Year: 1879




1t is painful thing to be compelled TO DOUBT
the honesty of missionary, and above AL the
honesty of missionary who has Moy Jin
KEGS command of language and polished man
nors but when numerous pieces of silk ana
articles of porcelain are found in a mission
ary's room and the missionary can give
no reasonable account of them. while a
reputable merchant appears with very en-
phatic declaration that these wares are his
property there seems unfortunately no further
room for doubt. Moy jim KEGS pious GLIB
ness in his cell is rather painful. Some one
might prepare an Exclusion bill, barring out
Chinese Pecksniffs, the native supply being
quite as abundant as could be desired.


The movement for lengthening the five
cent hours on the elevated roads and adding
five-cent car to every train seems to be as
popular inside the Legislature as outside. The
vote of the Assembly making the bill a
special order for to-day following the vote
of 70 TO 20 by which the same body refused
last week to accept an adverse report upon
the bill, is certainly significant 1t is to be
hoped that all the members who are support
ing this bill are doing so from good motives
and there is no reason why they should not
be for the elevated roads are in position,
if they choose to engage in that klnd OF
business, to subject some of the Albany law
makers to sore temptation.


While much has been done in the direction
of reducing extravagant salaries in the savings
banks, something evidently remains to be done.
Mr. Lambs report to the Senate gives some
interesting figures on this point, but is neces-
sarily debaTred from turning attention upon
special offNders in this respect. 1t is well
known that there is a savings bank III TINS
latitude which pays its cashier $4,000 year
more than Postmaster James with his vast
responsibility receives; there is another, and
not large bank, which pays its actuary al
most exactly as much as a Judge of the Court
of Appeals is paid. While the Controller of
the Currency at Washington, and the Bank
Superintendent of this State. are each receiv-
ing salaries of only $4,000, some of these
savings bank officials might well be content
with compensation little nearer that figure.


The action of the Democrats in the House
of Representatives in refusing to pass the
Army Appropriation bill without the sixth
section, is open to two constructions. They
were demoralzed by the force and directness
of the Presidents veto message and by the
mexpected offer of this Appropriation
bill by Republican. 1t may be
urged by apOlOgsts that their action
means that they wished merely to gain time
for consultation, being without leader and
without policy; but, on the other hand, it
is unquestionably true that in casting this
vote the Democrats have fulfilled the reyOlu-
tionary threat they made at the begin
nmg of this controversy. They declared
that if the President refused to sign their
so-called free election BILL they would with
h5id appropriations for the support of the
Government. The President has vetoed the
Army Appropriation bill with the political
rider attached; he has vetoed a similar meas
ure cast in the form of separate bill and
the House of Representatives has deliberately
refused, Immediately after, to make the neces-
sary provision for the Army. A fact Of
much significance just here is stated in
our Washington dispatches. Mr.. Blackburn,
who is the Democratic leader on the floor, if
there is any, voted against an adjournment,
and did his best to force his party to meet
this question, doing so avOwedly on the
ground that if the majority were once COM
mitted TO the policy of refusing money
for the Army, it would be easier to
hold them to that course hereafter.
Evidently Mr.. Blackburn favors revolu-
ton and his party is on record also in
favor Of it. If we are asked to believe that
yesterdays vote has no significance, it can
only be said i'll reply therefore that the DEM
ocrats have merely done what they have
vowed, from the first they would do, and
cannot wonder if the country believes that
when they cried revolution y they meant it.





ANOIHER VETO.


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