Year: 1865




REPLY oF NJ HfLL FOWLER, LATE CORPORATION


ATTORNEY, TO the COMMUNICATION OF JOHN u.
psyBLIS, CORPORATION COUNSEL.


sis--In your communication, as published in thc Er
pr cf last evening after recting the rsolut OF tho
Senate this State appointing committee TO
the various departments Of the city, except the law de-
parment OF the city, and also copy OF your letter
dressed to the chairman Of said committee you charge
that at examination before said committee, the
18th inst my conduct not only drespectul said
committee and ~ the Senate OF the State but was also
against the expressed wish OF this department. injurious
TO It's efficiency and public scandal which ought not to
60 unrebuked and therefore from the Office
Of Corporation Attorney. You admit that the
law department. was not included In the resolu
tion Of inquiry, but yos claim TO have ad
dressed 10 the chairman OF the committee Of
inquiry "a letter asking that the law department be
sdered on covered by resolution the Senate or the
adoption Of n supplementary resolution, embracing the
Law department.


Ir such Litter was ever forwarded to the chairman OF
eaid committee, should not certified copy Of the
have been served upon tho Corporation Attorney II ho
was expected TO comply with It's terms?


Again: upon the supposition that such etter duly
forwarded to the chairman Of the Committee u Inycst
CATION you state has the committee through its chair
man, ever replied TO your communication


The Senate certainly has not yet passed any supple
mcntary resolution you suggcsfcd Therefore the In
ference must be- either that eh pretended letter
sent to the chairman Of the cunee or " IL was,
that you snubbed by the committee and also by the
Senate.


Then again In reference to your pretended quotation
from some newspaper upon which you charge my con-
duct was not only disrrspccful TO the committee be
fore which appeared witRess aturday the 18th
Instant but also the Senate OF the state Of which
the representative stated to you, upon my only
interview with since the receipt or your letter TO
containing notice Of my removal, tina, the report
you had u, was, both IN ts letter and spirit aud
could be dsproved and then asked for an opportunity
10 do This was denied me by you as also any subse
quent interview.


senator Munger, the chairman OF the committee, and
the only member presiding at the time referred to- has
been waited upon by distinguished attorn y at Albany
HIS statement Of my conduct l. follows-"Sc Dator
Munger says Mr. Fowler appealed to tho committee
AGAINST some questions affecting tho Law department
The Senator concurred with ar Fowler and had the In.
qury passed Mr. Fowlcrs did not produce any
unpleasant impression his mind and lie had given the
mater no thought sincen


Assuming therefore, that the pretended report was true
(which you had been Informed was ~ one 's dig gnty
seems 70 have suffered materially but that OF the Corpora
ton Counsel whose summary proceeding In thus
ing from olice without hearing upon fnsy and
shallow pretex not only unjust and unmany but
scandal and insult to the ~ and the Com
mittec of nves raon, and shall not SO unrcbukod,
shall tho real motive therefor be long within Id from tho
public Respect uiy, N. HILL FOWLER