The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-11-24
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. "a, rs4s.
'MciaI RslssAoed- stapsndoas Ilapositssa upon the
People.

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Omcaal Fslsshoea- stapsndous Ilnpositsea upon the
People.
If we may Judge from the course OF the Rspublie the
organ Of Gen Taylor and the cabinet the people are to
expect nothing in future from that source but the most
criminal attempts at imposition upon the public mind in
voving wiful suppression OF the truth and premedated
Misrepresentation: The organ OF an administration
which has been condemned and epudated by the peo-
pie, and which stands before the world disowned
and abandoned by the most honorable and respectable
portion Of the party which helped to elevate it to power
deems not out Of keeping with its own character and
position. Of the character and position Of the csbal
which it represents. to attempt the gosses mposons up
the people, in order to divert the public mind from the
truly fallen condition OF its employers
In commenting upon the astounding announcer emit Of
deficit OF fifteen twenty millions Of dollars, which
both organs Of the cabinet formally announced on the
authority Of the Secretary Of the Treasury as probable
to exist in the treasury during the present and fiscal
years, to meet which increase Of taxes or new loan
would be required. we warned the people Of the de-
signs Of the party in power and expressed the belief that
if such deficiency should be found to exist in the
treasury it would also be found to have been produced
by the allowance OF unfounded and illegal claims, the
sending out Of illegal expeditions to California and the
illegal appointment OF persons about the departments
and in various services under the government,
apd not to any just and legitimate expenditure au
thorized by Congress- or made necessary by the Mex
lean war. We referred to similar demand for
increased appropriations and additional taxes, on the
coming in of the Harrison Congress. which was
the precursor Of another high tariff national bank
and all the schemes and devices Of federalism to de-
moralize the country and seduce the people with their
own money; and we remarked that, by announcing
this and startling deficit the administration
had put itself upon trial. and must submit to rigid
and searching examination into the manner in which it
had managed the affairs Of the government since il had
been in power.
The limitations which we thus threw out alarmed the
inscriptions supporters Of the administration who hest
tate not to defend its acts and policy, right wrong and
called forth in the Republic attempt to parry the force
of article And that attempt, regret for the credit
of the cabinet for whom the Republic speaks is based
upon wfu Misrepresentation, the grossest ignorance
Of the facts In attempting to account for the pretended
deficit, the cabinet organ remarks:
Here is the deficiency stated and the cause which is
amply sufficient account for that deficiency The reports
of Mr. Walker and the statute book fully explain the
in which this cause has operated. We cite from inted
documents. Our receipts in 1917 S26 BAG our
expenditures in the year $50 929 V93 Our
cep in lSis were Ss5 disbursements in the
year s42 sll $40. In the years 1871 and ls4s
therefore, erpeIss exceeded Ss6 957 523 BY
the Jaw providing for the execution, in part of the twelfth
article OF the treaty with Mexico, S3,720000 appro-
pated pay the principal and interest due May 1888;
and S35i00oO to pay the principal aud interest due May
30, 1850 Under the provisions Of the fifteenth article of
the treaty. the Secretary the Treasury will be called
upon pay S. OF claims of citizens the United
States against the republic OF Mexico.
The italics are our own
Now, mark the alsehood Of the preceding statement
of the government, organ; for suppression Of truth is
regarded in the forum Of conscience equivalent
fasehood This is in substance, the statement put forth
by the cabinet organ account for the alleged deficiency
viz
Amount of receipts in 1877 SIS 346 100
DO do in lSS IS. 436, $50
6l7s3.Sa0
Expenditures In 1877 IS 91e0s3