The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-09-20
THE ABoLITIoNcF THE OFFICE OF TAX
COLLECTOR

aggregatIhg S8o, 10000. This sum
is saved to the taxpayers, and this
is only one of the good results Of the
passage of this bill. Before its re-
peal the Collector Of Davidson coan-
ty- received for the collections Of the
State and county reyenue$6.00O 90
per annum. The railroad and spe-
cial Tax Collector received So, zoe. 90,
| The city of Nashville paid its Reeve
nue. Collector Sc, 10000. Total paid
in one county for the collection of
the revenue. $I5.700.00. Under the
present law the Trustee as Collec-
tor of David SON county can only re.
ceive 100000 with three deputies
at S., 100000 each. making $1,000. or
| So, 700 less than was paid under the
repealed statute. @
| / have no data from other coun-
ties, but the saving; will average one
fourth as much as this, or SALTS to
the county, and aggregate. $l95, $50,
and its actual relief to the tax-pay-
ers. by the passage of single act,
of $282.750
REDUCTION IN THE COST JAIL FEES.
The Legislature of 1866 increased
the pay of jailors for the board of
prisoners from forty cents to sixty
cents day. The last Legislature
reduced it to forty cents. The re-
suit has been a large saving to the
State and county treasures. From
December 10Th, 1873, to August 1st,
1874, eight months and a half, the
State paid to jaiIors for board of pris-
oners $55, 848. 80. This is the aver
age under the law Of 1866. Under
the present statute the State paid
for the same service, from December
| 10Th, 1875, to August 1st, 1876,
| $29, ABS. SO. The saving to the coun-
ty treasures is in the same proper
ton.
THE COST OF LAND SALES FOR TAXES
for the two years ending the 10Th of
December, 1874, was $50. 14O.41. OF
this sum $27, 570.20 was for printers
fees. The act of March, 1875, re-
peals the statute allowing the print
ing of sales of land for taxes after
August, 1876. and to that extent the
Treasury is relieved.
The pay of jurors was increased by
the acts 1866 and 1867. BY the act
of March, 1875, it was reduced to
$3.50 per day, and the
PAY OF JUSTICES
in attendance upon the quarterly
courts. was by the same act reduced
to $3.50, and the court reduced to
one-half the Justices, saving to the
tax payers of the State the sum of
$4,000 per annum. The act abol-
ishing .-a
THE QUORUM COURTS
of the State. and charging the Chair.
men of the County Courts with the
performance of its duties, saves to
the taxpayers the sum of $13. 1872.
per annum. The annual appropria-
ton of $4,000 a year to the
STATE LIBRARY
was reduced to $500. The office Of
Superintendent of Weights and
Measures was abolished; and wher-
ever the Treasury could be relieved.
it was done and an earnest given to
the people that the Democratic par
ty is a party of economy and reform.
JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE EXPENSES.
Judicial expenses for the past two
years including salaries of Judges
amounted to about 100000. The
Democratic party has been criticised
for this expenditure, and especially
for increasing the number of Judges
of the Supreme Court. On this
point 1 invite your attention for q
moment. At the time of the incr ease
of this Court from three to five
Judges, it was an absolute necessity
recognized by every well-informed
man in the State. The dockets were
crowded as they had never been be-
fore, and it was physical impossi-
bility for any three Judges to dis
patch The business of that Court.
The three Judges of the Supreme
Court, appointed and elected while
the State was under Republican con-
troll, in FIVE years disposed of 8, 1888
cases. The present Court compos-
ed of six Judges, has in six years
disposed of 9,016 causes, or nearly
three times the amount of business
of the Court of three Judges. /
state the facts from the record with
out intending any reflection upon
any one. With this increase in the
number of Judges, the Judicial ex-
penses of Tennessee compares ia
vorably with our sister States. Ken
lucky pays about the same. Repub-
lican Illinois pays $205, 600 per year.
California pays 1856; $40. Massa-
chusetts, with about the same popu-
lation of Tennessee, pays 1920. 900
per annum, and the State Of Penn
sylvania pays for judicial expenses
in one year $47S, 900. enough after
the present year to defray the
entire expenses Of our State Gov.
eminent. l repeat a statement made
recently, that the State Government
of Tennessee is. more economically |
administered than any State of equal
population on the continent. The
salaries of the Executive officers of
Tennessee amount to less than $l2,-
900. Ohio pays $86. 900; Pennsyl- |
vania $4,000, and California, with |
half the population Of Tennessee,
pays her Comptroller and his clerks
$22, 400, more than five times the !
amount paid to the Comptroller of
Tennessee and his single clerk.
Texas pays Executive salaries to the
amount of $4,000; Minnesota $40
615; Nevada 500. 900. and we have |
a population, according to the last
census, nearly equal to the three
States last named.
sTATE PENITENTIARY. 4
The State Penitentiary is no