The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-22

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Boston appropriated last year Sl.laI.24S for th(
payment OF the annual interest upon Its municipal
debt
The Statutory Revision Commission. which began
work In 1882 will introduce at the next session Of
the Albany Legislature forty-e'ght bills amending
existing codined statutes The Commission hai
found that tho Legislature. since the passage Of
these codncauon laws. has. al various times, ena
acted Independent measures, In reality amendment4
but which exist separate statutsS and tend 70 roe
urrect the complex condition of State laws
The July report OF the Aqueduct Commission,
showingse xpenditures OF s147so5 instead Of being
signed by the secretary OF that Board. as provided
in Section 80, Chapter 400 OF the Laws OF 1881 IL
signed Jefferson Groub, Acting Secretary" ths
actual secretary, IL w. Walker, having been On .
trip Of pa during the period GOV.
cred by the report, visiting various inland New Eng
land cities aud dlsposlng OF large bundles OF political
literature in the form OF address by former Judge
Van Wyck on the subject Of trusts and tho injuries
to The public service bylab'enseelsm from ONCE
The Republicans OF the Twenty-Third Assembly
district who have been seriously embarrassed fot
many years by Of recurring fractional differ
onccs, have recently found an ecent harmonizer In
Assistant Postmaster e. NJ Morgan. whose efforts 70
promote harmony in the ranks OF the Washington
Heights Republicans have been crowned with suo1
Mr. Morgan was for q number OF years the
secretary OF the Republican organization In tho
Ninth. now the Seventh, Assembly district. and the
Republican committee In that disrlct has suffered
much from his absence since he moved uptown.
A correspondent writes 10 THE SUN TO inquire ifit
is true that David B. Henderson. the prospective
Speaker OF the next House OF Representatives, isa
Scotchman. and II Il is not unusual thing for 4
Scotchman TO take very active part In political
affairs in the United States He is and II is not.
Mr. Henderson born in Old Deer In 1910. 1owa's
present representative In President McKiney'a
Cabinet, James Wilson. Secretary Of Agriculture,
was born In Ayrshire. Scotland. In 1888 Congress-
man Meeison OF ohio and Spaulding OF Michigan
were born in Scotland. and sootchmen generally
have taken honorable part in American public
Affairs II was OF Scotch United States Senator,
however, that Senator Hoar. abiding 70 his taka+
uveness. said, HE rests his mind while he speaks"
Announcement is made In the Thirty-nfth Assem-
bly, district that contest has lust been begun by Cor
oner Lynch against Leader Mccartney An effort was
made to bring out Louis F. Hanen against the Street
Cleaning Commissioner, but Nj Haren counselled de-
lay on the ground that more effective light against
the pre- sent Tammany Hall leadership could be made
later. Mr. Hancn now occupies by election thesofnce
OF President Of the Borough Of the Bronx the COM
pensaton OF which is So 900 year, and the Presl
dent has In addition secretary at $500. stenog
raphcr at 400 and two Investigators OF complaints
at31 200 each. The chief complaints in the Bronx
relate to the practical suspension Of all public I'M
provements there. and some OF the most strenuous
and urgent OF these complaints from the Presl-
dent OF the Borough himself.
The difnculty in securing desirable candidates for
judicial once has frequently been pointed out by
formers as a fruitful cause Of decentralization In
politics" 1t Is said even that in some parts OF tho
country lawyers OF extensive and lucrative practice
found unwilling to sacrifice themselves to tho
extent OF accepting public once. No such difnculty
Is found In New York There sixteen judicial va
cances to be ned this and fifteen OF the present
|. lncumbents have already announced themselves as
candidates for reelection.
The term OF Luclan Baker-he Is a native Of
Ohio-in the United States Senate as senior Repre-
sentative OF Kansas expires on March 4, 1901 at tho
beginning OF the term OF the next President Tho
present Kansas Legislature has. Joint ballot, 100
Republicans and 60 Fudonsts, and It appears TO 10
taken for granted that Senator Baker, who Is Q
Republican. will have Republican successor. The
corn crop OF Kansas this year is estimated at AGO.
900. 900 bushels
There will be an election for Governor in Illinois
next year, and the question Of renomnating or OF
Withholding nomination from John r. Tanner. tho
present Republican Executive who defeated and suo-
ceeded Atgeld In 1895, Is under ton. Cow
Tanner halls from the southern part OF Illinois and
he has. generally the promise OF support OF the rural
delegates Ills nomination is antagonized by tho
Chicago Republicans and by those resident in tho
generally that the Governors course In the Pana
labo- troubles would operate the injury OF the Re-
publican State ticket next year In the State contest
OF three years ago Tanner carried Illinois by $4,000
votes, to which total the city OF Chicago contributed
only 20 900. II is the custom OF the Illinois Repubt.
cans 10 renominate their Governors for second term.
the last previous Republican Governor, Joseph w.
Fifer. elected In 1885 having been renomlnAted In
1892.
he YER m
dissatisfaction over the makeup OF the Democratic
State ticket nominated at the recent Baltimore
ventlon. allie ging that every candidate upon II is
gold Democrat. that the silver have represent
taon. and that OF the candidates put In ina
ton stumped the State for the Palmer and Buckner
ticket In 1890 There has not been trial OF strength
In Maryland between the gold Democrats and tho
silver Democrats since the State convention OF
June, 1895, when the former poled 81 and tho
latter so votes. Talbot. ST Mays. Charles and
Prince Georges counties being the four carried SOL
idly by the sllverites. The gold men carried Balu-
more Frederick and Aiegany counties. and out.
numbered the slvertes in most OF the other Counties
but not 10 extent great to remove the danger
to the Democratic ticket this OF the detection OF
the silvertes should they determine 10 put in nomi-
nation a separate ticket. as has been sug gested.
The New York Board Of Education Is occupyinga
partly unfni shed building al Park avenue and Fifty.
ninth street II will be completed before the school
term opens, howeverJ
The radical and embittered division between the
two factions OF Socialists In town bodies no good
politically to either The Socialist vote In New York
county has not varied much recently from 10, 900 a
year. Once in while IL has exceeded that total
little; again II has fallen short OF Il In the last
Presidential election the Socialist lo.Os2:
In the State election OF 1897 It was &c. 6e4 last
year, the Govemorship. 1t was Io.l56. Toa
great extent the local Socialist party has lost It's in
uyit Ia Nha aNv of hI.th
cestry and Is made UP chiefly OF recruits from
Hungary, Russia, England and Italy. In the Six
tenth Assembly. which has a larger Hungarian
Hebrew population than any other In town. the So.
ciaiSts polei in November 22oo votes for their
ddate for Assembly, David DeLeon. 1t was tho only
district in the Slate in which the Socialists poled so
many, and It Is the only district In this State in
which the Socialists best the Republicans the polls