The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-20
Interesting Information Rela-
tive to Gas.
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HINTS AS TO GAMBLING.
The Proposed Arrangement as to the
Congressional Districts.
Latest About the East River
Bridge.

ALBANY, May 10, 1873.
| Last Friday when was endeavorng to get at
all the facts relative to the Job of the Gas bill
was unable to find the House Journal Of the 25th OF
| April, the day the resolution was passed which
snatched the bill from the clutches OF the Senate,
for the reason that the printer had not
yet completed It, / was enabled, however,
to ascertain beyond question by the record
book OF the Assembly and the journal OF the Senate
three things First, that the bill had passed the
House; second, that two days afterwards, Mr..
Coggeshal OF Oneida, offered resolution recalling
the DILL from the Senate for the purpose
OF amendment; third, that, in compliance
| with the resolution. the bill was promptly
returned by the Senate even before 1t had
time to reach the Committee on Trades and
Manufactures, to which 1t was referred. Now, ow-
ing to the Journal OF the House OF the 25th OF April
not being available, 1t became question what had
become OF the bill when 1t got back again to the
Assembly. was informed on good authority that
| 1t was recommitted to the Committee on Trades
| and Manufactures, but have succeeded to-day in
getting
LOOK AT THE JOURNAL
OF the 25th ult. and find that, although this COM
mittee did not get It, the lobbyists aid play their
game wen that the bill was scaped
In more scientific manner than any CON-
mittee could have scalped 1t. The journal
OF the Assembly OF the date refer to
shows that the bill was returned to the Assembly
That is the simple record. There is not word on
any page of any journal Of the House since that
day 81 anybody's having ever made motion relat-
ing to the bill. and it lies now just where 1t has
lain ever since i came down from the
senate-on the table. In order that those Of
the lobbyists who are trying to prevent this
bill from ever becoming law can be the more
easily understood l will state that it is now
Ton Lot ~ hovo tho
passed by the Assembly last month rec0nsidered.
Had the motion to recall 1t from the Senate "for
amendment" been made In good faith either the
member who made the motion or the introducer OF
the bill would have the day after 1t was re-
ceveo, had the vote reconsidered and the
@ e 1 o e.
The idea OF the workers In the scheme to defeat
the bill simply to get out OF the hands OF the
Senate where 1t was certaih to pass and let 1t re-
main untouched in the House and thus be for
gotten altogether. 1t is now 100 late. 1t will be
sembly reconsidered, and even II Mr.. Smith, who
introduced 1t or MI. COggeshal who had 1t recalled
from the Senate an xious have 1t amended in
the House it cannot be DONE The only alternative
left therefore, is to send the bill back to the Sem
ate. where it win be certain to pass or to leave It
where 1t now is-to be found, after the session Is
over among the debris Of unfinished business on
the Clerks desk. Mr.. Smith introduced the bill,
IN the interests OF the people he must MAKE mo-
be left open to the suspicion that he has all along
allowed himself to be manipulated by the lobby.
Mr. Smith should decline to make such motion
Mr.. Coggeshali who introduced the resolu-
on %an e Should ne IN thS
sent back to the Senate. II he offered the resolu-
ton nnocenty, simply at the request a Of some
should be the result OF his action he owes 1t to his
own reputation to clear his skirts OF the suspicion
the lobby in the matter. He can easily do SO by
moving, IN case Mr.; Smith should no not make the
motion, that the bill be returned to the Senate.
GAMBLING
1t will be remembered that last month bill for
Senate. it came down to the Assembly and was
referred to the Judiciary Committee, and this COM
mittee referred the bill to subcommittee. Since
OF the bill, and Mr.. Vedder, the member Of the
subcommittee who is-to use slang lobby
have 1t reported, favorably or adversely.
Among other bills recalled by resolution In the
Assembly this evening was
THE wESTCHESTER ANNEXATION BILL,
which is to be SO amended that the people OF the
city and the towns concerned can vote on the Ques-
ton OF annexation.
There Is
about the concurrent resolutions offered by Mr.
on Friday. 1t appears that the resolution reads
lature. SO it amounts to nothing When the
Senate takes hold Of it it win doubtless extract q
blunder OF the blooming Rose from st. Lawrence
county and then amend 1t 80 as It will really
mean business. The resolution will then have to
20 to the House for concurrence, where it will be
gobbled up and the final adjournment be fxed as
intimated on Friday that 1t would be. to take
place on the 30th instant
THE LOCAL PROHIBITION BILL.
The Governor has until tomorrow evening to sign
the Local Prohibition bill What his action will be Is
still mystery. The temperance people are not SO
hopeful as they were a few days ago. There are
the bill to become q law without signing it,
but as he doesn't as rule do things by halves, this
idea Is secuted by his friends.
Mr.. Hustled, from the Committee on
CONGRESSIONAL APP0RTIONMENT,
reported the following bill
Az Act dividing the state into Congressional Districts
Be and
i Firsi Dsrict"TRe counties Of Suffolk Queens and
Tenth Twelfth and Twenty-second wards Of the city of
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seventh Disrict-Tenth and Seventeenth wards Of New
ElsSiS Dlstr!ct-Nlnth Fifteenth and sixteenth wards.
sou,teenth and Twenty sixth streets and Fourth and
sixth avenues, New YORK.
Ninth District-So much Of the Twentieth ward lies
within Twenysxth and Fortiefh streets and Seventh
avenue and Hudson River, and 30 much OF the
Twelfth and Twenty second wards lies within Forieh
street. spuyten Duyv Creek Eighth avenue and Hudson
River.
Tenth Dstrict-so much OF the Eighteenth ward as
enst of Fourth and much Of the Nineteenth
and wards Of said city as Is east Of Third av
enue and Blackwelps Island.
EIe venh Distrjct-So much of the Twentieth ward
lies within Twenty sixth street. Foreth street and Sixth
and Seventh avenues; and much Of the Twelfth and
wards as east of Eighth avenue; and
much Of the Nineteenth and Twentyfrst wards Of said
city lies west Of Third avenue; and Wards and Ran
I ads Islands
| Twelfth District-County Of westchester,
Thirteenth Disrict-Putnam, Duchess and Columbia.
Fourteenth District-Rockl and Orange and Sullivan.
! Fifteenth District-ulster Greene and schoharie
| Sixteenth District-County of Albany
| Seventeenth Dsrict--Rensselaer and Washington
| Eighteenth Distrct-W arren, Essex and Clinton
| Nineteenth District--St. Lawrence and Franklin.
Twentieth District-Countics Of Fulton, Hamilton