The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-04-03
LEGISLATIVE ExTRAvAGANCE,
The appropriation Bill In the Senate.
An Increase of $500. 900.
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Special Correspondence Pittsburg Commercial.
HARRISBURG. PA, March "A, 1868.
The Senatetook up the general apprO-
priatiOn bill this morning, Senator
Randall, OF Schuylkill, in the chair, in
Committee of the Whole, and has been
engaged all day in its consideration in
Committee of the Whole. The Finance
Committee of the Senate reported sever
al amendments Is to the bill as 1t passed
the House. Amongst these amend
ments are the following Salary OF the
Auditor General raised from ttcenfY-
three hundred to thirty fire hatndred dol
lars j; salary of Surveyor General raised
from tlcO thousand to ticO thousand .fCe
hu12drPd dollars; as compensation for
his services in the sale OF the agricui-
tural land scrip. The salary Of each
messenger in the several departments
was raised from eight to nine hundred
dollars. The Governor is authorized
to employ 4 temporary clerk al salary
not exceeding Onehundred and twenty
five dollar per month. This IS an adj
ditiOn to his Private Secretary. The
senate also added messenger to the at
torney Generals office, and attached
six hundred and forty dollars salary
to it. Also made an appropriation OF
eleven hundred dollars for some kind
of Paris clock thai is stuck up in the
office, and a new heating apparatus that
has been introduced at somebody's Sug-
gcstiOn. Six thousand five hundred
dollars were also added to the tenth see
tiOn for the historical department, two
thousand Of which is for the salary of the
State Historian and the balance for clerk
hire. The salary Of the Deputy State
Superintendent Of Common Schools
was raised from eighteen hundred to
two thousand dollars. Fifty thousand
dollars were added to the appropria-
ton for the soldiers orphan depart
ment, and one hundred thousand dol
lars taken off The appropriation to COM
mon misunderstanding the former four
hundred and fifty thOusad and the lat
ter five hundred thousand dollars.
The Senate committee raised the
salary of the assist nj and tTanScTl-
bling clerks of the Senate and House
one hundred dollars each, and The Ser
geant-at-Arms,C Chief DOOrkeeper, mes
senger and assistant messenger, Post
master and assistant, each two hundred
dollars. 1t also added seventeen thou.
sand dollars for boilers, and for hospi-
tai bathing room and chapel for the
Western Penitentiary, and fOrty-fve
thousand dollars additional for repairs
and alteration of block number one
in the Eastern Penitentiary, making
the entire amount Of appropriation to
the Eastern Penitentiary siXty-tiVe
thousand. and TO the Western thirty
eight thousand dollar. Several other
additional appropriations were made
by the Senate Committee, bat they are
paratively unimpOrtaht. The fore
going are the principal. In commit
tee of the Whole the Senate increased
the salary Of the judges OF the Supreme
Court, from fCe thousand .fce hi02dfeCt,
to SeUeIl thousand fire hU1dr'cd dOii0rs.
Without adding up the several items,
! would suppose the additional apprO-
priatiOns made by the Senate will a.
mount to one hundred and fifty
thousand, if not two hundred thousand
dollars. | presume the bill will pass
the Senate finally pretty much as it
passed the Committee Of the Whole.
The section appropriating twenty FIVE
thousand dollars to the School for fee
ble-minded children, at Media-Which,
by the way, is an increaSe Ofnine thou
sand dollars over the amount agreed to
by the HOuSe-gaVe rise to pr0trac-
ted discussion. Serious charges We're
made both i'm the House, and Senate
in relation to that institution. With
out knowing anything, personally, a
bout the matter, | would suggest that
there has been too much smoke about
that institution this session to justify
the beliefthat there is no fire.