The sun., 1899-05-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
On and after juno the employees Of tho Depart
ment Of Correction will wear blue uniforms with
brass buttons. This change OF attire will not. how
ever. be accompanied by any readjustmcnt OF salA-
ries. The Warden OF the Tombs. for instance. re.
ceives S2.25O salary. whereas the Warden OF the
Kings County Penitentiary gets $500. Tho pur-
chasing agent OF the department gets only $4,000
while the bookkeeper gets s3.boo As little as $500
is paid to engineers on the departments steam.
boats but butcher on one OF them receives t1.2oo
and one OF the mates gets 1000. There are two
John Currans in the department-John Curran No. 1
and John Currsn No. 2. No. 1 receives s2.25o a
year; No. . receives $50.
There is to be an election in Pennsylvania for su
preme Court Judge this year and the Democratic
Convention fos the nomination Of candidate is to
be held in the month OF June Under the Pennsylva-
mia Constitution the minority party has representa-
ton the Supreme Court bench and there Ia now
in consequence q contest for the Democratic nomi-
nation. The prediction is made that the juno CON
venton OF Democrats in Pennsylvania will be silent
on the subject Of the national currency.
The Buffalo Board of Aldermen has adopted a
resolution for the use OF the Standard voting ma
chimes in that city at this years elections. In the
agitation for the use OF voting machines Rochester
is first among the cities OF tho State-two machine
inventors reside there-and last year Il was Joined
by Utica. in Of the wards Of which . voting
machine tried successfully II Buffalo is added
to the list It may not be long before tho projected
extension Of this voting by machinery system will
come to be seriously considered in New York Its
introduction here is permitted by statute.
Henry J. Coggeshall. the Independent Republican
| Senator as he is sometimes called in and about Al
bany ia frequently the subject Of by those
who ascrbe to him lack OF public spirit In the con
alteration of weighty questions. but one point at
least his Senatorial record is invulncrabe. He is
the champion sponsor advocate and defender of all
legislation carried through for the bencht OF the
Salvation Army. In matters Of legislation he re-
tains in special we'll regular sessions. the title
Of the Salvation Army Senator.
There Ia some talk among Tammany men uptown
Of nominating Charles weldo for Sheriff on the Tam
many Hall ticket this year and of the appointment
| in his place OF James A. Flack as Commissioner OF
Jurors. is thought by persons that this plan
would be more practicable than the retention OF Mr.
welde Commissioner OF Jurors and the election
| for another term Of Mr.. Flack as sheriff.
Gov. Stone Of Pennsylvania has made cut OF
81 800 ooo in the appropriations for State expenses
| as provided by the recent Legislature, making two
thirds of the reduction in the appropriation for edu
| cational purposes. The net revenues Of the Com
monwealth are Sl1. 200. ooo Of which there is paid
| more than s6 oOo. 900 for education Pennsylvania
| is one OF the States which mako the most liberal
provisions for education but the other interests Of
| the State seem to demand in the judgment OF the
Governor. reduction Of the present floating debt.
| The proposition made for the appointment Of q
committee to revise and harmonic the tax laws OF
the State is not without precedent Chapter ITO Of
the Laws of 1880. passed May s. authorized the
Governor with the consent Of the Senate to appoint
| three persons Commissioners to compile and
revise all statutes Of tho State OF New York then in
force affecting banks. banking and trust com
| panies. The Commissioners received no COM
| pensation for their services. The result of
| their labors reported to the Legislature
| of 1882. and in July OF that year WAS en-
acted into statutory law chapter 400 Of the Laws
| Of 1882. The original Commissioners were George
b. Sloan of Oswego. afterward succeeded by William
| Dowd: Willis s. Paine OF New York city. and David
| c. Van Cott OF Brooklyn. Mr. Paine was subse-
quently Superintendent of tho Banking Department,
| appointed as such In 1888.
The Chicago Platform Democrats. as they call
themselves are bit discouraged by the success.
| sive defeats which they have suffered In municipal
elections. declaring that tho issue for which they
stand being essentially national one. 1t s both Inn
practicable and impossible to rally their forces in
such contest as the recent one in Chicago. More
over. some Of them point out that the most ardent
| partisans of the silver cause are "the toiling
| masses" described by William j. Bryan in his Chi.
| cago speech OF 1895. the men down on farms and
| the Western miners. The silverites showed little
voting strength in tbs election OF 1895. being dis
astrously beaten in all the large cities of the country
with few isolated exceptions. such Denver, New
| Orleans Troy. Richmond. Va. Salt Lake City and
| Mobile
| Among the recen. applicants for appointment as
| patrolmen in the Police Department . profes.
sional bicycle racer. plumber. . farmer. a boiler
| fireman. two mariners and resident OF Uncle
| Daniels Point. Queens borough. who does not fur
nish any statement as to his present occupation.
The city tax books have been closed, and until the
| books are presented to the Municipal Assembly on
the first Monday in July the totals of the assessed
| valuation and the tax rate will not be definitely
| known About 900 applications for reduction on
| realty were received from Manhattan borough
| against 200 from Manhattan and the Bronx to.
| gether last year.
There will be election for Surrogate in New York
county this year to ll tho vacancy caused by the
tiroment of Mr.. Arnold. elected In 1898 for term
| which would not have closed until 1907 Surrogate
| varnum. appointed by Gov. Roosevelt in place OF
Mr.. Arnold. will. it ia generally believed be candi
date for election. The last previous Republican
| Surrogate or New York was Daniel q. Rollins, who
| was elected in 1881 and served the whole term OF
six years that period there only Surrogate
| OF New York. Now there two. The Surrogate is
a county officer. and the charter changes enlarging
the boundaries and treorganizing the government of
the city. do not affect the emoluments. tenure or
| jurisdiction OF the office.
The city's revenues this year applicable to the
| reduction OF taxation include S28T9.7g7 from the
excise fund. Next year the citys share OF the
| nues from excise taxes amounts to $1,000, ,OoO
| which will go into the general fund for lessenng
| the amount of taxes. The excise revenues derived
by the city OF New York under the operations OF the
| Ralnes law have become a considerable item. This