The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

Increased cost per cent of 10 years of radi-
cal rule, 167 so; average per anuum of 10
years Of radical rule, $152, ,S91, ,713 rs.
Average per annum of 10 years of demo
cratic rule, $57, ,2S7 ,226 %.
Cost per capita of 10 years of radical rule,
$39 65.
Cost per capita of 10 years of democratic
rule, $lS26.
SINCE THE WAR.
Rep.-Senator Window said in his inter-
view that the republicans had gradually re-
duced the expenditures of the government
since the war. Is this true?
Mr.. B.-I answer emphatically. no. For
example, let us examine the expenditures of
the government beginning with the fiscal
year 1871, and ending with 1876, the last
fiscal year republican congress controlled
the appropriations, embracing net ordinary
expenditures only, and excluding the pub
lie debt, principal, interest and premiums
aud excluding also pensions. Here they are [:
For the fiscal year lS7l..........sl2SlSe lSe,9ac 90
For the fiscal year lS72............ l246 453 az
For the fiscal year 1873 ISL l29 90 O4
F For the ascai year iszf -...... l650so $40 "a
For the fiscal year lS76............. l366OO4l7 81
This shows gradual increase for 1876. the
last fiscal year the republicans controlled
both houses, OF $13, ,460, ,4S5 81, over the ex-
penditures for 1871, and an increase of ex
penditures for 1874. as compared with 1871,
Oh vi ,S40, 1854. These figures show posi-
tive increase of appropriations for the ordi-
nary expenditures of the government under
radical rule as we recede from the war pc
Rod, for which no justification can be plead.
When W. consider, too, that the purchasing
power OF the dollar has greatly augmented
since 1911, these enormous increases of pub
lic expenditures appear still more inexcuss
BILE and criminal.
Rep.-How does this record of republican
extravaganza contrast with the record made
by the democratic houses of the Forty fourth
and torty-fifth congresses7
Mr.. B.-if we take the expenditures of the
government for the fiscal years 1877 and 1878,
being the years appropriated for by the For.
ty-fourth congress. the first year since the
war when the democrats controlled the house
of representatives, we find a very heavy de-
crease OF expenditures as com pared with any
two years since the radicals came into pow
er. The actual net ordinary expenditures.
exclusive of the public debt, principal, pre-
MUM and interest and exclusive also of
pensions appro priated for by the Forty-third
congress and the Forty fourth congress- are
as follows:
Republican Forty Forty-fourth Con-
third Congress. gTess, Dem. House.
ls75.........- .sIi2 J7s5s2 O5 SIG 246 2I oil
io'o .'-----.. lSsooo4l1 % ie9S.. lO7,o5o,5SO 6s
Total s27S. .g74, ,0i9 72 Totals .s22s, ,SOI. .5sI
Here then, we have stated for each fiscal
year ;he actual net ordinary expenditures
for the years 1875 and 1876 under the appro-
priations made by the republican congress,
against which we place the expenditures for
the same purposes for the years 1877 and
1S7S under the influence Of democratic
house, showing an actual saving of S55, ,372,-
46S O3 made under the greatest difficulties
placed in the way of retrenchment 6y a re-
publican senate and republican administra-
ton.
Rep.-Were not the reductions in the
eleven great appropriation bills, exclusive
OF the pension bill, passed by the Forty