Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-10-12
POLITICAL.
[From the Washington GIobe.1

EXPENDITURES OF THE GOVERNMENT
The Bank Party have asserted that Gen. Jackson in
stead oil diminishing the expenses of the has
actually increased them since the CONNIE of his
administration We have carefully examined The expen
uures oil the last six years and enabled contradict
this charge. The following is a statement OF the aggre
gate expenditures drawn from official reports. viz:
Payments on account of
National debt, Ss3,2Os, Iss Go S39,9l3 1874 %
Civil List and hiscella-
neous, 1888, 1926 81 962 l6S 90
Military, Is 13g IO7 s7 II s55 o2e a.
Indian Department, 2,2Os, sol 95 2'I5I'0sI n
| Navy 1927 SOB ~ IO,7lI 500 ~
,oIs 10 $1,000 ,eos IS
Apparent balance against
General jackson, S7,726 Ar is
we suppose II VIII not be urged as objection TO Ge-
neral Jackson that he has paid of the public debt
than MT Adams yet almost the whole OF this balance
against him is made up of these payments.
In lS29-30-3l Gen. Jackson paid 399l3 9oi %
In is2o-I-9 MIR. Adams paid Ss,20s,l 1873 65
More paid by Gen. Jackson than Mr..
Adams, e6 7O5 s05 ~
Deduct this from the above balance of 81 726 177 as
and II leaves only 81 ,020,67I o.
by analyzing the foregoing statement we shall see that
me PRESIDENT isn no way responsible the country
Tor this small excess of expenditure that of the three
last years oithe preceding administration.
The expenditures for Civil List and Mis-
eel during the years, ls29-3O,
81 were, So, S62, l6s So
And during the years ls26-7-s, $3.50 ,726 81
Balance against General Jackson's three
years,
This balance is than accounted for by am increase
OF expenditure for certon objects which the Pres
dent has no control, viz:
Increased expenses OF Judi
ciary Department. Sll3oI7 I6
Expenses otakng Fifth Cen
sus, 9277Sl IA
SIT, 69S so
Now, will any man contend that Gen. Jackson can con-
troi inc expenses OF the United States Courts Can
he direct how many jurors shall be empanneled-how
many witnesses shall be summoned-how many criminals
sha appear Tor tria-how many bonds shall be forfeited
or how many deiaulters shall appear? census once in
ten years is directed by the Constitution Could Gen.
jackson set aside the Constitution and direct that no Cen
sus shall be taken No will have the folly TO main
tain that he is at all responsible the increase of expen-
diture OH account of either of these objects Yet this
increase exceeds by more than ninety thousand dollars
the whole increase under that head In some other
branches OF expenditure included in that aggregate there
is an increase, and in Others greater dnnuon; so that
on the whole, deductng the Judiciary and the Census
there is balance in favor of the Administration of
| 1913, 255 90.
Under this head included the expenses of foreign in
tercourse, about which much has been said The fol-
lowing is statement of those expenses far as they de-
pend upon the action of the Executive viz:
lS26-7-S IS29-30-3l
Salaries and outfits of Minis
ters Charges dies AfIaires,
Secretaries OF Legation and
Contingent expenses of
Foreign Missions, $i6O9O5 SO 1851, 1853 ~
Panama Mission, 2S93i OF
Mission TO Consantnople, 30 200 M