The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-10-04
Three Humid ed nnd seventy-onc
Th0nsanA Dollars.

Tho above sum, in figures and in letters,
in small caps and in capitals, in italics and
in job type, in every variety Of display, fill
the columns of the Democratic press.
They are set down as the expenditures of
the last year of the State administration, and
thereupon editors and orators 60 of in ago.
MES Of economical patriotism over the ruin
Gus course Of the State administration.
Now we propose to submit this terrible
matter to the people on single paragraph
frvm the auditors report, whence the figures
were taxa. He says:
"The expenditures OF the State, during the
last year, as win be seen by the foregoing
are unusually large Very considerable ap-
preparations, DESIGNED TO SUFFICE FOR TWO
YEARS, have in some instances been entirely
drawn. The Insane Asylum and Penitentia-
~ hare together received over ONE HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. The
expenses incurred by the last General Assem-
bly, exceeded THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, upon
the heels OF which came the Constitutional
Convention, costing nearly another THIRTY
THOUSAND. Other large items will be seen 10
the list Of expenditures. THE SrsTE DEBT,
for which bonds were held 10 the bank Of
Philadelphia, amounting, in principal and in
terest, TO riYTy-sEyEN THOUSAND FIVE Hun
DIED DOLLARS, has been cancelled, by effeeting
. loan OF the Five per Cent funds, and may
be reckoned among the other expenditures Of
the State"
Some OF the other large sums alluded to
are So, 900 for salaries of Judges Of SUI
preme and District Courts, $4,000 for the
Institutions OF the Blind and the Deaf ano
Dumb, $4,000 for Stationery, $4,000 for
Supreme Court Reports, $4,000 for Geolog-
icai Survey of the State, and S5,eeo for Ag-
riculsural Societies.
These appropriations were deemed neces-
sary 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 the blind, and close the
Treasury Of the State even against thelr mod.
est callsf Would they refuse all encourage
ment to the Agricultural societies, and leave
the State without a Geological survey An,
would they go still further and stop the sal
aries Of the Judges and thus close our courts
aud then finally do without Legislature
that they may save the expense attending il
One might infer that such was their policy 4
hear them hold forth now, blu, we Nil kno,
that their members voted for all these appro
priations in the Legislature and claimed creil
for doing so.
We are happy to inform the people tina,
notwithstanding all the dark and gloomy de
nunciations Of extravaganza and bankruptcy
the financial condition Of the affairs Of Stat
show as fairly on the record as ever they die
The taxes levied for 1858 and 1859, If paid
would liquidate all the State debt and all Ii
abilities in every shape, pay current expen
ses and leave a balance of three or four hun
dred thousand dollars in the Treasury. Blu
thepeople, in consequence OF the fnancia
pressure, do not pay their taxes prompt,
and in consequence the State has been force
TO borrow for the present.