Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-26
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Specific APPROXIMATIONS

the New Albany LEDGER cites as an instanc
OF Republican layishness in public expen
dlture. We now purpose to specify som
of the largest appropriations made in tina
i. bill to pay debts incurred under Democrat
6 ic auspices, and to defray expenses growing
; out of the rascality or maladministratiol
Of Democratic officials.
Appropriations amounting to seven hun
bred dollars were made to MORRISON & RAJ
for legal services rendered the State during
the Democratic administration of Governor
WRIGHT
Alsoto Joseph E. Mcdonald for services
in endeayoring TO protect the State from
loss on account OF the Slower swindle, in
Guiding his expenses, S3,2O5, and TO J. f
, Kirby for like services, $50; making
-, 700 lost to the State in this matter, in
consequence of Democratic Agent OF
State neglecting his business and placing il
in the hands of rascally subordinate.
To Aquilla Jones for money oyerpaid
! Governor Willard during his term of office.
$500; to Nat Cunningham, ex Democratic
Treasurer of State, l,ISS, for fees, real or
pretended, which occurred during his term
OF Office, years before; and TO j. X. Gapen,
S3,2s5 60, for services in paying the inter
est on our State debt i'm The years 1868,
llS6i and 1863, while John c. Walker. the
Democratic Agent of State, was busying
himself in perfecting the organization of
the traitors calling themselves Sons OF Lib
erty and refusing to perform his official
duties.
We also find an appropriation of S9Oj to
Mcdonald & Roach, for services in defend
ing a suit broughtto carry out Democrat
&c conspiracy in 500, to prevent the pay
iment ofintcrest on the State debt; and $500
ito 5. III. Patterson, for attorneys fees in
suits with cOnvicts Illegally sent to the Pen
litentiary, under an unconstitutional law
passed by Democratic Legislature, and
annulled by Democratic Supreme COcIi-
| Among the performances of the Confed-
crate Legislature of 500, was the appoint
ment ola committee on Arbitrary Ar
rests" which had for its mission the glori-
| fication of the Blackford County draft ri
oters and the beatification of a few domes-
tic rebels who had been Justly imprisoned
by the military authorities, for reasonable
conduct. The Committee summoned
before it these martyrs to Democratic prin-
ciples, and one or two loyal men were ex-
amined, on the demand of the minority of
the committee. We do not know how
much was paid to these witnesses out of
the legislative fund of 1868, but claims for
witness fees were presented to the Legisla-
turc for 1865, TO the amount of 1925, and
allowed. More of these demands were
presented at the late session. some of
which were paid, and we doubt whether
the State will see the end of them while
any of Alilligans bandits remain alive.
a large number of items arc embraced
in the bill, which should have been paid by
/ the Legislature of 1863, being part Of its
I'm I'm expenses, or of Democratic State off
GERS. Also two appropriations amounting
to S2,s45 80. for 'ssundries furnished the
Democratic State Librarian; in sea and To-
refurnshing the State House, under the di-
Tection of the same Librarian. prior to the
assembling Of the Legislature of 1865
proper expenditures we presume. but no
''he expenses of 1866,
An appropriatiuli CO &c -; - 100 SO was also
made TO dcfray Indiana's portion ofthe ex-
,on.., Of fitting up the National Cemetery,
~ c:o,,rs,,,.--c and building amonument to
the heroic dead no fell on that historic
field No doubt the L,-iqer ;ons'u 'ea,, .n, Una
a reprehensible waste of pub.lc no.; "n III
so, more likely, do Milligan, Boz. ies IA
Brick Pomerov.
Nine hundred and fifty-two dollars were
also appropriated to one Geo III. Murphy |
State for land TO which ii afterwards ap-
Ipeares he could give no title. Also S552
for books furnished the State Prisons in
1861; and $500 to the Bedford Branch Bank,
for interest coupons lost. properly chargea- |
bic to the items of interest on the public |
debt.
We have enumerated only the larger
appropriations for paying old debts, |
contained in the specific bill passed at the
special session of 1863 There are many |
others to pay claims accruing between
1853 and the meeting of the Legislature OF
1865, which cannot be specified without
making this article tediousiy prolix.
Wchaye presented enough to exhibit the
dishonesty of the Ledger, in charging that
the specific expenses for 1866 were over
536, 900 and have shown that the largest
| items of expenditure are attributable to the
corruptiOns and acknowledgement of Demo-
| cratic officials in the days when that reck-
less party controlled the political power OF
the State
As some of our readers may not be ia
miliar with the history of the Slower swim
die, which cost the State near $1,000 in
attorneys fees, besides injuring her credit
at period when it was necessary to borrow
| money to protect our borders from invasion
we will briefly review the facts in the case:
| In 1853 James n. Crayens. Democrat,
was elected Agent of State. He took with
him to New York another Democrat, named
Slower, as his clerk, and seems TO have
devolved the duties of the Office. TO a con-
siderable extent, upon the latter.
Under the loose system ofdoing business
i under the Democratic regime, blank certifi
Gates of State stocks, signed by the proper
State officers at Indianapolis, were furnish
ed the Agent at New York, so that when
Irdiana stocks were sold by the parties TO
whom they were issued, new certificates
could be issued without delay to the pur-
chasers, in place of those so sold which
had TO be surrendered by the purchasers
to the State This was an accommodating
system for our stock holders, but one liable
10 great abuse, and calculated to invite
| fraudulent issues of stock, but ii was a fair
specimen of Democratic finanelering.
4 Slower saw in it the road to fortune, and
! entering into confidential relations with
Wall Street broker and speculator, he fill
ed up blank certificates then in the office
of the Agent of State. and put upon the
market S2,440,000 of spurious five: per
cent. Indiana stocks, with part OF the
proceeds of which he established bank
in New jersey The fraud was not discoy--
cred until after Colonel Hudson was elect
! ed, in 1861, and the. discovery CAM. at the
most unfortunate time possible for the
State, lust when she was endeavoring to
negotiate loans to arm and equip her vol
unteers, and to provide means to defend her
soil from threatened invasion by rebel ar
mics. New York capitalists generally re-
fused to purchase the bonds of State
whose important financial interests had
been so carelessly managed as to enable
mere clerk to increase the apparent amount
lof her debt thirty-three per cent, and in
CONSEQUENCE the two million loan of ! SCI
was sold at discount of about fifteen per
cent, say 100000 on the amount OF the
loan Jhree-quarters of a million of those
forged stocks are still held by parties in
] New York, and although they are not lc-
1 cs.1 c1aiD1s araiusf the State fhev- iniurp