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

to show how little appears by the books to have
oeen paid in the twelve months ending the 1st Of
| March, 1880.
| Reader, mark this The " act making APP
Preparations for the support of Government for
the year $780," was not in existance in Jan
uary and February. 1t did not become law
till the 18th day of March And the acts "mak-
ing appropriations for the Naval service for the
year 1880, were neither of them approved till
| the lth day of March. Mr. Wickffe may
well select these two months as beet calculated
to answer the purpose he bad in view; for no.
thing was or could be drawn from the Trea-
snry under these acts in January and February
before their passage, to pay the monthly accru-
ing expenses. Of this do not complain. But
40 complain, that, when this suspending OPP
Grafton was well known TO the Treasury eff
GERS, any of them should so have arranged a
statement to be used as " fair and just com
parison with year in which a partial appro-
pration as made for these months.
Now, Just the reverse of what have alluded
to as taking place in the twelve months called
Gen. Jackson's, was the fact in the twelve
months under Mr.. Adams. with which they
have been compared by Mr.. Wickliffe. The
appropriations for January and February, 1929,
were not delayed till March, as in 1890, but
were made before the year commenced, one
quarter having been appropriated in advance.
The "fair and JUST comparison, theiefo by
which nearly two millions of dollars appear on
paper, to have been saved, is comparison of
series of months, in which payments were made
for expenses incurred as they went along with
another series, during part of which (one-sixth
of the time,) large payments were suspended,
or not made at ALL
According to this principle of saving, man
who spends two thousand dollars year, and
pays as he goes is extravagant, compared to
one who pays one thousand, and runs in debt,
or postpones his creditors for two thousand
more, inasmuch as the payments of the former
appear on his books to have exceeded the pay
ments of the latter. But the case we are now
considering is unequal and unjust in another
way; for when we go back to the LIST of March
1898, the starting point Of the table adopted by
Mr.. Wickliffe, we find the appropriation for
the first quarter ofthat year had not passed. and
did not till some time after. OF course, large
sums which accrued in January and February,
1928, were naturally thrown upon the series Of
months selected in the "fair and JUST compar-
ison as Mr.. Adamss. The delusion works at
both ends. First, by crowding in upon Mr..
Adams's expenses which belonged to the pre-
eedng months, and which were waiting for
the appropriations to pass; and, second, by re-
lieving two of the twelve called Gen Jacksons
months, by the suspending process to which /
have before alluded.
Mr.. Chiffon then goes into an examination
of some ofthe different branches of expenditure
which he shows to have been increased by the
present Administration, ut we must defer this
part of the subject till another opportunity
DEBATE ON THE TARIFF. The discussion,
now going On in the House of Representatives,
on the Tariff question, is upon bill introduced
by the Committee on Manufactures, for more
fully enforcing the provisions of the tariff and
guarding against evasions of it. George Nc
Dufie appears as the champion of the south in
opposition TO the bill. He has been replied to
by the representative from this district in
speech occupying part of two days. From
the accounts we have seen, his speech was an
able and satisfactory one. In reference to the
first part of it which was delivered on Monday,
the Sd inst, the intelligent correspondent of
the Philadelphia United States Gazette, says:
So Mr.. Davis of Massachusetts, took the floor
in reply to the arguments of Mr.. McDuffie
MIR. Davis is always a sensible and efficient
speaker on the question of imports and import
duties, he is perfectly at home. He seems to
HdNe siuuleu from HIS INFANCY. HOL the systems
of political economy which have been general
ed by the heated brains Of speculative theorists,
but those practical lessons which theory can
not descend TO touch, and metaphysical minds
cannot rise to understand Mr.. Davis is always
listened to with an unbroken and unwearied at
tention, and on no occasion has he been listen.
ed more readily and more satisfactorily to- by
the friends of domestic industry, than he was
on this occasion He grappled the frail fret
work of argument which the opponents of the
system had erected, with the rough grasp of a
giant and it fell to pieces under his vigorous
grip. He did not conclude his argument, which
he will have an opportunity of closing to-mor-
row."
On Tuesday, the National Journal says, "Mr.
Davis of Massachusetts, spoke for about two
hours in conclusion of most eloquent argu-
ment in favor of the bill, to which the most re-
markable and unbroken attention was paid
throughout"
1t is truly gratifying TO find that, even in the