Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-10-21

FORD AT UPPRR MARLBORO, MARYLAND.
Hon. Livin Woolford, Comptroller
of the State Of Maryland, was the first
speaker. He said that he had been
detained at Annapolis in the discharge
Of his Official duties, on account Of the
closing Of the fiscal year on September
the S0th, which had necessitated his
giving. his whole time to his official
work. He regretted that he was no
speaker, but he had some plain facts to
state to the citizens of Maryland, which
he thought would interest them. The
Radical party, in secret conclave,
under the name of reform, had made
ridiculous attacks upon him and upon the
State Treasury, aud he would be obliged
to give few figures in answer to their
assaults. The attack on him, in the
first place, was ridiculous from the fact
that not one cent Of the public revenue
il in his custody. This fact makes the
charge ridiculous. and therefore he would
dismiss it with this single remark. The
partisan press had also trumped up and
revamped an old charge made against
him on the floor of the Senate by Mr..
Earle, of Queen Anne's county. Mr..
Earle is represented as having said that
he (Woolford) desired to place man
on the pension roll from Somerset
county who was not entitled. This
il falsehood. There never has been
. man since he had been in Annapolis
applying for . pension from Somerset
county. The only private bill he Was ever
before Mr.. Earle committee upon in his
Life for any person in Somerset county was
q bill for relief of Noah Webster, and
it had no more to do with pension than
it had with matters going on in the moon.
The bill was reported against by Mr..
Earle in 1872, and in 1874 upon the
same proofs, Mr.. Earle reported in favor
of the bill and it was passed, and will
be found among the laws Of that ses-
sion. All the remarks made BY him
while in the committee upon the subject
of pensions were in opposition 70 the
bill then pending in the House to in
crease the pension list. He did make
the remark that he believed there had
been . man on the pension roll, from
Somerset county, who was too youns
to have served in the war of 1924,
but ut the time when he was speaking
that man had been dead some time,
and upon further inquiry he believes
that he was mistaken in regard to his
age. At that time there was not a
single pensioner reesiving money in
Somerset county from the State nor has
there been since, and he has never
known of any applying to be put on
the list. Colonel Woolford then pro-
ceeded to contrast the expenditures in
this State under Democratic aud Rad.
ical rule.
In 1865 the expenditures under Rad.
ical rule were IS, ,l25, sos So, in 1866
$3.50, ,6l7 So. In 1873 the expendi.
lures under Democratic rule, were 90
267, ,03S So, and in 1875, $2,270,0 ,0O6 IS
In 1861, under Democratic rule, The
State tax was 10 cents on the hundred dol.
lars. In 1862, under the Radicals, II
was raised to Is cents. In 1865 they
further raised it 70 80 cents. In 1876,
the Democrats regained power lowered
the rate to 90 cents. In 1868 again tc
l9 cents. in 1872 again to ~ cents, in
1874 owing 10 the debt incurred fol
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, BY the
House Of Correction and the State Nor.
NAL School the tax was increased some.
what and 2 cents was sdded for The
benefit Of our admirable school system
| making il in I'll 90 5l6 cents.
4 He sasd that the Trensurv of Marv.
land had never been in - prosperous
condition - st this day. The balanc,
IN the Treasury on September 80, in.
eluding The funds laid aside Tor build
ine the House Of Correction and tn
Normal School, vsrs upward ofsl .062..
900, which i larger than any balance
that ever has been in the Treasury sinc<
the State was organised.
4 The receipts from corporations had