New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-02
TIE STATE PRINTING.

A bill has been introduced into the Senate of this
State 10 designate State Printer 1t OF course de-
signed to supersede the existing statute which gives
the publication of the session laws and certain other
legal matters to the paper that will do the work
cheapest, and under which two Albany journals res
peefiyely now claim to be official There has been
O. vast amount of trouble among the Albany printers
on the subject of the State Printing; we believe the
publishers of at least two Of the leading papers have
offered to do tie State advertising without charge;
one of them if mistake not was so ANXIOUS LOT .ne
lob ss to propose to pay something Tor the PRIV
lege of doing it, Now why not allow them all 10 DO
the State advertising at least II they are ui'Poscu
to do il at their own expense we "ouu
not pay any for dong cue BUSINESS
for the simple reason that 1t IS ieOrth not"s Ample
n,ovision has been made for the publication OF the
Seson Laws in the various Counties OF the state IL
this is not So the act which provides for the printing
of the laws in the local papers detective and shoud
he amended And as to the advertising OF legal no
tces which the law requires to be done in the State
nsner II is kind of business from which the public
derive little or no benefit whatever. Who ever ex-
amnes the advertisements in the State paper OF
what use are they Why is the Surrogate required to
send certain notices to Albany for publication Why
not send them to Syracuse So far as the utility Of
the thing is concerned he might well send them to
Nova Scotia The entire system is simply job. 1t
rot up to help the organ of the socaed Democratic
party when it was weak and required nursing twas
established to aid Edwin CrOswe and his predecessors
1t was never required by any public necessity And
row We say, let it be altogether abolished The State
of New York requires no State paper. Few OF the
States have one; some Of them would not tolerate one
Ofcourse We are opposed to the passage of the bill
before the Senate We are against organs of all
sorts-certanly all newspaper organs They are
nseIess affairs and moreover sometimes unpleasant
customers as our Democratic friends can attest No
man. no concern should annually be paid $1,000 nor
any other sum- for publishing that which is to benefit
no one Let the office of State Printer, therefore, be
abolished or rather let every printer in the State be
publi printer if he chooses, provided he sees ut ID
work without making charge against the State for his
labor
As to Public Printing properly called-that is the
printing OF bills Journals and documents for the Legs
lature and of blanks and reports for the Executive de-
partments-we trust nothing will be done in contra
yenton of the fur and honest system now law estab
sEed which gives this work to that capable and respon
slble bidder VINO VIII unutfluke 10 40 III cntapcst
There is said to be hOcus pOcus about the giving
out of this work at present which enables some of the
knowing ones to make good thing of it but we do
not know this and at the worst the work must be
done much cheaper under the system of open and pub
tic competition than under any other There is not
reason for giving this job TO ayorte at an arbitrary
price. which is not as good for giving canal
contracts in the same fashion The State has just out
crown fayoIitism in Canal lettings and in JOB Print
ing and we trust it will take no backward steps The
laws regulating beth are nearly right as they stand,
and with an amendment based on the recent recon-
mendation of the Canal Commissioners, guarding
against Peter Funk bids, will quite SO. Let US have
them sustained, improved and executed
Tie EreniHg Journal very properly and manfully dis
claims any desire to have gsinfu monopoly of State
Prir ting and Advertising created in its behalf This is
no more than the charscterof its Editors led 70 ex
pect And it is no more magnanmous than wise
They can make some money by having printing mo
nopoIy created in their favor, but they would weaken
the great influence Of their journal and in the end
probably lose as much they would gain by it, fla
mistake i, made on this point, we are sure it will not
be on their solicitation, and hope will not be at
all. Better leave the organ business to concerns
Ike The Union, which would be nothing and nowhere
without it.