The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-27
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Emigration Comnission.

will probably open the eyes of the State Legis-
lature to the necessity for the immediate
passage of some law by which an opportunity
may be afforded to the Governor to remodel
and reform the Commission and to purify its
present management The mere question of
the admission or non-admission of the repre-
sentative of q railroad corporation to sell
tickets to emigrants inside Castle Garden may
seem undeserving of such consideration as has
Gently appointed to that position by the
reformed" Erie direction But in this par
ticular instance serious objections were made
to the agent by some of the Commissioners,
who did not regard him as fitting person TO
be allowed to approach immigrants and the
facts developed certainly justified their
opinion. In Board whose first and most
sacred duty should be the protection Of the
immigrant it would seem that this protest Of
at least half, if not of a majority, of the men,
bers should have been respected; but, on the
contrary, o suspiciously vigorous effort
was made by certain of the. Commissioners,
and especially by the Superintendent, to secure
the agent endorsement or admission to the
Garden. To accomplish this object all sorts
of tricks were resorted to. The Mayor
of Brooklyn, who seldom, if ever before, took
part in the proceedings of the Board, was
present at several meetings, only for the pur-
pose of supporting the admission Of the agent
to the depot. Special meetings were called,
VIGOROUSLY with the object of springing trap
upon those Commissioners who regarded it as
their duty to insist upon the exclusion Of the
agent, and were left withouta quorum as soon
as it became evident that the result was doubt
full. On Tuesday last the allies of the agent
succeeded only by cunning device. The ne
cessity of proposing resolution that the
agent be excluded from the Garden was forced
upon one of the Commissioners who opposed
his admission and the vote was a tie The
and the Objectionable agent was admitted; but
the fact that four of the Commissioners voted
af6rmatively and four negatively should of
itself have insured his rejection, unless the
Board regard the interests of railroad ticket
agent as more deserving of consideration than
the interests and protection of the immigrants.
This is not the only reason, however, why
the State Legislature should Immediately pass
q law by which the Governor may be en-
powered to reconstruct the Board. The Castle
Garden Commission is the last relic of Tam
many misrule. There are some good men on
the Commission, no doubt, who could be re-
tanned with safety and advantage. But the
Board is not OF present divided in accordance
with the prevalent idea Of non-partisanship,
nor is it of such composition as to invite
the confidence of republican Legislature and
q republican Governor. Six out of nine Com
missioners are democrats and five out of the
six are Tammany democrats. The Mayors of
New York and Brooklyn are er o6icio men,
bers of the Board. The four Commissioners
who voted for the exclusion of the Erie agent
were Messrs. wallach, Kaufman, Forrest and
Nicholson the four who voted for his admis-
sion were Messrs O'Gorman, Hart, Lynch and
Powell, all democrats. The analysis is sug-
gestive, and may well be studied with advan-
tage by the republican Legislature.
The Latest Tenement House Horror.
Yellow-covered literature, in which low life
in large cities is photographed in its most re-
voting features, is generally regarded as the
unhealthy offspring of diseased imagination.
But it would be difficult to find in the pages of
Sue or Reynolds anything more horrible than
the account of o double tragedy which comes
to us from the purlieus of Scanned street.
Drunkenness and murder could scarcely as-
sumo an aspect more H1ghtful. One wretched
woman killed in brawl and a child burned to
death present sight calculated to bring a
blush to the cheeks Of those who vaunt of our
civilization. An officer, speaking of the house
and its inmates, remarked, 'It is one of the
most awful dens in New York city, and its
inhabitants are the lowest types Of the worst
classes in any civilized community. You
would think they were beasts instead of
human beings" The miserable woman &C
cussd of the crime of murder at the den in
question lies in the Centre Street Hospital,
suffering from the effects of a beating from
her husband, and the child came to
its death from the overturning of a
candle, while, according to the police, its
mother was was stupefed with drink. A
great deal Of talking is INDUCED in
and large sums of money are collected at the
May anniversaries for foreign missions.
Would it not be we'll for the parsons and the
old ladies who annually unloose their purse
strings for the benefit of the Ashantees, the
Hottentots and the Fijis to look nearer home,
and inquire whether it is always necessary to
cross the seas in quest of ignorant savagesp
We have home missions, it is true, but they
deal too gingerly with the evils they are in
tended to correct. Such tale of horror as
the one we have mentioned is q sad common
tary on the usefulness of home missions.
CUBA LrBRE IN NEW YORK has at present
considerable food for excitement. In addition
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