Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-09-16
sPEsEER CARLISLE sPEahs.
On the Success That Has Attended the Demo
cratic Administration.

On the Success That Has Attended the Demo
cratic Administration.
In an interview with a representative OF
ths Cincinnati Enquirer, Speaker Carlisle
controverts the assertion of the Ohio Re-
publican platform that the Cleveland ad-
ministration had failed to keep the Demo
cratic promises of retrenchment and econ
omy, and that the appropriations made by
Congress and approved by the president
for the present year we're in excess OF the
revenues of the government. During the
ical year ended June 30, lSS6, the ordinary
expenditures were brought S2j, ,63U,IS5 under
those OF the preceding year. IT the increase
in lsS6 of q ,3O2, jb in tho amount paid for
pensions be deducted, there still remains a
saving of els, ,S2S ls9 to the credit of tho first
year of Democratic administration. of this
saving 81, lO1, 2sS was IN the diplomatic and
consular service. ., ,JJ0,3j9 in the treasury
department, S635,O02 in the judiciary de
partment, sl,673,0il in the war department,
3, ll3, l9l in the navy department, sij3, 1876
in the Indian service, $3.50, 10 in collecting
the customs revenues, and 1905 in the
internal revenue service. There was, be-
sides, reduction in the outgo for interest on
the public debt of $500 IIO. As many as 80
clerks were dropped from the payroll OF the
pension bureau, but those that were LETT,
working more industrIously, adjudicated
more claims than in any previous year, with
the effect of increasing the annual payment
for pensions, before stated, by &, ,302, 5g.
Incidentally Mr.. Carlisle calls attention
to the TACT that the United States,
whose wars are rare occurrences are
paying this year for pensions $40, $50, 600,
while all other civilized nations taken to-
gether pay less than $50, 100000. The ten
great appropriation bills, which provide for
the support OF the government, aggregate
for 1857, six and a-halt millions less than the
same bills called tor in the previous year.
The total OF appropriation bills, as passed by
the House at its last session, was S2iI 100, 5di,
This amount the Republican Senate Increased
by sl3,56i,jl3. As finally passed by both
Houses the total was about S4JUOU0,Ou0. AS
respects the revenue also, the facts are
against the Ohio Republican platform. II il
next 10 certain, says the speaker, that the
revenues OF the current fiscal year will
exceed the expenditures, including interest
ON the pullc debt and SiS,OUO,UOO added to
the sinking fund, 10y at least S}j 600, OOO.
since 1865 Congress has Appropriated for the
construction, repair, armament and equip
ment oi vessels tor the navy s75, 600, 900, an
amount sufficient to have given US a respect
|, able navy OF hfstclasS vessels. But about
NO,OO0,0OO of that sum was wasted, aud we
have no navy The present administration is
now AT work on the problem OF repairing the
denciency. Since the beginning of the Forty
eighth Congress, 80, is3,2i0 acres OF public
land granted to railroad com panies have been
restored to the public domain, an area twice
as large as the state of Kentucky. There Is a
prospect, Mr.. Carlisle thinks, that the Dem
oSiauC party VIII becotit SUBSTANTIALLY united
on the tariii question. When all outstandin
three per cents. shall have been redeemed-
That Is, IN less than two yeaTs-there Will be
| no other bonds redeemable at the pleasure OF
! the government until ls9l, when ESQ 600, 600
| OF AZ per cents. will mature. Between iSSs
and 1891 the business of the country would
| DO paralyzed by the enormous surplus that
must accumulate in the treasury unless tue
governments income be diminished by a in,
| dclous revision OF the taIiiL Rather than
| buy the bonds maturing in lsgl at high pre-
miums, or permit great volume OF the eur.
rency of the country 10 be shut az .iessly
in the treasury, the people Will lHs. 51n
reduction Of the tax burden. That re-. lion
Mr.. Carlisle Is confident when made, vii
be made not on whisky and tobacco, bu
upon the peoples clolhing aud Implement,
of trade