The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-01


had illegally distracted INN
8 bOoi funds.
Now under the pretext Of reform
'ey propose TO restore the same oil
ratloal crew to the command of your
educational shiD.
ID 1863 the entire school fund sf
the State was s. $50. 1868 SO, all nj
"nich Is productive except S6O3 637
ana nscrly ell of this is ia co
dltion To- be made productive as BOD
A. me L"gisIature shall provide for
| Its investment.
ORDINARY STATE EXPENDITURES.
But II IS charged that, If the results
OF Republican administration 10 This
5late are as we claim them 20 be-
these results have been accomplished
Dy the most enormous taxation. a--
eompanied by the most astoundile
extravaganza.
To 8DroUs this. the Sentinel. in .I,e
article alluded to, instituted a con-
parlson Of the ordinary expenses
the state government, aud also of tlIa
amount OF taxes assessed during ten
years Of Democratic rule aud a simi-
lar period OF Republican rule.
on may judge of the value aud
truthtulness of these comparative tab-
ular statement when i inform Won
that the year 1860, the last year Of the
! Willard Hammond administration.
IS set down in these lying tables as
the hrst year0 Republican rule.
Everybody except the managers Of
inc Sentinel knows that Governor
Hammond retired from Office aud
Governor Henry s. Lane succeeded
him in January 1851; aud the yenE
AooO was, therefore, year Of Demo
eFatlc rule which we utterly deClil8
to have showed over on the Bepu1i
can decade
l commend the Sentinel. however.
Tor It's anxiety TO get rid of one year
OF bad government; but assure 10 that
the attempt to show that Governor
Willard and Hammond we're Bepub
llcans 10 1860, must fail even amous
the most ignorant of Democrats
The ordinary expenditures of tha
State Government properly include
the expenses Of legislative, Judicial
and executive branches of the Sate
Government, disbursements, made 1n
account Of the Benevolent Iosdiu
tons, prisons. reformatofies, etc, etc
but do not include payments Of prime
eipal or interest on the State Debt.
/ In the Sentinets tables on this SUBJ
ject, the Democratic administration
from 1851 to 1859, inclusive, is com
pared with what Is pretended 60 bc tcu
years Of r publican administra ION.
from 1860 to 1869 inclusive.
We turn back the year 1860 10 them
aud for il claim a creditor &ll9 675 65
the amount charged 10 the ReDub
leans at the expense Of that year
Charging this year 20 as the NeHtt-
net foOts up the ordinary expense OF
ten years of Democratic admiBistra-
ton al 81 ,l45 329 SO, and ten years az
Republican rule at S2.059, g63 68
making an excess for Republican
over Democratic rule Of SO l4l 634 o.
or. $9l ,463 40 Of an excess for caCh
year.
Now, as there have not yet been tsn
years of Republican administrator, L
propose TO reduce the comparison to
the last nine years Of Democratic
rule. and the Grst nine of Republican.
i TO do this We must deduct from the
/ SfntiReEs Democratic tables the years
i 1880 aud 1851. the amount CHARGED
for those two years, being Sl5J 425 46,
this deducted from the 81 l45, 325 56.
aud we have, according 90 The Slni-
| nets own figures, $3.50 9O4 10, as che
ordinary expenses Of Democratic rule
for the eight years. commencing with
1852 and ending with 1899. Add 20
this for 1860. the ninth year, the sum
of $1l9,676 s., and we have l,103
$50 %. as the ordinary expenses of
tho State FER nine years. from 1852
to 1860 inclusive, under Demootaso
! rule.
According to the .Seatiners figures
we have, as before stated, 81 059-
963 90 as the cost of Republican rule
for ten years from 1860 TO 1863 in-
elusive; deduct from this for The
Democratic year 1860, the suu OF
SIG GIG So. and we have, accord ok
to the SentiHets own figures, 81 9l0,-
2S6 10, as the ordinary expenses for
nine years, from 1861 10 1869, in-
elusive.
But in this SUN the Sentinel has
charged the Republicans with &565.-
9z6 w as ordinary expenses, which
we're IN point Of fact interest paid ou
the Domestic Debt Of the State, as
follows. viz:
FOR 1917. ....., ... ...... $50
ror ieo5..-.'........ ...----.. ....... a02ill pa
For 1868 ........ ............ 90 O75 81
Total for three years. ...... s.G5B8 7l
Deducttug then thls..................8 6651z8 III
From the previously charged. 1giU2s0 13
AuQ we maven. lf3l1 800 81
As the actual amount Of ordinary exc
penscs for niue years of RepubIiean
rule from 1861 to 1869, inclusive.
Now, II we take from this sum inc
81 Jos $50 3d. ordinary expeo~es of
Democratic rule from 1852 90 1860 iu
elusive, we have, as the true excess of
the Republican over fhe Democratic
period, only S2l5, 1873 Sc. or S23.
93l W for each Oh the nine years:
sun much less than the increased
current expenses OF the Benevolent
Institutions and ReiOrmatOries con-
sfqu3nt upon the increase of popula-
ton aud the increased number of in-
mates in those Institutions.
To prove that / am not mistaken in
saying that the Sc tiHeL has crr0oa
0usly charged tie Republican admin
islrations with 1865 926 q. as dis
bursed for ordinary expenses, W bon
that sum was really paid as interest
on the Domestic Debt due TO the
School Fund, read the following
Of the Treasurer Of State:
STATE CT IEDIAHA,
OFFICE OF REAsURER III 1TATE,
INDIANAPOLfs, August a. 1870.
certify that in the Item OF elg8 $50 27.
stated IN the Report of the Auditor ~
state for the year 1877 under tae head old
Disbursements, Ordinary EGpc tdlLuresif
IN nave been dtsD used Ou account az
General Fund" Included $50 .s2j 75 inter-
est paid on the Dome-tic Debt 81 tue staI8
for said year hbf5 that "a Similar Item uf
f233, OF 10, stated In said Auditors Ea.
port for the year en- lng OCTOBER 30 8,