New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-11
The Hoid-Ovcr Game.

Twoyears or more ago, our Legislature created
the Office Of Commissioner Of Jurors for orr city,
taking from the Sheriff and giving TO him the whole
business Of selecting and summoning Jurors for our
City, receiving fnes, &c. DC The selection Of said
Commissioner was deyolved on the Supervisors
and Judges Of our City, who accordingly met soon
after and appointed Mr.. William A. Walker We
believe he had enc msjority-a majority not Of the
Judges and Supervisors separately but Of the whole
ia Joint meeting. 1t was political majority aud a
political appointment.
Mr. Walker was formerly jealous aud active
Wing but that did not pay so he turned his coat
while member Of our Junior General Committee,
and enlisted at Tammany Hall, where be has had
much better fortune than with US II We mistake
nor ne has been in Office at least halt the time
since he left This is all right-bis friends had
the power, and il he rode them rather hard for a
neophyte il was their business, not ours But IN
process OF time the scale has turned againt him.
that the Preponderance in the appointing power
over him Is Wing BY that majority, Mir j. H.
Hobart Haws has been selected to succeed Mr.
Walker and the choice duly indicated. Mr. Tlaws
is n man in no respect inferior to Mr. Wakor-we
think in most his superior He has seldom Or never
held Office Of profit, though he has seen more
political service than Mr.. Walker, counting the
latters efforts on both sides While Mr. Walkers
friends were in power, he held Office without OBJ
lection now that they are out, we think he ought
30 be willing TO share their fortunes The consti-
tuition says offices OF which the tenure is not stated
shat be held at the pleasure OF the appointing
power but Mr.. w alkers own pleasure is TO stay,
and he means that this shall overrule that Of ma
iorIty OF the assembled Judges and Supervisors
60 he holds over and puts Mr. Haws to the cx
pense Of legal proceedings to Gust him. This is a
game to which his political brethren are excessive
~ addicted. They remind Of Hallecks ao
count of our Italian musical visitors,
"whose last fareyolls' sul linger o'erus
And like om-cai, die by Inches
We losthe the moanness Of this. II they viii
unite with us in prescribing prescription, We along
with twO.thirds of the Wings stand ready to enter
into a solemn and perpetual contract never to have
any man removed from Office except for good cause
other than political but so long as they refuse thi'
AID insist that to the vlctors belong the spos O
the vanquished, they compel us to meet item or
that ground To keep them in while they miss NJ
chance TO turn us cut would not be proscrlbing bu
rewarding prescription. If they were manly, they
would scom To take favor they would not give.
Mr. Walker has been two years Commissioner
receiving a compensation first of $1,000 and since
Of 81, 500 per snnum, under a resolution which ex
pressy says that his and his CLERKS salaries are Il
be paid out Of the receipts OF said office, rAc'
pad into the Treasury Bat those receipts mere
haze been paid into the Treasury at all. Once
he paid over $500 as surplus remaining in hi
hands, but no regular returns receipts have beer
made by him, much less any regular paying owe
and drawing his salary as the resolution requires
We believe an honest and thorough account Of hi
receipts and disbursements would show him debto
to the City this day to heavy amount. Yet h
withholds his returns and holds on 10 the Office
keeping out his appointed successor, and LocC
Foooism upholds him in his course. We trust tn
Courts will speedily do Mr. Haws and the Cit
tuStice