The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-10

rllous abuse that has already disfgured the
opening of the CAMPAIGN, and it is to be hoped
that every personal assault made upon either
OF the candidates will only have the effect of
swelling the list of his supporters.
Tho New York Charter ut Albany-The
Tricks OF the Legislators.
There has again been disagreement on the
last New York charter bill, this time the
Assembly refusing to accept the compromise
arrived at by the Conference Committee and
asking the appointment Of new committee.
The disputed point is the amendment inserted
by the Assembly, prohibiting any sectarian ap-
preparations If this clause should remain in
the bill it is felt certain that the measure will not
receive the Executive signature; If it should be
stricken out or modified by the Committee of
Conference the report will be rejected by the
Assembly. 1t seems tolerably certain, there
fore, that we shall have no new charter this
year and no spring election; but that the NUM-
cipal struggle will take place in November,
when the Presidential and State candidates are
chosen. This has been, from the FIRST the
object of a majority of the Assemblymen, if
not of the Senators also, and the
proceedings between the two houses on the
subject of the charter have been nothing more
than broad farce. When the hodge-podge
experiment of the Seventy was before the
Assembly it found an unexpected number of
warm friends, who were so thoroughly salts
fed with its provisions that they refused to
alter a word in any one of them. The bill
passed in its original shape and the Seventy
were enraptured with their triumph But
when launched in the Senate it found itself in
more troubled waters, and was tossed about
it finally reached port in very dilapidated
condition. Placed on the dry dock of confer
ence committee it underwent repairs and was
restored to its original shape, and was thus
passed, in the full knowledge and conviction that
it must necessarily receive the Executive veto.
When the veto came it was sustained by the
Legislature, and so the charter Of the Seventy
foundered.
The same trick is now being played with the
substituted charter, and the same result will
follow. The Assembly inserted clause pro-
hibiting sectarian appropriations because they
knew it would defeat the bill through the
medium of an Executive veto, should the
Senate concur in the amendment The Senate
refused to concur; a conference took place; an
agreement was arrived at; the Assembly
rejected the compromise and another COM
mittee is appointed. If they agree to retain
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Assembly accept the report of the committee,
the Governor will not sign the bill. If they
strike out or modify the sectarian clause the
Assembly will reject the report, and either
way the bill will be killed.
There is difference, all may see,
Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee
So far as the interests of New York are con-
cerned the loss Of charter from the present
Legislature may be the gain Of the people.
The government is now going on well enough,
and any interference with the Dock Commits
sion would do more injury to the city than
could be atoned for by the election of new
Mayor, however honest and entarprising An
election to take place within eighteen or
twenty days Of the passage Of bill could
scarcely be expected to represent the sober
judgment and true wishes of the people, and
in less than six months the municipal election
under the existing charter will take place.
Our finances are in safe hands, and our system
of dock improvements-the most important to
the interests Of the city-is likely to be pushed
forward with vigor during the summer and
fall. The defeat of a charter has been nothing
more than deliberate, well-planned trick
of those legislators who were eager to
hold the municipal offices for bargain
ing and trading in the Presidential
election and who were interested in retaining
the present status of affairs in the city, but
who feared to accept the responsibility Of an
open opposition to the scheme of the Commit
tee of Seventy or to the present bill. At the
same time we find nothing to regret in the fact
that hurried, unsatisfactory election will be
avoided, and the enactment Of a charter for
men than are now congregated at the State
capital
OUR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. 1t appears by
the report just published by the Bureau of
Statistics that our imports for the seven
months ending January 81, 1872, amounted in
value to $332, 173, 9O5, and our domestic ex-
ports to PASCAL, 595. The specie exports
were for the same time $2S, 371 1857, and i'm
ports Sc, ,254. The balance, consequently,
was largely against us. Seventy-one per cent
of our foreign trade was carried in foreign
vessels, whereas for the corresponding period
of the previous year it was sixty Eight per cent
showing that our tonnage in this trade is rela-
lively declining Our imports have been much
greater in the seven months ending January
81, 1872, than in the same period of the pre-
vious year, the difference being within frac-
ton of SIS, 900, 900, while our domestic exports
exceeded those of the former period only a
little over million of dollars. The specie ex-