The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-07
cnhinet snecnlntIona.

Cabinet speculatiOns.
 The executive organ has made very lame at- tempt to defend the administration from the charge of having made an &egal and corrupt use of the public money, In fitting out private expeditions to the gold regions. The creation of two new lndlan agencies, and thu appointment of agents, with high salaries, iiaost ke aid authority of Congress is too plain and giaring usurpation Of power, and too extravagant an extension of official pstrsnage, to admit any defense Hitherto such offices have been created, and such appointments made, accord ing to law, and by authority of the laws; but the present adminis,Yatoh (instead of leaving to Con- gress the law making power of the government. as was promised by Gen. Tayior,) seems to have be- come suddenly endowed with an authority that renders them independent of and superior to Con- gress, and even the law itself. It can, of its own accord, create offices. apportion new salaries, appoint new agents and fit out expedition, to the north pole, and heaven only knows where else, witi- ont once consulting either the people or their rep resentatives, or the laws of the land
 Puffed up with the plenitude oftbeir power, each and every one of these Gteno Uiri' seems to com slider that he may squander, with mpuDity, as much as hs chooses of the people's money What will t4e people think when they como Go have reckon ing with these princely-minded servants. and ind themselves burdened with sn immense public debt, incurred for the support of illegally constituted gov ernment pap-suckers7 The official organ, tn an almost suppIicatng tone, pleads custom as an excuse for these unusual applications of government funds Is 1t the custom to create new federal offices with out an act of Congress7 Is 1t the custom to make appropriations of the public money without law and without authorityl Is it the customto furnish Indian agents and our collectors of the customs, and their families aud friends, with transportation and provisions, at the public cost from their resi- dences to the scene of their official duties,
 twill be recolected that the newly created Indian agents and ths collector of the customs for San Francisco, with their families, started A few days ago from Fort LeaveDworth, with whole army of attendants horses. mules, wagons and provisions, ali furnished by the government. This was, at the tine pronounced illegal and corrupt application of public money; and we defy the ban-dogs of the administration to point to one single precedent Tor such disbursements. The ready witted "Republic' flies to the aid of " butcher Ewing,' and says all this was done by order of the President in order to carry out provisions the relief of the California emigrants upon that route. Such an excuse is worthy of the inqeHuty of the Secretary of the h. terior, or the unbushiug impudence of the i" Re- public" 1T such was the design of our most proyi- don't President, why was not similar expedition sent out upon the Fort Smith routel-or why was it at alll for it is very we'll known that the emgrants have not needed such relief and that the whole route is strewn with superfuous provisions, thrown away by them. Yet. if distress had really existed under what law or by what authority could tho President order such approprationsl Again: if this charitable design had suggested the fitting out of the expedition, why, in the name of truth, it allowed that host of useless hangers-on should accompany the expedition sufficient to con sume all the stores providedf Such pretexts are altogether too flimsy to deceive the people, however gulble they may have been. When 1t is made knowa that this party is directed to three several points near which gold mines have been discovered, aud that the principal persons composing it are warm personal friends of one of the most active members of the cabInet it will not be surprising if suspicious are aroused that 1t dictated by some thing liIte less than philanthropy.