Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-10

came into Office he reversed All tl,is
The party in power IN Congress aided
him IN the work, and for the whole win
ter past, and since Gen. Grant came int
power the Executive Department Of the
Government has aided IN putting the
knife 10 the whole service and cutting !,
down TO the lowest figure -aa F7ie0
THE PROGRESS or RErRENcHMEST.
CoDgress passed a law during the past
winter reducing the army 10 twenty
regimehts to infantry and in many Other
ways and by careful computation the ex.
pense OF the army have been reduced at
the rate OF ten millions a year. When
the whole force Of the reduction takes
effect, 1t will cost You ten million less to
keep up your army than it cost before.
We have been reducing in all depart
meHts of the civil service. One week
from to-day reduction takes place in
the Treasury Department., which will
cost five hundred tLouSand a year less
tor clerks in this service alone, than it
has done through the past A. similar
reduction is made in all the other depart
ments of the Government. gT frE
And now let me tell you what is being
done IN regard to the collection of the
revenue. ? These men that have hung
about and fastened themselves like leech.
es upon the public treasury have been
swept out by the new administration
And what is the result so far as the rev.
enue is concerned ? obtained, ins. be-
fore leaving Washington, an official
statement of the course of the revenue
as compared with what it was before.
and let me give you some OF the facts.
During the FIRST three-quarters of the
fiscal year our receipts into the Treasury
were s256,0O0,00 During the last
quarter, which will end week from ia
day, the receipts into the Treasury will
be 100000, ,00O---only s25e. .eoo, 600 in
three-quarters, aud in the remaining one
quart 81 100000, 900. better bv 100000
600 than an any other quarter of that
year, and there has been bo increase in
taxation.d 1t is the simple difference of
an honest collection of the revenue. And
on the score of expenditures, the expen-
ditures during the first three quarters of
the fiscal year were 1886, 600, 600. Dur
ing the last quarter they were only S6s-
0,O00, being more than $4,000, 900
less than in any other quarter of the
year. The year will foot up in this way,
1851 100000 of receipts; $32t, 600, 900
of expenditures, leaving clean surplus
of S7,O0O,Oo0 in the Treasury for the
year that will end week from TODAY.
and large share of all that surplus has
been acquired since Gen. Grant was in
augurated in the executive chair. iG
l1 l know these details are dry, but out
of these are the issues of our national
life and ask your attention for few
moments longer to some of them. r.ag |
...t MORE ABOUT THE WHISKY TAX.
Let me speak now of the article of
whisky. During last year, as told You.
we collected but SIS, 900, 900, from whis-
ky. During this fiscal year the collec-
tions will amount to $4,000, 900 from
that source alone. And how is it being
done? Why, take the month of May
that has just passed. During the month
of May, in 1868, when the tax pretend |
ed to be two dollars a gallon, We only
collected from all the country $1,000, 1000 |
During the month just passed with thir-
ty7six collection districts, to be heard |
from, we had collected 81 $500, 900. There |
was a gain of 100000 in one month, !
and thirty-six collection districts to be
heard from, and in this month of May
we were getting but ,sixty-six cents on
the gallon tax. What is the reason
Because the thieves had been driven out
of the revenue service (applause); be-
cause the honest collection of the reyen-
ues had been commenced by the Repub-
lican administration as against the ras-
calities OF the old. ....- ..-..... = ... bod.
Let me state another fact. The re-
ceipts from all the, sources of revenue
during the month of May, 1868, were
not quite $l6,000,000. From the same
sources of revenue in May, 1869, they
to 2O,5o0, 900, and yet there
were thirty-six collection districts not
yet heard from. These figures taken
from the official records, fellow citizens,
show two things. First, the alarming
corruption of the cid administration, and
second, a gratifying exhibition of the
thoroIghness. and yigor, and virtue Of
The administration now in power. ,y
REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. lu>
Z Now let me show You another fact 1
During the year that win close at the
and of this month, we shall have reduced
our debt more than So,0o0,O0o, but
Bis, 100000 of the reduction was made |,
during the month. Of May last. More
shan half Of all the reduction in our debt
Turing the current year was made under
he administration of General Grant.
Now, fellow citizens, these facts, and
many similar ones, which l might state Ii
20 you, indicate sufficiently that the Re.
publican party has set itself thoroughly
md earnestly to the work of reducing
he expenses of the Government, aud
being economical in the collection and
of tile revenues One
word more on the public debt aud leave
his branch u the subject. Your debt,
is IL stood on the first day of this month /
| as $2,464, 100000, and, with all the
that have been had during
he last two years, we have been making !
. handsome reduction on the debt all this t
imerrnearly all. We have averaged a F.
aron radncfion durinO the whole ulri0d 4