New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-02-05

he true amount of the expense actually in
CURED, during that fiscal year cannot be fully
certained until the several accounts, mentioned ia
the Quartermaster Generals Report shall have
been received and settled.
Although the whole amount which shall be found
70 have been thus expended has been destroyed by
the war yet the whole is not tbs result of the
Mexican War. IL appears, by former official state
ments, that the expenses for the Army Proper
amounted during the fiscal year ending June 30,
ls45 to s3,l 900, and during the year ending June
80 l546, TO 50 900. There is therefore annual
sum OF about three millions and half which, tho
making part of the Army Expenditure, cannot just.
ly be charged to the War with Mexico.
The next subject OF inquiry is the average npm
Der OF the troops in actual service during that
year. This cannot be ascertained with any degree
of precision. The Adjutant General gives the mum
Der Of regulars recruited and Of volunteers mus
tered, during the year, and the probable estimate
Of the nominal amount in actna service OF both, at
the end Of the fiscal year. But he does not state,
and had not probably the means OF stating, the
time and times, a. which they respectively did &C
tuslly become part Of the troops In the field. IL
is certain that this was done gradually. The num-
Der Of effective men did not, when the war broke
out, exceed eight thousand and it was hardly
forty thousand at the end Of the fiscal year. IL up
pears 70 me 70 be fair TO estimate the average
amount at twenty FIVE thousand. This, however,
10 only a conjecture and it 10 possible that the
average may have been thirty thousand
The estimate Of the oaartermaster General il
about three millions less for the fiscal year ending
June 80, ls4s, than had been expended during the
preceding year. This difference may be consider
ed as the amount of extra expenses incurred
during the hrstyear OF the war, in organizing at
once such an extensive system Of operations, and
In transporting the main body Of the army 10 Vera
Cruz This would reduce the annual expense ne
cesssry for supporting army Of tw enty-hye or
thirty thousand men abroad TO thirty two millions
Of dollars.
FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30. 1873
The Secretary Of the Treasury had, in his Report
Ct December 10, 1916, estimated the ex penses OF
this year for the army proper and volunteers at
s2i302, 54i.
In his Report Of December :, l:47, he ertimates
the Receipts and Expenditures for the sasne year
follows: RECEIPTS.
FROM customs frs, quar- By actual returns 6oI II
From customs, Tor second, third and fourth
quarters ~ estimated lssSlItz -
,lOoO,0O0 90
From sslss q public land'.............. 1000 %
From avail. Of rrs.. Notes and other leans. 1854 s.
4II75 2sl s.
Add balance in TrsaIury July l. isi7..... l7ol25 Is
Total means as s.tiu,ted Ss5 90
sxrEspfrvsEs.
The setual expenditures for the hrst quarter - -, o..
..S1ssrs u d. eta By b. .e:"f ,t.t.ia:nt B.
The es.im.tsd expenditures during the other
three qusrsrs, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -
Army proper, including yo.untesp...... lsQs0ee5 81
MAYA lo<flt< ~
All ether expenses 1879. %
~ oloocv "
From which substrsctins the above t2sso1 -
Leaves deficit of..................-...tl5 n
If we were to suppose that twelve millions oct
OF the sl6i69.ls4 expended during the garter
ending 30th September, had been spent ior the
regular army and volunteers, this, added 70 the
$40 0s0 s65, estimated for the same object during
the last three quarters woald make the aggregate
less by several milliots than the amount already
appropriated. or which must be appropriated in
order 70 cover ascsrtsiHed deficiencies.
Bat the observation made. with respect 10 the
Statement A. applies equally 70 B, the substance
Of which should have been embodied in the Re
port Of the Secretary Of the Treasury, instead OF
being thrown in the mass Of documents printed
several weeks later. have equally failed in my
sttemp, TO procure q copy Of it. As the matter
now stands, the Report does not exhibit the de-
tails Of the expenditure Of the first quarter which
the Secretary did know and ir does give the esti-
mated details Of the last three quarters, which he
did not and cO7ld not know
The estimate Of he War Expenses. for the year
ending June 30, lsss. derived from the sppropria
tons already made and from the estimates OF i'd
ditional appropriations asked Zoe BY the Secretary