New-York tribune., 1873-03-18
ALBANY.
THE CHARTER STRUGGLE.
UNAyAuING EFFORTS OF THE CUsT0M-H0UsE
MEN TO INFLUENCE INDEPENDENT SENATORS
THE TwENPY-FIFTH SECTION LIKELY TO BE

UNAyAILING EFFORTS OF THE CUsToM-HoUsE
MEN TO INFLUENCE INDEPENDENT SENATORS
THE TwENPYFIFTH SECTION LIKELY TO BE
ABANDONED.
GBY TELEGRAPH TO THB TRIBUNE.l
ALBANY, March 1T-The Senate Committee on
Cities held short session this afternoon, and will
meet again tomorrow; and it is now said the
Charter will be reported on Wednesday. Several
Senators have visited New-York since the adjourn
ment on Friday, with view TO come to some agree
ment with regard to the appointing power that
would receive the assent of majority of the Senate
The Custom house leaders exhausted their powers of
persuasion and intimidation to induce the recusant
Senators to accept the Charter it came from the
Assembly, but were unsuccessful.
Senator Perry was beseged at his residence in
Brooklyn on Sunday by Federal oflice-holders, who
abored to convince him that his duty to the Repub-
lican party required that he should vote for the
Charter as framed by Messrs. Bliss and Davenport
and their friends He replied that he was willing
to vote for Republican Charter, but he denied that
tho Charter now before the Senate Committee
represented the Republican party, and maintained
that it was for the benefit only of small faction of
that party.
1t gave the appointing power to a board that all
admitted was not Republican board, while taking
it away from Mayor who was elected by the Re-
publican party, and still proclaimed himself Re-
publican. He could not see how such ascheme could
be in the interest of the Republican party, and he
honestly believed that the passage of the Charter,
with the fifth section it now stands, would ruin
the Republican party and every Senator who voted
for it.
Having failed to persuade Senator Perry, and find
ing that Palmer and Benedict, the two other Re-
publican Senators ON the Committee, would not
yield their opposition, the Charter makers have
been forced to give up the contest. and are now
looking out for the next best thing for themselves.
They would be willing TO vest the appointing power
in the Mayor and the Presidents of the two Boards of
Aldermen, but they fear the Assistent Aldermen
might upset any bargain they might make with
Wade, their President, by depOsing him from the
Presidency of the Board. Fearing TO trust this
method there is nothing left for them but to accept
the natural method, aud give the appointing power
w 70 aay0f ,IaTeneyer, with the confirming power in
the hands of Aldermen.
This is probably the plan that will be reported by
the Senate Committee on Saturday Ii Will very
likely be accompanied by provision which was
in the Charter as originally framed. retaining
certain heads of departments in office, among them
Commissioner Van Mort, Park Commissioner Steb-
bins, Corporation Counsel Smith, and possibly Con-
troller Green. in view of the boasts that the
Custom-house leaders have been making for the last
two weeks that they would put their Charter
through the Senate precisely as it came from the
Assembly their present position is regarded here as
decidedly uncomfortable for them.
The veteran Thuriow Weed, arrived here this
afternoon. and is staying with his sonin-law, Mr..
Barnes. Ii il barely possible that his presence is
not entirely disconnected with some harmonious
rangement of the appointing power in the Charter.