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New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

in the report Of Mr.. C0burn's Committee. IL
may be urged, however, that the Whites
committed crimes for which they were not
brought to justice. while punishment was rig
orously imposed upon the Blacks. Such
suppostion falls to the ground at once
when it is known that at no time
from 1867 until December. 1874, dio
the Conservatives have full control OF the
State Government Until the last named datS
the Administration party controlled two-
thirds of the courts and filled at least one-haif
the county Offices, while the Executive and
Legislative Departments of the State Gov
ernment were also in their hands.
White and coiored jurors, often with
prcdominance of the latter, have sat
together in nearly every county, and 1T is
stated by The Montgomery 4dccrtiser as a
notable fact that of the thirty-0ne white men
in prison on the 1st Of October, 1874, twenty
five were sent from Conservative counties,
while the counties under the control of the
Administration party sent only six whites, and
one hundred and sixteen negroes. These
facts are creditable to both races and both
parties, for they show that while representa-
tiOns to the contrary are made abroad for
political effect, there is in truth no dlscriml-
nation by either race against the other in the
administration of justice.
The truth is that Alabama is one of the
most peaceable and orderly States in the South
and she has been grossly slandered by such
men as Mr. Hays, who would sacrifice any
thing to further their own selfish interests and
partisan purposes. That these ISLANDERS should
be accepted as true by the Coburn Committee
after their groundlessness has been repeatedly
demonstrated, and that they should he laid
before the country as true bills of indictment
against the good name of Alabama, only
show the desperate straits to which the Adj
minstration party is reduced in order to re-
gain control of the South. OK all the States
attacked by these reckless partisans III this
hopeless campaign of misrepresentation. Ala
bama has shown herself the least vulnerable;
and that is saying a great deal.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01
IDST JEJUEhS.

What was good of force and intention IN
the Great Party remains good. The beliefs 1t
held in honor and honesty live to inspire
honest and honorable believers. It's true
hearted work in the past pleads for it, the
dignity of viiile enthusiasm fingers with It,
II made for itself such high place that its
very name had power to cOnjure, and IT bore
unframed thousand armed assaults I'm
harmed il might bear them still had it nOt sunk
wounded like Caesar beneath the blows OF its
own friends, turned traitor to what was
and is best in it. For n handful Of silver
more or less they have brought it to shame.
They have gambled and cheated behind its
reputation, they have played the bully with
the sword its noblest ruler sheathed. The
great men who nodded this great party to
purpose and action, went to the grave in
suited by those they had taught in honor and
rebuked only in dishonor. Greeley. Sumner,
Chase. are not our lost leadcrs-dead, they
still lead what was truly the Great Party.
There was "a vigorous aud successful soldier
whom the party adopted Ill earnest gratitude.
1t gave him an opportunity for glorious work;
il WAS ready to follow him in every wise and
manly and generous deed. He played with If
rs with q tool, he debased its history and his
own and clutchng still its empty name, he
has left it. There were many men-some OF
them of grave and reverend years-whom the
party had made high in power and reputa-
ton, asking from them only an easily honest
and conscientious labor. They took brains,
energy, and conscience to the nearest buyer in
the Capitol, and when called TO account
screamed with craven audacity, We are the
Party" They, too, have left it; but the
silver smarts sorciy in their palms. There
was another company of men whom the party
advanced, and who are lost, not through
greed so much as cOwardce. The ribbons
they are wearing are torn and draggled rags
which can never bear renewal. Weak and
wicked together, these are the lost leaders
1t is plain that the mass of honest men who
have voted in the Great Party believe in its
principles and not in its betrayers. The scale
swung down in the Autumn with a sharp
warning to falslty and failure. Political JUS
tice is not always mere phrase; there is a
mysterious sea called Public Opinion, and the
lost leaders are even now beginning to toss
like sOdden and unwholesOme wrecks upon its
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Il RIPPLE E S III Z Z T..

There was desperate fighting about BILBAO IN Spain.
Two forts were taken by the Cst and rctasen three
times The CGrlisJs preparing for grand effort
against Puigce,da. Tie POdg0ritzI affair Is stu
unsettled.
In the Senate tho principal discussion was on the
Civil Rights BIZ. Mosst.. Carpenter aui Hamilton Of
Maryland speaking adversely. Tho bI passed The
Senate held evening session. So Tho session OF the
House was almost entirely occupied BY the debate on
and tue passage o. the Force bill. Ibe report Of the
Committee for investigating Pacific Mai corruption was
rec0mmitted.
state Senator wood has testified before the Senate
Committee how the salary Of TIE Superuen lent Of the
new Capitol inserted IN the supply bill OF 1874 His
testimony cOrroboTated by the Senate stenOgrapher
and others. The Wisconsin Senato has ordered to
q third reading QlimbJ's substitute for the Railroad
Commissioners bill The Assembly has defeated the
COmmissODprs' bill. === member OF the expedition
who visited the Black Hills IN search OF gold has re-
turned aud reports the excellent prospects Of success
The funerals OF the victims of the ct Andrews Church
disaster took place. Important marine losses we're
reported. Troflc suspended on q New-York
Oswego and Midland Railway. So Add tiOnal re-
movsls took place IN ths Custom-house. Their
mOmetcr I5o. ~ %. g. Cold 1l4l. 1lIi, llH. Gold
value Of tie esll-tender dollar az the close, 81 10
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01
THE CITY DEBT.

The elaborate statement of Controller Green
in relation to the municipal expenditures ana
indebtedness, and the unadjusted claims
against the city. has been published IN me
Ciu Record, and is there accompanied with
the detailed tables which we found too v0ll-
minous for insertion in our columns. Citizens
and taxpayers who do not shrink from the
Iaborious duty of examining the long lists and
descriptions of the self-styled creditors OF the
city, will find that the magnitude and import
ance of the unadjusted indebtedness have
been greatly exaggerated. III the City Treas
ury is to be as faithfully and intrepidiy
guarded in the future as 1t has been in the
past, very little money will over be paid on
the unsettled claims which have come down
from the Tweed regime.
1t also appears that Mr.. Green's resistance
TO the exorbtant demands of contractors and
others has saved the city far more than 1t has
cost for legal expenses and interest. A dis
honest claim should be resisted. whether or
not resistance costs more than the amount OF
the unjust demand. The affairs of the city
should not be conducted on the principle OF
compromising and compounding with thieves
after the fashion which has latterly become
too prevalent In the DusihesS "oIiu'
The Controller is now in full accord with
The TRIBUNE as to the necessity of stopping
the wholesale bond-selling business if the fu-
ture solvency of New-YOrk is to be secured.
We must either tax more and borrow less or
vigorously retrench, unless we are prepared to
sacrifice our honor by becoming bankrupt Mt
no distant day. NeighbOring cities are already
stealing away our commerce, while taxed as
we are, we still borrow One-fOurth OF the
money we annually expend. An honest fear
less, statesmanlike administration of the
finances of New-YOrk City has become an i'm
peratiye necessity. Such an administration
requires the concurrence of many minds, and
if all those who are intrusted with a greater
or less responsibility i'll the government OF
the city were actuated by the same motives
AS the Controller we should have little cause
for anxiety as to the future
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

same notions, not because they wanted mil.
lennium. but because they did MT want one-be-
cause their souls yearned for a perpetuation
of personal power and for all the good things
which it brought to them. The joke Of the
British lunatic's newspaper plan is that it pro-
supposes a Heaven upon Earth, and then
makes arrangements for a state of things quito
opposite. He does MT see that in his good
time newspapers would cease to be necessary
at all, and that they are useful now simply
because the good time has MT come.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

threatens to bring down upon the country we
hold some of the respectable Representatives
who voted against this bill largely responsible.
In times like these Congressman cannot
always do his whole duty by merely voting
right. There are occasions when honest men
expect their honest representatives TO Ng"
against attempted wrongs, with all inc
strength, all the fire. all tho cour-
age, obstinacy, and indignant eloquence
of which they arc capable, fearing neither the
frowns of power nor the nsolence OF the party
lackeys. It is not enough to hint objections
under ones breath, or to pick little flaws In
an act which is bad all the way through. III
every Republican Representative who thinks
with Messrs. Willard and Hawloy had used as
plain speech as they did, the bill would prooa-
bly, never have passed.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01
CRIME IN ALABAMA.

If statistics compiled by office holders Of
ing no nducement for misstatement, are worth
anything, the report of the Administration
members of the Alabama Outrage Committee
is greatly at fault. An interesting appendix
to this report and suggestive commentary
thereon are afforded by the annual report of
the INSPECTORS of the Alabama Penitentlary
now before us. These Inspectors are al
Administration Republicans and we suppose,
therefore, no supporter of the Administration
NOT even the Hon. Charles Hays-will Dues
tion their statements or the accompanying
statistics.
The report embraces the record Of crime in
Alabama for one year, during which the Re-
publicans-as men are counted Republicans in
the South-had charge Of the whole machinery
OF the State Government. The number Of in
mates of the Pcnitentiary on the lst of October,
1873. was 172. To this number 147 were added
during the following year, making a total of
319 Of these 81 were discharged, 25 escaped,
13 died. 8 were pardoned. and 1 was released
by order Of the Supreme Court; leaving 238
in confinement on the 1st Of October. 1874.
The catalogue of crimes shows "a commit
ments for burglary, 10 for grand larceny, %
for assault with intent to murder, 13 for murder
in the first degree, % for murder in the second
degree, 10 for manslaughter. 6 each for horse
stealing and robbery, 8 each for rape and
arson, for burglary and larceny, 3 for
burglary and arson, 2 for bigamy and
1 each for larceny from dwelling, larceny
from person, obtaining money under false
pretenses, mayhem, attempt to poison, adul-
terry, perjury, subornation of perjury, counter
feiting embezzlemeDt, &c. But i'll view of
tho wholesale arraignment of the white people
of the State by Mr.. Hays and the Republican
members Of the Outrage Committee, for mur-
der and other heinous crimes, it is to the sta
tistics as to the color of criminals that our
attention is particularly attracted
On the first of October, 1874, the two races
were represented in the Penitentiary as fol-
lows White cOnvicts. 81 ; cOlOred cOnvicts,
2O7; total number, 23S majority of cOlored
convicts. 17G. The population of Alabama,
according to the census, is thus divided lin
round numbers: Whites, $4,000; Blacks,
475,000; so that the proportion of convicts to
population in Alabama may be thus given
Whites, one in every 16,936; Blacks, one in
every 1904. IL would seem therefore that the
negroes commit eight times as many felOnes
as the whites. This is remarkable
showing in the face Of the sweeping charges
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01
pUBLIC BUILDINGS ONCE MORE

Having taken the pains again to consult
the Finance reports of the Treasury Depart
ment and the appropriation acts of the last
two years, we find that we were quite within
bouEds in our original statements of January
2l and that tho information furnished by the
Acting Secretary of the Treasury to Gen. Gar
field is incorrect and incomplete. We stated
% that the expenditures for public buildings
for the year ended June 30. 1873, were $685.
Cos rs; (2) for the year ended June 30, 1874.
S7,956,208 Gas near as we could get at them)
and (3) that the appropriations made in 1874
were SS,35G,525. We are now prepared to show
that these are all understatements. The ac-
tual truth is more discreditable to the present
Congress and Administration than we have
charged OF even imagined until now.
/. In the first place we shall briefly show the
incOmpleteness and inexactness of the table
furnished by the Acting Secretary of the
Treasury to Mr.. Garfield. That table makes
the expenditures on account of public build
ings for 1873 SS,32O,3O6 go, and for 1874
$S,5l4 583 0j-in the one case about 100000
less and in the other $55O,0OO more than the
amounts at which we had computed them.
Upon looking over their table. which is printed
in The Record of Feb. 25 (page 49,, we find
that there is entered in it for 1874 the sum of
$577,3O9 40 for the branch mint building at
San Francisco, and for 1873 there is no entry
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

The Governors decision on the Mayors
charges against the Firb Commissioners and
the Corporation Counsel is still suspended.
Naturally enough the delay greatly agitates
local politics. The decision is expected this
week. though in the case of the Corporation
Counsel it may be still further kept back.
That Mr.. Dcafeld Smith has substantially
made up his mind that he has to
90 out is, we presume, tolerably clear.
Meantime his supplementary answer, else
where printed, seems an important part
of the controversy, and all the more in
teresting as stating the present status of the
civil suits against Tweed and others, and the
facts relative to their proposition made through
Special : gent Jayne to compromise by return
ing $3,OOO,0O0 OF tho stolen money of the city.
Mr.. Smith also undertakes to expose by docu-
mentary evidence what he claims to have been
misstatements of fact in the Mayors charges.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01
Amusrmrnis dno Mertines.


EARsuMs ROMAN HIPPoDRoME.-Pedestrian Trial.
BooTus THEATER.-" Henry ""
DAYS FIFTH AVENUE T1iEArEE.-"The Big Bonanza
oLynrIc THY ATER.-" King Ding Dong"
PARK THEArER-" Girohe- -Girofa."
SAN Francisco MTNsTREIs.-Drch and Wanhold
UNION SQUARE THEATER.-"Tho Two Orphans"
WAtLAcK' 5 TiEATgR The shaughraun." Dion Bouc-
cauit
No 81 UNIox-soUARE-Leoture: The Rev. NJ. H. smith,
RoEfSsoN HAL Begone Dull Care" Mr.. Maccabe.
srFrSwAY HALL-CommeBcement: College OF Physi-
clans aud Surgeons
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receivers of which appeared to be maintaining
hard fight with adverse circumstances IN
endeavoring to moet the obligations OF the
road and to keep in employment men who had
lust claims for consideration.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

Our London correspondent, whose letter ap-
pears on the third page, informs us that Mr. NJ.
d. Conway is really coming to this country. Mr..
Conway has done as much as any other per-
son toward correcting the mlsapprchensions
which existed IN England respecting our man
ners Judging from the title of one Of the
lectures which he is to deliver, we are inclined
to think be will take occasion to correct some
similar impressions respecting those with
whom he has resided of late years. The task
is one which he is peculiarly qualified to per-
form.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

Some remarkable facts concerning the higher
medical culture to which under all manner OF
difficulties women in this city, and indeed
everywhere in this country, have been strug-
Cling, will be found grouped in another col
umn. Dr. Adler's report draws a curious COM
parison between the systems of medical edu-
cation in England, France, Germany, and
America. The Association for the advance
ment of medical education among women has
at its head tho American woman who has,
both at home and abroad, most signally shown
how thoroughly her sex can master medical
science; and it embraces among its member
ship many prominent physicians like Drs. Ma
rion Sims. Fordyce Barker, and Edward f..
Clarke of Boston.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01
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Advertisers ,riU please bring in their Jdrors
before HALEPAST FIVE O'CLOCK in the
evening We cannot undertake TO classify those
received after that hour. The greatly Increasing
demand upon our Press room cOmpels us TO send
the various Pages Of TIE TRIBUNE TO press at
an earlier hour than heretofore, and thus makes
the ADORE requirement necessary.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

The action of Gen. Grant on the Civil
Rights bill, just sent to him, will be awaited
with a curious interest. A year ago it was
perfectly understood that be would have
vetoed the bill if it had come to him. Since
then, one or two of the features on which
Senator Sumner most strongly insisted have
been taken out of it. Possibly this may make
some change in tho Presidents views. I'm
friendly critics will insist that another cir
'cumstance may work a greater change. Then
there seemed prospect for the organization
of q third term party among the Southern
whites. Now nobody hopes for such a party
anywhere at the South save among the blacks.
The whites were almost unanimously opposed
to the Civil Rights bill. The blacks are of
course almost unanimously in its favor. What
is Gen. Grant going to do about itP
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01
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Here is a total of s930,8jO appropriated Ill
two years, and an actual expenditure during
the same two years of Sl,296, ,10O-an cxtrava-
CANT and unjustiiiable waste OF public money,
as it seems to us. Here are wood working
and finishing shops which have evidently cost,
or are destined TO cost, at the very least, half
o. million dollars each, and how much more
than that we cannot tell, since work has been
going on at Rock Island for six or seven
years at least. There is matter i'll it, if we
mistake not. for an investigating committee
Ill. In the third place, since Cen Garfield
pronounces orr statement that S9,O3o,G9S 10
were expended on public buildings in 1873
"a great cxaggeration," we would respectfully
inouire of him whether he considers Mr.. Null
lett himself as good authority for theexpendi-
lures of his 0fiiceY Mr. Mullett, i'll his
annual report for 1873 (see page 800, Finance
Report, 1S73) calls the attention OF the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to the fact that " though
" the annual expenditures of this office have
increased since 1865 from $712,3IG BG to
"S9,asi,55O I6 Exclusive of an unex-
"pended balance of 1870 70), the claims
&" for extras and additional compensation
"have steadily diminished, and are now nearly
"nominalr which is surprising. Since Mr..
Mulett has had nothing to do with things at
Rock Island, our statement Of the outlay for
buildings may be accepted as much below the
sum which was actually paid out. We also in
yte special attention to the rate of increase,
from 374s3l6 16 iu 1866 to S9,O8i,55O 4G in 1873,
for such buildings only as were under the su-
pervision of Mr. Mulett.
Need we say anything moreF And does
Gen. Garfield, who, in his younger and better
days, was wont to believe in truth above
everything in politics, think he can afford to
keep silence?
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

We supplement our account of the passage
of the Force bill through the House on Satur-
day last by a report of two noteworthy
speeches delivered against it on Friday night
by prominent Republicans, Gen. Joseph X.
Hawley of Connecticut and George Willard Of
Michigan. Nobody has hitherto questioned
the entire party loyalty of these men. Gen.
Hawley, indeed, goes so far as to make need
less profession of faith in the bitterly parti-
san report of the minority of the Louisiana
Committee. But neither of them fails to see
the monstrOus recklessness and folly of tine
effort to control the Presidential election in
1876 by the passage of this bill in the last
hours in which an indignant people have left
to the party of the Administration the power
to pass anything.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-01

Mt all under this bead. Nevertheless IN 1873,
as appears from the table OF expenditures III
the Finance Report Of that year (page 1867
S3S9,6JS 80 were expended on that building,
exclusive of $283,0O0 in salaries, wages, ana
contingent expenses which appear to nave
been used for operating the mint. This cor
rcctIOn alone suflices to turn the scale IN our
favor, making the total amount expended III
the two years larger than we said it was. But
besides this obvious biunder, there are expen-
ditures. not included in the table furnished to
Gen. Garfield, for "salarics, office OF super
"yisng Architect" "plans for public build
"ings,n furniture and repairs OF same 1or
"publc buildings" "penitentiary buildings IN
tho Territories" "buildings aud grounds OF
"the military aud naval academies" repairs,
1" fuel &C., for Executive Mansion" (SiOOO Il
year for tins item), repairing and refurnish-
ling the Executive MansiOn,' lighting, Nc,
"the Executive Mansion," Improvements of
"building, Government Hospital for Insane"
and other items of a similar character, amount
ing in the aggregate to more than Soo100o
year, not one dollar of which is included III
the official summary made out for Gen. Gar
field.
H. In the second place, we should like to
know whether Gen. Garfield considers the
carpenter and blacksmith shops OF the Rock
Island Arsenal public buildings. We believe
that Mr.. Mullett has had nothing to do with
the buildings at Rock Island, they being in
charge of the War Department; but neverthe-
less a blacksmith shop seems to be quite as
much building as mint, a hospital, or
custom-house. Moreover. the appropriations
and expenditures for these particular shops
at Rock Island have a strong smell of job
berry. The expenditures upon them were
$759,OOO in 1878 and $5ii 100 IN 1874, not dol
lar of which is included in Gen. Garfield's
table. The appropriations of the last two years
read as follows.