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SEPT. 10. 187H. POLITICAL MEETINGS. HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY will arldre hh fellow e'tizens as follows: NorthflsM, T'19-ilay, Ront 17. I.'tnhnnld, Tue'td'vv. Sunt. 2t. RM'lwVw, Thurvlav, Snv. fl. The Hhw) m^i'iii^i will be be hrM in the evening, conrne-iol'ia at 7:T o'elic't. Mr. T)-TV'! w'll alio spoilt at the Anoka fair Sept. 25th, at 2 P. M. JOHN CniNAMAN has hitherto been sup posed to he proof against Yellow Jack, but it seems that the scourge this year shows but little preference. A Chinaman died of the vomit at Memphis on Saturdaythe first on record. "Th Chinese must go." AT last, Senator Matthews can plume him self on not being wholly unappreciated. He has received the thanks of the Fenians of Cincinnati for his efforts on behalf of Con don, the recently released Fenian prisoner He can comfort himself with the reflection that though republics may be ungrateful, Fenians are not. SOHUXLEK COLFAX, whom some will recol lect was once Vice President of the United States, has been resurrected by a correspon dent of a Cincinnati paper, and his views on several topics in public life are given to its readers. This is what Mr. Blaine would call "a monstrous case of grave robbery." I is the sole ambition of Chicago and St. Louis to equal St. Paul in the magnificence of their great expositions. They are doing all in their power to attract visitors, but as they will have neither Hayes nor Rarus as drawing cards it is to be feared that the shows will prove to be gigantic failures. HO N. JOHN G. THOMPSON, chairman of the Ohio Democratic committee, has informed a Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent that the party is all right in that city. He antici pates a close vote and a bitter fight in the Second, Fourth, Seventh and Twelfth dis tricts, but thinks the Democratic candidates in all of them reasonably certain of success. It is to be hoped that Johngee is not too sanguine. COL. ROBEBTS, the diplomat who engi neered the Louisiana bargain with Hayes, alleges that the late Senator Morton was the person who first suggested the exposure of Blaine's connection with the Union Pacific railroad, for the purpose of killing him off as a Presidential candidate. The first pub lication of the charge was made, it will be re membered, in Col. Roberts' paper at New Orleans. THE gorgeous "Bill Duke," otherwise (since he changed, his name) Le Due swelled and strutted about yesterday in a manner to put a pouter pigeon to blush. His foot was on his native heath, and he proposed to show his old friends and neighbors what a great thing a cabbage head may become when it is spread out thin. And he suc ceeded. Th universal verdict is that "Bill Duke" is a ass. SAID Dennis Kearney, the great reformer, in his New York speech We must t,use the ballots to commence with, but should the hell-hound crew of bloated bond^ holders and their infernal, crop-eared, slimy, lecherous millions, the political bummers and organized bilks, stuff the boxes, we may be forced to wade knee deep in blood. The men who stuff the boxes will be hung and their in fernal carcasses be roasted. If the fool-killer ever comes around in this country we would advise Dennis to take to the woods. I will be his only safety. THE Chicago managers of the yellow fever relief fund, all of them noble Christian men, are not as particular as the Philadelphia bigots who refused Rose Eytinge's aid be cause she was an actress. They believe that money raised by means of theatrical per formances will be as acceptable and do as muoh good to the sufferers as that raised in any other way, and have therefore informally .Ja approved of Sunday evening performances at the theatres of that city in aid of the fund. They have the authority of the Savior for the assertion that *'it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day," and act upon it. THE Republicans of the Third Chicago Congressional district have had the good sense to retire the bully Brentano as a can didate. At the primaries he received only five delegates out of a total of sixty-three. Now if Cbicagoans in 'the other two districts will drop Harrison and Aldrich, and elect well, anybody else, the chief commercial city of the West need have no further cause to blush for her Congressional representatives. SHEBMAN professes to helieve that the Pot ter committee have in their possession and will shortly produce what purports to be the original Anderson-Weber letter. Although Messrs. Potter, Blackburn and Butler have each denied the statement, Sherman refuses to believe them. His mind is disturbed, and though all traces of his crime have been blotted out as effectually as those of Mac beth's, the ghost refuses to down at his bid ding, and with much display of passion the pirate exclaims "Shake not thy gory locks at me Thou canst not say I did it." O NE of the most beneficial results of the legislation of the last Congress is seen in the new order of things consequent upon the passage of the bill for the government of the District of Columbia. At the end of each quarter the commissioners are required to make a return to the accounting officers of the treasury of all their expenditures. This will be accompanied by vouchers, si ow ing exactly how the money was expended. From the treasury accounting officers these vouchers, etc., will go to the first controller, where they will be again closely scrutinized before final approval. This is an entirely different method from that in vogue under the old law. Then the commissioners de posited their funds in the treasury and drew them out by checks on the treasurer, and were accountable only to Congress. Under the new bill they cannot exceed the estimates for the expenses of the District government, which they submit annually to Congress, and upon which appropriations are based. This law is naturally not very popular with the commissioners, who have had absolute license to expend whatever they saw fit and for whatever purpose they might desire. The new law will save the country fully a million of dollars annually, and effectually prevent any further rings such as cursed the District while under Boss Shepherd's rule, and it will therefore be popular among the people. DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY fS. REPUB- LICAN EXTRAVAGANCE. We publish in this morning's issue an in terview with Representative Blackburn in reply to the statements of Senator Windom regarding the appropriations of the present and the last Congresses, as compared with the appropriations made by the preceding Re publican Congresses. The answer is most thorough and* convincing, and ought to be carefully perused by every elector ar.d the facts contained in it fully understood. The misrepresentations of Senator Windom are exposed so completely that there is little left of fact in his statement. Asserting that the record of the Demo cratic party is one of economy and the record of the Republican party one of ex travagance and corruption, Mr. Blackburn declares that economy with the Democratic party is of no recent origin, and proceeds to review the actual expenditures from the com mencement of our government down to the last year when the Republican party had control of both houses of Congress. shows that the net ordinary expenses of the government from June 30, 1867, to June 30, 1876, only ten years, showed an excess of over twenty-two millions of dollars over the period of Democratic rule extending from 1789 down to 1861. This, it must be re membered, is exclusive of interest on the public debt and pensionsthe only legiti mate increase due to the late war. So that, in ten years the Republicans spent more by over twenty-two millions to conduct the government than the 'Democrats spent in seventy-two years. Could any more conclusive evidence be shown of the economical ten dencies of the Democratic party and the ex travagance and corruption of the Republi can party? Mr. Blackburn further institutes a com parison between the expendituresexclusive of interest on the debt and pensionsfor the ten years of Democratic rule ending with 1861 and the ten years of Republican rule ending in 1876. I shows that there is a balance in favor of Democratic govern ment amounting to the enormous sum of $956,044,877.35, or an average per annum of $152,891,713.78! The cost per capita for ten years of Republican rule was $39.65 for ten years of Democrat rule, 18.26. For 1876, the last year that the Republicans had control of both houses of Congress, the ap propriations amounted to $13,460,485.67 more than the appropriations for 1871. The appropriations of the Forty-fourth Congress (Democratic House) were $55,372,468.03 less than the appropriations made by the pre ceding Congress, controlled in both houses by the Republicans. This great saving was effected in spite of the opposition of the Re publican Senators, and the Republican offi cials in all departments of the government. Referring to the struggle of the House to reduce the expenditures for the years 1877 1878 and 1879, Mr. Blackburn shows by fig ures taken from the official records that if the bills had become laws as they passed the Houss there would have been a savino of $143,206,003.24 under the amounts esti mated as necessary by the Republican secre taries, but that the Republican Senate added to these bills the sum of $51,183,018.53 against the protest of the House. After a desperate struggle the Senate succeeded in adding to the bills the sum of $26,518,- 593.45. Mr. Blackburn, in referring to the de ficiency bills, charges the Republican party with endeavoring to create them, and takes substantially the ground the GLOBE has previously presented, and which is reviewed in another column. With such an array of inpontestible facts can there be a doubt, in the mind of any honest man, that Mr. Blackburn's proposi tion is not correctthat the record of the Democratic party is one of economy, and the record of the Republican party one of extravagance and corruption? No amount of argument could add to tae force of the figures presented. W would simply again urge every voter to read and examine for himself. As to his conclusions there can be no question. ^/iiw^J^^'W^i^^k^i'^ THE ATTEMPT TO'DEFE AT ECONOMY. It is about time that something should be done to check the lavish expenditures of money by the officials at Washington, and we trust that Congress, at its next session, will pass a law forbidding the several d4t' partments from incurring any liabilities not covered by the appropriation bills. The en deavors of the House for the past three years to economize have been seriously interfered with by the Republican heads of the depart ments. When the House insisted that the appropriations were too high and the expen ditures extravagant, and proceeded to cut down the allowances, the several secretaries declared that large deficiency bills would be necessary at the following session of Con gress. That their prediction might be veri fied they refused to reduce the needlessly large army of clerks and maintained the other expenses as far as they dared, and sure enough it was necessary to pass a deficiency bill. Finding that the Republicans were de termined to prevent economy, and to make it appear that the professions of the Demo crats were meaningless, the House adopted the only course left to itlegislated some costly officials out of office and rednced the salaries of others. I also placed whatever obstacles in the way of the unauthorized ex penditure of money the Republican Senate would agree to, and so compelled a reduction of expenses which, for the past three years, have aggregated over eighty millions of dollars. This style of doing things, however, is working reform under difficulties and ought to be changed. If the departments will not willingly co-operate with Congress i effect ing a reduction of taxation, they should be compelled to do so. A law should be passed forbidding any officer of the government to expend a single dollar not contemplated by Congress in the appro priation bills, and any violation of the provisions of such a law should be visit ed with the severest penalties. Th open defiance of the will of the people as ex pressed through their representatives should not be tolerated. This is a matter of life or death to the Republican party. They have been charged with being lavish and extravagant in their use of the people's money, and if the Demo cratic party manage to conduct the affairs of the government for a less sum than has heretofore been expended, the charge will be proven, aud the Republicans will have no defense. prevent the reductions contem plated by the Democrats and increase the de ficiency bills is their avowed purpose. Sen ator Windom, in his recent attempt to prove the falsity of Democratic pretenses "of economy, clearly implies that this policy will be continued. As long as one house of Congress remains under ^the control of the Republicans, and as long as the executive department is also governed by that party they will be partly successful in defeating' the efforts of the Democrats to place the gov ernment upon an economical basis. But in the next Congress, when both houses will undoubtedly be under Democrotic control, there should be no hesitancy in putting the brake on in compelling the officers of the government to obey the law. Yet it is hard that the people should be obliged to pay for carrying out such a disreputable scheme. Competent judges admit that the appropria tions made at the last session of Congress are ample for every legitimate purpose, and the attempt to make them appear otherwise for partisan purposes is nothing but down right robbery, which the people should be swift to punish in a most exemplary man ner. UAYES' VISIT TO MINNESOTA. The newspapers of the country are labor ing under a good deal of misapprehension relative to the Presidential visit to St. Paul and his speech at the State Fair. I the first place it should be borne in mind that he was accompanied not only by the blooming "Bill Duke," Commissioner of Agriculture, but also by Wm Henry Smith. Smith is collector of the port at Chicago, holding that lucrative office by Hayes' appointment. Smith is also general agent of the Western Associated Press and is thus enabled to prove a pretty extensive and far-reaching Boswell for the Hayes' circus. Of course the curiosi'y to see a man who occupies the Presidential chair, no matter how he got there, will draw a crowd. Hayes was brought to Minnesota as a speculation to aid the State Fair, audit was a good one, one which the GLOBE heartily approves. Six legged pis and cows with heads at both ends, etc., were less attractive be cause more frequently seen, and consequent ly the Presidential exhibition was the card of the fair, unless we may except Rarus. But the enthusiasm which William Henry wires through the country exists largely in imagination and electricity. When the President passed through our crowded streets last Thursday, with thirty or forty thousand to gaze upon him, the cheers were few and less vigorous than are often heard at a country school house political meeting. Yesterday morning he stood uncovered upon his car platform for nearly an hour, while the usual depot loungers gaped at him until they were surfeited. No one seemed t care to see him personally, but gazed on him as they would any curiosity. As the train moved off, the cheers were faint, dismal and in fact discouraging. There was no genuine enthusiasm. A good many papers are also ridiculing his statistical speech. I happens though, that the papers were supplied with advance copies of the speecha speech which John Sherman evidently wrote for him. spoke altogether a different screed, as the stenographic report of the GLOBE shows, Hayes' name was sim ply used to palm off some of Sherman's fig ures upon the country, and he was evidently so nonplussed by the array of statistics that he didn't know how to read them. Movements of Ocean Steamers. QUEBEC, Sept. 9.The steamer Memphis, with a general cargo and a number of horned cattle and sheep, from Montreal for Liverpool, which broke her main shaft when near Anticosti, was towed back into port to-day. She will disem bark the cattle and sheep at once. LONDON, 8ept. 9.The steamships State of Georgia, Baltic, Italy and Alsatia, from New Yoik, and Austria, from Montreal, have arrived out. Bad ruck for the Arctic Whaling fleet. LONDON, Sept. 9.A letter from Disco, Davis straits, dated 12th of July, says not one vessel of the Arctic whaling fleet had caught a single fish. It was expected the season would prove a complete failure. No vessel had been able to pass through Melville bay, which was un precedented. The bay from the neighboring heights appeared completely blocked with ice. ig#-S THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1878. DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY. .WHAT MB. BLACKBURN FINDS THE RECORD TO BE. Windom's MendacityA Careful Analysis of the Cost of Banniue the Government by the Two PartiesAstounding: Results of Republican ProfligacyRadical Ues Exposed. ~i [Washington Post.] Getting hold of the "Republican compaign document" known as Windom's interview, a Post reporter called on Mr. Blackburn to learn what tte result of his investigations had been. ReporterHave yon read the so-called Windom interview," published in the New York Times and since circulated by the Gor ham-Hale committee? Mr BlackburnYes, carefully. It is of a piece with similar campaign misrepresenta tions with which the Republican Congres sional committee is trying to deceive the peo ple. ReporterWhat action, if any, will the Congressional Democratic committee take in reference to this and similar efforts of the Republicans to cry down the reputation of the Democratic party for economy? Mr. BlackburnSenator Windom is only following out a plan adopted 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, endeav ors to mislead the uninitiated in various ways. For example, he refuses to take note of the actual decrease of expenditures under Democratic rule, and whilst he cannot deny also the great reductions in the appropria tions which the Democratic House has ef fected, hf endeavors to explain it away by saying that these reductions were made "by denying appropriations indispensable to the public seruice by postponing necessary pub lic works by repudiating national obliga tions by withholding large sums for de ficiency bills." All these charges are known to be entirely untrue, but it seems to be an understood thing all along the Republican line that something must be done to explain away Democratic economy. ReporterWhat is the comparative record of the Democratic and Republican parties as to economy in conducting the govern ment? Mr. Blackburn.- The official figures will verify what has become a matter of house hold knowledge, that the record of the Dem ocratic party is one of economy, and the rec ord of the* Republican party one of extrava gance and corruption. Economy with the Democi atic party is of no recent origin, and, as was to be expected, as soon as the Democ racy obtained control of the House of Rep resentatives, it forced upon the Republican Administration and Senate reductions of great magnitude, both in appropriations and expenditures. Before discussing recent sav ings 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. Th net ordinary expenditures of the Gov ernment, exclusive of the public debt principal, premiums and interest and exclusive also of pensionsbeing only expense for the army, navy, Indians and miscellaneous civil, from the fiscal year 1789 to the fiscal year ended 1876, can be easily found in the reports of the secretary of the treasury: For the war period from the fiscal year ended June 30,1862, to the fiscal year ended June 30, 1866, both inclu sive, more than one year after the close of the war, covering a period of five years, the net ordinary expenditures above named amounted to $3,530, 929,581.64. DEMOOBATIO ECONOMY. Now, in order to make a comparison which even the Republican chairman of a"*Senate committee cannot with all his acquired knowledge of figures successfully refute, we will eliminate this war period from our cal culation. This being done, we find that, from the commencement of the govern-, ment to the beginning of the war, that is, from the fiscal year ended March 4,1789, down to and in cluding the fiscal year ended June .30, 1861, both inclusive, covering a peried of more than seventy-three years, the net ordinary expenditures of the government for the pur pose above stated amounted to $1,506,726,- 151.15. Now, the net ordinary expendit ures of the government for the same pur poses for the last ten years of unbroken Re publican rule, beginning with the fiscal year ended June 30,18G7, more than one year af ter the war, and including the fiscal year ended June 30, 1876, amounted to $1,528,- 917,137.87 thus showing an excess of ex penditures of $22,190,996.72 against the Republican party. Or, to state it plainly, the net ordinary expenditures of the government, exclusive of the public debt, principal, pre miums and interest, and exclusive also of pensions, for a period of ten years, begin ning more than one year after the conclusion of the war, were more than $22,000,000 in excess of the expenditures of the govern ment for seventy-three years next antedating the accession of the Republican party to power. BEPUBLIOAN EXTBAVAOANCE. Kep-How do the ten years of Democratic rule before the war compare with ten years of Republican rule since the war? Mr. B.If we take the ten years of Dem ocratic conservative rule, beginning with the fiscal year ended June 30, 1852, up to the fiscal year ended June 30, 1861, both inclu sive, we find the net ordinary expenditures of the government to have been $572,872 260.52 as against $1,528,917,137.87 for the same purposes for ten years of Radical rule during peace, namely, from the fiscal year ended June 30, 1867, to the fiscal year ended June 30,1876, both inclusive, giving an EXCESS OF BEPUBLICAN EXPENDITURES over the expenditures under Democratic con servative rule of $956,044,877.35, being an increase of net ordinary expenditures under Republican rule of about 170 per cent. The average net ordinary expenditures per annum for the ten years of Republican rule was $150,672,614.11, whilst the net ordinary ex penditures for the ten years of Democratic rule above named were only $57,287,226.05, showing that the net ordinary expenditures under Republican rule during a decade of peace were nearly three times as large as for the decade of Democratic rule immediately preceding the war. If it shall be objected that there is at least one element of unfair ness in this presentation of official data, upon the score of an increase of population, it is an swered that, taking as a basis of this calcu lation the census of 1860, we find that the cost per capita for the next ten years pre vious to the war, for net ordinary expendi tures, with which we alone are now dealing, was $18.26, whilst taking the census of 1870 as the basis of the calculation, we find tBfct the cost per capita for the ten years of Republican rule during a time of peace, be ginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, was $39.65, being an excess against the Republican party of about one hundred and seventeen (117) per cent., so that it seems difficult to find the ground upon which any Republican statesman may defend bis party from the charge of exces sive expenditures, when considered either in bulk or upon the per capita calculation, and we certainly feel that we deal fairly in se lecting that decade of Democratic rule i- i- mediately preceding the war, and con trasting it with a like period of Repub lican rule beginning more than one year after the war had closed, and coming down to the last fiscal year in which the Re publicans held control of both houses of Congress. For your use, if you desire it, I here hand yon a tabulated statement, an ex amination of which will show the particular branches of the service in which these heavy discrepancies occur. Take for instance the expenditures in the matter of the regular army (it being remembered that the regular army was more than doubled after the con clusion of the war, for what purposes it is difficult to tell unless it be for the accom plishment of political or party advantage in aid of which it has been so busily and efficiently employed until an American Congress by solemn act was forced at our last session to incorporate into the army appropriation bill a restriction that absolutely prohibited such use of that arm of the government in future), and we find that the aggregate expenditures for this purpose during this time were over $593,000",00O as against $169,000,000 appropriated for the same purpose under the ten years of Demo cratic administration next preceding the war leaving a difference against the Republican party of more than $424,000,000. So in the navy we find that it cost $234,000,000 for the maintenance of the navy during these ten years of Republican rule, as against $123,- 000,000 during the said ten years of Democratic rule, showing a difference of $110,000,000 in this branch of the service against the Republican party. Take the In dian bureau and we find that there was over $62,500,000 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 expen ditures for civil miscellaneous purposes, and we find that in this decade of Republican ad ministration 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 be found in this table: a XJ.S a a io Sg! 3 a "a rc*1-^ a a a a 3-5S Si -3 *Sl-S xet-oo eo I ttoC3r-x t-0!0 2|a 'spouad anras is,"" sf |K ami opBio _, _2: j-oowci &rea. uo\ O OJ JJ8AO spue nioipBH 5 "3 i i U3} jo oa'sajoni 2 I lO C5 IC N )0 CI L S 2 3 aAtsnpm SJBQ^ 2r*--= lC08S noq19, ac r- -2 gg-i*08 ?r 'es, 'oe 3 !dtmfgpoj orjBJ O 1 0 Republican Forty- third Congress. 1875...$142,073,632 05 1876... 136,600,417 67 ^-i^s&^Vft-V i- t- si a'-' i-oniaa jo SJB3 naj c* co f? j3 a, "aAisnioai -2 lareaA' nrosg qjoq 2 "S 9i. '08 atinp oj 'ig, ""oog 'oS ennfajnjio a ^-g "IPBa CO O Tl I Ci 03 oo in c- r- -0^i-H_i-_C cT^otTco" jo sjtfa: ua i ss =3 i 33 Increased cost per cent, of ten years of radi cal rule, 167.59 average per annum of ten years of radical rule, $152,891,713.78. Average per annum of ten years of Demo cratic rule, $57,287,226.05. Cost per capita of ten years of radical rule, $39.65. Cost per capita of ten years of Democratic rule. $18.26. EXTBAVAGANT INCREASE OF EXPENDITCBES SINCE TUE WAR. Rep.Senator Windom said in his interview that the Republicans had gradually reduced the expenditures of the government since the war. Is this true? Mr. B.I answer emphatically no! For ex ample, let us examine the expenditures of the government, beginning with the fiscal year 1871 and ending with 1876. The last fiscal year a Republican Congress controlled the appropri ations, embracing net ordinary expenditures only, and excluding the public debt, principal, interest and premiums, and excluding also pensions. Here they are: For the fiscal year 1871 $123,139,932 00 1872 124,668,453 43 1873 151,129,210 04 1874 165,080,570 34 187 5 142,073,63 2 0 5 1876 136,600,417 67 This shows a gradual increase for 1876, the last fiscal year the Republicans controlled both Houses, of $13,460,485.67 over the expenditures for 1871, and an increase of expenditures for 1874. as compared with 1871, of $41,940,638.34. These figures show a positive increase of appro priations for the ordinary expenditures of the government under Radical rule as we recede from the war period, for which no justification can be plead. When we consider, too, that the purchasing power of the dollar has greatly aug mented 6ince 1871, these enormous increases of public expenditures appear still more inex cusable and criminal. Rep.How does this record of Republican extravagance contrast with the record made by the Democratic Houses of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses? Mr. B.If we take the expenditures of "the government for the fiscal years 1877 and 1878. beying the years appropriated for by the Forty fourth Congress, the first year since the war, when the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, we find a very heavy de crease of expenditures as compared with any two years since the radicals came into powi r. The actual net ordinary expentitures, exclusive of the public debt principal, premiums and interest, and exclusiye also of pensions ap propriated for by the Fortv-third Congress and the Forty-fourth Congress, are as follows: Forty-fourth Congress Democratic House. 1877... $116,246,211 01 1878... 107,055,370 68 Total.$278,674,049 72 Total.$223,301,581 69 Here, then, we have stated for each fiscal year the actual net ordinary expenditures for the years 1875 and 1876 under the appropria tions made by a 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 actual saving of $55,372,468.03, made under the greatest difficulties placed in the way of retrenchment by a Republican Senate and a Republican administration. Rep.Were not the reductions in the eleven great appropriation bills, exclusive of the pen sion bill, passed by the forty-fourth Congress under the same bills passed by the forty-third Congress greater than the reduction of fifty-five millions on the expenditures secured by the Democratic House in the forty-fourth Con gress Mr. B.Undoubtedly they were. The reduc ductions in these bills secured by the House, after reDeated struggles with the Republican Senate, foot up $61,983,615.63 but even this great saving would have been largely increased had hot the Democratic House been thwarted at every step in the direction of retrenchment and reform by a Republican Senate and Repub lican officials. Rep.How do the appropriations for the fis cal years 1874, 1875 and 1876, when the Repub licans controlled both Houses, compare with the appropriations for 1877, 1878 and 1879, when the Democrats had control of the House of Representatives Mr. B.In the eleven great bills for the sup port of the government, the aopropriations for 1877, 1878 and 1879, show an attempted saving by the House of over $114,000,000, and an actual SAVING OF MOBE THAN EIGHTY-EIGHT MILLIONS, afi compared with similar bills passed bv a Re publican Congress for 1874, 1875 and 1876. The actual appropriations for these eleven bills, including pensions, isaR follows 1877 $145,997,956 72 1878 140,384,606 95 1879 157,213,933 77 1874 $1*1.587,054 61 1875 177,679,473 77 1876 172,600,205 53 Total ...$531,866,733 91 Total.... $443,596,497 44 This shows an actual reduction secured by the untiring efforts of the Democratic houses in the forty-fowrth and forty-fifth Congresses of $88,270,236.47. But great as this reduction was for a period of three years, it does not rep resent all that was sought to be accomplished, for it should be borne in mind that the reduc tions above shown are not as great as were de manded by the Democratic House, bnt only represent the concessions that the House was able to secure from a pro testing Republican Senate, whose committee on appropriations, continuously struggling for an increase of appropriations, and thwarting the House at every step in its honest efforts at reduction, was presided over then, as now, by the gentleman whose inter view you have called attention to so that if there be anything in this record of retrench- ment for which that Senator may justly claim credit, it is his partially successf nl bat persist ent efforts to resist every attempt of a Demo cratic House to reduce the current expenses of the government. It muse be recollected also that the Democracy have not as yet secured con trol of both branches of Congress.and can hardly be 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 reduc tions proposed by the Democratic Houses of the forty-fourth and fort-fift Congresses, for the fiscal years 1877, 1878 and 1870, and coupling therewith a statement of additions insisted upon or secured by a Republican Senate. Ex amining in detail the history of the eleven great appropriation bills, namely, for the mili tary academy, fortifications, consular and diplomatic, navy, postoffice, Indians, army, legislative, executive and judicial, sundry civil, river and harbor, and pensions, we find the following: For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1877 Estimates of Departments $200,375,553 78 Appropriations as passed the House. 138,080,856 68 Appopriations as increased by theSenate 157,419,767 36 Appropriations as reduced bv the House 145.997,956 72 For the fiscal year ended June 30. 1878 Estimates of departments $184,182,005 14 Appropriations as passed the House 131,309,307 37 Appropriations as increased by theSenate 148,988,885 75 Appropriations as reduced by the House 140.334.606 95 For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879 Estimates of departments $176,226,348 31 Appropriations as passed the House. 147,637,739 94 Appropriations as increased by theSenate 161,852,269 41 Appropriations as reduced by the House 157.213,933 77 It miiht here be remarked that in thip ear's appropriations is to be found an it* of $5,500,000 for the payment of the fishery award. which is in no sense fairly embraced in the net ordinary expenditures of the govern ment, but which is. nevertheless, included in the above statement. Taki.:gthe aggregate for the three years, 1877, 1878 and 1879, we find that the Democratic House, as it originally passed these bills, made the following reduc tions, namely: If the bills had become laws as they passed the House, there would been a SAYING OF $143,706,003.24 under the amounts estimated as necessary by the Republican secretaries, while there would have been also a saving of $114,788,829.92 for the three fiscal years 1877, 1878 and 1879, under the three fiscal years 1874, 1875 and 1876. But this is not all. for while the=e unquestioned facts, from official sources, show attempted savings by the Democratic House of over $114,- 000,000 for a like periud of Republican rule, it also shows that a REPUBLICAN SENATE ADDED $51,183,018.53 to these eleven appropriation bills against the earnest protest of the Democratic "flouse. Now, taking these same bills as they finally passed both houses for the years 1877,"lS78 and 1879 we find the following reductions, namely: The saving secured by the Democratic House under the department estimates was $117,187,- 409.79, and under the appropriations for 1874, 1875 and 1876, it aggregated $88,270/236.47, as before stated, whilst the increase secured bv the Republican Senate over the bills as passed the House, after a most desperate struggle, was $26,518,593.45, so that the very pertinent question remains for the distinguished Senator, the chairman of the committee on appropria tions, to answer, how do his professions of economy tally with the stubborn figures, which prove him and his Republican associates on the floor of the Senate and of the House of Representatives to have labored ea.nestly to fasten more than fifty-one millions of dollars upon Democratic House bills, and who succeeded in increasing them over twenty-six millions of dollars? In some of the statements here given to you, I have dealt in round numbers, leaving oft the fractions, but should you desire it you are at liberty to use the tabulated statements from which these estimates have been taken, and in that connection I may assure you that the sources of information from which these tables 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 they relate to appro priations, are obtained from the records of the appropriation committee. Rep.What force is there then in the point the Republicans are trying to make against the Democracy upon the score of deficiency bills, which it is charged are larger in the present fiscal year than heretofore Mr. B.No more than there is in any other of the campaign misrepresentations that are being manufactured by their campaign com mittee and sent broadcast throughout the country. The appropriations made bv Con gress constitute the law by which the "sever--il departments of the government are to be con ducted. No deficiency can occur so long as the law is observed. The appearance of a deficiency is generally proof conclusive that the officer charged with the administration of the depart ment in which the same appears has passed outside of and violated the law. It must be remembered that the execution of all laws during these years has been intrusted to Republican hands and that it is Republican secretaries and Republican officials that have manufactured the deficiencies that a Demo cratic House has been forced to confront. We believed at the time that these appropriations were made, and do still believe, that it is sus ceptible of proof that the appropriations as made, notwithstanding the heavy reductions, were more than sufficient, with proper admin istration of cho several departments, to have provided for all the necessities of the govern ment. Now, however, we are charged with any laxity of administration that may, during the last eighteen years, have crept into and es tablished itself in the management of the gov ernment 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 ex pended by Republican secretaries. But beyond this it is to be said that a very large proportion of the sums found neces-ary to be provided for by deficiency bills ante-date the advent of the Democratic party into power in the House, reaching back to the fiscal year 1876 and years prior thereto. Eor example, by way of illus trating the character of these debts for which appropriations were made in the^e deficiency bills, take the case of the late administration of the navy, which bequeathed to us as a legacy a debt of nearly $10,000,000, the greater portion, if not all, of which had been created outside of and without any warrant of law, no one denying that under the head of ddficiencies for 1876 and pr or years, and those growing out of misappropriation of funds in the navy department, ot the whole amount of $5,559,000, about $1,500,000 was for deficiency of pay of the navy, produced by an illegal diversion of funds that had already been appropriated for that purpose, and the remainder, nearly $4,000,000, be'ng tor the liquidation of contracts made without any warrant of law, and many of them covered with suspicion at least, if not tainted by fraud, so that but little justice can be discovered in the effort of the Republican leaders to make us responsible for these sums of deficiency which their own officials 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 sem blance of law, and much of it the product of fraud, should have been discharged without searching investigation or judicial inquiry. But to avoid the semblance of repudiation upon the part of the government, even of obliga tions entered into by faithless officials, it was deemed best to provide payment for such sums as might not be avoided, recognizing in this one of the many penalties imposed by Republi can rule. Again, I might say, by way of illus tration, you will find one item in the shape of an advanced appropriation on the next year of three hundred and odd thousand dollars, for subsistence to the army, which Bum was inserted in a deficiency bill, "and de ducted from the army bill, upon the sugges tion of the secretary of 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 facts. So that, view it as we will, no one car. deny that during the last three years, with the control of the House in Democratic hands, the appro priations have been smaller, even as loaded down by Republican Sena torial liberality, than for any like period of time under complete Repblican rule and however much or little importance may be at tached to the Democratic policy of economy, as evinced by the work of reducing appropria tions, the country is yet confronted by the tact that on the score of actual expenditures there is no period of Republican domination that does not Buffer grievously in comparison with the two years now last past, wherein the hand of the Democratic party, through its control of \yfrs.j^3'?fT^* -^^5--', s' the Honse, has been firmly fastened upon the purse-strings of the country. Is it unfair, then, to assume that with an ex travagant Republican Senate displaced bv a Democratic majority in sympathy with the policy thns illustrated bv every Democratic House supported by an executive in accord with the efforts thns inaugurated, that this grateful process of diminusion of expenditures and lightening of burdens will go happilv for ward to that consummation which the p'eople have aright to demand, and did demand in no uncertain tones in their verdict of November, 1876? The desperate efforts of Republican leaders, like Senator Windom and Mr. Foster and others, to torture official figures into a cloak for their party's extravagance and corruption, whilst not to be justified is probablv not to be wondered at. But the uncandid "attempt of these gentlemen in taking the offensive, and thereby seeking to show before 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. GLOBELETS. George Eliot never sat for a photograph. Sioux City has run out of ice. A nice fix to be in. Theodore Thoma3 takes a salary of $5,000 a year in Cincinnati. Resurrected Whigs do not find old lino enough to hang themselves with. A daughter of Brigham Young has become an actress, under the name of Cecile Gray. There are 8,758 places where liquor is sold at retail in New York and vicinity, and only 2,259 are licensed. Gen. Butler pays a tax of $1,836 in Lowell, Mass. He is the largest individual tax payer in the town. A malicious paragrapher says that Stanley Matthews will not sleep alone in a room with an inkstand in it. Mr. Carlyle, though now past 83, is so well and strong that he has been making a summer visit to Scotland. A glazier may be a good temperance man, but he must have his glass before he goes to work in the morning. Brains, the London weekly, is going into bankruptcy. A depression in the fish market was the probable cause. The paper manufactu-ers have agreed to re duce the production one-sixth for six months from the 1st of October. The continental papers have discovered that Grenada, where the yeliow fi-ver is raging, is in the "British Antilles." South Boston churches are annoyed by tne operations of pickpockets. They never tackle the contribution boxes, however. Chicago Times: Le Due is only a gorgeous weed. Sherman vows he knew him when ho was simple Bill Duke, of Lancaster. Ohio. It is a tantalizing act, says an exchange, to give an ague patient a bottle of medicine and tell him to "shake well before using." Hunter, (he Camden murderer, grows thin ner and paler daily, but snores so that Gra hame, his alleged accomplice, cannot sleep. Dr. Erasmus Wilson, to whose personal ef forts and liberality London owes the Cleopatra needle, has declined tin: banquet tendered him. A Philadelpeia doctor has discovered anew cure for yellow fever. At the first symptoms a patient is sent to a medical college for disseo tion. An exchange says the "muskrats predict a cold winter." We shall not believe it until we hear the prediction from the muskrat's own lips. An Austrian general has been credited with the witty remark that his countrymen went into Bosnia to occupy it, and are likely to be occupied. Jn Virginia thieves are tied to the whipping post and flogged. In Pennsylvania some few are sent to Congress and the remainder to the legislature. The Democrats of Sndalia, Mo., have Just held a barbecue at which eight oxen roasted whole, forty sheep and 4,000 loaves of bread were consumed. An exchange says: "In the recent tornado in Connecticut a cow had her horns blown off." The proper comment to make on this statement is "in a liorn." A leopardess in a circus at Davenport, Iowa, gave birth last week to a cub that was pretty enough to eat, and ate it ere it arrived at the early age of five minntes. A woman in an English workhouse has con fessed to have made way with three of her own children some forty years ago, by giving them large doses of Godfrey's Cordial. The Rev. Mr. Griffith, of the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Methodist Episcopal church, has prayed that chicken-thieves all over the land may be turned from the error of their ways. Twenty naked men started out in Rmitbville, Ind., the other evening, and after making night hideous with unearthly yells, proceeded to strip and tar and feather two women. Judge Portland, of Vermont, who still affects the old style bine dress coat and brass buttons, was in Saratoga the other day, and a gentleman mistook him for a policeman and came up and addressed him as "officer." Another boy has been suddenly ''truck dumb while teasing a deaf mute. We have repeatedly warned people against this practice. Some of these days when Gail Hamilton gets her mad up there'll be a lot of editors struck dumb. Jug-breaking is a symbolical temperance di version in Ohio. The people meet in church, bringing jugs, which are smashed while the owners are marching and singing. Money and o'-her things for charity are found in the iugs. Mr. John Donovan, of Memphis, was in Texas when the fever almost annihilated his family. They telegraphed to him to re1urr, he made answer: I can do no good by going my life is of importance to my little ones if they are spared." The country is becoming so crowded with marksmen, athletes, swimmers and oarsmen wearing medals on their breasts, that the or dinary man will soon have to return to blue coats with brass buttons, in order to keep from sinking into utter insignificance. The Montreal Wifrtsxx has received a sum of S2.P63.88, which with 8932.10 spent for expen ses, was collected among the Protestants of Canada as a testimonial to "the unflinching defender of Protestantism against the aggres pions of the Roman Catholic hierarchy." Captain Craddock, an officer of the Twenty third Royal We'sh Fusileers, and highly con nected, has been arrested for brutally and de liberately stabbing his wife, who told the court she was afraid he would murder her in one of his passions, as he had repeatedly treated her with great cruelty. Thrilling as a Patent Office Report. TSt. Louis Republican.] Hayes' speech at St. Faul was so chock full of figures that it must have been ordered by the yard from the government bureau of statistics. I is as entrancingly interesting to the reader as a chapter from the patent office reports. Heavy Iron Company Failure. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.The Oxford Iron Co., of Oxford, N. J., has failed. Liabilities between $5,000,000 and 86,000,00081,000,000, The liabilieies of the Oxford Iron Co of S ~*gB**m of which excee i1 1 no 82o0,000 is due the Delaware, Lackawana & Western road, and is fully covered by mortga ges. The company's loss'will be very li^ht^if any. Obituary. LEBANON, Pa., Sept. 9.G. Dawson Coleman, president of the State board of public charities! died this afternoon. ^^^U'^sk^i'^-^-^i dV^i.'i ^fe -1 1* s$t