Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-04-15

minislration would limit its expenditures to
the amount alleged as extravagant IN that.-
During the year ending Jan. l, 1888, Mr..
Van Buren's adminisiraliou,) the expendl-
lures were s3I,s15.409 81. This amount,
being the aggregate, included OF course, The
EXPENSES for the year, known to be heavy,
of The Florida war, and fthe removal OF the
Creeks and Cherokees. Compare this sum
Upon which was rung every conceivable
chnnee of The charge of extravagance-with
the expenditures under This administration
for the wear ending June 80, 1851, amounts
ing TO S46,OO5, S78 GO. The comparison
shows n difference in favor of the so-called
reckless Van Buren, administration, OF SIG,
| 100, 468 70. And this immense excess over
and above an amount then 1889 charged as
needessly extravagant, has been expended
in a time of profound peace, there being no
Indian or other war, nor large removals OF
Indians requiring extraordinary expendi-
! lures.
The expenses of Mr.. Folks adminstra-
ton for the year ending June 30, 1916, were
S2S, 03l ia 2O-a sum less by Sl9,974,7 64-
AZ than the expenses of Mr.Fillmore's for the
year ending June 30, 1851. There was, it is
true, paid during the last named year $685.
284 more OF tile public debt than during the
| former but the former year included nearly
two months of the Mexican war, the expens-
es consequent upon which, ii is fair 10 pre-
sumo, would 20 far towards equaling the
difference in amount paid or the public debt
| Thus il will be seen that the expenses of
this administration for the year mentioned,
were nearly double those of Mr.. Folks dur.
| ing the year ending June 30, 1876. But the
extravaganza Of this administration is placed
in still holder relief by comparing its ex-
pcnses for The past fiscal year with those OF
Mr.. Folks for the year ending June 30,
lS47, during war actively aud vigorously
prosecuted abroad, and while we were MAIN
tanning large armies 10 a foreign county,
The latter were $50 .45l,l77 65-a difference
of only Sill, 445,299 81 between the war ex-
penses of democratic, and the peace ex
Iravagance of wing administration. The
annual expenditures of Mr.. Folks admins.
tration during year of war were more than
double whatihey were during one of peace.
This rate of increase would have swelled the
expenses of year during the war, if the
wings Ind been in power, 10 nearly $780,
100000, instead of less than $50, 100000, as
they were. Wing statesmen, (Mr. Webs.
ter especially estimated the annual expenses
of The war at the former sum-an estimate
which, had the management of the war been
entrusted to them, their subsequent reckless
expenditures convincingly prove they would
have fully reached. They have sought TO
blind the public To their extra, aeance by at
trIbuting their enormous expenditures to that
war, although it had ceased several months
before they came into power"
In anticipation of the efforts of the wings to
divide the responsibility with the democratic
party, because there exists democratic ma
jority in Congress, without whose assent, the
enormous appropriations asked for by the de-
partments, could not have been carried, the
Washington Union says-''It must be borne
in mind that it is the duty of the executive de-
partments to furnish 10 Congress the estimates
of amounts necessary TO carry OIL the govern
ment. These estimates are subject to the scru-
tiny of the proper committees in Congress; but
how can this scrutiny be effectual when there
is no sympathy existing between the head of
the department who makes the estimates, and
the head of the committee who scrutinizes
them! If the head of department were dis
posed TO have excessive appropriations for the
benefit of his friends, or to swell the purse of
the executive patronage, he could easily justi-
fly his estimates with plausible facts and figures
which would battle the utmost scrutiny of the
committee. The real responsibility, therefore,
rests upon the Executive to the full extent of
the estimates and when we are told that the
administration spend no money except by Or
der of Congress, the responsibility is not shift
ed With the knowledge, however, that the
question of the public expenditures is to be-
come prominently involved in the approach
ing canvass, and with the warning now given
that the wings intend TO evade responsibility
by falling behind the democratic majority in
Congress, it becomes matter of duty as we'll
as policy in our democratic friends to turn their
attention seriously TO the estimates submitted,
and give to them the best investigation of
which they are susceptible under all the cir