Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-09-17
ABOUT RETRENcHMENT.

the victims Of misplaced confidence,
the responsibility shall not be ours.
ABOUT RETRENCHMENT.
The Newark Democratic AdUoccte, vi
anticipation Of Governor Hayes speech
at that place said:
ale VIII not tell his hearers thattbe Rad
zeal member Of the last Legislature voted
in their strength TO increase the salary of
per year, and that increase was defeated by
Democratic votes"
Now had Governor Hayes been dis
posed to mention this matter he might.
have stated that the bill t.. increase the
SupremeJ Judges salaries was petitioned
for by George II PeadtetOa. r. p. Ran
neg, Senator AUeR @. TRur8saB Ex-Sen-
ator George E. PEgb and many other
prominent and leading Democrats
throughout the State; that these gentle
men urged its passage by personal in
t%ercession with members; that it was
warmly supported by leading Demo-
Gratis in both Houses; that it passed the
Democratic Senate by a decided major
ity; that it was not voted for by all The
Republican members; that Repub-
Iicans were charged with the response
bility of its defeat, and that it would
have passed the House and become a law
but for the discovery by the Democrats
that it would go into effect in time to
increasethe salary Of the newly elected
Republican Judge White who had not
yet entered his term ofofice. Such
was the bistoTyof hat bill, and if there
be anything Objectionable in it, Gov
ernor Hayes silence upon the subject
was a favor to the Democracy.
The AdVocGte proceeds TO say
HHe Gov. Hayes wflInot tell his hearers
that the law providing for q geological sur
vey of the State (~inYolving the expendit-
ure of many thousands of dollarsl was in
reduced BY CAPTAIN lee. who is advertised
to speak at NeWar with Hayes, and re-
eeiyed b support OF nearly every Radical
So far as the Geological Survey is con
eerned, though il was advocated by
nearly the entire press of the State and
Petitioned for by such men as Judge
Ranney of Cleveland, Judge Ewing of.
Lancaster and scores of other promi-
nent business lRen, farmers and poll
ticIans of both parties, we are perfectly
willing, if the AdUocate choose, that it
shall be considered as a Republican
measure, and are willing for that mat
ter, to assume the entire, responsibility
for its passage. When a Democratic Leg
islature threw away twenty-five thous-
and dollars at one clip in purchas-
ing Swan & SaylOr's statutes, one third
of which that same Legislature has It
self repealed and made of no account
to anybody, it lily becomes q Democrat
to complain because it has been deter
mined to expend the trifiing sum of
thirteen Thousand dollars in develop
ing the vast mineral and agricultural
resources Of the State.
AS measure of -retrenchment alone
the Geological Survey, if faithfully and
thoroughly executed, viii prove one Of
the most efficient ever inaugurated in
Ohio. Whatever adds to the taxable.
properly of the State distributes and
relieves the general burden of taxation
in exact proportion to the amount of
wealth created, and this is precisely what
the Geological Survey should, and if
we'll sustained and executed will ac-
eomplish. 1t will not only attract cap
ital from abroad by making known
our resources, but at the sametime open
up new and almost exhaustless fount-
aims of wealth which will pour a gold
en- stream, of ever increasing volume,
not only into the treasury of the State
but into the pockets of the people.
GovernorWm. L. Marcy,a Democrat,
inaugursted the Geological Survey of
New York and to his dying day took
pride in it as one of the most creditabIe |
results of his administration. It has
been estimated that the increase in agri-
cultural production alone growing out
of the survey was not less than fifty
millions, and a like increase in Ohio
would be equivalent to a very large
reduction in the rate Of taxation.
Had the present Legislature been
earnestly ben upon retrenchfBen we
believe it would have passed certain
bills we had the pleasure of presenting
and which would have effected a say
ing TO the State of far more than the
For example, It would have passed our
bill, or one equivalent TO it. abolishing
the COmptrolIer's ofic- which costs
the State seven or eight thousand dol
every year of its existence and il
of no more use than a fifth wheel to a
" agon. But the Office was created by
the Democratic party, and while sever
al Democratic members were in favor
of abOlishing it their caueus ruled other
wise n so The bill was not passed.
They would Furthermore have passed
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unnecessary enumeration of male in
habitants taken once every four years
which costs the State fifteen or
twenty thousand dollars as often as
This bill would have made a
reduction of ten Thousand dollars in
The salaries of county auditors 1.-THE
reduction being in counties like
Hamilton, Cuyahoga and franklin
the salaries are enormously largel
md would have effected an average
iaving to the State Of fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars a year. This was a
measure of retrenchment, benefit
ID nobody but the State and conse-
luently bad none of the rings OF lob
lies in it's favor and was voted down.
While the Advocate is making such a
Of retrenehment as to forego for
Is party the honor OF establishing the
; logical Survey it will do well to !
III nixon thrse thinAs." ;
Andy 10 hnson's Postmaster General
eported a deficiency in his department 4
or the fiscal year ending June 80, 1869,
# $500, 0O0. Congress made the ap- j
but Mr.. Creswell, Grants e.
General, has managed to .
ave 81, 500, 900 of the amount.