New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-31

" ey were appointed says shall be, q" in lei OF
- al the compensation" and in violation
Of the provision that no extra compea'a,
:, ton shall be made to the officers aboVe'han9d
" on INV pretense wbetcc'"".c.-.' WEIR eacn vOsed
$500 extra without any pretense Whatever
and $500 each under the pFetense OF " extra
" clerk birs. and s25H each % for indezing the
"i,,grnals and Documents though in the same
bin the Secretary Of State gets $3I1 tor index
ing The laws aud documents, and though tue Id"
saws expressly that the clerks shall make the
index without I" any other compensation or aiio"
Z" ance than the salary. The chief clerks there
fire pct ~ $50 each for hundred days WORK,
or AZ the rate Of about s., 600 year. Then "c
find Journal clerk in the Assembly, who gets
81 eco instead of $500, and adds to that Slo0
as clerk of a committee; junior deputy clerk
and an engrossing clerk in the same House
who receive $500 and mileage each instead OF
$500. and an assistant clerk who, In consldera-
ton of his profits from the lobby mOdestly con-
tcpts himself with 5000 where the law SAID he
should have $500 And so we might go on
through the whole army of The officers ct the
two Homes, amounting TO nearly eighty 10 all
Independently Of the fremen and watchmeh,
which latter got 81 30 extra per day, aud come
nearer earning it - these who made bigger grabs.
The result of ell this may be thus briefly stated;
The Constitution, by q provision 30 clear that
even our legislators 81 last Winter did not dare
to disregard it. fixes the pay OF the members oil
the Legislature at such rates that, 10. pom
Houses, il cannot exceed $4,000. The Ia" hxes
fbe number and pay of the officers at something
loss than sIl. 900 in the aggregate. The legal
conversation of members ard officers can
not. therefore. exceed SCI, 900, and yet, by
increasing the number and compensation OF
the officers. this SUM was last year, a.
il had been in previous years, run up
considerably over 100000 - the item OF
compensation TO officers figuring for nearly
eco in this total BY means OF postage,
buying books, and furnishing each member of the
two Houses. oil the officers, and some forty re-
porters. with orders for $50 worth of stationery
each (which orders nine-tentbs Of The recipe IT
sell in the street., the annual expense OF legl1ia.
ton is increased to about $4,000, beside at
ksst $4,000 for printing
VIII not the members Of the Legislature who
assemble at Albany Tomorrow ponder upon these
facts7 We insist that tie Law Of 1888 is qnite
liberal enough in its rates Of compensation and
if there be q necessity for more officers than that
law aows-which We do not admit-let the law
be amended in the proper way, instead Of being
untitled hy n mere resolution,
To you, Republican members of the LeSisla-
ture, we have word to say IN conclusion: Last
Winter Eleazer A. Williams, Joseph Ball, c. j..
Curtis and Bradford Davis, sought and obtained
from the Republican caucus, the nomination,
which was equivalent to an election, to the Offices
of Sergeant Arms, DOorkeeper, and Assistant
Doorkeeper % the Assembly respectively. They
accepted these nominations from caucus which
had Just passed resolution declaring " that in
"acceptine these nominations they respectively
"pledgo themselves not to ask or recsire any
" extra compensation" and get in spite Of this
plcdge these men, all of them, accepted and
received Il considerable amount Of extra cOupen-
sation. Some, if not all of these men, are cau-
didates for reelection. VIII you not spare them
the temptaton Of breaking other pledges, aud
will you Lot put in their places men whose n-
,prity will resist hundred days stay at Albany
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