The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-08
C0fTNfB1A,S.C.
Saturday Morning, May 8, 1870

Saturday Morning, May 8, 1876.
Make the Funding Operations PUBLIC
We think things would be more "gosy"
between Treasurer Cardozo and the great
public, whose money is in hiSkeeping;S
If he would be more frank and open in
exhibiting the condition of the finances
of the State. In publishing the monthly
stxssmeny ilS complies with the letter Of
the Law, which requires it to be done!
We see the amount Of receipts, the sala-
rieSxmd UUnHfngghts paid out, the inte-
rest account: :SAE hSAcsssaoibithe credit
balances. &cy!Fr6Mt tSss lkst ..statemept
it 1a#fIhi{ ao9ethips pt%ial h4f
milFYYf iftfrAf ffeedtsu1lYSP afSsiisas aSFifsaatsiYYs #
ss,iss.;ss. Levied and e'as. ast
preqeANit hYa statement of sle, amount
on h&t ftiAsnb doubt. paH b4 ihfet7
red &h EhS aait hpSrt,sbat that lsiptd-
badly forgotten by most persons, or in
Anoassr srshT1HMia shlGTS z1GHaMia BE- ! acceptable, I tab
and bsf%kf EeicAl Sras rbA MS|
mad ttfehs!toft thhs haA8 Ssst,
nelsu Every now and then We See Il
stated il general terms that the funding
is going en- successfully, that confidence
sloxly, as it groys, is growing ips the
funding process, and that the securities
of the stste ,Yill sopn be in increased
demand. Mr.: Cardozo told the New
York SUP that, South Carolina bonds
would ere long make their appearance
and b. .fegHlarly ~ QHqtsq. in We'll street
This Is alf very Welt, but it is too indefi-
nitA ~ Whstthe people who havsl this
debt and interest to pay by their toll and
sweat NaAh 10, Apow .is. exantly) howI
many bsnds hAys' been exchanged each
mopt4s bow puph; they amount TO. who
exchanged them, lof. what. olasses. &c.
Give theppthess facts ana they con tell
for thenSlastsy ana x,efe to their salts
faction, ,Yhft ,the state of the spYblic
credit is. ME!th prospsott Of d.
crease of fhhd}bt thd hoy the funding
Is going on. It is their affair, and not
the affair of a few officials. They are en-
titled to all the information that can be
got. and II ikthA EseseFFsrs dutyso give
it fully. freely ira promptly: He is the
servant of the people, The transactions
of h13r$f$l4H dSiopato tAkm1
as Fl ~ yomA -usSre
freely than to spectators in the funds.
Az things are. the public gropes in the
dark They know scarcely anything of
what is goinsC9 T1ey hajt to sepSnt
themselves VI e. shreas a9dpatshef of
information, With droppings from the
talk Of officials, with the faint newspaper
echo Of the facts, heard indistinctly and
only k4f u1dersto9d. The Treasurer
need hLSe n6 concetn about the cost of
their publication. It was for the reason
that, az he stated, there was no appro-
priation to meet thASrtS6sx tepdid not
make monthly ststemenk 4 shs opera
tions of the TreAsufy, when they were
30 much needed and 80 urgently called
for. We guarantee that our contempo-
raries of the press will cheerfully give
have msd@aJd.! xxiMlHoout money and nd
without price. rJvS 6sifainly win do it
with pleasure, and look for our compen-
'''''. MHf#taHAKi. :: Y Il ''''''| '7
We have examined the valuable report
for 1876 of the New York Fish Commits
sionsrs. at tie. bead Of whom stands the
name Of Horatio Seymour, An enlightened
statesman and of nreak x,.a cfinal o. nn o;t,