Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Diary of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes: May 7, 1869

The Legislature adjourns today. Now for the result. Prepare accurate and full tables showing the expenditures authorized by this Legislature. Divide them into ordinary and extraordinary. Show then in some detail how they compare with former years, with ten, twenty years ago, and with last year

Apply this to state and local affairs. Show amount of taxes authorized and amount that goes upon the future. Give a list of all unusual appropriations, all unusual burdens.

When the white flag was raised at [the] Chicago [Democratic National Convention in 1864] by recommending "immediate efforts for the cessation of hostilities," Judge R—— was a state delegate for Ohio.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 63

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