| Show enormous Enor mons increase of expenses in 1868 three years after the close eloi elos o of tile tire ivil alvil war and when the thy southern states staten s were as well weli ell settled set net tied mid and as aa quiet UN as litty are now arld and perhaps better ly hy he the malis malia of ille ilie he portal postal dep department 1 I rement he the ex expenses pese pose 12 or of that d department were only in ili tile the year 3 ear 1873 they it had ad rien ri ein tin to S an inert ae e or of or 28 per cent in lil five bews yews in lii 1965 the I 1 indian department lit lil cost cot 3 in 1873 tile co coa cool coot 4 wils wits an iturra lucia a eur e euf of nearly 00 or per cent the t in iti the tile naval expenditures awa wa 15 per in the colst coast survey about 93 90 per cent in 1868 it cost for surveys murvey hof of the public ianda 1872 GO au an increase of per cent with not much to show for it but the survey survey y of uninhabitable lands and peculations speculations ou on uhe the part or of many ol of the but bul the greatest apparent extravagance ip pears under the head ot of judiciary and aud I 1 miscellaneous in 1868 the judiciary department which includes also the new bureau known a 4 the department of justice cost coat in 1873 its expenses were run up tip to in the single state slate of arkansas this department in 1873 on the expenses of the ruly ruil ministerial hist erial ond off officers leers ot or two ua ted led states courts over or nearly half as much as the cost of the whole judiciary of the country in 1868 the mi miscellaneous items I 1 in u 1868 used up 53 1 and in 1873 the appropriations were more or 45 per cent in the face lace of all this enoi enormous muus increase increase e in n expenses with nothing tu to jh j h boff 0 w for I 1 it t la in a any uy department there was no demand for reform till the congress of 1873 4 found itself suddenly with the choice between a new loan ioan oan or an increase of taxes or a radical reduction of expenditures sacramento union |
