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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07
sELFG oVERSMANT FOR GREAT CITIES

ELF-GOVERNJfENT FOR GREAT CITIES.
Secretary Evarts is to address his fellow
citizens tonight on the project for municipal
reform proposed by his Charter Commission.
We shall be glad if the unusual occurrence of
such an appearance by the ranking officer OF
the National Administration may serve to fix
the popular notice.
If there be any men of prominence or any body
of men in this community who deliberately
and openly approve of the government OF :his
city by the Legislature IN the manner in which
il has been governed during the last forty
years, we do not know who they are. If they
exist they conceal themselves. The promoters
of the annual charter tinkering at Albany do
not defend their course OF attempt to justify
it on any theory of municipal government.
They simply follow it because they like it,,
OF because the party in the majority for
the time being needs the control of certain
| city Offices. In fact, we remember no vicious
| or useless legislation which so few attempts
have been made to disguise or palliate. II
| was not unnatural that the experiment of
/ governing the city through the Legislature
should have been made when the plan of
managing city affairs through universal suf-
| frage began to break down. 1t was not mt
that time unreasonable to suppose that some
new distribution of powers and duties would
repress the evils which began to show them
selves as population and revenue increased.
| But the experiment has now been fully tried.
Every conceivable device of Encouragement has
been resorted to, and all rational men are
| agreed that whether cities can govern them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07
Qmussmenis ano Alfftinas Go Night.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC.-2: al Trovatore."
PooTHs THRATER-l:20 and s: "Nirgnius" :,
EAGLE THRATER.-1:30 and 3: Crown OF Ihotns. y,
FIFTH AVENUE THEAIER.-2 and 9: THE Princess Royal
GRAND OPERA House." Miss Mutton -,
Srs Bpo,DwA An TnYATER-2 and 8 " Oliver Twist"
EIRIo's q ARDES.-2 and 3: Antony aud Cieopatra
OLYMPIC TRRATER-2 and 8: Jack and jill
PARK THEATER.-2 and s: "a our Buardnlg HOUSE
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTREIS-2 ana ..
TOsr PAsTORs NEW THEArER-N ariety.
1rS,ox soy INV Tur al so and 81 The Danchens"
VAIIIcK's TnEArKR.-l:30 and 5; "My Awim DAD.
ACADEMY OF DEsIGs.-Day and Evening; EAhouoh Vi
Paintings. -, =, nil.
ASSOCIATIONS HAIL. Lecture. W. I. Bick.
COOPER UNION-Lecture. Prof. Menuchha,n;; ,ooi ond
Musical Performance. .
NEwYoRK AQUARIUM.-Day and Evening.
SrEINwAY IALI~-1:30: Telephone Concert:
sTEINwAY Halls: symphony Con cert Ihomts'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

Neither South Carolina nor the country should
expect too much of Wade Hampton and the new
regime, and thus prepare for disappointment and
perhaps despair. If Mr.. Hampton himself has risen
above the prejudices of his class, the preudces not
only remain IN the minds,of his followers but they
have been trebly anchored there by the experience
of the past years Among the negroes too there re-
mans suspicion of political danger from the whites,
and this srloldering distrust will be dexetrously
famed into steady glow ny the enemies of the new
rule OF course it Will require combination OF all
the virtues with rare wisdom to direct such way
ward and dIscordant political forces into anything
like harmonious action. But If this IS success
fully achieved. a good government Is only one OIL
many agencies which are needed to BRING
prosperity where now there is desOation Ihe state
has been wasted, stripped, and peeled. Its capital
has been swept away, and all enterprise and energy
have been suppressed Now legislators and gov
ernors are not able at their best to lift communities
ont of poverty and Encouragement This universal
shipwreck of material prosperity cannot be cured at
once by good laws or an honest administration of
them And all this must be borne In
mind by enthusiastic citizens who dream Of
immediate and abundant prosperity in South
Carolina or we may look for q depressing reaction
There must intervene many dark and toilsome days
before the scars OF war and msrue are fairly healed
Encourage the new Government in all its endeayors
10 hasten this contamination but do not expect OF II
impossibilities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

sion of Legislatures, and, though the commits
sieners still hope to bring this about. both
sides seem equally firm. The Democrats are
undoubtedly impelled to this course by the be-
lief that the failure of the efforts of the Com
mission will result in the withdrawal OF the
troops and the abandonment of the whole con-
troyersy TO the people of the State.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07
Business Nollts5.

IMPERIAL CARDS, Six Dollars per Dozen, by
RocKwocD, II Union luare taboye IinaIy). --
VoGEL Bros, The only House
that sells FASHIONABLE CLOTHING at actual Low fISes
broadway, Houston ST., ana EGhthaVe" near 4-ue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

There is a number of extremely important
industries which the United States Is httcd,
by the natural resources of the country ana
the peculiar talent of the people. to carry on
on a much larger scale than at present. Cot
ton manufacturing is one, and the manuiac-
ture of all sorts of tools, implements, and
machinery is another. There are still others,
and one of the most important to the country
is that of iron shipbuilding. The experience OF
the past has not been favorable to iron ship
building in the United States. and little OF
none has been done up to within very few
years 1t has, however, long been apparent
IN the observer that the time must come
eventually, at some period or other, when the
country would go into the business on large
scale. The land is supplied with an extraor-
binary abundance of all the materials which
compose iron ships, in the first place. and In the
second place there has never been any doubt
at all but that the yigOr and talent and other
couses which have enabled cotton and Other
manufacturers to achieve. success in their arts
in competition with the world, would also il
the end enable the iron shipbuilders to do the
same in theirs. 1t would appear from the
statements of an article on this subject IL
another column that iron shipbuilding has
already become successful in the United States
At any rate, it has had a most interesting
growth and development, and the builders
now claim to be able to serve the country az
well as they can be served anywhere i'll the
world. An industry which spends such enor
nous sums of money annually and so benefits
a people among which it is conducted, deserves
the good will OF the public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

II aay further consideration than that Of public
duty were needed to insure a large attendance at
the Chickering Hall municipal meeting tonight,
the announcement that Mr. Evarts the head Of that
commission, will be present and speak. having como
on from Washington for that purpose, ought to be
sufficient. Besides Mr.. Evarts, William Allen Butler,
SImOn Sterne, and Dorman b. Eaton will address the
meeting the important themes which it is called
to consider There ought to be full attendance Of
our hest citizens
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

When man gets up in a Legislature and
says frankly that he has transgressed parlla-
mentary rules and is very sorry for it, and,
moreover, takes newspaper rebuke with the
meekness with which Mr.. AlvOrd accepted
Yesterday our remarks of yesterday, he de-
serves to ego up head" So make room, gen
tlemen. Mr.. Alvord will take his place at the
head.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

Receiver Best's charges against Superintcnd-
ent Ellis of the Bank Department have been
laid before the Senate by the Governor, after
Mr.. Ellis had been allowed hearing, with a
recommendation for his removal. The depo-
stions submitted show that an examination OF
the condition of the Mechanics and Traders
Savings Bank in September, 1874, showed a de
ficiency of 100000, and that Mr.. Ellis satisfied
himself by personal examination made by re-
ouest of two of the trustees, that this showing
was correct. Nevertheless, no action was taken
to protect the deposltors, though both OF these
trustees frequently urged it. Two succeeding
annual reports of the Department were
allowed to set forth a surplus where
the Superintendent knew there was dei-
cheney. and it was not until nearly two years
after. wnen this deficiency had swellcd to nearly
$3.50 600, that the sluggish Superintendent at
last took acton.-These are, OF course, the
statements of the prosecution. The deiensc
has vet to be heard. Gov. Robinson has
heard it, however, and, while acquiting Mr..
Ellis of all "intentional wrong" condemns
him for "culpable negligence" SO Will the
public, unless Mr.. Ellis can make better
showing than these facts would seem to per-
nit. The Senate owes him prompt trial and
speedy acqmttal, if these charges are not
sustained; if they are sustained, the Senate
owes to the great public of savings bank de-
postors Mr.. Ellis's speedy removal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

candor to say Senator Jacobs Of Brooklyn is tho
man. In signing report upon the New Capitol, he
declines to express any preference between the new
and old plans, with this statement of his reasons:
1T is a question of architectural taste. and my
opinion concerning such matter is worthy OF no
consideration" There is as little question about
the truth Of this as about its frankness but that
makes it all the moy creditable to Mr. Jacobs to say
so. II more of our lawmakers had been like him,
we should have fewer appalling post-ofices planted
about the land fewer saw-cut statues filing the
corridors at Washington, and-to come back to the
tcxt-we should not now have this nightmare of
New Capitol making life burden. Mr. Jacobs ha,
set good example to generations Of legislators yet
unborn.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

Opponents of capital punishment will find a
picturesoue text in the narrow margin by
which probably innocent man escaped the
gallows yesterday in Vermont A mere acct
dent led to the disclosure of important evil
dence tending to prove an abb l.; the Governor
of the State was telegraphed to barely few
moments before the hour fixed for the execu-
ton, and, happening to be at the time in the
telegraph Office, sent an immediate reprieve
A single break in this chain of happy acct
dent, and the condemned man might have
been beyond the reach of mercy.
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SATURDAY. APRIL Z, 1877.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

After so much costly and presumptuous fooling by
Congressman and Legislators with matters OF archi-
lecture and arr it is refreshing to find one popular
representative with sufficient sense to know that ne
knows nothing ON such subjects and with sliiiclent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

There are good reasons for hoping that the
gambling hells of tho lower part OF the CITY
may now be broken up. Two compainah'S
have succeeded in arresting William L. Gage
w. r. Parsons, and John DAILY, who are re-
puted to be among the most skilful thieves
at cards in America. In giving false names
on bail they are said to have committed TEL
ony. If so, by all means let the Grand jury
indict and the Judge send them to sing
Sing. We can spare them. They can
do better service there than in tlls
CITY. It is worthy of consideration on the part
of the authorities that if this one house IS
broken up all are ruined; for the spectacle
of these principal swindlers acting as defend
ants in StatesPrison suits Will fr1ghteh Tue
minor scoundrels into at least temporary
honesty.
After Mr.. Oakley Halls performance, we are
prepared for any plumber OF fugltives, anu
defy anybody, however noted, wealthy, or
iovial to surprise us by running away. bu'
even his fight has hardly prepared the puphc
to learn without establishment that the hiys-
ferrous disappearance in the cities OF New
York and Brooklyn within the past three
months have numbered 105, of whom 20
persons are still unbound and untraced. Our
local columns to-day give an account of all OF
these last of whom information can be Oh
tanned. and the story is one Of interesting and
sometimes romantic incident. The explanations
given for disappearance in the greater number
of cases, however, are calculated to undermine
faith in human nature. Especially demoraiH-
ing is the disclosure that people write letters
foreshadowing suicide, and then go Oft, with
out the formality of paying their bills, to
another and more comfortable boarding place.
Hereafter persons who want their mawkish let
ters to be accepted as genuine will be required
to leave their remains on the premises.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

The Louisiana Commission went to work at
once. Their first day in New-Orleans was
necessarily occupied with the preiiminaries to
their labors, but they have already succeeded
in oscertaining the strength of the sentiment
Of the business men in behalf of Gov Nichols,
and in confronting the first great difficulty in
their way. The first was evinced by an i'm
mense meeting, which the Commission wit
messed. The second was speedily discovered
in conferences with the politicians of both
sides. Both parties were found unwilling to
accede to the Commissions scheme for fu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07

The Rev. DR.. Malaliou of the NewEngand
Methodist Conference seems to be under the
impression that Gov. Tilden ought not to have
been allowed to run for the Presidency, and
that some Divine visitation should have re-
moved him from the contest. This is rather a
radical view of it. We had our own views
about the propriety of electing Gov. Tilden,
but he had an undoubted right, under the
Constitution, to be voted for. Possibly, how
ever, perplexing questions of this character
might be avoided in the future by referring
the whole matter of choosing President and
inaugurating an Administration to the New
England Methodist Conference.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-07


will supply. Whether it will work, of course
remains to be seen. The common demagog-
zeal objection to it, that it is opposed to the
principle of universal suffrage, can hardly be
considered worth serious examination. Uni
versa suffrage, like all other instruments OF
government, is an eXpedient for securing the
general welfare, and the general welfare is
not subserved when it is made means
of spolation and the management OF prop
erty by persons who do not own 1t, or feel
that they are made any worse off
bv its being wasted or alienated, is of
course spoliatiOn. If the matter be properly
placed before the voters of the State, we feel
sure that on consideration they will see that
there is no more justice or expedicncy in hav-
ing cities taxed by the vote OF all the inhab-
,tants than there would be in having railroads
managed by vote of the passengers. In no
count i'm the world is the fact that money
is best managed by the men who raise
it better understood than in this. Every
American is in certain sense bust
ness man, and would. if the case were prop
erly submitted to him, see no more sense in hav-
ing the streets or sewers of a city regulated by
strangers, soiourners and tramps than III hay
ing the hotel-kcepcrs oyerruled in the man
acement Of their houses by the multitude who
would like good dinner and are short of
money city is simply, for governmental
purposes, vast body of property accumu-
lated for commercial purposes on small area.
1t is ridiculous to say that allowing the own
ers to provide for its safety and for their own
health is an infringement of the rights of man.
Finally if the nlan of the commission he
adopted, there is fair chance that 4" the
property owners and substantial men," as they
are called, will at last be induced to interest
themselves in municipal affairs. To get them
TO do so has for forty years been pro-
nounced by all parties the great desideratum
of municipal politics. Short Hairs and Swal-
low Tails have both for two generations been
continually crying for this as the one
thing needful. The property Owners and sub
stantial men have, however, turned deaf ear
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-24

possession of some of the offices of the
city and State, they will not go SO far as
to assert it was done in defiance of the
power of the United States. 1t is true,
they claim to be only de .fdcto rulers, etc.,
but they maintain in the same breath
that they are the rightful successors to
de jure and constitutional government 1t
is perfectly clear they can not be de facto
unless they are simultaneously de jttre Of
fcials. They can not be de j,tre because
they are where they are by military
force. They deny that they have
made any issue with the United States,
by which they have taken violent possess
sion of the de jurs State government.
Had they made such an issue, with ability
to sustain themselves for o reasonable
period of time against the authority and
power of the United States, their status
might correctly be styled de .fdcto, But
the idea that mere party in State may,
by sudden instruction against the re-
cognized government thereof, take pos
session of number of its offices, and by
q military conspiracy neutralize the func-
tons of all the others, then plausibly an
nounce to the United States, which is
pledged to ENSURE domestic tranquility"
in every State in this Union, and to
President who must see that the laws are
faithfully executed, that they represent
de facto government, which should be re-
spected, is, in our opinion, too transparent
to cause any serious perplexity. If, as
they singularly contend, these acts have
been done under the laws touching such
matters, why theirs is a government de
jure, and not one simply de fdcto. If it be
found that such is not the case, what re-
spect will their boosted government COM
mand from either Congress or the Presi-
dent?
To assert that the party has established
de facto government only. is tantamount
to confession of criminality, for such a
one is never authorized by any law that
can be applied to a State in this Union.
1t is impossible to conceive the idea of the
existence of State government without
the sanction of concurrent laws on which
and by which it is established. We read
lily understand how a nation having q
government of law may be overpowered
by an enemy; how it may be occupied
and dominated by it, Independently of its
laws; but low State of this Union can
be dominated by a faction of its own
people, independently of its laws, and
reasonably expect that Congress will ap-
prove it, Notwithstanding lis plain consti-
tutional obligation to see that no State is
ruled without republican laws, is some
thing we are not able to grasp. 1t must
see to it that every single State govern
ment in this Union is strictly de jure, and
it can not, nor will it, tolerate one which
sets up no higher claim to recognition
than that it is only de fdctO.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-24

lature and judges, the colored member
would disappear from Congress. Not q
specimen of the colored representative
would be preserved. 1t would be cata-
logued and preserved in the political
museum as the fossil relic of an ex-
tinct political variety. The political
serf of Democracy would have succeeded
to the industrial serf, and the political
master would hereafter, as heretofore,
take control of the government in the
right of those who were represented as
members, while they could not represent
themselves as men. While, therefore,
there can be no possible danger that the
colored citizen can be deprived of the
right of suffrage, provided it is cast as the
Democracy may order, there is every
danger that the solid electoral vote of the
colored race will be captured and cast for
the Democratic policy, which substitutes
the poll teal and social subjugation of the
colored race for the servile bondage from
which the Republican party has Just de-
hvered them.
The demand, therefore, that the basis
of represen tation in certain States shall
be reduced in conformity with the con-
stitutionaT amendments may be expected
to come from the petition of the colored
citizens. This will be done to protect
themselves against oppression. 1t will be
done to guarantee to them the right of
free will suffrage and other rights, which
they can alone expect from the continu-
ance of the Federal administration in the
hands of the Republican party. The
Democratic organ, therefore, in discussing
the question has wholly lost sight of the
constitutional amendment quoted by us.
1t confounds representation with suffrage.
1t does not see that to secure suffrage the
colored people must themselves demand
that a misrepresentation which replaces
them in practical bondage shall be rem
dered impossible by being repealed.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-24

presidency of one of those convention
members and in the presence of others.
Who can thus pretend to doubt the mean
ing of the constitution? A President of
the Senate ''elected for the sole purpose of
receiving and opening the certificates and
counting the votes" are these not the
words of Washington, president of the
constitutional convention? Were they
not Endorsed by that body unanimously?
Are they not repeated in the proceedings
of the first Senate? Has not this practice
been pursued from the foundation of the
government to the present? 1t is now to
be reversed from q fear that q violent
class of politicians may not be satisfied
with the practice of Washington and
Langdon. We may add that James Madi-
son, another member of the constitutional
convention, then o member of the House
of Representatives, appeared to inform
the Senate on behalf of the House that it
had agreed that the notifications of the
election of the President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States should be made
be such persons and in such manner as
the Senate shall be pleased to direct. We
have not at hand the roll of the House of
Representatives, but it is sufficient to
show that James Madison, on behalf
of that body, recognized the proceed
ings as regular and in perfect accordance
with the intention of the Federal conven-
ton and constitution.
We do no. know that this publication
of the initial election of President could
have any weight. 1t has been before Con-
gress and is well known to its members.
We, therefore, repeat that there would
seem no solution of the compromise bill,
unless in attributing to sworn and intelli-
gent members motives which We do not
care to suggest, since their existence
would imply that neither the constitution
nor the love of constitutional liberty were
any longer dominant principles among US.