New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-27
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE.
sENArE. ALRANy wednesday. Mar


SENATE. ALBANY. Wednesday, March S.
Petitions were presented for the enlargement
of the Erie and Genesee Valley and Black River
Canals
The Senate went into the discussion of the
RouGe's Point Bridge, and Messrs. CROOK of Gin.
ton and Cook of Saratoga addressed the Senate
against granting power TO build the Bridge.
Several petitions were presented for the incor-
poration OF Building and Accommodating Societies;
also number for the immediate Enlargement oil
the Erie snd Genesee Valley and Black River
Canals also, from citizens Of Oneida Co. tor
Reduction of Tolls on the Erie and Northern
Roads of the Strong place Baptist Church,
Brooklyn, for relief; OF citizens OF Troy Tor the
appointment of an Agent to the Worlds 4 air.
The Judiciary Committee reported favorably on
the bill to authorize the removal oil certain pa
pers from the Court of Appeals in New'Torh TO
the Supreme Court.
For the Bowery, Greenwich, @c' Savlngs
nay relative to unclaimed deposits were re
NJ Cor introduced a bill to repeal the Free
School Law and to reestabsh the laws rei@stns
10 Schools as they existed previous to the 1 rec
The Senate took up the bill providing for the
construction of Rouse's Point Bridge over Lake
Champlain co,.ta m
Mr CKooK OF Clinton addressed the Senate al
lanath in opposition to the measure, as working
Great injury to his constituents and as asAeu o1y
20 bene6t a Corporation that had repeatedly 40
ce;Sed the neople. by adopting different policy
from that looked for when the charter was
granted, c.uo-.oa -, .ba same
aide and examined the history OF the country
the STATISTICS of the Lake Commerce the lnnu,
sncas of the bridge on the Canadian trsde anu
,he effect on the thousands engaged more or less
d;rectlv in the trade from our own to OahSoian
Ports. IN II. I.on,od tho Or.
,rr,ents against it unworthy OF consideration
rho State has no more right TO favor by Legs
Iatnre it's new channels OF commerce built oy u
self than il has to favor the works OF private
CompAnv He was glad to be able 70 cOntrsuics
She report that New York and its Merchant Prin'
cas we're opposed TO the bridge from the vacant
argument that it would favor the commerce OF
Ro.ton rather than OF Ne ~. \ Ork. The merchants
ot New.York were too liberal too enlightened
too comprehensive in their views Tor such an az
eument He produced the petitions OF the uos'
distineuished merchants of that city, men
whose names were known in every section OF tue
Union. asking that the Legislature on TINS suolec1
misht not be Influenced by the question, Whetner
il would operate favorGbly or the reverse on tue
b1,iness OF New-York. He was glad to see tnese
Intelligent men repudiating sQch Legislation ne
80 eveu,insd the question of the interference
os the bridge with the military deenses OF tue
ronptrv and urged that the constructor Oh tue
railroad would materially facilitate the transmis'
sion of troops from one section OF tue country W
civ guard the bridge. The argument also vas,
that The erection OF the bridge would increase the
trsaic tbrough the Welaud Canal, and augment
The trade in British vessels. he thought all TINS
was TO be met by the fact that wherever men
could get their labor best and cheapest done tney
had right there TO have Il done ii INDUSTRY
energy and self government could not compete
xpccessfully with our neighbors, the reward should
ard ought to be to the most deserving.
Mr. GEDDEs said that as Chsirmsn OF the Com
mittee who had investigated on the IocAnty tne
rperts of the question, be had gone there entirely
Zee nj All bias aud entirely impartial. lie had
seen what the Commerce Of the L axe really was;
0n one trip through the L axe he had enumerated
100 ssil vessels, and each OF those vessels "ouII
carry the freight Of one locomotive ne hAG
carefully deliberated on the testimony ana IL hAo
led him TO the conclusion expressed IN ms hsPor.
that the construction Of bridge would teno 20 !
greater ipiury to the great commerce tnan Soou
could result 70 the railroad. The necessity TO-
this bridge had not shown itseh Let Us see
whether The -four, the provisions, the freight OF
IN kinds 10 the extent claimed and predicted oJ
the friends of the bridge will come to the axe anC
nsk for this alton Canada is our Creates
customer We deal more with Canada with pro
at than with any other nation. Our trade VIII I
her, by this lake, is rapidly augment'ng' We
had no fellowship, however, with the ldes ina
onr canals must be protected the State OF New
York must make its canals do the work required
OF them by their own usefulness and oy tneu owl
reasonable rates of passage, not oy Ies'r0. ~
and lettering others The State is not to ask ia!
question whether il is a corporation or an mo-
Vidual that asks aid at its hands 1t Is on tn
broad basis Of what and where is the right tina
these que stions are to be settled All the iacs
before him, and which Were before the Committee
went 10 show that the commerce on the lakes CT
ceeds by FIVE times that on the railroad, and tn
case presented was such as it could, it seemed t
him, have only one decision.
Mr. carroll took the floor, aud the Commtte
rose and reported progress.
The bill providing for an amendment Of tn
laws relating to Taxation and Assessment cam