The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-10-09
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the columns Of the Democratic press.
They are set down rs the expenditures Of
the last year of the State administration
and thereupon editors and orators 70 OF a.
agonies of economical patriotism over the
ruinous course Of the State administration,
Now we propose to submit this terrible
matter to the people on n single paragraph
from the Auditors report, whence the figures
were taken. He says:
'The expenditures of the State, during the
last year, as will be seen by the foregoing,
are unusually large. Very considerable
appropriations, DESIGNED TO SUFFICE FOR TWO
YEARS, have in some instances been entirely
drawn. The Insane Asylum and Penltentiary
have together received over ONE HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. The
expenses incurred by the last General Assem-.
bly, exceed THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, upon
the heels of which came the constitutional
Convention, costing nearly another THIRTY
THOUSAND. Other large items will be seen
in the list Of expenditures. The STATE DEBT,
for which bonds were held in the bank of
Philadelphia, amounting, in principal and
interest. TO FIFTY SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE Hun
DRIED DOLLARS, has been Cancelled, by effectinp
loan Of the Five per Cent funds, and may
be reck oned among the other expenditures Of
the State
Some of the other large SUMS alluded to
are SIC, 900 for salaries of Judges Of Su-
preme and District Courts, SIS 900 for the
Institutions of the Blind and the Deaf and
Dumb, $l2, 1000 for Stationary, $1,000 for
Supreme Court Reports, $40, 900 for Geo.
logical Survey of the State, and S., 900 for
Agricultural Societies.
These appropriations were deemed nee
essary and were voted for by members
without distinction Of party as general
thing.
Would the Locofoco politicians dispense
with all these appropriations, turn their backs
on the deaf and blind, and close the Treasu'
~ Of the State even against their modest
calls? Would they refuse all encouragement
to the Agricultural societies, and leave the
State without Geological survey? And
would they go still further and stop the sal
aries IF the Judges and thus close our courts,
and then finally do without a Legislature,
that they may save the expense attending 1t!
One might infer that such was their policy
to hear them hold forth now, hut we all know
that their members voted for all these appro-
pria,ions in the Legislature and claimed
credit for doing so.
We are happy to inform the people that,
Notwithstanding all the dark and gloomy de-
nunciations of extravaganza and bankruptcy,
the financial condition of the affairs of State
show as fairly on the record as ever they did.
The taxes levied for 1858 and 1859, if paid,
would liquidate all the State debt and all
liabilities in every shape, pay current expen-
ses and leave balance of three or four hun
dred thousand dollars in the Treasury. But
the people, in consequence of the financial
pressure, do not pay their taxes promptly,
and in consequence the State has been forced
to borrow for the present.-Gate City.