The evening world., 1889-05-28
KNOCKING KNEES.
Great Tremblings in the Corporation
Counsels Office.
Eleven Employees Who Live Out Of New
York City.
A Legacy Of the Day" When Tweed
Owned tho Metropolis.

Inc exclusive announcement IN IHE EVEN
ING WORLD of yesteiday that non-res den and
alien Office must go has caused the
knocking together of at least eleven pair of
offic al knees in the Corporation Counsel's
Office, where thus class is very numerous.
Among the residents in this Office are
Andrew T. Campbell, Chief Clerk, with
salary OF s.. 900. His legal residtn is said
TO he at Montclair, N. j., although he ap-
pears in the city Record to have rosid encoa
II West Thirty fifth street.
His son. Andrew Il. Campbell, ir. f, is an
Office boy in the department at salary Of
$500.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Frank A.
Irish, who draws salary Of s5, 800 yearly, re-
sides at 236 Jefferson street, Brooklyn.
There are two other residents Of Montclair,
It is reported who are employed in the de-
partment.
They are Henry F. Rosselot, Register
| Clerk, with O salary Of 81, ,SOO aud C'erk John
II. Greener. salary $s4o. The former is
noted IN the City Record rs residing ut 20
South Fifth avenue. and the latter at 6415
University place.
ir.,- junior law clerk. HIS salary is 1900
and he re,ides at Morr stown.
Other Brooklynites in the Office are Sten-
ogra hers Mrs; Juanita NJ. Young. salary
iOO MRieolm keE ss.o OOp and Mlss
Miss Florence A. Pr nee $3.50.
While Deputy Chief Clerk George Davidson
is resident of the city he IL said to he an alien
having cen born in Canada and never hsv-
| ing become q cit zen of the United States.
His salary is 81. 100.
Just what Corporation Counsel Clark will
| do with reference to these nonresident en-
ployees in his department he has not yet de-
| termined
The system of non resident Office holding Is
| q legacy of the Tweed regime of corruption.
Previous to the reign OF he Tweed ring Of
| corruptionists 1t was not known i'll this city.
nor is it known in any other municipality to-
day.
Tweed found II necessary TO forward his
schemes Of robbery by securing legislation at
Albany to give the moral sta esnen some
thing IN the way OF pap, and many of them
and their henchmen were fitted into nice
berths in the municipal departments.
This system has been Il bone of contention
among local politicians on many occasions
since Tweed's time, but the Corporaiiun
Counsels. by their opinions. have always
prevented test Of the right OF non residents
to hold office, declaring IN their favor to pre-:
vent any legl latiOn on the part OF the Board
of Aldermen TO declare them ineligible.
In 1876 an ordinance was passed by the
Common Council which declared the pro-
visions of Section "a. Article of Title VI,
Chapter 8, Part ]. of the Revised Statues:
| nlb prov ucb lllhI Every OIuCt
shall be ONE vacant on the 49,. cens.
ing of the incumbent 10 be an inhabitant of
the State. or if the Office be local. of the dis
lrlct. county. town or city for which he STA
have been chosen or appointed, or within
which the duties of his Office are required to
be discharged"
This ordinance Corporation Counsel Will
lam G. Whitney declared imperative, as the
excepting where apecitic authority is given by
charter. and the Tweed charter of 1873 gave
no such au hority.
This opinion. Il is alleged, was written by
an assistant who at the time resided in Brook.
lyn.
When Judge Andrews was Corporation
Counsel in 1884 the question was again raised
in the Board of Aldermen. and he rendered
an opinion on the same lines as his prede-
cesssor.
TIE Consolidation act had replaced the
| Tweed charter at that time, but II was wo.
fully silent on the question Of forfeiture Of
Office by reason o, nun-residence.
1t did have section. however, which the
Corporation Counsel overlooked. on which
the tenure of Office Of nonresdents may
hinge.
Section 81. of the Consolidation act, read'
as follows:
SEC. 50. The ordinances. Of the Common
Council in force oh the l 1T Of April, 1870, an,
in force at the time OF the Of this act ar,
hereby continued in full force, subject to modi
Iaon Council
The ordinance of 1876 declaring non resi-
dents ineuGible for office, was at that time il
: force and was thus given Leg slatiye action.
LVea IL WeIe & not @ shG5e pIi IRE pion'y py o' inm
Cochrnne one of the leading lights of Tam
many Hall. who ho that az the rights Of tho
municipality under the royal charter RiNeI
. 232 wears ago had not been ineriered will
by the Constitutional Convention the Iegis
lature of the city sui has right 10 deter