Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-05-20

- ed by the Chancery Clerk and mu,
~ of both the Circuit and CHANGER
y, practice has been. by recent enac
>, mcnt transferred to the iurisdictic
u ofthe Justices of the Peacc.
" Again, the expenses of the Sta
!; Printing for the year 1861, W,
ffSS,O2S for 1856, it was only Ss,15,
hut for the year 1870, it foots IN tn
startling sum of $52,97G.
Think Of this enormous increas
/. in the few instances named, IN
tell me- Senators, are You prepare
to vote for Il continuation Of sue
rates of taxes to support such eS
ccssive expenditures of the people
money.
Again, the Legislative department
tor the year 1870, cost the peopl,
the sum of S241, 191 90, when il
1861 it was but S56,9O9.
The estimated cost for assassin,
|, the property of the State for tn,
year 1871 amounts to $4,000
when in 1866 it cost but SlO,94l
Besides the appropriation ofSll, O0(
tor repairing tho Governors Man.
sion, which originally cost but 1885,.
900; the $4,000 for repairing the
Capitol and about $4,000 for fur.
nlshing 1.-THE $4,000 for extcn.
ding the Asylum-the SIT 900 for
constitutional Convention-thc
eoO,O00 Secret Service fund, with
lnnumerable expensive cxpcndi-
lures IN the various departments of
the State.
Now, Mr.. President, if this rate
OF taxes at one-half ofono per cent,
will pay all the expenditures, sala,
RES and appropriations for the year
1870, summing up the great amount
OF Sl,3l9 CPS 10, | would ask, after
those large appropriations have
been paid, even allowing the cnor.
nous salaries of the greatly in.
creased number Of officers to con.
Time, will not $40 of one Der cent
pay the expenses ofthc government,
under a just system of retrenchmcnt
and economy?-Such 4 system as
the people must and wiki require of
the officers who administer the
Government.
Why, sir, tho officers of State
appear to be exercising their pow.
erS and authority over tho people.
as If tho officers were masters, and
the people, who created them were
their servants. But such was not
the ease when the officers were Of
the pcopIe,-thc chosen servants of
the p%soplc~-and responsible to the
people for their every vote and
every act.
The assessed value ofthc real and
personal property of the State for
the year 1870, excluding the conn.
ties of Jones and Newton amounts
to
Realty, s11z8t9 Ola
Personally, 5S.435 05S
Estimating Jones & Newton
at 4,37S,30G
The grand total of the State
is only S1SO156 5G-
Why, sir, it is indeed sad and de-
p!ornbIe to contemplate the great
'iminution in these species of prop.
For according to the esti-
as shown on the averaoc
'ountics, in Governor AIcorn's mes.
'ag", the value Of the Same species
lt property for the fiscal wear 1860
must have been about S60l ,469,72
l would invite attention to these
igures, and ask them, is there not
great need Of retrcnchment and re.
,orm, when in 1860 over $500, OOO.-
)OO OF property was only REQUIRED
% pay about 100000 entire cxpcn-
'es OF the government, And now
1851, 100000 is required to n
more than 81, 300, 900 to support the
Besides tho additional F,
municipal, aud school taxes
mounting to from % to 5 per cent,
# the entire property of the State.
sir, when the property of the 1
has diminished more than
hroe hundred and thirty-threc and !
'ne-third per cent, (338i per cent? /
'uP estimated taxes hav6 increased :
nore than eight hundred per cent,
S00 per cent? in the last decade. {
AN any people on earth continue :
0 bear such an increased burden off
lNatlon! The annual increase of {
i'll the United States from n
1IO to the present time, as shown
y the census reports, is only 81 !
or cent. When, alas, our State n
bows a diminution of a far greater !
cent in the last ten Years. A t
tate, like an individual, when its r
Expenses are greater than its income, a
lust continue to grow poorer and f
oorer. And this mast inevitably
the condition of our State under s
10 present ruinous system Of taxa "
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