Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-09-17
MORE FACTS AND r,crrrs.

NAVEAL EASkS AND FIGURES,
The average annual expenses of the
Federal Government for each year for
three years past have been in round
numbers, $290,00o.000. OF this same
about Sl57, 100000 was paid to meet OK.
penses directly growing ont of the DEM
ocratic rebellion. In order to itemizc
ana place the tacts plainly before the
reader, we give detail ofitems making
up the amount of this legacy left us by
the Democratic party and paid during
the fiscal year 1878, as follows:
Joint select committee on alleged
outrages in southern States, 81, Os7. 30 /;
investigations in relation to elections
in Louisiana and Arkansas, $4,000 /;
paymcntofj judgments Court of Claims.
$4s9,O34,1O; Southern claims commits
sion, S52,S000i; Tribunal of arbitra-
ton at Geneva, SG2, 30 %; expenses
OF national currency, $lsl ,654 "a; ex-
penses of national loan, S2,S06, s63.94 ;
refunding national debt, 54,72G. S3 ;
cost OF assessing and collecting inter-
nal revenue, including payments of
drawbacks and amounts illegally COL
lected, $685., 039 40; defending claims
for cotton seized, $50 95; salaries of di-
rect tax commissioners, S54O.55; ex-
penses of collecting direct tax in Della
ware, S22.46; repayment for lands sold
for direct taxes, 1905; return of pro-
ceeds of captured and abandoned
property, $l,960,679.26; collection OF
captured and abandoned property, re.
cords of evidence respecting same,
1884, 1880: refunding internal taxes
illegally collected, $l,507.44; refund.
ing proceeds of cotton seized, $3,2S2
premium on bonds purchased in cur.
rency, S., l05, 9l9.99; payment of inter.
est on the public debt Sl04, 750Gss.4
bounties, $465,O4914; keeping, trans
porting, and supplying prisoners OF
war, $25S,OSO.1l; military telegraph,
$l7, 220.36; national cemeteries, $43l,.
1892; maintenance of steam-rams
$l4, 54S.93; gun-boats on western riv.
ers, $33, 4Cs.2s; providing for comfort
of sick and discharged soldiers, ST..
05.79; payment of stoppages or fines
due National Asylum for disabled vol.
untecr soldiers, $l93, 75O.59; travelling
expenses of California and Nevada
volunteers, $4,000; travelling expenses
of First Michigan Cavalry, $500; COM
mutation of rations to prisoners of war
in rebel States, $1,000; draft and sub.
stitute fund, $40, 1924; appliances OF
disabled soldiers, $4,000; transporta-
ton ofinsane volunteer soldiers, 81 600
support of Freedmen's Hospital and
Asylum, Washington, d. c., $4,000
support Of Bureau of refugees, freed.
men, and abandoned lands, (regular)
1913, 924.79; support of Bureau of ref
ugees. freedmen, and abandoned lands
(transfer), $l2 81 .95; horses and other
property lost in the military service
500, 975.S5; lreimbursing State of Kan.
sas for military expenses, S336,Sl7.37
reimbursing the State of Kentucky fol
military expenses, 1926, 25S.72; refund
ing 70 States expenses incurred in rails
ing volunteers, s75s, l10.3l; defrayine
expenses of minutc-men and volun
teers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio
Indiana, and Kentucky, $2s,762.32
supplying arms and munitions of wal
to loyal citizens in revolted States
$945.3S; capture of jefferson Davis
| $2,O51: claim of loyal citizens for sup
plies furnished during the rebellion
1927 $40 10; bounty for destruction O
e~~my's vessels, $l33, .9S; paymen
to captors OF the rebel. an, Albemarle
. 800, 9l2.90; payment to officers an,
crew of the United States steame
Kearsarge, $l4l,377; pensions, 500,
!, 1853, 1856 relief acts, (various), S797,
/, 74S.7s; total, $751;, 1862, 416Sl.
II Deducting this sum from the Who'll,
expense of the government for the yea
named will reduce the amount to less
than Sl33, OO0O 600, which reduced to thu
standard of gold, would leave less than
$l2O,OO0,000 as the present cost of the
government, including all exrcndi
lures for public works, had the Democ
racy spared the nation the bloody re
bellion into which they so ruIhlessly
plunged it!
- small portion of this amount is for pensions
| of soldiers of the war of 1872