New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-15


BEGUN after an exciting session = TIE Kings
County Liberals have decided not 10 abandon their
cauization. == Gold, Il33' 11ai, 11li Thermometer,
81, 90, 4s7.
A partial report has been made H. the
Mixed Commission on British aud American
claims. The claims of British subjects allowed
are seven only, and the amount is about
$4,000 in gold. The diSGllowed claims, it is
SAID were for the most part curious examples
OF assurance,
There was a disorderly attendance on the
proceedings of the Board Of Canvassers, yes
terday. Political partisanslip colored by more
or less gambling interest in the result seems
TO have been noisy and impudent. The re-
turns are yet incomplete, and some Of them
are Irregular and the Board have yet q labor
Of much responsibility if little reward, in hand.
An important decision was rendered yester-
clay by S,r. Justice Ingraham III one Of the
Ring suits. It Is tiat the right to bring suits
for money claimed to have been misapphed
and taken from the County Treasury belongs
to the Supervisors, not to the State. This de-
cision was not unexpected; it is not so dis
couragiug to the cause of justice as 1t might
have been under less favorable circumstances.
1t is gratifying to be told that the author
tiles at Washington have not agreed on the
successor to L. S. District-AttOney Davis.
The election has not been over long enough
10 have given such an important matter a fair
consideration. The report, however, is likely
90 disappoiat those local politicians who
claimed tAat they had this thing fixed" when
the nomination OF Judge Davis to the Supreme
Court was determined on in caucus.
A TRIBUNE correspondent, writing from
Boston, takes occasion to remind Chicago Of
the good-natured boast of the Westerncrs
that only the young giant Of the West
could brayely bear and triumphantly over
come a great misfortune. The point is well
taken Staid, substantial Boston has shown
so far as the lesser blow has required, all the
pluck and elasticity of Chicago. If the New
England capital declined aid from abroad, it
was because its fire did not come too near the
people who, in every city, need help in trouble.
State Controller Hopkins has issued an I'M
portant circular to Boards of Supervisors of
the various counties of the State. The Con-
troller informs the county authorities that the
Funding Act of 1872 being informally decided
unconstitutional, the additional State tax
must be levied and collected. The proposition
to authorize the funding of the debt was sub
mitted TO the people at the late election but,
whatever may be the majority III favor thereof,
the uncOnstitutOnality of such a decision by
the people is clearly established, and the vote
is of no effect. This opinion comedies with
that advanced by the The TRIBUNE, months
ago, and is held by the Court of Appeals
unanimously.
We published yesterday letter in favor of
the Railroad projects supported in Mexico by
Gen. ROsecrans, in which the plans which Mr..
Plumb is urging upon the Mexican Govern
ment we're somewhat severely criticised. We
give place this morning to a letter defending
the operations and the schemes of the cOnpa-
MES represented by Mr. Plumb We warned
our readers against accepting all that the
former letter said about the Plumb railways,
and they will do well to exercise the same
caution in relation to the condemnation
visited by the present writer upon the plans
OF Gen. ROsecrans But it is clear that the
stockholders interested in the companies which
Mr.. Plumb represents are among our most
substantial and honorable capitalists.
The intellectual tilt between the Very Rev.
Father HurEa nj IL