Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1874 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

The difference between Democratic and Republican administration of office is ex hibited in strong relief by a comparative statement of the expenses of the Clerk’s office of the New York Assembly under a Democrat in 1871 and undent Republican in 1873, as follows: nxnOCTUTIO— IB7I. Stationery and contingent expenses $16,019.8! Express accounts..T?. 5,464.17 Postage accounts... 8,874.34 $27,358.28 Session was for 100 days, making an average pci day of $360:98. asrtrauc an—lß73. Stationery and contingent expenses $11,339.35 Express accounts 8,0 0.60 Postage accounts 3,666.61 $18,916.55 Session f0r 1873 lasted 144 days; average per day, $131.87. With a degree of impudence peculiar to Democratic newspapers it is charged that the expense account of the Republican Clerk for 1878 is monstrous, and indicative of corruption, stealing, etc. In response to these charges the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle comes to the front with the above tables, showing that the last Democratic Clerk expended $250.98 per day, while his Republican successor managed to run the office at an outlay of $lBlB7. The difference between these two sums fbr 100 days aggregates the comfortable little perquisite of $11,961. Inter-Ocean.