The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1852-04-15

WhIg and Democratic Expenditures.
Upon no point has the opposition more sisnally
failed than in its attempt to charge tho present
Administration with extrnvigancs. The Wash
Ing Union affected to treat tue Deficiency bill now
pending ia Congress as new mntter, aud to hold
the existing Administration accountable for sci
tling euch precedent but when il was demon
s,rled by the hteRigeaeer that appropriations
for deficiencies were at lrnst as old as the first
year OF the late Democratic Administration. The
Union Promises to "examine the journals, and
return to the subjet aguin."
On the comParitive expenditures Of Whig aud
Democratic Administrations. the hieHigencer
makes the following remarks:
when the editor Of the Union has set himself
right in the matter OF fact as to the history of De-
fciency Bills, we trust he will ulso enghten his
readers as To the relative amounts of Annual Ex.
penditure within the last fifteen or twnty years.
uuder the present Administration and under the
Democratic Administrations.
Before we place at his disposal and that ufour
readers the means of insluting this comparison
we wish TO draw their attention to the fact that,
oil the Expenditures of the GOvernmen tduring the
year 1851, more than ten millions Of dollars was
lor exra0rdin1ry expenses. accruing at the open.
ing ol the present Presidential lerm as the result
o the recent vast acquisitions Ol territory by ooIi.
quest and by treaty, which. when we come 10 a
comparison of the ordinary expenditures between
different Administrations; must be deducted from
the expenditures oI 1851 which have been stated
by the "Uuion" at fifty mllious, and by 9th.
ers at fifty millions actually amounting 10 forty.
eight millions; which we have reduced by the
process Uf analysis to little more than thrty.fve
millions. The amount of additional annual expen
dtures required by the Territorial acquisitions to
which we refer is believed To he nearer twelve
millions than ten; but, to avoid cavil. we will take
the lowest estimate Deduct ten millions of dol.
lars from thirty five millions aud add hundreds, Ia
which we brought down the expenditure of 1851
and it reduces the payment from the reasury for
the ordinary expenses of the Government dnriug
the year 1851, to twenty-five millions two hun.
dred thousand dollars.
"When our contemporary comes TO search the
record he will discover that the Average annual
expenditure Ofthe four years Democrrtic Admin.
istrutiOnlOf Mr.. Van Buren. Immediately preceded
ing the administration of President Tyler was,
Tor current expenses toeaty'eigh millions of DOL
lars; whilst the average annual expense for The
preceding twenty years, including (besides the
administrations of Presidents MonlOe aud Jack
sony that OF John Quincy Adams. the only living
Wing Administration before the present, was lit.
tie more than fifteen millions Of dollars Eight
years of the administrations OF President Tyler
and President Polk have interviewed, and, with a
Wing President the expenditures Of the Govern.
ment for ordinary purposes are actually less, by
several millions of dollars, than the average yearly
expenditure under the first thoroughly Democrat
ic Administration ~