The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-15

puD1ic8n COuSfeS9 a1GE AbcPuOAA-
can administration, and popu-
lation of over forty millions. They
are as follows. 4
Legislative, Executives ana ia
sleiai ..;. ~ q x
Consular and DipIomatic......... 1,O4S. s4z 90
Postonce .....,'. ~ 1870 "
fort1uc sz94loy "
Rivers and AarDors..----..-.---..-.' 3,sz5gt9 U
MiIIlary Academy si9s6s .
Navy Is, -. yJo "
In 1elg civiI expen M s7s 81
supplemental deficiency, ISL. ,93g .8ob %
miscellaneous .l55,lo3 10
Total... 49, sl57 81 Isl 81
Following the deductions j have
made from Mr.. Bnchanan's Demo
cratic expenses, we have first to take
and 1922. 600 expenses of Pension
otlce. q direct result of the war
against the nation, which i need
By Republicans. Next the Post
| OHce Appropriation. which / de-
Quoted from the Democratic ex-
ment Informed rs recently. will
be almost, if not entirely, REIN
bursed this year By postage. No rIy-
or and harbor bill was passed under
Buchanan's administration and, IN
any fair COMPARISON, that too, must
be deducted. The internal revenue
system was a necessity growing out OF
the war aud its debt, and its total ap-
propriatlons, including printing OF
Treasury notes, Is $500, OoO. The
D. n H. II ~
so, paid its own expenses out Of its
receipts, without appropriation by
Congress. Now, as the Constitution
doubtless intended, its receipts 60 IN
to the Treasury, aud $56O.pOO
we're appropriated out of these re-
eeipts for It's expenses, an item I'M
known under the old system. Saying
nothing of other deficiencies" In the
six and q half millions Go be found in
the above list, $3.50. 600 were appropri-
ated to pay up balances of Recon
structf0n expenses, growing, ofeourse,
out Of the war. For the present CEN
sus $l200,000 was Appropriated By
acts OF April 10Th and July, 18th,
1870. In Mr.. Buchanan 8 last year. q
million was appropriated for this pur-
pose, which helped to swell that
years aggregate to eighty FIVE mill
lions. AS / have averaged al his
expenditures amongst four years,
making but q quarter of a million
per year for. the census service
of 1860, averaging the present
census appropriation for Gen. Grants
term would make but $500, 900 prop
erly chargeable to each year, Ia the
contrast betW cen the two administers
Eow - - n a - v4mn
provement OF our numerous National
Cemeteries, mainly In the South,
where our dead soldiers are buried,
$500. 900 was appropriated by the law
of July 10, 1870, certainly q war item.
The appropriations adjudg q against
the United States By international
commissions-$475, 600 to the Hud-
sou's Bay Company In full, for 0 vastly
larger claim pending since the Oregon
treaty, and $57, 900 TO the foreign
Government of Peru. in the Mon
taban case, are not items of "cur-
rent, ordinary, annual expenses" nor
was Gen. Grant responsible for either
of them. The three millions apprO-
priated for Post Ofices in New York
and Boston, and the Mint building at
San Francisco, were forced on the
country by the utter inadequacy of the
present buildings, and are for perma-
neHt structures, not TO be annually re-
newed or paid for And so also were
the 81, 976,O 900 appropriated for new
buildings, or improvements on those
already built. for Custom House,
Postal and Revenue Offices at the |
State Capitals and larger cities, such |
as st. Louis, New Orleans, Charleston.
Mobile, Baltimore, Richmond, Saran-
nah, aud Petersburg in the South, and !
Chicago, Cairo, st. Paul, Portland, |
Des Moines. Springfield, Madison,
Bangor and Omaha in the North.
Dsducting these items, as not prop
erly included in the current, ordina-
~, annual expenses of administering /
the Government" but without de-
Quoting the millions Of deficiencies in
above list of appropriations, more
properly char geable TO the last fiscal |
year than this, and there is left but
EIGHTY MILLIONS of dollars for over
forty millions Of people. an average Of
but Two DOLLARS EACH IN PAPER,
and ct our present prices, as com
pared with the too and a quarter dol
lars each IN gold and nc the low prices
ruling before the war, which was the
cost of our last Democratic Admins
tration. Other deductions might
properly have been made, such as
$500, 900 for the coast survey of Alas
ka, so 900 for the one and half
years salary of the nine new Circuit
Judges, rendered necessary In the
opinion of all parties, By the vast
increase of Supreme Court business
$50. 900 for the Ship Canal survey at
Tehauntepec-$515, 900 for a legacy
from the last administration of the
Corlies claim-$100,00 900 expenses of
the Secretary Of Treasury, defending
suits relative 10 seizures of abandon
ed property. cotton, &o.-a million |
and a quarter for Strengthening our
permanent Qualifications at the most
important polDts-the increase in In
dian appropriations from two or three
millions TO SIX, from the constantly
Increasing pressure of the settlements
and the absolute necessity of feeding h;
or lighting the destitute, whose hunt
ing grounds have been destroyed by
emigration. and the many 4
millions OF increase in our army ex.
nenses, from tho two thousand miles |
OF frontier ana greater population it
has TO protect, and the increase of pay {
OF the soldier since 1861, to SIG per
ID 0n4A4 W1AA NOtVA1l04AleA increase IN
vol ofhoerss due to the increased
sost Of living. Fam glad, however, {
20 state that the reduction In the {
number of officers and soldiers now
yoing on by law. will reduce our army /
expenses some four millions after 4
his year. |
L have not made these latter deduc- Z
ions in the contrast i have drawn OF {
L. e-~~,,~s ass "a thoa frvo adr,,f nj Str. :
ions. because / wished to include 10 q
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