The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-02-07
. .l)LUIM5IA,. S.. c..
Sunday Morning. February 7, 1875.
The Rcmedy for De holenoles.


levied by the last Legislature, to pay
deficiencies OF the fiscal year ending
November l, 1874. will not amount to
much more than one-third of the sum .
There will be balance of 1920, 900 re-
naming unpaid. which will have to be
carried into the deficiencies of the pre-.
sent year. Tho present General Ap-
preparation Bill will go as high as
$4,000 above the tax which is now
being collected, and the sum OF def
oienoy brought up to nearly $500. 600.
In considering the deficiency OF the
current year. the Union- Herald advises
that the appropriations be brought
nearer to the money on hand, rather
than to impose large deficiency tax
for another year. It suggests that the
school appropriation be cut down from
$240. 900 to 5000. 900; that the $40, 900
thus eaved be transferred to the Uni.
versity. and the $4,000 appropriated
in the bill for its support be withheld.
1t further proposes to reduce the sala-
OF County Auditors, Solicitors and
School Commissioners twenty per
cent.. and save thereby $4,000.
$4,000, it thinks. may be saved in the
expenses OF the Office of the Adjutant
and Inspector General. and SIS, 900
taken of the sum awarded to penal
and charitable Institutions. A reduo.
tion OF nearly 500, 900 would thus be
made; end by similar cnrtailment Of
the pay of members and attaches and
clerks. the sum to be expended would
approach nearly to the proceeds of the
tax levy. The diffsrenoe-S35, ,0OO-
could bo provided for by levying tax
of five per cent. upon incomes derived
from the State over $500. including
County Treasurers.
This plan of our contemporary
leaves out OF view the unpaid balance
OF deficiencies Of the previous year.
We supposs that those interested in it
will have to co nsidsr it, as among the
things that were. What it says of the
present levy may not suit all parties,
but, however tardy. is a blow in the
right direction. Much more than it
suggests can be done in the way of
economy. II does not, touch the ques-
tion Of salaries. except in the case of
certain County officers. The same
principle might we'll be applied to the
State officers, who are both too numer-
GUS and better paid than the condition
OF the State warrants. What is said
about the University is worthy of at
tention: "There is d widespread feel.
ing that more money is expended upon
it than upon any other object of State
care. in proportion to the good Oh.
tanned for the expenditure. Itwould
be we'll, while in pursuit of sums that
may be out down. to reoonsid der the
clauses of the Appropriation Aot,
which gives $4,000 to professors.
$4,000 to beneficiary students, and
$500 for miscellaneous expenses.
II the University were Differed by
able, learned and acceptable pro.
fessore. it would not be necessary to
60 into the highways and offer money
Inducements to students TO go to it.
We do not propose. however, to dis
cass it. The time has not come, but
is approaching. when it will be appro-
pirate and profitable to do so. The
whole scheme and plan upon which it
is conducted are unhealthy and vicious,
and can yield no good results. It will
remsinsa drawback, o blot and sore
upon our educational system. until it
is remodelled entirely. In connection
with the appropriation considered
necessary to support it, it may be we'll
for those who vote away the hard
earned money of the people, TO re.
member that they are entitled to have
a quid pro quo, Georgia has now at
her State University 218 students, not
one OF whom costs the State O cent.
Nor does the University itself cost
anything. for the SO. 900 voted ANN.
ally is not donation. but simply the