New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-08

Senator Richard B. Connolly, our late County
Clerk, who is so deeply interested in the endeaVor
of the Record Commissioners to procure the inser-
ton of $500, 900 in the Tax Levy, for their pur-
poses that he could afford to pay $4,000 to an OPP
posing candidate to withdraw from the field in or
der that bis own election to the State Senate might
be made certain, is using all the appliances that bis
own slippery geniua powerful lobby, and heavy
interest at stake can bring to bear upon weak
kneed legislators to induce them to assent to his de-
aires He las tried soft words, swapping votes,
and splendid suppers, to accomplish his purpose,
with Indifferent success. We learn that 1t IS now
privately threatened that unless his wishes are COM
piled with, be and bis friends will defeat the passage
Of our Municipal Tax Levy altogether, and thus
block the wheels osour local Government. Let no
Republican member of the Senate or Assembly be
frightened by any such bugbear. Mr.. Connolly and
bis Democratic friends will hardly dare to deprive
the great mass of oicebOlders of this city, who be-
long to bis own party, Of their bread aod butter.
If they do why, let the responsibility be with the
Democratic members. No Republican should al
low himself TO be coaxed or c0erced into the voting
away of the peoples money to any such Scandaious
concern as this Record Commission. Our Board
of Supervisors, composed equally Of the representa-
tiyes of the Republican and Democratic parties,
after careful examination, stamped the transac-
tons OF the Commission rs a smindle. we can
not better illustrate its corrupt character tnan
by reproducing the report Of the Committee Of In
yestigaton, made TO the Board Of Supervisors Oh
this county, Dec. Is, 1859.
RRcoRp PRvrrSo-The Committee PrD.iag and Sta
onery reported in relation to the printed and oopno A.
rcco Ia no Of Recofd that about
10000 sheets Of these records equal 70 r. 60 of nn,ioe
and binding these records amounted to nearly 4Vo ana @
money had been paid therefor By the ooay m he Hills on
certificates of CommissioneTs that acceeins 70 @ h
6le in the County Treaaurers otoe 900 OF tnese %
been bound % 80 per volume that on ,s mme
dinley made sub contract at 70 cents peI VQiuie Oi
books and % cents ior tse n poG of - ri on each vol
that this information confirmed by the suoconactoI
on By the Committee had offered 70 do similar worh io % cents
volume; that Mr John A. Gray had ohs!sd 10 40 Tue sns ~
had td more than ou cogle have
ee was how books might bs disposed of for the benefit
county therefore, they presented ieso-tca aa' us
odanE of the property the county all the records Of
equity nocer nsolvens assignments and sheriff ses o. the
in sheets and Which have ped BY the County
Of
postion be made o; them by sale OF other"i' AZ 'o
board of Supervisors may direct Adopted"
How, in the face of such testimony as the above,
can these Commissioners have the assurance to ask
the Legislature to make this appropriation? Here,
in Ncw.Y York, they have done their utmost to push
the thing through the Supervisors; but were ex-
posed aud unceremonioasly kicked out of the Board
Unabashed by this rebuff, they had recourse to the
Courts There, too, they were foiled, the Supreme
Court denying their right to a mandamus to compel
the appropriation of any sum for their use. Now
they have elected one OF their own number Senator,
and have gone to Albany with him, as to the court
of last resort. Only the most liberal profits could
Justify so heavy outlay in time and money, as all
this must have been. The truth is, to complete the
work that they have undertaken in the manner in
which they have carried it on, would cost at least
five millions of dollars, while the stuff they have al
ready turned out would not fetch, and is not worth,
the value of the white paper upon which it is
printed Let the Legislature abolish this plumber
ing Commission altogether if it would have claim
10 the prblc gratitude of this City.