The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-01-29

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s A public document we'll worthy th
p attention of the Taxpayers, is printe,
+ under the title of blouse, Miscellane
J, Gus, NO. 23." 1t is letter from Attor
ney General Williams to the chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations
dated December 2, 1872, asking 70,
s3oO,00O to be put through in shorl
order ina deficiency bill to meet the
expenses of the various forms of ras.
cality by which men have been immur.
ed IN penitentiaries upon verdicts pro-
cured by packed juries and partisan
judges, and for the artful machinery
provided in the enforcement act TO
secure the vote of the Southern States
TOR Grant. This large sum of money
Is designed to pay bills incurred prior
10 June ~, 1872. Congress appropri.
sted the enormous sum of S., 1900. 900
for the service of that year. This
money was exhausted long ago. and
the Attorney General asks for more.
Nor Is he satisfied with the 300, 900.
1t seems that in the year endinp>
June 3O, 1871, the appropriation was
not all spent. and S659, 567 ,35 was left
over, probablyfor the reason that there
was then no Presidential election pend-
ing ana no pressing party needs. The
Mrse oalance was carried back to the
treasury under the operation of the
surplus fund law, and the Attorney
General wants the money nut in bis
hands again. He asks further that tho
statutes by which unexpended balan-
ces are carried to the surplus fund on
sne general account of the treasury,
may be repealed. He is in great has:e
lor the money, and is not willing to
wait for the passage of the general bin
which covers up the multitude of sins
any more than the district iobbers
who. yesterday, secured their booty If
million and a quarter OF dollars.
Following the letter of the Attorney
u eheral are some curious figures and
statistics. According to Mr.. Williams
it costs only 1921. 900 to
larry on the courts'in the great State
d Pennsylvania, and only about sy5
'oo in Ohio; bnt in the Western Dis,
rlct OF Arkansas, where the people !,
,i1afe under Clayton's tyranny, it costs =
.243, 900; and in South Carolina. al =
honsh ruled by loyal negroes, $40 l,
'OO; and in North Carolina, where the I
lrst State election was held last sum-
ner slS4,O00. The Attorney General -
r'es to excuse these heavy expenses .
" a'le'iging the distance required to Il
AIRY witnesses, though in California y y
ne total is only $4,000 as compared y y
18th Sls4,OO0 in North Carolina. or 81 -
ne-'hird the expense in a State three 81
mes the size of the other. 1t is also r. r.
l'eased that extra expenses for paw. 81 81
g supervisors of election by the act u
June III, 1872, were needed, but the "a
Nv says the supervisors it created III
la!l receive no compensation.
10 vlndicate himself the ATTORNEY ~
eneraI snhjoins copies of very touch #
g appeals he had written to the no. W
rlous Marshal Carrow, of North Car ii,
ina, begging him not to spend so tn
ucll money. Carrow is rather ten. pl
,rly handled. 1t would not do to pa
IN i'lm up too tight just before the e e
'rth Carolina election. But Wallace. IL; Ee
9 marshal in North Carolina, which an a"
as deemed safe, and the marshal in sci
akota Territory, which did not vote. es
me in for very rough rebuke for dit
9 want OF economy. 1t does not an. is
ar that any marshal was dismissed ph
extravaganza, and there is no esti- De De
ate in this document of the probably a th,
'ge expenses from the Both of June h a
the time of the Presidential election.
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