The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-08-06
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Facts for all Taxpayers.
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APIain Record OF the Extrav-
agances WastefulneBs and
TrickeFy Of the Fifty r
Boz Eighth General
Assembly.
- evo.
How the Party Hangers-on w4IS taken
Care of at the Expsnssaot j1aF
f the State. erT sjr
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How the Appropriation Bills
were Dootored. q,
Taxation EntaiIed on the State
for Future legislatures to
iv i. Take Care OF. g.
old ,v sd aaH si9blsE aad
-1i 7ragFI yj Vigc uao1z ssg ,a9y7 80,
Unparalleled RechctesS9geSS
and PVO11igGcy IN the
VIEW Halter a0f Local i''9
TGGOtiOgI. s7sa
-. ,1.-' - I se1d
Immense sums Of Money at from
o 1910 per ceRt.0iGO be
e ffu2 Borrowed .H Is 7f B
asos 5s'Ia--- q = TEb-
JTalimited Po1Oers Of County Com
neiSSioners.
tsH - sasa-I yie
&C., 80, go, 60.
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Immense sums Of Money at from
o 1910 Per ceRt.oiIO be
e tlu2 qBOFEOyVeda IL IS nj b
Ualimited Powers of County +
neisStoners.
From O. s. JOurnaI.1

II GIOn u ESs CCuiAldAs4
The Fifty-eigth General Assembly :,
after an unexampled labor of IS4 days
in 1868, brought forth a volume Of SS7
pages of laws; short an acute scconch-
ment in 1868, resulted in miscarriage,
and no increase of our interesting fam
| lily of statutes resulted; but another
protracted labor of I26 days duration
in 1859 produced the largest increase
ever made in one session-no less than
460 pages, and weighing something
like eighty pounds, avoirdupois, in
manuscript. The united product of
the three sessions of this General As
sembly is thus seen to be T97 pages Of
Democratic legislation added to the.
statute book. 5isa@ aa j, onf ,aod
Even good and necessary Legislation
is apt to be expensive to the people. It
costa something for the expenses Of an
scoRORsieat legislature-its per diem, the
pay Of its numerous hangeTs-en, its fuel,
flights, stationary, printing, binding,
distributing laws and documents and
so forth. Every additional day adds
to all these expenses; every additional
law makes more work for all hands and
more pay for everybody And every.
change on the statute books makes q
harvest for the lawyers. The Fifty
eighth General Assembly deserves the
name Of the Lawyers Friend. It has
done more to give employment to law
lyers than any other Legislature ever as5
isembled in Ohio Now, if eventhe in
dispensable legislation of an, economical
General Assembly is expensive to the
people, what shall be said of this Cen
eral Assembly, that sat longer at q
higher per diem, and made more and.
worse laws than any body of the sort
that ever before existedi ssidi sol vi a
s'sSasan finds some mischief still ,.for
idle hands to do.Y Twas not to be ex-
peeted that our Democratic Legislature.
Of unhappy memory would avoid doing
great deal of deEilment during the ex-
IcessiVe leisure of two hundred and sixty
days at the State Oapitoly on the COM
Portable salary of five dollars day..
True, they might have finished up theirt
work and adjourned promptly, butsnoI
Democratic legislature ever had en- OBJ
lportunity before, in the history of the
State, to dfaw five dollars day; and
the opportunity was one to be improved
to the utmost. 1t was probably the
last chance of most of the members of
the party, accidentally in the majority
as it was for that one term. There was
a large number of old political9backs to
be fed whose noses had not been inside
the public for a long time before. They
looked gaunt and holloW-eyed. Their
bones asserted themselves unpleasaRtly.
And they gObbled the public pluhder
.Yoraeiously, taking rather more than
full ratlonss sa,s . a3x4.E ,s5ail
A few facts in detail as to what may
be called a. sas1izss 3-s.s8
ExPENsEs PERSONAL TO FHE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. |
1858. Sessions of lS4 days. cost of per oi
-, diem and milesge, .gl25,445 II
ioo0' sessions OF 10 days, cost OF per gs.
diem and mileage. ........a..s. III, ,l6S 93 |