Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-06-25
Making in the aggregate 80, ,Iza.2oa dol

Sis 0s9,64I
Making in the aggregate e3,I48.2oa dol
] lars.
It is true that sonse' OF these may be over
estimated, but | have the estimates furnish
! ed me by the Committee of Ways and Means.
1t may be that two of these war regiments will
be dispensed with. It may be that they Will
be much larger; but take it as reasonable
| inference that the deficiency next year will
be as large as the deficiency this year be-
cause deficiency bills never decrease.
/ Now, this sum of $4,000 .oo0 dollars does
not include any of the following items of eS-
! penditure, and wish gentleman to add those
4 upon their own estimate, to this aggregate
/ For protecting works commenced on our
! numerous rivers and harbors, the lowest es-
! innate of which is ,5000 900; and then there
is your calendar of 900 private bills de-
/ manding your attention. There is the PEN
] sion blIl fer the old soldiers of the war of
/ 1912, proposed by the gentleman from Ten
4 nessee (h1r. Savage), requiring 100000
dollars per annun. The French spolation
bill, urged so iorcibly by the gentleman from
) Massachusetts (alr. Davis), which, if passed
will require 100000 dollars The duties
to be refunded on goods destroyed by fire,
dsnot know how much. Claims growing
out of kndiay' wars Ia Oregon aud Washing
log, urged by the delegate from Oregon, ard
certified by the executive officer, 900 900
dollars. Then We have the Pacific R1ilro ad
Ia foretaste of the cost OF which we have
had in l,oo0,o $50 expended already in the
publication of the report OF the surveys
:. Now, have shown that in all human prob
ability the expenditures OF this Government
will be from ninety 10 one hundred million
dollars. To meet this the Secretary, in his
rscent letter, estimates the receipts tor the
/ Esssf two quarters u twenty five millions of
d sflars. We know from comparison with
former years, that the receipts tor the last
two quarters will not exceed the first, making
8 the aggregate of receipts fifty million of dol
lars, deficiency OF over forty million dol
lars for next year.
5 And yet, sir, for this alarming condition of
o the public finances, the Administration has
f no measure of relief except loan bills, and
a paper money IN the shape OF Treasury notes.
e No provision is made for their payment; nc
| measures of retrepchInent and reform; bu
T. these accsfnuiated difficulties are thrust upon
e the future, with the improVideHce of a young
. spendthriit. While the Secretary is, waiting
: to- 'fotesee contingencies, we are prevented
s. by party majority from instituting reform
n Ii we Indicate even the commencement O
retrenchmen, OF point out abuses ON th
N side of the House, we are at once assaiie'
m by members of the Committee of Ways ah'
rs Means.
is The only effort at retrenchment which
OF have seen here successful was that mad
:! by the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Ma
F. SOM, in reducing the humber of officers EN-
Id poyed about this Hall.
r- That the Committee of Ways and Mean
ye have no purpose of commencing a reform
ed we have ample evidence in the appropriate
r. bills before us. | have table here shown
e. that at the present session OF Congress, il
IN chairman has introduced appropriations bill
IL to the 18th OF May, amounting to more tha
a sixty mine million of dollars, as follows
AFPsoPRIArioS report Le House eprescnatir
Ae CoaEitte- Ways GnE feaHs, rt sesston T.i.