New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-25

country can ever counsel as a policy to be
touched however experimentally, by the
United States
| Tho motto Of the National American Shipping
Lcacuc should be: 4" If any candidate for Congress
hauls down the American flag and throws it under
| his platform, shoot him on the spot
| Tory reports rldicule Mr.. Gladstone's VISIT to
his Midlothian electors but Tory conduct shows
that their fun is forced and hollow. The first re-
suit of his speeches is that the Conservatives have
decided not to the risk of contestIng his seat.
most significant conclusion. for, should he be re-
turned with n majority even surprising the unex-
amplcd verdict gwen in his favor at the last cleo
ton. the eGccf upon later contests would be DIS
astrous to them. The magnificent popular OvatIons
of which he has been tho recipient may mean
no hing. the Tory and dissentent Liberal
organs declare, but all the same they decline to
meet him in his own district
While the Bell Telephone Company IS winning
| Injunction suits all over the country, the Govern
ment still dalles with its action and Mr.. Garland
still hugs his Pan-Elcctrc scandal-soaked stock.
The LOndOn Times denies that the Gaatea is a
representative vessel and pronouDces her unfortu-
nate and unsuccessful. Well we did not select her
!
Royal Yacht Squadron the possessor Of a representa-
tive boat. anyhow If 1t is send her over. Ameri-
can yachtsmen are ready to race anything that flies
the British flag, from a muds cow to Il full rigged
ship All the rules require is that she be propelled
by the wind. and 50 far rs the Americans are
cerned, they do not a ig what may be her size
or shape Send over the best you have. Brother
Jonathan is all ready.
Though :he time in which the Harlem River
Bridge must be built if it is bn;it at ALL il limited
to less than three years, no contract for the work
has yet been given ont. and the Commission
acting with their usual disregard of public opinion.
Did their rejection of all the public bid, offer ed
have for its purpose the letting Of the contract to
the Union Bridge Company In view OF the past
relations sustained by the Commissioners to this
firm any such disposition OF the contract would be
highly unsatisfactory. If the Union Bridge Com
pany secured the work the lowest bidder no
serious objection would b, mgcl against IT. But
IN view OF thar T-cer contract of which the COM
pany was formerly the bon1iiriSry and which
would undoubtedly have gone into effect but for
the intcrposItion OF THE TRIBUNE, if the work Is
now awarded to the company a. a mark of special
favor the Commissioners must expect to encounter
much sharp criticism.
London agrees with HIM. Yes, yes the deeper the
fog the better be likes it.
Our amiable contemporary The World has a hard
task before it sometimes in catching uD with the
news. BY way of apology for its failure 10 give
the facts about the FIfth-aye. pavement contract
until after they had been published III The THIB-
UNE, it attempted yesterday to make sensa
tom our of the unbalanced bid contracts in the
late. are glad to welcome our contemporary in
tbs promising field. Its readers probably will not
object that full statement of the facts in the
Brady contract-which IT gives by way of iliu'trl-
tion-were published in TIE Tribune IN December
1883 Our contemporary will find many other
equally interesting things III relation to ths class
of contracts in TUE TRIBUNE about that time. II
will do no harm TO repeat them. unfortunately
under Democratic rule IN tins city these scandaou5
abuses continue to exist. We welcome con.
temporary in this work of reform in the cord
Ial spirit we showed TO it when it took mp
the Pan-Electric scandal sOno months after the
facts were first published In THE TRIBUNE.
"Why is the noun 'dudgeon" inquiries the
curious Springfield Union always qualified With
the adjective highi Nobody ever heard of low,
groyelling dudgeon nor of moderate, equabe
dudacon." The explanation Is simple. Dudgeon
is invariably referred 10 as high for the same
reason that a villain is constantly referred to as
double-dyed' and never rs single, triple quad
ripple dyed. Singular isn't it
Mr.. \. Foster Higgins. chairman of tho Chamber
of Commerce Committee on IiarJor and Shipping,
has addressed us a letter urging that senator Mil
er's bill for the improvement of Ncw-fork harbor
now pending before Congress shoud be passed.. Mr..
Higgins regards the plan proposed by the army
engineers as purely tentative" involving Il to-
tally unknown amOnnt of expenditure" and says
that the Chamber proposes to subject to the most
rigid scrutiny as the commerce Of New ork has too
much at stake TO risk the results to the harbor of
any plan that may entail damage to the channels.
alt IS neither likely desirable" he adds
L" that the proposed Commissioners should have
anything to do with the handling of that or other
large sums of money! The question of control
ling the money not what the Chamber concerns
itself with. Its chief interest according to Mr.
Higgins, is " that the trallc through the present
channels Is not delayed. the channels themselves
not injured through any works that may be I'M
dertaken. and relief afforded in the quickest pos
sibe time at the smallest outlay"
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