New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-18

MT ho maid far, Tba To-
balilcd this, by providing that the journals shall
have twelve hours wherein to put in type this
mass of matter, or they shall not be required to
issue it the next morning after its connection.
We know not how or with whom this provision
originated, but it is clearly, palpably just. Yet
the Report assas it, as though it were mon
strous act of legislative favoritism, asserts that
it authorizes the newspapers to publish at their
leisure. even two months after the proceedings
are furnished them, and virtuously asks
"Wond these gentlemen refuse to insert in their
| ,ow.nonors a GOOD paving advertisement for pri
vate individual if the copy not furnished tneNi
twelve hours in advance OF the hour OF pubcationf
We are very happy in the opportunity afforded
us to answer this question. Everybody else
knows. if these gentlemen do not, that adyer.
tisementS are constantly refused or deferred by
all our leading journals because received too
late for prompt inSertion-that each journal Is
constantly warning the public that advertise
ments must be handed in at reasonable hour
or they cannot appear next morning. we
will add that, if an advertisement of any kind oil
equal length with an average days proceedings
of the Common Council were handed in at our
desk at the hour at which we usually receive
those proceedings, we should be obliged, nine
times in ten, to defer it a day, no matter how
amply it should be paid for.
We take leave, for the present, of our City
Fathers, with an earnest assurance that the
stealing majority of either Board includes some
smarter scoundrels than we had previously sup
posed; and we offer this Report in evidence that
this is so. 1t explains the support given to the
reelection of its Chairman, Mr. Lewis K. Ryers,
by the Republican corruptionists of his district.
We always suspected those gentlemen OF being
wise in their generation, and now we are sure OF
it. Witness the following extracts from Mon
days doings. And first from the Report afore-
said:
"The Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty Of the City
of New York do Ordain rs follows;
Strike out the following words and figures I'M
der the head of City Contingencies viz sixty thou
sand dollars $4,000. and insert IN lieu thereof the
following to wit: seventy five thousand dollars s'5OOO)
Thbfy:fre thousand doiiarf (,3j0W Of Thioh Is Jornt
payment Of the expenses incurred in TIC ob'equies Of ne
late President, Abraham Lincoln.
IF "the Ring" takes less than half that
$50, 600, it is abominably cheated.
But the $685. 900 is only an installment. Look
here:
In the Board of Aldermen; by Aid. Flynn:
"Resolrod That the Comptroller be and be IL hereby
authorized and directed 10 draw bis warrant in favor
of Owen Kaeauaeh (Sccreiary TO the Special Com.
miitee attend the funeral 81 onr late President nj
Washngton) for the sum Of six hundred and seventy
four dollars for IPeHses iHeEsd incidental 10 e action
Of said Committee"
Nor is this all. In an earlier portion of the
same proceedings. we find that Aid. Masterson
moved that twenty-five thousand copies
of the fun and detailed report OF tLs Committee hay
ing in charge the obscquie 81 late lamcnted Prcs
dcnt Of the United States, Abraham Line in. ruth JsH
descriptions Of erery matter Of Eere "a connection rrs
ruth be PRINTED and bound in neat and appropriate form
for the Of the City Government and for placing Ia
the public hbrariesi
which was carried Of course, and will take not
less than $4,000 out of tho City Treasury and
put at least half Of it into the treasury of the
Ring" while not hundred copies Of the entire
IS, 900 will ever be glanced over by mortal eyes.
After this, it were needless to reproduce the
resolves raising the salaries Of three General
Foremen of Roads and Avenues" " the Street
Inspectors of the several Wards the Second
Assistant Clerk in the Department of Finance,
&c, &c. While the premium on Gold kept
going up, salaries were raised because every
thing needed grew steadily dcarer; now that
the premium has fallen four-fifths, aud every
thing else is falling with it or after it, the work
Of raising salaries goes on as bravely as ever.
This single sitting of the Boards took not
less than Quarter Of a Million Dollars need
lessly, wantonly, wickedly, out Of the pockets OF
our tax payers TO put most of it into the pool of
1.-The Ring" and next Monday the work will
doubtless be resumed with equal ayidity and
audacity.
GLOW long, o Lord how longl"