The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-18

The INIQUTTY OF ALBANY LEGISLATION
GOVERNORS VEToEs WIPED Our.-No one, we
presume, supposed that the fact of Governor
Morgan having vetoed the city railroad bills
would kill those Ubiquitous measures, and the
action Of the House on Monday, and of the
Senate yesterday, by passing them over his
veto, was nothing more than could be expected
from such Legislature as New York is af-
flicted with. The city is thus delivered over
to the tender mercies of a parcel Of speculators,
who, according to the provisions of these bills,
can riddle some fifty OF sixty of our streets with
railroads when and how they please, without
any conditions being imposed upon them as to
time, mode of construction or rate of fare.
These bills give the right to run railroads in
almost every leading street and avenue in the
metropolis. They comprise the avenue D,
Seventh avenue, Fourteenth street, South and
West streets, and Tenth avenue and Forty second
street roads, which, with George Laws Ninth
avenue road, which the Governor signed, and the
Houston street road-also passed both houses,
and now before the Governor-make in all
seven new gridirons for this unfortunate city.
That we want more railroads is quite certain;
but, even admitting that the roads thus pro-
vided for will ever be constructed-which is
doubtful-we protest against these Infamous
and pro6igate measures as shameful robbery
Of the franchises of the metropolis, and we give
Governor Morgan credit for his attempt to
annul them, futile as it has been. He, at least,
has done his duty, go far, in the premises; but
the most corrupt and shameless Legislature
that ever sat in Albany has overridden the ex-
ecutive authority, just as it has outraged every
sense of decency and propriety throughout its
entire career.
In like manner, the Senate has sighted the
veto of the West Washington Market bill, by
passing it again yesterday, and the same fate
was awarded to the Albany and Susquehauns
Railroad bill, but the latter was finally killed
in the Assembly. All these measures involve
some twenty millions Of dollars. 1t is evident
that the Legislature were not to be restrained
from enacting any measure, however iniqui-
tous, which the lobby is rich enough to pay for.
MISSING PERsoNs-WHAT BECOMES OF THEM?-
One Of the most striking examples of the
facility with which people can be made away
with in this city, without exciting any particu-
lar attention, is furnished by the late discovery
of female body in the North river, off Jersey
City, and is q convincing proof of the inse-
curly of human life in this miserably governed
metropolis. In the efforts to identify the vic.
tim in this case nearly forty persons have come
forward with stories of missing females who
have mysteriously disappeared within periods
varying from week to three mouths. Had it
not been for the discovery Of this body under
circumstances indicating the commission of
fearful crime, the probability is that we would
never have heard of one of the numerous sus-
picious disappearauces, although the solution
of many Of them would doubtless reveal tale
Of violence and bloodshed.
The alarming frequency of eases of this kind
speaks volumes for the iueficieacp of the
police; aud yet 40 scorer are Que Bard o.
Police Commissioners and one body of p)ice-
p,en sufficiently iopg in Office TO know some
thing Of their daties than they are iegislated