, 1840-06-06
CONGRESS.
In Senate,
THURSDAY, MAY Z, 1910.
EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT.
(concludea.)

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Mr.. B. said That this Administration, and
that of General Jackson, were ready for n
comparison with any that preceded them
Aggre rates against aggregates. or items T.
gainst items, they were ready for the CON-
~parison. IL any one shall say TINT the ex-
penses of the government were thirty-seven
millions in 1889, or %Ihirty-nine millions in
1888, we answer that this is only five or Sc
ven millions more than the aggregate Of 1924;
that the aggregate was then thirty.two mil
lions, and the increase is only in proportion
TO the increase of the country. Ii descend.
ing from aggregates and going into items, il
is said that sixteen millions must be deducted
from the aggregate of 1924 for payments to
the public debt, and eight millions more for
indemnilies and other extraordinaries, we an
swer that eleven millions must be deducted
from the aggregate of 1889 for redemption of
Treasury notes. and twelve and a half mil
lions more for Indian wars, treaties. and re-
movals, aud a dozen other extraordInarIes.-
This brings the thirty-Seven down 10 thirteen
ses.
Mr.. B. said that the tables which were pre-.
scented treated every administration alike
Beginning in the last year Of Mr.. Monroe,
they came down through the term of Mr..
Adams, and the two terms of General Jack
SON, and the three years which had elapsed
under Mr.. Van Buren,. All were treated
alike. The same rule was applied to the ex-
pendi;ures under each one. The aggregate
was given in every case first; and then the
extraordinary, separated from the ordinary
expenditures, and the same items charged
md crod,tod in ovarv casa In lnotinr ~,
the aggregates, il will be seen that every ad-
ministration needed this classification; that the
aggregate under Mr.. Adams administration
was not thirteen millions as repeated so many
millions of times, but about The double Of that!
and that this thirteen millions for that gentle
mans administration was only affirmed by
deducting extraordinaries! by going through
the very process which reduces the expendi.
ture under Mr.. Van Buren, TO thirteen and a
half millions. The smallest aggregate in the
whole table is that of 1885, under Gen. Jack
sons administration, when the public debt
had ceased, and the Indian wars had not be-
gun. The aggregate for that year is seven
teen millions and a hall. Even including the
extraordinaries of that year, and the aggre-
gate was but seventeen millions and q half!
And so it will be again. As soon as We are
done paying the Treasury notes, which are
in lieu of our misplaced revenue, and
70 soon as our Indian troubles are over, and
the payments completed for removal of In
dams, and purchase of their lands, the aggre.
gate expenditures will come down to abou!
what they were in 1885; and the ordinary
expenses will be within fifteen millions.
Mr.. B. demanded who ever deemed it an
expense of the Government, when Mr.. JEFF (;
(erson purchased Louisiana at fifteen millions
Of dollars? And who could think Of charg- I
rs an expense the large sums which had
been lately paid in extin gushing l.IdIan IT, {
lies, and in removing Indians? One would I
Is soon think Of charging, among the exper- |
'es Of a family, the outlay which should be j
made by a prudent and thrifty farmer, IN pur- i
additional land. and inclosing it with S
ences, or covering it with improvements.-lj
The extinction Of the Indian lribes-the Il
Icouisition of their land for settlement e.
md cu~ltiyation-and the removal of the a
indians themselves from all the States, p
vas one of the great measures which Illus o
rated General Jackson's administration, and C
vas beneficial both to the Indians and to the v
states. So great an object could not be eff p
ected without a large expenditure OF money; Il
nd who is there now to stand up and con- a
emu the administration for this expenditure! h
Who wants these Indians back? Who wants Il
Alabama, Mississippi, and all the I!
Their States again incumbered with the In II
ians which have left them' s.
That the expenses of the government had fr
in the last twelve or fifteen years, p
dr, B. said was lust as certainly true as it Ct