This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...the city of New York now made by the mayor and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen shall be made by the mayor without such confirmation.' "The change proposed is clearly apparent. "By the present charter the mayor, elected by all the people of the city, if a majority of twenty-four aldermen elected by the voters of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...the city of New York now made by the mayor and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen shall be made by the mayor without such confirmation.' "The change proposed is clearly apparent. "By the present charter the mayor, elected by all the people of the city, if a majority of twenty-four aldermen elected by the voters of twenty-four separate districts concur with him, may appoint the administrative officers who shall have charge and management of the city departments. "The bill presented for my action allows the mayor alone to appoint these officers. This authority is not conferred upon the mayor now in office, who was chosen without anticipation on the part of the people who elected him, that he should exercise this power, but upon the incoming mayor who, after the passage of ihe act, shall be elected, with the full knowledge on the part of the people, at the time they cast their votes, that they are constituting an agent to act for them in the selection of certain other city officers. "This selection under either statute is delegated by the people. In the one case it is exorcised by the chief executive acting with twenty-four officers representing as many different sections of the municipality; in the other by the chief executive alone. "I cannot see that any principle of Democratic rule is more violated in the one case than in the other. It appears to be a mere change of instrumentalities. "It will hardly do to say that because the aldermen are elected annually, and the mayor every two years, that the former are nearer the people and more especially their representatives. The difference in their terms is not sufficient to make a distinction in their direct relations to the citizen. "Nor are the rights of the people to self-gov...
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