New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-19


for eight months to do nothing.
The President nominated yesterday, and the
Senate confirmed, Mr.. KimbaIl, the present
chief of the Ldfe-Saving Service, as the tchiet
of the new bureau. This prompt action Is
deserved compliment to the man who has
made the Life-Saving Service what it is, and
an assurance thai its usefulness will be con-
tinued and enlarged.
Young America is keeping up its reputa-
ton. The detection of the enterprsing boy
burglars of New-York is succeeded now by
the discovery that circle of burglars, equally
epterprising and almost "a callow, exists m
| Brooklyn; and the four playful young per
sons who put heavy stones on the track OF
one of the elevated railroads are in the hands
of the police.
General Butler adds his protest to that
which Mr.. Proctor Knott has made against
the recent declaration of the House of Repre-
sentatives, that the Presidents title is sacred.
The General confines himself to arguing that
this question, like all others, is under the law,
not above il, and endeayOrs to make point
by recalling the reservation in the bill Great
ing the Electoral Commission, that any right
10 appeal to the courts should not be
preiudiced by the submission of the case to
that tribunal.
Congress seems determined that not even
its departure shall become it, and so at the
last moment has postponed adjournment for
day, and delayed for twenty-fOur hours, and
perhaps more, that long breath the country
is getting ready to take. The House defeated
the Senate substitute for the bill to repeal
the Resumption Act, the twO-thirds vote
necessary to suspend the rules not being
obtained. The vote seems to show thorough
confusion in the Congressional mind upon this
measure, the hard-mOney and rag-mOney men
being alike divided. While the bill had been
put in such q shape that It's final enactment
would have resulted in good aud not in evil, the
Secretary of the Treasury undoubtedly possesses
already the powers which it required him to
use. The failure of the bill will therefore
leave to his discretion, in maturing his plans
for resumption, what would otherwise have
been compusory.-A last attempt 70 repeal
the Resumption Act was defeated.
The House has passed Mr.. Potter's bill en-
larging the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims,
so as to provide for the audit of the thOus-
ands of claims which are now clOgging the
files of Congress. The bill contemplates
merely judicial recommendation on each
case, upoa which Congress can take what
action 1T chooses, but such recommendation
would necessarily carry great weight, and
there is nothing to show that any pro-
vision has been added to the bill to
bar the way of Rebel claims. Thousands of
these are said to be awaiting the passage of
this bill for admission to the Court of Claims
under President JohnsOn's amnesty prOclama-
tiOn which put dislOyal and loyal claimants
against the Government on the same footing
The House peremptOnly refused to take up
the bill extending for ten years the time IN
which the Northern Pacific Railroad can be
completed, and unanimously passed the bill
to facilitate the work of Captain Eads. The
Brazilian subsidy will probably fail.
The Senate passed the Fisheries Award bill,
in an honest, self-respectful way, without a
word of objection and without a dissenting