New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-12-06
The >ev.York County Onecr-.


ries Of the surrogate. County Clerk. and Register.
ofthis County. came up for tairi reading. in As
seubly. and was voted for and passed, every Wig
voting for j.. and every Loco, except four or five,
against il The Constitutions Convention restored
10 our fellow citizens and took from Tammany
Hal clique Of usurpers Of their rights. the power OF
choosing ,hcir representatives in their several To-
calities they also removed from e. Tammany anu
the Legislature the corrupt jobbins Inspection sys-
TEN The County Clerk, Surrogate and Register
pocket, some years. over SO O00 in fees, and TIE
Convention would gladly have corrected that grew
ance also. had time snd circumstances permitted
To our great surprise the senate-THls Senate
has passed bill. giving liberal salaries TO our
County Officers but cutting of the old corruption
fund the application Of which has hitherto been
yrLr in our state Federal and Civic Elections,
and every WHO 10 Assembly has cordially united
with them, that House making ony one additional
provision ipr5posed b. Mr. Perkins, 'iz that the
Mavor aud Aldermen chosen annually by the poo.
pie and acting as Supervisors, may add 70 or d.
minsh the salary Of all any one OF these officers
500, in any one year upon sufficient evidence that
It Is proper 70 do 80. OF course, the fees hereto
fore paid to the officers will hencelorh so to the
public.
We hate hypocrisy in every shape aud form 1t
is worse than open, brszen wickedness, Tor the
latter. being seen, deceives no one. There IS
party among Us who assume the name Of DEMO
Graf. are exclusives 10 their way, and have been
pulled in this City for many years as " the true
friends OF the people, by presses long upheld by
Custom House assessments, and eoodiy share oil
the $4,000. $1,000 100000 and $4,000 incomes
of county inspecting. and other officers who lived
in clover on enormous fees. Look at the following
vote and where do you find these MOCK Democrats !
In favor Of more punder, more royal pensions and
no reform. no retrenchment, almost to 4 mani
For the passage Of the bill, says the ARGUS, o.
members voted, viz:
Messrs Bsrsiow Bsscom Beckvl,h, Beers, Bell. Bene
dict Bodselt Boss Bovdish. Burchard, Burnell. But.
rick CARPENTER Cav, Cornwel, Crosby Crowley Curry
Daniels Do Witt, Earl, Fullerton Gray. o. J. 6reen-
Green. Gregory. Hadey Hitchcock, Howe, Hubbard,
Lawrence Leayens HcDOual McGonesal, Mcnamara,
ID. Moore :. Moore Morgan Orion, Peck, Pierce Per
kns Pole NJ Pratt. w. II. Pratt Raihbun. Russell
RUTHERFORD Sage, shaw, sherman sii :. Is S Smiis
T. SMITH Southland Speaker Toy lor Illinshsst Tread
well Uyham. Vanderbilt, Van Fakenoursn, WALSH
Weeden, WESNAS Woodruff.
Against it voted 81 Members, viz:
Mesus. Alaben, A,wsier, Baker. BOWIE, Boyden
Brown, CANDLE CARPENTER, CHATFIELD, Cole,
Croker s. J. Davis. Dean, Emmsns, fenno Gallup
Hammond HestOn. Hodgson. Hunter, Lskin, Lsnjon
Marshall, Maxwell Rspee sicKLEs SMALL, N. B. SMITH
STEWART, Watson
OF our City Members, as they are called, more
in Jest than sober earnest, If we take Postmaster
Norris honest and truthful expose as the criterion,
only THREE were ready TO record their names in
favor Of this removal Of stain on free institutions
and republican equality, viz Messrs. Wenmsn,
Walsh and Rutherford. Eight went in the mega
tive, and where were Messrs. DEyLIN, ALLING,
KErsER and GARRISON Perhaps some one Of
them voted in the minority, for the Argas tells US
that it numbered 81 and only gives US 30 names
Ninety-eight members were with difficulty
brought together, while III regularly paid s2l
a week, their aggregate income for si7 amounting
20 a sum which no frugal prudent Legislature will
ever again desire to draw from the Golfers Of this
community.
The Argps tells US that the bill was for the ben.
eft OF the Wings and that Messrs Sickles, Bowie
Carpenter Watson, Fcnno Baker Small aud
others very ably exposed it. These gentlemen
were perfectly correct-a bin to give fair recon-
pense, and no more, for cerking and copying re.
CURED by the public is Tor the benefit Of the Wings
and every body else except the junto whom Mr..
Stephen Allen wanted to convert into Safety
Fund Tammnny Bank twenty four years ago, keep
ing himself, as wire puller, N hc lark.
The bill went back to the Senate, and Mr.. Jones
who richly deserves very long lease OF pirate
life tried to stop its progress by referring it back to
the delegation from this City and Brooklyn. He
failed, the vote being
ATEs-Messrs Beers, Clark, Crook, Jones, sedgsick
Townsend, Wheeler.
NoKs-Messrs Baekus, Barlow. Beach, Dennisioni I'm.
mons Grldey Hard, Lester. Rugses :. smith Spencer
Tslcott Van schoonhoven-l3.
Colonel Young though present, chose not to vote
and called the amendment of his friend Perkins
political device -" all wrong" Mr. Van Burens
friend, DR.. Beekman of Kinderhook, also declined
10 vote, but tried to table -" the bill after
and was fortunately outvoted. The Argus babbles
about Wing scheme" being consistently OPP
posed to all government not based on corruption .
but whether the Senate will use Perkinss amend
ment as pretext for continuing the means OF cor
rOpting elections here in the hands Of the party
whom chance may place uppermost, or promptly
send the bill TO Governor Young, remains to be
seen. The movements OF Mcssrs. Beekman Young
and Jones leaves il doubtful whether the Senate
really desired 10 adopt the measure.