New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-04

upon their capital, and submitted to him drafts
of bills embOdying a scheme Of taxation which
they thought just. 1t is believed that the Dlli
will be recalled by the Legislature to-day to
prevent its becoming law by the ten days
limitation, and to give an opportunity for Iur-
Their consideration of it.
Mr.. Ellis. Of Louisiana, has introduced bill
in Congress providing for an experimental trlai
of the postal telegraph. 1t is to be confined 10
the cities of New-Y York, Boston and WashlnR-
ton, and the intermediate pOst-Ofiiccs, and the
bill authorizes the Postmaster General to estab-
lsh by purchase or construction telegraph line
between the points named. The experiment
would be costly one, and 1t is doubtful whether
the bill ever emerges from the Committee on
Post Offices and Post Roads.
The New-Jersey Republicans on Thursday
elect their delegates to Chicago. The talk with
the Hon William Walter Phelps, which will he
found on another page, shows in what an ex-
ceIlcnt spirit the party will meet, and how fair
and iudicious the action of the Convention is
likely to be. All shades of opinion will be al
lowed their proper representation on the delega-
ton to Chicago, but such is the Republican
hostility to a third term that, In Mr. Phelpss
Judgment, there will be no delegates for Grant
Every Democratic attempt to find wickedness
in Republican cipher has failed, from the day
the telegraphic correspondence between Oregon
and Gramercy Park was printed to this. Senator
Vance, of North Carolina, has been trying his
skill as n translator upon some of Senator KEEL
ah Rba lott fVria nffnpnn
to translate to the Committee, and the result
of these labors was exhibited in the Senate yes
terday. 1t was simply shown that Mr. Kellogg
as every one would be prepared to believe,
works hard to get his friends INTO Office, and
often succeeds This is not the first duty OF u
statesman, and yet it is not very wicked 1t
surely has no bearing upon the fact that the
Senate, after hearing the evidence in the case,
solemnly adjudged Mr.. Kellogg entitled to tho
seat of which the new majority now propose to
deprive him by a procedure without precedent
and without any basis of right.
The so-called investigation in Washington of
the questions at issue between Messrs. Don
nelly, Finley and Springer, is the most farcical
inquiry of the kind that has been bcheld for
years. Mr.. Donnelly was allowed yesterday to
dribbIe @suspicions" before the Commit
tee concerning the authorship of the
anonymous letter, without a particle Of
evidence to sustain them, and to talk
stuff that was discreditable even to his intel
lect, and should have been intOlerable to SEN
sible Committee. He submitted in support of
his suspicion against William S. King telc-
gram which did not mention Mr.. King, did not
allude to him in any way whatever, and evil
IDENTIFY had no connection with him of any sort.
|, Donnelly knew that King was i'll Washington,
but as they did not meet often, believed that
he was in hiding" A mans self-respect
might induce him to hide, if hiding would save
him from personal contact with DOnnelly. But
this airy style Of Louisiana inference was n
good specimen of the evidence" given by the
| claimant of Mr.. Washburn's seat.
The figures of the expenditures from the
Senate Contingent Fund illustrate the sO-called
economy Of Congress. Mr.. VOorhees's investi-
cation of the exodus. which provided large
number Of small Southern Democrats with the
means of making q trip to Washington, and did
| little else, cost $4,000. The Kellogg investi-
| CATION, which supplied the rare mass of per-
| Jury on which the present movement Tor unseat-
ing Mr.. Kellogg is based, cost $1,000. The
| investigation of charges against Senator Ingalls,
which seem to have fallen to the ground, cost
| sc. 400 Mr. Davis's Committee on the Treasury
bookkeeping, which spent two years in a vain
| effort to substantiate various sensational
charges made by him in Senate speech, cost
$4,000. The Committee to inquire into and
report upon the Rhode Island clam-balle, other
wise known as the Committee ON Civil Service
and Retrenchment in Rhode Island, cost almost
exactly the same sum- 1t is saying less than the
whole truth to say that each of these inquiries
was wholly unnecessary, and that the money
spent upon them was utterly wasted.