Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-04-29
,xxcuBuRG. APRIL %, 1880.

Practice and Preeepi.-We' extract below
,vo paragraphs from the Repor, ofthe ceebra-
..lp.renchmenl Committee, which made so
,,,.h aJo about nothing" at the close OF Mr..
..ou.,, administration in order that the peo-
my Gee how little of what was promised, IN
=, yav of retrenchment. has been effected
,,-,.,.,, from the Report Of the Rstrenchmeni
E1"1' Committee May To- 1923.
Var Committee believe, that one fourth,
900 third. fthe ofices in the Treasury
w." NO reduced. The First Comptroller's
:. evidenily snrcharged with business,
IL !, ;s equally certain that some ofthe other
a.. connected VITA the Treasury ore almost
."s,,res They would suggest, that The Sc.
S1'''I mi Iro,ontrolers Office be abolished and that
e .r"as oCtLe auditors" So soon os the First
y nntroller is relieved under new distribu
ton II some ofthe duties he pow discharges
~ will be able to superlntend those now per
%,,med by the Second Comptroller.
q By the employment of the expenditures Of
tho contingent funds of the Departments, \
Co,s,nmslit Press is, 10 all intents and purposes
sT.clnally established, as much so as II there
mere IN annual uenl IN the Appropriation 6la,
.eo.gb, narpOss of purchasing the JOINT aud
boru
'Is ,,,,onprOh1ising rindicdtion Of those IN potC
:, ond in the unspaing ubsase Of those WhO
-, not The danger which assails the freedom
- The nre.s through the insnuation Of this spe
10. of influence, is far more serious than any
s,or.cbamber code OF pcinS and pendHieS.'
+" Thi, pecllnidrV censorship 81 the press mus!
end in lis utter prostitution IN an indiscrinlndte
,upport Of me acts Of The Government, however
,o;nrious 10 The right and interests of the PEG
pie" r A, l..
u;s. .virtuous, and patriotic, requires the aid
ola Government Press, and lift do not, that
n,ecisely for that reason it ought not 10 have
i. your committee propose the abolition of this
branch of Executive patronage.
The first paragraph of the foregoing extract,
il will be see n, declares, as the belief OF the
Committee, that " one fourth, if not one third
oftbe o lices in the Treasury u ight be redu-
Ced :" and recommends that the second Comp
trollers Office, and that of Que of the Auditors,
be abolished In subsequent part OF the re-
port the Committee lamented thai the party to
which they we're attached could not at once
enter upon the great work of retrenchment, in
ronseguence of the want Of concert of action
which would necessarily result from the fact
chat the Erecutipe power WAS IN The hands oil
their antagonists. Well no'o they have an
overwhelming majority in Congress they
WELD the Executive power also and what do
eve see aud hear' Do we see any publications
Of disposition to reduce the expenditures OF
she government ? Do ~e hear Mr.. NicRlIne
and hi. co.laborers in drafting the Report OF
she Retreachment Committee in 1928, deman-
ding reduction Of one fourth, or 0he tbIrn
OF the Offices in the Tressury'9 Do we hear
chem asking for the abolition Of the I'd Comp
troller's Office, or that Of one of the Auditors !:
Not a word oft : On the contrary, new 9th >
are proposed to be created, and additional
clerks are called for in those which already OK
i't. 1t has been proposed to create new Ex-
ecutiye Department, to appoint an assistant
Secretary Of State; 10 give to the Attorney
General additional compensation and more
clerks 10 increase the pay of foreign Minis
tiers to advance the rank Of our Commodores
TO AdmuaIs with additional pay, suitable
TO their new dignities to create an Assls
tant Postmaster General, and o. To the
General Post Office ten additional Clerks ,
besides asking for greater number of
ftis the retrenchment promised by Mr.. Wick
lide. Mr.. Rives, Mr. Saunders, &c. nc. ! If il
be, surely our readers will say, with Us, that
the alleged Prodigality and profiision of Mr.
Adams's administration were infinitely 10 be
preferred TO the promised reform and economy
OfGen Jackson'S.
The last three paragraphs of the extract from
abe Report are unqualified in their denuncia
zion of that system of pclicy,by which it declar-
ed MIR. Adamss administration had " acquired
pecnniary censorship of the press And
ply, on the alleged fact that Mr.. Clay had ia.
Ken the publication of the laws, from some half
dozen Editors, and given il to olbers-the
whole sum expended by him, amounting to a
oout $500 Contrast that state OF things with
the present; Mr.. Van Buren, has removed
more than eighty of the publishers of the laws,
involving an expenditure Of about 5000 aud
The President himself has appointed to other
oihees, about fifty other Editors, whose united
S"lar'es amount TO nearly one hundred thousand
U0"H'S more Yet, no fears are noW felt Tor
''e freedom of the press-nO apprehensons
"'e noW entertained that the distribution among
Editors of 100000 will "esd in iheir,utterpros'
tuition to an indiscrimindis support of acts of
u" government, howevsr injurious TO The rights 8.
'"''eSS % he people Though in 1923, the
IO'n'"''tee OF Reirenchment declared that all
'''' vas TO be feared, from the very profuse
IO"'e"r' distributed among a half dozen of
,uem ny Mr.. Clay, of bic hundred dollars !
VOW, indeed, nothing is talked of but the righi
n fhn -