Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-01

on last Wednesday, Mr.. Sherman, oil OhlO' uuI
ing the discussion on the Army bill, made the
following remarksI
He said this was the second loan bill demand
ed by the administration this session. +" nile
he was willing to take all proper measures 70
nreserye the public faith, he would not vote Tor
This bill 1t should be accompanied by some
radical measure of reform. The expenditures
| for this fiscal year exceeded the revenue thirty
seven millions and for the next year would
exceed the revenue forty-three millions, OF over
eighty millions in two years. The twenty uhl'
lions of treasury notes, and the balance oil sew
enteen millions in the treasury IN July last are
exhausted The financial result of the first TWO
wears of this administration will be an empty
| treasury and a permanent debt OIL sixty Jour
! millions Instead of proposing means oil re,
| trenchment and reform, they demand loahS anu am
| treasury notes, and defeat every effort OF tue
! opposition to lessen the expenditures. lie then,
in detail stated the expenses for this year to be
o;DItv-three millions, and estimated them Tor
next year at ninety one millions, and contrast
ed the expenses in different periods OF the
government with the expenses OF the pres
ent and the last administration. The expenses
of President Pierce's administration were six
ty millions more than the entire expenses
of the government prior to 1910, exclusive oil
payments on the public debt. The first year of
this administration cost the nation i've millions
more than the expenses OF the government PRIOR
cd of twenty years. Already bills had been in
troduced, appropriating over sixty-nine millions,
and other propositions are pressed upon us re-
curing many millions more. While population
has increased since 1890 seven fold, expenditures
have increased forty eight fold. From forty cents
an inhabitant it is now three dollars or tmrty
dollars for each family and twenty-three dollars
for each voter. When the comparison is carried
into details it is found that the great proportion
of the increase is in contingencies, miscellaneous
incidentals, and by an army of useless officers.
The miscellaneous expenses have arisen since
1910 from two and a half millions to nineteen
millions covering multitude of jobs and con-
tracts The Thirty-thi. d Congress, famous for
repealing the Missouri compromise, e%penced
over three millions for printing, or over $4,000
for each member. The expenses OF the
military establishments for this year are nearly
twenty.six millions Under these circum
stances while loan bills may be necessary to pre-
serve the public faith, they should be accom-,
Danicd by proper measures of retrenchment and
reform The House alone can apply the rene
dy by reducing the appropriations. The con-
stitmtion has conferred upon the House full and
exclusive power over the public purse, but this
power has been practically usurped by the Elk
ecutive by transferring appropriations made for
one uul pose to u different one, by using money
appropriated for one fiscal year for another, and
! by contracts made in advance appropriations,
! thus compelling the House to sanction n reck'
|
bv direct usurpation Of each of these abuses he
gave examples An earnest effort to prevent
| them is met with opposition and denunciatlon
| by the friends of this administration lie con-
| demned the habit of the Senate loading down
| the Approximation bill with amendments once
rejected by the House, ami OF introducing rev
! cnue bills in violation of the express provisions
of the constitution. The HOuSe has long enough
neglected its constitutional power. 1t has
| thrown too much on single committee oil
ways and means, which by being burdencd
| with too much business has become mere
| tranScribing clerks of the Departments We
| ignore the principle of grievances before sub.
sides" and vote money recklessy, and then do
not look after the expenditure. We have seen
committees on expenditure, and none OF them
ever met They were entirely ignored by the
| chairman of the Committee OF Ways and Mems
| in the reference of the Presidents message We
| also neglect tho Powcro -inpUichIlenI Every
| violation by law of nn executive olncer should
| be followed by impeachment or bill OF in
demnity. When these reforms are completed
loan bills are no longer needed, and expenditures
| will be reduced within the revenue He had 10
confidence that this House, as now composed,
would accomplish anything. The power and
influence of the Executive has been too recently
felt He hoped the next House would be oppos-
cd to the administration and that it will learn,
from the example set by the last House, how
thankless n task it is to Yield to the urgent de
opportunity will then be offered to check the
usurpations of the Executive and Senate, and
conhnc them within their constitutional powers.
TnE Hon. Fred. p. Station was in Memphis,
his old home, few days ago. He addressed
letter to committee that wished to hear
from him on the Kansas question, telling the
men of the South how much they were deceiv-
ed about the Kansas question. Mr.. Stanton
says that the Conference Bill scheme is "cal-
culated most surely to keep the qlcstion still
open, and to bring it back upon Congress in
still more aggravated form" He says, too:
Imust say to you that can see, "rn the pre-
sent future prospects of Kansas" nothing but
continued agitation, as the consequence Of that
gross injustice, which the President and his par
ty, in violation of all Democratic and constitu-
tional principles, have insisted in perpetrating
upon the rights of an injured and distracted
people
AS to what the Kansas people will do with
the English Bill, he says: ...
No man who understands the history of this
question, and who is acquainted with the dis