The evening world., 1888-07-27
THIRD HOUSE IN SESSION.
MATTERS OF WEIGHT WHICH CANE BE-
FORE TIE HONORABLE BODY.

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for a Custom : House SALARY whose
Standing Ii Improving.
The Third Honse held a regular session
to-day in the City Hall Library.
The meeting was called TO order at ii
o'clock A. NJ. The districts represented were
the First, Second, Third, Fifth. Eighth,
Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth.
Fifteenth. Sixteeth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twenty first. Twenty-second and Twenty
third.
The Representative from the Third District
arose to a question Of privilege. He said that
he had been charged with asserting hat
Thomas Costigan weighed more thar Civil
Justice Clancy.
~ never made such an assertion" he re-
marked, and the publication OF that false
hood has injured me in the Fourteenth
Ward, where Judge Clancy aud his 1852
pounds of flesh are worshipped."
The representative Of the Fifteenth Dis
trict This 10 O serious question and the
issue is between the Third District and the
Fifteenth. I am not here to size up Judge
Clancy, but rather 10 praise Tom Costignn.
The district I have the honor to represent
will stand by him, and when we surround
him there are many of us. Judge Clancy
can hide in Tom Costigan's vest aye, he can
walk in the shadow cast by Tom Costigan's
thumb"
Representatives Of the Third District:
How many weighing machines has Tom
Costigan broken dow I"
Representative OF the Fifteenth ~ do
not know the exact number. Our man has a
record"
Representative of the First District;
How much do I get II guess his weight2"
gentleman from Castle Garden to order.
This il no hog guessing match"
The Chairman-"Th The point Ia we'll taken.
The debate was also entirely out of order.
There are weightier measures before the
house than tho avoirdupois OF the two dis
tinguished gentlemen referred to. Unhn-
ished business"
II offer the following" and the repre-.
sentative from the Second District handed
up q resolution which read:
Resolred, That the name OF Thomas Jefferson
Reagan, OF the Fourteenth District. DO stricken
from the roll OF membership Of the Third House.
what has Reagan been doing ?" asked a
member.
He has accepted an Office" replied tho
Second District man.
what Office ?"
Captain of the Watch in the Custom
House,"
MT. OuHlTuh1, huputbu- tuO EopLObchth-
tive from the Sixteenth District, " l know
that 1t Is against the rules for any member of
this house to accept an office, and that the
acceptance of an Office d squaliies o man for
load of offices was dumped in here. the
scramble would result in MANY broken legs.
However. l think Capt. Reagan should be
congratulated. Any Democrat who gets into
the Custom-House should receive our con-
I'll was promised a job down there
there by degrees. Last December my place
in the line was at the corner Of Broadway and
Thirtieth street; In May \ had moved down
opened the line has moved faster. / am
now between Broome and Grand streets, and
may get there before the hot weather 10 over.
renee County, while the fellow behind me in
the line halls from Belleylle, N. ]. l am
willing to be expelled from the Third
House. Give me a chance at m office, rules
Message from the Mavor of the Bowery,"
shouted the Chairman. The message was o
veto Of the ordinance to license campaign
orators.
tive from the Nineteenth District, "the
Mayor of the Bowery has been influenced in
his decision by men who like TO hear them.
selves talk. The owner OF a dime museum
has to pay o license M so has every clam
| seller. lneb6 Il6u WHO Iuhk6 u DubluebS OF
delivering campaign speeches should be H.
II is a good idea this licensing of CAM
paign speakers. Each one should be taxed
800 for the campaign. Every speaker is
nothing. It is an ofice-getting business.
this campaign wind blowing. Yes. sir. we
ought to license them. If every campaign
speaker paid 500 into the city treasury the
public funds would be increased $200, 00O
every Presidential election"
The Chairman-Under the rules the veto
will be laid over.
The Committee on Patronage reported
progress and hope.
The Corporation Counsel sent in a com.
mun,cation stating that dog-catchers did not
come under the provisions Of the Civil-Ser.
vice Code.
organizations had been appointed referees
by judges during the past week: Senator
EugeneS s. Ives, three reference cases. Charles
D: Metz. Internal Revenue Collecto,
the Board Of Aldermen; ex-Judge Ernest
Wall, ex-County Clerk Henry A. Gumbleton,
Denis A.. Spellissy, John L. Brodsky, eI.
Senator Ecclesine and Sidney ]: Cowan.
The representative Of the Thirteenth Dis.
trict called attention to the appointments OF
o~fice-holders as referees
"This is a growing evil" he remarked,
" and should be stopped. Lawyers who are
Senators, Assemb.ymen and Aldermen and
LAWYERS who are fayorites with the machine
bosses are appointed referees by the judges
Of the Supreme Court, Common Pleas and
Superior Courts. Some of these political
lawyers get two or three reference cases every
week and judges name the relatives or law
partners OF each other as referees In fai
cases."
The following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved. That q special committee OF three b,
l ~ NM nNA In q imam AnUnR 49, and AAI
him " he has applied for an injunction to preven
tue growing OF green grass In the city Hall Park.
The Committee on Streets was authorized
to investigate the charge that o Commits
sioner of one of the departments of the city
government is financially interested In two
water-spr mixing routes.