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Show The UicfiKo Trilmue autl Tiuiuai uu tlio Pluu. Chicago, 18. The Tribune, editorially editor-ially commenting on the plan proposed pro-posed by the joint Bpecial committee on the electoral question, says that though the scheme is not perfect it is better than civil war and better than 1 the Mexican piau of duplicate governments. gov-ernments. It is rtcceptabtc in settling the threatened violence in Louisiana and South Carolina, as well as determining deter-mining the presidential election. The Tribune expresses great confidence iu '. the honesty of the persons who will1 constitute the tribunal and bespeaks for the country a peacekil acquies- I cence in their verdict, I The Times considers tho bill unsatisfactory un-satisfactory to everybody and only a temporary expedient to bridge over the chasm. It characterizes the plan proposed as dishonest and unconstitutional; unconsti-tutional; besides, it virtually leaves the president making power iu the hands of theiiftuentu man, the supreme su-preme justice who is yet to be named. |