Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-14

J snaial Alpembly must prSgIde the sum Of Ons
and Sifty TlOusapd Thrts Hunarat
md EieAiy sis fsfyon the lreasary pfthsl
State, from the taxea drawn from the bard eqrn /
ings Of the people, 70 keep up system, which
10 shametuily cxtravagant, corrupt aud ineni-t I
cient. in the management Of our State works;
aud f the estimates Of the Auditor as to the reve
nue. OF the current year prove true, the amount
required from the treasury for canal repairs'
in addition to the revenue, win be swelled 70 !
the sum oil$l93. .S2l! (which sum, ,bya careful
Sitting Of the expenditures on eanal account,
such as Clerk hire 10 the Auditor Comptroller
aud Treasurer q Departs ents, payof examiners,
books, stationary, advertising, &c, &c., could
be legitimately swelled to $2OO.OOO! .,,.I., had
A few daysago the Cincinnati Gasettf was
exultng over Mr.. MARTs's management of the
Miami & Erie Canal, commencing his economy,
and exalting him as il, every way q remarkable
man for the place, Il profeseed 70 speak BY The
card, and said he only asked for the useof the
entire line of the Miami and Erie Canal, for the
year the sum OF $lls,000, whereas the official
annual report, from which the iGazstte protested
10 detiveit information, shows that he demands
for hat canal, for the year, the enormous sum
Of $ls5, ,Ss454
! IL would be D fortunate thing for the State
and for the well being and preservation oil the
Pablic Works--a valuable property, or at least
a property which costa an immense amount Of
money, and was always valuable until Repabf'
can mismanagement reduced it to its present
low condition-if the Representatives Of the
people could comprehend their duty in reference
to IL, and had the courage and nerve 70 throw
OF the malign influences, through which from
one step to, another, the canals have been
brought to their present low ebb.
AT the beginning of each session for several
years past, Republican members have admitted
that the question was one Of vast Importance,
recurring due delibcration, and thatit must not
be hastily acted on, and thus succeeding in
smothering it, the same members at the end OF
the session, have opposed action, because there
was not time in the few last hours OF the ses-
sion, to do anything with 80 grave question.
| Last year Gov. CHASE was brought on the floor
of the House by some mysterious influence, to
operate at the close Of the session, on Republi
can members, on this canal question. He and
the State officers defeated the lease to NUoEs,
MILLER and ROBINSON, and the result is,
that instead of receiving into the treasury
the rent of the year, $4,000, proposed to be
paddy them in advance, there has been drawn
out Of the treasury, over and above the tolls
paid in, more than $4,000 to be expended on
the canals! Last year, at the end of the session,
Mr.. HITcHcocK opposed action, because OF the
Importance and gravity Of the question, and the
necessity of time for drc examination and de-
Liberation, which, from the iateness OF the hour,
he could not have; and last week he opposed
preliminary steps 70. this session, because they
were made too carly! And thus we go, until the
canals which, in 1851, paid into the treasury,
after defrsying the expenses Of lheis repair, the
sum OF $40 coo, have been for several years
minus over 100000 per annum, end will aeon
cali upon the treasury for aid over srd ADORE
their revenues, to keep them in any kind of or
der, to the tune OF 5000, 0OO per year, or more
than even that ia .sfsf g.9s2ssz1
In such state Of tbIugs, the twisting, tntn-
ing, shutting and msnipulstons OF the Repubii
czi, 1iansgefs, ls xas.4
one knows the canals are going to destruction as
fastas they can, and that such is their present
condition, that il would require Eve years Of
hard labor to recover small part of the business
and revenue they have lost through negligence.
Every one Is aware tha. they are heavy charge
upon the treasury, and Jet Republican mana
gers seem determined that 10 reform shall be
had. The Governor gFsvely recommends that
he shall be allowed to appoint commission of
three men, to go out and look at them, and come
back and tell him what they think about It! A
member gravely requests that a committee Of
twenty one be appointed in the House to consider
the question, and another asks that it be increas
ed to eighty one, while the member who halls
from the county represented in days of fold by that
sensible and frugal statesman and patriot, JERE-
nIAH MoRRow, says he learns that plan will be
proposed to cede these Works to the counties
through which they pass (D and thus the repre-
sentatves Of the people tamper with this vast
State property, and contrive to, allow it to con.
tinue to be subject 10 the annual mismanage-
ment by which 1t is rapidly going to decay and
FINAL destruction.
- a-------------..--- FgBEA &