The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-21

the city. in fact the entire Board Of Aldermen he
the residents on block Of one street. Then he
would ask what became OF
that tne s p was drawn up for the benefit Of The
peopief He did not pretend 70 say that an entire
Board Of Aldermen would, under the bill. ever be
the feasibility OF such contingency. 1t was, he
coufended, Q dangerous thing to give any one man
good or evil. A good instance OF what he looked
upon as great danger was given at the last cleo
by every bank and monetary interest, every insti-
tuition that had the good order OF the city at heart
was able to poll 40, 900 votes for Mayor. Had there
been four candidates In the field that man and his
preme control. This was an instance Of
against ODDS ana YET ths D Sy
the city Of branch Of its government which has
always acted az 2 check upon another branch,
question at this point was put BY the Chairman
and was lost evidently by strict party vote,
was next taken up which provides for the election
Of hftee4 Aldermen on Q general ticket. Mr..
crsTy oH9sd the number
those elected TO take office at noon on the LIST OF
January following the election and to hold ONCE
Crazy said that several districts in New York hav
ing over one hundred thousand Inhabitants are
cause Of the election Of the Board Of Aldermen on
general ticket. Mr.. Opdyke contended that the
be m
the Aldermen were elected by districts the petty
schemers, who, By cnicanery and other villainy,
back the very state OF things in New York which
THE HONEST PEOPLE IN THE CITY
M Se Of
Assembly from New York were not ~ respectable
body Of men as the present Board Of Aldermen
samSo has it. *HaocSed the stuiin' out Of Mr. Il:
Opdykes little speech about responsibility. and
dyke get up, looking rather aDashed, ana, after
hemming and having for q second or two, begged
Legislative matters as well as ali other matters,
they were always odorous. Mr. Crary's amendment
was then ns and Lost on count y vote Of q
elector in any one Assembly district should vote
over this amendment it being evident that the OBJ
Jet sought e pe attained by it could not be
sGbbEisd SIScr6as AND INSPECTORS OF ELECTION
to such degree as 70 endanger the validity OF the
plain during the discussion that the Speaker with
drew 1t altogether. This once settled Mr.. Prime
offered an snendMsnt making the election for city
Tuesday in April Of each year. Mr.. Blumenthal
warmly advocated the amendment which was
iton the grounds nrst Of the expense the city would
be put to; and second, because the people couldn't
BE- S n the spring to to the POLLS Mr.
s Hs s sss a0s the made amend n
that it was n the interest Of the proiessi poll
tcians to have the ELECTION " !ee Fan, agd the
who %
Legislature This assertion came very near
Knocking the breath out Of little Davenport who
that lead into the rooms In the rear Of the
Speakers desk; but he recovered himself sum.
GENTLY after Weed had taken his seat to lean dig
nifedly but rather scared looking, against the
wall hugh Gardner, too. tugged at his long
sS4 to Sn
genulty to remove. Mr.. Herring followed Weed,
and got his back up because the latter, as he
thought, had thrown out an insinuation that the
good man from Westminster had
BEEN SEEN IN THE LOBBIES
with an outsiders loving arm around his neck and
in earnest converse about matters and things
generally: He claimed that the outsider was .
stranger to him who had placed his arm on his
Mr. Weed retorted by saying that he had thrown
out no insinuation but had stated fact. This re-
who somehow couldn't for the life of him see where
the Joke came in Herring was quoted finally, and
put 20 tSe Vote S
OF it referring to the election being held In Spring
was lost only tnrtyseyen voting ior it; The noli,
at this stage offered an amendment to the effect
that no more than one Alderman should be elected
election This was lost. An amendment provid-
ing that person appointed as Alderman to I'LL a
period than the nnexpired term Of the Vacancy
was adopted without any opposition. Mr. Weed then
s 20 @ @
Ea6 sess appaEs afss s i e tho he d.
Gus the night bofore he remarked that he offered
the amendment simply because in another section
Of the bill the appointing power was given to the
Mayor, subject to the confirmation of the Board of
Aldermen The leaders saw at once that they
would, despite themselves, be
COMPELLED TO SHOW THEIR HANDS.
The Speaker glanced nerVOuSlv towards PiersOn
and Davenport, and hastily writing a lew words ON
slip OF paper gave IT. to page with instructions
Pierson got the slip, read 1T quickly and arose in
his place, and addressing himself to Mr.. Weed
"the gentleman from Clintonn would only deter
his amendment till the section relating to the ap-
az Sn e
exclaimed :--"That's it, is it; If you intended to
AK the appointing power in in, any other way than
have the bill printed right in the first place P He
then resumed his seat, the minority chuckling In
to give as to the little oker which s to be put in
the bill Ia relation to the appointing power, while
the leaders o. 1 to 9o6
for the time being, and did not relish the situation.
Davenport seemed to take the whole thing as a big
l0se however and ns quietly b Temark M to gentle
HELL have damned nice time getting in that
amendment" And so he will. -
The clock pointed 70 tve o'clock at this stage of
the proceedings, and the House adjourned.
At four O'Clock, looking refreshed and good.
natured after good dinner, the majority ago
minority went .--x-..,-rr~E.
- II ONCE MORE 70 WORK.
The latter made an onslaught again on the third
section by endeavoring to do away with the
clause which CLASHES the terms OF once:
This was voted down. They then tried
to have seven members 60 out every three
years instead or I'VE and to increase the whole
number of the Board to twenty-one. This, too,
was lost. as was another to make the number
twenty By vote OF 40 to 40 another
amendment was lost fixing eight as the number
TO constitute quorum instead OF majority OF the
Board. When the twenty-frst section was reached
Mr.. Mcclure, Of Schuyler, sent up an amendment,
which provided that In case OF vacancy occurring
during the term Of the Mayor
THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
should act as Mayor until the beginning OF the
next political year." instead of allowing him to
sfay in OfilcA the full term for which the MAYOR