New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-28

division as 10 secure equal representation 10
the citizens
4, his request wsrds was struck out the et-
feet OF which take 10 be that Wards mav be di-
viGed in every city where 1t should be found ne
cessarv-
Mr. SwAcxEANER proposed to slow Towns to
be divided in the formation OF equal Assembly dis
rr;c,s where the Supervisors might find II neces
sarv Which was lost.
Mr. CRooxER moved TO divide the State INTO four
grand divisions each OF winch should SEND j. mem
bers 10 the Assembly Lost
Mr. Cook offered sn amendment. providing that
when the Assembly shall have made IFS apportion-
ment once every ten wears. the supervisors al
their boards shall divide the larger counties Tor
equal Assembly Districts Carried
Mr. YouxG-to meet the case Of Wyoming
moved that where the boundaries OF any county
had been altered. ana extended or decreased
since the superintendent OF last winter, the appof
tiounent OF lis representation III Assembly should
be made 10 accord with the change IN lis popu!s-
ton i,
The Convention rejected This proposition. and
think uniustiv for II several towns nave oeen
taken nom Alleganv and given to Wyoming SO
tina, il has larger population than lienesee by
several thousands II seems absurd 70 leave >e'oVV
with Two Members and 10000 with one
Mr. HARRIS offered an amendment. embodylns
all the alterations made, and in more suitable
terms aid on the table.
Mr. TAGG,Rr proposed that les Assembly DIS
tricts should be made from the whole State. equal
". and without reference 10 County lines. Lost.
The 7th section was then informally passed over
and 81 on the wages OF Members. read,
Mr. TOWNSEND stated the average compensation
of Members including mileage at 1854 III ls+l
and nearly 500 in lsi5. and proposed salary OF
$500 in lieu OF all payments now made No vote
was taken. and the Convention adjourned AT :
O'Clock till Monday.
Nominations of Governors, STATE Officers. Sc
II is impossible that the People should meet in
one place to nominate Governors. Secretaries OF
State Controllers Judges snd other tunctiona-
RES whom it is proposed that they shall elect Il
thew meet in many places and each meeting has a
candidate. and why should Mt 1t their oolect
NAV be frustrated unless they happen, IN their
several localities to pitch upon man. which II
is not very likely they would do. How then 's
public opinion TO be concentrated BY party
csucus1 Surely not And vet, - UNLESS PIE
POWER OF NOMINATION Is ~ THE PEOPLE, THEY
CERTAINLY HAVE NOT THE POWER OF ELECTION.
Mr.. LOOMS. on Friday week, took 1t tor granted
that informal partisan nominating state Conven-
tons had of NECESSITY, become part OF our sys-
tenn and that the people had no other alternative.
If they took part bur go TO the right or the iett
vote for the man named by the one side through
| its managers or for the man i'll some way ON tother
side This is TO make something akin to puppets
| of the mions-chessmcn very good to be played
Conventions now traders politics dealers III votes
and Offices often outvote moderate men. and pull!
the wires so that with the help OF wholesale cor,
ruption false moves are made and bad men placed
in power.
Is there no way to remedy this evil
Suppose the Governor. Judges Comptroller,
and other great officers OF State should be made
elective and it should be provided that they were
10 be nil elected ut the same time, shall Knot OF
l2s politicians many OF them travelling back and
forward 300 miles each way at the expenses OF who
knows who meet at Herkimer and dictate, in effect
to one great section OF the people and another knot
of l2s meet at Syracuse and dictate TO other sec
ton Would it not be better to provide IN the Con-
stitution that in each of the l2s Assembly Districts
one agent or delegate legally elected should be sent
TO central place, there TO nominate, by the open
vote of majority on each officer to be elected, can.
didates on behalf Of the State, whom the people
might afterward elect throw aside Or, II this
is not the best way, what's Certainly not informal
nominations by the party politicians. n