The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-07-27


publish the proceedings of the Meeting.
After some very forcible and appropriate
remarks by 'the'Chaif, the meeting adjour
ned To meet on Tuesday evening, July Goth.
THOMAS LEE, Chairman.
T. G. RowLEs. Secretary.
From the Ohio State Democrat.
Appropriations by the Legislature
Wing Falsehoods Nailed by the
Whig Record.
We do not know when we have seen an
article, preceding to give fact and figures
to sustain its assertions, which evinces SO
much dishonesty, such wanton disregard
oftruth and peryersion Of facts as the fol-
lowin which we copy from the Cadiz Repaj-
iican, (Whig);
APPROPRIATIONS MADE BY THE LAST
LEGISLATURE. Last week we showed that
the total amount of personal property in the
State would be largely Increased this year
that the per cent for State purposes had
also been increased. We propose now to
show why this increase has become nee
cssary. In order to do this it is only nes-
cssary to look at the vast amount appropri-
ated by the Legislature at its recent sess-
ion
BY reference to an appropriation bill pas
sed December the Cd, 1859, and published
in the Republican on the l2d of the same
month, it will be seen that for the payment
OF members OF the General Assembly, their
clerks, ", there was appropriated the sum
of S93,O93 SO
A bill passed March 18th, 1858, makes
the following appropriations:
For the payment ol Governor
and ot!ter State officers 1900 90
For the payment ofmembers
OF the General Assembly,
their clerks, Gc., the addi-
, tional sum of $4,000 900
| For the payment of Supreme
and Common Pleas Judges,
Superintend'ts OF Asylums
clerks in the Offices, Secre-
tary to the Governor, &. 215,QG2
Forthe paymentot the interest
on the foreign and domes-
tic debt 1,025, 597 40
For the paymentof the expen- ...
sps Of the Commissioners
ofthe Sinking Fund, and
for o,her purposes no, ,574 9G
For the prosecution Of work
on the new State House 125,oO0 00O
Fer the payment OF claims a / ;
lowed to persons and cor
porations 1896 rs
Total S2,3lG, ,3i5O9
Two million three hundred and sixteen
thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars
and nine cents is the amount appropriated
By the last Legislature for the year 1853
BY reference to the Auditors report it will
be seen that the amount of taxes levied
last year for State purposes was $1,776,-
$50 80, Seing S539,778 Al less than the
appropriations of last winter; consequently,
lthas become necessary to increase the State
tax this year in order to meet the increased
expenditures.
We have examined the appropriation
bills passed by the last two Legislatures un-
der the old Constitution, and ind that the
amount appropriat ID then for the purpose of
defraying the expenses OF the State govern
ment is but little more than half of what is
now required. The expenses of the State
government are enormous, and in order TO
meet them the burden OF taxation has been
greatly increased by the party in power
lied when you come to pay your taxes"
As the above ARTICLES going the rounds
of the Ohio papers, and its pretended facts
are paraded as evidence to support the
charge OF f"extravagance," increased appro-
priatons, and consequently an ''increase
of State tax" by the Legislature, we pro
pose TO show up its falsity and deception
that instead Of any inerea3e OF tax, for
Safe purposes, there is an actual danina-
ton. which any school boy of fifteen, years
with access to the official documents might
easily demonstrate. The following state
mems Of tax for the last three years, can
be found in the Auditors reports. In 1851
the last year Of whig administration, under
JoHN WOODS, Auditor of State the leyies
were as follows: q
For principal and interest of
State tebt, and expenses cf
the State government, 3 3-l0 mills
In 1852, the first year under Democratic
administration, the eves were: ttr
For principal and interest of
State debt and expenses of
State government 3 mills
In 1858, the present year, the levies are:
For principal end interest of
Public Debt, and expenses
of State government 3mils |
Thus it's seen that the levies for State
purposes the two last years, under Demo
cratic administration are -tenths OF "a mill
less, eocA gear than in 1851 under the Whi3
administration. But further.-Notwith
standing the levy for State purposes In
in 1851 was three-tenths of a mill more
than it is this year yet it did not even then
produce sufficient revenue to defray the ex-
penses Of the State government and it be-
came the duty ofthe last Legislature to
make provision for supplying the deficiency,
which it did, Auditor WooDs, in his annu-
Al report 10 the Legislature after stating the
amount Of the defct to be ''twohundrea and
'Ueaty tire Mousand and tOenty-tive dollars"
says:
"'The attention of the General Assembly
has frequently been called to this increas-
nfi deficit. Had not the money subject
d the control oi the Fund Commissioners
been permitted 10 remain in the treasury
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