New-York tribune., 1880-06-16

the great actor and to send him OIL on MS
Atlantic voyage with the good wishes oil DIS
friends but If a deeper significance than inc
personal tribute should be sought III thc
pleasant event, something might be SAID OF inc
evidence it affords of the strong hOd the draila'
in its highest sphere and It's best Interpretation,
has gained upon the mind of the lnteliectuai
classes in this country. The stage as an
educational force is recognized and appreciated
when such q company as sat down to breakfast
at Dclmonicos gathers to do honor to It's
most distinguished American representatives
The diplomatists who meet in Berlin
to-day come together for the purpose OF
picLing I'D the ravcllCd strands OF the
Treaty of 1873, the most troublesome OF
which, because the most likely to get
the diplomacy of Europe into fresh Shafi' Is
the Greek boundary question. When the
Commissioners who composed the Berlin Con-
gress were engaged i'll carving up Turkey,
little Greece put in claim for shcc on lhe
cround that she had a bad frontier and that
there were Greek people i'll the a0J"lhlhS
Turkish territory who wanted to be annexed.
the Congress agreed that the frontier should
he reclifcd, but did not Indicate the new lihc
distinctly. Ever since it adjourned the PorIe
has been putting of on various prcteXts 'he
settlement of the question. Finally, despair
ing of any results from further negotiations
at Constantinoplc, Greece Withdrew her COM
missioners and appealed to the Powers France
supported her appeal, and the other great
Powers agreed to send delegates to con-
ference. A commission will doubtless be ap-
pointed to run the new boundary.
The superstitious theory that there is some
occult law in nature which brings abou1a series
of accidents or other calamiteS of like nature
finds seeming confirmation in the two
rcccnt marine disasters On Friday night
two Sound steamers came into COLL
sion in fog; on Sunday morning
two ocean steamers crashed into each other
under similar circumstances, about 500 miles
east of Ncw-York Here, happily. the parallel
ends. BY great good luck. no loss OF HE
resulted from the ocean accident, hut II the
sea had been rough at the time instead oi
unusually calm, a terrible tragedy could hardly
have been avertcd by any amount of cooin"sS
and discipline. The question Of who Is to
blame for the collision must be left to the
Courts to decide. \ trial will no doubt take
nlacr. It ought TO throw some light OH such
impo,tant matters as the distance fog whistles
can be heard, whether vigilant watch WAS
kent ON the two ships for their warning notes,
what the steering directions are III ease log
signal is heard close at hand and whether
captains are not in the habit OF plungng
blindly ahead III fog, trusting to luck rather
than to keen watch with eye and ear to
take them safely through.
In his message vctOng the new Deputy
Marshals bill President Hayes wisely quotes
the old law which the new measure proposes TO
supplant in part, and thus shows to all who Will
take the trouble to read the text OF the
statute how carefully the rights of the
citizen at the polls arc guarded and how strictly
the marshals are confined in making arrests
to actual offences committed on the spot. Next
he cites a Supreme Court decision affirming
the constitutionality Of the law, and after
| ward makes use of his charactcIistically
concise and logical arguments against the new
bill. He shows that under this bill the deputy
mayshals would not he bound by the OBJ
hgations of the existing statute defining their
duties or restrained by its penaltlcs tnat they
would be responsible tO DO official head, and
that in effect they would be Dody of official
guelrlas doing as they pleased and ac-
countable to nobody. While recognizing
the right and duty of the Government to
exercise supervision over Federal elections, Il
right and duty which the Democrats
vehemently denied only year ago. this
bill of theirs seeks to make that supervision
Ineffective, and it is on this ground that
the President vetOes it. He closes his message
by saying that he has no objection to the
appointmcnt of election marShals by the
Courts, and favors their selection without
regard to party. In this respect he agrees with
| General Garfield, whose views, expressed in the
| House some months ago, the Democrats have
rcrsistcntly sought to twist into an approval
of their bill. The difference between IL non
partisan execution of the existing election laws
! and their practical abIOgation iSa very wide one
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| THE LATEST COLLISION.
The collision between the steamships Queen