Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-02-12

i UIle YOllHloICCpllellp VI edCu SCSSlOi
J and t hat the Cle ERIK distribute the sal
e estima ates in The manner in whic
Q doculh hents prih hted by Congress ar
directed to be Aistlf fbuted.T 7
Th ere is another resolution Of Con
gress relating to the acts of 1889 an
1900, directing tn ht the estimate
which the Seer ftar} Of the Treas pr.
is duired to pfepafe and submit t
:, Congtess shall be r pIrinted by him be
for th meeting Of Congress, and tha
he b ave them rel hdy for deliver,
when the members shall assemble
Now, the fiscal y EAR having beer
chang led, and not commencing unit
: seven months aft er the session O
| Congfess for which these estimates
We're submitted, why was it necessa-
ry to require that these estimates
shall be printed an d ready for deliv-
cry upon the as sem bling Of Congress?
1t was that the me dmbers might have
them at the ca rlies st day, that they
might investigate, report, and pass
upon these appr ropriation billsin time.
Then, if the re eason would apply in
the case of the estimates of appro-
priati3n for tho year-not to COM
]
mene4 until sew en- months after these
estimates shall have been submitted
will it not aH ply with tenfold force
for estimates re quired for the current
fiscal year in ii me of the assembling
Iof Cdngress?- For instance, at the
meeti hg of this session of Congress,
We haH d the estimates required for the
year commencing upon the lst day
of July, 1850, nd terminating upon
the 3Dth of June, 1852. Here was
seven months to operate upon before
one d pllar Of the estimate of the ap-
preparation here submitted W Would be
requir led for expenditure; and here is
the present year Terminating g upon
the 30th Of June next, in which we
have not one dollar of estim mates re-
quired in addition to those hereto
fore submitted andappropriate ed for at
the last session.
| say the reasons are tenfold
stronger why we should hay ve esti-
mates submitted for defciehcies at
the commencement of the session,
thar those which h may be required for
the succeeding year. I find it was
the uniform prac ctice, as | havI vIe before
shown, from the time they were re-
quired to make these estimates and
submit them. Here is the G pnstruc-
ton given to this JOINT resol1 1tion re-
quiring these estimates to be printed.
What does the present Seer etary Of
the Treasury? In his estimd tie sub
mitted to Congress at the last ses-
sion, he tells you this-w hicR he had !
printed and placed in the front of the
volume which contained the annual
estimates, for this year Tthat + agree
ably to the joint resolution of Con-
yress of the 7th Of January, 1916, i I
nave the honor to transmit, for the
Information of the House of Repre-
printed estimates Of addi-
ional appropriations proposed to be
De made for the service Of tie fiscal
year ending the 30th of June, 1851,
lmDunting to S2,575,305 64''
Here he informed us, at the last
session, that it was agreeably to this
oist resolution that he submitted the
additional estimates for deficiencies
which would be required for the year
'nding the 90th of June, 185l.-I /
Fhen, after he gave them, having re-
;eived them doubtless, as these esti-
mates shew, from the. various De-
he, in obedience to the
anne resolutionof the 7th Of January,
SAG, submits to Congress estimates
or the fiscal year commencing the
st of July, 1851, and terminating !
u the 30th of June next. The '
resent, ] believe, is the first instance )
a which the Secretary Of the Treas !
ry; has failed to submit those def {
iency estimates with the estimates /
'r the succeeding year Why is it /
one on this occasion? l am wholly e
a loss to see what has influenced t
he officers Of Government to take f
his course Of separating their esti- 1
lates, and sending them in here, t
aeh upon his own individual respon- y
bility. But it must be for one of t
70 reasons-either that this Ad- il
linistration has no unity, or that the :
eads of the Departments under this o
administration are not upon such b
iendly terms and intercourse, that r
icy can harmonize, and that each le