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New-York tribune., 1885-01-13

urged that foot-passengers be allowed 10 "'e
the highway over the East River Tor hothinR'
and that the tolls for car-passengers ana teams
be nut at figures that would bring in the largest
revenue. To determine this latter point re-
ouired something of experiment, and it has Deen
conclusyely shown that the rates first aaop'eu
were too high. In view of the great number Oh
people who used the Bridge in the first two
weeks after it was opened, and in view OF the
distressing accident that occurred within SIX
days, we saw that to Lave admitted the pupnc
to the footway without any charge wouid
doubtless have caused much larger crowds on
the Bridge and possibly much more seriousioss
of life. To prevent overcrowding on holidays
or in case of fire on or near the river, for In
stance, it seems necdful tolevy small toll For
q single admission less than one cent could not
well be paid. This will doubtless continue to be
charged. while habitual users of the Bridge VIII
take advantage of the ticket system, whereby
the fare is reduced to an almost ridiculolsiy
small figure.
We may now expect the Bridge to be made
use of to the extent which it deserves ana
which its enormous cost gives the citizens OF
New York and Brooklyn right to look for.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
THE PENDING TREATIES

Senator Bayard has been talking to reporter
in regard to tho pending treaties, and, while de-
clning properly to express any opinion rs to
their merits. he has made suggestion of great
Importance which Affects all of them. Being
asked whether the Nicaragua treaty might not
be considered separately from the commercial
treaties. he replied that it could not, and con-
tinued Here is the one treaty which calls for
"a certain expenditure of great sums, and enor-
@mons possibility Of further expenditure in
strengthening our navy, while the commercial
treaties present propositions to cut of ereav
slices from our revenue" 1t is quite clear that
the treaties can hardly be considered separately.
If the Nicaragua treaty is to be adopted, the
reasons for rejecting tho other treaties are enor-
mously strengthened. II, on the other hand,
the other treaties are to beadopted, the rejection
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
TpUE FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE.

The fanatics who succeeded on November
in postponing the realization of their own fond
est hopes by voting the Democratic party into
power will doubtless regret the organization
in BOSTON of "National League (non-
sectarian and on-partisan) for the Suppression
of the Liquor Traffic. But the vast body OF
good men and women who have effectively
supported for years all wise efforts in the cause
of temperance will rejoice. The general meth
DDS which the League purposes to employ are
comprised, so far as they have been matured, IN
the following resolution
Discardng partisan entanglements, we announce our
Io nurnoso 70 be tho suppression OF the liquor traffic.
and FOR this propose first, to create and INTENSITY
public sentiment by the pulpit, the platform and the
nress; second, to educate tho young in tho public
schools and elsewhere to tho nature and effects OF
alcoholic liquors third to use all legitimate CIVIL leg
lation and 20 refer the question for final decision TO the
constitutional verdict OF tho people. We invite persons
OF all classes cgeed parte. and states to nnito on this
platform and work and against tho liquor traffic
without the with Its varied interests to
the schemes OF personal politicians and the pers OF
party politics.
A detailed plan of operations Is yet to be
agreed upon, and time alone can show the re-
sult. But the character Of the men and women
who took part in the organization OF the League
and are enrolled among its supporters is the
best guarantee of its wisdom and efficiency
proyided only that they retain control of its
counsels and work. A temperance movement
cannot co far wrong which commands the es-
TEEN and enlists the active services of such dis
Greet and experienced friends of temperance
as Ex-Governor Long, the Rev. DR.. j. II. Vim
cent, Bishops Wayman. Bowman and Andrews,
Judge Agnew, Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Livermore,
the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the Rev. DIR.
Dorchester and Senator Blair.
This new movement Is encouraging because
of ts own inherent promise, and also because
there was reason to fear that the Indignation
and disgust which the performances of Mr..
ST. John and his followers have justly inspired
would degenerate into a general apathy with
respect to the momentous problems involved in
the liquor traffic. We shall watch with inter-
est the progress of the work to which an asso-
citation of the true friends of temperance is
now publicly pledged.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
THE sHERN4Y-DAVIS CONTROVERSY.

THE SHERHAN-DAVS CONIROFERSf.
The ex-Confederate skin is still thin. Some
weeks ago at Grand Army meeting General
Sherman made statement concerning inc
slaveholders' rebellion which Jefferson Davis
contradcted in Enthusiastically offensive
terms. MIR. Davis will never condOne the
American Union. General Sherman quietly re-
Joined, appealing to certain papers on file in the
War Department to substantiate the challenged
statement. Yesterday General Hawley called
I'D in the Senate his resolution providing for the
publication of the letters and other documents to
which General Sherman referred, oris supposed
to have referred, and the ex-Confederate ele-
ment In the Senate was thrown into state OF
mind.
These Southern Senators opposed the resolu-
ton on the ground that 1t was calculated TO
arouse the animosities of the past. Their
position would be entitled to more respect If the
South was not notoriOusly given to indulgence
in that very exercise. Ever since the war on
every convenient occasion Jefferson DAVIS has
eulogized the lost cause. But we never remem-
Der reading in a Southern newspaper condemna-
ton of his course in so doing. The Ku klux,
the Moonshners, tho Mississippi plan, the
White League, tho Chisolm massacre, like
Davis's speeches, were uncommonly well calcu-
lated to arouse the animosities of the past. But
the Southern Bourbons sanctioned these things
all the same. And so, too. to take more recent
instance, the fragrant denial of the right of
suffrage which resulted in the South's being
solid for Cleveland could not fail to arouse the
animosties of the past. Yet the men who are
arrayed against General Hawley's resolution
serenely wink at the election frauds that dis
grace the South.
1t was an observation of a shrewd philosopher
of the practical school that if you want to train
up child in the way he should 20 il is well to
go that way yourself" We leave the ox-Con-
federate Senators to make the application.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
TALKS ABOUT TOWN.
. pprrER OUTLOOK IN TIE FAR WEST.

A BETTER OUTLOOK IN TIE FAX WEsI'
A. H. Cannon banker, Spokane FdRs Washington Ter.
The hard times of Presidential year aiected US rs
.erousy in the far West any other part OF the coun
try Rut 7 think there IS better outlook. Grain is
going up little price and the iron business is improv-
ing slowly-both good indications. The C@ur fAlene
gold region is opening up finely 1t was great mistake
10 boom It as was done last winter and spring by the
railroad people and the press Thousands Of men came
in there to live by their Wits No ono had any money!
the mines were not yet opened These fellows rushed
out again and told tho worst possible stories Hard
working miners have remained and the camp is taking
ont from 81 600 to s25 900 weekly know positively
about It, for am buying gold from there all the time
Our town is the OF supplies for the region There
have been gold discoveries within few weeks. in what
IA known as the Covilo country about fifty miles north
OF U.S. which are also quite promising.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
of the Nicaragua treaty becomes an almost In

of the Nicaragua treaty becomes an almost IN
evitable consequence.
Indeed, to many it seems IN extraordinary
thing that the Administration. at the close Ut its
term, has submitted to Congress propositions SO
antaconistic and irrecOncilable. The message
and reports recommended, first, repeal OF all
internal taxes except on wEskey. On the basis
of last years report, this would have taken from
the revenue Si4, 100000. Tie Secretary's re-
mort at the same time estimated that the surplus
for tbe current fiscal year would not exceed
$40 $50. 900. Moreover, estimates for the year
1885 we're submitted showing surplus OF only
about S6OOO,O00. Thereupon, having already
nroposed to cut oft more than the entire sur
plus. it was next proposed to cut OH ABOUT
$50 600 900 of the revenue, at the least, by inc
commercial treaties. and at the same time to IN
cur an additional expense Of OO,OOO,OOO or
more by the Nicaragua treaty. 1t is not strange,
we must confess, that Mr.. Bayard is a little sur
prised that propositions of such nature should
he submitted at the close of Presidential term,
when a President representing different party
and different policy had already been elected.
If the Republican Senate should confirm all
these treaties, it would at once place the incom-
ing Democratic Administration in Il position of
extraordinary financial difficulty. From par
tisan point of view, some might look favorably
upon such course, but it is questionable
whether the Republicans would be able to JUS
,ify themselves before the people if they sh6dld
take any step calculated tOinsure impairment or
the public credit dnder the next Administration
1t is not at all probable that the internal taxes
will be reduced. Az all events, that cannot be
done without the assent of a Democratic House.
But if we are to give $4,O00,OOO directly to
Nicaragua, and to undertake the expenditure OF
500, 900, 900 or 5000, ZOO, 900 in the construc-
ton of canal, at the same time involving the
necessity of vast expenditure in order to put
the navy on war footing, it is clearly no time
to cut off $50, 900, 900 or more of the revenue.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
THE WILSON HEGIR4.

Science is called upon to undertake new IN
vestigation. and ono which, judging from the facts
thus far developed promises extraordinary results.
Not long aQo person named Wilson suddenly pre-
,ented himself to a family Of tho Same name in
Georgia and claimed to be father who many years
before had disappeared and gone to California. He
made some arrangements, and thenwent away prom
ising to return for his But he did not return.
and the public discussion Of the matter has led to
remarkable developments. Not less than thirty
different Wilson's. living in widely separated parts
of the country. have written to business men and
officials making inquiries about the mys-
terious Wilson, claiming that their
fathers had disappeared in tho same way,
and seeking cew to them.' Here, therefore, is
most singular state of affairs, and it clearly de-
wolves upon science to investigate IL. The country
"a deeply Interested in ascertaining the meaning
and origin Of the mystic Wilson hogira. The evil
dence il TO tho effect that at least thirty-one pa
ternal Wilson's deserted their spouses and their
oiIsprIng and disappeared, leaving no trace; that
these Wlsonic disappearances occurred at places
widely separated; and that apparently the disap-
nearing Wilson's were unknown to one another.
But 1t Is clearly impossible to avoid the
conclusion that some occult influence, perhaps
some undiscovered law of nature possessing an afin-
ity for Wilsonic persons was In operation here.
Else why should the tendency to disappear lniiu-
ence people of that patronymic SO markedly There
ia no evidence of any widespread convulson in the
great Smith family. No Browns, Thompsons.
.Jonesos or Robinsons have been subjected to any
suoh cataclysmal disturbance.
Only in tho Wilson family or sept does
this weird and incomprehensble influence
seem to have been felt. and there it
has been fearfully destructive. Astroogy
teaches that certain names arc under the influence
of certain stars or consultations. though the
ner in which these astral influences will operate
depends upon the natal conjunctions and things.
and since it cannot be supposed that ali tho thirty
one disappearing Wilson's were born in the same
planetary "home." their remarkable eccentricity
cannot be accounted for thus. Ii is, however possl
BILE that the evolutionary hypothesis may be APP
peaed to more successfully 1t may be discovered
that heredIty is at the bottom of the mystery,
though the establishment OF at least tribal rela-
tionship between the Wilson's would seem necessary.
Suppose that the gems phratry OF tho
Wilson's acquired in aboriginal times a
tendency toward disappearance. Might not snch
O tendency become confirmed as Wilsonlc
habit or characteristic just as the tendency 10
sixth toe has become established in other faniiies'
OF course these crude suggestions are merely
thrown out for the purpose OF showing the eN'eh'
aIA interest of the questions involved IL IL ior
science to formulate aud direct tho investigation
and it cannot be doubted that tho conclusions
reached will be instructive and valuable.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
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WHO LIRE R1SC1LSf

That word "rascals " is getting broadened
every day. OF course we all agree that the
rascals must be turned out" but the question
is, and has been from the beginning, who are the
srascalsf" Governor Cleveland, in his letter to
the Civil Service Association, stretched the term
to include all offensive partisans." Senator
Salisbury of Delaware then stretched II TO IN
clude severy man who had used his place to
keen out the Democratic Administration" And
now comes Senator Payne of Ohio, with new
and still more elastic definition. In his observa-
tions at Columbus he observed that turning the
rascals out-does not signify that honest incum-
abepts. competent in the discharge of duty and
q @blameless in political action, shall DC ndls-
q @criminately discharged" 1t is well to note the
word indiscriminatey." Some of that sort are
to be discharged, it seems. They may be hon
est they may be competent and faithful
they may even be "baneless in political
action" y; and yet all that can be said OF them is
that they shall not be "indiscriminately dis
charged Some Of them must 60, but not
others. AS to the other people, who have not
been "blameless in political action" that is,
who have not been Democrats, it would appear
that the discharge is to be "indiscriminate."
But Senator Payne particularizes. "a thor
ough examination" he says, "Of tho present
aholders of Office in every branch of the public
aservice shall be made by skilful experts"
Then he proceeds to enumerate those who
q shall co." and not standing on the order Of
their going shall go at once" These are to in
clude aall who are found incompetent" That
is all right. But we suspect that a Democratic
expert will discover great deal of incompe-
tence among Republican officials. Next all
those are to 60 "who are by indirection evadng
the spirit or the letter of the present law"
This would seem to be pretty large class. by
indrection broadcns it great deal And
finally, all those are 10 90 "whO obtained their
"places by questionable methods, or are not
"needed, or who have already enjoyed liberal
term of Office" There, that will do. If there is
any Republican who cannot be turned out as a
rascal - under this Interpretation of the term,
we should be pleased to form his acquaintance.
However, it will strike the Civil Service Com
mission, and the apostles of that reform who
have fastened Mr.. Cleveland upon the Demo-
cratic party and the country. that this sort of
thing does not agree entirely with their pro-
gramme. If man is to be turned out as ras-
cal merely because he has already "eniOyed a
liberal term of Office" it is about time to con-
slider what that sort of Civil Service Reform
means anyhow. The distinction between 1t and
the meanest and shabbiest old-fashiOned Van
Buren, brass mounted.partisanshp with to the
vctors belong the spOils " its golden rule, is
exceedingly thin, and getting thinner every day.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
THE REDUCTION or BRIDGE FARES.


The reduction of Bridge tolls is more than we
had reason to expect from the present Board of
Trustees. They have hitherto shown themselves
impervious to the loud and frequent demands
from the public that the cost of using this ex
pensive structure be put at reasonable figure.
Seeing the end of their power at hand, however,
the trustees decided that the most important of
their last official acts should be creditabe one,
and yesterday they practically abolished tolls
on the promenade and cut down railway fares
about so per cent The reductions will take
place on February and March respectively.
The tolls on the roadway were reduced One-half
a few weeks ago.
The action yesterday will save the Lesisla-
tlIre and the new Bridge Commission from the
necessity Of taking any steps on the question OF
tolls. In bringing this about Mayor Grace was
largely instrumental. His course in this matter
is pra.seworthy. The new schedule is proper
and reasonable. We think the Bridge authori-
ties would have acted wisely II they adopted
this basis of charges at the outset.
Before the Bridge was opened The TRIBUNE
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
MIIIINERa, HOLIDAY.

.Jnn,s a. johnson, importer and manufacturer 0
French milinery-Fora month after the holidays our
business comes almost to full stop. About the middle
OF February the Faster trade begins. Few artificial
flowers and feathers and those only of inferior grades
are manufactured in this country The artistic faculty
ia not so prevalent among Americans as among the
,cnch In fact about all who work nj the business here
are mportod and the most skifu stay at home The
ranging and working OF flowers fruits etc. give occupa
ton to largo class. Probably no less than $4,000
people find employment in New-York directly and ind
reetly through this one industry.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
ARISES IN HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT.

~. al,yonder b. MoR,-I have as high appreciation OF
,od done by the ambulance service as any one ana
,Ie5 10 organzeit It. have been oonnectedwtth Belle
vue Hospital as consulting surgeon for twenty-sx
rs and we'll remember tho times when injured people
.e brought to us in grocers wagons, express wagons
oreven coal CARTS That seems rude way OF treating
ick people, but it is better than some people get USED
nnder IN. ambulance rules There is. the case Of
tho late George Graham Lake, patient
and an old friend Of mino. He was
tar.n in an ambulance to the Chambers Street Hos
I ,hop taken out and sent to the New York Hospital
aud than after long delay, moved again up to his
hou.. such usage makes my blood boil with indignation
Afr Lake wa, perfectly conscious and repeatedly told the
ambulance surgeons not to take him to any hospital but
IN send him to his home lie wrote note to me- his ram
y hyscian and told the surgeon that he ha done so'
and that he wanted his doctor to attend him In MS
avn house. IL was an outrage not to obey him, Tor no
might better have home In horsecar or an express
wagon lie was chilled through from exposure and ex-
bausted and unn.ryed by the treatment ne received
One-half his chances OF recovery were sacr1hcea
nv this deIay Young men just from college
als tho active lead at tho NewYork Hospital to the
r,ore or less, OF the experienced consulting
.urgoons Tbese young want all the cases they can
, n, thu are likely ~ be fatal and then theJ
-, =, ,.t Ia Of Them have men sent from the
Nsxyort uo,pital 90 Bellevue when IL WAS a SIN 70
move them from their beds. ana whch they wo"io "o
,~h,n a few hours after their arrival. The New-fork
Hospital which Is pay institution, has an arrangement
nv which Il can OF people too poor 70
nav fer attendance to the charity hospitals Under
cover OF this tsoy keep people long as they dare an
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
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then send them to Bellevue In order that shcir o.,
death rate may not be made larger.
THE USUAL FATE OF INJUNCrrONs

THE USUAL FATE OF INJUNCTIONs.
Judge Stephen H. HyaH.-Itis . curious fact thst -
matter how familiar become with the municipal gov
ernmsnt constantly finding new loopholes in tha
laws upon which 1t is founded 1t wond to BE- in
possible to frame legislative enactments for this ctty
which cannot be msconstrued and twisted out of thar
original purpor account of omissions or doub<
iu phrases Just now persons appear think haA
an Injunction is for troubles of that kind but
.he usual rate OF an injunction is to be dissolved and
little Is gained by the proceeding except delay.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13

The latest developments in the Sharon d.
vorce proceedings at San Francisco are fully
equal to any made public heretofore In this ex-
traordinary case. At hearing yesterday
touching Sarah Althea's alimony, Sharon's law
yer offered as evidence to show the lnlqmty
and fraud of the plaintiff paper purportlng
to be contract between the expert Gumpel
and one Tyler, in which Tyler agreed to pay
the expert $4,000 for testifying that certain
papers hostile to Sharon were genuine. lhiS
document the lawyer had purchased at Dig
price as bona .fde contract, and II 1t had been
genuine it would have been of vast Importance
to his client; but Tyler, when called as wit
ness. said that the paper was forgery, and
had been arranged as "sell" on Sharon's
counsel. Of course this made great sensation
in which everybody seemed to forget that
knavery like this disgraces the name OF
iustice.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13
NewalorIs DAILY Gribn'rs
FOUNDED HORACE GREELEY
NEW-YORK, TUESDAY. JAN. 13.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

foRErGN.-Short and Paelans connection with
dynamite conspiracies in Great Britain -
MANY vessels wrecked and lives lost by gales on
Che British coast - French troops defeated In
Cambopia by insurgents. - Trial OF oihcers Oh
American ship l. f. Chapman in London. -
China and Japan to submit the Corean question TO
tho mediation of England, Germany and America.
e. An earthquake shock felt at Gibraltar.
CoNeREss.-There wasl an angry debate In the
Senate growing out of the Sherman-Dav1s cont1o-
versy. - The House discussed the appropria-
tions for consuls.
DoMFsuc.-The plan for reorganizing the Read
inr Railroad was presented to the meeting Oh
stockholders in Philadelphia - New forgeries
wore found in the Sharon case In san fIan-
oI,eo. - Chicago Socialists become vio-
Isrt at the criticism of boy. - The
ureliminary report of the South American
crumssion ia completed - Professor Eustis, of
Harvard College. isdead. - Tornadoes occurred
IN Alabama and Georgia - The Brady tunnel,
mar P,ttsburg, begun in 1853. was finished. -
Two wills in the name of Myra Clark Gaines were
offered for probate in New-Orleans
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-Bridge tolls largely re-
Auced. - Mr.. Saa's first lecture in New-York.
g. A meeting in Brooklyn In behalf OF Mt.
Eyarts - Graduating exercises OF the training
Scboo, for Nurses. - Phelan still further I'M
moved. - The Mayor conferred with thePonce
Commissioners. = Stormy meeting in Dr. New
mans church. - Lecture by Professor NJ. Z.
TYLER. - Fire in Yonkers caused loss OF
500, ,OOO - Meeting of Tenement House CON-
mission. - Gold value of the legal-tender silver
dollar (412la grains). s4.14 cents. g Stocks
opened active and excited and made important ad
vsnees followed by dulness and dropping figures
and feyersh and unsettled closing.
THE WEATHER.-TRJBUNE local observations in
dicate decidedly colder, clear weather. Temper
ature yesterday: Highest, 60o; lowest. So; av'
erzee 49lso.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-13

The Springfield Repubiican hacks at the Cabinet
question thus: President Cleveland's Cabinet
saould be male up Of largo men. experienced In