Nebraska advertiser., 1860-10-04

NAA0N W - %~6
about to exercise a right, TO secure which
our fathers pledged their honOrs and for
tunes, and sealed it with heir TO d
l.. More About Those Appropriations.
The objections urged by Mr.. Morton
and his friends 10 Mr.. Daily's Bill, appro-
priating money for various Improvements
in this Territory, is that he provides for
the appointment of Commissioners who
are residents of this Territory, whose
duty it is to see that the money is proper
ly expended, and pays them for their
services. Heretofore tie Democratic
policy has been to appoint some man who
is not a resident of the Territory to su-
pefintend the expenditures. That man
brings with him nonresident engineers
and laborers, who, after completing their
labors, pocket their service money and go
back to the States to expend it. The Ne
braska City NswS figures up what would
be paid the resident Commissioners and
laborers to construct the Military Road
from Nebraska City as provided for in
Mr.. Daily's Bill, as follows:
. Commissioners for 7 months at $I2 per day 50 $50
! principal engineer at s. per days $50
2 assistant engineers at $40 per day 100
4 rod and chainmen at SO per day 2 100
8 labOrers at $3.50 per day ! 675
2 carpenters at $6 per day $50
3 teams and drivers At $40 per day 100
Total to Republican Commissioners, engi-
neers, &C. Sls,ss5
,CoRcede that all TO be correct, and then
what? Why thirteen thousand three
hundred and thirty-fve dollars of Uncle
Sans money is expended, and kept in the
Territory; while if Mr.. MortOn's policy
was carried out, it would all go out of the
Territory.
Take another view Of the matter; con-
cede "Stealings to be in" Forty thou
sand dollars were appropriated a few
years ago to construct a Government Road
from the north branch of the Platte to
the Running Water, in the northern part
of the Territory. A nonresident "Su-
perintendent'' was appointed to construct
that Road. The money was expended,
and no man has yet denied but that all the
work done by him could have been done
for ten thousand dollars, at the very ut
termost estimate. The superintendent
then took his snug little sum of thirty
thousand back to the States and speLt it
there. Had a resident Commissioners, T"
had a "fnger in the pie" that money
would have been expended in this Terri
tory.
Again, as to the economy even Of
stealing from Government appropriations:
Strickland admitted, when he made his
speech in this place, that thirty thousand
out of forty thousand had been fobbed
by one superintendent" and then he
figured up that trslUs Commissioners as
contemplated in Daily's Bill would only
pocket forty seven thousand, out of one
hundred and seventy thousand (!
So you see even taking their own fig
uring as to "s~tealings'' the matter stands
as is thirty thousand, to forty thousand so
is forty.seven thousand to one hundred
and seventy thousand; One nonresident
steals IS per cent of the appropriOn and
spends It in the States while t,OelUe resi-
dent Commissioners steal only % per
cent and spends that in the Territory.
But this all aside are we not ali salts
fed that resident Commissioner or Su-
p~erintendents would know better how to
expend judiciOusly money appropriated for
our benefit; and would feel a greater in
lerest in having it go further and do more
than would some nonresident man who
knew nothing of our wants, and cared as
little, 50 he only got his money.
Remember, voters Of Nebraska, that
S. G.. Daily is in favor of our residen,
citizens expanding appropriations and
thai ]. S. Morton is opposed to that policy,
and IS in favor of non-residents men be-
ing appointed, who will receive their pay
and go back 70 the States with their IN
gotten gains.