New-York tribune., 1886-03-11

the prospect and so confident that everything
! will turn out well in the end.
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The Harlem River Bridge Commissioners have
| decided upon the erection of ali IRON and steel
bridge at a cost of not more than 81 100000, and
also TO let the contract for building il ont at public
| auction The taxpayers of NewiOrk can thank
| TuE TRBUNE for SO much at least There Is con
siderable difference between T2,6SOOOO and
81 900 O0O and if the contemplated steel bridge Is
| like that proposed by Engineer Wilson, 1t VIII be
quite as good, if not better than the one for which
the Commissioners were on the verge of contract
ing, unless indeed they had actually done so. when
TIE TRIBUNE took them to task. The assurance
that the interests Of public economy will be con-
served by the letting OF the contract to the lowest
bidder is also an appreciable step in the better
direction. Altogether these Commissioners appear
TO have taken Their lesson to heart, and certainly
II was severe cDOugh.
The ex-Alderman who has written to Judge
Gilderslceve is willing to give any information OF
to submit himself 10 the authorities III any manner
that may he desired" Just there is the difference
between him and Keenan,, Moloncy and their
friends
So "go-bctwcen DIoloney is reported to be in
Baltimore. lie must have anticipated the sweeping
report Of Mr.. Lows committee and wanted to get
well out Of reach when it struck. Well, 1t struck
hard enough for its revcrbcratons to bo'fet good
deal further away than Baltimore.
The EreninJ Post snubs its former candidate for
the Presidency. II pronor1ccs Senator Edmunds's
speech too academica" This IS on par with It's
snecrs at Mr.. Blaine as an alcgedhistoIian." Mr..
Blaine has lived TO complete hi, twenty Years
and to get great deal Of credit for the literary
undertaking, Notwithstanding the fac, that political
dudes considered it bright to bracket the word
historian" with quotation marks and eXclama-
ton points. We dare say Mr, Edmunds VIII like
wise survive the fine irony of " academcal"
1t is reported that Mr.. Shorthouse, who had
planned work upon vast subject has abandoned
il with the determination to write no more, but to
rest bis title to remembrance on "John Ingesant'
Here's a hint for the President. Let him not burn
the midnig It oil of the White House in an attempt
again to witch the world with phrase of sonorous
picturesquencss, but make ais bid for front re-
served seat among the immortals on innocuous
dcsuetude.
The Albany correspondent of The BuGalo Couria
Dem.l pays the Legislature a high compliment
calling attention TO the strong conservative
element" which exists in both the Senate and
Assembly. The result is according to this observer
that "nO such combination as that by which. the
surface railroad bill was passed in 1851 has been
made and the chances are that the formation Of a
cabal strong enough to control legislation will be
impossible this winter" The present session has
been remarkably free from jobs. If it remains thus
free to the end the people will rejoice although the
lobby may starve
Mr. Quincy Randall. of East Weymouth. Mass,
who died a few days ago, made one bequest in bis
,viIl lofr rath Sin If n
of a number of houses and left TO each of his
teDants years gratuitOuS rent 1t is such conduct
the part of landlords which lifts real estate into
tile region of the ideal.
The Charleston Necs and Courier publishes an
interview between Of its reporters and Colonel
Mcclure of The PhiladelDhia Times. Tho reporter
inquired How is the Presidents course i'll the con
test with the Senate on questions of removals
garded in the North" The Colonel is credited with
replying " lie is very earnestly and cordially sus
tanned by the entire Democratic party and by very
large proportion of the Republicans in his contest
with the Senate" II is t. be hoped for his own |
sake that the Colonel incorrectly reported. 1t
is difficult to believe that any man with head on |
his shoulders and his eyes open could have ma le
preposterous statement-prepo>tcrou both as
regards the Democrats and tue Republicans
There is room to fear that the appointment of
Democratic committee to investigate Democratic |
misconduct will result in about the way that
might be expected of AIoloch if lie were com
missioncd to inquire into Beelzebubs accounts.
Mr.. Froude has recently made;somc comparisons
between the govern ment of Ireland and tine govern
ment of the South after the War Singularly
enough ne implies that there has been too much
concession and too little firmness on the part of
England, and that the strong policy adopted by the
North during the Reconstruction period would have
been productive of more permanent results if it had
been adopted in Ireland. This is not the view taken
by Mr. Blaine in Of the most characteristic
passages of the second volume of his historical
work. lie argues that it is to the lasting honor OF
American craftsmanship that Southern grievances
were not allowed 10y neglect or arrogance to grow
and become chronic after the civil war, had been
the case in Ireland. He remarks: If Engishmen
had studied the Reconstruction policy instead Of
derdng it, they might have learned that the Amer
lean Government accomplished for the South in tour
years what their own Government has failed to
accomplish through ten generations Mr.. Blaine
would not agree with Nj. Froude in depIoring the
lack of frmness in governing Ireland. He would
rather deplore the lack of craftsmanship which has
suffered grievances TO exist until as he says, there
is no parallel among civilized nations to the pro-
ionged discomfort among the Irish people,
The protesting voices of threatened industries are
heard from thousands of communities but the free
trade blacksmiths pound ana bang away with
serene indifference as to whether their blows are
falling on a watch-spring or a wheel tire.
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