The New York Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1876, Page 4

4 a. a eer| tee for the District of Columbia and orderea vo pe | ered ne had suffered a large pecuniary loss; the con- comm: ( j O N G R E S S printed in the Record, tract he made with Park for the purchase of 500 shock on Speaker Husted, a ., | shares was exeeated and delivered to Park on the day . Mr. Graff to the chair, rushed docu on the Mr, Woon, (dem.) of N. ¥., from the Committee of | {, purported to have been made; he was aware that the “ House and denounced it as unprcdented. Ways and Means, reported a bill for the separate entry mg laws required » one to be Voge on ail Prater dps. mo bad ag! ee ‘ Yt i not t that a motion shoul of express packages contained in one importation. amet at" eee ee ‘he patract TI to have a Dill, taken away from 4 standing | The Silver Currency Bill Passed | by the House, | THE MISSISSIPPI INQUIRY | Relative Position of the Whites and Blacks. | NULLITY OF THE ENFORCEMENT ACT. SENATE. Wasuixcrox, March $1, 1876, | Petitions against the proposed changes in the Tariff | laws were introduced by Mr. MeCreery, of Kentucky; | Mr, Sherman, of Ohio; Mr. Conkling, of New York, and Mr, Wallace, of Pennsylvania, all of which were referred to the Committee on Finance, By Mr. Saxoer, (rep.) of Cal.—A petition from the Baptists of San Francisco praying the adoption of a tonstitutional amendment against the appropriation of | Alter explanation the bill was passed, On motion of Mr. Terny, (dem.) of Va, the Senate amendment to the House bill for the sale of the arsenal and Jot at Stonington, Conn., was concurred in. Mr. Morrisom, (dem.) of Ili, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill to define the tax on fermented or malt liquors, It provides that nothing | contained in section 3,337 of the Revised Statutes shall be construed to authorize the assessment on the quantity of material used for the purpose of producing fermented or malt liquors, and that the quantity of material used shall not be evidence for the purpose of taxation, but that the tax on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter and other similar fermented liquor shall be paid as provided in that section and not otherwise, provided that this act shall not apply to cases of fraud. After some discussion the bill was passed, On motion of Mr. Woop, of New York, the bill to carry into effect the Hawaiian treaty was made the special order for Thursday next, The Speaker then proceeded to call the committees for reports of a private character, Several bills were reported and referred to the Committee of the Whole. The Senate bill, declaring the 14th of April next a public holiday in the District of Columbia, to allow oilicials to witness the unveiling of a statue to Abrabam incoln, Was taken up and passed. Mr. Lorp, (dem.) of N. Y., from the Judiciary Com- mittee, made a report on the action of the Attorney General in connection with whiskey prosecutions. | Ordered to be printed and recommitic | SILVER CURRENCY, The House then, at thirty-tive minutes past two P. M., question was asked whether Park, in making the ¢o1 | tract, was not solicitous of having the name of the | American Minister to England among those of di- rectors, Mr. Schenck replied that very possibly such | a desire existed in Park’s mina, but what Park may | have desired had nothing to do with his reasons for entering into the contract with Park; he thought he was making a bargain for himself; he felt CONFIDENCE IN THE PROPERTY all the time, and Invested his money as a permanent investment; he considered the subscription to the stock as bona fide; he regretted only that he permitted his name to be used as a director, but when he came satisfied it, was improper he resigned; he re- | peated that he was convinced he made a mistake; he | either concealed nor proclaimed to the world hie conduct with Park, it being of a private nature—a pri- vate transaction. Mr. Schenck was interrogated at length about his transactions, his testimony being mainly explanatory of previous Statements. The question Was asked Mr. Schenck whether the Board of Directors would have treated him as they did in the allotment of 300 shares if they had known that he had made a private arrauge- | ment with Park for 500, ‘Mr. Schenck replied that this arrangement was of no concern tothe directors; Park wanted to do a liberal thing for him, and he (Schenck) wanted to secure a good bargain, Mr. Faulkner asked whether good faith did not re- quire that every one coming mto the company should stand on an equality. Mr. Senenck answered in the affirmative; but so far | The Question of the Final Ad- journment Not Yet Settled COMPTROLLER GREEN'S SUCCESSOR. The Railroad Committee’s Tribulations. A New York Member Gets Him- self Into Trouble. Atuaxy, March 31, 1876, The further consideration by the Senate Committee on Cities of the bill to extend Comptrolier Green’s term of office sixty days, so as to place it beyond the power of Mayor Wickham on the of his retirement into private life to name a | now Comptroller for five years with Wick- ee eee cette month as ux inducement | ham’s brand on his back, will take place next Tuesday, for him to take the 500 shares of stock. | This question has suddenly become of overshadowing iny money 1n the interests of any religious sects, | proceeded to vote on the bill appropriating $163,000 chee ; ; : | for a deliciency in the Treasury Printing Bareau and | Mr. Hircucoce, (rep.) of Neb., from the Committee | for the issue of subsidiary, sliver coins the pending | amendment being that offered by Mr, Holman, of Indiana, as amended by the motion of Mr. Wells, of | Missouri, prohibiting the increase of the interest bear- | ing debt for the purchase of silver, and yet direeting | on District of Columbia, reported tavorably upon a bill amendatory of the acts relating to reform schools. Placed on the calendar, By Mr. Anraoxy, (rep.) of R. L—A joint rule pro- | viding that the General Appropriation bills shall be | confined to appropriations to conform to existing laws. | He said he offered this resolution to correct vicious | legisiation, which had Jong been a source of complaint, | Ordered to be printed and referred to the Committee on Rules, | By Mr. Camenoy, (rep.) of Wis.—The petition of J. W. Thorp and others praying for a uniform duty on crockery ware, Referred to ‘the Committee on Finance, | ‘THE MISSISSIPPL INVESTIGATION. The morning hour having expired the Chair laid be- | fore the Senate the Mississippi resolution as the unfin- | ished business, on which Mr. Bruce, (rep.) of Miss, took the floor, He said he had hoped that no occasion | would occur to compel him to speak again, but silence | at this time was a dereliction of duty, He desired to | address himself to the importance of the pending reso- lution, Iu 1878 the republicans carried Mississippi by | 20,000 majority. Last year the democrats claimed to | carry the State by 30,000, a reputed gain of 50,000. | How came it that such’ a change was cilected and a the purchase of silver bullion for the purpose of coia- | age. The amendment was rejected by 68 to 77, without | the yeas and nays. Mr. Joxx, (dem.) of Ky,, moved to lay the bill on the tab Negatived. ‘The bill was then passed—yeas 122, nays 100, ‘The following is the text of the bill as passed: — TRST OF THE HULL be and hereby is y in the Treasury not That there mo} if $163,000 to provide. f of making and iss —That the Secretary hereby issue silver coin of the United States of the denomination of ten, twenty, — twenty-live und tifty cents, of standard’ value, ‘in redemp- tion of an equal amount of fractional eure , whether the same b edetnption, or whether it m and he Secretary of the Treasury may, under regulatior the y inent, provide for such redemption, and | jar sub-treasuries and pub, issue lie depositories of ot suntil the whole amount joemed rc. 3 ins of the United States of the deuomination of $1 shal! be x legal tender at their nominal Value for any amount not execeding $50 in any one pay- lent; and silver coins of the United States of denomina. tions of less than $1 shall be logal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding $25 in any one pay- ment. ‘Tho following is the vote in detail:— THe ors. class of officials elected who misrepresente Yeas—Messrs, Adams, Bayley. G. A. Bagley, J. U1. Bagley, propic’, ‘He admitted that. Ina, Stave like New | Baker of New York ifaloa, tani, el. Bae, gaat Ses, Were cue. Drees Wan 80 nt and the | Chapin,’ Chittenden, Clymer, Cochraie, Conger, Crounse, telegraph and other facilities of intelligence were in | Cuiterson, Cutter, Danford, Denison, Douglass, Durand: such liberal use, changes nearly as marvellous | Eames, Farwell, Fort, Foster, Frost, Frye, Garfleld, Gibson, sometimes take place. But 3 Gunter, Hale, Hancock, Haralson, Hardenburgh, | ent; it was sparsely popul Hathorn, ‘Tendee, Henderson, Hewitt of Ala: Bot possess so many privile; a | So Kasson, _ Kehr,’ Kimball The colored people represented nineieen-twentietis of | yy Lavy, Luttrell. Laypah the population, and were mostly republican voters. | MacDougall, ‘McCrary, Meade, 3 Mills, Monroe, Then why this Change in the popular vote? In Yazoo Morrison, Mutter, Norton, O'Brien, Odell, O'Neill, county the republicans carried the election in 1873 by 4, Viper, Piaisted, Platt, Potter, Pratt, Randall, a large majority, while last tail, only seven votes were | gan, Ke ANP east for the republican ticket, and he had beon assured | SAmpLeM. Selile;she that some of them were cast by democrats in derision, they asserting that t is Ought to have a | little show, The evi that in n parts of the nee and intimidation were used, and what was known as the White blame tor much of is class of outra, feuture of the outrages and violence Was its application | to colored citizens, The Emaucipation Proclamation | gave 4,000,000 citizens to the country without homes or tranchise. | He gave statistics to show the thriltiness of colored people and how they had improved the politi- cal privileges that had been bestowed upon them, and claimed that no charge could be brought against them for misuse of their rights. The State debt was less | than $500,000 and the taxes were light, ‘The judicial | Statistics Show that there las been no abuse ot privi- lege there, If they had misused the power intrusted to them there might be cause of complaint; but even then the remedy lies in the ballot and not in the shot- | gun, not in fraud and violence, The colored people, ho ¥aid, were opposed to the “‘color line,” but they must be protected and guaranteed in the enjoyment of all ‘heir privileges and mghts They ask such an in- | Vestigation as will protect them in their rights and | enable them to pursue their vocations in a peacetul Aud quiet manner, Mr. Key, (dem.) of Tenn., was glad the late war was fought out and was over with. ‘The South was not wholly to blame in the war, Slavery existed many years ago, | and was protected by the constitution. He spoke highly of the colored people and their fidelity to the whites during the war, and the people of his State were | willing to protect them and aid them, ‘The South was | poor and weak and wauted peace. It was time to for- qet that there was a South or aNorth, The war was over, and the conquerors had a right to enjoy the re- sults of their victory. He was willig to ad- | mit that the terms granted by the vic- | tors were much more iiberal and — mag. animous than he expected, He was anxious to have the South acquiesce in tho result and accept | the situation. Could not the North, he asked, bear | with them aud help them to overcome their past diffl- culties, and muke this a land of peace and pros- | perity? He should vote for the resolution, even | though ho should be the only member of his party to | doso. If this state of atfatrs existed the parties ought | to be punished, aud he did not wish to have it said | that he was in’ favor of protecting them, but ho did | not think the reports were true; yet he was willing to haye the subject investigated. ‘The speech throughout was highly conciliatory and dispassionate. Mr. Cumustiancy, (rep,) of Mich., reviewed the de- cision of the Supreme Court of last Monday claimed i did not admit of the construction p upon it by the Senator trom Delaware (Mr, Bayard). He did not agree with that decision, although he was bot prepared to speak fully upon’ it trom’ the slight examination he hud been able to give it. He had great confidence in the ability of the judges of that Court. | He further reviewed the remarks of Mr. Bayard, trom which he dissented, Mr. Mexximoy, (dem,) of N. C., opposed the Missis- sipp! resolution. He moved to amend the preamble as toliows:— Whereas it Is alleged that the election in Mississippt (in 1875) tor members of Congress and State officers Sud members of the Legislature was characterized by great frauds, He moved tw strike out the words “State officers and members of the Legislature.” He ppposed the power of the Senate to raise such acom- | mittee, and devoted his argument mainly to the con- | stitutionality of such power. He knew but little about | the alleged ‘outrages in Mississippi, but so far as his | knowledge extenaed he did not believe any such irreg- | ularities existed, He claimed that the object of this | proposed tnvestigation was to manufacture political capital for the coming November election. The Senate, he said, had no such power to raise any such commit: | tee, The Seuate had no power, constitational or | otherwise, to inquire into the election of Mississippi. The Senate had no power to undertake that Mr, FReuixcnvysky, (rep.) of N. J., said that when | the right of suffrage Had been conferred upon an indi- | vidual he ought to have that right guaranteed to him, | aud should be protected in the right, The Senator from North Carolina, he said, bad objected to that, and said the Supreme Court had ‘so decided; but he begged | io ditfer from the Senator, That question had never et come before that tribunal, He claimed that in this Pountry, of ull others, the voter should be protected tm his Tight to vote, and Congress had the power to | protect him and to pass this resolution and raise this committee for this purpose. Mr. Baraxn, of Delaware, further opposed the ap- | pointment of this committee. The subject was turther discussed by Mr. Froling- huysen in favor of it, and Messrs. Kernan, Tharman | announced his purpose of coming to Washington to | tict: And Salisbury in opposition to it, The question was taken on the resolution offered by Mr. Christiancy as a | Substitute, and it was passed by a vote of 29 yeas to 19 | pays. ‘The question was then taken on the amendment of Mr. Merrimon to the preamble, to strike out the words | State officers and members of the Legisiature,” and | it was lost by a vote of 16 yeas to 29 nays. “The question then recurred on the adoption of the preamble, and it was adopted—yeas 27, nays 19. Tho Senate then, at six I. M., adjourned until Monday next. ; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. | Wasutnotox, March 31, 1876. | Mr. Cox, (dem.) N. ¥., presented a memorial from | women citizens of the United States asking for a form | pf government in the District of Columbia that will | secure to women citizens the right to vote. Ho asked, | asa matter of grace and favor, that the memorial | cai4 inat he proposed to produce unanswerable proofs | should be printed in the Record. Mr, Banks, (ind.) of Mass, said—It ts 100 years this Gay since Mrs. Abigail Adams, of Massachusetts, wrote | to her husband, John Adams, then a member of the | Continental Convention, entreating him to give to women the right to protect the rights of women and predicting a general revolution if justice were deni ed | her, Mrs Adams was one of the noblest women of | that period, distinguished by , heroism = and ‘patriotism never sarpassed in any age. the was the wife of the second and mother of the sixth President of the United States, and her | beneficent inflaence was felt in political as well as in | wocial circles. It was, perhaps, the first demand for | she recognition of the rights of her sex made in this sountry, and it is ono of the contennial imeideuts that ibould be remembered, It came from a good quarter. this memorial represents 400,000 American women, They ask for the organization of a government in the District of Columbia that will recognize their political | fights, 1 voted some years ago to give women the | fight to vote in this District, and recalling the course | I think it would have done no wrong | ® | Pennsylvania, Woodburn, Yeates— | ler, Seales, Seelye, Sheakley, Slemons, Sp: Missouri, ite, Whiting, Wigginton, Wike, Willard, York, A. 8! Williams of Michigan, W. 1B! | Vilshire, Wilson of Indiana, Wood of Nays—Anderson, Ashe, Atkins, Baker of Indiana, Ban- ning, Bell, Boone, Bradford, Bright, Brown of Keutue Brown of Kansas, Cabell, Caldwell of Alabama, Caldwell of Tennessee, Gason, Cate, Clarke of K. Clark of Missouri, Cook, Crapo, Davis, Debolt, Dibreil, | Dunnell, D . Eden, Egbert, Evans, Felton, Forney, | Franklin, Fuller, Glover, Goodwin, Hamilton of Indiana, Harris of Massachusetts, Harris of Georgia, Harris of Vir- ginia, H cher, Haymond, Hereford, Hewitt | of New York, ‘Hopkins, House, Hunter, Hunton, Jones y, Landers of Indiana,, L 7 iillikeu, n, Neal, , Oliver, # of Missouri ‘of Kansas, ‘Pier pple= ton, Powell, Rea, John Reilly, James'B, Reilly, Rice, Ridale, Robbins of North Carolina, Kobinson, Savage, 8 ke, Springer, Stevenson,’ Stone, Tarvox, Thompson, Tucker, Vin Vorhes, ‘of Ohio, Vince of Norsh Carolina, Waddell, Waiker | of Virginia, Walling, Walsh, Ward, Warren, Whitehouse, Villinms of Indiana, Williams of Alabama, Willis, Wood: worth, Young—100, Thé House then went into Committee of the Whole, | Mr. Springer, of Iilinois, in the chair, on the private calendar, Alter discussion the commitice rose, ‘The Sreaker laid before the House a communication from Mr. Green Adams, Chief Clerk of the House, re- | pelling a charge made against him in the House some days ago by Mr, White, of Kentucky, that he, whilo sixth auditor of the Treasury, had appropriated to his | own use money received from the sale of waste paper. | He said that when he left the office m 1864 there was | not a tinal settlement of his accounts because his suc- | cessor was not then appointed, but that as soon as his | accounts were settled and the balance due by him as- | certained he had promptly paid it, On motion of Mr. Booxx, of Kentucky, the commun- | ication was referred to the Committee on Expenditures | in the Treasury Department. Mr. GLover, chairman of the Committee on the Real | Estate Pool, desired to offer a resolution instructing | that committee to investigate matters touching the ofticial misconduct of government officers or members of Congress that may come to its knowledge, Objec- tion was made. House then, at five o’clock, adjourned till to-mor- row, the night session being dispensed with on account of the democratic caucus to-night. GENERAL SCHENCK. | CONTINUATION OF THE EX-MINISTER'S TESTI- MONY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE—OBJECT OF | HIS INTRODUCTORY sTATEMENT—FURTHER EXPLANATION OF HIS CONTRACT WITH PABE— CHARACTER OF HIS ACCUSERS, Wasmnctox, March 31,1876. | Ex-Minister Schenck was again before the Committee | on Foreign Affairs to-day, Mr. E, J, Phelps, of Ver- | mont, counsel for General Schenck, laid before tho committee a statement of the facts connected with tho Emma mine, its sale to the Emma Silyer Mining Com- pany of London and its subsequent history and pres- ent condition, prepared for the use of the Committee | on Foreign Affairs in the investigation of the connec- tion of General Schenck with said company, Me. L. | E. Chittenden, the other counsel for General Schonck, said this statement was prepared before they know exactly what would be the course of proceeding before | the comm'ttee, i pro- He | Mr. Faulkner, on the part of the committee, ceeded to propound questions to Mr, Schenck, asked whether the statement laid before the committee on the 28th in: by Mr. Schenck contained allegations of facts within his own personal knowledge? Mr. Schenck replied that the draft of the statement Was submitted to him by his counsel, and after eral changes made in it he adopted it, All he knew of the testimony before the committee before he left | London was a paragraph or two in the London news- papers of the 1st or 2d of March, when he immediately Appear before the committee, and saw a fuller detail of the testimony of Lyon, it | Seemed that it was connected with Lyon's difficulties and quarrels with others, but all intended to bear on the question collaterally against Schenck, and he was | advised that there was mach testimony to show bis transactions in a hght different from Lyon's represen- tations. Q Is ittrue, as contained in your statement, that the sale of the Emma mine was fair, honest and straightiorward, without falsehood and fraud? A. I believe it, but 1 know nothing but what! have dis- closed of my own personal knowledge. In answer to the question, Is it true, of your own knowledge, that James E. Lyou and H. A. Johnson infamous and unworthy of belief? General Schenck of what he had stated, he being satisfied be could do so | on the representations which had been made to him. Mr. Faulkner asked General Schenck whether, in making the statement prelimmary to the examination, it was his purpose to break down the testimony of Lyon and Johnson, the st having been pub- lished through the Associated Press? Geucral Schenck answered that the Objeot Of the statement was to pre- sent the course of examination that ought to be pur- sued, attack, Mr. Favikner interrogated General Schenck as to | whether he had heard any of tho original stockholders charge fraud in the sale of the stock. General Scbenck, in the course of his reply, said he had received numerous letters, the writers asking bim what they should do. He never advised them to bold | on to the stock, but sald they must act for themselves. This was after be ceased to be a manager or director of tho company, The difficulty did not spring out of want of coniidence on the part of those Who originally | purchased stock and became directors, ke. Taey were | ‘well satisied with the report of the English directors, bat THE DIFFICULTY ORIGINATED in the acts of those who subsequently obtained the Management of the company, tneluding MeDou who bad no interest in the y at its formauion, but afterward bought stock at a very low price or d preciated price. Mr, Schenck, in reply toa question, said he consid- } are far | hopes in the Keystone State that after the compit When he arrived here | and that the reply suould be as broad as the | The Coroner was notified yesterday to hold an in. In reply to the question whether his resignation as a director did mot cause the tall Mr. Schenck said it was his serious belief that those who invested in the stock placed !ess reliance on tho fact that ho was a director than on the communications im stock, and sold after his previous connection with the com- pany had been pretty much forgotten ; he was a direc- tor only four weeks; if the stock fell’on its becoming known that he had ceased to be a director, it was be- cause those bearing down the stock made false repre- nothing, as Schenck had abandoned it, JOUNSON’S CHARACTER, Mr. Schenck was asked whether he knew, of his own personai knowledge, that the character of H. A. John- son, was so infamous that he was not worthy of belief, as he had asserted before. Mr. Schenck said proofs would be furnished to this effect; his impres- sion as to Johnson’s character for truth unfavorable, because ke had woven a state- ment intimating a great deal that was false; this was us far as his personal knowledge regarding Mr. Johnson’s character was not to the sane extent as it Was in relation to Lyon, He was amazed at two things—first, the genaral to him a fraudulent connection with the Emma mine transactions, and then amazed at the character of the evidence ot Lyon and Johnson, mainly on bearsa: or inferences which seemed to imply the truth of all that was alleged, All the mischief intended and false tives, The questions asked by Mr. Faulkner were furnished by Mr. H. A. Johnson, Lyon’s counsel. The committee adjourned till to-morrow, CUSTOM HOUSE EXCITEMENT. THR LIST OF THE SIXTY-FIVE ‘‘DECAPITATED” OFFICIALS NOT KNOWN ILL TO-DAY. ‘The excitement im the Custom House yesterday with reference to the discharge of filty night watchmen, ten inspectors und five clerks was intense. A prominent | customs official remarked:—‘This coup d'état of Sec- retary of the Treasury Bristow promises to cost the revenue of the country dear. Tho might watchmen at present are meagre enough in numbers, and now they are to be reduced from about 120 to 70. These mon aro placed on duty, one set from sunset till midnight and another from then to sunrise, or her wharf thousands of dollars’ worth of goods may be smuggied ashore, They receive at present $2 70 for watching half a night Hereafter they will have to watch the whole night for the same amount, Human nature is fallible, and the offera of $500 bribes from rare, To watch the Havana steamers at pier No, 3, and the National line of Liverpool steamers we require our best men, and two or three of them foraship. Can you expect one man to be pitted against dozens on these vessels, who, If he turns his back and goes ashore fora tew minutes to get a cup of coffee, may cause the revenue to lose thousands of dollars in tho matter of smuggled cigars, silkor what not. The night inspectors can only do their duty, but they are clearly overmatched. Under democratic rule smugglers used to be arrested) now they are allowed to go at large and the smuggled goods only are captured, The first ward smugglers are holding a perfect testival over our reduction of night watchmen. More contraband goods are now brought tuto this city than ever before. Collector Arthur is forced to obey the peremptory orders of Secretary Bristow, and cut off the prescribed number of heads, whatever his sense of right may tell nim on the sub- ject. Now I'll tell you what we Custom House politicians think of the present slaughter. Secretary Bristow is trying to get the nomination for President— New York State is pledged to Conkling—but he has mentary vote to be given to Governor Hartranft he may get the nomination himself, It is reported however, that Bristow may yet have a ‘twist’? in those hopes, as some revelations of alleged fraud will probably be published within two or three weeks, which may trouble the Secretary, He doubtless thinks that throw- ing $150,000 worth of patronage into Pennsylvania by reducing the staff of our New York Custom House, and making a number of appointments for the cus- toms establishment at Philadelphia will help bim along wondertully, but as the Freneh say ‘we shall see what we shall see.” COLLECTOR ARTHUR’S POSITION. General Arthur was almost run to death yesterday by the backers of officials who stand in danger of being removed, A Henaup reporter asked him to give the names of the sixty-five officors ho intended disebarg- ing, and this is what he replied:—“Now, put yourself in the place of the men we are forced to remove; would you hke to read your name in the Hxnatp as removed | | for inefficiency? It would bring down upon you the i] butcher, baker, groceryman, tailor, milliner, &« ; and ifyou had not paid your rent very regularly, ‘very likely you would be told to quit your house or rooms on the Ist of May. The men have to go, and from the bottom of my heart Iam very sorry for many of thom, who aro unable to gain their bread otherwise than in the Custom House, Iwas up working till a late hour | Inst night, and shall do the same thing again to-night, | til we have tivally revised our lists ‘The men I re- move are those I think least able, mentally and physi- cally, to cope with the increased duties which will be thrust upon them by the reduction of force.” While the Hxrato reporter was waiting to seo the Collector the following representative men of the re- publican party called to see the Collector and Vack their | Custom House appointees, from the following A | sembly djstricts:— Colonel Burns, First district; Pa | rick Mack and Eugene Shea, Second district; T. | Geary, Third district; Captain Hall and Captain Joho F. Dowley and E. 8. | slaughter 18 umderstood to have taken place from this district); ©. Van Cott,-ex-Fire Commissioner, and Judge Morgan, Seventh district; Join J. O'Brien, Eighth district; Cl mittee, Jacob Patterson, Tenth district; United | States’ District Attorney Bliss, Eleventh dis. Joseph Archibald, Tweitth’ district; ex- | Police Commissioner Hugh Gardener, Thirteenth district; Alderman J. Pinckney, Fourteenth district; | H. G, Leak, Fifteenth district; Colonel F. E. Howe and Captain M. Cregan, Sixteenth district; Colonel Joel Mason, Seventeenth district; ex Collector of Port } Thomas Murphy and Mr, B, Bylin, Eighteenth distric Alderman J. Cudiipp, Nineteonth district; Mr. Willar Bullard, ex-Appraser of the Port Darling and Judge Dittenhoeffer aud W. 8. Carle and Rufus B, Cowing, | Twentieth district, Up to eleven o’clock last night “travelting”’ notices | had not been received at the barge office by the watch- | men who are to bo dismissed SPRCIAL DEPUTY COLLECTOR LYDROKE! Mr. Lydecker was’ back at his post yester several days’ absence at home, cansed by dyspepsia. The recent onsiaugnt on him, through the medium of ex-Spectal Agent Jayne, bas’ gained him much sym- | pathy, and the general opinion is that he is a faithtul | officer. One official remarked, ‘I stould be ashamed to befound drowned in the same millpond with Jayne.” ‘The said ex-special agent is believed to bo trymng to re venge himself, through Secretary Bristow, upon the | Custom House offictais who were antagonistic to him | whilé he waa in power. The old stories of Jayne's handcuffs in his office for delinquent merebants, aud | which he so often | told and retold in the corridors of the Custom House, hikewise his connection with the Platt and Boyd case. It was reported yesterday that four new inspectors had beer appointed. TRE XEW APPRAISER, | A Henanp reporter saw Collector Arthur last night, | and asked him if ne had received any notification that Mr. 8. B, French, of Sag Harbor, had been fa ee vice Darling, resigned! The Col- lector replied that he had no official n on the sub- ject irom Washington, but hoped that if the news- | papers were going to say anything on the subject they would only say what was complimentary about Mr. French, for be had @ most honorable ‘A United States aw prescribes that the said post may | Appraiser of the po not bo filed by a goverament official or an importing merchant ACCIDENTS, quest in the case of Mary Evers, who died from burns accidentally received at her residence, No. 15 Des- brosses street. Jon Murray, of No. 157 Lewis street, fell from tho staging on seowonal dock at pier No. 42 East River yesterday, where “~ was working, and received sovere internal injuries, of Englishmen and others from Salt Lake, representing | | tho richness of the ming; shares continued to be bought | sentations that the Emma mine stock was worth | ras | extended, but his information from various quarters | statement, attributing | impressions made were by cuaningly contrived narra- | If they leave their ship ,| ewens, Fourth district; Austen | | Luke, Fifth district; W. Moore, Sixth district (a great | zirman Republican Central Com: | tened to put on ther, were | importance with the politicians of different sides, The same combination that arranged to deprive the people of New York city of a new charter and a | spring election is the same that is now urg- ing Senator Booth to defeat the Dill extend- ing the Comptroller’s term. This combination is made | up of the leaders of Tammany and the Custom House | party, and for weeks past they have been moving | hedven and earth to kill the bill in question. Their capture of Senator Booth is no small evidence of the | influences they have had at work, Bearing in mind the 111 treatment he received at the hands of the | Custom House party Inst year and the help extended him in his election by the anti-Tammany party and the Comptroller, it must have beena trial to his feelings to consent to do the bidding of John Kelly and Alonzo | B. Cornell in this instance, It is difficult to see what good the republican party | will derive from allowing Wickham to appoint a new Comptroller, unless he names a republican for the of- fice, which is rather unlikely, but it 18 casy to perceive | how great a help it would be to Tammany Hall to have | one of its members selected for the position. That the | Custom House republicans should use their influence | in behalf of Tammany Hall, and in the direction of | defeating this bill is only what might be ex- | pected from the nature of the arrangements entered into between them, The estrange- ment of feeling between republicans manifested at Syracuse will witness another filustration before this business is ended. Cornell & Co, will be shown that they cannot drive all the republicans of the Senate into doing their bidding. The bill will certainly be reported | and carried and be followed. by another bill providing | tor the election of a Comptroller with the other city | officers im the fall, It is safe to state | that, as far, at least, as the local campaign | 4s concerned, there will be no union between TAMMANY AND ANTI-TAMMANY. The latter will nominate Comptroiler Green for Mayor, and the anti-Custom House Republicans will support the nomination, Whoever is on the same ticket for Comptroller is sure to be elected, and in that case the city may expect to have a government of more harmony | and efficiency than it has at present. The howl against | Green’s bills, and the alarm roised that he is seeking power and patronage for the object of ‘helping Tilden and injuring the Republican party, are parts of a plan to prejudice the Senate against the bill to extend his term of office. If the intriguing politicians who paid no heed to the plea of the Heraxp in behalf of a spring election for New York city find themselves in a tight box now they may blame themseves, Had the Custom | House republicans made no compact with Tammany Hall to deteat the passage of a bill authorizing » spring election there would be no occasion for them now to come here clamoring for the death of this measure that | gives the appointment of a new Comptroller to a new Mayor, or at least takes it out of Mayor Wickham’s hands. | | | | | | THE QUESTION OF ADJOURNMENT. About month ago the republican members of the | Assembly decidea in caucus that a concurrent resolu- | ton should be introduced fixing the final adjournment | on the 12th of April. Nothing further was heard about the matter until a few days ago, when Mr. Strahan in- troduced the resolution. To-day he called it up, and there at once ensued a very lively debate. Mr. Fish denounced it as mere buncombe, and declared that there might have been a possibility of the final adjournment taking place on the 12th of April, had the resolution been offered a short | time after the caucus had decided upon it; but since | that time legislation had lagged, and it was sheer folly for any sane man bow to suppose for an instant that the necessary business of the two houses could be com- pleted by that time. The Speaker then took the floor i earnestly advocated the passage of the resolution. He called the attention of the House to the fact that on | the day previous it had passed, without a word, three of the most important bills of the session, all relating to the canals and authorizing the expenditure of many thousands of dollars, and yet it was “‘wonderfully given to talk” on ters of no earthly importance to any individual im the State. He remembered that during the seasion of a previous Legislature the business of the two houses was very much further behind than the business of the two houses 18 at present, and yet a resolution was passed | | the expenses of exhibiting the committee to which it bad been regularly rete’ Defore the committee had had an opportunity to even | look at it, He said he would not devounce the motion as unparliamentary, but it was such an extraordinary Proceeding that he could not help characterizing It as outrageous. The House agreed wii the Speaker and | Grabain’s motion failed, ISPELIX PRLIX. Felix Murphy, the anti-Tammany democrat from the Second district of New York, has got himself into & very bad scrape. The Speaker to-day submitted a conimunication from Mr. Bradley, tie Superintendent of the Mailing Department of the Assembly Post office, which stated that aturphy, on Thursday even- ing, ‘had taken a red book out of the box inthe office which did not velong to him, and three insurance reports and a canal commission- | ers’ report out of other members’ boxes, and had been | detected in the act of wrapping then up and address~ ing them to his residence in N York. Further- more that he called at the Post (fice, this morning and demanded the contents ofa box, which consisted of books and papers, oi another member, there being nothing in his own box, and that he per- sisted in asking for the letters and books after being told they were not his property. Tle communication was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elec- tol ‘This revelation about Felix bas created a de- cided. sensation, and it is feared by his triends that he will, bo ignominiously expelled. Senator Morrissey and Mr. Muller, oir. Fallon and Mr. Patten of the Lower House are doing ail they can to save him, as they contend that he :teuded nothing wrong when he took the books, and asked for the contents of another memberis box; tha’, in fact, he did not know exactly what he | was doig. It is ssible that if he goos before tie bar of the jouse on Monday night and makes good this theory ot his friends he may escape'the disgrace that now seems to be impending over him. Felix ts con- sidered “not a good iellow” among the New York bers, although he certaiuly does not rank very high asa legislator, there being too much of the “b’hoy’? about him, and it1s surmised by some that on Thursday night ‘and this morning, when he did what he 13 accused of having done, he had been im- bibing too freely to be responsible for his acts, The democrats feel very badly over the sifair, THM STATE SURVEY, Although the Senate Committee on Finance have stricken out of the Supply bill Dr. Hayos’ $20,000 ap- propriation for the survey of the State, it is believed hata strong fight will be made for tt in conference committee and that the House will make a determined fight to keep it in the Dill. PROTEST OF ARCHITECTS A kta 3 Protest was sent to the Senate by tho American Institute of Architects against the adoption of the report of the Advisory Board on the completion of the new Capitol. After stigmatizing the projected designs as contrary to all the rules of art, the protest winds up by saying:— ‘Therefore, the Now York Chapter of American Institute of Architects, ‘in the general interest of the public “and of its art educgtion, as well as of the profession which it repre- sents, (Mls itsel! called upon to urge you to sanction no de- sign for the completion of the Capitol buildiag which is not harmonious, in character und style, with the work ulrendy © cuted: or if the work is so faulty im construction ur so bad in des that it is, in your opinion, impossible to com: plete the structure in harmony with it, #0 as io make snd suitable Capitol building, this Chapter submits that the ‘art of architecture common interests of the public and of ‘and sold, and demand that the facades should be re: that the work should be commenced anew. BUNCOMBR SPEECHES. Senator McCarthy made a long toca abe Senator Star- buck’s speech a tew days ago in relation to the Gov- ernor and the Canal Investigating Commission. It travelled extensively over national topics and sug- gested to Senator Gerard the idea -ef proposing an amendment to the constitution readermg any man who has served a term in Congress aneiligible for the State Legisiature, McCarthy was in Congress, and ap- pears to think himself there still, as part of his speech ‘was entirely about the tariif'on spool thread. SUPPLY BILL AMENDMENTS. Mr. Harris, from the Finance Committee, reported the Supply bill with amendments, The item in regard to the new Capitol, as amended by the Finance Committee, read as follows :— ‘There shall be imposed for the fiscal year, commencing on the Ist day of October, 1870, im addition to auy uthor tax levy, a tax of $1,000,000 on the real and. per- sonal property taxable in the State, to be assessed, raised und ‘collected upon and “by the annual assessment and collection of taxes for tho year 1876in the manner prescribed by law, to be paid by the county treas- urers into the treasury ot the State to the credit of the fund for the construction of the uew Capitol, which sum is hereby appropriated, together with the sum of $183,890 05, deing the unappropriated remainder of the tax levied for the same object for the fiseul year commencing on t! day of October, 1875, to continue the work of th Cxpitol building, which shall be ae by the Treasurer upon the warrant of the Comptroller to the new Capitol Commissioners as the same shall be, from time to time, re- quired for materials and labor used and employed, or that muy be used and employed in the building of said new Capitol. Whenever there is any deficiency in the moneys applicable (to | the | payment of she eppropcintion for the new Capitol the Comptroller is hereby au- thorized ana required to borrow from time to such sums as said = Commissioners e, and the money borrowed, together with the thereon, shall be aid from the moneys received from taxes levied to meet this appropriation. The new Capitol Commissioners shall cause the work ‘on the new Capitol building to be pro ‘as shall ensure its readiness for full oceupaney vy the first |, day of January, 1879, and if ‘9 cpmplete and reader tenantable some an earlier date. The Commissioners are hercby directed exterior wails of the building up to the the plans upon which the building is now. rected and as shown by the model thereof. The Superintendent of the new Capitol is hereby authorized and directed to audit or settle outstanding obligations for rent, labor or material done or furnished by the order of the Board of new Cupitol Commissionors here:olore ex- isting, subject to the concurrent approval in writing of the Commissioners of the new Capitol hereinafter named. and in such audit and settlsment and claims over payments or equitable offsets the State may have to any suct obliga. tion shail be deducted thereft and ‘and approved by the Commissioners us aforesni aid by the Comptroller out of thix appropriation, with s all ve allowed wnd approved by said Commis- iouers afuresaid. The Speaker of the Axsembly is hereby appointed a new Capitol Commissioner, who, with the present Commissioners, shall constitute the Board of new Capitol Commissioners. ther items on the bill are amended as follows:— For the taxes on the Governor's house dering tho years 1873 and 1874, $1,690; for expenses of the Com- | mission on Cities appointed by the Governor, $1,000; | 0 Senator Gerard, ior contested election expenses, | $550; to Senator Jacobs, tor contested election ex- penses, $3,975; to the State Centenuial Board, to meet | roducts of tie Dairy. | men’s Association of the Btate, $8,000; | to the State Normal School at) Gene- seo to complete and furnish the new building, $10,000; = to adjourn in fourteen days, and during that period the | business was all com; d, with one day to spare. Mr. Worth opposed tho resolution, stating that he did not think that any member in the House who had oxpressed himseli in favor of fx- ing the adjournment on the 12tb of April believed in his beart that the resoiution ought to pass. Mr. | Sloan, in order to prevent a division of the House on | the subject, moved to lay the resolution on the table, which motion was carried by a yoto of 69 to 27. Shortly alter the resolution had been thus sum- marily disposed of another was offered rescinding 80 | much of the one adopted during the greek pledging | | the House wo, hold sessions On Saturdays | as ies to Saturday, the Ist of April. Mr. ish at once took the floor and said that he would vote for it, as he was anxious to put those members on record who’ seemed to be so BNTRUBIASTIC FOR A FINAL ADJOURNMENT | on the 12th of April. By aclose application to bu: | ness alone could the final “adjournment, 1 his opinion, take place on thabday, and Le sarcastically concluded | py stating that ho felt certain that the members he re- ferred to would cast a solid vote for a session to-mor- | row. Faulkner at this point interrupted Fish by ask- ing him it he would permit hin to put a ques- | from $10,000 to $85,000. The appropriation jor the for the purpose of procuring a monument to be placed | ‘mm the Rensselaerville Cemetery over the renisins of | David Williams, one of the captors of Major Andre, $2,000; to W. Bristol, late State Treasurer, to pay | an award made by the Board of Audit of $9,100 to completo the armory at Auburn tnd to | furnish ul same, $5,000, The appropria- tion for the Attorney Gencral’s office, > pay judgments is increased from $6,200 to $10, The | appropriation for counsel to assist the Attorney Gen- eral is reduced from $15,000 to $10,000. The itm for contingent expenses of the Legislature is in¢reased census ts decreased from $20,000 to $10, POLICE RIGHTS AND WRONGS. THE NEW DILLS BEFORE THE LEGISLITURE AND THEIR INTENDED OPRRATIONS+HOW | THE POLICE ARE TO BE PREVENTED | FROM DOING THEIR DUTY. A fooling of indignation prevails among the members | tion so him, “With great pleasure,” replied Fish, “If the gentleman from Patnum,”” | said Faulkner, ‘really desires to stay hero | to-morrow, | would like to know why he sent over to | | my room for his satchel,’ This sally brought down | the House, and the resolution excepting to-morrow tor the provisions of the resolution relative to Saturd sessions was adopted by a vote of 68 to 39. Faulkne: | Fish says, forgot to state that the satchel he seat for to | Faulkner's room was loaned to Faulkner over six | weeks ago, and that he sent for it a week ago Friday, | and not yesterday, But as Faulkner got in bis joke at | | Fish’s expense, it is not likely that he will be particular to make Fish the amende honorable as to the day and date bereaiter. | AGAIN UPSET, The Railroad Committee have been baving a hard | time of itever since they reported the “No Seat No Fare” bili adversely. Two bills they reported ad- | Versely upon yesterday were sent to the Committee of the Whole in spite of their protestations, and again to- day they were defeated badly when the chairman tried | to have the bill compeiling railroad companies to charge a uniform price for the trans- portation of coal recommitted to their ten- Ger mercies, ‘The plea the chairman put m jor the recommita! was thats member of the House wanted to have a hearing oa the bill. It turned out that this member was Mr, Ford, of Binghamton, who acknowledged that he was acierk of one of the com- panies who do not want any such bill Mr Gere, of Tioga, knocked the underpinning from this | plea by showing that Mr. Fora had been present at every meeting of the Railroad Commitieo at which the | Dill “in question was considered. “The gentleman | watched that bill,” said Gere, ‘ax closely as a cat watches a mouse."’ He then put’ a clincher on the p ext the committee had put forward tor getting the ill mto their hands again by saying that as Mr. Ford ‘was a member of the House he could get all the hoaring he desired on the bill in Committec of the Whole, Mr. j Sloan, asa sort of compromise, favored the recom- | mittal of the bili, provided the Railroad Commitveo ere instructed to report it back in sot pe on Wednesday next. He made a motion to that effect, which was voted down, and the House then, by an overwhelming vote, refused to let the committee have the bill at all. Mr, Ramsey, | the President of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, at whose instance as well as that of Mr, Ford's motion to recomnmit was made, occupied a seat noar Mr. Ford and the Chairman of the Railroad Committee | darmg the fight over the bil, doing what he could, | apparently, by suggestions to secure the success of t! motion to recommit, Jooked a sadder ii not a wiser man when the motion was defeated, As the bill i not a Mee | the railroad companies who do a large | business the act of: the committee im reporting it favor- ably on Thursday was undogbtedly, as oue of them stated during the debate, a “mistake.” The temper of | the House was such, when the motion was carried, that Graham, of Moroe, thought he could do AVERY SMART THING by having a pro rata bill, that had only been introduced about an hour before by Mr. Wurts and re- ferred to the Ratlroad = Commit referred | the Committee of the Whoie re Mr. West's committeo Jay bands on it He therefore sent up ® motion to have the bill sent to | that, should the exertions of the Commissioners at | | for lif, The Commissioners generously accorded hii of the police force in view of the measures resently introduced in the Legislature to reorganize theentire department by the methods proposed. It is bélieved | Albany be successful, the result will work ¢qually | against the patrolmen and the public. Among other | things the new bills, if passed, would give power to the Commissioners to remove any officer at will with. | outtriaL They further provide for a reduction of the Ppatrolmen’s pay, but an increase in the salaries pf the Commissioners and superior ofiicers of the department, A representative of the Heraxp, in order to ascertain the sentiments entertained on the subjecs by | thoso who are most intorested, and who, have rarely an opportunity to be heard, questioned several well known and efficient members of the force yesterday, They claim that, in the first | place, the provision authorizing the Commissioners to remove officers without trial will tend toward demoralization, inasmuch as officers will be deterred from doing their duty through fear of the ill will of their superiors. For instance, if a well dressed person be arrested—say for fast driving, running over and killing avother—and the offender is indicted by the Grand Jury his trial may never come off, as the officer can meanwhile be removed and may not, there- fore, appear as a witness when the occasion occurs, A culprit in friendly intercourse with the Commissioners need not, therefore, have tho slightest apprehension of being punished, As to the vital question of reduc: the men’s pay it ts alleged, and with reason, that t! emolument at present received by them is not more hi iticvent for their mainienance. When a patrol. pointed Le is obiiged to furnish himself wr nt uniforms, a deit, clubs, gloves and a pistol; a bed and bedding, ‘to be’ used station houso and kept in order at bis own expense, all these necessaries reducing his actual pay to little over $1,000 a year, Should he, m the execu- tion of his duty, have his clothes soiled or torn he i# compelled to repiace them. Another hardship justly complained of is (he tuct that when a patrolman is taken sick by reason of his arduous labors, despite the certiticate of the medical officer that he is untit tor daty, he 18 deprived of hall of his pay during the time of hisilipess, Should he become crippled while per- forming the various tasks allotted to him be is liable to be dismissed or retired from the department on miserable pittance, ag im the case of Patrolman Gebol, of the hoe Oyighasrgy| precinct, who, while the doors on his post, fell into a cellar and was may the munificent sum of torty-eight cents per Again it is urged that the proposition to H | known at the | vee: Those regar as spies, whose reports might be recorded inst an officer who would be afforded no opportunity of defending himself, An instance was cited where @ patrolinan saw a suspicious looking person larking ta peat oe fn Bleecker strect. The oilicer promptly cone himself to await results. In a few minutes, seeing that his movements were wat the uo. individual waiked up to the oflicer, and jniorming him that he came from — police headquarters, reprimanded him for not keeping his trol At this the oificer, fearing dis. missal or a heavy immediately started on us “beat, ' and on returning to the same place later 4 on discovered that the door in which the supposed spy had concealed himself had been broken: open fend the house robbed. The thief, of course, knew bow to ins timidate the officer and carried out his plans success. fully, Altogether the members of the force are ex- tremely dissatisfied with th isions of the bills in- troduced, $o5 corsplale:thal Rey are designed for the benefit of the Commissioners at the expense of POLICE TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT, - SUPERINTENDENT CROWLEY DECLARES THAT THE CORONER'S JURY HAD NO GROUND FOR ‘ CENSURING THE DEPARTMENT. Voroner Croker’s jury in the investigation of the caso of Mra. Rose Young, it will be romembered, cen. sured in their verdict the management of the Police Telegraph Department, Yesterday the writer inter- v viewed Superintendent Crowley, of the department, with the following result:— “What explanation,” the writer asked, “can you give of the action of the Telegraph Department, in the case of Mrs. Young ?”” “I perceive,” said Mr. Crowley, that the verdict Places all the responsibility of the delay in removing the body substantially upon the Commissioners of Po- lice and myself. The jury accuso the departm of loose management. In reply, I can only gay { have been connected with the Telegraph Bureau of tht Police Department for twenty-seven years, fifteen o1 sixteen years of that time as its Superintendent, and the Commissioners have never been called on to inves: » tigate a charge against me.” say You uccount for the trouble in the present in- stance t” “The delay in sending out the despatch for the dead wagon is not chargeable to loose plone The operator wasalone responsible. A general order from the Police Superintendent was to be sent out, and the operator, using his own discretion, sent that first?” oe the i ante alowed-to judge of the precedence of messages < “The telegraph is used by all the public departments when becessary, and the pforrhayed | which are gn the preference in time are important orders trom the Superintendent of Police. In other m the operator uses his discretion as to what » should bo sent first. It 1s absurd for any jury to charge the department with loose man- agement because. the act of a single operator merits their disapproval. For many years we bave had occasion to use the telegraph every hour of the day in the public service, and we Have heard no com. plaints in all that time from those with whom we have had business transactions. 1 am satisfied that if the . operator had sent the message promptly for the dead wagon the body of Mrs, Young could have been re moved on the day it was found.” THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. New York Yacur Crus, March 27, 1876, To Tne Eoitox or tuk Heraup:— The last general meeting of the New York Yacht Club, held at the club rooms March 23, 1876, acted very improperly toward the different committees which they had elected at the previous February meeting. Areso- lution was passed appointing a “Committee on Expen- ditures” of the House and Regatta committees, It was virtually a vote of want of confidence passea by the yacht owners, as non-yacht owners have no vote, Afurther highly ill-judged act was the appointment by the Commodore of the New York Yacht Ciub of the Commodore of a rival club as a member of that com- mittee. Said resolutions and appointment were ille gally. passed and are void (not voidable) for the follow- ing reasons:— First—The resolution was one of three resolutions passed together by one and the same vote. (Vide Cushing’s Manual ”? 9, sections 78-83.) Second—The resolution virtually put the committees out of existen mpi violating the constitution and ivarn ot ‘gestae. (Vide constitution, article 15; by 4 WB, 18 the Beles bysettin ) they bcd et at the first (February) general meoting and chapeene sé aad to ‘of the bylaws | = of the power of any committec, as the was not made as an amendment to the bylaws, ‘There are about seventy-five yacht owners out of a membership of over 500. Of these seventy-five a owners seven of them form a quorum of th club (for non-yacht owners have no vote on any ques- tion), consequently these seven men can meet, and four of them, being a majority, can any resola- tion and impose any assessment they see fit, and 400 members may sitin the same room and be unable te be | Vote against them, although the money to support the club comes out of the pockets of the non-yacht owners, | Now, Mr, Editor, this is not fair. Take the non- yacht owners out of the New York Yacht Club and the club, as now constitut could not last a month. A Rour Commodore at the last. meeting admitted that it ‘was the most economical and best managed club in the city, There is great dissatisfaction existing at OF seteonn here, and a great many members say they will resign from the club at the end of the coming season unless some privileges, are given them. All the non-yacht owners get for their money is the permission Fs once a year on the club boat at the June 'e must take a leaf out of the books of such clubs as the Brovklyn, Eastern and Seawanhaka yacht clubs, and adopt some such amendment to our constitution aa they have tn theirs, allowing non-yacht owners to vote on certain questions, such as election of Secretary and Treasurer, assessments, dues, kc. NON-YACHT OWNER. LECTURES, A vivid presentation of the manners and cus- toms of our antipodes may be anticipated in the lecture on “Cambodia and Serpent Worship,” at Chickering Hall, on Monday evening, by Mrs. Leon Owens, late governess to the young King of Siam. Stereopticon views of the many magnificent ruins of ancient temples, pagodas and palaces will illustrate ' e lecvure. Rey, Dr. John Hall, of the Fifth avenue a ureh, will deliver the last lecture in Aue res conre of the New York Association for the Advancement Science and Arton Monday evening, in the Reformed church, corner of Fitth avenue and Twenty-tirst street. His subject, ““Ultramontanism,” 1s one which he has closely studied, and one in which all intelligent crtidens will find matter of deep interest. A lecture by a lady to gentlemen only on ‘Typical Manhood”? ts the rather startimg proposition of Dr. Sara Blakeslee Chase, whose character and qualifica- tions for popular teachin; yey commended. It ar given in Cooper Union on Wednesday evening, inst, The Maimonides Library Association gives the clos- Ing entertainment of the season on to-morrow even- ing at Lyric Hall, In addition to the lecture by Dr. . Eisler on the “Superstitions of the Middle Ages, and several vocal and instrumental solos by known artists, the Haydn Instrumental furnish severai orchestral pieces. EVENING HIGH SCHOOL, Tho closing exercises of the tenth year of the New York Evening High School took place at Steinway Hall last evening. Tho hall was literally packed, ‘ Mr. Leonard Hazeltine, chairman of the Committee om Evuning Schools, presided, The exercises consisted principally of orations by various students. These ‘were agreeably interspersed with music, Prizes were | eens ripin ®. 4, Fancher and Hon. Joseph H, ' hoate. ‘ The first oration was by Honry T. Nugent, on “The Centennial,” and was delivered in a very creditable manner. An oration by David Frendenreich on “Arbitration” | foliowed, This young gentleman showed that ‘‘peace- | tul arbitration” ought to take the place of brutal war- fare in the settiement of national differences. The | other orations were “Statesmen of the Revolution,” | by James O'Neill; “Life Precedents,” by James Hamil. | ton; “Knighthood of Waiter Scott,” by James Ken- i ; “The Press,” by H. W. Hilde! , ‘The gold medal for oratory was awarded to O'Nicll, and the prize for composition, Lening’s ‘Fiold | Book of the Revolution,” was given to James Hannl- | ton. It was announced that for excellence in various classes of drawing had been awarded :—Francia Murtagh, Francis J. Henkel, Frederick James T. Ryan, David R. Gray, F. oH. Booth and Prizes for excellence in Spanish were awarded to Wi liam Machol and Frederick Schudig. SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY. $ The Armory Fund Committee of the Seventh regi ment acknowledge the receipt of $500 trom Messrs ‘Appleton & Co. LIKELY TO DI. r If ts feared that a third victim will be added to the list of those who lost their lives by the recent boiler explosion in Newark, N. J. At last accounts from the ( | hospital George Dumor was dyi He was too weak } oe, to undergo fmputation of one of bis the dovtors to grades in the ranks of the patrolmen carried out, create contusion and tend to exeite "3 Lay Ange It is a eg! m a that the same responsibility rests upon go far as the guarding ‘of property i concerned, {s well known that the young members are more i il i his leg alone, as he felt would surely die. It proves that Ernest Schneider, whoso death was announced in yesterday’s Hxxatp, died trom ance, Ho Wass. brother of ot the nore Sains Seana ana ee ; FE