New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-06

masked neither secret objects nor IDLE auVeh-
tures did not imply that the nation had re-
pounced its obligations as European rover
Messrs. Hooker and Aiken, not beng OF
m thematical turn of mind, have "helped on
Reapportionment by making violent partisan
harangues. The Mississippi Congressman was
brutally frank. He was willing to pose as
champion of cOlored suffrage for his party
had made Government so cheap that the
negroes had ceased to nominate an opposition
ticket, but voted precisely as their enemies
wanted to nave them. His South Carolina
colleague made his best point III defining
Southern Republican as "a political legallzed
burglar" The low buf0Onery of tho first
performance was on dead level with the
biazrn effrOntery of the other.
Every accident on the Elevated Railways
increases the uneasiness of the thousands VINO
pass up and down the island every day. The
collision which occurred between Chambers
st. and Park place will make many
timid traveller hold his breath when his train
is rounding a curve. The General Manager
asserts that facman is stationed at that
point, and promises to find ont whether lie
was there at the moment OF the accident.
The lives of thousands ought not to depend
upon the presence of a f1agman at any turn
of the road 1t would he very easy to sub
stitute for the fagman automatic mechanism
by which the train around the curve could
make its exact position known to the en-
gineer behind.
With yesterdays work General Thomas
It. Eckert becomes the controlling spirit
in managing the telegraph system OF
the country. For dozen years lie has
been recognized, among those qualified
tO Judge as the ablest telegrapher the busl-
ness has yet produced. A man of
consummate executive ability, cautious,
far>eeing, tremendously energetic, he is
also known, in tho expressive language
of Wall Street, as thoroughly square
man. What he promises he performs
his word is his bond, and you always
know where to find him. He never
sought the present consolidation and the
puUlic may be sure that, 80 long as he shapes
Its course, its tendency will be only to per
feet the work and popularize the service by
making it at once cheaper and more certain.
Our special cable dispatches show that the
suspension of the Home Rulers was effected
in accordance with standing order, after
they had violated the rules and dtled the au-
thority of the House. The action of the
Speaker in closing the preliminary debate was
irregular, but subsequently the prccedents
were followed. The arrest of the master or
gamer Of the Land League seems TO have
had a demoralzing effect upon the Irish mcm-
bers, for they lost their self-poSsession,
placed themselves outside the rules, and thus
subjected themselves to legitimate discipline.
The unanmity with which the country has
accepted the situation will Teassure the Mn
istry, and having once set out on the path OF
re)ressiOn they will not turn back until the
ascendancy of the Crown is reestabli>hed in
Ireland as completely ms the authority of the
House has been restored In Westminster. 1t
is now clear that there will be no croaking
over precedents and no carping criticism upon
the irregularities of the Speakers coup f6tdt.
Englishmen have not been shocked out o.
their political senses 10y the disregard Of the
historical privilege of unrestricted discussion
i'll the Commons.