The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-22

NoPOicOu, 0foBOry VIII ouu mouemHou "oAo
the demands of John the Baptist and Of jesus
Christ as presented by Mr.. Rice. To these
and to the other pulpit thoughts Of yesterday
we invite our readers attention to-day.
The Legislative Prinsins swindIe-Findfss
MolehiIl and DIissins . Meuntain.
One of our amiable contemporaries, the
racy and readable organ Of the republican
''outs," is just now waging a terrible war
against the Clerk Of the State Senate, who il
charged upon the affidavit of discharged
clerk-those discharged clerks are your most
ruthless enemies of official corruption-with
having received some three or four thousand
dollars in money and forty dollars worth OF
pinchbeck jewelry from an Albany printing
firm as sort of bonus or per centage on work
done for the State. The Clerk of the Senate
and the printer reply by counter AFFIDAVIT, in
which they deny specifically the several allie
cations, affirming that the sum paid to the
former by the latter was in consideration Of
services rendered in preparing manuscript for
publication, proof-reading and revising, and
altogether repudiatiug the pinchbeck jewelry
presentation.
1t is not worth while to inquire what
amount Of fractional hatred, malice and un-
charitableness enter into the ordinations and
recriminatons constantly going on between
the republican administration and anti
administration clques. The matter is as Inn
material 10 the independent press as it Is to
the people at large. Either faction is so lib
eral in its charges and so positive in Its proofs
of corruption and rascslity against the other
as to induce general belief that they are all
rogues together. If the Senate Clerk, Mr..
James Terwilliger, has been guilty OF any off,
cial misconduct it is proper that be should be
exposed, no matter how much the exposure
may be due to the fact that he has heretofore
held prominent position in the New York
Custom House and is friendly to President
Grant, Senator Conkling and ex-Collector
Murphy. To be sure, no improper act has
yet been proved against him, and he has borne
good reputation in the midst of much legis-
lative corruption. We only allude to the
present trumpery charges in order to show
our philosophical contemporary that in search
ing for molehill he has missed mountain.
and to call his attention to the rich develop
ments made by our Albany correspondent in
the snug little matter of the legislative print
ing swindle.
The arm of Weed, Parsons & Co. repre-.
sents the proprietorship of the Albany EDen-
ing Journal, the State organ Of the moral
and intellectual reform party. Our old friend,
Aminibad Sleek, could not have denounced
the sin and abomnation of worldly pleasures
with more pous vehemence than has moved
''the firm" in its indignation against the cor
ruptions of the Tammany officials; yet all
the time it has been doing very pretty job Of
stealing on its own account. The extent Of
its operations can be seen from the exhibit Of
one single sessions outside work in the State
Legislature-that is to say, of the printing,
the Red Book and civil list frauds, and other
Legislative printing. 1t will be seen from our
Albany correspondence that in the session of
1871, when so many wicked deeds were done
by the democratic majority at Albany, the
sanity State organists of the reformers man
aged to get into the Supply BILL under their
own names and through the medium Of
dummy, to the extent of nearly one hum
dred and eighty thousand dollars. Almost
the whole of this amount was secured
through resolutions passed by the
Legislature ordering large supply of books
many of them utterly worthless-such a.
school registers, insurance reports. meteoro-
logical observations Wade's Poor Laws,
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town clerks manuals, and the like. One Of
the items-amounting to over twenty-seven
thousand dollars-is significantly designated
by our correspondent ''steal out of whole
CLOTH" We invite Attorney General Barlows
attention to the exhibit, and suggest whether
covery in the name Of the people Of the State.
The Supply bill items furnished by our cor
respondent will give him clue to the whole
swnde. Let him take, for instance, the
meteorological observations made since
$780," and ascertain, first, whether it Is not
an old stereotyped job revived; and, next,
whether the pamphlets are worth the enor-
nous sum of over eleven dollars copy. Let
him make the same inquiry regarding
"Barnes' Condensed Insurance Reports" and
find out whether this is not an old Monsieur
Tonson in the Supply bill, and whether six
dollars copy is not an extortionate' charge.
Next, let him investigate the extra
composition, extra corrections, stereotypiDg
and lithographing." and see whether the sum
of twenty eight thousand dollars, or there
abouts, Is or is not 'steal out Of whole
cloth" Suits have been brought in the name
of the people of the State against the Tam
many thieves; now let us see whether some
action cannot he taken against the Albanv