New-York tribune., 1882-04-22

pleasantness attaches itself to love for dogs
Men, and women too, can bestow unlimited
affection upon these intelligent creatures, not
only without rcproach but generally with the
consciousness that the attachment is recipro-
Gated. In measure these facts explain the
success of the Bench Show which closed yes
tertiay. The exhibition has not attracted at
tention so widely as the recent walking ma'cn
in Madison Square Garden, but the display oil
brutcs certainly has been better.
If the bill which MIR. IIaggerty introduced
yesterday becomes law, and the law Is en-
forced, the consumers of milk will rise up and
call him blessed. He proposes to compel the
mlkmen of the period 10 be trifle more frank
in the future than some of them have been IN the
past. The miikmen are to he required to call
a spade n spade-tO print " skinned milk on
their cans in case that is the pleasing bevcr-
age they are offering for sale. Heretofore an
occasional milllman has allowed constltu-
tional reserve 10 forbid him from stating
whether what he served to his customers was
skinned or unskimmed Reform is necessary.
1t is not likely that the majority OF the
House of Representatives, will agree with the
minority report of the Elections Commlttee III
the case of Mackey against OCOnnor. Inc
minority holds that the contest abated wheh
Mr.. O'COnnor died, and that Mr.. Dlbble, VINO
went in on the result of special election,
cannot be ousted unless n case can be made
out against him personally. Even If the House
should approve this report, and thus establish
Il bad precedent, Mr.. Dibble might not long
~ foo.
this assertion will be found in our Washington
DISPATCHES They relate to the special election
held last summer, by virtue Of which MI
Dibble claims his seat.
In the Senate yesterday, Mr.. Harrison of
Indiana, who is always listened to when he
talks, spoke on the Mississippi River Improve
ment bill If many Senators adopt his views
Mr.. Garland will not succeed with his amend
ment to raise the appropriation from SIX mill
ions to fifteen millions, and to change the plan
for the Improvement of the channel INTO
a plan mainly to improve the plantations
along the rivers bank. Senator Harrison
is strongly against the amendment, while
he wants the navigability of the stream
bettered He declared that for consttu-
tOnal reasons he must oppose any pro-
ject to add to the value of riparian lands
with only incidental benefit to the river bed.
This would be a bad precedent, he said, to
place before the eyes of people living near the
Red River and other streams with low banks.
The improvement of the lands at the Nations
expense should not be the main object.
1t looks as if the Board of Education was
more willy than the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment. When the School Commits
sioners found that the Board of Apportlon-
ment was determined last December to cut
down their estimates for 1882, they tried to
persuade the Controller and his associates to
decide upon what items the reduction should
fall. But the acute Board of Estimate and
Apportionment was not any more anxious to
assume the unpleasant task of cutting of the
teachers pay than the Commissioners, and the
reduction was made in lump. The Board of
Education then decided to let the schoolhouses
60. Buildings cannot complain as teachers
might do. But now bill to authorize the is
sue of bonds to the amount OF $45OOOO to
pay for new schoOlhOuses III this city has been
introduced in the State Senate. As the Board
of Estimate and Apportionment reduced the
whole sum asked for by the Board of Educa-
ton only about 100000, the School Com
missioners seem to have an excellent chance
of coming out ahead to the amount of
S15O,OOO. We are glad that it is the public
school system that is to profit by all this as
tuteness.
THE LAST POLYGAMOUS CONGRESSMAN