Year: 1860

The Office of Agent Of State is mere
sinecure. 1t costs S. 900 per year. vet its
busiress can be done for $500. We are
aware Of the difficulty Of abolishing this
office. 1t will be pleaded that the Butler
Bill requires interest to be paid in New
York. So it does, but q responsible New
York Banker proposes TO do il for $500 pei
wear. But the real difficulty is not this
There are some 300 good men. most oi
whom have never had an Office. though of
they have tried. that see in this the con
summation of their hopes. We have in
this city some fifteen or twenty of them
These will each see that our Representa-
tives and Senators vote for continuing the
office, confidently expecting that each Of
them will get the place. The other lo5
will each surround his man. and each
plead the Constitution, the Butler Bill ,and
their numerous scars, as arguments, hrst
for the Office, then for the place. But for
this army Of hungry expeclants, $4,50O
per year would be saved without strug-
gle.-Iadiana American.


We will be candidate before the Legis
lature for Agent Of State. and yet we be-
lieve with the editor Of the American, and
will favor the abolishiug Of the office


We suppose no one has doubted for
years the proprIety Of the abolition Of this
Office. and the only question has been "can
the Legislature. under the Butler bill. abol-
ish il and not involve the State in difficul.
tyr"


There is no question but the Butler bill.
passed in 1876 and also the amended bill
of At, contemplated that the State of In
diana should have an Agent of State resi-
ding in the city Of New York, "whose
duty it shall be to receive the bonds that
may be surrendered, and issue the certi-
hcates of stock therefor. entering at the
same time in suitable books to be provided
for that purpose, credits to the respective
parties so surrendering bonds. for the
principle and the interest in their respec-
tive certificates"


This is the principal duty prescribed by
the Butler bill for the Agent Of State, and
those duties have in the main long since
been discharged. 1t is true, there has to
be some one representing certain interests
of the State of Indiana. at the city of New
York, but If the present agency costs this
State s 5000 per snnum as the editor Of
the American says it does. there should be
other arrangements made in relation to it.


We have no idea that under the arrange
ment made with our bond holders in 1876
and Al, it is absolutely incumbent on the
State Of Indiana noo to keep such an Agent
in the city of New York, and although we
shall press our claims before the Legislature
this winter for this particular position, still,
as q citizen of the State, and one decidedly
in favor of retrenchment and reform in all
its affairs, We favor so changing this office,
that the expense to the State will be less
sned.


Our bond. holders, whose care was
placed the Wabash and Erie Canal have.
% far as their acts 60, abandoned it; then
Why should the State of Indiana be com
PEELED to keep her Agent in New York at
so heavy an expense, simply to conform
to the Butler bill


Our agency at New York demands at
this time, the most careful examination
and il should be one Of the first acts of the
Legislature this winter to inquire into it,
1t has been q Brokers exchange long enough
and now, if continued, at all, it should be
simple Agency-nothing more.


At an early day we will refer to this sub
ject again.