The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-06-03
Thursday Evening, May ~, 1882

CosF OF LocoFocoIsM. The Journal has
lengthy article upon the cost Of legislation
the past win.er as compared with the cost
when the State was in the hands Of the
. Wings. Says that paper-"There are nine
ty-six members of the House, and thirty-fve
Senators. The per diem pay Of these men,
.bcrs was raised from three to four dolhrs..-
The total number is 1871, exclusive of the
Lieutenant Governor, who receives fpe dol
la-sper day. The per diem of members alone
amount to $62,sso, Add the salary of the
Lieutenant Governor, and there is S63,4
z for this item" .s> --. tN'
Again-"It will also be remembered that
the present Legislature has raised the wages
Ofclerks, assistants clerks, sergeants-
and assistant seageants, from three to four
dollars per day. Not knowing precisely how
many, or at what time any portion Of this
standing army was discharged, we cannot
give the precise figures for this item, but
from what we learn from others, we are as
sured that it will amount Of itself to over
TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. A id to this
the mileage of members, and the sum total
will amount to about ninety thousand dollars.
Let it be remembered that this does moi in
clude the expense for stationery, printing,
&c. 1t is confined entirely to the compen-
sation paid to the members, the clerks, sc.
'By comparing the price of this Legisla-
ture with that Of the Wing Legislature, as
above, it will be seen that the session just
closed, has cost the people of the State over
THREE TIMES as much as they did when
under Wing control. .
"There will be some beautiful develop
ments, hereafter, about the items for print
ing during the session. The bill for this
purpose will probably be between t,oenty.fre
and thirty thousand dollars. Some time since,
the Statesman Office had been paid toeatg hton-
sand dollars on the bill for this work, and il
is rumored that the Auditor was shamefully
abused because he declined to give orders
for further amounts till bill for the work
done was presented. When the item, and
that for paper, &C., is all ascertained, it will
be found that the first session of the first Le-
gislature of Ohio under the new constitution,
will cost the people of the S'ate about ONE
HUNDRED and TWENTY FIVE THOU
SAND DOLLARS! The session this fall
and winter, will probably swell the amount
to fully t,cohundred thousand dollars.
"a heavy item in the total of expenses
has been the amount paid to extra clerks, and
extra sergeants-at-arms. This has been
enormous, far beyond all former precedent
We sincerely trust this abuse will be check
ed in future, as the tax payers have been
badly imposed upon in that branch Of the
public service.
"We present these facts and figures to tht
tax payers of Ohio We ask them TO ex'
anime them, and then determine the ques
tion,. whether tits for their interest to be
longer humbugged and gulled by these prat
ers about economy, retrenchment and re-
form" So. ..,..,. ...........
It is to be hoped that in short time, We
will have the official documents, when thC
people will be convinced that, under Loco
foco rule, they pay very large sum for
very small amount of bad legislation.