The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
COMPARISONS.
The Cost OF the government.

The chief of the warrant division
of the treasury department recently
completed the statement OF the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the gov
ernment for the fiscal year 1882.
The figures in detail haye Just been
verified by the officers of the register
OF the treasury, and they will now
stand on the books of the department
as the official record which will be
transmitted to congress next Decem-
Der in the annual report of the secre-
tary of the treasury. These figures
are embodied in the statement SUBJ
mitted below:
NET REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
| 1882.
Customs. ......................$2 $40 4l0, IS
Internal revenue.... 146, ,497, ,s6545
Sales Of public lands ds............. 4,75s, s,i4O 81
| MisCellaneOus... ..-.........-.... 3l,1U3,6i252
Total. .S4Os, ,525 $50 Is
The customs receipts were over
four millions larger than during any
other year in the history of the gov
ernment. In 1872 they were $2l6,-
SIC, ,286.U. Only twice previous to
1882 were they over two hundred
m lions.
The internal revenue receipts DUR
ing 1882 were larger than during any
year since 1870, when they reached
$184, 1898, ,756.49.
The receipts from the sales OF
public lands were about one million
larger than during any year since
1856, when they amounted TO $8,917,-
644.93.
| Exclusive of the receipts from
premiums on loans and the sales of
| gold coin, which were quite large a
few years ago, the receipts from
miscellaneous sources during the fis.
cal year 1882 were larger than during
any other year in the history of the
| government.
NET ORDINARY EXPENDITURES FOR
THE YEAR 1882.
Civil and miscellaneous. $7 ,219,750 SO
war department. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 43, ,57O, ,49i19
| Navy department ..-.-........ l5,O32 O46 20
Inulsns. ......-.. s,13o, 747 40
| Pensions. .;.............. 6l,S45.l 1913 s5
Total. ...... .S257, ,9S1, ,439 81
A Democratic house of represen-
tatives voted the appropriations for
the six fiscal years, beginning with
1877 and ending with 1882. Your
correspondent has tabulated the Off
cial figures showing the expendi-
lures during those six years, and
comparing them to a similar state
ment covering the SIX preceding
years for which the appropriations
were voted by a Republican house
of representatives. This comparison
has never been made before and the
results will be found interesting and
suggestive and will be found worthy
| of the serious consideration of the
people during the congressional
compaign throughout the country.
For convenience and brevity the
two periods of six years will be CALI
ed the Republican period and the
Democratic period.
In the first place the comparison
shows that while the expenditures
during the Republican period were
81 $50, O,257, ,459.59, they were only
S1.52S 9U9, ,504.20 during the Demo-
rratic period-a difference of $l51,-
347, ,955.39. That is to say the aver
age annual expenditures during the
Democratic period were $25, ,224, ,662-
Sc less than during the Republican
period.
THE EXTRAvAGANCE
of the Republican congresses as
compared to the management of
Democratic congresses is even more
clearly indicated by a comparison of
the details of expenditures.
The civil and miscellaneous ex-
penditures, which include the salar-
les Of the civil list and all such ex-
penditures as those provided for in
the sundry civil bill and private bills,
were $424. 4.951, ,508.53 during the Re-
publican period and 1856, ,377, ,50O.31
during the Democratic period-a
difference of 500 ,574, ,008. 90, or all an
nual average of ST., 1896, ,668.03. This
is a remarkable contrast, the signifi-
canoe ofwhich no one at all acquaint-
ed with public affairs can fail 10 un-
derstand.
The war department expenditures
during the Republican period were
| 1926, 900, 1917, and during the Dem
| ocratic period, 1921, ,816, Ais 44-a
difference of So, ,184 ,373.73 In favor of
the Democrats, in spite of the in
| CIOh6Ou OApCuultuAOo CD III iCOOAb COL o
for internal improvements.
One of the most significant con-
trasts is that noted in the expendl-
lures in the navy department, which
were $135, ,600,6 $3.50 during the Re-
publican period as compared to
$91 ,7O6, ,O66.33 during the Democra-
tic period-a difference of $43,894,-
SOL 27, or an annual average of ST.
315, 1884.
The Indian expenditures were
| $4S,484, ,108.22 during the Republican
period, and $37. .S0S. 1926 during the
Democratic period-a difference of
| Sc, ,175, ,346.06.
1t thus appears that, exclusive of
the pension expenditures and the
interest ON the public debt, the ex-
cess of expenditures during the Re-
publican period over the expendi-
lures made during the Democratic
period was as follows:
| Excess
Civil and miscellaneous. ,514 OO8 22
/ Navy department. -............. 45,ey4 ,5oi "a
/ Indians ...... ................ 6,175,346 .06
|. Total ...... $126, ,s2s, ,279. %
| A COMPARISON