The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-14

}6soe Of I'D gestures heavenward, an 10 nd roar
Of laughter greeted him from all sides.
SHOT FOR THE NEWSPAPERS.
dead set fer the newspaper press press. the New
Sss ssas power svor Of with IN E Sas 4ss
fact is that Madden fought like tiger against the
friends q the bll and naturally had e sght as
reason OF there sympathy being with him had not
the courage TO come forward and take mis- part
SETON BY sselOas g mus clog the way Q.
same sas Wv way ala ssasss' Y 20 stay az us is
Quietly fought Mdht ana good hu%orediS J joned
amendment made to the bill. Finding that it was
impossible 10 head on the bill In any way or get
THE Ear CHAMPION fooK 10 prrLrBusrERNa
Sy his Kept the session IN senate u s
lnird reading. The debate ana the vote on every
run 4seo1 snow, win tia. es seen y me
that now REMAINS lcr dc Assembly Ssf 70 declare
whether 1t dares TO act in defiance Of the Senate.
vote MAS on Mr. Johnson's motion to strike out all
Of the bill after the sixth line or the rst section
e saas % max SIMPLY bill 70 repeal ,Ss the Gsss
rec'ors. herewith append u. 49,
.Ayes-Chasneld, narrower, Johnson Lord, Mad.
Nays-Adams Allen, Baker, Benedict Bowen
GOwau, %nrpSs osTen, Pal a" Perry ' Robert.
s9n. Teman, Wagner wessmann, winslow. D. =.
AOsent-Xmes Hardenbergn. Lewis, Tweed, J.
After the reading Of the journal the Senate went
tlon bli as reported from the Judiciary COMMITTEE,
published In the HERALD. The reading OF the bill
was called for When the nrst section had been
Mr. RoBRRrsoN moved to strike out in the seventh
line the words 'aaid companles'' and insert "Erie
amendment was 70 perfect the bill; that II the bill
were passed ~ Ms present shape u would CONFLICT
bnl shall embrace more Than one subject substan-
TALLY expressed In m title. 1t Is desired to repeal
the aot as relates to these other COM
shape In whica = was reported was unconstltu.
tona, Then the original Classification act was un-
constitutional for the same reason.
Mr.. ROBERTSON said the classification act did not
roads The present BIZ was private bill in regard
TO the Erie Railway Company, and yet several other
cGmpanss have been lpgged m There was vast
regard to consti.Sisnaiity the Legislature ought
70 oc usSer OHVs the Erie
Mr. MADDEN said he was opposed to the amend.
souSayd and sSs Asonsy General nsa, aser ali
their labor, brought here
torney General aud Mr.. Southmayd, they drew the
ba precisely In the way that 1t Is now proposed to
Mr.. MADDEN asked pardon for mentioning these
gentemens names. rhe papers all referred to THIS
bill as the Attorney Generals bill He did not
know much ABOUT It; had not read 1t until TINS
morning. He moved to report progress on the bill.
Mr.. d. p. WOOD then said he now saw more
Clearly upon examining the latter part Of the Pill,
that II IL Were not mat the latter part Of the SIi
applied exclusively to the Erie Railway Company
pe mS ne arg
entirely because he Thought 1t was wrong IN prin-
M. Robertson,s amendment was then adopted.
Mr. ROBERrSON moved furtner to strike out IN the
fourth line or the second section the words ChIef
Governor, the Comptroller and Attorney General
He thought the Cnef Judge OF the Court OF Appeals
SHOULD not no. es called upon 70 perform any duty
ton to the officials named IN his place.
MI: MADDEN moved as an amendment to strike
out the entire second section. He sald IL was q
most extraordinary section; 1t was
"A REVOLUTIONARY AND EXTRAORDINARY BILL"
events Of the past few days nad proved that il was
not necessary. He was surprised that an intelli-
gent committee IKE the Judiciary Committee should
posed 10 the original classification pi considering
1t special leglslallon, although ne was
mus oeevna mat the directors 81 railroad COM
pany should not be turned out the dictatlOn OF
but as It was an act Of DpeCAAl le81alatiOn came
nO he Is act
mS %s nSs s oas s has s %s
have to legisate the Tammany Ring out Of onice
ny as to ns fs
also. II there was any ring IN that railroad. the
department should not encr0ach upon the others.
He claimed that the Erie road mad generally been
history the HSp sd ns sa' eo%s t ana 6e
The The company mad never made any dividends e ex
cept once, few years ago, and then they borrowed
money fof the purpose; they dd that to put up the
stock gamblers. The interest of the people along
the line was the main thing. They ask the Legisa-
the alleged frauds Of these men who now control i
road. All he knew was that they had put the road
In splendid order and were running II for the In
terests Of the people e.. he protested
Of the road In the name OF equity and JUSTICE in the
name Of good government against this ubiquitous
course or the press during the past month or two
regard 10 this matter had been specially reprehensi
not hair as mu @ ey
make out. lie warned the committee that in egis.
lating the present MANAGEMENT Or the Erie road
out OF 0iilce they might be egisatng into power
the family which has already acquired such enOr.
nous power In the railroad system OF the State.
Mr.. BENEDICT said there was no other road in the
State that mad such an experience as the erie, and
there was no reason for including any other In TINS
S a rad Woud e be
special legislation II the law sought 70 be repealed
WINS passed for corrupt purposes then 1t should be
repealed. We saw the errors OF this management:
1t was the business Of the Legislators TO correct
them; we must not hesitate to do this because
the road has been 30 managed as to be
satisfactory to the people along the line. Il
was necessary TO get character for running the
road well, that they might steal all that the road
way every time one Of them went over the road he
would have been seized and hanged. We should
consider =, +. WI, ,..E
TIE RIGHT OF TIE STOCKHOLDERS
and the rights Of the State, which are immense
we should do something to secure fair elections
Tns was not special legislation 10 any proper sense
OF the term; 1t was legislation for the benefit Of the
whole State-nortn SOUTH east and west. Homes
inspectors should be appointed and properly exc
cuted and acknowledged proxies should be pro
vided, and penalties should be attached to dishOn
ootxf IN Inn Wt rnnc