New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-02-25
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE FOES OF THE CHARTER.
FOR THE MASS MEETING AT
COOPER INSTITUTE.


COOPER INSTITUTE.
The response to the call of the Committee
OF Seventy for a mass meeting OF citizens who favor
substantial reform in the CITY Government and oppose
the provisions OF the Charter pending before the
Legislature has been greater oven than WAS at first
hoped for The responses OF the Liberal Republicans
the Reform Association and he Eighteenth Ward Coun
ell Of Political Reform the call were given IN THE
TRIBUNE OF yesterday now appears that tho Germans
are moving In the matter. large number OF leaan9
Germans headed by Oswald ouendorer, Marcus Otter-
bourg, DR.. Goldschmdt, and others, VIII speak Tor
their countrynen and there viii be very large
representation of this class at the meeting.
Az recent meeting OF the Executive Committee Of the
German American Reform Organization and OF the
Property Holders Association OF the Tenth Eleventh.
and seventeenth Wards, held at Gcrmania hhl' Marcus
Otterbourg. Chairman, resolution was ADOPTED re-
auesfing Committee of Seventy to call meeting
OF the citizens Of New-York TO protest against the
attempt to make municipal affairs the fOOtDai oi
political parties. which would be the unavoidable result
II the charter reported by the majority Of the Committee
ON Cities to the Assembly should become law
copy OF the proceedings Of the meeting was Ior"dueu
to the Chairman Of the Committee Of Seventy. Inc
Communication Reform ASSOCIATION ana the Property
Holders Association will attend the meeting ths even
ing I'm a body meeting OF representatives OF the Ger
mans of Yorkville and Harlem was held ON sunday ~
No 1Sn ThTdave. TO make arrangements for genera'
partcpaton by the Germans Of that District in the pro-
posed mass meeting this evening. The details were
placed in the hands OF committee, compose" Vi ~
GoldschIaldt and Messrs Schultz, sternemaui- biolh
berg steler Won Kameke, and LachmuHd. lt IS unuef
stood that other American aud German REFORM organ
nations will take part in the movement.
The resolutions which will set forth clearly and eA-
plicy the objections to tue proposed Charter are pre-
pairing by Committee consisting OF some OF the aDeSe
members of the Committee OF Seventy. James 81.
Brown Chairman OF the Committee Of Seventy, VIII
preside at the meeting. The resolutions VIII be read by
Howard Potter and the speakers will be joseph H.
Choate jackson g. Schultz, exJudge James En0tt eX
Gov Edward Solomon, oswald Otiendorfer and Parke
Goodwin.
The Germans Of the XXIId Assembly District have
made arrangements for general participation in the
mass meeting, and have passed resolutions declaring
that the Charter involves in its provisions
property Of citizens, and that they are deter
mined to act jointly with the COMMITTEE oi
Seventy and the German Central Reform organization in
their efforts to defeat scheme that viii impose upon
this city q charter framed for the purpose OF turning
the control OF the administration into the hands OF
new Ring. The members also declare tnaJ thcy nave
full con fdence in Mayor Hayemeyer.
The members OF the Union League Club have APP
parently not yet all hope of bringing about recon
citation between the Committee OF Seventy aud the
other Reform organizations the one hand and the
Custom-house Republicans the other To this end
Committee appointed, and is gagged upon the
task Thus its efforts apparently havo not met with
much success 1t understood that the Committee pro-
poses concessions on both sides.