Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-14
A Gratifying Exhibit.

A Gratifying Exhibit.
A late letter to the San Francisco
Examiner contains the following
summary, which reflects special
honor Oh the expiring Democratic
administration of this State:
When the present Democratic
State officers were soliciting the
suffrages of the people they prom
ised, If elected, to lessen taxation
by reducing the running expenses
of the State Government. Let Us
see if they have fulfilled their prom
ises. Let us compare the last four
years of Democratic rule with the
previous four years OF Republican
rule. First, let it be understood
that all the money collected in the
way Of taxes goes into three funds,
to wit: The Interest and Sinking
Fund. the Common School Fund
and the General Fund. The levy
for the Interest aud Sinking Fund
goes to pay interest on the State
ucuty anu thC StlhO tbiouS
both administrations. The levy
for the School Fund goes to the sew
eral couDties, to be by them ex.
peHded,an is not necessarily taken
into account in this statement.
From the General Fund is paid the
entire running expenses of the
State Government. By an act of
the Legislature; entitled an Act to
further provide accommodation for
the Insane OF the State of Califor-
mia aud to provide u Special Fund
therefor, approved March u, 1872.
there Was levied fIr the support of
the Special Insane Asylum Fund,
In the year 1871, the sum OF $l75. 900,
and the same sum for the year 1872,
and, as said fund and the General
Fund have siuce been consolidated,
there must be- added to the levy of
the General Fund, for the twenty
fourth and twenty fifth fiscal years
each, $l75,O 600 Deduct from the
levy for the General Fund, for the
twenty fourth ii seal year, the sum
of $4,000 (the deticienc es of the
twenty.third fiscal year.. and it
shows that there was levied for the
support of the General Fund:
For the 9th fiscal year. .............Sl, ,865 900
For the 20 Il fiscal year, ......." ! 70J UOU
For the 26th fiscal year.............. l ~ ,0OO
For the 27th fiscal year.............. 800 800
So 753 OOu
To which must be added The
sum o3O,ol'
Making grand total OF .........*7 6l95l7
The above sum of 1866, SIT was lev
led by the Legislature of 1875 6,
during the twenty-eighth fiscal
year. to pay deficiencies for the
twenty fifth, twenty sixth and
fiscal years, created
by the Republican administration,
the items of which can he found on
page Is. CONTROLLERS Report for
1877 During the present Demo-
cratic Administration there was
levied for the General fund as fol-
lows: For the twenty eighth fiscal
year, 50, 220. 900; from which must
he deducted the aforesaid sum of
S66.5l7 to pay the Deficiencies of
the Republican Administration,
leaving for the support of the Gen
eral fund:
For the 2sth fiscal year the sum
oi....... 1853 ,4s3
Fol ,he oh nsoal year the sum
900 OuO
For the 30 h hsc ii year the sum
of......-..... ........................" 32O W
Fur the 3lst fiscal year the sum
450OJO
Making for four years of Demo-
era Ic administration total of
SIS, 1913 433, against $7,Gl9.5l7 total
for tour years of Republican admin
istration-a difference in favor of
the Democratic administration of
$l,S96,034.
Al the commencement of the last
fiscal year of the Republican ad
ministration the General Fund had
in it, apparently, $39 54S %. while,
in fact, il was in debt in the sum Of
ST., ,3US 55; because it owed the
Folsom Branch Prison Fund the
sum of $1lO,S58 SO. This Indebted.
ness, this deficiency, the present
administration had to provide for,
in addition to the deficiency of
$500. sly, before mentioned. The
General Fund on the first day Of
the present fiscal year, the 3lst,
had In it over and above all out
standing warrants, the SUN of
1884 500 "A. Fifty thousand dollars
will cover every deficiency this ad-
minist alton will lesve to its sue
cessor, showing that 1t has saved to
the people, as compared with the
preceding administration, the fol-
lowing sums, as given above, to-
wit: ST. 1866, ,034 plus 1884 500 "A, or a
total in four years Of 81, 900 733 "a
The Democratic administration
has given more than any previous
administration to the orphans and
charitable associations; has done
Its share of public building, having
spent$l37, 900 IN rebuilding theDrnf.
Dumb aud Bliud Asylum; 100000
III rebuilding workshops ut San
Quentin, ali of winch were de-
etroyed by fire; spent large amounts
for building the Mechanics Art
College at Berkeley, and other
large amounts for improving the
grounds of the latter place; has
made large appropriations for the
State Normal school, for the Capt.
tOl Park at Sacramento, and for
the construction of the Branch
s ate Prison at Folsom; aud, be-
sides, has paid the Swamp Land
Fund $47,00O in round numbers,
for money received for sale or
swamp lands, from 1856 to 1858
and used for general purposes; aud
also provided $3.50, 900 for payment
Of the expenses OF the Constitu-
tional Convention. AS a sample Of
the Individual savings that have
been made, few comparisons he
tween the COST of running State De-
partments by the present Demo-
cratic incumbents, and their Re-