New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-02

II is painful to find the United states oupreH"
Court venturing to differ with lhe Evening
| Post" in so many particulars upon single uay
| Many learned essays have appeared III Inc
| Post TO prove that the court could and shouio
issue writ Of prohibition compelling discoh-
| tinuance Of the proceedings against inc br1'is"
schooner Saywatd for stealing our SEAL but the
court has been absurd enough to decide that such
writ cannot issue, and that it is not the province
Of the court to fix the limits of National dominion
and Jurisdiction. The Post" has contended in
| many columns Of adjectves and quotation marks
that the reciprocity clause of the Mckinley bill
| il unconstitutional and that the entire bill Is
| thereby invadated but the court, strangely dun
| 10 these positive assurances, has declared that
the reciprocity clause is all right. and that the
| rest of the bill would not be affected II 1t were
otherwise "The Post has pronounced Speaker
Reeds rule enabling the Chair to count quorum
when, on a roll-call, members OF the House are
| nresant but refuse TO vote illogical false in
| theory and unconstitutional 1t has laughed
wcirdy at the very idea of proposing any other
| test Of a quorum than a roll-call. IL has denied
with extreme warmth that mere physical presence
| could answer the constitutional requirement oil
n ouorum and has violently asserted that the
ability Of the House to do business depended
on the voluntary participation of full majority.
these views that it disnisses them with few
brief sentences affirming Mr.. Reeds position In
every respect. Ii declares that the Constitution
provides cure for wiful absence, and that wilfui
silence cannot then be made TO render the House
| AZ incompetcnt as il had been before the cure
was invoked Ii is distressing to think that we
have placed upon highest tribunal set oil
men SO blind and stupid as to make law Tor us
Mt variance with the opinions OF The Evening
Post"
Tom Reed was not Gar after all. lie was
attending 10 business. The Supreme Court says
Public opinion in this city will approve the
favorable action of the Senate on the bill pro-
viding for an appropriation 10 enable the trustees
OF the Museum of Art TO keep its doors open on
Sunday The vote in the Senate was Il TO :, and
there is no reason to doubt that the Assembly
will take q similar view Of the measure. lie
Sunday opening Of the Museum has been de-
cdcd success, but it cannot he continued with
the present resources. To abandon il would GER
tainly he step in the wrong direction.
Having come in like lion suffering from an
acute attack Of the jimjams, it will become March
10 20 out like the most modest and amiable of
lambs
Tom Reed was "tyrant tom" Reed
decided there was a quorum present when great
number OF persons sat in the face of him and
were ready to say by virtue Of their not answering
to the roll-cal they were paid TO answer TO, that
they were not there; that nothing could be done
unless they responded Tom Reed said You
are here gentlemen to he counted and the
Supreme Court has decided without dissenting
voice that they were there. lt is considerable
fact in history that the highest court decides III
the light of common sense "a of common justice
that n man who is elected to do something can
not sit in his place and by fiction prevent some
things being done.
Mr. Cleveland is apparently booked to stump
the colleges, while Senator Hill makes dates
with Southern Legislatures. In this characteristic
way, their missionary work goes on.
| There was much in yesterdays storm to remind
ono of the historic blizzard of nearly four years
ago. II came in March it began with rain,
which turned into srow, there were northcasterly
| gales Of great violence: ard the weather. as n
whole, more disagrecable than any of the
| whole winter. Fortunately. however, the precipi.
tation not copious IN or near the metropolis
SO that no such wholesale paralysis of travel and
traffic cnsucd followed the great storm OF 1883.
| The cold was not severe, either, by several
degrees, although lower temperature is predicted
for to-day. Nor, If the forecasts prove correct,
will the storm lngcr in this vicinity many hours
| beyond the first twenty four Gales and the
! high tides which result herea bouts from strong
northeas,erly winds the salient features Of this
yistation; but the effect Of these, il is to he
feared will make serious record when al is told
Was Amos Cummings II statesman, a real states
man. when he said in the last campaign that he
and all his constituents had been outraged because
Tom" Reed counted hIni IN vote when he
constructivey not there? Was he? Amos is
Statesman. of course. But in this case? Is he The
Supreme Court has decided that Tom Reed the
wicked " Tom" Reed, was night Still, Amos must
he n statesman. Let us suspend Judgment. But
for the moment Tou" Reed is Il little ahead
Was Tom" Reed tyrant? Say all We who have
been dccaimins against him. What then is the
Supreme Court?
One of the lessons taught TO BROOKLYN by the
big fire this week is the need of one or more
watertowcrs TO meet the new conditions brought
about by the erection of lofty buildings. Another
is the need of a fire insurance patrol This is the
second recent fire in Brooklyn where a large
amount Of property might have been saved by
this means. Ii is amazing that the insurance
companies in the fourth city of the United States
have permitted this state of things to continue
ND TO this time.
The gound hog failed in his duty this year, but
March l has kept up its reputation.
The typhus outbreak is just serious enough to
induce speculation on what it might have been if
it had been worse.
The Tribune doesn't mean to be unjustly severe
in its criticisms Of Tammany leaders and their
methods. II their bills are hurried through the
Legislature after mcagre consideration. if any.
nv thp committees and bv tho chokinO off of