Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-08-07

The entire expenses of the Governmd
for the fiscal years l850-51, agre1
bly, to the annual Treasury RepH
were $4s, OO5, 1878
Deduct the two foregoing amounts&
4 slO,954 ,434 and IS, 707, 479, Will
| formed no portion of the usual a
nual expenditures under Mr.. Polk l9, 66l,913
Leaving 2s,s4S,965
The expenditures for the same objec&
under the administration of Mp Polh
in time of peace were 26,5OoOOO
Difference Isl, S4s,965
| This difference might be readily accounted for by
| the rapid increase and expansion of the buness
and population of the country, requiring Of curse
a corresponding increase in the national exIend
lures: and therefore could stop here, Aitea hav
ing proved that the Wing Administration hive at
east been as economical as that of its Democratic
predecessors. But we are not satisfied with s,ch
result, and must, in order to show how much more
economical it has been, urge the additional and i'm
portant fact that in the above sum of s28,34s965
is included the enormously increased expenses which
have been unavoidably incurred, and which still
continue, in consequence of the large acquisitions of
new Territories 1t is not possible to come at the
exact amount Of these increased expenses, but we
will state that the army is now one-half hrger
than it was before tho Mexican war; that the pay
Of that portion Of it the Pacific coast has been
doubled by Congress- and that the expene 81 a,a;n-
tanning troops there, as well as in the interior Of
"a
the army is obliged to be quarered, is three, four,
and fve-fold what it was at the stations occupied
| by it previous to the Mexican war The increased
expenditures in the War Department under the
above head over those of 1916, as shown by the
Treasury Report is S4,556,T09.D.
| The naval force has also in consequence of these
accessions of territory been considerably augmented
and that portion which is now kept on the Pacific
station can only be maintained there at vastly
greater expense.
| If to these items should be added the expenses
of the Civil Governments of the new Territories and
the whole increased expenses under all the forego-
ing and other heads in consequence of the Access
sion of those Territories they cannot probably be
estimated at less than TWO MILLIONS of dollars !;
which, with the additional expenditure of the
War Department. would, in round numbers, make
S6,5O0,O00 as increased permanent expenditures on
account of the new Territories besides the interest
of the War debt.
We have seen estimates carrying the whole addi-
tional expenses of the Government, in consequence
of the acquisition of the new Territories, high
nine millions of dollars, and the one we now make
is certainly within the actual amount and would
be more so if the appropriations for the new Gus
tom-houses, hospitals, minis, lighthouses, dry docks,
&c. in California were included, as those items viii
count by millions of dollars.
The final statement of the account would then
stand as follows:
Total expenditures for the years 005 1913
Deduct Mr.. Folks war items as already
shown. $40, 954 4S4
Other items, as also shown, which
formed no portion Of the expen-
dture under Mr. Polk in q time
Of peace ..................... s,7O7ffs.
Expenses Of the Territories
as already estimated............. 6,5O0O0O
- 26, 161 1868