New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-07
4 Reflection.

City. and throughout our State, ere respectively
claiming most vociferously to be the genuine advo-
Gates of giving out the State Printing by contract to
the lowest responsible bidder without distinction OF
party Each insists that It's bill was the embodi-
ent of this salutary principle, and bases its hostili
~ TO the rival bill on tie alleged inadequacy and
hollowness of the measure. To judge BY their uni
form language neither would roll monopoly OF this
Public Printing a sweet morsel under its tongue
if it might do just what ii wished in the premises
la short. there never was such thorough lapparenp
unanimity and zeal in favor of proposed Reform.
Well, gentlemen, suppose we test your profess
sons! We have not far to 60 for q tombstone. Ii
is hardly yet three months since this very question
of Reform in Public Printing up before Con-
gress at Washington. There question in
that case Of Legal Advertising, which required to
be sent forth through respectable and widely cir
culated medium. The subject matter was simply
Job Printing-who should print the Reports, Bills,
Journals, &c. of the two Houses "a purely me-
chanical undertaking. On the one side stood a firm
OF publishers already enjoying all the vast patron
age Of the Executive; the other was an asso-
citation of practical hard,working printers, of both
parties who offered to do the work for thirty
or forty thousand dollars year less than the Presi
dents favorites demanded and would receive if
elected. Yet not one Loco. Foco journal of our
State, whether Burner or bunker, gave the leas,
countenance to any proposition looking 10 the
ing of this large sum to the People not one Of the
twenty.th three Locos including Senators from this
State voted for gave any countenance 10 any plan
adverse to the official monopoly; but all went heart
and hand for those candidates who asked the high.
est price and were printers at all Yet now Old
Hunkers and Landowners outvie each other in zeal
for a thorough Reform in Public Printing, giving
TO the lowest bidder
Arc not the People looking into these ihings7 Do
they not understand
Il Mr.. Attorney General john VAN buren,, the
.Favorite Grandson of Ne W. ork, il is stated in
the Syracuse Journal, has received from our State
Treasury the following extra allowances for at
tending the trials Of certain Ambient prisoners
and aiding in their prosecution, viz
For attendance and services the trial of Greene $3.50
do do end trial of do .......... $50
/ do do the Andes men at Delhi. 500
Total for the four trials .............-...S 81 100
All this is in addition TO the regular salary and
fees of his office. OF course, Mr.. Van Buren, has
another ia, extra bill for attendance at Washing.
ton and arguing State cause before the Supreme
Court Now We presume this is in some sort reg
ular,' and we wouldn't have the State niggardly
about such matters, but really is it not time there
were some lac regulating the pay in such casesl-
Mr.. Comptroller Flagg is reputed cose.fsted SEN
tinel at the door of the Treasury and We can't help
thinking if Prince John had been an Old Hunker'
or even Whig. he would have scrutinized these
items rather sharply. The Syracuse journal says
the pay received by Mr.. v B in these cases amounts
to $50 or $50 per day for the time he was en-
ployed in them. including that in which he was in
confinement for his fracas in open Court with Mr..
Jordan. MIR. Flags! the People pay you large
salary expressly 10 be saved from paying others
more than they ought to have. Do your duty