New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-09

ing to mako terms in advance with the Parnelltes.
Each Of the two great parties Is already doing wha'
1t can to enlist the services Of the Irish members
Let tho test question determining tho fate OK Dir.
Gladstone's Ministry be voted upon the next week,
and it will BIO found mpracticabe to leave the Irish
members out Of account.
The comparative ease with which free horse
can be ridden to death has been commented upon.
Mr.. William H. Vanderbilt is the last person to
whom the truth has been forcibly brought home.
Some months ago he kindly consented to throw
open his art galleries to the public certain days
of the week. The good news quickly spread and
the demand for cards of admission ever since has
been as active as the stock market has been the
other way. 1t still continues active and up to date
over 20, 900 cards have been given out. Thousands
of these have yet to be used and rejecting that al
though cart is long, Time is heetng" and his CALLER
les capable accommodating only limited number
of people, Mr.. Vanderbilt has concluded to give no
more cards this season. This decision will doubt
less cause disappointment, but there was no help
for it, If the pictures are to be to any salts
faction it is necessary to provide against over
crowding the galleries.
The indomitable commercial spirit Of the Ameri-
can people receives an odd illustration In the fact
turned to profitable account by boatmen who get
up excursion parties to explore the flooded streets.
The elements will combine in vain against men
who thus show their ability to utilize even the
most serious misfortuDes.
The Republicans who voted for the Fitz John
Porter bill were T. and one was paired In favor OF
the BILL while II voted and IA were paired against
it. From Massachusetts, 8 Republicans and one In
A. I'LL D.n, Iltnnn
voted against it, with one paired. From Pennsyl-
vana, Republicans voted for the bill, out of is
in the delegation, and from New-York out Of -.
Two of the Republicans of New-Jersey voted and
one paired for the BILL and one voted against it.
Both the members from New Hampshire and both
the members from Vermont voted for the bill, the
one Republican from North Carolina and the one
from Mississippi, and one from Nebraska. with one
against it. Thus of the favOring Republican
votes came from New England out of 10 Republi-
can members; from the Middle States out of 80;
2 from the Southern States out of 1; and only
from the Western States out of SO Republican
members. Bat there were s Republicans absent
without pairs to Indicate how they would have
voted. 1t cannot be said that the negative vote of
so many Republicans was prompted by vindictIve-
ness. The truth Is that General Logan has in this
matter closely represented the sober and deliberate
Judgment u
1t was lately noticed that the coal operators of
that part of the MonOngahala known as the
Fourth Pool" had been causing the arrest and
Imprisonment of leading trades-uniOnists for con-
spracy. A convention of miners at PittsbuTg
Wednesday denounced this attempt to enforce the
law and declared that a uniform rate Of 3l2 cents
for mining ought 10 be maintained throughout the
river region. But the truth is that mines differ
widely in quality of ore and ease of working in
health and safety, and in other respects which
every miner considers and a uniform price is con-
trary to Justice and cOmmOn-sense.
In thousands of tenement-houses in this city the
water does not rise above the second third story
and cannot be drawn up by pumps. The unclean-
Illness discomfort and evil of all sorts growing out
of this state of things are already great and are
constantly increasing. The Association for I'm
proving the Condition Of the Poor suggests rem
edv by placing tanks on the roofs to be filled by
small gas engines in the cellar, by placing tanks
in the cellars to be filled from the service-ppes at
night. From these tanks water may be pumped up
in the day time Unless owners or landlords are
moved to do this of their accord it is felt that
they must be constrained to do it through the force
of public opinion. Whatever the cost-and the
cost need not be great in either of the ways sug-
gested-the tenement class must have water,
whether for their own sake or that of the city.
The exciting events in the Soudan have diverted
attention from the Tonquin campaign, but it is
somewhat curious that news is received of the
French assault upon Bac-Ninh which was to have
been made several days ago. The report of
French repulse before that place has been contra
dicted but it looks as though something must have
Happened to retard the Gallo advance and that
something does not appear to have taken the shape
of Chinese proposals for negotiation. The pre-
sumption is that the French find Bac-Ninh to be
stronger than they thought it was, and that they
are therefore making thorough preparations for
the attack upon it.
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