Written for the Herald.1 A CHRISTMAS STORY. "Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward .Men." Winfield Chester sat, alone and lonely, in his luxurious library that cold and cloudy afternoon of December 21th. He knew, as a fact, that to-morrow would be Christmas, but that word had no pleasant meaning for him. On the con trary, as the thought crossed his mind, he Downed and shook his head, and turned resolutely to his writing. But once intruded the thought would not be banished, and with a sigh of im patience he left his table and threw him self into a big arm-chair before the cheer ful fire of tlif open grate. Then with his massive gray head lean ing back on the rich cushions, and a wist ful expression creeping into his stern, dark eyes, be gave himself up to retro spection. He ga/ed steadily in the grate, and picture after picture formed in the glaring fire—a panorama of years agone. A little girl—a fairy-like creature—ap pears, and a sweet, childish voice says : "To-morrow will be Christmas, papa ! Get me a wax doll, bigger than cousin Clara's." The picture fades—the voice dies away, and he sees a brilliantly lighted Christmas tree, and winsome Winnie ecstatic over the gorgeous doll, as she exhibits it to papa and mama. Scene after scene in successive years, as Winnie grows into a bdsy school girl, and then a gay young lady of society, comes up before him. At last he sees the elegant house ablaze with light one Christmas eve, and Winnie, the sweet young hostess, fair as a snow wreath, in a rich, white costume. But the scene lades almost instantly, and there comes to hi3 heart, with almost the first intensity of grief, the knowledge that Winnie, the*pride of the circle, is gone— has left her home, even during the gaities , of her Christmas party—has joined her fate with that of one her parents could not approve. I There are no more scenes of pleasure— ! the parents hearts are broken! The gen tle mother dies, and the father, lonely and alone, has for ten years found Christmas i time a season of bitter memories. .Still he sits and broods, forgetful of time, i neglecting to count hi? blessings and share them with others less fortunate. I,ike too many others, he has grown hard and selfish in grief. "Dinner, sir!'' announces John, respect- ; fully, opening the door. And so Winfield leaves the fire pictures and their stories, and passes into the beautiful dining-room, where a liouquet of conservatory roses makes the air fragrant, and the table, covered with shining damask and glittering with china and sibver, is laid for one. The choice viands scarcely tempt the appetite of the lonely man, and John and the cook see with consternation their best dishes barely touched. "Will you have the sleigh, sir?'' ventures John, as Mr. Chester rises from the table. "No, I think not. It is too stormy to take the horses out for a drive. I may walk out soon." And so he does, for the silence and memories of the library are unendurable. With his heavy fur coat and cap] he can defy Arctic weather, and he finds, on reaching the street, that the wind is not blowing so much, and it is not so cold, but the snow is coming down in light, feathery flakes. He wanders aimlessly along quiet streets, chosen because he does not want to meet any acquaintances. He cannot banish thought. He feels his heart asking for the erring daughter he has never forgiven. "Disobedience and deception !" he thinks, "and how I loved her !" Suddenly his mediations are interrupted by a burst of music. He glances up and finds himself opposite St. Mark's and the choir are practicing the anthem for Christ mas service. Some one passes in and he catches a glimpse of evergreen wreaths and llower adorned chancel and the music sounds sweet and seductive. < Ä >uiet] v he enters and take a seat. "Glory to God in the Highest !" sounds dear and sweet from the soprano soloist." "Glory to God in the Highest !" softly echoes the rich contralto. The bass and tenor join in and then the full chorus swells grandly the grand music and grander words. Mr. Chester closes his eyes and lancies the soul-stirring harmony issues from a company of bright ones, such as announced the Great Gift, eighteen centuries ago. But now the character of the music is changed, and the softened listener bears— "l'eace on earth : good will to men !" iu solo, duet and chorus, and for the first time in his life Mr. Chester appreciates Christ's mission on earth. Not only a [Savior—not alone to show God's glory, but to bring peace—to show good will, and He is our pattern. And as he sat and thought, while the music carried him nearer heaven than he has ever been before — "If I could find Winnie," he thinks, "1 would forgive her." The rehearsal is over, and quietly he slips out, as he entered. Still aimlessly he crosses several streets and comes on a busy thoroughfare gay with artistically arranged windows and crowded with happy people, buying gifts for loved ones. Mechanically he steps before an espe cially attractive)window made more splen did *bv the gas jets burning in profusion amidst the lovely things. "1'lease, sir, are you Mr. Santa Claus ?" Mr. Chester started, as a tiny hand touched his fur coat, sprinkled with lleecy Hakes, and the childish voice asked the pleading question. "Not exactly, little one," he answered in tones so gentle he surprised himself. Then he looked closer at the little girl, as she pushed back a stray curl and started with an exclamation of surprise—incredu lous surprise. For the child is the picture of his Winnie at her age, only Winnie was always clad in rich, dainty apparel, while this little one was barely covered with a scanty cotton dress and laded shawl. "Who are you ? What is your name, my dear ?" he asks in sudden hope. "Clara Car le ton is my name. Mamma says it was her mamma's name. " "So it was, my dear," said Mr. Chester eagerly. "Where is your mamma and papa ?" "Papa is dead and mama is home. She sews for people and gets awful tired and has pain in her side. She sent me to buy a loaf of bread with our last five cent piece, and that's why I hoped you was Mr. Kauta Claus, 'cause I wanted to tell him to briug us a Christmas dinner, and mam ma some shoes, and me a pretty doll and some candy. But I must get the bread and hurry home." "Stop a minute, little Clara," cried Mr. Chester. " I am not Santa Claus, but I can help him, so wait for me, and I'll go home with you. " He stepped into the store and purchased a beautifully dressed doll and a choice package of conlectionery; then taking the wondering child by the hand stopped at a shoe store and let her select shoes for mamma. Stopping again at a bakery he fresh rolls and filled with had a basket delicate cakes. "Now for home," said he, in suppressed excitement. So the child led him into dark, dirty streets, and into a crowded tenement, far up, over rickety stairs. Softly opening the door Clara darted into a small, comfortless room, and tri umphantly carried basket and bundles to the weary woman who was straining her eyes over her work at the poor little window. Mr. Chester gazed through the opening door. Could that wan, spiritless woman lie his brilliant Winnie? Even so. He could recognize her features and expres sion. He heard her say in startled tones, i "What have you got, dear?" "A gentleman gave them to me, mamma i —a friend of Mr. Santa Claus, he said— isn't he good ? He came with me—ah ! there he is!" she added as Mr. Chester stepped into the room. Mrs. Carleton glanced up, a look of al most incredulous surprise came over her face—she clasped her hands and tottered weakly forward. "Father!" "Winnie!" came simultaneously from their lips. And then they sat down and the father drew from the suflering woman the story of her life during the past tan years. "It is all over," cried the old gentleman." "Von shall go home at once, and I shall think little Clara is my Winnie of aid. " He left her to procure a carriage, while she packed up her few possessions worth taking with her On Christmas night, in the luxurious library, no longer lonely, were gathered Mr. Chester, his daughter, and little Clara. An evergreen tree loaded with pretty things stood on one side of the grate, and the little girl with gleelul laugh plucked the fruit and screamed with delight over the treasures, while grandpa leaned back iu his big chair and smiled in content, and the happy daughter, at the organ, softly played harmonious strains that finally drifted into a grand old anthem, and she sang the heartfelt words, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." DEL. SV.1I IIOLJIS OF THE SEASON. is Pinned ■Tin Little One's Stockin', to the Wall." As birds to sun-land wing their way in blithesome bevies and with song, so from the gift-band, Christmas Day, flow tokens that life's joys prolong. The sea sons symbol, like a charm, wish and delight is interlocking: and plainest gifts the heart will warm he they but found within a stock ing! Time can destroy the dearest whim ; the sweetest joy age can bedim: hut on life's way all love to pause each year a day with Santa Claus. Tho" heads he bowed with weight of years, and onward crowd life 's sad ding cares, the memory turns at Christmas tide in grooves of chi Id hood joys to glide. ; V ; ' Then hang the stockings— great and small Our Chimney sprite will know them all! He reads the wish in every mind, and tries the w i s h e d-f or aye to find. Yes! hang the stockin g—young and old ! Let Saint Nick 's legends be retold! Let old heads play the Christ mas parts, Which p r ove that naught can age young hear t s ! The Christmas Tree. O, the Christ mas tree so bright and green, awaits Old Santa Claus. And the chim ney place all swept and clean gapes wide its ponderous jaws. The little stockings are all hung up, and baby's just makes four. Won t ( fid Santa Claus he surprised when he finds there is one more ! Thei's an elegant place up in the tree to hang Johnny's gun, and a place for May and one for Kate to leave their dolls upon. But for little baby blue eyes a lower branch he must choose, where she may reach and find the place he's hung her first new shoes. Turn down the light a little, now, so Old Santa Claus can see. And baby and all must go to bed and be as good as good can be. and to-morrow morn get up early, after a long night's sleep, and come softly down to the Xmas tree and see Who will get the first peep. Thk Atchison, Topeka & Santa EeJ rail road is going to have its own line to Chi cago. It is curious to watch the tendency of growth in railroad matters. Once get a strong, thrifty stock well rooted and it grows rapidly and in all sorts of directions, so that the original name loses all signifi cance. Within a few years no one need be surprised at hearing of this A., T. & S. F. road down in South America and the other end up in Alaska. It takes a railroad to build a railroad. It hat all the skill, con veniences and appliances for the purpose. It can do the work more cheaply and speedily and set the new road to work at once on a self-sustaining basis. From Mr. Toole's account it appears that the President paid no attention to the request of Governor Hauser as to the time set for the acceptance of his resignation, But we hear uow that an arrangement has ! been effected with the Governor's suc- , cessor by which he consents to remain j awav till after the legislative message has gone iu, Territorial appointments made, and some other trilling matters are attend-j ed tc. Evidently Leslie has more consid-; eration for Montana than Cleveland. THREATENED DANGER. Though not particularly inclined to national jealousy, we confess to feeling our suspicions not a little stirred to read that the King of the Sandwich islands has placed a loan of $2,000,00(1 in Lon don. It is almost equivalent to saying that he has sold the islands to the British. It is the practical theory of the British constitution that government I exists for the purpose of caring for the I national creditors. Some enterprising British traders in their private capacity I once started a trading factory on the i coast of India and the vast British In dian empire is the outgrowth. So the great Australian continent, with its several colonies already grown to the statue of nations, is the outgrowth of a mere penal settlement. This idea that the possession of a country and its politi cal control are but incidents of debt is well illustrated in England's present position in [ Egypt. England took the country tor debt, and somehow she is always likely to keep it for debt, for the debt can easily be so managed as to grow, and if the reason for the first occupation was good, the same reason justifies perpetual possession. The Eng lish government is understood to be general endorser for all her money lenders. There is no country or ruler on the face of the earth, no matter how near bankruptcy, aud oftentimes the better for that reason, but English money lenders are ready to lend money on magnificent margins of profit. When default is made in payment the claim is turned over to the government for col lection, and the result is that the gov ernment takes all that the creditor has got, country, government, people and all, giving them a chance to work it out if they are smarter and stronger than the British Government. The case of the Mexican peon i- an apt illustration. If Mexico had not been under the lee border of the Fnited States, it would have been occupied by British troops and officials long ago. They are only waiting for an opportunity. They have as much patience as a mule waiting to kick an unsuspicious youth in an un guarded moment. Englishmen never cancel any bonds, however desperate they may look to the ordinary business eye. The annual interest is as scrupu lously counted on the Confederate bonds as if there was a certainty that it would be paid on request. England wants the Sandwich islands for commercial purposes, not for the people there or what grows there, but as a home and coaling station when the commerce of the Pacific Ocean has grown many fold aud the United States wakes from its long slumber to find that every available station for steam commerce is preoccupied. Any time these past fifty years we might have had these inlands for the taking. They have been offered us on our own terms and without any terms. To-day a large majority of our people think the possession of the Sandwich islands is scarcely more than a private affair of Claus »Spreckles. It is a great mistake, and when we come to think of a steam navy in dead earnest, we shall find ourselves effectually shut out and all distant ports of the world locked against us._ AUTHOR OF THE CONSTITUTION Probably Thoma- Jefferson is more famous for being the author of the Dec laration of Independence than anything else in hi> long and eventful public ca reer. But it has often seemed to us that The Herald's illustrated correspondence, as also its humorous and solid articles of the same class, are pleasant features of the present as of previous numbers. This de partaient of the paper is popular with everybody and its continuance may be ex pected throgh the coming year, along with the framer of the present constitution of the United States performed a still more wonderful achievement, all things con sidered. We doubt if there are many who can tell who wrote the constitution. In our recent reading of the life of Joel Barlow, one of the new books in our city library, the credit of that work is giyen to Abraham Baldwin, a brother of Bar low' wife, and it is engraved upon the tomb stone that marks the author's grave in Washington City. Baldwin was a native of Connecticut, was chaplain in the army during the last years of the revolution; afterwards >tudied law, re moved to Georgia and represented that »State in Congress. He was on the com mittee to draft a constitution and to him was assigned the work of giving it shape and form. He died in Washington just at the close of a session of Congress, at the age of f»2, universally mourned and profoundly respected by all liwo knew him. Macon of North Car olina said that he was one of the great est men that have ever lived. Yet we have closely searched several encyclo pedias, Appleton's among the rest, in vain to find even a mention of his name. Surely the man who drafted the Consti tution of the United States ought to be known and honored universally in the land that has so wonderfully prospered under such a fundamental law. The centennial anniversary of this great work is close at hand. We pro pose that enough of the surplus be used to erect a suitable monument to perpet uate the fame of Abraham Baldwin, the author of the United States Constitu tion. _ A Christmas Story, by "Del." one of the Herald's best lady contributors, is in season and will interest rnaor readers. other improvements. The Weekly Her ai.d is the largest and conceded the hand somest aud best family journal of the Northwest. AGAINST CONSIDERATION. We hardly expected that Morrison would bring forward his tariff reform schemejso soon in the session, nor did we expect that it would be so rudely and unceremoniously bounced on its first ap pearance. We are glad of the result, not for the reason that we oppose con sideration or even a reduction ol duties on some articles of import, but because we believe it would be a waste ol time needed for other things to attempt con sideration at this short session. The terrible calamity of a surplus revenue has not come yet. It is only anticipated. There are still between sixty and seventy million of outstand ing 3 per cents to call in and pay off. We hope Congress at the present session will conclude to give a gold and silver basis to our greenbacks and that would dispose of another year's surplus. Another Congress has been elected, fresher from the people, to which the consideration of this tariff question more properly belongs. There will be time then for all who want to make speeches and records for the presidential contest. Certainly there is no use for consider ation unless it is likely to lead to some result, and no one expects this. 1 f noth ing else were considered in the House for the rest of the session it is doubtful ; if a measure could be got through, aud i no one expects that the Senate would I be likely to agree with the House, and j possibly the President would disagree ! with both. Certainly there are very many meas ures of greater [»resent importance that need the attention of Congress. We do not regard the vote on con sideration any test of the vote on the final action of the House on such a measure as Morrison has to propose. His inca>ure would be beaten by lorty or fiftv votes if it ever came to an issue The leading article in the November number of the Criminal Lair Magazine is by Judge Wade on the subject of "Opin ions and Impressions of Jurors." It is one of the greatest clangers that impairs the usefulness and threatens the very exist ence of our jury system. The practice of excluding from the jury box any person who has formed or expressed any sort of ; an opinion from reading some newspaper ! account, has been carried to such an ex- j trerne that in one case cited six thousand jurymen had to be summoned and out of i four thousand examined only ten were ac- I cepted. It is not so much the enormous | cost aud the long delay as the fact that : the administrât:. n of our criminal law in the most difficult cases falls into the hands of the most ignorant and sluggish portion of our body politic, on those who lack the capacity and inclination to form a sound and intelligent opinion. Happily the legislatures of several States, Montana among the rest, have stepped in and given some safe restrictions upon this extreme interpretation. A juror is held competent if he swears that, notwith standing an impression formed from hear ing of the case or reading, he can render a verdict unprejudiced, according to the evidence offered in court. It was such conservative legislation that rescued the jury system from impending destruction. These fluctuating fortunes from its earliest dawn to recent days are graphically set forth by Judge Wade, and the cardinal decisions cited that mark the extreme swing of the pendulum. The article shows careful study and strong convictions. Wherever the legislatures have not adopt ed the restrictions upon the right of chal lenge for cause, this article furnishes the grounds for early action. The best news that reaches us to-day is j that from the Indian Commission, which seems to be coming in our direction and has had a satisfactory settlement with the Gros Ventres, Mandans and Arickarees at Fort Berthold. We see the policy that is i sought to be carried out. There is to be a good broad line of separation between the reservations and the northern lioundary line The cession of all north of the 48 parallel will give a wide belt for white set tlement between our own and the Cana dian Indians which is quite essential for the preservation of peace and the success of any earnest, general effort for civiliza tion. When these and other Indians have been settled in severalty it will show how much, or rather how little, land is neces sary to maintain civilized Indians, and there will be further reductions. If any considerable degree of success attends these civilizing efforts, the time will come when it would be better to consolidate the fragments of tribes and the separate reser vations. No one State ought to have more than one Indian reservation and that if possible to be separated from the rest by some natural mountain barriers so that ac cess and intercourse might be restricted. Members of the Helena Bar are signers j to a paper asking the appointment of W. » E. Cullen, Esq., to succeed Chief Justice j Wade, whose fourth term expires by limi- j tation in February next. A second aspi- j rant is said to lie Judge McLearv, of the ; First District, who is credited with having j canvassed many lawyers with a view to i their acquiescence in his promotion. Still : a third candidate is reported in the person of lawyer Underwood, of Little Rock, Ar kansas, a supposed prolege of Attorney General Garland. Undoubtedly the Helena Bar has the calibered men in Cullen, Clayberg, Johnson and others, but the main thing is to agree and unite upon some one of them. Unless this is done the chances, we think, favor a foreign appoint ment. It is the general expectation that j Judge Wade will serve through to the end j of his term and round out his full sixteen ; years in the judicial harness. ! Butte Inter Mountain : Hereafter when j Broadwater and the ex-Governor meet it : | will require a spirit thermometer to deter- ; mine how coldly they will gaze on each ■ other. The mercury freezes somewhere in j the fifties. j j and corporations, ; ! j i I | : Territorial officers are closer and more in From our outside positions, viewing the situation from general principles, we would uow, a3 we have otten before done, advice the people of Dakota to dismiss the idea of division and accept earlier admission. But it is a question that com erns the peo ple living in Dakota very much and us very little. If Dakota were equally divid ed, it would make two States with an area of about 75,000 square miles, each about the size of Nebraska and nearly ten times the size of Massachusetts. Either part i would be larger than New York, the Em I pire State of the North, or than Georgia, j the Empire State of the South. There are i seven States in the Union with a larger j area than these halves of Dakota, but in ! the case of most of them they contain more waste land and will never be as densely or as evenly populated. We think if Dakota's longest dimension had been east aud west, like that of Montana, division never would' have been thought of. All or most of the commun na tion is by east and west lines, and this will continue to be the case ! for all time, though it would iorm no in ! superable barrier. The impression is j sought to be made that this division sen ! tirnent is the work of politicians. But those who make this assertion also claim that the whole population is principally composed of politicians. There is no rea son to believe that there is a greater per cent of politicians among the people of Dakota than in other States and Terri tories. We insist that the jieople of a pro posed new State have the best right to be heard in fixing their own boundaries. The eastern half of Dakota would be larger than a half dozen Eastern States, and there would be less ground for complaint on the score of inequality than now exists be tween New York and Rhode Island or Delaware. On general principles we think large .States are more united and less ex posed to capture and conquest bv factions Our judgment is that Dakota has the first and best claim for immediate admission, either as one or two States, as her own people shall de cide. _ The Senate, it is thought, will deliber ate for some time over a good many of the President's recent nominations. Among others the Gubernatorial appointments for Montana, Dakota and Wyoming will probably not be considered till well along in January and final action may be de layed a month later. The rule is that alien appointees to the Territories are slow to seek their posts until they are satisfied they will be confirmed. We are already apprized that Leslie will be in no hurry to assume the executive functions and that Hauser will not be called upon to turn over the governorship to his successor till a month and a half lienee. In his message Governor Hauser will doubtless emphasize some of the views heretofore expressed in his annual report on the sil ver, land, and other important questionSj and much weight will be attached to his suggestions and recommendations sub mitted to the Legislature. It i3 stated by those very close to the Governor and enjoy iDg his con fidence in business and other relations, that partisan considerations will cut little figure in his choice of Territorial officers. We are advised that the gentlemen now holding ihe offices of Treasurer, Auditor and Superintendent of Publie Instruction are so highly estimated by the Governor for their worth and the efficiency and in tegrity with which they have discharged their trusts that all three may be continued in place. Should Gov. Hauser follow in this matter his own good judgment and decline to yield to partisan ap]elegate contest objected to j Sanders because he was in the employ of the Northern Pacific. Cleveland doubtless , thought it a poor rule that wouldn't apply to one case as well as the ether. We see by the reports from central Europe that all the railroads entering Berlin are blocked with snow, while out here iu Montana outside building opera tions are still going on, our sheets are dry and dusty. But for the short hours of daylight the weather seems more like late autumn than mid-winter. Salt Lake Trihune: it seems that Commissioner Sparks has got in his work once more and has caused the Democratic governor of Montana to be removed. Mon tana people will not take kindly to this We take it to be an intimation that there is no intention of admitting Montana into the union during the life of the present : administration. Oil: people remember »Sparks' threat wired from Washington during the late campaign. Was Hauser the offender whose head was to be chopped off ? Did Sparks have anything to do with hurrying the Governor's resignation, and after that, of precipitating the appointment of his successor before the time stipulated? It looks a little that way. If the bounding, bouncing William Springer has any good, wholesome, satis factory reasons for opposing the settlement i with the Union Pacific railroad on the j plan proposed, we hope he will concentrate ! his energies into making as cogent and i comprehensive statement of them as possi ! Lie, and then subside. His filibustering I ought to be squelched. Mi:. Fenn, who was outvoted for alder I man, tells the Herald that he is not an I employe of Mr. Tatem's, nor has he been ! for a year or more. He is a skilled mechanic, i an intelligent working man, and on the water question, while committed to no one man or scheme, holds subelantially the same views as every householder and con sumer in Helena. In the Council he would have been a valuable member. Salt Lake Tribune: Governor Hauser is a good man and good governor, but his party, in Montana last summer, iu solemn convention, endorsed the present adminis tration, including Mr. »Sparks and all his foolishness and meanness. That is the way people are generally served when they knowingly do a wrong thing. The course of the present administration toward all the Territories has been one of persecu tion and imbecility. Candidate Fenn estimates that at least 150 non-residents were mustered last Saturday to vote against him, and that the register, if examined, will show more than that number of names nowhere found on the list of water consumers. We are told that that the Fisher House was given as the lodging place of a great part of these "voters," the last one of whom was utiliz ed for the Democratic candidate. A regis try law is what îlelena wants. After to-day Congress will have a two week's recess and when it reassembles there will be just two months for work. Judg ing by what has been done there is pros pect of much being accomplished. The work of committees will all be done up and little left but voting on measures already matured and amply considered. There is hope too that the temptation for long speeches is out of the way. The elec tion of members is settled and it is too soon to plan for the next. In the Sixth ward, if there was any where an anti-water man he couldn't Ire found, and the monopoly wisely refrained from trying to oppose Mr. Thieme, the Re publican candidate for Alderman. With no other incentive to attend the polls than to show how they stood on the water ques tion and to attest their approval of Aider man Howey's course and Mr. Thieme's de termination to act and vote with him on the water issue, seventy-five of the electors attended the election and cast their ballots one way and as a solid whole. The dirty Campbell divorce case is over and let us be thankful that the Christmas atmosphere is not to be tainted with its pollution. Though the parties have been acquitted of the grosser crime mutually charged, the front and back doors and windows have all been thrown open lor the greedy, scandal-loving public to look upon as disgraceful and disgusting scenes oi shame, degradation and misery in palaces as ever are found in the dirtiest and meanest hovels of the poor. Interstate Commerce Hill. Washington, December 21.—-The de bate on the inter-state commerce bill pro ceeded, and Wilson < la) continued. He represented the railroad system of the country as having steadily and unreason ably refused to recognize the simplest busi ness demands, and as having worked out a line of action for itself which had ex cited the resentment of almost every in terest which it had been created to serve. It had made itself an inte*ueddler in al most every department of the Imsiness. It refused to admit that it had been created to serve the proper purposes and interest-» of society, and it had assumed to control and direct those interests. Managers of the transportation system, while admitting great defects in it, had resolutely opposed all efforts of the State and national gov ernments to project and establish reform».. The adoption of the conference report, while it would not accomplish all that he should like, would afford the country an opportunity to test a regulative remedv, uniess the bill should be vetoed by the ITesident. There must lie immediate an ! affirmative action. Congress r ust enact laws for the regulation of inter-state com merce, and (by experience under its ad ministration) come to the knowledge of the right or wrong of the matter iu the war of opinion now obstructing the wa NothiDg said Mr. Wilson) had done more to demoralize railroad managers, officer and agents than pools. It had come to K expected, indeed, that the pool of to-day would be diregartled by some of its mem bers to-ruorrow, and this came to be the basis of hope of reward by railroad officer and agents for successfully enlarging their business by violation of such arguments. Then comes the rate war ami consequent loss of revenue. Under the present sys tem, however, these losses were unloaded on the business of the intermediate or local points. This practice was in itself au out rage and a most fruitful source of com plaint on the part of the people. A vast amount of the railroad traffic of the coun try was done at rales less than half of those charged on business between local points. That was an iniquity which ought not to be tolerated, and which the pending bill, (if it becomes a lawj would prevent. The people were willing that railroad com panies should prosper and should lie rea sonably paid for their services : but they did not recognize them as their masters, for they knew that railroad companies were created to be servants, aud it might be set down as one of the things irrevoc ably settled upon that public demands which had induced the reporting of the present bill, would not cease until justice was entrenched ia the transportation sys tem of the country. As an illustration of the injustice of the present system, he stated that on the 10th of this month corn was selling in Western Iowa (where it had been a good crop) at from 20 to 25 cents a bushel, in Chicago at 36 cents a bushel, and in southeastern Iowa, where the crop had been a failure, at 40 and 15 cents a bnshel,so that western Iowa corn was being sold in Chicago at from three to six cents a bushel less than in eastern towns. Congress he said, had debated upon this subject for ten years. Now let it act. Mr. Camden said he regarded the bill as a wise and conservative measure : that the country demanded the passage of some such bill and that it was the duty of Con gress to act upon it. Mr.Cullom said he would ask the Senate to resume consideration of the bill im mediately upon reassembling after recess. Railway Suit Ended. Washington, December 21.—Acting Secretary Fairchild has accepted the offer of the Nashville, Chatanooga & St. Louis railway to pay the sum of $153,603 in com promise of the claim of the United States against the company in the middle district of Tennassee founded on certain matured and unpaid interest coupons of bonds is sued by the company and held by the United States. The bonds iu question, 512 in number and secured by mortgage, were transferred to the United States by the State of Tennessee for certain Indian trust funds held by the United States and loaned to the State. The unpaid coupons were those due from January 1, 1861 to January 1, 1876. In 1880 suit was brought to re cover the amount of these coupons as well as the interest, which exceeds the face value of the coupons. The defendant in terposed the plea of statute of limitation and the court sustained the plea. This decision was, however, reversed by the U. S. Supreme Court on a writ of error and the case was remanded to the court below, where it is now pending. The offer to compromise contemplates the payment of the total in six monthly installments of $25,600 each. Its acceptance was recom mended by the U. »S. Attorney and by Judge McCue, »Solicitor of the Treasury. Fair thinking men of both parties hold stoutly to the opinion that no wiser act could characterize the administration of Governor Hauaer than the making of the appointments suggested in these columus yesterday. The fidelity to their responsible trusts of Messrs. Weston, Wool man and Wylie commend these officer above one and all of the considerable army of partisan place-seeker- »ho have noth ing of their qualifications or fitness iu other respects for the positions the present occupants adorn. Governor Hauser up to this time has quite as little obtruded poli tics into his office as the gentlemen who have continued from a previous adminis tration to serve under him, and the patent fact that in all matters and issues material to the interests of the Territory and its people the officers named have been and remain in happy accord with the Governor and opposed to the prints and politicians who sided with Cleveland and Sparks as against Hauser, make almost imperative their recognition in the direction pointed out. Capable, experienced, prompt and thorough in the discharge of every duty, these servants of the Territory should and very likely will be required to remain at their posts.___ The Inter Ocean of the 18th ins», has a long, interesting account of the Gogebic iron mines in Northern ÜV isconsin. These mines are of immense extent, size and richness. Though less than two years since they were discovered they are said to have already developed more wealth than the gold mines of California. Nearly every business and professional man m Milwaukee has made a fortune in tue stocks of the several mines included in the discovery. The ores are very rich in metain iron, 65 per cent., while the phosphorus u