New-York tribune., 1875-02-05
WORK OF rHE ASSEMBLY.

A rIT or ECONoMY-fnE COsIIGAN BILL IN CoN-
MurEE OF TIE WHoLE-sTATE PARK CoMMis-
sIlN-rHE CITY COURT OF BEOOKLIN
lrEoM rIE EEGULAE CORRESPONDENT OF rL rREUNE.l
ALBANY. Feb 4.-The no)dgates OF eloqueuce
were ooseneG IN both Houses this morning, and the
English language burst forth IN all its untamed,
legislative fcrocity. In these inunGa;ions OF OIaOry
occasionally the en.ire grammatical structure OF the
language seems swept away plural subjects and
singular subjects into frequent and startling
collision aud the parenthesis which IS apparently
the one thing impossible to drPater who Ea'I"
from The Wilderness stretches out to rinty. and
n lost in its own mazes OF some OF these dlsIon6n
harahges verbatim report would be more than
cruel In the Assembly the discussion good
b,I1uored and non-partsan; in lie Senate it was
bitter, not 10 say tall and revolutionary
The first of these bodies occupied an hour in the
discussion of the expedency of printing 10000 copies
ofVerplancll Colvin's report on the Adirondack WI
derness at the expense of 81 a volume Those who ia
vored the project urged the admitted facts o1 the
ability and usefulness of this exceptionally valuable
report, aud the great popular demand that exists
for it while on the other hand 1t was insisted that
this would open the door to further extravaganza
in printing public documents for the ameoTation
of the condition Of the secondhand bookseller. The
resolution was debated with great carnestness Tor
an hour by Messrs. Davis, DAILY, 7. j. Campbell,
Waelncr, Petty, and Hammond, who opposed
its adoption, and Messrs. Lincoln, Prince,
geword Uoughton and BurtIs who
favored it. MIR. VoSburgh olai . an amend
ment ordering 5000 copig5 instead of
$1,000 but 1t was voted down, rs vas the original
resolution, the latter by 81 Yeas It. % Nays. The
House having now succumbed to this impulse OF
economy, all the resolutions for printing documents
that followed were slaughtered in cold blood. Even
a motion to print 1900 copies of the report of the
Commissioners to revise the statutes, subject of
great interest to lawyers at the present tlIne was
voted down Here the ghost of Ezra Cornell was
raised for brief period by resolution to print 600
COPIES of the testimony in the Cornell stigatlon.
This would have suffered the fate of its predecessors
had not Speaker McGuire left the char and eX-
planned without discussing at all the merits of the
controversy that it would br necessary for the Leg
slature to pass upon the testimony before the end
of the session. and the evidence must be accessible
The COstigan bill came up III Committee of the
Whole but the Democrats were outgeneTaled as
usual, by the Republicans. about whose opposition
10 the bill there can no longer be any doubt. The
Democratic forces were not at all organized, and
Lieut. Gov Avoids motion TO progress the bill and
thus prevent its consideration adopted by vote
OF "a TO 49, Some Democrats who are doubtful Of
the propriety of passing bill whose provisions
are so sweeping voted with the Republicans The
bill will probably up early next week, and pos
hihlv Tomorrow, and an endeGvor will be made to
rally the entire Democratic vote to its support The
criminal bill in relation to peculation by public Off
GERS was passed TO a third reading without amend
mrnt. So were the bills in relation to preferred
causes in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals,
and the rights and liabilities of married women, and
providing for the appointment of an Assistant Dis
trict-Attorney III Kings County.
Among the bills introduced was one by Mr.. Al
commissioners Of state Parks under whose direction
| the Wild lands in Franklin. Hamilton, Herkmer,
Lewis st. Lawrence, and Warren Counties 10 be
set apart as the Adirondack Park. Mr.. Hepburn
| Repl Of ST. Lawrence offered bill providing that
all surrOgates notices and citations except in the
counties of NewYork and Kings, shall be published
in the county in which the surrogate resides. This
Is aimed at the present requirement, that notices
shall also be published in designated State paper
a provision which inures TO the benefit of the
other of the leading Albany papers according to the
| politics of the party i'll power.
| MI Kennaday offered bill defining the jurisdlc
ton aud mode of procedure of the City Court o.
Brooklyn. The bill gives the judges power to ex
tend the term until the trial of any cause begun
shall he completed Ia provision identical with that
lately approved by the Legislature In relation to the
Brooklyn triaD; to hold concurrent terms. and to
4 hear appeals when any judge, by reason Oh con-