Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-31


Total receipts, ,636, ,927 Is
Cardozo. Of the amount stated as received
from taxes, 81 ,596, ,442S1 are from the taxes OF
this year, the balance about $4,000, came
from the delinquent taxes of preceding years.
HUGE DEFICIENCY.
Correspondent. There will be large de-
fciency, then, Mr.. Cardozo, for the General
Assembly to provide for next year?
Cardozo Yes, sir, of course, there will be-.
If you take into consideration last years de-
fciency, still unpaid, and this years defcien-
cy, the aggregate will be about SSOO,OOO or
the difference in my receipts in round numbers,
S1,600,000, and the appropriations of this
year and of last years DEFICIENCIES, S2,400,0OO.
Correspondent. How much have you paid
on last years deficiencies?
Cardozo I havn't the figures precisely, but
it is about 100000.
Correspondent. That left you about $780,
900 to meet this years appropriations,
amounting to something over 81, 100000, and
there will consequently be about 100000
deficiencies from this years appropriations.
Cardozo Yes, it would appear so, and per-
haps ought to be so, but the fact is that
have paid the printing and other claims, for
which appropriations we're made this year,
though the services were performed last, out
of the deficiency tax, as l conceived it proper
to do. These claims amounted to something
like 100000, and consequently the deficiency
for this year will be 100000 instead of $780,.
900, and there will be about 100000 of the
old deficiency still remaining. 1t was robbing
Peter to pay Paul, but of course it is all the
same to the State.
WHAT AND WHO HAVE BEEN PAID.
Correspondent. How have You been making
your payments generally?
Cardozo. Well, I have paid all the sala-
ries, I think, up to the end Of the second
quarter, the 3Oth April. have paid the
Lunatic Asylum, Penitentiary, &C., up to
about 1st June, and upon all other appropri-
ations proportionally as nearly as [ could.
On account of last years Deficiencies have
paid the salaries very nearly in full, the Lu.
natc Asylum entirely, the Deaf, Dumb and
the State Orphan Asylum nearly in full to
the Penitentiary have paid about $4,000,
or nine of the twelve warrants which were
out. You know three of them had been put
upon the market by Governor Scott without
any authority Of law. For the deficiency in
last years public school appropriation l have
paid about $4,000.
THE SCHOOL FUND.
Correspondent How is that? Was there
not an appropriation of 100000, and l
thought you paid nearly all the regular ap-
preparations in full?
Cordozo. So I have but though there was
an appropriation of 100000, there was only
about 100000 expended or contracted to be
paid last year on account of the public
schools. They were not in operation but a
short while during the year, not being able
to get any money from the treasury.
THE ANIMosITY TOWARD THE TREASURER.
Correspondent Well, Mr.. Cardozo, to what
do you attribute the animosity which has been
aroused against you by a certain faction of
your party?
Cardozo. The cause of the dissatisfaction
with, and ill-feeling toward me, by certain
hangers-on of the State Government is, in my
judgment, that have stopped the thieving in
the treasury. I pay only such claims as
am directed to pay by the General Assembly
but there are daily applications made to me
to pay all manner of illegal claims upon the
State, and because will not abuse my trust
as these parties desire me to do, they become
offended. suppose there is floating debt
of at least 81, 100000, composed of claims of
all sorts not passed upon by the Legislature,
and they are being continually presented at
the treasury. Of course cannot pay them,
and the holders become dissatisfied. Of this,
however, I am sure-my administration of
the treasury must satisfy every citizen who
desires to see its business honestly conducted.
With this 1 arose, and thanking the treasu-
rer for his courteous replies to my inquiries, |
took my leave. QUI WYE.