The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-19
AFFAIRS AT TIE STATE CAPITAL.
Our Albany Correspondence.

Our Albany Correspondence.
re ALBANY, March II, 1860
Projected Rsrolaios in tie CFiminaI Courts Of tho City,
The R.cord.r, City Judge and District Attorney 10 Be ST.
presded- Curious Scheme 10 Turn the Courts Bottom side
Up-TAe Sizty fosr Thousand Dollars L<py for the Adr
ue,s-WAat is u forp--fAs Proposed Charter Amend
ments-7hs Shoe and Leather Bank Job, de- rr
The great evil of the municipal government Is the rage
which has prevailed here for the manufacture Of
boards" Of Commissioners There Ia not single func-
ton or occasion Of expenditure apparently oonsid
cred here except in the aspect-thst is to how
may be ogrolled and cut up into "boards" The last
dertskpg Of this sort Ia large lobby undertaking for
the benefit Of the City Police Justices and their clerks
Last year the Governor vetoed their job OF multiplication
them TO increased assurance They have bill here this
year the object OF which Is to turn the criminal courts
Of the city bottom side up II organizes the Police JUS
tees upon the mfsilibe principle Of "Board, and ef
fectualy supersedes every thing else Of the Upon
the passage Of this act you speedily dispense with
porstion Attorney quite OF other old fashioned
institutions whose places will be supplied by Police JUS
tlces and other Tombs magnstes.
This curious bill is put up In q few compact sections
which are hid away large amount OF others, copied
from the Revised Statutes TO prevent them from being
OF easy legislators here The bill places the Police Justices
above any OF CONTROL them the appointment Of
ee ~ @ = to the sTm Of se 70 for s HbcS sue
attorneys shall serve 1t provides In this connection for
extensive infiipgements upon the Office OF District Ator
ney and that OF Corporation Attorney takes away the
power Of the Common Council TO assign justices 70 dis
tricts, and walks into the Court Sessions In sty
which promises to dispose OF that institution aud its OIL
after perhape session OF bodies here
The for all this revolution that Justi,e Welsh
was elected for the Tombs district but has unconquera
bic aversion to doing duty at that Egyptian headquarters
appears that Mr.. c. Spencer Also who is to be the
substitute for District Attorney Waterbury ambitious OF
adding something Of style 10 the sphere OF his professional
hbors and failing to obtain the nomination for Attorney
General from the last Republican State Convention he Isl
Is said to DO decorated with the Office Of Attorney
General for the Police Justices Seriously this pro-
ect for the reconstruction Of the criminal courts OF the
city should engage more attention Messrs. Welsh and
manner that h by securing the votes of all the members
who know nothing OF city AFFAIRS and by letting those
who might be nquisivc learn nothing Of its progress
real intent
Another curiosity Of legislation here is the manner 10
which the Aldermen have adjusted their claims for "co
pensation" In the city tax levy contained the follow
Observation-Disclosures department. oompensa.
ton to members Of the Common Council for their services
at the rate Of 81 900 year each, which sha be in lieu Of
and instead OF all charges for carriage hire and other ex
ss s"Sn on the art DAY Of
city Of New York s hereby directed 70 pay which the
said members are hereby authorized to receive
teen Aldermen, At thousand dollars apiece not
amount to more than $41 600, and the balance II be
supposed, far l. the above win indicate, must be for
carrsge hire and possibly lobby expenses Tbs latter
doubtless the main em as carriage hire win hardly make
charter has been prepared which promises to suit the
requirements Of the city government far Is removing
present impedments to the organization and working
Of the departments The fatal hoof Of the Shoe and
Leather Bank comes through Is, however, In the
proposition for the benefit Of this insttuuon The char
ter Of last year ". defeated BY tho proposed extension
Of the time Of this concern in the face Of an Offer
from the Bank Of Commerce the city deposits at
three cent interest TO be paid the city their use
The delay in reporting these amendments TO the charter
aries from the opposition which h made TO putting this
bank business " the way Of matters which really
needed, and which would encounter opposition de-
tached from this job. There be possible excuse
for removing tho city deposits from the control of tho Cor
the Common Council That they should be deposited by
law in small capital bank for years. given 70 the OK
elusive control Of any executive officer is an outrage
which must excite IN active hostility from number Of
quarters. Why not let take ia oourse In the separate
bill introduced by Senator Connolly, and mot defeat the
proposed charter with III