Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-09-02


amount collected in 1851 was $40 %
three men were employed to collect it, anu
paid for doing it 81 $50 93. At Buffalo
! there was collected in 1857, $40, 40 So
There were ten men employed in this col
lcct on, and they were paid SIG, ,S95 OIL
| will not weary you with reading this re
port further 1t IS the official report from
the Secretary ofthe Treasury, in answer
to resolution of the Senate calling upor
him to know how many employees he hat
at the different custom houses; and what ht
paid them; how much collected, de-, and
here is the official report from every collec-
ton district in the United States. | have
singled out part of them as examples =
T"When can we have the report?' Yor
can have this published, it is public doc
ument Has Douglas got it? | pre-
sumo he has, for he sustains the admins
tration on every point save one. | will
now give You some account of the total cx
pense of collecting the revenue for severa
years pest.
In 1880 Congress passed a law arpropri
ting 81, 450, 900 annually to defray the cx
penscs of collecting the revenue east of tho
Rocky Mountains. During Taylor and
Fillmore's administration the whole rcve-
nue. east of the Rocky Mountains was col
lected for about two millions dollars pei
annum, leaving surplus of more that S
600 900 at the end of four wears. During
the four years of the administration of Gen
Pierce, he used up the S2,450,00 per an
mum, and every dollar of the 81 5000
remaining over from the Fillmore admin
tration besides. After Mr. Buchanan came
into power, Mr.. Secretary Cobb, in his first
report, asked Congress to appropriate 50,
700, 900 annually to collect the revenue in
the same district where only about 81, 900,
600 had been required five years before
What was the reason for this vast increase
of expense9
None was given. Congress did not ap.
propriate the 300. 900 asked for, but it
did appropriate So. 300, 900 for collecting
the revenue east of the Rocky Mountains
The amount of the revenue collected is less
than during Fllmore,s administration,
when it was collected for $4,000, ,000-
The reason of this incNase is partly be-
cause supernumcrary officers have been en-
ploycd. Gen. Pierce added moro than
three hundred clerks at the custom-house
in New York, and | suppose they were
paid over a thousand dollars pie ec-tlat
alone would make 100000; and so it
was that the average annual expense oil
collecting the revenue this side of Califor-
MIA during the Pierce Administration was
nearly million more than during Fill
more's: and during the first year of Bncll-
anan's administration they want 81, ,300,-
! 900 more TO collect the revenue for a sim
gle year than it took four years before
Fellow citizens, are you for continuing
this state of things? Does it meet youI
appreciation? No. no, no"I DO yor
not think it would be better to take some
of this money thus squandered upon parti.
san favorItes. to protect your immense
commerce, to improve your harbors, and
save the lives of your citizens on these
great lakes? Cries of eyes, yes" ]
suppose that would be unconstitutionol in
the opinion of the ruling dynasty, laugh
ter but 1t Is not unconstitution i to pay a
man $500 to collect one. Laughter
could detain yor, fellow citizens, for hour,
in pointing out the extravaganccs of the
past and present administrations, with all
their professions Of economy. But | have
said enough, trust, to call your attention
to the matter. have stated the gross a
mount which the government is using pei
annum. and yon will find that for the five
last years more money was expended than
for the first. thirty five years of the govern
ment. The increase of expenditures j.
many times as great as the increase of pop
ulation, or the extent of country, and there
is 70 reason for this But there is not on
ly extravaganza in the collection of tn,
revenue, but is in all branches of the pub
lie service.
They are in the habit at Washington o.
multiplying Offices Judicial districts are
! divided when there is no cause for it, and
when the public service does not require it
and then judges and marshals and attor-
neys are appointed. and the expense o.
courts is incurred. Ports of entry are es
tablished when there is no occasion fol
them, and immense sums of money are Law.
ished upon favorite places III the construc-
tion Of magnificent palaces. Iverily believe
that this govcrnment can be carried on
and properly carried on-for less than one
half of the money now used by this admin
istration protesting economy. [cheers, loud
applause, and | ask you now if / have
not made good the charge that the profcs
sions of this party are as false with regard
to economy as to freedom. Cries of yes
yes. ThenI ask you is it to be sustained
| am satisfied that the people of this coun-
try cannot approve of these things. You
cannot believe in the professions of men
who practise directly the reverse of what
they profess. You cannot believe that
men are sincerely Cor economy, when they
are plundering the public treasury, ahd il
you don't hurl from power such party
the first opportunity you have. it must be
because you fear that those who are to sue
coed them will do no better. Now, is that
SO? Cries of No! Noll = -
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROPOSES.
What does the Republican party pro-
pose? l shall detain you but few min
utes upon that point. We propose, upon
the slavery question, to leave it exactly
where the men who framed the Constitu-
ton left it. We are for leaving the ques-
tion of slavery, where it exists in the
States, TO be regulated by the States as