New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-04
Ce-t Of the Navy During Professionalism
Influences.


NJ Secretary PREsroN communicated 10 Con-
sress. some tine ago. statement Of spproPns
tons fo- he Naval Service for 1919 tia, IS. up to
Illy last It shows ,hst slS.t5e,S2s we're spPG-
cable 70 The Naval service of .s4s-i9 that OF this
amount 81 295,5Ss were refunded or transferred,
leaving the amour; drawn from the Treasury and
app,iei 70 Naval uses. at slo.3ss,Il7i there wss
balance Of s3lsso.9 appropriated and unes
pended on July T. lsis. bat on the same day. 1872
It vas only s2,Oss.5le the actual appropriations
made N the last fiscal year were o. ss5o2s.
These immense peace expenditures drawn 90,
Of the Customs Revenue. in a time OF profound
pesce, are not ALL wRrhke ss7460o were voted
= The Steam Mail service. OF which sl95l00 had
not been expended last July lst. Pay Of the Navy
paid chiefly 10 tie etFcers, OF whom many are idle
droncs, as may be seen from the o;cisl record Of
their sen and and services, s2,477.os increase
repair. ornament. and equipment Of the Navy
s5,663,s05. with nobody to fight against Does
toe equipment include those terrible instruments
the cats o uinc tails, invented or upheld. as an
Eastern Senator limited. to keep the ioreigner,
before the mast, N due subordination For con
tingenclcs. including expenses Of recruiting ss26
900. Provisions. s906672 clothing ELI. 3s5 con.
structon o. >tevenss war steamer for hsrbor de
fence s32.4lg, being part OF vote o, s2l5si0
Mexican Hosuhtics, under act OF Nav as. SIN
$50 Widows Pensions, si50650; Invalid Pen.
sions. $50, 80 cost OF ManEc Corps, several
items about s57500o.
Beside the four millions, almost for increase OF
the Navy = PROTECT our trade with the world al
peace = find nearly two millions and = halt OF
dollars expended on Navy Yards and Dry Docks ,
OF this last item, only 80 600 laid ont at Ssckeits
HarbOrl on the Canada frontier shows that we do
not ia for a foreign marine on fresh water. At
New York ss5s i55 were expended .'HsRas any
omissions chargeabe 70 General Prosper W e.
more, II such there s3sS,296 nj Pensacola,
down IN + lorda. s239.Js6 at Memphis IN Tennes
see sl26s,6 AT Norfolk. Va slO7.739 az Ports
mouth. Y. II also s37 1000 on three Dry Docks
at Pensacola, Philadelphia and kittery. sl6si2
have gone 10 relieve Michael Hogan; $4,000 ior
expenses Of frigste Macedonian. while employed
carrying provisions during famine IN Ireland. and
$40 OO0 TO Naval School
Some recent exposures show that in this and the
War Department, like that of the Post O.hce, the
system Of checks and accountability to the public
Is 10 many respects merely nominal Mr.. Speaker
COBB, in the latter case, has selected Committee.
the Chairman and another Of whom are troubled
with their own contested elections and other mat
tiers, while a third Member is Chairman OF the per
picking Committee on Printing, though a new Rep
resentative The Committee OF i've, on the EN
penditures in the Navy, HOLIDAY of Va. Chair
man, were none of them IN the last House
Whether they possess the peculiar abilities b quail
ify them TO be careful reviewers OF the officials who
spend sis 0Oo, 900 year. in tins way, know not.
On looking over the Senates list OF Standing
Committees. | do not see that they have placed
Mr.. HALE Of y. II Free Soil upon any one Com
mttee. Not one OF their Cbamcn of Committees
IL Wing except for the Library. As IN the
House, the South supplies the greatest number OF
Chairmen there being IS Slave State Locos aud
but I Northern men In % Standing Committees
Of this new Congress, the Wings have two pre-
siding members one on Accounts and one on the
Library of all the rest the Slaveholdng Locos sup
ply large malority-the remainder only being
awarded to their Northern Democratic allies.
The State ct New York, which has more oxten
sive foreign relations than any other IN the
nion is not represented IN the Scnates Commit
tee on Foreign Relations. which has four slave
State members. and only one from the commercial
North East and Vest do not see Gov SEW
ARDS name on any Standing Committee. Messrs.
CLAY and CALHOUS's names may have been omit
ted AZ thsr requea. on account OF their great sge
Committees In Senate are, believe, chosen by So
cret ballot probably, IN most cases. by previous
understanding among members OF a party bow they
arc TO vote. Mr. CLAY remarked yesterday that
the South was the least PoPuous division OF the
Union WHY then is il allowed to grasp the mo-t
territory, to hold the most of the influential offices,
10 keep Slavery in the least populous section of the
Republic upon an equality with the free North and
Vest IN the Senate to fashion the Committees III
both Houses OF Congress TO its peculiar purpose,
and 80 TO distribute the public patronage as to IN
Aucnce powerfully certain Representatives from
Free States, while the ike appliances would be
powerless al Charleston or New Orleans N.