The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-08-18
Expenditures Of the Federal Gov
ernment-Four Hundred Nil


tOLS.
The Republican newspapers admit that
TIE expendnures of the Federal UoVern
ment tie past ytaT each about three nun
bred p.iil.uas, against the sixty millions
rer a,!nual expended under Buchanan :
administration. This admission Is SUN
Gent to forever condemn the present Con
gress I'd Grant 5 administration together
Bat the fact Il. the expenses OF the past
year have exceeded four hundred millions.
\ short time ago their own leaders III Con-
gress confessed to this evidence OF unlVer-
sal extravaganza and corruption.
There is, aud has been, regular and
thoroughly systematic conspiracy by the
officers Of the Government, and by Radical!
partisans IN Congress, to conceal the actual
cost OF the administration. Dawes, the
Republican Chairman OF the Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS, said during the late ses-
sion, referring TO statements furnished the
punc hv the departments:
The whole thing is transparent; it is bold,
unblushing attempt to conceal from the coun-
try the real facts. which not only show no d.
minution of expe mixtures, but large in
crease. Whatever is taken by lndl-
rection and conceal ed is supposed to be saved,
and to be in favor OF economy, as the people
are not expected TO find it out, as 1t does Tot
appear in the papers.
Other Republican members of the House
have repeatedly testified to the same facts.
Mr.. Beck, reliable and able membe OF
the House from Kentucky, and a member
of the Committee on Appropriations, Oh
tanned from the Government officers a
statement from which he proved that the
annr0nriations and funds applicable to ex:
amounted to nearly three hundred and
ninety nine millions, IN addition to the
amount Of all sales Of Govern lent proper
y for the year. He then said:
Add to this what is known as the loan and
lapsed funds, which amount to several mil.
lion dollars, and out Of which, as the Secreta,
ry shows in his letter to me, of June /, which
read Oh this floor, over 500 employees in
the Treasury Department are paid who do not
appear on the appropriation bill S or books Of
estimates. and out Of which extra compensa.
ton is paid, and add also all sales of Govern
ment property during the year the proceeds
OF which go directly to the balances credited
to the different bureaus, and it will make over
o4OO, 900 600 subject to expenditure.
All the members of the Committee on Ap-
propriatlons know from personal examination
OF the department and bureau officers that the
balances as well as tie appropriations are in
most cases exhausted
No ore can doubt either the disposition
or the ability Of the managers of the gov
eminent to promulgate fal,e representations
Of the annual expenditures. Like ATTEMPTS
TO deceive the people are characteristic of
az extravagant or corrupt politicians in
Office. The opportunity afforded them is
ample. But the honest and intelligent
members Of no party ought not to either
>ympa'lise with these shameful misrepre-
sentatlons or countenance a party which
finds It necessary to resort to them. CAP.
Ital and labor are alike interested in secur
ing a simple and economical government
at Washington. But whatever the pre>
fences to the contrary. the evidence is over
whemlng that we cannot have this under
The present administration Of public off,
GERS Milwaukee News.