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N. —t-———— Details of the Plan of Salvation for Durell. ——+—__. THE PRESIDENT AND LOUISIANA Probable Revelations of Frands in the Indian Bureau. The, Bankrupt Bill Through the Senate. WASHINETON, Feb. 6, 1874, Morcy’s. Louisiana Bill Creating New Judicial Districts Likely To Be Fa- vorably Reported—Details of the Plot te Save Durell and the Kellogg Mon- stresity—Alarm of the Foreign Bond- heiders. The House Committee on Judiciary, it is under- stood, nave agreed to report at the earliest practi- cable moment, the bill of Representative Morey, ef Louisiana, for the estaplisnment of two United States District Courts in the State of Louisiana, in heu of Judge Durell’s present court. This bill geographically divides the State at the Mississippi River and provides that the First District Court be beld in New Orleans, and the Second District ourt at Monroe and Shreveport. It also abolishes Jaage Durell’s court and his vulnerable officials, -and is looked upon by many a8 @ compromise to prevent any further proceedings in the Durell im- (peachment, although it 18 rumored that Messrs. ‘Wilson and Eldridge, the sub-committee charged by “The Judiciary Committee, with the investigation ef Dureil’s affairs, have unanimously agreed upon @ report in favor of appropriate articles of im- peachment, whicn will be presented to the House Judiciary Committee on Monday next. Hence, as chairman, General Butler 1s anxious to push the Morey bill to a successful conclusion in the House before action is had on the Durell impeachment articles, Messrs. Norton, Barrett and Billings are much pleased at the turn which the Durell case has taken, and express great hope for the success of the Morey bill, and Norton believes that he can secure his retention in his present position as assignee in bankruptcy by the Judge who will be future incumbent of the Or- Jeans district, although it is generally conceded among the Louisiana Congressmen here that his record is so outrageously bad that no new | ofMciai would dare to take the responsibility of his | retention in ofMce, as a number of “fleeced” bankrupts who, unfortunately, passed through Norton’s hands, have been furnishing reliable data to promment authorities here, which will be used, if necessary, at the proper time, to make his continuance in office impossible. The purpose of the visit of McEnery, Marr, Jenin and company to New York 1s to fd out the number of Louisiana State bonds of questionable character which secret agents of Governor Kel- logge are negotiating in New York, to be used and founded by the Kellogg ring, under the new fund- | ing Dill. The process to be carried out will be | this ;—Governor Kellogg, ander the bill, appoints the Funding Commissioners, who will be members of his ring, and they pass upon the validity of all bonds, and those accepted by them will be funded @t sixty cents on the dollar, including accrued in- terest, which nas not been paid for thres years, The new constitutional funded bonds are made constitutional from the fact that, if the people adopt the new constitutional amendment, this | takes these bonds outside of all future interference ‘Dy legislation, and makes this debt part of the or- ganic law of the State, and all other obligations are -Made invalid, and will be virtually repudiated, as all bonds not accepted by the Funding Commis- wioners are cancelied and destroyed on the spot | to their relief, but they failed to find them, and, Thurman, These twodid not materially diter on any of the interpretations of law or commercial Decesaity until the question of dispensing with the present assignees in bankruptcy came up. ‘Thurman was in favor and Edmunds against it. When the party view of it came up, as between democrats and republicans holding the above offices, Thurman referred to the efforts of the late Chief Justice to secure ® democratic nomination for the Presidency ata how he had made the ap- pointment of assignees in bankruptcy. To this Edmunds replied with @ jeu esprit, suggesting that the democrats were usually successful in get- ting a good share of the offices, as they had no doubt done in these positions, and hinting slyly at Thurman's demoers ile nomination for the Presi- dency, said that as Uhase had done others might also doin trying to get this nomination, if they thought they were going to be successful ; and with mutual smiles they «Ok leave of this branch of the subject and {a ther discussion ceased for the “Senator Shermaa, referring to the committee e@ppointed for investigation into District of Colum- bia affairs, urged that as it was a delicate matter and Senators Frejnghuysen, Conkling and Morrill of Maine having successively asked to be excused when appointed, ha thought the matter should be left with the House committee, which, being com- posed of five, was larg’ enough to examine into all the evidence asd %© be presented, and thus the Senate might be relieved of the consider- ation of the subject, No action was haa on this suggestion, which was made at the moment of the Senate going into executive session, at the close of which an adjournment until Monday was had. | Most of the Senators seem to fight shy of being appomted on thig District Committee of Investigation, because mainly the members will be exposed to personal attacks and misrepresen- tations shoula they take any parton the commit- tee Jooking to a vindication of the Board. The | proceedings of the committee promise to be sig- nalized by much bitterness and crimination. Governor Shepard was at the Senate to-day anxious to have the committee appointed, but re- marked that it seemed impossible to get those ap- pointed who would serve. He says that he will give the petitioners ample opportunity to get satis- faction, and hinted that he would let them have enough of it before they got through. The Nation’s Slow Recompense to a Heroic Argonaut of °49—A True Ro- mance before the House of Representa- tives. The Honse spent thé day in Committee. of the Whole on the private calendar. Few bills were passed worthy of special notice save one which called forth a very animated debate. The story is simply this. In 1849, when so many adventurous spirits took up the cry of “Westward, Ho!” a party of seventy, comprising men, women and children, foliowed the star of our empire and faced the dangers of the overland route. When near the end of their journey, and the golden shores of the Pacific seemed almost beneath the tread of their weary feet, they were overtaken by one of those terrible snow storms which two winters ago blocked the way of the iron horse on the Union Pacific, and they were compelled to | bivouac in the wilderness. Intrenched in snow drifts, which formed @ rampart aroupd them, more terrible and secure than the gramté bank of fort- ress or bastile, days and nights were spent in this position until thelr supplies were all consumed, and not even a horse remained to appease the cry of hunger. Starvation stared them in the face, and death in its most frightful form seemed inevit- able. Nothing remained for them to eat save one of themselves, and this was finally resolved upon. Accordingly the largest and stoutest of the men was selected as the firat victim, and he was seized and bound to a tree and time given him to prepare for death, In tht meantime the people of Califor- nia, nearing of the misfortune which befel the ex” pedition, endeavored to save them, The Military Governor sent a ¢ompany of United States troops save the Ouptair and Lieutenant, all perished in the attempt, and the Captain subsequently died from the hardships he had endured. Then the Governor called for volunteers and promised a re- ward to those who should be successful, Thirty-six like 80 much mutilated federal currency, under,the Provisions of the law. Ifthe bondholders do not | see fii to aocept the provisions of this fanding act, after the Governor, by proc- | Jamation, notifies them to appear before said | ‘Gommission, the same will be barred in 100 days | -after such proclamation from any benefits thereof. Against these infamous provisions of the law the | foreign bondholders are protesting and appealing, | it is understood, to the federal authorities here for | protection through their diplomatic representa- | tives, who are taking measures to present the | same to the State Department, Hence the Kel- | logg perfidy may yet draw the United States gov- ernment into unhappy and embarrassing cowpli- ations, Judge Campbell and Governor Warmoth have been employed by the foreign bondholders to | .act with their diplomatic representatives in caring for their interests with the general government. | ‘Warmoth telegraphed here last night that he haa | arrived safely in New Orleans, where he repre- | gents the popular feeling as being universally in favor ofa new election, and that the Kellogg funded bond ring are secretly boasting that out of that | measure they will make independent fortunes and | have-money to spare for use in Congress to main- | tain the present status of the Kellogg State government. | Mr. taken, all but one declined to go. This was a Pietri, cititem of Illinois, who was successiully ei d in mining, Taking two Spanish naleceas, witn cattle atid pro. visions, he set out on his almost hopeless ex- | pedition, and after enduring terrible hardships, heaven and his own indomitable pluck crowned his efforts with success, and he reached the camp | | election—two courts in the city of New York, volunteered, butere the journey wus well under- | ing papers will facilitate the sub-committee in their labors, and it is expected by them the HERALD will lead off, as the committee look to it for guid- ance, The Finance Committee of the Senate met this morning, and had up for consideration Mr. Bout- Weil's billim regard to estimates of expenses in the departments, The bill is quite lengthy, and Was not gone through with. No action was had, bat the matter will be taken up at once. Officials of the Treasury Department Aghast at the Thought of Reductio! The Committee on Appropriations is still looking in every direction with a view to economize, To- day all the Auditors of the Treasury Department and the Commissioner of Customs were heard with reference to the present condition of the work in their respective bureaus, the clerical force employed and how tt compares with the number employed prior to the war. Most of these officiais took the ground that to reduce the clerical force of ‘heir offices would tend to destroy the eMciency of the public service. Ex-Jndge Martin, Sixth Anditor of the Treasury, indicated that in view of the increase of business pertaining to his bureau, he would be constramed at an early day to recommend an increase of at least twenty additional clerks, Mr. Ela, Fifth Auditor, on being interrogated, asid the committee could reduce his force to the extent of one female copyist, but no more, without crippling the public service. Loss of Revenue Caused by Reduction or Abolition of Duties Last Year. The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to the House, in compliance with their resolution, a com- munication containing a statement of duties levied and paid on all the goods, wares and mer- chandise specified and provided for in the second section of the act of June 6, 1872, to reduce the duties on imports, &c., which were collected under that act during the year from August 11, 1872, to August 1, 1873, and also the amount of du- tles that would have been levied under the law prior to said June, 1872, upon the goods, wares and merchandise aforesaid, if said act had not been passed. The communication shows the total amount of said ten per cent reduc- tion to be $8,652,932, The reduction was on cot- ton, wool, iron, steel, and other metals, paper and sized printing paper, books and other printed mat- ter; all manufactures of India rubber, gutta percha and straw, oOilcloth, glass and glassware, un- wrought pipe clay, fine clay, fuller’s earth, leather; all manufactures of skins, bone, ivory, horn and leather, except gloves and mitzens; licorice paste and licorice juice, Commissioner Davenport in Advocacy of Reform in Registration and in Natu- ralization, United States Commissioner Davenport, of New York city, was heard by the House Judiciary Com- mittee to-day in advocacy of a bill recently intro- duced in the House looking to a reform in the foreigners, He made a statement as an argument in favor of reform, that by virtue of his official position he has come into possession the fact that in 1868—just prior to an im thirteen days, issued naturalization papers for 37,000 applicants, which were duly record:d; that in addition 27,000 were naturalized, tne ma- jority of whom voted but cannot be traced. Blanks for the latter number went into the courts, but no record was male of them. held that the law was too general in regard to the subject of naturalization as it now exists, and ad- vocated strict safeguards for the protection of the people and the mandatory keeping of such records a8 would show at all times the actual transactions of a court of record in the issuance of naturaliza- tion papers. Punishment for the Indians. The House Committee on Indian Affairs to-day agreed to report a bill, the main features of which make it a penat offence to cheat or defraud an Indian or to fraudulently obtain his signature or mark to a receipt for money which has not been fully explainea to him. effect of protecting the Indians from swindling agents, contractors, &c.. who have heretofore | stown rich at their expense, the Western Counties of New York. manufactures of paper, with the exception of un- | registration of voters and the naturalization of | of | He | Defraading of | ‘The bill generally has the | and which are apt to remain on paper till dooms- BUl to Form a New Judicial Distriet of | 804 convenience to recommend them. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE STATE CAPITAL. —_—-———_ The Shower of Quick Transit Bills. Resolutions Concerning the Street Cleaning Bureau. ee Projected Consolidation of New York and Brooklyn. A VIRTUOUS JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ALBARY, Feb. 6, 1874. Though @ month has elapsed since this Legisla- ture assembled there is little to show for the time and the talk expended. A few bills of little par- | ticular importance have been passed but no ques: | tion of any gravity has yet been handled. Per- | haps the people would never feel the privation If | the Legislature just now adjourned sine die. The | longer it remains in session the greater the growth | of arWGcial wants that legislation would alone ap- pear capable of satisfying. The shower of rapid tramsit and railroad bills increases with the hour. They lie in committee thick as leaves in Vallambrosa, and, like the leaves, it is to be hoped the most of them may lie and moulder and be | utterly forgotten. It is perfectly singular the ex- | tent of misused brains illustrated in the series of | quick trapsit schemes cast in upon the bewildered H minds of the Assembly. One practicable, sensible | plan out of ascore of visionary ones is all the ex- plorer may hope to discover. ‘This is not the worst. of it. In all these schemes there is a sinister, if not a dishonest, purpose. The interest and con- venience of the community of New York city is the last thing consulted. Here are EIGHT BILLS FOR A RAILROAD through Forty-second street. Did ever a respevt- able thoroughfare deserve so cruel an infliction? What do they all mean? Are they honest? Does the city stand in need of them? There isa vulgar | class Of people in the political working world | called “strikers,” and whoever understands what | they are like will appreciate that character of a railroad bill which if introduced here without a dime or a decent name to support it? These bills May be termed “strikers,” and perhaps the phrase will apply to seven at least of the schemes which long ago were chartered by the Legislature and have never been heard from since, ‘The Gil- | bert Elevated road has been on paper a consider- able time, and prior to the opening of each Legisla- ture the enterprising projectors set halfa dozen | men to work to give assurance they are still in | the land of the living and that some time before | the sound of Gabriel's horn they may astonish New Yorkers with the apparition of a quick transit line 'twixt earth and heaven, The Third avenue | quick transit project is at present the most prom- ment amid the mass of other designs upon the ublic highways of New York. It has had a hear- ng already from one of its supporters, Colonel Spencer, put it will have a wider hearing from the public before long. THE THIRD AVENUE QUICK TRANSIT ine is @ humbug on its face, for it is nothing but the schgme of the rich corporation that owns the | Third gvenue street railroad and that seeks a charter-a virtual gift of that great artery of the city—in order that it may shut out any genuine enterprise toward rapid intercommunication whicn may hereaiter be undertaken. |, The idea of tue HERALD, partly embraced in the | bill introduced by Mr, Eastman, 18 receiving se- rious attention from the earnest and honest minds of tne Legislature, and, as I am satisfied some plan of rapid transit ior New York is tn the intentions of bo! Senate and Assembly, it will only people’s interest prevails to secure the passage of @ bill that will place this most important measure in the hands of the city authorities. With the ex- perience of the halt dozen chartered RAILROADS ON PAPER, | day, 1% 13 folly and waste of time ior this Legisia- ture to consider anymore such plans as are daily | thrown in upon it without capital to back them up | and without any special feature of practicability A LITTLE BUSINESS DOING. To-fay the Assembly endured a spasm of busi- Mi, Tremain, uf the House Judictary Vom mittee, will shortly report a bill to divide the Northern district of New York. The present Northern ais- trict was established in 1813. It then contained ple, and embraces four-fifths of the area of the 1m time to save the life of the intended victim and those of the entire party, whom he piloted in | safety to their destination. Mr. Pietri spent some | $17,000—all he had—on the expedition, and now in | his old days he asked his country, through Con- gress, to recompense him. This would, perhaps, have been hardly thought proper, had not some of | the members very forcibly debated the billin the cloak room, where it was remarked that it was astonishing that a democrat, Mr. Potter, of New York, and a republican, Mr. Willard, of Vermont, should oppose the measure, when the proprietor of the New York HERALD had spent out of his own purse tens of thousands of dollars in seeking for | Livingston, and when the Navy Department had | incurred an expense of over $100,000 in search for | the survivors of the Polaris in arctic waters, The Committee on Claims unanimously reported tne bill, granting the old man $5,000, and the House, | United States was a party. | Canada of 600 miles. The number of cases pending in that Court the past year was over 400 where the {n the four District Courts within the great States of ono and Michigan there were but 311, showing @ difference of nearly 100 in favor of vhe Northern district of New York. The division is believed to be in the interest of economy, because the district is now so large that great ex- pense attends the transportation of witnesses from | remote parts to the places where the courts are held. The bill passed the House toward the close of the Forty-first Congress, but failed in the Senate for lack of time. It provides that the pres- ent Northern district of New York sball hereafter embrace only the counties of Cayuga, Tompkins and Tioga, and the several counties of the State 1t is conceded that if tne Carpenter New Elec: | alter along debate, almost unanimously voted the | of New York lying westerly of said counties, and tion bill is referred to the Morton Committee of Privileges and Elections a majority of the commit- tee will report favorably upon it. ‘fhe following Bamed Senators will vote in favor of it, namely:— | Messrs, Logan, Alcorn, Sumner, Carpenter and | Saulsbury. Mt 18 also rumored that the President has again | changed base on the Louisiana question. He remarked to a Senator yesterday that he would | mot eel chagrined if a new election should be | ordered in Louisiana, but for personal reasons he finds his hands tied, and he is prevented from tak- ing further action in the premises. The anvoy- | ances and rascalities of these Louisianians, he | added, are beyond all endurance, and he hoped the day was not far distant when his administra- tion could throw them ail off into a common pot- ter’s field of his past errors, which experience | sum named, The tacts, as above set forth, were all proved by Incontestible evidence, and the State | of Liiinots petitioned Congress in favor of the claim. Probable Startling Revelations of Fraud in the Indian Bureau—Exaggeration | of the Number of Indians in the West. | Judge Loughridge, of the House Committee on | matters connected with the preparation of the In- | dian Appropriation bill, visited the Indian Omce this morning and spent several hours in obtaining additional information bearing upon | the perplexing question of for the benefit of the red man. It has | been only after great delay that he has suc- | ceeded in obtaining the Commissioner's report, | and he has not yet received those of the Superin- tendent. His suspicions are somewhat excited re- isto be called the “Western district.” The resi- due of the State, not included in the Eastern and Southern districts, is made a new district, and is called the Northern district. Judge Hall, who is the present District Judge, has written a letter to the Judiciary Committee, urging the change to be made, as has also Judge Woodruff. The change | Appropriations, charged with the investigation of | Will make one additional appointment. Consultation Regarding the Civil Service in Cabinet Meeting. Several of the members of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners were present at the Cabinet and heads of departments regarding the ctvil ser- vice. Other than this there were no matters of interest before the Cabinet. important Nominations. The President sent the following nomina- would enable him to keep clear of in the future. He | Specting the unusual reticence of the Commis. | tlons to the Senate to-day:—Charles A. Tweed, deprecates the foreign complications likely to arise from the condition of financial legislation brought about by the Kellogg Legislature in their | Funding bill, which virtually repudiates the claims | of foreign bondholders and enriches a few desper- ate political adventurers. The HERALD’s special Mespatches on Louisiana affairs have caused quite sioner and the embarrassments placed in the way | of securing a thorough knowledge of the present | system of Indian administration. Not satisfied | with his sources of information, he has succeeded in procuring some singular revelations from other quarters, and, on this bases, the opinion that the Indian Office has been grossly deceived by its | Court to pe Associate Justice of the of Utah; John G. Bogle, ney of the United States for the Eastern dis- trict of Texas; Harrison Osborn, to be pension agent at Baltimore, Manuel Francisco Monteiro, to be Consul of the United States at Santiago, Cape Verde Islands; Newton Crane, of Missouri, to pe Supreme commotion among Louisianians here. Various | agents in the Indian country, or eise has wiliully Consul of the United States at Manchester. prominent gentlemen are suspected of being | Jeaky, and even the filteenth amendment brothers @re accused of talking too much. The Senate at Length Digest the Bank- wvupt Bill<Republican Shyness at the Proposed District of Columbia Investi-+ gation. The consideration of the Bankrupt bill was taken up in the Senate to-day, and Senator Ed- munds proceeded to explain its provisions and to argue upon the amendments offered, assisted by Senator Thurman. ‘The bill continued to receive the close attention and advocacy which its highly | important nature called for, Great care and con- | summate Jegal skill were displayed throughout its | provisions as it came from the hands of the com- anittee, who had given it already every aétention, Each clause was carefully weighed and discussed by the Senate, Messrs. Ed- munds, Thurman, Wright, Logan, Crozier, Allen, misrepresented the facts. It 1s believed that the number of fndtans upon which the estimates are based is greatly exaggerated, and in this belief Judge Loughridge was led to make the reduction | Of $1,500,000, which he proposes to recommend to | the committee. For instance, he has learned from | trustworthy sources that the Indians between | the Rocky Mountains and the Sterra Nevadas, put | down in the last report of the Commissioner of In- | dian Affairs as numbering nearly 27,000, actually | number but 10,000, Though this tsa greater dis- parity than would hold throughout, there is no doubt in the mind of the committee that there is an over estimate of about one-third of the num- bers given, Microscopical Economy—Shall Newspaper Postage Be Prepaid!—Boutwell’s Bill As to Estimaies of Departments. | Microscopical economy began to-day in the fold- ing room of the Senate. One-half of the force here- New York’s Gift to the Nationa! Govern- ment—The Statue of George Clinton. The President to-day transmitted to Congress a copy of & communication from the Governor of New York, in which it is announced that, in ac- cordance with the invitation of Congress as ex- Pressed in the act of 1864, that State now presents for their acceptance a bronze statue of George Clinton, deceased, one of its distinguished zens. The other statue authorized by the State of New York is that of Robert W. Livingston, to be placed, with like contributions from other States, in the old Hall of the House of Representa- tives, The Herald as the Congressman’s Gospel. A forcible illustration of the usefulness of the general information and statistics furnished by the HERALD occurted during the debate in the Senate to-aay on the new Bankruptcy bill, when allusion was made by Senator Thurman to the great num- and Pratt joining in the debate. Logan and | tofore employed were discharged and the retained ber Of creditors of the Buchu banking establish- Oglesby tried to tack on amendments which were lost, and the Senate proceeded taithfully and nnremittingly to the disposition of each section, | and flually completed the adoption of the bill as reported from the committee, which may fairly be said to be the best bankruptcy provision we have | ever had. Senator Carpenter briefy announced that he had been tn favor of a repeal of the bank- ruptiaw, but he bad changed his mind since he had been home, and would now vote for the bill as it came from the committee, with such amendments as might be favorably considered by the Senate, Edmunds, though nettled occasionally by the vex. ations, meaningless and unpractical amendments offered, smiled away the interruptions with legal eauanimity, aided by bis trusty and able consrire, were put on halftime. The aristocratic clerks at the north end of the Capyol are working out | their daily existence with jear and trembling. The sub committee of the Committee on Post | rious consideration the machinery to be provided | for in the bill requiring the prepayment of news- | paper postage. The Postmaster General, it will be | remembered, in his last report set forth that the revenue {rom this source could be trebled by re- quiring the postage on papers sent to subscribers | to be provided for at the responsibility of the pub- lishers, Whether this shall be done by aMxing | stamps, or by aMfidavits covering the circulation of | the papers through the malls every quarter, the | ment of Jay Cooke & Co., in connection with the amendment Offered by Senator Ingalls. Senators YORK HeRALD the number was nearly 4,000, Sena- | Offices and Post Roads of the House, has under se- | tor Thurman accepted the authority, and pro- ceeded’.to elaborate hie argument on this state- ment, The Reporting of Congressional Proceed= ings. The Senate vas contracted, through its Commit- tee on Printing, with Mr. Dennis Ff. Murphy, to re- | Port the debates and proceedings of the Senate, in the present Congress, from March 4, 1873, to | March 4, 1875, for $42,000, he engaging and paying ail assistants. The House,as made a simular con- tract, with its five omicial clti- | } Buckingham remarked that according to the New | Feporters, Jor the same committee are undecided. The views of the lead | time aud at the sauie su si 700,000 inhabitants; now it contains 2,300,000 peo- H State of New York, having a trontier boundary on Blumenthal, in supporting his resolution, said that appropriations | Session to-day, and consulted with the President | nee A few important bills and resolutions were aeed, and foremost bays 3 them was a reso- lution which Mr, Blumenthal offered, to the effect that, owing to the many charges which appeared in the press of the city against the Street Cleaning | Bureal—its want of eMiciency and its alleged cor- ruption—a committee be appointed to institute an investigation and report to the Legislature. Mr. | the New York HERALD contained in its’ local col- umns ample information to sustain the allegation | that the Street Cleaning Bureau of New York had | neglected its duty; that the streets were in a | filthy condition, and that the taxpayers did not re- | | in the Senate to-day, which may more than $500, such payments, together with the aad necessary expenses of such Board for cle: re, printing, rent, statiouery and other necessary purpose incurred in the prosecution of its said duties, shali be provided for and paid equally by the Supervisors of the county of New York ana the county of Kings, asthe same shall be certified by the sald Mayors of said cities. A SEVERELY VIRTUOUS COMMITTER, It would seem that the Judiciary Committee of the Senate is determined to pursue its “adverse” way in relation to all bills which have the slightest | suspicious look about them, which it began last | week, The opposition the committee has so fur | manifested to bills of a character, which even some of the_ self-sufficient lawye in the Senate have highest consideration and respect, is said to be prompted by Senator Robertson, but there are those who believe that this sudden fit of virtue on the part of the committee 18 oniy a rase to cover up favorabie reports hereafter to be made as to bills which ought in reality to be buried out of sight the moment after they are introduced, It 18 an old trick of committees 01 both houses, who know at the beginning of the session that it is to be their lot to decide, 80 far as a report 18 concerned, the fate of measures backed up by railroad corporations for their own profit and benefit, to begin the session with a grend display of honest purpose. They think, in fact, that by continually making adverse reports as to bills Of small, or at best minor, importance as compared to measures which in the latter por- tion of it, when the lobby is the moat active, to get up a first class REPUTATION FOR INCORRUPTIBILITY, and thus easily deceive the general-public into the belief when they do recommend a questionable bill that it 18 @ very good one. They act on the policy, probably, that it is only necessary to give a dog a good name to have everybody praise him, to revers an old truism, It is tobe hoped that the Senate Judiciary Committee this session is not to follow on the old beaten track, and that itis really in earnest in cutting right and left in | tts dealings with the bilis already laid before them, Senator Robertson owes it to himself, now tnat he bas set the wheel in motion, to keep it go- ing and not allow the wire-pullers of the third house to get through his committees during the next two or three months bills ten times more objectionable tnan the worst of those it has already knocked in the head, To-day te committee reported adversely the bill giving the Mayor of New York the power to appoint an unae- fined number o! public watchmen, ‘The bill, it may be said, is an old customer. While it would, if made a law, have injured the merchants gener- ally in depriving them of their old and well tried private watchmen, it would ut the same time have Placed in the hands of the politicians AN ADDITIONAL FORCE OF HANGERS ON to “work the wards,” instead 0: watching thieves and burglars at night time. Strange to say, this same bill was last year introduced by a democrat, when & bargain was understood to exist between certain parties in this - city of different politics, whereby the the bill was to be equally distributed. This time the real men at the back of it were republicans alone—giving rise to the suspicion that another nice little bargain had been entered into by somebody this year for the benefit of @ set of nobodies, It is time the hypocritical practice Was stopped, and as it has prevailed heretofore more or less to a greater extent tn tue railroad committees than in any others, the other commit- tees should look to it that they do not fall into we bad habits of the days when an honest committee could not always be judged by the amount of the honest work done in January and February, THE CASH FOR THE CAPITOL. The bill appropriating $100,000 to prosecute the work on the new Capitol gave rise to a discussion hot be without good results; not so much because the solid argu- ments against =the appropriation — were Made by the leading lawyers in the Senate, as that it may have the effect of deterring house from its hasty legislation in the matter of appropriations, which has hitherto proved so dis- astrous in its results. The point o! the discussion was made by Senator Ganson, He argued that the bill was unconstitutional, conflicting, as he believed, with section 10 of article 7 of the constl- tution, inasmuch as there was no money in the Treasury to meet the appropriation and would have to be honored by the Comptroller. The bill ‘was passed, however, by unanimous consent. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. SENATE. ALBANY, Feb. 6, 1874, Mr. ROBERTSON presented a@ petition of the citl- zens of New York for the exemption of mortgages from taxation. Mr. Kino, from the Committee on Commerce and Navigation, REPORTED ADVERSELY | be a question as to whether a right regard for the | to the bill for the better protection of shipping in the port ot New York. Agreed to, Mr. Woop, from the Finance Commiitee, re- ported favorably to the appropriation for the con- tinuation of work on the uew Capito! Buildiag. Mr. Jacoss moved to refer this bill to the first Committee of the Whole, as the men should be put to work Weneoe "BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Boorn—To unite the Church of the Pil grims and the Second Presbyterian Church of Harlem. over the Erie Canal By Mr. Lonp—For a brid; on Gooaman street, Rochester. By Mr. SELKREG—Relative to railroad’ commis- sioners, directing that such officers shall be in no ‘way connected with the companies. By Mr. JoHNSoN—To regulate freight on railroads. By Mr. BRaDLEY—To ratify and confirm certain appointing commissioners to invest in bonds of the Rochester, Hornelisville and Pine Creek Rail- road Company. By Mr. Dow—To amend the law relating to ceive Hd any means an equivalent for the $1,000,000 annually paid the Street Cieaning Bureau. Mr. Spencer, with his customary vehemence, objected | to the preamble o1 the resolution, on the ground that it committed the House to an expres- sion of opinion about the Street Cleaning Bureau which it had no proofs to sus- | tain, Mr. Blumenthal, in ‘reply, justified the allegations contained in the preamble, and in the course of his remarks made use of the start- ling statement that one of the Commissioners, | through means Of the retuse sot! collected trom the streets of the city, had converted a number of water lots into solid level land for his own use and benefit. After a trifing amendment the resolution ‘was adopted. “STILL HARPING ON MY DARTER.”? Later on came another resolution, offered by Mr. Deane, which, combined with that of Biamen- thal, should be calculated to make the Police Commissioners feel as if they were steeped in hot vater up to the chin, It was as follows:— Whereas the press of New York has for some time past contamed daily reterences to mismanagement aud cor- rupt practices im the administration of the affairs ot the Police Department of that city, and whereas said urges, so publicly preterred, would warrant a prompt tigation, therefore be it Resolved, That the Standing Committee on the Affairs of Cities of this House, or a sub-comumittee thereot, are are hereby directed to proceed to the city of New and make a ruil investigation into the management of sald Police Department and report the result of said in- vestigation to this House, with such recommendations as may to them seem proper, and that sald committee or sub-committee have power’ to seud for persons and | pavers. The resolution was tabled. THE REDEMPTION OF WORTH STREET, Mr. Kirk introduced a timely and much desired bill the improvement of Worth street, from Broadway to Chatham. For four years this thor- oughiare, running through the heart of the city’s | ulcer, the Five Points, has been nothing more than to ve Attor- | | diligently with the said bu: | thivact ead to complete wwennes | Tuesday of October, 1874, verno | aapnarors and to report to the Governor | and necessary attendants, and u a dumping ground tor all the filth of the neighbor- | fre and seriously demandea grading and puri- A CORRECTION. A typographical omission made it appear in_yes. terday’s letter that Senator Coe, in place of Sen: tor Cole, introduced the resolution relative to tak- ing notice of the claim of Walter S. Pinckney to Brae of Hugh Moore, from the Eighth Senatorial ct. c THE SHERIFF'S FEES, Some time since @ bill was introduced in the Senate reducing the fees of the Sheriff of New York. Jt was referred to the Appropriate commit- tee and appears to have gone asleep there. The bill wich came in yesterday in the Assembly has a directly opposite aim, and purposes to double the revenue attaching to the office. CONSOLIDATION OF CITIES, theuginie wonky bill hat porary, be introduced, t ‘8a certain Utopian compl this moment :— ee Ax act to provide for the charter or suitable plan v ec aadicounty ot New York, the city of Brookisa, to the five towns of Kings county under one muuicipal gov. ernment, the whole to be called the city ot New York. Section 1.—The Governor is hereby authorized and re- quired to appoint, on or before ‘the third Tuesday in April, 1874, twenty commissioner, ten of whom shall be residents of the city and county ot New York and ien residents of the county of Kings, who, together with the Mayor of the city of New York and the Mayor ot the city of Brooklyn, shall be known as the Municipal Commis. sioners, and who shail periorm the duties herematier PrOvIOeG. Sec, ¢ Mayor of the city of New York and, in his absence, the Mayor ot the city of Brooklyn, shall, at the jirst meeting Ot suet Board, administer the cousti- 0 office y 4 pointed as aioresaia, . ‘° Cac Commissioner so ap SEC, jority thereot, to devise, consider and prepare a plan of inuniicipal government which, in the jadginent of such Hoard or & majority thereof, shan be Just and equitable and suitable tor the requirements of and applicable to the city of New York, the city of Brookiyn and the five towns in the county of Kings under one municipal gov- ernment, the whole to be culled the city of New York. appointment of a board of w consider and report a U Ske. 4—It shall be the . | | first meeti e duty of such Board to hold its ng ou the third Tuessay of Ma: }y New York, ri designated by the 3 in At bY such Mayor to missioners ten days betore such meeting. Src, &—It shall be the duty of such Board to proceed Hamed in section 3 of 1874, at twelve such place as fovernment or charter as in the judgment of such Board or a majority thereof shall be best adapted tosecure ihe purposes set forth in section $ of this Act, ae eee eee HUT OF the Governor ‘to submit suet, Legislature {or consideration. ine. .—Such Board may appoint « chatrm make rules acierk reguia- tor Its proceedings, “Bach of the said twenty Com: loners shall be paid $1U per day tor his services, Bo Comuggysioner shay recesve ry all jor bby service, | It shall be the duty of such Board, or a ma- ‘or of New York | eh of such Com: | on or before the third | highways. By Mr. GANsoN—To provide for the recovery of damages sustained by reason of defective high- bind bridges, public streets and structures thereon, By Mr. Coze—Relative to the Brooklyn Trust Com- any, allowing w reduction of the capital stock to the value o1 the property and effects. By Mr. Jacons—Relative to cemetery corpora- tions; also, reiative to the duties of the Surrogate o! Kings county. By Mr. BRADLEY—Providing that wherever any County Treasurer shall have received any moneys | or securities, held for the benefit of any person | Aasion sone to the order of any Court, such County | ‘reasurer shall pay over the same to the person named in the order of the Court. By Mr. PARMENTER—Providing that Surrogates | be allowed to permit executors or administrators to mortgage, lease or sell the real estate of their testator, when it is found that the personal estate of the testator is insufficient to pay his debts, | REGULATING FREIGHT CHARGES. | Mr. Johnson’s bill provides that no railroad com- pany doing business in this State shall from and alter the passage of this act charge, collect or re- cover a larger sum or amount for the transporta- | tion of freight over a part of their road tnan they charge for the transportation of the same over | their entire road, or for the transportation of freight a short distance than they charge for trans- porting the same a longer distance. One hundred dollars fine is the penalty for every Violation of the act. The bill amending the charter of Lansingburg, | Rensselaer county, was passed. Mr. Woop called up his resolution for a daily ses- | sion of the Senate from eleven to two o'clock. Mr. JOHNSON moved to lay the same on the table. Lost—Yeas 9, nays 18. | Mr. Woopin moved to amend by excepting Sun- days. | The amendment was accepted and the resolution adopted. Yeas 26, nays 4. | The Senate, in Committee of the Whole, consid- | ered the bill appropriating $100,000 for continuing | the | WORK ON THE CAPITOL BUILDING. Le da favored making the appropriation Mr. GANSON asked if the bill under consideration was constitutional. The money was not in the | treasury, and must be borrowed by the Comp- troller. The question is one of great interest, and | Hon 10, article 7 of the constitution. ednstruction of the section, and held that the bill | was entirely within the spirit of the constitution. | . Mr. Woop said he did not. like the Kind of legisia- | tion proposed by this bill, but could find nothing | Mn_the constitation to confict with its passage. | Mr. Lorp moved to make the appropriation $200,000, instead of $100,000, as in the Dill. Lost. ‘The bill was then ordered to a third reading. | By unanimous consent the Senate teu pesned | the bul, and directed that it be sent to the Assem- | bly immediately, Adjourned. ASSEMBLY, ALBANY, Feb, 6, 1874, BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr, MacKEY—To amend the Apprentice law. By Mr. ©. 8. SPENCER—To provide jor the contin- nance of suits or actions, It gives the right to | representatives of deceased persons to continue | suits. By Mr, BLUMENTHAL—To charter the Salt Water Supply Company of New York. By Mr. King—To improve Worth street, York, from Broadway to Chatham street, BILLS REPORTED. By Mr. PrincE—Amending the Revised Statutes relating to the disability of @ surrogate irom act- ing in certain cases. Also to amend the act to authorize corporations to change their names, Also adverse to the bill providing for the safe keeping of papers and records in surrogates’ offices, Agreed to, Also adverse to the bill for the relief of married women possessed Of separate estates, Agreed to. ‘Also aaverse to the Dill Telative. to the gale of real estate. Agreed to, | + Also a Dill jor the consideration of the House relative to the publication of notices of election. | Mr. BLUMENTHAL called up his resolution to | effect an ,... IMPROVEMENT IN STREET CLEANING in New York, He sustained the adoption of the deemed worthy of their | that body, patronage created by | the Ways and Means Committee of the lower | acts of the County Judge of Steuben county; also | he thought the bill was in direct violation of sec- | resolation, it was universally demanded by, the citizens of New York, and proceeded to say, that, while he had no charges of neglect to make against the Police Department, yet Le did think it pro| to give heed sad attention to the desires wishes of the ple. Mr G. 8. ‘Srexcen had no objection to the resolu. tion calling for an investigation, but he was op. posed to the preamble, which made grave charges, against the Police Department, which, he gaid,' was not blamable at al, He moved to strike oug the preamble, and would also move to amend sq as to provide that if the work could be better done | by the Board of Health that the duty be given to | Mr. BLumenraan said he was prepared to de- | Clare that the Street Cleaning Department was | Brossly mismanaged, and that there were negiect' and corruption in it. He, therefore, believed this House was justified in declaring, a8 tls preambie’ declared, that there 1s mismanagement in this de- artment. He insisted that it was the duty of this: louse to make the declaration. Mr. C. 8. SPENCER did not want to be misappree | hended. He did not object to the investigation, but he did object to deciaring this commission to be guilty and tuen propose to make an investiga- tion. ‘This, he said, was wrong. He protested Against charging these men with wrong before the investigation is made. Mr. WEED moved to amend the preamble by i+ sersing the words Whereas it 1s alleged.’? ir. C, S. SPENCER Said that Was and he would agree to it. See Mr. BLUMENTHAL also said he had no objection to the amendment, He did not see as it lessened the: declaration in the least, as it said “the manage- ment was charged.” ‘The resolution was then adopted. Mr. ALBERGER called up his resolution providing’ | for the appointment of Commissioners ‘to repre= ; Sent the State at THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, A brief debate ensued, in which it was thougnt ta be premature and the resolution was negatived,. A motion to reconsider was laid on the tavle, MILITARY CLAIMS, Mr. BATCHELLER reported bill providing fo paying the claim of tne Fifth regiment, Nation: Guard; also of the Seventy-irst regiment; also of | the Ninth regiment; aiso to facilitate the construce tion of a railroad to Lake Champlain from Malone. BILLS PASSED. To provide for the construction and mainte~, | mance of four additional swimming baths in the city of New York. Authorizing the formation of associations to pro~ | cure camp grounds tor the Methodist Episcupal | Church, ‘The concurrent resolution to AMEND THE CONSTITUTION 80 as to fund the canal debt was announced for & third reading, but Messrs. Weea and Alvord. stated that they wished to discuss it, and as it had been so amended as to raise a question concern- ing it in the New York Chamber of Commerce, 16 was laid aside on motion of Mr. Husted, who was at first in savor of putting it on its final passage. GENERAL ORDERS, Owing to the thinness of the House, the order of passing bills was laid on the table and the House Went into committee on bills on general orders, ‘The following were ordered to A THIRD READING, if not otherwise stated :— To incorporate the Brooklyn Silent Safety Rail~ road Company, to ran irom Brooklyn to Woo® Haven, Queen’s county. To compel persons using copartnership names to | record the names of the individual members thereof, with their places of residence. Mr. WACHNER moved to strike out the first section, apa made the following points against the Hh s— First—That the bill is not applicable to tempo- rary partnership, ‘Second—That it subjects innocent parties to great trouble in defending suits brought against. them. Third—That it places the credit of such parties. | at the disposal of irresponsible parties, who may, slander the community and escape responsibility. | Fourth—tit alters tné rules of evidence, throwimg’ practically on the party whose name appears in the certificate, perhaps Without his authority, the onus of proving that he was not a partner. Mr. ALVORD said he wished to discuss the bill, and moved tnat the commitiee report progress, Agreed to. Mr. Davis offered the following RESOLUTION, which was adopted :— Resolved, That the State Engineer and Surveyor be and he is hereby requested to furnisn this House, at his earliest convenience, the names Of all subore | dinate Assistant Engineers now in the employ- ment of his department, the service or work to which each is assigned, with the per diem pay of each respectively. Also the names of the lal in the employment of the Engineer Departmen’ where assigned to duty aud the per diem pay 0! each respectively. COMMUNICATION FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. ‘The Attorney General, in answer to the House, | ent in a communication, stating that he found in , the concurrent resolution to amend article 17 the Black River Canal standing on the same footing with the other canals. How it came there he can- not say. As to Whether the gross receipts of the | Canals can be devoted to the reparation of any one | canal under the proposed amendment, he says he does not find anytuing in the said amendment in reference to what the gross receipts of the canals may or may not be appropriated. But, he says, there would be a practical difficulty in the Way of appropriating the gross receipts to the reparation of any one canal. Adjourned until Monday evening. OBITUARY. Saron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild. Acable telegram from London, under date of yesterday, the 6th inst., reports as ftollows:— | “Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, a member | of the banking firm of Rothsebiid & Co., died to- day.” SKETCH OF BARON M. A. DE ROTHSCHILD. Mayer Amschel de Rothschild was the fourth {gon of the late Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild, by his wife Hannah, the third daughter of Levi Barnet Cohen, @ London mer- chant. Baron M. A. de Rothschild was born in 1818 and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, In politics he was an independent liberal and in favor of the ballot. He was elected member of Parliament for Hythe in 1859, and was one of the firm of N. M. Rothscnild & Co. The aeath of the representative of the great London banking house cannot tail to call to mind the remarkable and interesting his- tory of the Rothschilds—a name which in the fluancial world is more potent than that of the | most influential and powerful monarch on the face of the earth. Their name 1s spoken everywhere; | their wealth is proverbial; their prosperity has. | run into simile. Their commercial connections | embrace the glove. Still a century ago the name of the Rothschild had not been heard on the Ex- changes of Europe. Springing up from obscurity, almost poverty, the great ancestor of the house | arrived at a position which made him the guest and friend of kings and emperors, the heip of overuments and the benefactor of peoples. | Raising himself, not by any of those fortuitous circumstances or lucky accidents which not unfrequently occar in a lifetime, he steadily | and honestly worked on until at length a goal was | reached, almost unexampled in the history of the world. Nathan Mayer de Kothschild, father of the subject of this brief skecch, was said to surpass alt | his brothers in commercial genius. He commenced his career in Manchester, England, as @ money | lender, with less than $500, the cotton interest being then in its infancy there. At the ena of five | years he had $1,000,c00, and with this sum he went to London, where he speedily won his place in the ; World's capital, When James Rothschild, chief of the Paris branch, married his own niece, Nathan conceived the idea of perpetuating the name and power of the house by such consanguineous | connections, common from the earliest time with Hebrew families. With this called, in 1836, @ congress of the members | of the household at Frankfort to consider the | question. They ali favored it, and, as an intro- | duction to the settled connublal oltey, Nathan’s | eldest gon Lionel was united to his cousin Uhar- tte. the eldest daughter of Charies Rothschild. Nathan was overjoyed at the adoption of his matri- | monial system; but on the day of the nuptiais he took ill, and died in less than six weeks, in the fitty-ninth year ot his age, He was said to have left bet ween $70,000,000 and $80,000,000. Lionel de | Rothschild, now sixty-five years of age, has beem | since his father’s decease at the head of the Lon- don house. Baron Mayer A. Rothschild, whose death we announce tn the HERALD to-day, was the fourth son of Nathan, and 10 the filty-sixth year of | his age, He was well known in connection with: the turf, having already carried off the honors of the | Derby. In the financial world his death will oc- | cagion @ vacancy not easily supplied, M. De Brumend. The death at Paris, at the age of seventy-nine years, is announced of M. De Brumend, formerly Minister of France in Brazil, a diplomatist who en- joyed an excellent reputation for dor of expression. “ SEE EEG ae ———_______. AROUND THE OITY HALL, The Aldermante committee which is at present making an investigation into matters at the Pot- ter’s Field have decided, in view of the fact that it Was reported that Grand Master French, whose, death was the cause of the investigation, died of delirium tremens, The committee wants to fing out if the dead gentieman was of intemperate habits, and whether it would not have been an easy matver to have notified hia friends ot his con- dition. The committee believe th: " ‘Was not the result of intempe: ne ae ae drain mn and Dexter A. rune nc ei ett er yester some time. The object ‘of the mest had refer, ence, it is believed, to the cage before the Court of Appeals regarding ‘the powers of the Board of su bay Mt as be Reh board. Conner wil lay levy on the proper the sureties of Thomas ‘Comaa and aeroperty o Who have fled trom justice. Yesterday tne execu tons in the cases were issued on the forieited wee @ud were sent to the Sherif fo1