The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-20

making difference against FHtD.ore OF ~ 5ll,ool ~
And lest any one shall complain that | make thls
difference too great by charging (as will be seen IN note
10 table b. 10 Fillmore the amount paid TO Mexico under
the treaty OF lSiS which has averaged three annual pay
ments OF S5 Sg5 900 each, deduct that now and yet
the balance OF difference M Fillmore IS 10 6iS0Bl ~
Thus, is seen that upon the most liberal estimate the
friends OF this administration can ask, General laylor
and Mr. FHimore have expended $500 900 more per
annun, in administering this governAent. IN line OIL
profound peace with all the world and the rest OF man
kind" than Jams A. Polk required TO conduct u through
three years expensive foreign war; which he closed
with the addition 10 domain OF five hundred and
twenty.sx thousand and seventy square miles OF ern-
tory Lei this be borne IN mnd as great oliliea act,
which cannot be conroyeed, which illustrates the age
in which il has occurred and which marks The difference
between dsnocrac and whig administration OF tins gov
ernment
view of the foregoing appeal to the Senate and the
country II expressed any apprehension not warranted
the facts. when said the extayagance OF the govern
ment in the rapid increase OF It's moneyed expenditures
alarming 10 every man who deems economy ~ i,s
administration al all mpoftan or It's existence worm pre-
serving? Passing over the intermediate periods as innla
teral Tor consideration at this point, we lind that wthln
period OF sixty years. from the day OF WASHINGTON TO
the present time, while territory has increased fsss
than three jd and our population less than sr 1914 ye
our fares have increased eg oid and our expenditures
more than tuentyJ Jolit-lhat is, as $l,9s6,337 s 10
$iOl77,o30. speak now OF last year-le3l. ne
expenditures of this year do not know--he oihcia
records of them not before US. The estimate
however is some $l2 100000 than last year
and that would make il 900, at least which
the past warrants me IN saying IS mol, probably
be- Extend the ratio Of increase into the lulure
and how long will the Taxpayers be able to pay the de-
mands OF the government. or how VIII The government
itself be able to bear such burden $0l,OOOOOO IN
1861 or sos 900, 900 in 1876 &c Even those who
suggest the increase OF territory and population as an ex-
for increased expenditures find the argument does
not sustain them The is too great IL lalls BY
its own weight and along with il fall the explanation
and excuse
And vet we are told that the government is now
blessed with an economical republican, and faithful ad
m ira IN
MI DAWSON. | am very much pleased with the
presentation OF the receipts and expenditures Of The gov
ernment at different periods. DO understand the senator
from Arkansas Intend 10 draw the moral concu-
sion from them, that this increase IS chargeable upon the
executive department. or upon ihe Congress OF the Uni,
ted States From the course the senator is pursuing
am not able say which department OF the government
he holds responsible for this Does he intend 10 hold
the executive The legislative department responsible
| Mr.. BORLAND | would have answered the sena
tors ntertogatores before got through, without his
putting them, ii he had given me time; bu as he ques
ions me, will answer HIM now. would remind nm
that have already said that, while the Executive was
responsible for the amount OF money which he estimated
and asked for necessary 10 carry on the adinnsra
ton, Congress was responsible to The people u per-
mitted him spend thai money waseiul extravaganza
This is the point 10 which was coming; and was pre-
sentng these facts the basis OF an appeal TO this dem
ocraic Congress and through them, 10 The democratic
people OF the Union, 10 rise up, IN the exeron oil ibe
proper and rgtfu power and rebuke the extravaganza
OF which this administration has been convcei in terms
which il shall not only not misunderstand, but never
Mr. DAWSON. With the permission OF the senator
from Arkansas, ak him 10 point out single act done
upon the part OF the executive department involving this
government ia the appropriation oil money that was not
demanded by the action oil the Congress OF the United
States and by the laws Of the couHtry9
Mr. BORLAND. will restae fact which, il the sen
ator had attended to me some half hour ago. he would
have heard my statement of well my appeal 10
here for lis truth said that the bulk OF this de-
hcency b-be appropriations Tor the Quartermasters
department OF the amy-so far from being in pursuance
OF the authority OF Congress- the expense now requiring
them had been incurred by the Executive in the face OF
the direct and positive prohoiuon oil Congress and that
he now calls upon TO pay debts which positively
and enphacay refused him permission TO contract This
is fact which no one will--whch no one odn deny.
Mr. DAWSON. VIII The senator show single act
done upon the part OF the executive head of hs govern
nent which no, required TO be done, either 10 subss
the army, or by preexlstng laws, Tor which no appro-
prlation made 10 pay! ask whether The Executive
was not bound 10 that the laws carried out,
matter whether appropriations were made for that pur-
pose not ask whether he was not bound TO support
the army ask whether he has expended single dol
lar above the appropriations which was not required TO
sustain the army provide for emergencies which the
laws Of the country required him 10 provide forl
Mr. BORLAND. | do say and the records OF the
last Congress warrant ia saying, that the President
of the United States before Congress and asked for
appropriation OF money, which he said was necessary
pay Tor the performance OF this very service and that
after full deberaon and discussion, Congress positively
refused TO grant IL. They told him Just clearly and
emphacay act OF Congress could tell the EYecu-
tive, lcu shall not expend this money-you shall not
perform this service in the way you propose" And do
say that, in view OF that prohibition OF Congress he
should have stayed his hand within that limit which
Congress alone had right to SET and did set.
Mr.. DAWSON The only question ask is, whether
there is any single act OF the Executive which he could
abstain from doing without inluring the character or
standing OF the government
MIR. BORLAND Mr. President, that is strange ques.
lion, and strangely repeated, after what have said
have already and long since answered it, in the
OF my remarks 10 which the senator from Georgia does
not seem have listened. said that admitting that it
was wrong in Congress TO withhold the money the Pres
dent asked for yet that did not justify him in making
use OF 1t without the warrant Of law, which Congress
alone could give. For the REFUSAL Congress respon
sibe, and not the Executive And | said, moreover,
that il the Executive, upon the ground that the public
interest required it, and that he had good intentions,
might take ~ 100000 S2,0O0000 out OF the treasury,
he iagh take every dollar he found there. When be
comes forward plead his good intentions and the pub
lie interest his justification, he stands, repeat on
precisely the ground any private individual in
this country would stand II arraigned in court OF jus.
tice, charged with taking money from the pocket of
other without authority Of law, and against the consent
OF the owner, notwithstanding he should plead his good
intentions and his purpose to render service 10 the
who had lost bis money.
/ Mr.. DAWSON. wish 10 make suggestion 10 the
senator Had The President Of The United States the power
dets loose in California and New Mexico Could he have
failed to protect the frontier, because he had money
4 Could he turn the men oil when there provision
made for their payment The laws make hs duty pro-
vide for sustaining the army. Was he not bound TO do it,
whether the appropriations equal TO the purpose
nol Was il not his duty TO DO it, hoping that the Con-
gress OF the United States would protect and sustain him
Had lie the power discharge single soldier TO vio.
late a single law And il Congress failed TO make the
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