New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-02

WORK FOR THE SENATE COMMITTEE.
The Senate Investigating Committee has
dore some good work. 1t has laid bare part
of the abuses in the Excise Department ana
has shown that the Dock Commissioners make
UP a pleasant little mutual admiration ciuD put
do nothing of real value to earn their salaries.
1t has disclosed the corruption i'll tine purchase
OF the armory sites and has put the President OF
the Health Department in a position from
which it now seems almost impossible for HIM
to extricate himself with Il shred of character
to cover him. But the Senators and their coun-
sci have shown a singular reluctanc to dlS III
some spots where the finds might be startling.
There are whispers abroad that certain COM
missioners have been quakng lest they be ex-
amned under oath as to certain transactions III
their departments. Is there any truth IN such
rumors How does our Poet Commissioner
Souire feel in these days. He displayed an as
surance in the figures which he submitted to the
Board of Estimate and AppOrtionment Tor the
expenses of his department for 1886 which was
eminenly suitable to the successor OF Hubert
O. Thomson Whom has Mr.. Squire struck
hands with that he is so easy i'll his place ana
so cheerful, though he knows that the city Is
lucky if it gets n dollars worth OF honest work
for two dollars of taxpayers money! Have the
Park Commissioners nude everything clear
and clean concerning d jumping contracts ana
the use of costly cat granite for hlllnET
Why is the committee so tender with Mt.
Grace? The Mayor should be invited to tell
under oath the complete story OF his active ana
energetic support of Charles W. Dayton, his
candidate for President of the Board OF Alder
men, at the recent election. 1t would doubtless
prove a highly enter tanning story to persons
unacuaainted with the inner workings of city
politics Mr.. Asten had something to say on
the subject in his recent sworn testimony. VI
course Mr.. Grace can explain IT all. We never
had a Mayor who had a ncatcr knack ut OK
plantations or was more successful IN making
the facts fit them But he has keen counsel
Tor in his Chamberlain. While awarding due
credit to Mr.. Grace, let us be careful not 70 Tor
get the talents OF Mr.. WINS.
There's another subject about which the
Mayor ought TO testify under oath, and that
speedily. He ought 20 give the entire history OF
all his loans to Ferdinand Wdd, with every
date, every figure every detail, and put with
that some incidental references to his intimacy
with the Tobcys. Mr.. Grace looks anxious and
worried He must have a great deal on his
mind. At one time it was the GOvcrn0rshlp,
but it is not that now. Possibly the thought
that a sharcr in the profits Of the firm OF Grant
g. Ward might be legally adiudcitcd to be
partner and therefore responsible for the losses
may disturb our worthy Mayor. But anyway
the people Of this town VINO were fooled INTO
putting this man at the head Of the city govern
ment as a Rcformcr have the right to hear
the whole ctory of his transactions with Ferdi-
nand Ward told by himself under oath and
with a searching cross-examnation to follow.
la that way only can Mr. Grace put himself
right. But the cross-cxaminatlon must be
sharp and intelligent. For obvious reasons 1t
should not be entrusted 20 Charles p. Miller or
John H. Slrahan.