New-York tribune., 1869-03-12
ALBANY.
4yNAroR HALE's REPoRT-THE NIAGARA Siii
CANAL.

= I;,.;-o sassion to-day was the presentation y.
Sorotor Uales Report on the alleged -
Senators and Representatives. IllS
ooDsisting of Senators Hale, Ihayer' ana Ni'no- 5
vore authorized to commence TINS lhVesViE"'i'
.hns have pursued their labors under many ducuil
ties The report is just what was expect0u -
10 They 90 little deeper into the mystoIi0S
90 LEGISLATION in Albany than diG nun no
Committees Of like nature WHICH
Ioro+ofore been organized They pilne
Tsats 20 tho surface. which would warrant INC
,nlsion or prosecution of any nemOci u C-e,rttoe
1otnre while il is believed here that t"o hotter
tried their best land it is conceded neio 80 of tbe
Committee could not have been PioAIu .oa1os. for
Senate, to gather the real facts Dut IL % - +bis
oD Committee to make such lnVeS'i - t~;,or,
one 40 long as the present law IN Icl"'Or -, bll
and corruption is in force II 0eI'"'oi titrtion
o5oIod rnon the article in the new Cohe'i'u'
ohfiting bribery and corruption, is only p"SS.u'
.u'onv would be purer place 10 HNo 4Ds
Ga orr legislators relieved OF many u
- oLorcos made against them Inc tcS'ii.'OHS
-, ~, tbe Committee is very contradictory Hoiiio
-, s,.eor IN bringing money here ana payins ~
o,+ ,vbile those charged with receiVlns ~ W -
ooe IA member SO charged swear poln' Di'A> 60
.SNo 80 received any, The charge that GOV
my - -, benefited through bis friends, Dy the
80 Of the bill is not proven, EA-ooha'oi
T6o,nos Murphy sWeaTs that OouIu Voiu nun
+h.t SaOOOO was paid for Fentons slgnaVule 70
tbs Erie bill while Jay Gould, Fisk ana lainli'oL
Harris who was impeached, swear that sueh was noV
the fact Henry Thompson one OF tlio E'lo
Snc,;ned TO answer whether he paid money out
,ot,,oon the massage of the bill and the time IL was
l;anod The testimony covers about GOO pages OF
Iae,aI can and will be printed next week
The Niagara Ship Canal bill has been reported lot
.Lo oons;deration of the Senate by the Canal Com
mittee. Il is doubtful if it becomes law TINS seS
;or nrincinally for want of time. Abel a. Low
Peter Cooper, Dewitt C. httlejohn' ana IIso
number of prominent men from all seo',O"' n,
~ tbe country are named as incorporatoIs' IAe
canital stock is S6OOO0OO, divided into shaIeS
of 400 each The canal is TO be cohs'Iu.t'u
from some point on the Niagara RIVER ABOVE Ilo
Falls TO point on the shore OF Lake OhtaIIo' OeIO"
49, Eous The canal is to be 105 feet wide on the
ota"a on foet on the bottom, and to be Is feet
80 The locks arc to be 275 feet long and 46 feet
ds Rocks of subscription to the capital stock are
20 bs opened IN New-York Albany, Chicago, Detroit
Cleveland and Boston.
Notice was given in the Senate this morning OF the
Arcade Underground Railroad bill This measure
oud have passed last year had not been for the
opposition Of some Broadway merchants who did
not want their vault roOm for which they don not pay
rent, disturbed.
The Tax Commissioners bill was MP in the Sen
ate this morning end progressed. There is COM
bination of Democrats and Republicans in that body
determined to pass this measure, but 1t is sdoubt-
fulif they can get like combination in the Assem-
bly,.
The bill incorporating the New York Cab Company
was in Committee of the Whole of the Assembly this
morning. and it was amended by prohibiting the
company from charging more than 25 cents fare fol
any distance in the city.
The Sherif7s bill. voted by Gov. FentOn last year
is to be brought again before the Legislature Sher
if OBren is here getting it ready, so that 1t viii b.
introduced probably tomorrow. All the high Chief
ofTammany are here this week. and for the first tim
since the Senatorial contest the lobby is IN full force
Senator Tweed introduced bill providing tina
Mary Lennox Shafe, Mary Ann Parish, Mary h
Lowrie. Julia N. Graham. Anna T. Jafray, Nancy
Hartt and others may constitute themselves bod.
corporate under the name of the Presbytena
Home for Aged Women" for the purpose OF proyld
ing homo for inirm female members OF the Pres
byterian Church.
A bill was also introduced by Senator Tweed
which provides that the Eighth-ave., from Fifty
nintb-st. 20 One-hundred- and -Tenth-st., shall b
graded and improved according to the grade no'
established by the Commissioners of the Centra
Park under and in pursuance of the act passed Apr
q, 1851
The same gentleman also introduced bill whic
provides that the Board of Supervisors of this Cit
shall collect each year and pay to the Nurserl
and Childs Hospital the of s. per week for ever
destitute woman admitted into the lying=n ward
Of the Hospital and $40 per month for every child
born In the institutions for all children retained
there under two years of age, $50; two and un
der ton years SO; over ten years, 500 per annum
The school connected with the institution to partici
nate in the distribution of the Common School FUND.
Senator Tweed introduced still another bill for the
incorporation under the title of the Manhattan Eye
aud Ear Infirmary, Wm. Petton, Wan. Butler Dun
can. Wm. II. Brown, s. NJ Blake, David S. Eggleston,
W. Walter Phelps, VIM. L. Bliss, G.. p. Agnew and
others Tor the purpose of creating in New-YOk City
anew hospital for the treatment Of diseases Of the
eye and ear, with a capital OF 100000.
Senator Mattoou introduced in the Senate to-day a
bill which provides that the NewYork Central Rail
road Company and its branches, the Hudson River
Railroad, Harlem Railroad, and the EIe Railroad
and its leased branches, shall not be allowed 10
charge for transportation of freight either by pack
age. pound, tuu, or bar, greater sum
than 80 per cent over through rates on
freight carried not exceeding 10 miles; 80
per cent freight not less than 25 miles;
80 per cent not exceeding 80 miles, 25 per cent not
exceeding Is miles 20 per cent not exceeding 100
miles Is per cent not exceeding 80 niles and all
freight carried further than the last named distance
at the rate through freight Of the same class
allowing % cents tun for handling it. Between
Dec and April in each year the roads named
shall charge no greater than 90 per cent in addi-
uon 70 the lowest freight rates between April and
December.
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