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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-01

General Grant may yet have occasion to
wish that lie had been saved from his friends
who desire to load him with so many honOrs.
Whenever the bill to place him on the retired
list of the Army is brought up in the House
somebody does or says something disagree
able There is no reason why those who are
most bitterly opposed to the Dill should treat
1t with such lack of ceremony as was shown
yesterday; and there is every reason why
they should not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-01

health of stout little boys to act in miniature
opera before they are sixteen years ola Out
the best public opinion still sustains the society
in thinking it great pity that little girls
should be allowed ever to come under lni'u-
ences that are almost certain to injure them,
if it can possibly be avoided. We trust
the Society will not be at all daunted 10y the
assertion that is made often now, that it has
exaggerated notions of its duty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-01

The possibilities which Senator Ferry opened
ND yesterday in the Senate are enough TO make
the country gasp. lie called upon the Com
mittee on Pensions TO report ms bull to
increase the pensions of disabled soldiers,
some $50 some $40 and some $50 a month,
according To the amount of limb lost in their
country's service. If this measure, or the
House bill which is also before the COM
mittee, should become a law, it would open
the door 10 another food of pensions, which,
with the load we are now bearing, is simply
appalling.
Although the Mayor has decided to allow
certain children TO sing in public despite the
protest of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children, the Society will undoubt-
cdly keep a sharp watch on the performance.
A good many people are inclined to believe
that it does not hurt either the morals or the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-01

A good deal of bitter feeling caused by the
war has worn away, but the Nations appreci-
alton of the services of the soldiers of
the Union increases as the years go
by. The people do not hear with patience
the complaints, that have been too fire.
uuent lately, of the ifi-treatment of those
veterans who are occupants of some of the Sol
diers Homes. The last charges come from the
Home at Hampton, Va. General WoOdfn
needs to step up promptly and defend himself
against these serious accusations.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17
VILL THEY VIADICATE HINf

We notice fresh eruption OF peculiar
form of TIlden panegyric. The variety Is not
new. 1t has been given to the public at reg
ular intervals for the past three or four years
1t starts with the compacent observation that
Republican journals habitually speak OF Mr.
Tiden with attempts at wtticism because they
are conscious that they have done him an IN
Jury, and their consciences are haunted by that
knowledge. In order to quiet their con-
sciences, therefore, they continue to repeat the
injury. This is not very logical, but it seems
to strike the Tilden eulogists as profound AMI
philosophical, and possibly 1t is. The next as
sertion is that the secondary cause for these
ribald attacks is an inward dread OF Mr..
Tildens power and constant fear that he will
be run Tor Office again.
This second charge has been made innu-
merable times 10y the Democrats, and Its ltera-
ton, for some unaccOuntable reason, appears
to give them great comfort. III they believe IL
70 be true we are unable to comprehend why
they don't renomnate him for something and
see if the Republican dread of his tremendous
popularity is well founded. There is not a Re-
publican in the country who has not been anx-
ious TO have the experiment tried at every
TIE TRIBUNE las never ceased to urge upon
the Democracy their duty to nominate him and
give the people chance to pronounce YER
dict upon his injured innocence. He has
an undoubted claim upon his party. They
have not hcsitated to declare that he is tre-
mendously ill-uSed man, that he has been
defrauded both by friends and enemies ; and
yet when they had IA chance to reno inmate him
in 1880, and he stood holding out both hands
to catch the nomination, they passed it over to
General Hancock.
The Democrats and not the Republicans are
responsible for the shameful fact that this man
has never haG Il chance to he "vindcated by
the people. If the decision had been lett to d
Republican Convention in 1880 he would have
been renomnated by acclamation. The Repub-
licans are ready at all times to test their in
ward dread of his power. They are sure that
the people have not forgotten where the
fraud was found to belong in the post
election struggles of 1S7G-'77 when it was
hunted down. If the Democrats think other
wise all they have to do is to make the test.
Let them run their Innocent for Governor,
President, or any other Office. After that they
will he content TO drOD the subject
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17
DEMOCRATIC HOPES And METHODS.

DEMOCRATIC HOPES AAD METHODS.
There is not Democrat in the country, who
has hope of success in the fall elections that
does not base his hope upon the conduct of
Republican leaders. They have behaved i'll
such way, he says that the party cannot be
united, nor can the people be brought TO sup
port it. Republican Congress has disre-
garded and insulted public opinion, say Dem
ocrats who have voted for the most shameless
election frauds, in defiance of the opinion even
of decent men in their own party. Repub-
hcan Congress has voted away three hundred
millions, much of it wastefully OF dishonesty,
say the Democratic members whose votes
passed the worst of the measures denounced
by them. In fine, Congress has acted so badly
that the people might turn with some measure
of enthusiasm to the Republican President, if
he, also, had not set the country against him
by his appointments. About that matter, the
Democrats have very lofty Indignation.
The President has made war, they say upon
the large majority of his own party, as the
Democrats are doing upon the whole of it. has
slapped it in the face by giving place and honor
exclusively to a minority, has treated with
contempt the example and the policy of his
predecessor, as the Democrats did, ana has sup
ported with all his power the Bosses against
whom the people are rising. This is the COM
plairt of men who, in the Senate, secured by
their votes the confirmation of the Presidents
most Objectionable appointments, and who
will help Mr. Cameron to succeed in Pennsy-
vania, if they can, in order TO prevent the Re-
publicans from getting rid OF a Boss and find
ing a suitable leader. The fact is that the
Democrats are filled with horror at the con-
duct and the condition of the Republican party,
and will spare no pains to make both conduct
and condition worse if they can.
Does 1t never occur TO them that good cit
izens, if they feel like furnishing anybody for
all this misconduct may consider the Demo-
cratic leaders more deserving of punishment
than any Republicans The men who, as
Democrats, have helped on the worst meas
uIes and the most Objectionable nominations,
having no glamour about it, knowing full well
that the very things they were getting done
they would presently be exhibiting with horror
as evidences OF Republican turpitude--if these
men do not deserve popular contempt ana
defeat, who does or can
But the Republican party has no business to
ask public support merely because the Dem
Ocratic party is in every respect worse. If
any prominent Republican thinks to succeed
in that way, he ought to be undeceivcd. The
country will support the Republican party, if
at all, because il has infinitely better claims to
support than any that Democratic misbehayior
can create
The Republican party has not in all things
put its best foot forward this year But it has
done some very useful and worthy things,
nevertheless which merit public gratitude.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17

and which the Democratic party opposed "''h
all its might. In every one of its faults or un-
wise acts the Democrats have the hons snare /;
they contributed larger proportion Oh
votes than the Republicans to such meas
ures: they captured larger share oi the
Advantages and they are now proclaim
ing and will proclaim that they ought to
have power because the Republicans did thoSe
most reprehensible things. But as to the good
things done by Congress, the case Is different.
They were devised by Republican committees
passed by Republican maiorities, forced
through in almost every instance in spite of
Democratic opposition, and in several cases
passed only after Il struggle in which the Dem
ocrats resOrted to revolutionary means OF re-
sstance.
As to the President and the Bosses, the Re-
publican party is giving some attention to Its
relations to them. The dscord which DEM
ocTats wish to seize as an opportunity OF get
ting into power is evidence, not OF
Republican i'll desert, but of the courage
and maniness or Republican voters, and OF
their determination to resist whatever they
think ill-deserving within their own ranks. II
they succeed in getting rid of an Objectionable
Boss in any State, the Democrats know full
well that their chances tor success VIII not
thereby be improved. If they should fail, the
fact still remains that the Republican party as
it is does great deal that is good, in spite OF
Democratic opposition.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17
MORAL OF 4 TASTED SESSION.

The session of the British Commons, which
is to be adjourned this week until the last week
in October, has not followed the lines marked
out for it in the Queer Speech The reform of
the County franchise and government, the uni
iication of the metropolitan districts of Lon
don, the Bankruptcy bill and the Corrupt Prac-
tices Act have not been taken into cOnsidera-
ton. What was meant TO be the real Work of
the session, the reform of procedure in the Com
mons, has been barely begun, ard an autumn
session is required in order to save what little
progress has been made. Ireland received
scant attention in the Queens Speech, as it was
felt that two sessions had already been devoted
to the agrarian disorders in that island, and the
interests of England and Scott md were suffer-
ing from inattentiOn. Yet 1t has been an Irish
session. AT the outset the debate on the new
rules was suspended in order to enable tie
Commons to counteract the Lords mischevous
inquiry respecting the Land Act. Barely had
the first division on the Closure been taken he
fore the release of the Irish members from
Kilmainham and the assassLations III Phoenix
Park rendered a revision of the programme for
the session unavoidable. The debates since
the close of March have been mainly taken up
with the Coercion and Arrears bills, the vote
of credit for Egypt marking an unexpected
DEPRESSION. These two Irish acts are of suai-
cient importance to preclude the Use of the
word barren in connection with the legislative
results of the session. Yet the Government
has made so little progress in directions indi-
Gated in the Queens Speech that 1t is forced to
have recourse to Az autumn session III order to
protect it, reputation.
This result bears less heavily against the Gov
ernment than it does against that clumsy and
antiduated order of procedure with which the
Commons will he called upon to deal III Octo-
Der. This is the moral of the wasted session.
The fact that the Government has failed to ac-
complish, not everything, but anything, which
ii aimed to do, and that what has been done in
Irish legislation has required the pressure of
urgency rules and arbitrary decisions frcm the
chair one of those decisions, at least, being of
questionable legal y-demonstrates, we think
the utter incaDacIty ol the CoInmnna for the
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discharge of its proper functions under the oiu
repulations. There are various Legislative
measures and schemes of reform which the
constituencies have demanded. The Liberal
majority was elected in order that these great
.proposals might be debated and reduced to the
form of law. The pledges of the majority are
unfuflled and the hopes OF the constituencies
disappointed, for the simple reason that the
Commons cannot control its own time anu en-
force its will. While the waste of time has
grown intoerable, the artificial contrlVances
for discplining the Irish members nave oe-
come exceedingly dscreditable. During inc
present session sixteen members were on one
occasion pronounced guilty of collective op-
struction and arbitrarily suspended, although
many of them, as the chairman grlmy re-
marked. were not individually responsible Tor
the offence; and when one of them, who had
not taken any part in the debate violently pro-
tested against what had been done, he was
suspended for fourteen days. Such episodes
not only exasperate the Home Rulers and
harden the hearts of the Irish tenants against
English concession. but they bring lasting re-
proach upon the Commons. 1t is evident that
some substitute must be found for urgency
rules.
The action of the Government in adjournlng
the session until October will be sustained, IN
our opinion, 10y the sober Judgment OF the con-
sttuencies The most important of the new
rules, that relating to the Closure, has been
substantially adopted in principle, the Commons
having decided late in March by vote OF BIS
to 279 that debate can be closed by bare
majority under safeguards that amply protect
the minority. This is "A rule which even without
those safeguards has worked satisfactorily In
nearly all the other ParlIaments OF the world,
and the necessity for its adoption in the Com
mons is conceded by all the members except
blatant obstructiOnists, whose tactics Will be
frustrated by it, and those arrogant Tories and
timorous Wings who dread the removal OF
restrictions upon legislation while Mr.. Glad
stone is in power. We think that he would
have made great mistake if he had cOmpro-
missed with the Conservatives on the basis OF
two-thirds majority, and are inclined to take
the autumn ssson as n conclusive proof that the
most important of the new rules is not to be
weakened. We suppose that there is no pros
pect of its being strengthened by shifting the
responsibility for proposing the Closure from
the Speaker or Chairman to the Leader OF the
House.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17
Aew;2lork Daily Gribnale.
FOUNDED HORACE GREELEY
THURSDAY. AUGUST II, 1882.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRTIGN-F u. Gray, member OF Parliament ana
proprietor If The IreemdRs journal. OF Dublin, mas
been sent 10 Jail and fined for contempt OF court
much excitement prevailed III Dublin yesterday I'D
consequence OF this. === General Sir Garnet
Woiscley has issued proclamation to the people OF
Tgvpt GO The Porte Is unwilling 10 sign me
military convention proposed by England -
Socalstic ideas are said 10 be spreading among the
Spanish peasantry.
DoMtsric.-Senator Hill, of Georgia, died at At
lanta Yesterday. =-- Ihe thrd annual conven-
ton of the American Bankers Association met yes
terdav at Saratoga. == Damage TO property was
done az Hampton, Conn, by q collision between
freight trains on the New-York and New-Engiand
Railroad. =-= The annual meeting of the stOck-
holders of the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and western
Railroad was held at Saratoga == Publications
of newspapers at Brownsville, Tex, have been
suspended owing to the yellow fever. =- Many
Congrcssionai nominations were made yesterday IN
various parts of the country. -= The Iowa
Democratic State Convention met yesterday at
Marshaltown and nominated State ticket. =-
Punstcr, Granger. Jennie V. and Malasine won the
races at Saratoga.
CITY AND sUBuRpAx-The conditions were more
favorable for shooting at CreedmOor Yesterday, and
better scores were made - The Anti Monopoly
State Committee decided to hold a convention OF
Saratoga on September 13 - Samuel Obreight
was declared sane by Referee Buck. - mass
meeting of milk dealers was held. -
III, Dady faction successful In the
Fourth Ward primary in Brooklyn. -= The Park
Commissioners were in session for nearly four
hours - Engineer RoeblIng SAYS that the bridge
cannot be finished before the end of next year.
-== Gold value Of the legal-tender silver dollar
Hl2l2 grainsl, 1888 cents. - Stocks were dull
and lower for the best part of the day, but before
the cad there were activity and higher prices, and
The market closed excited.
1HE WEArHER.-lRIBUNEl local observations in
d,cate clearing aud fair weather with probably in
creased tcmpcrature. Temperature yesterday
Highest, So; lowest. TO; average, IT'S.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17

it is so. We have hopes that public opinion II
the South is undergoing a gradual change IN
this regard. All the indications point to it.
But the process is slow, and the essential
quality of craftsmanship as of philosophy is
patience. Northern capital and Northern enter
prise wait only for the consummation OF this
healthful change to enter and occupy the field
and make the whoe South @throb with life
and vivid fOrceD
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17
UNJUST CENsURE OF CONGRESS.

n.
If it were possible 10 gel tOgethcr Non,
grr.. whose work would uniformly good, there "oui
be more prUpricty than IL nOw apparent III the ~
and inter duunciaOn that Ii prevalent, not MeIeg ~
the shape OF yials wrath, but IN torrents o
gated tenunciation, the NLNlth 'onsIoN uns
nuen of III labor during the recent long session -,
sile n il papa be aud confessed mpOsrlDny 10 e'".s
A Copreas which will do ali those things that ousn
be one and leave undoue all those things that Vue ,
moi Ia be DONE II puere 10 huri columns oi W
thets al this Congress BECAUSE Ike ali lt5 pEeueSS'
n has given the country mXturo Of good ana CIVIL
pEpuRLICANs AND THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION
Frona Tts Chtcdgo Inter ocean ,Rtpl ,:,,
The campaign III the seYerai hepui,ilr hepudisO"-' %
siate, holding elections this fall Is To Do pecuAAA'
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17

New-Yorks death rate has risen to appalling
figures in the tenement-house districts during
some of the burning days of this oppressive
summer, but there is little danger that the
mortality will be augmented by any pestilence
brought to the city by water. Our Quaran-
tine arrangements are thoroughly efficient
An interesting talk with Health Officer Smith
reported elsewhere shows the special precau-
tions taken against yellow fever.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17
PUBLIC OPINION.
HAZARDOUS EXPERIMENT.

We do not believe that IL Is either prudent
or polite to say nothing OF higher motives, TO aSsuho
the r,suon sibty for the politics or reputation Oi Gen
eral Chalmers ny aiding ms movement Ia MlSsoiPp'
IL would be mpOssiDe 10 escape III general estimation,
and would DE- Infinitely Wiser 10 allow the nero o. fVs
Pillow and the representative OF the SHOE string oS
trlct TO night MS own battle.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17

Persons ledp,ng towRJor the season, and sum
s,er trarelie,s, can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
mailed to them, POSTPAID, for 81 20 per month,
The address being changed as often as desired
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17

Washington loses in Senator Hill one of the
most conspicuous representatives OF the South.
Throuehout his life his impulses were supe-
ror to either his judgment or his courage. In
1861 he opposed Secession when a shrewder
man would have perceived that the Southern
leaders were Dent upon dragging Georgia out
of the Union and when the crisis came, lie
did not have the courage OF his convictions
but entered the service of the Coniederacy
with the zeal of an original SecesslOnlst. When
he entered Congress he became the typical
Southern Brgadicr " without having any am
biton for Eplaying the part which was thrust
upon him. He had excellent motives, but an
unfortunate habit of not seeing things as they
really were. We nave no doubt that when
he made those early speeches In Congress
which excited so much resentment II the
North he fancicd that 1t was his mission to
reconcile the two sections OF the country.
Ontspoken. serious and sincere, he lacked the
unerring dscemment which would have
warned more practical statesman again-t a
coarse tending to revive the passions of North
and South. What he supposed would pass for
Southern Liberalism was angrlly rcpudi-
ated as blatant Bourbonism and probably
nobody in Washington was more astonlshed
than he was himself when the relations OF
North and South were couded 10y his we'll
meant but i'll judged and ill-timed utterances.
Even when his impulses were supprted 10y a
sound Judgment, his courage often proved
faint-hearted as was shown by his change OF
base on the silver question and the Electoral
dispute in 1876. But while his public life re-
veals many blemishes, his motives were inya-
raby honorable, and i'll private life he dis
PLAYED many genial and hearty traits which
eudeared him to large circle of friends.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17

The Park Commissioners reopened their
place Of amusement after the summer vaca-
ton yesterday, and the comedy season may be
considered now fairly to have begun.
New-York tribune., 1882-08-17

A murderer has actually been convicted IN
Ireland and sentenced to death. Ihat Is not
all member of Parliament has been I'M
prisoned for three months and heavily hned
for publishing in his newspaper etter charg-
ing the Jury with being drunk on the night
before the verdict was rendered. Justce so
long paralyzed in those Irish courts Is now
dealt out with a high hand. This is re-
markable sentence and one which will be de-
nounced by the Irish editors at home and in
America Under ordinary circumstances 1t
would have been an unwarrantable exercise
of judicial power. But the fact must not be
overlooked that the distinct aim of the Coer-
cion bill under which the first conviction for muir
der was secured was the punishment OF crime.
TO arrest suspect without trying, convlcthS
and Furnishing him has proved OF no Deneut'
When, therefore, the first punishment was
dealt, it was of the first importance that the
motives and conduct of the jury should not he
called in question without cause. The jury
having properly resented the charge OF drunk
enness, the Court has taken an exceptional
mode of Furnishing a Member of Parliament
who sought to vtiate the effect of the verdict.
Not only an exceptional but an arbitrary
mode for while the deGials of the jury have
been readily accepted, their accusers have
not had any adequa opportunity of proving
whether they had any evidence on which to
base their charges.