New-York tribune., 1873-02-28

panic in Wall-st. was averted by prompt settle
ments. superintendent MacgregOr has made pub
lac his annual report The West Side Association
favors the Beach and Gilbert Transit schemes. 80
Charges against the Dis:rct-AtOrney of Kings County
have been presented to the Governor - Gold, ll4i
1IIt, 1lH Thermometer, 80, $50, 300
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We shall probably have an extra session of
Congress after all. Three or four important
bills, to say nothing of the appropriations, are
vet pending. The Patterson case in the Senate
will block the way for some days at least We
may as well resign ourselves to what appears
To he an inevitable misfortune
Ii was thought worth while for the Presi-
dent TO issue, little time ago. an order for
bidding Federal officials to hold State, County,
or Municipal Offices But Mr.. Commissioner
Davenport sits at the desk of the Clerk of
the Assembly at Albany, conducting the
Charter. Is he a member of the Legislature; ;
aud isn't he a subject for discipline
Immediately upon the conclusion of the
Credit MObiher matter in Congress, THE
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with.
Boston has so lately suffered from one of
the great fires of the century that the news
OF another considerable disaster of that sort
caused some excitement, yesterday, in this
city The fire seems to have been confined to
a.. hloel- in, which IL bYala nuf but no loss
of life which is reported is sad feature of
the affair. II is quite possible that Boston, as
well as New York, needs more stringent regu-
latiops concerning fire-escapes.
Before the Legislature adjOurns, it should
do something to facilitate the course of the
law in capital cases. Two important bills re-
lating to this topic are already before that
body, one prepared by Recorder Hackett and
the other by Mr. Henry l.. Clinton. In a COM
muHication to TIE TRIBUNE herewith pub
Hshed, Mr. Clnten compares these projects of
law with an inferential conclusion in favor of
his own production.
Mr. POnerOy is emulating what is known as
the dramatic performances of New-YOrk
He has brought suit to recover the $1,000 paid
to York for (as POmeFOy alleges) conveyance
TO Page. The fact that the suit is brought in
Pages name is not material. The alleged
complaint against Simpson and others, for con-
spiracy, belongs to the same performance.
This is too cheap to merit remark. 1t is what
play-goers call gag" only the applause is
expected to come from the Senate Committee
of Investigation.
Mr.. StOckwell, the President Of the Pacific
Mail, came handsomely out of the Wall-st.
complications. We anticipate for him an
equally successful deliverance from to-day's
investigation at Washington. But, while there
Is no reason to suspect him of completely
in it, there is believed to be grave
reasons for suspectiAg that some of
the directors OF the Company were privy to
gross attempts at corruption i'll the procure
ment of last Winters subsidy. The story is
80 circumstantially told, and so widely be-
heyed. that Congress cannot afford to make
this investigation secret or superficial. 1t is
time to stop fooling and go to the bottom of
the business.
Nothing more clearly reveals the alarm
which the friends OF monopoly in the New
Jersey Legislature feel than the miserable
subterfuges they resOrted to, yesterday, TO
delay action on the Air Line bill. The Chair
man OF the Committee on Railroads and
Canals, Mr. Hopkins, absented himself from
the city, and when the Senate demanded the
bill the Secretary stated that the Chairman
had ordered it TO be locked up till his return.
The scene in the Senate when the bill was
demanded was disgraceful. 1t was
shallow device to gain time. The bill thus
ooAs over fiII Monday night when another at