New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-30
TIE CANAL DISCUSSION RENEWED.

TIE CANAL DISCUSSION RENEWED.
The EVENING SESSION IN THE sEHATE-cHAsTENED
SPIRIT OF TIE MEMBERS or THE RING
SPEECHES IN FAVOR OF INVESTIGATION By
SENATORS BRADLEY AND LowERY-JARvis LORDS
PERSONAL EXPLANAIIoN-rna MESSAGE TIE
SPECIAL ORDER FOR TODAY
ICY TELEGRAPH TO TIRE TRIBUSEl
HALBANY, March 29.-S0mc CT the legislators who
went from Albany illplcascd with the work of
thursday aud Friday in the Assembly and Senate
toward the investigation of canal f;aud', de-
parted with the intention Of doing what they could
to Obstruct progress in that direction
upon their return. Several of them have
come back with chastened spirits and with no
zeal to act rs obsructionsts They have seen their
constituents in the meantime, and have walked up
to the fact that great 1lme of public indignation
has been aroused against the system and the men to
be blamed for the immense frauds denounced 10 the
Governors message and exposed ia detail
in The TRIBUNE. Contact with this healthy public
feeling appears to have somewhat modified the
views Of certain Senators, and perhaps some Assem-
blymen, who are now anxious TO DO considered
hearty advocates of reform and unspaIing invcsti-
cation. In the Senate this evening there only
two speeches upon the special order of the session.
the Governors message 1t was expected
by nearly all that Senator WoOdin
would come 10 and add third
to the addresses, but Mr. Woodin was not present
at the session at all The message WAS made
special order for tomorrow evening, when it is be-
leyed that Senator Woodin will make an ex-
tended and elaborate address sustaining the
Governors position, and urging full in
yestigation and radical reform. Senators Par
menter and Wood will also speak If there
is tIme and the addresses which are expected from
Senators Jacobs, Johnson, and Others may be de-
layed until another session. Senator johnson APP
peared tonight in the new attitude OF urging
promptest procedure with regard to the mes
sage and advising that 1t DO made
special order until the debate on 1t is finished. He
said that he had been represented in some papers as
trying to delay the consideration OF the subject;
but as the message has assumed such Importance In
the view of the Senate. he favored making it the
special order for tomorrow morning and sticking
to 1t until the Senators are through with 1T.
Because of the fact that Mr.. johnson favored dila
tory motions Friday when the resolution for the
Commission to be appointed by the Governor was
before the Senate. his zeal tonight was explained
by some of the Senators as due to conversations
with his constituents since Friday.
Jarvis Lord vOuchsafed few words, rising to
question of privilege. He corrected some misstate-
ments of figures which had been made in news
paper report of his speech Of Thursday last. aud
then made q few disjointed remarks about
his position, declaring that there was the
same howl in 1870 as at present, and that
ho had no contracts after 1862 and
could not have had any hand In wasting the vast
amount which Is talked about-not dollar. Mr..
Lord made ample reference to his opposition to low
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