New-York tribune., 1873-05-29
The BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
TIE BRIDGE BILL PASSED BY THE assembly, -
IBY TELEGRAPH THE rRIBUsE.l

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ALBANY, May 2s.-The Brooklyn Bridge BILL as
amended in the Corumittee of Commerce and Navi-
CATION of the Assembly, game up for third reading
tonight when Mr.. Jacobs stated to the House that
after it's passage and return to the Senate Confer
ence Committee would be appointed which would
80 perfect the bill as to make it entirely satisfactory
to the people of New-York and Brooklyn
and everybody else. Mr.. Pierson said he
would rather have the bill right before
it passed the Assembly than to trust to its being
made right in the Senate. Asit now stood it was, IN
his opinion, all wrong. Mr.. Higgins of Brooklyn
opposed the passage Of the BILL and thought that
the subject should be allowed TO lie over TO the next
session of the Legislature, and In the mean time the
people of Brooklyn would have chance to express
their views as to what they desired in the premises
Mr.. Van Cott advocated the bill, as did also Mr..
Worth, and it passed by vote of u to SO.
INDIGNATION OF THE BROOKLYN TAxPAYERs-rHE
MAYORS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE RING.
No local event for many years has created
SO much genuine excitement in Brooklyn, especially
among the heavily burdened tax payers THE TRBUSEs
revelation Of the underhand design OF the East River
Bridge Ring obtain by legislation at Albany the re-
turn Of the OF usoney which they claim TO
have invested the enterprise with per cent interest
The newsdeaers state that they nnd 1t impossible TO
keep up with the increasing demand for the daily issues
of THE TRIBUNE II ia known that many OF the Rings
adherents about the City Hall and the United States
buildings are absent from their usual haunts and IL
is stated they hastenod TO Albany TO lobby
against defeat Of the amended BILL or course. the
sympathy Of those paid advocates is s In favor OF the
Bridge Ring and they profess TO believe that the bill OF
Assemblyman Jacobs will be passed and the private
stockholders allowed TO withdraw from the work But
among the people-those who have been called upon TO
nav for the workhe united conviction appears TO be
that the Ring willingly remained IN the Bridge Company
40 long as they could avoid investigating committees
and public scrutiny into their financial conduct; but
that now when they longer control the contracts
for material draw further millions from New-York
and Brooklyn until they have themselves paid the
arrears their stock they determined 10 abandon
the enterprise The action OF the Ring Is also bitterly
denounced by the real estate firms who with hardly an
exception OF the opinion that the advance OF
the city has been materially retarded by their
mismana cement Said prominent'rea estate agent II
trust and believe that THE TRIBUNE will achieve de-
csiye victory in behalf OF the hsKngs
ley Ring. You more than match for them, and,
am confident, will eventually win. II these stock
holders are retire at ALL let 1t be like any other man
who puts his money into an experiment and loses It,
they must draw out, why let them CO. but do MT call
upon this city 10 pay them what they have invested
The inactivity and apparent indifference OF Mayor
Powell in this crisis is severely commented on chiefly
among honest Democrats who aided in eectng him.
tax-uayer who was discussing the subject Fulton
ave- car, yesterday, expressed the sentiments OF his 1
hearers the public at large when he said tnat Od
Martin Kalbneisch would have been laundering after
these stockholders If he occupying the Office of
Mayor"
Great confidence is felt that the Jacobs BILL n
finally passed by the Legislature, will be vetoed by
the Governor. Earnest efforts making in Albany
by the most prominent citizens identified with the inter
ests OF reform and they report hopeful indications OF
success gentleman said TO TRIBUNE reporter, yes
,hcf he had
in 40 great danger now, and their local organs
hibed their fears in the eagerness with which they
sroye 20 up the most papabe frauds and ~ deny
evident facts The Brooklyn Ring he continued, would
be more difficult 10 break up than the NewYork Ring.
hut the people were determined 1t should be done.
There was no city in the world with a
more honest voting population, one which
could be 90 earnest when they knew just
what ought be done. They had been blinded In the
mast by tho adroltness with which OF thorough
spectabty had been associated with rng managers In
all commissions and departments. case In point was
the list of ten 90 whom Mr. Kingsley assigned his 100
shares of Bridge stock Then, while the NewYork Ring
had been bold and fearless Brooklyn Ring simply
cunning, though less unscrupulous They steal no
vouchers bring in outsiders TO assist them in their
schemes os plumber and have no Connolly to turn States
evidence against them IL Is only recently that their
schemes have fully realized by the people, under
the light which THE TRIBUNE has thrown upon them.
and the people are thoroughly reused
CARD FROM Mr. WOODWARD.
TO the Bdifor Of Ths TrtbsNe.
SIR; NV attention is called this morning to
an article on the Bridge Frauds In which n is stated
that certain stock have been transferred me
on the books Of the East River Bridge Company Your
article is first information have had in the matter
have never bought any OF the stock and have
an intimation from any quarter that stock be,
had been transferred either for my in
trust for. others. know nothing whatever of the
matter. Ny business to Albany yesterday only
with the coming review OF Second
Division by the Governor did not while there meet
any member OF the Legislature, or any connected
with the Bridge Company. JEo. b. WOODWARD.
Eer- York, May %, 1873