The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-08

druggist and Is willing to pay his So fee !, y
that the present members are very particular as to
who they elect That may be, but the qualification
that the little coterie Of the members are now
making TO drive the Legislature into putting out
good , s Of comes 80 THAI they
bad grace from the College OF Pharmacy. II the
men who are bounding on the new law had the
with Inc present Board OF Examiners and endeayor
to make the present law effective wherever they
think IL Is now defective. instead OF heaping the
PERSONAL ABUSE
upon the members OF the Board, and struggling
troll and power the Board now exerts and as the
examinations OF the last year have testified, 50
The NINTH JUDICIAL COURT HOUSE.
The Comptroers answer 70 the resolution OF Inc
paid by ~ thee the Co@ptroers ONCE on account
OF the Ninth judicial District Court House
,o,s sae from e.
1870, to August "a 1871, was $685. $50 4s. In 1870
s1ls,si5 90 were expended. The exhibit shows that
which the Court House is "to be" erected. On the
2sth OF october Harry Genet was paid So 600 Tor his
came the following amounts. paid from september,
1870, to December 1871 IN detail, but which con-
JOhn Scallon, for labor, materials &C.,. 584
Ingersoll CO., furniture. ......".... eS7S
Cornelius i corson CLERK 5ssi
The exhibit consists, In great part Of the sums
81 as ct as s 10 s
feature about the exhibit Is the account
1870, and 1888 SS month for every month ne was
az Albany last winter: This. Of course was
Services s' Is CLERK to the committees pos:
siby could have been from January TO May
Ss sesS yGaG a the @ Alleged to ays Ssen
to John Mob. Davidson is the identical one upon
which the Bedford Grand Jury based their ndict.
mr. nf HAr wal q "
the parties who induced Senator Tieman TO intro
duce the resolution concerning the Ninth Judicial
District Court House that the revelations would be II
VERY STARTLING CHARACTER,
but their expectations have not been In any manner
same opinion that 1t was O wrong for the Commis
sOners 10 pay an inspector over 5000 month, but
in these days man who gets more than ne Is entl.
doesn't run his "surplus" earnings over and above
the units Of thousands IL Of no account whatever in
the eyes OF official investigators; SO the Inspector
ship supernten dentship features OF Mr.. Green's
exhibit will disturb no mans dreams in the future
even though he should be member OF the Com
mittee Of Seventy
MR.. GREEN'S NEW BILL
the Senate Committee on Cities today reported
favorably upon the bill to amend the Audit OIL,
Yesterday. The fact Of their reporting il
win have plain SAILING when it gets into Committee
Informed that two members Of the committee IN
tend to nave 1t amended when 1t is made 2
Ss 81 IS Inc IN D inc IA the one
Ond section, which Il called attention to
yesterday very briefly. II is wrapped up IN the last
five lines OF the section, which read thus:-"NOtn-
ing IN this act shall De construed 20 require the said
COMPTROLLER to pay out OF the proceeds Of bonds
or amounts That may lawfully be paid
out OF the avals OF bonds or stocks heretofore by
any law authorized out OF the ayalls OF taxation
or from any special or trust funds" According to
this Mr.. Green can refuse to pay any Claim ne
pleases. suppOslng the 'avalls OF bonds or stock
heretofore by any law authorized" or The "avas Of
taxation or from any special or trust funds should
s1d Jay m 1e wv be- out Of the said
avails what are the claimants going to do about 1t
The Comptroller can point TO the line IN the bill,
Nothing In this act contained shall be construed TO
require the said Comptroller to pay" &C., ana he
has the law MS side. This porton OF the section
attacked If the frlends Of the bill insist upon eav.
ing 1t intact
Mr.. Terwilger will resign the Clerkship OF the
Senate this week. This learn from very good au-
thoIity. He will do this. 1t Is said simply to put
an end TO the swapping and snarng which has
been going on between the republican factions on
his account ior the past week or two. He wants
everybody to become reconcled In the camp
THE NEW CAPITOL COMMISSIONERS.
The Ways and Means COMMITTEE met thss alter
noon TO hear further testimony IN the case OF the
charges against the new Capitol Commissioners.
James Connolly, OF New York, appeared and made
a statement OF an interview he mad with Mr.. AvOrd,
chairman OF the committee, in relation to putting
In more evidence. Mr.. Alvord told him the CON-
mittee had resolved not to receive anything but
cumulative evidence. Mr.. Connolly gave the
names OF
whom he wished to have examined. Connolly was
then sworn; and TO the inquiry whether he knew OF
the State at the Capitol, responded that he did
not excepting what was contained In the afiidavts
the witness. but nothing material was ELECTED.
MIR. James W. Hustled, member OF the Assembly
from Westchester, addressing the committee, said
that he found In the New York Times OF to-day that
he (Mr. Husted) was
BRICK BROKER
and interested in contracts to furnish brick for
the new Capitol and desired to be sworn as TO that
cnarge He was sworn. and testified that he was
not brick broker ana never had been: that ne was
not interested in any contract for DrlcR for the
Capitol, and never had been, but that ne mad
uhs bs WAS suc e
The committee then adjourned, with the under
standing that they would meet again tomorrow.
The case, IL had been supposed, was closed before
Mr. Connolly arrived 1rom New York on Monday
night.
The Public Printing Plunder-How the Re.
formers Rob the State-The Haul Of Thur
low Weeds Firm Over Four Hundred Thou
sand Dollars n Year for Printing and Book
Jobs-The State Engineers Report for 1869
Barefaced Swindle.
ALBANY, Jan. 7, 1872
The investigation into the alleged plumber OF the
State Treasury by the Albany printers Is a mere
sham and hnmbug. The people may as well under
stand in advance that the committee INTEND to
whrtewash Weed, Parsons Co., although 1t has
been shown that they have been in the habit OF
bribng clerks OF the Senate and Assembly and
others under the cloak Of a per centage remu
neraton for proof reading, to crowd printing jobs
into their hands for which the State has pay, and
have been guilty Of unduly influencing legis-
lation 10 get their haul through the sup
ply by paying single lobbyist $4,000 for
his 'lnfuence upon members" Now, 1t Is
notorious that this man Phelps has no
standing or position whatsoever to enttle him to
claim enable him to exercise any influence over
q single member and hence the people will have no
hesitation In deciding for themselves what use
Weed, Parsons Il Co.'s
TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR BRIBE
was intended to be put to and WAS put TO in order