The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-13

Total amount Of expenditures provided
and to be provided for within the year Ss2 145, 900
Add to this sum total bill of indemuities
which will be required On account of the bonn
bardment and bur ing Of Grey town, and allow
some hing for other continge ncies, and the bill
Tor the fiscal year win rise TO the handsome
figure of at least ninety millions of dollars
being an increase Of over thirty millions upou
the average Of Gen. Tay lors and Mr.. Fillmore 9
administration. including Galphin and Gardner
claims
This increase in the civil list is about
seven millions of dollars; for the army some
three millions; for the navy, including six
war steamers, some five millions. The ten
millions extra to Santa Anna are . new thing,
though probably only the precedent for another
similar bill or two before the end OF The present
admins ration. TIL growth of the couatry,
the opening Of new Territories, the necessities
of new States, and new custom houses, and the
increase OF Offices, Justify, to comfortable
extent, an increa;e Of appropriations. The
strengthening OF The navy and of the army may
also be sustained as measures of wisdom and
expediency, at the present crisis in the affairs
of the civilized world. But no such apology
can be made IN reference to the spoils appro-
priation Of ten millions to Santa Anna and his
affiliated corps Of spoilsmen-Mexican and
American; no pretext Of justice or necessity
can be sustained for expenses such as those Of
the Grey town frolic.
We confess that the country is mainly in
debted to the House Of Repre- .entatives Tor the
defeat Of the Wisconsin, tie Minnesota, and
other railroad log rolling and stock jobbing
schemes, amounting, in the ILLS which passed
the Senate, and in the bills introduced into
both houses, exclusive of the Pacific railroad.
to projected confscaton Of the public do
main scarcely LEES in value than fifty millions
of dollars. These schemes were the especial
pets Of the Kitchen Cabinet. The future, also
Of Colts patent extension, and other patent
monopoly favoritisms, recommended in general
terms, in the Presidents annual message, as
worthy the special attention of Congress. has
saved the public from a taxation or.many mil
lions; provided, always, thal the next ses ion
is not conquered by the Kitchen Cabiue. and
the lobby. But had the recommendations Of
the administration been carried out in behalf OF
the land jobbers and the patent monopolists, to
he extent Of the bills intro reed, the Aueri-
can people would have been saddled with 40
Increased bill Of costs, In various shapes, Of not
less than one hundred millions Of dollars
For these retrenchmenis upon the programme
OF the administration we are mainly indebted
g tie House of Representatives; and in view
# this fact there nay be ONE pa iating ex-
cute Tor the half million # dollars, more or
less, voted for such ." ickings and stealings''
among the House contingens 8, a. ,oks. extra
printing, &C., &c. From these book speculs-
tions, the Clerk OF the House, and other mem.
bers Of the Kitchen Csbiaet, will, no doubt
realize something handsome in the way of
trade; but these are trfes compa ed with the
railroad jobs and the patent m ,polics, yield
ing their hundreds OF thou and. OF dollars for
The Kit chen Cabinet and the lobby.
Taking the whole bill Of expenditure, mad
and t. lie made for the current fiscal year. re
gular, Irregular, and extra rlioary, at niuety
millions Of dollars, aud admit iny tn, Con
gross have made retrencbme Is in the poo
gramme of the adminisirat OIL spoilsmen equal
to a hundred mill ms, De are still apprehen.
sse that the current expenses Of the treasury
will exceed the supplies II we are not mis-
aiken, the tariff receipts for the last fiscal yea
were, in round numbers, seventy six millions OF
dollars. From tue r. ductioos in the first Quar-
ter Of Che current year, and from the fact thai
The country, from Boston to California, il El,