Excerpt from Appropriations, Economy, and Reform: Speech of Hon. Charles Foster, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, Monday, August 14, 1876 The minority of the Committee on Appropriations, supported by the minority of the House, entered upon their duties with the full determination of aiding the majority in making every possible reduction and postponement in the expenditures. We fully realized and appreciated the demand of the country for economy, and were therefore prepared to join hands with any party in Congress to provide preper measures of economy that would not cripple the Government or cause friction in the workings of the Government machinery. While the people of the country have rightly demanded economy at the hands of their representatives, they do not ask nor will they long permit the real functions of government to be impaired or weakened either at home or abroad. Since the culmination of expenditures in 1866 a steady, prudent, and entirely safe reduction in the expenses of the Government year by year has been the policy of the republican party. He precedent thus set should have been maintained until the expenditures had reached their lowest possible limit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.