The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-11-03

An appalling array Of Figures for the Tar
Fayersto LoOOk upon.

The public are indebted TO our vigil
liant contemporary, the Brandon Repub-
lican, for first ventilating the following
list of expenditures of the last Legislature
culled from the pamphlet acts recently
published by the official organ of that
body. They foot up within fraction of
the enormous sum of EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS; and yet fall far
short of the amount actually expended.
During the entire history of the State
no such example of profigate squander-
ing of the public money has ever been
known. One half of the above mentioned
sum has heretofore been adequate to the
requirements of the State government. A
few of the items named are worthy
of observation. The whole concern shall
be overhauled and thoroughly dissected
and exposed in all its rottenness and cor
ruption hereafter.
The sum of THREE HUNDRED Thou
SAND DOLLARS, for salaries of state Off
GERS, judges, &c, &c, is nearly equal to
the amount required to defray the entire
annual expenses of the State government
before the war and between its close and
the inauguration of the Mongrel dynasty.
The appropriation is certainly unpre-
cedcated.
FORTY-Two THOUSAND SEVEN HUMID
RED DOLLARS to repairing and furnishing
expenditure, exceeding the original cost
of the building. 1t is the more amazing
when connected with the fact that after
the war as liberal appropriations as the
people could afford were made; and the
establishment was in order when Gov
Humphrey was expelled from it by Ames
with his federal soldiery. How the ex-
penditure of this extravagant sum came
to be necessary and how it was actually
made, will become matters of future
inquiry.
FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for the
Convention (black-and@an) of 1868.
What does this mean? The Convention
levied a special tax and the starveling adj
venturers collected thier bills and paid
themselves as they went.
EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for re-
pairing the State Capitol-an apprc pria-
ton which might well have been
dafarrad 70 a futura oooac;on vrboy
the taxpayers would be better able
to bear it. The building'was considered
tenantable, and no thought of such
extravagant appropriation to repair it
was INDUCED, until the Radicals who are
concerned in levying taxes, not in paying
them, were illegally invested with power
In addition to this general appropria-
ton, we find the snug sum Of NINE HUN
DRIED AND NINETY FIVE dollars for the
Office of Secretary of State No COM
plant of insufficient furniture was heard
until Lynch (colored) was installed.
The iniquity of the SECRET SERVICE
FUND, (FIFTY THOUSAND DoLLARs),
for procuring perjury and prosecuting po-
litical enemies, and rewarding partizan
favorites-has been before alluded to
1t is without precedent in the legislation
of Mississippi, and is in keeping with the
practices of the desperate men who owe
their control of the government of the
State to fraud, corruption and violence
The expenditures on behalf of the Ser
geant at Arms would BATTLE credulity if
we had not the evidence before us. On
this score FIFTEEN THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED DOLLARS are appropriated.
By glance at these items the toiling
taxpayers will see how they are imposed
upon by the Radical spoilsmen who are
swarming thicker than locusts over the
State. 1t is to meet outrageous appropri.
ations of which they are specimen, that
the taxes have been quintupled, and that
they are brought face to face with the APP
palling fact that their property will barely
escape sacrifice under the Collectors
hammer, or hthat they themselves,
are in danger of the criminals
cell under the law enacted by the Mon
grel adventures and broken-down hacks
who are administering the government,
which was instituted by aliens and ene-
mics, to plumber and Cypress, not to pro-
tect, them.