Post Office Department................................................................... $162,700 00 1,078,397 88 125,000 00 100,000 00 125,150 00 26,963 25 3,500,000 00 1,516,802 71 $18,017 19 879,685 00 ........ Beacons, 3,050,000 00 1,559,564 50 1,599,325 00 50,000 00 Metropolitan Police......... 207,890 00 Government Hospital for the Insane. 178,800 00 For deficiencies for the fiscal year end- Department of State......... Internal Revenue.............. War Department............... Medical and Hospital De- Marine Corps.................................................... Extension Capitol Gr❜nds.. Miscellaneous.. Department of Justice.. 32,186,129 09 173,435 00 For the purchase of post and around Washington. Washington Aqueduct...... Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands... 257,100 00 age stamps for Executive Departments.......... Award by Claims Commission.............. Miscellaneous-private acts, &C.............. 6,784,856 88 Total appropriations made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873.............................................. ..$173,495,015 55 STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS MADE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1874, AT THE THIRD SESSION, FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Pensions.... Deficiencies for the year ending June 30, 1873, and for other purposes, viz: Post Office Department... Consular and Diplomatic Service............ Military Academy................ Fortifications.... Award by Claims Commission.......... Miscellaneous-private acts, &C.......................... 789,083 86 2,565,740 31 Total appropriations made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874........................ ...$197,920,297 38 STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS MADE FOR THE FISCAL_YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1875, AT THE FIRST SESSION, FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. $30,480,000 00 Pensions....................................... For deficiencies for the year ending 1873 and '4, and for other purposes, as follows, viz: Department of State......... Independent Treasury.. U. S. Mints and Assay offices............ Territorial Treasury, miscellaneous... Quartermaster Departm't.. Indian Department (of which amount $51,363 59 is to be returned to the Treasury from sales of Indian lands)................... Public Lands.... Miscellaneous................. Post Office Department..... $50,161 92 9,247 34 822,946 11 85,839 08 162,629 01 612,950 50 1,837,521 87 6,237 70 202,299 80 221,604 06 $29,980,000 00 F.-Revenues and Expenditures of the Government. RECEIPTS since the formation of the Government, from March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1873: Customs, $3,385,720,600 18; Internal Revenue, $1,876,191,953 19; Direct Taxes, $27,554,926 93; Public Lands, $197,171,498 65; Miscellaneous Sources, $252,734,361 07. Total, $5,739,373,340 02. EXPENDITURES Since the formation of the Government, from March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1873: Civil List, $298,129,788 18; Foreign Intercourse, $104,828,384 80; Navy, $880,427,404 15; War, $4,044,384,110 94; Pensions, $313,489,880 82; Indians, $145,057,004 47; Miscellaneous, $649,991,549 06. Total, $6,436,308,122 42. G.-Presidential Election of 1872, and State Elections in 1872, 1873, and 1874. Charles O'Conor, Straight Democrat, received 29,489 votes; and James Black, Temperance, 5,608. *Owing to the death of Horace Greeley, the vote of no Electoral College was given for him. The Democratic Electoral vote was for B. Gratz Brown, 18; Thomas A. Hendricks, 42; Charles J. Jenkins, 2; David Davis, 1. †Not counted, 17; of these, three votes cast in Georgia for Horace Greeley were excluded, he having died before the votes were so cast-the House voting to exclude, the Senate to receive. The vote of Arkansas was rejected-the House voting to receive, the Senate to reject. The vote of Louisiana was rejected, both Houses concurring. Total counted, 349-necessary to a choice, 175. Mean of the votes for congressmen at large. The votes at the Spring Elections in 1874 were, in Connecticut: Republican, 46,755, Democratic, 39,761, Prohibition, 4,960; in Rhode Island: Republican and Temperance, 12,269, Democratic, 1,509, (the separate Republican vote for Lieutenant Governor being 7,679, and the Temperance vote 6,512;) and in New Hampshire: Republican, 34,143, Democratic, 35,608, Prohibition, 2,097, scattering, 45. There were two counts in Arkansas and Louisiana. The other returns were: in Arkansas, Grant, 90,272, Greeley, 79,444, in Louisiana, Grant, 59,975, Greeley, 66,467. **The vote for Governor, by Warmoth count, was: Kellogg, 55,973; McEnery, 65,579. This vote was called "Independent" and "Independent Democratic." XXI. STATE PLATFORMS OF 1874. Connecticut. REPUBLICAN-FEBRUARY 11, 1874. 1. The Republican party of the State of Connecticut, in convention assembled, declare that the end of government is to secure equal and exact justice to all its citizens, with as little infringement as possible upon individual freedom; that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, interpreted and foreshadowed by the declaration of independence, is the true American idea; that this idea can only be realized by the election of honest and capable men to public office, and by conducting public affairs with strict prudence and in accordance with the sound and approved maxims of business and political economy. general; that in making judicial and other legislative appointments, character and capacity should be the only qualifications considered, and that all bargains and trades for these appointments are abusive to the health of the commonwealth, and destructive of the interests of the people. 8. That the rightful interests of labor, in view of the present condition of the industrial classes and their relations to capital and to the great corporations of the country, demand the careful solicitude and attention of the Legislature. 9. That we recognize the wisdom and necessity of obtaining reliable statistics and information in regard to the condition of the laboring classes upon which to base proper legislation, and we believe that an impartial and nonpartizan bureau for that purpose is demanded alike by humanity and the best interests of the State. 2. That, in accordance with these principles, the States should be left to regulate their own internal affairs without interference, and this convention gladly indorses the course of the 10. That the question whether or not a connational administration in reference to the re-vention ought to be called to revise our present cent election in Texas. State constitution should be submitted by the General Assembly to the people of the State for their decision. 3. That good administration and freedom from temptation to official dishonesty can be best secured by such an organization of the civil service as shall insure a competent body of civil officers, who shall be undisturbed by the changes and temptations of active politics. 4. That there ought to be no further increase of the paper currency of the country, and that the people expect from the present Congress the adoption of such measures as will forward the early resumption of specie payment. 5. That there should be no more subsidies of public lands in the interest of private corporations; that taxation should be equal, and be laid in such a manner as least to interfere with the general prosperity, and so as to encourage the various industries. DEMOCRATIC-FEBRUARY 3, 1874. This convention does hereby declare and make known the following to be its principles of action, and to the support of them it invites the hearty co-operation of all honest men: 1. We declare our unfaltering devotion to the Constitution of the United States and to the Union of the United States thereby established, and we affirm that the people of the several States have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as free, sovereign, and independent States, subject only to the limitations contained in the Constitution, and that all powers not therein expressly granted to the National Government are reserved to the States respectively. 6. That party organizations are useful and necessary; but that, while we are proud of the birth and history of the Republican party, we recognize no such allegiance to political associa- 2. We affirm that the greatest danger with tions as shall prevent our fair and candid crit- which we are now threatened is the corruption icism of the acts of all public men; and that and extravagance which now exist in high offievery case of negligence, wastefulness, or dis- cial places, and we do declare that these are the honesty on the part of those having control of cardinal principles of our future political action; public money ought to be promptly investigated that retrenchment, economy, and reform are imand severely punished, without fear or favor; peratively demanded in all the governments of that we expect of our State legislators and State the people-Federal, as well as State and muniofficers the strictest integrity and economy, the cipal--and we here proclaim ourselves the unlargest possible relief from the burden of taxa-compromising foes of all salary-grabbers, ring tion, the maintenance of public education, the preservation of the purity and freedom of the ballot-box, the continuance of such registration laws as shall invite all who are entitled to the precious right of suffrage to participation in it, and at the same time shall exclude all fraudulent voting. 7. That the sessions of our General Assembly should be short, and its legislative acts few and politicians, and land monopolists, whoever they may be and wherever they may be found, whether they are in office or out; and we appeal to the honest men everywhere, without regard to past political affiliations, to join us in branding as they deserve these corrupt leeches on the body politic, and in assisting us to purge the official stations of their unwholesome and baneful presence. 3. The present Federal administration, by its utter inability to comprehend the dignity or responsibility of the duties with which it is charged, by its devotion to personal and partizan interests, by its weak and incompetent management of the national finances, by its unwarranted interference with the local self government of the people by its support of the corrupt government which it has imposed by its power upon several of the States of the Union, and by its complicity with corrupt practices and scandals in various quarters, by its appointment of notoriously incompetent men to high official positions, has justly brought upon itself the condemnation of the American people. 4. The procuring of money from a notoriously corrupt ring of Washington politicians for use in this State in controlling our elections is so marked an evidence of political corruption that it deserves the severest rebuke, and we call upon the people of Connecticut in the coming election to enter such a protest against so gross an abuse of official trust as will secure punishment for the present and afford adequate protection for the future. 5. We recognize in the present stringency of the money market, the panic which led thereto, the general prostration of business and the consequent suffering of the working classes, the direct fruits of that policy which, while it pretends to advance the interests of the country, is in reality plunging us into national and individual bankruptcy and ruin, and as an offset to this policy, we demand and we call upon the people to inaugurate a speedy return to specie payments, as called alike by the highest consideration of commercial morality and honest and economical government. 6. While we are in favor of all just and equal taxation necessary to sustain our Government and our public institutions, we are opposed to all unjust and unequal systems of taxation, which tend to favor one class at the expense of other classes of the people. 7. The public domain of the United States is the property of the people, and as such should be preserved for the people, and we condemn the policy of wholesale grants to speculative corporations for the benefit of the few to the exclusion of the many. Illinois. REPUBLICAN-JUNE 17, 1874. We, the delegated representatives of the Republican party of Illinois, declare the following to be substantially our political belief: 1. That emancipation and enfranchisement having been secured by the thirteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and by appropriate legislation for their enforcement; and equality of civil rights having been guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment, such guaranty should be enforced by appropriate statutes, so that the broad ægis of Federal power may be over black and white citizens alike. 2. That, as one of the consequences of the late civil war, about $382,000,000 of non-interest bearing Treasury notes were issued to, and are now held by, the people as a safe and convenient currency, it would be unwise and inexpedient, in the present financial condition of the people, to attempt the policy of immediate cancellation of any portion of such Treasury notes. 3. That the laws for the establishment of national banks, having secured to the States and Territories the best system of bank circulation ever before offered to the people, its issuance should be no longer confided to a privileged class, but should be free to all alike, under general and equal laws, the aggregate volume of currency to be regulated by the untrammeled laws of trade. 4. That we reaffirm the declaration of the National Republican Convention of 1872 in favor of a return to specie payment at the earliest practicable day. 5. That we commend the measures which have passed the popular branch of Congress, looking to the cheapening and perfection of inter-State railway transportation, and the improvement of the navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi river. 6. That we are in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, providing for the election of President and Vice President by the direct vote of the people, without the intervention of the Electoral College. 7. That the Republican party proposes to respect the rights reserved by the people to them8. We are opposed to all monopolies which selves as carefully as the powers delegated by operate for the benefit of privileged persons or them to the State and Federal Governments; classes, and to all combinations or corporations and it will aim to secure the rights and privimade to effect purposes hostile to the best inter-leges of the citizens, without regard to nativity ests of the people. 9. That we recognize the grievances of which the industrial classes complain, and we favor a governmental policy that shall impose such restraints and prohibitions upon grasping corporations and stock gamblers as will prevent those financial fluctuations which ever have resulted in a debased currency, official defalcations, ring robberies, bankrupt employers, and starving workingmen and women. 10. That we are in favor of such action by the Legislature of our State as will bring the question of calling a constitutional convention directly before the sovereign people of this State for their adoption or rejection, as they may deem best. or creed; and it is opposed to interference by law with the habits, tastes, or customs of individuals, except to suppress licentiousness or to preserve the peace and safety of the citizens of the State. 8. That while we accord to the railway companies of this State the fullest measure of property rights, we also demand for the people reasonable charges and rigid impartiality in the transportation of passengers and freights, such guarantees to be secured by appropriate State and national legislation. Relying upon the foregoing declaration of principles and policy, and upon the broad, clear record of the Republican party during its fifteen years of State and Federal administration, we |
