The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-11

ducng the principal OF the public debt, and
have applied to other uses fund specifically
set aside by law for the redemption of fraction
al currency
REPUBLICAN ECONOMY.
On the other hand a Republican administers
ton has largely reduced expenditures in all
those branches of the public service where the
amount is subject to its discretion. Thus, i
has reduced the expenses of collecting the Gus
toms duties in New York, SIT $780, IS annually
while al the same time collecting at that por
$6.41S, aS7 co more revenue in 1879 than ii
1877. 1t has reduced the expenses of collecting
customs in Philadelphia, Sill 5l5 Is: while il
increased the receipts s., OBS, 966 &c. and il
Boston expenses have been reduced $22 001
AZ, and receipts increased $3.50, ITO So It has
reduced the expenses of collecting the entire
customs, PAYABLE from p permanent annual ap-
preparation, from $6501, OBJ. SO in 1877, to IS
| 4S5. ITO O3 in 1879.
There has also been large increase Of reve-
nue. from customs. due to the stringent en-
forcement of the revenue laws, and chiefly
from increased valuation of importations by
preventing fraudulentinvoices and undervalua-
| tons.
The expenses of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing are now less than $4,000 aunu-
ally, and large savings have been effected in
the erection of public buildings.
| There has been annual saving to the treas
ury of considerable amount on account of the
| rigid enforcement of the law in the examination
of old claims, by refusing payment therefor
from permanent annual appropriations. until
Congress has been fully advised of their char
acter, with the amount allowed in each case.
and direct appropriation made for their pay
| ment
This plan of spreading these allowances be-
fore Congress- and consequently before the
public conceive to be the very best to pre-
| tbo mt of fro1 1r,1o t.
has already reduced the payments annually
| made on this account, and been the means of
| detecting several fraudulent allowances, which
might have otherwise passed unnoticed
| Thus, while it is claimed that Democratic
| Congress has forced economy upon the Repub-
| lican administration, the facts are that the
most marked economies of this administration
have been effected under those branches of the
| public service for which Congress does not make
| annual appropriations or where ample appro-
priations were made The administration has
| felt no restraint from insufficient appropria-
tons in the great branches of Government.
| There has been some annoyance in the minor
details of the service by the ill-advised reduc-
ton of force and compensation, but as gen.
| eral rule, the administration has met the pro-
| fessions of the Democracy for reduction of ex-
penses more than halfway, and reduced to
practice what are yet only professions of the
| opposition.
|
1t may be fairly said of the administration of
| President Hayes that it has honestly, econom-
ically and faithfully conducted the public bust
ness in all branches of the public service. Be-
sides the ordinary functions of diplomatic SER
vice, the State Department has given increased
Importance to our consular service in the col
lection of valuable information that has enabled
| our merchants to largely increase their COM
MERGE. The IndiI Ia affairs were never more
successfully conds 1cted. Very important re-
forms and improve ments have been made in
the Navy DEPARTING int. I am officially advised
by the Commissioning of Internal Revenue that,
of the sll3, AS, 83095 collected during the past
year from internal taxes every dollar has been
accounted for, and for the past three years the
whole amount collected, $343 O9S, 17S ST. has
been paid into the treasury except $2,7S6 13,
which is secured, and for which suit is pend
ing The collection of these taxes has been
made in the face of the greatest obstacles by
reckless violators of the law.
It is claimed that the reduction of appropria-
| tons was made in spite of the most vehement
and determined resistance of the administra-
| ton. This is not true The amount estimated
by the Treasury Department TO Congress for
the ordinary expenses Of the fiscal year 1879
was $138, 107, 648T, while the actual appropri-
atoms made by Congress were $146 304 800 q,
or So, 1876, $50 a in excess of the sum estimated
| And so, for the ordinary expenses OF the Gov
eminent, the estimates presented to Congress
for the fiscal year ending June 80 1880, amount
ed to $129, 1877, 812 IS. while the appropriations
made by Congress for the ordinary expenses OF
the Government for that year amount to $162,-
| 404, 647 76-shOwlng an excess of appropria-
tions over estimates Of $32 2O6, S35. 0S. do
not mention these appropriations as matter
of complaint, for recognize thatit is the proper
business of Congress to declare the purposes
for which the public money is to be expended
but I do call the attention of the people
of Ohio to the fact that while the Democratic
party started out very well four years ago, on
the side of economy, it did not hold out very
well on that line; for this year it appropriated
1872, 100000 more than asked for by the execu-
tive departments. 1t has reduced the tax on
tobacco, the least burdensome of all taxes,
more than 49, 0OO,OOO, while not reducing the
price of plug to the consumers cent It has
spent the sinking fund specially set aside to re-
duce the public debt, and also fund of So, 600,
GOO specifically set aside by law to redeem the
fractional currency. If this is specimen OF
the economy they will inaugurate when they
have the control of all branches of the Govern
ment, with war claims and Mississippi levees,
with dry brooks wanting water and harbore
| without commerce, all demanding appropria-
tons, can only say, God save the Treasury
Department.; would not like the task of ad-
| ministering it,
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION
lhave thus far, fellow-citizens, confined my
self to financial topics, most of them of tenn
porary character, which will be settled in the
ordinary course of administration, and, which
ever way settled, will not affect the peace and
order of society But there is question in
fihtely more important than money or bonds or
property or silver or gold
Several of the Southern States recently in re-
bellion, aided and encouraged by the Demo-
| cratic party have nul'ified for the time in part
or in whole, the constitutional amendments
passed since the civil war. and intended to Sc
cure it's results. 1t is true that the Thirteenth
amendment which abolished slavery, is nomi-
nally respected, but in the great body of the
cotton States the coored people are still in a
condi ion little above the slaves The Fourteenth
amendment which was inter ded to define the
rights of citizens, and to secure the freedmen
in these general rights, is substantially multi
fed The Fifteenth amendment, which was
intended to secure to the freedmen the right,
as citizens of the United States. to vote, is
practically nulifed The latter amendment
especially has been overridden by force and
violence, and by crimes so revolving as to indi-
cate civilization scarcely above barbarism.
In communities where the colored people are
in the majority they have not only been de-
| prived of the elective franchise, by force and
violence, but driven to the swamps, terrorized
and bulldozed And where this was imprs cti-