New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-02-01

1.-The following letter has been offered TO the Courier
and Enquirer but the Editors of that Journal decline
publishing it-Ed Trb
WASHINGTON, Jan % ls49
To Mt Editors Of the Courier and Enqwsr0
SHOULD not have troubled you at all on this sub
jsc.. of Mileage had not your previous remarks
.ssmed to indicate a misapprehens OF the
grounds ON which the present mode OF computing
MILEAGE il resisted. Your comments on my note
eviuce reading still imperfect Of the arguments
Of Judge EMBsEE and others for straight Mileage
Now. while | am quite willing that our views
should remain unstated in your columns, cannot
20 readily acquesce in their being n,sstated. And
protest emphaticsly against any view OF this
matter which shall make the end OF the movement
q mere saving of dollars and cents ! MAINTAIN
that It concerns the character OF Congress for i'm
partial justice and manly dealing.
We object to the present mode OF computing
the Mileage OF Congress-frst, as unique and ex-
traordinsry No other functionsry but Congress
man 10 permitted to charge or receive In this way.
The Army officers travel the same routes at ten
cents a mile that Congressman receive forty for
but the Captain is paid for l,l72 miles In coming
hither on duty from New Orleans, while the Con-
gresham 10 paid for 1857 This 10 by no means
sn extreme case-fsr from it Surely the
quadrupe Mileage is sufficient discrimination
without doubling the distance. The Member and
the Captain travel precisely the same route, by
the same modes OF conveyance, and pay the same
fare. There is no good reason to my mind why
the distance should be reckoned twice as far for
the one as the other.
2. We object to the usually travelled routes
THE law says roads las al intangible and most
huetssting standard-hke bounding farm by a
rainbow. Two Members came hither from adioin-
ing Districts in Ohio the one who lives farther
from Washington receives 1915 30 per session
for Mileage the one who lives nearer receives
&T0e. And there several such cases. have
my eve ON a Loco-Foco who ran cut sterling
Wing Member ON question OF public expendi-
ture-he charging the Wing thprodigal iinot pro
figate votes of public money some small matter
The Wing received se92 so per session for Mile
ago his Loco Foco successor receives 81 ,ii4 q
per session--increase s45a. And the thing grow.
worse aud worse every year. member whose
predecessor receives Long Mileage makes ne
charge at all-if he says anything in reply 10 tn,
Committees formal inquiry, he refers them 10 the
books and tells them that he lives So many miei
farther or nearer than his predecessor did. AnC
the loagest charge in any region soon becomes
standard for others. For instance, Judge Thomp
son Of Erie, Pa. charges around by Buffalo. Al
bany, &c.-7se miles; Mr.. Farrelly, who lives fort,
miles this way from Erie, received Mileage las
year but for 40 miles-diierence $50 miles in
Stead Of 40. hear that the Committee on Mile
Sse have before them proposition to compu,
Nr.F.smieage also by way of Buffalo, Albany, SC
increasing his distance 800 miles Gov. Gayle G
Ala notified the House that he should claim NOR
Mileage than he had last year. So it goes.
AZ to nearest Post Route or airline, | am quit
h,difierent-their discrepancy is not material.
think voted for the airline in Committee, but tn
nearest post-route is almost airline, and Their
can be no dispute about the distance by that line
The Photographer Of the p. o. Department Wi
promptly give YOU the distance home to eac
Members Post Once to a mile. 1t is beside th
route ON which the travel OF other public servant
IL computed. and it seems better to conform to a
established sta ndard if about night than to set u
m entirely new one.
You ask why 1 did not introduce special bi
on this subject | answer because 1t wY gener
ally said" There 10 no use in acting on this sui
tsct-she Senate will never concur in any redu'
tion.' chose therefore to attempt fixing the n
form on a bill which the Senate mast pass
Very respectfully HORACE GREELEY.