Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-08-19

time that 1t would be necessary to classify and mum.
Der them, Us II was feared there was not enough
letters to Indicate them In that way.
Extraordinarily was It necessary to divide
the amount into so many billsy
Senator windom-Our Democratic friends Of the
,rss.n sno,, th,t Tho nco,lc woni5 nnders,and thee
.nnnc,.ncie., a. no a rcfntation oS their former loud
prctcnscs of rctrcnchment, and hence thcy reluc.
family dolcd out In dctachmcnts such amounts a.
thev were compelled 10 appropriatc from time 10
timc.
$1,000
TIE EMPTY BOAST OF DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.
Correspondent notice that nj o recent panques
Hewitt Is reported 10 have said that MI. itanuaii
and his friends IN INC forty.iourtn ooggres ac'
compilsheu sa.ins Ih .no cn,.io .onsioesW ~
OOO,OOO, ana that y was ,ho ,rult Q, putting mon IN
power VINO wete ao,e . 10 y VOL \ = ~
70. "a low nnN ir al .nc de Gu Wn'h tgo.T
sSovvoy !, e"a S"'S Ne. C. o . h.ra ha.m :
o. .ns ~ ~ ,ha in,ronr;a,ion Commi,iec far msny
memoer yv y y 40 , rnn spx ~ th,s Soa.t or Dcmocatie
yoM. T., .onn,,;.or Will ,he ,IIc,cd Pcnubiican
ceonoms,
s'-".e~ % -, vor MAJ.
Senator Windom-lt ismy turn 10 ask you q quos.
ton. Don't you think this boast OF having saved
only $23,000,OOO "in the entire Congress' Isl great
letting down from tho claim made by them In the
Presidential campaign that they had saved $40.
100000 at ono session? This modest claim now
amounts to only about Sl1,5Oo,0O0 for that session,
In which they insisted that they had saved 10000.
600. by their ORR confession there seems 10 hare been
only about % per oenf. Of fruih IN heir economical pre-
tensions ~ is'O: IL VIII DO noted aisa tnat Sr.
Hewitt admits that II required about SJl.OU,OOOto
make up tho deficiencies created by the pretended
rctrcnchments and reforms OF tho Forty.third Con-
grcss. In looking over the tables and statements In
Mr.. Atkins speech. / notice that no makes the dc.
acicncics appropriated since 1876 $30,2i2. 16J, so that
bc and Mr.. Hewitt arc substantially In accord on that
noipt m Won will hermit me 10 turn timetables and
question YOU for a moment, / should like to ask II
ANYTHING could we'll DO moro disgraccfnl In the
leaders OF a great party than to go before the people
with the prctensc Of having saved over Si0,0O0,Oo0,
when. I'm fact. they knew that S30,OOO,0 900 Of that
s,m would have 10 be made IN by deficiency billsf
wcrc IN, s,3OO0OO which Mr..
rr.,oi,. I,oins ~ bc a " clear saving" by tho Forty.
n nu"n' C"na.,ss ,n actual SAVING mr. only n most.
,ou,.n " annr"nr;a,ions and n i.ilurc n praviSs
rporor,v Sr ,hc nuIiic service. Gc?
y,,.,. c.. ..,io, ~ (, ,-.. 5o,h.-
eaa y y I" In, he Sr ,bc Iar,cs, mart was NOT
On On, 10Th of Aurnst. Is;6. affer carefully apaIy.
zinc every item on every appropriation bill for tina,
wear and comnariny each ono with like items In tht
bills for the previous year. I stated on the floor o.
the Senate that "of the total pretended re-
duction Of Si0,00O,0OO not Sj,OOO,OOO could In any
sense be called a saving OF money to tho Treasury
and that this sum fell Tar below tue retrenchmeni
effected by the preceding lnpubllcan Congress. j
now repeat that statement, ana am prepared NJ any
ta'hfN ~
Tho nero "pos.poncnent OF appropriations Tor
public buildings which were under way In ls'B, s
compared with tho preceding year, amounted to
SJ,2s6,593; tho postponcmcnt OF surveys OF public
lands to S6i1,30O; the failure to appropriate money
to pay judgments OF tho Court Oh Claims, &c, 70
sl,6ll,oN. There were numerous other items
amounting to many millions; OF nlko enaracteI,
which were merely "Postponeu, hot sven. lneyy
arc NOT uchclchcIes, ~ snmp,y p.mnI, ~.
which VIII come IN ~ some Iutuic umct9 sMen
DIS. lne tnTcc tcms Il aNo just hiit
Ing TO so'oii,VsJ, were only y snhalI part OF srcn
postponements naue ln tue ono year io.o. ~
ducting them from sii,Doo!VVV. wnicn Is ono-haIlo,
what Mr. Hewitt Claims 10 DC uno 'o,a, saslnssoi
tho forty.ionrth Congress LOT 1870 ana io.', wo
have less tnnh sooVoVvo u .ne aI."a y w
that year. there were nan! o'ncr i'elhnvi iouue'
ton made IN ls'O, when are IN NO possible senseN
saving to the treasury Out WHICH,, ~ ueaueteu irvm
tho Sll,5Oo'Ooo, would WIPE out tue whole OF ,no
pretended economy oil when SO much Doasting mas
been done.
Corrcspondent-Does the amount appropriations
always indicate the exact cost OF administering tho