New-York tribune., 1882-02-22


! TO partisan advantage.
The opponents of vaccination can nnu loou
for reflection, and those who have suffered
Temporary inconvenience from the operation
| can find comfort, in the statistics when tne
| physicians of Riverside Hospital have collected
for the month of January. There were l6o
cases of smallpox there, and As deaths oc-
Cured. OF those who died, only one had been
vaccnated "A had not been, and concerning
| three no history could be obtained Ot tnose
| who recovered, s5 were known to have been
| vaccinated.
Senator Lapham has brought to the atten-
ton of the Senate the necessity of imposing
| fax unon immigration in the form OF head
money to he paid 10y the steamship companies
running to this port Whether immigration is
| a blessing or the opposite, it is National al
| fair, and there is no reason why this State
| or this city should bear all the expense of re-
ceiving and caring temporarily for foreigners
| who come here to make home. 1t is the
other States which reap the most good, while
the lame, halt blind and criminal remain in this
| city as a permanent burden and nuisance
| The Legislature of New-YOrk is held III check
| by the courts on the ground OF the unc0nstl-
tutionality of the bill that was passed last
| winter The matter has become serious, and
| is deserving of the prompt and careful cOnsid-
Grafton of Congress in prospect of the 100000
| immigrants who are expected this year
| The fire in the Kings County Insane Asylum
at Flatbnsh yesterday, by which one poor Old
| man lost his life, is another warning that such
| institutions necessarily removed as they are
from the cities, must have Independent means
| of defending themselves from the flames. In
| this case the engines from Brooklyn, the
| nearest being mile away, arrived with COM
| mendabe promptitude and saved the building
| from destruction. But the supply of water
| seems to have been inadequate owing to the
small pipes 1t is sufficient comment on the
NEGLECT of the Board of Supervisors to call at
tention to the fact that the engineer OF the asy-
| linn for five years has been urging that pipes
| should he laid on each floor, and that proper
supply of fire hose should be provided Yet
| these officials have not attended to the matter
If this suggestion had been carried out the
flames. it is believed, could have been confined
| TO the furniture closet in which they broke out
| Iieuten9nt- Governor HOskins yesterday an
| nounced the standing committees OF tne
Senate. The duty is always delicate and diff
| emit. since il is clearly impossible to give each
one of the members the recognition which
he claims, to say nothing about that to which
| he is entitled But the task was rendered un-
| usually embarrassing this year. since Mr. Hos
| kins was called upon to award the chairman
ships to Senators of the political party to which
he himself is not allied, and which Just now Is
torn by angry dssension. Under the circnm-
| stances he has done the best he could not un-
| duly favoring either of the Democratic factions
and placing the strongest Republicans on the
| strongest committees. This act of Mr.. Hos
! kins marks the end of the deadlock. If those
who are responsible for II desire to bring forth
fruits meet for repentance they will refrain
| from wasting any more time, and after
promptly passing the necessary appropriation
bills. and one or two other important measures,
will adjourn sine die. Nothing in life can so
greatly become this Legislature as the leaving
of it. Certainly nothing it can do will be more
| gratifying to the general public.