New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-15
CABLE RAILWAY BILLS.
INDICATIONS OF AN EFFORT TO GALvANIzE
AN OFT-KILLED CORPORATION.
PROPOSED MEASURES THAT NEED Careful
SCRUTINY CALL FOR TEN MORE
SUPREME COURT JUDGES.

SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
urow THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE r"'h"Sh''
Albany March 14.-Thcre were indications In seV
.ra hills presented To the Assembly to-day that INC
~, Vol, cah,e Railway Company, the corporation
switch IN generously offered to spread It's tracks over
seventy miles of the streets OF New-forh "'no"O
giving the city any compensation Tor thcir uso was
thinking Of coming to life and continuing us az
cresslve polcy respecting Ncw-York. Assemblyman
Toxnsend of Queens County. introduced these DIS
Added TO these there was bill presented pv MI
asprancv I'm the interest Of the street railway COM
pancs of the entire state, providing for rchuc.''h
OF the percentages they promised TO pay iiom o'o'
earnings 10 the cities and villages which peihiV'o'
them 70 mt down their tracks in their streets, Mr.
D,6v NJ New York also introduced bill authorizing
street railways To 1000 feet along inc '''eN'
~ other street railways upon paying suitable COM
pensation. o,...-.s.,s a.
nm amendment OF Section of Chapter o'' oi .''o
Laws OF 1896 That act in its first section s@o '''o
IL shall be lawful for any number OF PERSONS nQo
less than ten, to form themselves INTO conp''s
for constructing maintaining and operating railway
for public use In the conveyance OF persons "n"
property by means of propenlhe rope vi 'f0 ~
tachcd TO stationary power" The snppcno"'"'F
act introduced by Mr.. Townsend Will apparently H'o
the Ncw-York Gable Railway Company me extensive
rights IL seeks u possess by filing s articles OF as
eoc,stion with q Secretary OF state. Appar"'y
thesc articles can be made perfect by obtaining 'ho
consent of the property owners upon 'he s'.oo,S
through which the cable railways are 10 Passor oi'
construction. r
Two other acts also introduced by MI. Io"n-
send bearing upon the same subject. Inc ac's a'0
denendcpt upon one another. In one IT would appear
that the cable company has an idea CT CONSTRUCTING
tunnels under the East and North rivers anu opor"
inc q railway in them by cable power III o'ier SOU
t,ons OF these acts modifying the tunnel 10" Oh
III. anvil az
Ia secure the right TO build underground railways
Mr. Townsends bills surely invite the closest scrutiny
and INQUIRY, so that the Legislature should Kho"
that they are in the public interest
The remarkable act Of Mr.. Mulhaney TO relieve
.,r.et railway companies from any hard bargain or
imaginary hard bargain. they may have maze VIII"
street railways Is given below:
Section l. All percentages which shall heretofore ana
ror TO the passage of this act have been agreei 10 De pau
by any street surface railway company upon the SAFE anu
Of the franchise right and privilege t. use the
streets roads parks or public places OF any IN
eorporatcd oity or village for tho construction ana MAN.
tenance operation extension Of street surface railroad
in alton the consent OF the local authorities sha
or NAV b. revised and reduced by the Commis
sners Of the Sinking Fund other officers authorized by
law to receive such percentages in case such company
shall submit It's books OF account and proofs as 70
cost OF construction and the expenses OF operating
is railroad to said Commissioners or other officers ana
It shall be made appear by such company 70 su Coip
mtssoners said other officers that In ana by the aetua
onerzon OF such railroad such percentage IL unjust un-
reasonable and mprac,lcsble Of payment, such Com
,nssoncrs or other officers shall have power and are
hereby authorized required revise corre, and reduce
such percsntage 70 a fair equitable and commensurate
amount and revision correction and reduction when
submitted confirmed ly the General Term OF the
eupreme Court In and the District IA which such
railroad located shall supersede and take the place OF
sale made, and shall be
the rate Of compensation percentage to be paid epd
hereby enforceable thereafter such reduced rate under
the provisions OF under which such franchises may
have been sold and by OF which such percentage
had become payable
See. g This shall take crect immediately,
Assemblyman Fish introduced bin amending tho
corporation laws so as 10 provide that the corporate
name OF every corporation hereafter organized shau
begin with the word the, and end with the words
corporation company association" or so
eiety." ,, ,..ao. m
Assembiyman McTeTan, Of Brooklyn, introduced an
amendment 10 the Constitution to-day, adding ten
Judges 10 the Supreme Court bench. Two each OF
fhe{e Judges are 20 be elected In the Ist and lid J
dcia Districts In which the cities OF New York
and BROOKLYN, and one each IN the Ito, lNth, Nu,
With, With and Win Judicial Districts. The pre-
text for this enlargement the supreme Court IS That
seven judges OF that court have been detached for duty
as members Of the second Division OF the Court OF
Appeals. But these judges in two or three years
will finish their task Of bringing up 10 dale the bus
ness OF that court behindhand In It's work: and
then will there not be too many judges If this amend
mcnt Is adopted2
reservoir at Forty sccond-st. and Fiftl-ave.