The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-09-14

oil over 4,OUO,OOU, and an actual
SAVING or MORE THAN EIGHTY-EIGHT
MILLIONS,
as compared with similar bills passed by "a
Republican Congress for 1874, 1875 and
1876. The actual appropriations for these
eleven bills, including pensions, is as fol-
lows
ls74......yslsI 5s7 054 81 997 95572
lsl5...... I77.67947SI7 lszs.....-. I402sl 500 IS
lS76...-.. IT. coo @ 5S ls79-...... l57 ,2is sSsI7
Total Sc 81 Total.....slls, SOC 4g7 a
This shows an actual reduction secured
by the untiriug efforts of the Democratic
Houses in the Forty fourth and Forty fifth
Congresses of S88, ,270, ,236.47. But great
as this reduction was for period of three
years, it does not represent all that was
sought to be accomplished, for it should
be borne in mind that the reductions above
shown are not as great as we're demanded
by the Democratic House, but only repre-
sent the concessions that the House was
able to secure from 4 protesting Republi-
can Senate, whose committee on appro-
priations, continuously y struggling for an
increase of appropriations, and thwarting
the House at every step in its honest eff
forts at reduction, was presided over then,
as now, by the gentleman whose interview
you have called attention to; so that if
there be anything in this record of re-
trenchment for which that Senator may
justly claim credit, it is his partially sue
cessful but persistent efforts to resist every
attempt of Democratic House to reduce
the current expenses of the Government.
1t must be recolected also that the De-
mocracy have not as yet secured control
of both branches of Congress, and can
hardly be made fairly responsible for such
failure of reductions as the Senate may
have refused to accede to. There can GER
tainly be no injustice in Incorporating just
here a record of the reductions proposed
by the Democratic Houses of the Forty
fourth and Forty-filth Congresses, for the
fiscal years 1877, 1873 and 1879, and
coupling Herewith statement of addi-
tions insisted upon or secured by Re
publican Senate. Examining in detail the
history of the eleven great appropriation
bills, namely, for the military academy,
Notifications, consular and diplomatic, navy,
postoffice, Indians, army, legislative, exc
cutive and judicial, sundry civil, river and
harbor, and pensions, We find the following:
For the fiscal year ended JUNG 90. 1877
Estimates of Departments s2O0 $40 l5S 7s
Appropriations as passed the House.. lsS Ool 500
Senate I57 .i19T678 q
Appropriations as reduced by the
lA w b. =
For the fiscal year ended June %, 1875
Estimates of Departments. slsi isl IA
Appropriations passed the House.. lSi s9 7 3
Appropriationsas increased by the SEN
Appropriations reduced by the House l40 SSi q;
For the fiscal year ended June 90 ls79-
Estimates Of Departments 81 IS 2e6 81
Appropriations as passed the House.. l47 6S7 139 ~
Appropriations as increased by the
lbl u
Appropriations as reduced by the
1of 2is9i.a
1t might here be remarked that in this
years appropriations is to be found an
item of S., ,500,0 900 for the payment of the
Fishery Award, which is in no sense fairly
embraced in the net ordinary expenditures
of the Government, but which is, neverthe
less, included in the above statement
Taking the aggregate for the three years
1877, 1873 and 1879, we find that tbs
Democratic House, as it originally passed
these bills, made the following reductions
namely If the bills had become laws a.
they passed the house, there would have
been
SAVING OF s143, ,7O6, 6,OO3.24
under the amounts estimated as necessar,
by the Republican secretaries, whilst thert
would have been also 4 saving of S114,
7SS, ,S29.92 for the three fiscal years Of
1877, 1873 and 1879, under the three
fiscal years of 1874, 1875 and 1876. Blu
this is not all, for whilst these unquestion
ed facts, from official sources, show at
tempted saving by the Democratic House
Of over one hundred and fourteen millions
for a like period of Republican rule, i
also shows
THAT A REPUBLICAN SENATE ADDED
s51, ,1S3 ,O1S.53
to these eleven appropriation bills agains
the earnest protest of the Democrat,
House Now, taking these same bills a
they finally passed both houses for the
years 1877, 1873 and 1879, we find tn
following reductions namely The savin;
secured by the Democratic House unde
the department estimates was Sly, ,1S7,
409.79 and under the appropriations 70
1874, 1873 and 1876, it aggregated SIS,
270 ,236.4T, as before stated, whilst the in
crease secured by the Republican Senat,
over the bills as passed the House, after
most desperate struggle, was S26,51S,
593.45, so that the very pertinent ques
ton remains for the distinguished Senator
the chairman of the committee on appro
priations, to answer, how do his profession
of economy tally with the stubborn figures
which prove him and his Republican asso
ciates on the floor of the Senate and o
the House Of Representatives to have la
bored earnestly to fasten more than fifty
one millions of dollars upon Democrati
House bills, and who succeeded in increas
ing them over twenty-six millions of dol
lars? In some of the statements her
given to you, l have dealt in round mum
bers, leaving off the fraction, but shoul'
you desire it you are at liberty to use tn
tabulated statements from which thes