Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-08-11

self-sustaining, besides having
furr ished to Clemson College $751;
514.74 in labor and transportation
of convicts, and having paid
$4,000 on the debt left over to the
intuition by the former ad-
ministration, and has corn enough
on. hand to bread the institution.
How does this appear to you?
Paid $4,000 on a previous debt,
put $19,514.74. on Clemson College,
for which he received nothing in
return, and has corn enough on
hand to feed the convicts for the
year.
How does that compare with
the closing Of the previous fiscal
year by his predecessor, $4,000 in
debt?
You ask how did he do it?
II tell you thatI do not know,
unless he did it by cutting down
expenditures all along the line,
and saved money by not spending
it. I see in his report one little
item that is very significant, and
indicates to mymind that is the way
he did it. Here it is. ! see that
he has reduced the cost of
maintaining convicts down to
15b cents apiece a day, which is
about 5 cents less than it was the
year BEFORE. There are, we will
say, about 75O convicts there the
year round, and 5 cents saved on
each per day amounts to saving
of $37.5O.every day the sun goes
down, which makes q saving of
81, ,125 each month, or $13,500 q
year.
Oh!where do these men get their
cheek to claim for themselves all
the business tact and qualifca-
tions in the State?
COMPARE EXPENSES.
Now let me meet this charge of
inco1npetency and extravaganza
in an other way, by taking CUP theex-
penditures of the several depart
ments of the government, and
showing, by contrast, that it is not
true.
You know they charge us with
incompetency and extravaganza by
implication. Now let me give you
the facts that will show that the
implication is utterly without
foundation.
You see 1 have opened up the
books on them and have already
turned several leaves. Now l turn
another, and will show you by COM
pairing our administration with the
previous one, department with
department, and institution with
institution, that these charges OF
incompetency and extravaganza
are not true, and cannot be sup
ported by the records.
Is would take me too long to 20
over each item of each depart
ment and institution, hence | have
added all the items of each for
our year, and those of each for the
year previous. and have subtracted
the whole amount spent by each
department and institution for one
year from the whole amount spent
by the same department and insti-
tuition for tie other year. I ask you
careful attention to the results,
and you will see that the present
administration is less expensive
than the one previous.
1T may be proper that I say here
that my figures are taken from the
Comptroller Generals official re,
ports, The only correct guide, ex-
cept the regular books in his office
of which the reports are the
counterpart. What do we find by
this comparison? Here is the
result:
We find that the expenditures
under the present administration
were less than those of the previous
one. and that the saving was
effected by the following depat.
ments and institution, and in the
amounts mentioned:
Governor Tillman, $2,231.Sl
Comptroller General, 1,2S7.O1
Adi't and Insp'r Gen'l, 4,65O.O(
Superint't of Educat'n, l6.2'
State Librarian, 69.04
State House Keeper, 2OO.4i
Judicial Department, 4,254.3t
Health Department, l,550.W! y!
Tax Department, 3,743.6.
8. G. University, 2,OO0.0(
Citadel Academy, 2,5OO.Ol
Lunatic Asylum, 3,43Z.22l q
Under the hid of "Claims" 1888:
Winthrop Training School, 7O0l y
Transportation of Convicts, 70.4'
Water for pubic bulldogs, 1,O00,0l
Nulla Bona costs, 11,259.3'
Less than prev's admin, $Ss,524.o'
Now here are those of ou
odroinistrat;on q 4 that spent NOR,