New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-09-17

contract for SlT5Gc1-did sS0uVO worth o. woTk
taereon-eGmirted ne had TnaGe proat OF 5000
OF. Of the $1,000 and chained oiner 5000 Of gains
which he zss sure Of making cut a The other ssoof
allowed 70 % on The STATE stopped the work-Iohu.
had 1890 Of compensation In a.! $500 OF gia
on con.rac: OF Only S4.9 ~ eno me @RorS only na
done yert Who VII sag -hat such JOBS - th:s-snG
there were many Of thern-loned 20 me Waist pres
did f-:su contractors uphold pretended Demo
crats stop ;e progress OF the Canals aaG impair the
public prosperity With $4,000 year paid 20
corus OF Engineers-iih well paid anal Boari-virh
parry Canal Ccr7us=ioners-i experience n Csnai.
ing the whole seems TO have been JOB the character
OF which me pubic can nov estimate WI the Con-
venon provide by Constitutional enactment, tha- n al!
time COMING. contractors ssI 70 more LOBBY y l. L.
gi.lave halls for real or pretended balances but
The public Courts ana Prove their csiins That would
be real reform.
II wa Mess-s Bouek. Earll Bowman and Baker who
selected lie engineers and made nearly all the iiscred
table contracts with favo-i,es parza1s the Ere
en!gr cement Black River and Geaesee Valley Canals
20 me amount OF MAN. nli.ors-ic vast corps OF Ell
eineers acted USoEf TIER DrsEc-roNs. Controller
Fagg says at AZ the suspension there unliGui-
dated floating deb; OF three millions. md yet with tn:
host 81 engineers the Legislature coud lot IN -2, find
out, ~itaR million and has o. dollars the tue bal
due 70 contractors Controller Flag admits
ir rs pea otd tGrd j0b wherever the state
cerned Canal contract became a dead letter
Who began the practice ot lending the state credit 10
Conpaniesl Silas Wright in senate 1877 70 Delaware
AID Hudson Canal Company, S5G0O00 and i-lH 800.
90. Who urged on the Legislature compliance :siih
Inc EeconI application: Martin Van Ruren n ms Mes
sage, ". l.. Narcy in his Report Nj. Hoffman helps
the party Dy denouncIns species of leans Of which
these the earliest precedens Independent The
Erie sud Chauplan Canals Messrs. Bissel Enos Earl
&c. Commissioner report 70 the Legislature n l-i2,
that for the Erie enlargement Black RiTer. Che1lung
and Genesee Valley Canals the expenditures were over
twelve millions OF dollars all planned and contracted
for BIZ the Flag Hoffman and Marcy pery-the friends
Of Leaving these works parity in ruins Yet, while
write NJ tesonis declaring with the power Of Stem
tor that the state Debt is the act OF the Wings Who
upperrnost when three millions appropriated
to the NcwYori and Erie Railroad Company N 1880:
! Were the Wings then IN Office Who tue mana
gers that provided the checks Vas 1.-THE Wigs
The Controller a!udes W. Buell. Buell. was
political fayoritegot job nj Lockport-coupiRined
that out of $4,000 he had lost OF prospective profits By
the stop S25 725. and he got S7i,50i part Of it for
some change in the plan Contractors 4" OF our stamp
in those days must have been MI Flagg adu!ts
PAGE H. report OF Isis that often millions OF
made by Messrs. Bouck Bowman and their .DemocTg-
tic 4 brethren.
,se Contracts a, rla,y n,,Gnccs 4, claimed by the
torracoys m .stn1!istps her eaun1 for damage "neer
clear profit to the Contractor. atle oys all ei rnedest
70 tic cGne,,g gt the Works IF FoRTiFIVE AND
Orson Phelps claimed profit balance OF two
contracts not fulfilled, over Sli000o-hc cot $4,000
Mr.. flagg admits lp- 10 report lilo that very little
taken OF -ta.c interest By his political friends.
either at l.ockport on the Genescc Valley Canal Nil
lions had been paid and claimed Tor extra allowances
after $50 when they had expelled De WIN Clinton so
that the who offered TO do the work fairly
fused the contract aud party tool preferred seemingly
with understanding that it would be made mp to
;meNtra allowances by the party through the Canal
Board parjizan contractors tie amount OF
quarter O, n million were paid on the Chenung Canal
alone
Mr.. Patterson to-day reminded the Convention that
ess than million placed under contract during
the brief reign of the Whigsthe vrou- and pure Van
Buren, Democracy did that OF work themselves and
already Says Mr. Fasg) s7O0O00 have been collected
from the People which might have reained in their
pockets. Il the Improvements of the state had been
managed with !ugaty." Remember NorerqJer itGf
Nr Flag and NJ Hoa and thar friends managed bota
State and National Finances. How they managed them.
time has shown.
some folks say complain too much of the Conveu-
tCn Ii may he When Broughsm. Macintosh and
Sidney Smith began the Edinburgh Review in the sth
9th story OF dwelling in Buccleugh Place liberal po
tical sentiments nj fearful discontinue Caiho
lies were not cmancpa,ed-;he Test and Corporation
Acts were unrepealcd- Game Laws and Libel Laws
were horribly opprcssve--no Prisoner tried for his
Life dcrst employ lawyer 10 defend hn--Lord FL
don and the Court OF Chuncery pressed heavily on the
naton-Sprng Guns and St"el-Traps set all over
the enormous wickedness OF the SLAVE Trade up
he1-the Law OF Debt and of Conspiracy were the
worst possible footing and Political Economy little
dcrstood-a thousand evils in existence which
Mr. Smith remarks the talents of good and able men have
since lcsscncd removed Let us extract all The good
can OF this Convention-cOmtort ourselves by
the reelection that its well It's worse-Gnd aye keep
I in memory that there's good time coming
Men Of sanguinc. nervous temperament are not the
best reviewers oil the acts OF public bodies They
pect too much. h