The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-11

| Organization OF the Acknowledgements Tor
the Division or the Spoals.
After dead lock and adjournment occa,
stoned by the impossibility of an agreement on
the election of Speaker and others of it's officers
the Assembly are TO meet again this evening
to make further efforts at an organization OF
| the House. During the brief interval that has
elapsed since their last sitting it is probable
that some arrangement has been arrived at
The articles quoted elsewhere, from the organs
of the three political parties of which the House
is composed, all tena to show that compro.
mise of some kind was in contemplation.
Should this expectation not be realized, the
legislation Of the State will probably have to
stand still another week or two, whilst the fac
tions in the Assembly are squabbling over the
division of the spoils.
This miserable contest results from the fact
that of these three parties-Yepublican, demo-
Graf and American-the latter, being compact
body, holds the balance of power. The republic
cans are in q minority in both houses but
having, by lucky chance, secured the
organization Of the Senate, they demand
that the Americans should yield to them
| the Speaker of the Assembly and the
principal Offices under his control. without Civ
ing them in return any share in the minor
Offices or making any pledge as to the retention
| of the present Auditor by the Governor. How
ever selfish and grasping this may appear, it
/ will be admitted that it is consistent with the
course pursued by the republicans during their
ascendency in the last Legislature. Whether In
the excess Of their indignation at such unfair
| treatment the Americans will cast the weight of
| their influence on the democratic side and help
to place Nh. Avord in the Speakers chair, ii is
of course impossible to say; but the little affinity
that exists between the two parties of course
initiates against such superstition.
II is lamentable in this conflict of party in
terests to see how completely all principle is
| lost sight of. The question with all these fac
tons is not whether the State or the House will
be benefited by the election of such or such in
dividuals to the Offices in it's gift, but whether
they are to enjoy as partizans the pecuniary
benefits and patronage arising from them. In
their eagerness to secure these Offices they show
themselves regardless not only Of the policy of
oftheir own honor and position. So lost to shame
are they that they do not hesitate to proclaim
| openly, through their organs, the corrupt
motives that actuate their proceedings. AS
the profits arising out of the State printing con-
stitute the more important portion of the spois
to be secured by partizan organization of the
House, there is no difficulty in accounting for
Of nj Of fob a1au
the columns of these journals in connection
with the present contest. The Albany Journal,
the organ of the republicans the Albany Stotes-
man, the organ of the Americans, and the Alba
ny Argas, the organ of the democrats, exhibits,
| each in its way, the ferocity and truculency of
the bull dog fighting for the possession of bone.
| They do not seem to be aware that all this time
| the public.
| AS in the present peculiar state Of parties
in the Assembly it will be impossible to
effect an organization of the House without an
accommodation Of some kind, we shall no doubt
have sort of coalition arrangement, in
which the public interests will be the
last thing considered. We shall have
other, and the State printing probably parcel
led out after the fashion of that of Congress.
By all this Of course the public will be largely
the losers, for where there are so many to d-
vide additional plumber must be levied to pre-
vide handsomely for the new recipients. The
lobby WILL ca VA sdas dire, derive its usual pro-
portion of benefit from these arrangements.
Next to a clean sweep, there is nothing which
its members love 50 well as a party compro-
mise.
However amusing to some may be the spec
tacle Of such complications amongst politicians
and Office seekers, the public In general are get
ting impatient of them. They are beginning
to ask whether the machinery of government il
, intended 10 work for the profit Of individuals
or for that of the State. Judging from the
legislation Of the last dozen years, the public
offices and revenues seem to be regarded as the
patrimony of the factions by which we are ulti-
mately governed, to be used by them for their
| exclusive advantage and benefit. If this il the
theory which il to regulate in future our poll
teal relations We may regard our case as a
hopeless one. No people can resist long the
corrupting influence Of such doctrines, and
from the general Generalization TO which Il
must lead we must soon pass into decay and
| dissolution.
PRINTING FOR CosGEEss.-The official records
published in the HERALD yesterday go to show
that for the printing of the last Congress two
hundred and Gfty-six thousand dollars were
mid TO A. O. p Nicholson: two hundred and