The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-12

result OF them is before country We came here AZ
ths short at least. on TINS side oil Inc cham
ber-wth the earnest desire 70 attend TO the
legitimate interests Of the country We have not thrust
into this chamber any unnecessary discussions growing
out Of the question slavery either in the Territories
M upy iorm whatsoever before the country We looked,
and he eople looked 10 Congress Of the United States
10 settle at this session. questions growing Of the
revenue system and the expenses OF the govern
menL s,r, when we saw the President OF the
eastern portco Of the CAPITOL on the Attn Of March,
1857, there in the Treasury Of the Untei States
away and SIS 900 900 have been expended all the
receipts Of the Treasury 10 the meanwhile have been OK
Iended Also and $40 600 borrowed meet the cur
rent expenses Of this government That is the position OF
this country to-day; and We summoned to pre-
means to carry on the government during the next
hsca year and TO meet $40 900 100 OF Treasury notes due
the course of few mouths. We have but nineteen
working days Of this session left in which TO perform
that labor Well Sir to day have listened TO the Sc
nator from Georgia. demonstrated the fact that
the expenditures OF this administration have been carried
up $50 600 over the expenditures OF the admnistra
ton Of President Pierce BE demonstrated the extra
vagance-the unbounded and reckless extrayagapceol
the present administration and has oiu us rIner tnat
abuses. / agree With the Senator from Georgia
that we can reduce, and ought to reduce, the
S75OOOOOO 70 $50, 100000 or $65,0o0O00. We ought
10 have comprehensive system OF Tetrencn.
pent not only proposed but carried through. All this
work rs before us but with the proposed reduction
of Apr you must prepare 10 meet 900
Of treasury notes due during the coming year You mus
provide additional means to carry your govern
the annual rate OF $50 100000. The interests
country require that the brief remainder of this ses
should be devoed to the consideration OF these gr0a
scal questions. say sir that our condition IN regard to
the Treasury Department not creditable We ought not
70 float along in this woy. 1t old and SOUND demo-
cratic doctrine that we should national debt
bat yet within years have piled up national debt,
Of $4,000 0oO You have millions OF extraorainary ex
met way, growing out OF your Indian wars in the
Territories You have expedition that has gone 70
South America, which may impose an expenditure OF
millions which We cannot estimate to-day: And in
view Of these facts, ] say, sir, that it 10 duty
imperative upon during the next nineteen days, TO
provide means for meeting at least the necessary
ana current disbursements OF the government
Sir upon this side OF tho chamber we are ready and have
been ready all this session. follow you choose
lead reducing the expenditures. We are ready to al
dress ourselves at any moment 70 the consideration OF
these questions of increasing the meet the
Of treasury and Of reducing those wants ten or fifteen
million dollars, as they ought 70 be reduced We have
ether before Of great importance
10 the country We have in Congress five hundred
bills of private character am no great advocate for
private claims The longer sit here the satisfied
Congress ought to be rejected but there are claims that
just, and we ought 10 meet them and settle them like
honest and honorable We will not allow the govern
ment the United States " be sued persons come here
with claims upon U.S. and fail TO address ourselves
We should do examination and settlement. While
We act thus we certainly expect Unjust aud extrava
giant claims be hronging Ia u.s. we met these
lions should should have by no means old
and thrust forward for consideration
Now this being position say s the height OF
folly inuds into ibis body the discussion Of this gganc
Joke this proposaI 10 place the hands OF the President
of the Unsted States $50 900 10 purchase island
from country that stands comus,ted before the Chris
an ready to meet The Cuba question Whenever and
wherever here elsewhere. II Senators upon
he other side of the chamber determined
the remainder of in discussing that question:
ready 70 meet them IN the deoate put We say to
that is tring with the interests OF the gov
eminent and of the country They know that the
sion Of this subject will not tend 10 bring Cuba into the
Union They that the passage Of this bill will not
bring Cuba into the Union believe, upon my con.
that the suggestions of the Presidents message,
with this proposition to put into his hands $780,
600 OOO postponed the acquisition OF Cuba beece
that has created sentiment Spain that ,oould make
impossible for any Spanish statesman 70 eterta,n TOR
single yome'.t proposition for The sac q asat island
to The United STATES Sir, there something strange In
this proposition. When james Buchanan came into the
Presidency he had the confidence Of the great party which
placed him there He had also the good wishes of par
~ then IN the minority, which willing TO give his ad
mDsation all fair play ana TO judge 1t according TO its
acts At the last session Congress- under the dcaton
Of few ultra savehodipg States Mr. Buchanan accepted
he ecompon issue as the chief measure OF the admins
Eaton Every democrat who resisted that test was de-
nOunced hunted down from end OF the Union 70
the other No matter what service they had rendered
the party, matter how high they stood in the conf
dence OF people, they denoanced prescribed,
and hunted down. while the administration used its whole
mower and patronage force that gigantic fraud through
Congress. II turned out little petty postmasters
because they would not sell themselves for their own
petty offices. That Lecompton measure is the measure
Of this administration Is l's only measure-t is the
only test IT has put upon the country II mas wrecked
Itself on that test, and II cannot make another
This President. condemned ey the public jndg
United States the Congress- and asksus cothe
,n with imperial power lie wants the privilege OF send
ing the army OF the republic into Sonora and Chihuahua
into territory of country with which at peace
He wants the privilege OF establishing Notifications and
posts outside Of the United States in Central America He
wants 70 clothed with power from here TO Cape
Horn and cutting every man that he chooses and
then ALL he wants US to place IN his hands-in
the hands of man condemned by the judgment OF his
countryside 600, o00 to purchase island owned hun
cred wears before the settlement Of Jamestown and
prsnehos nnunmy in dsdanng 70 enertan the propo
eon all do not consider the question before Us as
one for the purchase Of Cuba The President wants
$50 600 COO and told too by the Senator who in
troduced the BILL that he expects TO make something
out Of 1t for the benefit Of the democratic party.
For oue / shall not clotne this President Of the
United States-I would not clothe any President
of the United States-wlth any such powers
consider it anti democratic, contrary to the genius and
spr of our We should vote to place the
banos Of anybody power like this but above all, would
place the hands OF the present Chief Magistrate In
whom no considerable portion Of the country has
fdsnce, and whom portion OF it has any great re-
gard therefore, SIR believing that ought TO address
ourselves business Of providing for carry
ing on the government also of reducing the expendi
which regard OF equal importance and necessity
for corruption has grown Out OF our great
saw sir believing that ought TO address ourselves i'm
indefinitely the consideration Of these questions, and Of
many other aud just that before u.s. es
peciay that important measureonc OF the wses in my
Judgment that ever introduced into Congress-the
Homestead bill am for laying aside this Cuba question
ana taxing up the Homestead bill at this time, which,
il shall become O law, will do more 10 improve
the country than the acquisition of any territory
outside the limits Of the present ~, Union Selev
of this session consideration Of these measures,
saw again that shall taking up this Cuba bill
But whenever 1t does up ready 10 meet IL.
We are ready meet here and ready to meet
before the people, any shape in which gentlemen choose
70 present II.
THE ECONOMY REPUBLICANS.
Mr.. PuGH--Mr President, IL seems 10 me very singular
that the Senator Wisconsin and the Senator from Mas
sschusets should have pursued this They depre
cate the discussion u the question: and then proceed 20
discuss it, They dcpecate the consumption Of time, and
then proceed each after the other tue question Of
taking up the BILL 80 of every other point bring
into discussion every possible subject The Senator
from has fought all his battles over again in
pO,cal warfare here ELSEWHERE Senator from
Wisconsin has enlarged on the coming ana still to
pories Of republican party Ithnk they coming and
sill TO come; and long while coming my Judgment.
However think these matters mao better be discussed
elsewhere am gad too 10 find the senators 30 lively
the su oect of the pubic expenditures ami especially at
this shor, 81 ssion ae7 reflect ud this body and priaci
1dliy Jy the Of tes his side Of the chamber, has