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WASHINGTON. ees ee rvill’s Land-Grab Bill Passed : in the Senate. The House Hallooing After the Pacific Railroads. Seoretary Boutwells Ideas on Finance and What is Thought of Them. Further Developments in the Discredit Mobilier Investigation. THE SENATOR FROM LOUISIANA. Pinchback’s Election to the Senate Amazes and Comforts the Pusionists, ANE BLAIR’S SUCCESSOR IN THE SENATE, WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 1878, Cabinet Meeting. The Cabinet session to-day was fully attended and lasted two hours. Secretary Boutwell is still confined to the house with severe mfluenza, and Assistant Secretary Richardson represented the Treasury Department at the Cabinet meeting. The consultations were without unusual interest, and there were no matters determined of national im- portance. Progress of the Credit Mobilier Inves- tigation—Strong Testimony Against dames Brooks—Scenes in Judge Po- land’s Committee. Judge Poland’s Crédit Mobiller Investigating Committee is becoming quite the attraction for the fovers of rich and racy disclosures. Every day brings forth some new revelation more interesting than the preceding ones. Jeremiah Wilson's side show does not seem to diminish, but, on the con- trary, increase, the interest in the proceedings of Judge Poland’s committee, To-day the committee foom was crowded with reporters and spec- tators. There were the same actors in the drama present, with some additional bmportant performers. There was the universal trustce, Hoax Ames, that good old man from the sea, who bore the burden of his many confiding Colleagues; there was McComb, the happiest man im the room, and his counsel, Judge Black, whose racy humor caused much merriment; there was also Mr. James Brooks, more cadaverous than ever. Representative Garfield appeared and read a written statement. The burden of his song was similar to that of so many of his accused colleagues. He, too, by the merest accident went to that safe, discreet eld gentleman who was so accommodating as to guarantee ten per cent without investment of sapital, besides paying enormous dividends. The venerable Hoax was, however, only so accommo- Gating where it was likely “todo most good; for all the members ensnared by his wiles were the leading and most influential in the House, They all went to Hoax Ames in the same way as impe- eunious youths will go to ‘see their uncle.” George Francis Train also figures quite prominently among the tempters of Gar- fleld—whose poverty, however, not his will, ented him from yielding to\ the tempta- jon, Ne was . He contradicted imeetf In one notable Instance and got his father-in-law into a worse mess than even that caused by his awkward testimony yesterday. The next witness was Mr. Ham, present Secretary of Mhe Credig ae Pe. had g most treacherous memory and could not remember some of the most important transactions, and could not produce the ‘very papers that were iikely to be wanted ‘pecause they were lost. He brought part of the booxs from Philadelphia, but one of the most important, the stock transfer book, had “gone where the woodbine twineth.” It was, how- over, sald he, all Fisk’s fault; for he had made sev- rai raids on the Crédit Mobilier, and all the com- pany with all the books and papers had to go to travelling, and some of the latter were still en- paged in the same pursuit. ‘Why were the books hid?’ asked Judge Black, ‘In order that parties not interested in them should not have a ehance to see them,’ answered the plausible Ham, “How were they lost?’ queried the Judge. “I don’’ know how they disappeared.) “Did you see them disappear?” The discreet Ham did not, Mr, Crane, the former Assistant treasurer, was then questioned. He was far more outspoken and had a better memory than his predecessors. He explained how Brooks had paid him personally on $10,000 in return for 100 shares Crédit Mobilier and the accrued dividend of B00 Union Pactiic shares and $5,000 Union Pacific bonds. The shares had been handed to Neilsonand the bonds to Mr. Brooks himself. Crane thought this was pretty good trade and said that some more ividends came ulong pretty thick. The most important witness was Mr. Durant, whose testimony went direct against Mr. Brooks. He showed how the 100 shares Crédit Mobilier qhich had been in his name were transferred to Brooks, a8 above stated, and how Mr. Neilson had feceived another instalment of fifty shares as @ mere gift. 1t was also found that Mr. Brooks’ Mame, standing for 100 shares, had been erased from the stock ledgerand Neilson’s name substi- tuted for it. All the attack seems to be now con- centrated on poor Brooks, as if he were te be made the scape goat for his fellow ginners. Looking at his cadaverous, dejected countenance ome couid not help feeling for the old man in trouble. The House Debating the Affairs of the Pacific Railroads and Their Liabil: t to the Government=—Trenchant Blows at Monopolies. There was a lively debate in the House to-day on the affairs of the Pacific Railroads and their liabili- tes tothe government. The Crédit Mobilier in- vestigation has made the House very sensitive on hig subject, and squelched several members, the paid agents of grasping corporations, who, by their unscrupulous mancuvres, have hitherto controlled legislation, At one o'clock ‘the House went into Committeé of the Whele on the Legislative Appropriation bill, and discussed the pending amendment to repeal the ninth sec- tion of the Appropriation bill of 1872, which, say tue @emocrats, was surreptitiously introduced at the time. That section forbids the government to withhold more than half of the earnings of the Pacific Railroads for transportation of troops and mails towards the indebtedness of these ratlroads for the interest paid on their bonds, Sam. Ran- dall, who proposed a still more sweeping amend- ment, dealt sledge-hammer blows to the Pacific Rallroad people. He was in favor of withholding all their earnings fromthe government until they had settled their liabilities te the latter. Mr. Beck ‘was the only prominent domocrat who espeused ‘the cause of the Pacific Railroad. Mr. Beck's action in this matter has surprised many who have here- tofore looked upon him as the uncompromising op- ponent of great corporations. In view of his course in this case his original appointment as one of the committee of the Crédit Mobilier investigation hag Q peculiar significance. It is now said that Mr- ¥eck, in the last election, declared on the stump his belief in the innocence of Congressmen incul. pated in the Crédit Mobilier scandal. He further stated that the Crédit Mobilier investigation had produced the same effect upon Congressmen as a Ted flag is supposed to have upon a mad bull. The Goat Isiand drill Sargent spoke in a similar strain to Judge Kelley, He said Congress might as well repudiate ali the obligations towards bondholders as repeat that provision of law. He believed the House was influenced by some newspapers, who were playing into the hands of Wall street specu- lstore in order to knock Union Pacific stock down. Oleariy the Central Pacific veovle ought to dis i Decause it is too thin. Mr. Kerr demolishe@ the Daseless fabric of the Goat Island man, Mr. Fernando Wood made ® specet’ which by eighty-six to seventy-six. I! nally passed it will leave the law agit was before the section was inserted. Then it will remain for the Courts to de- cide whether or not the Pacific Rattrondsaze en- titled to the annual payment of half their earnings for services rendered to the government. If this question should be decided in the negative it will be at the option of the Secretary of the Treasury to retain all or ag large a part of those earnings as he deems proper, until the obligations of those railroads are cancelled, Sam Hooper as a Receiver of Credit Mobilfer Dividends, From the letter copy book produced to-day by the Secretary of the Crédit Mobilier before the Ip- Vestigating Committee, it appears that the solid, respectable Sam Hooper received on January 9, 1868, as a dividend on his Crédit Mobilier shares, a check for $1,171 60 and 300 shares of Union Pacific Railroad. Oakes Ames Receives Conscience Money. While sitting to-day at nis desk in the House of Representatives Oakes Ames received an envelope containing $4001n greenbacks, conscience money, without s wordasto the sender. It ts tolerably certain that the money came from some frightened, penitent member, who is likely to be called before the Investigating Committee, but who wants to have a technical saving clause, in order to stana up and swear that He owns not a single share of Crédit Mobilier stock and has no business transac- ton whatever with the opjectionable Hoax. Hoax smiled quizzically when he received the money. He believes some contrite Congressman sent it, but who he is he is at @ logs to say. The Government Attorneys in the Credit Mobilier Suit. Aaron T. Perry, of Cincinnati, appointed one of the attorneys to enter suit against the Crédit Mobiller to recover about five millions, arrived here this evening, and will commence the work at once of preparing the case. Stanley Mathews, of the same city, had been asked to act with Mr. Perry, but declines on account of engagements which will require His attention for weeks hence. Mr. Perry, being the first to accept, will now be consuited as to who shall be his associate. It ia understood that he will take part in the investiga- tion of Mr. Wilson’s committee. The Two Dodges Mentioned in the Credit Mobiller Scandal. There has been a good deal of dodging about the Crédit Mobilier and Union Pacific Railroad stocks; but it was not Congressman William kK. Dodge who was in the receipt of a large salary from the road but Kael ae Gee Grenville M. Dodge, who served here in the Fortieth Congress. Secretary Boutwell and the Issue of Legal Tenders—A Lively Dobate in Con- gress Expected. The Senate Finance Committee having reported adversely to the power of the Secretary of the Treasury to reissue any portien of the forty-four million United States notes retired, will next con- sider how the elasticity of the money market may be maintained without giving the control to one man, The free banking system, to be carried on by depositmg five per cent bonds for legal tenders, appears to be Senater Sherman’s idea after the system in vogue in New York before the days of the national banks, when it was necessary to have plenty of currency “to move the crops.” Mr. Sherman says that the report of the committee does not take exception to what Mr. Bortwell has done, or simply that he exceeded his authority, but he thinks the Umit should now be fixed by posttive enactment, Should the resolu- tion pags the Senate it will, if favorably reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, pro- voke @ lively debate, as some of the dem- ocrats are wicked enough to intimate that the reissue was made to make an easy money market in slectionesring. time, Secretary Boutwell supposed the Senale Committee on Fi- Rance would report his bill favorably, permitting the issue, if not exceeding nineteen millions, whenever, in their judgment or that of the Secre- tary of the Treasury, the exigencies of the money market demanded the issue, and the notes 80 put not to be retired when the necessity for expansion had passed, This, Mr. Sherman claims, would still afte the Secretary control over the nineteen millions, while under the free banking system the people would really control the matter. The unusual interest taken by Mr. Boutwell in this matter, in view of the fact that he expects to succeed Mr. Wilson, has attracted the attention of Congressmen. Taken in connec- tion with the statement that the President will have no business for an extra session of the Senate after the 4th, it is believed that Mr. Boutwell ex- pects to remain in the Cabinet until next De- cember. thers assert that i¢is done in the prospective interest of Judge Rich: What- ever may be the result, both are lous in main- taining the present condition of affairs in the Trea- sury Department. Itis stated on the best autho- rity that should Congress limit the circulation to the minimum, Secretary Boutweil or his successor will be compelled to increase the curremcy balance to eight or ten millions. The News of Pinchback’s Election to the Senate—Warmoth to Rake Up His Rec- erg—The Fusionists Amazed But Hope- ful. The large delegation of New Orleans merchants who have remained here to look after the interests of Louisiana before Congress, were amazed to- night when it was sunounced that Pinchback had been chosen Senator by the Kellogg Legislature. The name of E. E. Norton, formerly of New York, was fixed upon at the time Kellogg accepted the nomination for Governor, that in the event of the latter's election, all his influence should be thrown for Norton. It is asserted that this was also stipulated by Judge Durell before he signed the injunctiens and other orders in the Kellogg- Warmoth 6u.t, and will form part of the subject matter for investigation by the Judiciary Oommit- tee of the House in examining Durell’s conduct, In addition to these influences money was to be liberally used, while the antipathy of the ne; for @ mulatto was to injure any aspirations Pinch- back might have. The Kelloggites reckoned without their host; for no sooner had Pinchback control than he boldly declared his intention of succeeding Kellogg. The {friends of Governor Mc- Enery are highly gratified at the turn events have taken, and when Mr. McMillan, the choice for Sen- ator o/ the fusion Legislature, arrives here, the con- test will begin in earnest, Mr. Warmoth, It is said, has sundry documents not creditable to the ren tation of @ grave United States Senator, and the Senate 1s in the humor o! investigating cl of corruption sae bribery the aspirant from New Orleans for a seat may find it still beyond his reach, Colonel Bogy Successor to Senator Blair. Colonel Bogy, who has been elected to the Senate #8 the successor of General Frank Blair, on the 4th of March next, belongs to one of the old French families that were the first settlers in the Missis- sippt Valiey. He sympathized with the South at the ‘outbreak of the rebellion, but made no political demonstrations, and he was appointed Commis- sioner for the purchase of Indian supplies by Presi- dent Johnson. The Senate, however, rejected him, as it had rejected the nomination of Biair, and he has eince been an opponent of the regular repub- jicans at St. Louis, The Massachusetts Senatorship—Wilson a Bar to Boutw: Senator Wilson refuses to vacate his curule chair in the Senate until the 16th of February, in which case, under the United States law regulat- ing the election of State Senators, neral Court of Massachusetts ci Successor unttl the 25th. This delay is regarded as unfavorable to Boutweil, whose friends are sore about it, and as giving Dr. Loring more time in which to see what he cam do to win the coveted Senatorship. Merrill's Land Job Pat Through the Senate. Senator Morrfil, of Vermont, pat his new land grad dill through the Senate this afternoon after four long dreary hours of debate, in which all the old arguments for and against agricultaral colleges eee "ae conte Maha A some stereot, tad ‘1 abow e of Sta Te of their size or thetr population. pergy A Banker Who Likes the Syndicate. Mr. Morton, the senior member of the New York banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co., appeared before the Committee of Ways and Means to-day and made a statement on the subject of the new Funding bill and the Syndicate. nee favored the continuance of the Syndicate aystem as the only one hy which the conversion of the six per cent bonds Into five per cents could be practically car- out PANCY FINANCE. Recretary Boutwell’s Power to Issue $44,000,000 thelr views oe Tepert United States Notes Denied. Wright and THE BAR ASSOCIATION. Report of the Senate Committee on Finance— | Annual Meeting and lection of Officers—The “Power Mast Not Bé Inferred by Subtle Rea- soning”—Assistant Secretary Richard- son Exonerated from Blame. Wasuinaton, Jan. 14, 1873, The Committee on Finance, in obedience to a Tesolution of the Senate of the 6th instant as fol- lows:—“Resolved, That the Committee of Finance be directed to inquire whether the Secretary of the Treasury has power, under the existing laws, to issue United States notes in teu of the $44,000,000 of notes retired and cancelled under the act of April 12, 1866,” report that a construction of the act of April 12, 1866, rendered necessary the exam- ination of the several acts authorizing legal tender notes, The power of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue the notes described in the resolution, if it exists, must have been conferred by these acts. The authority of Congress to authorize their issue has been disputed, but may now be con- aldered as settled by all departmenta of the government. It was exercised by Congress only under the most pressing necessity, as an incident to the powers to borrow money, to coin money, to declare and maintain war and to provide for the national defence and general welfare. 1t was first asserted and exercised by Congress February 25, 1862, when to coin the public credit into money seemed the only expedient left to maintain the au- thority of the government during a pressing war. This authority was again exercised July 11, 1862, and March 3, 1863, These several acts declared the. United States notes to be LAWPUL MONEY AND A LEGAL TENDER in peraeat of all debts, pablic and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt and were required to issued only if required by the exigency of the public service, for the payment of the army and havy and other creditors Of the government. The amount of each issue was carefully limited. The Aggregate could not exceed $450,000,000 and in fact never exceeded $433,160,569. The power thus ex- ercised ‘was felt to be a dangerous one, liable to abuse and was carefully limited and guarded, though the war continued two years and more after the passage of the act of March 3, 1863, and immense sums were borrowed upon various forms of security. The limit of United States notes was not enlarged. Alter further argument the committee say that the act of April 12, 1866, referred to in the resolu- tion of the Senate, was passed in approval ol and in accordance with the avowed policy of Mr. Mc- Culloch, the Secretary of the Treasury, to retire all short time liabilities by funding them into bonds, and to reduce the yolume of United States notes 80 that those remaining outstanding should be from their scarcity at par with gold, THE ONLY LIMITATION MADE to the power of contraction was by the following proviso :— Provided, That of United States mblioues doses alte ate peteuret mare at te six months from the passage of this act, and thereaiter not more than four millions of dollars in any one month. Itis clear that this act authorized the payment, cancellation and destruction of all obligations issued under any act of Congress whether bearing interest or not, and the issue in lieu thercof of any description of bonds authorized by the act of March 8, 1865. The issue of bonds pecdenarily 1 volved the destruction and cancellation for all time of the obligations received in exchange for the bonds, for the act declares that it should not be construed to authorize increase of the public debt, To hold that any of the obligations, whether bearing interest or not, received by the United States in exchange for its bonds could be re- issued again is utterly INOQNSISTEN? WITH THE PRIMARY OBJECT OF THE ACT, the tundfig of the debt and with the provision that the debt should not be increased by the exchange. ad for the provision limiting the cancellation of inited States notes all of them might have been cancelled when fegelves Jn exe ange for ‘onda, To construe the ao! mitting the reissue of United States notes cancelled under it would allow the Secretary to increase the debt in direct viola- tion of the act. Toevade the act he would only have to receive the notes in payment of a boud ts- sued and then cancel the notes and issue others in their place, In this way both notes and bonds oul be outstanding. Plain intent of this act TO REDUCE AND CONTRACT THE CURRENCY. To render this more apparent the committee refer to what preceded the Passage of the act of April 12, 1866, and then say if the power to reissue had been a power co-existing with that of retiring, it is evident that the act of February 4, 1863, was. unnecessary, for the evil to be arrested by that act could as well have been arrested by the reissue of the notes. That act passed when it was alleged contraction was too rapid, and not passed to re- lieve the stringency by authorizing a reissue, but, on the contrary, only suspended the pewer exer- cised alter the passage of the act of 1866. From the review of the several acts relating to United States notes the committee conclude that the in- tent and legal effect of these acts, when fairly cen- atrued, were to reduce the maximum of legal tender notes },000,000, No one appears to have asserted the Secretary had power to increase that ‘sum. The care with which A MAXIMUM WAS ALWAYS PRESCRIBED indicates the intention of Congress to preserve one. The only contingency for an excess was to temporarily meet a temporary | and by the act Of Aprti, 1866, the temporary loan was funded. It is said that since the pass: of the act of Feb- Tuary 4, 1868, large sums of United States notes have been held by the Treasury Department as a surplus fund in excess Of $356,000,000 in circulation for the purpose of meeting any sudden demand upon the Treasury. This was necessarily so, as larger quantities came in daily tor redemption as mutilated, defaced or endangered by successful counterfefting, but no issue in excess of 356,000,000 was made, except in twoinstances, In one of these $1,500,900 was issued after the Chicago fire, to replace that amount burned and destroyed in the office of the depositary at Chicago during the fire. This is scarcely an eXception, for the new notes were issued only in advance of the formal proof and allowance for the destroyed. notes, but not in advance of the certainty of their destruc- tion. The other case is stated je Secretary of the Treasury in his letter of December 13, 1872, pamely, yt the AMOUN? OF UNITRD gTATRS NoTBS IN CIRCULATION was increased in October last, upon the order of Assistant Secretary Richardson, then Acting Sec- retary, in the absence of the Secretary, in the sum of about five million dollars over the amount out- standing when the act ot February 4, 1868, became a law. e object of the issue was the relief of the business of the country, then suffering from the large demand for currency employed in removing the crops from the South and West. The condition hen existing in the country seemed to ary, ashe says, to have warranted the issue upon GROUNDS OF PUBLIC POLICY, The committee say that no sooner was this ower Claimed than it was at once contested. It is scarcely cae that if such a power existed it pet Por tae been srerceea before in ed A greater stringency. It may be any argument w some power Saght to be granted to issue United States notes to meet an emergency, and it is based not 80 much upom @ construction of law as upon grounds of public policy, which control the action Of legislative and not execytive guthorities, The committee say they were referrea to two decisions of the Supreme Court as sustaining the power of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue United States notes in excess of ree But a care- fi e eatnadien. ta thes ag ag a ave fio bearing upon the ques befor the committce. The vircumstances Inder Titee this issue of $5,000,000 was made were such a3 would clearly have justified its exercise if, as was honestiy and confdently claimed by the officer who made the issue, he had the legal authority to make ie it was his plain duty to exercise every power he possessed to protect the public in the emergency stated, and THE COMMITTEE ARE UNANIMOUSLY OF THE OPINION that the Assistant Secretary acted according to what he conceived to be his legal power and pub- lic duty; but, believing that under the law he could not issue legal tender notesin excess of $356,000,000, they must regard the precedent a@bad one. In conclusion the committee say :- A power over the currency so wide-reaching a8 the power to issue aoe of new legal tender notes is one that ought not to rest upon implica- tion. It should not rest upon the doubtful con- struction of words in a law 1d three years be- fore, and used in regard to loans negotiated under widely different circumstances. Cte might well grant a power during war that it would not confer in nae The fall exercise of such a power would undoubtedly affect the nominal value ef ail roperty in the United States to the extent of at jeast ten per centum, and the real value or burden as between debtor and creditor of at least ten per cent on all contracts to be performed in future. Such a power, if given, would by clear and un- ambiguous lan; , and should not be inferred by subtle reasoning or depend upon the pressure of interested parties or changing views of public policy. In all questions of construction as to the extent of power conferred by law in matters which affect the public credit or public securities a rea- sonable doubt a8 to @ grant of power should be held to exclude it. ‘Alter @ careful review of the subject your com- mittee are of the opinion that the Secretary of the ‘Treasury has not the Ped to Issue Unit States notes in excess Of $356,000,000, outstanding when the act of February 4, 1808, took effect, but he may replace with new notes all mutilat or defaced notes and, within the limits of $356,000,000, may ex- change or replace new notes for ones, and your committee report the following resolution :—Re- solved, that in the opinion of the Senate the Secre- tary of the Treasury hae pot the power under ex- Association in a Highly Flourishing Condi- tion—Personal Exp'anations by Judge Van Cott and Mr. D. D. Field, ena T neat 3 ‘The annual meeting of the Bar Association was held last evening, at the house in Twenty-seventh street, and the election of the oficers for the ensu- ing year drew together an unusually large attend- ance of members, The minutes of the last meeting having been ap- proved, the Treasurer's report was read, The total receipts for the past year of the general fund have been $24,787 23, and the balance in hand $2,418. The subscription to the Judiciary Investigation Fund amounted to $27,870, and the excess of ex- Penditures on this head was $1,038 33, $250 of which had, however, already been subscribed by one gentleman, The report of the Library Committee was next received. The total number of volumes now in the Nbrary amounts to 6,025, and the total amount of money placed at the disposal of the committee had been $20,510 17, of which $19,254 31 had been ex- pended, The balance, however, will be absorbed by outstanding bills, A number of candidates for membership were then announced, all of whom were unasimously elected, The CHarnMaN said he had appointed Mcsers. Nichol, Troop, Anderson, Delafield and Nelson as a committee to press upon the Legislature the pas- sage of the code of amendments approved by the + Association. The Nominating Committee reported a list of oficers for the coming year. Mr. William M. Evarts Was re-elected President, and most of the other officers of the preceding year were also honored with a similar compliment, While the tellers were counting the ballots the report of the Committee on Extortions—previously given fully in the newspapers—was referred to, but the matter was referred over to the next meeting. Judge FITHIAN called the attention of the Asso- ciation to the fact that the profession had not had @ printed calendar of the Circuit Court and General ‘Term for several years, and were, consequently, unable to tell when their causes were up. They paid, however, a pretty good liberal fee for getting them on the calendar, and they were unable to get the case up, anless they took means which, however appropriate under the circumstances, not then allude to, (Laughter,) Mr. SEWELL moved that this and another matter—the lack of prompt attendance of the judges in the Courts of Kecord at the hours named—be referred to the Committee on Amend- ments to the law. There was-no extortion prac- tised upon the profession worse than this extor- tion upon their time through the uon-attendauce of the judges. The motion was carried. A PERSONAL EXPLANATION, Judge Van Corr then rose and referred to the matter of the printing of the speech which Mr. D. D. Field did his best to deliver amid the confusion and noisy disorder of the last meeting. He, sir, concluded by saying that, if any member of the Association gencrally reputed to have the instincts aud character of a gentleman had done what he complained of as having been done, he should have thought it his duty to move for a committee to have the facts reported upon, and to have such action taken as e the Association, whoxe e Would | privileges were Gs ae but he wished to say, in conclusion, that, taking the matter as it was, he did not think it necessary, as far as he was person- ally concerned, to troubie them any furtner with the matter. Mr. Fretp then said that the ony. reason the whole of the limited speech had not been uttered was the noise and disturbance and cat-calls with which the members had interrupted him. li he had been able he would have uttered pe Ni of it. Mr. Fiold sald further rhe the speech had heen in type some time, and that ho wi id ied In pre- paring it, because he had been warhed beforehand of the attack that was made upon him. He had been thus warned by Mr. Peckham, by Mr. Nichol and by Mr. Parsons, and had been told further that the Association had been carefully canvassed, that they were five to one against him and that the yor men madé up thetr minds that whoever spoke and whatever was said they would vote through, the resolutions ef censure upon him. Here Mr. Price rose, and in’ great excitement called Mr, Field to order. In doing so, however, he made some amusing verbal mistakes, which oc- casioned considerable laughter and Ltt the tem- perature ef the Association to a tolerably fervid de; niality and good humor, and to a great the gglemn effect of Judge Van pressive effort. Mr. FIELD resumed by pleading that he was quite in order, and having again recapitulated the facts asked the Association to let him alone and he would then let them alene. But, added he, as surely a8 any man attacks me he will find, at all events, warm work for a while. That I promise him, conscious that I have never done ran dehy even, ti of me in my professional career, I defy even my bitterest enemies, and I have many of them, to point out the contrary. I know the persons who are concerned in this thing are actuated by motives such as I described in my speech. I do not take back one jot or tittle ef what I have been reported to have said. I have no apology and no explanation to make except that when the time comes I will show you what these roe mong who attack me are and what they have one. Judge FITHIAN suggested that, both sides havin, been heard, the matter be allowed to drop, in whic! every one seemed to cheerfully acquiesce. The Association then adjourned until Thursday, the 30th inst. M’GREGOR'S INSPECTIONS, A Farther List of Buildings Inspected and Meported as Requiring Fire Escapes and Other Life-Saving Applic a s—The Elm Street School Reported Against. The deputies of the Building Department are still pushing their inspections into the condition of buildings in the various districts, with a view of having life-saving appliances put on. The follow- ing is @ continuation of previous lists, and covers all inspections up to date. The Inspectors order fire escapes or other appliances as follows :— No. $5 Warren street, Marshall Q. Roberts, fire escape, No. 87 Warren stroet, James H. Young, fire escape. Nos. 41 and 43 Warren street, E, N. Taylor, fire escape. No. 61 Warren street, Centre estate, fire escape. No. 65 Warren street, Whitney estate, fire escape. No. 89 Warren street, A, Porter, fire escape. No. 24 Murray street, Thomas’ Gillhooley, agent, fire escape , scuttle and ladder, No. 4'Murray street, O. K, Kingsland, fire escape, scut- tle and Jadd No. 6 Murray street, fire grrare. No. 10 Murray street, G. 8. Molton, agent, fire escape. No. 20 Murray street, Stweince & Bro., fire escape. No. 35 Murray street, J. 0. Miller, fire escape. No. 41 Murray street, Mr, Hodge, fire escape. No. 43 Murray street, Charles H.' Jones, fire escape. No. 47 Murray street, J. A. Troru, fire escape. No. 67 Murray street, John W. Hamersley, fire escape. No. Murray street, Daly & Hon, iro escape. (0. 7 Park place, y . No. 13 Pare place, @. ¥ Mio he @ No. 12 Park place, James Rosevelt, scape. Nos. 16. and 18 Park place, Horace Ely, agent, escape, Nos. 82, 84and 8 Park place, Rheiniander estate, fire encal "To? Park place, Prentiss & Ward, fire escape. No. 63 Barclay street, Weeks & Co. fre @ ere fire O. Roberts, fire escape. No. 237 Greenwich street, Joh J. Healey, fire escape. No. 261 Greenwich street, J: Johnson, dre e: 5 No. 262 Greenwich street, C, C, Colgate, fire escape. No, %5 Greenwich street, Rheinlander estate, Roe. 218 to ah Kast Forty-second street, John N, Stevens, a Non 2 to 296 Bast Forty-second street, W. R. Beebe, ire scape. he East side of Lexington avenue, between Forty-first and ‘orty: iroet? David “Kes yr cond streets, Pottier & St; 4 Nos. 4 and 36 South William street, David Newman, ire escape. No. 12 Wattiam street, Schieffelin Bros., fire escape. No. 186 Willtain street, Lawrence & Cohn, fire escape. No, 12 Will liam street, Lawrence & Cohn, fire escape. treet, southeast corner of Fraakfort, Julius Levy, ", scape. No. 38 Spruce street, N. Currier . fire ¢: No. 18 scane. ekman street, W. D. Bunker, fire escape, . L. Ely, fire escape, ate, fire escape. N tate, fire escape. Ni Front street, Lewis L. Squites, fire escape. No. 26 Whitehall street, Whitney estate, fire escape, No. 52 Water street, W, Gilhard, fire escape. wees et, south side, sixty feet west of James slip, Henr: Jains, fire escape. No.7 Beaver #, Chusolm, fire escape. street, W. x Beaver sree, win Fearne. Ore escape, 10. le strect, A. Jakes, fire escape, Nos. 6and 8 Bridge street, Adrian Timith, scuttle and f 40. wT Cromwell, fire escape. RE. Br peat nrc, B Ebina, agent’ ARs oscane No, 261 Pearl street, Samuel Woods, fire escape. No, # Fulton street, Wilbur & Hastings, fire escape, No. 42 Fulton street, Frank Horton, fire escaj No. 44 Fulton street, J. G, Street, scuttle a jer. we Fulton street, Mrs. Henry Kremen, scuttle and No. 00 Fulton street, J, B. Crook, agent, scuttle and 9.88 Fulton street, BE. D, Davis, agent, scuttle and 207 to 215 East Twelfth street, John F. Thorn, fire “Tn this ‘pe aiibew it LF Tene "he ui tt f ia Pearl street, 0. N. Pearl street. ¢ alr of the class rooms; satoray sarees meal ahead rom yar third’ story "also taro moaden’ ae ‘Beco! story to. ing fur for school purposes. ands wholly. Gnconatng: eS DAML Uyuicu ana ventilated, mended the doors from class rooms to stairs and adjoining bu! ing be put in order for instant use, in case of fire; that ti water closets be removed outside Of the building, and im- mediate steps be taken to improve the ventilation; that e adjoluing building for school purposes be foned. Ward School No. 10, east side of Wooster, near Bleecker street. General condition of foundation and walls good. Heated by Brown's hot water furnace, ood ord Ventilation adequate; could be in partitions next elairway. n Two flights of wooden stairg in front, fi side of second story, two flighty to second story in rear, and one stone flight to third and fourth floors, enclose with brick wall. One thousand pupils are in attendance, Male department dismissed in three minutes, fe four minutes, and primary in five minutes W closets: giensive. Recommended that openings be in partitions dividing centre class rooms from stair Pi ‘and slate or motal be substituted for wood in water closets. Inspector Salmon reports the condition of No. 18 West Twenty-fitth street. iret story used as a schoolroom, scholars; second story, Sunda: third ‘story, school.’ Church “Mustéal Society meets Weekly,” Means of egress—Onc narrow spiral staircase Wholly inadequate. Recommend au additiousl stairway toeach story. ASTORY OF SORROW, SHAME AND DEATH, A Young Girl, Fifteen Years Old, the Ait ef gave len bridges extending from School, 250 scholars, and THB JERSEY MIDNIGHT RAIDERS, Another Riot in Prospect ay Communipaw. ‘War to the Enife Against the Blood-Bolling Nuisance—The Water Supply Cut Off—A Gang of Thirty Men Try to Run the Blockade, but are Checkmated—What Superintendent Sherman Says. During the heat of last summer the blood-boiling: and fertilizing establishment at Communipaw, in Jersey City, became so offensive to the inhabitanta of that district thata midnight raid was planned and carried out under the generalship of the Street Commissioner of Jersey City, aided by a squad of police, who appeared in disguise. For the damage’ done to the machinery William Keeney, one of tha alleged leaders of the raiding expedition, was ar~ rested and brought before Justice Davis, who hel him to ball in $2,000 to appear before the Grand Jury. That body found no indictment, and the raiders regard this as an endorsement of thels action, Frequent threats to “Sipe = BURN DOWN THE BSTABLISHMENT “<q, ‘4 have been made, and the residents declare they will not tolerate it in their midst during the engu. ing Summer, The first strategic movement against the alleged nuisance was made last week, when the Abattoir - Daughter of Wealthy Parents, Dying im a Jersey City Boarding House—The Villian Who Ruincd Her a Married Man and the Father ot T'wo Children He is Arrested by the Police. On the 8d of December last a man and avery young girl called at the boarding house of Mrs. Corneilson, 107 Hudson street, Jersey City, and applied for board, stating that they were man and wife. They had no baggage with them, but they accounted for this by saying that they had been burned out in the Boston fire, and had lost all their etfects, Mrs. Corneilson's suspicions were not aroused, and Mr. and Mrs, Charles G. Jones—as they called themselves—were provided with apart- ments, The girl, whose name was Josephine, was ex- tremely youthful—not more than fifteen years oid— and her beauty and interesting manners soon won the heart of her kind-hearted landlady. She had not been long on Hudson street when she gave way to melancholy, became subject to neryous fits and Spent most of her time in the solitude of her cham- ber, Soon after she was taken extremely ill, and Mrs. Corneilson, on fluding that the assumed hus- band was out of money, sent for her own physi- cian, Di. Petrie, to atiend to the sick gir. He pronounced the disease from which sie was suffer- ing typhoid fever, brought on by mental depression aud excessive melancholy. The necessary reme- dies were prescribed, but, in spite of all that skill and kindness could do, the youug girl grew rapidly worse, and on the 18th of December she died. ‘During her sickness she was deliri- ous, and in her delirlum she frequently called out, “Oh, mother, mother, if I had my mother! On one occasion when the man Jones wus absent from the house she said to Mrs, Cornetlson, “Oh, when I get well I will do everything for you, I love you so; but lam advertised. Iam not married, I have only known him six weeks, and I want my mother.” Mrs. Corneilson supposed that what the girl said was the result o1 a disordered imagination, and she was about to question her upon the state- ment sue had inade when she was interrupted by the entrance of Joues, There was no iurther op- rtunity to renew the subject, as the girl died on Company cut off the supply of water from the fer- tilizing establishment. The fertilizers imme- diately procured a staff of thirty men from plumbing establishment, and this squad iced tolayanew pipe to connect with the main on Communtpaw avenue. They ‘were allowed to. prosecute their work = till Monday last, when they were operating om the grounds of the Abattoir Company, The latter, company, through one of their agents, Freese, ars rested the progress of the work aud nhottfed the leader of the squad that if any attempt were made Fo precced the whole gang would be taken into cus- tody for trespass, The men left, and here the mat- ter rests for the present. The work at the fertiliz- ing establishment 1s stopped for want of water and cannot be resamed unless the Proprietors en; a stall ol men numerous chough to lay the pipe dea pite the Abattoir Company. — In such a case ’ A XKIOT WILL RESULT, : The President of the Abattoir Company, 8. W. Allerton, and the Superintendent, David nd Sher- man, were congratulated yesterday by many ot the inhabitants of Lafayette and Communipaw for, their course, which will afford great relief to the peopie of the district, WHAT SUPERINTENDENT SHERMAN SAYS. In order to ascertain the exact position of the, Abattoir Company on this question the HERALD representative called on Superintendent Sher- mun yesterday, That deena stated in substance as foilows:—The origin of these troubles between the Abattoir Company, and the Fertilizing Company was an al arrangements entered into between Mr. Payson,’ President of our company at that time, and the; Fertilizing Company, ‘This arrangement, which, took the form of a legal contract, was not bim on any slaughterer of hogs, sheep or cattle outside! our company, for the simple reason that Mr. could not give away what did not belong to 4 At all events, by the terms of the contract the Fertilizing Company were entitled to receive the: blood of all the animals slaughtered in the abattoir. Up to that time the blood lad not been utilize: but was allowed to flow into the bay, causing, admit, AN OFFENSIVE SMELL in warm weather. For the past few years, how- ever, we have received offers from many firma to purchase the bleod. By the terms of an injunction: obtained by the fertilizing Company, however, we cannot take any ofthe blood. The most serious, aspect of the cuse for us is thaton account of the proximity of the Fertilizing establishment to our abattoir, and the stench arising from the former, the inhabitants of this section who do he next day. All the time she was sick Jones was never absent from her side. He seemed to have a Perec as aversion pet any one but himself should alone with tie girl, ag he dreaded that she would, if opportunity offered, MAKE SOM REVELATIONS which he did not want divulged, Mr, carne aon aud Dr. Petrie repeatedly urged Jones to write or telegraph to his wiie’s friends, but this he obstinately rei d to give the name or address of the girl's parents, ‘rhé kind-hearted landiady took wpon herself the expense of the funeral and the uulortunate girl was decently interred, Before the fanerai took Place Mr. Corneiison urged apon the undertaker, M4. Rowland, Jr., the propriety of having the Coro- ner investigate the facts, but tl@ undertaker treated the matter lightly, and said it would be better that the girl should be quietly buried, Tue only persons PRESENT AT TH FUNERAL ed to do, and declines besides Jones were the landlady and her daughter and a couple of the other boarders. Jones and the girlseemed to be very much attached to euch other, and it ts alleged he did all in his power to minister to the girl’s wants during her illness. Josephine was extremely pretty, had a beautiil jorm, large, gray eyes, and a wealth of brown hair, Jones a very good-looking man, of medium height, with black, curly hair, black mustache, black eyes and a pleasing address. He is just the kind of man to captivate a young and ariless girl, and it seems strange that suspicions were not aroused on account of the disparity between the age of the pair when they first applied for board, Areporter of a Jersey City paper, who was in police headquarters on Sunday, had his attention attracted by 4 notice on the board offering a re- ward of $200 tor the apprehension of George Sher- burn, aged twenty-eight, and Josephine Drew, aged fifteen, who had-fed from Concord on the 28th of November last. The reward was offered by John Marsnail, City Marshal of Concord. ‘The reporter, who was in possession of the facts attending the death of the young woman on Hudson street, was | struck with the idea that the parties who resided there were those who were wanted. He informed Captain McHarney gf the suspicious | he entertained, and the Captain dt once proceeded to Hudson street, taking with him pictures ofthe man and woman which had been sent on from New Hampsiure. The first cail was made upon a Mrs. Fowler, who had helped to lay out the body. On the Captain showing her the giri’s pic- ture she immediately recognized the likeness ag being that of the person who dicd on tne 18thof December. Miss Thalia Corneilson was then visited, and she also RECOGNIZED THE PICTURE, Mrs. Corneilson was then sent for, and the three ladies accompanied the Captain to headquarters, where the picture of the man was aiso fully | identified. The Captain was convinced that he was on the track of the Bey man, and he laid his plans to catch him when he returned from his work, Mr. Corneilson having procured him a position as con- ductor onthe Erie street line. The Captain re- mained at the house until near eleven o’clock, and whem Sherburn, alias Jones, entered he was in- formed fre was a prisoner. He was thunderstruck at the announcement, but he walked quietly to the station house and offered no resistance. He ac- knowledged on the way that he was the person for whom the reward was offered, and that he had a wife and two children in Concord. The girl was the daughter of wealthy parents, who reside in Fisherville, near Concord, and she was seduced from her home by the prisoner. It was the old story of woman's trustfulness and man’s treach- ery. Love opengd the way for seduction, ruin and death in the end, It Was supposed that the girl’s death was not a natural one; but Dr, Petrie ridicules the idea, and says the girl died of ones fever. Her relatives have been communicated with, and 4s soon as the: arrive an examination of the prisoner will be held, who is im the meantime detained in jail. WILSSON HALL ABMORY AND DRILL ROOM A meeting of the Committee of Supervisors spe- cially appointed by the Mayor for the purpose of in- vestigating the leasing of Nilsson Hall by the late Board of Supervisors as an armory for the Sixth regiment was held yesterday, The committee was composed of Supervisors Cooper, Ottendorfer and McCafferty, and met in the chamber of the Board of Aldermen at two o'clock P.M. Mr. Brooke, who appeared for General Funk and the Ninety-sixth regiment, sald that he had received no notification of the meeting of the committee, and only heard of it by accident ten minutes pevioudy He was, therefore, unprepared to go on with the investiga- tion in the absence of the ee tome witnesses and papers. In answer to Supervisor Cooper as to the character of the proof it was proposed to submit, showing fraud, Mr. Brooke said that they would be able to show that the hall had been Offered for $10,000 per year, and that that had been communicated to members of the Committee on Armories. They would be able to produce s lease, in which the hall was leased to @ brother-in- law of @ member of that committee for $9,500, and that it was afterwards leased to the city for 000. iter & short consultation the committee Lo 4 pa tead i Crier ba a dm a tl of counsel, F next, at two o 5 “On the applicat on of Mr. Brooke summonses bay the following witnesses were granted :—Mr. Dante Fallon, vortierh street: Mr. C. Anfenger, Me 3 Young, Mr. George Staufl, Mr, Rosenberg 40 . Andrew Steuf. penarnrwomanern ee) A TERRIBLE SLEIGHING ACOIDENT. SPRINGFIELD, lll, Jan. 14, 1873, Muscatine, yesterday, a sleigh filled with ‘eran ene gentlemen ran of de vridge and the not investigate the matter are apt to set down the abattoir as a nuisance in common with the neighboring establishment. You see how much mischie! would result to us from a misapprehen- sion of that kind. Itis owing to this very misap- prehension that some people have made THREATS OF INDICTMENT. An investigation by the Grand Jury we are pre- pared to meet at any time, for it would settle Very troublesome business by placin; the saddle on the right To make things worse for us, the Fertilizing Company drew their water from our supply pine, aud two weeks ago they actually pumped us dry, oat too, happened when we had an extraordinary. of business on our hands, On the principle of self-preservation we CUT OFF THE WATER SUPPLY, hence the present dilliculty. We do not intend to recede trom the step we lave taken, and I do not see Low any Court could justly compel us to do 0. Mr. Sherman seems confident that there will be no resort to physical force. All was quiet along the line yesterday, although a hostile demonstration trom the camp of the fertilizers was expected. Sherif Reinhardt waited at lus ofiice ull day in order to be prepared for any emergency, as he had to send deputies to the same place last Summer. THE GRAND JURY will assemble next Tuesday, and the al nitigance at the fertilizing establishment will be investigated, If soine relief be not afforded serious trouble will ensue, as the residents in that locality are determined, at all hazards, to abate a nuisance to which is attributed much of the sickness preva- lent in that quarter (uring the Summer months, COMMISSIONER VAN NORT’S BUDGET, Great Reduction of Expenditurer—An Encouraging Financial State it. Commissioner Van Nort makes the following comparative statement of the expenditures for 1871 and 1872in the Department of Public Works, showing a reduction of expenditures on taxation of $1,312,793, a reduction of expenditures on taxa- tion and trust accounts of $4,457,980, and a balance of $469,250 of appropriations from taxation umex~- pended and applicable to the expenditures for 1873:— horse, 1871. Appropriations from taxation for 1871 (under Two Per Cont z t Balances January |, 137 Receipts tor sewer permits. Total amount available for 1871, Requisitions on the Comptroller durin the year 1871... Liabilities for the Excess over appropriations... Appropriations from taxation for the year 1872... Balances Junuary 4, i872. Receipts for sewer perinite tor i872... Total amount available for 1872. Requisitions on the Comptroller di the Eh 1872... . Liabilities tor the year i872, Total expenditures and Mabilltics for 1872.. Balance unexpended, applicable to expenditures of 1873. > " seceteeeeeneceeeccn es 9469,280 Expenditures under general taxation im 1871....$3,175193 bo ae aes under general taxation in 1 Less cosi of tinintenance of Boulevard ‘and avenues, not fp 1871. diture from taxation for the year 1872...... +0081 512,798 Expenditures on trust pocounteipcleding Street Improvement Fund, Croto Fund, &c. in eit eninge "96,863,838 Expenditures on trustacco Less cost of construction of Boulevard Difference, showing actual reduction of expen yar 1872 nd avenues uot in th artinent in + 734,00 Difference, showing actual reduction of expen, ditures on trust accounts fF 187R.....++- +--+ GIS SIF Total expendijures on taxation and trast ac COUMS 1M IBTL.. cee. e cece ci eesesecgeutes t pendit m taxation and trust ac. Teounte (a isd, exclusive of Boulevard ad ¥e- nues not in the department in 1871..... s Di , showing actual reduction of ex dare ‘ju taxation and trust ac if 2, THE BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. The old Board of Apportionment met yesterday, consisting of Comptroller Green, Mayor Havemeyer. Commissioner Van Nort, the in tha aoe a resolution Was adopted aul tring hg Comptroller co issue bonds of the ne year 4 authorized by chapter 397, rottsy section 4, Inws OC 1872, for $600,000. THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FUND, A meeting of this Board was held yesterday, Mayor Havemeyer in the chair. Several applica: tions for leases of city property were laid over, among which was one from the New York aud Brooklyn Fer: mpany for the Grand btrees<erry. from his otty to Brooklyn. A resolution was ado} ation of the premises bount Washington teen bagel Loco ire apporn' juance ie ‘Aldermen ‘and Commonalty, and sree, + Comptrotier to collect from the Erie rent from November 1, 1858, at the party were precipitated fifteen feet w the ice Delow. Miss Binze was instantly killed, M, Thom- gon and B, Ratz were seriously Injured and geve- Fal oshere of the party severely bruised. perspoem An sores son Seaneek ft