The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-08

and improper, to support improvident ex-
penditure, is not only blunder in those
who rule, but crime.
WASTE IN ALL THE DEPARTMENTS.
In the war department the regular army
was largely increased, and after the war
the cost of maintaining it, per man, was
greatly augmented. Expenditures during
this decade of Republican rule in that de-
partment were S593, 900, as against the
sum of SlG9, 100000 under Democratic rule
an increase of more than 101 per cent.
In the navy department the most culpa-
bic extravaganza existed. Expenditures
for maintaining the navy for the last de-
cade of Republican rule, prior to 1876,
were $294,OOO,000, as against Sl23,OO0,OoO
for the last Democratic debade-an increase
OF more than 50 per cent
In the interior department the Indian
ring has expended s62,50O,OO0 under Radi-
cal rule, as against $32,OOO,000 expended
during the ten years of Democratic rule;
with fewer Indians to support, and naturally
less expense therefor, an increase Of
S30,O0o,00O, or more than 90 per cent. is
shown.
Civil and miscellaneous expenditures
during these ten years of Radical rule
amounted to $63S,0o0,000, as against but
s247, 100000 expended during the ten years
of Democratic rule--an increase of S30l,-
100000 in ten years, or more than l5S per
cent.
The average per annum for ten years OF
Democratic rule, from June, 1852, to June,
1869, was s57,2S7,22G. The average per
annum of ten years of Radical rule, from
June 80, 1867, to June 80, 1877, was $751;
S07,7l3. The cost per capita for ten years
of Democratic rule was s1S.26, for ten years
of Republican rule, 1906.
EXPENSES INCREASE AFTER THE WAR.
Expenditures seemed to grow greater as
we receded from the war period, and con-
tinued 10 increase until the advent Of a
Democratic house of representatives in 1875.
For instance, the expenditures for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1871, were sl29,l99,-
992, for ordinary purposes, while for the
year ending June 80, 1876, they were 1886,
G00,417, an increase of $13,460,000. The
same items Of expenditures for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1874, were sl65,OS0,-
$40, an increase over 1871 OF Sal ,S40,G3s.
The actual net ordinary expenses, exclu-
slve of the public debt, principal interest,
premiums and pensions, appropriated by
the Forty-third congress, which was Re.
publican, were as follows; In 1875 $l42,-
073,632, in 1876 Sl36,600,417, making a
total of $27S,614,049, while the Forty.
fourth congress, the first Democratic con.
gress, appropriated in 1877, for the same
expenditures, sl1G,24G,211, and in 1875
$lO7, $40, or total of S223, 3Ol, ISL, q
difference of $55,O0O,0O0.
If we compare the Forty second with the
Forty-fifth congress, the former Republican
and the latter Democratic, we find thai
the net ordinary expenses of the govern
ment, exclusive Of the public
debt principal interest, premium:
and pensions, were as follows: In 1875
$153, 1920, in 1874 S165,0S0,570, max
ing a total of $3lS,209,7S0, while the
Forty-ffth congress expesded IN 1915
Sl2G, 49S, ASP, and for the fiscal year ending
June, 1880, $l31 ,994 037, making total Of
S25S, 402, 4S9, or decrease of Sj9,7l7,291
THE FOLDED ROOM.
I o itemze some of these reductions let
US take the expenditures for the cost of
employees and folding in the house of rep
|
resentatives for the Forty second and Forty
third congresses, which were Republican
and the Forty-fourth and Forty
fifth congresses, which were Democratic
The total amount expended for folding
documents in the Forty-second congress
was $237 900. In the the Forty.third con.
gress it was S97, $50. In the Forty.fourtl