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attention to the drain upon the city finances incurred by the Centennial and the building of city sewers, but this would not do, as all such expenses were covered by loans issued by Councils. Mr. Pattison said, in conclusion: "On the books of the City Controller's office I find an entry many years ago of $46,000, for the building of branch sewers. Not a cent should have been paid for any such purpose, as the property-holders benefited by the sewer are assessed for the expense of its construction."

Mr. Greenbank was next introduced, and, alluding to the report of the City Treasurer yesterday, he explained, in a humorous way, how that official disposed of the $3,000,000 that was always lying idle in the Treasury. "None of us can tell," the speaker said, "what those bank directors pay for the use of two or three hundred thousand dollars for a long period, but there is no one here who doubts that the City Treasurer profits largely by the powers vested in him. If not, why does he persist in keeping three or four million dollars always on hand, distributed round among a dozen banks? Why," continued the speaker, "does he not pay some of the warrants that are standing against the city's credit? Are not the salaries of these offices sufficient? I am candidate for the office of Register of Wills. The salary is $10,000. My friends slap me on the back and say: 'Lucky fellow, Greenbank.' I say that it is infamous. The Judges of the Court, men of the highest intelligence who go into office only after years of unremitted study, receive only six or seven thousand dollars for their arduous labor, while the political book-keeper, with no preparation, goes into an office requiring the display of no intelligence in the discharge of its duties and receives from ten to thirty thousand dollars a year for doing absolutely nothing."

Dr. Nebinger next introduced S. David Page, Democratic candidate for City Treasurer. He addressed the meeting in a slow, oratorical fashion, articulating distinctly and choosing his language with scrupulous care. "I speak to you." he said, in the course of the address, "as one Democrat to another, for I believe that all is worth living for under our kind of government is embodied in the principles of the Democratic party. In saying this I do not find fault with those of the Republicans, but with men who represent and control that party,  and who are formed together in an almost invincible company for their own profit, regardless of the welfare of the people." Mr. Page alluded to those fat office-holders whose names appear on the delinquent tax books. Their debts have never been paid because they know that in course of six years they will be outlawed. The possible profits of the office of the City Treasurer, Mr. Page said, were absolutely inestimable.

Samuel Hartranft, candidate for Sheriff, spoke only a few words, after which the meeting was adjourned.


NEW YORK'S POLICE BOARD.

The Squabble Over the Appointment of Election Inspectors Still Dragging One.

Special Dispatch to THE TIMES.

New York, October 2.
The quarrel over the selection of election inspectors was renewed by the Police Commissioners to-day. The Republican members are doing their best to get Tammany men appointed, and the anti-Tammany Democrats are as strenuously opposing such appointments. Already two Republican and one anti-Tammany inspectors have been appointed for every district. The law requires four for each district, and it is over the fourth that the quarrel is had. Five Tammany men were appointed yesterday, but it is discovered to-day that they were also on the anti-Tammany lists and were of doubtful, to say the least, politics. With two Republican and one Tammany inspector it is plain that Kelly and Cornell could make a difference of several thousand votes in Robinson's aggregate on election day. The vote on the appointment has thus far been a tie of two to two. To-day the anti-Tammany Commissioners began a bit of sharp practice. They began to nominate for inspectors of election the most conspicuous Democrats in the city, beginning with Samuel J. Tilden, and including David Dudley Field, August Belmont, Augustus Schell and Police Commissioner MacLean. Before the trick was discovered these names and several others were accepted. Then the Republicans, beginning to suspect, consulted the law, and ascertained that in the event of an appointee refusing to serve the Commissioner who appointed him is to name a man in his place. Of course these men would decline, and the anti-Tammany man would then appoint any one but a Tammany man. At the evening session a long list of such names was offered, and a dead-lock over them was made by the Republicans voting no. They thus put

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'property-holders' has a hyphen at the end of a line and looks as though it fits the exception to rid the hyphen and combine the word, however this hyphen is needed in the transcription, and is supposed to be there. This can be determined by the later use of the hyphen in the similar word 'office-holders'