Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1802-10-18

TO remove their mailghdII Imp 0iiA''h
upon the public mind.
| They fate the whole fun
charqeab,s to the war de-
| partment from the year
Izo- 10 1901, both inclu- DOH. Cfs
| five to be 1O,1I3,II6 As
| OF which, the accountant had
| fettlcd, and rendered TO the
| Trealury accounts to the
amount of 63SS 9l3 %
Leaving anaccounted for, or - -
not yet fettIed, balance Of 8 ST. r9l So
| They fate the whole expendi- -- -----
:ure ofihc navy department
| from 1898, when it was ef-
| tablilhed, to the 3Ilt Of
March 1901, to be 0.03Is3T5 75
| OF which the accountant has
| rendered TO the Treafurv
| accounts, to the amount Of S,8Io on o8
Leaving (fay they balance, ---------
unaecouuted for, or uniet
| tied, Of 4.I7o 65I rs
The obje9 Of this exhibition IS evil
IDENTIFY to convey the ideas OF heavy
expenditure, and Of an extr aordnary ba
lance unaccounted forl--lnAhis coun-
try, twenty millions OF dollars are pre-
tented as an enormous amount OF ex
pence for term Of five Yeas, upon
objects, which in France ~ England,
AFFORD more than thai fam in as many
months. Protected thus in the aggre
gate the fun j. certainly large out
when we corfder that it embFa.
ces period Of five years, including che
year after the new administration CON
menced--that il comprizes nearly two
millions OF dollars, of accounts which
food unieitled CT the War Office in an
uary 1897, that is all the uniettled ac-
counts from the hrf eitablfhment OF
that office-that il covers al the expsn
oes Of Publications, magazines, the
fabrication OF cannon and other
arms, the purehafe Of military fore 8
the cor of the navy itfeif, and aln1oit Al
IFS equipments, ravy yards, flores and
magazines, which came into the pohef
fion OF the prefent Adminiar aIions, be
fides all the COTS of The war and naval
Rablilhmenls, Of the ordinary kind,
there is not man of impartial mind,
who knows any thing OF the fubj46t, but
will be iurprzed TO find the total q
mount 70 fnall.-Of all this, however,
the Committee moi ineemouny execute
themfelves from taking any motto {.
The late hour (fay they) al which
Z" the 0oluminou5 dseumeat5, accompany
ing their report, were re -eived by The
{" Committee upon the 9th Of April)
" and the labour neceiIary to inveaigate
4" iuch mai. of accounts, and If al
" vances unaccountej for, PARTICULAR,
in the War and Navy departments,
" embracing an expenditure OF tqusnty
milEon5 Of doHzr5, have rendered It
impoflible for the Committee, conGr
+" tently with their attention TO o her
" duties, 70 forn an opini9n az 10 The
+" manner. ~ ovbieb tbn jam has ben ex
g pended"
Where ignorance is blif, it is folly
to be wife, Jays the fubimea lyric bard
of modern ages. Repofe, gentlemen,
upon that pillow which you find 70 foft
leave to others the drudgery Of in.
Mitigating The manner in qgbicb he (4m
1ua5 e.Psaded the knowledge would
afford you no pleafng reflections. Ii
was expended in terrifying your coua-
try againa foreign invalion in protect
ing her property againf piratical de.
precautions in yindicsting her honour,
and her rights in furnilhiog fpear for
her arm and a fhield for her breaR,
when foreign holtility and domeaic
treachery were combining for her dir
grace, if not for her dearufion. - Such
were the glorious and The facceGful OBJ
jeels of thoic expenditures. Her ccaa
was fortified her property was pro.
teefed her honor and her rights were
vindicated She was refcuei from the
ruin that threatened her, and, delivered
over 10 your management in Aate of
peace and well grounded jscHyity.-I
Your time would have been wogle than
lott in a'csrtaining and exhibiting facts
like the e 1t was enough for YOU to
preient the view of a great expenditure
Yet hail not your crafty devices
avail TO Rife truths 70 intereGing to the
eaablilh them on the broad
cit BATS of demcnltration, your filence
IS worth volumes of argument-They
iiline' the more confpicuous for being
dicarded from your report, as the hia
oran tells Us, the fame of Baurus and
CAsssus was The more illulfricns. fror,