Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
publicans Below the Previous
Year Sl4,7lS,90l!
Appropriations This Year Increased
Over Last Year $2S,752, 265.49.
Taxes Reduced by Republicans From
1865 to 1875 Over $3.50, 100000.
Taxes Reduced by the Democratic
Hsuse from 1875 to 1878,
SOOO,OOO.OOO!

The following is the substance of an interview y
York Times and Senator Window, of Minnesota,
chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropria-
lions, published in the Times of June 6, 1878:
Correspondence you compared the aggregate
appropriations made by this Congress with those of
last year, and, if so, how do they compare?
Senator Wndom-Yes, sir; have carefully ex-
amned all the bills since the adjournment The
total for last year was $143 SIT The total for
this year is si72 The increase this year u.s.
therefore, S2s.752, 265.i9. These aggregates
cover all the regular appropriation bills.
Correspondent-Is this increase chargeable to the
extravaganza of this Congress?
Senator Windom-No: it is mainly chargeable to
the demagoguism of the Forty fourth Congress in
making pretended savings" for political effect
when they were only creating deficiencies"
Correspondent-Is it true that reductions in
expenditures were made until after the Democratic
party got control of the House of Representatives?
Senator Windom-By no means. Expenditures
mad been on descending scale almost ever since
the war. The finance reports show that in 1865
they were 5000 ol5oSs and that under the admins
tration of President Grant they were constantly re-
duced until for the year ending June 30 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-
penditurcs. but really took no money from the
Treasury the expenditures for 1876 were as We
have seen, only $15eslo,957. The total reduction
in expenditures during Grants administration was
therefore S731oi,13l making an annual average re-
duction of S9,l3SO16. The reductions made by the
blipap f,n last .
DEMOCRATIC PROFESSIONS AND PERFORMANCES
IIIECoSCILABLE.
Correspondcnt-How do you reconcile these facts
with Democratic professions of economy?
Senator Windom--Excuse me; have never un-
dcrtaken the impossible task of reconciling Demo-
cratic performances with Democratic professions,
and certainly shrink from such an effort in this
case: ] think no believes that their vauntcd
economy is anything but sham to secure votes. 1t
was well understood by everybody who gave atten-
ton to the subject that their Joasted reductions IN 1876
Effected by denying appropriations indispensable to
the public serrce BY posponig necessary public uorks
BY repudiatnq national obligations by withholding large
sums for deficiency bills; and when all these and other
desperate expedents were exhausted, the figures
themselves were so manipulated that they lost their
proverbal truthfulness, and became the most men
dacious partsans This sort of deception could be
carried on for year or two with success, but
1t could have but one result. Already the logic of
events and the imperative necessities of the Govern
ment have exposed the trickcry which was then de-
nounced, and, by compelling an increase of nearly
$29,00O,O00, have nncoverned the demagogism of
1876, by which it sought to carry the Presden.
tial election under pretense of economy and reform
CorrespoEdent-Have you read the speech Of Mr..
Atkins. chairman Of the Committee on Appropria.
tons of the House of Representatives published in
the Record Of June %, in which he cndeavors to
show that there has been no real increase over last
years appropriations, and in which he charges the
Senate with violent opposition" to the retrench-
ment and economy which the House inaugurated"
and If so, will you please tell what you think of
It?