New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-31
HINTS FROM MANY WRITER'S
THE PIInLIO MONEY.

THE PUbblC nDNEIs
IT SHOULD ROT BIZ RECKLEssLr APPROPRIATED
APPLY THE BRAKES.
70 the Editor Of me Tribune.
EfRi There seems DO disposition on the part OF
some Of tho members Of tho Legislature to make eA'
travagant appropriations. This lavishness WIN .p0
peoples money recently illustrated by the Assembly,
passing practically without debate, bill appropraths
S1ssOO0 for the construction Of asylum for insane
criminals and OF another bill appropratng SoZoooo
for the construction buildings for the proposed state
Insane Asylum at Ogdensburg Both bills the Albany
correspondents tell reported favoraoly oy 'no
Committee on WAYS and Means. and without consdera
ton In the Committee of the Whole were ordered 10
third reading and passed The Assembly also lateiy
passed bill appropriang 100000 for the state
prisons The Senate very properly decided TO lay asue
for few days this prison appropriation and to consider
with much the other bills appropriatlng money
which have come from the Assembly Other measures
are coming forward which make still larger drafts upon
the Treasury. So many bills have been Introduces
for the establishment of State normal schools that IL
lie no wonder that Senator remarks with grim hu'hor
that new Committee Normal School Appropriations
would seem to be necessary.
But the mammoth appropriation asked this year -
that for the canal Improvement IL demands tha' tho
taxpayers OF the StaIe shall just one million doa
toward Improvement of the canals. The measure
is backed by highly respectable association the oiA
Union nevertheless in respects 1t has srih
ing resemblance the River and Earbor bill lhao
measure. ia we'll known is always passed al "asn'hs
ton bv log rolling =" that H. the votes OF Congressman
are for the hill by putting In appropriations M
their several deestricks After each Congressman Hs
been ri yen share of the pork" OF course he votes 0r
the bill present canal Improvement bill apparently
has been constructed that plan. II gives pork 10
such largo number Of Senators and AssenDyie' tiau
fs authors clearly think they have assured the passage
of the bill Naturally every resident along the me o
the Erie Canal and OF the Hudson River can be excceu
10 vote for hill which appropriates $6Oo0oo ior tne
Improvement OF the Erie Canal That Is one Dig sce VI
the pork" Naturally. also, no member IN dlstIlc,s
touched by the Oswego the Chanplai, the BLACK htes
and the Cayugl and Seneca canals viii feel IKE Young
against the hill when he learns that S0OOOo 10 DC cI
pended in improvements upon them. Inc New 10TH
and Brooklyn Assemhymen are expccted TO wore rolI
for snch bill all the canal boats bringing inc
/ grain of the West To their cities. 10 these
Issemhvmen must he aided those who represent as
trcts along the Hudson River; and the Ere, me
Oswego the Champlap. the Black River and the screen
and Cavuga canals. Much comment has been ekci'eu
that these bills lengthenng the canal ocks nave ouen
year made and greater inroads upon te pockets
OF the taxpayers of the state Thus In 1881 me appro
priation for this purpose was S{OoOO; In lsso II was
$500 600 and i'm 1887 10 was S5jOOO0. fentcncn, ~
slow The Republican majority 10 the Legislature surrey
do not wish-especiay In Presidential year--to 20
back 10 their wit record OF having ln-
creased the rate But how il the rate to be kept low
getting nervous. In case this million dollar approprla-
lion 10 the canals il 10 be regar ed standard by
which TO conjecture the size of h average appropria
ton OF the session what will lie grand total he
+ Az ALARMED REPUBLICAN.
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