New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-12
payment Of tolls to the CanL Fuad for property

the payment Of tolls to the CaaL Fuad for property
transported upon them.
Tbis act made necessary the next movement, which
wac to diminish, from zine to time, the tos on .ne
canals, not with view tD revenue mainly as tue co
etEticDal policy required, but With view 20 sue
cesssu competition with the railroads., 10 woou oVI
petition both canals and railroads have suhSio"' - Wv
Auditor shows -
the cansls including rent of surplus ~d'e'e a'1 i
tereet ON current revenues, have ~ sln NV w ~"
$3722 JOB in 1851 to 81 S59,S19 10 Io0s. NJ "
say, they have fallen on more s1 aou, the ssa W.
the tunnaee of tie canals remains hooul 'ee VIZ
35S5 7S TINS in 1851 and 1881, 6S4 tuus IN IS9s'
Tsis fliiT off IN the revenues OF the canals leading
to taxsiion has been useo q, an a. 's 'S ae 'u0
L. 49, nothI1z against their utility, but everything
sosi,st the erroneous policy which has been pureud
IN ragsxd % them Daring the whole period OF unre
.,S on pettion with the railroads. in this State and
=; oshay states aud while the Erie Canal has been
,k.red with Che process of enlargement, our canals
have transported more tunnage than ali the railroads
In the State put together.
The Auditor shows that the tunnsge Of Canals in
1855 6Ss1
AD6 IN lsSs
Total IN tWo s76 tuns.
The tannage of all the railroads IN the State IN
1sSe.. S<I8I2S
And In 2ss
Total IN the two ssa Oos tun.
But Il is evident shat large portion Of the railroad
tunnage is counted twice, iDasmuch rs each OF the
railroads makes ltS rStuTrs an0 muCn OF the tuDnhgO
IN passing from one ROAD to the other Is twice Te-
ported
Another fact 70 prove the efficiency of the canals,
the Auditor Shove ~ follows, viz:
The total tunnsce carried by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad the Pennsylvania Central Railroad the
New-YorB and Ere Rsilrosd the Ne~-York Central
Railroad, the Ggdensburgh Railroad and the ST. Law
renee canal 1858 exceed tire total inunaxe carried by
The NewYork canals only by the moderate amount of
l5OO0 tans. In the light OF thefe hgures the state
ments Of enthusiastic persons in their eagerness to
keep up with what they call the progress Of the age;
who depreciate the canals and magnify the railrosds
should be received with many grains Of allowance.
The people of the State have in former days, with
good reason groaned the exlrSvagant expeod-
Iures on the canals. They now nearly completed;
and the great revenues hoped for, but enjoyed
may vet be fully attained. But 10 sccomoish that OBJ
ect great vigilance must be exercised 10 their manage
and in husbandDg and protecting those revenues
The spirit which formerly clamosed for the larg
est expenditures will cry out for the lowest tols
and the ighest taxation.
VII toilnz the railroads and increasing the canal
tolls burden the internal commerce Of the State
The Auditor shows thai the whole IunnAee of our
foreign trade both exports and imports is about equal
70 the total tuDusge Of the New-YOrk aud Erie, and
NewYork Central Railroads, added to the tunnage of
canals
The fetal value Of the canal tunnale was in 1859, in
nG ,a ns ys1s o the 5s5 1nass the sam.
year estimated At (which is deemed lowl.. lo6o0GO
s2s2lOo 900
A tribnte of one ana half per cent. on thus value
VIII yield to the canal revenues s., $50 coo.
The total value Of all toe foreign TONNAGE imports
and exports for 1852 was $685. 557, 49, This paid
tribute through the Custom House OF ~ 56J 324 an
average Of It per cent; bat all of it being collected
from the imports they alone paid an average OF IA
per cent. yet commerce moves brsky under the bur-
den. Surely, the light tribute OF one and half per
oeEt domestic nnage, cannot be seriously felt
by any interest," and ought not 10 meet Eth opposition
from airy quarter.
In Just view of canals and railroads, there
be no nntagousm between them. Both sre equally
necessary and equally 10 be guarded by our legisa-
ton But the people will cont snd for the law Of self
preservation against the INSTRUMENTATION of bath
canals and rallroads, and continued taxation will
quicken them 10 vigorous enforcement Of that law.
Restore the railroad tolls to the Canal Fond, and
adjust tire tols the Canals 10 correspond and We
Wsn.s for superintendent collection and rePrs eco
Vents SiDiiBe Fund under the FIRST secti5n. LlVg
wsBts for sinking FUND unaer the second section S'oo
Vans for Interest and sinking Fund on $izoVS ,oooo
debt under The third section. lOeD
Wants Interest and Sinking Fund on the ss3oOo 80
SS'oN
ro,.l Ss6l5OO0
This result, which is confidently believed may be
STAINED viii enable Us to get along with tax for the
VITA tax lss tho school Fund mill
With FOR the S250U0 debt mill
The tai for the interest on the sl2OOOS debt could be
made contingent the revenues mil
Total.
With certain prospect Of our entire direct taxation
for State purposes being reduced the next year to II
mills and thereafter still lover; and the Sinking
Fuuos being restored, would no longer be called
g. myths but become substaDtial baels on which 20
make dacieBcy loans under the Constitution, and the
sanal would become, heretofore the pride
and boast of the State.
The issue Is simply this: Shall the trade and tun-
rage psssine through The State public works be
ioed sufficiently to pay our Canal debt and interest.
according ~ the original design or shall that debt ard
interest be paid by taxation the whole people Or