New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-22

out of every full fare. the total amount thus
paid in TO be deducted pro rata from the taxes
| of property owners along the route. The ben
| eft to the City Treasury is not so clear as IL
might be. Ii only remains now for some cor
poratiOn to ask fee simple OF the Whoie
town, and offer in return to give the lhhao-
| tants free transportation to New-Jersey'
| Then it would be appropriate to sacrlhce
| small part of Broadway for the erection OF
monument to the impudence of the various
persons and corporations who have tired to
confiscate it.
| The first dinner of the New-England SOci-
| ETY. of Brooklyn last night was so conspcu-
ously successful that there will be some
natural wonder why the time-honored custom
| of celebrating the arrival of the Pilgrim
Fathers by banquet should not have been
adopted before in the City of Churches 10
be sure il is a custom which not all those
good men-whom Mr.. Emerson described at
| New England dinner in this city as being so
filed and buoyed up with sanctlty that
they were compelled to hold on by the
| cranberry bushes to keep themselves from
| being anslated-would have approved; but
| IT has the sanction of their descendants, ana
| that is, no doubt, sufficient. The Brooklyn
Society began what Is destined to be long
| series of feasts of reason and other good
things with a brilliant assembage OF guests,
among whom were President Hayes, Secretary
| Evarts, General Grant, Mr.. Beecher, General
| Sherman. President Porter, of Yale College,
Joseph II. Choate and Chauncey NJ. Depew.
All of these distinguished gentlemen, with
President Sillman, of the Society, were among
the speakers-whch makes it needless to
apologize for the full report of the affair."
which will be found in other columns.
While such an episode as that in the House
of Representatives yesterday, in which Mr..
Weaver and Mr. Sparks were involved, is DIS
| graceful to them and humiating to the
country, it is consOling to National pride to
| remember how much more frequent such
affairs were q generation ago, especially dur
inc the Slavery controversies, and to conclude
that our procress is not less marked in pOliti-
| cal manners than in political morals. 1t Is
had enough that two members of the House
should have exchanged the eDlthets OF - liar
and "scoundreln in debate, and should have
been kept from an actual fist fight only by the
inte1position of friends; but 1t was worse III
| the DAYS when Henry S. Foote drew his pistol
I
in the Senate, and Benton, catching at his
breast as If to tear it open. roared out, Let
- the id assassin shoot!" 1t was worse
when Ben Wade could only silence the insolence
of Southern Senators by taking his pistols to
the Senate and laying them in full view on
the top of his desk-worse when scuiiie on
! the floor of the House sometimes included half
q dogen members-worse in small way when
| IL lannon's
captivating manners twitted another member
| of the Senate with having " cross-eye H.
worse in a large way when Brooks stole on
! Sumner like an assassin. and men whose pride
| it was that they were gentlemen defended
| the act. This Is not such a depraved genera
ton, after ALL and if a scientific test could be
had it would probably be found that the
American Congress is at least equal In Dig
nifty to any other legislative body IN the
world