The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-30

1Vuttoo. Aney WEN now on the resolution
Alderman wARD-ws have right to al the ps.
peTs and to know al about it, which, perhaps, the
Alderman Of the Third does mot.
Alderman TwxKD asksd II he had any amendment
The PREsIDENr-Thers can be NJ amendment to
Alderman EruRrlvAxr-Hs can have them IL it
becomes necessary I understand there il . docu.
ment coming from csurt Of law, and beg to say
do know something about II, fsr have copy n
my pocket
Alderman wAxD-I ssk for the rssdips Of the
RspSnss Inc resolution is sssaas up al tho papers
PREsIDzST-I understand you to offer up another
Alderman WARD-Do understand that il viii
EslDENT-It ID out Of order
Alderman wAHD-Well, win make some obaor-
vations on the subject Of this.
rs Alderman DoyeaKRrY would make suggestion
Alderman WARD did not want his suggestion
Alderman STURrEvAN1 believed it was establish.
90 ne had right to use any printed paper that
respectful in the course of his argument but he did
not know whether this was respectful.
Alderman WARD was going to say there is q
summons from court, and my objection Is, this
Board cannot act. Itwas that the clerk can't act.
and was going to put the question whether the
chair can put ths question; and, therefore, we can
not act on the veto. Every member has . copy
O. the Injunction in his pocket, IS the gentleman
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did 10 at his personal peril, every other member
did, They might think it very slight thing to dis.
obey an injunction, but many . man was sent to
prison for It,. Uaughter) I can't, continued he,
sense Of the Board will dictate to them they have
nc respect for the court that they should have for
their own personal liberty.
AN ALDERMAN-And lives. daughter
Alderman WARL-No, not their lives, but every
members personal liberty is in danger; and all I
have to say is, each must be Like the old woman's
ducks, and stand on his oEn bottom. He did not
expect that any respect would be paid to the veto
or that II would have any effect ut all; nor did he
suppose it would have any, sthough one rose from
the dead and he deemed it waste of time to dis
before them some days; every one had had time to
read it over and had done So if they did their duty
and must be prepared to VOTE If they dare vote with
the injunction before them.
Alderman TWEED said, when the Seventh ward
elected him as their representative they gave him
the right to think for them, and had not delegated
It to Mr.. Justice Campbell. BE might, perhaps,
Board Of Common Council must think for them
selves, and he never would allow Mr.. Campbell, or
MT any body else, to direct him how to think or
vote, bat would do SO himself, despite injunctions
Alderman S7UxTEvANT-The question now before
tho Board seemed to lie between two classes, who
were opposed on the meRsure-ons, those who could
those who desire to ride in public conveyances.
The idea of Q railroad In Broadway Ia not O new
one II had not come up within few months, or
even years. 1t had been suggested and talked Of
long before. But at that time the omnibuses had
not become such m insumbrance to the street, and
1t was rejected, not thought necessary, and tho
question was dropped as impracticable. More ON.
nibus lines had been applied for, and as the chief
magistrate, who had the entire control, was changed
every two years, new applications continued to be
made to the Mayor, supported by numerous friends
and ingenious arguments in favor of individual APP
plicatiOns, until 1t had grown evil almost insur
mOuUtakIo. DurinO last an AntAYDriainp
taxpay srs were desir0ua of rsmedying the evil. The
Common Council were constantly blamed because
they did not control the omnibuses and control the
carts and other vehicles. Who're did this opposition
come from, and what were the grounds? 1t was
entirely because these few gentlemen were going to
make money, and the oppssers would be prevented
special committee Of five Was appointed, and they
sat day after day, listening to some weighty argu-
ments and q number of frivolous and absurd ones,
advanced, by men claiming to be engineers Upon
port An unusually large number was printed, and
they spread far and wide. Every one who could
read had copy, and finally it passed that Board
H to
took the paper, which ne might keep for ten days,
when it would become law without his approval.
He kept it up to the last hour thought it was known
for four dayt beforehand that he intended to return
it with objections. He had not, however, the frank
ness to return it that they might act on it, but
mains on purpose till the last moment. He doesnot
leave the city ana Lev eCmeDO0y else act LOT MIN,
Qaughter); nor does he allow it to become law for
want Of actions but keeps 1t after he has been con-
vinccd, by those who knew better than he did;
for Continued Aid 50 am sure his own honest
ever since We we're both small boys with few pal
try pence, till now that his own industry has ena-
bled him to ans.s q fortune. He 10 one Of the
people. Ua1ghter) He sprang from among the pso-
pie, and will yet die among the people, though he
lives at present in an aristocratc quarter Of the
town, where he can scarcely call his soul his own.
cloud laughter and iTonical cheers And am
quite certain that he has signed that veto against
ter) Look at the remonstrances and see how they
are written, in bold, plain hand Of those who can
write well But the petitions were written by the
tax payers Most Of the N were cramped--perhaps
the production of hand more accustomed to work
than to write. They are the bone and sinew Of the
country, and they rule the roast-they ought to
rule it. They rule It now IN numbers, and they
will continue to rule it, (Cheers and laughter) It
would have been more in accordance with candor
and honesty if the Mayor had returned it few days
before and why did be not do it! Is it fixed fact
that there is only man Of honest intention, and
the forty members Of the Common Council, coming
from all sections know nothing! i never will SUBJ
scribe to such poSition. He was glad he had the
happiness Of finding it his lot to move the recon-
sideraton and adoption Of the resolution. He was
glad to place it on public record that he was the
mover in matter fraught with SO much benefit;
and he hoped it would now pass without a
single dissentient. The Mayor, in the course
sons why the report should not be approved
that certain respectable parties bad offered to pay
large sum Of money, and particularizes Mr.. Haight
By accepting their offer he says that the fare would
be REFUSED to three cents, and large sum would be
paid to the city treasury. Now, the original petit
tiops to which the names Of Davies, Haight and
Strong were attached. were all in the samc hand
writing, and as Mr. Hsight knows how TO siga his
own rame it cannot be his-for 1t appears written
| there "Hepry instead of d Henry Haight). He
had never been bona Gde applicant At ALL and had
not disguised the fact that his only object in allow
ing bs name to be used at all was to kill the measure;
but perhaps the Mayor did not know the object was
to destroy It, II they got the grant by having in
| junction which they would not have defended. The
fnbject had been fully discussed, and the opponents
! were only those residents up towa, who said, you
shaDt come ..between the wind ana our nobility"
The Injunction had been obtained, be WINS stounded
to hear, On the representation that they-the Com
| mon Counci-had threatened 20 remain in session
all the month, though the regular session expired
in eight sittDgs for the purpose Of passing the
sure; and in consequence Of those threats the in
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