The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-16

for the ofuces of State Engineer and Secretary
of State; and what amount of fee was paid
for the job of printing twice over, or pretend
ing to print twice over, the State Engineers
report of 1869. These inquiries completed
perhaps Weed, Parsons & Co. will have the
decency to retire from the business of public
printers, as the exposure of their practices,
has compelled their friend Terwilliger to retire
from the Clerkship of the Senate.
ALL FOR GRANT.-The Maine delegation to
the Philadelphia Convention are avowedly
for Grant. That is the case with most of the
delegations thus far chosen.
SENATOR Cock, of Suffolk, is democrat.
He will do something towards redeeming the
character Of his party if he votes. as Senator
Murphy, of Queens, will vote-for the repeal of
the Erie Classification act
SENATOR JARVIS LORD will do well to
pause and reflect before he makes up his mind
to vote with the Erie Ring on Senator
O'Brien's repeal BILL The necessities of the
Canal Ring may yet require all bis attention.
SENATOR CHATFIELD, of Tioga, is reported
to be pledged to vote against the repeal of the
Erie Classification act. He is evidently not
ambitious as a politician, however enterprising
he may be as a business man.
SENATOR LowERY, of Oneida, cannot afford
to betray his constituency by voting with the
Erie Ring. We count on his support of Sena-
tor O'Brien's bill to repeal the Classification
act.
SENATOR LEWIS of Buffalo, was member
of the last Senate, and ''still lives" despite
his vote on the Erie Classification bill. Let
him now vote to repeal that unjust law, and
to restore to the stockholders of the Erie cor
poration the right to say who shall hold and
manage their property.
SENATOR MCGOWAN, of Herkimer, will be
expected as matter of course to vote for the
repeal of the laws that enable the Gould-Lane
combination to hold on to power in defiance
manage. The arguments must be very solid
indeed to induce Herkimer county Senator
to vote with the Erie Ring.
SENATOR MADDEN is a man of strict per-
eonal integrity, and is honestly in favor Of the
Ring management Of the Erie Railroad. For
that reason he ought not to have been made
Chairman of the Senate Railroad Committee.
But Of course he will vote against the repeal
of the Classification act, and so We concede
him to the Ring
SENATOR JOHNSON, of Seneca, is one of the
last few seeds of democracy left in the State
Senate. He Is an honest man, but will he
bring forth the good fruit of reform in his vote
on the democratic principle Of giving majo-
rity of the stockholders of the Erie Railroad
their rights, or the bad fruit of subservience
to corrupt ring and an impudent lobby?
SENATOR DICKINSON, of Franklin, represents
reform constituency who sent him to Albany
In place of A. K. Parker. He will prove
faithless to the men who elected him if he fails
to vote in favor of Senator O'Brien's bill to
restore their legal rights to the stockh elders
of the Erie Railroad, and to overthrow the
corrupt legislation of the last Senate in the
service of the Ring.
SENATOR FOSTER, of Oswego, is a railroad
director and member of the Railroad Com
mittee. 1t is said at Albany that no anti
railroad ring bill can receive the support of
any member of the committee. It is, how
ever, dangerous experiment for railroad
director to vote to strip railroad stockholders
of their rights and to leave them bound in the
hands of an INSCRIPTIONS combination.
SENATOR ISAAC v. BAKER, JR., of Wash
ington county, is railroad employe, and he
should be careful how he casts a vote that
robs the stockholders of railroad corporation
of their legal rights and confirms the grasp of
lawless ring upon their property. A Sen
ator's duty is not properly discharged If he
should enter into combinations for self-interest
or self-protection and vote at the bidding of
the lobby without regard to the merits of q
question.
SENATORS PERRY, BENEDICT, WEIsMANN
AND TIEMANN were elected as reformers in
Kings county and New York. Will they ven-
ture to part company with the vigorous cham
pion of genuine reform, Senator James
OBrieu, in his bold attempt to overthrow the
Erie Ring2 The issue among the reformers
was made against the two Rings-Erie and
Tammany. Will tie gentlemen we have
named betray the cause that elected them to
Office?