New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-13

The commissioner in charge of the construction of
the new Capitol for the State of Iowa has been III
| Albany examining New York snew Capitol. Guided
| by the light thus afforded him, The commissioner
ought to find difficulty in constructing the cell
ing of Iowa's Assembly Chamber so that legislators
sitting under it should feel that life only the
most untrustworthy of vapors.
We hope we shall not offend. We haven't the
least design to be impertinent. Still we timidly
| desire modestly to remind Assistant District
! Attorney Allen that his eagerly wished for lst OF
December has come, and the Penal Code has gone
into effect 1t seemed brief time ago that moth
ing more was necessary to complete Mr.. Aliens
| happiness than to grant him the unlimited power
| which the new Code gives him. Then, we were
| told we should see what short work Mr.. Allen
would make of the lottery-dealers. Two weeks
have gone by since the Code went into effect, and
still Nh Allen stays his reforming hand. Whyf
Why not let it descend and do little crushing ont
| An eager public looks with anxiety to see what MI
| Alien is going to do with the Penal Code Come,
Mr. Allen we waited, 80 you requested, until the
| Penal Code went into effect; and have waited ever
since Are to understand that It's effect has been
TO paralyze YOU tool Meantime, we observe that
the lottery people are carrying the old business
with neatness and dispatch at the old stand with
out fear of any District-Attorney his assistant.
1t is now known beyond q peradventure or the
ghost of cayil what 1t was that lately called to
Washington galaxy of statesmen from this State
Included in the galaxy are Clint" Wheeler, Ed
Johnson. Bob" Strahan, " Steve French. "Gil"
Robinson of Troy, Ex-Congressman jim Smart
of Washington County and John F. Smyth. They
went down to Washington to congratulate the
President on the Civil Service Reform paragraph in
his annual message, and to assure him that for
years they had felt that way themselves, but owing
TO the pressure Of other matters they had neglected
to mention it.
1t is stated that there LOCO applicants for
positions Oh Governor Clevelands staff. he staff
contains II members. Mr.. Cleveland has named
the l7-l7 from 1000 leaves" $685.
Senator Voorhees, prefers to wait until his party
makes "a clean sweep" before seriously consider
ing the quastIon of Civil Service Reform. And the
number of Democrats less frank and courageous
than he who under tnelr breath and in a are
saying ditto to Voorhees, with all their might IS
large and growing larger. As Reform surveys the
antics of such gentry she wnks the wink Of dersiOn
and smiles the smile of scorn.
Mr. j. Cotter Morrison asserts that MacauIay
was wanting I'm ethical depth" and that he con-
stantly looked away from moral problems" Mr.
French is understood to have talked in precisely the
same strain describing tho proxy thief for
whom he has been diligently searching ever since
election.
A section Of the new Penal Code provides that
every person guilty of attempting snicideis guilty Of
q felony, punishable by imprisonment In State
prison not exceeding two years or by fine not ex-
ceedng ) 900, or both" If some such law appli
cable to political parties well as to individuals
had been in force throughout the United States
during the last quarter of a century it might have
prevented Democracy from making so many able at
tempts upon its own life.