Year: 1875

meeting Of the Committee on Organization OF the
Tammany Hall General Committee held yesterday
afternoon at TaInmany Hail. with John Kelly in the
chair Among those present Mayor Wickham,
Hon. s. S. Cox, l. c. Dessar, Aldermen Lysaght,
shandley, Purroy and Glon, Judge Duffy and Commis-
sioner Dunlap


The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read and confirmed tho following report from the Com
mittee on Discipline was presented and read


THE REPORT


To the Committee Organization of Tammany Hall
General Committee
General and Assembly Districts, to whom was referred
the following resolution
Whereas current dissatisfaction ndfer
second and Seventeenth Assembly districts general and
whs Of he PHss S
those districts with view to remove tSSss snd
reliable Organisaton in said districts If true be it
20 exsmae into the state Of ths S
port al the next meeting Of this committee


beg report that your committee requested the
attendance of the members OF the General Commit
tee of


THE SEVENTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT,
on Friday, at Tammany Hall, and there heard an exs
preston of the views Of the said committee its
condition and efficiency; that your committee found
that there had been for time past and exists
division in said committee composed of two opposing
factions; that in April 1875, compact made and
entered into between certain members of said commit
tee composing one faction and that said members were



unit upon all subjects which should be presented to-
said committee for considerations that, under
and in pursuance OF said sworn compact the organi-
zaton of said committee changed; that in
the month of September, 1876, the members of the
said committee composing the other faction made and
entered into compact under OATH TO act together and
unit upon all matters presented TO the committee
for consideration; that this last named arrangement
Endorsed by majority of the General Committee of
the Seventeenth Assembly district; that your commit
tee upon prior investigation Of the affairs of the Seven
teenth Assembly District General Committee, under in



and sustained in their report dated May 90 1875 the
old honored principle that the majority should
govern, therefore your committee herein indorse and
reiterate the views expressed in said report, but
in the present investigation a condition of affairs
exists in the Seventeenth Assembly district which sug
gests to your committee the inquiry whether the Gen.
eral Committee of the Seventeenth Assembly district as
at present constituted is reliable and tends to produce
harmony and to prove efficient in the organization in
said district; that your committee find that the said
General Committee as at present constituted is unre
liable and that a want of harmony exists; that your
committee is OF the opinion that the action OF the said
General Committee or some portion OF the same enter
ing into


SWORN COMPACT


herein before stated cannot be too emphacaly and
earnestly condemned; that said action unmanly,
unwarrantable and disgracotul under any circum-
stances and should be summarily dealt with ;.
that such action in any way strengthen
organization but, the contrary, conspcuously,
contributes to demoraze its members and bring tho
entire body into disrepue 1t merits and should re-
ceve not alone its disapproval but its emphatic
demnation and rebuke Your committee, in view Of
the facts set forth and warning to other districts





Resolved, That the of tho General
Committee OF the Seventeenth Assembly district declared
vacant, and that the Committee Discipline be
hereby to Go the Committee OrRanEa
tton ts meeting list of members constitute
the remainder of the year 1875 which will the eff
cheney and harmony of the organization In said district
THE SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT


That your committee Monday last proceeded to in
vestgate the condition of the General Committee
Second Assembly district that the said General Com
mittee attended at Tammany Hail. and the members Of
the same expressed their to the efficiency of
said committee; that OF the members said COM
mttee announced their intention 10 support the nomi
nees of the Tammany Hall Association upon certain
specified conditions; that the said General Committee
seemed TO be demoralized and entire absence Of
unity and harmony prevails; that your committee
impressed with the belief after careful inquiry and
consideration that the general and district committees
of the Second Assembly district should be reorganized
Your committee therefore recommend the adoption
OF the following resolution


Resolved, That the the the General
Committee OF the Second Assembly district be and hereby
declared and that the Committee Discipline
be and hereby instructed the Committee
Organization ut its next meeting list Of members cons
tute the General Committee OF the Second Assembly dis
tict for the remainder OF the 1875 which will
the efficiency and harmony of the orgnn
trict. Re Respectfully submitted


WILLIAM A. BOYD, Chairman.


HENRY ID PURROY,


PATRICK LYSAGHT,


MAURICE j. POWER,


WILLIAM Q. CONNER,