The Wreck Of The Schiller

Another of those terrible ocean disasters which send a shudder over the whole world and carry poignant grief to hundreds of households is announced in the wreek of the steamer Schiller, which sailed from New York for Hamburg April 28. She had orossed the ooean in safety, and was approaching the Bnglish Channel on the inorning of the 8th, to make her first landing at Plymouth, when, envoloped in a fog, she struck one of the rocks of the Soilly Islands, a group which lies a short distance from the most northwestern point of England, and has been fatal to many ships before. Our news columns give some particulars of the disaster as reoeived. It is too soon to raise the question of responsibility, even if human fore8ight could have prevented such a calamity. It is, however, a sad commentary on the boasted achievements over nature that the wreek of a vessel of this kind ao near the land should be attended with suoh au appalling loss of life. It looks as if the Suprema Court regards the enforcement aot as unconstitutional and has -withheld its deoision to that effect in order that the Republican party and the Administration might have time of grace wherein to unload the political stock taken in its iniquitous provisions. Among the last official acts of Attorney-General Williams was the suspension of all Ku-Klux prosecutions and other legal proceedings under the law in question until the Supreme Court shall render its decisión. It would probably be safe to predict that these proceedings will never be resumed. The Attorney-General has already disco vered that he has no further use for the " special agents " of the Department of Justice - otherwise the perjured spies and informers whom he has hitherto employed in doing his dirty work throughout the South - and the "resignations" of several of them have been accepted. That these resignations are voluntary will be believed only by very simple-minded people. By discontinuing the Enforcement-act prosecuti ons and dismissing thevillains employed under it, the Administration is merely " letting itself down easy " from a very uncomfortable if not an untenable posi - tion. _