New-York tribune., 1879-03-04
ALBANY.

EVENING SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.
BILL REPrALING TIE STATE RESUMPTION LAW
ORDERED To THIRD READING IN The ASSEM-
BIY-REPoRr or IHE SUPERINTENDENT on
PUBLIC wORKs-sTATIsTICs OF PAUPERIsM
tBr TELEGRAPH TO THE rnIBUsEl
ALBANY, March 3.-The Legislature held %
short and duh session tonight. Only OF
great public interest considered namely, the state
Resumption Law OF 1875. A bill to repeal thi,
law was introduced early the present Winter in
the Senate by Senator Sessions, an advocate OF
the silver dollar and without much debate 10
was passed last week by the Senate. II was
argued that the provisions Of the law compelling
the payment OF taxes in gold after January
l, of the present year, would cause much use
less trouble to taxpayers, II maintained. II was
also said that another section. which declares all
future contrects unless otherwise agreed, payable In
gold cannot enforced. being contrary 10 the laws or
the United states making gold aud silver coin legal.
tender These arguments prevailed with the Commit
tee on Ways and Means OF the Assembly, and
they accordingly reported tho bill favorGbly.
When the bill came up for consideration IN
the Assembly tonight, Mr.. Sloan said he had
never the practical utility Of the law, and the re-
sumption Of specie payments had made II utterly use
less Speaker Alyord "a that the law passed IL
strengthen tho pubic sentiment OF the state IA favor Oi
specie payni cnt.. No one had ever supposed that
the state OF New-l0rk could regulate what money
should be used within It's borders. Tho United States
alone had authority TO say Nnat snnuld De q leBaI"
tender. Accordingly the section OF the law In Tcard
TO contracts was without force. without any
further debate the repeal blll was then or
dered to third reading. Doubtless Ia few
DAYS it will be passed without further remark Tho
Legislature OF 1873 passed n similar repeal bill in It's
last days; but Robinson withheld his sigma
ture, although stating his reasons for this policy.
The first annual report of B :. ". Clarke. the eaper-
intendent OF Public Works, on tho condi,on Of tho
canals was received by the Assembly. He states
that the cost Of putting the canals IN repair
and maintaining navigation on them from February
/, 1873 10 the close OF the fiscal gear, under
the new administration was only little more
than onc-half of what 1t was for any similar
period since 10 Thc receipts from tolls largely ex-
cecdcd those ls77 The tonnage for tn" same period
was also much 9rgcr. Mr.. Clarke recommends repairs
to the canals. ana then ends his report as follows:
What e lse can be done, To Buffalo world say provide
low, fixed rat" OF hsrbor and nmis,on clais,s on
oil incoming ana outgoing iTelEms. To NeW-1"!k 'lS,
increase Your terminal facilileS to capacity "hrleby
the cdrSoe, Of canal boats can he uDl"'uea
quickly and chtapy III your haibOI, ana
Ocean-oing ves>cs can receive thelr grain caigoe5
with greater convenience and dispatch me Genius
thar conceived the Etic Canal 10 pOhtcrty Ilch
greatness ana wealth supremacy and power. VINO row
aud administer the trust should preserve 1t
surely, and improve II II possible.
The Secretary OF state cent To The Senate cOpmui-
cation giving the statistics Of pauperism In the state
for the fiscal year ending November 30 1879.
the year was lGG,si9 the expense OF
The Uf the officials distributing Snch relief were
SS-J 33I 50, mai ing total OF 90 Jf ,SOi NG. On the
0f December there l7lGt persona ia the poor
houses Of the state, Of which sO2s were women aud