New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-12

Congress 10 mike new disposition Of the pubic u,s
Ing by she election Of person a. public printer undo
scale Of p'ices 20 be 6xed By Law the present Goa
tractor Il willing for the purpose OF hsrmonizing ~
the elemens to surrender the present contrast n
ment 10 made for work already done and that nece.sy
TO be done, before another person can DO csosen "a
execute H. al the agreed 10 be oad 20 IL
person chosen 10 oil the psce OF the contractor tn.
Is not 10 be considered q surrender Of the con,ract or
10 be construed into unwineness on the part OF sAs
contractor to execute what be has undertaken 10 do
Comments.
Here is magnificent game of two
pluck one projected, which the People
ought to understand, since they are the
predestined victim. These are the essen.
tial facts:
/. A law of the land expressly pre-
scribes that the Public Printing, including
that of both Houses of Congress, shall BE-
advertised and given ont by contracts to
the lowest responsible bidders.
2. In compliance with the requirements
of this law, the Printing of this Congress
was advertised at the close of the last.
and Mr.. A. Boyd Hamilton, being the
lowest bidder, was awarded all, or nearly
all, of it. He is now doing the work,
rather slowly, and not very well, but new
ertheless doirg it.
8. But this Congress is Democtatic; so
is Mr.. Boyd Hamilton; and the Demo-
cracy' have an organ at Washington which
is very needy or very greedy. The organ
must have pap, and Uncle Sam must sup
plyit.
d. Mr.. Boyd Hamiltons contract is to
be broken, on the pretext that he is doing
his work slowly or badly, and the law Civ
ing the Printing to the lowest bidder is to
be repealed, so that the Printing may be
given to the horse ,leech organ at fair re-
muneratirc prices To all which Mr..
Boyd Hamilton consents on condition that
he be paid for the 5000, 900 worth or so of
work already done by him sat the same
rates agreed to be paid to The person chosen
to fill the place Of the contractor" That's
to say, if they will give him Half Million
Dollars bonus out of the Treasury, they
may break his contract, on the ground Of
inadequate performance, so as to put Half
a Million more into the pockets of the par
tvs organists And when they shall have
got this plumber fairly bagged among them,
you will see their journals and stumpers as
sailing The Wig administration for the
extravaganza and recklessness of the An
nual Expenditures
The Democracy have strong ma
joriiy in each House, and can play this
game out if they have the nerve. We can
do nothing beyond letting the public see
into it. But if the managers, finding them
selves unable to unite enough Democratic
votes in its favor, shall see fit to offer
part of the plumber to one of the ever
grasping Wig publishing concerns in
Washington, in consideration of so many
Wing votes contributed to break up the
system now by law established, then we
have something to say and shall say it.
Whatever Wing shall vote for this corrupt,
flagitious robbery oft he Treasury we de-
nounce as unworthy of confidence and a
traitor to his trust. Nay, more we shall
ask him to purge himself from the strong
and natural suspicion that he has direct
pecuniary interest in this virtual stealing
of Half a Million Dollars from the Treas
ury. There is not man in Congress who
will vote for the proposed change for no
other reasons than those avowed, and
whoever supports it on other grounds shall
at least be summoned to state them. This
heavy drain upon the Treasury, though
made in silence and darkness, shall be pro-
claimed throughout the Country. Let the
plunderers beware!