Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-05-02


and must pass at every session, under ev
cry Administration, so long as the treaty
stipalations shall require 1t. SO with
many other appropriations. which must
be necessarily made at every session, no
matter what party may hold the re;ns of
Government; and they never can, with
any regard for proper use of truth, be
represented as liabilities created by one
Congress. or Administration, and impus-
ed upon their successors for payment
Sometimes claims of various amounts
are paid by one Congress. which have
been before fora series Of years pressed
in vain. These claims are not liabilities
or debts Of former Administration. i.
Should Congress at any session appro
pirate some ave or ten millions of dollars
fol French, Spoliations prior to 1900.
such appropriations could not with any
regard to truth or propriety.of phrase be
termed the payment of the debt or liabil-
tiles Of any preceding Administration
The payment at any time of disputed
State claims for militia services, whether
just or unjust, is not the payment of the
debt or liabilities of former Admins
tration. ri
Instead of this new device, to produce
false impressions as to tie amount of
debt existing on the 4th March. 1871.
how much fairer and more Ineligible
would it have been to treat the subject
in the usual way. and to use terms cen
nected with the financial operations Of
the Government in their common.and re-
ceived acceptaton. The decisions
which are attempted to be created in the
pamphlet alluded TO, concerning the pub
lie debt, are founded upon report No.
26l, made from the Treasury Depart
ment, at the end session of the 9th
Congress. under resolution calling for
the specific appropriations outstanding on
the 4th March, 1842-the indefinite APP
preparations drawn between 4ta March
and 31st December, 1S4l, as well as the
outstanding Treasury notes on the 4th
March, 1941.-This resolution was in
geniously designed to draw forth Re-
port which might be tortured into the APP
pearance of sustaining the reckless as
sertion of the Wings, that the Democrat
ic party went out of power with MIR.
Van Buren,, leaving debt of thirty-fve
or forty millions 70: them 10 pay. The
statements which have sent you for
publication, explain the whole subject of
appropriations and expenditures They
explain the amount of public debt crea-
ted and left by Mr.. Van Buren's admin
istration, and the enormous and rapid
augmentation. of that debt in two years,
by the Wings.
But let US make comparison of the
liabilities of the Treasury on the 4th of
March 1841. according to this famous
DOCUMENT, No 28l, made 20 the 9th
Congress at their Cd session, with the
liabilities of the treasury of the 4th
March. 1913, according to a statement
prepared exactly upon the same, princi.
pies. How does the matter of liabilities
stand after full two years experiments
by the Wings?
Liabilities on the 4th -.
March 1871, SS5,527, S25 %
do. on the 4th ~
March l84s, $44,s96,s91 81
Treasury Departnet,
Registers Office, 9Th March 1914, =
Hon.. CAVE JOHNSON, House of Repre-
sentatives: =,
Sir-I have the honor torefer you ITO
the following statement Of the amount
| for which the Treasury was liable on the
18th March 1s4s, prepared in m2liance
with your letter to the Secretary Of
Treasury of esd ultmo--and by him re-
ferred to this ofic.-'upon the same
principles of the statemect made in doc
ument from the Treasury Department
No. 2S1, the second sessicn of the twen-
ty seventh Congress, which sheWs the
| liabilities of the Government on the 4th
March, 194l.' 49, - &
STATEMENT Of the amount for which
the Treasury was liable on the 4th March
l84S..
Specific appropriations undrawn on 4th
T March, JS45, of appropriations tor the
half calender year ending 5Oth June,
l64S, and previous
years,S15, 941, 974 So
Specific
appro-3
I prIa-
lions
made
for the
service
! If the,