The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-22

whereupon all pending inquiries actions or proceed
ings then pending IN said Courts OF Special Sessions
shall be entertained continued and completed therein
before the justice holding such court to the
provisions of this act and the term. compensation
and other attendants which may be in office
vice at the last named time shall then and de-
termine and they shall then give place the officers
herein provided to be appointed
SENATE.
Among the visitors in the Senate Chamber wcro
ex-Senators Woodin, Yedder and OIsrien. Senator
LOOMS early on hand i'll the Senate with bill
ing that the Governor shall with the advice and
sent of the Senate, appoint three persons
to constitute board OF railroad commits.
supervision OF all railroads and keep
itself Informed as to their condition
and the manner in which they operated, with
reference to the security and accommodation of the
public and the compliance of the several corporations
with the provisions their charters and the laws OF
the State The may command the productions of
books and compel the attendance OF Witnesses as
reeora 'r psrspns Connected WITH the Board are
prohibited from owning any stocks or bonds and
from all connection with any railroad in the State
nation OF William +. Rogers, Isaac +. Quimby and
Ansel =. Mccall as trustees Of the Soldiers and
Sailors Home, and they We're confirmed.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
The Senate went into Committee Of the Whole to
took the floor. lie said it devolved upon him.
Chairman of the Committee the Affairs OF Cities
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against the whole Legislature it preferred direct
charges against several committees of both houses,
and the speaker had availed himself of the first OPP
portunty 20 reply to them. Upon the broad field OF
American politics there room for the widest di-
vergence of individual opinion. but there was no
room anywhere for official dscourtesy such
as Governor Robinson's Senator Pomeroy read
portion of the Message having reference to the
inittee of which he had been chairman, and hurled
back the charges ~npon the Executive or upon any
other man who comes here under cover of q consti-
tutional right, to throw such reflection
upon u.s." Taking up the passage wherein the
deprecates the support by the State Of free
svcttf Qflf hn hiUla ha
exception to the whole tenor of the passage He OBJ
jected to the terms rich . ana poor classes:
of American institutions have not classes of
society the Governor asserts they have only tenn
porary conditions. He denied that education united
a man for any pursuit rendered him dissatisfied
with his lot. All conditions of people availed them
selves of the benefit of the higher schools, and they
should be sustained. The gentleman defended the
Of the last Legislature in reference to the Public
Burdens bill. the charter for New York city and
denied that any credit due the Governor in
nection with canal and State prison reforms. He
declared that most Of the benefits Of the best charter
the city had were frttered away by the political
associates of the Governor himself, and he chal-
lenged any Committee on Cities or any Legislature
to devise such the Governor recommended,
which could command the cooperation and support
of a sufficient political organization in the city OF
New York to carry it effect. In conclusion SEN
ator Pomeroy characterized the Governors language
''uncalled for, unjust and untrue. He was the
first Governor of the Empire State to adopt the Ian
guagc and the manner of Andrew johnson in his
dealings with the Legislature.
Senator Ecclesine made. in reply. speech in
very little of the wool Of fact.
On motion of Senator Pierce the Message made
o special order for Wednesday Of next week. and the
Senate adjourned until tomorrow at eleven o'clock.
THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS,
The democratic members of the Senate and Assem-
bly met in caucus the Senate Chamber early this
evening, Senator Hughes in the chair and Mr. Stevens,
secretary.
were not ready to report an address, but he hoped
it would be ready for the public eye to-
morrow morning In the meantime he would
take the liberty, 1t his privilege to be per-
manent chairman of the Democratic Convention at
Syracuse last September. and because it has been
his good fortune to receive the support of his friends
candidate for Speaker, to present few thoughts
to the members of the democratic party in its
present crisis and he asked the privilege Of doing
Mr.. Brooks then said:-Here in Albany, the oldest
chartered town and city of the whole Republic even
earlier than the Revolution of 1868, New York
cestors met, not only to discourse upon union but
to accomplish it.. Here the famous Two Nations.
town the ancient place of treaties" and
here, where the Dutch were so long supreme mas
..In union there is strength" What is necessary
for country in times of great emergency
Of our WEAKNESS is our divisions. In the
Assembly, with the dominant party in minoritysof
10000. the democrats have not onefourth OF the
members, and i'll the Senate with the same popular
rebuke, the democrats only number one more than
onc-third of the whole body. The most notable
event in the recent State Convention was the strong
language displayed by members of the Convcn-
ton toward each other. and although but q
few of many delegates shared in these recrimina
tions the effect was TO disturb all harmony in the
convention and TO exhaust all that strength and vigof
of action which, with united hearts, hands and pur.
might have assured victory at the close of the
November Tho divisions created in the
convention followed in the organization of the
the members absent from the scene Of duty. il
not Indifferent to the result. The fact Of single
candidate, and that for an Office without power or
patronage, might have contributed to this result,
did the fact of decided opinions growing out Of the
psyments and the increased issue Of paper
money. by which the democratic party lost
republican plurality in the state So, Also the un.
and unfortunate combinations in the city OF
New York, by which democrats united with republic
cans, and, though the union was on local
issues and for local candidates, the effect
was shown by the discussions. and tina
vote generally disastrous throughout tho
State There in the State Convention the strength
Of the party exhausted in fighting each other.
rather than in meeting the common enemy. There.
too, this enemy found their strength and en-
enlargement in weakness, and. one conse-
a %itsed to successfully defy the law. the
constitution and justice, by deprivng many thou
sands OF naturalized citizens OF their and fran
chises. SO much for the past. Shall these things
continue? With forty or fifty thousand demo-
cratic majority. in the State shall we join
tory for the democratic party in the State and
in the country, shall expend our time. our
warfare upon each other? Patriotism principle and
duty invite us in one direction and sefshncss, bad
temper and folly lead the other way, We We
the country and mankind: il we are devoted
to democratic government and opposed at heart to
the outrages which have been perpetrated upon the
people ut home and everywhere throughout tho
Union. present duty as clear as the sun In the
heavens, and that duty is the reunion of tho
democratic party for the sake of the Union. and espe
ciay for the honor of our own commonwealth First
pure and then pcaccabe. Let this be shibboeth.
and so sinking all that IL selfish and personal and
tending to discord shall again u successful
party. and thus-the ancient peace of trestiesonce
re-cstablishcd victory which shall be not
for day. but for all time. Mr.. Brooks then offered
the following:-
Resolved That is the and feeling Of the demo-
senators and members OF Assembly In the Lcgsla
the that is by the united action Of
friends Of the Democratic party throughout the state
that future Is certain and. therefore, that
union party both the duty and the privilege of all
who wish wei to tho State and 20 the country.
STAND SHOULDER SHOULDER
Mr. St. John said he had felt that the democratic
party in the had been only warning against it.
self for the past year. and IL all honest democrats
would only stand shoulder TO shoulder with the
leaders will surely follow, and they will
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