New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-31

CHARGES against the Home CluD, hulEnts Oh Lapol,
of New-York - Condition of the growing
wheat.
CITY AND SuBuRBAN.-Presideut Cleveland ar
rived IN the city. - Many Sunday observances
of Decoration Day. 60 Sermons on the relations
of capital and labor 60 Thousands visit Coney
Island - George Sloane aud Nathan c. Ely
died.
The WEATHER-Indications for to-day: Cooler
and fair or partly cloudy. followed by light rains
Temperature yesterday: Highest, SCI; lowest
Gle; average 717so.
Persons Tearing torn TOR the season, and sum-
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The preparations for Decoration Day promise
that the ohservances will be interesting and
Impressive, if the weather be fine. The process
sion of the militia and the Grand Army of the
Republic will move down Fifth-ave. from
Fifty -sixth-st at $50 a. m, and will be re-
viewed by the President at Madison Square.
The services at General Grants tomb will be at
Ppm. Other arrangements for the day are
The element which Mr.. Powderly represents
in the Knights of Labor organization has in
fluenced the committee work of the present
convention of Knights in Cleveland so that
some excellent suggestions will be made to the
entire body of delegates in regard to strikes
and boycotts. If the report is favOrably acted
upon, the power to order a strike or boycott
will fba
Executive Board of the order, no matter how
small an affair it may seem to be. This is a
step in the right direction, as all who have
watched the labor troubles of the last few
months carefully will agree. If it is approved
there is a chance that the Knights of Labor
may be enabled to live up to that principle in
their constitution which declares that strike
must not be ordered except as last resort.
The Police Commissioners are most an xiOus
that the Governor shall sign the bill authOriz-
ing the addition of 500 members to the
police force. Even if the measure in ques-
ton should fail to become a law, the
force might easily be increased before long
under the present statutes. These authorize
the Board of Estimate to allow money for not
more than hundred additional policemen each
year, to be appointed by the Police Commits
sioners. But for some time the Board of Esti-
mate has declined to make the necessary ap-
preparation. Since it has been realized how the
Third-ave. strike strained the Police Depart
ment. public opinion in regard to more blue
coats has undergone a decided change which
may affect the Board of Estimate and Appor-
tOnment.
I;c
eouraging to lovers of fine horses At
Jerome Park betting of all kinds has
not been allowed so far, and it may
not be permitted this summer either at
Sheepshead or Monmouth 1t is hard to see
how the interests of the turf can stand such
blow; but perhaps it is well enough that the
issue should be fought out now. If public
sentiment or sound public policy demands the
SURPRISING of all wagers even among gentle
men, under the auspices of associations man.
aged by gentlemen, and on contests which are
fair and honest, of course suppressed the prac-
tice will be. But ii means the end of good rae
ing, deterioration in the breed Of fine horses,
although not the end of betting in its vicious
forms.
The decision of the highest court in New
Jersey sustaining the law LAYING heavy tax on
railways is claimed as a great victory by those !
who favor placing all or nearly all tax burdens
on corporations, and letting real estate go free
1t certainly tends that way, and it may be |
taken for granted that most of the State rev.
enue hereafter in New-Jersey, as 1t is in Penn |
sylvania, will be derived Iom the corporations.
The farmers everywhere will admire this prin-
ciple of political economy. and indeed much can
be said in its favor. But the vital question |