The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-25
MORE TINKERING WITH THE CITY
CHARTER.

MORE TINKERING WITH THE CITY
CHARTER.
The Senate Wednesday passed bill K
produce radical changes in the government o
the city, showing the usual and characteristic
readiness Of that body to leave undone al
that it should do. and to do anything ani
everything which it should not do. The
present city charter was inaugurated to take
away the choice of city authorities from the
people Of the city and to make them appoint
i've. Those most interested did not ask fol
the change, and did not like or approve it.
But since they have been allowed to choose
their own Mayor and Administrators they are
content with the plan as far as it goes. The
change made by the Senate will not suit the
views Of one-hundredth part Of our citizens.
We trust the House will know very well what
to do with this il-timed and impairment
measure
| The committee to investigate the notorious
Alaska fur seal swindle held a meeting to-
night at the private residence of Fernando
Wood, and decided to proceed Immediately
with the inquiry. Ex-Secretaries Boutwell,
and Richardson will be summoned to testify
as to the influences that were employed to
secure the award Of the monopoly to Hutchin-
son and his crowd. Senator Mortons son
John will also be among the witnesses. It is
asserted by those who have examined the
facts that Senator Morton himself had an in
terest in the thing. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The above is cheerful intelligence, and the
BULLETIN felicitates itself upon having been
mainly instrumental in having this matter
brought to the attention of Congress. There
is no sort of question that there is covered up
in the contract Of the government with this
Alaska Fur Company one of the most gigantic
of all the swindles which have been perpe-
trated during the Grant regime.
It is charged that number Of the promi-
nent and leading officials, including Bout
well, Richardson, Dent, Babcock, Morton
and others, were parties to and participants
in the fraud, and the fact that Morton's son
fs an employee of the company lends color to
the charge against the black proved and ma
lignant Senator, who may find that the in
vestigations into this ugly matter will remove
him from Grants path as Presidential
aspirant
1t is said there is to be an affair of honor
(sic) between two colored legislators. They
say both are excellent marksmen, and can
put ball in the black every time.
Rev. DR.. G. d. Fowler, President of North
western University, Chicago, and fine orator
and logician, will arrive in our city on Satur-
day, and preach in Ames Church next Sun
day morning and night. Dr.. Fowler will also
lecture on Monday night at the same place on
Brains and Muscle" This lecture has called
forth the highest encomiums from the leading
papers of the nation. DR.. Fowler's address at
the General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. which met at Louis.
vile last year, was masterpiece Of logic and |
eloquence.
DIED.
A. NJ, at the Medical College, New Orleans Prof |
Frank Hawthorn, NJ D. in the forty first year of his
age.
Mobile and Selma, Ala, papers please copy
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Diseases Of the Eye sssd EaS.
Or. o. BEARD, Ooouliss,
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