Year: 1871

s the :s y s
assessment or Increased assessment had been originally in


THE BROADWAY PNEUMATIC TUBE BILL
created quite breeze In The lower House this even
Ing: Weed, Littiejohn, HAYES and Jacobs made aae
particularly vehement IN his remarks upon the way
certain parties We're attempting TO choke doWhn
bill, and who dared to act Independently upon the
subject. He was greeted with loud applause when
task about his vote the Twombly Carey case, and
wanted to know II he had not assisted In choking
time to tue read diepaD''s the report Of % the Commit
tee On Elections. This got the laugh on
daas vaea aa for e he m aamSug
totally lost sight OF. Finally Mr.. Hickman called
attention to the fact that the bill was Imperfect
inasmucn as 1t came In the shape OF an amendment
10 some act or other which its title did not MENTION
and he moved to have It referred TO the COMMITTEE
on Railroads to be put into presentaDle FORM TINS
motion was carried, amid great confusion, by vote
OF 60 yeas to IS nays. During the debate on the D
crowded with the hackers OF the scheme, who made
themselves shaneessly conspicuous by Openly call
ing from their seats. each IN his turn several mem
bers whose aid was desired to push the thing
through. what -


were made between the parties Of the first part and
the parties OF the second part Is not definitely
sncS of me copany were Suarureeu to every
member who would do the square thing. A large
number OF the ruralltes were only too GLAD to swal
low the bait and papered accordingly After the
result Of the vote committing the bill to the Railroad
Committee had been declared, the lobbyists, half
scared out OF their WITS skedaddled as though fear
fui the statue OF blind Justice on the Capitol was
about to topple over and crush them out or exist
ence. The scare, however, VIII be smoothed over
by tomorrow, when the newly made legislative
stockholders VIII


after ITS title will have made 1t readable. 1t may be
70 10, 70 kaow
road Commtee for the way W.T. the 5 was Sc So suddenly
sprung upon The House, III the face OF the TACT tnat
not no. solitary argument in iayor OF the amended
introduced this session. The Governor will GER
All the necessary arrangements had been made to
pass


THE NEW TAX LEVY BILL


IN the Senate Tonight, but the absence of Senator
Graham Knocked ali the arrangements in the
head Seventeen votes necessary to ITS
passage, and so scouts were sent out in all
directions to hunt him up but he could not be found
Runors got afioat that he had been 'seen,n but as
the republicans manifest no great opposition to the
scheme and the Senator IS not In the market, they
could nave had no foundation. In truth his absence
was to be regretted. inasmucn as Senator Morgan
lay dead al home when he left IN answer TO sum-
mons to be on nand. 1t is believed that the bill will
reading In the lower House, and probably pass even
there II two-thrds democratic vote can be kept in
the Chamber long enough.


The Rapid Transit Questi0n-NIr. Horace III.


Days Argument.


ALBANY. March 16, 1871.


Horace II. Day, Of New York, made an Interesting
argument to-day before the Assembly Committee on
Railroads on the subject OF quick transit through
the city of New York. He opposed both the plans
and route OF the viaduct Railroad, and favored
instead the Rand plan for an elevated road and
Broadway as the proper route ultimately" he said
"New FORK must have three great lines Of road
one along the ridge OF the lsland-that s
along the line OF Broadwayand one along the docks
on each side All these roads could not be built at
once put IL was most important that the first one
built central ROAD, should be properly located in
reference to the Others because If it were the
mistake would preclude the constructing of the side
roads for at least twelve or fifteen years. within
taat time the competitors OF New York on the SOUTH
east ana north-Chareston. Philadelphia, Boston
cheap handling of freight draw OH the commerce oi
New York and destroy forever her commercial pre-
emnencc.n