New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-17
Npw yoKN pAnY TRIBUNE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ~ 1881

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| the habit of leaving his four motnerless chill
dreu for days without food or warmth, except
| such of the latter as they could get through
| the inexpensive contact of a friendly dog.
| Tho nedler has been sent to the Penltenhary
for six months. where he will have steady
sunply of food and warmth which he hardly
| deserves.
The burden of Mr.. Parnelps letter to the
| Dublin Land League is-America. There must
be no flinching, because of the " disastrous
results" that would follow in America. Ii
| thew maintain bold front they Will get
proportionate sympathy and practical help "
| from America. For these, and other reasons,
ne urges the tenant farmers to continue to With
| hold unjust rents and to refuse evicted farmS'
| declaring that the future of Ireland for gener-
| alton depends upon tier frmness There VIII
always be proportionate sym pathy ana prac
| ticol belnr here for anv real misfortune III
| Ireland which our people can properly ald III
relieving. but n visit to this country would
| nrobabiy show Mr.. Parnell that it is one thing
| TO ask money for starving women and chl'-
dren, and another to collect subscriptions Tor
a political campaign which has not been Tree
from deplorable practices.
The situation at Harrisburg now holds
out some hope of compromise Inc
leaders of the machine wing, after an IN
effcctual effort to pass resolution
in the Legislature ordering several Dalio'S
daily, proposed to the opposition that COM
mittee of twelve should be chosen from
each wing; that each of these committees
should select three names to be presented III the
Legislature, and that that one of the SIX VINO
received the largest number of votes should
become the candidate of the party and re-
ceiye its undivided vote. This was not tav0ra-
bly, received blythe supporters of Colonel Bayne,
| who made counter proposition. ms was Ior
| the appointment of committees Of twelve 10
meet together and select by a three-fourths vote
| of the whole number one name. which should
be adopted by both wings provided 1t was
| approved by both III full caucus. There IS still
much variance here. but the mere fact that
such negotiations are ON foot is promise OF
| agreement
| The passage of the River and HarbOr bill
unanended will be the fitting climax of this
| Democratic Congress. II cannot be pretended
| that any member who votes for this bill as it
stands is blind to the nature of those provi-
| sions which have been retained III II
only by massing the appropriation grabbcrS
of the House into solid phalanx against all
amendments whatsoever. At least one vote
of Yesterday put the bill in Its true cOlors, if
any voter in the United States can have been
so coor-blind as not to see them before.
The ostensible object of the bill is to
4 l1xyV nv
| ing Instructions and the ike in navieabe
streams. Mr.. Updegralf yesterday offered an
amendment that none of the money approprl-
ated should be expended on streams which
did not come under the definition of navlga-
bility as found In the United States statutes.
This proposition was rejected by vote OF 81 to
| 50. Volumes could say no more. The House
openly confesses that 1t is voting money to
improve rivulets in which, as Mr.. Cox says.
"a catfish is apt to wear out its snOut in get
" ting over sand bars" and the Democratic
party, particularly the Southern members
| thereof are chiefly responsible, as Mr.. Upde-
graft told them yesterday, for this dsgraceful
spectacle.
Governor COrnelPs promptness in appoint
| ing the Tax Commission is in pleasant con-
! trast with the dilatoriness of the Legislature
| IN authorizing it.. He was ready with his list
| of names, and transmitted 1t TO the Lc@isa-
| ture Yesterday. 1t is announced that he has
| already summoned the members to Albany,
and will use his influence to see that the
work is begun at once. The Governors action
| throughout has been that of an officer sn-
| ccreJy anxieus to carry the public will into Ell
| feet Considerable valuable time has been lost
| through the failure of tine Legislator" to profit
| by his example The list OF names selected by
| the Governor will, we think, commend itself
to the people of the State. If it does not
| contain the names of noted experts upon tax
| alton questions it avoids, Oh the other hand,
the prepOnderancc of theorists, which has been
one cause of the failure OF previous Tax Com
missions. Governor Cornell has picked cut
men who know the INEQUALITIES of the tax
| system by sore experience, and the event may
easily prove that lie has done wisely. In
George Geddes, Of OnOndaga, he has selected a
| man who has been lifelong student OF State
affairs, and will make most useful member
| The appointment of Mr.. Babcock, President of
| the Chamber of Commerce, gives New York an
excellent representation, though not so large
as it should perhaps have had. Judge Van
| Colt and John F. Seymour will furnish a
strong legal element, and Mr.. Halt, OF Ulster,
Mr.. Foster, of st. Lawrence, and Mr.. Brad
ner, of Livingston, are prominent in their re-
spective localities, and represent rural send-
ment upon this question. AS a whole the
| Commission promises well.
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