Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-04-25

Nav 1900. next followed. By this last act, 'he
nower Of transfer. which IS equivalent TO the gran,
or absolute power over disbursement, was 'estea
in the President, for the following spec'hed %
iects: i.s For the Subsistence OF the hrny ~"
forage: for the Medical and iiospita' depart
ment; - also in Che Navy Department; i"r pro-
visions. for medicines and hospital stores ior re-
n,r. of vessels, for clothing" And this act con-
cudes by prohibiting all other transfer OF appro-
nriation. As the gentleman has called III ques
| inn the accuracy Of my first estimate OF inc
SIMS subject to the will of the President, nave
revised it upon his own admitted basis OF caicu,a-
tion. II am in error the error is lEcuianle' ,"'
! i have shared no diligence in the scrutiny by
which tested the correctness OF the oriSinal es-
innate. Sir, must repeat that tue contingent
expenses for tie first year oil MIR. JEFFERSON 40
minstrainn, though open to some cavii. should DC
fairly set down at S5e,2l3 81 cents; but emOra-
cinn both enumerated and unenumeratcd conin.
asncie.. viii not exceed s, 20,00O-tor the second
wear the amount was 81, 3i0-and Tor the third
year VA. 9I5 DUl % cents. COntfastcd with these.
the arnropiatons for the last year. that are under
the dominion of the executive may be SET down az
two millions and fity-sx thousand one hundred
and Gfty three dollars and forts eight cents W e
nav. With D, opric,y, add to this SUN. the appropr-
atoms fer internal as well as external eommercc-
comprising the sums autte, FOR light houses, buoys,
piers. &c. &c which touch the latter subjects aud
roads, canals and surveys. as connected with the
former. For in these disbursements. The power
conferred is 50 general, and the application Of mo-
ne, in Tie Legislative act, 80 loose and uncehncd,
as necessalli, to conllde the expenditure to the
executive Judgment. as supplement- to the express
>ed ALL Of tile Legislature +"
"For these purposes there was last year cxrcn-
ded esht hundred and fourteen thousand two hun
bred and toul dollars and iiIiyt~o cents; and
which. added to the above amount Of two millions
fifty six thousand one hundred and ility~thuee dol
lars and iorty-tght cents. make total OF two mil
lions claht hundred and seventy thousand three
hundred and ffty-cieht dollars. an thoroughly
persuaded that it will, in Tie aggregate, exceed,
rather than iall short Of TINS computation. |
have brought with Inc to scat the Ireasur,
reports and extract, CAREFUL, taken from the acts
Of congress making appropriations IL viii be to
me source Of Qualification, il the gentleman from
New Hampshire, or any other member, will take
these papers, Tor copc, OF them,) and detect, by
the severest scrutiny, any error ct estimate or cal
culatlon. Mr. Speaker Is it not theme Tor curious
and anxious speculation, that whenever any alu-
sion is here made 10 the expenses OF government,
the friends of the Chief Magistrate rise up with
their correlative estimates of the present and past
Administration Aud yet, sir, tins tremulous
sensitiveness is by no means ineXpicabe 1t ls a
fact susceptible OF the p'alncst demonstration, that
the disbursements OF public money, under like cir
cumstances, and for the same objects OF expendl
ture, by he present administration. have exceeded
all former example. And il is not upon untenable
ground that make up this opinion. Ailthmetica
calculations, resting upon responsible reports from
the Treasury Department, carry my mind to this
confident conclusion. Whatever causes may
ARISE for diversity of opinion upon other topics Of
inquiry, none can here exist; for the estimate oil
dollars and cents by the plain use OF figures. can
not conduct is into error without the certainty Of
immediate and pal pable detection. In the view
that took Of this subject, my attention was fixed
to the compa' alive estimate Of appropriation and
expenditure for the three wears of this adminstra
ton. compared with that of the three yeis imme
dately preceding il; and it presents the following
results:
Current Expenditures erclusre Of Military Pensions and
tie Payments 10 The IsJIc Debt;
1922, 81 87e AL IL
1873, 80 3566 "
1924, S.q59 449 Sc
Total, S24 S22459 "a
Clrre EXPENDITURES, erelusre Of Military Pensions and
1925, $40 249 500 10
1926, III sos z q 4i
1897, l1,752,5l5 81
Total. s33,5O7 767 Is
Deduct three years, amount Of preceding
Administration, "a 800 459 "a
Showing an increase of disbursement in the
present Administration, Of s8685,5O7 "a
| have omitted any notice Of the charges upOn
the Treasury for the public debt and military pen
aiOnS. because the naympnts n these objects