New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-03

! OF Texas and New Me&tCp I6suCGC 4ApA@
gable streams and from the States where enlist
fnents are made and whence all the supplies are
| drawn. The distance of and carriage to many OF
! these posts is, as has already been mentioned,
very great and numerous trains OF wagons are
constantly employed in conveying supplies 70 t5e:n
/ as well as ii accompanying the troops IN thelr
marches. The exOrbltant cost OF furnishing sup
plies to the troops in Texas and New Mexico has
already been stated on the Pacific, owing to the
high price of labor wafer transportation IS pro-
po-tionately expensive The consequence OF all
this is an immense increase in the expenditure OF
the Quarternaster.s Department In the year
eddng June, so, ls44, the expenditures OF that
Department amounted to only. SS70,Q9l IS
In the year ending June 80, 1880. they
were, ,@s5,S9s gu
In the year ending June 80, 1851, APP
propriatedl 3,9l5934 Ju
In the year ending June 50, 1852, les
tlmatedl. ........-- ,S0p,O vu ~
In the year 1871 the cost Of ansportation Tor
the army was less than $4,000 IN the year
ending Goth June last, it amounted to about
s. 100000, showing an increase Of about fifteen
hundred per cent.
1t is hoped that as settlements increase aud cul-
tivation extends In Texas and New Mexico, and
as mining becomes less profitable and labor more
diversified in California these enormous eNpend.
lures will diminish. In the meantime, every et-
fort Will be made by this Department to curtajl
from the supervision of its chief. defects of ad-
mjnstration in the Quartermasters Department
may exist to remedy which, some slight change
in the organization Of that Department may be-
come necessary,
No economy can, however, be effected by re-
ducing the estimates, which are based upon posi-
tive data, and cannot safely be curtailed The
only consequence which has heretofore resulted
from such reductions Of estimates, tctthOat &$fsaa
ishtng the objects Of expense, has been the accunu-
lation OF arrearages. An arrearage which has ex-
listed in the Quartermaster's Department since
the year lS4S, amounting re- the sum OF ob290,
500 81, is said to have originated in that way
The practice of allowing disbursements TO exceed
the appropriations is dangerous in the extreme
but If estimatcs, carefully prepared by the proper
officers are reduced, without diminishing the ob
jects OF expenditure, this irregularity may some
times be unavoidable.
hereto annex such portions OF the correspon
deuce this Department as relate toIthe subjects
mentioned in this report together with the reports
of the General-in Chief and of the several heads
OF Bureaus of this Department. to all which
refer YOU for more ample information in regard to
its operations
Respectfully Submitted,
c. NJ CONRAD, Secretary OF War
To THE PRESIDENT oF TIE UNITED STATES.
The amount stated for the year ending June so 1851 Is
that of the appropriations only whch Were based upon
men instead OF three thousand o00 provided by law
believed, therefore, tldt
the appropriations though they will not equal those o. the
ending June So 1852 in consequence OF Tue delay
which necessarily interviewed after the passage OF tue act OF
June 1885, before the augmentation authorized by could
be effected.
The following is an abstract of the estimates
for the current fiscal year transmitted to the two
Houses of Congress, with the Annual report OF
the Secretary Of the Treasury. for the War De-
partment:
DEPARTMENT.
,auhsiet Gr for the 81 p07iZI
For pay subsistence, &c. for Military
Academy, West Point. ............... 9O,593
For expenses of the office .........,... lO9oo o,,
ORDNANCE BUREAU. .oo,.
Amount OF estimates. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 959olo
FOR ApenSs' u NC O"'e' 80 9o93l5
Arre,rsges prior to yuly WIZ $500
coMMIssARY GENERAL or SUBSISTENCE.
For subsistence in knd.............,... lo76Q!2
For office 9foo oo. ,s,
Formedcal supplies for the Army. $685.
FOR once expenses - 1880
GEOGRAPHICAL BUREAU.
For For sIysT: so lo 5g67S
For roads. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lo,VVe
For lighthouses. .......,..,....',...'. o5doS
For Office expenses ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. oooo a., .,o
COMMANDING GENERAL
For Office expenses ...............,... i,oVV
ADJUrANr GENERAL.
| For expenses of recruiting .,..,,...... 5t0iS
f'' 'A'S' 1898
QUARTERMAsTER GENERAL.
For regular supplies. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l,nOOut
For incidental expenses. 10000
For barracks quarters, ac......,....... 100000
For puIclase of horses. ..........,.,... ID,00O
For transporting officers oaggsge...... 10000
For transferring troops. ............... 100000
For clothing OF the army, &c....,..,.., 2l2938
For Office expenses. .....t............. $3.50
For exlTa Observation-Disclosures. 5000
- 5,COO,928
ENcINEsR BUREAU,
For fortifcations, &c.,................. 759J3O0
For Military Academy West Point.,,, 81 ~
f0' 0''o' 'Nf 798,l35
WAR DEPARTMENT PROPER
For salaries, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ai'52o
For contingent expenses. ........-..... lJJO
For W, w. Executive Buildings con
tingencieE &c.......,...,..,.I,..... bZlJ
For rented buildings rent &c..,,....' <7'o@2 ---
THIRD AUDITOR.
For preventing and suPpressing indian M,
hostliles. .....,..... -. 'o'oOP
Aggregate Estimate for l852..,........S ,5}5
Arresrages amounting in the aggregate. l,565j5f
TOTAL amount Of Estimates asked for.....$ l3,6599o2
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