New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-03

las if this were were not the very best rea-
son for Just such efForts.) And when the
Army and Navy Appropriations are reached,
every attempt to pare them down is met by
Just such another clamor-and thus all Re-
trenchuent is defeated.
The sophistry ia this case attempts to igaOrs
the fact that the ocean is made up Of drops,
and that any ReHenchment, to be safe and
permanent, must proceed by this very mode
of cautious and piecemsal economy. The
reformer who deems thousand dollars too
paltry sum to save, will never save MIL
lion. But let either House resolve to make
determined stand on the very hrst thou
sand dollars (more or less) that might De
retrenched without injustice to individuals
or injury {, the public service, and success
there would make all beyond easy. The
first thousand saved 10 that spirit would be
worth millions to the country. For, as all
our National prodigality hangs BY enc string
70 You vote fer my bill and III vote for
yeura)-so the knocking out Of ono block
from the pyramid Of Plumber, would be very
likely to bring it all rafting about the archi-
tects' ears.
Com. Stockton entered Congress, il we
mistake not, at the Special Session Of ten
or twelve days ia March of last year, when
that most audacious robbery, tAe Constxuc-
tive or Double Mileage swindIe, vas for
the third and last time perpetrated. He
had no interest in it, aud blast Of indig-
nant and manly rebuke from his lips, after
the manner of his Anti Flogging Speech,
would undoubtedly have palsied the hands
of some of the Senators then thrust feloni-
ously into the Treasury, and caused them
to relinquish the unearned gold. But he
breathed not even whisper of rebuke or
remembrance. And at this session bill
REVEALING a measure of Retrenchment
adopted by the XXXth Congress, whereby
the Mileage of the Delegate from Oregon
is fixed at $4,000, has been carried, so that
the present Delegate will obtain some $l5,-
900 Mileage for only once travelling from
Oregon to Washington and back (for he
will charge for homeward journey he will
not make between the two Sessions of this
Coneress)-that is $4,000 for some three
menths' travelling, at an expense Of perhaps
$1,000. The law as it stood gave him
| $4,000 clear for that one journey of three
months frem Oregon to Washington and
back; but Congress is ashamed Of the beg
ga,ly allowance and adds on a gratuitous
$1,000 And Com. Stockton, who made
never word of objection to this, comes
home from Washington to Trenton to make
a speech in favor of Retenchment
But the Oregon Delegate ought to fare
as well as others.'-Who disputes it, But
the way to fix that is by making others
| Mi'eapei rinht. not his grossly wrong. II
would have been 90 easy and SO just to have
amended the bill SO as to say No Men,
Der Of Congress shall hereafter receive
'over 50, 800 Mileage per Session, nor over
81 500 unless his residence is more than
1900 miles from Washington by the regu-
lar Mail Route That would have stopped
the grievance at once. Bat instead Of shis,
Lanes Mileage is trebled, in express def
ance of the spirit aud drift OF the Consti-
tutional proviso that no Member Of Gen.
gress shall be eligible to any Office the
emoluments whereof shall have been in
creased duriog his term of service. In
this case, the emoluments of Gen. Lanes
Office have been more than doubled by the
Congress Of which he is Member.
But it is idle to multiply examples. Con-
gress will do nothing (but talk) for Re-
renchment; its work will all run the other
way. And Stockton will do just like Con-
gress. One Of the first great sluice ways
out of the Treasury was opened by General
Jackson soon after his accession in grist Of
unwarranted promotions ia and appoint
ments to the Navy, whereby the cost of that
branch Of the service was nearly doubled
without the least use or necessity. The Of
fcers of that Navy have ever since received
more money for less service than any simi-
lar body of men on the face Of the globe !;
Stockton himself, though rich as Nabob,
has had his thousands per annum out Of the
Treasury for waiting orders that is, liv-
ing comfortably at home and busyiDg him.
self in all manner Of gainful speculations. -
We do not cay this to his reproach-the
money was lawfully his, and we do not
blame him for taking tive only state the
fact to show why it is that he never can do