New-York tribune., 1868-05-06
THAT ROBBERY AGAIN.

raised "sx thousand one hundred and ninety
"six dollars, for contingent expenses of the
Commission, and ten thousand dollars for an
"nual compensation of the commissioners,
"hereby fxed.r Here is a nice job for some
body-a commission without duties, but with
salaries; only q bit of Democratic economy
you know.
Among the contingencies is ten thousand dol
lars for the Unsafe Buildings Department
For WHAT To pile up Democratic votes next
November, of course.
Thirty thousand dollars for tinkering Hamil-
ton-square will pay for a thousand votes in
that neghborhOod, and leave something for
fixing the ground.
Fifteen thousand dollars spent on Mount
Morris will make q magnificent site for
lager-beer garden, and rope in the Dutchmen
It is about all the place is fit for
One million of dollars is proposed for the
new Boulevard, where gentlemen (when it is
done) may exhibit their fast horses, and in the
mean time thirty-iye hundred dollars are
grudgingly given for drinking hydrants for the
poor devils who have only fast legs to carry
them to dngy tenement lodgings.
Fernando Woods back rent is carefully pro-
Vlueu Tor, WHICH Is BoOu lHiuR lOi lHC
whatever 1t may be for the city.
All contract, or lowest bidder business in
street work is done away with, and the Street
Commissioner is lord paramount, giving jobs to
whOmsoevcr he pleases, with no one to say MIN
nav The Tammany crowd should put this
item down as good for at least 5000 votes.
The now oyer-crowded Controllers Office is
TO be made an asylum for dccayed and live
party hacks in q provision which says the
Controller shall have authority, from time to
" time, 20 appoint and fix the compensation OF
" so many clerks and employees as he may
" deem essential to the effective discharge of
"any duties Of the Department of Finance"
How many men, do you think, the Controller
would deem essential in his Department Ill the
event of close contest for Congressman or
Governorf
Each of the Police Justices is presented with
5000 for holding Sunday Courts. The poor
fellows don't get more than hundred and fifty
dollars week for two hours work per day.
viii somebody send round the hat and gather
contributions for these half-staryed, over
worked public servantsi
Some one has a contract for taking care of
the buried Union soldiers, and fifty thousand
dollars for fencing and taking care of the
graves in two cemeteries must be greatly
needed, for surely no Democratic Assembly
would seek to put q job upon such basis
they would no sooner do 1t than hire men to
vote on dead mems naturalization papers.
The wharves aud battery appropriations are
good for about five thousand votes, il shrewdly
managed. The raw material at Castle Garden
can easily be made into legitimate voting power;
if our Democratic managers do not know how
to do it, let them send for VIM. a. Wallace of
Pennsylyapia--he knows & thing 81 tw5.' =
Sixty thousand dollars expended in the v6fy
heart of Mackerelvile for paving Tompkins-
square must bring six thonsahd extra votes, at
the least estimate There is a rare Geld in that
section (where Col O'Brien was mashed to
death In July, 1869, and it viii be hard if the
managers cannot improve upon the vote that |
gave the proportion Of % per cent for Fernando
Wood. ~ -.--- - 70. -
What the Board of Audit has done or neg.
lected to require its suppression, we do not |
know; evidently somebody's little. bill has not |
gone smoothly through, or the section ciphering
the Board out on the 1st of July would not have
been passed.
The building Of bulkhead on the famous
Lowber market property is to cost $4,000
That will fix things all right in the powerful
Eighteenth Ward-especially il the Assembly
man from that district is properly attended to.
What cannot be done with the power of the
Of million OF dollars for the
widening of Church-st., Broadway above Sew
Sixth-ave., above the Park, and the
making Of the grand Boulevard, no man can
tell. Those who pay the bill hereafter will be
the best judges.
Turning the fees for the liquor licenses d.
rectly into the City Treasury, and paying an
extra salary to the Treasurer of the Excise
Board to do the work, is another novelty which
must prove its right to praise by future results
The only clear point about it.is-the Controller is
to fix the salary; any fool can see through
that. I.L.5L
Giving the Controller autocratic power over
the disbursement Of school moneys is another I
cap forward Suppose his cashiership should /
,hoose to select all the teachers, or all {
he schools, and demand their install
atiOni IL the Board refuse, down
,omes the Controllers fist and not q dollar /
hall they get until they submit. Is it not '
ather steep to put the whole system OF educa- /
ion into the hands of the Controller-or any {
,ther officeri But this is q sprout from the
School Tax-bill, which, fortunately, :
ud not pass. ...r..s "A. re.r - r. q