New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-05

PLAIN FACTS.
Our Democratic State Officers, chosen two years
sgo through Republican apathy, are now stumPing
the State. trying 70 a reelection by raising
clamor against Canal Debt. State Expenditure, and
increased Taxation, and charging these on the Re-
publcans. We join them in deprecating the exces-
sye cost Of the Canal Enlargement, the magnitude
Of our State Debt and Annual Expenditures and the
heayiness Of our Tax-Bll-; but We protest against
their dishonest cry of "Stop Theft They have
had the State Finances and Canals substantially in
their hands for the last two year, the Americans
had for the two preceding, and they have done
nothing to diminish the public burdens, but much
to increase them. With what face, then, do they
raise clsmor against the Republicans a. rezponsi-
Die for these heavy burdens
Two years ago, We gave transcript Of Mr..
Church. accounts as Lieu.enant-Goyer show
ing that hi. charges for travelling back and forth
from Albion to Albany were most inordinate-that
his Journeys were needes,ly frequent-and that IN
one ease he had made the State pay him twice over
for the same journey. We believe that no similar
charges we're ever made by any Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor but Church. We have dared his organ TO
match these charges by any other ever made, and It
has not yentured to accept the challenge. But the
the People saw fit. through sheer negligence, to let
Mr.. Church slip into the Controller=hP, and he has
since drafted and lobbied through the Legislature
bill enabling him and two associates to pay Oh
debt Of over So, COO which was borrowed OF the
Treasury in good money by the Bank of Orleans
they becoming sureties-by turning out old Canal
claims which the makers Of said claims dare not
present to the Appraisers appointed and paid BY
the State for this very work. The ia perfectly
transparent: Church & Co. mean to pay their
honest debt to the State with cats and dogs-he
using his official position and influence to get the
bill through the Legislature-and then clamoring at
the leaks in the Treasury and the increased burdens
of taxation How can these be- avoided If those
elected and paid to guard the taxpayers interests
conspire to despoil them'
Mr.. S. B. Gushing, the late Know-Nothing Attor-
ney-General, and Mr.. Lyman Tremain, his Demo
cratic successor, are both stumping the State for
Church, Tremain & Co.. making the air ring with
their denunciations Of Republican prodigality. Yet
Mr. Gushing when in Office established. and MIR.
Tremain has followed, the precedent Of charging
for extra services" when called 10 perform their
official duty in the prosecution of criminals though
this is expressly forbidden by New Constitution
The Argus, which was only abusive and scurrilOus
when replying to our exposure OF Church, turns
upon us with reference to Tremain and exutngly
asks, "Why didn't Gov. Morgan stop the payment
"of his bills for extra services, if they ought not to
"be. paid!" The answer to this is very simple
He DID Gov. Morgan, finding these bills of Ire
main rolling in pretty heavily, wrote to several lead
ing counselors of State for advice to his duty
in the premises, and they told him to shut down on
Treman, which he did, in an official letter to the
latter, stating courteously but firmly that he could
not approve and pass his charges. SO no more OF
them will 90 through. But is mt this brace of
Attorney Generals a pretty pair to be perambuat-
ing our State and calling on the People TO retain
one of them in power to rebuke and arrest . Re
publican plumber J"
One more fact, and We close:
A reasonable sum-we think it is 81 ,000-is an
nually appropriated by the Legislature for the pre-
servation and repair of the capitol and other State
Buildings at Albany. Church, Tremain & Co., as
State Officers, have charge of those buildings and
control the expenditure of this fund. When the
late Legislature came to act upon this matter, It
appeared that some $4,000 had been expended
under this head over and above the las! preceding
appropriation. Mr. Conkling, as Chairman OF the
Ways and Means, resisted the payment of this
heavy sum, so spent in ostentatious disregard OF
law, and offered to prove that part of it had been
spent for liquors, drank by the State Officers and
their tools. The Committee ought TO have backed
Mr. Conklng and stopped the payment Of this
heavy sum- but then the expenditure had been
made, the vouchers for il were at hand, the
faith of the State was held to be implicated, and
the item went through And We shall be not al all
surprised 10 see another such bill pushed upon our
next Legislature as fruit of this mistaken COM
plasance. But So will BE- the last for some years.
ROBERT DENNIsToN will be Controller for the
next two years, and if any such suger-hoes are
bored into the Treasury while he watches If, we
shall be grieyously mistaken.
SUAVERV IN THE TERRITORIRa.