Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-07-08
Extravaganza OF the Admins
trltiOM,

vi OHlU, CIdI SlhS lue administration oil
Mr.. Buchanan with great extravaganza
in the public expenditures. The Kansas
question having been settled by the pas
sage of the English Compromise bill the
Republicans were compelled to have
some new hobby and have hit upon that
of raising a great cutlery about extrava-
gance in administering the government.
Mr.. LETcHER, of Virginia, replied to
the speech of MIR. Sherman, and expos
ed the Misrepresentation and distor-
ton of facts contained in that speech
The Washington Union publishes Mr..
LETcHER's speech, and says:
1t was intended as a reply to a parti-
san effort Of Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio, the
object of which was to furnish data for
campaign assaults upon the ~administra-
ton and the democratic party in the APP
preaching congressional election in sew
eral of the States. The Speech of Mr..
Letcher tears the production of Mr..
Sherman to pieces in a ost unmerci-
full manner. 1t leaves our modern Nun
chausen in as unlucky a plight as his
prototype was in on the memorable &C.
casion when the sudden melting of a
deep snow over night left the Baron's
horse dangling by the bridal at the top
of a church steeple several hundred
feet high, to which he had tied it, on an
evening of his marvellous travels. The
honorable gentleman from Ohio had, by
by a process of Arithmetic not unfamiliar
to his side of the House, though it
would astouud old Pike and Bonnycas-
tie if they we're alive, built up a super
structure of government expenditures
for the fiscal year 1889 to the appal-
ling height of ninety-two millions of
dollars as a minimum. Mr.. Lctcher has
dissolved the fabric of the member from
Ohio, and left him dangling as far "a
bove the region of facts as the stecd of
his t~utelary divinity, Munchausen, was
suspended above the surface of terra fir
ma.
At the time that the speech of Mr..
Sherman was delivered it was evidently |
the intention of the opposition to swell
the appropriations of the session of Con-
gress to as large a maximum as possible.
The object was manifold. An enOr-
nous expenditure of money would have
afforded ar admirable basis of assault
upon the administration and the demo-
cratic party in the approaching election
Congress, and in the gr at campaign
of 1860. Occurring, as this immense
expenditure would do, concurrently
with very d~iminutive receipts into the
Treasury, the cxc,ss of expenditures
over receipts would render necessary
increase of the tariff for the protcc-
ton of the manufacturing interests in
the black-republican States. A clamor
for this increas of the tariff, it was
thought, could be made highly available
before the workingmcn of the North
in the present cessation of enterprise,
fall of wages, and general lack of en-
ployment.
The plan of the proposed campaign
was, thus, a very formidable one. a
great cutlery against the extravaganza
of the dominant party; a proposition
for increasing the tariff as a measure of
necessity resulting from demo-
extravaganza; the advantages of
thus protecting the honest and needy
American w~orkingman against the pau
per labor of Europe:-these were to be
the pleas and pretexts for a common as
of all branches of the opposition,
in a grand "People's Party"
against the administration and the dem
Thanks, however, to the wisdom and
prudence of MIR. Buchanan the first
branch of the scheme of the opposition
failed most sigpally. They were not
allowed to run up the appropriations of
The session to ninety-two millions of
according to the covert sugges
ion of Mr.. Sherman. The President
them warning at the proper moment
hat he would take time to examine
ninutely every item of money that they
into the appropriation bills. He
would not tolerate the abuse which had
,rown up of holding back these bills
Until the expiring hours of the session;
illing them with every sort of extrava
CANT and abominab!e expenditures,
Trusting them under his nose in the
right time for signature, when it was
impossible for him to detect villainy;
md thus succeeding in their scheme Of
.xtravagant and licentious ]appropria-
ions by a dark-lantern trick upon the
IASCuelNO- w h"N SCCH HI ICSuII u
his bold and honest infexibility of MIR.
Buchanan. Members knew that unless
hey sem him their bills by Saturday
hey could not adjourn the session on
tIonday; SO they sent them by Satur-
lay. They knew, moreover, that if
hey filled their bills with denominations
hey would come back to them on Mon
ay morning branded before the coun-
ry with a veto; and SO they rcfrained
loading them down with plumber i
G
We announced the consequence yes.
rday morning. The anticipations of
Ir. Sherman of appropriations to the r
mount of n~inety-two millions were not .
and the grand total ofthc APP =
ropriations of the misunderstanding a
II the expenses of theMormon expedi-
on. estimated for eighteen months in
dvanceof July proximo, and all the de- 7
of every sortfor the expen- :
lures in CURED by previous Oapgress- {
only s~ixty-eight millions; o
hich are twelve or twenty millions d
SIS than those which were authorized D
the black ranublicau Conpress of