New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-11
FROM BOSTON.
From OF! Or Ceresrorderi,
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ih, Governor and his Council were inaugurated on
the second day Of the session. Such an event has
not happened before for great many year,. Rcd
tare will begin 10 consider itself IN danger i such
Vi. orous movements are persisted n. The officers
of the two Houses are men of the old Wig .tamp;
Mr.. Tpham. the President Of the Senate, aud Nr.
Rockwell the Speaker Of the House, We're Members
of Congress during the Wing asctndeDcy; Mr..
stowe, the Clerk Of the House. was Clerk OF the
Xhig House in I-54. and Mr.. Clifford, Clerk OF the
Senate was also Wing. What ia of greater and
better significance, is the fact that Nr. Clifford il
the only one Of the four that have mentioned who
ever belonged To- the KnowNothing party Mr..
Upham is of foreign birth, and was the special OBJ
eet of American hatred in l-5l, and Mr. Rock.
we'll was DEFEATED BY Gardner III $50. Let NE
add that Mr.. GOoch, who has Just been elected 10
Congress in the Seventh District, one the four
e-Soiers Of his town who did not join the Know
Nothing party in l-54. Samuel +. Sewel was
another of that select and honorable, though SOME
what dminutiSe party The time, you see. has
arrived when men who will not take the oath to
make birthplace and religious opinion tests of quail
ifcation for office are considered AS good citizens
and a. eligible candidates for office the :" breth
rru Of the mystic tie, Ia use one of MIR. Burln-
games expressions. Gov Banks, in his Inaugural
gave Amaricanism yery formal aud distant rccog
milton. seeming To BE- hardly on speaking terms with
il: while Prot. Huntington. who preached the elcc
tion sermon plainly expressed his own very dispar
aging opinion of it, 1t il just four years since the
dsease made its first appearance in our politics. IL
broke out in the CITY of Salem, where, at the mu-
pcipal election in January, l-j4, man was chosen
Nayor who was ~ notorIonsly incapable that he
had To- resign decline the office. With IFS career
for four Years You are tOlerab. we'll acquainted
Now that is fairly under the ground let no further
mention b. made OF it.
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side those | have mentioned, is the Rev. Warren
Burton. who was Yesterday chosen chaplain of the
House Mr. Burton was once before chaplain OF
one branch and also of the Constitutional COnven-
tiop Last year he tried his nck in the Senate, but
WAS defeated. He is an excellent man, aud known
10 many persons in different parts Of the State by
his efforts to make fathers and mothers acquainted
with the necessity of home education. He is the
author Of "The District School as il was, u work
of considerable. humor.
The election of Sergeant-at- Arms, which was ap-
pointed for Friday, has been postponed until Tues
day. AT the first caucus of the Banks party Mayor
Benz Stevens, the present incumbent, was nom
mated Major Stevens became a Banks man ut the
precise moment when Gardner, WolcOtt u Co.'S
sign went up in State street, say at O'Clock on the
afternoon Of election day. Up TO that time he
was a devoted Gardnerte. Having changed his
politics at the very earliest possible moment after he
but ON the contrary much risk in refusing To do So
he now rues in for reelection, aud Is quite likely
t. get it. Possibly, however. he may be- brought to
terms. and some pledge got ont of him to remove
some Of his subordnates. Al present, it is said be
REFUSES to make any concessions.
Governor Banks's address was delivered in pres.
ence of great concOurse OF persons III the Repre-
sentatives' chamber. Senator Sumner present
and AZ he entered the hall was welcomed with sew
eral rounds of applause, which the Speaker did not
attempt to repress. The people are with Mr.. SAM
ner. and will sustain him. They know him to be
an able and an upright man, and they respect and
love him for his services and his suferngs in their
causes There will be no signs of impotence worth
noticing even if he should find it necessary to re-
main away from his seat another year. The adj
dress of his Exceency seems hastily put together,
but Is. in general a satisfactory performance.
There il little too much disposition shown in it to
introduce Congressional customs INTO our Leglsla-
ture. For instance, 1t ls recommended that the
members shall be paid salary instead OF per
diem allowance; that there shall be general nppro-
pristion bills; and that every measure shall be
thoroughly debated at one stage and then deter
mined / suppose he means that the Congressional
method of debating bill on its third reading and
Immediately proceeding TO its final passage ls
preferable to the practice here OF postponlng the
final reading to another day|Perhap' week or d
fortnight dstant-and then debating it over again.
II ma, be- So but Congressional fashions are not
necessarily better or safer than Massachusetts, fash
ions. The project of paying members salary IL
Congressional notion but IFS workings thus lar
have not done much TO recommend It for the imlta-
ton of other assemblies.
Mr.. Banks substantially declares against the Con-
stitutonal amendment proposed by the last Legsa'
ture and before the present one Tor consideration
which limits the session to hundred and ten days.
He SAYS that constitutional statute limitations OF
the legislative term will not remedy the present
difficulties, and suppose he aludes to New-iorK
when he SAYS that in other States at the expiration
of the term public business is unfinished, or ID
hurried through with dangerous and dlScreditaole
haste" But is it not just rs bad, or even worse,
at Washington, where there is no limitation ii II
il, then the argument is worthless. II there must
be discrcditabe haste and mass of untnishef bu'l,
ness, il may as we'll be at the end OF hundred
days as at the end of two hundred.
A novel suggestion is made that the expense
$50, 900 year, OF supporting the militia shouid
b. taken from the property OF the State, ana u.s.
srssed upon the enrolled militia, that is, the loO,oOV
men whose names are returned as a0le-DOdled ahu
fit for service, but who do not, some OF them ~
least see a musket from one year TO another. 40
not believe this plan will find any favor III the Legs
laure or with the people. If the volunteer militia
of this State answers any purpose whatever beside
that of catching fugitive negroes, debauchlng 'he
morals of Young men, encouraging gambling ano
drinking, and insgating boys and politicians TO
make fools of themselves, that purpose is the prU
lection of property. If the entire sum OF $Iooov
a wear could be assessed upon those Boston mer-
chants hose anxiety lest their trade with the South
should be- interrupted led them to conniye at ana
encourage the kidnapping of Burns and Sims inc
Legislature would be- justified in doing 50.
One of the most important recommendations oi
the Governor, and one which is likely to bring gu.
a great deal of discussion, is the "cOnsoldauoh
of the Courts of Probate and of Insolvency. us
minated in The Courier, and The Pest tnat lho