New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-30
ALBANY.
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PARLIAMENTARY NOTES
,,,ov y-zs REGULAR coRREsfoSDhSro' ,n -.
I,a,Sy. Jan. %. Assemblymah "isn' nv
aucod to-day bill for the extension VI 'no
Yo,t Elevated Railroad, generally Known ono W.
.n,..,w;ch-st. road" and extending the tune III
vhica the Company was requlcu " Wiz
charter to complete the road ,. main
Tho hill proyides for side tracks Horns tno nun,
In. a. now authorized, to Broadway. the urahu
r'e,,oI Denot and the Central Park also for COM
,r;ss;onsrs to he appointed by the Governor 10
..a;1,..a q suitable route east OF fourth-
from the East River to Harlem. The ROAD sIlaii
=. milf 10 Central Park within Is months Inc
lifetime charter provides for compensation ior
S.uo,as sustained by property owners on 'he
H. of the road and for the payment OF hVe per
80, % .ha earnings TO the city for the use OF the
-.,ooto The Company claims to nave car
- over 1900 passengers per day over tlat
rort;on of the road already built between the
BATTERY and Thirty-fonrth-st.. Tor the last TWO
wears. Accompanying the bin is a petition ASKING
for an extension of the road signed by Charies
OsConor. Vim. Orton, VIM. +. Dodge, Henry ward
Beecher. " Barney, and 5000 Others. The Company
ssks no aid from the city, and urges that 1t has spent
over sSOO,OOO on the enterprise, and has been the
first TO nut in actual operation any form OF rapid
transit in the City of New-iork
Mr. Wight also introduced bill providing that in
no single civil action for SANDER or libel the party
accused shall be held to bail in greater SUN than
ea00 and if there be several actions the sum total
of the bail demanded shall not exceed 5000. 1t
also provides that in actions for Islander or libel now
pending where bail has been given i'll excess of these
figures the court shall be required to reduce the sum
t. the amounts named i'll this act.
Senator Fox introduced to-day bill for cross
town horse railroad through Forty-secOnd-st. Mr..
Spencer also introduced similar bill IN the Assem-
bly,. which makes not less than five bills now pend
ing for a railroad through that street. Senator Coe
intended to introduce but did not get chance) a
bill comprising the amendments to the Charter OF
Brooklyn agreed upon by the Committee of Fifty
They are substantially the same as published in
THE TRIBUNE before the meeting of the Legislature
The Assembly considered large number of bills
in Committee of the Whole, and ordered to third
reading without amendment, the bill drawn by Mr.
Bergh to facilitate the operations of the Society TO
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The bill au
thorzing the Clerk of Sessions to have two deputies
end limiting his salary to s. 000, and the deputies
20 $500 was also ordered to a third reading.
Arguments were heard before the Assembly Com
mittee on Cities this afternoon on the bill to repea
the act of last year creating the Commission of Char
liable Correction, and the Committee decided to re-
port the bill favorably tomorrow.
Assemblyman Bennett desires a correction of the
impression that might be drawn from an Albany
dispatch printed in The TRIBUNE, asserting that hi
resolutions calling upon the AttorneyGeueral to be
gin suit against Treasurer Raines were instigatet
by political considerations intended TO influence
canal appointments. His motives, he AYERS were
good whatever use others may have made OF his
resolutions
THE ABBoTT-MADDES CAsE-NR ABBoTTs PLEA
ALBANY, Jan. 29.-The Senate took up the
Of Madden agt Abbott for the right 70 seat from
the Xth District this morning, but the Clcrb
had finished the reading OF the majority and minority
vepOrts and the testimony taken by the Committee
Senator Middleton moved an adjournment, which war
carried and the goes till tomorrow. The fol
lowing the substance OF the argument To be presented
by Mr.. Abbott in defense of his claim TO Teanihis seat
as IL will appear in The Argus Tomorrow morning:
The fact IN relation to the AbbOttNadden case is that
admitting that the returns from the lid District OF Falls
burg shold have been canvassed by the Board o
County vet, when taken IN connection witt
evidence relation TO the returns from the lid DIS
trict Of FOrrestburc, said returns would not have
changed the result deprived Mr. Abbott Of his seat
il not denied that one Of the inspectors OF the IL
Election District of FOrTesburg took from the hands
the Supervisor of that town the returns for that d
and reduced the number OF votes haV
Ing been cast Tor Mr. Abbott from 20 TO 49, order
for senator should tally with the entir,
number OF cast, aud tDat statement OF that
made by said Supervisor before the Board OF COUNTY
Conyassers and was the principal reason why SAID
turns were not canvassed, but disallOwed as beDs
fraudulent and VOID.
Mr.. Abbott offered before the Senate Committee or
Privileges aDd Elections the sworn afhdavits OF the
Aforesaid Supervisor 10 the manner in which saiC
seturns were altered also the afiavits OF A.
voters IN SAID district that they had cast their
him Tor Senator WHICH, II allowed, would entitle
lls seat as Senator for the Xth District Mr.. ABBOTT
also offered 10 prove that he entitled to
than were allowed him b. the returns from other dis
tr1ets; that fraud and illegal voting had in many
Instances been resUrted 10 for tie election OF Mr. Mad
nen, ana 10 defeat ham III the election. Yet the Commit
Gee lefuses To receive all evidence except that offered
VIII the Senate sacrifice It's good by refusing I,
hear testimony whlcA, II heard, would uudoubtod y
retain MN Ia his seatI
CLlILDRENS RIGHTS.