The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-07-07


the people for law and order, their settled and
+ determined hostility TO everything that wears
the appearance of open resistance to the author
ity Of government to which we owe obedience,
leaves no room for doubt as to their verdict
when yer such issues shall be presented to them
for their decision. We challenge the opposi-
tion to these issues Will they dare they meet
us upon them? If they think we have spent
more money than is necessary we call upon
them to specify the items of expenditure that
arc, in their judgment, extravagant Withhold
in future your wholesale charges, and give US
the details. In the name of the tax paying mil
lions, demand this of you. This sum, how
ever, has been appropriated to support the army
in Utah for the next year, and is therefore an
advanCe-not deficiency. The last item emu
mcrated is, the deficiency for the Post Office
Department, amounting to $1,459, l73. Was
not this expediture required to carry out the
legislation of the last Congress? New post
routes were established, and mails could not be
placed upon them without entailmg expenses
upon the Treasury. To meet this expense We
were compelled TO provide the means in the de-
ficiency BILL passed at the opening of the ses-
sion | imagine the gentleman. and nine tenths
ofhis friends in both houses, voted for the post
route bill; the execution Of which made this
expenditure Unavoidable.
On this branch of the subject, prove that
the gentleman from Ohio has committed several
4 very extraordinary unntentional, |
doubt not, but yet such errors as clearly dem.
onstrate that implicit reliance should not be pla-
ced upon his calculations The first error con-
sists in charging the administration with the
surplus in the treasury on the first ofJuly last,
and Withholding from it credit for the amount OF
the public debt which it has paid out Of it since
that date. The second error consists in fixing
the Sounu duties, by treaty with Denmark, at
S33 oil, when the true sum is 4O8, ,731 A. The
third error consists in estimating the balance of
the printing deficiency for the year ending the
3Oth of this month at 100000, while the civic
appropriation bill shows that it is only $4,000.
The fourth error consists in fixing the amount OF
OH $50, when it should have been 8, 7O4, ,2O9 80
for the first and 34l l89 So for the printing bill,
and 409, 13l A for the treaty with Denmark,
making in the aggregate 10, ,454, 130 81. Rather
serious errors in a speech which was designed
to be used as a text book by the opposition IN
their war on the administration
| now come to his estimate Of the expendi-
lures for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1867
lie makes most startling exhibit and works
out an aggregate of expenditures for the year OF
81, 153 2O3. And how is this nionstrous result
ascertained? In the first place he informs US
that the Secretary Of the Treasury estimates
the expenditures for the year named at a, ,O64,
1855, and then he adds the following items, a
mounting to 18 080 547:
Three new regiments $4,280, ,547
Probable Post Office DEFICIENCIES over
amount appropriated 100000
Public buildings 17OOWC
Private bills (eStimated) 1,OO,OOJ
Printing deficiency 6OO,OOC
Army deficiency. estimated to be
same as last year 6,OOO,0OC
Not one cent has been appropriated for the
three new regiments--the President having as
cerained that they would not be needed for the
service in Utah In the regular post office ap.
preparation bill, we have appropriated for the
Pest Office Department for the year 1859, thC
; sum OF 3, 800 O,0OQ,which exceeds the regular ap
preparation for the present year by the sum 0
100000. The Post Office Department drew
from the treasury, for the year ending June 80
1858, 3,969,l l73. Suppose The department sho',
require the same amount for the year 1859, as
we have provided in the regular appropriation
bill for 5, 100000, we would only be called upor
for the additional sum of 469 ,173. This, then
is an error OF upwards OF 100000 in his es
timatc in regard to this single item The reg
ular appropriation bill contains all the sum
necessary for public buildings amounting tt
3, ,l04 600, and there Gorc is likewise an errone
Gus estimate. We have been charged once b.
the gentlemon with the printing deficiency G
100000 in the expenditures of 1858, but, fol
some reason he has not chosen to assign he agail
charges us with it in the expenditures of th
: year 1853. And, finally, he estimates that til,
> army deficiency for the year 1859 will amour
to the round sum of S,00O,000 All these ar
Il conectures, and so far as their accuracy can
tested by existing facts, they arc shown to be Q
: the most unreliable character. That the gen
} tleman himself is not satisfied with them
!, clearly manifest from his declaration that the
" 'n,ay be over- estimated" submit it to him t
: say; whether, from the facts now before him, h
y is not entirely satisfied that the " are great,
'OUer estimated"
: The gentleman then proceeds thus:
"Now, this sum of 100000 does not in
clude any Of the following items OF expendtur
u and wish gentlemen to add those, upon thei
:? own estimate, to this aggregate: For protect
i ing works commenced on our numerous river
. and harbors, the lowest estimate Of which is l
- 100000; and then there is your calendar OF on
IN thousand private bills demanding your atter
sr ton. There is the pension bill for the old so
IS diers of the war of 1912, proposed by the ger
- teman from Tennessee, Mr.. Savage rtquirin
~ 100000 per annum. There are the ten ne,
s. war steamers, proposed by the gentleman fro,
n Virginia Mr.. Bocock, 2,500,000. The Frenc
s. Spolation BILL urged so forcibly by the gentle
=. man from Massachusetts, Mr.. Davis, which,
IT passed, will require 5,0o0ooo The duties
:, y be refunded on goods destroyed by fire--I d
not know how much. Communication to the he'll
c. of revolutionary soldiers-l do not know ho
ne much. Claims growing ont of Indian wars
n. Oregon and Washington. urged by the delega'
= from Oregon, and certified by an executive of
- Ger, 100000. Then we have the Pacific raj
~ road, foretas.e Of the cost Of which we ha,
S. had in 100000 expended already in the pul
4: lcation Of tho rauort az the nuhIio curvavs ),