The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-07-19


HENRY O'CONNOR. Of Muscatine County.
ToR MEMDK1s o. CONGRESS.
SFrn D{ssi1-aEoRHI ". MccRARY.
AroHd Diayics-ook. WILLIAM SMITH
"a 80 Dtst.sa-wnIrAuL ouGHlrpaR.
MHA ptskla-Y1AAK y. PALAER.
Si1A Dssksa--
fw.Jndce Of Csyctit Cbsyt
JOHN ,. DRAYER. q Hsnry'County
THE arPUDLl0Au PARTY AND "a
TIOHAL ExPDnDlTUREs.
The Coaattufjos I'D other Ssbsl demo-
cratic shsets, harp constantly Of the immense
national debt, Of taxation, Of the expense Of
national administration o. contrssssd With
Washisetoo's CLASSIFICATION or the sxpspss
q the government seventy or eighty year.
sso. What good, sven for the Democracy,
these Democratic sheets hope 70 achieve BY
the burden Of their shrieks on this score il
not apparent For sufficient rejoinder 70
them suggests itself 70 every one. When .
rebel. democrat comes shrisking Of this, III
enough 10 remind him that but for the vii
hiny and treason Of the Democratic party
shere would have been no rebellion and no
astional debt That even whom rebellion
came, had tho Copperhsad party not been
disloyal, had il not made itself the ally And
accomplice Of the rebels tho war would have
ended in six months, and so We would hass
escaped national debt. You can remind
the Democratic chap that his internal party
il, in real fact, before God and man, directly
responsible for every man that Was killed,
for every dollar that was expended in the war
for the Union.
You. can remind him that when Mr.. Lin.
coin took his seat several states were out Of
the Union, and bankrupt treasury. scat.
tered navy, surrendered fragment Of N
army, and Democratic rebelsin arms were the
legacy Of the Democrats party to its success.
sor. There Was no alternative left Mr.. Lin
coin and the Republican party, but to consent
to permanent division Of the Union or to
fight You can ask the Democratic
chap whether Mr.. Lincoln and the
Republican party should have consented to
the destruction of the Union. If be says yes,
then he il an unhung traitor, and yon know
whore he belongs II he says no, then he 8
fool, if he doesn't admit that there was, in
March 1851, no way left to save the Union,
but to fight for it. And if the Democratic
party under Buchanan's administration had
70 create national debt to get through with
il ridiculous Norman war, that Democratic
chap will be forced to admit that the Repub-
licsn party was forced to contract national
debt to carry on . war of the magnitude Of
: that against the Southern Confederacy.
eiuse, the Republican party had to accept
great war or consent to the overthrow Of
the Government. And since that war was
necessarily very expensive one, ii isn't =
question ~ TO whether the past eight yesrs
have cost moro than the previous eight years.
It is only . demagogue who wants to get into
Office for the spoils, or rebel sympathi.er
who is disappointed and mad because the 70.
bellion was pnt down, that puts tho question
in that light The pertinent query il whether.
tho Republican party, having An expensive
administration put upon them BY the disloy-
Atty and crime Of the Democratic party, have
honestly and faithfully tried to make the bur-
don Of that debt and taxation a. light - prsc-
ticable. Mr.. Blaine, Of Maine, answered this
query IN speech on the, Appropriation bill,
in the House, on the LIST Of July. And that
answer, here submitted, NO ask Republicans
and Democrats TO fead
Mn. BLAISE. We have entered, Mr. Chair
nan, upon new Ascsl year, and the last appro-
pFistion bill to provide fsf it, expenditures hss
been reported and Is now before the Honse. The
oeeasion seems 1t one fer bSisf survey Of our
financial situation and for pertinent sns-er to
the many misrepresentation 30 indust.iou.iy set
adoat in regard 70 govs-nmsntal expen dturss
very labored attempt has been made through
out the country By certain parties and partisans
TO create the impression that the expenditures Of
this Congrsss are on scale Of Needless and rock
less sxtravagasce. propose 70 show that such
i not thu fact, bat that, tbs contrary. the ex-
psnditures are made with FIR more regard to econ.
omy than Distinguished the last Democratic ad-
ministrstion that WAS in power In this country.
The question Il one OF figures and not Of argument
and hsncs proceed q once b tie Agarss.
II y important q Tie outsse 70 clear undsr-
standing aud clear comparison Of government ex-
psnditurss ct the present time and the per:af i'm
nsdiately preceding tho war, 70 distinguish be.
twesn those expenditures which were the newt
able consequences Of the rebellion, and therefore
unavoidable, and those which may b to ! certain
extent controlled ~ the discretion and the fidelity
Of Congrsas. Ofthoss expenditures which Az the
direct outgrowth d. the rebellion, count the in
tersst Of the war debt and the pensions and boup.
ties to soldiers and sailors. These are not expen
ditures which are not discretionary. but are i'm
perativsly demanded, unless the nation 10 pre-,
pared on ths one hand to dsffaud it, creditors or
on the other to turn it, back ON the brave men
Who rtsksd everything that the republic might
survive.
The annual interest on the public debt amounts
20 one hundred and twenty >niDs million six hun,
dred aud seventy >eisht thousand seventy>eieht
dollars and any esnts. The pension>rol for the
year will b thirty million thrss hundred and
ffty thousand dollars, and the bountiss due and
payable win require shout Thirty million dollars
The thrss itsmS, which ars not discretionary,
amount 70 the large asgre4ats Of nearly one hun
afsd AsA ninety million dollars, veil nigh two
thirds Of or total outlay for tie fiscal year upon
which We have just entered The fact that 10 large
the war, and 10 unavoidable unless W repudfate
our obiigasaons u our public ersditars and our
heroic soidisrs, cannot b too oen repeated OF too
thoroughly Impressed on the public mind; for il
i idle to denounoe these expenditures - extrHva>
CANT nalsss W AEe prepared to withhold them:
and whoever proposes to withhold them proposes
thsreby 70 put tie nation Ct the same time under
The doubt disgraoeful stigma Of reputation and
tnyratituds. II the Democratic party choose 70 |
assume that position il i welcome to I'll the glory
Of il.
Tor the ordinary expenditures Of government
tos he hscal year which has just begun. the ap- |
pfopriasaons aEs Is follows:
kxseutivs, legislative, Judicial, en-.
bf.sing al departments salaris,
ooooxpsnees. .................. IL SO. 900 90
1ok sas Amy 50, OSl,0l3 10
FOR tne II 500 900 "a
West Point Military Academy...... 500 600 an /
gonselas ana 0Pionasie ssfsice.... 1907, 4s4 %