New-York tribune., 1875-05-17
ALBANY.
THE SUPPLY BILL.

A SECOND CONFERENCE COMMITTEES NEcEssARY-
THE NEW CAPITOL AND THE EIMIRA REvORMA-
TORY CLAUSES TIE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF DIP
FERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO HoUsEs-sENAToB
WOOD AND LAST YEARS SUPPLY BILL
tBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE rRrBUSEI
ALBANY, May 16.-For the first time in number
Of years a second Conference Committee Ia neees-
sary on the Supply bill. This year, as lasA the
longest and hardest contest is over the management
Of the New Capitol. The Senate Committee insist
on the Senate amendment putting the management
of the work in the hands of the Lieutenant
Governor, the Controller, and the Attor-
ney-General, and the Assembly Com
mittee insists with equal tenacity on the
bill as passed by the Assembly, providing for new
Commissioners to be appointed by the Governor.
The former amendment leaves the work practically
so the Democrats claim-in the hands OF the Con-
troller Leut.-Gov. Dorsheimer is here only during
the session. and Attorney General Pratt is an infre-
quent visitor the CAPITOL with little time to spare
from the duties of his Office The Senate, too, left
Superintendent Eaton in charge, and this, added to
Controller Hopkinss management at the head OF the
enterprise is more than the Democrats are wilhngto
yield and anything more than a mixed commission
with two Democrats and one Republican on it, the
Republican Senate are equally unwilling to grant
Another difference as serious has sprung up about
the Elmra Reformatory llr. McGure's particular
care. The appropriation in this case has been ami
cably reduced from $275,O00 to 100000, but no
common ground has been discovered in regard to
the management of the work. Mr.. McGuire and his
friends have been actively at work aH the Winter to
remove the superintendent. The Assembly legislated
him out of office; the Senate amendment renstated
him. The half of the Conference Committee which
Speaker Mcclure appointed was carefully packed to
secure his personal ends at the Elmira RefOrmatory
and party ends at the new Capitol. The Senate
Conference Committee proved as uncompromisng
as that of the House, and q deadlock has
resulted. All to-day and yesterday has been
spent in informal consultation but without success.
new Committee is inevitable. One of the i'll
uences actively employed TO force the Chairman Of
the Senate Committee Senator Wood TO yield Is
understood to be suppressed report of the Assembly
Judiciary Committee IN regard to his action on last
years Supply bill.
The Senate has investigated the matter and ac-
quilted him of all blame. An investigation was or
dered by the Assembly by its Judiciary Committee,
and its report reaches very different conclusions.
The evidence before both Senate and Assembly
Committees narrowed the Issue down to direct
question of veracity between Senator Wood and
Gen. Batcheler the Chairman Of the
Ways and Means Committee last year.
The report of the Judiciary Committee
both sides and concludes that Gen. Batcheller has
told the truth. The report in this form has been
signed by most. if not all, the Democratic members
of the Committee. Mr.. Yedder Republican, amends
the report so to exonerate both Nessrs Wood and
Batcheller, and signs that minority report. IL
no compromise is reached the report will be
made az it il. II some adjustment IL eff
fected, it may be very materially altered
before Mr.. Waehner, Chairman Of the
Judiciary Committee, presents it 70 the Assembly.
Upon the greater part of the Supply bill the Com
mittee will tomorrow report an agreement. The
outstanding points of difference are besides the two
mentioned, the Asylum for the blind at Batavia.
the Assembly appropratng $1,000 and the Senate
So 5OO) and the Insane Asylum buiding at Pougll-
keepsie tine Assembly approprating $4,000
and the Senate $5O,0OO), the Innare Asylum at
bliddletown lthe Assembly approp iating $4,000
and the Senate Sl23, 800. The examination Of wit
nesses before the Canal Investigating Commission
and the specified objects to which the appropriation
for the Quarantine Commission 10 he applied, are
also in abeyance Altogether the Senate Conference
Committee agree 10 rcCede from the amendments in
creasing the original appropriations by the Ass"It
bly, to the amount of S2S7 79O leaving The amount
of the supply as il stands at present, at b2,2I3oD2
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