New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-16

spite Of q lawyers protest. These rates are sometimes
exceeded. For recording the mOrtgage Of me Metro
charge 81, the sum Of $25 was P4id sun farther 20
increase Register Loew's immediate peEqMstSs sno
Of fOlOs Is each instance marked at muen less man
the number charged 10 the LAWYERS u ls esunatfu
will net the present Register $4,000 year more than
Register Jones received under t6e equitable % 6e
bureau the Registers office and by no means repre-
sent the gross amount Of the daily Illegal exaetons
The fees from registration will net Mr. LOew $4,000
year, and half of the sums paid 10 tne Seacse5S
$4,000 His payroll salaried employees is $4,000
lust One-half OF that paid by Register Jones. ~
isters has apparently been revived under the
present administration IL was discovered ana
vras cnrrecfed by him. and the reform system then
adopted was improved under Register Jones' LUIS
papers of the record Of transfers OF real estate ana OF
mortgages. 1t frequently happens that htge Teai
owners are compelled TO sell portions OF their Iots ha
low rate TO raise money pay taxes. Naturally tney
do not like have the price obtained low one, ao
and the injury in the subsequent sale Of adjoining prop
cTy. Frequently business men who are forced 70 asn
loans OF banks are compelled TO transfer or mortgage
Their properly, and it is naturally injurious to Their
credit with the banks to have the facts puDsneu
times dishonest men transfer their properly 70 uanc
and desire to have no announcement OF tne aot
they desire that no publicity DC gwen Sy e Wiling 10 nav
70 have the fact kept from the general puOnc Lso
corporations such steamship and railway cOnpane
also forced ut times 10 mortgage their pfopeJ a
naturally do not wish wall street ana inc nn1N0iA
The system formerly existing, and which was broken
up under Registers Sige and Jones, was Tor IA Vet
suppression of the fact These spprcssions became so
notorious at time that TIE TRIBUNE ana ne hO ~
Register, and they make their own abstracts re-
instance of che suppression OF mortgage Oh SOI
600 mile of the Metropolitan Elevated Railway lhul-
atemDt TO revive this system OF MAKING nOnoy
for somebody, The METROPOLITAN Elevated Eaiw en.
Company at the time this mortgage was made, was en-
deavoIing TO raise money in Europe ana a t5o
% gets its bonds placed on the list % o. vltaI
Importance to the company chat no needless puDIcly
emo ia pc o e Scb the Ssayy amount This mort
gage was suppressed for several DAYS, Ons mani and
a gentleman not known reporter was directed
TO get copy Of it from the Registers once. Ihls ne ne
id and the fact published much 10 the surprise OF
Wall Street 1t is impossible, course, 10 say that
any such suppression made with the knoWleuge %
tcnar attention to his Office. ntrdsting its manage
men largely TO bis brother the Registers legal business
occupying most OF his Time
THE MAN AT THE WHEEL.
The most active person in bringing the
charges against the Register John Y Savage who was
Deputy Register under General sge and Register Jones
thoroughly familiar OF course, with the operations
Of the Office and it may be added ALSO with the opera
tons OF the shers and County Clerks Offices as he has
been I'm politics for many years. It was John Y
sayape who almosu alone and unaded at the start,
drove Fernando Wood from Tammany Hall TWENTY-FIVE
years ago His logged pefsistency III TINS matter
Rron Success ybee an the politicians had predicted
failure, they now doing In his present hght.
Fernando Wood himself remarked OF Savage at
the time that he was a man who knew how
to null down, but did not know how 10 build
up Mr.. Savage OF the delegates to the
Charleston Convention Of 1860, and cast the deciding
vote i'm the NewYOrk delegation which practically de-
feated Stephen A. Douglass nomination by the cOnyen-
ton The NeW-YOTk delegation in caucus was tie
upon a resolution its vote for Douglas Mr..
Savage came the after the vote was taken,
but before IL was announced, and demanded that his
name be called He thereupOn gave his vote against
casting the vote Of the delegation for Douglas and thus
indirectly defeated Douglass nOmlnatloh MT Sayhge
has been nearly year formulating the charges against
the present officials has been Obstrueted in present
ing them by persons who advised delay and nacon for
the time,