The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-10-07

so with all the other appropriations. But
let us see of what these expenditures con-
sist. Mr.. ELLwoop goes on to enumer-
ate-for Agricultural Societies, for Blind
Asylum, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, In.
sa1e Asylum, and Geological Survey, an
aggregate of Sl56, sol sc. In the lat
ter item he makes mistake of 1000 dol
lars. He put down the cost of the Geo.
logical survey at ss7,964 80, whereas the
Auditors Report shows it to have been
$1,000 so. Besides these items, there
are to be added-for the Penitentiary,
S24,s17; Constitutional Convention,
Ss7 ,0o9 65; payment of State debt and
interest, S57, 500. making sum total for
these expenditures, of 1907, 8a8 II !;
which, deducted from 1871 ,9o7 So,
leaves the ordinary expenditures S1o4,
079 46, instead of $2l5, 4O5 81, as Mr..
ELLwooD says they were. And when, as
we said before, we come to consider the
fact that all the appropriations were made
for two years, and not for one, we find
that instead of the expenditures being
four times as great as they were under
Democratic rule, they approximate very
closely, notwithstanding the salaries of
state officers have been raised, and with
increased population current expenses
must necessarily be increased.
He also says that as soon as the Re-
publicans came into power, they raised
the salaries ofthe Auditor, Secretary and
Treasurer of State to 1900 dollars per
annum. Formerly they were 400, 600,
and 500 dollars per year. 1t VIII not re-
quire much writing to convince the peo-
pile that the former salaries were too low,
and that the present remuneration, l, 500
dollars, is not too high for the services
performed by these officers. Mr.. ELL
WOOD knows that these salaries would
have been raised much sooner than they
were, had not the constitution prohibited
it. That instrument declared that these
salaries, with others, should not be raised
for 10 years, The constitution was
adopted in 1915, and in 1856 the sala-
ries were raised. and the journal of that
session shows that as many Democrats as
Republicans voted for the increase.
Again: Mr.. ELLwooD says that the
State Printing for 185o-'52 amounted to.
SO, 405 OF; for ls52-'54, it amounted
to 81, 531 l3; but that in 1876, the
first two years of Republican administra-
ton, that printing and binding cost the
State $4l, o47 SO. Mr.. ELLwooD would
have the people believe that these sums
denote the amount Of money paid to the
respective State Printers for their respect
i've terms of two years each. He knew
this to be gross lie. Mr.. MERRITT was
State Printer from 1851 to 1853, MAHo-
NY IL DoRR from 1853 to 1855, and p.
MoRrARTy from 1855 to 1857. OF the
forly-one thousand dollars reported as
paid in 1896, the Treasurer's Report
shows that Mr.. MERRITT received 81, O99-
SO, MAHoNY q Dom S21 ,237 %, and
p. MoRIARTY S12,859 80. Here, then,
were three State Printers paid during
these two years, for work extending
through six years, and of the whole
amount sDemocratic officials received
over $4,000 dollars and yet this miser-
able liar tries to make it appear that il
was all paid for the printing of the first
two years Of a Republican, administra-
ton. In this way. the school fund pilier-
ers are trying to make out a case against
the Republican party.
He then pitches into the Insane Asy-
lum appropriations. and takes care to say
that JAMES w. GRIMES was one of the
commissioners to whom was entrusted
the location and erection 81 that institu
ton, but. says nothing about EDWARD
JOHNSTON, a good old Democrat, being
another. His object is, of course, to
throw the whole responsibility of the af-
fair upon Gov. GRIMES. He then goes
on to give history of the appropriations
made and the acts of the commissioners,
and says that one wing Of the building
would be sufficient to accommodate all
the unfortunate insane which the State
would be called upon to provide for for
half century to come. By reference to
The report of the commissioners, made |
Jan. LIST. 1858, we find that they estimate
hat the building will accommodate about
hree hundred patients. Turning to the
Census Report of 1856, we find the num-
Der of insane in the State to be 100, and |
with the increase in population since,
there is 10 doubt but that this number