Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-05-10

wig s"o"u 'hat Tue expenses oil foreign inter-
course during the present year were oniy $40,
600 as he stated them 10 be, the same elias. of
expenditures. during several years of Mr.. def.
ierson administration, were largely more than
one million OF dollars, and in Que year Of that
admn'straiIen, even more than two milionsl
| hese statements are taken from the " ork men
toned above, (Seybert's Stat. anm. p. 7is,) and
Tue sums are there arranged, it is true, for the
sake OF breviiy and simplicity, under the gen
eral head OF Foreign In.ercourse;' but these
sums include many other items Of very large a.
mount, Gas the gentleman might have learned
from The same authority Up. 1917 if he did not
already Know it, besides what both he and my
sell meant by expenses of foreign Intercourse,
and 10 which only our statements applied. The
sense in which used the term, expenses of for
etSf intercourse, as was perfectly evident from
tue context, was the common and popular, as
we'll as most natural under.ta landing Of the
| phrase, 10 vii, the expenses of maintaining in-
'ercpurse with foreign nations through the usu-
al diplomatic aud official OF ;ans, and in that
sense was restricted 10 the items enumerated in
page b, OF this letter, such as salaries and out
MS of Ministers, Charges d'AAaires, Secretaries
OF Legation,> &c.-That the gentleman from N
Hampshire understood it in that sense, as Indeed
every body else must have understood il, is
na"'fested by the fact that, in his comparison
between the present and late administrations in
| BE
ms statements were made up or these items, APP
pertaining to the diplomatic establishment of
| the country and of them only.
Out the sums taken by him from Seyber, in.
Guided not only the diplomatic expenses of the
government, properly so called, but all claims
against The government arising from treaties
win foreign powers, which, in some instances,
amount TO very large sums: 1 will illustrate this
ny single example taken from the statements
made by the gentleman. Awaiting himself of the
generality of Seyberrs classification, he states
the expenses of foreign intercourse in lSO3 TO
nave been St,O01,96S 81. But when we come
TO anaiyse this amount, we find that only SOL,
39S 22 were on acsOunt Of what both of us meant
ny expenses Of foreign intercourse, and which
III the subjoined statement, are denominated di-
Ppmdttc expenses, and that the balance of the
SUI" consisted almost wholly of monies paid by
virtue OF treaty stipulatisns. This statement is
taken from document of unquestonahIe au-
thoriiy-"the account of the receipts and ex-
pendtures of the United States for the wear 49,
eS-(a document required To be annually laid
nefor' ConSress) aud is founded on the stale
ments contained in that document from p. 4s 10
P. 81, aud on the tabular statement in p 65
D'pi"matic 1913 2o
Dr''sh tFea'y 6,l89 CT
Convention with Great Britain sss,ooo 90
Awards under the 7th art Br. treaty 4,2t5 "a
Spanish treaty 800 si
Relief 4 protection Of Amer. seamen 10. 37A 81
~, Si,oeI,96s 81
linus we see that more than nine lenths of
ms !ri&atiu' siam have nothing 10 do with that
| class df5expenses of which The gentleman from
N: Hampshire and myself had been speak inr.
there's single item you will perceive, Of
oooo,ooo wholly independent of the diplomatic
expenses OF the government. That item was
Tor carrying into effect Convention made with
Great Britain on the 9Th day of January, 1902,
oy winch the United States stipulated to pay to
ms Brtannic Majesty the sum of S2,664 900
IN three equal annual instalments in satisfaction
and discharge of the claims of British subjects
for damages sustained by them in consequence
| oil appointments which had DELAYED or prev nted
| Tie recovery OF their debts fran American citi-
zens. Theisum of Ssss 900, mentioned in the
statement above, was the first of these install.
ments, nd the remaining instalments fell upon
the Two succeeding years of MIR. Jeffersons adj
| ininisiratiOn, and contributed TO swell the a.
| mounts appearing to have been expended for TO-
reign intercourse, in those years. In addition
TO these charges upon Mr.. Jeffsrson's admins
trat'on, there were ohersof large amount grow
4 ing out of the Convention with the French Re-
Pnol'c OF the 30th April, 1903, by which Lonis-
| iaha was acquired. Ii was one Of the cond-
tisns OF that Convention, that the United States
should assume the payment of The claims Of their
| own citizens against the French Government for
supplies furnished, property captured, vessels
detained, &c. and q Iaw was passed on the 9th
November, 1903, appropria,ing a sum of SO,
| 10000 for the payment of these claims. The
payments made under this Convention are al.
so included in the sum appearing, according to
| he gentleman's statement, TO have been expend-
ed for foreign intercourse, in the subsequent
years of MIR. Jeffersons administration; and in
conjunction with several other treaty engage
men's, very naturally account for The magnitude
which this head Of expenditures had attained in
! those years. The same remark is applicable TO
The large sums arranged under the head Of TO.
| reign intercourse, in the gentleman's statement,
during the periods Of General Washingiop's &,
the elder Mr.. Adamss administrations Much
the greatest portion of them was expended in
Thrilling the stipulaiions of treaties actually
made, auti does not belong TO that class of ex-
peDses incident TO the mere intercourse Of nation.
through the medium Of diplomatic agents, and
winch alone was IN the contemplation Of the
gentleman and myself in the comparison insti-
| iuted between the present and late admipistra-
lions, with regard to the expenses Of foreign in
teTccurse. For what purpose, Ihen, were these
imposing sums, including items of very large A.
| "a oH ;Sfi Il.