The New York herald., 1868-04-07
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

ALBANY, April o, 1903.
VETO OF THE APPROPRIATION BILL TO WHITEHALL
AND PLATTsBURG RAILROAD.
At the opening Of the Senate tonight message
was received from Governor Fenton ve.oIng the bill
appropriatlng $25O,0O0 In aid of the Whitehall and
Plattsburg Railroad. The Governor SAYS
II is apparent that there is no immediate use for
the funds provided for In this BILL and 1t may well be
the terms OF the present BILL that an appropriation II
expedient at any time would be In ample season at
the sx meeting eth, Of et the u Rsa +
lation is that its facility tends to invite and
encourage renewed applications when commen-
be seen also that every district OF the State
puts In claim for aid from the public treasury, and
For example, ut the present session there are before
one or the other Houses OF the legislature In more
or less advanced stages, bills for the Albany and sus
quehanna Railroad, granting s25O,OOO; for the Bur
1alo and washington Was Raroad granting $4,000
Southern Central Railroad, granting $50 600 New
York Northern Railroad granting 100000 R0ndout
and Oswego Railroad, granting s25OOOO Utica and
miles, $780, OOO Midland Railroad 5000 say for thr-
ty-lve miles, $175,OO0 Buffalo, Cory and Pttsburg
Railroad 5000, 900. The vast sums given by these
appropriations to such objects might well excite
grave attention and uneasiness In periods OF entire
freedom from debt and great prosperity; but in
present condition It cannot fail to create profound
distrust and alarm. l have observed with much
concern the aggregates involved in the. va
come to the attention OF all that during
the past year the people have been more restive
under the burden Of taxation than at any previous
period since the close of the war; Business has been
unsettled trade has been depressed, industry par
TALLY paralyZed and values have become FIRE
gular and less reliable, profits have diminished and
until the great financial questions firmly
decided and permanent policy established the
horoscope of the future cannot he surely and con-
hdently cast. This condition, which the repeated
lessons OF history and our own past experience
people might have taught us to expect, would mark
the period Immediately following great war duty,
and prudence alike demands that it shall not
be disregarded. continued large debt is
dangerous to our social and republican nstitu-
tons. Our best care, therefore, should be TO
ascertain how the volume OF debt can be
diminished and guard against its extension;
how the pressure of taxation can be reduced ana
retrenchment made more rigid and systematic.
These questions come home TO every household IL
seems to that 1t Is plain duty TO go further
In expenditure than Is required for the economical
administration Of government and the protection OF
those interests which are inscparaby connected with
the general welfare and security. The public works OF
the State must bc maintained at all times, and but
few will be fonnd to oppose moderate aid TO merito-
rious corporate enterprises when the public condion
will permit. ! entertain firm con, ,icton that II the
ease could be submitted TO the people the views
have advanced touching the case before us would
meet very general approval.
Trusting that they will receive the concurrence OF
the Legislature, respectfully return the bill for yonr
further consideration. l.. l.. FENTON.
The message was tabled on motion Of Mr. Hall, and
| the senate adjourned.