The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-01-28
GOV. Chase's yMessage-~Its IIaaecu-
racy and gnfairr.ess. ..s.-.-s...

In Gov. Chase's recent message, il is alleged
without qualification, that ''the true amount
Of the current State expenses for the fiscal gear
1856 was less than those Of the previous yeas-,
by S380,6G5 al tst. .s,-.,.r. 10 egi.r- ,a
/ We neither know nor care who is responsible
for the appearance Of an assertion of this char
acter in the message of the Executive. 1t is
sufficient for our present purpose to know that
the statement is deceptive in its tendency and
untrue in point of fact. AS a specimen Of the
lperversioe of truth which was found necessary
in ordGr,toarriSe atitf1e result whichis snnour-
eed through the Governor, let us Examine what
is told us in FdzaTd to the New State House
Here we find thatthe message state3th sum Of
S43,324 92 asthe total expenditures for and on
behaf:of that building during the entire fiscal
year ending on the 18th November, 1866
This statement on the'psst Of those who made
it, is either an egregous blunder or tits some
thing which deserves d hASsher name. We
have now before as, the report Of the State
House Commissioners in which they state (pagc
BY in the plainest possible manner, that the
sum named BY the Governor includes only the
amount disbursed between the 10th Of April
and the 18th NoveAbeF4b being the last se,,n
months of the fiscal year 1859 The amount
expended in the first f1s rho1tfis Of that year,
is carried back and added to the disbur4ernients
Of 1851 Ii Is by this new kink IN TIE science
of bookkeeping, that the expenses of the last
year of democratic management are made to
appear much greater than their actual afnount,
whilst those of the year 1855 Ire correspond
ingly diminished. .E57aoi @.u +" S'149's
HBut Gov Chase does not stop where theabo7e
lbaveslhim. Ihspeaking The present COM
missionersiota the State House, he tells the Leg
stature and the public, that "tIe fact that Of
theininetyg thousand dollars appropriated 1ir'
April last1 for this service, more than forty.sixi
thousand remainef fpnexpended at; t;thes sclosc of
the fiscal year, sufficiently attests The economy
of the, management, So says the Governor in
his messages Bstwhats arsvtite 6ets?r sMhy
simply these, that although forty-six Thousand
dollars were allowed to remain undrawn from
the Treasury until sftspthe 6sess year should
be closed (Noyember l5th,) vet in six weeks
thereafter, that larga unexpended balance was
all used up and expended except some twelve
thousand M dollars; thus making atotal new, ex-
Pehfittre P Of $zS o9Q ira little more than s,o0
t4P5ras Of one year iIhRse latter acts,i ifsthey
be denied, nayuBea found ,onapsge lfvevofT the,
present State H4a!Ese Commssionefssttr treport tn
the Governor himself Nor is aisAtais nj, ,--fsr.
wheen considering tlhcslarge espehditbre last no
ted, # should neither be overlooked nor. passed
BY in silence, that the present commissioners
haHyye been under the nscessity OF expending
c9mllpsaratgely llps little or nothing in the purchase
or procurement of material required dfarrtlieiri
use from the day they. entered on their duties
up to the present hours These, hadall, or near
ly alb b9eeAlfIpEatided in. aasaree BY the old
Board Of Commissioners, and thence arose thu,
State House debt of which, so much has beeii.
said and published, during the pastVear. et
4 We might enlarge still iiftAer, Bat for the
present the shave mnst suffice 1t will serve to
some extent 70 keep our aFFsaders frptp being de-
ceiyed by the blpnders. which haze. found their
way into State Dpcpment which shove all o.ie..,
ers should have been clqsedasaiHt them IA Ne.q-
Ffi; 4dEofgtf Eelsys1r y75.4a,siG Af,jl y7f Of