and fourth
floors of our store, Nos, 38 and 40
Madison-st., St. Mary’s Block, each
floor 40 by 86.
BIDDLE fc BOYD.
WANTED.
PARTNER WANTED. SPE
CIAL OR ACTIVE.
Two energetic, experienced men, lu charge of en
honorable, lucrative, end weU-eeiablialied Jobbing
buaioeee lo Chicago, deelre a partner with |J3,(XO to
$ iA.ooo to purchase the Interest of non-restdent, who,
being engaged la manufacturing, bae not capital to
■pare for the wante of the buelnoea. Fint-claae ref
ereuee oe to morel end bualneae qualifications will be
exchanged. Address j|iT, Tribune olMoe.
COLLECTION AGENCY.
z>ia-.
Claims of whatever magnitude, locality, or date, by
tending to ibis otflee will be la
the quickest poerible time. We «|Qict on old Judg
ments, and resurrect old or abandon ad claims, either
marine or mercantile, and DIO the money out of them
without attorney’* feee m suits, ami no charges unless
collected. rilAßlKft’B COLLECTION AOENOY,
ftorner State and Monroe-ila.
DENTISTRY.
TEETH.
Why pay |» and S3O when yon can gst tbs beet full
set of teeth at DE. McCUESNtY’U for $i The flueal
and most fashionable retort in ths.eUy. Cornsc Clark
and lUndolph-atSi
WASHINGTON.
Latest Phase of the Louisi
ana Scnatorship Ques- -
tiou.
McMillan Withdraws, and Pinch
back Feels More En
couraged,
Messrs. Chandler, Pierrcpont,'
and New Confirmed With
out Opposition.
J. Q. Smith Also Confirmed as
Commissioner of Indian
Affairs.
Two Bills Introduced to Facilitate (bo
Distribution of tbo Genova
Fund.
Bogy, of Missouri, Delivers a
Characteristic Address
on Finance.
Mr. Blaine Underlined for an Early
Speech on (lie Same Subject.
mi,
The I. lst of Standing Committees
Announced in the Senate.
THE LOUISIANA SENATQRSHIP.
now the case stanuj.
Sveetai unlatch to tM CAfcoco Tribune.
Nasuimo-ton, D. C.. De.\ O.—A new feature
of tbo Louisiana Senatorahip has bean developed
m the reading to tho Betmlo of tbo letter from
McMillan relinquishing bis claim to a eeat in tbs
Senate, ilo claimed to have boon elected by
the MoEnory Legislature of Louisiana, and his
credentials were signed by McEncry aa Got
emor. It is understood McMillan does this as a
part of the Whoolor compromise, so that tho
present Legislature, which is tbo rcanlt of tbo
compromise, may choose a Senator regularly, of
whoso election tho Republican Senate can raise
no question, they having indorsed tbo Wheeler
compromise. _ Tho Legislature which is to elect
the Senator Is* so closely divided that each party
claims a majority in Joint ballot, but it is
tboucrht no election will be had until tho vacm
cies m the Lower House from the parishes of
Grant and Ouachita ere filled. These parishes
are very certain to return Conservatives, which
will make tho election of a Conservative Senator
coitam.
i’iuchback is still pushing bis claims, but with
no apparent progress. Pmchback’s friends say
Kellogg docs not want bis case acted an nnttl
after tiio Louisiana Legislature has adjourned,
when, if the Senate rejects Pincbback, ho (Kel
logg) can appoint a roan for tho vacancy.
Tbo withdrawal of McMillan from tho contest
for the scat seems to place Pincbback in a very
different position before tbs Senate. It proba
bly gives Pincbback tho right to bo sworn in on
bis credentials, and all investigation of his right
to a seat must como afterward.
SKETCH Of THE CAQCEIt Of MICHAEL O. EJIUI.
Mr. Kerr waa bom near T.tuarUlo, Cranford
Comity, Pa., March 10, 1827, of parents in mod
erate circumstances. lie was chiefly aolf.edu>
cated, but studied at the Erie Academy, where
ho graduated at the ago of 18. During bia at
tendance at tho Academy Mr. Kerr became at
tached to Mies Coover, a school-teacher in Erie,
and Immediately after his graduation married
her. At his request tho marriage was kept a
secret until his return from tho West, where he
remained about two years. By teaching school
Mr. Kerr earned the means to defray his ex
penses at tho Louisville University, where he
received tho degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1851,
In 1852 he began to practice law in the ofllee of
Judge Smith at New Albany, lud., nearly op
posite Lontsyille, on tho Ohio lUver. His abili
ty, industry, and integrity soon brought him
to tho notice of the public, and in 1851 he was
elected City Attorney. One year later ho was
chosen Prosecuting Attorney of the county
(Flovd). In 1850 and 1857 ho was a member of
tho Indiana Legislature. Five’yoare later, in
1802, bo was elected Reporter of the Supremo
Court of Indiana, and edited five volumes of re
ports. lu 1801 Mr. Kerr was elected as a Dem
ocrat to tho Thirtv-nintb Congress, in which ho
served on the Committees on Private Land
Claims and on Accounts. In the Fortieth Con
grots ho was a member of the Committees on
Elections and Roads and Canals: mthoFoity
tlrni Congress of the Civil-Service Committee,
and in the Forty-second of the Committee on
Ways and Means. In 1872 he was defeated for
Congrcßsman.at-Large in the Forty-third Con
gress, by Qodlove o. Orth, the Administration
candidate, who received a majority of 130, and
he was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress in
IH7I oy a majority of 1,209 out of a total of
20,573 votes.
-MB. BLAINE WILL BPEAK OX TUB FINANCE QUEB
TION.
sr*ns( DttpaUh to Tht Chicago Tribune.
Washington, D. C.. Deo. o.— lt is understood
that early next neck Ur. Blaine will address th«
House at length oo the financial question in a
formal speech, of which advance sheets will be
sent to the press. Those who generally know
Ur. Blaine's movements and purposes saj that
the speech will bo a caustic review of the finan*
cial heresies of the Democracy, and will bo un
nutslakably for hard money.
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
The Senate to day confirmed Mr. Chandler
and Mr. Fierrepoot without referonoo, and the
same compliment was extended to Treasurer New.
This Is seldom done, except lo the case of a Cab*
inet officer or ex-Senator. John Q. Smith wai
also acted upon immediately upon its reception,
and afterwards eoolinned.
Senator Morton denies lu the most emphatic
terms the statement in the New York Sun that
be telegraphed to the dt. Louis men in 1679 for
money to help tbs election. |{e says he never
telegraphed to them or to any one else seeking
their aid, and that the story m all its parts is ab
solutely false,
There is to underfoeliog amoiiß tbs Demo
crats against Fernando Wood. Tbs scurrilous
pamphlet published against him during the
Speakership campaign has intensified it. A
leading Democrat, and friend of Kerr, said to
day that to dispose of Fsroando Wood was the
most difficult problem to framing the com
mittees-
The oonserrstive Democrats sre working hard
to have a Northern man. aud if possible a War
Democrat who was a soldier, made Chairman of
the Committee on Military Affairs. This move
ment is entirely political. In order to avoid tbo
effect upon tbs country of the appointment of a
Ilebel soldier to that position.
It has been settled that New York la to have
the Chairmanship of Ways and Means, and Penn
sylvania of Appropriations, lilaine will proba
bly have a place on the Wava aud Means, lie
will if be wsuU it. Borne of hie friends are urg
ing him to take an active place uu committees
CHICAGO, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1875.
THE NEW SPEAKER.
NOTES AND NEWS.
A DENIAL.
WOOD’S UNPOPOLABITT.
THE nOCSE COMMITTEES.
but ha reserves himself for work on the floor In
view of possible cor.tingeiicles.
tijr ncrnoMcirc i-or.tcr.
Haul an old Itspnblinoo member! “Our policy
Ibis winter ahonld he one of marierly inactivity.
We should wait anti! the Democrat* make 'a
mistake, and then taka advantage of it. They
can scarcely avoid discussion of the finance.
Tho niSßsaco and Rrisloa’s report will inevi
tably bring them to It. The moment they 'do
tide their party wilt split to pieces. The Re
publican* should have nothing now to aay almut
tariff or finance. They ahonld wait.” Blaine's
policy ia naid to bo ibis : Bs alert: give the
Democrats rope; do not object to investigation,
hut vote for them; force the Democrats to dins
agreement; atop talking about the llebollioo;
do not shake the blood? shirt.
nmntKH to re investigated.
•T. .T, Safely, of Ohio, who wna loop In the
Post-Office Department. apd who had charge at
one time of weighing the mails for eighty rail
roada. has drafted a resolution which will soon
ho presented to the House, asking an Investiga
tion of mail-weighing. Bafelr was charged with
gros!> Hands, lie claims to ho able to vindicate
himself. The Post-Office authorities think they
will bo able to show that tho charges against
him were well founded.
don’t anx well.
There are very noticeable elements of disor
ganization among the Democrats. The War
Democrats find it quite difficult to harmonize
with the Confederates. Holman is a type of
these. Sneaking of turning out all (he officers of
(ho old House, bo said, pointing to the Demtv
craticside: '‘They are all Confederates over
there, anyhow, and they will be turned out in
two years.”
\To thf Antettlrt frui.]
A I'REHIDLNTIAL MISTAKE.
Washington, Dec. 9.—iho President made
a vorv singular error in hie annual raoHuagc— ono
which is creating much unfavorable comment
among the legal fraternity. Ho says in tils mes
sage, that Congress should devise some bettor
method of verifying claims against the Govern
ment than at present exists through the Court
of Claims, especially those claims growing out
of the late War, and that a very largo percentage
of tho amounts passed and paid are either wholly
fraudulent or are far in excess of tho
real loeeen sustained. ’The President then con
tinues and refers to tho awards made and
claims pending lor losses alleged to hare been
sustained on small farms. The blunder made
by the President is this, (bat (ho sabject-mattor
of which bo treats is outeido of the Jurisdiction
of tho Court of Claims, and the points which
ho makes have no application to that Court,
which has nothing whatever to do with the class
of cased alluded to. It is probable that tho
President intended to refer to the Bouthcrn
claims, and to tho way in which fraudulent
claim* have been gotten through tho Treasury
Department. The President's attention will be
called to the mietakn. and it is believed that ho
will take an oarly occasion to rectify it in a mes
sage to Congress.
REVENUE APPOINTMENTS,
Francis C. Norwood has been appointed Storo
koekor for the Fourth Missouri District: Frank
T. Ruseeli, Onager- in tho same district, and
John J. Davln and Samuel D. Frank Guagors in
tho Fourth Ohio District.
JAPANESE DIGNITARIES,
Gen. George P. Wiiliama, formerly Deputy
Commissioner of internal Revenue, Id hero, eu
route lor Europe, as a Commissioner of the Impe
rial Government of Japan. Ho is accompanied
by Japanese officers of rank—'Totplno and Mina
ho. The mission baa reference to financial and
commercial matters.
THE MESSAGE ON THE TAXATION OP CHURCH PROP
JSBTV—TUB AMOUNT HELD BY THE VARIOUS DE
NOMINATIONS.
litecateh to fine York IltraJd.
Washington, D. C., Doc.7.—ln connection with
tho portion of the President's message recom
mending tho taxation of all church properly
throughout tho country without exception, the
public will bo interested in knowing the amount
of property held bv each of the nillorent religions
denominations in tho year 1870, when the last
national census wrs taken. It will bo seen that
the blow tho President aims at sectarianism
would fall most heavily on his|own denomination,
—the Methodist,—and that ho has greatly exag
gerated the atm unt of church property bold by
tho different sects, unless, as is quite Improba
ble. tho total of $354,483,581. which, according
to the census, they owned in 1870, has trebled in
the interval of the post live years. This total
was divided up as follows:
Methodist* stt»,Rs4.iai
Homan Catholic* Cu.Ußs.asa
Presbyterians SJ,3i:s,'A'6
llaptitu 41,001,1H1
Episcopalians 30,311.6111
CtiDgretntirmaUaU 25,003,031
Reformed Church 10.1ai.470
Lutherans.. 11,1)17,747
The remaining $35,000,1)00 being distributed
between seventeen other denominations. That
these figures am correct is vouched for in a note
at the foot of tho table iu tho prihtod com
pendium of the census, reading as follows:
“ The statistics of churches are behoved to be
substantially exact and to present a Just view of
the organization of the several religions denom
inations found within tho United Slates."
It la a coincidence that the Roman Catholics,
who number lust about one-seventh of the
population of (be country, are credited in the
census with possessing fust one-seventh of the
church property in the United States.
THE RECORD.
SENATE,
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Washington, D. C., Dec. O.—TUo standing and
select‘committees were announced, as follows:
Privilege* and Election*—Morion. Chairman; Logan,
Mitchell, Wadielgh, Cameron of Wisconsin, McMillan,
Suulabury, Mernmon, Cooper.
Foreign Halations—Cameron of Pennsylvania, Chair*
man; Merlon, Uarollu, Howe, Freliughuyaeu, Oouk
ling, MvCreery, Bogy, Eaton.
Finance—Sherman, Chairman; Morrill of Vermont,
Ferry.Frrllnghuyeeu, Logan, Boutweli, Jonca of Ne
vada, Bayard, Ktroan.
Appropriations—MurriM of Maine, Chairman; Win-
Uom, Went, Sargent, Alllaon, Horsey, Havla, Wither*,
Wallace.
Commerce—Conkllng, Chairman: Speneer, BouU
well, Cameron of Wisconsin, Burnside, McMillan, lean
aoro, Demits, McDonald.
Msaufacturua—Uobertaoa, Chairman; Booth, Bruei,
English, Wallace.
Agriculture—Frelloghuyaen, Chairman; Bobertson,
Harvey. Daria, Jordan. ,
Military Affairs—Logan, Chairman: Cameron of
Penuaylvaala. Hi.eocer, Clayton, Wadielgh, Durnalde,
Cordon, Randolph, Cockroli.
Naval Affairs—Cragtu. Chairman; Anthony, Morrill
of Maine, Sargent, Conover. Norwood, Whyie.
Judiciary—Edmunds, Chairman; Coukllug, Frellng
buvaco. Wright, Howe, Thurman, titevenaun.
XxtUOftlcee and Poat-ltoada—lUmlin, Chairman;
Ferry, Dorsey, Jones of Nevada, Dswea, Paddock,
Saulnbury, Msxey, Key.
Public Lands—Oglesby, Chairman; Wlndom. Har
vey, Hamilton, Paddock, Booth, Kelly, McDonald,
Jones of Florlda-
Prtvato Land Claims—Thurman, Chairman ; Bay
a:d, Bogv, Edmund*. Chriatlaucy.
Indian Affairs—MlUou, Chairman; Oglesby. Mor
rill of Maine, Ingalls, Clayton, Bogy, McCreary.
Pensions—lngsiis, Chairman ; AJllaoo, Hamilton,
Booth, Bruce, McDonald, Withers.
Revolutionary Claims—Stevenson, Chairman; Johns
ton, Ooldlhwull# , Morrill of Vermont. Wright.
Claims—Wright, Chairman; Mitchell, Wadielgh,
Cbristlancy, McMillan, Cameron of Wisconsin, Ca
perton. Cockrell, Junta of Florida.
District of Columbia—Spencer, Chairman: Hitch
cock, Doraey, lugslls, llobextaon, Mernmon. English.
Patents—'Wadielgh, Chairman; WluduuL Dawns,
Johnston, Keroan, T
Pubdc Buildings and Groundt—Morrill. of Vermont,
Chairman: Cameron of Pennsylvania, paddock,
Cooper, Wuyte.
Territories—Hitchcock, Chairman; Craglo, Patter
son, CbrlatUncy, Bharou. Cooper, Maxey.
Itallrojda—West, Chairman: Hitchcock, Crogla,
Howe, Hamilton, Mitchell, Dawes, Banaoni, Kelly,
Caiwrton, Eaton.
Mine* and Mining—Sargent, Chairman; Hamlin,
Alcorn. Harvey, Sharon, Ooldthwalte, lUndotph.
Itevlslon of the Laws of the United Bla tea—Bout
well, Chairman; Alcorn, OhrUtlaocy, Clarion, Wsl
lace.
Education sod Labor—Patterson, Chairman 1 Mor
ion, MorrlU of Vermont, Burnside, Ucuce, Bharou,
Cordon, Matey, Key.
Civil Service and Retrenchment—Clayton, Chair
man : Wright, Oglesby, Alcorn, Patterson, IdcCrccry,
llaudulpb.
To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of
the Senate—Jones, of Nevada, Chair man; Daves,
Dennis.
Priming—Anthony, Chairman; Sherman, Saula
bm/.
Library—Howe. Chairman; Edmunds. Banaom.
On Rule#—Ferry, Chairman; llaml'o, alarrlmon.
Engrossed BUla—Bayard, Chairman; Wilbers, An
thony.
Enrolled Bills—Conover, Chairman; Bobertson,
Kelly.
On the Levee* of the Mississippi Hirer—Alcorn,
Chairmen; Clayton, Harvey, Oooner, Co-krtU.
To Examine the Several Branches or the Civil Ser
vice—Bouiweil, Chairman; Cottkbng, Merrlmon,
Eaton.
On TraniporUtlon Route* to the Seaboard—Win
dom. Chairman; Sherman, Weal, Conover, Mitchell,
Burnside, Norwood, Pavla, Johnston.
These nominations were confirmed by the Senate in
executive session.
DUBATUriKO.
Mr. Bayard said, on behalf of the minority of
tbe tieqate, be desired to expreaa regret that upoo
lha Committee of Finance, a umbering nine
members, they bad not been allowed the earn*
proportion which tho sense of Justice on the part
of the majority had given (bo minority on other
committees. At this time, considering the im
portance of tho duties of that Committee, the
number of (ho minority on die floor, and their
share of tho responsibility in molding legisla
tion in regard (o finances, tho ratio deemed by
the majority and minority a Just ono upon other
committees should prevail upon this Committee.
Ho had understood, however, that two members
of tho Finance Committee, the Senator from
Illinois (Logan) and tho Senator from Nevada
(Jones), would ho hero soon, and upon their ar
rival ft was proposed to consider tho subject of
allowing the minority greater representation.
Ho hoped tho proposition would bo earned out.
PILLS AND PETITIONS.
It was ordered that tho bills and memorials
presented yesterday bo taken Horn the table and
referred to appropriate committees.
Mr. Ingalls presented the petition of the widow
of A. F. Bhort, lato Deputy United filaU s Sur
veyor, asking an appropriation of SIO,OOO com-
Ccnsation for the lues of her husband, who was
filed by tho Indians while surveying lands in
Kansas.
Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Mr. Maxey presented the memorial of tho
Texas Constitutional Convention in relation to
depredations on tho people of tho Texas frontier
by bands of marauders organized beyond tho
limits of tho Slate.
Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Cooper presented a memorial of the hook
agonta of the Methodist Lpiscu; alChurch Huuth,
asking to bo compensated for the Josh of property
at Richmond. Va., and Louisville, Ky., during
tho War.
Referred to the Committee on Claims,
It was ordered that when tin Senate adjourn
to-day, it bo to meet on Monday next.
m'millan.
Mr. Wo«t presented a Idler from W. L. Mc-
Millan, of Loundaua, a-liing permission to
withdraw his cicdeutials as benator-olect from
tho State of Louisiana bv tin McEnery Legisla
ture. Ho submitted an order that tho request for
withdrawal of the papers ho granted, but ohjee
(ioo was made by several Senators on tho Demo
cratic side, and ft was laid over.
GENEVA AWARD.
Mr. Conkling introduced a hill to amend the
act creating a tribunal to adjudicate tho Geneva
award. Referred to the Committee on Judiciary*.
It repeals so much of the iwelftn section of the
act as excludes insurance companies, and allows
them to participate in tho award. It also ex
tends the time of tho Court for a period suffi
cient to enable it to hear and disport) of sucl»
additional claims, such period not to exceed ono
year from the expiration of tho time for filing
claims under this action.
Mr. Suermtm intioduccd a bill to extend tho
duration of tho Court lor tho adjudication of
claims arising out of tbo Geneva award. Refer
red to tho Committee on the Judiciary. It pro
vides for amending the act of Juu0‘23,1874. so
as to make it include ali claims directly result
ing from damage caused by tho so-called in
surgent cruiser Shenandoah before her de
parture from Melbourne, Feb. 18. 4863, tho
Chicamauga, Georgia, Nashville, Retribution,
Sumter, and Tallabasse, respectively, that mav
bo presented to tbo Court of Commissioners of
Alabama Claims within six months after tbo
posßsico of this amendatory act. Tho hill pro
ceeds to declare that all such claims shall be re
ceived. adjudicated, and paid to tbo samo extent
and effect, and in tho same manner, and out of
tho same fund, that is provided in the act of
June 23,1874, for claims resulting from damage
caused by the acta of the Alabama, Florida, and
Shenandoah, after their departure from (Mel
bourne.
The second section provides that (lie Commis
sioners shall, as soon as practicable, report to
the Secretary of the Treasury each of the sev
ettl judgments which have been or mar bo here
after rendered by them for loss or damage caused
by tho Alabama and Florida and ttio.r tenders,
and by the bhouaudoah after her departure from
Melbourne, and tho Secretary of the Treasury
shall, as soon as may bo alter cither of said
Judgments are reported, pay the same, with in
terest tboreon at the rate of 1 per cent per an
num from the date of loss an certified.
Tho bill finally provides that tho duration ond
powers of said Court shall be extended to the
22d day of January. 1877, and authorizes tho
President bv proclamation to fuitber extend said
time and powers for a period not cxcceduig one
year thereafter.
RAILROAD SILL.
Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill to amend the act
of Julv2, 18G4, to aid iu tiio construction of a
railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri
River to tbo Pacific Ocean. Referred to the
Committee ou Railroads.
It provides that the failure or omission of
either of tho Pacific railroad companies to pay
the costs of surveying the lands to which they
are entitled-milder Congressional grants, or to
taka patents from them, shall aot exempt such
lauds from local taxatioo j but they shall bo sub
ject to taxation by Btatcs and Territories, upon
evidence of beta which it is hereby made the
duty of tho Commissioner of tho General Laud-
Olllco to propaio and furnish to the Government
’of any State or Torritoiy who may apply for the
same, showing what lands pertain to the rcspoc
tiye grants in their respective Bhueor Ter
ritorial limit*.
FINANCE DILL.
Mr. Bogy introduced a hill authorizing the
payment of duties on imports iu legal-tenders
suj National Bank notes. It provides that on
and after July 4, 1870, the duties on Imports
may be paid in legal-tenders and National Rank
notes or com, at tho option of the importer.
Mr. Bogy said it was not his intention al this
time to discuss tho merits of tho Dill, but ho
looked upon it as a measure tending to spocie
rcHuroption, and, in his opinion, is was tho only
way tbo country would ever attain resumption.
Ho offered tbo bill so as to prepare the way for
tins operatiou. The only way to resume specie
payment was by appreciating tbo paper now in
circulation. He was not in favor of anv in
crease of paper currency, hut ho wished
to appreciate that paper. As long as
the country had the system of National
Ranks, whether it was a wise one or
not. it seemed to him that it was the duty of
Congtcss to give that paper as much value as
possible. He desired the amount of legal
tenders now to circulation to remain as at pres
ent. He looked upon any contraction of the
currency as ruinous to the country. Ho thought
tbo bill submitted by him could be explained as
the only measure which could possibly lead to
resumption, and at tbo proper time he wbuld
endeavor to explain it.
Mr. Morrill (Vermont) said ha would not dis
cuss the measure now, but after the statement
of the Senator from Missouri (Bogy) be (Morrill)
deemed it proper to make a counter-statement.
It was perfectly clear that (ha measure which
the Senator proposed would be one of
contraction. It would it cucc drive oat ot tbo
country what little specis wo now have. When
there was uo use for specie it became a com
modity. and would bo exported. The passage
of this bill would be a violation of the public
faith, and bo was sorry to see that this was the
first proposition iu regard to finances brought
into the Chamber. Should the bill bo passed, it'
would reduce our revonue at least 26 per cent.
The very salvation of (he country depended
qdou a strict adherence to (he pledges of the
Government. Referred to the Committee on
Finance.
HOLER.
Mr. Morton eabmlttod a resolution to amend
the twontv-lHth rule of the Seuaio ho that bills
tuav be iut'oduced without previous notice, ami
(hat it should not be necessary to etalo m (be
minutes that permission had been asked or ob
tained to introduce a bill without such notice.
Mr. Mortou aald it cost several hundred dollars
every session to print those formal words in tho
record, and he saw uo use in it.
Jleferred.
apjoDuxmifT.
After executive session, adjourned till Mon*
day.
NOMINATIONS.
The following nominations were sent in to*
day: Comiuodoro Daniel Ammeu, to bo Chief of
tho Omeau of Navigation; Commodore L, D.
Treochard, to be Ueur Admiral: 0. W. Emery,
of Tennessee, Governor of Utah: 8. 11, Axtell.
of California, Governor of New Mexico t John
U. Clark. Hurveyor-Geoeral of Nebraska aud
lowa | Mark Tilton, Pension-Agent at Madison,
lad.; E. 0. Watkius, Inepeotor or Indian Af
fairs t 'i'boAas O. Woodward, ef lowa, one of (he
Examiuera iu the Chief Pstsnl-Ofticei Ferdinand
Merrill, A. U. Uattbewe, Thomas J. Brady, and
O. 11. Chamberlain, UupervUora of Internal
Revenue. Collectora of Intorual Revenue—
Charles M. Lynch. Nmeteemb District of Peun-
Hvlvauia j Joseph D. Webster. First District of
Illinois; Thomas J. Kmuoy, Ninth Diinois;
Charles B. I'etteugill, Eighteenth Oulu ; J. M.
Dean. Fifth Wisconsin: L. B. Trowbridge, First
Michigan { IU T. Vaulloru, Sixth Missouri j J.
11. Sturgeon, First Missouri i W, B. liolden,
Sixth Kentucky ; W. F. Green, Sixth Tennessee;
Collector of Customs—Joaeph R. Jones. Dis-
Xrtok of Chicago. Appraisers of Merchandise—
Barbour Lewis, Memphis, Tenn.: M. H. Tlowlott.
Louisville. Kt.j It. C. Feldcamp, Chicago, 111.
Consuls—L. E. Dyer, of Tonnos*no. Odessa:
Joseph Kretts. low*, Cbiahuahua: Eugene
flclniyler, {Secretary of Legation lo Turkey, and
Consul-General at Constantinople. Postmasters
—Clinton Hpcncer, Ypoilanti, Mich.: Thomas
Bailor. Kant Saginaw, .Mirh.; W. P. Forsyths,
Jefferson, Win.; W. C. Garber, Madison. I ml,;
B. W. Davis. Richmond. Ind,; IX D. Tavlor,
Cambridge, 0>; D, W. Simmons, Jacksonville,*
111.: W. C. flnvdcr, Fulton, III.; S. O. smith,
Pam. 11!,; Charles 11. Toll, Clinton, la.; N. I*.
Rnnderlaml, Builington, la.; David Day. Ht.
Paul, Minn.; Luke Marnn, Duluth, Minn.; John
U. Compton, Columbus, Nob. i
ADDITIONAL .VoMINATTOtfS. *
Tbo President sent to the Senate today & very *
largo number of nomination*, almost all of ;
them being made during the recces. Among ,
them aro the following? Zachariah Cnandkr. t-»
be Secretary of tbo Interior; Christian Wall
wober. of lowa, Minister llcaidont toEcnadrr:
John C. Now, of Indiana, 'irca-mror of tbo
United Staten; Curtis F. Burnham, of Ken
tucky. Assistant Secretary of the Troaiurr;
John Q. Hmub, of Ohio, Commissioner of In*
diaa Affairs.
It/VILUOAU SIJWS.
THE CHICAGO & SOUTHWESTERN.
A TitntfjfE reporter called upon President
Albert Keep t> of the Chicago A Northwestern
Railroad, yesterday, for the purpura of ascer
taining what tliat gentleman bad to say in regard
to tbo additional reports sent from New fork re
garding the bad condition of the furnaces of his
road. Mr, Keep said ho had nothing to add to
what ho bad already said. The statement given
by him to the reporters was entirely correct.
He had not the leant doubt that thcee reports
emanated from some person or persons anxious
to boar the stock of the toad. That no one be
lieved these reports was beet seen by tbo fact
that the value of the stock lud not depreciated
in the least; on the contrarv, it hart advanced,
lie nas not willing to assert that (lie reports
came from Jay Gould, but it ccnainK looked
that way. That gentleman had long been
anxious to secure a connecting link between
Chicago and Omaha, and ho piobably thought
by depreciating the securities of the S'orthwoe;-
cio be could secure a controlling interest in this
line. The exhibit* made of tbo financial condi
tion of tbo rood in the annual report, published
lost August, were correct, and since that time
the floating debt had bcen’largcly reduced, and.
if business continued an good as at present, a
further reduction would he m&Jo bofoie the end
of the present lineal year.
CHICAGO, SAGINAW At CANADA.
fipreiai Ditoateh to The Chun jo Tnonn*.
East Haoinaw, Mich., Doc. 9.—The Chicaso,
Saginaw ,t Canada Railroad Company
completed 20 miles of iron on the track of that
route. West of St. Louis. Mich., tho track is
in good, condition. Lake View, tho next ob
jective point, will be reached m ten days.
A SUBSIDY.
Wjicelxxo W. Va., Dec. 9.—An election held
In Brooks County, this State, to-day. ns to
whether that county should transfer its stock in
the Pittsburg. Wheeling A Kentucky Railroad
to the Company to enable it to complete the
road, resulted favorably by a vote of 197 to 22.
SIOUX CITY A PEMBINA.
Sveetal InetaUh to T/A Chteano 'Tribune.
Sioux Cl it, la., Dec. I).—The Hioux City A
Pembina Railroad Company commenced laying
lies and iron to-day, and will complete the road
to Portlandviiio, 3U miles from time, by the Ist
of January.
YFS. YES.
Saji Fuaxclsco. Dec. 9.—A dispatch from Sin
Diego eayj that a petition is being largely signed
asking Congivs* to extend aid to the Texas Pa
cific Railroad, to enable it to build a competing
lino to tho Pacific.
FIItRS,
IN CHICAGO.
The alarm from Box 345 at 1:30 o'clock yester
day afternoon was caused by a fire in tbo two-,
Btory frame budding at No. 39 Blue Island ave
nue, owned and occupied as a distillery by Will
iam Matbor. Lose on building about s3uo, and
on the stock about S6OO. Origin of tho lire, a de
fective due.
Tbe alarm from Box 623 at 6:14 o'clock yester
day afternoon was caused by a Are in tbe two
story frame building at No. C 76 West Lake street.
Owned by William Hbade, and occupied as a milli
nery and dry goqds store by Bolter Erickson.
Lose on building and contents, $100; fully in
sured.
Tbo alarm from Box G at 2:12 o'clock yesterday
afternoon w&a caused by a tire In the four-story
brick budding at No. 21 Michigan street, owned
by William Corrigan. Tho basement was occu-
Kied as a pickle and vinegar factory by Heinz,
oblo A Co., whose lues is about s3ou, and ie
fully ioeurod in .foreign companies. The other
floors were formerly occupied aa a board
ing bouse by L. B. llarkncss, whose
futnitnre was stored on tbo third
floor, where tbo dre broko out. Ho valued the
furniture at $2,500, all of which la a total lose.
It was insured lor $1,500 in homo companies.
The damage to tbe building will nut amount to
more than SIOO.
IN NEW YORK.
New York, Bee. 9.—Tho buildings Noe. 1,2,
9. tad 4 Mission place, and the rear buddings
Nob. 58 and GO Park, and Nos. 149, 160, and 15i
Worth street, were burned early this morning,
involving a total loss of about $320,000, which is
mostly insured. Tbe principal losses are aa fol
lows: M. A. Taylor, $30,000; Bartow A Sou,
$25,000: Donaloson Bros.. sl3o,oi'o; the New
York Newspaper Union, $6,000; Bunn, Barlow
A Co., SIU.UOO. 11. 8. Archer, $10,000; George
Boboise, SIO,OOO. Tbo House of Industry aud
tbo Mission House narrowly escaped. Bovoral
adjoining buildings woro much damaged, mainly
by water. Tbe buildings, like their occupants,
vere insured.
. A FARM HOUSE BURNED.
Pptnal Dupalch to Jhe Cnieaaa Tribune,
Lafayette, lud., 800. O.—A bouse on tbe farm
nf Van 8. Burton, north of Baytoa and 8 miles
east of Lafaycttet burned to tbe ground last
night. It was occupied by a nephew of Mr.
Burton named Sharpo; tbe family were absent.
Theneighhursaavedniostof tbe furniture. Lots.
S7OO ; no insurance.
AT WENONA, MICH.
sr«ciVif DitixUth U> pt* Chicago Tribun*.
EASTtiAunrAw, Mtcb.,Beo. 9. A row of twenty
five wooden buildings in Wonona, Bay County,
oweoed bv H. W. Sage A Co., was set on Are by
iocendtariea tnis morning aud burned. Loss,
$6,000 ; no insurance. ,
UTAH ITEMS.
Salt Lake, Utah, Boc. 9.— The case of poorge
Reynolds, indicted for bigamy, who has once
been tried and convicted, but the verdict set
aside by tho Supremo Court on account of au
error in the number of grand Jurymen, is again
on trial before tbe Third District Court, the
Jury was obtained to-day.
The panel of the Grand Jury in the Second
Blstriol at Beaver, Utah, was Ailed to-day.
There Is only cue Mormon upon this Grand
Jury, and it ia expected that a large number of
indictments for bigamy will be found, as tbe
Judge called their attention particularly to
polygamy and lascivious cohabitation.
WORK OF MEXICAN CATTLE-THIEVES.
Galveston, Tex., Deo. o. Brownsville advices
state that information ia received that a contract
has been made at Mootero) for tbe dcliverv of
18,000 beeves. One hundred and fifty bides
were recently received at Matauuras /rum
Monterey baying American brauda. Informa
tion from different points along tbe itio Grande
gives the number of cattle crossed into Mexico
during the last month. Tbe list numbers 1,280,
moat of them driven towards Monterey. One
herd was ta»ou to Cauiargo and demanded by
C'apt. Kings, tho agent, but tho Mexicans re
fused to deliver them.
Larkin (1. Meade, sculptor, and tbe Ames
Manufacturing Company, of Chicopee. Mass.,
unite in a request to the Liu solo Monument As
sociation to permit tho exibitmn of tbo naval
Koup for tbe monument a( the Centennial, aud
e request has been granted.
NUMBER 106.
FOREIGN.
~g aments of the Spanish Press
on President Grant’s
If Message.
—■ . . ■ - 4
£.!y Bcllcre (tic European Powers
j? Would Not Tolerate Inlcr
ff Tension.
i u.
Election of Senators by the French
Assembly Under tho New
Constitution,
The Republican Element Do.
velops Unexpected
Strength.
Further Details of the Steamship
Deutschland Disaster,
A Carllsl O'cneral Sentenced hi Court
tlnrlial lo Four Years’ Im.
prlsonmcnl.
SP'IN.
COMMENT. ON THE riIESIDENt’S
Mai,run. Dec. s,—Xfio Journals of lies city
coniment variouflly on tho mesaafro of Ihoaldont
Grant, hut all hope that Spain will vanquish tho
inahrroctiou in Cuba by force, onorny, and nor-
Boveranco. 1
Lonuun, Dec. 10.—A Madrid dlspalch Bars
iimrauay mornings papers there express iho
opimou that the portion of President Grant's
niesßa>;e on Cuban affairs is no more alarming
than bib former utterances on the subject. Too
conaeivativo Jumna's consider his language eeri
'His. Tho general opinion iu political circles is
that luo mossagn is favorable. The Epoca aod
/harm Etpayncl think tbit intervention is nob
reallv intended, ami believe that Europe would
ooi allow it.
p Further rcinforcorocnle are preparing for
CCirnT-MARTIAI..
Ilexiurc. Doe. u. - Iho Court-Martial
has Honieaced Gen. (.{abillti lo four vt-ra’im
prisonment.
FRANCE.
Ki.eC'Tlrijf OP Bt>ATflßß.
Paiiib. Dec. if.—ln the AHseml'l; fo-day, bal
loting began for ilia election of seventy-tiveSsn*
aforo, wbo aro to hold office for hfs. Due
D’Audiffiet raatpucr, President, and M. Martel,
First Vice-President, of tbo Assembly, were elect
ed, no other candidates obtaining the absolute
majority which la necessary on the first ballot.
Iho Deft developed surpdauxr strength in voting.
T hoir candidates received an average of 325 votes
each, ajainul 317, tho average number thrown
for those of tho Right. Members of the Right
ate astounded at tho result.
a rnr.Miru on maiuuacic.
Pajsip, Nov, 22.—-In thn Assembly to-day the
diHcuiHioii of tho Electoral hill had nearly finished
"Uli despairing monotony, when M, IloloiAieU
proposed the followiuß ruler to Clause 1:
I-verj- married man or widower, with or wUhoat
children. etiull have the right to a complementary tolo.
•V man against whom separation shall have been de
creed by the courts of law shall loeo this double vole.
Ho defended this proposal in tho solemn tone
habitual to Lim, as a premium on marriage, a
piotoat against celibacy, but did not m:cc<*oiiin
distracting tbe Cbambcr from its convereatioos.
31. Laugloia rose to answer bim. He waepoakor
whoee voice, gestures, manners, and bomely
phrases always .enliven tbo Chamber. It was
silent and listened to him. sod wan silent when,
alter trying to reply bv abstract arguments, bo
concluded by exclaiming, “Can If, in abort, bo
supposed that tbo priest shall have only one
rote, sod that tbe roxtou, if married, shall have
two?" The Chamber rejected tbo amendment.
A MONSTER.
A married woman named Boron ban been con
demned to death at tbo Lot Afsizes for murder
ing her eovon children and a granddaughter by
pushing needles Into their bodies. Bbo had tea
children, seven of whom died under 12 months
old, and it was not until tbu death of her grand
daughter that au investigation was made. He*
apparent motive for this last crime was that
tbo child might die before its father,
who was ia a desperate condition, and
that she might thus secure part of his prop
erty, to tbo prejudice of her daugbter-iu-law,
whom she detested. When asked bow she came
to think of sticking needles into bor children's
bodies, she elated that at the public bouse abo
kept there was one day a conversation on infanti
cide, ana it was »ald habits did uot suffer when
murdered tn this wav. Tbe Jury In this casr
could discover no extenuating circumstances.
FLOODS AND hTuRMa.
Inundations and gales ate reported from All
sides in the Valley of the Euro, Not less than
4.0H0 trees in the forest of Breux hare been
blown down. Immense damage has been done
all over France. In moat districts, however, the
floods are subsiding.
THE DEUTSCHLAND DISASTER.
MURK OF TUK SAVED.
London, Dec. 9.— The following eleven addi
tional names of passengers saved from the
Beutaobiand are furnished this morning:
First Cabin—Karl Dlodorloh,
Becoud Cabin—Procopt Ladolkoff, of Basalt,
Steerage— Florlan Bauerle, of Bavaria; Goorga
Bretteri, or FrelJnt, of Albany, N. Y.; Anna
Hubert, or lleichonberg ; Wilhelm Hurgo, of
Prussia; Marie Btoomagel, of Emdorf; JE.
Scbu-ter. of Newkirachan; Anton Tclcby, of
.No* York ; Georgina Frank, of Bohemia ; and
Johanu Gass, of Jecbingen. .
It 1a probable that some others are saved and
not identified on account of the confusion of
names m transcribing and telegraphing.
the lost.
Tbe childof AnnaGrnoelk diodoo the steam
ing. after leaving tbe wreck.
Altogether, about forty of the passengers and
fifty of tho crow are still unaccounted for.
The Beutscbiand will piobaOty become a total
lose.
JNTtOTIOATIOH,
London. Bee. 10—6 a. in.— With tbe latest in
formation at hand regarding tbe Joes of tbs
steamship Deutschland, it ia estimated that at
least sixty-eight personal of whom forty-eix
were passengers, were drowned. A Coroner's
inquest has been held at Bhoerooas on tho two
bodies found io the Quartermaster's boat. - Tbo
jury refined to adjourn finally until the result
of the official inquiry, which is held at Harwich,
is known. Meantime, they have returned a ver
dUt of death from exposure, thus leaving tho
Harwich inquest to fix the responsibility for tbo
dwaitor.
Tho inquest at Harwich opened yesterday.
The Captain and other ollicers of the Dentsoh
land were examined, but nothing new was
elicited. The inquest was adJouruadontUTuee
dav next,
tin more dead bodies have boon brought
ashore at Harwich.
A dispatch from Sbeernoea says tbe Deutsch
land bos broken in two.
LATEST.
London, Deo. 10.—lu the Inquest at Harwich
yesterday Capt. Bnokeustein testified that bo
signaled passing vessels during Monday, but
none answered. Jurymen aud others admitted
that bis signals of distress wore seen at Harwich.
A Jurvmau elated that the seamen did not feel
bound to risx their Uves sod go to the /fescue,
having no life-boat,-
The Times this morning) pars facte, if unex
plained, cast disgrace uu the English name.
Tbe latest estimate makes the total number of
lives lost on tbo Deutschland seventy-eight. It
is nov ascertained that tbe crew numbered
ninety-nine, of whom fourteen were drowned.
Tbo Captain admits that be was au hour end a
quarter out of his reckoning. Tbo steamer Mosel
takes the surviving passengers to New York.
INCIDENTS.
Nsw Vouk, Doo. *J.~Dispatches from London
state that tbo lirst signals of distress sent op
from tbo wrecked steamer Deutscbtaud wore
seen by men of tbe Loglisb coast-guard sentoe
at ti o'clock Moudaj tuotuisg. Eoveral oooek