The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-08-08
STARTLING EXPOSITION
DEMOCRATIC DBMAGOGISM
SENATOR WINDOW,
Chairman Senate Committee on Appropriations.
False PretenSeS Of the Forty
Fourth Congress.
The Wanted Democratic Retrenchment
and Reform" Delusion and Fraud.
APPROPRIATIONS INCREASED
$2S,752,265.49.
Expenditures Reduced by Republicans from
1868 to 1876 an Aggregate Of S73,-
l04,l3l-Average Annual Repub-
|ican Reductions, S9,138,0l6.
Expenditures of 1876 Reduced by Re-
publtcans Below the Previous
Year Sli,7ls,99l!
Appropriations This Year Increased
Over Last Year S2s, 752, 265.49.
Expenditures of 1876 Reduced by Re.
publicans Below the Previous
Year SIl,7lS, 99l!
Appropriations This Year Increased
Over Last Year S2s, 752, 265.i9.
Taxes Reduced by Republicans From
1865 to 1875 Over 100000.
Taxes Reduced by the Democratic
House from 1875 to 1878,
SOOO,OOO,O0O!

The following is the substance OF an " interview
between the Washin 5ton correspondent of the New
York Times and Senator Window, of Minnesota
chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropria
tions, published in the Times Of June 6. 1875:
Correspondent-Havey you comp d the aggregate
appropriations made By this Congress with those o.
last year, and, If so, how do they compare?
Senator Windom-Yes sir; have carefully ex
ami6ed all the bills since the adjournment The
total for last year s1i3 3l7 1882 The total 70,
this year is STU 0G95S9sl The increase This near is
therefore, S2S.7J2.2SJ.l9. These aggregates
cover all the regular appropriation bills.
Correspondent-ls this increase charseable to the
extravaganza Of this Congress?
Senator Windom-No: it is mainly chargeable to
the dcmagoguism of the Forty fourth Congress in
making pretended savings for political effect
when they were only creating deficiencies"
Correspondents it true that no reductions in
expenditures made until after the Democratic
party got control of the House of Representatives?
Senator Windom-By means. Expenditures
had been descending scale almost ever since
the war. The finance reports show that in 1868
they 500 915 0Ss and that under the admins
traton of President Grant they were constantly re.
duced, until for the year ending June 80 1876 they
deductions for that year for payments made upon
the Geneva award claims and for the Department
hostages (which latter counted in the nominal ex-
pendtures, but really took no money from the
Treasury the expenditures for 1876 were as we
have seen, only S156S10,957. The total reduction
in expenditures during Grants administration was
therefore S73104.131 making an annual average re-
duction of $9,I3s016. The reductions made by the
Republicans the last year 1876 were $14,71s991.
DEMOCRATIC PROFESSIONS AND PERFORMANCES
IgREcoNcILABLB
Correspondent-Hcw do you reconcile these facts
with Democratic professions of economy:
Senator Wndom-Excuse me; have never un-
dertaken the impossible task of reccnciling Demo-
cratic performances with Democratic professions,
and certainly shrink from such an effort in this
l think no one believes that their Wanted
economy is anything but sham to secure votes 1t
was well understood by everybody who gave atten-
ton to the subject that their boosted reductions in 1876
Uee affected By denying appropriations indispensable to
the public serrice by posponng necessary public uorks
by repudating national obligations by withholding large
for deficiency bills and when all these and other
desperate. expedents exhausted, the figures
themselves manipulated that they lost their
proverhal truthfulness, and became the most men
dacions partsans This sort of deception could be
carried on for year two with some success but
it could have but one result Already the logic of
events and the imperative necessities of the Govern
meut have exposed the trckery which was then de-
n"unced, and, by compelling ali increase of nearly
$29Ooo,000 have Uncovered the demsgogism of
1o16. by which. it was sought to carry tho Presden-
tiai election under pretensc of economy and reform
Correspondent-Have you read the speech of Mr.
Atkins chairman of the Committee Appropria-
tons of the House of Representatives published in
the Record OF June % in which he endeavors to
show that there has been real increase over last
years appropriations, and in which he charges the
Senate with violent opposition to the retrench-
nent and economy which the House nauguratedn
ana II So VIII you please tell me what you think of
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