The Kanzas news., 1858-09-11

a resolution of the Senate calling upon hin
| to know how many employees he had at tht
different custom houses; what he paid them
how much was collected, &C., and here il
the official report from every collection dis
| trict IN the United States. have singled
out part of them as examples. E.tWher
can we have the report?''] You can hav,
this published; it is public document
Has Douglas got it'll presume he has
| for he sustains the administration on ever,
point save one. I will now give you som,
account of the total expense of collectin.
the revenue for several years past.
In 1850 Congress passed law appropri
ating $2,450, 600 annually to defray the ex
penses of collecting the revenue east of tn,
Rocky Mountains. During Taylor and Fill
more's administration the whole revenue
east of the Rocky Mountains was collected
for about two million dollars per annum.
leaving surplus of more than 81 800, ,0O(
at the end of the four years. During the
four years of the administration of Gen
Pierce, he used up the 50, ,45O, 900 per an
mum, and every dollar of the 81, 500, ,OO(
remaining over from the Fillmore admins.
tration besides. After Mr.. Buchanan came
into power, Mr.. Secretary Cobb, in his frs
report, asked Congress to appropriate S3,
700, 900 annually to collect the levenue in
the same district of country where only
about SO, 200, 900 had been required five
years before. What was the reason for this
vast increase of expense?
None was given. Congress did not ap-
propriate the 50, 100000 asked for, but il
did appropriate So, 800, 600 for collecting
the revenue east of the Rocky Mountains
The amount of the revenue collected is less
than during Fillmore's administration, when
it was collected for $4,000, 900. The rea
son of this increase is partly because super
numerary officers have been employed
Gen. Pierce added more than three hundred
clerks at the custom-house in New York,
and I suppose they were paid over a thou
sand dollars apiece-that alone would make
$500, 900; and so it was that the average
annual expense of collecting the revenue
this side of California during the Pierce ad-
ministration was nearly a million more than
during Fillmore's; and during the first
year of Buchanan administration they want
81 300, 900 more to collect the revenue for
a single year than it took four years before.
Fellow citizens, are you for continuing this
state of things? Does it meet your appro-
baton? "No, no, no."] Do you not
think it would be better to take some of this
money thus squandered upon partisan favor
ties to protect your immense commerce, to
improve your barbors, and save the lives of
your citizens on these great lakes? Cries
of eyes, yes" I suppose that would be
unconstitutional in the opinion of the ruling
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tutional to pay man $500 to collect one.
Laughter. could detain you, fellow
citizens, for hours in pointing out the ex-
travagances of the past and present admin
istrations, with all their professions of econ
omy. But have said enough, trust, to
call your attention to the matter I have
stated the gross amount which the govern
ment is using per annum, and you will find
that for the five last years more money was
expended than for the first thirty-fve years
of the government. The increase of ex-
penditures is many times as great as the
increase of population, or the extent of coun-
try, and there is no reason for this. But
there is not only extravaganza in the collec-
ton of the revenue, but in all branches of
the public service.
''They are in the habit, at Washington,
of multiplying Offices. Judicial districts
are divided when there is no cause for it,
and when the public service does not require
it, and then judges and marshals and attor-
neys are appointed, and the expense of courts
is incurred. Ports of entry are established
when there is no occasion for them, and i'm
mense sums of money are lavished upon
favorite places in the construction of mag
nifcent palaces. verify believe that this
government can be carried on-and proper
ly carried on-for less than one half of the
money now used by this A Administrations
protesting economy, [cheers; loud applaus
and | ask you now if 1 have not made good
the charge that the professions of this par
ty are as false with regard to economy as
to freedom? Cries of eyes, yes.''l Then I
ask you is it to be sustained? I am salts
fed that the people of this country cannot
approve of these things. You cannot be-
lieve in the professions of men who prac-
tise directly the reverse of what they pro-
fess. You cannot believe that men are SIN
eerely for economy, when they are plunder-
ing the public treasury, and if you don't
hurl from power such party the first op-
portunity you have. it must be because you
fear that those who are to succeed them will
do no better. Now, is that so? Cries of
mo Mop