Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1832-07-06

this violation OF that clause in the constitu-
ton which directs that no money shall be
drawn from the Treasury but by law.
think so still. The contingent fund for for
eign missions was, in my Judgment, not in
tended to meet such expenses, because they
were not incurred by any necessity, contin-
gency, or casualty happening, either in ses-
sion or out of session. They were incurred
to pay outfits and salaries of ministers APP
pointed by the will of the President and
without cause. This argument was then
met by the distinguished gentleman who now
fills the Office Of Secretary Of State, and who
was at that time an able advocate of the adj
ministration, representing in part the State
of Louisiana on this floor. He defended the
right of the President to draw on the contin-
gent fund in any case Of appointment to fill
vacancy, whether haflfening in the recess
or created in the recess. He avowed that
the money overdrawn after exhausting that
fund, was we'll borrowed from another fund,
landthat the Executive could do this without
specific appropriation-and without law.
have his argument on that occasion ready
for the inspection of all who think the Gov
eminent scTupulous about the right to draw
on this contingent fundIfor the outfit of new
minister to France, and as the administration
of these funds by the gentleman who now
presides over our foreign affairs, is the sub
jcct of consideration claim it as an author
ity OF no ordinary character to settle this
controversy.
The gentleman from MARYLAND, (Mr.
Chambers) hastiet the argument of his COL
League on the subject Of expenditures by the
lGovernment by remark to which the at
tention of the people of this country at this
time ought to be particularly directed. Be-
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that the Chairman of the Committee OH
Finance, (Mr. Smith, in the discussion yes
lterday, compared the expenses of this adj
ministration with those of the last, andI
sought to shew us that if those same pledgesI
of retrenchment and reform which were
Igiven on the 4th of March, 1899, in the East-l
ern portico of this Capitol, had not all been
redeemed, yet the expenses Of the Govern
Inent were not more than they had been be-
fore that memorable day. The deeds and
the very expenditures of the last adminis-I
tration, reviled and prosecuted as it was,
are now made the standard Of excellence,
and the only boast Of those who then told US
that the task of reform was inscribed on the
list Of Executive duties in characters too le-
| gible to be misunderstood, now is, that they
have not been more extravagant than their
predecessors. Their Chairman agrees that
the statement of these expenditures yester-
day made by the gentleman from South Car
olina, (Mr. Hayne,) is correct Here then
is chance !for comparison, OF which we
have never yet been able to avail ourselves
| in debate with tile Hon. Chairman, because
upon the correctness of other statements of
Expenditures, particularly the diplomatic,
we have disagreed. But for the sake of
the argument now, let us take the report Of
| the gentleman from South Carolina, which
the chairman tells us is correct.
Mr.. Clayton then read the statement sub
mitted by General Hayne, of the appropria-
tons and expenditures from 1922 to 1880 in
elusive.
| The eXpenditnres were.