The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-26

mote and distant stations, are entitled to seventy
privates each, and at other stations the number Of
privates per company is:
Iir the dragons. ........... .55 Additional "a
In mounted rifles. ...... .64 10
In artillery ry.............. 40 30
In light artillery. "a I" 10
In Infantry. AZ " %
At the remote stations referred TO in the law,
there stationed, OF
Dragoons.: ..-...........-....lS is companies.
Mounted rifles. 10
Aruiiery ......................l IL
lnIantry-. SO
Total. .9S Companies.
MOUNTED
Organization in 1852. 1852 Strength, 800
Organization in lS45, .29S .' los
Increase ...........l, ,334 $50
The additional cost of supporting regiment of
cavalry over and above that Of a regiment Of in
fantry 10 a. follows:
On the frontier of Missouri or Iowa. Sl3 s27
In lexae. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2ls,31l
In New Mexico. co.................... 343 54S
The act Of June II. 1912, also raised the bounty
on enstments, in lieu OF transporato to sums
ranging from 823 TO Sl42.
Examination OF such facts these will show VIII Y
and how there have been increased the expenses Of
the army.
THE RxrESsEs or THE eovEnSAxSr.
hAsten on from this dry and tedious detail, but
cannot hatter you. however, that shall present
any detailed statement lcss dry. Ii has been said
that the expenditures Of this Government have run
up to $50. 900, 900; and am asked ] think hear
" How ~ 1t that you Wings have thus run up the
aggregate expenses of the Government, and that
now, when you got along under John Quincy Ad :
ains with only some Sl2, 900 900, you estimate
some 81 ,S92 ,299 TO be necessary for the fscai
year ending July !, 1882" Indeed, an honorable
member from Indiana has already entered into
this sort of fiscal criticism, and am prepared to
answer him, and all others with him.
In tho first place. ask his attention to the legacy
queathed TO US by the Mexican war War is
costly as well as bloody luxury, and it is always
well to comprehend its cost well its glorics.
LEoAcy or DEBT.
The Mexican war Left upon the country i'm
mediate national debt Of about so 900 oO0 exclu-
awe OF pensions, bounty lands. and the annual
additional, but incalcuable, cost of governing and
Keeping what We won from, bought OF, Mexico.
Inc ten million Texas indemnity bill may be
added to that. for all that s yet to be paid, with
interest for fourteen years. The Mexican war
bounty lands absorbed 6,03s 900 scres Of the pub
lie lands. worth, ut \ rs per acre, 81 ,546. 200;
and the bounty land bill Of Sepie nber 2S, 1850,
some. If not most of which. in some form or other.
IL for soldiers serving in consequence of the Mex
lean war; nbsorbs. IL 10 estimated 4s 900 900
more. worth $50 900 ,oOo (see Treasury report,
ther bounty land la~, the number Of acres to be
absorbed by which have no means of calculating
The pensions, under act OF ls<S paid to 3oth June.
1901, Sl,lpSlfl
Pensions under act Of Is4s, estimated
for 1851 and 1852, were. ........ 1,525, 900
(sec statements by James f. Heath, Treasury
Report. 1S5O-statemcnt NJ, No. l, and NJ, No 2
The expenses entailcd upon the country in con
sequence Of the Mexican war and its acquisitions,
can be understood only by relative comparison of
what were the expenditures of this Government
before and after the war. Accurate tables have
been prcparcd-tho curious in euch matters will
find them in the Treasury Report of l550-showing
(sce statement Id
The actual and estimated expenditures for the rev
en- years ending the a0th June, 1854, TO amount
to.....s.....s .s................... Y2gt, ,S0I, 9OI
The expenditures for the year ending
Both June, lS<6-the year immedi-
stely preceding the wsr-bavipg
been 82l ,3sO, ,0a9, the aggregate
expenditures for the seven sue
cceding years upon that basis
would have amounted to- ........ 1a9 66O 3I5
Showing a excess over the peace
establishment Of 1S45 of.......... S145, ,l47 ,062
The Secretary Of the Treasury, in bis report of
1850, estimates, on most excellent data, the expon
dituree and liabilities char geable directly to the
Mexican war and the ncquisi tons consequent upon
the treaty OF peace, TO bc 92l7.l75 577 The de
tails OF this estmste too long to be quoted but
II car be seen in part in such items as pensions
above stated, and
Instalments and interest under twelfth article OF
treaty with Mexico. sic, ,3s', ,396
Payment Of iqoidated claims against
Mexico, per act 29th July, IStS... 2O59,575
Interest war debt TO Both June,
1897 .............s.......... S,Sst,5if
Interest on war debt from both June,
1852, to maturity y................ 4l,l73, ,493
Texas boundary stock k............... 10000
Interest for fourteen years, per cent 1000 900
Mexican claims, per treaty, (psid). $3.50 900
Survey boundary line between United
States and Mexico co.............. $4,000
Survey Of the coest of California .... 200 900
Lighthouses, docks, custom. houses,
hospitals. &c, in California, (small
estimste) ......................... 10000
The excess Of expenditures of War
Department in the maintenance Of
troops. &c in the Territories,
10 estimated now (every Year, at. a,65e,7Os
prsr PAID ny TINE ADMINISTRATIONS.
This Administration has bad To meet such OBJ
legations ss tbeso, and many more, the bequests
Of the preceding administration. Indeed, one OF
its chief dutcs has been to pay the debts OF its
predecessors
The public registered debt on the 3oih OF Nnvem.
ber 1850 lwas......4............. S64 22S, ,23s