The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-24

This is all that is appropriated for the service of
the Post Office Department for the year ending
June 30th 1859. The second section of the act
above referred to appropriates $500, 900 in the
event the revenue from postage is not sufficient to
meet the above appropriations. For fear neigh
bors may not have the laws at hand we give them
the section:
That the revenue of the Post Office Department shall
be insufficient to meet the appropriations of this act
then the of three million five hundred thousand dol
lars much thereof may be necessary be- and the
hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to supply de-
fciences in the of the Post Office Department
for the year ending 3Gth of june 1850"
Yet the Integeneer charges the appropriations for
the Post Office Department for the current fiscal year
with $l7 ,535,520 co. Such mistakes are inexcusa-
BILE in any journal, but more especially in one volun-
teering to instruct the public upon the extravaganza
of the democratic party.
We admire the adroitness with which our neigh
bors discard that portion of article relating
to the appropriations of the saith Congress, as map
proprate in fixing the proper responsibility for ex-
travagant expenditures. But for the present, we
will let this pass and conclude by asking them to
point out single item of appropriation made du-
ring the 34th first session of the 35th Congress
that is extravagant, and we promise to show that
five of the opposition voted for the same when one
democrat was found to vote against his party. We
pleased to the interest manifested by the OPP
position upon this subject of public expenditures
and if they will prove their sincerity by co-opera
ting with the democratic party, the country will have
right to complain Of extravaganza in the future.
But the country will be still more astonshed at
another mistake of our neghbors in their figures of
$40, 744,994. For instance, they say "To enable
the reader to judge approximately Of the relation
subssting between appropriations and actual expen-
ditures, we may say that the appropriations made
for the last fiscal year amounted to the aggregate
sum of 972,l12,29S, while the actual expenditures
for the same period, as appears from the official
statement of the Register of the Treasury amounted
to $8l, 5s5,467. If to this we add the sum appro-
propriated for deficiencies, arising in that year to
the amount of $l0744994, we shall have the aggre-
gate of the actual expenditures chargeable to the
last fiscal year, being about $92, 100000 To en-
able the Iatelgenoer to give correct information to
their readers, we would respectfully inform them
that the So 744 1874 of deficiencies is included in the
official statement of the Register Of the Treasury ag
gregating the actual expenditures for the last fiscal
year at SSl, 5S5 ,467, and therefore appeal to
them to know if is fair to count this item twice
But we have extended this article beyond the limits
we intended, and we suggest to our neighbors
whether would not be best in the future to be well
posted on the figures and the facts before they
question statements, expect to obtain credit
for their own.