The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-06-25

exa nined the document or if he had, he could not
have understood it, will mpue TO him an in
territorial perverson of its obvious meanng.
MIR. Brown appears singularly unfortunate IN his
exact amounts | can find none Of them eractiy
correct Even in stating the amount expended IN
ls4l, having Gas he says) now before me the exact
amount, he has committed error of $o3i 800 az,
The document NO 73) 50 often refer
red 10, states tho amonnt expended
in 1871 10 be Sbb723lo 70
Mr. Brown states it to be 6037759 4s
Difference as above 1864 5S5 70
Now, assume the fact that the Comptroller Of the
Treasury is more likely to be correct in his official
statements than Mr.. Brown, who has already been
detected in many errors and hence infer that no
portion Of the bala ce remaining in the Treasury
the 3lst December, lS4l, Is applicable or
available for any service since tlat period hen
ask what provision has been made toI the service OF
the navy for the year 1912 7 Not tarthing has
been appropriated unless indeed it be considered that
the $3.50 600 for tie iron steamer 10 be butt 10y MIR
Stevens (Which may or may no be expended within
the year, and which cannot tie diverted TO any other
purpose) is provision for the year 1872 Mi Brown
says that bill has passed the House OF Representa-
tNes approprating 81, 339 1914 I'll but this bill has
not Vet bee ,me law | am perfectly justified then
in saying that single cent has been provided for
the naval service proper for the year 1872 although
more than five months of the year have passed.
Mr. Brown, including all his errors heretofore ex-
posed and the amount of the bill which passed the
House OF Representatives, triumphantly exc!alnis,
!" II will be seen that the amount OF appropriations
standing over unexpended, or provided by TINS
Congress for the naval service OF 1912, is nearly dou-
bic The amount expended in any OF the last SIR
years" Now, as have already said Congress have
not appropriated one cent but a bill has passed tie
House OF Representatives, "a above
stated for Sc 339 ,S9l I'll
And we ind that in 1871 there
expended 6,672 ,345 lS
Now, unless Mr.. Brown can prove that six millions
three hundred thousand dollars are nearly double
the amount of SIX millions six hundred thousand dol
lars he utterly fails in establishing the truth OF mis-
sertipn roundly made.
What, will now inquire, becomes of Mr. Browns
"mcre than four and hay millions OF dollars appll
cable to the naval service Tor 1912, beyond what has
been expended in any one year since he war which
he SAYS Congress has provded2
His own figures, laundering and erroneous they
are, shall condemn him., and scatter his exact
amounts" to the winds.
With all his erroneous statements, he has not been
able TO make the amount provided for
lS42 more than Sl06l0 515 10
A md he tells US that, in the year 1887,
there was expended 6646 Ala SO
The difference being 1864, l60 81
which he would have Us believe is ''more than four
and half millions of dollars" while my arlthmt-
tic teaches that it 1885, $50 AZ less than four
and half millions.
What are we to think Of the mathematical acquire
ments of man, who, professedy iealihg in exact
amounts thus i'll the simple subtraction OF one
sum from another S535,S39 ~ Nhat value can we
place upon his statements when he tells US that Con-
gress has provided more than ten millions of dollars
for the service of the navy for the year 1912, when
TO this they have not provided one single dol
lar! bill, he says, he's passed the House of Re-
representatives. appropriang $3.50 S94 6l but has he
yet to learn that there other bodies to act upon this
bill before it can become a law That the Senate have
to in its provisions before can be said that Con-
gress have passed III That the President of the Uni
ted States has to approve it after Congress have pass
ed it, before one cent Of it be drawn from the
Treasury
Mr. Browns 'sampe means for all necessary pur-
poses,' will not be further noticed at present; aud
will for the present. forbear remarkng upon the diff
ference between him and the Committee of Ways and
Means to the average annual expenditures for the
last six years under that branch OF the service called
increase, repair armament and equipment, y as my
purpose, Just now, with the present than he
past
He says there is, and will be, applicable to this
branch OF the service for 1912, the of S4, 467
1888 81, consisting Of
UneXpended balance 3lst December
last sl5l7 3S3 81
Appropriations for ordnance 100000 90
Appropriation for steamer on the
Lakes 100000 90
Appropriation for iron steamer 100000 00
In bill recently passed by the House
of Representatives 100000 90
Thus making uphs "a, 467, 1888 81
His unexpended balance on the 3lst December
last, made up from two items taken from the docu-
ment No 10, viz
Inc ease, repair, &c. LII 1888 81
war steamers OF medium oize 400, 900 90
Slll7, 1853 ~
have already shown that the SLIT, 1888 81 was
made up thus
Balance of increase, &c s52oO2l 81
Balance of the appropriation of !.
100000 for ordnance 597,362 SO
sl1l7,3s3 81