The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-09-06

prove lnslncerlty Ill tnelr cTltlclSDlS OF
lack of judgment in subsequent financial
management. They have increased the
expenditures all along the line except,
in pensions With true Southern chiv.
airy, they have taken care tLat these
shall be reduced. Democratic pretences
of economy are not only punctured but
ripped wide open by the official figures
as presented by Mr.. Cannon, of the
House, who shows that, OF the amount
alleged to have been saved, over $780,
0O0, 10000 were on account Of pensions,
which, Commissioner Lochren has been
able to deprive the veterans Of on &C
count of undue severity in the con-
struction OF the pension laws. He will
show that upon true analysis of the
appropriations the present Congress
really increases the amount appropriat.
ed by $6O,OO0,OOO over that appropriated
by the creed Congress-" which gave
the Democrats so much material for
demagogy during the campaign.
MIR. Cannon says "Mr. Cleveland, by
his estimates, asked Congress to appro.
pirate for the public service for the com.
ing fiscal year, including permanent ap.
propriations, $500, 1862, $40, and Congress
has appropriated for such service $780,
66S, 1863. This, in round numbers, is
$50 ,OO0, 900 less than the President asked
for the public service. A large part Of
this $30,OOO,OO0, however, will be ap-
propriated next winter by way of defic-
iencies. A comparative statement of
appropriations made at this Congress
for the fiscal year ending Jnne, 80, next,
with appropriations made at the first
and second sessions of the last Congress
(the Fifty.second Congress), and at the
first and second sessions of the Fifty
first, commonly known as the "Reed"
Congress, shows, and such is the fact,
that the appropriations this year are
greater by $27, 1863, ,S5S than were those
made by the first session of the Fifty.
first, or "Reed" Congress. The state
ment also shows that the appropriation.
made this year are SOS, 1886, ,9S9 less than
those made at the second session of the
last, or Fifty y.second Congress. This re.
duction is covered by the item for pen.
sions alone. There was appropriated
this year for pensions $29,099,504 less
than was appropriated last year.
1t will be noticed, therefore, that ap-
propriations this year, excepting pen
sions, are greater than the appropria.
tions made last year by $263,5l5. The
total appropriations for the Fifty first,
or "Reed" Congress, two years, were
$99S, All .163 those for the Fifty.second,
or last Congress, two years, were 81 ,027,.
1O4, ,547." Mr.. Cannon then read the
statement issued by the Treasury De.
partment on July 2, giving the expendi.
lures and receipts of the Government
for the past year, and those of the pre-.
vious year.
MIR. Cannon's statement then contin.
ued "This statement does not include
the postal receipts or expenditures there
from, and as they balance each other, it
is not material to state them here. 1t
shows the receipts of tine United States
for the twelve months ending June 80,
1894, to have been SSS, ,659, ,292 less than
the receipts for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1898. This statement shows
also that the expenditures for the twelve
months ending June 80, 1894, were $l6,.
1884 ,595 less than for the twelve months
ending June 80, 1898, but this same
statement shows that the payment for
pensions made for the year ending June
30, 1894, were $ls, ,lsO,272 less than they
were for the year ending June 80, 1898.
In other words, exclusive of pensions,
President Cleveland, for his first full
fiscal year, expended 81, ,295,67 more to
cerry on the Government than was ex.
pended in the final fiscal year ending
Harrison's administration.
INCREASE IN SALARIES.
There have been many increases in
the salaries of Democratic officials, es.
pecially in the diplomatic and consular
service. The salary of the First Assist
ant Secretary Of State is increased from
Sc, 500 $4,000. The salary OF the Minis.
ter to Belgium is increased from S., 800
to $4,000. The Ministers to Switzer-
land and Portugal, Messrs. Caruth and
Broadhead, are increased from $5 900 to
$500 respectively.
The Minister to Mexico, who receives
an annual salary of $l7 800, has the sal.
airy of his Secretary of Legation increas-
ed from ST. 800 to $3.50. The Ministers
to Nicaragua snd Costa Rico, for the
first time, are allowed Secretaries of LIE.
CATION at 81 800 each, while the Bureau
of American Republics is cut down from
$50, 900 to $4,000. The six Auditors of
the Treasury Department are increas.d d
from $3 COO to $1,000 each