The Grange advance., 1874-02-18
Increase of Government Expenses Dur
ing the Last Year.

l.
sets, gave the total expenses OF the Gov
ernment for each of the past six years
which, were US follows: In 1869, $33322,
COO. 900: in 1870, s$3o9, 100000; in 1871,
1922, 100000: in 1872. S277 100000; in
1873. 29O, ,0O0 600: and in the present fis
cal year. 1919, 9,G52644. He 'hnn proce eeded
to say:
= In 1870 the expenditures had been re-
duccd to 5000, 600. 0co. while 10 million OF
public debt had been paid In 1871 the
Expenditures ha'i been reduced to S2}22,-
600. 600. an,. So. coo, 900 OF public debt
! had been paid. In 1872 the expenditures
| had been reduced to S2711 100000, and
$e9. 600. 900 Of public debt had been paid
In 1873 the expenditures run up to $780,
O0O, 900, and only $40, 900. 900 of public
debt had been paid. This year the expen-
ditures would be S3l9.OO0,O0O without
paying one dollar Of the public debt.
: Mr.. Dawes then spoke Of the increased
expenditure in the various departments Of
the Government this year as compared with
former years. and referred especially 10
the extravaganza OF retaining ports OF en-
: try in places where the receipts did not be-
: gin to lay the expenses He had a letter
from ali ex-appraiser at one Of these ports.
; in which the writer sail that when he re-
; ceived his appointment with salary OF
! So, 900 Il year he wrote his Senator IN Con-
; gress, and afterwards stated 10 the Secre-
! tary OF the Treasury: and ah"nt year
ago informed his other senator that the
! place was u mere sinecure, tina! Their" was
nothing done at this port. an! that the law
making this port ot entry >hoHl;l be re-
peale,i anil the Offices abolished. The writ
| er went on to say tina! he supposed such
! sentiments in IN office holder were Aecid-
i elly unpopular in the Republican party ::
! ami i'll March last he had been removed,
for what cause he HI; not been informed.
! but he supposed on the ground Of insanity
i He thought It could not BE Oh the sIo''nl
OF nrgIigenc: or incompetency, for no
| officer had ever been more faithful or more
been, and THAT was everything there Was
to lo This nan seems to have had no OBJ
/ lection 70 being renewed provided the
office WAS abolished, but he certainly had
; cause 10 feel injured BY being superseded
| simply because he had lone his duty in
showing tht; there was no necessity in
having & port there. Mr.. Parker desired
to know the name Of tie writer or at leas,
the name of thc porE, hut Mr.. Dawes re-
fused to give either.
We are glad that Mr.. Dawes has brought
up this matter OF keeping in existence ports
of entry for the mere purpose Of paying
salaries to officers. We are glad that q re-
publican has broug ht up this matter, be.
cause he cannot be said ~ have cone it tul
political purposes, ur to max" Nolit lcal cap
ital for his party. 1t has long been 4 mat
ter Of as;onishnlent to Us that the America,
people have tamcly submitted. year aftc,
year, to be robbed Vi enormous sums TO pay
salaries 10 men who 10 uot 10 !. ,lollar>
worth OF work in return. We are aware
that il is quite common IN mo,archal grv
ernments to feed anl fattei: these sincc,;r>,
and barnacles in every department OF ,ut
government AZ the expense Of the people
but we never supposed ii 10 be cnnsisrc,
with the genius IF 4 Republican govern
;. mcnt.
We give below II few specimens OF the
port of entry business
At Fretchman' 9 Bay, a custom house dis
trict in Maine. the whole foreign trade TO-
the year ending March, 1872, was, import
1929, and exports nothing. This who'll
business was transacted. done. and perform
ed. run and superintendent. and n:hnrwis
fully attended to and accomplished. by tn
following corps Of officers. at the resrectiv
salaries set opposite their names:
n. X. Sawyer. Collector. l,31O II
Moses Hale, Special Deputy...... 200 o.
D. Z. Mareyes. Deputy .......... 80 u
John I. Hill, Deputy y.............. 600 o.
} H. d. Coombs, Deputy. 600 o.
+ Samuel Dutton. Jr................. GOO o.
W. B. Peters, Inspector ....... 1,Oo5 o.
$. y. Holden. Inspector 500 o.
S. NJ. Mcfarland. ................... 300 o.
Total. al.......................... S6.995 Il
Here over SC, 900 more than the total i'm
port business Of the port was paid as sala
l ries to men who did nothing whatever t
5 earn their money. But let us look at an
other Of these institutions in Maine. Their
is port of entry at Castine, place of les
: than one thousand FIVE hundred inhabitants
For the year ending March, 1872, the tota
value Of its imports, was sos, and it's ex