New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-01

Tho Tax Commissioners appear 70 know when
- ,bip, is in the air and the thing just now
consuicuouSly in the air is the desire to increase
salaries with or without excuse. These officials
have inst increased the pay of three OF their
s,hordinatcs by comfortable annual sums. We
wander when and where this salary-raislng craze
will cease And how is II that the appropriations
made by the Board of Estimate permit all these
increo.e,p or course its plain enough In Beat
ties c,se but not all the heads of departments
were able 10 get a large appropriation, rs he was
by asking for it.
The passasr of the Rapid-Transit bill through
the Assembly furnishes as good an example as we
can recall of rapid transit in a legislative Dody.
Tho iurv law in spite Of repeated amendments,
still fails 10 work satisfactorily in compelling the
attendance OF jurors. Nearly 400 delinquents
were recently summoned IN one Gay before the
Suprcmc Court judges \ few were fined but
most Of the fines viii remain uncollectel The
usual excuse for non.attcndance is that the sum
mons is not received, showing that the deputy
shrriiIs are often careless IN serving the notices.
Those wlil cvade jury duty usually business
men who would make the pest Jurors. lh" Cor
poration Counsel has beer active in the prescott
tion of the dclmquents, but the results or the
new law show that tn root Of the evil has not
been reached N,w regulations should he adopted
10 secure the personal service of the jury notices.
and the payment OF fines can then he enforced.
Now that the Jones County calf case is dis
posed Of after occupying the attention Of the
courts for thirty years, there is hope that the
habcas corpus proceedings in the JuSr0 murder
ease may at some time have an end, ana even
the Stewart will contest and the Webster loom
case may not be intermlnabe.
State Senator Stewards bill providing that no
one Shall he appointed Police Justice IN TINS
city (nnlcSs he has served in that capacity befom)
who is not member of the bar in good standing
plainly ought to become law. Unfortunately
the prospect is not brilliant, with "A Democratic
Assembly in which Tammany Hall eNerts 4
marked influence. If there had been such a law
on the statute-bo0li last year, where would Polce
Justice paddy" Diver and Police Justice Ryan
be to-day? 1t is men like these that Tammany
delights to honor with such fat places as Police
Justiccships. Tammany doesn't want any law Of
this kind and there is little chance of getting it.
The Worlds Fair could get on without the
assistance of one or two Southern States better
Than they could get on WITHOUT llle w oIlu fali
At the same time universal cooperation is de-
sirabe, and that is what we expect to see as
the result of sober second thought.
The lawyers who attempted to make living
by manufacturing bogus divorces have found
little profit in dishonesty. They received only a
few hundred dollars from their victims. and are
now serving long terms of imprisonment One Of
them is n man OF good talents and might have
made fair living by honest means As a matter
of policy simply their exchange of honor. liberty
and good rcputc for small sum of money was
the height of folly.
The baggage-smasher is gradually asserting HIM
self and convincing the American public that
they have done him ericvOus wrong One of
the guild spoke out at length short time ago
In The Youths Companion" and made it plain
that the so-called baggage-smasher took up trunks