Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1879 — Thirty-Eight Millions Saved. [ARTICLE]

Thirty-Eight Millions Saved.

It is a notorious fact that since the breaking out of the war no Congress or House of Representatives was so absolutely free from scandal and jobbery as during the last five years. When the much-abused Democrats and “rebels” obtained control of the House not only a political, but a moral change took place. Bribery and corruption ceased to flourish. The lobby disappeared. Credit Mobilier and Pacific Mail and McGarrahan claims became impossible. Even subsidies of vital importance to the South and of general merit, such as the South of Texas Pacific railroad, or the Brazilian steam line, were refused time and again—refused by the votes of these very rebels, when such shining Republicans as Stanley Matthews or Blaine, and Conkling and Garfield were their zealous advocates. So that in every conceivable respect the practice of these villified Confederate Brigadiers is precisely opposed to the prediction of these Republican partisan prophets. On the other hand, both in 1872 and 1874 and 1876, the Democrats promised economy and retrenchment if they came into power. Well, since 1875 they did have the power to check the extravagant appropriations of the Republicans. And what is the result? What is the official record ? In 1876 the appropriations were actually $16,000,000 less than in 1875. In 1877 the appropriations were actually $20,000,000 less than in 1876. In 1878 they were still $2,000,000 less than in 1877. So that the practical result of the presence of the Confederate Brigadiers, and the absence of a Republican majority, is this: That in three years—lß76, 1817 and 1878—the actual cost of the Govern ment has been reduced the amount of $38,000,000.— 5t. Louis Post-Dispatch.