The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-23

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States Senate by men whose place Of residence I,
the capital city. These two States are New Hamr.
shirc and Indiana. Both Senators from New lIann.
shire reside in Concord; both Senators from Indian,
reside in Indianapolis.
Tho Dock Department, by formal resolution. In,
| changed tho onical designation Of Thomas p. T.
Nash from "copyist from manuscript" to CLERK"
There are a number of copyists from manuscript in
tho Dock Department.
New York Ia not tho only city in which thore I,
complaint of increasing. IL not wasteful, public o..
pcnditures. The Chicago Commissioner Of publje
works-Chicago is now a wido.open town, and there
will be an election in It for MRyort this yeNr-to whom
was allotted 81. 843, 900 for the expenses OF his ds.
partmentin 1898. has asked for 81. s2p.oS5 in 1890.
or nearly three times as much as was paid last year
A considerable part OF tho increase IL intended for
the construction OF bridges and viaductS and for the
engineering supervision made necessarr for them.
But It has been found that an increase so large will
| entail additional taxation to an extent not desired hy
the citizens of Chicago.
Ono reform in the expenditure Of public money,
in New York has been brought about through the
vigilance and activity Of II. 8. Eearney, Commits.
sioner Of Put lie Buildings, Lighting and Supplies.
who has informed the New Jersey and other tclN
phone companies that long distance messages 10
New York departments from rural localities will not
he paid for hereafter. but must be prepaid in al.
vance. IL appears that some jocose Jersoymen
abused the immunity accorded them by residence In
that state by ringing up sheriff Thomas J. Dunn and
Others, to ask them how they were feeling.
The restriction of suffrage in those Southern
States which have a large colored population
is being continued along the line adopted in
South Carolina. Missi ssippi and Louisiana, whereby
an educational test OF suffrage is established
in such a way as to comply with the evi.
dent purpose. II not the exact letter, Of the
Federal Constitution, designed to secure equal sui.
frage for all citizens regardless of race or color dis.
tinctions. As might be expected. following the
outbreak Of race difficulties in and about the city OF
Wilmington last year, the State which has made tho
frat advance in the proposed change of voting laws
is North Carolina. in the Legislature of which
there il pending n resolution which provides
for a constitutional amendment to be voted
on at a general election in May, 1000. 1t is based on
the Louisiana Constitution. In addition to the edl.
cational and property qualifications and the clause
admitting persons. their sons and grandsons who
could have voted In any State prior to 1897. it also
admits to registration all persons who served in the
United States Army prior to Jan. l, 1897, as we'll Ns
their sons and grandsons. North Carolina has n very
small proportion of foreign.born population and its
naive.born inhabitants, who numbered l 900 700 at
the last census, were thus divided: White, 1850.
900; colored. 900, 900.
The Municipal Assembly has adopted an ordinance
which provides that after the expiration OF the
present contracts all printing done for the munich.
pality of tho Greater New York shall bear the label
of the Allied Printing Trades Council OF New York
city. The number Of this resolution is 40, and il
has received the attention of the Aldermen to the eN.
clusion Of some other matters which have been
pending for 4 considerable time. New York's print.
ing bill in a year is several hundred thousand dollars.
Cnnsi1erable JissatisfactiDn Ia eXpressed annnn
Tammany voters in various parts Of town over the
reduction in the laboring force of various depart.
ments made since Jan. 1 to provide for the increases
in the salaries of the higher paid functionaries. In
the Office OF the Commissioner of HIGHWAYS par
ticularly there has been n sweeping reduction in
the number of minor employees, and there have
boen large reductions in the Dock Board, too. but
without any gain to the city's taxpayers, for what
has been saved in the payment of laborers and
artisans has in nearly every case gone to make up
for the added expense of heads of bureaus and secrs.
tarles and confidential messengers.
Senator Hoar has been making a suggestion to
Congress in the line Of literary expansion. He de.
clares that the circulation of tbs Congregational Record
might be largely expanded by the simple method ~
sending a copy to every library in the country which
has any prospect or promise OF permanent preservs'
ton. He says that in the old Congressional district
he represented formerly. there are more than fifty
lbll llDl W Nv Who Wv tIO l'lAy
copies which he gets for distribution would ni
supply the demand in public libraries alone of one.
thirteenth of the population OF Massachusetts. Hs
favors an enlargement of the number of copies Of
the Record. to be placed at the disposal of Senators
and Representatives and in addition would provide
that any library of from 5000 to 1000 volumes shall
receive a copy.
Abill has been introduced into tho Assembly amends
ing the New York city charter. by providing that
there shall be two Aldermen from the Thirty fourth
district. At the present time an anomalous political
condition exists as to the constituency OF this Alder
manic district. u per ion Of which is on the south
side and another portion OF which is IN the north
side Of the Harlem River. Its Alderman repr's"0t'
voters in two bor0ughs. some in Manhattan ant
some III the Bronx, and one of the pcculiarile'os
his position il that he has to perform twice ia
amount Of work Of any other Alderman, for ca'h
week he has to sit with the Board of Improvement -
the Bronx borough and also with that OF thc-horonrI
OF Manhattan. Under the proposed amendment
there will he two Aldermen from this dist"ict. 40
for the Bronx section and one for the Manha''in
borough section. A probable obstacle to the CON.
sideration of this charter amendment, however " !
he the general knowledge OF the fat that 0
Board of Aldermen seldom meets. and tho II 'awl. =
Improvement OF tho b~oroughs. when they do meet,
sedulously refrain from transactinG ans public huSt'
ness.
a custom appears 10 lave grown up III som" p' Nv
buildings of minor States among ontcmls
who. in order To save the amount Of their hotellil'',
are accustomed to occupy their Offices as domi,ilc'.
There has been serious complaint Of this. aud, asa
means of putting al end to the practice, the ianiior'
OF public buildings in several Of the States have been
to have all offices vacated at $ o'clock IN tho
evening.
The Governor of Arkansas is named Jones. Inc
Iieatcnant-Governor of Mississippi Is named jones'
The LicuteEAnt-Governo Of Ohio il named Jones.
The Attoiney-General Of Nevada Is named Jones
Since Senator MOrrIll's death there has been 10
I" father of the Senate" two members having served
the same period; one of them is John T.
Agitation has been going on for a number ~ wears
in New York for the abolition Of Coroners as nm
necessary and expensive officials whose duties m5gai
more readily be performed by the Board Of Health,
But 1t has recently been discovered that the NJ"
OF Nassau is without a Coroner, the thrce or
Onors elected in Queens being residents Of hat
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