New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-05

been favorably reported from committee, ana
if the friends of the Paik-and in that term
we include every citizen, rich and poOr-dO
not exert themselves, it may become law.
If it should, it needs little imagination to de-
pict the scenes that would follow. A park that
has cost nearly or quite ten millions of dollars,
and is likely in time to be the great breathing
spot of city of two millions of people, more
densely crowded than any other city of Its
size in the world, would be periodically in
vaded by militia out for holiday and over
run by bosterous crowds who would destroy
It's repose and deface its beauty. The very
purpose for which the Park was made would be
defeated, and the Park itself would he III
course of constant depreciation. Let us near
no more of this bill. Far be it from us to
say that its author ought to be taken out and
killed, but we have no such merciful feeling
about his bill. Give it no quarter
What President HAYES will say to-day IN his
inaugural speech may he inferred from the
authoritative outline of it given III our Wash
ingtOn dispatches 1t goes without saying that
his address will he in entire harmony with his
letter of acceptance. 1t will deal chiefly with
the problem, which the progress OF events mas
forced to the front, and the solution OF which
will be the great work of the new Admlnstra-
tion-the condition of the Southern people.
To this work it is most gratifying to know
that the Administration will address itself
rather than to the filling OF Offices. This Is
civil service reform at the start, and the gen
tcmen who are hanging about the Washing
ron hotels. hoping to get a chance to reform
il from the outside, may rs well pack UP and
leave for home Those Offices which the Pres
ident must fill are evidently TO be filed i'll the
same liberal policy. The Democratic successor
OF Andrew johnson in the Scnatc-David NJ.
KEYS offered a seat in the Cabinet, under
circumstances that will involve no surrender
of honor on his part, and will doubtless ac-
ccpt. Other names have been decided upon
which are not new to discussion. NIX.
Eyarts is, of course, to be Secretary OF state,
and Mr.. Sherman Secretary OF the Treasury;
Carl Schurz is to I've at the head of the Int
ror Department. while Mr.. McCraIy's place is
not vet fixed. These five, however, will GER
tainlv enter the Cabinet, and the names of
their colleagues will soon be known
Nothing was perhaps more characteristic OF
the now dcfunct Congress than its close. When
Speaker Randalrs hammer fell it was easy to
see that the House, which had, by an exhibition
of wholly unnecessary obstinacy, compelled an
extra session of Congress. WAS the same Old
obstinate and heaGstrOng House that 1t always
was 1t fought out the last precious hours OF
its life on an attempt to amend the Constitu-
ton of the United States by bill, or, Ill other
words, to specify with respect to what parts
of the country the President shall exercise his
prerogative as the head of the army. They
showed again the full measure of their
rcckleSsness where the Constitution Is IN
question, Just as they have shown 1t
before, and all for nothing. If they know
ANYTHING, they know that military policy Is
the last thing to be expected from President
HAYES, and yet they refused to be moved even
by the assurances which Congressman Foster.
an OHIO Republican and Mr.. liayes's personal
friend, gave them upon that point. They re-
fused even to appropriate enough money to
keep the army going for six or even three
months, so that an extra session might be
| necessary Indeed, the House went out of
Office in the favorite attitude of the useful
! animal it so often ACKNOWLEDGMENT both heels
| and back up. AS for the rest OF the
work of the closing hours of this Con-
gress it was the same old story of mixed good
and evil. The Pacific Mail subsidy was killed.
but so was the fast mail; the Sherman Specie
Payments bill also, and the attempt to reduce
the Presidents salary was defeated At neither
of its two sessions did this Congress accom-
plish much, as the list of acts published else
where will show of the last. The first
was occupied in getting ready for the Presi-
dental contest, the second in getting rid of it.
Both are ended now, and history will proceed
TO administer upon the estate.
THE NEW POLICI.