Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1881 — Page 1

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The Last Card of the New York Senator liayel Mooday Xa Ills Great National Contest I Willi rresltlcnt Gariicld. Bth Senators fthe Empire State Step Down and Oat. And Join U a Levtw of Resignation to tiernor Cornell, of New York, . In "Which the President is Ar r&Ignd as Man of Questionable Veracity, "And liobertsoa the Cause of ATI, .3 Haring Betrayed His Trusts and "Bolted." It The Sntiro "Scatter Referred Back tbe People of the Great State ef New York. to COaimentB of the Press The "Ex -Senators" to be Re-elected Rumors df Other Resignations. RKMGNED. tSenntoe 'Conkling and PlattResiga Their -Seat ia the Senate Great Excitement. Washington, May 1C The Vice Tresident kid before the Senate the following communication: Washington. Mit 16, 1SS1. Km Will you please announce to the enate that hit resignation a Senator of the United täte from the State of New York has been fir -warded to the Governor ol the State? I have the :honor to be, with great respect. Your obedient sere-ant, itoscoR Com kxinu. To Bon. C. A. Arthur, Vice President. This communication was received with great sensation, w hich was heightened when the Vice President laid the following before the Senate: Sexatk Chambe, May 16, ISsl. To lion. C. A. Arthur. Vice President: S:ä I have forwarded to the Governor of the State of New York my resignation as Senator of ,h I'nited States for the Slate of Kew York. Will Tea t.lease announce the fact to tbe Senate? With great respect. Your obedient servant. T. C. Tlatt. A hum of astonishment followed the reading of the communication, and Mr. Hill, of Georgia, suggested, sotto vece, that tins would be a kkh1 time to elect oilicers of the Senate. Mr. Burnside. Chairman of the Com mittees on Foreign Relations, reported back favorably from that Committee the resolu tion declaring the consent of the United states Government to be a condition pre cedent to the construction of ship canals or other wavs for the transportation of sea going vessels across the Isthmus, connection North and couth America, and also the rules and regulations under which other nations shall participate in tbe use Of such canals or other ways. Mr. Burnside gave

' notice that he would call it up to-mor row.

Mr. Dawes moved to go into executive session. Mr. Cockrell I thought you wanted to consider the other resolution. Mr. Dawes I had no idea but that the benator would like to pro on W3tn rt. it is in accordance with the disposition he has siow from the beginning. Mr. Hill (of Georgia) The Senator said the Republic would be subverted if the res olution was not acted upon. Mr. Dawes But the Senator would never be converted until he happened to have a maionty. Mr. Hill Oh! We won't insist upon hav

"ing it considered. Mr. Dawes An accident is an eye-opener ( ( to the Senator. Mr. Hill turnetPjaround and suggested to

? Mr. Davis, of Illinois, that there was nothing to prevent the Senate from adjourning -this week sine die. The Senate then went into executive sesaion. When the doors reopened, the Senate adjourned.

THE LETTER. The Resignation of the Two Soaators Full An Arraignment of Xtabertaon. In Alban t, X. Y., May 16. The following is the joint letter of resignation to Governor Cornell from Senators Conkling and Piatt: WnsniNGTON, D. C, May IC, ISM Sir T-ansmitting as we do our resignations respectively of the great trusta with which New York baa honored us.lt Is fit that we acquaint you. and through you the Legislature and the people ml the estate with the reasons, which, in our'judgnent make such a step lespectiul and necessary. Some w?ks ago the President sent to the Senate in a K'A-'pot nominations several persons for public oUices already filled. One of these offices is the Coliet.orshlp of the Port of w York, now held by Geucral Merritt; another is the Consul Generalsnp .at London, now held by General Radcau; ani!ier is the Charge d' Affaires to Denmark, held ay Mr. Cramer: another i the ilia.- on to Switzerland, held by Mr. Fish, eon of tbe for mer Seevetaryof State. Mr. Fish kad, In deference to tta-auCent practice, placed bis position at the disposal of the new Administration, but like other persons .named, he was ready to remain at h.3 post if permitted to do so. All these officers, save onlv Cramer, are ftlzens of New York. It waa proposed to ti'.splace them all, not for any alleged fault. or fer any alleged need or advantage of the public -service, but it order to give the ' peat oßice of Collector of the Port of New York to air. William II. IU.-ertson as a reward for certain acta of his. said to have "aided in making the .nomination of General Garfield possible.' The chain of rn lovals thus proposwi was ibroken by General Pdeau promptly declining to aorepi me new ptaee to wnicn ne was to be Kent. Tr-se nomination sammoned every member oi :the Senat to t ay whefier he advised such a transaction. The movement was more than a surprise. We had been Wd only few hours before that n remavals in New York offices were soon to be maCe or even eoe-idereC and had been requested to withhold papers and suestinna bearing on tbe object ha iiad been sent to ua for presentation. taould occasion arise, until we had notice from the President ol hi readtne U receive them. Learning tha' the ie Pret-ioeut was equally surprised and had beea etjually iciled, a-e went to Mr. James, the Cabiaet otficer from our State, and learned that though he hail invent aome time with the President on the moraine of Lfce day tbe nominationi we?e sent in, no cisclosore of the Intention to send tbn bad been made to aim, and that he arst knew A the matter by hearsay following the event After earnest reflection and consultation wa believed the proceedinic unwise and wronij, whether cosaldered wholly in relation to the prexenraUoa aad integrity of the public service and public example to be set. or in relation also to the integrity of the Republican party. No public n iterance of comment or censure was made by either of us in the Senate or elsewhere. On the contrary, we thought the President would reeon elder hit action, so sudden and heavy, and would t least adopt leas hurtful and objectionable modes of requiting- personal or individual service, li waa with this hope that the following- paper war prepared aad ij jacd and pi&ented by ill. Jaxaei

to ihe President, who was iubequentlT informed that you had authorized your name to be added also; TWK KKMOSJTRASOt. To the President: Sm We be leave to remonstrate aplnst a change in th Cotlectorship at Kew York by the removal ef Mr. Merrittaud the appointment of Mr. Robertson. The proposal was wholly a surprise. We heard A it ouly when several nominations involved in the plau was announced in ihn KMi. We had onlv two days before this

be?n informed from you that a change in Cusiom Oftioer at New Vork was not contemplated, and Mite hrnorant of the pun? to laae any aruou. Raa no -pponuniiy uuui wici ions to make the swrgeMions we now presciu. u dAunt tiela- ve that Ve luierestH ot tne puuuc er-oe will be brnetited by n-movinR the present Collector and puttniK Mr. Kooertson in nia ieai. We betitle ro political anvantaKe can ue j;iiiru for eitler tle Kepublican party or It principles. Believing that no individual has claims or obligations wbu-h aiiould be liquidated in such a mode. we earnestly and repecuuiiy ask tne nomination of Mr. Hobertsoti to he withdrawn. niFMFK A. A KT lit K. T. c. Platt, Thos. L. James. I'.OMOK CoNKIlS'f. This Tarer was prescntel to the lresident ly Mr. Jaines on Monday, the 'JMn day ot aiarrn. v-i.n. ni rhi ircouencv with which everyone of the twenty Presidents of the Republic, and markedlv the present lucumbent. had withdrawn nominations on less serious representations we rtiil not apprehend that such suggestions would be treated as an intrusion or invasion on any prerogative of the nominating power. We were dUaprointed. Immediately the public press, especially in articles and dispatches vrtttcu by thot-e in close ana conmant astciaiioii whu uic President, and with an influential member oi eis Cabinet, teemed with violent denunciations ot the Senators from New York for opposing the Administration and dictating to the President. Thn nersons who visited the Executive Mansion reported the President as resentful and Impatient of hesitation to "advbte and consent" to what he proposed. We had made no assault upon anybody. We have, at all times, refused to answer questions by representatives of the press or to make complaint orcomment, or rvm a ueiiwi ui the many truthless articles published against us by officious champions of the Administration. Indeed, beyond the confidential consultations with brother Senators and officials, we have said nothing until now on the subject, nor have we or either of us promoted the dead-lock in this senate, in order to prevent, or intlueuce action on any nomination, nor have we ever sc stated. Immediately after the nominations were published, letters and telegrams in jrreat numbers came from every part of the State from its leading citizenf protesting against the proiosed changes, and condemning them on many grounds. Several t ioti-sand-s of leading mercantile firms of New York constituting, we are informed, a majority of every branch of trade, sent us remonstrations. Sixty of eighty-one P.epubllcan members of the Assembly by letter or memorial made objection. Representatives in Congress, State officials, business men, professional men, commercial meu, indus trial and political organizations are among tne remonstrants, and they sieak from every section of the State. Ilesides the nomina tions alreadv referred to mere were awauiHg the action of "the Senate several citieus ot New York named for omees connected wiui tne Courts. lHstrict Attorneys and Marshals. These were all reappointments. Most of them had teen originally commissioned by Mr. Hayes. They were certified by the judges oi tne touns na niftiiv other eminent persons, who attested to the faithfulness and merit ef their service, and recom mended their continuance. They were not presented us. We have not attempted to dictate, nor have we asked the nomination of one person to any office in the täte. Indeed, with the sole exception of the written r quest set fonh above. we have never even expressed our opinion to tne President in any case, unless questioned in regard to it. Some days ago the President abruptly withdrew in the one and same act the nanee of General Woodford and Mr. Tenny and of two Marshals. This unprecedented proceeding:. whether oermtssible bv law or not. was gravely significant. The President had nominated these oflicers after they had been weighed in the a anoe. Their official records were belore mm had been fully scrutinized and approved, must Im nrcsiimed he thoueht the nominatio lit to be made, and that it waihis dutrtomake them. There is no allegation that he discovered any uiintneiui in tnem aitcrwara. it eouia hardly be mat ne naa aiscoverea unntness in an of them alike. What theu was the meaning and purpose of this peremptory step? It was imme diately stated, as if by auUiority, and it seems to be an admittance that the purpose was to iorca the Senate or Senators to vote as they could not vote, if left free from Kxecutive interference. It was to control the action of Senator, touching matters committed by the Constitution to the senate exclusively. It has been suggested in ad dition. bv recal iug these nominations and hold ing them in bis own hands, the President might In the event of failure of another nomination use them to compensate that failure. If it can be supposed that all these public trusts are to be, or would in any event be made personal pcrqui sites, to be handled and disposed of, not only to punish the Independence of Senatorial votes and action, but liquidate personal allegations oi any individual, however hitch lit station, tbe eondi tions are utterly vicious and degrading, and their acceptance would compel the Representatives of States to Hing down their oath and representative authority at the footstool of Executive power. Fol lowing this sweeping and startling Executive act came the ominous avowals that dissent, or laiiure to advise and consent, would be held au act of offense, exposing all Senators from whatever State to Executive pleasure. Thus we find ourselves confronted by the Question whether we shall stir render a plain right and the sworn duty of Senators by consenting to what we believe tobe vicious and hurtful, or be assigned positions of disloyalty to the Administration which we helped to bring in, and the success of which we earnestly wish for. By every reason and motive which enter Into the case, we know of no theory avowed by any party which requires such submissions as are now exacted. Although party service may be fairly considered in making the selection for public of ficers, it can hardly be maintained that the Senate is bound to lemove without cause incumbents merely to make places for those whom auy individual, even the President, or a. Member of his Cabinet, wishes to repay for being recreant to other, or serviceable to him. Only about two years aso the senate ad vied General Merritt to be appointed Collector at New York, It is understood that among the Senators who so advised, aas Mr. Windom, now Sec retary of the Treasury, and head of the Depart mem. whose subordinate General Merritt is. Another Senator known to have given this advice was Mr. Mrkwood, now secretary of the Interior, it 15 said, like the postmaster General, our own State, these Cabinet oilicers Mere not taken into consultation touching the removal of General Merritt, but their sworn and otuciai action as Senators, is none the less instructive. That the Secretary of the Treasury and the late Adminis tration up to its expiration, less then ten weeks ago, approved General Merritt as an officer is well known, and it is now here suggested that any citizen had petitioned for his removal or that official deliuuuencv ou his partis a reason of it. In place of an experienced othcer in the midst of his term fixed by law. it is proposed suddenly to put a man in who had no traiuing for the j voli tion ana wno can not ie said to nave any special uuiesajor iu omciai amies. In the inaugural of President Garfield, deliv ered on the rlth of March, stand these words "The CX vil Service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it Is regulated by law. Per the good of the service itself, for the p."otectlon of those wao are lutrnsted with the appointing power, against waste of time and obstruction to public business caused by Inordinate pressure for place, and for proteetian of incumbents against intrigue and wrong, I shall at the proper line ask Congress to Jlx the teaure of minor offices in the several executive Jfcpartments, and prescribe rrounds upon which removals may be made during the terms for which the incumbents have been appointed." Alow Rood the distinction is which would make rauor offices prev to in trigue and wrang and shield minor office from like; havoc and that .tie Col lectors hi pa of the country should belong to the exposed or to the protected class need not be decided here. Assuming General Merritt to be aiiofficerof average fitiiess and honesty, it migftt be reasonably argued that all Senators should with alacrity advise hit displacement by means of bviou stif-eriority. PofeiLly it might be said (hat all should adlse a selection in General Mcrritrs place of a man who, without superior titnesa, had rendered his country or even his ia:ty conspicuous at exalted service. The case in hand does not belong to either of t hese classes. The vocation of Mr. Robertson and hhr legislative and professional experience and surroundings do not denote superiority of tbe qualities, the knowledge of business habits, and familiarity with the revenue laws and system of the United States, which might make him more competent than General Menitt to collect the vast revenues and administer the vast business pertaining to the Port of New York. Certainly he can not in this respect be held an exception to rules of rieht and consistency, on which tbe Constitution and laws have placed on public service. We know of no personal or political service rendered by Mr. Babcrtaon so transcendant that the Colleciorshin of New lork should be taken ia tbe midst of the term and given him as a recompense. Mr. Robertson is reported by the New York Tribune to declare that his nomination waa a "reward" a "reward" lot 2U action m a delegate to the Noüoitu

Convention. If Mr. Robertson in his action was influenced by a sense of duty, 11 be voted and acted his honest conviction, it Is difficult to see what claim he baa for any reward, not to speak of such a great reward. The action, of which an estimate is thus invPed, is this: Mr. Robertson and sixty-nine other men accepted fron the State Convention a certain trust. They sought and accepted the position of genta or delegates to the National Convention. The State Convention declared that Its plainly stated judgment and policy waa to be observed and supported by thowe - it commissioned. To this declaration all selected as delegates gave Implied consent, but several of them in addition made most specific personal pledges and engagements to exert themselves in good faith throughout to secure the nomination of General Grant. They made this pledge as a means of ob-

tainimr their own appointments as ueiegaies. aim they did. as we both personally know, obtain their scats in the National Convention upon the faith of their personal statements of their earnestness and fidelity, l'he obligation thus assumed we understood to involve the integrity as much as tbe obligation of one who receives the proxy of a stockholder in t corporation upon a pitxije ana npiimUp to vote as his orincinal would vote. Whether Mr. Roberton waa or was not himself bound not only by honor and im plication, but by expressly giving his word, becomes quite immaterial in view of the claim made for him and it is insisted that he "organized the bolt," or as it has been sometimes stated, "he was the leader of the bolt" That is to say that he iuvited, persuaded and in duced oihers whom he knew had given their word, and had obtained their seats by doing so, to violate their word and betray not only tne neEublicans assembled in tbe State Convention, ut the Republicans of their Districts as well.who had trusted on their honor. Whoever counsels and procures another to do a dishonest or dishonorable act must share with that other the guilt, and should share also, the odium justly attaching to it. We are, therefore, wholy unable (upon whatever ground we put it) to see the Justification ourselves that should become parties using public trusts which belong to the people to require such service or such modes. But the apnliantws ein r. loved to effect the results set ud new standards of responsibility, and invade, as we believe, the truths and principles on which separate and co-ordinate branches of the Government stand. A Senator has his own responsibility, lie is amenable to his state and to tbe party of which he Is a member. He is bound by his oath to "advise and consent" on his conscience and judgment before God, whatever or whoever else may constrain him. He is to be exempt from execu tive menace or disfavor on one hand, and executive inducement on the other. A long standing order of the House of Commons has been the declaration that a member shall sutler expulsion who even reports the wishes of the executive head of the oovernment to influence the votes of members. The British Constitution is not more jealous than ours in this regard. To give advice, and honest, independent advice, as to the appointment proposed, is as much the right and duty of the Senator as it is the right and duty oi tne President to propose. He has advice one way or the other. It is more an act of disrespect or treason to tbe nominating power than a verdict of Jurors or a decision of a Jndge. The idea that the Senate is simply to find out what is wanted and then do it we can not believe is safe or admissable. ana thus far no party has dared or descended to set up such a test of party fidelity or allegiance. In this instance such promiuence has been given to the subject, and such distrust been expressed of the correctness of our position, that we thirk it right and dutiful to submit the matter to the power to which alone we are bound and ever ready to bow. The Legislature Is in session. It is Republican in majority, and New York abounds in sons quite as able as ourselves to bear her messr.ge and commission in the Senate of the I'nited States with a profound sense of the obligation we owe; with devotion to the Republican party and its cteed, "Liberty and riuht:'' with reverent attachment to the great State whose honor and interests are due to us. we hold it respectful and if it be wrong, make room for those who may correct all records we have made and Interpret aright all duties we have mlsconscrved. We therefore inclose our resignation but hold fast to the privilege, as citi zens and Republicans, to stand for the constitu tional rights oi an meu and oi ail representatives, wnetner oi tne sites. tne nation, or tne people. We have the honor to be, very restecttully. your obedient servants, Roscob Conkling, THHS. C. PLATT. To His KxceUency Governor Cornell. Albany, N. l . OPINIONS. The Treis and Prominent Feople of the Country on the Resignations. New York, May 10. The Post comments as follows on the resignations of Piatt and Conkling: They have resigned In a. pet because they haven't been allowed to have their own way. The act is contemptible in its childishness. If their object is to revenge themselves upon the Prest dent and the Republican party, not only is the proceeding undignified and unmanly, but it is not clear how it can be effectual. It they are seeking the indorsement of their conduct by means of re-election, the experiment is a dangerous one to make with a Legislature that a little while ago unanimously approved the nomination of Roberbion. Perhaps, alter all, tne simplest explanation is tbe true one. Perhaps Conkling and Piatt have concluded that if the Senate is anything more than an instrument lor the distribution of patronage, their occupa tion is gone. They can do the State no further service. If this shall turn out to be the truth, the grateful people will treat them magnanimously. and will even spare obvious comment that noth ing in their political life has become them like their leaving it. HIGHLY 8KK8ATI03AL. The Sun remarks: "The resignation of the two New Y'ork Sena tors is a highly sensational proceeding. The oniy argument that can be presented to justify such manifestation is that as the Reuuhlican administration and Republican majority of tne senate nave resolved to appolut to that office iu this State, which controls the opinions and votes oi tne greatest number ot meu, a determined and uncompromising antagonist of Conk ling and his followers, and an antagonist who is at tne same time tne most eunning, most pertina cious of politicians, and as this seems to involve the policy of usparlng hostility toward the two Senators, it becomes proper for them to return their trusts into the hands of the Legislature in order that it may let her adopt and com mend this policy, or, ou the other hand, may it condemn the policy, and set the seal of Its appropriation upon the two Sen ators by re-electing them once more to the offices which they have now resigned. It is auoveles well as a very far-reaching complication which Mr. Conkling has now added to the previous dim culties of the Republican situation, and all Intel ligent citizens will await with unaffected interest to see how it ends. But if Conkling should be beaten in tbe Legislature as he has been in the Senate, will such a disaster crush him or will it make him a greater man than ever? Events will answer. FROM COSKXISu'e nOME. Utica, X. Y., May 1C The Herald will eay the wording of Senator Conkling's letter proves me resignation is a display of spite because the President refusv to surrender to their contract the functijbs of his oflice, The act degrades the office -of Senator to the level of a mere broker in patronage. The resignations are made with the expectation that the aspiring legislature will immedi ately re-elect both Senators. If this should occur they will go back without having added a particle ot moral strenglh. The Lecislature was elected on a different issue. and if Conkling thinks lie possesses the ora torical legerdemain to coax a vindication out of such an election lie underestimates the common sense of the -country. From any point of view it is the act of a man who has lost Jus head, or at least has devised a dramatic episode in order to hide the gnawing of hiscomplete and utter rout. THE CHICAGO TLME8. Cwicago, May lCj-Upon the political senEation of the day the Tunes says: Conkling ha asserted his primaev. has notified tbe country he considers hiinaelf länrerand nniii. Ically aaore imjortaut than the President. And on the declaration of himself has rone to. tho country, taking with him his assistant, Mr. Piatt. nue nei aoiHiiess anucpates a re-election, this nLan it not a fnivmna elusion, and may easily miscarry. He may. however, realize that he la nnliticii ruined, and, being conscious there la nothing more to lose, may aeek to involve the PrnMont and the Administration in his own ruin. What ever the motive, hia resienaticn is a mnfrair,n of weakness and defeat, and of Garfield's strength and success. The paera all abound in Interviews with men of recornlzed standing who for the most part, believe the resignations were uncalled for. Garfield la generally annLafned. a1tiAnrt, v lnt'i many ad ml rem find Justification for him aaa sTOJpam WIL4 üu coup, TU mocrata awt

fr-atified becanse they generally regard it asbe-

t iienlng a rift in tbe party. DECIDEDLY FOR CONKUNO. New York, May 18. The following is from the Herald: "Nothing could be more unwise tha a to consider the situation in an angry spirit which has marked the most of the advh-e given to the President by his counsellors and friends. It Is eay to flatter the new ITesident, fresh la office, with C0.000 offices In his Rift. Flattery baa never gone beyond the point of what baa been visited upon President Garfield. Mr. Garfield has been treated as though he was worshiped as a sovereign whoee will was law, and to deny whose mandate was as much of a crime as it would be for an Ottoman to challenge the divine right of the Sultan. The journalists who argued in favor of the independence of a Seuator whengchun and Sumner opposed President Grant, now exhaust their invectives upon Con kling when he reseuts an insult. Conk ling has rights which even the President Is bound to respect. He is older and a better soldier in the ranks of the Republican party than the President. He Is a loyal Republican. His career is distinguished bv eloquence, sincerity, purity, a chivalric sense of honor, and unswerving devotion to the prin ciples of the party. To him, more than to any other political leader, does Mr. Garfield owe his election. The truth is that from the beginning Garfield has committed himself Irrevocably to Blaine and has dealings with Conkling, IPlatt and their followers, has followed the policy of duplicity. It is a severe judgment to pass upon one holding the august tosition of the President of the I'nited States, and we write it with paia; but it is the truth, and the best friends of Mr. Gar field are those who tell him the truth. He stands in a critical position full of menance to his iarty, his Administration and himself. He can not excuse. He can not explain his Administration thus far except upon the theorv of absolute surrender to Blaine. A surrender as complete in the end. and sure tobe as fatal as that of Paust to Mephistophele. The doeradine alliance which Blaine ha offered him will end in a bottomless pit for himself and his narfv. If Garfield proposes to carry on the policy of ostracism and revenge, he must make up his mind to ruin the Administration, the ruiu of his own career and of the Republican party. If he has tbe courage of Jackson, the wisdom of Lin coin, the veracity of Grant, he may even now rescue himself. To do this. howevr. he must re solve uoon a nolicv as bold and sincere as that of our high-spirited Senators. A BLOW AT OARFIELr. St. Lous, May 16. The Globe-Democrat will sav: Mr. Conkling has done what every honorable man would do in similar circumstances. Finding a auarrel forced noon him by an Administration which he did his best to elect, and finding that administration overmatching him by the mercenary artillery or Federal patronage, he has surrendered, not to Mr Garfield and his mercenaries, but to the representative body of the people from whom he holds bis com mission. He says he ceases to be a Senator, but in reality what he asks is that the Legislature of New Y'ork shall say whether tbe President of the United States who, in this case, happens to be the tainted product of a fifteen minutes' craze in the Chicago Convention, will have the right to uso his patronage to humble and humiliate a Senator of the United States who has never vet failed to receive the cordial indorsement of his oeonle and his power. Mr. Garfield came into power after a campaign In which a large part of tne oratory on tne Kepuuiiean siue aa devoted to proving a negative as to 5. aud it was not ouly expected but agreed that all Uio Cifferent elements ot tne party w oe recon ciled, especially as to Mr. Conkling. . It was stipulated that a policy oi recog nition should be substituted for the policy of insult to which be had been subjected by the previous quadrennial accident, but it re mained for Mr. Garfield to give us what tho Ger man philosophers call "the grand disillusion." GENERAL. Conkling- Confident of the Re-Elertlon of Himself and Piatt A War Whoop Given. Washisutos, D. C , May 1G.The resignations of Conkling and Piatt are all the talk evkrywhere to-night. Senator Conkling declines to talk with reporters, saying he had expressed himself fully in his letter to the Governor of New York, but the trusted friends of Conkling called on him at his rooms this afternoon, and he talked freely to them. He was seveTT'lii his strictures of the Administration, and denounced Robertson as a traitor to his party. Ha went over all of Robertson's conduct in connection with the Chicago Convention, and said ne would never sup port a man who had bolted and lought against Iiis party organization as Robertson did theh Conkliog expressed to his friends entire confidence of the re-election of both Piatt and himself by the New York lyCRislature to-morrow week, the time when, under the Con stitution, the election can take place, Conkling produced the best members of the Legislature and a classification of the politics show that his re-election is certain, and so is Piatt 8, and said lie would not go nearer Albany than New York City. He declared his purpose to MAKE WAY . on the Administration from the date of his recollection. He expressed a belief that the Senate will remain in session until he comes back. A friend remarked that the Senate would adjourn this week, Conkling said he thought he he had, that the Democrats were now in the majority, and would be shrewd enough to continue tbe session to give him a chance to open his aggressive war against thePresi,1 A. 1 1' 11 ' , 1 . 1 ? uent. aiding up aim uown toe room, conkling spoke 01 tne .president as another Haves, and said the Kepublican party was disgusted with this sort of a President; that the conduct of Garfield in his treachery towards the Republicans would make the party solid for a Stalwart like Grant, and would result in the next Presidential Convention in nominating Grant or some man like him, as Conkling says he can always be found when wanted by the Republican party. , A ig Failure. Chicago, May 14. Six judgments by confession were entered to-day in the Circuit Court against Lawrence it Martin, wholesale and retail liquor dealers. 111 Madison street, the total amount being $57,C55, in favor of A. S. Trude, a lawyer of this city; Charles S. Bussy, New Orleans, and Michael J. Blessing, turfman Memphis. These judgments represent but a small part of the indebtedness, which the firm say is between $200,000 and 300. 000. Their assets consist in Iatents on a medicine compound "Tolu lock and Rve," $5,000; stocks of whisky, $40,000 to $.r)0,000, and book accounts and fixtures of -$T0,0O0. Several banks are their creditors for considerable amounts, but are secured by warehouse certificates. They also owe small sums in New York. Louisville, and other cities. The firm started in 1877 with $40,000 to $30,000 capital, which they claim to have sunk. They have done a large business, amounting last year to nearly half a million dollars. The chief causes of the failure were losses incurred while they were running the Jockey Club Track, and the sinkingof nearly $,SO,000 in their New York branch, which has been a drag from the beginning. Paralysis and Death. Valparaiso, Ind., May 16. Yesterday the com munity was shocked to hear of the sudden dcat of Rev. N. L. Brakeman, the M. E. Pastor at this place. He had been feeble for over a year, the result of a stroke of paralysis. For the last part of last week the reverend gentleman had been feeling better than for the past year. Tbe evening before his death he had been at an oratorical contest at the Normal Sunday he rose as usual and waa preparing for Church, when he fell in a stroke of paralysis and died within an hour. Mr. Brakeman was about seventy years of age at the time of his death. He waa chaplain In an Indiana Regiment during the Civil War. lie leaves a daughter, a young lady. Great sorrow is felt by all, tor he waa reapectAd by 3 aad kaewa to bo an earnest Chrtrtiaa join.

DORSET'S BOINGS.

Conclusive Evidence That lie YVas One of the Manipulators of tha Star Houte Swindles. Portland, Ore., May 10. Dispatches from Denver, Col., published yesterday, give information that legal proceedings had been commenced there aeainst Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, now secretary of the National Republican Committee, for services ren dered to obtain an increase of the mail service and get additional pay therefor on the Star Itontes in Orejron. l'he announcement attracted rauch attention here, more so from the fact that it was stated that the papers on which the suit had been instituted at Denver had been received at Denver from a wellknown attorney at Portland, and that the claimant was a well-known politician here on Oregonian street. The history of it fully identified ex-benator Horsey with the Mar Route robbery. The claimant in the suit is Krank D. Wilcox, who, though formerly connected with politics in Arkansas, has not appeared prominently in politics here. He went to Arkansas from Illinois in ins, and became acquainted with S. W. Dorsey there. He was Secretary of the State Republican Committee of Arkansas, though he never held oflice, and bore a prominent part in the election of Dorsey to the Senate. Desiring to get out of politics.he left Arkansas and came to Orecon in 1877. When Dorsey legan to operate in Star Routes in Oregon, he remembered that Wilcox had come to this State, and as his relations with him had been of the most intimate kind, he fixed uj on Wilcox as the man to help him work them up to higher figures on the mail routes in which he had become interested. Dorsey first telegraphed to parties in Portland to learn if Wilcox was there. Having ascertained that he was, he wrote him, stating what service he wanted performed, and directing him to go to Eugene City, giving instructions at the same time how to get up petitions, nave tnem signed and make sub-contracts for carrying the mails. The petitions were to ue lor warded to Washington to be used in getting service and pay increased, x or the service required Wilcox was to receive $ö a day and exienses. lietore starting ior.ugtne i.uy he had the following telegram: ' WA8HISGT0X. D. C. April 2C, 1879. F. R. Wilcox : All my other letters written to Eugene city. Have telegraphed money. Inquire at telegraph oflice. Go immediately. .W.Doksey. The money being received for excuses, Wilcox went to Eugene City, where he re ceived Dorsey's other letters with memoranda'directing him how to proceed. The route Dorsey first wished to orerate on was out from Eugene City across the Cascade Mountains to Mitchell, in Juistern Uretron, by way of Prine7ale. The route is almost wholly unnecessary, as it pauses ttirougu nearly an uninhabited country, and the small centers of population on the cast of the Cascade Range are supplied by other routes. Dorsev drew up in his own hand and forwarded to Wilcox the following form of petition, on which the signatures were to be obtained, which was iorwaroea 10 the Postmaster General: "We, the undersigned citizens of Bridge Creek, Oregon, beg to earnestly recommend to your favorable consideration an Increase of the mail service between Eugene City and this place to a daily line, and ask that the speed be greatly increased. This route supplies a large and rapidly increasing population, and is the sole moans of conveying intelligence to a great portion of Southern Oregon. We believe that public interest will be greatly subserved by an early increase of this service, and we earnestly recommend ib ' To this Dorsey added the following words of instruction to ilcox: "Of course you want the wording as well as the hand writing of each person to be as different as possible." Dorsey next proceeded to instruct Wilcox how to sub-let a route, as the following tele gram will show: Washington, D. C, April 23, 1879. F. R, Wilcox, Eugene City: Make contract for the Bridge Creek Route for snecd of four-and-a-half miles an hour, three trips a week. No sub-contract to be filed, but payment to be guaranteed by me personally. Slake the same contract on the Looking Glass Route. S. w. Dorsey The following was the next telegram re ceived by Mr. Wilcox: Washibgton, D. C, April 28, 1879. F. TL Wilcox : Make no compromise with the sub-contractors. It must be absolutely a new contract with the amount specially stated. Telegraph fully upon closing the contract. h. W. Dorsev. Fearing that Wilcox would not fully un derstand, Dorsey, at a late hour on the same day, telegraphed as follows: Washington, D. C, April 28, 1879. F. R. Wilcox: The new contract becomes necessary because the old firm has been dissolved, and business passes into new bands. Must have new contract or no pay. The contract on the Bridge Creek Route for three, six and seven times, on schedule of four miles an hour; also the same on the Looking-Glass Route. Telegraph me fully before closing any contract Deal with responsible men. S.W. Dorsey. There the old trick is manifest. The old firm is dissolved. That is, the straw bidder was pushed out of the way and the Ring was now making the next move. Here is the next telegram: Washington, D. C, May 3, 1ST9. F. R. Wilcox: I have no interest in the Star Routes except the Bridge Creek and Looking Glass. Contract on the Bridge Creek for one, three, six and seven times a week on a schedule of fifty hours, on prices named iu my letter of the ICth. The Department demands four miles an hour speed, and you must contract covering that speed or more. I)on't go above the following: Three times, S,000; six times, fl5,000; seven times, 116,500. Telegraph fully before you close contracts. 8. W. Dorsey. The following is the last telegram sent to Wilcox at Eugene City: Washington, May 3, 1879. F. R. Wilcox: I presume you understand you mnst make contracts before you try to get up the papers for increase. v S. W. Dorsey. As a result of these operations by Dorsey in Oregon mail contracts, he got the compensation for carrying the routes from Eugene City to Bridge Creek increased from $2,4GS to $21,4G0. The contract stands in the Department as received from Eugene Citv to Mitchell, and is in the name of J. M. Peek, brother-in-law of S. W. Dorsey. The LookingGlass Route, referred to so frequently in the above dispatches was "expedited under Dorsey's, management from $1,800 to $13,775 a year. 'The next question was to get the route in Washington Territory expedited. -This was the route from Wallula to Pleasant Grove, on the Upper Yakemer. Under direction from Dorsey, VViioox went to Wallula on t an errand similar to that which he had performed at Eugene City, where Dorsey telegraphed him: Washington, June 10, 1879. To F. R. Wilcox, Wallula: nave you done anything with Wallula and Pleasant Grove Routes? Answer. I To this Wilcox returned the following: Walli'La, W. T., June 10, 1879. To Ho. 8. W. Dorsey. No. 1,121 1 street, Washington, D.C.: nave been over the route from Wallula to Pleasant Grove. Y'our figures are Impossible to meet. Solid bid $2,500 for two trips; 6,000 for three trips; (11,000 for six trips; $12,500 for seven trips; 112,500 for seven trips, what shall I do? F. R. Wilcox. To this the following answer was returned: Washington, D. C, June 11, 1879. F. R. Wilcox: You mar give 91,800 on trip. 95,000 three trips, 98,400 six trips; $',000 seven trips. 8. W. DOBSEY. Wilcox replied on the same day: Your figures are impassible. Mine yesterday

t lowest. I ran i et the t ontract closed at

fll.000 for six trips. Though Dorsey telegraphed Wilcox that he was interested only in the Bridce Creek and Looking Glass Route in Oregon, the statement was prolxably to be understood only as a notice to Wilcox that these w ere the only routes that he (Wilcox) was to work upon, for the greatest swindle of all is in the route from Dallas to Raker City via Carson City, which was. however, under the man ipulations of the ring. increa.eu to six times, a week, vhi:h was wholly unnecessary, and the iav was raised from $S.2SS to $72.520. J. W." Peck also has another expedited route, viz.: From Canon City to Camp McDermitt, most of the way through the country without population, and incapable of sustaining any. This route was expedited from SiivSH to 21..00. J. W. Dorsey, brother of S. W. Dorsey, has a contract on a route from Dallas to Ike View, in Southprn Oregon, which route also was expedited from $3,S8 to $J0,ÖOO. It is probable therefore that Wilcox had t hanre of only a small part of the business of the Dorsey ring in Oregon. The "Oreganian" of to-morrow will say of the developments in the Star Route frauds: Senator Dorsey will hardly ask the Postmaster General now to write a letter exonerating him. George A. Steele, who has been nominated for the Post mastership of Portland, was s-pecial Agent of the IVwtoflie Itepartiuent forOrej;on. Washington and Idaho at the time when the Star Service was so largely expedited and the pay on many routes so immensely and fraud ;ilently increased. He knew all a Unit these transactions as he bad bis attention cilled to them and especially to the route from Dallas to Baker City via Carson City, which route was expedited from f.s.2sn to $72,5-'b. It would be penineul to learn what was the nature of his repoits to the Department on these routes a'td what recommendations be made. Did he help the contractors to workup these routes and get their ei onnous increase of pay, or did he expose its iniquities to the Department? Just now, since he exiecta to be Postmaster of Portlaud, these are pertinent inquiries. We venture the opinion, and that without special hazard, that as a post official be threw no obstacles in the way of expediting contractors. The suit begun at Denver was for the reason plaintiff was able to get service on Dorsey there, Wilcox is still in Oregon. The attorney who sent the claim from PorUand to Denver to be sued is J.N. Woodward, formerly County Jndge of this (Multnamay) County. The oniriiicl aocuments printed above are here in custouj of the agent of tne Associated Press. TIIE WHITES Ml'VT GO. , Small Army Organized to Compel Them to ttetire. New Orleans, May 14. The Democrat's Little Rock special 6ajs: "Governor Overton, of the Chickasaw Nation, has gathered together au army of :I00 men, and has issued au order to the effect that Texas cuttle raisers and white men gener ally, must leave th e country before June l.or force will be used. A similar situation prevails In the Choctaw Nation. "Governor McCurtiu has instructed the Sheriffs to Immediately organize and arm militia com panics to assist in driving out tbe whites. Tne trouble in the Chickasaw Nation is said to have grown out of the icfusal of Texas to pay more than twelve and one-half cents per head for grazing cattle therein, Governor Overton de mauding ttventv-hve cent ier head. In the Choctaw Nation the trouble is chiefiv in recard to the law allowing while men to live in that country, the Indians holding that nearly all the white population are there without proper autnonty. C 'Uipnrtive Statement ol Gold Coinage Washington, May 15. The Director of the Mint estimates the total gold circulation of the United States, including bullioi in the Treasury amounted, at the commence ment OL the current month to 20,000, ooo, of which alKnt $2W.)00,00 waa held a? Treasury aim National bank reserves, and t2öt,0U0,0o0 wa.t iu actual circulation. There has been a total win of roJd coin and bul lion to "the country since July 1, 1875. o $234,000,0 iO, of which $.15.000,000 was to ti e Treasury, $5!i, 000,000 to the banks, and $140000,000 to the active circulation. Ihetota amount of gold in the country makes a fair showing, compared with the princna countries of Europe being exceeded by two only. J lie amount estimated tobe England in 18S0, was !&'J,000,00, of whicl f4,ouo.ooo was in actual circu la t ion; and France, with $92' 000,000 of gold lias a- circulation of about $.SlG,0u0,OO0. The larger propor tion of gold in active circulation in tlic lat ter two countries the Director attributes in part to the fact their coinage consists almost exclusively of denominations ot less value than $-5. The largest English gold coin is the sovereign, equivalent to S4,b0Jj of our money; while in Prance, out of the tola coinage of the last seventy-seven years of $1,743,288,000 gold, nearly M per cent, was in pieces of less than $5. In the United States the bulk of gold coinage has heretofore been in double eagles, hrom 185 to 1880 nearlv $920,000,000 were struck in that coin, $14,000.000 eagles, $10,000,00) in half-eagles and $42,000, 000 in smaller denominations. The absorption of $K0.0O0,O0O of gold coin to the active circulation of the country since July I, 19, tie believes, is owing to a con siderable extent to the increased coma since that time of denominations less than the double eag.e. The coinage of the latter during the fiscal y ar of 18M) and up to April last amounted to only 52,000,000, while $47.000,000 was struck in eagles an $40,000,000 in hal f-eagles, and during the same time $55, C00, 000 of these coins had been paid out by the Treasury and had been retained in active circulation. Dorsey Compromises, But Does Not Destroy the Proof. Chicago. May 14. The Tribune to-morrow publishes the followine: "Immediately after the expose of Dorsey's complicity in the Star Route Ring, as telegraphed over the country, attempts were begun to quash the suit which had bought out the letters and obtain possession of the documents. Y'esterday it wss successful. The letters were surrendered and Dorsey paid the money to Wilcox for which the suit had been brought. This money, as known, is for Wilcox's work iu securing petitions for expediiinit routes and subletting to smaller contractors: The same day on which the papers were surrendered Postmaster James telegraphed Denver for either the letters or certified copies or photographs of them. The telegram came after the papers had been surrendered, and the regis ers probably concluded thev were safe, but are mistaken. There are certified copies in existence, and they will be used In connection with tbe documents in die possession of the Associated Press Agent at Portland, Ore. Killed by Lightning. Special to the Sentinel: Evansville, Ind., May 14 A Courier special from Mt. Vernon, says John Vickers was struck by lightning while plowing on his farm, near that place. He leaves a wife and two children. John Ashby, a prominent bookkeeper, was arrested to-day for breaking into his employer's safe. He got 500. Conkling Virtually Surrenders. Wash:ngton, D. C, May II. Senator Conkling entered the Republican caucus yesterday rather late, and made a short but sharp speech. He said the caucus had been called without consultation with him. and was an attempt to defeat him bv indirect methods. He declare ! that Robertson's confirmation would disrupt and defeat the Republican party in New Y'ork, but said, as the Republican Senators were rushing on so eagerly to that fate, he waahed his hands of the whole affair. lea Hoases Destroyed by Lightning'. Special to the Sentinel : La forte, Ind., May 14. During the storm this afternoon ten of John Hill & Co.'s largest houses on Pine Lake, containing 40,000 tons of ice, were Strock by lightnh-g and destroyed. The loss will exceed föO.OOQ. Mr nn could not give the ungual f ineuraöce, '

GETTING AT THE BOTTOM.

The Döing of the Mar Route windier Official Papers Missing;. XKwYoRK,Mayl5. The Times this morning rints a long stcry from Washington, a'wat the Star Routes. It says: Postmaster General James ha belVe li m no easy task, but he lias undertaken tne Wj.-n o: overthrowing the "Star Route Rings," an 1 ex iting their villainy a leterminauon n- ui pursue to the end. P.y his fi le stands Ait uey General MeYeagh, thorouathlv aroused by "he enormity of the transactions under invest:aC':i. and determined PJ punish the guilty uliecver they may be lound. incse geMiemaa are vipiKirted bv instructions of the President, w.io deeply interested i.i their labors, aud wli desires "that the ulcer shall le cu; to the bottom with a hrm baud. Te evidence, which is accumulating in the hand, of Mr. James subordinates, in submitted iie Attornev Geneial. who already tiossesses .-..me vcrv Interesting material ionise in the ' ;.-;.. The evidence is preserved for use hereafter. The Postmaster ucneral nas aiseovereJ. s::io takimr charge of the Department, that many li able pajer8 which ought tobe ou hie in the orfie of the Second .sJsttnt Postmss'.er Ge:it:al are missing. Among those hn h can not be found are reports made by some of the siteial Agents iu relation to some of the routes held by the r:gs and manipulated for their terefit. Many of the reports severely criticised the routes, ih-f increased aud expedited service upon theta and throw much light upon the ring s method- la most cases the Amerns retained copies of t'.- reports, and some oi these copies have recent. y '.vi-a secured bv the 1 apartment. Brady completely controlled his divio:i. .No one can tell now many interesting documents here were regarded as unnecessary ior the h. .-. It is believed the rings are relying u;. i ::.e expected indignation of the iople who have bevn served or partly served by their routes. 1 hey hope this indignation will le manifested wherever the Service may be reduced or cut ort. aal manifested slrongty, to prodint seiiuoK-ut ia their fuvo-. They are indications. Some iatractors arc hard at work trying to prejudii-.' ;'ae Utopie in their vicinity against the PotmAs:er ieueral anil his undertaking?.. The line-; mjv discover the inhabitants oi the Irontie, h le thev desire mail facilities, are unwiinnz ve sw indled or aid other persons iu robbing tii people's common Treasurj. The rings aie -:i-doubtedly exjeciing that an exposure ot ;.ieir transactions win be an old ami aim- st ioj- .-.ii story w hen the next session of Congress is je.-l. In this they are uiistaten. ic iraiPU jw were committed in the Posiai service n-.iier Brady were not cm lined to the overland -.la-ie routes, frontier and sparsely settled loc' According to the actual report ol the Sec-üd Assistant Postmaster (ieneral, there were on November 10. IknO, in the United State", 'i.'c. ' :ar" Routes, on which service was performed by :uea and horses or mules. I he annual cost o: .:: e routes was 97.321.4'.!'. There were also 131 steamboat route, the cost of which was Sxt.Zil. M:iy of there steamboat routes were absolutely worthless. A large part of the money paid on; nere was thrown away to benefit the contractor :id those with whoni the contrac.ors are sujp.-e 1 ta have divided. since the beginning of the new ii-aia-istration. a Sjieclai Commissioner has Uen sent to the South for the purposo ... inspecting the Steamboat Service there and tia.;g reports in relation to it. In accordance with :ai. the Committees rejHirt the service has been i .: off ou several routes, but there were already i:i he possession of he lepartment reiorts coni-ern;ng this Si-nice. These reports were made y ... K. Reeside. Special Agent, and certified cop t-s of them were furnished to the Corgressiotm. .tumittee. Reeside was the exjert employed iu;iug the investigation made m the spring of 7 by t.ie Houe Committee on Postortice and Post ll.'ils. He had been a contractor and thoroughly u l lerstood the ways of contractors. His reports ci -rated great anxiety among the steamboat eon tra tors, and they came to Washington. His first re);i was made on October IS, 177. Seven day '.arer Senator Dorsey wrote the Postmaster Genert'.. denying Reeideand his recommendation,. i belicve," he wrote, "it is "the duty of the Do;.-t-mcnt to discontinue Reeside instead of them til routes alluded to." John L. Adams had Inf ' tried liorsey by letter that Reeside was a dead ecu.: a:id blackmailer, and cn November is. l?77. lMtey wiote a long person 1 let er to Judge Key. ta::i denouncing iue-ide, saying he ha 1 a well va". -lthhed reputation as a proüs,ional b!ackmi-i-r. Oa the fame day Dcry directed a U-xw: to Brndv. requesting Reeide be forthwith r nl'.ed from'Memnhis. If any further investigation of the steamboat mail service in the xomhweH. especially in Arkansas, is desired, Gemr d W. P. Edgerton, who is thoroughly familiar witii the country and people, or Colonel F. B. Sehau-rtie. Chief Special Agent for the Southwest, will r- directed io make an examination, as both an-me of integrity and character, and familiar w:'.h he subject they are called upon to investigate. The petition mill vas set at work and many letiers were written to countcruet Heeside's ciation. Dorsey sent in many of these tuitions and wrote separate letter. fr each route. He most earnestly .:r-;e9 the continuance of route S'.'.OÜö. which La- recently been cut ott' for cause. Milh:ne, i Arkansas, who had signed some fifty nr.;val bonds in blank for the Dorsey combination as surety, made an elaborate defense of the Miltes agatiist Reeside. The latter was appointed Judge Key. September 1, 1877, and was t-.-iv-poiuted one month later, his commist;.:i lowed to expire Decern ber 31. 177, althouch tr.e commLsion ot 11 other special agents wre renewed. From the letter which ihe tln ;i sidressed Judge Key, it appears the 2a:ter told him his reports were too zealous. Brady nad to! 1 aim he had no objection to his rerppointmeut. and Reesidi asked why he had been left o'U. Ia reply. Judge Key said Rect-ide's wori was finished, and therefore there was no more ivork for hiin. Bradv, he said, had told him he tntde-1 Reeside no longer. The Postmaster General adds this sentence, which is amusing now: "1 he duty of the Department now demands of it to hinbaa i its resources, and n.t to exlia ist then with salaries which may be diMeued with." In the foregoing mur-Uive Ree: Je appears as a faithful officer. Reside, duri: z and after the investigation, saw the strength ot li:a rings and the weakneM of Congress. Itmay' remembered that Colonel McKiobeu once sta. test au investigation against the contractors and Theu became the contractors' agent at a large salary. Reeside found, it is said, that the cot-trs' tort were his friends. The "too zealous"' S--ec:ai Agent again became a contractor, and he ii a contractor to-day. The correspondent gives from the tec .rd ,ia official and unofficial story of how Rees;, I. v.-aa given arbitrarily tome Star Routes, and relates tho coiiLection of ex Congressman J. H. sypaer with the Ixmisiana Star Route operation, and closes w ith au official history of two roti'v.-.-, ::t Texas upon which Joseph Uiackman and josjpa Funk offered bids. lilackinau and Funk wre recently arrested in Philadelphia for r:-. mg been straw bidders on Route St.W, from Fort Elliott to Wichita Pal'.. 7?x. The contract was awarded to lilackman. w ho address is given in the books as "Caie of (.on. II Giddings, Wttshit gton, D. C." Gidduigs was c.unected with Colonel McKidder. and the latter agent for the Gilmer & Salisbury Combiimtiou. lilackman failed to fulfill the contract, and thereupon the Department took up the list of biddersNine of the bidders declined to take the work at the prices set agaiust their names. J. Ii. Price offered to do the work on bis for $2,9G1. i.eo. H. Giddings stepped in and offered to take th rout t for II less, or $'2,9o3, and it was given him. Ia November. lsSO, the contract was transferred to E. W. Parker, of the Parker Combination. On Route 31,5iri. from Fort Griflin to Fort Klhot :. there was a long list of bidders. For this route Funk bid 81.6S0 and the contracts were a wanted him. This address was like that of B'.acMuaa: "Care George II. Giddings, Washington, I). C' Funk failed, aud the bidder above him r.fused to stand by his oiler. I. id lings then appeared and offered to take the route for f 2. -am!, or I below the next lid. After Oidding got the Funk route pay was increased for two additional trips I-er week, ordered May 16, lv0. About eve months after his contract term began, and .two was ordered to his pay. The route was iitr.ied over to E. W. Parker at full price. Tnlmage on Monopoly. Niw York, May 1(3 Dr. Tal mage yesterday morning discussed the future of the Nation. His text was Isaiah: "Thy uuul shall be married." The overshadowing curse of Americans to-day, he ays, is monopoly. He puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat, every sack of corn, every ton of coal, and there is not a man, woman or child in America but feels the touch of this moneyed despotism. I rejoice to hear that in twenty-four States anti-Monopoly Leagues have been formed. God speed them in the work of liberation. I hone this will be the chief issue of the next Presidential contest. Between now and then we have time to compel the political platforms to recognize it. This brazen face, ironfingered, vulture-hearted monopoly offers hi hand for acceptance to this Nation. Let the Kaple rise up vehemently to forbid tha na of hia marriage.