The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-06-02

Wy BILL
In reducing the appropriations from the official es-
Inmates for the Army aud Navy, Congress, we think
are acting unwisely and precipitately. This is no
way to maintain the spirit of these corps or sustain
their efficiency but on We contrary is calculated to
injure BOTH by the nudicious legislation of men who
really know nothing about the matter but who, hav
ing spent hundreds of thousands in useless and
tentious debate hope make up the to the coun-
try by taking it off from the Army and Navy esti-
mates.
The best way, in some cases, to retrench expendi-
lures is to increase expenditures This may seem pa
radoXical, but 1t is nevertheless true.
The proposals of the Secretary of the Navy, is a
case in point. For the thorough organization of his
department, he submits scheme which will involve
an increase of immediate expense, over what the de-
partment now disburses. But any one, with but
slight knowledge of the plan, cannot but perceive that
such increased present expense will ultimate in a
positive saving OF money, and prevent in great
measure that waste and misappication of appropra-
tons which have disguised the people, particular
ly of the West, with whom this retrenchment finds
its most active advocates. The root of the evil so
often complanedof in the vast sums required for the
Navy, is not reached by this retrenchment of Con-
gress; it is just enough to embarrass its operations,
without correcting its abuses they must search into
the movements of the Board of Commissioners if
they would find the hole of the Navy purse, and the
horse-leech cravings of give, give, which have SO
often and so teazingly, rung upon the of Con-
gress Do away this expensive Board, and give Mr..
Upshur, or whoever may be Secretary, the eff ctive
organization which the Department demands, even
though at first il will increase the expense of it, and
in very short time the country will have saved, by
the more regular and supervisory management of Ma
val affairs far more than Congress will now deduct
from its appropriation We repeat what we have so
often asserted that we do not desire a Navy larger
than the protection of country and sea-board de-
mands but what is the fact3 II is that the United
States Navy is not sufficient for these purposes Wit
ness the coast of Afrca-witness China, where, dur
ing all the English difficulties, not vessel of war,
bearing our flag has been seem to protect our citi-
zen ard int rests 1t is true that the Navy has been
some what increased of late, by the fitting out Of the
two steamers by commissioning the Home Squad
ron and BY increasing the number of officers.
-Four lilyates also, now ready TO he launched,
the CumbetIao the 'St. Lawrence the "Rar.-
tam and the Savannah" three briggs have re-
Gently been launched, The "Somers, the Blinbnige
and the "Truxlon one new steamer has also been
completed, the Union,p and three Others arc being
built All this force tho protective and commercial
necessities Of the coantry demand, and shall these
vessels, already paid Tor, lie laid up in ordinary
to rot and decay instead 1t bearing flag to distant
sea. and making II familiar and respected in every
pou2 It's niggard y par imonons policy which
would thus cut of any OF the supplies Of the Navy
and cannot fail of exciting discomfort and DISCUS