New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-20

this issue. Our correspondent is peculiarly
we Uniformed upon the temper Of the fnan-
cial community and the practicabilIty OF sucn
a loan. and his warning should be heeded.
The metaphors of the Democracy are as
mixed as their opinions. A distinguished idiot
in the Assembly at Albany lately referred TO
tho primary elections as " the bubbling springs
"upon which the superstructure OF our Gov.
"ernmentr is reared; and MIR. Garland, OF
Arkansas, spoke yesterday in the Senate Oh
the delectable bonds put upon the country
Gin the hell-broth of reconstruction" 1t Is
no wonder that Governor Jarvis, OF North
Carolina, is about the only prominent Demo
crat who sees that his party ought to take adj
vaneed ground upon the question OF educa-
ton. Those who need that useful article
most are often slow to appreciate it,
Even the vioorous exercise of wood-chop-
ping viii not insure immortality, nor is sys-
tematic. diligence in sleep the secret of eternal
youth. The friends of Mr.. Gladstone. it seems
from our London letter, are pointing out that
at e-and-seventy their leader needs to be
taught little economy in the use of his
strength-an economy which, strangely enough
in man of that age, it is not easy for him 10
learn. Every TRIBUNE reader mnst remember
the picturesque account Mr.. Smalley gave OF
MIR. Gladstone's amazing physical endurance
during the Midlothian campaign. Scarcely
more than O year has passed and the man is
much changed. being at time OF life when
q year counts for q good deal. The question
of the continuance of his strength is of Ma
tional importance and international interest,
and our correspondents account of the Pre-
mier's present condition cannot fail to attract
attention.
Speaker Randall made an interesting decision,
yesterday, upon rule of the House which is of
long standing but has never been anything more
than dead letter. A Democratic member chal-
lenged Mr.. Newberry's right to vote on the
Funding bill, on the ground of his connection
with National bank, evidently referring to
Rule WILL, which provides that every member
shall vote ON each question unless excused
" or unless he has direct personal or pecuniary
interest in the event of such vote" The
Speaker decided, in substance, that neither he
nor the House could deprive member OF
:" his right to represent his constituents" and
stated that he was not aware of any case where
Representative had been deprived of that right.
1t is true, as Mr.. Cox said, that the rule has
been practically "a nullity," but in view of
Speaker Randalfs decision it can be claimed
that it is imperative. The expediency of vOt-
ing upon questions in which the member is
personally interested must be left, as before,
to the conscience of each Individual. These
may be circumstances under which the casting
of such vote would be as indecent as for a
Judge to sit in Judgment upon case which
involved his own property, but an extension
of the prohibition anything like that proposed
yesterday would be absurdIy impracticable,
and, if systematically applied. would render
all the members of the House, by turn, In
eligible to perform their duties.
Whether Justice Bxby is less gallant than
Justice Murray, or Justice Murray less judi
cal than Justice Bixby, is a question which
could not be decided without wounding the
feelings of one or both Of those eminent and
learned men. The facts are that in Justice
Bixbys Court woman who had slapped and
had been slapped by another woman was
threatened with imprisonment if she did not
apologize to her antagonist while III Justice
Mu,rays Court yesterday a representative
of the male sex who had INDUCED
himself in a similar luxury, without
being made the victim of similar
reprisals, was not threatened in like
manner The. first named difficulty, be-
ing about a disputed half-dOIlar in a dress
making bill. rose far above the range even of
the "penny dreadful" The reconciliation of
two ladies who had been pulling one
auother's hair doubtless struck the Judge as
on occasion for the exercise of his highest
quality as a judge and man. Therefore it was
that he dealt with the case somewhat in a
paternal spirit, and directed the person who
be decided was the offender, although she
had received as well as expended a slap, to
apologize, and .sent her of to cell for ten
minutes, and in other ways applied to her
the law procedure of our nursery days. 1t
may be that in his desire to be a Solomon he
forgot his limitations as Police Justice. At
all events, there must be fair play between
the sexes, and we insist that the male slappers
also shall be ordered to apologize to the male
slappees, and shall lie made to stand up in
judicial corners with their faces to the wall,
and do other works meet Tor repentance.
NEWLY. ELECTED REPUBLICAN, SENATORS.
In the changes which will take place in the
United States Senate on the 4th of March the
| Republican side will gain largely, not only in