New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-24
THE APPROPRIATIONS.

DEBATE IN THE SENATE-ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH THE
BOARD OF QUARANTINE ooMMsaoNERs-AP-
PRECIPITATION FOR THE PUBLIC sCHooIS-AN
ABUSE WHICH MIGHT DE REMEDIED.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUSEi
ALBANY, April 23.-The Senate devoted its
evening session TO the consideration OF the regular Ap
preparation bill for the year ending with September,
1874 Several amendments have been made to the bill
by the Senate Finance Committee. One OF these
aboshes the Board of Quarantine Commissioners from
the date of passage of the act Their duties are
placed upon the Controller and State Engineer There
are now three Quarantine Commissioners each one re-
ceying salary of $500 from the State. II not at all
certain, however that the Legislature will consent to
abolish this Board, it is slice Of patronage which
the party in power will naturally be slow part with
The time during which the bill under discussion
was occupied exclusively by Messrs Benedict and Low
cry the latter moving to strike out clause OF the bill
which approprates sS5OcO for distribution among the
academies and academical departments OF the union
schools. Mr.. LOwery opposed the proposition as mimi
cal TO the common school system, and Mr.. Bene-
dict defended 1t at great length. A similar
appropriation in the appropriation bill last
year, and then, tonight and few days
in the Assembly, 1t provoked immense amount Of
discussion Inasmuch it has been the custom OF the
Legislature for almost century to appropriate money
for the benefit Of academies, and the is to be
divided among nearly 3n0 schools and academies the
advocates OF the appropriation appear 10 nave the pest
of the argument
BY refusing 10 buy 10000 rcd for gratuitous dis
trbuton and print the reports Of agricultural soce-
ties and the transactions Of eclectic homeopathic and
allopathic medical societies. the Legislature might
trench 10000 continue encourage the academies.
more shameful waste OF the public money
than the publication Of the doings Of medi-
CAL agricultural, and scientific bodies, entirely
ASSOCIATED from the State Government cannot be
imagined especially when IT is notorious that the books
have little OF no value above what they be sold for
as waste paper. The red book is valuable yet it
is very inaocuraely compiled and the printers, Weed,
Parsons & Co.. receive handsome price for it. The
number voted by the Assembly for free distribution,
postage paid by the State 100 for each member Of
Senate and Assembly and rs for each officer and re-
porter The cost Of these to the State is about S5 0
The resolution has not yet passed the Senate.
The bill appropriatng tSSOOOOO for extraordinary re-
pairs 10 the canals was considered in Committee Of the
Whole Of the Assembly this evening. great pressure
has been brought to bear the Canal Committee to
increase this appropriation largely beyond the fixed
In the BILL which 100000 less than appropriated
last year The Chairman Of the Committee Gen. Batch
eler has carried out as far possible his resolution
formed at the outset Of the session. largely reducing the
appropratious for extraordinary repairs preparatory
the ultimate abandonment OF what called the lateral
canals in accordance with the wishes OF large majority
OF the people the State For the first time IN several
years the receipts for the coming year Will prob
ably exceed the expenditures 10 the amount OF nalt
million dollars, which Is due entirely 10 thee Canal
Committee in persistently resisting the demands for
extraordinary repairs to the useless lateral canals No
will probably pass substantially as it came from the
hands Of the Committee.