Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-06-20


time that it would be necessary to classify and num-
Der them, as il was feared there was net enough
letters to indicate them in that way.
Correspondent-why was it necessary to divide
the amount into so many bs2
Senator windom-Our Democratic friends of the
Houss, knew that the people would understand these
"dedc5eQfes to be refutaton of their former loud
pQ9teDl1oSof retrenchment and hence they reluc-
lfGkt v 4oLa out in dstAchments such amounts As
}ky v2/sesmpelled p appropriate from time to
CORE 64snt-I no lice that at a recent banquet
01&en MN York to Speafer Randall Hon. A. g.
{II8witt>6 ported TO have al that Mr.. Randall
k1Nd nj 6fInds the Forty fourth Congress !" ac-
Rem pl shod having in thu Congress Of $751;
IUD0 COO end hat il wssthe1 INIT Of putting in
Fn0yger Who Wtre able DO the work for them
I40s AnouinG iorall the de1oences, il amounted to
fb23 900 600 01eaf IS ny u kc* See New York World
Y0ff the Afnn1a NIB Noyf. 0i1HAtor, have been q
mem befs Il ME zup ffafifa Committee for many
wears Wht do'yon sa Z q lbs boast of Democratic
econ NV in conpdjs N1c1the alleged Republics
Senator Wind ON n iamy turn to as you ques-
ton Don't yod think this boast of having saved
only s23,o0OOO0 Gin the entire Congress- is great
PreadebfH1 campaign. thai they had saved sao.-
900 000 ~ one sessionf Tbs modest claim now
amotnfsB only about 81 100000 for that session,
In which they insisted that they had saved 10000
oly abosf per Of truth GA their economical pre-
tersiops IN 1876 Ii will he noted also that Mr.
Hewitt admits that il required about S31 100000 to
make up the deficiencies created by the pretended
retrenchments and reforms Of the Forty-third Con-
gress. In looking the tables and statements in
Mr.. Atkins speech notice that he makes the de-
cences appropriated since 1876 $40, los. that
he and Mr. Hewitt substantially in accord on that
point If you will perm il me to the tables and
question you for moment ] should like TO ask il
anything could well be more disgraceful in the
leaders of great party than 70 go before the people
when, In fact they knew that S3O,0O0,o00 of that
sum would have TO be made up by deficiency billsr
Correspondent-wers the $23,ooo0o0 which Mr. 4.
Hewitt claims to be "ccar saving" by the Forty
fourth Congress al actual saving, only post
ponement Of approp and failure to provide
properly for the public service, &c.r
Senator windom-Some portion Of IL was Doubt
less saving" but by far the largest part not
On the 18th of August 1876. after carefully snay
zng every item every appropriation bill for that
year. and comparing each with like items in the
bills for the previous year, stated the floor of
the Senate that "of the total pretended
ductvn of A0,000000 not s5O00000 could in any
sense be called saving of money To the Treasury"
and that this sum fell far below the retrenchment
effected by the preceding Republican Congress.
repeat that statement, and am prepared At any
| moment to prove it beyond doubt
| The mere postponement of appropriations" for
public buildings which were under way in 1876, ~
compared with the preceding year, amounted to
IS, 1853 tbs postPonement OF surveys OF public
lands to f64l 800; the failure to appropriate money
to pay judgments of the Court Of Claims, &c, TO
81 gil 900. There were numerous other items,
amounting to many millions, Of like character,
which were merely postponed not saved They
are not deficiencies" but simply posfponements,"
which will come in at future time to swell the
bills. The three items have just named. amount
/ ing 10 S5.5i4 953, only small part of such
postponements made IN the one year 1876 De-
Quoting them from 81 500 600 which is one-half of
what Mr.. Hewitt claims TO be the total savings Of
the Forty fourth Congress for 1876 and 1877,
have less than S6.Oo0ooo as the actual saving for
that year. There ware many other items of reduc
| ton made in 1876 which are in no possible
saving to the Treasury but which, if deducted from
the ll,50oOOO would wipe out the whole of the
pretended economy Of which 80 much boasting has
Correspondent-Dces the amount of appropriations
always indicate the exact cost of administering the
Government daring the year for which they
made? .frFr
Senator windom-It does not There are always
large unexpended balances from various sources
which. come over frota one year 70 another. These
| "une expended balances alter standing two year.
subject to USE are carried TO the surplus fund,
i which means they returned 70 he Trsasuy Ii is.
therefore, the annual expenditures" rather than
the appropriations which show what it really
costs to carry on the Government any given year.
The exception to this rule is when deficiencies"
are created, which makes the expenditures" Of one
year appear less than they really In such case
the expenditures" OF the next OF succeeding year
will show proportionate Increase An instance of
this kind is found in the apparently reduced exrend
lures of 1877 which will he fully balanced by the
increase for 1873 and 1872 when all the deficiencies
charged up
When the Executive Departments honest and
faithful, only much money is necessary will be
used, and the balance of the appropriations will be
returned TO the Treasury A striking illustration
OF this is presented under the last Administration.
From 1869 1876. the thus carried 70 the
surplus fund.-" as shown by official Treasury
statement, were very large exceeding by many mil
lions per annum tho amounts so returned to the
Treasury" under late Democratic appropriations.
This proves two things First that mere compari-
SON of appropriations" does not show the relative
cost of administering the Government; and second
proves that the hue and cry Of corruption and
travagance raised against the last Administration
was without foundation.
You will see ut once that their loud boasts OF
economical reductions, based upon the comparisons
of mere Appropriations" without taking into
count the SUNS respectively carried 10 TIE surplss