Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-20
A GOOD RECORD.
General Garieid,s speech.

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President GIANT is administering the af-
fairs of Government. We give below, as
additional testimony, some very gratifying |
facts as brought forth by Gen. Garfield of
Ohio, one of the clearest-headed and ablest
of our Republican leaders in Congress.
The comparison between the expenses
and revenues of this administration and
Johnson's is very damaging to the latter,
and will be accepted by our people as salts
factory evidence of the success of the pres
ent administration. We commend Gen.
Garfield's speech to the careful attention of
our readers:
Mr.. Chairman, call the gentleman on
the other side of the House to witness that
very few times on this floor have | made
what may be called partisan remarks. /
take no pleasure in doing so. Party speech
es become another forum rather than this.
But there are times when think it proper
to respond to partisan speeches.
We are debating deficiency bill, a bill
to appropriate money to carry on the Gov
eminent. And in connection with the bill,
gentlemen on the other side have taken the
opportunity to bring many charges against
the party in power, for extravagant expen-
ditures, for pretensions to economy which
they do not carry out in practice; and they
rs extravaganza in the management of the
Republican party. / did not intend this
morning to speak on this branch of the
subject at all. There was consideration,
however, which / desired to present, and
which, if / have the time, will yet pre-
attention OF the committee to some of the
charges made by the gentleman who has
just spoken.
My friend from Indiana Mr. Niblackl is
not himself an extreme partisan. But he
has said some things just now which de-
serve an answer. He says that if the glory
of the war belongs to the Republican party,
then the results of the war, the eXpendi
lures of the war, and the burdens laid upon
the people in consequence of the war, fall
also TO our share. A part of this statement
indorse. But Mr.. Chairman | desire to
ask that gentleman and his party ques-
ton. Suppose that in the year 1881 every
Democrat north of the Potomac and the
Ohio had followed the lead of Grant, and
Douglas and Dickinson, and Tod, and all
the other great lights of the Democratic
party, had thrown away the Democratic
name and said that they would be Demo-
Gratis no longer as we said we would be Re-
publicans no longer, but all would be Union
men, and stand together around the flag
until the rebellion had been put under our
feet. desire to ask the gentleman, if these
things had happened, how long the war
would have lasted, how much the war
would have cost? / do notlhesitate to say
that it could not have lasted month, and
the expenditures of the war would never
have exceeded Sl0,000,000. say, as mat
hope of the rebels of the South that the AS
sistanee of the Democratic party of the
North would divide our forces and over
come all our efforts; that at the ballot-box
the Democrats ut home would help the
cause which they were maintaining in the
tiaII haf haf OLE which
protracted the war and created our inn
mense debt.
1 come, therefore, to the door of your
party, gentlemen on the other side, and
lay down at your threshold every dollar OF
the debt, every item of the stupendous total
and / say if you had followed Douglas there
would have been no debt, no blood, no bur-
den. / will not stop here TO call up before
your door also the long line of ghosts OF
slain heroes, our brothers who fell at the
hands of rebels, in consequence of YOU
sympathy and encouragement.
q But, MI. Chairman leaving that .ques
= ton, / agree with my distinguished FRIEND
from Indiana that the Republican party
whatever of the glory of the war may be
long to its history, will be Judged hereafter
mainly by the manner III which IL manages
the financial affairs of this country; and
desire to call attention to the character o
its administration in this regard during the
year it has been in power
hold in my hand the official report o
expenditures and receipts of the Govern
ment-a statement showing what is takeI
out of the pockets of the people and pu
into the Treasury, on the one hand, anC
what we pay out of the Treasury, on tn,
other Now, what are the facts? Why
sir, in the fiscal year that ended June 30
1867, Andrew johnson being in power, thu
expenditures of this Government wer
S346 900, 900. What We're they in his mex
year? Three hundred and seyenty-seveI
million dollars, in ancrease of S3l 900, O0
in the expenditures in one year. How wa
it when the Republican Administration
under Gen. Grant came into power? Th
year ending June 80, 1869, which embraced
only about four months of General Grant
administration, showed expenditures O
1921 900 O00--a falling off of S56,000,0 600
And the year which will close ON the soil
of June next by the official estimates of tn
Secretary of the Treasury, will bring TIL
expenditures down to 500, 900 900, a furthe
reduction of nearly thirty million dollar
from the expenditure of last year. This j
the difference between the Administrator
which the gentleman supported and tina
of the Republican party. From the tim
of Mr.. Johnson's apostasy to the close q
his administration the expenditures wer
constantly increasing. From the hour a