The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-07-28

this, as it is paid by virtue of permanent
law; and hence this veracious calculator
leayes 10 out entirely!
Again: since those Estimates, the Ad-
ministration have run up Forty Millions
more of Debt; on which Interest has to be
paid, of course, making nearly Two Millions
of dollars more per year. But the Union
has not apparently heard of this either.
Still further: the Official estimates (pages
and Al show that there will be required,
under permanent laws, for which no annual
appropriation is needed, no less than So
976,456, for the following items: annual
compensation to p. O. Department for De-
partment correspondence $500, 0,000;) ditto,
for mail service for Congress, per act of 1851,
(S375, 5,000;) three per cent. fund to States
($lS7, 5000 arming and equipping militia
(per year S2O0,o00) Marine Hospitals
100000; J Expenses Smithsonian lnstitu-
ton, bounties, drawbacks, &c, duties re-
funded by judicial decisions to importers,
and number of smaller items. But the
Union omits these Three Millions also,
though they have to be paiG out of the
Treasury, and are included in its own
Treasurer's estimate of the annual expen-
ditures.
And next as to its Intentional mis-state-
ments:
In the above table, the Mail Steamer ap-
preparation bill is put down at $500, $50; I;
while the bill itself, as reported by the DEM
ocratic Committee of Ways and Means and
passed by Congress, appropriates 81, AGO, $50
Just half million more
The Postoflice bill, too, is stated at only
So, 500. 000-which is the amount inserted
in its second section as its probable deficien-
cy. The appropriations in the bill are Sl4,-
O35, $40; being over ten millions larger
than the Union states. To this one item,
the Union may answer, that they expect ten
millions of it to be reimbursed by postages,
but the whole amount is nevertheless neces-
sary to be computed, TO ascertain " how
much money it requires to keep the Gov
ernment under, ,Mr. Buchanan, in operation"
All the other expenditures we hope to see
reimbursed to the Treasury by the Revenue
from the tariff, sales oflands, and loans; but
they are none the less expenses of the Gov
ernment. And so, with the amount paid
out by the Postoffice Department to its Post
masters, Mail Carriers, Clerks, Agents, &c,
&c. It's only collected from the people in
another way.
But even more fragrant and deceptive is
| the endeavOr to cover up the amount for
collecting revenue from imports" by put
! ting it down to Sl,l50,000. Heretofore,
/ the law has authorized S2,450,00O for this
purpose. Mr.. Buchanan's Administration
insisted that this should be repealed, and
/ the-still greater sum of S3,600,000 appro-
| priated. And in the face of this well-known
fact, although they will spend the whole s3,-
100000 and more the Union, in table
pretending TO show the whole expenses oi
the Government, only includes under this
! head, the increased amount that it is TO cost
under Buchanan and Cobb, "over and above
! what il cost under Fillmore and Corwin!
We only wonder that with such figuring
they conceded as large total of sixtyeight
millions.
And now, without attempting to correct
smaller errors, let us remodel the Union :
table, in accordance with those undeniabl,
facts &: