New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-13
Tile CONNOLLY NANDINLN.

All parties to the several suits known rs
the Connolly Mandamus, before Judge In
graham, dcprccatc the COlOrnC which has been
given it as one hostile to Deputy-Controller
Green, and inspired by the impotent rage OF
the Ring. If il is part of the intrigue OF
Tweed. Hall, and Swceny to get Mr.. Green
away from the post he guards with such con-
stancy and fidelity, neither he nor his lawyers,
they say, suspect it. That such a schcme-not
to call it conspiracy, though ii seems well
enough to remind the gentlemen that there Is
sucb an offcnsc, and that it is sometimes very
seriously punishcd-cXistS, there Is no reason
able doubt, but no new developments nave
taken place within the past twenty-iour hours.
The law involved i'll the Connolly case as
yesterday discussed appears to be so clear mat
il looks like waste of good logic to continue
the argument to-day. 1t is simply question
of whether Twccd's Ostcntatlous Two Per Cent
law was intended to have any restraining
powers at all. Every person interested III local
politics and finances will recall the bitterness
with which the act was opposed, and 1t was
only passed after the addition Of the restrain
ing clauses which it is now sought to violate
Everybody understood its intent to be to re-
strain the Ring from spending too much
money and tho limit of two per cent on the
valuation of the real and personal estates OF
the city and county was imposed. 1t was en-
phaticaly declared, in language as PLAIN and
direct as it is possible to construct,
that from the sum thus raised should be
"paid all the expenses of the City and County
&" Governments for all their departments and
"purposes" Not content with this explicit
statement, the act went on further to say that
ono liabilities shall he incurred for any pur-
"pose which shall. make the aggregate OF
"the expenses -. amount to more than TWO
"per cent upon the valuation aforesaid" And
further on, in still stronger language and in
the most positive form, the act declared that
"No liability for any purpose whatsoever shall
abe hereafter incurred by any department -.
cor officers -. exceeding in amount the appro-
"priations made for such purpose nor shall
the City or County of Ncw-York be held
"liable for any indebtedness so incurred"
Now the logic which can unsettlc the i'm
preston which these passages OF this law, in
tended to be restraining on those who now
seek to violate it, must be very convincing,
and that description does not apply to the
arguments advanced by Mr. OGoman ycstcr-
day. They are not likely to affect the decision
of Judge Ingraham, or mystify the issue in
volved in the public mind. The people
recognize these facts. The Ring was e1trava-
grant, Popular agitation compelled 1t to
place restraints upon itself, but these
restrictions it continued to disregard, and
wasted money as recklessly as before Fortu-
nate circumstances and a popular agitation
more violent than the first drove it from the
Finance Department, and, placing an honest
man there again brought their extravaganza
to halt. Once more they seek to pursue
the same road to ruin, but the consent of
the Court must be had. That, we trust,
they are to be denied without delay.
We believe the Court will sustain the
law and the people, and bring the useless ex-
denditures of the Ring to sudden and conf
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