The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-05-12

bic for the amount estimated, yet, as the money
soas not all called for, the actual expenditure
was less by about million of dollars than the
estimate, and the balance will have to be reck
oned to the expenditures of 1880 To these
several reports and statements, Chiffon has
made reply from which we shall give some
extracts. He says,
Taking these different lights to guide me,
have found that the expenditures of the last
year, the year which, above all others. the ma
ton looked to for retrenchment and reform,
nave exceeded, by very large sums, the expen-
oitures OF the preceding year; taking out from
each the payments on account of the public
debt, and those made by the British for deuort.
ed slaves under the Client treaty, so as TO pre-
sent the naked nett amount unobscured by
what does not belong to it. The excess, to be
sure, was much greater according to the first
offlcial report OF the Secretary, than it will now
appear to be by his amended official, or by the
former figures of the Chairman of the Commit
tee of Retrenchment but still, taken in either
way or all ways, in which any fair compare
son can be drawn, there is large, and 10 me-
an unexpected excess.
When this controversy first began, there was
portentous 1uttering lest the Secretary of the
report on the state of the finances He accord
lngly managed to make the required correc-
tion through the Committee on Retrenchment
though uncalled for by the House of Repre-
sentatlves; and / shall now, in what have to
say, discard his first report for the 4th quarter
and rely solely on the amended one. l am
blamed for hlthertQrelying on the 9TH quarters
estimate Of the first official. knew well
enough that the estimate would not always
fIas ,r,sah AZ III
could not permit myself TO doubt but that it
was near enough to the truth, for substantial
accuracy, and for any fair calculation. 1t was
sent to Congress as the basis of its legisa-
ton. and surely, if fit for Congress to act
upon, it was not to be discarded by me- when
it was the only official information submitted
But it now turns out, that the Department is
willing TO swallow the biunder, If it was one, of
more than a million Of dollars, if they can
help the cause Of my antagonist, and thereby
put me down.
The Secretary estimated. as he says, for that
quarter, the expenses at 81, PAS ,43l 05, where
as they turn out after all, to be only Sc 238, 9l4
43. Difference, or as | call it o6iciaL blunder-
ing, $l,006,566 60. If Mr. Rush had made
such mistake as this, hardly think my col
league (Mr. Wickliffe) would have intruded
himself, between me and my constituents, to
defend him, as he has done on this occasion
come at once to the actual expenditures of
the two years, as now admitted by the Secreta-
ry himself, and endorsed by the Chairman of
the Retrenchment Committee. Here they are
Total expenditures for 1928, $25, 459,479 80
Deduct pub. debt l2, l63,4 33 OF 70 NJ, so1 ~
Treaty Of Client 0,069 40 i~'''''oo' ~
Nett expenses of 1928 $12505,972 O5
Total expenses for 1929 So, 07I ,0I7 SO
Deduct debt IL, 353, 800 II ! 10 ono ooo M
Client treaty $3.50 % E'a9S'o0o W
Nett expenses of 1929 $I2y676, 936 60
Making an excess of the year 1899. over the
expenditures of the year 1923, of $l7I, 1854 45,
and this too without taking into consideration
the TACT that the year 1928 is charged with six
months legislation, and the year 1899 with but
three. Te make the comparison perfectly fair,
three months Legislation should be deducted
from 1928, so as to make it ALLOW but three
months session to each. Now the nav of both
Houses Of Congress for ninety days, without
considering the printing and other continoen.
cies would amount TO $l90,050, which if taken
out, will leave the real excess OF 1929 over 1928.
three Hundred and sixty-tloO thousand and for
ty;four dollars.
Such is the result OF a comparison between
late Administration.
But let us GO back to the first year of Mr..
Adams,as perhaps still more fair That is, let us
compare the first with the first of both Admin.
istrations; each of course having the benefit of
a snort session, and see how we shall come ont
in such contrast. In 1925, the first year of
Mr.. Adams the whole expenses were
$23, 1876, s04 70
Deduct Public Debt, I2O95,344 IS
Nett expenses of 1925, ii ,490,459 %
1t has been already shown that in 1929. &C.
cording to Mr. Wlckiiffe's own admissions and
the latest report from the Department of the
Treasury, that the expenditures were Sl2, 49,
$50 oO (; making an excess in the first year of
the present Administration of 81, IS6476 &C
over the first year of the last will also state
that in the latter year, the sum of two hundred
thousand dollars paid to Gen. Lafayette is
charged, and put down as expended in 1925
Should that be reckoned as not standing on the
footing OF ordinary expenditures, and no one
will pretend that it does, the difference in the
two years will be one million, three hundred
and eighty.sir thousand four hundred and seq.
enty-SiI dollars and Sirty-si1 cents. Il is use.
less to struggle against these figures You
cannot shake them off
will notice an artfuI but ingenious contriv-
ance which has been, as presume, gotten up
by some OF the subalterns Of the department,
and which should think nothing but despera-
ton could have driven them to, in the hope Of
obscuring the fact which are in dispute be-
tween Mr.. Wickliffe and myself Finding that
upon any fair statement Of the accounts for the
financial year, Chat is, reckoning, as the de-
partment always do, from the LIST of January to
the LIST of January,) the balance is largely a.
gainst 1929; paper is put forth, purporting
to give two years expenses, from March to
March in each year. By this arrangement the
twelve months ending the first of March last,
which are called General Jackson's twelve
months, apparently made great saving over
the twelve preceding months, which are cal
led Mr.. Adams's table thus made, as pre-
sumo by the Cabinet journeymen, is adopted
by Mr. Wickliffe, as he SAYS I" to make the COM
Parison fair and just ones Yes, {" fair and