New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-29

none of the business of the Aldermen as Alder
men what any American Minister does, here or
abroad and all they can say has no erect ex-
cent anon the voters for whose eyes and ears
their claptrap is intended. But they will not
devote themselves exclusively to foreign
Affairs. In obedience to the masters who put
them in office, they do all they can to INTERFERE
with the welfare of this city. In pursuance oi Il
general policy they voted yesterday 10 lay oh
the table resolutions declaring that tlils cry
ought to govern itself and no longer oe ~
bondage to the politicians at Albany. IL there Is
any corrupt Job to be helped on, or any lauu
able project TO be hindered. these men may DC
counted on, every time, to do It, IL uoes ho'
have the least good effect to point out these
truths; but then it is a relief to give vent to
the indignation which their conduct causes
The struggle for a title to portions OF the
water front of Jersey City and Hoboken Is inc
most exciting topic which has come before inc
New-Jersey Legislature during this session.
and indeed for many years The bill uhoer
whose provisions certain reclaimed lands lying
below natural high-water mark are freed from
any easement connected with the opening OF
streets has already passed the senate
over the Governors vetO and is now
before the Assembly. Citizens of the interested
municipalities haze held large indignation
meetings, and no. appear in great force az
Trenton to argue their claims. On the other
hand, the railroads which have always eXer-
cised a paramount influence in New-Jersey
politics and law-making are straininS every
nerve to hold the ground they have occu-
pied, and to which they assert they have
acquired rights by grant or purchase. Inc
central points at issue have been befogged
BY much extraneous discussion, but they are
sufficiently serious to demand the most eau
tious investigation. In another column Che
arguments of leading advocates on ooth sues
are set forth. 1t is to be hoped that there IL
DO foundation for the rumors that other lnnu-
ences than appeals to reason will be brought
to bear on shifty Legislators.
The Democrats of the Assembly, under the
lead of Mr.. NJ. c. Murphy. chairman of the
Committee on Cities, yesterday gave another
exhibition of their talent for laundering.
The Railroad Commission bill furnished
them the opportunity. The Democratic
State Convention which met in Albany IN
October last adopted platform, one OF whose
planks reads as follows "The public welfare
demands that the various questions relating
"to chartered monopolies and the methods of
transportation should be met and decided, and
eve are in favor of the adoption of measures to
"restrict the growing power Of such monopohes'
"They should be subjected to the supervision
"of commissioners established by public author
city" That was the way the Democracy talked
in their last State Convention with an election
just ahead. But yesterday when Mr. Bakers
bill providing FOR the appointment of
Board of Railroad Commissioners was beng
considered in Committee of the Whole
of the Assembly what does Mr.. Murphy do
but attempt to postpone action upon it on the
preposterous ground that he wished time to
submit it to a Democratic caucus! Mr.. Muir
ply and the four other Legislators who voted
with him can scarcely fail to realize that they
are strong candidates for popular contempt and
derisiOn.