Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-01-12
GRANTS OLIVER TWIST.
Astonishing Facts and FIgures-SOme
of the incidental Expenses Of Sub
IiugafiOn.

Astonishing Facts and Elgure3-SOme
Of the incidental ExpeDs Of Sub
EjugafiOn.
I Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1S73.-A public
document, well worthy the attention of the
taxpayers, is printed, under the title of
House Miscellaneous, No. %. Il is a letter
| from Attorney General Williams to the
Chairman of the Committee on Appro
priations, dated Dec. 2, 1872, ask
ing for 100000, to be put through
in short order in a deficiency bill, to
| meet the expenses Of various forms
of rascslity by which men have been
immured in Penitentiaries upon verdicts
procured by packed juries and partisan
Judges, and for the arlful machinery pro-
vided in the Enforcement Act to secure the
Southern States for Grant. This large sum
of money is designed to pay bills incurred
prior to June 80, 1872. Congress &ppro-
priated thu enormous sum of 5, 200 900 for
the service of that year. This money is
exhausted long ago, and yet the Attorney
General asks for more. Nor is he satisfied
with the 100000. 1t seems that in the
year ending June 30, 1871, the appropria-
ton was not all spent, and tho sum Of
$669,567 80 was left oVer-probably for the
reason that there was then no Presidential
election pending and no pressing party
needs. This large balance was carried back
to the treasury under the operation Of the
Surplus Fund Law, and nov the Attorney
General wants this money put ia his hands
again. The wants Of his party have in
creased, and their peace requires expensive
court machinery and fIee-hsnded Mar
shals.
THIS is NOT ALL.
Mr.. Williams asks further that these high
ly inconveni9nt statutes by which unex-
pended balances are carried to the surplus
fund or the general account Of the Tressu-
ry may be repealed. He is in great haste
for the money, and is not willing to wait
even for the passage of the general def
cheney bill, which covers up multitude Of
sins, any more than the District jobbers,
who yesterday finally secured their booty
of million and quarter dollars.
SOME CURIOUS FACTS.
Following the letters Of the Attorney
General are some curious figures and statil-
tics. According to Mr.. Williams state
ment it costs only some SIP, 900 to carry
on the courts in the great State Of Penn
sylvania, and only about S95, 900 IN Ohio;
DuL kUS NcotcIu OIStIlCb VI AIhhLSdss
where the people chafe under Clayton's
tyranny, it costs $24,300; and in South
Carolina, although ruled by loyal
negroes, $179, 900; aud in North Carolina,
where the first State election was &c be held
this summer, SIS4, 900. The Attorney Gen
eral tries to excuse these heavy expenses by
alleging the distance required to carry wit
nes8es, though in California the total is only
$4,000, as compared with $1S4,000 in
North Carolina, or one-third the expense in
State three times the size Of the other. 1t
is alleged that extra expenses for paying su-
pervisors Of election by the act OF June 10,
1872, were needed; bus it happens that the
law says the supervisors it creates or per-
mits shall not receive compensation. To
vindicate himselfthe Attorney General sub
joins copies Of very touching appeals he had
written to the notorious Marshal CsrroW,
of North Carolina, begging hin not to
spend so much money. CaTr0w was Fath-
| ar tenderly handled, IS It would nos do 70
run him up too tight JUST before the North
Carolina election; but Wallace, the Mar
shal in South CaTolilS, which was deemed
safe, and the Marshal in Dakota Territory,
which did not vote, came il for vGry TCUgh
rebukes for their want Of economy. IL
does not appear that any Marshal was dis
missed for extrayaganc6, and there i5 no es-
timate in this document of the probably
large expenses from the 3JLh Of June to
the time Of the Presidential election.