New-York daily tribune., 1863-10-24
CITY INSPECTOR AND FINANCE
DEPARTMENTS.
The Pabiic E7nrle.s-" EEOumas Lesfsia'
ton" at Albany Superintendent Of
Markets and Collector Of Market Hcnts
md Fccs-An Earnest Cry 10 City I'm.
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Markets and Collector Of Market Rent
md Fccs-An Earnest Cry 10 City I'm
spector Docic.
| To he Editor Of The N Y. Tribune
SIR: | desire TO call your attention to an ir
regularity in the collection of market rents and fees
from which many SHAREHOLDERS have already suffered
heavily and from which they must continue TO suffer
increasingly unless the powerful voice Of Public Opinion
make itself heard in their favor.
By section q of the Amended Charter Of the City o.
New York, there was created in the City lnspectori
Department bureau "for the inspection. regulation
and management of the public markets the chief officer
Of which shall be dcnominaed Superintendent Of Mar
kcts; and upon this Superintendent was deyolyed tht
duty Of making transfers of old stands, granting ne"
stands canccng permits for and exercising con
troll generally
Under Mr. Flagg's administration Of the Finance De
parimont and in order to obyiae system of black
mail and cxtorton upon the standhoders previously IN
vogue there created and attached to the FINANCE
Department, officer called the Collector OF Marker
Rents and Tees-this officer to transact all pecunary
business with the standholdcrs. and to have nothing
whatever to say the transfer Of stands the granting
of new permits, or the canceing OF old ones lie was
to De simply machine for collecting legal rents and
other Dues and carefully debarred from personf!
official power the various essecs of whom these
collections were TO be made.
The object of this division Of labor between the Sill
perintendent Of Markets. and Collector OF Market
Rents must be Obvious. by attaching one officer to the
City Inspectors Department and the other to the Fl
nance Department, and by taking away from the man
Vino actually handled the money all power over the
stand holders. while the man having power over them
was specially excluded from pecuniary dealings with
them Controller Fagg doubt intended 10 render cor.
rupt or cxortionate practices dcu and dangerous
a. possible Two men would have to b. bribcd in place
Of one and two distinct departments of the City Gov
ernrent would have to conniye together in shielding
any offender complained of from Justice.
But by paragraph smugrlcd into the tax-!eyy Of
last wear the Inspecorshp of Markets waa taken away
from the City Inspectors Department aud suddenly at
ta,hcd to the Controllers Department. fy vtom that
Interpolation WIS made in favor Of The Finance Dep'r
m.nt Is a mystery to oil "oUtsideis." II is still
grcuter mystery to insiders why tie City Inspector
should have submitted amely Ia the Migrant I'M
lice and wrong Of this II held by the Senate
OF the United States in the Of the great ouma.
snrdle" that fraudulent legislation, obtained by the
eitlon oe clause or clauses subjects not reclied
in tie title preamble of bill -hoald be held null and
void. This market operation was clearly another
d" noumas swndle though a smaller scale and ns
such is q duty which the City Inspector owes 10 the
stand holders II all the markets In the city TO resist and
deuonncc H. and test it, constitutionality.
The superinendeney ~ the keis and the collector
ship of marketrcnts and fees being thus consolidated
the Controller has appointed Mr.. John \. Cooley
Superintendent Of Markets with orders, apparently 10
abstain actively and pcrsistenty from oil oiicin acts
While in yolltion Of right Mr.. Matthias GoodeFson Is
appointed Collector OF MaIketEents and Fees, ana cA
cfci.cs ail the powers of Superintendent In oddi'
ton lie takes the rents. makes transfers of stands.
grant. or@IeyoAcs perm.tstac Controllers signature
being necessary to a these acts.
Now the Controller must know thoroughly wei.
every time Mr.. GoodeIson comes into his Office WIN
permit 10 be couuersigned that the act s wrongful
certainly in violation of the spirit under which Mr.
Flagg had the Office Of Collector of MarkcRents nhd
Fcc- created and unless parties who should know are
very greatly misniormed). in direct violation OF al
orlinence of the Common Council. drafted by Mr.
Flagg which forhds the Collector Of NnrketR Rents Il
have ANYTHING 90 do with the duties Of the Supciniend
cui of Markets As for the present nominal superin
tcnd,nt OF Public Markets. Mr. John A. Cooley. he
takes thng- as cooy his name impiesi abstan'
from al official duties as the only means OF propers
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and il even said to be charitable or 80 9onseons 0
M. own lc merit that he CIV. away one.half Of hi.
salary sipo g per moata) 10 ce inan in the XIXtl
Word who was rival applicant for the pcsiilonl
i o. behalf Of many stand dloldcrs in the public mar
Lcs who dare not squca" ut present, no matter how
sharply the vice pnchcs you requested 70 demand
u he city Inspector tha, be at once take measures tc
tot the con.itutonny II the contemplate fraud by
which the Sup,rncndency Of Markets has been taken
away from hi, Department. Let us see who were tht
responsible mnnpulnors Of this small rc-editon Of tho
Iioumas SWindc and see also they have the fran1
nudaciiy oi senators slidel and Benjamin who came
out openly and ayowcd their rick-a trick denounced
hy Senator Robert Toombs Of Georgia on the floor o
tie senate ns worse than robbery, worse than al
minor crimes poisoning Of the very fountains of legis
nton" Let the City Inspector only relieve the stand
holders from their present unhappy condition. and hc
viii b. forgiven by the butchers all the trouble he has
ctu.ed them In regard To their downtown slaughter
houses The secrets OF the pFison.housc may then be
rc,.alcd with safety. At present. II would certainly
be- ms much as our stands worth to BE- heard even
grumbAng. Very respectfully youis'
Nm ,o,k Oe, 20 1853 GREEN GROCER.
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