New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-20
"wANT OF CONFIDENCE" IN MIR KIMBALL.
HIS COMMITTEE DISCHARGED FROM CONSIDER.

HIS COMMITTEE DISCHARGED FROM CONSIDER.
ALTON OF AN IMPORTANT BILL
Albany, April 10 speclaD. -Assemblyman Kimball,
Of st. Lawrence County, who has so keen q desire
TO amend Mayor Grants Rapid Transit bill In tho
interest Of tho Manhattan Elevated Railway, by
authorizing that railway TO construct large loop
In the Battery Park, and TO put third line Of rails
on several OF its routes, had vote Of 4" want Of
confidence registered against him by the Assembly
to-day. Mr. KImbaL last January insisted upon being
made chairman Of the Committee Railways. Other
gentlemen insisted upon being members Of that COM
mittee with tho result that the bills for the rcforma
ton OF abuses OF railroad management suggested by
tho Railroad Commissioners have lain dormant in
that committee for two weeks past
Among the bills Of importance smothered by the
Railroad Committee the bill of Mr. Bauer, suspend
ing the Cantor Act for the sale Of street railway
franchises at auction so far the city Of Rochester
Is concerned Tho design OF the act Is 10 permit Of
some composition in the street railway business in
THAI city. One corporation now controls all the
street railway lines In that city, and II prevents
any other line nom getting foothold by bidding
higher than any ono else whenever street railway
franchise Is put UP at auction. Mr. Bauer, Of
Rochester introduced his bin early in February, and
Of course, the street railway monopoly OF
Rochester immediately fought his measure before
Mr. Kimbars Railroad Committee. That committee
was 80 much impressed with tho monopoly's argu-
pents that Il resolved consider tho measure longer
Today Mr. Bancr became impatient at the Railroad
Committees delay In making any report upon the
BILL and having fears that II would be stranglod by
the committee, no moved that 1t should be discharged
from the further consideration Of the measure. Mr.
KImba resisted hercely The adoption OF Mr.. Bauers
motion. Then q storm burst upon his head. Mr.
Andrews, of Erie County denounced the Railway Com
mitte for smothcrDg the bin for the protection Of rail-
way employees from needless injury while working for
railways Last year he said 100 employees of railroad
companies wero hled. All these socalled aoci-
dents' were preventable and yet the Railway Com
mitteo nlade no report the bin which had been
drawn up by the Railroad Commissioners to put stop
TO such accidents" The same committee for two
months also had been smothering another Important
bin Of the Railroad Commissioners. that which pro
hbltcd railways from discriminating against the
canals
Mr.. Hamilton. who has felt hncly toward Mr. KIM
ball since tho latter supported bis amendments To
Mayor Grants bill, thought that he had not sufA-
GENTLY paid that debt by sccondlng Mr.. Kmba in his
atempt To capture an acre OF the Battery Park
for the elevated railway. 10 therefore came to Mr..
Kinbalrs aid by arguing that the Assembly was enter
ing upon dangerous course IN taking bills away from
committees,
Hamilton Fish. f., sharply sssailed both Mr.. Kim
ball and Mr.. Hamilton, saying that whenever u was
clear that an Assembly committee intended to XII
bill by merely not making a report upon It, the
duty Of tho Assembly to deprive 1t Of the measure
Mr.. Yates. a member Of the Railroad Committee
repudated tho conduct Of his associates In sitting
upon the Rochester bill "There are many righteous
bills in the possession of that committee" said Mr.
Yates and yet no report Is mado upon them. although
have made attempt after attempt to get the com
mittee TO release them give notice now that shall
appeaI 10 tho Assembly in this matter, and ask it 10
discharge ths committee from the consideration OF
these bills" 49,,
The Assembly. by an overwhelming vote, discharged
the Raflroad Committee nom tho further consideration
OF Mr. Bauer's BILL BY two other equally large
voteG the bill was ordered 70 third reading ana
night as soon az the Assembly reassembles
Mr.. Kimball much angered BY this vote thai
ton made by Mr. Fish that the bill sent here BY the
Sinking Fund Commissioners OF New-York to curtall
The taxation for the support OF the Sinking Fund
should be ordered 10 third reading. The bill was
not introduced by Mr.. Fish, and he therefore informed
Mr. Kimball that he did him no injury by Directing
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