Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-02-07
VOL. XIV. NO. 81.
TWENTIETH CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES..
FRIDAY, JANUARY -, IS2S.
RETRENCHMENT.

falling oil OF the revenue, which was its necessary
consequence, the treasury was unable TO pay 10
the sinking fund the whole amount of the annuai
ten millions required by law This, if lac rightly
remembered, occurred about the years 1918, 1919
z or 1870. vas when Radicals were the majority
IN TINS Honse. lie had not spoken OF Radicals as IN
t0Tfandie, but as much abused. The Treasury ia
former years, had paid 10 the sinking fund NOR,
than ten millions per annum At the close of the,
last Administration the Treasury was somewhatin
arrest TO The sinking fund because the sums paid
over ten millions, IN any year, could not be carried
to the credit oithe next year, inasnuch as all the
SURPRISES OF any year belonged to that fund. Al
though in the former Administration the full amount
OF ten millions had not been regularly paid by the
Ireasuary TO the sinking fund, yet, during the pre-
sent Administration, more than ten millions had
been thus regularly paid, and since the organize
non oithe present sinking fund, TO this time, a sum
greater than the aggregate amount of the ten mil
lions, annually pledged tor that purpose, had been
applied to the payment Of the public debt; but il
had not always hecn regularly applied
Mr. Randolph replied, that it would be perceiv-
ed that, II, at any time the whole of the ten mil
lions had been applied to the reduction of the pub
nc debt, then the public had been trfed with
Inc COMM, soners of the Sinking Fund were,
bound to apply the whole of the ten millions s. the
SURPRISES toe, whatever they might be- But if thev
Fop-no, SRI will not say rob-that is harsh
term-but II they take any thing from the sinking
iund from what fund can they repay it? Ifby loans
shat as my colleague forcby expressed it, would
be robblng Peter 10 pay Paul. If it has been re-
paid from surplus balances then they have only
paid TO the sinking fund what ought to have been
III that fund before for, if they ever take single
larIhlng from the sinking fund, they can never re
pay lit Is impossible er ri teyDlRi They have
only loans or SURPRISES, out CT which to make an,
the deiciences-and the SURPRISES all belong to the
SINKING Iund already. Sir, this is as cleaf-aye
SIR and much clearer-than the light from that
window
Mr.. Taylor replied, the gentleman from Yirgin-
Ia IS certainly correct the fact is as ne has stated
IL but that, saw Is not the fault of the present
Administration. They have paid the whole ten
millions annually, and they have repaid besides
part OF the former deficiencies in the SINKING
fund.
Mr.. Randolph THat, I understand, they could
not do for they had nothing TO pay with
Mr.. Floyd now resumed. viii the gentleman
from New York assert that the present Admins.
tration has applied the whole ten millions TO the
payment OF the public deb2 Sir, wish to impress
on gentlemen rom the agricultural States, the
Middle, Western, and Southern States what will
be the state of things when the whole of the public
debt shall be paid, and what forums the sinking
fund shall be surplus in the Treasury. This i
the very Crisis that tear-a crisis which the lynx
eyed People who have been referred TO, have seen
most clearly; but ii il is the object of our Ivnx
eyed rulers 10 tax the agricultural States OF the
Middle and West Of this Union TO the whole a.
mount OF that ten millions, can we exist? What
must be the end OF II? leave every temperate and
well constructed mind to consider / had rather
that this mcaaure of inquiry had been brought
mo the house, at a time when we could have zone
through the whole OF the abuses in this Govern
tnehts IN all Their ramlicatIOns. | knew thew did
eXi5t-the whole ofthis discussion proves they ex-
ist--but whether we can get along with the inves-
ugati0n oIthem well without the aid of the FO
ecunye Department as with it, leave the House
10 determine. here are some other little tljnos
which will notice. Here is Europe in State Of
profound peacC-Wc have no Minister In EnD.
Iand-our Ambassador 10 Russia is almost forgot
Ten what our Minister nj Paris is doing do Jot
knOW-at Colombia We have nOne-but we have q
splendid laeubaya mission to anuse us in the mean
time. Our accounts arc settled in an entirely new
way-whcther hy the celebrated Fifth Auditor or
/ py direction oil tongress, he would not say. The
very elCtnes Of our Dlln,ters paid for at the
pubic expense, and patterns are engraved on cop
per, ANA kept the Department Of State that trcs.,
gentlemen may be able 10 give suitable directors
TO tllelr taIlors DO not know that find very much
laut with thus, but one thing am sure of. we riy.
our agents abroad most ample ana liberal salaries
and quite sufficient TO enable them to appear as an
American gentleman ought 10 appear. If the al
lowanec IS not sufficient let them come to this
House and say 1t Is not, and If they slew that
that Is the case, pledge myself for one 10 make
10 most ample Bat / would do it with thisunder-
standing, that when the business for which ~.
Munster was sent was completed, he shall come
nome. Then we shall be relieved from the ex-
Qcnse Of much of that useless spendor and show
which some ofour Ministers are apinr abroad.
do not know, in the history of this country OF
I the world, a more pleasing spectacle than the
appearance Oh Livingston and Franklin at the
Court of France in plain well-mads Repuhli-
can dresses such as became them and the 60
vCrnmcnt they represented. II is much more
digniiied in my eye than they had glttcred like
Prince EsterhaZy, who could clifford TO let ore hun
dred pounds serngs worth Of Jewels drop from
his coat every time he put it on. We have nothing
but liberty, and how wc undertake to vie with
such men as Sir Wellesley Pole each foot ri
whose window curtains cost five guineas-yyoa H.
giculurisis. whose produce is selling at 10 cents
% bu.lel, on lies rotting in our warehouses; Yet
we. iorsooli, must 90 into an this sort Of cXpen5fi
| turcs because England has done so.
Sir wl refrain from any further remarks vet
+ ] should Doe glad ID the resolution were Hide a.
mondcd. There is part Of it which pariakes
somcwhaio OF the character 81 argument. Now,
ann willing That gentlemen who support the PESO
/ luton should DO ID on their own reasons. / shall
4 support % i"r reasons Of my own, but 7 do NOT
choose 10 vote Tor measure for the reasons orOth-
] crs. therefore wish the resolution could be go
amended as TO express nothing iut the simple pro
position itself
MIR Stewart rose 70 say few wor15in reply To
hi- colleague (Nr. Buchanan and he gentlemen
from Virginia, (Ntr. Randolph aud (Mr. Fioydl
who had spoken against tts resolution.
Mr. Blake OF Indiana, spoke in opposition to the
resolution
l8ir. Wright was proceeding 20 discuss the sun
icct ha 5orc the House when Mr. WCcms Of Ma
rose io question Of order. The Speaker recuest.
cd tle gent man from Ohio. 90 fake his sen
Mr. Wcems then stated that be d. not consi5oy
the resolution undcr consideration n order. mas
much Us De thought lhc whole subject fcon.3iued
10 DC and The amendment Of the gentleman from
New orN' Nlr. iayior, was embraced hv y re-
solution NE oI'rcd some days ago which bad bceu
adopted hyihc House. Tie wished. therefore e
snow pm TIE Chair. whether tic subject srss