Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-23

Following the deductions / have made
from Mr.. Buchanan's Democratic expenses
we have first to take off the $50 1000 for
pensions, and $4,000 expenses of Pen.
sion Office, direct result of the war
against the nation, which, / need scarcely
say, was not inaugurated by Republicans.
Next the Post Office appropriation, which
deducted from the Democratic expendi.
lures, but which, as the department in
formed us recently, will be almost, if not
entirely, reimbursed this year by hostages.
No River and Harbor bill was passed un-
der Buchanan's administration, and, in
any fair comparison, that too, must be de-
Quoted. The Internal Revenue system
was necessity growing out of the war
and its debt, and it's total appropriations,
including printing of Treasury notes, is
$o,325,00O. The Patent Office, until with
IN q year or SO, paid its own expenses
out OF its receipts, without appropriation
Dy Congress- Now, as the constitution
doubtless intended, its receipts go
into the Treasury, and $56O,OOO were
appropriated out of these receipts for it's
expenses, an item unknown under the old
system. Saying nothing of other 'sdefi-
clencles" In the six and half millions to
DC found in the above list 1885, were
appropriated to pay up balances of recon
slruction expenses, growing, of course,
OUT OF the war. For the present census
$l,SoO,000 We're appropriated for this pur-
pose, which helped to swell that years
aggregate to $S5,000,000. AS I have aver
aged all his expenditures amongst four
years, making but $250,0OO per year for
the census service of 1860, averaging the
present census appropriation for General
6rants term would make but 100000
properly, chargeable 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.
$oVO,OOO We're appropriated by the law of
July 10, 1870, certainly war item The
appropriations adiudged against the
United States by international commits.
slons-$475,000 to the Hudson's Bav
company in full for vastly larger claim
pendlng since the Oregon treaty. and
$o1,Oo0 to the foreign Government of
Ieru In the Montauban case, are not items
VI current, ordinary, annual expenses.n.
nol was General Grant responsible for
eltner OF them. The three millions an.
proprlated for Post Offices in New York
1nu boston, and the Mint building at San
Il iancisco, were forced on the country by
me utter inadequacy of the present build
ss, anu are Tor permanent structures.
Az. 70 De annually renewed or paid for.
, mau 30 also were the $1,976,00G appro
piiateu tor new buildings. or imnrnve.
IN menus on those already built, for Custom
6nouse, Fostal, and Revenue offices at the
S.ate Capltols and larger cities. such 40
o.; Louis. New Orleans, Charleston, Mo.
que, Baltimore, Richmond. Savannah and
retersburg, in the South and CHICAGO.
Calro, st. Paul, Portland. Des Moines
In the North. > ''-'' ' i'''i"'
Deducting these items. as not nronerlv
.nUauueu In the current, ordinary, annual
MY, uMpe1ses OF administering the govern
nf dass out Without deducting the millions
tions no.encies In above list of appropria-
last more properly chargeable to the
ONT n go; year than this, and there is left
fortv , ,s;l,y millions of dollars for over
70 aach ; 4. OF people, an average of but
cas as 81 - paper, and at our present pri-
cold and paIeo with the 1926 each in
fba wsr A , aI ;ae low prices ruling before
nemncr , aion was the cost of our last
auctions might properly have heen mn ma de
such as 100000 for the coast s,, r as~', IF
Alaska, $4,000 for the one and a half
years salary of the nine new Circnit
y; un rendered necessary, in the onin.
s s'l OF all parties, by the vast increase Of
supreme Court business $50 (l)fl far far, the
snip cana canal survey at Tahuantepec1S5i5'-
v ,. ior legacy from the last aIiministrs-
, aon Oh tne Corlies claim-$1OO, 600 ex.
p penses OF the Secretary of the Treasury
Gbeaenalng suits relative to seizures Of
abandoned property, cotton, etc-a mil.