The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

The figures were compiled by Messrs.
Pope g. Haskell, after careful scrutiny
and examination into the Appropriation
Acts and all other necessary records, and
were undenied and unquestioned. The
entire appropriations made at tho session
OF 1868 '63 amount to ST, ,138, 800. The
amount acknowledged as received from
taxes amount to 81, ,291 .4s2.O2. This is
about 100000 less than the amount
which should have been received, and
which, we doubt not, was crushed out of
our impoverished people. whether it ever
got so far as the State Treasury or not.
But, as it stands, we see that there is
over $3.50. 600 above the appropriations.
But mark this: In that very year, there
was borrowed through Kimpton $780,
7l4.50. and consequently upwards of
$500, 600 sqnandered above the appro-
priations.
In the years 1869 and 1870 there vas
appropriated 81, ,152. $4,000. Taxes ac-
knowledged to have been received into
Treasury $3.50. .97419. There is a de-
fcit hero of $291,3 There was bor-
rowed through Kimpton that year
1871, 039. making receipts in all
81, 1872. .013. 40. The excess paid out over
appropriations amount to $745, ,OOS.86.
For the year 1870 and 1871 the appro.
priations were $l.296, SCALA. Amount
received from taxes 81, ,3O6, 625. Sc. There
was borrowed through Kimpton this
year $751; 1858. 4s-making the amount
unlawfully paid out upwards of $3.50, 900.
The whole amount unlawfully paid out
for the three years aggregates the gigant-
ic sum of So, ,29S, ,394.77. This year, up
to the 18th of June, oil the money re.
ceived has been paid out very nearly on
account of legislative expenses alone,
and comparatively nothing hos been paid
toward the heavy appropriations. which
sum up S1.470,10 Viii the tar payers
not naooe? The prosecutions should COM
mence at once. We will have something
more to say on this subjeotAo-morrow.
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WAITING FOR DEvELoPMtNrs- 1t is
strange indeed that any one with any
perception at all, who pretends to be on
the peoples side in the pending struggle.
should lag back, or fail to come boldly
and squarely up to the scratch, and show
by unmistakable action that he is really
for the people and with the people. The
issue is now made up. the fight fairly
opened. It is no common one, either;
no mere party fight, but struggle OF
the better and more honest people, who
favor the great cardinal principles of
justice and equality upon which our Go.
vernment is based, against the more de-
prayed and abandoned ones, who favor
and uphold nepotism, centralism. pro-
scriptiou, corruption and lawlessness.
The standard bearers representing these
contestants are in the field, and for. any
man or journal pretending to favor the
peoples cause to lag back now, to await
developments, ia very strange, is ridicu-
lous and shamefully inconsistent One
would suppose that the last four years of
rule by the party in power, with its op-
preston, lawlessness and corruption, and
with its mountain of debt, bringing no
benefit to the country, were sufficient to
convince al men that they should not be
trusted longer with the reins of Govern
ment, and ought to chrystallize all OF
posed to; them into solid body, which,
hurled against the enemy, would COM
pletely and forever dethrone him.
CURIOUS OMISSIONS. - The Missouri
Democrat calls attention to the omission
in the report of the correspondence be-
tween Schurz and Greeley of the follow
ing passage from the letter of the former
to the latter:
''As You are undoubtedly aware, yonr
opponents in the press charge that you
are in contact with, and under the influ.
ence of, politicians Of doubtful charac.
ter; that if yon are elected President.
such men wonld be likely to be appoint
ed to influential Offices; and that, there
fore, the cause of reform has nothing to
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