Annual Record of Assemblymen and Senators from the City of New York in the State LegislatureThe Club, 1891 |
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7th Ave Ahearn Albany Amending chapter Amending section appointment assembly district bounded ASSEMBLYMEN bad vote ballots Became law Blumenthal Broadway Brodsky Brooklyn Byrne cable railway candidate Cantor City members voted City Reform Club clerk commis Connelly consolidation act COUNTRY OF BIRTH County Demo county democrat court defeated Dinkelspiel Drypolcher East River excise commissioners excise laws Farquhar final passage Foley German Harlem River Hildreth Holcomb House Hudson River independent Introduced in assembly Introduced in senate Irish Canadian Kerrigan known LAWYER legislation license Liquor Dealers liquor-dealers lobby lobbyists McMahon Member of standing Mullaney number of votes Park Row party passed past session PATRICK H PERCIVAL FARQUHAR police political providing public schools railroad Received when elected record Roesch saloon SENATE DISTRICT sioners Sohmer Southworth Spirit Gazette Stadler Street Sullivan Sulzer Tammany Demo TAMMANY DEMOCRAT Tammany Hall Total number voted as follows votes cast WILLIAM SULZER York City York City members
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Page 2 - An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," is hereby amended so as to read as follows : § 1850.
Page 19 - West. These corporations are the bane of State politics, for their management is secret, being usually in the hands of one or two capitalists, and their wealth is so great that they can offer bribes at which ordinary virtue grows pale. There are many honest men in the Assembly, and a few are rich men who do not need a douceur, but the proportion of tainted men is large enough to pollute the whole lump.
Page 25 - Since the order of the District Court was not an order from which an appeal could be taken, petitioners brought the present proceeding in the form of a petition for a rule to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue to the District Court to restore the case to the list.
Page 29 - Do you deny that the liquor vote controls the situation of this State ? What defeated Warner Miller and elected Governor Hill ? What gave the Democratic Party its present majority in the Assembly ? What elected the Tammany ticket in this city last year ? Was it not the united strength of the liquor vote ? . . . Regard for selfprotection and preservation has consolidated the liquor dealers and forced them into an attitude in which they have become a power in politics.
Page 103 - This power is placed in the board of estimate and apportionment, a body composed of the mayor, the comptroller, and the president of the board of aldermen, each having three votes, and the presidents of the five boroughs with seven votes all together.
Page 26 - The order appealed from is right, and should be affirmed, with costs.
Page 19 - ... they need it, and when by such log-rolling he has secured a considerable backing, he goes to the honest men, among whom, of course, he has a considerable acquaintance, puts the matter to them in a plausible way — they are probably plain farmers from the rural districts — and so gains his majority. Each great corporation keeps an agent at Albany, the capital of the State, who has authority to buy off the promoters of hostile bills, and to employ the requisite lobbyists.
Page 79 - ... and required to proceed with the work of erecting such building on the lands designated in the manner hereinafter provided. As soon as may be after the passage of said resolution as aforesaid, the mayor, the president of the board of aldermen and the commissioner of public works of said city, or a majority of them, shall...
Page 65 - ... hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and not less than one thousand dollars for the second offense. Section 6 of the same chapter makes any railroad official who willfully and maliciously refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of the act guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not less than one thousand dollars, while all fines accruing from an enforcement of the law shall go into the state treasury for the benefit of tbexchool fund.
Page 62 - He received six or seven years' schooling in the public schools of this city. His early associations were not good. He was employed in various newspaper delivery offices for several years.