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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-11

The thrilling intelligence is transmitted from
| Washington of a solemn conference between
Governor B. F. Butler and the Hon. Perry
Belmont. They met to compare views about
the future of the Democratic party, and to de-
eide what Tariff policy would be most likely to
saye it from defeat. Few more momentous
meetings than that have ever been held any
where, in any country, at any time. Picture III
your minds eye the great encounter. On the
one hand the sturdy figure of the bald-headed
and veteran Butler, with philosOphic aud states
manlike mien, and keen albeit somewhat COM
mingled gaze. On the other, the slim figure of
the boyish Belmont, the interrogating and ir
repressble Perry Between them the fate Uf a
great political party hangs trembling in the
balance.
Who says that party which can win the
support and the sef-sacrificing devotion of
such statesmen as these is not great Here are
two shrinking and modest servants of their
country who are so impressed with the gravity
of the situation that they rise up simuta-
peously and hold conference. "Don'r let
there be any false modesty in us about this"
they say. "Dont let us wait till the party
SEALS upon us to come and save it let us
T" rather 1lsc Hp anu save III VI OuI own dCCOIu'
Are we not the only live statesmen it has
aleft7 Who shall save it il we do not :"
That is true patriotism. The thoughtful OBJ
server casts his eye over the Democracy in vain
TO find leaders more eminent or amOre hOnored
than this somewhat incoDgruous pair. To lie
sure, good many Democrats have remarked
lately with sulphurous emphasis thai they
don't like Butler and wont have him for can
didate but that makes very little difference to
him. He knows that the party needs him, and
if the party won't take him he will take the
party. As for Perry, he is by unanimous con-
sent the Democracy's only rising statesman.
We have been favored with only a brief intima-
ton of what occurred at this great conference.
Perry said BENJAMIN, as he took the bud
ding genius of Long Island by the hand, Perry,
d" my boy, the thing for the Democratic party to
L" do Is to run high-tariff mau for the Pres-
" dency in 1884" There the information stops.
What Perry said in response is not known
now, and may never be known. lie may have
said that as the Democracy was free-trade
party, high-tariif candidate would be in
danger of antagonizing ito pr 'pcples. If he
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FXCUSING REPUDIATION.

The latest excuse for repudatiOn-and it is q
little remarkable that it has not been offered
before-is that the General Government set the
example and led tho way when 1t compelled the
States lately in rebellion and the Confederacy
to repudiate the obligations incurred during
the war. The plea now is that the General
Government so got the seeding States in the
habit of regulating their debts that now they
cannot hel q it. 1t has become second nature
to them Whenever they see an outstanding
obligation the temptation to repudlate 1t, OF
scale it, or refund it, do something with it ex-
cept pay its face value, is irresistible. Ten
Dessee, Louisiana, Nirginia-all the Southern
States that find themselves uncomfortably bur-
dened with debts-are calmly drawing the wet
sponge across the slate and so settling their ac-
counts with creditors. And when any excep-
ton is taken 10 the performance by people OF
the loyal States, who SO that such course OF
conduct is injuring the reputation not alone of
the seeding States but of the whole family
aud incidentally of the General Government,
they say "Thc General Government got us in
"ths way by forcing us to rcpudiate debts in
"curred in the attempt to break mp tho Union
and establish the Confederacy, and it is its
/" fault if we continue the practice
OF course the difference between the two
cases is obvious and easily apprehended. The
debt incurred by the Confederate States So
called differed from an ordinary debt in the
same way in which any gambling transaction
differs from an honest business transaction.
The men who invested in Confederate secu1-
ties did it upon the condition, fairly nomi-
mated in the body of the bond, that the
Confederate States should secure their
independence 1t WAS very great risk
for capitalist. to take, and they took it ut n
corresponding discount. Men who bought Con-
federate scrip or in any form loaned money to
the COnfederacy did 1T at enormous rates of
interest for the purpose of establishing rival
Government to the Federal Union, and with the
understanding that their loss would be total
in case of failure to establish the CUnfederacy
1t having failed, the sgners and issuers of
these securities cannot be held for the debts of
a dcfunct concern, and certainly no reasoning
person ould for moment endeavor to MAIN
tain the duty of the General Government to re-
imburse the men whose investment had the sole
aim and purpose to compass its own destruc-
ton.
The new defence of reputation is too ridcu-
lous to be entertained for a single instant. The
people of the repudlatng States have no excuse
whatever. The obligations they have been
wriggling aud twisting to ay old were honestly
incurred and there is no reason in the world
why they should not be honestly met, except
the one worn-out reason that it might involve
some hardship aud self-denial for the taxpay-
ers. And ii is no excuse for non payment of n
debt that the payment would subject the debtor
to inconvenience
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SdOWJNG THEIR HANDS.

On Monday evening the Democrats in tho AS
sembly, acting of course under instructions
from the recognized party managers, turned
their backs on Civil Service Reform. They
took up the leading bills providing for the re-
form only 70 demonstrate their cordial hostility
to them. Among the bills was the one intro
duced by Mr.. Roosevelt, whose provisions have
already been given ill these columns. 1t Is a
sensible, wholesome, bipartisan measure.
modelled closely upon that of Mr. Pendleton in
its essential features. The men who oppose it
may Justly be set down as hopelessy Joined to
the idols of the spoils system. Fort simply pro-
yides fol- filing the subordinate public offices Of
this city by judicious, common sense COM
petitive examination, regard being had not to
political influences, not to the applicants USE
fulness in caucuses or conventions, but to his
general capacity, his fitness for the place for
which he is IA candidate, and to his trustworth-
mess. Such in brief, is one of the bills which
the Democrats of the Assembly opposed on
Monday night, and which they as good as
killed by -voting-at this late day of the ses-
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GENERAL NOTES.

Ii is estimated that not fewer than 10000
persons arrive weekly in ST. Paul and are for
wartled TO the remote Northwest by the Northern
Pacific and Manitoba lines.
The Paris GduIOiS is said to have adopted q
novel plan for attracting patronage 1t undertakes to
insure every subscriber iii the of 900 against
death by railroad carriage accident In case of injury
paying prOpOrtlOnate amount.
In cutting away the knobs about the old
fort Lake George to obtain earth and gravel for re-
pairing the railroad embankment the worllnen lately
dug into doubtless at one time the military
burial ground. Seven skeletons were exhumed nearly
all OF which bear the marks OF battle One skull has
shaken from 1t out dropped the nattened bullet
An ejectment suit in which the plaintiff is
101 years old is abou to be tried In Reading Penn Il
Is brought by Batzer Gehr the OF a captain the
Revolutionary army who hopes TO dspossess
number OF his relatives, one of whom
is in her nnetythird year. and recover farm Of 22
acres IN MaIatawny township, which mis- fathers
brother owned and was buried In In 1901. Numerous
suits and counter-suts have wrought such confusion
that possession Is probably the best title now the
nOnogenarian occupant Is not key be disturbed by
the ccntenarlan claimant.
The colony of Hebrew refugees from Russia,
about seventy five In number which was established
Waterview, Middesex CO., Va, last october, 10 in a
fOurshng condition and likely become the nucleus Of
q populous settlement. The principal member Of the
colony Is man who owned carriage shop In Russia
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Amusements 60 Might.


ACADEMY OF MUsIc-S-" Lohengrn
BOOTHS TuEATnE-s-"The Bankers Dausnter'
BIJoU OPERA HcUsE-s-"Vi Vim"
CAsISo-8-French Opera
CosMoPOLITAS-s-" White Slave"
DAYS THEATRE--s:3 0-Stoddard
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-S-ModjesKa'
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-s-"Daughterof Roland
HAvERLY's l4rH STREET THEATRE and S-"Ihe
Planters Wife"
HESpgRsoSs STANDARD MISUNDERSTANDING
TrOubadours
N.n,soS sou.RE GARpEN-2 and 8-Barnum's Circus.
MADISON SQUARE TaEATRE-s:30-" A Russian Honey
moon"
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF Decentralization Of paintings
NrnIOs GA1Dgs-6-John Mccullough
San FRANCISCO OPERA HoUsE-9-Wilie Edouln'
STAR THEATRE-S30-"Vlce Versa"
ITALIA THEATRE-5-" The Prince Consort"
THEATRE CoMIoUE-s-" The Muddy Day"
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-S-"B Brighton"
Wal LACKS ragATRE-7:45-"rhe Silver King
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gn1es to advertisements.

AMUsEMESTs-7h Page-4th, 5th and 9th columns'
ANNOUNCEMENTS SM Pdge-6th column
BANKING HoUsEs-7h Pdge-3i column.
BUSINESS CnANCEs-7M Plugged column.
BUSINESS SoTIcEs-4h Pa0e-1st column
BOARD AND RooMs-7M Pdge-3d column.
CORPORATION NorIcEs-6M Page-2d column
DIVIDEND NoTIcEs-7h Pagc-2d column.
DRESS MAKISG-7h Pa0e-2d column
DRY GooDs-7h PAGE ID column.
EUROPEAN ADvERrIsEMESTs-6h PaOe-4th column.
FIsANciAL-7h Pdge-3d column.
CRATES AND FESDERs-7h Poge-2d column
HORSES CARRIAGES Klein Paqe-2d column
ICE CREAM-6h Paqe-4th column.
ISsrRUcTIoN-6ls Paqe-1st and I'd columns
LhcrUREs AND MEErlNGs-7A Page-4th column.
LEoAL NoTIcEs-6h Pdge-2d column.
LOST AND PoUND-6h Poge-4th column.
MIsISG-7h Poae-3d column.
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-5h P1qe-6th column
INTERCHANGEABLE Pagc-2d column-sh Page-6th
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NEW PUBLIC AIIoNs-6M PaGe-1st column
OCEAN SrRANHgS-Gm P1qe--4th and 5th columns
PRoPosALs-6M Page-2d column.
REAL EsTArE-7h Pagc-1st aud I'd columns
RELIGIOUS NoTIcEs-5h Pa9e-6th column.
SAFE DErOsITs-Gm Page-4th column.
SALES BY AUCTIoN-7b Pags-4th column
SITUATIONS WASTED-MALEs-7h Page-4th column
FEMALEs-7h Fdae-4th column
SPECIAL n riCEs--5M PG0s-6th column
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cOlumns
SUMNER REsoRTs-6h Page-4th column
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

The Italian opera this evening is "Lohen-
grim" with Nine. Albaui a. Elsa which is one OF ner
best parts
The first production in America of LecOcqs
lie Grand Casimr this evening the Casino
with Nine. TheO as Angetidd
The Park Theatre in Indianapolis is to be
turned into rSt-cass vaudeville theatre, and will be
opened such about June l, by the Dickson Brothers,
OF that city.
The Meigs Sisters Vocal Quartet will give
their annual concert Tuesday evening. April IL in
ChckerIng Hail. assisted by Nile. Zellie de Lussan, Miss
Maud Morgan and Messrs. George W. Morgan, Carl Fem
niger aud ;. H. Z. Meigs.
Mr.. John A. Stevens is acting at the Grand
Opera House in Brooklyn this week, In his drama e
Passions slave" which acted by the Windsor
Theatre Company-which includes Welsh Edwards John
Jeck, Gabrielle Du saudi and others Mr.. Frank Mayo
does not appear there till April 10.
The annual sacred concert in aid of the st.
Francis Hospital in Fith-st Avenue-B, in charge
of the Sisters OF the Poor OF ST. Franco will be given in
steinway Hall on sunday evening, April 15 1t is an
with large orchestra under Mr.. George Matzka
A new play, entitled Lillian" was acted in
the Turf Club Theatre last Monday night The author
is Mr.. Harry Watkins the Old actor-aud his daughter
under the stage name Of Amy Lee. acted the chief part
Mr. watkins intends to present this drama
with is wife, his daughter and himself in the chief
characters.
The soloists at the public rehearsal and con-
cert OF the New-York Chorus Society to be given IN
memory OF Richard Wagner Friday aud Saturday OF
this week follows; Miss Hattie Louise Simms,
Mrs. Adolf Hartdegen, Miss Ella Earle Miss Zellie do
Lussan Mrs. Minnie T. Denniston, Miss Fanny Hirsch.
Mr.. Theodore j. Toedt Mr. C.. +. Tretbar, and Mr..
Franz Remmertz. In addition forty-eight fowergrls
will appear In the fowergarden scene from PafsfaL
The crowd of musical events last evening
was somewhat diminished by the breakdown of the
concert advertised to be given the Academy OF Music
for the benefit of the little artist Miss Marion Foster
and the postponement OF the first production Of The
Prince Consort" &C the ITALIA Theatre The indispost
ton OF Mr. Klein was announced the OF the at'
ter The theatre closed last evening" and the pay
will be brought out tonight with another actor in re
part designed for MT. Klein. The benefit soncer.
gwen up apparently for lack of interest, the conc'1
DO given on Thursday evening for the wefaaas q
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rNpw WORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, APRIL H. 1888

did, we can imagine Benjamin replying with
confidential and complicated wink: Leave
that to mel What think you of this combina-
ton For the head of the ticket. Benjamin +.
Butler; for the tail, Perry Belmontf The
ahead would be bigh-tariff and the tail free
trade. AS for the platform, I'm building that
in Massachusetts, now. Well run on the
GTewksbuIy Almshouse Scandal
We can imagine that this programme was
adopted unanimously by the conference with
great enthusiasm, and that both statesmen
emerged from the cOnvocation serenely happy
in the consciousness that great crisis had
been met molly. Of course, we have no trust
worthy information that they averted the
threatening peril in this way but knowing
both men as well as we do, we feel morally
certain that it would not for moment occur to
either of them to meet the crisis in any other
way.
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POLITICAL NEWS.
Democratic journals as they contemplate tho

Democratic journals "a they contemplate tho
hair-pulling going In their own party look with
great OF upon the prospect OF the Republican
party harmonizing They can't possibly see how such
result can come and try to extract comfort from
petty differences have occurred in time past There
Just cause this worry the part OF the Democrats
for their only hope OF lies in Republican divis-
ion IL Is significant fact that the year before inc
Presidential campaign begins sees t4e ~ bs fact
Just cause for Democratic grief
The candidates for Speaker of the Democratic
House already engaged tent room for the big circus
that is TO come off fall in Washington dispatch
from that city mentions where each mai will plant bis
standard" or in other words where he will mount a
chair and beg for votes, Offering for each committee
Craftsmanship. The number OF brass bants on hand
promises to exceed anything seen in Washington on
similar occasion in eight years. Active operations will
Country can calculate accordingly and rssdy stroag
tonic 10 carry it throu "a the sir1gge-
1t needs but little observation TO see that
the Democrats are keenly watching the situation in
Ohio and laying their plans 70 capture the State this
fall il possible Their chief reliance Is again the liquor
interest With the aid Of the they hope elect
the GOVERNOR the Legislature and the judges and SO
gain complete control OF the State The party outside
OF the State freely rendering advice to the Democrats
there and all the Of the Democracy will DO
levied upon to victory. In this situation the duty
OF the Republicans Is plain. Good candidates, straight
forward platform aud earnest fight viii give the
state TO the Republicans by good majority The
peope are In no mood for trades and will emphaticaly
condemn any party that attempts to profit by them
The Republicans should plan their campaign accord
ingly.
Faint evidences are visible that the friends OF
Mr.. Randall rallying TO his support Paragraphs
deprecating pronounced free-trade triumph in the
speakershp contest and pointing out how seriously IL
would embarass the party in the Presidential campaign,
are beginning appear The folly OF reading the old
Wing element out OF the party by taking extreme ground
on the tariff question is also dwelt upon. Virginia
paper The Sianton Viadedor, would even like to seq
Mr. Randall made the Presidential candidate OF the
Democracy and points how neatly he would strad-
die the whole tariff issue follows: Mr. Randall is the
embodiment OF the prevailing idea now on top In tins
American mind-that the time is not come for free
trade and that the time for monopoly hlgn
protective tariff long ago passed He Is the sort OF
man that the practical mind OF the country will gather
around while the theorists are hunting up doc
ruares as opponents of their ideal future The free
traders have having things their own way for some
time but their opponents evidently plucklng ur
courage for the inevitable Tight
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and employed thirty-nvs workmen. He speaks half 4
dozen languages and Is generally tntelhgent Tho col
mon speech OF the colony 10 barbarous Jargon which
outsider understand, and which would have bat
FED the linguists Of the Day Of Pentecost-
The managers Of the coming exhibition Of
railway appliances did not organize that enterprise With
the expectation that 1t would DO financially profitable
but the general interest In great that eonsder
able and above all expenses is likely to be re
ceved Whatever the net proceeds may be they will b
entirely devoted benevolent purposes connected with
the railroad interest, and the proposition to apply them
to fund for the establishment OF National hospital
and homo for disabled railroad employees Is favoIably
regarded.
A member of the French Academy who owns
fine farm in Normandy and takes special pride in his
hIgh-bred cows and pretty dairy has been perpexed
and distressed by the strange appearance which
the milk assumed after it had stood few hours
in the pans. Upon its surface dark blue spots would
appear destroying its private attractions and market
value Moreover, all the people in the neighborhood
were convinced that the dairy abode Of the Evil
One, with whom Of them even went 90 far az to
identify its owner For two years the academican pom
dered mystery vain, but at last he has reached
the simple conclusion that the vessels containing tho
milk were not thoroughly cleaned The microscope
yeaed hosts fungous germs for which, through the
pans afforded excellent breeding ground Immersion
for at least five minutes eectually destroys these or
eapsms and that treatment has been adopted At tho
Norman dairy OF NJ. Ruset
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Just as some of our tagging city authorities
have been driven to the point of actually en-
forcing the excise laws, the Legislature at
Albany spreads confusion here 10y passing a
new excise law for New York and Brooklyn.
This measure is the result OF the friendly
efforts of Grady and Campbell in behalf oil the
liouor sellers. The new law allows anybody
to have license to sell liquor who has good
moral character-and there 10 nothing easier for
dsreputable people to do than to get a certif-
cate of good character. Then, too, the license
is good for any place in the city. When Ii rum
seller makes himself a nuisance in one neigh
borhood all he will have &c do will be to rent
a new stand. The most precious immunity,
however, which this privileged class will have
is the freedom from summary arrest for brenk-
ing the law unless it is done on Sunday. No
matter how fragrant the offence, warrant must
be first obtained by the policeman. The basis
of this bill is vicious as can be- 1t is the theory
that rum selling is really all right; but that
few checks must be put on 1t to satisfy the
scruples of Puritanical people
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MUSIC AND The DRAMA.
THE PHILHARMONIC CLUB CONCERT.

Mr.. Richard HOffman's appearance upon the
concert platform is now so rare that his presence
peculiar attraction the last concert Of the Phhar-
monte Clubs series for this at Chckerng Hail
last evening Mr.. Hoffman played the pianOfOrte part
in Schumanns Quartet in fiat Top. Az with the I'm
ished grace certain In all his work, his restraint OF
manner well betting the composition, in which the
pianoforte is on the whole unusually subordinate to tho
other Instruments In the pano-forte solos Mr. Hoff
mans charming talent more easily though not mora
plainly visible The numbers strongly contrased
"a welI-marked meodious and beautifully wrought
nocturne of Rubinsten. given with the utmost poetic
feeling; compact though trcksy gayotte by sgam5a;
and Wollenhaupts transcription OF Wagner's Spinning
Song from the second act OF The Flying Dutchman."
The transcription Il clever. Mr.. Hoffman took at
great pace and played with surprising clearness and
ease and the perfection OF dynamic shading The per-
Torrance. inevitable caused his recall several
times and final temperance at the instrument
Now that Sgambatls pane begins 10 appear on our
programmes IL may be hoped that next year we may
hear OF the larger works OF this excellent mu-
stefan. He has written two piano-Iorte qnntets,
concerto and symphony; and his writings had tn
warm approval OF Richard Wagner.
The club played the melting adago from Rublnsteins
e minor Onartet and an Interesting scLerzo from
Cnerubini's Quartet in fiat Reinforced by Messrs
Kengescheid DanZ, F. Hermann and ALBERT, they gave
Svendsen's Octet in major Top. 81. the beauty OF
which does not appear until the third movement, of
which the strongly marked and beautiful theme is used
in the finale The work of the CLUB was OF the usual ex
cellence. retrospect OF their seasons concerts sus-
gests saying II IL be not ungracious TO seem fault finding
with any mana cement which has provided such body
OF pure music that e desire for mere noyelties one
that may frequently well be tempered and the natural
xety tighten and break up programmes by the In
PRODUCTION OF solo performers need not be INDUCED OUT
OF regard for the presumed desire OF such audiences
assemble at these concerts. The general public VIII
he attracted TO chamber-music concerts by any
the proper audience OF the club. which IL well
tabished, will prefer TO have them fairly strict"
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other thing. Then consider who Mr. Egan
and Dir. Sheridan are. Mr.. Egan was the
treasurer of the League, and received the
funds sent from America. Mr. Sheridan was
the agent of the League in Ireland, and DIS
tributed its funds. Both men, like Dir. Patrick
Ford, of The Irish World, were the friends
and confdants OF Mr. Parnell. Thus
his most devoted, useful and trusted
supporters in America have gone over to the
dynamite policy, and have carried the majority
of the Irish Americans with them, If their own
claims are to be believed. Mr.. Ford says the
Philadelphia Convention will either come out
openly for dynamite, or favor 1T negatively by
declining to condemn its use. The few remain
ing opponents of dynamite among the Irish
leaders admit the danger of this action, and
say that nothing but Mr.. Parnells presence
can prevent it.
These facts being made known to Mr.. Par
nell in London, he decides to remain away
from Philadelphia, and to keep all his Parlia-
mentary associates away also. If the conven-
ton adopts the dynamite policy. what will Mr..
Parnell do7 He can scarcely hope to retain
his leadership and lose the American contribu-
tons. Will he break with his American
friends. or will he too go over to dynamite
A timely illness kept him away from Parla-
ment on Monday when the bill increasing the
penalties for the criminal use of explosives was
passed, and it is intimated that he will not feel
able to participate actively in politics for some
time. When he RECEIVERS the dynamite excite
ment may have passed away and he will have
escaped the perplexing necessity of making
record upon the question.