New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-21

Senate, Democratic and others, tried their heads
at it, Mr.. Jacobs. a Democratic COnkling Sem
ator pressed resolution for final adjournment,
which was defeated by vote of II to IS. Six
Senators, who were elected as Republicans,
voted to betTay the control of the United
States Senate to their new political allies.
These were Senators Braman, Eidman, Halbert,
Strahan, Williams and WinslOw. When the
time comes for the Republicans of this State
to make up Newgate calendar of the men
who have tried to betray them into the hands
of the enemy, these six names will deserve "a
conspicuous place.
For the first time in the history of the State
the three State Prisons show net profit.
The handsome excess of receipts over eX-
penses which Sing Sing has shown for several
years has been regularly swallowed up 10y the
large deficit at Clinton and small one at Au-
burn, leaving the prisons below the self-sup-
porting line. The net earnings over expenses
at Sing Sing for the fiscal year ending Sep
tember 30, 1880, were $32,75O, but the de-
felt elsewhere made total deficit for the
three prisons of 81 5000. IT. is now an
nOunced, however, that the first six months of
1851 show net profit of $l.70O The con-
victs of the State are therefore paving their
way--a duty which need not interfere with
The humanitarian side of prison reform.
One of the most picturesque figures among
the American women of this century Is Myra
Clarke Gaines, the indomitable little lady
who has been fighting u battle of fifty
years in the courts for the property
which seems lawfully to be hers. The story
OF her lite, which is romantic enough to fur
nish forth half dozen paper novels and
have the material for few fve-act
plays left over, is told elsewhere by
Washington correspondent. This ac-
count shows that Mrs. Gaines has al
ways proposed to use her triumph humanely if
she should ever achieve it, and that she once re-
fused an offer of money that would have raised
her from penury to wealth. because it involved
the surrender of Il part of the estate to spccu-
lators and the possible oppression of the occu-
pants.
1t seems that an unauthorized " slop Jar" has
lately been erected in Union-Square. This is
Park Commissioner Lanes polite and appreca-
tive name for the tank of free ice water lately
placed IN that park 10y the Business Mems So
ciety for the ENCOURAGEMENT OF Moderation
and which has been used 10y great numbers of
thirsty people during the hot days. Mr.. Lane
seems to have conceived special spite against
the Sop jar" aforesaid because the person in
charge thereof declined to remove certain adj
| vertisements" On it, saying that there was
nothing to fear, because "the Park Commits
sioners were a weak lot of fellows, and never
could agree upon anything" The memory of
| this insult to the Board of which he is such a
harmonious and influential member. caused Mr.
Lane to hammer on the table with his fist and
cry aloud; while the entire Commission as a
means of showing that they were a lot of
strong fellows and could agree about almost
anything, forthwith proceeded to wranglc on
all possible subjects, unr they reached state
OF tangle and quarrel edifying in the extreme
Altogether the meeting what Mr.. Conkling
iii one of his serious legal moments, would call
a halcyon and vOcfcrous proceedings and we
fail to see in what respect the custodian of the
Illicit and unofficial " slop jar in Union Square
whose lack of right to an existence was not I'M
paired by any act of the Board, was wrong in
his dc scrption of that body.