New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-13

necessity which dictates a clean sweep. A House
that should commence by rejoicing the old Off
GERS would wantonly envelop itself in cloud of
suspicion and odium. The people will be slow to
believe that Legislature Differed as was the
last will not be run and engineered as that was
If new leaf is really to be turned over, the organ
ization should show it. And there is very gen
eral concurrence in the fitness Of selecting Lucius
RobinsOn-the most eminent of the authorization
members of the last Assembly who are returned
to the present-as Speaker of the new HOUSE
At all events, the choice as Speaker OF one mold
ING uneouivocaly Mr.. RS position win IT,
gard 70 legislative jobbery is indispensable.
Tn the next place, we hope to see the number
and compensation of the satellites OF the Legisa'
ture reduced to the limits fixed by law. Even
then. they will be too many, and their pay quite
liberal; but the recent practice OF employing
lot more and paying them $3.50 each extra ought
now to cease forever. The aggregate cost may
not be great; but the few prizes In the Legisa-
tive lottery tempt hundreds to waste time ana
money in an eager race for them, wherein the
winners are more luckless than the losers. a
parasite of the Legislature has spoiled many
clever fellow for chopping wood or hoelng corn
for life, and doomed him to die pauper aud
sot. 1t is mercy to the recipients to make these
places as few as possible; and as to the vote to
them of $3.50 extra, we hold those who make it
liable TO an action for the recovery of the public
money thus unwarraDtably squandered.
We hope to learn that the new Legislature
will be able to declare the Canal Enlargement
defnitiyely closed, or to provide that 1t certainly
shall be before the first of June next. Let us
have one great enterprise finished, and as many
engineers and other stipendiaries discharged In
consequence as possible. Our canal income has
gone up cheeringly during the season now closing;
let us see if our canal OutgOes cannot be CORE
spondingly reduced. At all events, let us have
the Enlargement account closed at the earliest
possible day.
As TO the new enterprises in which our State
is urged to embark, we trust that the Leg
slature will ponder long and deeply before plung-
ing into them. Our Public Debt is heavy; our
annual tax-bills are unprecedentedy onerous.
They have been borne thus far under cheering
conviction that they were but temporary, and
would soon fall to something like the old stand
ards. With rigid economy, and stubborn ab-
stinence from new undertakings, they may proba.
bly, be reduced at least twenty-five per cent at this
Session. If those who press for new improve
ments will only be patient, we will cheeriully
cooperate with them ut more favorable juno
ture. We believe the Albany aud Binghamton
Railroad ought to be made we are ready to BIO
taxed to help make it, but not while our State
Tax already exceeds two mills per annum. We
believe that as high rate as the People viii
or should bear without wincing, unless to meet
some transient and pressing exigency; and we
must oppose new undertakings while the rate OF
taxation is above that mark.
AS to the GridrOn Railroads of last Winter,
we believe that the new Assembly should devise
and pass proper amendments to the several char.
tiers, such as were indicated in Gov. MOrgan's
Veto Message. If the Senate refuses to concur,
that cannot now be helped; but there will be an
election for Senators next year.
AS to the relations between our State Works
and the competing Railroads, we await the de-
velOpments and suggestions of the Governors
Message the Controllers Report, and the Re-
port of the Board of Canal Commissioners. That
our Canal revenues have largely increased, is due
in good part to the bounteous harvest and to the
virtual completion of the Erie Enlargement, but
in very considerable degree to the eminent ca
pacity and integrity of present State Officers.
We do not believe that any such improvement
would have been realized under the Canal Boards
chosen in SO OF in 81.
Finally and peremptOrily, there must be no
more Grinding Committees. There viii be acts
enough ground out through the ordinary machine
ry of legslation Grinding Committees have never
yet failed to treble the number and prOpOrtona1y
debase the quality Of our annual product of laws.
If there be more acts desirable than can be
passed i'll hundred days, let the members DEM
onstrate their patriotism by giving the State
week of their valuable time: after that, we
will try to live through to another Winter under
such laws as we may have. Grinding Commit
tees imply book Of Session Laws about the
bulk of a Bible, but with bulk ends all resem-
blance between the two volumes. We think
one the size of the New Testament would ia
tigue the Legislature less, and be far more sat
isactOry to the People.