The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-12
BOARD of Supervisors.

THE DEBATE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, ON THE
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL COURTS
AND POLICE, COMPOSED OF MEssRs TWEED, COR
NELL, AND sTURTEvANT, TO INCREASE THE sA-
LARIEs or THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF ArPEALs
FROM s., 500 TO 81 900 PER ANNuM EACH
Alderman DENMAN rose and said Mr. President, am
truly surprised learn that committee Of this Board
should such increase of salaries
Of any officers, especially of State officers whose salaries
sre regulated by the State Sir gentlemen, from some
mysterious cause seem manifest unceasing desire
to thrust their hands and from the tip end Of the
longest finger in the human hand to the arthes extrem
ity of the shoulder joint into the public treasury of
city and county. Alderman Denman here adapted his
gestcuations his startling words begin to find sir,
that do not belong to either party in capacity as
municipal legislator L allure thoroughly abjure and
stamp my feet upon all party trammels in the corrup
lions and denominations of the City Hail. Why, sir, 1t
that either party which happens to be doninant
here--and indeed find that the majority and minority
members unite here and sit cheek by jow 10 municipal
corupon and that whatever is asked for by their satel
tes and hangerson outside, is granted without the
slightest oljeoaon. And inssmuch as the democratic
party is domins the present year. (Which represented
most corrupt since the foundation OF the
it will be held responsible at the polls in November. And
hope. sir that IL will be held responsible for sending
such here; but, at the time trust that the
wings will also hoa their representatives here equally
responsible for the wings that the wings here
corrupt the democrats in the present municipal
corruptors.
Alderman TWEED the chairman of the committee,
here Suddenly aud said that he would not permit
the reports OF committees TO be thus abusedthat the
Increased in order to induce them to hold their sessions
in the ctyhat they received less pay than any officers
in the employ of the State city government and that
he for giving all officers fair compensation for their
servicehat these judges should be well compensated
any other judges in the public employ and that the
amount proposed no more than just compensation
for their services.
Alderman sruRrrvAST, another member of the COM
mtee and said that he would not set still and hear
members the Board Of Supervisors attacked grossly
the gentleman of the Sixteenth ward had attacked
them That it was not the first that the
of hat oar0b had bpen
would have the board believe that there integrity
in the board what came from the Sixteenth ward
That the gentleman seemed to demand that all PROPOSE
tiops submitted expenditures should be submitted to
him before they brought before the board for action
And that for one he would not submit to be thus
abused and that the report submitted just one
and contemplated no more than the judges we're enti
tied to.
Alderman DrsM.N reoined that he had mo- solitary
syllable TO retract That what he had said he had said
the honest convictions Of his heart, and he
would recall word nor would he permit any being on
earth to dictate his public legislator. That
he had high public duty to perform and that no COM
mittee should inmidate him in attacking he chose
for what he conceived be the public good Why sir,
both in The Board Of Supervisors and in the Board of
Aldermen the report of committee considered eouiya-
lent the final passage of measure, however momen-
tous to the veal or of half million Of souls Now,
sir think 1t high time that such despotifm should be
rended. And sir, members to be abused be-
they pres to attack the outrageous reports of
these committees Sir, il they not attacked. and
their motives and pernicous results exposed they
adopted often without the fintct whisper in the
gative But sir not only intend to attack the reports
of committees when consider them falacious and perni
cious but intend to propose that all propositions
national Congress- be read three times before
they can become the law, by which the ebood Of our
citizens are let out like water in the form OF swndng
taxation Sir / do not know that the committee will
derive any pecary benefit for their report, but do
believe that many committees in this board and in the
Board Of Aldermen, do receive confederation and the
whole city is rife with this belief at the present moment
Who, would ask, knew of salaries being dmin-
ished by this board! And who ever heard of
petition for increase Of salary being rejected by
this Board But the most monsrous feature in this re-
port is that these Judges whose salaries proposed to
be enormously increased from twenty five hundred to
four thousand per annum each State judges whose
saares regulated by the State and TO be paid from
the State treasury 1hese judges have more claim
the treasury exclusively Of the city and county Of
New York than the Emperor Nicholas 1t may be very
pleasing to other portions Of The State to saddle with
the salaries Of State officers but assure them that
we think sufficiently axed in this city and county
without any extra calls Of this kind acknowledged
charity 1t savors little too much of unreasonable
trespass generosity No, we must tell the State
ut large that treasury has sufficient calls upon it,
without establishing 1t precedent that IL shall hence
forth be the for the pay of State officers Why do
not the petitioners to the Legislature for relief Our
city and county might join the State at large In their
lief from the proper source But We could with the same
propriety sympathzc with the Governor Lieutenant
Governors of the State committee of this Board might
with equal propriety 90 up to Albany, and say Why
Messrs Governor and Lieutenant Governor, why, gen
emen, afraid your compensation Is not sufficient
you certainly should come down to the city Of New
York and easily usurp the power of the Legisln
tuIe which pays you poorly aud allow you good fat
salary Our citizens would not complain they have be-
accustomed to our extrayagant appropriations
Come down gentlemen, and viii raise your sala
rcs to proper dignyto what we conceive they should
be from generous con- tuency' Now, sir do solemny
protest against such outrageous violation of law and
common decency, and demand, In the name Of
cred laws and in the name OF people who are literally
crushed to the dust by exorbitant taxation that the
port be laid upon the table
D. 1T laid upon the table in the midst OF profound
silence.
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