New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-09

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are that are making the fight against The
Direct Tax bill. Our Washington correspond
ence enlightens them on this point Inc
names of all the flibusters are given, with the
States they represent and the amounts ap-
portioned to those States, which most OF them
have never paid.
II will be seen from letter written by Mr.
M. ID. Conway, which is printed elsewhere
that an important decision is expected to be
made in few days by the United States
Supreme Court The question involved Is
whether a State can be sued by one of its own
citizens 1t is of especial interest at the present
time in view of the decision last October in the
Virginia coupon cases. Mr.. Conways study OF
the XIth Amendment of the Constitution Will
repay careful study on the part of all interested
in a decision that is likely 10 involve wide
reaching consequences.
Coercion got the upper hand in Ireland yes
terday. The Nationalist only succeeded to
limited extent in carrying out their programme
of holding meetings in various towns In ordef
to prove that the League is still in condition
of vigorous health despite proclamations and
suppression, police and military. Various
ruses were resorted to to evade the authorities
but generally they were unayallng. Mr.
O'Bricn however, was able 10 get in ten
minutes speech at Loughlea. Considerable
violence accompanied the attempts to break up
the meetings and in one case the crowd was
charged upon by soldiers and numbers OF
people were wounded. There was no repetition
of the Mitchelstown butchery nor, so far as
,eporfed were any of the Irish leaders arrested.
Notwithstanding what the Queen called Mr.
Balfours careful" execution of the Crimes
Act. the work of making the Irish people con
tented and happy by force makes slow progress
Warden Walsh declares that he positively
"courts Investigations He should get it; and
in such a searching and drastic form as to
cause him to remember ii for many day
Pitman. the Tombs prisoner who took large
quantity of opium, is dead, and The evidence
that the opium was in liquid form is strong
That presupposes bottle, and If bottle was
conveyed 10 the murderers cell it proves that
the searching to which visitors are subjected
at the Tombs is farcical to the last degree
What has Mr.. Fatty Walsh to say on this
point? He has abandoned-of course with
extreme reluctance-his theory of "nervous
prostration." TO which he chung as the last
desperate hope of escaping the consequences OF
his loose and careless methods. There ought
10 be an end to this scandalOus state of things
n the Tombs. The Commissioners of Charities
and Correction must realize by this time the
pad blunder they made in appointing a man of
Walsh's notorious character TO such an Office.
The interviews with prominent members of
the Ncw-York bar as TO the vacant Chief
Justiceship, which we print on another page
will be found both timely and interesting.
There is general agreement among Republican
lawyers that so marked scarcity Of Demo
cratic material exists as to embarrass the Presi-
dent in making his choice, or at least to limit
his selection to narrow range. Some are en-
phatically Of the opinion that one of the
Associate Justices should be promoted; by