The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-08
WHO RISE.
PRIZES THAT NAVE FALLEN TO MEN
SENT TO THE LEGISLATURE.

chTA ~ IL EuISLA1OhE
Some May Go Into Obscurity Upon Their re-
turn from Albany, bat There 10 . Long
List OF Mon who Have Found the LeEisia-
ture . Stepping Stone TO Greater Honors.
Members Of Assembly sent by approving
or uniformed constituentsfrom New York city
to Albany are, according to the ordinary'stand-
ards Of political compensation, poorly paid.
They receive 81, 500 a year, fully one-third Of
which. on the average, is expended In advance
for election purposes, leaving $1,000 a year as
actual compensation, which Is less than an ordi.
nary clerk gets In a municipal department. The
Assemblyman is moreover. a parsonage of many
responsibilities, and is required by political prec.
edent and party usage to exert himself to get
work for the unemployed. to secure passes
Though the law prohibits it, for neighbors, to
appear often for distressed constituents at the
police station and the police courts, to help the
necessitous with gifts and loans which are the
equivalent Of gifts. to take an active part in So
cial functions, picnics, excursions, chowdcrs,
and merrymakings, to contribute to benevolent
funds, to pay his political obligations, dues.
and charges-all on a stated salary Of 81, 800 a
year, which is usually 81. 900 net, and entails,
moreover. in many cases, a complete abandon
ment Of the former business or trade of theleeis.
lator.
So long as he is in office, so long as he IA an
Assemblyman and not an x-Assemblyman
matters go fairly well, but when, by reason of
the claims OF rival aspirants or otherwise, the
Assemblyman Is retired to the shades and
shadows Of private life, he becomes in too many
cases a subject for forbearance and indulgence
himself. having acquired in the walks of Off.
cial life an easy-going method of financial ex.
penditure and usually a bibulous tendency as
well. At least such is the popular belief, and it
Is certainly undeniable that there are many
former Assemblymen who at the close of their
official service have taken what may be called
q downward path, being shorn OF influence and
power, veritable political has beens," without
honor in the neighborhoods which they former
ly represented and without any share of the good
will which they had at the time Of their first
election. But, on the other hand, there are
many. very many, instances of ex-Assembly-
men Of New York who have found the post of
Assemblyman u stepping stone 10 other and
greater honors, and the list of such Is a good
deal longer than many persons might be in
clined to believe without investigation.
OF the surviving ex-Assemblymen in the First
district, Nicholas Muller, until recently q Po-
lice Commissioner in Richmond county, is now
leader OF the Democratic party in what is to be,
after Jan. l. 1893. the Borough of Richmond
Michael c. Murphy. who was first chosen As
semblyman in this district in 1866, thirty-one
years ago, is the present Tammany Hall leader
there, and he is also Clerk of the First Judicial
District Court. Michael MAGICIAN Is a City Mar.
shall by appointment CfMayor Strong. The son of
James Fitzgerald, elected Asscmblyman In the
First district in 1870. is Surrogate of New
York county. Thomas p. Walsh, who repre-.
sented the Second district in 1879. is a dock.
master. Thomas F. Grady, who represented
this distri It for three terms, is "a State Senator
and has succeeded the late John r. Fellows and
w. Bourke Cochran AS the star orator OF Tam
many Hall. James Dunphy was until recently
O deputy sheriff under the administration of
Mr.. Tamsen. and Dennis Burns AMI William p.
kirke-the former represented the Second dis.
trict for five terms and the latter for uwo-have
retired on n competency.
John Hayes, who represented tho Third dis
trict in 1871. is one of the Special Sessions JUS
tices under tho present administration by ap-
pointment of Mayor Strong. James j. Sleyin is
out of politics. He held the office Of Register
after having been member OF Assembly.
jeremiah Hayes Of the Fourth district. ex-Aa-
sembiyman,i is u clerk in the Fifth District Court
John Ii. Mccarthy is one Of the Justices of the
City Court. Thomas Brady is u ockmast
John +. Ahearn 10 a State Senator and IA in the
seventh year of his service as such. Ex-Assem,
Dlyman brennan OF The Firth district as former
ly constituted Ut is now the Third has an Office
in the First District Court. Thomas Began ia
one OF the active leaders OF the Young Democ.
racy. Charles Blauvelt, who was elected IN
represent the district In 1866, was the Good
Government candidate for Register at the mn.
nicipal election of 1895.
or the former Assemblymen In tho sixtb dis.
trict, William j. McKcnna has a place in tho
District Attorneys office, and Timothy j. Camn.
bell. who has a record of eight terms of service
as Representative runs for Congress from time
TO time. Toe other ex-A ssemblymen from TINT
district have died or have retired, Lucns I.
Van Alien. who represented the Seventh di,t rirt
Tor nNc terms, 10 an Assistant Distri, I Attorney
n me III 9r @ddhtWiiistration OF William NJ. X. Oh
represent tho district in 1873. ia an onlrjUTH IN IN
the Supreme Court. He was Clerk of thc Inurt
OF Common Pleas until Its consoiidation Win
Tho supreme Court in 1896. James Reilly is nm
employee or The Consolidated Gas CDinpany.
Bankson I; Morgan was ONT, Of the h"IIIGe
JUSTICES prior To his appointment TO Al place IN
the Post Oficc under the former ndIuinistruion
Oh S Eas oro Of Inn iaw Tn Cornelius Van cott,
Eighth district Is in public ME. rCIcrick IA
House, VINO represented the Ninth Assembly,
dis'riel Tor Two Terms, Is u meuiaur OF Inc firm
% FRIEND q House; Gorge u, 'pane is Re.
publican district leader in thG p.u-rnt So.
enth Assembly. or the former ASSEMBLE.
intn from the Tenth, Jacob NJ. Paterson is
q Quarantine CollIlllssiuncr, JU,cph T.. StrHck
Is an attendant In the supreme Court, Eer,Ii-
hand ETTiinsh rs Internal Revenue Collector
dent Mckinley, and George r Koesch is Jus.
lice Of the Fourth District Court. William
Sohmer Is Register OF New York county, and a
popuiaHE Sah Sn ! among the Gernans in Tam