Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-05-12
1flis1flInnrous. 8.
A Word for ,Tax-Payers.

News from ColuIIDtS now lnht tne SESSION rs
near lis close, is looked for with no little interest.
People begin TO feel anxious for the general tax
laws under which they are 10 live for the coming
two years,-for it is now really SAID that biennial
eessions mean once IN two years Tue new tax
law is, in all probability, laid away for the nexttwo
Years. If it were called uP it w"ud consume val
liable time aud, if passed, would only make the
existing law all the more oppressive a"d odious -
Let il sleep Tuesday was set apart for the dis
cusson of the Appropriation bili-witi what result
may be learned from our Legislative reports. OF
the financial condition Of the State Executive,
people gendrally have little knowledge. Were
they informed of the cost of wo king the new
Constitution-did they discover where the i'm
mense amount Of money, drawn from them by
,h. most burdensome taxation ever yet endured in
the State, was consumed, they would think we
had fallen upon evil times when the present party
IN power came into the Legislature We shall
endeavor TO lay this Appropriation bill before our
readers that they may learn where their money
gees.
general revenue fund for the current year, not
yyithstan ndng the $500, 00J 900 duplicate OF last
YEAR This deict must be had from some source,
aud il is proposed to borror it from the money set
apart to pay the State Debt, and from the Sur
plus Revenue Fund-repaying 1t, with interest,
when il eau be drawn from the people BY some
lite additional taxation. Fhe appropriations by
the last Legislature were very large, but they
$500, ,000 has been spent than anticipated.
Some of the general appropriations as fol-
lows:
For salary of Supreme Court and Com
mon Pleas Judges, and the Superior
Courts Of Cleveland and Cincinnati, the
appropriations is1..s. ....... ....... S5S 600
For contingent fund of State officers. ... zoo
For payment of Governors Secretary,
! Clerks in the Auditor, Treasurer, Secrs-
| tary Of State, and Board of Public Works
otices..... .......'......... .........'...ll,0 ,0Ju
For State iiouse.... ...........75,O III
For heating apparatus, gas fixtures, &C.,
at the new Asylum at Newburgh and
| Dayton, the sum Oi' ...'.'..... .2O,U0t
For finishing the steam and venlilating APP
! paratus at the Columbu' Lunaii; Asy-
| lum. IA ,00(
For payment OF DERBY for 5000 copies Of
SwAN's Revised Statutes. .............. 10 ,51i
Salaries aud expen ses OF Lunatlc Asylum. SO 00t
| Salaries aud expense for Deaf aud Dumb
i Asylum, ......'..''... .......... ...'6 OO'
For the current year the taxiton for genera
Revenue purposes will be eight-tengths Of mi,
on the dollar. For 1855, ii is fixed at six-tenlh
OF a mill.
Ths appropriations fixed for '55 are about al
for the current year consequently, taxes vii
remain about the same counting on the $500,
0J0 coo duplicate for '54 If, in addition TO III,
gener expenses AMI appropr atoms, is decidr'
to pay to the pub lie debt, the tax must be heavi
ly increased. Ii is not vet decided By our Legis
lators # the people can be taxed much more ant
be able o s and the burden.
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gdsette, wri
ting from Columbus, thus adverts 70 the existing
state of affairs, and the conduct Of the party il
power.
| alt is lamentably true, that almost every de
partmsnt of the public service is in most wretch
ed condition. For four years, the old swarm o
spoilsmen have had full swing at the treasury o
the Sta te They were the same men that wer,
hFIU 0tf hx lEa nnla in Hhaa nu
defaeations, the sleangs and plunderings Of th'
era will be repeated, and are again 10 be brough
to light. No Intelligent man has doubt bu
that all our institutions, as wen as the public
works of the State, are now made so many pla
ces for plunder and eSIravueance. The vast in
crease OF expenses, and the condition in which
they are known TO be, are arousing the attention
OF the people, and are preparing the way for an
other total route of the dominant party. 1t II
only ion OF time. IL will surely com,
when the true state Of affairs becomes known L
the masses Of the voters Of the State. '--Saads
ky Regi'Ier.