Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-10-24
State Expenses.

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all Just now copying each Others lies.charg
ing that The taxation. this year is"enornaous
"fuinous,' &r., DC, AMI urging the reiurl
of the Forty Thieves into power as a meas
NE Of reform. The State tax levied foj
the past. four wears has been as follows:
For 1854, Bars:ow's lst wear, $300,00f
For 1855, BarStow's ID year, 100000
For 1856, Bashford's 100000
For 1857, Ba>hford's 100000
Notwithstanding the enormous tax OF
iss5a,o0O in Two wears under Barstow. the
Forty turned in 20 have a more direct steal
and as Is proved eini,ezzlel $4,000 dlrec'
from the General Fund, $4,000 from til
School Fund, and placked the school lanl
Department Of $4,000. 900 as proved by al
investigating committee.
OF the appropriations Of last winter the
following sums we set apart for the en-
largenent of the Capitol, the hnilding ana
completing the benevolent Institutions OF
the State. and support of the Penitentlar,y
under McGarv's management:
For the Capitol enlargement,
The city Of Madison gave $4,000
Capitol lands given by Congress 10000
Appropriated by the State 10000
The work to be done.and moneys drawu
in 1857 and 1853. Tho contract price Of
he work is about $92, 900. and not Sl0,
Of state money Is required OR will he
drawn and used The present wear.
For the Insane Asylum, the total cost is
limited 10 100000, payable IN three
years!
The contract price is about $4,000, Of
which $4,000 is clla-geable to l857.-
The Ba.stow and Proudfit contract for the
old Lnnatic Asylum was S483,000-and
thus the saving in this one item by the
last legislature was about S389,000.
For the Deaf and Dumb Asylum the
appropriation was $4,000 payable in tao
years, and,
For the Blind Institute $4,000.
For the Penitentiary the appropriations
were about $4,000.
Yet with these extra outiavs.all of them
for purposes of acknowledged necessi,v,ani
an honor to the humanity Of the State, the
taxes of The people were not raised one
dollar, but were actually red cei by
Bsrstowism by the large item Of $4,000
and if the def,lcations and einbezzlem MS
were included, were less by the sum OF
Sl33.OO0.
The las, legislature did a great work for
reform in State expenditures. The com
.mittee on claims cut down the mass OF
<winlling hills presented for services under
Bar~iow, an average OF at least $500 per
day during the whole sesslon-an aggre-
gate of more than 100000. But the leg
stature could not resist the pressing calls
for provisions for benevolent purposes
The fact that more than two hundred in
sane persons were herded in the jails of the
State, lacking every essential to proper
aud s"alutary treatment, and falling into
hopeless i,liocy for want of attention; aid
that great numbers of deaf, dumb ana
blind were in a position equally necessltons
IiinperativeIv called for rplief, while the
small item for the Capital was mainly iof
fire proof rooms for the State offices, all the
records of the State being exposed to de-
Siruction without such provision. The
Assembly Hall which would not seat com
fort h!v over IS members, was SO crowded
with 81. and the officers and ..obby, that
business was greatly retarded, and almost
Impossible to be done. The Capitol had
not IA single committee or vacant room,an'i
The State was renting oofns for the d"
apartment Of Public Instruction, and vari-
Gus other necessary purposes. so that OF
all the appropriations made, no II was o
more apparent and pressing necessity than
The one of $4,000 for this improvement.
The clainors oftlie Bafstow press on this
subject, a'e, as usual, false, and the mer-
est electioneering CANNON 10 cover ny
and keep out Of view their past frauds and
forgefies.- Mad. journal.
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