The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-06-04


Naval services 1902 O9I SO
Post Office Department IO.9i6S4 26
Ocean steam mail service 3,51445S SO
Texas debt 7.75OO0O 90
S7l,574 ,257 90
But this statement does not include the
whole amount of expenditure authorized
during the session, nor the permanent and
indefinite appropriations of former sessions.
This latter class Of appropriations was
stated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in
his last annual report, to amount to 1884,
Ali q year. Among them are euch items
as the interest on the public debt, the ex-
penditures for collecting the revenue, and
the amount which may be discussed within
the year under old acts of Congress for the
settlement of claims. There are thirty or
forty indefinite appropriations which are not
carried out into the columns of figures max
ing the above astonishing aggregate, some OF
them very considerable ia amount. For ex-
ample, one Of them authorizes the payment
of not less than half a million of dollars for
duties on goods imported in anticipation of
the reciprocity treaty taking effect. Upon
the whole, the following may be taken as
substantially correct statement of all the
expenditures now anticipated and provided
for by law during tine next fiscal year:
Direct and specific appropriations, 81 ,574,347
Permanent and indefinite, 100000
Total anticipated expenditures for
the ensuing fiscal year, $50, 574 1851
Upon this, the Courier and Enquirer's COR
respondent makes the following comments:
This alarming exhibit of the progress of
public extravaganza is in striking contrast
with the "estimates" of the Secretary of the
Treasury, laid before Congress on the 9th of
December last. The permanent and indefin-
lite appropriations, applicable to the
Service 5;m :, of the year. were stated by 10,
Appropriations asked for, to De ex-
pended within the year, S4I722 SIG
Congress knew hoS to give better than the
Secretary did to ask, and so far from petty
forty.one millions and odd thousands per an.
mum being found a sufficient fulfIlment OF
the retrenchment and reform pledges on
which Gen. Pierce and his party came into
power, seventy-one and half millions were
found indispensably requisite for IL o ilustra
ton of Democratic policy on the subject of
expenditure. 1t is great consolation, how.
ever, to the purists of this sincerely econom-
zeal party that the President did not ask for
these supplies. The estimates were mod
ell Of frugaIity. They had majority of only
L. In hot Of
could not defeat a rascally combination of
Wings and Democrats for the plumber Of the
Treasury. During the whole of the last ad.
ministra,ion they. held absolute control of
Congress, but yet, taking the appropriations
as their text, they went from stump to stump.
over the length and breadth Of the land,
shrieking against the corruption and extrav
agance Of the Wing party, and that too
when the Wings had an immense floating
and inaudited War Department account to
pay.
This prodigal expenditure from the Fede-
raj Treasury has one benefit, furnishes one
guarantee Tor the preservation of the Union.
How can you dissolve government which
scatters abroad more than eighty millions Of
reasons every year for its perpetuity,
Who can have forg otton the loud outcry
which all the Locofoco organs made against
the Tay lor ard Fillmore administrations for
the alleged extravaganza of,heir expenditure,
And yet what Locofoco, Democrat or Sag
NIGHT organ in the land utfers one word Of
complaint or warning now when the expen.
ditures under the Pierce administration not
only surpass all the expenditures ever heard
Of or dreamed of but go up to an amount alb.
solutely frightful and appalling! .Ay, where
do we find the Locofoco or Sag Nicht organ
that so much rs dares to give its readers a
statement or a hint OF the Governments
shocking prodigality!
In this case there can be no shifting Of re.
sponsibility from the Democratic party's
shoulders. The Democratic party has the
President; the Democratic party has the Cabi.
net; the Democratic party has all the account
ing and dsbursipg officers Of the G Government;
the Democratic party has the most over
whelming majority in Congress that any
party ever had; and under such auspices, the
Government expenditures amount to the
monstrous sum of more than eighty millions
of dollars per year. Are not such things
almost enough to excite men to instruction!
Lou. Jour.
JUDICIAL DEcIsIoss.-The Supreme Court
OF Indiana has decided that whenever a
person shall die from an injury resulting
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