Retrenchment

The Appfopriaton lïilla liave at last all uo6n oasaed by Congress and apptöed by tho Presiïent. Tlio record of retrenchinent in {AibKn expenditures Wbich bas beeu made by the Home in tho face of a pfotBt!ög Republican Senate, goes to-day to the couiitr'yj and cannot bo mswered by the supporters of the liOpublican party. The official figures, propared by the Committeo ou App'opriations carefully, contirm the estímate which haïo h"retnfcre been made, and givo Mr. Eandall and bis cöimnittee the highêst meed of praise. Tho total redüetiOö tthioli havo been made by the House from the estimates submitted by tho administration aro tW, 346,682.00. The total reductions made by the House from last year's expendituro are t38,910,084.29. The net reductioua after the Senate incieased the appropriatioun are 'eery uoarly thirty millions of dollars, the exact figures being 2fl,914,262.8C. The retronchment coters all branchea of the pnblie eeiTico. In the naval service, for instanee, ihe appropriatioufi are nearly 88,000,000 below 8ecretary Eobeson'a wadtefnl estimates. For the legislativo, executive and judicial expenses of the Government Í 7,000,000 lees than the estimatcii, and uearly $3,000,000 less than paf sed ky the Senato laet year are appropriated. The army ia cut down from. the eatimatoa noarly f 6,000,000, with i2,000,000 noarly loss appropriated than last year. The postal service ia in the same ratio. The River and Harbor bill ib roduced $9,000,000 bolow the estimatea, and over $1,000,000 below 'last year's appropriations. The pension Hat, of ourse, cannot vnry mich, but is f500,000 below laat yoar. Tho Sundry Civil bilí comes down from $32,500,000 of estimates to 16,000,000, being $10,500,000 loss than tho law of lastvearcalled for.