The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-23
for the year ,ss. they were only ss

u, uuoct hCpuOitSaH hiN, NOSb VI V State $24S,600, while for the two years ending Tn 'S6, the revenue derived from the penitentiary above expenses amounted to about $82, ,000.
 State printing for TO and VI cost sl50,000 Under democratic rule it cost only $45, 500. The expenses of the auditors of ] flee from 'S4 to '86 only $l6,540. Blanks, blank books and state ments from '72 to '64 cost $l3S,- 765, from 'S2 to 'S4 cost only $S,- 667.
 The salaries of executive and judi cial officers of the State from '73 to "A were, under Republican rule, $2S1, ,S60; from 1884 to 1886, $l33,. 900.
 Publishing journals of the general assembly of '73 cost $43,975, of 'S5, $4,932.
 Expenses of the land office from 1872 to 1874, S51,675; receipts of that office above expenses, 1884 to 1886, $l10,027.
 Expenses of secretary of States office, '72 to "A, S26, ,l25; receipts above expenses, 's4 to 'S9, $lo,- 900.
 Cost of State government from l'6S to "A $s,532,2 ,235; from 's0 to 'S6, I,340, ,000-difference in favor of Democratic administration in six years, 7,192, 92,232-nearly 100000 per annum.
 In Fl and '72 there were ten clerks in the treasurer's office, three at 1900, four at 1,500 and three at
 1,S0O, four at 1,500 and three at
 I,200 each per anum, and in 1873 and "A, fifteen clerks, one at 2, 400, three at 1900 and eleven at 1,500 each per anum. Now there are four, at 1,S00, 1,500, and two at 1900.
 In the auditors lice in Fl and 1872 there were twenty-two clerks, two at 1,S00, eighteen at l,50O and two at l,200 each per annum. In 1873 and 1874 there were thirteen at l 1,S00 and l,590 each per annum. Now there are four, one at l,S00, one at 1,500 and two at I,200 each per anum.
 The salary of the adjutant-general of the State in I'll and 1872 was 6,O0O per anum. Now the govern ors private secretary discharges the duties of adjutant general at salary altogether of l,600 per annum.
 The mileage drawn by the Repub lican State legislature of 1868 was
 24,32O for 1896 miles, while the Democratic legislature of 1883 drew
 13,00S for 1888 miles.
 James NJ. Pomeroy, stenographer from December IA, '6S, to April 10, 1869, received 3,14S,70, or 26.9I per day at the rate of S,S24 45 per annum. The legislature of 1868 to April 10, '69, 25S days,
 The constitutional convention ol 6S by ordinance of January %, 1868, paid it's members s per day during the actual sitting of the convention and the same amount per day for each days travel in coming to and returning from the convention, and also mileage each way at the rate ol twenty cents per mile.
 The honorable member from Ms sissippi county received pay for thir- ty eight days travel, at per day,
 304; and mileage for ll50 miles, at 20 cents per mile, 230. Total for mileage and travel 534.
 The honorable member from St. Francis received pay for twenty two days travel, a. s per day, 176; and for 66O miles travel at 20 cents per mile, 132. Total 432.
 The honorable member from Cross county received for thirty-one days travel, at s per day, PAS and for 924 miles at 20 cents per mile, 1S4. Total 435.
 The honorable member from Wash ington county received for mileage for 1929 miles and a fraction, 365,- 92, and for thirty nine days travel 3l2; total, 67S.92.
 Following are the amounts that were drawn by some of the general assembly of '6S for thelr per diem :; Prairie county, 1449.20; Philips county, 6l, ,S69.51 (negro); ..Arkan- sas county, I740.45; Washington county, 1911.31; Columbia county, 17l5,29; Pope county, 1732.11. Clark county, 1655.3l; Phillips county, 1S67.l1; Jefferson county,
 I303.40; Sebastian county, 1S36.- Il; Conway county, 170I.0l; John son county, 175l,3l; Pulaski county, 161L3l. Ouachita county, l70l.- 72.
 The amount paid Catterson and Upham's militia under Republican rule was 170,000, and claims paid in addition amounted to 25,000
 By act approved July l6, '6S the Republicans instituted county con wet system in this State, and by act of the 10th of April, '73, they ere ated the present lease system for the penltenJlary.
 Such and so great arc the differ onces between Republican and Dem ocratlc administration in Arkansas.
 From 1868 to S74,under Repubh- can administration, $6,674,5ll were collected in taxes from the people. of the State. One who does not know better might suppose that there was either large amount of money in the State treasury in 1874, when the Democrats took control, or that mag niilcent and costly public buildings had been erected for the State with the vast sums of money that had been wrung from the impoverished and grooming people. But there wara onIx %R7 in thp State trpagnrv