The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-10

using them. the Bureau OF Elections furnishing at
cost price the paper and the printing being done by
the committees nominating tickets.
When one door shuts another opens. Tho an
nouncement is made that member OF the Tammany
Hall organization in the Eleventh Assembly dis
trict who has for a considerable time been the
waiting list there discouraged by the present
outo,k in consequence Of the White civil service.
has abandoned politics to become mandolin solost
in minstrel company.
The Board of Education has been authorized by a
resolution of the Municipal Assembly, which the
Mayor approved in the last week of August, to ex-
pend $1,000 for the purpose Of giving outings to
children attending the summer schools aud play
grounds In the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx,
and 81 900 for like purpose in the borough Of
BROOKLYN. There Is nothing in the resolution
adopted to indicate why the consideration Of this
matter not taken Up until Aug. Is. six weeks
after the closing of the school term. The expenses
OF the Board OF Education are now less than those
of New York's Police Department
Little popular interest has thus far been shown in
the four proposed Constitutional amendments to be
ratified or rejecte by New York voters this year
One of the Constitutional am 'ndments relates to
Boards Of Supervisors and is intended to permit tho
Municipal Assembly In New York to act as a Board
Of Supervisors to canvass the votes without going
through the formaty OF appointing different boards
from the Municipal AsseHl bys mem bership in each
county. The second amendment Is in relation to the
debt limit Of counties cities and villages and provides
that the indebtedness of counties within the city
OF New York need not he included in computing the
citys debt limit thus giving the Comptroller power
to widen the margin OF expense provided for from
the proceeds of bonds The third relates to the
temp prAry designation by the Governor Of Justices
OF the Appellate Division Of the Supreme Court to
serve as Associate Judges Of the Court OF Appeals
w ane Dublic husinesH reuu res and
these Justices to remain the Court OF Appeals
bench until the cases undsposed Of in this
reduced to zoo, when they shall return to the SUI
preme Court The fourth amendment permts the
to designate Justices OF the Supreme Court
to fill vacancies.
Claims against the city of New York to the amour mt
of many thousands OF dollars are being Med from
time to t'mo under two acts of the LcVislatur one
NJ: public officials in certa pro ,ccdings,
:" which wore dismissed to recover their counsel
fees and alleged expenses and the other making it
obligatory upon the city to pay to all employees
the rate of wages prevailing in certain trades More
than a million dollars is now demanded on the
authority Of one or other Of these acts. though the
former, the one relating to the pay of accused
officials, has been declared unconst tutouAl by all
of tho supreme Court Justices before whom appli-
cation for the appointment Of referees has been
made
1t appears to he believed by many persons that a
considerable" sum OF money was used b, the cam
pAign managers at the recent DomocrAtr convcn-
ton in ohio. md bora ion of this view of
the matter is furnished by the EnQuir,r of Cincn
natl. the newspaper OF Candidate Mclean, which
announces that the hotel keepers and other trades
mon OF ZAnesville say that Democratic oonycntoa
beats Republican all to pieces. In speaking Of the
Enattsr, 4 hotel keeper said: I'VE made more money
out Of the Democratic convention in one day than
We did out of the Republican convention IN three"