Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-12-23
Balance in the treasury on the 3lst of
October, lS47,
3,745 90

2O07, Sl2 OO-No. DAB, 81, 1856 90, 3,745 90
Balance in the treasury on the 3lst of
October, 1S47 S43l, 726 81
Notwithstanding the large thus reported to be
in the treasury the 3lst of October, the amount
actually hand, applicable to the ordinary expenses
of the government is in fact quite nconsiderabe.
large amount of it consists of treasury notes received
for State revenue, bank scrip redeemed by the Com
mlssioners of the sinking fund.- and Wabash and Erie
Canal scrip east and west received sales of land.
Included in it also is the amount paid In July towards
the interest the State debt together with several
thousand dollars paid for the repair of the Central
Canal, which. being advanced upon requistions will
not appear the books, until the acquisitions are
cancelled and warrants issued.
The Auditor Tor 'writer'') also adds,
The amount which will probably be received on
count of the of lS47 and from other
WILL it is hoped, enable the treasury to meet the ordi
nary demands upon it, which, for the current quarter,
must be necessarily large. For the purpose of meet
ing these demands, and also much possible of
the interest of the public debt due the first of JAM
uary, the of State has forwarded circular
to each of the county reasurers, urging them to send
forward, with all convenient DESPATCH much as
may be collected of the revenue of lS47. What
may be thus sent in anticipation of the final
settlement is of course wholly uncertain. lntOrma-
ton this point will doubt be cheerfully furnish
ed by the treasurer when it becomes necessary, it
probably may, TO make other temporary arrangements
to meet the January interest. Up to this time but
little has been received from that source, and almost
all Of that in treasury notes, which, so far as meet
ing the demands on the treasury is concerned, might
well have been retained until the settlement In
February.
Then follows a statement of the ordinary expenses
of the State Government for the year 1S47, amount
ing in the aggregate to 800, 762 g. This is an ex-
III etO1
former Auditor estimated the expens2 of the past year
at S67 400 90. 1t will be SEEM therefore, that under
our new wing officers, the expenses have been very
handsomely increased. The Auditor, (''wrter')
gives why this is so and to prevent doing
him injustice, we copy them, exhibiting remark
able degree of that caution" so highly extoed by
the Journal.
This apparent increase of the ordinary expenses of
the past year may be accounted for follows A
large amount of claims belonging to previous years.
much of which had been paid but remained unsettled
at the close of the year 1885, has been audited DUR
ing the past fiscal year, and for the first time brought
upon the books OF the treasury department. This
especially the in reference that class Of
claims denomnated Executive" By reference to
the Executive account of 1896 it will be seen that but
$1,000 was audited during that fiscal year. During
the past year, as will be seen by reference to the
above statement there has been audited, under that
head, the of 50, 101 Is. As the annual saIa-
ries Of the Executive Officers amount only to 81 100
and, including all allowance for clerks, 10 only S4,-
700, the remaining of "a 40l Is, audited during
the fiscal year just closed. belonged of course to the
arrearages of former years. By reference also TO the
estimated amount necessary to deay the expenses of
all Specific Appropriations for lS47 it will be seen
that the SUN of $500 was deemed sufficient, al
though the expenditures under that head for 1916 had
actually amounted to S6,22S 50. The foregoing
statement shows the unusually large of S1l 1873
Is paid claims of that denomination for the year Just
closed The great increase of the amount expended
over the amount estimated may in part, be explain
ed by stating that the account of lS47 includes the
sum of S3,544 90, appropriated by the last Gen.
era Assembly for advances by the several Branch
es of the State Bank, on the requisition of the
Executive, to defray the expenses growing out
of the organization of the Indiana volunteers
for the Mexican war; the sum of Sl,956 for
7th volume of Blackfords Reports the sum Of $500
TO defray the expenses of removing the remains of the
late Hon. T. A. Howard, from Texas to his late resi-
dence; and the of 81, 80 for the prosecution of
impeachment case before the last General Assem-
bly-amounting In the whole to $3.50 So. These
several appropriations though belonging to class of
accounts properly denominated ordinary, never
theess extraordinary and unforeseen, and could not
therefore be provided for in any estimate of probable
expenses for the year.
This certainly looks very fair on paper and so far
of the items concerned it gives fair rea-
for portion of the increase of the expenses of
the State. But in the following sentence, we appre-
bend the Auditor ("writer') labors under a mistake.
He says that he increase will be seen to arise from
accidental causes, and not from any enlargement of
salaries or allowances" If the "wrter" will take
the trouble to examine case of this kind, he will
soon discover his error. In the Office of Secretary of
State, now so incompetenty filed he will find, we
think, on examination, that that officer has managed
to double his salary, and is in receipt of the lar
ges salary of any officer of State. Not only this his
| whig friends, in consideration of his incompetency
and imbecllity suppose, have managed to relieve
him of large and important part of the duties of the
Office. We merely allude to this here, for the
purpose of calling the attention of the writer it,
In further review of the subject which we propose
making at our leisure, may again allude to this
i point. 1t seems to that the 'cauous' wording oil
the subject is intended to reflect on the late Auditor
i if not on the Executive.
But be that as it may, we have seen that when the
State had democratic officers of State, that the expen
ses were materially reduced, and no "accidenla
causes ever occurred increase them over the es
mates, or at least but in very trihing degree II