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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING;
Fortv-Fir.i Coreref.7 s.Yeaa se''lor,
TUrsplas yysss.;,ss .is7o.

fpfspAdat * ~ isS,siS'Hsiic q 800. ~
The Atlantic and paciasS rAllsoed IN Wy
Mr.. Morton moved TO, 60 into executive
session, which WA agreed % and the sennto
then went Into executive session. rl
AZ las p. m. the door were te-oponed.
Mr.. Cameron entered a motion 10 recon-
slider tho passage Of the Texas Pacific rail-
road bill, a. he desired 10 mako an amend.
ment providing that 'aOt more than 10000
tons OF foreign Iron shall be used In the con-
struction OF the road. sIg
Mr.. sherman called up his resolution that,
In the debate on Che tar bill, no Senator ehall
speak more than Ave minutes on any one sub
joct.
Mr.. Stockton thought Il would be best 70 40
this by common consent Such a thing as
adopting rule Of tlis kind had mover been IN
The rcsoiutioa Of Mr.. Sherman was then
The bin TO reduce Internal taxos, and for
other purposes, was then taken up, the qnes-
ton being on The amendment Of Mr., Yates
that after tlle Assagc. Of tbs ACT NO duff
shall be levied GOD tee, coffee dpd sugAr.
After discussion, the amendment was 70
jccted-ayes ., noes Al. -rlfftl
Mr.. Cameron moved 10 reconsider tho vote,
taken yesterday, by which the Senate refused
10 strike out tho House paragraphs reducing
the duties on sugars which was agreed to-
Atrs ~, ~ ~ $1,000, A., ,,.tL,,,,, ,,,,
me qucsuon uoh Ieen .,,,s IN ~ dnsl Uu'
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classlllcatlon OF ouues On sugas W. sr,ossly
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a, s X t1Mna ,h,lltspfELlAhh Of Leoh tOh TIE
.D~'T'- oQaTE syRyEI oyLcE,l
Odss Sat Z oSiosf, SSS B. fOi building Steam PSo
vs. IONS g. NJ, SeIoS main dSSE. " uiO $40 VI
ioi 1Cssr a.. e ~ Custom
"a. q ( INA ss & & Eca ss4 aSSs
SsSss y q ar.s;%Ss. and
sepes,ien 70 me Coilostsr ID Gaitoms, Boston New
YORK, and philadelphia, and 70 this once. u -
o5S n ss q SAs MOT S4 dsSss y aS
les than ~ miles, upon CONSUMPTION Ofooa not
SSiSs% z Is .RSsd ios no:
sSsaSs N. s r. Ss6
aRSn x work s1syias Ee9poay IN Ss oonaaniPtSa
q coal sngneors slores and In wear and tear q
Sc SSS ESS = S yGR Baa IN
With the economy gn4E.ntSed IN thee oIPenss. md
s ss, saSrs S At TsiO US Than hat spS
No IA t4p VII 6c 5ctwsai The plaoos Eiyoa bOlOwi
s ~, yss 01t a. B 3 w & z % g s .Sd
Delaware, 20 Newport and back built a hAlulnSFs
s % . s. y s ss me y to aoVoTnnsa
not then Atths ahPease % the e9ntraeton
ne sS Ss tS on o SRSs or re RsHf q 10
Coast sSrIey, Iad even oilitg must DO ohsfsd him
InEs and upsc cations viii DO tvootod, and muat bo
made rood b. tho oontraelog. f' #Nl .-H.H 10.
No BIDS Will DO conaidoTod Tor thia vesssl eHospt
frpm parties regularly engaged IN iron ship building.
Tho right 10 INJECT hny Vr all bids II reserved.
EA6h b4 must DO Arcolnp4nlsd By written naAran
toe, gpod " tho bidder and eompstent surety eer
nod 70 BE- euch By some ofoeF known 10 this once
The Treasury Department. In the sum Of 4OyO0o, that
IN tho 0vont0f tho acceptance Of saoh bid The noes
uAy contract viii 30 entered into Withln days alter
notice Il given By this once that such bid has been
oepted and foE ths faithful eHecuti0n Of tho contract
Tho lid bhonl state tho sum for which the vessel
viii be cOfnplOted ~ Aforesaid. ... ..
Bl1 mOuiha from tho date Of hlgning tho contract
win be allowed for The time In which tho vessel Il 70 DO
oOmploted, ct. .EH.."
A COW d zach OF The general plans and sPoolheA.
lions fnrnilhed, together With COPY u this AdveTtlso
msat must b t4lpnsd with oAoh I'D, an evidence
Of the object Of hnpropoaAi L..'-... Inn. I..|.. u
An proposals. must 30 AEnsd. scaled and indorsed,
-PopoaAa for Ooast Hurtoy Steamer" ard nolosod IN
an envelope addrepleG 10 Irof BENJAMIN Fierce 3D.
psrlAtendent Coast Bnrvets washington u. o. .
Thu voaael munt b halt In accordance with the
American ogds apeoheations for A No. iron vessel
| Tor twenty yoAfa.s ..-. .. FL. n.
BlddSrs Wi DO required N furnlsh with their hlda
two plans. ono main deck and one below, with an
elevation showing the internal aiTaAsomsntz, with
Syiodto ObtGiR The b0It dlspoaltOn q tho SsTorai
Ar RldIormAs represent and witness T., OpSnlnS
Tho party whose bid 10 Aooaptsd VIII be required %
fuTpah an AneeptAble model With full detailed plAnl
and speelhoau0na, beforp the contract Il closed,
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oTyIcE cmET oQniIIsSARr or suBHIsTEsCE,


0FY1cE CH1EF OoMMIEsARr or sunalsTHsCE,
Sealed proposAln In Duplicate VII b. rgceivod A thu.
JUL lsp for iurpiahnE net Beef FROM the block TO
posta fof one rear, commencing tho ts dag Of Sep
tambar lalo or such les time the Comnlaiar Gen.
eral Of hbEatenoe may dirsct, viz;
sidney Station Hsb., probable GArri.on, company.
prs0hablS Ea5Etson, ssoIpa17ls.a ,..-.n. =, -
probable GArriaDn. company. T..
ThsEs = nothing positive a 70 the number Of troops
at ocoh post
Propolals must also state at what price por pound
roas, VOL b furnished. for AHpedltiouAy purposes
such number Of Hssf uattle, the hoof tll steers
between fqrE and slI Years e. aSe. g average iCo
may DO osd Tor a. aaeh Of the posts named In the
proposal during tho period q the contract. .----
PTopoaAla may be made for each p?.t separately. or
Proposals win Be received subject 70 the conditions
MAJ 10, 1870, copy o. which can BE- soon BY application
e hs and.fsns or 70 ths Post oonmiaiArJ At othsr
The sht i ressTyed 70 reject any or an proposals.
Proposals. sheald bs enclosed In q scaled enyelops
aAls Tor Hroah Beef and Beaf Oattlen
Bldder are invited 70 DO present At the opening Of
~ order q BrSv-t Major General AussE,
t.fsaa Ma ma. a.. r6tsl N a
Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-06-29
pRoPosGIs FOR TRANSPORTATION.
HEGpouGnrERs DEPART,rEiSr or fExks,
IEnAs AND LouIsIaEA,l

Trrgas lsn 4 5siTsI.aa1
.. CmKY o11EfERaGsTSH's oTtIcE,
so.I.d nrpo..s n tipll.st. iii IN, is ~ th,. "a
vortsament attach0d % each srN tnvitrd and will M
reoelVed n this oaea unti II oSeiooi M FItiIllV
ny IA ie5o m IN m nj to,sSnr,.nl
iroSps and snppss thst NAV be rednired by The onsr
lsrnaateria Tor perod n tS,eys nonths
ios an IN IN Az ~ I'M. M us'S '''V' NJ" ou
fnnm Nav Oriesns 10 Gslyestop ra.,. or,,tu.,
Prom Nov Orleans 70 indisnola, TeIss, or Teturn
rIon' 70 nrahoa SAnu>s"' Ie1As' OF 70
IRON Galveston 70 Indianola, Tens, or return.
Fron, usi,e.to1 - - r,s. =.
from inSsnoia q Brssos ssnSso TsIS 81 Te
s H y sn1 ~ s1seq 9R lTon
rcinrl. ~ "
I1r,ro..l. ,ii .A.f, N that r,ts. hldd.,. n,. n
trspspoTt a a. from s-oh al ,bs 1boss ~ na,s
ooass and saiisisd mon cal5in And de- nsSseneers
each and ths foliovinE classss o. frsirht. IA,
.Usrsqs Muies. Sheen and Heat fisttie. ..nh ~,
piai. sf; schnetJ lAAd Zinc In. C,fPss as.a;;
M iia w. fi-lnd.toT.- D-dIs'' tns
nAlhe, ~ e,h ~ sash -. 80 - ,t,.vI
OIuhtnSo Seoi"S' ee'' e@eA ~ '''s h"nutooN'V'l
pyslahdIA - ~. a. ~. - o...-. -.
~ ~ "n' "A'' "~~"' "'-' -"u O~n' o~on
Lumber, Pine and Oak each per one thousand u'ool
ieGss - o., ,.....k
O' - : GEAsuRKnRNT GOODS.
Clothiinf. OLoes ~ " "
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LINE or sTEGMSHiFs

WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. H..
Hereafter the lne Steamships ", o. KNIGHT, JOHN
GIBSON and YAlIEY CITY. vim -d--
TWEEN HEM YORK, ALENANNhl1
DRlA, WAsHINgToN, and GEORGETOWN, a
even SATURDAY at 2. m. Leave GEORGETOWN
ever FRIDAY, att a. m. and ALEXANDRIA tho
same day at u m.
For full inioTmationi apply 70 r. p. A. DENHAM,
Aren't once and wharf foot Of High street. 9eorEotoNu,
hvonua j. W. THOMPbON .
isli.u Presidents
EOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENSTOWN.
MliAN LINE OF MAIL sTEAMKRs SAILING
FROM HRW YORK .
SATURDAY and alternate TUESDAYS
Tickets sold 10 and from England,
E-Rg9lS-h IrolAnd and the Continent For full In
formation apply 70
'.. JOHN q, DALE,
Agent rs BrDAdNly, NJ Y,
MIDDLETON 10,
jailu BahkeFs, Washington.
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FnR OoAL.
9sTss DEFY m !, q, no. eEsES,r,
.H ooEssh ONT ASp soyIa sT9ssrS I

NEW ORLEANg, L., June y ts7O.
Sealed proposals, which should DO IN duplicate, arc
inyiSd spd vill DO feesyekat this once unti fRI.
DAY July = 1870, 1t n O'clock m, for delivery TO tho
9gsEtsTmss,eys pcRsT,msnE q ,hl. ~ -,
MIfOUS COAL, ieighty pounds per buahs)
Coal D be dsllvered In suoh quantities and At such
times thin ths oily Of New Orleans, may be dosE
Mated b the Depot QuartermAstsr.
Goal must be Of the vory bost quality OF bituminoua
nubinot 70 Inspection before Acceptance and will DO
ruiectedn not Of the quality requlred.
biddafn viii state the nAnea and residences Of two
rosPpnsbe person. they pruposs 70 gder 2. saretoa
it's uhdorstood that the usual rules OF the Depart
ment govern IN this adnrtisement and specific
elAasa win DO nse!ted In the YontrAo proytdins that
dmlnlhhodby The United BtAtos ho WAnta Of the
reIyioe pnay seem W require.
The right Of the United BtAtoa 70 reject any all
propqqaIa received Il reserved g.. -. - ... b. .
Bldas. srS requested 20 % prO'snt at tho opening
Blda Trust ba Indaraod '.Propoaaln for uoal,n and
AddrossSd 70 tho undersigned.
by order Of Breyst BHGadicr General y, q. Meier.
nan, Chlof QuArternAstor Military Division Of the
Breyet Brisadisr GsnsraI, DepatT oaaTtsrmsstsr
General In charge Of Depot. iei7-td
pRoPbsAIs FOR fREsH BKEF AND BKER
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Steamship Lines.

EoR MOUNT VERNON. I ge
Tho steamer ARROW, Capt. Thomas s,Aolpole,
leaves her wharf, foot Of Seventh street RI. o-s.
DAILY {sssept Sqadsy,'l At p a nj 3lsUs
Alexandria, Forts FOots and washington, Marshall
Hall, Maryland White HousS and Ions. Virginia.
Jas, SYKES, Gou1 sap't,
ts3H Ohice-WillArd'a Hotel
Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-06-29

TIE1TKIi STATES PATENT OREICE,
" WARRINGTON, u. o., June rs Is7l.
% mo petition Of NORMAN W. PoAnloF, Moridun,
% ~. ~ " ~ day q September, tsi6 for in-
plytefn Z Ia BubrlCItorn.
t.e.dSq hal he tdailrnony In tho case b Slosod
sh Ne - nAI p Aaenlt neIt that Tho time for
niilN apna nnd the N1alnlnora REPORT be lnilnd
" ne ~ al ~ Noptqpbe ndnt, And that aid pou.
uon Be heafd " theIt day N ptember hSIt =
~. No. bAMulgL 81 EISIIKR,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-01
aeto'a)otk Daily gTibl1>1e.
MONDAY, AUGUST /, 1870.

The rumor Of an attack saarbrueken by the French
s doubtful Paris reports deny that there has been any
aghtng at ell Austria is said to be in full harmony
with France. Some particulars of the secret treaty
lust made known are severe on Louis Napoleon
England will demand full explanation There Is a
,umor that England will occupy Antwerp. Inc
French feet is off Copenhagen. Irish demonstrations In
favor OF France are forbidden by the British Govern
uent 1t is said that Gen Sheridan will not be allowed
70 20 with the French army Prussia has in her army
every ableboded between 20 aud 80 years Of age
So An amnesty has been granted the rebels IN
Winnipeg.
Our Washington dispatches show mismanagement In
the effort to collect the direct tax in the Southern States
60 On each Wednesday in August Government viii
sell in this city 100000 in gold $50 Another import
mt reduction OF the public debt viii be shown to-day
60 More Indian troubles reported the whites be-
ng TO blame. -= Gen. O'Nein, has been sent to the
state Prison for two years
The police say they have obtained no clue to the muir
derer of Mr.. Nathan. = There were two attempts 10
murder in this city Saturday night, and son at
TEMPTED TO shoot his father sunday. =- A saloon
keeper at shady Side killed laborer yesterday. -
The cornerstone of the Church Of St. Rose OF Lima was
aid by vicarG General STAIRS, and at Paterson N
Catholic Church was dedicated. == Cold 1909, 1903
1904 Thermometer, Saturday, II, 81, Il; Sunday, 10
H. IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-01

Mayor Hail. in his editorial capacity, cries
out in holy horror at the report that Republic
can committees have asked for contribution
of one per cent on the salaries of office
holders to assist in defraying the expenses of
the next political campaign. As the Mayor
has served on both sides of the fence, he
doubtless knows all the tricks of the trade
but, really, the cutlery against levy of one
per cent is too absurd. Since Mr.. Halls sell
ing out to Tweed g. Company he has had
ample experience in political tax-levies, and If
he or any of his clerks can truthfully say that
they have got of under five per cent year
for the party, they will astOnish the public by
imparting the information. There are men in
City service who give half their salaries to the
rascals of the Ring, and the Mayor cannot
possibly be ignorant of the fact; there are
scores of fictitious names on pay-rolls, and
the money is drawn, and somebody gets it.
To hear leader of the party that does these
things profess astonishment at an assessment
of one per cent for party purposes, is enough
to convrilse the broken-nosed statue in front
of the City Hall with laughter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-01

done that in 1867; but France said No, ana ne
could not fight France. In 1870 things will be
different, and when France mas ier hands 1uh
ON the Rhine Italy may do as she pleases.
The Spectator wondered the other Day
whether the Bonapartes had not exhausted the
patience of heaven. If we are to have many
more revelations of diplomatic infamies, 1t VIII
be found that the Bonapartes have exhausted
the patience of earth, and every mans hand
will be against them.
If we can believe the letters of famous
Diplomat the secret treaty, so far as the intent
of Louis Napoleon is concerned, may be con-
siderably antedated In the memoirs OF Baron
Bunsen, late Minister PlenipOtentiary from
Prussia to England, published by his WIDOW
there occurs the following passage In letter
to Baron Stockmar, under date OF January w
1852 "X. related to him that when he was
"Enyoy at Vienna, Schwarzenburg sent Tor
him one day and said 'Tbe President (Lous
"Napoleon) 'offers through Persigny, in ex-
change for the Rhine frontier and Belgium
"to Prussia, Hanover and Gutenberg; 10 AUS
I" tria, Moldavia and Wallachia; to Russia,
"ConstantinOple.' The Emperor Nicholas sald
"the same to Lamoriciere. Ihey poth
"shrugged their shoulders"
There is significant remark of the pres
ent French Emperor's, repeated by Jerome DO
naparte: "The fall of Palmerston was the
"beayiest blow have ever received. he was
"tbe only sincere friend had. So Tong as ne
",cas Minister, England had no allies"
The speech of Napoleon's wife to the
French tars of Cherbourg contained this re-
markable statement: "The French navy has a
" glorious history. You will be worthy OF us
"past.r Now, we understand that the En-
rlisb navy has ga glorious history and so
has the Dutch, and so has the American; but
the gloriesr of the French navy, we confess,
are new to us. Probably they may be sup
posed to have bazed the brightest at Traial-
oar. when Admiral Nelson was shot by
Swiss rifeman, perched in the top of French
frigate 1t is a pity that Her Imperial Majesty
did not name Just half a dozen or so OF
French naval triumphs; for the historians
themselves seem to have fallen. into
reprehensible habit of emitting to men
ton them altogether. There is also
rather too much of this indefinite Boosting In
the EmperOr's address to his army. There Is
positive assurance of predestinate victory
after very long war, as if French soldiers
had always been invincible. Nothing Is be-
"yond the persevering efforts of the soldiers
"of Africa, Italy, and Merico." But as usual
with such proclamations, the head and tail do
not agree After confidently prophesying
glorious victories and nothing but glori-
GUS victories, His Majesty says: Upon our
"success depends the fate of liberty and civ
"ilization ~ So it seems that there is, in fact,
little doubt about this 4" success" Something
"depends.n The foregone conclusion is not
so entirely foregOne after all.
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of Dollars has been achieved owns and runs
its own well-paid judges, as well as lawyers,
80 that all hopes of legal redress is precluded.
The net results of this wholesale spOliatiOn
and en-daring wickedness are as follows |;
/. The stockholders have received not one
penny of the Fifteen to Twenty Millions an
nually earned by their road since these har-
pies 10; S,s,,;teG their control of it, The Pre-
ferred Stock, which always previously received
regular dividends, fares no better than the
rest.
III. The millions on millions of new stock
issued by these robbers has paid off little or
nothing of the funded debt of the Company,
and has built no new road whereby the value
of its property is increased So far as the in
terests of the previous stockholders are af-
fected, the proceeds of these issues might as
well have been thrown into the sea.
III. AS a natural consequence of the fore
going facts the market value of the stock
has deprecated from 65 or 70 to less than rs,
and it is doubtful that any large amount could
be sold without depressing it much further.
w. Much of the Erie stock havingbee owned
in England, this stupendous swindle, and the
judicial deviltries by which it has been fenced
about and shielded, have seriously depressed
the price and destroyed the Suitability, not
merely of this Stock, but of all American securi-
ties whatever. One Hundred Millions of Dol
lars would be moderate estimate OF the
damage and loss thus inflicted on our coun-
trymen. If Secretary Boutwell, shall be baffed
in his efforts to fund our national debt at
lower rates of interest, the Erie robbery will
be largely responsible for that failure.
V. The contrivers and perpetrators OF these
enormous wrongs are not content to enjoy the
fruits of their villiany; they insist on thrust
ing the proofs of it into the faces and eyes OF
the community. They buy, reconstruct, and
run expensive and Improbable opera houses;
they have their sumptuous and costly
residences in town and country; their
luxurious and snowy quarters at New
port and Long Branch, with four-horse and
sx-horse turn-outs at each; they bull the gold
market to fabulous extent and thus make
heavy losses, and they manage in every way
to incur expenditures and invent means OF
squandering money entirely beyond precedent.
As Burke magnifcently says, Their
"equipages shine like meteOrs; their palaces
"rise like exhalations.n Meantime the widows
and orphans whose little all, the said remains
of better fortunes, was invested in Erie stock,
pine in garrets and suffer privations from
which their modest share of the millions thus
stolen would have preserved and would now
relieve them.
Are the men and women who smile upon
these felons, eat their dinners, drink their
wines, and laugh at their jokes, morally one
whit better than theyl Are they not, In spirit
and effect, the accomplices of their crimesf
And what shall we say Of the journals
which, seeing all this villainy enacted and
triumphant, close their eyes and suffer it to
pass without rebuke or cOmmentl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-01

Anybody is permitted to throw dead ami
mails into the rivers. These carcasses float to
adjacent shores, and from Kingsbridge to
Long Branch the beach is lined with this
sickening ofal. DR.. Carnochan, ambitious of
fame as Health Officer, sailssevery day through
this nauseous stuff, and wonders why diseases
that come from such sources are prevalent.
1t is bad enough that the contents of sewers
should fall into the rivers; in civilized coun-
tries such pollution is unknown; but when it
becomes the habit of the people to poison
their neighbors in this most offensive way, it
is time for some efficient interference. There
is not seaside house tonight, from Govern
er's Island to Sandy Hook, that is not poisoned
by this dreadful otfal. VIII the Board of
Health look to it9
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-01

The Government telegraph absurdity is about
ns dead as it well can be in this country. If
anything were needed, however, such as COrO-
ner's inquest over its remains or last nail in
its coffin, it would be furnished in the letter
from our London correspondent printed on the
second page, exhibiting the disappointment and
failure consequent upon the effort in so densely
populated a country as Great Britain to transact
she business of the telegraph under Govern
ment auspices. If the task is impossible there
Ehat would it be across the vast distances of
,ur half-set,led continent?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-01
ERIE.

IF some vile bag who had amassed wealth
by numbering innOcents and pandering to lust
should suddenly burst upon Broadway, Fifth
ave.. and the Central Park, in a highly-be-
dizened chariot drawn by six superb steeds III
silver-plated harness, with three or four gor-
geously appareled and stiffly starched buck
negroes as ornamental appendages to her
turnout, the public mind would be scandalized,
not so much by the vulgarity and tawdriness
as by the ostentation and brazen impudence OF
her display. 1t would be resented as an insult
to decency and an insolent proclamation of the
lucrative character of her infamous craft. 1t
would excite general indignation as a reckless
defiance of the moral sense of the community.
Some three years ago, certain adventures
who had never before achieved distinction or
wealth. suddenly inflicted themselves upon our
city and State as directors and managers OF
the Erie Railroad. In a short time, it leaked
ont that an issue of several millions OF new
stock in that Company had been made by
them-an issue whereof they confessed the
illegality by asking the next Legislature to
legalize it, and procuring its assent by large
expenditure of money.
Having thus obtained complete control OF
the road, and filled its responsible trusts with
their creatures, they applied to the next Leg
islature for such an alteration of its charter as
would deprive the stockholders of the right to
elect a full Board of Directors annually-a
right which they had enjoyed from the
outset-and enable the existing Board
to divide themselves into classes,
whereof one-ffth only should henceforth
be chosen annually: thus in effect barricading
the master spirits of this conspiracy against
any effort of the stockholders, however unani-
nous. TO GUST them during the next three or
four years. This bill was engineered through
the Legislature by Senator William NJ. Tweed,
one of the Directors, and specially ap-
proyed and commended in an uncOnsti-
tutional address to the public by his
branless puppet, John T. Hoffman.
Tweed is usually handed when he has
any measure of importance and atrOcity to
carry; and yet, so far as we can learn, no
other act half so villainous as this has been
Struggled through the Legislature at so moder-
ate a cost during the last five years. This rs
partly to be accounted fOf by the dexterity of
his tools in calling it up and pushing it on
from stage to stage, when the more honest
and sharp-sighted members were absent from
their seats, and when those present were mainly
slrh as he hired by the session.
The last Legislature ought to have repealed
this Infamous act, and doubtless would have
done 50 had it not been paid to leave it on
the statute book. Whether the next will be
equally venal and shameless with the last the
people must decide in our approaching state
election. Suffice it here that the corrupt COM
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