Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-05-10
years OF the present administration, as follows
III !oSS nothing In 1925 $4,000
1875 nothing 1926 10000
1924 $4,000 1927 IN ono
$4,000

s'a'emrht makes one of his own, exhibiting a
very different result, TO wit: S2l 323 less on the
s,ae OF the present administration than on that
OF ITS predecessor. But, how doe. he produce
This variancea First, by adhering to his favor
ue plan ofPuting the first year Of Mr.. Adams
Administration Oh the shoulders of Mr. Monroe,
ana then, in effect, by setting off the expenses
OF only two years of Mr. Adams Administration
against the expenses of three preceding years
Tor the year 1923, which he includes in his state.
ment as one OF Mr. Adams three years, is made
+" present perfect blank, ''no appropriation"
as he says "being asked" from which the in
ference IS that nothing can be expended for this
ooJect, during the present year.--But such is
not the Tact, as have already had occasion 10
state. There is a balance Of Former appropria.
lions amounting to S46,S52, now at the dispo-
sal oil the administration for the contingent ex.
pehses OF foreign intercourse, aud actually in.
ciuded IN the estimates for the service of the
present year as still applicable to this object.
Add this sam of SAC, 1852 tn his statement. and
tnen upon his o'0n scheme Of dliotmeat as TO time
there Is an excess Of 20 ,5i3 on the side OF The
present administration, instead of a. xauing of
S|I,329.-But there is still another cause of
the variance between my statement uno6 This
sun)ect, and that made by the gentleman from
new Hampshire. My statement referred In the
sums appropriated for the contingent expenses
OIL foreign intercourse, which took frcm the
several appropriation laws. The gentleman
from New Hampshire, however, has undertaken
TO furnish, from some source or other, the sums
winch have been actually erpendtd.-His state.
meht OF those sums may be correct, without irp-
puSn'RS IN any degree the accuracy IF nv
statement as to the sums appropriated In nv
statement, / know there is no error. If there
were, reference 10 the appropriation laws
would detect il, in a moment,
l. VIII here remark that, in my statement
had reference to the appropriations made; be.
cause, while they furnished a general criterion
Tor oPpror'mating the amounts expended, they
she"ed precisely the sums with which the adj
mn'stration was chargeablc aud for which they
were bound to account. 1t may ha pen in some
instances, that the appropriations are greater
than the expenditures while, in other ms lances.
me expenditures exceed the appropriations; g.
mus defect In one case balancing excess in an
other' the expenditures and appropriations, in
the general mass of fiscal operations, will be
'onhu very nearly 10 correspond.--Iiow far the
actual expenditures, may vary from the appro-
Priations, IN regard TO TIE subject / am now
speaking OF, L am MT prepared to say with alb
soiute precision. In relation to that portion of
me expenditure out of this fund, which is most
liable to abuse 1 mean expenditures for secret
sero1ce) we have now the authority of the pub
Inc and uncontradicted statement of a member
oil Congress Mr. j. S. Barbour,) who is also
member OF the standing committee on Public
expenditures. for the fact that the amount of
TINS KIND of expenditure since the commence
ment OF The present administration has exceeded
all bounds Of proportion TO the same kind Of ex-
Pendiure under former administrations, in like
circumstances. You will see from MIR. Bar
bour's speech, copy of which sent you, that
the amount OF secret service expenditures during
two years and nine months of Mr.. Adams Ad.
mInIsra'ion has been $1,000 6S, while the
whole amount expended for secret service from
the beginning to the end of Mr.. Monroe's eight
years, was only $500, and that in the short
interval OF thirteen days, indeed, to wit. from the
sth to the 21st November last, Mr. Adams ex-
pended SO 1853 for secret service, being S332s
more than Mr.. Monroe expended, during the
whole period OF his administration. Having
seen and examined the ofTiciRl vouchers on which
Mr.. Barbour's statement is founded, [ know il
TO be entirely correct.
have now noticed oil the statements made
by Mr.. Bartlett, which appear to have ii direct
bearing on the tabular statement contained in
my speech. He has made some other statement.
OF more general character, leading 10 entirely
false conclusions in relation to the economy Of
the present administration, and which are sus-
rrpiible Of the clearest refulation. But, after
| the exposure have already made of the errors
OF his statistics, it certainly cannot he necessary
to pursue him any farther. Indeed, is not The
fact 'ohtch has not and cannot be confr0uerted
the whoie current expenditures of the govern.
ment under the present administration exceed
the aggregate amount Of similar expenditures
during an eqnal period Of the last admiuisira.
ton by pear seuen millions of dollars, al the low.
est calculation, according TO the estimate in
my speech this excess is. Sc, 7O3 1873. MIR Bar.
hour, in his speech, makes it Sc, 6So, so7 in con
sequence of excluding the item of military pen
sIons, which did not exclude,) and the reiuct-
ant admission Of the President in his message Ia
Congress at the commence ment Of the Session
that = the expenditures Of the last year exceed
IT'S receipts" by the sam Of nine hundred thou
sand dollars, which he calls small c1cess-Ar,
not these facts sufficient in themselves To staml
with utter Reproduction and discredir all the vair
preiensions of economy on The part Of the friend,
OF the present administration?
fear that in the exposition have given YOU
L shall appear TO have been ledious-My obiec
has been so leave nothing unexplained, bm I,
give you and the rest oF my friend. he Fullrs
satisfaction, in regard TO every pcint of discrep
anry involved in the statement. Of Mr.. BartIrt
aId myself have felt that the charges whicl
my enemies in Amherst have raised npon tbes
discrepancies (choosng 10 consider Mr. Bart
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