The New York herald., 1876-03-21

and unmanly attack nufactured out OF whole cloth
against myself and my fellow colleagues Of
contempt which all such scurrilous and cons
temptibe attacks deserve 10 be treated; but out Of
respect 10 myself and this House, thought would
rise and denounce all those articles malicious will
fu falsehoods without the slightest foundation.
or 1s and ~ @euemsn s aose
long as | am member Of this House Will
do my duty in honest. fearless manner.
fearing not who takes offence my course
so long as fulfil my duties 10 myself and my constit
uents and TO the dignity OF this House. Now. Mr..
Speaker, am democratic In my ideas about politics.
religion, speech and the freedom or the press;
but must claim, sir. that any newspaIer
that will attack any member OF this
House certainly should receive the condemnation
this respectable body Of intelligent gentlemen until
II could state some facts that Il could make these
scurrous remarks on, and sir. will offer resolution
asking the Speaker OF this House TO appoint tnves
ugating committee to examine into this matter and to
report to this House at the rst favorable opportunity
Kan followed by Mr. whitson, who said that
he also rose to question of privilege He said his
name had been mentioned In article in the HERALD.
written by some whom nobody knew, but who says
he is ''one Who Knows" He said that the bill had
been very fully discussed, and that hearing
upon II had been given few weeks ago by the COM
mttee, when Mr.. Killian appeared and argued IN IA
Of the bl and by gentlemen representing the rail-
roads against it II was shown at that time by the
latter that the Third avenue road were run at
intervals OF twenty seconds, and OF his own
personal knowledge he could assert that IL would
physical mpossibiliiy TO run more cars on that
road In his judgment he did not think that the
travelling public along that route could be fully accom-
modaed except by rapid transit An elevated railroad
there could alone solve the problem. The bill
impossblity and adudged such by the committee.
Ifpassed 1t would be impractcable aud attempt to
enforce 1t would do
sERIoUs DAMAGE TO RAILROAD COMPANIES
which thou oh nuhIic servants verv convenient
ones and had rights we'll as individuals He would
no said like TO see the interests OF public trav
eers taken or He stated that as far as he was
concerned he knew the charges made in the HERALD
were !" false and malicious" In every particular. He
denied that there ring" in the Railroad Com
mttee, and closed by saying he had no apologies to
make for his the committee TO report adversely
on the bill al recorded my vote in favor OF an ad-
report" said he, sand am proud OF that rec
ord"
Then Mr. whitson sat down as though he had
uttered sentence that would make small boys at
school wonder hereafter why it is that all Assembly
men are proud OF their records. The excitement
occasioned by these questions OF privilege
had scarcely died away before the order
of resolutions up, and, true to n
pledges Belts wenZel took their SEATS determined
not TO let the order pass by without vote on the mo-
tion TO reconsider being taken the adverse report
OF the Railroad Committee. II will be remembered
that there doubt last Friday as TO whether
Mr. Belts motion had not been cut of entirely by
his giving way to Mr.. Worth, who did not
renew IT, he had promised But II seems that while
the Worth took in offering the resolution he did
which finally ended in an adjournment efectually pre-
vented action being then taken tho notion 1t did
prevent the motion icing considered as actually
on the table Speaker pro tenn. Sloan so. decided
eIf ttaA
the motion, and the journal approved, Mr. Belts
knew just where he stood when the proper time came
He called the motion the moment the regular order
was reached and called the yeas and nays It, II Is
probable that It would have been salts
factory had 1t not been called up this evening, as
there were so many abscntees, but as there was
prospect OF there being much thinner House to-mor
account OF the Syracuse Convention, ON the
whole 1t is just well that the motion was taken
up as promptly 1t was. 1t was evident
that the calling OF the yeas and nays was
not relished by many, for the absentoes had 10 be
called before several members cared about going ON the
record Tho vote was close one, tho motion being
defeated by only six votes, for which New Workers
may 'thank" the New York members who voted in
the negative. The following is the vote:-
THE voTE-YRAs-
Walter Ballou Oneida ldeml
George W. weiant, Rockland (deml
Adophus E. wenzel, Sullivan (deml
George W. Belts, New York (repl
Patrick J. Carly, New York (deml
John Calvin, New York ldeml.
Isaac l. Hayes New York (deml
Martin P. Klan, New York tdeml
Stephen J. o'Hare New York (deml
James j. Slevin New York (deml
Archibald Watts, New York repl
Bertrand Chafee Eric (dcm.)
Edward Gallagher, Erie trep.)
William W. Lawson, Erie Crep)
Charles =. Tabor, Erie tdem.)
Edgar Shannon, Cataraugus (rep)
William V. CIeary, Rensselaer, tden.)
Thomas d. Coleman, Albany tdem.)
william J. Maher, Albany ldeml
Alexander H. Campbell, Lewis idem)
James S. Davenport, otsego tdem.)
George scramng, otsego tdem.j
James H. Flanagan Oneida (dem)
Amos A. Birrel, Niagara tdem.)
Jonas W. Barron, Niagara trepl
John ". Roscoe, Schoharie trep)
Danlol Bradley, Kings tdem.)
Michael Coney, Kings tdem.l
Albron p. Higgins, Kings (rep)
Charles D. l. Lyon Kings ldem.)
Samuel o Gardiner Suffolk tdem.)
Samuel D. Holiday, Tompkins ldem.)
Thomas B. Hamilton, Ulster dem,
George NJ. voorhes, Montgomery (dem)
C. Fred Herbst Oneida trepJ
George J. Post, Cayuga trep)
Isaac H. Maynard Delaware (dem)
Edmund Miller. Chemung (deml
Barton G. Morse Greene ldem)
Judson O. Nelson, Courtlandt tdem)
Seth Stanley. Ontario (deml
william H. Whitney, Chautauqua ldem.)
NAYS
Sumner Baldwin, Allegheny rspj
Lansing Becker, Jefferson dem
Joseph d. Billings Orleans lrep)
Jonas W. Brown Niagara (repJ
william f. Calkins, Essex (rep)
Arthur Clark, wyoming repl
Thomas W. Green, 0swego (rep)
John Preston, Oswego (repl
George D. Sloan oswego trepl
Creen Cpnaeee iron