The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-09-15
The Lobby-The Republicans and
the Expenditures of the Gov
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f The Lobby-The Republicans and
the Expenditures of the Gov
ernment.
4 GOue of the chief sources of the hos
tility of the opposition to the President
is to be found in che fact that by q pub
t lie message he declared to Congress he
!, would sign no bill making appropriations
of money which should be presented to
him within the last twenty four Hours of
the legislative session. The object of
the President was to be ablo to fully in
vestigate the merits of that class of bills
particularly, and, knowing that they are
the most difficult Of any to comprehend,
he demanded time to examine them
This simple and reasonable rule, thus
tesolutels enforced; was a fatal blow a
the whole lobby schone; nine tenths of
which is in the hands of the republicans.
They had every reason, of course, to
feel that the President was most un-
friendly to all their interests, and set to
work with all their known energy, force,
aad ability, to denounce his administra-
tion by every conceivable misrepresenta-
ton. Their minds naturally enough,
resting upon grand schemes to defraud
the government, they we're particularly
exercised on the subject of alleged ex-
travagance in it's departments and "the
frightful increase of the public expendi-
lures" Receiving for a few years past
1srger amounts of revenue than were
sufficient to meet the current OUTLAWS,
the treasury had redeemed many mil
lion of its six percent bonds at a large
premium, thus saving one or two years.
interest. + The revenues again rapidly
falling under a sudden suspension of
trade, it became necessary to issue new
bonds aud call the money thus paid out,
back into the Ia easury. Forthwith this
movement was everywhere heralded as
proof of the extravaganza of the admin
istration, charging them in point of fact,
With the effects of a commercial revul-
sion which extended all over the world.
This magnificent idea seemed at one
time to promise SO well that a largo body
of IDIOT politicians rushed out of this
city into various parts of the country, ,
determined to inaugerate a presidential
movement for 1860 upon it. They we're !
not very well informed upon the subject J
they undertook to discuss, but having !
tried their utmost to enlarge the appro- :
atoms to the highest possible point, with I
a view of embarrassing the treasury, T
and doubtless believing that they had l
been successful no time was to be lost I
iu throwing the whole responsibility {
upon the President. The movement- {
it was called ''the peoples movement $
collapsed in about SIX weeks; and it !
tarned out that the people" engaged in =
/. were that dclectabie body of gentle '
men known as the Washington lobby,
by a half dozen vagrant politi.
cans.
The peoples movement" having fail
we fud Mr.. Trumbull, of Illinois, ii
up the tools which Mr.. Crittcn 8
and Mr.. Humphrey Marshall found C
TO inconvenient to handle, and battling r
away with them more than Quixotic en- &
ergy. Mr.. Trumbull who votes for |,
avery conceivable appropriation and !;
strains every muscle TO increase the ex- o
of the government, is utterly
tkatits affairs are not carried on T
Is cbeaVly as they were when we were L
collecting fifteen or twenty millions of
.evenuc. Mr. Trunibull is guilty Of S
Ii, fable mcanness in pointing out those b
places where q detective revenue force b.
, required, the expenses of supporting e'
of course, are greater than the II
'evenue collected at the several points,
nd then charging the responsibility
here of to the ADMINISTRATION. We can
lot of course, speak for tie intelligence
f Mr.. YrumbulFs audience They
be idiots for aught We know. Ger u
ain it is, he puts a poor estimate upon =
heir capacity, or a very high one upon :
is own testimony. But Mr.. Trumbull
5 an abolitionist. acting upon the max
that tie end j~nstiGes he means = .
he is charging extravaganza, NM :
}obb is busily engaged in cuttngM
very unnecessary chaSse up|n the tSS&
ry, and is daily receiving &&pl@
the revenue force iAENnG\&F%SSd :
Glow the actual demands hNMAMN
Now, all this indicates a vSSSM P&t-
crship between the N@by lies -.
nd the various branches oAtEsNSeaskN i
ion. We need not tel. the na1NNthsS v
hose who oppose aIpropriat&S iS this
rAN&suse every excrtion STSmit and
Mt RASAthc public expeSaNSSs, are :
euSezaNSnd that those &ASse for
looking to thA herAase of
MexPTf%s, aud to the ~squs%9s<ing of Of i
re MeaEAof the government, aS repub-
cap&SaAAmericaus AS We hAAe said,
ley RNStized a regular presidential
,mpaNR only just two months ago on
lie strength of their wi wicked extrav- me
i'll voting away the money Of the on
and we're defeated only by the to,
eady, opposition of the democracy,
9TH in and out of Congress- Hash. r