The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1876, Page 3

THE STATE CAPITAL, Proposed Reorganization of the City Government. A MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN APRIL. The Police Board Taken Oyt ef Politics. DEPARTMENT OF TAXES ABOLISHED. An Amended Charter for _ Brooklyn. The City Railroads and Their Doings. GOVERNOR TILDEN’S TROUBLES. Aunayy, Jan, 5, 1876. Until the standing committees of both houses are appointed it is not likely that e:ther the Senate or As- sembly willeven pretend to go to work in downright earnest To-day each House adjourned after being in resmon not quite an hour, It is now settled that the House committees will be apnounced to-morrow, when the Assembly will immediately adjourn over to Tues- @ay. The Senate will also adjourn at the same time, but the Senators, so far as their committees are con- cerned, will have to hoid their souls in patience until after the recess before they will be able to know who are the chosen ones of the good places. However, when they get back here, and the committees are made up and announced, there will be no alternative | for either House but to begin the labors ot the session seriously. TRE ANTI-TAMMANY CHARTER, A-great deal of speculation has been indulged in of late by members here as to just exactly what changes the New York city charter proposes to bring about aud which Senator Bixby to-day gave notice he would sntroduce at some future day; but nothing definite bas ‘up'to this present time been made public concerning its provisions, The fact is the bill had not reached any- thing like completion until this afternoon. Having ob- tained its main points, it will be of imterest to New Yorkers to know what the sweep of the measure is. lt provides that the election for Mayor and other Yocal officers made elective, as the Aldermen, Comp- troller and Corporation Counsel, shali take place every two years, on the first Tuesday in April. The first election under the bill is to take place next April. There are to be uo Aldermen-at-Large, but three are to be elected from each Senatorial district; only two to be ‘voted for on the same ballot, as at present, as it is gen- erally believed that under the new apportionment New York city will have two additional Senatorial districts, This provision will make. the number of Aldermen twenty-one. The Aldermen are to actas Supervisors without extra compensation, their salary as, Alder- mdn being fixed at $2,000. The Board Is also limited to $12,000 for the regular expense of the Common Council. This includes the pay of the clerks and otber attachés, The Mayor’s salary is fixed at $10,000 a year and the expenses of his office at $15,000, All heads of departments and commissioners are to hold office for two years, ‘The collection of Croton water rents is placed in the bands of the Receiver of‘Taxes, thus saving the exponse and trouble of collecting, as under the present system, | of the taxes in the fall and the water rents in the sum- mer, The Permit Bureau is taken from the Mayor's office anc placed under the Finance Department, The Department ot Taxes and Assessments is abol- ished and made a Bureau of the Finance Department in charge of a Supervisor, whose salary is fixed at $5,000 The expenses of the bareau are limited to $60,000a year, just one-balf what the Tax Department asked for the coming year. 1t is made the duty of the Corporation Counsel to collect the arrears of personal taxes, which, in effect, ‘wipes out the office of Collector of Arrears of Personal Taxes, now an appointee of the Corporation Counsel at a salary of $7,500. 3 The Corporation, Counsel’s salary is fixed at $5,000, and that of the Public Administrator at $3,000. The Board ot Police is to consist of two persons, whe | are to be appointed by a Board of Appointment com. | poseg.of agiven number of judges, who have not yet Deen designated in the bill. It is provided that within twenty days after the passage of the bill the Board of Appointment shall appoint the two Police Commission- ers, whose salary is to be $5,000 a year each, The Commissioner of the Department of Public Works is to be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed | by,the Aldermen His salary is to be $6,000 a year. The existing cight bureaus of the department are to bo merged into four, and the salary of the head of each bureau is limited to $3,000 a year. The salaries of the beads of sevon bureaus im the Finance Department are ‘fixed at $3,000. The Collector of Taxes and a Supervisor of Taxes and Assessments are to get ech $5,000 a year, The Fire Department is to be under the control of pne Commissioner, to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen. His salary is to be $5,000, : The Department of Buildings is abolished as a dis- tinct department and is made a bureau of the Fire De- partment, and the expenditures of the bureau are limited to $40,000.a year. It will be remembered that the Department of Buildings asked for $120,000 for the ‘wmauing year and received $80,000, ‘The Heaith Department is to consist of the President of the Board of Police, the Health Officer of the Board and one Commissioner of Health, who must be a phy- Sician, His salary is fixed at $5,000. The bill imposes | upon him the duty of a general and daily supervision ver the office of his department its employés, This Commissioner of Health is to be appointed by the Board of Appointment, composed of certain jad; who are to appoint the Police Commissioners. The Health Department’s yearly expenditures are limited to $100,000, but in case of any great emergency, such as an epidemic, this amount may be increased by the con- current vote of the Board of Appointment. No salary of any officer, other than the Commissioner and the officials who with him compose the Health Board, shall | exceed $4,000 per annum. The Department of Public Parks is to be under one | Commissioner, to be appointed by the Mayor and Al- dermen. His salary is to be $6,000 a year. Department of Docks is vested in the Commis- sioners of the Sinking Fund, and they are not to receive compensation for the services they perform. e Commissioners of Charities and Correction are to ea! tm number, at a salary of $5,000 year each. y are to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen. Bam g the general provisions of the charter there is which prohibits the increase of the police force without the concurrent vote of the Board of Appoint- ment, and gives the Superintendent of Police power to suspend delinquent subordinates’ There 18 another which abolishes the police surgeons, and the services how performed by them are to devolve upon the med- ical staff of the Health De en Another probibits the departments from making special contracts, gives the appointment of the Supervisor of the Record to the Comptrolier. Supervisor's salary is to be $3,000. It is provided further that no eubordinate in any department shail be paid a higher salary than the head of the department gets, and that no person shall be eligible to appoimiment as head or chief of any depart ment who shall not have been a resident of the State of New York for a period of ive years prior to such ap- pointment. ‘The bill has a clause which provides that whenever the expenses of the markets owned by the city shall for the period of one year exceed the income derived from be oy ‘the Sinking Fund, the proceeds to be used to liquidate the city debt, By other clauses {t is provided that 00 leases are to be executed on bebaif of the corporation without re- ceiving the concurrent vote of the Board of Apportion- ‘ment, and that no bids are to be issued on vebalf of the & before being authorized by the concurrent vote of The Comptrotier, whose salary is Axed at $10,000, fs to be given the to appoint the inspectore of the i Fo works, who are to make duplicate reports to im and to the head of the department issuing the con- tract, The Deputy Comptroiler’s salary is dxed at $5,000, The Board of Apportionment is to consist of the Mayor, Corporation and the President of the Board of Alae: 1 the hereafter man appointed dof the third grade, with @ salary Meo Gmissoins tare vent wv ray Secon Ls. they may be sold by the Commissioners of | and the Battery; New York 4 tise for acetate 7 | as a sort of good fellow and dis NEW YORK be put in the second grade, year, and after a seat be | Ag placed on the The street by Laity dpe y — the Police under the charge of jealth mie s+ ns restrictions, are to adver- for cleaning the streets by wards. All officers made der this charter are to be voted for on a separate bai} THE TWENTY-THIRD WARD. The bill introduced in the Assembly to-day by Mr. of Westchester, simply provides for the elec- tion next November of an additional Alderman, who will seprecent, the Twenty-third ward in the Common Council, It also declares that after the of the actall the Mascara Park Commissioners, with the ex- ception of mY Stebbins, shall go out of office, and thereafter the department is to be under one head 4 Mr, Stebbins to serve out his term. ir and Correction power to employ paupers and convicts + .palia jabor, aud to hire them out to do contract 0) GOVERNOR Tr The process of wor: to-day by Senator MeCarthy, of Syracuse. The Gov- rbor, in his Message, asked for an appropriation to able the Attorney General to render effectual the in- vestigations into the canal frauds and especially for ig to & conclusion the actions now in court, The Governor said that the frauds exposed by the Commis- sion are sheltered by the connivance or complicity of officials whose duty iL i8 to protect the State. Senator McCarthy, who gives promise of takinga | year, and received as Jeading part in the preceed: of the Senate, offered a resolution, afver quoting the Governor’s remarks, that Hos Excellency communicate to the Legislature the re- results of the investigation so the tes- timony obtained, pen and = the officials charged in complicity with frauds against the State, ‘The resolution was adopted with a quiet smile of satis- faction by the republican Senators. ‘Governor Til- den,” said they, “has been gaining a great name as a reformer of the boldest sincerest type. He pre- tends to have accomplished wonders with his Canal Commission. Now we will give him a chance to show what he bas really done. Let him give us those names to which he refers and tell us to what party they be- long.”” After this the war on the Governor must soon grow lively, One determined offort of the republicans is to strip him of bis laurels as areformer. A com- mission to investigate the investigators will come next iu order, and the bope is with the republicans that they may be able to prove whole canal inquiry a sad delusion. It is especi: desired that the testi- mony should be made public. .Jt is said to vary ma- terially from the reports based on it, and to require | considerable alteration. to make both barmonize. There is 4 RUMOR that the evidence is being doctored by Secretary of State Bigelow. Repablicans insist that there has been barefaced partiality oye im the con- duct of the investigation, that Jarvis Lord aud Willard Johnson baye been quite as deeply impli- cated as Belden and Denison, and yet escaped prosecution. George BD. Lord is not charged with fraud like thie “rest, but THR CASK OF THAYER. The Governor wiil have a thorny path to travel this season, In his own household Of the democratic faith he bas many who are lukewarm in defending him, and many who Would be glad to see. his political prospects irretrievably ruined, The Governor will most likely send a meséage to the Senate next Tuesday informing Fish’s bill gives the Commissioners of Charities | actions | receipts from all \ { have | with bribery. | fares $82,676 58. | HERALD, THURSDAY, special act deserving reward, he | $88,372 17. The capital stock is $10,000,000; amount id in, $798,900; funded debt, $771,000; Hoating debt, 105,321 68. BLERCKER STRERT AND FULTON PERRY. Capital stock, $900,000, all paid in; funded debt, $697,000; floating debi, $49,107 13; cost of road and PS a ares $1,801,795 50; expense of maintaining, $4,002 81; of Cy ee road, $190,200 23; receipts from rs, $: ; from all sources, $240,787 59; payments, $249,692- 33; mgers car- nied, 4,859,780, The road is nine miles long, has 30 cars and 300 horses, CENTRAL CROSSTOWN ROAD. Capital stock, $600,000; funded debt, $240,000; float- ing debt, $20,519 39; cost of road and equipment, $547,045 90; expense of maintaining it, $2,544 05; of Operating, $81,347 73; cash receipts, $74,979 50; from passengers only, $74,301 10; total payments, $90,891 The road is two and a quarter miles long, has 80 passenger cars and 149 horses. It carried during the year 1,487,022 passengers, CHRISTOPHER AND TENTH STREETS. cash receipts: by this road during (he year were were $93,112 20, of which $91,377 29 was from passen- gers who numbered 1,827,545. T! xpense of main- taining the road was $9,563 81, $77,951 28. The cost of the road and equipment, sub- ject to a mortga e on ground for depot ot 500, was $650,000, capital stock of iy is the fy $660,000, paid in, and the floating debt $1,507 road is three miles long, has twenty-six passenger cars aud seventy-five horses, DRY DOCK, BAST BROADWAY AND BATTERY. This road carried 15,010,286 passengers during the res $780,514 29. It is twenty- five miles Jong (eleven and a quarter miles only being in operation now), bas 131 passenger cars and 876 horses, It cost $81,690 28 to maintain the road, and $583,420 7 to operate it during the year, The total sources during the year were $937,476 45; total payments $91,619 69 The total cost of the road and equipment is given at $1,191,213 29, The capital stock is $1,200,000 and iunded debt $1,006,000, HOUSTON, WEST STRERT AND PAVOSTA FERRY. This road, on the 26th of May, 1874, was sold by Shepherd Knapp, trustee, at public auction, to John Lowery, E. Beadleston ahd S. F. Knapp, trustee, for $200,000, who with others organized under the name of the Houston, West strect and Pavonia Ferry Company. The length of the road is over six miles, four miles and &@ portion over being pow in operation. It bas 46 pes- senger cars, 32] horses, carried 3,341,547 ngers during the year, receiving as fares $200,492 86 The total payments ‘were 025 38, and the total receipts trom all sources $288,025 38, the cash on hand Septem- ber 30 being $14,180 36. It cost $178,160 63 to operate the road, and $9,957 66 to maintain it, The funded debt of the road is $478,500; capital stock, $250,000; paid ip, $238,750, CENTRAL PARK, NORTH AND RAST RIVER, This road received $719,876 32 from passengers, who numbered 14,641,159. Tho road {g eleven miles long, bag 131 passenger cars and 1,108 horses, The expense Of. maihtaining it was $29,885 04; of operating it, $549,168 79, The total receipts were $772,315 62; total payments, $752,775 34. HARLEM URIDGE, MORRISANTA AND FORDHAM. This road curried 1,181,004 passengers, receiving as The expense of maintaining it was $11,009 10; operating it, $51,503 59. The total receipts were $97,906 22.and the total payments, $102,801 84. The capital stock. 18 $400,000; paid in, $209,100; funded debt, $146,000. The cost of the road and equipment was $287,502 95. The road is over six miles long, bas twenty cars and 134 horses, SOUTH FERRY. that body of his reasons for suspending Thayer as |, This is a comparatively new road, being a sort of Auditor of the Canal Department. ‘Thayer's suspension the republicans feel very sore. He was the only republican: partment, and now the democrats have complete run of the kitchen, It was an important post, being a strong lever for party interests and hence the feeling wt the Governor, Thayer can demand a trial by nate, bur here arises the question, if he be acquitted, hus the Senate the power to reinstate him and turn out the temporary incumbent, George W. Schuyler, late membe: Tompkins? The law is quite indefinite. That which relates to the power of the Governor in the matter of suspending the Auditor of the Capa! Department reads as lollows:— ‘The Governor may sioners of the Canal Fund suspend Cunal Department and appoint a suitabl Auditor of ihe rform his duties whenever, during tig rece: and for thirty days after the comm of the Legtslatare, it shall be ms Pe iv. said Auditor has violsted bis the public stocks of thi moneys in bit There is nothing said about reinstatement He is charged with blacxmatling contractors, &c.,*but the only offence for which he could batpapendes 18; accord= ing to the law, misappropriation tate funds. He can go ob drawing his salary until ‘the end of bis term, for there 18 nothing to the cot in the statate, Altogether he occupies quite an lous position. CAVANAGH VS. JACORS, Colonel Cavanagh’s petition against the right of Jacobs to hold the seat of Senator for the Second dis- | trict was presented to-day, It will be remembered | that-the original returns gave the seat to Cavanagh by avery wail majority, ‘Subsequent it by afew votes to Jacobs. Unless a very strong case his chances of slim. He is not regarded as a repui called ‘sound on the goose,” whil democrat, has the Poe quaiptance with republican the Court assigned Wapagh makes out seating Jacobs are ican who mignt be who regard him to overlook much for the sake of “Auld Lang Syne.” — While the demo- crats would lose un active representative, the repub- licans would gain a upit with whjch they are stroug MORRISREY A} . FSTION. The Honorable ake gu epre voice of labor, * stood up and offered a timely and sensible bill to-day which must gain him the thanks of the laborers, pro- vided there is uo imflation of the currency or no rise in the price of bread and butter. He wants that distract- | enough to dispense, ing question of corporation wages that wrecked Join Kelly and Tammany Hall and changed the whole tace of New York politics settled for good and for aye, He proposes that im future the Common Couneil alo shail determine the compensation of laborers, and tl matter be taken out of the hands of the beads of de- plaint which, though i+ brought tribulation to his enemies, brought triumph to him. OUR CITY RAILROADS. « The various city railroad companies are required to make an cxbaustive annual report to the State Engineer at the close of every fiscal y The reports already received by that official from New York city companies are (hose of the Broadway and Sevanth Avenue, Second Avenue, Eighth Avende, Third Avenue, Sixth Avenw Ninth Avenue, Twenty-third Street, Houston, Wi Street and Payonia Ferry; Dry Dock, East Broadway Jevated, Central Cross- jaand Fordham, Central town, Harlem Bridge, Morris Park, North and East Ri Christopher and Tenth Street, Bleecker and Fulton Ferry and South Ferry. ‘They furnish some very interesting igures. According | to the reports the BROADWAY AND SEVENTH AVENCE ROAD is eight miles long, has 127 passenger cars and 1,100 horses, Its capital stock is $2,100,000, which is all paid in. The fanded debt is §1,800,000, the floating debt | $286,159 48. The total cost of the road and equipment, | laid), bas 20 by the company’s report, was $3,900, 138 62, and by the present report is set down as $3,007,098 3% The num- ber of passengers carried during the year is given as 19,708,226. The total cost of maintaining the road and real estate of the company was $80,685 10, and operat- ing the road and repairs, $655,866 06. The total receipts were $1,004,802 39, the receipts from passengers being $088,411 33. Total payments, $1,009,535 95, $126,000 of this being for dividends om stock. THR SECOND AVENUE ROAD. The funded debt ot this road is $1,317,000; capital stock, all paid in, $1,199,500; floating debt, $45,000; cost of the road and equipment, $2,547,204 03; cost of maintaining the road and real’ estate, $60,833 08; ex- pense of operating road, $583,666 The receipss from passengers were $780,146 76; for construction, $762,673 ‘11. is ten miles, has 159 passenger cars and 1,109 horses, ‘The aumber of passengers carried was 15,602,935. The average time consum: over the road was one hour and twenty minutes, THIRD AVENUR ROAD, payments other than The capital stock of this company ts $2,000,000, all aid 10; fuaded debt, $2,000,000; floating debt, 000. ly the report of 1874 the total cost of the and juipments was in As $3,056,01219. By the present feport it is $4,076,068 13 tne number of passengers carried was ae 000, th® receipts from ngers berg $1,720,353 91; from all sources, $1,524,148 91; expense of maintaining the road, $88,967 47; of oper- ating the road and repairs, §1,190,259 48. The road is ight miles long, has passenger cars and 2,004 horses, 5 SIXTH AVENUR ROAD. The total receipts from rs on this road were $896,910 04 and u total payments during the year $517,001. ‘The expense of operating the road ani re- pairs was $601,857 80, Th road was $72,183 20. The cost of the road eq ment was $2,267,088 04. as against $2,257,198 97 in 187. The capital stock is $750, all paid in; the funded debt, 5,000, and floating debt, $830,000, The road is four miles long, has 100 passenger cars and 1,025 borses, The number of passengers carried was 16,738, 201. RIGHTH AYENTE Roan. i road carried 16,285,500 passen- daring the y: for which it received $614,275 total receipts were $839,784 71, and the total pay- Ments $855,437 46. ye sum of $614,840 05 was ex- pended in operating the road, and ‘581 71 in main- tainipg, The total cost of the road and equipment was $23,076 37, The company has 112 passenger cars 1,075 horses. The is ten miles eke The capital stock {s $1,000,000; funded debt, $203,000; floating debt, $95,000. NINTH AVENUE ROAD. The total floating debt of thia company is $20,663 07; funded debt, $207,000, capital stock, $500,000; paid in, $109,200, The road is thirteen miles long (six miles being nger cars and 200 horses. The cf the road and equipment is given as $990,422 17; ex- pense of maintaining the road, $12,089 65; passen- re carried, 2.085.510; receipts from passengers, 104,275 44; ‘rom all sources, §106,230 00; total pay: ments, $107,284 86; expense of operating the road, $30,307 88 Th iti 1 10 k tite toad is’ $00,008 all paid i e capital stock of this is 000, id in; fanded debt, $250,000; ok $29,912 75; cost of road and equipment ried, 3,273, 146; 8 of which $24, ‘on stock. pense of maintaining the toad Was $21,741 65, erating it, $116,405 68. The company has 32 passe ger cars and 170 horses. THE NRW YORK ELEVATED ROAD carried ST ongers during the fares ay 1D ae ee a ung, the Pm B ve hay ore fan ant? rr ‘Bevmanta cial left in the Canal De- | Jacobs, though a — of slong personal ac- | The length of the road | by passenger cars in passing | xpense of maintaining the | ! i r of Assembly tor | the receipts from fares t upon the reawisition of the Commis. | | | ' | } | | | | | | | \ | | | [-} On the subject of | feeder to the Eighth and Sixth avenue roads at Vesey | and Chureb. streets. 1t is not poe mile long, has eleven care and fifty horses. uring the year it care rie?” $61,830 passengers, receiving for the same fare G1. The expense of maintaining the road was 345 27; operating it, $24,845 43, The total receipts were $31,791 65; total payments, $31,104 01. , The following compilation will show at a glance the number of horses and cars employed by each company, the number of passengers carried during the year aud No. of No. of _ No. of Road. Cars. Horses, Passengers. Bway & 7th Av... 127 1, 19,708,226 $986,411 Second Avenue 602) 780, 1 Third Avenue Sixth Avenu Eighth Avenue. . 1,075 814,275 Ninth Avenue. ‘200 (104,275, Tw sbird 5 130 165,657 r Street... 800 243,108 x Crosstown... 80 49 74,351 Chris’ph’r& 10:hSt. 26 5 91,377 Dock &E.B'w'y 131 876 780,514 Hougt’n, WestSt&c 46 = S21 200, al Park,N. & B. iver. . 131 1,008 ‘719, Harlem Bridge, &.. 20 134 82,676 South Ferry.. pea 60 30,174 N.Y. Elevated..... — —_ 92,057 The list of accidents given in the report farnishes pretty good evidence that either 4 great of reckless driving is indulged in by the car drivers or that pedestrians are very careless im crossing the tracks; for of the nineteen killed and tweaty-cight injured, but three were employés or passengers. | he foliow: ing list will show on what roads the fatalities and in- Jurics occurred :— Roads. South Ferry. Central Park, Houston and West Street... Harlem Bridge Christopher Killed. Injured. Bliclewsec! | oul The T! oad, wi mouth and pleads its great losses when a demand is made by the travelling public for more cars and better accommodation on the road, received during the ye: as | have shown, {rom all sources, $1,824,148 1. No under head of payments are the foliowing:—For transportation expenses, mainteuance and repaire, $1,219,220 85; for interest, $140,679 OR And then comes this item :—For dividends on stock (amount and rate per cent 94), $190,000, Add to all these payments loans paid in full $55,000, and yet there is left this snug sum of “cash on hand’ $219,248 98. © wonder the Presi- dent of the road can’t understand why people won't be- lieve that the road has got as much as it can do to pay its way without endeavoripg to spend money for addi- tional accommodations for the public along its line, RECKEATION ABOUT REFORM. The democrats seem to be quite jubilant over the fact that the resolution offered by Mr. Went in the Assembly, declaring it the paramount duty of the Le islature to enact al! such # as MAY Strengthen t efforts of the Executive officers of the law in the measures of reform already taken, was tabled owing to the objection of a fepublican. However, Mr. Straban, who rose to debate it, and bad it thus tabled, contend that the resolution was a double- header, in providing that the Legislature should ap- prove not only all the measures of reform alreacy taken, but measures that may hereafter be taken, It is | evident that one of the chief amusements of the ses- sion from this out will be a daily effort of the ma- Jority to put the Governor in an embarrassing situation on some reform measure, and the minority to re- turn the compliment somewhat after Mr. Weiant's fashion. ‘THR COMMITTEES. There is such a terrible scramble going on for good Places on the various committees, and the aspirants tor places have so many friends here to urge their claims that Mr. Robertson and Mr. Husted bave been obliged to leave town to avoid the mob. The former lett ior his home ot the Harlem road, early to-day, on pretense of being called away on business, and Mr. Husted#is said to have gone to Troy, The demoerais believe he bas gone to Canada to seek the protection of the Dominion government, All sorts of rumors prevail about the disposition that is to be made of the anti-Tammany element up stairs and down stairs, However, it is certain now that the anti- Tammany ites are not to be overlooked, for both Gerard and Morrissey are to be on the Senate Committee on Cita Jacobs is to be the third democrat and the republicans are to be Woodin, Booth, Baaden and Wagner. The Senate Judiciary Committee is to be increased from five to seven, 80 as 0 give place to three democrats—Bradley, Starbuck and Lamont— Roverts will, of course, be chairman, Senator Harris is to be Chairman of the Finance, Cole of Canals, Wi man of Militia, Selkrog of Railroads, Coleman of Banks, Tobey of Insurance. e chairmen of the leading As- sembly committees will be as follows :—Sloan, of Oswego, ‘Ways and Means; Strahan, of New York, Judiciary; F f Putnam, Affairs of Cities; Burleigh, of Was! ington, Canals; Worth, of K: mmeres and Navi; tion; Munroe, of Onondaga, Banks; West, ra Railroads; Hogeboom, of Columbia, Gene Special Laws, Grabam, of Monroe, will be chairm of the sub-committee of the whole. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. It ig understood that one of the first thi sembly will do next week will be to authorize ‘om: mittee on State Prisons to commence an investigation ns, ae ee gree by the wh jood deal of fraud to be that bas been nursed for years by a bad the As- nor, nearthed system. Ex-Auditor Thayer, some of his friends say, {a preparing to put nis charges, made against Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer during the campaign, into stronger forms, and to add vo them some newly diseov- ered evidence. It is believed that some of ri in the Senate want him to fight against the fate ti Governor lately consigned him to so suddenly. The publication in the Herat of the views of Sena- tors and Assembiymen on the spring election question is gonies considerable excitement among the tnqmbers nerally. eine trhends of a local election in the spring are jubi- lant over the discovery that a majority of both houses, Tegardiess of party, ure in favor of the re- form. In view of the fact that the Bixby charter has a spring election clause it will be ahmige ye Ny see what members already recorded in favor of the proposition can be induced by those wirepullers who are opposed to it to go back on their convictions, There is to be @ reception at the Executive Mansion to-morrow, atin, THE PROCEEDINGS, SENATE, Atnany, Jan, 5, 1876. Mr. Brevy gave notice that he would at an early day imtroduce a bill reorganizing the government of the city of New York. BILLS INTRODUCED, By Mr. Jacons—Relative to the care of insane persons. By Mr. Mornisse: wt Relative to laborers on the pub- JANUAKY 6, 1876.—-TRIPLE SHEET. rate of compensation foreach day of service; suen Tate to be fixed from time to time by the Common Cape provided, however, that the rate shall not ex- per day; the Act to take effect immediately. Mr. Jacobs’ bill ever any insane provides that wi Person accused of arson, murder or bighway robbery shall have been acquitted upon trial, on the groupd of ipgapity, the jury shall bring in a epecial verdict to that effect, and so state it in their nding, and the Court before which such trial is had shall order such person to be committed to the State Lunatic Asylum for Insane Criminais for life, Adjourned, ASSEMBLY. Avsayy, Jan. 5, 1876, ‘The Assembly met at eleven A. M. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Worrm—Amending the charter of the city of Brooklyn. lt creates a department, to consist of one Assetgor and five assistants, to be called a Board of Assestors. It makes the five assessors in office assist- ant: rs, to serve during the terms for which they wiiapectivay appointed. The terms of office of all aggessors except the President shall terminate on the “passage of this act The President js fhade the Assessor named in the act and will serve his term, The term of office of the Asses#@#r ana his assistants is fixed at three years, ‘Yhe Afsessor’s salary is made $5,000 and that of « agsistants $2,500 per annum, The duties of the asses- Sors ape set forth in detail, A Department of Police and is provided for, the chief of which shall re- ceiy lary of $5,000, All present powers and du- ties ae conferred, upon him, The President of the Board pt Police and Excise is made Commissioner of Police and Excise and shall serve out his term of gffice, when the Mayor and Aldermen shall appoint bis ssor. There sball be a Department of fire and buildings, the chief officer to be designated Fire Commissioner, at a salary of $6,000, The present powers and duties are imposed upon him. The President of the Department of Fire and Buildings shail be Fire Commissioner and serve out his term, his successor to be appointed by the Mayor aud Aldermen, There shall be a Depart- ment of City Works, the chief officer of which is to be designated Commissioner oi City Works, at a salary of $5,000. ‘The powers and duties of the present depart- ment are imposed upon him. All the parks, &c, are laced im charge of this department. The salary of the Mayor ts Oxed at $7,000, and that of tho Comptroller, Collector of Taxes and Assessments, Corporation Coun- sel, Treasurer and Auditor at $5,000 each. iy Mr. Forstxr—To amend the act to equalize the State tax among the several counties in the State, It increases the number of State Assessors ta four, to be | selected from the four jndicial districts. They are to hold office for four years. Three are made a quorum. ‘Also to amend the act to reorganize the local govern- méné of the city of New York, passed April 15, 1873, | It. proyides that the Alderman now in office shail hold office wil January 1, 1875 (meaning 1876). Thero shail be twenty-three Aldermen, to be elected at the general State election, to take place in 1876, Three shail be elected | in each Senate district, and shall be residents of the district In which they are elected, But no voter shall vote for more than two of said Aldermen, two of whom | ehall be elective in the territory comprising the Tysoty-chird and Twenty-fourth wards, and shall “be residents of ‘said territory.’ “But | no voter shall vote for more than one of the said Alder- men, There shall also be elected six Aldermen at Large, to be voted for on a separate ballot; but no voter shall vote for more than tour of the said Aldermen at Large. The Aldermen are to bold office tor four years, The election for Aldermen is to take plas nually, Sec- tion 84 of the same act is amended s0 as to designate the head or chief officer of the Commissioners of Parks, as Comtpissioner of Public Parks, to hold office four ie The present president shall serve his term out. ‘he offict. of the other Commissioners of Parks 18 abol- ished, and the Commissioner shall perform all the du- ties npw imposed upon the department, RESOLUTIONS. Mr. Smerman offered the following concurrent resolu- tion, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House :— Whefeas at the annual session of the Year 1875 8 proposed amendmeut to tl Agreed to by concurrent vote of the S eemiecers for the solved, That section 4 of article 5 of the constitution be sraended 56 as to rend as follows :-— See. 4 A Superintendent of State Prisons shall be ap- pointed by the Governor, by ant th the advice of the Sen- ‘ate, and hold bis office for live unless sooner removed. He ive security in \d with such sure- ties aseball be required b: hfal disebarge of hisduties. Le shall have the superintendence, manage- ment and control of the State Prisons, subject to such laws as now exist or may hereafter be enacted. He shall appoint mts, wardens, physicians and chaplains of e jsovs. The agents and warden b prison shall appoint ou officers prisons, except the _ clerk, of thecaame by the Superisitendent, but the shall appoint the clerks of the prisons. ' The Superintendent ° shall ba¥e all the powers ahd perform all the duties not in- | const Berwwich whieh have heretofore been had snd perforined by the Inspector of State Prisons, and from Biter she tine when such Superinsendent ot State Prison shall have been appointed and qualified the offiees of Inspec. tor of State Prisons shall be and he: hed. Govern: ay Temove the Superintens cause any t ving to him ® copy @ charges against him aud Av #pportunity to be hurd §n his defence. The sa aren ‘then recites that the proposed amend- ment was agreed to by a majority of a!l the members of th ure last year and duly published for three wie sor ta.she last election, and conclydes as 1ul- lows: Resolved {if the Senate concur), That said amendm agreed to by the two houses comprising the present mt be isla ture. Mr. Weiayt offered the following, which was laid ‘ved, That it is the Judement of this House that the ‘titpation of corruption, dishonesty, luefficiency and ance in official places is of the highest linportance that mount dut; I means as may strengthen executive officers of the law in the meas- taken, of that may hereafter be in- hat the most honest, efficient and econ- both State and municipal, may be se- & Adjourned. GOVERNOR AMES’ MESSAGE, Meurms, Tenn., Jan. 5, 1876. Governor Ames’ Message to the Mississipp! Legisla- ture was read yesterday, It opens by calling attention to the late State election, and recites the events vccur- Ting at Clinton in September. The Message recommends a modification of the fun- damental law of the State, so as to bring about better | | fecling between the races. The State Gnances aro un- | precedentedly favorable. ‘The real debt of the | its ability to pay is only | $500,000. The expense’ of the State govern. ment for the past year were $618,000—a | reduction upon the expenses of the year previous of nearly $300,000, while the receipts have been | $400,000 over the disbursements. The Message recom- | menas that the taxes be made payable only in United States currency. A change in the public school laws | 80 a8 to make @ system already good still better is ad- vieed. A liberal appropriation is recommended for tho | proper representation of all the products of the State ut the Centennial Exhibition. The Message concludes | “The prosperity and progress of the State must neces- sarily depend upon the feeling of security and content- ment of the people; distrust and suspicion should ve | dispelled by just and liberal gialation this done, the | colntion of thany of the difficulties of the present time will have been substantially accomplished." | State beyond MARYLAND LEGISLATURE. 1 Axsvarois, Md, Jan. 5, 1876, The General Assembly of this State convened to-day, The House organized by the election of L. C. Smith, of | Washington county, for Speaker, and Milion Y. Kidd, of Cecil, for Chief Clerk. In the Senate John Carroll Walsh, of Hartford, chosen President pro tempore, and, afler swearing new members, the Senate adjourn’a until to-morrow. The Message of tl overnor was Dot sent im to-day, THE LOUISIANA CONSERVATIVES. THE, BOURBON WING ELECT THE CHAIRMAN— PROPOSED REPUDIATION OF THB WHEELER COMPROMISE, New Onteans, Jan. 5, 1876, The Conservattve Convention’ met to-day and organ- ized by electing Monteure president, This is a virtual triumph of the Bourbon wing, To-morrow it is ex. pected that resolutions repudiating the Wheeler ad justment will be offered, but they will be vigorously combated by the liberal wing. The sentiment of the Convention appears to-night about equally divided, and mach general anxiety is felt for the It, in view of the influence it will wield over the conservative mem- vers of the Legislature, now in session. In the Democratic Conservative Convention, after | recess, the Committee on Credentials reporved that at the parishes of the State except Bassier, St. Bernard and Sabine were represented, Hon. Jobn ©. Moncure, of Caddo, was elected Pres- tdent by a majority ‘of about 100 over Duncan 8. Cage, candidate of liberals and fusionista. Mr. Moncere, apon taking the chair, thanked the Convention for the honor conferred upon trim, and said this Convention is probably the most important one ever held in our State, for tt is the first one since our State has defrauded of her rights. It is most m- portant that we should be a unit in the questions to be presented. I call upon those who voted for me to-day to look to M that a solid front should be presented egy the vile cohorts of radicalism, who are sapping | e | | life blood of our me. Let the white people ot our State be one iy against their opponents— radicaliem, surely, No matter what differences there may be in the policy of the different delegates Jet them all frown down the first appearance of dis- cord, and let the proceedings of the Convention be | most harmonious, for our grievances are greater than have before been borne by any Anglo-Saxon race, among the committees appointed was one, on motion | of Hdn, RH. Marr, to prepare a memorial and address to Congress on Louisana affairs, aud a committee on State and municipal taxes. Governor John McEnery and Lieutenant Governor D. B Penn were invited to seats on the platform and were loudly e Ex-Gor armoth was present at Convantions diving the «stim resem rFROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON. A Louisiana Member on the Situa- tion in that State, OPERATION OF THE WHEELER COMPROMISE. The Course of the Democrats During the Opening Session Explained. | | | | 3 Sean jon was so referred by 4 every patnre. The resolut strict party vote, Mr. Dayton, of Virginia, moved an investigation o the Freedmen’s Bank and a similar reso!otiou was im troduced in the Senate. About the most important business of the day was the introduction of a resolution requiring the Judiciary Committee to investigate the relations of ibe Pacific roads to the government in the matter of their eub« ‘ sidy bonds and to report, by bill or otherwise, a plas by which the companies shall be compelled to pay the interest owing to the government as fast as it falls due, It ig also proposed to establish a mint in connectios with the Assay Office in Wall street, New York. All the signs of the times indicate the early diseon tinuance of the Marine Corps. There was a slight mp« | ple on the school question; but the democrate, whe bave cut and dried their policy on this point, refused ta | let the subject tae any prominence to cay. In Com PoP SEE SSR Aan Wasuieron, Jan. 5, 1876. A LOUISIANA REPRESENTATIVE ON THE DIS- PUTED GUBERNATORIAL) QUESTION—THE ACTION OF THE DEMOCRATS DURING THE OPENING SESSION EXPLAINED. i. Colonel Levy, member of Congress representing the Red River district of Louisiana, has written a letter to the Democratic State Convention of his State, which meets to-day, in which he gives detuils of an important statement of the attitude of the democratic majority in the House on the vexed Louisiana question, as well as the first authorized account of the deliberations which brought on the debate on the first day of the session, The letter is addressed to Jotin McEnery, New Orleans, and is as follows:— ‘The action of the House of Representatives on the first day of the session has caused much surprise to our friends, especially in Louisiana, and a statement of the facts connected with the presentation of Mr. Wood's resolution, and of the reasons given by the democrats who opposed its passage is necessary fora fuil under- standing of the matter, and also im explanation of the non-participation of Messrs, Gibson, Ellis and myself in the debate on the resolution. Alter deliberation and consultation by the democratic | members from Louisiana with many of our older and more experienced fellow members, viz. :—Speaker Kerr, Hous. Fernando Wood, L. Q ¢. Lamar, 8. 8. Cox and others, all of whom expressed their approval of the course which we had agreed upon, Mr. Wood, on ac- count of his long service and parliamentary experience and thorough knowledge and thorough acquain' with ail the features of, the Louisiana question, was selected to —_ introduc resolution for reference of the crede of | mittee of the Whole Fernando Wood got a chance ta | extinguish the ambition of his honored friend and col- Messrs. Spencer and Morey to the Committee on Elec- tions, and assume its conduct and management on the floor, These friends counselled that the Louisiana members should not engage in the debate, but those from other States should take the matter in hand and press the passage of the resolution, | preferring that it should not be presented by | the local representatives from the State directiy | interested, but by those from other States and sections, thus giving it a broader and more na- tional inauguration and support. We believed that | there would be unaninity among the democrats in favor of the resolution, and were strengthcned in this belief by the approval and concurrence of the promi- nent gentlemen whom we had consulted. Of course we expected opposition from the republican side. Our belief in the unanimity of the democratic mem- bers was erroneous, a8 the subsequent action of the | House developed, and even atter its modification at the instance of Mr. Lamar, requiring only the refer- ence of Morey’s credentials, the resolution was voted down ina full house in which the democ © majority is nearly and on Mr, Bilaine’s motion Mr. Morey was sworn ip. The contest of Mr. Morey’: it by Mr. Spencer will, therefore, be:had on the merits of the case, involving the facts of the election of 1874, During ‘the debate it was charged on the republi- can side, and admitted by many of the democratic friends in the House, that at the last session of Con- grese there was an implied understanding and tacit agreement, though pot formally expressed, that toe proposed Wheeler compromise should operate 0 ‘acquiescence in the Kellogg government, and further action or discussion on that subject by Congress should not be had, In the debate the following propositions were sub- mitted by the supporters of the resolution:—That the understanding of a tacit agreement, above referred to in the proceedings of Congross, was not binding on this, a new body; that the passage by the same House in the Forty-third Congress ot the resolution recognizing William Pitt Kellogg as the Gov- ernor of the State of Louisiana did pot and ought not | to control the Forty-fourth Congress, the resolution of | recognition having passed the House by party vote, the most of the republican members having voted for it | and all the democratic members against; that the | | election returns of 1872 bad uot been canvassed by the | Congressional Committee of Investigation, a portion of | which committee had undertaken the compromise of 1875, involving only the election of 1874; that this com- promise,assumiug to recognize Kellogg as Governor, bas not the approval and ratification of the people of Lou- isiama, and does not conclude the claims of John ery a8 legal Governor. ‘These propositions incidentally submitted, the House did not decide upon, and ite action was decis: only of this—that as Kellogg was exercising functions. of the | *Govornor, and was ized. ag Yerercisiug | euch functions by the co-ordinate branches of the State government his certificate Sacie en- titled Mr. Morey to be sworn inas a member of tho House on its organization, As sbown by these pro- ceedings, it is clearly the sense of the House that the issue, “Who is the legal Governor?’’ should not bo raised collaterally, and, therefore, it can only ve von- sidered as a direct and independent question, As an absiract proposition it seems to me to be clear that if the preceding House of Representatives bad the right to | declare its opinion on (he subject the present ono, | fresh from the people, has the same right, and it3 | declaration should bave more weight than that 01 its predecessor, especially if based upon the returns of the elections of 1872. | I feel it my duty to state that many of our friends in | Congress indicate an unwillingness to reopen the Louisiana case. The apparent and superiicia) quiet in | the state is misinterpreted by them as the result of | the Wheeler compromise, and as manifesting tacit ac- quiescence in Kellogg’s government. And hence, they contend, it {sto our best policy to abstain from agita- a of our this question, but rather to bend energies town carrying the eleo- November, 1876, and thus effect the installation wernor of our choice, A full understanding of the situation and of the feelings of the people in re- gard thereto, and a recital of the oppressive and odious tute book paralyzing the ener- gies of the Commonwealth, whi were enacted by past Legislatures for the purpose of suppressing the - entand vorce of the voters, and which, under the xisting usurpation, are powerless to repeal, are necessary to disabu ir minds and cause them to | give the subject a serious” consideration and relief which it demands and to which it js justly entitied, A memorial of the people of Louisiana, through representatives of its most intelligent classes assembled in convention, setting forth the gnevances der which they labor, ‘the wrongs which have been ped upon them and the sucred rights which have been violated by a bigh-handed usurpation, could hardly fail to command the serious atieation of Con- gress. Aud even shi it fail to accomplish the de sired relief it would at le: bring to the knowledge of our brethren throughout the whole Union the tacts and the truth of our case and place us on the record in the proper attitude of continued hostility to the usurpation forced upon us by the strong arm of federal gov ment, and of earnest appeal to the spirtt of righ | justice, which should animate our fellow citizens of | every section in the Republic, ' In this connection I feel at liberty to speak for my | colleagues. I peed not assure you that the democratic | representatives from Louisiana tn this Congress are 50 fully alive to theimportance of the question, and their | peop! most zealous efforts willbe put torth toward securing such action as will redress the wrongs of the oppressed and unfortunate State and guarantee her right under a “republican form CH dire tenw lal to regulate her do- | meetic household and enjoy those privileges and fran- | chises to which she is entitled undor the constitution bag Behe It her birthright ‘i a Le Siento State, ith highest consideration | am truly yours, . WILLIAM ML LEVY. 8 of the democratic This letter expresses th part of the Louisiana delegation. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, arr sae UN CAT ; Wasutvatow, Jan. 8, 1876, THE ACTION OF MORE POLITICAL SENSATIONALISM—IMPOR- TANT BILLS INTRODUCED, Although the House was nearly five hours in session to-day very little of vital importance was done, The ‘ock in trade of the republican minority seems to con- 4 of the crippled Union soldier, whose disabled figure is hoisted in the House om every possible occa- “bloody shirt’ at the other end of the Capitol. democratic stock ie trade comprises « pair of hands clasped over the bloody ehasm. This apotheosis of peace between the North and the South is displayed on every occasion when the oftentimes shrewd stravegy of the minority puts the democrats in an awkward fx. Thus) to-day the republicans brought out the boy in bine, in | the shape of a revolution about the late unholy war, | and were pluming themselves on again putting tho | democrats on the record as aympathizing more or lesa | with the rebellion; but, to their surprise, the demo- | crats, almost toa man, voted with them, the resolu" tion, therefore, falling fat and the discomited repub- Vicans being greeted with a peal of laughter, ‘The minority ed with this failure; for | soon after Mr, Fort, of Linois, moved a resolution that | the majority should, to be consistent, extend their indorsement of joyaity to the matter of the subordi- nate officials of the Hoose. The democrats resolutely swallowed this, too, although Elijah Ward, Cox and Hoiman refused to vote. It being the democratic tura now Fernando Wood moved the reference of the resolu. tion to the Committee on the Centennial, where, he said, it properly belonged, as this was a year when the rovotry was to bury out of sight all pant differances of THR WOUSR XESTERDAT— | pp, and even more reguiarly than Senator Morton’s | Tho | league, Mr. Cox, who wanted the specie payment ques- Vion relegated to bis committes, Mr. Wood quoted | from the record, and showed that Mr, Cox's committea was born of tho national bank system and that the Original name of the committee was the Committee on Banking and Bank Currency, the last two words !ndi- cating the extent of the committee's Jurisdiction in tha matter of the currency, At bis own r quest Mr. Hewitt, being a business man and interested in contracts, was excused from serving on the Committee on Public Buildings, and has changed places with Mr. Smith, of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Morey, of Louisiana, totroduced @ bill to allow the Court of Alaama Claims to receive applica- tions for damages from persons. who, having been en- gaged in the rebellion, took the oath of allegiance, and subsequently to such oath sustained losses through’ the capture of property by rebel cruisers, Such per- fons are now debarred, FEELING IN THE HOUSE REGARDING THR cEN~ TENNIAL APPROPRIATION, The House seems to be favorably disposed toward the grant asked for the Centennial It je est.maied that the whole cost of the Centennial Exh nwil be $8,000,000. Of this between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 bave been raised by private effort. A grant ‘of $1,500,000 will enable the Exhibition to open free of debt, The cost of running it during the spring, sum- mer and fall is est:mated at nearly $2,000,000, and tis will, it ts hoped, be fully edvered by the receipts, if the commission can start free ofdebt. Southern membera are believed generally to favor it, and there 16a g ral disposition with both parties to recognize the tice of making the appropriation, Jui GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, sneitg SING Wasmtxatow, Jan. 8, 1876 THE PRESIDENCY THE SENATE—SENSE O} THE COMMITTEE ON THE QUESTION OF A NEW ELECTION. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Electiom held a meeting this morning to consider the Edmunds resolution calling for a pew election on the 7th inst o& a President of the Senate, pro fem, After an hour's session the committee adjourned till to-morrow with: out taking final action on the resolution. An expres sion of opinion was obtained, however, by a vote om the question, ‘Whether the Senate has the legal right to elect a presiding officer at tho present time.” On thit Messrs. Morton, Cameron (of Wisconsin) and Wadlelgh voted in the affirmative; Cooper and Merrimon jp the negative, Mitchell did not vote, NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT. Im addition to ex-Governor Carpenter, of Iowa, for Second Comptroller, the President will nominate to the Senate to-morrow tor confirmation Reuben W:llama, of Indiana, as Second Deputy Comptroller. THE DESIRED APPROPRIATION FOR TENNIAL EXHIBITION, The members of the Centennial Commission, with several leading citizets of Philadelphia, are now here on business in connection with an appropriation of $1,500,000 in aid of the Centennial Exhibition, THE GRANITB STATE REPUBLICANS, a CONVENTION AT CONCORD—-DENUNCIATION OD THE SOUTH—P, 0, CHENEY NOMINATED POH GOVERNOR—A PATRIOTIC PLATFORM. . Concona, N. H., Jan, 6, 1876, The Republican State Convention met here at a quare ter past eleven A. M. to-day, and was called to order by D. Hall, of Dover, Chairman of the State Committee, who made @ short speech, in which he accused the democratic party of seeking to restore the old revel siaveholding power in the councils of the mation, and oF THE CENs | predicted « glorious triumph of the republican party im this centennial year. Orrin E. Moore, of Nashua, was elected permanent President, with the usuai list of officers and commit tees. Mr. Moore, on assuming his seat, made an ad- dress, the chief points being demands for the main-« tenance of the spirit as well as the letter of the con- stitutional amendments; effectual measures for the re, sumption of specie payments; reduction of the gost of the government; elevation of the civil service; # free, unsectarian common school education and compulsory attendance, He referred to (ho changes necessary 10 be made when revising the State constitution. The religious test should be abolished; the number of members in the House should be diminished and the number of Senators increased; the time for holding State elections should be put in the fall; the elections! should be made biennial, andthere should be a provi- sion making the estabnshment and mainten free, unsectarian common schools forever ob’ upon the people. He concluded by referring in severe terms to the action of the Governor and Counc!) in the Senatorial cases last June, NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR, At the conclusion of Mr. Moore's address Hon, P. GC, Cheuoy, of Manche. or, Was nominated for Governor by arising vou. William A. Pierce, of Portsmouth, on the first ballot received 375 oat of 475 voles, and was deciared bol ijuee for Railroad Co: issioner. THe PLATFORM. The following resolutions wore adopted :— mpshire, in Convention am The repabticuns of re aad entitie government of the people, for the people The national constitution and the governs State constitutions a ler them are the creation of the mary Capacity and supreme in their rex spective relatio 3. The general government is bound by most sacred obligations to preserve republican government in all States, 4 to protect the freedmen of the South ina (ull, fair and exercise of «e rns against the Integrity of full fecoguition, in practice ai ul alll rf. 5. A tariff for revenue which shall be so adjusted as to be | dhe least burdensome and most favorable to Lome industry. and labor. currency is @ ni joa tu values, plaeii evil, Involving @ constant due tbe earnings of labor in the power of speculators and working untold demoralization in every department of bu en melusive the President's deel cr Ma the doverminasioy ur highest approbs ‘support. ‘Our tree Cope: ’ natitution of ti Ly de fro Riv ever be placed wuder she coatrol of any religions vec for soall. any wsouey ised over be divided tarween religious sects or denominations.” % 10, That the republ i sive a {rue recomellintio tbe oa and welcome giadly ail tances that (his centennial hx! +o com! e to that en 11. That we cherish gratefully the services of our soldiers, and hereby express our anqualitied abliorrence ul the setion of the demoect LS ty inthe oational Hou Serqreccrnes tienes Ermer abouts the Capitel a: 108 Ly vacan ies thes made ooo omy, ee upee ve ‘is Union, that the adm) ruden: istration of the government shaald inwe in the hat i the polit nigation bat has always been trae ; not be given over to the control of @ part: Heb bas give: ample evidence of its falsity ov rofersion Invaity to the amended constitution aad of reform, wru from it by constunt defeat, The remainder of the resolutions relate to State a! fairs, and condemn the inte democratic Governor an Couneil for their action in the matter of the vacanci in districts Beoond and fourth; favoring a constitue tional convention; indorsing the temperance reform be py and eulogiamg the candidate for Gove or. A State Central Committee was appointed. Romination of Railroad Commissioner was male ubanimous. Hon, Walter Harriman made a brief epecch and the Coovention adjourned