The Springdale news., 1888-08-24
cALTING THEM DOWN.

rContinued from last week.
 The salary of tho adpitant'gener- al of the state in i871 and 1872 was s6.oOo per annum, in 1873, s55oo ner annum. Now the governors nriyate secretary discharges his du- ties of fadjutant-general at salary altogether of s160o per annum.
 The mileage drawn by the repub liean state legislature of 1868 was s24 82O for l2, ,396 miles, while the democratic legislature of 1883 drew s13,00s for 1888 miles.
 James NJ. Pomeroy, stenograPher from December l4, 1888 to 8pri 10. 1869, received s3148 70 or s26.- 9l per Jay, at the rste of s8824. .49 per annum. The legislature of ls- 6s was..in session from April 2 l9o9 to 1869, 253 days.
 The constitutional convention oi 1888 by ordinance of JaErary 70 1868. paid it's members s8 per day during the actual sitting of the con ve4tlon and the same amount pei day for each day. travel in coming ta and retarosng from the oenVen- ton and ais mileage ench way at the rate oi 20c per mile.
 Ths honorable member from Ms sissipp, county received pay for 8S days travel, q $ per day, sS04; and mileage for ll5O miles, at 20e per m,Ie. s23o. Total for mileage and travel s534.
 The honorable member from ot. Francis received pay for Z2 day s travel at sS per day, sl76; ard for 66O miles travel al 20c per mile, s132. Total s432.
 The honorable member from Cross county received for 3l days tfszsl a DOT day, S2fs; and fer
 2oe Pzr at1s, s184. I5.s
 =aaHa asaos1 from Washington connty received mile. aae tog Iez9 mics aFd raetlan Ssee.62, and for s9 days travel SIP: toeel. se78.a2.
 Follow ns aretae amounts drawn 6y some members ofihe general IS sembly oi ls6S for their per dlem: Prairie county, S1449,20; Phillips county, s6l869 5l; (negro); Arkan, sas county, s1740,4 ,45; Washington county, $19II, ,31; Columbia county, sl715 %, Pope county, s1287 II; Clark county, slB55 31; Philips e3urtF. sls67 ll: Jefferson county, 21508 c, Sebastian county, sls36 l Conway county; Sl70l Ol; Johnson county, 4l75l 3; Pulaski county, sl6ll 31; Ouachita county, sl7ol- T.
 The amount paid Catterson and Upham's militia under Republican rule was sl70 GOO, and claims paid in addition amounted to 925 000. 
 By act approved July Is, 1868, the Republicans instituted tho coun- y convict system in this state, and by the act of the 18th of April, 1873, they created the presen; lease system of the penitentiary.
 Such and so great are the differ enees between Republican and Dem ocra1io administration Tn Arkansas.
 From ls6s to 1874, under Repub- llcan administration 6,654 ,5Il were collected from the people of the state. One who does not know bet. ter might suppose that there was either large amount of money Tn the state treasury Tn 1874 when the Democrats took control, or that magnificent and costly buildings f55 tafii ara 5eI tor the state with tte Ea- u4aeuz money, taat We're Wrung rom tne impoverished and grooming people. But there were only sG7 in the state treasury and the only buildings that had been erected with funds of the state were the small and comparatively cheap structures for school for the .e.ig.a. aad t deal mute school which are now ot but little value.
 In ls74 the state taxes were l2 I2 mills on the dollar. Now the state taxes are only , mills; and there are in the state treasury s950,000. And yet within the last few years the state has built and paid for magnificent Lunatie asy- lam with front of nearly TOO feet ah eaaa1 to accammodate . 1He. supplied with water and gas md conducted on the most improved style; had. some deaf-ma,e sellool building and handsome building for the school for the blind and for the penIten- tiary, which gre all snitaLle- welL