The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-08

rent to the full extent OF 6 per cent Oh
the cost of the completed building. -
Til" postpOnement of their completion
entails u loss of a sum equal to 6 per
cent of the money already invested {;
sGin aggregating in dollars and cents
more than $500. 900 is lost to the people
besides the delay and annoyance to the
public business because of the present
occupation Of inconvenient buildings
and the endaDgering of tnn salet. Cf
valuable public records. For instance
the present builings occupied by the
War and Navy Departments are very
Insecure We have expended =, 600,
600 in partially building new structure
for their accommodation. One million
three hundred thousand more will com
plete it. Its occupancy would place
the valuable and precious records OF
these two Departments in complete
safety at once
There never was time since the war
when these works could be built so
cheaply. We have the money in the
Treasury to do it. The laboring inter
ests of the country are In need of the
labor.
THERE'S no reson except one of a sup
posed larty character under the guise
OF the cry of economy why these build
lngs should not be pushed vigorous
ly; any private individual similarly sit
uated would be called a fool if he acted
as our democratic friends have in this
matter.
The posfponements on account of
public buildings are "a, 400, 600, the ap-
preparation for which Congress cannot
escape; armories and arsenals. estimated to
| cost S9l7,OUO, appropriated s2Sg 900, balance
s62s 100. only postponed; Lighthouse Board,
estimates s7S9, 9,O00, appropriated s273 ,UCO post
poned sol6,OG which must be provided for in
the future.
kxPENsfs OF UNITED STATES COURTS.
Appropriated S2,5OO,OL0. instead of 1900 600
estimated. This last named amount was ap-
propriated last year. A deficiency is asked
| Tor by the Attorney General, with a state
ment that this sum is utterly Inadequate to
| the necessities OF the service, 4 deficiency
| in this Item of at least 500, 900 is among the
| strong probabilities.
The government has invested in Navy
yards property OF from fifty to one hundred
| millions. Not a dollar was apprOpria ted in
| House bill fort their care and protection.
| POST OFFICE AUTHORIZATION BILL.
Reduction by house bill below the estimates
SS,7S5, ,252.
The estimated receipts by house bill over
| the estimates made by the Postmaster Gene
| raj is S6OOOOO, and the reduced requirement
of $50, 10 for the Pacific mall steamship SER
vice makes S5OOOO which must be deducted
| nom 81 2c0t96 80. tic I.Ouse reduction, W Inch
leaves sS,350.696 80 as the real reduction. OF
| TINS sum, 500 UOOis credited 10 the reductions
| OF the salaries of pOstmasters, recommended
by the Postmaster General: $500 90 more is
| for The reduction of other salaries and force
| by the House. The balance OF reduction is
due To decrease IN mail facilities, such as cut
| ting on all fast maidstone that is coming TO
| the knowledge Oh gentlemen by cries from
| the people for Its restOration-and oLherwis
| decreasing mail facilities and reducing the
| maximum speed of all mail trains TO tWebty-
| hye miles per hour.
NAVY APPROPRIATION BILL.
| The reduction from the estimates of l~fi
year is 8, ~, 81, and the reduction as compa.
with the appropriations OF last year, is s, :
| sac, ,i5l 6O. To make this reduction the House
has cut down the appropriation for pay oi
the officers and men of the navy tot eeXteni
of 81 sjO.UOO below the estimates, and $4,000,
| from the appropriations of last year. To Ell
| able the Secretary of the Navy to bring the
expenses for the pay of officers of the Navy
within the appropriation he will necessarily
be compelled TO turlough large number o
his officers, thereby decreasing the efficiency
| OF the Navy and entailing upon these ofiicerS
a vast amount OF Inconvenience If not abso.
lutte want and suffering, The other reduc-
work on lion clads and other vessels OF wal
| In course OF construction, as witness the ord
ers OF the Secretary Just issued to the severa
contractors who hav the work TO do, and tC
to the necessity OF stopping the work on 9th
| er vessels for the want OF money TO repai
them, while other vessels are being put ou
of commission. The minority agreed will
the committee In some OF these postpone
ments, believing that thee was no immedi
ate urgency for portion of the work estima
ted for by the Navy DEPARTMENT. but We tho
| then and think now that IL was not econom,
TO make these wholesale postDonements
| thereby stopping most of the work at the dill
| ferent navy yards, and throwing some of tn
best skilled mechanics in the world, as wei
as unskilled labOrers now so much in nee'
OF something to do, out OF mplOyment, Al
these postpOnements must at some future da
he provided for if we intend To maintain
navy OF only moderate proportions
| RECAPITULATIOS.