Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-08-07


Certain Democratic journals have 1l56s
ly labOred hard tOiinduce the belief that
our National expenses are enormous,
that the public debt Is being increased
instead Of diminished, that taxation is
more on erous. and that the Republican
party having tWo-thirds maj Rjority in both
Houses are responsible therefor, In
answer to certain inQuir les of the Hon.
VIM. B. Allison of Iowa, Special Com
missioner Welles has written letter
containing the following specifications:
1. That the National receipts of rev.
enue from all sources, for the fiscal year
ending June so, 1868, were substantially
S406, SOC, 600, and the aggregate expenses
1871 $50 ,226, of which S141, ,635, ,55I 13 was
on account Of interest on the Public
Debt (nearly SIC, 900, 900 Of this being
accumulated interest on the Compound
Interest Notes, and which viii not APP
pear in the interest disbursements )thus
leaving an estimated surplus of receipts
over expenditures, for the year ending
June 39' of S34, ,749, III.
II. Since the war the amount of
Taxes abHted or repealed Is Sl67 1853, 600,
and coincident with this reduction the
aggregate of the National Indebtedness
has heen reduced $3.50, 100000. On this
abatement the reduction Of the interest
calculated at six per centum, would be
fifieen millions per annum.
III. The aggregate expenses of the War
Department from April /, 1865, TO June
30, 1868, were S9i7, III, ,043 43, S646, ,6SS, 90 8
(Or 20 per cent. of the Whole) being used
during the last nine months of 1885, in
paying off our troops and other neces-
sary war expenses. The balance, S269-
42Ss s9S7 10, covers period of thirty
nuOnths and represents disbursements
further contingent upon the termina-
sion Of the FaEy regular expenses, the
money used in the Indian War, the
payment of bounties 1855, ,382 ,S59), pay
ment for property destroyed in the mill
itHFy service (Sl1, ,000, ,000), REIN burge-
ruent of State claims t$l0, 1896, ,0301, river
and lmrbOr improvements fortifications
indians, Freedmem's Bureau, expenses
of Reconstruction, etc. a- 4-- -
". From April L, 1866, to June 30,
1858, the expenditures Of the Navy De-
partment were S11S, lis, ,296 81, and AS
I per cent of this, or $50, ,S46, ,SS9 So, were
disbUrsed in the nine months succeed
ing the termination of the war. The
balance covers the regular expenses of
the navy for thirty months ending July
80, 1868, as well as the disbursements OF
prize money and fer the settlement of
contracts made before the war ended.
V. No department of the Government
has been so much abused by Gov. Sey-
mOur and Democratic orators generally
as the Freedmen's Bureau. They have
never failed to magnify ihreefold the
cost of that institution. Mr.. Wells
shows that since itssrg adi1atiOu in lSG6
down to June 80, 1868, its expenses
were only S., ,617, 900. This dispOses of
one-half of the false statesments OF
these mens IF it were possible 10 find
out how much of this money was ex-
pended TO alleviate the sufferings Of
whites, tine Democrats might be shaned
into aGO,'Ding the other half of their
abuse.
Finally, the EXPENSES contingent up
OH acts of Congress regulating Recon
struciiOn have been g, ,344, 200, which is
also tar below the amount given by the
Democratic candidate for Presid ent and
his fDllUwers.-N. Y. Tribune.