The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-30


have given one with small per cent OF
| loss But as long az it continues true that the
aggregate losses OF the nation I'm twenty-five
years. as stated by our adversaries, is less than
one-third rs much as was stolen from the city
OF New York in three years by Democratic
ring. the Republican party will still insist that
the turning out of Republicans and the putting
| In Of Democrats is not necessarily or even
probably, an elevation OF the st tndard of official
integrity. The indianapolis Sentinel, on the
18th day of January, 1885, said OF the mon who
were receiving Official recognition from the
party in Indiana;
| with due respect, we would suggest TO the
powers ut Washington, and all others concern
| ed therein. that the time has fully come when
halt should be called in the business OF APP
pointing unworthy characters to Office in this
\ State.
I'm our opinion, the seeming attempt to rival
the Republican party in making and main
| tanning bad appointments to office is unwor-
thy ambition, and the sooner it is abandoned
the better
"The honest Democratic masses OF the State
have already been sufficiently humiliated-the
| grand Old party of the people damaged quite
enough, surely, for u halt,
| with becoming modesty, we would venture
| to suggest TO the forces inspiring and control
| ling appointments here that there is no lack OF
| honest. competent Democrats in our State. In
view of this fact we confess TO our inability to
make out any sufficient reason for the selection
| and appointment OF thieves, highwaymen, brib-
ers, dead-beats, and the like. Give honest COM
petent Democrats II chance"
| do not believe that any honest candid DEM
| ocrat in Marion County would say that man
| for man, or in the aggregate, the changes in the
/ official list here have resulted in securing
| higher standard of intelligence or integrity.
do not believe that there is one such who will
| say that the public is better served. 1 know
| that many are saying that in one great depart
| ment the service Is eXecrable.
Next in the schedule OF Democratic COM
plants was the charge of extravaganza. They
pledged themselves to reduce expenses and to
| inaugurate an era OF economy aud simplicity.
! In the course of the speech from which have
| quoted, Mr.. Hendricks said
4 7 laxr tla
| ceipts and expenditures aggregated sum so
| enormous that 1 find myself unable TO express
| them in words or figures within ordinary COM
prehension. / will take, for illustration, the
year ending June 80, 1888. The receipts into
| the Treasury above 1895, 900 900, and the
| ordinary expenditures above S265, 900, 000
No doubt Mr.. Hendricks believed that the
pledge OF economy made by him TO the people
| of Indiana would be redeemed by the admins
| tration of which he was to become an honor
| able but not an active or influential part At
the beginning of every session of Congress a
| book OF estimates is submitted by the Treas
| ury Department, showing the amount which,
in the opinion of the heads of departments,
| it will be necessary TO appropriate in order
to conduct the public business for the
the year ending June 80, 1885,, sub
mitted by Secretary Manning showed the total
appropriations asked for by tho administration
20 be SiO6, 5S3, i4724. But Congress did not give
| all that was asked. Instead of appropriating
s4O6, 1000, as it was requested TO do by this re-
form administration, it appropriated 1888, 3d.
| which so excited the criticism, and even the sus-
picion, of Mr.. Hendricks in the expenditures for
1888. Senator Allison, Of Iowa, who has been for
many years the Chairman of the Senate Conn
| mittee on Appropriations and whose accurate
| knowledge of such matters is known 10 all his
| associates, in a recent speech said
| Appropriations Of public money are not n sure
index TO the public expenditures. II they were,
! n comparison of the last few years would make
| most favorable showing for the Republican
party. The total annual appropriations for 1888 4
| were, in round numbers e232 OO0,OOO; for 1915,
S25 900 900; for IS 80, S2l9 10000; and by the
| Congress just adjourned, for the current year,
sos. 900 900, in round numbers. So that
the appropriations for this year are 0000,0 600
more than the highest sums appropriated
| by the Government for ordinary opera
tions of the Government during the last four
| years, and S45.O 900 more than the appropria-
tons made for the last fiscal year 1t has been
stated that the ordinary expenditures OF the last
fiscal year were, in round numbers SIS, 600, COZ
less than they were for the fiscal year ending
| June 20, 1885. This is true, but is easily ac-
| counted for by few items Of expenditure of an
| extraordinary character made in 1885, and en-
tirely omitted from the expenditures of last
year. OF this sum, 100000 was expended for
rivers and harbors, there being no appropriation
for rivers and harbors last year 81, 200 900 for
| the repayment of deposits made by individuals
| for surveying public lands S3,s0J000 for Ala
| bama claims judgments Si500,0O0 on account
| of the sinking fund TO the Pacific railroads !;
| Sl0)0,0)0 TO the New Orleans Exposition; and
81, 100000 on account OF repayment TO importers
So that, of this Sl9,5OOO0O, no portion of it can
| be credited to economies introduced by the new
administration into the public service. The ex-
penditures for every purpose for 1885, including
the items have named, and including indefinite
and permanent appropriations and the sinking
fund, amount to 1851, 900, O0J in round numbers
| whilst the expenditures of 1886 of
every kind, including the sinking fund,
l,amount TO Sl3OCoO,o)0 in round numbers
or reduction Of gu 100000, which have al
ready accounted for, except 81, 900 which was
a reduction OF the amount OF the sinking fund
for 1886, as compared with the amount OF that
fund in 1885. This is the state of the account
comparing the last year of President Arthurs
administration with the first year OF Mr.. Glove
lands administration.
The appropriations for this year are s54, O00-
0CO in excess of the expenditures Of the last
year This in brief, is the net result of the ex-
pertinent OF an economical Democratic admin
stration OF public expenditures as disclosed by
eighteen months experience, S3i 100000 more
than was expended in 1885 and S54, 100000 more
than was expended in 1886. make this COM
parison, not for the purpose of showing that
this administration has been guilty Of protligate
| and was.eful expenditure OF public money, nor
for the purpose OF showing that their eXtraor-
binary demands made upon Congress for in
creased appropriations this year were intended
70 put in their hands public money to be used
for improper and wasteful purposes, but more
to show either the ignorance or malignity with
which they pursued the Republican party
through all the years OF the past, with refer
ence to its methods of expanding the public
money.
But il may be said that this increase of APP
preparations is in part accounted for by the
river and harbor bill, and by the increase in
pension appropriations, but If bcth of these
items deducted, the appropriations this
year for the expenses OF the Government are
$4,000 600 in excess of the appropriations for
last year. table showing the items of in
crease and decrease was presented by Senator
Allison to the Senate, and give it here.
Title OF bill 1886. from 1886.
agricultural. $500. S6o,925.O ............
Army.".......;.... ............ 2Ge,995. %
Diplomatic and con-