Eastern times., 1852-10-14
An Expensive Administration

An Expensive Administration.
No administration since the organization of
the government, has inflicted upon the eoun-
try such startling and enormous expenditures
as the present. In time of profound peace,
the annual expenses of the whig administra-
ton have exceeded by more than S2,5OO,00O
the expenses of the preceding democratic ad-
ministration.in conducting a protracted for
eign war. The first year of Gen. Taylor's ad
ministration exceeded by $l2,746,66O,35 the
estimates of Secretary Walker of Mr.. Folks
cabinet. The first year of the administration
under MIR. Flg,I2re, exceeded the estimates of
Secretary Me:..a :sh of Gen. 9aylors cabinet,
the moderate sum of 1886 ,5o4,77. "
What hasbeen the occasion of these vast ex-
penditures !: Hon. GILBERT DEAN, representa-
tive to Congress from New York, has under
taken to give the public the secrets of the mat
ter, from the day of the allowance of the Gal
phn claim down to the present His able
speech in the House Of Representatives in
August last, shows degree of recklessness
and extravaganza in the government beyond
parallel. In the army and navy departments a
great portion of the abuses exist. And yet
Gen, Scott in his report asks for three new
regiments involving an army expense of nearly
three millions dollars extra What fine time
there will be for Gaiphiaisms in the army in
case the commander is made President
Leaving out of view the monstrous forged
claims that have been paid by the administra-
ton, a large portion of the avails of which went
into the pockets of the cabinet officers, we take
from Mr. Deans speech some of the smaller
examples of whig extravaganza.
The salary of General John Wilson, of Mis-
souri,, Indian agent, was fixed by law at $500
per annum. He was fitted out for Salt Lake
at an expense of t,celce thousand dollars, and
then deserted Salt Lake for California.
Under an appropriation of $25,OOO made in
September, 1850, to enable the President to
held treaties with the Indian tribes in Califor-
mia, the commissioners appointed for that pur-
pose modestly took from the Collector at San
Francisco one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
of public money.
The first collector of customs at San Fran
cisco subjected the treasury to an expense of
thwty-sir thousand dollars to get himself out
there. He caused a loss to the United States
of one hundred thousand dollars after he arrived,
then became defaulter, and was re-nominated
for the office by the President. The democrat
ic Senate refused to confirm him.
T. Sao+p1olor Io5n E,.t,,. g., A.
en- hundred and.6fy dollars were paid on an old
steamboat claim which had been twice rejected
by democratic administration.
A late chief clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment, to whom a large contract for building
California lighthouses had been awarded, con-
trary 10 iale, and 'oithout advertising, made ar
rangements to sell out his contract at bonus
of $32, 900 to actual contractors.
The Superintendent of the Census procured
the passage of law which had the effect, while
he was receiving salary of $1,000 for attend
ing to the duties of an office which he did dis
charge, to give him $4,000 for pretending to
discharge the duties of an office which did not
exist. ..t
iISlC 10 IION III llG iGdSuIS bSpdl tulSlll, d
clerk who receives one salary of $1,000 as
clerk, $500 as superintendent Of the Treasury
Building, another salary Of $3.50 as translator,
and who carries on the business in the Depart
ment in office hours Of an insurance broker
1t cannot be possible that the sovereign vot-
ers, after what the country has seen Of the
reckless prcdisality of the present administra-
ton, will elevate to the Presidency man who
has not the slightest idea of economy, but on
the contrary has a marked propensity for ev-
erything grand and magnificent. What was
money to him when he took the responsibility
to bribe Santa Anna with $4,000 and prom
ised to pay him 800, 900 more and charge it
as one of the expenditures of the armyi Gen
Scott's past life affords the strongest evidence
of his incapacity to effect anything by way Of
retrcnchment. Such a man, if elected will be
the mere tool, pampered and feted, and fiat.
tered, Of the specializing, stock -jobbing inter,
est
Every democrat should feel that in the pres
ent crisis in our national affairs he has work
10 no. Unless tHe HlSn nandeu corruptlon o.
the present administration is stopped the con-
sequences will be disastrous and perilous tc
our country. At this time we want a rigid
Jackson economy, to correct the past. The
whig leeches rupon the Treasury should be re.
moved or they viii soon be at the bottom, and
The country. bankrupt. Let us take hold, and
fight for right and Justice; for We have the as
suranceab by the history of the past that inquity
in the administration of our government cannot
go unpuni-hed- for longer term than foul
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