The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-29

Mr., WELLS REPoRT-Certain Democratic
journals have lately labored hard TO induce the
belief that our national expenses are enor-
NOUS that the public debt is being increased
instead Of diminished, that taxation is more
onerous, and that the Republican party,
having two. third majority in both Houses is
responsible therefor In answer to certain
inquiries Of the Hon. William b. Allison, of
Iowa, Special Commissioner Wells has written
a letter, elsewhere printed, containing the fol-
lowing specifications
l. That the national receipts of revenue from
all soul ces, for tie fiscal year ending June 30,
1868, substan TALLY S406 800 OOO, ana the ag
gIegate expenses $37l 55O225, of wnicn Sl4I 1885,,
55l. I3 wVs ON account OF Interest on the puOlic
debt, (nearly $l6.OOuUOO of this being due mainly
10 pay menIs on account of accumu .ated interest
ON the com pound Interest notes, and wnlcn VIII
not appear In future interest disbursementsD
thus leaving an estimated surplus of receipts
over expenditures, for the year ending June 30,
OF s34, ,749,777.
II. Since the war the amount of taxes abated
repealed is Sl67, 600, and coincident with
this reduction the aggregate OF the national in-
debledness has been reduced $3.50 100000. On
this abatement the reduction or the interest,
calculated at six per cenlum, would be fifteen
iii. The aggregate expenses of the War De-
psIms11tt IRON Apria 1 iS25 o to o. J9He a. 30 1865
OF the WhUie) being used during the last
nine months of 1865, in paying off our troops
and oil her necessary war expenses. The balance
$3.50 42S 9S7 10, covers period OF thirty months
ana represents disbursements further contin-
penses, The money used in the Indian War, the
payment OF bounties (Si9 332 $500, payment for
property destroyed In the military service
(SlLttC 0UOl, reimbursement of State claim
(SlO3 $50 UUO), river and harbor improvements
forLl1caIiuns, Indians. Freedmen's Bureau, ex-
penseB of Reconstruction, etc,
~. From April /, 1860, TO June 30, 1868, the ex-
pendituTes OF the navy Department We're Sll3,
1929 81, and As per cent. of this or $50 Sl7,.
oS9'6S, were diSbursed in the nine months sue.
ceeding tue termination OF The war. Tue
balance covers the regular expenses of the
navy for thirty months ending July 80, 1868, as
well as the disbursements OF prize money and
for the settlement of contracts made before the
war ended.
V. No department of the Government has
been much abused by Governor Seymour
and Democratic orators generally as the Freed
mems Bureau. They have never failed to mag
nify three fold the cost OF that institution. Mr.
Wells shows that since It's organization in 1856
down TO June 30, 1868, its expenses were only
S5 6l7 600. This disposes o one half of the false
stat Iements of these men. lflt were possible 10
find out how mucn of lhis money was eX pended
To alleviate the Suferings OF whites, the Demo.
Gratis might be shamed Into stopping the other
half of their abuse.
Finally. the expenses contingent upon the
acIs of Congress regulating Reconstruction
have been so 344, 700, which Is also far below the
amount given by the Democratic candidate for
the President and his followers.