New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-16

gress to Cypress and intimidate the majority
This would be robust issue upon which to
appeal to the country, and Tammany Hail II
to be congratulated upon the hnppy results OF
its enterprise.
Among the bills ordered to third reading
in the State Senate Yesterday were those pac-
ing the Register and County Clerk of Newly ork
upon salaries. Senator Pomeroys Removal
bill which secures to an accused head OF depart
ment a specific statement OF the erOuhos
upon which it is proposed to diSpiace hln'
and Mr.. Varnums bill establishing Mcr-
chants Exchange in this city. Among the Dill'
passed by the Senate was that designed 10
make tramps useful by putting them at nara
labor for various terms, whenever and wher-
over caught. Under one or two clauses OF the
bill some Jealous Justice of the Peace might
make things unpleasant for young gentlemen
engaged in collegiate pedestrian tours.
The few miles of elevated road in this city
make more work just now for the Ran
road Committees of the Legislature than all
the thousands of miles of surface tracks III the
rest of the State. Yesterday the Senate Com
mittee reported the bill to protect Nassau-st.
and lower Broadway, and might have secured
its immediate passage if Senator Jacobs had
not objected. The same committee reported
favorably upon a bill authorizing the Me-
tropolitan Transit Company-formed under
one of the old rapid transit charters,
but until lately in semi-comatose
state-to file map in the County
Clerks Office, showing the route 1t mas
selected for an elevated road; the bill con-
tans a saving section, however, which VIII
prevent any revival by its terms OF rights
which may have lapsed by failure OF the com
pany to take action heretofore. MI GalVlhs
bill to reduce fares on the existing roads was
postponed by the Committee, for some reason
not stated, until Tuesday next. AS the Senate
has voted in the meantime to concur with the
Assembly in fixing the date of adjournment
on Thursday of next week, and has also voted
to take its regular weekly vacation, this post
| ponement may almost be said to mean the
defeat of the cheap fares bill, unless the ses-
! sion is extended.
The unexpected failure of the recent convo-
! cation Of General Freight Agents at Chicago
! to come to any decision seems to have been due
| L
its refusal to abide by or to enter into any
agreement on East-bound freight rates. For
the present rates are only 10 cents on grain and
| 90 cents on fourth-class freight from Chi
cago to New York, and there is no certainty
| that these rates can be maintained. Mr..
Roberts, the First Vice-President of the
| Pennsylvania Road, who is in charge
in Colonel Scotts absence, is noted for
his caution and economy, and it is not cred
lille that he has separated from the pool
without feeling certain that his road can DO
better by open competition than under the
pooling arrangement. 1t is not asserted that
| the road has not been fairly treated, for
| the records of last month, as com
pared with the same month in 1873, show
that the Pennsylvania Road has had the adj
vantage over all the roads, excepting the
Erie. 1t is probable that in view Of the ap-
prOach of the navigation season, and also of
| the negotiation of the Chicago lines for
through water shipment as their only means
| of competing with the low rates offered by the
| Wabash to Toledo. the Pennsylvania Road
| has chosen to secure a considerable business
| during the Summer at very low rates, rather
! than permit the warfare between the Wabash
and the Chicago Roads to divert its East
| bound freight almost wholly.
The positive assurances which come from
Washington that the Warner Silver bill will
be vetoed by the President, should Congress
pass it, and the doubts expressed whether it
will ever reach the President. combine to de-
prive yesterdays debate in the House of that
interest which would attach to it if there was
actual danger of the enactment of the bill.
The discussion is important, however as indi-
eating the present temper Of the House in
dealing with the subject. The votes taken,
while they do not show that the lower branch
of Congress has learned much since the Presi-
dents veto Of the bill creating the "buz-
"zaTd" dollar was reversed do not neces-
sarily foreshadow the passage of the
| bill in its present shape and there seemed
| to be a tendency even among Silver men
| to oppose legislation of this nature at a time
! when the whole question is In a transition
stage. One Republican member from Iowa,
| who.avowed himself to be Silver man, OPP
| posed the bill on the ground that it would
! disturb the cOuntTy-a suggestion of a kind
which we have not been accustomed to re-
! ceive from Silver men. But with the vote of
the House to make both the "buzzard" silver
dollar and the gold dollar units of coinage, in
| defiance of the venerable rule that things
which are not equal cannot be equal to the
same thing, and with Mr.. Springers declara-
ton that if the Nations creditors care not
" satisfied with the payment of the debt in
dollars of 412l2 grains, they can make the
"most of it," it is evident that financial wis
dom will not expire with the present House
of Representatives. The chief feature of the
day was Mr.. l.. p. MOrtons model speech,
! brief and compact, exposing the real effect of
| the bill as in favor of the bonanza kings and