The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-09
NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 3, 1875.
A SAVING OF 100000.


Court of the parish Of Orleans. Judge Jaco
Hawkins presiding, restraining Charles Gin
ton, State Auditor, from auditing or warrant
ing for certain sums named in the lately pub
lished general appropriation BILL issued Oh
the petition and statement of facts made o.
the part Of the State by Attorney Genera
Field, prunes from the monstrous total some
thing more than $500, 900, allotted for the ex
penses and stealage Of 1875, besides $500,
900 for expenses Of preceding years, making
about one-third Of the whole These twigs
are cut away because in excess Of the pros
pective revenue Of the State.
BY cutting Off from the remaining $1,000
900 all that is not strictly necessary another
sum of 100000 might be saved.
The State through its Attorney General
lily Of the general appropriation act. both as
promulgated March Both, and as changed, en-
larged and again promulgated April 3. but
Judge Hawkins DEGREES the nuliity Of the
eight sections from the second to the tenth
inclusive. Instead Of declaring the whole act
unconstitutional and void. he goes through
the long list of items and in a manner alto
gethcr arbitrary selects the twigs That are to
fall under the judicial pruning knife
Where the whole act is null becau 10 in OK
cess Of revenue, his Honor seeks to cure it of
nnllity by looping away supertluities chosen
ut random here and there. He judges Of the
necessity and propriety Of appropriations and
draws his judicial charcoal across such items
or parts Of items a, in his opinion ought not
to be paid. The Legislature gave clerk o.
the Governor two thousand dollars; the Judge
says two hundred dollars of this is nnconsti-
tional and must not be paid. while the clerk
must be satisfied with the remaining eighteen
hundred dollars The Governors contingent
fund is Analysed by his Honor into two ele-
ments, of which six thousand dollars is valid
and legal appropriation and the other four
thousand dollars void and worthless. Two
thousand dollars of the contingent fund Of
Antoine is null and cannot be dra wn a con-
tipgency which the President of the Senate
did not anticipate when he signed the illegal
bill
The Secretary Of State is in like manner
sloru Of one half his allowance for contir-
gencies, little dreaming Of such a calamity
when he sent the bill to the State Printer.
His unlucky page loses his 5000 salary The
Safe Librarian retains her whole salary, but
the Judicial scalpel dcprives her Of the com
pany Of her assistant at 5000 per annum, be-
sides shearing away her contingent fund of
$500. The bill gives Attorney General Field
and his assistants S1l 800. of which $500 is
for contingent expenses. Judge Hawkins
finds this last item too much by $500 and
sternly amputates it to that extent, leaving
but ST, 100 for an Office which cost in 1860
total Of $500.
Tnc State Auditors contingent fund is
clipped one thousand dollars out of five,
leaving the sum total for Mr.. Clinton and his
clerks only $;i, 800. the State Registrars |
Assistant Clerk is shorn away bodily. The |
Speaker of the House is cut out of his con- |
tmgent $500. Tho keeper of the ruins ut |
Baton Rouge is left out in the cold. The
Parish Judges suffer under the pruning hook |
to the amount Of $50, 900, leaving them pit
lance Of $4,000; but the salaries Of the Su-
preme and District Judges, including that Of
Judge Hawkins, remain untouched. There
is still left for expenses of the Judiciary De-
partment S279 500, or STE, 500 more than it |
cost in 1862 when Louisiana was wealthy and
prosperous.
President Grants Levee Commissioner
must make the honors Of his office 20 as far
IS possible, his $1,000 salary being nipped in
he bud.
The A5jutant General Of negro militia
must dispense with his $500 clerk
The Insane Asylum loses IN unconstitu-
ional $1,000 out of $4,000. The pension
and pensioners find their
wenty odd thousand dollars null aud void,
md the officers of the law must be content
lals instead Of $4,000.
Judge Hawkins sees nullity in the $500
flowed to reporters Of suniry newspapers,
n $50 for Centennial steel plates. in the
alary Of the Inspector of the State Penitcn-
larry. in the bill of Major Bloomfield for
').b5- worm Oh plankS, ETC., Tor the state
registrar of Voters in the $4,000 of extra
Mileage and per diem of the House aud Sem
te, in the S3o2l repairs of damages done by
he White League to the State House, and in
rs, 600 ont Of the $50 900 intended to 60 to
he country newspapers Of the Radical class
The Quarantine appropriation Of s2i, 600 is
'holly tainted with Illegality and the Agricu.-
ural College is heir to a loss Of $4,000. The
$500 tomb over Gov. Dunn is not to be built.
The $4,000 for civil codes, etc. must not be
aid. The Legislative gas was unconstitu-
lonal to the extent of $1,000. and the laborer
Vho runs the sealing business in the Office
4 the Secretary OF State gets only $4,000 in
tead Of $1,000 for the work OF putting the
road stamp Of the State on her new bonds.
All this it will be seen is wholly arbitrary p,
nth his Honor. He has entered the frost
it.en garden and plucked ont dead and liv-
NJ weeds aud plants without regard to public