The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-02-11
Gov. chase's Message---Its Inac.
curacy and Unfairness.

curacy and Unfairness.
In Gov, Chase's recent Message, it is
alleged without qualification, that, the
true araount, of the current State ex-
penses fer the fiscal year 1856, was less
than those of the previous year, by
s3s0.365 "a.
We neither know nor care who is re-
sponsibie for the appearance of an asser-
ton of this character, in the message OF
the Executive. 1t is sufficient for our
present purpose to know that the state
ment is deceptive in its tendency and I'M
true Id point of fact. As a specimen of
the peFReIsion of truth which was found
necessary 10 order to arrive at the result
which is apuounced through the Cover
nor, let us examine what is told US In
regard to the New State House. Here
we 6nd' that the message states the sum
of S43,423 90 as the total expenditures
for and on. behalf of that building during
the entire fiscal year ending on the 18th
November, 1856. This statement on
the part Of those who made it, is either
an egegriods blunder, or it Is something
whichr deserves a harsher name. We
nave 1IOWF 0ELOIO Tuo tnO ACPOAS ~
State. House Commissioners in which
they state ipage -, in the plainest pos
sible manner, that the sum named by
the Governor includes only the amount
disbnrsedJ between the 10th of April and
the 15tb Noyember-being the last sep
en- months of the fiscal year 1856. The
amount expended in the first flee months
of that wear, is carried back and added
to the disbursements of 1851 1t is by
thisBeEmkink in the science of book
keepipgs that the expenses of the last
year of democratic management, are
made to appear much greater than their
-actudl amount, whilst those of the year
1896 are correspondingly diminished.
But Gov. Chase does not stop where
the above leaves him. In speaking OF
the present Commissioners of the State
House, he tells the Legislature aud the
public, that the fact that of the ninety
thousand dollars appropriated lin April
lastlbfo this service, more than forty
six thousand remained unexpended at
the close of the fiscal year, sufficiently
attests the economy Of the management
So says the Governor in his message
But #hatsare the facts? Why, simply,
these, that although $4,000 were al
loved to remain undrawn from the Treas'
ury until after the fiscal year should be
closed NOV. t5thJ yet in six weeks
thereafter, that large unezpended bal.
an6e was all used up except $4,000
thus making a total new expenditure Of
S78, 900 in a little more than lco-third,
of zone yeart These latter facts, if they
be denied, may be found on page 5 o.
the preseEt State House Commissioners
report tosthe Governor himself Nor is
this sli,5for when consifefing the large
expenditure last not6dSit should neither
be overlooked nor passed by in silence
that the present Commissioners hav'
beenzunder the necessity of expanding
comparatively little or nothing in thu
purchase and procurement of matsria
required for their hse from the day the
entefedson their edu'ies up to the pres
entibour. These had all, or nearly all
been provided in advance by the oil
Board of Commissioners. and theme
arose the State House debt of which 8
much has been saidaand published du
yingrhe past year. ti1
1--WE might enlarge still further. Blu
for the present, the above must suffice.
Il will serve to some extent to kee
our readers from being deceived by til
bfundefs which have found their wa
intora State Document which above a
others should have heen closed againI
them.-Nerafk Advertiser.