New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-29
The TEA RooM-DoDGING THE ITEMS.

The TEA RooM-DODGING THE ITEMS.
In pursuance of our intention to furnish the people
with the earliest information in regard to the expend
ture of City money, have called perhaps dozen
times during the month at the Controllers office, to get
copy Of the bill of the keeper of the City Hail. for
March. 1t was invariably not in and we began to
wonder what extreme modesty had so long kept it back
Yesterday we found the expected document; it had
come at last had been filed, endorsed " S603 So"
and was In due course of payment On opening the
precious document, to examine the details OF the in
crease of Sl32 % the preceding month"; what
our surprise TO find not an "iem' stated The affair
was smply-the City debtor Keeper of City Hail. for
beef veal oysters, bread vinegar milk" cigars help
&c, sos So To this appended the usual oath Of
the keeper, and under the resolution of the Common
Council il must be paid matter how large-if
$4,000 i, would be all the same far the Controller
is concerned he is directed to pay all bills of refresh
ments for the Common Council whenever the same
shall be certified oath by the keeper of the City
Hall. We have no doubt that the people viii
fully appreciate the modesty which prompts
the Common Council to refuse the items Of
the tea room as well the remarkable confidence IN
the rghtfuncss of feeding at the public expense which
such withholding indicates. If anybody should wish to
know why the expenses have increased in March twen
ty.eght per February, the best answer they
can get from any official record in existence is-Marchis
the longest month. They may possibly arrive at APP
Proclamation of the increase, by adding twenty eight
per cent to each item of the February bills published
in The Tribune of the 10Th Of March Let us Feb
rusry 1900 cigars add % per cent makes 100 cigars
for March February, "milk 800 quarts add e per
cent makes AGO quarts of "mlk " for March that is
three pnts Of milk for each Alderman and each As
sistant at each meal OF course there is punch ;"
with all this milk biz of il. Really, then is there
not signal evidence Of uneasy conseiences and guilty
feeling In this refusal of the Aldermen have their
penses known to the peope' That no honest man
refuses TO present the items of his bill in detail is
knowledged What is the inference, when man refuses
to show the materials which make up bill of six
hundred dollars, The Locofcco Reform and Retrench.
ment Aldermen in this latter positon--a position
where they viii at least bear watching.
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NEW DIRK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
"A special meeting ei this Society held on Tuesday
afternoon in the Stuyvesant Institute which all the
members of the Society recently formed elected
! into the old association. In the evening meeting
of the united Societies took place in the same
room The surviving officers of the old Society re-
signed and the following gentlemen elected under
the charter Of the Society President Shepherd Knapp;
Vice Presidents VIM c. H. woddell, N. X. Anthony, r
| r. Minturn, w. @ Hunt, VIM A. Baines; Treasurer,
John erosion; Corresponding Secretary, Peter B.
Mead; Recording Secretary, Geo. Wm Curtis; Libra
rian James Hogg. Committee OF i've was appointed