Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-10-19

We have two or three times show
ed clearly that Tllden's charge that
the people paid to the Government
four and half billions of dollars, was
huge falsehood, yet Mr.. Bushnell
continues to use that sum as basis
for his charge and attempts to show
it to DE mot far" from correct. The
truth is, Tilden meant to have those
sham figures palmed off upon the
people as the expenditures, not as the
receipts of the government, tor in
another part Of bis letter he charges
that the receipts of the government
for the eleven years in question, were
thirteen times the amount of the lee
gal tender notes, which would be
S4.805, 049,964. The expenditures
of every name for that time, as of
ficially declared were 1868, 46S, 675,
and this includes premiums on loans
and gold and other miscellaneous
items that are in no sense taxes. As.
Stunning that Tilden meant receipts
there are over $500, 100000 difference
between these official receipts and
his statement. Mr.. Bushnell holsters
him up by saying that these figures
go back only TO 1886, while Tilden
goes back to the close OF the war,
and that some time Ga month and a
half elapsed after the 1st of July to
the time Tilden wrote. Here again
he is either laboring under deluslon
or trying to .dupo his readers and
hearers. The figures in Mr.. Commits
letter includes the time from the LIST
of July, 1865 to July 1st, 1876. Til
den spoke of the past eleUen years.
If he meant the eleven years up 10
date of hie letter, which is ''infantile"
to assume, his falsehood will become
the greater, for while the receipts for
the last month and halt would have
to be added, the receipts for the first
month and half, which wore more
than twice as large, would have |.
be deducted. The result would be
to make TiIden'5 lie forty-four mil
lion dollars larger than we have yet
charged. Mr.. Bushnell says that no.
body but the HERALD has ever pre-
sumed to make direct assault upon
Tllden's figures. In this again he is
mistaken, and shows that he is con,
fining his reading to Tilden litera-
ture. TiIden's figures were shown
to be monstrous exaggerations by
most of the leading Republican pa
pers within two weeks of their APP
pearance, and By speech after speech
by mem 3ers of Congress, before adj
Sarnm g liiv Fr0ms book Or TIE E
Republic, we obtained our figures
until Commits letter came ""', "olch
gave the figures 80 "ney uaqueS''9n-
sGead of Tilden's figures being re-
garded as correct we believe there is
not respectable paper CIR speaker in
tho whole country, except Mr.. Bush
nell, but what regards them as stu
pendous shams, and they do not pre-
tend to make use of them. Even Mr..
Orion lodged them when he spoke
in Lancaster.
Mr.. Bushnell gave what he called
Buchanan's expenditures for 1860.
without making application of them.
He says Nc Pherson, put them at
$50 056,754.71. We have not seen
Nc Pherson's book If he gives these
figures be probably gets them by
dedueiing cost of public works. Mr..
Conant kept the Treasury books and
1T Ia simply foolish to question the
figures he gives. lie puts the ex-
penditures, after deducting vast sums
of extra expenditures, at over sixty
three millions. His statement was
repeatedly produced in Congress and
not disputed. We have before shown
that after deducting the expenses
grow ing ont nf the war, the present
administration carries on the gov
ernment at less cost to each citizen
than did Buchanan. And Oh, what
an ado Mr.. Bushnell made over an in.
quiry as 20 what those expenses grow
ing out of the war arel He pretend
ed be did uot know and could not
find ont, and when he said so in his
courthouse speech half dozen
hoodIums, who don't know figure
from a calt's head, danced like Indi-
ans in possession of fresh scalp. Mr..
Bushnell knows that every item
of expenditures, is properly account
ed for. If Posi- master Burr pays a
shoemaker five cents fer putting a
few stitches in mail bag, he has to
take that shoemaker's receipt, and
the whole transaction goes on the
books at Washington. The Secre-
tary of the different Departments
issue annual reports, in great vol
umes, telling every thing that any
man of sense would want to know.
The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury for 1876 will show that the
total expenditures of the Govern
ment tor 1876 were S25S, 1897 1t
will show payments of judgments
of court of claims for this year of
over 100000. 1t will show an ex-
pense of several millions on Southern
claims commission, issuing currency,
national loan, collecting revenue, re
turn of proceeds of captured proper
ty, &c. 1t will show over one hun
dred millions interest paid on war
debt. 1t will show nearly million
paid in bounties and on national
cemeteries. 1t will show $4,000
for combinations of rations to
prisoners of war, and &c., 900 for az
planes for disabled soldiers. 1t will
show $4,000 paid for the Freed,
mems hospital in Washington and
over S49, 900 for reinbursing Ken
lucky for military expenses. Ii
will show $3.50, 271 refunded to States
for coat of raising volunteers. 1t
| will show 1903 for capturing jeff
Davis and should show on the same
page q good sum fer forcing Sam
Tilden to pay his proper income tax.
1t will show over SIS, 900, 600 in reb-
ell war pensions and over 1885, 900 of
prize money to csptors, and sl12,915
TO Alabama Claims Commission. 1t