The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-07-21
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY
ElOquently Set Forth BY Speaker Carlisle.

oloquouiJ ocs Aoltn W nP0naOA Wi -SAN'
Large Savings Made by the Democrats
i'm All Branches of the Public Service
Efforts mt Reduction ChOiked by an Ex'
travasant Republican Senate-HeaIthy
Condition OF she Revenues-Immense
Land Tracts Reclaimed.
The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes an inter
view with Mr.. Carlisle, in which the Speaker
refutes the charge of extravaganza and other
accusations made against the Democratic
Administration and House of Representatives
in the Ohio Republican platform. The fol-
lowing are the most interesting of the facts SCI
forth by Mr.. Carlisle:
THE FIRST YEAR OF DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.
"During the fiscal year ending June go
l8S6-and that is the only entire fiscal yeai
which has elapsed since the Inauguration oil
the present Administration-the ordinary ex-
penditures of the Government were reduced
S25, $3.50, 1856 below those of the preceding year.
There were, however, some extraordinary
expenditures, to wit, in the payment of pen
sions to Union Soldiers. That increase, oveI
the amount expended for the same purpose
the previous year, was 1892, 500. So you
will see that, notwithstanding this increase,
the net saving, as compared with the last year
of Republican Administration, was Sl7.743,'
796-quite goodly sum-
WHERE THE SAVINGS WERE MADE.
'We saved in the diplomatic and consular
Service, 81, 107 ,2SS; in expenditures in the
Treasury Department, So, $50, 359. 80; in the
Judiciary Department, 1886, 002. 18; in civil
expenses in the Interior Department, 1878
041. 80; in the War Department, S., 346, ABS. 49,
in the Navy Department, 81, 1913; in
the Indian service, S453, 1886. 46; in the customs
service, that is, in collecting customs reve.
nues, So, $50, 1861, and in the Internal Rev.
enue service, S437 ,303.31. There was another
reduction which, perhaps, ought not to be
credited to the Administration, but it was q
reduction none the less, and that was in in.
terest upon the public debt through payment
of the principal. That saving for the yeal
in question was 1906, no."
INCREASED PAYMENT OF PENSIONS.
''Under the administration of the present
Democratic Commissioner of Pensions the
expenditures on that account were, as before
stated. ST, 1902, 1864 in excess of the expen
ditures for the same purpose during the pre-
ceding fiscal year. This resulted from the
fact that there was larger number of claims
adiudicated and allowed during that year than
in any preceding year, although the Commits
sioner had $50 clerks less in his office than
his neutrality-suspicious., Dudley. We cut
off $50 clerks"
DECREASED APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE
CURRENT YEAR.
"The ten great appropriation bills which
provide for the annual support of the Govern
ment-we have other permanent and extraor
binary appropriations also-are the Agricul
tural, the Army, the District of Columbia, The
Navy, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial
the Military Academy, the Post Office anc
the Sundry Civil. There was appropriated
by these bills for the fiscal year ending june
80, 1886, the sum of 1852, 400, 779.lS, 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 SAG, 004, 1894, or Sc, 486, 1876. A
less than for the preceding year. Instead Of
the appropriation being larger, it is six and a
half millions less. The increase in the ex-
penditures on account of the postal service
from the year 1884 to the year 1885 was 81,
$40, $50, and from 1886 to 1886 $4,000, 500
while from 1856 to 1887, which is the cur.
rent fiscal year, the increase is only 1864, 1913
The vast difference you see-S4 900, 600 less
than the increase before under Republican
administration
REPUBLICAN, SENATORIAL ExrRAyAGANCE.
''The appropriation bills as they passed
the House of Representatives at the recen
session, including Notifications, Pensions anG
Rivers and Harbors, amounted to $247, 400,
554. But the same bills as amended and
passed in the Republican Senate appropriated
$3.50, 1888 $50, being an increase of $13, 1854,
514. The House refused to concur in mos
of these amendments, and the bills, as finally
passed by both houses, after protracted
struggle in conference committees, appropri
ated only about 100000 in excess of the
original amounts proposed in the House
Toq see if We had agreed to the amendment.
Of the Republican Senate we would have haf
100000 900 more than We have got now.
NO DEFICIENCY THIS YEAR.
81 can safely say that it is almost absolutely
certain that the revenues for the current ifs
cal year will exceed the expenditures, includ
ing payment of interest upon the public deb
and S47 ,OO0, 900 or $48, 600, 900 upon the prin
cipal as sinking fund by at least $50, 000, 00(
orSS5, 100000. 1t will be good deal more
think, but that is good deal, and is not {
deficiency by any means. The fact is tina
while the expenditures are being deGreaseg
the revenues Of the government are heins
constantly INCREASED, Every week is bette
than it was beforei every month is better thai
it was before.
RECLAIMING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Since the beginning of the Forty-eightl
Congress laws have been passed forfeiting anC
restoring to the public domain so, 49,, 24I
acres of land previously granted to railroad
companies and to States for railroad purposes
in some few cases. All the acts providing fo
the forfeitures of these lands provide express
ly that they shall be restored to the public
domain and shall be held for the benefit o
actual settlers only under the Homestead
law. The territory embraced by these for
FIXTURES is 1888 square miles-more thai
twice as large as the State of Kentucky. Ii
addition to this the Democratic House O
Representatives. at the last session passed bill
forfeiting 3,S4a,094 acres, which the eenat,
has not yet concurred in. There are also OF
the calendar of the House, with favorable re
ports from committees, bills FORGETTING 13, 087,
PA acres more, which win be passed at tn
next session. The area covered by all thos
bills is 159, 40S square miles and most of
pretty good land.
REyEgUE REDUCTION INEVITABLE.
"Tbera is now only about Sl40, OO0, 900 O
the public debt which the Government has I
right to pay at its face, and nearly all tn
bonds representing this indebtedness are he'll
by the National banks. In less Than tsl
years this indebtedness will be fully discharg
ed, and no other bonds mature until 1891
when $3.50, 100000 of ~ per cents. will b
payable. During the interval between tn
payment of the per cents. now outstanding
and the maturity of the AZ per cents, unles
the revenue is reduced or is used to purchas
the obligations of the Government at q higl
premium, an enormous surplus must aecumu
late in the Treasury such an amount as wouli
paralyze the business of the country il hoard
ed and left out Of the channels Of trade.
am very strongly of the opinion, therefore
that when the debt which is now payable ha
been fully discharged, not before that time
the people Of the country will demand re
duction OF the revenue. The reduction vii
come upon the tariff. and not upon interna
revenue, for it is plain to my mind that nj
political party of this country can afford t
take the position that whiskey and tobacco
and beer shall be free while tax remain
upon the peoples clothing and implement
of trade. People won't stand it.