Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1876 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPÖLI3SEN1INEL We desire to place la tbe hands of every dem Ocrat In the state tbe WEEKLY STATE SENTINEL It 1 a larje eight page paper, complete in all .departments, and second to no paper In the Ute. Its circulation Is rapidly Increasing, and la larger than ever before. Thla la the Centennial year, the Presidential year, the year of the nation's rejoicing, and every democrat should keep posted in all the affairs of the government and country, The Sentinel will contain full market reports. agricultural news, miscellany, and full and complete political Information. It will be thoroughly democratic, and as the democratic party is on the high road to success, we want every democrat In the state to rejoice with us In our final triumph. Lot the democracy then assist us In the circu lation of the Sentinel, In connection with the local papers. Every democrat should have at least two papers, his county paper and a paper from the capital. We ask every one who sees this advertisement to send for specimen copies of the paper, and for, special terms to agents. If you can't get us up a club, send In your name. Cur terms are as follows : Bingl. copy 50 dubs of Ave, each, 1 35 Clubs of ten L. 1 35 DAI LT BEXTI3TEL. One copy per annumOne copy six months..,, , 110 00 -6 00 One copy three months. , 2 50 Clubs of ten, each . .. 8 00 To anyone who will take the trouble to get us up a club we will allow them 15 per cent, commission. Special terms by mall on application, Specimen oopies sent free to any address. Address INDIANAPOLIS SEXTIXEL. CO.. Indianapolls, Ind. Weekly newspapers In this state dep'-'nzan exchange with the Dally Sentinel for 1376 will please publish the above at their regular advertialng rates, less the amount of their own subscriptions. Bend marked oopies to Insure placing your names on our subscription books, to U. Matthews, Manager. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7. The Nation calls Morton a charlatan, indirectly that is, It can find no other term than charlatanry for bis late speech on Mississippi affair?. 'Grant seems to have amended his Instructors to tbe St. Louis district attorney. The amended reading is: Let no guilty man but Bibcock escape. Landis, who killed Carruth in New Jersey, pat In a plaa of insanity and escaped. Why -don't some of the whisky thieves put in a plea of kleptomania? That is a species of insanity. Minnesota is in the same latitude with Maine, and according to the Pioneer-Press, Blaine tops over all tbe other presidential candidates among the legislature and federal officeholders in St. Paul, by a vote of 43 to Ci. Our war governor only secured four votes oat of 82. The Journal says that under Democratic inflasnces no public officials have been exposed and convicted. Democratic influences are conducive to honesty and official integrity, and hesce there have b:en no occasions to send Democratic officiate by the score to the penitentiary. - - In Kentucky special legislation lor the relief of Sheriff Jones and Biiliff Smith, together with a thousand other private bills, form the greater part of the action of the legislature. Governor McCreery has commenced vetoirg these special acts. lie will have his hands full if he keeps it up. ' The Journal's atteok upon Mr. Grant, representinz Lim as the weakest man In the field, was an urjgracioas hing for that paper to do, after having contributed to that ;weakne?s by helping to bring the president into contempt here last fall when the soliiers met. Of course a man becomes weak when bis very friends desert him. The greenback mania has struck that old money lending locality, Hartford, Conn. The fact is, Hartford has loaned so much money to tbe West that she begins to fear if the West is pressed to the well by the resumption act she will realize neither inter est or principal of ber vast loans. Hartford has an eye to business. It is now quite evident that Mr. Morton's (tar is waning. There was a hope on the part of bis friends that its luminous light would, ere this, gleam across the polticalsky with increasing splendor, and that the work of the convention soon to assem Lie la this state world only be aupereroga torv. But combinations in the East aad , South eeem now to portend a wretched disaster to his hopes. The auburn locks of Conkllng are floating in tbe breeze. Bris- - tow's star-promises aurora bore an corrusCallofca if Babccck la convicted. The magnetic influence of Blaine is outreachlng in ramifying currents. But between all of these oar own Gen. Harrison, silently and slowly, witLcat scheming, plotting, waving auburn hair or bloody shirt, seems more likely than any other to finally carry off the prize. The disastrous calamity at Cincinnati lis another of those unfortunate occurrences against which no infallible provision can be made. A panic is beyond .human control. Reason and Judgment

depart and tbe masses of a crowded audU

ence are at tbe mercy of any impulse) that may move the - frightened throngs Free egresa," with wide staixways and plenty of them will not be a safeguard. The icare and fright that come in anticipation of sad' den calamity lead to most Irrational act9, and frequently the very thing tbat will insure certain death is done to avoid the imagined evil. It occurs to us in view of the fact that so slight a ciuse can produce such disastrous calamities as occur all over the country, that in every crowded audience a panic should be anticipated as a possible, if not a probable, event.-Then calm and cool men, looking for, and ready to act in advance, could, by prompt action, often, if not always, prevent the accidents tbat oc cur from the panic itielf, like the action of brave generals that stop a senseless slam pede of an army. Babcoek. The bitter feud between Brlatow and Grant over the prosecution of Babcock can not much longer be concealed. As tbe trial progresses we may expect that tbe wrath will increase. There will be a test of the me'al of Grant in this trial, of which the American people are entirely ignorant. It would not surprise the country If Mr. Grant should throw the entire weight of his social rnd political in floence in favor of his secretary, and even if convicted, pardon him at once. Mr. Grant has great facility in being excessively stupid at times, and this occasion may afford him an opportunity of sacri ficing whatever fame he may have acquired asasatesman. It would be heroic in him to pardon Babcock, and then resign. Tbe result of tbe late trial of McKee places Mr. Grant in a situation by co means enviable His very utterance will be closely marked, and either in the conviction or acquittal of Babcock, Grant mast suffer. The people can never be made to believe tbat Grant Was not cognizant of the frauds upon the revenue. Tbe Republican Party Aralnit the P pie. The true theory of the American govern ment is to preserve the rights of the people against tbe encroachments of the rulers and party leaders. The mere fact that for a while the majority of the people follow the lead of an administration, or the dictates of party leaders, does not necessarily Indicate that the will of the people is not being violated. Deception, party prejudice, the ignorance of tbe masses of tbe ultimate designs of tbe managers, and many other things frequently lead tbe masses of the people to sustain a party, when at the same time that party, or tbe leaders and managers thereof, are really defrauding tbe people and trampling on their dearest rights. But the people at times wake up. Their eyes suddenly open to discover that they are tbe dopes of designing men. and tbat they have been following the fortunes of men whose only object is personal aggrandizement and plunder. The people of this country to-day see the political situation in a light that convinces them that the Republican party leaders have been most wickedly betraying tbe trust reposed in them; that the Interest and well-being of the masses of the people are grossly sacrificed to tbe rapacity of the few. The history of Republican legislation in this country shows no favor to the masses. Tbe common people, without money or Influence, have received no consideration at their hands. The tariff legislation of the Republican party has been marked with a most shameful disregard of Justice to the masses, and directly in tbe Interest of aggregated capital. With the shallow pretense of raising tbe revenue, a tax has been levied on articles of common use, that, while it put one dollar into the treasury of the United States, it pat nine into the pockets of manufacturing corporations. The people en masse had to pay ten dollars, when if the tariff bad been properly adjusted they would have had to pay but one. 1 he financial legislation of the country shows tbe same discrimination in favor of the rich. The necessities of tbe government Involve! the credit system, and the paper currency, irredeemable in gold, was put forth to represent a portion of the nation's debt, and this was done in a way to give double profit to the bankets. Vast amounts of the le;al tender were issued when the country was prosperous, and speculative industry became ready to develop the resources of tbe country, bat at tbe bidding of the bankers and moneyed corporations, contraction commenced and hundreds of millions of the currency was destroyed. An internal revenue tax drained the country of the currency, and suddenly in the complications of commercial chicanery the money power became paralyzed on a Black Friday, and at its bidding ex pansion ensued. Then again, when that power had so hedged about for its own profit that by contraction it could better oppress the people, contraction was again resumed, and so it has proceeded until tbe present day, the weaker yielding to tbe grasp of tbe powerful, until all speculative industries have been brought to a stand still, and capi tal stands threatening with its mortgage grasp to aisert the ownership ot the material wealth of the country. The same one-sided policy has obtained in the subsidy legislation of the dominant party. Instead of making It easy for the masses of the people to secure homes In our possessions In the West, instead of dividing it out in liberal homesteads to the soldiers of the republic, the vast domain has been given away to gigantic corporations, whose eapital amounted to scores of millions, thus enriching the few and defrauding the many. The leaders of the Republican party, in all these schemes ot robbery and plunder, surfeiting themselves with accepted bribes of stock and gold. Rings within rings have enabled congressmen, senators, cabinet officers, revenue collectors, contractors, to retire with brief terms of service into the luxurious occupation of clipping coupons from government bonds., A brief recapitulation of the various systems of government swindling in which the Republican leaders have bad their hands elbow deep, would sicken the heart of a true patriot. Laws have been passed through congress without suspicion

W t r f - T r w wrong, underneath which lay concealed the most gigantic wrong, all premeditated and planned, the members having the prices of their votes' in their pockets while they answered to their names. It Is now very certain that , the' whisky revenue law was conceived in tbe interest of a monstrous system of corruption that Is laid bare before tbe world to-day. It made it impossible for honest men to become dla tiller, and placed then in the-hands of dishonest government officials tbe power to deal with these dishonest men for their own profit. No doubt a gigantic ring has reached out through tbe whole country, amassing untold millions of money In tbete fraudulent transactions The few hundreds and thousands ot dollars that the unfortunate wretches who were sentenced to prison in our courts the other day received, were doubtless but a tithe of the real sum stolen from the government, that has gone into the pockets of higher officials, who escape the merit of their crimes. These are but samples ot Republican legislation. Let tbe people take notice of their policy and its results. It has been all of a part. It has been in the interest of irand and corruption. It has been against the rights of the honest masses, and in favor of tbe dishonest few. Will the people continue blind T Will they slill suffer such barefaced imposition to go on? Will they suffer tbems9lves to be bound hand and foot, and be made slaves to the money power? Tbe grasp of that power is tightening on the throats of tbe people. It it Is not wrested off soon the people in their poverty and necessity will no longer have power to resist. Every principle ot liberty is involved in the longer continuation of this corrupt party in power. The rights of the masses of the people are at stake. Will they yield them up without at least one brave and energetic struggle? 1 Morton an Available Man? - j Senator Morton's claims are being vigorously pressed by his friends and his availability is a fair subject for general discussion. It is not likely that our views will exercise any great influence at Cincinnati, but our Republican friends are, nevertheless, wel come to make the best use of them. Were we moved by a strictly party spirit, it would please us to see the weakest ot our opponents nominated ; but patriotic considera tion rising superior to all others, induces us to hope that the country will have an opportunity to choose between the best men of both parties in the coming presidential election. In the Centennial year , the country has a right to demand that only men worthy to be the successors of Wash ington shall be offered lor its suffrages. Among the gentlemen on tbe other side, whose names have beSn mentioned in this connection, there are a few who might possibly rally together the shattered forces ot the Republican party: who represent Its best elements, its noblest efforts, its surest con victions and its purest principles: who, tor whatever is meritorious in its history, may honestly claim a fair share of credit: who, with whatever is worthy of public approba tion In its present attitude, may honestly claim to be intimately identified: who, if any of its promises of reform in the future are trustworthy, may honestly claim to be equal to their redemption. Some one of these gentlemen might make the most that the most sanguine of them could reasonably hope to achieve, a gallant fight, but Mr. Morton is not ot the fortunate number. We are not of those who ungenerously un der value the character of an opponent or imprudently underestimate the strength of an adversary. But having eyes to see we can not be blind to Senator Morton's shortcomings as a presidential aspirant. In no sense, should his importunate scheming result in a victory over a half score of better men who have been named for tbe position, can be prove an avauaDie candidate. He is a great political wire puller and organizer, it is true, but something nobler than this will be demanded by a people whose memories are ringing with the patriotic echoes of '76. He baa considerable intellectual force, we grant, but tbat too, of itself, will prove wholly insufficient in a day when personal and political integrity are at a premium. An open hand, a generous heart, a warm, fraternal spirit, a courage above question and a purity above reproach, these are foremost among tbe essential qualifications which will be insisted upon at tbe polls next November. The people want bread; it will not do to offer them a stone. They want an honorable head; it will not do to offer them a doubtful record. They want peace; it will not do to offer them an empty appelatlon, such as "the great war governor" won by staying at home. They want to bury the immediate and rejuvenate the remote past ; they want to obliterate the animosities of the second and to restore the brotherly spirit which animated the first rebellion, tbe revolution which we proudly celebrate from Florida to Maine: It will not do to answer their cry for love by hatred, their prayer for a reunion of hearts by flourishing in their faces an emblem of petty, narrow-minded discord, the bloody shirt; to offer them as a candidate for tbe highest centennial honors they can bestow a man whose sole slock in political trade is an unenviable ability to feed sectional fires and spit out party venom of the bitterest, most burning and most love corroding kind. The people are - determined tbat this . year shall be memorable for that the heart of the whole country shall be made glad in the possession of what . the constitution guarantees to each of the states a republican form- of government the desire for which an hundred years ago placed the fathers of the republic for four weary years side by side and shoulder to shoulder. It would be a mockery of Its generous, patriotic spirit to ask it to support a man whose highest ambition la to heap contumely upon the birthplace of Patrick Henry and Washington, of Moultrie, and Marlon, and to crush their children under the remorseless heels of a military despotism controlled by scallawags, thieves, political adventurers and tramps. The man who indorses a tried

On the part of the public ' of a shadow .of

aidTooWicied .1 rogue" aid Windier (Jike Moses, ana. advocates the perpetuation of his

party by tbe .bayonet rule in Louisiana, and by systematize despotism In' every South ern state which . dares to repudiate radical iam, will stand la sorry chance for polltlcal promotion in tbe year of grace 1S76. . , Cut Dawn tbV Salaries. 4 The times imperatively demand a change in the administration of our government. The depressed' condition of Jtbe financial situation working damage to all productive agenies necessarily entails upon tbe coun try rigid economy. The spirit o.f extravavance that obtained among all chesses bas been generally curbed. Speculation la almost at an end, and tbe people are living within tbe limits marked out by the exact profits of business and the actual rewards of labor. While the individual has recognized the necessities of the hour, public extravagance has been going on as if a tide of prcsperity attended all the departments pi business Industry in the country. This extravagance must be checked. The people feel the burden if tbe officeholders do not. There is a specious sort ot pleading in congress juat now about tbe "necessities of efficient government" in connection with the propositions to reduce the appropriations. This will not be understood or appreciated by the tax-payers. Men who have reduced the salaries of their employes, who have taken upon themselves double duty to lessen expenses, who deprive their families of luxuries to meet.tax bills and bank paper, will not be made to understand any sort of public necessity for tbe continuation of the extravagant salaries tbat have been paid for years, and are still demanded by those interested. Convenience has more to do with this demand than necessity. The officeholders find it convenient to live extravagantly, and inconvenient to come down to plain and unostentatious bablts, and they demand that the people shall pay for the tinsel and show in which they Indulge. What is the necessity in times like these of these grand receptions that are taking place at the capital? Each cabinet officer and other prominent officials spend thousands of dollars during the winter in gaudy show, in dissipation, index!, that must hinder somewhat efficient service in their appointed duties. These expenses must come from their salaries. These have in times past been made high to meet such exigencies. Ig might be well enough in times of prosperity. But just now, when in private Hie expenses of the. useless sort are being curtailed, public officials should follow the example. If the salaries were reduced, not to meagre scantiness, but to a point where comfortable living may be enjoyed, these great demonstrations and expensive styles of general living would end. But will these government officials con form to tbe necessities of the times? Wil the Republican party reform these abuses? We do not believe they will. Tbe resistance to tbe reduction of salaries at West Point is but a sample of the general indisposition to conform to the necessities of the times. Tbe only hope that the people may cherish lor tbe reduction of the public expense is in a change of administration. Let those who can not live on less salary in public life than they now enjoy retire to private life, and by the exercise of their ability in some other direction provide for their extravagant habits. Let tbe reduction of salaries be made. and still there will be thousands of good men ready to do efficient service for half what a great many have been receiving. Let the salaries of army officers be reduced. Let collectors of tbe revenue receive so much less tbat there 'shall not be a clamor for the places. Let postmasters, in large places also be included in the general reductions. Economy, forced by the necessities of tbe hour, demands a general return to old Democratic.salaries, Democratic customs and modes of living, and we see no better way of doing this than by placing the Democratic party in power and Democrats in office. We can hardly expect those who have been enjoying the fat things of earth at the public expense so long will make any change. It wonld be hard for them to come down. But new men c:n start right. From the presidency down to the lowest officer of the government there should be a general cut ting down. Extravagance of Republican Rule. Tbe Republican party set up anew their claims for the continued confidence of the American people, and base these claims upon superior loyalty and extreme devotion to the country. They claim to be par excellence, patriotic They used to claim to be the honest, moral party ; but since the officeholding representatives of the administration are being marched off to the penitentiary by the score, they modestly say nothing now upon that score. But what is loyalty and patriotism? Does it consist simply in Bhoutlng oneself hoarse with brawling professions, or in honest and conscientious devotion to tbe interests of the country? The time has come when practice has at least a fair show with profession. The people can not be hoodwinked much longer by empty cries of loyalty from those who utterly Ignore the vital interests of the state, and have their hands elbow-deep in schemes of plunder and robbery. The people have come to the conclusion that true loyalty Is inconsistent with a wasteful extravagance. The Republican party have managed the finances of the country for over a dozen years. Until the present bc ssion of congress they have controlled tbe raising and ex penditure of the revenues. The depart' ments, manned by Republicans, have pre pared their budgets, and Republican con greases have registered their requests in full appropriations at the beginning and deflc lency bills at the end of the years. To the Republican party, therefore, belongs the responsibility of whatever extravagance has marked the history of these years. The people seriously inquire what is the necessity of such enormous expenditure of money in a time of peace? Is there any legitimate reason why the cost of administering tbe government should be so much greater year alter year? There la

clearly something very wrong. Tbe Cincin

nati JJommercm.t as. taken .the. pains, to ma ne some comparisons on this Bubject, iram oe tables of whlch .it may be seen at.t:-. ,( glaooe ; -wbat is . tbe ; ; cause or the pfesinre of the times. .1 All this mbney ' Is; wres!ed from thVpeople. hen these party Ieadexs have made an extravagant appropriation, the next step is to devise I he ways and means to. meet it, and tbe lax comes upon the people In one shape or another. The government has no money of its own., Every dollar comes from the people every voter has to pay his part. 'It wrests all luxuries and many comforts and even necessities from the poor. In unseen ways it oppresses every class. When the worse than useless extravagance is fairly considered the .long continued and increasing extravagance is little else than downright robbery. How bold and Infamous, in the light of such facts of extravagance as are presented in the Commercial's figures which the Sen tlnel reproduces this morning.are the efforts of suuh men as Morton and Blaine, who woulJ hang up tbe bloody shirt before the eye of the people, to screen these facts from their view. The alarming picture that shows such rottenness and corruption. for no one will pretend that these expen ses are necessary, must arouse the people to consider the ut ter folly of continuing this party in power. They have become so accustomed to this wasteful squandering of the public, money on partisan favorites that they will not and can not stop. The only relief for the people. is to turn them out. Let voters who think of adhering to the fortunes of tbe Republican party a&k them selves If they can sanction such useless and wasteful plundering any longer. Coal Bals as an Investment. The railways of Ohio, whose construction has been mainly for tbe development and transportation of coal and iron, are profita ble Investments, because the opening of these mines of wealth has furnished them a continuous traffic extending over the whole year. As the demand for coal increases there is not only a corresponding increase ot this traffic, but a large addition to their business in transporting the miner and his supplies, which are drawn from a distance, and hence it is that these roads have, and will continue to have, a rapidly increasing business so long as the consumption of coal continues to increase. Wood must cease to be in demand for fuel, not only because coal is cheaper, but because timber and lumber are steadily increasing in value, and hence are more valuable for general uses than for domestic or steam purposes. Referring to the annual report of the commissioner of railroads of Ohio for 1873, we find tbat the Columbus fe Hocking Valley, a standard gauge coal road, has cost 46,650 64 per mile; tbat it has a debt of f 27,085 42 per mile, and tbat lnlS73it paid operating expenses, interest account, taxes, and a dividend of ten per cent to its stockholders. Our proposed narrow gauge coal road will not cost exceeding 1 13,000 per mile, equipped, or only one-half as much as the interest bearing debt per mile of tbe Columbus & Hocking Valley. The reader can readily determine whether, Under theBe circumstances, the Indianapolis Mineral railway will prove to be a paying investment.' Tbe Cleveland fc Pittsbug, a standard gauge coal road, cost $78,743 .92 per mile, has a debt of 22,148 24 per mile, and in 1S73 paid operating expenses, interest account, taxes and a dividend of 17 per cent. If this road, c: sting over $78,000 per mile, with an interest bearing debt much larger per mile than the total cost per mile of our proposed coal road, what then may we reasonably expect the Indianapolis Mineral railway to pay ? The Cleveland & Mahoning Valley, another standard gauge coal road, cost $39,004 46 per mile, has a debt of $16,261 16 per mile, and in 1873 paid operating ex penses, interest account, taxes, and a divi dend of 2lfi per cent. If this road, costing nearly $40,000 per mile, and with a debt per mile much larger than, the total cost per mile of our proposed coal road, paid a divi dend of 21 J per cent., what should our pro posed coal road pay? This is not only a question for our capitalists to consider, but it is also one for our merchants and manufacturers to take into consideration. This cheap coal road means cheaper coal, and . cheaper ' coal means an increase of manufactures, commerce, population and wealth. Our position is not so impregnable as to warrant us in lgaorlng tbe fact that cities who avail themselves of the immensely productive and wealth-creating power of cheap coal out-l strip all others In material prosperity. Our J present wants and fature prosperity Imperatively demand this coal road, with its small cost and cheaper ecal rates. It means an. increase In value and an active demand for real estate,, the strengthening of our present manufactures and their rapid increase, and: the drawing up to us of a large new busi ness that otherwise may seek other markets. Are not these objects worthy of our lmm-J dlate attention? Can Indianapolis afford to deny to herself these advantages which an be so easily and cheaply obtained? It will not do to eay that times are tar J, and that we are too poor to incur this expense, and that too with a valuation of $17,000,000. staring us in tbe face. The harder the times the greater the reason for shaip, quick reso lute, enterprising action. Cities can not stand still. They must advance or recede. Non-action means paralysis, death. A Suggestion. Inasmuch as tbe Republican party seems to be at sea concerning a proper lepresentatlve manfora candidate for governor in this state, a distioguised politician who has a most discerning apprehension to tbe eter nal fitness ot things, suggests the con vention that will assemble here on the 221 of this month nominate by acclamation, Hiram Brownlee, of Grant county. He has just received an ovation at Marion, the like of which, has never been bestowed upon 1 government official, under the samecircum stances. He evidently meets all the require ments that may be demanded in a Republi can offiooholder. Twelve good and true men have declared him guiltless of defraud lng th revenue even though a grand jury

thought otherwlss. Besides he Is naturally allied to the national banks. He is sufficiently removed, ln social "rx;aUIont''Jfrolnlhe m8S3esxto7glve ':that'ört of dignity to lha office that would relieve it frcm tte taint ot the profanum'tvJffTts. ' Tns reputation hi' has gained by the tise of aid gloves. suggstsj at once, a 'savor of royalty, . not unlike that manifested of lata years by the Washington) administration aad the royal family there. As honesty is a popular qualification, the fact of clean bands la patent beforehand. Though Bingham' swore that Into those wbite hands he bad placed a roll of greenbacks, the intrinsic value of which equaled the revenue on five bandied and fifty-five gallon a of distilled ?plrXs,yet the Jury said

he did not so soil his hanär and hesce they are clean, white as tbe kneaded dough of the housewives of Marlon, who-rushed rato tb streets from their kitchens to do him honor. There is an evidence of some power ira Hiram Brownlee to awaken- enthusiasm that ought not to be Ignored ty tbe Repub lican party in the coming canvaes. Morton and his bloody shirt could no bring out the women with their sleeves rled upr in such a gush of enthusiasm. In act, there is no one that we cau think of, at this moment, who would swing round . through the districts of tbe state with more signal eclat. Tbe ralelng oi .bis gloved hand would be a signal for pro--' longed applause. He need not speak at all. The simple wave of . tbo hand would be sufficient. Let' the county conventions ponder his merits. Let delegates come up with kid gloves la their pockets as badges of loyalty to the here. They will be more inspiriting than was tbe historical wbite and red rose. What need the Republican party dally and hesitate when such an opportunity is before them. Let Brownlee be nominated. COMPARISONS FOR CONGRESSAPPROPRIATIONS, ESTIMATES AND EXPENDITURES. 1 SOME SALTY STATISTICS FROM A REPUBLICAN STANDPOINT. The Cincinnati Commercial of yesterday editorially reviews the appropriations, estimates and expenditures of congress: The proper committees of congress, are now busily engaged in preparing thevatious appropriation bills for the action of the House of Representatives. We look upon the proper distribution of tbe budget ot expenditures as perhaps tbe most Important of the varied functions which the constitution and the laws devolve npon members of congress. It Is of vital Interest to every tax-pajer tbat the government under which be lives should be carried cn with as close a regard to economy ot expenditure as is consistent with efficiency of administration in tbe public business. Extravagance like that lately witnessed in tbe departments and bureaus, and in the subsidiary ramifications of the public business throughout tbe country, la a direct and palpafle oppression or the peo ple. The people are taxed not tor the necessary and economical expenses ot government, but to pay endless expenditures for useless offices, supernumerary clerks and officials, and unj uatinable extravagances In public buildings, forts, conti o geat expenses, river and harbor improvements, and all sorts af treasury leaks, which, It they do not nvolve corruption, involve the most inex cusable extravagance. We propose to show n a way not hitherto made palpable by an exhibition ot the figures, to what an extent THE 8WKLLIN OP VVBTAC EXPSSDITURR baa gone under the expansionists In office during the last few ybars. For this purpose we shall compare not merely tbe- expendi tures of tbe government before tbe war, which first brought on the Inflation at once of the currency and the cost ot government, together with the multiplication of many officers in all departments of the public ser vice, but we propose to compare also the figures ot to-day with those of four years ago, during tbe Inflation tlu:es that preceded the panic ot 1873. It will be seen from this ex hibit that not only do the estimates of today far more than double in each depart-. merit the expenditure 01 niteen years ago, bat that they are also very greatly In excess of tbe expenses of tbe year 182, when the currency inflation was near Its height, when tbe supernumerary officers, created by congress to manatee the vastly expanded business growing out of tbe war. had reached what ought to be their maximum, and when, moreover, the prosperous state of the country Justified 01 any circumstances ever can justify) a liberal and careless expenditure. The first column of figures in the following table gives the actual appropriations made for each object named for tbe fiscal year ending June 30, 1800 The 6?cond column gives the amount estimated for tbe tame objects and sub mitted to congress in the book of ESTIMATES FOB .THE ENSUING- FISCAi YEAR 1876-77. Approprl atlonalor 1W). KatXmalea. lor 1870-77. 2,348,70 50 848,470 00 ao,K7i,6fie 8j , 5,7S7,7W CI 1,852,4 CO iä-ÜÄXJ 00 13),360 00 12,518,010 40 2,047,620 00 l3,7j0 U0 581,112 00 S,t45,i-W 00 302.765 60 Army expenses... Ii4,m,w awest roini uuvy Academy 179,588 01 Naval service 10,527,13 65 Indian department.- Z,fU,bV tl Consular and dlplomaue expeneea w Pensions tW2,ouo 00 Department of state- w Treasury department 687,&J 50 Interior department. kjw w War departments injrv w Navy departments lorl53 60 Postofflce depart ment 233,300 00 Jnaiciary . 1,U:4,3Ü7 (JO Government in terrltoriea Vtazi x& Coast survey. a2JSU w 61,000 00 a.iss eoo oo. 841.000 00 2,74,433 60l,9tU,44 00 Uslit-nout eetaDiianiiier vifjui m. Fortifications iow Congress 235-I9, Fnbiio printing - joo,oi.a . Executive offices axd salaries of president and vice president- tS,450 00 78,400 00. Uoverarment hospital for Insane, U. s,uw w majfiji Dtaf and dnuib Institution, D. V . 8.000 0 110,000 00 Congrcsfcional botani cai a en... .... o - j,io w Pubiio buildings ana. grounds Wattnlng--ton-.JZ 939.250 0 8.036.325 4 River and harbors.-. No app'p'o. 14j1.Ki0 00 AeritaJtural departs. oap toioo w PubJlo buildings, ouX- ' . Btaeot washlnittaa . z.i.u u id THB ABOVE FIOCSES EXHIBIT X BTaMLIHa ' OBOWTS OT EXPENDITURE la the short space of fifteen years. Scarcely a single item but has mora than doubled, while some are from ten to twenty times a large as formerly. But it may be raid it ia unfair to compare the scale of government expenses belore the war, before tbe Inflation ot the currency, and before the enormous bureau woik ntailed by tbe enlargornent of the fiscal and other operations of tbe government, with what it was at that comparatively undeveloped period of our history represented by tbe year 186Ü. Be it so. We will compare, then, the appropriations made by congress lor the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1872, Just four years o,with the eatlmatea now being considered bv that body for the expenditures of .he coming fiscal year. That, like thla, wai a ''presidential year." Those times, like these, were times ot aa

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