The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-08-13


EXT RAVAGANT EXPENDITURES.
| The following extracts from tho Address of John
! A. Mckinney, Esq. to the freemen of the Second
fCongressonaI District in Tennessee, will serve to
show what kind Of democracy is that which is now
being carried out by Mr. Van Bnren and his FEEDER
I al leaders.
! "On Tie 30h day of September last at n time
when the government pretended to be so poor, that
II hau 10 borrow money to the amount of millions;
or what Is the same thing 10 issue treasury notes
bearing interest to thai aiount, there then in
tho hands Of agents of the government unaccouut-
ed Tor, to tie amount of near fifteen millions of
dollars, nearly THREE HUNDRED WAGON
LOADS, had it been in silver, That this state
ment Is true, appears from Document No. :, fur
nshed by the Government Congress, at the COM
menccment Of The last session.
OF the before mentioned SUN of money, it is al
ready ascertdiued that about eighty thousand dol
lars had been lost to the Government, by the defaI-
cation OF TWO OF the agents in whose hands it
placed, and how much more of it has been lost,
ana Will be lost, 1t is impossible 20 tell but that
much OF II Will be lost there can be doubt
Tho contingent expenses Of The House of Repre-
sentatIves Of the last Congress, for tho year 1889,
amounted 10 the enormous sum OF TWO HUN
DRIED AND sEVENTYTWO THOUSAND
DOLLARS. Some Of the items Of which, I am
sure, win greatly surprise YOU One item of
THREE HUNDRED AND sixty EIGHT
DOLLARS is for making pens for tho menbers-
Did you imagine, fellow citizens, that you were
SEEMING members lnAt cOu'u not make tueIr
pens, or were too lazy TO do so I? Did You mag
inc, that large sum Of money was to be taken
out of the public Treasury for making pens for the
members Of Congress, when they furnished
win pen.knives at The public expense and quilIsto
make pens for themselves, Other items in this
enormous bill Of contingent expenses, equally
cAirnvagant and disgusting. Some of which l will
quote from document No 6, of the third session of
the late Congress.
Tie sum Of THIRTY TWO DOLLARS AND
Twenty FIVE CENTS is charged for SNUFF.
The sum Of FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN
DOLLARS is expended for Folders and Seals.
The sum Of SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY
EIGHT DOLLARS is charged for Cartridge
Paper.
The sum OF THREE HUNDRED AND SIX
TY EIGHT DOLLARS is charged for Damasl
and Moreens, for what is not stated
The sum oC ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY
TWO DOlLARSis expended for dozen of
Chairs-siXTEEN DOLLARS each Chair.
The sum of TWENTY SIX HUNDRED AND
FIFTY THREE DOLLARS is expended for car
peting the hall for the House of Representatives.
Tho sun of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS is
expended for washing towels.
The Sum of FOUR THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX DOLLARS is ex-
pended for horse, hire.
The sum Of ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY.
newspaper (lhe Globe) and this IS only one out of
many.
These but few out of many of the waste.
fu expenditures exhibited in the list of contingent
expenses of the House o? Representatives Look
at the following list of extravugant and outrageous
expenditures of public money in the Executive
Departments. Immediately under the eye and in
speclion Of The President of the United States and
you will be able to form some idea of the manner
IN which the Peoples money is wastefuIy and
lvickedy expended.
GENERAL POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT..
In The General Post Office Department we find ,
he following amounts expended for the following
purposes for year out of the contngent funds
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