Jan. 29. I gallon whisky, $7; 1 case champagne, $ 52 00 Jan. 29. 1 y. a. cheese, $3.50; (30) 4 dozen quarts 31 50 Jan. 30. I box cigars, $10; I case wine, $45 55 00 Jan. 31. 4 dozen Bass ale, $3.50 $14; matches, Feb. I. 6 boxes cigars, $10-$60; cheese, $1.25; crackers, $1.25 62 50 Feb. 1. I dozen ale, $3.50; 1 dozen porter, $3.50; Feb. 1. 1⁄2 gallon c. whisky, $1.50; 1 bottle wine, Feb. 1. 3 bottles wine, $6; I box cigars, $9; (Robertson) Feb. 4. 4 dozen ale, $3.50-$14; 1 gallon c. Feb. 5. 3 boxes cigars, $10-$30; (6) 1 gallon whisky, $7 Feb. 5. I pineapple cheese, $2.50; 6 boxes sar IO 00 3 50 15 00 17 00 3 40 3275 37 00 4 30 Feb. 7. I gallon whisky, $7; 1 gallon c. whisky, $3; 1 cheese, $2.50 I box, 6 pounds candles, $2.40; 1 gallon Feb. 8. I pine a. cheese, $1.75; 5 pounds crackers, Feb. 8. 1 box cigars, $10; 3 dozen ale, $3.50 12 50 7 00 5 40 3 00 $10.50. 20 50 Feb. 10. 3 gallons whisky, $7-$21; 2 gallons sherry, $14 Feb. 11. 3 bottles curacoa, $12; I case champagne, $45; (Robertson) Feb. 12. 1 gallon whisky, $7; I dozen boxes 19 00 57 00 matches, 40c. 7 40 Public Printing in South Carolina Report on Public Frauds in South Carolina, (1877), pp. 214, 329. The "Printing Ring" was composed principally of State officials-Governor Scott, Treasurer Parker, Attorney General Chamberlain, the clerks of the Senate and the House, and a few members of the Legislature. In order to secure appropriations votes were purchased in numbers. [1872-1873] $ 21,124 45,000 152,465 173,000 450,000 Session of 1873-74 · Session of 1874-75 · Session of 1875-76 . Total cost from 1868 to 1876 Total cost from 1790 to 1868 Showing an excess of cost for printing during eight years of Republican administration over the seventy-eight previous years of. Average cost of printing under Republican administration per year Average cost of printing under old régime per year 385,000 50,000 50,000 $1,326,589 609,000 $ 717,589 $ 165,823 7,807 Cost of printing under Hampton administration one year Amounts appropriated session of 1872-73, Republican administration Total for twenty-five years, "old régime," 1866) 6,178 $ 450,000 (1840 Excess of cost of printing for one year of Republican administration over that of the old régime for twenty-five years. Total for fifteen months under Republican administration Cost of printing for seventy-eight years under old régime $ 278,251 $ 171,749 Excess of cost of printing under Republican adminis- ministration Cost per month under Hampton administration The Finances of Arkansas Nordhoff, The Cotton States in 1875, pp. 29-31. $ 835,000 609,000 $ 226,000 $ 55,666 514 [1868-1875] ARKANSAS has less than 650,000 people. It has about 120,000 voters. These owed in 1868, when reconstruction began in this State, about $3,500,000, and had $319,000 in cash in their treasury. The debt was State debt. The counties owed little or nothing. To-day, after seven years, the State owes at least $15,700,000, and most of the counties have debts of their own sufficient to make them bankrupt. And for this huge indebtedness, which amounts for State, counties, town, and school districts to probably $20,000,000, the people have nothing to show, except some miles of railroad, There are no new public buildings; neither science nor the arts have been advanced. The old State-house looks as dilapidated as when reconstruction began, and has been changed in nothing except having its door-lintels mutilated that a Brooks cannon might be squeezed into the hall; the schools are almost all closed because the school fund was stolen; and Little Rock is unpaved, though the conquerors of 1868 issued nearly shinplasters enough to pave all the streets handsomely with the paper itself, and bonds enough besides to make dry crossings at the cor The State debt alone amounts . . to more than $115 for every voter. State, county, township, and school debts, includ ing scrip of all kinds, would probably bring the voters in debt $175 per head. . . In Little Rock, the collector of taxes openly engaged in brokerage, took out a Federal license as a broker, and then drove a thriving trade with the citizens when they came to pay their taxes. You must understand that all State and county scrip was receivable at par for taxes. If a citizen had to pay $50 for taxes, he might buy scrip at thirty cents and pay it in at par. But the collector bought scrip beforehand, when the market was low, and made his own bargain with the citizen. It is said he made his office worth $100,000 a year. His way was to demand a moiety of the tax, but in greenbacks. For this he gave a receipt in full. Then he kept the greenbacks, and turned into the treasury in their place the scrip he had bought up so cheaply. This atrocious form of swindling became so universal that I have been told only one county tax collector in the whole State has uniformly turned into the treasury the same money which he received; and this when the allowances of the assessors and collectors were so great that in some years it cost twenty per cent. to collect the State revenue. Taxation in North Carolina Ku Klux Report, North Carolina testimony, p. 313. Statement of Plato Durham, lawyer. [1871] THE taxation for State purposes has been increased fivefold |