New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-27

public- spirited law-abiding Cnle1 MaSiS""''
,rsnector of I,auterbach elections, James
T Stewart would doubtless be an immense sue
cess and easily worth 5000 year TO MS ELL
,o,,ers II his services could not be obtained lor
Loco Az State Inspector OF Gas Meters, Cover
nor Morton's appontee leaves just about every
thing to be desired
According TO 1.-THE BROOKLYN Eagle" whose IN
formation is derived from the office or the CiVi'
Service Commissioners the entire number OF OF
fees at the disposal Of the men to De appoin'eu
as heads of departments in that city by the co''l-
ing Mayor will be only eighty. All the o'her Oh
fees and places have been brought uhoer 'ne
operation OF the Civil Service rules, when SHOWS
that the spirit and letter OF the civil oel'i.e
provision Of the new constitution have been fully
carried out in Brooklyn This Is a state OF thiiss
which will cause CONSERVATION in the breasts Oh
spoilsmen who may have been counting on get
ting any number of good things from MI
Wurster But MI Wurster is believed to be in
thorough sympathy with the Civil Service spirit
and methods and the relief afforded to the new
heads of departments in the absence OF pressure
for places will be great. The absence Will not be
total. but numerous applicants Will be completely
discouraged when they lea. that II vacancies
are made they can be filed only from the eligible
list.
Colonel Fellows can give mole bad reasons for
falling to bring offenders to trial than any OF
his predecessors ever could except himself
It does not seem probable that Senator Bradley
is lying awake nights worrying over the question
whether he will be punished for contempt on ac-
20 fol1f he
tee all he knew about the Acknowledgement OF the
Bridge. few months ago he was Jealous for a
reform there. What is hard to understand Is his
total loss of interest in subject that stirred MIN
dee ply during the last session
Venezuela is indebted to the estate Of the late
p T. Barnum in the sum Of sl,4OO which 1t has
been unable to liquidate though in flush times 1t
has paid interest on IT, and there nave been oc-
casional efforts made to provide sinking fund
for it's liquidation The fact affords index OF the
financial situation Of the Republic which Is rather
disheartening 1t is 70 be hoped that after We
have assisted in the rectiication of her bound
aries she will not expect us to pay her debts like
wise call out the army and navy to put down
those who try to collect them. If Barnum were
alive he would. no doubt, take his pay In monkeys
and parrots with which the land abounds but
they have right to do The debt ought to be
paid and perhaps will be when the country gets
back it's gold mines from Great Britain, unless
the rapacious country has scooped out all their
contents in the interval.
The retirement OF the dogs of war to their
kennels furnishes no valid excuse for neglecting
to defend the seacoasts Of the United States
There is nothing modest in the demands Of
the Nassau Railroad Company. Recently it
applied for franchises for the privilege Of using
two or three hundred miles Of Brooklyn streets
Now 1t wants to a monopoly of the pas
senger-carrying business on the BRIDGE
New England extends the boundaries Of her
renown year by year, using the dnner-table as
her instrument Of usurpation. She spread over
all out-of- doors long ago. with Monroe Doc
trine to limit her usurpation. SO far she has not
run against any stone wall of remonstrance, as
Great Britain has in Venezuela yet II will not
be a bad idea for her to leave some regions
of fame unclaimed for the use OF the rest of the
country. But she continues to turn out such a
lot Of persuasive takers that she will probably
have 1t all her own way in the future as in the
past, rushing over all Essiquibo Cuyuni and
Schomburgk lines Of limitation and finding no.
body anywhere with a sufficient flow of language
to say her nay.
There was never better opportunity for states
men at Washington to illustrate the difference
between economy and parsimony
When Mr. Crosby at the meeting In Cooper
Union on Monday referred to the fact that the
President had had very little personal experience
OF the horrors Of war, he employed the "argu-
mentum ad hominem" in a way that might be
regarded as unkind, and that certainly would
have been denounced roundly few days ago
by the whose admiration and worship
have now been turned into gall and NORWOOD
Cons opinion that the come on Ia worse than
the "greengoods" man shows a delicate discrim-
nation in the grades OF moral worth, but ne will
find on reflection that 1t comes in the category OF
those things which judicous Recorder would
rather have left unsaid.
Labouchere thinks that the Venezuelan oues-
says that England will think So too, as soon
as II Is sufficently acquainted with the particu-
lars Of the case. Until 1t came so UNEXPECTEDLY
to the front most OF the inhabitants Of that coun-
try imagined that British Guiana was In Africa.
and Demerara an island. and the Orlnoco an
afiiuent Of the Amazon. and that the schom-
burgk line had something to do with the tropic
OF Capricorn. They know little more now bur
not much. though in time correct geographical
and political Ideas Will dawn upon them when