Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-04-22
Correspondence OF the Herald

ALBANY, April 20
Legal Reformation Root-American Institution--
albany Medical Coiiege-The Currency-Reso-
iutions on the General bankrupt Law
The subject of legal reform disposed of for the
present. After spending four days upon it, and be-
ing bothered with forty different propositions pre-
scented by Gen. Root, the Senate referred all the
pills to select committee Of five, TO report com
plete.
The old General has been in one of his tantrums
to-day lie roared like of the scrptural bulls
Which came from Basham Early in the session he
oousht IN Dill to alter an act authorisng the APP
Poihthent OF supreme Court Commits sioner, to
sac at Delhi, IN Delaware County. The bill was
snort and simple, merely removing the restriction
whcn com Peiied the commissioner to reside at Del
NJ The bill passed the Senate and was sent to the
Assembly. 1t was returned to the Senate so modi-
ned or transmogrihed that the father could not re-
eognise his own child Under pretext of amending
the Generals bill, the Assembly struck il out and
AFTER inserting fourteen new sections, tackled it on
at the tad.
Gen. Root denounced this proceeding as unpar-
liamentary and discourteous to the Senate, and he
made vehement, and at the same time, sensible
speech against cOncurring with the amendments of
the Assembly. After some discussion, the whole
matter was referred to the judiciary committee.
bill making donation to the American Insti-
tute OF your city, of $1,000, up for its final pas
sage in the Senate to-day. Some opposition was
made to it, and Mr. verplanck moved to lay it on
some pertinence, that Society for the promotion Of
agriculture, that was to receive the aid of the
State might be located more advantageously in the
Interior than in the city Of New York He thought
your pavements not exactly adopted to agricultural
experiments, and he should vote against the bill.
The House have had the Southern Rail Road
der consideration. The proposition to make the
road State work, which was rejected in the Sem
ate has been renewed, but it pass the House
The currency project was not reported to-day. 1t
is understood that the committee prepared, and
the reason OF the delay has not TRANSFERRED The
provisions of the bill stated in my letter of Sa
turday-half per cent redemption in New York or
Albany
A bill granting 5000 year for five years to the
Albany Medical College, passed the Assembly on
Saturday. There is to be great effort to defeat this
BILL and vigorous exertions will be made to carry
It through The object is highly praiseworthy, and
hope the appropriation may be made. The Insti-
tuition has made great in anatomical science
and the principal, DIR. Arumby, is an accomplished
and skiiful surgeon, of profound requirements in
among the distinguished of the age. Mr.
Young will oppose the appropriation with all his
might, and presume that modern Esculapius, DR..
Hull, who seems to suppose he sent to the Le-
gislature for the purpose making an cutlery against
Thompsonian doctors, will throw the weight Of his
enormous influence against it.
My friend, the Clerk of the Senate, has got his
head in Chancery, but ifhe is not ver-obstnate, he
will get out without difficulty. The circumstances,
as they were related to me, are as fcllows:-
The Senate, six or ght weeks SINCE passed
expedency of general bankrupt law The resolu-
tions were amended in the Assembly to recon-
mend the exclusion of corporations in the Law and
then returned To the Senate They were immediate
y laid on the table, without action of any kind and
have not been touched in the Senate since. The
clerk, thinking his yn concurrence all that was
ccssary in a matter of such trhng consideration.
delivered the resolutions to the Assembly having
been agreed to. They were thereupon signed by the
Governor, and forwarded TO Washington.
Here the matter rests. The clerk AYERS that the
amendments were concurred in by the S nate, and
he points TO his budget Of blunders, the Journal for
proof Of the fact. When the attention OF the Senate
was directed to the circumstances, the members,
nearly all, confirmed the statement made above; but
now some of them have changed their views, and
begin To doubt. IL the clerk sticks stouty to his
story for aday or TIVE, dare say majority will fall
in with him.
The only proper course, if this statement is cor
rect, is for the clerk to acknowledge his error and
that would be the end of it. The blunder is charac
tcristc, and reflects dscrcdit upon the clerk but
il he persists in Drawing il through, he will place
the party in pretty particularly perious posture
Coroner's Office.
APRIL A-An inquest was held on the body Of
Bctsey Stewart, negress, aged 80 years. Ii APP
peared that the 3lst ult the deceased was
knocked down by one Of the Harlem Railroad cars
and one Of her legs shockiagly lascerated, before
the car could be stopped The driver sent her
home in hack, and she had medical advice but he
injuries were beyond the art of the most skilfur
practitioners.
The jury found " that the deceased died in conse-
qucncc Of injuries received from one of the care
running on the Harlem Railroad on the 3lst ult.
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