Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-17


and expenses. .SlI, ,4SU ,O0OOO
For the army. Observation-Disclosures. 330S1 ,013.00
For the navy 17,500000.0 90
West Point Military Academy. -. 3O2 100000
Consular and diplomatic service. -. 1,206 434 GO
Post Office department. $500 1000
Indian Bureau, treaties, &c. 1850 10000
Rivers and harbors. ................. 4,700 000.00
Collecting the revenue. .............. 9,969 1000
Sundry civil expenditures connected
with the various departments 49,. G,O2O, BOO
Miscellaneous expenses of all kinds,
including cost of certain public
buildings throughout the country,
expenses of reconstruction, ex-
penses of closing up Freedmen's
Bureau, &c. ....................... 5000, 100000
Deficiencies of various kinds in the
different appropriations -. 2,56O, ,OOO.OO
Making total Of of..........:.. $1O6, sis, AT 90
/ differ in some items from the recent
statement of the Honorable Chairman of
Ways and Means, for think he included
in the expenses of this year deficiency of
thirteen million dollars resulting from the
Indian war of 1867, which amount was
appropriated and spent last year, and has
no proper connection whatever with the
expenditures of the current fiscal year.
And he also includes, incorrectly, think,
some twenty-four million appropriations
overlapping from the year which has
closed to the present. say incorrectly,
because this amount will be Offset by a
similar amount which overlaps from this
year to the next, about the same amount
going over each year, and this from neces-
sity owing to the mode OF disbursement.
have also made the amount for bounties
ten millions less than the Chairman esti-
mates, because large proportion which
he includes in this year will necessarily be
paid in the ensuing year, when it is hoped
the whole matter will be closed, the last
soldier honorably paid off and the Treas
ury relieved from further obligation in that
direction.
Adding together these ordinary expen-
ditureS, as | have above, the sum total is
found to be one hundred and six million
eight hundred and eighteen thousand four
hundred and forty-seVen dollars. If Con-
gress can be accused of extravaganza, the
accusation must be made good on these
figures, or else abandoned, for the other
expenditures, as | have already repeated,
lie without the pale of Congressional dis
the character of these expenditures may
be gathered by comparing them with the
outlays incurred under the last Democratic
administration. For example, in 1S57-5S
the same class of expenses IN Buchanan's
administration were over seventy million
dollars IN gold, whereas the one hundred
and six million eight hundred and eighteen
thousand four hundred and forty-seven
dollars above named are in paper. 1t
must be observed, moreover, that in
1o57-5S the population of this country was
under thirty millions, whereas to-day it is
well nigh forty millions. Adding forty
per cent. premium on gold to bring the
expenditures of the last two eras to the
same standard, and we find the outlays of
Buchanan were at the rate OF over ninety
eight millions in paper to-day. To this
add one-third for increase of population,
and we find the Buchanan expenditures,
adjusted to the scale of to-day, would
amount to one hundred and thirty mil
lion dollars for the same items that we are
paying less than one hundred and seven
millions. And in this calculation / have
said nothing about the increased military
and naval force of the present day, which
adds immensely to the account in favor Of
present economy.