New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-20
DANGER IN THE MEASURE.
OTHER CITIES NOT SAFE IF THE LENOW
REPORT GOES THROUGH.

THE COMMISSION IDEA FOR THE GOVERNMENT
OF CITIES NOT FAVORED BY LOYAL BROOK
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN THE
DARK. LIKELY TO BE REJECTED
BY UPSTATE LEGISLATORS
WHAT WOULD PREVENT
LIKE RULE FOR
OTHER PLACES?
Senator Lexow's report recommehuins '"'''
diate consolidation and the appointment 81
bipartisan commission FOR the cities IL Is ha'"'S
necessary 10 state does not please the opponents
OF consolidation. although the outcome u '"S
Joint committees deliberations was not ""
expected. .
MAYOR Wurster was asked TO express HE
oninion of an Albany dispatch relating 10
Lexows report on consolidation. repu'eo 10 oV
radical. recommending the passage OF the
Greater New-York Commission measure ana
the MASSAGE Of bipartisan Police. Fire and PUB
10 works boards bills and taking powers from
the Mayors
Mr. Wurster said that he did not care To say
anything at all about the report. that ne h"u
determined to continue in his poEcy OF not ca
pressing his opinion of the merits ana ue'iie''''
Of a consolidation measure untii the OIL 'o''''
before him officially The Mayor continues 10
permit his letter of acceptance 10 express H's
views II favored referendum ard equaii|e"
taxation.
William C. Redheld, president OF the Lo! ii
League who was seen al the League heauqu"'
tiers at late hour Yesterday afternoon gave
hurried interview upon the latest act of LeXow-
ism Mr. Redield had just returned from "TRIP
through the State in the interest Of anti-consoh-
haf found he e.
Brooklyn among the people of Buffalo and o'hef
cities in the western part Of the state 10 be
friendly The people out there he declared con-
s,dered that the demand Of Brooklyniies ior
another vote was only fair and right. This senu-
noent prevailed equally among newspaper men
and merchants consolidation, said MI. heu-
field "as have often said before. means rum Ill
Kings County to the Republican party MoIe-
over the measure is unjust and iniqufous' FOR
few party men in Albany 10 say That we sha'I
be deprived of home rule and made subject 10 'he
domination of Albany commission IS ho'hihs
short OF a gross outrage cannot conceive u "
measure more calculated to raise the lndl9ha'ioi
Of a lust and Independent and fair-mlnded people
as the citizens Of Brooklyn are Ana this leeii"s
pervades other large cities in New-York State
Huffalo people believe in home rule. Inc seh'I-
ment is everywhere They agree with MS that
in BROOKLYN. and not in Albany. They have had
their own contest for decent self-governmen' ana
local self-control and know how valuable pos
session home rule Is. They want no legislative
interference with their own affairs, and are dis
posed to assist us strongly in taking care OF our
own future ! observed on my trip tha' 'he
people with whom | talked felt the danger Of
commission rule" common to all cites Oh lhe
State They thought. and justly too, that II me
autonomy of New-York and Brooklyn snouio De
practically taken away. and government pE
group of Albany political commissioners supst'-
tuted for it, there would be safety Tor hei'hei
Buffalo. Rochester. Syracuse. Albany or Troy
II seemed TO Mr. Redield that the current
opinion Of the State was strongly against con-
s,uda,ion He quoted number OF Western State
papers as being strongly and persisten'y OPP
ucsed TO the idea And the contrary. he had
seen. in his judgment. decided feeling gaining
ground daily that tie proposed measure was not
only inexpedient. but hurtful and wrong alo-
gether
MR. LOW NOT SURPRISED.
4 A. Low said that the Loyal Leaguers were
not at all unprepared to receive the news ana
that the recommendation did not at all surprise
them
knowing Senator Lexow's predictions on
tho subject. supplemented by his utterances dur
ing the hearings" said Mr. Low I'VE knew al
most to a certainty that there would be just
such report.
1T depends now on how the upstate leglsa-
tors will act. If they act. as we believe, according
TO their convictions. the recommendations VIII
be turned down. The idea of commission RUE
is abhorrent 1t subverts all ideas Of indepehn,
once and honest home rule, and thlnk tndt an
honest and well-meaning members of the Legs
lature look at this matter in the same iieh' ne
entire report is outrageous IL the up-Stdte ei'
hers DO not reject the joint committee report II
can he nut down that they are afraid on the ma
chine: that they are afraid of political osra-
clsm. afraid Of having their pet measures killed,
and in short towards TO the trust 'hat 'he" o"'"
Of office has put upon them
Secretary Barr Of the Loyal League spoke
much in the same strain he cnarac t 80 i i
whole scheme as an inquitous political aiiair, IN
tended to give power to few, to the de'riiheh'
OF the multitude. ,,, ..,
those legislators who advocate IL VIII learn 50
TO their cost.
JESSE JoHNsoN's VIEWS.
Ex.I-nited States District-Attorney Jesse john
son said:
According the synopsis Of the pin published ,his
afternoon. the concrete result Is ,hat 81 de-
partmens OF these cities will be put In the hands oi
The sense that cities are consolidated or in the
sense that consolidation Is generally UNDERSTOOD or
in the sense in which it submitted TO the people
II Is simply destroying our chartered rights making
these great cities provinces OF the state 10 De gov
or as Great Britain governs its provinces For the
first time almost in our municipal history these two
great cities have Republican governments. fairly
Won by fair and honest elections Is possible thai
now is the time selected by a Republican Legislature
10 destroy charters and give us commission gov
eminent? l have been astonished at the apathy
with which this matter has been treated The out
rage is hardly than the acts OF usurpng tyranny
that preceded the Boston Riot. Lexington, Bunkei
hin and Yorktown. 1t seems 10 me that with me
hattle-cry OF 1776 mo taxation without representa-
tion all men have certain inaenable rights, al
men are equal before the law. the people OF BROOK
I'm shoud rally as man in opposition TO this
proposal / cannot believe. until have to. ina
hose mea slres will find favor In the full committee
certainly moi in the Legislature, or with the Gov