Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-08-06

and a jury paid out of the Count,
Treasury, when our honest nelghbo
who has gone to heaven must have hi
estate settled in similar tribunal anC
vet it be immersed and mulcted in th'
expenses? There is no sense and m
reason in it. There is no prOpriety o
philosophy in having any judidial OH
Ger placed before him even a tempta
tion TO act corruptIy, but such tempta
ton should be removed from him.
We have provided that all judlcla
officers shall be paid by salaries, IN OF
der that hereafter there shall '}a ~
/ teEaptatioa laid before them - oP
press the poor orphan or widoT sn.
hat the iegitip ste expenditures .W7loi
are very small, auG shey are ,alc'
Smaller than v,nat are collected. tn3
the fees when collected shall be pait
into the Treasury Of the county, and ;
reasonably liberal salary to compensat'
them, shall be paid out OF the Count!
, Treasury.
Your Judges of the Supreme Cour
receive a salary of three thousand dol
-isss-a year. In the city Of Cincinnati
the Probate Judge realizes above al
-~renses-er did until very recently
,-. - fifteen thousand dollars
more tiia.. "~ Probate Judge o
year. The sins "d every yea
Hamilton county receive. - naiI
more of compensation than Was
to all five of your Judges of the Su-
preme Court. That has been partially
remedied in that county, but there are
o,her counties where it still remains at
eight, six, five, or four thousand dol
lars. A Probate Judge is entitled to a
reasonable compensation for the labor
he performs, and if his Office produces
more labor than a single individeal is
able to perform, furnish him clerk
But lei the fees go into the Treasury of
the county, out of which the salary of
the Judge comes, and vouch to you
that there will not be paid out of the
Treasury as much as will be paid into
the Treasury, and there will be the
same economy there. And if there was
not dollars economy so far as the
public is concerned, it projects the es
tales OF dead men from plnnde,', and
that is enough.
COUNTY TREASURES.
Now let Us go little farther. We
have some county officers tnat ale Te-
celviag snug salaries as cOalpensa-
ton. They do not call it saiaiy. 1t is
compensation. But we fear mat peo-
pie that do not have an inside view of
things cannot always know how much
they are receiving. Why, half a
cent upon dollar on a certain amount
of money does not appear to be very
much, but when you have large sum
OF money a half cent 10 be paid on each
dollar amounts to very considerable
sum. So the result is that some ofour
County Treasures receive four, five,
six, eight, and some even nine or len
thousand dollars per year for doing not
one half-aye, not the 1.-The of the la
Dor that is performed by certain other
officers.
The Treasurer of Coyahoga county
receives 3,0O0-after paying ali dep
uties, $500. The Treasury of Hamil-
ton county ..$f2, ,OOO-and after paying
all deputies, $4,000.
And now you see that such enor-
nous fees as that, paid out of inc Treas
ury, furnishes to these gentlemen a
fund to buy themselves
back into Office again. Why, these
men Can take several thousand dollars
to employ ward politicians, bummers
of cities and other places, for the pur-
pose of corrupting the primary meet
ings and getting themselves bought
back into the position where they a:e
realizing such enormous sums. l am
in favor ofpaying them libeial SALARY,
it throughout the Stale as
nearly as we can, according 10 the con-
ditions that surround them--more in
the cities than in the country, because
if is more expensive living in the city
than in the country; but that every
man shall receive a liberal ami honest
and that no man SHALL
receive from the public treasury sum
greater than he ought to
receive. believe our county officers
are not opposing the new Constitution,
but they are exceptions TO the rule
[laughter], for do not know a county
in the State of Ohio the size of whose
treasury is greater than the treasury of
Logan county, in which those whose
hands are now upon it are not deter
mined to keep them upon it by defeat
ing the new Constitution if they can.
Now, straws show which way the
wind blows.
What l have said with regard TO the
Probate Judges applies to very con-
degree 10
CLERKS OF THE COURT.
These officers, it is true, are not paid
out Of,he public treasury. but there is
no reason why they shall work oppres-
; on by extorting from The public who
are compelled to so into the Courts to
litigate. The Auditor and Treasurer
are paid directly from the county treas
ury, and hardly any of us ever know
how mrch they receive.
COMPENSATION OF AUDITORS.
Why former Auditor of this coun-
~ received more than $4,000 year,
while the Judge who presided over the
interests of the people of the county
the Judge before whom we are ar
raigned, and in whose hands are our
ives and liberty and property-the
Judge whose power is som etimes suffi-
.ient to condemn, and whose single
iat may exOnerate and relieve-the
Judge behind whose broad shield is our
rotection-receivest the miserable COM
Densation of $1,000 or $500 a year,
while the Auditor could not at any oc-
,upation in which he should be en-
,toyed by any mortal on Gods foot
tool receive more than forty dollars a |
month, laughter, and yet he received |
Z, COCOA year. Now there is no reason J
or it. Let US look at these things, and |
ldjust them properly.
1t is said "the General Assembly |
ould correct all this. The power is in
he General Assembly now to do that"
That is true, sir, and has been for over
evenly years, and the General Assem- !
,ly has never done it. Why? Because /
he men who are elected to your Gen.
raj Assembly depend for their politi- !
al existente upon the men who con-
rol your county offices always, and
whenever they get into General AS
emily they stand and cover before
our county officers like whipped
PANELS, and don't dare to say their
ives are their own. [Great applause
Now, we have appealed from the