New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-07

ton concerning which IL has no living policy.
these men will have tho courage to vote
against such hypocritical legislation, despite
the behest of caucuses, and the intimation
from the White House that it is the pleasure
| of the President that the pending bill shouiu
become law. Shall we have honest law
making or ian unbroken frontf"
Mr.. Chas. Albert proves to be witness of
some value in the Pacific Mail investigation,
having accounted in general way for $7l5.00O
of the amount intrusted to Mr.. Irwin for use
in Washington. Sums of from 100000 to
$s75,0O0 were paid to Eve persons who
seem to have been dsbursing agents,
and Mr.. Albert makes anonymous mention OF
fifteen or twenty others who were the recp-
tents of the Company's bounty. MIR. Irwin,
persisting in declining to answer the Com
mittee's questions has been committed for
contempt.
Certain private reports from Washington
declare that Col. Thomas A. Scott is confident
of favorable report from the Committee on
the Subsidy for his Texas Railroad. next FIJI
| day when it meets or soon thereafter. 1t Is
possible that this Congress may be anxious to
| complete the destruction Of the party which
controls it, but some of its members expect to
have a future whether that party does or not,
and they may make up their minds that the
people will be very slow to forgive any man
who, after the revelations of the last three
weeks, and in the pressure Of the present hard
times, votes a subsidy to Col. Scott or any
| body else at this session.
| Newspaper advice can never DO impertinent
! in matters that affect the welfare of people
more than Of party. We therefore take the
liberty of suggesting to Speaker Mcclure that
| if he fails to appoint the Hon. Z. Z. Davis
to the Craftsmanship of the Committee on
Canals, he will mar beyond mending an
administration which now promises well.
The influences that are cOntending against
Mr. Davis's appointment to that place are
well understood. Mr.. Davis, by his fearless
crusade against fraudulent canal contracts,
has earned the gratitude of his section and
the hostility of the contractors. That is the
whole secret of the opposition.
President MacMahon, after his experience of
yesterday, ought to be better satisfied than
any other person of the necessity for disso-
luton of the French Assembly. The prompt
and decided defeat which he suffered, imme-
diately after his message had been read,
should convince him of the futility of hopes
of inducing the Assembly to agree upon any
measure of organization. He would DO well
now to employ his rhetoric to show tho in
| jury which the country will suffer from the
continued existence of o body which, under a
proper constitutional system, would have
been dissolved long ago. 1t would be curious
| if he were to be forced to this course, and
finally become a Republican like M. Theirs.
The pamphlet edition of The TRIBUNE Ex-
IRA No. 26 will be ready this morning, and the
| numerous accumulated advance orders will be
| promptly filed. This Extra contains substan-
TALLY complete the six lectures on the Bible
and Science, lately delivered in this city by
Prof. j. w. Dawson, Principal Of McGill Col
lege, Montreal, and the Rev. DIR. Howard
Crosby's Introductory address before the New
| York Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence and Art, showing the real harmony be-
tween the teachings of the Bible and the dis
coveries of Modern Science The price of
Extra No. 20, postpaid, to any address in the
United States, is, in sheet FORM ten cents per
copy; in pamphlet, twenty cents. A full list
of The TRIBUNE EXTRAS to date, with the
price of each, is given on another page of
this paper.
More searching inquiry into the personal
! character and the mental condition of jurors
was probably never witnessed in any trial,
not even for the highest crimes, than is made
| by the respective counsel Of Beecher and
Tilton. Resort has even been had to the I'M
usual process of trying jurors by summoning
| their acquaintance to testify to their acts.
In this way Mr.. Beecher's counsel yesterday
succeeded in rejecting juror whose principal
| fault appeared to be entire ignorance of the
case. Mr.. Tilton's counsel sought to imDeach
one of the jurors accepted on Tuesday. All
this indicates simply the caution with which
Jurors are selected. Eight have been obtained
thus far, but all are subject to peremptory
challenges. 1t is anticipated, nevertheless, that
the impaneling Of the jury will be completed
| to-day.
Controller Hopkins's report, which was sub
mitted to the Legislature yesterday, and is
printed in full on the second and fifth
pages of to-days TRIBUNE, is the most
able and interesting as well as the most
complete which has proceeded from that de-
partment of the State Government for many
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