New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-18
New. York Constitutional Convention.
SEVENTH wEEK-s71upAr
Nelson and Aurphy's Committees-The Land
Ouestion-Deay-The Executive Veto

Nelson and Murphy's Committees-Ths Land
Question-Delay-The Executive Veto.
AIsASr. Thursday night. July 10, 1886
To .he Edi.0r Of ne T-la~ss:
Mr. JONES OF \. Y who was not remarkable IN
Senate for his friendship TO the principle of Con-
vention objected this morning to Mr. Brown Of
Oranges admirable proposition TO keep hard 1t
work, morning and evening. and make up for los,
time Mr. Jones gave bat one reason-soue OF The
committees had not reported as yet I understood
Mr.. CRooKEs 70 reply ,ha, the committee on which
ne bad been placed Sir. Murpbys, No, "A had only
had one meeting in I'VE weeks
The Cosvenaou are assembled IN the middle gres.
ds,-tc which HAS been aa:ed for the .s 40 years by
strife and contention relative 20 tie sutrcpuocsn ten
ures OF aud-free cuzens the companions Of eons.
and e.t-snged from their homes, wives families and
friends because they sought 10 charge these enures
N, Tribune in New-york ant the Pubie Ledger N Phil
sde phs taken ground in favor Of the pEnce con-
tended for Judge, Kent and Spencer here - years age mat
f-eehcters OF estates are the safest repositories
Of nopuIsr yer IN Republic and have proposed 10 place
,os rnt % landed monopoly so that wealth may not en-
yro.s the SOIL and It's Yossessors become degraded peas
snt-y holding on sue-arcs rom thsiF .na
lords The Convention the 18th OF June last appoin-
ed M Justice Nelson Chairman Of the Standing Com
m,:ee Land TenuIes. We are now near the IN Of
July-many resolutions, memorials &c have Seen reiefrsu
10 this Committee with orders consider them. bat ne
learned ssoce5s Of Mr. JxStcs Tonps hdi no! enes CAL
cd tsen oget-in fact he IS seldom here. do not say
that the worthy Judge Is influenced by those Southern
friends who secured for him life lease the bench or me
Z s Supreme Court After Messrs. Spencer AID wal
worth had vetoed by the Senate because OF their
well known unwipgness 20 extend the OF the Pc
cusr institution but Knowing DO, and rom the best
authority too the dread Jealousy with which certain
Southern leaders looked upon the proposition OF Conven-
ton twelve months ask readers whether any
patriotic descendant OF the Emerald Isle which. with
nine millions of people counts but 10000 ireehodsrs.
be justified such has been pursued by the
Chairman OF Committee No. Is, Are we TO remain con-
tended with the mysterious. feuta sryon OF English lsw
as American shall Mr. Justice Nelson's veto
OF Improvement be over.ruled Mr.. BROWN remarked
to-day. that the people began 10 sppreheud failure
that Executive patronage the judiciary. the Bor
rowing power. &c needed revision. The Sessions OF
the Convention have not averaged more than three
hours 10 the sst 81 days and yet We ind TWO Standing
Committees OF II members one Of which had met once
and the other not a, all! ~
Itwss commended to day. the par, Of the friends OF
two-thrds veto, in the hands OF Governors, by
Measrs LOOKS, SrErsoS Brown. TAYLOR, &c. that
Il checked corrupt legisstion-ihat Governor had
ever abused It's povers-thst It had never been ex.
ercised against popular rshts-tha no bill vetoed hsd
been passed ser~ard-that there had been COLLISION
legislative bodies and that nothing bur- the veto pre-
vented the msorty the House from pedsius the pub
lie property for millions to useless ob-cs-that a. the
Senate and Governor elected but fut years the
popular will would anDul any against the
ersl inerest-thst Orange County had sustained Gov.
Wright 10 vetoipg the bill apprcpratiDe money To i'm
prove the State canas-and Stetsop thatthere were
numbers Of bs Of doubtful and rotten character
sruy kept back till the close OF each session. and then
pushed though the Legislature In haste and without cue
confederation.
Messrs Rhoades, Wright, Patterson. Peouimaa. &c.
opposed the t~othrds veto and 1t ssid that the
Governor less represented The popular will than did
full majority OF the Senate and Of the Assemby-that
if booy o. men chosen by the people could not be
trusted though well known to them. Governor was
certainly not perfect-hst toe Erie Cana! could
not have been commenced had the veto then eN.
listed in Governor. for Gov Tompkios opposed TO
it-,hat give hnal decision majority against
a would require II In the Senate and 65 In Assem-
bly, Of recorded yeas the Jsurnalthsi the two third
veto power had obliged the Legislature to shape It's
action To Governors will and thus esaened ts indie
pendence-tha the veto power Ia Engsnd 10 nominal,
because the Commons vote subsistence for the Army
aud Navy, sc. annually. aud the Crown has other
remedy than appeal the electors by dissolution Of
Parliament.
The practice Of voting public money By Joint resou.
TONS without the Of the Executive also dis
cussed today. r.