New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-29

danger of harm coming to him from IN angry
mob the authorities should certainly postpone
The inquiry until the passions OF the erowd nave
Gained down. This State must not be dis
graced by lynch law.
The bill which Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt has
introduced in the Assembly making the cost OF
a license to sell spirituous liquors in several
cities in this State $500 and maltliquors $3.50, Is
receiving noteworthy support. The Church
Temperance Society favors it and urges that 1t
shall be made to apply to all cities in New
York, large and small, and meeting was held
last night in Brooklyn to express the same SEN
timents of approval. The measure Is indeed an
excellent one and ought to pass.
The anti-Mormon bill which has just been IN
troduced into the Senate contains the ieadihg
features of the old Edmunds law as wei as
many new clauses which experience has SHOWN
the Garlic measnrer lacked. For instance, pro-
vision is made for obtaining evidence OF poiyg-
amous marriages more easily than at present
No woman is allowed to vote. The corporation
of the Mormon Church Is to be placed in the
hands OF fourteen trustees appointed by the
President of the United States. All the exist
ing election laws are abolished, and nearly all
the duties pertaining to registration and the
counting of votes are put under the charge
of persons selected by board appointed for
this purpose. If the measure as it stands now
becomes law, the peculiarly nasty institution
of which Mormonism boasts will have hard
time.
Clergy1nen both in and out of the Episcopal
Church have been agitated lately as to the ex-
tent of the authority which the Assistant Bishop
of this diocese possesses. The matter must be
considered settled now by the publication of
the senior Bishops circular letter, containing
copy of the delegation of powers to his assist
ant. 1t appears from this document that the
Assistant Bishop has all the power and all the
authority which his uncle had, and that there
is nothing which the senior Bishop could have
done that the assistant cannot do. The prac-
teal application of all this is that Bishop Henry
C. Potter could Try the Rev. r. Heber Newton
if he chose, provided new charges against that
rector should be presented to him; but that as
the senior Bishop in his discretion did not act
on the papers sent to him, they are now dead
letters and that before anything more could
he done in the matter new charges would have
to be prepared. 1t is to be hoped, however
that no misfortune of this kind will occur.
The financial Graybacks had a hard time of
it yesterday, particularly those who had gone
short of Oregon Navigation, which closed
Saturday at So. Early in the day, after the
syndicate's purchase Of Northern Pacific stocks
was known, one cOntented soul took his profits
on a small lot at 81; then came a long period
of silence. then a sale of 100 at par and another
at 1O1; and next a Disguised seller of other
peoples property paid 105 cash for 100 shares.
His loss since Saturday night on that small lot
was Just ~, 900, and his opinion of bear lead
ership is not so high as it was. But the "big
ger fish" persisteptly paid per cent a day to
borrow the stuff, and then 40 cash to get it,
and III cash, and 119 cash, the stock selling
regular" at ITO. At 119 the loss on 100 shares
since Saturday night was So, 400 About that
time, also, the people who had sold Northern
Pacific preferred mt 403l on Saturday. and had
seen it close that day at 43l4, began to pay 49li
for il, and felt happy to get any even then. 1t
was not much consolation to them that it after
ward fell back to At, for when anybody tried
to procure a lot it moved up again to 483i in
about ten minutes. On the whole, the enter
plising sellers of property that they did not
own had dismal day, and about 1000 shares
Of Northern Pacific preferred were bought in
after 2:15 p. M. for unhappy persons who had
sold but could not deliver it.
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