The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-12
NEW YORK LE0IsLATURE.
Senate.

AIaAsY, March IL, 1858.
rn RANKING Aw-wArm BROOKLYN
Mr. CooIzH reported for the consideration of the Senate
bill enlargng the basis Of bank circulation.
Mr. MORGAN reported favorably the bill to supply
Brooklyn with water.
RAILWAY STOCKHOLDERS.
Mr. BARTLETT reported, for the consideration of the
Senate the bill allowing stockholders in railroad corpo.
Tatiens to make payments Of foreclosure of mort
cages, and thereby become interested in them.
THE ELECTION LAW.
Mr.. WRIGHT reported favoraby the bill relating to
the election law
CATHOLIC BISHOPS
Mr. TER, by consent, presented the memorial Of 222
Catholics of Albany, asking that Catholic Bishops may be
allowed to hold real estate in trust.
THE RccLEsiAs11cAL DEVISE BILL.
Mr. PIERCE (dem) moved to refer the Ecclesiastical De-
wise bill back to the Judiciary Committee with instruc
tons to frame the bill that grants and dcvises may
vest in such officers subject to the provisions in the Re-
vised Statutes which regulate the affairs Of religious
poratOns.
Mr. BABcocK (whg did not believe the reference neces-
sary. II the bill was Objectionable, 1t could be voted
down. Innocently wlfully the bill had been greatly
msrepresented It did not affect vested rights but IT
did concern future accumu auon 1t only sought to put
all religions corporations on an equality.
Mr. COOLEY (dem considered the object to be to attain
precisely the opposite of what the bill Intends is to
confirm the deses in the hands of the persons vested
trustees Such sought for and he believed it Just and
that the subject should be settled and determined.
Mr. PERCB explained the present condition of affairs in
relation to devises made to bishops of the Catholic
church Blythe law, it exists, if bishop pos
property devised m for ecclesiastical
hrs death his heirs whether of that church not
can Immediately come in and take it
Mr., vANscHooNHovEN (whig) said there tremen-
Mr. TABER (whig) hoped the bill would be- referred.
Though he confessed himself old fashioned Presby
tean of the strctest Sect he had no antathy to the
Catholics. On the contrary he considered that nothing
had been more unwise to be regretted than the
tiousness and intolerance exhibited towards Catholics
The Protestant churches have secular the
Catholics require that their property shall be held by
their religious officers These questions serious and
consideration Of the judiciary Committee The question
embraces all the old doctrine of mortnSs-of the
pediency Of any religious corporation holding land for
any other purpose than their Immediate uses and is
indeed of the most important that the Senate could
be called on to decide.
committee should be instructed to report bill which
would be in accordance with the provisions of the Re-
vised Statutes.
Mr. CoNaER (dem) doubted whether the provisions of
those stat tues were obligatory They permissory.
He had understood that the law reported by the
mittee, affected the Methodist denomination.
Several Senator's suggested that this error.
Mr.. WRIGHT (whig) continued the debate.
Mr. BKRKMAs Cwhis)-The Legislature has revised the
have been discountenanced. The Interested parties
ought to be heard before the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. COOLEY suggested to the instructions Fl ON
the resolution. 1t cone, and the resolution was
adopted.
The committee considered the bill providing the
suspenf ion of the publication of
COLONIAL HISTORY.
Mr. COOLEY opposed the BILL It's principle was precisely
the that acted upon by the repudiatng States
1s41 which brought such disgrace the country and
greatly embarrassed the finances of republic He
moved to strike out the enactng clause.
Mr. PIERCE defended the bill The finances of the State
not in condition to allow of the expenditure which
would certainly arise from it. and Mr. quoted the
The expenses of the State have gone on
creasng till In the last year, they were 500 900
than ever before.
Mr.. CooIEY-That is q mistake.
Mr. PIERcE-lt can be proved; and he continued in
view Of the finances Let any go into the third story
Of the State Hail. and he win sec the fertile source Of
Of these great expenditures After all his efforts to
economse in printing it had cost the State about $134
00can absolute increase the before Of SO 000
In that literary department of the third story Of the State
Hall may be seen foreman and clerks busy in binding
up booksin taking old papers out of their place. with
out any provision Of aw-and to be paid in this illicit
out Of the appropriation for the public printing
No man knows what is going onwhence The payment Is
10 come-no account made-no man held responsible.
He had introduced the bill also to put stop to State
volumes Of Natural History He had yet to find the first
man who had read three volumes OF them. Men who
make histories BY the month will not make readable books
when he says he has not read themf
Mr. PIERCE said he had looked for about fifteen or tven
ty minutes into each of them.
Mr.. CooIEY-0h that then is sufficient foundation for
your detailed criticism
Mr.. PIERcE-And then there is the Documentary His.
contents Of which the himself did know. What
is this History mere of old papers, which would
have done to be put into the hands of Mr. irving or Mr.
Bodhead, Mr. O'Callaghan who, from it. could have
written readable history of the State Mr. p continued
in relation to the report Of the State Cabinet of Natural
History the State Agricultural Society and Mr. Broad
heads visit after antiquarian documents in Europe He
considered that II the work stopped now the saving
whole system of book making by the State.
Mr. BEEKMAN did not believe in the universal bankrupt
ey predicted by the honorable Senator 1he stop policy
had been tried. The State covered with half he
timber, hafslaked lme half chiseed stone some
1918 coo paid, and $3.50 900 is yet to be paid
ne state M IN haa tGr its s. state library works Of
ture always does its work Neglected by they may
be- but the trumphs Of art that have raised this country
to its glory have been the result of the publication of
books WORK of art does not rise like exhaation,
but comes by the aggregation of many The price
of book is not the standard Of its value 1t is the long
result that shows the worth Mr. showed that the old
documents valuable portions of the archives of the
State and the small cost Of their preservation would be
oil repaid.
Mr. WILLIAMS (whig) considered the dignity and honor
of the State worthy of all preservation and that
involved in the consideration OF its credit When law
has been passed authorizing the public officers to execute
certain duties, it good economy that those duties
should be performed. The stop policy a large and
small m sale was not the he true to promote to sth y
this wful work transacted in the State Hail.
where the Com ptroler and the Secretary Of State
Mr. BABcooK said the politics of this State changed,
because party had paid its public printer SIS, COCA
year. We have reached the point where O00a
year is believed the average The time had come to
check the extravaganza He made party allsion. He
would confess all the blame that justly belonged to his
party Both were very much at fault in respect to
It. The difficulty in finding good place to begin in
economy, and this seems the appropriate time There
is Reputation in it, To rescnd contract paying all
damages is not repudiation 1t is done every day In
private life. The repudatng States did no such thing
The sessions of 1S4s and 18i9 prolific in
the creation of jobs the public treasury The work
In relation to which the pending bill is introduced
would not have been authorized the members had not
hoped to procure copy themselves He believed the
execution Of this contract would cost the State over
800 000 To 60 with II Is waste downright waste
The documents collected not of Importance to the
general reader II printed and bound nine tenths Of the
people would not give them store room. Eminent scho
lars would undoubtedly, value them but they would be
generally regarded Of just about as much value as the
old records in the clerks Office As for the sale of
the books he did not believe that in hundred years in
the whole market of the world, five hundred copies
would be sold. The essence, the marrow all that Is
valuable in em has already been extracted by the his
toran. It is all the great mass OF intelligent men will
ever require He had the opinion Of the
stop law of 1872 which was held by his friend from
the Fifth (Mr. Beekman), but he did believe now,
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