The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-06-13
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SECEsII LIES ENPLODED.
The Government Expenditures.

The county was some time rgo in
ftrmed, on what seemed 10 be- reliable
that the expenditures Of the
Government were fully three millions of
dollars per day. A great deal of aston
ishmcnt aud some apprehension was felt
at the statement People were Justly pus-
zlcd and alarmed at the idea ofthe nation
plungirg into debt at the rate of one
thousand millions Of dollars per year. IL
now appears that the average expenditure
of the Government have not been one mil.
lions Of dollars per day. The New York
Commercial Advert tscr says Of speech
made ON Tuesday. BY Mr.. Dawes oi Mas
sachusrtts: lie showed On authority
which Is entirely trustworthy, that tue
" hole expenses Of the present AJminis-
tration, Tor period IF fourteen months
and eighteen Gays, amounting to only
SAL 100000, Waich rGS three millions
less iiGR oae miilioa day o. t,e Grer.
age.
The entire Indebtedness, including the
seventy h'tlions hCquCuthcd by the last
sun'ulstr' u"h' M"s SlS 1895, ,li5, on the
92d of this month The speech &C MIR.
b b"NNa N"o VI iNIh ~ NOFNttS OF luui-
ana, who made out that our National debt
would soon amount to sis thousand mil.
lion dollars.
Mr.. Dawc3 said
The expenditures Of all the department
of the Government, outside urthr war and
navy, since tic Administration came into
powCr are Hs follows. For the Interior
Department, Indians aud pensions to the
22nd OF May, S3,GSl,SGO; civil list, for,
rigu intercourse, aud miscellaneous
S2l,C31,OlO, making u t,tal Of nearly
S25,3B7 900 Tho expenditure Of thg
VIZ Department during that time
S37 LIE, 900, ard the navy during the
same time : 10 ,55 900, or t total orSIIG,
227,' 90. The average daily Cxpcudi
turcs in the War Department have beer
&S97,295, and those OF the navy SlUo,
SJ2 making the average IN lutli depart
mcn,s S9gS, ,l47. No rCqusitiuns ar,
unpaid, excepting Of n few thousand dol
lars for illCg0lity or tislpyuliy, The pay
mcuts lust rhursd ywcrr only SS6i,0l7
Iy,t the day after, when the pGymastrr.
came in, the expenditures wcr1 $4,000,
600; hut on Saturday only 100000. $,
AAN AAHAilN iAhlA y VI AlAA AbNAlANlii tut u
the 29d Of Mvy inst IN round numbers
were: Flr Military, $3.4,0O0,ogo; Navy
So goo 900; all other expenditures, S25,
0O0, OOo--a total orSill 100000. From
the 18th OF March 1861, till the 22nd u
, May, the public debt. including S7O,OOo,
600, bcqucathcd by Buchanan, amount
cd in the aggregate. on Friday last, 4
$iSl, ,7J6, lIj. Mr. Dawes run paral
lei between the Expenditures under th,
former administration and the present
showing us to the civil, list, this admins
tration has been so Err mere honest an,
economical thOa that
Tho expenditures Of the GuvsFnmcn
have been greater in tho past than the,
will be in the future. Vast sums or mon
ey have been laid out IN ships and arms
The creation of the enormous urtller,
force which Is now so effective an arm O
our military department, involved lavisl
outlay of money,
Our coast expeditions have cost us cx
rlyus antly. Arms ave teen Pre- Gu; cd a
great cost. In fict We were not prepared
for war, and have been obliged 70 max,
up for our want of preparations.
| We huve now made our permanent in
yestments in war malrrlal, and the cur
rent expenditures will be diminished
The estimate that the war was costing l.!
three millions per dog, vas made just Il
the time that hundreds Of vessels wer,
chartered for the transportation of Nc
Clcllan's army from Alexandria to Fort
rcss Monroe, and while an immense fec
OF steamers were conveying Gen. Grant.
army up the tennessee river.
The great cost of these vessels o.
course swelleJ the aggregate daily ex
prnditures greatly, but yet tn thr,e mil
lion estimate was much too large cvcl
for that time.