New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-19


osity at that.
| The House Committee on Elections has taken
| two years to discover that Congressman hun,
| of Florida, is not entitled to seat, and that
the one which he holds belongs to Mr. Bisbee,
| the contestant. IL is something to know that
| in their tardy repentance they are unanimous
| But it is too much to expect that the Demo-
| Gratis will rob themselves of Mr.. HulPs vote
| so long as they have any uso for 1t. Mr..
Bisbee can congratulate himself IL he gets ms
salary voted to him or the last day OF the
session, when Mr.. Hull viii set out for home
with two years pay in his pocket to which he
| has no moral title.
| Mr.. Mcfarland deserts his late partner,
| Mr.. s. L. NJ. Barlow, and goes over to the
| Republicans, mainly Acause they believe In
something, while he can't find out that the
latter-day Democracy believe in anything
| Some of the Hancock men who were 80 DuSy
! over the Revenue Reform plank IN the last weeks
of the campaign ought to reason with Mr.
Mcfarland. Suppose they undertake. to ex-
PLAIN to him just what they do believe IN on
that subject. The public would still take
languid interest in the explanation.
The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce has
adopted a minute of thanks to Secretary
Evarts for the system of consular reports
upon commercial topics, which he has inaug-
urated. This recognition of the usefulness Oh
this method of indicating foreign markets for
American manufactures is especially appro-
pirate. because the Pittsburg Chamber took
h. ding part In the efforts to secure
the necessary cooperation of Congress. Its
declaration that. Secretary Evarts has done
more practical good to the manufacturers OF
d" the United States who desire to enlarge their
"markets and to widen their relations than
" has ever been done before in this direction"
is the statement of men who have been IA
miliar with the idea from its inception. 1t
must be gratifying to Secretary Evarts, who
deserves all the praise he has received for
the successful execution of the plan. 1t is to
be hoped also that it may teach Congress the
wisdom of pursuing more liberal policy
with respect to our representatives abroad
than has been the rule of late.
1t may not be that the palmy days of the Sen
ate are TO return, but the list of yesterdays
accessiOns to the body, reported in the formal
legislative nominations to be followed to-day
by the formal declarations, is no mean one.
Mr. COnger, General Harrison, General Haw-
ley, Mr.. Hale and Mr.. Platt are new members
who will strengthen the Senate appreciably.
Some of them have already won distinction in
parliamentary and party leadership, and some
in the quiet and painstaking labOrs of
legislation. which make no noise, but
whose value is best understood when,
by any chance, they happen to be
lacking. Among the old members reelected,
Mr.. Dawes and Mr.. Bayard hold equally dis
tinguished places in their respective parties,
and both have the Senatorial quality
John Sherman is not new member GER
tainly, inasmuch as he now receives his fourth
election; nor is he a reelected member. HIS
is the strongest name on the list, and its
| weight will be felt in the new Senate. The
prominence of the Senate in ability as COM
pared with the House will become apparent
with the opening of the XLVIIth Congress,
| If it is not so already, and there must be o
| good many members of the First Vote Clubs
| of the last campaign who can remember when
something like the reverse of this was true.