New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-14


heat producing material not having been expended
In msintaining q tempcrsture which eood hfe
would have supplied. The hardening process
has some advocates In this country. and state
ment Of these facts may have value here.
Delaware may not be very important State nor
| Its Legislature the most dignfed Of legislative
bodies but It has a House Of Representatives
| which knows how to take caro- OF itself. There is
| only one Republican reporter attendant upon that
| body. and now he IL 10 be turned out. notebook
| pencils and all. His offence in giving an ac-
count Of the high festival kept by the Representa-
tiyes the occasion Of the election OF new state
| Treasurer Auditor and Librarian, these officers
| having footed the bills for unlimited champagne
| aud whiskey. But il is not for his account OF the
| banquet that he j. to be expelled. lie had been
warned before that some way would be found OF
! getting rid of him unless he stopped his criticism
! Occasion has now been found. All the other re-
pOrtcrs are Dcmocrats-goOd fellows, no doubt, ana
not disposed to be hard upon their political friends
! There cannot be a worse place for a fire than
Registry of Deeds. At Columbus 90 some ncendiary
is responsible for the burning Of the records and
books. ard of the deeds left with tho Recorder
either for transcription or safe-keeping. The
| farmers Of the country are much excited, and no
wonder The loss is very mlschevOus one, caus-
ing an immense deal of trouble IN case OF dis
! putcd titles and making everything as loose as
possible respecting boundaries We have h'ard oil
"a man who declared that all the land records should
be burned once IN twenty years-but he was a law
yerl Grantors. if honest and still living, can and
should give new deeds of qultclaim at least. but
then all the conveyances behind them arc lost.
The very purpose for winch deeds are gwen Is de-
ieated 1t Is pretty bal business.
There is one mau in Massachusetts. honorably
connected with the Legislature who positively re-
fuses to submit to a reduction of his salary. IL is
the man VINO takes care of the cuspIdOres. He was
cut down from 80 10 81 per diem, with no allowance
for travel ;ond he has thrown mp his contract IN
fortunately ho stands solitary and alone; he cannot
hold mass meeting he cannot organize a riot; tie
only vigorous plan IN his power was to smash the
Gu .pidorcs and these have now been taken from his
custody. He might indeed. issue an address to the
people of Massachusetts,, but such is the present
rage for econ0mizing there that his most eloquent
appeal would probably be laughed az. He must
seek some field of human ministry and enter
prise. unless he live upon his own lion-hearted
Independence.
Mr. Jonathan A. Lane Is 4 member of tho Gov
ernoTs Council, III Massachusetts,, and a scrupu-
lousy honest man. There to his credit The
sum of 1901 80, the amount OF his salary. He has
written letter to the treasurer OF the STATE saying
that he has given the public service only twenty
days in ALL which, at the established legislative COM
pcnsatIOn Of - per diem, would come to just - 90
The balance Mr. Lane has returned into the Treas
ury Of the Commonwealth. Such an example Of
delicate integrity does not come every day. ana
there are few public men who could muster the
courage 10 say, az Mr.. Lane does, that they have
rendered the public no appieciable service He
certainly has now rendered a service appIecable.
and likely to be appreciated
Mr. Representative Bragg doesn't seem TO have
suffered seriously from the recoil Of his gIns, al
though his vOlley of grape sufficiently sweeping
to throw the Solid South into universal
iutter On the contrary, quito the re-
verse. The Democrats in the Legislature
OF his own Wisconsin now pat him appTOvngly on
the head and call him a good boy. This looks as If
there might be two kinds of Democrats after all.
which would not ne fortunate thing for the red
hot Southern kind and their obsequiouS undcrnSs
in cooler ATTITUDES.
II Mr. Tilden's vindicaton is TO be accepted, this
fact viii aid hlm notably in playing his part
as the Great Defrauded. For not only has
his original claim that he cheated by
naughty Republicans been established, but If
now appears that he was cheated still more
shamefully by his unnatural kinsnan. Peton
builded better than ne knew when ho made his
uncle twice a victim, and thus completely equipped
hn for bis final appeal TO popular sympathy as the
lnnocent candidate who deirauded both by
foes and friends.
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