The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-02-10
WASHINGTON JOTTINGS.

has cut down the bill for repairing and
completing fortihcations from $3,ooo,o 900
to $4,000. 1t seems this immense ex-
penditure was unnecessary. The reduc-
ton is the largest yet made in any bill.
The Secretary of the Interior reports
deficiency Of $225 900 in the annual ap-
propriations for the Sioux Indians, which
the Committee on Appropriations believe
to have been misapplied, and at the in
stance of the committee a resolution has
been adopted instructing the President
to appoint competent military officer
to visit the Red Cloud Agency and in
vestigate matters there.
The House Committee on Elections,
in considering the case OF Bromberg VS..
Haralson, from the First District of Ala
bama, has discovered that in six coun-
ties where there was Republican gain
the Government bacon was distributed,
under the pretense of extending aid to
sufferers by the overflow of rivers, and
that Federal troops were used for the
purpose ofintimidating voters The dis
tribution of this bacon was begun fifteen
days before the election, and save in one
county, ceased three days before the
election. The revelation of witnesses on
this point promises to prove interesting
General Babcock is on his way to St.
Louis to attend his trial, which begins
there on Monday, Babcock's Washing
ton friends despondently say that the St.
Louis juries ale under "rebel" inhu-
ences, although selected by a loyal U. S.
Marshal, and that it is nextto impossible
for a Union man to secure fair trial.
The General has secured gorgeous apart
ments in the Linden House, and an eff
fort is manifestlyto be made, by super
abundant display of magnifcence and
pomp, to awe the "rebels" into proper
respect of the rights and privileges Of
loyal gentlemen accused of robbing the
Government,
The first veto message to the Demo
cratic House was sent in by the President
last week, returning a bill without his
approval which provided for the transfer
of the Indian trust funds to the Interior
Department. The voto is based, it ap-
pears, on misconception of facts. Mr.
Randall stated that the bill was passed to
meet the wishes of the Interior Depart
ment, as expressed to sub, committee of
appropriations who visited the depart
ment for that purpose, and its return
after the request had been complied with
was inexplicable,
From arecent Finance Report at hand
mot the latest-it appears that there
were thirty two ports in the United States
where there were no receipts, and where
the cost of collecting nothing was $75,-
256 78. There were fourteen ports where
the receipts were not over $500, 81 1896 59
in the aggregate, and the cost of collect
ing these two thousand dollars was S72,-
546 81. There were seventeen ports
where the receipts were between $500
and 5000, $27,S75 40 in all, the cost Of
collecting which sum was $95,3So 20.
There we're eight ports at which the
receipts did not exceed ten thousand
dollars, but were more than FIVE thousand
dollars, at which $5l ,56I7I were collected
at an expense of $55,763 o6. That is,
II, or more than half, of the ports Of
entry in the country did not collect SO
much as their employees were paid, and
this condition is probably not very much
improved now. This illustrates the beau
ties of the protective tariff system, and
suggests the possibility of a reduction Of
these expenses.