The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-08-19

tmated) $500
Books for library $50
Door-keeper and assistBnt 200
Tive night wutchmon 1000
500, ,I65 s56,2oO
find that 7 then omitted soao items
for the next year, aud that the amount
of emolumeuts is even larger than [ sta
ted We have indirectly increased tho
salary and incidental expenses of tho
President from $4,000 to something
! like sixty thousand dollars, and that,
too, in direct violation of clause Of tho
Constitution, which fOrbids any increase
in the emoluments of the President
! during his term Another comparison
will illustrate the increase of expendi-
lures l find, by reference to speech
made in the Senate, by Mr. Truman
Smith, Congressional Globe, vol %,
page 124,) that the entire expense of
the printing for the Twenty Con-
gress was S19O.8GG, or S94,432 per an
mum. 1 find, from a recent report from
the chairman Of the Committee on
Printing, (Mr. Taylor,) that the ex-
pense for the printing for the Thirty
third Congress-famous for its repeal
Of the Missouri Compromise-am
ia S3,O25 ,S27 or S1512,918 per annum;
or more than ten thousand dollars to
every momber of both Houses of Con-
gress. Such is the character Of the in
crease in that single item alone, That
was the expense incurred for the prints
ing of the Thirty third Congress, which
1 think was the most disastrous in the
history of our Government, because it
roopened a strife long before that time
settled, and inaugurated this wild system
of reckless expenditure, which we will
find so difficult to check.
Look, sir, at the miscellaneous items
of expenditures Tn the early reports
of the Secretary of the Treasury, the
miscellaneous items were few and far
between. But, if gentlemen will turn
to the reports for this session, blouse
Document No. 13,) they will find from
page % to page 63 filed exclusively
with the details Of the miscellaneous ex-
penses of the Government, amounting
to 1S,0j6,1S In this vast mausoleum
are buried your secret contracts, your
Jobs, your custom houses, your marine
hospitals, your post Offices, your coast
survey, your court -houses-a vast cata-
logue of jobs to partisan favorites.
Mr.. SMITH, Of Yirginia.-Nou voted
for them
Mr.. SHERWAN.-The gentleman will
find, by looking at the record, he is mis-
taken.
REWARD FOR GRANTING EXECUTIVE
DEMANDS.
But am glad that he has called my
attention to this point. hope he and
his political friends will press it daily
and hourly. His remark shows how
thankless task it is for gentlemen up
on this side Of the House to comply
with the urgent demands Of the Execu-
tive for money. Perhaps it may teach
my friends a lesson; but if it does not,
then 1 hope they will take warning from
the example, and the very marked ex-
ample, set the other day, in the case Of
my late colleague, Mr. Campbell, who
had displayed his zeal, l think unwise-
, ly, in the last Congress, in urging all
the appropriation bills, and complying
to the fullest extent with the demands.
/ VI LuG LAGtullNEg Auug oAA7 MANA an
one of Us yield, and under the COM
mendable desire to sustain the Govern
ment, even when unwisely administered,
vote for general appropriation bills, then
) these eXtravagant appropriations are
: thrown In our teeth, when we only vote
8 what they ask ] trust gentlemen up
( on this side of the House will take this
i as warning and a lesson. 1t is n
) thankleas task for gentlemen to aid an
6 Administration like this or its predeces-
sor in carrying on the burdens Of the
! Government, when they cannot vote
for a single appropriation bill without
having all these contingencies and jobs
and other items thrust upon them, and
being told, 'you voted for them. ~
Sir, can say for one, 1 did not. The
: gentleman will not find me in chat
category.
= / have already referred to the militia
ry establishment, showing a vastinorease
in its expenditures. / might, with the
A documents before me, show how mill
lions have been sunk for transportation,
E subsistence, and supplies, upon con-
a tracts made without public notice, but
T. I am admonished that my time Will not
e allow
G Without an opportunity to examine,
v and under the plea of pressing necessi-
T ty, at an early period Of the session we
were called upon to vote extravogant
q appropriations intended to cover large
contracts for subsistence and tTanspor-
tation-many of which are illegal-or
have 10 charged upon MS that We were
e willing to leave our gallant army in tho
}. Rocky Mountains, without food aud
. shelter Unwilling to do that, some
a on this side voted for the deficiency bin;
a but who can trace the expenditure Of
m this money
IA INCREASE or OFFICES.
e We we're told yesterday, By the
+ chairman Of the Committee Of Way.
B lon1 Mama that An fhaea anurOnrinii0nf