The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-01-10

The constantly accommodating evidence that
ionty OF the people Of this country Gas Mr. Calhoun
says) reuoeaby resolved that the shall be vgor-
ousy prosecuted I'LL full territorial indemnity be obtained
from Mexico, has placed the wings in Congress in
embarrassing predcanent. The supply" section OF
that party fast melting away The position of General
Taylor among their candidates for the presidency adds
greatly 10 their embarrassment. The recent amendment
of Mr.. Ashmun adopted by bare majority, declaring
that the unnecessarily and unconsttutionay
commenced by the President" is generally said and be-
ieved 10 be a designed place the party on
the Lexington Platform, and to give Gen Taylor the go-by
We are very willing to let this little family quarrel
stand il is Ii is affair OF ours But if the Iauoy
hgs, they call themselves, be sincere as they say
they are, shall probably have of il ere long in
asmuch as, beyond all controversy General Taylor him
SELF speaking politically, and not in military
pacity, ici to the of negotiations nth
Merieo strongly adpised, months before made, and
strongly approved afterwards, that very march Of
troops TO the Rio Grande ,rhieh Mr. Aslinun and the
whigs Of the Lexington Platform" haze stgnatised
unnecessary and unconstitutional commencement
of the :" We shall when the resolution of com
pliment to General Taylor up for discussion as
amended by Mr.. Ashmun, whether Gen Tayors wing
friends will quietly permit the compliment to bear this
brand Of congressional upon the deliberate and
repeated advice which he thus gave in this important
matter.
Meantime preliminary futtering in the wing ranks
in relation to the whole subject of the is curiousy
indicated in the leading article of the National Intelligent
Ger of this morning, the substance OF which is, when
done into plain English contained in the following prop
ositons:
FIRST That the wing majority in the House ought to
hesitate long before voting and probably ought to refuse
to vote at a the regiment bill introduced by the Mil
tary Committee of the Senate, a needful measure of
reinforcement 10 the army Mexico, prosecute the
war and close it in treaty of indemnity CThs sugges-
ton to withhold reinfocements is the Nationals" trib
ute to the Lexington Platform.")
Secondly That the same whig majority ought to vote
the money supplies wanted for the army. (Ths, far as
goes is propatory sacrifice to the views of the Tay
or whgs) But then comes reservation, intended to
make all right again with the Clay men, to whom plainly
enough National "studiously inlines" The reser-
walton is
Thirdly That the money will be equally auanted,
whether the army is to home in ingorious dscon-
future, whether it is to remain and act in Mexico,
the President suggests till the just objects of the are
obtained
And then, in the fourth place. comes groaning sug-
gestionntended probably, for the said and comfort of
that gloomy school of political arthmetcans OF the wing
party who, in the last Congress- chaked down the ex-
penditures of the f'noi less than
DAYm 1t is as follows:
''Where the amount Of money--,ay hundred mil
lions of doarstba will be required for the service of the
fiscal gear beginning the LIST Of July, from,
passes comprehension That is thing f,r Congress
and the President think Of"
AS this last of the wing organ, that one
hundred millions will be required for the service of the
fiscal year commencing the LIST July next, we have
now only to say that the statement is put forth in the
very teeth of all the official estimates sent in from the
Treasury Department to Congress Turning to these, we
find the total estimated to be required for the fiscal
year referred to- down by the Secretary of the Treas
ury at $556il,9il OF this sum, $40, 5s2 1852 are the
appropriations proposed to be made for that year 1857,
SIT the appropriations for the service of that s
cal year, made by former acts Of Congress of per-
n,anent character; !" while $l,47521O is set down
the amount of the eristing appropriations which viii
be required to be expended during the year. OF
this total sum of $5561,94l, estimated to be required
for the service of the next fiscal year, the amount OF
1874 o72 93G given the total to be expended undel
the direction OF the War Department" We learn, how
ever that an additional estimate of less than four mil
lions has been sent in from this department. making the
whole amount estimated for for the service of the next
fiscal year, all the departments of the government less
stated by the lntelligencer.