New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-21
their own expense. That would be the best
way of taking the responsibility.

Whether or not the proposed elevated rail-
way from the Vanderbilt Depot to the City
Hall is, as suggested, merely an entering
wedge for an extension through Park-row ana
Broadway TO the Bowling Green or Battery,
it is possible just now only to conjecture.
Certainly it is not TO be expected that the
terminus at the City Hail. as now provided for
will satisfy the demands of the New \ ork
Central people But aside from future con-
siderations and schemes, the Common Councli
ought to deliberate long while before giving
away the valuable franchise of route through
the heart of the city, under such terms that
only Mr. Vanderbilt can accept the glft. Inc
New-York Central Railroad had an opportunity
to build an elevated road years ago. 1t hesi-
tated and waited until others had taken the
risk and supplied the want. The want Is now
fully supplied The other roads have 1t APP
pears, ruined the local traffic of the Wander
bilt line. That is bad for Mr.. Vanderbilt, but
1t furnishes no good reason why immensely valu-
able property Of citizens should be injured II
not destroyed to restore his lost trade, partic-
ularly when the public is not to be benefited
1t is time to halt awhile before authorizing
any more elevated railways-especlally II there
is any danger that they may lead to the
occupation of Broadway. 1t is true that
TIE Governor has just signed the bill to pro-
tect Nassau-st and Broadway, but the Central
Road has the reputation of knowing how to
persuade Legislatures to change their minds.
Governor Robinson has laid abOut him with
a Jacksonian hand. He has passed the thirty
DAYS elapsed since the Legislature adjourned
i'm a grim and murderous mood. No less than
124 bills fail for want of approval, and
one or two of these are measures from
which some good was expected. The chief
of them is the bill creating the commission to
revise the tax laws, which the Governor We
toes in fOrcible message. lie takes the
ground that the Legislature must do its own
work that similar delegations OF duty to COM
missions have usually failed, and that tins
would probably fail also; that the Legislature
has never so much as considered an elaborate
report upon this subject, made by COM
mittee OF experts some years ago, and that the
State has no more money to waste III that
way. There would be greater regret at the
Governors action if the commission named III
the bill had been throughout of such char
acter as to cause greater hopes to he enter
tanned of its work. But when the small poll
ticians of both parties in the Legislature COM
bine to thrust their " friends b." into the
commission as originally named, most of It's
capacity for usefulness was destroyed. The
Governor has the truth on his side, too, when
he rebukes the Legislature tor its devotion to
local and petty legislation and Its neglect Of
great interests like this and those who wish
u 4. ,...l.f Hovra han n
Tax Law Commission cannot say HIM nay
Among the bills which the Governor signs is
that reducing the legal rate of interest to
per cent, which he approves IN spite of his
dissatisfaction with its phraseology. The
criminal and penal codes fail, as was ex-
pected, and also the tramp bill.