Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-09-23
Now tell me as to
THE APPROPRIATIONS

THE APPROPRIATIONS
For the current fiscal year ending June
80. 1887. The Ohio Republican platform
charges that you have been grossly ex
travagant here, and have even exceed
ed the great revenues of the Govern
ment."
Mr.. Carlisle laughed joyously. {"
can tell you all about that" he said
"with absolute exactness. / have be
fore me chart which shows every steI
taken in the appropriations of the pre-
sent Congress, and which never left my
desk during the last session. To make
this perfectly plain will state it il
this way: The ten great appropriation
bills which provide for the annual sup
port of the Government-we have othel
permanent and extraordinary appro
priations also-are the Agricultural, thu
Army, the District of Columbia, tn,
Navy, the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial, the Military Academy, thu
Post-office and the Sunday Civil. There
was appropriated by these bills for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1886, thu
sum of Sl52, 400, ,779 Is, while the appro
priation made by the last session q
1
same purposes for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1887, was $l46, ,004, ,5S3 A, ol
Sc, 1856, 1876 Hless than for the preceding
year. That is the fact don't know
what comment you want to make on
il. Instead of the appropriation being
larger it is
SIX AND A HALF MILLIONS LESS.
"There is an annual increase in the
amount appropriated for the Post-offict
Department, on account of the cOntinu.
ed extension and growth of the Posta
Service. The appropriation made al
the last session for that purpose was
$54, 1865, 1858 25. For the preceding veal
it was $50, 200, $3.50; for the year preced.
ing that $40, ,040, 400; and for the year
preceding that-which was the fiscaI
year 18S3-4-it was $44, ,499, $50. The
Post-office Department is doing WE'LL
The new contracts for supplies, Stal
Routes, &C., are considerably lower
than formerly, and have cut down the
expenditures wonderfully. twill thus
be seen that the increase in the expen'
ditures on account ofthe Postal Service
from the year 1884 to the year 1885 was
81, $40, $3.50, and from 1885 to 1885, S4,.
$50, $50, while from 1886 to 1887, which
is the current fiscal year, the increase is
only 1864, 1878. The vast difference you
see-&, 100000 less than the increase
before under Republican Administra,
ton.
"But the most entertaining feature
in this Republican charge of extrava.
gance," continued Mr.. Carlisle, twill
become visible when you contemplate
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN SENATE DID,
AS compared with the action of the
| Democratic House. The appropria-
ton bills as they passed the House of
Representatives at the recent session,
including Notifications, pensions and
rivers and harbors, amounted to $247,-
400, ,554. But the same bills as amend
ed and passed in the Republican Senate
appropriated $3.50, 1888, $50, being an in
crease of $13 1854, ,5l4. The House refus-
ed to concur in most of these amend
ments, and the bills, as finally passed
by both Houses, after a protracted
struggle in conference committees, ap-
propriated only about $3,000,000 in
excess of the original amounts proposed
in the House. You see if we had agreed
to the amendments of the Republican
Senate we would have had 5000, 900
more than we have got now"
"How about the statement of the
Ohio Republican platform that the
APPROPRIATIONS WERE IN EXCESS OF
THE REvENUE?"
II do not like to speak unkindly
even of my political opponents, and
will simply say that they were suffer-
ing from sad delusion." Then he
gathered himself together and put
several extra hundred weight on the
safety valve, so that the escape"
should be gentle and not the least noisy.
II can safely say" he resumed, after
his effort, "that it is almost absolutely
certain that the revenues for the cur
rent fiscal year will exceed the expendi-
lures, including payment of interest
upon the public debt and SAT 900, 900 or
$48, 900, 900 upon the principal as sink
ing fund, by at least $50, 900, 900 or $685.
100000. 1t will be good deal more, T
think, but that is a good deal, and is
not deficiency by any means. The
fact is that while the expenditures are
being decreased the revenues of the
Government are being constantly in
creased. Every week is better than it
was BEFORE"
Just at this point Mr.. Carlisle leaned
back in his chair and said, by way of
parenthesis, as if the thought had just
flashed upon him: "By the way, here
are some facts upon
THE PENSION BUSINESS
Which may be new to you-they GER
tainly were unknown to me until Mr..
Spoford, the Congressional Librarian,
called my attention to them. They
have always been fighting in Europe.
They have had great many wars
there. We have had but one war to
which we are paying pensions. Yet
we are paying to-day for pensions fully
one-third more than all the other civil
lied nations of the earth are paying
Our payment of pensions to soldiers and
sailors this year will be $76, 100000,
while the aggregate payment of all the
other nations of the world combined is