Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-19

The right OF corporation to expel or disfran
chise member is often questioned, but seldom
brought into court, the expelled member gen
orally preferring to have as little said about the
matter as possible. Not 50 with Mr.. Baldwin,
who was cited before the New York produce ex-
change, of which he was a member during the
panic, to answer for a transaction which was
claimed to be contrary to the rules of the ex-
change. Instead OF appearing he sued to re-
strain them from acting on his case, in which
the ordinary temporary injunction and order to
show why 1t should not be continued was
granted. Judge Brady, who heard the motion,
dissolved the injunction. He says; .The right
OF q corporation to expeI or disfranchise mem
Der for good and sufficient cause, viz where
the offence relates to his Official or corporate
character, and amounts TO a breach Of the con-
ditions tacitly or expressly annexed to his fran
chise or office, is incidental to its corporate con
sutution- The power is inherent in
the corporation"
The New York Tribune OF SATURDAY. has a long
account of a freless locomotive for street rail-
roads, and 1t is to be hoped, in the interests of
overvorked horses and suffering passengers,
that the experiment will turn out as valuable
as 1t is claimed to be. The Tribune says that
the locomotive of this invention carries no fire,
and requires no skilled engineer, there being
no means by which the pressure it starts with
can be increased; the danger of explosion Is
thus reduced to an infnitessimal consideration.
At present the only difficulty in the way Of per-
feet success seems to be that the machine is
necessarily cumbrous; on the other hand, all
the power, convenience, and economy which 90
with the use Of steam are retained.
The New York legislature is going to make
another effort to regulate street cars, but il will
probably turn out failure, as such efforts gem
orally do. bill has been introduced into the
assembly as beginning, but it does not meet
the case, according TO the views OF the New
York Times, which says: " Let US have the law
prohibiting the companies from taking fares
from passengers who cannot obtain seats, and
they will very soon find it to their interest to
furnish SUFFICIENT number of cars. The com.
panies are rich enough to do their work Drop.
erly, and il is time the public secured some due
attention to their rights"
The question OF the admission Of colored chill
dren into the public schools Is being hotly asi-
tated in Sacramento, Cal, where the colored
people are claiming the right Of admission
under the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments, while the white people claim the pro
lection of the state law, which provides fol-
separate schools. Governor Booth, in his re
cent message strongly advocated q change o
the state Law.
ga Demand for whitewash" is what the Obi,
State journal terms the application Of tn,
friends Of Fitz John Porter for q new trial. Ye
. good many leading public men, includin,
some most radical and undoubted republicans
favor granting him a new trial, thinking tina
injustice may have been done him in the hea
Of the hour when his case was up before.
A Cincinnati court has decided that no sea
can be reserved in house Of amusement afte
the curtain rises; then person having a ticke
has night to take any unoceupisd seat. Thu
decision Ii not Of general application, but wa
given under municipal ordinance somewhs
similar In its provisions to the law passed b
eur District legislature.