Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-01-01

"uu!u Ut, tuat you can puEIoW tuIS Hoi
) ey, whether II be five, ten, or twenty mi
, lions, that you need. 1t is lying unuse
in the vaults. The credit of the na,io
: will bring It. Advertise, and if You ca
get 1t for one per cent, do not give str, t
save the country and relieve poor million
/. aries from distress Make the best bar
gain you can, and agree to pay at a Ger
tain time, and then take the money ant
put It into circulation through the coun
trJ. End, sir, if i, would facilitate tn
business of the country to have certificate
OF deposit In the public depositaries, dol
lar for dollar, have no objection to tha
being done. That, cir, is old fashioned
Democracy.
Again, l object TO this bill, because
Do not perceive the necessity of it. Why
even its friends say tina. they edo moi
knew that they viii be obliged to issue
the amount asked for" 1t is kind OF
contingency that they arc contemplating
Advocates of the bill have said-and
desire to call the attention Of the House
to the fact-that they did not know as
there would be single dollar of this loan
needed. Twenty millions asked for, and
not dollar certainly needed! Well, how
can We perceive the necessity of this loan,
if its friends can not? Why do not the
friends Of the bill come forward and make
a frank statement, and tell us how much
they need, and for what they need it, so
that we can vote undcrstandiugly on the
SUI jcct?
But, suppose the money is actually nc.
cessary; is his de only MODE of raising it?
Why not sell the Custom Houses, where
the incomes do not equal the expenses
GO to Pensacola, and all along the coast,
and do it. Go to the interior, where off.
GERS Sere appointed to receive railroad
iron, away out on your inland rivers and
lakes, so as TO save the importers from
paying the duty for few months, till the
iron was ready to be laid. These officials
swarm over the country. The railroads
are Cow built, and the necessity for these
Offices has ceased; but the officers and
the salaries have not. Why not retrcnch?
Mr.. Cotb's Recommendation 10 " retrepch
aud economic was almost enough to ere.
ate smile, if it did not excite tear, up.
on very monument. "Economize. re-
trench Please let me have Twenty Mil.
lions gentlemen" Economy, indeed
Now, for once, let US witness a correspon.
denoo between the practice and preaching
Of the Democracy. Let the Administra.
ton call in ninctenths, perhaps ninety
nine bundrcd,bs of our foreign diplomatic
corps. Is there any need for their servi
ees? Are there any very important mat
'ers pending between this country aud
SPAN! Cuba "a" not be Jouytt ,cih an
s,rhaustcd Treasury. Let that extraordi-
nary envoy come home, and the place re.
main vacant. How is it with St. Peters
burg, Paris, and other places Let Con.
'uls remain at these places, to look after
our commercial interests, and those of our
citizens who may be in foreign countries;
md let Envoys be sent only where,a their
names indicate, extraordinary events de-
nand their services. This was the prac
ice Of the earlier and purer days of the
Republic. But nov, ,enpoys er,raordinary
lave become ordinary affairs. When in-
lividuals become embarrassed, it is usual
o dismiss all unnecessary servants. Let
be Administration do the same.
But let US look a, the estimates. The
Secretary, in his Report, says that he had,
N the lst of July, 1857, sl7, ,7l0, 900, ,aud
hat the collections for the quarter ending
80, were over 20,000,000 ma.
ling in all SSS, 100000 in round num-
,era. Now, if he collect sl2 ,0O0, 900 for
he present 1uarte-, which is his estimate,
lie will have had 1000, 900 to cover the
expenses of six mouths. Is not that
nough for an Administration that recon-
nends economy and retrenchmcnt? Is
his Administration soirg to push the ex-
lenses Of the prcsen, year to One Hundred
Million Dollars?
Another objection that I urge is to the
tmount proposed to be raised They want
20 give the Secretary Of the Treasury the
privilege of drawing for S20,000,0O0-
more than half enough to support the
iovcrnmcn., economically administered,
lu:lns the entire fiscal year. | object,
therefore, to the amount. I want to pro-
pose an amendment TO insert "six," in
leu Of twenty" in this FIRST section. If
understand the Secretary Alright, be pro-
poses to issue sG,00O,0CO right Of, on
hesc plates that are already waiting to
have the stamp, and then be proposes to
,orow the rest if he can. l move to
amend the FIRST section Of the bill by
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