New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-16

tariff atcrward. Also rumor that the Ohio members
had tn borrow Nickel Plato stock derive their due sd
vantage from the sale of the latter road having had
| the presence OF mind to keep away.
Ex-Governor Charles Foster OF Ohio said TO me during
the week: Yor didn't find them around Mansfield ir.
shennans town to approve OF my spending money In
politics Well never heard" said tho Governor drily
that they put ont much OF their money up there
The passage of tho Mexican reciprocity treaty during
the week shows least, individuality OF view. Party
Inca not preserved even IN disorder. Both the
New-iork ana the California Miller voted aye. so
voted Lapham OF New York. the generally beyond
the Mississippi River, aud both Illinois scnators Ed
munds and Frye and both the Massachusetts men IA
vored the bill. The ultra-tarf interest, typGcd by
Mitchell ofPennsylyania John Sherman, Justin Morrill,.
the Rhode Island Senator'S tho Connecticut Senators.
and the special interests of Louisiana. North Carolina
and Virginia in competition with Mexican products.
opposed the reciprocity The bill trlmphcd the
feeling OF goodwill to Mexico q sister Republic over
bore even iarIn prcudlces and the American
railroads being completed thther constituted counter
foil to sugar and tobacco. similar treaty with the
Sandwich Islands has made them bloom but the United
States received the exchange trade and lost good deal
OF the money In speculative sugar enterprises there 30
win this treaty give credit Tor manufactured
goods and we shall spend much of tho money In Mexican
schemes. TO have refused tho treaty would probably
have been 10 lose All moral influence in Mexico.
Mr.. William Walter Phelps has bought eight
the kaorama estate Washington the property OF
Joel Barlow, Minister Russia aud the author OF
poem illustrated by Robert Fulton, who then q
painter Deoaturs body lay for years in Barlow's pri
vate tomb at Kalorama. This estate Is noby wooded
and being on rising ground above the vale Of Rock Creek
supplies pure air and shade and sylvan romance.
Talking TO the new president Of tho Northern Pacific
n. .,
floating debt O: that railway could have been bonded
and carried for 1850 900 year. and would have been
provided for bnt for tho mistaken policy OF not telling
about it, The bears took tho and used 10 10
deprcss all the securities The open both the
polite and the Just one To the extent OF that criticism
think Mr. Wizards management Is questioned As TO
the cOnfscati0n OF the cOInpany's land grant, only
savage power could permit such costly road TO be I'm
ished with private money and aerward dsinherited.
The land, II reverted to tho Government, would be
sold settlers just the railway sells 1t and politicians
instead OF ncOrpOrat0rs and subscribers, would spend
the purchase money. The temporary catastrophe
phasiLes the necessity OF Stock Exchanges compelling
regular and open reports 10 issue from railroads.
Mr. Frchnghuyson's letter to Bismarck has not made
much apprehension IN Washington, where II seemed 10
be commended. far "a heard In tho line Of Mr.
Baine's PLAN American policy. distinguished foreign
Minister formerly, said to n has afforded Mr.. Ere
inguysen chance of which he mas availcd himself
well that We wonder II Mr.. Chandler
energetic temperament did not compose it," The Ger
man American element is almost sodly with Lasker
against Bismarck. Sausage began this dispute, or
whether kind Of hog shall take the place OF another
kind in the stuthng machine. Poor LaskeFs body fell
under the ceavcrs aud Prince Bismarck pronounced him
trcnnOsis. A big army, amullcd press and an old
lnau absolute, repeat history.
Foreign policy, whether We wish it or not s drifting
astgr pl fhp NJ
rociy by copying revenue and manufacturing policy
Mexico invites IN and have put down the iron
bands TO move upon. THO moment the line to
do o Me yican trade there VIII be demanded OF this Gov
eminent something akin tn the British foreign policy
Anv. IS necessity It may cost city two. but
then viii Tho German question and the French
question: both bottOmed Western pork 6l make the
prairie economist see tho necessity Of vessel. Eng
land faccs 1t Asia and Africa, and by the Of
foreign adventure rises buoyant upon her pcris. Since
the dsarmiug OF the United States and the substitution
of Development for foreign policy, almost afraid
Of the sight of n ship. end Congressman proposed last
week take the organization of the navy apart and not
even leave It ia preserving pickle.
Washington has class OF newsbOys both black and
white, and set Of begging Juvenile street keepers
which are the pest OF that handsome capital
political book never had TIL picked it mp last
week at anGuran's il entitled: Downfall of Free
masonry and Origin aud Increase Of Abolition BY
Jouathaa Punkn. esq II is anonymously printed,
probably Harrisburg in 1888 and illustrated with
many wood enSryings and is carcature such young
Jerry Black might have written Of Governor Rnor's
Administration and the rising Thaddeus Steyens Run
ming over Ifs 100 pages somewhat costly publication
FOR those days merely smiles cUmpaSsiOnatey at the
pains envy and spleen are Vt 10 arrest progress and
curccr. hundreds of dollars and months OF
mental occupation spent 10 produce something hardly
respectable than anonymous letter, which latter
been described The only way cOnfessos
his own cgtmony.
The train called the Congressional which leaves Wash
ngton 20 r. aud In SIX hours ands tue passenger on
the New York edo OF the river reminds me OF the time
before monogolics when the railroad under four
owuerSlrps Knocked mo around all day, spoiled my
clothes ard kept 10 wake up every time I !
doIcd TO II hai "A ticket threw me into Omnbuses,
halted me Ike an OK for dinner and called fcrryhoats
such States llghts. "statos Rights then
meant Chancellor ymgstOn's kind, which declared tho
tidal waters OF New-York State aud New Jersey tho |
property OF those States and then sold thcm in the Leg
stature 20 tao three individuals We have on |
ono railroad nine daily trains TO and from Washington.
man OF the world remarked to upOn tho late high
turn and relapse OF Now-York Central stock: There
evidently to pinch the street. In tho
previous Iackawanna performance. but Central II too
widely held to allow that to be done The instant tho
stock rises several points, outside holders hasten 10 sell
in such numbers that tho pinchers get tho pinch
The Star Route iuycsYation at Washington, now being
chnrncd over ogain tho hope that rancid glOb
ucs OF butter may found originally worthy
prosecution couded by passionate vicious agencies
which kept eye duty and the other 5acksheesh
II falls 90 chow that either President Garfield
dent do upi,h NJ |