New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-22
ALBANY.
TIE CHARTER OUTLOOK.

1tiG tiiahlEh w IBOOhs
WHAT WILL THE SENATE Dof-TnE CUSTOM
HOUSE LEADERS DISSATISFiED-WHAI Ihbi
HAVE FAILED TO ACCOMPLISH
lFRoa REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oP THE rRiBUSEI
ALBANY, March 2l.-Snce the report of the New
York Charter by the Senate Committee on cities the
current of curiosity is changed, and the question
now is, not what the Committee will do with 1t, but
"What will the Senate do with itP IL is well
known that not single member OF the Committee
who finally consented to the report it stands was
suted with it. but all felt that it was time they did
something with the Charter, and they took the only
method that seemed feasible to get off their hands
AID before the Senate IT is not expected that the
report will carry with it the weight that usually
attaches to favorable reports of cOmmlttees III fact
the Senators who consented TO the report do not feel
themselves bound to advocate the Charter as 1t
came from their hands. They demand for their re-
port no more weight than if the Charter had been
reported for the consideration of the Senate"
There Is difference of opinion as to whether the
Charter, as reported, can be carried through the
Senate No one seems TO be satisfied with 1T, and
none express themselves more dissatisfied than the
Custom-house leaders who engineered the Charter
through the Assembly. For, while the mode of ap-
pointing heads of departments might possibly ena-
BILE them TO achieve their object in getting their own
men into possession of the offices, yet 1T is subject to
80 many contingencies depending on the keeping OF
good faith and on combinations which may be made
to upset the Custom house programme, that they do
not feel at all safe in accepting it. 1t. moreover,
gives the Mayor an opportunity to put himself IN q
favorable light before the public by nominating
frst-class men for heads of departments, and
throws upon them the responsibility and odluih
of refusing 10 confirm them. This is an
advantage which they did not intend Mayor Have
meyer should have, and cOmpels them to accept
responsibility which they were most anxious 10
escape. 1t is doubtful therefore, whether the Gus
tom house leaders will aid in trying to pass the
Charter as it stands through the Senate ana, IL
il should pass without their aid it is by no means
certain that they would not try to Kill 1t IN tue
Assembly. Many of them do not hesitate to say as
they have said from the outset that II they cannot
have the Charter they want it, they would rather
not have any Charter at all; and the impression Is
gaining ground that the Legislature will adjourn, as
it did last year, without effecting any material
change in the present condition of things in New
York.
In any event the power and prestige of the Gus
tom-house party is gone for they have shown their
incapacity as leaders by their inability to carry any
measure through Legislature which started out by
giving them the organization of the Assembly, and
which they boosted would do their bidding in all
things without question. When they first manu-
featured their charter for New-York, they were to
have it in fall operation by the 9Th of February
they subsequently postponed the time till the LIST OF
March, when it was to go into force simultaneously
with the beginning of the new term OF their Presi-
dent 1t is now the 21st of March, and the seventy
third day Of the session of the Legislature, ana
there is less prospect of any kind of charter ana
particularly such one as the would-De Leaders ue-
sired. than there was in the beginning.