New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-01

TITDENS RECORD IN THE ASSEMBLY.
EXTRAORDINARY NEGLECT OF PIEDGEs-sPEECH or
SENATOR PRINCE AT TIE HOME OF HE HON.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER
MALONE y. Y, Oct. 3O.-State Senator l..
Bradford Prince spoke At Republican mass Inreting III
this town last Saturday evening and CAV" an interesting
account Of thcrecord made by Ir 1ildcn as member
Of the Reform Assembly of 1872. The meeting was a
very successful one the ;orchie bong over
half mile long and the orator being attended by a
soccia guard Of honor composed OF Gy Of the leading
professional and mercantile of Malone The follow
Ing is the pith OF Mr. Pr.ncc's speech:
The Legislature Of 1s72 was the first Reform Lcgi.,
lie Tammany Ring, and had elected Legislature
pledged 10 give them better and purer government
portuny for usefulness than the Assembly OF ISL Nc
man who desired to benefit his fclpw-cncns could ask
was a member from Ne%-Nork city. and on the first
Tuesday OF January he came To- Albany ald WIN ihe
rest of The members took official OATH which included
the promise "faitfaliy 10 perform the duties Of mem,
Der OF the Assembly No one ot equal intelligence ana
education within 4 generation has exercised 20 little
power III the Legislature n Mr. 1hdcn did III lNI% Inc
reason simply that lie was scarcely eyer III ms seat,
and that the hcgiuu2 70 the end OF the session ne
neglected to unparalleled extent every duty when
was incumbent upon him IN that Office In every Logs
laturc You know they journal, and in that jour
nal every motion every vote Is recorded with the
names OF those voting each roll call Now, We have
taken the trouble have the number Of ros in that
Assembly counted, and there were LOS of them And
OF these Mr. ldcn voted on 100 ana neglected 20 NOle
or l,4GI most extraordinary proportion Against
this fact may be set OH perhaps another one namely,
that Mr. Tilden was nenber oI the judiciary commit
tee and was down AT the fifth Avenue H0cl III New
York. part Of the tmr investigating as 10 Barnard ana
Cardozo have made a count of the number Of roll
calls taken while the committee was absent OF these
there were pol Let give Mr. Ilden credit Tor al OF
tben There remain 277 rocalS when il was his all
sote duty to be present and OF thee ne voted on
and ucgiectcd to vote on LILO MOI single member OF
either House good bad, well sick has made such a
record "A. that within the memory nf living man
Democrat will reply this statement by saying that
Mr. Tden was "A prominent man. and could not afford to
waste time every little local aud private bill that
came there He selected the lO7 really important and
T"fr,o measures and voted on them and the LILO
small trash he aid not bother himself about This is not
true. out OF all the important blls ana reform
measures OF that sesson-and they were very many
MIR Tideu voted on exactly one and only one, and on
that he voted the way. The one single important
b.l on which he voted at all was the COnmittee OF
Seyent,'s Reform Charter NewIOTk CITY. He voted
against that charter and thereby voted To continue IN
force the Tweed Charter under which TIC whole clty
Now, take some of the important bills which Mr..
Tilden did not vote. There were the TWO great TAX Ds
these called for millions OF dollars of the peoples money
On each there were number OF roilcas al dnereht
single one calls either of the bills. The
first reform" of the session bill 10 re-
four rOllcas on it, and Mr. Tldeu did not vote
Then there were three reform and relrenchInent
measures relating the State Prisons and the bill 70
create the Constitutional Commission whose proposed
amendments you have since acted upon ana generally
adopted On them N fbo, h was VIA wapg tor the
Canal bills his great interest in the canal question
made special examination ON that SUBJECT Inc re-
suit showed that there were three principal Caal ps
that scssiOn-one known as the Ordinary Canal DILL
one as the Extraordinary Canal bill" and another as
the Seventenths Mill Tax Canal bill. The latter was
composed OF many Items and some, with regard to
which there special objection there were separate
votes. Some items created warm discussion, ana
VIC had a close vote on them, and we
needed every who favored economy and reform In
his seat pursued the investigation far - exam
inc even the minor bills relating to Canals, including
those for the building OF local srdges The result
that it appeared .as' through the whole session NJ