The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-01
The Charter Question To Be Def.
nitely Decided Next Week.
Seventh Regiment Memorial fol-
a Site for an Armory.
SPLENDID RECORD OF THE SEVENTH"
What II Costs for Legislators Letters and
How the Thing Is Done.
The Senate Committees Report on the
Harlem Court House Job.

The Senate Committees Report on the
Harlem Court House Job.
ALBANY, Jan. 81 1873.
The bill which gives the Constitutional Commits
sion now in session here the power to suggest
AMENDMENTS TO THE JUDICIARY ARTICLE
OF the constitution has passed the Assembly. 1t
was adopted by the Senate last week, and now only
needs the Governors signature to become law.
1t may be stated further, . matter pertinent to
the subject. that the Commission intend to make
an amendment to the article by which Judges OF
equal jurisdiction In different parts OF the State
will no longer be able to ''mandamus'' each other
to distraction or throw obstacles in the way of
each others jurisdiction.
A CONTESTED SEAT.
The case OF Mr.. Oakley the democratic member
from Queens county, whose seat in the Assembly
Mr.. Coggesha republican, believes il his by right,
came up before the Committee on Privileges and
Elections yesterday. Mr.. Oakley was represented
by ex-Speaker Smith, and Mr.. Coggeshall repre-
sented himself in the absence OF his counsel Judge
Van Colt. Mr.. Smith rather took the aspiring Cog
geshall aback at the very start by asking that
HE SHOULD MAKE SPECIFIC CHARGES OF FRAUD
at the election, instead o. general statement that
frauds were committed III frauds were commit
ted and you know the fact and have proofs to
show how they were committed, specify them, and
then Wen make our answer" said Mr.. Smith, SUBJ
stantially. Mr.. Coggeshall was quite willing, OF
course, to specify, and suggested that he and Mr.
Smith could sit down together and do the whole
thing in five minutes Mr. Smiths polite refusal to
join Mr.. C0Qgesha in making up the specifications
was rather cutting. He simply remarked that he
DID NOT HAPPEN TO BE HIS CLIENTS OPPONENTS
COUNSEL
fo tkaIv hof Mr. oho
alone until Judge Van Colt takes hold. Then the
Oakley fur has got to fly, he thinks. This may be
the case but Oakley says he doesn't care con.
tinenta
GOUGING TO BE PRACTISED THE ASSEMBLY,
The Assembly spent great deal OF It's apparently
not very valuable time yesterday in windy discus
sion Of ventilation the object to be ventilated this
time being nothing more nor less than the As
seD,bly chamber itself This unfortunate chamber
has AFFORDED fitting subject every year for the past
ten years for the pure and wholesome air orators
to spread themselves for hours at a time. The dis
cussiOn to-day was carried on in terrible earnest
but whether 1t will result in anything practical
Is an open-ar question that will remain So think
for good while to come. Heretofore the ventila-
ton apparatus in the Capitol has consisted simply
IN the burning OF gas by the thousands feet day
through patent sheet iron tubes reaching to the
root, and in large wood fires In the spacious chin
neys bnllt on gratlngs two to three feet above the
level or the hearthstones. Now
NEW SYSTEM
is to be given trial. 1t Is called "the Gouge sys
tem," man by that terrible cOgnOmen being the
inventor or 1t. AS to what 1t consists Of no one
seems to be at all posted hereabouts as yet. The
it to their benghted brethren, but they stiil seem
to be as much In the dark as ever. 1t may
be that, If the bill passes giving Mr.. Gouge $4,000
he will be able to make everybody feel It, even ii
he cannot see it. He claims, understand, that
the system is net in anywise related to the gouge
system so popular in the Fourth and Sixth wards
In New YORK; and which many OF our rising peli-
Icians turned to such good purpose in their
younger days when the battle was always to the
strong, right or wrong, In political conventions.
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
There was quite spicy discussion on Thursday
over the bill approprating $50, 900 for new boat
for the Health Oicer take the place OF that re-
VoorSis Of Rockand made Vigorous onsanahf
upon the bill, ana claimed that he could get good
boat suitable In every respect for the service for
money. He therefore made an amendment to that
effect. to make 900 instead Of $780, 900 the amount
of appropriation. Mr.. Ray, OF Columbia and Burns
of New York, took the same view of the matter,
and were opposed by Hustled and Alberger. The
amendment was FIN, finally lost, and the bin was
reoommitted to the Committee Of the Whole to
save II from being killed by technically Of the |
rules. Dr. Vanderpoel, the health officer, has full
democrat, said in voting against Mr.. voorhis'
amendment, Everybody has faith In his honesty.o |
The Dill was again taken up yesterday and passed.
The Committees on Cities will not report the New |
YORK charter until next week. 1t is likely that all
the heads Of the departments will be removed.
Among the important local matters before
THE SENATE
and incorporating the siwav 1nvsrt,s New &
pany. The Public Works bill Is merely tender to |
the extensive Metropolitan Railway bill, introduced
in both houses some time ago, and provides that
that company when its stock is subscribed, may
issue first mortgage bonds.
THE RAILWAY ADVERTISING COMPANY
Is new scheme, at the head of which are such
responsible men as Henry w. Ivor, william Butler
Duncan and others, to secure the privilege Of doing
all the advertising in railway stations, depots, er
ries aud Otner public places.
Another debate ensued on the
TROY DISTRICT COURT BILL,
and senator Johnson. having meantime brushed up
his constitutional Information, went int the TROY
subject with the eloquence or Homer's '.IliadS
and the daring OF Achilles. His arguments were
directed against windmllls however and without
regarding HIM, they ground the bill out on the
spot.
CHARGES OF CORRUPTION
made by the constitutional Commission on Thurs
day took rather q serious tone. Mr. Bowen rose
to question OF privilege. and read from q local
paper the extract OF the proceedings OF the Con-
sttutlonai CommissiOn which contained the allega-
Mr.. Bowen, being Chairman of the Committee on
last Winter, and that Mr.. LeavenWortn
had possibly been mised. II not he had made
charges, and 50 also had Messrs. Robinson and
Opdyke, that the Senate should once investisate
2 MT. Johnson, democrat. from the Twenty sixth,
replied that Mr.. Leavenworth would not make SO
statement without he had some d.
rect Information 10 bear him out. He might refer
20 the claims or salt lands, which paid by the
committee on finance last Winter-amounting to
,0me five hundred thousand dollars He honed
hey would appoint an investigating committed to
INQUIRE into the charges made, and offered resO-
ution for that purpose.
MT. Dickinson, member OF the Claims Com.
nlttee SAID that he had seen Mr.. Robinson last
'venlng ana tnat gentleman had denied the truth
If the report II was probably mistake OF the
Exporter. " Wv
Mr.. Johnson insisted on his resolution and it was
o.. u.t.p
Now, what the investigation will amount TO ia a
natter OF mere speculation; but as it has been as.
he charges OF corruption made i'm the Constttns
ional convention were directed at Canal An
raisers OF tne past and not at the last legislature
ne thing VIII probably come to naught. still AZ
ne Senat0rs VINO were so INDIGNANT fa=dax ahunf