New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-27

very active lieutenant of the I" Boss" AS poll
tician Mr.. Bum is entitled TO consideration from
his party chieftain. Nothing would be thought
about it If it were not for the cantng hypocrisy OF
the men who pretend TO see reform" in appoint
ments made to pay political debts.
The neck-or-uothing casuists to whom Civil Ser
vice Reform Is the one object of alteration by day
and by night are always pointing with pride to the
perfect working of the English system. But the
English Ministry seem always ready to provide
places for the Queens sons. grandsons, nephewS
and sons-n-Iaw regardless Of all rules.
The Car of Russia has issued an ukase directed
toward the Russanizing of the provinces along the
Baltic by the teaching of the Russian language
alone IN the elementary schools of those provinces
Let Mayor Grace now send in message recommend
ing to the Board of Aldermen the advisabIlity OF
Americanizing New-YOrk by a similar process, net
merely IN our schools but in spots not reached by
schools. What revolution would follow! Baxter
ST.. Italian; MOtt-st., Chinese; ThompsOn-st,
Ethiopian; Hester-st. POlish-Hebrew; Shanty-
town, gibberish BOwery. idlosyncracles; Fourth
Ward, slang, 'longshOreman dialect; Castle Garden,
Erse. Welsh, Scandinavian, Swiss, Hungarian,
Maltese hybrid comblnations-all. these melted,
moulded and ameliorated into Bostonian English
ever effected upon earth. Let the Mayor at once
present the matter to the Boor-r-d, for it should
be borne in mind that body of men are greater
stcklers over good English than our accomplished
Of Aldermen.
The British Admiralty are going to have grand
naval demonstration, including sham battle Oh
unexampled magnitude and torpedo operations, IN
Bantry Bay. Not to be outdone, the Russian Gov
nvrpa a h
artillery practice to be held at Krasnoe-Selo. The
rival Powers. thus safely separated by immense
distances. can manifest their enmy and vindicate
their prowess by the most terrific discharges of
blank cartridges If this is not equivalent to
making faces ON an international scale 1t looks very
much like it.
A few DAYS ago there appeared in number of
newspapers CONDENSED chapter on political
economy, which is supposed to have emanated
from the master-hand of Eugene Higgins Appoint
ment Clerk OF the Treasury Department Its OBJECT
was 10 convinc, the public that under the present
Administration the pay-rolls of the New-York Gus
tom House showed saving of $4,000 in the
month of April as compared with October last year,
and that the MAY pay-rolls were $4,000 below
thoa of October. 1t was stated that the pay
roll for October was total of S2j6,OOO and that
for April 1914 300" These figures are confusing.
The truth is that the pay-ros for October last
called for s2O6. 43O 81 for salaries, and $20572
for rents. The pay-rolls for April included
5000 422 for salaries. and $20753 ~ for rents.
Here is a total of S230.17G % for April as COM
pared with 1927, 002 81 for October last, and the
increase of about 80 900 is for salaries, showing an
actual increase in the running expenses
The entire expenses of the Custom House
In October were S256,OOO hut the diff
ference between that sum and S227002 81 was
for contingent expenses. repairs. services of mer-
chant appraisers, etc. The records of the Custom
House show that the cost for collection OF reve-
nues In the last four years has been less than for
apy previous term of Collector, and for the first
year of Judge Robertson's term the cost was less
than for any previous year.
Tho party of Eastern excursionists who were
robbed on the road 20 the Yosemite Valley by
genuine "road agents" ought TO congratulate
themselves on an experience which few modern
Cahfornians can boast Of The railroads have
almost destroyed the business of stage robbery in
that favored land. end it is complained that with
this decline a number of clumsy amateurs have
taken up the line. 1t Is TO be hoped that the ex-
cursionlSts were stood up with all the honors.
in the most approved style of the art.
Tho surrender of Poundmaker and his two thou
sand warriors leaves only Bug Bear IN the nelu. lie
ia reported as holding out the North Saskatche-
wan. Tho reports state that he is so encountered
with provisions and plnnder TO be unable TO
uovo freely. and il is rumOred that he means 10
deliver battle at a place in the Big Hills, between
Frog T AXE and Fort Pitt. He Is said TO have 500
man with him. while Major Steele has one gun.
with an escort of 20 mounted police. $40 infantry
and n reserve of 40 armed teamsters. Major Steele
derIore. himself confident of his ability to whip
Ri, Rear with this numerically inferior force, and
~ the scene of action is 1000 miles from Toronto
and practically beyond the reach OF renforcements
within a reasonable time the presumption is that
the ri,k will have to be taken unless the news OF
Poundnaker's surrender should convince Big Bear
of the folly OF resistance.
Mr. Jacob Sharp says he has not heard n single
protest against mis- Broadway annexation except
from drunken people. o, come now, Mr.. Sharp;
the whole town isn't drunk.
The Evening Post, being blind with rage. con
tinues its assaults upon the Court of Appeals. which
discredted Mr.. LOthrop in an important decision
rendered twenty years ago. 1t remarks: The
living and venal source from which it the attack
emanated created Il suspicion at once in spite OF It's
crcumstantiaity, that there was something wrong
about the charge-something concealed, or per-
vcrted or bodevilled to give 1t currency for
day or two" Such lurid rhetoric is likely to con-
fuse careless readers and of course The Post does
not wish to do this But it has not yet published
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