New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-04
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walls the session may end with some important
piece Of business which concerns everybody
/ unattended TO. Let no mistake be made here.
Republican Senators and Asscmblymen
whose influence is commanding must make a
rcsolute stand against the log-rolling which
induces John Doe to vote to advance Richard
Roe's littlo bill. provided that Roe will agree
| to return tho compliment. As a rule, these
local bills can 60 over the session without
appreciable harm. At all events, no bill should
be allowed to get through whose purpose is
not clearly understood. Hasty and improv-
ident legislation is simply a nuisance.
The Legislature can get through most credit
ably In six weeks, provided that wisdom pre-
walls We expect to see 1t prevail. And the
verdict "well DONE" which the people will
pass upon their servants work, will be OF
signal service to the Republicans In the great
campaign of the summer and the autumn.
The political storm centre is vccring In this
direction and is expected within the next twenty
four hours to mako this city It's pivotal point
As soon as the members OF the Democratic State
Committee begin to assemble for their meeting To-
morrow q marked rise in the temperature is looked
for, and thunder showers, lightning and hail. and
are clearly foreshadowed by the political horoscope
How can a dead man be scki Then down with the
rumors about Blanes impaired heath-(The utica
Observer.
The Editor of "The Observer" was given the
postmastership Of Utica a year ago. President
Cleveland will discover reading the above para
graph that his appointee is doing his best to give
satisfaction.
f1u "a atrtbO rif haf
Judiciary Committee of the House will make
favorable report upon the bill to increase the
salaries of the Federal Judges In this circuit pro-
vided the New-York delegation unanimously de-
sires such a report. Then there should certainly
be no further trouble about this just measure
1t is impossible that any New-fork Congress
man should be ignorant Of the fact that the pres
emit salary Of these judges is entirely inadequate;
that the litigation before them, both in volume and
character requires high class Of judicial skill for
its Just and wise determination; that the cost
of living here is far heavier than in other parts
of the country, and that If our Federal Courts
are to continue in public confidence and esteem,
it is absolutely necessary to make 1T possible TO
retain in them now and and secure for them here
after men of sufficient ability and integrity prop
ery to do their work. This ought to be clear
enough to Congressman from this State, and as the
should take such action as will promptly put the
bill upon its passage in the House.
Republican High License humbuggcry" is what
The Rochester Union" calls it. 1t is needless TO
add that The Union" is a representative Demo
cratic paper from 'wayback. With that sort of
an organ humbuggery and temperance reform are
convertible terms.
A committee Of the Massachusetts, Legislature
have been rushing around the country inspecting
the cable railway systems Of Chicago the cable
and elevated roads Of Kansas City, the steam
motors used in Topeka and the elevated railroads
Of this city and Brooklyn. They seem to have
wasted no time and made no unnecessary noise.
According to The Boston Journal" they have
not had in any sense a junlIet," but have ac-
quired more solid information than would have
come from weeks of hearings" After this there
ought to be little trouble in solving the rapid
transit problem so far as Boston is concerned.
The question that vexes the modern Athens Is
Shall we have elevated roads, cable roads, electric
motors-or what?
Fret class IN Democratic mathematics: As II
is to z SO is David Bennett Hill to Grover Cleve-
land in New-Yorlx State. This equation was IL
Illustrated at Albany last February If the terms
are not the same as two months ago, does
that prove that Federal patronage is more powerful
than State patronage or that there has been less
of the latter than Of the former to beStow?
"The New-York World" refers TO the lonely
six" Republicans in the Assembly who voted
against High License. Yes, they must have felt
pretty lonely Republicans who set themselves
against great practical reform measures are sure
to be in a lonely minority of their party. Not
so with the representatives of the Democracy
The Democratic Assemblymen who did their best
to defeat High License were not lonely. Oh, no.
They numbered ifty-fve.
So long as Warden Walsh retains his place in
the Tombs New-YorlS can never outgrCw its repu-
tation of being thieves paradise. The best eff
forts of Superintendent Murray, Inspector Byrnes
and the other efficient members of our really eX-
cellent police force will not avail while Walsh
remains standing proof of what long criminal
career can bring man to in this metropolis.
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The Prince Of waless fay orte author is Macaulay.