New-York tribune., 1871-04-15
TIE IIN At ALE1NY.

TIRE IIX At ALBANY.
The situation in our State Legislature is
unchanged The Republicans have defeated
the effort of the Democrats to regain, through
an order for special election, the majority won
by the practices Of thieves and lost by those
of prize-fghtcls; md they steadily oppose an
mbroken front to the alternate threats ami
bribes of their baiiled, desperate antagonists.
Seventy-fve thousand dollars, offered for
a single Republican vote, have failed
| to buy it. oar representatives, stand
firm on two propositions-they will prevent
iniqutous partisan legislation, Ike the effort
to amend the Registry law into wOrthlcssncSs,
and to relieve rcUrItr rs from the tcirOrS OF the
L. 5. election law; and they will not permit
an adjournment that shall leave ncedful legis-
| lation, such as that required for the expenses
! of our municipal government neglected.
/ Meantime we call attention 10 the material
! facts that explain this Sudden deadlock at
Albany:
| |. A decided majority both Of the Senate
and Assembly districts of our State are Re
publican at all c,cC.s. MesSrs. Morgan OF
Dutchess, c. F. Norton of Clinton, Sanford Of
Oneida, and Lord OF Monroe-fOur Democratic
|
tricts are each aud all Republican. Mr.. Hub
bard of Chenango may not kn0,C that his dis
| trict is Republican, but lie shall be convinced
of it next Fall. Messrs Curtis of Cayuga,
Randall of Cortland, Howell and Wiley
of Erie, Cole and Lord of Monroe, Carey Of
this City, Nicholas of Ontario, Howe of Oswcgo,
Coon of SCHUYLER, Bennett Of Steuben, Griffin
of Warren and Joy of Wyoming-12 Demo
8 ! fy
their districts a:e Republican, while not five
Republicans in al represent Democratic con-
stituencies. Yet these Democrats vote for the
most extreme party measures, IN fagrant ana
ostentatious defiance of the wishes OF their
constituents.
III. The With District of this City elected
Horatio n. Twombly (ReIublican) to the As
sembly by 2222 votes to 2,2Oi for John Carey,
Democrat. But, seeing that they needed one
more TO give them a majority III the Assem-
| bly,, the Democratic canvasSerS counted out
Mr.. TwOmbly, by rejecting the vote of
several election districts on the most flyo-
lous technicaliiies. And the Assembly, as or
ganized by Carey's vote, refused 10 correct the
wrong: Mcssls. JOY, Randall, Nicholas, &c,
voting to keep Republican out Of the seat
to which the returns showed him elected.
III. The majority thus fOuly achieved was
foolishly lost: James Irving, Democrat IRON
this City, having struck Smith NJ Weed, a
Democrat from Clinton County, a blow which
made him see stars, because Of some difference
respecting a bill. This blow having been
struck in the Capitol while the Assembly was
in session, the rural Democrats were so out
ragged by it that Irving was obliged to resign.
". The Constitution requiring % affirmative
votes, duly taken and recorded, to pass bill,
the resignation of Irving deprived the Demo-
Gratis of their dishonesty acquired power to
pass partisan measures over the heads OF the
Republicans, who thereupon held Il caucus, ana
pledged themselves to each other to stand firm
and united in the opposition which these circum-
stances would now make effective. They did not
resign nor do anything to break up quorum.
They did not propose to "tilibuster" or talk
against time. They resorted to none of the par
liamentary tactics whereby minority endcavOrs
to defeat the will of a majority. They simply
resolved to vote against measures devised and
pressed in the interest and for the aggrandize-
ment of the political party opposed to them.
And this resolve they forthwith Published,
authenticated by their signatures.
V. Hereupon, Mr. Tweed rises in the Senate
: and asserts that the Republican members
have decided that zoe shall do no more bust
l ness until certain matters are fixed to their
4 " satisfaction" They had decided nothing of
7 the sort. They had not objected TO the con
sideraton of any bill 1t was Mr.. Tweed that
would allow no more business done unless
the Republicans would back down from their
4 opposition to Democratic party measures; and
G he adjourned the Senate accordingly.
t VI. Mr.. Fields i'll like manner adjou;ncd the
Assembly on the most garing false pretenses.
He asserted that the Republicans had at
tempted "tO block the Wheels Of legslafi0n."
lie alleged that they had decided that ceItain
| hills were partisan, and therefore to be "ig-
! "nored.n He charged the Republicans with
, having "decrced that no biz crccpt such as
, "Aev man designate should pass" &c, &c.
: VII. Mr.. Fields inlmates that certain Rcpub-
ican members had "gireR linn their promise 10
{ ",ote wih tie UmopGt', Pfordd justice
, "sbouH be done in Hc cf'e W Ar. TUbgr
| Sucb a COMPACT would disgrace all who were
= na1ties 10 it-nost Of all, lin who exacted such
e a promise as Il condition precedent to doIng
2 iustjce. Mr.. Fields should be required to name
, the Republicans Wlo thus betrayed uier
. constituents and disLouoIcd themselves. lie
has no right 10 cast such imDCtations broad