New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-26
all controversy on this point, and the more
promptly the Legislature acts upon 1t the BET
ter will the people of the State be satisfied.

IcT Will TIC ptopiC VI thO c'"eo w S'>N~
A glowing report in favor of the bill Tor the
Howgate Polar Expedition has been presented
by the House Committee on Naval Affairs
The fervency of the report might melt the Ice
of the Paleocrystic Sea. The committee Is,
however, quite right in the assurance that
many scientific objects besides that OF geo
eraphical discovery can be achieved by this
expcdition; so that while the North Pole may
not be reached, other results, of far more value
to the world are likely to be attained.
These San Francisco communists are the
fiercest kind of refOrmers. They want NAL
feasance III public Office to he punished by
imDrjsonment for life with no possibility OF
pardon; they want all boated landholdcrs,
who have more than a square mile OF
land to be restricted hereafter to that
amounts want electoral colleges abolished
Chinese cheap labor abolished. the par
doning power abolished, and pretty much
every thing abolished but the sacred right
to organize riots, and pretty much everybody
legslated to pieces but the wOrklngmen oil
San Francisco. 1t follows without saying that
these gentlemen believe the Divine law OF
labor to prescribe eight hours a day, and
think no workngman should prOfane his
brow with more than genteel perspira'lon.
II has been a curious feature, and not n
pleasant one, Of the progress OF the silver de-
bate in the Senate that both Senators from
New-York have been kept busy presenting pc
tiiions from large number of counties III
this State, praying for the reconciliation OF
silver and the repeal of the Resumption Act
The fact that no petitions, except some from
the bankers and business men OF tins city,
have been presented on the other side, is really
a sign of the practical unanimity of the
people of the State for hard money. The vast
majority is too conscious OF its strength to
worry about memorials to Congress, and it
has the satisfaction also OF knowing that the
two votes of Ncw-Yorll in the Senate are
true to the Nations honor But it is somewhat
annoying, nevertheless, that New-IoIk should
be misreprescntcd even by petition.
There is very little to praise and much to
condemn, according to the report of the state
Board of Assessors, in the system under their
charge. They say that the law for assessing
railroad property could not be much more de-
fective than it is. They estimate that bank
capital has diminished on account OF onerous
taxation, not less than $20,00O,O0O The in
equality of assessments on personal property Is
strikingly shown, and the Board recommend
the repeal of the tax on bond and mortgage.
They also urge that the value of land, and of
buildings upon it, should be separately as
sessed; and they see no just reason why
different method should be employed in yalu-
ing real estate in this city from that adopted
elsewhere throughout the State. The a'ten-
ton of our readers has frequently been called
to most of the points here touched upon.
There is no doubt that extensive reform is
needed in our systems of assessment and tax
alton.