New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-15


destroy the American shipping interests The sen
ate. under Mr. Frycs leadership. VIII undouptedly
poss the favorably reported bill providing larry
reasonable compensation for the mail carriers OF oo
cents mile. This question rs not settled YET. IL
will be remembered that IN the last session Holman,
Blount and their coterie OF a5normahy hones'
men succeeded in making conference committee
necessary and that the House finally assehted to
the Senates position.
Mr.. TiJden testifics that his only ndispositon is
n throat affection which prevents him fro talking.
This Is grca. argument in favor OF his election 10
Congress.
The Ereaing Post says that all tho Republican
members of the Board of Al lermen of 1881 sold out
to Sharp As usual The Post, in its Efforts to out
judas judas and to aid the Hubert o. Thompson
gang of politicians pays no heed to the iruth.
There were two honest mon among that den OF
thieves These We're John {. OC0nnOr, n kcpuo-
lican and Hugh J. Grant, rammany Democrat.
II WAS Tie Posts allies, tho County Democracy
people. who have not single exception 10 sho"
among all their knavsh representatives. 1t is they
too who still swaggcr and defy justice IL was tne
Comfy Democracy that sent It's brlbe-taders back
into the Board for plunder This is tine
crowd whom The Post delights to honor and Tor
whose sake it assails tho Republican party.
"The Democratic party says the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher "is a doube-eared ass" When dd
he find that out What docs he think of the intel
ligence of d man who knowing and saying IL all
along for over score of years votes and woIks o
mt supreme power in the hands of double-eared
asst
Some of our enterprising contemporaries are so
extremely enterprIsing that they cannot wait ior
things to occur I he World said yesterday that
the Grand Jury had voted on the Indictment OF
Sharp. Kerr and FOshay. This IS probably tDe
work of the same lively imagination that was NIL
ing The World with d1ube-lea hctions ABOUT
Aldermanic Confessions several weeks ago long
before Waeor any one else had shown any lhciln"-
ton to confess The Grad Jury has not voted on the
indictment OF sharp kcTr or foshay. Inc H"""
Yesterday morning gave an account OF the arrest OF
ex-Alderman Reilly, though Reilly was not arrested
mill many bour, after The HcrdH won't TO press
l. might be lust as well in these matters to stick to
the facts.
One OREGON myth is settled by the report of the
divers They found that her plates had Deen
driven in b., the collision forclbly that some OF
tbc cases of cargo IN the hold were broken. Nhere
now are the sapent people who were convinced
there was no collision. and who, because tho vessel
" hich struck the steamer had gone stralght
TO the bottom must needs invent preposterois
theory of an internal explosion to account Tor the
disa. ter.
.What has the Democratic party dCne during the
past year to win the confidence OF the country =
II is The Galveston Aers that asks this question:
We submit to The Macs that if it has bowels Oh
COMMISSION { cannot consistently indulge in such
interrogatons since they cannot all to cover SEN
sitlye Democrats with sh and confusion of Face