New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-10
ALBANY.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

THE LoBBY-HOw BILLS ARE KILLED-THE
APPORTI0NMENT BILL VETOED AND AGAIN
PAssED-THE CORRUPT JUDGES.
lPRos THB REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRlBosh'I
ALBANY, May 9.-The various Appropriation
bills far advanced that 1t ia possible to est
mate closely the amount Of taxes to be levied for the
fiscal year commencing the LIST Of October next Inc
General Tax bill has already passed the Assembly and is
now in the hands Of the Senate Finance Committee as
also Mr.. Alvords Deficiency bills. The State tax
win amount to 7lso mills the equalized valuation
and will consist Of the following tems For
the General Fund, II mills; for the School
Fund, Il; for tho extinguishment Of the
State debt created under Chapter al, Laws Of 1892
for the extinguishment of the Bounty debt q; for the
new capital !; for distribution among the academies O
the State, 11e for work and extraordinary repairs
to the canals 10 The tax fixed By the last
100000 for the current fiscal Year The deficiencies Of
" aUa ssia to
extrayagant and corrupt canal and me re-
cratic Legsatures to levy taxes sufficient to cover their
appropriations To restore the Treasury to ccndtoa
OF Eovency, Mr.. Alvord proposes to submit TO
ss IOpc next Fs to be to pays se
by taxation in four years. onehrd in eight years and
onethird in twelve years from date OF issue. IL tne
Of d mills is to be levied to raise the amount required
In that event. the tax to be collected next year Will be
would be the largest tax ever collected in this State
next largest being that Of 1857 which was S6 mills
sSs 9 BY 0I Sy ts
burden win be nearly year for the me! next u
and onetweiith Of principal each year s50Oo total
500 There appears to be no provision made ior ras
prospect that the canals win contribute any
o e e ne OF or rs and the
reduced scale Of tolls the net revenue from them VIII DO
little or nothing II may be added IN expanaoh o, tne
ss,oScoeo. HSu''' '"'' . ''A VI ''' ''' ' ~
The Senate continued the consideration of the Supply
BILL had finished whit at the hour Of the recess
No impo rtant changes have been made in It. The
attempt TO increase the capitaOn tax on immigrants
landed at Castle Garden from 90 to 81 failed by large
majority The Assembly amendment, changing the
route Of the Vanderbilt Rapid Transit Underground
Railway RaM ayes a' the Governor The following is
the present route Commencing In the CITY Han park,
adjoining the Post Oce curvlng under ana across ,h
park to point hear the southeast OF the Hall Of
Records. TO Centrest thence north through Centrest
St. through open when running across the blocks
to Mottst and the Bowery at or near thence
undF the Bowery and Fourtn-aVe' 70 apoiht between
Forty eighth and Fifty-ninth-sts.
The senate BILL providing for the payment OF gra-
tuy Of 5000 william 8. COPELAND for furnishing to
NewYork newspaper certain ranscrpte OF accounts In
the Controllers office, returned from the Assembly
with the following amendment:
provided the said Controller shall find the work
to be done aud the charges for the same are
fair and reasonable"
It is safe TO say that COPELAND will gain little by the
passage Of this bill The bill fixing the salaries OF the
County Judges and surogates throughout the State
received from the Assembly with numerous amend
ments and recommitted to the Judiciary Committee.
The Assembly resolutions expelling superintendent
Miller were made special order for Monday evening"
Conference Committees appointed the Extraor
binary Canal Repair bill, and the Oil naming new CON-
missoners OF Emigration.
The Senate finished the Supply bill tonight and 1t
now goes to the Assembly and to Conference Com
mtee for the settlement of the numerous petty dis
putes which will doubtless arise over the smaller items
The Governors veto Of the Imbecile Apportionment
bill was received tonight Three opponents OF the bill
were absent from the Chamber, and the majority took
adyaptag Of the circumstance TO rush the bill through
over the Governors veto, in which they succeeded by
vote of 10 tot.
Yeas-Allen, Benedict, Bowen, Chatheld, Dickinson.
Foster Graham, Harrower LEWIS, LowSTy MedGwaP'
"S@w"Adams, Baker, Cock. johnson, Lord Robertson,
and nemann.
In the Assembly this morning Mr.. Prince from the
Judiciary Committee, reported adversely to number
OF proposed amendments to the Code which were agreed
TO- The bill regulate the fees for searches In the office
of the Clerk OF the County Of NewYork was referred to
the Committee Of the Whole report was received from
Mr.. Judd Of the Conference Committee, the New
York Charter ndng the passage of the bill with
an amendment that nothing therein shall be construed
TO authorize sectarian appropratons long debate en-
sued, 1t being maintained on the one
side that the clause ought to be put
mat the language used was sufficiently clear, and that
the prohibition was OF no CONSEQUENCE as te power
present charter TO make sectarian suon
appropriations having been made under the Tax levy
Committee agreed to- and will probably be appointed
today communication was received from Controier
members since April TO- and referring the Legislature 10
the courts for an adjudication OF the question:
bill was passed in relation to the Court OF Impeach-
ment which provides that that court shall be Court OF
Record; that 1t shall meet at Albany, and the Clerk and
officers of the Senate shall be the Clerk and officers OF
said court and the President Of the Senate shall preside
therein or his absence the Chief Judge OF the Court
of Appeals Or in the absence OF both such other mem;
and kept by the Clerk and description thereof re-
resae to the Court for the trial OF Impeachments shall
applicable thereto ana us powers ahd dues 30 iar
as consistent with the Constitution.
There is here that proceedings have been In
tiated In NewYork to put stop to the nqutous inu-
ence which lie exercised this Legislature by A. D. Bar
her and the crowd Of lobbyists he employs, and that
measures been taken to secure the arrest OF the
whole gang by tomorrow. One OF their number who
has been very active in frustrating honest legislation In
times past quarreled with the Others and has re-
TO certain persons the number and nature Of
some Of the bills much wsi'h hes mode &c
oneraona Tho extent Of his disclosures have been
asfsaed are appended hereto and the amounts offered
for adverse votes thereon As rule, most Of these bills
are the Democrats and with few
voted In the wrong direction, though there are some
among them. who occupy somewhat the Position Of
leaders who Is said refuse to cooperate with the lob
bvists even on bills they secretly opposed to, with
ont the payment Of large sums for their influence.
The following the list referred, 10 high 900
bsine offered for votes In the negative most of Them
while $500 can DO obtained for each vote against the
three first:
Assembiy Bfus-522 Attorney Generals bill co., Oyer
and Termlner oil, To punish fraud and pecuation by
public officers I Brooklyn Ferry; lc, Brooklyn Street