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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

weight, readily pass at their NOMINAL value.
Though they can be purchased here with frac-
tionsl currency worth only SO or 80 cents on
the dollar, they can be used In some parts OF
South America and the West Indies at 100
cents on the dollar, and there is consequently
a considerable demand for export. This Will
continue until the supply in circulation IN
those countries becomes abundant, or until the
people of those countries learn to discriminate
in use against the American silver, which con-
tains about fourteen grains less OF Sill
yer to the dollar than foreign COINS.
For some time, therefore, considerable OUT
flow of silver may be expected, and scarcity
of small change, unless tho facilities for issuing
the new coin are greatly improved. To hasten
the advent of silver to general circulation
some urge that the Treasury should pay out
silver for legal-tender notes, but are properly
reminded that the law expressly requires the
exchange of silver coins for fractional cur
rency. If there were no such difficulty, and II
the supply of coins Obtainable from the mint
could be relied upon to meet the demand, IL
might be expedient to issue silver in place OF
legal tenders long enough to satisfy the tenn
porary demand from abroad, and to overcome
the disposition to hoard the coin.
As matters stand there is an unnatural de-
mand for fractional currency for double pur-
pose. Some want it in order to get the silver,
either for export, or to sell at premium, OF
to use in retail dealings. These, of course, can
afford to pay for the fractional currency about
a. large a premium as for the silver. But
there is, for the time, peculiar demand OF
n EynrqcS
companies and others in whose business large
quantities of fractional currency are employed,
apprehending that there may be season OF
great scarcity at the point where paper has
nearly disappeared, while silver has not yet
begun to flow freely through the channels OF
circulation, and fOreseeing that they would
then be subjected to especial embarrassment IN
their business, have been laying in n reserve.
In some cases, we learn, considerable amounts
in fractional currency have thus been accumu-
lated, and are held against time OF need
The immediate effect, of course, is to with
draw the currency from use, and to hasten the
very stringency against which the witndra"ai
is intended to provide.
All these disturbances are but temporary, II,
as the public is assured, the Treasury and the
minis are now prepared to supply as much OF
the small coin as can be demanded. The per-
ceptibe scarcity of small notes is really the
first sign that the difficulties are beginning to
be overcome. AS soon silver is sufficiently
needed, not for expectation or boarding, but
for use as currency it will begin to circulate,
and the tendency to withdraw fractional cur
rencv from use only hastens the change. If
the people will have little patience, and the
Treasury, on its part, will avoid red tape as
far and pour out the new coins as fast as pos
sihle. The difficulties will soon vanish.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
CENTENNIAL EXPENSES.

A good many people are wondering whether
they can afford to visit Philadelphia during
the Centennial Days; and there is a general
impression that charges, especially for lodging
and boarding, will be exorbitant. There are
frequent illusions to the game of grab which
was PLAYED mt Vienna, and which was so
lamentably lost by the tradesmen and publlcans
of that city. We are happy therefore,
to meet with certain cheering assurances
in The Philadelphia Inquirer We are
told that this city, If it has no
conscience and no hospitality, has some bust
"ness IDEAS" and will not drive away stran-
gers by extortion. The proprietors of the prin-
cipal hotels have bound themselves not to
charge more than So day; and outside OF
these, good board is promised for from So
week upward, though how far upward we are
not told Furnished rooms for dodgers only
may be had mt 81 week; and comfortable
meals in restaurants mt about fifty cents each.
Newspapers throughout the country are desired
To reproduce this information, for the benefit
of those who love to see sights economically.
Trade is trade and the desire to make
money out of great occasions is natural. Not
withstanding the assurances given above, we
have hcaru instances Oh cnOIlnOuS suins dshcu
for the rent of premises during the jubilee !;
and we are inclined to think that the antici-
pations of many Philadelphians are rather
brilliant If they kill the goose before it has
laid many golden eggs, they cannot say that
they were not forewarned. For so far as our
own observation has extended, there is a
general feehng throughout the country against
submitting to anything like extortion. Visitors
will 90 in great numbers, but if the rates are
made ut all unreasonable they will not stay.
Moreover, there are plenty of towns within
easy distance of Philadelphia in which stran-
gers can be pleasantly and economically lodged;
and it would not be at all surprising If New
Jersey, and even NewYOrk, should secure
fair share of the pecuniary profits of the great
occasion.
There Is, we think, q perfect willingness that
Philadelphia should reap good harvest. She
had historical right to whatever advantages
were to be derived from locality; and she has
exhibited good degree of enterprise in the
preliminary arrangements. That there will be
any general attempt on her part to turn the
celebration into mere money making affair
we do not believe. What is desirable is to
render the individual and isolated cases of
greed as few as possible. ShOpkeepers, the
owners of lodgings. and the purveyOrs of
vctuals should understand that nothing like
swindling will be submitted to. The matter
is thoroughly understood everywhere, and WIS.,
itors will act upon their knowledge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
CONGRESS and RETRENCHMENT

There is a deadlock The House will not
appropriate money unless permitted to have
its way in respect to certain retrcnchments or
changes. The Senate, on the other hand, seems
inclined to refuse any appropriation unless IN
accordance with the precedents of former years
as to system and amount. Evidently one
House or the other must ultimately yield. No
room for mere compromise appears. If the old
system and scale of appropriations were i'm
proper, the House cannot hOnorably do less
than insist upon needful changes, while, on the
other hand, if the Senate was in the right in
commencing this struggle, it has the same rea-
son for persisting. But it seems to us that the
Senate is not acting wisely. Its course is not
in accordance with the spirit of our institu-
tons, 1t is not calculated on the whole to ben
eft the public, and it is not wise as measure
of party tactics.
1t must be granted that the House acts fool
ishly in some things 1t has made some
changes which are doubtless justly assailed as
calculated to impair the efficiency of the pub
lie service 1t has done some things from no
better apparent motive than spirit of partisan
ship. It's economies have not always been
wise, while its waste of time and money, and
it's passage Of some Of the worst measures,
such e. tho River and Harbor BILL without in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

his famous demonstration last year, with
dress coat and French dictionary. was the
ATTEMPT of the Democr tic administration OF
New York to carry on the government of the
city upon honest business principles, and the
demand which he then made upon the party
was that the public money should be- dlS-
tributed among Democratic voters upon the
same plan VIII ch used to prevail when Tweed
and James Watson were perpetratlng mis-
[" fortunes and errors" Mt the City Hall. lie
asks of the party rulers nothing except that
they shall give up trying TO be respectable,
hand over some Offices without more ado, and
raise the wages of his followers. If they do
not. he will put on his lavender gloves, and
link arms with Senator COnkling; and what
sight that would be!
1t may possibly occur to dispasslonate OBJ
servers that neither of the Johns shows very
profound comprehension of the political con-
stitution of free and enlightened Republic,
and that between the Cesarism OF one ana
the bargaining and threatening of the other
there is not great deal to choose. But there
is this to be SAID for John Kelly, that clean
and decent administration Is possible undcr
his system so long as the Boss mt the head OF
Tammany Hall retains his integrity; while
John Morrissey proposes to make economy an
oficnse against the party and responsibility an
outrage. Perhaps it is true that fair-play at
Democratic primaries is out of the question
we have no right to doubt it when the two
rival chicftains agree in telling us so; and II
this is the case, it seems to us fortunate on
the whole that the dictatorship has fallen into
the hands of man who finds his account, at
least for the present, in "building up TAM
"many Hall out of the dirt "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

cred as forever lost If the work is not COM
pleted. The advantages to be derived from
the union of two of the largest cities of the
country ere too vast to permit OF the aban-
donment of the work, and are too manifest to
need detailed recital The Rapid Transit
road in Sixth-ave. is an Improvement so
earnestly demanded by public needs, so
necessary to future development of the
city, and so absolutely required by the
conformation of the island. that factiOus on
position by interested persons is not to be pa.
tiently tolerated. The opposition to the Gilbert
road comes wholly from the Sixth Avenue horse
car company. The opposition Of property own
ers, whether along the avenue or in Amity-st. or
West Broadway does pot appear to be active
or general, in fact does not at present exist
No objections have been advanced by them at
any time which were not urged by the prop.
erty-owners of Thirdave., and all these were
overruled by the Rapid Transit Commissioners
in the general interest of the city. Only the
interested rval-the horse car company-ap-
pears as complainant in the SUIT which has
resulted in temporary injunction against the
Elevated road, an injunction which was yester-
day modified until little practically remains Of
it.
The horse car companies have fought this
particular project from its very inception
Every obstruction was offered TO the passage
of the bill through the Legislature When the
scheme was before Gov Dix, when it was
under consideration of the Rapid Transit Com
missoners, when it was under examination by
the Board of Engineers, when the Common
Council reviewed it, it was opposed
by every means by those who were
making fortunes out of the surface road mo-
nopolies False rumors were constantly circu-
lated, the scheme disparaged, capitalists
warned against it, ingenious counsel employed
to pick technical flaws in its charter; yet, in
spite of all, it passed every tribunal author
lied to examine it, and to-day, with ample
capital subscribed, contracts signed, and much
of the material under way, is on the eve Of
being built. 1t ought not to be possible that
project of such Importance, thus thoroughly
tested and so generally approved and desired,
should be retarded through the actions OF our
courts on insufficient pleas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
PET4RDING GREAT ENTERPRISES.

One can hardly fail to notice the trivial
grounds on which the completion of the Brook
Ign bridge and the building of the Gilbert
elevated railroad are opposed. The chief OBJ
lection to the bridge is that it will compel a
few passing vessels to lower their topmasts at
an expense variously estimated at from five
shillings to five hundred dollars. The opposi-
ton to rapid transit Is now based upon
the absurd plea of the Sixth Ave-
nue. horse car company that their cars
will be damaged by oil and cinders
from passing trains, whose noise will also
brighten their horses. These complaints pro-
coed from persons representing special but
limited ENTHUSIASTICALLY respectable but con-
sentative gentlemen, who are evidently i'm
pressed with the idea that there is nothing
" like leather" But as they clearly represent
individual or Incorporated interests which are
likely to be only slightly damaged by enter
prises of great general advantage, their COM
plants seem hardly worth the protracted argu-
ments now making before the courts and the
Common Council.
The bridge has been half finished at cost of
over Ave million dollars, which must be consid-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
TRIPLE SH E E Il
The NEWS THIS MORNING.

Misunderstanding Fisl's communication re-
par6ing Winslow was still unanswered by the Brit
ish Government. - Mr.. Jenkins, NJ. p, gave
notice that he intended moving for the correspond
ence between Great Britain and the United States
regarding tho Treaty of Washington. - The
Journal de Paris the Orleanist paper, suspended.
- Thomas Arid, the English poet, is dead. -=
Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
DoMEsTc.-It is decided to close the Exposition
bindings on Sunday 80 Halett Kilbourn has
been released on $5, 900 bail. - Judge Hubbell
was questioned in the Mary Merritt" case yester-
day and cross-examined by secretary Bristow. 60
The Treasury is now issuing 20-cent silver pieces
A slight furry in stocks is reported in Cali
fornia. - The apportionment bills have been
reported in the State Legislature. 60 Republican
Senators have resolved to postpone indefinitely the
Quarantine nominations
CoNGREss.-ln the Senate, the Impeachment trial
was resumed and postponement for two weeks
asked by the defense, was refused - In the
House, Mr. Banks offered bill to extend the scope
of the Homestead law Mr.. Seelyo made the point
that the Indian transfer clause in the Legislative
bill was out of order, and, after long debate he
was sustained; the bill was finally passed, POS TO
II: SIS. 900 was appropriated for the Apaches.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-The Grand Jury is expected
TO indct several prominent New-York whisky
houses. - The Rapid Transit Companies are
pushing forward their work, and are confident OF
success against their opponents - The changes
in ehoirs of city churches more extensive than
in former years. - The funeral of Barney Will
Iams took place at st. Stephens Church. -
Gold, 1925 1929, 112a4. Gold value of the legal
tender dollar at the close, SS7lO cents Stocks mod
erately active and generally lower, closing weak.
THE WEATHER.-Ihe Government report predicts
cooler and clear weather. - In this city, yes
terday, the day was warm and cloudy, with light
rains in the afternoon and night thermometer, 600,
67o 54o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

The decision of Judge Cartier in the Kill
bouIn case will be a disappointment to san
guine Democrats who looked for revelation
of scandalous secrets from the accounts OF the
Real Estate Ring, and will perhaps have a
serious effect upon other Investigations now
pending But the power of the two Houses
to enforce answers to the questions OF Their
investigating committees has been ill-deiined,
and while in some cases it has proved insult
fcient to sustain the dignity of Congress, in
others there has been a tendency to push 1t to
dangerous lengths. 1t was high time to have
il accurately laid down and circumscrlbed.
The law, as it is now judicially interpreted,
deprives Congress of the right to imprlson for
a refusal to answer pertinent questions, and
leaves the infection of punishment to the
courts of law, making it the business OF the
courts to decide what a pertinent question Is,
and limiting the penalties to moderate fine
and moderate term of imprisonment. Wit
nesses in very important cases may be encour-
aged in obstiuacy by this restriction of the
punishment, but it is better that investigations
should sometimes fail than that the personal
liberty of the citizen should be at the dis
cretion of a non judicial assembage iniiamed
with the passions of craftsmanship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

The delay of the committee reports on the
State AppOrtionment make it exceedingly
doubtful whether the measure can be passed
at this session. 1t would give to this city ana
Brooklyn each one more Senator and three
more Assemblymen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

One rather unexpected effect Of the Centennial
year is the stirring up of the bones of many of our
forefathers, to whose bodies due honor has never
been paid, whatever may have done TO their
memories. Robert Futoh's remains It is slated
were discovered last week in the vault of the liy-
ingston family in old Trinity churchyard, where
they Were afforded a temporary restingpace un'ii
claimed by his friends. There they have remained
since 1915. 1t is now proposed that his native
State should reclaim the great inventor, give
him q grave, and erect monument over hiin'
The body of Robert Morris, it appears has also peeh
suffered to remain unburied and unhonored Ill
vault in Christ Church, Philadelphia, ana Z"
to be inferred during the Centennial VII"
appropriate ceremonies. Certainly the NATION
owes debt to the great fnancier WIN
advanced his personal credit to carry on the "ai
when the colonies could find neither credit nor ca'H
elsewhere The pomp of public funeral wouiu W
q cheap way of paying the debt, and one likely "os
heartily accepted by the enthusiastic muitisuu,,
about to assemble in Philadelphia. But there shou'
be no talk of monuments unless the descendan'so'
Fulton and Morris erect them themselves. Inc on
thusasm of tho American people is OF gusty qua
ity, and not to be depended for steady contnDa'
tions which shall make 1t real In stones and ro''''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

prove our credit with English investors, the
contrast being the more impressive on account
of the heavy losses that have resulted from
the insolvency of Turkey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
Business Noilfes.

FLAGS o. ALL NATIONS GRAND MARCH-n-
lusated page; beautiful IMPOSITION Mailed FoSipMd'
Tor Doc. by vi. boA.h " p DU;;
IMPERIAL CARDS, Sc per dozen; Carries DIES
Visites -. Established 1881 o-o,,,
RoCEwOoD Photographer, $50 broadway.
THE PuILADEIPUIA BRANCH OFFICE of TIE
TRIBUNE removed To 7l3 Chesnuist oG Masonic Iemiel
subscriptions and advertisement received at regular rae
THE DAILY served by carrier in all parts OF he CITY,
THE CENTENNIAL WATCH.-The watch Tor
the Centennial easil b. Eet ct very moderate SSsI C
OF those elegant LApb PATENT bOLp
tAsrs fitted fine men To- match lry ~ anu sec
Tor yourself. These are made In LadleS
Bascinc, Man,ar ana FIAT SHAPES III All
STYLES Of engraving finish for stem ana ef move
hy dealers every
where None genuine unless stamped &C W: IADDs TAI
Circulars descriptive and HISTORICAL sent
sppicatio by the Manufacturers J. a. BROWN & CO.. IL
Maiden lane, New IOTk.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

In recent eloquent and rather imaginative lette
to The Herald Emilio CASTELAR, revives the report Oh
the desire of Prince Bismarck to accomplish at one
stroke the expulsion of the Turks from Europe and
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Austrian Empire. The
scheme is not new one, but was described exactly
as CASTELAR, now narrates 1t in letter from HE
TRIBUNEs correspondent at Vienna in the Summer
of 1873 Ii goes upon the supposition that the map
of Europe can be reconstructed in any way that
meets the Joint approval Of the Emperors William
and Francis Joseph and the Gar and proceeds, first,
to extingush the empire OF the Sultan IN Europe
and to give the whole country to the Austrian
Kaiser, who is to fix his capital at Constantinople;
second. to annex to Germany all the German-speak-
ing provinces of the Austrian Empre-Styria,
Carntha, the Tyrol, Upper and Lower Austria,
Morayia and presumably Bohemia, which is being
RAPIDLY Germanzed; and third to compensate Rus-
STA for this vast aggrandizement OF her rivals by
giving her the slices of Poland which fell to the
share of Prussia and Austria when that unhappy
kingdom was partitioned. This is magnifieent
scheme upon paper but the obstacles to its
realization are too formidable for us to
credit the report that sagacious statesman az
Bismarck is committed to it. Ii proceeds on the
hypothesis that England is no longer European
Power that France is not thirsting for an opportu-
nifty to be revenged upon Germany, and that tho
twelve millions OF Austrlan uerihins, ioiseu" VI
their glorious history are willing to lose their ma
tonality for the sake of realizing the dream of Ger
man unity and will submit to be governed by the
hated Prrssian Bureaucracy. The Austrians arc
not great patriots, but they always remember that
their imperial city was center Of civilization and
of Christian arts and when the site OF Berlin
was dreary waste of sand-his and boys, inhabited
by the barbarous and heather WeDds Nor have
they forgotten Sadowa. Besides there are the iery
Hungarans. who hate the Slavic races on their bor-
ders, and who would not consent to join with them
to found new Eastern Empire, in which tho
Magyar element could not by possibility exercise
the power it now yields in the dual government OF
Austria-Hungary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

An unusual number and variety of letters
from the people. will be found in our columns
to-day. The expressions of the popular views
in regard to political parties and Presidential
candidates are especially noteworthy; they
show precisely which way the wind is blowing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

Visiting the venerable city of Chartres, Mr..
Henry James, jr., finds ample scope for his
graphic pen, in describing the Cathedral of
Notre Dame, deemed one of the finest in
Europe The citizens of the quaint old town
appear to resist change as stubbornly as their
remarkable edifce.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29

The decision of Speaker Kerr, declaring that a
section which would transfer the Indian Bureau
to the War Department could not properly
form part of an appropriation bill, deserves a
word of praise. 1t is quite time that the old.
bad practice of tucking all sorts of measures
into appropriation bills should come to an end.
Many efforts to check that practice have been
made in this and the last Congress. The
Speakers ruling will be taken to mean that
these efforts are in earnest At the same time
it is to be hoped that the consequent delay OF
the measure for transferring the Indian Bureau
will not seriously interfere with its passage