New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-21

fell by attempting to reply to the committee on
the spot. the Police Commissioners deciueu ~
answer these questions in writing. Inns was
wlse But the questions are so searching 'n".
the Board will have difficulty even alter grea'
deliberatioa in framing satisfactory answers,
Indeed, it is hard to see how they can a'oiu
convictng themselves by their own words'
The milk war is assuming larger propoi-
tons and unless some of the methods OF CON
Quoting it are changed the trouble Is hkey 70
become serious soon. "Spilling COmini'.eoo'
composed of rough-looking men SAID 10 pe III
the employ of the Milk Producers Associatioh'
are at work in Orange County and elsewhere
and are using force to keep the farmers from
sending milk on to New-York. This ought 10
he promptlv stopped by the County authorizes
Everybody is anxious TO sec the farmers oono
ont obead of the middlemen in the fight: but
the leading farmers who are actively engageu
in conducting the campaign cannot ahoro 10
resort to trades-union methods to accomplish
their ends
A sincere desire for harmony and cash ex-
plains the threatening invasion OF TINS country
nv the Irish leaders Mr.. Egan is already here,
apparently moved to gentle haste In quitting
his native land by the statements OF the IN
former Carey Mr.. Parnell will soon arrive oy
way of Paris. Mr.. Egan finds everywhere
"enthusiasm and encouragement which Will
not be without fruit" Other observers nave
seen reason recently to believe that lrish en-
thusiasm in America was considerably chilieu
by the complications between Land League
funds and assassination circles, not TO men
ton the mismanagement of the money OF the
League. Be this as it may Mr.. Egan should
not be oversanguine touching the support he
would get here for ga physical force move
mentn against England. He is reckoning
without his host-the United States Govern
ment
If the Assembly can get time to give the real
interests of this city a few moments deliDeratlon
they will do well to consider the bill which
passed the Senate yesterday, compelling
telegraph companies and similar corporations
to put their wires under ground. The com
panies will have to come to 1T some time. ana
the sooner the expensive job is over the more
comfortable it will be for everybody. Ihe
amendment authorizing the city to do the Work
if the companies will not is good one II there
is q clause in it making the expense lien on
the property of the companies. But the first
step should be one of prevention the second,
one against the wires that are the worst nui-
sance and the least of necessity. In other
words. stop the stringing of fresh wires for
anybody, or for any purpose, telegraph, tele-
phone or electric light. Then, before anybody
else is disturbed, force the wires for electric
light which are heavy, conspicuous and spe-
cialIy dangerous, to go under ground. After
that it will he time enough to attack the older
systems, on which the convenience of the COM
munity at large is more dependent.
Tie efforts of the Democrats at Albany to in
sert in the Supply bill an unconstitutional APP
preparation of $50, 900 for the Roman Catholic
Protectory of this city have brought about the
temporary defeat of the bill itself. Last week
only six members of the Assembly could muster
courage 10 demand the yeas and nays on the
bill but yesterday twenty six of them pulled
themselves together and voted against the
measure. If the bill is reported to the Assem-
bly, again to-day, it should be without this
item. Aside FROM constitutional reasons, there
is no justice 10 giving the Protectory any more
public aid than it gets now through regular
channels. 1t has been asserted in the Assem-
bly,, and never successfully denied there or
elsewhere, that the institution makes profit on
the city's allowance for each child which the
authorities send to it. Why, then, should the
Roman Catholic ProtectOry have help, and not
all the other institutions like it which are
equally wortbyS 1t is not because this is under
Roman Catholic control that we object to help
ing it. The principle and the precedent would
be lust as bad if the appropriation were for an
Episcopal or Presbyterian institution.