The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-08
EXPENSES OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

Let us take the expenditures OF the white
house alone. During the last four years of
Democratic rule the total expenditures OF
the executive mansion were $50, 700, while
during the last twelve years of Republican
rule they have been $l1G,064 The salaries
of employees in the executive mansion dur
ing the last four years of Democratic rule
were $23, 1G5, while in the last twelve years
Of Republican rule they aggregated $685.
S4S. Here we find 'ushers," q single item
of 1922 900, which knew no existence I'M
der Democratic rule. Added to these we
find an Item of S1s,440 for policemen or
livered servants aping the habits and airs
of monarchial courts. The salaries of the
officers in the executive mansion, the last
four years of Democratic rule, were Sis.
1875, while for the last twelve years of Re-
publican rule they have aggregated $780,
2O0 The contingent expenses included in
this item under four years of Democracy
were $685. while under twelve years Of
Republican rule they reached S25,5O0, or
nearly thousand per cent. of increase.
The subject recapitulated shows that four
years Of Democratic rule cost in the white
house gees, 900, while twelve years of Re-
publican rule sweled the expense to ST.
404,ll225.
RECKLESS sQuANDERISG OF THE PUBLIC DO
MAIN.
The Republican party has wasted the
public domain, donating it to corporations
by statutes enacted through bribery and
corruption in very many instances; and we
have very fair sample Of it In the history
of the Credit Mobilier, affecting the Re
publican partys candidate for president.
How was the territory of the United States
acquired, and under whose admins tration
did the government and people take pos
session of this magnificent domain The
original area Of the United States was
S27,S44 square miles, or j29,S20, 100 acres.
There were acquired from France, by the
purchase of Louisiana through Thomas
Jefferson under a Democratic admlnistra-
ton, l,l73,0S7 square miles, or 750,775,-
$50 acres from Spain by the cession of Flor
ida in 1919, under the Democratic admin
istration Of James Monroe, Gs,9l2 square
miles, ORA, 1885 acres; by the annexation
of Texas in 1916, under the Democratic
administration of Mr. Polk, 2G4. $50 square
miles, or 1885,, $40 acres from Mexico
by the treaty of1s4s, under the Democratic
administration Of Mr.. Polk, 63G,769 square
miles, or 407, 400 acres; from Mexico
the Gadsden purchase in 1853, under the
Democratic administration of Mr.. Pierce,
4j,595 square miles, or 29,l42,400 acres;
while the Alaska purchase under the ad-
minlstration Of Andrew johnson, contain
ing 577,300 square miles, or 3G9, j29, 900
acres, comprises all the territory added to
our neutrality-suspicious. under Republican
rule There were thus acquired by Dem
ocratic administrations 2,10s,650 square
miles, or l4,07O, 10000 acres, while the
administration Of Andrew johnson ac-
CURED Alaska, with its icy mountains and
its cold, bleak hills containing $40, 529, 600
acres,
Of these lands there have been patent.
ed and granted to States and corporation:
for railroads and military wagon road:
under Republican administrations, from
1862 to 1875, total in actual value Of
SlG9,274,0 GG,62 by the estimate placed up.
on them by the government itself.
PRIVATE CLAlMs,
Republican expenditure is demonstrated,
too by the acts of the last Republican con.
gress, In the much mooted subject Of private
claims the Forty.second and Forty-third
congresses, both of which were Republl.
can in both branches, with a Republican
president, the sum total of private claims
passed was $2,2S7, 05l.16, while in the
succeeding congresses, none of which were
Democratic except in the lower branch
the total amount Of private claims passed
was but $536,7l097,
A GIFT-DECLlNED