New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-23
REVIEW OF THE SESSION.
wu.r THE IEGIsI.ATURE HAS DONE.

PASSED AND THOSE THAT REMAIN TO BE ACTED
UPON
,vr.,x rur nreu,AR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TgIBUSE.l
ALBANY. April 22.-Tbe session OF the Legislature
win soon be ended 1t may be closed abruptly ON
saturday next but at least 1t will not be suffered
10 continue longer than Thursday. May 4.
With the closing hours of the Legislatures life one
Fan begin 10 gain an idea OF what is likely to be its
total record. Few more bills of importance
will be introduced, and upon those yet to
be considered the decision of the Legislature
ia now evident in nearly every case
In reviewing the work done is first struck with
the changes made iu the State offices. A Board OF
Railroad Commissioners has been established
winch for several months has been laboring upon
railroad problems that have deeply interested the
people of the State The Board of Canal Appraisers
and the Board of Audit have been abolished and
their duty of deciding upon claims against the
State hes been imposed upon Court OF Claims, the
members of which will be appointed by the Gov
ernor the present week. The Office OF Canal
Auditor has been abolished and his duties
have been imposed upon the Controller The
toll collections on the canals being as useless as the
Canal Auditor since tae free-eanal amendments
were passed. will also be abolished shortly.
There has also been great change In the states
method of carving on work upon the new Capitol
abolished. In their place is one New Capitol Com
missioner. who doesn's believe in putting deeera-
Non and carving "where you have got to get
candle 10 see it, Under this new Commissioners it
is hoped work the great structure will be carried
forward more expeditiously and ut less expense to
the State.
Already the architects are hard at work upon
their plans for the completion of the building
plans which somehow have hitherto been neglected
new Superintendent of the Insurance Department
and three State assessors have been appointed, and
the present week Superintendent OF the Bank De-
partment will be appointed. A blow has been aimed
at the State Survey and the Adirondack Survey by
the Governor. who said frankly in his comment
upon the items of the Appropriation bill that these
surveys must be completed their pres
emit appropriations, as he would not
approve of any further appropriations for
them A Superintendent of Public Instruction has
been appointed and tho State schools are thus
under new leadership.
Some have been neglected to this late day
which ought long ago to have been considered and
passed Thus the reapportioninent of the Congress
ional districts of the State is not yet accomplished
II threatens this week to involve the legislature In
q long conflict between the two houses. The As
sembfy has passed fair spportIonment measure,
and Senate committee has presented grossly
partisan one In the effort the part of the part
san Democrats to pass the Sc ate bill much
valuable time will be wasted. The New-York
Aeueduct bill has also been neglected. 1t has not
yet even debated in either house of the Legs
lature Ii would seem that bill which Will au-
thorpe the expenditure of $1S,000.O00 belonging
to the taxpayers of New-York should have very
careful consideration. There is even danger that
no Aqueduet bill will be passed, owing to the indif-
ference of politicians to the since the tax
in. fhaN opafn iQoO
1t does not seem likely either that there will be
any remarkable amendment of the charter
of New-York City. The amendment of
most moment to the taxpayers of New York. namely,
that increasing the salaries of NewYork policemen
and freraen and involving the city in an expendi-
ture OF $4,000, is yet awaiting the Governors
approval. 1t is probable also that this week the
Legislature Will pass the bill for the removal Of the
old Hall of Records and the substitution for it of
new city building.
The Legislature has already passed a law chang
ing the name of the Marine Court OF New-York
TO "City Court; in another it has
authorized the payment OF election in
spectors; it has authorized the New-York
horticultural Society to buy land; it has forbidden
the manufacture of cigars in the tenement houses
of New York il has prohibited baby-farming IN
New York it has reappropriated mono for any
armory in Newly York; 1t has authorized the United
States 10 obtain land at Spuyten Duyvil for the
Harlem River improvement; it has given per to
the Police Department of New York it has author
lied the appointment of Commissioners to select
parks in the Twenty-third and Twenty fourth
wards. This Is an exceedingly meagre list of laws
affecting NewYork City, With the exception of the
bill regarding the salaries of policemen and
firemen none is of Importance although the bill
abolishing the Board of Emigration Commissioners
and anti zing he Mt If mr.
ton Commissioner may be considered a New-York |
measure.
Governor Cleveland will appoint the immigration |
Commissioner the present week The Captain of
the Port and the Harbor Masters may also be cassed
as New-York officers The commercial public will |
hear with regret that there is little Likelihood OF
there being any reform III the |
IIaTb0r Master system. The Harbor |
Masters have successfully opposed any re-
duciIon in their number, and have even induced |
the Assembly to pass a bill giving them salaries IN
addition to their present fees 1t is not believed |
that the Assembly bill has the approval of the Gov
eruor There is bill also in the Senate aboshing
the present Board Of Quarantine Commissioner |
but DO one seems to be pushing It, In the rnsh of
the last hours of the session it is likely 10 DO for
gotten and thus ex-United States Senator T. c. |
Plat. who Is "a Quarantine Commissioner, will re- |
tain bis Office till next year. although his term
pred in January.
The New-York aud Brooklyn Excise bill drafted |
by Governor Cleveland, alter passing the Assem-
bly, Is nov in the Senate 1t will without doubt |
be passed by that body aud become law. Mr.
Wilson, the secretary OF the New-York Chamber of
Commerce was here last week TO see about the bill |
for reducing the charges of the sandy Hook pilots
Ii Is doubtful if he returned to New-York with any
hope that the bill would pass. Senator Jacobs has
so deAterously shutfled the bill about between the
Committee on Commerce and Navigation and the
Senate delaying the passage Of the bill with every
shuttle. that probably the bill will not pass the Sem
ate. Theresecms also little hope among the friends
Of the bill reducing the charges Of grain elevators
that it will become law. 1t is in the Senate,
be Aeanfnhlr a LII he fal,an |