New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-18

signals and switches were carefully set so as to
facilitate fatal encounter beginning nav
ing been made, 1t is possible that the record OF
last season, during which four very thorough
collisions occurred in single fortnight, may
be surpassed. 1t may be that the ambition oi
the directors will tend in another dlrection'
They NAV be anxious to impair the notorie'y
which the road acquired by that series OF acol-
dents. If this be their purpose, let thehi 'ihe
ca,lv measures 10 man the line Adequately by
employing more switchmen and stal0n-hahus'
The "recularr Democratic members OF the
State Senate conducted themselves yesterday
in n manner which was not only irregular ana
unparliamentary but positively disgraceiui.
They have strenuously labored, under the
leadership of Senator Jacobs, to amend the
bill providing for the creation of Railroad
Commission so as to confer the power OF APP
pontment either upon the people or, upon the
Governor to be elected next fall. After being
fairly and squarely beaten on both these pro-
positions Yesterday they resorted to tactics to
defeat the bill which ought to cOnsign every
man who avaled himself of them to the Pill
lory of public contempt On the roll caiI ior
the final passage of the bill these regulars,
simply because they were not allowed TO nave
their own way, in a spirit of arrant cowardlce
and vulgar revenge declined to vote at all,
and the consequence was that the bill failed
for the time being for want of the cOnsttu-
tional vote. The spectacle of the minority Oh
the Senate defeating the will of the majority
by a miserable trick is indeed humiliating
The citizens whose votes sent these REGULARS"
to Albany may well hang their heads.
Our regular London correspondent, writing
twenty-four hours before the assassinatlons oc-
Cured in Dublin, condemns the sudden re-
versal of Mr.. Gladstones policy as an abJect
surrender to Mr.. Parnen. The criticisms
which he makes are scathing, and coming as
they do from one who has given our readers so
many appreciatve estimates of the Premier's
character and public services, they are remark
ably significant. The letter contains the most
ineligible account we have seen of the per-
sonal feud in the Cabinet which eliminated III
Mr.. Forster's resignation. 1t also supplies
useful commentary to the text OF recent DIS
patches in regard to the alleged compact be-
tween the Ministry and the Parliamentary sus-
poets. Mr.. Parncll's letter, even with the final
clause appended, does not alter the tact that
there was neither treaty, stipulation, alliance,
promise, bargain nor pledge on either side.
There had been an exchange of views but only
an informal understanding could fairly be I'M
plied. rs each side was left at liberty to act at
its own discretion. We have read the debate
which followed Mr.. Forster's speech and can
not find in Mr.. Gladstones explanations any
warrant for Mr.. Ballour's inslnuation that the
essential facts were miSrepresented.
The search for assassins in the steamer
which left Queenstown on the day after the
dastardly crimes in Phoenix Park has proved
unavaiing. So sudden a retreat to an out
going steamer would have implied audaclty
rather than prudence and in secretly planned,
boldly executed political assassination, audaclty
ends and prudence begins when the innocent
blood is shed and public sentiment startled.
The Dublin detectives, having made glarine
failure in this case, hope to retrieve their repu-
tation by wild guesswork. They inferred that
the assassins might have made desperate
plunge for the first steamer. They have con-
iectured again, that every stowaway nails
from Dublin and has bloOd-stains on his boot
straps and accordingly are rummaglng the
holds of the Liverpool steamers. 80 undis-
guised is their figl tiness OF mind that they
may be butt Onholing fortune-tellers and
spiritualist mediums before the month is out.
Our sympathies, it is needless to add, are with
the detectives. fragrant crimes like these are
a positive source of danger to all civilized ma
tons when they are suffered to go undetected
and unpublished. The urgent need OF prompt
and decisive action makes the inefllclency or
ill-fortune of the Dublin force all tue more de-
plorable.