Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-10
4SPECIMEN REPUBLICANC AMPAIGN
DOCUMENT.

DOCUMENT.
Senator Window has had himself inter-
viewed to the extent of three columns in the
New York Tanars, on the appropriation bills
passed by the last Congress. It is very
carefully prepared document, evidently in
tended to do duty in the campaign as an evil
dence of ssthe hollowness of Democratic pro-
fessions of economy" He starts out with
the declaration that s'no one believes that
their Wanted economy is anything but a
sham to secure votes,'' and then proceeds to
claim that the seeming reduction in expenses
of the government under Democratic rule,
has been brought about "by denying appro-
priations indispensable to the public service,
by postponing necessary public works, by
repudiating national obligations, and by
withholding large sums for deficiency bills.
It does not appear in any of Mr.. WINDOWS
subsequent statements wherein any neces-
sary public works were postponed. 1t is
| quite probable-in fact, is not denied-that
the Democrats postponed large number
of public works wholly unnecessary, and
would have postponed many more but for
the stand taken by the Republican Senators
who wished to favor some particular locality
for the purpose of winning votes at the ex-
pense of the whole country. Not single
necessary public work was postponed or neg
lected by the House. His intimation that
national obligations were repudiated in any
sense, is wholly false and ut
terly without warrant in the pro-
ceedings of Congress. All the national OBJ
| legations have been fully met, and so salts
factorily that the credit of the nation was
never as good, nor the sales of bonds at low
rates of interest as great as during and
since the House has been in the hands of
the Democrats.
Referring to Mr.. Atkins statement of the
results accomplished by the Democratic
majority in the House, Mr.. Window says:
Mr.. Atkins had an extremely difficult task to
| perform. and in its execution he displayed a
genius in manipulating figures only equaled
by his courage in dealing with the facts hich
stood in his way. From his predecessors his
committee had inherited an accumulation of
unpaid national obligations, and postponed
appropriations" SO imperative in their char
acter that they could no longer be evaded OF
delayed. These vast sums thus postponed and
withheld by the fprty-fourth Congress We're
credited by the Democracy as SO much
money saved" but the time had now
come when portion of them must be provided
for, though to meet them would swell the total
appropriations to an amount equal to. if not
in excess OF those made by the last Republican
Congress-. With an actual increase of 928
752, 265. 40 staring him in the 1ace the chair
man of the House committee still felt it to be
his duty as 'reformer," even under such dis
conraging circumstances, to prove that after
umph for retrenchment." This triumph
| would have been still grander if the nau ghty
Senate had not stood in the way.
Mr.. Window neglects to say that part OF
these postponed appropriations was the
heritage left by the last Republican House
and that another large part-over two mil
lions OF dollars-Was to meet payments on
illegal contracts awarded by Republican
secretary of the navy just on the eve of his
retirement from Office. He also neglects to
call attention to the fact that the disburse-
ment of moneys has been in the hands OF
Republicans, who have taken no pains to
keep the expenditures within the ap-
preparations, but have rather sought to
create deficiencies to prove ''the insincerity
of Democratic professions of economy
The additional items added to the appro-
priation bills by the Senate amount, accord
ing to Mr.. Window, to $l3,925,442. "No
part of this amount, 5" says the Senator, "was
extravaganza, but the whole was in compli-
ance with some obligations of the govern
III, H.
or in the line of economical expenditure.
This will very clearly appear by a reference
to the items constituting the additions. -
The following are the amounts added by the
Senate to the several bills.