The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-22
Sound Views of Carlisle.
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY ELooUENTLY SET
FORTH BY THE SPEAKER.

Tie Cincinnati Enquirer publishes an
interview with NJ Carlisle, in which
the Speaker refutes the charges of ex-
travagance and other accusations made
against the Democratic Administration
and House of Representatives in the
Ohio Republican platform. The follow
ing are the mos interesting Of the facts
set forth BY Mr.. Carlisle:
TIL FIRST YEAR OF DEMOCRATIC EC0No-
MY.
During the fiscal year ending June
50, lSs6-and that is the only entire
fiscal year which has elapsed since the
Inauguration of the present Admins
tration-the ordinary expenditures of
the government were reduced SO, $780,
7e5 below those of the preceding year.
There were, however, some extraordI-
nary expenditures, to-wit, in the pay
nent OF pensions to Union soldiers
That increase, over the amount ex-
pended for the same purpose the pre-
vious year, was s., 800, 500. So you viii
zee that Notwithstanding this increase,
the net saving, as compared with the
last year of Republican Administration,
was Sl1 ,143, 796-quite goodly sum-
WHERE THE SAVINGS WERE MADE.
ave saved in the diplomatic and
consular service, 81, 10Y ,2SS; in expendi
lures in the Treasury Department, 49,
530, 359 80; in the Judiciary Department,
S636, 002lS; in civil expenses in the
Interior Department, 81, 673, 04L92; in
the War Department, SS,346, 1878; in
the Navy Department, $2,ll3, 1873; in
the Indian service, S453, 336 46; in the
customs service, that is, in collecting
customs revenues, $2,960, 1861, and in
the Internal Revenue service, S437 1903
81. There was another reduction, which,
perhaps, ought not to be credited to the
Administration, but il was a reduction
none the less, and that was in interest
upon the public debt through payment
of the principal. That saving for the
year in question was $500, 10"
INCREASED PAYMENT OF PENSIONS.
.'Under the administration of the
present Democratic Commissioner of
a
count were, as before stated, 81, 302,
1864 in excess of the expenditures for
the same purpose during the preceding
fiscal year. This resulted from the fact
that there was larger number of claims
adjudicated and allowed during that
year than in any preceding year, al
though the Commissioner had $50 clerks
less in his office than his Republican
predecessor, Dudley. We cut off 100
clerks"
DECREASED APPROPRIATIONS Foh THE
CURRENT YEAR.
THE ten great appropriation bills
which provide for the annual support of
the Conveniently have other perma
nent and extraordinary appropriations
also-are the Agricultural, the Army,
the District of Columbia, the Navy, the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial, the
Military Academy, the Post-Otice and
the Sundry Civil. There was appropri-
ated by these bills for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1886, the sum of 1852
400, 779.1S, while the appropriation made
by the last session of Congress on the
same bills and for the same purposes for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1887, was
$146, 004, 5S3.44, or $6,4S6, 1854 less
than for the precedingyear. Instead of the
appropriation being larger, it is six and
half millions less. The increase in the
expenditures on account of the postal
service from the year 1884 20 the year
1885 was "a $40, $50, and from 1885 to
1886 $4,660, $50, while from 1856 to
1887, which is the currant fiscal year,
the increase is only $664, 873. The vast
difference you see-S4 600, 900 less than
the increase before under Republican
administration"
REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL EXTR4vA-
GANcE.
The appropriation bills as they passed
the House of Representatives at the
recent session, including Fortiications,
Pensions and Rivers and Harbors,
amounted to S247 ,490, 554. But the same
bills as amended and passed in the Re
publican Senate appropriated 500, $685.
$50, being an increase of $l3, 564, 5l4,
The House refused to concur in moss Of
these amendments, and the bills, as
finally passed by both houses, after a
protraeted struggle in conference com
mlttees, appropriated only about SO, 000,-
900 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
$10,000,000 more than We have got
now"