Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-04-16
s. p E E @ H
OF
Hon. William Lawrence,
OF OHIO,
In the House Of Representatives.,

ln8 Rouse naVlnS under consideration
the Presidents annual message
Mr.. LAWRENCE, of Ohio said:
Mr.. SPEAKER There are four subjects Of
absorbing interest which now engage the
public attenion-the national expenditures,
the national debt, the mode and measure of
national taxation, and the national currency.
WHAT Is NERDRD.
| The people Justly demand reduction of
national expenditures that the public faith
shall he preserved invioate, but that the
burden of interest ON the national debt
SHOULD he made less, with just provision for
the ultimate payment of its principal that
national taxes should be reduced in amount,
removed from manufactures aud all products
of labor, except luxuries, and be faithfully
collected, and that settled policy shall be
adopted which will secure to the public the
benefits and give u supply of national cur
rency adequate for all the business wants
Of the country, and which will encourage
and stimulate productive industry, and there
by restore universal prosperity.
With all this and the speedy reconsruc-
| tion of the rebel States on the basis OF 10y
atty and justice, with guarantees for the
future security and peace of the country, a
policy will be adopted which will command
the public approval.
THE PUBLIC EXPENSES REDUCTION
propose now to speak of the national
expenditures, the responsibility for their in
crease, and the proper mode of their re-
| ductiOn.
The expenditures during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1860, paid in gold were as
follows
To civil service, incluai.g legislative. executive,
Judiciary government of tcrrit0rlea .urveyors Mint
ASSISTANT measurer-, aud inspt ct0rs--toal civil
|
FUre intercourse. Observation-Disclosures. ,,6S 20T Is
Mscsllauc ms services .........,.. 20 65s o07 92
Toal 27,9so,slO, 4s
serviec ,f Interior Department In
dnns ami prns'nn.) Observation-Disclosures. 3g55 CSC 80
strsi ~of Wsr department. ......... 409,7G1 10
Srivic, f Navy department 15l3, 1850 10
10 tne pubic III 6l'd2S QO
Total 462, 100 36
| THE DEMOCRATIC PATTY RESPONSIBLE FOR
| THE DEBT.
| The great rebellion has imposed new bur
lcns on the people, in the form of II national
debt. ON the lst February, 1868, of s., ,G5l,-
1885, ,60l 9S, besides the annual expenditures
for pensions, bountes, and interest, requr-
ing a system of internal revenue taxation
hitherto almos, unknown. The people feel
this gfieyuus burden, and they will hold in
eternal tcmt mbrance the fact that the Dem
ocra;ic party is responsible for it ALL The
rebellion, in its origin and progress, was ex-
| clusirely ctargablc to the Democratic party.
| No. one Republican was engaged in it.
During its mad career the Democratic party
gave it ''aid and comfort" in the Northern
States, and TO day there is scarcely a politi-
cal demand made by southern rebels to
which northern Democrats are not ready to
| assent.
WHAT DEMOCRACY HAS DONE.
| The rebellion has not ouly left us legacy
| nf national dpht lint 1,as tntailnd npn,, ,,e
an annual charge, which for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1869, will be
For pensions to soldiers their widows and sr-
fhahs. S3O' 3iO, 900
Bouhtic' to soldiers 49, 000, 900
Interest on the public debt. t...........l3 1870 0j,o0j
To'al. ............, ............. SIS, ,,S3O,Od0
five add to this for collecting internal
revenue the amount ii cost in 1867, $7,7l2,-
Uso, the total will be $lg3,0i2, ,0s9. If we
should now add the expenses of the last
year of President Buchanan's adminsira-
ion as ! have shown, $77 iG2, l02 &c. and
then add the difference between gold paid
in Buchanan's last year and paper payable
now al forty per cent, $50, 1854, $40 so, it
would make total OF $30l 4S9, ,032 l6.
REPUBLICAN, AND DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY CON
TRAsTED.
hat is the cost of administering the
| Government Tor Il year now with the same
economy practiced during the last year of
Democratic rule, adding the inevitable bur
deus growing out Of the rebellion, and al
lowing lur the difference between paper and
gold would be S3Ol, iS9, OBJ Ii. In this es-
innate, too, no addition is made for increase
Of officers ma'ic necessary in auditing and
paying pensions, b0unlies, and interest on
the public debt.
The appropriation bills now before Com
sod n IItfif f,rIt, tn1 I,tr
Committee of Appropriations, will work u
great reduction on this estimate.
They are as follows:
To civil service, including legislative executive j
dicil government Of te Iitaries foreign I'M course
shs insce lane rus .s36 1870 9l2 80
iniiais. 3.n0O,O00 90
war Department. .................... 8 80s2.u93 90
IVES Pon Military Academy. ........ 30 900 90
inrre,t on public deot 600 900 20
" UuU
Total. otsl..........,............. .s.I6 242,050 ~
This is a reduction on the basis of the
last year Of Democratic rule of 81, j,2iG,9Sl-
~. The civil and miscellaneous service in
tse last year of Democratic rule was $27,-
no, SO Is in gold, equal now in paper to
$50 l57,SlS 81, while the proposed appro-
prialions are only $36, 430,9l2 32 being re-
duction OF So. 726,906 81. The estimate of
|
Revenue, is that the expenditures for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, would be
$270,000,000.
II Congress shall endorse the appropria-
lions asked by a Republican Committee of
Appropriations the public burdens will be
greatly reduced, but demand still greater
reduction SO that we may deserve to have II
sail, "Wc knew our duty and did i; fully"
The Secretary of the Treasury tells us
That the contracting of large public
debts is unavoidably attended with impru-
dent, il not reckless, expenditures, and that
when those entrusted with or possessing gov
erning power have once enjoyed the luxury
Of using or expending freely the moneys
under their control, (and this is always the
case during The progress of expensive wars,
proper economy is atterward exceedingly
difficult TO be enforced.
DEMOCRATIC ExrRAvAaANcR.
And now, sir, charge upon the admins
tration of Andrew johnson, supported as it
is by every rebel South and every Democrat
of the North, a deliberate purpose to Cypress
the people by exiravagant and proiligate
public expenditures.
The Secretary of the Treasury asks for
appropriations for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1860, as follows:
Fr the civil service s5i 900 600
For pensions snd Indians. ............ So 100 O0J
For ,he VA Department, Including
!, Szooooooa i9s oonntles, ..'..,.'... lso GOO ooo
For the interest oh the public debit. 13O,t 90 600
Iotai. ..............- .S5t1WU Ou0
The pending appropriation bills propose
$27G, 242, ,050.32, being a reduction Of $685.
757, $50. GS on the slmates of the Secretary
of the Treasury
The Secretary of the Navy asked for ap-
preparations for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1869, to carry on ship-building, for the
repair of navy-yards, and for expenses,
amounting to $t7,3l7, ls395 But Congress
having revolted at such a demand, he sent
in revised estimates, in which he says:
1.-THE estimates submitted with my annual
report amount t. $47,3l7, 1885, 96 the re-
vised estlmates, herewith transmitted, to
1924. 924, ,47S.03 reduction of S22 2,392,-
705.92."
The expenditures for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1867, We're:
For the civil service .s5 02T 2T
For pensions and Indians. ........... 2b,5I90s3 4S
6S