New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-30
WHO pLUNDEH THE CITY.

We have tiled nara 10 snAule Inc I1PfeSo iuSo
telling the truth with regard to the States lease of
the West Washington Market property, but must
give up in despair. II parsdes lis. OF the present
Commissioners of the Land Office Give of ths seven
Repubiicans) who have renewed Or continued the
lease but cannot be made to give any such stof the
mainly Democratic Commissioners who originally
leased the property. Let us make mere list of
its article on the subject:
]. THE TRIBUNE is accused Of " favoring the
"construction of the infamous Gridron Railroads."
and "givirg its support to the grantees of those
Infamous sgindies" Our readers viii need no
comment on this.
2. The Express says that the lessees of the West
Warrington Market are to pay 5000 to the s ate
for property worth $4,000 per annum-iguoring
the fact that they take only the States interest or
tile, which they have to defend against the CITY
and 10 give up whenever the State snall have sold
OF Disposed Of it. If they are defeated in their
cla m Of back rents-as we trust they may ard be-
Ieve that they ought to be-we are confident they
will nlshe nothing by their speculation. Aud that
clam for back rents could never have been set up
had not Mayor Temann claimed the property as
belonging to the City and made desperate legal
fight for It.
.. Yet TIE Elpress says Il sec. of the late
W,,t Washington Market sct:
"7be rsh ofthis section IA To through the influence aud
s,i'n .he city hs. ud,T, Mt. n.. It sten by aoat to
WhO has allowed judgments against the City to be
token BY default for this abomlnable sum We
know this assertion must be false; but suppose it
were true whose default" would it be! We have
had one Democratic Corporation Counsel after an-
Other throughout this whole business, sll Literally
paid for attending to the City's legal business and
defending her ghts; which of them has allowed
"default" to be taken for that atrocIous claim
Why not hold him up to public execraton7 Will
it be possible to charge his delinquency also to the
Republicans is II not most base in The Express
TO put the official and responsible parties in tus
matter all out of sght, and then talk of THE TRiB-
UNE as laboriDg to patate or grouse such schoLe
/" ,0le piece Of toJJey" We do not say that auy
robbery has or has not been commlted; We have
been content 20 prove that if there haa been the
spOnsible parties are Democrats.
The Express asserts that the act above referred
to requires the City Controller topsy the 100000
aforetaid. Now we have strongly condemned the
passage of that act over the Governors Veto; out
it has no such effect The E1p,ess attributes to it.
The Controller is authorized aud directed to g. com
premise, settle and pas Of the claims aforesaid Oh
"such terms as be shall deem most advantageous
{" " the city," Happily, the Controller is ROBERT
I. lIAws Republican, in whose integrity we aro
able to trust; and if the West Washington Market
eMets ever get S6OO,O or half Of it-yes, or a
quarter-out Of him for tter back.rent Judgment,
We agree that The Express may defame the Repub-
lean party TO the extent OF its abLiy-nay, Of
its malice. Bat they will do no such thing. If
final legal judgment shall award them such or any
sum, MIR. Haws will pay it: not otherwise.
8. Finally, The Express e1plodes in TRADE of
general abuse of the Republican party because this
City and its OIL vrons have to pay half The State Tax
and very large proportion Of the School Tax.
In the name OF wonder, what have the Republicans
to do with that Have they established new ratio
Of taxation favorDg the Country at the expense of
the City If not, what can TINS charge mean
Who but Republicans favored any measure last
Winter calculated to reduce the burden of State
taxation AID what support did their effort no
ceive from The Erprsssi
1.-THE above arncle-though in type early on
Friday eyenIng-was most Unexpectedly Gro wded
out Of our Saturdays paper; whereupon The tn
press dilates as follows:
"TaIBUsH 10 dumb to-day over West Washiu ston Mar
ket LnsysTy. AAer denouncing }. H. B, Thunday
Idds,, for leIns and hlchoOd, h. o. thus lanB
ON Saturday"
We'll, now, Messrs. James aud Erastus
Brooks just answer this plain question. Was it
not lasehood that the States lease Of the West