New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-25
OVER THE MAYORS VETO.
THE ALDERMEN WILL MANAGE THE FLAGS.
EirIcisING MT. HEwIrr's FIGURES AND HIS RE-
MARKS ABOUT IRisaMTy

MAINS AbtUT IRiShMEN.
Inc sessions OF the Board OF Aldermen continue to
DC lively. Yesterday Vice President Bowling called
up tho mayors veto Of the amendment 10 the ordinance
giving the Aldermen, or majority of them, the right
10 say what flags shall be displayed The City Hall
president Forster directed that the veto message be
read and while that In progress called Alderman
Conklins to take the chair. When the clerk had
reached the portion of the message which gives the
statistics relating the inhabitants Of NewYork City
VINO are In the various public institutions MT Diver,
VINO mao made similar motion when the message was
originally sent in, moved to suspend further reading.
We have been insulted enough by Mayor Hewitt he
said.
MT. Storm made the point Of order that under the
rules the whole message OF the Mayor must be read.
Mr.. Won Mlnden insisted that the reading Of the
message should proceed.
Chairman Conkling decided that Mr.. Storms point
OF order was well taken and that the message must DO
read In full
When 1t had been finished Mr.. Bowling explained
that the amendment was not intended TO dspace the
American nag He would be the first, he said, to
oppose such thing. He was as much in favor Of
displaying the flag Of any other nationality as he was
the irish nag upon any occasion which that nationality
desired 70 honor But the Mayor had taken particular
pains 70 vent his spite against the Irish people Last
week no had capped the climax a Hebrew gathering
ana mad made direct attack against the Irish He had
sent to the Police Department for list of the nation
$3.50 VI 'Ho PohOc AOf tne purpose OF showing IusV INC
irish controlled the police. Only short time ago he
had said that Irshmens sons were az bad az Irshmen
themselves. Who Is this mani Mr.. Bowling asked,
who says that 1rshmen's are as bad as Irishmen
themsclvesi
RAISING A QUESTION OF ANCESTRY
Fifty years ago a cabnet-makers shop stood on the
site at the junction of West Broadway and Church
where Thurbers wholesale place now IS. On the sign
displayed there emblem. 1t was not Irish IL
was not German It was not American. That emblem
was menace to American institutions. The man
VINO Kept that place was the father Of the man who
has lnsulted Irshmen and their IL was the coat
of-arms OF Great Britain AR. Bowling thought that
IL washington. or Jackson, or Lincoln any Of the
great generals Of the Civil War could speak to-day,
they would say that they would trust IrIshmen and
Irlshmens sons fully as they would the race
from which Mayor Hewitt had sprung When Stone
wall JACKSON General Shields at the head OF the
Union Army he said There comes that damned Irish
flag agalnl' Tho emblem the doorstep had had
Its effect on the Mayors education, aud 1t not
astonishing that his first attack was upon the Irish
people. II resulted from the prejudIces of his child
hood He had endeavored to inhame the representa-
tves Of ether countries against the Irish He had
necessarily lnsulted the Irish when he was invited to
rcview the Irish parade he had also insuled cause
lessly the Germans and the Grand Army OF the Re-
public
President Forster found fault with the Mayors
STATISTICS, ana after reading rom the state ana National
census returns OF 1875 and 1880 to prove that the
figures quoted to the inmates of public institutions
we're wrong said that tho pride Of foreign birth tends
to make a man q better citizen. He commended that
the Mayors position was wrong and that other flags
were hosted only as recognition OF the representa-
tives Of other natlonallties
When Mr.. Conkling had returned to the floor he
urged that the Mayors argument sound In de-
claring that the power of displaying the flags should
be vested in executive officer During the past
three weeks he said he had felt the public pulse, and
had found thousands of citizens Of foreign birth who
vere earnestly opposed to all foreign flags the ctys
buildings. Mr.. COnkling said that the opposition TO
the Mayor on this question came rom political traders
and trimmers,
RESULT OF THE VOTING
After Mr. Hubbel had spoken against overriding
the veto and Mr.. Bowling and Mr. conklng had further
explained their views the vote the question of over
riding the Mayors veto taken and resulted as
follows: ayes, 90; nays, 3.
The members recorded in the negative were Conkng,
Hubbe and Won Mnden.
Mayor Hewitt was subsequently asked II the state
mont made by Vlce-President Bowling that he had
said, in discussing the Irish flag question: that irish
mems as bad as the Irishmen themselves
was correct Mr. Hewitt replied II Is absolutely and
entirely fase' He added: IL Is also wholly untrue
that my father had British English coat-of-arns
IN or about his place as stated by Mr.. DOwltng.' The
Mayor said also that the action of the Aldermen IN
passing the amendment over his veto was not at all
surprising to him.