Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1846-03-26

prrs, aud hav. made paragraph Tor The zaa'
ious Tribune about every week since " was
published. II il surprising how men engaged
m "A desperate warfare, sometimes VIII magn''
ry and peryert certain facts which are on the
lerislaliv. records, aud which they know, or
u.Lt To know, are fully aud larry sini"d Dy
thn.a " bo have cogni1an'" "l ih"m. ne P"'
per which vr have named nrcu>es tIe govern
meat of extra,nguncc, and u attempts 10 SUI
.tanraIe thu change by general aud r"lofrd
.lutemen,. of receipis aud expenditures. Raih.
or than abide by such loo-s aud doubtful acr"-
.a,iunr, we hn,e taken The pains Ia examine
the various reports of the General Treasurer,
b.gnning with the first report IN ls42, before
| The Dor rebellion wus commenced, ara con
unung down to the January session, ieto,
embracing period Of four years.
I On the 2ith Of October, lS4l, the balance In
the Treasury was S6,300 "a. From that pc.
rod to April 30th, lei2, there were reoaSeo
49,, ,975 %. The disbursements iof all p"t'
poses from October 24th, ls4l, TO ApHi SUN,
isi2, S27 EEL Sj-l,aving balance III 'he
. Treasury on that day Of $lS, AGO ~
\. Among the disbursements are $2,4s2 ~ Tor
i'm. exp. nscs of the convention called 10 frame
. consiiintion-dcduciing this suin, we have
S2l, ,gO3 so as the usual disbursements Tor tie
Two quarters ending April 3Oih, which amount
added To The two previous quarters, makes Tue
annual expenses, say $3o .2S5 81.
4 The next semi.anuual report, commencing
Nav I.t, 1912, and ending October 18th, lef2,
shows $i20,4l0 80, nearly one hundred Ihon
sand dullars above the disbursements o' tue
two preceding quarters. or this sum, NO ma
S2O0O Tor another Constitutional Convention,
tIxn tIniIsuuh lnlluFs a.
expenses incurred to suppress DORIS rebellion.
which includes So, 600 allowed by the Com
missioners appointed by the General Assembly
to examine insurreciionary claims.
On the first Of May, lSi3, the General lIea.
surer reports that since October, le42, he had
paid $37 100 45 for claims arising out OF the
Dorr war 1865 Tor another constitutional
Convention aud in Tho following October,
1854 % for insurrectionnry claims, besides
$500 to Lemuel II. Arnold, us one ofthe Gov
ernOr's Council.
From those reports, IL appears that the whole
amount of insurrectionary expenses IS Slao,'
Ga. live add to this, other expenses which
accrued in consequences Of DoTrism, the amount
Is about Sl5o.OOO.
/ RECArirULATIoN.
Reed I'm Oct IA II, to April 80, AZ sss'g5s 20 ~
April 80, 42 TO Oct 80, 'i2, 1910 0O--56,Iis 20
Whole wear ending Oct 80, '43, 63,2l0 2g
Reed TN Oct 80, 'I3 To April 80, N, 2s s22s65
II April 30, IA to Oct 80, ~, 25,5ii 3l--53,112 e6
Oct 30, '4i To- April 80, AS, s3,l75 90
April 80, as to Oct 3O AS, 26,9os oo--6o'l64 90
.2ss,e95 As
II S60,973 sc average income for years.
In addition TO those expenses styled ." ihe
General Treasuter's accounts insnrr.ctioi-
ary claims" il must be recollected that almost
every branch ofe1ecutive and Legislative duty,
and consequently the expense, has been M
lcreascd-two special sessions OF the GENERAL
Assembly were called in lS42;-iho expenses
of the Courts have been largely increased
CLAIMS for services Of various kinds, growing
out of the disturbances, have been presented
To the General Assembly and allowed, some
to the friends and some to the enemies Of the
government; for instance, the claim OF Jcdo-
diah Sprague. Many Of these claims wer"
voted for by tho Dorrites, who are now clam
oring about the expenses Of the State, and all
nf them, we behave, by tho "true Wigs,
who joIn in the clamor
II As we have previously stated, when D"r
commenced his forcible measures, tho balance
in the Treasury was $is,IH6. Between thol
time aud tho October session, lS42, tho Trea-
surer hired 500, 900 which stiil left a balance
due from the Treasury OF Sl2,657 63. BE.
tween October, 1912, aud June, ls43, with.
drawn from the public deposiles S57 900, aud
AT the June session, after the unusual pay.
menis, balance of Sl5, ,003 0S remained.
! On the 30lh of October 1913, the balance il
thu Treasury was $l207S 10. Among the
disbursements for the preceding ak months
are s22, 100 60 for public schools. Ia June
/ 1874, tho balance on hand was Sc, i59 90
Since the previous report, $2i, ,4lo VI had been
paid to public schools.
\ 1t will bo observed by these items, that in
the year ending October lsi2, the receipts ex.
4 A al. 4 49,, L.
\ 10000 were received from lotteries in lS42, q
source Of revenue of which the State is de-
II prived by clause in the Constitution. By u
comparison Of recri pts during the past iouI
years, the variation in each year is mcrel,
| nominal, the largest income of course being
| derived from n tax on the capital stock Of the
several bnnks 1t appears, then, from the ex
animation OF tho Treasuror's Reports, that th,
Il revenue Of The State is about Ss3i 0OO, and tn,
| disbursements about $780, ,0O0 not including tn,
sum paid for the support Of public schools
! which is SO 900 per annuu, and includln.
| this, til. revenue is sufficient To NEE, the usua
! Expenditures.
4 But, in reply to all this, we are told that ih,
! State has borrowed from the school fund an,
| is indebted to il more than ono hundred thou
| sand dollars. All this is very true, and on'
/ would suppose that the Dorrites would avoit
! HE discussion Of that point This debt wa
/ incurred through their folly aud wickcdness
! and il is a debt which will never causn n tru,
4 Rhode Island man to blush, for through IT,
| agency the laws were sustained, treason sup
I pressed, and the Constitution triumphant.