The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

| This statement does not represent bills in
troduced and not acted upon by congress, but
| bills allowed and paid to the enormous sum of
| one hundred million dollars. None but loyal
men were TO be paid; none but loyal men TO
/ pass upon the claims; and as read to you Gov
ernor Morton earnestly urging their payment,
connected IL with the labors necessary to build
up loyal party in the south: l say to you
| that there is great danger to the government
| in the payment Of these claims, and that dan
/ ger is greatly increased when considerations
ger now is, as it has been, whilst the hundred
| millions have been paid out, that the peoples
money will be expended upon party fAvorites.
fidelity to the party, and you have paid out
one hundred millions in the south to that class
of men, when We all believe there was not left
unpaid one-third of that sum at the close of
ON the 18th of June last the Hon. Mr. Lock-
hart, OF New York, made the following state
ment in the house of representatives, which
was not questfoned:
"The bills reported from the committee on
war claims at the first session of the Forty
| third congress amounted to the sum of S5,9l2,-
/ 40. That was republican congress. The
same committee of the Forty -fourth congress,
/ the first democratic congress, at the first ses-
! sion reported bills favOrably to the amount of
| exceed 1000 of southern claims, and payment
of the house.
Now what think you of such charges as that
we want to pay the southern claims, when the
I first democratic house reduced the favorable
/ o1e-quarter of one mIllion-less than one dol
lar 2 twenty fourY In the debate in
The s house ,l upon these claims on the nth OF
| following statement:
| Mr.. Humphrey-I desire to say in c0nnec-
since my dtn ased coeau Few FROM W
consin (AIr. Bragg showed here conclusively,
IL his record is correct, that every claim of this
! by republican votes. He did this for the pur-
| pose OF showing that not one would be paid
by majority vote of this house on the demo-
That statement made to the house was not
] questioned, but stands admitted. Perhaps
should apologize for OBTAINING you so long up
on this question, and my apology is that
earnestly desire that no prejudice or deception
may stand between You and your duty, until
our country shall be wholly recovered from
misrule and its consequences.
REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURES BY DEMOCRATS.
In tins connection L wish to SHOW to you the
/ advantage IT. has been TO the people
of the United States tnat they elected
democratic majority to the house of represen-
| tIves in the FJrty-fourth and In the Forty
| fifth congress. The democrats have had the
majority in the house during the last three
| sessions; before that the republicans had alb
solute control. The democratic house is now
the object of special attack. Will you be
act of the house has disturbed the rights or
/ impaired the prosperity or the liberties of the
| people? In these times of financial distress
do you not recognize economy in public eX-
! penditures as the first duty of the peoples rep
| reSen tatives? The long session OF the Forty
fifth congress recently adjourned. will COM
pare its appropriations with the estimates
made by the present administration for the
present fiscal year. make my statements TO
| you upon the authority of Mr.. Atkins in his
/ statements to the house on the 18th June last.
! He spoke as chairman of appropriations. For
the military academy Notifications, diplo-
matte and consular service abroad, navy, post
Office, pensions, Indian service army, legisla-
| tive and sundry civil expenses, and river and
harbor improvements, the departments asked
appropriations amounting to 1882 226,8IS. This
| includes 50, 600 estimates sent to the COM
mittee The bills, as they passed the house,
more than s34,OOOOOO. The senate, republ-
can, added over sl4,O0OOO0 to the bills,
but on the conference the house
succeeded in making large reduction, and
| the appropriations as made were, after deduct
ing the Halifax award, a treaty debt, S3OOOO,OOO
less than the president and his secretaries estf-
mated as necessary.
1 VIII now ask you to make a comparison
between the expenditures directed by the
! Forty-second and the Forty third congress,
both largely republican, and the Forty-fourth
and the Forty nttn c9ngress, ooth a e,
second congress 1873 there were appropriated
for the purposes before mentioned slSl 5S2,ZIi,
| first year of the Forfy-third congress the APP
prOpriationS were SIS, 49,, and IN the sec
ond year SIT ,y70,6S. The house was demo-
first time after the close of the war, and at tie
first session the appropriations for the same
purposes amounted to Sl5i ,39O,9lS, and at the
second session Sl53 608, 6SI. The aggregate ap
Precipitation of the Forty-fourth congress be-
low the Forty-third was s53,676,252 while tie
reduction below the Forty-second congress
was still more marked, being sG2 7OS, S45. Tie
first appropriation hi the present FORTY -nfth)
congress after deducting the Halifax aNudi
under a treaty, amounts TO Sl5l, OO.S33.
The appropriations of the four years of the
Forty second and Forty-third congress amount
TO 1872 ,5il. which is at the rate and average
of SlSS, 095, SS5 per year. That was under abS0-
lutte republican rule.
The appropriations for the two years of the
Forty-fourth congress and the first year OF the
/ MT 10 600 WI iC
| the rate of sl5S, 233, 4SS per year. The compau-
son shows that during the past seven years, four
of republican control and three of democratic,
of the people is So, $50 397; for tie
three 200 last as 10, years the aggregate saving
/ these are appropriations during seven years
| for the purposes before mentioned. Were
! we to 90 further back the republican expend-
! lures would be found much larger.
/ The senate has resisted the house in It's
| policy of retrenchment. After next March
| the democrats Will control both houses, and
will make still further large reductions, reach
| ing, as hope, to full fifty millions. In round
numbers the reduction has now reached 49,
! 100000 each year. Thirty million dollars is
one million three hundred thousand dollars
to the state of Indiana; it is one hundred aud
/ five thousand dollars to every congressional
/ district.
Ii is for Indiana $4,000 more than the entire
taxes upon her people for the ordinary pur-
| pose of state government. What does the re-
/ duction of S30,00O,C00 mean and signify? IL
means that in the public expenditures there
| small DC economy anu honesty. III means Indt
that much money shall not be collected
from the people but shall be left IN the chaL-
nels OF trade and commerce, there to stimulate
| business and enterprise, and to give employ
ment to labor that now begs for IL upon tie
street corners. My fellow citizens, believe
that If during the thirteen years that have
| elapsed since the close of the war, $50, OOO4e0
had been saved eacn year, we would not have
| experienced the panic, nor now be In ue
| midst of almost universal bankruptcy. i
would have been q saving of S59O,OOO,OOO. Iun
may not heed these facts, but there Is a
speaker whose lessons you will heed-it Is
| hard times. He will come and speak TO you
| at your homes. He will stand upon your dor
steps, as with cold face and CLASSY eye he loofs
within. He will enter your homes and loqH
into the closet, aud into the meal tub. tie
will stand beside your hearthstone. He VII
| sit down between husband and wife, between
/ parents and children, and he will speak TO ydl
of society as not being properly organized; q
the relations between capital and labor as MT
/ well adjusted. He VIII make dangerous SUI
gestions about the rich and the poor-the col
trast between the sufferings of the many, ard
! the enjoyments of the few.
So unwelcome a visitor ought to be nj
known In our country. We have rich sois
and every variety of valuable production, ard
we are an intelligent, industrious and entg-
prising people: and we should be a prosperous