The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-09-16

expenses and salaries which the hill
would authorize AS follows:
! One Commissioner, one year, $4,000
| Twelve assistants, $4,000
| Clerks To COm'C and ASStS., lOO, 400
Salary Of \ gts. in 2,O6i coun-
ties, 3,O96,GHO
Salary of clerks to agents, 4,953, GEO
>lOthIuG, &c, To freedmen, l',0OO,oUD
Stationery and printing, 6$ 600
Fuel, Ia, ,SUO
Schoolmasters, 1000
S.houi ,.ad poor house, 5000. 600
Telegraphing. $4,000
Expenses for one year, S2s,SO7,OOo
The President vetoed the bill and
among his objections he said:
che appointment Of am agent for
every county and parish will create an
immense patronage; and the expense
OF the numerous officers and their
clerks, to be appointed, will he great
in the beginning, with n tenacncy
steadily to Increase. The appropria-
ttous asked by the freedmeh's bureau,
as now established, for the year 1866.
amOuuted to 81, ,7i5,0O0. 1t may be
safely estimated that the cost to be in
CURED under the pending bill will re-
duire double that auSSunt-about $2l.-
OOO, ,O0O-more than the entire SUM ex-
pended in any one year for the entire
government in ]. q. Adams's admin
istration."
The President also objected to it on
IL - hn EnwGff-
tuition, in taking away land from for
mer owners without legal proceedings
and in establishing government p,'or-
houses for the blacks but none for the
whites.
But assuming the annual cost tn be
as estimated by President Johnson,
about s2t, ,O0O,O ,OOe, let US see what por'
ton Ohio pays. The population OF
the United States in 1860 was sl,000.-
COO, and Of Ohio 2,339,5ll, or e-fif-
teenth of the whole. Basing on pop
ulatiou, Ohio's portion OF the tax to
support negroes is One-fifteenth Of
twenty-four millions, which is g., ,6O0,-
600 year. The portion Of this tax
falling upon this Congressional district
would be at least 500, 900. distributed
as follows:
Stark county'S share, CSC, 900
Culumbiana county's share, $4,000
Jefferson county's share, 10000
Carol county's share, l2,OOO
Congress afterwards passed q second
bill, which the President also vetoed,
and they then passed 1t over his veto
and 1t Is now a law.
THE oYrICERs CREATED UNDER THIS
FRREDMEN's BUREAU BILL.
]. One Assistant Commissioner for
each of the Southern States, at a salary
Of s., 900 each, and each Commissioner
six clerks.
2. One agent and two clerks in each
county, at salaries of 81 900 each
There are l ,12S counties in the States
where the bureau operates. Each
agent to keep up an Office, to be fur
nisheJ with stationery, fuel and other
things, at expense OF the taxpayers.
RECAPITULATIoN.
IL Commissioners. 5000
eacns Soo,UOO
&C CONS clerks, $1,000
each, G6,oOO
I,I2s agents, 81, COO each, LIPS. 900
1885 ag'ts' cl'ks, 81 900 each, 2, ,256, 900
Rent of l,lS9 offices, &c, at
$500 eacl., SOL, 900
3,46l Office holders, getting $3,969, 900
Each county would be compelled to
have at least one negro poor-house,
costing not less each year than one
county poor-house, thus:
l,l2S new poor houses at
$1,000 each, 1910, 600
Annual maintenance in each
OF say 500 negroes, at sl0O, 5,6i0 900
Total, S1I ,28O, 600
Thus Bingham & Co. voted for the
creation Of 1851 new omces, 1,12s ne
gro poor. houses, to support 564, 900 ne
srOes In idleness, at IA cost OF eleven
millions per year and four millions for
officers.
! II We take the amount appropriated
! Just before Congress adjourned for the
support Of negroes until next Decem-
Der, being s6,OO0,OOO for one-third oi
the year, ii would show the cost un-
Ger the new bill to be eighteen mil,
lions per year, and to raise this
amount
Stark would pay ,27, ,OOC
COiumblans, z0,OO(
JetiersoA, l5.UOt
| Carroll, 5000
Such are the enormous tax burden;
fastened On these counties, and ON tbs
State, and on every State in proper
tion, ny Radical policy, which policy
| Amber Will vote to continue ana
Lawson would oppose with might and
main.
Remember that deficiency bills ar,
usually brought in at the end Of the
year and the negro business will prob
ably exceed the eighteen millions.
Now let the Ambing carpet bagger
that run out from Canton daily anC
nightly to draw the wool over III,
eyes OF our farmers aud Others
who wear their wAmuses and rails
wheat and corn by honest labor. ex
plain this negro business to them in
stead Of twaddling about the New
, York rots and calling Horstio sey
mour ga miscreant''-a man who
) oAe OF the very first men OF the couu
try and acknowledged to be chris
, tian gentleman.
Remember this negro tax Is but on
Of the many items OF eIpense-lt
only drop in the bucket. a Iarg
standing army and navy-A corruI
Congress, who vote themselves an
their friends gold pens, penknive4 an
scissors and other things-gold int
| raat on tho hOnda-hOrdes Of official