The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-10-12
From the Hingham Gazette.
JACKSON STATE ADDREss-N

One of the prominent subjects of the Jackson
Resolutions and Address, was that of State Er.
PenditureS--'' profigate"-'' prodigar'-" ex.
travagant"-" shameful"-State Expenditures
The charge of Encouragement of the pecuni.
airy concerns of the State against the State ad
minlstration, has more than once bcen met and
refuted in the Legislature and in the Public
Press. The charge is renewed, and as friend
OF the State administration, am ready to meet
it, and to assert and prove that The people have
been imposed upon by false and deceptive state
ments in relation TO it.
1t has been alleged that I" the State Expend-
itures" last year amounted to $3.50, 440 %, and
this sum has been held up as the usual annual
expenditure of tho Commonwealth Now it so
happened that the salaries of the civil officers
OF the Government, for thres quarters only,
were included in the account of 1929, while the
remaining quarter of that year swells the
amount of expenses of 1890 1t so happened
that the People felt a strong interest to adopt
the Governors recommendation to amend the
Constitution in relation to representatives, and
sent large number Of members to use all their
influence to promote the desirable object, and
consequently swelled the Pay Roland it also
occurred, that the expenses of Criminal Trials
and of State Paupers were swelled in last years
account beyond the usual sums | have shown
in my last number, that the Legislature have
adopted measures to reduce the amounts paid
to Representatives-for the support of State
Paupers, and for the administration of Criminal
Law 1 shall, however, take the above sum of
$3.50 44O %, and shall present some of the items
which compose that amount, that they NAV be
clearly understood by all. How absurd the
jackson method Of comparing the aggregate
expenditures of any one year in this State, with
those OF other States where very large amount
o: monies is expended by counties and toaons,
which here Maid hu tba 4 .ho1l :.
In no such sloVenly generalites"
One OF the items in the above sum of $780,
44o - is S67 ,292 IA, paid by law to towns for
the support OF State Paupcrs No other State
mas such tatc. But let not the people of Mas
ssehusetts be deceived by this fact The PEG.
pie OF other States pay these expenses in eoun-
tes and to,ens. In some towns there are no
paupsrs OF this description, IN others there are
many. Repeal the law and impose the burthen
on towns, where then would the expenses fall
Upon those towns certainly where the paupers
happen to be located. Had towns been obliged
to have supported the foreign paupers support
ed by the State, the burthen would have fallen
as follows in few cases, which will illustrate
the subject select the towns from the coun-
~ Of Plymouth: Scituate So 10; bingham
$50 rs; Rochester 1858 90; Plymouth $s79,
60; Bridgewater 1887 90; Middleborough
$4,3I0 10. Scituate, with no State law, would
have expended eight dollars and ten cents, while
Middlsborough Zone of the towns which votes
for =" State Reform'') would have expended four
thousand three hundred and ten dollars and
nineteen CENTS Had there been no State law
for the FIVE last years, Boston would have saw
ed thirty thousand dollars, it being her proper
tion Of monies paid to support paupers in Mid
dieboro' and in other country towns! And yet
The hardy ycomanry are continually imposed
upon by the false statemeut that Massachusetts
y controlled by a grasping aristocracy."
shame.
VIII now present another item in the Gao
count Of State Expenditures" The compen- |
saton 10 Representatives last year amounted I
70 yIS,so5 90. Representative were formerly |
\ oy towns. 1t was favorite measure with
sre country to draw their pay from tho Slate
,ha oasufy, because then, Boston paving more
sne one htrd Of the direct, and more Than one
n"y 2, the indirect tax, would be Obliged 10
stivs. ''s largely opay the country reoresent.
Of r..; change was made, and the measu,.
The conssa rom the State Treasury adon,ed
Der Of Ss'sssquence was that with The iarrs pn
TVS. representatives. last year. Il addst . nu
49, May n dollars to the st.,s seoen'
- ,aIs.sw this growing evil 'ns and watch
ne urged an AMEND