New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-19

commissioners There is no reason why TINS Dc
partment should not be placed on a par with the
other branches Of the Brooklyn city government
tspecialy is it desirable that something should DO
done in this direction TO forestall the possibility
Of such unseemly squabbles marked the meet
ings of the Park Board throughout almost the
whole OF Mayor Whitneys administration.
The Commission which favors the substitution
of electricity for tho galows makes one minor
recommendation that will be sure to receive the
approval OF ali the people whose opinions are worth
caring about. IL is that the public accounts OF
executions be limited regards details. One OF
the worst features OF some of the journalism Oh
the period is the elaborate and detailed narratives
of every hanging that occurs. The murderer by
this means in part is made to appear as the hero
as he is certainly the central figure, OF tho whole
Ifair /. he can be dispatched so quietly as not 10
be aware himself of the approach oil the fatal mo-
ment, and if the newspaper accounts can be con-
densed into simple statement of the fact of the
execution, it will be great gain
A Farmers Institute is in session at Albany,
but the Governor has not attended it. He is a
granger for political revenue only just before
election.
The budding and beaming members Of the Young
Mems Democratic Club when they get to be fifty
years old, may learn that Andrew Jackson is dead.
They may also ascertain that to attempt to manu-
facture another Jackson cat of Mr.. Cleveland,
while not process necessarily associated with
dead lions, indicates an urgent need for some
body to do great deal of braying
The Common Council is body exercising
limited advisory powers over the departments in
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functions of the government" In making this
remark Mayor Hewitt alludes to the Board Of
Aldermen in its present low estate. For the
public good it has been deemed necessary to cur
tail the Aldermens powers more and more. An
absurd feature Of the iuaLion is that the Mayors
able message Il addressed to suc'' body as the
Common Council now is in authority and compO-
sition. Limited powers" indeed How fortu-
nate for the people of Ncw-York that it is so.
There is something well worth thinking about
in Alderman Conklings suggestion that in all
bills arpropriating money FOR tbs city HE Lens
hturc should insert the words With tho ap
prevail and consent of the Board of Estimate and
ArporIonment"
Perhaps It was not the province of the President to
call attention to the fact that leland Stanford IS
member Of the Senate Possibly that bOdy's disgrace
Is wholly its own business -(NewYork World
On, pShawl WHAT'S the use OF Hapdo0dle OF that
sort? Where would your President and your
Nr. Justice Lamar have been but for this dis
grace to the Senate" and his infuenceP
In the second chapter of his message Mayor
dewitt speaks of the proposal for spring munich
pal elections IN New York "Quack noSium
recommended by persons well meaning doubtless,
but ignorant alike of the facts and the proper
treatment of the diseases in the body polite"
The latest well-meanins but ignorant person to
recommend this very thing was Governor David
Bennett Hill, who in his last message repeated
his recommendation Of former messages, saying
simply: The details which, in my Judgment
such measure should contain have been outlined
in previous messages, and need not be repeated
at this time" The Governor and the Mayor may
be on speaking terms at present. but if this thing
is kept up they will not 0e long.