The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-24
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of rhi. Morning.

The kngltsn fapefs OF Tnls morning.
The Commercial says: An effort will be
made to reconsider the bill for the relief
| of Cincinnati from special legislation in
behalf of 81. Hoffman, and it may pass,
for good deal Of light has been within u
few days shed on the subject The Senate
amendments NAV be stricken out and the
House bill passed without the change of a
dot. This would give the people opuor-
tunitv to elect their Comptroller on the
9th of April. II the bill should pass as
amended it would have to be referred to
the House to undergo the contingent
cies of another disturbance. - The
anxiety of congressman to do some
thing to relieve the pressure and
reduce the cost of manufacture OF paper
has been as keen as the demands OF the
country newspapers have been urgent.
Had the city press joined in the clamor 1t
could not have added much that would
have given Congressman a realizing sense
oil the importance of reducing the tariff
The fact is, the majority of Congressmen
pay greater regard to what their home or
gans al the county-seats of their districts
have to say than they do the criticisms of
the city press. Nor is this unnatural; be-
hind the county newspapers stands con
stituency that is strongly influenced by
them in determining the actual value
of their Representatives in Con-
gress; and the reelection of a
member Is not infrequently decided by
the verdict of the home organ.-We need
to perfect our system of finance in this
Countrywide coinage of small god-the
establishment Of a cheap postal-order sys-
tem-the withdrawal of trade dollars, and
the use of those dollars aud surplus sub
sidiary coin. as bullion in coming standard
silver dolars-the withdrawal of small
notes and the stoppage of the c'.inage of
silver after the supply of trade dol
lars and surplus subsidiary is ex-
halsted, until the minis of the world are
opened to silver at fixed ratio with gold
by an International Congress.
School Board Bill is very simple. 1t mere
ly elects one-third of the Board on general
ticket, leaving each Ward its representa-
tive. The theory is that the members
chosen by the people at large would not be
the tools of the squads of letty politicians
who have their dens in each Ward. That
this measure of reform may be effective, it
should be put through at once, to give the
people and the schools the benefit OF it this
year. The opposition to it comes from
those who are interested in putting the
school system to base uses
The Enquirer says: Tilden has gone up
and down like a ship en- the waves of the
ocean. Just now he is in the trough of the
sea. The Democratic acknowledgment of
the Tilden mortgage is not so marked as it
was two or three weeks ago, and Republi-
cans who recently counted high on having
Tilden for Il vulnerable opponent to Grant,
or Blaine or Sherman, have relaxed in
their hilarity There is at least, momen-
tary doubt about Tilden foreclosing, and
Jewett is the gamer by the doubt. He is
spoken of as the Tilden legatee, and inde-
pendent of any such favor he has acquired
strong following in New York, which
will not desert him for trifling causes.
Even in Indiana there is less exhibition
of the demand for Hendricks since Jew
EFT has been brought into the field.
Hancock is the only Democratic candi-
date besides Jewett, whose prominence has
lately increased, and Hancock growth has
been spasmodic and in spots; not steady
and widespread as Jewett's has been The
comments of the English press upon the
suggested American inter-oceanic canal and
the relations of the Monroe Doctrine to
such canal across our Isthmus, or through
Central America, are substantially tne
same upon one point. The English ,ur-
nal is OF opinion that the United States
should not assert the Monroe Doctrine in
respect to this canal. The comments are
not notably beliigerent, If we except one
remark made by the London Standard, but
they are plainly antagonistic to the posi-
ton taken in the Message of President
Hayes upon this subject and to
the traditional sentiment of the
American people in relation to the Monroe
Doctrine. The action of this Govern
ment touching this canal ought not to be
based on the premises that the United
States will not in all times to come have
a ship The Standard atfirms the doctrine
that England has equal rights everywhere
Oh the green ear h and on blue waters, or
wherever boats can float, putting it in
these words concerning the Monroe Doc
trne and this canal: This pretension the
British Government is bound to watch
and, ii necessary, to resist. No more al
Panama tuan at Suez can the 'preponder
ating influence of another Power be al
loved to lay hands on the trade of Eng
land" The American reply is: Not at all
at Suez, but altogether at Panama, tn,
United States asserts the right of control
The Gazette SAYS: The action OF III,
Directors of the Cincinnati, Hamilton q
DAYTON Railroad on Monday, in declaring
a dividend of 81 per cent, seems to con
firm the statement made in the Gazette
that new parties had obtained control O.
tile road by purchase OF majority of til,
stock. The pool that is supposed to have
secured this control is the same that ha
the management Of the c., c.. G. & l.. tbt
Day ton Short Line, and the Atlantic &
Great Western. In this connection, til,
fact is significant that the officers of tn,
Atlantic & Great Western have beer
ordered from this city to CLEVELAND
the removal to take place on -th'
lst of MAY. This. with the extraordinar!
and unexpected dividend declared by til,
G., H. & d. Directors, payable on the 10tl
prox.. and the closing of the transfer book
between the 1st and 18th of April, inclus
i've, is pretty conclusive evidence, circum
st ntial, at least, that the ownership OF tn
road has changed hands. This movemen
is new one I Cincinnati. 1t is the frs
time that Eastern capitalists have caret
about Cincinnati roads. This city ha
heretofore been regarded and treated as Of
a side track But the opening of the South
ern Road has changed all this. 1t is nov
all important railroad center. Thi