The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

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faithful enough to seize that missing dollar,
which in the course of every year swells to
the enormous aggregate Of 500, 900, 900, and
cast it into the public treasury instead of
letting it slip into the pockets of corrupt
Officers in the civil service and their confed-
crates The aboye is not the ex parte
statement Of paid attorney, but is the Ian
'guage of the republican chairman of a con-
'gressional, joint select committee,
and accompanies the report which he
made to congress in 1869. He makes
no charge against the disposition
made of this money after it has been placed
'on the books of the treasury, but states, in
word, that one dollar out of every four then
called for by law never reaches the public
treasury at all, but it is lost or stolen by
radical Office holders. II we now inquire
what improvement the radicals have made
in the civil service since these facts were re-
ported, the answer is only too PLAIN, that
there has been none whatever. and that this
same corrupt system is to-day piling up the
burdens under which the country has been
groaning for the past five years. Hence, we
are justified in the assertion with which we
set out, that 500, 600 900 have been lost or
stolen by radical Office holders annually for
the PAST thirteen years.
Seeing all this, the people resolved to
reinstate the democratic party and arrest
the stealings of the radical party, and inaug-
urate system of general reform. This has
been accomplished to the extent possible
under the circumstances. Stealing has been
in a measure checked, number of dis
tinguished radical thieves have been COM
PEELED to disappear, and there has been an
immense saving in the expenditures of the
government. "To appreciate the great
change" says the New York Sun,
that has taken place since the house passed
out of republican control, and DeGolyer
Garfield and his confederates ceased to hold
the purse strings, comparison between the
appropriations made during their rule and
since then will tell the story most effectively
and clearly. A period of three years of re-
publican and of three years of democratic as
tendency will best represent each side fair
1y, and under similar conditions of peace,
when public policy and duty to the tax
payers required the strictest retrenchment
in every branch of the public service. The
table below gives the totals:
APPROPRIATIONS FOR YEARS.
Republican.
1874. 1875. 1876.
slS9025,793 SIS, SO4,7S7 sl77 ,S7O,6 S7
Democratic.
1877. 1878. 1879
SIS, 39O,943 sl53,6OS,6Sl sl5S773, 493
Total three years of republican APP
Total three years of democratic APP
proprlatlonS...- 466T73, liz
Total democratic reduction......... SIS, 927 $50
Average annual redU ction ........-- ST 975 1888
''The regular appropriations for the current
fiscal year were largely increased by excep-
'tional items which might fairly be deducted
from the total. For example:
The fishery award 80. s. 500, 600
Pensions to soldiers of 1872, dropped
since 1861 l,5OO,OOO
Half the sum voted to rivers and har-
bors, no bill having passed last year 4,l5O,OOO
New items and increased grants for
light houses, navy yards, public
buildings, signal service, coast sur
vey, life saving stations, United
States courts, Judgments, etc... I,75O,OOO