New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-14
CURRENT DISCUSSION.
THE CHANGE IN NEW-JERsEY,


We have lately heard more than one person
who fought in Trenton last against the Passage OF
for it and triumphed, Well you've had your General
law year, aud what good has 1t donei" WHAT good
Third hen.e Which FOR Years and years really held
the swmakng power Of the state firmly In It's grasp.
bers of the other two Houses with lavish and
gal hand has gone into bankruptcy and decay un
iii II Is merely memory Of It's former SELF Certainly,
II would ne almost impossible lima greater change
than the style ana character II the legislative session
former years. THE TRIBUNE draws attention to this
mar change and to the singularly suggestive re.
p Sds !f ssr s1s'S S We " anu ''''
Obhyse Ys' for they have fairly 'wsrned about the
Capitol almost eqasng numbers the honsrabe Fntsnn
whoa he manipulated AID dull WHY hitherto the Legislature has
upoa Of annual circus Uau ltsi sac play
Ia. ID. eTs ending The P5op struggled %Ap. bat
tie people demadsd t III monopoly shoal be and 9eI
ei.eE al rs & re, , ss J.a o9g M ecr. s reUcI
-bleL We have alluded to hurni.he, the best evidence
This In nutshell is the fruit which the General Rail-
TG'a w Hs s ss m rOsd bus who
thinks OF Trenton as 1t is aud as Il WAS Will attempt 70
General Railroad lawi Who will agree with that
IL has proved Of the greatest and most successful
reform movements ever enacted IN this OF IN any other
A CHANCE FOR VIGILANCE.
FROM IAs Roch,s.er JROH and AduTttstr
We do not pretend to account to the public
for Controller H0pkins's remarkable course all through
this County Treasury business We do no more here,
where that the County Treasury rug OF this State
will money freely TO Drbe members OF the Legiss-
ture 10 vote down. kill In committee otherwise de-
feat any measure looking 10 County Treasury reform,
Just as they have often done oei9fe- o. course tney
TRmuSE, commenting on the exhibit made oy the de-
compel the prompt payment to the state treasurer Of
these y and many OF the County Treasures derive
r.u NIL ss ne 10 20 pat sop
TO THIS dishonest practice last year smot6ered the
Interests Of the Tressuries" II will require vigilance
aud bard work TO prevent The same smoherng process
| this year.
DEFENSE OF Mr.. TUPPER
.. From ArcSdian
| IL Al times we smile or yawn at the com
of as Dp b or sOe for Se
Gus COMMON sense. and elevated Christian tone that
Ssle Of poTan.Ous htsfaue they are at
least weiwritten. aud viii be remembered as long,
while IN the matter Of morality their superiority stand
unquestioped Nor IL this last virtue small consid
| erstIoH at time when 20 many thousands OF men
spendors of 0uida, the clsptrap seDsuality OF Guy
| LIVINGSTONE, and the vanpedup ssnsationsnsm and
men Of The TRIBUNE We would ask Of You not 70 join
the yepng rsDbe OF email wits who bark at the feet Of
S Nir 0 Reserve your Keen swordSusts for those
| pests Of hteratnre who demoralze the world with
T,IQuhar alone He 10 aot q great writer. but then
whois ard be pure writer, and how many are not
Boo 81. ~ sIARlIIyu EXHIBIT.
| f.. t-.. IRON Tao Es'iya zdrofist~.
county town aud city debts OF the people OF the state
Of NevYork 10 be t.e00D or more than 500 for each
adult male nhapitAnt OF sound mind aud ordinary
leaIthi Inc estimate thus reached New York pays
NUT be assumed IN the payment Of the national debt
which would be tIsep,oc0 The aggregate OF local In.
debtedn1ss az the beginning OF lsS was Nssceon and
is probably now possibly full $20o0t0oS Add TO
these the eatt Indebtedness, aud We have the
grabd totai stated above. Tue exhibit 10 startling the
debt IL immense. II ought % prove warning that
economy and careful husbsnding OF resources the lop
ping on or personal and public prodigaI
ties soutely essential 70 the maintenance or our
financial integrity and our preservation from utter
bankruptcy aud rnn euoh figures ~ the above
NO comment. ......
IHE REFoRMEn YPIscoPAL CHURCH ~ THE SOUTH.
- ...... Iron n. NassP., bssse. ..I
a churchman, writing from Virginia 10 Thu
NIwYoRK TkIBuSB, tsyt tne Cuininins movement hss
taken quite hold IN that state. lie mentions the adhe
Of the Rev, DR.. Latape asveTy .gnltcant and con-
Guides HE letter by say ing that Bshop Jobnt and
Bishup wbittie, who arc known 70 hold Dr. Latanes
views, though IL considerably modined FORM were "
the eoutherr statee ike whirvind" We have our
doubts about IL sweeping tho whole sooth Bishop
Quintsrd, II mistake rot shows very little ssps
yet propAgatine the Cainmins movement. when our
the Dir is upr with the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the United States ..I.
WHICH WAS THE LIAI.y
TAs Ul.ca 0sssrvsh
General Butler rose to o personal explains
ton in the House yesterday and denounced - utterly
false the special dispatches TO- the papers con.
cernpg has action In regard 70 Louisiana mattera ana
the sAnborn Treasury contracts he hoped would not
be unpArlsmentary TO quote the lanGuAee OF Horace
have 10 ind villa the language u In lie application The
Told thu truth And Ben Butler did MT