New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-20

their own Administration because 1t Will not
aid that cudeavor
Mr. Garland has found ont that it is easier to get
into gift enterprise than it Is to get out Of one
The Fu01lo EJprss reports that Professor Ph'lip
T. O. johnson a gifted co!orcd citizen Of Erie County
who for The last ten months has enjoyed the seclu-
SION which the Iric Pcntcutiary grants Is 70 enter
fine lecture field subject. a The Evolution Of the
North Polo" Just now, when manEnd Is corrngat-
neits brow over the problem. Nhefels the literary
centre Of the North American continentr this IN
cidcnt Is OF manifest interest.
For unmitigatcd nerve The Ncr- York UorH de-
serves a prize! Referring to the Abandonment OF
that gvc-away contract with the Union Bridge
Company 10y the Harlem River Bridge Commission
ers which. ns everybody knows, grew ont of TIE
TmBuNr- rcsoiu'c attacks upon the job. onr lively
contemporary SAID Notwithstanding: The recent
exposures made by The Uorid of the Harlem Bridge
Commission . arc having a good effect"
That has never been surpassed since The UoHs
claim Of having first discovered the Garland scan-
dals.
Tie Democratic press has been frantic to have
tho Attorney-Gcncra sell his stock IN the Pan
Electric aud allied telephone companies The fol-
tric Company General j. t. Johnston. explains the
Attorney Generals reluctance 10 comply with tho
demand OF leading journals Of his party:
wAsmr>GroS. December %. 1885.
Your note ~ the olst was received yesterday
Afternoon and Mr. j. Harris Rogers Immediately
I'm regard 10 ~ contents Officially can communicate
vim mo on, nm him nm r. ,ard To tho stock which
horne ON tho compamys records as his. reminded him
that ~ the stock not permitted by the com
ySould br
not snccccd all concerned IN them uoWd ne c0,n0rrfI
BY ne ppbtir st.ndicrs mean all concerned all OF
w. ''''' J. +. JoHSsroS.
Here is the president of the company on record IA
declaring that any one selling Pan-Electrlc stock
will be considered by the public swindlcr, unless
the enterprise succeeds. No wonder the Attorney
General declines to sell his stock, and hcsitates
even to give it away g. mean all concerned all
of u.s." writes the president If the enterprise were
to fail they would all DO considered swlndlcrs. If
the Attorney General were to sell his stock I'm
less the enterprise succeeds" is to be interpreted
now as meaning unless the Government succeeds
IN lnvalidatng the Bell patents and making Fan
Electric aud every other telephone stock worth
something" The Attorncy-Ceneral Is very prn-
dent He hints vaguely at dlsposing of his stock
after awhile, but holds on to it while there Ia
cnancc of success for the Government ltIgations,
which will remove General Johnston's objection to
sales that may now prove very dangerous
Alderman Cleary says he has made a great deal
Of money in horse races. Does he alludo to races
through Broadway from the Battery to Central
Park
Stephen Merritt the undertaken now appears in
his true coiors lie ran rs "A stump candidate for
Senator last fall in u district which the Ropubl-
cans should have carried aud secured the deio1 OF
the Republican candidate. Now Merritt has joined
the County Democracy. They may neod his pro-
fcssional services
A war between transcontlnental railroad lines no
matter how civil or savage il may be, can affect
the general business interests of the country bat
little. When Eastern trunk lines fight, the strug
gle cf angcs the prices of the great staples of
merce. the value of farms both at the West and at
the East, the cost OF living for CONSUMERS in tho
States, and the rewards OF labor in
the agricultural States No such broad results can
follow any contest between the transcontinental
lines whose through traffic is really much less I'M
poItant than is generally supposed. Ia the stock
market, also, such n contest OuEht tn affect only
the property of companies Immediately engaged in
til, struggle those having direct connection with
them. But tho ways of the market cannot be called
the perfection of reason.
n
II. Attorney General Garland keeps the company
of the poet Rogers of Parthenon Heights.
III. The Springfield Republican asserts that Rogers
is an egregiouS ass"
1t remains TO b. seen how much wisdom tho Ilar-
lem River Bridge Commissioners can draw from
considerable slice of experience.
The Ereing Post permits Its Washington corre-
ant To Ina
pointed bad man to Office knowing IT." There
never haa been a seyorer arTalgnment of the Pres-
dents intelligence.
tYoumay say further u that the incOrpO7aOrs paid for
all the stock they accordance with tho stlpuA-
in original contract out OF which the
company subsequently grow (2 that only dno member
Congress and three senator's have ever had any inter
ii whatever either when IL organized OF snoei
CD that not one dollar OF its stuck has been issued
or sold. = Casey Young, In The Washington Post
This is specious quibbling but no matter. VIII
the secretary and treasurer of tho Pan-Electrc DO