Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-04-30

to rest any of this on assertion table IS
annexed, compiled from the reports OF
their own officers.-(See annual Treasury
report, December, lS43, PIP, 80, 81, aP'
pendx) Expenses indepedent Of the
public dept and reasury notes,
In lS41 (a) 500, ,390,353
In lS42 1892 ,O57
In 1913 (b) 90, ,560,224
In 1874 lei 26,s77 ,059
(a) As some persons might wish to see
the whole amount Of nominal expenditure
including treasury notes and dept, we
give the only two years of The whig adj
ministralion (lS4l-42) which are com
pleie, from thq game report, and the two
which preceded them: 1889, 1886, l7,l76
- ls4O ,$26, ,l37.76l-ls4l, $32,O92,-
724-ls42, $32 ,39,9O6 This makes
he TWO why years the highest by Il . sum
Of$l,9SG,7OS.
10y Estimated one quarter of the CAL
endar year, Three quarters ascerianed
-$l6, 1920, 1893; add one quarter at the
same rate.
(c) Estimated by the Secretary, for the
fiscal year.
This is, on an average, $24 1898 ITO a
wear; and the result will probably exceed
that unless the democratic party succeed
| in cutting down some large estimated
expnses for 1874. This is almost twelve
millions year greater than was promised
before The election ;il ten 10 elevenmIliOn
more yearly than the average Of Gen. Jack
son, and three to four millions more
annually than the average Of Genera
Jackson's and Mr.. Van Buren's terms uni
ted,
Another consideration connected with
this subject, and kleave il for tie pres
ent.
Besides the reiterated charge Of great
expenditures in amount under Mr.. Van
BureD, which the wings engaged to reform
and reduce to about thirteen millions an
nually--but which instead Of lowering,
they have actually increased, from twenty
two and q half millions Of his last year, to
more than twenty'six millions in one, and
higher than that proposed in another year
they complained grisvOusly that the ex
penses under Mr. Van Buren, were moi
met by the revenue Of each year. ltiI
true, that, including appropriations addeC
BY Congrsss,and large drawbacks of rev
eaus not stopped though requested, a de
ficiency occurred of about FIVE and bal
millions in the whole four years, and, il
consequence ofihAt, something like Iha
I sum he'd been added to the temporary
) debt on the 4lh Of March, lS4l. wher
, Mr.. Van Buren, went out Of power Sci
, Mr.. Forwards report to The Senate, No
Al, January 10, lS42.l But this was th'
!. whole Of the false "forty million debt,
created under him while, as to the $26,
d tag, ,0ls debt--which, according 10 th'
n last annual report from the Treasury
\ now exists--sIl Of II, but that Eve or 81,
millions, has been created since, excep
about quarter offs million ofthe old deb
and million and third assumed b
Congress on account OF theDislTict of 90
lumba. Indeed. Mr.. Clay vent SO far
in words, as to pledge himself, and cause'
bis friends in the Senate 10 pledge them
selves, lopreVeht such course; ;but stil
recklessly plunged into l.,
They united most harmOniOuslyin pass
ing this resolution; taken from the Jour
nal in February, lS42:l
r. "Resolved, That il is the duty of III,
i General Government 10 provide an ade
n una,e revenue within The year 10 meet III,
current expenses of the year;aRd that an
# expsdien,, either by loan or by treasur
D notes, TO supply, in time Of fpeace, a def
J. cheney Of revenue, especially during sue
: cessive years,is unwise, and must lead /
d pernictous consequence
d Yet .in The face Of this, he aud his lrien
/ haze every year since they came into pOv
L er,yiolaled both the spirit and letter OfIh
resolve. They began by giving away III
revenue from The public lands, and ns'
' failed entirely in providing what was adj
i ouato from other sources They have
' every year after, in period Of profoun
! peaee Iesorted TO the shifts Of new lOsT
3 d new treasury notes. And after thu
,f swelling the debt TO more than twenly's
y millions ;'hey contemplate an txpenditui
10 this year and the next, which unless pre-
I'd vented by retrencbnOnt or new taxatio
fs, on the people will cause further def
a cieucy and debt, which the Secretary I
Ial the Treasury eetiniates at $S,577 .05
ID. more. Al the end ofnext year, IL thing
rs 60 on in this way, their debt, may reaC
10 S35 100000. How much they will re
rs tronch in expenses, 10 obviate this, uniel
. i6yced into il by persevering firmness q
81 the part Of democratic members whoi
~ ~, a, ..r,,,r, a,zaYtiona have arconnnlish.