New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-18

is considered, IL really seems tiiab New Iolr. :
share of the representation in Commission
of nearly dozen members is quite small
enough but the Collector, having only one
choice to make, could not well have made
better one.
That was an extraordinary scene III the
House yesterday when. Mr.. Potter and Mr..
Hale acting as tellers Mr.. Potter counted MI.
Hale in the NEGATIVE, though he had not
voted at ALL Mr.. Hale appealed to the
Sneaker. and GencIal Garfield also called that
loduacous functionary's attention to the fact
that the gentleman from Maine did not pass
between the tellcrs, as the rules required. AT
this the Speaker cried: That is an absurd
city; how are tellers to pass between them
"selves?o A straddling Speaker has been
known to do something like it, Nr. Randall !
Dr.. Ever, who recently reiterated his dictum
against the success of Professionalism, meets
an opponent III the Rev. Charles K. Baker, OF
| BROOKLYN, who takes issue with DR.. Ever III
| letter printed on another page. Mr. Baker Is
! inclined to uphold the view which Dr. Ever
refuses TO recognizc-that the existence OF
! Professionalism mt the same time with the prog
ress of enlightenment and Of enterprise is some
! thing more than a coincidence; and 1t Is also
urged that Dr. Ever Is seeking to apply posi-
tive tests in matters in which the church to
which these clergymen belong has wisely
! allowed the freest range to speculation.
| Men of science will generally be pleased
with the election of Professor Spencer +.
| Baird to fill the place of the late Professor
! Henry as secretary of the Smithsonian lnsu-
| tuition. For many years Professor Baird has
had charge of the details of management OF
that concern, and its admirable working
system is largely due to his sense OF
order and capacity for administration. In
scientific pursuits, Professor Baird has
won distinction in two or three distinct
lines. He is in the front rank among
ornithologists; as United States Fish Commits
siOner he is one of the leaders in ichthyology
and practical tsh-culture his annual record
of scientific progress and discovery is the
most complete publication of the kind in eX-
istence. The Smithsonian Regents could not
have selected better man to fill the vacancy.
As usual, the Anglo Russian dispute presents
warlike and peaceful aspects At st. Pc
tersburg, Count SchOuvalOif is supposed to
have persuaded the Gar that he ought
to yield to highlands demands. Pre-
vious reports indicated that he was dis
posed to give up his claim to Batum, to
! retrace the limits of Bulgaria, ana mod
ify his demand for a war indemnity.
! These concessions are very great IRON
Russian point of view, but they
| fall short of what England indicated in the
Salisbury circular. They are, however, suf-
| ficicnt to satisfy British pride and to enable
the Government to boast that its timely
threats saved Turkey from being com
pletely Rus>ianizcd. The terms outlined
would likewise serve TO give the British
| Liberals a stronger cause, and make their
| plea for peace almost irresistible, were Lord
| BeacOnsfcld to persist in his mischeTors
| course. The advance of the Russians toward
! Constantlnople, threatens, however, to offset
! the good feeling terminating at London and
! st. Petersburg.
The able paper in which Secretary Eyarts
! reviews the history Of the Halifax Fisheries
! Award sustains in its statement OF facts, all
| that has been alleged of the injustice OF that
verdict, and approves, in its suggestions, the
recommendations made by Mr. Blaine In
word Mr.. EyartS says, as we have already SAID
Pay, but not without protest. With Tcierenc"
! to the necessity for Unanimity in the award the
! Secretary is content to reproduce the utter
! ances of Mr.. Blake, Canadian Minister OfJustice
! and of The London Times, both long since printed
! in TIE TRIBUNE, which most distinctly asserted
/ the necessity of such Uuaumity. With refer
epce to the equity of the award, the paper
presents compact array of unansweable
/ facts. The practical measure of the cOnccs-
sion to the United States under Article is,
! " of the Treaty of Washington, was the
participation by our citizens in the in-shore
Fisheries of the Gulf of st. Lawrence"-a mack
! crel fishery within the three-mie limit From
! the value of this privilege 1t was at least
| necessary to deduct the value Of the privilege,
| given in return, of free importation into our
norts of the products of the Canadian fish
| erles, in order to get at the proper figure for
| an award. though Commissioner Kellogg, i'll
| deed. thought the privilege conferred upon
| the Canadians was more valuable than that
! received by u.s. Now the right granted to III
| WAS once estimated to be worth iii
| perpctuity less than million dollars, ana the
| rIght granted to the Canadians they considered
so valuable that they would not hear OF part
ing with it. But when the Commissioners
| came to ascertain the difference between these
| two values, for twelve years use only OF the
right they find it to be S5,5OO,OOO! For
tunately, however as Mr.. Blaine showed
there are actual statistics to prove that this
award is what Mr.. Evarts calls it-"an ex-
"travagant and incxplicabe measure of value"
These establish the fact that the whole catch
of fish under this privilege during the last
five years has been worth less than the
sum we are called upon to pay each year for
the use of it.-Probably there will be no dis
pute anywhere over the payment of the
| rnannu ILnre slnnll be mono but the nrO-