Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-30

Total .S157S51, ,13l 81
Following the deductions have made
from Mr.. Buchauan's Democratic expenses,
We havsfirst to take of the $50, 100000 for
pensions, and 1922 expenses of Pen
sion Office, a direct result of the war
against the nation, which, I need, scarcely
say, was not inaugurated By Republicans
Next the Post Office appropriation, which
deducted from the Democratic expeudi-
lures, but which, as the department in
formed US recently, will be almost, if not
entiFely, reimbursed this year by postages.
No River and Uarbor bill was passed un-
der Buchanan's administration, and, in
any fair comparison, that too, must be de-
Quoted. The Internal Revenue System
was q necessity growing out of the war
and its debt, and its total appropriations,
including printing of Treasury notes, is
SS,325, coo. The Patent Office, until with
in q year or 80, paid its own expenses
out OF its receipts, without appropriation
by Congress. Now, as the constitution
doubtless intended, its receipts go
into the Treasury, and $560,000 were
appropriated cut of these receipts for its
expenses, an item unknown under the old
system. Saying nothing of other def.
ciencies" in the six and half millions to
b. found in-the above list, $3S5,000 were
appropriated TO pay up balances of recon
struction expenses, growing, of course,
out of the war For the present census
81 100000 were appropriated for this pur-
pose, which helped to swell that years
aggregate to $S5, 100000. AS have aver
aged all his expenditures amongst four
years, making but $250,000 per year for
the census service of 1860, averaging the
present census appropriation for General
Grants term would make but $780, 600
properly chsrgeable TO each year, in the
contrast between the two administrations,
For the maintenance and improvement of
our National Cemeteries, mainly in the
South where our dead soldiers are buried,
100000 were appropriated by the law of
July Is, 1870, certainly war item. The
appropriations adjudged against the
United States by international commits
sions-$475,00 to the Hudson's Bay
Company in full for vastly larger claim
pending since the Oregon treaty, and
$4,000 TO the foreign Government of
Peru in the Montaubsn case, are not items
of current, ordinary, annual expenses" "
nor was General Grant responsible for
either of them, The three millions ap.
propriated for Post Offices in New York
and Boston, and the Mint building at San
Francisco, were forced on the country by
the utter inadequscy of the present build
lngs, and are Tor permanent structures,
not 20 be annually renewed or paid for
And so also were the 100000 appro-
priated for new buildings, or improve
ments on those already built, for Custom
House, Postal, and Revenue offices at the
State CapitOls and larger cities, such ss
st. Louis, New Orleans, Charleston, Mo.
bile, Baltimore, Richmond, Savannah, and
Petersburg, in the South and Chicago,
Cairo, ST. Paul, Portland, Des Moines,
Springfield, Madison, Bangor, and Omaha,
in the North.
Deducting these items, as not properly
included in the "current, ordinary, annual
expenses Of administering the govern.
ment," but without deducting the millions
of deficiencies in above list of appropria
tions, more properly chaTgesble TO the
last fiscal year than this, and there is left
cut eighty millions of dollars for over
forty millions of people, an average of but
81 each in paper, and at our present pri
ces, as compared with the 1926 each in
gold and Ot the low prices ruling before
the war, which was the cost of our last
Democratic administration. Other de
ductions might properly have been made
such as 100000 for the coast survey OF
Alaska, $4,000 for the one and hal
years salary Of the nine rev Circuit
JuuBtsi ItnutTeu neCtsSAryj III InS Opln
ion of all parties, by the vast increase o.
Supreme Court business-$30,0 900 for the
ship canal survey at Tahuantepec-
900 for legscy from the last administra
tion Of the Ooflies olaim-Sl00,000 ex
penses of the Secretary of the Treasury
defending suits relative TO seizures oi
abandoned property, cotton, etc.-a mil.
lion ana quarter for strengthening our
Notifications ct the most important points
the increase in Indian appropriations
from two or three millions 20 SIX. from
the constantly increasing pressure of the
settlements and the absolute necessity OF
feeding tho destitute, whose hunting
grounds have been destroyed by railroads
or emigration, and the many millions OF
increase In our army expenses, from the
two thousand miles of frontier and great.
er population it has TO protect, and the
increase in the pay of the soldier since
S6i, tO'$i6 per month, with proportion.
ate increase ip pay Of officers, due 10 tho
increased cost Of living. am glad, how.
ever, 10 state that the reduction In the
number Of officers aud soldiers now going
on by law, viii reduce our army expenses
some four millions after this year.
have not made these latter deductions
in the contrast have drawn OF the ex-