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The New York herald., 1878-03-15
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY MARCH l5 ls7s-TRIPLE SHEET

to see that the contracts are thoroughly per-
formed. The expenses of the bureau are
limited, but not in manner to interfere
with its efficiency, and the total expense OF
street cleaning in any one year is limited to
five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
the fifty thousand being special appropri-
alton, when needed, for the removal
of snow from the streets. The de-
tails are all carefully studied, and
prove the familiarity of its author,
Mr.. Thatcher Adams, of the Council OF
Municipal Reform, with the subject The
fault OF the bill is that it creates q street
cleaning department composed of the Com
missioner of Public Works and the presi-
dents of the Boards Of Health and Police,
and gives to them the letting of the con-
tracts and the appointment of the supern-
tendent. The main cause of our present
evils is traceable to the fact that the control
of the Street Cleaning Bureau and its Off
GERS and employees is in the hands Of Office
holders who owe their positions to political
influences and who manage the business in
the interests of the politicians and not of
the people. The officials named in the
bill ought not TO have any connection with
the street cleaning business. The Police
Commissioners especially should have
nothing to do with it, except to see that.the
ordinances are obeyed and enforced. In
other respects the bill is an acceptable one.
1t is necessary to have chief inspector and
district inspectors, but these ought to be
appointed and the contracts made by the
Mayor of the city. When the Mayor is in
vested with this power and responsibility
the people will be all the more careful to
select man Of capacity, independence and
frmpess ior that office.
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Logic for Princeton.

The Princeton College boys should mod
crate. their transports. We are having a
little too much of them of late. We know
not why the Juniors should be infamed to
riot by the fact Of their having undergone
an examination in logic. If there is any
study calculated to make boys act reason
ably it is logic. Yet no sooner do the
Princeton Juniors have four solid hours Of
it than they go on what they outrage
ously term a "logic spree. Ordina-
rily hundred of them make town
and campus hideous with howls, but on
Wednesday scarcely dozen of them
formed in line to howl. This would indi-
cate either that the Princeton logic was Of
n better brew than in former years or that
the Juniors have better heads. What was
lost in numbers was, however, made up in
conduct. Having marched round the major
premises, or Nassau Hall, they proceeded
to the minor premises or Theological SEM
mary, and set off squibs and frecrackers
therein--a practice we do not remem-
Der seeing in any treatise on logic. At any
rate the embryonic Presbyters whose halls
had been thus contumeliously squibbed
grabbed one Of the fleeing. Juniors and
pinned him down to the minor premises,
while the juniors rallied with such unaca-
demic arguments as clubs and brickbats.
The result was that a number of the Juniors
were taken before the. police justice yes
terday on charges of arson, assault and bat
terry, and that some of them will probably
be held to await the action of the Grand
Jury. Should they find themselves on the
stool of repentance in Trenton Jail for q
moderate term they will learn more Of ap-
piled logic than their masters have sue
ceeded in teaching them namely, that
where blackguardism begins the forbear-
ance Of civilized society ends.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
The Polar Colony.

We give to-day the report of an interview
with DR.. Isaac I. Hayes, in which will be
found his opinions on the practicability and
special advantages of that plan of Arctic ex-
ploration which has been distinguished as
Captain Howgates, but which, it will be
seen, DR.. Hayes claims he was the first to
propose. Dr. Hayes believes that this
colonial system of exploration, taken
as whole, holds out better hopes
of success than any other; but he
urges that in the precise manner in which
it has been proposed to proc sed it is likely
to meet with an insuperable obstacle. His
objection is to the proposition to make the
permanent basis Of exploration at Lady
franklin Bay. He would make this at
Smiths Sound, and his reasons as given are
ineligible and cogent. If the colony is to
be the basis of regular series of operations
for Polar discovery, through an underlined
number of years, it is imperatively neces-
sary that it should have open communica-
tions with the civilized world so arranged
that voyage can be made with certainty
either way in any year. This he holds, is
true Of the point named on Smiths Sound,
and not of the one on Lady Franklin Bay.
But with the main colony at Smiths Sound
he would, by his sledge lines, make point
of more or less permanent deposit at Lady
franklin Bay. Thus, in fact, he only differs
from Captain Howgate in the means pro-
posed for reaching point of deposit at
Lady Franklin Bay, and in the suggestion
to establish the more important supply
depot at the other point 1t will be seen
that DR.. Hayes states with force, philosophy
and knowledge of the subject his opinion
that the men will weary of their Arctic life
in short periods and that regular process
sion of recruits and supplies must be kept
up for every year that the colony remains.
In fact he puts this case so strongly as to
make it appear that the Polar colony system
is not very different from q system provid-
ing for an annual Arctic expedition.
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A Prospect OF Compromise.

There appears to be growing disposition
to dispose of the excise question and to re-
lieve New York of its present embarrass-
ment by passing the Langner Assembly bill,
which takes cities having forty thousand
inhabitants and upward out of the pale of
the law of 1857, and thus places them under
the provisions of the laws of 1870 and 1873.
This would be satisfactory solution of the
difficulty. The liquor dealers, however,
are willing that the latter laws should be
made more stringent than they now are if
the temperance people desire any change.
1t has been proposed to increase the amount
of the license fee, and to this the dealers do
not object provided they can be protected
against unlicensed competitors. One suc-
gestion, indorsed by several large brewers
and distillers, is to prevent the sale of
beer or liquor to unlicensed houses by
making accounts for liquor or beer sold to
unlicensed retail dealers unrecoverable in
the courts of this State. This would be an
excellent provision if there were not practi-
cal difficulties in the way. The fatal obiec-
ton to the proposition is that unlicensed
dealers might buy their liquor and beer in
New Jersey, and their creditors being citi-
zens of another State could recover through
the United States courts should the law pre-
vent them from recovering through our
State courts. The suggestion, however,
shows how willing both wholesale and retail
dealers are to conform with any regulations
Of law in regard to the liquor traffic. how
ever stringent they may be, and this dis
position ought to convince all reasonable
temperance advocates of the wisdom and
expediency of passing a wholesome license
law capable of enforcement in the large
cities OF the State.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

owing his Office to the Mayors favor
But just now We have a capable and honest
Comptroller, who has tn us far done well by
the city and who holds his Office until
November $780, and it would not be ad-
visable to disturb him and to throw the i'm
portant position to the politicians for gen.
eral scramble. The object of Mr.. Daly's
bill is to get rid of Mr.. Kelly. That is the
plain English of the measure. The
Comptroller is legislated out of Office
on and after January of next year, and
the terms Of all his appointees are made to
end ten days thereafter. We do not believe
that the taxpayers of the city desire any
such legislation. If we are to have an
elected Comptroller the worst time we could
select for the change is when the finances
of the city are being satisfactorily managed
by the incumbent and are just getting into
understandable and promising shape. These
political bills, year after year, are pest to
the cily
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

have more to gain by veto than by the sue
cess of any arportionment bill which they
would have the face to frame They will
pass no bill on this subject which they do
not feel sure that the Governor Will veto.
1t is given out in some of the democratic
organs that if there should be no new APP
portionment Governor Robinson will call an
extra session. This intimation, or menace,
or whatever it may be called, is not likely
to make any difference. What possible
good can it do to call an extra session? 1t
will be an extra session Of the same Legis-
lature which is deliberately plotting that
no fair apportionment bill shall be passed.
After the majority shall have deliberately
committed itself during the regular session
it cannot be expected to change front in an
extra session. An extra session might be
OF some service to the democratic
party by enabling the Governor to
emphasize the injustice of the majority;
but we do not see how it could add very
much to The impression he would try to
make on the public mind by his veto mes
sage We know of no more revolting illus
trasion of the dishonesty and degradation
which permeate our public life than the
Albany scheme for preventing new appor-
tionment
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
A Scared Eagle.

The new ninety-cent dollar has made its
appearance, and a very shabby appearance
it makes. 1t is o libel on our ancestors. to
dies would have been ashamed of such a
pinched coarse, badly executed coin. The
old dollar was solid-looking piece of
money, and if the head of the Goddess of
Liberty did appear to be uncomfortably
situated among the stars, and if her cap did
look like candle extinguisher. the eagle
on the reverse conveyed the idea of dignity
and power and kept up the credit of the
national bird. The new dollar bears a
strong resemblance to biggest pumpkin
or best soft soap medal awarded at country
fair, or it might be taken for q genuine
dollar in the last stages of consumption.
The head of the Goddess of Liberty on one
side lacks distinctness and finish, and
although the face is handsome one it
has q brazen look, as if determined
by show of impudence to conceal
conviction that it ought to be ashamed of
it's company. The eagle on the other side
is mean, shabby looking bird, that might
very well pass tor one of the three famous
crows, celebrated in song, before they
lighted on the bare backbone of the dead
horse ''only three weeks slain" and found q
meal. The wings rise perpendicularly over
the head, in the position assumed by bird
when badly frightened. giving one the idea
that the poor eagle is in terror at the thought
that somebody is coming to rob her nest. A
more outrageous car r.cature of the bird of
freedom was never attempted 1t is said
that designer from the English Mint was
brought over to execute tho engraving for
the new dollar The miserable effigy on
the coin may therefore honestly represent
an Englishmans idea of our national bird,
or 1t may be a sly British sarcasm on our
recent financial legislation intended to con-
vey the thought that eagles at ninety cents
on the dollar cannot be expected to have
the proud, easy, confident bearing of full
nriced birds
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
A Welcome Veto.

Governor Robinson has vetoed the ''Act
supplemental to the Code of Civil Proce-
dure,". and the Message in which he states
his objections to the bill is marked by the
vigor and directness that characterize all
his State papers. The Governor takes the
broadest ground for his present action,
showing, as the HERALD has already pointed
out, that the commission was created only
to revise, simplify, arrange and CONSOLE
date all statutes Of the State general
and permanent in their nature, but that
instead of performing this duty sit set
about an entire upheaval of our legal pro-
cedure." Thus o necessary and desirable
work, designed to secure simplicity and
uniformity in the Code of Procedure, has
been perverted into sweeping revolution,
whose principal object seems to have been
to destroy, alter and remodel simply for
the sake of change, if not with the OBJ
ject of exaggerating the labor and ap-
parent importance Of the task The sub
ject is so fully treated in the Governors
veto that it is needless to enlarge upon it
here. Yet we may point out an instance
which illustrates how carelessly, to say the
least, the work of the commission is done,
and which seems to have escaped the Gov
ernor's attention. Section 1858 Of the Sec
ond title of chapter Is of the revision pro-
vides for an allowance by surrogates in
contested cause Of percentage upon the
AMOUNT or value of the estate or fund
in controversy ''but the entire per-
centage allowed to all parties can
not exceed the percentage which can
be allowed to party in an action in
the Supreme Court" This restriction was
satisfactory inasmuch rs while the Supreme
Court allowance is five per cent Of the
value Of the subject matter involved in asuit,
section 3, 254 of title 2, chapter 81, limited
the maximum allowance to two thousand
dollars in the aggregate. This section is
now omitted or stricken out, the effect of
which is to permit surrogates to make an
allowance Of five per cent upon the amount
or value of the estate or fund in contro-
versy, the great injustice and danger of
which may readily be conceived.
The veto of the Governor will be very
generally approved. The judgment of the
most eminent jurists and Of the ablest law
yers in the State is decidedly adverse to the
new code. A large amount of money has
been wasted on the work, but the cheapest
way out of the difficulty now is to consider
the expense dead loss and to let it 60. 1t
will be worth quadruple the amount it has
cost to get the new code to get rid Of it, and
the wisest thing the Legislature can do is
to follow Governor Robinson's advice, re-
peal the chapters already enacted and re-
turn to the excellent code of 1S4S
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
An Untimely Bill.

Mr.. Daly's bill in relation to the finances
OF the city of New York may possess few
good points, but it really makes very little
change of any great Importance in our pres
ent financial system except of political
character. 1t provides for the election of
Comptroller by the people. There is
much to be said in favor of the election
of this officer. The Comptroller and the
Mayor sign and countersign the Warrants
on which money is drawn from the city
treasury, and are consequently check, so
to speak, on each other. 1t is easy to con-
ceive how corrupt Mayor and u corrupt
Comptroller might by collusion empty the
city treasury; hence it appears desirable
that the Comptroller should be inde-
pendent OF the Mayor and RESPONSE
ble directly to the people, instead Of
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
waiting for the Congress.

The diplomatic see-saw to which Europe
will be treated until the Congress meets is
now in full operation. Prince Gortschakoff
has his hands full in answering anxious in
quiries from all ends of the Continent.
Until Reouf Pacha and General Ignatieif
arrive at st. Petersburg, and the treaty of
peace is signed there, the Russian Chan
cellor will not, however, be very explicit
about the information most in request.
The English spasm has passed into sub
acute inflammation, but Austria is writhing
little now. Roumania has had it's writhe
and is still irritable. Between now and
the end of the month we may expect
to see some more contortions. Austria and
England are demanding that the whole
treaty, and nothing less, be submitted to the
Congress. This Russia has not decisively
promised, and thereupon speculation in
sists that there is secret treaty between
the Gar and the Sultan. The trouble, in
fact, is that England, desirous of putting
Russia in the wrong and not finding any
thing in the known peace conditions to
which she can make colorado objection be-
fore Europe, sees in every bush Cossack
and bashi-bazouk writing fresh treaties.
There is no alarmist like the Englishman,
when once his suspicious have run away
with him. AS to the Congress itself, Sir
Stafford Northcote said yesterday in the Eng
lish Commons that it was not intended the
majority should bind the minority, which
plainly shows on which side England ex-
poets to be. Each Power, he says, is
to retain liberty of action, which,
at the start, looks as though England
does not expect much from it. With this
understood, it is not Of real impor-
tance how many governments are repre-
sented. Not only Greece, Servia, Rouma-
MIA and Montenegro, but Denmark, Sweden,
Holland and Belgium, Spain. Portugal and
Switzerland might be called in to fill up
the benches. All this time Germany tests
coolly the master Of the situation. When
Andrassy has made all the fuss necessary to
get his thirty million dollar credit and tran
quillize his petulant Magyars Prince Bis
marck will have an understanding with him,
tho Austrian peace party will be heard from
and the Congress will meet under calmer
auspices 1t is on the strength of the bond
between the German Kaiser and his
nephew, the Gar, that the peace of Europe
depends, and not on English or Austrian
pretensiOns
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

The WEATHER.-Ihc low pressures which
overlay the Ohio Valley and lake regions on
Wednesday have moved eastward to the coast,
attended by general rainfall in both dis
trcts, well as in the Atlantic Sec
lions of the Middle and Eastern States.
The winds moderated very much during
yesterday, being highest in New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia. They will increase somewhat dur
Ing to-day as the higher pressures gain the coast
line. The barometer is above the mean from
Nebraska and Minnesota to the South Atlantic
States and is falling in Montana, Texas and on
the North Pacific coast. 1t is relatively low
through tho Gulf Temperatures have fallen
on the East Atlantic coast and in the
upper lake districts, but have risen in
the Southwest and West The weather in New
York and it's vicinity to-day will be cooler and
partly cIoudy or fair, with fresh northwestcrly
winds Tomorrow it will be fair and moderately
warm.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
A GREAT INSTITUTION.

(From the Mansfield (Onio) Banner, March 0l
TnG New YORK HERALD is great institution. The
issue Of March Is quintupic sheet (twenty pascsl
and contains besides a largo amount OF rending mat.
ter, sixly.ons columns Of advor.,ssmsntA
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE having
resolved to favorably report upon Boards nom
ination us Collector of Boston Simmons can now
carry out his terrible threat of splitting the re-
publican party of Massachusetts in little pieces
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-T stock market
was active and stocks were generally steady.
Gold opened aud closed ut l01 selling in the
interim at lois. Government bonds
weaker, States steady and railroads strong.
Money OH call was easy Mt 4 4l2 per cent,
closing at 4 per cent
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
"THE" NEWSPAPER.

From the Hastings tMich.) Banner.)
Tho Nxw YoRK HERALD Is tho newspaper OF Amer.
ca and should be road by every Intelligent citizen Of
tho Republic who desires be posted on all that Of
interest on tho earth,s surface
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

TIE EFFORTS being made by the United
States Commissioner of Fisheries this year 10
obtain more accurate statistics in regard to our
fish products ought to be seconded as far as pos
sblc by the dealers, whose cooperation he has
rcuuesfed
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

AN IMPORT Duty, the Ways and Means Com
mittec assure the furniture men, will not be i'm
posed OH hair. The heavy duty that was pro-
posed would have been IL severe blow to that
branch of our Industries
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
Il r IPL e S II e e L
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH Is, 1878.

IMPORTANT NoTiCE TO ADvERTIsERs.-Y0
Insure Me proper classification Of advertisements
il is absolutely necessary hat they he handed in
before eight o'clock ercry erening.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

CoNGREss.-fhe passage by the House of the
joint resolution in regard to the tax distilled
spirits and the debate in the Senate on the Pa.
cfc Railroad Sinking Fund bill were the impor-
tant features of Congress yesterday. The vote
OIL the whskcy resolution was exceedingly close
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

TIMBER STEALING from the public lands ap-
pears to have been one of the principal indus
tries of Florida during the past year. 1t is
hardly surprising that Mr.. Schurz's objections
have raised such breeze
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

New TURN has been given TO the legal con-
test for the late Mrs. Merrills quarter Of IL mil
lion. The claim Of the claimant now is that she
had no right to make II second will.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

RUSSIA has given fresh illustration of her
appreciation of the enterprise of our citizens by
comforting upon some of our capitalists the right
to erect grain elevators throughout the Empire
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

NAVAL OFFICERS and the country generally
will be glad to learn that the Appropriation bill
Of the department is SO arranged this time that
there can be no future misunderstanding about
their
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

STANDARD THEATRE-Tns VICTIMS
BROADWAY THEATRE-iHE ExiLKs.
PARK rHEATRE-OuR BACHELORS
NATIONAL THEATRE -WoaxMRS or NEW YORK.
NEW YORK AQUARIUM -BGoScuo IIoRsss.
FIFTH AVENUE HALL-HELLsR's WONDERS.
wALLACX's THEATRE MoSKY
UNION SQUARE THEArRE-A cELKBRArsD CASE
FIFTH AVENUE THEATgE-A WIDOW HUM.
OLYMPIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
BowERY THEATRE Rowing JACK.
GERMANIA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
BOOTHS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
GRAND OPERA HOUsE-tsSnY "
NIBLO's GARDEN--SERrkSr AND Dove
TONY PAsToR's-vARirrY.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRhLs.
TIvoLI NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
KURTZ GALLERY-ARr EXHIBITION.
EGYPTIAN nALL--vARIrTy.
GILMOEE'S GARDEN-BiLLlARps.
THEATRE CoMIQUE- VARIETY.
VAUDEVILLE observation-disclosures
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

IN THE CASE of the young lad in Philadelphia
who shot his playmate for refusing to give him
some candy the Coroner's jury have mercifully
found that the killing was accidental.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

The TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILROAD PROJEc
meets the approval of the subcommittee Of til
Senate Committee having the subject in charge
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

The probabilities are that The reatier nl Nec
York. aud lis rieinty to-day acW be cooler and
partly cloudy or fair, niM il esh no,'threste'iy
fcinds. Io-morrotc ii riH be fair and moderately
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

PENNsYLvANIAs LEGISLATURE sends piteous
entreaty to her delegation in Congress to stand
frm OH the tariff.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent loan are
coming IN rather slowly-only about four mil.
lions since the middle of last month.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

THERE Is FAINT RuMon in Washington that
the President again intends to try and get new
collector for this port
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

The EDUCATION COMMITTEE of the House will
ask Congress to forever set apart the proceeds
Of the sale of the public lands tor school pur-
The New York herald., 1878-03-15

Mr.. FISH begs to be excused on the Canadian
fish question He politely turns it all over to
Mr. Evarts.
The New York herald., 1878-03-15
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From the

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NoN-REsIDENrs' applications for pistol permits
nrc in order.