New-York tribune., 1874-06-12

=" peacen who 80 brutaliy ciupocu
on;et citizen that he is on his DEATH
he'd It would be o hasty conclusion
TO add that these crimes are character'S'c vi
the police force, which has in 1t many ad-
mirable officers. Nevertheless, such occur
| repces have lately become so common as W
attract universal attention to the rohco
Department They are highly discreditao'e 70
the force and to the city.
The dog-catcher is abroad. How much
worse than the ours he is, time must snow
But the scenes at the opening of the dog
Mound Yesterday show that the effect OF
Alderman Morris's dog law is demoraizlng TO
tho young street-royers A reward of fifty
cents n head was too much temptation Tor the
feeble virtue of these young scamps, VINO
scoured the city for unmatched dogs. The net
result was about two hundred caphves. Most
of these will be 1ncOntmently put 10 deati'
The harmless, necessary dog has had his day.
| Sacrificed to ancient delusion, ne ls
snatched up wherever found. The ordinance
for the encouragement of dOg-stealing has had
a good beginning.
NJ. Gambetta was imprudent enough the
other day when he stigmatized the BOnapart-
~
the moral tone of these partisans is far below
that of the other monarchists We find them
acting precisely as we should expect adven-
turers to act whose character is openly pro-
claimed. NJ. Gambetta, while conducting himself
in peaceful manner, was assailed and re-
ceived blow in the face with cane from
Bonapartist. The insOlent arrogance which
led to such deed is so peculiarly character
IL hot mad
be astonished that the blow was not struck
on the floor of the Assembly two days ago,
instead of at this comparatively late perloa.
With the Presidents famous financial MEM
orandum before us, his veto OF the new in-
Aation bill is fOregOne conclusion. Our
Washington dispatches confirm the opinion
which every observant person must have con-
cerning the certainty of such Executive actloh'
, II is not easy to understand how any other
result can be expected by intelligent men.
, We are glad to perceive the President thinks
} so highly of his Memorandum that he is un-
willing to have the credit of its authorship
given to another. He says he wrote 1t on
hand one evening, "after he had got through
"work," if we may be allowed the use OF the
homely phrase. 1t was good days work.
for all that, and will always be regarded as
one of the best Gen. Grant has done in these
later years.
Mr.. Bancroft Davis was yesterday confirmed
as U. S. Minister to the German Empire in
the place of George Bancroft, relieved. The
appointment has been so much talked about
in advance that the actual transmission oil the
nomination to the Senate attracted little at
tention. Mr. Davis is accomplished in the
: WAYS of diplomacy, and has had most use
: full training for his new Office, both at Geneva
and in the State Department. He has been
siugularly capable and useful lieutenant to
9 Mr.. Fish. who will find it hard to fill the va
y cant place. Mr. Bancroft is known to have
y been for long time desirous of abandoning
0 official work and returning to New-York. He
! will leave no superiOr-it is perhaps scarcely
an exaggeration to say that he will leave no
, eoual-among the American ministers in Eu-
d rope.
d The infiationists got their new bill before
the Senate yesterday. 1t turns out that they
impose on nobody by calling it "cOm-
: "promisen Among the speakers against it
o were Senators JONES' Boutwell,, Thurman,
a Stewart. Frelinghuysen, and Morrill, of Yer
mont. The bill is a pretty long one, but no
D one seems vet to have discovered any pro-
Il vision in il which can be depended on to take
the country an inch in the direction OF specie
= payments. Mr.. Morton was kind enough to
explain that if any trouble appeared likely to
d grow out of the bond redemption section,
d; there was time enough to get rid of it before
1878, We regret that Mr.. Sherman is so in
y fatuated with the idea of supplanting gold by
n | Government bonds as tire standard OF value
as to give his support to this mOnstrOus mix
d ture of pure initiation and gratuitOus inter-
o meddling with the Banking laws. Save his
detection, we see no indication that any OF
the supporters of an honest currency in the
. Senate have changed their position or have
I any other feeling than scOrn for this last
s. proiect for fresh creation of promises never
u to be kept.
d In the House of Representatives yesterday
. there was wake over the lifeless remains OF
, the Civil Service Reform. There had been a
motion made to appropriate $25,0OO for the e4-
penses OF t,nhe neiorm funeral expenses, per-
haps. This opened general debate on the
q u | merits of the whole case. Mr. Creamer OF
New-YOrk thought that was not much of a re-
q form which only harried few unfortunate
clerks and left the President and his Cabinet
. uncatechized Gen. Butler, with bis happy
: boldness, exOnerated the President from the
u charge of having recommended the undertak-
. ing of any reform of the Civil Service. Fur
70 thermore, he, Gen. Butler, considered the
, whole business the mere trick of a politician
D. who had apostatized from the Republican
party. Mr.. Cox was glad that Gen. Butler had
pricked this bubble there never had been any