Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-02-21
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of an Indian population be now set down, without
panstion, in grave Report Executive Patronage
one OF The wasefu extravagancies of the day which por
tends the decline and fall of The Republic, and calls for
The trencant hand of cutting refor and the indignant
verdict of public Reproduction?
Closely allied 10 this head that of removal of Indians
another, which MIR D. would me ntion and which
was too ntinatey connected with that head TO require
the detail OF explanation II the great acquisition of
lands, by the extinction of Indian titles the fair and full
price, now fer the first time allowed for them, and that
oy an Administration depicted the destroying angel of
the red race the consequent increase of and
land Offices, and The additional expense resulting from
all these wise and patriotic operations They too belong
to president Jacksan s. Administration and MIR b. claim
ca the honor oil them Tor him, instead q confounding
the increased expenditure resulting from them and the
increased number of persons employed to execute hem
IN the ndscrminatc of denounced
Another subject he would mention, the great increase
OF the Tariff 1894, and 1893 the Of Presidential
elections and the complicated of their provisions
TO prevent evasons, detect smuggling, give the full
dement, ol Their cnactmcnts 10 the manufacturers and to
carry out the protective principle in the living bodies of
revenue officers TO defend IT, wei in the rampars
of parchmcns, ntrcnchng it to the teeth, which Com
gress was pimg up around il. Here great source
OF additional expense additional officers and agents
ploycd and additional patronage conferred aud which
now has brought the collection Of the customhouse
venue with the dimnuon Of the tariff to the nordinutc
expense of nine per cenuin. But who did all this p
Not the Administration; and therefore the remedy does
not lie in the change Of the Administration; but Con-
grcss-Congress did IT. and therefore the evil lies in the
conduct of the immediate representatives Of the People
and the remedy lies in the hands of the People them
selves
port and the general object of the Report in the great
and striking augmentation which it presented of money
expended and men employed fed by the Federal Co
vernmen aud the necessity for great and real rrtTench
nent IN both particulars, especially many of the OBJ
Jecs Tor which they incurred temporary in
their nature and evanescen in their existence Yes,
said Mr. B. the approximations have been great but
tar as they of questionable proprety they have had
their root in previous Administrations of them in
the Administration of Mr. Monroe, when the author of
this Report disting member of that Admins
traion others of these questionable measures had org
mated under Mr. Adams Administration, in Congress
ITSELF and under the highpressure speeches, reports,
and motions OF gentlemen opposed to the Admins
tration of President Jackson Try them, said Mr..
Benton, examine them IN detail and you will find the
great expenditures for objects of questionable proprcty
originated with others while those of real expectancy,
of beneficial object, and clear constitutional proprcty
owed their origin to the Administration of President
Jackson; and what shoudnever be forgotten il
exercise OF the Veto power by President jackson, which
checked those eXtravaglnt expenditures of questionable
Objects for which he received unmeasured dcnunciaton
And let the people now mark it, This Presidents
now blamed just much for not stopping he was
blamed for stopping those wild expenditures
But, Mr.. b. said while agreeing to much that was in
the Report and IN agreeing that there only roon
but necessity for etrenchment it would be unjust the
people who have means ofdetectngthe dclusive and
facous statements which go forth with the high sane
ton of the enacs appropriations this Report forth
among them to startle, alarm dsquiet and them
with the idea, that the expense Of the Government had
doubled in 9years, from S25 to 33. Never was wilder
proposition presented to the intelligence ola rational peo
pie; not That the quantity ofmoney paid out in the last of
those two years and that exclusive of the public debt
Doh instances, not reality double
mer but the fallacy and dcuson lay in this that those
great additional payments for the expenses
the Government for ordinary, usual current and
progressive expenditures but for unusual
individual, isolated, and anomalous Objects occurring
once and but encc finished forever when paid one time
Of them impossible and others improbable TO occur
again. and therefore, not fit to be held up among the
rent expenses, and progressive extravaganza OF the Co
vcrnmcnt.
The Report, said Mr. b., the years 1926 and
1883 Tor the comparison and contrast which it exhibits,
the expenditure of the former being eleven millions and
half, that of the latter twenty-five millions and three
quarters and both exclusive of payments account Of
the public debt and this, the Report airms sduring
Period 81 frgtoud Pedee, 'rhcn not had
red calculated am unusual ndifure Now
said Mr. b. let what extraordinary expenditure
fell upon that year. 1888 First, there was the Black
Hawk war, on the Upper Mississippi, which, though
the fighting done in 1882, yet the payments fell
chiefly upon the ensuing year. Under this head alone
there were payments in that year to $900.000'
namely to the militia and volunteers of Illinois, 142 900;
for their subsistence, $lS600O for the conversion of
rangers into regiment Of Dragons, $27l 900. Then
there paid Cor duties refunded merchandise to
importing merchants the sum OF S7O, 700 then there
was paid to claimants under the convention with Den
mark, the Of SGG3,000 and this was money not
expended, paid in the sense of payment but
merely delivered to these claimants; the Government
having received it from Denmark, for their use some
years ago, and now delivered it to those to whom com
mission had awarded it, Then there were eYtraordna-
ny Indian treaties that year for the purchase of land for
which eco paid, and removal of Indians
and subsisting them after they got to their new homes
the sum OF $3.50 eco. But the greatest extraordna-
y payment Of the whole year that Of
pensions, under the fatal of 1882 That act origni-
ted IN Congress- and carried back its loose and wild pro-
visions to take effect from the 9TH Of March 1881 This
threw the accumulated payments under that most unfr-
tunate act upon the year 1888 for all the remainder of
the year 1892 in which the passed was taken
up M establishing the claims of persons to the benefit of
the act Thus the payments in 1899 but $3.50 CSC.
while in 1889, they ten times that sum- amount
ing in fact 10 3,507 4S4 Putting these extraordinary
payments together said Mr. b. aud you have sum of
about millions Of dollars at once be deducted
from the grand aggregate Of twenty-five millions and
three quarters and ne had doubt but that research
into the whole list of carbohydrates for the year
would produce million mere BE thnt it may here
is sum OF seven millions, not belonging to the current
and progressive expenses of Che government carried for
ward the gross amount Of such expenditure and made
the OF exhibiting duplication Of the expenses of
the Government in the short space Of eight ycarsf-
Here the iaacy, here the delusion; the
justice Of basing upon this duplication cry cf ouch
nous extravaganza TO justify revolution If cannot
get reformation. For reformation there is ROOM for
luton there is no prccx;; and the reformation Of the
balOtbOx MIR. u. confidently hoped would answer the
exgency and bring down tc expenses Of the Govern
inent. properly C1cd-the expenses necessarily in
cured in working the machinery Of the Government
to much below What would be ntcr deddct-
ing tie eight millions Of cxtraordinarcs from
The gross expenditure Of twenty-five millions and three
quarters in 1888.
To confirm his view and TO show that those seven OF
eight millions Of extraoTdinares ought not 60 be added
TO the ordinary expenditures of the Government much
less 10 be charged TO lis extravaganza and indicating
progressive expenditure which ought and alarm
the country, Mr. B. would advert to The amount Of the
expenditures for the whole eight years comprchcndcd in
/ the Report promising that payments account Of the
public debt are, in all excluded The successive
annual expenditures then stand thus:
! Tor To- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 1tO45O
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