The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-05-01
THE SENATE AND IT'S RECORD.
The Princely Gift Of Senator Cornell for the
Endowment Of the Cornell University.
The Verdigris- Chicago Delegation and the
Crash Of the Confederacy.
New York City and County Tax
Levies,
&C., &C., DC.
Our Albany Correspondence.

Our Albany Correspondence.
ALBANY, April 20 1855.
The proverb Of the ancients that you should never
judge man until he is dead should be modernized for
application to the Legislature so as to read that you
cannot judge Of such body until IL has adjourned.
The Senate (which is elected for years. and the
Assembly Of the present and Of the last year have
solved themselves in the original ranks of the
people from which they came. At this point Of view
to-day it can be said with positive certainty that
credabe results have of by any
previous bodies in their places than that exhibited the
journals of both houses for 1884 and 1895 The year
1854 was ushered in by couded and most disastrous
aspect OF national Affairs. II could be readily shown
that the Assembly Of that year. under its then
Speaker, the Lieutenant Governor Of the
State, led and directed the Union sentiment
OF the North, and after Abraham Lincoln
and his Cabinet proved the effective organ
lied in the country Of that Union policy which has
achieved the glorious result for the country fully
developed with the closing days Of the present session
The last Assembly spent its concluding moments in the
adoption Of instructions to the Congressional representa-
tves demanding the abolition Of slavery by consu-
tonal amendment The Assembly Of the present session
closes with the ratification OF that measure regard
less Of party accompanied by the sautes o artillery
throughout the continent Shareholders
rebellion and the installation Of executive head and
policy at Washington which will realize era in
relations to the empires Of the world.
II is from this standpoint that the two
late bodies of Assembly can alone he appreciated to
their actually achieved work and purposes Their great
body of bounty bills their voluminons and patri-
resolutions with the various other details of this
nature stand their proud peculiar their
Journals and in the history OF the nation at large during
the dark night OF its struggle.
has flte hara in I'm
Jobs or schemes the partisan aims attributed 10 the
hour has been misled II not Intentionally purposng
misrepresent demoraZe the sentiment which these
bodies rresisbly borne through the past two
The time was too mcmen'ous to tr6c The scrutiny Of
the people, fixed upon their representatives, was too in
tense admit Of falternr The impending dis
aster to the country too absorbing 10 allow Of
other but the great which threatened ruin TO
the grand fabric Of bcan institutions When this is
stated all is said which is % general importance IN
Of the legsa Of the and of the previous winters
| avNATE AHp RECORD
Looking back upon the two years term OF the Senate
adjourned, every act Of any moment indicates the
impr IS OF this body II has exercised complete and
domneeng control the present Assembly, and last
the rival bodies closed their session in connection
which Welded the precedence in ability u the Senate
but left 10 the Assembly prestige Of purity, industry
and loyalty which sent some forty Of It's members re-
tenant Governor Of the state No Legislature for many
years gained so much popular approval and SO little OF
public censure and abuse that of 1864 of which the
Senate adjourned deserves its full proportion Of
credit At The conclusion or their labors there
egaccs left TO the people or the dominant political party
the people, reproach with the public opinion of the
State There have been JOBS swindes Of much
men put through, although there has been want Of
urgency for thcm. at time when the imitation Of the
currency had set other localities wild with the thirst for
public plumber. Under Senator'S Fogcr Bailey and Muir
ply the judicial character Of the session laws have
served the symmety OF proper legal architecture The
parliamentary aspect of the session Of the Senate
and Of the previous session Of the Assembly under the
executive officer, Thomas G. Avord will be marked
epoch Of the highest ability in the parliamentary
history of the State Under the fortunate
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editor OF the late Gmrier end Enquirer
the municipal affairs Of the CITIES Of the State and cspe
cally Of New York. have obtained memorable impulse
in the direction OF progress and intelligent reform Sc
nator Andrews New Yorker BY birth, and for
growth Of the metropolis by his peculiar VOCATION and
in the vigor OF his life retired 70 the leisure or r
raj life in oscgo county, nled his eyacting post as
chairman Of the Committee Municipal Affairs, with
prepared experienced and ability equaled ut any
time in this aruous position Another term on his part
in similar control OF the Of municipal rcconstruc
ton and progress would go far towards alternating the
grcvous complaints against the municipal section OF our
form OF government To his ahors we the highly
important work OF poising our metropolitan police upon
the partisan and effective basis Of the present
ganization, and the extension Of this system to the
nicipal districts OF the interior OF the state The paid
fire department and many less important measures, he
likewise shaped. Should the municipalities OF the State
post In the Senate II IL TO be hoped that he will give the
city Of New York some SIMPLE and more efficient organ.
cations for IT, sanitary and financial government.
The great and vexed question Of the canals and canal
policy has reflected in their prosperity brilliant ustre
upon the paarchal Senator Cole Of Orleans chairman
Of the Committee Canals while the opposition which
finally defeated the Central Railroad Fare Restriction
bill fifty derived It's most persistent animus from him,
the guardian Of the locks and levels the OF
De Witt Clinton. Few instances Of more importan, or
promising work can be pointed 70 IN the whole
legislative history OF the country snan corr ,ss
and White. The foundation OF the Cornell University is
event really worthy in lis way Of the other grand
events Of the period nj which has heen contaminated
This work. in its legislative respect deyolved upon sena
| tor White, who NAV well be cnvicd the distinction OF
Of dollars for this foundation with two hundred acros OF
land in the town Of Ithaca, presents feature Of Illus
ous bcraity that would alone cntte the body OF which
| Senator Cornell has been member To memorable dis
tinction. This prncely endowment, planted upon the
national grant Of million OF public lands, must
at last afford the requisite for practical unver
sty system fitted the scope of American institutions
The minor donation Of twenty I'VE thousand dollars
made TO pncsce College would mark with ordinary lustrc
noted The Of science agriculture and the prac
teal arts, together with American development Of
beiiss kfres, will derive in this genuine university
movement an accession of strength which Il may be
venturcd predict that similar foundation has hith
is generally conceded that IN point Of ability the
present Senate been exceed by Of Its prede
cessors Az able minds and efficient debsers Folger,
| Munger Andrews, Shafer, Murphy, Humphrey, Fields
and White have seldom been cxceed IN any forum In
the country short Of the United States senate Az men
ton smith. Hobbs. Christie Cozans, woodruff and the
majority Of the body have done credit 10 the theory Of
democratic government IN the sapero, saSseiy and
the momcntous period Of the past two years.
THE ASSEMBLY
The most conspicuous fact In regard TO the Assembly
ustadjourned, is that has been kept in wholesome
check and under complete subsection by the older and
| ADLER body, the Senate The previous Assembly wa'
thoroughly exclusively absorbed by the spirit of
democracy, and lost everything else in the prepare
tons for the great strife both at the polls for tho Pres
dental contest and In the field OF battle for the very
existence OF the nation In the Assembly OF this wnte
large number Of the old members reappearcd and wcr
put in the most discordant connection with consider
| able body OF the C0prerhtad persuasion. who wcr
transferred from the Scy mour and Chicago platform L
stand In the full blaze oi Mon victories and forced Il
swallow the daily accamatlons called forth by sncccssiv
dispatches announclng, not tho 'faiure OF the war
bu Tho evcnta from, tbc