Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-06-05

EXECUTION.
Fo' ne current expenses OF the ord
nance, MT cent was appropriated, I'M
less the Nexpended balance OF the APP
propriatior9fthe last year should be con-
sidered an appropriation and even can
non was reused for the Publications
which have ben, or will be, completed
IN the course # the year, the result of
which Will be, hat the numerous and eX-
perienced body # artiicers organized at
the ordnance desots, will be dispersed,
to be collected hereafter, when the
Treasury is in better state, at great
expense; and the forts will be left use
less, Tor the want oiguns and those en-
gagged IN casting OF cannon be subject to
,ruinous losses. This may be called re-
trenchmeat and saving, but is neither
zvfsdom nor economy.
| Against these measures the Senate
made stand, and, had lime permitted,
would have resisted with effect. AS ii
was, 1t had to yield 10 circumstances
growing out Of the tardy proceedings of
| the House. The bill for the military
appropriations, at all times important,
but made doubly SO from these great in
novations on what had been deliberately
fixed, was reported by the committee OF
ways and means but few days before
the termination OF the session taken up
for consideration the day preceding the
adjournment, sent to the Senate, for its
| solemn deliberation and concurrence,
the next day, late in the afternoon; and
finally passed and presented TO the Pre-
sident, for his examination and constlu-
tional sanction, few minutes before
midnight, on the Sd OF March, at which
time the House, by the constitution, ex-
PRED. AS late as it was, the Senate
made important amendments. In order
| to meet the views OIL the House, a. 10
retrenchment, as far as could be done
with propriety, the Senate inserted in
the bill, under the several heads refer
red to, by their amendments, the smallest
sum which could preserve the faith of
the nation, and prevent great derange
ment in carrying on the works but the
House refured TO concur in these Just
views, and adhered to its own appropri-
| dtlOuSs s-OillillttCGS Vi IOulCICNCC were
appointed between the Senate and the
House; on the part OF the former, con-
sisting of Messrs. King, of New-York,
ard Barbour; and, on the part of the
House, of Messrs Harden, Cobb, and
Tracy, who were known to have been
most active in their opposition TO the
amendments of the Senate, and jealous
advocates for the measures ofthe House
connected with these points. The COM
mittee of the House refused to yield, and
that of the Senate was equally firm but
the Senate itself rather than lose the bill,
and subject the country to the expence
of a special session, which in that event
would have been necessary, reluctantly
yielded, by one vote. II was thus that
the majority of the House, by their tardy
proceedings, deprived the Senate, and
the Executive, of that full deliberation
necessary for the due discharge of their
duty, and availed themselves the con-
sequence of that very tardiness to pass
very important bill which contained pro-
visions not approved of by great ma
iority ofthe Senate. have not presented
this detail to censure, nor to affect the
standing of any man, much less the
House of Representatives, for which |
have the greatest respect, but 10 present
to the people, who are the party inter-
ested, and who only have in their hands
the means of correction, a portion OF tie
proceedings of the session, which from
the hurry and confusion of the few last
days of the session, has not been hereto
fore presented to them. 1t is fit it should
be known, to prevent its recurrence,
and it is by them only that recurrence
| may be prevented.
Should the next House follow in the
measures of the last, the public expen-
diture may certainly be still farther di-
minshed. Should the Notifications be
wholly stopped, farther saving would
thus be made OF 100000. In the in
crease of the Navy too, farther saving,
in the same manner, may be made OF
G5OO,oOo. But what would we ulti-
mately gain by these savings 2 We
| would spare our means in peace, when
we can best afford to make expendi-
lures, to be overwhelmed by our expens-
es in zvar, when we should have the
least ability to meet them. Take for
tihcations for an example. The report
of the Board demonstrates that, in six
months campaign should the system be
completed, its whole expense would
be saved to Inclination. Should the po-
Icy adopted al the close of the last war,
and which grew out of it, (but which |
fear will be labandoned( be persevered
| in. the exDenditures for fOrtihc atoms