Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-04-28

it. He should remember. tha, we often see great
dust raised about sinner which is used to cover
the new crimes of dozen worse ones, who mix in
the throng. And even at the execution of conyic-
ted felon, many man has had his pocket picked, by
some solemn-accd bye-stander, who, ct the same
time, cxpa'atcd Jcciiayly the enormous offence Of
the dying man.
viii now noticesan ar,sul but ingenious cou,ri-
vance which has been, | perceive, gotten up by
some Of the subaterns of the departments and which,
should think nothing but desperation could have dr-
ven them to- IN the hope of Discerning the facts which
arc In dispute between Mr.. Wlckliifc and myself
Finding that upon any fair statement of the
Tor the financial year. that is reckoning, the de-
parnent always do from the LIST of Jan. to tho 1st of
JAM the balance Is largely against 1929. A paper
put forth; purportng to give two years expenses,
from March to March in each year. by this arrange
men the twelve months ending the LIST of March last,
which are called Gen Jackson's twelve months, ap-
Darent!y made great saving over the twelve prcce-
ding months, which are called Mr.. Adams's A ia
Die thus made as presume by the Cabinet Journey
men. is adopted BY Mr.. Wicklifi6, he says ''to
make the comparison a fair and Just one" Yes. a
"fair and just one" Mark these words.-What
have first to say Of these "air and JUST comparisons
is, that the sum of 100000, paid by the British for
depoIted slaves under the Treaty of Client, is again
put IN to swell the twelve months charged To Mr..
Adams; and to make it still fair and JUST six months
legislation, as have before stated is heuped upon
the top OF that, while but three months 60 the
of Gen. Jackson.
These 'fair and just" inequalities, however, arc
trities lighter than air, compared 10 the rest of the
artitce, which will now unvel. What are called
the expenditures for the twelve months ending ist
March, 1880, IN truth contain but flair and juss
emont, for correct contrast but ten months
because the bulk of expenses which would have
oeeu paid during the months of January ana Febru
airy, 1880, II the departments had been in funds
were postponed until after the Ist of March. The
principal noncd operations of the departments for
expenses accruing in these months. were nocessariv
postponed Is this the sort of rcrenchment we have
been contending for, AS Mr.. Wickfe appears 10
CONVENIENT to b,
tell II any warrants were issued during that pcriod
which were temporarily taken up by the /. States
Bank, and which the Bank did not present TO tho
treasury for payment till after the months of Jnnua ~
and February the two last OF the twelve called Gen
Jacksons had expired The susPending operation
now turned to grand account: sooner is it finish
ed than out comes certificate from Treasury off,
Ger, TO show how little appears by the books TO have
been paid IN tue twelve months ending the LIST OF
March, 1880
Reader, mark this! The 'sact makinr eppror-i.
atoms for the support of Government for tho wear
Is5o, was not IN existence " January and February.
IL dd not become les til the 18Th day of March
AND the acts ''making appropriations for The military
service OF The year $780," and making appropria-
ions Tor the Naval service for the year 1880 ;
were neither of them approved till the nth day
OF March. Mr. Wickliifc may well select these
TWO months as best calculated to answer the
purposes he had in view for nothing was or,could be
drawn from the Treasury under these acts i1:Janu.
airy and February, before their passage to nav the
mon,hIy accruing expenses. OF this do not com
plain But do complain, that when this suspend
ing oper ton we'll known to the Treasury off
GERS, any of them should so have ARRANGED n state
nent to be used "fair and just" comparison with
year IN which partial appropriation made for
there months will do Mr.. WcklifFe the Justice to
say that do not think he was accessory tn this do
wee believe he himself has been led into error.
lot the ohcia print i this city, some time before Mr.
W. made his flourish, threw out paragrap oh ON this
SUBJECT by wy OF feeler, and, it was not answer
co. u was supposed the trick would take. But he
ought TO have looked into il deeper before, he lent "a
II the sanction of his respectable name.
NOW, just the reverse of what have alluded to rs
taxing place IN the twelve months called Gen Jack
sons, was the fact in the twelve months under Mr.
Adams, with which they have been compared by Mr.
WIckiifte The appropriations for January and Pc
oruary, 1899, were not delayed till March, in 1885,
out were made before the year commenced one
quarter having Teen appropriated in advance. The
far and Just comparison, therefore, by which near
iy two millions Of dollars appear ON pupe,. to have
been saved, is comparison of series of months
| IN which payments made for expenses iucnrrod
as they went along, with another series, durinr a
part OF which lone sixth of the time large payments
| were suspended, or not made at all
| will next examine the Naval expenditures nc ci
ven IN the "far and just" They are represented in
Cen Jacksons year To have been but S3 ORG eos
and hence Is saving claimed of million of dollars
Ems Iailocy WIZ appear IN several ways. If the
Navy cost one million less last year than the year be-
FORE then the Secretary osght row to have an uney
pended million on hand But if he had that on hand
Why did he apply 20 Congress early in this session
supply lEedSIlry, to enable
him to fit out the fngate Brandywine? Amin. if he
carried the service through his first year. for about
three millions of dollars, he would require nonlore
than that Tor his second year. esperialy with mil
lion OF savings to begin 18th. But let US hear him
speak for HIMSELF for it is probable he knowe some
thing more about it than Mr.. Wicklife. Ihuyo be-
lore me his estimate, at page 275 of the documents
accompanying his report to Congress, in which he
says, explcty-that there will be required for the
support of the navy, during the year 1890. three
million, FIVE hundred and ty-six thousand. Eve hun
dred and forty seven dollars, and thirty-four cents
N addition to Tie unerPended balances that D,qv
| remain on hand on The LIST JANUARY 1880" Uo;y
strange, then, that Mr. w. should talk of the Navv
costing but 5000 1913 year under the present II
Innistration when the Secretary himself tells ustha
requires to support the Navy Is $50 ,547 e. in adj.
drion to what he has on hand!
Awh mere observe, that the naval service oupbt 10
cost great deal less now, than in 1923 because in
that year there was expended SOL ,387 10 for com
petng the ten soops Of that had been authorised
under Mr. Monroes administration and also. s9o
$50 81 for the suppression of the slave trade IN,
which $4,000 was Appropriated IN Nav, Is2G