New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-17
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.r- vii, ,.ke a great flourish now about RE-
FORMl and over the ore anne sno bakers doz-
ure o. 10 on. through the Legislature. But where
eu ,scse Reformers when they bad control in the Le-
ss;ure and the Public Printing 70 tue "o'lny SUE
ESQ of MI Cromwell Mr. WEED for three years from
Isao m 1892 By what Reform was IL that during
those three years the amount paid yearly out oil tue peo
pies money for Public Printing wss much larger man
durinr any even Of gentle Edpin's most succe'sui
year. averaging the enormous and shame u sum OF
,e-eay foer thousand dollars (s5s9 s in exact nsare
yeari Morning views
~ When the Wings chose Mr.. Weed State
Printer. champion OF the rival party had enjoyed
the proceeds of that Office for some twenty years
last preceding at high prices. The Wing Legisia
ature reduced the prices limited the tenure OF ofhce
before unlimi;edl TO four years, and elected MI
Weed, who had been the most prominent and enect
i've champion of their cause through many years OF
arden, struggle, which found him poor and left him
an Mr. w. took the Office and realized I'VE hope
q competence from il and would have peremptorily
declined q reelection had the Wings remained in
noyrer Tha, the amount of Printing was large dur
ing his term is true but that resulted from the heavy
lob of printing the Geological Reports for which
the necessity had been created years before the
Wings came into power. Still, we think, large
par, of the sum received by Mr.. W. was paid Tor
Engraving Lthograpbic Printing, Paper, &c. on
which little or no profit accrued to him
That the Wings are wiser now than formerly
with regard TO Public Printing is true, and neither
extraordinary nor lamentabe. But how Is II with
the News's party2 IF they are indeed anxious Tor
n more thorough Reform in Public Printing than
that just effected at Albany, why not embrace
Washington and this City within their sphere OF re-
forming operations Not one of them in Congress
could be induced TO vote for saving 100000 to $50
600 per apnum to the National Treasury by giving
the Public Printing 10 partnership OF Journeymen
Printers at reduced price instead OF the Presidents
Organ at a high one. Nay, more; Our famous
Reform Common Council gives the City Pruning
in parcels to its party organs the Ne'cs, Post and
Globe, which are frequently quarreling about the
division of the spoils Now when the Wings were
las, in power in our City, ace had friends in the
Common Council who proposed that we should put
in for the Printing or share OF It. which we per
emptorily declined and had no part nor lot IN the
matter.
The News considers the sum received by Mr.
Weed for State Printing enormous and shameful.
p,, in onr view the amount can never be shameful
If the Drinciple is sound, and rice verso VIII the
News be so good as 10 inform US how much it re-
ceives per annum from our City for Job Printing =
How much for Advertising How much in like
manner from the National and State Governments?
Wherein its gains from these differ in p77a
chile from those of Mr.. Weed And whether the
fact that Mr. Weed was Editor OF the most widely
circulating journal published at Aibany-perhaps In
the state at the .;:no-while the News is VIGOROUSLY
moi the most widely circulating of our City journals
whether in the City. State or Nation, does not place
the official Advertising bestowed on the News in
difercn, and far more exceptionable category than
that given BY law to tue Evening Journals Speak
ont fully and frankly. neighbor We want 10 probe
this whole matter Of Public Printing to the bottom
The People having once got sight of sautary prn.
ciple. will insist on its thorough adoption and will
not be satisfied with any amount of Stated Preach
ing instead of this.
N.B.-We do not blame the publishers OF the
News nor any other paper for taking what they can
get of the Public Printing The fault is with those
who give
Z FREsHET IN WEST JsRsET.-The Delaware
river was high over its banks Sunday so that the
Nigh, Mail Train after running from Burlington to Borden
town through three feet water on the track de-
cped proceeding up to Trenton and came over the Am
bow track to South Amboy where they remained TIL the
Raritan came down from New Brunswick and took them
on board arriving here yesterday AZ ii A. NJ