New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-14
is for precautionary purposes, but u - 700
small to excite alarm.

ia for precautionary purposes, but u - 700
small to excite alarm.
The Canadian ardor for industrial develop
ment found expression yesterday In inc hrge
vote in favor of Sir John A. Macdonald
motion, calling for national policy tha'
would benefit and foster tho agrcuitnrhi'
mining and manufacturing interests Oh 'ne
Dominion. When 76 out OF l9O members
support a. demand of that tenor 1t is clear
that the existing revenue tariff must he
growing IN drfavor, aud that some change Is
inevitable.
The attempt at barratry which is reported
from Baltimore was n bold one. The ship
name had been changed before carrying her
into that port, she had been provided with
fraudulent papers, and the plot OF the crew TO
sell in Baltimore q cargo of half million
pounds of coffee which was destined for n
German port seems to have made danger
GUS approach to success. 1t Is q curious evil
dence of the necessity of thorOughness III
rascality that the conspiracy might have sue
ceeded, if the false papers had not Numbered
in making the vessel sail from port which
is not port of register
The report of the minority of the House
Committee on the Pacific Railroads upon
the Texas and Pacific Bill, is an unan-
swerable argument against the subsidy
schemes. On nearly every possible ground tho
minority are against the grab; they are op-
| posel to subsidies in general and to this one
in particular. The Texas and Pacific has
forfeited its right to make any further
demands upon the Government by Its failure
to comply with tho terms of its charter. ana
its request for a guarantee of interest covers
so long period, and Is for such high rate OF
interest. that the minority declare the United
States could better afford to build the road
and give it outright to the company.
Our Washington dispatches contain an inter
esting showing Of the large grants OF iahoi
made to railroads in excess OF the amounts
which Congress contemplated giving. lhey
have grown out of a former ruling of the In
terror Department which allowed railroads, Ill
cases where portions of their grants were
found to have been already disposed OF by
the Government, to indemnify themselves by
selecting an equal amount outside OF the
grant. This ruling has been destroyed by a
decision of the Supreme Court, and the De-
partment is now examining the ac-
counts of the various Immigrant roads to
see to what extent the amounts which
they have received, or would have received
under the old ruling, should be abated. This
investigation shows that almost every such
road has received more land than Congress
intended to give, and that number OF roads
which have not yet earned the whole OF their
fb.tr OLE ms orr
lessened. OF the four roads whose accounts
have been examined, one, the Wisconsin Cen
trail. has already received more land than 1t is
entitled to- although 1t has received but little
more than one-thnd of the amount comprised
within the original grant; and the three re-
naming roads would have received 1,3l5,OOO
acres more under the old ruling than under the
new. Some small share, at least. of the vast
domain which has been so recklesstS voted
away to corporations bids fair to be recovered.