Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-09-22


AUGUSTA COUNTY.
SPEAKER CARLISLE ON THE DEMOCRATIC
ADM1NIsTRATIoN.-In an interview with
representative of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
Speaker Carlisle controverts the assertion
of the Ohio republican platform that the
Cleveland administration had failed to keep
the democratic promises of retrenchment
and economy, and that the appropriations
made by Congress and approved by the
President for the present year were IN ex-
cess of the revenues of the government
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1856,
the ordinary expenditures were brought
$25, $40, 1856 under those of the preceding
year. If the increase in 1886 of 81, BOZ, 596
in the amount paid for pensions be deduct
ed, there still remains saving of SIS. 1885,
1879 to the credit of the first year of demo-
cratic administration. Of this saving ST.
107, 1888 was in the diplomatic and consular
service, So, $50, 359 in the Treasury Dep art
ment, $636,0O3 in the Judiciary Depart
ment, $1,674, O41 in the Interior Depart
ment $685., 425 in the War Department,
$2,1l3, 19l in the Navy Department, $685.
1886 in the Indian service, $3.50, 726 in col
lecting the customs revenues, and $437 1903
in the internal revenue service. There was,
besides, reduction in the outgo for inter-
est on the public debt of $806,1 As
many as $50 clerks were dropped from the
payroll of the pension bureau, but those
that were left, working more Industrious
ly, adjudicated more claims than in any pre-
vious year, with the effect of increasing the
annual payment for pensions, as before
stated, by 81 1902, 596. Incidently MIR. Car
Isle calls attention to the fact that the
United States, whose wars are rare occur
rences, are paying this year for pensions
$40, 750, 900, while all other civilized nations
taken together pay less than 100000, 900.
The ten great appropriation bills, which
provide for the support of the government,
aggregate for 1887 six and a-half millions
less than the same bills called for in the
previous year. The total of appropriation
bills, as passed by the House at its last ses-
sion, was $247, 490,554. This amount the
republican Senate increased by $13, 564, 5s4
AS finally passed by both houses the total
was about $3.50, 100000. AS respects the
revenue also, the facts are against the Ohio
republican platform. 1t is next to certain
says the Speaker, that the revenues of the
current fiscal year will exceed the expendi-
lures including interest on the public debt
and $3S, 100000 added to the sinking fund,
by at least $50, 10000 Since 1868 Con-
gress has appropriated for the construction,
repair, armament and equipment of vessels
for the navy $75,000,000, an amount suff-
Gent to have given us respectable navy OF
frst-class vessels. But about $40, 900, 600
of that sum was wanted, and we have no
navy. The present administration is now
at work on the problem of repairing the
deficiency. Since the beginning of the
Forty-eighth Congress so, 1882, 240 acres of
public land granted to railroad companies
have been restored to the public domain,
an area twice as large as the State of Ken
lucky. There is a prospect, Mr. Carlisle
come substantially united on the tariff cues
tion. When all the outstanding per cents
shall have been redeemed is, in less
than two years-there will be no other bonds
redeemable at the pleasure of the govern
ment untsl 1891, when $3.50, 600 of a
per cents will mature. Between 1888 and
1891 the business of the country would be
paralzed by the enormous surplus that
must accumulate in the treasury unless the
governments income be diminished by a
judicious revision of the tariff. Rather
than buy the bonds maturing in 1891 at
high premiums, or permit a great volume
of the currency of the country to be shut
up uselessly in the treasury, the people will
insist upon reduction of the tax burden
The reduction, Mr.. Carlisle is confident,
when made, will be made not on whisky
and tobacco, but upon the people, clothing
and implements of trade.
GREENBRIER lNDEPENDENT.-Mr. Geo.
T. Argabrite, who has been associated with
Col B. F. Harlow for number of years in
the publication of the Greenbrier Independ-
ent has withdrawn, leaving COL Harlow as
the sole editor and proprietor. We are sor-
ry to lose Mr.. Argabrite from the frater-
nifty, and hope that he will engage in a
business more lucrative than that of
publishing a newspaper. The Independ-
ent is one of the best papers published in
West Va, and such it will continue to be
under the control of the veteran editor, Col.
B. F. Harlow.
A COOP NoMINATIoN.-The democrats
of the Norfolk district have nominated Col.
Marshall Parks for Congress. This is an
excellent nomination. Col. Parks is gen.
tleman of intelligence and indomitable en-
ergy, and has done much towards building
mp Norfolk and developing the country &C.
:jacent thereto. He would make an excel
lent representative in Congress. Col
Parks possesses great personal popularity,
and it is thought he stands an excellent
chance of election, despite the strong repub-
lican majority which comfronts him.
a CHILD KILLED-The Shenandoah Val
ley says that on Tuesday of last week, ga
little six year-old son (William Miller of
Mr.. William Burkett, of Forestville, Va,
was killed. 1t seems he concluded, as an
opportunity presented itself, to 60 to Mt.
Jackson, Va, to see his father who is clerk
o. H.