Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-06-06

whos Of which were under the present aduninistra.
"on. Accordingly you will that In communi.
s%'ionS addressed to the Committee on Retrcnch.
.nrii' " The secretary oi State and Secretary or
" ~, Wrist they resort 10 divers other ingenious
'"i"binauons ana in,outions TO bring out iavora.
"e 'ssuii, uey, IN every case, put down the e.
Pe'HtWes Or 1919 10 the account OF the present
administration. iou will further SCI. that in reIa
'on to the expenditures OF Foreign Intercourse on
which the controversy between Mr.. Bartlett and
myself has almost exclusively turned il Is distinct,
y a'iniitted, both by Mr. Clay, and Messrs Ser
Scant and Everett, (the minority of the Committee
on nefenchinent,) that the expenditures Of the 3
,e'rs oil the present administration hare ecceedeyi
hose oil an equal period OF the last administration
ihey adrit the Tact, and then seek to explain and
account Tor lt Ii was reserved for the proves
OF tho gentlemen from n. Hampshire alone TO take
oofder ground, and deny fact which every BODY
else admitted.
Although The gentleman has not openly contend.
ca that the expenditures OF 1925 should not be
charged to the present administration, and pre-.
sumo VIII hardly do so, % while he hopes (to use
ms own ianguage,) 10 escape Judgment of idiocv
OF INSANITY, yet experimenting that If they should
oe SO charged, they might overwheln his beauti.
'ui STATISTICAL hypothesis, he evidently shews dis
position to UIioU anchor to tcin0i,card. He
talks about 1.-The purposes to which an appropriation
was 10 be applied, being decy.ed under a former
administrations" but surely gentleman who has
such an instructive horror of judgment of diocy
or INSANITY, and who discourses with all the lau,i
harity oil hero OF the tere, (another trait OF re-
semblance between him and MIR Ichaboa Crauel
oil beatins ideas into other peoples heads, though
10 speak truly, this process OF instruction SCENE not
10 have been very efiectual in his own case--sucj,
gentleman surely will not gravely contend that
an appropriation for Foreign Intercourse is in the
nature oil decree, aud that the Executive is bound
TO exPend every cent OF appropriation which
congress makes, generally upon its own application
= he gentleman also talks about " expenditures
rendered necessary by measures which had been
DEVISED and liabilities which had been incurred by
preceding executive But it happe 49, most IN.
fortunately Tor this suggestion, that large portion
oi .he foreign intercourse appropriations Of 1928,
were applicable to appointments, where there
were erisftng Uacdnctes, as in the missions 10
London, to Madrid, to Mexico, to Guatemala, 10
brazl and to Buenos Ayres, which OF course left
the new President entirely liberty to consult his
own Judgment, as to the propriety of filling them
The dispute between the gentleman from New
Hampshire and myself, as TO the comparative ex-
pendilures oil the late and the present administers
hon, being now decided by an official and authen-
TIC ascerainmcnt of the fact i, can no longer be OF
Importance to discuss the business of the different
processes OF reasoning and calculation. by which
we attained TO our different conclusions 1 should
be content myself to rely upon the truth of nv
conclusions, now shewn by an official exhibition OF
lacs, as evidence OF the correctness Of my reason
ing, and vice versa, to the gentleman's; but as
he has INDUCED in MANY remarks on this branch OF
the subject, must beg your indulgence briefly TO
notice them. The gentleman, who is no less for
orator.
threatens me with the horns Of a dilemma i'm con-
sequence OF my reference TO the fact that the for
eiSn intercourse appropriations OF 1925 were made
upon the estimates OF Mr.. Adams, as Secretary of
state, at a time when there was a strong probabi-
~ mat lie was TO be the President, who would
have the expenditure OF those approximations
Jdct, referred TO by me TO shew how correct the
gentleman was in his assertion, that g Mr. Adams
had nothing 10 do with those approximations lie
now calls upon me either TO release Mr. Adams al
for Tho
oil 1870, or otherwise to give him credit for the
appropriations OF The three preceding years, which
were, IN like manner, made upon his estimates
nut Goes not tho gentleman perceive that there is
peculiar reason Tor holding Mr.. Adams responsible
for his recommendations of 1925, i'm the ciycum-
stance OF his probable succession to station that
would give him the command and dis bursement OF
the appropriations recommended probability
winch, no doubt, existed in the hopes and calcuIa.
tons OF Mr.. Adams Oh the 18th of November, 1924,
when the gentleman has discovered by his access
to the drcdnd inlpeTii, that the estimates actual.
iy passed from the hand of the !Secretary," as
well as on the 10th OF January, 1925, when they
were communicated to the House? If the gentle
man does not perceive the Distinction his difficulty
unlike that OF Wouter Van Twler, whose ideas
were so biS as not TO be turned in his head, NAV
De mat OF another parsonage commemorated by
the same historian, and already alluded to-tlre
gentleman's namesake, Mr.. Ichabod Crane, whose
chronological structure, hishedd being very small
and fiat at the top, described by Diedrick
hnickerbocker, did not admit of the reception OF
any other than ideas of the smallest dimensions
The gentleman, after tossing IN for some time on
the horns OF his logic, sooner lets Inc down. than
he salutes me, in affected amazement at another OF
my paradoxes, with the {" prodigious'' excIama-
uon OF Donni Sampson-another Of that tribe OF
pedagogues, between which and the gentleman
from New Hampshire, there seems to be re-
inarkable congeniay Let us SEQ what is the
occasion OF this ejaculation of the genteman's as.
constituent? Taking the appropriations for series
OF years as general criterion for approxima,inp
the expenditures OF The government, had, with a
view oil forming some probable estimate of the
comparative expenditures OF the late and present
administration, presentec statement of appropria-
tons for the three las, years OF the late, and the
three years of the present administration. At the
same time, this evidence was ST ited 10 be neither
precise nor conclusive and was intended to be used
al interim only, until the actual expenditures
could be investigated and ascertaned as thew might
readily be, inasmuch all the years included in
my statement were cassed. The gentleman from
New Hampshire, not liking the result of my state
ment, set himself 10 work, to coDtrive one of more
agreeable aspect, and, at length produced state
ment, in which he put the first year of Mr.. Adams's
administration the shoulders Of Mr. Monroe
and in lieu Of it, took in the side of Mr. Adams
the present year, which had just then commenced,
and the expenditures Of which, of course were
unascerfained and unascertainabe. This statement
Is SO PTodigio"s specimen OF the gentleman's
statistical ingenuity and resources, that 1 must In
justice 10 him, introduce il. Here it is:
The amount of appropriations for forcigninter.
course then, stands thus:
In 1923, s $4,000 In 1926, s $4,000
1924, 1884, 900 1927, 1871 900
1925, 2l5 600 Panama, 10000
- - 1928, 10000