Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-12-20
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 90,

BRckaer 7ilraston, ESD. has been ap-
pointed BY the President Of the u. States
an associate Judge for the District of Co.
lumbia, in the room of "A. B. Duckett, Esq.
deceased.
l'hat q change in one Short gear Just 2
months before the sth Of November last, to
Wit on the 9Th OF November, 1908, the great,
the wise, the economical Jefferson, delivered
to congress his last opening message, in
which, speaking of the receipts and expendi-
lures the public money, he uses the fol-
lowing words:
1t is ascertained that the receipts have
amounted 10 near EIGHTEEN MILLIONS of
dollars, which, with the EIGHT millions and q
halfin the treasury at the beginning of the
year, have enabledus, after meeting the cur
rent demand and interest incurred, to pay two
millions three hundred thousand dollars of
the principal of our funded debt, ard left us
In the treasury on that day, 5oth September,
1909, NEAR FOURTEEN MILLIONS of dollars ::
OF these, FIVE millions three hundred and fif-
ty thousand dollars, will be necessary to pay
what will be due on the first day Of January
next, which will complete the reimbursement
|. OF the eight per cent stock. These payments
with those made in the six years and half
preceding, will have extinguished thirty
three millions i've hundred and eight thou
sand dollars of the principal of the funded
debt, being the whole which could be paid or
purchased within the limits of the law and of
our Contracts and the amount of revenue
thus discharged, will have liberated the reve-
hue from about two millions of dollars of inte-
rest, and aided thar sun annually to the dis
possible surplus. The probable accumulation
ofthe surplusses beyond zohat CAN be ahftiied
to the public debt, whenever the freedom and
safety of our commerce shall be restored,
merits the consideration of congress. Shall
fhc un1trodHctive in the hubHc Uaults ? Shall
the revenue be reduced Or shall it net ra-
ther be appropriated to the improvement of
roads, canals, rivers, education, and other
great foundations of prosperity and union,
under the powers which congress may alrea-
DIV possess, or such amendment eli the con-
stitution as may be approved by the states :
While uncertain of the course OF things, the
time may be adyantageously employed In
obtaining the powers necessary for system
of Improvement, should that be thought
BEST
Such was the paternai solicitude which the
father of his people, twelve months ago e2-
pressed, that some means should be devised
TO relieve the vaults of the treasury from the
enormous load of accommodating millions,
which threatened, in spite of the ordinary
expenditures and the redemption of the pub
lie debt, to swell beyond all power OF manage
ment Congress did not think proper. howe
yer, or did not find time, to take any order
upon the subject. 1t may, therefore, be sup
pesed that by this time the mass has become
utterly unwieldy.
Hear what the secretary of the treasury says
upon this subject. Having stated at large the
receipts and expenditures ofthe current year
and estimated those ofthe ensuing year upon
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& 1t is sufficient to state that if the actual
expenditure Of the year 1910 for all military
and naval purposes should be estimated at
the same sum which was discussed by the
treasury for those objects during the year