Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-01-17
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Interest for 20 years. z'40V'ooO
Paid out 9'tVo'OVO
Deduct amount received SOO'VVV
Loss to the State 4'tVV'VVo
And this result is accomplished without any
computation upon interest. which must be paid
semi miaunually,-must be collected a year in
advance of its disbursement, and charged with
per centages 10 the Treasurer's collecting 1t,
and tie expense Of its Transmission to New
York. Such losses may be submitted by a.
State which cannot pay its debts. but the peo-
pie Of Ohio would cheerfully submit to an ad-
ditonal tax of three.fourths Of mill with the
knowledge tha. after January, 1857. even that
rate Of taxation would steadily and largely d.
minish
Such a system is adapted to special, not to
general interests, and can only commend itself
to the approval Of those who think that "a pub
lie debt is public blessing. Public faith
should be kept to The people as we'll as to the
creditor. Many of our counties and cities
without other corporations. are deeply involv'
ed. The present high credit OF the State which
has its origin in, and now depends upon, the
punctual payment Of the public debt, is 10 them
= Of great value. proposition to postpone the
VI payment would tend 10 diminish the public
. confidence in the hitherto untarnished reputa
. ton Of the State, and thereby produce an in
u furious effect upon our private as we'll as ou
g public credit. There can be no more desira
!. y BILE object, than to see State tree from a
- - foreign liabilities.
!" The organizations of the Executive branch
~ our State Government into separate and d
: t;nct departments, independent of each o'he
y" has certainly many advantages which if it
:" unnecessary to enumerate. 1t is believed, how
=, = ever, that it would be improved and rendere
~ more efficient, if greater degree of unit
:, could be impaired to the deliberations and a
tions of these divisions. This could easily
~ effected by requiring the various Executive cf
-. GERS to meet together once month, or oitene
- if desired by the GovernOr,in Executive CouI
Gil. to receive and consider reports from the
- respective departments, aid each other vii
-. advice, and decide such actions as will be
Ln tend to protect the public interests in cases
- delinquency or suspected malfeasance.
IAN This Council might Be authorized to inqui
,vo MO and personally inspect, the condition OF t
I'M Treasury at reasonable periods, and to exe'
ola else such discretionary power in relation to t
o,v departments generally, as it would be unwl
,ea and probably unsafe to entrust to single +
- ecutya Office. The union of several Exec
tive officers into boards of the kind is not VII
,oia out precedent in this State The Board
,.oh Fund Commissioners, composed OF the Audit
a.. Secretary of State, and Attorney General, b
,o,t not only tested the practicabity but the adv
o,e tages of such arrangements. The people
,ho those States which have adopted Lxecut
ala Councils 10 the construction of their Cove
merts regard them, as am told, as most i
:, portant safeguards in the administration
', their Executive affairs.
u'.' The printing and distribution of public do
m oo uments designed to be laid before the legis
ture is an object Of great interest to the peoF
90 The practice hitherto pursued is neither fav
able to proper dispatch of the public br
:, ness, nor wide circulation OF the informal
- they countan They have usually been pr
ted very late in the session. and their distriI
-" ton confined to a very few persons, mostly
, '''' friends of the members,
-, - would respectfully suggest the passage
w law authorizing the Governor TO have print
: p'' by the recognized public printer, Specit
v, number Of the reports made to him by tho S
o" eral departments of che State Government,
time to have the same ready for dsLrlbut
Tue at the meeting of the General Assembly.
the L,I ,I.o a,., rro,;d;o,. c,r ,bo diotr,
u ton of the laws and journals, specify cert
re- officers and Institutions to whom copies
ar these documents should be officially transu
the '",'O ,o,;.o..d "a tho iec;s,at,
'',' leaving n reasonable number TO be dlstrlbr
'"s by the members themselves among their
stitutnts.
- Such a law, instead Of increasing, We
..m certainly diminish the expenses now incur
as the mater would be printed but once,
"a's ~ the contractors, have ample time to make
genty '.4".'a - .teS.;.a,od o,,a ,hon >
" the people much earlier, and enable then
80 make such suggestions to their representa-
,roU, as they might think proper
,.,;o0 The inidatory measures which have
- adopted by the Secretary of State to gathe
r. - statistics of the agricultural wealth and
-, improvements of the State, render the re