The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-04-05

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preparation Tor tho pss.tal .~rvirr should MT
10 chars-,i against the Congress passing IN.
bill. and it in-luus,s- that ~ may have sur
pr---.d sor'v or afty Millions In each Pc,
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give Tho Republican House duo cre,il,
s'ar routs service of ita eS,ravagpn, meth
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contemporary that We have No, been 40
wicked In giving tho ne, sum appropriated
from the Treasury. instead ~ Oh. nominal
appropriation that includes tho money
coming out Of tho postal revenues. W. ara
only following the example Of the Division
OF Warrants Estimates AMI Appropriations
In the Treasury Department. We thought
everybody knew tina. the partisan political
nlmanacs we're not tin, final authority ON
Government bookkeeping.
We cannot undertake TO follow the Sua.
cuse Journal through the intricacies Of its
computations. Perhaps 1t may be- induced
to revise them II we remark in n general
way that It's figures arc the almanac figures.
and not the official figures. and that in ma.
nipuating the various items 1t has fallen into
errors which utterly DESTROY the value of its
results. The tangle is homeless. For instance
the journal insists that TO the total for tbe
first session Of tho Democratic Forty-euhth
Congress there should be added tho s66 600.
600 reappropriated from unexpended balances
on the pension account Yet in making up
the total for the second session OF the Repub-
lican Forty-seventh Congress- IL nerlects To
add the $3s, 900 900 reAppropriated that year
in precisely the same way. In short. Dem
ocratic plus Is O good plus, and Republican
minus is a powerful minus. while the Demo-
cratic minus and the Republican plus ara
signs unknown to our esteemed contempo.
rary's algebra.
It Is this matter OF the reappropriated
pension balance. that seems to give most
trouble to our genial Republican friends.
The Boston Journal usually so careful and
accurate falls into the same mistake as ia
made by its Syracuse uamesake. Yet the
matter ia simple enough. The Fortv-seventh
Congress, at its first session. appropriated
SIG. OOo 900 for pensions Including SIG non. OOO
for pension deficiencies. At its second ses.
sion tho same Conrress appronriated
$50, $4,000 more. although there wa,
an unexpended balance OF about s3s ono oO0
which was rciipproprlated. Tho Forty-eIrhth
Congress- found that its pre,iecessor had
gone about s66, 900, 900 ahead OF the actual
needs of the fiscal years for which the Fortv-
seventh Congress was responsible. Tho
Forty-eighth reippropriated this unexpend-
ed balance, and appropriated $40. 900 at
the first session and s6s. 900 900 Mt the second.
Now, in comparing the record of the two
Houses for extravaganza or ECONOMY. It ia
the appropriation. not the expenditure. that
priation ia in excess NJ the exnenditura
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