New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-12

committee for investigation and they should frs, heay
their report.
Aid. LORD conceded with AID. varian. He said
that he had seen the Mayor and believed bis action IN
this pstier Was qui'e defensible.
AID WIN TucxEE deemed the adoption Ct the reso-
lutious premsture.
AID. Howlnp hoped the resolutions would be -e-
ferrtd TO the Special Committee appointed to invest-
gaze the subject The Mayor he said and the parties
copcexr cd with him had done no more than what the
Coun,il ought 10 have done twenty months ago. The
ret ouiions originated among few politlcians VINO
were anxious 70 lessen the psplendant glory OF the
Mayor for tie own selfish purposes.
AID Ell thought IS his Honor had invited scrutiny
II seemed rather premature 70 pass judgement upon
the transaction in such terms. tie was opposed 10
hanging msn and then trying HIM Iterward. IL
the, parsed them thew much said that two men,
be.s Of the Executive Department had acted as bar
glars snd highv aymen; he thought that was LITTLE
too strong. He moved 10 postpone to ne nrst Mon
day in August
AID KELLY defended the action Of the Mayor. He
sed that when this invest CATION took place If rOr
told the truth there were about that Board quite
es guilty the Mayor ard Com nssoners, II anybody
guilty There we're members of that Board, and
In the Board OF Councilmen. who were implicated; for
he had been told that resolution bad been introduced
in tie other Board expend $2e coo in raising tue
Joseph Walker. Mr.. Jones had told him Mr. Kelly
tlei one member of that Board wanted $1,000 to keep
this out Of the newspapers; that smother he'd sent
communication TO him Mr.. jones' asking him for
slCOOto report favorably the subject. These reso
uons brought in 10 throw ridlcule on tue Chisf
Magistrate The whole matter, from beginning to
end must be personal malice. Let the Alderman from
the Second Mr.. Williams on withdraw these scurous
pslers which were 90 derogaory TO the character OF
that Board
AID WILLIAMSON would leave the public to Judge
as far the matter OF shame concerned between
the man who s,ood up to justify dishonesty ard
the who stood up 20 condemn IT, What was the
nature OF tue case Here they had contract entered
-. - ~ ft-fflr apfbp
WIS uot the frst time the Mayor had made contract
Il king out the hands Of other departments business
Which properly belonged to them. What was his de-
fersel He said that on particular day be had writ
Ten 10 M Jones 10 know what he woulf do particu
lsr amount Of work for, that jones replied $4,000,
and tie Mayor iLen entered lao written conirac.
which he had 70 authority at oil TO make; and then
on Il 5E Ol May lie gOl together certain number OF
the Commissioners Of Health 10 rly 1t. The resolu
tons were wrong in casting reproof upon the Presl
dents of this Board and the Board OF COunc.imen ~
members Of that Commission. he believed they W r
Lot present at the meeting of the Commissioners when
confirmed the contract lie had been told that neither
of tlose gentlemen had re eeved n notice of the meet
ing. There might be members in that Board who
looked upon this matter with more lenent eye than
he be had not vet been initiated into the mysteries Of
going in at the back door into the treasury.
AID. VoORHIs sGid that two out Of the three Health
Conn ssioner who ratified that contract were the
Mayors own creatures He ready To support the
Mayor in anything that was beneficial, bat when the
belief thar q load of corn lying twenty feet under salt
water was going TO breed residence, he thought 1t
WIS little too much TO follow him. He did not be-
ievc that Fernando Wood was such fool as to
believe that. contract had already been made by
the underwriter with responsible party to raise her
for 62l yer cent of her value. But the Mayor came IN
With bis contract with Walter K Jones, contract
signed on the 2sth of April and ratified by the
He alth Commissioners not till seven days after
ward contract by which $4,000 was au-
tborized to be paid before one stick of timber
was laid alongside of the sesse. He had been invited
to come and the Ma, or, aud he had done So but
lie should not allow he MayOr TO pull the wool over
his eyes This of the pretest little tricks TO
walk into the Treasury and take out S3 600 which he
had ever seen. The Broadway Railroad was nothing
to il. IL time that they gave the Mayor to under
stand that they would not acknowledge any further
steps of that kind Perhaps the Mayor might go TO
work and build City Hall for them. They might as
well adjourn and go home. He was ready 10 vote for
the resolutions with en- amendment e1cuipating tne
Health Commissioners who were not present at the
meeting which ratified the contract. This was black
marx az anst the Mayor. Tie Mayor had dore some
things which be highly approved Of If the devil told
him The truth he would say amen TO u. The Mayor
had got Is into IT, and he afraid it would sink
lin deep The Joseph Walker was; at any rate II
would hjure bis health more than her cargo would
that If The Fourteenth Ware.
Aid. NARiAS said that the language of the gentle
man from the Nth W ard wss more scurrous than the
resolutions themselves. Was it not pre.judging the
matter, and was the Alderman (Mr, Voorhis) a fit
nounced the Mayor in the most sweeping terms; he
ought as well come out in plain language and cal him
thief; such language was ungentlemany and cow
aroly.
AID. WILLIAM TUCKER would go as far as anybody
10 cordtmn and convict the Mayo, but he could not
but think that il ungenerous TO attack hun in his
absence. He hoped the mover Of the resolutions
would withdraw them
AID KELLY TRUSTED that after the speech Of the
gentleman, Mr. Yoorhis if there was any honor
about bin, he would reign his position on the Gem
uiitee The Mayor had asked for an investigation
If be was guilty let him be impeached.
An exciting cross. fire-of words, not inkstrnds-
followed on the language which had been used by
AID. Varion, in which Aid. Voorhis, Vanan. Ely,
Briggs, Steers Williamson, Drake and Lord, took
part seine of them several times.
motion, giving leave to withdraw, and another to
lay on the table, negatiyed, after which the
resolutions were postponed by vote of 10 too.
The Board adjourned to Thursday evening at 5
o'clock.