The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-29

This bill, which has been so long debated, has at
length been passed. The able chairman Of the
Committee of Ways and Means (Mr. Houstop)
has succeeded in removing the doubt which existed
in many minds Of the necessity for the items
composing this defciency-taking care however
to fl the responsibility where It ought be for the
evils attending practice Of anticipating appro-
priations TO supply deficiencies ari,ing from the
necessities Of Che service. We trust that the scru-
tiny which has been employed in this will
operate a useful example hereafter, and that the
Executive branch Of the Government will not
again furnish a precedent 80 much at variance
with the guards thrown around the public treasury
by the provision Of the Constitution which limits
expenditures by the appropriations made accord.
ing to law Union Of yesforddy.
II it be meant to say here that the Execu-
tive branch Of the Government has anticipated
its appropriations, or established any precedenis
at variance with the practice Of its predeces-
sors, especially Mr.. PoLr's, we should like to
have them pointed out
Our gallant little army, now in the wild,
rocky Businesses Of New Mexico, and in the
deserts Of Texas, is engaged in the double duty
Of fighting Indians and raising potatoes and
corn, and cutting grass, to support itself;
but the Executive has resources enough.
under the laws, to bring it all home, and
station II in cheap grain or grass growing
countries, such as Kentucky, Ohio, or Yer
mont, the moment Congress takes the re-
sPonsibiliiy Of declining to make the ap-
ProPraiions necessary to keep the army in
these costly places. Congress has but to speak
the word, and the army can be stationed in
places where not one tenth Of the expenditures
! now indispensable would then be incurred.
Congress has but to reduce or abolish the army;
and the Executive vetoes no such bills.
We would by no means disparage the com
pliment paid TO the chairman Of the Ways and
Means. lie has bot done his duty, as must
every member in like responsible position.
The Ways and Means Committee, especially
in a Democratic House Of Representatives
with Wing Administration, is in the relation Of
British ministry to a British executive, and
when it has not the confidence Of its own party,
and cannot carry on the Government with it.
10 ought 10 resign. The ayes and noes on the
Deficiency bill disclose the fact, that while the
three Wing members Of the committee-Messrs.
SrASLY, BRooK,, and APPLEToN--do have the
confidence Of the Wings, the six Democratic
members-Messrs. HoUsroN, JOINS Of Tennes-
see, HrBBARD, PHELPS, DUrH.M. and JoNEs Of
Pennsylvania-have any thing else but the conf
dence Of the Democracy. We respectfully sug
gest to Mr.. Speaker BoYD, who appointed this
committee, that not only ought they to resign.
but he also, as the votes on the Deficiency bill
show none Of them have the confidence of their
side Of the House.
leading item in the Deficiency bill is
SIS, 900 for deficiencies of the House Of Repre-
sentaiives, the Clerk, john w. FoRNrY. having
asked for 100000 The Executive branch
has asked for no corresponding deficiency, nor
any thing like it; and this House, like the last,
is Democratic House. The House, too, in
Committee of the Whole, let il be borne in