New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-27

rents not less than five more than ten per cent
| The owners of stores and business houses seem
more hopcflR of their future receipts. business
rents seem to have reached hard pan ana
when business revives tho empty stores viii
not be long in filling.
Should the Due Dccazes withdraw from the
French Cabinet from his inability to agree
with NJ. Simon, the new Premier the Repub-
lie will lose the services of an able minister
who has conducted its foreign affairs with cX-
ccllcnt Judgment NJ. Simon, it is said, will
succeed him, surrendering the Ministry of the
Interior to NJ. Bardoux, an Auvergne lawyer
who was elected to the late National Assem-
bly, by large majority, and there voted with
the Republicans. 1t is doubtful if this change
will promote the political interests of France.
Until the Republic is on tirmcr basis its
foreign affairs ought to be placed Ill charge
of one of those statesmen who are ariotocratlc
by birth and Republican by conviction.
COMPARED with our own the Mexican mode of
settling disputed elections works badly. Ex-
President Lerdo, who it is said was counted
in by Congress, is now a fugitive, Gen. Diaz
having gone behind the returns in very
arbitrary fashion. Mr.. IglesiaS, the other
aspirant, tried to uphold his claim by force OF
arms, but he WAS soon compelled to flee and
| Is now at San Francisco planning new
schemes of conquest. Gen. Diaz, it is true,
has gained the prize of dictatorship bat he
has a bad title and depends on tickle army
for political existence. All might have Jared
better with compromise commission, but
perhaps there were no fifteen arb!trators III
Mexico whom any of the claimants would trust.
The United States Senate seems to be in
luck. To supplant Gen. Logan with Judge
| Davis, and To replace man OF moderate
ability like Mr.. Norwood with man of power
like Mr.. Ben. Hill, means IA gain for the senate
in brains, if not i'll Republican votes. Thus far,
| certainly, the South has done its share toward
redccming tins body from the blight OF mcdl-
0cIity that has fallen on 1t Ill late years, ana
| tie practice which seems now to obtain among
! Southern Democrats of rcnOmnating III bulk
| thcir delegations to the House gives promise
Of a series of trained statesmen Of IKE
skill to those who ruled the country before
the war. Meanwhile Mr. Hill comes to the
| Senate not so much, IT Is to ne hoped, with
the idea of getting even with Mr.. Blaine as
in the patriotic spirit of his speech OF yesier-
dav. Mr. Hills friends insist that he has been
misrepYcsentcd and misunderstood. He now
has an opportunity of proving it, with the
whole country for his jury.
Controller Kelly hits the nail on the head
when he tells the Legislature that the pro-
posed constitutional amendment limiting the
bonded debt of NcW-YOrk City to Ti30,oO0,OOO
"dealS with effects Instead Of causes.' There
j. no use Of passing a laS that water shall not
rln down hill 80 long "a there are hills for 1t
10 run down. The way to prevent the ~
crease OF the bonded debt of the Cliy Is 10
repeal the laws which not only authorize but
compel the :,.,, Of bonds, and to give the
people of tins s,ly sufficient power over tier
own concerns to enforce sound DuNleSS
| management of them. When this much has
been done. and the debt La' been reduced, II
| will be time enough tor talk about liking
limit to il but if there is to be any limit at
| al, we Should prefer to see The line drawn "a
good way below $4,000, 00G Fox the credit
of this generation, the next ought not 20 be
allowed to see in the Constitution figure so
clearly demonstrating tle incapacity OF great
city to guard its own interests.
Nv Murtagh, under the broad shield OF the
Presidents veto, il engaged Iii making lie a
bnrdcD 70 those of his suh0rd.natcS who sub
ycrtcd the discipline Of the Washington police
force bv disclosing his pot against the char
acler of Mr.. Whlthornc. Al of the witnesses
ao,i,st him have been suspended from Their
positions There is way 10 put an end TO
this business, and quick one. Let the two
houses pass over the Presidents veto the bill
which they voted through Unanimously, wil'ins
the board out of existence, Ne one will wI5h
NJ this period in the Presidents term, to put
any unnecessary aiirOnt upon INN, but lac
graveiy PROPOSES, it is said, to Nnsidin his
veto by urging that now that certain I"'crniS
are found % be necessary, thc men VINO i'''i'e
them necessary should be left in Office :" carry
them into effect. When this Is once under
stood it will be readily conceded that ii viii
be kindness rather than an ailiont to iH""
him out OF an unfortunate position i'll which
his ovrr-conndence in his friends he's placed
him. Mr.. Nultagh, BY reason Of his relations
TO the President, i, d rational scandal. AMI he
ought to be removed from the pubic view as
spccdily DIS possible.
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