Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1890-12-11
Farm Eating by Wholesale.

lOA ICopS dJJ IOI 1909: o. iOl
1890, 106. The increase between
1887 and 1888 was S5,OOO,OOO; be.
tween 1888 and 1889, $4,000, 900;
between 1899 and 1890, $4,000, 900,
or for the two years of HarrIson's
administration s27, 100000, an In
crease of about 25 per cent. over the
expense of 1888. This does not IN
clude the expense Of the pension bu-
reau, but is only that Of monsy paid
cut IN pensions.
1t must be remembered, too, that
this great increase under Harrison
has been by loose methods under the
old law. The new law, passed last
summer, did hot 60 into effect in
time to show in the returns for the
fiscal year 1890, ending June 30th.
The results already achieved by the
Harrison administration, increasing
expenses $27, 100000 year, came
through rulings such as those which
put deserters and the dishonorably
discharged on the rolls. The new
law, under which any veteran may
have = pension on making a pauper
affidavit. is working now, however,
and the local Harrison organ Yester-
day made the following confession
concerning it:
ENORMOUS PENSION EXPENDITURES.
Special dispatch to the Globe Democrat.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. ID
Only four and one-half months Of
this fiscal year have passed. Yet
the enormous sum of $4,000, 600
has gone out Of the treasury for
pensions. In other words, the dram
for pensions has been $500, ,00) a day
since the 1st of July. The pension
office is supposed to have quite bal
ance to its credit, having drawn
some millions in advance. Still il Is
certain that there will be an enor-
nous deficit in the pension appro
priation bill. 1t took S106,-
100000 to get through last year.
The business of this year has gone
fer enough to show that there will
be required considerably over $50,
100000. Some think the pension
expenditure will reach Sl75 coo, coo
before the 30th of June. The new
disability law and the pension law:
enacted at the recent session are 60
ing to cost more than was estimated
There are about co., 900 pensionrr:
now. There will be nearly 1,000,0
pensioners when the pending claim:
are adjusted. The apothecaTy't
scales have been thrown aside. L
takes platform scales to do the pen
sion business now. The Democrat
Ic house will have a fit when it come
to pass the pension appropriation
bill for 1892. Certainly not les
than SI75, 100000 will be called TO
then. Experts in such matters fig
ure that the pension payments unde
der existing laws must increas'
steadily year by year until 1900
when they may be expected to fol
off gradually.
This is the Harrison organ, remem
Der. Do you know what half mil
lion a day means? 1t means that l
in 1880 the state of Texas, on tE'
basis of the value of its farms, in
cluding land, fences and building
as given in the census, had been pu
up and sold at auction for its full
census value. it would not have paIC
the pension bill for 1891 by S12,
| 600, coo; while if Nebraska farms
lands, fences and buildings had beer
auctioned off IN the same year, a
the same official valuation, the pro
ceeds would not have paid our pen
sion bill for 1891 by S77,00C, 900
Before the close Of the Harrison ad
mlnistration we will be spending s:
state year for pensions alone, or
the basis of its valuation for farm
and improvements. Blr. Harrison
$27, 100000 increase for 1890 over
1887 amounts to spending as iE'
crease alone all the farms and lm