Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-06-07


/ who has such an instructive horror of" iudomen
OF cioey or insanity" and who discourses with al
the familiarity of hero of the feruc another trai
VI resemblance between him and Mr.. Tchaboe
frame oi beating Ideas into other people heads
though, to speak truly, this process of instruction
seems not to have been very eectual in his own case
-such gentleman ,surelywill not gravely con,en,
mat an appropriation for foreign intercourse is il
the nature OF decree, and that the Executive !,
oouha 10 expend every cent of an appropriation
wnich congress generally upon its own
application :"
Ihe gentleman also ;aks about expenditures
fenaered necessary by measures wh6l, had beer
devised, and liabilities which had been incurred
by preceding cxecrtiye'' But it happens mo 4
uniortunately for ssuggestion, that large p,r
ton oil the foreign intercourse appropriations of
100 were applicable TO new appointments. where
there were e1isting rucancics, as in the missions
TO London, to Madrid, to Mexico to Guatemala.
10 Brazil, and to Buenos Ayrcs which of course
'eit the new President entirely at liberty to con-
suit his own Judgment as to the proprety Of 6llino
them.
The dispute between the gentleman from Now
Hampshire and myself, as to the comparative ey-
Pehuitures of the present and the late administers
tiop, being now decided by an official and anthem
TIC ascertainment oil the fats. it can, 10 longer.
be OF Importance to discuss the business of the diff
ierent processes of reasoning and calculation bv
Which we attained to our different conclusions
shouio De content, myself, to rely upon the truth
OF my conclusions, now shewn by an official eyhi-
Dltlon OF facts, evidence of the correctness of
my reasoning, and vice versa as 70 the uentle
man S but as he has INDUCED in many remarks
on tliS branch OF the subject / must ber your in
diligence briefly to notice them.
he gentleman, who is no less formidable rs =
loglc'an than as parliamentary orator, threatens
"le "th Inc horns ot a diemma, in consequence
oil my reference to the fact that the forcign inter
course appropri atoms of 1926 were made unon
the estimates of Mr. Adams, as Secretary of State
at time when there was a strong probability that
ne was to be the President who would have the
expenditure OF these appropriations fact refer
feu 10 by me to shew how correct the gentleman
was IN his assertion that " Mr. Adams had no,hino
70 10 with these appropriations" He now calls
upon me either to release Mr.. Adams altoretber
rom responsibility tor the appropriations of 1928
or Otherwise give him credit for the approDoalions
oil the three preceding years, which We're in like
manner, made upon his estimates But does not
inc gentleman perceive that there is a DecvLor
reason Tor holding Mr. Adams responsible for his
licoo'hinenuatlons OF 1923 in the circumstance of
Ills Pfooaoe succession to station that would
give hi'n the command aud disbursement OF the
aPPioPIiations recommended-apr probability which
no doubt, existed in the hopes and calculations of
gentleman has discovered, by his access TO the
arcana lmperii, that the estimates actualyy mas
Sc" rom me hdndS Of tile iSecret.y as well as ON
inc loth Jan. 1925 when they were communicate
Gu 10 the House Ii the gentleman does not per-
G1"e the distinction, his difficulty, unlike thar Of
outer van Iwlller whose ideas were so bio as not
20 DE turned III his head. may be that of another
person age commemorated by the same historian
and already alluded to-the gentlemans name,
sake, Mr.. lchabod Crane, whose phrenolooicoI
structure, " his head being very small. and fiat At
Top as described by Diedrich Knickerbocker.
u,u not ADMIT OF the reception of any other than
ideas of the smallest dimensions
Inc gentleman, after tossing me for some time
on the horns oil his logic, no sooner lets me down
than he salutes me in affected amazement at an
other OF my Paradoxes, with the predictions exca
nation OF Dominic Sampson, another of that tribe
vi Peuagogues, between which, and the gentle
man from New-Hampshire there seems TO be
remarkable congenlaty Let us see what is the
occasion of this ejaculation of the gcntlemans as
tohiShment Taking the appropriations for a Sc
res years as general criterion for approximatinp
the c1PendttureS OF the government [ had, with a
view OF forming some probable estimate of the
comparative expenditures of the late and present
administration presented statement of approprai
ions Tor the three last years of the late g. the three
years OF the present administrative. At the same
o.
else nor conclusive, and was intended to be used
ad interim only, until the actual expenditures
could be investigated and ascertaned, as thew
might readily be, inasmuch all the years includ-
ed IN my statement were elapsed. The gentleman
from New Hampshire, not liking the result of nv
statement, set himself to work to contrive one If
more agreeable aspect, and at length produced
statement, in which he saddlcd the first wear C
Mr.. Adams administration on the back of Mr..
Monroe, and in lieu of it took in, on the side Of
MIR. Adams, the present gear, which had Just then
commenced, Sthe expenditures of which ,os course,
were unaScertalned, and unascertainable This
statement is so prodagious specimen of the cen
temans statistical ingenuity and resources, that
must in justice to him, introduce il. Here it is
The amount of appropriations for foreign IN.
| tercourse, then, stands thus -
In is23 $4,000 In 1S26 $4,000
| loZl loD,oO 1897 $4,000
| 100 2l3,OOU Panama 10000
| ISIS 1890