New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-14

whole, Judge Cowing deserves nothing less
than whole row of monuments-or rather
| whole series of dinners.
| Mr. Finley truthfully remarked yesterday
| that the Democrats Of the House had IN
"varaby gone back on their proposluOhs'
and made a laughing-stock of the Demo-
cratic party" Which is just what they VIII
have to do with the resolution Mr.. Finley
] wants them TO pass.
| Leaning before You look is habit as old
| as the human race. Selecting a site for q
| great Worlds Fair without going to see 1T Is
| new and altogether startling variation upon
the time-honored custom. 1t is now stated
that the Committee on Sites has not made a
personal examination of the InwoOd site, but
Will do so soon. What would the verdict of
a committee who are capable of deIegating
] such vital duty to a few members, or per-
haps even to one. be worth, if personal
examination should be made
! Tie Board of Estimate and ApportiOnment
| will meet every afternoon this week at 8
I o'clock to give taxpayers an opportunity to
critcise the estimates presented by the depart
mpntS and suggest reductions. Citizens VINO
| have personal knowledge of leaks and extrova-
| gances by which public money is wasted, should
not fail to give the Board the benefit OF that
| knowledge. They may thus save themselves
something in the burden Of taxes. Lawyers,
| for instance, who observe the large number OF
attendants employed in some Courts to do very
little might make valuable suggestions
| The good Samaritan who offers his Deghbor
an investment solely on the phanthrOpic
| ground that he is anxious to see friend make
some money, and who gayly offers 10 take the
stock back "at ANY time at the price named,
must have care. A verdict of nearly $4,000
was obtained yesterday in the Superior Court
against l.. c. Woodruff, one of these ally
| guarantOrs. He offered certain stock tor sale,
| agreeing 10 take it back at the same figure
| whenever he was called upon to do so. When
! the demand made he refused. rs such people
are apt to do, aid suit was BROUGHT for the
/ full amount paid, which is now recovered.
! Wherefore, we rcpeat that TIE playful and in
| discriminate giving of guarantees has become a
dangerous practice.
General Scaofell's retirement from West
| Point has been definitely decided upon, and
General O. 0. Howard has been selected
30 succeed hm. In both particulars
the Presidents action will meet with
public approval. General Schoiield's bear
| ing during the Whitaker case, and
| his comments upon it in his recent report
easily convinced the public that he was not
il his proper place as the head Of a National
! institution for the instruction Of young mon
in the rudlments of the military profession
| No doubt he will do better service in diff
ferent field General Towards appointment
is 4 commendablc one. From a soldier Of his
record, and an educator of his experience
both at West Point and elsewhere, much may
be expected
! There is fair prospect now Of ending the
| disagreement between the Emigration Com
mlssiOncrs and the railroad companies upon
the wisdom Of giving the immigrants the
benefit of deductions, instead of allowing
them to agents and shaIpcrs, who often
swindle these ignorant people, and are some
! times the means of getting them iuto worse
! trouble. The Pennsylvania Railroad has add
dressed letter to the Commissioners offering
| t. make the 20 per cent discount to all i'm
migrants booked in Castle Garden to go by
that route, anl the Commissioners have very
properly voJed to send Immigrants West only
| by railroads making this concession. As TIE
TRIBUNE has already said, there is a Gue-tiOn
of deconcy and morals here. The new order
of things viii not only save tins money to the
Immigrants, but will tend to lessen the danger
OF the disgraceful frauds and impOsitons that
are practised upon them. The other railroads
should follow the excellent example of the
Pennsylvania Company.
| 1t is hardly possible 10 eXaggcrate the grav-
| ity of the Angl0-IrIsh crisis it threatens to
cause an immediate rupture in the British
| Cabinet, inasmuch as Messrs Bright and
! Chamberlain yesterday declared that they will
! resign if coercion Is adopted AS most mem
| bers of the Cabinet favor harsh measures, it
is not improbable that the Birmingham mem
bers will feel constrained to withdraw.
| Amid the cry for repression in Ireland, this
might not wreck the Ministry, but 1t may
greatly weaken it, AZ regards Ireland her
self, the country could hardly be in a more
lawless state than British fears portray it,.
This was confessed in effect yesterday by
Chief Secretary Forster, when he proposed
at the Cabinet Council that the Irish
Executive should be given coercve powers
| with a view to indemnity from Parliament
that is, to establish military dictatorship
for the purpose of disarming the people.
| Pending Its decision on this proposal, the
| Cabinet might well give some Indication of
| what reforms, if any, it intends to offer.
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