New-York tribune., 1884-01-16
NEw-yoKK DAILY TRIDUNF, WEDNE6DAY JANUARY I6 1854

cent more than they get now. This seems to be
fair schedule. What is more important than
the price however, is the determination Oh the
association not to LET any SKINNED oradulterated
milk be brought to the city. In that the puDllc
has vital interest. If the producers could do
something now toward securing hepunishment
of every dealer who is caught selling unwhoIe-
some milk, they would be accomplishing about
all that could be asked of them.
Reports were current in the stock market
Yesterday that the control of the West Shore
had been offered to Mr.. Vanderbilt and then TO
the PENNSYLVANIA. These reports appear NEON
sistcnt with Mr.. Vanderbilt's remarks 10 Il
reporter Monday night. He said he had not
mt dollar into the road and did not intend TO-
but did not say anything of an offer to him. as ne
would in connection with that have been prompt
ed to do. As to the Pennsylvania, 1t is toleraDly
certain that the current reports do not correc'iy
rcprescnt anv such negotiations as have ac'u-
allv occurred between friends of that company
and the West Shore people. That the partles
did not agree upon terms is evident enough
Governor Murray, of Utah, in his message 10
the Legislature of the Territory gives the KEEP
resentatives much excellent advice urging that
above all things ecclesiastical influence snail
cease to oppose the laws of the United states.
If is safe to say, however, that the Governors
admonitions have fallen on ears that hear not
The Mormon leaders laid down a line of policy
for their followers last October at the SEMI
annual conference of the Church, and the
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by a hairs breadth. The order was to stand by
polvcamy end to resist by all means the
Edmunds law and all other similar measures
which Congress might pass. Or, in other words,
the policy is defiance.
The chances now are that the demaSogucS
will be disappointed in their wish to have the
present system of convict labor in the prisons
swept away without delay, and that careful
commission will be appointed to consider the
question. Mr.. Howes bill for a State Prison
Commission was favorably reported in the
Assembly yesterday, and the encouraging
announcement is made that it will probably
be discussed, even by the Democrats, from
non-partisan point of view. The measure
prov idcs for the appointment by the Governor
the Senate conSentng, of three men to inquire
impartially into the merits and dement's OF the
contract labor system. Mr.. Cleveland IN his
message urged the utmost care and dclibcraton
in this matter. Doubtless therefore, if the Howe
bill passes he would try to select irrcpIoachable
commissioners.
The Board of Education met yesterday as
trustees of the College of the City of New-1Ork,
and Mr. Stephen a. Walker, President of the
Board, made an address, the points of which
are given elsewhere in this paper. Mr.. Walker,
while leaning toward the opinion that, as a mat
fer of principle, taxpayers should not be asked
to provide free academic training for all chill
dren still holds that the city's college and the
Normal College are facts which must be accept
ed as facts, and made the best of. Well, that is
what the public is waiting for Mr.. Walker and
his sfellow-commissioners to do. There is an
opinion abroad that both institutions might be
run for less money; and it is suspected that
some conservative members of the Board hold
to this opinion That is the reason why the
public has suspended judgment for year at
least, in regard to the management of our pub
lie schools.
Hubert o. Thompson will never be hurt by
these exposures and investigations, say his
friends; too many contracts; too much
money;-why, the Public Works Department
is the most powerful thing in the city, If not in
the State of New-YOrk and Thompson is one
of the ablest men, Perhaps all this may be so,
although there was good deal of
the same sort of talk, we remember,
some years ago, about William NJ. Tweed.
At any rate we still have faith in the no.
ton that, somehow, i~stantal justice in
the long run prevails. And meantime,
great as are Mr.. Thompson's abilities,
in staving off, and adjusting, and hushing up
things, his hands are too full. The Grand jury
is investigating him. The Senate Committee
is about to do so. A special Committee of the
Assembly is to 20 at the same thing. Can he
throw dust in the eyes of all three at once
And if not, who is to be first and clearest in
getting out the facts2