New-York tribune., 1869-04-14
ALBANY.

A1nANY April l3.-Although MI ooh"'oi
denied it in Senate. and Mr. jay Uouiu liaoo
iar assertion to a third party "heh no wac 'i"
,wi,h a INV vour correspondent, 1t IS nevertheless
,ha4 the broadway surface railroad Is simply
A. aoncoction of the Erie Railroad Managers ana
{ooaors ofa Tanmany Hail. Messrs. Peter Is. Sweeny
,nd William NJ Tweed. Some time before Vhe
last State Election, the last two gentlemen
and Messrs Gould and Fisk determined to push
Rroodwav Surface Railroad. aud they commenced
work by sending for prominent Republican canui
dates in closely contested districts and III converse
ton promised to elect them If they wouid Pleuso
themselves to vote for the railroad when IL c"io
fore the Legislature The temptations "oo
clined and Democrats were electeu al
their places After the election. the machinery
was again mt in motion. and members IN dlHereht
Narts of the State were written to- that the SURFACE
hill might receive their support When the session
ononed work was redoubled and there is scarcely
man in the Legislature who has not been mportuned
10 vote for this bill. sufficient number OF responses
were made to Justify Senator &enets introducing
Bpoadway Railroad, pure and simple. 1t
was soon found ont that the job was not big enough
20 new bill was drawn up and cArriedin Committee
of the Whole. This was printed An THE TRIBUNE of
Saturday last In the early paD of the session the
Erie Railroad had bill introduced which allowed
she running of a street railroad Twentythrd-st'
20 as TO accommodate patr0ns1t Pixies Opera House.
1T was determined to push this matter separately
but the Senatorial ring insist that it should be
tackled on the Broadway bip./ The principal opJect
Of the ring in doing this was TO bleed fIsA anu
Gould heavily to push throGgh the Surface OIL IL
was these two gentlemen, Or-their agents, VINO
Bent Ex-Judge John X. Porter here TO argue
5n favor of the Surface bill. and it is they
who are expected to furnish 4 /three-fourths OF |
the money when the critical moment arrives.
No money was needed in the Senate Names as
corporators and promises of stock sufficient to
secure all the Senators needed; but the hungry men
IF the Assembly will not be satisfied with the same
kind of pay. Money has been so scarce here this
Winter that hard cash only can push the Broadway
Surface through the Assembly. The New-York |
city members would vote for the BILL because their
leaders desire it but there is not Senator or As
semblymen who will support that bill other than for
the most mercenary of considerations. The Republi
can party of the State should watch the votes of their
Representatives on this bill. Any man who votes for
it will be bought either by money or otherwise, and
every man who lodges will be paid to do so. The |
friends Of the bill expect that Gov. Hoffman will |
veto it, and they know that they cannot get |
eS voters in full Senate TO pass it over the veto
They will, therefore, hire Senators to stay away.
Judge Hilton, Mr.. A. T. Stewards lawyer, has come
here to fight the bill as vigorously he has done in
the past He has delivered to Senator Campbell |
letter from Mr.. Stewart in which the latter offers
So 900 for the franchise, and agrees to build the
railroad strictly in accordance with the provisions of
the law. Gouldand Sweeney are here to-day.
The House occupied most of its time this morning
in discussing the report of the Committee Elec
tions in the case of Hawkins. Republican, against
Decker, Democrat in the Richmond County District.
Although this case was the first taken up by the |
Election Committee it was next TO the last reported
on The report has been ready for some time,
but the Committee chose out of friendlness
TO the sitting member not to present it
until last week. There were enough Republicans
then who sided with the Democrats to have the con-
sideraton of the report postponed until the morning
The four Republican members of the Committee de-
cided to throw out the registry in the Second Dis
tret of MidlletOwn, because it was clearly illegal
This elected Mr.. Hawkins by 80 votes, and the four
members so decided A review Of the testimony win
sh@ that their decision was just and proper, and
tfaC no matter how popular Mr.. Decker may
be, be was holding a seat which belonged to Mr..
Hawkins When the report came up this morning
the Democrats made strenuous efforts TO keep Mr..
d ,a,,er in. Mr.. Hitchman made Speech in which
ii was refreshing to hear him plead for what he
called justice" when he well knew that last year
his party turned out Republicans who were legally
elected. to put in their place men who were
not. Mr.. Hitchmans pleadings, to say tho least.
had more efrontery in them than anything
else. Speeches we're not the only
weapons the Democrats used to retain Mr. Decker;
votes traded off local bills, in which country
members were particularly interested. MIR. Gleason
led those Republicans whose consciences were not so
easy as to allow them to vote to retain man who
was not entitled TO a seat He made several argu-
ments aud used all his Parliamentary knowledge to
give Mr. Hawkins his seat, and so did La Bau, Hus
ted Sclkreg Hegerman n. b. Smith. and others, but
4bev Jailed On Mr. Hitchmans motion to substitute |
tbe minority report for that of the majority the fol-
lowing Republicans voted with the Democrats, and
in opposition to justice and right Bemus, Calkins,
Crane. w. II. Stuart, d. Stewart and Truman. All
the Democrats voted Aye Those who were too cow
ardy to face the music and therefore lodged, were:
AllaLan. Barse, Berry, Conger, Randall, and Weed.
The vote stood Yeas So; Nays, &c lall Republicans
The motion was therefore lost. Then Alr. Hitchman |
moved to postpone the consideration Of the majority
report for one week and this too was carried by the
following Republican votes: Akin. Allaban, Bemus |
Calkins, Cook, Crane, H. Ray. ID. Stewart, Truman
The following Republicans dodged: Chase, Conger,
Randall, W. II. Staart Walker, and Weed.
The Senate to-day took out OF the hands of the
Committee the pro rata Freight bil and had long
argument on IT,
The bill changing the present School Commission
ers of Rev York has gone through the Sub-Commit-
tee of the Whole, AMI is ordered to third reading
The resignation of Mr.. Acton has set the aspirants
for his vacant place work in earnest. Ex-senator
Low. Supervisor Henry Smith, A. n. Cole. and Ira
Buckman are candidates The prospects Of the lat
ter two are small.
The bill changing the present School Commission
err Of New York passed the Assembly tonight by
vote OF 81 Yeas TO II Nays. The Nays divided
between Democrats and Republicans.
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