The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-30
614.11, whilst the net ordinary

j14.ll, whilst the net ordinary |
expenditures = for the tent years of
Democratic rule above named were only
$57 1887 ,226.05, showing that the net ordi-
nary expenditures under Republican, rule /
during decade Of peace were nearly
three times as large as for the decade OF
Democratic rule Immediately preceding |
the war. IF it shall be objected that there
is at least one element of unfairness IN
this presentation of official data, upon the
score of an increase of population. 1t is an
swered that, taking as a basis OF this cal
culation the census of 1860, we find that
the cost per capita for the ten years next
previous to the war, for net ordinary ex-l
nenditures. with which we alone are now
dealing. was $l8.26, whilst taking the CEN
sus of 1870 as the basis of the calculation,
we find that the cost per capita for the ten
years of Republican rule during time of
peace beginning with the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1867, was $50. los, being an ex-
cess against the Republican party of about
one hundred and seventeen (l17) per cent,
so that 1t seems difficult to find the ground
upon which any Republican statesman
may defend his party from the charge OF
excessive expenditures when considered
culation, and we certainly feel that we
deal fairly 10 selecting that decade of Dem
ocratic rule Immediately preceding the
war, and contrasting it with like period
of Republican rule beginning more than
one year after the war had closed, aud
coming down to the last fiscal year in
which the Republicans held control of
| both houses of congress, For your use. If
you desire it, / here hand you tabulated
statement, an examination Of which
will show the particular branches
of the service in which these heavy dis
crepaucies occur. Take for instance the
expenditures 10 the matter of the regular
army lit being remembered that the regu'
lar army was more than doubled after the
conclusion of the war, for what purposes il
is difficult to tell unless it be for the ac-
complishment of political or party advan-
tage in aid of which it has been so busily
and efficiently employed until an American
| Congress by solemn act was forced at our
last session to incorporate into the army
appropriation bill restriction that abso.
lutely prohibited such use of that arm Of
the government in future), and we 6nC
that the aggregate expenditures for this
purpose during this time were over $685.
100000 as against $3.50, 100000 appropri
ated for the same purpose under the ter
years OF democrat administration mex
preceding the war; leaving differences
against the republican party of more thar
$424, 100000. So in the navy we finC
that it cost $234, 10000 for the mainte
nance of the navy during these ten year
of republican rule, as against $l23, 100000
during the said ten years OF Democrat
rule, showing difference of $ll0,000,00
in this branch Of the service against til
republican party. Take the Indian bureau
: and we find that there was over $62, 800
900 expended in this behalf as agains
, $32,500, 600 expended for the same pun
pose under democratic rule, leaving
balance of more than $30,000,000 in thi
T. regard charged to the republican account
: Take the expenditures for civil miseel
: laneous purposes. and we find that in thi
= decade of republican administration W
y have over $638, 100000, as against $247
:, 100000 expended during this Democrat
decade, leaving balance of nearly 1891
= 100000 to be accounted for by the repnt
lcan party as an excess of expenditure
= upon their part. The exact figures can /
4 found in the table furnished you narke
"a"
|. Increased cost per cent. of ten years
Radical rule, $l67.59; average per al
nun of ten years of Radical rule, 1852
y 89I, 7l3 rs.
Average per aDnum OF ten years of den
I, Ocratic rule, $57 ,287, 226 05.
= Cost per capita of ten years of Radio
e e rule, $39 65.
= Cost per capita of ten years Of dem
:. cratic rule, $lSs26.
m EXTRAvAGANT INCREASE OF EXPEND
lie TUREs SINCE THE WAR.
N Rep,-Senator Window said in bis i
te terview that the republicans had grad
p ally reduced the expenditures of the go
re eminent since the war. Is this true2
ne Mr.. B.-I answer emphatieally, mol E
G. example, let us examine the expenditur
ut OF the government, beginning with tt
ar fiscal year 1871, and ending with 49,
OF the last fiscal year a republican congre
"a controlled the appropriations, embraci
u net ordinary expenditures only, and pl
d. miums, and excluding also pensions. He
oil they are: