New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-10
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! of the essimaEt or his agent
The Ntw-York Charter bill passed the Senate
70 day. sner brief debate, essentially as II was
reported fr. IA the Committee on Cities and WI
lseas. the Senste making 10 amendments Of any
moment. The bll received % affirmative votes on
its final passage. In the course of the dcta'e, Mr.
Sickles proposed to- amend the bill so as o. allow
Manor Wood 10 hold oser, and advocated the prop
o.ion at some leGgb saying that the people would
regard the bill il its present shape prescribing
worthy officer, ard wOild probably rally TO his
standard aid reflect him in the event OF his being
lepsls,ed out Of oiice S.r. Brooks was SURPRISED
al this display Of msgnamity on the part OF his COT
lespue after the treatment ks had received at the
hands of Mayor Wood.
Mr.. Sckles said that was private grief which
could have no weight with him IS a legislator
Mr. Brooks merely referred 10 the matter as ali
Illustration Of the oft quoted text, When you are
suitsn on ore cheek, turn the other also
MIR. Sckles merely wished To return good tor
evil which was estlrely consistent with his course
on tie Church question.
The Trinity bill is exciting considerable attention
in the Assembly, and msy possibly pass that bo0y.
On Wednesday. Mr.. Samuel b. Ruggles was heard
before the Assembys Committee on Charitable
ard Religious Societies, 10 whom this bill had been
referred, in behalf of large number of EplscO-
pslians Of your city, not members OF Trinity
Church. NhO MAD sent I'D reuobsITtucts, uttutu ny
Clement G. Moore, Benjamin r. Winthrop, GIG.
Van WsgeDen al d others. Mr.. Ruggles spoke to
the points of the public policy involved in the bill;
the inevitable dlscord il would SOW in the Church;
the physical aid religious distraction it will cause,
and what he regarded as the repuguance OF the
bill to the Constitution of the United Safes. The
argument, which was elaborate will be fully re-
ported Nr. Ruggles made a spirited defense OF
The Vesry, in reply to the injurious lmPutatlons on
their integrity made in the Senate.
An act sppropriatiDg $4,000 for the removal OF
obstrucions to the navigation of the Hudson River
between Troy and New. Baltimore, passed the
Senate last night and was sent TO the Governor tor
his signature. The bill appoints Thomas Schuyler
and Alfred Van SantvoOrd of Albany, and Gurdon
Grant Of Troy, Commissioner to superinsend the
work. which is to be let by contract TO the lowest
re pOnsble bidder
The act TO establish bulk head and pier lines for
the port Of New-York according TO the recommend
atoms of the HsrbOr EncrOachment Commission
passed the Senate last night aud was sent to the
Assembly for concurrence; and the act to establish
regulations for the port of New-lork passed the
Senate to-day. The Port Warden bill comes up
for consideration before the Senate this afternoon
as special order and the final vote on it will very
likely be close.
learn from Mr. A. B. Elliott, the General Agent
of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Com
paDy that this road, so important to Northern
iowa and Minnesota, will be opened and in running
order to Prairie du Cher, its western terminus on
the Mississippi River this week.