New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-27
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Correspondence Of The Tribune.
ALsAST. Saturday Jan. %, lsi7.
England began TO set a night value on the servi
e.s Of such men as JOSEPH HUME not when her
people were generally comfortable in their world
/ * circumstances her landowners little troubled
with poor rater and other taxation and her national
debt ike ours, some thirty millions OF dollars IN
those DAYS a friend Of systematic economy could
not have procured hearing Of ten minutes in the
Chapel of 81. Stephen It was when. all but over
whelraed with burthens such as bad Frustrated
France and Spain. that HrME, LaNRroS and SIB'
TsoEE began 10 battle with Lord CAsTLgREAGH
in right earnest FOR FACTS, 70 be placed before the
country. well remember that, on one occasion,
these three remarkable men kept dividing the
House Of Commons till quarter past seven IN the
morning when CAsTLEREAGH gave way the IN
formation called for was ordered. and rarely has
any inquiry into pubic expenditures been withheld
since however minute.
II appears to me that America has either 70 take
warning By the present wretched condition OF the
mass OF the British people, occasioned IN great
degree by an extravagant expenditure, rarely
checked IN any way by the legislature until within
the last 30 years or she has II the MON keep to-
Cether as trust It ever will 10 subject many mil
lions Of her people 10 the fearful prvatons which ing
hshmen. lrlshmen. Scotchmen and Frenchmen have
| long endured
No one who has attempted TO look carefully into
the OF tAe Federal Government with its col
ectors and receivers It's CAVE JoHNsoNs Let 10 5th
suditors and perhaps score more) but must have
seen that there is clear detailed system Of national
accounts Ike that OF France IS exhibited to the British
Parliamentary Or BovnSG Instead thereof the account
are presented to special committees named BY party
speakers who seldom give them efficient examination,
/ and the public DO not ser them q, GA
Masses OF figures are II is true, printed by order
OF Congress but ike mems speeches, they are dis
played more with view 10 the concsamen OF corrup-
ton than the information Of the peope-aud such
they are where can al the puonc documents OF the sst
financial year be obtained IN Albany Certainly not at
the Young Mems Associstonprobsbly no, even on the
tables of the Legislative Library.
, The financial machinery OF the Government at
Washington is far complicated than that al Alba.
ny-snd to simplify that OF the latter much posi-
bic the Convention last year, provided for the most
strict accountability, which. regret to say, Mr. FLAGG
and Col YoUNS endesyoring 10 persuade the first
| Legislature under the new Constitution 10 nuliiy.
The Assembly, 10 provide tor the early and pune
tua payment by the public, OF all who perform public
service passed bin sppropnatng sl5OOC0, and stating
who should be paid therefrom and 10 whose certificates
the Controller should make certain payments. Whether
that bill constitutions need not inquire. It
has been set aside Col YorSG in Senate, on the die
the Exchequer introduced new bill, with title
and passed the Senate and came down to the Assem-
bly, this forenoon.
Mr. WALSH declared that be was accustomed TO
get weekly not monthly wages, and that he would re-
sign be did not get his pay By the end OF next week
through the passage OF that BILL He also sent to the
chair, what follows;
Uhersa'. Member. of this House and it is presumed,
members OF ths Senate, without the means in
quence of the delay in the passage OF the supply Bill Of
ssa whereas o. Ssyng sps osr small
Rs,oired IN the senate eoneaa,s Th. he ,v Uoo.s.
annually ssree thai no member OF ehese brS o, is
Legislature will hereafter change his linen the "a.
roT until The APpsoP.ia9 IN BIZ now before The SENATE
| nv expenses Of living. without credit
! The Speaker having put the question that the
House do now concur in the Senates bill Mr. PERKINS
objected as there were things in il which be knew
thing about Mr.. FENNo had heard that this bill had
come from the hands OF high funcuonary. who beiey
ing the two Houses 10 be incapable OF framing and pass
ing suitable bill had given them bis aid. He was OPP
posed to ts passage without reference TO the appro
PIRATE committees.
| mfr. FLANDERS spoke next He helped to frame
the Constitution snd appeared to be very unwilling n
begin the legislation OF lsi7 by tsepen yiostion.l
Mr. FLANDERs said that il appeared to him that
there were in that bill YouNG and FLAGGsl appropris
tons which stated, clear violation OF section
g article T. Of the Constitution OF 1876 which he read
! a. follows
| NO monies shall ever be paid out of the Treasury
Of this State any Of lie funds or any OF the funds
under its management except 10 pursuance of an ap-
/
new appropriation or continuing or reyiyng an sPpro'
pristion, - shall distinctly specify THE SUM AP-
PRoPRIATED. AND THE OBJECT TO WHICH 1T - TO
BE APPLIED and il shall not be sufficient for such law
to refer to any other to fix such sum
In LIST OF the Senates bill, (said he there Is an
appropriation which reads thus
For pay and mileage OF members oil the senate ana
Assembly at the rates xed in the 9Th section OF the 81
Article of the Constitution for the salaries OF the
clerks Of the Senate and Assembly and for the com
pensaton of the officers and messengers OF the two
Houses 20 NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS
Did this section state the specific sums to be
paid TO the messengers to the officers, OF either
house or both Did il distinctly specify The sum sp
prsted" to each object namely legislators clerks OF
Senate and Assembly messengers and officers OF the
senate and the ike OF the Assembly ON the contrary
was no, the appropriation attempted to be made, with
on, fixing any specific rates Of wages 10 some OF these
without stating the number OF persons, or the salary
and all in one sum- and that man could tell the
true intent of the legislature Inc Conuohers uir
erection was TO be made the law
| give the driH OF his Argument not the exact
words and his motion 10 refer to the Ways and Means
Committee, (WRIGHT, T. SMITH, PERKINS Ac) iortuh
stey prevailed.
Let the reader compare Col YoUsG as Score
tary Of state endesvorng 10 gain high character Tor
honesty and fahiulness by refusing 10 distribute lew
volumes OF books because he asserted they had not
been c1HsfRKfi0adig appropriated His examples seem
20 vanish ike Aladdns magic palace when ne thinks ne
can place $4,000 in Brother FLAGGs hand. with nc
well defined number OF recipients OF the bounty ON
| GERS or $50 messengers or 5OJ-and as 70 RATES
,rkere IN he bill are tley 70 be found
When Vice President DALLAS appropriated
some $50 1000 the mileage of H. s. Senstors who had
never stirred one foot from Washington-pretsndina
that some of them had travelled 300 miles between !.
o'clock al night and noon next day be did so on the
principle OF woRK-accOuntablity which H. seemingly
soon 20 tax tea coffee everything az N Ensiaad-and
even the thousand millions OF public acres are 70 oe
mortgsged forthwith British French Dutch and Wall
81. usurers.
Are not Messrs FLAsG and YOUSG approaching
too near to this Loco-Foco example
The Presidential contest will come on and true
. Wnigs-men who desire National Debt As A dead
weight on their chdrens honest ndustry-wii treasure
I'D such facts the above and with the bosom OF re
! form - sweep the Union. The reign OF pohtica
charafsnry has been very long one, but clouds snc
darkness begin 10 rest upon IL tIHALlDES.
p S-Why are not the wages and mileage o
every Representative. and the paid every pubh
servant placed in full detail before the people, IN TN
Controllers Annual Report and that of the Canals anS
other funds Commissioners Is not lul aecOuntabil
true Wing doctrine
Indian Massacre.
,, We briefly announced several days since tina
an Indian fight had taken place near Council Bluff
! in which sixty Omahas were killed by party o
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