The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-04-30

"The difference before named mot specified how.
ever" we've, fortunately, OF character not 10 change
the fiscal condition of 1871 in proportion 10 Their
respective amounts, the receipts in that year will pra
| badly be larger, and the expenses smaller" "Pro.
badly -" larger -" smaller Alas alas give u
figures in such momentous concerns the fiscal a.
| fairs Of nation These "anticipations and lro.
liabilities ola Secretary Of the Treasury are down
right mockery
Next comes " fluctuations and contingencies peaer
ally" with suggestion Of the importance of guard
ing against them by subsidiary means"
| " accordingly ~ what y" as had been done On
some similar occasions % what ~" since the public
debt discharged n(what in the world is the man
after Dc and the carrent. revenue diminished Tin
| creased obscuniy y" these means * what means
afraid TO speak outtoo delicate matter y" were re-
quesed by the Department the first moment practica-
BILE after the session began, being in the annual report
itself" Who would think that all this meant the IA.
ton in debt-in want Of Treasury Notes &c 2 Forthe
Secretary speaks Of the public debts being dischar
ged" and is laboring ward of the idea that we have
got in debt again peace establishment. He only
proposed what had been done similar coca
sions, to wit when in debt |" since the public debt
discharged" This, we suppose, he would call
pirate debtor what ?
"The additional communications, in this and other
years urging compliance with such requests Were
made only to deveope facts and reasons which
had in the time occurred, favorable previous
recommendations The amount of this intolerabe
mystifcaon is this Dared speak out in the annu-
al report hut in afterwards, asking for Treasury
Notes, only to deveope new facts and reasons"
| although the aid not in this instance furnish
ed early desired yet the Department has succeed
ed in commanding its funds effecually, as with the
existing the first Of january and the cur
rent receipts afterwards, to meet all the authorized
claims that due and presented during the severe
pressure experienced in that month";
/ First, then, have the confession of severe
pressure" in January. Was that safe for a prudent
Government Next, should like to know what
new classification these authorized claims are in
financial technicaltes in distinction from other clams
Here, also, authorized claims due" and another
class due and presented distinction from those
not due, not presented" or not due and pre-
sentcd" What does all this mean? We have
right TO ask the classications are unusual and we
ask most sincerely. II is very well known that many
claims the Government have been suspended
Does the Secretary mean TO say, they 'au-
horzed?" Or is the correlatvc TO be found in those
claims reported in Congress adversely Z"
In the next paragraph of this Report, or Letter or
Address, or whatever it be called (not yet being hap
tizedD we informed that, since the desired aid =
by new batch Of Treasury Notes, twas furnished in
February, no necessity had arisen to issue any OF
them" However to have all that trouble for no
thing, they had just put forth ss5000O0. "No neces
si,y," however. 0 no. 1t was just TO keep business
lively Nevertheless, it g desired aid"
Next we have quite fattering account of the reve-
receipts and debit accounts for the month of Janu
airy, in general terms-nothing specifc-as much as
was anticipated.
The revenue received in February, not yet fiiiy
ascertained, has probably been nearly the same as in
the preceding month, but the acerung duties b.
iiered to be considerably less" Such the language
Of public fnancieI-" probably" nearly )" ''bele,-
ed, =" considerably" &c. Not single statement in
figures :" 1t is computed, however" How does
fnancier compute7 By conjectures, probabilities,
considerables nearlys, &C., So it would seem. Here
is "que large in this computation and that is the
nearest approach to figures We can find. Nor have
the expenditures, since the year began, varied mate
rally from the amount expected"
Having travelled full half way through this docu-
ment, mos, happy TO light solitary item
in the form of Federal money, and Mr.. Woodbury.
himself too, 10 have been glad to find it. II
is gratifying TO be able add says he, "tha after
all the payments above described the balance of avail
able money now in the Treasury is more than mil
lion Of dollars "Above describedn II is to be un-
derstood that description is thing and specification
another. "AH the payments" We have no doubt
that many were made, but happen TO be specified
in the quarter referred to- except the $500 900 he
rally advanced for pensions before due" And alas
this million Of dollars which thought we had
curely clutched is gone too Or rather, it
in hand. II stands on book as follows Including
what stands subject TO draft and the credit of the
Treasurer in the minis, and with collectors and
ceiveIs." This, we admit, "probdbiy" good. Mr..
Woodbury. himself however, as will be seen, is forced
to cut down tins million one-fourh.
4 We have next statement how smoothly and tri-
umphanty Mr.. Van Buren's Administration swung
clear of difficulty in the perilous "exigency of the
last three months, with balance in the Treasury Of
"from half million to a million Of dollars" AS in
all former exgencies since your Administration com
menced."
Your administration" Here, for the first and
only time we have clue to the character of this do
cument viz that it is pirate letter. The Globe
calls it Mr. Woodburys REroRr TO Mr.. Van Buren,"
not to the President ofthe United States
To proceed. The last perilous three months, and
all former e1gencies, safely past, told, that
any good fortune under such perils, should not be
suffered TO impair the force of the recommendation
that have from time TO time been submitted Con
gress for the provision of additional MEANS" that is
Treasury Notes the Secretary being too modest to
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