New-York tribune., 1874-06-22


convicted her. Now. at last, we shall have
this frivolous and corrupt Senate held up In
its true colors before disgusted people.
II seems doubtful whether it was wise. or at
all necessary. to put the master of the dog
pound in Jail in order to stop the torture OF
the dogs. But that the end in view was
needful one, seems clear This whole man
agement of the dog business has been dis
creditable to the municipal authorities, and
Mr. Bergh has interfered none too soon. .
The repeated attempts to wreck express
trains, last Friday night, on the New-Haven
Road. have an element of the diabOlical not
often exhibited in our criminal record. 1t is
to the interest of the road, not less than OF
the public. that no stone be left unturned to
penetrate the mystery that surrounds the au-
daciOus acts.
With the present week the Commencement
season opens in earnest On the eighth page
we print some columns of Commencement news,
and on the fourth and fifth appear the Bacca-
laureate sermons at Yale, Princeton, and the
College of York. Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton and a host of similar institutions are to
crowd the week with their exercises, which
noticeably attract increased attention from
year to year.
The ghost of the Civil Service Commission
still harnts Congress. To quiet its uneasy
shade, there is to be a compromise OF some
Sort which will leave it nominal existence.
Why not try the Indian Commission plan 1t
is simple, short, and sure. First, require the
members to serve without pay. Next, thwart
them TIL they cannot do anything, and are
badgered into resigning. Then let the AS
sistant Secretary of the Interior reorganize the
Commission to bis liking. If that recipe does
not give satisfactory results nothing will.
The Post-OfIice Department has succeeded IN
making itself so Odious to Congressman by Its
efforts in behalf of the franking privilege
that they have missed no opportunity to
nurse every casual charge against it; and
it may be taken for granted that they
kill off none of them so long
as they have breath enough left to stand
I'D. The report entirely exculpating that De-
partment from the charge of accepting straw
bids, is therefore entitled to more respect
than most exculpatOry reports in this Con-
gross receive.
The platform erected by tho Republicans Of
Indiana, at their recent State Convention,
says at Qhe Administration party) has demon
" strated its unabated hostility to the demOr
alzing doctrine, that to the victors belong
the spolls of Office" The platform was the
| handiwork of Col. Dick Thompson, very
nice gentleman of the Whig school, in old
times, and it is evident he thought he was
writing a platform for that good old party! To
| claim that Administration men ever exhibited
any repugnance to the "spOils of office" is,
certainly, very brassy but Col. Thompson
| is not brassy man!
Later evidence seems to confirm so strongly
testimony heretofore questioned, that it is fair
to say now that the Secret Service Bureau
of the Treasury Department is clearly impli-
Gated in the Washington conspiracy to con-
| Wet an innocent man and an old and
| highly respected citizen of felony in
order to save the Ring. Of all the dis
graceful chapters in that Rings history, this
safe-burglary business is the worst; and to
appoint any member of the old Ring to office
under the new Government until his skirts
are thoroughly cleared of this transaction, will
be nothing short of infamy.
The Paris letter which we publish to-day
gives an account of the failure of the negO-
tiations for union between the Right aud
Left Centers, which occurred at about the
same time as the quarrel IN the Assembly over
NJ. Gambettas speech against the Bonapart
lists. AS illustrating the strange political mu
tations in France, 1t is only necessary to say
that since this letter was written the Govern
ment has frequently been defeated by partial
combinations of the Right and Left Centers,
and the quarrel, which at one time seriously
threatened the peace of the country, appears
to be entirely forgotten.
Tn the course of an article vehemently op-
posing the proposed Reciprocity Treaty with
| Canada, The Philadelphia Press complains that
il has been negotiated in a mysterious aud
| underhand way, without consultation with the
manufacturing, agricultural, mining. or lum-
Der interests, which it injuriOusly affects, and
without even being published, SO that the
people might have an opportunity of studying
its provisions. THE TRIBUNE sympathizes with
this last complaint, and takes pleasure in re-
moving it, We print on our second page this
morning, from an official copy, the full text
of the proposed treaty. An accurate outline
of its main provisions appeared in our COL
| nppa two weeks ago. but i'm matter so