Year: 1868

| AN ACT AMENDATORY OF THE CHARTER OF NEW
YORK-THE ARCADE RAILROAD DEFEATED
TIE CHARITY BILL-SENAT0RS fOLGER AM
CROWLEY DEFEATED IN PET SCHEME.
ALBANY, May 3.-BOth Houses of the Legisla


ure have passed bill providing for the continuation il
Office one year those Aldermen who represent the ever


numerical districts; also providing that next Fall there
shall be elected in place Of Councilmen Assistant Alder
men, who shall hold their Office year. AS the end
Of that time the Assistant Aldermen elected then and


thereafter shall hold office for two W years The bill met
with no opposition III either house


The Assembly this morning gave the projectors of the
Elevated Railroad now in Greenwch-st, six months
more TO try their plan.


The Arcade came up in the Senate on Saturday
afternoon, and did not get the required mum
Der of votes There were fifteen without sen
ator 0Donne ana Was Se to do io


He left the Senate before the vote was TAKEN and when
brought back by the PLEAD @ has as az an t ax
Senate when the question was put II he had voted aye
Senator Williams would have done likewise, and the Dill


would have passed IL is pretty hard TO pass bill, no
matter how mertorioils, when there are combined
MIR Creamer the Broadway surface crowd led by Jacob
Sharpe certain Broadway merchants, and the Central
when they promised TO leave other roads alone If they
got through motion made to-day 70 reconsider the ac-
tion was Carried and the bill can be brought up again.


The Charity bill passed the House this morning by the
requisite number of votes only The bill has been cut
places cut ont and the appropriations TO the others
reduced fifty per cent. There enough Republicans
who would have defeated the BILL believing that the ap
preparations sectarian schools wrong; but the
Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Mr. Flagg,
Mr. Jacobs and others promised faithfully 70 agree To
responsibility now lies with Senator ODonnes Finance
Committee and then with the Senate IL any apnropra


ons sectarian schools made then the people must
know upon whom to place the responsibility.


large and influential delegation Of the Citizens AZ
sOciatiOn here TO have the city tax levy reduced
Judge Emmett appeared before the Committee as one Of
the legal representatives of the Association.


Senators Folger and Crowley who had set nice little
trap for Gov Fenon, with the design OF making him I'M
popular by placing him In opposition TO the present Gro
ton Aqueduct Board, were tripped up themselves
Yesterday Saturday afternoon. The Assembly
bill relating 10 the appointment OF four ney
tax commissioners for New York Gnade neces.
sary by the recent decision OF the Court OF
Appeals in connection with the Assembly bill legis
lating the Croton Aqueduct Commissioners OF ONCE,
made special order The first bill was taken mp and
there is objection To II from any one, IL read
through without amendment Thon Senator Crowley
moved TO tack on TO it, as one bill the Assembly Croton
Aqueduct bill amended by Senator Crowley's Com
mttec on Municipal Affairs, SAID amendment consisting
in transferring the appointing power from the Mayor and
Common Council 10 the Controller number OF Demo
cratic Senators joined with the Republicans generally.
aud defeated this subsequently In the Senate Senator
rejected. Then the Tax Commissioners bill
ordered To third reading, ana subsequently passed
unanimously The Senate then went INTO Committee OF
the Whole on the CrOOn Board D, ana before amended
reported upon IT. In the Senate the report
disagreed to- and the bill sent back to the Municipal
Affairs Committee with instructions so TO amend 1t that
the Mayor and COuucilmcn shall have the power 10
appoint, motion which virtually kills the bill, as IL can
never Ice reached again. no matter how reported.
Crowley angry about the defeat that he
would not vote on the latter motion and Senator Foger
also did not think 1t worth while To record himself
These two Senators knew Gov. FentOn would not veto
the Tax Commissioners b but he would the other, on
the ground that the Crot0n Board is good one and
should not DC changed for political reasons BY ackng
the latter hill 10 the former they wanted 90 place the
Governor In difficult position OF course this could not
be done without the cOunivance Of the Democrats hut
there were enough Of the latter who refused TO enter into
the arrangement 80 as to carry 1t.