The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1871, Page 6

ree er a a eee ‘Paci sane RESS. CONG Little Delaware Goes Back on France. Vaptious Saulsbury as the Senatorial Critic. Bpeech of Senator Kellogg on the Revival of American Commerce. Consternation Among the Land Grabbers. Railroad Land Grants Defeated in the House. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1871, MENORIALS PRESENTED, ‘Mr. HARLAN, (rep.) of Iowa, presented a memorial from Brer one thousand citizens of Des Moines Valley, Iowa, set- €ng forth that by a decision of the Supreme Court of she ‘United States they are threatened with ejectment from the Jands on which they settled 1» good faith for the purpose of ebtaining homefteads, and asking relief. Referred to the Commitive on the Judiciary. Mr. COLE, (rep.) of Cal., presented the petitiog of as- sistant census marsbais in California tor additional compen- pation. QUPSTION OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. SAULSBURY, (dem,) of Del., addressing the Chair, said be rose for the first time in bis life to = question of privi- fege—not one of mere personal privilege, but a question which affected the character and dignity of the Senate of the United States. He moved to reconsider the voie by which Mr. Pomeroy's resolution of sympathy with the people of France and Germany was adopied on yesterday, 90 that Senators might read it and wee whether ft read better back- wards than Torwards, or wheiner there was any sense in Mt. He did not know who offered the resolution and dia not ‘Want anybody to tell him—(laugh-ery—but certalnly there were tome ac in this bo.y to whom its defects would be per- ie. r. POMEROY, (rep.) of Kan., announced bimecif as the author of the 'resvlution, and knew of nothing wrong ebout it. Mr. SAULSBORY was sorry his friend bad sald'tbat. He had noped bis triend would have spared bim the necessity of pointing out the inaccuracies of the resolution, Mr. POMEROY was willing to spare the Senator (Mr. Saule- Dury) if that gentieman would spare himself. Mr. SAULSHURY proceeded to comment y ‘gloss of the resoiution. He wanted it fixed up in English. Aa it stood it was ungrammatical, not good English, and ‘should be reconstructed belore being subjected to the scrutiny ef foreign nations. Tue Vick PuisipeNT remarked that debate upon the mo- in was not im order. Under the rule it could be entered, and action could be had upon it at any time Mesers. CONKLIG, (rep.) of N. Y., and POMFROY desired @ vote to be taken at once, and, the question being put, Mr. Sauisbury alone responde' In the affirmative, to the great | Amusement of the galleries. The motion to reconsider was therefo.e lost, BILLS REPORTED. Mr. CHANDLRR, (rep.) of Mich., from the Committee on | cs ried « bill for tne preservation of beacons igation, with an amendment, a SON, (rep.) of N. H., irom the Committee on the Vistrict of Columbis, reported, with amendments, the ‘Bill to incorporate the Union Life Insurance Company of the United Stares. Mr. WARNER, (rep.) of Ala., from the Finance Committee, seporced back the House bili authorizing the Commissioner Internal Revenue to suspend the use of the meter now ‘used for distilled spirits. ‘A motion to proceed to the consideration of the bill was aiscunsed. Mr. WARNR2, in reply to Mr. Edmunds, stated that the ‘eter jac been shown to be unreliable and of no practical ‘vaiue to the government, ‘Mr. THURMAN, (dem.) of Obio, spoke of the iujustice of compelling owners of cistillerics to pay the expense of put- Ung uo a meter when ite fitness had ‘not been demousirated. le hoped the bili would pass. Mr. LDMUNDS, (rep.) 01 Vt, objected to the present con- | ration of the bill, when it weni over. DRAWBACKS UPON IMPORTED BRANDIES. The Senate; on the motion of Mr: SUFRMAN, (rep.} of Obio, | }oox up the House bill to allow the importation of brandy | ‘with the same rights of drawback as are allowed on rum and ‘The Senate Finance Committee's amendment, providing | fhat drawbacks shall not be allowed until the passage of this act Was agreed to, and the bil! passed. VIRGINIA JUDICIAL DISTRICTS. On motion of Mr. LEWis, (rep.) of Va., the amendments of the House to the bill to divide Virginia into two judicial dis- | iets were concurred ip. MEXICAN GULF STRAMSHIP 6UBSIDY. At half-past one o’ciock the Senate agreed—yeas 83, na: 34—to the pending motion of Mr, WiiLta%s to proceed with | ‘the Dill subsidizing a steamship line in the Gulf of Mexico. The vote was not r tied asa test in view of the eral disposition to allow the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kel- ) to address the Senate on the suvject. | fr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of La., then proceeded to urge the | claims of the Gulf States upon the liberally aud attention of the government. After commenting upon the almost unan- | mous democratic vote in the Senate against taking up the bill | n the phrase- a Heant of husiuity to the commercial and industrial fmercsts of the South, and the fact that the oppo- | the su.sidy policy depended mainly upon uations t the integrity of the motives | ef hu supporters Dy those who bad ‘alled to urge any means | whaiever for reviving our commerce, he explained that the | Dill provided for «comparatively amali subsidy fora seml- | monthly steam mail service for ten years between New Orieuns and the Mexican coast. Three iirst class American built hoa ships were provided for, For the first five years of | the contract one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was to | be paid, xd for the last ve one bun.red thousand per ao | hum. In case of war the goveroment is to take the steam ships at « fair compensation. He then referred to the ni acvantazes of a temporary partial mail service to@fexi- | can ports in previous years at @ cost of thirty thousand | dollars per annum, to the extent and ‘desirabilliy of the | Mexican trade, t> the eoris of England and other conntries to monopolize’ it, as weil as the commerce of the Spanish- American countries south of us, and the rapid diversion of thas. trade in foreign bottoms from its legitimate chan- nei through the United States. In 1840 the commercial ex- changes between Mexico and the United States exceeded twenty millions of dollars, while im 1856 the Mexican foreign trade had fallen irom one-half to lese than_ one-sixth ‘of the whole, He quoted from the debates of the Thirty-ffth Congress to show the favor with which a similar measure | was then received, the democratic Senators warmly HF ring I an calcu sled to restore this trade. The advantages | er | of ibesai mall subsidies to Great Britain were shown in supremacy in seam navigation, and the impetus given to her trade by an increase of ber 'exportations. Our present beipleas dependence upon English and North German lines, | by which our outward freight and passage money, | eseveding fifty millions anuually, went into the pockets “of foreigners, was fllustrated in the fact that our government, ot the breaking out of the | branso-verman war, was compeiled to ask that the mail Stea.ners of the lati¢r Power miaht be exempt from capture by che naval forces of the former, because they carried our | mas. Kellogg went on to commend the policy of or- | ernment to commercial “enterprises, as furnishing cheaper rates of transportation for Western’ products, while | the proposed steamships could, when necessary, be con- | verted 1nt0 war vessels. ‘The contemplated line to Mexico Woutid re. ive the imporiation of the precious metals into th United Staies, this trade having necessitated a mint New Orleans in 1588, which up to the commencement of ti war, when it was discontinued, coined an aggregate value ¢! 87,000,000, of which more than 858,000,000 was of Mexican | Silver. "The importance of the proposition was then dwelt upon in affor commercial advantages to the of 1 valiey, and as conducive to government’ and contentment South, Wwaose “horrible and long continued | chiracterized, as they had been, for Christian’ resignation, entitled her to this legisiation. Mr. CASSEELY, (gem.) of Cal., ted that partizanship had been introduced tago the discussion, and stated that ony | ©f the subsidy bilis was of peculiar inrerest to the people of Pacific const. On that account he had voted to" take up ect, but could not concur in several of the propo: ‘Mr. CHANDLER aaid he desired to speak upon the gene- gal question, but waa not now prepared, PO - SAVANNAH AND MEMPHIG RATLROAD. Ms. WARNER, on leave, intreduced a bill to allow the Savannah and Memphis Railroad Company, of Alabama, to enter public lands. At half-past three P. M. the Senate went ito executive IM, aud subsequently adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1871. THE #LADAMA CLAIMG. Mr. Reeves, (dem,)of N. ¥., presented a pumerously | signed petition fromthe citizens of Long island for a com* mission to audit the Alabama ciaims. SOLDIFES' MONUMENT AT REWEURG. | Mr. Vax Wrox, (rep.) of N. ¥., introduced # bill granting | condemned ordnance for a soldiers’ monument at Washing- ton's headquarters at Newburg, N.Y. Referred, BILLS REPORTED. Mr. HOLMAN, (dem.) of Ind., from the Committee on | Claims, reported a bill forthe relief of Captain David L. | Wright, of the Fifty-first Ladiana volunteers’ Passed, & Mr. HovcuKiss, (rep.) of N. ¥., from the Judiciary Com- mitiec, reported @ bill to facilitaie the collection of judg- ments in favor of the United Btates, giving the United States gudges and commissioners the right to ‘Against Whom such uusatistied judgments are rendered, In regard to their property, and to order the atsposition of such proverty. As the Lill was loug and likely to consume’ too Much time, it was recommfied. Mr. Kenn, (dem.) of Ind., trom the same committee, re. | ried a bili Iu reference to’ the United Staies District and | Sreuit Courts in Indiana. Parsed. | Also giving the assent of Congress to the application of the {500,000 acres of schooi laud in Oregon to the support of com. | mon schools. Passed. Also a bill providing that the act of June 17, 1662, defining additional cause of challenge and prescribing the onth of | grand and petit jurors in the United States courts, shell ap- ply only to petit jurors in cases where the United States are @ party in Dame aod interest. Passed. Mr. MEROUR, (rep.) of Pa., from the same committee, re | wried a bili to provide for the collection or debts due from | wathern railroad corporations, authorizing the Secretary of War to compromise, adjust and settle the suits on such terms 4s to ainount and time of payment as may be just and equit- able and best calculated to protect the inierests of the gor. | ernment Passed. ‘Mr. KE1..004, (rep.) of Conn., from the same commitira, reported @ bill authorizing the issue of duplicate bonds on the United States under certain conditions in Liew of bonds tor destroyed. Pi jottinn for the beiter organization of the United States Dis- trict Courts within the State of Louisiana. Passed. Mr. BUTLER, (rep.) of Mass.. from the same committer, reported a bil: to divide the State of Tennessee into twe juai- cial districts, but withcrew it without actioa, BALLBOAD LAND GRANTS. ‘The House then took up the bill extending the time to con- surgot a ratirond from the Bt. Croix river, or lake, tothe west end of ke Superior an . Mr. POMEROY, urep.) of Iowa, made an ent against fhe bill and in favor of @ reform of the whole land grant pol- o ¢ government ‘onus cep.) of Cémn., declared himself to iaud grants, but denied that the reaponsibility for tacked solely to the republican party, on CL a4 the public o¢jum in copneetion with them was songht be . If the cemocratic members had stood oh the = fARA who are opposed to such grants the Northern Pecttic Htallzoad bil would pot have paased, and if they stood by them now they ovuld defeat the bill, Baxda.i, em) of Pa, spoke against the bij and eufferings, examine persons | night at Steinway Hall. | Worked up the scene to a hign pitch, gaint all land grante. Te held that the pnbile domain jould be preserved for actual setilers and as guarantee ent of the public debt, which he declared he was vaving paid to the last dollar, He sent up te the ad read the letier of his oolleague, Mr. Myers, to the Labor Reform Association of Philadelabia, wilieb curing the last canvass, in re‘erence to land grants, Mr. MYPUS, (rep.) of Pa., remarked that the letter read ustived the position which he took in favor of this bill ; that ¢ would vote for no land grants unless auch as were neces- sary to open up large tracts of territory to trade and com- merce He aliuded sarcastically to his colleague, (Mr. Kan- dali) as the leader of the democratic side of U jouse, Who made ali the objections and the motions to adjourn. (Laugh- ter, Mr. Wiex1nson, (rep.) of Minn., argued in favor of the biliand insupport of the land grant policy as tending to ‘open up new lines of travel and to break up great railroad . Y, (rep.) of Pa., spoke in favor of the bill, as being one merely reviving m gram formerly made, He should sustain this and every oter fovival of grants where it could be shown that good faith and due diligence had been exer- clsed n carrying the original grant into effect ; but while he would do that he would vote for no original grant of land other than such ald be necessary to bohyreagr ty 4 Bouthern transcontinental road. The people of the Were entitled to such a grant, and ao he had said when inter- Togated by bis constituents, rT. WAsunew: (rep.) of Wis., reviewed the facts and argued in support of the bill. In reply to ap inquiry he said ‘that the bill woud cover a liitie over a million acres. Mr. JOHNGON, (dem.) of Cal., expressed himself willing to support the bill’ if the price of the railroad lands were re- stricted to two dollars and a half per acre, to be sold to ac- tual settlers in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, Mr. Cox, (dem.) of N. Y., remmded the Bouse that the great body of the people, workingmen, irrespective of party, were Seginning” ‘tobe jealous of the course of Con- ress with reference to the public domain, Whatever might fe done hereafter one thing was certain, that the democratic y would fx # platform in correspondence with that of ihe workingmen, and if the ublicad party made a differ- ent platform it would only assist the democrats to obtain power in 1872. Mr. WILSON, (dem.) of Minn., closed the debate with an ment in support of the bill. ir. HOLMAN moved to recommit the bill to the Committee ber ene end greed to—yeas 102, nays 64. 1e motion was a; i is fs equivalent to the rejection of ihe bill, as the Com- mittee on Public Lands will not be called during the present ngreas. The following 1s the vote in detall:— Yeas—103. Adams, Dixon, N.O, Lawrence, Smith, Ohio, ‘Ambler, Dockery, " Lewis, Starkweather, er, Duva anving, ‘Stevens, ‘Arnell, Dyer, Mayham, — ‘Stevenson, Batley, Ea McGrew, Stiles, arnuip, Finkeinburg, Mckee, Strader, Barry, Garfield, Mercur, Strong, Beatty, Griswold, Moore, Ohio, Swann, Benton, Haieht, oore, Sweeney, Binghain, alae iorey, Sypher, 4 ‘Tyner, ufiington, paon, Burchard, lack, Van Wyck, Calkins, . Van Auken, Cessna, Hil, Packard, Ind, Van Tramp Clarke, Ks. Holman, _ Packer, Pa, Voorhees, Cleveland, — Holmes, X. ¥. Paine, Ga. ard, Coburn, Jobnson, Perce, Washburn,Mas Conner, Jones, Ky. Phelps, Welker, Cook, Judd, att, Willard, Cor, Tuliad, Porter, Williams, Crebs, Kellogg, Conn. Rainey, Winans, Darrall, Kelsey, N. ¥. Randall, Winchester, Degener, —Kerr, ves, Witeber, Dickey, Ketcham, Shober, Woodward. Dickinéon, Knapp, Slocam, Nays-S4. Allison, Conger, Lougnridge, Sawyer, Armstrong, Cowies, Lyneh, Scofield, Der, Dawes, faynard, ‘Sheldon, N. ¥. ‘Atwood, Dixon, RI. MeCormick, Sherrod, Dox, McCrary," Sinith, Gregon Eldridge, | MeKenzie, ‘Smith, Tenn. Farnsworth, Milnes, Stokes, Ferris, Morrell, Pa. Stoughton, Fish Strickland, Gibson, Tate, Giisias Tanner, Hale, Taylor, Hamill, Tilman, Hoar, Townsend, Buck, Hooper, 3 Van Hora, Buckley, Jenckes, Peters, Wallace, et Kelley, Pa Poland, Washburn, Wis tier, Tenn. Latin, Pomeroy, — Wikinson Churehiil, Lash, ice, Wilson, Minn, Clark, Texas, Logan, Roots, Wolf, Cobb, Wis. | Lon Sanford, Young. NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM. The House then took up, as ecial order, the bill re- ted by Mr. Hoar to establish a tem of national educa- Hon, bui without proceeding in its consideration the House ‘at a quarter past four adjourned. THE MARKET QUESTION. The Proposition to Sell Markete—Commotion Among Island Farmers. The resolution of the Commissioners of the Sink- ing Fund, to sell to private parties under appraise- ment all the New York markets, except that in the Eighteenth ward, has caused considerable of a sen- sation among the farmers of Long Island. The farmers cannot understand the nature of this move- ment. Some incline to the idea that the city au- thorities resort to this means as an artifice to repel the approach of the farmers, and to obviate the effect that a refusal to grant thei petition would create. The press haying taken a lively interest in the matter has awakened the people to a true sense of the inadequacy of the markets, and if taxpaying influence is capable of bringing avout a reform there seems now but iittle doubt of its accomplishment. The agricultaral mind cannot conceive how it is to be benefited by the sale of the Markets to private parties. Those who are fore- Mmostin the Movement think it is going to brin; about spiendid results. If the market is purchase by capitalists who are desirous of increasing their fortunes they will aftord to the farmers all reason- the New York the Long | able accommodation, while they wili also see that they are protected in the sale of their products. Other farmers think that the market will be de- stroyed and warehouses aud manufactories erected. The invitation about to be extended to the farmers to land their produce at the Eighteenth Ward Market is but little spoken of. All the questions will be dis- cussed at the mass meeting next Monday. No little excitement prevails over the proposition to sell the markets, and the farmers fear they will not have time to organize a company ior the purchase of a site before the crafty speculators will have monopo- lized everything. TRADESMEN AND ME‘HANICS’ SOCIZTY. Recitals by Mr. Murdoch at Stein- way Hall. An immense house greeted Mr. Murdech last The president of the society having introduced the great tragedian he Dramatic came forward and announced the different pieces he would illustrate during the even- ing, opening with the scene from “Othello” between Iago, Roderigo, Cassio, Montano end the ae. After the carousing, when Cassto comes ack, and Montano and ne fight, Mr. Murdoch carry- It_ wanted dreadful bell, ing bis audience entirely with him, but the scenery, to hear the and see his Moorshtp rush on from the castle gates, scimetar in hand, and knocking up the swords of the combatants strike a pic- ture. The applause was not wanting either, for, it | | burst from every part or the house, He then ret the beautiful story of “Virginia, the Roman Maiden,” and so vividly did he render the awful scene whcre the heroic father slays his daughter, that every jady in the vast audience was in tears. Next came Beranger’s “King of Yvetot,” after which he acted the pathetic story of the ‘“Vaga- bonds; or, the Fiddler and His Dog.” Mr. Murdoch prefaced this story with an explanation of it. and said it was @ most essential temperance lecture, which it certainly Is. Then he recited the epic of the “Pirate of Lake Erie,” bringing the evening’s enter- tainment toa close with ‘sheridan’s Ride,” which he read by particular request. THE JERSEY CiTY CSARTER. A Stwerm of Public Indignation—A Mass Meeting Called=Temporary Triumph of rruption=What Dudicy 8. Gregery tonishment created in Jersey City at the announcement that the Bergen “ring” had found its way into the new govern- | Ment of the city continues unabated. The honest, truetworthy men on the commissions which are to rule the city are in @ hopeless minority, AU the efforts of the committee sent from Jersey City tosecure the passage of an honest measure, with honest men to control the city treasury, were un- availing. Accordingly there is wide-spread dis- Satisiaciion among the citizens without regard to purty. A MASS MBETING hag been called for to-morrow afterneon to enable the taxpayers to give expression to their feelings in the matter. Preliminary meetings were held in several wards last evening, and in the Fourth, Seventh and Eighth the republican members of the Legisiatare irom Jersey City were de- nounced as odes § sold themselves to the Erie Railwey and the Bergen “ring.”? In fact, public indignation was never expressed in a more em- phatic manner. If the new charter were ay sub- mitted to the people, or even te the repablican party, from whose leaders it is supposed to emanate, three names would be certainly erased from the Board of Works, The charter was taken up in the legislative com- mittee at Trenton on Wednesday evening, but owing to the strong opposition manifested by Dud- ley 8. Gregory, Jr., who DENOUNCED THE MEASURE, its further consideration was pestponed till next Tuesday, whep a host of citizens will address the commnittee in opposition to it, Mr. Gregory is using every effort to protect the people against what is properly designated A FRAUD, A SWINDLE AND AN OUTRAGE on the people of Jersey City. His father, who was a candidave for United States Senator, is algo heart and soul in opposition. A HEBALD reporter called on him yesterday and the old genuleman stated that ‘the charter cannot possibly pass in {ts present state. He thinks that the people will rise against 1t and de- feat the corrupt men who are endeavoring to ride into power and plunder the people. OPERATIONS AT THE COLO SPRING FOUNDRY. POUGHKEEPSIE, Feb. 2, 1871. All the available force of the Ooid Spring foundry have been set to work for the manufacture of 60,000 bomb shejis, I¢ does not transpire whence the order enmanaks REPUBLICAN REORGANIZATION, Meeting of the New General Com- mittee Last Evening. The Report of the Grecley Committee—The Anti- Tcmmanyite Purists Voted Down—Greeley Comes to Grief as Chairman. A meeting ef the new Republican General Com- mittee was held last evening at the headquarters in Twenty-second street, 1t was stormy; but when was @ local republican committee ever harmonious? It differed happily, however, from many of its prede- cessors in the fact that, black and troubled as was ence or twice its political complexten, it broke up in comparative serenity, with the gas turned on full, and without the friendly intervention of the Metro- politan Police force, The Chairman called the meeting to order at eight o'clock, to the minute, and business was at once inaugurated by the reading of the bylaws and constitution reported by the special committee for the guidance of future debates and action. Action upon it was, however, postpened unui the following IMPORTANT REPORT Was read from the special committee, headed by Horace Greeley and Cochrane, which was appointed to prepare a statement for the instruction of the State Central Committee in regard to the local dis- sensions of the party:— To the Hon. J. H. RaMBEY, Chairman Special Committee of the Republican Stare Committee :— Stn—The undersigned, a committee appointed by the Union Republican General Committee of ihe city of New York, at & recent meeting, have had referred to them a communication from the committee of which you are chair- man, in regard to matters concerning the condition of the republican party in our city. in replying to said communication, the und debalf of the organization they represent, beg leave to ass youthat they shall be happy at all times to co-operate with the State Committee represented by you, in eiforts to har- monize, invigorate and strengthen the republican party 1p our city, We waive any consideration of the extent and Mmits of the State Commuttee's powers, choosing to regard fis action in the premises as a cries of friendly and well meant, suggestions of means whereby the Union General Committee of our city may ao act as to promote the great ends above indicated. Unaware that the State Committee hax been clothed with power to dissolve and reconstruct the local organizations of he party, and especially one that representa one-fifth of the population of our State, we yet assure you that the State Committee can suggest no course of action to the body resented by us that will not recetve the most respectful consideration of that body. And we assure you that no suggestion of the State Committee which urges our General ‘Committee to greater efforts to promote the harmony, purity And eiliciency of the republican party in our city wil be re- garded by the city as-obtrustve or impertinent, We desire that yourseif and the body that you represent shal understand that in thus considering this Question thority¢ we do 80 lo no spirit of factious opposition, but with the sinoere desire of advancing the beat interests of the great pariy of which we are all members. In reply to the first and second charges against the present organization of the party in our city, submitted by you, we have to say, that if any known republican or republicans in either of the Assembly districts of tho city, represented in the General Committee, of which Mr, Horace Greeley is President, will present aby complaint embodying the oh, you submit, or any other cause of grievance against the party organization’ in the district in which be or they may Teside, whether such complainants are or are not enrolled members of the party in such district or districts to the Presi- dent of said General Committee, such complaint shall be promptly considered and fairly adjudicated, and that until such complaints have been brought to the notice of the local party authority (the regularity of which is not in this case Questioned), by parties injured, and action thereon refused Or injustice done the complainants, it 1s, in our opinion, 1n- judicious for any other branch of the party to interfere. To the third charge we have to say that any republical holding places under the munictpal authorities of this city do 80 under a custom that is older than the party itself—a cus- tom df dividing certain places under the city goverament be- tween the two parties—that has for years received the sane. tion of the best men of our party, some of whom have been recipients of such patronage, even some of your own com: mittee having been watil recently such recipients, and that, too, without having their party fealty questioned. And no man, to our knowledge, questions the party fidelity of that ‘other member of your honorable body, who, when Mayor of our cky; nominated to high and important ofices well-known aud active partisans of Tammany Hall, one of whom gull holds an {mportant municipal place. When our party had the State it recognized this principle of division with our political opponents, and one of the most responsible departments of the city government—that of street cleaning—was, by a republican Governor and Senate, put inte the hands of the demoeratic party. This is one way Of recognizing the rights of the minority, As to the wisdom of this policy the undersigned are not called to give an opinion, but they beg leave to gent that, inasmuch as the system is far trom beingnew, the holaing of such places by republicans is no evidence of party infidelity in the present incumbents, We beg leave to add that any persons holding municipal Offices in this city who, belng members of our General Com- mittee, or members of any organization represented in sald committee, shall be charged by republicans living in their respective districts with party {nfdelity, such persons shail be promptly tried, and If found guilty expelied from our organization. The body we represent ig as anxious to main- tain party purtty and tdelity ag i the State Committee, and will do in its power to secure that result. To the fourth charge the undersizned have to say that the present General Comrittee is not responsible for the com: Position of ita immediate predecessor, over which ithad no control, To the fifth, sixth and seventh charges the foregoing re- spouses are respectfully reiterated. We beg leave to add, 1D iiustration, that circulars recommending, and ballots con- taining the names of democratic candidates for and city offices, were sent out from the rooms of the State Commitice just prior to the last State election, under ihe advice and direction of parties conspicuously pressing the zation. We need not add that the ‘ thorized or approved such treach- ery, and should not be dissolved on account of it. ‘othe eighth charge we respectfully reply that the police are not and have not been under the control of the Repub: Iican General Committee of this county. To the ninth charge we respectfully submit, that if “large numbers of the genuine republicans” took no part in the December primaries, that they did, by such neglect, estop themse.ves from all reasonable ground of complaint against the present party organization. ‘To the three remaining charges submitted by your commit- tee we respectfully beg teuve to repeat thatf any republican, whether of the “ten thousand” you speak of, or of last year's General Commitiee, or of the “County Convention” referred to, have any party grievances to complain of, and. will sub- mit them to the Genera! Committee, such complaints will be promptly investigated and justice done. The undersigned respectfully submit that the well estab- lished and universally recognized principle of allowing delegated bodies to oe the judges of the election and qualifi cations of their own mernvers is applicable to the present Kepublican General Committee of our cliy; and if that Principle ia ignored in the present case, by dissolving 1t, on allegations made against certain of its constituents (no charge having been inade against the commitvee iteelf), a precedent will be established for other counties and for other State committees, and the party machinery taken from the local authorities ‘and vested in the hands of an ever-changing body of men from other parte of the State, smail in numbers and accountable to no authority beyond themselves. The State Committee Is composed of thirty-one members. Say seventeen are necessary for a quorum for the transaction of business: nine of that seventeen are a majority. nine men adopt a measure of such vast party {mportance as “the disolation of the General Committee of w county 80 important as ours, with “some fifty thousand” republican voters therein ¥ The reorganization asked for at your hands implies and compels such dissolution. This expedient has been repeatediy tried without success. We deem it unadvisable to repeat It. ‘That remedy will not heal our present. party ‘The gentiemen asking this action at vour handah: been gratified in a similar demand (though never the State Committee, nor on its own authority), but without any satis- factory result. They now ask you to'aid them again. Should you do so, and should they again fail in getting control of the party machinery in the county (which is all they alm at), they would again ask your interference, and. so on to the end. These remedies have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. ‘We now ask leave of your committee to say a word about those who seek to use it for their own pury We do this not for the purpose of creating further dissensions. in. our Tanks we already have enongh—bat we apeak for the. pur- pose of showing that as these gentlemen have been unwise counsellors in the past they are not the proper persons to advise you or it in judgment on a body like the General Com- mitieg, whose actions have not yet been arraigned, but whose existence these gentlemen desire to end by your in- terference, First—It is charged th to » under their promptings, your com- mittee advised that the ‘party in our city should not only make party nominacions for city and county officers at the late elections, but shouid, to some extent, vote for democratic candidates—a confession of weakness and despair that no men claiming to be republicans ever before induced @ Republican State Committee to make, by which advice party lines were so effaced ai onsands of Tepublicans so discouraged as not to vote at all or to make their own selection as to which of the democratic candidates they would vore for, when the directing or controling body of the party advised und almost forced them into an election without any candidate of their own. And this ducourage- ment and party demoralization was not confined to the city, but produced its injurious effects over the entire State, affecting tens of thousands of voter, The belief that we should thereby gain votes proved entirely fallacious, Secon i—It is charged that the Igentieman now asking your aid, in the interest of @ faction, induced your committee not to recognize the Republican General Committee of the city of New York, during the late election, by withholding from it the appropriations usually made to it by the State Com- mittee—an act of gross injustice to the members of that committee, whose conduct has never been questioned, and Of greater wrong to the party whose official representative it was; and this your committee was persuaded by these gentlemen to do, without sald committee having been guilty Of @ single act which made it amenable to your committee, orto the State Convention, or of which it had been found guilty, But for moneys loaned to that committee for neces- sary and lawful purposes, such as booths, printing, naturall- zation, Ac., the republican vote atthat election would have been 80 smail as to shame even those who ignored that General Committee, and who are now striving to destroy its successor. Third it is charged that, under the advice of the parties referred to, your committee was induced to adopt measures by which we lont the ollicial return in favor of the republi- can Assemblyman in the Seventh Assembly district, where, but for uch advice, the majority for Mr. Twombly would have been so large that even de:nocratic rascality would not have bad the hardihood requisite to count him out. Fourth—It is charged that by such advice a caudidate was placed in the fleld against Mr. Costa, the regular republican candidate in the Ninth district (elected the year before and counted out by Tammany Hall, by which that district was lost, The candidate opposed to Mr. Costa did, in addition to the aid given him by advice of the parties referred to, also receive money from Tammany Hall for remaining in the canvass against our regular candidate, Fifth—It is charged that by such advice and ald Mr. Gridley, the republican candidate in the Eleventh Assem- bly district, was defeated by the running against him of one of our accusers, who polled less than one-fourth of the re- pabiican vote, and that, by the loss of these three republican members from this city, jslature was made over to the democratic party, thus enabling itto 80 arrange Con- gressional districts of ‘our State as ahall redound to their ad vantage and our injury. In conclusion we again beg leave to state that our organi- zation is as anaious for the purity, honor and success 0 Fepubilcan party as yourselres, that we are ready at all times to receive any complaints that may be made to our General Committee, and to do justice to alf parties in interest (and we trust the character of our president is suflicient guarantee on that score), that no chai have been submitted against that committee eltuer of refusing to redress Ehevances or of acta of injustice or party infidelity; that the parties to use your committee in the matter of re- Organization are joing po in the interest of the portion “s e party, ae ts the fact that as soon as they foun ey could not control the party machinery in the manugo- ment of which they tpok part under former reorganizations Pay Soneat be on yeh rior oa y the pariy, as such reorgnotzations, and bow sak | your Jcommiltee | to recognize thelr secession by ignoring apd dissolving central the county: that ast haa bi Pe rougl anthorit; party ht no ‘action ation of th part oth nization of the e goods that at this tne will do. ho 00d AR assum| wer nev sed ate Tocal organization; that fuch. act will widen the bi i exisin In the party io the city, the effects of whieh will be felt throughout the State. Very respectiallyy. OLA TOUSEY, KNOCH L, FANCHER, JOSEPH W. HOWE, JOHN COCHRANE, HORACE GREELEY, Naw York, Jan, 26, 1s71. HORACE PUTS HIS FOOT IN IT. A motion was made to accept the report, which the venerable Horace put to the meeting and sumn- marily declared adopted. Scarcely, however, had the enthusiasm excited by its passage subsided than Mr. Dayton indignantly rose to his feet and up- braided the chairman with having been led away by his vanity as the probable author of the report to declare it adopted before he had afforded an opportunity to any member who dissented from the views expressed in it to speak. Horace was naturally completely taken aback, but excused himself, in nervously anxious accents, for his inadvertenc injustice. He also again put the report to the meeting, and Mr, Dayton seized the Opportunity to say that, while he,acquiesced in most provins of the report he considered it drawn up in a spirit which would not contribute to the har- mony and prosperity of the party inthe city. So far from being written in the true spirit in which jt Ought to have been couched, the report was of a character intended—deliberately intended—to pro- mote dissension. The fine sayings 1t contained were intended to parpesuase the disturbances which now exist. He had hoped that it wouid, on the con- trary, have led to the consolidation into @ cémpact and united party of all whe were in opposition to Tammany de Mr. LLOYD ASPINWALL began to speak in the same strain, wnen Horace cut him short by saying that he (TEERBLY MIBOONCRIVED the purport of the committee's repor' Me Aspinwall said no more, but Mr. Dayton again took up the cudgels against Greeley in a lengthy and heated harangue. Mr. FORSTER next spoke. He said he did not re- gard & man who held a place ina mixed commission as holdii office under Tammany. Every man knew the bargain that passed the City Charter. The republicans forced a division of those commissions, They did not make a bargain; they dictated terms, He and Mr, Greeley and fourteen others went to Albany. Mr. "Gnmatay—Yea; but I did not agree to that division of offices, Mr. ForsteR—No, nor I etther. Mr. Forster then went on te give a curious story in regard to THE CAREY-TWOMBLY district. He said it was in his knowledge that Mr. Twombly had been defeaced by the Central Com- mittee. ‘Iwo nights before election the third (young democratic) candidate who Was run- ning in that district went to the committee and said he had no hope of winning, but did net ‘Want the Tammany man elected, and would keep in the tleld, if money barely enough to pay his further expenses were given him by the republicans. Mr. Forster then arraigned the committee, who retused that oifer on purpose to elect the Tammany man, of treachery and of HAVING SOLD OUT their party. 1n conclusion he warned Mr. Greeley that the men who had pushed him into his present me did not want him to succeed, and, though he Bal Committee, “GOD BLESS HIM (GRRELEY)” for saking it, he did not think he would succeed. Several other speakers made more or less ant- mated addresses, and finally Mr. Dayton withdrew his opposition, alter having received some hot per- sonal shots in respect to his$ past political career from Major Fairman. On motion of General CocHRANE a committee of five, composed ofgMessrs. Cochrane, Andrews, Fors- ter, Dayton and Conover, were appointed to hear charges against any recreant republicans and re- Port on their conduct to the committee, Mr. HUGH NESBITT offered a resolution, Which was unanimously apaied ferang womens the action of the Legislature in the Carey-Twombly case as a bold usurpation of power, which disfranchised & majority of the Seventh Assembly district. The committee then adopted the proposed by- laws, and adjourned before ten o'clock. THE FENIAN EXILES, Representatives from the Workingmen’s Interna- tional Society, Officers of the Irish Brigade and of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment and Irish Republican Brotherhood Call on the Prisoners. The Fenians had a quieter day than usual yester- day. About two hundred visitors made calls upon them, among whom were §S. J, Meany, Majer D. P. Conyngham, Colonel John O’Mahony, D, O’Sulli- van, of the Jrish People; John Egan, formerly State Centre of the Fenian Brotherhood of New Jersey; Captain Jonn F. Scanlon, of Chicago, and P. W. Dunne, of Peoria, U.; John E. Kelly, of Elizabeth, N. J.; Captain Lindsay, of the Italian Bersaglieri; Colonel John W. Byron, Captain Rudolph Fitzpatrick, Captain Michael O’Rorke and others, Among the deputation every nationality was repre- sented. At half-past ten A. M. a deputation from the Workingmen’s International Society, one of the most powerful revolutionary associations in the world, consisting of Baptiste Hubert, representing the French branch of the organization, and F. A. Sorge, representing the German branch, called on the exiles and made them an address verbally. The Fenians, through O'Donovan Rossa and General Burke, re- piled, This assoclativa has 650,000 members in France, over 400,000 in Germany, 250,000 in England, and 100,000 members in the United States. As is the custom with the Fenian exiles, they requested that A WRITTEN ADDRESS be made by tne delegates of the “International,” which was acceded to, and an answer will be re- turned in writing by the released prisoners, The delegate representing tne Slavonic branch of the “International” could not be present owing to sickness, but will be present on a future occa- sion. During the evening a delegation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, called and heid a secret session with the exiles. Professor Dowling, the inventor of Greek Fire, and James S. O'Sullivan at- tended this meeting, which was entirely private. A deputation from Yonkers then waited upon the exiles and had an interview, after which General War- ren, Colonel Byron and others, ex-members of the irish Brigade, called upon the exiles. At half-past eight P. M. twenty officers of the Sixty-ninth regt- ment New York State National Guard called upon the Fenians and presented them with the following address, which was read by Captain Daniel Lyddy, who had prepared it for the occasion. Captain Lyady acted as chairman of the deputation, and Colonel Ces had command of the delegation, who were in full uniform, with side arms, THE SIXTY-NINTH TO THE EXILES. GFNLRMEN--In the name of the Sixty-ninth regi-ment we welcome you to this free land, and we tender you our cordial congratulations on your release from the terrible imprisonment which you have suffered at the hands of the British aristocracy. We are of your race, and we welcome you at brothers released from bondage. re sons of the Fepublic, and we recognize in you worthy champions of the right of the peoples. Ass soldiers we greet you, members of that ae band who fn all lands and ages have unfinch- ingly battied azainst aristocratic misgovernment, fe have made you this formal visit in our official capacity to evidence our unquestioned sympathy with your noble cause and our admiration for yourselves personally, who, in times that tried men’s souls, have displayed a heroic endu- Tance worthy of the best days of old Greece or Rome. Your ersonal bearing under terrible trials is the best evidence to world of nobility and holiness of the cause of Irish freedom. That cause will ever command our sym- rou our best wishes for " athy and support, and we pledge to Four personal welfare and the timais fuisiment of teeta Vine longing for, immortality--the immortality of inde- pendence—which has been ever a characteristic-of Irlah na- Uonality. With renewed expressions of our high esteem, we are, very faithfully, yours, The presentation of the address took place in the dining room at Sweeny’s Hotel, and addresses were made by Colonel Cavanagh, Captain Lyddy, General Burke, O'Donovan Rossa, Charles Underwood O'Con- neil aad others, The Fenians have accepted a reception which is to be tendered them by the authorities of the city of Breoklyn, and @ house to cost $10,00018 to be pur- chased for presentation to O'Donovan Rossa by the Fenians of Elizabeth, N. J. Miss Mina Geary, the vocalist, and Miss Lizzie O’Brien have tendered thelr services to sing at any concert which may be ac- cepted by the exiles, either for themselves or the families of the Fenians still in prison. A meeting was also held at §Sweeny’s, at which & committee, consisting of the Chairman, Captam Michael O?Rorke, Dennis B. Cashman, John Locke, W. 0. O’Brien and others, made arrangements for a con- cert, which is to take place at Cooper Institute on the evening of February 16 for the benefit of the widew of J. J. Geary, who was a prominent Fenian in Cork, and lost his life some time since in this city, Miss Mina Geary will also sing at this concert, and Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa will give a reading. Dennis Dowling Mulcahy will preside, and the exiles in a body will attend the concert, Mr. Hawkes Becomes Indi, To THE EpiToR OF THR HERALD:— Will you please insert the following in answer to the remarks and card published in your report of the Fenian reception on Wednesday ? { simply offered to give a concert at the Academy of Music, the profits of which 1 would hand over to the Irish exiles, I tried to get their promise to attend it. This, how- ever, they believed themselves unable todo. I then ba td having moved in the matter, I would carry it through, knowing that exiles generally need money, and seein; nothing in the history of Irish atriotism, from Daniel O’Vonnell’s repeal rents to ‘enian subscriptions, to lead me to think they woald refuse it. I cated on Mr. Fisk, who at once and most generously tendered me the use of his band, also of one of his best prime donne, and added he would alse atd me in the matter. Several other gentlemen expressed their willingness to do the same. Neither Mr. Fisk nor any of them knew aught of the matter till addreased by me. Tam out of et for preliminary rations, and the exiles are out of moneys that evidently Would have aggregated a considerable sum, that’s all, Iam glad the gentlemen do not need wid, and 80 will be many otter people now being applied to | borers. behalt our servan' on their 1 your se TK eS, THE STATE CAPITAL, LIVELY DISCUSSION ON AGRICULTURE. A Cruel Fling at Theoretical Farmers. A THEATRICAL INCIDEN New York Workingmen and Coolie Labor. John Chinaman’s Persecutors in This City Getting Ready for Him. ALBANY, Feb. 2, 1871. ‘The culture of the tender capbage gnd the proper care of the stately beanstalk are subjects which have crazed more than one philosophically vegetavle Mind since the time Adam first acted as his own gardener. Is it to be wondered at, then, that, even im winter time, when the hills are snow-clad and not @ potato top is to be seen the entire land throuzh, that the subject of agriculture should get wise and deep-thinking legislators by the very ears? Certainly the philosopher of Printing House square would have opened his eyes inj astonishment had he been present in the Assembly this morning when the questien of renewing the charter of the State Agricultural Society came up for a pelting in Committee of the Whole. Had he been able to hide his aristocratic form in some out of the way place in the galleries, where he could have seen and heard all that was worth seeing beiow stairs, he would have espled Alvord rising in his seat when the first Section of the bill was read, and heard him talk loud and long about Horace’s favorite hobby, THE TILLING OF THE SOIL. This he would have relished, but how he would have taken Alvord’s wind-up I hesitate to say. It was in these words:—‘I know very well that it is intended to place this society in the hands of men who can talk farming from night til! morn, write essays and do everything but take care of a farm—men whose names are familiar to the people of the State. They are great on Paper. Their theories are magnificent; their Practice is nothing. The president and executive committees of the society are but ornamental figureheads, The hard-fisted farmers of this State ought to havea word to say in this matter, and should not be shoved asiae to gratify bungling ex- perimentalists.” Doubtiess the philosopher would have rubbed his eyes a littld after this, to see if it was really @ republican admirer of his who was thus knocking the foundations from under his own works; but what would he have said when Mr. Fields asked Mr. Alvord if he referred to the author of “WHAT I KNOW ABOUT FARMING” when he referred to men who couid write essays on farming, but whose theories could never ve put into practice, and when the latter replied, “He 1s one of | the persons I refer to, but he is not the only one?” Who could help admiring the delicacy of this wily answer? Probably the philosopher could; for it may not be a very delicate thing after all, after calling a man a fool, to say that he is only one of many! In- deed, this agricultural subject, which at first blush one would think was the very last to create any hubbub in the House, was really the only thing that broke in upon the dull monotony of the morning sitting. The New York members, who do no farming outside of “SUNKEN LOTS” in New York city, which pay certain people better than following the ploughs»ares where browa stone fronts are not plentiful, took no part in the discus- sion. It was altogether too deep ploughing ror their metropolitan understandings, and so they left the matter to the exclusive pow-wowing of the ruralites, Westchester, Hi and Scribner were particu- larly anxious that an amendment proposed, making @ member no? entitled to vote until he hat been a member for thirty days before the annual elec- tion, should not be adopted. Littlejohn, of Oswego, supported the amendment in ® Vigorous speech, Whue delivering it he hit his desk so many hard raps (by way of wak- ing up the members who were trying to get asleep, it was supposed) that Jacobs, who sits in front o! him, became terrified and went out into the middle aisle, where he stood unui the coairman made hun get out of THE LINE OF VISION of Mr. Prince, of Queens, who was anxious to note Littiejohn’s angular gesticulations. The member from Oswego, however, spoke 80 loudly and rapped his’ desk so hard that everybody was “attention” before he had said ‘“agri- culture” @ dozen times, Getting excited at the close of his speech, he exclaimed:—“The ten- dency of legislation of nowadays is toward central- ization of power and the building up of huge mo. nopolies, and so long as I nave a voice in a matter of this Kindred I shall raise it against its passage. ‘This tendency must be checked; for, as it 18, legisia- tion, following its bent, makes the powerful richer and the weak poorer.” A shuffling of uneasy feet, premonitory of appiause in th’ galleries, made itseif heard at this stage; but the chairman’s gavel peer the utmost silence, which left the friends of the bill in its original state ina better condition to appreciate Mr, Littlejohn’s jast remark, which was, ‘1 understand, and | nave it from good authority, that there is another bill hidden under this, and that 1ts object will be to compel CERTAIN VALUABLE LANDS to be sold to this society at exorbitant prices.” This shivered the last timber of the original bill; so, after it had been severely amended, so as to meet the wishes of its goon in its first form, the com- mittee rose and reported progress upon it. Who will say after this that the “hard-fisted” farmers haven’t frienas in the Legisiature ? LEGISLATIVE THEATER GOERS IN DUDGEON. Quite an amusing scene occurred shortly after the disposal of the Agricuitural bill, Mr. Jacovs, of Kings, has an idea, quite a just one too, by the way, that if the Legislature does not work alittle harder than it does to get through with the hundreds of bills tnat are beginning to accumulate at a fearful rate many Important measures will have to be given the go-by when the final adjournment takes es Well, to make his idea wortn something ne Made it his special business from time to ume to oppose the usual weekly adjournment and to cur- tail it in some way. Last week the New Yorkers Wanted to adjourn until Tuesday morning, but Jacobs again showed his hand andhad the time shortened to Monday evening. PREACHING AND PRACTICE are two different things, even with legislators, and when Monday evening came there was no Jacobs; but that is neither here nor there. Suttice it to say that he again proposed to-day that if the House wanted to adjourn en Friday it should hold an evening session te-night. There was @ howl on the ad ee ube ie ovine, New rere ae als and crt “Yes, yes,” “No, no,’ rang out through the chamber. Now, Tom Fields had hired las A BOX IN THE THEATRE for to-night, and he saw his fun knocked in the head by the motion if carried; so he get up. He began by expatiating upon the ‘merits of the ‘great ac- tress’’ whom he desired to see play, and gotgso far, notwithstanding his heavy weight, into the realms of the hifalutin on the tragi¢’ art that the whole House burst into a loud roar of laughter. Finding the descriptive useless Thomas resorted to the ap- pealing mood. This way of getting a favor is @ Strong one, and in a minute or so Denny Burns was Wiping a stray tear from his left eye, while even Wynant, all the way trom Dunkirk, tried to look composed by reading an official report on draii ages. Larry O’Brien got excited and sat down on his desk tustead of a chair, for he, too, had hired a Seat right closo to the footiights. Even the Speaker looked sympathetic, while Tim Campbell eyed Jacobs as though he felt half inclined to wring his neck. 1, outrel got out of his chair and placed himself near Fields, trying his best to see, as well a8 ordimary men. do without glasses, who were the fellows who were to knock the theatre party in the head; but he could not. Fields finally got through withighis ‘‘appeal.’? Then Selkreg, on ‘finding that Thomas had a whole box, said he would take a seat in it and vote “no.” The New Yorkers, every man or mother’s son of Whom had his ticket already bougit for THE “sHOW,’? looked jubilant at this, and while the vote was being taken Were anxious and hopeful. But alas! when the total was announced it stood 63 to 60, and the theatre-goers lost the day. They held @ caucus ut 1X O'clock and tried to sell off ‘their reserved seats at half price, ‘The bill of Mr. Tweed, to provide for a greater puppiy of pure water for New York, was discussed tm Senate Committee of the Whole for over an hour, An amendment by Mr. Caldwell, providing that the water of the lakes shall not be reduced below three feet under high water mark, was adopted. Mr. ‘Tweed consented to an amendment providing for the payment by the Commissioner of Public Works of damages to such persons whose interests are atlected by the provisions of the bill. Mr. Tweed refused to consent to an amendment }imiting the bonds to be issued under the act to $1,000,000, but declared chat the total expense would be much less. ‘Ihe bill as amended in Committee of the Whole was reported back to the Senate, ORDO,” GOING FOR “TB NEATHE! In the Senate this morning Mr. Tweed introducea a bil to prevent the eee of coolies as la- ie explained that the bill was sent to him ns Union of New to read it, he was by a committee of the Wi York and as he had not had NOt disposed te father ft. The biTl declares that employment of Chinese, or s-calied coolie in any mining, manufacturing or mechanical labor under and in mene. of any contract made else. Where forthe game, and under the provisions of which contract such laborers shall have been pur- osely imported or brought within the limits of this tate, shall be unlawful; aud any contract made for that purpose or with that intent vutaide of this State and previous to the introduction of such labor or laborers, shall be deemed null and void and of no binding force or validity whatever within this (State, Any person who shall here after, in pursuance of any such illegal contrac! import, introduce or bring within this State suc! laborer or laborers, with the imvent that they shall be employed and serve under such illegal contract or agreement, shall be deemed guilty of a misae- meanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by & fine of not less than $1,000, or imprisonment in a penitentiary for not less than twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the Court. The introauc- tion of the bill created quite @ sensation in the Senate, as it is considered very arbitrary in its de- mands, be APTRR SHR OFPAU PROPER ir. Murphy introduced a bill that makes it a mi demea ee aeranie by a fine of $500 and six months’ imprisonment, for any person to throw dead animals, carrion, or offal into the North or East river, the waters of Raritan Bay or New York. The offender may be arrested by the authorities and con- veyed to the place where the offence was committed for trial. It is carefully drawn, and will eventual terminate the nuisances created by the New Yor Rendering Company and other contractors in New York aud Brooklyn. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE Senate. ALBANY, Feb. 2 1871, BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. TwEED—Probibiting the employment of Chinese orcoolie labor, Mr. Tweed aatd he had introduced the bill at the request of the working men of New York, and was not prepared to say he was in favor of it, By Mr. Prenck— Incorporating the, Long Island Loan and Trust Company with a capital of #30) Mr. MURPHY introduced a bill prohibiting the throwing of offal, &c., into the East and North rivers. Also to exempt bonds and mortgages on real estate from taxation, By Mr. LEwis—For the better protection of life from ex- plosions, BILLS REPORTED. Authorizing attorneys and counsellors to take affidavits and acknowledgments; enlarging the powers of the Buffalo In- surance Company. Mr. Logp reported fvorably the bill providing for the payment of the expense for publishing the State official canvass, BILLS PASSED, Authorizing the city of Binghamton to borrow money for improvements ; Incorporating the Ciarkson Cemetery ; a izing Binghamton to purchase a toll house ; incorporating the ‘Turn Verein in the city of New York. CANAL, TOLLS ON APPLES, POTATOES, ETO, talit: Loup offered the followins, which was laid on the je under the rule Resoives, if the Assembly concurs, That the Canal Board be respectlully requested to reduce the rates of tolls on apples, potatoes and all esculent. roots to one mill per thou and pounds, belng the rate imposed under the toll aheet of GENERAL ORDERS. ‘ The following bills were disposed of as noted:— Making a just division of the estates of deptors. Third errorfitn Tor the, lection of & supervisor at large for Inge county. readin, ‘Aipending the charter of tue Brooklyn Homeopathio Dis pensary. Third reading. aortas to incorporate the Barrett Bridge Company was passed, Requiring railroad companies to pay laborers once & month in ease contractors fail to.do 80. Progress. N Eroviing for a better supply of pure water for the city of jew York. Recess to seven P, M. Evening Session. GENERAL ORDERS. The following bills were ordered to a third reading: Prohibiting burials in the cemetery corner of and North au Be oa peak Char ‘ast Chester Savings Bank, AAuthorising the city of Lockport to raise money to pay in- debtedness. ‘Amending the Utica Savings Bank charter. Amending the charter of the Southern Tier Savings Bank t Elm! “‘amending the charter of the American Congregational Union of New York. Amending the charter of Tottenviile, Staten Island. Appropriating money to pay the State printing expenses. Authorizing Sutiolk county to raise $45,000 0" pay for & ounty oorhouse. To punish mortgagers of personal property whg frandu- lently sell, assign or secrete such property. ‘The Senate then adjourned. Assembly. ALBANY, Feb. 2, 1871. THR TWOMBLY-CAREY CASE, Mr GOODRICH, on a question of privilege, called attention to an article in the Argus charging him with acting as coun~ sel for Mr. Twombly. He stated that he did not appear as. counsel for that gentleman, except on one occasion, when the counsel was absent, he appeared before the committee: and asked for » subpomna for witnesses. Mr. MURPHY, as chairman of the committee, stated that when the committee first met Mr. Goourich sppeaes and announced himself as counsel for Mr. Twombly; that he was present at every meeting, and it was understood by committee, all through the investigation, that be was actin, ‘as such coi GENERAL O81 The following bills were disposed of ax noted:— ‘The bill renewing the charter of the State Agricultural 8o- ciety was taken uy Mr. ALVORD mbved to strike out the third section, pro- viding that only life members suall be entitled to vote for officers, He then proceeded to denounce what he called an altempt to reduce this society to an exciusive corporation of “men of large means, He regarded it as a movement to de- siroy the usefulness of the society. Messrs. HUSTED and SCRLNEE opposed the motion. Mr. DURFEE said the Agricultural Committee in reporting this bill thought ft eminently fair and proper that life mem- bers only should be entitled to elect the officers of this so- clety. ‘They were the men most interested—the men who hag contributed most of their time and means to the benefit and in behalf of the soctety. Mr. LITTLEJOHN moved to amend and Mr. Alvord ac- cepted it, 40'as to require members to belong to the society thirty days before they shall be entitied to vote, He was op- posed to Making this society a close corporation. Lost. Mr, LITTLEJOBN moved to amend the second section by ‘out the provision limiting tue holdin, catate by laces in the State, and limiting the amoui ‘He looked upon this as 8 nroposition to confine the annual exhibitions to four places in the State, when that matter should be left open to choice, asheretofore. Adopied. Mr, ALVORD moved that no authority shall be given to buy experimental farms, Adopted. SELKERG moved that the annual elections for officers shall take place atthe annual exhibitions, 60 that the con- trol of this society should be placed in the hands of the far- mers, where it properly belongs, ani the best time for get- ting their votes was when they were present at the annual exhibitions. Adopted. ‘The bili was then ordered to a third reading. Authorizing the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad Com- pany to cancel a portion of its bonds, and to subrtitute there. for othera of asmaller denomination. Ordered to a third reading. Making provisions for the governance of the Oriental Bav- ings Bank of New York. fr. NACHTMAN moved an amendment, fixing the location of the banka certain distance from the New Amsterdam Savings Bank. Mr. CAMPBELL opposed the amendment as unjust. The pele bad gone to too much expense in selecting their jocation. The amendment was lost and the bill was ordered to a third readin, i Theor orang the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society of the city of pore Third reading. ‘The bill authorizing supervisors to fit the compensation of County Treasurers except the counties of New York, Kings, Westchester and brie, was ordered to a third read” Continuing tn force the charter of the New York Insiita- lon lind. Third reading Rr i tor the " VETO FROM THR GOVERNOR, The Governor returned the bill authorizing the clerk Monroe county to appoint @ speciai deputy and addition: clerks, witn his objections. He saya the general law makes ‘all necessary provisions for the case, and proceeas at some length to show that the bill ought not to pass. The bull was In put on its passage, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, and it was rejected. BILL INTRODOOED. Mr. MoBELY Introdnced a bill to enable manufacturing and other corporations to amend their articles of associa~ tion. Recess to 734 o'clock P. M. Evenin: The Assembly met again at balf-past seven o'clock P. M. @ The following bills were ordered to a third readin, 1 a ee ¢. vere Episcopal Church, at fompkinsy en Islan "Amending the charter of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society of the Methodist Episco yal Church of New york. Authorizing the Troy Cemetery Association to enlarge its comet Providing for » farther supply of water to the city of Brooklyn and for paying the expenses thereof. Extending the operation of the law allowing municipal corporations to aid in the construction of ratl to towns 1 Incorportting the American Home Missionary Soctet incorporating the . Amending the. charter of the Troy and Cohoes allroad Company. ing the Osws and Midland Railroad, and to facili- tale tae egeseruction thereot. ‘On the motion of Mr, Pounn, Singara county was excepted from the operation of the bill, and it was ordered to a third reading. ‘Amending the charter of the Oswego County Savings Bank. ‘Amending the charter of the Farmers and Mechanics? Savings Bank at Lockport. ‘Amending the charter of the Mutual Savings Bank of OY. To incorporate the Troy Security and Trust Company. Authorizing the construction of @ railroad trom Clinton square to Wolfe street, Syract e Assembly then adjourne TEE PENNSYLVNIA M1.ERS STRIKE. Meeting of Coal Operators in Philadelphia— Immense Capital Represented—Cembina- tion Against the Miners’ Secret Association. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2, 1871, The largest coal meeting ever known in America ‘was held at the Commercial Exchange to-day. The meeting was called by the Reading Railroad Com- pany. Mr. Gowan, President of that road, was Glected chairman. He addressed the meeting at length, and called attention to the necessity of coal operators bape hee revent strikes among the miners in future. ‘The object of the meeting was to form a capital combination against the secret socie- ties of miners, It is estimated that $175,000,000 capi- tal was represented. A committee, consisting of Mr. Gowan and others, left Philadelphia to-night to meet New York oper- ators to-morrow morning. It was unanimously Tesolved to keep the proceedings secret, I learned the above facts through private yet reli- able channeis. Early Resumption of Operations in Schoylkill Regi BETHLENEM, Pa,, Feb. 2, 1871. Everything is quiet in the Luzerne county coal region at present, It is reliably reported that operations will be resumed in a short time. What- ever is done in the Sohuylkin re; badly be followed 10 Luzerne county. patie ail stn the