Year: 1876

tempted in a legislative assembly. Morrissey took
the sting out OF the unpleasant controversy
After moving TO strike out the last sectlon Senator
Morrssey said;-'1 know but very little about this
bill The FIRST / heard Of was during the camPaigo
of last fall when it was discussed in The public Press
! also heard II very ably argued the Senate last
week and to-day, by legal gentlemen. Az far as the
legality Of the act s concerned and whether not has
already been repealed, know nothing | see that the
honorable gentlemen end distinguished lawyers them
solved dner upon those questions But who asked for
the introduction OF this bls Did the Grey Nuns
ask for IL The gentleman from the Sixteenth district
Mr robey Is not here 10 that question wish
he was would like TO ask him whether the Grey Nuns
ever asked him 10 Introduce this bill Since tue as
cusson arose, have asked for information upon TINS
subject OF gentlemen belonging to this body, ana "hen
went nome ast Fraay naoe ihlu'risS ~ " e,I ~
who ought TO know something about lt-gehuemen OF
the Catholic fath-and when say ihat speak OF Ine
highest church authority in tins state Iney aa no1
ask for this law They don't know who did ask for IT,
Now was it asked for by republican Senator on his
responsibility OF notf That IS question would
like 10 have the Senator from the Sixteenth district
answer now People who have nothing to do with this
matter religious in this State have been censuTed
for IT, l represent the strongest Catholic dis
trict in the United States Sixty seventy
per cent OF its inhabitants are Of that
faith. When ! left here last Friday without
having consulted with any one my Judgment was 10
vote against this BILL because IT'S passage had been
made sectarian issue in the discussion last fall am
sorry that that question is coming before the country
II has been started however, by people occupying
higher stations than the gentlemen in this Sen
Gray Nuns that would not vote to give to
any other denomination. am not here
to represent any religious creed have
/ no preJudices in that way. As far the common
schools concerned what education have got, Mr.
President received in those schoos 1t is very little,
ard know and feel the necessity OF education APP
precate the want of education more perhaps, than
any gentleman around this circle; and, Mr. Presi-
dent no person in this Senate will go further
do more TO throw safeguards around and protect
our comon school system than Will When
went TO New York on Friday ! had made
up my mind vote against this bill but after talking
with the people my district and with the very high
authority in the Catholic Church. shall vote for the
] nuhn Ian nHp aEEf


its repeal They are in fact, far anxious that IL
should repealed than those gentlemen who have
attempted it for the purpose OF engendering Sec
tartan hate and making political capital


SCHUYLER CONFIRMED.


The Senate, during it's executive session this after
noon, decided by unanimous vote OF all the republ-
members not 10 confirm the nomination of Schuy-
Ter as Auditor. During the debate which took place
there want Of confidence expressed
in Mr. Schuyler personally by the republicans
II will be remembered that Schuyler
the chairman of the Committee on Contested Seats ut
the Syracuse Convention and that be there made him
self particularly obnoxious TO the antTammany peo-
pic. II was suspected some days that Senator
Bixby lant Tammany) that account would
against his confirmation 1t is understood that the
Senator did vote in the executive session against the
confirmation OF Mr.. Schuyler.


EMIGRATION QUARANTINE.


The Assembly Committee, which was appointed TO in
yestgaie the Commissioners OF Emigration, VIII proba-
bly, make their report on Friday They will advise the
abolition OF the Quarantine Commission and the cutting
oil OF the $4,000 appropriation for Quarantine, made
every year, and plan by which the Health Oftccr's
Department can be. made paying institution in
stead Of drag on the State They Will
show that they have traced $23 900 OF the
money paid to Michael Nolan, by the steamship COM
panes for his alleged services in securing the defeat
OF the Head Money Increase bill, directly to a gentle
who member of the Legislature in 1871
and q Commissioner OF Emigration also They traced
this money very ingenously. After getting possession
OF Nolan's checks they found deposits made by him
which lett rule only about per cent of the
original amounts paid TO him by the steamship
seven per. cent was not only Nolan's per. per.
centage OF the haul they went 70 work 10
discover what had become OF the rest Of the money,
but for time they failed TO get q clew In exam
ining some ofNoan's checks one day. however, they
noticed certain figures in blue pencil mark on their
face, such 1S 20 ana so on and on asking of
the steamship II he knew what they meant he ro
Piled that the Clearing House might be able TO tell
Subp9naing an employee of that institution they
learned that each figure represented certain national
bank This point gained they traced these marked
checks to the ex -Assembyman in question, and even
among other entries, had Nolan's check, and then
opposite TO 1t of the exact which they had
previously noticed had been taken by Nolan from
deposit made in another bank. The item of 1923 900
paid 10 the ex exAsscmblyman in different sums not
the only traced by the committee is he II is
said the only party who got his rake out of the
$S0, 600 paid by the steamship companies





Mr.: Killian will offer tomorrow a resolution asking
for information from the State superintendent OF
Banks about the condition ofsavinps banks within ten
point a committee OF Eve TO investigate The secret
operations of the Third Avenue Street Car
Railroad Company TO defeat rapid transit
may be detected in its alleged efforts
manipulate the Assembly Committee on Railroads,
and induce them to report formally a bill TO prohibit
the extension OF the Greenwich street Elevated Rail-
road across Battery Park This is TO be the entering
wedge. II they succeed they will then take bolder
ground and proceed with all the influences OF the lobby
strangle the crying wish OF New York for
rapid transit up and down the island.