New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-30

BAs-FlaHd1s on Cot YouHg's Modification Bill
Hahon 10 Civks, and Walke for Rgulaor-
RfsP0as.5ilay.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.
ALBANY Wednesday evening. Jan. q, l5s1.
Although the Appropriation Bill which passed
the House last Monday, was drawn up BY Colonel
YoUNc, with the assistance, as it is said, Of Mr.
FLAoG-although it received the assent Of the Sen
ate the unanimous concurrence Of the House Com
mittee Of Ways and Means was agreed to in As
sembly " to H. and has become a law-yet II
appears to me that the public should inquire
whether its adoption is not papable violation OF
one Of the best principles Of our free Constitution
wiz Of Article ~ by which it was ordained
that neither Mr.. FLAGG nor any OF his successors
should be able 10 draw one dollar out Of the State
Treasury except by authority Of SPECIFIC sppropna
ton by the Legislature in which each sum ordered 10
be applied, aud the object 10 be stated in the bill
30 loosely and carelessly have our Legislators
managed in money nstters-sO vag1e and underlined Il
their language that the learned editors Of las,
years edition of the Revised Statutes are occasionally
they say unable 70 tell whether sums on the statute
Book intended perpetual grants, or but for the
year when granted
Congress passes laws from time % time, stating
the salaries OF officers the wages Of Members Of the
Legislature clerks sc. but the United states Treasury
ont an annual bill specifying the that year to be
drawn from the Treasury Tor each specihc purpose.
II is the same in England Never since the revolution
OF lC-e has the House OF Commons granted TO the Ike
cuiiye one shilling for the pay OF the army
and navy excep, by annual specific appropriation,
and sometimes when they distrusted the in power,
the grant only made for stx months
Here. IN New y Ork State, under modern Loco
Foco rule which has been ancient JOryism srtiuy de
euised and that of the worst sort even Admiral Hoffman
was compelled TO admit ia Convention Argus Report
col 81. tftUraf ant mi
for years without the Legislature the power and the
duty TO pay ALL DEMANDS against the Treasury being
vested in the public officers and if there was no mo.
ney in the Treasury they could 90 into the market and
borrow, and borrow again 10 repay.
Now there must be annual, or biennial apprOprla
tons stating the sums applied, and how much to each
object Contracts schools, salaries contingencies eve
ryihing under that rule the design OF which Is to
bring on the statute book and before the people and un
der the eye OF the Legislature, every year more fully
than IN Congress the whole public expenditure Item by
item and thus promote economy prevent reputation
andshus the largest possible balance TO be laid
out ON Canal improvements This is no innovston-it
il a uet6rn TO Wing principles-and Messrs WoRDEN
and RICHMOND were among Its warnest advocates.
The eleven members who vOtedon Monday against
Col YoUNGs appropriation bill. were, think. Messrs
BAscOM. Boss, CoRNwELL LAWRENCE McWHoRTER
SAGE WEEpEN. and ". H. PRATT, Hhgs and Messrs
FLANDERS DEAN and HoDGsoN, Loc0s.
Mr. FLANDERS was heard. and. as 10 the other
ten their views were not given The members were
voting upon their mileage and wages and It seemed
10 be m bad taste oil MT SICkfEs 10 suggest ana
and of Mr. WALSH TO cut of de, ate. by the previous
question which was sustained. Mr. BAsCOM, who like
Mr. FLANDERS, member of the Convention OF
IL TO- anxious 10 be heard, and TO offer an amend
ment but he not allowed 10 state H.
In the Speaker have seen an earnest and HRcedsipg
desire 10 be courteous just and impartial 10 ALTAR be
1t from me- in any way 20 blame him But If there are
rules and usages which allow money bill To originate
in the senate as this bin certainly did Though il could
not have originated in the l. :. Senate)ii appropria
ions of large sums of public money can be made up
appropriations that were never even debated in
Assembly-and II when NEW bill comes down mem
Der IL 10 be cut OF from speaking his mind prevented
from stating the wishes Of his constituents on that ap
propratiOn and the usual practice in all similar deibor-
live bodies of voting the public money only in Commit
tee OF the whole after free discussion abandoned
example will be set in New York which the most
rupt rotie-borough Parliament of England has not
tured to come up Ia the last hundred years.
do not blame the members. Nearly all OF thel /
are new men--tcw Of them are lawyers; ana as me
Loco Focos abandoned supply BILL and left everything
to the MARcYs, BoUcKs WEIGHTS 1HRooPs and VAN
BuRENs who have ruled the state, the dea of annual
and specific appropri Is new to them But
this IS of the noblest features OF the new Const
ton. and should not be mUulatcd.
Mr. FLANDERS objected, that 500 coo were placed
in the Controllers hands for pay OF momberfior their
mileagcior the saares OF the Clerks OF senate ana
Assembly and for the compensation Of the officers and
messengers of both Houses that If four five specific
objects can thus be included in one sum OF sOOOJ so
can the Controllers estimate for the ordinary expenses
of Government for 1871 which Is $6i0OOO be passed IN
ONE SUM and the objects the Convention had IN view
of placing each item before the Legislature IN Young
and before the people separately ON the statute book be
nulhed and set at nought
In not n few of the cases IN the bl the salaries,
or compen sation are not yet settled by any law how
then can the Controller pay the parties II the section
IN the Constitution was not passed TO prevent approp
atoms in gross and compel the Executive to bring me
whole expenditure periodically before the Legislature
and the people it could have no object II was not
enough 10 pass law, and say that the Controller shall
draw on the Treasury for such sums may 10 him ap
10, tna IN he u
and there leave the public in utter darkness AS To WHAT
was and what not paid. Because we 90 NO, go 10
the extreme OF detail shsl there be no details a. a"
Shall the statute book be silent from year TO year
Colonel NoUNG, ever consistent IN his efforts 10
keep power far as ne can from the people ulou, III
this bin 10 prevent the Legislature OF l-io from Young
ON the clerk hire sc the public officers some eighteen
or twenty thousand dollars by vote OF two years IN
one 1 think il was Mr. VAN scHooNhoyEN tha'
checked him there and confined the appropriations "
lsi7.
There is no greater abuse in the Treasury De
partment of the United States in the Custom Houses OF
New York Baltimore, Boston Philadelphia ana Ne".Or
leans and in the Post Offices of these ctes than IN ina,
regulation which enables the Posmssters and Collectors
10 appropriate such sums as the WOODBURY., WALKER
KENDAL or CAVE JOHNSON of the day may permit to
thousand clerks the Secretary Collector Controller, or
Postmaster dividing IT, and almost always 10y iayortsn
aud for political purposes. think II was SlOuW OF
100000 cfra in the way clerk hire that suddenly
required lust before Mr. Polk elected al the New
York Custom. House) Mr.. FLAGG has annually se'bVO
TO give away his discretion beside >ioOO Ia ms de
puiy-and worse still there $500 TO BENToNs
deputy and other 81 100 year for his clerks what Is
il AsV do Are there not many useful and mertorioes
officers kept on pittsnce while iders enjoy easy sine
One thing is evident-there must be some plan
invented to spread before the people the fall details oi
the expenditure OF FIVE millions OF dollars annually taken
from them with the names OF the receivers and the
services rendered Add that S5OOOOOO to <aOOuVVo 70
the Lawyers Sherfs SC and vast sums In city county
township and United States Custom House Taxes snd II
will be found that si7 is the best possible year 10 begin
10 carry into effect the requirements o. the Constitution
OF 1870 Pennsylvania neglected every warning and
her finances become the byword of Europe. Shall
II be so with the Empire state Every true man VIII
answer " Never A"
Some may say, Congress sometimes takes Col.
YoUNGs course True and there is no check. They
pay members who do not sitend.<S day-vote Seua.
tors $50 600 for Journeys never syeed-psy millions 10
politicians tor party serycessnd give vouchers Tor
work done ROGER SHERMAN.
Temperance in New-Jersey.
Correspondence OF The Tribune.
TRENToN. Jan. p ls47.
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