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

500 ,JSo,-o IN ic2I as he VIII sec from the ta-
bic OF expenditures annexed 20 the report of the
COMMITTEES of ways and means, during the late
session OF Congressional that Mr. Monroc's adj
m,nlstration had to provide for II payment of FIVE
mii!ions OF dollars to Spain for the purchase of
Florida, from which charge the present admins
tra,ion has been exempt! These items of extra
charge upon Mr. Monroes administration not to
speak of others, which, doubt not, an examina-
ton at official documents would disclose are Il
lone more than sufficient to balance the excess
which may appear from comparison of the Treas
ury estimates, on the side of that administration
But have neither the means here, nor the irs,i-
nation any tcherc, to disentange more thorough
ly, this new skein OF the gentleman's Statistics
The fact is incontrovertible, and uncontroverted
that the current expenditures under the present
administration have very largely exceeded those
OF an equal period of the late administration. In
the Report of the committee on Retrenchmcnt
Up. 40) the annual average of those expenditures
during the years 1925, 1926 and 1927, is stated
at $l2, 427 60
And during the years
1892, 1928 and 1924 at: = S0,9S0, 647 60
Making an annual erceSS
under the present admin of S2447 1917 90
1t is said however, that all this is an affair Of
Congress, and that it ''would be very unjust to
ttansler the blame from them to the Executive 4"
But is not the sanction Of the President necessa-
ry, Under certain qualifications, to give the validi-
| ty OF fuC " TO the acts of Congress-s it not his
duty to recommend to their consideration such
measures as he shall Judge necessary and eypedi-
ent'-t0 &" take that the laws shall be faith
July executed, and among other branches OF this
duty, to superlntend the disbursement of public
money, and to enforce economy and accountable
| ty In It's expenditure Does he not in various
nameless modes, exert efficient influence upon
all the movements OF the government, is proved
ny the TACT that there never yet has been Il Con-
gress which did not conform in its policy to the
| OPINIONS OF the reigning executive! Is it not
strange that when evil has been done and blame is
to be encountered, that the President becomes a
mere cypher IN the government; but when GOOD
has beer achieved and praise is to be bestowed
lie is then all-in-all. The payment of the public
debt is matter fixed by law and by law too,
whch was passed ten years ago and vet how
often have we heard from orators in and out of
congress, and among others, from the gentleman
from New Hampshire himself that the present
administration has paid thirty-three millions of the
principal and interest of the public debt Ia wcn-
deriul result, truly to be accomplished with rev
cnue of seventy-iive millions y and when another
portion OF the public debt was recently advertised
Tor payment, 1t was blazoned forth in the news
| papers that the administration were about to paw
so many millions more of the public debt, as if the
| President and heads OF departments had determip-
ed to do so out OF their own pockets The truth
is that the President of the United States is ma o.
| lstratc OF large and exalted powers and of an in
fuence fully commensurate with his powers He
must, and ought, therefore. participate in what
ever OF praise or censure may be due to the opera
tons OF the government collectively
| Respectfully,