Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-11
The state Commissions.


The daily repetition of SANDER will in time
induce people to believe it, SO night after
night Mr.. Butler repeats his crude and ignorant
charges against the state government. Of all
the charges refuted and unrcfuted, with which
the interest in his extraordinary canvass has
been kept up this one has as little ground to
stand upon as any. Gen. Hawley made short
work of the SANDER against his military reputa.
ton. But the invention which excited his in.
dignaton and the attacks on the credit of our
own state belong to the same class. They have
nothing to rest upon They are the rawlings OF
a man insane for an Office and shifting right and
left at every good thing that stands in his way.
The false given below are taken from the record,
and are commended to the consideration OF
honest men.
The policy of assigning special investigations
and special public duties to experts, who should
be accountable to the chief magistrate or to the
legislature, grew up gradually with the growth
of the state, for the better protection OF its large
and complicated interests How far this diyl-
sion of labor and of responsibility should De
carried is question of judgment, when the peo-
pie of the state through their representatives
have annually the means OF deciding. Inc ms
tory of these commissions up to this time, in
spite of many difficulties and shortcomings,
| has not only vindicated the wisdom OF the
| policy, but it has shown beyond the
possibility of doubt that there can
| be no efficient, prompt and intelli-
| gent government without them. Of the
! thirty three commissions charged to the account
| of the republicans of Massachusetts as objects
| of extravaganza, the following should be
counted out as serving without pay, or as hay
ing expired with the eXigency which called
them into life.
/. Bank Observation-Disclosures in 1865,
after the establishment of the national banks.
3 PlCuro-pncumonia-EX services in
stopping destructive panic never duly recog-
nized by the state.
al 1,r;tI In
Element of that long standing controversy.
4. Peace commissOnerS-Term expired with
the single mission on which they were sent
5. Alien commissioners-Nlerg in the board
of state charities.
6. Allotment commissioners-Serv without
Z. Troy and Greenfield misunderstanding with
out pay.
8. Soldiers Notwithstanding without pay.
8. River hstructons-Merged in fisheries.
TO- Street ralways-EXpired; paid by the
railways while it lasted.
II. State house-EXpired with the finishing
of the work it was appointed to attend to.
u. Printng-EXpred.
10. Mr.. Haupt'S claimS-EXpired.
IA. Cape Cod harbor-Paid by the United
States.
15 Bountv-EXpired
10. Back bay-Merged into public lands.
To the list these facts should be added:
II. Board of Observation-Disclosures serving
without pay; expenses paid from the income of
the school fund, a portion of which annually
remains uneXpended.
IS. Railroad commissioners-Pdid by ASSESS
ment on the railway corporations.
10. Meridian lines-Created for a temporary
purpose, costing the State last year
500.
90 Hartford and Erie railroad bonds-A sin
gle agent authorized by the legislature of 1871
to protect as far as possible the states interest
in these bonds.
81. Pilot cOmmissioners-Paid by the pilots
OF the commission now in regular and constant
service Mr.. Butler mentions the items of eX-
DenSe only his clerk having, in some instances,
,onfounded the payments on account of 1869
With those of 1870, and settled his difficulty by
adding them together. The exact figures as
hey are given in the auditors report for 1870,
are these: