New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-05

effective ~ means OF preventing !a1u a. Out Geo
tons. lie therefore moved that when the Com
mttee rise they report progress or the bill before
the House and print the substitute so that member.
could exsmine lie provisions sud be better prepared
to Judge offs merits.
Mr. SHFPaRD conceded with Or. Tuthill. and
expressed hi n-ef assured thst. as far rs the Gown
Try Was concerned, the substitute was JusI the
thing needed.
Mr. MEMS also commended the substitute Is
great improvement IN many respects, on tue on
before the House. In his Judgment It combined
stringency and economy of expense in an eminent
degree. Messrs. NORRIS. CHAMBERLAIN and II.
A. Lyon also favored the substitute.
Mr. COSKLING was happy to learn from country
meub ers that this substitute was likely 10
meet the favor Of the rural districts. He had e1-
amined the bin carefully, and felt assured that It
would prove equally satisfactory and effective IN
city and country.
Mr.. c. s. SPENCER opposed The substitute. He
was confident that il would Got meet the expecta
tons or favor Of the friends of Registry law IN
the City OF New York, where a stringent law was
most needed. Much time had been spent in dis
cussing the subject Of Registry law aud this he
regarded as movement for further and unneces-
saIy delay. He was ready to take vote on the
substitute now, and hoped the motion to print
would not prevail, and proceeded to crltlcIse the
substitute
His first objection to it was that il threw the
registration INTO the hands OF the Inspectors OF
Elections, large number OF whom, IN the City OF
New.York, are rumsellets OF the lowest order,
gentlemen who stuff bsot-bOyes. He desired that
the Registrars should be different board from the
Inspectors SO that one BODY might be partial
check upon the other. The list was to be made out
only three weeks before the election, aud would
not in his Judgment, give sufficient time to make
the registry and have 1t scrutlnlzed.
Another objection which be urged and which in
nv judgment has force, was that the substitute
does not give sufficient publicity to the list; while
the bill introduced by himself provided for posting
lists of voters the substitute did not.
Speaker LITTLEJoHS suggested that the gentle
man give way TO a motion tO rise ana report prog
ress, have the substitute printed, and then mem
bers having it on their iles could discuss It more
inttlligibly.
MIR. SPENCER thought the bill and the whole
subject was Well understo d now, and he preferred
immediate action. He did not like the provision
which gives an unregistered citizen the right 10
vote NJ der any circumstances whatever, and seemed
10 think that 10 the City of New-YOrk at least
swift witnesses enough could BE- found to swear in
any desired number Of Illegal voters. He regarded
the substitute as sham-a mockery-a body with
out a soul. 1t contained some high sounding
phrases, and WAS, perhaps pretty enough 10 look
at; but there was nothing good in it. 1t was
Like dead .es fruit. tnat temp, the eye,
But turn 60 ashes on :. lips
tt. motion TO rise and report progrt 81 prevailed
and in the House Nr SPENCER moved TO disagree
with the report of the Committee, and order his
bill TO a third reading, which was fost-l3 to 90
and the substitute was ordered to be printed, aud
made the special order for Monday next at /
O'Clock.
Mr. MEEkS introduced into the Assembly this
morning bill to abolish the Offices Of Recorder and
City Judge in the City of New York, and provide
for the election, at the next general election, Of
three additional Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas, and the judges thus elected, together with
the present Judges of said Court are to alternately
hold a Court of General Session in and for the City
and County of New York, in the same manner, and
at the times now provided by law, aud To possess
all the powers and perform all the duties now pre-
scribed by law, and possessed ard performed by the
Recorder and City Judge as Judges of the Court OF
Common Pleas.