New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-09

DONE and that all the accommodations that commerce
requires or may require shall be pr9VidSn With tIs
might of NewYork merchants to give to our city once
thine port We must band together against those VINO
have for their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT neglecteu Oo ". III
most vital interests and we cannot fair IN tle' " w
tain what we demand.
Resolutions having been offered, 49, .,o. =,
New-York assemble in council, always know tlat
something is TO be done. and 1t is fair to presume ina.
whatever is done at this meeting Is done IN earnest de
up minds to 1t after suffering years OF inconvenience
ard loss through the & ana o o OF reof me-
tropols The Wharf BILL sent mp 10 Albany last winter
yos nassed Inv the senate almost unanimously. It had
been drawn UP carefully by several able counsels, ana
approved by the Senate Committee aiter eonsulta.
ton with representatives OF all the as.ent interests
We had reason to expect defeat D9t one ng. sea.
tered the friends Of the BILL purse OF sOo sent nom
Killed the bi IN defiance of public opinion N 9ehahee Oh
the plain fact that 1t Was the 1e w U1 , not them
strong enough to compel the Assembly, 70 pass
that bill The days OF Clinton ana gay d anI were nrod
to represent NewY Ork-when our state LegsatuIe cO
tanned minds great enough to grasp great @
our Lawmakers were public spirited ana patlOc men,
too proud to be Influenced by patIy SIDE Issues 700 o
TO be bought. Our bill killed; but Wheh IL iS
again presented it shall pass Great appause we shan
compel the Assembly 10 pass It, We shall give thenl 10
understand that we have sovereign stronger than gold
whose power cannot be trhed WITH and that when PuD
lie Opinion speaks again It shall he heard ana WLe tle
sound comes 10 their ears politicians will bend and bow
like puny sapngs before the angry storm. This Asset
alton has no personal ends gain. There the Committee
OF 70gentlemen known 70 the world for ther integrity
and public spirit the hands OF such men, who know
full well the obstacles which impede the passage Oh an
important measure, II must pass. The speaker then
paid glowing tribute TO the energy OF New-fork mer
chants and claimed that the word omitted from their
vocabulary is 4" fail" .
Mr.. Barber held that NewYork enjoys as good wharf
aud pier advantages she pays for lie ADVISED tna5
the Of wharfage be raised 70 enable owners to pro-
vide better accommodations. The wharf property OF
NewYork does not pay2 per cent Oh tile investment,
whereas it should pay 10
Another gentleman showed by statistics that the rates
paid by shpOwners for NewYOrk wharf privileges were
greater than those paid anywhere else and cOnended
that raising the rates would not improve the SYSTEM For
Is years there has been change and change what
we want.
shp-owncr stated that Interested as he was,
ever objected to paying for good accommodations
Mr.. WOOD said that ~ years the system was inly
adequate 20 the demands OF commerce. Then, snip or
COO tuns register was large vessel The Battery In those
days. was public resort but now that ana tie PIERS ana
wharyes the hthest objects In the city, Time was
when the Central Park waste. Today IL ~ gar
den Of beauty. source OF health TO thousands Way
cannot the Battery and tho wharyes be placed IN the
hands OF a Commission like that which has met9nor,
phOsed tho Yorkve swamp region into Central PARK
There 10 doubt that the physical and moral health Oh
the community would be benefited by the Improvement.
gentleman proposed that the Committee Of 70 should
also take into consideration tie entrances 10 New-l0rk
HarbOr
At about o'clock the meeting adjourned.