New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-08
PLAYING TO THE GALLERIES.
SENATOR SULLIVAN INTRODUCES 4 RESOLUTION
CENsURING COLONEL WARNINGS
ADMINISTRATIONS.

CENSURING COLONEL WARNINGS
ADMINISTRATIONS.
Albany. March (SpeciaD-The Senate Canal
Committee to-day reported favorably the resolution
OF Senator Higgins. Of clean, asking Congress to
pass a law providing that the United States sha
pay at least three-quarters Of the annual cost OF
maintaining the Erie Canal Senator Cantor OPP
posed the resolution the ground that the Erie
Canal must not be surrendered to the United States
Government Senator Higgins answered that he
had no idea OF surrendering the canal TO the Cen
oral Government. His sole thought was That the
United States ought to pay two-thrdS OF the annual
expense of maintaining the canal. since two-hrds
OF it's commerce OF an interstate character. In
his opinion the people would reject the proposition
to bc submitted t. them this fall TO bond the state
TO the extent Of s50D,W0 for canal Improvements
II this resolution was not passed. II the people saw
that part Of the cost Of canal maintenance was
to be paid by the General Government they wou'o
fee! favorably toward the proposed approprla-
ton.
Finally, by general agreement, the resolution was
lad the table for debate tomorrow
The TammGny Hall Senators. of course, all ne
test Commissioner Waring. of the Street 'ieah'ns
Department of New-York. No one was surprised
therefore, when Senator Sullivan offered the lo'-
lowing resolution:
Whereas. during tho first ten weeks Of the current
year an Unprecedented sum OF money mas been ap,
propriated tor CLEANING the stree's OF 'ng e'y nor
ton has already been expended; and, -,
hcfeas. Nearly all the tenement POI non % ~
city be.Cw Fourteenth-st., and large part Oh inc
Els; side nave. in thc opinion OF the Mayor o. M
ably neglected by the Commissioner OF the Street
Cleaning DEPARTMENT. and.
whereas, such neg ectrn parts of the CITY remain
in dep orabe state OF Nth. threatening the heath
Of the inhabitants therein; and.
W ntrehs. nearly the wnJ.c sum thus far eXpenueh
during this year by such Commissioner in such re-
inovai has been expended upon those parts OF the
city whore the influential, and the rich haT" tnelr
residences or th'r PAGES Of business, as u 10 court
the p.aUlits Of those class and.
Whereas. II Is conceded that the sum thus eN-
pended during the present year Ia far IN excess or
any sum expended FOR 81 n purposes during IKE
period In any previous year ana
Whereas such tJtn:Iis -lDner in hts present as
+ nsy charge Of lntcntiova. apathy while his own
apathy ana msmaragcmeat have been 50 marked
az 10 have provoked tn renuke of the Mayor, l.
seeking to upon innocent Suhittnrus the respon-
elb;y for nis own deficiencies and failures; there
fore.
Resolved. That the Commissioner OF the Street
Cleaning Department: 81 the city OF Ncw-lork be
and he Is hereby respectfully requested within ten
daVs from the passage Of this resolution 10 report
tho senate the total Mt appropriated during
tho Snow from the streets and the amount thereof
already expended by him. with a detailed state
meni of expenditures. the names 81 the persons 10
WHOM and the various services for which the funds
were oxperdci together with comparative state
mon. OK tho amount expended by his predecessor
for the same purpose during a Ike period in m"
years lS93 and iH9i
senator O'Counor sail this seemed tn ho cal
r,r an .Np'1natlpu from the street Commissioner.
/, nd 80 moved thet - be tabled. This motion was
aiop.cd under an Undertaking that the resolution
might be ca..cl up again next week.