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EW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAKUH 3, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET, WASHINGTON. The Evidence of Mrs, Gaines in the Durell Case. Temperance and the Na- tional Revenue. ° WHR GHOST OF THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE. Violation of the Spirit of the Civil Service Laws. a WasHineton, March 2, 1874. ° ‘The Debate on the Centennial Project— Mts Boes Arrayed Against It in the Senate. In the Senate the discussion on the Centennial ‘bill ‘was resumed, and Senator Sargent led off in a ‘Speech opposing it and going over details whereby he sought to adduce all the facts accessible which Could be brought up against it. He objected to it nthe ground of expense, and because Pénnsyl- vania, as he urged, was mainly to be benefited by 48. I was thought that the Pacific slope men were all in tavor of it, and among them Senator Sargent ‘Was counted upon, but from the speech he made this morning and other unfavorable influences Which have been discovered, the friends of the Movement.are very despondent, and say unhesi- tatingly that the bill has no triends in the strict sense of the word, though of course many will vote for it. They further say that if the bill ts going to be killed, the sooner it is done the better, and the suggested policy of keeping the question of @ppropriation in abeyance is not approved, and they would rather have the matter over at once. Is is further said that General Hawley had no suthority for saying that ifthe general government and the other States did not render assistance to the project and help it out with ashare ofthe funds to be suppliea, Pennsylvania would carry the whole thing through herself, but that if Penn- agylvania is to furnish all the money, she will pro- vide for the spending of it herself and will not ask Connecticut to do it. Senator Sargent’s views did not appear to have much effect upon the Senate, There was a rambling debate at the close of the @peech, when Senator Morrill, of Vermont, Offered an smendment which changed the character of the proposed exposition from that of an international to a national one. The general mdications are that the exposition project will * have a hard time of it, and that the brunt of the whole thing will fall on the State of Pennsylvania. Philade!phia‘alone has already expended $100,000 of the city’s money in defraying the expenses of the Centennial Commissioners for their office and hotel bills, The yeas and nays were called on the amendment of Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, and, pend- ing the question on it, the point was made by Sen- ator Sherman that the subscriptions already made, having been for an international exposition, in case it is changed to a national one, would be legally withdrawn. Outside of the State of Pennsylvania not more than $10,000 bas been subscribed, Under the prociamation of she President foreign nations had commenced send- ing in their acceptances of what they considered an invitation, but the Secretary of State has notified them that the United States did not officially in- vite them. Hence he has refused to give any in- vitation officially to foreign Powers, and he has also instructed the Commissioners that their Correspondence as Commissioners should go through the State Department. Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, also attacked the Project of the Exposition, as an interna tdona!l affair, and decried it fiercely. Other speeches to the same purpose were made, and, with the exception of Senators Scott and Cameron, NO one stood up for the bill. Pending its conside- ration the Senate went into executive session and confirmed Mr. Samuel Bard to the Postmastership of Atlanta. Voting Down the Ghost of the Franking Privi the Fourth Month of the Session in the House. ‘The House begun the fourth month of this ses- sion in a very sensible way by slaughtering every Feso:ution winking at a restoration of the frank. ing privilege. Some of the members said that motbing less than the restoration of the old Measure would be satisfactory and nothing less | Should pass the House, The Committee on Ex- penditures of the Department of Justice were au- | thorized to send for persons and papers in the case | of the ex-Marshal and present United States Mar- shal of Western Arkansas, though the House de. elined té ask for an account of the contingent ex- penses of the Department of Justice. The con- aideration of the Tax bill was made the special order for Saturday after the morning hour, when tax and tariff measures will come up for discussion. | Caleb Cushing’s Knowledge of Judge Dereli and Mrs. Gaines=The Two Alternatives for the Accused, Resigna- tion or Impeachment. The character of the testimony given by Mrs. Gaines before the Judiciary Committee of the House, concerning the Durell case, is such as in the opinion of the sub-committee demands the summoning of Caleb Cushing, that he may refate the allegations of the witness, or that the commit- tee may be able to understand what she charges by the light of hia explanation. One or two other ‘witnesses are to be summoned before the case is Gnally closed. It is statea that tue chairman of the committee made it the alternative that Durell should put his resignation in before the 15th of Marcd or else articles of-impeachment would be preferred against him. The friends of Durell in Washington are greatly demoralized, and their quarters, figuratively speaking, are hung in black. Violation of the Spirit of the Civil Ser= wice Laws for Political Expediency— Removal of Commissioner Haines. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has requested the fesignation of Mr. William F. Haines, as Commis- sioner of Customs, in deference to the request of Senator John Scott, of Pennsylvania, who desircs to appoint some one in his piace who can be of service to secure @ re-election, as his term will ex- pire on March 4, 1875. Mr. Haines is said to bea man of worth and capacity, no charges ever hav- ing been brought against him. What the Senator proposes will be an open violation of the Civil ‘Service laws, which prescribe the appointment of the next im grade below him, among his present aeubordinates, as his legal successor, and it ts be- Meved he does not propose to be removed except aa prescribed by law. Meanwhile General Butier, who is giving his attention to doctoring up and re- ‘vising the civil service, was to-day in consultation ‘with Mr, Haines, The Senator from Pennsylvania ‘has now four of the most important positions in the Treasury Department under his patronage, wiz, :—Register, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, First Auditor and Commissioner of Customs. Suspension of Officers Under Charges of | Impeacnment. A Dill introduced by Mr. Butler, of Massachu- Betts, to-day, provides that whoever, being a civil oMicer of the United States, shall be presented for impeachment for high crimes or misdemeanors by the House of Representatives to the Senate of the United States, shail thereupon be suspended from all functions ana authority vested in him by virtue of his office, and all salary, pay and emolu- ments which might otherwise go to him therein, antil be shall be dischar, from such impeach- ment by the jndgment ofthe Senate or by the withdrawal of such impeachment by the House of Representatives. ‘the duties, fanctions, furisdiction and powers of such Suspended officer during the term of such suspension may be exer- ised by another oficer authorized hy law to exer- else the fanctions of the omce. In case of the eesignation, death or inabifty of such civit onicer of the United States, or in case no provision bas been made by law, the President is author- ized to appoint an oficer with like powers, juris. diction and authority to perform the dnties or seach suspended officer during the time for which be shall remain so suspended, who shal reeeive the salary, pay and emoluments which’. would otherwise belong.to such suspended officer, * | | Memoration of the Eect of the Whiskey War on the Reve. nue Receipts. ‘The progress of the whiskey war ts watched with unusual interest by the Becretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and should the retail trade be affected for any length of time it will diminish the manufacture not only of spirits but of malt liquors and make additional taxation necessary. During the Franco-Prussian war the increase in the sale of malt liquors was noted from the victory at Sedan till the close of the war. The Secretary says that the stock of whiskey is very large, isfillers having manu- factured largely, anticipating an increase ip the tax. Regulating the Iudian Commission. ‘The House Committee on Appropriations to-day added another amendment to the Indian pill, pro- viding that the Board of Indian Commissioners shall only be allowed to examine official papers coming under their cognizance at Washington, New York and Philadelphia, This is to put an end to the transmission of these papers over the coun- try in search of the Commissioners, The commis. tee also referred several hundred papers to mem- bers having in charge the subjects to which they were germain. Pears that Hostilities with the Indians Will Be Preeipitated by Armed Citi- zens. A telegram from General Custer to the Adjutant General of the Department of Dakato, dated Fort Lincoln, February 25, and forwarded here, says:~ A printed circular sent from Bozeman, Montana, is being circulated among the citizens here, in- viting men to join what is atylea the Wagon Road and pecting Expedition, The circular states the expedition will ‘ped! we take supplies for six months and will ve 25,000 rounds of ammunition extra and three pieces of artillery. Bozeman is the starting point and Tongue Biver Valley the country to be prospectea. The expedi- tion is advertised to move this month, Believing that this expedition is lable to embarrass pro- osed military operations and precipitate difficul- Fes with the Indiana, I send this for the considera- tion of the Department Commander. Peaceful Reports of the Indians Nebraska. The Hon. A. S, Paddock has received informa- tion from several reliable sources in Nebraska that there are no nostile Indians in that State nor any apprehension of trouble from them. The Bill Regulating the Refanding of Customs, The Senate Finance Committee some time ago submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury for his opinion the bill restricting the refunding of cus- toms duties and prescribing certain regulations of the Treasury Department. In reply to the ques- tion whether thig measure would embarrass the department, the Secretary says the depart- ment will conform to the will of Congress, as ex- pressed in ite enactments,” and its passage will cause no embarrassment, The first branch of the bill is as follows:— “That moneys pafd into the hands of any collectér or into the Treasury irom the customs duty in ac- cordance with any decision or ruling previously made by the Secretary of the Treasury shail not be refunded or repaid except tn pursuance of especial appropriations tnerefor, made by law, or in ac- | cordance with the judgment of a Court of the United States giving construction to the law, ana from which the Attorney General shall certify that DO appeal or writ of error will be taken by the United States.” The second branch of the bill 1s that no ruling or decision once made by the Secretary of the Treas- ury giving @ construction to any law imposing custom house duties shall be cimanged by the | same or a succeeding Secretary, unless 1t be in concurrence with an opinion in favor of such change given by the Attorney General or by rea- son of @ judicial decision of a Court of the United States affecting the same, from which the Attor- ney General snall certify that no appeal or writ of error will be taken by the United States, The third clause provides :— “That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, in his annual renor® to Congress, give a detailed state- meut of the various sums of money refunded under the provisions of this actor of any other act of Congress relating to the revenue, together with copies of the rulings under which the repayments were made,” The Secretary says that the only reason urged for the passage of the bill appgars to be that it May imcrease customs rovenues by recovering moneys in certain cases, Whether this object would be accomplished a considerable period of time must determine. The third clause would only involve additional clerical labor. Hours ot Labor on the New York Post Office. Mr. Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, was before the House Com- mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds to-day in connection with the subject of labor on the New York Post Office. This subject came up under the | resolution of Mr. Cox asking an investigation of complaints of a violation of the Eight Hour law, Mr. Mullet stated that he was already much be- | hind on his estimate of labor. The claim set up by | the workmen is that they are entitled to the differ- | ence of pay between eight and ten hours or | twenty-five per cent on the money they have | already received. If thisclaim be allowed it will involve an outlay of between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, Mr. Mullet exhibited his pay rolls, which showed that some men worked over eight | hours and were pald accordingly. These thought | | as they worked ten hours and received no more for the ten hours than other workmen they were improperly paid. They claim that eight hours having been deciared a legal day’s work, they are entitled to the same amount of pay for eight hours that mechanics working for private parties receive for ten hours, This, however, the Supervising Architect does not see in that light, and to avoid paying $5 a day for eight hours instead of ten hours makes all con- tracts for labor by the hour, at fifty cents an hour, | so taat for eight hours’ work they receive $4 and | for ten hours $5, as private mechanics, Presentation of a Medal to the Congres- | sional Library by the Corporation of | London in Commemoration of the English National Thanksgiving of 187%. The Librarian of Congress to-day received from the Corporation of London, through the Depart- ment of State, a medal, accompanied by the {ol- | lowing correspondence :— DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Feb. 27, 1874. AINsworTH R. SPOFFORD, Esq., Librarian of Cun- [ Washington, D. 0. :— 1R—I transmit herewith # letter and accompa- nying medal, received from the Corporation of tne | city of London, through the British Legation here, for presentatiqn to the library of Congress. | HAMILTON FISH. The following {8 @ copy of the letter alluded wim GUILDHALL, E. C., Feb, 14, 1874, SIR ~I am directed by the Corporation of the City of London to torward to a the accompanying medal, commemorative of the day of thanksgiving for the recovery from illness of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in order that it may be de- posited in the Library at Washington. lan, sir, your obedient servant, JOHN B. MONCKTON, Town Clerk. TO THE LIBRARIAN, STATS LIBRARY, WASHINGTON. The medal is in bronze, about three inches in- Qiameter. The obverse side represents the nave and choir of St. Paui’s and a throng of worship- pers. On the right of the medal are the royal arms of England, and on the left the arms of the muni- ae A of London. A ribbon on either side con- tains the legend, ‘National thanksgiving for the recovery of R. B., Prince ot Wales, St. Paul's, London,” and below :—'27th February, 1872." The reverse represents a female figure on a dais, hold- ing in her left hand @ torch. and the right pointing owards heaven, meanwhile address: the Queen, by whose side stands the Prince. a the leit of the figure stands Britannia, with shield and trident, and w is the inscription :—‘I was glad when’ they safa unto me, ‘Let us (3 into the house of the Lord.’ On the top of the case containing the medal are the city arms and AS eres ‘—in com- ional thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 27th February, an Nor the | restoration to health of H. R. H. Prince of Wales, The Right Hon. Sills-John Gibbons, Baronet, Lord Mayor; Sir Francie yee Truxott, Alderman; Sir Jolin Bennett, Knt., FR. A.S, Sheri; Willem Lawly, Esq., chairman of Committee,’’ Unvetling of Brown’s Sta of Clinton, Brown's bronze statue of George Clinton, a contribution from the State of New York to the Statue Gallery of the Capitol, was uncovered to. attracted much attention. gan SUICIDE OF A GERMAN, About three o'clock yesterday afternoon the body of a man was found lying by the roadside be- tween Astoria and Flushing. It proved to be that of Jacob Schwitzer, who had resided in ea for several month Piste him, w ier himself. The ball passed through his head, ath. A lay beside believed to hat had been wandering about for some time and whieh is belie had been out of employment for two ig | ved tohaye afectca his mind, Tp er Was potiied. _Went to the company, and the remaining $800 at | of the city, and therefore there would seem to be an STREET CLEANING. Further Examination Into the Affairs of the Bureau—Captain Hyatt Won't “Turn Up’—Captain Thorne Proved to Have “Taken” $800—Theoretical Views on Street Cleaning. The investigation by the Legislative Committee into the Street Cleaning Bureau's management was continued yesterday. The list of witnesses having been called over by Attorney General Bar- low, he announced that Captain Hyatt had offered the subpcena server $10 not to serve the subpoena upon him. Later in the day General Barlow re- quested Commissioner Charlick to see that Captain Hyatt would be present at the next session of the committee. Mr. Charlick promised that Captain Hyatt should be compelled to attend. Mr. Eastman said that it would be necessary if witnesses con- tinued to absent themselves to have the sergeant- at-arms compel their attendance. Tne most noticeable feature of the mvestigation yesterday was the testimonyof Mr. Winant. He swore frst that he had received as agent for the New Jersey Central Railroad Company $2,200, $1,400 of which | various times to Captain Thorne. The following was the testimony taken:— THE TESTIMONY. Robert Foster was the first witness examined—Was a contrac'or tor buildings ani sewers; in 1379 dumped about 1,000 loads on the East River scows, tor which he paid 123gc. a toad ; paid about $150 in 1873 at Police Head- quarters. : Thomas Balawin was examuned, but his testimony unimportant, mt ¢ ichael Murray examined—Was a contractor tor ex- cavating dellars ‘and carrying away stuff by contract; was paid 7c. tor removing stuif trom Stewart's store and | paid 2ve. ior Sur ping. it: paid about 10c. a low) tor de- positing some 6,00 loads at the Fourteenth street dump. A few other witnesses were next examined as to the payment for the dumping at the different dumps. wvid L. Robbiny examined—Was dump inspector in in 1872, stationea at Vesey and Laight streets; might hi collected astessments from work- men for political PaTBones, by order of his superiors; ir.mmers were paid $10 a week by Mr. Wiuant; the city paid trimmers $15 « week, with the pickings; thought city trimmers were paid one-third too much; Winants made trom September 1873 to February, 1874, about $500; did not know why the city could not make as much. John D, Crimmons examined—I am a contractor and builder; do day’s work tor the city in sewer cleaning; two-thirds of what we take are damped on the west side; in 1873 we patd the Street Cleaning Bureau, throug Mr, Winant’s agent, about $1,433 97; cannot say how much, if any, we paid the cliy. Mr, Crimtnons not having taken his figures as accu- rately as required from his books, he was not further examined, but was requested to return in the afternoop with tull particulars. John W. Ambrose examined—We are general contract- ors; prior to sixteen months ago nad been connected with the Street Cleaning Department; had been under rown; did not find any diffi- culty in taking charge of tour wards as foreman; they Row have a foreman for each ward; believed that the ashes could be separated trom the garbage and the profit trom the garbage would pay the expense of separating the ashes, which would Go for filling purposes, and con- | | | | | | sequently would bring in s large revenue; would pay fliteen cents a cubic yard for the ashes and give a guar. | antes of $60,000 that 1 would take It all snd dispose or it; | this would bring in a revenue to th 3 | above Ninety-second strect it would take an immensé | quantity of dirt for filling purposes, for dirt cannot be Got up there at any price; the present system of street Cleaning might readily be improved upon: @ load ought to meana cubic yard ot stuff or aton; cannot get more | than 780,000 cubic yards of dirt from the | city anyhow in one year: do not believe that the state- ment made that 1,100,5.0 cuvic yards had been taken out over charge of about $66,000; the explanation of Captain Thorne was Not correct im regard to the sinking of the | stuff on the scows; so far trom sinking it ought rather to increase during the frst twenty-four hours, aud hence | the secow measurement ought to be greater than the in- | spector's which has been xreater ti scows; the danger mentioned taking the scows out to sea is hi expense of taking the stuif over to Chariick’s was tour or five times greater than the expense would have been of taking it out to sea; would have taken 50,000 cubic yards from June to september at five cents a ‘cubic yard if solicited. while they were giving the same to Chartick; three hundre | and iifty carts ought | to be enough for the entire city; the expense of cartage ‘was very unevenly regulated ; the present system was all wrong; the streets shuuld be swept every night in the | week; 81 ‘a year isamply sufficient for that pur- | pose ; the Board of Police is not the proper body to huve | control of the street cleaning ; ‘he streets should be under the control of the Board ot Health, who would employ | competent and common sense men asofficers; would | preter the Board of Health in charge to having the con- tract system broushé injagain ; made an inspection once in the whole city and found within twenty-four hours 14,000 | violations against the ordinance to prevent throwing arbage into the streets, and during the twenty- four hours the police made only two arrests; were the Board of Health in charge, the Police De- partment would not dare refuse to make arrests where the health of the people would demand of them to do so; the present system is a sham and a traud: there ought to be an additional $100,000 appropriated tor | the removal of the snow tor an ordinary winter; the rail- | road companies ought to be compelled to remove the | peaks PS ST Bp by them pease their tracks; | ere o an organized department, consisting 00 men. modeled aiter the r’olice or Fire Department, at Tan 3 MUNICIPAL AFFAIBS. icine BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN, ‘The regular meeting of this Board was held yes- | terday afternoon, Assistant Alderman Isaac Som- mers presiding. The Mayor's veto message in regard to the ordi- mance concerning slippery vault covers (pub- lished in the HeRacp a few days ago) was received and placed on file. pe aigermnan Srionson ineoanees an egard t2 slippery coal hole cover! on sidewalks, which ments The objections of the Mayor to the ordinance on the same matter passed some weeks ago, which was vetoed by the Mayor and referred to the Committee on Ordinances. Other minor resolutions were proposed and acted upon, after which the Board aujourned. BOAED OF SUPERVISORS. Expenditures of the Inebriate Asylum— Nilsson Hall Armory Lease—Protest of General Shater Against Transferring the Seventy-first Regiment—Two Per- emptory Mandamuses Obeyed for Fear of Ludlow Street Jail. At half-past three o’clock yesterday afternoon the Board of Supervisors held their regular session, i Mr. Samuel H. B. Vance, in the absence of the | Mayor, in the chair, The Department of Pubttc Charities and Correc- tion sent ina communication calling attention to the accounts of the Inebriate Asylum:—For 1871, $19,922 72; for 1872, $10,249 67; for 1878, $19,772 58, Gre the respective amounts expended in excess of all recetpta—which was referred, A resolution was offered to allow the Ninety- sixth regiment to find an armory until May 1 at the rates paid by the State—viz., $250 for each company. Supervisor Gilon amended the motion by inserting “to transfer them to Glass Hall.’’ This subject created considerable discussion, The amendment was lost by avote of 10 to 4 The original resolution was adopted. in regard to the removal of the Seventy-first regiment from its present armory, corner of Broad- way and Thirty-sixth street, to tne bleak establish- ment over the stavles and hayloft corner of Ninth avenue and Twenty-seventh street, General Alex- ander Shaler transmitted a protest against the | transfer of this noble command. The communica- tion was received and placed on file. Wilham McDonald, a gentleman recommended by the judges to a vacant clerkship in the Marine Court, was unanimously confirmed. Resolutions of condolence to the family of the late Harrison Redfield. janitor of the new Court House, who died suddenly on Friday last, were adopted and the soo of the deceased appointed to fill the vacancy, The interminable Nilsson Hall Armory case waa again up belore the Board, thus time by @ report from the committee, as follows:— Your committee are of the opinion that there was | collusion on the of some one or more of the agents | ot the county to take out of the county treasury and to | put into the pocket of some one the sum o! $4,500 per year for ten years, Had the Committee on Armortes and Drillrooms, or any one of them, used ordinary diligence and care this lease’ would never have been made for the exorbitant rent now agreed to be paid, the rent and taxes being about $15,000 per year, There seemed to a disposition on the part of jhe county agents to avoid seeing or negotiating with the- owners 01 said hall. Your committee have come to the following couclusions :— First—That the rent agreed to be paid for said hall is exorbitant. Second—That prover Aiigance and attention were not given to the leasing it in charge. Third—That there was coilusion in the procuring and making of said lease to the county of New York. Fourth—That the Comptroller of the city and county of New, York Is hereby requested not to pay the rent for said hall. Fyih—That the counsel to this Board is. hereby re- | quested and directed to commence an action to have | saad lease cancelled. Supervisor McCafferty offered a resolution call- ing upon the Commissioners of Taxes to furnish an aggregate statement of personal taxes collected during the past year. Adopted, ‘The subject of acting upon the peremptory man- damus issued by Judge Barrett in the matter of Levi 8, Stockwell, tor rent of premises No. 699 Broadway from May 1, 1871, to date, amounting to $14,980, which was made the special order of the day at the previous session, was here taken up in | Committee of the Whole, Supervisor Richard Flan- aga inthe chair. Considerable debate ensued on the matter, in which His Honor Recorder Hackett explained how peremptory the order was, and that the Board had no other alternative except to order the claim paid, under a. penaity of beimg imprisoned in Ludlow Street and paying a | | fine for contempt of court. This explanation was | given in regard to Supervisor McCafferty’s amend- ment, that the bill be allowed at one-half of the sum. Supervisor VaNn ScHaick said that the Comp- troller mignt have settied this matter at one-naif the sum claimed and saved the county some a wages ot $10 a week each man; @ whole force of first class iaborers would therefore be secured tor constant service, day or night; the contract system would bea calamity ; the department ought to own its own horses, ta, &c.; 35) horses and carts would be needed, costin, $75,000; ‘and horses, ; fifteen ad- total outfit, $300,000; the two new nd the repairs on them last year cost ed the partment. @ economy of the de- James J. Winants examined—In 1973 had charge of t Jersey scows; received that year $2,200 for the unload- ing of private stuff; only $1,400 of that amount has been paid to New Jersey Railroad, of the baiance, $8) ', some of it was paid to Captata Thorne; at least halfof it went | to Captain Thorne; I guess Captain fhorne got $600; 1 | am not sure it was $1,409 I paid to the railroad company; | id $1,375 to the bookkeeper. Mr. Watson; not a cent o} it went into my pocket; think that all that dia not ”o to the railroad went to Captain Thorne; Mr. Brown insisted | on having half ior private stuff, because he controlled | the dumps; could afford to give the city half; made no | bargain with Captain Thorne, but gave him money; have not given Captain Thorne anything tor tour months. John D. Crimmins recalled—Paid Mr. Corduan tn 1873 for filling $920 20, and from December 16, 1371, to Ja! uary 1, ees to the street Cleaning Bureau $571 for fill- ing and $57 37 for dumping on the city scows; he paid nothing turther to the city or to Corduag in 1874. ‘Anthony Saffer, who keeps a marble manufactory, was machine: say ditional scows, $45,00 gcows cost $14,000, at $ which show $15,000 or $20,000. The motion that when the com- mittee rise it recommend to the Board that the | bill of Levi S. Stockwell be paid was adopted—13 | to 2; Supervisors Mcvaiferty and Ottendorler vote | ing in the negattve. | _Asimilar train of debate occurred on the man+ | damus of Henry Kaldenburg, Armorer of Batter: | K, First division, for payment of his bill $368, whic! | was finally recommended to be audited. a The committee thea rose, when Supervisor FLAN» 4Gan, 48 chairman, reported the above action, which was adopted by a vote of 13 to 3. answer to it is simple. They wid not do the work. The evidence ts, that ior more than a year they might have been working on the Tweitth aveiue line, where an im- wall isto be is more than itside of this drive do, and the tacts prove it. Let them do that "hy te existing distribution of work the work on the sven: belongs to the Department ot Public Works, and there no force in the argument ‘hat because the’ lines of the vhe work should be taken away A just and proper distribution of the work between the depart esnee would give the streets, roads and avenues to the Department ef Works, and the parks to the other department. It is enough that the Park Department can hinder and delay their own works. without having the same tive influence extended over the avenues. The contrat between the efficiency of the Department ot Public and the of Public a4 inefficiency of the Department rious. It is established y y the action of th and by the — progress | mad works along the new avenues or boul ds: or in the fact that Mr, Van Nort was for years an executive officer of the tral Park Com oners, troroughly familiar | With all its works and in the habit of accomplishing things. and for two years past has transierred this know! edge and the 1d it the Department of Public ‘arke now under the influence and control of Mr, Green, the great obstruction in the way ot ali public im- rovements, Mi epresent to ou these solid, indisputable facts, that Mr, Van Nort fs capable ot doing this work well— able as any man now in the Department of ‘arks—that when this drive passes from the Stage of design to that of constracuon Mr. Van Nort and Mr. Kellogg, his gnuineer (for so many years the en- gineer on the Central Park), can do the work as well and taithfully as any of such work has as yet been done. We have the highest personal respect for the gentie- their inefficiency to them, bat to their organization aud to the influence that controls it. But when itcomes toa matter so important to us an to the city at large as the c ction of this drive, an which we want done now, to the question to whose hands it shall be committed, we do not hesitate to give our influence as broadly as can be stated to the mde- pendent, raithtul public officer who does his duty, Very respectiully, WILLIAM KR. MARTIN, President West Side Association. MORE SPANISH INSOLENCE. An American Vessel Boarded by Armed Force near Matanzas—Looking for | Stowaways—Everybody Wanting to Emigrate. The American bark Everett Gray, Captain J. F. Loring, sailed from Matanzus for this port on the 17th ult., about three o’clock A. M., with an as- sorted cargo of Cuban produce. Captain Loring reports that near five o’clock on the morning of his sbip’s departure she was boarded by a Spanish | armed force. He says:— The vessel was under full sail, laying on the star- board tack. The pilot had leit her more than half | an hour vetore, when, through the hazy murkiness | of the early dawn a boat full of men was perceived to be heading for the Everett Gray. The Spaniard pulled athwart the American’s course and hailed. The Captain of the Everett Gray asked the business of the new comer, who announced him- self as a Spanish officer in command of the boat's crew and troops init, and demanded aline in order to board the American bark. Captain Loring had to heave to, and the Spanish oficer—a Meutenant, it seems—accompanied by two armed soldiers, boarded the homeward bound. omMicer could speak hardly any English, and the American captain Knows but little Spanish. Nevertheless, it was well understood that the boarder made a demand for the sailing papers of the Everett Gray. A Spanish sailing letter, among other documents, was handed to the oficial. He read and critically examined its every detail, muttering occasionally between his teeth some imprecation that showed him to be in no amiable mood. While the officer was engaged in scanning the contents of the sea letter, his men, who were armed, kept stumping up and down the deck, knocking the butts of their muskets against it till THEIR FIXED BAYONEYS JINGLED from the force of the blows. Captain Loring Shoughs that the Spaniards were about to go be- low decks, Mrs. Loring was asleep in her cabin, and had the intruders dared to make any attempt atasearch her husband would have resisted an invasion of his jamily’s privacy. Captain Loring repeatedly asked his visitors to state plainly wnat they wanted, but the officer sullenly declined to specily the object of his mission. He was told that there Were no stowaways on board, and that if superior force were employed he might search for them. This he declined to do, and alter a stay of fiiteen or twenty minutes went over the side by the port beam and pulled in direction of the shore, When the boarded vessel seat Milled her sails, an continuing her course, arrived in port yesterday. She was consigned to Messrs. Young, Smith & Co., No, 87 South street. The boarding boat dia not come out from any of the forts or piers around Matanzas, but appeared to be on guard near the line which separated Spanish waters from tue high seas. captain, whose ship suffered this high-handed treatment, thinks that he was brought to when approaching the boundary of Spanish marine jurisdiction. The pilot, at coming on board, inquired for stowaways, aad upon receiving an assurance that there were none, expressed his satisiaction. ‘There is a notice posted upin the omice of the United States Consul at Matanzas warning captains to take no stowaways from the island. Captain Loring reports that while he was in which declares the whole island of Cuba in a state of siege, wasread. There was a good deal of On motion the City Armory, corner Elm and White streets, was assigned for the use of the 96th | regiment from May 1. | After the adoption of some few more unim- | portant bills the Board adjourned to meet on Fri- day next, THE NEW POLIOE COMMISSIONER, No new developments have taken place in re- | | | gard to the Commissioner to be appointed in the place of the late Henry Smith, as far as Mayor | Havemeyer would commit himself, he being still very reticent on the subject. next examined, but his tesmony was unimportant. A Mr, Steen, who had been subpoenaed. sent one of his em- Ployes to answer for him, but the man knew nothing | about the dumping, except’ that somebody had got paid | $4.0 month for taking away the stuff, but to whom the money went he did not know. George S. Dinkleheimer, | an anspector, was also examined, but his testimony was | unimportant, Mr. Winant here requested to be allowed to make a | correction. It was that, instead of only $600, Captain | Thorne had received $4, the total balance of the $2,200, Dr. Day, Sanitary Superintendent under the Board of Health, was next ‘sworo, and he read a number of ex- tracts from the reports of inspectors showing the condi- tion of the sireets at different times. Witness’ opinion was that during the last halt of 1873 the city never at any | one time was properly cleaned: Broadway and some other streets were generally well cleaned, but there were always some paris of the city which were not cleaned ; the coliectton of ashes and garbage was never done worse than it was auring the whole year; in the very streets which were overcrowded, and which re- quired especial care, there was great neglect; the men employed in cleaning the streets, so tar as he couid see, were decrepia, and seemed generally to be taking gentle exercise. Paul Kessenberg, an employe in Bromhanst’s sawmill, Rivington street, testified.that 75c. was paid weekly for taking away the ashes; 98 long as we paid the cartman wok it away, but when we stopped paying we had trouble in getting him to take it, Thomas Feely was sworv, but his testimony was unim- | portant The committee then adjourned to Saturday next at ten o’clock A. M. A DETECTIVE ACOIDENTALLY sHOOTS HIMSELF, Detective John Tully, of the Twenty-seventh Precinct, while cleaning his revolver yesterday morning, accidentally discharged one of the cham- | bers, shooting himself in the left breast, and caus- ing a dangerous, if Rot fatal, wound, Several of the officets who were in the atation house at the time, hearing the report, rashed into the room where Tully was, and found him lying on the floor | unable to speak, He was at once conveyed to the Park Hospital, where he was attenaed by Dr. W. F. Fleuhrer, who pronounced the wound to be of an exceedingly dangerous character and likely to end fa' . The wound is very close to the base of the heart, and has the appearance of | being inflicted by an extra large sized bullet. Dr, Fiuhrer stated late last night that the wounded man, although very weak, was quiet and doing as well as could be expected. He was sleeping under the Influence of morphine and other anodynes. There ls, however, but little hopes of his recov In answer to ap inquiry by the reporter Flunrer stated that he was unadie to give any idea of the direction taken by the ball, as it had not been deemed advisable | to probe the wound. Tully was visited during the day by Captain Lowery and several of his brother ofticers, but was too feeble to talk to them. He was for several year@ attached to the detective Squad at Police Headquarters, but was some time since transferred to tae Fourteenth precinct, and from thence to the Twenty-seventh. From all in- quiries there is no doubt that the explosion of the | chamber of his revolver was purely the result of | accident, as he is not known to have had any | troubie whatever, either of a domestic or pecu- niary nature. PREPARING FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY, A committee headed by E, L, Carey called on Commissioner Russell yesterday, and made appli- cation for permission to parade on St, Patrick’s Day. The Commisstoner instructed them to make out their application in writing and send it to Mr. Hawley, who wouid lay it before the Board at their next meeting. The iollowing is the route agreed to by the societies :—The right of the line would be on Twenty-third street and Second avenue, and would march through Second avenue to Second street, to the Bowery, to Canal street, to Ventre street, to the east gate of the City Hall Park, where they will be reviewed by the Mayor and the Com- mon Council, and through west gate of the ot! to Broadway, to Union square and around the ‘aahington Monument, down Fourteenth street to Seventh avenue, to Thirty-fourth street, to Second avenue, to Twenty-third str to First avenue, to Eighth street and the Cooper Institute, where they will dismisa, The deputation waited on Mayor cesslon. | | | | | meyes and jnvited him to review the pro- Besides the long list published in the HERALD on | Sunday, a large number of new aspirants have | come ‘‘co the front,” among whom are reported Ricuard Schell, Alderman Joon Falconer, General | James B, Craig, Assistant Alderman H. 'Thornell, Isaac H. Bailey, Judge Henry Hilton, Alderman Robert B. McCafferty ; and it ig said that the Ger. Man element are pressing Alderman George Koch | vehemently tor the Commissionership. ‘The suspense, however, will only be of short du- ration now, as the nomination will be sent to the | Board of Aldermen on Thursday, | CITY AND COUNTY TREASURY. Comptroller Green reports the following disburse. Tents and receipts of the treasury yesterday :— DISBURSEMENTS. Claims paid (number of warrants 7) amounting to $1,867 Pay rolls umber of Warrants 1,123) amounting to 145,24 From arrears of taxes, assessments and interes : 23.986 From collection of t8 and interest. 049 From market rents. tae From water rents. ‘302 From heenses—Mayor’s Orc 39 From sales eee Reeord” (one week) 3B nd tines—Health Department. 567 From fees and tines—District Courts. a7 erests on deposite—Merch Comptroller Green paid yesterday, master Moor Falls, laborers on do through Pay- CkS LO 26th Inst., amounting to $15,854 How the Work on It Should Be Done and By What Department—The West Side Assuciation Contrasts Mes: Van Nort and Green, The following letter has been sent to Mr, Wil- | Mam B, Woodin, Chairman of the Senate Committee | on Cities, by Mr. William R. Martin, President of the West Side Association, in relation to the bill for the improvement of Riverside and other ave- nues, now before the Legisiatare :— West Sipe Association, New Yorx, Mi 4. Hon, Wituiaw 8. Woopix, Chairman of Ue erate am: mittee on Citle; ‘oclation has been in existence for Dear Sin—This asse nine years, and represents the property owners west of street, includini Central Park, trom Fifty-ninth to pe directly interested in the Riverside avenue an We cesire the Passage of the bill reported by your % Senate tor the following reasons’ e the ys in regard to this avenue and park monstrances. The map laying out the aud neediess, against our continued re- March, 1858, The Commissioners to ac were appointed in September, 186k. Their report’ was finally. | confirmed on the 9th of ‘December, 1872 No work was | done, with the exception of that ‘on the avenue, com- and then interrupted in Barrel at pen not in 7 e Sp some we park ty the Park Department Cuoaaton Ascher Secon t 18 an unjust burden on the property owners this sone ‘and we want the wor! cler, ue and e vicinity depen aud occupy our proper —Itis re necessary a city at large, asl have estab! hed a srbeeaat ices te Mr. Havemeyer. We are in favor of the plan shown by Mr. Olmstead for laying out the avenue anew by a driv It is more beautitul, more pra onom: = we originated the idea .) ed ls hor foresaw the condit! ‘olliny ore ‘ost hi of the construction of avenue and park, which are mow found to be controlling. od now we want worl lon for our share of t whether this wo ment of Public Pi ofthe work. To us the question . The Deer formed by, is one of efficiency. We are uaeatacing zi tion that if this Work te to be done rapidiy and e} it must be given to the Department ‘of Pubic me yenuy ‘orks. that the avenue now Be seit 2 and blowing” among the crowd, and con- siderable amount of very evident dissatisfaction. Every man capable of bearing arms who can get away from the country is leaving. For this reason @ very strict watch is kept over every port, bay or inlet where it might be possible for the heroic “voluntcers’? (?) to belie their loud-mouthea pro- testations of readiness to die delending the na- e department over which he now | men in the Fark Department We do no not attribute | The | ‘The | Matanzas the decree of Captain General Jovellar, | RUM AND JEALOUSY. Coroner’s Inquest in the Case of Mary £] Lawler, Killed by the Drunken Policeman John Doyte—Jealousy Supposed to Have Been the Cause—The Behavior of the Prisoner—An Affecting fcene in the Wooster Street Station Honse. Coroner Woltman hela an inquest on the body of Mary E. Lawler, the poor girl who was shot by OMcer John Doyie, of the Fifteenth precinct, on February 25, | The inquisition was held in the Elghth precin: Station bouse, corner of Wooster and Prin Streets. A dense crowd gathered outside to get @ ailmpse of the prisoner. Mrs, and Mr. Lawler werq | Present, and old Mrs. Lawler sighed and sobbed | during the whole inquest. At one time she cried out aloud, and It was with great dimculty she waa Stopped by her husband and some lady frienda who accompanied her. The prisoner, Doyle, sat on @ bench behind the Coroner. Ho did not Beem particularly affected, but kept ms hand |; over his face during the whole proceed< ing. Not even the sobs of his victim’d | mother or the importunings of hie sisters who tried to kiss him, seemed to move him a pare ticle. A man who is reported to have been Doyle's fast friend was present, and when he wi permitted to go and talk to the prisoner he barst into tears, but not a sign of feeling was displaye by the prisoner himself. When called upon to sig the Coroner’s papers he took the pen and without @ quiver wrote in @ plain, steady hand “Jong Doyle.” His sister remained by him as long as she could, trying to whisper works of comfort between her soba. THE PROCEEDINGS. Miss Kate Gallagher, a working companion of poor Mary Lawler, was the first witness called< She is of small stature, pleasant countenance and frank address, She resides at No. 437 West Forty-first street; worked with Mary Law- ler and knew her well; on the afternoom of Fepruary 25 she testified Doyle came into the workroom, at No. 83 South Fifth avenue, to see Mary, wha gotup and went dow stairs with bim and returned in about ten minutes, put on her clothes and left again wit Doyie; she bid the girls good afternoon, stating that she would not return; before she came up from the hall witness passed her while she was ia conservation with Doyle, and heard Doyle say, “I ‘will shoot that man;’ she does not know to whont he referred when he said “that man; did not know that Mary Lawler was es company with any one else than Doyle on the morning of the shooting Miss Gi lagher bad heard Mary Lawler say thai she would have nothing more to do with Doyle, be/ | cause he had promised to keep from drink and had | not Kept his promise; she said, further, to aber that she was sick and tired of his fooling, and woul have no more conversation with him; about twenty minutes, or perhaps less, after Mary le the room witness heard a pistol report and a fall she ran outside and saw Mary lying on her bac on the floor and Doyle standing with his back i the wall; she did not hear him say anything; h sat down after leaning against the wall lor @ short time, and put Mary’s head in his lap. DELIA O'CONNOR was the next witness calied. She worked in th game place; knew Mary, the deceased, but ha never seen Doyle in the hose beiore the mornin of the fatal occurrence; a little before two o’cloc! in the afternoon she heard some one knock at the | door, and called oat, “Come in; but, as the invitation was not responded | she went from her position at the cw ting table and opened the door; when she opene: the door she saw Doyle standing there in the hall he asked ii the proprietor was ip, or what the pr prietor’s name was; she told him, bu ‘he did nothing but shake his head; she wi | about to ask him to step in, wuen Mary Lawiel | looked over her sioulder, and, after ‘salutin; | Doyle, leit the room and went into the entry wit | him; she returned to the room, put her things o1 and went out again; she did not see either o them until after the shooting; after the shot ha been fired Miss O'Connor heard a fall, and, goin, | outmto the hal, saw Mary Lawier lying on ho! | back and Doyle standing with his back to tue wail witness ran down to Mary, and found she Wi dead; Doyle said, ‘Mary! Mary!’ and was ver! much excited ; witness called Doyle a brute, bu he made no response; 1n a few minutes the polic arrived and carried off the corpse. MR. ALFRED BOULOISEAN, | the proprietor of the shop in which Marg Li two foregoing witnesse! | worked, was next sworn:—On the aiternoo! of the murder he saw Doyle and decease standing in the hall below the second floor Miss Lawler was trying to make him stand u straight; he was evidently very drunk and unable | to walk; she was pulling him by the sieeve and | asking him to go home, bat he would not; Doyle | teil down, and, witn the assistance of Miss Lawler, | ; he regawed his feet; she picked up his hat, cleaned it with her handkerchiet and puf it on his head; they began to talk ol some man, who he is witness could not tell{ | the tional integrity. One of the parties who assisted | Doyle ratsed his hand and struck Miss Lawler og to discharge the Everett Gray’s cargo said thatthe , the breast, saying at the same time, ‘i’ shoot battalion of volunteers to which he belongs has | him! I’ll shoot him!’ Miss Lawler vried to get his already raised by subscription the sum of $17,000 | Shield off his breast, but he would not sliow her ta to be employed in purchasing substitutes in place , do it; slie then said, “Johunie, | will shut tha of the conscripted men. door, so that the people in the street cannot seq Captain Loring states it to be bis decided con- | us;” Doyle, in @ drunken voice, seid, “Yes, shu viction that the Cubans will speedily succeed in | the doo,’;” they remained here some time talkin; establishing their independence. Affairs have | in an earnest manner; as witness saw that Mis: lately shown @ marked change in their iavor. A | Mary did not like any one to be looking at Doyie short time ago people dared hardly whisper the | he and his wife made a start to go to their ieee name of their beautiful island; now men “made aS they went toward their room doo no bones” of saying “I am @ Cuban.” Insurgent | the couple im the hall below made @ ideas were in the ascendant everywhere, and the | Movement towards the hall door, and he and nid Spaniards looked as if all hope ‘of retaining the | Wie had intended to go and see Doyle go out inta ‘eat Antille had abandoned them. The ten men | the street; just as they got to their room door, ‘om every company that are now being con- | however, # pistol report was heard, and Mary fel scripted from the volunteers are for the most part | heavily on the floor; Doyle orled out, “My God! my Cubans, and the majority of them revels at heart, | God! wnat have I done?” he afterwards said, “I When brought face to face with their compatriots | have shot my best friend; oh, Mary!” witness then they will either pass over to the insurgents or turn | Tan out for the doctor and went to the ood arms against the Spaniards. house ior the police; he never recoliects bavi; o | Been Doyle at his house ee tae | OFFICER THOMAS ANOTHER STRIKE. | of the Eighth precinct, stated thaf at a quarter past two o’clock un the afternoon oi Feoruary 25, while he was standing at the desk talking to Ser- Disaffection Among the Parasol and Um. | geant Brown, a Wibod Rrra a a oa 3" 4 | and gave him to undersian' some oi it gore ae ate pamper pinot al been snot at No, 83 South Fiith avenue; the Ser- The female employés in one of the leading para- | geant ordered him to go around and see what ree sol and umbrella manufacturing establishments on | [eas Feely hte beak Katha a to Riese ha a . | him; when he got to the house on Sout ee Broadway—Bamberger & Oppenheimer—after hav: nue he made an entry through the basement; ing notified.the firm last week that an increase of | there was a great crowd standing infront of the wages would be demanded, yesterday morning Ae a tes we ire (ig ha the first Noor he saw Mar, Ld ying 0 promptly knocked of work, owing’ to s refusal of.| back on the floor, and John Doyle lying at her the firm to agree to the terms proposed. ‘he feet, Tolling and pulling his hair; he said, “f number of women on strike is about 100, They de- | have killed her and want to die with her;” at this * time he was frothing at the mouth and became sa Pence at in theif’ scale of priven'y Ave | violent that be could not be mamaged; Regan hadi increase of ten per cent was offered by | to Knock him down twice before he could be man- the firm, At another large establishment on | ®£Cd; it took three officers to bring him to the station house; witness did not ask him why he had killed Mary and the prisoner did not offer any ex- Planation. MRS, BOULOISEAU, | the wife of the UB gird of the shop in which Mary Lawler worked, was next called. She cor- roborated the statement made by her husband, but offered no new testimony; she had never seem Doyle to her Knowledge betore, and did not know he was the beau of Miss Lawler. MRS. HOBAN, who lives im the same house as the previous wit+ hess, was examined, but gave no testimony of im- portance, Broadway, where an increase of wages was also | demanded by the women employed there, number. | ing about s hundred, the offer of the firm of an in- creage of ten per cent was accepted, and they re- oaingd gt work. During the past winter, it is stated, these women have earned on an average | $9 per week. In the other manufactories, | witn the exception of the two mentioned, the work continues to be done at the old rate; but the | striking operatives expect the employés of these establishments to follow their example, A Meeting of the Parasol and Umbrella Makers’ Union is to be held in reference to this matter at the Cooper Inatitate tila evening. There are about 1,000 women employed in this branch of industry, | who are distributed in about a dozen factories. | The parasol manafacturing ts very brisk during the months of March, April and May, when the earnings of the operatives groatly increase, with- out ing. the schedule of prices, owing to the better and finer quality of work which they are re- | quired to furnish during this season, Tne employ- | ers say that the increase of the earnings o1 the operatives from this source amounts to no less Van flity per cent. THE POLICE ON THE MURDER. Oficer Bliss, Sergeant Brown and Captain Wil- llams were examined; but their stories nave beer told in the testimony above, All the officers de- | clare that Doyle was in a beastly state of int0xi~ cation at the tme of the tp THE CAUSE OF DEATH. The testimony of Dr. Shine was next presented. It detailed the conaition of the body, stating thas the kidneys and heart were diseased, but not suf- ficiently to have been troublesome; death, in the | Doctor's opinion, resulted ‘rom laceration of the | brain, caused by a pistol shot wound, EX-PRESIDENT BAEZ |e Bal All the evidence being in. Coroner Woltman eR | The ex-Chief of the St. Domingo Republic is | charged the jury in aicerwards, aud they rewred still imprisoned in his apartments at the Brevoort | to deliberate. House, in charge of Mr. Jeffries, an assistant af | After an absence ot ta crcutan pommerad tee returned, an 1 | pido Messrs. Evarts, Southmayda and Choate, | ath frem & pistol shot wound in the head at ie ones of John Doyle on the 26th day of uate Geko General! Boss not — oe | February, at No. 63 ro a pagel Jounsel for the prosecution, as well as those for the defence, ‘came, to an understanding yesterday | Doyle when called upon te answer the usual that the argument for vacating the order of arrest | questions said he was twenty-seven years of age, should be had in the courts, to which application | a native of New York and 4 dock builder by trade. was to be made on the 16th inat. Up to alate hour | In reference to the charges chy against hing last evening no further warrant of arrest for | he said, through his counse! General Baez had been delivered to Majur Quincey. | notuing to Mr. Coleman, he had say. Reports that several more complaints have been Coroper Woltman then committed him to the filed against that gentieman, apon which ne Js to Mandy Be Tombs without ball. be arrested, were rile yesterday, but no’ Se amet gocurred up to the closing of the Sheri?s office to THE WALTZ MURDER TRIAL. rumors, —— 3 indicate @ verification of the Fail Con ti a is ANOTHER BSOAPE FROM SING SING. Carsxrtt, N. Y., March 2, 1874 v1 Joseph Walts, the murderer of Harmon Hoicher, When the hour for closing Sing Sing Prison ar- “4 rived last evening it was ascertained, to the aston- | Was put on trial in the Circuit Court here at twa ishment of the officials, that “Johnny the Greek’? o'clock this afternoon, The prisoner has made a wos nowhere to be found, This notorious tnief | full confession, showing that he deliberately bat< was last sent up to serve a term only a few months | tered out the brains of the scissors-grinder wil The stei o the Park Department omes parl by them, tor the sake of “i Gatlormity ‘uniform: and =the — consiructton a) of all Feapepable; work ou since, and from his perfect knowledge of the at with @ hatchet, subsequently burying th prison and its surroundings it js probable that he | body in his fochers & len. He directed the oM~ is escape. In this latter event | cers where to find the body, and ic Pes bi one of lew York will have @ speedy oppor- oP. pie most 1 the mavay Taken, has been du; j 6 PaPlieghas,