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THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Boston rejolces in one result of tho flood; 1t has
cleaned tho streets
Il seems that Chicago people arc advocating the
courtesy instead OF the nandshake mode Of sauta
on on the ground that 1t the correct thing in this
city The innovation does not appear to be spreading
Mrs Dusenbury-Oh, dear. 1 am 50 worried about my
catsup -, 49,. . =,
give 1t away
any way To stop II T.
gress."-l philadelphia Call
Some one asked The Boston Globe IL 0uids " is a
lady or gentleman The answer back, She is u
woman"
Bad weather Is driving coaching Americans from Pau.
They fear they will have to back this country.
Tue Democratic editor editorial compliment
ary Administration and headed It, " Is IL Party
Issue T. by blunler Of the compassion ana An over
sight OF the prO0trrader II appeared Is the Party IN
snef and before tue next nbrr or the paper went 10
press tho editor had received 397 answers In the ara
tive NOrrlstown Herald.
A clarvOyant OF Butte Mont, has brought q Slo'oOo
suit against the CITY she twisted her ankle In
hole In tho sidewalk The authorities reply that she Ia
OCCASIONAL seer ought have seen the hole, but
that she will never the $4,000.
daboical scnems TO President Cleveland has
been discovered We happy to know that tho wicked
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

pTE IN Politics.

Some months ago when 1nE Tribune solemnly
warned tho masses OF the Democratic party tha-
President eSeIand intended to introduce Pie into
the White House, a number OF their party organs
rneered, shook their heads and said Nonsense"
But "A nsual Tnr TRIBUNE was right and Demo
cratic newspapers were wrong. No sooner had we
discovered that the President regardless OF expense
had been ordering for the use OF the hIte onNe an
o,nlent set of dishes a set dazzling as the sun.
beautiful as the moon and gorgeous rs an army
with banners, than We at once exclaimed This
means Pie" The inference was correct Blgots
forced Calico To deny that the earth moves and
nartison,hp induced Democratic editors to deny
that this was to be a Pio-eatng President. But the
earth does move and the President does eat lie
And the fact that Pie has forced It's pernicous
way into the White House has become 50 notorious
that leading mouth pieces of Democracy IN Mt
Clcyeiaud's own State realize that II IS FOLLY any
longer to shut their eyes 10 IT, The San frankly
owns up that the President eats Pie, while The
RocLester Union copies what The San says Oh tho
subject without word of dissent. Governor lllIl
watches the record which the President Is making
ON Pie with III concealed personal satisfaction. For
the Governor no doubt agrees with IHE TRIBUNE
that the thousands Of persons who were begulled
into voting for Cleveland in the expectation that
.l.c,ed no vould enforce Jetlersonlan simplicity
will teel that they have been cruelty deceived when
tb,v read that Mr.. CeI Gland has Pie for dinner.
TO show how insidiOus an entering wedge to luxury
is Pie for dinner IL is only necessary to point out
that The Boston Transcript now urges Mr. Cleveland
TO take another reckless step and abandon himself
TO Pie for break fast Many have thought" re
marks The transcript in its coldblooded attempt to
induce the President to yield still further TO
temptation, "they were putting themselves IN
sympathy with New England when eating Pie at
dinner But nothing short of Pie at breakfast will
complete DISQUALIFICATION"
These words may induce Mr.. Cleveland to pause
and reflect Doubtless when ho declded to throw
omen the doors of the White House dining-room to
Pie he had no intention of going hey Ond Pie for
dinner-one piece each secular day with an extra
niece on Sunday. But now lie finds that he cannot
draw the line at Pie Tor dinner without raising
howl from New England. New-Engand very
properly will demand that he shall have Pie Tor
breakfast and if he refuses, Mr. Endcott. in defer
ence to his own feelings ana those OF his section is
likely TO ,Ith4raw from the Cabinet. 10 Is not easy
TO determine what Mr.. Cleveland will do lie OF
course is well aware that no government can long
hope to flourish whose chief executive surrenders
himself to the deadly influence OF Pie Tor break
fast. And at the same time, he doesn't wish
mDrtay to offend EDdlcOtt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
TRiING IT AGAIN..

When Speaker Carlisle looked about him
over the vast Hall of Representatives to find a
man who would know all about the shipping
question, whose constituents built vessels,
whose State had long coast line whose terri
tory produced tons of manufactures for gn
commerce, and who consequently had n vital
interest in the great problem of the revival of
our merchant marine, he found his man in Mr..
Dunn, OF Arkansas lmpertinent people may
Say that the maps do not show that Arkansas is
State of harbOrs and ports of entry, that tie
statisticans fail to report the great manufact-
uring products of Mr.. Qpnn's State, and that
nothing can be cleaned from his record to sus-
tain the fact that he could tell a steamship from
a ferry boat. But when they observe that Mr..
Dunn has introduced the old Democratic meas
ure of free ships, they will be unable to deny
that he is quite as competent to satisfy the
Democratic theory that the way to cure near
sightedness is to cut ont the patients eyes as
any other member of the party.
1t is difficult to see how any man who can
add, subtract, multiply and divide can vote for
a measure which would not only fail utterly in
its assumed purpose, but would knock the last
feeble prop away that now enables the ship
building industry to exist in America. If the
difficulties in the way of owning ships were
confined to their first cost, Mr.. Dunn's bill
might be remedy even if il would take mill
ions of American capital out of the country for
the maintenance of British ship-yards aud the
employment of foreign labor. But as matter
Of fact all the real embarrassments come after
the ship is owned, and would obtain even if the
ship were an out-and-out gift. A measure Ia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
THE CRAYK'S DISTING UISHED PALS

THE CRANK'S DISTIhG UISHED PALS
aCrankni is a favorite word with pettfOg-
cling LAWYERS no are so unfortunate az to have
"a bad case AS DR.. Rogers is an important
witness against the speculative statesmen
whose gift enterprises and confidence operations
are speedily to be investigated by committee
of the House, efforts are already making to die
credit him in advance. The Democratic press
uniformly denounces him as halfwitted
knave, whose letters and statements are not en-
titled to credence. Independent journals which
have been reluctantly forced to rebuke the tele-
phone j0bbiDg tendencies of the Reform" ADJ
ministration have only words of contempt and
scorn for DR.. Rogers. The Evening Post has
emphaticaly asserted that he is not good wit
ness but ahas been relegated to the great
limbo OF cranks by common consent" The
Times, which has been so fully occupied with
noisy demonstration against the Bell monopoly,
dismisses DR.. Rogers as a crank and an adj
venturer,n the widest kind of a wildcat
schelner and speculator," and "a man whose
presence ought To be offensive and loathsome to
any honest and serious man." Journals which
no longer find it possible to defend the At
torney- General openly, do not scruple to lend
secret aid by indiscriminate assaults upon the
chief witness against him.
If these faint-hearted apologists of the Adj
ministration will only pause for reflection, they
will discover that wanton ebuse of DR.. Rogers
is hot shot fired into their own camp. IL he be-
longs by common consent in the limbo of
crapks" what is TO be said of the intelligence,
morality and decency of the distinguished
statesmen who were intimately associated with
him 7 If he is an unprnciped adventurer aud
the widest kind of a wildcat schemer and
SPECTATOR" what are his partners and CO.
parceners in the blind telephone pOOlf Are
they any better than he Have they not had
ample opportunities for finding out what man
ner of man he isl Have they not identified
themselves with this 4crank's wildcat schemes"
taken big lines of stock in his gift enterprises,
and not only exerted their public influence in
behalf of his and their own speculation, but
actually aided and abetted in the systematic
working" of great departments of the Admin
istratiOn for his and their own sOrdid ends 2
The charge that DR.. Rogers is crank and an
adventurer is terrible boomerang when di-
rected against his intimate business associate,
the Attorney General, whose influence and
official services constitute, as The Sun tersely
remarks, "the real capital of this confidence
enterprise"
In one respect DR.. Rogers is cleaner and
more reputable man than his distinguished
apals 4" in the telephone scandal. They were
all in the blind pool together, but he did not oc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
Gmnsements.

Ac1pEMY OF MUsIc-2-Thomas' Concert
SIsoI ppERI HoUsE-S-" AdOnls."
COnEDY THEATRE -S-"kehar
(AsIyO-S--" Gypsy Baron. -
BAYS THE A1RI-9-" The Country Girl
f1cVrn TIIF AIRES" one OF Our Girls"
fIrN NusER-WsXwOrkS -
IDaSD ,,PyP. HoUsE-8-Salsbury's Troubadours .
S.an,o US PARK TgRATRE-S-" The Leather PATCH
" .nso sorTsRE IIiKArKE-a:30-"S SAINTS and Sinners
Mn, 1,s ca RDEN-S-" The White Slave" ,
Epw WryDsoR THEATRE-8-" Young Mrs. winthrop
fpopt US 1uEATRE-S-" Frederick Warde.
STINDAHD THRATRR-S-" Miksdo." ..
sIaP TUEATRE-2-" As You Like It"-S-" FRANCESCA
da Rimni." ,
THEATRE CoM1QUE-S-"Jhe sea OF lce'
ITALIA THEATRES" Mikado."
Valerie"
49, snrS mr. r,1E ATRE-s-" Jack in the Box"
n, AVENUE THRATRE---s-" Bunch OF hey" pov o,d
5IH AVENUE THEArRE-s-"Ne" way !" 10y ~
Debts" . . ,,..,.u,o~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
THE noe WHGY THE IAN.

The latest complaint is that the Democrats of
the South are leading their party into the dlich.
This complaint comes through ee-trade
journal, which nevertheless bcrates Southern
Democrats for uniting with Democrats OF the
West and against those of the East. The ALL
ance, it is said. is fatal to good government
aud will be fatal To the Democratic party be-
cause. if the Western Democracy were under
stood to be allied with the South, it would be
overwhelmingly defeated in the umon-loving
Western States, while, because the policy OF
Western Democracy is hated at the East, that
policy will overwhelm the party in Eastern
States. The writer who makes this solemn
complaint appears to be himself an Eastern
member of Congress. and he predicts that
"Very few of us can be reelected Ii tins state
of things continues.
An unfeeling world will witness with dry
ewes the suf1erlngs of this hungry and thirsty
hero. His real difficulty is that the Democrats
of the South viii! not do as he does ana swalio"
all their convictions in order to help him get
back To Congress. The Southern Democrats
heartily believe in soft money, more money.
and cheap money, ami SO do the Democrats OF the
West. The Southern Democrats heartily De-
lieve in free trade and do the Democrats OF
the West IL is to the credit of both that they
are not willing to be mere cOnscicnceless trick
sters, who care for nothing but getting Office
If they were, the Southern Democrats might
prefer in legislation an alliance with the East
ern Democrats, as Southern DELEGATES have
done in dominating conventions with regularity
every four years. But they are shade too
honest and sincere for the Eastern member and
his free-trade journal and his heart is bowed
down. Things are going to the dogs altogether
The Democratic party threatens to vote in the
direction of its real beliefs, and his doll Is
stuffed with sawdust
In these melancholy circumstances it Will be
small consolation to him to reflect that The
TRIBUNE gave him fair warning. He WAS told
many times in the PLANES, terms The South
has the power to dictate to your party, and
"Once in possession OF the Government, VIII
dictate" That Is its right. If the Demo-
cratic party is to rule at all, the big end ought
to govern the little end, and the live end IN
stead of the dead one. 1t is not proper that the
tail should wag the dog. Again and again he
was told that the South believes III measures
and ideas which are hostile to the interests OF
commercial and manufacturing States. Its
ideas are those of an old planting arist0cracy.
Under such leadership party will 90 to the
bottom, but the country will be frightfully mis-
managed mean while. Eastern Democrats
sccffed at the warning, and voted Tor Cleve-
land and Reform. The ID 'mocrats have con-
troll of the Government now, and Those OF
them who want to belong TO party that has
no principles or beliefs are bemoanlng their
fate because the South is the South, and
naturally sides with the Western Democracy
and deSpises the Eastern. But why mott
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
UNDERVALU41IONS AND THE SENATE
hOTIRY


UNDERVALUA1IONS And TIE SENATE
EQUiRY
Unless merchants of New-York, with their
fellow-merchants of Boston, Philadelphia, Bal
timore and other large ports of entry, are
greatly mistaken, serious undervaluatlonS,
amounting to dangerous frauds, have been
allowed to take place under the present customs
laws 1t is scarcely possible that so much com
bincd testimony as has been offered publicly
through the press from time to time should have
no foundation in fact. 1t is essential to re-
form of the abuses that there should be the
most thorough and searching Official investlga-
ton for the facts That is the ostenslbe pnr-
pose for which the Subcommittee OF the
Finance Committee of the United States Senate
is now i'm Nrw-IOrk. The disposition OF Sen
qtors Miller and Aldrich 10 m Ike complete in
vest CATION is well known. Senator Beck has
no reason to wish to shield the appontces OF
the present Administration, olthough they are
feIlow-D Democrats. Senator McPherson's course
in other mltters has not inspired the same con-
lidence in his good intentions.
II seems then that the progress of the work
will depend largely upon the ylgor with when
Senator Allison cO-OperateS with MeSSr5. Al
drich and Miller. There has been feeling
concerning some Western Republican Senators
that they are more anxious to retain frag-
ments of patronage for their camp followers
under n Democratic Administration than to
strike blows for their party, while brnctitng
the country at the same time. Let uS hope
that no consideration but that of public policy
will govern any Of the investigators III their
search for facts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
BARRETT AS LANCIOTTO.

Lawrence Barrett effected change of bill at
the star Theatre last night, giving his powerful and
pathetc performance of Ldnetoo In the Hon. George H.
B,ker's tragedy Of Francesca da Rminl" There
large aud fashionable audience present and Mr. Bar
rett was warmly received upon his first entrance The
play moved smoothly and with effective precision. Mr..
Jarrett applauded after the tent OF the fifth
act and reca alter the fall Of the n al curtain.
THIS remarkable performance has already been dis
cussed journal but II has new phases, mention OF
which must be deferred To another time IN the
iutare The cast with which " VI ancesca Da Rimlnt"
tad tosf mia IA "a fnllOWS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
rpw.vopK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1886

now before the House which would allow Mr..
Austin Corl,in to establish fast line OF vessels
from Montauk Point to England, no matter
where he gets his ships. Suppose he had line
of five American vessels which had cost MIN
5000. 900 more than they would have cost on
the Clyde. To say nothing of the fact that ne
would have to compete with several heaVhy
subsidized foreign lines, his annual net cost OF
running his vessels would exceed the annual net
cost Of his competitors by not less than
100000. So that if his ships were actually
given to him. in fifteen years his expenses VIII
have exceeded their expenses by an amoaht
equal to the total original cost of line OF hve
frst-class steamers.
In the presence of these facts. and they are
nOtOriOlsly true what is the use in talking OF u
measure whose one effect would be 60 break up
our few ship-yardsY The real solution OF TINS
problem must be found in plan which Will place
American vessels after they are bought on an
equal plane with foreign rivals without degrad-
ing American labor. The Republican party has
successfully Accomplished this result with manu-
factures and n ship on the ocean suslains to lis
business precisely the same relation as Is sus-
tanned by factory on the land. An American
factory costs more than factory in Switzerland
or in Sheffield, but American watches ana
American cutlery hold their own against the
world So will our merchant marine when It's
interests are intrusted to party of progress
apd enlightenment, and not to party when
cannot see a locomotive if pebble happens to
intervene.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

months reflection, with adventitious AID from IA
outspoken public press, has convinced MIN thae us
connection WITH the Pan-Electrio ring Oh specula-
tors renders his position in the Cabinet apparently
delicate" Indeed he recognizes at laSt .no is1 ",
that there is much in it worthy OF tno'eh'' an
the present Administration needs is Time iUi
adequate reflection. If it could only Iasc n la.
century or so. it might possibly have sufficient 1915
nre for selfexamnation and finally have spasm
of sense and become thoroughly ashamed OF Itself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

The shutting down of the great Mccormick
Reaper Works involves dispute between organized
labor and invested capital which thinking persons
must regard with apprehension. 1t is the result
of strike by which tho officers OF labor society,"
composing sort of lalor hierarchy. have taken
the responsibility of throwing LOO employees out
of work, and of taking from nearly as many fam
lies their means of support. 1t is not question
of wages. All their demands on that score were
granted and they themselves were allowed to Fix
the rates of compensation adopted tnroup hout the
establishment 1t is purely dispute as to the con
timed employment Of few nOn-unon men. Mr.
Mccormick comedies all else but the eight to en-
ploy whom he wishes 1t would seem to practical
men as if this were one of the inaenable rights of
man. The tyranny of labor is as omiuous to general
prosperity us the aggressions of capital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

This community will view with surprise ana
regret the determination of the Aqueduct Com
missiOners to line the new 9queduct with bricR
throughout its entire length. This means, as
THE TRIBUNE has already pointed out, an I'M
necessary outlay of million and hall OF
dollars. Through the greater part OF the tunnel
a brick liung Is necessary on account OF the
sofness of the rocky formation; but for ten
miles it is to be Gu. through solid gneiss, ana
here Chief Engineer Church decided that brick
could be dispensed with. The assistant en-
gineers however, favored the brick Inning on
the ground that it would make }" better JoO.
Mayor Grace and Controller Locw, we are giau
to say, strenuouslv opposed the increased OUT
lay and wished tbe matter left to the discretion
of Nh. Church. But Commissioners BALDWIN,
Dowd, Spencer AMI Squire overruled TINS wiser
policy; whereupon Mr.. Grace pertIncntiY re-
marked 1t will simply give the contractors
a better Job and greater profit" Apparently
the expense of increasing orr water supply is 10
be without limit. One competent ana unpre1u-
diced observer recently remarked that the
aqueduct and its adjnncts would cost not less
than $4,000, 900. Taxpayers Will earnestly
prav that this prediction may prove false.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

The gnilty men in the Ohio Legislature WIZ
Donavn has IN his eye can choose between oharP
oeIluIoid memory and the Aldermanic skip.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

course precautions must be taken that IN cases
where persons may have been poisoned the EVIL
dences of crime are not destroyed in the lnc'n-
Grating furnace but there seems to De no
reason why the law should throw obstacles lh
the way of those who prefer to be burned rather
than buried.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

Mr.. Villas has been successful in securing packed
Congressional committee. but he cannot pack
public sentiment, nor persuade an angry merchant
that fishing smack is safe and fleet means OF
mail communication as the steamship by which he
has forwarded his goods.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

Is there still any person who does not understand how
black Ia shame that rests upon member ot Pres
dent Cleyeands Cablnetl-tN. Y. sun.
We fear there is at least one man who does not
and will not understand it, lie is the President OF
the United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

II the Attorney General has not got received the
following letter 1t should be sent at once: Dear
Garland Don't make statements-G. C."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

The Attorney General returned from Arkansas
early In October to find his reputation terribly
compromised by the telephone disclosures Five
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
Aew2lpr)s D;1iIu grIbn,rG
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1886.
TIE NEWN 7HIS MORNING.


FoREIGN.-Lord Salisbury spoke on the IRISH
question. - Mr. Chamberlain disagrees with
tie Premier on Greek matters. -= Count
Won Motke i'll. - Socialist leaders arraigned.
- Presentation TO Colonel Burleigh at Gias-
gov. - Some details of treaty between france
and Madagascar
CoNGRFss.-Both branches in session. -
Action of the Republican caucus on the President $
nppoiptments 80 The FIt2 John Porter bill ID
the House. - The silver coinage question IN
committee - Favorable report on the Henne-
Dir Canal scheme.
DnMfsTiC-A Polish church burned by IN
cendiaries In Toledo. 60 John Is. Cough
still speechlesS. - Henry Watterson APP
parentlv better - Little hope Of settl-
ing the strikes in Chicago and i'll Manches-
ter N H Condem linG houses in Boston dam
aged by the flood. - The Scott law to
he renewed in Ohio. - Investigating the
causes of John d. HarrlngtOns death at
Wlkesbarre. - Petition for an injunction
against the foreclosure of Reading by F. b. Gowon'
New testimony before the Payne Bribery
Committee OHIO.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-The AQueduct Commits
sion decided to line the whole aqueduct. GO
Sharp discussion in the New-Iork Athletic Ciuo'
- Georee Cabot Wards sanity questioned
- Payers before the Agricultural Convention.
- Gold value of the legal-tender silver dollar
(4l2lo grains) 1918 cents - stocks opened
strong and advanced. but later were depressed ana
closed unsettled.
TpF WEATHER indications for to-day: Mllder
and partly cloudy. Temperature yesterday: High
est 800; lowest. 100; average, 1882.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

Ii is odd that the Aldermen who have the weakest
backs should also have the stoutest legs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-18

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rison,s new Tariff bill is not no zontal, but eccen
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