The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-02
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY. JULY q. 1855

from the metropolis AZ tie emu VI uAo P"'' 49, -
the perfect conviction that the appropriations Which
had been voted were extraordinarily large Dit
,ittendsn, we believe in one of his haranguas be-
Car. the audiences that saluted him on bis way
homeward, stated the amount Of them az the n'gh
figure Of one hundred millions Of dollars. Other
sneakers al different points of the country made the
oama aupnosition and the whole tone and lam
yu.pe of their hsrangaes allowed that the extraya-
eapoe of the administration was TO be the great
Grievance against which the eoquence Of the oppo-
ston was TO be levelled in the contest at hand !.
Seeing this fotegone determination TO asBai the adj
minstra alton and democratic party for expenditures
ordered to be made by Congress voted for too, by
majority Of opposition men IN Congress, we made
haste to procure statement Of the exact amount OF
the appropriations Of the session, as nearly as II
could he ascertained on allowing liberal estimate
Of that class Of appropriations which, from their ma
tire Are indefinite This statement disclosed that
the amount Of regular appropriations Of the last SEES
zion, made in pursuance of tho demands OF the de-
partments, was about $4,000 900; and that this
class Of appropriations, augmented by those WINCH
Congress- had seen fit of Its own motion to makqor
extraordinary purposes, made up a grand
the year of but about 1000, 900. cd very much
Republication Of these figures hit expectations of
like shower bath upon the lscstive expenditures
the opposition in regard stulatory appeals they had
The laclrymosc andle people in depreciation Of the
begun to addr of their rulers and in behalf Of the
sad extray'reform, have been suddenly silenced.
neccarf, indeed, faint and occasional illusions to
lMavagance; but we find none attempting, after
the example Of Mr.. Crittenden Mr. Sherman, to
oxaggerate the amount Of it to anything like hun
dred millions Of dollars.
We ought to make exception from this remark,
however, Of the Washington correspondent Of the
writer ordinarily, but not very happy one on the
particular subject we have now in hand.
He has discovered an ingenious mode, notwithstand
ing the low aggregate Of appropriations that we have
mentioned, Of swelling the prospective expenditures
Of the fiscal year just entered upon to high
figure:
An e1 parte statement is going the rounds Of the
press taken from the Union here, which computes the
appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year at S68 000
in round numbers. And the impression is sought to be
conveyed that these figures represent the whole intended
expenditure they have been used to counterfeit other
and more damaging estimates made by opposition mem
bers in Congress.
After impeaching the authenticity of our state
mont, which we procured from the Treasury Depart
ment and which is certainly moro reliable than any
unofficial contradictions of it be, the writer goe
on to say
The Union and Mr. Letcher confined their vision
cusyely to the appropriations authorized by law In
computing the expenditures for tho next year. BY turn
ing to the report of the Secretary OF the Treasury 1t will
that taIo Of
current fiscal year. which may be applied to the next
ginning tho list Of july exists in the imposing form OF
SIG $685. 58B So, which must be added part Of tho
available to the regular appropriations, thus
making an aggregate of $s4 5sS IS for the coming
year on the basis the statement made by Mr. Letche
and adopted by the Union
This is very ingenious way Of magnfying sixty
eight into eighty-6ve millions of dollars; but it is
sufficient to reply to it, that the administration are
quite as apt to have an nexpcnded balance of six
teen millions Of appropriations standing over at the
end Of the new fiscal year as they had at the end of
the old and the mere suggestion of the fact Of the
present outstanding balance suggests also the proba-
bility Of as large balance for the coming year Nay,
who knows that there may not be even greater
nexpended balance than sixteen millions at the end
Of 1889?
We allude to the subject, however, chiefly for the
purpose of making this remark The backrepublican
House Of Representatives of the session Of 1867
made appropriations for the fiscal year 1878,
amounting as this correspondent of the Philadelphia
paper informs us, to more than sixteen millions of dol
lars over and above what the present administration
have been willing to expend Certainly that cannot be
very extravagant administration, in the estimate of
the blackrcpubcan party, which expends sixteen
millions Of dollars less in year than the same party
authorized it to do.
Thus the opposition are completely cstopped in
their outcry against the extravaganza OF the admins
ration When they charge that it has been guilty OF
extravaganza in the past year. we reply that its ex-
pendtures have been sixteen millions less than they
themselves authorized. When they charge that its
erpendi lures in the coming year will be eighty,
ninety or hundred millions of dollars, we reply
that its expenditures may not reach the amount of
the appropriations by sixteen millions, and that
the appropriations themselves are but 500 600 900
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ADMIRABLE GOODNESS.
We have often occurred with admiration to the
coolness Of certain gentleman who, in fracas with
a noigbbor, was thrown upon the ground, his antag-
onist astride Of him. and just ready to deal out some
disagreeable blows upon the head of his victim AT
a. nopont the friends Of the fallen hauled of