The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-23
THURSDAY. MARCH 81, 1850.
HOUSE OF REPR EsENTATIvEs.

Mr. BURT called for the regular order Of business |;
whereupon the SPEAKER announced the first business
Be the m ns 20 soo
bate the deficiency bill at 2, m, thus day, unless
sooner concluded.
Mr.. B. moved to amend this resolution by striking
out 1. and inserting g. p m; which motion was not
agreed to.
The question upon the adoption OF the said resolution
was then put, and il was agreed to.
CONVENTION BrrwEES THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL.
On motion Of Mr.. BAYLY, the rules were suspended,
and the House resolved itself into Committee of the
Whole, (Mr BURT in the chair)
The CHAIR having announced the special order
for this day be the consideration OF the bill providing
for the due execution OF the convention between the
United States and Brazil,
Mr. McCLERNAND, after few remarks in explana-
ton Of It's PROVISIONS moved that II be laid aside and re-
ported to the House, with the Recommendation that II do
pass which was agreed to-
The deficiency bin was then taken up when
MIR. CR0WELL, who was entitled to the floor. said
deficiency bill, because he thought the Secretary
warranted in employing the extra force required to dis
charge the duties created by the law was his duty to
cy bills were no strangers here They not usually
deemed monstrostes, but had been received with favor
all their appropriations having been agreed 10. Every
had them endorsed here Mr.. BAYLY lsaid Mr. CO. had
urged the proprety OF the Secretary only performing the
daes 70 which his force was competent, throwing the
blame for the failure TO discharge all Congress That
gentleman had sanctioned similar appropriations
Mr. BAYLY dnterruptng Mr.. G.) denied the allega-
tons, He had voted against all such propositions to
amend deficiency bills but had not permitted the presence
OF such small items in amended bills TO prevent him from
voting for them the question OF their final passage
Mr.. CROWELL (contnuing) said that the gentleman
from Virginia did not warn his political friends against
such amendments, he believed. His colleague Mr..
CARrrERl had borrowed the bes OF the Union TO cast
them from his seat here upon the Secretary OF the ne
reverence he might pay to that venerable patriarch OF de-
mocacy, the senior editor OF the Union But his act OF
devotion TO that gentleman should not be thus performed
in this hall and at the public expense II had been said
that deficiency bills strangers here and the Pres
dent and the Secretary had been denounced progaies
He knew the generosity Of his colleagues heart
Mr.. CARTIER Will my colleague allow more
Mr.. CROWELL. No; we will be content with from
CURED % carry on R bad Pt%Ssss .s
administration OF James X Polk.
From this Mr. CRowELL then read abstract of the
amounts appropriated, under deficiency bills, during the
existence OF the last Administrations
Those appropriations were enormous, being for the
war; yet the democratic President had called for more
making IN all some twenty-five millions thus appropriated
IN all the administration oil Polk Under these circum
stances, gentleman oil less modesty than Mr. CARTIER
would not rise in his seat and announce that he would
allow the present administration Is per cent more than
the amount spent by its predecessor. The appropria
tons for the deficiencies OF the Polk administration had
been called for by themselves, and had been cheeruly
voted by the House. No new department had been
formed IN their time requiring expenditures which
could not be estimated for beforehand That adj
minstraiion dared not come at the opening OF the
session before Congress, and acknowledge how much
they wanted. Afterwards they had come forward,
demanding ~ one instance fifteen millions to cover dc.
hcencles YET with these facts staring the gentleman
Mr. CmTrERl in the face, he had sought This opporu
nlty to falsely accuse the wings OF extravaganza He
had asserted that competent had been turned out Of
office, and cider-suckng politicians put in their places
wherever THIS assertion coull be proved true he was
ready g censure the act Il the administration not
amenable TO the charge he was for doing them justice
II this connexion he would not attempt 10 yindcae Mr.
Ewing, whose fame was such as that he could look
down with contempt upon such assaults. Some OF the
departments OF the government here have small major.
ties OF wings in them Others have large msorities OF
democrats Take ALL and il will be found that the dem.
ocrats have by lar the most OF the Offices.
tie did not justify prescription for opinions sake None
mad been counted in that (hs) statement democrats
VINO had not avowed their opinions such and more
than onethrd OF the Offices were filled with citizens of
old Virginia, Maryland and the District OF Columbia In
the Fourth Auditors Office, but FIVE OF his fourteen clerks
were whgs and they were quarered on the lowest saa-
mes Let these facts 60 for what they worth This
statement was made on the authority Of gentleman con-
neced with the press in whose integrity and Judgment
he had great confidence He had in his hand detailed