New-York tribune., 1873-12-12

|
iect will be resumed to-day. The discussion
/ furnishes much chaff but there is some grain
in il after all
| Co, James II. Howe, appointed to succeed
Judce Miller on the bench OF the United
States Court for the Eastern District
IF Wisconsin. is a cousin of Senator
T;mothy O. Howe of that State, who, by
,emarkable coincidence, recently received on
the same date letters from President Grant
and the room-clerk of the West End Hotel at
Long Branch, certifying to the fact OF Mr.
Matt Carpenters sobricty at the time he was
| turned away from the hotel. He was also
until quite recently the manager of the Chi
cago and North w estern Railroad, and, it has
been said, resigned the latter position in
expectation of the judicial appointment he has
now received. Some even of the Administra-
tons organs in Wisconsin are 80 unkind as to
connect these facts with the appointment.
The Administration seems so confident that
partisansllip has ceased, especially in the
agricultural regionS,n that it can try almost
any experiment on the good nature of the
farmers and respectable people.
The Workingmen's Mass Meeting last night
will add nothing to our permanent store of
social or economic knowledge. 1t is to be q
hard Winter many men and women are out
of employment; there will be much privation
and some actual misery. But the remedies
proposed last night for this state of things
were silly and nugatory beyond description
| The plan which met with most favor from the
managers of the meeting was one which has
been considered and thrown aside ages ago.
| They propose to submit all statutes TO pop
ular ratification, and to allow no man to hold
more than $3OO,O0O worth of property. This
plan has received sort of Endorsement from
no less a parsonage than Mr.. Wendell
| Phillips, but we have never seen any attempt
made to give reason for it. As to the limit
of accumulation fixed by these gentlemen, 1t
! is unexpectedly liberal. Mr.. Richardson began
to gradually resume upon less sum. But
after the leveling the labOrers would be no
better off. The richest man in the world
could not set up all the poor men at the
meeting last night in fourishing, in
dependent business. Their aspiration seemed to
be to have employment without employers,
| which is about as impossible for the most OF
us as to get into the world without ancestors.
One teamster seemed to feel this last night,
and made the best speech of the evening as
he left the meeting, This won't fill my truck"
! Our full and interesting letters and dis
patches from Cuba set forth the attitude of
affairs there and the reasonable prospect that
there will be no further opposition to the
execution of the Washington protocol. The
darkness in which the people of Havana have
been kept so long, in relation to the negotia-
tiOns between the United States and SPAN,
was Yesterday thoroughly dispelled by
proclamation of Gen. J0vellar, remarkable
among Spanish public documents for its
brevty and reserve. He announces without
any peripbrascs the orders for the surrender
of the Virginius and the survivors of her
crew and passengers. He states that a compli
auce with these orders is necessary; that re-
! flsal would result iii war with a great
power in which the Pcninsiiiars would not have
the aid of Spain. He does not attempt to
| soften. the news in the least, but treats the
! Spauiards in manlier fashion than they have
been used to from former Captain nGenerals.
Ii is most likely that this sensible and effect
i've proclamation has not been issued without
the concurrence of the leading men in the
Casino They have evidently recovered their
senses, and now see that resistance would be
mere madness and would end in their own
spoliation aud death. Their efforts will there
fore now be directed to restraining their own
followers of the baser sort, and this task will
require all their vast resources and iron diSci-,
pine.