New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-10
OPPOSING MONOPOLY.

| TIE GENERAL PIPELINE BILL ORDERED 10 A THIRD
READING ~ THE neutrality-suspicious. TO THE
| rSmNRSr DOMAIN CLAUSE BY Mr.. AEvoRD.
rrRoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNg.l
| ALBANY April 9.-The grand project Of
building pipeline from the oil regions Of Pennsylvania
ohc -caboard defeated in the Pennsylvania Legisla
ure only 70 be rcucwedn the Legislature Of NcwIor II
Baltimore may not the commercial benefit Of re-
timing the crude OH Buffalo, Rochester and Brooklyn per-
haps can The advocates OF the project have asked the
Legs iaturc OF his state TO pass general bill permitting
tho organization OF pipeline companies, 1t having
already given permission for the organization
Of railroad companies. The pipeline cOmpa-
mics are also to have that most important
Of all the powers given TO raroads-that Of oh aiming
needed aad by the right OF eminent domain 1nis right
is that OF obtaining land for which the owner has asked
m cxhorbltant price, by the award Of commission ap
pointed by a Judge of the Supreme Court, the
commission naming the price which the rail.
way company shall pay, and the owner OF the
land shall accept. The persons who desire to build
pipe lines think this right of eminent domain au indis
peusabe part Of any law the subject without It, they
say, railroad companies opposing THAR schemes
would be aole, by buying land aud refusing them pas
sage to prevent the laying Of pipe to any desired
point. The members OF the Legislature from Western
NewYork are unanimously favor Of the BILL and II is
through their strenuous efforts that the bill obtained its
present advanced position the calendar. II was
passed by the Senate fortnight and was taken up
for consideration by the Assembly to-day
All OF the opposition 10 the bill came from Mr. Alvord,
it might be said, he the only person who spoke
against H. The chief advocate OF the bill was Mr.. Allen
OF Buffalo, who made long argument In its favor In
cdenally the Standard Oil Company OF Cleveland was
denounced for control OF the oil refining industry
and IL was prOphescd that IL the bill was defeated 1t
would he because monoposts had controlled the dec
sion of the Assembly. II would seem from some things
that were said Governor Robinson anticipates the
passage the bill by the Assembly and has requested
the TO examine the law on the subject
Of eminent domain and report whether the Legislature
has the right to grant it to pipeline companies.
When the bin announced Mr.. AlyOrd moved that
the section granting the right OF eminent domain be
stricken out IL unconstitutional in his opinion.
Mr. Allen replied that the bill had passed the Judiciary
Committee withoutbeug condemned as unconstitutional
Mr.. Alvord denied that a pipeline was a public insti
tuition. 1t WAS intended to carry only one com
modify 1t could not be used for general
purposes, "a railroads could be used It had been
decided that cemeteries which were under the control Of
directors not public institutions and private prop
except by private sale lie was now in favor OF ask
hg the opinion OF the Aforementioned respect
Whatever that DECISION might be he MIR Avordj
would abide by IT, Mr.. Allen said the bill was
Of am article which, suce 1859 had SO Increased in
quantity that had become the third among the eX-
ports OF the country. Pennsylvania yielded 4O,-
600 barrels OF OIL per day the Cattaraugus dis
trict. 1000 barrels. Railroads were equipped in
and Ed' nothing else yet the right Of eminent
domain was granted these railroads by that state.
The railroads of the State had resUrted to the cOnstu
Ona objection because they were obliged TO abandon
every other objection There precedent for the
measure In Pcnnsy vana, where pipelines had been laid
under IA law similar to this Tho Legislature
OF New-YOrk ought TO pass the bin, and let
| the Governor and the Attorney General decide 'on
its COnstitutiOBay. 10 costs 90 cents Dafre 10 carry
oil from Oil CITY Buffalo, and only % cents 10 Ceve-
land and the latter was miles farther away than the
former BY the advantage OF the pipeline Cleye-
| land had added $4,000 TO her population. The
standard OIL Company refined ninC-tenths OF all
the OIL There less than ten reineries in New-NOrk
state The Standard oil Company had crushed out the
rchneres NJ Buffalo, Erie and other places III TINS state
Mr. AvOrd denied that he opposed the measure out OI
desire to protect the railroads One OF tho strongest ar
guments against the bill, in his opinion, was hat the
crude oil would be taken 20 the seaboard and trans
ported 10 Europe for refining thereby deprvng the Ia
borers and manufacturers OF the State OF employment
The bill, after being slightly amended, was ordered to
third reading