New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-19

with the charge that the party defeated Re
funding bill and refused the opportunity TO
pass another, and thereby caused the Govern
ment a heavy loss in interest. The opposition
to an extra session comes largely from the
East, where there is naturally more reason to
dread the risks Of it. It is not an argument
upon either side of the question to say that
the risks of an extra session are not what they
have been. The last vestige of the Demo-
cratic Congress disappeared yesterday.
1t is q strange state of things when infOr-
nation respecting place of evil resort reaches
the Police Commissioners only through the
testimony taken upon the trial of a crime
committed in the den, and through the in
dignant censure of the Judge upon the police
for allowing such house to exist. VI course
information respecting this individual place
could never have reached the Police Commits
siOners before, or it would have been IN
stantly closed UP. They are now respectfully
informed that there is an evil resort on Chrys-
test, the number of which they will find In
Recorder Smyth's remarks, printed elsewhere
in this paper. The Commissioners will be
shocked to learn that the plnce is near the
police station in that precinct. We particu-
larry pray that somebody will break the
shocking news gently TO the Captain thereof
Mr.. SauIsbury's protest against the casting
vote of the Vice President yesterday upon the
list of Senate Committees showed how far even
a fossllizcd Democrat may wander from the
teachings of his fathers. The Vice-Presidents
right to vote on all questions, when there is
tie, is not only clearly set down IN the Con-
stitution, but has he 5n exercised by snch
Democratic Vice Presidents as John G. Calhoun
and Willard Fillmore, and conceded by other
Democrats quite az distinguished. AS Sena-
tor Logan pointed out. the precedent General
Arthur followed yesterday WAS set at least as
early as 1929, and there have been many con-
firmations of 1t since. In 1850, for example.
the Senate was tied upon the election OF
chaplain, and the President, Mr.. Fillmore,
deferred to the Senate's judgment whether he
had the right to vote. Mr.. Clay at once said
he Certainly" had it. 1t was then shown that
the preceding Vice-President, Mr.. Dallas. had
once claimed the right, but had not exercised
il. owing to tie arrival of Senator who de-
stroyed the tie. Mr.. Calhoun, when some
Senators tentatively questioned the Vice-Presi-
dents power to vote on Executive nomina-
TONS affirmed his night to do so. and recalled
the fact that he, as ice-President. had given
the casting vote upon the nomination of Mr.
Van Buren, as Minister to England. Lastly
Vice Prrsdent Wheeler asserted the right and
maintained it in the Kellogg case. Mr.. Sauls-
bury was the ouly Democrat in the Senate to
butt his head against this wall of presidents.
The Republican party returned yesterday to
the full control of the National Government,
which WAS first broken by the elections of
1874 The Senate has passed into the
hands of the Republicans. so far as the COM
position of its committees, the most important
feature of its organization, is concerned. This
result was not reached, of course, by means
of solid phalanx of Republican votes. The
vote of Senator Malone tied the Senate, and
the casting vote of the Vice-President carried
through the Republican committee list.
majority made this way cannot be called
majority in the usual sense Of the word. But
it places the Republican party in control of
the sources of legislation in the upper House
Whether or not Senator Malone shall vote
with the Democrats upon some questions.
there is hardly q possibility that there will
ever be an attempt to overturn the commit
tees. Senator Malone would be the last man
TO aid in such movement, and it would be
only by his help that it could succeed. 1t may
be set down therefore % certainty that the
one party in this country which understands
the business of Government, the one party in
whose hands the banker and the mechanic
alike feel that their interests are safe from
unjust interference. the one party which has
convictions and conscience and ability In equal
has returned to its old place,
which will know it, if we do not mistake the
temper of the people, for long time to come.