New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-03-09

ported Mr.. Cleveland, is evidently dreadfully torn
nm by the appointment Of Mr.. Manning to the
Treasury. Here is the best it can say about MIN
Manning in the Treasury is the enigma OF the
Cabinet, but his views are sound and he may prove
a success in administration. Nobody knows nun
better than the President; nobody else probably
would have chosen him for this position" Clearly
this ia not frst-ratc notice. Civil Service Reform
goes to the wall when great public Office is given
to an enigma" And what will Mannlng's friends
saw to the Ieft-handed gall-and-wormwood comph-
ment that "nebody else probably except Cleve-
land would have chosen him for this position u In
ferentally Tho Republican accuses the President OF
being guilty of something very like nepotism we
suspect that the Massachusetts, mugwumps, after
reading their Springfield organ. will feel ike oo-
serving day of fasting, humiliation and .renorse
The railroads should not without full considera-
toni be permitted to swallow up any moro Of Jersey
Citys water frontage. 1t is almost an inland town
now.
It lucky for President Elots theories OF self
discipline on the part of students that the young
collegian who distinguished himself by gettlnR
drunk and quarrelsome, and by being hauled up III
police court the other evening, was receiving his
education by the old method. But it not SO easy to
decide whether his pranks are an Argument for OF
against President Eliot's views. Perhaps there
can be no scheme Of education devised that VIII
cure inherent cussedncss."
One or two correspondents are correct In stating
mat q recent decision Of the Supreme Court is adj
verse to the claim of the Manhattan Saving lnstl-
tuition Of this city for payment for certain bonds
stolen from it In 1873 and presented at the United
States Treasury by purchasers in good faith. The
facts are that the United States Treasurer refused
navment TO the purchasers. on the ground that the
bonds (which had been "caled y were overdue
paper. and that the purchasers therefore were not
entitled to protection. This decision was supported
by the Court of Claims; but the Supreme court
has now reversed this decision, declaring that the
bonds wero not overdue in commercial sense ana
that the purchasers of the bonds have better
clam than the bank.
Everybody is glad to read Mr.. Edwin Booths
denial of the rumor that he intends soon to retire
from the stage. When that event occurs dramatic
art will lose one of its chief ornaments.
Evidently the world knows nothing of one of its
greatest humorists. Here is The Boston Advertiser
remarking that President Cleveland has not III
selecting the men upon whom he mast largely de-
mend for the success of his administration, sacri-
feed his discretion on the score of fitness for the
purpose of rewarding the politicians who secursh
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would seem from this that The Adretisr is anxious
| to he known as the Punch of New-England.
| II IL beginning to dawn the minds OF Mr..
Bayards friends that he is not going to play school,
| master to the Administration, as they end ne an
tIcpated He is TO be quietly shelved In the dusty
| archives of the State Department, while Lamar,
| Manning and Garland to DO the Presidents act
nal couusellors.
1t is remarkable how much cleverness and in
genuity the ordinary swnder exhibits in his work.
New worlds have been discovered and new scientific
laws revealed By mental processes hardly more
subtle. A detective IN Captain Williams's precinct
has captured an extremely sharp knave whose
methods were 80 neat that they could scarcely fail
10 succeed He made a business of replying to the
| advertisements of lost stolen goods, pretending
| that he held the pawn tickets which represented
! them, and offering to yield up the tickets for q
stipulated consideration. When this bait was
swallowed, tho pawn tickets relnquished by him
| proved to have been forged.
| Suppose the honest old red bandanna should be
| posted of TO France where his conscience will no
too far away to trouble the rampant Democracy
| Meanw while Dan Manning has the Treasury, where
| conscience is not required. All of which gratides
| the retormcrs.
Inc mOsb pdllluuy GtotOotuo VI .o'She ''"i'' NV
| crow-swallowing was that of The New- York ItHes
in its endeayor to make its reform cologne-water
| mix with Dan Mannng's oily record. Here is tho
result: "To look upon this appointment as politi-
cal one would be to question the sincerity of the
Presidents reform intentions" Well, yes; perhaps.
1t really does as If that were the
natural and essential effect of such view.
Every, one acquainted with Manning's record
knows him to be politician who throws
his conscience away wherever political end Is to
he accomplished So that, to phrase for which
we are indebted to The Times, the only persons who
do not reel tempted to question the Presidents re-
form professions in the presence of such an appoint
ment. are FOOLS knavcs and blind partisans." The
Times may classify itself according TO its own
schedule rs 1t chooses, but absolute accuracy
| would compel a combination of the schedule to tit
| the case.
VOTES nv TNDIrSTPY and TRADE