New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-15
ator left from the South after the Attn OF
March to speak for the millions Oh oisiran'
chised Republicans in that section.


An ;mportant plan for stimulating continued
stndv on the part of college graduates YVES
| adopted by the Board of Regents OF the UNI
yersity at their meeting yesterday. 1t contem.
mates most graduate examinations, open 10 all
who have received baccalaureate degrees from
the colleges of the State, the comforting OF an
honorary degree on those who pass these e1-
amjnations, and the establishment OF 1eiiow-
ships of the classics, mathematics, natural SCI
epces and philosophy, somewhat on the modei
of the English university fellowships The
candidates passing the best examination IN
these several branches of study are each 10 re
annointed to a fellowship which carries with it
small stipend to aid them in pursuing their
studies.
| Religious services have their proper place ~
executions, but they should not De proiohscu
at the scaffold while the miserable criminal 10
standing in suspense upon the verge OF eVef,
nitv. Yesterday Reinhardt, the Staten lsianu
wife murderer, was kept waiting on the gar
| lows four minutes in the rain, to near Dlpio
readings and prayers, if indeed he was aoio
| to hear at all, with the black cap over Ills
head and the dread of the coming death par
alyzine his faculties. Why should not the
ministers mercfully finish their work III 'ne
convict,s cell9 Ii their applications nave hoo
availed TO produce repentance when put 1orth
| in the silence of the prison they Will haruly
ba of use when the doomed man feeis uhe
moose around his neck. So long as society
| kills criminals by process of law, 1t Is oouho
l. Tn make the process as quick as possible.
The telegraph consolidation is practically
competed. The questions as to the man
agement of the combined corpora
tions are understood to have been
adjusted, and what remains Is
Chiefly in the nature of formal ratifica-
t;ons. and the arrangement of minor de-
tails. The new authorities will be wise
to avoid all effort at advancing prices.
Their increased profit should be taken
not out of the public, but out of their own
extravagant waste in the late competition.
The mere saving from having one office
do the business for which two have
hitherto been kept up throughout all the
best telegraphic territory of the Union,
should of itself be enough for handsome dvi-
deuds. A true policy would dictate further
reduction, in many cases, OF existing rates
and il is in this direction we shall expect to
u
The Worlds Fair Commission has expert
enced a stroke of luck at last, and one that
PROMISES to lift it over the obstacles which
beset its first steps toward putting the Exhbl-
ton project in motion. General Grant accepts
the presidency of the Commission He does
this with the understanding that he is not to
be called upon for any services until four
millions of dollars are raised by the Finance
| Committee, but he evidently expects the
| money will be forthcoming and believes the
enterprise will be success. If the precedents
of the Philadelphia Centennial are followed,
the duties of the President will not be Oner-
Gus. He will preside at the meetings OF the
| Commission and on ceremonial occasions dur
| ing the Fair, receive foreign dignitaries, DIS
| tribute awards, and be in general way the OH
| cial head Of the Exhibition. The hard Work
of organizing aud managing the Fair will fall
upon the Director General, who will be, it is
to be hoped, man of ample practical expert
ence in such matters. The warm interest
taken by General Grant in the Centennial Ex-
hibition is an assurance that he will do more
to promote the success of the New-York pro-
iect than give it the benefit of his name,
which alone, however, will be of no small as
sistance in putting it on its feet
The Senatorial contest at Harrisburg has
assumed phase which may lead to a
deadlock in the Legislature. Forty-seven
Republican members all supporters of
Mr.. Grow. refused to go into the
caucus on the ground that influences
of sort unfortunately we'll known in Penn
sylvania politics were being exerted to defeat
the will of the people. As a justification OF
their disregard of party. rules they now point
to the fact that eight men instructed by
their constituents to vote for MIR. Grow were
found in the caucus voting for Mr.. Oliver. With
these eight votes, it seems. MIR. Oliver had
only two more than necessary to nominate
him. Under these circumstances, Mr.. Crows
supporters cannot be stigmatlzed as boilers
They stand on their duty and responsibility
to the only body which has q right to call
them to accountable body of constituents
they represent and they had right to refuse
to walk into the tolls of caucus which they
knew had been prearranged to defeat the
candidate their constituents desired chosen.
II they steadfastly vote in the Legislature for
q man of unquestioned Republican principles,
they cannot justly be censured. Their posi-
ton Is all the stronger from the fsct that
their candidate Is Republican of exceptional
emipence and ability, who has very
large popular following in the party, while
the nominee of the caucus ia a person of no
sort of political prominence, who was never
heard of In connection with the Senatorship
until brought forward by the Cameron in0u-
ence just before the Legislature met.
TIE CHINESE TREATIES.
The text of the two treaties with China,