New-York tribune., 1881-12-13

Tbirtieth. st.. Sunday, and beat him and his
wife nearly to death, will set up the plea oi
moral insanity, which, according TO one OF wv"
of the doctors now in Washington, Is olsease
affecting people who commit peculiarly "'cNcu
crimes. Such plea would not, however, aVail
the villains much in a NewYork Court when
they come to be tried. Their ailment Will
speedily be defined as depravity, and the remedy
will no doubt be the full penalty provided py
the law for an unproyoked and murderous as
sault
One member of the BOnaparte family has had
q stroke of luck. Prince Roland, VINO ABOUT
year ago married the daughter OF NJ. Blanc, 'l'c
proprietor OF the Monaco gambling estaoiish-
ment, has just sold out the interest III the CON
Germ which he Inherited on the death OF MS
father in-law for four and half millions ol
dollars. It will be curious 10 observe whether
the other members Of the family will now treat
with Difference this young millionaire lieu
tenant, whose wealth has come from so DIS
reputable a source. The Bonapartes were al
WAYS adventurers, however, from the first En-
peror down, and there are few among them
with character enough to frOwn upon mes
Representative Wnitt's bill to reOrganlze the
Government of Utah Territory is important II,
as reported, it has been drawn to meet the
views of President Arthur. 1t applies the
heroic method of treatment to the Mormon
problem, deprving the people of Utah OF all
the privileges of self-goyernment, and putting
their affairs in the hands of u Governor and IA
' a.. ,,oI nF, aff,hg a
pointed by the President. Such a measure
woald be out of harmony with our system OF
dealing with the Territories but it would vio-
late no constitutional right, for Territory Is
entitled only to such form of government as
Congress may provide for 1t. Besides, II Is
plain that if stop is to be put to the practice
of polygamy, Utah must be treated III an eX-
ceptional way. 1t is folly to expect the Nor
nous voluntarily to abandon system en-
joined 10y the superstition they call their rclig-
ion, and worse than folly to expect them to ald
in enforcing the United States statute designed
to destroy that system.
Mr. FrcIinghuysen, who succeeds MIR. Blame,
is an eminenty respectable politician, and
devoted member of the Third Term wing oi
the Republican party, in the days when there
| was such wing. His appointment VIII lie
| highly agreeable to Grant men and ConkIing
men, and it can hardly be very displeaslng to
anybody. He will probably take an extremely
conservative course in foreign affairs, and
give especial satisfaction to the large number
| who think that the less the State Department
| does the better off we are. But we put no
| faith in the stories that he is to sienallze
| his accession by abandoning the positions AS
surned by the Government under his prede-
cessor on two or three topics OF Importance,
such as the IsthmuS Canal. Mr.. frellnghuy-
| sen is not rash man ; and when the Ameri-
can people are pretty nearly unanimous on a
| point, he may be trusted to find 1t out.
| The great steel arms of the Brooklyn Bridge,
| reaching from the towers out over the East
| River, have met in the centre of the stream,
| and the structure begins to give promise OF
| early completion. The only satisfactory fca-
| ture about the work, however, is that percop-
| tible progress is made from day to day It's
finances arc in deplorable condition. There
seems to have been conspiracy all along to de-
ceive the people and the Legislature as to its
| cost. Last winter the full sum asked for 10
complete the bridge was granted and the tax
| paycrs of the two cities congratulated them-
selves that the mountain OF expense could not
be piled up any higher; but now comes de-
m,,nd for over two million dollars more. The
excuse offered is that a change in the plans
makes it necessary to buy great deal more
steel than was first contemplated But the Wis
dom of this change is sharply questioned by
some of the trustees, and doubt is cast upon
the ability of the cables to support the added
weight. The whole business seems to have
been badly mudded from first to last. There
have been too many committees and too much
d;,ision of responsibilty-in a word, too many
fingers in the pie.
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