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, , . , . .. "irus iL i iw warm u nuij; . from my kneeling posture. o - it I i i.mnlv breast, had left . i t i t ! b,,i 4,i,PHed-two i 7 m amongthe brauchcsof, I leave them together. Jack with a t!re,.f.,rH.edbv.andIhi;dot seen ! th iS f ? X frown" upon his brow, and Esther simIVrlupH he'had gone to India, as i " ! T ' " Pg

, 1 ,1 .,o r .1.,;,,., .ov,.,. ""' .--. , "V . The dav wanes. The usual eatinsr lias

Mvnd vi .hort norosvP d.Ies- mv i 10 AuulMl XMinis' wun ms lnRll ; through the long avenue of trees, lean- j nWne a, well as my he'art is heavv. I J? 1 P , , ing upon Jack's arm. I have seen him

-Wbat if Jack should never come back, , 1 . '"V gaze with admiration into her upturned P to India and perhaps die of the VaCmS Wp T e T 1 face, and I feel that I have seen enough. v.lUv f. ver'-" Tie tears ttarts-llenlv venm,Lx ntentedly, th a gar be- j. isAed that now, to-dav and to-

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VOLUME VII. Merc-tUtiY heart U not enlisted in the estAe. The oM folks, yon know," with a sly i .The sun hail set in the globing w est an hour ago; the shadows begin to lfr p. li; the moon rides on high, casting a pale silvery light over the long streetThe frog begin their evening revelry, and the sound of their dull, croakiug voices conies distinctly up from the j mosy bank of the river. The slight I breeze bends the rushes that seem to le bidding a good night to the tall, broad- : leaved grasses which grow with dense ; thickness in the marsh. .Tack and I used to admire this spot in

t the moonlight. V.Y always drove by ncss? But the nutter of a fleecy shawl i it, and stopped to fc:ist our eyes upon through the green foliage distracts my the scene ; but with him its loveliness 1 attention and his question remains un- ! lias vanished. The marsh is dank and answered. dismal. The will-o'-the-wisp, which We have come to the spot where the 5 dances alluringly on, seem slike the fiery j snowy damask is already hud. Esther eye of some cruel dragon, and the rip- j La Strange is there, robed in rose-tinted 1 pie of the river over the stones has a muslin. She is simpering, as usual, but dreary sound. I not into Jack's face, for he is not there. ! We reach home at lat. I am glad j I get rid of my companion, who strolls ' that the ride is over, and that lialph is s off to look for ferns with a bevy of gay I at least separated by a pair of high, j damsels. I winding stairs. I throw myself upon j I shall surely quarrel with the dove-' i the bed and sob violently, for my pent- j eyed model if I do not find something i up tears refuse longer to remain un- j for idle hands to do. I roll up my

shed. If Jack is lost to me for ever I , - i have nothing more to live for; only one more day through which to agonize by .' seeing him bend over and administer to the wants of his dove-eyed fiancee, and j then I will see him no more, i To-morrow, which never comes, the : Argos Club are going to give a picnic I for some charitable institution. I could j not refuse the pleading of Ilalph, for his j holidays are drawing to a close, and I I had blindly promised; but what harm j could all my flirtations do now. It was too late to retrttit and there was to me a painful fascination in watching the model girl simper up into the face of Jack ; my Jack whom I had lost ; but she ,, . i i- . would not lose him, she did not flirt, and he did not like women that flirted. I The day has dawned dark and chilly, I I raise my head from the pillow and look out. September is not a safe month for niiu.o tt is iihram eurA tr ruin vhfn 1 j.u ui.wu u... v, . .. . . . .i. .-i. it: li 1 i you icasi expect n, aim x iuiumjf nup and long for it to rain, but that would ( v.v n.. ..vv ...... j w .. I longer; it must eventually come off, why j j not now. I once more close my eyes, , ! and drop off into a light slumber. The household are up with the rising j I cnrlv dawn, ami it docs not raiu : it, is , . " 7 sultry almost to July heat; even the suddenly become of rare importance to

me; amnereanaHpinrnereromaKelmsbeen gono through, and now the the folds of my blue and white muslin t waIuler or in groups and pairs.

arcss nan.g more grace nuty. xne curis ; : t. i. . i v i i. t t e mcu nun neeu orusueu uuck irum my tempies tne uay iiore are clustering , in natural waves aWt my forehea.1, and stilt I linger, little satisfied with the re- ( flection. And Avby should my toilet on this partienlar day be more elalwrate or more carefully made? Had I also Wome ncKie ana so quicRiy reverrea my aitec- ; . . , ,. -, . . , t nnstv snioi.e enrung alve his f;ur lieaa. , . , les, thrv .have gone an hour ag-, . .... 1 1 lit if ci . - i,t ; m ui n,r vour r.srio mirror as to who will 1h the f.iircst of ,1 n t I'l'.r. inn iH.lv cx"nl i c:. 1 niiing, tli.it l.m:-"v lire vs. I hope 1 4 j Wi il. 1 ut d - rit for :-.--:e t. -'A-.-.r.d-it-r t h.-p and leave me to wandt rhtqn1v : h - o."I r.:a t.f. tid on will find m.v cx:ua v 1 1011001 I'M : , t. it a a 1 , ui'.tyll ii,kt:-v. i.lt' .t the otra la-ur sh rt -o irl i-h a iut f r the as -I. I j I re

PAOLI, ORANGE CO., ly the interlacing brandies of the trees, forming a try sting-place a retreat for lovers rih gladly seek its shelter. A sparkling- river !orlers the fjrore, anl a noisr cascade tumbles anil dances over a high rook. "We enter the open rustic srate. I have fallen into my old habit of reply- j ing in random manoyllables to the ob- ! servations of my companion - about the weather, which interesting topic he has prolonged to an enormous length. lie is poetically inclined, and does justice to the sun's flickering light and shade. He asks "if the lark that sings on high is not an emblem of joyous happisleeves and seize the lemon-squeezer, where, over a bright-red tiib, I press the life and fragrance from the bright-yellow fruit. With a face rivaling the color of the tub, so great have been my exertions to be useful, I gaze into the box and find it only a quarter empty. My wrists are swollen and begin to ache painfully. There is a slight rustling round behind me. I look up, and find that Jack and Esther are regarding me. I turn hastily again to my work, and, with set teeth, squeeze with renewed vipror. The squeezer is suddenly taken fr0m my lame hands, and Jack is bending down, making sad havoc among the lemons. He is very near me now so near that I can feel his breath upon my cheek. I can distinctly see the clear olive face, and my heart throbs so I fear that he hears every beat. T 1 . 1 . : j. iuu uiiiim liiiiiviiiLi n mai i l - , , ... . ot yoursell, Madge," lie says; "wliy are yOU not walking about and enjoying the iiu-u uu. uiMt'uii til oiLtiiiii ju Hit; uii : It was Jack speaking to me in the same authoritative voice which he had done four weehs ago weeks which had seemed to me years. ' " If you will kindly make a martyr of wi i vi,i wfci j uuuicu in iiL'iiiviA K.fx iuca'pi;uii;.7 va iuc people, I Avill go," I reply, coldly, rising b?en tW The amount of fliliation c-ome to the riv ' he surface, borne sit the wts n the nmW Uie trees aud watch the clouds, which have an ominous aspect, float over their heads The deep Taxine in the distance rimrs with the merry laughter of fmi.seekers. And I, like the rest, I have Wjmaered off, but I have no com- ; ion j h seon tho model rl ; R:mnP list simr,e, sbe cHdcs morrow will be alike to me. I take an intense delight in crushing down the t-"-der f rns which spring up in my p.dh. Has not my life been cm-hedoiit? lias not LV.her La Strange tramj led r.j-.-n me, and dues she not fotl a keen satisfaction in the victory? I threw nijs-i. If do".n upon a gn , n plat aud stretch out my tired limbs. a great lluk ilouvh whkh h.tngs above mo, sends ovir my rc-ting place a coul bla-t, c t! i r clouds f.-II r.v until tl.t re is f. rmed an almivt unbroken chain which vpir.t s;-i 1 thi. :i ru-h t-:v thi r flgnhi. The rit r u t -hes wildly on, the swift current e-rrj: T l.:thivT wid.in it -i reach lsc- ; re ir. Mhe s.ay f."- in irhli::g ! i 10 v U 1 c.oi I.e. r n -ed k ll'l'V, t..e to1 ain t y -tti.-u. .1 i "on; no t on e thrals -in d"i-

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INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBERS, 1878.

" Oh, Jack, Jack F I cry, throwing np my hands as if to grasp the lowering clouds. ' ' t Xa.-l.t-r treasure farth liath tton Than I once possessed ; Ah, so rich tliat when twu gx.ne TVorthleM seemed the rest. A few large, cold drops fall with a chilly pplassh upon my face. " I raise my self npon my elbow and look at the western skv. It is growing rapidly darker and darker, and the drops came faster. I gather up my blue and white muslin which had been donned in the early morning with such tender care. It is now limp and damp and streaked with grass shun and . lemon juice. s The thin, flimsv fabric is much like Esther La St range's frail beauty; with a little wear and tear it becomes faded and colorless. ; I grasp the sweeping trail edged with snowy lace to find only black mud clinging to the delicate meshes. A distant peal of thunder hurries my steps over the jagged, moss-covered rocks ; my feet j slip, and my ankles twist at almost every j step. The air has become again sultry to al- j most suffocation ; the leaves on the trees stand motionless, for there is not a I breath of air to stir them. ! "Why had I wandered so far from the rest ? perhaps they will not miss me, and leave me in the dark grove alone in the storm." The thought almost makes me fly over the slippery ground ; the rain is falling fast, and my thin, dress clings to my shoulders and arms. I can feel the delicate flowers in my summer hat dangle limp and wet upon my hair. A gust of wind from a passing cloud makes me Tpause to catch my breath. It begins to blow an almost furious gale, and the lightning plays with a zigzag motion in the heavens. I run under a high tree for shelter, but, remembering the danger of the tooclose proximity of trees in a thunder storm, I rush out into the wind and rain ; I reach the spot where the feast had been spread, but there is nothing save discarded lemon rinds. I look about in the gathering darkness, but there is no one about ; they have gone, and I om alone. I burst into tears while the rains pour down upon my unprotected head, and the lightning and wind sing in my ears. The gray clouds become darker, and it seems that the night is closing in. I once more gather up me clinging garments and run blindly through the long avenue of trees, but I am deadly afraid ; a flash of lightning seems to reveal dark, unearthly forms, hovering behind the thick stumps. I raise my voice and call, in all the agony cf my despair, the name of the only one being w ho it seems in all the world can save me, " Jack, oh ! Jack." The stump of a felled tree stands in my way, but, in my blindness, I see it not ; I stumble forward, I throw out my arms to grasp a ! slender sapling wliich the wind bends , , ..... . ... rowara me, due ii is not tne sapnng tnat I riv tirniQ nnmo in mfef. T!fh it ia o human body of flesh and bones. "Child; child, where have you been in all this storm ? do you not know that they have all gone i Yon were not missed until they had passed beyond the hill ; they wanted to turn back, but I said I would come in search of you. Madge, are you trying to take your own life ?" It is Jack's voice that is speaking, and Jack's strong arm is thrown about my J dripping form ; it is only for a moment, i thonoh. What ricrht has he who is en- ! gaged to another to touch me? "Jack Meredith, what is it to you if I should try to take my life ? What worth to you is the exigence of a heartless flirt?" I said, wrenching mysilf from his r ra-p. " "Your life w ill always be a great dc 1 to me, ?I..de; but I flattered myself ' once that it was evm more, btfore your c,,,,.;,! robbed me of what I hoped to c.x my ow n," he says, s.ly. "And b-'f.u-c von tho-:;;ht that the beautiful fce of Esther La strange was more uircd to you. Oh. J.u k, why did von not h t medio? whvdovou force mo to Ihe? You know th A I h te Ik; -.Jill XiliriUs, "It w..s you who drove me into rdlAinn : V. e v id b .. .ly f I-f, r." he VSS 1? T? T Til TT il PIT -7 ; " T -T f, in,'1 "i i. d inl rot-V-.'V. W i . f. -A I ioine i i.i i on .re rac t TOTl

reins and folding me in his strong arms. I " Only say that you love me, Madge, and , I will be satisfied. Say Jack, I love ; yon more than all the world, and I shall !e content." lie is bending his head to catch the words which come slowly and timidly between the tears which are falling rap- ; ielly down my face. But I have said it in all the fullness of my heart, and he is i satisfied. j Milwaukee, Wis. i FACTS FOB TOE OILLlOl Eeplcan Duplicity as to Democratic ! ': . Ecciomy, Eipssei lj EepmeniaJ tire BMMrn, ef KeaMy. What the Record Shows in Refutation" of Senator Window's Misrepresentations of the Expenses of the Government Under Republican and Democratic Rule. The Immense Saving Effected by two Democratic Houses. What it Hight Have Been if Assisted by the Eepublican Senate. The following is the result of an interview between & reporter of the Washington J'osi and Hon. Joseph 0. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, inretiewcf the charge.? and misrepresentations alleged to bave been made by Senator Wisdom, ia the interest of tho Republican pariy, and by which that gentleman has endeavored to break the force of the economy of Democratic rule, as established by the records of the Government. Reporter Have you " Wiudora Interview," read the sc -called circulated by the Gor-ham-Halo committee? Mr. B.'acliburn Yea, carefully. It is of a pieee with similar campaign misrepresentations wi h which the Republican Congressional Committee aro tryirg to deceive the people. Reporter Whit action, if any, will the Congressional Democratic Committee take in reference to this and similar efforts of the Republic ms to cry down the reputation of the Dcm-cc-atic party for economy? Mr. Biackburn Senator Windcm is only following out a plan adopted by his party in rs 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 ia various ways. For example, he refuses to take note of the actual decrease of expenditures under Democratic rule, and, whilst he cannot deny alao the great reductions in the appropriations which the Democratic House has effected, he endeavors to explain it away by saying that these reductions were made "by denying appropriations indispensable to the public service ; by postponing necessary public werKS ; by repudiating national obligations ; by withholding lartre sums for deficiency bills." All thet-e charges are knowirto bs entirely untrue, but ' it setma to be an understood thing all along j the Republ.can line that something must be j done to explain away Democratic economy. j Reporter What is the comparative record of j the Democratic and Republican parties as to j economy in conducting the Government? Mr. Biackburn The ofilcial figures will verify what has become a matter of household ! knowledge, that the record of the Democratic party is one of economy, and the recoid of the I Republican party is one of extravagance and corruption. Economy with the Democratic party is of no recent origin, and, as was to be expected, as soon aa the Democracy obtained control of tho House of Representatives, it forced upon the Republican administration and Senate reductions of great magnitude, both in approp; iations and expenditures. Before discussing recent savings effected by the Democratic Ouuae, let us examine the actual expenditures from the commencement of our Government down to the last year when the Republican pirty had control of both houses of Congress. The net ordinary expenditures of the Government, exclusive of tho public debt principal, pttarams ar.d interest and exclusive also of pensions being only expenses for the army, navy. Indians and miscellaneous civil, from the 8cal year 1733 to the fiscal year ened 1876. can be easilv found in the reports ' of tho Secretary of the Treasury: For the war ! period from the fiscal year ended Jane 80, ; 1SS2, to the fiscal year ended June 30, 186S, ! both inclusive, more than one year af;erthe i close of the war, coverirg & period cf five 'years, the net ordinary exper. liter a ; "s'wve Eimed amounted to $3,Z"J,V-23,-Sl.Ct Now, in ordtr to ma&e a crrpnou wl.ii. h even the Re-a-I'.vaii C'ia.TL. -i i.f a Senate ccraa i.t"e canm.t with 'l Lis ac-pirtd iknowUde cf Courts sncien-f j:'.!y refute, we wi'd ci .ata this war reiied frr.-i"p..r cjacula- ! t.cn. 'i'l.iS txiii dune, e ftud that, fr' ta ihe ; commencement cf the Governrr.ent to the b.glrnij e-f the wir, that id, from the ri-e:i.l jear end I'l'an-h 4, 17r do-n ti nd ir.c!uiu g ! tie Cfcalyesr tnd.d Jane CI, lf.Jl, both incluFive, coveriz a ptiiod cf mere tijan teventyl: rf s yeirs, tie r't tri' - iry ex-t -.litres of the C verrr,e-rt frr V "rp---: 3 six)-, e t.ted ftr-f-'-it-ti. 1 t3 ch f7-l.l'l.l?. Kjw, lb? net rrl.ii-ry eyr 1-t a n cf ti 3 Giren.: fi.t for ', t-.9 if Jli 3 .rpe f.-r ti-i 1. t t: y rs cf r.i rtl. -i I. pi' 1 o -a ruif, Iccmnir tt.e ; LalyfArc . -.1 J .i-'e " "7, cir fa r.:n e n ten a. . -r t . -3 wv a-.d iae ailme the f-cl cr c- '. -1 C ', l-i'X sr.i;r. 1 to i "tl7,1.7 fc7, t1--.- ";nei' uf ex; f-.-i ! t:,nsif .22.1,1'. ''2 f e R'r1 ' ' r-.-j'.j. Cr. to f '-'s it T-"--iT. the I'tter ' .rry ' exj ", " t ires cf ths (it-tl.','-' tt i ;i.1'.3 c. to, jr it , a. prtr e-r, i 1 1 a- : t f I' i if Ui v-r-!, 1' iii-t9 excinfiva of i9 ltd ii t rf.r i,tnd un c:.e it..' f" 7fef 1 ' j . left e war. were rr.orc ill in th-? , i tl .re s cf r'HtT1 cf .i:j h t.ts jiirs tf ; '.m i f F n - .t yi i t. j 1 1 's " , mi 1. 4 t 1 l (

NUMBER 3. the decade of Democratic rule inimcliately precodin the war. If it shall be objected thl there is at leat one t-lenient of unfairness in this presentation of official data, np?n the scare of an increase of population, it : ia mswered that, takiog as & basis of this calculation tfce census of IS GO, we find tht the cost per capita for the ten years next previous to the Kar, for net cifiiaaiy expenditares', with which we alone are now dealmtr, was $18.28, whilst, taking the cer.sns of 1870 as the bisis of the calculation, we iind that the cot pr capita for the tea yeans of Republican ru'a during a time of peace, beginning with the rlsca-l year ending June 30, 1867, was f 33.63, bo'ug an excess against the Republican n&rty of about 117 per cent., eothat it seems difiicaft to find the ground upon which any Republics n statesman may defend his party from tha charge of excessive expenditures w'hen considered either in bulk cr upon the per-cspita calculation, f ni wo certainly feel that we deal fairly ia selecting that decade of Democratic rule immediately preceding the war. and contrasting --it with a like period of Bepnbltcao rule beginning more than one year after the wsr had closed, and coming down to tho last fiscal year in which the Republicans held control of both honeea of 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 the service in which these heavy discre p&ncie8 occur. Take, for instance, the expenditures in tho matter of tho regular army (it being remembered that the regular army was more than doubled after the conclnsian cf the war, for wnat purpose it is difficult to tclL unless it bo for tne accomplishment of political or party advantage, in aid of which it has been to busily arc! euiciently employed, until an American Congress, by solemn act, was forced at t nr last session to incorporate into the Army Appropriation bill a restriction that absolutely prohibited such ure cf that arm of the Government in future), and we find that the agijregHte expenditures for this purpose during this time were over 533,000,000, as against ?io9,000,000 appropriated for the same purpose under the ten years of Democratic administration next preceding tho war; leaving a difference against the Republican party of more than $'421,Oau,0;0. So ia tho navy wa liad that it cot 23 1,0 DO, 000 for the maintenance of the navy during thee ten years of Republican rule, as against f'123.000,0(k) during the eaid ten years of Dmecratic rule, showing a difference of $ 110,00'!, 000 in this branch 'of tho service a iain.--.t the -iiepnbiicia party. - Take the Indian Bureau and wt find" that there was over $62,500,000 expended in this behalf, as agaii st $32,500,000 expended for the same purpo.se under Democratic rule, leaving a balauce of more than $30.000,OCO in this regard charged to the Republican pcc.aint. Takr the expenditures for civil miscellaneous parpo-es, and we find that in this decade of Republican administration we have over $038,000,000, as agiinst $217,000,000 expended during this Democratic decade, leaving a balance of nearly 391,000,000 to be accounted for by the Republican party as an excels of expenditures upon their part. The exact figures can be found in tne table furnished you marked A." Increased coat per cent, of ten years of Radical rule, 167. EO; average per annum often years o.' Radical rule, f 152, ,91, 713. 73. Average per annum of tenyears of Democratic rule, 657,237,226.05. Cost per cap.ta of ten years cf Radicil rule, f'39.63. Cost per capita of ten years of Democrat "c rule, $18.26. Rep. Senator Windora said in his interview that the Republicans bad gradually reduced the expenditures of the Government since the war. Is tbis true ? Mr. B. I answer emphatically, eo ! l or example, let us examine tne expenditures of tie Ooveriment. beginning with the fr-ol ye-f.r 1871. and ending with 1876, the last fiscal year a Republican Congress controlled the appropriations, embraeu g net ordinary eipenditiv es only, and excluding the public debt, rtiincipil, interest and premiums, and excludh-g also pensions. Here thev are: For the fideal year 18U $121 1K9.932 00 For the fiscal ytar IS"2 121 f.SS 451.43 For the fiscal year 18 3 351,129,210 t 4 For the fiscal Jtar 1874 ICS, 0 ),670.34 For the fincal yi ar 1875 142 73,&i2 5 For the fiscal year 1876 138.Ci-0.417 C7 This shows tlie gradual increase for 1876. ti-e last fiscal year the Republicans controlled bjth Houses, of $13,460,485.67, over the expenditures for 1S71, and an ice ease of expenditures for 1871, as compared with 1S71, cf 11.94 .- 638.34. These figures show a positive increase of appropriations for the expenditures of the Government under Radical rule as we recede from the war period, for which no jttft.fication can be plead. When we consider, too, that the purchasing power of the dollar has greatly augmented since 1S71. these enormous increases i-f public expenditures appear still more inexca: -able and crinsital. -Rop. Sow does thi3 record of Republican extravagance contrast with the record made by the Democratic Houtes cf the Fcrtj-fourth and Forty-fifth Cong-re -ses 1 Mr. B. If we toko the expenditures cf the Government for the ris:sl years 1S77 and 187, being the years appropriated for by the Fortyfourth Congress, the first year since the war when the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, we fiud a very heavy decrease of expenditures as compared with any two years since the Radicals came into power. The actual net ordinary expenditures, exclusive cf the put lie debt, principal, premiums and interest, and exclusive also of penfians ap pjxpiiattid for by the Forty-tnird i Congress and the Forty-fourth Congress, are as follows : i Republienn Fort if-third1 Forty- r,'ft OwTrex, j Cunqreit. Democratic l!-u 1ST? $ 42.-173 632 05!,877 1 1 H5,24,2t 1 01 : 1876 J3'j.rN',4l7.6"flS"3 lij",'.'55.a;'J CI Total. ...f27,C74,'5J3.7-: Tc U . . . . S-J K- I .1-1. Cl II re, then, we Lavd sUid for eacli t.--a! ye cj the actual net ord. '.Err esrj-nd.turcs f r the itars l";75acd lb7:5 nndr the a;; rt, nat.ocs made y a lUpahh'-. Ou'To.-. au:i-t . i h.cti we plice the ex;cn !.tres f- r tie e pej-rw-s f-.r the yewra 1-.77 d'd 1". u i'ir the mf. ur.ee of a Der.ev-f h- R' nje, i-i. : an actual !avirTof $00,572,4 r. nnler the greate.-t c .Vuulfei p'accl i.i. the way of rrtrt'.rbrje it ?. y a iv-r-ths.i t'r.ate and a lu.-', ul.ii-.-n b hr.": l-trj.'; n. iUp V.'eri i.rt the ra.'jcir.g in the elc-vea p'e;t Afn prlitioa L-ii", nc '."l ive the fce.. -.-a I'll, r- .ilT th; I :--f iriai Cngrc ss r.nj-r thj s&mo til s -.dhy t'.o 1 j:ty- i 1? -"-d Ckirrre-J jrreater thn 'he ti l'.f,w,vi f.f t;",f- ',C. Jcol eeir "n 1 ; y tho Lti'jriit.i: iii-a ia the 1 ;rj- ".rih Coagress? ijf T- IT ...... . . . . A... . 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ere:,;, it iu.i :.tC Ttstrcr.(t L. ui -1 V e ti.Tf -. v tLat tl e L tl.'- ' 'r,l of li ti 5t ir tc;n t IU 1 i ." J c ;h branches of t ili f 't ! 1 -- .'y e i f a (f rt rfu.l ta &: of Uie re JulT t -3 .-Jen. 71 i imvrpci . . 1 fi'." "v 1 i 1 V l, n-ea of tl C r re f ' a Id t'ocs t": i a litv-fi r tl e f "-! ar ra 1 a Stat" t V of t'.e ;-;v-"j ici-.alA-'.i ..i . s1 ly, fi r tt-e r.i..;ry a- .-ni,f:i. elir aud d phvatUc, navy, i.;-'c armv, i-:i;-, e, cs'itf an 1 a te 1 '. C Ji1 , t.ir.Mtr and 1 rtihor, aa.l j una tne icuowiog : For ttie fiscal year ended Jane 3. 1S77 : BUiiatM of dtpartraeatt ti 0,S73,SS.T Approjirxuti.itts mm paKi Ut Bonie.. J3.-,04UM.69 Ai pri pnaUoaa aa increaed by the bt-naip 157,419,767.36 Approprtattooa i reduced by th House HS.s-.7,03.72S For the fiscal year ended June 30, ls,73 : Estimate rt dpartcueiit ftt4.1H3.005.I4 appropriations aa paa.-e4 the Eoue.. 13it3-j9,SU7.37 A; r-j-: Faluns aa iticreaai-d by the nat 148.Csa.685.75 Apnropriations a.i redticed by the Hoiiw I4ft.SMUCCC.g3 For the rica! year ended June SO. 179: Estimates of d partiuonU fl7ii 2JfnS.s4.st Ar.prTpri.Hii.iia an pied th IIouw.. li7,CS7,73J.91 ayiproprkuions aa Incrratcd by the Senate , 1C1,S32,CCD.41 Appropriations aa raJuc"4 by the Houfe 157,213,833 77 It might here be remarked that in this year's appropriations is to be found an item of f 5,500,000 for " tho payment of th fitihery award, which is in no sense fairly embraced ia the net ordinary expenditures of the Government, but which is, nevertheless, included in the above statement, T&kirn;' lha aggregate for the three years 1S77, 1373 and 1S70, we find that the Democratic House, as it originally passed these bill, made the following reductions, namely : If the bills had become laws as they passed the House, there wonld bave been & saving of $143,706,003.24 under the amounts estimated as necessary by tne Republican Secretaries, while there would have been also a saving cf f 114,7S3,820.92 for the three fiscal years 1877, 3878 snd 1879, nnder the three fiscal years 174, 1175 and 1S76. But this is not all, for while these unquestioned facts, from oflicial sources, Bhotr attempted savings by the Democratic House of over one bundled and fourteen millions for a liko period of Republican rule, it also shows that a Republican Senate added $51,183,013.53 to these eleven appropriation bills against the earnest protest of the Democratic House. Now, taking these same Litis as they finally passed both houses for the years 1877, 1878 and 1879, we find the following leductions, namely: ,The saving secured by the Democratic House undor the department estimates was $117,187,400.73. and under th6 appropriations for 1374, 1375 and 1876 it aagVegatod $88,270,237. 47. as before slated, whila the increase secured by the Republican Senate over the bills as passed tho Hou-e, after a most desperate struggle, was $2(1, 518,593. 45, sc that the very pertinent question remains for the dittinguished Senator, the Chairman of tho Committee on Appropriation1', to answer, how elo hi professions of economy tally with the tubborn figures, which prove him and hia R-publican associates on the floor of the Senate and of the House of Representatives to have labored earnestly to fasten more than $51,000,000 upon Democratic House bills, and who succeeded in increasing them over $26.000,000 V In some of tho btatements h ere given to you I have dealt in round numbers, leaving off the fractions, but, should you desire it, you are at liberty to use the tabulated statements from which these estimates have been taken anl, in that connection, I may assure you that the sources of Information from which these tub'.es have been made are not to be questioned, as they are, so far as they relate to expenditures, taken from the official reports of the Treasury Department, and, so far as tisey relate to appropriations, arc obtained from the records of the Appropriation Committee. Rep. What force is there then in the point the Republicans are trjmg to make against the Democracy upon the score of deficiency b;l!s, which, it is charged, are larger In the present fitcal year than heretofore? Mr. B No more than there is in any other of the - campaign rvsrepre-si ntatians that are being manufactured by their Campaign Committee and sent broadcast throughout the country. The appropriau jns made by Congress constitute the law by which the several departments of the Government are to be conducted. No deficiency can occur so long aa the law is observed. Tho appearance of a deficiency is generally proof c.mcinmva that the oflioer "chsrged with the administration of the department in whieti ihe ssnia appe-ars has pa-i-sed out of and violate ) the law. It must be re-neenbered that the execution of all laws during tkee years has been intrusted to Republican hands, and that it is rteEiiblican 8- cretaries and Republican officials that have manufactured the deficiencies that a Democratic House has loen forced to confront. We believed at tho time that these appropriations were made, and do still believe, that it is susctpttble of proof that the appropriations as made-, no'.withttardiog the heavy reductions, were more than tnfdeient, with proper administration of the several departments, to have provided for all iha necessities of the Government. Now, however, we are charged with any laxity of administration that may, during the !a-1 eighteen years, have crept into and esatab ished itself in the management of the Government in the hinds of the Republican party, and thus they seek to detract frcra the great savings Eecured by a Democratic House by charging against it the millions illegally expended by Republican Secretaries. But beyond this it ia to be said thst a very Urge proportion of the sums found necasgary to i provided for by detlcici.cy bills ante-date the advent of the Demoer.'.uc party into power ia tho House, reaching b&eii lo the fiscal y t r 187S and years prier ther-.-'o. For example, by way of illustrating the character of these debts for which appropriation were made in these deficiency b.l , take the case of the late administration of the navy, wbkh Vm;' J- I to us as a legacy a debt of nearly S 10 'toA', the greater rt:"r, if net aihof v-. h Li I been created ontei le of ai.d without ary warrant of Jaw, no one decying that n-.-lir tho head of deficiencies for 13 1 fa and i rir e and tb-"3 fr; fr...ds i-i t.. an.fi ,i t f I "i was frr dc'." d.ietr 1 Ly an , alseadv been rv.t r-f ii-irn rr-r r '.t-i e f Muv Ivp-trt m f, f ! wi ( 'u c: , . ", L.--. 1 1." ' ef ucr ff p:y ef t-4 i.j-y, ;r fg'ddv- . n'f f-nistht ha 3 fi-i-r ; i r thfet i :r; a. id t .f f ,r ti a 1 any warr; w.th tla't. 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