New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-10

The principal feature OF the Attorney UeH-
erals report is his recommendation to increase
the machinery of Federal courts so that import
ant cases may be promptly decided. Mr.. Car
lands plan is the Davis bill, with some mOdlii-
cations, as described in the Presidents Mes
sage. In regard to the necessity of some relief
for the Supreme Court there is no difference OF
oninion. and the present session of Congress
should not end without the required remedial
laws.
Here is chance to have an important med
ical question decided Four of the children
who were bitten By the alleged mad dog III
Newark have started for Paris to be inOcnlated
with hydrophobia virus By NJ Pasteur. Two
or three other children, who were also bitten,
have stayed at home Now if the four under
Pasteur's care should escape madness, and
those which remained behind, or even one or
them, should be attacked with what is called
hydrophobia, all doctors would perhaps agree
upon a point concerning which they now differ
widey-namely, that hydrOphobia is hydro
phobia, and not simply fits Or spinal menin-
gifts.
If this Congress, or any future Congress, Is to
do much work, some plan must be devised to
save the time now wasted in considering private
bills. Already the files of the Senate are over
loaded with measures of this kind, and the
House will be flooded as soon as the members
get down to business. A majority of these bills
are claims against the Government, or contain
schemes of private pecuniary gain. They
should all 90 to some judicial tribunal to be
sifted before they reach House or Senate or,
in lieu of such tribunal, to special committees.
In this way the country would get more useful
work out of Congress, and the quality OF Con-
gressmen would improve.
The Mormon residents of Salt Lake City are
developing an unexpected and surprising
amount of sensitivcness about their reputation
IA law-abidng citizens. Having broken the
law for years, and having threatened loudly
and often to back up their Inisdeeds by open
resistance to the Government, they have now
pulled themselves together and solemnly re-
solved that such thing as doing wrong or
making trouble for anybody never entered
their mind. It's pity they could not have as
sumed this praiseworthy attitude before Salt
Lake City was full of Federal troops Then
they would at least baye got credit for not
being scared Into it.
Z The question as to v no SEAL succeed hr.
O'Donnell as Railroad Commissioner Is agl-
tating the associations of railway employees all
through the State. They claim that il the
Commission is to mean anything one member
of it should know something about practical
rairoading and the interests of the employees.
Mr. Hill will doubtless be influenced greatly in
making the appointment by political cOnsidcra-
tons but whatever action he takes he will be
able to Justify by saying that the associations
were divided, and that no selection would have
pleased them all. The new Commissioner
should be selected without reference to State
politics or the politics of the trades unions but
judging from the present outlook, one or other
of these considerations is likely to decide the
matter entirely.
The worst thing about the natural gas used
at Pittsburg for fuel and light is not the chance
of its giving out it seems also TO be an exDlo-
sive beside which dynamite is only as fire.
cracker to a cannon. At Cannonsburg, Penn,
early yesterday morning, o man and his wife
and two children wero blown out of their beds
and out OF their house by an explosion OF
natural gas which passed clone to their dwell
ing in n pipe. 1t ia supposed that the pipe
leaked and that the gas reached the house
through an old drain. Possibly this hoisted
householder will get damages from the COM