New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-14
SECOHD REPORf' on TRs AFFAIkS OF
TRINITY CHURCH.


They bad given TIiy full notice of teir sitiags DARN,
The ecess and then had the Controller and sever, OF
tie Clergy and Vestrymen CT the Parish before the
but tie CorpoT claimed the night TO be still fIr
ber heard it has been fu ly granted. Tney have occa.
pied eleven days IN presenting q mss Of evidence be
fore the Con mittee Bishops Potter and Delau rev the
Rector Of Trinity, and the aiding Assistant Ministers
snc VestymeD, tesiifyiDg. Ire leading ques toa
were put by their own counsel the sas beng
folly pr. pared and Arguments were heard from coun-
eel at the clcse.
Tie present state Of the Parish is said to be one
full CT piitui life and ability With al increased
number Of clergy Sunday Schools, industrial Schools.
Parcchal Schools lsy visiting ing the ernig ans
AID poor, &c, established and in operation with crest
yigor; all Of which has been done lince the adop
ton Of The Resolution Of Irquiry N the Sen,,e,
in 1865. SIce the beginning Of its history Trin i,
ssid TO have aided, les 20 parishes in the
State Of which II are in the City Of New York 50 in
the rest Of the Diocese Of NeE-York and Il in the
Diocete of Western New-York And the anita an
nuiiies, Icons and spends in money since 1914 haze
amounted TO $9g8 70j co (s23 rs year. an amour,
not steiisly differing from that staed by the Com
uittee in their report.
The torpor is denied by the witnesses. The small
number attending tie election is claimed as proof o.
high satisfaction with the Vestry. Tee cin'nuion Of
tie collections is owing TO the diminished number Of
wealthy perrons now LEFT in the parish. Tbs moaop-
DIV CT Low in the Vesry by is Standing Committee
is denied but ts decisions appear to b. overeuled
only sometimes, uIiDportant matters. No an
Lual statement Of af,rs is printed and no infprns
ton whatever is q. any time laid before the Cot2o.
rators
Partnership in making grants IL most emphaticslly
deLeo; but the mos striking instances Of dispropor
ioIat grants left unexplained II is not testified
that aD1 except one 10 x-cburch clergyman receives
stptId and bis IL $500 a year.
II Goes OF spresr tta sny Institution Of Charity
or Btnevoence has been founded endo wed, excep,
such commonly reckoned TO be Institutions OF
Learning. Ia tbs category OF founding or endo~iog
Institutions of Charity or Beneyolence tue wtnes
iJcluce grants 10 Afcsn Missions, collections in their
c urcbes tie aims for the poor and the DOrc SOCIETY
The lard which st Lukes Hspitsl stands issno so
10 have been derived virtually from grant by Trinity
10 st George the Martyr
The Committees previous report is fully corrobor-
aed in all its important points, by hese witnesse. pro-
duCed by Trinity on her own behalf.
The curious management OF pew leases AZ the new
chapel is shown to have been Ia prevent the ntr son
of any new corporators except such as "sympsshzed
with the Vestry."
The claim Oh the part of others beside psrshone's
OF Trinity 10 vote at the annual elections, has BEEN
made both before and after 1914. That the policy OF
the parish has altogether changed snce 1914, Is now
admitted and defended
The increase of the debt during the past ten years is
not 80 much as Il G cost Of the chapel
No attempt is made 10 prove the valuation OF the
estate AIDE by the Committee 10 be too bgh except
that the seduction on account OF leases et TO ruo n Is
cloimed ought TO be q $50, ii3 nseid.o f 81 ~ 3S
Ii Is sdmilted by all the Witnesses TIL the value othe
estate i, gre alter now than ever before
Mortgages he'd by Trinity on the old Zion AMI CHRIST
Churches did not prevent their sale and alienation.
St. Johns square testified by the Contr Her TO
be worth go 900 to Trinity Church. Ano,he member
of the Standing Committee states it to be oalJ so OOo
1t admitted that the Epsc opal Church has not kept
pace with the growth OF the city, and At InnitY
does not remedy the deficiency, nobody will. L. IL al
niited that Trinity has never built ties church
houe il is clsmtdth she has done so in eject ana
also that Trinity Church. and ST. PauPs and s.; johns
Chapels, ere be coming more and more tree chufches,
from the removal Of percDs able to rem! psxs
There is no attempt TO dissvow or disclhm the
auth GRITTY of Col. Troups repre- sensations, whe2 urging
the passage of tie law of lsl1 1t is ;hown thst 90.
Committee appointed Z" with full power to ger that
law passed. =.
The CORPORATION is now under practical RESPONSE.
bity Whatever for the manner in which II adntneen
s trust except TO the few corporators which req ain to
il u1 der the dsfraI chsng effects of the law OF ISL
and 10 them no report Is mide IN manner % dii
fuse knowledge of ts affairs Tbs Corpora'lo1 repd'
oates altogether the idea that its property Is IN he ma
ture of trust but claims that il is its own and the
tight to 90 it pleases with lis own IL GehieS l1e
right Of the Legislature to inquire INTO It's ass sna
appears before the Committee not as ma'ter Oh euy
bu s in the performance Of an act OF grace ana iavor
to the Senate. e
porstors has very greatly dimnshed by the removal
nearly al the Parfhlone5 OF any s. .,d 70 inSvdss
left the parish fom 1910 TO leis and the same process
hes been going on since. The congreg"non doEn
town are now made up almott wnoily OF Strangers
=,
labo,ers whose intelligence Goes not quality them TO
hold control over the administration OF such fund
The raree was " wider in former times than now for
the se,ec,icn Of distinguished and intelligent vestrS
men.
The new chapel will soon CONAN nearly al that is
left of the old of corporatos and they are liable
10 be outvoted 10y the very different class OF corp
rstors Low forming in the lover congregation The
ultima safety Of the Trust therefore imperstively
demand that the body of corporatoTs be REINFORCED
from that class of the inhabitants of the City OF
New. York" to which i. originally belonged.
The Commit &c conclude by recommending two
amerfuonts of the law of lSli-one substituting the
subsnce Of the law OF 1884 in place OF the second Sec
ton of the law of lsli TO euso those who we
entitled 10 vote fer wsrdens and yssymsn bsfore the
massage of that law to exercise the right OF which, II
csue II at The law deprived them, and takes nothing
from The pIesent corporators. In other words II
all who were corpoators under the grants OF the Crown
and ty the laws OF the State on the ssne footing:
The other Amendment makes an addition to the tth
.ecion of the same law, requiring the Nes'ry to make
full ernua report to its own corporation on The let
of February in each year.
II this be the sum and substance of ali tlat Trinity
Church can urge in her own behalf tue question il
settled.