The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-17
Indications of a Lively Time Over
the Custom House Charter.
Another Effort to Get a Water
Supply for New York.
INSURANCE REFORM.


In a Il X and combination has not only been formed
against him in his committee, but in the House as
well. So it may be after all that, besides getting
Knocked about in the committee room, he will get
rs badly knocked about in the House, where, OF
course, he expects TO find
STRENGTH AND CONSOLATION
when in tight corner. There rumOrs OF COM
binatons in other committees against the Custom
House men, IF they should turn out to be true, the
session may not be as dull as some people who
Judge only from the present calm the surface in
cline to believe it will be.
There was quite a Senatorial debate in the Sen
ate to-day on subject growing out of the subject
> Of exempting
BONDS AND MORTGAGES
rom taxation. Mr. Weismann offered resolution,
In effect directing the Judiciary Committee to re-
port bill upon that subject in accordance with
the recommendation OF the Governor, but it
awakened the latent horror Of members of that
committee to 30 lively q tune that Senatorial
tedium was almost exhilarated by the result.
Palmer and Bowen declared that the resolution
was mandatory in its terms, and that it was dis
courteous to the Judiciary Committee. Mr.. Weis-
mann dscaimed any discourtesy, but
THE WOUNDED Committeeman
displayed their outraged feelings effectively that
the resolution of Mr.. Weismann, after thorough dis
cussion, was again tabled Some bill for the ex-
emption of bonds and mortgages from taxation
will most probably be passed, but not without full
consideration and due deliberatiOn. Even Sen
ators who opposed pressing the committee an
nOunce themselves IN favor of such a BILL and the
voue OF IA to in favor of taking the original
Dution from the table shows conclusvely the SEN
timent of Senators on the main question.
THE BILLS REPORTED
by the Judiciary Committee to-day in relation to
the double sessions of the Court OF General See.
sions and regarding trials for murder have been
already given in abstract. The first merely author
lies the Court OF General Sessions to hold two
sions month when 1t finds 1t necessary to do SO,
except In July and August, and confirms the action
OF the Board OF Supervisors in relation to the
Judges Of the Court. The second provides for a
verdict Of guilty OF murder in the second degree
an indictment for murder in the first degree.
Senator Temann's bill to reorganiZe the city
Was ordered to be printed. The senator has
finished his study OF the Custom House charter,
and commends some OF It's provisions, while he un-
neutrality-suspicious. are introduced into his own
bill. He proposes to push the bill along and is not
likely to let 1t lag supernuous in committee pigeon
THE CHARTER QUESTION
Is already assuming fierce phase. New YORK
republicans seem indisposed to accept the DEGREES
OF party caucus regarding Sc important matter,
and delegations from New York with
''PILEs OF MONEY!"
among them the Committee Of Seventy men, are
expected on the ground before Wednesday next,
these circumstances
THE TIEMANN CHARTER BECOMES OF SOME IN
TEREsT,
however sparse may be its chances of passing
The bill to reorganiZe the city government intro
duced by Senator Weismann to-day Is simply
duplicate of the George Bliss Custom House charter,
and Is introduced to give the Senate City Commit
tee some basis for the hearing OF argument IN the
Senators beforehand with the provisions OF the
"charter of Bliss"
TWO CITY RAILROAD BILLS
introduced in the Senate to-day one or them
y Senator Benedict extending the tracks OF the
4 wenty third street railway so as to accOmmo
a ate passengers who want to 90 or come from the
n urty-lourth street ferry The other is rather
a ger In its proportions, and proposes to include
WI Thin its sweep that pOpulOus district OF the city
rel resented by q line running dagOnay from
rw entythird street and East River to Christopher
ne following gentlemen:-John sullivan, William
rhol npson ]; NJ Noyes Dayton s Morgan, George
l. :. sheppard, John W. Little, Allen d. Tracy.
Anso stone Sidney b. Roby, Richard B. Hil
ienr. G. Brewer, Theodore Rogers, Martin v
loren ian, Daniei Stratton, Harry waiter, Il. Z.
ohns, m, Charles g. Culver, W. M. White, Z. J.
,hand ley, Thomas Kivlin, William NJ. Shipman II.
}. HUI Joseph Messenger and Robert W. Murray.
The fol- owing Is
THE PROPOSED ROUTE.
FROM the foot OF East Twenty third street to First
venue, 10 seventeenth street, to Broadway, to
Fourteen ith street TO Hudson, to West Eleventh. to
West, an thence to Chrstopher-all double track
except In Christopher and seventeenth streets
the secon track at these points being through
ireenwici and Eighteenth streets Another rather
pretentiol Is Dill was introduced in the House by
Mr. Pell. IL would be almost useless to even at
Tempt to i've the route. The main streets through
which 1t wi II IN run are from Twenty-third street.
east and w st ENDS, 10 Iwenty-thlrd. down Fifth
avenue to Washington Parade Ground, to South
Filth avenue West Broadway College place to Full
ton by cuttn tnrough the block, Dey SOUTH West,
lalutn lane John street &c. The in
.lentloned in this bill Robert ray
Ior Edward s Hasted Charles w. GODDARD Sylves-
Ter A. Pye E HolbroOk Cushman, Edgar ID. Taylor,
VIM f. Dean, 1ohn Merritt f Y. Ten, Eyck and
v In ' d,xs1ssip., 8 proposition 10 place
TIFF 81 sNAT0RIAL POSTAL MATTER
=, tho e pds OF Senatorial ,ofcer, instead Of as
,ereto.ans in tn hande Of a messenger OF the Al
,any post Once, senator y. Z. Wood to-day stated
hat tons ave entraey c1 on ,Se pos
.erf,ficates which had never gone through the
at Ss bad pssn qe iuansa over to
,aly. doub e yr0dt, to Uncle saIn himself and to
he paper NIL Ter. .,
Mr. CLAIM hs s Ut hast opened the ball on the sub.
ect of nnre IA I'd wholesome WAGER Tor New York.
it is more than probable as1m at before i, ss
Iitions rom TIN good county ofPntnam for aud
against the U bin. the fact is
PUTNAM COUNTY THINKS a GREAT "SAL or HEN
and knows r,g0, ell tat New york-woud be only
glad get I'LL snd
plentiful supply of rdenf spirits must get water,
and understanding this fact thorongfsy tne people
out OF the lakes II they can. Hence this bill
OF Mr.. Clapp's. We all remember what a
DullaDalOO was inHe Two years ago OVcf DUES
Tweed's Water bill, and how all the wlseacres who
because the Boss was the ather of The measure
jlmped to tie conclusion that 1t was totally desti
fute OF anything that looked to
THE WELL BAHIA OF TIE CITY
II turned out IN the long run not 70 be sucl,a bed
thing after all though, h) b sure, IT had ts little
nigger, which nobody wan obliged 80 countenance |
IN awaiting himself OF the kosd that was the bill. |
And now we have IN the Dill vi DIR. Clapp Q great |
deal that was in tine "Boss-," Happily |
what there is of the present measure
winch makes it in some res5ects like the hill OF |
1871 is good. The main poin OF she act Is that the
nnrchase any of the lakes in Ntnam county whep |
he deems ii necessary that any " al OF them are
needed TO o.....- !
WATER