New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-09
THE Rapid TRANSIT COMMISSIOM

Tn consequence of the deadlock in the Rapid
Transit Commission and under the disheaiten-
ing influence of Wednesdays personal alterca-
ton four members have resigned. Mr. STEM
way sadly confesses that the prospect Is us
co,Iraging. and says that he is resolved u serve
no longer in place which is full OF trouble al
\ sacrifice of health which no assurance OF use
fitness recompenses. 1t Is not more sh'iN-
factory to the community than to the Com
mission % be forced TO acknowledge that years
Of labor and delay have proved utterly profit
,oss and that 2 p-cblem Of pressing importance
10 millions of persons may remain unSoiVed lor
years TO come. At the same time, II this Is inc
tact there is no advantage in refusing to adj
NIT il. If Messrs. Stenway, Spencer, BiShc
and Inman are convinced that all hope OF their
beinp able to unite in and initiate practicable
opd beneficial plan has vanished, we do not
urce them to withdraw their designations for
the mere sake of keeping idle powers in ex-
;stence But if. on the other hand, a realizing
sense of their lamentable failure and unenvl-
able position in the eyes of the public Is capable
of stimulating in them more intelligent ana
devoted spirit their fellow-citzcns will not IN
sist upon their permanent retirement from the
field
That no public advantage was achieved by
the members of the Commission who engaged
in tn quoque dispute on Wednesday is by this
time probably apparent even to the dispn'an's'
But we are unable to sec why Mr.. Spencer
sbould have betrayed such extreme irritation
when the fact of his consistent championship
of the interests Of the Manhattan Company was
n,nted out. Ii is not because there is any
thing immoral in the assumption that the Man.
haitian Company ought to be allowed to develop
its property on Is own terms that Mr.. Spen-
GERS attitude is disapproved by great mum
Der of citizens Of NewYork; but his natural
prcdispostion in favor Ct that company seems
TO them to be prcjudcial to the public IN
terests. They are convinced that the prospect
Of obtaining snch transp Ititi)n facilities Is the
city imnratively requires is nov extremely
da rlS and di.conIaging mainly because the Man
haitian Complny has been able to intcrpo'c SUI
cessiye obstacles through It's inference upon the
minds of Mr.. Spencer and some II his col
leagues The proceedings of the Commission
during the lat two years have supplSd CON
elusive proof Of this nlue5c' and tansacIcn'
on tho stock Exchange have disclosed the u'o
to which politicians and spectators were put
ting their knoulCdge of it. From this con-
bination e forces it was n; 10 be expected
tina. a fortunate result for the city could he
evolved.
The designations of four members OF the
Commission arc now in tho Mayors hands.
Mr.. Starn remains al his post and cannc' he
removed except by hi' own consent. We hope
| that he will not withdraw. Whether tho re-
, tiremont of his colleagues be designed - force
him ont atocf ther or t, induce in him differ
emf frame of mird perhaps only the retiring
members knox. But that reconstruct Il Com
mission e which h WIS noi member Wnun
serve the community better than it has been
served by the Commission Of which he Is tAe
sole survivor is in Cur op;nion extremely IN
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