Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-08-15
Expenditures Of 1876 Reduced by Re-
nubIicans Below the Previous
Year $I4,7IS,99I!
Appropriations This Year Increased
Over Last Year $2S,752, 265.49.
Taxes Reduced by Republicans From
1865 to 1875 Over $25O,OOO,OOO.
Taxes Reduced by the Democratic
House from 1875 to 1878,
$OOO.OOO.OOO!

The following is the substance of an g interview y
between the Washington correspondent of the New
York Times and Senator Window of Minnesota,
chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropria-
tions, published in the Times of June g. 1878:
Correspondent-Hav 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-
amned all the bills since the adjournment. The
total for last year 143 1882 The total for
this year is Si72 O695S9.4 The increase this gear u.s.
therefore, S2S.753, 265.49. These aggregates
cover all the regular appropriation bills.
CorrespondentIs this increase chargeable to the
extravaganza of this Congress?
Senator Windom-No: it is mainly chargeable to
the demagogusm of the Forty fourth Congress in
making pretended savings" for political effect
when they were 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 no means. Expenditures
had been descending scale almost ever since
the war. The finance reports show that in 1868
they 0SS, and that under the admins
tration OF President Grant they were constantly re-
duced until for the year ending June go 1876 they
only $1G4, S57 sl3 or, after making the proper
deductions for that year, for payments made upon
the Geneva award claims and for Che Department
hostages (Which latter counted in the nominal ex-
penditures, but really took no money from the
Treasury the expenditures for 1876 were as we
have seen, only $156,810957. The total reduction
in expenditures during Grants administration was
therefore S73 10f131, making an annual average re-
ducton Of $913S,016 The reductions made by the
Republicans the last year 1870 were $14,71s,99l.
DEMOCRATIC PROFESSIONS AND PERFORMANCES
IRRECoNCILABLE.
Correspondent-Ho do you reconcile these facts
with Democratic professions of economy?
Senator Windom-Ex Excuse me j; I have never un-
dertaken the impossible task of reconcilng Demo.
cratic performances with Democratic professions,
and certainly shrink from such an effort in this
case. | think no one believes that their yaunted
economy is anything but sham to secure votes 1t
was well understood by everybody who gave atten-
ton to the subject that their boosted reductions in 1876
Effected By denying appropriations indispensable to
The public sercice; By pospOning necessary public works
By regulating national obligations By withholding large
for deficiency bills and when all these and other
desperate expedients exhausted, the figures
themselves manipulated that they lost their
proverbial truthfulness, and became the most men
dacious partisans. This sort of deception could be
carried on for year two with some success but
it could have but one result Already the logic of
events and the imperative necessities of the Govern
ment have exposed the trckcry which was then de-
nounced, and, by compelling an increase of nearly
$29000,000 have Uncovered the dcmagogism of
1876, by which it was sought to carry the Presden-
tial election under pretensc of economy and reform
Correspondent-Have you read the speech of Mr.
Atkins chairman of the Committee Appropria-
tons of the House of Representatives, published in
n INN in yybi al lo ,In.o,,
show that there has been real increase over last
years appropriations, and in which he charges the
Senate with violent opposition" to the retrench-
ment and economy which the House inaugurated"
and if so, will you please tell what you think of
1t?