The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-03
The SQUELCnED ALDERMEN.
SmHrtiBg Under Thcir WOunds-Whnt the
Old Board Thinks Of the MayOr-rrObable
Results Of Yesterday,s PrOceedinEs.

Smarting Under Their WOunds-Wbat tho
Old Board Thinks Of the MayOr-PrObable
Results Of Yesterdays Proceedings.
In order to ascertain what the members OF both
the old and new Boards OF Aldermen thought would
result from the lracas at the City Hall on Monday
last o HERALD representative sauntered into the
Supervisors ROOM In the new Court House, yester
day forenoon, and managed to enter into con versa
tlon with several OF the City Fathers.
~ tell You what l think, sr,n said Alderman
Plunkltt, TO whom the reporter first addressed nm
self. IL think that the Mayor
ACTED MOST UNJUsTIFIABLY
yesterday. Why when he swore in the members
OF the new Board, as they call it, he had no power
whatever to do So and his action was rendered
null and void from the mere fact THAT we had i'm.
peached him ana he was no longer virtually Mayor.
Our President, Tom Conan, had usurped his office In
consequence OF the action we took"
REPoRTFR-You are on the new Board, are you
not2
eyes both Mr.. Conan and myself were reelected
80 that we're safe anyhow but that Is not the ques
ton. We ignore the right OF the newly elected
Aldermen to sic, and we side with the Board to
which we have belonged during 1870 because the
term for which the members OF that Board were
elected has not expired, and does not expire until
the close Of the present year. Hall has played
MIGHTY SMART GAME,
Dut nell get eucnreu YET. why, IL was UNDERSTOOD
that there was to be election for Alderman until
the eleventh hour Of the last canvass ana then the
Mayor slyly inserted the names on the tickets"
REPoRrER-You did not attempt to impeaeh the
May or until the eleventh hour ana half Mr. Plum.
XIII.
81 Know that; but better late than never We did
IL, aud Hall mad no more power TO administer the
oatns TO new Board OF Aldermen than you had.
At this present moment he Is not Mayor OF New
York Tom Conan Is; end would not give five
cents for $4,000 city bond signed by Hall since
we jmpeached HIM.
REPORTER What are you going to do about II, II
the members OF the new Board assert their right TO
assemble
Supreme Court and adJudicated upon Sere. It's
all a dodge OF tue reform party, which wants
and run in their own crowd. Reform. indeed /
Why, I'll guarantee that the records OF every men,
Der OF the Board OF Adermenmsne present egitl,
Iavoraby with those Of the men the reformers want
TO have IN oliicc. They're not by any means such
"ThaVs So George, by thunder" acquesced Jim
Irving, who at this moment Joined Mr. Plnnkitt.
'.Where's this gentleman fromY The HERALD, chr
Was 1t you as was up in the room yesterday when
clinton and his gang was rowing Nor An, Well
OF AI the papers did. 10 say struck that Teller
Shields Why. i never strike any one (The red9ubt.
preston OF countenanceL WHAT should have nit
him forY what would you hit any one for? Why
Tic capaclOus sIde pockets Of his heavy Overcoatl
and when the young Teller come along with
THEN WRITS
] inst turned around ana skipped out or his way
thus fashion watzng gracefully few feet across the
rich lngersoll carpet which covered the noorl see
here; Eve got whole lot OF cards in my pocket
| that gentlemen showed into my hand wnen was
charged with assaultng young Shields, and dozen
men, even OF the opposite party. says. why, what
nonsense this all u.s. Jimmy Irving never struck no
one. ihey seed 1T ALL but then an enchanted fool
OF reporter from
SOME TwoPENNY PAPER
sl ng pmt seen yer strike him Why the Teller
REpoRrER-What motive could they have Tor as.
6erting YOU didY
"Wny, yer see, Clipton's crowd lust want TO get
| ny name INTO bad repute twas a put-up lob and
must have been concoctcd outside. IL was All part
| OF conspiracy against mer
lrving's Innocent eyes sparkled brightly as the
large diamoDd brooch that gloved and flashed on
his Immaculate shri front, and he cntched The bar
or O large Onlclal stamp near which he was stand.
Ing with nervous grasp that
| SHOWED THE sINEws
OF his by2wny hands. IT, was sort OF fact acknowl
edgment that he would like TO have hold OF one OF
those neutrality-suspicious. Tor just o few moments
Tom Conan lounged up at this epoch, but be was
not In VERY communicative numor; probably the
sense OF his dignity as chief magistrate OF the city
vice Mr.. Hall, tmpeached restrained HIN.
Alderman Piunkitt reiterated his IDEAS az 10 the
nlegalty OF Mayor Hairs action the preylOus day
| and the Industrious Mr.. Conan endorsed them with
sagacioIs mods OF his intellectual head seeing tbat
J little further Information was TO be derived Inc re-
porter then withdrew.