The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-08-13
Nr. Wells ReEort.

Certain Democratic j Journals have
lately labored hard to induce the be-
lief that our National expenses are
enormous, that the public debt is be-
ing increased instead of diminished,
that taxation is more onerous, and
that the Republican party have two
thirds majority IN both Houses, is
responsible therefore. In answer to
certain enquiries efthe Hon. Wm. 3
Allison OF Iowa, Special Commis-
sioner Wells has written letter
elsewhere printed containing the
following specifications:
l. That the National receipts of
revenue from all sources, for the fis-
cal year ending June 80, 1868 were
substantially S406,300,0e0, and the
aggregate expenses 1871 ,55O,225, of
which $141, ,635,551 13 was on ac-.
eeunt of interest on. the Public Debt:
(nearly S16,000,O0O of this bsing
due mainly to payments on account
tcfaccunulating interest ON the Com
pound Interest Notes, and which will
net appear in future interest dis.
bursement,) thus leaving an esti
mated surplus of receipts over ex-
penditures, for the year ending June
80, Of a24, ,649,777.
II. Since the war the amount of
Taxes abated or repealed is s167,
269, ZOO, and coineident with this,re.
duction the aggregate ofthe Nation
al indebtedness has been reduced
$3.50, 100000. On this abatement
the reduction of the interest, calcu-
lated at sig per centum, would be
fifteen millions per annum.
III. The aggregate expenses of the
War Department from April l 1865,
to June so, 1860, were S917,1l7,
o43 43, 3647,6sS, 900 Cor 70 per cent
of the whole) being used during the
last nine months of 1865, in paying
off our troops and other necessary
war expenses. The balance, $3.50,
42s, 977 10, covers aperied of thirty
months, and represents disburse-
ments further contingent upon the
termination of the war, regular ex-
penses, the money used in the Indian
War, the payment Of bounties (49,
3S2, $3.50, payment for property de-
stroyed in the military service ($11
600, ,OOO), reimbursement of State
claims ($lO, O,23O,0O0), river and har-
Dor Improvements fertifcation, In
dians, Freedmen's Bureau, expen-
set of Reconstruction, etc. ~.
". From April l, 1865, to June
80, 1868, the expenditures of the
Navy Department were $113,1l9,
296 81, and IS per cent of this, OF
$50, ,S47,S ,SS9 So were disbursed in the
nine months succeeding the ter
m1nation of the war. The balance
covers the regular expenses of the
Navy for thirty months ending 80
1868, as we'll as the disbursements OF
prize money and fort the settlement OF
contracts made before the war en-
!. ded.
| V. No department of the Govern
ment has been so much abused by
Gov. Seymour and Democratic ora
tors generally as the Freedman's Bu.
reau. They have never failed to mag.
Nifty threefald the cost of that insti
!; tutions. Mr. Wells, shows thai
since its organization in 1866 down
to June 80, 1868, its expenses were
only S5,617,O 900. This disposes o1
, one half of the false statements oil
these men. If it were possible to
find out how much of this money
. was expended to alleviate the suf
; ferings of whites, the Democrats
might be shamed into stopping the
, other half of their abuse. aH
Finally, the expenses contingent
upon the acts of Congress regulating
Reconstruction have been 50, ,344, TOO
which is also far below the amount
given by the Democratic candidate
: or President and his followers.-N
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