The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1871, Page 3

ow tention, | will detain you longer than to add: that the remedy with yous tle elty will be saved ‘people ve: salvation; “eternal vigi- fence is he Pros Of liberty” aud security. Te enjoy ou must pay the prie in full tothe ay, Aer ry were aoe The croes must precede the The Manicipal Reform Meeting at crown, “When men sleep the eflemy sows tares.”” Fellow citizens | There are no special co-partner- ships in politics, apy more than in religion, where uso Cooper Institute Last: Night. one u s capital and the other does one oe Barer to SURE Sou. remart In stan eer mae ee tre pony fr Tine ani ee that they, fom the avocations of busi discard the iuterests and prejudices of party a Speeches by Ex-Mayor Bavemeyer, Judge . make an e faitnful effort to overthrow ® Emott; MrOttendorfer, Ex-Governor Solo- } Pern g ee aiee tne goon reiterate eueoxpeet ‘our city, the Ca results which to gow. from this Ing wili be secured. ‘ yaar ARE YOU GOING TO DQ AbOUT IT? the Mayor. in @ recent communication to the mon, of. Wiscousin, Hon, Robert B,. Roosevelt and Mr. Ed- Counén, degiares it taba Que to ihewr con nds Pine Ss, et eR r Ue | ic v wate he: Ih taxp=tera no desiring 10 participa { } ig ‘hat body in investigating the accounts of the’ cl 4 there t# reason to hope that the duties of any. su committee you may appoint tor this. purnose will be rendered less dificult and protracted than might, otherwise be expected; and, 1 repeat, with ir and earnest emphasis, to the people, of this great here assorobied, tue yuevtion wnted has been davis nere a ie question walc! le hay Putte Nissopeatten and dissatisfied inguii TAMMANY UNDER INDICTMENT. Summary Removal of the City Fi- The for information’ concerning the state of sheir owa fT i kK c hat nancial Officers Recommended. Pr ya 1! sk ie in conciuslon,, wiv judge Emott’s Speech. Mr. Emorr said:—No man ever stood In the presence of a more Impressive, or a more important or respectable assembly than in this ene, Here are citizens of New York, rexnerers of New York, as has been stated by my friend before me—people of all nationalities, Of all creeds, but of no party, who have been aroused by the discovery of frauds in tho public affairs and the conoition of its iuances and ‘The Cooper Institute was crowded last evening to greet the'signers of a call convening a meeting at ‘which were to be arraigned the officers of the city government, who it is: charged, had most fraudu- Sently misappropriated the city tunds and entalied wy and unnecessary taxes upon the people of this city. The object of the meeting has been a sub- Thppiatees ones 3 atteinpt a Folate . On are here . Jeet of discussion throughout the country for weeks us; there are’ many Who ‘are upable for past, but beyond a crowded hall and occasional | want of room to assemble. with and twese are ome tt laborers and rich and or alike of thr fas at city, who are now going to Ty What hey: bn: do—what they will do to see If 8 a spurts of applause at well-directed hits on the part ‘of the audience there was very little enthusiasm Manifested. The readiug of the resolutions, in fact. | tree Jnautaty i ‘e possible in our a The & excited the only marked feeling that was exhibited | Question that concerns pot alone city, bu which conoerns the ¢: ce Of all free institutions ‘rougbout the evening. in the world. The debt of this city, a Ato quarter teeight the meeting was called to | count ona Harenae awe nth 38 Bae y weachen ant 5 ameunt of , a cre ‘order by the Chairman, ex-Mayor Havemever, who '$63,000,000 under’ the — presel ‘administra- seemed to bear nis many accumulated years with & | ton, ‘The power of these men. being unlimited freshness éelightful to look upom. . Some other old @itizens there were on bis rgat and on his left, ‘who, wim reflected honor irom their veteran chief, ‘and henored in their green old age, are representa- Yives ef the men who formed the great commercial community of New York nearly half a century ago. ‘atound them, and in the great mags, of oitizeas asdembled in front of the piatform, were the men of ‘Ste present day, deeply interested in questions that ‘were to be discussed ‘by the speakers of the evening, ‘aud with exposures 0! extravagance and of fraud % was supposed would be charged and proved ‘against the arch-enemy of all—the Tammany ring. AN ORDERLY MBETING. Whatever questions caleutated te excite public excitement ‘or passion or feeling might have been. waturally supposed to be mixed ep with the great questions at tssue and discussed by such a meetung Detween any sections of our citizens, it is most Pleasant-and gratitying to state wat the proceedings (Rroaghout were of a aost orderly character. ON THE PLATFORM. Aniong those appearing ‘en the platform wer the secret of the unknown increase 18 that there ex. ists a power with these men to create debt, issue bonas, mortgage your property, and no one can pre- svent this power being exercised. 1 Delleve there is no instance ou record of a city where a debt was created and bonds issued without notice being given. to the people ac the time that debt was created. Why, gentlemen, you are living under mea who have power to mortgage sour property sere and create debt; and these parties may upon you to provide from the [raits of your. honest’ iadustry to pay pars of itt Bat it 18 not so easy to decelve people. Now, gentlemen, this great city is like a great whale, stranded ‘upon @ coast and devoured by sharks, The sharks ave Dot many; they are @ sevect few, but they are very voracious, You know that for many years, originally for the couvenience of govern. meat, all the affairs of this city have been divided inte two branches, I speak of thia city’s aud this couuty’s affairs. Before the year 1670 that branch of its ‘affairs whica are known as county wae in ‘the hands of an institutiun whicn ts known ‘to be democratic, and which las come to ve made a scapegoat for all the eviis discov. red—I mean the ‘old Board of Supervisors. No une bas anything to say in tavor of that imstitution. Certainiy 1 have not, but it was set aside and followed by another which might Very well be stated to have inherited its party spirit and also to inherit its powers, and singulal ite dieposition. Toat Jatter party ‘Rush ©. Hawkins, ex-Sherist-James O’Brien, Joseph wa eas of three men—-Messre, a ML, @hoate, Peter Cooper, Congressman Robert B. ane Loe) sonnei. and it tas been dis Moosevelt, ex-Governor ‘Solomon, of Wisconsin; ‘George Cabot Ward, BH; -F, Dastings, W. R. Vermil- ‘yea, James M. Brown, -E¢ward Matacws, C.-K. Det- emote, William Siake, Allen Campven, William A. “Webb, W. J. Todd, -ex-Mayor Opdyke, Henry Clews send others, rged @ ietter written by @ tr ‘of mine, and to which -there has been no denial that lam aware of, that in afew hours, I don’t know bat that I might say in a few minu these three men signed away six millions of yo money. (A ory ol “Shut up,’ phat up,”) Now, gensiemen, I will give you a few detuils of the way ia whith your money fas been spent. you have aCourt Hoase—(laughter)—at least you 7a8 CALL. ‘eught to-hare one by tals time, 1 11a8.comt you—at Mr. JAMES BRowN came forwerd-and read'the call | jeast it is pretended #o—$7,000,000;, mot for *oonvening the meeting, as follows:— paid i i Soak oe tor Pha vet no 3 u any ef you biong ai 5s SRAM ESS Sime art jespey cre, irrespective of paity our wilitary regiments you know. you have . of tuat bave ‘bees: made’ ty'reepect 0 See eae Shes eee quite, willbe eld ‘at the Cooper Gaiow, on Monday, Scp- | 4, ateP. M. He then-nonitnates as chatenan the Hon, William ¥. Havemeyer, the mentonof whose-meme elicited ‘warm appiause-througbout the hail, The Chalrman’s speceh. whe CRAiRwAN, having ‘taken Alsstand at “tHe rostrum, spoke as follows:— -armories. Weill, these -places cost $2,710,000 ior repairs and decorations. (Here tue speaker went on toenumerate vartous tems of accounts lately pao- lished, end ask who were certain men to whom amounts bad been paid, “We came here to speak the truth of men. whether they be cauied democrats, repnbdiicans or anytting they may be.’’ And he ‘went on to wonder. WwW it, Waa that disnonest irieke:ers got their Bills paid; “Witte certain honest firms had to apply ¢o the law to enforce payment.) Now you may say that I assume, that Unese men re-guilly, Heve 1 not a right to assume it? bt FELLOW ITIZENS—The son of @ German ¢mi- -@ DO question about -his great of | used detriment of principles wich | quently the city inaebtedness ‘had. been most | When it took well it lasted for a hietime, He grant, | was born in this city, Was ceared and-eda- enormons paymen's? These « 3 suey dcem essential to the wellare of our | enormously increased. Tne apecific evidence of gricved, as a democrat, over the chatges mado cated here. A laborious apprenticeship apaer a | they sav, ac made by the newrpspes. How | counwy. And if yeu wish to be candid you | these accounts thus made public-relates particularly | agaist democrats far more than any Yrepubhean | again in dear, honored and houest father, was served-here, | e'se shoula they be made? Do you believe | anust confess, Laat a our political'history many | toshe new Court Housoand to the armories anddrill | possibly could, The parties accused, afte! may relations with active business were formed and | iM! if ten. twenty or & ‘thousand ef all the’! cases bave happemed which make such nusgivings | reoms. Every item bears apoe the face of -# such | > of corruption had been made agatnst Gnisned-here, and | have since enjeyed the honers of | ciuzens of Unis* c ty tad gome to these amen, wonl! | appear not altogotheraaniounded. 4n the course of | aa enormens Sear tte as to be utterly incompati- | them, siniply answered, ‘The republicans helped ber Civic Magietracy, it would therefore be strange | whey have given any such inlermation a8 the news- | time.questions way arise of the greatest Datiowal im- | te with honesty. It appears that nearly ten | usfo'steal,” just as though one burglar putin as af, m -ahy emergency Of ber affaizs, 1 did not-regard | papers have Wravg out aad that hey would have re- portance; at sech-@ moment it would not require | MiHion ‘lollars have been to feur per- | his defence that he broke into -a house her with the sentimeats which most men estertuin | «cived as an-answer to these-charges a most unqua f- | great exertions to.pursnade honest democrats that | sons - or firms—iagersoll & Garvey, Key- | because another burglar helped bim. Mr. Roose- for the piace of theiraauvity, or fall, notwishstand- | fed den'ai? ‘Public oMeere: always ought to stand | tne corruption in New York, however revolting it | ser & Co. and J. W. Smith—duri 1869 | veit then went over in detail the cnarges made ing my instinctive and unconquerable aversion to public prommmence 11 any respect, to take. with you | here, a deep interest in whatever converns her honer or her weifare. While I thank you, fellow citizens, for she honor | yowhave now conéerred on ine, }, at the same tune, regret that we have not met on an occasivn of less @rave importance than the present; bat we must: accept the situauen as it has come to however . humiliating it way be, and as far as poxeibie con, | form our action an the susure to the veacuings of! our past expericage, From the object-of this meeting, a8 announce! ta ‘the call just read, 41 will be under-tuod shat it 1s nes convened in the interest uf the democrasic Or repub- Joan party, nor in the interest of any reugious sect or creed, nor in the interest-of the richor yr, wait im the interest of every honest man Jn this com- munity Gf the term honesty has stil.any signiti- cance), be he democratic or .republican, Catholic or Protestant, rich or poor, who 1s in Javer of an em. cent and economical adm!nistration of. our aity government, and earnestly desires audds willing to work for such a reform of any and all, exisung abuses as. will.afiord him the enjeyment of the Jargest liberty 4p.ali the competitions oClile, and che » most ample security in person and in. the property he may honorably anu lonestly acquire. Now, fellow citizens, you are aware that.very @rave charges have been Inade against the memuers of the olty government of FRAUDULENT AND CORRDPT EXTRAWAGANCE an the ex;.endivuse of the public moneys; that :: sums have, in seine cases, bean paid to .countericit demands, and in,o.hers, Wheve either no.equivalent or avery Ching mejgurenen Que has been eerken’ wnul the public has become alarmed amd 18 at las aroused to the mecessity Of sastituung such a rigsd dmvestigation of ube public acaounts as aviil, if the are false, dispel alarm for the fagure, or, if found to be true, will lead to auch decided measures as to force the gualty parties 10 disgorge thetr ill- g@utien gains—(joud appiause)—and suffer twe utmost penalty of the law tor their larcenies, (Loud ap- ) These charges against the members of our city ;,foverpment have mot yet been answered en a way regi his commynity that they, are alse..or that they lack any o1 the elements to, convict those im- plicated of crime before any honest judge er jury; , @nd I must be here permitted to aay ‘that, if what has been alicged against the officials to wnom 1 have . Pelerred be true, tue whole truch hax not been told, and ‘hat the credit ef the city 1s im imminent danger by the acta of those whose duiy it was to preserve and protest it. These Statements cannot be weakened by flattering astl- mates of the value of the city property, which may be made by experts in scal estate, as.the mass of that property is needed fer ase, and is not open far sale, apd any debt fraudulently incurred must fail ‘wack on the peopie to ve paid by taxation, THE PROSPERITY OF THIS CITY, fellow citizens, 18 due solely to its uatural advan- tages; ite growtn is in spite of the negligence, ig-- Morance aud corruption of its government, and ‘while commerce is shackled and burthemed by un- st eXactions, irom’ the moment It passes ipto our y, and 1s seeking @ther mngrte; and capital, scared by the apparititionef politi receivers and refe- rees, secks the prorection of aparer admnistation ol jusuice, it stil tirives, Buta deadly disease is wousuiing its vitals. Oficial life, no longer honor- abie, has become a business, Onices are ereated, MOL sO much lo reward political favorites as to pur- chase the ald of corrupt men to stamp out liberty io our midst. (Loud applause.) The most exorbitant salaries are paid te the most incompetent oficiales. sApplause.) The charter of our city, as it bow siunds, is a were act of perfidious 1¢giatation con ceived and fragned to prolong the terms,of bad men, at the bar-of puolic opiaton-on trial for-their oficial misdeeus, ho 1s to enlighten without prejudice 7 Who isto perform the part of public executioner, if Dot the newspapers? Ali-Of them are used for party purposes—-some for epe-a@nd some for the otner— except where they are the secret organ of a clique. But to the question, Alt these men suy they are Not respeurible for stgnimg away that money; but I shail not now take up your time tordiscuss this, a8 jrom she heart of Bot I tell vou tt they sey they were not they signed away Uthat money. ‘Turis I know, and I speak trom authority, Gentiemen, there is no’ de- nial ofithese payments and no justification for re- jusing 40 one What was granted to others, (Thia was in reference 40 whe Cornell -euil.) But now, what are you going to du? (Appiause.) I will tell you What we have come here to-night to da We came here to organize and direct public opinion, f tell you, gentlemen, the worid is waiting to hear if the wen of New York will act. We must repeal this charter; we must compel a.complete pubdlica- on Of thuse accouuta; we must. compel enure pub» Nelty-of every debt or loan at she time they are cre: }. You must iimit thelr powers and make* the mortgage Of property subj the democratic party. 16 Ret & fact when reaponsivie whe > to the control uf? and recover back the stolen maney to the City Treasury. persist, agitate, agitate, agilate autii you get aiaw. df the citizens of this icity are in earnest they can be held resp bie. There Je no power like, the power of & peopie.aroused and xindled witu io- dignation and righteens wrath, Mr. Emott then moved tor an appointment of a select committee, which was to. Speech of Oswald Ottendorter. MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITIZEN! come ta. this meeting and respond so.the to briedy address. the same upon that it will, In the i of the present eoudition of tee assumption cal, consider the city finances,in view of the charges ef corruption that have been,made in re spect to them, and take such action as the pubite safety may require. Thege are great Aad important objecta, and to assist in attaining them should be the highest duty of every. citizen, becapse it 1s not only the welfare and fuipre of our city that are aitected by it, but because.to a great extent the honor name of {oe American ,people at large are at élake; because the question is involved Whether ree republican imytitutions, baged upon maiversal ge, which we udmire as thefounda- Uons of our happiness and pride, are, in trujh, well aiapied for th government of large and ponulous cl and can be reconciled with the preservation of ‘inctples pon which the development.of all ized nations depend. To aid in the solution of this important task I consider a duty which no citizea, to wham the opporwinity 18° presented, should fall to discharge. 1 have, therefere, appeared im obedience to the made upon me. ully beleve tm the sense of justice, in the good and honest intentions which pervade the masses.af the people. I do net believe, therefure, that it is pecessary, for the purpose of awakenin; public attention ayd indignation, to depict the abuses and corrupyren that are clearly apparent irom the reports of our city and county government in the liveliest Colors. Such a course may be relie upoa to produce a strong.excitement; but the latter {8 an unhealthy one and coasequentiy more or less Hable, according to its degree of intensity, to overskoot the tark and to give rise, m tarn, to @ reactionary movement by which every pros- ct of permanent reform would be blighted. uring the heat of an excitement accusatious are sometimes advanced which, after due reflection, be full maintamed, and as the Vader it and its attepdant jegisiation the govern- | Cabnot , Teese OL Une clay’ hes Udoge oH ohiareny. the mites {Gareae Beg pe 3 en Ad Fight of anGrage Is practically abolished. Elective | sivation of injustice computied in some olices are shorn of power, and scarcely the form eof ® democratic government remains te Us in this qty. Wealth, wrung ip tle shape of taxes, Jrom honest tou, Naunts itself in We pubilc gaze, in gorgeous array, in splendid equipages and in pala- Ua) residences, to test, I suppose, (he provident, un- gduiterated, mmcorruptibie and radical demociacy of Ms possessora, To eradicate ibese evils will reqtire @ use Ol the cautery and the knife, in the hands ef id, skilful and Jaithful operators, raver than the quack nostruns or pretentious placebes of any iite- rary woyntebank, (Applause.) luis city, fellow citizens, 80 mognificcet in extent, | 80 liberal in its welcome and pospuality aud bound dese in. ita chariics, now cails her people to tueir duty ia this time of ber humiliation. particulars may easily lead to doubts as to tne gencral correctness of the appreciaion of the whole matter, Thus condopation may subsequently he Peed with the same readiuess wen which con- jemnation had originally veen ix npon inno. cent and gulity ones alike and without regard to the magnitude of the offence commiued by the latter, and thus the sympathy which @ pigh-minded pubite will ever accord to @ person wrougiully ac- cused will be seized a. by the guilty to escape the meriied punishment WHOLESALE CONDEMNATIONS, without prior investigation, are repugnant to my sence of Justice, for believe that among the ac+ cwed there are some whose course has been poe gaps bt, sovow cine, aring there @re others to speak who will address you! theirdellow citizens, We must punish the gulity: (Applause) If there # no law to do it: that the fon discnarge of our anty mM tne premises calls tor more than ® mere cursory examination of the best means with which to accomplish wese OD- Jects, CRYING OVER SPILT MILK is never ehongnm. The chlef of all honest and; Well-meaning citizens should now be to devise ways and means for preventing @ recurrence of the de- plorable condition which now exists here, and for establishing permanent institations under which Uhis great city may properly {ulfl its mission as the siemens aa on gaa VON ‘ et aocct 4 On! ar An Iu Ete hoteata” WhbeE A Oyeky actonnses a server of the manner in which our mantelpal affairs have been conducted and regulated during a long ries of years, it must pave ome cleat that our city a Been e football nd fare at Wwitieh the intrigues politica! pa: aimed. The w York had to farnish the corrup- Soriat ANT cera o top fun kept the nines of both les Ging. ‘the citizeng ot New York are astonished | ing. a the enormous {norease in the ¢ost of the administration of “tne di it a en! and courts, over the ‘great Bulnber “Be rpccal the y: otful, Si @' ana juetme| 36 joubtful, yen lent claims, onde i and A fay 4 all thus, As we were com }, year after year, submit our tax levy to the jatore for approval, a8 we were placed under the ne y to procure legislative consent to every little me: ereching, noboay ouisiae oh ts municipality, 1t followed asa ReeeE SF Se that the great wealth of New York attracted the Vultui directions and that this city waa finally upon ag a milch cow to support in opulence the leeches of corruption. Even now, while this poor city, bleeding froma hundred wounds, 11é3 prosirate under the burden of & debt amounting to over a hundi Millton: the payment of which, together with interest thereon, must necessarily Impose new and maniidid burdens to be borne by the working classes out of the scanty earnings—now, that even the most heartless egotist should express regret at our piti- able situation, THE INTRIGUING: POLITICIANS are already again at work to turn our misfortanes to the advantage of their party. Indeed, the spec- tacle offered by the Roman soldiers, in ra! at the foot of the cross for the clothes of the Saviour, can have been hardly more shocking than this new at- tempt to make the misfortunes of Now York the basis af new political bargains. But so it has been and so will 1¢ be.as long as we permit our municipal affairs to be influenced by party politics, as long as we do not emancipate the administration of our muni- clpal government from tne struggles of Ly ges parties. The idea is not new, but good, It ‘ue that the feasibility of canezin it into practical effect has frequently been denied. tI do not concede the correctness. of tnat denial; on the contrary, I Maintain and insist that: there mever has been & mene favorable opportunity for the realization o| 18 constant desire on the of the citizens of New York, the correctness of which in theory is unt- versally acknowl than now offers itself. The iste Be oetaps mblagttn Wott hg Sls to the corrupt mabagement of our city a! i Members aa deep as it ts widely spread. ma of both political parties inside and outside of the city are in the greatest indignation and are resolved to the mischief at any price in an effective manner, Now if the members of both parties, to- gelver with the city press, who intend to abolish ud and corrupuon in our city government, would declare plainly and unmistakably to the party State conventions, ready to mect in the next future, that they will consider ail mgh-sounding phrases against corruption and all sorts of fine and flowing promises of honesty and trugality mere clap trap and vain hum- bug and that they can only become convinced of the sincere intention of the parties, to secure for the city of New York an honest and economical admin- istration; if their State convenuous pass resolu- tons, in which the members of BOTH BRANCHBS OF THE LEGISLATURB to he elected next fal] are distinctiy pledged to au- thorize our citizens to and adopt a charter that will contain all the saléguards against whe oc- currence of the abuses under whicd our oity has suffereu for mauy then { have ne doubt that Poth parties, if not through a of justice, at least through self-interest, could be fuyited to this demand. A Legisla- grant ture elected under this pledge could imme- Giately alter its tion pass the enabling act ‘by which the cluvens-of New York would be author- ized to elect @ constitutional conveation to draw up anew charter, to be submitted at Ne general éleo- ‘teun of 1872 4@ the atification of the people. Ido uot know whether thls meeting Will result reny permanent reform of the evils of ‘our city govern- pre i thn You know | ment, but 1 &now it would be a eeploraple wietake | avoid the trou! M some of you adeed in the expectation that the ex- cltement aad the ind: lon now filling the hearts of nine-tencns of our iellow oltimens could be made use of for 4 FORITICAL FARCE, SoRrOEEA ‘beoalech or in savor ef-@ iaction of a.party, or to the chences-ol any candidate for office. ime § you must-beaware of the fact that democrate—an @ very large majority of she citizens of New York un “belong to the democratic ‘who a8 tne! ly despise corraption as you do, still hesitate from what I behéve to be @ tou narrow view of party obligations to moat which has tor its EX¥@SURR AND PUNISHMENT OF FRAUD and the prevenuon of such recurrences, bentate Bacause they.apprehend that their activaty ia this pkrctos, might be misuncerstood and ve -May seem at Gre gigit and under how many dis- advantages the inhabitants of our-city have to guder trem it. is only A MavLER OF INFERIOR IMPORTANCE when compared-wiin the all-overshadowing ques- on Of national politics. ‘This is-unavoidable, 1 you permit tue question of local referm to be connected .| ®ith party machinations. In such @ case te present wholesome excliement would soon die ont, every ope of -a permanent im- provement of the sad state of our city affairs would vanish, and you would haveto confess that with all your araeut protestations against cor- Tuption you have taken exactly the course to ex- tend and to strengthen it. 2 need. hardy say that these remarks.are not intended to cast even the slightest suspicion upon any of the arrangers o1 tus ameeting, 1m fujly convinced that tne, gentiemen who called this assemblage were actuated by the most noble motives, aud had nothing im view bus the interests of our city, to protect. and furtner which they-would shun po exertions. Bui the dangers | have hinted at nevertheless exist, and I thought it proper to call attention to the vreakers, which, i. they remain unaeliced, wiwreck ie ‘whole reiozm movement. The Resoladions., The follawing committee .wae appointed on reso- Autions:—James Emmett, Reuban W. Howe, Kdward -Solomon, John Foiey, Henry Nicoll, Joseph W. Choate and Washington RK. Vermilye. Mr. Uhoate then read them to the meeting:— Resolved, That the taxpayers and citi?ens of New York hove learned with astonishment and ularm thatthe funded ‘and bonded debi of the city and cownty has beep more than donpled within the last two and Years; that the ac- now! indebtedness of the. ‘and county is now upwards of being over 000 mare than It ‘was when the t Mayor £00k bis oBlice, and thet there is reason that are ‘contingent or pre- tended debts and claims against the city and coupty which which will amount to many millions of dollars in addition, which wiil be paid out of the city and county treasnry unless the present finanedal oticers are semoved.ar their proceedings Resolved, That the distinct, precise and emphatic charges tn regard to the uge anu ex 0 of thin eaormoun ete, aod jhe fraudulent misappropriation of tbe whicn have been made bile mone: finat the preset city and county — been met by pao Cages Hy J contemptuous ry ny power nt ere, wi ant evaa mith studied ‘conceaiment of oF "the puonenast founta and with attempts to garbiesind confiwe the Tesldue, and by the Oller parges | with ap.utier silooca, ihe 9 ait t the facts Nagusee already disclosed jeaolve iat the faci com- pa! us, as they must all bonest and reilecting mon, to the con- clusion that enormous sume of money have been ‘wrongfully taken regsury ; that millions of dollars have 1 ‘ms and individuale for work never per- imaterials never furnished, apd this with the pro- curegnent and connivance of persons how holding the princi- pal offices of truet and profit under the present charter; that exorbitant reow are paid for military armgries’ and oflieces, and mm several Jnstances rooms which do not exist or are not occupied, ‘that the long and continued concealment of the peels Of the city proper Lurnish Around to beliewe that these ac- counts will disclose facts, if powsible, yet more asioundin; and will abow that the same men who have aquanderad n hundrece of thousands of the taxpayers moneys are axl] engaged in similar frauds and peculations. Resoived, Shat the public ofiicers.directly ed at ibe bar of publie judgment for these ollences are Wiliam M. Tweed, now Comm! ; iasioner of the Department of Public Works, sometime President of the fi rmer Board of Super- ‘viaors, aud afterwards one OF the “Interim” Hoard, who had notoriously a controling influence in the rst of these Roards, aod shared ib the acts of the other, and who from bis Felations to parties in whose name bills were presented, and to whom they were ordered to be paid, is open to the sus- Picion, not only of aging Blauned the swindle, but of having shared the plund chard Connolly, the present Comp- troller, and A. € v Hail, the present Mayor, who were not oniy also members of the ‘Interim’ Board, which sanc- tioned the payment of several millions of dollars, and right, but who also signed “the warrania and conseuied to the payments w if ich tbey contess the power to expose, not these officers can nd on different pleas than have yet sir bebalf, the credit of the city of New York and the material interests of ite citizens Will demand that they auit or be deprived of the offices which they hare dishonored and the power they are abus- ng. Resolved, That we ha’ full and detatied exhil expenditures for the past. two the real and the pretended “liabilities of the city ‘apd the county of New York, Including ite funded and ite Hoating det, This demand is’ not simpiy to show whether the men who have sed money of the city and created iis now enormous debt can produce vouchers or accounts for every payment, or whether the books of the Comptroller will balance, but what is the {otal amount which bas been col- lected from taxes, received the eredit of the city. " money, to whom St bas been paid, and upon what oonsidera- 8 cht to and do demand & of “the pubic recetpts and years and & haif ana from revenue and borrowed upon And what been done with the shaped by false conceptions of we duiy which they fancied they owed to their party, whose taulis vere rather the result of errors of the head than of {he heart, and of whom L still emtertain the opimon (ial, In the course of events, they will be found aseleting in tho correction of the evils, for which Hit fe hot directly responsibie, but which they failed io combat at the proper timo, While I fully sbare the Conviction of the importance and hecessity o1 A thoyough examination of the finances of our city and coynty, while I concede, tn puint of J confess, feliow citizens, that I bave been along dime aed a sO at the listicssness aud aparhy of the people of this city, and especially of the mechanical Jaboriug portion of our population, in not giv- the suyject, which now appears to excite some ierest, caslier attention, when it muat Lave long geen paient to overybody who has the ability to er who lays claim to the ieast knowledge of hia owd Jnterest tnat every dollar improperiv—-nos to say fraadulouuy—expended by whe city govern- it must be paid by those who labor, in the Jn- creased revs of the divgs which shelter them, in | pablio morals, that Jt 1s absointely neceasary that the pri fever, garment which clothes | all who have been guuty of fraud in the admnistra- their fami nd of ,every mouthful of food | won of the affairs of the city or in the discharge of FH ae and here { denounce, as all classes | the doties of their office, should not only be exposed ot cltizens should denounce, every act of | to the publication of the pubiio condemnation proofs of theif guiit, but alsd prosecuted tu the ex- us or jobtiog by the city gov i Suleuinw 3Ug) comrorin abd die AW DeYershelews of we opinion bia Dery Of lovey Wiminiehing iy comforts aud dig- } tent of the jaw, join heartily ina omy ee. aby mov “NHW ¥ORK HERALD, TUESDAY) SEPTEMBER 5, 1871TRIPLE SHEET. [rang 1B pwone ofgers ama Le preveny or redress the ae 1 an¥ing Thom the performance’ of theft duties honest ration of publi i forma of a as Hesriveds That we appesl won'the next Legisiatnre of the | Oltzens tor fear of injuring thelr party. This State to repeal the charter and laws by which the present | Must be changed, if we wo save. the rulers of the city have obtained and uated their power, | republic. We must remember that a party 1s ano pre phe city of New Toe 8 form, ‘one only & oa not an end. We must cease to be the vin ay ere reso! elttzensy a shal) canbe tm Yd secure ah Honest and eficient | Mere tools of our party, and ved toypat our e laws. But let us rejorn to country above our party, y administration Resolved, That the eitizena of thie city are earnestly en- | [he defence put forth the accused officials, treated to make the reform of their ow: government the ‘The important additional fact became soon controling issue at the nextelection, to support no man known t between the old and the new Hoard of oflice, and esp ly for the Lexisiature of the State, no mat- | Supervisors. the Mayor, the Compirolier and the ter what may be bis party name, who js not known to be both ent of the old f Bupeevineee, ae: an ovens and Incorrupiibig, and ‘termined and, distinctly | AAaiting DORR, hi AGT APRS ate wee Ar edged, he is able, er iv a ers yueuces Te Pitta tue ely SO Neer VEN tad thal Shy p remenend Copmn'g of accounts ma ty Tor the tiew fellow-citizens throughout the State are entreated to join us } Court House, and that as to them tnese men bear in the ¢f% bardly | * rs ott AY [yiress evils which concern them ly 'eaw uy the responsibility of paying them. The oe he naa ery nie! ia shred by shred the mask Reyoineay That the ohiracier te nets | ae Oaks Real al avin city Imperatively dev | ugly nsactions, leaving ifite hee A dott ee be kept fully and constantly informe of ther real and true characier, Arebuke had He stock, bonds oF other evidences of | “Come from the Chamber ol Commerce. tn answer to debt binding thi reonal ty of the city or ite citizens; and tie “that egal provition should be made for ‘aD appeal to stand in the breach; the clamor for tne preventing any such jot especially authorizs publication of the hidden accounts grew sWonger ty Smount ® yer appro every day, and so, finally, the Aldermen and Super- ¢ mero , OF v0! eae visors are called ropether, @nd the Mayor submits to b one the wlncrty tawell an the major.) | them for inspection and Investigation the accounts. rod, Phat the thanks of the communhy are due tote | His mi accompanying these accounts are re- publi qweparers who contributed to enlighten the | Markable document», 1 wiil only advert a one jiblic mind and to form e Basis to public opinion | point—the attempt possynin over the iesponsibility seanarins aed teiaiinee leutilenkineanaenea ee fis | Of the precious triumy are ee cos at ble necounte and ofthe conduct of the present oflcers cf Pe ee da ay Ah Board, Ived, That an Executive Committee of seventy mem- | A law, procured by themselves, by the Ring, bad, i bers jointed by the President of this meeting, whose duty it be to tke such measures as shall be necessary or expedient to carry out the objects for which we are assem- bled, to demand a full exhibition of all the accounts of the very plain langage which cannot be misunderstood by any honest «an, given to these three men the ower to audit all liabilities against the county of lew York, previously incarred, and ¢o tne scrutiny, upon the certificate of some other memuer or committee of the Ring! Ob, what a noble Roman Lavras nad € ennplor hele detec yond TO nace ing | trio is this! What immaculate and deeer ing publi of the present aukes, and, finally, to Ung sustain und di- | officers! Oh. enuity of interpreta thy name rect @ united efiort by the citizens of New York, without ref- | is Oakey Hall! ‘luere was, not long since, a pro! erence to party, to obtain a gy jovernment and honest Obfvera to atmivister und ihe auld committee aro hereby authorized to call upon all citizens interested in good govern- ment to contribute such funds as may be needed to execute the powers entrusted to them, and also to tli vacancics and add to their number, Speech ef Mr. Salemon, Mr. SaLOMON, coming forward, satd:— MR. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW CrtizeNs—For the past few years the opponents of universal suifrage aud democratic institutions have been in the habit of pointing to the city of New York as an example for their assertion that republican mstitutions founded upon universal suffrage would prove @ sition seriously made and entertained b; devotea friends of William M. Tweed to el wih) statue in some public place in this city of that nome citizen to do justice and homage to his Greawaceuis, Aye, Mr. President, let us have thi ty now, by all means. Butlet it not be his stptue alone; let it be a great public monument, cast, ‘wm the most enduring metal that can be found, m front of the new County vourt House, ua representia not the great Tweed alone, but, iso all his great and worthy assistants and cufaberers, guarded by the city police! And let ‘oere be an inscription upon this monument go Inrge che and read by every paser-by, in these words, per- ing men in this community that the affairs of the city were in the hands of ‘Ww shrewd, unscrupulous and bad men, banded ana held togeiner for a com- mon pu! that of public plunder? Has not cor- Taption so tainted public affairs in ths city that, every connection with them has thrown a@ suspicion upon the character of a man, apd that a scldaek “a roportion’ of the better element of cl ve in consequence abstained from ali such (jm. | 22,We Sutter from could wrongdoers punished, be T. President, the people of New York ity and else- . A, bi the three men to justice and to rescue the Where bave known or been satistlery4y eit this, aud | City Sr'New York trom the great yerit in wats tt More, long since; but they lackey the ‘specific evi- | now stands, and that one thing is the determina- dence of the specitic fraud—the ‘zames and figures— w bring home to them the clear conception of the enormity of the fraud and Cjsrraption, the peril of their property, the public da and the necessity of some action to ascertala the whole truth and of Measures Of protection. Tre goed peopie of this city were al. go vusy W:ch thelr own private affairs, and contracted «ck pleasant lence, apathy and ‘orrer of all that smacked of politics, that they-were like the good-natured but Indolent rick yoyhg master, who knows very Weil ‘that his erin | servant is constantly stealing and piifering from uim, but who settles down in the ‘comfortable vonvicton that all servants will steal, and thatitiga great deal better for hits ease not to too closely, and that he may of @ useless change, until one fine -tnoruing @ watobful friend, who has often there is a way. ever appeal to-day pleads at the bar of publis opinion. rivate property—nay, It 1s sometnt Tere at state. ‘Yeis the found wanting, found incapable of these wroi the stew” to ican government ve a failure here. You before remonstrated with hun ‘tn vain upon w the ol , that “eternal vigilance is the this subject in a general way, starttes hima ne on inery Het if ihhatee ween to ask of a ‘wie the evsdonce, that bis dear servant 18 | New York citizen to be ever vigilant, 1¢ certainly is ‘ina fair way of raining him by enricht himself aad his relatives at kis mas! expalen 80 were ee the good peenle of vhis city recently startied out of sheir py ate ba A lang revelations, There “were the figures-and the procured and taken from the oificial-atcounts which nad fer years becn carelully and oe rei withelé from public inspec- connivance, extance had probable participation of connivance, ce BAK Probable participation o| the men ‘who forthe past few fave been and ‘vhile show that vigilance, that mtereet tn ‘matters, which alone can save from him and bi us be up and doing. Our own safety is at stake. We must not fail! are at the head of the city goverament, and who Remarks of Congressman Reesevelt. shouki Rave been ite guardians, thie city and county Congressman Roosevelt next spoke. The demo- and ns ers bad been most shamefully ‘de- | cratic party, in his opinion, was the party of the Traaded of many millions‘of dollars, and that conse- | people. (Searation.) It was and 1590 for furniture, earpel werk, car- pets, repairs, plastering, painting and -plumbing, and awnings for tuese puble buildings end offices. | ehould end, for the men in You have all seem the items and the comments of |.2he people the baliot. the press upon them, and every intelligent man, | |-His hearers wuight not -believe, is satisfied that one-fourth or one-fith part j.he would make. of that money woald tuily cover its real and honest | a perfect system. cost. Then, again, we know, by the .confession |°now ~wruag from the Mayor and Comptroller since these }.aid of developments, that the bonded mdeb' city*nas, siuce the Ist day of January, 1870, been increased over #ixty millions of dolars. For What these sixty millions are charged on the books wedo not yet &now; but we have aright to pre- sume that the fraud aad corruption has not been confined to the aew Court House, and: that, ing with it, PORTY OR PIFTY MILLIONS out of the sixty have ean stolen from tee citizens’ inter er ha taken *pelieve Ure repabiican caavassers, his work again. ages of ballots, ‘which they gaze Who did not vote. city and county, and an: explicit statement of hich, the - amount found to be due. In some incomp! sible wane oe the ee Wo'yeare ands “pat “have beer and mysterious manner the learned Mayor interpreta fe gntorce ou medies which now exist to obtain this | tnis to mean that they have Re enc tit fanctiong in format aa, * a nee sind, to Fecover whatever | only as such auditors, and they forthwith. proceed tly to pay some $6,000,000 of Old accounts without at it must be seen Tated’ couies,”° while the “conscientious” aus | APR lated countries, while the conscientious a « HMENT FOR 4% herents "of a government “by the people, | “YY gurtaxat. vB FooLic CONFIDENCE! rou; eople and for the people’? could only ng, ¢ pleadin Teply that an exception did not prove the fr Gg Rn, baits rule, for be could not well deny the fact, apparent | this city an monwealth against these great to every impartial observer, that misgovernment |‘ wrongs an great wrongdoers? That is the gnd corruption did exist here toan alarming extent. | great ques’ ‘ofthe hour. It was once the boast of Has it not long since been the conviction of all think- | the comr, taw of England, which lies at the found- ation ohne r Jurisprudence, that where there was a Wrong re Was aremedy. We have improved upon fent system of jurisprudence in many re- and have endeavored to make it answer the exigencies of modern times; but I trust and hope we have not utterly lost its ancient and exsen- Gal prinbiples and remedies, by which such wrongs Tedressed and such Criminally and civilly the humble opinion there ts but one thing necessary to tuon—the active, earnest, united will—of the people of this city to accomplish 1. Where there is a will No nobler, greater or better cause to an intelligent public than this cause Its nob alone the money of which this community bas been robbed, though that sum be millions and bits Of indos | githough this robebry endanger the public credit and bs more that 18 question of self-government that is put In issue by these things. If now, at this time, under these developments and most grave circumstances, whe people of New York city are redressing if they will sitll allow corruption | wil! pe made to help themselves. that Bas “boiled and bubbled until it oerran triumph, then indeed will re- too much to ask that he should once in a Lire 13: pro: | Importaat Movements of a British Man-of. rty certain ruin. And now ie that time. Now or never will you throw off the yoke which has been placed upom your necks. Then, fellow citizens, let ‘The eye of the civilized world anu of thecepublican cause everywhere is upon us like vaccination. against the demucratic rulers @f the city, and de- | Was soon clared that it was lume the reign of corruption rom w hed th tne. ‘Crrees Ohargé a’Afwres from Hayti, who has borne It was done by we aid of He then went on to state the repeaters worked their way by the it would be im. teaness of this | possible to give their names, for they Rumbered 237, He had been asked omce te buy @ lot of repeaters, “whose services had been refused by Tammany Hall for some reason or ower. When the repeater got arrested he was bailed and aliowed'to yo and do The speaker then described how in keep-'| the canvassera, in many instances, made up pack- to the re- peaters to vete with, aeing. the names of genuiemen lext he gave a@ rather — reat. This ts the real estate which these sudden millions comer “Men lap bode ‘| hofow laugh and smiled a@ fatse-smfle witen these things were first disciosed. They have ceased to langh and begun to look sober, People are asking, When will these things end? “Will tney not pring destruction on our property and ¢reate riot and revolution and bioodshed in our midst 1 Yes, ail this; and the day is not far distant when @ remedy shall be appitea. ‘The American people are a patient and law-aviding peopie, but they Nave & deep sense of Jstice aud a strong’ love I of DI ay and they wil Oght for their rights, | aD And w ‘hey. ‘begin’ ine ot | business hey 0 it #0 thoroughly that war for the same object never comes to our people but once. | tapplaage.) People nave to meet occasionally to | Jews the tine » of | day, aud are surprised hot wn 'requently. to ‘And that the -gréat hands | of cme'’s borlegs haye moved forward. | They found in England once, when time struck the hour in which Cromwell | Struck on the head of @ tyrant king—(applause—and putan end to the solemn mockery of the Divine right. A little further on in time and & ming and | hig qneen and thew nobies and the Divine right, } Which hedged them about, passed under the guillo- | Mae and perished {ok ever. (Cheers.) Nota long | time ago we met to take the time of the day, and we found the nour had come when the horrs).bydra- headed Monster of siavery should dle, (Cheers.) {He died hard, however, and crushed iu his éxblring ‘folds 300,000 of the youth of the land. te died and will never live, agalo, (Cheers.) ‘The frauds and cor- raptions in our city are conceded, and we are Ingo- | lentiy asked—What are you going to do about it? Great wrongs are always tnsolent just before they a my ask—What are we going to do apout itt That 's he question for you ail to propound. None 6f you proft by these frands, but, on he contrary, lose, and are impoverished by them. ‘he rent must always be governed vy the tax. hatever tax is added to the honse must come out ‘of the tenant. The landlord will gladly deduct every dollar on the rent that is reducea in taxation. The Jaborer, Uving by his honest labora, is he etting on well? “No.” Did you have any- thing over tor ® wet day? “No, not a cent.? So 16 will always be while your rulers rob you by these cunning devices, take all your earnings from you. The merchants, too — are you doing well? “-No;’? I know that you are not. If T'was to mention Loo byte sauce ur credit, perhaps. No; there e Hen. There “is a nail ircle of omcials t fat are growing rich, and if you ask them they reply, Yes, and what are you going to do anout 11” The suburbs of New York have risen up because t traders of New York have fle? from the fearful tax- ation of the city. (Loud cheers.) The very rich in New York are very few. If you count the number on your Ongers you will find you have more fingera than there are men. There 1s no security for prop- erty or for justice except under an honest govern- Yom dastice Where can we find it in | ment. (Loud cheers.) Not ten Im 200,000 profit by these frauds, Have we no remedy? The question recurs, what are you going todo about it? Buppose the city officers appropriate themselves thousands of dollars for fraudulent purposes or for themselves, can you not get it back? have you any doubt about it? (No, no!) But, then, you say, can the judges be trusted. Let the Goveruor of the State order suits to be instituted for the recovery of this money and I know whereof | speak, the judges of this city will make haste to do justice to this city. (Loud cheers.) Let the Governor and the Attorney General be waited upon by @ deputation from this meeting, and if he will 80 act, well; if not, nection? Have we not scen the men whose Dames: | men that have committed these outrages against pub- | jet that relusal be reported back to the as- poh gtk yo tgbganddbnpe dyer grow immensely Uc faith, public property and pubiic law should be | sembied people. (Loud cheers.) The next ROR OPE 71S FORE In NEHRU “Bary ind, made reeponsible. And I, for one, have faith that with | Legisiatar gentiemen, will be against cor- and have we not been well satizaed long | aii their cunning and power, they can beso held and | ruption, You Jaboring people, your time hay Tene” gains Of pubic planer? Syol!!¥-€Ot- | made to answer to the majesty of the law. In my | come, The Senate, you remember, willbe elected this year for the next two years and that Senate will choose the United States Senator, and the corrup- tlonists are doomed. It must be remembered also that we vote this year for districts, It hag been sald that this fund has been stolen for the purpose @ Presidential elec, tion, It is untrue; that fund has already been divided and the dividers care Do more about a democratic President than they care about the pcor voter whom they have rovbed and cheated. [Cheers.] I have pointed out to you peacelul ways to right these wrongs, but if newer men enter tnts government oaly for the purpose of perpetrating pew frauds, then there are other ways, and I need hot name them. You will hear it in the ‘wail, in the roar of musketry, in the fire of cannon, for the tron heel of the despot will have planted his foot on @ people so sunk Lapin ey meat they (Cl An executive committee was then elected to carry out the object of the resolutions, after which (ha of Jook meeting quietly broke up. . ST. DOMINGO. War with a British Agent ou Board— Arrival of Ker Britanaic Majesty’s Steamer Sphynx at St. Domingo City—British De- wigus Dominic: Sr. DomiNGo City, August 23, 1871. Now'that peace is once more restored to Europe ‘and England no longer dreads war with the United States, growimg out of the Alabama controversy, she has vigorously set to work the vain hope of regaining her the | declining influence and prestige in the West Indies, No sooner had the Sphynx dropped anchor, when the people of this sleepy, ragaed old fortified town were on the qué vive to And out the object of this unexpected visit, ‘Their curiosity, however, gratified by the lanaing of a boat from that warship, containing her captain and the Hon. Spencer St, John, British Consul General, and so large @ share in tne stirring events of the last few years in Hayt!. It wil be remembered that he it was who sent word to the late President Salnave, who was {riendly to Baez in Dominican interests, that he would have him shot, through the instrumentality of Cabral, who was at the time operating under the auspices of Mr. St. Jonn (and paid with British and Spanish gold), from the Hay> tem side of the island, for the purpose of aefeat. ing annexation to the United States, but ala and taxpayers, Puolic conscieace was abocked, as} amusing description oftaise counting. Frauds witn | for the uncer:ainty of human affairs! Saget and -it well might we, by these developments, and an jcthe ballot were infimitely worse than peculations. | his friends are at last coming ww _ grief -lmmediate publication of the expenditures so} Democrats woold bave righted the culauions {.in their turn. A revolution is on the paint of break- -long withheld was lemanded by an indignant } themselvesiad they not been aeprived of the ballot ing out in Hayti. Cabral isin disgrace with the an- -beople. Day after day, by Dame, these public | wherewith ‘to make their protest. If democrats thorites on account of the repeated thrasnings he ~oMicers were directly charged with participa- | wanted te win tho next Presidential election, he, aa | and his followers have received trom lus whiom tion in these astounding and apparent frauds. | .@ democrat, would tell them that they must | coi ots, the Dominicans, Mr. Consul General And what has been their answer to this |=throw Tammany Hail overboard. If they did not therefore, acting under the instructions severe accusauen? First we are told by am oficial communication from the Mayor, thas the 7imes was zcung from improper motives, anu its accasations ehould not therefore be credited, and that ail.events,| dare the present city officials were not responsibie for thei When peopie rise payments of these “perhaps exorbitant’’ bite, be- crush the party. them and could have passed them over the Mayor's veto, had he vetoed them. Oh! what a lame and impotent reply! The motive of the 7.mes or apy one else in bringing these frands to ight and holdiug them up,to public view and scorn, cer- certamly cuuld inne manuer decrease the guils of the perpetrators of them. And a8 vo the seape- | Overthrow them. she “Old Board of Supervisors, not Wm. ‘Tweed, the present President of the Beceds Ot Ais Lecterns St eagnhe aiways the most cowardly; who most readiiy defies you will wl artment j.crus Tasimany the dishonesty of Tammany would He then cencladed as follows:—Bat dark as the pic- ig that I have now drawn it ts not-witnout light. in wher might wey can achieve , |] ‘whatever ubey will. Let the ude ones sweep lana- cause the “old Board of rs aby aed had allowed’ | ward and ail that opposed it wili be overwhelmea. And J am glad to say that the most venal and cor. you attack him boldly and resolutely be the first to grovel at Lord Granville, the British Foreign Minister, -and with the knowledge and consent of the present Haytien government, has male this timely move from bis oficial post wt Port au Princé to the Do- minican capital city to offer terms of peace to Pre- ssident Baez and hia Cabinet in the name of Haytt. President Biez nad started only the day before for Az'1% by land, and @ special messenger Was de- eee forthwith who overtook him and brought um back to the city, as the proporitens from the British envoy was deemed of tne highest impor- tance. Three or four interviews between the [o- mioican officials and Mr. St. Joho have pircady. taken place, but it is not known that Ady definite understanding vetween them bas been tl arrived at. The first step th hy bee of Public Works, the great manager and.king of tno | __Mr. PignneroNT said:—Rellow citizens, when-1 | Si Y ? to conailiate "the , tke President and the soul of that “Old Board fe dnto. the city a lew hours ago I was toud that if | Dominican govertinent was 9 remove varnnge Of Supervisors?” Is it an.excuse for withholding a | 2,;ame.here w speak to-night-that I would find cha tata, who wes veto {0 a slishonest and corrupt bs aay actthac | this meeting would be broken up, it may be passed over that veto? ould got one { audielt.the magmetic influence of your faces I suid single, Honest veto of one of these fraud- } to the gentleman beside me, this 8 ‘a pretty danger- went and — enormously — extravagant bills, | Ous Meeking for anybody to atteinpt to break up. communicated by the Mayor in a pnblic:|,(Uheers.) Ihavenot seen anytning like it since 1961. m have then drawn public atiention | 4 almost felt that the clock of time nad been turned upon these frauds and discovered and | sack. We.are assembled here to save our liberties preventea them? But more: these bills were ex- pressly approved by the Mayor and Comptroller by their signature to the warrants forthem. Suppose they had withheld their signatare on the ground of fraud, and pad set up tbat answer wo a mandamus proceeding, Fraud vitiates everything, even the roceedings of acorrupt auditing boerd or officer. yhe Mayor and the Comptroller well knew that im many different ways they could ready and effec- tively have protected the public treasury from the luxury. millions come from? It has been given that these rtunes ulation in real estate. Weil, we have a way of learn- Ing someting about rcal qwrate in this ¢ity. We Rave men who haye examined the records, ond it nefarious doings of this ‘Ud Board,” and their ac- | i# all @ cheat. They have not been made Cpe these apparent frauds, together with | by real estale—any considerable sums of the pains which they have taken to keep them from | Woney by sles of real etate, That the public eye, can only lead to the conclusion that | pretext je as false a8 te fraudulent oilis they have connived at aud probably Participated in | they paid. 1 will show you soon where these them, Next came tne rdle of contemptn. | fortunes came irom and thé Juxury of which ous silence and “amiable contempt” on the | your chatrman spoke. Wall you bear with mea part of the accused city oMicers, with which the | moment, genemen, when I call your attention increasing public wrath was tobe met, Only think | to some dull figures. (A Voice—“(Certainiy.) of it! ey proposed to play the part of in- | You will find a certain kind of eloquent jured innocence! Party feaity, too, has repeat- | logic in them which is better than worls. edly been called upon to protect and shield these | On the 1st of January, 1869, the debt of the city and men in their present conditi aside the puplic hue and cry, * Was a political fight,” was said in an editor ecribed to the Mayor, No, Mr. Mayor, this was not a political fight atall. It was and is simply A QUESTION OF HONESTY: & pursuit of men after money stolen from them, and @ pursuit of the thieves, That will prove a vain sub- terfuge, Mr. Mayor. The democratic party cannot ana to turn | county of New York Was $34,326,000. Between that date and July Jast this city treasurer received by taxes and other sources $72,096,211, Thus you wil see they have received enough to have paid off the debt and to have carried on any honest gov- ernment. But the Comptroller, on the 1st of duly last reports the astonishing fact that the city then owed $100,850,215, an increase of the debt of 66, 218,000, leaving $72,951,000, making $149,518,000, allow itself to be saddled with the defence hy, gentiemen, 1 find it almost impossible to use of such iniquities, It 8 too neavy a load | thead Agures which your rulers have paid out in two for any party to carry. Look around you, | years ana seven months, What has become of this sir, Do you notsee the honest and upright men in ai arty arraigned against these frauds? Yes, Mr. resident, the demotratic party of this city ‘and State, so long under the guidance and control of these tainted men, must elther absolutely sever its connection with them, and emancipate itself from their doings and frauds, or most ignomtnioualy fall @nd perish wich them, Aud this that party knows apd understands. Already we have seen one most important and tnfuential portion of the democratic party rise up in honest lag oy against these their accustomed leaders, ‘The German democrats money? There was @ man in the democratic ranks, ai honest soul, who discovered these frauds, and he made himself master of them and exposed them to the whole public, Andrew J. Garvey is a plasterer, and in 1869 and 1870 A.J. Garvey was a better plasterer than any known terer that ever pre- ceded him. His bills amounted to nearly three mil- ons. is @ firm here, 1 do not know the mem: bers of it, but it isstyled Ii 0ll & Co, That firm supplied chairs and shades for the new Court House ip 169 and 1870 for wich they received over five have risen as one man, and have manfully demanded millions, and the plumber jor the County HS een en Fecaie cricueey tan city have also a rightto | "hat their party shalt be delivered from this incubus | Court House received two millions for his know. and are determined to asceriain, who are andhave | Of fraud aod corruption. Asa German by birth, | work. ‘Tne New York Prinung Compan, been on the pag rolls of the city government, what pay they | though not a member of the democratic party, | received between March, 1869, and December, 1879, receive abd what services they render, a8 weil as who bave | I feel great pleasure and satisfaction in this hon | nearly tw: millions fur county printing alone. Weil, actually profited by the enormous payments of bills or ac- | est uprising, for it shows iy roverbial | it mi t} chalrmakin; and f & Bald shat printing, ¢ s counts, obviously exeveding any value Tecelved by the city; | honesty of the Germans ts not a myth heft, and has | plambing are not ahd id phils oft They ayg better, ‘who are represen! 4 i os Coy te Ae rf even survived the banefal influences to which tt bas | in fact, than any you follow. Nencors) oes an; Bnei wate ease rs Fhe We | Hemh gon ca oSone asa itd SHE | Bama te ctunry ever, mate, ck forte OF nudes fictitious n in the plunder ublie treas , ig of | ag Andre: arvey? (Laughter). ig $I at a a, P New York, without regard to their party tles and 10,000 ri "or ‘caro r the County Court That any (egal remedy which 1s now available to ascertain and disclose {: a to full rauds ies open, iiss city sod’ woonty officers and to recover t e ly waken thereby from the public weas:ry thould be reso if 90 wuch remedies are found {2 eis}, then the law should be altered 60 as to enab:e citizens ry per restricHons and regulations, 10 call power and mv ‘to Of jnetiee 19 discover entrusted by them Jeni) account and fo Invoke the jouse, mi td ecthtkte ue made by carpet makers in this city, and they said they would glad ve forninpen the same carpets for $12,000, idsasnt BS OO Suppose that those men whose names appear these bills received ail this money or any consida- ipirit 1@ | erable portion of it? Nog at all, It went into the id proper in- | pockets of your rulers. is i the meat on which men often | these officiais feed, on Which they bave grown #0 predilections; they are honest anid earnest in their Opposition to this foul conspiracy against the public reasury and the public weal, Democrats or repub- licans, ‘on - Py = Phagp 4 of New one of the great evil mis- fortunes of our public life, now that <a! carried far beyond its legitimate Dvence, Honest and honorable When I got here a6 tu 1861, When rebels threatened us with war. fen beers As your chairman has.told you in his ress that the oMicers whom you have elected are reaping you, they are living in princely splendor an Gentlemen, where did these suddew ton, ihe British Vice Consul at Porto Plata, who was on to be hostile co the poilcy of “Baan Con- ry ing the new phase in the condition of things thas thus extraordinary Anglo-Haytien mission is likely to-bring about, together with the sudden de- pal of the distin wished Dominican Secretary of State Sor Foreign Affairs, M. M. Gautier, on board the Tybee for the United States, it is presumed that someaping Of importance is on the tapis, THE MORMONS. Jouflict of Authority Between Federal§and Territorial Authorities—Arrest of Territorial Ofticers—The Mormons Trying Their Old Bio Guames—United Officers? Prowming Them to the Wall. SALT Lake, Sept. 4, 1871. Another confict has arisen here, mvoiy.ng the Jarindiction oO! the United States over the Territory of Utan. Until recently the Territorial Penitentiary has been in the hands.of the Mormons. an act of Congress of January £0, 1871, places all Territorial penitenttaries under the control of the United States Marshal. This act was not recognized by the Coarch authorities, and it was not without ereat show of United States ofmeial foreg that the warden, one A, P. Rockwood, sur. rendered the Penitentiary to the Untted States Mar- shal, M.T. Patrick, Then Rockwood carried off all the furniture, paid for by the United States. With the furniture he took away 4 convict sentencéd to the Penitentiary for fifteen years for manslanghter. This convict was transferred to the city prison. Re- cently the United States Marshal, by order of Gov- ernor Woods, demanded of the Territorial Marshal, J. D. L. Mcallister, the prisoner Who was sentenced to the Penitentiary. McAllister refused to surrender him, and the other day when the United States Mar- shal, with three or four deputies, went to the city prison, on approach)ng it he ‘ound it guarded by 300 Mormon oMicers. He returned, reported the facts to Associate Justice Hawiey, who issued awrit for their arrest for resisting the United States officers and concealing prisoners. To-day Marshai Patrick arrested ‘Territorial Marshal McAllister and ex- Warden Rockwood and brought them beforo Judge States jawiey. f°, heartng was adjourned until Weanes- day and the prisone it rah thelr liberty on $1,000 ball each to appear jt Unie, 1 Morinous KFS playlhg at thetr oid bia game, coring the a coke ore ee com; fed to obey them, and boas rt ne’ arelikely to suffer cuisine ‘or hed ae of judge Governor Woods, Marshal Patrick and the judt- clary are performing ther wholeduty ig the matter, The coving session of tbe Unil tates Court promises to be very potent in Vehtitating the laws of (he Mormon Charch. Very important criminai cases will come up to develny and punish crimes comune ted years ago.