Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-07-07

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The locos are making a great out
cry at the expense incurred by the
Investigating Committee of the last
Legislature. It is not SO much on
account of the paltry sum expended
IN the necessary prosecution Of their
enquiries, as the developments them
selves, that make the feds 50 perfect
ly rabid on this subject. The results
of this investigation cannot be too
frequently placed before the tax-pay-
ers of our state; and as the inquiries
were confined to small portion,
when compared with the whole of the
public improvements of the state, we
must agree with the committee that
they cannot fail to startle and astonish
They found that within single year,
by the policy and practices which
have prevailed, the public money to
a large amount has been "squandered
and improperly paid away" LeaT-
ing for further inquiry and deyelope-
ment, many transactions of a charac-
ter as suspicious as any that have
been examined; it is not surprising
that under such management, the rev.
enue arising from the finished lines
of the public works should fall short,
as it did last year, about 100000 dol
lars of the sum expended in their re-
pair and superintendent, and that
their further prosecution should be
viewed with alarm by the warmestad-
vocates of internal improvements by
the Commonwealth.
But the different items are summed
up by the Committee in full, and the
result of their examination is reduced
to the following cases, as having been
Immediately brought under their IN
vestigation Had time permitted and
no impediments been thrown IN the
way, by the Canal Commissioners
and the loco minority of the Commit
tee, more loss would have been devel-
oped. AS it was they found,
That the State has lost through James
Cameron, as superintendent fmotlre
power on the Columbia rail road, not
less than $4,000
Tha, the construction Of the north track
rail road, has cost the public more
than i, would have cost, had the con-
tracts been given out fairly TO the
loves, good bidders, not less than $4,000
That through favoritism, the supervisors
on the Juniaia division of the canal,
have squandered no, less than 5000
That the allotment of the contract for
the Eastern Reservoir, was at prices
above those bid by good bidders, net
less than 10000
That the allotment Of the contract for
the Western Reservoir, was at prices
above those bid by good contractors,
no, less than 10000
That the prices allowed for clearing
400 acres for the Western Reservoir,
were more than the work was worth,
no, less than 10000
Tha, in the allotment Of lock No. l3,
on the Western division of the canal,
there was allowed more than was
bid by good bidders, not less than 1900
That in the allo!men,s of locks Nos. 20
aud II, at Erie, there was more al
lowed than was bid by good contrac-
tors, not less than 10000
That in the allotment of nine sections
of canal on the ConReaut line of the
Erie Extension, there was more al
lowed than the average bids Of good
contractors, not less than $4,000
Making an aggregate of Sl36,20C
Add to this what we believe would have
been saved TO The State, had the Ca
nal Commissioners in 1899, fairly
considered the bids ol Mcllafiey and
Brewster, lor l6 orks--j,llerencc 3300t
aud the aggregate is $i69,20(
lferrssburg Telegraph.
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