The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-25
rtianaI EXppEdItures.
Tha CurreE

The expenditures Of the Govern
ment for the last quarter of the year
1863 amounted TO Sl0T, ,925, ,9l2. From
this should be deducted so, ,27l ,015 ex-
pended in the purchase Of bonds, and
=, ~, 7l2 credited 10 the sinking fund.
The actual expenditures, including
the interest or the public debt, were
sixtv-tWO millions Of dollars, OF at the
rate Of two hundred and forty-eight
millions annually. The expenditures
Of the quarter preceding this, viz: the
one ending September 30, 1853, were
in excess Of this BY twenty-three mil
lions, rs viii be observed by the fol-
lowing comparisons:
Garter ending Qul-te= ending
sept, l>z'. Dee. Ists,
War, Navy, InterioF---s12-YJ9,s-J S552g,00g
civil eryic---------------- i2-ls-l-~si II, ,4ItVJ
Interest J--'JLyO 2J3J1.0JJ
T5;al-.....-...-.-...-....-s,j. so,,O 100000
The following exhibits the differ
ence between the total expenditures
of the fiscal year 1858, and these of
1920 at therateof expenditure dur
ing the six months referred 70 above:
1853. lS9-'70.
Civil and AIisceilaneOus.S55 ~. .1IJ s51.S1.GOG
y
lnterest--- ,1,5J l-i,sJdOU
Total. .-.......s53J,0 ,0oUJ 2gi.s1COO
This agrees exactly with Mr.. Bout
Wells estimates for the wear lS69-70,
a. published in his annual report in
the early part OF December; and shows
that up to December 3lst, he had kept
his expenditures within his estimates.
The comparison between the first
fiscal year Of President Grants adj
ministratiOn, and the last year of An
drew JOhnson's, shows difference
of Twenty-siX Millions i'll favor of
President Grant in the expenditures,
TO say nothing Of the increased re-
ceipts, which indicate an excess for
FOrty-three Millions over the excess
in Mr.. JOhnSOn's last fiscal year. The
charge that Grants administration is
more cXtravagant than Mr.. JOhnson's,
i'm its current expenditures has no
foundation in fact; that it shall not be
in its future expenses, it is the duty of
Congress topr0yide, by rigid economy
in appropriations, and rigid dealing
with any official VINO spends more
than the apprOpriatiOn.-DetrOh Post.
The Detroit Tribune approves the
decision Of the Superior Court of Gin
cinnati in regard to the use Of the BIZ
ble in the public schools, and says:
The Court went to the bottom of the
matter; held that the Constitution rec
Ognized Christianity as an essential
element Of good government, and that
the exclusion of all religious instruct
ion from the public schools, was con-
trary to the Bill of Rights. The Court
seems to have mad a larger measure of
piety than some of the Protestant cler-
gy,whO Mt almost the commencement
of the joint Roman Catholic and inf
del assault advised the exclusion of
the Holy Scriptures. The decision is
but an incident in a conflict that must
in the nature of things go on. We
are thankful for even this victory by
the way, and trust it may be the pre-
cursor of many similar ones. We are
not of those who believe that the best
way to carry on this contest is to grant
at once all that those who are mimi
cal to the Bible or indifferent to it de-
mand. The nation would have been
what it is, if they had never lived, but
il would have been far different from
what it is without the Bible. We
must always bear in mind that this is
not question of sectarian instruction
in the public schools, for no man with
Il sense of justice can advocate that.
The question is, shall the reading of
the Bible without note or comment be
forbidden in our public schools now
and Derpetually?