The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-24

whose leaders to- day Is this same Jere
Black, and this enormous claim would be
paid in an hour.
HAS GRANTS ADMINISTRATIONS BEEN Ex.
TRAvAGANT.
This was the next point taken up, and
the following is the substance OF what
Mr.. Dawes. than whom no ma in the ma
ton is better posted, said about il. -
When declared to you and the public
that ''tbe administration of General Grant
is faithful in collecting the revenues and
frugal In spending then," was confront.
ed with what said two years ago about
it's extravaganza, and asked to explain
what meant then, if what now state is
true. did declare on the 18th of Janu-
airy, 1870, that "the estimates for the pub
lie expenditures were most extravaganza;
that they exceeded those for which the
people had condemned the administration
Of Andrew Johnson. now assert that
the administration of General Grant is the
most economical in the public cxpendi-
lures that has existed for the last sixty
years, and has cost less for every man,
woman and child than any other admin
istration in that time. Both declarations
are tr1e, and | abate nothing from either.
Ii ever served this administration it was
when made the first, and I should be
false to it and TO you if now failed to
make the other tar
On the 18th of January, 1870, | was
talking not Of the actual expenditures, but
Of estimates" for expenditures, I said,
"there is not one of those departments
that does not estimate to-day, in the book
have before me, for all Increase of ex-
penditure." The departments estimate
in advance for the expenditures of each
year 1t was these estimates, made in the
first year OF this administration for it's ex-
penditures In the next year, which I de-
nounced. They had been made by the
heads of the different bureaus, some Of
them Johnson's appointees, and then all
sent into Congress for appropriations
When these estimate5 were all aggregated
they were found to exceed by many mil
lions OF dollars the appropriations OF the
year before. In the copy they sent TO
Congress, by O clerical mistake they made
that aggregate 100000 larger than it
actually was. But an. estimate for many
millions more than what was actually APP
propriate for the year previous was bad
enough, and denounced it as uniustif.
able and extravagant, in the, strongest
terms could use, just as you denounce
the extravagant estimate of an architect
for proposed expenditures on your house.
And what was the consequence Just
what 1t would ue in the case Of an archi.
tect. The expenses were curtailed. With
In SIX weeks from the time I made that
speech, | took from the Presidents own
lips his message to the people of New
Hampshire. "Tell the people of New
Hampshire that wherever it can be shown
that the public expenditures can be re-
duced one dollar, that reduction shall be
made" And faithfully has he redeemed
that pledge. Now look at the facts AL
though the estimates which [ denounced
were 1924 ,097, 825.62, che actual appro
prIarions tor that year were only $500 ,637,
O86.44. cutting down that year $40 AGO.
1878. Take the actual expenditures of
the three years of General Grants admin
istration, and mark the reduction each
year,
ACTUAL EXPENDITURES UNDER GRANT
$50. 5000, o54 $50 rs
1871. 292.177, 1873 %
1872 2T7,5l7 9b2 67
Now look at the corresponding years of
he last administrations
ACTUAL EXPENDITURES UNDER JOHNSON.
1857 1851. $40. CTS is
1868 377, 340, 1884 Sc
1863 322 1865 277 so
Take the expenditures of the very last
year and strip them of all expenditures
growing out of the war, leaving nothing
out ordinary expenses andmhen reduce
hat to the gold standard. Now, do pre-
,isely the same thing with the expendi-
ures of 1860, the last year of q purely
Democratic administration, and you will
ind that the expenditures of 1860 will be
or every man, woman and child, $105;
while those of 1871 will only be III. Dol
he same thing with every year since 1900,
md you will find those of 1871 tae lowest |
Stree 1910. From all these Figures it will
appear that while the first estimates of
his administration for its expenditures
we're justly denounced as extravaganza,
General Grant has redeemed his pledge |
% cut down his actual expenditures, so
hat they have been growing less every
year and have been reduced in the three
years fov.y-ive millions below the last
year of the administration Of his prede |
,essor, till they are now per capita below
any year since 1910. Now look at the
cost for collecting the revenue tor every
S100:-
1860 it was Sc IS
1868 it was 4 90
1901 was 8 30
1871 it was S11
The last year it was less than half what
it was in 1860 on every 800. On the 4th
Of March, 1869, when Grant was inaugu-
rated, there were in the employ of the
office Of internal revenue 6,277 persons,
and the cost Of asserting and collecting
this branch of the revenue for the pre-
ceedipg twelve months had been $685.