The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-07

than $780, such payments together with the proper
printing rent stationery and other nece PURPOSES
m 'e equally saS shall be
OF nsw 9rk ana she county as the same
SEVERELY vIRTUoUs COMMITTEE
II would seem that the Judiciary Committee OF
the Senate 10 determined to pursue its adverse"
way in relation to all bills which have the slightest
SUSPICIOUS look about them, which 1t began last
week. The opposition the committee has SO far
eyen some OF the selsuicient lawyers wtl
in the Senate have deemed worthy Of their
highest consideration and respect, Is said
to be prompted by Senator Robertson but
there are those who believe that this sudden mt OF
virtue ON the part OF the committee Is only ruse
to cover up favorable reports nerea.er 70 ne maze
OF sight the moment after they are introduced. ~
Is an OLD trick OF committees OF both houses, VINO
know at the beginning of the session that 1t
is to be their lot to decide, so far as a
report is concerned. the fate OF measures
backed up by railroad corporations ssd a0r w;tn
grand display OF honest purpose they thInk, IN
fact, that by continually making adverse reports
as compared to measures which in the latter por-
ton when the lobby Is the most actlve 10 get
REPUTATION FOR INCoRRUPTTBILrrY,
and thus easily deceive the general.pup1c INTO inc
belief when they do recommend questionable Dill
the policy, PROBABLY that it is only necessary to
give dog good name to have everybody praise
him, to reyers an old truism. Is is to be hoped
Is not to follow on The Old beaten track, and that
1t Is really in earnest in cutting right and left in
Its dealings with the bills already laid before them
Senator Robertson owes il to himself, now tnat he
has set the wheel in motion, to keep 1t 60
ing and not allow they the %re;Ipuers OF the
during the next two or three months bills ten
times more objectionable IMAM the worst OF those
1t has already knocked IN the head. To-day tie
committee reported adversely the bill giving the
Mayor OF New York the power to appoint an unde-
fined number OF public watchmen. The bill, 1t may
hn oni q q
made law, have injured the merchants gener-
ally in depriving them of their old and well tired
private watchmen 1t would at the same time have
placed in the hands OF the politicians
AN ADDITIONAL FORCE OF HANGERS ON
to "work the wards" instead O. watching thieves
and burglars at night time. Strange to say, this
same bill was last year introduced by democrat
when bargain was understood to exist between
oete, in the this city Of
the bill was to be equally distributed. This time
the real men at the back of 1T were
that another nice little bargain had been entered
into by somebody this year Tor the benefit or set
VI Is as e ns
more or less to a greater extent In the railroad
committees than In any others, the other commit
tees should look to 1t that they do not fall into the
bad habits OF the days when an honest committee
could not always be judged by the amount OF the
honest work done in January and February.
THE CASH FOR THE CAPITOL
The bill apprOprating 100000 to prosecute the
work on the new Capitol gave rise to discussion
good results; not so much because the solid argu-
ments against the appropriation were
made by the leading lawyers in the Senate, as
that It may have the effect OF lettering
the Ways and Means Committee OF the lower
house from it's hasty legislation in the matter OF
appropriations, which has hitherto proved so dis
astrous in its results. The point OF the discussion
was made by Senator GansOn. He argued that
the bill was unconstitutional, conflicting, as he
believed with section 10 OF article of the consti-
tuition, inasmuch as there was no money in the
Treasury to meet the appropriation and would
have to be hOnored by the Comptroller. The bill
was passed, however, by unanimous consent