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New-York tribune., 1883-12-21

line, or make connection through an in-smelllng
West-st. oarj and If they want to go across town
must walk oil the way Here Is q real public need.
When will somebody do something about It'll
The Nep York Times has made the exclusive and
important discovery that the Shakespeare statue on
the mall In Central Park Is made Of marble. But
1t has not discovered anything wrong In the Depart
ment of Public Works.
Some of Mr.. Pendleton's supporters in his canvass
for the Senatorship are said to be opposed to his
Civil Service reform ideas and at the same time to
be satisfied with the assurance that nothing in
Civil Service reform will prevent Democratic
President from turning every Republican out OF
office" IL Is sweet assurance, certainly. No
wonder those to whom it is made are satisfied. AS
for that eminent Civil Service reformer Of our
own, State Controller-eect Chaplin, who purposes
celebrating his induction into office by removing
faithful and efficient deputy, such an assurance Is
calculated not only to satisfy but to arouse him to
the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
Now we have the information from The Herald
hat the Republican party has outivedits original
purpose" OF course. 1t would have been as worth
less and tricky the Democratic party If it had been
in power ever since 1861 without carrying out the
promises made in 1SGO 1t precisely because that
party has accomplished year after year, the pur-
poses which it had announced to the people that
epeople trustit Also il is because the Democratic
party has taken pains never to outlive any Of its
purposes that the people refuse it confidence or
power.
How easy it is to do a thing when one knows
howl Columbus illustrated this when he caused the
egg to stand on end, and The Richmond Dspatch per-
forms similar service for mankind by its masterly
handling Of another eQg-the Democratic tariff
egg The current political problem that is the
despair of the Democratic leaders is-How can the
tariff be treated in the platform of the next Ma
tiOnal Convention In such manner as to prove
satisfactory to all tho elementsinto which the PARTY
is dyidedi The Dispatch solves this problem Off
hand and with cOnsummate skill, by arguing that
Democrats must agree to disagree on the tariff II
seems strange, now that this notorious egg has
been made to assume an upright po-
sitiOn, that such n method Of accomplishing
the feat had not disclosed the general
Democratic understanding IL Is unnecessary to
add, that the Democratic tariff plank in 1884 in
case contemporaries admirable suggestion is
adopted, will necessarily be to this effect;
Rsso'rsd, That this National Convention hereby with
draws from circulation tho declaration ot the National
Convention OF 1880 committing the Democracy or the
United states To tariff for revenue Ony aud IN its place
we substitute the pguyocal and pnirchinK declaration
and Varied assortment CT Opinions the tar1t Dy
way of giving expression 10 the courage Of our conyc-
lions, we agree to disagree.
American industries, and all those who are in any
way engaged in promoting them, could not fail to
be thrilled by such tariff plank as that.
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
FIGHTING IN TONQUIN.

The fighting In Tonquin has been resumed
after a long period of military inaction and
diplomatic chatter The French forces in
making an aggressive movement from Hanoi
had to choose between attacking Sontay, the
headquarters of the Black Flags, or marching
directly toward the Chinese frontiers and in
yesting Bac- Mini. Each. town was strongly
fortified and was surrounded by low and
swampy ground nearly impracticable for siege
guns. Sontay, however, could be approached
by water, and on this account, If there had not
been weightier reason, would have been Sc
lected as the first objective point. The French
are reported to have captured the principal out
posts, the enemy Offering stubborn resistance
and retiring to the citadel. The losses of the
assailants are the heaviest yet sustained In the
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
TALKS ABOUT TOWN.
CONROY AND ROUGH.

Judge RUFUS D. Ootcng-I hear that there is feeling
that Conroy because he policeman will yet escape
the death penalty which pronounced this morning But
do not see how he escape. There was but one
ceptiOn In the ease, 80 frivolous grounds
do believe that the General Term will seriously
slider It, The very carefully tried. Conroys
counsel handed up wentyseven requests to charge in
volvng good many complex law points which were new
to mel at the end of my charge the counsel withdrew
them ALL If tho General Term, which reviews tho facts
sustans me- the Court of Appeals, which considers only
the law points, will not the verdict The fact is
that COnrOy went into that saloon sober he drank
and invited others TO drink and got mad when the bar
keeper charged him for his drinks He thought that
policeman they would not charge him anything. and
being mad he committed the assault on one man and
shot another gave Rough, the Casino
"rebug" seven years The full penalty would have been
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
amussmenis 60 Night.

.o.rv,,y oF DrsIeS-Art Loan Exhibition.
6t,nn 0PrR. .HoUsE-S-"Orpheus and Enry yIce.
PPno"xIYS ACADEMY OF MUSIC D" MesSian'
ppyo q" The Beggar Student"
SnIcKfRISG HAIL-s-Concert ,.,.,
Ii,U G ~ Tt,r .TkE-S-" seyen-Twenty light"
DALl npVpA UoUsE-S-'Friend and Foe" =
HASsRLY's SAN FRASoIsCo
rrsssDp.opoIJTAS OPERA HoJsE-S-" La IraVlata'
NV P.RK lHsATRE-S-"The Princess Chu9k;
Mn, os sGlEDEN-S-"The q Pavements OF PaTPs+
crPCK HuI-s-Chamber Concert
OF. " srHEATRR-s-"The Fools Revenge"
sIriSwAY HALL-2-Ovide Musin
Sr STEPHENS CHURCH QBasemeno-raT. >,
ITALIA ATHEArREs" Leiehte CayaileFe sn,ra,,onsp
ISioN SQUARE THEATRE-S-"St storm beaten;
WALLAcK's TnEATRE-s-" An american amer "he'
ST,, AvRyrT THEATRE--S-"The CLASS OF fashloh'
YlTu sTpEET TuEATRE-8-" Fedora"
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21

SOMETHING FOR BOTH PARTIES TO DO,
The defeat in Committee Of the Whole OF the
proposed Senate rule, allowing the President
prO tem to designate substitute for three days
does not necessarily mean that the rule may not
be approved when the vote is reached i'll full
Senate. Then the debate upon the dangers to
the Presidential succession will doubtless be
repeated, as the Senate's way is. The fact that
such a point, groundless as it appears to be, can
be raised at ALL shows the unfortunate un-
certainty surrounding the whole subject of the
Presidential successiOn-a matter OF much
greater Importance than the convenience OF the
Senate, which is about all that is involved III
the proposed rule. Under the law, the longest
interval during which the President OF the
Senate, or, there being none, the Speaker OF the
House, could act as President would be less
than year and five months. 1t is not so i'm
pOrtant who exercises the functions of the office
during that time as it is what effect the change
will have upon the various departments of the
Government.
1t is certainly fair to ask whether the trainers
of the law of 1892 did not make grave mis-
take when they placed the presiding officers of
the two houses of Congress in the line of success
sion. lie Legislative DOulCb diC OlVCh pOiiVlN"hy
opposed to the Executive, and the situation
seems to place a premium on assassination,
which fortunately there has been no attempt
for this purpose, to realize But the accession of
Senator, particularly in this manner, to the
Presidency would raise q number of embar-
RAISING questions which have been shirked up
to this time simply because it has never become
absolutely necessary to meet them. Senator
Hoar's plan of placing the Cabinet officers in
the line of succession avoids many of the obiec-
tons to the present system. There would be
no change of politics, and so there would be
less temptation to assassination. The opera
tions of the legislative branch of the Government
would be undisturbed by the removal of the
Executive. An executive officer would step
into the place of the Executive-in which there
seems to be greater consistency than in taking a
representative of the legislative branch. Both
parties in this Congress ought to combine to
pass bill on this subject. There is no politics
In 1t, which seems to be the thing feared in
any proposition affecting the electoral count. 1t
would be patriotic service to do this.
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
SPTRJOTS ART WORK.

A San Francisco dispatch states that advices IRON
Japan declare the alleged collection of antique Jap
anese art objects exhibited at Boston recently to
be spurious the collection really consisting oi MOD
ern work which vas prepared for sale expressly. a
confirmation Of this ought not greatly TO surprise
those who have watched the steady degradation Oh
all Oriental art brought about by the indiscrmnat-
ing blindness and foolish grccdincSs OF western
compctltion and demand. Years ago II became ap-
parent that the most exquisite manufactures OF
India were Welding TO this pernicious influence.
The slow, patient conscientious work when pro-
duced those narycls Of artistic beauty OF Old has
been literally forced to give way to scrambling
scanning. vulgar workmanship, because the de-
manJ has been for that and nothing better. Ihe
opcc famous brass-work Of Benares the Bidar dam
asccurs; the delicate lIgreo jewclry Of Irchlnop-
DIV and Delhi; the repouss6 work of Clutch; the
ivory carving Of Amriltar aud Murshidabad; the
diauhanous musllns Of Dacca the shawls OF RASH
mir; all in their turn have been degraded and low
cred in value by tho ignorant and ill-directed
demand Of the n0urcdm riches OF tho "eS-
tern World The graceful native patterns ana
,nodels in every case chosen with true ar
tistic feeling and judgment, and usually sug-
rested by the pure outlines and harmonious curves
of Oriental LEAKAGE arborescent FORMS nave
been thrust aside too often in their stead nave
been put gawdy and vulgar and inarti'uc designs
which. however best please and satisfy the PhlIlS-
tine taste.
The same process of art deterioration has
begun In Japan also. For several years IN iact
the Western demand for japanese "curios" has
compelled the substitution of crude and raw work
for the old conscientious and high-prncipled pro-
ductions. The best Of japanese art has never leit
the country, whatever the possessors Of alleged nigh
art work may imagine to the contrary. And be-
cause there is in Japan widely different leelIhg
for art and because the truth and delcacy OF even
many quite inferior japanese artists is marvel 10
the Western mind, very much hasty and poor work
has passed muster in English and American markets
There needs, however, to be n decided advance Ih
knowledge and appreciation Of Orlentai art Doioro
sncb uortifyinp impositions as that Of the Boston
exhibition can be altogether avoided.
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
NEW BUILDINGS IN THE pARR

An examination of the items which make up
the enormous appropriation asked for by the
Park Board will not engender any great amount
of confidence in the wisdom or economy of that
body. Here is $4,000 demanded for "prop-
agating houses 1t is questionable whether the
Park needs any such establishments and it is not
at all questionable that $4,000 carefully ex-
pended would furnish houses enough to prop
agate many times as much plant stock as good
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
II is safe to predict that no Partisan author Will
write n sequel to Sarah Barnum."

II ia safe 10 predict that no Parlslan author Will
write a sequel to Sarah Banum."
II General Keller will persist in running his head
against stone wall, that is no good reason why
the Republicans of the House should try TO dash
ont their brains in the same way Inc proposition
that the House should refuse to seat person Dear
ing n certificate of election from the Governor OF
his State. because it was probable that he was not
tio nerson really entitled to that certificate was
opposed to the practice of tho House, as he mnst
have known and was lndefensblo on every ground
The certificate from tho Governor OF the state gives
= n,iuo Grcie right to seat. After the bearer has
been sworn in the House can proceed to settle the
contest If there is one 1t Is difficult to understand
how General Keifer could expect any Republican to
follow him in the course he took, and if no was
subected to the humiliation of being deserted and
practically dlsowncd by his party he has only him
self to blame.
The invisible telegraph from Washington states
that Mr. Malone has evidently become per-
shaded that he is Presidential candidate Just
about tho time The Sun has stopped alto gether
talking about him. The Sun ought to be gratiied
Here IS one person at last who takes it seriously.
The two years allowed by law within which the
electric light companies must put their wires under
ground, would seem to give ample time for the work
ample time, indeed for dealing with the whole
problem Of underground wires In o comprehensive
manner All the wires must go under ground, sooner
or later and system of mains that would carry the
electric light wires would provide for oil. In NeY-
Orleans, by the way, the authorities are debating
whether they shall tax telephone poles five dollars
a year apiece.
Such weather and such walking rs we have been
having raise the question again, which The TRIBUNE
has urged 80 often-When are the Erie, Lackawanna,
Pennsylvania and Jersey Central downtown
ferries to have the means Of communication with
different parts Of the CITY that are had by every
other ferry in the cty Here four great systems Of
railroads pouring in every morning their thousands
Of passengers who, IL they want to go uptown,
must either trudge several blocks to reach car
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
THE CONVICTED PICTURE SELLER.

Justice John r. Brady.The jury found the young man.
Muller charged with selling obscene pictures, guilty with
recommendation to mercy. think that the law Is at
fault not the prosecution The law should be changed
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
THE NERS THIS MORNING.

FoRrIGy.-The French forces have captured the
ortnosts of Sontay. - YOcduc has been pro-
eluimed King of Anam. - A farmer III DuDlih
has been shot dead - 1t is reported that Ker-
rigan the informer, was killed i'll Galway. -
The Spanish mail steamer Saint Augustn has been
Aestroyed by fire in the Bay of Biscay. -- lhe
Crown Prince left Rome last night. - Sarah
Beruhardt's assault upon Mile. Columblor contin-
res the sensation in Paris.
DoMEsTIc-The late Congressman Haskell was
buried at Lawrence, Kansas yesterday. GO Gov
enor McEnery. of Louisiana, was renommated lor
Governor by the Democratic State Convention
Ill. Clark. of this city, was robbed of jewels
worth S.. 900 in Waterbury, Conn. - The Della
ware and Raritan Canal was closed. --- Inc ele-
yatOrs and mills of Tyson Brothers, In Baltimore
we're DESTROYED by fire. = The new cantleyer
bridge that spans the Niagara River was formally
opened by railway officials.
CoNGREss-In the Senate yesterday bills were
introduced to establish Board of Railroad Com
rissioners: authorizing the payment of prize money
20 officers of the Farragut fleet; and to authorize
memorial to General OK .K.Warren.=A joint reso-
lution was introduced in the House relating to the
celebration of the Centenary of the surrender Of his
command by Washington. and was passed. the Sen
ate subsequently cOncurrmg; changes were made
BY the House in its committees.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Details of three extraor-
dinary unbalanced bid contracts i'll the Department
of Public Works are given i'll THE TRIBUNE to-day
Assemblyman Roosevelt says that II elected
Shaker he will insist on thorough investigation
of Mr. Thompson's Department.-=Ihe cross ex-
animation of General di Cesnola was finished yes
terday-Bishop Walker was consecrated IN Cal
VARY Church-=In the De Nell divorce suit let
ter from the wife to the husband was put IN EVIL
dence. .-COnroy was sentenced to be hanged on
Peb. &. 1SS4-The directors of the Union "a
ciic Railway approved the agreement with the
Rock Island and St. Paul Compromising me
Board of Estimate considered the claims Of several
departments-The Aqueduct Commission held
meeting.-Mr Vanderbilt gave reception for
gentlemen in the Art Gallery.-PreSident
Arthur arrived and received visitors at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.-MT. Capel lectured on The
Family."-Gold value of the legal tender silver
dollar (412ls grains( $3.50 cents.-=stocks gen.
erally were dull and lower but recovered and closer
excited.
THE Manufacturers local observations IN
eicate warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy weather,
with occasional light SHOWS. Temperature yester-
day; Highest 27S; lowest 22S; average, 24os'.
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21

ten years. There was some doubt whethss not tho e
tempt to IRE the theatre was made before - after III
audience had RETIRED and In view of this dsasreemen(
and the evidence also that tho man had previously sus
taned good character made the sentence as light -
was possible to make It, and yet make 1t salutary sens
tence to deter others. 4
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21

Controller Grant has taken step in the right
direction in recognizing the auditing bureau OF
his department. An effort is now made to as
certain whether or not work and supplies 1or
the payment of which vouchers are sent to ms
DEPARTMENT have been actually furnished the
CITY. This has disclosed the fact that under one
of the outrageous unbalanced bid contracts eX-
posed in to-day's TRIBUNE, the work OF tearing
down an old stone wall is classed as rock ex-
cavation - by Commissioner Thompson, and so
certified to the Controller Under more than
one contract before the Assessment CommlS-
sion it has been proved that the city has PAID
for work and material never supplied. How ex-
tensively this practice is now carried on can
only be determined by a thorough legislative
inquiry. And for that reason no man has any
claim on Republican support for Speaker OF
the Assembly who is not willing to put himself
ON record in favor of searching inquiry. But
the course taken by Controller Grant may
serve to check these frauds until such time rs
legislation can be had to remove the cause OF
them. 1t is certain that the city is paying large
salaries to inspectors in the Public Works De-
partment who render no service to the city.
Another bad feature of the management OF
Commissioner Thompson is disclosed to-day IN
the facts printed about some OF his klnsmeh.
Increasing the pay of young clerk i'll his de-
partment to an amount equal to the salary oil
the Mayor is something that the Grand jury
should at once investigate.
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
PREPARING TO PROSECUTE.

William Penney, Bond Clerk, DistrctA n0rneys once.
Il clip from THE TRIBUNE and preserve everything about
the exposure of Thompson for by the District Ator
ney.
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONs OF AN AUTHOR.
Judge Frederic GedneyTalk about trials and trbula.
tons with managers you should know of mine wrote
a comic opera called "The Cuprit Fay" I'll tell you the
plot. What you won't have iti Well, went first to
Brooks, OF Brooks Dickson. You know what an
aabe, courteous and intelligent he is was intro
duced to him by mistake as Justice Of the Supreme
Court and he all suayity couldn't do too much fof
and thought he going to sit down then and there
and make his will In my favor. I mentioned that had
come to see him about producing comic opera 1
had written, and ] about to tell the plcs
when his countenance fell and his changed to tn"
icy-ching freeze -you-out Sort An American comic
opera he said. "You see cir, we never do anything
American We go abroad buy up opera, scenery conn.,
pany and all, and import them bodily as speck, yoa
know. Purely as O speck" Then saw in paper thas
Tompns Of Boston, wanted comic opera with plenty or
fine spectacular effects worked in or two and
took the opera Boston and spent three days trying to
get at Tompkins who finally said he would like to nhict
the piece on Miss Obe OF the Boston Ideal Company she
saw IT, along with some fine sketches Of the scenery which
Arthur Iumey had drawn for and she said that To
up In that style would cost too much Then Bar
ton Miles wanted me to wait until their theatre was
finished and now they've put "orpheus without eithee
the bretto or the music OF Ofenbach and actually
talking about doing Dom Prats "Keno with all its pro-
fame choruses II Is really too bad Ny operaf No; tho
the way treated The opera really very clever
The plot Is like thisGenera demurrers and dispersal OF
the listeners)
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21

The Society for the Improvement OF Work
inrmen's Homes seems to be doing remarkably
well in one branch of its work, at least Ac-
cording to its last report the two lodging houses
for men, one in Centrc-st and the other III
Park place, have proved to be entirely success
full. The expenses of maintaining them last year
amounted to $1,000, and the receipts were
only S16O short of this sum. 1t is to be hoped
that the society will soon be able to take UP the
other branch of its wOrk-the Improvement OF
tenement houses. The homes of TIE poor are
receiving great deal of thought just now, not
only from philanthropists but from politicians
all over the world, and the present seems to be
an especially good time, therefore, for this
society and kindred organizations to make re-
newed exertions in this particular line Of
benevolence.
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21
EVIDENCE AGAINST THE POLICE.

Police Connmissonr eneh-After the arrest Of C0nroy
for the murder he committed went to the Police Board
and said to associates that had been heretofore e
ting Intoxicated policemen OF with thirty days fine or sus
pension Now, said, must make an example OF thess
men, and where complaints made, and no good de-
fence Is offered dismiss In every case Not dismiss tho
case. No, Of course not Dismiss the offender.
That same day we dismissed four policemen
charged with intocaton, and five others resigned And
newspaper in NewYork cited this proof that the Do
partment ought to be investigated
New-York tribune., 1883-12-21

The appeals of the representatives of the
various departments to the Board OF Estimate
and Apportionment for increased allowances
for 1884 become more plaintive as the final
days decision approaches. The School Com
missioners were particularly anxious, yester-
day, and declared that If the money asked for
were not granted, they could not DO heid re-
sponsibie even for an epidemic among the
pupils if it should break out In consequence OF
the bad sanitary condition of some of the school
building. They probably would be held respon-
sible all the same. No doubt we need new
school houses and various other things to make
the citys system of public education what 1t
should be. But above and before everything