The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-30

CURED the expense Of the extra edition
containing the Message which accompan
les this number
The points in this document, Of mos
interest to the public, are a follows;
Peace prevails throughout the State
and the laws are obeyed
The disbursements of the State Govern
ment for the past year were 81 ,596, 900. 90
which Is but s135, 10000 less than ex
penditures of the previous year.
+ The reduction OF expenses IN the item.
Of Legislative" and Public Printing
amount to S112, 900
The increase on account Of the Judiciary
amount to S54 900, And the whole cost
Of this Department reaches to borrow
the language Of his accidency) THE
VERY ExTRAvAGANT AMOUNT OF s434,
O00!' The average cost Of this service
was about 800, 900 before the war, when
+ the property basis Of the State was four
times what it now Is And from this it is
shown also that the expenses on account
Of the judiciary are 500, 900 more than
the entire cost of the State Government
under Citizens Rule,
The ordinary disbursements for
carrying on the State Government under
the present Carpet Bag Regime, are
81 200, 900. The average " ordinary dis
bursements annually for the ten years
years just preceding the war did not
exceed $500, 000-and during nearly the
whole Of that time State warrants we're
at par with gold
Notwithstanding the increase Of taxes,
and the grinding law for their collection,
the receipts into the Treasury are S88, 900
less than the previous year
The present State debt is So 700, 600
Of this sum 81, 800, 900 is on account Of
Trust Funds. The balance represents the
sum that has been squandered by the
Wreckers, in addition to the sums they
have periodically extorted from the
wretched tax payers.
None Of the Railroad Companies have
paid the State the monies due on account
of loans from the Trust Funds before the
war, except the n O., j. Il G. y. II. r.
Company.
His accidency has no information in
reference TO the educational interests of
the State for the maintenance of which
the people are so freely bIed, but he indul-
ges the Yankee procIivity to guess
they are furnishing
Under the Subsidy law S81 900 have
been issued to the Ripley Railroad Com
pany. In this connection, he strs up the
Attorney General with a long pole for his
instructions to the Treasurer, dishonoring
the said warrants, and thus placing the
State in the 9 disgraceful attitude" of re-
Pudiating obligations which she had in
CURED. The question Is, why did the
BOBBY permit shat individual to thrust
himself into the business? If he had ex-
amined the law, he would have known
that the duty Of the Governor to require
the issuance of the warrants on condition
OF a favorable report by the Railroad |
Commissioners, was clearly defined.
These discredited warrants he is receiving
in payment Of the debts due from the /
Railroad Companies on account of the |
Trust Fund loan. 1t follows that he puts a I
estimate, upon the opinion
Of his legal adviser that they are uncon-
or he is criminalIv guilty of
payment Of the State dues in
worthless paper.
He recommends a special tax on all
he people to build Railroad from the
ea-shore to some point having railway
in the interior.
Don't he think he is pushing this mat
en-, OF levying taxes without consulting
hose who have them to pay, little too {
ar? If the principle is good, that the f
eople of county cannot be taxed for {
abroad purposes, without their vote as {
enting to it, is it not equally as Just that {
he same rule should apply to the people :
f the State
He advises against the revival of the t
ubsidy law. 5
Alcorn University is prospering, and :.
oxford is getting along swimminglv under
le free scholarship and 800 bonus :,
zpedient to attract pupils, Scores :,
professors are living in clover, and
lie over-burdened payers, who are +
aging the piper, are struggling for the
cans of subsistence. =
Fhe proceeds of the Agricultural Land -
Grip have been invested in State bonds, ..
'cept what has not vet been paid. A {
'rtion of the fund was illegally " adj y
lnced" to Alcon University, and none I
1t has been employed in accordance
It'll the conditions of the grant.
y heavy business has been done in the S.
rdoning line. Thirty-fve criminals ii
we been turned out of the Penitentiary. tn
rebuild this institution, it is stated 81
at five hundred acres of land have been ia
released, Thereby hangs a tale. P,
The Legislature is advised to materially n
'dify the Regislation law, which is de- at
Ired TO be cumbersome, expensive. M
d obstructive of voting, This idea, and &c
EN- the words in which ii Is clothed, are ne
rrowed from the the CLARION. without e.
'dit- When we first advanced II the H
ilcal state organ assailed it as a cum Re
Ugly devised scheme to defraud the thu
tons wards of their newly acquired rel
hts What does it now saw? snl
u. ha