The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-15
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, ss,T, .sEprEMBER q. 1876,

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Polasacal Points.
AR. wheeler speeches ret TO DEN! DC n;'u Y,
sccrsase Republican votes as sna. SIeeo.. y.
ia in Vermont, the suspicion WIZ Wy ;n wa.
4 ranted that he Is opposed 20 tho Ss'ns'.''
4 fscxet Pailadeipsin 1Saaes. 80,
va are afraid that Tiiden,s 81. Sie .,inoa
wosiId be assured II the puDi,c psy
i'm the stories about the make
any Iraresss cabinet II HE ever gets along
Z ~ t AZ nc fhat.-P n ilodelpkia Times.
s.. = rah,, a Patterson, deorkeeper OF the
ryo,,sn - Representatives, has Just closed
Az sansracs for furnishing the House of
REPRESENTATIVES, with coal by awarding It to
tha lowest bidder at SS4.41 per ton. The
contract ID for 900 tons, delivered at the
vaults oil the capitol. So much Tor the De-
rnocrasic side OF Congress. The Senate,
with Its time-honored economy, has let the
same contract for S5.a8 per ton.
Mr.. Rcdfield says the Republicans are
going to hold their own in South Caroiina.
Now, the fact is they don't own much; but
there is no objection to their holding their
own n they will only let other peoples
alone, a little bird tells us there IS q new
spirit abroad, and there Is no more stealing
for Radical office-holders il South Carolina.
ColunbiG Is. ca Register.
That eminent reformer Schurz, who has
been supporting Mr.. Hayes purely In the
interest Of civil-seryice reform, will have
chance to revise bis opinions, now that Mr.
Chandler has announced that he will have
no further occasion for Mr.. Schurz's
services, and that the Washington Eeputts-
ean upbraids him for not lying about Ohio.
AT the end OF his meditations he may con-
clude that after all that does g dispose OF
Nr. Hayes mot that anybody cares much
now what he may conclude.--Ase Fore
T World.
"A gentleman, u large merchant OF Mon
roe, just arrived in this city, lEtoTms us
that the troubles in Ouchita have been fully
investigated by tllreeoi the officers in COM
manfi or the Federal troops there, and that
their report fully exonerates the white peo-
ple Of the parish from any attempt to raise
disturbance or intimidate she blacks.
These gentlemen came to the above conollt-
sion after q careful examination Of q num-
her OF witnesses, white and black, from va
rious localities in the parish Thus do we
enjoy the sport OF seeing the engineer
0hoist with his own petard, 1" andthe mach.
iayelian Vaccinations OF unscrupulous
Radicals dispelled and set to naught by q
single ray OF truth.-Nesc Orleans -Denss-
crat.
Ex-G Governor Swami, in his speech ;attae
nass-meeting in Baltimore on "Wednesday
night, made q detailed statement, frem
which it appears that the appropriations re
Gently made for the expenses OF the Senate
and House OF Representatives and the pay
OF their officers leach house fixing Its own
appropriation are, $500, so for the Senate
tives. He says:
It will thus be seen from official sources, as
before stated, that there are 301 membersant
delegates in the House OF Representatives
while there are only seTenty-four senators
and that the expenditures OF the Republi
can Senate for officers and employees dare ii
proportion to the number Of members JON
fines greater than those incurred by the
Democratic House for the same purpose
Let the friends Of reform and retrenchnaen1
in the expenditures Of the Governmentlooh
at this and say who is to blame.
Hon. Montgomery Blair was one cd The
speakers at the Baltimore mass-meetlne
Wednesday night, and in the course OF his
speech he gave statements OF which the 1ol'
lowing is summary:
CtultWcNt w WV " A-NSN
States Government, divided into three
parts-viz., first, from the beginning OF
She Government up to and including the
year 1860; second, from 1861 to 1865 in
elusive; third, from 1867 to 1875 inclusive,
exclusive OF interest on the public debt and
pensions:
Total for 1879 to 1s6O.........&I ,445,125.7S5 lS
Total for 1851 to lS66....-... 3,5SS,03s, lo9 3s
Total for 1867 to 1S75........ l-S96,oOS,o4S %
Thus in seyenty-one years, ending June
80, 1860, the United States expended for all
purposes, including the wars with Tripoli,
England, Mexico, and the Indians, and the
purchase Of Louisiana, Florida, and Cali
fornia, 81, AS; 125,7S5.10 The nine years
ending June so, 1875, it cost 81, $685.
548.57.. ,s"
Statement 1.-The total civil, foreign in
tercourse, miscellaneous, and Indian appro-
priations for 1S60-'61 were $26, 1852; for
1925, SIS, 455, 1885, making an increase in
1876 over 1861 of $53, 341 ,527.
Statement 3.-The revenue collections in
1866 were S4SS, 272, 900. Cost of collecting,
S1L15S;00O, or $2.3S per $780, In 1875 the
collections were S267, $4,000. Cost OF col
lecting, S11,97S,0 900, or $4.4S per 500.
Statement shows increased expenses in
the election year 1S64-'5 over 1864, ST.
$4,000; increased expenses in the election
year 1853 over 1867-'S, Sc, 406, PAL III
creased expenses in the election year 1928
over 1912, $13,233,329. Total, $37 1885,
100. ",
TTNyTpns SoT,Tu Senator Bayard in n