The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-06

meeting while their hands were in, 4 vote, re-
commencing the susPcnsion, for three months, Of
Engine Company No. 81, was also reconsidered,
and one months suspension recommended in
stead.
Nov, as to the powerful motives for these very
sudden and most extraordinary recon siderations of
votes, by the Committee ON the Fire Department,
composed of Messrs. Franklin, Bard and Griffin,
and of Messrs. Crane, Smith and Alderman, on
the part of the Assistant Aldermen,) will briefly
remark, that Subsequent to the shameful reconsi-
deranon of the vote recommending the expulsion of
Mr. Tweed) Mr.. Tweed Tin order 10 secure the
support OF Assistant Alderman Alderman, the only
refractory" member of the Committee on the Fire
Department who would not report in Mr.. Tweed's
favor) requested Charles McDougal, an exempt
fireman, to propose TO Mr. Alderman that it he
would not oppose the reports friendly 70 him, made
by Messrs Franklin and Crane, he (Mr. Tweed)
would ensure TO Mr.. McDougal or TO any friend he
might propose, delegates from two or three wards
to the Mayoralty Convention, who would vote as
Mr. McDOugal might desire in the convention.
ed the base proposition of Mr.. Tweed. Similar de-
grading propositions were made to at least one very
distinguished member of the Committee on the Fire
Moreover, learned from an Assistant Alder
man, that during the debate in the Board OF
Assistants at the last session of your honorable
body, on the adoption of the report Of the Com
mittee on the Fire Department relative to Mr..
Tweed, Ia debate rendered somewhat animated
by the minority report against Mr.. Tweed, pre-
scented by Assistant Alderman Ackerman,) that
Assistant Alderman Sands, of the Fourteenth
ward, and Assistant Alderman Florence McCar-
thy, of the Fourth ward, were unusually elO-
quent, especially Mr.. McCarty, in advocating
the adoption of the report favorable to Mr..
Tweed, and that Mr.. Mccarthy was very indignant
towards Assistant Alderman Sturtevant of the
Third ward, who left his seat, as President of the
Board, to combat Messrs. Sands and Mccarthy,
and to brand, Infamous the reports favorable to
learned, few evenings since, from member of
your honorable body, that Assistant Alderman
Florence Mccarthy informed him that he had re-
Gently received sundry golden trinkets from his
one of which Mr.. Mccarthy wears about his per-
son, and of which he very complacently speaks as
being slight testimonial of MIR. Tweed's disinte-
rested friendship.
think that one solitary syllable of comment
added TO the narration of these black and most in
famous Transactions in either board of your honor
able body, would be waste and Dissertation of
the few brief hours allotted to US in this life,
to which | cannot conscientiOusly submit
passing the above voting facts over TO the con-
sideration of your honorable body for such ae-
ton and disposition as you may deem expedient,
feel that have done my whole duty in my
laborious endeavors to purge the Fire Department
OF its bad members, and to punish the club villains
who nightly destroy the hose and engines, and
nearly kill our worthy firemen, of which, ana
happy to say, the department is mostly composed.
To show that have not been inactive, will now
refer TO the dates Of some of the reports have
made, from time TO time, from which never heard
after they leH my ndnut, Dclug eummdrliy sudngled
by the Committee on the Fire Department made
special reports to your honorable BODY respecting
the murderous clubs and insubordinate fremen,
on the sixteenth of May, 1850; nineteenth of May,
10Th OF May, two reports on July 9th, August 9th,
and have several reports to make to your honor
able body at its present session, expecting, of
course, that they WILL usual all be referred to the
Committee on the Fire Department, ard by them to
an eternal repose--a repose and a monstrous insult
that may yet arouse our citizens like midnight
cry, and coDyulse our city with riot, murder, ra-
pine, havoc, and widespread confagration.
lnow warn the police captains, the police judges,
and the grand juries, to do their duty with the
murderous club members, and the insubordinate
tremen, when arrested. warn the police officers
to arrest them, at all hazards, when necessary. |
wan the aldermen no longer to-I was about to
say, no longer TO abuse their pardonng power OF
power defy an alderman, or any human being,
to show me one recorded syllable by which alder
men are authorized to pardon felons-to let them
binary forms Jurisprudence Ii has been custom,
whose lawless and pernicous exercise, by alder
men, for "sliticsl and basely selfish ends, should
Indignantly arouse every well-disposed man.
woman and child, in open arms against them, and
overwhelm with infamy those aldermen who still
adhere TO il and thus ruthlessly violate common
decency and justice, and convert our fair city into
sort Of Botany Bay and chsrnel house; thereby
corrupng, destroying, and rendering utterly inef-
hcient every department OF our city. ] warn,
say, the police captains, the police judges, the
grand jurors, and the aldermen, 10 do their duty
hereafter, in all matters connected with wise
and beneficial administration OF our municipal
affairs, II they would regard the safety and happi-
ness of themselves, and wives, and children, and
our private abodes. And would strongly recon-
mend the Common Council TO Immediately
power the repre- sentstives of the Fire Department
10 choose a committee, or court, from the exempt
fremen, (who upquestionably have the reputation
OF the department and the safety Of the city at
heart, from having served the departmental long, and
hoDorably, and faithfully 10 have full power to
expel insubordinste firemen-the committee or
court to be subject TO impeachment by your honor
able body. Let the Common Council do this in
a word, let the Common Council he true to itself,
true TO the city, true 10 the Fire Department and
cease TO liberate the club demons and other crim-
mails, and this city will be the nobest, the safest,
the halpiesi, aud the most prosperous on the face
of the globe.
And now, of one thing be most solemnly assur-
ed--hst If something be not speedily done by your
honorable body 20 protect the incalculable amount
OF property In peril for the want OF an immediate
re.organiza Of the bell ringers, for the more
piomyt and tilicif nj repair OF the engine aud hose
houses, for the utter demolition Of the powerfully
organized club bandiiti, and Tor the summary trisl
and expulsion of insubordinste hremen-l say II
this be not instantly done, TO save me from the
daily harrassment, at every corner | may turn,
about the reckless carelessness nj The beltowers-
about tie gross neglect and the bad repairs OF the
euRne and hose houses, by the Superintendent of
the Public Buildings-aboutth the deeds OF he u nightly
committed by the worst and most formidable club
bandiiu that ever scourged mfnkind-about the
INSTRUMENTATION within the department. itself--l say
ii YOU do not act like men--lIle magnanimous,
patriotic, aud honest men, and AZ oace begin the
great work Of reform, and thus save me, the
Chief Engineer, from the frequent neglect
Of public duty, and from degrading himself and the
useful and noble department over " hich he pre-
sides. by lurking, and lingering and loatng around
the Park and Cry Hall, IN order to catch alder
men here, and one there, to implore his honor and
TO beg and brseech him, like worthless mendi-
cant, 10 do this aud 20 do that to oil Of which he
vocferously cries amen, and promises and swears,
a. on individual alderman, that he will effect with
in the Board, (being himself, as he Is always sure
TO say a very particular friend to the Fire Depart
meni.) but which, after all, he never does effect,
but does in the dark within the Board precisely the
revere Of what he promises the Chief Engineer
he will do without the Board say, IL something
be not speedily done 20 correct these monstrous
evils, that the New York firemen will as assuredly
uprise and exterminate the clubs OF this city as
that all men must die. They will take this whole
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