Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Democratic Savings. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Savings.

Mr. Holman’s review of the appropriations made during the last session of congress is thus summarized by the New York Evening Post (Ind.): As the New York Tribune has shown, the record made by the Democrats at this session is sufficiently encouraging, savings amounting to some 140,000,000 having been made in those appropriations which it was possible to reduce. Mr. Holman further Bhows, wlmt The Tribune had also pointed out, that this reduction was accomplished in the face of the opposition of the Republican senate. The eleven regular appropriation bills as passed by the house reduced the estimates of the administration by $‘.17,883,000, and the senate increased their amount by $13,725,000. The result was finally that these hills appropriated $22,000,000 less than was demanded by the administration, nearly $13,(MX),000 less than the senate* desired, and nearly $0,000,000 more than the house deemed sufficient. The principal economies effected hare been first in public buildings, no new ones having been authorized at this session. The previous congress authorized the construction of sixty-eight,'much of the expense of whioh has had to be provided for by the congress which has just adjourned. The last congress, Judge Holman says, created 1,705 new salaried offices, costing annually over $2,000,000. This congress has abolished more offices than it has created, except in the District of Columbia, and while it increased the wages of those employed in the life saving service, it elsewhere reduced more salaries than it raised. There has been a small increase in the amount appropriated for the judiciary, a considerable increase in that for the department of agriculture and a new charge in the subsidy granted to the World’s fair. With these exceptions the pel icy of economy has on the whole prevailed. If it can be shown, and The Tribune and Mr. Holmau concur in holding that it can, that the Democrats have made an important reduction in those appropriations which were under their control, that is a concrete fact which is worth a great deal in a political campaign.