New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-07

! Perhaps he consoles himself with the ldea tha'
it is the other stock that has gone down.
In France, the obstacles to the formation OF
n Republican, Ministry have virtually disap-
peared, since President MacMahon has au-
thOnzed Nj. Dufaure 20 form one from the Left
Centre, or Moderate Republicans. The Presl-
dent it appears, wanted to have coalition
Cabinet, but rs the Conservatives were not
disposed to enter ono and the Orleanist Scna-
tors were willing to accept Ministers from
the Left Centre, MacMahon was constrained to
call on NJ. Dufaure. The names already
designated as likely to form part OF
the new Ministry, cannot fail to IN
spire general confidence. The Presidents
submission is not as ample rs the Republicans
had reason to expect, but with honest states
men such as Washington and Say in office, he
Will cease to be dangerous.
The President decided that the contest with
the Senate over the New-York appointments
must continue and has, therefore, re-
newed the nominations. If this fight
is inevitable, it is great pity the
! President could not have chosen a better
! battle ground. The management Of this whole
| Custom House business has been TrcsOute
inconsistent and impracticabc that the best
| friends of the Administration cannot defend
its course. The New-GOrk Republicans unani-
mOusly asked that General Merritt be APP
! pointed TO fill the only vacancy, and that the
officers whose terms are still unexplrcd be
not turned out, except for cause. 1t may be
inferred that their influence in the Senate now
will be cast in favor of the same policy. An
ugly struggle is, therefore impending, III winch
nearly the whole Republican Senate and all
the Republican Representatives from New
York are aIrayed against the Republican
President, with little prospect of any good to
result to either side from it,
! A step backward has been taken in the
| House of Representatives in the matter OF
committee REPORTS The habit of commit
tees OF dividing off by parties on ques-
tons of law and fact has grown into
an abuse of such proportions that the
committee has wholly lost its judicial
character, and has become merely board of
attorneys for the two sides. When it was
announced, therefore, that seven out of
! eleven members of the House Committee on
Elections had voted to recommend new
| election for member from Colorado it was
| Il
been set. But no sooner was this result
known than the partisans of the House
set to work to undo 1t, and the con-
sequence is they have persuaded out of their
colleagues the regulation Democratic report,
| and almost the regular Republican report, one
member Ex-Governor Cox, having sufficient
| strength of mind to adhere to his original
| opinion Unfortunately, the Republicans seem
to have begun the work of persuasion.
Just now this world has run to shows, and
| not all are so fleeing as they well might he.
Here comes c0lOred baby show, III 1000
shades, and a cat show, the orchestra to
range from one to two thousand members-ex-
clusiyely string band. And there are more
baby shows. one just accommodating in Brook
lyn, and another Quarrelling over the prizes in
Newark Now, when some ambitious white
baby demands admission to the cOlored
show. Is refused, ana inv0kcs the Civil
Rights Act in the courts, and the eau
casian newspapers denounce this new mani
festation of the tyranny Of race" and.are
informed that white infant has no rights
which a coored baby is bound to respect and
when the cat show is started in full chorus
why, then we shall be glad TO see the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Chill
dren and Mr. Bcrgi's ditio-ditto-ditto for Ami
mails follow the example the first Soci-'s
has set in the matter of the t-7"-0"Aoh
infant exhibition. They 80 moving on the
babies with grim offers and physicians mt
ve shall depenJ on Mir. Bcrgh to see that tine
kittens bau, mittens and paregOric.
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It was q great day for silver yesterday IN the
Senate. Mr.. Stanley Matthews presented a
resolution favoring the payment OF the pub
lie debt in silver. and the advocates Of
the Bland bill prevented its indefinite post
poncment twice obtaining more than a two
thirds vote of those voting. On one motion
tbev had forty votes, on another foIty-One; the
advocates of honest money getting but eighteen
ON each question. Ii is no wonder that the
| silver infa6Onsts were greatly elated with
| their triumph, and predicted the passage Of
! the Bland bill over the Presidents veto. The
! honest masses of the country viii be
somewhat detected, if not alarmed, at this APP
n3reptlv sweeping victory for Silver initiation,
/ though it was not strictly a test question,
and the vote was by no means full But Sen
otor Joness followers will do well To remem-
Der the proverb about being too noisy while
still in the woods. There are a few Senator's
at least, among those who voted to hasten ac-
| ton on the bill, who are not committed to it +;
and of the sixteen Senators who were paired
or absent yesterday, the Silver men must gain
ten. beside holding all they had on this pre-
lminarv motion, TO pass the bill over the PreSi-
dents veto. 1t does not seem possible that they
can Gain this number and hold the whole Of
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