New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-14

beng pr0Yldeu DeIOrenanu WIFI d SUN, mum
bered ballot. No Government, no Admins
tratien, can afford this shameful violation of
free suffrage, and the evidence In this case
does not depend on Mr. Casserly alone.
Mr.. Clarke of Texas, who has dishonesty
occupied O seat in the House OF Representa-
tives for many months, seems to have thought
il possible for him to stay the official ak or
secure soft place for his own fall. His fare
well speech, when the Committee of Elections
reported in favor of the contestant for the
seat, d. c.. Giddings, was iamentaDle al
tempt to be funny at the expense OF the LID
eral Reform Convention. The House dad an
honest and just thing in giving MIR. Glddings
the seat from which he has long and lnfa-
mously been excluded; now let the thick-and-
thin men see that the expelled Clarke is re-
warded for calling the Cincinnati Convention
"Dolly Vardenn Such wit and devotion
should be recognized.
Amnesty actually made some progress in the
House of Representatives, yesterday. The bill
reported from the Judiciary Committee, and
passed without division, was partial answer
to the loud and no longer mistakable demand
which the country has made for cessation OF
hostilities. 1t has too many exceptons-any
exceptions are too many-but it is more liberal
than any which the House has passed here
tofore. We shall have Universal Amnesty
before long, let us hope, but even this sign OF
peace is better than the old wretched quarrel
kept alive through generation. If gentlemen
who like to stand well with their constituents,
but who fear Amnesty, do not go over to the
Senate from the House to lobby against the
bill, we may secure this small favor before
Congress adjourns.
The curse of our legislation is its patchwork
of special devices and tricks to get around
special difficulties, or TO accomplish special
personal aims. Such we reckon the scheme
for transferring the appointment OF Commls-
sioner Of Jurors from the Judges to the Alder
men. Of course Mr.. Douglas Taylor Is the
objective point. We take leave to doubt
whether the removal of Mr.. Taylor from office
is matter of such pressing need as to war
rant change in the appointing power III the
case of his Office from men directly concerned
in the upright discharge of its duties to men
having no concern (beyond that of all cit
izens) therein. We have heard Of no public
ueUauu IOT anu oON Pi''A'y Va
harm and no good to come OF it.
The Legislature is preparing for an imme-
date adjournment. and is working up the
| odd lots of unfinished business on hand.
Among other things picked up in haste, the
| imperfect and complicated Registry law for
this city, which was sent to the Governor,
has been recalled, cObbled little, and sent
back again. Possibly it has been improved
in transit. 1t is much to be regretted that
motions preliminary to adding Mr.. Tilden to
the Impeachment Managers failed in the
| Assembly, yesterday. AS The TRIBUNE has
before urged, Mr.. Tilden's familiarity with
| this case his activity as leading Democrat
in the cause of Reform, and his known legal
ability, fit him so admirably for the manage
ment of the prosecution of the Judges that
there should have been no delay in giving him
that position at the first.
We have small respect for the plan of evad
| ing a verdict ON an official career by resigna
ton. Either Superintendent Miller has been
guilty of misconduct in the supervision of our
Insurance interests, or he has not. In the one
case he should have been removed in the
other vindicated i'm neither should he have
resigned before a decision. We know that
much may be said about prejudiced tribunals.
We have heard all that from CardOzo Mr.. Miller
certainly had the confidence of many of our
best Insurance men, for they have gone out of
their way to tell us so. He does not seem to
have had confidence in himself and his own
case for he seems to have gone out of his way
to tell the State so. The Senate has refused
to confirm the nomination of Smith NJ. Weed
of Clinton County as his successor. Chauncey
NJ. Depew of this city is warmly recommended
by Insurance men here, and 1T is reported that
his name is now before the Governor.
The Senate has passed the New-YOrk City
Deficiency bill, which provides for the pay
ment of certain salaried officers whose wages
are detained by the Controller because clum-
silly expressed law stands in the way of the
payment of their just dues. Senator O'Brien,
too, has been an obstacle to the passage of
the bill, which he denounced as job simply
because it provided for officials in the Office
of political rival. 1t will now go to the AS
sembly, where, doubtless, the same ignorance
concerning its merits, and perhaps the preu-
dice of other political foes Of the men for
whose payment it provides, may bar its
speedy passage. We desire to say to all who
are called upon to vote on the bill that it is a
proyison simply to remedy defect in the
law which prevents the Controller from pay
ing the clerks and messengers in the Sheri17s
Office the wages now overdue them several
months. We hope that as bare actOf justice
it will be passed without delay.
The various trades have for some time been
unsettled by rumOrs of impending strikes,