New-York daily tribune., 1866-02-17

and who must suffer N public estimation Il t1-'
great measure should prove iaetiicacious.
Do but consider that the Senate is Il part oi
the appointing power; it is its duty to reject
any unfit nomination that the Governor ma!
make; the Assembly has no voice in the prem
ises if the Senate bill should prevail. Three
fourths of the Union members of both Houses
have voted, after full discussion, that the Com
mssoners shall be appointed a. usual, by the
Governor and Senate; ope-fourth says, NO: "e
have fixed the matter. Take our Commission
erS, or no Health bill" Does the Senatorial
majority think It can stand on that platform
Is it wise or well to beard the Assembly and
the immense majority Of both Houses in denying
the right of nomination to the Governor! Is
that an issue on which to 20 to the people De
entrcated to reflect upon it
This whole case against the Assembly is sus-
taincd by the grOSSest miS.statementS and the
most insulting imputationS. Hear The Tunes
again:
These are oil TO be stricken off from the new Health
Board Of the House bill prevail and men put IN as e
Tribune frankly oonfesses who will besow more patron
he naturally. eaniarians. or eminent medcai men !
their great object will not be to avert the cholera OF maxi
the city healthy Their sanitary duty VII he TO MI te
pock kets and add to the votes OF small clique III New
York The Governor If he follow l III TRIBUNE must
put in men for tns purpose-not for sanitary object
Our readers know whether We have ICON
fessed " any such matter as Tile Times asserts;
but they do not and cannot know whom the
Governor will nominate as Health Commission
ers, if he be authorized to make a nomination
We are confident that he has as yet settled on
no candidates; most surely, IRE have made no
suggestion to him on the subject, and We neither
know nor believe that any one has done so.
We DO certainly desire that this Commis-
sion shall not be so constituted a 10 increase
the power of Office and patronage whereby the
Union organization in our City has for years
been misruled, and whereof Mr.. Thomas Ac-
ton is the right hand and his Police the most
efficient instrumcntality The load bears heav-
ily nOw-we think it unfairly imposed-and we
pray the Legislature not TO increase it. And
that is the full extent of our political interest in
the Health bill. The assumption that the Gov
ernor will not nominate fit men, or that his
nominees will not regard primarily and precm-
inently the public health, is not merely n
groundcss insult-it implies that the Governor
is an idiot, who comprehends neither his duty
nor his interest. The only " sanitary object
wherein we are in collision with The Tunes Is
that we do not regard the continued rule over
our City Union organization, through his
deyotees, Of the veteran journalist now
affiliated with that paper, as conducive either
to political, moral or sanitary well-being.
To Mr.. George Bliss, who took up the Senate
bill to Albany and who has stood behind 1t
ever since, we seasonably expressed our anxiety
that this difference should be settled here in
New.York, and not carried up to create trouble
and i'll feeling among our friends at the Capital.
1t might and should have been done; bat it was
decreed that it should not be. We can now
only trust that reflection and increasing ex-
perence in the Legislature will harmonic all
differences, and that in 10 case will the bill be
lnprmittcl TO fail