New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-19
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| This is the last week of the session of a
Legislature which has attained the bad en-
inence of being one of the worst, if not the
worst, that has ever disgraced the State of
New-York Its record shows hardly a redeem
ing feature. 1t began with the brazen theft
of one branch by the party which has controlled
it and is responsible for all its msdoings. 1t
has not failed in single instance to be entirely
true to the dishonest and shameful conditions
il inherited. Conceived in sin and born IN
iniquity il has been true to but one thing, and
that was the vice and crime of its inheritance.
However else it may have failed, it has never
made any mistake in the constant and consis-
tent pursuit by methods palpably dishonest
and unjust, of the ends that were aimed at in
the rape of the State Senate by David B. Hill
and his co-conspiratOrS. From beginning to
end it has been a crying shame and open dis
grace. Shame and disgrace great that with
in the first month of its existence the most
prominent and influential men in the party that
elected it, the party il set ont to represent, were
so shocked and angered at its behavior that
they broke out in open revolt, and the four
months of its reign of terror have been punctu
ated with the organized protests, not of its
Legislature drawing to a close may be said
without contradiction to be the worst that ever
was.
The taxpaying, law-abiding people of the
State are to-day drawing a long breath;
breath of encouragement and hope that this
infamous body is so near the end of its mis-
chief; but breath of doubt and fear as to
what may happen in the two or three dismal
days that intervene between this and its last
exhalaton. From now until this pail OF doubt
and fear is lifted by the declaration of ad-
journment on Thursday the whole people of the
state may well be anxious. For potwithstand-
ing the dreadful record of mischievous public
legislation and the altogether bad lot of private
laws that this Legislature has already tuInbled
upon the State, there is great deluge OF worse
stuff behind which in the last hours Of the
session is liable to be let loose upon the state.
For the last hours of a legislative session are
invariably its worst. Then is the time when
all sorts of og-rolling schemes are carried
through, when an unprincpled lobby seize the
opportunity to rush through measures crammed
full of evil the time when bargains that have
been made in the dark are brought to their
the time when every political
huckster and trader completes his coinDlhdtioIs
and closes out his stock.
All through this session shamelessness and
audacity have been at premium and honesty
at discount. Wickedness of every sort has
ridden over all considerations OF truth and
honor, of fair dealing and common justice.
1t has been uphill work for the members of
this Legislature who strove for the right, but
they have made a manly and courageous fight
against hard odds. For these two or three
days that are left they have possibly the hard
est work of the session The worst is behind.
We beg the honest men, the upright men, the
decent men, at Albany to be upon their mettle
for the few remaining days; TO be seeple,S,
watchful tireless. They have made a good
fight 80 far; almost hopeless at times, but a
good, stout resolute fight for everything worth
fighting for. They have deserved and received
tie approval of the people for it. Now keep it
up Be constant in your vigilance, and see
that the corrupt schemes that lie waiting their
chances do not 90 through except over your
persistent, stubborn, uncompromising oppos-
ton Make your record complete.