New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-07

To HORACE GREELEY, Eso-In The TRIBUNE Of this
ins after stating that the last session of the Leure
money demanded for the expenditures Of the State
Hall, you say
"Mr Conins Chairman of the Ways Mesas resisted
the payment of this heavy spent in ostentsious dsre
for liquors drunk by the State Officers and their tools"
Being State officers" and member of the Board
Of Trustees State Han pronounce this assertion whether
made by Mr. f. A. Cozting not-and do believe
wasutterly unfounded caunous and And add that,
he or You tin such personal shape vii enable
to viii give yo, either Of you, opportunity Of
proving or reraciingf' GIDEON TUChhh
Remarks.
Having brought Mr. Secretary Tucker to
book, we beg every reader to note carefully what
be denies, and what he virtually confesses.
He SAYS that " at the last Session of the Legisa-
a. ure, an amount ss money was demanded for the
expenditures Of the State Hail." No, ir! that is
not aucid nor an accurate statement ofthe matter.
An amount (S4 O00) had been appropriated for the
service Of 1858 by the Legislature of that year
an amount which You and your Democratic asso-
eiates, forming majority of the Board, had ex-
pended. and S., 998 in addition-of course, every
farthng of this So, 9e6, without authority or war
rant of law. This cum you called upon the late
Legislature to appropriate not Z" for the expendl-
"tures of the State Hall'-you had another item
for the current yearbut to pay of this dead horse.
Mr.. Conkng, as Chairman of Ways and Means for
the Assembly, demanded satisfactory vouchers for
this large Indebtedness and failed to obtain them;
whereupon he 0biseted to passing the item, and
declared in full Committee-your political friends
being fully represented there-that, if opportunity
were offered him, he would prove that part of
this SIS, 99S had been paid, or was required to
be paid, for liquor drank in that same State Hall,
(yhere Tucker, Church, Vanderpoel 81 Co. have
their Offices and which they control as State Com
missioners), either by those State Officers or their
subordinates, or both together. But the Session
was now in its last hours, the members of the
Legislature anxious to get away home. and no op-
portunity was gwen SO the item went through in
the following shape:
"For deficiency In the annual appropriation r the
o. se VIZ To pay expenses orsady ncsrred
thousand pine hundred and ninety eight dollars 70 ex
which De incurred during the next fiscal year. three
thousand doars'
Mr.. Tucker volunteers the not very civil assert
lion that he does not believe Mr.. Conkling ever
made the charge above cited-namely, that par
of this heavy arrearage was for liquor drank in the
State Hail. AS we happen to knop that he did
make it, Mr. fuckers belief in the premises is of
little consequence Next, Mr.. Tucker wants the
charge put sin personal shape" If he will ap-
DIV to Mr.. Conkling, we feel sure that he will be
promptly accommodated. We shall not extend our
assertion beyond our personal knowledge; but we
feel sure that Mr. CORking did not make the charge
without fully believing it to be true, and without
having at least plausible reason for that conviction
Al l;o ~ o,fyar ia aft
TO be distracted from the real matter in dispute.
| We do not know that the State Officers drank, or
| suffered their subordinates to drink, the money
which the last Legislature was called to provide;
but we do know that the Democratic State Ofiicers
| in 1858 spent in or upon their Hall S5,995 beyond
the amount which they were authorized to spend,
and that the last Republican Legislature was re-
CURED to add this amount to the heavy tax-Dlll'
under which the People Of our State now groan-
| ing. We know, too that the brace Of Attorney,
| Generals-the ex-Know- Nothing and the Demo-
| cratic incumbent--are both stumping our State,
bowling against Black Republican prodigality and
| plunder when the former originated and the latter
continued the practice of charging the State an ex-
ira fee whenever they performed their public duty
|
expressly says the Attorney-General shall have no
compensation beyond bis official salary. Gov.
King was too easy and amisble to stop this game;
bat Gov. Morgan has interposed his veto, and the
nice Democratic game of getting money out of the
Treasury unwanantably and making political CAPT
tai therefrom against the "Blaek Republicans
has-at least in this instanee-been blocked. We
ask the People to consider the whole matter, and
choose State Officers tomorrow rho ria not kare a
partisan interest in filing their orH pockets and
those Of their eronies out Of TIC State Treasury.
Let the State Administration be wholly Republican
for once, and the Republicans viii cheerfnlly
shoulder the responsibility; but to keep the Canals
and State Offices in the hands of our adversaries
AS they have been for the last four years-and
then hold US responsible for the excessive cost and
the non-completon of the State Works and the
general extravaganza of their management, is not
| fair Isitf