The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-30

serted Of taxation and its necessity In respect to tho
canals. Hothought there expressed prolundity
Of an snci.l sotity IN proposition to lay tax By tn:
In sonA' thing more TIE Senator from the Third (ir
Mem is for tax and claims that the Governor s with
him sn6 the Of the people IN the Asssm
financial ABILITY The constituencies throughout the
country understand this question weil do tho FL
:. inproviss.s borrowing fhsIs part Of ths demo.
the principle that we should ss just to the future but
equally truc thst We must be just to the present
sw the q O. s ss
that the committed By the Canal Board last yesr
In reducing the tolls had cost tho State hundreds Of
Here the committee reportsiprogres,.
ALBANY, March 90 1858.
petition was presented from the Medical Board Of
thu Brooklyn Hospital for physician at the Marine
Hospital
Also, remonstrance of sonsus resident at New York
against the emigrant law
THE UNION COLLEGE,
select committee appointed consisting Of Messrs
Vanderbilt Jones and Wood to investigate the affairs of
Union College.
Mr. Snow (dem) reported complete the bill in relation
to the promotion Of medical inquiry.
Mr.. HUNTINGTON (whig) called for the reading Of the
Mr.. UruAx lwhigl moved its rccommituent to the
Committee of the Whole He had too much respect for
the dead to allow bill to pass which talks lightly about
MIR. WRIGHT (whig) said that the bill had been examin
ed and prepared with great OF course the only
object OF the motion to refer would be desire to kill the
Mr.. UrHAM-I am opposed to this bill, and when
offer an amendment it will be to strike out the enactng
Mr. wRIeur said New York had not taken the in tia
tive In this Massachusetts, has such law and since
It's enactment no disturbances, violations Of
yards have taken place. The utmost skill is required of
the medical profession and yet, where wise an enight
ened law is demanded to promote such studies It il vo
enty opposed by all the frightening outcres that might
distract old women.
Mr.. BnnMAN (whig) was in favor of the bill. The
best surgeons in the land do not perform operations with
out having first practsed the same upon dead body
st and the horror excited by this unlawful outrape had
never been forgotten.
EMr. BARnEf (dem) denied that the tendency of this
bill was to outrage humanity but it was to stop the
most nefarious traffic that oupidity and brutality
engaged in corps of body snatchera prowl about and
introduced this BILL The poor and the unfriended
those on whose graves rayages are now made and it to
sa % am S
poor-and this bill is calculated to relieve this.
The motion to refer was lost by ayes H. nays Is, and
the bill was ordered to third reading.
Mr. VANDERBILT reported favoraby the act amend.
ing the charter Of the Greenwood Cemetry
THE STATE C0NsrTU1ION-THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
The special order being the proposed amendment Of Mr.
Vanderbilt, it was considered in committee.
his remarks in advocacy Of the amendment. After
eulogizing the statistics Furnished by Mr. McAlpn he
majority worth the paper on which they were
printed. They were as auctuating the sands of
Arabia. Mr. Bristol proceeded to argue thequestion at
length.
REFUSAL 10 ATTEND TO THE GOVERNORS NOMINATIONS.
The hour Of y having arrived the LIEUT. GOVERNOR
nounced that the Senate was in executive session.
Mr. COOLEY (dem aluding to the vast audi
which had gathered in the Senate hail. remarked
and west in deep At the great canal question
and TO atsn to the eloquence of the Senator from the
psss. Ss sa senate 8. the .
legislative business.
fS the sf
by ayes Is, noes II, as follows
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vsn s,ss Wsrd Ts%' 1s wsh
Murray, Otis Pierce, Rogers. snOw--ll
Clark with Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Conger with Mr.. Morgan.
THE CONSTITUTION AGAIN.
Mr. BRISTOL resumed his remarks-The question O.
taxation would be sgnaly defeated i should be brought
prominent canal counties. Gentlemen advocating the
tax utterly misoOk the desire of the people In 1912 the
and private-and then the tax was allowed reluc
family But 1853 different from 1872, and the at
The viii q the @ people M ' B. consenaoS that the
proposed imposition of canal tolls railway ranspora
@ distinct tax on the Il not the wood
power to inct piracy No one d,uSts The power Of the
State. The right is another thing. Cupidty, ambition
ard seshness may decree outrage but the outrage
win yet exist Herkmer and Ulster to be taxed
therefore these railway tolls are no tax Is such the
reasoning The people will it. To the people
of the southern countries will oppose this and they
not be misguided or misled. The power Of desperate
clique driven to the wall may adopt the creduous and
imbecile plan OF adopting tolls and not calling them
tax 1t would fasten tax Of 81 600 dollars ayear on his
n nn fha uh 0f nnn n0rfhl
benefit to them The people unanimously against it.
Is this the evidence Of the financial talent which to
interesting history Of the Erie Road its trials
and its success-saying that the effort of many of
the road has increased its cost double that of the
State loan If there justice in the attempt to tax
the Erie road then there justice in any piracy
attempted. He did not charge the Governor with en-
dorsng this plan; but he should find that he did, no
would say to him. in behalf of the southern tier of
ties voted for Horato Seymour for Governor and find
you to be different man. You may be Governor for
other parts Of the State but not for the southern
tier Of counties The southern tier had thought had
had found their way to prospertybut now is sought
to crush all down with the iron heel of taxation. The
cormorant cry is raised tax them for itto them for
It'll We have power and power, II it chooses inict
piracy Before he could bring himself to believe that
this Senate would nct this tax upon the people of the
southern tier Of countless he would rather believe that
the capitol would sink, and an enduring gulf remain.
Mr. PIERCE (dem) next took the floor in opposition to
Mr. Vanderbilt His first point that the plan pro-
posed to increase the debt Of the State from ten
to fifteen millions Of dollars and second that 1t sought
10 rob the General Fund of about three hundred thousand
dollars to deray the expenses Of the govern
mept He then proceeded to defend the policy Of re inn
posing canal tolls the railroads. In the course Of It,
Mr. euogsed the bill of Mr. Bush, of Erie, requiring
Canasuperntendentst publish monthly accounts their
expenditures, measure of vast Importance and one
vitality necessary TO economical administration Of the
canals So far as these railroads divert from
the canals the business which the canals built
to convey, and fer the construction of which the
State was subjected to enormous expense, II seems
upon such freghts the canal tolls should be paid. OF
the 900 barrels Of -four sent the Northern road
probably eight diverted from the Erie and
the 0swego canals Create debt, and the chances
ten to that the people will be called ultimately to
pay tax to meet at first the interest and at last the
principal The constitutional manper proceeding with
the enlargement would furnish q million Of dollars
each year-and he cited Mr.. Aliens report of 1851 to
prove that this expenditure would produce such results
would accommodate the trade and facts and figures
will ncontestably show that the plan Of the minority