Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-07-03


the authority of government to which we
owe obedience, leaves no room for doubt as
to their verdict whenever such issues shall
be presented to them for their decision -
We challenge the opposition to these issues
Will they, dare they meet us upon them
If they think we have spent more money
than is necessary, we call upon them to
specify the items Of expenditure that. are,
in their judgment, extrayagant. With
hold in future your wholesale charges, and
give us the details. In the name of the
tax paying millions, I demand this Of you.
This sum, however, has been appropriated
to support the army in Utah for the next
year, and is therefore an advance-not a
deficiency The last item enumerated is,
the deficiency for the Post Office Depart
ment, amounting to 81 400, 173. Was
not this expenditure required to carry out
the legislation Of the last Congress? New
post routes were established, and mails
could not be placed upon them without en-
failing expense upon the Treasury. 10
meet this expense we were compelled to
provide the means in the deficiency bill,
passed at The opening Of the session. /
imagine the gentleman, and nlne-tenths Of
his friends in both houses, voted for the
post-route bill; the execution of which
made this expenditure unavoidable.
On this branch of the subject, I prove
that the gentleman from Ohio has commit
ted several very extraordinary errors-un-
intentional, doubt not, but yet such errors
Us clearly demonstrate that implicit reliance
should not be placed upon his calculations.
The first error consists in charging the ad-
ministration with the surplus in the treasu-
ry on the first Of July last, and withhold
ing from it credit for the amount of the pub
lie debt, which it has paid out Of it since
that. date. The second error consists in
fixing the Sound duties, by treaty with
Denmark, at $3.50, OIL, when the true sum
is $40S,731 Al. The third error consists
in estimating the balance Of the printing
deficiency for Che year ending the Both Of
this month at $600,00O, while the civic
appropriation bill shows that it is only
$4,000. The fourth error consists in
fixing tie amount of the deficiency bills
passed at this session at $11 ,041 900,
when it should have beer So, 7O4, 200 80
for the first, and S341,189 So for the prin-
ting bill, and $4Os,731 A for the treaty
with Denmark, making in the aggregate
$40, 454, 100 81. Rather serious errors in
speech which was designed to be used as
a text book BY the opposition in their war
upon the administration
now come to his estimate Of the expen-
ditures for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1859. He makes most star Ting exhibit,
and works out an aggregate Of expenditures
for the next year Of So, 143, 202. And
how is this monstrous result ascertained p
In the first place, he informs us that the
Secretary of the Treasury estimates the ex-
penditures for the year named at $74, 0G4,-
755, and then he adds the following items,
amounting to $18, 089, 547:
Three new regiments, s4,2s9, 547
Probable Post Office defcien-E
cies over, amount approp'tez 100000
Public buildings, 100000
Private bills (estimatcd) 100000
Printing deficiency, 100000
Army deficiency, estimated to
be same as last year, 100000
Not one cent has been appropriated for
the three new regiments-the President
having ascertained that they would not be
needed for the service in Utah. In the
regular post Office appropriation bill we have
appropriated for the Post Office Department,
for the year 1859, the sum of IS, 500, 900,
which exceeds the regular appropriation for
the present year by the sum Of $1,000, 000..
The Post Office Department drew from the
treasury, for the year ending June 80,
1858, $3,969,173 Suppose the depart
mcnt should require the same amount for
the year 1859, as we have provided in the
regular appropriation bill for $500, 900,
we would only be called upon for the addi-
tional sum of $3.50, 173. This, then,
is an error Of upwards of s., 100000 in his
estimate in regard to this single item. The
regular appropriation bill contains all the
sums necessary for public building, amoun-
ting to So, 104, 900; and this, therefore, is
likewise an erroneous estimate. We have
been charged once By the gentleman with
the printing deficiency Of 5000, 900 in the
expenditures Of 1858, but, for some reason
that he has not chosen to assign, he again
charges us with it in the expenditures Of
the year 1859. And, finally, he estimates
that the army deficiency for the year 1859
will amount to tie round sum Of $9,000,-
600 All these are ccnicatures, and, so
far as their accuracy can be tested By exis-
ting facts, they are shown to be Of the most
unreliable character. That the gentleman
himself is not satisfied with them is clearly
ly manifest from his declaration that they
ssnmy be ouer-estinaatca" I submit it to
him to say, whether, from the facts now be-
fore him, he is not entirely satisfied that
they are greatly ''orcr- estimated" -
The gentleman then proceeds thus
''Now, this sum Of $92, 900, 900 does
not include any Of the following items of
expenditure, and [ wish gentlemen to add
those, upon their own estimate, to this ag-
gregate: For protecting works commenced
on our numerous rivers and harbors, the
lowest estimate of which is 81 800, 900,
and then there is your calendar Of one
thousand private bills demanding your at
tention. There is the pension bill for the
old soldiers of the war Of 1912, proposed
by the gentleman from Tennessee, Mr..
SAVAGE, requiring $4,000, 900 per annum.
There are the ten new war steamers, pro-
posed by my friend from Virginia, Mr..
BococK, ] $4,000, 900. The French spoil
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