The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-09-03
From the n. Y. Tribune.
Dawes on Administration Extrav-
aganCe.

1t is. not our business to teach the
Grant managers how to conduct their
campaign; but we must be indulged in a
friendly word to Mr.. Dawes. That gen
tleman is now making speeches, if we
are not mistaken, in support of the Re-
nomination ticket. Will he please look
up his own speech on Public Expendi.
lures, delivered in the House of Repre-
seHtatives, January Is, 1870, and tell us
what he thinks about it now?. ''The
Administration Of Andrew Johnson"
said he, in that address, surrendered to
the allegation that it had been profiigate
in expenditures. The, people tried it
upon that charge and found it guilty,
and took from it the scepter of power,
and put it in our hands upon our pro-
fessions of economy in the admipistra-
ton of the public service What is the
first evidence that we have put forth to
the country Of our disposition to carry
ont our pledges? ?" Why, with redu-
ced army and navy and constantly d.
minishing debt, the estimates for the
first fiscal year of President Grants
Administration exceeded by nearly Soc
100000 the appropriations for the last
year Of the Administration of Mr.. John
son. "And back Of this too," contin-
ued Mr., Dawes, "is what every man
who. has heretofore been in this House
knows as the millions .: dollars that
will come back on those Appropriation
bills from the other end of the Capitol" )"
In almost every item of expenditure
he showed a large increase. The Sec
retary of Che Navy, to be sure, spoke OF
saving S2,000,000' upon the article OF
coal; bat Mr.. Dawes reminded him that
the who,e estimate for. coal during the
past two years was only Sl50,000 a
yearj and the Postmaster General prom
ised to save S5,000,000 by the abolition
of the Franking privilege, "when all the
paper bought by this Government and
thirty letters a day to every member
sent through tie mails at regular post.
age would pay less than 00,000."-
Surely Mr.. Dawes has not forgotten his
VI .tIiC CAll dNdSduOC Vi biIS
Executive Departments Il have right
to complain of the other end of the Av.
enue, that with all its professions OF
economy and reduction OF unnecessary
force iH the Departments, with all the
heralding, by telegraph or otherwise, Of
its purpose of reductions, there is moi
one of these Departments that does moi
estimate to-day, in the book l have be-
fore ME, for an increase of expenditure
over the appropriations of last year
save only one, and that it is the poor
unpopular Attorney General | hope il
is not because of this remarkable trail
of his character that It is Contemplated
at the other end Of this Capitol to re
lieve him from further public service
and todNve him into private life :"
There was great to.do in the Gran
camp when Mr.. Dawes made that speech
The Household Congressmen all Aew a
him, and Gen. Butler expended ever sc
many pages OF The Globe in violen
attempt, to prove that two and two max,
three; but the statements of Mr.. Dave,
never we're .refuteds they, were strictl,
trHe of the Administration then ant
they might be repeated with equal trutl
Eof the, Administration now. The in
I crease has gone on from year to year
BY the reduction of interest and the re
Guction Of the army and navy certain
items OF outlay have been diminished
and MF.. Boutwell, has thus been enable,
to make an utterly unwsrrantable pre-
tense of economy; but the ordinary ex
penses Of the Government in 1871, a
we showed few weeks ago in eSposin!
the arithmetical fallacies of the Seere
tary Of The Treasury, were % per cent
higher than in 1858, Sc per cent highe
than 1865, and no less than ll5 per cen
. higher than in 1860. Now if Mr.. Daw
es would only tell the people of Masss
chusetts what he really thinks about it