New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-14
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
AN ELEVATED STEAM RAILROAD.
THE NEW CAPITOL QUESTION
The Subject Assigned for March IL
The Underground Railroad.
From Our Special Correspondent.

| ALBANY. March lJ 1866.
To-day the Assembly has been occupied in
Committee OF the whole on the New Capitol bill which
had been made the special order By previous resoIu
! ton Speaker Tremain called MIR Stiles TO the Chair
and MI Cochrane lcj off in n magnificent speech In
favor OF the measure. His effort elaborate pol
iShed aud showed high degree OF aesthetic culture
the part of tho speaker He began by stating that tho
g0odiaith Of the State pledged to this project by
the passage OF the Act Of last year. agreeing that # the
City of Albany would deed to the State tho Congress
Hall property the Governor should appoint COmmis
sion TO erect n capitol. Albany had fulfilled her
part of the contract the Legislature called
TO carry out the promise of this law by making APP
preparation TO build the paatial cdihce on the site
toward which the city had contributed 500 900.
Mr. COclrane recalled some very interesting hlstori-
cal "reminiscences concerning the present Capitol IN
which he informed the House that 1t was erected IN 1905
and that ia dimensions 10 feet mont by 20 feet
deep. and that the number Of Assembymen was then
100 aud Inc number of senators -. ! may remark
here that the number Of Senators still remains the
same while the popular branch OF the Legislature has
only gained 1t may also 6e stated here in
parenthess. that the diagram OF the Assembly Cham
Dor last issued shows there are the floor two
members upholstered chars for which there no &C.
supaDts.
Mr. Cochrane was toucbngly eloquent on the old and
endcarug associations clustering around the present
Capitol, and Of the voices of the statesmen that had
rIg out loud and full IN its legislative halls but were
I
hcar him crown this climax by cNclalmng that he
woud always stick by this proud old cdihce while ITS
solid walls stood firm lot others do M they may, De
would no, desert this historic pile for any modern pal
ace but, treading II alone, II bo must would eA'
claim:
90 feel like who tread, alone
some banquet hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled whose gnrlands dead
AND oil but hc Departed"
The orator, however uIsregardcd the logical con
cuson Of his eoqucncc took sudden shy. aud ~ the
Capitol had been an Eastern iazhr house as oouu NV
have abused lie denounced II as pest house
A sort Of Pandora o! corruption. disease and death
10 was unsccmly ugly small stencil Disgrace anu
nuisance lie then went INTO orinant oisquis ,i
on Architectural beauty. and ventured the proposition
that beauty promotes everywhere prosperity ana
wealth" II seems 20 ne that Greece and Rome ID the
ruins which hardly suggest tnclr former sreht.e.s
rather throw doubt upon the soundness OF t9s state
ment and poet has SAID Of Italy that sue had the
fItgi giit OF beauty.
Mir Cochrales assertion nat Albany is the natu.
raj political aud historical center of the state Is not
AZ true IN times past ani only seen clearly by the
inhabitants of tdlt slugci,t aud torpid city
AT the close Of Mr.. CochraBes effort MT. ID. Il
Wood made a solid. Logo Al and convincing speech
against the policy Of building new capitol lie al
united that AZ tis time ne location oil th,. ouhIc'
Wncn bulli wolI De Alb1ly bat that II WOgii mol D.
erected when tie State tai including local houhtlrs
would be annually s2ibOUV0. exclusive OF What we
were paying 10 tie Nitioun G0'cfnnchi' ne sIht,u
that new Capitol built after the model IN the state
Library would cost 100 VO aud 10 ald tbis 10 the
immense burden Of The pubic debt would be an uuylsh
hable eKirayagince which The people "ould not Tor
I
reading from tho senate aud Assembly journals Of last
session that ~ the Capitol bill passed AZ hist time there
was "A entire sugs INTO the act winch neither
I House eyer saw or heard read. Tbs unaaitOrilrd
/ section which appropriated $1,000 To commence the
erection Of n new Capitol illegal and 10 money
could be taken from the Treasury by virtue oi this
fraudulent scciion MIR Woods opposition " this
II easnre was mai1ly the financial one. bat be rcutei
the assertion made by Mr Cochrane that II was 80 un
comfortable inadequate or poisonous - - bc wholly
unit Tor the purpose for which u was intended
D. Mt l.. Parker moved that the Committee report
pfOgtess on the bill which was carried aBd IT. con
sdera,ion nids the special order for next Wedhes
day evening.
No other business Of special moment was transacted
IL eIlel House
InE BOARD OF CONTROL.
Th.Commttseo cues reported Yesterday in favor OF
the bin 10 create a Board oi Control IN New York Nil
I;raudrc'h mHSigg minority report against H. and
NJ Maurice a.s0 dissenting irOm the majority report
From tue mafitude 81 petitions from tue heaviest tax
usyer- VI that cts asking ir the passage OF this set Il
voud ,rsf1 That those most interested are very anAlDus
! tlat tue bill BECOME Law" 80
The House agaiHsi assessing on the CITY 81 New
YORK tue damages sustained Dy Col Jardne III endehv
or1g u gueu the great July riot 10 l-6J ~ which be
w.s d!slb ID for he. The claim seemed VERY meri-
Ton Oh, one and the Committee on Claims reported
avoraoy but the House voted IN TIE negative On The
ground that Il woui establish precedent. WHICH II
follow "a. would sJOl dcpcie the ITeisufy