New-York tribune., 1875-02-08
artment, have been as follows:


that department. have been as follows:
Year ended June 80, 1S11.... $1j1,593,S28
Year ended June 80, 1S12....... 153,20lS $50
Year ended June 30, 1S73....... 180,4SS,637
Year ended June 30, 1o74....... 178,6l8,985
Total, 1873 and 1S14...........-. 3l0,78j,GI
Total, 1S7l and 1872. 3j0,10IG22
Increase in 1873 and 1S74..-.... 4S,321,93S
Average increase per year...... 24,1GO969
1874 more than 1S72---..--.----- 2J,4l7l29
Q. The cost of the Government can be and
should be diminished thirty million dollars a
near. This is very moderate estimate, and
ia. in fact, Just what Mcssrs. Dawes and Gar
field pledged themselves and their party to at
the close Of the last session of Congress. Does
any one ask where the saving can be made ?
We can point out the places as easily as we
can the spire of Trinity Church. The navy
cost S19.431 027 in 1811 S21,249,8lO in 1872,
S93,52G,257 in 1873. and $30,9325S7 in 1874 For
the three years, 1869, 1870, and 1871, the ave-
rage cost of that service was only twenty mil
lion dollars and in 1860 only $11,j14,Gj0 Ten
million dollars can be obtained by cutting
down the cost of the navy, and that estab-
lishment would still be dear at half its
price Public buildings and river
and harbOr improvements are now costing
fifteen millions a year. In the year ended
June 80, 1860, less than twelve hundred
thousand dollars were expended on them.
Another ten millions can be saved here. The
third ten can be mad by mastering out few
regiments from the army Of Incompetent and,
too often, unfaithfIl Ofice-hodcrs. In nearly
every branch of the public service two men
are employed to do one mans work. The
Treasury bureaus, many of them at all events,
4, no RI IN nt
Justice, the Capitol, the Interior Department,
and most branches of the public service, are
OverrIn with mon, women, and boys who do
not do two fair days wOik in week.
Our import trade is far below its dimensions
in 1872, yet it cost SG,950100 to collect the
customs in 1872, s7,079,743 in 1873, and $780,
9lS in 1874 Without entering further into
details, we are confident that no sane person
will deny that ten million dollars in salaries
can and ought to be Topped off the National
expenditures. Many a family that two years
ago had $500 a year to live on must now be
content with $500, or even less. Congress
and the Government officers at Washington
should show that they feel the pressure of
the times in some other way than by calling
for higher taxes in order that they may have
9. Through the operation Of funding and the
substitution of greenbacks for tho bonds
bought by Mr.. Richardson in the panic and
previously, the payments this year for interest
on the Public Debt will be at least fire million
dollars less this year than they were last.
Last year the Treasury paid S107119,s15 for
interest. This year not much over $l00,O00,0OO
can bc needed for that purpose.
4. After a careful examination of such scraps
of information as the Treasury officials deem
suitable for the digestion of taxpayers, we
are convinced that the tdriG, internal rerenue,
and other sources ofrcrcnue uithOW any change
ia eJistiHg lars, ,ciH produce more than they did
last year. We here speak of the fiscal year,
which ends on the Both OF June. Every day
brings Us nearer 10 "a revival OF business, and
when business takes a start the imports will
swell again, and the duties paid to the Gov
ernment will increase in proportion. The cal
endar year 1875 as compared with 1874, will
probably show a much greater increase than
the fiscal year, unless business is disturbed
and discouraged by the imposition of new and
needless taxes.
8. Recent startling revelations OF the rascal
ity Of Deputy Collector Des Anges and other
CustOm-house officials, in helping 10 swndle