Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-06-26
From the Salem Republican.
The Economy Of the General Assem-.
bly,.


Ii is worthy Of remark, especially
By the taxpayers, that the Annual
Appropriation bill, passed by the Gen
/ eral Assembly this year, IS almost a
half a million of dollars less than last
year, when 1t was Republican. This is
q pretty handsome reduction of our
Democratic friends Ohio Patriot
1T is worthy of remark, especially
by the tax payers, that the annual ap-
preparation bills, passed by the Gener-
al Assembly THIS YEAR" foot up, in
the aggregate, within a Ueryfel0 dollars
as much as last gear, and In order to
accomplish that insignificant reduction
when the appropriation bill came from
the Senate to the House, the various
BeneU0BeRs Institutions of the State
were reduced, in the allowances voted
by the Senate, to be necessary to their
support, more than three hundred
thousand dollars. The Democracy
went even so far as to deprive the IN
fortunate Deaf and Dumb, and Blind,
and cOnValescent Insane Of their Chap
lain OF Moral Instructor, in order to
make show through their papers and
on the stump, In this falls campaign,
of reduction In the public expenses
Had it not been for the persistent ef-
forts of Republicans, they would also,
on the motion of Hon. II. j. JeWett,
Of Musklngum county, stricken out
the clause appropriatiDg the mere pit
tance Of tlUO h5ERdred dollars to buy
books for this poor unfortunate class
of our people, with which to while
away few lonely hours of Asylum
life.
1t is a well established fact that the
dominant party, in the Legislature last
winter, was opposed to intelligence and
education, and disfranchised students,
simply because they were students; but
they carried their hostility to books
even into our AsylUms, and proposed,
IN order to make political capital, to
starve the minds as we'll as the bodies
of the States helpless and unfortunate
citizens. Such ec0nODlyl and then
boast of it.
In keeping with their hostility to
schools, they also reduced the cOntin-
gent fund Of the State School Com
missioner to such an amount as to
cripple his efficiency in the discharge
of his duties. They utterly refused
him a single penny for travelling ex-
penses, yet the law requires the Com
missioner to travel, attend Institutions
and look after the general welfare of
education In the State. They legislat-
ed entirely on the principle that where
ignorance prevails, Democrats abound.
That, too, is an economy they boast of. |
The Democracy also struck out the
appropriation Of five thousand dollars
to complete the Soldiers |
Record, " by which the very valuable
statitics of the Ohio Army might
have been preserved. Every Repub- !
iican voted for the measure, because !
in assisting to procure a soldiers dues 1
it was actually necessary to have such /
a record. Every Democrat, on account /
of hate to the soldier, and the 7JFegeRse I
Of economy, voted against IT, What do /
they care, whether q boy In blue.
who fought their Southern friends, /
ever gets his pay or not? Every item
in the appropriation bill was in like 1
cut doWn-far below what the /
Senate voted to be necessary.
Now, We unhesltatingly aver that all |
this parsimOniOus, niggardly meanness /
on the part of the Democrats, was
mainly to enable them to say to the
people, this fall, that the Legislature
IF Ohio appropriated less money for
ihe wants of the State, than the pre-
sedIng Republican Legislature, which I
will be, in fact, not true
Again, the reason the Democrats ad-
oUrned the Legislature to the 23d Of
November, instead of to January, as
usual, was, that the eJectioneeriag ap-
made by them last win
eF, would principally be exhausted By
hat time, and the balance necessary to
ustain the State Government for the
of The fiscal gear, aU0stEE ne
haze to be prOVied for. The i
.niy difference IN the way Of doing ]
hese things is simply this.-the Re-
last year, included all that
vas needed in their general appropri- {
ion bill, and adjourned to January, :
7ithout any further expense to the !
eople. The Democrats, for eJec ton !
s5-igsg purposes alone, made only par
,Gt appropriations, and meet again
lore than forty days earlier than the
did, at an expense to I
he State of more than forty thousand G
OttGrs, e,UtTG, an one gear, to finish I
heir appropriation ball Nothing else Z
han that to do. Which plan do tap- !
ayers like best. 8
Next week, we shall endeavor TO in
h this subject, from the same text
Irnished us above, by the Patriot v
his false cry of Democratic ec0nnn1u, 0
e intend shall be understood. We ,
peak from the books, and know were r
We affirm. b