New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-08
volveda thing which has but rarely happened In the
annals Of violated confidence
yHs BUREAU FOR THE COLLECTION OF AssEssAiEyIe
Il IL

IHK BUREAU F0R The COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENT
SHOULD BE INCLUDED.
II II not a crime to tempt to crime by placing to
much power in the hands OF one man. and removing al
obstacles from between him and tie successful per
petraton Of frauds which would bring TO him elormoi
proftsi There should be certainly not less three
Independent powers acting 4 check upon caoh ohe
IN the assessing collection and disbursement OF nearl!
twenty millions year Of your public money; but vh
She Tax Commissioners. Tax Assessors. Tax Receiver
and City Chamberlain all burenuoicers under bt
Consroler-the City Chamberlain being the Only one o.
them whom no does not directly appouis 1t not clear
shat the first principles Of financial and COMMERCIAL
security are grossly volatedi The only fault TO be
found with the present bill for the amendment OF this
evil s that DOES include in its proposed consoda
Sion the Bureau for the Collection Of Assessments now
attached to the Street Department whereby saving
Of &3 600 year to tho city would DO at once Effected
I've sinecure ofcehodcrs turned out Of place. and
large legislative coruptionfund be taken away nom
Che control of the Street Department.
THE MEASURE MADE PARTY ONE IN CAUCUS
The difficulties in the way Of insuguratng this most
desirable reform MI confined to the Assembly, ana
Bear prisd Eaee evidence Of being the Illegal issue OF
illegal tenders illegally applied. The history Of the
bill is rs foows-both tho Senate and Governor being
This measure though introduced. like the bill for
Paid Fire Department. Its merits alone, was finally
sdopted by the Republican caucus party measure
this step being justified and made necessary by the
met that all the Democratic members OF both Houses
we're sgsressivey srnyed against under the Brennan
Tammany banner The machine calculations"
therefore Of those who hoped to pass it, ran something
In the following fashion. There are in the Assembly
one hundred and twonty eight members OF whom fifty
ewo arc Democrats and severtysix Republicans giving
what should be clear Union majority OF twenty-five
votes for any measure adopted In the Union caucus
THn RADICALS" STAND FIRM FOR ITS PASSAGE
TUE CONSERVATIVES Bolt.
II was the calculation Of those advocating the bill
that In addition to Its obvious justice and ezpcdcncy.
Sbe advocacy Of Mr.. James NJ. Thomson would enlist
che support Of all Radicals" who knew how Mir.
Thomson had been defrauded Of the County Ccrksnip
last November by very small majority In Mr. Con-
psr's favor solely owing the tIickery played upon
As tickets in the boxes Of oil Wards controlled by such
Of your local CONSERVATIVES" ss James T. Coulter
Sheridan Shook, Harlem Bridge Davis, John I. Cum
,nings Andrew Bleakly, Owen w. Brennan, John
Csshow j. L. Taylor and others Of the same Tx; while
Che calculation Of Mr.. Williamson was that having
been one Of the active and devoted friends Of the
Conservative interest in your city for the past dozen
gears be might rely upon its support in biz obviously
Of the highest merit aiming TO reduce taxation and
Che vast Democratic patronage. by wbich-and by
which alone-the present coriuption.power OF Tam
many Hall 10 maintained 10 tho ascendant. He there
fore expected the vigorous help Of all his former Con
kvatve associates in both City and Staiehaud i'm
memoir hominis reteri which may be freely rendered,
s'Eot forgetting the Old MAN. OF his beautiful con-
2dence In this matter ~e shall the issue While
- to Mr. Josiah W. Brown ii need only be added that
he had no particular party strength in any direction.
but has been Democrat ali bis life and in steady opEo
ALTON TO the corruptionsts Of TGmmany Hall for the
past ter or half dozen years
&YPE MIN OF THE TAMMASY TwESTY-rHIRD st
COALITION.
With a bill 80 comm. ndable as have pictured
adopted as party by caucus having twenty
two majority in the Assembly, and pressed by M
ned energies OF nearly the whole of the Union press
fucludinp The Erenius Post aud Albany Er.ning Jour
eaL there certainly should be emo such word as fai
but failure up 10 this time. there has beenthe cause
whereof NAV be tins briefly noted. This bill directly
trkes against what is known IN local politics as th
anholy alliance" between Tnmmany Hall ard th'
Twenty third-s Rcpublicans-an alliance OF wbichtht
sDost prominent and active wire-rullers are hessrs
Owen w. Brennan. recently app nted Commissioned
Charities and Correction by bis brother; Abraham
,Wakeman. Surveyor; Matthew I. Brennan Controller
George II. .Purser. Deputy Corporation Counsel and
Tax Commissioner; Henry Smith. Supervisor and
Deputy Collector Of Assessments; John Z. Derelin,
Corporation Counsel: Sheridan Shook. Supervisor and
Collector Of Internal Revenue; Mathew Fcriham,
Weed. Republican who holds at merely nominal rent
from Controller Brennan. most valuable liquor.
ntore under the Fulton Market; Harbor Mas.
Hevs Rioaklv .Iohr CumrniuQa James
y. Coulter, and mary more Of less
distinguished Republican and Democratic sinecure
or plursist No appeal that can be made
20 former friendship or services has yet sufced t.
shake the allegiance Of these gentlemen to their new
ongre coalition and have, therefore had the sad
spectacle this year Of oil the so-coled "Unonists"
have named lobbying vigorously at Albenytc the neg
yect Of all their ocal duties Tor the retention OF Mr.
George H. Purscr as chief OF the present Tax Connie
pion-Mr Pnrser's last public demonstration Of the
Gath that was in him reading as folovsi
poLIT1cAL SENTIMENTS OF THE MAN TIE "CoE.
sERvAT1vEs" ARE SUPPORTING.
On the 10th Of last November after all the heat and
fury OF the Presidential contest over Mr. Purser
prepared read and caused to be adopted by tie Gen.
sral Committee of Tammsny Hall the following resou.
Sion,
Resored That condemn and denounce the Adrnisra-
usn OF Abraham Lincoln a. iinbcie errrvsrs. and cor
fuPt and believe that persistence its iuudops and
lister ssd spirit Of the Consultation aud laws, win contribute
20 s6sr and PrSions the Exiting srssge increase TIE
eb Justly invoke supieion and d.trqst in tho North and
pe aber thsn invite returning ysy on the part OF the
tebslioas states Of the South"
Is 1t not new thing under the sun TO see such Re
publican plurssts Sheridan Shook, Supervisor and
Collector Of United States Internal Revenuei Supervi
a0r Dayis also Commissioner Of Harlem Bridge ard As