Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-09-20

been required BIZ Us and than doubled u oeyohu
The amount you yourselves promised TO ePeno. VIVA.
ia III, t,i:cailon OF this The first lame ana
excuse offered is that this sum is all necessary 10 a's
CHARGE the debs LETT by the past Administration. Hhal
SIR Want IL millions year more for thus ana seVe
raj veprs 10 come pay debt left by the past Adm
nisir,,,o:. of only FIVE and half millions: MS is eS
,r,o,diuary ari.hEet:c II would answer before Inc
extra and present session TO TAX, Tor pocai u
5c firm nations debt Of The past Administrator
nui SINCE Them the matter has been fully probeo ano
we hive Tie official report OF The present Secre'ary,
showing that debt to have been only hVe ana nan
millions No Sir The great debt which now exists,
won, that small SUN which four years IN accu
mrln,;nr is all your own-and yours, too, created in
lille more than twelve months The whoie author''y
To borrow, temporarily and permanently when you
have enioyed 10 the extent OF t@entyseven milohs,
w;lI n,csby be exercised at the earliest moment you
ore abe at any discount, any stock market IN Eu-
roDo o. America, To hiege away orr present broken
and d;shonored futh Indeed the Chairman admits
thai the Treasury rius otherwise stop payment again.
as soon as the appropriation bills now pending shall
pass.
dsgs Of The Extra Sesson--in order, among other
b;nrs rs tauntnrly avowcd your journal, "to con-
traet temporary iOa the public dot GRATED
bu the mast administration at once proceed so 10
lavish appropriations ard expenditures we'll as to
souander your heritage i'll the immense patrmony oil
the public lands, to have required already, in ore
brief year. authority TO contract your own account,
lour times the amount of debts and now, at the
heel Of another dog days session, require new tax
bill Of twenty seven millions year, 10 meet your CUT
rent engagements.
II is right admit to egualize your expenditures and
receipts But, in periods of distress ike this, it can
be done rather more wisely by outstanding all your old
revenue and reducing expenses than by giving away
part of the old revenue, and increasing the expen
ses-lighting the candle at both ends, and then child
i.h!y wondering how burns fast; and complaining
Of the past Administration for that, and almost every
thing else deplorable.
II yon yourselves throw away three millions year
from ands--whch that Administration and all proceed
ing ones retained-you stare at your deficiency and
complain of that Administration for 1t. 1t you vote
FIVE six millions OF new appropriations at The extra
session, and contemplate making the vast amount Tin
peace) of twenty six at this session. you are sur
prised at the increasing deficit, and complain OF Us for
that also If you give away your patrmony and incur
millions of loans at large interest and run III debt tall
nobody will trust you-while that Administration got
Quickly all II needed, and at four five per centyou
wonder al your loss Of credit and again complain oi us
for it,
The real misfortonc Sir, is the magnificent scale on
which of your expenses graduated, and the
want OF foresight and practical wisdom IN not reducing
aud posponng others, depressed state OF business,
common, nj thus moment, TO both sides Of the Atlantic
Wlh0u, entering here into the folly as we'll as lille.
gay of keeping up distribution of the proceeds oil
these lands under presen. circumstancesnnd especial
" after the important provso last September, TO recall
the whenever the duties raised above twenty per
cen-et say, financially, that the question now is,
shall we recall them? probably, in the end, be oblig
ed instead of them, 10 subject the people 10 direct
tax for the whole three or four millions which they
wonld YIELD If properly advertised? Al all events if not
not taken back, the duties will have to be kept higher,
quite TO that amount on tea coffee aud other necessa
RIGS Of life. Does il not them bchoove us, states
men, at once to proceed and first by recall Of the
lands and mex, by rerenchmeni, to save the country
from this useless additional burden Of twelve
millions of dollars.
Some may think that it is TOO late for etiect'ng
much in the way Of rctrenchmehl. No, SIR. The
large army and navy bills yet pending between
the two Houses, amendments. The civil, di
pomac, and Indian balls have passed, aud on an in
creased scale of expense yet, il you will only con.
form TO the reductions i'll The Others which the House
Of recommend, and stay your hands
in other pending cases, much may yet be accomplished
That your fortunes in this respect may yet in some
degree he retrieved, manifest also from the report
of the Treasury Department yesterday. The ex
pcnses the first halt of the year, for ordinary objects,
have been only between nine and ten millions. At
this for the next half those for the whole year
would be only Sl9,190,052 | concede,. Sir that the
naval and military expenses in the last half may be
million higher but not more than that, if the appro.
priaons pending are cut down as the House pro-
poses and you refrain from making many more. AT
The same time, civil and diplomatic Will be md
lion ess-unless sessions are to be eternal, and
we TO add still more to the judiciary, foreign, and
other expenses, provided for in the general appopria
ton bill.
Allow me- then, 10 warn the Senate that, even now,
there opportunity to relieve the country much If We
boldly march up the task of promised
and also recall the lands The last alone would ena-
bic you to reduce the lax bill onenlnth Respect the
other House, TO their reductions in the navy and
military bills by large ma orites; we are urged by
the Chairman to respect their conduct in passing this
bill though done ony by majority of four Persist in
the policy Of derrng harbor and river bills, in these
embarrassing times debut which you then CEN
snred, Though you miiate persist, too, IN omit.
ting to construct any jntbing specializing light.
houses; persist keeping back large appropriations for
forts, ill wEa, has been already voted expended
azee now-it is not too late your grea,
leader recommended early in the session. many oil your
foreign ministers; Gull on your retrencbment commit.
ee-that boosted, yet regret 10 say dumb committee
to reduce ond postpone else where, without delay =;
do thus and Will guaranty that the receipts from
toms in The present year, without the passage OF this
bill at ALL will pay the whole current expenses, il you
only raise the free articles TO 20 per cent and take back
and advertise suitably, the public lands.
The actual receipts from customs and lands in the
first half Of this year, depressed trade ia,
borate this position. They will be, when all are
tanned, near eighteen millions and quarter for The
whole year But, in the last half, all the duties
crung, will be paid cash besides those, in the first
half placed credit, and running into the last halt
for payment Thus would make three millions more,
if the rate was US high but, being lower, add only
one million on that anount-Ila!f million more for
increased sales Of lands, if advertised and million
more duties imposed the rest of The year goods
now free, and these will constitute aggregate Of
500, 7CG Cos This is enough pay the nineteen mil
lions OF ordinary expenses, and interest oil the loans
contracted 10 redeem Treasury notes or any other pur
poses
It must, then, be manifest, without going into fur
Their details, that with prompude and energy, il is
not too late In relieve the people, in this manner from
al least TO twelve millions OF the proposed in
the bill before the Senate. Ii We sincere in
desiring lessen the burdens under which the produc-
tive industry of the country saggers-it we wish to al
leviae tie general distress, can we be justified in
attempt 10 impose so much more than is indispensable:
In all other countries when severe embarrassmenis
prevail do not their Governments seek to lessen, ra-
Their than increase, the weight of taxation' By such
Of policy here al this crisis only would bur-
dens be l'gh,ened but greater interchange of com
moics would relieve agriculture, and inyigorate com
nercal confidence.
Having vlewed your lavish ways 10 get rid of the
public income, will now advert 10 your means for pro