New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-29

legal profession. The most prominent ana
honorable men of the Bar united two years
ago 20 drive corrupt judges from the semen
now let them combine to throw the lobbyists
who disgrace the legal profession over inc
bar.
The Senate has voted to sustain the Presi-
dents veto of the Currency bill Wheh oho
measure passed the Senate, about three Weeks
ago. it received vote of 30 to Pa Yesterday
on the question of passing the Dil' INC
Presidents veto Notwithstanding, there were
"a yeas to 80 nays, the requisite two-thirds
vote not being obtained. This last result mas
been anticipated, and the bill finally sleeps.
The danger to the Stevens Apartment House
has evidently been exaggerated. In an inUer-
view with the assistant of the architect who
built the first part Of it, the responsibility for
the weak foundation was yesterday placed upon
the architects of the addition. They make
vigorous response this morning In separate
cards. The controversy, at any rate, SHOWS
already that there is less cause than was at
first to make any about
The Police Board rests from It's weary
labors Of reOrganizing itself and Is now de-
voting its greatest energies to devlSlng new
shields for the subordinate officers. In the
meantime the several COroners are busy IN
holding induests on pOlcemen's victims ana
the District Attorneys Office is taxed TO lndlct
and prosecute detectives and policemen Tor
outraces upon citizens. One Leahy was put
On trial Yesterday for numbering poor
Iohorer whom he had mistaken for culprit.
The Fifth Avenue Pavement bill passed the
Assembly last night, and is now before the
Senate. As it stands, the bill levies the cost
of the work on the city. instead OF on the
residents along the proposed line OF improve
ment. There are many opinions about the
merits of this scheme, one Assemblyman gong
so far as to say that any member who voted
for it at less price than $500 had been SWIM
died. Perhaps this statement can give us
some idea of the cost of votes in the Assem-
bly,.
President Grant is said by the Pennsyl-
| yania newspapers to be contemplating the
appointment of Don Cameron to the Secre-
taryship of the Treasury. The President
would do well to study the history OF Cabl-
net appointments little. The last time
Cameron sat in the Cabinet it was on the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Lincoln. How, when, and
WHY he went out it would be instructive for
the President to study before deciding to In
stall in the Treasury member of the same
| family that in the crisis of our National
struggle, made such wild work of it in the
| War Department.
There is something very touching and noble
! in the brief message sent by the late DR..
| Livingstone to his brother in Canada. 1t is a
| voice from the grave. The stout-hearted ex-
plorer was more intent on exposing and
bringing to an end the infamous slave trade
| of the interior than anything else. lie says
| that the exploration of the Nile sources was
only valuable to him as giving him an oppor-
tunity to speak to the world on the subject
nearest his heart. His letter also pays a
grateful tribute to the expedition sent him by
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, showing that he
keenly appreciated the timely succor.
Both claimants" in Arkansas have made
reduisitiOns on the President for aid to sup
press civil war in that State. Eacn expects
| in this way TO coax recognition from the
| National Government. Mr.. Baxter, however,
makes q curious error in his latest call for
troops. He says that he called on the Presl-
! dent for aid to suppress the instruction" as
| long ago as April 10; and he intimates that
! that requisitiOn did not reach the Executive.
| We cannot tell how many times Baxter tele-
graphed on the 10TH but on that day he did
| telegraph to the President that there was an
| instruction in Arkansas and that he, Baxter,
would put it down. All he wanted was to be
let alone. He promised to restore Legitimate
"authority" if the United States forces were
sent to their barracks. We do not see any
reason to expect that the President will depart
from the wise course which he has heretofore
pursued IN this matter The Federal troops
are there to preserve order, not to put either
Brooks or Baxter into the Governors office.
The trial of ex-City Treasurer Sprague pro-
ceeds slowly in Brooklyn, Mr.. Warren, the
public accountant, being, thus far, the only
witness who has been examined. The prose-
cution has directed its efforts to developing
the fact that the distractions from the Trea-
sury were very frequent and at times in large
sums. The defense, in cross-examning,
showed that there were numerous deposits in
bank in excess of the receipts by the City
Treasury, but the effect of this was lost when
the prosecution, in response, showed that the
aggregate of all the Deficiencies credit
ed by all these excuses of deposits
showed the Treasury short at times
anywhere from 100000 to $495,OOO. This part
of the testimony of Mr.. Warren is carefully
tabulated in the report elsewhere, and clearly
shows how from the largest amount of de-