New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-06
AFFAIRS AT ALBANY.
THE MANHATTAN RAILWAY SUITS.
AssEMBLYMAN ROOsEvELTs CHANGES AGAINST

ALBANY. April 5.-Ihe charges made against
Ex-Atorncy Word and Judge Westbrook OF the
Supreme Court. for his management and the otn'r
for bs decisions in the brought against the Man
haitian Railway Company, were formally lana before inc
LEGISLATURE to-day by Assenbyman Roosevelt OF New
! York Mr. Roosevelt not only orally submitted the
charges but al moved that they shoad he investred
by the Judiciary Committee. The adoption OF rejection
Of the resolution postponed by the hour for the a
| ionrnnent Of the Assembly arriving. Mr. Roosevelt
spoke substantially as follows:
Ihaye introduced resolutions fully aware that IT
was an Exceedingly important ami serious task that
undertaking, and lly aware tnt ~ Soi yinid
proof TO suDstanate rue chalses inle I,in
have right 10 lsk his House 10 adopt the resolution
do not make the loose, general statements maue III me
newspapers. mako specific charges against 'he gc.
| tlemcn named IN my resolution lhesc suiS Nsto
brought against fraudulent company-ine Manhaaan
| Flevafed RAILWAY. This company which had
nominal stock OF 81 100000 but really only $lOoUOtnat
- IL noascs.ed mt > pcr cent OF its nominal wealth An
aarccrnent was concluded with that company by two
otncr bona tdc companie' ny Whica tHey PuIJmuseu H.
right of running their roade Ihey prchaseu INC
franchise o running then own roads, that L. they Pu
nv c,Indge lanes Emott Of Newl ork in August, 1880
iak II % ,aan Nv concerned in this fraud are known
| throughout New-York as being men whose
financial condition Is m% ,het stoten Gop
Deliberately that the three four wealthy stock gamb-
ers who interested ia these suts were n,i W''U
renntabie business man. Under these circumstances II
would have behooycd tho judiciary and me gentlemen
state to handled with peculiar care Iherc was
salt brought ia May last by the Attorhe Tn
the Manhattan Company to dissolve II; lHey nSI en-,
poyed Mr.. Burt Harrison to nyesilsatc Ine oDsiUn
| thai it was fraudulent corporation; that
| it had legal existence at AL anu nn, t
| i'm TO contract an additional debt Of thirteen millions
which was aced upon the community at large was AL
Under such Circumstances the Attorney General acted
perfectly proper In bringing sur 10 ueci1v r ne
suddenly discontinued this SUIT ana after TWO ul
| bring. another admitting the most important point IN
| ,hn nat
hitting the legality Of the corporation anu u
clring that ii was nsOycn objection WHEN ne knew
woul,I be much easier than the one hfst
raised This ought never to have been DISCONTINUED
absolutely against the interests 0 tle peUP D
The to change ms suit so a. 10 aa no
time one the employed by the ATTORNEY -uehera
| was employed believe by jay Gould. -
Judge WcsiDrOOks share III the TRANSACTION uu nor
come in until January 49, when suit was brought be-
| fore him lie then expressed IN his opinion strongly
| there WAS no qiicstion OF its legality. Then there
petition to have Two IcoeFeT' apIui,h ro 30
| be receivers After twenty-iour hOnrs delAy-pLACi
cay only three or iolr @ 80 wSo,o WIS fhe
vce-presdcnt Of the Wabash Railroad, OF when jay
c,l, vns ,resi,IenT ana VINO was reputed be simply
Goulds clerk, and the other was one OF GOus lawyers
| "a mau vino nad himself procured an hDunctoh against
The stat 10 prohibit IL collecting taxes upon the
raj road one for bringing the su To- dis
the company because The taxes hal HOt Derh
pointed take care OF the interests Of tue
people, which receiver hat Deon the very mas employed
to prevent people from collecting inelr taxes from
| the company II the same time the Judge rad ap
| -
me affairs OF he company and IL Is not Oh record Thai
| he ever performed any work Tie did receive - 900
At the the receivers pcuuonedl Tor leave to
issue certificates OF lndeottdhe's lhe J"ge granted
thai petition Cords oicc while holding cour IN the
Office OF the men, whom report held and think
held correctly. n nothing pnl Mcany s"arper ihest
certificates were Issued under sucn terms AS 10 make II
impossible 10 take inen ui. Inc Manhattan stOck was
only paying d per cent then. these certificates
| 10 the amount u Sl0Oo'O00 were issued 80
that all should tie taken g per cent
and at par or none should be tlkgn 1t was an
tnat simply microus Inc affair went on ana
,fn n "A
N,11T any re,r,e -Four DAYS III cl he teegrupucl an
allow road 10 20 out Of the bands Of the
receivers back into The nanus Oh the Manhattdn
Company. which by that time had become synony
nous With going into the of Jay GOuld.
Cyrus ". Field sud Russell sage THIS statement ia an
absolute fact aud can be verified ~ shpId ne IL
vcsgdted. Finally court Is held, where nnal decision
l. rendercd-not III pubic cOui where you w0uG'eA
pect "a case IKE TINS ahceune Tl4,OoOVOO "hcn me
Attorney aud the Judge knew weii was simply
ssindlc UPON large number VI innocent slocEAodeTs
td ns sS' ba %"' h' St Ia aSS
tOrHey General ara private bedroom III tHc DelsVah
House. 1t simply "a farce 10 have held 1t. IL can
twice nrid cOuI GOud's Oihcc, once up IA private
room h. appointed one Of his OWL relatives 20 take
charge of tue that at one time thry employed
,,,', ,i., N|cre mr. crrI,nr az, lsf mat turv M
porltrd rs receivers men were nOtorIuusly and
Ueo. we're nroceeolng tnar All of ms decision, were
rendered ia FAY of company winch was not only IN
solvent nOtOriOasy fraud, and had been pro
In addition 10 ni- II must be remembered that facts
have already been published reflect the reverse OF
credit upon Judge NestDroOk. We have rignt TO de
mand that Judiciary shall he kept beyond reprOacn,
and We Il Iisnt to demand that If We mud men act
ing that there Is not only suspicion, but almost
certainty that they have had dealing, with men whose
interests Ia conflict with those OF thc public ueJ
s.Ould least required 10 prove that the charges are
There Ought to have been nNcs st1lOn "
these charges long ago II most astonishing tuing
durig three months such Inv esugatlOn
MOI al-Ac'
Lx,Speacr AyOrd opposed the adoption OF the resOlu
ton ana for the purpose, he said O permitting Mr.
loosoN cit think about the wisdom OF pressing the
resolution talked against time I'll the hour OF adj
journmcnt Of the Assembly. He said that he had seen
many POPULATIONS in the state broken down 10y loose |
charges made IN The Legislature. lie had himself re-
fused TO Introduce charges against Judges Barnard,
McCann and CardOzO because proof
offered Of their truth III the time. Subsequently definite
testimony placed before the judiciary Committee
and the Judges impeached Mr. Roosevelt, he
Thought ought to place his evidence before the judiciary
Committee Judge WestbrOOk certainly had Il right to
defend mis- character. AS for Hamilton Ward, being out
of Office he could not be reached 10 matter what he
had done.
The Assembly was then adjourned by Speaker Patter-
SON Roosevelt Gay he VIII press hls resolution to-
morrow.