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

Governor Hills reason for veong the bill
increasing the salaries of our police captains Is
sound New York is able to settle tins matter
without going 10 Albany. Mr.. Caniors bill
giving the Board of Estimate authority to TX
the salaries of these officers ought to be passed.
without opposition.
Mr.. Van Benthuy sen Was in bad humor yes
terdav and persistently refused to answer Mr.
Ranncv's ouestions. His course will not benefit
linn or his partners i'll Pan Electricity. He
informed the committee that he had high re-
snect for all the members of COngress-with a
few exceptions. Whether all the members OF
Congress feel respect for him is another matter
but perhaps quite as pertinent.
Excise Commissioner M0rris's counsel was
not allowed To speak at the hearing before the
Governor yesterday, MI. Hill announcing Una.
he had decided to dismiss the charges against
Morris This will be gratifying to the Kepuo-
lean member of the Excise Board and his
friends The decision in the case or the othef
Commissioners was reserved. III ought not 10
take the Governor long to make up his NINA as
TO the official misconduct of Mitchell and
Haughton-if he really wants to do So
significant sentence in the foreign dis
patches this morning indicates that the pros
poets of Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule bill are i'm
proving. The Conservative have postponed
until after the Easter holidays the decision of
the question forcing a division on the second
reading. Their indie cision on this point justihes
the inference that they have little confidence i'll
their ability successfully to oppose the con-
cession to Ireland of the boon which she so
much desires.
The effort to offset ex-Alderman Waite's
testimony by an affidavit which he made In
1854 promises to avail little. The cases against
the corrupt Aldermen would indeed be weak II
Waite's was the only evidence to be offered.
Mr. MARITIME however, has secured corr0bOrat-
i've evidence against most OF the men; ana
Jaehne was indicted before Waite had said
word. If Walte's testimony Is substantiated
by Miller and Fullgrafl, as well as by other wit
Desses and by the suspicious circumstances sur
rounding the whole Broadway affair, 1t will not
be difficult to convince jury of the Aldermen's
guilt, despite their own denials, which VIII
naturally be as strong as they can make thein
Even the decision of the Court of Appeals
that Carpenter, the wife-murderer, must be
hanged will not put an end to the efforts to save
him from the gallows. The Governor is now to
be appealed to. Of the mans guilt there is not
the slightest doubt, and he showed remarkable
ylndicti, eness and brutality in pursuing his
wife. Two juries have refused to believe that
he was insane, and the higher courts take the
same view. Such great delays i'll the execution
of the death penalty, as has been often pointed
out, nulify its efficiency to large extent.
When once it has been decided to hang man
the sentence should be carried out with ~
little delay ~ possible.
Recorder Smyth's decision on the motion of
Jaehne's counsel TOR q bill of particulars as to
the evidence on which the ex-Alderman was In
.aicted will probably be rendered to-day. That