Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-04-23

| led an extra session would be Inevitable OBVIOUS
| and Practically wise as tie maxim Is, Il has btea
| one OF those financial rules oil good government
which WAS openly uampled on during every year
Of Van Burtn's administration. So far from pIoy
ding within the year the Necessary income tor the
wear, the income was lett short OF tho expenditure
by about eight millions of dollars during every
OF the years OF his Adm nlsuation. have thought,
and do think. that on this subject only need VIA
| dictate the Wing party and myself from the charge
OF not being able to biins down the expenditures
below p millions. am efSaid. with my honore'
bic friend from Maine, that will scarce be possible
| to reduce II during the year below p millions
hope We shall be able to provide revenue to meet
the 22 millions. Certainly, instead oi approaching
| rs with waste and eNtravaganee, these gentlemen
| should rather congratulate US that We have been
| able TO effect so great diminution IN so short
time. Especially when in every legislative hall
and in every committee room the cry is "ketreueh,
rerench," Every where retrenehncnt 10 tho order Of
the day.
But II has been said that intmated that the ex-
pcnditures OF the Government might he reduced TO
thirteen millions; and the honorable Senator from
New Hampshire has referred to speech OF NINE.
(~ithout reading l delivered as far back as 1882.
What was my language on that occasoni The
Senator thought that | had said the expenditures
might be perm, nontly fixed at eighteen Millions
| had no such intention. Here MIR G.. read parts
| OF his speeches made IN 1881 and 1870 IN relation
to the probable and what ought to be the amount Of
the annual expenditure of the Government, depre-
practice OF the greatest economy, with the hope and
belief that the annual expenditure might be greatly
reduced, but specifying no precise sum TO which It
was practicable 70 reduce i'll Well; and do not
hold the same language now wished then, and
| wish now, that the expenditures could be reduced
| TO eighteen mionS-to thirteen millons-to nine
millions-if II were practicable. IL was the mere
! expression Of a wish; but II was not accompanied
with any nninon To the exact sum to which 1t
was pssctic ole to bring down the annual expendi-
! .-ra roll, moth, 49,.
WIS speaking in just the samo terms, recon-.
mcnuins reform with Just the same earncstness, as
! do to-day. | was tor Travelling the same road as
! was recommended by tho lNmen;ed Harrison IN his
! Inaugural address. But between the date OF that
address IN 1910 and the present time an essential
difference ms occurred in the nenacins state OF our
foreign relations | wish there was no more cause
| for experimenting the breaking out Of war with
! Mexico, than trust there is with England. But
from The iasolent language recently employed 10y an
ups at yrnni and usurper toward the pcope o, the
valley Of the M,ssissippi-n people from whom,
when returning TO his country after disgraceiul
defeat, he experienced the generous hospital.
ty--nnd who was borne in safety To his own home
! 10y q pubic vessel of the United States, and from
other more serious wrongs unredreSsed, there is
! some ciuse oil apprehension of war with that Pow
er; yet am no, without the hone tina; even there
We shall bc abe hcronby avoid a state OF actu-
al hostility Still, however, there IS u great differ
encs between the s,aio OF foreign relation now
and IN lstc. Oar navy. Justly iavorte with all,
and which every one seems To vie with his neighbor
m nursing AMI preserving, - now fallen into state
! Of comparative dIiapiatinn. All orr Notifications,
| which were neglected and even abandoned 10y the
late Administration, have now to be repaired. All
these additional expenditures have devolved on our
| hands.