New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-02

,on's Leadership for The People; and ifa New'York
inn, ..y. we must pay this 5000, 900 claim, or any
part of il, why then We suppose It must 10 done
INT we do not feel satisfied with the Judgments al
ready obtained (under Mr.. Richard Busteeds lead
for the CITY as Corporation Couosel), and We de-
maid a new trial. If everything was right on the
former trials, nobody will be harmed This Is all
wa need to say in reference to the charge oil
" ,viudpe." We have made no such-do not In
tend to make any. We leave the matter TO the au-
thorities and the tribunals.
The Times continues:
simple truth bi, point Is that both parties as sqnny
onpabe 1he Democrats had the Land Once oka
1855 when the granted-and the '''
Now we have not said that any body is "culpa'
"ble," but The Times is grossly misled.
In the first place. the vital part Of this business
is the claim against the City for back rents; and
this claim is entirely and absolutely founded on tue
leaso Of the late Democratic State Officers. Ine
recent renewal or continuance does not Affect II Id
any manner whatever.
Ia the next place, the present Republican
State Officers, when they came in last January,
found Taylor & Brennan in possession OF this prop
erty and already holding over, and thus with claim
to bold till the end of their current year. They found
on the records of the Beard positive recommends
ton, dated but few days before, by their Domo-
cratic predecessors that this lease be renewed.
(See "Justice" in our last.) And they found,
moreover, that Taylor & Brennan had an unqaali.
fed lease, which was in effect State guaranty OF
the title, and might, in case of the failure of that
title have subjected the State to heavy damages.
This peril they obviated in the renewal granted BY
,bem-wisely and happily, We doubt not; purely
and upriehtly, we know. 1t will not be easy for
The Express to make the people Of this State be-
ieve that Robert DeDniston, Charles G. Myers and
Philip Do,sheimer-whom it professed to support
for the highest public trusts last Fa-have done an
unworthy or unjust act for the benefit OF any per-
SOILS or party. They have characters which no
breath of calumny can tsrnish.
The Times asserts that we, as well as The Err
eat Of in M, Tsyl0r' favor against the City
Ono! The Express broadly asserted this, and
We simply responded that, if so, our late Demo-
cratic Corporation Counsel was most cdlpaole in
letting it 90 by default-tbat the legal guardianship
of our City's interests hiss been confded By her
people b enc Democrat after another throughout
several years past, and that the blame of any "de-
fault rests on one or more of them. We have
tired hard to make The Express meet this view,
but cannot compel it to break silence upon it.
The Times concludes as follows:
"This law has been passed and Is this which eleits the
alan
Of The ibune The latter jourOa th the Controller
S n Il quarter Of noT aasse until Il .ha BE- awarded
in ether words that he AIN a: bs sss
Possibly He be sOadsa b, partisan eA|or inO snor
~ to e. vii than
heh h., already been awarded we can only IsPsa Ss we
to contest the claim than to compromise and pay now"
We do not think this represents us fairly. Let
US simply restate our positions:
!. We have stated and proved that this claim
against our City for 5000, 900 grows entirely and
absolutely out of lease or leases granted to Messrs
Taylor e. Brennan by Democratic State Officers,
and those oily.
2. We have satisfied ourselves and so stated,
that Mr.. Haws will not pay this claim, nor any part
of it, because of the act lately passed over the
Governors veto. Whatever the devisers of that
act may have intended, Mr.. Haws will psy nothing
on that claim that he would not have paid had no
such act been passed.
g. We have once and again insisted that the
Corporation Counsel is the CIty's legal authority
ond guardian in all matters of this sort. Judge
Bronson was elected to that post because the PEG
pie have confidence in bis ability and integrity.
Hes Democrat butthis faith is confined to no parry
Whenever he shall advise any settlement of the
Taylor Il Brennan claim, we presume Mr. Haws
will be guided by bis counsel-at least, we hope he
will. Until thus advised, We are confident that he
viii never pay shilling. If, as The Times asserts,
T" it will cost the City Million Of Dollars to
contest the claim than to settle and pay it now"
Judge Bronson is likely to know that fact as any
bCdJ-at all events, he ought to be. We believe
he Will do the right thing at the right time and,
until he directs or advises some action, we trust
MIR, Haws will refrain from taking any. That is all.