Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-06-26
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ADDITIONAL appropriations, TO the amount of
se-''oo' GO, are required by the Pay and Quar-
/ tefhasterS Departments for the service of tho
present year.-The amount asked by the Quar-
terrnasier General appears to be indispensable.
Il Is about the sum which Congress at the last
session tailed 10 appropriate, though included in
the estimates, and understand to be in part for
rearages for the year 1910; and a large portion
OF the present demand may not be improperly set
down to the same account. portion Of the
reported by the Pay Department is for arrearages
of the year $40, as will appear from the report
of the Paymastef General.
The agents and superin enden,s her toforc en-
poyed in the construction Of the various improve
ments on the lakes, the seacoast and in the inte
r'or. havo boon discharged, except sooh n havo
been retained at a small compensation, TO guard
some of the most important works RENAL lining in
an unfinished state, and the public property con-
necfed with them In few instances, il has
been found cxpedient TO employ On agent to take
care OF the property of the Gov collec ted
for tho construction of these works, until Con-
gress shall determine upon the question Of con-
tinning or abandoning them, where there was
fund out of which they could be paid Some Of
these agents have been paid from the proceeds Of
the sale OF portion Of the public property; 9th
ers can be paid only by further sales or under an
appropriation by Congress. IL has also been
certained that the expenditures upon several of
these works have exceeded the appropriations
made for their construction. These arrearagos
are generally due TO contractors and laboIers in
no "dH fSSpOnSinlo Tor TINS error; and provision
should therefore be made for the payne of them.
.he amount necessary to discharge them, we'll
to pay the expenses of the agents employed
above stated, appears from the repor, OF the
Chief of the Corps of Typographical Engineers to
be S39 991 IL.
The subject of the expedioncy Of completing
the Cumberland road, and of improving certain
harbors, and the navigation Of certain great riv-
ers, which may be regarded as necessary aud pro-
per in making adequate provision for the public
defence, propose TO postpone the further notice
OF until the stated session Of Congress, as the
consideration of it will involve the proprety of
making appropriations for various works Of inter
nal Improvement not necessarily connected with
that object, and, consequently, will require more
time than Congress, at its approaching session
may find !. s convenient zen. n to give. ,sa
care of this Dopar deserves time
Inc sum of $4,000 appropriated the late
OF Congress for clearing the Read The iarg.
money heretofore exnended on This object the sh
expectation nduged after the first successful permont
of the pactcabty of eecting
ton continuance ofpartjal 81 tho
disappointment of the Public Department to give
early and attention tho subject Believing,
Congress- in making this appropriation, INDUCED the hope
thai II would be all that would required compile
ton OF the work, the Department. resolved that the highest
degree of pernanene and utility attannbIa bv the noe ot
the means placed disposal should mplised
ected that officer of the highest credit skill udg
should proceed without delay nature,
EXTENT and of the distractions which
navigation Of that and submit plan for their
moval That officer has yet reported tho Depart
being repared shall ascend Red river, while continues
naVigable state, the point of obstruction; but il
designed TO enter upon the work until autumn This poll
III iguosrs and The acconnanving ia,,s s
the superintendent. dictated by sound economy
by the necessity of tho
practice has prevailed in the Indian Deparment of
making payments from moneys drawn from Treasury
under appropriations by Congress, without regarding in nil
cases, the objects of the appropriations specified the
This practice virtually that provision Of Con-
uton which declares that shall be drawn from
INV
shall not be drawn from he IRE. vi tb,t being
duly appropriately but that it shall be paid only tor objects
specified in the acts of appropriation.
The practice of making payments under such circum=,an
Gcstha, is, of taking drawn from the Treasury
der appropriation for object, and applying the
Of and for objects for which appopr
alton has been maderender reports of the condition
OF the Treasury entirely faiacous and utteray destroys
all confidence in them. The condition of The Treasury,
of liabilities, is and be presented under
such practice
The Indian department. has favored itself
Of the law Of Congress requiring that
pended balances of appropriations the expiration Of
before the expiration OF years. withdraw from
Treasury the balances actually required for disbur
within the specified peried and these ba ances have
been placed the hands disburng agents. forming
large fund.- from which have been made from
time time for offsets for which appropriations
been by Congress The amour, in the ha nds
of special Of Department has ranged,
average, three hundred thousand dollars for tho
last seven or eight years. and TINS has been generally dePo
tied in banks selected the discretion Of the himself
Under these circumstances, the dsbung agents, having
received monies under authorised heads of appropriation
which have heen applied 10 objects not sanctioned ~ a"
have had their brought into ouch condition as
VIII not allow Of their settlement at the feasdfy
cal appropriation by Congress- and hence there are hisours
ing agents who have been unable 10 obtain du-
several years, ind whose accounts are s open. ho-
itasfandng Congress- most ssluary IN Its OBJ
Iect, un, annually on the hrsto October
As one rregularity often proof OF anohef under
the usage Of the Indian Bureau, by which large Of
money have held by fisbursing agents. which should
the reasuTy, thee agents have had tho
means Of loanag. ana nave actually loaned, large
l.4in last Ie years, 10 meet tho neceser Of the
Treasury II aae ea rtents Of toe Government or other
sz distinct branches of the Indian Department and,
tf manner, system ation has obtained with
responsibility, and unknown 20 me ia"
evils Of these remarks,
efficiently appear y considered that they
ccce}y which OBJECT Of the
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