The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-08-13
Expenditures in 1850. S62,6S6.-
557,s4.
Expenditures In 1871. SI5G. AGO.
025.S8,
Receipts In 1880. s56.es4.59s. .ss
Receipts in ls.i. ssss .sal. .o44.s9.
Radical OfGcials Convicted of,
FaisehoOdz by Their own fig
ureS.
from the Washington City Patriot.l


Just before the adjournment of Con-
gress, Mr.. Dawes Submitted set of ia
bles to the House of Representatives,
which had been fabricated for the pur-
pose of producing false impression
on the public mind, by pretending that
the ordinary expenses of the Govern
ment in 1871, under Radical rule, were
only fraction more than in 1860, when
a Democratic Administration was in
power The same figures were used by
Senator Logan,a and were recently repro
duced by Mr. Boutwell, in North Caro-
lima, who said they had been prepared
by clerk in the Treasury. 1t would
be difficult to believe that men holding
high public trusts, could be guilty of
such wilful perversions of truth as these
tables contain, without having the OFF,
cial evidence of the Treasury to convict
them of falsehood. They were made to
serve partisan purpose, and as Mr..
Boutwell, has endorsed them, he is per-
sonally responsible for a fraud which
his own reports expose. Either these
figures which were got up to order at
the Treasury are false, or the Secretary's
reports are fraudulent They both EN-.
anate from the same source, and as they
contradict each other fatty, cannot both
tell truth at the same time.
The process by which these results
are reached, is as audacious as it is un-
preeedented. Mr.. Boutwell, seeks to
show that the present regular expendi-
lures are little more than in 1850. He
strikes out interest on the public debt,
pensions and premiums for 1871, be-
cause they are extraordinary, and yet
he charges the same items against the
ordinary expenses of 1860, so as to
swell the az, rregate of that year. The
interest was 35,l77.314 62, and the PEN
sions Sl.l00,S02.32. This sum Of Sd.
269, ,23S As is charged to the account OF
1860. while interest and pensions are
excluded from 1871.
In 1860, the revenues derived from
the Post Office, and the amount appro,
priated by Congress, to make good the
deficiency between receipts and disburse-
ments-a total of Sl1,154 ,l67 54-are
charged to that year, but in 1871, moth,
ing appears except the deficit Of s5,-
848,125 The revenue of s25,000,000
is deliberately omitted in this case.
though added to the Other. And this
deception is paraded as proof of econ.
omy! Before 1851, the revenues of
the Post Office Department we're always
appropriated by Congress, just as any
other MONEY collected by authority OF
law Since that time, the Postmaster
General has assumed to apply these rev.
enues upon his own responsibility. Con.
sequently, as nothing appears in the
appropriation bills but the deficit, the
aggregate Of expenditures, is by this
fraud reduced to the extent of the re.
ceipts of that Department, or about
S25, 100000 year.
Again, seven years after peace the
enormous sum of 40,535,32S 81 is de-
Quoted from the expenditures in 1871,
as ''incident to the war and in conse.
qUenee of the rebellion" All the glar-
ing abuses, extravaganza, and corrup
ton OF the Administration, are put in
this category and sum up forty and a
half millions of dollars, Which ere
wiped out with the dash of pen.
The expenses of the War Department
for 1871, are stated at SS5, ,799, ,99l 50,
when they are actually S44,0S0, 0,0S4.9 95.
The difference of SS,260, ,093.13, is made
up by sales Of arms and ammunition to
France. That is to say, the Secretary
sold ordance ard other property belong
ing to the people Of the United States,
TO the amount of eight and quarter
millions Of dollars, and then coolly de-
ducts these millions from the regular
expenses of the Department! Upon
the same principle, if property to cover
the other thirtyfve millions was sold,
he might report that the Department
was run without any expense whatever.
This is the way books are kept here,
and figures made to lie.
Thus, it is seen, that in the four Illus
trations which have been given, total
Of some seventy-eight millions Of dol
lars, or twenty millions more than the
whole expenses of 1860 Of every kind,
is taken from the account of 1871, so as
to make up partisan exhibit And
this is done deliberately in the faCs of
the official reports OF the Treasury,
which stand up in Judgment against
such wicked falsiication.
But there are certain facts which can
not be misrepresented or rperverted The
actual receipts into the Treasury are
known to cent. IL the official returns
may be credited. Here they are for the
three fiscal years of General Grants
Administration, and the four months
preceding lst of July, 1869, pro Faia on
the returns Of that year.
RECEIPTS.
| from March 4. to July l, 1869, Sl37,0s5, ,159
From July /, 80, to June &c. 1870, All ,255,471
From July /. 10. to June 30, 1871, 3SS323 ,q44
From July |, II, to june 81, 1872, 374, ,0S4
Tolal in years and months, S1,396.553, ,664
These figures are appalling to contem
plate In the short time since General
Grant became President, more than one
half of the whole public debt has been
collected. So much is acknowledged
by Mr.. Boutwell,. Now, what has be-
come of that enormous SnEn of money
A Radical Congress and President, have
had complete control over the purse
strings and the expenditures, When
the payments on account of the public
deb, interest and pensions are. deducted
there still remain over Eve hundred mill,
ions to be accounted for. And wher
this total is distributed over the tire,
years and fogr months, il viii oa (ooal
! TO confirm the vast increase in the or
/ dinary expenses OF the Government