The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-09-22

the increase in the expenditures of which
he complains. During 1866 the ex-
traordinary appropriations of the State
for Agricultural Societies, Blind, Deaf
and Dumb. and Insane Asylums, Peni-
Tertiary, Capitol, Swamp Land Selec-
tons, and Extra Session of the legisla-
ture-amounted to S1O8,25 81 against
only $2S,6Ol 20 for extraordinary appro-
priations for the years 1854. Now this
explains the difference between the ex-
hibt Of expenditures of these different
years, and OF course for these appropria-
tons the Democracy are responsible, as
they possessed the power in the Senate
to defeat them. if they desired to do SO.
He then goes on as follows
The Auditors report of November 1857,
which, gives the expenditures of the State for
Der, 1891, shows that your State expenditures
for that single year amounted to the enormous
sum of 1871 ,9U7 %.
And 1T will be remembered that these reports
OF 1906 and 1857, were made by Republican
Auditor; and they prove the average State ex-
penses for the three years, commencing Novem-
Der, 1854, and ending November, 1857, to have
amounted to $2O9, 493 Al per year. nearly four
times as much per year as the average expen-
dltures during the last four years of Democratic
ascendancy.
Now it will be recollected that our leg
islature only met every other year, and
that appropriations were, consequently,
made for two years. There was session
Of the Legislature, under the old consti-
tuition, in 1867. Subsequently the new
constitution came into force, and, agreea-
BILE to its requirements, the legislature
met again in 1873, aud consequently
the Auditor reported the expenditures
for the single year of 1857. The appro-
priations, as we before said, were made
for two years. but by examining the
Auditors report it will be seen that the
money was drawn. as is usually the case,
during the first year. and, therefore, the
report coming one year sooner than usual,
it exhibited an expenditure almost equal
for one year what would have been ex-
hlbited in two. For example /: The leg
islature of 1867 appropriated $50. 900,
besides officers salaries, to the penitenti-
airy, which was to last the institution for
two years. The money was all drawn
from the treasury, however. the first
year, and the auditor being compelled to
report again at the end of that year, this
$50. 900 goes to swell the large sum re-
ported as the expenditures of a single
year. And so with the other appropria-
tons. Besides, among the expenditures
of this year, we find the payment OF
S57, 500 Of State debt, which accrued in
l849 under Democratic administration.
Subtract this, and the expenses of the
Constitutional Convention, and the ex-
traordinary appropriations for Agricul-
lal Societies, Blind. Deaf and Dumb,
and Insane Asylums, Penitentiary, Cap
itol, Supreme Court Reports, &C., and
we find the ordinary expenses of the gov
eminent not largely increased. notwith
standing the salaries Of State officers,
Judges, &C., had been raised, and there
had been a great increase in the number
of organized counties, and in the popu.
lation of the State.
We have only space TO notice one 9TH
er statement made in this pamphlet, al
though there is not single one that
might not be as successfully refuted.-
This anonymous scribbler has the fol-
lowing
The Auditors report of November. 1854,
shows that the expenses of the State FOR " State
Printing" from November, 1852, to November,
1854 were S6,53l l3-about the same amount
as was expended for the same object the two
proceeding years, deduoting the cost of printing
the Code.
1t will be remembered that after the date of
this last report referred to, the Republicans
succeeded to the control of the State, and the
Auditors report of November, 1857, which con
tains the expenditures from November, 1854, to
November, 1856, shows that during these two
years the printing and binding cost the State
the enormous sum of Sal ,O47 69.
BY this he would have the people be-
lieve that the entire cost of the Printing
and Binding for the years 1854 was
S6.53l ID, while for the first two years
under Republican rule, it amounted to
$41, 047 So. From 1851 to 1853. VIM.
H. MERRITT, Democrat, was State Prin-
ter from 1853 to 1855, MAHoNY &
DoRR, Democrats, were State Printers ;;
from 1855 to 1851, p. MoRIARrY, Re-
publican, was State Printer. Now, by
referring to the Report Of the State Trea-
surer for 1856, we find who received the
warrants drawn by the Auditor for Print
ing. OF the S4l,o47 50 paid during the
years 1876, the Treasures Report
shows that VIM. III. MERRITT, Democrat
received 81 ,O97; MAHoNY d DoRR, Dem
ocrats, received $21, 227; and P. No
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