The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-01-05
"ourcRY ABOUT ExpENpIruREs.,

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| The editor Of the Globe having been deprived of
an extraordinary job Of printing which Mr.. Benton
undertook to give him, has attempted TO revenge
himself by attacking the House of Representatives
1t loo bad, after that editor had in the pleasures
Of anticipation, pocketed some $4,000 or $4,000
clear profit for printing the musty salt documents of
the British Parliament a quarter of century old,
that some honest men in the Senate should detect the
design and rescind the resolution II is not be won
dered a, that the editor Of the Globe so ingenious SO
modest so dsinterested and patriotic as he is himself
should, after such an event raise an outcry about
expenditures" He must have Immediately resorted
for consolation after such disappointment, to the
Kittychism" of Dame Lobskns and have fortified
himselfwith her advice, which is as follows:
"Be modest Paul, and stuck opour sitipatiou in
life! Read your Bible, and talk like a pi0Hs 'an J;
PEOPLE GOES MORE BY YOUR WORDS THAN YOUR AC-
TroNsl Ii you wants what is not your own, try and
do without it, And if you cannot do without it, take
ii bu insnipation, not buster. They as swindies
does more and risks less than they as robs."
Acting upon the excellent lesson inculcated by
Mrs Lobskin's, the editor OF the Globe comes for
ward like pious unand declares that tie opposition
are doing all in their power 10 bankrupt the Trea-
sury !" while he is devsing every means which his
uneauaed avarice can suggest, to insinirate for
tune into his owr pocket at the public expense
We are very glad that the official Hyena has left
his own dunghill, and smell his way into the contin
gent fund OF the House We are glad to meet him
on the ground he has chosen. The first note OF the
howl he raises is this:
"For printing cancelled Treasury drafts on the
call of Mr.. BOND, obsolete correspondence, on the
call ofGARLAND and other documents, $1ll SAG 49,"
It's not surprising that the correspondence" eli
cited BY the call of Mr. Garland should be characte-
rized as obsolete" The administration would give
all it is worth, if the correspondence was in
obliuion 1t is this correspondence which has ex-
posed its corruplions and opened to the world book
that will stand forever monument of the imbe-
cility Of the administration and the msmanagement
and plumber Of the peoples treasure. 1t had better
have cost the nation millions of money rather than
il should have been permitted TO lie hidden in the
sliding drawers" OF the Treasury Department. But
the document was less expensive and more valuable
than another document swollen up to $50 pages by
the ardent desire of the Secretary of the Treasury to
make out case against the State Banks. We need
not aude to the voluminous report of the daelling
committee, or the immense volume of documents ac-
companyng the message, nor to the mutudes OF
other documents tables and MAPS to illustrate the
honesty with which the above item of expenditure is
stated
Another charge the Globe makes against the
House is this:
"To all others for sundry accommodations about
the House. $ll5363."
We thank the Globe for the word "others." A.
mongst those "others" we desire the reader to note
the following, as reported by the Clerk:
mi,se, 1858 SO
Blair & Rives, printing, LOG 81
Globe, newspaper, $l,0f5 81