The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-09-17
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WHY THE TREASURY IS EMPTY,

may expect call for money under the naN,e
of deficiency bill. These bills have beer
annually growing larger so that knowing
the chronic propensity Of this AdminStya tioi
to waste money, it may be announced be fore.
hand that the next will overtop any of It's
predecessors. Yet in the face of this increas
ing deficiency, an impudent pre,ense of econ.
omy is set up by the official organs of the
party. few loating CLERKS are discharged
from Custom House where for years they
have been mere partisan supernumelaries, and
credit Is taken for retrenchment. Almost in
the Same breath the scandal is enact ed in
Utah of selling 700 valuable mules nj auction
IN neighborhood where there are no BUYERS
but such as 1t had been prearranged should
be there, and then giving them away at less
than half price When BIciial,an came into
power there were $40 ,000000 in the Trea-
sury, IN ten months it had all DISAPPEARED
and $50 ,UUU,U CO had to be borrowed. Eight
months afterwards another $40 900 900 were
borrowed, and five months later another
$40 1900 900 were had in the same way, or
500, 600, 900 III all. But on the heels of
this came the further demand for $50 900 600
with which to steal Cuba, making it qaite
apparent that had the Treasury unluckIlv
contained the aforesaid money, means would
have been found to use it in the ACCOMPLISH
ment Of that ncfarlous project. The chances
are that Congress will be asked at all early
day for such a sum as VIII swell the public
debt to a round one hundred million of dollars.
Whether House Of Representatives will be
found plant enough to giant that demand
remains TO be seen. Yet with all this sum
Of money the Government maintains but a
shufiimg and bcggarly existence. 1t keeps
its head above water only by the unexpected
receipt of duties on imports which are des-
troylng the industry of the people, and which
have sent gold out of the country this year in
continuous stream at the rate Of $50 600 600
per annum, or $4,000 900 more than the
previous year, aud $50 coo coo more than
the disastrous year 1857. Now if the export
of that year preclpitated such crisis, what
consequences are to follow the drain of this {?
The management Of the Post Office is a scan
dial 10 a free people would be disgraceGul
even in dcspotlsm. In many places the
people who pay large anG ample sums for
postage ale cut of from mail facilities, and
are compelled to either carry themselves OF do
without !hcm, That Department shuflles
along mere financial cripple, by issuing
scrip for It's debts and this scrip is peddled
among the money changers and cUntelnp-
luouriy shaved at - per cent grave doubts
being entertained Of its legality. Shifts and
eXpcdlentS Of various kinds, unworthy of the
power and resources OF the alton, are resorted
10 keep 1t IN motion, Some OF them alleged TO
be so grossly illegal as to cal! for investigation
by Congress. Let the imports only fall back
to where they stCod year ago, and the
Treasury Is AT once bankrupt
But there are many other WAYS by which
the public money goes than selling mules at
halfpricen Utah. That stroke OF llnaucierIng
resulted IN single loss. There are outlets
through which gold runs iiom the Treasury
all the year round The whole revenue. col
leciing system Is a stupCndods sham. When
Mr.. Cobb was called on the Senate to make
Il clean breast rift, and say how many loalcrs
he kept in his Custom House, how much
lnoncy they got for doing it, be was com.
PEELED to acknowledge that at Wilmington,
Delaware the sum collected in 1857 was
2,Uuij7 to do which he employed eight
mcn, whose salaries amounted To SIS, SIS SO
IA dead l. s. of nearly 9i4 coo At An
napoljs four men. ardent as Southern sun
could make them, We're kept painfully busy
a whole year in collecting 1914, for which
they received 1888. AT Ocrakoke, North
Carolina $50 were collected at cost of
Il 800. At Port Oxford, in Oregon, $3.50
were collected by stout able bodied men, who
received the insignificant sum of STOP for
this extraordinary effort. Monterey Calltor-
MIA. the amount collected reached the snug
sum OF S42, but it required three men to
perform the feat They performed a much
greater one by drawing salaries to the amount
of - $50. AT Buffalo in this Stale, So
no % were collected, for which laborlous
service 10 men received the comfortable sum
Of j lG 500 81.
W hat kind of man must Mr.. Cobb be to
suffer such atroci0us abuses as these to 90
unrcformed Doubtless he is not responsible
for their original existence these loeches
may have been hanging to the public teat
when he assumed the office. But he suffered
them to continue until the call from the Senate
uncovered their atrociousness. Nay, we have
no evidence that he has ever stopped this
deliberate robbery of the public purse. nor
any that it is not continued TO the present
hour. OF what avais 1t that duties or i'm.
ports run up to high figure. if the money is
TO be squandered in this scandalous manner.
Here are only six Custom Houses whose
SiOSS ICCeiptS are Cl-,OtO ID, 10 CblleCI WHICH
costs S4l,7I9 SO, thus making dead loss of
$32 1904, There must be gross, corrupt par
tisanship involved in this shameful waste OF
public money. THIS excess of cost must have
gone into the pockets OF the DULLES and whip
pers whom the Administration everywhere
retain to carry elections. We doubt not the
next House Of Representatives will uncover a
tissue of sichening vllainies, enacted in con-
nectlon with the Philadelphia Navy yard,
just previous to the last election. With waste
like this in single department of Govern
ment outlay. no surprise should be felt at the
magnitude Of any deficiency bill to be sub
United to Congress. But the same corrupt
extravaganza may be seen IN every depart
ment and will, no doubt, be hereafter detected
where il may not now he even suspected
Every Investigation so far has developed Its
existence. The next Congress will contain
more than one Hercules, strong enough to
graphic with the task of unveing the hidden
denominations Of the powers that be, and Of
thus showing why the Treasury Is empty
Such investigation, pushed with proper energy
may make even illustrious personages curse
the day they consented to take office.
An AFRICAN METAPHOR. The Liberia
(Aflica) Star Of Liberty demolishes a cotem-
porary III the following vigorous style 1.-The
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