The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-31
WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY. JULY 81, 1865.

TURES.
persistent effort is made by the opposition to
create popular belief that the expenditures of the
government for the current fiscal year are to be
precedented in magnitude, IL is also represented
with great industry and diligence that owing TO the
falling off in government revenues from the recent
paralysis of business the government viii find
prodigous excess of expenditures over receipts to
meet at the next footing up of its annual accounts
requiring resort to loans of immense amount In
connexion with this gloomy picture Of government
affairs drawn by unhappy croakers, they repre-
sent manufacturing enterprise in the manufacturing
districts of the country TO be greatly depressed,
and in vital need of the fostering help and protec-
ton of the government They are thus endeavorng
to discredit the administration with the peoples TO
excite popular distrust in the solvency of the gov
ernment and at the time, to divide the dem
ocratc party in the manufacturing districts, the
expediency of burdening government which they
represent as insolvent and unable to take care of
ITSELF with the general protection of the private in
terests of the manufacturers.
There might be some danger of such impressions
AS these taking root in the popular mind, and much
mischief resulting in the legislation of the country,
if the whole Of the story were not an old one which
has been familiar the of the people for thirty
years. if it's sophstries had not been exploded a
thousand times and if the people had not at repeated
elections in the past confounded the inventors of the
cunningly-devsed fable by the most emphatic repu-
diation of themselves and their devices.
We shall address ourselves only to the industrious
assertions with which the opposition Journals are
rife which are repeated at secondhand by their
speakers in regard to the probable expenditures OF
the government for the fiscal year which commenced
ON the first instant under the appropriations OF Con
press at its last session The allegation OF these
orators and editors is that the authorized expendi
tures of the government for the fiscal year now just
commanded are as great as a hundred millions of dol
lars Even if this assertion were true, it would
not follow that judcious administration would ac-
tually expend the authorized amount The extrav-
agance if the allegation be true, is in the action OF
Congress- and not in the action OF the admlnlsra-
ton Eight months or a year VIII have TO elapse
before it can be known whether there Will be an ac-
tual expenditure of that amount or not; and then
but not until then, will the administration be an
swerable to the country for the imputed extraya
gance To use western phrase the opposition are
shouting before they get out of the woods" in
their outcry against the alleged extravagant amount
of an expenditure which is yet only authorized. The
action of the administration during the current
fiscal year may be like that of the past The oppo-
stion orators and writers confess that it did not
pend the amount authorized by the blackrepubli-
can House of Representatives OF 1867, by sixteen
and a half millions of dollars We venture the
prediction that although the appropriations of Con-
gress at its last session studiously curailed
and reduced to meet the exgencies of the treasurJ
vet it will be found at the end Of the year that re-
duced as they were, they will exceed the actual
expenditures of the administration by from twenty
to twenty five millions But we shall leave the flu
ture to take care of itself in this particular.
The opposition, however, would gain nothing
even if they should succeed in convincing the
country that the expenditures authorized for the
wear at the last session Of Congress were as they
falsely assert one hundred millions. They would only
succeed in convcng Congress of extravagant action
in this regard not the democratic portion Of Con-
gress but, as we shall show clearly enough ere
long, the opposition members and leaders of Con-
gress For the only extravagant appropriations will be
found, when scrunized, to have been passed by the
opposition in body, aided by a small portion only
of the democratic members.
We Say tho opposition would gain nothing if they
could prove that the appropriations of the last scs
sion authorized an expenditure of hundred mil
lions Yet they can prove no such thing. The reg
uar official statement Of the appropriations of the
last session, of every and description has been
made ont and communicated to the Treasury Denart