American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-06-24
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] find that | then omitted some items for
the next year, and that the amount ofemo.
luneuts IS even larger than l stated. We
have indirectly increased the salary and in
cidental expenses Of the the President from
29, 900 to something like go, 900. and that.
too, in plain and direct violation OF cause
Of the Constitution which iorbids any in
crease Of the emoluments Of the President !
during his term Another comparison will |
illustrate the increase Of expenditures. /
find by a reference toa speech made in the
Senate. by Mr. Truman Smith. ( Congress
iona Globe, vol 95' page 1874 that the
entire expense Of the printing for the TWEEN
ty six Congress was l90, ,S64, or 95. 432 per
annum. find from a ecent report from
the chairman Of the Committee on Printing
Mr.. Taylor, that the expense for the
printing for the Thirty third Congress
famous for its repeal Of The Missouri Com
promise e-amounted 10 3,025, 827, or !,
gig, 918 per snaum; or more than ten
thousand dollars to every member OF both
Houses Of Congress. Such is the charac-
ter OF the increase in that single item alone.
That was the expense incurred for the priu-
ting Of the Thirty-thrd Congress, which
think was the most disastrous in the histo-
nv Of our Government, because it Teopened
a strife long before that time settled, and
inaugeraled this wild system of reckless
expenditure. which we will find SO diff
cult 10 check.
Look, sir, at the miscellaneous items OF
expenditures. In tFe early reports Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury. the misce'an
eous items were few and far between. But
il gentlemen will turn to the reports for
this session, (House Document No. 13 |
they will find from page 25 to page 63 fll-
ed exclusively with the details Of the mis-
cellaneous expenses Of the Government, a
mounting to 1S,946,l89. In this vast
mausoleam are buried your secret con
tracts, your johs, yourcustom houses, your
marine hospitals, your post office deficiency
and post offices, your coast survey. your
court houses-a vast catalogue Of jobs TO
partisan favorites.
Mr.. Smith, OF Virginia. You voted for
them.
Mr.. Sherman. The gentleman will find
by looking at the record, he is mistaken.
REWARD FOR GRANTING EXECUTIVE DEMANDS
, But ] am glad that he has called my at
; enlion to this point. / hope he and bis
5 political friends win press it caily and hour
2 ly. His remark shows how thankless {
S task it is for gentlemen upon this side o
: the House 10 comply with the urgent de
/; mands ofthe Executive for money. Per
/ haps it will teach my friends lesson; bu
9 if it does not then | hope they will tax
. warning from the example. and The yer,
= marked example, set the other day in th
/ case Of my late colleague, Mr.. Campbell
who had displayed his zeal. think un
Il wisely, in the last Congress, in urging al
: the appropriation tills. and complying t
. the fullest ext-nt with the demands of th
l Executive; and. sir. when any Of US yielC
s and, under the commendable desire TO su'
0 tain the Government, even when unwisel
administered. vote for general appropris
l. tion bills, then these extravsgant appIopri
= tions are thrown in our teeth, when we OF
ly vote what tn " ask. trust genllcme
II upon this side Of the house will take this a
IS warning and as lesson. 1t is thank
y less task for gentlemen to aid an admins
., tration like this or its predecessor in carry
IL ing on the burdens OF the Government
"a when they cannot vote for single apprc
u priaion bill without having ell these cor
. ingencies and Jobs and other items thrul
70 upon them. and being told "you voted fc
II them" The gentleman will not find N
. in that cstegory. .t.
Il l have already referred to the militar
u u establishment. showing a vast increase
u its expenditures. / might, with the docr
r menis before me. show how millions bav
% % cen sunk for transportation, subsistence
y and supplies, upon contracts made wl,ho,
e public notice, but l am admonished hi
'r my time will not allow. .t.... ,..
- Without ap opportunity to examine, an
- under the plea of pressing necessity. at a
early period Of the session We Were calle
- upon 10 vote exravagant appropriation
4. intended to cover large contracts for sui
is sistence and transporlalion-many Of whiC
ldtO HnNC ~ upOu
e' that we were willing that we were willir
Il to leave our gallant army in the Rocl
Q: Mountains, without f}od and shelter Vi
o' willing to do that. some on this side vote
:, for the deficiency bill: but who can tra'
10 the expenditure ofthis money?
10 g INCREASE OF OFFICES. ..
u, We were told yesterday. by the ehai
al man Of the Committee OF Ways and Mean
50 that all these appropriations are in purs,
al auce Of existing law. Now. want him
= answer, at his leisure, how it comes tina
ne in 1859, there were employed in the CO
s. lecting Of the revenue two thousand fl
en hundred aud thirty persons; and that;
g. 1854. when the law had not been chan
T. ed, there were employed in the vario
ee custom houses two thousand nine bundr,
40 and thirteen; aud in 1857. three thousar
IT. and eighty employees; and this before 4
@ now tariff had gone into operation? He
~ comes this increase Of FIVE hundred office
;oo in the custom houses? @ Uunder what Ia
300 was the increase made? BY what autbc
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