New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-25

what as follows: Seat in any part OF the
house, except the boxes, one franc, OF less 'ail
twenty cents sky-paror, nine cents pay Vi
prima donna, fifteen francs night OF less
than three dollars otler opera artists IN pro-
norton : talent mostly local, and very Iar
under the crcumstanc performances as
whole. satisfactory; total expenses oil the mana
cor obout fifty dollars per night, and prohts
oon,f.s4al,le Here is a picture which the
American public and the managers who I'VE
on their favor may contemplate win eAllenlel'
mingled emotions.
The extraordinary bill for throwing corpo-
rations into the hands of receivers, to whlch
The TRIBUNE lately directed attention, mas
had the blackmail amended out of it in Sena-
tor Schroeder's Committee, and is now regarded
as a fair measure, securing that protection for
minorities of stockholders to which they are
entitled Under the new BILL instead OF aio"
ing any corporation TO he put inVo '"0
hands Of a receiver upon mere ahoE"-
ton of few stockholders that the man
agement is dishonest and unfair 10 the
minority, this redress can he RAD only
after a trial, ard upon Judgment by the
SuDreme Court that the management is as al
Legged; and the amazing provision by whlch
the receiver was TO appraise the stock OF the
company, and the majority were 70 he a.
lowed to buy out the minority at that hguie,
wbereupon the receiver would be discharged
and business he resumed, seems to have diS'p-
peared altogether. In its present shape inc
bill seems likely to afford a new and effective
xeanon of defence TO minoritcs-which Is not
what It's trainers set out TO get Their object
being plainly weapon of assault.
Senator Brown seems to have caught the
Ayvor of Mr. Ben Hills politics. MI HILL has
been famous all his life for ability TO serve
one rarty slavishly, while ut the same time
conveying the impression that he was almost
ripe for conversion TO The other. MIR. Brown has
borrowed leaf from Mr.. Hills book. He
succeeded in making the Republicans Of Geor-
cia believe so firmly that he WAS ready to take
an independent attitude in the Senate that they
gave him their votes in the Legislature; aud on
coming to the Senate hC became the leader OF
the same BOuTbOns whom ii WAS fOndly believed
he would not so much AZ follow lie was 40
successful in persadding the GeorgianS oi his
Independence that one Of the more prominent
of them Insists that he heard Mr. Brown
pledge himself in speech not 10 he governed
by the Democratic caucus. 1t Is true that MI.
Brown now produces a certificate from the
Chairman of the Republican state Committee
that. so far as be knows, no specific pledges
were made. Upon this point the recollection
Of one leader among the Georgia Republicans
is probably as good as that Of another, and
the conflict of opinion is perhaps another indi-
cation of the two-faced policy which there *
too much reason to suspect senator Brown
has been following. Still another, perhaps l.
Senator Browns public indignation because
the Georcia Republicans have not been prop
ery treated in the matter Of patronage. For
man who claims to have been a simonpEc
Democrat for many years this is queer 80
licitude indeed