"The amount of the premium is $46,689,209.86. From that should be deducted premium received on the sales of gold which form the larger part of the 28,000,000 of receipts from miscellaneous sources, and amount to $15,294,137.37, leaving a balance of $31,395,072.49-- $31,395,072 49 Add 411,255,477 63 ---------------- $442,650,550 12 Add to that the amount collected by Postmasters 15,141,623 71 ---------------- Total $457,792,173 83 "The estimate of the amount drawn from the people by taxation by the Federal government, contained in the table to which you refer, is made in round numbers $450,000,000. "There can be no doubt it is below the truth. "Very respectfully yours." HENDRICKS TO TILDEN (TELEGRAM) "_Cleveland, O._ "REC'D AT ALBANY, _July 15, 1876_. "TO GOVERNOR TILDEN, "_Albany, N. Y._ "I have spent the afternoon here and seen many Democrats. Our gains are large, and we can carry Ohio, but all say it is worth thousands of votes to repeal the resumption clause on some terms. I think you should urge a proper measure of repeal. "T. A. HENDRICKS." ABRAM S. HEWITT TO TILDEN "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, _July 26th, 1867_. "MY DEAR GOVERNOR,--We have got over another day, thanks to an election case, without action on the silver bill. We believe now that we shall be able to defeat action, if not vote down the measure. It has been a hard fight, and, if we win, it will be due to considerations of expediency rather than of principles on the part of the Southern members. "The object of this note is mainly to suggest something in regard to the civil-service plank. A very intelligent newspaper man says that the real issue is not so much in the personnel of the clerks as in the modes and machinery of administration in the several departments of the Govt. In other words, that the abuses are largely due to the defective organization of the department, that the business has outgrown the methods and machinery devised by Hamilton, and that it is the framework of the government machine which needs reformation, reconstruction, and adaptation to the requirements of the public business. In this view, the mere appointment and discharge of a few clerks is of but little consequence, compared with such a reform in the mode of conducting the public business. "This crude statement seems to contain the germ of a position in politics in regard to civil service, far higher and more practical than the declaration of Hayes.