New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-22

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in length, were, therefore, rather superiuous In
1 Fiction on the public. Nothing could be more
compIete than the closing argument
| of E. P. Brown the counsel for the Marshes in
| rebuttal of the Governors charges This. rather
than the majority report of the committee, VIII
probably supply the staple material for the defence
| of Tewksbury. Buffers reply on the other hand,
| reekng with indecency and grotesque violence,
! which the majority report takes good care TO re-
produce verbatim in its concluding pages, has had
| to be recast, expurRated and deodOrzed before IL
could be sent out even as campaign document
| The minority report is guilty of the weakness OF
| rehearsing evidence that was refuted. Butter Is
reported to have confded to personal friends that
he was deceived and beaten by his worthless wit
nesses
A characteristic Butler trick has just come to
light in pretended stenographic report of the in
terviews which the Tewsksbury Committee OF the
Legislature held with the Governor about his TAX
ing part in the hearing. The impression sought to
be conveyed is that tho Governors appearing there
| was in response to the committees invitation.
| None of the committee imagined at the time they
| were in con sultation with " His Exceencv" that
| their remarks were being taken down stenograph-
ically. But several know that the alleged verbatim
report is false and dOctored" because they are
sometimes represented as having been present with
the committee when they know from circumstances
they were not 1t is dirty piece of small trickery
and fraud from beginning to end.
The latest grab of spoils by the Butler party is
the displacement of the seasoned and efficient clerk
of the Railroad Commission, to make place Tor
noisy labor-reform and Greenback henohman oil the
"old mans" in Essex County.
The Boston Fire Department is marked for de-
moralization by the same baneful influence. Tie
able. modest and single-minded chief Is being made
unhappy by changes of regulation, cutting down his
powers and responsibilities and the competent head
electrician is going through like experience IL
these faithful officials can thus be badgered into re-
signing. the object of the politicians, who have now
got control of the commission, will have been ac-
compshed.
An industrial and social change rapidly taking
place IN New-England is represented in the con-
yention of French Canadians called to assemble in
Boston {" one of the future French cities of the
world " next September The convention is to
discuss among other things the matter of presery-
ing the French language among the descendants of
the French with us. who increasing, especially
in manu- facturng towns, at a rate that has given
rise to the jealousy which calls the Canadian
French the Chinese of New-Engand."
Bostonians, those Of them who are in town are
concerned by the raid of caterpillars on the Com
mon. The fine old trees swarm with the pests, both
in the chrysas and in the travelling stages of exist
ence.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union has
just dedicated tho first sidewalk free ice-water
fountain. 1t is an ornamental object, pionsly in
sciibed and fed by pipes RAINING through an eboI
under the curbstone packed with 800 pounds OF ice