The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-08-18

1858, the last year Of Fillmore's administra- |
tien, there was collected at Chicago gill,
606 80. Six men were mploysd 70 eelless
it, and they were paid 42,882 II. That was
: httle over two per cent. For the year end |
ing June 30th, 1856, there was collee4ed ct
Chicago el45.e62 40. Sixteen men wsrs
employed to collect II, and they were paid
ia, 349 20 for doing il.
Now ! ask you, living right hare - you
do, IL there any reason for this increased ex-
penditurep Can you tell mo any reason Why
it cost ten per cent. the last 6sesl year 70
collect the revenue ut this port, and only .
little over two per cent. four years aeo2 10
there any reason except that tho government
wanted to shower the money upon favoritssa
(Yes there il rsason.) don't know what it
Is. f"The Democratic party must be sus-
tanned. Laughter and Appisuse.l Think
that is the best reason. [Renswsd laughter. 4
They must sustain the oiRce holders. But
Chicago 10 only single csse. have the
official report here, and will state . few
other cases to show how the government ex-
ponds money.
There are Some other points whore the ex-
penditurss for collecting the revenues are
much worse than they are here. Al Viii
mington, Delaware, there Was collected 10
1857, $2,04A IS. How many msn do you
| suppose il took to collect that amount, and
how much do you suppose they 81 FOR il
1t took eight nsn, and the expsn1es Of COL
lecting was els, 848 SO! fLaughtsr.l Gen.
tlemen, you began entirely TOO soon. These
are the better sort Of Gases. At Annapolis,
Maryland, there was collected In the same
year 1875 Is. (Renewsd laughtsr.l How
many men do you suppose i took to collect
that 1t took four men, and they were paid
for their services 9o83 i2. Al Ocracoks,
North Carolina, 49, SIS ware collected 10
1857. [Laughter.l II took seven men to do
it, laughter,l and 40 economical govern
ment, under Democratic sdminis1ration,
priding itself on it economy, paid seven
men to collect this $50 55:ths SUN Of a.
BOZ So. (Laughtsr.l
At Port Oxford in Oregon Tsrritory--now
you would expect something sxtrsvagant
over there--shere was collected IS IS, and
| it took two men TO collsct it. and they were
paid for oollsosing $2,703 O6. [Grsat laugh.
ter Can any one Of You make oalculs-
ton of the per osntage that was paid 10 col
lect that &5 IS? believe II was shout ave
hundred to one. Don't yon think the gov
eminent ought to get rich At Monterey In
California, the amount collsetsd In 1857 was
$45 Is, three men were employed TO collect
it, and were paid for doing il, 81, $50 95.--
AT Buffalo there WAS collected in 1857 tho
sum Of $lO,l4O 50. There we're ten men
employed in its collection, and they were
paid $l6,896 81.
! will not weary you BY reading this report
further. 1t 10 the oAoisl report from the
Secretary OF the Treasury, in answer to q
resolution Of the Senate calling upon him to
know how many employees be had in the diff
ferent custom houses, what he pAid them,
how much was collected, TO-, and here 10
the official report from every collection dis
trict in the United States. have singled
out sYpart of them - examples. r"When
can We have the report ?"1 You can have
this Published il i . public document
["Has Douglas got a''1 Iprssams hs hes,
for be sustains the administration On every
point save one.
Twill nowgive you some account Of the
total expense Of collecting the revenue for
several years past.
In 1850 Congress passed Law appropri-
ating $2,45O,O00 annually TO defray the ex-
penses Of collecting the revenue east Of the
Rocky Mountains. During Taylor and Fill
east Of the Rocky mountains VAS collected
| iot novAk DAtVOVeO0V W. oAe0oV1S AU2VluK u
surplus Of moro than 81 900 900 at the end
Of the four years.
During the four years Of the administra-
ton Of Mr.. Pierce, he used up the %, $780,
600 per annum, and every dollar Of the
81 ,6O0, 600 remaining over from the Fillmore
administration, besides.
| After Mr.. Buchanan came into power, Mr..
Secretary Cobb, In his hrst report, asked
Congress to appropriate "a, 700, 900 annually
to collect the revenue in the same district
Of country where only about two millions
had been required five years before. What
was thu reason for this vast increase Of OK
psnse?
| None was given. Congress did not appro.
pirate the %, 700, 900 asked for, but Il did
appropriate $500, 900 for collecting the
revenue east Of the Rocky Mountains. The
amount of tho revenue collected 10 less than
during Fillmors's Administrator. when il
was collected for o., O00, 900. The reason Of
this increase II partly bsoause supsrnums-
rary officers have been employed. General
Pierce added more than three hundred clerks
at the custom. house in New York, and Isup.
pose that they were paid over thousand
dollars apiece-that alone would make $780,.
600; and 20 it vas that the average annual
expense Of collecting the revenue this side Of
California during the Pierce Administration
was nearly million moro thaa daring Fill
more's; and during the 6rst year of Buohan-
ans Administration they want d, BOX, 900
more TO oallect tho revenue for single year
than II took four years bsfors. Fsllow-citi-
gems, are you for continuing this state Of
thingsY Does It meet your approx ation .
l"No, no, no."] Do you not think it would
be better 70 take sons Of this money thus
squandersd spon partisan fsvoritss, 70 pro.
tsct your immense commerce, TO Improve
Iour harbors, and save the lives Of your eit-
issns on these great lakssp fOriss Of ssyss,
yes."] Isupposs that would be unoonslitu.
tional in the opinion Of the ruling dynasty,
l[Lsughtsr,l but Il ID not unconstitutional 70
pay : man $500 to collect one. TLAuehtsr. I
| could dstain ron, fellow .eitissnS, Tor hours
in pointing cut the exssavasanes 81 the past
and present administrstions, With III thsir
professions Of sconomy. Bat have aid
enough, trsst, TO cAn your attention 70 The
matter. hsvs stated the gross amount
which the government u using per snnum,
and you VIII End that for the hvs last years
more money was expended than for the Arss
thirty. i've years Of the govssnnens. Ths n
erease Of expenditures & many timaaae treat
- the increase Of population, or ~ s1tsas
OF country, and there II no rsason for this