Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1878 — Page 1

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VOL. -XXV 11- NO 55. ESTPIASTAFOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1878. WHOLE NO, 246.

Written for the Bentinel. CAHPAIG? 803IG.

Air Hold tei Kobt. Hear the thunder e the lightning Flashing through the air, Tin onr preacher after Hanna, Bound to raise hi hair. Chorus. . . Poll your vote for De La Matyr, e'a oar leader true ; Hell fight for right with all hie might The thieving, pirate crew.' IL See the hero, soldier, statesman, With his armor on ; Hear the slashing of his broadswordBetter look oat, John. .. Chorus. Poll your votes for De La Matyr, He's the poor man's friend. Hell strike the shackles off of labor, Ana your cause defend. III. Hanna's trying to deceive us. Bat twill never do; Big trade dollars at a discount, Johnnie, so are you. CHOBC9. For well poll our votes for De La Matyr, He's the people's choice; Well speak in tones they cant mistake, With one united vie?. ' ' IV. Hear the echo from the workshop, From the plain and hill. From the crossroads, from the hamletOne loud, long 44 We will Grand Chobcs from 50,000 Voices. Poll our votes for De La Matyr, He's the coming mart ; Well send him down to Washington To help his brother Dan." 9 CONFESSION OF A T ilEf My father bad been dead a month, when one morning Mr. Maitiand, our family lawyer, one of my father's oldest friends, called on me. ' ' "Mr. Charles," he said, after we had shaken hands, "we have arranged your father's aasirs, and found a purchaser for the estate, but" "Are all the out-laying debts paid In full?" I interrupted quickly. "They are, but," con tinned our kind friend in a troubled voice, "I grieve to say there is hardly anytbingleft for you and your slater; scarcely a thousand dollars." "Ah!" he went on. "it you had only followed my advice! There were" among your father's debts more than one that could honestly have been cut down by one-half. Your father hsd ever an open hand and a generous heart, sir." "I regret nothing that baa been done, Mr. JIaltland, and have but one more question to ask you: when can I have the thousand -dollars?" To-morrow, if you wish it" A few days later my sister Emmeline and I bade adieu to our once happy home ours, alas! no longer and departed for Now York. In spite of my efforts to bear up under the sudden adversity that had fallen upon us, the blow nearly overwhelmed me at first. I did not think so much of myself; a man can always make his way in this world with energy and a strong will, but I was troubled for my dear sister. How could I find the means of providing for this fragile, delicate girl of sixteen, all the comforts and luxuries she had hitherto enjoyed? When this terrible problem first presented itself to me I fell A prey for just one moment to utter discouragement and despair. But those of my race are proud and strong of will, and 1 mentally resolved that I would fight the battle of life so bravely that victory must at last crown my efforts. Arrived in New York, we took a modest apartment and furnished it with as much comfort as our slender resources would allow. I msde out to find all my father's former inends, and resolved to apply to them one after another until I had obtained employment. Day aftr day and week after week I solicited, hoped and waited. Promises without number, expressions of interest for myself and my sister, and regret for our bereavement were lavished upon me. But that wsj all. It was the old story so well known to all those whose hard doom condemns them to solicit aid or succor from their fellows promises first, then, oblivion. We had now been three months in New York, when one morning I found that only five dollars remained in my purse. Here, then, was the end of all my dreams. Bat how to face the cruel reality I The winter was approaching, my sister's pale face was growing paler day by day, and a hacking cough began to harass her. Another fortnight pasted, daring which I had been obliged to part with my watch and chain and evea with some articles of clothing, to procure the bare necessaries of life. But worst of all, I was at length forced to ac- . quaint Emmeline with our terrible position. The poor child tried to comfort me with tender caresf&s, ana nopeiai woras aiea . away on her quivering lips and gave place to bitter sobs. And I could do nothingNothing? Ah, yes! one last hope remained to me. Konie days previous I had written to Mr. Maitiand, telling bim of my desperate condition, and requesting him to give me some letters of introduction to the New York law offices, and that very morning had received an answer in the shape of a large, official looking letter, bearing the address of the Hon. Mr. Carleton, an eminent member of the judicial bench. Taking up my hat, I straightway bore the letter to its destination, and having read it, the judge said to me, glancing at me kindly over his gold rimmed spectacles: "In a few days you will hear from me, and I think I shall have good news for you." On the thirl morning after this interview I had persuaded ray sister to take a walk with me. Daring our promenade we happened to pass before a restaurant in the neighborhood, whence a waiter had Just issued forth, bearing a luncheon tray, on which, among other tempting viands, was a dainty chicken. My poor sister involuntarily fixed such a longing, hungry look at the food as it passed before her that it almost broke my heart On our return home I found a letter from Judge Carleton awarting me. Apologizing for the irregular form of his invitation, he said he should be happy to see me as a guest at dinner on the same evening. As the servant announced me, Judge Carleton came toward me, end taking me kindly by the hand introduced me to his wife and daughter, and then to several of his guests who had known my father. All were so kind and cordial to me that in a few moments I felt quite at home. The dinner was a brilliant one. I was engaged in an animated conversation with a charmlDg and very witty lady beside whom I was seated, when suddenly all my gaiety AVd from me. I had just perceived at ore end of the table a splendid roast fowl that a domestic bad just placed there. The scene of the morning and the hungry look in my sister's eyes rose up be

fore me, and my heart was wrung by the remembrance. The next instant a portion of the fowl was placed before me. In the meantime the lady beside me finding I had suddenly became taciturn and distrait, gave her attention to my next neighbor, and left me to my devices and the satisfaction of my greedy appetite. I made good use of the liberty thus accorded to me, and in a few seconds every trace of food on my plate had disappeared. Dinner was nearly over wheu the conversation turned on a law suit that my host bad gained for one of his clients. 'Well," said the Judge, laughing, "the case is one of my best, I'll allow; but my client deserves a little mention too. Just look at the handsome present he has sent me;" and he drew from his finger a magnificent diamond ring, and handed it for inspection to the lady who sat next to him. In the midst of expressions of delight and admiration, the jewel was handed from one guest to another around the table, and Mrs. Carleton had just risen and was proceeding to pass into the drawing room and her husband exclaimed, "My dear have you my ring?" "No, indeed; Mrs. M returned it to you a few mlntes since." "Bless me! Then where can it be? he said, shaking out his napkin, and feeling in all of his pockets, one after the other. No one stirred from the table, and for some minutes the room was filled with a confused hum of voices and the jingling of knives and forks, china and glass, brought into violent collision by the excited guests in their search after the missing jewel. Bat the search was all in vain; the ring had certainly disappeared. "I see how it is," said the iudge, jokingly, "that ring must be soine wicked fairy who has maliciously hidden herself away in the pocket of one of our number. Now, I am going to make a proposal, if you will and which you would utterly reject If it came from any other quarter; but which you will accede to, coming from an eccentric individual like me." "Explain! explain!" cried all the guests in chorus. "I propose then," continued our host, "that before we leave this room we shall proceed to search each other, the ladies on this side, and we gentlemen yonder. Let all who object hold up their hands." At the word "search" all the blood in my yeins rushed bsck to my heart, and a cold sweat broke out on my forehead and trickled down my face, . which I felt had become ashy pale. I stood there apart, with a rush of sound in my ears, a mist before my eyes, and swaying to ana fro like a man drunk with wine. And through it all, I could hear the laughing voice of my host counting the votes in favor of his proposal. Suddenly he confronted me, and said In a peculiar . tone, and with a significant glance at my arms, which were tightly folded on my breast: "And you, sir, do you not approve of my suggestion?" "I do not, sir," I replied with outward firmness, but with a face paler than ever. A silence as of death succeeded these words, and every eye in the room was turned in my di recti on. "I beg your pardon for this foolish joke, sir," said the judge after a pause, in a tone I shall never forget "I would rather be the loser of ten thousand dollars than wound the feelings of a guest under the shelter of my roof," and, moving toward the door, he added lightly, "gentlemen, coiWe will be ruiued if we delay here longer." Just as be was passing through the open door I advanced toward him. "I owe you an explanation, Mr. Carleton," I raid; "you will hear me? Pray do not refuse me," I added, seeing him turn coldly awav. He stood still for a moment, and

turning toward me, he said brusquely, but without looking at me "Very well, come," and he led the way to his study. The door had hardly closed behind us when shouts of laughter were heard from the drawing room, and before I had time to utter a word Mrs. Carleton burst into the room holding the missing ring in the palm of her hand. "There is vour rine." she said, handing it f to her husband, "a servant has just found it" "Where?" stammered Mr. Carleton, with a look of stupefied amazement "Just in your plate," she answered, laughing merrily. "Very well, Annie, leave us for an instant and we will join you in the drawing room." As the door closed behind his wife Mr. Carleton came up to me and seized me by both hands. "Before you say another word, sir. hear my story, I cried." and then with rapid, feverish eloquence I told him of my strug gles, my affection for my sister, of my suffer ings at seeing her sailer, ana finally or the heart wringing scene of the morning. "And this is why I prefer to pass for a thief rather than have it known that my lather s daughter was djlng from hunger," I concluded, drawing from my pocket the portion of the fowl I had contrived to slip from my plate during the sumptuous repast of which 1 had just partaken. The tears fell from the eyes of the good lawyer as he listened to me, and. when I had ceased speaking, he once more seized my band and exclaimed "Good lad! The sister you love so well shall never know want again;" and with my hand still clasped in his own, he threw open the door of the drawing room, drew me in after him. and laying his ha&don my boulder with fatherly affection, he said in a voice of deep emotion "Gentlemen, I present to yoa the most honorable and worthy fellow 1 know, my private secretary." There were two happy, thankful hearts that night in our bumble apartment. Indiana Foil tics. SU Louis Tlmee.1 Prominent democrats In Indiana have already conceded the legislature to the republicans, and nay that when it meets, early next January, the republican will elect a United Htates senator to fill the unexpired term (two months) of the late Hen a tor Morton, and a senator for the full term of six years. Philadelphia Time. An old adage has it "When you want to learn the news you must go from bonse." On this principle the above paragraph ia news in the west If there are "prominent democrats in-Indiana," who have conceded the election of a republican .United States senator from tbat state, they certainly are not known within it: iinJits. It is about as certain as any political event can be foretold, that the lion. D. W. Voorhees, a democrat, will be cbosen senator for the full term of six years by the next Indiana legislature, and whoever may be chosen for the unexpired term of the late Senator Morton, it may safely be set down he will not be a republican. Indiana is about as reliably democratic as the state of Texas. One more story from the north of Ireland, fie was a northern farmer, had married three wives in the course of four years, and buried all three of them. They happened O have been "comfortable," and had brought him a trifle of money and a bit of land, and maybe a pig or two. To him the parson condoling on the demise of No. 3: "Well, Andy, I am sorry for your trouble; bat anyway, yoa can't be badly off, considering what they brought you." ''Yer.no just recht about you, sir," said Andy, pensively. "A tell you what it is, sir; ye ma' b'leeve me that what w' the fetchin' o' them in an' the fetchin o' them oot, there's no sae much profit on them as maybe ye think!"

DEMOCBATIC ECONOMY.

What Representative Blackburn Finds the .Record to be. Wl4oms Mendacity A Careful Aaaly. la er tne Coat of Bnaatac m Ctoveniment by the Two Parties Astounding Be nits of BepuMloan Praflla-aey Badleal Lies Exp owed. Washington Post-J Getting hold of the "republican campaign document," known as Windoms interview, a Post reporter called on Mr. Blackburn to learn what the result of his investigation bad been. The following is the result: Reporter Have you read the so-called "Windom interview," published first in the New York Times, and since circulated by the Gor ham-Hale committee?' Mr. Blackburn Yes, carefully. It is of a piece with similar campaign misrepresentations with which the republican congressional committee is trying to deoeive the people. Reporter What action, if any, will the congressional democratic committee take ia reference to this and similar efforts of the republicans to cry down the reputation of the democratic party for economy? Mr. Blackburn Senator Windom is only following out a plan tdopted by his party in its death struggle to break the force of the savings actually effected by the democratic house, and he, like his co-laborers, endeavors to mislead the uninitiated in various ways. For example, he refuses to take note of the actual decrease of expenditures under democratic rule, and while he can not deny also tbe great reductions in the appropriations which tbe democratic house has effected, he endeavors to explain it away by saying that these redactions were made "by denying appropriations indispensable to the public service; by postponing necessary public works; by repudiating national obligations; by with holding large sums for deficiency bills." All these charges are known to be entirely untrue, but it seems to be an understood thing all along the republican line tbat something must be done to explain away democratic economy. Reporter What is the comparative record of the democratic and republican parties as to economy in conducting the government? Mr. Blackburn The official figures will verify what has become a matter of household knowledge, that the record of the democratic party is one of economy, and the re cord of the republican party one of extravagance and corruption. Economy with the democratic party is of no recent origin, and, as was to be expected, as soon as the democracy obtained control of the house of representatives it forced upon the republican administration and senate redactions of great magnitude, both in appropriations and expenditures. Before discussing recent savings effected by the democratic house, let us examine the actual expenditures from the commencement of our government down to the last year when the republican party had control of both houses of congress. The net ordinary expenditure's of the goy eminent, exclusive of the public debt principal, premiums and interest and exclusive also of pensions, being only expenses for the army, navy, Indians aod miscellaneous civil, from tbe fiscal year 1T89 to the fiscal year ended 187G, can be easily found in tbe reports pf the secretary of the treasury: For the war period from the fiscal year ended June 30, 1802, to the fiscal year ended June 30, 1806, both inclusive, more than one year after the close of the war, covering a period of fire years, the net ordinary expenditures above named amounted to thres billions, five hundred and thirty millions, nine hundred and twenty-nine thousand, five hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-four cents. DEMOCRATIC IC0X0MY. Now, in order to make a comparison which even the republican chairman of a senate committee can not with all his acquired knowledge of figures successfully refute, we will eliminate this war period from the calculation. This being done, we find tbat, from the commencement of the government to the beginning of the war, that is, from tbe fiscal year ended March 4, 1789, down to and including the fiscal year ended June So, 1861, both inclusive, covering a period of more than 73 years, the net ordinary expenditures of tbe government for the parposes above stated amounted to one billion, five hundred and six millions, seven hundred and twenty-six thousand and one hundred and fifty-one dollars an 4 fifteen cents. Now the net ordinary expenditures of the government for the same purposes, for tbe last 10 years of unbroken republican rale, beginning with the fiscal year ended June 30, 1867, more than one year after the war, and including the fiscal year ended Jane li'J, 1876, amounted to $1,528,917,157 87: thus showing an excess of expenditures of $22.190.996.72 against the republican party. (r, to state it plainly, the net cerdinary expenditures of the government, exclusive of the public debt, principal, premiums and interest, and exclusive also of pensions, for a period of 10 years, beginning more than one year after tbe conclusion of the war, were more than $22,000,000 in excess of the expenditures of the government for 73 years next antedating the accession of the republican party to power. ' RXPCBLICAH EXTRAVAGANCE. J Rep. How do the ten yean of democratic rule before the war compare with ten years of republican rule since the war? ; Mr. B If we take tbe ten yearaof democratic conservative role, beginning with the fiscal year ended June 30, 1852, up to tbe fiscal year ended Jane 30, 1861, both inclusive, -we find the net ordinary expenditures of the government to have been $572,872,200 2) as gainst $1,523 917.137.87 for the same rAir-

f?ees for ten years of radical rule during peace, namely, from the fiscal year coded June SO, 1807, to tbe fiscal year ended Jane 30, 1876, both inclusive, giving an j excess or asrcBLiCAX expenditures over tbe expenditures under democratic conservative rule of $950,044,877 35, being an Increase of net ordinary expenditures under republican rule of about one hundred and seventy per cent. The average net ordinary expenditures per annum for the ten years of republican rule was $150.072.G14 11, whilst tbe net ordinary expenditures for the ten years of democratic rule above named were only $57,287,226.05, showing that the net ordinary expenditures under J republican rule during a decade of peace were nearly three times as large as for the decade ot democratic rule immediately preceding the war. If it shall be objected that thrrr is at least one element of unfairness in this presentation of official data, upon tbe score of an increase of population, it is answered that, taking as a basis of this calculation tbe census ot 1SG0, we find that the cost per capita for tbe ten years next previous to the war, for net ordinary ex'peod.tures, with which we alone are now dealin, was $18.20, whilst taking the census of 1870 as the ba-is of the calculation, we find that the cost per capita for tbe ten years of republican rule during a time of peace beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 18G7, was $39.65. being an excess against , tbe tepublkan party of about one hundred and p

seventeen (117) per cent, so that it seems difficult to find the ground upon which any republican stateman may defend his party from the cbarge of excecsive expenditures when considered either in bulk or upon the per capita calculation, and we certainly feel that we deal fairly in selecting tbat decade of democratic rule immediately preceding the war, and contrasting it with a like period of republican rule beginning more than one year after the war had closed, and coming down to the last fiscal year in which the republicans held control of both bouses ot congress. For your use,' If you desire it, I here hand you a tabulated statement, an examination of which will show the particular branches of tbe service In which these heavy discrepancies occur. Take for instance the expenditures In the matter of tbe regular army (It being remembered that the regular army was more than doubled after the conclusion of the war, for what purposes it is difficult to tell unless it be for the accomplishment of political or party advantage in aid of which it has been so busily and efficiently employed until an American congress by solemn net was forced at our last session to incorporate into the army appropriation bill a restriction that absolutely prohibited such use of that arm of tbe government in future X and we find that the aggregate expenditure for this purpose during this time were over $593,000,000 as against $169,000,000 appropriated for the same purpose under the 10 years of democratic administration next preceding the war, leaving a difference against the republican party of more than $424,000,000. 80 in the navy jre find that it cost $234,000,000 for the maintenance of the navy during thf se 10 years of republican rule, as against $123,000,000 during tbe said 10 years ot democratic rule, showing a difference of $110,000 000 in this branch of tbe service against the republican party. Take tt.tf Indian bureau and we find that there was over $02,500,000 expended in this behalf as against $32,500,000 expended for the same purpose under democratic rule, leaving a balance of more than $30,000,000 In this regard charged to the republican account. Take the expenditures for civil miscellaneous purposes, and we find that in this decade of republican administration we have over $638,000,000, as against $247,000,000, expended during this democratic decade, leaving a balance of nearly $391,000.000 to be accounted for by the republican party as an excess of expenditures upon their part The exact figures can h. fnnMl t it.!. I.LI

raivuuuuiiuuugie; Net ordinary expenditures of the United States, exclusive Of public debt, premiums, interest and principal, and exclusive also of pensions, for fe-n years, June 80, 1862, to June 80, 1861, both inclusive, and for ten years from June 30, 1887, to June 30. 1878, both Inclusive. 4 H Ten years of radical rule June 30. 1867. to June 90, 187 notn nscai years inclusive. Ten years of dem oeratic rul from Jom m. 1860.JuneSO, 1861, both nscai years lnclu sive. sags Increase of 10 "years fie "ka nuiican ruie over 10 years of democratic rule for same periods. Increased cost per cent, of 10 years of radical rule, 167 59; averspre per annum of 10 years of radical rule, $152,891,713.78. Average per annum of 10 years of democratic rule, $57,287,226 05. Cost per capita of 10 years of radical rule. $39 65. t - Cost per capita of 10 years of democratic rule, $18.26. - . - - f - EXTRAVAGANT . I9CBEASB Or EIPESDITURXS SINCE THE WAA. Rep. Senator Windom said in his interview that the republicans had gradually reduced the expenditures of tlxm government since the war. Is this true? Mr. B. I answer emphatically, no! For example, let us examine the expenditures of the government, beginning with the fiscal year 1871, and ending with 1876, the lest fiscal year a republican congress controlled the appropriations, embracing net ordinary expenditures only, and excluding the public debt, principal, interest and premiums, and excluding also pensions. Here they are r For the fiscal year 1871....w...$i23,139432 00 or the fiscal year 1872 124,688.453 43 For the fiscal year 173 151,129,210 04 For the fiscal year 1874 l,ou,570 '84 For the fiscal year 1875 I42,t73,tt32 05 For the fiscal year 1S78 139,600,417 67 This shows a gradual increase for 1876, the last fiscal year the republicans controlled both houses, of $13,460,435 (.7, over tbe expenditures for 1871, and an increase of ex penditares for 1874, as compared with 1871, of $11,W0,638.34. These figures show a positive increase of appropriations for the ordinary expenditures of tbe government under radical rule as we recede from the war period, for which no justification can be plead. When wo consider, too, that the purchasing power of the dollar has greatly augmented since 1871, these enormous increases of public expenditures appear still mors lnexcusv hie and criminal. Rep. How does this record of republican extravagance contrast with the record made by the democratic houses of the Forty-fourth and f orty-fifth congresses? ' Mr. B. If we take the expenditures of tbe government for the fiscal years 1877 and 1878, being the years appropriated for by the Forty-fourth congress, the first year since tbe war when tbe democrats controlled tbe bouse of representatives, we find a very heavy decrease of expenditures as compared with any two years since the radicals came into power. The actual net ordinsry expenditures, exclusive of the public debt, principal, premium and interest, and exclusive also of pensions appro printed for by the Forty-third consresj and tbe Forty fourth congress, are as follows: Republican Forty-I Forty-fourth Conthird Congress. giess Dem. Houso. lCo .$H-2,U73.. 05; 1877.. .1116,210,211 01 rS7S... 1.ULUJU.417 67 1878 107.U5a.580M Total .278.674,01 72 Total 1223,801,581 6 ' Here, then, we have stated for each fiscal year ;he actual net ordinary expenditures for tbe years 1S75 and 1876 ender the appropriations made by the republican congress, against which we place the expenditures for the same purposes for the years 1877 and 1878, under the influence of a democratic house, showing an actaal saving of $55,372,468.03 made under the greatest difficulties placed in the way of retrenchment 6y a reEubllcan senate and republican administraon. Rep. Were not the reductions in the eleven great appropriation bills, exclusive of the pension bill, passed by the Forty

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fourth congress undnr the same bills passed by the Forty-third congress greater than tha reduction of fifty-live millions on the expenditures secured by the democratic house

in the f orty-fourth congress? Mr. B. Undoubtedly they were. The reductions In those bills secured by the house, after repeated struggles with the republican senaA. foot up $64,083,615.63; but even this great saving would have been largely increased had not tbo democratic house been thwarted at every step in the direction of retrenchment reforn by a republican senate and republican officials. ltep. How do tne appropriations ior the fiscal years, 1874, 1875 and 1876, when the republicans controlled both houses, compare with the appropriations for 1877, 1878 and 1879, when tbe democrats had control of the house of representatives? Mr. B. In the eleven great bills for the support of the government, the appropria tions for 1877, 1878 ana imv. snow snaptempted savin by the house of over $114,000,600, and an actcal 8AT15G OF MOKE THAU EIGHTY-EIHT MIL LIONS, as compared with similar bills passed by a republican congress for1874, 1875 and 1870. The actual" appropriations for these eleven bills, including pensions, is as ionows 1874-. -Jt 181,5S7,054 61 177,679,473 77 172,600,205 53 1877 Jlto.9P7,9ti6 72 1X?X, , 14084,i 95 )g7,,.,L . 157,213,833 77 1875.... 1876..., Total 1531,866,733 M Total 144396,497 44 This shows an actual reduction secured by the untiring efforts of tbe democratic houses In the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth congresses of $88,270,236.47. lint great as this reduction was ior a period 01 three years, it does not represent all tbat was sought to be accomplished, for it should be borne in mind that the reductions above shown are not as great as were demanded by the democratic houe. but only represent the concessions that the house was able to necure from a protesting republican senate, who.-e committee on ap propriations, continuously struggling ior an increase' cf appropriations, and thwarting the house at every step in Us honest efforts at redaction, was presided over then, as now, by the gentleman whcue interview you have called attention to; so that if there be anything in this record of retrenchment for which that senator may justly claim credit, it is his partially successful but persistent efforts to resist every attempt of a democratic house to reduce the current expenses of the government. It must be recollected also that tbe democracy have nut as yet secured control of both bsanches of congress, and can hardly ba made fairly responsible for such failure of reductions as the senate may have refused to accede to. There can certainly be no injustice in incorporating just here a record of the reductions proposed by the democratic houses of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth congresses, for the fiscal years 1877, 1878 and 1879, and coupling therewith a statement of additions insisted upon or secured by a republican senate. Examining in detail the history of the eleven great appropriation bills, namely, for the military academy, fortifications, consular and diplomatic, navy, post office, Indians, army legislative, executive and judicial, sundry civil, river and harbor, and pensions, we find the following: For the fiscal vear ended Jane 30. 1877 Estimates of departments ....SJX) ,375,553 78 ADoroDrlatlons as nassed the house ... 138,080,856 68 Annronrlations as Increased bv the senate 157,419,767 36 Appropriations as reduced by the house .. 115 ,997,806 72 For the fiscal vear ended June SO. 1878 Estimates of departments S1S4,18Z,0U& 14 Appropriations house as pawea tne - - - - . . MftUW Appropriations as Increased by tne senate 148.968.885 75 Appropriations tts redaoea ty tne house 140,384,606 95 For the flsral "H'led June 80 '"79 Estimates of departments. ....S1762!8,Sf8 SI ADDroDrtations as passed the house . .- 147,687,739 94 Appropriations ' ihesenate. as increased ay 161,85269 41 Appropriations us reduced iy tne House 157,213,933 It might here be remarked that in this year's appropriations is to be found an item of $5,500,000 for the payment of the fishery award, which is in no sense fairly embraced in the net ordicary expenditures of tbe gov ernment, but which is, nevertheless, in eluded in the above statement- Takmgtbe aggregate for the three years, 1877. 1878 and 1879, we find tbat the democratic house, as it originally passed these bills, made tbe fol lowing reductiens, namely: If the bills had become laws as they passed the house, there would nave been a r BAViK i or $143,706,003.24 under the amounts estimated as necessary by the republican Kecretaries, whilst there would have been also a saving of $114,788,829.92 for tne tnree nscsl years 1877, 1878 and 1879, under the three fiscal years 1874, 1875 and 1876. Bat this is not all, for whilst these unquestioned facts, from official sources, snow attempted savings by the democratic house of over one handred and fourteen millions for a like period of repub lican rule, it also shows that a REPUBLICAN PES ATE ADDED $51,183,013 53 to these eleven appropriation bills against the earnest protest of the democratic house. Now. taking these same bills as they finally passed both houses for the years 1877, 1878 and 1879, we find the following redactions, namely: The saving secured by tbe democratic house under tbe department estimates was $117,187.4(9 79, and under the appropriations for 187i 1875 and 1876 it aggregated $88,270,236 47, as before stated, whilst the increase secured by the republican senate over the bills as passed tbe house, after a most desperate struggle, was $26,518,593.45, eo tbat the very pertinent question remains for the distinguished senator, the chairman of the committee on appropriations, to answer, bow do bis professions of economy tally with the stubborn figares, which prove bim and his republican associates on the floor of the senate and of the bouse of representatives to have labored earnestly to fasten more than fifty-one millions of dollars upon democratic house bills, and who succeeded In incre ang them over twenty-six millions of dollars? In some of the statements here given to you I have dealt in round numbers, leaving off the fractions, but should you desire it you are at liberty to use tbe tabulated statements from which these estimates have been taken, ar.d in tbat connection I may assure you tbat the sources of information from which these tables have been made are not to be questioned, as they are, to far as they relate to expenditures, taken from tbe official reports of tbe treasury department, and so far as they relate to appropriations, are obtained from the records ot the ap propria ion committee. Rep. What force is there then in the point tbe republicans are trying to make against the democracy on the score of deficiency bills, which it icharged are larger In tbe present Heal year than heretofore? Mr. B. No more than there is in any other of the campaign misrepresentations that are beirg manufactured by their campaign commit ee and sent broadcast throughout the country. The appropriations- made by congress constitute the laws by which tbe reveral departments of the government are to be conducted. - No deficiency can occur as long as the law is observed. . The appearance of a deficiency is generally proof conclusive that the officer charged with the administration of the department in which the same apf ears has passed outside of and

violated tbe law. ' It must be remembered

that the execution of all laws dunag these years has been intrusted to republican hands, and that it is republican secretaries and republican officials that have nianulacturea tbe deficiencies that a democratic house has been forced to confront We believed at the time that these anpropriaiions were made, and do ' still believe, 'that it is susceptible of proof tbat the appropriation asmade, notwithstanding the heavy reductions, were more than sufficient, with proper ad ministration of the several denartmnta. to have provided for all the necessities of the government. Now, however, we areeharged with any laxity of administration that may, during the last eighteen years, have crept into ana esiaonsnea ltseii . in tbe management of the government in the hands of the republican party, and thus they seek to detract from the great savings secured by a democratic house by charging against it the millions illegally expended by republican secretaries. But beyond this it is to be said tnat a - very large proportion of the sums found necessary to be provided for bv defi ciency bills ante-date tbe advent of the democratic party Into power in the house, reach ing bacK to the hscal year lit&aad years prior thereto.- For exam pie, by way ot illustrating the character of these debts for which appropriations were niadein these deficiency dujs, take the case of the late administration of the navy, which bequeathed to us as a legacy a debt of near I v ten mil lions of dollars. - the ereater nortion. if not all. of which had been created outside of and without any, warrant of law, no one denying that under the- head of deficiencies for 1876 and prior years, and those growing out of tbe misappropria tion oi i unas in tne ravy department, of the . Whole amount of $5,559,000. about $1,800,000 of it was for deficiency of pay of tbe navy produce ny an illegal -diversion of lands tbat had already been appropriated for that purpose, and the remainder, nearly $4 000,000, being for the liquidation of contracts maae without any warrant of law, and many of them covered with suspicion at least, if not tainted by fraudso that but little jusAt . a 'a. . ... uce can ne discovered in tne enort ot the republican leaders to make us responsible for these sums of deficiency which . their own omciais unlawfully created and left to rest as an incubus upon some succeeding congress. - Indeed it was a matter of grave doubt in the minds of many whether this vast debt, created without semblance of law, and much of it .the product of fraud,' should have been discharged without searching investigation or- judicial Inquiry. Bat to avoid the semblance' of repudia tion upon the part of the government, even of obligations entered into by faithless officials, it was deemed best to provide pay ment ior such sums as might not be avoided, recognizing In this one of the many penalties imposed by republican rule. - Again, I might say, by way of illustration, you will find one item in tbe shape of an advanced appropriation on the next year of three hundred and odd thousand dollars, for subsistence to the army, which sum was inserted In a deficiency bill, and deducted! from the army bill, upon the suggestion of the secretary ot war. And so you might go through the list There is nothing in this point of substantial truth or force, and It is only made use of by the republicans because the very title of the deficiency bill affords them a pretext for the confusion of facta. So tbat, view it as we will, no one can deny that during the last three years, with the control of tbe house In democratic hands, the appropriations have been smaller, even as loaded down by republican senatorial liberality, than for any like period of time under complete republican rule; and how ever much or little importance may be attached to the democratic policy of economy, as evinced by the work of reducing ippro priations. the Ctry !f.-vet confronted by the fact that on 4ha score bf actual expenditures there is no period of republican dominition that docs not suffer gnevioualy in comparison with tbe two years now last past, wherein the hand of the democratic party, through its control of the house, has been firmly fastened upon the purse strings of tbe country. Is it unfair, then, to assume that with an extravagant republican senate displaced by a democratic majority in sympathy with the Eolicy thus illustrated by every democratic ouse, supported by an executive in accord with tbe efforts thus inaugurated, tbat tbis grateful process of diminution of expenditures and lightening of burdens will go bap-' pily forward to tbat consummation which the people have a right to demand; and did demand in no unc;rtin tones in their verdict of November, 1S7G? . , The desperate efforts of republican leaders, like Senator Windom and Mr. Foster, and others, to torture official figures In io a cloak for their party's, extravagance and corruption, whilst not to be Justified Is. probably not to be wondered, at But tbe uncandid attempt of these gentlemen in taking the offensive, and thereby seeking to show be-. fore an intelligent people that the charge of extravagance belongs to us, will only suffice -to illustrate the audacity of an effort made necessary by the desperation of their cause. Xolais; ib Aarao Rwd PrT Troy Times.1 L In Delhi, India, we saw the celebrated basket trick, which is sometimes poorly imitated by professional magicians in this country. A native ' produced a basket and a blanket and. after permitting us to see tbat they contained nothing, inverted tbe basket on the ground and covered it with a blanket We paid no attention to his incantations, but kept our eves fixed on tbe basket and the space around it, resolved that so boy should be smuggled Into it or ont of it without seeing him. What made the feat still more wonderful was the fact that tbe parrormer stood in a clear space, and we could look down upon him as be proceeded. He went through the customary act of thrusting a sword through tbe interstices of the basket, when tbe cries of a boy were heard as if in immortal pain issuing from the basket. Turning it over, there was a boy within, ap parently unnurt ana seemingly enjoying the . fan. Restoring the basket with the blanket over it, to the former position, with the boy underneath it tbe juggler west tbroueh with some incantations, and then, runnine tbe sword under the basket, tossed it away from him. Turning over the basket no bov was to be seen. So far as anything could be observed, there was no possible place in which the little fellow could be concealed. Another feat quite as astonishinz we saw performed in the streets of Constantinople. An itinerant magician showed us a cane which had the appearance of beinewood and verv knotty, this he tossed in the air as high as he could, and when it struck the ground it took tbe form of a live serpent, with blazing eyes and rapid move ments, it looked like a dangerous speci men, and one which no man in his senses would like to approach. Catching up this monster, the fellow coiled it around hi neck and fondled it while it writhed and exhibited the most venomous cualities. Throwing it high up in the air, it fell to the ground the same cane which vra had bandied at our ease. It was this trick which Aaron per formed in Fjjypthen he turned his rod into a serpent, and the Egyptian magician did the same thing in imitation.

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