The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
Expenditures Of 1876 Reduced by Re-
publicans Below the Previous
Year $I4,7IS,99I!
Appropriations This Year Increased
Over Last Year SIS, 752, 265.49.
Taxes Reduced by Republicans From
1865 to 1878 Over $25O,OOO,OOO.
Taxes Reduced by the Democratic
House from 1875 to 1878,
$OOO,OOO,OOO!

The following is the substance of an interview !"
between the Washington correspondent of the New
York Times and Senator Window of Minnesota,
chairman of the Senate Committee Appropria-
vtions published in the Times of June g. 1873:
COrrespondent-Have you compared the aggregate
appropriations made by this Congress with those of
last year, and, if so, how do they compare?
Senator Windom-Yes, sir; have carefully ex-
amined all the bills since the adjournment. The
total for last year SAB 81 1882 The total for
this year is $172 O69 5S941. The increase this year u.s.
therefore, S2S. 752, 265.49. These aggregates
cover all the regular appropriation bills.
Correspondence this increase chargcable to the
extravaganza of this Congress
Senator Windom-No: it is mainly chargeable to
the demagogusm of the Forty fourth Congress in
makingl pretended savings for political effect
when they only creating deficiencies"
Correspondence it true that no reductions in
expenditures were made until after the Democratic
party got control of the House of Representatives?
Senator Windom-By means. Expenditures
.ad been on descending scale almost ever since
war. The finance reports show that in 1868
were 229,915 0SS, and that under the adminis-
on of President Grant they were constantly re-
d. until for the year ending June 80, 1876, they
only $164 S57, 49,. or, after making the proper
notions for that year. for payments made upon
e Geneva award claims and for the Department
hostages (which latter counted in the nominal ex-
,penditurcs, but really took money from the
Treasury the expenditures for 1876 were we
have seen, emily $156, s1O957. The total reduction
in expenditures during Grants administration was
therefore $731O4131 making an annual average re-
ductien of $9l3S,016 The reductions made by the
Republicans the last year C1S76) were $14,71s,99l
DEMOCRATIC PROFESSIONS AND PERFORMANCES
IRRECoNCILABLE.
Correspondent-How do you reconcile these facts
with Democratic professions of economy?
Senator Windom-Excuse me; have never I'M
dertaken the impossible task of reconciling Demo-
cratic performances with Democratic professions
and certainly shrink from such effort in this
case. 1 think no one believes that their Wanted
economy is anything but sham to secure votes. 1t
was well understood by everybody who gave atten-
ton to the subject that their JOaSed reductions 1876
Effected By denying appropriations indispensable to
the public service By pospOning necessary public wOrks
by repudating national obligations by withholding large
sums for deficiency bills and when all these and other
desperate expedents were exhausted, the figures
themselves manipulated that they lost their
proverbial truthfulness, and became the most men,
dacous partisans This sort of deception could be
carried on for year two with some success but
it could have but result. Already the logic of
events and the imperative necessities of the Govern
ment have exposed the trickery which then de-
nounced and by compelling an increase of nearly
$29,00OO00, have uncoverned the demagOgism of
1876 by which it sought to carry the Presiden-
tia election under pretense of economy and reform.
Correspondent-Have you read the speech of Mr..
Atkins chairman Of tho Committee Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives, published in
the Record of June %, in which he endeavors to
show that there has been real increase over last
years appropriations, and in which he charges the
Senate with violent opposition to the retrencl =
ment and economy which the House inaugurated,'
and So will you please tell me what you think Of
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