The daily gazette., 1878-09-25
'Hayes's 1lusive Figures.
square Refutation of His As
& sertiOns In sIinlsesota.

square RefItation of His As
sertiOns In Minlaesota.
THE ExrRAvAGANCE OF THE PARTY
THAT TRIED TO ELECT HIM-EcoNoMY
z ENFORCED BY THE HEsoLUTE ACTION
\ OF A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. IA.
The figures which Have paraded be-
fore the farmers of Minnesota have al
ready been roughly handled. The re-
t rms, contemporary and recently pub
lisbed by the Treasury Department show
that his statement OF the currency in Cir
culation in 1866 was over SOC, ,00U, 900 out
Of the way. A smaller blunder, but OF
different sort, appears when he puts for
ward the sums raised by customs and in
ternal revenue as the measure of FEEDER
al taxation, whom Federal tax atio on really
includes additional taxes to the amount
Of from $l0,0O0,0O0 to $12,OO0,0 1000
A ide from positive misstatements,
Hay es's speech puts forward the taxation
in 1873, ,the year of the panic, aud the
expenses then, and, comparing them
with the taxation and expenses now, re-
dneed in the first case by S6l 900 900, and
in the other by S53, 900 900, the tacit con-
clusion is drawn that the party in whose
hands the administration of the Govern
ment still rests, In spite of IT'S failure to
elect its candidate at the last Presiden-
tial election, has been for Ave years re-
ducing the expenditures as the receipts
4 ON taxation shrank. This is not true.
The Republican party has done this.
Had the policy of tho Republican patty
Government would to-day be bankrupt,
no surplus would exist to meet its de-
mand notes when due next January, and
payments upon the sinking fund would
have long since been suspended.
The country had just come to the edge
of great commercial panic in 1873,
when the Republican party cut off some
$50 ,O00, 900 of revenue by placing tea and
coffee on the free list without the possi-
BILE benefit to single consumer. That
and other reductions. and the panic to-
gether, swept off S44, ,OOO, 900 of revenue.
In two years from 1872 to 1874, the reve-
nue. fell off $50, 100000. 1t might have
been expected that the party in power
would have reduced expenditures. 1t
did not. Instead, the exp natures were
increas. during the first year of this
sudden loss in revenue, and only reduced
the next year, 1874, as compared with
1872, about S10,000,000.
This Congress did, both branches Re-
publican. The departments did no bet
ter. Forecasting expenditures in the
autumn of 1873, with reduction in reve-
nue. of SAC, 600 900 in the fi-cal year Just
past, and 40 rapid reduction In the cur
rent fiscal year that a deficiency of S13,-
| 900, 900 was predicted, the depar tmenis
added to past estimates in years ofplenty
S34 600 900 in their demands for the fiscal
year 1878, or $14 200, ,0J0 more than the
estimated revenue of that fiscal year, and
S21 ,0O0, 900 more than was finally collect
od. Aud yet for three years past, while
1 hao oft fad IN oil aI,,a
tons, Republican papers have rung with
the declaration that the departments
must of necessity know what money rs
needed for the public service. This went
/ on, The revenue from "taxation," as
| Mr.. Hayes terms the customs and inter.
nal revenue receipts, fell, year by year,
forly-ope, thirty six, twenty-one, and
thirteen millions below the estimates of a
Republican. Treasury Department Its
guesses proved worse tina useless. Moth.
ling but the broad, liberal margin
so ueesed out of the people over and
above the usual lavish expenditures pre-
vented bankruptcy. To its bonded deb
and current expenses the Government
two years after the panic added the obGg ga
ton cont aimed in its promise to redeem
its demand notes Jan. l, 1879. Till til,
Ielection of Democratic House Congress
ibid nothing.
From the time when Republican
CONGRESSMAN made up the appropriation
for the year 1874 to the year when Re
publican Congress made up the appropri
ations for 1876 the revenue fell off $50,
1000 900, but the appropriations were re
Iduced less than 81 000, 900. Neither to Con
lgress nor to the departments did sUeadil ly
diminishing taxes bring the consciousness,
THAT expenditures should also dini nisb
That pleasing correspondence between
reduction in "the burden of taxation
and expenditure since the panic, which
Mr. Hayes displays, is not due to thu
party which tried to elect him. A Demo
cratic House came in A Republican Sec.
lretary of the Treasury and Republican
departments presented estimates for 1877
Sl0, ,OOO, 900 larger than the estimated
Irecepts for 1877, and $4,000 600 larger
than those receipts proved to be wheI
that fiscal yeaI was over. Reduction wal
begun. The House cut off BE, 600 900 from
the expenses of the Government. 1t re
fused to accede to demands for extraor
dinary expenses. A deficit was avoided
The accumulation of coin became Dossi
BILE. Through both sessions tho Forty
fourth Congress persisted in this policy
When the Forty-fif h Congress met !
was to be told by Republican Secretar.
lof the Treasury that a reduction of S.
, |, OO, 900 below tn. point fixed be the Fol
ty-fourth at its nr>t session could b
made "without gripping any branc
of the public service. The economy OF
Democratic House, continued throug
two yeas, has kept the expenditures
the Government within its lessened an
lessening income, A Republican ex-cat
Ididate for the Preidency parades the faC