New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-29
FROM ALBANY.
PROCEEDINGS OF THELEGISLATURE
THE EXCISE Law.
The Underground Railway Bill Passed
in the Assembly-96 70 Is.
THE EVENING SESSIONS.

From Our Special Correspondent.
ALBANY. March 81, 1866.
EVENING.
In the Senate, the bill to so amend the Revised
Statutes in regard to the Of property as 70
compel owners of real and personal property to
make sworn returns annually Of the vsiue Of their
was again discussed In Committee OF the
Whole. The amendment providing that, before any
deduction for indebtedness stall be made on the tax
payers personal property whatever amount OF Govern:
nept stocks or bonds he may own shall 0e deducted
from such Indebtedness, was adopted The Senate
refused to recommend the passage OF Tue OH DuI
progress was reported.
In the Assembly the bill to facilitate the construction
of a railroad the west side OF Lake Champlan, rom
Plattsburg TO Whitehall was considered IN Commltee
of the Whole The contemplated road Is about ~ miles
in length and s. 600 per me from the state treasury Is
asked for. The bill was debated at length, ana an
amendment adopted providing that the Company shall
Issue 70 the stock to the amount OF the money al
yanced, when progress was reported.
| On Saturday, it will be remembered, the Railroad
Committee reported against five different bills Tor
elevated Railways In New.York. and in favor OF three
surface roads, hut the House disagreed with the report
of the Committee touching the former and ordered
them printed and placed on the general orders SO th
the House have opportunity u pass upon their
merits in Committee of the Whole. Last night there
was an attempt reconsider the action of the House
on these bills and to lay the motion to reconsider on
the table, but Il failed The question was then taken
on reconsderng the vote dsagreeing with the report
of the Committee The motion lost by vote of "a
TO 81.
imprac,icable but the House judge is not satisfied
of the fact On the contrary 1t is disposed to treat
them fairly 1t be true that the bills ought TO De
killed. but it is plain that the gentlemen composing the
Assembly wish to understand the reason Tor the
slaughter. If 1t is to take place
TO-DAY.
In the Senate, Mr. ODonnel introduced bill TO in.
corporate the Cooperative Iron.Founders Association
of Troy The bill provides that the capital stock shall
be 500 600 and the business consist In the
of iron castings II grows out OF the contest between
the iron founders and their workmen now on strike
Mr. Sessions offered resolution instructing the
Commissioners of the Canal Sinking Fund to invest IN
Mt securities State stocks instead OF allow
ing funds to lie in banks without interest This fund
now amounts to $500 000 and Is held to pay that
amount of canal debt which will be due in ls6s: The
Senate very properly passed the resolution his ac'
ton of the Legislature to be necessary to author
! ize the Commissioners to invest
| EVENING SESSIONS.
| The Assembly has voted to hold evening sessions
hereafter. This body Is made up of men who are dis
| posed TO work. There are fewer takers and more
cookers in it than In any House with which have been
acquainted in this State will add, believe It Is
will to it that the present envablo character OF the
House is maintained to the end think the Legsla
ture will adjourn at the expiration OF the hundred days
know that is the determination In both the Assembly
and Senate now.
EXPLANATORY.
Iapprehend did injustice to several Members OF
l
wholly unintentional. The vote by which the House
discharged the Committee OF the Whole from the fur
Their ration of the Capitol bill killed 1t stone
dead or would have killed IL had it been adhered to-
The subsequent vote by which this vote was recon
sdered and the bill laid the table restored it to life
The two votes not exactly consistent. and yet
had no thought Of charging improper motives upon the
honorable gentlemen who gave them This was my I'M
preston: that the gentlemen changed to obge the
Speaker, and Mr. Cochrane and others in Albany, who
seem to have got the mistaken notion into their heads
that this bill be passed at the present session. or
Albany and all its friends will 90 straight to the dogs.
Mr. Cochrane understand shed tears when the As
semby voted that it would not into committee again
on this bill. These tears changed some votes; one
member told me they changed hiss and they may have
influenced the halfdozen others that changed 1t
is at all events very certain that there are no purer
men in the Assembly than most If not all of those
who voted Ito kill and make alive agar" the Capitol
bill.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD BILL THROUGH THE
ASSEMBLY
The Assembly devoted the entire morning
session 10 the consideration Of the Underground Rail
road bill aud finally passed it by large majority
BIO JOB.
In the Senate the bill to amend the act relative to
the rates Of wharfage" &C.. In NewYork and Brook.
lyn was again up this morning. For the information
az New. Workers perhaps had better tell them what
act and has for ts object the conversion Of the
piers and wharyes Of the City Of NewYork private
property with absolute title and the exclusion OF the
public from their thus subecting the Of
New. York which includes three.fourths Of the com.
merce OF the country, 10 the burdens which private
cupidty may sec lit to exact The present pier and