New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-13

giving it his approval. If he does that IL Is
difficult to see how he can escape vetoing H.
The bill is undoubtedly one OF the worst OF its
kind, and the kind Is very bad. 1t is loaded
with items, like the appropriation for the Hen
nopin Canal. which ought never to have been put
into 1t. and there is not the slightest doubt that
il could be reduced one-half without working
injustice to any part of the country. The
lengths to which this annual abuse has been
carried this year cannot fail to call fresh at
teption to the desirability of giving the Presi-
dent power to veto any item in an approprla-
ton bill without killing the bill. That power
has worked so admirably in this State, ana
wherever else it has been tried, that taxpayers
begin to see how immensely it would be I'D
their interest to have such power vested In the
President
The work of sending out poor ana sickiy
children into the country, through the agency Vi
THE TRIBUNE Fresh Air Fund. is proceeuins
satisfactorily. Up to date slx-hundreu-anu
twenty little ones have already been 'ran'-
ferred from the sitting, unwholesome a.n'o'
phere and surroundings Of the tenement MOUSE
IA the pure cool and invigorating AIR OF the
mountain farm or cottage. But thls number
ia only a 1.-THE of the hundreds who might DO
forwarded to qnet Christian homes now await
inc IN welcome them as invited guests, If only
the necessary funds for paying transportation
EXPENSES were promptly sent In. Ii doesn't
take much to send ont one of these parties
and now is the time to do it, when the ther-
mometer is up in the nineties, and child life IN
this heated city means only suffering and disease.
A Hunters Point Justice got black eye IN
fight yesterday. The post of safety Ii not OF
honor in that part of Long Island seems to be
the private station. Not content with OBJ
securing the Judicial vision and defacing the
judicial countenance, the assailant OF the
Bench impugned the Justices honesty and de-
clared that there were several indictments
hanging over his head The wearer of the
ermine gave his accuser the lie direct and
several of the bystanders joined in the fray.
Life in Long Island City seems in no danger
of becoming stagnant. With its frequent
street fights, with its liberation OF gambling
in conspicuous places, and with Its extraordl-
nary police force, controlled by still more ex-
traordinary officials, the city resembles III
MANY respects a Western mining camp. A
few lynchings seem to be all that is lacking
to make the parallel complete
Mrs. Scovilles belief, expressed on the day
before the hanging of Guiteau, that there
would be no execution is apparently accounted
for by discovery made yesterday. The bou-
ouet which she presented to the assassin at
their last meeting, upon being subjected TO a
chemical analysis, was found to contain
enough arsenic to have killed several men.
The history of this bouquet and the clrcum-
stances under which it passed into Gulteaus
hands are told elsewhere in THE TRIBUNE.
It seems likely that Mrs. Scoville poisoned the
bououet and then found herself unable to ac-
quaint the assassin with this fact. She gave
him a hint of the truth, but he failed to take
it, and so lost his only opportunity to cheat
the gallows. Had he been more quick-wltted
to catch his sisters meaning and courageous
enough to have followed out her idea, there
would, likely enough have been no execution
but then we should have been spared the dis
graceful features of that performance.
The members of the Racquet Club who have
brought criminal proceedings against certain
policemen for trespass, assault and false ar
rest, are to be commended for their action
There has been far too much lOoseness, both
in theory and practice, in the Police Depart
ment in regard to the rights of citizens. Cap
tain Williams and others higher in authority
than he seem to think that the most violent
way of enforcing the laws is always the best
that to knock down and drag away an accused
person and investigate his case afterward is
the proper course to pursue that the police
force comprises within itself the functions and
powers of prosecutor, jury and judge and
that the patroman's club should be the court
of last resort, beyond which there shall be nc
appeal. Perhaps the members of the Racquet
Club who were taken to the station house de-
served arrest, but in every case it will be O
good thing, both for the Police Department
and for private citizens, if the exact limits OF
policemen's powers in such cases can be de-
termined by the proposed proceedings.
mr. ID